Right, so hi. I'm Angus. I should be clear up front. I work for Google, but not on anything at all to do with Android. So for the purposes of this talk, don't mention Google on this talk. That'll only confuse things. I'm just a regular guy who happens to have some Android phones and like hacking on Android in my spare time. So I've got a bunch of my phones here. So this one, I got a G1 two years ago for free. That's always nice. And started looking at it. It was quite interesting. And I wanted to learn more about it. So I decided I'd see how it worked under the hood. And I looked at how the C code ran. The nice thing about Android is you get the full source code for it. So I looked at that and saw how they did things and learned from that. And thought I'd put a program to it. So I'm just waiting for this to start up here. It doesn't really matter. You can't see it anyway. Oh, is there? I might pull out one of my other phones in. Anyway, so I put scum VM to Android. And this is a better one. This is where it runs. Here we go. Start. Let me choose start. Go. There we go. There's even sound.  Luckily, there you go. You'll recognize it in true if you've played data tentacle. It is quite a large C++ program. It's luckily designed for portability. It's already been ported to many, many platforms. So it's got quite good abstractions in there already in the code. So it was quite an easy project to port. It really wasn't that hard. And I suspect, I don't know for sure, but I strongly suspect it was probably the first native app on the Android market because I did it before there was an NDK and there were no rules and it was all terrible and I've had to reimplement it since now that there are rules. But I learned a lot along the way. So that's very interesting. So I thought I'd give a talk here about for people who know how to write programs for Linux and kind of the delta that you need to know to be able to write a program for Android. It's a little bit of a scatter talk. I'll just be lightly covering a whole lot of issues that could be entire talks in themselves. So if there are questions, shout out and I can stop and talk more about any particular area. So in case you didn't know, Android is this OS. It's on some phones. It's a little different to a normal Linux desktop in that it assumes a single user. There's no idea of user log-ins and multiple users. It assumes touchscreens, that sort of user interface. It doesn't have double clicking and tabs and those sorts of desktop gooey idioms. It runs on top of the Linux kernel, which is nice. You get an awful lot of functionality, you know, M-Map, file API, networking, all this sort of threading functionality of a modern kernel. It uses a new libc called Bionic, which is based on one of the BSD libcs, I think. It's fairly simple and small. It was designed for... It was designed to keep GPL out of user space because that was scaring some of the phone manufacturers. It is small, very small runtime overhead, unlike glibc, which is quite large. It doesn't have things you don't care about on the phone, like locale support, wide characters. It has p-threads and threading from the beginning. There's none of this need to use the underscore r versions and things of various functions that they're all provided by default in Bionic. But it's still quite a small and simple libc, so some of the fancy features you might expect in glibc aren't there. And most apps, all apps, as far as Android is concerned, are Java apps or whatever the right legal definition is. I don't know what words I should be using in this conversation. And they run on top of a Dalvik virtual machine. So a few other weird differences. It doesn't follow the file system hierarchy standard. Most of the OS is in slash system, which leads to a few amusing things like system bnsh. This is done mostly to make upgrading the OS a bit easier. They just basically... The whole slash system tree is read only. And when you do a firmware upgrade, they just replace that whole tree with a new version. There's some interesting kernel additions. One of them is the out-of-memory handler. No apps in Android actually exit. They start up, they run, they hang around. Threads come and go in those processes. They just hang around. When it runs out of memory on Android, there's out-of-memory custom out-of-memory handler that goes up into a user space process.  And there's a defined list of priorities. The thing the user is currently looking at, the foreground application, is the very last thing to be killed.  What are they called? Foreground services. Things like your music player, which might be in the background, but it's something that the user is very much aware is still running, will be killed later, and then eventually the actual foreground app is killed as the last choice. There's a rather extensive IPC patch called iBinder, which is rather black magic to me. I really don't know much about it, but there's a talk later on today by Benno, which I'm hoping to learn more about it. And there's a few other patches, a few other kernel additions like wake locks and things, which changes the power savings, just the way Android does power saving. It's take a lock to keep the screen awake, release the lock when you're prepared for the screen to go back to sleep, those sorts of things. Also differently to a normal Linux system, Android tries to sandbox applications from each other.  So it gives each application its own user ID. And this is where most of the Android sandboxing comes from. So instead of protecting users from each other as a normal Linux multi-user system is, it's protecting apps from each other, but using the same mechanism. So then there's a bunch of permissions, which I'll talk a little bit about later, and some of these are implemented through normal Linux group IDs. So to be able to write to the SD card, you have to be in a particular group ID and that's implemented just as you would on a normal Linux system. If you declare that you want to be able to write to the SD card, then you get granted that group ID when the package is installed. You'll put in that group. And each application gets its own directory in this slash data slash data and the name of the package. And there's a few common directories in there, like a slash cache, where when you run out of space, there's a cleaner that runs through and just deletes everything from every app slash cache directory. And there's a slash lib where libraries automatically get unpacked into native libraries and a few other ones. But otherwise, that's your application's private directory and it can write whatever it wants in there. And other applications can't even read that, again, via normal fast system permissions. So it's a little different to a regular Linux system. And also, of course, there's no X Windows, which makes it different again to the Amigo platforms you've just seen. The way Android drawing works is most applications render screens and they pass them off to a surface flinger service, which just takes the screens and overlays them with alpha blending and various other effects and shows them to the user. So it's very, very simple compared to X Windows. It's reasonably efficient and clever. There's kind of a double buffering thing where you are rendering one frame while the surface flinger is using the other frame and then you switch. And I don't really know the details of how GL works, but I presume it bypasses some of that to use the hardware acceleration. No X Windows is a point. Permissions. So Android apps declare upfront what permissions is. If you've ever used Android, you've seen this. They declare, I want to be able to write to their SD card, I want to be able to read your contacts. And then you agree to that when you say, yes, okay, install the application. There's no interactive prompting or this application wants to be able to reformat your hard disk. Is that okay? There's none of that sort of stuff. It's all declared upfront. The important thing about this talk is that these are implemented in the OS. They're not implemented in the Java libraries or in the sort of some intermediate layer. So when we're writing native applications, we're bound by the exact same permissions. You can't do anything extra by writing a C program compared to what you could do in the Java land. You have the exact same constraints put around your entire process. People often think otherwise. There's a fairly constant stream of questions on the Android and Decay mailing lists about how I want to write in native code so that I can do something outrageous that a normal app is not allowed to do. It doesn't happen that way. In particular, you don't get root as an application. So you can't reconfigure networking. You can't do any of those things that require root privileges on a traditional kernel. Right. So Android really wants to think that everything is Java. So each application has these entry points. There's no main function that just gets invoked. When you're writing a normal Android application, you implement a Java class that inherits from some of these other ones depending on what exactly you want. Activities are the most common one. And there's various callbacks in there. There's on start, on stop, on touch event. And they get called when various things happen. And you put some code in between those parts, and that's your application. When we're writing a native application, we still have to let Android think that's what's going on. So I'll get a little bit later. But they're the common classes. So you have an activity which is one per screen. Typically, if your application has multiple screens, you have multiple activities, and you'll move between them quite frequently. Services for background tasks.  And they're things like music players. The little colored icon up the top, the user is well aware that the service is running.  They just happen in the background. If they happen to get out of memory kill, the user won't notice. You'll try again later, a little while later. And then there's a mechanism called Intense, which are used frequently all through Android. It's sort of a way of bundling up an event. You have a URI, a URL, describing some sort of data, and it's quite common to make up a URL scheme. You'll have some, you know, I don't do this, but I could have a scumvm URL scheme with scumvm colon slash slash the name of a save game or something like that. And then I would fire off that intent. And there'd be a program you can register that you want to receive certain patterns, certain filters of Intense. So you can say, I want to get all of the scumvm colon Intense. And then I'm going to understand them. I'm going to say, well, this means I should start up scumvm with the save game already loaded and start running. Right? The advantage of doing that is that someone else could write, it's a little bit silly in the scumvm case, but in the photo case, you know, I want to take a photo. Someone else could write a different photo taking program. And they could register the same intent filters.  It could run the normal photo app. It could run their custom photo app. It could present a menu to the user saying, there are several choices here. Which one would you like to do? And this is how all of that indirection happens in Android. It's done through Intense. One of the cases where this is used is broadcast receivers. So lots of events that happen on the phone. The power has been plugged in. The SD card has been removed. There's an incoming phone call. All these sorts of events. Fire off Intense. So you can create a broadcast receiver and catch those broadcast intents in order to do things. That's just another common entry point for Android applications. Again, for our purposes in native code, we have to worry about things like processes a little bit more. You have a process. And then each of these activities and broadcast receivers are usually new threads that are created within that process by the Android framework, by the common Java classes. They're all forked off a common parent, but that's for implementation detail. It doesn't matter too much. Really, though, you have one process per application. That's usually the way things work. And if you started forking, exacting other processes, it would work, but you start to confuse a few things like the out-of-memory handler and stuff. It doesn't quite know what to do. That's a rather unexpected thing to do on Android. The general thing is once your activity has... Once on pause has been called, that means you're no longer the foreground application. So the user has pressed back or chosen some other application, or you've declared that the user is finished, they've pressed a done button or something. Your on pause will be called. And then the other callbacks on stop, on destroy may not be killed. If the out-of-memory handler comes in, you could just be killed at any point. So the usual thing to do is to save all of your data. Do whatever you're going to do that commits those changes in your on pause handler. So if you're writing a game or something, you want to save your files at that point. Don't rely on anything after that. So tools for developing, there's two. There's an SDK, the standard Android SDK, which has all the Java environment, lots and lots of documentation, examples, how to add Android apps. For our purposes as well, you also want the NDK, the native developer kit, which has GCC tool chains, GDB server. You'll want both of these, and you'll probably want to be quite familiar with the SDK and how to write a normal Java application before you try and write a native application. So here's the way it works. We have to pretend we're a Java app. So Java has something called JNI, which Android supports quite well, and most of the framework classes are actually implemented using JNI. They're implemented in C++ with a very thin Java wrapper for the compatibility that the public API is Java, but the implementation is almost always C++. So we're going to compile our native library as a JNI library, which is just a shared library, libsomething.so. We install it into the APK. The Android packages are just zip files. So you can install it using the zip command, or you can use the APK builder tool that comes with the SDK. It has to go in this directory inside the APK, lib slash the ABI, which I'll mention in a few slides, and then your library. And when you install that package, those libraries get automatically extracted from the APK and put into data slash data package name slash lib, and they go in there. And so that's in the path. So when you call system load library from Java, it knows to look in that directory to find the libraries, and it'll load it up, deal open it. Everything's happy. And then we invoke them from Java, and we're done. So the runtime to provide it is very minimal. You get libc, bionic, libm. You get zlib for compression. You get a very tiny SDK C++, although with the latest SDK release five, there's a much greater improved one. You can use STL port, or even try your luck with libstd C++ if that works for you. Before then, the provided C++ standard library was very minimal. It was really just stub holders. You also get liblog, which is for printf debugging. So there's a bunch of log macros there, which are right to the Android logs, and that's been my most useful and reliable way of debugging Android programs. The GDB is a little quirky and a little bit hard to get going, so you only use that in extreme cases. You get OpenGL, which is the only real way to draw from native code. And in Gingerbread, which is the most recent release that's now on Nexus S's, only came out whatever, a few months ago, there's a much greater set of libraries for Android applications, but there... I haven't looked at it yet because not on our phones. The problem with writing applications is if you want lots of users, you need to look at the trailing edge of the versions, whereas the Android team guys get all excited about their new features, and they're doing the deleting edge, and you have to worry about the trailing edge of compatibility. So yeah, you have to statically link everything, because if you want libpng, if you want ffmpeg codecs, if you want any of these things, you'll need to compile the library yourself, you need to statically link it into yours in order to get that extra code. There's a very, very minimal runtime environment. You'll find a lot of instructions out there on the internet talking about using various other libraries. If you see anything mentioned, libcutils, or a few other libraries, these are internal Android libraries. They're the ones I used when I did my first port of SCUMVM when there was no official NDK and there were no rules about what was actually the compatible ABI. You don't want to use any of those. They do change subtly in ways that will crash your program in the most minor of point releases on a phone. An example is the Xperia X10. They did a security update, which for some reason involved changing the audio libraries. So SCUMVM before worked just fine. SCUMVM afterwards. There was no sound. The sound initialization failed. It could have been much worse. It could have crashed. So you really, really can't use those internal libraries. They'll change at any point in ways that will hurt you. Defined ABIs. The most common one. That's the usual, that's what all these phones run. The newer phones have hardware floating point, which is V7A. Even the hardware floating point, we still pass, when calling functions, we still pass the use software floating point registers so that it's compatible with the pure software floating point code. So it's not quite as fast as it might be. You can't assume extra things like NEON. NEON is the kind of MMX instructions. You can't assume that. The advice is to test for it at runtime and provide fallback libraries and switch to this version of your library or that version of your library, depending on what you discover is available in the processor, which is a little awkward. And just an example, you need these sorts of sets of fakes. You learn your tool chain quite well. If you use the standard NDK, there's a set of, there's a compile environment in there, which does all this work for you. So it's definitely the way to go if you're starting new. But if you're trying to port an existing code base, like I was, and so you can't use this new make file system, you have to use the existing one. You start to learn all about these flags and what's required. The good news is a lot of this is in GCC45 now. So you can just grab GCC45, compile for that target platform, and if you use minus M Android explicitly or implicitly by using that target triple, then you get most of those flags, I reply it, and that does most of the hard work for you. You need, yeah, minus LGCC placement gets a little bit hairy. You want to avoid, you want to use the libGCC that came with your tool chain, and not whatever might be on your particular Android platform you're using. So you want to be a little bit careful about linking in libGCC explicitly in your line, whatever that says. I can explain much more about it if someone cares. I just wanted to cover quickly JNI. If you're new to JNI, it's not very hard to learn. There's lots of documentation around. Briefly, there's two styles. There's one where you have long symbols like this, and the Java virtual machine will look up, it'll convert the Java method, and it'll look up that symbol in your library and go, that's the one I meant to invoke and do that, and you can see that the top there, there's the Java function, and at the bottom there's C++ implementation of that Java function. The other style is where you explicitly register them. So you say you have a JNI on-load function that's called as soon as you load your library, and in that function you explicitly call register natives, which says this function goes with this symbol, this function is called without symbol, this function has symbol, and there's pluses and minuses with both approaches. The Android guys prefer this latter one, but there's certainly reasons why you might not want that. A common mistake which I should mention is C++ mangling. These symbols need to be nice and visible to DLSIM, and if you're compiling C++ program you tend to end up with extra mangling in there depending on the prototype, which makes it very hard to see. So X-turn C is the answer to you, the question you haven't asked yet, which fixes that up. And that's pretty much it. There's a bunch of debugging tools available. ADB shell gets you a shell. ADB is a tool that comes with the SDK, you plug a USB cable in, ADB gives you commands on the phone so you can install things over the USB cable, you can get a shell. ADB log catch shows you the system log, these are the ones you'll use a lot, and you can use GDB server via the Indike GDB script, which runs GDB server on the phone, and then GDB on your laptop, and you can look at symbols just as if it was a normal embedded thing. That's what I got. So I've very lightly touched on a whole lot of things. If you have questions come and ask me I can talk about these things for quite a while. Each one of those slides could be a half hour talk going all the way down into the details. Yes, you would have to have, so the library goes into your application specific directory, so you would have to explicitly go and look for the library from another program. You wouldn't just find it by accident, and you have to be able to read it. It has normal file permissions limiting it to your user ID. So if you can do things like have a family of packages and if they're signed by the same developer key, you can make sure they all get the same user ID. There's some extra things you can declare in the package metadata, and then you could go and find them and you could load someone else's libraries up. It's rather complicated. I should be repeating questions, you know. Yes, so this comment was there's a copy of the library inside the compressed APK, and there's a copy of the library uncompressed onto the file system. Yes, that's correct. And if you have large libraries, for example, scumvm, this becomes quite a problem. So I ended up doing a whole custom unpacker and complicated things and breaking scumvm up into separate plug-in packages so you only have to install just the ones you want. They have to be M-mapped, so you could possibly store them uncompressed in the APK and then do some hairy M-map with an offset. No, flash is getting bigger. I don't care. Yeah, go back. Yes, you can, but it's... So you put the... Can you target multiple platforms with one package? Yes, you can, but you have to put multiple libraries in the same package. So you have lib slash x86, my library, lib slash army ABI, my library, which can get very large very quickly. So it's obviously not the right thing to do going forward. Luckily, at the moment, there's only ARM ABI. There are no non-ARM Android devices. Let's face it. So the only reason you'd want to do it now is if you had a hell-optimized codec and you really wanted the hardware floating point, but you had to fall back to non-hardware floating point for older devices, and then typically you could isolate just your bit of code and it would be a smaller portion, a small string library, codec library. It's not great at the moment. I expect that to improve. Sometime they'll have to, if they go to more architectures, but at the moment it's that fairly clumsy mechanism. EasyNDK, just see your C++. The NDK is a GCC toolchain, which has GCC and G++. You can compile anything. It could be Objective-C. It could be Fortran, so long as you can produce a JNI on-load symbol in your library. The JNI functions as have C and C++ bindings, and they're similar but slightly different between the two calling styles. Yeah, Go program would be interesting, and quite possible. You just have to JNI bindings, and then the rest would just happen. Yeah, last question. Have I considered clang on LVM? I haven't done anything about it personally. This day would certainly be possible to use. You'd have to add the few, you'd have to add what the minus M Android does to those toolchains, which wouldn't be hard. There's nothing really specific in here. It's using the normal Linux, GNU, ABI, target. So you could certainly do that. You might need a few more command line flags, but it's just native code. Yeah, no worries.


Welcome to the last set of news to get top stories in crypto and bring out of bite-sized pieces today. Just the thumbnail suggests we're going to talk about what El Salvador is doing with all of their massive gains for Bitcoin. And they're really just telling the world and the IMF, yes, we took these profits. And even though you were laughing at us, well, who's laughing now? So we'll take a look at exactly what they're doing as far as infrastructure. We'll also take a look at some new stories about Atari, Snoop Dogg and Sandbox, the metaverse. I'm going to talk about why I just bought a boatload of Matic. And what it really comes down to actually what I used it for. And lastly, we're going to talk about an upcoming real estate buy. And I'm going to kind of try to bring you into the fold and talk about what I'm doing and how I'm doing it. So we'll take a look at all those things. But first, take a look at the markets today. Hey, it's a pretty another great day. November is right on track for what we thought it was. Things are going pretty well and everybody is ecstatic. But just remember that what goes up must come down. But we must celebrate these days as investors because, you know, these are good days. And this is what all the hard work is really all about. So we take a look at the market itself. We're using Trade the Chain for sentiment analysis. Sentiment is looking pretty good. And of course, with Trade the Chain, they do all the scavenging for the data. They go through all the interwebs and the blog posts for the different exchanges. They also have a direct API integration into Twitter. So this is what the sentiment is. And we're looking at a market around $2.7, almost $2.8 trillion. Bitcoin price is looking pretty sharp at $63. And hey, I see $64, $65 around the corner, but we will see. Also, Ethereum last 24 hours up 4%, almost $4,500. Binance coin is up. Tethernobody cares. Cardano, watch out, 2%. Wow. Solana 5%, 212, XRP, everything down. Chiba, well, that's amazing because it's been up for so much. Terra, Chainlink, Polygon, Matic, 2%, 3%. Ending up really fantastic. 13% for crypto.com. Congratulations, crypto.com holders. And Solana's over 10% for Clay. Wow. And then also, if we want to do a little bit of trading, take a look at the projected range for the next hour. So I would take a look at what we're talking about. Orchid, NKN, Monacoin, Loop Ring, which was on a tear as well. Wax and NEO. Wow, I haven't heard of NEO in a long time. So that's what we have as far as gains. Let's also take a look at what's going on as far as on-chain analysis. And this is from CryptoQuant. I've been using them because, first of all, they're super easy to use. And they actually do some pretty good training. I reached out to CryptoQuant.  And we could do some training for everybody as far as on-chain analysis. And they said, yes. So I'm going to have the CEO on. He's going to explain to us exactly how they use on-chain analysis. I'm going to put a couple of videos on YouTube, on this channel. And the rest I'm going to put in that 100% free website called DanTeachesCrypto. So you can learn all about on-chain analysis from the real experts. So what we have here for CryptoQuant, as far as on-chain analysis, is what I like to see all miners outflow. The more miners sell off their Bitcoin, the more it kind of just takes a big dump. But lately, we haven't seen that. They're actually holding on because they know what's going to happen. And again, this is not investment advice. This is investment opinion. But I do think November, December are going to be great. And then January, February, March, it's up in the air. But November, December, I don't see us going too far down. We'll just say that. Also, as far as the reserves, the more that people take Bitcoin off of the exchanges is good news because it means they're holding. And then, of course, once that happens, the exchange is like, hey, we have a supply crunch. We don't have enough. And then all of a sudden, the price goes up. And we can see that over the last year or so. It's actually spiked around here, but we've just been going down. And now we're at an all-time low for the year. And that is just Bitcoin. Of course, Ethereum is doing the exact same thing. People are taking that off the exchanges. And what happens? Price goes up. Everybody's happy and looking good. And also, there's a couple more metrics I want to make mention. This is the Coinbase Premium Index for Bitcoin and the Premium Index for Ethereum. This is the difference in price between Coinbase and Binance. And as that goes up, that means that usually price will actually go up as far as like the difference. And we can see here that the Coinbase Premium Index between Coinbase and Binance is skyrocketing. And we can see the same thing happen over here. As soon as there was a difference, then we have, and it goes up like this, same thing with Ethereum and off we go. So that is what we have for the markets itself. Let me know what you think about that in the comments section. Let's jump into our first piece, which is all about El Salvador shows the world. There's a lot to call it. Who's laughing now? And I love these stories because throughout the time, throughout the time that me and you invest in the crypto, we know it's a little bit harrowing, a little bit difficult, because a lot of people are like, why are you getting into that? It's so volatile. You shouldn't really do that.  And these are the times because there's so much volatility when we take a look at it and go, hey, worked out pretty well for me. Why didn't you do what I told you to do? But that's another video. So this is what we have for today. And I'd love to see these things. So this is El Presidente from El Salvador, Bucaleli. And he just told the press. He goes, what El Salvador used their Bitcoin for as far as the profits? They built, first of all, they built an animal shelter. And then also they're building 20 schools. And I thought, hey, that's pretty great for them to do for all the profits. And I said, oh, that's how you do it. Here in America, we just tax the living tar out of everybody. And then of course, sometimes we build the schools and sometimes we don't. But that's how it's done, which is an amazing thing that a third world country figures it out and says, hey, you know what? We're going to take Bitcoin. We know where it's going to go. We're going to invest into it. We're going to buy these dips where like a smart investor would. And then we're going to take those profits. Even the IMF thinks that we're crazy and they're laughing at us. And we're going to take that and build infrastructure. That is an amazing accomplishment. And I just got to say tip of the hat for the people of El Salvador to actually do this and accept it because there was a lot of people rooting against you, a lot of powerful people. And now, and I think even more so in the future, we're going to see just how big this could actually be.  Remember El Salvador, not a rich country. And if they just would have stuck everything into dollars. Well, we know the purchasing power goes down and down and down, which is what the IMF want to do as far as loans. They still want to do loans, but they're like, hey, we can back this with Bitcoin regardless of getting off topic. So here was the purchases that I could find. So the very initial purchase was September 6th. Bitcoin price is 51, September 7th.  In 24 hours, it drops and like, I mean, 20%, 15% somewhere around there. And they're like, you know what we're going to do? We're going to double down and they bought the dip. And even the president even tweeted about it. He's like, you know, come at me. So 43,000 start 20th, 45,000 and they just bought it again at 58,179. So this is how much they purchased. It was 400. So the sum was 1,120. Sorry, if you can't see that is down there. Here's the value at the time. And here's the Bitcoin price today. Well, that's changed a little bit. So let's just change that shall we to let's just round up. I like round numbers makes it simple. So let's just do this 64,000 and look at that. So here's the value today from what it was. And here's the difference in price. So I'm just going to add this up real quick. And I'm going to cheat and use the Google spreadsheet. You're looking at a sum of 13,633,270 dollars and that's in two months. That's in two months. So if they just want to play by the rules done the things that are universally accepted, then they would not have this money. They would not have the ability to do the things they want to do for their country and hopefully bring the country out of poverty.  They don't understand why you're doing it. They don't understand why you're getting into this new asset. It's because things are going the right way and they're actually going as planned and even El Salvador is on board. The big question though is what's the next domino to fall? What's the next country to get into it? Because I can only tell you this when the price of Bitcoin continues to go up and even plan B in his TA, not as stock to flow in his TA. He's talking about 98,000. So I think 98,000, 89,000. I was confused for the end of November. If that happens and El Salvador keeps buying the dips or just holds on, what do the rest of the country is going to do? That might be a good deal. And then of course, then it's just dominoes going to fall. And yeah, let me know what you think about that in the comments section. Let's move on to our next piece as we talk about Atari Snoop Dogg and Sandbox. And like I said yesterday, I'm fascinated by the metaverse. I'm fascinated by real estate, the real real estate, the physical real estate, but virtual real estate. And I found this was interesting. So Rob over at Rob Chisesh, he sent this to me and he goes, hey, Rob, just so you know, Atari and Sandbox are bringing it back. Why is this important? Why is this interesting to me? Well, first of all, who better to make a pixelated game than Atari? You know? And that's kind of like what is going on. And this is the Sandbox. The Sandbox, if you don't know, it is a metaverse.  Play with friends and then earn sand or cryptocurrency. So it's a play to earn on top of a metaverse, kind of like Decentraland as well. And these are one of the things that I didn't get into Sandbox, but I got into Decentraland a long time ago, like we talked about videos before. But here's what's going on with this. And this is why I'm so bullish on digital properties because of what you can do with it. This is an example of how Atari is aggressively putting its name on everything from new VCS game consoles to hotel chains. And then down here, just this is like a land box for like virtual worlds you can actually buy or virtual plots of land. And Atari bought a piece of that. And out of the terms of the agreement, Atari will receive large digital spaces known as estates in the sandbox game metaverse. All these estates, 3D voxelized versions of Atari's classics, popular games and they're able to be played. Atari and Sandbox will develop Atari inspired in-game assets for game creators to use in their own games. So great. Why did I bring this up? It's because if you are looking for virtual land, this is probably one of the best times to get it. Again, not investment advice, just investment opinion because I can guarantee Atari didn't pay peanuts for this space. They know where things are going as a lot of different companies are actually looking into it. Like, look, we like the marketing aspect. We want to put our placard here, our information, our reach into this space and we'll pay a pretty penny. So what do you think is going to happen later on down the line when not only big businesses, but medium-sized businesses, even small businesses want to get into the game? Well, whoever owns that land, guess what they're going to pay? They're going to pay that person, that individual, that group of people who actually have that virtual land. So it's just physical land going into the virtual space and monetizing that sector. It just makes a lot of sense to me. On top of that, you have to remember, and Jerry Hall, my man Jerry, he sent this to me. He goes, hey, just you know, Snoop Dogg is getting into the metaverse. I hadn't seen this before, but this is actually four weeks old. It's about a month old when this actually came out. And it was pretty cool. And it just, again, once celebrities start to go in, you're like, is this the top? No, this isn't the top. This is just getting started. Actually, Snoop Dogg has been at the forefront of a lot of different things. That guy's a real business shark. And then the one thing that did disturb me though is that when you click on create account for the sandbox, it says here, log in or create an account. And it says continue with Facebook. I'm like, what? Why would I continue with Facebook? So they can steal all my data. I don't even use Facebook anymore. Excuse me. Continue with Twitter, with Google, and Bitsky, and of course, continue with MetaMask. So I see as time goes on that we're going to see a dichotomy of these decentralized spaces where it's going to be like the Facebook type of places where you can pretty much give up your identity and information and maybe get something back forward or you can be more autonomous and a little bit have a little more anonymity and they can't track you as much. And that's just how I see things. So let me just think about that in the comment section. This is why I'm excited about these spaces. Let's move on to my next piece, kind of ahead of myself, but why I bought a boatload of Matic. And the reason why I bought it was Snoop. And Snoop, as I've been talking about before, played it on games.  I get it. Doesn't matter. Check this out. So this is Snoop and it's just a snake game. Basically, all you do is you just have a snake and you just direct it into eating different things and whatever else. That doesn't matter. So I reached out because I was having problems with my brave browser. I reached out to the guys at Snoop to go, yeah, we'll just give you a free Snoop. They gave me Elon Snoop. Hilarious. So I guess great. And then I gave him my MetaMask wallet and they go, oh, also we're going to give you a little bit of Matic so you can actually mint it and use it. I was like, oh, okay.  Now check this out. This is what's interesting. You see that right there? That fee, the estimated gas fee, 0.002 Matic. And Matic right now, let me just bring this up because I did not get this going. If we take a look at the price of Matic, I want to say it's like three bucks, two bucks, some around there, two bucks, $2, okay? So my fee, which again, Matic is a layer two solution on top of Ethereum. So you can do transactions. That was the fee to get things done. And when I took a look at that, I was like, okay, I get it. So we know layer two is going to be right around the corner. We know that these base layers, like the Ethereum, like the Avalanche, like Cardano, like Solana, they may have layer two solutions. Some may not need it. Some may, depending on how centralized things are. But when I saw something like this, I'm like, yep. I think there's going to be a pretty big play for Matic because everybody bitches about the gas fees. Well, that is not too much to complain about if we're going to move over in that space. So that to me was pretty amazing. Let me know what you think about that in the comment section. The only thing about Snook I had a problem with was, with the Brave browser, it wouldn't sync up with MetaMask. They said they were working on a fix. They said they already fixed it, but it didn't really work out too well for me, but maybe just my browser. But you can check that out. I will link that in the description on their play-to-earn type of game. And it looks pretty cool. So that's what we have as far as the last pieces. And the very last piece I want to talk about is the upcoming real estate buy. So as you know, I like to diversify little bits. It's not just about crypto, crypto, crypto. There's other things in our lives that we should probably be a little bit of as far as diversification. I like assets.  It's an eight-unit property here in Puerto Rico. And I'm going to talk to you about how I funded it, how I'm going through the process, how it works out with Airbnb and Verbo, and how it is just another source of income. And the big thing is how I used crypto to fund this project. And hint, it's not about me selling crypto. It's about taking loans out against the crypto, using Celsius, and going that same route that we did before on another condo that we use. And I'm just going to show you how it's all done. Essentially, going to show you how the sausage is made. And we'll see how it all works out. But that's what we have for today. So look, I know a lot of things going on. I know we're kind of covering a lot of different spaces here. But look, November, December, this is what we all kind of waited for. Expect volatility and expect things to go down. I see a pullback coming, but not a big deal because in the long run, again, it's all about what's greater. The time in is greater than the timing in this market. So just imagine what's going to happen in five years or 10 years. That's all I got. So look, it made all the way in. First, I want to say thanks. I appreciate you sticking with me. If you like the video, found some value, give it a thumbs up, give it a like. Consider subscribing. Everything's going to move pretty fast. And that's it for today. So thanks so much. I appreciate it. I'll see you on the next one.


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So now that we're in agreement, don't bite people. Don't bite people. Because next time I will bite you. Would you be okay with that? I have seen it. I've never recorded a single video. How does Facebook know anything about me? I love YouTube. I don't have 100% confidence. No, I shamelessly plug everywhere. Alright, cool. So, let's see. Do I look handsome? Am I good? Everything alright? Of course. Nice, thanks. Poochette. My name is Ty. I have a hobby. Hi, I'm Bethany. Bethany, nice to meet you. I saw your talk today. That was very cool. So normally I have a hobby where I talk to people about things that are strongly motivated by things that they really strongly believe. It's fun if it's something that you think you may not be wrong about and we could just, I'll ask that questions. I'm not trying to make this an argument or a debate, but I'm really trying to help you figure out like, did I come to this conclusion using a good reliability method? And if you want to do that on me, I'm totally fine with it too. I like to think about this conversation. Is there anything that you have like a really strong belief about? I think I need help on the spanking for kids. Spanking for kids? That's definitely like a heavy topic. What's your position right now? That's probably one of my first talks in a song through histology and it stirred like an emotional response for me. I probably would say I'm at a 90% confidence that I'm against it. 90% confidence that you're against it? Yeah, probably when I first heard a talk, I was probably at 100. Okay. Now I've got that lower confidence. Okay, so what's your position on spanking kids? Spanking kids, why are you still so high on spanking kids ever? Yeah, well, it's the classic, it's how I was raised. I'm really not forward at all. I don't do it for my kids and I researched the child development and how it can be harmful down the road and call these like average child experiences. Or really weird fetishes. I'm wondering, is there a middle ground? Like maybe not necessarily, you do agree, would you say in discipline, your child, but just not like harmful abuse smacking them? Right, yeah, more like the constructive, positive parenting list. Let's see if we can find something else besides spanking first. Okay, what would be some of those middle grounds? Probably like taking away privileges or timeouts. Definitely probably timeouts and taking away privileges are the two main methods that I use for much over. Okay. Is there a possibility that something a little bit more harsh than that, not necessarily spanking, but more harsh than just timeouts for taking away privileges could have a constructive, beneficial view? Yes. What would you say is like the most, not spiking, but like the most aggressive form of discipline that could actually be? Because they've actually been talking about maybe timeouts, maybe it's not such a good idea. Yeah, yeah. Is that isolating the child instead of just kind of helping them regulate their feelings? Sure. And when I think I heard that, uh-oh. It's like here I was away from spanking and now I'm moving toward my thought that timeout was effective, but it may not be effective for my second child, so I don't know yet. Is there anything that's more harmful, more aggressive than timeouts that you'd still be okay with? Like if I said, hey, I don't have kids, but like pretend I did, I said, um, I don't timeout or, uh, it was the other one, timeout or take away privileges. I just say, if you do this again, then something bad's gonna happen. Like if you do this, it'll be immediate, but like we're in agreement that if you do this action again, you might get hurt because I don't know how to control myself on this.  Telling, stepping out of the street. Or like, um, you hit a kid in school or something like that, it's like, listen, do you know what that feels like? Okay, don't do it again, or I'm gonna show you what that feels like. Like biting. Biting probably is probably better. That's probably bad. I, when I was growing up, I bit a lot of people. I've been in adults' people, and kids and stuff like that.  Are you cool with that? Because the next time you do it, the next, that's what I'm talking about in a generic way. The next time you bite someone, I'm gonna bite you. So now that we're in agreement, don't bite people, don't bite people. Because the next time I will bite you, would you be okay with that? But I have seen it. Yes. I would be, I would be troubled about that. Can I pull into a context that I'm a little bit more familiar with? I got a cat. I love my cat. I'm a cat dad. A really, really big cat dad. I squirt him with water. Yes. Or I move from water to air. Like I have a spray can of air, and it works way better. Because one, it sounds like a hiss. Yeah. And two, there's no like long-lasting marks. Because I think once he does something bad and I squirt it with the air, 30 seconds he has no idea what is wrong. But he's still wet after that. So just quick air spray can. And now it's gone to a point where if I think he's doing something bad, because I can hear some rum in the kitchen, I just spray the can and I can hear him jump off the shelf. Just like walk back to his bed and be like, room's away, no problem. If it was something like that for a person, like if it was an equivalent to that, okay I'm going to spray with water to do that. Like I don't respect that. Would you be more cool with that? Yeah. It doesn't sound cool. I mean it's kind of strange, but I guess it would, doesn't seem to me quite as powerful as like spanking or not quite, maybe not as humiliating, I'm not sure.  Ooh. Yeah, I'm not that naughty. Yeah. I think the pulp... That's a good one. I don't like the chemical aspect of it. Yeah, yeah, like sporting other possibilities. There's something I always wonder, like you know what, I'm not this deep like elbow move, because I'm like, okay I just want to make sure I'm in like the right place. Okay, how about this? How about this? I think it might be going on to something, because I'm working it out too.  Now you say, okay, check this out. Not only am I taking away your privileges, I'm not going to bother the timeouts. You have to do these activities, mowing the lawn, helping that person mow the lawn, mow that kid's lawn. Like you're going to have, you're going to talk to this person, and you're going to work for that kid for the next couple of weeks or so, and you're going to do some hard labor. It's going to suck, you're going to be sore, but you're going to build some character in terms of like empathy people, like building empathy with regard to people, because you will realize what he's coming in front of when you do his work for him. And if you don't do that, it's just going to get worse. That's the circumstance you were before we get back to square one. Imaginary kid, I'm sorry if I'm not going to do that. Imaginary kid, would you be okay with that? Is that something you'd be more in line with? Hard labor? Well, hard labor would back and break some water, right? Don't send me to your friend's account. Sure, it's okay. I think chores, and like what do they have in respect to other people, like cleaning, even like roadside trash pickups. Yeah, like putting some community hours, there's a group of like, there's Boy Scout Trooper, there's like YMCA group, you're now volunteering hours for them until we're back to square one. I'm not going to trash it apart. I mean, I learned a lot about like, hey, learning's not okay. Boom. Because I don't want to do that ever again. Okay. So I think, you know, short talk, but like I think we found like a really good middle ground that's more extreme than, you know, timeouts and privileges. Like, now you're going to benefit the society a little bit. Build some character, maybe you might actually like it, make it into a career or something. Yeah. It can work out. The things I wonder when I'm watching street personality, you're going to get in trouble. Awesome. Bethany, if you had time for something else, are you worried religiously, if you don't want to answer that? You're an atheist? Yes. Atheist, as in, what do you mean by that? What do you say atheist? Agnostic atheist. Oh! What do you mean by those words? I don't. I only asked over here. I don't know. I don't exist. I don't believe a God exists, but I can't even show it a hundred percent. But I like the whole thing. Were you ever religious? What made the transition? Last year. Okay. So you're very, you're like relatively minted agnostic atheist. Yeah. Okay. I'm an agnostic atheist myself. I'm wondering like, what, I always find it really interesting about what changes people's minds. Do you have a moment to talk about that? Yeah. It's actually the spanking issues what kind of helped me overturn my, my, I'm sitting on the fence of the agnostic for ever. Agnostic, agnostic? I just, I don't know, I just always call myself an agnostic. Ah, you didn't embrace the atheist way. Yeah, probably about 13 years. Got it. Yeah. So, so you were already sitting on the fence for a while. Mm-hmm. And then the spanking issues what made it? One, yeah, one of them, yeah, made it.  Okay. It would definitely make me want to do more research that we consider both the strong, you know, that strong position. They wouldn't, they'd try to be more middle of the road instead of black and white. Okay. And now, as before, I couldn't, I didn't know how to do that. Is spanking wasn't an issue whatsoever? Would you still believe in a god right now? Mm-hmm. Why not? Probably just because, like, I had a major falling out from my parents, and, I went to school and I started just learning more stuff about the world around me, and that, it's definitely, it's definitely, it's definitely stones, too. Okay. Just notice that I'm not saying it's a case. Pretend there's a religion out there that's like, fallouts with parents happen, but, check out all this awesome science stuff, and we don't agree on spanking kids. To the same certainty that you are. Plus, our god, Mr. TKO, whatever, exists. Now, you have the perfect religion to fall into, because now it seems to meet your needs on, you know, religious parents sometimes, but you can build them up long-term. You got the science stuff in there, you got the no spanking. It's like the perfect god belief. Would you believe in that god? It seems like there's an ingest, just spanking, family-related relationships and science. Like, what's keeping you from believing in the god right now? Probably the evidence. Okay. From the fact that it is un-falsifiable, so I'm just like, mm, yeah. So if you had a more falsifiable plan, something would be like, I know what this doesn't look like, now I have a fair more reference to what it does look like. Yeah, and we had a, my therapist that I was saying who was highly religious, and we talked about a story about, whatever it was, but he tried to tell me that that NASA had discovered a lost day in time. A what? A lost day in time. A what? Yeah. NASA, NASA discovered it. NASA discovered a lost day in time? Yeah, and they used the Bible to help them discover this lost day. Like a leap year? Yeah, like a computer programming glitch. So, oh, so like, somehow a day happened that nobody knew about? Yeah, like they couldn't calibrate their computers the right way for something. So they had to refer to the Bible. What? For a lost day in time when some Bible star can't read the characters. And your therapist said this? Yes, yes. He said, don't you know the Bible? What did his therapist say? Mother, bandwagon, he goes, I know, it was so funny. He goes, don't you know that NASA registered the Bible and the sun stops still in the sky? No way. And they lost a whole day and they once NASA registered it and put it together, then they were able to discover or back together this lost day time in their computers. No way. Okay. Didn't you know that was true? And then I remember walking out of my therapist's office thinking, I don't believe what you're saying. And I researched this and it was a snopes thing. That's huge. It didn't seem to me at all. Wow. And that's super faithful. That was one of them I was like, okay, if I've been holding out, this is definitely one of the major I'm done. I was like, I can't believe this is not and Aaron this is not real. This can't be proved true and I just don't I don't feel fulfilled to believe in this anymore. And that, did you find yourself with the atheist label as like, I can't help I need to find a way to describe my point of view what matches that agnostic, sure, actually the atheist kind of fits it. That was my experience. I don't know.  Like within the process of researching childhood as a spanking and realizing the atheist perspective sure that's kind of what started to like I mean like they get away from the religious side and maybe see what the atheist community or the agnostic community has to say about child development and discipline issues and not just like opened up the science and fields and like ooh basically like this conflicts with me as soon as you stepped out of this the religious perspective just give you more ideas as a kid no right but like there's definitely communities of atheists that seem to have a non-religious point of view with regards to religion it's more welcoming in the science research side reason-based it's like I'm looking at the evidence to see what is the best way to raise a kid and not one book yeah right yeah it's convoluted it is but you know what I do think is how to to know what we are and how to do something and because of that optimizing that method is gonna slow itself down cause there's no one really challenging but in a athiest perspective where it's anybody can believe anything else they want a sign along with and I don't believe in a dog you have a lot of different ideas clashing with each other and it tends to It's like, no, I don't know, if my kids like that, Mary's kids are pretty good. Yeah, exactly. It was just amazing because I come from a really strict authoritarian type of parenting background and the community around me is super religious. And they talk about my son going, oh, he's so old, hey, he's so awesome. And I'm like, you know, I've never had to spank him. And he's four.  Right. True. So like, my mom never spanked me. But she would let me stay home anytime I said I don't want to go to school. So like, anytime she's like, mom, I don't want to go to school. Stay home. And that put pressure on me. Like, maybe I should tell that to her because she's just going to be totally, she would sign papers for me ahead of time. Just like, turn on any time you don't want to go to school. Just give her the papers. Just know I signed out 10 of them. I got job. Do what you got to do. I'm like, I got to stay with school. I got my PhD. I stayed with it. But like, that kind of responsibility that she put on me kind of helped out a lot. And I think it's passed me. Yeah. That's not our kind of problem. Yeah. That's great. So good to meet you.  And this is all I do. Now that's cool because I'm really important in an economy. Me too. I'm really excited. It'll be my first time. Yeah.  But yeah, it's going to be fun. It'll be my first kind of comment like that. I want to do like more workshops because sometimes I'm amazed how some of y'all, when y'all go out there and you make conversations with others, how like y'all are so cratically think like the next question. Mmm. Like sometimes I get a little stuck. I'm like, God, like, how's that conversation just turned so organically? Do you want to try that? Yeah. Okay. You got time? Yeah. Okay. The way how I think about it is... I gave this guy a fist bump already. Nice. I'm going to eat. I'll be right there with you. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I forgot that. I want to go to a burrito place before. I found the best way to do it is there's a thing that I believe.  Don't ask questions about me. Don't ask questions about the conclusion. Ask about how I arrived at the conclusion. That thread that connects it to is what I call the methodology. As long as you're asking questions about the method that someone used to reach a conclusion, they don't get defensive because they treat themselves in their conclusions as one thing and you'll get answers. It's like, well, I think it's like this. You might check for body language too. Yeah. As long as they're open and you're talking about the methodology, you can ask about whatever you want. I'm not going to try just like the afternoon or something like that. Yeah. You want to try that? Someday. Try it out. Try it out. Try it out. Okay. I'll come to you with a really, really non-religious belief. You want to do a non-religious one? Okay. Cool. Okay. All right. Go. I believe men are better than women. By the way, I'm Ty. Nice to meet you. Hi. I'm Bethany. Are you okay with this? I'm sure we'll be fine with it. All right. So how did you arrive to the conclusion that men are better than women? Well, I look at the job that I'm at, all my bosses are men. I look at like Olympics and sports and stuff. The strongest people are men. The sports that make the most money are full of men. It's pretty obvious that men are better than women. I don't, like, no one watches the WNW NBA. Then my bosses are women. Women aren't stronger than men. It's pretty obvious. Hmm. So when you say it's pretty obvious, is it possible or not? I don't have this information, but is it possible that I can show you, like, an athlete who's a woman who can do the same kind of sport as me, you know, that's just as equal or even better than a superior? Superior? Like in football? You're saying if you found a girl that can kick as far as a guy can? Yeah. Like, what if I could find somebody who could kick even better? Who could throw a football better than Tom Brady? Tom Brady? You mean NFL Jesus? If you could show me a girl like that, then yeah, I'd change my mind a little bit on that. What would you say were your confidence level on men being better? I'm 100%. 100%? 100%. No way I could be wrong. No way. No way. That's great. So, like, if I was able to show you a fevel equivalent of a Tom Brady, would you move down a little bit? She would have to be really good. You say if you show me someone who can win, I forgot how many titles he won. Like all the NFL rings. Like all the NFL rings and got all the sports trophies. I'm really great with sports, by the way. You got the sports ball trophy that they won at the end of the Super Bowl. It's like you won the sports ball trophy. If you show me a girl that could do that, I'd be like, okay. Maybe I'm just that one thing, but none of my bosses are still women. So I'd be like, yeah, but there's still a man signing her paycheck at the end of the day. What if, for example, I work at a company that's mostly female, and then we have a CEO who's, you know, the major credit union. A man? A woman. What? Yeah, she's a CEO. Did her husband die and she gave him the business? No. No. I don't understand that doesn't make any sense to me. So she, you know, she rose to the ranks and, you know, she used to be an attorney, but she's been part of this credit union and she's moved up from that lawyer type legal position to CEO. Okay, I'm not saying women can't do that, but I'm just saying men do it more. Like there's obviously more men bosses, right? Hmm. Well... There's more men in charge. Like you look at the presidents, like more men are in charge. You look anywhere. It's like that's a guy who probably owns a company or something like that. Does it necessarily mean, for example, like if just because there were more men in charge, does that mean that they're more competent or they have better abilities than, say, a woman? Does the abundance of men bosses or men in holding positions at, like, major companies, does that mean that they're more... Does that lay in credence to the fact that they are better than women? Just having the abundance? I'm just saying it's a good thing that they have. They're definitely stronger than women. They can lift more. So even if they're the same, you, like, think about it like this. If I have, like, a construction company and, like, all my women are bosses and I'm the only person that works there as a man, I'm going to be lifting everything. But if they're all men, they'll be like, hey, Bill, help me lift this thing. But can you help me lift this? And you'll be like, yeah, I think that company is going to last longer because you've got more people who are stronger there. And I think men are stronger. On average, the women, that's why I think they're better. Is it possible... You're doing good. Is it possible that women can demonstrate the same type of characteristics like if they were in a construction company that they could still just as be as helpful or just as strong? They would need to be trained. Probably by a man. But at least if they can do that, then I'm okay with that too. So maybe, I wouldn't say then 100%. I'd be like at least 99%. At least 99%. I still think we're stronger. I think we're better at the sports. I definitely think there's more bosses than men. But I'd be... I'm not as confident as I was at the start. But I'm still very confident. I'm still very confident. Hey, that's not bad. You hit all your points. Hey, that's not bad. Literally, that's all I've got to do. Okay, that's it? No, literally, because if you can just... It's like keep the conversation that direction, right?  You can't inform them to say, hey, maybe I need to change my mind on that. And I do almost guarantee you with a guy like that perspective, the next time he's asked those questions he'll either respond differently, which means he's thought about it. And going from absolute 100%, even 99.99999%, is massive, because you went from close-minded to practical middle. And that's all you want. Yeah, it's fun too. I kind of like that. It's fun, isn't it? Yeah, it makes you think. I even use it at my tech, that technique at work, which I remember to use people's names, and just be like, oh, huh. And then try to mirror and hear about what they say. Yeah, and it's a good thing that you did it where it's not like, well, you're wrong because of X. Yeah. Don't you know this? Yeah. You're asking only about the methodology. I felt really un-confrontational. Non-confrontational. Yeah, non-confrontational. Yeah. All right. That is so cool. Let's get some food. Yeah, let's go now.


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Hello everybody. E here. Welcome back to 31 days of Halloween today. We are talking about Pet Cemetery bloodlines a 2023 Movie that takes place after the events of the reboot and that's important for several reasons That I'll get into and in the review But this one stars Natalie Allen Lynn Jackson white David Dukovny Jack Mulhern Henry Thomas Pam Greer and a whole bunch of industry staples, but let's go ahead and jump right into the review Okay, so Pet Cemetery bloodlines. What's it about? Why does it exist? I really don't have I don't have the answers to the second question, but the the first question is It takes place In in the past it is a prequel movie If you have not watched the trailers, I'm not going to get into extensive details about what happens in the movie but just need us to say that it takes place in the past and It is referencing a scene that is in the book in the original movie I cannot remember if it's in the reboot, but the lore for the reboot reboot is is Important unfortunately because it follows the rules of the reboot and not the original Pet Cemetery movie nor the book Now there are a lot of Easter eggs and things in this movie for that and other Stephen King properties whatnot. There's a bunch of that stuff if you want a video on that after 31 days of halloween is over Just let me know down there in the doobly-doo Where I'm at with this movie for those of you who like to get in get dirty and get out I am at a 3.5 stars for this one. It is leagues Leagues leaps and bounds better than the reboot in what 2019 I think it was even though it uses the same stuff that they bring up in that one There's a couple differences between there's a lot of differences actually But they use some of that lore in this one the the people who are brought back talk a hell of a lot more than they Do in the book and versus the original movie so go in there with that in mind I would this is a this is a good movie. It is a serviceable Pet Cemetery Prequel I guess it is a prequel. It supposedly you know happens Wait, I don't want to spoil because I had no idea going into this what they were going to be talking about And once it finally clicked once all the name started filtering in I was like Oh, this might actually be pretty damn cool, and it it was there is absolutely nothing Amazing about this about this movie. There is nothing that's gonna stand out to you There's nothing that's gonna make it a classic a cult classic. It is just an okay movie I didn't have any problem with any of the acting other than I don't think I don't even know why because we don't see much of Norma in the in the movies or in the book you just don't see much of her But I feel like the person they got to play Norma In this one did not fit the original Norma And I am saying that I'm saying that name specifically because I don't want to give away anything else If you know who Norma is that's good. If not, you don't have a spoiler that kind of deal the the pacing is Really off in this one. I like the characters. I didn't have much dread because since it's a prequel We all know how the story turns out the story is brought up at least once in all of the movies and in the and in the book but That this I don't know what it is about this one, but sometimes I wasn't just my it didn't have my attention the I Guess the the pacing is just all over the place. I'm not sure how to explain it without going into detail There is far more down time There's far more character drama in this which makes it a little bit more like Kings like the source material But at the same time There's not enough going on all the time to keep you interested for the entire Runtime and the movie really isn't all that long I'm giving it 3.5 because it is much better shot than the than the 2019 reboot It is there's better acting a better writing But even better I would even say a better score soundtrack It's just better all around But I liked it can I liked it so much more I gave that the the reboot of one star and for this one I'm gonna give it 3.5 because it not only did it exceed my expectations But I didn't actively hate it like I did with the last one So 3.5 might actually be too much, but I don't want to go all the way down to three So that's where I'm at with this movie if you do not know anything about this going in I'm gonna tell you again Do not watch the trailer do not read the synopsis any of that stuff because it was a hell of a surprise for me Going into it what it what it actually was and it wasn't until probably about 15 minutes into the movie that everything Started to fall into place and I was like oh, this is this is pretty cool And I I would have never thought that they would do this story as a in as a full movie Since it's such a small part in the book and the movies when they do bring it up But have you seen Pet Cemetery bloodlines if you have let me know what you think about it down there in the doobly-doo But until next time I have any you have been you this has been another episode of 31 days of Halloween I'll talk to you guys later. 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This is Dennis McMahon and welcome to Positively Vermont. My guest today is John Sales, CEO of the Vermont Food Bank, who's gonna tell us about some very important work that the Food Bank does and is especially mindful of it during this season. Welcome, John. Hi, Dennis, thanks for having me. It's a pleasure to be here. Tell us a little bit about yourself, please. Sure, you know, I've been in Vermont since 1999. I live here with my family. I moved to work for state government. I worked for state government for almost 10 years, and then I've been at the Food Bank for almost 15 years now. It's really challenging and rewarding work. Tell us a little bit about the history of the Vermont Food Bank. Sure, yeah, the Food Bank was created by other nonprofits when this was in the 80s, when the need for food assistance seemed to be really increasing and they didn't have the capacity to source enough food. And so in 1986, the Food Bank was created and started in the Barrie area and just really serving organizations in the region and then has expanded over the years. Quickly, we were serving the entire state. Today, we have three locations. We have distribution centers in Barrie, in Rutland and in Brattleboro, and we serve about 350 partners. Those are food shelves and meal sites, places like Feeding Chitenden, the Winooski Food Shelf, the Shelburne Food Shelf, and senior centers. After school programs, we have a big program with the JFK School in Winooski and hospitals and just any place that serves food that is serves food to people who might not otherwise be able to afford it can partner with the Vermont Food Bank. We get our food from local manufacturers and distributors, the grocery chains from local farmers. We purchase or get donated food from over 300 local farms and we have two federal government programs that's probably a little less than a third of our food. We get food from national donations through our relationship with Feeding America and we also purchase a lot of food. Let us talk a little bit about the scope of the problem. And I know this year has been particularly difficult. Could you, in that perspective, tell us what the situation is like or has been like in Vermont about food insecurity, about people in hunger? Yeah, you know, the first thing is to realize that people who can't afford enough food, food insecurity as we call it or hunger is really just financial insecurity, right? There's plenty of food in the grocery store and at local markets and farmers, farmers markets and farm stands. They're just folks who in their budgets, it's a balance, right? You gotta pay the rent, you've gotta keep the car in the road, so you can get to work, you gotta keep oil in the oil tank and sometimes there just isn't enough money at the end of the month and food is the one fungible thing in your budget, right? You can skip a meal and so your kids can eat and we've set up the system for better or worse where there are places where people can go and get food assistance and it's very low barrier. And you know, everyone, Dennis, everyone who finds themselves going to a food shelf or a meal site or one of our veggie van go distributions, everyone has their own personal reasons for being there. It's hard to generalize about why folks find themselves getting food assistance. One thing I will say is I'm glad when people do because we want everyone in Vermont to have what they need to thrive at the food bank and if that means needing to get some help with food to help supplement the budget for that month then please find a place in your community where you can do that. Well, I know there's been several factors contributing to this other than the overall need, the pandemic and also the flooding we had in the various parts of the state earlier this year. Could you tell us how that has impacted on your services? Yeah, I think about that as kind of these cascading disasters, you know, COVID which started in, you know, 2020, 2019. Time just all melds together. But you know, it was, I think back to that and people were scared, including me. And there was huge, huge need. I mean, I don't know if folks, your viewers remember but there were miles long lines at the state airports where big food distributions were taking place with the National Guard helping out. And while we don't have that anymore the need, the number of people coming and getting food assistance is actually higher than it was during COVID. So COVID went away but there were a lot of assistance from the federal government. So there was rental assistance, there was an enhanced unemployment, three squares Vermont, which is food stamps, the benefits increased during COVID. There were all kinds of assistance programs over the stimulus payments. All of that eventually started going away and it's all gone now. The last one was in April where the last enhanced three squares Vermont payments. So families that were getting food assistance of about $500 a month, some of them went down to, you know, $50 a month. The minimum benefit is $23 a month. So there were some mostly elderly, older Vermonters who were getting $23 a month down from a couple of hundred. So a big, big, big, big difference. And then on top of that inflation hit, right? Food inflation, 20, 30%. And still, while prices aren't rising as fast they haven't gone down. And then on top of all that is the flooding, which didn't impact every place in Vermont but it was pretty broadly distributed. And the people think about having your home pretty much washed away. The impact is tremendous. And we're still seeing that and we're going to see that for years. We certainly learned that during Truck Will Storm Irene that recovery from a flood takes a long time. And, you know, we've got these cascading disasters and people are finding themselves in a place where it's really difficult to make ends meet at the end of the month. And I know your website has a lot of this information. And I think it's very important, but the level of the problem. I know you have some percentages on that. And you know, it's hard to put percentages into real personal impact. But how is that statistically out there right now? Yeah, about two in five people in Vermont in some way are touched by the food bank, right? Whether that's a meal at a senior center or going to one of our veggie van go produce distributions or visiting a local food shelf, getting a backpack or going to a school pantry. And it's a lot of people, you're right. And, you know, I think it's important to understand too that the food bank is only here because of the support from Vermonters. And it really is truly is neighbors supporting neighbors. And we're an independent nonprofit and rely on donations from folks in Vermont from people who have second homes here, people who have lived here before, but, you know, we get donations from around the country, but it's mostly people from Vermont. And how is the Vermont food bank tied in with other food banks or other agencies of the government to assist you in your work? Yeah, we're part of a national network called Feeding America. There are over 200 food banks across the country that are part of the Feeding America network. Feeding America supports us in a lot of ways. First of all, as food, we get food through national donors. We can get produce really any time of the year. And we just have to pay for the trucking to get it here to Vermont, donated food. And also Feeding America does a lot of public affairs work. So working in Congress to try and make sure that things like the Three Squares Vermont benefits the SNAP program nationally are robust. The federal food programs that the food bank runs a couple of acronyms, TFAP and CSFP. But again, those are part of the Farm Bill, which is being negotiated right now in Congress. And so we need to make sure that we have a voice at the table and Feeding America helps make that happen. Tell us the level of cooperation, you know, Vermont being an agricultural state, the level and kinds of cooperation you have with the farmers in our community. Yeah, we love our farmers here. And the farmers love the food bank too. So we have about 30 farms. The food bank does gleaning, which is going on to the farms actually with volunteers and picking the crops that the farmers wouldn't otherwise take to market. So we glean with about 30 farms. There are some other groups, Salvation Farms and Central Vermont Community Harvest, to name a few that do gleaning in other parts of the state. The food bank gleans in the Burlington area and in the Brattleboro area. And then we purchase food from farmers, right? So I mentioned that the food bank purchases a lot of food and we try and buy local whenever we can. And so we actually contract with farmers all over the state, both for deliveries at our distribution centers that then get redistributed, but also by making grants to a local food shelf, say the parent child center in Rutland is a good example. They get a grant from a program we call Vermonters, Feeding Vermonters, and then they can take that money in turn and they buy food from their local farm. It might be a very small farm where they get three or four CSA shares that come in and then they can split that up and share that with the families that come into the parent child center. So we try and touch farms of all sizes and make sure that that locally grown food is getting to people in Vermont who might not otherwise be able to afford it. We know that that locally grown food tastes better and is more nutritious for all of us. That's great. And you have a relationship with some 311 farms. Yeah, that's right. And- Yeah, you just think about the intervail. There's a number of farms right down there. We have probably a dozen relationships with farmers just in the Chittenden County area. That's amazing. And how about the work with other community groups? Again, the numbers seem high for a small state, but tell us how you interface with various community organizations and what kind of community organizations. Yeah, sure. Of course, the food shelves, the meal sites, a place like King Street would be an example of something you might not think of, but of course they have families there and they're feeding them and they're partners with the Vermont Food Bank. Feeding Chittenden, of course, being in Burlington has a really high volume of folks that they serve. And there are largest bi-volume partner. The community, the other community action agencies like Capstone and Brock are great partners. One is the hospitals. We started years ago doing our Veggie Van Gogh and Veggie Van Gogh I've mentioned is a mobile fresh food distribution program. So we partner with schools and hospitals and either every couple of weeks or once a month, the food bank shows up in the hospitals or schools, organize folks to the logistics and get volunteers there. And we just show up with a couple of truckloads of vegetables and maybe some dairy or eggs and folks can drive through and get their cars packed up with some fresh food to take home. And a lot of that is Vermont food. We talk about the local farmers that we purchase from. A lot of that or most of that actually goes through our Veggie Van Gogh program. Another good one is the SASH. So yeah, you know SASH program. It's a support and services at home and it's the congregate living, the older Vermont or the senior housing sites. And we go ahead and just deliver crates of fresh food, fresh produce to the senior centers or the senior housing. And then there's coordinators there that distribute it and to the folks there to make sure that our older neighbors are getting fresh food. Right. Now, in addition to the old idea of food and distribution, you have some of these innovative projects, the community kitchen academy and things of that nature. Tell us about some of those projects. Yeah, CKA, which we do in partnership with Capstone here in Barrie and also with Feeding Chittenden is a culinary training program. And it's folks mostly who are unemployed or underemployed and they get a 13 week, actually I don't think it's 13 weeks in it. There's a couple of different variations but it's a culinary training program and they get certificates of completion, a lot of support in finding jobs. And actually we've got over 80% placement rate in full-time employment at the end of the program. And while people are learning culinary skills and how to cook, they're preparing meals and portions that are then distributed out through Feeding Chittenden and Capstone Community Action. So literally feeding their neighbors while they're learning job skills. And the food banks out in the community in other ways too, we're right now working in Bennington in Addison County in Northeast Kingdom doing some community organizing and figuring out how we can help lift up the voices and the power of people in local communities to find their own solutions. Because I think we all know that in Vermont in particular, it's very community focused and communities want to do things in ways that work for them. And it can be different whether you're in the Northeast Kingdom or in the Bennington area or Brattleboro or Chittenden County. And so we wanna work with communities so that as the food bank, we're showing up in a way that serves them and not in ways that we decide. Well, I know this might not be as appetizing as the concept of food and eating well and making sure there's no hunger, but there are some legislative matters that are pending. Could you describe what concerns does the Vermont Food Bank have on the federal level and on the state level about possible legislative action or legislative initiatives? And how can people help with that? Yeah, thank you. I mentioned the Farm Bill earlier at the federal level. The Farm Bill is the most important piece of legislation having to do with food. It only comes up for reauthorization every five years. And the Farm Bill funds the SNAP program which in Vermont is three squares Vermont. I mentioned TFAP which is a food program we get in Vermont. The Commodity Supplemental Food Program, CSFP, WIC there, which is the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children. There is so much happening in the Farm Bill and right now because of the chaos in Congress, things are not moving as quickly as they need to. Now there was a continuing resolution so the programs aren't going to end within the next year but we need to really enhance those. So call our congressional delegation and let them know that it's important to you that we have a strong Farm Bill in Vermont. At the state level, really what I'd like to do first is thank our state legislators. They've done some great things in the last few years. The child tax credit that was passed, the state level, that's the kind of thing that makes a huge difference in families' lives. When we had the federal child tax credit which was I think about $300 a month for a child under six, we saw child poverty decrease by almost half in this country. 50% decrease in child poverty. And as soon as that expired which was about nine months after it started, child poverty went back up to the level it was before. So we know that it works. And I thank the Vermont legislature and the governor for implementing that program. And then the Universal School Meals which just was passed in the last two years. Again, it is a way to make sure that our children are getting fed. And it's going to be very impactful in Vermont. So I'm very happy about that. This year, the Vermont Food Bank is actually asking the legislature for $5 million in funding and that will go directly to purchasing food. And a lot of that food will be from Vermont farmers. I said, we purchased from over 300 Vermont farms and also grants to our local partners to the food shelf in your community. Last year we granted about 1.2 or no, I'm sorry but $2.4 million in grants to local food shelves and meal sites around the state because they have needs too that aren't always filled by food. And so we would ask folks to look at our website. You can see different ways you can support us. And when you talk to your local legislators, just let them know that the work the food bank does is important to you and that making sure everyone in your community has enough food to eat is important to you. That's great. Now, how can individuals, I know we have volunteer opportunities and some of the legislative maybe letters to the editor and things like that. But what about finances? How can people help if they're so inclined to help financially? Yeah, as I said, we are an independent nonprofit and we really do rely on people making donations to do the work that we're able to do. And to everyone who does donate and there are a lot of people in Vermont that do, I say thank you to those who wanna find out how you can help. The best way is to go to our website which is vtfoodbank.org and you can just click on give. It's right there. And also volunteering. There's a, you can click on how to volunteer, how to help and as we said, advocating. So those are the three things we ask people to do, right? To donate, to volunteer, and to advocate. And that's how we're gonna really make progress against hunger in Vermont and across the country. That's great. I wanna thank you for all the work you've done and all the support that you've given to so many people and all your team. And it's been a pleasure to see you today and also in the past on Positively Vermont. And I just like to give you this chance to give us a final few thoughts to convey to everyone out there who is going to be watching. Yeah, thank you. You know, the most important thing is if you think it would help to have some food assistance to help fill that budget gap in your family, please reach out. You can find the resources near you by dialing 211. They have a list of all the resources that are available or by going to our website, vtfoodbank.org. We're there because we want to be there. We want you to show up. And to all those of you who maybe don't need help and would like to find a way to help others, again, go to vtfoodbank.org and you can see all the options to donate, to volunteer, and to advocate. That's great. Well, thank you, John. We're certainly gonna be in touch and do some more follow-ups on this on a more frequent basis as the need arises and as we progress into the next legislative session and all the things surrounding this. And I wanna thank you for all you do and all the people that work with you and appearing today on Positively Vermont. Thank you, John. It's a pleasure. You're welcome and I appreciate the time to meet your viewers. Thank you. This is Dennis McMahon. Thank you for watching Positively Vermont. My guest has been John Sales, CEO of the Vermont Food Bank. Thank you all.