What are the top three books that you would recommend? Do you believe in aliens is the next question? You want me to be honest with you? Today, we're going to be diving into a question answer session just for the hell of it. I don't know how long this is going to go, but I put up a post on my Instagram and asked you guys, hey, if you had one question that you could ask me of how I could help you, what would it be? And I got a lot of questions. I got a lot of interesting questions. And I picked the ones that I feel like would be the best for you guys. If we get into it, there are some interesting questions, questions about aliens. There are questions about living with me for a week. So, hey, you know, we might get into that at some point in time. We'll see where we go. So I'm going to just go through these and this could be a longer episode. I have a feeling this will be a longer episode, but I think it'll be fun. I think it's kind of a free flow. And if you guys want to ask me questions, follow me on Instagram, ask me questions on there, and I'll try to dive into it. So the first question, which I had a couple of questions that were along the lines of something like this, and they were, what do you do when life has turned, your life has been turned upside down by the pandemic? How do you find a way to get back on track? Another question that was something around this is how do you get out of your head during this pandemic, the fear, the anxiety, the depression? I've got one very simple answer for all of you with the pandemic. And the answer is to just accept, right? If you're feeling fear and anxiety around everything that's going on, the unknown, the problem is you're not accepting your current reality. What you're really wanting to happen is you're wanting to go back to the way that it was. And at this point in time for the unforeseeable future, it's not going to go back to the way that it was. It's going to be the way that it is for, you know, I don't know, however long it's going to be. And, you know, I understand that some people are losing jobs.  I've lost jobs before too. But what is the secret? Accept and move on. Okay. Now what? Not to look in the past and go, oh my God, I wish I wouldn't have lost my job, but to look at it and say, okay, I have lost my job. Is there anything I can do about that right now? No. Okay. Well, what can I do? Priority number one will be to find another job.  I understand. But that's happened. And there's nothing that you can do about that because whatever you're having stress and anxiety over with the current pandemic, you probably, if the pandemic wasn't going on, would take those exact same feelings and put it into something else. You probably have stress and anxiety around your relationship or the current circumstance in the world or something else besides just the pandemic, the pandemic is, you know, if you guys have heard me say it over and over again, the way you do one thing is the way you do everything. So if you're stressing anxiety and feeling anxiety around the pandemic, you're probably feeling stress and anxiety around something else. And so the number one thing that I could tell you is if you're out there, you're just going to have to accept the phrase that I say all the time, which I tend to get quoted on a lot on Instagram and people type up on Instagram and then tag me in it is, uh, is this your stress in anxiety will be in direct proportion to how much, how much stress and anxiety you feel will be in direct proportion to how much you're resisting the way that the world is, right? Your stress and your anxiety will be in direct proportion. Like they'll be literally exactly the same around how much you're resisting the way that the world is. So if you're resisting a lot and you're having a lot of resistance to the way that the world currently is, well, then you're going to have a lot of stress and anxiety that is equal to that. So if you want to get rid of your stress and anxiety, what do you need to do? You need to just accept. It is the way that the world is. Is it the way that you want it? Probably not, but the quicker that you accept it, the quicker that you can work through it. So that's what I would say is except it is the way that it is. The world is perfect the way that it is. It's changing. It's changing into being even more perfect. Uh, but you have to realize it's, uh, you know, what I always say is that the, that you have, you can either think that the world is happening to you or you can think the world is happening for you. So you could say this pandemic is really screwing up my life right now. Or you could say, you know what? The pandemic is actually shifting up my foundation and making me go out and find new opportunities.  So the world's either happening to you or it's happening for you. I am under the belief that it's always happening for you. And so if it's happening for you, what are you supposed to learn from this that's going on right now? So that's what I would say. Uh, great questions. There was a few of them that came in like that. Uh, this one says if there was one piece of advice, you could bestow great word as if we're in the 1800s, if you could bestow on people, uh, if there was one piece of advice that you could bestow on people that you wish everyone would follow, what would it be? I'm torn because I have two pieces of advice. Um, the first piece of advice that I would give you is to work on yourself harder than you do anything else, right? To work on yourself harder than you do anything else in the world. Because the more that you work on yourself, the better that you're going to be and the better that you are, the more that you can go out and change the world. So that would be the first thing that I would say. And the second thing that I would say, especially with the world's current circumstances is to to not be so, uh, so concrete in your opinions, be open to somebody shifting your founded the foundation of your life to changing your opinion. There's a lot of people that are just so against their opinion being changed. And when they get challenged, they get angry. They start pushing their opinion. Other people, what I would say is be open to somebody changing your opinion, be open to living, be open to seeing things from other people's perspectives, right? Be empathetic to the fact that you might not know everything. In fact, you don't know anything and neither do I. We know a very, very, very little amount. There is a, uh, actually reminds me, I'm going to pull up my phone so I can tell you this quote that I found today. Once again, guys, this is just a different one. We're just going to go free flow. So I'm just going to be, you know, a little bit all over the place. In the, the quote says, the more I learn, the more I learned that I have a lot more to learn, right? It's like the more I learn, the more I learned that I have a lot more to learn. It's like the, the, the older I get, the more I realize that I don't know anything. It's like I, I learned more, but as I learned more, I realized that I don't know much at all. And so, uh, that would be a big piece of advice that I would give you guys is to just be open to other people's situations. You know, I don't, I'll give you an example. I am a white man in America.  I know nothing of what it's like to be anybody outside of America, to be raised in, you know, Yemen, which is this country that's just being destroyed right now with war and famine. I know nothing of what it's like. So who am I to act like I know what your life is like. I don't, but I'm willing to sit down and listen to you and to have you change my opinions. And I think that's kind of a cool thing to be able to sit with someone have their opinions. So that would be it. Two things, two pieces of advice. Number one, I would work on yourself harder than you work anything else. And number two, be open to having other people change your opinions. Don't be so, so firm in them. Uh, next question that came in that I thought was good was what is your favorite quote and how does it keep you going? Uh, my favorite quote, I have a lot of favorite quotes, but this is the favorite quote that popped into my head immediately is, uh, the cave that you fear to enter holds the treasure that you seek. The cave that you fear to enter holds a treasure that you seek. What do I mean by that exactly? I mean that, uh, what you are most afraid to do is what you need to do. What you're most afraid to do, if you do it will be the thing that changes your life. You know, that's, um, it's the reason why, and you guys hear me talk about them quite often, why I think psychedelics are so amazing for lots of people, not everybody, but for lots of people is because whatever it is that you need to do or need to work past or you need to conquer, um, in order to get to the next stage of your life or to let go of your ego or to stop with your control problems or whatever it is. When you do psychedelics, they're, you're faced with them. Like we all have our demons in some sort of way.   You need to work through this first. And that's why I love the quote, the cave that you fear to enter holds a treasure that you seek. The next question, which I found was pretty funny. He says, can I come live with you for a week just to pick your brain closely and for free? The answer to that is no.  It doesn't sound fun in my opinion. I don't really want you to come live with me. But you know, I put enough, I put enough content out there for you to basically see what my life is like and to understand what's going on in my brain. Just continue to watch this, wherever you're watching this or listen to this, wherever you're listening to it. Oh, and then the other, the other part of it said, I believe a weak consultation with you would change my life for good. It probably would. Maybe hopefully I would hope so. If you were with me for a week and you didn't get anything from it, I think that there's probably an issue on my side. So for all of you guys that wanted to come live with me, sorry, that is not, there are no open invitations to live with me for a week. Next one says, I see you have on one of your new clothing line shirts. How soon will they be available? For those of you guys that are listening on the podcast, you're not watching the video on Instagram or YouTube. I am wearing the shirt because what happened was I took a picture or selfie and I posted it and said, hey, if you have questions for me on my podcast, comment them down below. This is actually the first look. So you guys can see this. I'm not going to talk too much about the brand at this point. This is actually a sample shirt. This is the very first sample shirt that exists in the world. For those of you guys that can't see it, go to my Instagram, follow me and you can see it. And it says be the change on the front of it. It's a black shirt on the side. It has our logo, which is a red heart that's kind of very imperfectly drawn on purpose. And the reason why is because we'll talk about it more as the time comes. But the reason why it's a heart on your sleeve is because we want to promote people wearing their hearts on their sleeves because we think that authenticity is what's needed in the world. There's also one more surprise that's actually on the inside of this shirt, but I'm not going to tell you what it is yet, but there's a surprise in the inside of shirt down by the crotch. This is true. There is. It's not my crotch. It's the crotch of the shirt. So there is something on the bottom inside of the shirt. I'll give you a quick look if you're watching. There it is. That was it. That's all you get to see. So we'll make the full announcement. I'll make the full announcement, but how soon will they be available? Probably the next 60 days. So for you guys that have been like, man, where is the because I've got a lot of messages. I get like 30 emails a week that are like, Hey, where's your clothing line being launched? It's still going on. It's just that we wanted to make sure we got the highest quality shirts possible. So these shirts are not like shirts that you can get at on basically anywhere online. We went directly to the manufacturer to get these shirts. These aren't just like the cheap, you know, American apparel or next level shirts or anything like that. Like we are the only company in the world besides this company that makes this shirt that's able to use this. So we went directly to the source and talked to the CEO. So next question, which came up a couple times. How do you find the right circle of friends? This is a great question because first off, I didn't have, I had a good circle of friends years ago, but about five years ago, I really switched my circle of friends. Like I became really, really diligent on making sure that I was hanging out with the right people. And what I did to find my circle of friends is I asked myself the question, where would the perfect friend be hanging out? So networking events. So I went to meetup.com and on meetup.com I tried to figure out the perfect person that I would be really good friends with. Where would they be hanging out? What would they be doing?  And the way that I found my group of friends was I found one networking event that was the one I related to the most. It's called Internet Marketing Party. It happens here in Austin. And I actually, you know, I, what's cool about it is you can't see it in the video, but right above me right here is the thing where I spoke at Internet Marketing Party, the very first Internet Marketing Party that I went to, I was like, I'm going to speak on that stage one day. And it took me four and a half years, but I spoke on the stage and there's a little right above me. If you ever look at my Instagram stories, you've seen it when I'm sitting here, right above me is the signed, every single person that was at the event signed it. But where I found my best circle of friends was actually by going to Internet Marketing Party every single month, every single month, every single month and just connecting with as many people as I could and finding it, finding one person. That was it. My goal was to find one person that I truly connected with every single month. And what I would do is I would get their number and I would ask them if they wanted to go get coffee, we would go get coffee. If we clicked, you know, we'd develop a relationship. And what happens is when you birds of a feather flock together, so if you connect with someone who's a good person to connect with, you go and get coffee with them, they've got other friends that you probably want to connect with and you can connect them with your friends, they can connect with their friends, you can go back and forth. And what you realize is you start developing this friend network that's pretty incredible. So what I would say is figure out where all of these people that you truly want to become friends with are hanging out, go there, go to networking events, meet people, don't be the person just giving and handing out business cards. That's not the correct way to network. What I would say is go ahead and literally take, you know, spend time with people.  And then start talking to someone else. Your goal is to connect with just one person on a deeper level and then take them to coffee later that week. So that's how I've developed my circle of friends. It's kind of cool because in about three years, about three years it took me maybe even less two years probably. I developed the friends group. I was like, oh my gosh, this is a friends group. I always wanted like really incredible, heart centered spiritual people who are also freaking killing it and doing multi-million dollars, multi-million dollars in business and they're doing it for all the right reasons. You know, are you going to find people you don't like in there? Absolutely. There's like 95% of the people that I don't like in there, you know, people that are just doing it for money and they want to do that type of stuff. But it was just like for me, it took me some time to kind of sift through and you find the people that you connect with and those are your peeps. And that's who you stay with. So that's how I found the right circle of friends. Next question says, when did you realize you needed to wake up and make a change in your life? When I was about 19 years old, is when I started selling Cutco knives, which you guys probably know if you've been listening to the mindset mentor podcast for a while. And I heard my first coach and paid him $500 a month when I was 19. And when I really realized there was one moment in my life where I remembered, I remembered like waking up and being like, Oh my God, this is, I need to do something. And I was parting a lot. I was 19. I was parting. Now you guys have to realize I was like a professional part of your from 16 years old on. And like I was in what I mean, professional party, like I came from the city where it had the highest underage drinking per capita in the United States.  I was part of a surf crew. And we were the surf crew that was like, it was, it was like the people in our school, we surfed, right? And we all hung out. It was just the surfers. We were known because we saw it in a surf movie as team TDTF is what we went by. I don't think I've ever said this in a public setting. So this is hilarious.  Swear to God, this is a true story.  So where that came from is we were watching a surf movie and the surf movie, they went by team too drunk to fuck. And we're like, that's pretty cool. We should go by that. And we were also known as the people who threw all of the parties in the city. So like if you had your parents, oh my gosh, I can't believe I'm sharing this. This is so funny. If you had your parents going out of town, you called us and we threw the party for you. We actually threw a party. God, I can't, I just literally, I feel like I'm like on truth serum. I'm saying stuff I've never said before. We threw a party one time that was so big the cops got called and there was a mile and a half of traffic. And there was about 1100 people that were there. It was all completely underage drinking for sure. That's what it was. And so am I proud of it? No. Is it part of my life? Yes. Am I being honest with you guys? Yes. I'm not going to tell you I was a perfect person for a long time. I'm still not a perfect person. I'm going to just be brutally honest with you guys as much as I possibly can. So that's where I came from. And I was partying and blacking out, smoking a lot of weed, drinking a lot of alcohol. I mean, it was it was intense. How serious we took partying, right? And so team TDTF once again, we got it from a surf movie. We thought it was cool. So everybody knew when your parents are out town, you called someone in TDTF and we would throw the party for you. So when did I realize I realized when I was still partying at 19 years old? And this is why I'm telling you this whole story about my past.  I was partying. I wasn't even legally able to drink, but I kept, I had a one on one coach. I paid him $500 a month and I kept showing up late to the phone calls or not hitting the assignments. And I wasn't taking it seriously. I could even though I was paying him $500 a month, which at 19 years old is like all the money in the world. I was paying $350 a month for rent. I was paying more for my one on one coach and I was for rent. Excuse me. And in one morning he said to me, and he doesn't even remember the saying this to me. This is what's funny. I don't remember anything he said to me in our two years of working together. I mean, there was a lot of stuff that was said that changed my life, but I don't remember anything off the top of my head. The one thing I remember is one morning I still remember sitting in my car and he said the phrase and you may have heard me say this before. He said to me the phrase about being a CEO and he said, Rob, I've got a question for you. If a business fails, whose fault is that? And I was like, I mean, it's the CEO's fault. He's like, yeah, that's right. And if the business succeeds, whose fault is that? I was like, I don't know. Probably the CEO's fault as well. And he's like, yeah, that's right. He goes, now let me ask you a question. See, he set me up. He set me up is what he did. So let me ask you a question with your life.  I was like, it's, it's my fault. And he said, if you get to the end of your life and it was a massive success, whose fault is that? And I said, it's my own fault. He said, right. He said, so what you don't realize is that you are not treating your life as if you're the CEO of your life. What you're doing is you're blaming other people. You're making excuses.  You don't get another shot.  That's all that there is. And right now your business is failing. And I was like, oh my God. And from that moment on, I literally stopped blaming other people. I was a professional excuse maker.  I was, I was like a professional. I was so good at it. I just stopped from that moment on. And I was like, everything that happens is my fault. From that moment on, and that piece of advice changed my life. So that was the moment that I can think of when I really realized I needed to wake up. Next question says, what are the top three books that you would recommend? The top three books I would recommend and number one would be Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. That is my favorite book for what lists for me made me wake up and really start to take life seriously and realize that success is not something that's just like further for the 1% or for the few people that are born with a silver spoon like success is every single person is capable of success. And there's steps to getting there. And I realized when I read that book, oh my God, these are the steps to be successful. If I literally just read this book and do every single thing that this book says, I'll be successful. What's crazy is that I read that book 14 years ago. And if you fast forward to today, I would say, yeah, it worked like it, it worked. And so I would say that book changed my life made me realize that I could be successful no matter where I came from, no matter what I look like, no matter what it is that I want to do, I could be successful. So that was the first one I'd recommend. The second one that I would recommend is called The One Thing by Gary Keller and Jay Papazine. And the reason why I would recommend that book is because too many people spend their lives like build, they build multiple businesses at once. They always have a plan B in case plan A doesn't work out. But the one thing incredible book talks about how you should put all your eggs in one basket because you always hear, don't put all your eggs in one basket.  He runs, you know, he owns Keller Williams, which is the largest real estate company in the world. And he talks about the one thing, put all your eggs in one basket. So people say, don't put all your eggs in one basket. His phrase is basically put all your eggs in one basket and take care of that freaking basket. Put 100% into your effort into that thing. Right. So outside of your family or whatever it is, 100% of your effort goes into that thing. That's how you become successful. That changed my life because that's what got me to where I am now because I quit all of my plan B's and I said, I'm going to succeed at this no matter what. And, you know, that's, that's what really changed my focus. And then the last one I would say, which might surprise some people is actually called, it's recently became my third favorite book, like in my top three, because I just read it within the past nine months and it's called Conversations with God. And the reason why I would recommend that book is because I was, I'll just be brutally honest with you about, you know, being raised with my religion and all of that stuff. And here's the thing, no matter what you believe in, it's cool with me.  I think that all of them are right in some sort of way, you know, all of them is to get you to God, whatever you might say. And that's a, even the phrase God for a long time was hard for me to speak and I'll tell you why in just a second. But they're all, it's like they're all ice cream, just different flavors, all of them get you to God, hopefully, just different flavors of how to get there. Now, you know, some people will be like, Oh, but mine's right and theirs is wrong and mine's right and theirs is wrong, whatever, cool, believe whatever you want to believe. But once again, just try to see something from other people's perspective and have them change your opinion if it's possible. Don't be so set in your ways, you know, be open to change or to at least other people's opinions. You don't have to change your opinion at all. But when I was raised Catholic, I know a lot of people that are recovering Catholics a lot, it seems like I always felt like I'm just, this is cool. These are these answering these questions is cool because I'm being brutally fricking honest. Like I'm saying stuff I've never talked about before. So we're going to keep doing this. And you know, it is longer. We're already like 24, 25, 26 minutes, something like that, but we're going to keep going because this is fun. I want to keep doing this with you guys. And, and so basically, and let's do this. If you want to ask me questions, email me rd at Rob dial.com. So email me rd like Rob dial rd at Rob dial.com. Ask me questions. And then I'll finish answering this question. So rd at Rob dial.com is where to email the better your question, the better my answer. So don't give me an entire life story. Send me an email or send me a video that's, you know, 30 seconds or less, which would be cool as well. Actually send me a video 30 seconds or less to my email, the better your question, the better my email, a better my answer will be. So I always felt, I always felt being raised Catholic that I was terrified. And the reason why was because I felt like, and this is not me bashing, you know, Catholicism in any sort of way. This is just my opinion of the way that I saw it, the way I was raised, you know, all of this stuff. I always felt like I had to be scared into believing in God. That's the way that I saw it. And for, I'll take you on my, my journey of spirituality and God, I guess, as we go deeper into it. So so I always felt that I was terrified. I remember seeing a a meme one time, it was a, you know, a sketch and it was two escalators. One of them was going up and the other one was going down. And it said, you know, there was a sign that said, choose your path. And one of them said to God and the other one said to hell. And I felt like my entire childhood, I was always worried about every single decision that I was making because I was terrified that I was making the wrong decision and God was watching me at all point in time. And if I screwed up, I was done.  It scared me. And the reason why I was so messed up from it was because every time I read the Bible or heard the, uh, the priest talk, he talked about how much God loved me. And I had this internal struggle of, if God loves me so much, why would I be forced to in like damnation? Like, why is it either? If something loves me so much, why would it force me to be screwed from the second? Like, I was born with original sin according to what they're saying. And so I really struggled because what, what I always felt was God, um, didn't feel right to me. It didn't feel, it felt like the God that was, that was, that was talked about to me was a lot scarier than what it truly was. And so I thought, so, you know, I stopped going to church in my teenage years. I went back to church.  There's a few thousand people that were there every single weekend. So that was kind of a cool thing. And then I got out of it and I almost became like atheist for a little while of like, ah, well, we die, we become worm food, right? And, um, I was that way for a few years and I started, if I'm, if I'm honest with you, I started getting a little bit more spiritual through meditation and through all of that. And, um, I started getting spiritual through meditation through growing and learning and I started doing psychedelics and I did psychedelics and I was like, oh my God, I, I, I don't get it, but I understand, I feel it. Like I feel the whole thing of the connection of God and the universe and all those things. When before a couple years prior, I was like, you know, all of this stuff is just random, right? It just, things grew, things happened over billions of years. But then I like felt like I was like close to God and I could talk to God. And I was like right there and it's, I know it sounds crazy. I get it, but just be open minded when I talk about this. And, uh, and then I read conversation with God and I was like, oh my God, literally this is the God that I've always felt was behind the scenes of all of the religions and dogma and all of the rituals and things you have to do. Like behind all that was this, this entity, this thing. And so, you know, that's a really long answer that I went way off course, but I wanted to tell you guys like things that I've never told you before because I think this is fun. And so conversation with God was really eye-opening for me and it changed a lot of stuff for me because I was like, oh, I feel like this is the God that I've always thought existed. So those are three books that I would recommend. Number one, uh, Think of Gurus by Napoleon Hill. Number two is the one thing. And number three is conversation with God. Next question says, do you believe great because I'm just going to keep going like let's just keep going. You know, if you're bored of me, go to another episode. That's cool. You won't offend me, but if you guys want to roll with it, let's roll with it. You guys are my rider dies. I understand it. We're drinking the same cool. Let's do it. Do you believe in aliens is the next question? And the answer is yes. I do believe in aliens. Have they ever been to earth before? I don't know. Maybe, maybe not. Uh, but probably maybe they might even be living around us right now. Right? Like that's the crazy thing. Like aliens could be living around us. It could be another person, like another human that you know. That's what's kind of, that's kind of crazy. Isn't it? Think about that for a second. Like maybe an alien is someone that you know. That's something that's kind of, I like to think about really crazy out there stuff when I sit quietly and think about myself. Maybe it's somebody that I know. Maybe someone I know as an alien, they've come to give me a lesson. Oh, that would be cool. Right? So there's that. Maybe aliens are some animals. Have you ever seen some of the animals on this earth?  Have you ever seen what an octopus can do? An octopus has eight brains.  Right? Like just think about that for a second. What it has eight brains, one for each leg. I mean they change colors. They're super intelligent. I mean, they could be aliens. I don't know. But I think that somewhere, if you look at, if you want to have it, if you want to have your mind blown, like completely open, one video that I want you to look up is called the, I think it's called the largest photo ever taken photo, largest photo ever taken by NASA. And it is at a 20th. Yeah, if you if you Google or YouTube largest photo ever taken, it is it pops up. It's got 23 million views right now. It's called gigapixels of Andromeda. And if you watch this video, you'll realize how many billions, not even billions, trillions and trillions of stars and galaxies and planets there are. And just statistically speaking, there's got to be something else that's out there. Like just there's got to be something, right? If you talk billions and trillions and trillions and trillions like beyond what you can possibly fathom, there's something out there. There's got to be. That's just my opinion. But hey, you might have a different one. That's pretty cool though.  It has nothing to do with the mindset mentor. Do I believe in aliens? I do. And I think that I think that if humans, you want me, you want to go down a little bit deeper in this, I think that if humans get to the point where we're about to destroy ourselves, I honestly think that aliens could step in and save us from destroying ourselves.  They're going to be here to save us. Think about that one for a little while today. Next one says if you could change one thing in the world, what would it be? More empathy. That would be what it would be. I kind of answered that in the last question, not the last question, but earlier in the question. Just seeing things from other person's perspective, just having more empathy, giving someone a hug, more love, man, like just more love. What's the biggest accomplishment that you've made so far? I would say biggest accomplishment. That's kind of a really cool one is once we passed a billion views on Facebook. So we hit over a billion views between all the videos that I've made and it took about two and a half years. I think we're almost at about two billion views now. I haven't checked.  There's only 7.5 billion people on the planet. That means that there's a, I mean, obviously people have seen my videos a couple of times, so that doesn't really count. But just to think of a billion humans watching something that I've made, like that, that's freaking crazy. So I think that that's really cool. Where do you see yourself 10 years from now? You want me to be honest with you? I've gotten to a point in my life where I've said a lot of goals. I failed at goals. I've succeeded at goals. I've done well. I've done bad. I've done all of those things. I do believe that setting goals are super important for people. And I spent 14 years of my life being hardcore invested in the goals. Now what I'm trying to do is to try to actually take away and stop focusing on goals and to kind of just go with the flow of the universe and all of these, you know, these woo woo wee things that I talk about. So where do I see myself in 10 years? Doing what I'm doing now, but probably on a bigger scale. I'll probably have written a couple of books. That's the next thing that I'm working on is writing a book. I have, I go with my gut feelings on everything that I do. And I don't care to write a book. I honestly don't care to write a book at all. If I'm being 100% honest with you, like I don't even like writing. But from a non ego perspective, I will be honest with you. I'm going to write a book and I feel like I don't know if it's going to be the first one, the second one, whatever it is, I think that it will make a massive impact in the world. And this is from a trying to take my ego out as much as I possibly can. I just feel like the stuff that I teach, which I haven't even shared on my podcast, which is what's crazy, the stuff that I teach and like my close groups and the courses that I teach and stuff is so advanced and out there that I don't know anybody else that's teaching it. But when people understand it, I feel like it changes their life.  I didn't even know you taught anything like this. So you know, my podcast is great. Like I love the podcast. I love making these audios for you guys to listen to on the podcast of making the videos for you guys to watch on Facebook and YouTube and Instagram. But it's more for the masses. Like it's it's kind of like 101 like person of them at 101, 102, 103. The book that I'm going to write is like personal alum at 601. So I think that the book is probably a big thing. I think 10 years from now. I have this thing where I I'll be honest with you. I know how big what and this is not from an ego standpoint. I know how big it feels like my mission is is going to be and it's so big.  But and here's the thing that I'll say though, just because it scares me doesn't mean that I won't do it. Like I will 100% do it. I will 100% stay on this path. It scares me to have to become more public and more out in in facing the public and in growing because you know, when you look at it's it's it's kind of nuts. If I'm being honest with you of growing a following of 2.5 million people, like that's that's scary. Like it literally is scary. Sorry, I'm moving around a little bit because I'm in the same position for 3040 minutes now. So my my chair is kind of creaking. But it's kind of scary because then you start thinking about personal safety. You start thinking about being seen everywhere like I'm a private person. I love being private. I don't really you know when people come up to me it's cool. I'm like this is amazing but I couldn't imagine that on a mass scale. So where do I see myself in 10 years? I just see myself having a bigger impact in the world.  That's the way that I see it. Do you ever get days where you struggle to remain positive? To be honest with you, no, not at this point in my life. I've been working with myself for a long time and I think that if I struggle to remain positive it comes from my lack of acceptance to the way that it is. Like I spoke about earlier in this episode where it's like sometimes you just got to let go. Whatever man, I'm not in control. The first time I did ayahuasca which is a psychedelic from Peru, I realized that I had a control problem and I still I mean it still exists but it's probably 20% of what it was two and a half years ago, actually three years ago, three years ago last month and I just learned to kind of just accept, just let things go. When you have a control problem, everything's more stressful, everything gives you more anxiety, all of that stuff but when you just accept and let go and know that the world's happening for you and that everything will work out, like everything will work out. Like if you think about your entire past, everything's worked out.  I'm just going to let go. Are things going to happen in my life that I don't want? Yeah, are things, you know, are bad things going to happen?  Yeah, but that's the beauty of life, isn't it? Like it's only beautiful. The great things are only beautiful if you go through the crappy things. Like life is only great. You can only appreciate the good if you've been through the bad and so do I want to go through them? No, but do I know that do I believe that everything that happens to me is a perfectly crafted curriculum for me to grow and become the best version of myself? Yes, that's what I personally believe. So I'm just going to let go, let things be the way they're going to be and just trust that everything that happens to me is exactly the way it's supposed to be and that it's all perfect. And so I don't really struggle with remaining positive because I think that even when the shitty stuff happens to me, it's all done for me. It's all part of my perfectly correct, perfectly.  Perfectly crafted, crafted curriculum. It's my perfectly crafted curriculum. And if crappy stuff happens to me, that's what was supposed to happen to me. And that's just the way that I choose to live my life. So this was fun. I wasn't expecting to do this, but I just said, Hey, you know what? I'm recording right like I was literally in the middle of recording for those of you guys that are watching the video. I had my lights all on and I was like, I didn't plan any more episodes, but I kind of want to keep talking clearly because I've been talking for 42 freaking minutes. That's crazy. And I was like, let me just put up a post on Instagram and see if people have questions for me. I got like 72 questions in the first 30 minutes. So for those of you guys that want to ask me questions, follow me on Instagram. Send me a question on Instagram or what I would say is send me a question directly to my email. So here, let's do this. Send me a question, a 30 minute question. I'm not, no, I'm sorry. Not a 30 minute question. That's too long. 30 second question and do this. Take your phone, ask me the question through a selfie.  Ask me the question. I'll have my editor actually put you in the corner. You'll pop up right here for those of you guys that are watching the video. 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And now another proudly we hail, one of radio's outstanding dramatic half-hours starring Lee Tracy and presented transcribed by your army and your airport. From Radio City, New York, here is your star and host on proudly we hail, the distinguished Broadway stage, screen and radio star, Lee Tracy. Thank you, Kenneth Banghart and hello everyone. Welcome again to proudly we hail. I understand our play takes us to New England, Lee. That's right, Ken. St. Albans, Vermont in 1864. And it's a story that I think will make for very pleasant listening. We meet some very wonderful people with a fast moving story to boot. After your important message, Ken, we're ready to begin. It's a message to the men and women of America. Serve your country at a time when you're needed most. Go and see the recruiting sergeant on duty at the Army and Air Force recruiting station in your neighborhood. Find out about the many openings and the many opportunities for advancement in the United States Army. Volunteer now. And now with your star Lee Tracy in the role of Sam Tobin, your army and your Air Force presents the proudly we hail production of Raid North. I don't know about you, but I remember being taught in school that Gettysburg was the northernmost point the Confederate Army reached during the Civil War. But if you'd lived in St. Albans, Vermont back in 1864, you might not have agreed. At a quarter to four on a beautiful afternoon in October, you wouldn't have agreed at all. Well, the best man to tell you about it would be Sam Tobin. He was editor of the St. Albans daily messenger when it happened. And all that ruckus you just heard was the sound of the biggest story of Sam's life breaking right under his nose. Yeah, that's just what it was. Made my ears ring for a week. I guess to start this story right though, we got to go back a bit and south a bit. We got to go back to June of that year and we'll go south to Richmond, Virginia. Lieutenant Bennett, young reportant, sir. Eddie, Lieutenant, draw up a chair and make yourself comfortable. Thank you, sir. I won't keep a guest any longer as to why I sent for you. I know all about your escape from the Yankee prison at Camp Douglas. My congratulations. Thank you, sir.  But if you determine men, mass escape might be stayed. I had such a plan in mind, sir. Our agents in Canada seem to think your idea has merit. If enough men escaped into Canada, well, I think you can guess how they might be used. I reckon I can, Mr. Settler. Read this over, Lieutenant, and see how it suits you. Lieutenant Bennett H. Young is hereby authorized to organize for special service, a company not to exceed 20 men in number. From those who belong to the service and are at this time beyond the Confederate state. He will report... But, sir, does this mean... Exactly, Lieutenant. You will leave it once the Montreal. Upon arriving, you will recruit your company. You'll have plenty of men to pick from, but be sure you choose well. The main job will be to organize attacks and uprisings in such prison camps as you think will be easiest to crack. You'll be given a list of our people to contact in Canada. They'll aid you in every way they can. Well, young man, how does it strike? Why? Why, sir, I just don't think it'd be polite to give the rebel yell in here. Well, that's how it all started. Lieutenant Ben Young, he was 21 years old, took a trip to Canada. There he found plenty of escaped skinsmen from which to recruit his company. Ben picked his troop with care. Mostly they were ex-cavarymen. Some, like Ben, and third with Morgan. All of them were young, cool-headed. He gets rare in the go.  I'm not for a ride, Ben. There's some woods up ahead a little way. We'll just mount there. That's where we meet the guys. I reckon. In these ways, we'd better meet them there. You still think we're at minor league now? Too many in on this deep aside from us. That's the word back to Walkmounds. Trooper, walk him out. You take charge. I'll have a look up the road. Wait a minute. Go over there. Get in that line. I'm sure enough this won't both be in line. Come this way, too. Let's just mosey off to the side of the road here. Men, gently horses, real quiet. Somebody walk. Here's that way. Now, who'd want to be walking on these blocks on a dark night? I'll just find that out. Stay here. Come on, girl. Well, now I declare that ain't Mr. Meacham.  What do you want to do, scare the life out of a man? I beg your pardon, Mr. Meacham. Just didn't seem right to see a man walking down his lonely road late at night all lit up with a lantern. Weren't you going to meet us in those woods? You can take your lucky stares and meet you tall. The Yankees knew all about it. You'd have crossed the border right into a trap. Well, I do declare. But thank you kindly for your trouble, Mr. Meacham. So they know? They know all right, young. Somebody spilled it. I didn't want to wait in the woods and take a chance on. You wouldn't miss me? Sure enough. All right. Guess the only thing we can do now is go home to bed. Tomorrow we'll think of something else. You've heard that line, the best laid plans the mice and men go off the straight. And that's just what happened with Ben's first plan. It was a mild little undertaking. He and his boys were fixin' to attack Johnson's Island in Sandusky Bay, Ohio. There was a big prisoner-a-war camp there. Ben figured he'd start things off with a bang. It'd make mighty interest in readin' in any newspaper north or south of the Mason-Dixon line. Five thousand Confederate prisoners escaped safely into Canada. Set free by daring rebel raider and his fans.  That's what I mean. Might've worked, too, only someone had talked. The whole scheme was known. No doubt about it. Ben and his boys just missed walkin' right into a blue hornet smith. Of course, after that, all prisoner-a-war camps done a hundred miles to Canadian border were put on the alert. Kinda put a kink in Ben's whole idea, but didn't stop him for long. Not Lieutenant Ben Young, late of Morgan's cavalry. What's to stop us from bein' raiders? What are we gonna raid? Boy, didn't they teach you how to use your head in South Carolina. We just raised blue perfect get out in all of the Yankee cities and towns we can find along this here border. If we do a good enough job, maybe the Yankees will think we got some kind of an army up here and they'll send some of the troops. More troops we can get them to send, the better for General Lee. You know, I think you've got an idea there. I not only got the idea, I got our first stop in place all picked out. It's just 14 miles below the border. Well, right here. St. Albans, Vermont. St. Albans, Vermont. I remember it was Saturday, October the 15th. When I first set eyes on Ben Young, was a fine Indian summer day. Mountains and the hills all bright with color. I was sittin' outside the messenger doing a little of Whitland, thinking about a piece I was gonna write. When I looked up to see four young fellows come walkin' down the street toward me. They were well-dressed, they're carrying heavy coats. There was somethin' handsome and a little wild about all four of them. But the one in the lead looked and walked like a leader. Sir, but could you direct us to the American house? Sure, son. Right down Main Street here. You can't miss it. Thank you, Conrad. From up north? Yes, Montreal. Came down to do a little buyin'. I'm Sam Tobin, editor of this here paper. I can help you boys at all. Just, uh, call on me. Well, that's right. Neighborly are you, Mr. Tobin, but I think we can take care of ourselves. Thank you again. Not at all. All right, Sam. Well, if it's not General Grant's right hand man himself, George is good to see you. But when did you get home? Last night. You're lookin' fine, Sam. Never better. Pull up a stick and whittle a while. Captain now, aren't you? Look mighty classy in that uniform. How long you home for? Three weeks. Say, Sam, uh, who are those fellas I saw you talking to as I came across the green? Well, I don't know. Down from Montreal. Nice lookin' boys. Why? Nothing. Just seemed strained to see such young fellas not wearin' a uniform. The war is a long way from here, George. That's what I said. That's what I thought. I didn't know that that night eight more young men arrived from Montreal, checked in separately at the American House, for that on Sunday, four or five other travelers arrived and took lodgings at a boarding house, not far from the center of town. It wasn't until Sunday that I found out that there was a young man who had to leave the house. It wasn't until Sunday evening services at the congregational church that I noticed so many new faces and again met Ben Young. Evening, Mrs. Fuller. Evening, Cyrus. Hello there, Mary. Hello, Sam. Isn't it a lovely night? It's a nice night for sparking, hey? Where's Martin? Oh, Sam, on Sunday? You don't think the Lord said there was any law against sparking on Sunday? You stop it. You make me blush. A pretty girl like you. Hey there, young fella. Good evening, sir. Mr. Tobin, isn't it? That's right. I thought I saw you in church. I saw a lot of faces I'd never seen before. Say, I can't very well introduce you to Mary Rutledge, lest I know your name. The way you two are looking at one another appears like you might like to meet. Or formerly, that is.  I beg your pardon. My name is Bennett Young. Most people call me Bennett. Bennett Young, huh? Oh, well, Bennett, this is Mary.  How do you do, Mr. Young? Well, now that you two have met, I'm sure you won't need me for anything more. So I'll just say good night. I have to say a few words to the Reverend anyway. That's good, Sam. Tell your mother I'll be over to dinner one night soon. Good night, Mary, uh, Ben. Good night, sir. Good night. I left them there in front of the church surrounded by the rest of the congregation. After I'd had a few words with the Reverend, I started on down the road toward home. Hadn't gone but a few steps when George Conger joined me. Going to have a late fall, Sam. Can I quote you? Captain Conger, the first Vermont cavalry, says, we're going to have a late fall. Sam, uh, did you notice all the young fellows there tonight? Yep. All from out of town. Straight to you as odd? No, not exactly. Why? Who was that you were introducing to Mary Rutledge? Oh, a nice boy named Bennett Young from Montreal. What's on your mind, George? I don't rightly know. Just struck me as a might unusual to see 20 strangers in the congregation. Ha, ha. So that's how you spend your time in church. Counting all the new faces. Everything clear to you, boys? Steve, what about the horses? All the horse-fights we need at the livers table there. Good. Now, this here little coutillion we're all going to give has got to go nice and smooth, like. It's going to start at 3.30 tomorrow afternoon, shop. Each one of you has got a job to do. We don't want to hurt no one if we don't have to. Bianches, these folks have been downright hospitable. And we just wouldn't want them to think we weren't grateful.  Now, if we had some drinking liquor, we could have a toast to General Lee, the Confederacy, and success to us.  I got a feeling tomorrow is going to be a right busy day. Our star, Lee Tracy, will return for the second act in just a moment. But first, I have a message for all the young men listening to this program. If you're physically fit, you can enlist in the United States Army and join the good company of American soldiers who are doing a man-sized job in our armed forces. These men need you. They need you to stand beside them to help defend the principles that are so dear to every American. Visit your nearest Army and Air Force Recruiting Station now and find out for yourself. You, yes, you, can help. You are listening to Proudly We Hail. And now for the second act here is your star, Lee Tracy, as Sam Tobin in Raid North. Maybe you should know that when Ben Young and his boys came to town, St. Albans was a busy trading center. We had three banks, good many stores, and businesses, too. We were a prosperous and thriving little city, just made to order for what Ben wanted. It was exactly half past three in the afternoon that his raiding parties struck simultaneously, all over town. It was as beautiful a piece of timing and coordination as you'd ever want to see. At the First National Bank, Albert Sal's, the cashier, and old General John Nathan were all alone. General was 80 and deaf and deeply engrossed in the Springfield Republican, when three men wearing heavy, great coats entered the bank. We're Confederate soldiers. Put up your hands and be quiet. Hey, you what? You heard me, Rick, Billy, into the vault. You, you can't be, you're thieves. Tell me. Quiet. All right, boys.  Why now, sir? I think that's downright insulting you to say that. Hey, what's hey?  All right, you two, out the door and over the green. Just remember, we're not killers and we're not robbers. This money is for the Confederacy. Now, Mark. Some kind of story took place at the Franklin County Bank. Only the boys who held that one up took all the money out of the vault and locked the cashier and the customer in it. And at William and E.D. Fuller's livery stable. All right, bring all the horses out. Grab what saddles you can, man. Quick, now. Hey, hey, hey, hey, you put them horses back. What in Chinese do you think you're doing? Put back them horses, I say. Why, sir, I don't care. I'm so. You don't own these horses, do you? This is my livery stable. What are you doing with those guns?  I'll show you. Can I shoot him steam? Oh, Jim, remember what Ben said. You men ready? Hey, Steve, look at that. Here comes that fellow with a gun again. I'll teach you to steal horses. Why, the con turn, no good gal darn hunk of pig iron. It's empty. Oh, old E.D. He cursed that empty gun till his dying day. About that time, I looked out the messenger's window and saw a big crowd gathering on the green. They were being herded there by a bunch of men on horseback. So me, not knowing enough to mind my own business, I strolled over to see what was going on. Mr. Tobin, come right over and join the party. Is that a gun you're pointing at me, Ben? I don't have my glasses on. I'm afraid so, Mr. Tobin. A Confederate gun. Well, now I'll be.  I'm sure you would, Ben. Now listen, we ain't going to hurt a soul if you don't give us leave. We're Confederate soldiers just paying you all a social call. Hey, Ben. Here comes the Yankee soldier. Make sure he's not on. Get him over here on the green. I'll round up the other boys and we'll get moving. Now, don't try nothing, Captain. You don't want to spoil that pretty blue uniform. Well, George. I should do more in church than count the number of strangers. I should figure out what they're doing here. Guess we're a little late for that. I'm going to make a run for it, Sam. There aren't many of them and they can't watch us all. I'll head for the American House. No, I wouldn't, George. Lots of people here might get hurt, including yourself. I have to take that chance. Here I go. George Conger made the American House safely.  George got hold of a gun and roused all the other people he could find to do like what. Around the green, revolvers shot guns, even some relics of the War of 1812 started potting at Ben and his boys. I saw Conger come around the corner of the American House and let go at Ben with the rifle. Ben shot that with his revolver. But thank goodness they didn't do anything but add to the conclusion just about the time the American House caught fire all of Ben's troops had reported to the green and saw was bullets singing around their ears from all directions. They gave their famous rebel yell and galloped north, out of town. These folks up here in Vermont still like to talk about. There was Ben and his men running for the safety of the Canadian border and right behind riding just as hard was George Conger leading a posse of slightly riled town folks. Not all the men in Ben's company rode good mounts and others were loaded down with the Yankee money they'd relieved the town of. As a result, it wasn't long before Ben realized they were being overtaken. They're gaining on us, Steve. Yeah, right now. See the bridge up ahead? We'll stop and set fire to it. We got time if we don't waste none. When George and his men reached Sheldon they didn't look twice at the bridge that Ben and his troops set fire to. They just tore on across it. By the time the Canadian border was a mile or so away they'd come within shooting range of each other. Ben and his raiders didn't stop at the immigration house on the border with the shots of their Yankee pursuers whining about their ears. They pounded into Canada. If the rebels hoped the border would stop George and his men, they were sadly mistaken. When Vermont folks get riled, they get real riled. My Steve, let's go through this trail here. Careful, Steve. That's a mountain. Look here, I'm George Conger, captain of the first Vermont cavalry. And I'm Lieutenant Bennett Young of the 13th Georgia Regiment, Confederate States Cavalry. And I'm Inspector Scotty Lawrence of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. How do you do, gentlemen? First, you'll both enjoy your stay here in Canada. What do you mean? I mean, gentlemen, but you two are to get to know each other pretty well. For you're both under arrest. It will be the guests of the Canadian government as internees for the duration. Yep, both of them interned for the duration. It was some story. Made us famous for a while. For the money, oh, we got that back. Only thing that wasn't interned. Of course, the newspapers in the north went wild, called for all out vengeance, you know. But I always kind of figured that was a harsh way of looking at a downright brilliant piece of mischief. After the war, I remember that even George broke down admitted it was right up to Green Mountain Standard.  One more thing. While all the ruckus and shouting was going on in the newspapers, Ben wrote me a letter. Dear Mr. Tobin, I was sorry to have to leave in such a hurry without saying goodbye to you. As you may have heard, it's a little bit warm in Montreal, but Steven me and the boys find the jail here most accommodating. So does Captain Conga. Mr. Tobin, all of us read your newspaper, The Daily Messenger, during our pleasant stay at the American House in St. Albans. We like it so much. I'm enclosing $3 for a year's subscription. Just mail it to me, care of the Montreal jail. And would you please convey my warmest regards to Miss Rutledge?  Again, excuse my manners and blame my actions on the bustling excitement which accompanied my business in your fair city. Kindest regards, Benedict Young Lieutenant CSA. Yep, he was quite a fella, that young man. Gave me my biggest story. We never forget him up St. Albans way. Our star Lee Tracy will return with a word about next week's program in just a moment. But first, I'd like to point out again that the armed forces of our nation are being expanded. They must be up to strength to defend the principles of freedom and justice. The United States Army needs the help of every young man and young woman in America who is physically fit for service in one of its many branches. Remember, when you put on the uniform of the United States Army, everyone knows you're serving your country at a time when you are needed most. Visit your nearest Army and Air Force Recruiting Station and list now. This has been another program on Proudly We Hail, presented in cooperation with this station by your Army and your Air Force. Proudly We Hail stars Lee Tracy. Supporting Mr. Tracy as Ben Young was bill lifted. Raid North was written by DeWitt Copp. The music was conducted by John Guarnier. Proudly We Hail is directed by Charles Wilkes. This is Kenneth Banghart speaking and here again is your star Lee Tracy. We hope you'll be with us again next week over the same station for another Proudly We Hail. Our story is titled, Forget Me Not, and it's a tale of a lost man, lost memory, a loyal friend, and a mysterious plot. Until then, goodbye.


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a wooded hillside in flame and smoke coming up fires are moving i'm faster than they have in the past with the most dangerous and hottest months of summer still to come 2018 is already blazing through california you have to listen to alert and warnings heed those warnings get out of harm's way are you ready california can't be successful though without it the role you play in wildfire readiness coming up on this edition of inside cal oes logo inside look oes news dot com i'm brian man the cal oes newsroom thanks for joining us fire officials are quick to point out there really is no fire season in california anymore it is a year-round battle and it's a battle that in order to be successful relies on you and we begin with this that big fire burning in yolo county just keeps growing it's now spread to 60 000 acres and is moving toward lake barriessa in nappa county it's 2018 is already shaping up to be another one for the record books already this year there have been over 3 000 responses to wildfires in california and that's up more than 250 from this time last year and in a one-week period the week of july 4th there were over 300 responses to new wildfires in just one week california of course is a is a disaster prone state it's not just wildfire we have earthquakes and floods and all different kinds of things so we can't drop the ball and not keep our eye on all the different hazards that exist in california while fire crews continue to work around the clock to keep you safe they do ask one favor in return now is the time for you to clear your vegetation to ensure you've met all your requirements for defensible space right now it's just five percent contained there are mandatory evacuations for several areas north of highway 128 the new normal in california are devastating fire seasons and uh you know there's a finite amount of resources there there's just this we must depend on everyone in the state to be ready uh and that's neighbor helping neighbor that's you know we're from it when it comes to early warning that means neighbors sharing information with neighbors you know ensuring everyone gets out you just can't dial 911 when you have a major disaster and going to get all the resources there to help you you conceivably could be on your own for a period of time you have to listen to alert and warnings heed those warnings get out of harm's way have a plan all right joining us now live is the Cal OES state fire and rescue chief kim zageris and chief first of all thanks for joining us we just saw the numbers from 2018 on this fire season tell us what it looks like i know we're up from last year and that's not really a race that we want to win well unfortunately uh it's been a it's been a busy spring and summer's already off to hard run and i would tell you that uh at least last couple weeks uh going back to the start of the pawny fire and now onto several new fires uh we've actually seen a number of uh structures residences destroyed and other outbuildings and unfortunately uh at least with the uh climate on fire up and up uh up by hornbrook uh one fatality uh from it so uh from my standpoint it's uh not looking to be a good year and i sure hope we don't repeat 2017 chief you have resources all over the state what are your guys on the ground seeing as far as conditions i know we had the drought for a long time and then last year got out of it but the the fuels are there aren't they uh fuels are there i mean we again we had we had good rain this year so we've got an abundance of grass crop uh really throughout the state uh the other part of the uh cycle i would tell you is that uh you know we normally get uh our rain patterns and they go all winter and uh we get rain over a good period of time and we're not seeing that the way we normally do we see you know those short times of a lot of rain or just enough rain and and then we don't see anything for a while and vegetation uh both the the our timber and our brush they need more time to uh suck up that moisture much like we do when we get dehydrated it takes a little bit of time to to to get that water into our system so the fuels are in much the same situation so the drier the fuels and the more uh grass crop we have the more dangerous it ends up being for fire season and puts uh ultimately the public and our firefighters in danger chief one of the aspects of your job is to look ahead and know what conditions are coming up in the near future i know it was so bad last weekend that you guys pre-positioned some equipment around the state talk about what that entails and why you had to do that well realistically um we're lucky right now is that we've been given 25 million dollars uh uh in our budget to do mobilization for the mutual aid system and we went ahead and staff resources uh in the south part of the state and and at least the holiday fire in in in center barber county in around the city of galeta really paid off extremely well that one strike team was on the initial dispatch and was very helpful in and saving some of the structures which we wouldn't have had any losses but anyway it is it is way things are working but uh it's somewhat of a new program although we've been pre-positioning the past through a variety of means but we actually have a line budget item in which to be able to do these right now so we're very appreciative to both the governor and the legislature and the support we have from the california fire service for what we're able to do right now the harsh reality is we are still very early in the season if there is a fire season although it's almost year-round now so we still have a lot of danger ahead talk about what you need california residents to do to help you and your men and women do their job well hopefully those who are live in the wildland area um have already done their clearance although realistically we know that's not true um i would tell folks that you know uh if you live live in a wildland area you do need to have clearance a hundred feet is is is what we really need to have out there if you haven't done it already uh we would ask that if you're going to do it we would recommend you do it that you do it the morning hour is when it's cooler uh the humidity is up a little bit more if you have anything uh that you're going to do clearance uh that may cause a spark make sure you've got some water a hand tool nearby and in some way of calling 911 and if you have a fire that starts please call 911 first and then and then work towards uh you know trying to put the fire out before the fire department gets there but uh those are you know our real basic side of doing things i would also recommend that citizens if you haven't done anything check with the local fire department check with the california department of forest and fire protection cal fire and and go to the websites and and look what you need to get done and one final message chief i know we want to get out is and we say this every year if you are in an area that gets evacuation orders just how crucial it is for people to leave that area when they're told to do so it's extremely crucial not only for their safety uh but as well as the firefighters and the other emergency responders that are coming in uh it provides us more access it provides us an ability to get to get in and not have to worry about uh those folks who haven't left the area it just changes our priorities considerably if they're still in the area the other thing i would also recommend brian is that uh you know if you haven't signed up uh locally with the uh with your local emergency management agency uh please do so so you can get the alerts and warnings uh for uh you know whether it be for wildland fire whether it be for earthquake whatever it is please register don't wait till the till it's too late uh get on board and and do it now kim zegara state fire and rescue chief for calo he has chief thanks for joining us thank you before we go we want to leave you with some important but very simple tips to help you be prepared and ready in case you find yourself in the path of a wildfire first make sure you've signed up for any community warnings from your local county law enforcement and fire departments gather all of your important documents like birth certificates passports and titles along with any family pictures and have them all together in one place also have your family plan and kit ready in case you get evacuated if cell phone services down your plan should include where you and your family will meet if you're separated and your kit should include food bottled water flashlights and batteries if you're asked to evacuate do so and then as soon as you can let your family and friends know that you're safe you can go to redcross.org and register yourself as safe and well and that will do it for this edition of inside look i'm brian may for all of us at cal oes thanks for watching visit our online newsroom 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Let's look at the story of Iron John. This is actually a Grim Fairy tale, so it's really old. And it was made popular by Robert Bly and his book, Iron John. It's a great read. It's a kind of, they call it a mythopoetic type of thing. So it's a fun read. It's got a lot of really good information. Robert Bly does a great job with it. I'm just going to give a snippet of it and kind of something to help us unpack this whole story thing a little bit.  And adjacent to the castle is this really vast forest. And in the forest is this guy named Iron John. He's the wild man. He is strong, mysterious, and hairy. And the problem is, is that anybody who goes into the forest never comes back. So one day, Iron John, the wild man is captured. And they put him in a cage in the courtyard of the castle. And what happens is, is that the prince is playing, playing with his golden ball. And he's bouncing it around. And somehow, the golden ball bounces into the cage of Iron John. And the prince goes up to the cage. May I have my ball back? Iron John says, only if you release me from the cage. And the boy says, I don't have the key. Where's the key? The key, says Iron John, is under your mother's pillow. The prince is us. He's a boy. But most of us, as we've listened to the stories that have come into us from external places, most of us, we're still boys in our 20s, 30s, 40s, maybe even 50s. We still feel like a boy inside.  The queen, who has the pillow, she's not even in this snippet except that she's the one that has the pillow. She's all women. The queen represents all women in this whole thing. And she has a lot of power in this story. The wild man, wait, hang on a second. So the women, so the queen, a big part of her narrative is that the wild man is not good. As a matter of fact, the wild man scares the hell out of her.  She's going to lose her son. He's going to become some kind of tyrant. He's going to hump everything in sight. He's going to end up in a gutter in some nondescript part of town.   The wild man is our confidence. The wild man is who we are when we are alive. Now there's another thing I was going to say about that. Not coming to me, so that's all right. The mother's pillow. All right, so the mother's pillow is just a distraction. Now here's the thing. It's a pillow. Underneath the pillow's the key. It's just a distraction. It's just something that hides the key. And the key is underneath the mother's pillow. The pillow represents it's a metaphor for women's sexuality. And so it's something that totally distracts us. So imagine that the prince, and he goes back into the castle. He's down the hallway right outside his mother's bedroom. And he goes in, he's all quiet. Goes in, he looks in there. All right, there's the bed, walks on in. There's the pillow. And he sees the pillow. Now what he's looking at is the sexuality of women. And he sees the form. He sees the shape. He sees the beauty. He sees the allure. This is what I've been looking for all my life. She can complete me. She can fulfill me. She can make me whole. She can tell me who I am. And all of a sudden, he totally and absolutely forgets about his mission to get the key to set the wild man free. And this is what we do. This is actually what I think that a, what's it called, the midlife crisis. A midlife crisis is all of a sudden a guy has been distracted with the pillow and women's sexuality, which is a super shiny object that's distracted me. And I lost my mission. My mission was to grab the key and set the wild man free. But I spent 20 years of my life over here with the pillow, which distracted me from my mission to get the key. And I'm, oh, the pillow, right? That's what we do.  So imagine the prince 20 years later standing in his mother's bedroom. What am I here for? I was here for a reason. Oh yeah, my mission. I was gonna grab the key and set the wild man free. So then he goes on over to the pillow. Oh, no, I can't do that again. So he grabs the key and takes off and goes down to the courtyard. And he sees the cage. The cage are the lies that keep us in bondage. The cage that holds the wild man the lies of all those stories that are not true about who you are and about what men are and about what manhood is. That's what keeps us in bondage. And if we believe it, that's what happens. We're in bondage. We are not free. So here's the whole thing.  Of course. But the prince, you will be free. You will be alive. You will live with vigor and vitality. And one of my favorite words, thumos. You will be alive. So the narrative is if the wild man set free, everything's gonna be horrible. But the truth is everything's gonna be awesome.


Hello, my name is Daniel Helfan and I'm a developer advocate with Red Hat's OpenShift Container Platform. In this video, I'm going to walk you through the OpenShift Pipelines tutorial. OpenShift Pipelines is OpenShift's cloud-native CICD solution based on Tecton. For those unfamiliar with the concept of cloud-native, in the context of CICD, what we're really referring to is the ability to run each step of a CICD pipeline in its own container. And this allows us to address issues of scale associated with CICD but also allows us to do things to improve the performance of a particular build or a pipeline run. And this is achieved by being able to actually run steps of a pipeline in parallel based on dependencies that are defined from previous steps that have executed along the pipeline. On a broader scale, OpenShift Pipelines helps to address issues of serverless in terms of actually having to maintain a CICD server. And it also makes all of the resources that you define as part of your CICD process in terms of pipelines and steps that run on those pipelines highly reusable across projects that you might be working with. In order to actually go through this tutorial, you'll need a couple of prerequisites. So the biggest one is that you'll need an OpenShift 4 cluster. And if you don't have one, you can sign up for one at try.openshift.com and then set up an OpenShift 4 cluster on AWS. The other thing that you'll need is the Tekton CLI. So there are instructions available at the Tekton CLI GitHub that will walk you through how to install the Tekton CLI on any operating system that you might be working on. The last part in terms of what you'll need as a prerequisite is either the OpenShift CLI, Cube CTL, or the OpenShift web console. And you'll use any of these three tools to create Kubernetes custom resources as part of this tutorial. In this video, I'll primarily be using the OpenShift CLI. In this next part of the video, what I'm going to focus on are some high level concepts that are associated with Tekton. In this portion of the video, I'm going to go over some high level concepts of Tekton that I think will be helpful for people going through this tutorial. Tekton is based on Kubernetes custom resources that are an extension of the Kubernetes API. We define these custom resources in order to capture aspects of CI CD that we would like to use with Kubernetes. The first resource that we think about defining when we are working with Tekton is a task. You can imagine a pipeline that builds, tests, and deploys your application. Each of those steps would be captured by a task when we think about working with Tekton. A task will on OpenShift allocate a pod, and then each task consists of a series of steps that will be necessary for, in an example case, building an application. And then each step will actually run in its own container. And this helps us to address issues of scale and then overall pipeline performance in terms of how long it takes a pipeline to execute. The next resource that we think about defining is a pipeline. A pipeline is a series of tasks that ultimately are combined to work together to automate some aspect of your application development process. Next, we think about defining pipeline resources. Pipeline resources are inputs or outputs associated with your CI CD process. So an input example that we can think of is a Git repository. So this will be the source code that your CI CD process works with. And an output that we can think of is an image that is actually pushed to an image registry as the result of running through all the tasks on a pipeline. Next, we think about task runs and pipeline runs. A pipeline run is the actual execution of a pipeline. And ultimately the result of that pipeline, whether or not it succeeded or failed. And then each task that is along a pipeline has its own task run as well. So later in this tutorial, we will actually use a pipeline run resource to actually trigger this pipeline that we're going to use in this tutorial to deploy a sample application. I hope that these high level concepts were helpful for anyone watching this video and proceeding with the tutorial. In the next portion of this video, I will go over how to install OpenShift Pipelines on an OpenShift 4 cluster. In this portion of the video, I'm going to show you how to install the OpenShift Pipelines operator in order to install OpenShift Pipelines on our OpenShift 4 cluster. We have this documented in the Pipelines tutorial repository on GitHub. But what I'm going to do is take you through this step by step. To start, what you'll do is you'll come out to your OpenShift 4 cluster and you'll go ahead and create a project. In this case, I will call it Pipelines. Next, what we can do is head out to the operator hub and click on operator hub. Next, click on integration and delivery and simply scroll down and you'll see the OpenShift Pipelines operator. You'll click on the continue button here and then install. And then you can leave all the default values and hit subscribe. So what's going to happen here now is that you'll see the zero installing option here will go to one installing and then it will officially be installed once one installed appears right here. So what we're doing here is not actually installing OpenShift Pipelines. What we're doing is installing the operator and the operator will install OpenShift Pipelines and will also handle upgrades of OpenShift Pipelines on our cluster. So I'm going to go ahead and now click on one installed. And what you'll see here is this OpenShift Pipelines install option.  So I'll go ahead and click create new. And then the last thing that you'll do here is just leave this resource definition as is and click create. So now that we've gone through these steps, we've successfully installed OpenShift Pipelines on our OpenShift for cluster. And the next portion of the video when I'm going to go over is creating a service account for OpenShift Pipelines and also showing you how to set up the sample application that we're going to deploy in this tutorial. In this portion of the video, I'm going to go over some steps that will be needed in order to deploy the sample application as part of the OpenShift Pipelines tutorial. The sample application that we'll be deploying is the Spring Pet Clinic application. So this is just a simple Java Spring Boot application. And if you'd like to learn more, you can head over to their GitHub repository here. In order to give OpenShift Pipelines the appropriate permissions to use tools such as S2I and Builda to actually build the container image for the Spring Pet Clinic application, we'll need to create a service count and give that service count the appropriate permissions to use those tools. To do this, what I'm going to do is run all the commands that have been listed here as part of the steps through the tutorial. The first thing I'm going to do is create a project that we will work with. And this will be where the Spring Pet Clinic application is ultimately deployed to. I'm going to call it Pipelines tutorial. So our project has now been created. Next, what I'm going to do is set up our service count. So the first thing that I'll need to do is create the service count. I'm going to call it Pipeline. Next, I will give it the appropriate permissions that are needed for this tutorial. And I'll just run one more command here. So now our service account is set up with all the appropriate permissions that we need. And the last step that we'll need to do is that we'll need to create an image stream for the Spring Pet Clinic project. And this will define some properties that are needed in order to set up everything that will be needed to host the application on OpenShift. So to do that, I am going to head back out to the terminal and run the following command. And this will basically pull the raw content from GitHub that has been defined for this image stream for Pet Clinic. So you'll see here that we created an image stream, a deployment config, a service, and then a route that will be needed for the Spring Pet Clinic project. So if we head back out to our OpenShift cluster, we can search for the project that we just created. And then we can see that our deployment config is set up here and we should be ready to proceed with the next steps of the tutorial. So in the next part of this video, I'm going to go over how you can create tasks and then ultimately add those tasks as part of a pipeline that will be used to deploy the Spring Pet Clinic application out to OpenShift. In this portion of the video, I'm going to show you how to create tasks and then ultimately add those tasks to a pipeline that will be used to deploy the Spring Pet Clinic application as a part of the OpenShift Pipelines tutorial. As mentioned previously, tasks when they run on OpenShift allocate their own pod. And then each step within a task runs on its own container. To show you one of the tasks that we will be using as part of our pipeline, I'm going to take you out to the Pipelines catalog repository under OpenShift where you can find several tasks for several different use cases. In our case, we are going to be looking at one called S2I Java 8. So as you can see, this is a custom resource definition. And we are going to call this S2I Java 8 because this is going to use source to image to build an image for Java 8 source code. We can specify an input for this task. And in this case, we are giving it a name of source and a type of git. So what we're doing is basically saying that this task will take an input of a git repository. Next, we can define outputs associated with the task. And we give it a name of the image and then a type of image. So what we're saying here is that this task is going to produce an image that will be used for Java 8 source code. Next, we define all the steps that are associated with a particular task. As mentioned, each task runs in its own container. So we can specify for each step which image we would like that container to run. In this first case, we are giving a step, a name of generate. And this is because we're using S2I to generate an image for the Spring Pet Clinic application that we'll use. Then we use the image from Quay here, which has S2I on it. And then in the next step here, we're going to give a name of build. And this is because we're going to actually build the image using Builda. And we can specify that by saying that we want to use an image that has Builda available on it. So ultimately, what we'll do with this task is that we will input the Spring Pet Clinic git repository and it will produce us an image that we can use on OpenShift. In order to add these tasks to our OpenShift cluster, what we'll need to do is use the OpenShift CLI to run the commands that are specified here. So I'm going to go out to the terminal now. And I'm going to run the following commands to create the two tasks that will be used as part of the our Spring Pet Clinic pipeline. First, I'm going to create one called OpenShift Client Task. And this will be a task that has the OpenShift CLI, which will be used to ultimately deploy the image that we create from this next task that I just showed you the S2I Java 8 task. So I've added these tasks to our OpenShift cluster. And then using the Tecton CLI or TKN, I can observe what tasks I have available under the namespace that I'm working with. So in this particular case, I'm working with the Pipelines tutorial project. And I can see that I just added these two tasks to this namespace. So next, what we'll need to do is we'll need to add these tasks to a pipeline. As mentioned previously, a pipeline is a combination of tasks that can be used to automate some part of your application development process. To show you the pipeline we'll be using in this tutorial, I'm going to take you out to this Pipelines tutorial repo that we've been working in and go under the Resources folder. Here you'll see that we have another custom resource definition. We are specifying that this is a pipeline and we're getting it a name. We're going to call it Deploy Pipeline. We can specify the resources that will be associated with this pipeline. So these are going to be the inputs and outputs that come as a result of this pipeline. In the first case, we're specifying that we have one called AppGit and it's of TypeGit. So this is where we can actually define what specific Git repository that we're going to use as part of this pipeline. And then we can specify the image that is created as a result of running this pipeline. Then we can specify the tasks that run along the pipeline. In the first case, we have one called Build and this will use the S2I Java 8 task. We can specify that this task has inputs associated with it and specify that the resource to be inputted to it is AppGit and that it will ultimately create a resource as an output called AppImage. The next task along our pipeline here is Deploy and we'll use the OpenShiftClient task and we can specify using the RunAfter property here that we want this to only run after the build task has completed. So ultimately what we're doing with this pipeline here is we are combining the tasks to build our image and then push our image to a registry and then we will deploy that image using the OpenShiftClient. So the last step that we'll have to do here is we need to actually add this pipeline to our namespace just like I did the tasks. So I'll come out to my terminal again and I will run the following command and you'll see now that I've created the Deploy Pipeline and I can actually see the pipeline that is available in my namespace and you'll see that we've added Deploy Pipeline. So using the OpenShift CLI we've been able to take these custom resource definitions, tasks and pipelines and then add them to our OpenShift namespace so that we can ultimately use these to deploy the SpringPet Clinic application. In the next part of this video we're going to actually launch a pipeline run that will execute this pipeline and then deploy the SpringPet Clinic application out to OpenShift. In this last portion of the OpenShift Pipelines tutorial video I'm going to show you how you can trigger a pipeline that will ultimately deploy the SpringPet Clinic application out to OpenShift using OpenShift Pipelines. As mentioned previously we will need to include inputs and outputs that are associated with our pipeline and the way that we can do this is by defining what are called pipeline resource definitions. To show you some of the pipeline resource definitions that we'll use for this tutorial I'm going to take you out to the resources folder under the Pipelines tutorial repo and you can see that we start by specifying a kind of pipeline resource and then we ultimately give a name to our resource and say that we are defining a Pet Clinic image and specifying that we're giving it a type of image and then we can specify a URL that will be associated with the image registry that we are pushing this image to. The next pipeline resource that we define is a Git repository and we're calling it Pet Clinic Git and we give it a type of Git and then we specify the URL associated with the Git repository. You'll notice that previously we did not explicitly define the Git URL in our pipeline anywhere and that's because this is building on the idea that we want to have tasks and pipelines be highly reusable so you can create these resources that can be simple inputs and outputs but the pipelines and the tasks themselves never explicitly define these resources within them. In order to create this on our OpenShift cluster we can run the command here so I'll go back out to our terminal and I'll run this command to create these inputs and outputs that will be associated with our pipeline so you can see they've been added. There's not currently a command with the Tecton CLI that allows you to see resources but it will be available in a newer version of the Tecton CLI. So next now that we've created these resources that we can use as part of our pipeline the last thing that we want to set up is a pipeline run and a pipeline run is how you actually kick off a pipeline with the resources that we just defined as shown here. To show you this under the resources folder of the pipeline tutorial repository I can come here and show you that we have a kind of pipeline run and we are saying that we want to use the deploy pipeline that we created. It's going to use the service account that we've created and here's where we can define the resources associated with the pipeline. So in this case AppGit is going to refer to PetClinicGit that we just created through the resource and then we are going to specify that AppImage is associated with the PetClinicImage resource that we just created. So in order to go ahead and launch our pipeline using a pipeline run we are going to do it just like we've done with all the resources we are going to use the OpenShift CLI and we are going to run the command that is shown here. So I'll go back out to the terminal and we'll run this. So this will actually kick off the execution of the pipeline that we've defined and it will deploy the Spring PetClinic application out to OpenShift. So you'll see that we just created a pipeline run and we can view this pipeline run through the CLI. So you'll see that we have this pipeline run and the status of it is running and that's just because we've kicked it off. So to actually view the logs of this pipeline what we can do is we can run the following command with the Tecton CLI. We can run TKNPR logs and PR stands for pipeline run. So we're going to take the name here of the pipeline run and include that in the logs. And so what we can do with this command is just watch the logs of our PetClinic application deploying out to OpenShift and it might just take a second to start up here. So you can see some of the output of the logs that are coming through right now. So while this is actually deploying out to OpenShift I'm going to go ahead and pause the video. So our pipeline run has concluded successfully and we can verify that using the following command with the Tecton CLI. So you'll see that our pipeline run has a status of succeeded and it also reports the time that it took the pipeline run to execute. So the duration was seven minutes. And then the last step that we'll want to do is we'll want to actually head out to our OpenShift 4 cluster and just verify that the application is up and running as expected. So we can click on our pipeline tutorial project, click on the deployment config, and then the resources, and then click on the route associated with the application. And we see that it has successfully deployed and the Spring Pet Clinic application is up and running on OpenShift and has been deployed by OpenShift pipelines. So thank you for taking the time to watch this video and go through the tutorial with me. If there's any feedback that you can report we'd love for you to open issues in this repository but also feel free to open pull requests if you think that there's anything you can contribute back in terms of making this tutorial better. Thank you so much again for your time and we hope that this was helpful in explaining on the concepts of OpenShift pipelines.


The Second World War waged for almost 11 months after D-Day. There were many vital engagements which led to eventual victory for the Allies, but here are some events that led to victory in Europe or V-E-Day. The Allies did not consider the liberation of Paris to be a primary objective. They would rather keep their attention on the German forces retreating towards the Rhine. On August 21st, Eisenhower met with French General Charles de Gaulle and told him of his plans to bypass Paris. De Gaulle told Eisenhower that if his advance against Paris was not ordered, he would send the French Second Armored Division into the city himself. Eisenhower then agreed to proceed with the liberation of Paris. Hitler had ordered Paris defended to the last man and demanded that the city not fall into Allied hands except as a field of ruins. General Dietrich von Kultus began laying explosives under Paris' bridges and many of its landmarks as ordered. On August 23rd, free French forces attacked the German garrison, armed with the knowledge that General Patton's army was right behind them. On August 25th, the Allies and French Resistance Force liberated Paris. The order to commence the destruction of Paris was never given because Kultus did not want to go down in history as the man who destroyed Europe's most celebrated city. The Battle of the Bulge was the largest battle fought on the western front in Europe during World War II. It was a German offensive intended to drive a wedge between the American and British armies in France and the Low Countries so Germany could recapture the port of Anferp to deny the Allies' use of the port facilities. It was a massive gamble on the part of Hitler, one he lost badly. The Red Army had been advancing deeper into Poland since mid-January. Having liberated Warsaw and Krakow, Soviet troops headed for Auschwitz. Ten days before the Soviets arrived, the Germans started the death march where 58,000 prisoners were evacuated to another concentration camp 35 miles away. On arrival at Auschwitz, the Soviets found just 7,500 emaciated men and women and only 600 out of the 1.1 million corpses. The Yalta Conference was the second wartime meeting of the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. During the conference, the three leaders agreed to demand Germany's unconditional surrender and began plans for a post-World War Europe. Stalin also agreed to permit free elections in Eastern Europe and to enter the war in the Pacific against Japan. Although he did help fight the Japanese, he broke his promise of free elections in Eastern Europe and instead installed governments dominated by the Soviet Union. This was the start of the Cold War. Hundreds of bombers descended on Dresden in two waves. By the morning, some 800 British bombers had dropped more than 1,400 tons of high explosive bombs and more than 1,100 tons of incendiaries on Dresden, destroying the city. By bombing Dresden, the Allies disrupted important lines of communication that would have hindered the Soviet offensive. Crossing the Rhine was the last major obstacle in the way of a full-on race to Berlin. The Allies expected a fierce defensive on the Rhine. Hitler ordered the destruction of all bridges that spanned the Rhine to stop the Allies from crossing. The Allies came up to the Rhine. They found that the Germans had destroyed all bridges except for one. Or the Allies crossed the river. They sprung a surprise attack by dropping thousands of airborne troops behind enemy lines to devastate the German artillery. First bridgeheads were established. It took just nine hours to cross the Rhine. The Allies coming from the West and the Soviet Union coming from the East were on a race to see who would make it to Berlin first. Eisenhower ordered the Allies to stop just outside of Berlin so that the Soviets could capture Berlin for themselves. The Red Army would sustain more than 300,000 casualties in the battle for Berlin. Eisenhower did not want to suffer such a toll for territory that would be given to the Soviet Union anyway under the agreement previously made at the Yalta Conference. By May 2, the Soviets had the city under full control and the war was over. The 8th of May is when German troops finally laid down their arms. Celebrations erupted throughout the world. From Moscow to Los Angeles, people celebrated. In the United Kingdom, more than one million people celebrated in the streets to mark the end of World War II in Europe. Still to this day, VE Day is a celebrated holiday throughout the world.