This strain is a keystone strain involved in that gut health, and if we could bring this to the world, people could benefit in ways that they haven't from anything else that's out there. And in fact, that is what we started to see. Can you briefly explain what's so great about Acrimancia? Sure.  Acrimancia is a new emerging strain that, even though you've kind of been on the forefront of knowing about it for most of the rest of the world just starting to hear about this strain. And it is really, really unique because its job is to make sure that the gut lining is being regulated. It's the only strain that we know of whose primary function is making sure that that gut lining is being regulated. And the reason that's so important is because we know that if your gut lining is off, the lining is too thin or too thick, that that's related to a whole bunch of other health conditions that go beyond just GI issues. So it's not just about constipation and diarrhea and gas and bloating, it's also about how your immune response functions, how your inflammatory response functions, how your body metabolizes foods. And so the gut lining is such an important part and a crucial part of our health, and Acrimancia is the guy doing that job in your body. Yeah, it's amazing. I've been writing about it for years, and people have known about it for quite a long time, but the problem was you can't grow the dumb stuff. And that was, as I've said before, the holy grail of Acrimancia. Everybody knew how important it was. It's a keystone species that literally is the first line of fortification of your gut wall. And as I've written about in Hippocrates' new, you know, 2,500 years ago, all disease begins in the gut. It's been paraphrased, and I think it's actually a good paraphrase, death begins in the gut. And it's the breakdown of the gut wall that actually precipitates inflammation, neuro inflammation. You name it. It's the breakdown of the gut wall that starts this process. And that's why, you know, Acrimancia is so important. So how come nobody made this stuff? You are so smart. Well, I think maybe we have a lot of perseverance more than necessarily just the smart. So the tricky part about Acrimancia is that it is in the gut lining, and it is functioning right there at that mucin layer in order to make sure that your gut lining is strong, which means that it's kind of residing in a weird part of the gut that's different from the probiotics that are on the shelves today. There's two big things about that environment that are really different. One is, as I said, it's right there at the gut lining. And so it's not kind of, it's lodged there. It's not kind of free floating. And the second thing is there's no oxygen where Acrimancia is. And so, as you know, we have lots of oxygen in the year around us. And so if you want to grow it, you have to keep all the oxygen out of your manufacturing. And so what you have to do in order to be able to grow this strain is to try to mimic what it looks like in the gut where this strain is growing. And so it requires you to figure out how do I grow it in an environment that feels like where it's used to living, and how do I create an end-to-end manufacturing system that enables it to grow without any oxygen. And so we really spent almost a decade trying to figure this out. It was not an overnight success by any means. I think, though, at the end of the day, what we are always driven by is the core belief that the gut is the source of all of your health and that this strain is a keystone strain involved in that gut health. And if we could bring this to the world, people could benefit in ways that they haven't from anything else that's out there. And in fact, that is what we started to see. People have better GI, better metabolism, better blood sugar spikes, less food cravings. So all of these benefits are coming from being able to take acromance and now directly. That was obviously your first product. And you had another product that we'll talk about in a minute because I want to compare it. But you have a brand new product, which is pretty exciting because, as you know, it's not just acromance. And I want to talk about your new product Metabolic Daily. It's not to be confused with Gundry MD Metabolic Advanced. But for those of you who may be wondering, they are two different products that work in totally different ways. And I actually take them both. So I want to support my Metabolic Health in multiple ways. So what is Metabolic Daily all about? So Metabolic Daily really stems from, you had a product before acromancia, which is called Pendulum Glucose Control, which has acromancia in it. But Pendulum Glucose Control is a formulation of five different strains and the prebiotic that feeds those strains. And it was designed for people with type 2 diabetes and has been clinically shown to lower both blood glucose spikes and A1C in people with type 2 diabetes in a placebo-controlled double-blinded randomized trial. Now, that product has to remain cold. It is clinically proven for people with type 2 diabetes who are all the way at one end of metabolic syndrome. And it is expensive because it's a very high dose of each of these strains. We got a lot of feedback about glucose control in terms of its efficacy, but then also in terms of, gee, do I really need such a high dose? And does it have to be refrigerated? And, well, what if I don't have type 2 diabetes? What if I'm just newly diagnosed or pre-diabetes? Is this product really for me? And so we answered that question with Metabolic Daily. And so Metabolic Daily is simply all of that goodness that's in glucose control, but at a lower dose. So it's not a clinical dose and it's intended for anybody who wants to improve the way that your body metabolizes sugars and carbs. And so it's at a much lower price point. Glucose control is at $165 a month. Metabolic Daily is at $49 a month. And so, and it really is intended to, our mission in the company is that we want to be able to help as many people improve their health as possible. And what we learned from that first product is that there is a price point at which you actually aren't helping as many people as possible. And so creating something that people could really use and that they could afford became the inspiration for Metabolic Daily. And it has acromance in it, as well as other strains that are designed to help people metabolize sugars and carbs more efficiently. You know, I have a number of diabetics who I've recommended glucose control to. And we've seen, like we've talked before, very good results with it. But you're right. One of their big complaints was that you have to refrigerate it. And as anyone knows, when they put something in the refrigerator, particularly a supplement, for probably very good reasons, it's something that often sits there. And you go, oops, I forgot to take that because it's not with all my other supplements. And people travel now that COVID is on the wane. And what do I do with my glucose control? Do I have to pack it in a styrofoam container? And will it make through the airport? Blah, blah, blah. You're right. It's kind of a pain in the neck. And the price was pricey. But we definitely saw really good results. And we've talked about that before. And that's why I keep having you on the program because the num stuff works. This is a milder version and certainly more affordable. And you don't have to put it in the refrigerator. So, all right. So, Ackermann C is great. Why do we need all these interesting other bugs, the butyrate producing bugs? Let's go down that step by step and tell people, okay, why do we need these guys? What are they doing? Absolutely. So, when you consume fibers and sugars and carbs and all of these things, they are metabolized in your gut microbiome, which is not just one strain, but actually a bunch of different strains. It's a huge ecosystem. It's like a garden where there are lots of different plants and flora and fauna that all kind of work together and live together and they function together. And we've co-evolved with these strains over time to help us metabolize the foods that we eat. And one of the things that we've noticed is that as we age, we start to become depleted in some of these strains. And as we go through periods of stress, we start to become depleted in some of these strains. As we get diseases like type 2 diabetes, we start to become depleted in these strains. And for women, when we go through menopause, we start to become depleted in some of these strains. So, what does it mean when you get depleted in these strains? Well, it means that you're losing the function of those strains. And one of the big functions of those strains is to help you manage how your body metabolizes sugars and carbs. And so all we've done is to try to understand what are the strains that you start to lose over time that are super important for this metabolism? And as you might imagine, it's not simple. It's not just sugars go in, there's a one step reaction, and then you're off to the races. There's a lot of steps that have to happen in between the consumption of your food and then all the benefits that your body produces, such as GLP one, insulin, and all of these things that are important for how your body regulates sugars. And so all these strains that are in here function together synergistically as the one step, two step, three step in helping you metabolize these foods. And we actually know that if you take one of these out, that you actually don't get that full metabolism. And so you really need all of them together in order to get all of the benefits of metabolism needed. Now, for some people, you really are only missing maybe one step or two steps. And that's why we offer just the single strains. So you're welcome to experiment yourself on, do I really just need acromancia? Or does this whole formulation really need to be administered in order to get benefit? But that's why there's all these other strains in there. In my new book that I'm finishing up right now, I think it's really important, what you just said, that most of us were unaware that there are 100 trillion different organisms in our gut. These guys actually not only talk to each other, but there one guy is producing a postbiotic that the next guy on the assembly line actually needs to accomplish their part of the work. And there are actually four or five different bacteria that are dependent on the product of another bacteria or even the presence of another bacteria to do their job.   And you're right, some people may only need a keystone species like acromancia. But I think the more we're beginning to understand how complex this ecosystem is, then that most of us, because of the overuse of antibiotics that we take that are fed to our animals, the glyphosate, which is an antibiotic, unfortunately, round up folks, all of this is just piled on and decimating our tropical rainforest. And good for you for understanding that it may take a lot more than just one guy to write the ship. Absolutely. And I think it is, you know, much like your rainforest analogy, when you when you start to become depleted in one thing, oftentimes there's sort of a cascading effect. And so you learn about this, of course, in our environmental studies where, and even with, you know, animals and species where losing one species has this whole, you know, downstream effect of the other ones getting affected. And then conversely, you have an overabundance of a certain type of animal and that causes all kinds of problems. So we're constantly trying to balance this. And our body is constantly balancing this too. And so you're right that it's often ends up being multiple things that kind of gone awry. Now, you mentioned almost in passing GLP-1 and that has gotten in the news recently because there are a class of drugs, most of which are injectable. There's a couple of oral agents that work on GLP-1. And miracle weight loss occurs. And we won't name those drugs, but anyone with a quick search will identify those. And it's now the drug of Hollywood for weight loss. Now, one strain in metabolic daily, Bifobacterium Infantus, does not directly produce butyrate or GLP-1. So what's that doing in there? Well, GLP-1 is a drug that's been used for people with diabetes for decades. And as you said, the initial GLP-1s were all injectables. You literally had to inject in your stomach multiple times a day. So naturally, Hollywooders were not really going to be excited about that particular method. But more recently, there's the oral doses. And the reason GLP-1 is really important is because it is a molecule that is kind of upstream of insulin and glucose.  Moreover, it appears to have a relationship with neuronal signaling. It's been shown that GLP-1 administration can reduce food cravings and, in particular, sugar cravings. And so for somebody who is trying to manage how your body metabolizes sugar to then have that added benefit of reduced sugar cravings is a real one-two punch on the system in a good way. And the result of that, of course, is weight loss, which many of us are always looking for the holy grail on. And so I think that GLP-1 is a very interesting molecule because of its ability to stimulate insulin and glucose response and its ability to give a sense of satiety to the body. And our formulation, we initially believed that it was an upstream target of GLP-1. So we know that when your body metabolizes fiber into butyrate, that butyrate stimulates GLP-1 secretion. And so that was always the mechanism of action that we believed to be true. And in fact, our chief medical officer was the chief medical officer of a company that put out the first GLP-1s. And we now have evidence showing that our formulation can increase GLP-1. And then in particular, your favorite strain, acromancia, is able to stimulate GLP-1. And sure enough, you know, this is the reports we get from customers. It's not just that they're having improved GI, but half of our customers on acromancia report that within 90 days, they have lowered sugar cravings. And so this is really a boost. And it's the same thing with metabolic daily.  Having those reduced sugar cravings is a big plus. But that's why GLP-1 is so exciting. It's a really interesting molecule. I think the important thing to remember is that when we are talking about metabolism of our food, this really is a team sport. And so it's easy to always know who's the guy who's shooting the goal. But the guy who does the assist is just as important. And without the assist, you don't get the goals. And so these strains, like the phytobacterium and phantase are really upstream. They're the ones that are passing the ball down the field in order to get the goal of GLP-1 and butyrate production. And so those are all of the strains that are in here in this formulation are designed to get you from one end to the other end, without needing anything else in there. And so that's why you have strains in there that don't do the last step, but they do the earlier first and secondary steps. Okay, let's switch gears for a second. And you've mentioned this. I think, hopefully, a lot of people know that there are bacteria that do just fine in oxygen, their aerobic bacteria, and there are bacteria like acrimoncia that absolutely hates oxygen, literally dies in oxygen. And they're actually really, really important. And many people like myself believe that our colon was invented as a safe home for these bacteria to be protected from oxygen, and that they invented our colon not the other way around. But that's another story. So when we think about, let's say yogurt, that's primarily aerobic bacteria. And yet you, you think, and I certainly agree with you that these anaerobic bacteria may be really the key in the future of probiotics. Can you elaborate on that a bit? Sure, I think it really stems from thinking about the digestive tract. So when we eat food, it goes into our stomach. And then it goes into our intestines, which is sort of this, we all have this image of the intestines is sort of long tubular thing. And right on the other side of the stomach, that part of the intestine has oxygen is still present there. And so a lot of these strains that are in yogurts, like lactobacillus and bifidobacterium strains, they are, that's kind of where they live. And they play their role right there. As you get deeper and deeper down this track and into the distal colon, you now start to enter what we refer to as the gut microbiome. And so when you read about the microbiome and gut microbiome and studies that are being done, that's the area of the body that's being studied. And that area to your point is very different. There is no oxygen there. And that area is where there are trillions of bacteria that are performing key functions for our body, not only in metabolism, but also in our immune response, our inflammatory response, that cannot have a single molecule of oxygen there. And that is the treasure trove that we've never explored before in science and medicine. And that is where the next step is. It's really understanding what's residing there. How do they work together? How are they helping us with our body? Because we've really tapped out on lactobacillus and bifidobacterium strains. There are a lot of them out there, even kind of new strains that pop up are really performing the same functions. If you really want to tap into the gut microbiome, you got to go to the distal colon and you got to start looking at these strict anaerobes. And that's what all next generation probiotics are really going to be derived from is microbiome science. So these guys hate oxygen. So how in the world do you make a preparation of oxygen-hating bacteria and then get them into a capsule and swallow them and get them past this gauntlet, if you will, without them dying, I guess is the best way to put it. It's a great point. And maybe you might start with the question of how did they get there in the first place if you're kind of born without them and at some point you get them and they can't survive in oxygen. And the answer to that is that these bacteria are very clever and have figured out different ways in which they can live and survive and then revive. And so we're really taking advantage of kind of some of the things that are naturally happening. So these strains, we isolate them and we grow them in an environment that keeps all the oxygen out. And one of the key ways you can keep a molecule like oxygen out is to replace it with another molecule like nitrogen. And so literally we have tanks and tanks of nitrogen in our manufacturing plant. Maybe at some point you'll get to come visit and see this. It's just tanks and tanks of nitrogen tanks that are pumping nitrogen into the system in order to keep all the oxygen out. Now, after we grow these cells, it's almost like a brewery where if you've ever been to a brewery or winery, you'll know there are these big metal vats and we're growing our bacteria and those and again keeping the oxygen out. After we grow them, we harvest them, which means we separate the cells from all of that media and we take those cells and that's where all the action is and we want to keep them alive and we actually freeze dry them. So we get them into a powdered state and when they're in that powdered state, this is the kinds of things that you might find on foods or in dirt and things like that. They're actually a lot more stable. So once they're in a powder format, they can survive being exposed to oxygen. You can actually just put the powder out on your coffee table and they would survive just fine. And so that's the state that we get them in to get them into the capsule so that we can actually deliver them to people. And then once you ingest that capsule and it makes it through, we actually have special capsules that are lined in order to get through your stomach acid and into the distal colon. And then once that capsule starts to dissolve and these freeze dried strains are now exposed to water that is there. They revive. They come alive again and now they're back in an oxygen free environment and they can start to do their jobs. So that's that's it. We're basically just trying to mimic what's happening in nature. You're cryopreserving these guys, huh? It's the cryopreservation. The rest of us are all trying to get to ultimately. I spent some of my childhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and we did believe in a lot of ice fishing where we would drill holes in the lake ice and pull up fish and the fish we would throw on the ice and they would freeze. And then we would bring them home and as they thought out, they literally were frozen. They started flopping around. You're just recreating my childhood. So yeah, you can take these bacteria and freeze them and you're right. They will wake up and function. Who knew? Who knew? It really is. Nature's figured it out. We're just trying to catch up and follow along here. Have you done any human studies of your new product yet? And if so, what'd you find? Yeah. So again, it's simply a lower dose of the strains that we've done a lot of clinical studies and people with type two diabetes. And one of the interesting things that we observed, and actually I think you've shared this with me as well, is that people that don't necessarily have type two diabetes, but maybe have pre-diabetes or their blood sugars are spiking out of control on certain foods, which they can see on a continuous glucose monitor, we're reaping benefit. And so what we found is with people who are taking metabolic daily, they are also seeing on their continuous glucose monitors, these blood glucose spikes go down. And they are also showing that they have lowering of A1C and blood glucose spikes. But again, this is not at the full dose for type two diabetes, but really for people who are still maybe measuring those things, but not to the same degree. But I think more importantly, this product is not just intended for people who are facing pre-diabetes and type two diabetes, but really anyone who's trying to metabolize their sugars better. And so one of the most important things that we hear from people is an improved ability to digest foods. And the second most important thing is these reduced sugar cravings. And so I think when you pair those two things together, you're able to eat. Sometimes when people move to a high fiber diet, it causes actually a lot of GI distress, even though that's actually a healthier diet for you. And so this can help you metabolize those fibers better and have kind of an overall better GI experience, while also reducing sugar cravings. We just had somebody tell us that he was able to resist all the cookies at the Christmas party in December, which was something he had never experienced before. Well yeah, you know, one of I guess side effects of these GLP-1 drugs is a lot of people often report that they they feel nauseated even at the sight of food. And to me that's not a great, that's a side effect that I don't really want to be nauseated at the sight of food.   In fact, I just put a reference in the chapter I'm writing right now that unfortunately for a great number of us eating a western diet, we now know that most of the bugs in our colon are actually incapable of making butyrate or incapable of using fiber. And they are sugar-dependent, just like we are.  I can't wait to read this chapter that you're talking about here. But I think that this relationship between the gut and the brain is a very interesting one that, you know, we're just on the forefront of starting to understand now. And you can imagine kind of this concept that if your gut bugs are helping you metabolize sugars better, that they can send signals to your brain saying, hey, we don't need any more sugars. And that's different from feeling nauseated, but it's more just that feedback loop is actually, you know, you're giving it back. And another place that's super interesting for us is thinking about the fact that your gut microbiome and acromance in particular can produce GABA. GABA has been around for a long time and used for reducing stress and anxiety and is a neurotransmitter. But it turns out that your gut is capable of producing GABA too. And we were very interested in this component, especially with acromance. So acromance actually has the genes to suggest that it can produce GABA. We recently just did this experiment where remember I told you we grow the strains, we take the cells, and then we throw the media away. We just, that just gets tossed out because we don't need that part. What we did was we went and we said, let's take a look at that media. And we found, Dr. Gundry, there are massive amounts of GABA sitting in that media. So as we're growing acromance, it's producing GABA even just in the media alone and is able to do that also in your gut microbiome. And so that's one of the other outcomes of really having the right gut bugs is it can really help with stress and anxiety. And so I think the gut brain connection is a really interesting new frontier. Yeah, you're absolutely right. For years we didn't even know that there were neurons down in the gut that were sending messages to the brain. We thought the brain was telling those neurons what to do. And we were wrong about that and then everybody was excited that, well, it's the neurons down there that are producing serotonin or producing GABA. And then we come to find out that, oops, we are wrong. It's actually the microbes that are making this. This whole microbiome gut neuron brain connection gets more and more intricate and intriguing. The guys who are really doing the hard work, we just didn't know that they were actually doing all this work. And your point is well taken. The postbiotics, and so GABA is a postbiotic of acrimoncia and other bugs, these postbiotics that are in these media are probably at least as important and may be more important than what we think these bugs are doing. And that's actually part of the new book. So anyhow. So this is exciting. So we need acrimoncia to make us feel good and I agree with that. We know that the gut microbiome is in control of much of our hunger. In fact, I ascribe to the gut-centric theory of hunger that hunger comes from our bacteria telling us they're hungry, not because your stomach is growling. What's pendulum up to next? Every time I talk to you, there's something new. So then again, that's why I keep having you on. Well, I think we want to really delve more into trying to understand for different people what part of the ecosystem is missing and how can we give people kind of the minimum viable product because none of us wants to be taking extra things that we don't need. And that's another reason why Metabolic Daily came to the forefront for us because maybe you don't need so much of these strains and you're going to be able to benefit from even just a regular dose as opposed to a clinical dose. And that's also why we've started to release just acrimansia and just butyricum as these single strains so that you don't have to take more than you need. And I think really where we'd like to see the whole probiotics industry head and you and I've talked about this too is to get a lot more ingredients centric. So my hope is that as we move down this path together that people don't talk about probiotics as this kind of big all-encompassing family of things but really start to understand acrimansia, clostridium butyricum, bifidobacterium infantis, anaerobutyricum heli, like so people will start to know what are these strains and what are they doing for me. And we can start to be much more sophisticated like we are with vitamins. We know vitamin C is something you take when you're not feeling well and you don't go take you know some other vitamin when when you feel like you're coming down with a cold. And so with probiotics I think we're going to start to get to that that realm as well. And so for us we're really interested in understanding for different people what are the bugs that you need, what are the outcomes that you're experiencing and you know what are the formulations that are that are perfect for different people. And then of course as you know R&D is sort of our bread and butter and so we do have a pipeline of new strains that we're continuing to work on and I will just give you a little teaser here so that you yes at some point down the line we'll come back to you when we're ready to to share this with the world but fecal bacterium pretz nutzi is a very important key stone strain that nobody has been able to manufacture and we are diligently working on this one to try to figure out if we can also bring this one to the world. Oh great yeah another important bug you're right nobody's been able to harness it and if anybody can I suspect you guys are doing it. This next one is sure to surprise you. Sadly almost all granola sold in this country even several of the organic varieties are laced with Roundup.


My 13-year-old son used to admire you, used to, who else never followed Trump on Twitter for the first time and won't follow him now? Show those hands, memo to Elon, freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom to incite an insurrection. Trump doesn't belong on Twitter, he belongs in prison.  Welcome back, today we're going to play a game of replace that word, and we'll be playing it with MSNBC who have some fear to monger about a certain greedy power and control hungry in human group of people known as heterosexual white men. Your thoughts on the Trump reinstated back to Twitter with Elon Musk, joking aside, how do you see this? And I will give it back straight, which is that I'm absolutely disgusted. But what else do we expect from very white, privileged, cis, hetero men protecting each other because we always mistake wealth and inheritance for genius. So yay, Elon Musk gets what he wants, his buddy back on the air, in order to finish burning down democracy while he finishes burning down the town square. That was racist. Look, just because I reflect the sun's rays back out in the space when I take my shirt off, doesn't make me very white.  You're not going to hurt my feelings, but it seems like very white simply means that these people that she's talking about are displaying characteristics which she hates and sees as stereotypical of white people. Usually we call this racism.  Right after I take 30 seconds to tell you about this free coin offer from Noble Gold. Did you know Noble Gold's team of precious metals experts have helped thousands of worried investors like you to build and preserve wealth through times like these? Find out why gold, silver, and IRAs are the answer to inflation and financial contagion. Talk to a personal precious metals expert today. 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What she said is plainly racist and by their own standards, fomenting violence against a targeted group. But as usual, all these media class folks seem to have a major mental block when it comes to seeing themselves. So let's just get this straight. First, what does being very white mean and what exactly is wrong with being very white? It really just sounds like you're broadly judging an entire group based on their skin color. Second, notice how she lists off all these qualities as if there's something wrong with being white, male, and straight. It's funny because going back to the late 90s and maybe even earlier, it was always a joke that the only group left that it was socially acceptable to hate was straight white men. But as you can see here, it's not a joke. Third, she boils Elon Musk down to nothing but his wealth and inheritance, as if there's something wrong with either of those things. And then suggests that he's not a genius because he unbanned Trump from Twitter. Right, right, because a B team regressive, anti-white, race-success, far-left activist pundit definitely has the standing to talk down to a guy who invented Starlink and rockets that fire into space and then land vertically to be reused. Very white privileged sys, hetero men protecting each other because we always mistake wealth and inheritance for genius. So yay Elon Musk.   Lastly, she insanely states that this straight white male scourge is in the process of burning down democracy and the town square. Isn't it interesting that they're suddenly now calling it the town square? When before they insisted it was a private company that could ban anyone they wanted and suppress whatever information they chose. The First Amendment is a check on the power of the state. It doesn't apply to private companies like Facebook or Twitter. Which is exactly why the government is using big tech to do their suppression and censorship for them. FBI obtaining anonymous social media data and then using technical methods to pierce the anonymous nature of the data. Anonymous social media data? So you purchase data. People purchase data all the time and we sort of tolerated for advertisements and things because it's anonymous data. Are you purchasing what is said to be anonymous data through the marketplace and then piercing the anonymous nature to attach individual names to that data? Right. But when you asked about anonymous data, I was thinking more in terms of- No, I'm talking about data that is out there. And are you purchasing data and then piercing the anonymous nature of that data? So the manner in which we use, we usually use the term commercial data. The Almighty says, don't change the subject.  It's probably longer than I could explain here, but again, let me have a have a- So you have to- You are probably- You will not answer the question of whether or not you're attaching names to anonymous data. I think it's a more complicated answer than I can give here.  As far as burning down democracy, it once again suggests that these people have no idea what democracy even is. Or literally just think that it means Democrats in control. As evidenced by the fact that anytime they don't get what they want, lose an election or lose control, democracy is over. All right, folks, I think we've all been sufficiently punished by these people. I really appreciate you all watching. If you enjoyed it, please hit that like button, share and subscribe. Then leave a comment to vent some frustrations. Thanks a lot.


Hello friends, welcome to today's episode on the channel. My name is Lee also known as Osiris and in today's episode We are gonna be recapping everything we know so far about the crown tundra now before we get into it Like I mentioned in the last video I do just need to say if there are any of you out there that don't want any spoilers any leaked information getting into your little brains Before the crown tundra drops tomorrow click away now. You've not got long to wait And but literally wanted to put this video up today just because the crown tundra is out In a little under a few hours for most people. I've still got a little bit of a wait here in the uk I believe the time for when it will drop in the uk Going off information from when the maintenance stops on pokemon home, which you would assume is the correct time Will be about 5 a.m Friday morning tomorrow morning of recording right now. So 5 a.m I will be up. I will be playing. I will be getting content ready for you guys And enjoying the game. I can't wait to play but Getting into today's video as I say we want to just recap a few things So first thing we want to look at is if we go over to vg24 They dropped an article yesterday in regards to the dynamax adventures. We've got a bunch of Additional information now. This isn't a leak. So speak. This is officially confirmed This is an official article Then so we can call it the link will be down in the description if you guys want to take a bit more time Because we're just going to go through the main bulk of the details here So if you want to catch those legendary pokemon obviously That aren't going to be in the main storyline Then you will have to go through dynamax adventures where the majority of the pokemon are going to be available The legendaries now we know this information already We do get some additional game footage here as well Dynamax adventures explain clearing the pokemon dens to catch legendary creatures So while you can catch some new and returning Legendary pokemon in the core story segment to the current under it to get access to a range of Classics you'll need to take the dynamax adventures now We know this pokemon fans might understand this feature if a I simply say it as many ways as acting and there's a replacement for the wormholes at ultrason and ultra moon So yeah, we all know about the ultra wormholes from ultrason and ultra moon very fun Works along the same kind of premise as these although you're going to be battling pokemon along the way rather than dodging Other wormholes to get to that wormhole that you want And and it works on the same basis that you are only going to be able to catch one legendary per game So once you call that legendary in the dynamax adventures, that's it You're not going to be able to catch it again in that copy of the game if you've got two copies of the game It's fine. And I'm sure there will be ways to maybe manipulate this I already have some ideas in my mind and I will try this out And if it is possible to do with one copy of the game Be sure Do hit that subscribe button because I will make sure to create a video on it and Do all the steps to guide you guys through it as quick as you can and I'm pretty I would say right now I'm sitting on the fence of 95 percent certain that we'll be able to Do this uh and get more legendaries with one copy of the game But we'll wait and see anyway getting back into this here Dynamax adventures are four player co-op Co-op mini dungeons where a team of players tackles a series of pokemon battles of increasing difficulty All battles are dynamax battles. So if you've been tackling raids out in the wild area out of armor Crown tundra, you'll be familiar with how these four on one giant battles work Just like rage you can tackle these battles with AI partners But you'll be better off with real people which is which makes more sense I mean any you guys out there that have played with other people You know how much easier the raid becomes if you're with actual people rather than the what buffet AI That does literally nothing the entire battle. So kind of handicaps you a little bit I don't imagine this is how it's going to work here. Uh, this sounds pretty simple But within the framework dynamax adventures apply a number of rules and effects that mean there are no normal pokemon battles These twists are best summarized in a list below so we can see every player is limited to only one pokemon You don't have a party So you are going to be using rental pokemon that are available to you To take into the dynamax adventure. You don't use one of your own pokemon. Well, we've just explained that Your hp move pp and status effects carry over from one battle to the next now That is very important. That means if a pokemon gets Bad at in a fight, then you'll go into the next Significantly disadvantaged because of the dynamax battles the damage output can be very high, which we already know. So it's This gets very risky Once you defeat a dynamax pokemon and one of the raids in the den You can choose to swap your pokemon out for one you've just defeated now. That's quite nice. So This exists as a counterbalance to carrying over status between battles Swapping is a play get to your to get your strength back up However, only one member of your team can take a defeated pokemon So you'll need to work out with your teammates to decide who gets it And so that's quite nice So not everyone gets the option if you beat a pokemon It is kind of just that one pokemon that you're going to be able to to bring into your party and then Move on to the next stage. So I guess if you're playing with three other players It's kind of discussing it. There must be a way to discuss it between yourselves Through the dynamax adventures, that'd be really nice If there was like a way you could link up your mobile phone and then maybe use the Nintendo facility online there to hook up with mics and speak to your your dynamax adventurers And then decide together. So that's quite cool. Um It does become quite difficult, I guess the goal is to work your way through the lair And I'm guessing there is four stages probably four stages. So each one of the party members probably gets the opportunity to Get a new pokemon before you take on the final the final boss The final raid legendary and the goal is to work your way through the lair There are branching choices along the way, which will direction you will go We'll decide by players vote. So you all vote again. I can be walking around the dungeon It's simple board game style map where you choose which path to take and turn Determines what your next pokemon encounter is. That's pretty cool. Okay If you're lucky you might encounter a small random event along the way that might provide healing Or that assistance, but other than that you're on your own. Okay, so you might get some sort of help along the way Which is good. Um, and for the tougher ones I'm guessing it's going to be difficult Uh, the db. Google the rare the pokemon you battle in catch and there should be a super rare or legendary pokemon at the end Should be should be am I reading into that too much should be so there might not be According to this but the most likely will be at the end of the dynamax adventure demo We saw generation four psychic type legendary uxy Was waiting to take players in a final dynamax battle at the end. So that's cool A road is simple at the end of the adventure. You can take home your current pokemon Okay, so the pokemon that you're renting you're able to take home. That's interesting Uh, that can be one of the ones you picked up along the way Or it could be that you swapped for the legendary at the end and take that reward home Okay, so you're going to get the choices So whatever happens if you complete the raid you're going to be able to get one of those pokemon either the rental one Might be quite good. We don't know what the the rental pokemon are going to be like yet. Um Or the legendary now that if you can only get one legendary it makes sense If you can only catch that once you can probably do the the raid then again But then you're not going to have the opportunity to catch it You're just going to be able to take the rental as a reward So I mean it doesn't defeat the purpose of doing it if they are quite fun Crucially each player will only get uh each legendary once which we've already mentioned. We knew that already That's similar to the wormholes and salamune. Yep already done that ahead of you You'll also get rare item rewards like the new ability patch item Which lets you swap pokemon's regular ability for rarer ability Okay Now we did theorize this that this might be an item that you get access to through these dynamics adventures Now this is really cool. So uh, you're going to be able to utilize this facility to basically form these ability patches Um, which is these ability patches obviously change a normal ability into a hidden ability Very useful, uh, brand new item that we've wanted. We needed for such a long time So that's a really good way to do it and quite fun as well as for available legendary pokemon Represents of the pokemon company tell us that more or less every past legendary is available through dynamics adventures But as with rids there will be version exclusives to sword and shield Depending on which game you have you need to partner up with the host of players of the opposite game in order to catch them Okay, so that's interesting We're gonna get uh version exclusives per version now that makes sense because obviously that's how it always has worked Uh, each version does have a different uh available pokemon Um, so we're gonna have to team up with other variants and other games and things like that Which makes it a lot more fun and it brings the whole premise of the pokemon and kind of interacting trading training With other trainers into effect. So that's interesting four lists of what is available in each game We don't know yet. I'm guessing I'm gonna have to wait a few hours till the crown turner drops And we'll have that information. Um, so that wraps up dynamics adventures pretty much all the information We've gotten on those so far. They look a lot of fun and I'm really looking forward to playing them I'll be streaming lots of these things and with having been lucky enough to have both sword and shield cards It means I can go through and do multiple legendary pokemon So getting on to other news in our last video We did an update from our good old friends It's central pokemon leaks who dropped a bunch of information about the new legendary pokemon Calyrex forms and the two New horses now. This is leak territory here. Nothing's been officially confirmed But you can pretty much bet that this is going to be what the games are going to give us so Yes, they released the official names of the new horses. So we've got the Obviously the ice type the white horse, which is the the wild horse pokemon is its type Is called glass Glastria glastria I don't know. That's how we're pronouncing it, but that's how we're doing it now Um, and glastria admits intense cold from its hooves. It also Uh, it's also a belligerent pokemon anything it wants it takes by force glastria has tremendous physical strength And the mask of ice covering its face is a hundred times harder than diamond Okay, so there's some interesting information there They much be the the pokedex entries. I'm guessing its ability is chilling near Um, when the pokemon knocks out a target it does a chilling near which boosts its attack stats So pretty much a bit like moxie Um, which is which is a strong ability really strong ability So that's the white horse then you move on to the the the dark the black horse, uh, which is called spect tear It's a cool name. Obviously it's a ghost type And another wild horse pokemon it probes its surrounding with its sense save one It doesn't use its sense of sight specters kicks are said to separate Soul from body. This is very strong As it dashes through the night specter absorbs the life force of sleeping creatures It craves silence and solitude and ability is grim near Uh, when this pokemon knocks out a target it does a terrifying near which boosts its special attack So obviously the ice type Glastria is going to be physical you would assume and then specter Is going to be a special type. So it's a special type moxie as its ability now Things get even more juicy as we go on we get a bit more about calorex, which is a king pokemon I get the poker dex descriptions there and then move on to its ability on nerve Plus chilling near which is a for the first time ever with these fusion pokemon when calorex fuses with glastria It creates calorex ice rider, which is the high king pokemon And according to law, this is a pokedex entry according to law This pokemon showed no mercy to those who got in its way yet It would heal its opponents wounds after battle now it does get a combined ability Which is the first time we've ever seen this. This is a fusion pokemon with two abilities It gets unnerve plus chilling near so that that is a combination So it gets all the effects of chilling near which is the attack boost If it knocks out on a pokemon like moxie and then it also gets unnerve as well Which makes its opponents unable to uh consume berries It's crazy first time they're doing this. It's a huge huge news and the same goes for the calorex Obviously the shadow rider when it merges with the spectria It becomes obviously The shadow rider calorex form another high king pokemon And then its ability is obviously unnerve plus the the Spectia's grim combined to boost the special attack when it gets a knockout, which is pretty nuts And then they confirm that we obviously get the the regi alecki the the pokedex numbers there Regi drago Glastria spectia calorex calorex ice rider and calorex Shadow rider and that's all the new pokemon for 2020. So that's that what they say There's a new pokemon. Let me get a bit of information about regi alecki, which is your ability transistor Powers up electric type moves. So that's really really strong Especially if you can combine that with something like electric terrain Um And regi drago gets the same dragons more to its ability powers up dragon type moves So work in the same so very very strong abilities for these two new pokemon coming in um And that wraps up about all the information that they were releasing for Obviously we get the the pictures the high res pictures of all the the new pokemon Um, and i wonder if we've got any there we go So there is the the shadow rider and there is the ice rider renders. So Um, yeah, we do that's all the information that they give us for the crown tundra There was a bunch of information about other things that have come out obviously the um sword and shield beta Um data mine has been leaked. So there's all that information about the the the beta copy there Before sword and shield was finished lots of interesting stuff in there I'm not going to cover in this video. Um and some other stuff about let's go pikachu. Let's go Evie. So I mean a bunch of stuff and all like super interesting Um, but that wraps up about everything we need to know for going into crown tundra I'm very excited about it. As I say, there's not long now before the game's actually dropped and um It's been a good day, and I'm looking forward to it. Hope you all have had a great day as well Hope you found this video useful and some of the information useful Um, of course, this is just a little recap of what we've got over the last few days As well as to say that I will be covering a bunch of stuff in the crown tundra I'm ready to go with it all So we'll have a busy busy time over the next few weeks on the channel. Maybe a bit longer Um playing these games getting to know everything trying to work the easiest ways out for everything and how to get them and all that So have a great rest of your day. I hope the wait Isn't too hard. There's not long to go friends Let me know what you're doing to fill your time while you're waiting on the crown tundra I'll obviously be sleeping setting my alarm very early to get up around 4 30 to just to get ready to play the games And um, I look forward to catching up with you all very soon with lots more content in the crown tundra So um, thanks for tuning in take care of yourselves. Have a great rest of your day And I'll catch you all very soon. So until then take care. Bye. Bye


Felly rwy'n gwelch i ddim yn ymwneud yn cyfrifiadau. Rwy'n gweithio, Lisa Gray yw'r cyfarhwyr gyda Gysg. Rwy'n gweithio ar gyflawni'r gyflawni Gysg. Rwy'n gweithio eich bod wedi cyflogu fy moddol, yma ychydig yma, ar gyfer ymgylcheddol yn ymgylcheddol o gyfarhwyr cyflawni. Rwy'n gweithio bod yma yma yn gweithio rwy'n gweithio ar gyfer y pwyllgor. Rwy'n gweithio ar gyfer y pwyllgor, If you do want to go and grab one, you'd be very welcome to do so afterwards as well. So before I get onto talking about the model in a bit more detail I just wanted to maybe just start with introducing our starting points for this work and where we've come from so far. So I'll tell you a little bit about the building digital capability service that we're working with ond y bydd o gondol i'r cyfnodol digital ac yw'r ddweud ac yn ymddylch gyd. Mae'n ddweud bod nhw wedi'i ddweud holl o'r cyfnodol yn yr ysgol. Ond rwy'n rhoi ddim yn ei wneud o'r byd yn ysgrifwydd o'r cyfnodol digital. Rwy'n rwy'n meddwl sy'n gweithio'r cyfnodol o'r cyfnodol. Mae'n rhaid i chi'n bwysig o'r ysgrifennu ar y dyfleddau gweld. yn unionfad sydd wedi bod treflu i gwaith yn hynny'n llwyfti. Rydyn ni'n olygu yn cael gap ar yr unig, ac mae'n ei wneud rhywbeth o'r treflus. I wnaeth ymddindodd yr unigau, yr unigau i'r gaelol yn ei wneud yng Nghymru? Felly yn ystyried rydyn ni'n gallu ei fod i fynd i gaelol i'r gwiel i'r twfyn ac ymddindodd yn y ffordd yn ein cyfŵr. Rydym ni'n ganddig-diwg ar y ffordd, fydd yn ei gweld i'r ysgrifen cael ei wneud y discussions ac yn dechrau'r sgwrs o'r bwn, o'i wneud y methodwyr cyfleis gyda'i midwyr digon, a y ffawr yn gweithio am Ymlaen Rhaid-Octoberol, rwy'n buddordeb o ychydig o'i gwaith eich sefydlu o unig i weithgareddau ogymwyno'r unig o'i wneud i'ch meddithu, trwy dyfynidol o'r hyn o'r dweud o bottlen o'r sgwrs o'r ddweud o'ch gwneud o'r ddyrych. Rwy'n meddwl i'r ffamiliaid yw'r six elements of digital capability framework I've heard it referenced throughout the conference. That was really a starting point for getting a shared understanding for what digital capabilities were from an individual perspective. It broke them down into six broad areas and I think has been influential across the sector in informing some starting conversations within organisations around thinking about what do we mean by digital skills, how can we get that shared understanding of what digital capability is across our organisation. But no one sets out to become digitally capable on its own so we've also done a lot of work to think about contextualising that framework for different purposes. One of the ways in which the framework has been contextualised is around the development of role profiles which unpick digital practices that might be relevant to particular roles. We've got nine in total now and they've been developed in line with the relevant professional standards to ensure that digital skills aren't seen as something separate but it's just part of that ongoing professional development conversation. So we got the understanding of maybe what digital practices are critical to different roles and then realised that we needed a starting point to enable staff and students to reflect on where they were with those digital capabilities. Once we understand what's needed you know how do we know where people's starting points are and that was where the discovery tools started from and it's been developed as a self administrative set of reflective questions that staff and students can run through and they get a little tailored report at the end of that which gives some tailored next steps and links to some resources that might help them develop further. But at the heart of it was that it was developed as a reflective developmental tool not as an objective test in any way because we recognise that it's absolutely critical to ensure that staff don't feel threatened in any way. This is about providing them with that space and time to really think about their skills. That's just a little snapshot of the reports that they receive and the important conversations around how the action planning happens as a result of running through that process. From an organisational perspective, although the tool has been designed as a developmental tool it also provides anonymised data as to where staff and students are in terms of their digital capability and you can see from the dashboards here that it gives an indication, some indicative data around where staff and students are so that that can hopefully help to inform conversations around where training needs might be best applied. So that was really just a bit of a run through of where we've got to around supporting the development of individual student staff digital skills. But we also recognise that if we're truly to develop digitally capable organisations and enable our students to thrive not to survive we need to be building organisations that enable and support digital practices. So the organisational framework was an organisational lens on digital capability and developed back in 2017 in collaboration with Helen Beatham, our colleague, and really started to unpick the different areas within an organisation where digital capabilities would have an influence. So in the centre there's four core practices identified, core activities within an organisation such as learning and teaching practice, research and innovation, communication, and we have used that to start to think about how we can identify some indicators of good practice in relation to those different elements of the organisation. And we've also been working with around 40 organisations and since the launch of the service back in October and started to unpick some of the critical success factors that needed to be in place to ensure successful roll out and implementation of the discovery tool. And we've been capturing all of that through a number of case studies and wanted to just stop and think about what those common messages were. And they tied into some of these factors identified here. So, you know, is there a common vocabulary being used across the organisation about what maybe threshold digital capabilities were and what we meant and understood by them? Was it being led by a strategic lead? And was there a cross institutional stakeholder group that were responsible for driving forwards change with digital skills because it does impact on and affect all areas across the organisation? Is there a strategy that is articulating the vision around digital capability? Has HR been engaged? You know, have conversations happened with HR around the various functions that they're responsible for about embedding digital capability discussions within those processes? Are the benefits clear to staff and students? Do they understand why this is important, what it means for them and why they need to engage with the agenda? Is there a culture of encouraging, recognising and rewarding innovation? Because innovation with digital is just part of that wider agenda. And how are you building digital capability into the curriculum? Is that part of the curriculum, design processes that are happening across the institution? And also harnessing the power of working in partnership to make the most of the strengths that the students and staff bring together when they work in partnerships to improve and enhance and move forward with digital skills. So, they were just some of the strands that were coming through some of the work that we've been doing with organisations and we're starting to see some movement across the board in some of those areas. But we wanted to formalise that further and develop something that would enable us to look across the organisation, identify some indicators of good practice. So, we took the original model that we had and with my colleague Dr Jill Ferrell, we wanted to move towards the development of a more action-oriented tool that institutions could pick up and use to self-assess across their organisations where they were. And we really value the power of a principle-led approach to change. We've done a lot of work in the past which has started from good practice principles before we start thinking about how the technology can enhance or lead towards the development of those good practices. And we've also used a benchmarking tool structure in the past. Some of you might be familiar with the NUS GISC Digital Student Experience benchmarking tool, which has proved quite useful. And if you haven't, do come and see us on the stand. We've got some copies there too. So, we took that approach. And our first starting point was to identify a set of good practice principles for each of the six areas of activity across the organisation as a way of hanging off some of the evidence and indicators of good practice. And you can see some of the indicators, some of the principles up here. And it was really meant to be a complementary approach to the individual framework that we have that started to look beyond individual capabilities to think more about how that was affected across an organisation. So, once we'd identified the good practice principles, we identified three levels in terms of maturity, emerging, established and enhanced. And then sought to identify a whole series of examples or indicators of what good practice looked like at each of those different levels. And they were drawn from many different sources, but included in the USISA Digital Capability Surveys and also all of the case studies that we've been capturing around the organisations we've been working with. And it's important to note that we're not suggesting that everybody needs to be aiming at enhanced, it's really contextual. So it may not be that your organisation is seeking to achieve that end goal. It's really meant to be there as a way of suggesting some indicators that might be relevant to your context. There might be other indicators that you can identify and add to the model. So it's not set in stone in terms of its suggestions that it's offering. And they're certainly not exclusive. One way of a couple of examples, I know you won't be able to read the detail, but hopefully you can pick up a model. One of the principles around organisational culture is that the organisation embraces digital technologies as a key tenet of business success. And so there are some indicators in the model around the development of a digital strategy, around the importance of that cross-institutional stakeholder group who drives the agenda because we know that it impacts on all areas across an organisation. We need to have people from estates, from HR, from careers, academic research, all in the conversation thinking through how this is going to be driven forward. And the importance of partnerships. And we have some wonderful examples. This is one of our case studies from the University of Leicester. They started with a articulated the role of digital in achieving their wider strategic goals through their digital strategy. And their approach is one that puts digital really at the heart of what they do, recognising the importance of people and the culture, not just the technology. So they're really looking at taking a whole organisation view. And they have a multi-stranded approach to delivering that strategy, which includes the development of a framework. They took the framework as a starting point and then adapted that to fit their context. They have a number of digital innovation partnerships running across the institution. There's a digital skills strand running through, as well as a strand around digital infrastructure, establishing governance structures, enhancing digital leadership, and importantly about communicating the vision. And a whole strand of work focusing how they can communicate the benefits of the approach to staff and students. Just to pick another example around the learning and teaching area. One of the good practice principles is around using technology to demonstrate achievement and prepare learners for a future workplace. And there are indicators in there around identifying learner outcomes around digital, inclusion of digital practices within the curriculum, and using subject relevant digital tools as part of that curriculum experience. And that touches on a whole number of indicators spread through the model as a whole around the importance of developing some threshold standards for digital skills. What are your minimum expectations of your staff and your students? How can we articulate that? And how then can we start to assess the starting points in terms of where they are with their strengths and their weaknesses? And the University of Derby has made some really important strides in that direction. So their TEL strategy has a development of digital capabilities as one of the core five goals. And to achieve the goal, one of their initiatives has been to work with subject teams to identify those digital capability profiles and standards. They've established a digital practice baseline, working with over 160 programmes around benchmarking and action planning, which is leading to developing a set of effective practice in course design and programme design. So really taking forward that whole process from understanding what the expectations are all the way through to understanding what that means in terms of changes to curriculum practice and how that can be embedded within the curriculum. They've also implemented some digital capability courses as part of induction. And I just wanted to touch on that critical importance of HR and having conversations around how these digital capabilities are embedded through retention and through recruitment, through selection, through induction processes, professional appraisal processes. And we did a little study which just explored some of the core HR functions and how that might relate. So where are you on your journey? We have some templates at the end of the model which just provides some ways of you being able to look through the indicators, see where you, across the organisation might be. And it's there to be used in cross team conversations. We have a little radial diagram at the end where you can plot where you might be in terms of the different areas across the organisation. So there are really tools there to support your conversations in terms of where you are and where you might hope to get to with some prompts. Next steps and what we really want to do is try and link through more clearly through the indicators to effective examples of practice. So we've developed an interactive presentation tool where we're just sort of exploring how to make those connections and best easily communicate how that works. And at the moment we're aiming that the tool will be available to the service subscribers, but we've got it here today also that you can see the draft with very much welcome your comments and feedback on that and any conversations around it. So as a final plea, if you haven't already, please do come and join our community of practice. We have our next event on the 27th of November in Edinburgh. We'd very much like you to come and join the conversations. They're not just about the gyswork. This is about sharing practice sector-wide and taking forward those conversations around how we can continue to build digital capability across our organisations. So thank you. Thank you very much Lisa. So I think we've got time for a couple of questions if anybody's got any questions from the audience. And I will be on the stand in the next break if anyone wants to come and have a chat about it or pick up some copies. And I just want to say thank you for name-checking the University of Melbourne. It was almost planned. Okay, thank you very much Lisa. Future developments include a text and data mining service, working with satellite data and machine learning and smart campus technology.


every year at the Sustainable Development Conference, they come up with the same assessment. Not enough is happening. Numbers are going backward. More funding is necessary. This is a definition of madness. Development is not working through the SDG paradigm. Why do we keep trying to build upon that? At the end of the SDG conference, why didn't they say, when we meet next year, let's commit to have a global campaign, hunger zero, zero hunger towns, zero hunger countries? Why not? They don't even do that. All they do is, can we please raise the quantum of our fund from so many hundred billion to so many hundred billion? For God's sake, guys, firstly, you're never able to meet your fundraising targets because nobody takes it seriously. Secondly, you don't seem to take yourself seriously. And that, in my opinion, is the lack of commitment to finally eradicating these issues. They know that this pathway doesn't eradicate things. It's the band-aid. And so, therefore, they don't make the ultimate commitment. Not goals should be met by 2030 and then you have the goal and so on. But we're going to try immediately, proximately, to end hunger. What about that? In 2015, the UN General Assembly, that's the countries of the world, adopted what has come to be called the Sustainable Development Goals. Now, there are 17 of these goals and they're actually quite non-controversial with aims such as ending poverty, ending hunger, ensuring education, etc., etc. And these goals have actually become a benchmark for how progress in the world is measured today. So, whether it be UN conferences, whether it be bilateral meetings, you will see a lot of references to achieving these SDGs, what are the steps you need to take. Recently, there was a summit which evaluated the progress on achieving these SDGs and apparently, the news is pretty bad. We are not on target at all to meet most of them. In fact, in some of them, we're even regressed. And SDG calculation has become a very elaborate exercise. There are 169 subgoals within these 17 SDGs itself and of course, a lot of discussion around that. But what really is the framework in which these SDGs are assessed, analyzed, talked about? What does it really say about the world we live in today? How we understand development? How we understand basic human rights? To talk about all this, we have with us Vijay Prashad of Tri-Continental Institute for Social Research. Vijay, thank you so much for joining us. Yes, of course. Thanks a lot. We wanted to do this conversation also because I think sometimes we all get caught a bit in the framework of SDGs itself. And obviously, the very important points, nobody's doubting the importance of eradicating hunger or poverty or the need to address climate change itself. But since a lot of your work in recent times has also been about how development is thought about, how development has been conceptualized, how now it's different from what it was many years ago. When you hear SDGs, what occurs to you? Well, first we have to understand that in the 1990s, when this conversation starts, there was a attrition of discussion about broad development agendas. Questions of, for instance, a reform of the financial system, industrialization for countries, agricultural reform, these big questions of structural change in societies in the world economy began to be set aside. And in their place, two different kinds of conversations began to dominate. One was a conversation around corruption. There was a lot of talk about corruption as the impediment to development. That means in a third world country or a developing country, if they just stopping corrupt, they could develop. Now, interestingly, even corruption was narrowly seen, not as corporate corruption, transfer mispricing, stealing of assets from a country, asset stripping. In fact, in a very broad way, none of that, it became bribery. Petty bribery was seen as the impediment to development. That was one discussion. And that advantaged certain political forces because then they could say, the state is corrupt. Let's privatize state functions. There's less corruption in the private sector. In fact, having basically left out private sector corruption in the concept, it led to privatization of the state. It allowed more privatization. That was one way in which the development discussion went. The second way, building on the UN development programs, human development index, was an idea of, let's quantify different areas of development. So in 1999, 2000, the UN released the Millennium Development Goals. There were eight of them. 2015, they expanded it to 17 and called it the Sustainable Development Goals. Now, there's two problems with this. One problem is that it effectively NGOizes development, the non-governmental organization form. That means it's suggested you can take, say, hunger in isolation from broader issues of agrarian reform, industrialization and so on. If you could only get food to people or if you could only get water delivered to their houses, it would solve things. The broader impediments were left out. So the SDGs and before them, the Millennium Development Goals really followed a kind of NGO perspective on development, leaving out the big structural features. At the time, one was very critical of the Millennium Development Goals, Sustainable Development Goals. Over the years, the discussion of development has become around these things. So everybody has to pay attention. It is also true that over the years, every year at the Sustainable Development Conference, they come up with the same assessment. Not enough is happening. Numbers are going backward. More funding is necessary. This is a definition of madness. Development is not working through the SDG paradigm. Why do we keep trying to build upon that? Right, of course. Like you said, Vijay, I guess development gets defined as an accumulation of projects, so to speak. You have one project after the other. If they all work together, then all these issues will be solved. But there's a very interesting point that you said that what is happening is that it's kind of repeating the same pattern again and again. And that brings us to the fundamental questions, like you said, the structural questions. So what are the structural questions really that are being really cut off at this point? When we're talking about, say, ending poverty or ending hunger, when you're talking about bringing education, when we're talking about, say, gender equality, for instance, what are the structural questions that I think these discussions serve to sort of allow you to relate that, so to speak? Let's take one of them. Let's actually follow the logic of the Sustainable Development Goals. You see, initially the Millennium Development Goals and the discussion around them was, let's abolish hunger. Then it became, well, let's halve hunger and so on. They began in a way to negotiate down from the ultimate principle, abolishment of hunger. Okay, let's take hunger. It's very clear.  That's established fact. In fact, twice the number of people can be fed by the quantum of food available. And yet we have 1.2 billion, that's the UN number, hungry. 680 million people at the edge of starvation, but 1.2 billion people hungry. That's one in seven. It's a lot of hungry people. Why hasn't that been eradicated? There's a couple of reasons. There's enough food, but people can't eat. Why? They don't have money. Why don't they have money? Well, they don't have decent jobs. Take the International Labor Organization concept. They don't have decent work. Doesn't pay them enough. Doesn't sustain them regularly. Their work is precarious. They are part of the precarious. There is no agrarian reform. Landless workers don't have access to land. They don't have the right to be on land. In other words, their tenancy is not registered. They are thrown off the land whenever and so on. So these broad questions of having trade union rights or the right to work for people, where a government makes a commitment to find employment or to generate employment, or indeed agrarian reform, these big questions are the only solution to the hunger crisis. Otherwise, all you're doing is increasing the charity economy, whether it's income transfers from the state that allows people to buy food or you give people boxes of food. So you can't have the SDGs, which end up being part of the charity industry, be a development agenda. I have no problem with charity in the moment we are in now. People need to eat now. If the only way they're going to eat is if a box of food is provided by a charitable organization or by the state, that's fine. That's going to help people not starve to death. I don't have a problem with charity. Shouldn't be misunderstood on this. But charity cannot be the end of the road. There has to be a road beyond that. And the SDGs, the way they are constructed right now, don't address the structural problem of hunger. They don't address the structural problem. People can't eat because they don't have money. They don't have money because they don't have adequate employment. They don't have adequate employment because on the one hand, government is not doing enough to generate employment in other sectors and because there's no aggregate reform, these issues are not debated in the SDG conference. It remains down to the problem of the data is bad. Let's fund the goals more. That's the basis of the debate. I watched some of the SDG conference. That's what they talk about. The data is bad. Let's get some more funding for the goals. That's not going to solve the problem. That might be the best bandaid you can find right now, but you're still going to bleed. Right. Not a matter of fact that funding these goals seems kind of, you know, you're talking about funding these goals on the one hand, but you're also talking about what is definitely a global debt crisis caused by the very nature of multilateral institutions itself. We've been talking a lot about that in recent times, but whatever minimal amounts you pour in for some of these goals, they just completely eclipse by the fact that country after country is sinking under massive amounts of debt and nothing is being done about that. Well, that's it, right? I mean, that's why the SDGs have become part of the charity industry because countries are not able themselves to take care of some of these basic social welfare issues. And this is also a question in some respects of perspective and commitment. You know, the way the debate has gone on, for instance, carbon zero, okay? It is now completely acceptable for a government to say we want to create net zero municipalities, you know, net carbon zero municipalities. But what you don't see is a municipality saying we want to be zero hunger municipality. We want to be zero homelessness municipality. We want to be zero illiteracy municipality. The commitment even to these goals is not very high. And I find that frustrating. So yes, of course, you're drowning in debt, and then you have to see if effectively aid and charity to fund your SDGs, which you should be able to fund with your own resources, you know, because there are resources in these countries. It's just that the resources are going to pay off yesterday's debt. That's one.  Why not? They don't even do that. All they do is can we please raise the quantum of our fund from so many hundred billion to so many hundred billion. For God's sake, guys, firstly, you're never able to meet your fundraising targets, because nobody takes it seriously. Secondly, you don't seem to take yourself seriously. And that in my opinion, is the lack of commitment to finally eradicating these issues. They know that this pathway doesn't eradicate things. It's the bandaid. And so therefore, they don't make the ultimate commitment, not goals should be met by 2030, and then you have the goal and so on. But we're going to try immediately, to end hunger. What about that? Absolutely. I think everything you said boils down to one point, which is that, you know, you pull at the logic of this, and you realize you're hitting the wall, that is, neoliberalism or capitalism itself, because any grad, some of the aspects you talk about the immediacy of your ambition, what constraints it is, the lack of that kind of project. But then going back in history a bit, did such projects exist at some point of time, especially at a global level, we've talked in the past about the new international economic order, for instance, or say a kind of vision which actually puts some of these goals front and center and talked about envisioning it. So how do you see that as well? Well, 100 years ago, the question of land reform was really at the center of all anti-colonial movements. You know, I mean, when movements came to power, they were under pressure to reform the land question. Land hunger is one issue. The other is, if you don't give people land, they won't have a way to get income and food. That's very clear. It was interesting, some countries conducted land reform, whether it's from the right, that is to say, Japan, South Korea, it was done under American occupation, they did land reform, or in China, whether revolution of 1949 conducted land reform, it had an impact on the ability of the Chinese economy to grow. And it's the basis by which China was able to eradicate absolute poverty because they've already destroyed, as it were, hierarchical social relations in the countryside. India was an interesting place because in India, the leadership kept articulating a commitment to improving the conditions for people's lives, to strengthen local development and so on, but they never conducted land reform, effective real land reform, never strengthened the power of trade unions, always tried to negate that. So you can't have a powerless population that doesn't have access to land, that doesn't, is not in unionized, you know, they're not building mass organizations of strength. If you have a demobilized population of poor people, you're not going to be able to transcend these granite block issues of hunger and so on. And that is why when you look at the examples in the world, you know, you look at a tiny country like Cuba, 11 million people, they were able to smash landlordism in the countryside. You see, smashing landlordism isn't just an economic issue, it's social, it's cultural, it's about human dignity. It gives people a sense that they can contribute to their country, they are not diminished in the eyes of the Lord of the soil and so on. And SDGs doesn't get to the heart of that. By, you know, in a sense quantifying these problems, it doesn't understand, part of the problem is cultural. Land reform is not only economic, it's also cultural. Trade unions are not only economic, they're cultural, they give working class communities the confidence to make demands upon the work. SDGs is reform from above. Land reform and trade unions, this is reform from below. If not revolution from below, they're very different perspectives. And finally also, since we are at the midpoint, because that is why this recent meeting was held as well, we have say about seven more years technically for the goals to be achieved. But like we said, the data is really bad, and this seems to be a trend that continues. So for movements in the global south for, or for that matter, progressive governments in the global south, how do they sort of, it's of course a very existential question almost, but in the sense that what is the broad framework within existing realities that actually permits some of these, not the goals to be met per se, but the issues behind this to be addressed. Well, look, firstly, the very fact that they keep these issues on the table means that there's a possibility to have a debate about the limitations of this strategy. We're not at a stage in human history where the people in charge have said, we don't care about hunger. We don't care about homelessness. We don't care about ill health and the lack of medical care. It's a free for all. Every dog will have its day. We're not there. Liberalism of a certain kind still exists. People still say, powers that be still say, all the countries in the world are committed to ending hunger. Well, popular movements have to utilize that. We have to be able to come into this debate and discussion, not ignore it, not say it's garbage. Enter this debate and say, well, we are also seized on the necessity of zero hunger, but we don't think this strategy is going to do it. We have to go in a different direction. The SDGs provide a place to accelerate the debate about the limitations in the world today, but at the same time, the SDGs shouldn't provide us with illusions that they are going to be transcendence. I mean, the speech by Antonio Guterres at the SDG conference, the UN Secretary General, was very revealing. Basically, he said, we are midway through this process and my God, I don't think we're going to get there. I mean, his was almost a surrender and this, I should say, in this era post Soviet Union 1990, this is the second attempt again to repeat of this goal oriented development. The millennium development goals died in 15 years. They went from 2000 to 2015. This is the second iteration, 2015 to 2030. It's likely it's going to die. Get ready for the third articulation of the DGs, for millennium development goal to sustainable development goal. And perhaps the next one is going to be the market development goals. Who knows what they're going to come up with? Thank you so much, Vijay, for that analysis also because I think useful to sort of step back once in a while and take a look at terms which are become so centered in our discussions, in our understanding that you sometimes miss out some of these aspects as well. Thanks so much for talking to us. And that's all we have time for today for more videos and more articles that challenge the common sense around some of these terms. 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