Today, I was grilled with hard questions by one of you during my own office hour, number two. Questions like, do we pay terminated channel earnings? Why or why not? The Zed Rhino is a big one, and then some other partners talked about how when their channels were terminated, for reasons that YouTube would still pay you, that you wouldn't pay their partners. Hear my reply later in this video. Then... Okay, that's actually a very good answer. I had no idea that companies were actually messaging you and being like, you know, we want the money that you received that. I didn't know that, so then there we go. Why does freedom partner with everyone was another hard question? I guess the perception from me was the fact that you were just trying to make every penny that could possibly come in. Do we value our business or our reputation more was another one? Would you say that you were more worried about the business side and the fact that using it as leverage and a negotiating tool than you were about the reputation of freedom? Do you also want to talk with me privately or publicly like this? Then fill out the Google form behind me. The link is down there in the description below. I use this to contact people for George office hours. We can talk about anything you like, but to give you some ideas, I wrote a letter from the CEO of freedom and right now is being viewed by an anonymous bat. This gives you all the things freedom does that you may not be aware of with links to each product. And I encourage you to read it. The link is down there in the description below. Now let's talk to Absterbone where he grills me with his questions. Roll it! Let's try calling Absterbone. Hello, George! Oh, wow, this is, um, this is surreal. I'm speaking to George Venous. You two can play at the Green Screen game here.  When I saw the video, I was like, there's no way. Like, I totally ended up 132 views and I filled up the form as fast as I could. The first question for me is, is it okay to publish this video on The George Show? Or do you want to keep this a private conversation? You may publish it. That would be, that would be awesome. I actually have some questions.  They're not like easy ball questions. I went and did a little bit of research and I found out that there were other channels that were terminated and, you know, I know you're not allowed to, you know, discuss specific cases, but bring it some up like the Zed Rhino is a big one. And then some other partners talked about how when their channels were terminated for reasons that YouTube would still pay you, that you wouldn't pay their partners. If there was a question of who has the rights, we would withhold the payments so that we could pay their correct rights holder. We even got letters earlier on in Freedom from big companies that were demanding payment basically for content that they felt was theirs, that we were monetizing through channels in our affiliate CMS. Okay, that's actually a very good answer. I had no idea that companies were actually messaging you and being like, you know, we want the money that you received that. I didn't know that, so there we go. I guess the perception from me was the fact that you were just trying to make every penny that could possibly come in. So how come back then when there were no requirements set forth by YouTube, did you decide to basically take anyone who applied and let them into freedom? The spirit of freedom, the culture I wanted to create was a network that doesn't discriminate, that welcomes everybody, and your point of, well, doesn't that mean everybody gets less service? No, because our goal was always to staff up appropriately so that everyone still has a fast response time. And the benefits are we can get better value for licensing. We can also encourage more people to collaborate. You have a larger pool of partners that you could connect with. We wanted people to introduce themselves on the forums, and again, there's a larger number of people, meaning there's more potential matches where you could find new friends, connect with strangers. Because what we found is people in different networks are less likely to work with each other. There seemed to be this barrier like, I'm with machinima, I'm with freedom, I'm with BBTV, and everyone kind of stuck to their own network. So we were hoping that, well, first of all, we didn't like that, and we would have preferred everyone just treated themselves as, well, we're all YouTubers, like, who cares that if I'm in machinima or I'm with freedom? But there seems to, there is a psychology around like, this is my clan, this is my brotherhood, and I support my people. We wanted this to be the largest group of people that hopefully gave you more chances to meet new friends and collaborate. Would you say that you were more worried about the business side and the fact that using it as leverage and a negotiating tool than you were about the reputation of freedom? What was I thinking when I was promoting this fact? Of course, I was thinking more members means more chances for collaboration, more chances for deals with other companies, helps everyone grow faster together. You can't ever please everybody. You have to always think about the net positive, and I thought the net positive was more channels. Okay. That's a great answer. I mean, personally, like my view of you was always is that I always felt in your videos, even back from like 2012, because that's like when I said, I'm 17 now, so to think that like, it's just five years in a week. Yeah, you were 12. Wow. That was, yeah. What time? I shouldn't even have a YouTube channel.  But at the same time, we all felt that you were genuinely enthusiastic about the network like you just tell in the videos.  So I guess like, you know, the whole largest common denominator thing was really the only thing that was kind of skewing it, but obviously given your explanation, the fact that you use it as a negotiating tool obviously makes it sound a lot better. So I appreciate that. My next question is before you get to the next question, one other point on that with the money aspect is for us to do great things, we do need money to invest in people and projects. And a lot of the profits we made are now going into things like a game studio team that can make custom games for creators a music factory, a composing team, a team of composers who can make custom music for creators. None of that would have been possible if we were not a profitable company. The problem now, of course, isn't that we offer more services. The problem is because YouTube had to unlink all of the channels that they did from all MCNs, not just ours, we're actually a lot less profitable than we were before. So we're now back in the stage of cutting back, finding ways to save money as we ramp up new revenue streams. So to that point that you were saying, oh, George is collecting all this money, it actually, none of it came to me.  I haven't for over a year. I did before because I did need money, but I'm at a stage where I'd rather put the money that I could be getting back into the company to help reinvest in services that help people grow. Because I believe in my heart, as you said, very genuinely that it's the people in freedom that will make us successful. I want to make sure everyone has the best chance of success by redirecting as much money into tools and services that can help you grow. And if we ever get to a stage where we're like the biggest MCN, not just by channel account, but by many other things, views, subscribers, revenue, and we have, you know, a huge investment or we do an IPO, then I will take my fair share. But until then, my goal is to take as little as I can and make sure everything gets reinvested into the company. Next question is that so when other channels, I know Machinima, you know, I know their reputation was terrible back then, but one of the things that Machinima did really well in my opinion is they created some really awesome first party content gaming weekly, things like that. And they had these two really great hosts and I would watch just because he was like genuinely entertaining. Now that has now dissolved and it is no longer there.  Then you had the Baldy Brothers. The Baldy Brothers. Yes. And then you had that girl that redhead who would do things. That was impulse impulse impulse impulse and her name was Tiffany. It's like throwback city right now. Yeah. And now you have KYC nullified. So I think so I guess my question is that a lot of these shows, especially KYC is literally verbatim rereading YouTube policies. Now I have to admit I find KYC slightly. It's edited very well. KYC is edited very well, very professional, but to somebody like me, this is information that I already know and I feel like that that's information to a lot of other people. And I feel like that a lot of people aren't super honest when they give feedback because you always ask for like feedback down in the comments below. And I feel like that a lot of people when they write comments, they don't want to be critical because they're hoping that they'll be noticed by you get an extra view and an extra comment stuff like that. So rather than spending money and resources on people who will just reread comments because the hosts are great. I just think that because if you look at your channel like the Freedom MCN Hub as a whole and you look at the view count to sub count and granted I'll give you a pass because a lot of people subscribe just in the network and don't really care for the content. But I mean you could look at Machinima and although they had way more they have way more subscribers than freedom when they did do those shows they were pulling in views just from people just genuinely interested in gaming. So I guess my question is that instead of having it focused so inward on freedom why not branch out into something broader like gaming news or something more interesting as that would not only bring in more eyeballs and more money for freedom but potentially new members. So why did you decide to do that? It's a matter of people. We would love to do shows about gaming news about the latest YouTube tips any kind of subject that as you just said would get new eyeballs new audiences. It's about the people. Impulse ended because the team just didn't want to continue doing it and it became very expensive. You know other shows that we had in the past like Baldi Brothers ended because we felt people were just losing interest like it was getting less and less viewers and less and less comments. We are trying to listen to the feedback of everybody and improve the shows so that they stay fresh and interesting. So that's a great feedback you gave about don't just read the text for KYC put in additional like your own thoughts your own insights that I don't know because right now for you everything on that show you just said you know so there's no point watching it. Yeah I agree the challenge for us is just finding the people who'd be able to do good quality content for the hub. That's fair. I think another thing that I thought was very you know I kind of question was is that so I understand the angle especially going back to the Baldi Brothers and now you have the channel review. What happened is is that the whole point of the show was to review YouTube channels and to promote members within the freedom community. But I think part of the problem with that is that it got to a point where it was so over saturated where it would just be so many different channels and the feedback that was given on the channels in my opinion was very generic. I mean you would it would be a couple of checklist items do they have thumbnails playlist something in their about section and the only reason people watched those videos was not to find new people to subscribe to it was to see if they got featured. Yeah and I remember it wasn't me who ran an experience but there was another YouTuber called Vaf9 he's like 20,000 subscribers and he made a video that basically went ahead and looked at the results of that and it showed that the sub game was little to not it was it was negligible. So and I mean you look at other channels and I mean although I guess you wouldn't say PewDiePie is a channel reviewer he's a meme reviewer but other channels you know who will occasionally shout somebody out yeah it's more scarce and it's rare but at the same time the effect of that shout out it leaps and bounds beyond so why did you decide that over-saturated or I guess in my opinion over-saturation was a better play than to you know call somebody out here and there. And the answer to that is it was just limited options. We actually just don't have a lot of content to put on Freedom Central so whatever we have we just post and your point of over-saturation and quality I guess the question is would you prefer that or no videos like right now even myself I haven't been producing content and I should be making much more than I currently am is it better to have long periods of no content and once in a while have a video that's more relevant or higher quality than if I just have let's say daily videos like I used to. It's a balance because there's pros for both cases but I just prefer more content even if the quality is lower just because it gives you a habit something to engage in comments like meet other people in the YouTube comments and since I've started making less videos there's actually a lot lower viewership a lot lower comment count. So I do think more people prefer regular content even if it's not as high quality just so that they have a place to interact. It's good I mean I think one of the big polls of freedom is the fact that the face of freedom is also the chief executive officer of freedom and the fact that you are there and you're always engaging and you actually do respond to comments you know you said you read all the comments I know as a and you know don't don't tell you to this but I did end up creating a second channel I linked it in the Google for I have I have 4000 subs so I beat the 4k 1k rule but I exclusively with AdSense that's just my preference but I know as a creator myself that definitely being at the forefront of the audience is a very important thing and I do think that one of the polls of freedom especially when I joined us I thought it was very interesting that the person in charge and the one making all the decisions was also the one creating the content and being there and while it be at a grand screen a headset and a Google Doc it's still you know you don't see the CU of Machinima or you know BDTV or anything like that you know you see George and I think that that was also a big pool and I think that that is awesome and thank you I have to be honest when you I think I said this at the start of the couple when you initially put out that Google form to fill out I honestly thought that it was not like not just with me I don't think you're going to actually end up calling anybody but then when I got a message today I was like all right you know so I think the fact that you are willing to hear from you know people and stuff like that and granted I'm not a freedom partner but I was and I do you know I feel like I have some valid points to bring up and things like that so I definitely think that the level of transparency also something that that was great was the earnings reports is that you actually did disclose those I thought that was really awesome too because you don't see any other MCNs doing that and we still have them at freedom dot tm slash earn same link from day one is is there till today exactly so yeah I definitely think that like the fact that you're always you know there in the center is is also very very cool thing and I think you should definitely keep doing that because it you know reminds people that it's not it's not well it is a company it's a person to I mean it validates what I always believed which is we are a public facing YouTube company it's hypocritical for me as the head of that company not to be making videos and I never understood why other CEOs of other MCNs don't feel the same way like it's you don't eat your own steak like how can you be claiming you help YouTubers grow and you don't make videos yourself even the CEO of YouTube actually started her own YouTube channel she didn't upload too many videos but still she put in the effort and that I respect yeah I think I think the biggest major excuses like time and stuff like that but at the same time to your credit it's like you're going to exactly the same amount of meetings as all these other executives and you edit the videos yourself whereas Susan definitely had somebody else because there's no she could have done it so I think the fact that you are able to find you know half an hour or an hour you know to make a video it's kudos it's kudos and I think it's a lot of people that under appreciate it okay so now that was like all of like the like the questions that I had regarding freedom and I want to thank you for being honest and like actually like to be honest you didn't dodge any of the questions you answered them straight on so like a person on a politician you answered my question I got a good politician. So I really do appreciate that and they were great answers to answers that I didn't think you're going to give and it did explain a lot on just something a little bit more fun because I know that it is I checked I was like what time is there right now in the Philip not in the Philippines and in Dubai I was in Haiti and it is crazy you got up this early I usually start my day early because I just need to yeah just need to get up that's nuts all right so it's something a little bit more light so I was so I was told to ask this question first do you know what freedom Island is so I saw that was the comment you made in the Google form and I have no idea okay this is going to be great so freedom I okay so we have to backtrack a little bit so back back in like 2012 I joined freedom I was making videos stuff like that channel got terminated you stole you stole my seven dollars from me which I forgive you for now and what happens is that you know fast forward a couple years the first video on my new channel was a video it was a freedom exposed video your new typical video where you know I call out a whole bunch of things right and what happens is that fast forward a year I meet a fan who is now my most dedicated fan and his name is Quintus Minimus and he found me through a Mario Cartley live stream and he wasn't your average viewer I mean this guy was invested and I ended up talking to him and you know on my channel there are a bunch of you know memes and inside jokes and one of the things that he got so hung up on was the whole freedom thing and he just he just loved it and so he went on basically a full blown investigation of freedom and I'm talking like every knickknack there is like the no taxes in Dubai and what he did is he made a okay are you familiar with the YouTuber Jack and Jellify I don't know that okay half a million subs he makes object shows and basically it's animated series and so Quintus being a fan of his work decided to make a spinoff show called freedom island now it's channel and it gets thousands of views per video and a people at freedom actually watch it frosted fixes a huge fan I don't think he wanted me to tell you but he does watch it actively and basically the whole premise of the show is that you are the leader of this group of this show and what happens is that contestants compete for the grand prize of a million dollars and so the first season is ended we're on the second season now but the basically the premise of the first season is that the contestants were me and then a bunch of people on my channel and you were the host and at the end what happens is that you ended up scamming us all of the million dollar prize because as an homage to the fact the whole that you took the money you know into Dubai it's like George read all the way with all your money so it was it was a joke there well I'd love to see this how could I know I want to I want to show it to you because it's absolutely hilarious and we've actually all been trying to so on frosted fixes review show he's actually reviewed it and he tries not to laugh because he's like because the way quintess and I see this is that you're going to either find this extremely funny or extremely offensive but after talking to you I feel like that you'll get the humor within it so I'm going to show you the latest episode and this is it and it's titled this is Dubai freedom island deluxe seven so it's up to seven thousand views and you can actually see the pinned comment is from frosted Frick's because he used to be the host of the show but then you actually ended up taking over the entire episodes 21 minutes long I was sent some timestamps to skip to parts that you're going to particularly find amusing we if you start at 523 okay so again just so just so you understand a lot of jokes are inside jokes but a lot of this episode revolves around you and memes that you'll understand but the entire premise of the show is that we're all competing for a prize and there's a leader so if you want to screw up to 523 that's when the fun stuff parts and you can just listen and I will so yeah and you could start it you want 523 lots of Dubai's okay that's well edited sequence thank you for sharing I actually captured it as well for the video I'll play that on the George show can you still hear me yeah yeah I thought you were continuing to watch it no no no I oh should I continue watch it oh yeah no no it gets it gets better we get to really good seat where he visits your house so let me do bye let me continue watching bullet over the ground I wrote it myself who animated this title on the back and not the front he did he did he's really good he did this all in PowerPoint it's crazy well you see amazing I know let's keep watching gets it gets so much better he's gonna visit your house I couldn't find it but then I came across the stack of mysterious green paper that someone just left out in the open oh wow that's a lot of green paper I use that green paper to make a bunch of math books so I can sell everyone my math knowledge this part's boring it gets better trust me the city is massive and George could be anywhere where do we look first what was that for he's in the freedom tower you need your freedom tower videos where is the freedom tower it's right there haha that's cool George's crib George apartments well the circle is Japanese before it is I don't know could you just tell us where George's actual apartment is no no get up way longer crazy kids I'm gonna do your life again this is very good all right guys this is definitely the place I want to go in there there's my wife and kids who are you guys I'm show you can use my wife and these are my four daughters of the end up wait so is George in there yeah but I wouldn't go in there for you he's recording a new video and he goes not like we interrupted but we've traveled all the way around the world just to see you George so we're coming in whether you like it or not we paid you four point five million dollars freedom family that I to partner with freedom so that George you are not allowed to let people in while I'm recording my videos for the George show I promise I'll start paying my taxes my daughters they're nice people please don't do anything to me here for your taxes oh okay carry on then you want to know how you bailed yourself out of jail well since I at the CTO and the founder of the free free see that's quintessy comments in your flight there's comment a lot of money in my office but isn't that money for the creators well you see we are the freedom family and families share things so sure the money for them but we all get to share the money you know George that's called communism but I've been summoned so if you took the money what is the freedom partners know that we haven't been paid I'm sure notice that I haven't been paid well of course didn't bring it up all the time some of you had this conspiracy theory hey it's fair see theory yeah same time that they haven't paid us on time maybe he took all the money and left and that's exactly what I did so I use the family income to bail myself out of prison and then I took the remaining money and ran away to Dubai I have been ever since okay that's great but George we need you back on freedom island freedom island I thought that ended well we're on season 2 now who in their right mind ever great life this season 2 that doesn't matter what matters that a lot of dead people we need to revive them with your one-up technology I don't feel like it though why not why would I ever want to go back to that from the island when I have everything here in Dubai was all right you can stop watching but I just wanted to show you a snippet of it yeah because it's just like this huge thing like it's this huge meme right now and I just want to let you know that you have an entire show about you know and like I said Frosted Fix is a huge fan and a bunch of other people are so I have to because I have to ask cuz I got it to relate acquaintance so what did you think of the show so far it's amazing that one person spent all that effort to create those animations all that footage he collected of Dubai of our kids and he had a lot of voices like people trying to sound like us that's all very impressive I guess the parts I felt were a little excessive is all that stuff about scams like the problem is a lot of people still believe that and I guess if we make fun of it it might also tell people look this is not at all what's happening but having a little more of the truth into the episode would be better like kids that get their PayPal wrong and we don't pay them and they think we are keeping the money when in fact they just didn't give us correct payment information or YouTube terminates the channel we try to get it back they think we're not doing enough so they say we terminated their channels because of freedom that they lost all their work those are the kinds of misunderstandings that I thought would also be good to bring out in humor maybe in the show but that was my only negative is I think it may make it a little too serious by commenting on all that scammy conspiracy theory stuff I would have liked to see a little more of that why people think that way and what the misunderstandings are but I think the best thing would be for me to talk to this guy Quintus giving my feedback directly and basically shake his hand and say well done overall that's an amazing production I never even knew about I mean I was honestly shocked I mean I we thought that Frosted may have sent it to you and that you didn't respond to it but now knowing that you never actually knew about it no but yeah I mean personally like I'm amazed like he made that entire thing in PowerPoint 2016 every animation all it's insane it's insane not even Adobe anime or flat everything's in PowerPoint and the fact that he made it and I mean great he's like a branch off of like my channel in the sense that like because it's all like memes and jokes like within like my community so like I mean from my perspective to have a fan like that as dedicated as he is to make an entire show it's it's it's insane I mean I can't think of another it is absolutely insane and I just well he wanted to share that with you I wanted to share that with you because it is you know it's very funny and it's like jokes that like only like you know like people who don't understand freedom like a tax free environment do buy it's like and the fact that it's able to be you know relate to even more people I just thought was really great but I'll certainly let you know he actually did fill out the Google form because as soon as you put the video I just started spamming him on discord I'm like you gotta you gotta get a contact with George quick you gotta call him and so what happened and he actually lives in California so you'll have a better chance of calling him um but he said he only had a discord so I said just put your discord tag it it doesn't matter I he's got he's got to get hopefully um so okay if I if I send you his discord you could probably add him and speak to him directly but I just wanted to share that with you because on top of it being you know a production I also think it's you know a cool thing that you know little does George know that there's an entire spin-off show of his entire YouTube network yeah it's it's impressive I'm surprised though his channel has so few subscribers I see only 608 is that like a backup channel or is that his primary channel no that's the thing so it's it's actually crazy because well so he actually started his channel just making compilations of stuff that I was doing and then he made freedom island as a joke okay I actually started to pick up steam and so he kept doing it and uh what we've actually found because like I went into his like his analytics and I was like we gotta figure out this because he's getting thousands and thousands of views right but only like 12 subs a day which is good but it's like you would think that you would have more subs so what we found is that with a lot of these object shows what happens is that um especially with uh bdfi which is like the main one if this is a spin-off um is that the view is significantly higher than the sub count right and what we found is is that with the videos that he's being recommended against our videos that would appear on the YouTube kids app and despite jokes in the video being inappropriate to an algorithm seeing the twin towers for half a second they can't pick up on that he doesn't curse in any of his videos all of his jokes are subtle so they probably sneak their way in and if you look at the interaction it doesn't reflect the view count of six thousand views he only gets like a hundred if that likes so that's what we think is going on um he's not a youtube partner and if he was he would be making way more money than I am wow um but and he even told me that he doesn't even want to become a youtube partner he just does it for fun and he's only 15 too so he's he's young and um this is something that he just I mean I think it's insane I think he needs to give himself a lot more props than he does but I mean that's Quintus he's he's humble and he just does it for fun that's that's just who he is yeah that's amazing I mean 15 years old at that age I was not animating so he's ahead of the curve in terms of professional skill development yeah so I mean he told me that everything that he learned himself was strictly just off of experience and I had to get Sony Vegas for him to because he's doing all of this in Windows Movie Maker too and I was just like why what yes it's insane so he was doing all of this in Windows Movie Maker to start out with um I just told him I said what is your discord tag George wants to talk to you he says you're lying um so I'll send that well if he filled out the google form I can find him in there yeah yeah no problem that's awesome that he did and just for reference um so yeah I just wanted to uh freedom island you know so just got got out of the way um but coming back to just uh freedom in general um my initial impression of you before this call was is that you were looking for uh the lowest common denominator right uh I mean to just have as much money as possible and that you would start all of these spin-off projects just for attention grabs but after speaking to you I have to say I mean I feel like that the passion is still there the genuineness is still there and it's just the struggle of the youtube ecosystem with the changes going on and I mean personally in my opinion I think all of this advertiser outrageous all manufacturer I don't think that they care I really don't think that they actually are like oh my cocad ran against you know a video that was racist like they don't care because what they do is they just use it as negotiating pounder like if you're going to put our ads against racist videos then we want a better deal with ads and and now google has to be like oh now we got a cave to this and we got to make these systems up and um you know that uh another thing that I think youtube did the creator insider channel I think that that's awesome that's a great step in the right direction for youtube um but one of the things that they said is is that people were bringing up oh was the demonetization all because of the logan paul controversy um and I uh they said no uh they said they were always going to introduce a quality filter but how do you differentiate there's a difference between quality and then stuff that's okay for everyone so I mean if you're just re-uploading content or just doing meme compilations like yeah that shouldn't be monetized but if you have somebody like idob's who's controversial he does things that are out of the ordinary but he makes original content why not import so I mean I think that it's just constant I agree there's lots of issues with youtube's current policies and I think they're still figuring them out I think they will adapt them and find you know exceptions for content that shouldn't be demonetized but it I don't know how long it'll take it's it's ongoing how often do you actually meet with like youtube like you have a call with me sorry every two weeks twice a month yeah okay and I another question I have is that I know for a fact you guys can get in trouble for a monetizing copyrighted content but I know in your review process that you talk about how you can get in trouble as also for monetizing content that gets demonetized is that true yeah the penalties are for channel termination ypp suspension or channel demonetization if a single video gets demonetized no problem if you get a single strike no problem but it's if the channel in its entirety gets terminated suspended or demonetized then we get a hit against our reputation as an mcn with youtube is that something that you can simply fix in one of those two big phone calls and just be like give me a break and take this restriction off or it doesn't you know how strikes work they take a certain length of time for that to expire same thing it's the same length of time that it takes for our reputation hits to expire okay okay because I knew yeah okay I was just curious because I just thought it was like more of like a quality filter I didn't think it was an actual like that youtube was really cracking down on it but I imagine that now especially with the constraints on monetizable channels that the whole mcn because I'm just trying to think of like back then mcn's added like they had a much larger pool to pick from and I'm trying to understand that now when there are so many channels that are not monetized and those who are month because again with the whole minimum payout thing like back then there was no way I was going to hit the $100 minimum threshold to be paid by there's just no way that was going to happen so I'll just like you know freedom take 40% whatever but now you know it's like you know if I'm pulling in I put all on average like $25 a month you know from ads and stuff like that so it's like I hit it in four months you know that's fine um so would you say that as an mcn you have to and not just for freedom but like as a whole that you have to like sell yourself more to convince people to give up that portion of the revenue than you did it back in the day yeah that's why we are focusing on new services like custom games like custom music and even crypto these are things that all create new revenue streams outside of youtube but you use your youtube channel to promote so you know music we have Rainimator who's a very popular Minecraft animation channel he's got six million views on one of his videos that we provided the soundtrack for our team composed the custom music that he put into his video and it's now at six million plus views those are the kinds of services we want more people to become aware of so we can help them we can give them better music to grow faster um game development is another good example where we have now a team led by Dave frackia whose x-activision used to be the studio head of radical which was part of activision in Vancouver so he's now working with us full-time and he has a team that's creating custom games for creators and mobile browser games simple games i'm not talking a call of duty or a world of warcraft but um things that we feel a creators always wanted to build but never found a game quite like what his vision is so we build it for him for free he promotes it and we split the game revenue of any money that comes from that effort so that's again something we've never offered in the past and that's just something we started this year Dave joined us in april just six months ago so it's a very new service and the crypto part it's not you don't use your youtube channel to promote but if you have a good graphics card you just run the crypto miner while you're sleeping oh i used to run the crypto miner and you make money yeah so that's the connection for youtubers who are gamers and and the crypto but that's what we're trying to do now we're trying to find new ways to invest in products and services that help you grow leveraging what you've built on youtube or the hardware you have yeah i have to say that um the crypto miner i thought was a very interesting idea uh because i was just so out of left field and i just thought it was great okay and i actually did use i used it for the better part of like five months okay um until i just like it was just too much on my computer but i didn't use it for the better part of five months okay um recently too so um and i did make you know it was like five dollars a month but like it was still cool to see that like mind crypto was like oh wow that's actually going into my paypal account that's pretty cool so i think that that being a revenue stream that because like i think one of the problems with bitcoin and the currency in general nowadays is that how do you use it it's not easily accessible yeah yeah how do you use it it's not easily you gotta go to like a brokerage taxful coinbase and all of that requires id and stuff like that but i mean hey when you pitch it perfectly you run this program in your computer and money magically fluctuates your paypal account and um it works and i was like wow that's that's pretty cool so i thought that that was a very very good idea and it's something that you know i was one of the beta testers too i felt that the good nice awesome um but uh no so i thought that that was pretty cool as well um so i like the crypto miner uh a more broad question is is that so for you personally because i know back then in the in the day uh oh actually before i asked that question so one thing that i've always laughed about is always been an inside joke as well is the fact that in a video a long time ago uh so freedom was d-dost and hit offline and you are quoted as saying d-dost attack d-d-o-s attacks are healthy and i have to ask why did you say that well do you remember that first yeah i do if we cannot protect ourselves from misfits out there who are trying to take down our websites and what are we doing i mean it's the same with youtube right i make videos because i feel it's hypocritical for a video company not to make videos especially the guy at the top so same thing if we have a great tech team surely they must be able to defend our websites against some misfits who think that they can take us down and it's a challenge it says are we good enough to protect ourselves from these misfits these hackers and that's why i said that because i wanted them to try to take us down and i wanted our team to figure out how to stop them i mean i just thought it was very like weird how you were kind of egging on the d-dosters but then you're like oh well they were using an ip and just they weren't spot and then the fact i thought this was great is that you showed the console of them blocking the ip's i thought that that was that was that was great i'm amazed you remember such details dude i'm telling you i've been watching i i'm not part of the network anymore but i still watch the videos because it's just entertaining to see we paid you 2.2 million dollars for your family i'm going to click this pay now but boom do you need a catch up payment it's automatic it's like click that i could click that i it's a weird one you know what maybe you should host the george show next time just host the george show you know take take it off i'll just give it you can be the new george yeah uh i'd love to but i'm currently very busy so like i've actually filled up my entire fall so i ref soccer competitive and recreational i know they call football and other parts of the world i'm talking in the united states yeah and then i also work part-time at a very large retail i'm not going to disclose it but i do computer sales so you know i fill my time and then i do youtube when i have room so you know this is kind of like my outlet the creativity of and then twitch as well that's nice you're very eloquent you're very well-spoken and this is the i didn't expect to be interviewed uh by someone who i call so i think that's awesome no i mean this is this is great um i guess my final question before i let you go is is that what is the so i know back then i mean i thought you were stretching real far with the whole going public and an ip on being on the stock thing so what is your end goal for me to freedom when can you sit in the chair and be like you know what i've accomplished everything and this is great and now we're number one what's what's the end goal for freedom at the end goal is for us to actually make an mmo i mentioned you know we're not making call of duty or world of warcraft but i would like to make a better world of warcraft that's focused more on becoming an expert in the real world instead of just a fantasy world like i played these mmo's when i was younger a lot and i became an expert in their fantasy world did i gain any real world skills no nothing that i could say helped me become a better ceo or helped me learn about better tax reduction strategies that all i learned in real life but i'd love to make a game that's fun and addictive and entertaining like a world of warcraft is but that actually teaches you about tax reduction strategies in dubai that teaches you about how to become better at building a business by playing the game and putting elements that build those skills into the game mechanics that's my ultimate goal you know to make a world of warcraft you probably need a hundred million dollars how do you get a hundred million dollars well if we go ipo and run the crypto market that's one possible way a more likely way is to build freedom up into a publicly traded company that can then fund this new very ambitious project which would probably take like five years to build so to your point of you know how far along are we towards this goal that you said was really you know aggressive and almost unbelievable back then we are a lot closer than we were then we're now set up as a cayman islands holding company that controls the hong kong company as well as our singapore company for crypto and our game development company so that's the structure we now have where the caymans is the ipo vehicle and we're consolidating revenues into that single balance sheet to make the numbers look bigger so it increases all of that ipo goal makes it happen in less time and we're still very far away there's no like oh we're going to ipo next year it's maybe in five years still but who knows so i still want that to happen i'm still trying to scale the business so that it can happen and i hope to find good people to join us along our ipo journey because it's all about the team that's what will make it happen and we have a lot of growing to do first well george i have to say it this has been the best monday night in hawaii that i've had or for you tuesday morning i guess yes it has been an absolute pleasure speaking to you i greatly appreciate you taking the time especially an hour to talk with me this this has been something that i won't forget i really appreciate the transparency and honesty and willing to you know answer some questions that i know i've had for a long time and um you know willing to watch other freedom island stuff like that um i i think it's i think it's really cool you're super down-to-earth person thanks um keep keep up the great work and um i wish you the best with freedom and and and it grows and um i hope that you've taken what i've said uh to heart and some of the criticisms and um you know yeah i just just thank you for taking the time george i really do appreciate it one of these days when we are ready to make a bigger game we will be asking youtubers to uh lend their persona to characters to be in the game is this something you might be interested in to make a version of you in a game that we make oh i would love to voice act people always tell me that i could be like somebody on radio so if i can kick start my voice acting career over at freedom game um i'd be more than happy to george my uh skype although i don't use it i do still get notifications so when you message me it will pop up my phone um i also have your email so i'll contact you when you're ready either in both ways yeah no problem but like i said it's been an absolute pleasure george um thank you so much and uh you have a great rest of your day and i will have a great night awesome i will send you a link to the video when it's published no problem george have you want to take care take care bye hope you enjoyed this office hour number two click that i to see all the office hours so far in case you missed any including the video introducing the concept i really like the response so far so i will keep doing these as long as you keep feeding me great topics to talk about absterbone you're awesome i look forward to the next time one of you decides to interview me on my own office hour normally i'm the one asking the questions but i'm happy to do it the other way around hey girls quiet on the set what do you guys think of all this is it an interesting content that you enjoy watching tell me down there in the comments below or is it boring and you want to see something else tell me what else you want to see in the comments below i have something else to preview which is a game that we are launching the level designer for tomorrow and that will air about this time i've been using the youtube premier's feature to get everybody watching at the same time i hope you like it i like it i love chatting with you guys while the video is playing so we will keep doing youtube premieres unless you tell me you hate it in the meantime freedom family who am i i am still sick papa george blowing my nose almost every 10 minutes my wife keeps saying how 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Hi, everybody. Thanks for coming. My name is Vicentiu and I work for the MariaDB Foundation. I am a software engineer. Today I'm going to talk to you about MariaDB and why this is important for Debian given the recent announcement of Stretch. First of all, have any of you heard of MariaDB before? Yeah. Okay. So, have any of you heard of MariaDB before? Okay. Quite a few people actually. Well, for those of you who haven't, MariaDB is a fork of my skill and I assume people have heard of my skill. Now, why does MariaDB exist? So, our first release happened in around 2009 and MariaDB was created as a response to Oracle acquiring my skill. It was uncertain back then what would be the future of my skill and thus MariaDB was born. MariaDB was started by the original authors of my skill, including Michael Montevidenius and now has its development guided by the MariaDB Foundation. The MariaDB Foundation owns the copyright for the MariaDB server and this is made to ensure that there will always be a MariaDB server. As I've said, our first release was in October 2009 with MariaDB 5.1 and this is when MariaDB has introduced quite a few extra features which were not available in my skill at the time and throughout the years we've finally managed to get ourselves as the default MariaDB variant, my skill variant in Debian. So, this is an important step and if some of you haven't read the release notes, this will probably come as a surprise and maybe there are questions about compatibility, how is this going to affect me? I am able to answer most of these questions so if you have any, feel free to interrupt me. There is plenty of time for questions as well. So, first of all, I'm just going to go through a brief history and a rundown of everything that's happened. So, the MariaDB Foundation was created to ensure that MariaDB server always exists as open source software. Our goal is to foster collaboration to be the point where people want, go through in order to collaborate on the MariaDB server. We also aim to increase adoption and basically promote MariaDB wherever possible. Currently, we are a staff of eight people, so not a lot of manpower. We mainly deal with porting and packaging MariaDB for various Linux distributions. We do do some code review and write some patches, but most of the development resources come from the MariaDB Corporation. The MariaDB Corporation is one of the sponsors for the MariaDB Foundation, but it is not the main one. So, most of the development actually comes through the eyes of the community. So, whatever the community thinks that it is correct, this is what the MariaDB Foundation analyzes and this is how we decide where to take the server. Most of the sponsors are corporations. So, the biggest one, the biggest user for us is actually booking.com. They're using MariaDB in production. Basically, their whole backend runs on MariaDB. There are MySQL instances as well, but it's a very good example of a use case that works in a very profitable organization. Other recent sponsors include Alibaba, which is basically the Amazon of China, and also Tencent Cloud, which is again a Chinese company. So, where does MariaDB stand right now compared to MySQL? Well, everybody knows MySQL.  If we compare the popularity of MySQL compared to MariaDB, you can see that MySQL is way up here. While MariaDB is slowly growing, but it is actually the fastest growing database in popularity as of, I think, April 2017. We are used and supported officially in multiple platforms, such as WordPress, Wikipedia uses my MariaDB as a backend. So, these are some of the companies which make use of the MariaDB server. Let's look at how we actually interact with the community. So, a lot of our development comes from contributions from the outside world. So, looking at 2016, we had about 140 pull requests, which we reviewed, and about 80% of them got merged into the server. If we look at this year, it's only been half the time, but we've gotten the same number of pull requests. So, we're basically doubling our contributions year over year, which is one of our main goals, and I think we are succeeding in that regard. What I hope to also leave you from this presentation is with a few ideas on how to contribute to MariaDB as a project, but also to other open source projects, and perhaps how you can make use of our ideas in your open source project. If we look at the graph, we can see that MariaDB has had, so the first two lines are MariaDB, the other two are Oracle. One is for 2016, one is for 2017. We can see that the number of contributions from the community are increasing way faster than the way Oracle does things. And here's what we achieved through these contributions. So, first, we've managed to get MariaDB 10.1 in Debian. We actually aimed to get 10.2 instead of 10.1 being more feature-rich, but unfortunately, we just didn't have enough manpower to fix all the bugs which we had in 10.2 by the time we had to freeze. However, we did release a stable version of 10.2, which includes a lot of important features. So, we have advanced querying features. Half of these were contributed by a student working for about three months. Then we managed to get MyRocks, a highly-performance storage engine developed by Facebook that aims to reduce the space use on hard drives. This is mostly aimed for SSDs, while still maintaining performance comparable to the main storage engine, which is InnoDB. And we've had a contribution from Alibaba, a flashback plugin which allows you to return your database to a point in time previous to when disaster happened and you deleted all the rows in the database. And we also managed to get 10.3 as a first alpha release. 10.3 focuses on compatibility. I have a talk about all of the 10.3 features which are planned. So, if you're interested, tomorrow I'm going to present everything that 10.3 has. I'm trying not to get this talk to be too technical. This is mainly about contributions from the community. So, how do we interact with the community? Well, from the start, when MySQL was initially created, our goal was to be as responsive to any question from the outside to give as much help as possible. And we've tried to maintain this in the MariaDB approach to things. So, we are very responsive on mailing lists. If you ask any question on MariaDB developers, you will get an answer. If not in hours, at most of the day, you will get an answer. You can find us on IRC on MariaDB at FreeNode. And if you do submit a pull request for us, even if it's a poor one, we are more than happy to give you feedback on it and give you time, even teach you how to write a correct patch so that it does get accepted into the server. So, the main thing here to take is that whenever you try to interact with us, you get an interaction from a human being, not just a canned response, which unfortunately is part of the way Oracle does things right now. So, we've tried to steer away from such an approach. Here's an example of a pull request. This is actually reviewed by me. So, Groover Dan is one of our main community contributors. He, I think, submits about 40 percent of the pull requests each year. They're not necessarily big contributions, but he does use MariaDB where he works, and he provides fixes here and there whenever he finds a problem. And here's an example. I think for his contribution, I also had a chance to review it before giving him the reply, and I gave him the reply immediately. Unfortunately, this particular pull request is not yet merged. We've had a long discussion around it, but discussions do happen, and we take all the input. So, I think this is one of the main reasons why people do send us pull requests. Now, if you want to contribute, we do take pull requests obviously through GitHub, but you can also contribute on our documentation. Our documentation is in the form of a wiki. It's called a knowledge base, and you can edit it. It's free for everyone. We have not had problems with vandalizing, so the documentation is pretty much correct, but we do still curate all contributions to make sure that they are not wrong or missing elements. Now, if you want to contribute from a technical standpoint, say a code patch, for new time contributors, you need to be patient. The code is very old. It's been inherited from MySQL, but any questions you have, we are more than happy to answer them. We actually take a lot of first-time contributors, which are students, so people who have had no software development experience outside university, and we managed to work with them to get important features out the door. I, for one, actually started working for MariaDB as a student. I did one of the key features way back in 2013. If you've heard of roles in the SQL standard, this is what MariaDB supports, and MySQL still does not support as a stable feature. They've managed to now almost implement it. We do have open bugs, but most of the open bugs are not really trivial, so if you find interesting, do ask us. You may bite off more than you can chew for the first contribution. One of the projects which we proposed for Google Summer of Code, we tried to make them as self-contained as possible so that you can actually get to work and be productive. Here are a few examples, such as extending the authentication backend. This was something which we tried to do this summer, however, we did not get a chance to finish it, so it's still available. The other ones are also pretty good as starter projects, so if you know anyone or if you are interested in contributing, do ask us about these. Ask me right now if you want. I know a few details about them. One thing to note, and this may be something that some may have questions about, we require all our contributions to be submitted under the MariaDB contributor agreement or the BSD-free license. The key thing here is that the MariaDB foundation needs to have copyright over the code. One of the main reasons for this is that we need to be able to maintain a GPL-compatible license and do not want to fall into the trap that OpenSSL has with the licensing problems. I can go into more details on this if you are interested. If you want to contribute from a non-technical standpoint, you are more than welcome to help us. We have a lot of knowledge-based pages which are only in English. Translating them would be a real help. I don't think we have any French documentation right now, so French is more than welcome. The way Maya SQL used to work in development before was that all its features would be tested by the community. The more people we have testing our upcoming features, the faster we can get our stable release out, because that's where you find bugs earlier and can fix them faster. Please try out any alpha or beta release. Don't do it in production. That's obviously not a good idea. But please try out any releases and let us know of any bugs you find. I guarantee you that any bug that you report will be looked at and investigated. We do not shove bugs away. It's just that since we are not too many people, it may take a while for it to be fixed. We also hold biannual conferences. These are developer conferences, much like DevCon. They are free to attend. During these developer conferences, we actually plan our next steps, our next features. If anyone wants to get involved into this, you can come. You are more than welcome to. We do announce it. This one has been announced a week ago. Our next developer meeting is in China. It's in Shenzhen city.  Now, that's all for the slides that I have. I hope that you actually have more questions for me, because I kind of prepared for a debate, especially about how MariaDB is now the default in Debian and basically replaces MySQL implicitly. Thank you. Any questions? Sure. I can repeat the question. The question is, what is the status of MariaDB in other distributions, not just Debian, for example in Ubuntu? We have had one email from a Ubuntu developer in about 2014, which seemed quite promising that they are considering MariaDB. We are strongly focusing on getting MariaDB default in Ubuntu as well. This is one of our next steps. We are aiming to get into Ubuntu. Other distributions such as Arch Linux actually adopted MariaDB quite a while ago, and if you were to install MySQL, then you would get MariaDB. I am not certain about Fedora status right now. I know we produce packages for Fedora, and I'm actually one of the persons involved in making sure that there are no bugs in all the architectures that all the distribution supports, so the 10 main ones in Debian, and I think there's power eight on Fedora still. We try to be as friendly as possible with distributions. One of the things that does come up, especially in database-related conferences, is the compatibility between MySQL and MariaDB. Say you had an application which was using MySQL. Let's say WordPress, for example. Until recently, they did not mention MariaDB as supported. Previously, we claimed that MariaDB was a drop-in replacement. Obviously, as time went on, starting with version 5.5, we have actually changed the version numbering to differ from Oracle's MySQL, so 5.5 was the same for both MariaDB and MySQL, but then my MariaDB had 10.0, Oracle continued with 10.5.6, then 10.1, 5.7, etc. Most of the features which a regular application would use will probably work both for MariaDB and MySQL, no problem. The problem comes when you're trying to use advanced features, such as replication, and not regular replication, but replication that chooses global transaction IDs. This is a feature that started in 10.0. It's the first feature which differs entirely in implementation from MySQL. We have tried to make MariaDB behave as nicely as possible with Oracle's MySQL. If you give MariaDB the data directory from MySQL, it will load it. It will do its best to behave as if it were MySQL. There are obviously differences which we did not agree with Oracle, and we changed those, but most of the features should work, and we're trying our best, given how little information Oracle gives us to maintain as much compatibility as possible. I can repeat the question if it's... You said that MariaDB tries to respect the SQL standards. Yes. For example, SQL 9.9 standards, you cannot have unsigned integers. What will happen with bad compatibility for software that needs unsigned integers? Okay. The usual way that we treat this is we have switches which enable or disable such behavior. For example, 10.3 actually starts implementing Oracle style syntax, which is not something that's always 100% compatible with MySQL syntax. There's a switch which enables or disables this sort of behavior. If there is such a concern, for example, with integers, there will probably be a switch for this case as well. Thank you for your presentation. You said there is no French documentations. I think that's what you said. So, to the best of my knowledge, I do not know of any pages written in French. If there are, then I know there are not a lot of them. Okay. So, maybe I can help you with that. If I want to help you to translate or how can I help you with that? The best way to do it is to just create an article, maybe add the same title as the one in English, but in French. And just ping us on IRC, the MariaDB discuss, MariaDB developers, mailing list. Generally, if you add it to the knowledge base since it's a wiki, it's just going to be there and you'll get all the credit for it. Okay. Thank you. One thing to note is that I'm not very knowledgeable about how the licensing works for the knowledge base. It should be creative comments, but to not take my word for it, you should read the license agreement beforehand to make sure that you agree with it. So, I have one question. You mentioned licenses. So, what is the situation with the licenses of MariaDB versus MySQL and so on? Because as far as I remember, for MySQL times, there was this dual licensing commercial for company and GPL. Now, after fork, I assumed this was GPL, but you mentioned this MariaDB contributor agreement and BSD license. So, what's there right now? Okay. So, historically, there was this dual licensing thing. This was, obviously, basically to enable the MySQL to continue development. It was for profit. This cannot happen with MariaDB because MariaDB does not own the copyright on the part of the server which existed before the fork happened. So, all that code belongs to Oracle right now. That code is now GPL version 2 licensed. The problem is that Oracle can change at any time the license for the code that they own to anything they want. And what we do is we try to maintain compatibility by fetching patches from Oracle, porting them into MariaDB. It's not the one-to-one match, but we take their patches and merge them into MariaDB. So, this is all fine. They remain under the GPL version 2 license. However, if a contributor comes in and submits their work under GPL version 2, it's still fine. All the code is still free. But if Oracle then decides to change it to something incompatible with GPL version 2, for example, GPL version 3, we would be unable to fetch any more patches from them if we are not able to change the license to GPL version 3 ourselves. So, we would be stuck with the GPL version 2 version of the code and are unable to merge GPL version 3 patches from Oracle anymore in order to change the license if we need to ask permission to all the contributors who have contributed their code to be able to change it to GPL version 3. And in this case, it just creates a potential extra barrier, which is why we are accepting contributions either BSD version 3 or under the MCA agreement. So, if I understand correctly, BSD allows you to relicense to GPL? So, BSD is free enough to not have this potential problem. So, either to have MCA to allow for relicensing by MariaDB Foundation or have BSD which is free so it can be merged with GPL or any other license. Okay. This is the general idea. I'm not a lawyer. I cannot tell you the fine points, but this is the main idea. Okay, good enough. So, can you elaborate a little bit on the relationship between MariaDB Foundation and company because those are they completely separate? Yes. So, there was the slide with sponsors here. So, there is the MariaDB Corporation logo here. Right there. So, that's MariaDB Corporation logo. So, the main financial sponsors for the Foundation are booking.com, Alibaba, and Tencent. I think around April, there was an announcement that the corporation provides at most one sixth of the funding for the MariaDB Foundation. So, in the sense of financial incentives, the corporation does not control the foundation. What the corporation does, however, is provide us with a lot of development resources. About 30 plus something developers, you can look at the commit log to see who is actually committing. They are resources from the corporation and with the foundation, they help us build the MariaDB Server. However, the foundation has the final say in what goes into the server because the MariaDB Foundation owns copyright to the MariaDB Server. I think this mostly answers your questions. I saw on the website that MariaDB is developing C++. Is that true? Are there any other languages involved? Is it true again? Sorry. Is it true in? Are there any other languages that? Oh, yes. So, the main logic in the server is in C++. But we have the testing framework, which is written in Perl. There are a few Python scripts, but we try to not introduce another language. And there is also just regular C. So, we have certain parts of the server, which are basic C. Others are C++. There aren't any other languages. This is mainly due to historical reasons. And right now for practical reasons, it's already hard to deal with these two. I think another one is just not worth it. Although I have personally tried to get Python in and have received a lot of pushback from other developers. I have another question. Why is that called MariaDB? Oh, so MariaDB comes... First of all, let's start off how MySQL got its name. MySQL got its name from Monty's, the creator of MySQL along with David Axmark. They named MySQL after my, his daughter. And MariaDB was named after his youngest daughter, which was Maria. So, it just keeps the trend. And the seal... And the seal was chosen by Maria. Okay. So, tomorrow I have a more technical talk as to what 10.3 has, feature-wise. And I know this is not a database conference, but I also have another talk about 10.2, advanced querying features, which can speed up performance on certain queries from ones that last two hours to execute to about two minutes. So, if you would be interested in such a talk, I'm more than happy to give it. I will try and schedule it for a Birds of a Feather session. And if you want to, feel free to attend. Okay. And if you have any more questions, I'm around here. Thank you.


Hey everyone, Drew with GeoArm and I am back to talk to you about programming the photo feature for arming and disarming on the panel. Any time that you disarm it, you're going to get a picture taken. If you want to disable that feature, all you have to do is go ahead and enter the hamburger icon in the top left. Press 1-2-3-4 or whatever your master code is, mine is 1-2-3-4. Then you're going to go ahead and select panel. All you're going to do is go ahead and toggle on or off to take picture selection here. Alright? So I'm going to go ahead and put it back on, but that's how you do it. Go ahead and hit the back arrow all the way out to exit out of programming. Ladies and gentlemen, that is how you program the photo feature for the GeoArm control panel. Take care, have a great day. Please like and subscribe to our page for helpful programming and installation videos, product reviews, monitoring, products, and more. www.geoarm.com or call<PHONE_NUMBER>. That's www.geoarm.com or<PHONE_NUMBER>. GeoArm, the worldwide leader in DIY security.


How to Write the Perfect ESL Lesson Plan Lesson planning is a significant element of everyday life as a teacher in English as a foreign language. A lesson plan acts as a step-by-step guide providing the structure for your lesson. However, too much planning can make lessons rather rigid and stop the teacher being flexible to the needs of the students. This post was written by RITTT graduate Mariska F. Why should you plan your lesson? Before planning a lesson, it is essential to classify the learning outcomes for the class. This is crucial as it helps the teacher maintain a standard teaching pattern and does not let the class deviate from the topic. Pre-planning helps the teacher to be better equipped in answering questions asked by the students during the lesson. Lesson planning establishes your credibility as a teacher as it shows professionalism and commitment. It helps you think about where you're going with your lesson and helps you remember what you intend to do. It makes you structure your lesson so that it flows coherently and covers the tasks towards the objective. It gives students confidence that you have thought about the lesson and know exactly what you are doing.  The following should be included in a lesson plan. Learner objectives. This is what you want the students to be able to do by the end of the lesson. Personal aims. What you as a teacher wish to achieve. A teacher should be prepared not only to teach the students but also make sure that they take some fruitful thought regarding the lesson at the end of the class. Language point. This shows the theme around which your lesson is based and also how it fits with past and plan future lessons. Teaching aids. List all the materials and other aids that you will need in the lesson. This will help you quickly check if you have everything at the beginning of a lesson. Anticipated problems and solutions for the students and the teacher. It is important to try and anticipate any particular problems that the students or the teacher may encounter during the lesson. Once you have established possible problems, think of how to solve them so that you are prepared should they arise. Procedure. List all the activities used to achieve the learner objectives. It is the body of your lesson plan, the ways in which you will share information with students and the methods you will use to help them assume a measure of mastery of that material. Lesson phases. Engage, study or activate. Click here to see more easy lesson plan ideas. Plan out which phase you are going to use and when. Timing. It is vital to plan how long each activity is expected to take. You should then be able to see if you have too much content or not enough to cover your lesson. Stick to your time limit for each stage of the lesson plan. Interaction. Who will be interacting at each stage of the lesson? Teacher to student, T.S. student to student, S.S. or students working alone. Class level. The level of ability that the class has with the English language. Number of students, you may wish to anticipate how many students will attend to make sure that your activities are suitable for the class size and to make sure you have enough materials for each student. Date and time, this will allow you to keep a written record of what you have done with a certain class and when. It will also help teachers who may teach the same class at a later date. Teachers and observers names may be useful if the class is being monitored. Keep to your plan but stay flexible.  This might be due to absent students unforeseen events happening or simply because you have realized the students needs differ from what you have anticipated. That's why it's always good to have a couple of backup activities up your sleeve that you can refer to should you need them. If you see an activity simply doesn't work with your students, ditch it and substitute it with a different one. Watch the ITTT lesson plan video guide. We have created a lesson plan video guide that will help you write the perfect ESL lesson plan in a few simple steps. Part 1. Why do we plan lessons? Part 2. What does a lesson plan contain? Part 3. What else does a lesson plan contain? Part 4. Lesson plan example. Part 5. Lesson plan procedure. Engage phase. Part 6. Lesson plan procedure. Study phase. Part 7. Lesson plan procedure. Activate phase. Part 8. Process for study activities. Part 9. Correction. Are you ready to teach English abroad? Apply now for your TEFL TESOL certification course and start teaching in a matter of months. Speak with an ITTT advisor today to put together your personal plan for teaching English abroad. Send us an email or call us toll free at 1-800-490-0531 to speak with an ITTT advisor today.


Can I start by thanking everyone who took part in this election, this huge democratic exercise of more than half a million people all across this country? It showed our party and our movement passionate, democratic, diverse, united and absolutely determined in our quest for a decent and better society that is possible for all. On Saturday the 12th of September, Jeremy Corbyn, the veteran left-wing MP, was elected the new leader of the Labour Party with almost 60% of the vote. This landslide victory has sent tremors across the political landscape in Britain. Here we discuss with Alan Woods, editor of Marxist.com, who stresses the significance of this Corbyn victory. The victory of Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party last weekend was a veritable political earthquake which has fundamentally transformed the political landscape of this country. It is yet another earthquake similar to the one we saw earlier in Scotland, both in the referendum and in the general election. In Ireland with the referendum on equal marriage and of course in Spain with the rise of Podemos, in Greece with the victory of Syriza. It's part of an international phenomenon which represents a major shift in the consciousness of the masses, of the population, of the working class and the youth in particular. I would say in every country, even in the United States, you get the phenomenon of Bernie Sanders. This represents a sea change in the entire situation which will have tremendous consequences. The first thing which strikes one is the size of this victory, looking at the television screens and seeing the face of the so-called Labour grandees of the Blairites who dominated, hijacked the Labour Party in effect and dominated it for decades. One could see that these people were stunned as the ruling class, the journalists, the press pundits, the BBC, all of them were stunned by the sheer scale of this vote. Jeremy Corbyn got almost 60% of the total vote. Yes, among the new people and hundreds of thousands of new people have now signed up to the Labour Party supporting Corbyn, supporting the left, he got 85% which is an absolutely amazing result by any standards and even of the existing party members, he got 49%. In other words he won on all the basic areas of the Labour Party which now of course places the Blairites, the right wing, these renegades, these agents of big business and capitalism, these agents of the City of London infiltrated into the Labour Party. It makes me laugh when they talk about infiltration, which the Labour Party has been suffering for decades without any protest whatsoever from the mass media by people who were entirely alien, alien to the working class, alien to the Labour Party, alien to the Labour movement and people by the way who were entirely divorced, remote from the problems, the real problems, the real life of working class people in the factories, on the estates, in the unemployed offices and so on. People who really were carpetbaggers, careerists of the worst sort, who nevertheless spoke with great arrogance and great confidence until very recently, as if they alone were entitled to speak for millions of people in Britain, as if they alone were entitled to speak for the Labour Party. You know, they treated the Labour Party, these ladies and gentlemen, treated the Labour Party almost as if it were their private property. Well now of course that has been exploded. As the media and maybe many of us simply didn't understand the views of many young people within our society, they had been written off as a non-political generation who was simply not interested, at least the relatively low turnout and low level of registration of young people in the last general election. They weren't. They were a very political generation that were turned off by the way in which politics was being conducted and not attracted or not interested to it. We have to and must and must change that. And what we see here is something which these people were unaware of because they were completely out of touch in this Westminster gigantic bubble of privilege and wealth. That's what it is. They were remote and they didn't see the mood, the tremendous mood of anger, of discontent, of rage, of indignation. I would say above all of frustration, which has been felt by millions of ordinary people. In Scotland of course you saw that and also England and Wales is no different. The same burning anger and resentment exists particularly of course since the crisis of 2008. The biggest crisis in the history of capitalism was according to these people who was not supposed to have occurred. Ever since that time, from 2008 onwards, there's been constant attacks on living standards, on workers' rights, on housing, on jobs, against the youth, against women and so on and so forth. Which has created an enormous feeling above all, a feeling of frustration against the entire establishment and a feeling above all in relation to politics that these people do not represent me. These people do not represent us. And that of course is entirely true. Now this was the mood that was shown in Scotland, that's the reason for it by the way. It wasn't so much the national question that entered into it. It was a vote of protest against the establishment of which, unfortunately, the Labour Party was clearly identified in the form of these Blair-like elements. Now of course you see the same phenomenon in England. It didn't surprise us in the slightest degree. It didn't surprise the Marxists that such a phenomenon would occur. We anticipated it. Here you had an enormous movement which left these ladies and gentlemen where their mouths opened. They could not believe it, they could not understand it and they cannot understand it. The reason for that is that they can't understand the real process is taking place in the real world outside this little clique of politicals and careerists. These ladies and gentlemen in the comfort of parliament. Now what is expressed now is really a revolution. It is like a, it's like a political revolution of people who felt themselves to be politically dispossessed, who felt that they were not represented and now demand that their voice be heard. Of course this is stunned the right way. It stunned these people in parliament, they weren't expecting it. And of course they were confident that it's quite interesting. Initially they said Corbyn stood no chance. It appeared that he stood no chance whatsoever. I think the bookies were given, I don't know, one hundred to one. I wish I'd put a bet. Unfortunately I'm not a betting person. And this rank outsider, this man who was not supposed to have a single chance, who was only permitted, graciously permitted to go on the list of candidates out of the kind-heartedness of some of the right-wing who foolishly imagined that he wouldn't stand a chance. This man now sits on Labour's front bench today. I noted in the trade union the debate would seem to be quite a lively thing. With John McDonnell, another outstanding left-wing leader, is leading the late party. If that isn't a political revolution, if that isn't an earthquake, I don't know what is. This week the Tories will show what they're really made of. On Monday they have the trade union bill designed to undermine even the ILO conventions and shackle democratic unions and destroy another element of democracy within our society. We have to oppose that. They're also pushing the welfare reform bill which will bring such misery and poverty to so many of the poorest in our society. I want us as a movement to be proud, strong and able to stand up and say we want to live in a society where we don't pass by on the other side of those people rejected by an unfair welfare system. Instead we reach out to end the scourge of homelessness and desperation that so many people face in our society. We're strong enough and big enough and able to do that. That is what we're about. Now the question arises what's going to happen? Millions of people are asking the question it's very good that Jeremy Corbyn got elected but what's he going to do? This of course is the $34,000 question and of course we must be clear about this. There is no way whatever that the ruling class, the bankers, the capitalists, the establishment, the City of London is going to tolerate that the Labour Party will fall into the hands of what they consider to be dangerous left wingers in reality people who aspire to adjust to an affairs society people that aspire to socialism.  You see this already, with the press, our famous free press, so-called free press which is in reality a press and a mass media which represents the interest of the status quo of the establishment, of the wealthy, of the people who really run Britain. The BBC has played a particularly business or Jeremy Corbyn correctly protested about this a particularly pernicious role in slandering and attacking and it's really a one-sided thing, the so-called fair press so-called impartial BBC media, well no such thing, no such thing. It's been a hatchet job from start to finish and it continues. Prior to this they were slandering him in one way or another now the line is, oh this man is unelectable. He's only just been elected by the biggest margin of any political leader in political history probably. Certainly a bigger margin than what that wretch, Tony Blair, got a few years back. And he has of course an unassailable mandate, it's a democratic mandate. Even the bourgeois press is compelled to admit that. The question is how will he use this mandate?  You must be prepared for a fight with no holes bar. It's fatal, it would be fatal to have any illusions on this because the bourgeoisie of the capitalist class is determined to keep their hold on the Labour Party and their agents in the Labour Party, that's what they are. The Tristram Hunts and the other elements, the Blairite faction are going to conduct a really vicious fight to stop you from carrying out the things which you're trying to do, which of course we support. A more just society, the interests of working class, the homeless, the unemployed, the youth, the women. Of course, we support all of that, we support you in this. Yes, but you must go into this with your eyes open. Otherwise it's a fatal mistake. I conclude by this. The Tories have used the economic crisis of 2008 to impose a terrible burden on the poorest people in this country. Those that have seen their wages frozen or cut, those that can't afford to even sustain themselves properly, those that rely on food banks to get by. It's not right, it's not necessary and it's got to change. We need an economic strategy that improves people's lives, that expands our economy, that reaches out to care for everybody. You can't do that if at the same time you do nothing about grotesque levels of inequality within our society. We need to develop an economic policy that deals with those issues. You see, they are preparing, they've said so. They've been quite open about it. They're organised, they are very organised by the way. These people in the Parliament, the Labour Party, 90% of which didn't vote for you, of course. 90% of which are defying the interests and the aspirations of millions of Labour members, activists and voters. This is the real state of affairs. They've said quite openly, they did not want you as leader and they're determined to get rid of you. By any means possible. Now, it is true that this massive, this splendid, this outstanding, stunning result, of course, has set them back a little bit. But be under no illusions that the plots are going to continue. Anyone who thinks that these people are going to give up easily are very much mistaken. And therefore we must be prepared. Now, in what way can we deal with this problem? It is clear that the Parliamentary Labour Party, people that aspire to be leaders and Labour members of Parliament must represent the Labour Party, the real Labour Party. And of course they must, the vote is clear, the votes are there. They must support Jeremy Corbyn. If they do not support Jeremy Corbyn, as I read in the paper today, Paul Kennedy pointed out, to the right wing, to the bare rights, either you support Corbyn, either you support Jeremy Corbyn or really speaking, you should leave the party. I say here, here. I say well done, correct. You see, the point is this. By what right do these gentlemen, and by the way they're all lawyers and doctors and teachers and people of that age, completely remote from the working class, who've parachuted into the Labour Party and hides active, that's the truth of the matter, for decades. By what right do they cling to their positions when they no longer represent the aspirations and views clearly expressed by democratic means, by millions of Labour members and supporters? By what right? Surely local Labour parties have the right, the democratic right, are we? Labour Party is supposed to be a democratic party. Do they not have the right to decide who should represent them in Parliament? And therefore I think it is correct that up and down the country, Labour activists, Labour parties, local Labour parties should keep the conduct and the behaviour and the speeches and the articles of their members of Parliament under review. And if the rank and fraud discovered that the MPs are not acting in a proper manner, are not being loyal to the Labour Party and not being loyal to the elected leader of the Labour Party and his policies, well, surely they should be called to account. Who can deny this? There's a big who are, which puzzles me, it amuses me if it wasn't so serious in the BBC, in the press. Oh, you mustn't remove members of Parliament. You mustn't deselect them. I say, why not? Good heavens above. If a government doesn't represent us, we have the right to turf it up. If a Labour MP doesn't represent us, they also should be turfed up and shown the door. Why not? You see, there's no hope for the future of the Labour Party. It's marvellous that they've elected the left wing leader and Jeremy Corbyn, whom we support, naturally. But you see, there's no hope for Jeremy and there's no hope for the Labour Party as long as 90% of the Labour MPs are on the right wing. 90% are declared Blairites and declared enemies of Jeremy Corbyn. And therefore, I would say, declared enemies of the Labour Party, yes, of course. And therefore, the struggle for internal democracy is a big issue. Of course, what I would encourage people to join the Labour Party, join the Labour Party, yes, but join the Labour Party to fight for genuine socialist policies. But we go forward now as a movement and a party, bigger than we've ever been for a very, very long time, stronger than we've ever been for a very long time, more determined than we've been for a very long time, to show to everyone that the objectives of our party are intact, our passion is intact, our demand for humanity is intact and we as a party are going to reach out to everyone in this country to take us on that journey together so no one is left on the side, everyone has a decent chance in life and a decent place within our society. That's what Labour was brought about to achieve, that is what we're going to achieve. This election campaign is, as we see here, about shaping our future. Our party is going to, I hope, become more inclusive, more involved, more democratic and we're going to shape the future of everyone in this country in a way that I think will be remembered as something that is good for everyone, that brings about the justice that we all crave and that is what brought us into this wonderful party and this wonderful movement ourselves. There are many aspects of Jeremy's programme which are absolutely correct and we support 100%, but in my view, for example, the re-nationalisation of certain utilities and of the railways and transport system, this is absolutely clear. It's common sense, I think, to any ordinary man and woman up and down the country. Incidentally, the argument that Jeremy Corbyn is unelectable, coming from people, by the way, who themselves show themselves to be incapable of winning any election, let's be clear about that. Here's a Christian Hunt as a case in point. Unelectable, when it is clear that it was stated the other day that 60%, even if you keep voters, say they prepared to vote for Jeremy Corbyn. Now, that's an astonishing statement first. The reason being that many of these people are not really right-wing elements, but they were so disgusted with the existing policy, right-wing Labour leaders and so on, that they voted in protest for UKIP. Now, those votes and even Conservative votes, certainly many Liberal and Green voters, will be attracted by a left-wing Labour Party, by a Corbyn Labour Party, and therefore it is entirely untrue. It's an unfounded propaganda, lying, mendacious, malicious campaign to say Corbyn is unelectable. He's not at all unelectable. But there's just one thing that I would point out in a friendly way to Jeremy Corbyn and the other leaders of Labour Party. You see, the experience of Greece, which is recent in our minds, conclusively proves one thing. It is impossible to carry through a programme of serious reform, and we're in favour of reforms, of course, in favour of any step that will improve the living standards of the people and the workers and the youth and the women of Britain. But it's impossible to do this as long as the banks and capitalists control the key points of the economy. And therefore, I suppose you could say I'm an old-fashioned socialist, but there's no harm in that, an idea is not necessarily a wrong idea for being old and it's not necessarily a good idea for being new. I stand for the real programme of the Labour Party, which, of course, was the clause for part four of the Labour Party constitution. It was overthrown by Blair in a counter-revolution within the party. That is to say, we should stand clearly for the nationalisation of the banks and the big monopolies. Not the small shops, not the small farms, not the small bars and pubs. They can stay in private hands, not interested in that. And because it's only in that way that we can take on and destroy the power of the city, the power of the bankers.  It is absolutely essential, if we're going to get out of the crisis in Britain, that there be a clear break with capitalism, a clear break with the capitalist system and the overthrow of this monstrous dictatorship or the clique of wealthy people, the 1% that really control the destinies, not only of Britain, but of the whole world. And therefore, I would say to Jeremy, I would say, look, it's marvellous what you've done. You've achieved miracles and, of course, we support you 100% in your struggle against the right wing, in your struggle for justice and a better society. However, it is necessary to dot the i's and cross the t's. It is necessary to say what is. Enough of mealy-mouthed, indirect politics, which is the same of itself. It's the same to speak clearly on any subject. Enough of fudging and muddling and confusing the issue. Let's tell the truth. You see, that's the only way to take on the right wing, because they say to you, well, what about the deficit? You talk about all this, what about the deficit? What's your answer? Well, the answer's perfectly clear. I think on occasion you've touched upon this, which is a good thing, but I think we need to insist more. The question which nobody asks, nobody's prepared to ask, is why is there a deficit? Now you know the answer as well as I do. The reason that there's a deficit is that billions of public money was handed over to the banks after the crisis of 2008. Although, according to the received wisdom of the economists, the government was not supposed to play any role in the economy. That was the line, wasn't it? Free market economy. Leave the market alone. Market forces will solve everything. They didn't. Market forces, of course, the disaster which the whole world has been plunged into, with terrible consequences. And therefore on that road, no solution is possible. And instead of handing out billions of public money to the bankers and capitalists, what is necessary is to expropriate the bankers and capitalists. And then, of course, we can plan the economy. Incidentally, the argument that we have to pay for this is nonsense. I think you yourself said, that Jeremy himself has said, that we must take back the public utilities without compensation, and that's talking. That's serious talking. And that's absolutely correct. These parasites have already, these acid strippers, have already looted the British people, looted the British economy, stormed the wealth of millions of people, cheated people, like these monstrous electricity bills and the monstrous prices that they charge on the railways and so on. Just to go into the pockets of private investors. This is good. This racket has got a cease. Without compensation, yes, of course. Of course, if they can show that some little old lady has got a couple of shares and needs some state assistance, of course we provide that. But no question of handing over more billions to these parasites and acid strippers. No, no, no, no. Only by those means, by taking the banks and the big industries and the big businesses and the big supermarkets into public ownership, by the way, and the democratic workers control, we are not in favour of bureaucratic nationalisation, the caricature that was carried out by Labour governments in the past, but genuine socialist nationalisation in which the indices will be run, as Klaus 4 pointed out, will be run by the workers themselves. Now, that's the only real basis on which Britain can get out of the crisis and begin to plan the economy and to run the productive forces in a way that benefits the millions of ordinary people of workers. Yes, of middle-class people also. Of small farmers, small business people, unemployed women, youth and so on and so forth. To run and organise and plan the economy in the interest of the majority in the interest of the millions of ordinary people and not, as is the case today, in the interest of a tiny handful of non-productive parasitic superwitch elements. That's the fundamental problem facing the Labour Party and that's the problem which, we must grasp. On that basis, we can succeed in transforming Britain into the kind of place which Jeremy Corbyn and other people have put forward correctly as the general aim, the true aim which Labour and the working class aspire to. I say thank you to everyone for all their support, friendship and comradeship during this election process. And I say thank you in advance to us all working together to achieve great victories not just electorally for Labour but emotionally for the whole of our society to show we don't have to be unequal it doesn't have to be unfair poverty isn't inevitable things can and they will change. Thank you very much.