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Are you tired of watching boring old press releases? Then you've come to the right place, the right channel, the number one channel for CEO interviews and company overviews. Welcome to Rich TV Live, subscribe to our channel and make sure to hit the like button on our videos to help with the YouTube algorithm for more information and in-depth discussions and analysis. Join our trading club at richpigsdaily.com and don't forget to subscribe and hit the bell for notifications to get alerted when our next CEO interview is released so you can discover the next 10-bagger. Hi, how's everybody doing today? I'm your host, Rich, here and we have a Rich TV Live and I'm here with our very special guest, Frederick Bell, the CEO of Elemental Royalties. How are you doing today, Fred? All right, you're good, thank you. Fantastic, excited to have you here and learn more about your company. Why don't you start off by telling me a little bit about yourself and how you got started with Elemental Royalties. So Elemental was a start-up in every regard. Our first deal was a million dollars in 2017. We were a private company and you've sort of fast-forward to today and we listed in Canada on TSXV in 2020 and I think our last acquisition was 55 million. So it's been a good growth from, you know, sitting at home, you know, planning a business and saying, you know, I've got a great idea to actually coming all the way through and then going through the really odd experience of listing during COVID. Again, sitting in your living room when you never thought you'd be doing that, sort of marketing into people online. So it's been a really good experience and I think one that's actually, it gets more enjoyable the longer you do it. That's fantastic. We're excited to learn more and have our community which is all over the world, learning more about your early stage company. And why don't you tell me a little bit about what your goals are for the second half, the last six months of 2021? So as a Gold-focused Royalty company, you know, one of our main drivers is acquisitions and we've bought some really good quality royalties that we see as multi-decade assets. You know, it's a bit like a music royalty. We don't have to do anything and every time the song plays, we get paid. And so if that keeps going for 10 years, for 20 years, for 30 years, it's a really, really great business model. And so there's a few acquisitions that we're always looking at and one or two that we'd really like to do in the second half of this year. And then the other step, and it's one that's probably underrated, but I think it's a sign of the level of maturity of a company is refinancing our credit facility that we have with some of the senior Canadian banks. And I think that will be a pretty big step for us because it's, you know, we're a 100 million market cap company now and there is no, you know, the next company that's done it is 500 million market cap. So I think for us to be ticking off some of these boxes, it's something that really differentiates our standards out from the crowd.  Yeah, that brings me to my next question. Can you talk a little bit about your management team? It's important to have a management team that has experience. Can you talk a little bit about some of their experience, especially in the gold sector? Well, funnily enough, two of our directors have actually owned rural teams personally. Oh. You must. So definitely experienced on that side. And I think if you look across the board and management team, John Robbins, who's part of Discovery Group in Canada, very well known, I think they've probably sold a dozen companies for more than 200 million over the last decade. You know, one of the most recent great bear, you know, probably went from 20 million to 800 million over the last two years or so. But you know, very good track record. And one thing I've learned in my career is if you, you know, work with good people, they tend to introduce you to all the good people. And I was really lucky when we started Elemental, Peter and Richard, who are both Australian and careers in the mining industry. And both at Western Mining, that was one of Australia's biggest mining companies, 20 years and 30 years there with technical backgrounds. And so they've had a whole host of companies that have worked for, you know, similar in many ways to John that have been very successful that they've sold on involved in early days.  And so, you know, to be able to go in the room and have people on the board who have been doing this for 20 years, for 30 years, and have a really, really good track record of success is so helpful in terms of opening doors and reputations. Absolutely. Now, Fred, we know that gold mining has a lot of capital costs involved, especially as an exploration company. How does Elemental royalties look to lower the risk for investors who are interested in gold but are looking for a safer way to get involved? I think that's a really good point.  We saw over the last year the race to develop, you know, a drug for COVID and, you know, billions and billions being invested. And everyone knows about the successful ones, but you don't hear about the ones that didn't work. Yes.  And mining, similar, if you think about it, you've got dozens of projects out there and, you know, they will all have tens, if not hundreds of millions, of capex and exploration, which is high risk money going into the ground. And you're not sure in the early days which will be the successful one and which won't. And so if you want exposure to exploration projects, you get the high risk side of it. If you want exposure to a less risky one, you might go for a gold miner that has a project in Mexico. And that's fine, but then you need to be a bit of an expert in Mexico. You need to understand the region, the community, you know, even the weather, which can be a big factor in mining, all these different factors. And I think, you know, for a royalty company, you know, what a royalty company is doing is it's taking a very small percentage stake in a lot of different projects. And so actually your strength is your diversification. And so as a more generalist investor looking for exposure to gold, with a royalty company, you get more leverage than holding the physical metal, but you get the diversification of not needing to be an expert in Ecuador or in South Africa or in five different countries because you have a, you know, a small stake of the gross revenue top line in multiple different projects and you can't get diluted at the asset level. And that's one of the key parts. You can't get diluted. So if I give you 1% in my mind as a royalty, you'll have 1% whatever happens. And maybe the shareholders in that company get diluted over time, but you as a royalty holder don't. And that's a really important principle that, you know, has led to the royalty space really outperforming the mining space as a whole over the last 10 or 15 years. And it's also the reason why the royalty space was go back to 2006. It was a $5 billion industry in mining and it's now a $50 billion plus industry in mining. And that is because it's actually, you know, delivered really superior adjusted risk adjusted returns for investors. Gold is a very competitive sector. Obviously there's everyone knows about gold. You know, it's not a new sector. Everyone knows about gold. It's been a very strong sector for the last few years. So with that competition, what separates you guys from your peers and from your competitors in this really competitive landscape? Look, the key differentiator for us is that, you know, our portfolio is extremely mature. So it is, it's predominantly 80% producing assets. So you go to a junior royalty company, you might typically expect a portfolio to be exploration assets, development assets, like the type we talked about. So they might turn into something great, but they might not. And they might also take five years or 10 years to mature. And what we've managed to do, which is sort of the hardest thing is we have bought the producing high quality assets at the beginning of the outset. And so it gives us a really asymmetrical risk profile. We have diversified revenue from day one, but we've actually been able to grow that revenue doubling it year on year since we started in 2017. And so that is, you know, you've got the lower risk profile of a major, but you've got the growth of a smaller royalty company that can be doubling in size year on year. And that is, that's, I think, the really important sort of distinction when you consider Elemental. That sounds incredible. And I know our community and our investors are gonna love to hear that. And so far, I love what I hear. And here at RichDB Lab, we like to identify undervalued, underexposed, underappreciated early stage companies. And we love to understand the share structure. We love to understand the fundamentals of the company. Can you break down the company share structure and how you intend to attract more institutional and retail investors? So in terms of the share structure, it's fairly straightforward. We have approximately 69 million shares outstanding. And there are no warrants. And there's, I think, in the order of about four million options at various prices that are outstanding. And of that, the biggest shareholder, South32. So that was spun out from the world's biggest mining company. And they actually took 19% of us at the end of last year when we announced the transaction with them. And which closed in Q1, 2021. And they put a director on the board as well. So there are 19% shareholder management have about 16%, which is really important because skin in the gate. Yes. I wouldn't be here if I didn't have a material equity stake in this from the beginning, because I know that if I make this work, it's actually really gonna make my career as well. So I think really important that management board have really material stake in this. And I think each of the last fundraisings we've done, probably contributed a million dollars between the board and directors in each one. In terms of other shareholders, we have about 30% held by institutional shareholders. So that gets us up to about 66%. And then there's probably about another five or 10% that's held by five or 10 individuals. So it's pretty tightly held that 70, 75% or so, where we sort of know who holds those shares. And then the rest is public, private investors. Sounds great. We love, like the share structure that I look for is a hundred million or less. You guys are sitting at 69 million, that's great. And is that fully diluted 69 million? So it's about four million options that come in at various prices. And that's all to management and team. So we've never issued a warrant in any external financing. Great. And actually we did it, I think the opposite way to what a lot of people in the US and Canada do, which is we did almost 10 for one instead of a consolidation, we did the other way. We actually increased the shareholding. You did a forward split. Forward split. So when we were a private company, before we listed last year, we had four and a half million shares outstanding. And we decided that that wasn't, we almost needed more. So we sort of did it to try and help on the liquidity front, which was the second part of your question, which was how do you attract investors, both institutional and retail? And I think for us, COVID's been both a challenge and an opportunity. So we've got the team in Australia, the UK and Canada and actually since we listed virtually, we haven't been able to travel to meet anyone in person. And in the Canadian capital markets, not being able to meet people and tell the story face to face is always more challenging the first time. But it also opens the door in terms of, I think doing virtual interviews, media. I mean, what we're doing here today and our core management team, mid 30s and the board, some really good experience on that. I think actually one of the advantages we've got is that we're all, we're sort of of the generation that we're all plugged in online and it comes to us. And sometimes we have some shareholders who struggle to sort of get on a Zoom call or sort of log in online. And I think that that's actually one area where we should be able to do, we should be able to take advantage of modern technology and use the fact that we're all having to work remotely to our advantage and make sure that we actually get the story out there in front of people because we haven't been listed for even a year as of today. And we've probably spent most of that time in our bedroom sort of working from home. So I think it's really important for us to make sure we get our story out there and make sure we tell people both what we've managed to achieve in terms of growing the company in size, scale and also share price, most importantly. And then what our plans are going forward because when I talked to you today, we're a sort of 100 million market cap company. I can tell you it's very different to where we were four years ago when we're a million dollar start-up and that was the valuation we first raised money at. And I know that having taken it from one to 100 was the hardest part by a long way. Taking us from 100 to 500 is sort of the next step. And actually we've got better investors. We've got the track record. We've got a bigger team in every regard with better position to be able to take that next step. And then we were at the beginning. Great sounds like you guys are on the right track. If there was one thing you would want shareholders to know about elemental royalties today, what would it be? I think the most important thing to know and I never knew this enough myself when I was younger and I was investing a bit at university, but knowing the management team and the people involved and what their motivations are. And it's something that when I was younger, I'd look at a company and look at the assets and sort of form a view on it. And I often overlooked who the people are and why they're doing this. And now I'm doing it myself and I'm in the hot chair, the hot seat, I sort of sit the other way around and I think, wow, the most important thing is who are the people? And in our case, you've got a core management team here who are all gonna be in the mining industry for the rest of our careers. And the success that we deliver with elemental will be our CV.  This isn't the last job we're going to be doing. This is the peak of our career, right in the middle of it, we want to do the best possible job we can. And we've got people around us on the board and management team who have been serially successful and have proven time and again that actually they don't just deliver for shareholders, but they also deliver, I think really importantly, the right way ethically and doing it, building a company that actually adds value for shareholders and not just management. And I think that if you know that you've got a team that are motivated and looking to deliver the right way, I think that's something that everyone should ask themselves about their investment right from the outside. For us here, we love to identify early stage companies which we talked about that are undervalued, underappreciated, underexposed. There's going to be investors from many different countries that are gonna see this interview, see this video, be interested, and then they're gonna want to get in contact with you. What's the best way for them to reach you? Well, we always say, go on our website and you can email us and you can call us either in London, in the UK or Vancouver, colleague there in Canada, but actually an email is a great first point because we can set up a call if that helps and follow up that way. And actually, I think we often feel we don't get enough emails from shareholders. So great if anyone does want to reach out, please do. Perfect. Well, thank you so much for your time today. Frederick Bell, the CEO of Elemental Royalties. And if you guys liked the video, please smash the like button, comment down below, share the video everywhere and subscribe. Remember, Rich TV Live is strictly for information and education purposes. Please do your due diligence, do your research before you invest in anything that we talk about here on Rich TV Live. In saying that, I do believe this company is an early stage company. Like I've said many times, it is undervalued, underappreciated, underexposed. Put it on your watch list, put it on your radar. And thank you for joining us today, Fred. Much appreciated. Thanks for having us. Always a pleasure. Told you guys, if you're not winning, you're not watching, we bring you the winners and we bring them to you first. Thank you for watching everybody and have a nice day.


Thanks very much for coming to this spy versus spy presentation. My name is Michael. This is my cohort in shenanigans, Chris. And we're going to talk about spyware that's on cell phones. And we're going to start with the opening comment that I'd like to introduce you to the latest spy in spyware. That would be this green guy right up here. And we say that because it's incredibly easy for spyware to show up on mobile devices. And a lot of times that involves duping the user to installing an app. But it happens and if you believe look out secure you'll believe that it happens three times more likely on a mobile phone than it does on a desktop computer. Which is kind of a scary thought. Which means people have left their brains at home when it comes to working with mobile devices. And there's a lot of spyware malware out there. Right? The third quarter of 2011 saw a 500% increase in spyware. Okay. And this spyware exists in raw malware form but also is a commercially available product. Outstanding. You can go buy it if you want to. Right? And it started in January 2011. Soundminer came out. And it was grabbing all sorts of credit card information and whenever people were typing in their keypads and they were sending it off via stealthy text messages, which was great. As we moved to August 2011 F secure dropped this news article out there saying people are stealing pictures for blackmailing purposes. And then we had a whole host of people color the internet with beautiful pictures of all sorts of wonderful things. And that showed up everywhere and long live spyware. Nikki Bot came out in September 2011. And Nikki Bot was critically analyzed by the department of computer science down at the North Carolina State University. And they dissected the code and I gave you the link up on the screen and it's available in the presentation if you want to look at it. And we noticed that there was spyware that was responding to text messages. Where the spyware would intercept a text message and say is this for me? It is great. I won't show the user but I'll perform a certain set of functions. Okay. And this application showed up as the Android system log. So it didn't appear very stealthily but people were still duped and Nikki Bot showed up.  It's everywhere. And it's primarily sold under three types of advertising venues. One, it's designed to catch your cheating spouse.  Children, that was for you. Employees, I mean it was designed to capture all those people but if you take a look at the screen you'll notice that it's not just for one platform. It's for just about every platform that's out there. Whether it was Android, iPhone, I mean the Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Nokia. And it was pretty popular and there was a real short list on this particular website that said hey, you don't have to buy any one particular package. We're going to list five or six right here. Well this is the short list. Turns out that there are dozens of commercially available spyware packages out there. And they're all sold as subscription services. You don't just buy the software and install it and run it. You actually buy the software, install it and then you pay to log in to the website to retrieve the data that's out there. And the subscription service is usually sold for either three months, six months or one year at a time. I couldn't be bothered to spy on someone for a year at a time but that's the way they sell it. Yeah, I do have a short, yeah it happens, short attention span. So there's a lot of commercial versions out there and you would think that most of the time it would require rooting of an Android phone. And we discovered that's not necessarily the case anymore. There are spyware packages for rooted and non-rooted phones. But in the case you will notice that there's an asterisk on the screen. In the case of iPhones they always wanted it gel broken. Every single time. Okay, so I'll play, we'll gel break it. So I don't know if you've been looking to see what this spyware does. So quick little rundown just so we're on the same page. Most of the spyware packages out there do the same thing. They will scoop up all the text messages that are bound for a phone. They will ship them off to a website. They'll grab GPS coordinates and we'll go over a point shortly that shows that that is somewhat misleading. It will scoop up all the pictures. It will grab whatever videos are on the phone. It will capture call logs, browser activity, not necessarily the cache, but the URLs that people have used. It will pull off emails and it will identify whether or not a SIM card has been changed on a particular phone. And all of this stuff just runs on a routine. And every so often it sends it right up to the website. Now some of these spyware packages operate in interactive mode. Which means if I send a specially crafted text message to the phone, the phone is going to respond. And sometimes it's going to be remotely launching the camera to take a picture. Sometimes it's going to record a video for 15 to 30 seconds and upload that to the website. Sometimes it's going to automatically engage in a phone call where it doesn't light up the phone. So essentially it's stealth mode so you can record what's happening. Sometimes it's going to wipe the phone. I think that's a great way to bug someone.  Unfortunately the wipe command here doesn't wipe the phone. It just wipes user sensitive data and leaves all the applications there. And on some of the newer spyware you actually get a chance to remotely view what the user would see on their particular phone. Which I thought was kind of crafty. And it all works the same way. All of this phone is taken, harvested up, and sent automatically across the net to the infecting website. And all that is done through an internet connection. None of it is done through audio. It's all done through the data channel. And it's fairly routine. And there's a number of examples out there. For example if you go to spy bubbles website, I mean it looks a bit like a third grader designed it. If you look at the fonts. But the list of functions are on the left hand side and then you get all sorts of call detail records that show up with the date, the time, whether it's an inbound or an outbound call with the listing of the numbers. You'll notice you can capture live pictures. You'll see one here. It's black. The phone was actually in my pocket at the time when it went off. So that's a picture of my pocket. The one next to it I was actually holding the phone at the time when it went off. And you'll notice that most of these photos are just raw camera activity. Raw flashes of the camera. The flash doesn't go off. So none of them are focused. So a lot of them are blurry and they show up. You get a listing of all the text messages that show up and this particular screen is from Moby Stealth. And then a lot of times you can grab GPS coordinates and the GPS coordinates are supposed to identify where the phone is. Well I can tell you for this particular phone that was infected with spyware you're not seeing the location of the phone. You're seeing all the cell phone towers that the signals bounced off of. So I was in part of Northern Virginia. I drove to the airport and all of a sudden you see towers all over the place. So the phone wasn't actually there. You also get recorded phone calls that you can download and play at your convenience, which is kind of nice. It'll automatically record the call and then send it up. Which I thought was a nifty feature and it worked fairly well. And a lot of times in addition to sending all of this data directly up to a website, it will also capture the information and send an alert to the spy, the guy who's watching me. And what usually happens is one of two things. The phone that's been infected will send a message, it will go out to the website, whether it's Flexi Spy or Moby Stealth, and then they will send a message directly over to the user. I feel like I've been buzzed. It's not me. The other thing is sometimes there's a text message that might go out directly from the user and go over and hit directly to the spying phone. So you have two ways of notifying people when activity happens. So if there's a certain email that's showing up or if there's a certain text message that you're watching for, the information goes out and gets relayed to you. Sending commands back to the infected phone is interesting. It's usually done one of two ways. The first way is if the spyware is designed for it, I send a specially crafted text message to the phone, it intercepts it, it actually formats a process or I can go to my particular website.  So if I need to automatically know where someone is, I can send the command, out it goes. If I need to find out what particular email is there, please tell me right away. If I want you to take a picture right now because I think something's happening, you can go do that. And that worked for malware, the malware version of spyware and it also worked for the commercial version of spyware but there was two major differences in looking at spyware from the malware version and the commercialized version. One is the attack vector and the second was the manner of logging that takes place on commercial spyware. It's just downright scary to see how much logging takes place. So with respect to the installation of attack vector, for all of the products that we looked at, you had to be in physical possession of the phone to install the spyware. And that was for two reasons. One, you actually have to go out and download the software to install the phone. The second thing is you actually have to go out and you have to enter in the registration key that goes with your software to unlock it. So it's not enough to have the software installed, you actually have to enter a registration key. Android didn't necessarily require a routing to take place. iPhone always required jailbreaking to take place. It was always necessary to have an internet connection because that's how the data was going to be transferred. On Android phones you had to flip the switch to say, hey, allow apps to be installed from unknown sources.  Well, that's not real stealthy especially if you don't know the password for that particular phone. And then lastly, you need the software registration key. That's a whole lot of information. So if you're planning on installing spyware on someone's phone when they run off to the bathroom, hopefully they're going to be in there for a while. I mean, because you're talking four, five, six, seven, eight minutes, it's not a real quick thing.  And according to the websites, all this stuff is undetectable. They all make the claim. We cannot be detected by the user. Undetectable. Undetectable. Challenge accepted. Okay, we'll see if you're undetectable. So that brings us up to the big question. How can you tell if you've been phoned?  He wants to know if someone's spying on him.  I want to know if someone's spying on me. I want to know if they've installed spyware on my phone. So how do we tell if we can do that? Well, we thought about that. And here's what we did. We decided to forensically examine five phones using the same tools that the cops would use. Nothing special. We would want to know what the feds or local law enforcement would do. And we used five different phones, five different spyware packages. And here's what we came up with. We grabbed an HTC Wildfire S, an LG Optimus Elite, an LG Optimus 5, a Samsung Galaxy, no, it's not, I'm going to say 5. Think Roman. Samsung, but I don't care if you're Greek. Can the goons remove him? Samsung Galaxy Provell and an Apple iPhone 4S. And we picked a different packages. We grabbed a copy of Flexi Spy because they advertised really well. And it's a UK company and we thought they spoke neat with funny accents. We grabbed a copy of Spy Bubble. We grabbed a copy of Moby Stealth. We grabbed a copy of Mobile Spy. And lastly, we grabbed a copy of Spira. That company is based out of Hong Kong.  We listed the individual versions of Android that were on the phones. We didn't do anything special to the phones. We literally walked in the Best Buy. I'd like to buy some phones. Okay. What kind of phones do you want? Here are the five phones I want. They're like, you want five? Yeah. I want five. Really? Do you want to sell me the phones or not? Okay. Do you want really long plans? We'll set you up. No. One month, please. We got a month to do this. We kept the version of Android that was on those phones. We didn't upgrade them.   We grabbed it. We took it home. We registered. We activated it. We picked up, hey, dude, cut it out. We picked up T-Mobile. We picked up Virgin, Sprint and Boost. And we also picked up our iPhone, which was unlocked on T-Mobile as well. Now, I'm not an attorney. He's not an attorney. And if there's an attorney here, I don't know and I don't want to know. But they had some legal text on all their websites. So we thought we'd share that with you just to make sure everyone here was informed before we got into our shenanigans. Flexi Spy came out and said, we will never release your private information or your account information, except under the threat of legal action or court order. Okay. So they're up front about it. They're like, they threaten us. We're coughing up all your data. Don't do anything you shouldn't. Right. If you ask nicely, we'll give it to them.  This was Moby Stealth's particular web page. They literally just copied the text and pasted it there and said, we're going to make sure you adhere to that.  Either you should own the phone or you should have permission to monitor the user. Really?  I need your permission. What do you say? No, dad, screw you. And then we have Mobile Spy. Mobile Spy came out and said, you have to own the device or you have to have the expressed written consent of the owner. Written consent. Right. Hi, employee, I'm going to spy on you here. I need written consent from you to, you know, let me do that. And then we have Spy Era and I love this one. This one was great. They came out and said, it's the responsibility of the user to ascertain and obey all applicable laws to use Spy Era for sneaky purposes. Standing. At least they know. I mean, they're being honest. They're like, hey, we know what you're going to do. But they give all this legal text. Actually, if you read their disclaimer statement, they are more concerned about you stealing their intellectual property than going out and, you know, getting caught. And a number of the user agreements come out and say, look, we know you're going to spy on someone, but we don't want you reverse engineering our software. That would be wrong. So I'm just going to say, okay, I'll be more than happy not to reverse engineer your software. It doesn't mean I can't do a forensic examination with these three tools. So we went out and we picked up a copy of UFED Physical Analyzer. We grabbed a copy of Paribans Device Seizure and we picked up Microsystemations X-ray. Here we go. So we pick up FlexiSpy. Now, FlexiSpy is owned by the company called FlexiSpy, but it sold through a third party called Gate to Shop Online Solutions. And that's an interesting point. All of these packages you don't buy directly from the software maker. You actually have to buy it through a third party source. A lot of times those third party sources are based in the U.S. So while FlexiSpy might be based in the U.K., if this software company is based in the U.S. and you sell it, where do you think the feds are going to go to try to find out who purchased the software? Are they going to try to fight the battle overseas or are they going to try to fight the battle overseas? That's what I thought. So let's talk about FlexiSpy. And we're going to do all these presentations in the exact same way. We're going to show some history or evidence of download. We're going to talk about some of the operational activity and then we're going to start diving underneath the covers to find out what's going on. FlexiSpy. I'm going to stay out of your covers. Don't worry. I don't want to be in there. Dude, and I'd be so sorely disappointed. So FlexiSpy sits there and you can download stuff directly from that website. They give you the registration key so you can download it. And according to their instructions they have you delete the cache and delete all sorts of information to show that you never download this stuff from the browser. Even after we did that with the forensic tools, we still found the particular URL from where we downloaded the spyware. And this particular URL had the registration key unique to that installation right there. That's our first piece of attributable information. We can tie it back to a particular purchase. Okay. Doesn't sound like it's too invisible. If we yank the SD card we were able to find stuff in the download directly, specifically the APK that was used for the installation. That doesn't sound too stealthy to me. I'm smelling something that's detectable. So I start looking around and I dive in the cache. And this is kind of cool. I dug down into the bookmark thumbnail cache for this particular software and there was this neat picture there. It was the installation page for the software with the registration key as part of the picture. Really? Along with the support address, support at FlexiSpy.com. Now I don't have to wonder about what type of spyware got installed. I now have a name. It's right there. I thought that particular piece of attribution was interesting. So we now have evidence that, yeah, it was downloaded and we tied it to a particular purchase, particular registration key. Then we noticed some glitches in the software itself. Yeah, I don't know if you can hear them. They all had glitches. They had lots of glitches. They were all buggy in one way or another and some of them was pretty darn obvious. In FlexiSpy every 10 to 15 minutes a little message would pop up at the top of the screen that says unknown just obtained super user access. Really? And now sometimes the software, you know, occasionally I'd reboot the phone because I was looking at it and the software would just stop working. So I called support or I emailed them and they said, oh yeah, we're having a glitch. We need you to wipe the phone and reinstall the spyware. Really? I'm spying on the guy. You want me to completely wipe the phone? Yes. All right. Okay, so the question up front in the front row, which was in a very polite fashion was, was this a rooted phone? HTC Wildfire S was a rooted phone. The other phones were not. So this one was rooted and it still had issues. The message appeared on this phone running this spyware. We didn't cross-contaminate them because if we cross-contaminated and did a 5 by 5 matrix, well then all of a sudden we'd have issues and we would start seeing artifacts from different phones. So one phone to one spyware. It wouldn't always work so they had me reinstall it. The next thing is, I picked up a CDMA phone, an HTC Wildfire S, CDMA. I install the software, I send my first Delphi text command to the phone and the phone shows up in the clear.  So I'm like, I must have done something wrong. I must have mistyped the big long registration ID. So I do it again. And it still shows up in the clear. I'm like, son of a gun.  I must be doing something wrong. What's the deal?  We don't really work well on CDMA phones. You should make sure that your user, flip them over to GSM. Hold it. You had me wipe their phone. Now I got to go up to the person and say, you're not going to notice that I'm changing the logo from Verizon to AT&T, are you? And change the billing. And they're like, it only works with GSM. We're sorry, goodbye. So I took that phone, I ditched it, I went out and bought another phone. Go back to the best buy. You're back. I need another phone. So then I go out and I pick up an HTC Wildfire S, GSM version. And I go to root that.  So now we had to go order an HTC clip from England, have that shipped over. We finally get into the phone. We unlock it and then we root it and we're good to go. I go through all this. Two months later the company released a new version of the software.  That's okay. I'm just going to stick with my current plan. We noticed when we run this through one of the tools that 152 running apps showed up for our Android phone. We didn't do anything. We installed the root checker just to see if we root things correctly and we installed this particular spyware. And wouldn't you know that super user shows up as one of the running applications? Hmm. Interesting. Nowhere in their description of trying to hide applications and icons did they even mention trying to get rid of super user. The next thing that shows up. We dug down under data slash system slash usage data slash blah, blah, blah, and we found a reference to an application. It didn't show up on the application list but com.android.m security. Bingo. We just found our spyware. We actually pulled that out. And then we noticed this big large directory structure. Data slash miss slash dm. That's a lot of files for something that's supposed to be undetectable. It was cool. So we started rifling through that.  This thing is journaling all the activity that the spyware does on the phone. Everything. We have confirmation that we've connected to the remote website. We have the registration key. We have the name of the product, the software version, Pro X. We have all the little hidden commands so if I want to start sending more stealthy commands to it, you know it shows up. For all you guys who are sitting there trying to text me right now, the phones are off and they're not here. They're dead. Interesting that it all showed up. We kept going down and now all of a sudden we start to see attribution. We now start to see the phone number that's doing the spying. So as I send text messages to the phone that's infected, all of a sudden there's a record saying, hey, the guy who's spying on you, this is his phone number. Really? We've seen debug logs that aren't this thorough. It was rather impressive. Uh-huh. The GSM, so the question up front was, did it, did going to GSM actually start to hide it? It did. However, there was a little glitch. So I activated the remote spying feature. And I flip it in and I start listening on the phone call. And I have the other phones sitting across the room. And all of a sudden I coughed. They heard the cough on the other end. See what actually happens is it establishes a phone call directly to the infected phone. Phone calls are bidirectional. Bidirectional. You have to hit mute on your phone. Otherwise they hear you. It is a British company. Yeah, it does, doesn't it? No kidding. So foiled. So it did a better job of hiding the actual text messages that are being received. But then they go and keep a log of everything that happens. So the user doesn't necessarily see this, but it didn't take much to peel back the layers and find this. Right. So as we move in, we find another file called Logcat. And Logcat starts to confirm outbound connections from the phone. And it tells me where it's going. It tells me when it's making the connection. Now, to their credit, the software vendor actually starts to show up. No problem. We actually have a record of it cleaning up the database itself and running through that. We also notice that this particular spyware was starting to watch other services on the phone. I don't know why the spyware would watch and be concerned whether or not the phone was charging or not. But it looked. It also made references to slacker radio, including all the process ID numbers. Thank you for making our life easier. We do appreciate that. We wish that. We start to go through Logcat some more and we see the database maintenance routines. Well, this is a dirty database. I need to do maintenance. I have to call it out. And now I have a listing of all the demons that get used. Outstanding. Now I know what's actually running my spyware. Now, we also picked up one of the tools, the Celebrite UFED was kind of outstanding in this regard in doing a physical dump from the phone. And we started looking through the raw files. And we found data that was supposedly deleted from the phone during the purging of this database in these log files. And we found records that went all the way back to the very first moment that the spyware was installed. So it's not like, you know, they would keep only 100 records in their file. It was actually several 100 records. But when they would delete it, we would still find it on other portions of the phone. And some of the stuff we found just to look like this. We were able to identify when the SIM card was changed. Which means this spyware wasn't tied to information on the SIM card. We still had the spyware number and we still had instructions being sent back and forth to the command. We also saw the controlling phone number. The phone number that was spying on you in the deleted data. So even after this particular piece of spyware was uninstalled and we deleted those records, we still found it. And with that, we're going to move over to spy bubble. Well, you can keep your clicker thing. You're really good at it. Thank you. I'm trying to make you feel better. So spy bubbles, different company, different set of rules. They are I already forgot. California based company. California based company that they were in Mexico. Yeah, California based company. Actually, they sold their software through a company called FBI. So very easy for law enforcement to go after them if you want to install one of them. This is the one that I would go with because it makes the FBI's job much easier. The URL history, we had a download link from where we downloaded the actual file that still showed up in the history file. The downloads database still showed a registry of the APK file coming in. Your downloads backup, the database has time stamps on every one of those files. So we knew exactly when the spyware was downloaded onto the phone. This was the only phone that didn't come with an SD card so we had to supply an SD card with it. And that actually changed some things. Because this was an external SD card that was getting the spyware installed onto it because it was downloading to that SD card. It was externally mounted media. That actually caused this piece of spyware to log some things that weren't logged on the other phones. Which actually gave us even more artifacts to look at later. To turn on the spyware once it was installed, you were supposed to go into the dialer like you're making a phone call and kind of like with standard GSM calls you dial a pound 9999 was the default ID number and then a star and that's supposed to activate the user interface for the spyware. Now I'm sure their intention was to hook the dialer and make this a special function but it did nothing but open this up but it actually tried to call this phone number. So back to how stealthy they were you now have this in the call logs anytime the user hits the recent button and looks to see what else they've been calling this was there. Which meant they were going to dial it out of curiosity and see this interface that's on the screen. Brilliant design plan. So that six digit number is something that you can figure if you wanted to change it to something else. We but we can figure out what it was pretty easily. When we looked through the raw dump of what was on the device we came across the actual executables in this particular screen shot we're showing that the text message that gets delivered to the person that's spying on you to tell you that it's installed successfully is on disk in about 30 different languages. Multicultural. I thought it was nice of them. It is. So we were able to find that which led us back to the actual executable which led us back to all of its partner apps and everything that went with it. Not well hidden at all it was merely hidden from normal user activity. Just like any other app it had a data partition for all of its user data in here we found a whole host of log files and settings files that told us everything about how this piece of spiral was going to operate.  In the advanced settings text file there was everything we needed to know about how the settings were working. This relates back to that screen shot where it shows us turning all the settings on and off. This is where they're actually saved. We could see what those settings were going through the device and not going through the user interface to find it. Their user intervals that are listed on the bottom of that tells us how often the spiral is going to look at our phone and then how often is it going to call me to tell me what you're doing on this piece of phone. Anything useful in that one? It's basically the same thing. GPS was enabled on this one. It would actually send us back the locations of where the device was. Every 15 minutes we would get an update sent out to a website and then we could log into the website and follow this phone as it was moving around. The next file down from that was buddy.txt. This is the phone number of the person who is spying on you. I love the name. Buddy. Hi, buddy. Really? Really. So very small text file just had a phone number in it. It gave us attribution. So now we not only know what's installed we can actually go find it. By finding the executable that had the name embedded into it so we know what website to go to we know what company to subpoena for records but now we actually have which bag guy do I want to go after because we've got his phone number of the phone he's using to control our spy don phone. There was a secret.txt file that contained just the pin number of six nines. We could change that number to whatever we wanted to that got saved in this text file then we were able to see what that was. This is especially helpful if the user has changed it and we don't know how to bring up that interface we can image the phone dig through all these files now we know how to pull the interface up and we can go back to the phone and show the user that they've been getting spied on. They like that. There was also a serial text file the number that was used to license this piece of software this gave us our third piece of attribution because now we've got this registration ties to a purchase database back at the company which tells us whose credit card paid for this piece of software to be on this device and then what was the name of this one I remember the name of this one spyperf.xml this is more preferences this gave us every single piece of activity that was going on on the phone so the spyware is logging all the different things that it's done and giving us a time of when was the last time the user made a phone call when was the last time he sent a text message and we were able to track a lot of activity about the device and about the spyware activating on the device through this file we sent this one one of the features that it had we could via text message or the website send off the request I forget now either one so we would send a text message to his phone and that would tell his phone take a picture of whatever you see now there was a small lag in getting the text message onto his phone and then getting the spyware to activate so the first one that we tried to do this with it actually went off in his pocket which is why the picture is just a black square so we tried it again with him taking the phone out and leaving it up on a counter and what we ended up with was a blurry mess that you can't tell what's going on because it's not using the actual camera app to take the photo it's just doing a raw dump of whatever the camera can see which means it doesn't focus didn't make it terribly useful in any of the photos we tried to grab with this thing one last thing those particular photos we didn't find on the phone we didn't find those file names on the phone or those time date stamps anywhere which was interesting we pulled up some of the photos and grabbed some of the raw code and tried to do a heck search for it and still didn't find the pictures what we did find though was if we started looking through the android logs not related to the spyware itself but android itself kept it was throwing fatal exceptions so the spyware was causing errors in android and a lot of the errors were related back to the spyware executing or in this particular camera app so it appears what the spyware does to get the picture is causes an error in the camera app which gives us a log of every time we tried to take a picture so even though we couldn't find the actual pictures on the device we were able to go through the event logs that are tied to android and find events tied with every one of those pictures being taken you're doing the finger thing again I did the next thing come on there's another exception that was thrown that was related to which one was this related to live picture service so it's still related to the pictures, next one we've already moved on from that when we get into the app history this is another android file this isn't related to the spyware itself but this tells us all of the installed apps that android is tracking and this one here which actually shows the spyware being installed this also gives us a date time stamp this was installed this one actually works out to be a couple minutes after it was downloaded which works well on our timeline of what's going on we're also able to pull up a bunch of recent activity this is another android thing where it's tracking all the recent things that happened inside the phone and gives us date time stamps and activities and if you just search for the radio app because that's what they actually named their app was radioadv if you just search for that in all of those event logs date time stamp and a list of activities of everything the spyware was doing on the phone that was infected we also since the phone was on and live when we did the image on here we've got the list of running processes it did nothing to try and hide itself from the list of running processes since normal users can't see that anyway they didn't care I thought it was a great coincidence though that it happened to be process ID 666 and that moves us off they use it they sell their software through Plymouth as well we found a history of that software same way we did before it's in the URL history it showed up and they were very creative in what they called their application Moe stealth v2 so we actually dug through the list of apps and this is what we thought interesting they actually called the application from the user's point of view Look Out Secure I wonder if Look Out's aware that they're using that name now this is a picture of what you see on the website and the website allows you to send particular commands directly to the phone it also allows you to configure the phone remotely so here where we have particular arrows pointed we add a key word and we add a phone number and as spyware says if I receive a text message with that word from that phone number I'll do whatever you say I will report the location information great so I added my phone number I added the word location and then I went and looked at the phone and wouldn't you know that I found a database with the word location and with my phone number a SQLite database I now know who's doing the spying of me on the phone I also went down and I found another debug log these guys love debug logs I've never seen someone do this so much but we found a debug log down here and we were able to identify a lot of the services and the GPS information and the coordinates and they carried out something like 12-15 digits if you go directly to the website you'll see the exact same numbers and the GPS coordinates report it correctly but all of that information shows that you have a time history of when this particular software was running now this particular piece of spyware also grabbed all the photos off the phone and when it grabbed the photos off the phone it used a time stamp in the name and we found that in the log file pictures.ser we found three pictures that were taken directly from the phone they were loaded directly to the website I've highlighted one here and all of a sudden it goes up and you'll notice that the names are the same so we took the picture from the phone and we took the picture directly from the website and downloaded it and we hashed it they were identical so we can trace the activity directly to that particular user account now this is the part that kills me though this soup don't tell anyone this super secret stealthy software uses FTP to send all its data all of it the website name the credentials all of that is listed in an XML file directly on the phone all fully readable outstanding I think that's great so if we were worried about attribution before when it got installed when it was running I think we've taken care of that with this product Mobile Spy Mobile Spy is based out of Jacksonville, Florida but they just like all the others they're using somebody else to do all their credit card transactions these came through a Dutch company it was one of the few that went outside the US to do their credit card purchases but it's a legit company it's the same one you go to Tuxera to buy your NTFS drivers and such with they showed up in the downloads history the one thing they did different website that they're you're downloading the APK from so that it almost doesn't attribute back to them except for the fact that it does say MS for Mobile Spy right in the URL this one did have a couple of problems with how it executed we were you're supposed to be getting emails sent to the person that's monitoring you and sometimes we would receive an email that told us a certain action had occurred and we would log into the website to see the full log of activity so sometimes the logs weren't being updated correctly the other problem we have with this particular piece of spyware is the battery life on the phone got cut into a little less than half as soon as we installed it we had to keep this phone plugged in for the rest of the day every time we played with it after that oh this is good oh yeah I almost forgot about this one this one actually pissed both of us off the spyware after a few days with 60 days it was 60 days it threw us out an email telling us that we needed to go log back into their website and change our username and password and we were like so happy that they were actually employing decent security policy so we logged in we changed our username and password and then we stopped receiving alerts from the phone because you also have to go to the phone and change the username and password there otherwise it doesn't know how to log into the service and upload its data so I'm still baffled as to how they think that's supposed to work especially on an enterprise level this one we had the same kind of thing where any application you install is going to have its own user data section full of files this one just like all the others had a whole host of log files and settings files we were able to go through for this particular piece of software they called the application retina so once we figured that out googling or not googling searching for that name throughout the device brought us back a whole bunch of extra files we had a packages XML file this is part of Android not part of the spyware and in there we were able to see all of the installed packages on the device so we were able to find it even though it was attempting to hide from the user we found a bunch of information about it being installed there was a shared preferences section which gave us all of the different preferences for the spyware which when we started digging through what all those different preferences settings were it gave us the website information the username information associated with the person who's doing the spying on us great I always wanted to email address to the person who's spying on me if you're going to have a stalker that's the best way to have one literally there's the email address we also got a time stamp in here every time it was updating back to us so we know how long it's been doing it and this friendly number this one was the other one that pushed me over the edge this is the phone number of the person that's spying on me so now I have his email address and his phone number and we've got all the other information about the serial and licensing from before that we can go subpoena and prove he paid for it it's only fair so that brings us that was four right that brings us up four we got them do you have a question on four or do you want to do five first short on time okay well we're going to talk about the iPhone in just a minute so I'm going to ask you to hold off on that we'll get that Q&A for just a second we're going to hit our last one which is Spiara which is based out of Hong Kong although they're selling their software through a California based firm I had him include this one because we were beating up on Android so much I wanted to be fair and beat up on Apple as well as soon as we popped it up on our forensic tools they all came back and said hey this phone's been jailbroken okay that's going to be a problem we noticed a couple of funny listed applications on the phone hmm city it shows up as well as own spy dot demon okay that's that's fine so we took a look at the phone and we grabbed a copy of the screen interface to show you that we didn't have any applications there so we didn't find any apps there alright so hey maybe there's no software there so we pulled up the icon state P list to identify all the applications were good but then we compared it directly to the desired icon state and we noticed that there were two applications at the bottom that are being hidden when we compared the two files we identified the fact that one it has been jailbroken and the second one we have spyware running on our phone now when we go in and we pick up this particular file here you'll notice that we have a very unique key this is the one that takes us back to the spyware software company and also takes us back to the company that sold it to us so if the Hong Kong company doesn't want to play ball and we notice that they rounded their traffic to a whole bunch of different websites before sending it back home we can always go back to Plimas and just say hey you're the ones who sold it just like the way a gun dealer would sell a particular gun you don't go back to the manufacturer they can track that information we also have a whole bunch of preference information that shows up to let us know what's running on this particular spy phone so yeah it had to be jailbroken and yes this information runs in the background good news this guy decided to create logging as well called ownspy.log and in there we have a whole bunch of information the very first time that the spyware has been run I know what it's been installed and as soon as it's installed it goes out and checks are you registered are you registered are you registered Bueller Bueller and then boom it's registered and now all of a sudden we start to see activity there's even a thank you note in there in the logs thank you for registering the user never sees it I didn't see it when I installed it but I was thanked you know you're welcome coming along we also found that unique information we also dig the fact that this particular piece of spyware gave an idea of the device itself uniquely identified that particular phone we also have a listing of the demon that runs it we have check information we can also see that it goes through and it checks the SMS log and says I found something I'm going to go upload it I'm going to give you the date and time I'm also going to tell you how fast your phones moving and then we found a whole bunch of cached images do any of those logos look familiar to you huh interesting I cleared out two but these cached files still show up I also have the date and time when this was installed on the phone now the your company for all you app developers out there yeah that's the official your company he never changed the default and then I have a whole bunch of files that show up tons of them that come up on this particular list I also have other information that identifies the particular application in library and a big long list and x-ray and the u-fed we're able to identify both of those so that with 90 seconds to go brings us to the bottom line because there is a bottom line there's always a bottom line how can you tell if you've been polled pretty easy check the SD card check the history see what's been downloaded and still on the phone then go check to see what other databases are running there because chances are there's going to be configuration information sitting there in the clear lastly you're going to find all sorts of logging great go read the logs but you can go pick them up you can also check to see if there are new services running on the phone so while an application might be withheld from the screen interface you're still going to see certain processes and then you can go look for signs of routing and jailbreaking one last note this particular presentation has been updated since the DVD there's a little more information we gave you an email address at the bottom of the screen give me the presentation at gmail.com email address we'll send you back it's a big file like 18 to 20 megs in size because it has pretty pictures we'll be happy to share that with you that takes us to 50 minutes we're going to the Q&A room we'd love to see you there probably all fit unless we drive a clown car but we could try it anyway enjoy the rest of the com


There are many philosophies of healing, but in my experience, both as someone who's been sick for a very long time, as well as someone who is now Dr. Alex, sometimes the healing philosophy that changes a person's life is very, very simple. Now in this video, I thought I would introduce one of those very, very simple philosophies. Hey guys, I'm Dr. Alex Hine, author of the health book, Master of the Day and doctor of acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine. So before we jump into this video here today, there are two very important links right below the video. The first is for a free guide, which has four daily rituals from traditional Chinese medicine that can potentially help you live longer. And the second is if you'd like to become a patient of mine locally in Los Angeles or virtually via telemedicine, you can reach out to my clinic and my private practice right below. So within Chinese medicine and within the ancient Chinese culture philosophically and religiously, many qualities in life were visualized in terms of yin and yang. Now as an eighties baby, I wore a yin yang necklace thinking I was so cool and so spiritual and a kung fu master. But it wasn't until decades later where I learned that yin and yang are not only philosophical concepts, they're also clinical concepts. And for most Chinese medicine practitioners, understanding yin and yang is fundamental to diagnosis. And let me explain a very, very concrete example. So when we take yin and yang, they are these relative concepts, right? Work and rest. Work is yang, rest is yin, day is yang, night is yin, right? We could say darker colors are yin and lighter colors are yang. You can apply these to anything, even within the same person or the same scenario. Certain parts of the night are more yang than yin and certain meals that you eat are more yang than yin. But in general, it's understanding that everything in this universe exists on this spectrum of yang and yin, meaning varying shades and varying degrees. Now when it comes to healing, our own individual temperaments and our genetic personalities are also yang or yin. Somewhere on that spectrum, yang temperaments are more wired towards tension and yin temperaments are more wired towards laxity. And let me explain exactly what that is and how it can be used clinically in your life. So let's describe the yang archetype first. Everything in this universe is on a spectrum of yang and yin.  Oh, well little Janie, when she was six months old, she was always like that. She was always feisty or he was always sleepy. She was always anxious. He was always a great sleeper. He was always colloquy. She was calm, right? These animal temperaments have in part a genetic basis. And so understanding your constitution, as we call it in my field, is essential to understanding constitutional healing. That is how to make your life your own medicine. So let's talk about the yang archetype that I've noticed. The yang archetype is a person who tends towards tension, nervous system tension.  They tend to have a more forceful voice or louder voice. They're more prone to agitation or anger. They tend towards forward momentum, both in the good way as in work ethic and in the bad way. They push beyond their limits too much. They're prone to light sleep or fragmented sleep and they're also prone to losing their appetite when they're stressed or when they're not feeling well. So why is understanding this archetype important for healing? Because for so many people with this yang archetype, it's like me. I'm prone to having a very strong work ethic, can work long hours, can do that for 20 years. But for me, the devil will come for me when I'm pushing myself too much and not resting enough. The yang archetype is a tense personality. We use these words like type A or high strong. We use the term high strong because of the tension that is exuded from this person's personality, right? Everyone knows someone like that where you can be in a perfectly balanced rested state and that stressed out person will make you feel stressed. That's like this emotional contagion. It could be your mom. It could be your dad. We've all had that experience. But this is the tension archetype at work. So the tension archetype, number one needs to understand that the greatest gift and their greatest Achilles heel is the tension, the ability to push, the drive, the pressure that they can exert in their own life to make things happen will often be a dual edged sword where they will be more successful and more driven than most people, but they'll be more sick as a result of the pushing, the tension, the drive, the lack of sleep, etc. So understanding if you're the tension archetype, the yang archetype, what you need for healing and better longevity is more yin. More yin in your life can mean more rest. It can mean where you live is more yin living in a suburbs instead of a busy city. If you're already buzzing with tension like that, it can mean more yin in terms of maybe a more yin lifestyle is less work hours, less demanding job, maybe not having a commute will help you benefit your nervous system.  So that is the yang or tension oriented archetype. Let's talk about the yin type now. When we talk about the yin archetype, this is someone who's more on the side of the yin relaxed calm side of the spectrum. Now in this archetype, they tend towards nervous system laxity, if I can use that word. They tend to be bigger body types, just anecdotally, there's a correlation there. They tend to be more fatigued sounding or sometimes a softer voice or lower energy. They're more prone to sadness or depression. So a downward sort of vector. They tend towards struggling with discipline and being regular about their habits. They tend to be good sleepers, not sensitive to stimulants and they tend to overeat and have better digestion and they tend to put on weight more easily. So the lax archetype is almost like there's not enough tension. So not enough pressure means that they tend to struggle with discipline. I've seen there's a correlation. These aren't one to one things. They tend to struggle with discipline, tend to be good sleepers, but struggle to get motivated, struggle to stay consistent with routines, struggle to be driven and push. It's almost like where one has excessive pressure. That's just pushing them, pushing them, pushing them along in a pathological way. One is deficient pressure where they just can't get it together, can't get the momentum to do their work, can't do their homework. And in terms of understanding the pros and the cons of this archetype is an understanding that they often struggle with discipline around food and their weight and they often struggle with discipline in general. So whereas they're much better at being calm and relaxed and getting enough sleep, they struggle with, ironically, lower energy or lower drive for the same reasons. And again, in my experience, the tension archetype tends to have worse digestion overall. And so they tend to skip meals when they don't feel well, or if they're not sleeping well. Whereas the other constitution, the yin, relaxed archetype, is typically has good digestion. And so their body can tolerate eating a lot of food with fewer ill effects. So these two archetypes, the yang tension oriented archetype, the yin, let's just say laxity or relaxed archetype, are both gifts and they have their own Achilles heels. One is not better than the other. But understanding where you are can help you understand, where am I susceptible to getting sick? One is often too much doing, and the other is often not enough doing of the right kind. So yang archetype, yin archetype, something anecdotally, I've noticed a lot clinically in medicine. When people walk in, they're either more on the tension side of the spectrum, or more on the laxity side of the spectrum. And this is very, very diagnostic. Sometimes you hear it right in the voice on the first phone call where you talk to someone. So which one of these are you? Comment below and let me know. And before you guys go, check out those other related links right below the video.


Hi, I'm Leslie McVayne. Welcome to another CTN member highlights. Today, I have Deetlan VanderSkafe with me from Mecca High. Hi, nice to see you again. I can't believe it's been a whole year since we saw you talking about the fashion show. I know. And here we are again. And last year, you had two events. And you're combining it this year and calling it mechamorphosis. Mechamorphosis. We'll tell us a little bit about how this can work. Well, it's actually a name we've used for other things in the past, but it's just so perfect. It really fits. So like you said, last year, we had two separate events. We had our fashion show, which was in April, and then we had art honors, which we typically always have in May right before commencement. So this year, we're moving to a slightly different model, really keeping it focused on our mission. And that is what we're calling mechamorphosis. So it's a celebration of our graduating class. We require our graduating students to mount a thesis installation. So between the MFA thesis installation and the BFA thesis installations, we'll have over 100 participating artists under one roof, we're saying. So that's really the first three floors of the building. And then we're also going to have the fashion show take place during the event. It is a separate ticketed portion of the event. It's the slightly higher price than coming into mechamorphosis itself. And that will take place during the evening from 7.30 to 8.30. And in the meantime, will people be able to still look at the art if they don't go to the fashion show? Sure. So the first portion of the evening, which is the general ticket, it's a general admission is $25. And that's from 5.30 to 7.30. And then you have access to the first three floors of porches. So the ICA, the Institute for Contemporary Art, that's where the MFA thesis will be. And then in June Fitzpatrick, Zahn Head, and the Friedman Galleries, as well as throughout the halls, and in artists at work, we'll have all of our BFA thesis work. And that'll also be on the second floor and third floor. And then we'll have cash bars and tapas and pastor derves. And we'll have a photo booth that's being provided by Main Home and Design, which is really exciting. I just got the props for that. And we'll also have roving musicians and live film screenings in OSHA. So there's really an interactive component to the evening. And it's really showcasing the work of our students, which is exciting. And it sounds like the place to be. I think so. And to see all these up-and-coming artists, their work, right there. I think that's, I think you've really hit it there because, I mean, I've been saying to people, you know, you can go to a lot of group shows in Portland, but how often can you see a hundred artists under one roof? So that's really exciting. And integrating the fashion show just felt so appropriate to us because the fashion show is also, we have our first graduating student who was a major in the program. And so the work that she's going to have on the runway is her thesis work, too. So it's really interactive in that regard. And a little different from last year when you had Roxane Quinby's collection. Exactly. And had a sale because you hadn't had a class yet. This is true. And Roxane Quinby is really, you know, the reason we have the program at the college now, which at the time was just a beginning program and is now actually a major that we offer. So she's a really wonderful and generous donor to the college. And what she also allowed us to do last year was take this collection of vintage and couture dresses that she had and use that as a way to sort of have a catalyst for our fashion show. We also did incorporate student work last year, but it was such a beginning program that we didn't have enough to create a fashion show just around the student work. And then last year it was also different as we work with our alums. So we had put a call out to alumni that if they wanted to create something that could be on the runway, they could do that as well. This year it's strictly our students. So we have five majors and then we have a lot of students who are in electives within the program too. That sounds really exciting. And these are the fashions that we may see on the runways in Paris and New York down the road. I certainly hope so. But I think one thing that's also really interested about our program is it's not just fashion design too, it's also textile. So I recently went up into the studio and interviewed our first graduating major. And I was just amazed to see that she was actually creating the fabric from which she was designing this, these series of coats that she's doing. So she was literally weaving on a hand knitting machine to create this beautiful fabric. And then she was doing something called fulling, which is a little different than felting, to actually make the material. Oh, well I'm excited about it. Sounds wonderful. A chance to see beautiful art and have a fun evening. And one more time, how can we find out more about it? Yes, thanks for asking. So you can go to mecca.edu backslash mechamorphosis or you can contact me in the advancement office, Dietlund van der Schaaf<PHONE_NUMBER>. Well, it sounds great. Thank you so much for telling us about it. Thank you.


Welcome to Toffy TV, this is the breaking news reaction video that Everton have cleansed the signing of Brazilian midfield player Bernard on a free transfer, formally of Chateau Dynes, now two Brazilians in the Everton team, does it get any better? I am joined by Sarah Alton. Sarah, good signing, happy. Delighted mate, absolutely over the moon with this one. I think when you look at the other teams that were in for him as well, it says an awful lot about how well brands and silver are coming across to be able to get these players to decide that it's ever and they want to come to instead of, you know, maybe going to a side in the Champions League or what someone would class as one of the top six or whatever established. So I think it says a lot about how they're selling this project and, you know, the vision for Everton going forward to get them to agree to come to us. And yeah, like you said, on a free as well and he's, yeah, two Brazilians on the wings. It's happy days, isn't it? We're all starting to feel pretty good about this. Marco Silva coming in and, you know, the Brazilian toffees. It's nice. It's all good, isn't it? It's all good. I mean, obviously, let's have it right. We've given them a big wedge together. Oh, of course we have.  You can break it down however you want. He's a player who would have cost. I think Everton will link with him when Ronald Coomer first came and I think it was 40 million that he was quoted for him at that time or whatever. So, to obviously get him in on a free. It's fantastic regardless of, you know, how expensive weekly he is. Well, he's not going to be on 40 million, is he, in his wages ultimately? Well, who knows? You would like to know anyway. Who knows? If it's 200 grand a week, that's roughly what, 10 million a year, over four years, about 40 million. Oh, right then. So, see. That'll teach me, won't it? It will teach you. Do you, where do you see him playing? You see, I think I can see him playing where Guilffy Shigarton is playing at the moment. And seeing Guilffy drop back in alongside Ghana. That's how I think it may work out. And I think that would give us a bit more mobility in midfield. I think with Snydlan in there, it's too slow. And I think Ghana gets lost next to him. Whereas I think if Ghana's doing the defensive midfield role, Bernard can drop. Bernard, Bernard, Benny. Benny and Dean. He can obviously just play off the frontman, but he can also play wide. So, I mean, what do you think about that? I'm with you there, Baz. I think that would be the perfect scenario for us going forward. We spoke earlier in the week, didn't we, about Ghana and how good of a player he is. You know, especially that first half against Valencia, the ground he was covering. He was all over everything. He's fantastic, but it's having that person then to pass the ball on to. He was looking to get forward and make things happen. That creative flair. Snydlan just doesn't have that. He's far too hesitant. He's far too slow. So, if we could see Guilfee drop back into that kind of position, sit a bit deeper, and then give Bernard the, uh, Bernie the ability to go forward then and, you know, get Snydlan Sigarton to pass the ball on and stuff. I think that would be the ideal scenario, because I don't see how Ghana and Snydlan is going to be productive forever and going forward in that central midfield. So, hopefully we'll see Guilfee slide into that position and see Snydlan slide away. Slide into the DM. There you go. I mean, it will be interesting to see how they use, because it's obviously very attack on formation if you're playing with Sigarton and Bernard in midfield. Don't think, I think it'll probably be a couple of weeks before we see him given. He's not really, well he hasn't had the pre-season. So, I'm not sure, obviously, of his fitness levels at the minute, so we might have to wait to see him. But it's a positive sign. He's an exciting player and, you know, he's just looking at his goal record there. He got 16-19 in the Ukrainian league last season with three assists. He got three in eight Champions League games, two in the Europa League, one in the Ukrainian cup. So he knows where the net is as well. And I think that's important for us. We need a few more goals from the field, because basically no one scored last year apart from Rooney. That's the thing, and you've got to look at the likes of having Tosen there as well. If we've got these players that can provide him with the service and chip him with the goals as well, because we can't be relying solely on Tosen to bag the goals. But when you look now at that kind of front four that we're going to have, that we can shop and change with, there's bound to be goals coming in. I think the last couple of games of pre-season, the signs are there that we're looking more deadly going forward. But when it comes to the final finishing, that's where we've got to sharpen up. But yeah, he should be contributing with the goals as well. And it's a huge sign for us. You think this time a week ago we were all a bit deflated, maybe a bit frustrated with things. And the Bernard one coming in is so out of the blue as well. None of us knew anything about it, which I like as well by the way, because it just shows that there's all this kind of work going on in the scenes and we're getting restless and we're winging, then it's like bang, Bernard on a free, beating off all these other teams to come here instead. So I think, yeah, it's a really exciting one. I think fans are now going, okay, you've got to give brands and silver as well, our faith and confidence, because they've proved that they are getting these deals done and they are able to get these players to come in. But it's just now about sorting maybe a couple more. Don't be greedy. Now, I think the thing is, the thing that gives you the confidence is the likes of Marcel Brands and how these deals are coming about, rather than being played out in the media for so long, it seems to be kind of quite far down the line when some deals, obviously others, I won't mention his name, but that one's being played out for quite some time, which will hopefully come to its conclusion very soon. But that's the way it is and it's good that that kind of work is taking place behind the scenes on everton-like, you know, compared to what we've seen before. So, you know, like you say, for me, this is a really exciting sign and it's probably one of the most exciting ones we've had for a while in terms of quality. And I think because it's come out of nowhere as well, I think that makes it so much better. So let's get them in that blue shade as quickly as possible. There you go. Let us know what you think in the comments section below. The news that Bernard has signed a contract with Everton and is now a second Brazilian to sign this summer. Are you happy? Let us know. If you haven't subscribed, please do so. It only takes a minute. And if you want more videos, join us on Patreon. Big thanks to Sarah Halpern for joining me. We're going off to get a Brazilian. See you later.