Welcome to the Dr. Gundry podcast. Could your home be making you sick? Well, in some cases, the answer is definitely yes. In just a moment, I'll speak with Autumn Boyle, the creator of the blog, Lekton Free Mama, one of the great blogs out there. After moving into a starter house with her husband seven years ago, Autumn began experiencing chronic fatigue, difficulty breathing, and a host of other health issues. Today she's going to reveal the exact source of her problems as well as how the right foods can help you bounce back from debilitating health issues. We're also going to discuss the healing powers of a practice called Neural Retraining. Stay tuned. And how to raise kids the plant paradox style to help them grow healthy and strong. Autumn, welcome to the program. Thank you so much for having me. So it's great to have you on the show. In your blog, Lekton Free Mama, you say you and your family were living the suburban dream when you bought your first house. But quickly it became a suburban nightmare. Tell us about the health issues you experienced and how you finally found out what the culprit was. Yeah, so we bought the house seven or eight years ago and we moved in and we noticed when we bought it that there was a big drainage issue. There was like a standing pond of water in the backyard. And at the time, you know, it wasn't a huge issue for us. So we bought the house. And I was fine for a couple years. At the time I was working at a farm stand. Actually, I was on a farm. It was a conventional farm, not organic. So I was probably exposed to a lot of things working there. And one of the first symptoms I noticed was that I was always tired. Like I would come home from work and I would just have to take a nap every single day. And that was very unlike me. I'm very athletic. I do a lot of running. I've done half marathons and marathons and I've done a lot of hiking and I've always been just a very energetic, ambitious person. It was very unlike me to have to take a nap every single day. Of course, I was fine. That was really the only symptom I had until I became pregnant. And when I got pregnant, it was like someone flip the switch in my body. Everything started to go wrong. I had so many symptoms. And of course, when you're pregnant, no doctor wants to touch you with a 10 foot pole. So they all said to me, you know, this will go away once you have the baby. You know, this is just a difficult pregnancy. It's fine. And surprise, it didn't go away when I had the baby. It actually got a lot worse. So what besides being, you know, fatigue, what were the other things that happened during the pregnancy and then didn't go away? Oh gosh, my digestion just stopped. It was like every time I ate, I could feel it sitting in my stomach for hours. I just wouldn't go anywhere. So in my digestion, I wasn't sleeping very well because my adrenaline would rush at night. Just my whole body just felt off. Like every system in my body was affected in some way. So and I thought it was just pregnancy. I thought it was because I was growing a human. Right. And I'm sure your doctors said, well, yeah, you're pregnant and you got the nausea pregnancy and etc. Right. Yes. Yep. So after I gave birth, it was, it was like my body just shut down. It was far worse than when I was pregnant. I gave birth and I went through a really, really bad period of dizziness, numbness. I would have neurological issues where I couldn't feel my limbs and my digestion continued to get worse. And then summer came and I was, I had a pretty good summer. I always do well in the summertime. And then fall came around and I started to have symptoms of dizziness, fatigue. I would stand up and my heart rate just wouldn't go down. My heart rate was constantly high. And that was the year actually a few months later after those symptoms started, I of course was doing all my own research at the time because I went to a ton of doctors and none of them could tell me what was going on. I started to see a specialist for POTS. So that's it. Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome. And I was diagnosed with that in spring after I had my daughter. So that, I thought that was the answer. I was like, yay, a diagnosis. But it's a very unhelpful diagnosis. It really doesn't mean anything because they don't know what caused it. So they just told me to like drink a lot of water and eat some salt and tilt the head of my mattress. That was their advice pretty much. And they had me try a lot of different drugs and none of them really helped. So that was what led up to me finding the plant paradox. So how'd you discover the plant paradox? Dr. Google or what? Yes. I was actually researching the concept of leaky gut because I thought that might be, since I was having digestive issues as well, I thought maybe that was what was going on. So I researched the leaky gut on Amazon and I bought the first book that I found on the subject which happened to be the plant paradox. And I started reading that and I started to implement it before I even finished the book. I just dove right in. 100% committed. I never commit halfway to anything. So I really was all in and it helped. It helped so much. I almost all of my symptoms went away within a few months except for POTS. So my POTS continued to sort of ebb and flow. I would think that I was cured of it. I would last a few months and then it would start to creep back in. And I recognized this pattern that I was always really good in the summertime. And then in the fall when the season changes occurred, my POTS would sort of creep back in again. So I was fine with this. The plant paradox helped every single other symptom I had. Okay. Actually you're one of the few people that I treat with POTS that POTS doesn't go away. But it sounds like yours would wax and wane. It would get better and then it almost sounds seasonally. Is that correct? Seasonally, yes. And I would sometimes experience hourly changes. You know, I told my POTS doctor, I said I only have POTS sometimes during the day. And other times during the day, I'm totally fine. And he could not explain it. He said that was actually very unusual for even POTS patients to have such a waxing and waning of symptoms hourly. And I actually attribute a lot of the good times to doing the plant paradox. Because I did not have 24 hour symptoms. I felt fine a lot of the time. And then sometimes I would have the POTS symptoms. But it was just, it gave me such a false sense of hope because it would go away sometimes. And then I'd be like, yay, you know, it worked. And then it would come back. But I've since, I've since discovered something else that really helps. Yeah. And we're going to get into that in just a minute. But so about a year ago, you decided to become extra restrictive. And you found out it probably wasn't for you. Can you tell me what you decided to be, you know, really restricted?  I did. Again, last summer, I had a really great summer. And then in the fall, I started to experience symptoms again of POTS. And I thought, well, you know, I'm going to give this animal protein restriction a try. I'm going to, you know, reduce that, start to eat more vegan. I'm going to start fasting more. So I started to do those things. And of course, this coincided with the season changes. And it rained for three weeks when I started to do that. And it was like every single stressor hit my body at once. And I could not handle it. Like I got far, far sicker than I have ever been last fall. And I just, I couldn't, I couldn't get better. I gave up, I had to give up tons more foods. I was doing multiple diets. I was trying to give up histamines, FODMAP, oxalase. And it was like nothing, nothing helped. I was reacting to almost every food I put in my body. I became so sensitive to the mold in our basement that I had to move out of my house. I was taking dozens of supplements. Even, even yoga was too stressful for my body. I was doing detox, mold binders, limiting my wifi exposure. And I just felt so helpless because I was doing everything right. And I couldn't get better. You know, it's, it's almost a blessing and a curse to have such a, you know, I have a social media presence and I have this online platform and I see so many people having success on this diet. And then I have to be the one that says, well, you know, it's not working for me anymore. You know, something happened. There's something missing from my puzzle that I'm not getting. You know, I was, I was very aware that I wasn't addressing something that I needed to address and I didn't know what it was. So and I have a feeling I'm not the only one actually. I think, I think there are quite a few people who feel the way I did. They're doing everything right. And it's still not working. And I just want to encourage those people to not give up. There are so many therapies to try in conjunction with what you're already doing diet-wise. And there's hope and I'll share, I'll share soon what I found. So, okay. Well, I think that's a, now tell me about the mold in your basement because you haven't, you know, you mentioned the pond out back. Where did that, you know, how did, was that discovered? And did you, and it sounds like moving out of the house didn't, didn't fix the problem. Well, it did. And that was the thing. Everything I tried, all the things that I avoided worked initially. So when I started to avoid additional food, that helped for a few weeks. And then my body would become sensitive to something else. When I moved out of my house, I was better for a few weeks. And then I became sensitive to other things. So avoidance was no longer working for me. And we discovered the mold. I mean, I knew there was mold in our house because I could see it on the walls in our basement. It was very obvious that we had it. I just, I didn't think anything of it. I didn't think someone could be so sensitive to it until I was. Well, you know, I'm going to come back to the mold after you tell us about everything that went wrong and how you fixed it and neural retraining. What the heck is that? Oh, thank you so much for letting me talk about this. Because I feel like my, my journey is a little different than a lot of your patients. Because a lot of times giving up all those foods works. Like that's, that's the thing that gets them better. And for me, it, it actually being so restrictive made it worse, made me worse. So I was thinking, you know, it's not, it's not something external that's causing this. There's got to be, you know, something wrong with my body or my brain that's causing all of these symptoms and causing me to become so sensitive to everything. And so I first heard about it from Dr. Jason Fung. I, because I follow him for a lot of his fasting advice. And he mentioned that fasting will fix a lot of things, but it will not fix a maladapted stress response. And I was like, hmm, you know, what, what's that? So I started to look into that and realized that that's what I was experiencing. It's, it's basically where your brain becomes so overloaded with stressors that it breaks, like your response to stress breaks.  So that's what I was experiencing is I was on high alert all the time. And no matter what I did to avoid certain things, everything was triggering me. So I started this treatment called neural retraining. And it's a different approach to healing. So rather than avoiding the things that are making you react, which for me was impossible because everything was making me react, rather than avoiding those things, you do these neural exercises that help you to change your physiological response to triggers. And not only is that possible, but it works really fast. So I've, I've been doing this for two months now. And I'm already eating, I'm back to eating every single thing on the plant paradox. Yes, Liz. And I've even reintroduced some phase three things. Oh my gosh, I just feel, I feel liberated, like I no longer have a fear of food. I've overcome all of my reactions to food. I can go into any buildings now. I used to react when I went into old buildings. I no longer react. I can go into churches and libraries and old moldy water damaged coffee houses. And I, I don't have a reaction. And so in what involves neural retraining? I mean, did somebody describe what the process is? Because I'm sure most of my listeners have no idea what you're talking about. Yeah. So there are a few different programs out there. The one, the one that I'm doing was developed by Annie Hopper. I'm not sure if you're familiar with her. But it involves, it's so, it's so hard to describe this. I really hope I can get this right and describe this well.  So every day I will trigger myself a little more. I'm actually doing that with exercise. So I started with just like one minute of jogging and that was enough to make my body react. And, and I go through the exercises and the exercises are very, they're repetitive. You use your happiest emotions and your happiest memories to recreate a neurological state in your brain and your body that will help you to change your physiological response. So give, give me an example of where, what, what do you do to find that happy place? I mean, is that mom and dad taking you out for ice cream at age six or, I mean, give me an example. Oh, it can be anything.   So if you, if you're thinking about a memory of something that happened in the past, there's a part of your brain that's literally experiencing that again, it's just as if you are there. And so you do that over and over every single day. I mean, I practice for an hour a day, and then I also use it when I have a, when I have a reaction sometimes during the day. If I, if I ever experienced symptoms, I'll sort of recreate some of these memories. So yeah, they're very powerful memories that I recall. And then the other part is future visualization. So I recall these memories. And then I think about something that would be a struggle for me, like walking into my moldy house or walking into an old building. And then I apply that physiological, neurological state that I've just created. I apply that to the future visualization. And I imagine myself being healthy and strong and resilient. So there are a number of programs in neuro retraining that actually use electrodes on your brain and measuring EEGs and the stress response. And then have you actually look at computer screens of various happy things. So you didn't, you didn't have to do that. No, I didn't not do any of that. Although it'd be very interesting to see what happens in the brain when you do this. And the program I'm doing right now is actually going through clinical trials in Canada. And they're going to be measuring all that stuff, like what, what changes are happening in the brain and how all those changes affect the body. Well, you know, there's definitely true that, you know, there is a gut-brain connection, but there's clearly a brain-gut connection as well. And so the power of the brain, as you're finding out, is very important in what happens to the gut. Yes. It was like, it was the other half of the equation for me because I was, I was doing everything right, diet-wise. But my, my poor response to stress was sabotaging my gut buddies. I mean, I could tell. No, and that's actually very well shown that, you know, stress on the brain actually changes the gut microbiome. I referenced that in the longevity paradox. And it also, it changes how your immune system, you know, reacts to the gut microbiome as well. Yes. All right. So you didn't just adopt a lectin-free lifestyle for yourself. You've been raising your young daughter this way, lectin-free. What influenced your decision to raise her that way and how's she doing? Oh, she's doing so well. And there really was no deciding moment where I was like, okay, I have to raise her this way. It was just, that's the way that we were eating. And I wasn't going to make her a separate meal. So I fed her all of the things that I was eating. And she took to them really well. She, of course, before I read the plant paradox, I was doing, I was going the traditional route. So I started, I read the plant paradox when she turned one. And so before then I was feeding her what her pediatrician recommended, which was all those cereals and grains and all that stuff. So that's how we started her off. But after I read the plant paradox, I thought, well, I'm just going to give her the foods that I'm eating. And she really liked them. So. And how old is she now? She's three. Okay. So what happens when she goes to a friend's house or does she go to preschool yet? She does. She goes to preschool. And luckily, last year, we found a preschool where we could pack her lunch. And that was actually a huge deciding factor in which preschool we chose because a lot of them provide lunch. And they're all, according to the government guidelines, whole grain, everything. And, and I just was like, nope, that's, that's not on our list. So, so we chose a preschool where we could pack her lunch. And the preschool she attends now is only half a day. So we don't really have to worry about that at the moment. And she doesn't, she doesn't go over to friends houses yet. So I'm not quite sure how we're going to navigate that in the future. I'm very blessed in that she has no health issues at all. She's very healthy.  And then of course, feeding her great things at home and also educating her about food and proper preparation methods and, and how to make things less select and full. You know, how to pressure cook and even how to ferment.  And it's so fun. I mean, that's like a science experiment in your kitchen. And I can't wait to introduce her to that. And I think it's going to be a lot of fun teaching her about food. So what advice would you give to other parents who just go, Oh man, trying to get my my kid to eat this way is just overwhelming. What do you tell the folks listening? So I feel lucky in that we started her so early on these foods that that's what she's used to. And you look at kids from all over the world in different cultures and they're eating crazy things that that our kids would not dream of eating. But you can really change you can change a kid's palate. They're very, you know, they might be resistant at first, but I have found what works for me. If she doesn't like something, I often discover that she doesn't like the way it's been prepared. It's not that she doesn't like that specific thing. It's just, I'll make, you know, I'll saute something in olive oil and give it to her and she won't like it. But then I'll sneak it into like a soup or a casserole and she'll eat it. So my advice is just keep serving something over and over in different ways if you can. And rather than writing it off as, Oh, my kid doesn't like this thing, just keep trying. And she she's done that so often where she won't eat something maybe six or seven times and then she'll start eating it. So it just I keep an open mind as to what she might like to try next. I think that's great advice. Yeah. You know, I tell anyone who will listen that a little child in Japan doesn't come out of the womb thinking that seaweed is what he wants to he or she wants to eat. It's, you know, and, you know, I, you know, my two grandchildren have been raised by my daughter and her husband on the plant paradox program literally since they were born and they're five and three now. And I can still remember pictures. I think I posted it on Instagram of my grandchild who was like one years old. And he was at the dinner table and his dad was giving him trying to get him to eat some humanely raised spare ribs. But all he wanted was broccoli. And he would just kind of push the spare ribs away and, you know, grab another handful of broccoli. Here's a one year old, you know, eating broccoli. My daughter is the same way. She eats salad. She loves green. We go out to restaurants and people will actually stop by our table and they'll say, I have never seen as hot a lot of salad before. And they think it's some sort of miracle, but it's just because we've exposed her to it. So often I just I always give her like a handful of greens and, you know, if she doesn't eat them, she doesn't eat them, but a lot of times she will. So it's just giving her the option to do it. Yeah, I think that's great advice. And, you know, that's why I wrote, you know, the plant paradox family cookbook because I have two young grandchildren and I wanted to help my daughter who's committed to this. And I have so many patients of my own who are children or teenagers who have, you know, incredibly horrible health issues with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis or Crohn's or all sorts of colitis. And so a big part of my impetus in all of this was to give mothers, particularly mothers and dads and families ways to get their kids to eat healthy, to give their kids a great microbiome from the start. And we're finding more and more and more and more that the better we can make our kids microbiome diverse and happy, they're not going to have the asthma issues or the eczema issues or the obesity issues. They're just it's not going to happen to them. So it's never too early to start. I can tell you as a children's heart surgeon for all of my career that I would operate on children as young as eight or nine or 10. And I would already see plaques in the arteries of their aorta, the main blood vessel that came out, cholesterol plaques in these young children. And the experience from the Vietnam War of these young men 17, 18, 19 years old who were killed on autopsy, they already had plaques in their coronary arteries and in their aorta. So I think the important message that I want to get out and you certainly want to get out is that there's the earlier you start at this, the better you give your kids a chance for a great long life. And they didn't come out of the box needing chicken McNuggets and Kraft macaroni and cheese. They really didn't. Yeah, I really feel, I feel almost lucky to have gone through what I have gone through because I can pass this on to my daughter. I suffered from allergies my whole life. The day I was born I had an allergic reaction to a gown that someone put on me that had fragrance on it. And that was kind of the first sign I was going to have a tough childhood as far as allergies and eczema and asthma. And of course I don't blame my parents. I mean, they were feeding me what was supposed to be healthy and convenient. And they're just, I feel lucky to have the knowledge I have now and to be able to pass that on to my daughter. I feel it's going to help a lot in reversing this epidemic of allergic diseases. It really is going to help. Other than salad, does your daughter have a favorite recipe or two? She does. So this is Amara. This is my daughter. And I have some sample recipes here of the recipes that I would send my email subscribers. I don't think I've talked about that actually. Well, since you're going to mention what you send out, maybe this is a good point to tell us how people find you. Oh, okay. My website is lectenfremama.com. And when I started the website, I quickly realized that emailing was a lot easier than uploading recipes to the website. So I started an email subscriber list that I would send out five recipes a week to my subscribers, like five plant paradox dinner recipes. And I have kept that up now for almost three years. And I still, I still send them out every Friday. I send out recipes to my subscribers. And I have hundreds of recipes in my collection. So I have a few here. I have a few of her favorite recipes. So the first one we have is plantain crusted salmon and cauliflower mash. Do you like plantain chips? So she loves plantain chips. So I used them as breading on the salmon. Great idea. Do you like cauliflower? Yes. Do you like it with butter? Of course she loves it with butter. Of course. Okay. So that's one of them. Another one I have is Asian Sesame Sweet Potato Noodles. Do you like noodles? What's your favorite noodle? My favorite noodles is that. Those ones? These are her favorite noodles. The sweet potato noodle. The spiralized sweet potato noodles. And I mixed them with tahini, coconut, aminos, ginger, olive oil, sesame oil. Oh, they're really good. And then you sprinkle on some scallions and sesame seeds. Oh my gosh. Can we come over for dinner tonight, please? So what's next for you and Lekton Free Mama besides raising this beautiful child? Yeah. Most of my time is devoted to that. And I do what I can when I have the time. I would love to do like maybe a cookbook or something, but it's just not in the cards right now. So I'm just, I'm maintaining what I'm doing now, basically sending out recipes to my subscribers every week. I maintain a Facebook group that has over 15,000 members. And we give a lot of support in that group to people who are trying this diet. It's really great. I mean, I'm so blessed to have people that are interested in what I have to make. And just people who are willing to participate in a support group like that. It's been really great. Well, thank you for doing that. And we all appreciate it as well. It's really, you've been great support for so many people. So as you know, there's a segment of the show for the audience question. And we're going to have you give me the audience questions today. How's that? Yeah, sounds good. So some of these are based on my own journey, of course. Do you feel that there are any dangers or downsides to giving up too many foods in addition to the no list? And if so, what is your recommendation for people who are navigating multiple food sensitivities? Well, I think the, you know, an elimination diet, however we want to describe that is actually a very good idea for most people with multiple sensitivities. And I found through the years that while the vast majority of people do really well just following the no list, as I've done this longer and longer and have more sophisticated tests, there's absolutely a group of people that will react to raw vegetables, particularly raw greens, and that they need to cook them within an inch of their lives or nuke them or make them sauces or soups. The other thing is I'm finding certain individuals absolutely react to not only KCNA1 but KCNA2 and even whey and milk. So we eliminate milk in those people. And I'm finding a surprising number of people that react to eggs, either egg white or egg yolk. And so in those folks, I do take those away. Now I don't in general go all the way to the carnivore diet where we take away all plant materials, but we've had podcasts where we've discussed that that's there's nothing wrong with that for a short term, but we're talking a short term rather than a long term solution. The other thing I think there is a portion of the population that view can get addicted to having a very restrictive diet. And I think that's why particularly, let's just categorize young women in particular, this is probably not a good idea to severely restrict a diet. And I've said that before. So I have a daughter who's now grown and doing thriving who was anorexic and bulimic. And so I'm very cognizant of those things. Again, she's fine now. It actually follows my program for the last 15 years. And it's actually one of the things that broke her out of her spiral. So anyhow, that's another story. Okay, second question. So I told you about the neural retraining. Is there any recommendations that you have to increase the body's resilience to stress so that maybe maybe we wouldn't be so sensitive? Well, you know, I think there's so many things that you can do. There's there's fascinating data that the more time you spend outdoors, particularly in a park or a woods or a forest, the better off you're going to be. My personal feeling is that every human being should have a dog or a cat. And one thing a dog does is it makes you go outside for a walk twice a day. And the other thing that I find dogs very useful for is they are great socialization creatures because if you're walking a dog, the odds are other people are going to interact with you.  Although I have three cute dogs and one rescue dog, but he's just as wonderful as my cute dogs. So those are things. The other thing I think meditation and however you view meditation. And for instance, you're you thinking of some of the happiest moments of your life is a form of meditation that it's at its very, you know, it's at its very core.  Yeah. Okay, the last question I have is about kids. Do you have any general supplement recommendations for kids that have no health issues? Healthy kids? Is there anything we can give them to boost nutrition? Yeah. So I yeah. So in the plant paradox family cookbook, I have a whole section on supplements for kids. And I think one of the most important things is you've got to get DHA, which is a component of fish oil, or also in algae based DHA into kids. The evidence is overwhelming that kids will do better in school. They are intellect will be better, their brains will be bigger. And there's good controlled studies on this. So get them some fish oil, it's easy to get in it. You if you get cod liver oil, you can hide it in salad dressings or even in soups. There's no fishy taste to good quality cod liver oil. He loves cod liver oil. Yeah. So that's just an easy thing to do. The other thing is really kind of from an early start, get small amounts of vitamin D in them, particularly in Northern climates, we really don't have enough vitamin D. And so that's just a quick overview of what's in the book. Okay. Okay. So unfortunately, that's all we got time for on tonight's today's podcast. And I really appreciate you being here and please folks go to her website, go to her Instagram, go to her Facebook page, lectin free mama. And thanks again, it's great meeting you in person, kind of in person. I know, it's been so great to see you and talk to you. Thank you so much for having me on. All right. And that's it for the Dr. Gundry podcast. We'll see you next week. Before you go, I just wanted to remind you that you can find the show on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts, because I'm Dr. Gundry, and I'm always looking out for you.


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So Eastern, Massachusetts Using integrated capital blended finance layering equity debt and grants in combination to close the racial wealth divide in our community And we live in the number one most unequal city by income in the country and that is absolutely built around race So that was the issue we wanted to solve to create a healthy and resilient Boston and we deployed 3 million across 30 different investments And at the end of which we say yep, you can do this But we need to do it differently. It has to be this blended capital going in That and grants and going out equity debt grants royalties warranties What happens if we put relationship long-term relationship with an enterprise at the center of our work and we bring whatever Capital we have to bear social capital financial capital every kind of financial capital in order to support that enterprise as it develops so we then Said the pilot was a success and we created a 501c3 charitable loan fund last year And we're raising 10 million dollars to deploy other people's money debt and grants into this same strategy And part of the way that we chose to do that was even to change the way that we solicit the capital So we are able to engage Non-accredited investors in our case it will mostly be Faith-based institutions in the same communities that we're deploying the capital which is unusual to get to participate in this Process as well as accredited investors and philanthropic capital We've engaged all the stakeholders from the investment side To work on this project with us on the deployment side in addition to providing blended capital in the ways that the entrepreneurs needed We also invoke what we call non financials social covenants So these are covenants that are binding equally as binding as debt repayment schedules Where the entrepreneur commits to relating to the community that they are working in in a different way So they might be locally sourcing 30% or locally hiring or providing living wages or Instituting an ESOP program. So these are in every deal that we've done. We've closed just over a million two In transactions so far, but it's again a whole new model and an approach for addressing a very tough issue That's really you know what I I love that when you all talk about the model that you have it's so Holistic, it's it's it's completely Comprehensive in a nature. It's just not kind of checking a box And so I love the thought that has gone into it and the effort and and the innovation in it And I think about all of us here at so cap, right? We come to so cap I don't know many of you have been here years before I know I have and we have the Conversation about the racial wealth gap. We have the conversation about How to change our money how to change how to how to make changes in this area and yet The gap is getting bigger and bigger nothing is Changing really very little is changing and yet we have the same conversations over and over every year and I really am wondering What is it? What is it that is missing? How are we missing the mark when this is why we're here supposedly is to change the way we do finance and yet The gap just gets wider and wider Okay, so let's really go into that and go underneath it. So my background is in systems thinking and Systems living systems self-organized And the in the case of human systems. We organize around us self And that so self-organizing we organize around a self and for human systems. That is a set of values and beliefs and So I believe that we are Shifting we're not there yet though from what I would call an economics of separation To an economics of relationship and those of us who are in the impact investing in the social entrepreneurship space We're trying to move toward this new world But we haven't actually recognized how deeply immersed we are in the values and beliefs of the economics of separation right, so how I would articulate that is These beliefs we are self-focused rugged individualists Our biological reality is survival of the fittest Right competition is our natural state Which means that some of us work harder and are smarter and therefore earn what we gain and others are lazy and less Capable and they need our help which gives rise to philanthropy Right he who wins the competition has the right to accumulate and nature is here to serve our needs and support our growth So I'm not saying we're all That's all that we are but there is a dominant narrative in our culture That is about individuals and competition and accumulation and what happens is we're out there trying to change the world and We're still operating from Individualism and competition and accumulation in our social enterprises and in our impact investing And so we get more of the same we get a little bit better Right, we are doing definitely we are doing incremental change work There's no question that we're nailing it on incremental change and maybe there's transformative change from time to time But to truly deal with transformative change the system that we're in has to organize around a different set of values and beliefs and the values and beliefs of an economics of relationship are That we are fundamentally interdependent we move from competition to cooperation That we think about resources that flow instead of accumulate So this is where recognizing that nature is our teacher the wisdom of nature and in nature When resources accumulate, it's called stagnation, right nature resources flow They're meant to move through the ecosystem to where they're needed most So now when we ask the question back to the impact investing in social entrepreneurship sector is Flow at the heart of your financial model right is Cooperation a higher value than competition in your business model If it's not you're staying in the economics of separation and we're getting more of the same it's like I what I'm hearing you say too is that If we were to actually align our values and our activity In alignment with how nature works that there would be different outcomes Because we I mean one of the things we know is that we are living on something like seven earths And we only have really one and so we know we have overshot We're overshooting and and and I want to bring this back to social justice because there is not a A ecological Issue that does not have a corresponding social justice issue. Is that right? Would you agree with that? So so here we are back on how do we match our Investment and and the way that we see money and the way that we deal with money In alignment with actual transformation in with a social justice lens Conduct I might add a lot of our products all of us are involved in these are Market rate return we use this term market rate. Yeah, and I just wanted to tie it back to Deborah's comment Where there's an assumption that market rate actually on our part is is exploitive It's an extractive threshold if you're extracting who are the casualties? So our fun is actually trying to redeploy Some of those excess returns back into the communities that where they were extracted in the first place So I mean this is a connected logic, and I just wanted to highlight that And let me add in going back to this notion of biomimicry or learning from nature right if we want to think about returns And you know we get these debates about market rate or concessionary. What's the basis of that debate? It's looking backward at returns So what is a fundamental shift in the way we think about risk and return? So one way to think about return that I'm doing we're doing in our place is So a mature hardwood forest in New England grows at a rate of four percent a year There's something from nature a bamboo forest grows at a rate of 35 percent a year and colonizes Everything it's in its path wiping out other subspecies That should sound a little bit familiar in the way that we treat people in our communities So how do we think about returns and how do we think about justice and how do we think about inclusion? We have to start thinking like healthy ecosystems and not like extractive industrialists And it feels like we're also talking about yeah, right You're fundamentally talking about a shift a mind shift I mean our entire the way that we are world view it's a heart mind shift that that we're talking about because Right now these values that we are that we are living by and and doing business by and investing by are not connected with this heart mind that we're talking about because deep caring deep empathy deep compassion deep love for each other and Actually shifting and allowing can you imagine if we allowed those values to lead? The way we invest Maybe that's what the problem is. I mean when I see it. I really know that we are talking about there really has to be a fundamental shift in the way that we see things and Otherwise this band-aids were great at band-aids We're great at walking by a homeless person and putting you know and feeling like you put a dollar in the can And you think well, you know you've done something when fundamentally There should be no homeless person on the street, right? There's systems changes that need to take place and how do we? With the capital and resources that we have actually make systems changes And that is what I see bi what you all are doing and what we're doing with the runway project I mean we have a systems problem when we talk about the statistics that they just said earlier about the wealth gap another statistic is that it would take 228 years For a black family's wealth to reach a white family's wealth if the white family stayed static it would take 228 years that is crazy and That is the system that we with the runway project are working with in terms of Filling in that gap for the friends and family money that just doesn't exist What we can learn from nature or what we can learn about how our natural sort of Ecology would really move But I think that they're the question that I have inside of this is all right So we have some examples of some places that we can look to learn Why aren't we doing that like really what's happening and and is there a tension around Race inside of that like I just have to name it really explicitly like we're keep saying quote racial wealth gap But we don't act and we put a lot of the finance stuff ahead of This conversation that we just don't have that has to do with race So I'm wondering where the two things marry around what we can learn from from the in from the environment What can we can learn from nature what we can learn from how things move and how we do the heavy work Around talking about something like race inside of that So I think we have got to look at The position we have to talk about power We cannot talk about the wealth divide without talking about power and the question of how attached Folks are particularly white folks right to holding on to power and When we start to move toward you know racial justice has gone into the main stage, right? I mean we're here. We are talking about this But it tends to mean Diversity and inclusion initiatives, which is a fraction. It's a necessary but way insufficient Shift for us to actually take any ground in a meaningful way on the issue of racism and racial justice And so we have to start talking about power Meaning who's making decisions about the allocation of capital Right and that's part of you know For example, our fund is majority governed by community-based Organization so that we are not the ones sitting in an ivory tower making all the decisions we partner with another fund That's participatory democracy and decision-making So I think one of the issues is we can start talking about racial justice work in closing the racial wealth divide And if all we're doing is writing checks differently, we're not going to take ground We have to talk about seeding power and transitioning power same thing from where it's accumulated To where it's been extracted from and white folks need to do that work And this might be controversial but my belief is that the US is moving toward financial apartheid Where where you have a browning of the population and the resources are puddling in a very small part of the community And one of the ways to deal with that is to change who the decision-makers who allocate capital So my challenge and and I've been the investment business for 30 plus years At all levels of the business is for everybody in this room to consider within your own organizations Who's making the decisions about allocating capital what screens or what what biases are built in and we all have them But part of that I mean we have to start there to turn to turn around this apartheid scenario the strong part about Really pushing against these places where power is being is actually disrupting this flow of capital from us living into Show up as a community of folks here at conversation Pardon me. You can't hear me. So, sorry. I'm back Microphone is falling here. Sorry, but I'm thinking about where we as a community here who gather at SoCAP Start to engage this question this week. We're opening this up Engages question this week around power dynamics and engages question about how we're We're looking at building our work Inside of this more natural kind of flow that happens what kind of Work would you have us do as a community here? We're all assembled here. We all Imagining wanting to really challenge. We're here to show up to do this good work What are we saying? And I'm gonna throw you into this as well. What are we saying to this group of folks about? What it means to be doing work to close the racial wealth gap something very practical that that we want to people to start leaning into Yeah One of the first things that comes up for me is that we have to do some internal work Because externally we again the Band-Aid situation, which we do often and we do really well But if we don't do an internal Investigation within ourselves and really change some fundamental and look at the own our own participation in in in racism in America and white supremacy in America if we don't start looking at that and really You know being able to to be honest Then because what happens is that? There's so much benefit by not looking at it seemingly benefit although I don't believe that anybody's winning I really believe that it's a lose-lose situation that we're in those there are those that seemingly are winning But nobody's really winning when the air you can't breathe the air when you know All the all the things that we share and until we can fundamentally understand that we are deeply interconnected Not only to each other, but to the planet as well that we are nature That we fundamentally are nature walking and breathing until we understand that deep interconnection Then the exploitative Mindset of me me me mine mine my I I Will continue to to lead in everything that we do and we see the results of what we get from that and so I really think that a deep understanding of our deep interconnection and Is fundamentally important as as as step one Really seeing that differently because we have we have separated ourselves when you talk about Separation we've separated ourselves from our own cells from our own soul We separate ourselves from each other certainly from the planet You know if we could trash it the way that we do and so I just really think that that's a really fundamental change That needs to happen So if we had more time We would probably ask you to sit and notice what is The narrative in your head that says this is why I can't make the shift Right, so so people in our space impact investors like well There aren't any black and brown owned businesses to invest in or Foundations who are trying to find fund managers who are inclusive. Oh well There aren't any black and brown fund managers with track records out there Check the narrative because it's actually false So you may not be in relationship with the folks that you need to be in relationship with But there are abundant people talent skills Enterprises creativity all of that is out there We're not looking in the places that we need to look which means check the narrative Find out what the objection is and then go back to the belief system underneath and Talk to someone about it at least be witnessed in the practice of finding out what narrative did I inherit it from inherit from this? Culture that I could choose to walk out of and step into relationship with others To really begin to explore we have no shortage of pipeline We have great businesses to invest in So it's possible Look at who you're not investing in Look at who's not showing up in your pipeline look at What investors are not investing in your fund and and understand the reasons why? And that's sort of the canary in the coal mine to sort of trigger where we're in your organization There are blocks against groups or sectors or gender or whatever, but that's what we actually have done this process ourselves internally I mean we're racial justice fund and we had an introspective look So I would encourage people to run that process themselves And it's not okay to Stay with the status quo We have to get to the point to where not only are we concerned about it, but oh well and keep going We have to say it is fundamentally not okay I cannot continue the way with this portfolio looks like I cannot Continue because I am supporting something that I know is detrimental to the planet to each other And that is not going to fundamentally get us where we need to go and so we have to really make it so that it's just not okay We can't just glaze it over and wish it were different It takes effort. It takes relationship building. It takes comfort coming out of your comfort zone Going into a place of discomfort Which is where the learning happens, which is where the juicy part of life is is in that little discomfort zone It takes being able to do that and being willing to do that and being committed to a different world Because as long as we're committed we will have that lens on everything we do and if we're not committed It will be a check the box and we'll go about our business and say it's okay, and it's really it's not okay well, I want to thank you all of you for being my guest on my panel and I also want to let all of you know runway is always looking for folks who'd like to support and work with us We are currently raising monies now, and so please find us talk to us right right and And if you'd also like to talk to us about how we're doing what we're doing and the possibility of doing that in your area We love those conversations as well. So thank you so much. Enjoy your so cap. Thank you. 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What's up everybody Jason here for jaspierscasebreaks.com 2223 Bowman University Inception just sold out guys another four box break this time It's random letter number five first letter first name And yeah, there's 19 total spots everybody gets a random letter from the list below. There are a couple combo letters now again As an example if you get randomized letter B and we pull a Bryce young that'll go to you Here's a dice roller here is the customer names and the letters click dice roll two and a three a two and a one three times one two three Kev down to Justin one two T down to GI I said Kev with T brown with EF Travis M. Tristan Z. Jordan H. Tristan J. KJP Brian S. Tebow with B Jordan XL Robert Rincon V Tristan with a Jerry with W Justin with D Nancy with C Jordan with R Nancy with N Oh Jordan with K and then Justin with GI No, I did not we did pull a redemption earlier, but it was not him So no not yet, man All right guys, I'm assuming no trades. He must be super hard to pull Gila. Honestly, he's He's probably so limited And member they can filter in a tons of these Bowman University players And you know, they don't Think you're just throwing a couple of eniamas everywhere, you know But we've only done one case. So I mean can't really speak I'm assuming he's not one per case because if not this product would be a lot more expensive He's definitely in here Yeah, I'm not sure when he's gonna sign it, but the good thing is that it is top. So I think Actually, sorry to be honest Gila. I mean they already have him signing He signed his like tops promo universities already or he has been signing those on cards I think they just released this too early in the production run where they weren't able to actually get him to sign it And actually guys what I'm gonna do since it's four breaks. We're just gonna make four stacks But yeah, I just think that uh This was produced like way early in the year and They hadn't got to sign them exclusively and stuff like that yet until now So yeah, I think I think they should have it pretty fast They probably just couldn't get it into the print run that fast So they just made them a redemption and then they'll probably send them out soon after that tops is a little bit better All right, so stack one two three and four Let's generate a number Whopper whopper junior whopper And we got a four so one two three four So again, we'll grab this stack here and then these next three here would be for future breaks and then I'm gonna put a little sign line through them. So you guys see it Yeah, that one card he autographed that put that my first ever card signature, whatever whatever he did That car is gonna go for so much money You can say that like a one-on-one. All right, first of you guys Malik right now letter M Dontavian wicks for letter D. Kate Kubler for letter C and then Jalen Carter for letter J And then we got a DJ to 99 There we go, how about CJ Strout 35 out of 50 CJ going to let her see Nancy Got Nancy. It's a nice one there. I don't know Joe. It could have been just from him and They obviously seen it as a big marketing push But I'm not sure to be honest But either way it worked whether they paid him or not Plus they already paid him to an exclusive so I guess it doesn't really matter. It's genius though Joe I mean, come on. I didn't think about it. It's a very genius That's a little extra kick Extra layer. All right, Jeremy Roach for letter J Sky Clark Oscar And then we'll love it. See you later, man And then Max Bazoulas letter M out of 57 and that is Travis We got Keely Ringo another ego right there Letter K is going to Jordan and then Cam Whitmore for letter C going to Nancy Alright, two more to go guys Adam Flagler Ty Thompson Cam Whitmore Grady Dick We have Walker Howard to 50 Let her W going to Jerry We have a Artero Morris Let her a going to Tristan and then Ty Thompson Let her T going to Kev. All right guys last box here Max Bazoulas Nolan Smith Josh Downs Marvin Mims All right, we got to 199 and Judah Mints for letter J Then we have a Raquel Brown the 75 Letter R that's going to Jordan and then Julian Phillips went a letter J Tristan and there you go guys first four in the books So we did get a nice CJ Strout Out of 50 that was really nice So again guys Number six is coming up next guys Jaspies case breaks calm


Family Theater presents Eleanor Powell and David Janssen. From Hollywood, the Mutual Network and Cooperation with Family Theater presents Little Church of the Ambush, starring David Janssen. And now here's your hostess, Eleanor Powell. Thank you, Tony LaFranco. Family Theater's only purpose is to bring to everyone's attention a practice that must become an important part of our lives if we are to win peace for ourselves, peace for our families, and peace for the world. Family Theater urges you to pray. Pray together as a family. And now to our transcribed drama, Little Church of the Ambush, starring David Janssen. An ordinance was passed last week in a town I live in. I guess you could call it an ordinance. At any rate, it was a decision by the city fathers to restore a certain building. One you've probably never seen, though you might have driven through our town a hundred times. And for the building that it is, it has some pretty strange bedfellows, gin mills, warehouses, outlet stores and pawn shops, bowling alleys and penny arcades. And less than a block away, the theater that serves off and on is the city's only burlesque house. You see, it's on Gossett Avenue, a main street turned skid row since the days when the town was young and the building was first put up. But if you came to visit some relative or friend here, it's about two to one that you wouldn't get away without having a look at the building that city residents call the Little Church of the Ambush. Of course, it's been known by other names, the church that John Dade built, Church of the Wrath of God. And once an itinerant preacher said, it ought to be called the Church of St. Peter of the Sword, reminiscent of that night in Gethsemane when Peter drew his sword and cut off the ear of one of the men who'd come to take Christ. To know just why it has so many strange names and why our city fathers deem it worthy of restoration even though it isn't city property and isn't even used as a parish church anymore, you'd have to go back. Back to the time when this town was called Shotgun and consisted of little more than one street and had no church at all. And thanks largely to the efforts of a man named John Dade, no one who might build a church. Till one spring morning when the stage came into town pulled up in front of the Wells Fargo office and dismounted its passenger before the astonished eyes of one out of this and saw green hall. Into the line for you Padre, this is Shotgun. Well, thank you. And so as you can't say Wells Fargo delivered you into the hands of strangers, them two fellers standing there with their mouths hank and opened like they'd never seen a priest before or saw a green hall and one alvarist. Boys, this is Padre Francis. How do you do? Padre? Howdy. Sam, he's just passing through. He's staying. One take the man's possibles. See? Oh no, it's all right. I can take them. Please permit me Padre. Did you tell him about Shotgun, Sam? You mean did I tell him about John Dade? Hey, let me get down off this box. The answer is yes. That true? That's true, all right. And you came here anyway? Mr. You're crazy. That's what I told him. Well, maybe if I could talk to this John Dade. Oh, Padre, it would do no good. Mr. I'd like to give you a friendly piece of advice. Get on that stage and find yourself another town. Well, thank you, but I'm afraid I can't do that. Why not? Company will trust you for the fair. Well, thank you very much for my bishop sent me here to build a church. Padre, perhaps the bishop does not know that there is a man here who will not let the church be built. Seems to me like a terrible waste. How long you have to study for your priesthood, son? Nine years. But certainly you've got some law enforcement agency. A sheriff? Oh, we got a sheriff all right. Well, maybe if I went to talk to him. Oh, I wouldn't do that Padre. No, sir, not by a long shot. No, Padre. You better take him over to the hotel, Juan. Juan? Si, Padre. There are no churches in this town. I mean of any kind. No, Padre. Some men have come to build them. But what? Most of them, this John Day drives away. Some here are skilled. But why? Padre, I do not ask a mad dog why he bites. I just keep away. Maybe he's a loco hombre, Padre. Maybe he just hates God. This way. Well, there must be a reason. Juan, why shouldn't I go see the sheriff? Because Padre, the sheriff, is John Day. Father Francis took a room in the hotel. And after washing off the dust of the journey, went into the lobby to read his brievery, the hour of daily scriptural reading required of a priest. He had no more subtle in his chair when he had a visitor. You, you're there. Are you talking to me? I'm talking to you. My name's John Day. I've heard about you. And you probably heard I'm a sheriff here in Shotgun. Of that, among other things? It's the sheriff's job to talk to strangers who come to our little town, mister. Especially what you might call undesirable strangers.  I'm a Catholic priest. Priest minister. Well, does that make me an undesirable stranger? Depends on what your plans are. Well, I've been instructed to build a church here. And that's what I'm going to do. That's just fine. You know what I'm going to do for you? What? I'm going to let you live till tomorrow morning. Let me live. The next stage out of town is tomorrow at daybreak. Be on it unless you think you can hold services in a pine box. But why? What have you got against it? I'm not going to argue with you or your kind. I'm doing you a favor. And if you don't think so, you can ask anyone in town. When that stage leaves, be on it. Understand? I'm afraid I can't take your advice. Take it, Padre, please. Why are you sneaking around again? I just happened to come into your dead. I meant no harm. Well, you'd better stay out of this one. Say, Padre. No. Come closer. Closer. All right, that's far enough. Now, I just want to show you how brave you some singing friends of yours can be. What was it you called yourself, a priest? That's right. Señor Dei. You know what this is? Yes? It's a revolver. And you're looking right down the barrel of it. Now, are you going to be on that daybreak stage? Well, speak up. But I can't. Can't speak? That's too bad. I mean, I can't leave town. I have to do what I came to do. Padre, be reasonable.  Not till tomorrow morning. That's right. Looks like you'll have to wait all morning to see him run, Juan. I promised in the night, didn't I, stranger? You did. Get out of here, Juan. I said, get out. Maybe it's better this way anyhow. You'll have the rest of the day and all night to pray for a mirror. But I can tell you now, the only one you're going to get will be the stage tomorrow morning. Is that all? That's all. Now you can get back to your book. Oh, one other thing. Yes? If you're foolish, if you don't take the stage, wear a gun. Father Francis just sat there for a few minutes. Then after a time, he took out his handkerchief, mopped his forehead in hands, and picked up his bravery again. And though he formed the many hundreds of words with his lips, two verses of the office of the day kept repeating themselves in his mind. Hear me, oh, Lord, for thy mercy is kind. Look upon me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies, and turn not away thy face from thy servant folk. I am in trouble. Hear me speedily. Then when he had finished, he put the book in his pocket and went out to begin his work. Well, frankly, Father Francis, I don't know. I've heard stories. Some say his first killing was a minister and that he was hanged for it, but his friends cut him down in time. I don't know why he's the way he is. I just don't know, unless he's like Juan Alvarez says, he's just plain local, Father.  Put up with him? Because I suppose there's not a man in town fast enough to put him down if you want the long and short of it. But, Mr. Attool, do you think you should raise your children? I know, I know. Not by bread alone and all that, but I'll tell you something, Father. Not by the spirit alone do you raise a family. This little store of mine's not much, but we do a fair business with the ranchers hereabouts, and the railroad's talking about coming to shotgun. If this town turned into a shipping point, it'd grow like thunder and us with it. Well, getting back to what we were first talking about, Mr. Attool. Yeah, the money, I remember, you need money to build a church. That's right. Well, that brings us to a delicate point, Father. What good is money to a dead man? That's it. Look, Father, I'm a Catholic, so naturally I'd be tickled to death to have a Catholic church here in Shotgun. But you think others might be against it? Oh, not even a little bit, just the opposite. Saul Greenhall, Miles Abernathy, Sutton Wells, Wesley Smith, every single one of them would love to see your church go up. And as far as I know, none of them's Catholic.  It's because it'd mean, well, it'd mean freedom of worship and come back to shotgun. It'd mean somebody'd finally gotten the best at John Dade, and that there'd be other churches here. And I'll swear that every single one of them would contribute to your building fund. You mean after John Dade was beaten? Wouldn't it have to be that way? If you want my opinion, Father, you take Dade's advice, leave town for a while, and then maybe you can sit tight and come back after, well, after a faster gun has come to town. Sit tight. If he said he'd kill you, Father, you can be sure he'll keep his word, barring miracles, that is. Well, thanks for your help, Mr. O'Toole. Wait. Yes? You're bound and determined to stay? I have to. Yeah, I know, from the Alvobedians and all that. Well, look, Father, I'll tell you what I'll do. If you're still, if you'll come around tomorrow evening, I'll have something for your fund. Well, thank you, Mr. O'Toole. And? And I'll help with the building, too, anything you want. I couldn't ask for more, Mr. O'Toole, unless maybe your prayers. You've got them, Father. You've got them. Let me finish putting his shoe on his cow, Miles Abernathy thinks he's a horse, and we can talk here. I ought to hold it. Well, Reverend, that's what I'm supposed to call you. Father is the usual term. Oh, Father is it. Seems a little funny, man. My age's calling a man your age, Father, but that's the way you want it. No, I'm not of your faith. Fact is, I'm not sure I'm of any particular faith, but I believe that a man should be allowed to practice any faith he chooses, so I'll sure enough throw in with you. Blacksmiths don't make a whole lot, but I'm a good man with a hammer, and I've got a couple of sons I can throw in, too. The three of us would be the closest things to carpenters you'd find here in Shotgun. Well, I certainly appreciate it. I hope you get the chance. You don't think I've got much for chance, do you? Son, I mean, Father, I wouldn't be in your boots for a nugget the size of that anvil, but I admire your spunk, I'll say that much. Well, it's getting too dark to work, I gotta go supper. You're more than welcome to partake with me, but it'll have to be quick. I'm going to a meeting a little later. Well, thanks, but we'll make it another time, Mr. Grace. You've been very kind. Well, not at all. You haven't seen Sol Greenhall yet. Not yet. I know for a fact he wants to see you. He told me to have you drop round. Well, I'll go see him after supper. No, I'd make it now. He won't be there later. He's going to the same meeting as me. You go see him now. I think you'll be glad you did. He owns a hardware store, you know what that is. Next to the Wells Fargo on it. That's a place. Good luck. Well, thank you, Mr. Graves. I hope you get something to thank me for, Father. So do I, Mr. Graves, so do I. Oh, Father. Oh, yes? You come through this and we'll build your God the best-looking house inside of St. Louis. Night. Good night. Build him the best-looking house this side of St. Louis. I have loved, O Lord, the beauty of thy house. And the place where thy glory dwelleth. Take not away my soul, O God, with the wicked and my life with men of blood. And whose hands there are iniquities. How many people have you talked to, Father? I mean, beside Dade. You all heard about that. How many? About 15 to 20, Mr. Green, huh? About that? Why didn't you come to me earlier? Is it because I'm of a different faith, Father? Is that it? No. This morning you didn't seem particularly friendly. If you wanna know the real reason, I suppose that's it. Unfriendly? All right, maybe I did seem that way. I was sorry to see you come. I'm sorry you're here and you know why. I think I do now. Same reason as everybody else.  You aren't leaving town? No, I can't. I know, I know. In fact, I know more about your faith than you think. Little children, I tell you, love one another.  Turn the other cheek. And I know too that a priest may not spill blood, but according to the law of your own church, you have a right to self-defense. Isn't that so? Yes, Mr. Greenheart, that's so. This father is a hardware store.  Mr. Greenheart, I'm grateful, believe me, I am. But you're going to turn the other cheek? Well, have I really a choice? Look at it this way. It cost your superiors a lot to train you. You do them a disservice to be suddenly taken a martyr. I agree. Mr. O'Toole tells me that Dade is a fast man with a gun. Mr. Greenheart, even if I wanted to, I've never even fired a revolver. I can't kill a man in cold blood and I could never beat him. So he'd have to draw first so that you could be sure of his intentions? Even considering his past performance? Well, I suppose it does sound a little strange. But I can't out-guess God. A man must be true to the letter of his beliefs.  I think I do. Maybe O'Toole is right. Maybe it'll take a miracle to... Wait a minute. Come over here, Father. What's this? It's a derringer. Moral ladies' weapon or a gambler's gun. But it might be just the miracle you need. You could hold it behind your beretta. Fire when he starts his draw. Two shots could do it. One is enough to turn a man completely around. Well, I don't know. Can't found it, man. You're of a right to self-defense. Oh, right. Yes, but I don't think I could do it. All right, all right. Nothing else I can do. I'm sorry. You're sorry. I'm sorry. Shotgun will be sorry. I appreciate what you're trying to do for me. Mr. Graves said you had to go to some meeting. I've taken up enough of your time. There's something else. What is it? The others tell me what they are willing to do for your building campaign, if you live. Yes. At the end of the street, there's a walnut tree. Yes. I own the land that tree grows on. If you... Well, I mean you can have that land to build on if you want, all right. Go out and look it over tomorrow morning. Will you do that? Yes, I will. No, I'd better go to my meeting. It's important. Oh, what sort of a meeting is it? Oh, it's the first gathering of the Shotgun Civic Betterment League. Good night, Father. In his room at the hotel, Father Francis said his prayers and went to bed, still saying them, afraid and ashamed of his fear. While the Shotgun Civic Betterment League met, the meeting didn't take long. One election was held and the vote was unanimous. One issue was brought up, and after some dickering as to the method of settlement, the issue was decided. Then the meeting was over. An hour after daybreak, the stage arrived in Shotgun and pulled up in front of the Wells Fargo office. Oh, ho! Hello, where is everybody? Any passengers? I don't know if that box says I'm gonna come inside. Have I got any passengers or is that priest fella dead? Well, I gotta tell you, will you, Sam? All right, all right, hold your thunder. Well, where is everybody? Looks like everybody had moved away. Never didn't see a town so quiet. Out of the hotel came Father Francis. He walked out into the street, stopped, and for a long moment looked at the stagecoach and then up the street toward the Walnut Tree, and he continued walking. The stage is that way, holy man. Didn't you hear me? I heard you. I'm not, I'm not taking the stage. Sure, funeral. I know. I'm putting my gun back. If you're armed, you'd better make your play. Well, I'm not, I'm not armed. Don't say I didn't warn you.  Who said that? Show yourself. Who is, senor? Juan, you shouldn't have gotten into this. I am not alone, Father. You're breaking the law. No, senor, look around you. As the gunman turned, the men of Shotgun appeared and brought weapons to bear, from the rooftops, from windows, and behind watering troughs, and from prone firing positions under the plank sidewalks. Ambush. We hadn't a leg from last night's date. First one, we done real good. We elected that you would no longer have anything to say about how this town has run. Now the father can build his church. And other churches will come. But you won't be here to see it? I'll be here.  Not by a long shot.  From where? I see him. From windows, behind wagons, and horses, around corners. There's not a man here who can stand up to me in a real fight. And no one man here is gonna try to either. We're not playing games. He's the cause of this. You holy man, if you hadn't come to Shotgun, this wouldn't have happened. Well, you're not gonna get away with it.  Drop your gun. Better do as he says, father. He may still be alive. Well, that's what we're talking about. Dave, John, Dave, can you hear me? Repeat this. Repeat this and mean it. Oh my god, I am heartily sorry for having offended thee. I, having offended thee. Having offended thee. And I detest Dave. He's dead, father. And good riddance. Well, thank you, all of you for my life. It's all right. In a way, I guess we didn't do you any favor, father. We thought John Dave was your problem, and the problem of any priest or minister who happened to come along. He was ours, the town's problem.  That prayer you made him say. The prayer, Mr. Graves, was an act of contrition, a plea for mercy. You mean it might give a man like him a chance at heaven? That's what it's for, Mr. Graves. You did that for a man like him? Well, that's what I'm in the business for, Mr. Graves. The church was built and others followed. Shotgun grew and changed its name to something with a more respectable sound. And even though the parishioners have moved to a newer building now, one not facing on Gosset Avenue, the main street turned skid row. St. Peter's, perhaps better known as the Little Church of the Ambush, will be restored as a historical landmark, which might even serve as a national monument. A reminder that God has given us a way of life worth fighting for and protecting. That as a nation of individuals, we must unite to protect our individual freedoms from those who would deny them from us. This is Eleanor Powell again. February the 17th marks the 59th anniversary of the founding of the Parent Teachers Association in America. In the 59 years of its existence, the PTA has some considerable achievements of which to boast, aiding in the establishment of public kindergarten, establishing scholarships valued in hundreds of thousands of dollars, physical examinations for nearly 3 million preschool children annually, and literally hundreds of other projects important in the education and development of the children of America. I have a dual purpose in bringing all this up. 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Baw! What's up everybody? Once again is Bram and Sean and today I want to talk about one big reason that a lot of these rappers out here could be you will fail. And first I want to say this video is kind of a continuation of a video I did a good minute ago called This Kills Music Careers so check that out if you haven't seen it because I'm not going to touch on a lot of points that I feel like I touched on in that video. I just want to talk about one thing, industry plants. And there's been a whole, whole, whole lot of conversation out here about industry plants. I see artists talk about it all the time and they use it to discredit other artists to success. If you don't know what an industry plant is, look it up, you'll find it somewhere else. But why do industry plants kill other artists' career? Here's my point. I want some of y'all artists to do this experiment. Just go around asking people how they feel about industry plants. And you know what a lot of people will say? They won't say, I don't care about industry plants. A lot of people will say, what's an industry plant? And that's probably mind-boggling for some people because I know there's probably some artists and just people in general who think everybody knows what an industry plant is, but that's the problem. Not just industry plants itself because that's just the one thing that a lot of people waste their time thinking about particularly as an artist when it comes to their rise is actually a signifier of where you're spending your time. And a lot of artists are worried about these things, these industry plants, and a lot of these conversations going on in forums and places that actually have nothing to do with the demographic that listens to their music. Think of somebody like Bryson Tiller. His brand has nothing to do with the type of authenticity and all this underground stuff that a lot of these people talk in their forums. But he was somewhat questionable to some people. But do you think the girls, the women that really rock with his music, the corpus man base, cares any about that conversation? Not only do they not care, most of them will not know. And even somebody like Russ that kind of has that crossover. If you look at who he caters to, women in a lot of his music and even just the other people who like him on a higher scale now that he's kind of risen out of that core demographic, they don't even care about that conversation. They don't care about the type of authenticity that everybody's trying to hold people to. And I'm not even saying either one of those people are industry plants. I don't really care if y'all have watched my channel long enough.  But the point is, if you're an artist and you're spending time in a lot of these places where maybe you think you're working, maybe you think you're researching the market and getting a pulse on things. But you are not working if you're researching the wrong space, right? You're spending a lot of time along with people, fans, but they're not your potential fans. There's a decent portion of music lovers that are a lot better described as critics than fans. And that's cool and all. And when they actually do love you, they ride with you pretty heavy. But the problem with that is, if you're getting consumed into those circles and really taking in all that information, you start to get hindered by a lot of these opinions, end up making decisions on stuff that actually isn't true to what your fan base does. We think about shows like Everyday Struggle. Or just people who follow DJ academics, right?  His fan base is a pretty specific fan base and it's pretty damn big. But believe it or not, there's people who do not know who DJ academics is. My sister has never heard of Everyday Struggle. There's a lot of other demographics out there who are kind of blind to the things that are in your bubble. So not understanding what bubble you're moving in versus the bubble that your music will actually thrive in can be a huge detriment to any of the artists out there. And I'm not saying don't watch those shows. I watched countless hours of Everyday Struggle last year. But I'm saying know the difference of when you're just being a fan at the moment for the first most part versus actually researching and getting an idea of the mentality of the demographic that could be your fan base. I don't want to go too much deeper in this video because I wanted to keep it focused on that one point. I want to know what you guys think and have you ever got caught up paying attention to a demographic that really isn't your demographic? Do you think you are marketing to the right demographic at the time? What's your troubles? What's your process? Put it in the comments below. Other than that, if you liked this video, go ahead and hit that like button. If you like your minds well, you know, share it. And if you're not subscribed, bruh, you know what to do. Hit that subscribe button.


Thank you. Thank you, Kevin. I'm really delighted to be here to kick off this series. I'm honored to be the first one in the schedule. So Kevin's gonna keep me on track as far as the time goes because as I'm sure you can imagine, Citrus could expand to fill the time allotted to it. So I'll try to really keep it to the 10 minutes. I'm Camille Curtin and I'm deputy director of Citrus. I send apologies on behalf of our director, Costa Spanos, who had another engagement that we had to be called away to. But just before I start, I wonder how many of you know about Citrus already? Have you heard of Citrus, attended something? Oh, great, okay. So you all know at least some, you're somewhat familiar with Citrus and what we do. Well, I'm really happy to give you a brief overview and then as Kevin said, I'm happy to stick around and answer any questions. I'll give you the short overview and then try to highlight maybe just a couple of cases where we do some data intensive work that might be more relevant to some of the projects that you all are working on. So you probably know Citrus stands for the Center for IT Research in the Interest of Society. We were founded about 15 years ago, we're one of four such UC-wide institutes for science and innovation. So we're a multi-campus research unit. We're based here at UC Berkeley and to Tarja Dye Hall. But we also have strong affiliations with programs at Merced, at Santa Cruz and at UC Davis including the UC Davis Medical Center, which is also important for some of the data intensive work that we're doing. The mandate for our institute is to use information technology to address society-wide challenges. Some of the other institutes for science and innovation that you might know over be relevant to your work actually is a QB3 in quantitative biosciences. They have a presence here on the Berkeley campus. They're based at UCSF, affiliations here in the UC Santa Cruz. And then there are two other institutes for science and innovation in Southern California, CalIT2 at UC San Diego and Irvine. And CNSI, which is the Nanosciences Institute is based at Santa Barbara and UCLA. So you might come across those as a set of four institutes for science and innovation. So as I mentioned, we have affiliations at these four campuses. We have strong research programs that I'll talk about in just a minute, but we also try to have a positive impact on the California economy. And one of the ways that we do that is through sparking innovation and commercialization of ideas through our startups. And more than 50 startups have come out of our programs either through the Marvell Nano Lab, which is also part of Citrus and part of the Soutarja Dye Hall building, if you're ever in that building, as well as in our incubator program that called the Foundry, the Citrus Foundry, which I'll also talk more about. We get about $4 million in core funding from the office of the president. And from that, we try to help the faculty researchers and investigators raise outside funding. As I'm sure you're aware of this process, I'm going to NSF or NIH or other outside funders, whether those are federal agencies or corporations or foundations to raise funds to support their particular research programs. We have about 80 core faculty members here, both here on the Berkeley campus, as well as a handful on each of the other campuses. But if you look more broadly at the Citrus affiliated faculty members, the number reaches closer to 300 or so. So our current director, Costa Spanos, started about a year and a half ago. And so that gave us an opportunity as a almost 15 year organization to kind of reset, to look at what are some of the challenges that are facing us today and how might Citrus be able to offer some solutions or pursue a research program that would contribute in a positive way. So these are some of the things that we were considering. What kind of technology expertise do we have? Look at the inventory of research activities on the four campuses. What could we bring to bear to some of these challenges? Here are just a few of the challenges that we're facing that you all I'm sure are familiar with, these issues of urbanization. So more people moving into cities, globalization, climate change of course is a big one. These are some of the areas that we thought we might be able to have something, some positive impact on. And then looking at the solutions, what could we offer given the resources that we have? So we're looking at new platform technologies both in hardware, because we have the facilities to do that and the expertise to pursue those kind of research programs as well as the software and the applications that you all are also quite familiar with. Always thinking about this issue of privacy and security. And I know on the UC Berkeley campus also with the recent grant for the long-term cybersecurity, these issues always kind of rise to the top and we have a long history of trying to contribute to that research as well. So looking at these challenges considering what the possible solutions might be, we arrived at four new initiatives. And these are the ones that we will be pursuing in the next three to five years. Some of them are combinations or restructuring of previous initiatives and others are brand new. So the first in sustainable infrastructures brings together research in energy, water, transportation and the environment. We had had a couple of related research initiatives in the past on energy and water. We're bringing those together to think more about resilience and more about sustainability and the interconnection of those systems along with the cyber infrastructure that's necessary and so integral to a lot of the work that's happening in those fields. Connected communities is one that grows out of the initiative that I originally came to Citrus to join three years ago and that was in data and democracy. So the idea there is that we are building new apps and new technologies that are going to help communities come together and identify priorities and common experiences and to be able to convey those to policymakers and elected officials who are making decisions on their behalf. So with the new leadership of this initiative and Bjorn Hartman, we're also introducing a new element of device and that sort of hardware interaction because of his work in the invention lab and in the new Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation. We'll be bringing more of a design sensibility to that and include some of the hardware aspects of it as well. People and Robots is a new initiative led by faculty member Ken Goldberg. This is an area that we recognized where we had a lot of expertise but we didn't have it coalesced around a particular initiative. So we have people who are working not only in the industrial application of robots and the sort of mechanized entities that we think of typically as robotics but all other kinds of human machine interaction including artificial intelligence and machine learning type applications. So we're really excited to recognize the range of talent and interest and expertise in this area and to be able to support it through this people and robots initiative. And then finally in health we've always had a strong presence in health and health care through the affiliation with the UC Davis Medical Center and health this is another area that would be of common interest I think with perhaps some folks working at BIDS. We also wanna bring the aspect of data analytics to health care. So thinking about health not only for things like genomic analysis and precision medicine but also the consumer facing devices now for health and fitness and personalized medicine and the quantified self type movements those kinds of things that might integrate data with health and wellness. So that's just a quick overview. I have slides on each of these with a little bit more detail but I'm gonna skim a little bit just for the sake of time but again I would be happy to go back and talk with anyone about it. So here in the sustainable infrastructures initiative here are some of the projects that we'll be working on combining some of the building efficiency technology the water and sensor networks that are coming out of the work in the Sierra Nevada area transportation we work quite a bit with the Institute for Transportation Studies and trying to have good collaborations with them about the transportation network and how those also interact with energy and other systems. David Culler is the faculty director of that one so another person of common interest with both of our groups. Connected communities as I mentioned Bjorn Hartman is the faculty director so these are some of the areas that we'll be working on and I know that BIDS is also hosted people who have worked in open data, open platforms for government agencies and we at Citrus too have hosted a number of conferences on those topics as well so we'll continue with those interests as well as some of the other kind of participatory platforms and citizen science type applications in this initiative. So people and robots here's another sort of list of some of the topics in greater detail of the areas that we'll be working on. This is a really good example actually of our interaction with the other campuses as well because there's likewise strong representation at Davis Merced and Santa Cruz in the robotics fields. So for instance, at Davis they have a number of researchers working on robots as applied to agriculture both at Davis and Merced actually. Precision, this idea of precision agriculture how are we using sensor technology and those data streams in order to use water more wisely and just to be more efficient about agriculture and I think UC Santa Cruz is one of the only UC campuses that actually has a major in robotics so through their College of Engineering we're working with them on their robotics program. So here are a few of the areas that we're working on through this program. I should give a little bit of a commercial plug for Citrus Day that's coming up on October 13th. Mark your calendars if you haven't seen the notice already where we'll be featuring a few of the Citrus projects including one on deep learning and robotics. So I mentioned the health initiative and we've done quite a bit in telehealth so using telecommunications technology for providing healthcare in remote areas that might not have access to the quality of healthcare that's available in the more urban areas so using video conferencing and translation services between the Medical Center at UC Davis and elsewhere and more remote parts of California especially will be continuing that work as well. Thank you. So I'll move on from the research just to say a couple of words about our invention ecosystem because I want you all to be aware of this as well. We really welcome applications to the Foundry which is our incubator program. I think the deadline is coming up at the end of September. So we've had a number of teams go through the Foundry program now I think 16 altogether since it was launched about two and a half years ago. The Foundry program is a up to 12 month program where you get really hands-on mentoring for tech related companies. About 40% of them have been in the healthcare field and then the others have been in different fields but I'd be happy to tell you more about that as well. And then the invention lab is also a facility that we have as I mentioned for the device design and interactive design at Sioux Charter Die Hall. So I'll just flip through a couple of these other slides. Feel free to ask me about them later but you know about some of the energy efficiency work that we're doing in building automation. Some of the water monitoring that I mentioned. These are a couple of examples of perhaps data intensive pieces that would be of interest to your group. Thinking about water, all the things that are necessary and trying to collect and then visualize and make effective use of the data that's collected. And I talked about the Foundry. The 16 teams have been quite successful in raising outside funding based on the small amount of funding that Citrus invested in them to begin with and we're looking to try to scale out the Foundry model to the other Citrus campuses in the next year or so. So please come visit us in the invention lab. Here's our test list of test beds, et cetera. And I'll wrap it up there. Please come visit us at Sioux Charter Die Hall.