Today, we're fishing a duck lure for pond monsters. Not only was the action amazing on the duck lure, but the skippability was next level. I was able to skip this duck lure underneath these trees and boy, did the big bass bite. Oh, right there. Got a nice one too. Oh, golly. He's a mega, get him in. Oh, is he on?  We're gonna be fishing a duck lure today for pond monsters. I got a couple of different ducks. So the first one, let me show you guys this. It is absolutely outrageous. This thing is huge. It has a treble hook with some fur on it in the back, another treble hook down below its neck. And it's got these little feet on the back. So we can show you when we get on the water, but this is gonna plop kind of like a whopper plopper. That's pretty much what that's doing right there on the back. So the feet are just plopping. It actually looks really good in the water. But the one thing with this bait, this actually weighs three ounces. So one, we gotta be careful with it on our rods because our rods aren't really rated for a three ounce bait. And two, it's just a very large bait. So it's gonna take a very big fish to eat it. Before we get deeper into this video, only 27% of you all watching these videos are actually subscribed. So if you could take the time at the subscribe button, really helps the channel, I'd appreciate it. So guys, this is the second duck that we have. And it's actually pretty much a frog, but in duck form. So let me show you guys exactly what this looks like. It's pretty cool. A lot different than this duck, a lot smaller profile. This one's a soft body. So this one's pretty much like a rubber duck, equivalent to your bass fishing frog.  And this one just looks spicy. We're probably gonna start off with this today and try to catch a lot of fish on it. And then we're gonna end up moving on to the big bad boy and see if we can catch something on it. It's just, this bait is so large. So this is the beautiful pond that we're at today. It's actually already sprinkling. Hopefully we don't get rained on. We got Mr. Fletch. What's going on? What's going on, dog? What's going on, buddy? We've got to get after him with these ducks. Listen, we are about to get after this ducks for palm monsters episode, baby. So Fletcher, that's what we're doing, man. Whoever catches the biggest fish is crowned champion. Okay. Simple as that, man. I'm about it. Are you with it? So what's duck am I using? Am I using the rubber ducky or am I using the hard ducky? So I'll give you an option. I'm gonna start off with the rubber.  Do you wanna try it? I'm gonna put like a hard timer on this for me, maybe like 30 minutes. And if we haven't caught anything with it yet, then I'll switch over to the rubber ducky just to get on the board. If no is just smacking them over there. All right, guys. So I actually brought my kicking combo today, but sadly I don't have braid on it. And I also still have my snake on it. If you guys wanna go check out that video, it's a freaking banger, man. We filmed a snake lure for pond monster. So go definitely check that one out after this one. Probably not gonna use the kicking combo just cause it has floral. Are you throwing that one? That rug? Oh yeah, shoot. Here you go. I'm stealing a rod over here, my bad. Watch over here. I'm trying to get the juice, man. We got the rubber ducky. We're gonna be pairing it up with a Mott Crush right now. But if you guys do wanna check out the kicking combo, the green ones, you can check them out on kickingtherbast.com. I'll link it down below. Thanks to everybody who supports me and the brand. We also have spinning combos and that same one. So you guys can go check them out. Yo, let's go ahead and tie this duck on. And see what's popping with it. We're tying on with a uni knot. Pretty simple. And this is what we're gonna go with. Now you kind of got me worried, Fletcher, because that big one, you do have a good point. If we are doing big fish, that might be the go, you know? Fletcher's gonna start off with it. I'll probably pick it up here later, depending on how this puppy's doing. Who knows, we might be catching some giants on this guy. This thing is looking good. Let's go ahead and get started, man. And see if we can get something on board. Yeah, I think you're gonna throw that thing next to one of these docks out here and get obliterated by a four or five pounder. I'm just looking for a school of ducks that I can just blend in with. Maybe there's just a mamba duck out here and a little ducklings swimming along and I can just throw this thing right behind and tune into that natural presentation.  What's gonna happen this Saturday? I feel like the bass will definitely smoke it. Bass might just think it's his lucky day, you know? I know. The one time he'll ever see a duck in a tree. Dude, I mean, I'm getting it up there. You're up in there. I'm trying to get it clobbered. Oh, it's a nice one too. First duck bass. Is that a bull? Oh, let's go, baby. Let me see that thing. Oh, look at that, that's beautiful. Just seeing a duck hanging out of his mouth. Look at that. Not a big one, but I mean, that's a good two pounder, man. Look at that. That is pretty cool. I mean, she took that whole thing down. Yep, just the standard walk, man. That's all that was. That was a pretty good bite for that fish, man. We're gonna flop a weight on her since we are doing the tournament. We got the matching scale for the duck video, you know? I'd say two pounds, if that, see what we got. Two pound, two one. Two one, Clutch. That's not bad. Not a bad fish. I'll take that for our first fish of the day. Not a big one, but not a bad one. First fish on the duck in the first like 15, 20 minutes. We cannot complain. That is awesome. Thank you, baby. There she goes. One thing that I'm gonna pay attention to is pretty much how I'm working this bait. So I think that's gonna come into play. We could definitely pop it pretty slow or we could do the walk very slow. I was just kind of doing this and I would kill it and then pop it with some more. So we're gonna be paying attention to the retrieve today. I think I can definitely maximize bites if we're paying attention to that. Dangling the duck looks so crazy. I know the feet kind of go crazy. Yeah, they do. Also guys, how would you work this duck lure if you were out fishing with it today? I asked that in the snake video and I had some interesting responses. I'd like to know what you guys would think. Ah. At home. On the dock. Kind of knocked on his door five times. Hello, are you in there? And doing a left hand skip too. I'm not left hand guys. So you can skip with your right hand? Yeah, might be a little better. Might be a little bit, oh my goodness. A minute since I've ran one of these. I want to get used to it. Dang tree. Oh baby. God, what is this dude? That thing don't get bit there. I'm not sure. That just looks so saucy. Let's get up under the back. All the way in the back. Dude, the noise that that will make. Oh man. That slop right there. Golly, it looks so good guys. Like we had a fish on, in my opinion, probably the less appetizing bank in this whole pond. And now we're throwing it in some of the juiciest looking stuff. Dude, it looks so good back there. This is one thing guys. This duck does not go through the grass too well. This head, I know it's still angled up, but it just kind of gets in that grass and on the legs. It's not as good as like the silicone on the frogs as far as going through vegetation. But that shouldn't be too big of a problem. There's not a ton. Oh, I got a gator fish. I got a gator duck. I got a gator duck. All right, dude. I'm going to be honest. If I wasn't washing it like head on, he probably would have got it.  Oh, definitely. Dude, he is. All right, dude, you got to chill, bro. He's angry, isn't he? All right, you better get away from me. That was ballsy, boy. Oh, dude, that's crazy. Oh, Fletcher, Fletcher. Oh, God. Oh, Fletcher. That's so good in there. Oh, he sees it. Their peripheral is crazy. Yeah, like right there, he can see it. Their side angle is insane on them gators. At least we know one thing that these things would catch. Gators like that, don't know. That makes sense for a gator, like. He would totally munch down on a duck. You know, he just saw them cruising. Starting to get confused because it's like, yeah, it is weird for a duck to be up in that shade, but look how far I'm getting it in there. You just think, whether he think it's a duck or anything, you know what I mean? He would smoke that.  Hey, throw a bullet weight on that duck? What do you think, Texas rigged duck? Look at that, Fletcher. Oh my gosh. Dude, I'm casting this thing as far as you can. You're getting some amazing cats with that. I cannot believe you haven't got clobbered. So guys, they also make like a brown, it's like a brown duck. That one's like a little more natural. I think we get a lot more bites on the brown one. But for the video, we gotta use the legit duck. You know what I mean? You gotta throw the legit duck. The duck is just slipping under trees and, oh, God. Oh my God.  You're skipping a duck 20 foot in trees that nobody can cast in. I'm telling you, Texas rigged duck, don't underestimate it. I've done some weird things with fishing livers. Best part about fishing is there's no rules to fishing and you can do whatever you want. So if that means Texas rigged top water duck, I can do that. They're probably wondering, what in the world is he doing? Well, when I smack a four pounder on this T-rigged duck, you'll be in awe. I mean, it'd be different if I was just smoking them up in the trees, but I'm putting this thing in places that I can't even discuss. I know you guys are watching from this angle. If you could see with your own eyes how juicy this looks, it would just confuse you. It just don't look right. I'm getting this thing in places a bait has never been before. You're getting places a duck's never been before, dude. I'm about to get some places a duck has never been. Oh my God. This thing of freaking wit, boy. Like, how are you not getting just McChickened right there, dude? Literally McChickened. That's what it's going to be called, what? The McChicken. That's why you ain't getting McChickened. You got a dang tree. Look at this T-rigged duck. Oh my God. Dude, I think you're actually going to catch a big one on that. It would not surprise me. Lisa, you know, if one misses me, just look, I think Cinkill, think it's dead, you know? Scoob-a-duck. This is Scoob-a-Steve. We fishing with Scoob-a-Steve over here. I got the McChicken, you got Scoob-a-Steve. Makes sense. Speaking of McChickened guys, we should do the McDonald's fast food challenge. Let us know what you've been thinking about it. Put a dang McNuggy on there, boy. Bro, come on, fish. I made way too many good skips to not have a swirl. Let's go, baby. Oh! The one time I'm not focused, bro. When you're talking about tacos, bro, you got my attention, okay? That fish heard you talking about Mexican food, and he's like, let me come. He's trying to get him some chips and queso. He said, let me get a bite, the duck taco. He went bigger than my last one, that fish is smaller. Wank, wank, wank, wank, wank, wank, wank, wank, wank, wank, wank. All right, guys, I think we're going to go hit a different pond because this one just is not it. The amount of amazing cast that we've made does not add up to the bites that we've had. So we will catch y'all at a different pond. All right, guys, new pond, new lake. New day, Fletcher. We're about to get after it, son. Listen, man, they didn't like the duck in the other place, but let's hope that this pond is a little different. We went and got some lunch. We're all fueled up, got me a dang burrito. I got a piece of beer in my mouth, these chips and queso. Oh! Whoa! Oh, that shade feels good. There's bigger fish in this place. The other place had some big ones, but this is more consistent big fish. So I think we're going to end up crushing in here. We got Scuba Steve rigged and ready to go still, and I am not giving up on the underwater duck. I know some of y'all think it's out there and it's a far-fetched idea, but I'm here to tell you, I'm going to catch a fish with Scuba Steve today. Do you believe in me now? I believe in you. All right. I think it will happen. The good news is this pond in particular has some really good offshore structure. So I think if we throw Scuba Steve on the offshore structure, he's going to get crushed. It's just a matter of fact. Do do do do. Duckie do, duckie do, da da do. Duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck. Goose! They're shy. I'm still here. I got some. Wait, actually. Wait, I'm on big fish. There you go. Yes! A monster too. There you go. Yes, sir. Did you see me slow it down? Yeah. That might be the go, bro. All right. That is a nice one too. That's like a three pounder. It looks light. Let's go, baby, on the duck. Look at that chicken. Oh yeah, dude. Look at that. Yes, sir. You got that McNugget. OK, this is definitely a weighable one. Do you have pliers here? Yes, you do. Actually, I might be good. Thank you, though. The last one was fairly quick, but it just kind of tapered off. We came up to this place. And what, 10 minutes in, if that? All we need is in case, so we're back in business, baby. Here we go, new leader fletch. Two pounds and nine ounces. Not bad.  We will take them. Not quite three. His body's not filled out enough, but I will take that dang fish, man. Beautiful one. Pretty markings. I don't really know what's going on with his back right there. It looks like he's been cut, but thank you for biting, baby. Let's try to get us another. And we were working it pretty slow. Thank you, buddy. Wow. Amazing, awesome bite. I kind of spoke that into existence, too. I was like, come on, big fish, and then instantly. There we go, boys. Two giant fish on the hollow body duck. Pretty much two and a half fish, because that one, I had them all the way to the boaty day and came off. I ended up catching them riding that shade line under the trees right where we would think they are. And that's a great sign, Fletcher, because we actually came out to this pond or lake the other day, and they weren't really in the trees, man. Were they, Fletcher? They were offshore on the brush and stuff. We had a little bit of luck under the trees, but not what you think. And the fact that we came right out the gate and stuck one, or e-stuck one, that's good news. I feel like good things are to come. The water is a little murkier in here, guys, and I think that slower approach, like kind of the pop-pop, still with the walk, but just kind of keep it a little slower. That might produce the bites, because that was the one time I wasn't working it too fast. It might just be a little more lethargic today. So, let's keep it going, boys. I think we're gonna end up doing pretty good under these trees. Ooh, that's so good, too. Oh, dude, I am like speaking into dang existence. Oh, oh no. Oh, you got a nasty knot up there. Oh no, don't tell me it ain't so. What is going on, dude? You know what sucks? He would have bit that dang thing. McChicken, man. Oh, gosh. You just got mick-ducked. I just got mick-ducked. That was fun while it lasted.  Straight beaming, man. You got the mix scissors? The mix snippers are back there.  He's just waiting to be caught, dude. Sadly, did not hook them. I bet if I could have thrown in there right away instead of it knotting up, I probably could have gotten them to bite again because I didn't hook them at all. But sometimes things happen. And that's all good. We're gonna tie back up and get rolling. Time to get in there, Scoob and Steve. Do your worst. Do your worst. Chasing bait right there.  Something nipped it. Dude, your whole rod tip, like, I saw that. All right, Scoob and Steve, your time might be up, my friend. They put this duck in some unusual places. At least we can say we tried. Ain't that right, Steve? Okay, let's go ahead and retie the sucker. No bullet weight this time. If you weren't from Scoob and Steve, just regular, Steve. Not as cool, but he can get the job done. Yeah, it'd be ducking me. What? It broke off, like, snapped off? Yeah, it actually snapped off. I was like, why is it not moving? Look at that, not even my knot. Look, my whole knot's there in the loop that I was tied onto there. I was just getting comfortable with that. Dang, dang. It might've just slipped out, huh? Yeah, it definitely just slipped. I don't think I've had that happen, honestly, ever. That would have been the time that, like, I noticed it came off You know what I mean? Straight five pounder just launches it. It could have been worse. At least we got it back. Oh, you gotta be kidding me. Ow. Gosh, dang it. God, Lee, dude, I'm gonna have a bruise from a frickin' duck. All right, we're back in business, boys. Oh, let's catch a frickin' giant. There's a big one. Oh, my God! Dude, straight mega.  Dude, half of the fish's body's, like, ripped in half. So plump? Look at this body, bro. Was it a bass body? Yeah, he's got some rolling with him. Oh, my gosh, yeah. Look at that. Did some just bite him? I don't know, Gator, maybe? Dude, definitely that is a mega, though. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, look at that. That is gnarly. That is pretty gnarly. Poor guy. That didn't make him hesitate to eat that ding duck, though. Props to this bass, man, for still pushing, even though he's injured. Straight up, mega skip. Turned into a kerplunk. Did you hear that, dude? Straight up kerplunk in the rain out here. That ain't stopping us. Looks like a close to a four-pounder. We're gonna get a weight on this. And then I feel like Fletcher's gonna end up cracking one. Let's get a weight on this puppy. Three-twelve. Ooh, not bad. Three-twelve, that's the new leader, boys. Almost a four-pounder, three-and-three-quarters. Beauty, other than that spot. I'm sorry about that, baby.  She's a strong fish. You got it. Let's go, dude. Holy cow.  Look at that, dude. Yeah, she did get that thing.  There we go, boys. Finally got a pretty big one. When all you hear is kerplunked, you don't even see it.  We're keeping this bait pretty slow, so I think the hard pops is what's attracting these big girls out of the trees. That would be the nastiest bite. There we go. Got one. Got one. Pull him out of that tree. Come on. We on the board. There we go, Steve. My boy. There we go. Ow. You okay? Yeah, golly. I've been sharp, haven't I? Yeah, yeah. He got some freaking paper shredders on them crushers. Oh, there we go. Okay, relax. Do not plop on me. Put her on a scale here, guys. We're definitely not going to be four with it, but we're just going to get a baseline for us here today. Well, would have had a baseline. She's gone. All right, Steve. Oh, that's funny. You're going to have to catch us another one. Oh, sweet bite, though, isn't it? Yeah, right up there in that tree. Oh, that's cool. At least you're on board, man. That fish wasn't going to beat the one anyways. Oh my God. I want to see a ridiculously, we've had some great bites today. Don't get me wrong, guys. Well, I just want to see one that's like absurd. Like making a scream. Remember the turtle bite? This fish literally missed my bait, a hook set. He followed all the way back to the boat. I slapped it like this in the water and he just went. Dude, you can't make that up. That was just. That guy was, he was pissed off, dude. So we haven't really talked about this, you know, having another main concept is just skipping this duck around and that's pretty much what we've been doing. But to pretty much give you an idea, you know, it was cloudy earlier and the sun ended up coming out, pushing these fish under the trees. Now it's kind of like a hybrid. A little bit of cloudy, a little bit of sunny. Well, that rainstorm just came through. So our whole idea on skipping these trees were, hey, it got sunny. You know, these fish were mainly out deep. Once the sun got up for, you know, an hour or two, this fish ended up moving up under this cover and now we've been having a pretty good day. At the start of the first pond, you guys could tell, you know, it was cloudy out. Sun wasn't really out for a while and those fish just weren't under the trees. So just to show, you know, what conditions and how conditions can change your day and determine where the fish are located. Oh, golly. Dude, he's a mega.   Oh my gosh. I don't know. I don't know. I must have snapped on it or something. Oh, you definitely snapped on it or snapped it. I have never in my life, and I've used seven ding brands of rods, ever seen a rod snap right there. That is, I've had to have stepped on that because we step on the sides of these boats a lot when the rods are in there. But yeah, we got one. We got one, all right. That's 100%, like a rod just does not snap on his backbone. It's just not something that happens. But yeah, we got a fish, guys. We might have lost our rod in the process, but we do have another rod on board that has fluorocarbon. So it looks like we might be throwing the big duck now, but yeah, let's get a weight on her. Let's get a weight on her. Don't do that to me again. You're gonna lose him again. What was that? I got the weight. I got the weight on that. What was it? 213. Okay. You're a mess right now. I'm just, I'm here. Today has been your day, hasn't it? It's been my day. I'm just here to get you content, man. That's what I'm here for. Whatever I've explored or odd, it's always on your channel, not mine. I rarely do it too. Like I've had two break over the last like year. You know what I mean? It happens once a year, maybe twice. All right, guys, we're back in action. Now we got the kickin' set up here. Checkin' out their bass.com, baby. Yep, you know what? Check it out. Link in the description. Better smash that, that link. Smash that link, boy. But outside of that, we got our big old three ounce duckaroo here. That's ideal way to end that combo's life. Happen to explode. Oh, there it is. That's a good one. Oh, oh, I couldn't catch up to her, bro. No, that was a four pounder every freakin' ounce of it. Now that fish destroyed it, bro. Oh, that was an absolute obliteration. Son of a biscuit, dude. That was one for the tube right there. Skipped them all the way up in the tree. Give me another obliteration bite. You know, that's the first one that kinda ate it out comin' out of the... That sounded crazy. Oh, he bent it out. Yeah, bad. Wow, that sucks, dude. Yeah. I'm disappointed in that. Dang, anyways, my frog's just walkin' about, havin' a good day, you know? And all of a sudden, it wasn't like a bass went like this. And then ate it, right? He went, wow. Like, dude, this fish probably swam 20 foot to get to this thing. That's probably why I missed those two fish, bro. Maybe my hook was bent before that last one. I don't know what these fish are on, on this bank, between that one snappin' Fletcher's rod. Like, they're just, they're takin' some steroids or somethin', bro. I don't believe, man. They are jacked. We're just gettin' takin' advantage of right now, man.  What in the world? That's all bigin' to, man. I don't know if he's as big as that big one I got, but that was a shark bite. That is insane, boys.  I'm not gonna weigh him. He's definitely over three, but I don't think he's gonna hit it. He's just bleedin' slightly. But, um, beautiful bass. Thank you for bitein', baby. Wow. What a blow-up. The bites have totally changed from, like, them just comin' up and eatin' it regular, just kinda suckin' it down to just, like. The type of blow-ups you definitely wanna see. What a day of fishin' has it been, guys. Went from not being able to get a bite in a tree, the fish turnin' in to straight sharks. They're hittin' it so hard and runnin' off with it that, like, I can't even catch up with the fish. I don't know if you're noticein' I'm havin' a hard time. That's why I lost his last two. They're takin' it off like a dang predator missile, dude. I don't know what is going on. Maybe the duck's actually the sauce, dude. It's just, like, straight up sauce. Oh, you were way back there, dude. There's another kid in the fish tank. Right there! Oh my gosh, right there! Right there next to the boat on the big duck! No! It came off!  I was like, I didn't even see him bite it. Crazies, we were just talkin' about, like, two minutes prior about one fallin' in and out. What in the world? That was honestly one of the smaller fish we've hooked today. It was pretty thin. Well, the thing is that fish coulda been four pounds, but he had zero thickness to him. I wonder if he wanted to eat a duck. He wanted to get his weight off. We're skipping off, sitting down, it's kinda underrated. Oh man, I'm feeling blighting on this water. That's where I wanna make up a new mix one day and send it to you, you're gonna be alive. Oh, there you go! Boom! There you go! I snuck the GoPro! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Yeah, she is. I was laughin' cause a lot of things. We're crackin' up about somethin' that probably not PG-13. Well, look at that dang duck, boys! That's a nice one, bro.  Yeah, it sounded kinda hollow. I know. Beautiful fish, though, thank you, baby. That was an awesome bite.


Wow And I know you guys didn't envision our pregnancy to be like this, but as the kids say it is what it is So baby you want to tell them what's going on and how many months I am? turn to the side BAM, whoo, you about eight months Yep, gonna give birth next month My due date is December 13th Don't know the gender and we're leaving it for a surprise We don't know where we're gonna name it. I'm saying it because we don't know if it's a he or she Uh-huh, and um, yeah, if it's a boy, it's probably gonna be Cornelius if it's a girl. It's probably gonna be Gertrude Okay, beautiful names. Mm-hmm. Okay, so um, man, let's get into the intro and let's tell them what's going on What's going on if in a family back to another video if you guys are new to the channel Make sure you guys hit that subscribe button turn on your post notification about leave a positive comment down below And maybe a baby name and you guys will get a shot at the end of today's video guys. So today, obviously We are doing a pregnancy challenge for 24 hours too close too close all right Clearly Isaiah is a dramatic pregnant person. They don't want no one next to them You know those kinds that's that's what he's gonna be Janice. I'm ready to pop and I don't need you getting close to my belly Like I'm in enough stress already and just tell them what's going on All right, so today we're gonna be doing a couple of things and I'm going to be teaching Isaiah How it is to be pregnant now that my doctor said that I am able to have children I'm going to just you know have him do a little trial and error And I'm gonna show him exactly how tough it is to be a mom and to be pregnant for nine months Honestly, this is nothing compared to what pregnant women go through but this is just a little taste of you know What it's like having a big spear growing out of your body also speaking of spear you guys don't want to know what's under my shirt Yeah, we're just not gonna talk about it. Anyway, so what's the first thing? What's one of the things I gotta do so the first thing that I'm going to test Isaiah on is getting in the car Because we're about to just head over to Starbucks.  Obviously my stomach is gonna All right, man enough talking let's go get my latte Cravings man. He's pregnancy crazy. As you can see I did putting on his jacket. How do you feel? I need an extra extra large now. Oh, really?  I didn't drop my keys on my keys are in my pocket. So drop them. Hey now try to pick those up How do I do it? How do I don't know how to pick things up while pregnant? Well, you gotta adjust over right? No, you can All right, so how do I do it then? You gotta adjust you gotta bend to the side. Yep. Yep. I can't do that I don't got meganese. Oh, well too bad. I'm gonna drop women figure it out all the time This is what your girlfriend is gonna have to go through when she's pregnant. Dang right here. We go Alright, so let's go. I'm serious. I can't bend down like that. Yes, you can. No, I can't you just gotta give it a shot Yep.  Mm-hmm It was like day see those pregnancy breaths right there. That's some serious stuff Wait, what do they do when they not for the games? Let's go get my latte.  Why not? Baby boy or baby girl wants on okay. Come on. Let's go fine. Let's go You can't be doing that Guys look at him. He's doing the baby mama waddle. You see that. Oh My goodness Baby mama, if you guys want to see me do the baby mama dance drop a like right now.  Oh, I bet you it is That's a big belly getting the car first So you guys can see how I'm gonna finesse my way get inside. No, okay. I could get it from this angle. Let's see. Okay, okay All right, here we go Gotta be careful with your belly. You can't hit your belly I'm pretty comfortable. You're comfortable. Do you think I can honk the horn? You can try it All right, you're making the baby nervous the baby don't like that Baby dancing except my stomach is coming out. Oh, you need a bigger shirt. You need to get a maternity clothes, baby boy I think you need maternity clothes be a good baby mama and Close the door for me for your pregnant husband. Come on Close the door for your pregnant. That's a part of the challenge. You got to do it yourself I'm independent Pregnant dad. I'll tell you that. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I don't need you for none Good job, babe All right, y'all. He's about to try to put his seatbelt on See oh It's so difficult to put a seatbelt on, huh? They don't make this Pregnancy accessible. Yeah, you need to get like a little cushion for the bottom of the seatbelt.  No, I'm just saying it looks so funny Oh, I did that you did this to me because someone didn't know how to use protection What it takes to the tango, baby, it's a to the tango, but only put one on for protection Baby, I'll tell you this stomach is in the way. Is it it's in the way. I feel like there's so much What was that my phone just can't be making them noises stressing the baby out. Oh my good Hold your phone tighter next time Janice. I'm sorry. I'm too busy holding the camera recording this pregnant man I'm too busy holding our child and I don't need the extra arguments to stress me out.  I can't wait till you give birth. I can't wait either so I can actually scrap with you You want to fight? Yeah, but not now because I'm the baby don't need to stress. Oh, okay You don't need to stress. We gotta think about the baby, but I think about the baby You keep it up. I might just have an extra glass of wine tonight. What yeah, you can't drink wine You're pregnant. My mom drank when I was in her belly Don't drink why you pregnant that explains a lot It does explain a lot.  No, I wasn't you were dropped Actually, you want to talk about that?  I'm gonna ask her later. I'm gonna ask her later, too I'm gonna give her a call You were in your car seat All right. Yeah, we're gonna have a talk later. I'm dead serious off camera.  So I had to get out of the car to show him Oh, it's so difficult, you know, if you were really pregnant you wouldn't have been able to get up that fast What what are you gonna tell me I am pregnant, okay, and you should be the one holding this stuff Oh, really insist on the pregnant person doing all the work. Oh I'm making you do all the work. You're holding your own drink And your own food I have to leave mine inside the car to record you Stress baby don't need exercise baby one his muffin or her muffin and his or her drink. I was I Don't need none of that either. It's just a baby out. It's just in the baby Anyway, I will see you inside because my back is hurting go ahead waddle your way to the door Yeah, that's that's a real pregnancy waddle if I've ever seen one. How's that? How's that breakfast is good?  It's good real good. Why do you have such attitude? Pregnant people have mood swings sometimes. Oh, do they so you're having a mood swing right now I don't know. You don't know that you're having a mood swing.  All right I'm gonna need you to get up though for what don't you see I'm eating have some courtesy Have some courtesy. What is this? Just get up because it's difficult for pregnant people to get up. So maybe hungry. Okay, the baby could still eat But you just got to get up. I this is one of your challenges. Let's see. Oh, you can't huh? I got a straight up. Yeah, you just got to get up as best as you can try leave us.    I can't get in between your legs I can't get in between I need help. Yeah, that's usually what happens when you're pregnant. Okay. Well, help me. Okay Well, I'm not shaving it for you. What kind of partner are you? You're supposed to shave it for me No, that's not how this works. You just got a maneuver around it. No, you got a trim it for me No, what do you think this is grass? Who's trimming what? Give me a shape up. It's shape up All right, let me go get the clippers in your feet. Let me show you how to do it Okay, so literally put your leg on the toilet Yes, how does that feel do you feel a lot of pressure down there? Yeah, I feel like my ovaries are about to pop why that that must mean that the baby's head is just like going straight down Wait, what? Yes, that's normal. That's what happens the babies rotate. Do I have to call my health care provider? Yeah, because that means you're about to give birth. I'm eight months. I have another month Okay, so you're not gonna give birth yet then the babies probably just like having a party in there. Is that normal though? Yeah All right, you're stressing me out. I don't need to extra stress. Oh my gosh. Here we go Do it for me. No, how do you guys figure it out try to bend? I There's an obstacle in the way Let me see. There's an obstacle in the way try your best. Go ahead. I can't see though What if I cut something I'm not supposed to cut so you want me to help you? Yeah, I'd like some guidance wait try to go from the back then Yeah, if I cut something you're gonna put a band-aid on it. Okay, fine. You might you might just need a mirror Anyway, okay All right, so how many how many strokes as many strokes as it takes all right? Well, how many so I prove to you that I can do it just do it. All right, here we go Hey, oh, yeah Hey, all right. I don't know if this is gonna get demonetized. Let's listen up. Let's not go further Yeah Baby, I know that you've been relaxing, but I'm gonna need you to get up because we got to go Go where we have to go to the store to get Christmas decorations. I'm the pregnant one. I call the shop. Oh Excuse me. You already know whatever the pregnant person says go but babe I thought that you were pretty much like wanting to get everything decorated and no Your word about Christmas and it's probably because you're thinking about gifts and all that and that's kind of selfish I'm giving you the gift of life and you're over here. We gotta go get decorations. How about asking me, babe? Are you feeling okay, babe? Can I massage your feet? How about something like that instead you're over here? We got to go get Christmas decorations. What's more important decorations or your child. Are you done selfish man? So are you done? I just want you to come with me. I'm not going nowhere But you have to pick everything out. My feet are swollen my back hurts I peed 52 times today and my nipples are tender. Okay. I am not moved Good job. I've seen a couple movies Well, you got to put on your sneakers for why because this is part of the challenge. Did you forget I'm challenging you today? Let's go.  Damn, you got some long-ass arms Slenderman pretty good job. Some people can't even get that far.  You need to mind your business I'm pregnant. Ah the baby's hurting the baby's hurting. You can't bend that way Yeah, you're you're you're you're squeezing them All right, we'll do something What do I have to do? Oh, you're flexible. Look look your whole belly coming out your whole belly coming out. All right Well, I don't have a significant other that's helping me through this whole journey Yeah, cuz of your significant other has to capture this moment You know what who needs shoes? When I can simply Have sandals good job good way to think that's what I'll be wearing my whole pregnancy because that's literally all I wear now You made me sweat can I go back to sitting down now? Yeah, babe. I think that I challenged you enough I think you did a good job. Let me have some knuckles Can we end it with what I want to end it with?  Baby Fine So that is it for today's video. I hope you guys enjoyed me being pregnant. It was honestly a crazy journey Look at this mushroom cat. That's exactly what static you want static All right, so yeah, if you guys enjoyed today's video and you guys want to see me be pregnant again Next time you guys see anyone pregnant is gonna be her anyway, so that is it for today's video I hope you guys enjoyed if you guys don't forget to smash that like button and also they are excited for our future pregnancy I know how they say we better start trying tonight. No boy. No need for a synthetic baby We'll make the real one Vacation shout out today's public vacation shadow goes out to all the mothers out there in the world who's doing it What out of man shout out to oh, yeah, yeah, goates all the pregnant people out of goats Yeah, that's one. Love you all


The Cavalcade of America sponsored by E.I. DuPont de Nemoursen Company of Wilmington, Delaware, maker of better things for better living through chemistry, presents the conquest of quinine with House Jameson as the narrator. Before we begin our play, here's some good news about neoprene synthetic rubber. Some DuPont neoprene has now been made available to rubber thread manufacturers for girdles. As you probably know, our armed forces are making good use of most of the neoprene DuPont can produce. Aircraft engine hose, airplane parts, gas masks, and protective coverings for Army and Navy communication wiring are just a few of the thousands of wartime uses for neoprene. But the supply of this DuPont chemical rubber is now large enough to divert a limited amount to the manufacture of girdles. Girdles with stretch because they are made of DuPont neoprene. And now for our play. Tonight Cavalcade presents the story of a victory that ranks as a truly great scientific achievement. A victory won after more than a hundred years of search and struggle and personal sacrifice.  Only this year two American scientists have finally succeeded where so many have failed. They have accomplished the total synthesis of quinine. Their work carried on at Harvard University was initiated and sponsored by the Polaroid Corporation. The DuPont company presents the conquest of quinine with House Jameson as the narrator on the Cavalcade of America.  Yes, even war. Year by year since the dawn of recorded history, enough men, women and children have died of this terrible disease to populate a brand new world. If these millions of dead could come to life again today, now, it is safe to say they would demand one thing of their brave new world. Let there be, they would say, butterflies and helicopters, palm granites and plastics, but no mosquitoes. For the disease they died of is malaria. Malaria. The word designates a group of chronic infections of vertebrates produced by the protozoan parasites, plasmodii, the three species of which I would call your attention being falciparum vivax. Thank you very much, professor. Ladies and gentlemen, what the professor is saying is that malaria is caused by a parasite. A mosquito bites a man that has malaria and then he bites you and pretty soon you've got malaria too. Isn't that correct, sir? Yes, quite. The cure for malaria is quinine. In the history of chemotherapy, numerous attempts at synthesis were made with only partial success until very recently when total synthesis was achieved. That's all. Thank you very much, sir. It has taken you exactly 29 seconds to tell the story of the first specific known to medicine of the miracle drug that has saved in the course of centuries untold hundreds of millions of lives. And now, if you don't mind, I'd like to tell it my way, right from the beginning. In the year 1638, the viceroy of the great colony of Spanish America was one Don Luis Fernandes Mendoza, Count of Chinchon. The Count was very happy with his post in South America. He had a beautiful young wife. Lima was a cosmopolitan city. The Indians didn't know too much and a great deal of gold and silver was being shipped back to Spain. And then one day, the beautiful young wife awoke before Don raving deliriously for water. The viceregal physician was summoned. He examined the Countess. Your Excellency. Well, don't stand there looking at me. What is it? Your Excellency, I am not quite sure. I must have further details. Details? What kind of details? Do you ask the date of her birth, the color of her eyes, when she lies there dying? No. On the contrary, it's quite another detail that I'm interested in. When I arrived just now... When you arrived just now, my wife was delirious. She shrieked to God for water and her body was burning. Exactly. And before I arrived... Before you arrived, she suffered so fire and a chill that the bed shook. Thank you. That is all I wish to know.  Egg you? The egg you, eh? Well, what are you waiting for?  She will die, Your Excellency. There is no cure. On the sixth night the chills and fever were so severe and the delirium so prolonged that all hope was abandoned. It was just before dawn that an Indian arrived from the hills far to the north. He carried a message from the Spanish magistrate at Loja. Your Highness, with respect and deep humility, I send you these pieces of bark from the queen quina tree, which, as you may have heard, is abundant in this district. If it be powered into a strong wine, and if it please all mighty God, the resultant potion will cure your beloved countess of this deadly marriage. Well, physician, what say you of this? I am against it, Your Excellency. Indeed. And what do you suggest in this place? I, eh, Your Excellency, this so-called queen quina bark is unknown to me. In Spain, in all Europe, there's no record of its existence. Furthermore... Continue. The great Galen, father of medicine, does not list it in his index of the 300 cures. And therefore it does not exist. Very interesting. If I could have a little time perhaps to study... I am interested in prolonging the existence of my wife, not the advancement of medicine. But I cannot assume the responsibility. I will assume the responsibility. Prepare the potion. The bark of the mysterious quenquina tree was prepared according to directions and given to the countess. Every few hours for two days, the dose was repeated. And at the end of the second day, a miracle occurred. The chills and fever slackened. The delirium disappeared. Some weeks later, the countess was well enough to approach her husband with a most interesting project. Now that I'm well enough to travel, I'm going back to Madrid. And with me, as my dearest possession, I shall take a packet of this miraculous specific. All Spain, all Europe, shall learn the wonder that God has seen fit to store in the bark of a tree. Thus the tiny packet of bark from the quenquina tree went on to Spain, where its value as a cure for malaria, then known as the ague, was quickly proven. In honor of the countess, Batonis changed the name of the bark. It was hereafter to be known as Sincona. It wasn't until two centuries later that doctors and chemists became curious about this Peruvian bark. They knew it cured malaria. But how? And why? And what made it work? It was in 1820 that the first experiment was made by two French chemists. My dear Kavantu, up to now we've extracted gray Sincona bark with alcohol. We added water and potash, and what have we got? A clear solution containing crystals. Exactly. Crystals, all white and shining and very pretty to look at. But they don't cure malaria. They don't cure anything. And so I suggest we forget all about it. Let's just go on to... One moment. Think, Pilatier, what it would mean if we could discover what there is in this Sincona bark that cures. I have thought about it. Nevertheless... I beg you, Pierre, what we have got up to now... Which is exactly nothing. We got from gray Sincona bark. Before we give up, let us try the whole thing over again on the yellow. I ask you, Joseph, what difference will that make? It is known that these Sincona barks differ. Perhaps the yellow is better, perhaps if we... Oh, very well, Joseph. Hand me that strip of yellow Sincona. Let's see now. We extracted yellow Sincona with alcohol. It was done. We added water and potash. Done. And now we look for white crystals. Well, there are none, Pierre. No crystals? What we have produced is a white powder. It will not crystallize. Pierre, Pierre, do you suppose... I... I don't know. We must be careful. We will test its solubility in acid and alcohol. We will then send a specimen to all doctors in the Paris area, advising them to join prudence to sagacity in testing it on human beings. And Pierre, I have already thought of a name for it. Since it comes from the Quintina tree, let us call it Quineen. And thus, from the bark of a tree was isolated the magic power that cured malaria. By the middle of the 19th century, quinine was recognized throughout the world. It was potent. It was the malaria cure. But it was also scarce and expensive and millions of dollars. In 1850, the French Society of Pharmacy announced a competition to the chemists of the world, whereas it has long been of the utmost importance that a synthesis for quinine be found, whereas this synthetic must, beyond doubt, be possessed of the same therapeutic effect, whereas the cost of its production must be appreciably reduced. Therefore, we, the French Society of Pharmacy, do make this appeal to the world of science, offering a prize of 4,000 francs to the chemist who will discover the means of preparing quinine artificially. I say, have you heard this French Society competition? We will follow the course set by Pelletier and Cavantoux. France shall have the honor. Today, we begin work on quinine synthesis. We will show the world what German chemistry can do. 4,000 francs, eh? What's more, I'll go to work on it today. Yes, they went to work on it. Even Pasteur was interested. I wish to report the extraction of an alkaloid from Sincone Barc. I have called this alkaloid quinotoxin. And there they stopped. Even the great Pasteur, it was apparent, could go no further. And the prize offered by the French Society of Pharmacy was never won. But one of the experiments performed in this competition was to confound the world of chemistry and create a new industry. This discovery of such tremendous importance was arrived at by sheerst accident. Listener, follow this closely. For the date of this experiment, 1856 is the beginning of a cycle of experimentation that was completed in our time. Only three months ago, in April 1944, with the final triumphant long sought-after total synthesis of quinine. The cycle begins at the Royal College of Chemistry in London, an old professor and a young student. Perkin? Perkin? William Henry Perkin. Oh, yes, Professor Hoffman. Going home for your Easter holiday, William? Yes, Professor, to work. I've a laboratory at home, you know. What are you going to work on? Oh, I don't know. Anything that strikes my fancy, just so long as it's chemistry. William, why not put your holiday to real use by going after something specific? Such as? Such as quinine. You've heard, of course, of this French competition. Why not get into it? Everybody else is already. Quinine, eh? Well, what did you have in mind to produce it from? Coal tar. Coal tar? You mean that stuff that distillers will pay you to cut away that stinking, nauseating mess? Exactly, William. That stinking, nauseating mess. William, that stuff smells. What is it? Coal tar derivative. What is that? One of the chemicals that comes from Coal tar. Now, keep quiet and watch. If this turns white, maybe I've got something quiet now. It's black. It's turning black. Yes, it is. Now, let's see. I've tried toluidine with potassium dichromate. I've tried sulfate of... Alice, didn't I tell you never to touch this? Look at my football. Well, it serves you right. Next time, you'll know better than to... Did you say purple? Yeah, let me look at that. My shoes, too. Oh, that's strange. Very strange.  Within a week, William Henry Perkin found out. The Coal tar derivative he'd used on that last experiment was...Analyn. And this 18-year-old boy thus became the discoverer of the first of the now famous Annalyn dyes. They revolutionized an industry. But more important, in the mad stampede that followed Perkin's discovery, the goal of the world's chemists to create an artificial quinine went down. Scuttled. A lost cause. You are listening to the conquest of quinine with House Jameson as the narrator on the Cavalcade of America sponsored by E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Company of Wilmington, Delaware, maker of better things for better living through chemistry. Our Cavalcade play this evening is the story of man's engrossing struggle down through the years to find a remedy for the dread disease malaria. In 1856 William Henry Perkin, an English chemist seeking a synthetic quinine out of Coal tar, discovered instead the first of the Annalyn dyes and the world's chemists turned from the problems of quinine to the new field. The years went by. Seedlings of the now famous synchronous tree were transported from South America and planted in the soil of the Dutch East Indies. Thus was the supply of quinine increased and the cost lowered, but never enough to fill the demand of the millions throughout the world. And the chemists, what were they doing all this time? My name is Herr Strecker. I have determined the composition of the quinine molecule. It consists of 20 carbon, 24 hydrogen, two oxygen, and two nitrogen atoms. This fellow Strecker merely started things, you know. Others came along who made use of his discovery. Fellows like Kraup and Koenigs, for instance, they isolated the various quinine units and then the German chemist, Herr Rabe, made his famous experiment. I wish to announce that I have succeeded in turning back into quinine, the alkaloid quinotoxine which Pasteur extracted in 1853. That was a partial synthesis. And now let me tell you about a new drug. It was invented by two German chemists, Mieschen Maus, and it was called... Atabren. This new drug we have created is based on an acridine dye. It is only distantly related to quinine, but it does kill malaria parasites. Atabren, as you know, soon became the universally accepted man-created cure for malaria. It had certain toxic qualities, but proper care and supervision held them down to a minimum. But the dream of every chemist, the perfect and total synthesis of quinine, seemed as far away as ever. On December 7, 1941, 95% of the world's supply of quinine came from the Dutch East Indies. By April of the following year, the Japs had moved in and the supply was shut off. The army and navy of the United States had large stocks of quinine on hand, but nobody was sure how long the war would last. And so among those who went to work on the age-old riddle were two American scientists. The year is 1943, the month February, the place Harvard University. If we could look in on two young scientists, we might hear an interesting conversation. Well, Daring, I've worked out a tentative blueprint for this thing. Good. It'll be a nice change, Woodward, after this hush-hush stuff we've been doing for the government. Maybe you won't think so after we begin banging our heads on this quinine business. No. In the beginning, everything looks rosy. Well, where do we start? Remember Quinotoxin? Pasteur, 1853. He extracted it from Sincona. Right. And in 1918, Robber made quinine from Quinotoxin. Sure, but he had to use plenty of real quinine to do it. Now, if we could make synthetic quinotoxin, we'd be a lot nearer to synthetic quinine, right? Now, half the quinotoxin molecule has already been duplicated. Let's go after the other half. Okay. What do we start with? Daring, I'm suggesting we start with benzaldehyde. Benzaldehyde. Listener, stop a moment and consider. Benzaldehyde is produced from coal tar. Coal tar. Remember William Henry Perkin? He went looking for quinine and discovered aniline dyes. And now, almost a hundred years later, Robert B. Woodward and William E. Daring, still searching for a total synthesis of quinine, seek out the answer in exactly the same substance, coal tar, that stinking, nauseating mess, as Perkin called it. Thus the cycle draws to its close. The first step was achieved in a month. From now on, it was to be the old chemical formula of trial and error. Red eyes, dead with fatigue, and an unspoken prayer every night when they crawled into bed. The next steps took longer, and soon the laboratory was filled with bottles of crystals, beautiful crystals. I'd say we're doing all right. Now the next step. Say, Bill, what's on your mind? Well, Bob, something's come up. Oh? Yeah, my appointment to teach at Columbia came through today. Say, that's great. Congratulations. Thanks. But what about us? I'm worried how we'll arrange it with me in New York and you up here in Cambridge. Look, we'll both go on just as we were. They played chess by telephone, don't they? Well, we'll coordinate our research the same way.   I'll come up Christmas and Eastern. We'll really tear things apart. Certainly. Now let's get back to work. Step by step in the months rolled by. It was April 11th, 1944, 14 months after the experiment had begun. The doubting had come up to Cambridge that he and Woodward might work out this final step together. How long we've been at it? Almost a week, I guess. 9.30 a.m. to 4.30 a.m. and back again at 9.30. I mix, you stir, I boil. Well, let's do a different today. You mix, I stir, and you boil. Okay. Now let's go over this again. We've duplicated the two halves of the quinine molecule and combined them, and all we got was a yellow oil, quinatoxin. We used Robber's method and then dropped in a few natural quinine crystals because sometimes they act like seeds and make other crystals, but nothing happened. Let's do it over again, see what happens. All over again, the yellow oil, the natural crystals, mix, stir, boil, and cool. And suddenly, they had a quarter of a gram of fluffy, faintly yellow, needle-like crystals. They put them through several tests and then Woodward looked at Dering and Dering looked at Woodward. Well, what do you think? So far so good. Yeah, too good, maybe. We've still got to measure the rotation of the crystals. The final and conclusive test, as my old professor used to say. If it comes out right, we've got something. And if it doesn't, well, no use postponing the verdict. Want me to take it into the dark room and measure them? Uh-huh. Hey, you're not nervous, are you? Get out of here. Maybe you'd like to take a little nap or something. Maybe you ought to rest. Go on. Okay. Okay, I'm going. Keep your fingers crossed. Woodward. Well? Well? The rotation came out absolutely correct. We've done it. This is it, I tell you. This is it. Hey, quit pumping my hand like that. You'll shake it right off. The end of the trail had been reached after almost a hundred years. There were many milestones along the way put there by such men as Pasteur and Perkin and Strecker and Robber and many others. And now the cycle is completed. The riddle has been solved. In the May issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, there appeared the following announcement. We wish to record the first total synthesis of quinine. It was signed R. B. Woodward and W. E. Dering. Thank you, House Jameson and members of the Cattlecade cast. Now here is Ted Pearson speaking for the DuPont Company. An American LCT nosed in toward the island of Elba, where Napoleon was once imprisoned. And war correspondent Sedgwick of the New York Times pecked at his battered typewriter. He wrote, At dawn enemy shells were falling about the armada of landing craft. Smoke shells were being fired by our ships in great quantities. And containers of canned mist would drop from the sterns of the fast scurrying vessels so that the operation finally successful was carried out in something resembling a London fog, unquote. Chemical smoke is really a lot thicker than a London fog, so thick in fact that you can get lost in it. But it isn't really smoke. It's a fine powder, the product of combining chemicals which hangs in the air. It has saved many lives and helped us win many objectives. Our troops are using four different kinds of chemical smoke in this war. Smoke generators are mounted on ships, on planes, and used by troops on land. Sometimes the smoke is colored. A prearranged color code identifies an artillery unit, a beachhead, or a special objective. Colored smoke helps our planes to bomb accurately even when clouds cover the target. The lead plane carries a secret device that sees through the clouds. Then it drops colored smoke bombs, and the planes which follow use the ring of colored smoke in the clouds as their target. Chemical smoke blanketed the Normandy coast on D-Day. Over Naples more than once it made the Germans aim their bombs by gas and drop them into the sea where they were harmless. At the Volterno River, where Americans were fighting their way into German-held territory, 25-pound smoke shells were fired every 15 seconds for 18 hours so the German artillery couldn't draw a bead on our men. Below Casino, where our supplies had to keep moving up the highways, a smoke screen six miles long and two miles wide blinded German guns which otherwise would have had a clear view from the hillside of our trucks moving on the roads. Engineers throwing a bridge across a stream often lay a smoke cloud where they aren't working, so the enemy will direct his fire there and not shoot at the real bridge. In New Guinea, we took a Japanese airfield by blanketing the edges of the field with smoke from the air and landing a thousand paratroopers in the smoke right on the field. Sulfur trioxide and hexachlorothane, two compounds used in smoke-generating equipment, are products of present-day chemistry. The use of these basic chemicals in smoke screens is a wartime adaptation of products which in peacetime enables the DuPont company to bring you better things for better living through chemistry. Next Monday evening, the Camelcade of America presents a radio adaptation of the current best-seller A Walk in the Sun, a vivid touching story of men and war, the story of an infantry platoon in the Italian campaign, of a march in the sun along a death-strewn unknown road, and of the mission that had to be carried through at the end of that road. The orchestra and musical score were under the supervision of Donald Voorhees. This is Roland Winters sending his best wishes from Camelcade sponsor E.I. DuPont and Amours and Company of Wilmington, Delaware. The Camelcade of America came to you from New York. The National Broadcasting Company.


Hello everyone, my name is Clara Tao, this is Megan Kilman and together with Marta Belcher we make up the management committee that run the Filecoin Foundation. Today we are standing in the Comet De Beato, which was a center of centralized religious knowledge back in the 15th century. And with the rise of decentralized services like Gutenberg's printing press knowledge was decentralized. And here we are gathered today to decentralize knowledge on the Filecoin network to preserve the integrity of today's web. And so since the beginning of the Filecoin network, it was envisioned that Filecoin would have a governance body called the Filecoin Foundation that was modeled similarly to other open source foundations like Mozilla or the Linux Foundation. And the goal of the Filecoin Foundation is to empower the long term sustainability of the Filecoin network and to make sure that it is fair and has adequate governance for all the builders in our community. We also have a sibling charitable non-profit arm called Filecoin Foundation for the decentralized web which is working to preserve and uplift all other decentralized services on the web today. As you can see behind me here, we are here in Lisbon and we are hosting a ton of events. You may have already seen some in the schedule this week. And we have an incredible events team and an incredible community that have worked so hard to make these events happen. Earlier this year we launched the Filecoin Orbit program which includes over 70 ambassadors all around the world that have hosted over 57 events across 20 cities.  We have here Filecoin Singapore that just happened. We will have photos for Filecoin Lisbon and also Filecoin Austin that took place earlier this year on the backbone of consensus. And of course we hope all of you guys will stay October 30th through November 4th for activities at Filecoin Lisbon and also Web Summit. Our mission as mentioned before at the foundation is to preserve humanity's most important information. And one thing that I'm so excited to share is we just announced an initiative called the Public Data Commons to really preserve humanity's most important public open data and also government data sets. Earlier this year we worked with the City of New York and their former CTO to upload a number of open data sets onto the Filecoin network. And just last week we announced a partnership with Internet Archive on their Democracy Library Initiative which we'll hear about more later this week which is to upload even more open data sets on Filecoin. We are so excited to do this and much more. I'm going to click too far. There we go. There we go. Great. One of our most exciting projects, one of the projects I am personally most excited about is a partnership between the Filecoin Foundation and Lockheed Martin to put IPFS into space. IPFS of course stands for the Interplanetary File System and has always been part of the vision for this technology that it could operate in areas with low connectivity over long distances. Today's centralized Internet wouldn't work in space because you have to draw data from a location-based area on Earth. In fact, if you are on the moon, just imagine it, every time you click data would have to be retrieved from a centralized server on Earth with a multi-second delay. As someone who nearly caused an international incident with slow data speeds on my flight yesterday, I can tell you how much this would not work. With the IPFS, the data doesn't have to go back to Earth. It would draw from the source that is closest to it because it is drawing from the content, not the location. It would eliminate the delay and we are super thrilled that the Filecoin Foundation is partnering with Lockheed Martin to make IPFS part of the infrastructure for the future of the space economy. Two other programs that I am very excited about is the Filecoin Foundation as the long-term stewards of the Filecoin Network. I have two programs that are really vital to the long-term health and growth of the network. Filecoin Plus is a program organized by the Filecoin Foundation that helps incentivize the storage of real, useful datasets on the network. And today, the Filecoin Foundation is responsible for bringing on more than 150 petabytes of data onto the network. The Filecoin Foundation is also responsible for facilitating the governance structure of the Filecoin Network. So we do this through the Filecoin Improvement Proposal System, FIPS, and also the FRCs, the Filecoin Request for Comments. And this system allows anybody in the network, anybody in the Filecoin community to participate in changes to the core protocol. The Filecoin Foundation has also been growing. We've grown exponentially over the last two years. We now have more than 50 full-time staff. And in addition to our staff, we have a completely amazing board of advisors and directors. Just a few of the people involved. Brian Balendorf, who wrote Apache. Kristin Smith, who's the executive director of the Blockchain Association. Joe Lubin, one of the co-founders of Ethereum. Brewster Kale, founder of the Internet Archive. Nicole Wong, former CTO of the United States under the Obama Administration. We've been incredibly thrilled to bring in such a fantastic group of people to the Filecoin Network to work with the Filecoin Foundation. On behalf of myself, Clara, Marta, and the whole Filecoin Foundation team, we're super thrilled to be here, and we can't wait to see what Phil has been.


I wanted to take this chance of me kind of going back to my roots, using my voice to help people, to invite you on a very special opportunity, which is roughly one hour, sometimes a lot more, depending, dedicated coaching session with me for free on Skype or Zoom, probably Zoom if you're okay with recording it so that others can also benefit. And what I do in these sessions is you tell me about who you are and what your goals are and what's stopping you. And I am responsible for blowing your mind and completely opening up the gates of possibility. So the effect that you should feel in a proper coaching session, which I've done hundreds of these in the last two years, is by the end of the session, you're jumping from into enthusiasm, you can see everything clearly. So you know exactly how to get what you want to get. And sometimes you realize that it's not even what you thought you want to get. And it can give you basically a path to achieve it much, much, much faster and to almost like fix your mind. So, you know, bring back that feeling of enthusiasm of knowing what you want, knowing how to get it, and seeing how simple it is, and also being motivated to make it happen and having a complete plan from start to finish that all you need to do is follow it. So that's what I offer. And the reason, first of all, I've always offered coaching sessions for free. It's my biggest passion. There's nothing that makes me more excited and enthusiastic than being on a coaching call with someone and completely changing their lives. Again, this is literally my biggest passion in the whole world. So yeah, this is a really cool opportunity for you. Priceless, simply priceless. Just go down to the description and you'll see the link to book a coaching call with me. Of course, you'll have to write down why you want a coaching call with me.  But don't worry. I mean, I'm pretty open to people. So yeah, I think this is a really cool thing. And again, I've worked with clients usually for around $2,000, $3,000 for two, three months. That was the modus operandi for many, many very prosperous periods. And all I can say is I'm looking forward to talking to you, helping you. And, you know, that's it.


After looking at these examples, what does security mean for us? Fundamentally, security starts with knowing and protecting customer assets. We know that assets provide revenue streams that are the main source of value, and the STM32 trust provides the countermeasures needed to mitigate the threats and vulnerabilities brought to a system. In summary, the STM32 trust security ecosystem is a unique and certified solution helping you to implement security in your new product design. Starting from customer use cases and security needs, we have defined a set of 12 core security functions which are the foundations to fulfill all the common security needs. These functions are implemented and supported across our product portfolio using our STM32 microcontrollers and potentially our STSafe secure elements. And we also provide reference packages for seamless implementation of a secure boot and secure firmware update or for secure manufacturing of your devices. And finally, we have evaluated and certified our hardware platforms in combination with reference software packages according to new security standards. Being the first on the market certified PSA level 2 and CSIP level 3 so that in the end of the day, our customers can really trust our deliveries to secure their products.


I don't see myself having the concern for mortality, which most other people seem to have. That seems to be a very popular thing in reading as well, that there's this obsession with mortality, which I find a bit odd.  Yes, I think it's... And many people seem to really obsessive about it in a certain sense. And so that's something... I mean, I don't think, necessarily in my opinion, it's strange, it's something so foreign to me. And the other thing is also I have great difficulty with religion. The God concept is just I can't... I really don't know what to... How to regard that. It is when I can't fit into my worldview and any of my actions, so even though I read a great deal, which also, again, is based on this, that part of it always remains foreign to me. But when it comes to death, would you say death is underrated or life is overrated?  I mean, it's all we got, again, because I don't believe in the religion aspect of it too. I don't believe in the afterlife. So I definitely think life is underrated. But death is, you know, it's an inevitability, so you take it as it comes, because there's no other way to take it.