Hey there, I'm Drew and you are listening to or watching the anxious truth This is the podcast that covers all things anxiety anxiety disorders and anxiety recovery So if you're struggling with things like panic attacks agoraphobia or health anxiety Well, this is the place for you and I'm happy you're here this week on the podcast We're going to talk about the difference between reassurance seeking, which is not a good thing in recovery and productive assurance seeking Which is what's the difference? Why does it matter and how can we break the cycle of repetitive reassurance seeking? Let's get into that now Hello, everybody welcome back to the anxious truth. This is podcast episode number 241 We are recording in January of 2023. I am drew linsellata creator and host of the anxious truth If you this is your first time here welcome.  I'm glad all of you guys are here. So today as I mentioned in the intro We are going to talk about the idea of Unproductive cyclical never-ending reassurance seeking and why that's a bad thing We're going to talk about productive assurance seeking, which is a good thing Especially in the early stages of your anxiety journey And we're going to look at some ways that you can start to change or break that never-ending cycle of repetitive reassurance seeking Before we get into it I'm going to direct you guys over to my website at the anxious truth calm because the anxious truth is more than just this Podcast episode there's a bunch of other free podcast episode. 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I appreciate it in a big way So let's get into today's topic and that is the never-ending Unproductive cycle of constant reassurance seeking that often is part and parcel of an anxiety disorder and stands in the way of recovery So why dude? Why does that happen? What is it? And why is it a problem? But before we get into that I want to talk about the difference between unproductive maladaptive reassurance seeking that never ends and productive assurance seeking because there is a difference between Assurance and reassurance and it's quite literal based on the nature of the words Reassurance meaning a thing that you keep doing again and again and again reassurance, but in the beginning of anybody's anxiety journey the Availability of assurance we would call it education good information Helping somebody understand is a positive thing. We not only want that but we kind of need it in the early stages So if you're new to all this and you do not understand what's happening to you why this is happening or what you're supposed to do about it then seeking assurance and productive helpful information that helps you understand what this is and Understand that you are going to be okay, and you can be okay, and how you get to be okay is really important In fact, if you walked into a therapist's office the early start the early stages of therapy for an anxiety disorder would involve a lot of what we call psychoeducation and Much of psychoeducation is just providing you with information that assures you that we know what this is and it's going to be okay Everybody needs that that is not a problem and sometimes and this is a little bit of a pet peeve of mine And I understand social media is certainly not perfect But the word reassurance gets thrown around so much in the anxiety community Especially in the OCD community and social media that often when people ask questions they are immediately shut down and told that's reassurance seeking we're not answering that question go away and Sometimes that is the correct answer correct and air quotes if you will but sometimes it is not Because if this person is new on their journey and doesn't understand what's going on and has never asked those questions before They should ask those questions and those questions should be answered So before if you're listening to me now, and you are active in social media circles in this community Before you immediately shut somebody down that you don't know by telling them you're seeking reassurance Stop that you might want to find out where they are in their journey because as I just mentioned Productive assurance seeking is an important part of the educational process that forms the foundation of recovery So we cannot just automatically tell everybody that they're seeking reassurance. That is not true So there is nuance and there is context there and it's important to recognize So if you see somebody asking questions, and you think they shouldn't be asking unless you really understand their situation You might want to just let it go and see if somebody else can answer the question It would be better for them to not get an answer than to get shut down inappropriately if you will So that little rant over we want to talk about when Productive assurance seeking at the beginning of the process begins to go off the rails You know it's starting to go off the rails when it's a thing that you begin to do again and again And again So if somebody like me tells you oh what you're having is panic attacks They're not dangerous They're really scary and you've learned to be afraid of them And now this is why you're having a hard time leaving your house and driving and doing all the things where you think panic might be triggered We tell you that and you say yeah, but it feels like I'm gonna die and we say well you won't die I know it feels really scary, but nobody dies for a panic attack after you've been told that for example I know that's not the only fear insert your fear here, but for example once you've been told that 10 times at the beginning of the journey you will start to recognize that you keep asking that again and again and again or Your fear begins to shift well, okay I'm not so much worried about dying now But now I feel like I'm worried about going crazy Then you start to ask about that again and again and again What it will I have a psychotic break or you might to add you might start to ask will I pass out or you might start to Worry that people will judge you or you will be embarrassed or ashamed during a panic attack And you'll begin to try to seek reassurance about that So either the single fear stays and you just keep asking again and again and again to have that question Answered to have your fear soothed and taken away temporarily Or you'll find that the fear theme begins to shift and you find yourself asking about different themes again and again And again until it shifts to the next one and you're back in the cycle So let's acknowledge for a second that the idea of being given reassurance Seems to make from a human standpoint common sense seems to make sense Put yourself in a position where there's a human being standing in front of you They are in a state of distress and they are asking you to take that away from them or sooth them and make them feel better Well from a person standpoint just a human a kind of standpoint common sense would say well I'm gonna try and make this person feel better. I need to fix this for them They're asking me to tell them that it's going to be okay, and so I'll tell them Why wouldn't you tell them I get that so that's one of the insidious things about the Unproductive cycle of continual reassurance seeking is that at face value giving somebody reassurance that everything's going to be okay? seems like a very kind thing to do and in in a non-disordered state in Regular life if you will more air quotes regular life Everybody needs to hear that it's going to be okay every human being once in a while in life needs to be told It's going to be okay I know the shit is hitting the fan, but it's going to be okay And we need to hear that we like it and makes us feel better and it helps us get on firm footing again I get that our support people will tell us it's going to be okay So we have to be mindful of the fact that basic human kindness And especially if you're more prone to be a helper or a fixer or a supporter Means that you may feed into somebody's reassurance cycle and for the suffering person It makes perfect sense to them to keep asking again and again and again because they want to feel better Right then in there in that moment so acknowledge Assurance good now we're moving into reassurance where it starts to become pervasive and never ending and it's never enough and the questions never stop Now we recognize that now we can recognize that answering the questions Makes sense from the helper standpoint because common sense says you help a person who wants to be told it's going to be okay And from the sufferer side it makes sense to keep asking because when they tell me it's going to be okay I feel better Except I feel better for a week then I feel better for a few days Then it only lasts a day then it starts to only last a couple of hours before I'm asking again And if you are suffering from these type of problems that I talked about in this podcast You might be familiar with that where that the length of time that that reassurance has effect begins to shrink It's smaller and smaller and smaller till you find yourself asking over and over and over in rapid succession So that's when you start to see like wait a minute this this common sense thing That's designed to make me feel better when I need to feel better is Going off the rails and on the other side from the helper or supporter standpoint You start to realize something's not right here because I'm being asked this question again and again and again And it doesn't seem to be sticking and you wonder because in plain old life if you will well When we tell somebody hey listen, they're really struggling Maybe they haven't a hard time with work or they just broke up with a partner like it's gonna be okay And in the end they get that and they move on they don't ask you again and again But here we're in a situation where oh, you know the rules get flipped over the table gets turned over Nothing makes sense anymore. And how come they don't believe me? I just told them this ten times last week another asking me again oops, sorry about that Notification sounds and then from the sufferer standpoint you understand in a moment of calmness Wait a minute. Why do we keep asking the same questions again and again again? Why can't my brain believe this?  Why is it a thing that we really should be trying to break? Why is it a habit that we need to get over and get away from because it seems like common sense to soothe your fear? Immediately when it pops up, but here's the problem if you do that first of all you will discover quickly That it becomes incredibly repetitive that there's never enough an anxiety disorder will take as much Reassurance as you can give it and then it will ask for more and more and more and it will never end So I think if you're listening to this podcast and you've been dealing with this stuff long enough you recognize this I can't stop doing it. It never ends and it's never ever enough The theme shift the question the questions change and then I ask that question for three weeks Then I ask another question for four weeks. It never ends Recognize that what this is constant reassurance seeking as opposed to productive assurance at the beginning of the the process Constant unproductive maladaptive reassurance seeking is a coping strategy You are in distress and I you want to feel better Immediately in that moment and the coping strategy that you decide to use is to ask something outside of you a Partner a friend a family member a significant other your Facebook support group an internet form Google doesn't matter It's something outside your own skin I will go to something outside my own skin to tell me that I'm going to be okay and assure me again Reassure again re re reassure that I'm going to be okay so it is a coping strategy that we develop to ease that sense of distress in the moment and Maybe it lasts in the beginning it might last for a week or two or a month But then suddenly you find yourself where it lasts for maybe an hour Some days on the hard days it doesn't even last for an hour And then you're back at it again and again and again And you're consumed by this question all day long and this is fear all day long So it's a coping strategy, but is a temporary coping strategy It's sort of a common-sense thing that we think we should do feel better and it goes off the rails And it just it doesn't work. It only works very temporarily So why is that a problem? People will say well, what's wrong with that?  So you'll just keep asking more and more and more and more and more often and you'll ask different questions And they'll just keep coming you guys know this if you're listening you probably in the thick of this right now And sometimes that becomes really disruptive when it comes to relationships You start to be at odds with your online support people you start to be at odds with your therapists You start to be at odds with your partner and your family and your BFF They start to become worn down by these questions that get asked again and again and again Then emotions get raw because they're feeling sort of worn down and you're feeling like they've they're abandoning you Nobody's supporting me. They don't understand so it is not a Practical strategy to say I will just live the rest of my life asking anybody around me if I'm gonna be okay anytime I get scared and that's how I'll do this That doesn't work Because we cannot maintain the semblance of like a normal life without this disrupting it in a big way It's really important to understand that So the issue is that you if you do it that way and you use that as your go-to default coping strategy You never actually learn a core lesson of recovery, which is I'm really afraid I'm in a state of distress But I can navigate through that myself I can get through this if I don't fight it if I learn to serve through it I will come out the other side and I will see Experientially the best way to learn through my own Experience and not through the words of other people me included drew included the best way for me to learn that I'm okay is to see an experience that I am okay I'm uncomfortable. I'm afraid. I feel distress. I feel uncertain, but in the end I wind up okay I'm still standing. I'm still here I did it and if you immediately run to external sources to soothe your discomfort and your distress with their words or Google search every time you get worked up. You never learn that lesson. You never learn it That's important. So that's why it's so important to start to break the habit of constant reassurance seeking We need those lessons That is difficult Why is it difficult because like I just said it's really counterintuitive the common-sense thing is I feel really bad Make me feel better now soothe me now give me words now. I need it now and from the helper standpoint I mean even sometimes professional qualified trained helpers can get trapped in that we're human beings We want to help each other and so it can be really Hard to break what seems like a very kind compassionate caring habit that really turned into an enabling habit over time It's making things worse so it's hard to go against your sense of kindness and compassion if you're a helper and It's hard to go against your sense of I need to feel better right now if you're the sufferer So what direction do you want to start to face? The way I would look at this and I will look at it from the helper or the supporter Standpoint so if you're the person stuck in this situation where you're asking every day because you're always afraid Put yourself in the position of a helper somebody that loves you forget your therapist forget a doctor It's just a helper your friend your partner your mom your whatever The best conversation to have with that person to start to change direction and begin to break the habit of reassurance seeking Would be for that person to tell you I know that right now you are terrified and Indistress and feeling uncertain and vulnerable and like something bad is about to happen But it has never happened your anxious brain has always been wrong And I know you want so badly for me to tell you you're gonna be okay But I know that I can cheer for you and stand by you while you learn that for yourself without my words That is a powerful shift. That is a very powerful shift So if you want to ask again and again and again if you will go crazy or have a psychotic break when your anxiety level gets too High the and the best answer and this is an answer I tend to give people online once I know that they've been down this road over and over as I will say I know what you want me to tell you, but I would I know that you can learn this by yourself You can go through this you can tolerate this you can navigate through this and you can prop yourself up You don't need me to use my words to soothe your fear again, and you don't learn any lessons So I think it's really important to understand that maybe the people around you want to help you But the best way they can begin to help you would be to encourage you and cheer for you and remind you of your strength and your power While you don't get that reassurance and you have to navigate through the choppy waters on your own Now if you are the person asking the question in those moments where you feel like I can't keep doing this I have to stop this it is a reasonable conversation to have with your support people I'm gonna make a deal with you the next time I ask you again if I'm going crazy or if my skin looks weird Or if I look like I'm okay. I don't want you to answer me I want you to remind me what I'm doing you're seeking that reassurance again I have please tell me that you know that I can do this on my own That's a reasonable way to set the table because in the end we get reassurance from our friends from our families from our partners We get reassurance on the internet sometimes so in a calmer moment. You may have to make a deal with yourself I will not go to my Facebook. I mean I have a big Facebook group full of people that are suffering from these problems Like if you're in the group, you know that there's not a lot of reassurance seeking because people begin to understand Like well, I'm not really gonna get it here in this group So you start to understand well I'm gonna go over there and say like hey guys listen I'm really afraid right now somebody just remind me that I can do this that is that is a great use of your support system Be it online or in person as opposed to can somebody I feel like I'm gonna die No, I'm really struggling right now. I'm really afraid again Can somebody please remind me that I can do this that I'm capable That's a great way to start to change that you still can access support and Encouragement and people that will cheer for you because they care for you But you you also learn to go through it yourself Without asking them to take away your discomfort or soothe your fear that is not easy it is not easy and You will mess up sometimes. That's okay in a moment of weakness and fear Which is okay. Everybody goes through that you will make a mistake if you will and ask for reassurance. That's okay But one thing I would say that's important to remember as you begin to break the cycle And I'm gonna wrap this up here because I think I've rambled enough but as you begin to work to break the cycle of continual repetitive reassurance seeking remember that this is an emotional thing so Often when you get into that really difficult moment and you forget and you and you want to be Soothed and reassured in that moment and somebody knows the deal They've made with you and they understand what you're doing and they're trying to help you in the most productive way possible and they Kindly and compassionately refuse to do that instead want a route for you to go through it yourself It is very common in the the most Uncomfortable moments to get angry and feel abandoned and lash out all I want is why can't you just nobody's understanding? Nobody supports me. No, I'm not getting any support anymore Understand that that's gonna happen sometimes. So if you are the sufferer Recognize when that's happening. It's going to happen sometimes because this gets so emotional if I'm feeling so afraid And like I'm in such danger and I just want you to help me and you step away from me instead of toward me Man, I might get really angry at that in a moment of distress That's gonna happen and if you're supporting people who have this problem Recognize that they're gonna get really angry and they might lash out at you and accuse you of being unsupportive and abandoning them In that moment. It's so important the helpers do play a role like listen. I know you're really angry with me Let's talk about this again in 15 minutes because I know you can get through those 15 minutes then we'll talk about this Difficult it's gonna get a little messy. It's gonna get emotional. There's gonna be tempers There's gonna be you know accusations. There's probably gonna be all of those things just expect that and know that like, okay Nobody's abandoning anybody. Nobody's being cruel to anybody As long as the parameters are known and these are conversations that have been had and you recognize the mechanisms at play Then you can get through this you can get through the moments of distress and you can get through the breaking of the habit of constant reassurance seeking and believe me it is hard work But it is worth doing because when you begin to be able to stand on your own You find that you're not asking anymore and you just know I don't have to ask because they know I'm gonna be okay Because I've seen it so many times and I can do this you start to feel competent You start to feel powerful you start to feel in control again and believe it or not This can really improve your relationship with the people that are important to you Sometimes it improve your relationship either with your therapist or your doctor with your support group Like even those relationships can be improved when you come to it standing a little bit more on your own two feet and People are happy for you because they can see you starting to feel your own power and understand Oh, I have I have a say in this man. I can do this So that is assurance good thing. So not every question is reassurance seeking sometimes It's productive assurance seeking there's nothing wrong with that. We got to accommodate that We want that then there's this cycle that never ends that gets us stuck and sort of stands in the way of the Critical lessons of recovery and then there's how we can start to break that by recognizing I gotta make different deals with my support Structures here and I have to make a different deal with myself And I have to be willing to navigate through this uncertainty and this distress and this comfort on my own a few times Start to learn from that and That is in a nutshell That's the whole idea of reassurance and why it's bad why we got a break in and white productive assurance is a good thing So I think I've said enough words on this it went longer than I thought what a surprise my podcast went longer than I thought it would that never happens, right?  All right 25 minutes. We are done. 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Hopefully this has been helpful to you. Leave a comment leave a question We'll talk about it some more Think I'm done. I have nothing else to say to you guys You know that I'll be back next week with another podcast episode I will not I do not know what I'm gonna talk about that Oh, I actually do know what I'm gonna talk about then because it's not gonna be just me I have some special guests next week on the podcast that you will recognize I'm super excited about it like we're recording it later, but for now I'm out That's the end of episode 241 and remember as always this is the way


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My name is Jim saw this I am a senior writer and analyst for numberfire.com here to break down Thursday And they'll be money lines and NASCAR for this week at Watkins Glen quick scheduling note for today As mentioned, I'm recording this on Wednesday night So I'll put up on the podcast feed event as well video will be delayed So if you're watching on the Fandall YouTube page apologies that it is delayed there, but working with constraints I wish I could do this in the evening every night to get you the opening MLB lines Where they are as opposed to where they're at in the morning, but schedule constraints and such and such I just have a bachelor party. I'm leaving for on Thursday morning. It's no time to record there Tom Beck you will be with you on Friday filling in from easy to break down some MLB stuff and they'll be props for Friday's slate and then talk about some NFL stuff as well You can find Tom on Twitter at DFS underscore Tom But the easier way to get the show should fall Tom But also easier way to get that show is by subscribing to covering this spread Wherever you get your podcast if you want some college football talk We talked to dr. Ed Feng on Wednesday to get his thoughts on some wind totals across the Big 10 and the sec Find that here in the same feed as well. I'll be back with you once again on Monday Also a short week for me next week. 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I've got them at uh 69 to win this game. They're implied odd 65 percent so I'm going to mention what my numbers say and case numbers do move I have them at 69 percent and I do want to mention like There is a possibility numbers Move against me because I'm posting this pretty early and stuff will be more likely to move the wrong direction here Let's say you pull open fandall you just check out this podcast thursday and you see that suddenly the rangers are Minus 166 as opposed to minus 184 that could mean that i've got a bigger edge compared to my numbers But it also means i'm going against what smart people are betting on so I would say proceed with caution in those situations if the number gets worse I would You know listen to the the analysis I give listen to the rationale behind it if you agree and you think that the Way the number has moved is incorrect feel free to dive in I I've got my numbers here for a reason but Just proceed with caution if the numbers do move against me between when I post this and When you're listening and trying to bet this one so again 69 is what my numbers say about the ranges here versus the a's I am good lane the minus 184 here personally But I do think you could go towards the run line, which is plus 106 at minus 105 The reason I am okay with this one is that I like both aspects of this matchup dain dunning's velocity is back up To the rangers he has not been lights out despite the velo re-increase But he has been good enough to top an offense of this caliber Rangers are facing zack loge who is a lefty and the rangers pretty good against lefties Which to me is a surprise at least I didn't peg them as being a team that would be good versus lefties But 119 wrc plus for them against lefties a 199 iso on their current active roster Loge is a guy who struggled both in the minors and the majors. So I think this rangers offense Should be able to get him I think dain dunning should be good enough to hold the athletics offense and check So as we've discussed here on the show typically I'm more of a money line guy. I have a model for that I do not have a model for run lines. I get very uncomfortable betting into markets where I don't have my own numbers, but here I am okay Going at plus 106 at minus one and a half on the rangers run line I also am okay with the money line at minus 184 down to minus 200 or so I think is uh is enough wiggle room between what my numbers have and what the market would say To feel good about the rangers in this spot So pick your poison if you want to go the run line versus money line But overall the rangers a team a bit undervalued based on my numbers for today As far as strikeout props go the first guy i'm going to turn to tomorrow is adam wainwright Not a big strikeout guy, but he's facing the rockies I'm looking here because wainwright is going super super deep into games specifically with just massive pitch counts I got him projected for 105 tonight, which I don't typically do. I think that's actually the most I've had a guy projected at this entire year It's a big number But wainwright just going deep in games the rockies strikeout rate versus righties has started to creep up So I have wainwright projected at 5.4 strikeouts for tonight If they hang four and a half as being the number for today and I can get Minus 150 or better on the over. I'm probably going to take it I wouldn't be shocked if they put us at five and a half here given that I have him at 5.4 It's the rockies people tend to like wainwright. He's at home I wouldn't be surprised at all if that number is at five and a half But I do want to check on wainwright to see if we get a four and a half for him there I'm just going to read through a couple other strikeout projections I have here just in case these wind up being useful for you I didn't grade out every game just because I'm not really sure A lot of starters have not been announced yet So didn't want to go the game that may change you darvish 8.02 for me. I have corbin birds 7.11 Dane dunning is at 5.16 lewis garcia 6.17 Lucas giolito 5.57 those can be kind of your guides there. I will say I got darvish 8.02 There's a good chance he opens at six at six and a half as his strikeout prop for tonight That does not mean automatic over because there are a lot of paths to unders Let's say darvish is at six and a half 8.02 strikeout projection I have his over odds at six and a half at 61.5 percent So Kind of use your best judgment on that Obviously, even if I have a strikeout projection above the number that does not mean they're meeting expectations to go over It just means they probably got some upside. So be cautious there again darvish 8.02 and other one that was relatively high for today is Corbin burr and 7.11 So check out those see if you can find some Some interesting numbers, but again way right the first gal look towards because I do have my 5.4 for today That's all we got on the baseball side of things. Let's go to nascar and break down walkkins glenn We got both the cup series and the xfinity series at walkins glenn for this weekend On the cup side of things. I'm not showing a kind of value as of right now The one right outright that is up that I do like is michael mcdowell. He's 30 to 1 twin at fan duel, but shop around because You can get him longer. He's 40 to 1 at redacted different sports book But also 35 to 1. I got him here at rhodialin sports book would use the caesars lines You can get them at the longer numbers. So shop around get the best line Even if you have just 30 to 1 on mcdowell, my numbers are still showing value They were probably isn't too high if i'm higher than the lowest number I'm probably too high, but My numbers like mcdowell because he has been a beast on road courses this year he said three straight top 10 average running positions, which is awesome and That's why i'm on him the counter to liking mcdowell would be that walkins glenn is more of an equipment heavy track It's why mcdowell has not done well here historically despite being a very good road course racer But you have to remember that this is a different era when we've had previously The gap between the front guys and the guys like mcdowell in terms of equipment is less now than it was in the past I think mcdowell can't hang here and I think he can win this race and he hasn't sent it to Given his spot in the points position. So whether you get dowell 30 to 1 35 40. I'm showing value again Please please please get the best number you can But if you only bet fan will for whatever reason 30 to 1 still long enough for me to buy in and be okay With mcdowell He will be the first guy I turn to based on the current odds if you can find chris busher I've seen him 25 to 1 at redacted, but uh check that out if you can get busher at 25 to 1 I would take that as well. Uh, I fan to I think he's 18 to 1 that's a bit shorter But if you can get busher 25 to 1 that'd be my favorite If not, I would go mcdowell at 30 to 1 35 40 whatever it may be One guy I'm very close to showing value on is christopher bell He is the one toyota who has shown any speed on a road course this year. That was mostly an indy he had a seventh place average running position in that race and It's possible that bell in his team Figure something out there and if he figures something out you think that would translate to the other toyota as well I've got bell at 5.4 to win this race His implied odds at 18 to 1 are 5.3 percent If you can get him longer than 18 to 1 I would probably bite now and not take the risk that he Qualifies well on saturday and all the value dries up. So if you get bell 20 to 1 somewhere in there I would buy in I think that's a really good spot If not, I would check back after practice and qualify and see if he You know see what he does there See what the number is I am super receptive to bell this week based on the speed He showed an indy really good deviation for toad. I'm hoping that they Put that same setup configuration whatever it may be on bush hamlin, etc, etc But bell right now 5.4 percent for me to win so 20 to 1 or longer I'll buy in busher. I'll buy in at 25 daniel swarez. I'd buy in 16 or so I'd buy in and him he's 12 to 1 a fan a little bit too short for me But those are the primary guys I've been looking to so again the bite point is swarez 16 busher 25 I took him at 22 actually but he's 18 a fandwall McDowell 30 or longer and then Bell 20 to 1 or longer the spots I buy in for those guys The non outright market is pretty tough not much. I like right now. It's a it's a higher hold markets That's not a huge surprise not massively different than what we usually see But the one guy don't mind is joey hand at 18 to 1 to finish top 10 I have him above that though. He was 20 to 1 earlier on today Hand is good speed in road courses So I think that that's why I'm receptive to this. You have really good speed at sonoma Solid at kota as well and road america. That's why I'm Interested the reason I'm not banging the table for hand despite the fact my model shows He's above 10. I'll say that I'm embarrassed by that But I'll say it he's above 10 for me the reason I'm not like rushing despite showing about 6 5 or 6 percentage points of value is that the rick where racing cars Are at more risk of not keeping up at this track. I mentioned McDowell, you know equipment delta is lower The equipment delta is still pretty high for rick where racing So I did do it at 20 to 1 I would do it at 18 to 1 but those factors keep me from getting overly jazzed about it so hand where he currently sits okay with me, but I'm not rushing to get him at 18 to 1 to finish top 10 On the obscenity side. It's a loaded field this week. We have the usuals AJ almond ninger tie gibbs, but also kyle arson william byron ross chastain cold custer It's gonna be a lot of fun from a racing perspective Fandall does not have odds up yet, but I can base, you know some analysis on odds at other sites It might be tough to squeeze value Out of this race the top five guys for me are larson almond ninger gibbs byron and chastain Those guys account for 64 of the win odds in my simulations They're implied odds at the other sports books are 94.3. Oh boy That means i'm betting on someone to beat all those guys and that's pretty rough I'm the closest to showing value on ross chastain. He is 9.7 for me versus 10 implied So if you can get chastain 11 to 1 or longer, I would buy in otherwise I would Hope for something else to pop up chastain In that that car not super competitive in india. I think that's kind of the biggest red flag for me but Really good talents. Um, that may be able to overcome the equipment, but That's why i'm not higher as the equipment 9.7 from me on ross chastain If you can't get chastain at 11 to 1 or longer I probably would hope that a book hangs a long number on austin hill He's 6.5 to win for me That's a pretty high number and you know, it might be too high because there are a lot of guys he has to beat but I'm receptive to him. I did bet him at indy did not work out But he's typically super fast on these road courses I think for hill so i'm at 6.5 percent Which means I would show value around 15 to 1 or so To account for the fact that he has a lot of guys he has to beat. I might hold out until he gets to 20 if you can give me hill at 20 to 1 I would probably bite at that point because I believe so much in his talent on road courses 20 to 1 on hill I'd buy in 11 to 1 on chastain I buy in but Honestly, there's a good chance I wind up just sitting this one out because it's a super top heavy field I can't show value in those top guys. So Might wind up sitting it out. We'll see we'll buy back in on xinity at de tona But otherwise, uh, we'll hope uh for some longer odds Not a chastain or hill for this week. That's all we got here for today on covering the spread again Tom becky I will be with you tomorrow to talk some nlb and some nfl find tom on twitter at dfs underscore tom And also just make sure you're subscribed to covering the spread wherever you get your podcasts I'll be out for this weekend So not available for a lot of questions But if you got them and I have to be around you can hit me up on twitter at jim sonnis j i m s a N n e s you can also follow the fan dual podcast network at fan dual podcast big Thank you to everyone for tuning in for today. Good luck to you with both your mlb and your nascar bets And we'll talk to you. I'll talk to you once again next week tom. We'll talk to you tomorrow This has been covering the spread right here on the fan dual podcast network


Detective Daisuke Kanbei has no problems using his own fortune to solve crimes, even if he assesses human lives based on their financial worth. Compassionate Harukato sees all life as sacred and is sickened by Daisuke's materialistic ways. Can they stop butting heads and overcome their opposing worldviews for the sake of solving the toughest crimes in the precinct? Hey everybody, welcome back to another First Impressions video here at Wikinkik them Gio here and today we're taking a look at the series The Millionaire Detective Balance Unlimited. This is a new anime series produced by Cloverworks and is directed by Tomohiko Ito and it's inspired by a novel of the same name written by Yasutaka Sutsui. So what is the series all about? Well I read a brief description at the beginning of the video and yeah we're following this character Daisuke Kanbei, this playboy detective who is assigned to the Modern Crime Prevention Headquarters. This headquarters has officers that often have or they have caused problems I should say for the Metropolitan Police Department in Japan and in this department we see the Modern Crime Prevention. We see our second protagonist Harukato, a man who is a very honest, grounded, real detective slash comp. He had his runnings with the previous police department where he eventually was let go because you know he's a little bit too moralistic I guess. But I have this clash between a playboy eccentric millionaire who has an unlimited cash fund to do basically whatever the heck he wants. The character only has to reach for his glasses I think and it activates sort of like this satellite network with his butler and is able to produce an obscene amount of money and get whatever the heck he wants. This on a first impressions basis alone if I were to tell you what this series is about I gotta be honest. The first thing that came to mind was okay Daisuke is basically a Bruce Wayne persona.  A playboy version of Bruce Wayne who has unlimited money with his butler coincidence solving crimes eccentric crimes I guess in Japan. Just erase all the Batman stuff all the cape and cowl stuff. That's how I sort of saw the character in my eyes and I like that you know you have a character like that who's so eccentric and odd compared to Haru who's more honest and realistic and toned down. You see it even in the way that they dress you know obviously one doesn't have the money that the other one possesses but still there is this interesting contrast of two different ideologies of going about solving crimes and stuff. When I first started watching the series I had no clue what it was about. Especially when I watched a new anime I do as little research as possible so as not to be influenced or to get a preconceived idea about that show I want to go in cold turkey and experience the thing as it was intended so I didn't know what it was about. I just saw the poster image or the key visual and it looked pretty interesting. So with this new season I said you know what yeah I'll check it out and it turned out to be a pretty fun action packed series that you know it's only the first episode I know but it sort of has this realistic approach even though you have a character that has unlimited money you're still dealing with the real people they're not exaggerating the police work and all that stuff even though he has like these high-tech glasses or equipment to access funding and pay off people and all that stuff it's all somewhat realistic. So when the character of Daisuke Kanbe first shows up I wasn't aware that the series was you know 50% about him and the other 50% about Haru and when I saw him I thought okay this is a terrible character look what he's doing in the streets but then I figured out oh okay yeah you know he's a little bit odd and is using his resources to fix problems in a different way that other characters would go about it. Meanwhile the character of Haru he he's trying to be the best cop that he can be he was kicked off the police department and is now in this crime prevention headquarters and he gets made fun of from his former colleagues but you know that's not gonna stop him and when he sees stuff going down he's going to take action just like the best of them. So I like his character a lot and I'm very interested in like I said at the beginning the clash of ideologies where you have a grounded realistic character with this over the top persona of that is Daisuke I should say. The art is fantastic it is produced by Clover Works like I said at the beginning and I love their style it's stylized but it's realistic in a way you know Clover Works did Promise Neverland so you know they bring their A game and it looks fantastic it looks like a real place yes I know it's a real setting you know it's based off in Japan and I assume it's Tokyo I don't remember what city they were on but it's everything looks real like it could take place in like a live action movie you know a heist movie if you will but this is more of a detective mystery slash comedy series but I like that the anime doesn't go or at least on the first episode I might be wrong later on we'll see but on the first episode even though you have the whole concept with the glasses and the high-tech network for the cash flow and stuff I like that it's all real they're trying on the first episode they are trying to stop this bomber who is targeting a foreign Arab prince so it's based on things that have happened in real life it's not so far-fetched even with the whole techie stuff and Kame talking about his butler and all that stuff I like that it's a nice mishmash of plot devices and tropes when it comes to shows like this and one of the other things that I found really interesting about the series was to see it trending on Twitter for all the quote-unquote wrong reasons or the right reasons I'll let you decide but still that was pretty funny that it's already amassed quite a following just on that alone the characters are pretty interesting like I just said the plot is pretty grounded and believable aside from the unlimited budget thing and yeah I'm excited to see where it goes from here there are two options one it could be a very episodic case of the week series it's only going to be like 11 or 12 episodes so it could go that route and resolve the main plot by the end or it could just keep going with a straightforward plot all the way to its ending so we'll see about that but I am very much on board I like the art style the clash between the two characters one is more honest and doesn't you know he is disgusted by the way Daisuke resolves his things how he works in the field and you know Daisuke he's got all the money so he can probably do whatever the hell he wants and get whatever he wants so yeah that's gonna be interesting overall just a fun action-packed heist inspired episode and a series that has a lot of style in gusto I'm I'm very much on board I liked it a lot have you watched the millionaire detective balance unlimited let me know in the comment section down below and if not what are some of your favorite heist or mystery cop anime manga very interested in that as well guys as always follow me on your favorite social media platform Facebook Twitter Instagram all that fun stuff you can like comment subscribe hit the little bell icon so you know when new videos pop up here on YouTube thank you so much for watching and supporting this channel it truly means a lot to me I am eternally grateful for your continued support I've got to go I've got more stuff to watch read and review so I will catch all of you on our next episode


In many cases we want to represent the existence of a relation between two objects. For example, two cities might have a direct flight between them. Two people might be related. Two islands might have a bridge between them. We can represent these relationships using a graph. Now before we continue, it's worth keeping in mind that the more names we have for something, the more important it probably is. So, while we often use the term graph, this is also called a network, and it's also known as a web, unless it's called a sociogram. But to be consistent, we'll call it a graph, except when we don't. Informally, a graph consists of points, some pairs of which are joined by lines. Or maybe they're called vertices and they're joined by edges. Or maybe they're called nodes and they're joined by links. Since different fields use different terms, we won't make any attempt to be consistent. A graph is a web, is a network. A point is a vertex, is a node. A line is an edge, is a link. Now just as you can tell something about a person by what they call a carbonated drink, you can also tell something about a person by which terms they use. Generally, mathematicians use a term graph, vertex, and edge. But computer scientists usually use a term network, node, and link. Now if a graph represents relationships, these relationships could be directional. Links go from one web page to another, but not necessarily in the other direction. Or these relationships could be weighted. It might cost more to fly from Boston to Providence than from Boston to London. Or they could loop. A person could be their own grandfather. And there could be multiple connections. Two islands might have several ridges joining them. Likewise, a node might be weighted. Some friends might be more influential than others. While all of these modifications could make the study of graphs much more useful, for now we'll assume that nodes and edges are unweighted, edges are bi-directional, no edge connects a node to itself, and two nodes are connected with that most one edge. This gives us a simple graph. It's worth mentioning that while a simple graph does prohibit two nodes being connected with both in one edge, a lot of the graphs we study will have these multiply connected nodes. In fact, the graph from the Bridges of Kennecksburg problem is one of these graphs that have multiply connected nodes, but we still include it in elementary graph theory. Formally, a graph G is a tuple, v e, where v is a non-empty set of points, vertices, nodes, and e is a possibly empty set of lines, edges, links, which consist of sets of two vertices. So we might try to describe the graph shown. We see there are four vertices, one, two, three, and four, and the edges are described by the vertices they join. So we have an edge between vertex one and three, two and three, two and four, and three and four. And since the edges are sets, the order in which we list the vertices doesn't matter. So the edge we described as one and three is the same as the edge we described as three, one, or we could be given the set of vertices and the set of edges. And so there are four vertices. And remember, if it's all written down, it didn't happen. Label everything. So we'll put down our vertices, and it really doesn't matter where we put them. Our list of edges indicates that we have an edge joining vertices one and two, so we'll draw a line between them. We also have an edge between one and three, and one and four. So we'll draw those in as well. Given an edge, we say that e is incident on vertices v one and v two, and that the two vertices are adjacent. Informally, any edge is incident on the vertices corresponding to its endpoints. So in the graph shown, the edge e one is incident on the nodes one and two, and the edges e two, e three, e four are all incident on vertex three. It's important to understand that in the representation of the graph, only the identified points and lines exist. Since the graph is the relationship between the edges and their incident points, if two edges cross, they do not create a point. And in fact, it is irrelevant where points are with respect to each other. And what this means is that we can move points around. So we can move point a over and point e over. And since we haven't changed the relationships between the points and the lines, it's the same graph.


Hello. Well, it's great to have a chance to speak to you guys. And I'm actually based here in Singapore, so I don't have any jet lag to blame anything on. But hopefully, you'll find this interesting. This is a little different from the other talks here. It's kind of deep in the networking stat, but it impacts what you do with web hosting dramatically. And in fact, a lot of people say, IPv6. This is a really obscure topic, very dry. In reality, we're at the verge of a third generation of the global internet. The first generation was ARPANET, which had 8-bit addresses. And maybe 10,000 people total ever used it. And it lasted from 1969, 50 years ago, to 1983. And so it started. The first four nodes of ARPANET were connected together. About the time Armstrong was taking his troll on the moon. And so a lot of people don't realize how far back the internet really goes. But that was the first generation. And they actually had things like email and file transfer and so on. But of course, they didn't have web. But basically, with 8-bits, you can only have 256 nodes. At the time, a node was like a mainframe computer with hundreds of users. So it's a little different from today. But 8-bits, they ran out of that pretty quickly. So the second generation of the internet is what most people are using today. That's IPv4. And it was actually, first went live January 1, 1983. And it's still widely used. But starting around the mid-90s, we basically broke it horribly. Because we were running out of public addresses, where they were all going to be gone by 2000 at the rate we were putting them out. And so the IETF came up with a couple of workarounds. One was network address translation. Another is called private addresses. And actually, if you read the RFC, it's addresses for private internets. And so we actually fractured the global internet into millions of little private internets, each one of which is hiding behind one real public address, that basically IPv6 was actually originally specified in 1995. And it's really only going live in the last few years. Because people realize that IPv4 is really at end of life. It's dying. And so we've got to replace it. The good news is this makes some enormous changes in the way things work. There's now an essentially unlimited number of global addresses. You don't really have to go to a web hosting facility anymore to get a public address. You could have 1,000 public addresses in your own house with no problem, each one with a little Raspberry Pi running a website. You could have a website running on your phone if you really wanted to. I'm not sure why anybody would want to do that. But you could port Apache to Android and have a website running on your phone. I'm planning to make a FTP server that runs on my phone here shortly. I'm also working on software that goes directly from my phone to yours with no intermediary server. This revolutionizes the way things work. And so I'm going to give you a little talk about this and how it impacts hosting, and so on. As I mentioned, I've been around about 45 years in the field. And I'm working on my fifth venture now, Sixgate. My third one was actually in the US in 2000 to 2006. We went from six people in my basement to 250 people and sold for $273 million. And so I'm a serial entrepreneur. I wrote a book on IPv6 back in 2010 and posted it on the global IPv6 forum website. It's been downloaded about a half million times so far. So I'm somewhat of an authority in this field. I've got two websites that, if you're interested in digging deeper into what's going on, are out there. And one of them is called thirdinternet.com and one of them is called v6edu.com. The second one is really for people who are very serious about this, network engineers and so on. I've got people hitting these sites from all over the world. And of course, they run on WordPress. OK. So now, in the TCPIP network stack, there's actually four layers. I'm not going to go into too much detail on this and there's no quiz at the end. The top layer is application layer. That's where most of the protocols you're familiar with live, like HTTP, FTP, SMTP, and so on. Next layer down is transport, where TCP and UDP live. And finally, we get down to the layer where IP lives. And so this is pretty obscure, something buried that deep in the internet, but it makes an enormous impact. The bottom layer is the link layer, which is where things like ethernet and Wi-Fi live. We're not going to worry too much about that. OK. So basically, IP lives in that next to bottom layer and it uses IP addresses. The old style, IPv4, looks like <IP_ADDRESS>.  The new ones look a little strange. First off, it's 128-bit addresses, which means there's 340 trillion, trillion, trillion possible global addresses. We ain't going to run out this time. But basically, we organize a little bit. Instead of four groups of decimal digits from 0 to 255, it's now eight groups of hex digits, four digits each group. And so we have letters in our numbers now, which confuses some people, but it's just Bay 16. So don't get worried if your addresses now start having letters A through F in them. That's just Bay 16. But anyway, most software never uses IP directly, but only indirectly through the socket API, which is what Apache uses and so on. And the transport layers, like TCP or EDP. But IP determines the number of bits in the IP addresses, which in turn determines the number of addresses. IPv4 had a total of 4.3 billion. We've got 20 billion people using the internet today. Huh, how did that happen? Well, they had to go through network address translation and create private internets that basically are very much like having a PBX in an office phone system. You don't have a real phone number. You've got an extension. And so mostly addresses you're working with now are extensions. So when you go to host your site, basically, you don't have any public addresses at home. I'm sorry, those have been gone for years. In fact, a lot of people don't even have more than one or two at their office. And so it's getting more and more difficult to host sites. Because in order for you to have a site that anybody can connect to, you've got to have a public address. And those are just about gone in IPv4 now. So they're even sharing public addresses now. Hosting sites, when you put your site up, you don't have your own IPv4 address. You're sharing it with 100 or 1,000 other people. And you can only get at that site through the URL, not through an IP address. And so this complicates things. And interestingly enough, going through that network address translation server and now two layers of it with what's called carrier grade net, that slows things down. So IPv6 is faster. If you want a really fast website deployed on an IPv6, it'll speed up 20% or 30% just because it's on IPv6. So that's one thing that might get your attention. But anyway, basically the public addresses in IPv4 have been gone since February 3, 2011 at the IANA level. And since then, at the regional internet registry levels, like APNIC and so on, they've run out one after another. So now, when an ISP runs out of IPv4 addresses, there's no more being made. And so the IANA and APNIC and so on tell them, how about try IPv6? They've been telling them that for a long time. And a lot of them are finally beginning to do that. OK, now, there we go. OK, so IPv4 has been around since 1983. It's completely out of address. It sits on life support at this point. And this is what probably everybody in here is hosting their websites on except me. But anyway, IPv6 is a successor protocol. It's created by the ITF, first specified in 95, finally going live. It does pretty much the same thing, but there's an almost unlimited number of public addresses. And there's a lot of other improvements to it, too. But even a phone, my phone has IPv6 from M1. I've got two to the 64th addresses on here. That's 18 quintillion times as many as in the entire current internet. My phone has that on it.  This computer now has IPv6, even though I'm sorry, the site doesn't. But anyway, basically, we're now in the transition from IPv4 to IPv6. And we're at about 28%. 28% of all the traffic on the global internet is now over IPv6. In the next year or two, that's going to go over 50%, because you've probably heard of 5G. 5G is over IPv6, 5G phones. And so as 5G is deployed, it's going to turn to a mostly IPv6 internet with shrinking islands of IPv4. We're in the final days of IPv4. Get with it, guys. Start supporting the future here. OK, now, basically, let's see. I don't really need to go into the private addresses and so on, but this will give you a good idea here. In a business office, you have a real telephone number and a PBX. And behind that, you have extensions, like extension 101, extension 102, and so on. Those are not real telephone numbers. Nobody can call it directly. And in fact, when you're making an outgoing call, if you've got 10 real phone numbers in that company, only 10 people can be making outgoing calls, even if you have 1,000 people. Level 1 tries to make an outgoing call. Dialing 9, they get a busy signal. So there's a lot of problems with PBXs, but the alternative is too expensive having a real phone number for each employee. Well, NAT is the same way. NAT basically has one real address and then a lot of extension addresses behind it. People are confused because they look like they're real addresses. They used to be. They got repurposed to be extensions, basically. And so when you have something in there, basically, it cannot make any outgoing connection itself, or sorry, it can make an outgoing, but you can't make an ingoing connection to an internal one. And so you can't have a website running on your home computer. There's no way for anybody to connect to that computer from outside. So today, if you want to host a WordPress website, you've got to take it to a COLO facility or a web host or whatever. They've got a handful of IPv4 addresses, and they do some very strange things, which slow it down even more to actually access the different servers that they're hosting. With IPv6, everybody can have a native address, a real public address, and there's no slowing down. There's an interesting little company called MythicBeast out there that has rack full of rack full of little Raspberry Pis, each of which is running its own copy of Linux and has a unique IPv6 address. And they'll host stuff on there for £2.50 British a month, because one of the main costs at a hosting facility now is these ancient and incredibly scarce IPv4 addresses. So if you can get around having that, have IPv6 only hosting, you save a lot of money, and it works dramatically better. So again, we're at the final days there. So you can pay a hosting facility a lot more money and get a dedicated IPv4 address, which they charge a lot for, and then publish that in DNS. Then anybody can get to your site. You don't have to worry about sharing your address with anybody else. But that's getting harder and harder, because the hosting facilities are all out of IPv4 addresses. They're getting more and more difficult to do that. But anyway, there are few hosting facilities now that support IPv6. Some of the sponsors here today do that. Talk with exabytes, I believe it is. They'll be happy to provide you with IPv6 hosting. And I happen to use Vodian here in Singapore. I've got three websites, one for my company and two personal ones that I run that are running over IPv6. And it was very easy to set up. I really didn't have to do that much work to get it to work. So when you go to host your site, one of the most important questions is do you support IPv6? A lot of the current ones are going to say no. But the ones that have an eye to the future and so on, sure, we got it. No additional charge, because the addresses are free unlike IPv4, because they're not scarce. There's trillions of them. So basically, that's one of the things you should do. And a lot of the hosting people say, oh, well, I haven't had anybody ask for it yet. People don't know to ask for it. They've never heard of IPv6. So ask them. Start creating the demand. OK, now you don't post it on just IPv6 unless you're doing something very unusual. You do what's called dual stack. And so the IPv4, which is what most people would connect to, would be through the layer after layer of NAT, running slow, having technical problems and so on. The people that are up to speed will have IPv6, and they'll connect to the IPv6, and things work much better. You say, well, how many people have IPv6 right now? Well, about 28% of the people in the world today have IPv6 and probably don't even know it. And so basically, if you go to MythicBeast, they'll be happy to provide you with IPv6 only hosting, but you would be cutting out a lot of your customers if you did that today. One interesting thing is telephones are where IPv6 is really taking off. In the US, 90 to 95% of the telephones are already on IPv6. Many of them IPv6 only. And they used some cute technology to allow the ancient legacy IPv4 only apps to still run. So anyway, basically, what do you need to change in your web app to support IPv6? The short answer is nothing. Basically, the hosting company has to be running both IPv4 and IPv6. The addresses have to be published in DNS. Apache has to be configured to support both protocols. Your hosting provider can easily do all of that. So basically, one of the neat things is once you've got Apache configured correctly, anything running on it, including WordPress and your applications, require no changes whatever. So you can be up on to speed just by finding a hosting provider that supports IPv6. No changes to your site, whatever. Now, if you've got IPv6 at home, you can actually run as many public websites as you want. I've got IPv6 at home. I've had it since about 2004, but OK, I'm a little odd. But basically, in Singapore today, some of the wired internet providers are supporting IPv6. Ask around and get one that does. So how do you find IPv6 web posters? Google it. You'll notice there's something like 4.12 million responses to that. So this is not something that is unheard of. There's a lot of people doing this. And it doesn't matter where your website is hosted, of course. You can also use Cloudflare as a CDN. They automatically migrate or convert all websites to IPv6. So that's the easy way to do it. Just get Cloudflare as a CDN. Here's the proof that it's actually taking off. These are the people who are hitting Google.com over IPv6. You can see, starting around 2014, it really started rising rapidly. We're at 28% as of January 2019. And it's going up even faster now. So basically, it's here. It's no longer future technology. It's the present technology. A lot of countries like Belgium is already up to 64%, Switzerland 53%, and so on. The internet cores at 80%. So it's really taking off. On the global content, these are the top 10,000 websites. 61% of them are running IPv6. It's on phones too. This is my Android phone and my iPhone. You can see they both have real IPv4 addresses. And one interesting thing is if I actually tried to ping those addresses from anywhere else, like from my Windows computer, it works. Those are real global addresses, unlike phones. Up to now, phones have only had private addresses and they could only make outgoing connections. Very shortly here, as people start getting IPv6 on their phones, you can run servers on your phone if you want to. Now, most are all 5G phone providers who will be supporting IPv6. So that's something to look forward to. And for more information, I've got two websites. Again, thirdinternet.com is the third generation of the global internet. A lot of advocacy, deployment stats, the vision of what's coming and so on. Feel free to check it out. It's free. It's being hit by people all over the world now, as you'll see on the next slide. And then v6edu.com is really the hardcore stuff for the network engineers. Probably most of the people in here won't need that, but people like the top telco engineers at Singtel and so on, I trained a lot of them in this and that's that information that's there. And again, that's being hit from all over the world. Okay, there's my coverage map on thirdinternet.com. You can see it's really being hit by a lot of people. And so, not so much in Africa, but some. But most of the rest of the world is fairly well covered. Anyway, okay, so that's basically what I want to tell you. I strongly recommend you look into it. Again, there's almost no effort involved in this. Find yourself a hosting provider that supports IPv6, use them, you're done. Or just go through a content provider like Cloudflare in particular. And so it's not a tricky thing to do and it's gonna become more and more important. Eventually we're gonna run out of IPv4 even for home with shared and so on. And so people are gonna start getting much cheaper internet by getting only IPv6. Once that starts happening, if your site is only on IPv4, they ain't gonna be able to reach you. So just here's fair warning, it's coming. So basically, I hope that gave you some interesting insight that there's a major revolution underway right now. It's no longer future, it's happening. And it impacts how you host these sites. So I'll see just one quick last thing here. Basically, just to show you, if I go to, this is testipv6.com. Sure enough, right in here, I've actually got full working IPv6 and there's my address. And let's see, also if I go to my thirdinternet.com site, well that's v6edu. Let me go to thirdinternet.com. Okay, so right there, this is the PHP function that shows your current IP address of the person connecting to you. As you can see, I'm connecting from IPv6 right from in here in this room. And in order to do that again, I had to use a hotspot on my phone because the wifi here is in IPv6. But anyway, so there's no change at all to my code or to the WordPress. That's just standard WordPress running at Vodian, okay? All right, any quick questions? Yes, what? Are you recommending to the IPv6 policy? No, I'm recommending you the dual stack right now, which is what most of the hosting providers are providing. Have both IPv4 and IPv6. And so basically they add an IPv6 address to your existing site. No change is required. But now people will be able to access it if they've got only IPv6. The one inside doesn't have IPv6 when the IPv6 is connected? Yes, they'll connect to the old legacy IPv4. But eventually there's gonna be people that have only IPv6. Because it's just getting too expensive to keep IPv4 on life support. So more and more of it's gonna be shut down over the next few years. In fact, there's a group at the ITF called IPv4 Sunset, which is how to cleanly and painlessly put IPv4 to sleep, okay? And so we don't wanna disrupt things too much. But yeah, IPv6 is the future. We'll probably have it till around 2100 or so.  I don't have to worry about that. Okay, good question though. So what does it mean in the context of your own internet provider? Okay, basically my own internet provider at home is my republic. They don't have IPv6 for home networks yet. So I had to actually get a special router, configure it, and I tunnel in IPv6 from a company called Hurricane Electric in the US. So if anybody wants to do that, the complete details and how you set everything up is on thirdinternet.com. There's a lot of recipes on there on how to do things, including how to do IPv6 on AWS. But StarHub and I think M1 are already doing IPv6 at home and on their wired networks. And so just when you go to sign up for an ISP, ask them, do you have IPv6? Someone will say, IPv what? And others will say, yeah, we've had it for years. So go for one that's had it for years. Okay. What can we get a bandwidth? What? How do you use this when you had IPv6 at home? What benefits do you get from IPv6 at home? I've got gigabit. You say bandwidth? No, benefits. Oh, benefits. Well, first off, I develop a lot of IPv6 software at the office. And so I've got IPv6 running there too. I have since, again, 2004. And so I have to have IPv6 to test things on and so on. At home, I actually now, every node in my home, I can access from anywhere in the world. I could bring up RDP here and talk to my computer on my desk at home, even though it's not, it doesn't have any public IPv4 address. It's got a public IPv6. And so there's a lot of advantages to running IPv6 at home. And you can actually run multiple subnets. You could have one for the parents, one for the kids, one for your smart TV, isolate them and so on. So you don't have to worry about somebody getting in your smart TV and seeing the rest of your network. So there's a lot of advanced things you can do with IPv6. Eventually, everybody will have it, okay? But right now, it's kind of transition. Yeah? Your site is hosted on bogey.com, right? Yes. So it's mine, but how do you make yours IPv6? It's mine as well. By default, you go get IPv6 there. You have to kind of twist their arm right now. Eventually, they'll probably give it to everyone. But if you call them up and say, I want IPv6 on my site, they might grumble a little bit, but they'll give it to you at no additional charge. Okay. There are other website hosting that just include it by default. I believe Exabyte, I'm not sure, you can ask them, they're out there. I believe they support IPv6 for their facilities. You can use it in a second. Yeah, basically, once your hosting facility turns it on for you, you don't have to make any changes. You're on the third internet, and anybody will be able to connect to you over IPv6. And of course, also through the legacy stuff with the NAT in the way and so on. But the IPv6 will actually be higher performance. As that means, you don't have to buy a program. No, you still need domains. Domains are kind of above the level of IP. But in DNS, you can actually provide the what's called a quad A record for the IPv6 and an A record for the IPv4. And when somebody connects whichever one IPv6 or IPv4, it'll find you and connect. You still need a domain though. Yeah, you have both the IPv6 address and the IPv4 address, and the client will get the right one and connect. I don't know if we've got more time, but we've got more questions apparently. Yeah. I have a machine that's running 10 websites right now. Yeah. IPv4, and I wouldn't know what IP, and they're all running on the hostages. Yeah. So with IPv6, does that mean that I would have? Each one could have a global address on one machine. Unlike IPv4, where you can only have one address per machine. With IPv6, I can have as many public addresses as I want on one computer. Okay. So yeah, you could easily have each one have a unique public address, even without having multiple machines or virtual machines or whatever. The what? Host headers. Host headers. Do they still work on IPv6? I think they do. And in fact, some of the hosting providers that are providing IPv6, believe it or not, they're sharing IPv6 addresses because that's the way they know to do things. And so, you know, they really don't need to do that. They could provide each customer with a unique IPv6 address per website.  All IPv6 addresses should be dedicated. There's no excuse for sharing an IPv6 address.  You know? So, okay. I'll be around the rest of today and also I'll be around tomorrow. If you have any other questions about this, this is free consulting guys. I'm a world-class IPv6 expert, also security, so feel free to ask questions. I'll be glad to answer. And I've enjoyed speaking to you. I hope you got something interesting out of this.