Hey, what's up everybody. This is Chris from the rewired soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution And I am live right now because there was some big news today from President Donald Trump about the opioid crisis and This is what I am labeling part 2 of the 60 minutes episode about the opioid crisis from the X DEA agent So there are some things that I want to touch on I'm pulling up an email That has a lot of points From this and by the way, if I'm really loud right now like turn your volume down Usually when I pre-record these things I can adjust the volume, but the mic I got I think is like too good So it yeah, it makes it very loud. So anyways Just a kind of recap where we left off on this opioid epidemic And also if any of you have questions that you want to ask me about the opioid epidemic like leave them in the comments I have it pulled up on my computer. So anyways To recap what was going on. So last week 60 minutes did an episode where they interviewed an X DEA agent And his job was to keep the pharmaceutical companies and the distributors in check But he ran into a lot of roadblocks from Congress Tom Marino, he was one of the main issues with that and right after that 60 minutes episode because Tom Marino Was in the running to be the new national drug czar and then all of a sudden 60 minutes exposes this guy and he kind of just Backed out of the picture a little bit and it's because he's one of the reasons why we are where we are today And it was probably smart of him to back out because if not why I'm guessing like with the way Trump's been You know, you're fired to people lately like Marino wasn't gonna last long but anyways just some more information about what that 60 minutes episode was about was They were basically talking about how, you know, these distributors aren't in check and a lot of it, you know has to do with Doctors and pharmacies taking advantage of the situation because there are hi, Coney. How you doing there weren't as many restrictions on How they were distributing these opioids one of the ones that I highlighted in my previous video was a town of Less than 400 people and they got 9 million pills in the in about two years so This crisis isn't what people think it is when people hear opioid crisis a lot of people think heroin but the reality is is that That cool, Coney What what the reality is is that not as many people are on heroin as they are prescription medications If you ask just about any heroin addict and if I have any recovering heroin addicts in the chat Like please feel free to you know say like most heroin addicts Started out with prescription opioids I was a prescription opioid addict and I was about five seconds away from Becoming a heroin addict like that stuff is expensive I actually just finished doing a news interview for Channel 3 news here in Las Vegas So go and check it out like tonight if you're in Vegas If not, I will be posting the link to it on the rewired soul Facebook page I'll probably put some clips and some kind of video up here on the YouTube page But I was interviewed by them and we're discussing, you know the opioid epidemic Anyways, let's get to the main course. So Donald Trump came on the news today and he announced this national Emergency okay now a few things that we need to talk about real quick is that for the for the last So two months ago Donald Trump said that this was going to be a national emergency Two weeks ago. He said the same thing Yesterday in an interview. He said the same thing today. It was announced that this is a public health emergency now I am somebody who is very optimistic glasses half full and I just want to lay that out before I get into this next part So what everybody needs to understand is that the fact that it's only a public health emergency that is how They decide how this money is did getting distributed and how many hoops it has to go through So basically with making it a public health emergency Whenever they want to allocate funds to any city or state to help with the opioid epidemic Any allocation of funds has to pass through Congress first So as many of you know giving things passed through Congress Takes a little bit of time and when I say a little bit of time I'm being very generous so a lot of people are very upset about that right now If had he declared it an actual national emergency it would have pulled out of a different fund They could just throw money wherever they want to whenever they need to be a very quick process But with it being a public health emergency That means that it could take a little bit longer now Um Just politics aside like when it when it comes to politics just let you know like I judge, you know situation by situation So first thing I will say I don't think Donald Trump's ever gonna see this video so I don't mind saying this I honestly think like what I know about Donald Trump I think that he just kept using the word national emergency instead of public health emergency I don't think he did that in a malicious kind of like lying way I literally think that he didn't know there was a difference between the two things and That's why you know, he just kept saying the other one And so a lot of people are saying that he was lying But like I just legit don't think this dude knew the difference like do you all remember when they were talking about? repealing and replacing Obamacare and President Trump went out there and it was like nobody knew that insurance was this complicated And it was like yeah, dude a lot of people knew that insurance was pretty complicated So good for you Trump stand up there and try to look pretty But I don't think he knew the difference between these two different health crisis. Oh, but anyways So it will take some more time and sorry. I'm not looking at the camera right now I'm just sharing this to the reward soul Facebook page But like it's a step in the right direction so now let's talk about some of the things that this Crisis or no, there's not public health emergencies going to do. Let's go over some of these talking points. All right, so One of them one of the points is the new policy to overcome a strict 1960 rule that prevents states from limiting beds There's a lot of issues. Okay, so I'm really glad that this is happening There's a lot of issues with bed availability and some of them are restrictions like so this is going to counteract something like For example, I work at a rehab where our inpatient facility has 150 beds and that's like one of the biggest in the country and You know, there are people who still have to go on our waiting list like and that's nuts Okay, so hopefully this will help create more beds for treatment Now one thing that's that I also want to touch on I'm very happy about this as well Because I was scared. I was scared when they did this because this could have gone in two different directions when Trump announced this in the first direction, which would have been terrible what this Emergency could have meant is that they were going to start Increasing incarceration rates locking drug addicts up, which would have been terrible So they have gone the other route where they are saying that this money is going to be allocated towards Treatment, okay giving people help so treatment as well as education and awareness so they they took a very good route with this and I got to give them props for that because What we've seen with the failed war on drugs and some of the stuff Jeff Sessions has said has made me kind of like I it's really hard. They've had some good and some bad But it sounds like they're going in the right direction. So only time will tell So this means that they're not going to be using all this money to hire More cops or fund specific agencies to just crack down on drug addicts Because drug addicts are people struggling with an illness and they need treatment They don't need to be locked up. Most of the people who get locked up for nonviolent drug offenses They go back out they they have a record. They can't find a job So they go back and either sell drugs or use drugs. So I'm very glad that they're allocating this money towards treatment. All right So the next talking point Implement best practices for safe opioid prescribing this beautiful I did a video a few weeks ago and what Jeff Sessions has done. They are making a special task force and It's a pilot program for I think 13 selected states and Nevada was one of them and what this is It's a special division that looks at doctors and how they are prescribing opioids One of the things that I talked about in my news three interview a couple hours ago was that we are over prescribing I got hooked on prescription opioid medications when my kids mom after she had my son She had a C-section they prescribed her 200 pills a hundred Vicodin and a hundred Percocet, okay, like C-sections is you know, obviously like one of the worst pains you could be in But that might have been too many pills But one of the issues is is that a lot of people struggle with acute pain? And they just throw pills at them and they give them a month supply for pain medications that could have been Prescribed for a week. Okay, so almost like, you know, you got sick or you got an injury or whatever Rather than giving somebody a month's worth give them a week's worth and then they got to come back to the doctor's office So we make sure that we're not creating drug addicts symptoms of opioid dependency can Come about in about two weeks two weeks somebody can become dependent So somebody can go from non addict to addict in about two weeks So prescribing these medications on a week-by-week basis is much better so I'm glad that they are going to be looking into Educating doctors as well as cracking down on some of the shady doctors about how they are prescribing medications Now one thing that they're talking about and they haven't said what it is yet They're talking about eliminating one of the high-risk opioids from the market completely and My guess if they do that it would be fentanyl like fentanyl is some strong stuff Fendal is 30 to 50 times more potent than heroin The fact that any doctor can let somebody go home with that is Absolutely insane, so hopefully they are eliminating fentanyl from the market Nobody should be able to go to a pharmacy and pick up fentanyl The only time you should be getting fentanyl is if you just had a surgery or you're in chronic pain and at the hospital Yeah, and that's the other issue people are getting a hold of fentanyl and they are cutting it with heroin. Thank you Marissa so Next thing the postal service so part of this public health emergency is the postal service is Increasing inspection of packages coming into the country now. I do not know what that means like are they going to be opening packages I have no idea what that means like I can imagine this bringing about like some Privacy issues and stuff like that like it's illegal to open somebody else's mail And like I don't know how they're gonna check it Something needs to be done about that because you have to understand so there's fentanyl and then there's car fentanyl So car fentanyl is more potent than fentanyl I believe car fentanyl is about a hundred times more potent than heroin and this comes from China So what they're talking about is inspecting packages better that are coming from China and other places where there's Fields of opium, you know where where a lot of these drugs are being made So like that's kind of cool But like there's also some shady stuff on the dark web and none of you out there go We like don't look into this but there's a lot of places on the dark web where you can legit order Pills and drugs online, which is even more dangerous because you don't know how it's made or what it's made from So now it says The Department of Justice has indicted drug traffickers for distributing fentanyl into the US and the Department of Justice Pursuing those who illegally prescribe and traffic both in our communities and on the internet federal government being Or having a lawsuit against people and companies hurting our people. So that's good. Okay, that is the complete opposite of what that 60 minutes episode was about because they were making it harder for the DEA to do that So hopefully this means that they're cracking the whip on it now There is this insane argument out there like that is completely insane where they're trying to say that if we quit Prescribing these very potent very addictive very dangerous opioids people are gonna like limp into the doctor in pain Not get the drugs they want and then go find a heroin dealer like that is nuts Like that's crazy. That is some like propaganda scare tactic type stuff Don't buy into it. Okay, like that's just not how the world works and One thing is is that we've turned ourselves into this society and it's gonna take time to Change the way that people think about pain Because I could see this happening on a very small scale as people not getting prescribed opioids and going to find opioids Like illegally I see that happening on a very small scale But if we can do this for the next ten years or so that option is not gonna pop into people's heads like oh Better go find a heroin dealer like let's do that So I'm glad the Department of Justice is pursuing the people like I was talking to one of the clients today And they were asking me my thoughts on locking up drug dealers and like here's my thing a lot of us drug addicts Had to deal drugs in order to support our habit. I'm guilty of it I used to Sell pills to make a profit to go buy more pills and it's a mess somebody like me needs help but you have people who are non addicts and they are Dealing drugs just to make money. They are fueling this epidemic and as well as other addictions and stuff like that And like speaking of those people, you know doctors and pharmacies for suitable companies. So like let's be real All right, so now here's some really cool stuff. Here is some cool stuff. I hope you're still watching All right, so the National Institute on Health to provide substantial resources Include advertising campaign especially geared towards children Not not to want to take drugs in the first place if we can teach young people not to take drugs This is the most important thing So we need to get to the people before they start this is good Like the fact that the National Institute of Health is even getting involved in this is very cool Like my number one resource for a lot of the information I get that I put in my videos that I do here on YouTube They come from the National Institute on Health they they put up all their studies all their research So the fact that the government is letting them play a role in this is huge and yeah Like I'm glad that they're getting involved when it comes to drug prevention Now Jeff Sessions wants to you know, put billions of dollars towards the dare program anybody watching this take the dare program like So Hopefully like they can counterbalance this with some like advertising campaigns and stuff It's just I hope it's done in a smart way Like I hope it's not any of these like this is your brain on drugs type stuff Because it's been proven million times not to work I think the best way for us to teach children and like what I teach my son and he's Only eight turning nine like it's just teaching them better coping skills The reason people turn to drugs to the first place is because they don't want to feel a certain way and a lot of the times It's just being sad being angry being lonely being frustrated You know just wanting to escape their reality So I hope part of this campaign is just giving kids alternatives to how to deal with these things, you know um And it also says National Institute on Health has taken steps of partnership to develop non-addictive painkillers new prescriptions for overdose and pushing the concept Even more of non-addictive painkillers. So like here's here's a thing. Here's here's my issue All right, I'm gonna get real with all of you watching this right now. Here's my issue like I Like every time we do something like we're trying to just replace One pill for another pill and yeah, this might be non-addictive like cool, but like if you do the research, there are so many non Like Non-medicated ways to treat pain like I just don't get why we're we're not using them I it doesn't make sense to me like why are we gonna say? Oh, well the solution to get rid of these pills is to find like a new pill It's like well, how about we try some of these holistic methods? How about we try like legitimate ways to treat this pain at the source? So maybe the person just doesn't have chronic pain for the rest of their life, you know But like cool is good that they're doing that But I just I just really wish that we looked more towards other Countries and what they're doing because the fact is we prescribe more medications than anybody We're a very scientific community and I love that. I love that about the United States like science. Yeah, science is my jam You know what I mean, but Like we need to also look towards these holistic methods that don't involve medication Like when I tell people when I tell people that there are ways to treat Depression anxiety pain, you know all these things bipolar ADHD PTSD I tell them that there is a way to treat these things without medications They look at me like I am a crazy person like and just that reaction in and of itself Shows you how we have been made to believe that you need a medication to solve literally any problem And I think that's what we need to start changing in this country Is how we address these things and quit turning the medications so quickly today? One of my alumni was sharing her story with me and at eight years old eight years old Okay, like are y'all hear me right now as old as my son is eight years old. She was prescribed Xanax and Adderall like What like are you serious right now?  So anyways moving along. So it says now check this out. This is more good news from trucks announcement They're going to be distributing one billion dollars oh No, one billion dollars in grants for treatment like that is awesome like I I don't know who's in charge of this money and I hope they're getting some smart people Like I hope they're getting facing addiction involved on this Like I really hope they're getting facing addiction involved on this because I was one billion dollars like I would want to see more treatment centers I would want to see incentives For people going and getting educated in substance abuse counseling Trauma counseling everything that leads to substance abuse. That's where I would want to see that in treatment as well as Educating more people to help those who are addicted like for example in Nevada Like our school system isn't that great and they give a lot of perks Like if you're a teacher and you come to Nevada like you get perks like one of my friends is a teacher They they might help you when you buy your house. They might give you a bonus. They might you know do all these different things like we need to start Creating these incentives for people to take the path towards addiction treatment Whatever whenever one of my clients tells me that you know once they get some clean time They want to go back to school and they want to pursue a career in this. I'm like yes Yes, yes, yes because we need more people. This is a very difficult job There's a lot of death a lot of tragedy and it takes a certain kind of person and You need to get educated like you can't just get like a licensed Mary marriage and family therapists to treat drug addicts like it's not how it works The only reason I'm even half decent at my job is because I can connect with the addicts and alcoholics Who come into my treatment center every single day? but anyways like One billion dollars in grants cool and like some people are getting all upset like it should be more money like Let's spend the one billion and then let's do this and that's the other thing. There's some news Places out there like I think I saw on CNN. They're like attacking it like because so the way this public health emergency works They're actually pulling funds from FEMA and they're talking about how We just got hit with three like major Hurricanes in the United States, you know, and you got Puerto Rico Florida Houston all these places and it's just like Whatever like I won't dive too much too much into that because like I am not like an economics major Hell, I'm not even a major in anything. I went to college for like a semester Like I'm like I would just imagine. Okay. All right. Here's Chris's ignorance economics 101 for you I would imagine like who cares who cares where the money is coming from I don't care if Trump pulls a billion dollars from underneath his mattress Like if they're getting a one one billion dollars like wherever it's from like cool Now if this is something that's gonna harm Relief efforts for the places that were hit by hurricanes that kind of sucks And it just sucks like a lot of people are struggling with depression right now Because we just keep getting hit back to back to back with tragedies and like everything keeps getting bumped up and down on the priority list like I Like whoever's idea was to do the 60 minutes episode like I don't know like they should get a Nobel Peace Prize I I truly believe that none of this would have happened like had it not been for 60 minutes Exposing all the stuff because as soon as that happened Tom Marino withdrew his nomination Trump got on the news and was talking about it like like they got a lot of eyeballs on it Hell my biggest video right now is about that special like People like got some awareness about it. So whoever came up with that like episode like not kudos to you Sir or ma'am. Okay. So next it says 81 million partnership pain management techniques for our veterans like that's cool like that's cool, but This is gonna sound very terrible right now because like I'm glad veterans like we get a lot of veterans in my treatment center And like we work with the VA a lot and I'm hoping that you know Like these vets get the help they need like a lot of vets turn into addicts like the numbers are crazy I think it's like Man, I don't want to fill it out there I think it was close to like 80% like who struggle with PTSD from you know being a vet like turn into addicts But anyways Let me repeat that it says 81 million Dollars in partnership pain management techniques for our veterans my only gripe with that is like all right cool, but like a Lot of the population isn't veterans. Let's do pain management with that like you gotta understand the people who come into my treatment center It's not just one Sector or one class. It's not just one type of person who's becoming addicted to these medications We're talking about mothers fathers grandmas grandpas sons daughters friends employees employers. We're talking about CEOs We're talking about janitors. We're talking about literally everyone So and a lot of them is because of pain like you know, you break your leg you break an arm You get into a car wreck you you know cut yourself cooking like they start throwing these pills at you So these pain management programs that you really need to be Available to everybody so I'll keep an eye on that see how they do it And also everybody who's watching if you have any questions or anything like that feel free to comment So it says the health and human services will launch a test for best practices for pain management Across the federal government like that's cool. That's cool. Good stuff. Um, we'll see like I'm glad that they're doing more tests But like here's the reality like they need to pull together the greatest minds. Um, I don't know if you any of you saw that movie 2012 when it was like the apocalypse and then there was like a lottery system, but they also got like the greatest minds in the world like Like for real though, like real talk. We have so much research. We have so much data. We have there's so many There's so many Published articles already available by some amazing and incredible doctors and scientists not only when it comes to pain but when it comes to addiction like Like a lot of testing has already been done to start utilizing the people who already have their foot in the door Like don't start back at square one. We need to move forward not like, you know Disregard all the research that they've already done. Um, the next point is Participate in national drug take back day Which is oh wow this Saturday. Cool. I believe don't quote me on this I believe this is where people return unused drugs and like like for me like being a pain pill addict Like there was no drug left behind But I think this helps because drug addicts like Dude like real talk when I used to go to my grandma's house I would like go straight to her medicine cabinet if I went to any older person's house I was like, oh gotta use the bathroom. I gotta use the bathroom in your room I would go through their medicine cabinet. So like people turning back in there like unused medication is good. Um, Next addiction treatment available to those in prison. That's awesome If you're just now tuning in like watch the beginning of this I was talking about how I'm glad they took the direction of treatment rather than prison But also the people in prison like something that I would look for on the horizon is Going back and you know making adjustment to the laws or like what's on somebody's record? Who has been convicted of drug related crimes because it really puts a hinder on their progress and like Addicts like I had to realize like I'm very fortunate. I used to think that I'm not an addict I've literally driven all over Las Vegas blackout drunk blackout drunk. I just never got a DUI I'm very fortunate that I was never held back by that DUI But like some people are some people go to jail for this stuff Some people can't find jobs now. So I'm glad that they're introducing Treatment into prison, but I hope they help those who have already been convicted or have something on their record I hope they help them out. So the last point is the drug demand reduction adjust the culture through large campaign aimed at children and teens like This is awesome. So I Have mixed opinions about this and like I'll try to do more videos on this later Like I don't like how we keep saying we need to look at prevention for teens and children We need to look at prevention for teens and children. Yes. Yes, that is absolutely true That is 1000% true, but I feel like a lot of the efforts Aren't being allocated to you know millennials to people in their 20s or 30s as well as to the baby boomers and stuff like that like Go do the research. There are more people becoming heroin addicts at age 60 age 70 Like one of one of my most amazing clients like he came in here and he's in his 50s He came in here for a heroin addiction. You know what I'm saying like I It just seems to me that when we're looking when we're putting so much effort towards Prevention we're not addressing the fact that a lot of people are either a already affected or Be will potentially be affected by this thing. So like awesome like teach our kids like do Effective measures like I hope what that's saying isn't like the dare program. But anyways or like I hope it's like dare 2.0 I hope they learn from mistakes and do it in a better way But like we really need to start teaching like older people like hey, like I know you're in pain But we got to try some other stuff like hey like every time I go to the gym And I walk past the pool just like older people like getting their swim on and stuff working out those old joints Like I'm definitely afraid of getting old like but you know encourage more things like that that would be amazing But yeah, that was a nice bullet point and I see there is a question So in Murphy 9-1-1 to Chris, what do you think about the Suboxone clinics? They prescribe months on on and don't taper off like rehab facilities This too is very addictive. Can you give advice on how it should be prescribed? so It's like you're a psychic e-merphy So this is actually something I was gonna do a video on and I'm still gonna do a video on it And I'm gonna title this video harm reduction versus abstinence, okay, I Work at a treatment center here in Las Vegas. I work under American addiction centers and Before I got the job at the treatment center I work at I looked into it because I don't believe in long-term Suboxone treatments. I don't believe them in them at all like I can't tell you how many people I know who go on long-term Suboxone And then they're afraid to get off the Suboxone because of the withdrawal the same thing that they were afraid of With the heroin or with the opium the prescription opioids Same thing with methadone One of the reasons I chose to work at the rehab.  They taper you off quick That's one of the reasons why I was like cool. I'll work for this treatment center because they believe in the same Tapering of Suboxone's I do like something like I had to do a cold turkey opioid detox which sucked But some of my buddies like I was almost glad that I did the cold turkey thing because some of my buddies were on this like three To six months suboxone taper and they were just Reliving that withdrawal all over again. I'm like, dang. I'm glad I just like kind of like ripped the band-aid You know what I'm saying? So I don't agree with it like a lot of people, you know so many people are looking at this like lesser of two evils thing and Another video I'm gonna do like and if any of you are watching this long line, whatever I'll talk about it like one of the things that I really feel like is that In some cities or even some counties what they're trying to do is quarantine the drug addicts That's what they're trying to do.  So I don't like that method like every single person who is an addict Has the potential to leave to live an amazing incredible life So I do not like when it feels like they're quarantining us and that that's the same that goes with safe injection sites Methadone clinics the only time I fully agree with methadone clinics is when they are also Enforcing a treatment program like some cities or counties like in order to get your methadone You have to attend 12-step meetings or you have to do therapy We have to do groups at the treatment center Those are the ones I agree with because they're not trying to keep you on this thing forever They're trying to teach you a better way of living without this stuff. So that's kind of my take on that Marissa says my brother My brother tried weaning himself Off methadone big contributor to suicidal thoughts. Oh, man. I'm sorry to hear that Yeah, and methadone is legit worse than heroin methadone Sits in your bone marrow like that stuff doesn't leave your system very easily like That's why like I really hate when they put people on methadone Like I literally know people who have been method on methadone for years years like it's like they have to have it It's like their oxygen like because to come off of it. It's just way too hard like methadone withdrawal is worse than heroin like So yeah, like I'm sorry to hear that and like I hate it because this is what happens I've had some you know some of the people I know go through the same thing either relapse or suicide because they can't deal with it So we really need to think about what we're doing with these like harm reduction techniques and stuff like that But but yeah, it's crazy, but you know Like I said, like, you know the rewired soul we talked about the problem and focus on the solution So, oh, you're in here. Okay. Cool. You Murphy. I'm glad you like my classes And yeah, I subscribed to my channel the rewired soul and share with all your buddies. I got good stuff But yeah, like, uh, you know, I'm glad that you know, he declared this public health emergency and I'm a little over the time I was planning on doing this. I have to make another video But I really wanted to put something out there and kind of talk about this If any of you ever have any questions or comments like leave them. Let me know. I love talking about this stuff I love increasing awareness. I am also going to share the channel 3 news piece that I did as soon as it Comes up online. It's airing at 11 o'clock here in Las Vegas. So hopefully by tomorrow, it'll be online. I'll share it I'll share it on the Facebook page as well as I might do something like a montage type deal for YouTube I haven't decided yet.  Love your faces. I love talking about this stuff. And yeah, keep spreading awareness like share this stuff Like I clearly don't do this like for money. And that's actually what my next video is about like YouTube has demonetized Everything like I don't do this for the money. I do this for the awareness The more people are able to talk about this stuff and the more people know what's going on in our country when it comes to addiction As well as mental health more people are gonna get help like that's all my mission is here So please, you know, if you're watching the replay of this like hit that subscribe button. I'm always doing stuff like this One out of every 12 people is an addict or an alcoholic So even if you're not struggling share this video with somebody who is share it with somebody who doesn't know anything about the epidemic You know, I have a whole slew of videos that help you with your mental health mental illness with your addiction and all that stuff So everybody, thank you again for watching. I'm gonna bounce. We'll see I will do updates I'll keep you all posted as more news comes out about where this money is getting donated and Or like allocated to and you know, make sure that Trump keeps his word on this stuff So keep staying tuned again. Thanks for watching. And also I'm going to be doing a lot more new series here. So definitely stay tuned. All right. Love you guys I'm out of here, and I'll see you later


If you're feeling lost in life, this is exactly what I would do to find yourself. Now, one of the initial reasons I started this channel in the first place was kind of documenting this process of my own personal evolution, right? Of trying to figure out those questions, those three that I talked about in my book, Milk the Pigeon.  How do I find work I love? And how do I create a conversation worthy life, an interesting, meaningful life? Now, in this video, I want to share some of my answers to all three of those things for you. What's up guys? Alex Hine over at Modern Health Monk and author of Mastels a Day. So let's get into the biggest point which is number one here. The first thing I want you to think about is that life at a high level, the meta level is all about resonance, which is that it is a spiral, right? It is not one destination. So you don't magically find like love or find your dream career and now you're not lost for the next 70 years. Like if you're 30 watching this, your life expectancy is around 80 in the US, which means if you got married and you like the person you're married to, your job's okay. You have literally 50 years where your life can go like this, right? What makes you think that if you just find one thing, you will suddenly be on loss forever. And that leads me to this first kind of observation, which is that finding purpose in life is about a progressive evolution. You think that on day one of being self-employed with my full-time job, I was like, I'm the right of book. No. You think on day one, I was like, I'm going to be a YouTuber and have multiple channels. Definitely not. It was a progressive evolution and sort of like a chance encounter that brought me to where I am today. And so in the same way that you suddenly become lost and you don't suddenly find yourself, think of it as a process of evolution. This sounds really cool. Okay, I'm tired of it now. This sounds cool. Nope, that was wrong. This sounds cool. This sounds cool. Nope, nope, nope. This is cool. Oh, this one's really cool. I'm here for seven years. This one's really cool. I'm here for 10 years. This one I thought was cool but kind of sucked. That's what the journey of life looks like, right? For some people, that's the evolution of love. But for a lot of people, it's the evolution of work. And that's really important to keep in mind. You know, when I talk to people who have had midlife crises, like in my coaching program, I find that the most common cause of having a midlife crisis at like 40 or 45-ish is just one thing. I didn't live the life that I wanted to live. I didn't do the things I wanted to do. I wanted to write a book. I wanted to start a business or be a YouTuber. I wanted to travel, walk the Camino de Santiago. I wanted to be an au pair. I just didn't do the things I wanted to do. And now what happens is, I'm scared shitless because every year I get older is a year farther away from my dreams where I have one less year to do all the things that I love. And I'm not taking any action or any deliberate steps towards those things. That is the only reason you'll ever have a midlife crisis, barring some grand accident or some injury or something you have or a divorce that you didn't see. That is the primary reason. It's you don't feel like you're on the right path. And so this is a very important focus to keep in life because if you always make sure you're trying to course correct towards the right path, you will never feel off track because it's the happiness of pursuit as they call it. You know, for me, this is why I bought a one-way ticket to China in my early 20s. I know I've told the story a lot, but the reason I tell it is because that became an intrinsic piece of following my Dharma. What I feel like is like my soul's work, which this is an inherent piece and also the evolution of me. Becoming Dr. Alex, having a doctorate in traditional Chinese medicine, opening a clinic in LA, writing two books, and now I'm working on my third, More Medicine and Healing. That evolution is what we'll talk about later in this video, but that one-way ticket to China was the next resident breadcrumb as I call it. The universe was like, shoot, like, check this thing out. You're probably going to like it. It's going to be one part exciting, one part terrifying, but you know it's going to be part of your path and your story if you have the courage to buy that ticket. And so I bought that ticket and did I find what I was looking for in China?  Did I become an enlightened holy person and stay there for 10 years as a guru come back? No, but I went to Monasteries.  But then I came back and I had an amazing year full of experience and wow, how much life I lived in that one year and it led me to my next breadcrumb. And it wasn't the day that I landed back in New York City at JFK airport. It was several years later and I was really unhappy in those intervening years, but it led to that next breadcrumb. So my first thought is that life is about resonance, which means that you always need to be chasing what is your next resident step? What excites you? Where do you feel an elevated energy? Where do you feel a gut intuition about it? Where do you feel goosebumps? Where do you feel yourself chatty like I am now? Where do you find yourself drawn? Always be seeking that out because it's always going to be changing and it will always be related to your path if you trust that it is. Now, one of the cool things I've put together to go along with this video is I've pulled out the first chapter of my book, Milk the Pigeon, a field guide for anyone lost in their 20s. You guys can download it right below this video and it is going to go into that exact feeling. If this is where you are, you can read that first chapter in my book and I hope it'll give you some insights. So check it out down below. The second thing I want you to think about is to follow your breadcrumbs and not goals. So for example, I moved to Los Angeles. Here's a very recent one where I was like, all right, I'm ready for a long-term relationship. I'm ready to date again.  There's no way to meet people because the whole world's shut down and I live alone and I work alone. So after a year and a half of just being dissatisfied dating and not bumping into anyone, not meeting anyone that I like, eventually I said, forget it. Let's close all the apps, stop trying to meet people in person, stop trying to date. And let me just pick up some hobbies where I can feel happy in life. Like let me just focus on my own energy if you want to use that term. Let me just focus on feeling good, basically. Let me try to have friends and community. So I joined this hobby bachata, like salsa dancing bachata. It's like hypersexual salsa. And I started going to classes a few times a week. And I found that I fell in love with it. It was social, it was fun, it was a physical connection with people. I found it to be incredibly fulfilling. And eventually what happened was after like three or six months, I ended up making a lot of friends in that class. We would hang out and get dinners together and I felt like I had a community. And I had struggled so hard the last year to try to force that to happen in the way I specified to the universe to make it happen. And then a few months later, I met the girl I dated for a few years. So I met my long-term relationship, my friends, my passion, my community, without even searching for them directly, just by following resonance and my gut hunches. And what I find is that if you follow those breadcrumbs that life gives you, the things that excite you, I deeply believe in a superstitious way they're all connected to your purpose. So you don't have to be like, I'm going to do these five rituals today. I'm going to do these six things to be a YouTuber. I'm going to do these four things to have a friend group. You can. But a lot of the time you just find this hobby, like for me, bachata, and you get friends, you get a relationship, you get a community, you have things to do in the evening. It's solved all of your problems in one thing. And if you follow this principle of the breadcrumbs, what is it saying about your next step, right? You don't need to see and plan the next five steps ahead, just the next one. Because one breadcrumb will lead you to the next breadcrumb.  People try to plan like 18 steps ahead for, where am I going to move to New York? And what am I going to do for work? Rather than just like, figure out having a job and then you can figure out the rest. Everything is connected to your purpose. So you have to just follow the next most exciting breadcrumb, because it will eventually lead to your goals anyway. Now I'm a diehard believer in having a morning routine. And a piece of that involves reading a self growth book for about 10 or 20 minutes to have your mind focused on growth and what you can work on. You know, for example, a book I'm reading drive by Daniel Pink. I'm listening to it on audio book. And then I'm basically going back through all the little key points by using a service called short form, which really basically in one page shows what the key points are. You know, I can look at the one page summary to get really clear on what the essential ideas are that I can implement. And sometimes that's honestly more useful than reading an entire book, because over the course of a month, you forget what you've actually read. Now by joining through my link, short form.com forward slash modern health monk, they'll actually give you five days of unlimited access and an additional 20% discounted annual subscription. And that subscription basically gives you access to thousands of book guides for the price of one book a month. So you guys can check it out the link right there and the first link in the bio. The third and final thing is just focus on the process of evolution. Tell me what you see here when I describe my evolution in terms of my career starts off by having a website called milk the pigeon about what to do with your life involves to modern health month, a website more focused on I was a personal trainer at the time, kind of like holistic wellness. That got boring after a while writing articles, so I started doing YouTube videos. I found that I loved doing YouTube and it was way easier than writing YouTube morph to an online program and online program morph to man, I wish I had something to give my clients that would really help them master the day master the day morph to another book milk the pigeon man, I wish I had something to my clients who are trying to figure out what to do with their life. That morph to another course, a coaching program, doing a PhD, a doctorate in traditional Chinese medicine, because I wanted to help people on a deeper, deeper level to open a private medical practice to opening a second YouTube channel to now working on my third book, a traditionally published book that we're going for the New York Times bestseller list. But what do you see in that progression? It was a progressive evolution. Never at year one would I have ever thought that any of those other things I would have done. I didn't think five steps ahead. I just thought, what's the next thing? Okay, the next thing is YouTube. Let me learn this. Let me see if I can supplement my income. Let me just do it because it's easier and then people liked it. It's like stepping on a cliff and that's like, okay, now I can see the next step. All right, now we can see the next mountain top. It's over there. We climb that one, climb that one, climb that one. Okay, now I see the next mountain top. It's over there. Each step leads you to the next step of your purpose, your Dharma, your life path and you don't have to figure it all out. You just need to know the next one. So those are my thoughts on what to do if you feel lost in life because this stuff applies globally like it does in love as it does in work or in friendship. All things are connected but you have to make sure you're always course correcting to stay on your kind of sole path in life because that is what will light you up, give you purpose and regardless of how successful you are, success doesn't give you purpose. Being on the right path internally gives you purpose. That's why it is the most important thing to stay aligned with as you go through your life. That's my two cents for today guys. You can download that free first chapter of my book Milk the Pigeon if that resonates and I have another related video here on what to do when you feel lost in life. So I think it'll help.


What Simulate is doing is providing visibility, providing the security professionals and the companies an understanding of what is their current security posture, what is their current risk level from security gaps that they have in their organization. Boom, what's up everyone? Welcome to Simulation. I'm your host, Alan Sakyan. We are still at COFES, the Congress on the Future of Engineering Software for our second annual partnership with them. We are now with Iran Abramovitz. Hello. Hey Alan. Thanks for coming on to the show. Nice meeting you. Really appreciate it. And Iran just won the startup competition at COFES? Yeah, innovation competition, innovation companies, innovation technology. Yeah, yeah. And he just won that, super cool. And we're going to be talking about his company, Simulate. And Simulate is doing breach and attack simulation, how secure organization is assessing different attack vectors. And he was previously at Microsoft for three years and it's just a really cool journey that we're going to be unpacking here. So tell us about this journey. How did you end up becoming who you are today? You know Alan, it's a good question. It's a long journey. It actually started in security back in 2007, if I'm not mistaken. I worked at a company that did malware detection and malware stopping. I took a break, came back to security in Secure Islands. We had a very cool tool for security orchestration. We sold this to Microsoft, which is now part of Microsoft Information Protection. And in Microsoft, I was in different roles, global black belts, the experts of security for Microsoft, cyber solution group, a very good group that is focusing on the top strategic customers of Microsoft, helping our customers to understand what is the journey that Microsoft is doing in security versus what they need and how to combine these two needs. In the last role, I really was part of a product strategy team in Microsoft. And then Simulate approached me with this cool technology and the reason that I've decided to go from Microsoft to Simulate is really based on the journey that I had. So lots of professionals, security professionals that I've been spoken to across the globe, regardless of the verticals, whether it's financials, banking industry, insurance, manufacturing, healthcare, really you name it, law, public sector. Where privacy is needed and security is needed. Where privacy is needed, where security is important. And let's face it, where it isn't today. All of these professionals, I've sold them so many different types of technologies, but they all had the same challenges. Understanding how effective are they. Or yeah, I understand the need in this, but I don't have the budget from the board. They don't really understand what I need, why I need this. And when the founder of Simulate, Al Vaxman approached me, and he is the guy that I knew in the past, and he told me about this technology and about the platform. I said, yes, this is something that customers do need. So I jumped ship from this amazing company that is called Microsoft. And I came back to the startup world to be innovative and really to provide customers with some cutting edge technologies around cyber. So now, let me take a guess, I'm just going to take a guess, an educated guess, correct. So is this sort of, you potentially set up a very strong security for your precious data or information and then the security is then, you run simulated attacks on the security and then wherever the stress points are, you build those up, you kind of have potentially machine learning to learn about where the stress points are, build those up. I will explain. Was I 10% 20% zero? I would say 30%. That's okay. That's okay. Yeah. Yeah. It's not too bad. Yeah. Well, you haven't heard about the product yet. Yeah. It's correct. Yeah. Yeah. So organizations today, security professionals, security organizations, and again, regardless of the size of the organization or the vertical, everyone is spending a lot of effort in securing their organization. You know, every organization to their extent to their limit of resources and budget, but everyone is buying what they think is best for their organization in order to secure them from cyber attacks, whether the reason is still data or to basically stop production of these companies. So security is really top of mind for any, of course, security professionals, but chief information officers, CEOs, board of directors, risk officers, it's top of mind because cyber attacks are real and cyber attacks are happening on a daily basis. In the day that we are now recording this, we basically heard that this is a record-breaking day from the perspective that the most, the largest amount of records have been leaked, two billion records. Two billion records. Two billion records of private information of individuals and professionals. We're talking about email addresses. We're talking about, thank God, not social security numbers, but phone numbers, addresses, mortgage information in some cases. So two billion records. What was this leak? Who was it by, do we know? So it's a company that is doing verification for marketing companies. So they own a huge amount of data in a few databases that were compromised. And who hacked into those databases, do we know? I don't know at this moment, but it was just published today. Yeah, but this is crazy all, yeah, there's tons of these.  So just for example of magnitude of what is the impact of such cyber attacks, just 20 days ago, North Skydro, it's an aluminum factory in Norway, got hit with ransomware. In the past 20 days, they've analyzed the amount of damage that it caused them. So far, 20 days, it's around $40 million. It's much cheaper to pay you to help prevent this from happening. So I'm not preventing, but what Simulate is doing is providing visibility, providing the security professionals and the companies an understanding of what is their current security posture. What is their current risk level from security gaps that they have in their organization? Their posture. Interesting. Their security posture. How well they're positioned. Exactly. To fight, fend off the... Exactly. And one of the things that is extremely important today is to have a repeatable process in order to increase your security posture. And this repeatable process is requiring a platform, a tool that will continuously, automatically and customizable and fully customizable to execute these attacks in order to understand where is our security gaps, to assess them and prioritize them. The prioritization is usually done half by the solution and half by the security professional because we know what the risks are but we don't know what is the business of the customer and the combination of these really provides where the major risks are. And we also provide recommendations how to mitigate, it is up to the enterprise to mitigate whether it's to change configuration, change work process or buy a new solution or a better solution than what they currently have and then validate it. So it's a circle process, a repeatable process that is required by various security frameworks today and risk frameworks. Do you guys have like 12 points or something? Do you have a certain amount of points that show that this would be the ideal security posture and like you have these 12 points and then if they were missing any then... So it's a good question. When you are looking at a cyber attack or what we call a modern cyber attack or advanced persistent threat in the security lingo, it basically have three steps. One step, the first step is the infiltration, the front door step. How an attacker infiltrates the organization. The second step is the actual exploitation. So the attacker is in, they need to get hold of an endpoint and then there is the process that is called lateral movement. This is a post exploitation. In the lateral movement, the attacker is trying to get to high valued assets in the organization whether it's files, emails, databases and basically gain domain domination through getting admin password on the domain controllers. And the last stage is either flattening the organization using ransomware or anything else but also data exfiltration. Let's assume the attacker doesn't really even want to be unknown that there is an attack just to find the information and exfiltrate it. And what Simulate is doing, we have divided this attack kill chain to seven different vectors and we are testing the security controls in each and every one of them and providing a risk score for each and every one of these. Interesting. So you test the organization's security yourselves through your own attacking of their security to see how well they do. Exactly. So organizations have email security controls, web gateway security controls, DLP solutions, endpoint solutions. We are basically attacking these solutions. We are challenging these solutions in a capture the flag game. Once we are done, once we are in, we have captured the flag. We know exactly what was the method that we have used and we are actually mapping this to a common, now common practice of mapping this to the MITRE attack framework. It's an organization that is doing some mapping of attack technologies in order to help organizations really increase and enhance their security posture. One interesting thing that we are doing in addition to this is our constant research, our research team is constantly researching new attacks. So whenever there is a new attack in the wild that we heard of, we are actually looking and we are working with international certs and other companies to get some insights on this attack and we are immediately implementing this attack into our solution so that a day or two days after the attack has happened, you can already test yourself, am I protected against this? And this Norsk Hydro that I mentioned before, basically a day after the attack happened, you already had this version of attack in our solution and you would be able to check for yourself whether you are protected or not. Correct. So you are constantly learning just like an autonomous vehicle is learning from the decisions that it is being made as it is driving and then updating the network of cars similarly to what you guys are doing. So it's not an automated process, there is a lot of human expertise that is needed in order to reverse engineer these attacks and build them in a non-malicious way into the solution. Because when we are attacking an organization, we don't want to cause any harm. It's really light, really no impact on the environment, on the production environment. So it really requires light touch and an expert touch for more team of engineers and researchers. Yeah, you work with the organization's top security and then you work with them on making sure that the way that you are using Simulate on their walls of security is a way that is agreed upon by both parties that you are going to be able to do. It's very light, it's all of our customers, we never had a problem of hey, you cause damage into our production environment. You're just strengthening the walls, you're strengthening them. I'm giving them the visibility to test their security controls, test their walls and moats. Walls and moats, yeah, yeah, yeah, they're walls and moats. Interesting, what are the seven attack vectors? So you look at email, so one of the main methods for attacking an organization, the getting into the front door, passing the front door is through three main mechanisms. Email, web pages that contain malicious content or web application that an attacker is attempting to compromise and take advantage of a web server and execute remote commands. So we are looking at the email protection, we are looking at the web gateway filtering system and the web application firewall, we are challenging them. You probably heard about phishing, phishing and spear phishing. Phishing is a method that is designed to either do two things, either trick a person to open malicious content inside the email or direct them to a malicious web page. So we are testing the email security to understand if a malicious payload was brought in or the web filtering gateway, whether a user that accidentally clicks on a link from a phishing email will go and reach a malicious website that contains malicious content. And we also have a phishing mechanism inside our solution. So these are the four front door pre-exploitation attack vectors or attack surfaces. The next one, the exploitation one is really the endpoint. So once the attacker got in, he needs to execute some malicious code on the endpoint. So we are looking at the endpoint protection solution and we are looking at what we call an EDR, endpoint detection and response solution, basically to challenge them whether they are protecting against the attacks that we have, warms, trojans, ransomware attacks and the more standard malware and antiviruses. After this we have the lateral movement where the attacker is moving throughout the organization to find the high-valued assets. And this is where we are challenging the user and entity behavior analytics solutions or the SIM solution, security incident event management solution of the customer. We even challenge their own SOC team, so the Security Operations Center, to be able to detect whether something is happening. And the last attack vector or attack surface is really to exfiltrate information out. So let's assume I've done everything and now I've found this type of information, whether it's images or CAD drawings or files which contain sensitive information on merchant acquisitions and financials to try and send this information outside. So these are the seven main vectors and we have this immediate threat vector that we call it or module that basically combines both the email, the endpoint and the web gateway that you can actually test new types of attacks, new threats that are coming and this is what we are adding almost on a daily basis now. So then when you do add this into a company, then you're simultaneously testing out their security posture and you're also helping consult with them on making those fixes to the security posture. We basically identify the security gaps and part of the solution is also to provide product agnostic recommendations on how to mitigate these. And it's up to the enterprise to take these results and these recommendations and either do some configuration changes or work process changes or to go and seek a different and new solution that addresses these problems. These reports are then also used in order to let's assume I need to get more budget from my management from the board. How do you actually reflect the security gap, the risk? It's not a subjective statement. It's not an assumption. It's a proof. It's a hard proof. It's a report based on an attack simulation that we have executed. And then you can actually have the agnostic recommendation for the fix and then you have an exact monetary amount that you need to to fix the security issue. So we're not getting into the monetary stuff. We're doing the recommendation. It's up to the security professional to go and seek the assistance of their security partner, security consultant company. But then it's not an abstract number for them anymore. It's an actual, like you said, hard data and they can actually present this as exactly how much money we also need to fix it. So it's very interesting. I have a couple other thoughts for you. One of them is let's talk about the role of how you program those attack vectors. How do you send an attack on a controlled attack on an organization? So it's a very good question and it's a very scary question for people that are listening to attack simulation, what will be the impact on my production environment? So let me put you in ease. It's a cloud service and from the perspective of the, so there are two types of attacks. One is external and one is internal. From external, we're looking at the sending the emails or attacking the web application firewall, challenging the web application firewall. The rest of the attacks are done from the inside. So we have an agent that you need to install, it's in any size of organization, you install anything between one agent and 15 agents, but these are the numbers we are talking about. We're not talking about hundreds or a thousand or the entire organization. And we're doing this usually except one case on a non-production machines because you need to remember what we are challenging is not your actual IT environment. We are challenging your security controls on the IT environment.  With whatever file you want on the inside. Yeah. Exactly. So I'm not disrupting the actual day to day work of the organization. So this is really with no impact to the organization, no harm is done. Very smart. So you basically take all the security infrastructure from the company, put it on to something that has none of the impact on the company and then you do your tax simulation on that. Exactly. And that's great. Yeah, that means a lot of things. It's usually called golden image or golden images where there's a new employee for example and they need to give a computer to a new employee then they upload the golden image into this endpoint and then they already have all of their security controls on this endpoint and you install our agent on an endpoint like this whether it's a physical hardware or a virtual machine. And you can test the security posture much quicker with a simulation potentially than if someone is trying to manually go and test all of the different areas. There's a lot of penetration testing companies in the world and when you're looking at this and a lot of companies are required or want to do pen testing. It's very expensive to do pen testing and it's very thorough. Very pen testing is very thorough but very narrow. So the pen tester is trying to penetrate through a specific path. The narrow is as possible because they want to finalize the penetration testing, get the report and continue. What we're doing and we're working with pen testers, we're working with partners that are pen testers and adding our technology into their tools. So a pen tester company can actually take our tool and use it in order to have this broad attack against the organization and then use the results to fast understand how they can penetrate so you get a much more elaborated pen testing result and then you can offer also to the organization, to the enterprise that hired you to actually, hey, let's run this in a more continuous method and not once a year or once a quarter. Interesting. You also work with pen testers. And then how about on the machine learning side of things, tell us about how you leverage artificial intelligence and what you're doing. It seems like if there's certain structural weaknesses that you could potentially, if you fail at once, maybe you up the ante a bit and you hit it again and see what Yeah, so I don't really like the concept of AI in this, but there's definitely machine learning in the best practices that we have. So I'll just give an example around this. So we have around the email testing alone, we have about 15,000 permutations of malicious payloads that we can send. That's crazy. Wow. So if practices that we actually engage is not sending all of these because it's just waste of time because if you are protected against something specific, then it doesn't make sense to send 4,000 examples of something similar because you're probably already protected. So we're sending the first 50 and we see what got in, what got out and what didn't, what was blocked. And then based on these results, we'll send another 50 or another 100, which looks at a specific aspect that we were able to penetrate. Basically once we're in, let's widen this whole and understand how big this gap is. So this is the machine learning that we're using. And this is where it's really important to also customize the attack. You don't want to just throw attacks in. You want to understand exactly what the attacks that you're doing. So let's take for example, you probably heard of patching Tuesday where the big companies are releasing all the patch and now you patch all of your machines. So let's call it ransomware Wednesday. Let's execute attacks that imitates ransomware every Wednesday. And I'll get a result of MI protected against ransomware every Wednesday and I know how to mitigate this. So the attacks can be customizable. And then maybe one of the last questions I want to ask you is, well I guess maybe a couple more, but this one's very close to my heart. I feel as though we're kind of heading towards a global surveillance state. And that security and privacy have to be at the highest level of cryptography and all this kind of stuff because we maybe haven't spiritually evolved yet. If we better collectively evolved, we might not have some of the malicious attackers. And so it almost seems as though we could have went on a way of complete trust and transparency, but in a way with all of the unfortunate circumstances that we have as well as fortunate ones we're heading towards a place of needing this very high security and very high privacy. Do you align with that? Unfortunately we do need to evolve ourselves in the way we are thinking and the way we are handling our data and our identity. And this is because of rogue organizations and I'm not talking about rogue states. I'm talking about criminal organizations that are using our data for their own needs, selling our data and the market, the black market for stolen data is massive. So I'm doing this with myself and of course my wife. We need to make sure that our data is secure. We need to make sure that our identity is secured. We need to use two-factor authentication. And one of the things that I would love to have as much as possible from government organizations or basically any company that holds our data is to only allow access to this data based on two-factor authentication or other new methods of identification. It's also called two-factor but facial recognition is something now that most of the people have in their cell phones or a thumbprint reader in the cell phone. And this is something that I really encourage every person if you have an identity in a website whether it's Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Google, any government website that allows two-factor authentication, please enable this. This is extremely important for your information. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And we're at COFES, we're here on behalf of engineering software and the importance of that. Where do you see or simulate role in engineering software? So that's a great question, Alan. And when it came here I had doubts, I have to say. I'm not from the engineering space but talking to all of these smart people in the industry I figured out something that I probably should have thought about it beforehand. There's a lot of intellectual property here. And it can be in the small companies that they are developing new technologies, new innovative technologies. It can be in the small technology companies that are developing for the large ones. And of course the large companies, lots of information, intellectual property that they need to protect. And again, I'm sure their security teams are spending the budget in order to secure themselves to the best of their knowledge. But the problem is that the knowledge, the best of their knowledge is based on assumptions and not based on true facts. And simulate is the tool that will provide them with this visibility of what is their effectiveness of their security solution, where they are most vulnerable, will give them a platform to do this repeatable process, will give them the ability to understand whether they are protected from new threats. And one thing that is extremely important, especially for the large companies, how their supply chain is secured. So this is something that we are considering now when we started talking with some companies about how their supply chain is being tested for security. And this is something that they can use in order to do so. It's regardless of the fact that this is an engineering software convention. Every company needs to be able to protect their assets, their high valued assets. And we help them with that. And the last question would be, we're heading into this exponential technology age. What would you say is, if not the most important skill set for kids and for adults to learn? Well, you know, it's an amazing question and as having kids of my own. I think that STEM is very important. I would love to see more girls also doing STEM, so science, technology, engineering and mathematics. But what I would love to see kids today is actually talking with each other and not texting. You know the millennials. This has been so enlightening, really. I'm loving what you're putting it forth with, with, with Simulate. Like it's just, it's simulating attacks to bring up defense and to bring up privacy and security. It's just, it's very fascinating. Yeah. Congratulations on winning too. Thank you, Alan. This has been such a pleasure. Thank you so much. And thanks everyone for tuning in. We greatly appreciate it. Check out the links below to Simulate. Also check out the links below to Co-Fez. Let us know your thoughts in the comments. We'd love to hear from you. 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My name is Jimmy. His name is Jake, and this is the Weekly Dumb. Jake, how was your weekend? James. James, Jess was away, so I went to a random restaurant because I'm like, you only live in New York City once, go to a random restaurant, so there's like an open bar that I can see. I went in there, sat down, there's only one other couple. They looked over and they go, Jamboy? Mm-hmm. And we sat down and we had a nice conversation together. I can pose a picture with them. Wow. I met a kid named Dante at the fair. Who was very, he's a big geoguessor friend. Dead? And now, what about the sports? Jim, in sports, we're starting with my snakes, the diamondbacks, and we had something I'm still not at grips with. We had a bit of a catch-catch. A thievery, an impressive thievery. This kid put his glove inside the glove. It's a glove and a glove. He put his glove inside the glove. It's a catch and a catch and it's a glove and a glove. Now, in the end, they got this right. They said, no, he would have caught it and he's out. And then they moved the kid to a safer place. If I'm the diamondbacks, which I have an in with, this kid needs to be sitting front row every game the rest of the way. Just to be there, like a presence. Jim, this almost a breakdown. You were chewing up early this AM. It's a really good one. The TRX World Championships. Now, you're like, what's the TRX World Championships? Actually, Triguard pest control needed a way to rally their troops and get a bonding experiment going. So they host the TRX races. Since 2017. Yeah. It's pretty cool. Actually, they have their employees fly in from all over. They have like eight different heats. And the winners of the eight heats compete in the championship. And we had a photo finish in the championship here between three racers. Number five, number seven, and number three. And if you go through it, break it down. Number three, he gets bumped early on, which actually hinders his straight line to the finish line. They were jostling. Number five, he's got a straight shot the whole way. He actually cuts in front of number seven's lane at one point when he sniffs him on his side. And seven, if I'm the photo finish guy, I have seven winning. Because I thought running was just breaking the plane like this. I think they went by feet. It's interesting because I looked at that for a while. And a while. At first, I thought you were right. I thought number seven's hand crossed the line first because you would see number five's foot hit the checkerboard. Yes. But if you take it back, I think the foot does cross the checkerboard before the hand, before it hits the ground. Okay, I'd have to take it back. So if you're looking for crossing the line, I do think unfortunately Botak Bodo Rex is the winner. Did you see when they went to the podiums, number seven was kind of doing that on camera like, I thought I had it, you know? And I don't know. I'd look into it. I was happy that seven wasn't mad about losing. Congrats to TriGuard. They're not sponsoring this episode. Seat Geek is. And buy us seats to all the sports and the shows. Jake, more sports coming up. Sports and the shows. And speaking of more sports, all-time video clip that will live forever. As long as we live, this clip will live. Zach, your New Mexico State quarterback, Diego Pavia. Three, two, one. Two. Five and a half. Diego's sick. The Pavia, it's just a little too much. I think I need an accent on it. That's not yours. And it might be up there. Playing quarterback gets his helmet ripped that it ends up backwards on his head. So we've got a case of like, Joey running around with turkey head and friends. And he throws it and gets rid of it, which I know disappoints you a little bit, but it's the right move. No, it doesn't disappoint me. I wish he completed it. The fact that he just threw it away. Can't see. If he completed a pass, it would have been an awesome clip. I don't know. It didn't excite me that much. Can't see. I think this has happened a lot before. We just haven't seen the clip. I don't think so. I think that's the point. It happened in Waterboy. Movie, movie. Yeah. I don't think it's going to be a clip that gets talked about or goes in the annals of history. Hart. Proud of you, Diego. The camera guy made a nice catch. The photographer caught it. So a catch was made. His helmet's too big. Speaking of helmets, penguins. Oh my goodness, Jake, you love penguins. This isn't a very interesting story we have here. This penguin, Sir Neil's Olaf III, lives in the Edinburgh Zoo. Edinburgh Zoo. In Scotland, he's the mascot of his majesty, the king's guard of Norway. He's the third.  They're just like us. They're our mascot. And then they adopted one. It continues to happen. I guess when they die, they get a new one. The zoo said they choose the best penguin to give the Norway. Neil's Olaf III. Original name was Dopey. I don't know if that's the best penguin that you're giving the Norway. We are a step away from war. The part I do like about this, you know, you talk about this with the queen's guard and king's guard and stuff. They're like, you know, you're not a real military. Like that's over. Like we get a clip every year of them yelling at a kid like, no pictures.   Like if you do that job, you are the equivalent to a penguin. So I do like that. But yeah, the Dopey and then them claiming him, we are a step away from the Scottish nor Norwegian war. Who's reporting his behavior because you just got promoted.  Did she say simping? And she's denying him. He's like following her around every move trying to hook up with her. And they're like, but she doesn't like him. And she's going through some coding things.  He's in love with Miss Lippy. And Miss Lippy is like, I don't want you. And that's who they sent to Norway. He's like basically loveless Lyle. Put that down. It's the employee of the week. It's the employee of the week. I think it's employees. Employees of the week. Our sales team, they went to Colorado. Colorado for the podcast conference. And they like hosted their own happy hour and they made connections.  They did some like nose to the grindstone stuff. Nose to the grindstone. We're going to set up a table and we'll be down there.  You should show up every day with your resume. And there's more stickers if you stick around. People forget. My uncle Pete wanted me and him to show up to ESPN every day with my resume, with a bunch of resumes and a box of donuts and coffee and do that every day until I got a job. That's how getting a job in the 60s was. And I said, mom, please don't make me do that. That was a weekly dump. Today's episode of SeatGeek was sponsored by SeatGeek and it was actually an episode of Weekly Dumb. They've got the hookup. Use code DUM for $20 off your first purchase at SeatGeek. That's $20 off your first purchase from promo code DUM. Click the link in the description to download the app. Find your seats. Make sure they're of good value and not bad value. SeatGeek lets you know. Enjoy the show for $20 off your first purchase by using code DUM at SeatGeek. That's how you get hired and stashed.  And eventually they cave and you do get a job. We got to get this guy. They give five bucks an hour, put him in a room. They tell the story at the annual meeting and everyone's like, oh. Yeah. Everyone else is like, oh, I got a job on merit. I sent the donut to the CEO every day for a year. He told me, please stop. Guess what? That probably would have worked at the local hardware store in the 70s. Yes. Which had a future for you in the 50s. Right. At a certain point.  I did want to do it once to see how far we could get. Because they have security there. Security just isn't used to it. Oh, we got another. You got room in the DUM box? Nope. No openings. Not for him.