on this episode of Skeptico, a show about mental health reform and COVID and ultimately a show about evil. I have an interview coming up in a minute with Dr. Peter Bregan, psychiatrist and someone who really has, well, an unparalleled career in terms of mental health reform. You'll hear all about that. But what you'll also hear and what I found particularly interesting from this kind of Skeptico perspective we have is he says that the biggest obstacle that he faced in just convincing people in his community, you know, psychotherapists, that what he was finding in the mental health field in terms of corruption and deception and completely immoral stuff that was going on, the biggest problem in convincing people that was true is that just didn't want to accept evil. They didn't want to accept the idea that, you know, people were doing really, really bad things on an individual level and at an institutional level. So the reason I say it's kind of a Skeptico thing is it does seem like we've run into that again and again on this show. We're really smart people. People you wouldn't expect to be lying to. What we all understand is that there's just some people that are really messed up and that maybe they're messed up at a level beyond this biological robot level, which we'll get into in a minute. And I always like these movie clips. I think it's interesting how we've understood it from that kind of cultural perspective. So I have one for you today from Backdraft, a movie from 20 years ago with some really amazing actors. And here is Donald Sutherland playing the psychopathic arsonist in front of the parole board until our buddy Robert De Niro jumps in. Here's the clip. The parole board has received Mr. Bartel's fitness report. Endorsement from a section award Dr. Norris. In supervising psychiatrists I would describe Mr. Bartel's progress as remarkable. Mr. Bartel, do you regret your crimes? Yes, and I'm aware of the pain that I have caused. Excuse me, excuse me. Do you remember this Ronald? Do you remember who it belonged to? What did you do to that little girl Ronald? You burned her. What do you do to old ladies, Ronald? And what about the world, Ronald? What would you like to do in the whole world? So of course it's Hollywood dramatic and this one especially dramatic of that era. But you got to wonder if the kind of wacky dogmatic scientism you are just your brain. So the psychiatrist on the parole board like, I've looked at my numbers, I've done my tests, you know, you got to be all right. You can't really be evil. You got to wonder. I got to wonder if that's not at the root cause of a lot of this stuff we see. Here's a clip from the upcoming interview with Dr. Peter Bragan. You mentioned very earlier consciousness and the people we're dealing with who are managing public health. They actually don't believe in consciousness. They don't believe people have free will. They don't believe that there's such a thing as love. They actually think we're objects. The people who want to drug all our children and the same people who want to vaccinate all our children, they don't really think then of the children as beings, as spiritual creatures, as people with a need and a desire to live and to be themselves, to grow up and explore the world and everything done under COVID-19 has been to destroy that, cover our faces with masks so we can't relate to each other. We can't care about each other. The whole works is about destroying human connection. Bragan is great. He's a giant. We stand on the shoulders of people like this. Stick around. My interview with Dr. Peter Bragan is coming up here on Skeptico. Welcome to Skeptico, where we explore controversial science and spirituality with leading researchers, thinkers, and their critics. I'm your host, Alex Cares, and today we welcome Dr. Peter Bragan to Skeptico. He's here to talk about his new book, COVID-19 and the Global Predators. Dr. Bragan is a Harvard train medical doctor, psychiatrist, longtime practicing psychotherapist, and he has had just a truly remarkable career, really unsurpassed career as a reformer in the mental health field. And I bring that up mainly because I think it's super relevant to everything we're going to talk about today and about his book. So when I say that, let me put that into context. This guy, Dr. Bragan, is battle tested in a way that few other people are, like when they were still doing lobotomies on people, which isn't that long ago, if you read this guy's history like 1970s, he was one of the few people to stand him and go, no, this is not right. This is morally wrong. In addition to being ethically wrong, he stood up. He stood up to electroshock therapy, which unfortunately isn't completely banned, but somebody who stood up. He stood up to giving very dangerous psychiatric drugs to children. He stood up for that for decades. What that's brought to him in his life in terms of even death threats, believe it or not, but battles and being shunned by a lot of people in his community, all that he has fought against because he felt that it was the right thing to do. It was the morally right thing to do. Isn't that the kind of guy we need to fight this battle? I think that's what we need. So that's why I was super excited when Dr. Bragan agreed to come on and join me on Skeptico. So I'm so glad you're here. Thanks so much for joining me. Thank you for the very nice introduction. I really deeply appreciate it. And for mentioning the book, it is surprising that no one else has written a book that looks at the deep dive of just who is behind all of the COVID-19 stuff. You mentioned Robert F. Kennedy's excellent book on the real Anthony Fauci. He was very generous in saying that this book, that our book, was the one, oh my goodness, you're on top of things. Here's what he wrote. No other book so comprehensively covers the details of COVID-19 criminal conduct. It's pretty direct, as well as its origins in a network of global predators seeking wealth and power at the expense of human freedom and prosperity. Wow. I think that's a powerful, powerful statement. And I think it's true in terms of what your book is all about. Yeah. There is something in us humans that it's very hard for us to accept that people in power are actually planning their own increase in power and wealth without any regard for our well-being whatsoever. They're just interested in the PR image they create as they basically exploit the rest of humanity. This is a really hard, hard concept for people to accept. As children, we want to believe our parents are well-meaning, of course, and they're not always. Parents are not always well-meaning, but we hope they are. And they're a lot more well-meaning because they're tied to us by affection, by love, by parental responsibility. But as we go further up the line of authority and grow up and we start thinking about what is Bill Gates doing? What is Klaus Schwab doing? What's Michael Bloomberg doing? These are people who organize international conferences of powerful people. What is Tedros doing at the World Health Organization? What is Xi Jinping doing in China? Because he plays a very big role in a lot of what's happening to us through his connections to Bill Gates, his very strong Chinese communist leaders, very strong connections to Bill Gates. At least Bill Gates thinks so and is working with him. And it's hard for us to imagine that these people don't have a lot of consideration for us. Rarely we get a glimpse into it. There's a fellow named Harari, who is a very close associate of Klaus Schwab, who is the creator of much of this supra order above states, but he works with all the top businesses in the world, the top billionaires in the world, deciding among themselves how to run things without regard for human rights, without regard for government sovereignty. And he talks about the dispensability of human beings, but most of them don't just openly let us know what they're thinking. You know, that's an interesting point. And one of the things I want to try and not do is get lost in all the names and all the power elite kind of things. Because what I think you really bring throughout your career, if somebody really traces what you've been about, you know, your battle for mental health reform is really a battle about how we understand our human consciousness, how we understand our humanness, how we understand sovereignty that goes with consciousness. I thought I'd play a little clip from a YouTube that you did that in a way isn't related and in another way is related. And this is a series you did on psychiatry, psychotherapy, just to help people understand some of the basics. Let me play this for folks and then let's chat about it for a minute. I'm Peter Arbregan, MD, and I am a psychiatrist. Let me say that I've been doing psychotherapy since 1968. And during this entire time, I've never had a suicide in my practice. I think some of it is luck. But I think another big reason is that I never give psychiatric drugs to people for their problems. I don't start people on drugs. So if you come to me feeling suicidal, I don't give you a drug. Why would I give you an anti-depressant when it's got a big box warning on it that up to age 24, you even see an increased suicide rate on anti-depressants and control clinical trials? In depression, what happens is there's a total loss of hope. So what's the answer to depression from the viewpoint of a therapist? Well, the most important thing is to be hopeful. And does your average psychiatrist look hopeful? Go to an American Psychiatric Association meeting. Because people will give drugs and diagnose people that they become unhappy people. They're not hopeful people. It's good. Oh, it's great. Tell us about some of the points that you're trying to make there, which you're trying to get across and how that fits into your long career in trying to help people inside of this model that seems to be in a way that is echoed in your latest book in a system that seems to try to be pulled people down in a way. Yeah, you mentioned very earlier consciousness and the people we're dealing with who are managing public health and trying to control what we're doing here in America. They actually don't believe in consciousness. They don't believe people have free will. They don't believe that there's such a thing as love. They want to crush religion. They want to crush a belief in God. They want to crush even the idea that we have personal freedom, all of which is relevant to psychotherapy. I mean, what do we bring to psychotherapy if we don't bring those spiritual aspects to it? But they are devoid. They literally are devoid of a concept of it.  I said it's like they're all functioning, but they're autistic. They actually think we're objects. The old initial definition of vortism, which is still the best, is that it's a person who probably for developmental reasons in their relationships with family doesn't develop a concept that there are actual people who are caring and who love us and we can relate to them and they're very different than objects and machines. But the people who want to drug all our children and the same people who want to vaccinate all our children, they don't really think then of the children as beings, as spiritual creatures, as people with a need and a desire to live and to be themselves, to grow up and explore the world and find some comfort in basic spiritual concepts like there's a loving God or that the world has a spiritual force within it. So it's a world devoid of all of the things that most of us who are thoughtful, believe are important, particularly the idea of love that we should love one another and that failures of relationship, which is what I was talking about in the video ultimately, that depression, sadness, misery, the worst psychoses, all of it is about a loss of trust, faith, connection with other human beings and or with any concept of God or of a good spirituality in the universe to which we can connect. And once people can connect with that with a hopeful therapist with a caring therapist or another human being, a minister, a priest, a friend, a family member, if that connection can be restored to just one other human being, then we have strength and then we begin to get our vitality back. What the book is pointing out is that everything done under COVID-19 has been to destroy that cover our faces with masks so we can't relate to each other, we can't care about each other. The whole works is about destroying human connection. I think very early on in the book you mentioned, I thought from a medical perspective, something that I didn't know, but you said it's well understood that the way that we deal with a pandemic is kind of cooperation of hope moving forward. And then when we contrast that with the way that they've handled the pandemic, it's been exactly the opposite of that, which makes you wonder why was it about fear just ramping up the fear from the beginning? Why was it about isolation? Why was it about all these other things? So that's why I really appreciate that you're approaching this from a spiritual perspective. And I'm not a religious person, but I think that fundamental to this is an understanding that we are more, we are more than biological robots. And that's what you've been really essentially battling with your whole life in terms of, so like in this video I just played one of the things I thought was just so beautiful, but in a subtle way, you said, I embrace someone who comes to me who is suicidal because they shows that they have feeling, they have passion, they have a vision for how their life could be. What disturbs me, you're saying, is when someone comes and they're devoid of feelings, they don't have any feelings. And then when we play that back into the situation that we're in, and we look into those gatesy in eyes and we go, oh my God, I feel for this person, he's someone who has somehow lost his soul. He doesn't, in some way, he doesn't have feelings. We can just, we just see it in these people and so many of these people. And I wonder if we don't have to start being more honest about talking about it at that level. If that isn't really the root cause of it, I think your work tells us, your whole career tells us that that is what it's really all about. Well, that's very interesting and exciting because you're actually giving me a reorientation to really what the fundamentals are because they want us to completely lose track of that. And they do not believe in it. They don't think it exists. They don't have a personal experience of what you and I are talking about now, sounds to them like gibberish. The interesting thing that I've found, I'm Jewish and my wife is Christian. And we very much believe in a loving God, but neither of us is deeply involved in religion, per se. We're involved in this spiritual level of how God presents to us. And almost everybody who is risking their careers and their lives in this movement and the vast majority, not everybody, but almost everybody we meet are Christians. And they're very sincere American Christians. They're generous. They're caring. They believe that Jesus was right when he talked about, we should love one another and love God. They know that what they're doing is something they have to do on a spiritual level. And this has been very striking to us. We've never been in that group before because when I was my whole life really working on the psychiatric issues, it was mostly with people who don't share a lot of spirituality. Most of them were hurt by psychiatry and psychology precisely because they didn't have a good grasp of this and they were still struggling with it. Some of them are psychologists and therapists, but most of them were not committed to a life of doing what they thought God or goodness or rightness expected of them. And this marks these people as the opposite of those who are trying to control us, subdue us, keep us from thinking we have an individuality that matters. And to those of you out there who are feeling apathetic and down, we got an interesting call from a friend of ours, so closely fits with us. It was about the apathy. She said, you know, I'm seeing these young people and they just have apathy about life now, young adults. They don't have enthusiasm. They don't have excitement. And that is precisely what they want from us. They want us to be as some people call a sheeple, not people, but sheeple sheep. And we have to know that and say, no, we're going to have energy. We're going to have life. We're going to love each other. We're going to band together. We're going to stand up for freedom and for basic spiritual quality and nature of human beings. Dr. Bergen, I wonder, since you do have this long history in working with people, and one of the things you said in that video that we didn't get to that I think is quite impressive is you spent your whole life in therapy with people, working with people, having people come in and talk to them and comfort them and be a part of their life, bring in their family.  But I'm sure you've also run into people in your practice who have these issues with control, have these issues with dominance. How do you understand them from that deeper level of having worked with so many thousands and thousands of people through the years? Well, what's going on with them? Well, I think to some extent it's beyond our understanding. I mean, I just want to start with that. I think evil, bad intention is beyond our understanding to a great extent. I think it's almost another world phenomena. It isn't just simply a matter of there being badly injured in childhood. It is not just simply a matter of that. I have worked with some of the most injured people imaginable and who as little children while they were being abused or tortured as two, three, four-year-olds, I mean, literally that, said to themselves, I will never be this way when I grow up. I don't think it's reducible to just the, you know, let's feel sorry for folks who are violent. I think they make wrong decisions early on and I can't explain it. So in that sense, it's unknowable. The second thing is I mostly see these people in my medical work. I've been involved in over 100 trials, often involving people who have committed violent crimes while under the influence of drugs, but also against the drug companies, a whole variety of things. And that's mostly where I get to see these people. And it's hard to have people open up when you're kind of trying to help them not be in trouble with the law. But I'll give you a few simple examples of how I deal with it and how I try to help people with it. One example, never put this quite together, will be, say, a five-year-old and another, say, a 50-year-old. So a five-year-old boy comes into me. He's brought in by his mother and his father. I do not try to see five-year-olds alone. I want to help their mother and father and big sister or brother help them. I believe that whenever a person's young, if you can help change the family around them, that does help them hugely. And the little boy comes in and the parents say, and yesterday he hit his little sister.  And I say, come on over here and sit on the stool. Let me tell you something. I said, you know, I'll tell you one of the secrets for your life. And this is five-year-old. When you go up, your sister could be best and most thorough friend. There's nothing that a young girl and a woman appreciates more than a big brother who's there to back them up, because men have a special strength for women. And you must use that strength to protect your sister. Let me see your muscles.  See, listen, you don't use that to hit your little sister. You just have to protect her. And you'll just find that you grow up with a best, automatic best friend by being a good big brother. And children will change almost overnight when they get it. Providing they don't then see their parents fighting or their dad hits them or something else completely reverses the process, which then has to be worked with. And I'll give you now, go to an example of a 50-year-old to say in therapy, come in and usually these people do not volunteer to come to therapy. So you don't get to see them as the primary patient. The people who come to therapy are the people who are trying really hard to do good and to be right, not to put their pain on others. My definition of evil, the best one I have is it's inflicting your own pain on somebody else. People who are like that don't generally come much for therapy, but they bring in their husband. So they're sitting together and the wife is saying something and I see the husband's right here in Twitch and I see her quiet down.  And I don't deal with rage. I do it with like, whoa, that's otherworldly. And it seems like that to me that a man would hit his own, hit a woman. What are you doing? Where's that from? And at first he'll deny it and she'll say, and she'll try to interrupt. I say, no, no, no, I really want to be honest here.  Is that what this is about? I don't remember. So he gets something like that. And I'll put it to the man. I'll say, look, first of all, you have to stop today. I hope your wife will report you to the police the next time you ever hit her again. And I think that you need to decide to give it up. And that's really good news. So I'm giving you an order. That's really the best one you've ever had.  And I'm going to teach you something else, which is the great news. If you stop that and become a tender loving giant, you're going to get more affection than you ever knew was possible on the face of the earth. Because I can tell you wouldn't be hitting your wife if you have a loving mom. And then we'll get to that later. Believe me, it's true.  Unless your father was hitting her, my father hit my mother. Okay. Do you love your mother? Yeah. So, okay, well, let's get pissed being dad then. And let's let's love your wife. And I'll talk to him about the value of it and the importance, but the absolute moral forbiddenness of hitting. And it is surprising that people will listen to this, but they are people who at least are accompanying their wife to therapy. You know, so it's a very special circumstance. And it depends more on these people who come than a magic with the therapist, but you at least have to identify these people spiritually, no matter how young they are, and talk to them directly about what they're doing and the right and wrong of it and what they can expect if they become loving. Because if you're five or 50, if you become more loving, if you can get more of that out, become more source of love, the shining light of love, the more you do that, the more that you will have happiness around you, the more you'll help people.  You want to be there to speak what you are certain is the truth about how people need to relate to each other. But the folks like Fauci, and I do name names because I want people to know I'm actually going to draw the full picture for them. There are people out there who are not loving, don't have the faintest idea what it's about. And if they are loving to their wife or children, they have cut themselves off from the people that they control and torment. That's quite beautiful and profound. I think anyone who listens to that is like, gosh, I want to talk to this guy when I have trouble because it's so beautiful and it's so artistic almost in the way that you manage those situations. Let's extend that one step further. Because you said a couple things in there that, again, I think, and I think you're admitting that you think this too, even though you don't talk about it very much, is really central at the core of this very, very important book that we're talking about today, COVID-19 and the global predators. It is, as we read the quote from John F. Kennedy Jr. and there's many other blurbs that you'll see on here. Just fantastic. There's Ginger. That's my wife, Ginger, passing by co-author of My Life and the book. The book has been very successful, very well received. We have 100,000 copies that you've sold basically without any promotion.  So it's basically your effort on its own. But what I was getting to, that I want to try and close the loop on is, you said a couple interesting things.  We certainly understand that that's part of it. But there does seem to be, if we're honest, and other worldly part of that. And I don't know, I can't put my hands on it. I don't know what it is. Again, I'm not religious. I don't have that orientation. But it does seem to extend beyond that. From your experience, what is that all about? You said that you can't really help those people. You don't reach those people. Those people don't come in. What is that all about? And then if you can't extend that one step further, because when you move into the domain of dealing with institutions, like you've done, medical institutions, corporations, where the evil gets concentrated, and that's what this book is about, global predators. So how do you, as a therapist who has a pretty good handle on human nature, how do you understand that evil and then how that evil becomes institutionalized? What do we think is going on there? What's your best guess? Well, this is very interesting. By the way, very few people who interview me raise these kinds of issues. So this is actually kind of a little exploratory for me too. Your audience should know how rare it is to be interviewed by somebody who wants to talk on this particular level. And I think it is the, I mean, ultimately it is the level that things are about. I think from just a simple evolutionary viewpoint, we developed over several million years from being little bipeds and trees clinging together while the tigers, you know, wandered below, maybe, and we threw coconuts at them occasionally if they tried to climb the tree. We've evolved in essentially that model of a close-knit extended family. It is not until a very mere 10,000 years ago, in the beginning, I think it's a little longer than that, but 10 is that usually what anthropologists, archaeologists, and so on, say, 10,000 years ago, we did not live in large groups. In the moment we begin to live in large groups in small cities, which happens rather rapidly around eight or 9,000 years ago, very short time ago, we are already building walled cities. We're already having signs of warfare, outright warfare, and even earlier than that, but it doesn't go back a lot more. It's just hard to track. We don't find mass murders before living in cities and states, except on rare occasions, there's some evidence that hunter-gatherers might attack another band and bash their heads in and things like that. But it's hard to dig all that literally up out of the earth and figure it out. I think we were essentially meant to be in small groups. I don't think there's any question about it. And the larger our group gets, the more divorced we get from the rest of the people around us, and yet we're in very close proximity to them. And I think it also tends to fracture our relationships with each other because you're not just dealing all day long with your parents, your grandparents, your mother's best friend, or whoever else is in this group.  I think we just get more divorced from people. And that basic concept of a mother and child of whoever is the primary caretaker and child, that looking in the eyes, that touching, that being like a oneness of being made of each other, that is the reality of early life, literally made of each other with mothers, milk preferably, with the food brought to us by our parents, by our brain grows in response to our parents and our nurturers, brain doubles in size in the first year. And it's all about socialization. That somehow all that stuff doesn't make it for many, many people. And then the higher up they get in any organization, the more remote they are, and also who gets higher up in an organization. Often pretty good people do build organizations you read about, I suspect the Walton family and senior Waltons are really good people, but that's not who runs their billions of dollars anymore. It's CEOs that run it. It's people who got to the top. They didn't make what they built, they got to the top. And people who get to the top get there because of particular qualities, and it is not generally love.  It's real. Whether it's metaphor or actually happened, certainly Jesus happened and the sayings of him were recorded in various ways by various people. Those are not the people that get to the top.  It's the Pharisees who get to the top. So I think that there's just a lot of different things that go into being the alienation of people in power. I mean, it's just a reality. It has not gotten better, it's gotten worse. So as we've gotten more power, more communication ability, Chinese communists starting with Mao have killed probably 100 million Chinese, so their own people.  He killed lots of Germans and he killed at least 20 or 30 million people outside of the battlefield. Stalin was very fond of murdering people, intentionally killing people up to maybe 50 million of his own people.  It's there. You know, but the other thing that lies inside of human beings, and we've touched on it, is hope, is this desire to connect. You know, I was reading an interview you gave. You have so many really amazing books that you've read. There are so many amazing books that you've written, and I think people who are interested in any of these topics we're talking about, and any of these topics in terms of mental health reform over the years, if we've perked your interest at all, please go and read these books. But one was an excerpt from a book, and it was very early on, and I wonder if you could tell this story. As I recall, you were early in your career, you went to a mental health hospital in New York, and you were a very young man and you had that figure, that desire to do good, and what you saw was just deplorable. I mean, it was just inhuman at a level that's hard to comprehend, but at the same time, I wonder what made it made you see hope in that situation, because that is a hope, that as you described it, sounded like a hopeless situation. Like a lot of people feel about the situation we're in now, and the great reset, and these forces that seem insurmountable. How could we ever do anything? How could we ever be anything other than apathetic? But you weren't apathetic.  Can you tell that story and tell what was going on inside of you? Yeah, and also, let's also talk more about the people who are taking on these issues now, because there are millions of us, and I want to encourage people to get involved, because a part of spirituality, I think, is to get involved in the best possible ways with other human beings. I'm not a monk. By the way, the book that has captured most of the hearts of people from the earlier writings is toxic psychiatry, and it's still available. It's sold hundreds of thousands of books, and the subtitle of toxic psychiatry, I don't even think I can repeat, but it's about how the biochemical theories and the electroshock and the brain surgery or psychosurgery of the psychiatry has to be replaced with love and relationship. Here it is. Toxic psychiatry, why therapy? Empathy, which has become a whole movement inside of your practice. Empathy and love must replace the drugs, electroshock, and biochemical theories of new psychiatry. If I can, I want to add one other quote that I found that just struck me. I don't want to get too, people think I'm just a big fanboy, but brilliant. You write, what's wrong with treating emotional crises the way we treat medical emergencies? As if that isn't an obvious answer. Why should we transform ourselves in the process of trying to help other people? How can we fine-tune ourselves to the feelings of others? That relates, I think, to this empathy thing that you're so tapped into. I'm sorry though. Please continue. Well, it's good. I was a freshman at Harvard. It wasn't New York. It was Massachusetts. I was a freshman at Harvard and a friend invited me out to the state mental hospital, the local state mental hospital to volunteer. He and his older brother were both at Harvard and they had started this program. I eventually ended up leading the program for about a year in AAF. That's how I got from being a potential professor. I was in a special American history and literature program at Harvard that was grooming to be a professor of history and literature, maybe a lawyer. I wasn't sure. I loved psychology, but I had no interest in going into medicine. When I walked into the state mental hospital, I was immediately struck with my uncle Dutch's descriptions of liberating a Nazi extermination camp. Also, I was struck by my feelings as a 10-year-old in a movie theater watching a movie-tone newsreel that my parents and I did not expect to see about the extermination of the Jews. It was some of the first films that came out of heaps of Jews lying dead and others hanging onto a barbed wire, barely having enough strength to hold themselves up and stuff. I knew these were people. I just knew it. I cannot tell you why. See, this is to me inexplicable. I cannot tell you why, exactly at least, how I managed to connect and say there, but for the grace of God go I. And I don't think I even believed in God. At that point, I was a real, you know, relativistic kind of a person and everything, which I think some of the best adolescents are. Hopefully it doesn't go on forever and you'll find some good values. But it was just clear to me. And the other part of it was it was clear these people were in despair. And a lot of them, when they saw young students who were reasonably well-dressed and really looked like they wanted to help, they just loved us. In four years of being on the wards, often on my own, eventually as the leader, I managed to get myself a pair of keys. I could go anywhere. I never was threatened on the violent wards, never. And I very early on figured that this was not like the playground where you didn't threaten Peter Reagan because even though he wasn't very big, he would just regret it. It was more like, oh, God, these people just need me to be absolutely nonviolent. They just need me to be the least threatening human being on the face of the earth. I don't know where that came from. I honestly cannot tell you. I did not have a religious upbringing. But the only time I heard love words, love discussed with seriousness was when a Christian girlfriend of mine, Mary, took me to a Methodist church. I was just, what was she talking about? So I don't know where it comes from. And I think that a lot of our lives are inexplicable. They're gifts. They're gifts. And I think we should respect them. I think each person should look at their gifts and say, okay, what I've been given these gifts. I'm good with people or I'm good with writing or I'm good as a caretaker. I'm as good as a leader. I'm good with ideas. What are your positive gifts? And how do you want to bring them into the world? And I guess I didn't know that at the time. But I had a gift for being with disturbed people and making them feel comfortable letting them, that's not making letting them feel comfortable. And we set up a program much against the wishes of the superintendent, but he didn't want us to take our program elsewhere. I already visited other state hospitals. And they were very interested in our program. And I said, we want like 15 of our students to have their own patients. We had several hundred going through the wars from Harvard and Radcliffe. And finally they gave us each one of our own patients that would be there when we got there on a particular day and we'd go every week. It's a big commitment. And we had a social worker, a very gentle kind social worker who at least one or two of the staff tried to tell us just was a little kooky or something. He was a very sweet man. And he supervised us. He was very gentle. And we got these patients who were so bad off that we couldn't hurt them. That was the theory. We got almost every one of them out of the hospital. It's like, whoa. Now psychiatry in those days had room for social psychiatry, psychological psychiatry, psychoanalytic psychiatry, no room in psychiatry and medicine for that now, because the drug companies have taken over completely. But then I got a lot of encouragement for that. And I well, I wonder if you got a lot of encouragement or if you created a lot of encouragement. And I'd like you to speak to that. I don't want to hear a story, but you're talking about bringing love into the situation, bringing light. And we don't know where that light comes from. But we know that light always shines and it shines through brighter in some people than others. But you brought the light and the light was able to affect the darkness that you found. Because when you walked in there, it was very, very dark, as I understand it. I mean, very dark. What they were doing to people was unimaginable. And so I want you to speak to that in terms of because it as it relates now as it relates to your current book, COVID-19, global predators, all that stuff. Isn't that the solution? We got to bring the light because the light has a magic way of transforming the evil. That's what your career is all about everywhere you go. It's impossible. That is an impossible situation. One of the things that Ginger and I, Ginger's been with me for 40 years. The reform work goes back another 35 to when I was at whatever the numbers are till I was 18. But we've been together 40 years and we've been through an enormous amount and we loved having the reputation of being the conscience of psychiatry, Peter and Ginger. But when this came along, we were very nervous about getting into it because we knew how violent we'd been treated by the pharmaceutical industry. And they were kind of the cutting edge of this COVID-19 oppression. They're not the essence of it. It's way beyond them. It's in the people who invest in these companies. It's in the people who invest in the UN and into a world order, a new world order and who really want to change things and get rid of a lot of us. Things I never thought I would say two years ago, but it's there folks. You'll be convinced if you look at the book. The book convinced me. They're writing a book. I didn't want to come to these conclusions, such grim conclusions. But we looked at each other and basically we eventually looked at each other and said, look, our gifts are unique. There's nobody else here doing this work. All the people we've met who has done deep dives into drug company fraud and who has looked at the interrelationships between the FDA and the drug companies the way I've done in my books. In many of my books, I talk about these interrelationships and we said, and what are our gifts? What gifts do we have? We're too old to do this. I'm going to be 86 for context. My wife is a bit younger, but we looked at it and we said, well, that's what we're supposed to do. This is obviously what we're supposed to do. This is what the gifts are. She laughed and she said, we always thought that the two of us were brought together to do this reform work in psychiatry. She said, I think that was prepped for taking on these globalists. But then we just kept meeting other bright souls. We no longer felt like the conscience of anything as a movement. We were just one of millions of consciences and we've met a lot of hundreds of them personally or written to us or communicated with us. So folks, if you get involved with wanting to do something on some political level, some spiritual level, it could just be in a group, in your neighborhood, creating a group for like-minded souls to grow. It could be a political group. If you're looking for people who really do think that they're supposed to use their gifts, get involved in this movement. The book will introduce you enough people you'll kind of get the idea about who to check out. And you're going to find so many people who shine with love. We have never met many couples like us who really built lives together, doing real purposeful lives together. But among these mostly Christian people we're meeting, there are so many who have these deep spiritual convictions. And I know many in your audience will be a little different from that. And you will have a more personal idea of spirituality. You'll have a kind of spirituality that is about your comfort and about finding peace and finding good things like that. But also consider what it would be like if you actually meet like-minded people who are concerned about humanity and what's happening. It's so amazing to become involved on that level. But again, if you take care of yourself spiritually, you're doing number one. You're doing the first thing because you want to, as much as possible, when you get involved more with the universe, you want to be in a loving mode. I had to give up being the angry young man in my 30s because I wasn't going to do the right things and I was going to wear myself out. So think about how can you bring more love into this world? How can you do it? That's a really good starting point for your very spiritual and loving audience, I think. You know, it's interesting what you say because it kind of turns the paradigm upside down. It's like, how do we take action? You mentioned earlier on some of the response that you've gotten from the book. Again, COVID-19 and the Global Predators is the name of the book. You can find it at bregon.com where you can order it directly. Yeah, it's a little complicated. You can get it directly in the United States at a discount at wearethepray.com. You can just set up a special dedicated book site, wearethepray.com. If you want the e-book, you can get it at Amazon and your girls get the book at Amazon and all the other book dealers around the world. But in the US at least, just for the book itself, not the e-book, you can get it at wearethepray.com. And we made the price of the e-book very low so that at $2.99 so that people can really buy it and feel comfortable just spending a few bucks to get it. That's fantastic. So the book is a starting point. I think that all the stuff we've talked about here can be a good lead into the book because the book can be heavy if you're not indoctrinated, if you haven't woken up, as they say, to this stuff. I mean, you're talking to, we're listening to Dr. Peter Breggin, who's fought these battles, who's had the pharmaceutical companies call him up and threaten him in the middle of the night with death. He found a phony FBI agent came by and the next thing you know, he finds a gas leak in his house. I mean, this is real at a level that, and if you think any of that doesn't happen, I mean, just go read other accounts by other people. These guys are in it to win it in a way that we don't even want to think about. So you don't get too hung up on that. Think about what he's saying now about what if this is an opportunity to understand why you shouldn't be apathetic, to understand how and why you could connect, what could happen on the horizon of your life. If you get to the other end of this, what if the great reset could be turned into a positive great reset, a great reset of love and connection of community. And that's what I hear you saying. Well, I love what you're saying and it's an emphasis that I haven't had this or so strongly on any of the shows I've been doing. So very, very good for getting to the heart of it. It is definitely what life is about. To me, life is about bringing love into the world. We all are spiritual beings and the essence of that is we can love. Period. And everything else is BS and craziness.  And then you've got a lot of work to do as they'll fall back, they've been hurt. But it's about shining love. And that's what the Judeo-Christian tradition is about. It's about there's a loving God. And it's about, you know, that's, from my viewpoint, that's what it's about, that you want to bring love into the world and not act out of anger or anxiety or rage in anything you do in your life, but act out of reason and ethics and the feeling of love. Not easy to do, but it gets easier because it works so well. And it's just, it works really, really well. You know, the last point I wanted to comment on, because I really wanted to commend you on this, and that is your treatment of the Trump thing, because I know you were a big supporter of, I think, the spirit of what a lot of us thought Trump was about, was about being our personal best and as a country becoming our best and what that reflects and what that taps into. But I think your willingness to see that maybe that was tainted in a way.  And now I have to pull back and I have to change course. Because I think that's another part of this process, right? Part of the process is there's going to be tricky moments where we're going to have to go, oh, the assumptions I made, maybe they weren't right, but maybe I can still find my direction hasn't been totally thrown off course, because that's what I see you doing, saying, hey, everything I'm saying is still important, I just need to readjust here based on this information. Do you want to speak to that at all? Yeah, well, virtually everybody that I know who is fighting for America's survival and our freedom and who believe in loving ways of relating actually supported Trump and probably would still vote for him again. But something dreadful happened along the way. I mean, he got it was either getting completely taken in and overwhelmed by the deep state and convinced that that actually this was wonderful stuff, Operation Warp Speed, this was great and so on, you know, supporting Moderna and Pfizer with billions of dollars and letting them push through essentially GMO vaccines, turning us into GMO people, let alone worrying about eating GMO corn. The vaccines literally are making us into GMO organisms. He either got completely overwhelmed by that, or maybe also he just got pragmatic in his own mind and decided that if he was against the vaccines, that he couldn't get reelected. I don't know which it was. But one of the things that I make so clear in the book is that by supporting America and every country to say, you take care of yourselves first, by supporting individual freedom and by aligning himself against the global predators, he actually fought globalism even as he was electioneering. He fought the Koch family, supposedly the great saviors of the Republicans who are supposed to be freedom loving libertarians, really just another another bunch of global predators. And Trump spotted that and said, I don't care if you don't give me any money. In his typical manner, you may be good guys, you're good guys, I like you, but I don't want your money. And he really got on a terribly wrong track. He's now come and modified it somewhat, but not completely. I don't know if he's man enough to say, I got bamboozled or I made a wrong choice, I thought I had to do this politically, God forgive me. So there's a lot of discussion about what were his motives. But the problem always is you don't get to generally speaking to a position of great leadership without somehow being willing to make serious compromises. And that's a grave misfortune. I don't think that we've probably had an untainted largely untainted leadership since the first few presidents in the United States. I mean, George Washington, yes, he was not a perfect man. He had slaves, also the only man who ever freed all his slaves on his wife's death out of all these slaveholders. But the Washington really didn't want to take over the nation. That is so unusual. I mean, if when the war was over, he was presented by his troops with a deep like insistence that he become king, that they march on the Continental Congress and tell them they had to get paid and they had to be better taken care of. And Washington found out they were having this meeting actually in a church. And he went there and he put on his glasses, which he never did. He really played to how sad and tired he was. He said, we fought for freedom, this is what I've done all these years, Valley Forge, all this I've given you and now you want to make me a king. And he didn't. And they all felt guilty and there was no takeover. And it is literally the first time in history in the world, which gives you an idea about what happens to leaders. This early question where a man who had an army at his back and could have taken over a country and most of the people in the country would have been absolutely delighted, probably including the monarchists. And he said, no, we're about something new, human freedom under God. That's what he believed. And very few people like him and Trump is not exactly that. You know what I think we keep coming back to in this discussion, this wonderful, wonderful sharing that you've done for so many for all of us today is the idea that that moral compass that is inside us, that is more than just this sack of meat up there. We're more than a biological robot in a meaningless universe. We know it. We knew it from our earliest baby thoughts. But that that moral compass is always there and we can follow it. That's what keeps coming through in your work. And even if you get duped by a politician here or there, don't look to the politician. Look to the ideals behind it, because that's what we love about America. And it's OK to say we love America. Oh, God bless you for that. We love the ideals. We love the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness that we can always stand on. And that's why I'm very, very pleased that you're able to make that shift and able to say, you know, hey, I'm there like everyone else. Maybe I went down the train a little bit too far with this guy. Screw that. What I'm about is the ideals of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness. And you just come back to that like you're rock is is what comes through in your your most recent work. So tell us what is going on now. What is it? You do a podcast. You do a lot. We're doing a lot of things. A lot of things. Yes. Well, we I think we may be doing too many things. The way to keep track of what we're doing is to go to bregon.com and get our bregon alerts. They sometimes call frequent alerts. So we're changing it to bregon alerts, whichever you see, get the alerts and they're free. They go out to about 45,000 people. And the opening rate for them is is like 50%, which is unheard of opening rates for online things like this are like 8, 10%. So people really like what we're doing. That's the best way to find out about us. In addition to our website, America Out Loud. We, my wife and I do columns there once a week. We have a column on America Out Loud. It's a great place. You'll see Peter McCullough there. He's the greatest scientist today of COVID-19. Peter McCullough is regularly there. And we are doing on Thursday nights. And this is going to be the first time this Thursday. We will be on the air at 5 o'clock. Ginger and I together. You want to hear the first show in 40 years we've done together? Tune in Thursday night at America Out Loud or get the show later on. It gets archived. And we're a little edgy. We're a little not yet working together. And yet we are. You'll get a real good sense of she and I trying to do something we've never done before, which is partner on the air. She's always pushed me on the air and refused to go with me. And then I have a regular TV show, which is you can get on Roku. So it's real TV and it's on the station is Brighton. We were taken down off YouTube 45 minutes after I did my first video on the book. 45 minutes after I did my first video on the book. For life taken down. And so we are on Brighton.com for our videos. So and we do I'm on other regular things. The best way to find me is get the frequent alerts and the TV show, which I love on which is live. It's actually live at Wednesdays at 6 p.m. Wednesdays at 6 p.m. live on Brighton.tv. Terrific. And we'll obviously have all those links up there. And I wasn't aware that they've made this book available for $2.99 on Amazon. So there's absolutely no barrier. The ebook, no barrier. Exactly. There's no barrier to the basic information. And the basic information is hard to swallow, but it's life changing. It's life changing. It opens up a new door. And you have to go there. Who wants to be keeping their head in the sand? No matter what it is, we can handle it. You can hear as a guy who's fought for years and years and he's handled it. That's what we're here to do is bring the light. Like our guest, Dr. Peter Brighan, has brought the light today. Dr. Brighan, thanks again so much for joining me.  So thank you. Well, this has been a gift to me actually. It's the first time somebody kept bringing me back down to the basic basics. It's interesting. I've given hundreds of interviews. Yours is the one that actually kept coming back to the basics that we live by. And I fought you a little bit on it because I always want to tell people about the global predators. You did a great job. Thank you. You gave me a gift today. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks again to Peter Brighan for joining me today on Skeptico. The one question I tee up from this interview, it's kind of a repeat question, but it always looks different when you talk to somebody new, when you talk to somebody who's really so talented and has such an amazing background as this guy. But it's the question of evil. And it's with this ability for some people to not to connect, to not see other people as spiritual beings. Is that ever, ever, ever under any circumstances, something more than biology, something more than nature or nurture? Is it ever possible that that could be influenced by what I call this extended realm? You know, a couple of interviews ago, we did the interview with Dean Raiden, and I was pretty hard on them in a couple of respects, but you know, don't forget that parapsychology and these sci experiments do show that there is more, right? So even if you take like the simple pre sentiment experiment, you know, the one where they show the image on the screen and before the image is even selected by the computer, your body reacts, well, that says there's more. That says the clock isn't in play like we think it is in materialistic epiphenomena, mind equals brain stuff. It really falsifies that. But people aren't willing to make and you don't have to, but now people aren't willing to make that theoretical leap to saying, is that does that open the door for maybe evil being more, maybe good being more, maybe light being more? I think it's rather obvious. I think it's rather self evident, but obviously not everybody sees it that way. What's your opinion? Let me know. And I do have a lot more coming up on skeptical. So stay with me for all of that. Until next time, take care and bye for now.


Hello everyone. All right, the road to cube con here is our final stop on the road to cube con We have a special guest today brought in the big guns the mama bear The lady the lady boss the you know that the the big I'm so excited. I can't even speak. That's all good It is she's the GM of the cloud cloud native computing foundation this Priyanka Sharma Spotlight starts now. Would you think it's a special effects, huh? Whoa, whoa, I was like am I in a theater then pop in full force. That was awesome Priyanka welcome before we get started. I have to do the disclaimer here, right? This is an official live stream of the CNC app and as such is subject to the CNC of code of conduct Please do not add anything to the chat or questions that be in violation of that code of conduct Basically, please be respectful of all of your fellow participants and presenters Welcome to spotlight Priyanka Thank you so much for having me pop. I am honored to be here last stop on your show So on our channel the cloud native TV again I kind of give you the background Priyanka and I had some discussions earlier And I'm like look let's get the literal best of the best and cloud native and do this for the community by the Community and you have been so supportive and we love you to death And so we again appreciate you being so supportive of cloud native TV So that being said cube con it's our world cup. It's our Super Bowl. It's our world series It's all of those wrapped up into one, right? And so I'm loving the fact will be in person So I know like again, we were at the OSS summit, right? And the precautions that were made were you know again to keep people safe And I love how much you know, we're doing that So talk to me about like again like all the great things the CNCF are gonna do to keep people safe as we're as we're doing Yes, absolutely Health and safety was the number one concern as we started preparing for this show in the hopes that we could have an in-person element to it There was no way we were going to proceed if we didn't have all our ducks aligned in a row And I have to say it's the Linux Foundation events team that gets the credit for Really really running this process like very very well. So there are some key aspects to how to attend safely First of all before attending assess your level of risk. We have a great video interview with Dr. Joe Salanikio, I always say his last name wrong Who is a CDC official and he talks to us about just how to decide whether an event is right for you to attend or not A lot of it depends on you know, your friends and family at home who come close Come in close contact you in addition to your own personal health So think think of your pod think of your community And by the way, I'm seeing that At the door right now That's my dog Oali he's coming back from his walk really excited sorry about that but No, so the reason I bring this up first and foremost is because you can still sign up You can show up at the door in Los Angeles and get a ticket if there are tickets available Which they should be at least some any who so that's the first piece second once you've made the decision to attend There are some requirements number one You have to be back fully vaccinated to attend and there's a slew of vaccines that are approved based on CDC guidelines The actually WHO guidelines So make sure that you fit that category Second is that we are requiring masks throughout the event and I think that will go a really long way in protecting people even Even in the most extreme of circumstances, so we're gonna all be vaccinated We're all going to be masked and we'll get wristbands to show how much level of proximity. We're comfortable with with Fellow attendees, so I might have a green wristband which says yeah, you can you can come closer That's okay. Somebody may have a red one. So please respect their Need for space and stay at least six feet apart So we've gone and there's also daily temperature checks and checks on you know, how are you feeling? So these are the things that we have set in place. I think they're a good Good set of rules to make sure we all have a good time I think the number one will come down to how we Team cloud native behave as a community and respect these rules respect each other and do the right thing so that we can be there Have a great time for five days and get back to the Creativity the socialization the fun that we all deserve Awesome, and again, it's if if the OSS summit was any type of kind of indication It was it was amazing because again, it was an intrusive you had an app you came in you filled out a survey You went in I'm assuming it's probably the same process here So really excited about it, you know again I'm gonna I'm gonna make sure that if I want to hug folks because I want to hug everybody I'll be make sure I look at the bands and do what we need to do here. So free hugs if you want All right, I'm sorry if I may I want to give you of course. This is your show. This is your network. What do I do? The network execs here. I'm just kidding. I have two pieces of advice for anyone attending number one is Pick a mask that you can wear all day or bring a bunch that you can recycle through Because sometimes like there were people who chose masks.  So that's number one With that said though, like, you know, don't do fake masks like a mesh is not a mask as an example Anywho second point is go now into the emails that are coming from the team and look through the clear app and the instructions there So because and it's really important I think it's really useful to do it a few days in advance I was a late skate at open source of it and like 20 minutes before the show I'm like trying to figure it out and it's like, oh my gosh, so stressful. Don't be like me be better and Do the app stuff now so you don't have to carry your physical vaccination card as well So there we go some sage advice from the GM the CNCF. Okay, so mass mass over. Let's let's get to the good stuff Right, let's just talk about the cube con itself. I mean, you've been going I'm sorry They're getting lower and lower all the time here. This is wonderful. I thought that was on my side I live right near JFK. So I was like whatever so No, this okay this weekend is fleet week in San Francisco and I think it's the fighter jets There's like no other explanation or I'm Armageddon. I might be God Cloud native TV has actually rented the blue angels. They're going right above Priyanka's house Time. All right. So let's talk about again. Let's talk about you can't keep kind of self.  Yeah, absolutely. So I've been attending Cube Constance 2016 And I was super bummed that I've missed the very first one So I like to think that team cloud native is Very resilient and our resilient resilience is the power of us Us together do big great things The interesting thing about team cloud native is that this definition of us has changed Every year every six months since I've been involved in 2015, which was like the beginning of the foundation, right? And the reason I think cube con cloud native cons are so popular is because at every stage of that journey These events have spoken to the people that come in that are part of us So back in the day the first cube con was I think 300 people The one I attended was 700 and that was like considered a big show and at the same time It was very intimate. I was spending all my time with these, you know Sages these wizards of systems engineering and learning and having such a great time and Then over the over time as years progressed more and more folks joined us and there were different kinds of activities There was more Official learning and development training things like that There was much more like nuanced activities thing and all of that and the sponsors came out in big full force And which by the way, I love the sponsor hall. It's like the finest place And so every year I see the event has evolved to the needs of the community And you've seen and nothing has been a better example than the great pandemic of 2020 and 2021 We have as you know have been evolving as fast as possible to adapt to the needs of the community So one is one reason why cube con cloud native con is the show in my opinion is that it is a manifestation of who we are The second piece I would say is that while we have all been changing and evolving just and cube cons have been doing that With us one thing has stayed the same and that is the culture of team cloud native our ethos Who we are has stayed the same as we have scaled in audience and that's awesome When I went to the first cube con when it was 700 people it was the warm and fuzzy feels and I feel the same when I meet people now in the bigger cube con cloud native con So I think cube cons are just they define they represent who we are they show What's the best of us and give us a chance to come together? But that and do you think like the we got to make sure that also look there's a lot of folks that again Like probably won't be in person and again It's like the experience for the virtual and I've seen the platform this platform last cup You know it's been fantastic. So let's talk about the experience for the virtual like how does that you know?  I don't even drink coffee, but I'm doing a morning session and so it's gonna be a lot of interaction a lot of Ability to meet new people and have the have a robust platform just like we did last time And again just a shameless plug all every single day. We'll be doing cloud native recaps We actually have a booth at yes at the show is it's gonna be really cool? Like, you know, remember like he had those like red carpets We're on the red carpet. We're gonna be talking to folks.  It'll be all your favorites really on cat We'll be there myself Chris short shout out to Chris short doing some stuff.  I'm gonna you know, I'm gonna kind of ask this questions also I think you know cube cons amazing as we know and a big shout out to the program Committee we'll get to them in a second in the co-chairs, but let's talk about the co-located events all this week We've you know, we've been you know, we talked I talked to the security, you know, colos I'm co-chairing the ebpf day. You all check that out see any ebpf day, but the The other thing was like, you know in cat talk to wasm and prom con today. Let's talk about the co-located events How special they are. Oh My goodness. Yes, I think the co-located events are a Representation of all the growth in the cloud native ecosystem The colos day colo days are as you know, they are like topic specific. There's an ebpf day There's a wasm day. There is supply chain security day There's all kinds of events right and they show the areas of focus Or that people are doing that are team cloud native members who are like now Focusing on hey, let me improve security for the world Hey, ebpf is a good partner for all the story that comes out of cloud native And so what we are seeing is a technology verticalization almost in these co-located events And that shows how much we're growing up and how much our How much the cloud native computing paradigm has spread around the world because now people need to get into the details And these colos are an avenue to do that. So I absolutely love the colos. I think they're essential and they are a they are an indicator of our growth and success to come in the years No doubt and let's give some shout outs to the folks that are in the channel here. I see marino here What's up marino? There's patish Again patish. It said that he had to let me just put this on screen here He attended a kipkan eu virtually zoom breakouts. We're amazing. Hold on. There's blue angels again There's a blue angel We planned this everyone we planned all of this all this so so again I totally like the the breakout sessions were great because I remember it was a lot of folks You know in the community interacting doing what we do best making people feel includes included And so I really I really enjoy that and hallway tracks as we know is like near and dear to our hearts We go in there and we we talk to folks that are that are kind of attending so they feel welcome So I I love that so let me ask you this and I know it's hard, right? You you know like I can't tell you which one is my cloud cloud native tv's favorite, but I can tell you know Which what are you looking forward to? I'm sure you're looking forward to the whole everything But what are some of the things that are kind of top of mind for you? I know I knew you were going to ask me this and I was like the question is what is not my favorite nothing No, so I you know Just from a personal experience standpoint This is I've been in this job for over a year close to year and a half now But this is going to be my first in person debut in the community being on stage as general manager in front of all these amazing people And that is just is giving me goosebumps. I'm a little nervous, but I am so happy to finally get to that point So that's one and it's very self-centered. So I'm sorry about that But then when we look at the entire show, right? I think the colo days I'm glad you brought them up because I highly encourage anyone if you're coming to LA anyway, if you're doing the event come two days early Go to the colos you'll get to deep dive and it's worth it. That's number one I'm going to give I think a keynote for the cloud native data management day And I think I've been asked to do like a sprinkling of things here and there So I'll be around so let's say hello It's also colo days are also nice in that they're not as jam packed as you know Wednesday thursday in particular So it's a good time to like, you know ease in so highly recommend second then you look at all the keynotes and topics that are out there Each keynote is awesome. Of course I personally I'm really looking forward to Paris and one more person's talk on sustainability of the kubernetes ecosystem And she will discuss just how important it is for us to keep building on this This culture that is ours right that powers us And keep paying it forward by contributing by communicating by getting people in And I think that's an important talk to hear and then Hopefully find it in your hearts and wallets and all of that to start contributing more I think i'm also really looking forward to Frederick and alan's talk on security and the asba It's pretty cool because alan alan freedman, right? Yes, exactly. Shout out to dr. Alan. Good friend Exactly and like he's like kind of for somebody in my perspective and He's coming to cube con. He's talking to all of us give sharing the government perspective too So I think it's a really useful. It's going to be a really useful session And and then of course the end the the end user keynotes are really critical because they show again that evolution in our ecosystem The growth and the depth in which people are utilizing cloud native. So highly recommend attending those Besides that, I mean all attendee party. I want to see each and every one of you. We are going to party Uh, I also want to encourage that, you know, this is the first hybrid event So remember that remember that your when you're in person know that there's there's maybe like, you know There's thousands of you here, but there are tens of thousands who are also with you in the experience So there are areas where you can go to and participate in something virtual For example, come to my happy hours Which anybody can participate in you can be in your hotel room or in the quiet areas Log on and then you're connected to the virtual as well as in person And I'm I'm actually really looking forward to see how that feels So those are just some quick thoughts on Highlights, but everything's going to be awesome. Have a blast. Enjoy yourself No, dad. We got some questions here. So once from, you know, it's virtualize six ix It's what are some ways for visual virtual attendees get the most out of cube con? I think you mentioned a couple other hacks to get swag as virtual attendee Very self-serving rino That's funny. No, there's definitely a lot of stuff going on. There's I actually had a whole list of there's a bunch of like Virtual games and activities that are like gamified like you get something out of it So look through those and to the best of my knowledge the virtual boots by the sponsors Are also a place where you could just be like, hey listen, I'm interested in your service, but I'm also interested in your swag Do you folks have some cool swag pop at the booth? Do you know I might make an appearance at the booth. I mean, I don't know. I'm gonna be all around I mean, there'll be a lot of stuff. There'll be cracking stuff. There might be some falco stuff. Who knows you never know You never know. Yeah, exactly exactly So virtually just go make your rounds and you're gonna probably get an email that lists all the like interactive things And most of them are connected to like swag getting so So there's another kind of thought here is partish said one of the fun event out of many and I'm looking forward to this time It's bug bash. Um, yes, we got anything on that one Yes, I think that's such a such a good one because It's it's it's it shows how we can have a great time have fun and also pay it forward all in one And I think uh, the bug bash is something I highly recommend everyone attending It's it is what the name suggests which is people get together and they Find bugs and log them and uh, it's for the projects a CNCF project. So you're doing them a service It's all gamified and fun and it's going to be, you know, like really high energy So highly recommend you do it. It's good for the ecosystem. It's fun and why not? So We're going to talk about the keynotes here. I mean every day there's some amazing ones But I also let me let me kind of delve into one thing I mean look at the co-chairs again another thing as you said Hey, it's the first time that everybody's going to be together, right? And and I think even for the co-chairs not being able to keynote for these, you know Again, you know, I'm going to mention my boy Steven to gust this right you know I'm going to mention, you know jasmine and and confidence. I mean if this is I'm Can't wait to be there to see this like to be able to see them Present this and then the people virtually be able to see this as well This is what we all do best is being in front of the audience and be able to share this energy together You know, it's hard when you do it virtually. So, you know, shout out to the co-chairs I mean, is there anything you anything you want to say to your to your co-chairs for kubecom? Yes, I think they have all worked so hard to Plow through the the pandemic times and do their best even when they were not going to get the, you know, the like Positive feedback loop that you get by being in a stage like IRL, right? They still worked hard They still gave us the best program we could have possibly had the last year And now as as you said pop they get the chance to finally be on a real stage Speak their truth be seen and I'm just so happy that this is happening for them No doubt Again, pretty another quick shout out to the events team. Shout out to Lindsay. Yes, but all all of them incredible You know, and it's so professional being like on a couple of program committees this year tag security It's incredible But also like even from this, you know from the kubecon perspective It's just incredible the amount of stuff that they have to juggle I will go on record and say this cncf's event team are the greatest in the world. I don't care the great Yes, 100% and I think You know most often in our community is the folks who do things like events who do program committees They're in the background This is the time like and they never ask for any like recognition any light nothing But we owe it to them. We gotta shine the light on these wonderful individuals. I can tell you Vanessa who leads the cncf events team has been Such a phenomenal partner in this journey. We've done tough stuff together And this this hybrid event I will tell you has been the hardest thing any of us has actually executed Because not only are we dealing with our own, you know, it's hybrid. It's in person and and virtual etc, etc We're also dealing with What what is the but economists called the shortage economy Where there's enough money to go around for things but Labor supply is short Physical goods supply is short everything is short the supply chain is totally busted after that Thing happened in the swiss canal where the ship ever given like got stuck All those things have real life implications to folks like the events team And they've made it happen. They've made it work all with a smile on their face So they deserve the biggest kudos No doubt So let's talk about you know folks for for you know registration and what what have you so like how do people you know if you haven't done It's you know, if there's folks that haven't done it If they want to register now like again, we have it on the screen you all there's a link But again, if you go, you know to the website and register right now you virtual or in person I don't you know, I'd love to see you do it all do it You know, see if we can see you all here Is there any kind of other kind of tips and tricks for for this? Yeah, if you forget everything kube.com.io, just go there and you'll get the links that you need You can register up to the last minute and this this year. I'm actually promoting that because We've all had like unique circumstances and sometimes we've wanted to wait before deciding whether I'm going to like show up somewhere in person or not And that you might be in that boat You might be like, you know Ready to assess your risk now and make the decision. So do it. Don't hold back. We're ready. We're prepared So with that being said, I just want to kind of, you know, let me let me uh To keep the lights on real quick. I just want you all if you haven't already, please make sure you follow cloud native dot tv in twitch We've had some, you know, it's been incredible the amount of growth that we've had thus far We'll continue to do so. We just we love putting on this this content for you all So that being said, we got to close out We've got 25 minutes with the gm. Anybody have any questions? Please feel free. You got a couple more minutes, but What leave, you know, let's let's this is the go home right now What do what do we want to say? What do we want to tell people right now to get them either virtually or in person? Come out to hang out with us I think I'd say folks cloud native The team team cloud native started off as you know, stargazers and dreamers who really got together and built this paradigm Of software development and delivery that is now essential across the world It's this paradigm that has made every company a tech company So no matter who you are no matter where you live No matter what your day-to-day looks like this is useful material for you and these are great friends to make So I recommend show up come by Attend in person attend virtually do whatever works for you But don't miss out. This is the wave of the future and you want to be part of this See that that's why I would follow Priyanka into hell. It's been back that being said This was this was Priyanka Sharma the gm of the cncf My name is Dan pop and remembers a community the spotlight is on you


Coming to you from our GIS studios, I am Anisia Antoine and this is your midday news brief. The Caribbean Youth Film Festival this year celebrates its 8th anniversary. Having employed as its mechanism a strategic module of teaching the film and television at home to youth, one of the festival's main objectives is the building of uniquely holistic and productive citizens. Festival director Colin Weeks explained that the shift of dynamics due to the COVID-19 pandemic allowed for an international pool of professors as well as participants. This year the Caribbean Film Festival competition is being held under the theme COVID Diaries. In an effort to support the youth and develop the film industry, Exporting Lucia has also partnered with the Caribbean Film Festival for the Film Competition. The COVID Diaries Film Competition was launched on Monday, August 24th at the Exporting Lucia headquarters. The Department of Education, Innovation and Gender Relations has finalised plans for the opening of the new academic year. The proposed date is September 7th, 2020 with teachers reporting to schools on August 31st, 2020. Officials say that dates are proposed given the fluid nature of the COVID-19 pandemic. The return of students to the classroom setting is being done under two formats. Option one is the whole school approach with the use of social distancing protocols. The students will attend school for four days in the week, Monday to Thursdays. Option two is alternate instructional days with an emphasis on assignments and student projects. Chief Medical Officer Dr Sharon Belma George says the decision to reopen schools was evidence-based. Several factors she explained were considered, including the number of active COVID-19 cases on Ireland, the lack of community spread, along with who are the infected individuals. The Centre for Disease Control, CDC, has reduced St Lucia's COVID-19 rating to the lowest, level one, as one of the only eight countries globally. For the period of July to August 2020 to date, St Lucia has welcomed 5,897 travellers through the approved parts of entry, of which 4,413 are visitors. Chief Medical Officer Dr Sharon Belma George noted that the strictly enforced protocols and measures have been effective in keeping the spread of the virus at bay. The public is reminded to follow all travel and on-island protocols as a continued measure in mitigating the risk of COVID-19 into local communities. This has been your midday news brief. Thank you for watching.


The price of a curve and the demand curve. As we know the consumers demand curve as we have shown many times before that it depends upon the commodities own price, other goods price and the consumer income. When we consider this it means whenever there will be the change in the commodities price then the consumer demand will change. This relationship between the change in the price and the change in the consumer demand is exhibited in the form of the consumer demand curve. So whenever there will be the change in the price of a commodity then there will be the change in the shape of the consumer demand. When we will join all the optimal choice bundles or the points available on the consumers in difference curve with the change in the price and we join this we come up with the curve that is called price consumption. In other words when we say that the less the price the consumer enhances their demand and purchases different bundles. So if we join the optimal choice bundles and the consumers increase the price of a commodity then the combination of the optimal choice bundles is changed. And if we join them so the joining of all the optimal choice bundles which are available to change the price then we come up with the price consumption curve. And this price consumption curve is also can be called the price offer curve. When we draw in the form of the indifference curve we come up with this that the consumer he was having this original budget line and on this original budget line the consumer was having this indifference curve. And now when the price of the commodity decrease it means its slope of the budget line will expand and now the consumer will change its indifference curve from this to this indifference curve and again with the decrease it will further shift to this. So now the bundles of A, B and the C all the optimal bundles with respect to the change in the price and when we join all these points we will come up with this type of the curve that is called price consumption curve or the price offer curve. So this price offer curve and on the base of this here I have not shown their shape of direction it means if it can come either on this way it will be and if we change the price of X1 in the form that it shift from this budget line to this and to this with its increase. Again we will come up with the same price consumption curve but only its direction will be different. So the price consumption curve for good X1 will be it will be the total plot or the locus of all the utility maximization points or the optimal choice bundles with respect to the price of X1. And at the same time because it explains the relationship with the quantity demanded it provides us the individual demand curve. So keeping in view the change in the price we have already studied the behavior of various commodities. So there are mostly the commodities that will follow the law of demand and their demand will increase with the decreasing price then that will be the ordinary good and there will be certain goods that will have the exception to this behavior and their demand will increase with the increase in the price called the given goods. So we can have the given goods and the ordinary goods and likewise we see that there are the commodities which are perfect substitute to each other. If that the commodities we are dealing with the perfect substitute and we see that the change in price is there and in the manner that the price of commodity 1 is greater than commodity price 2 and there can be a shape that will be different. So when will be the condition that the commodity on X axis means price 1 it will be greater it means consumer will prefer to have the commodity available on the Y axis. Consumer will buy the commodity which is cheaper compared to the costly thing. So keeping in view the price demand for X is 0. Now we can say that the commodity that the consumer will find expensive in the perfect substitute will reduce their demand for that. And this preference he will exhibit even in the further bundles and when we will join these points we will come up with the straight line. So when we draw this curve we see that there are the various indifference curves available to the consumer. And these various indifference curves when the consumer they are having the perfect substitute to each other and their budget line and like this. Indifference curve is having this corner and likewise if he is having the other indifference curve with the change in budget line he will come up with this point. And like this if he is going to expand like this point. And we are going to join all these three points of the quantity demanded with respect to price. We are coming up with this behavior that is explained in this curve that the consumer first shift to there. And then again this straight line price consumption curve we are going to explain. And in a similar manner if we are going to draw the demand curve from the price consumption curve we can see that these various bundles of A, B and the C. They show the relationship of the two commodities X1 and the X2 with the change in the price of X1. So this point it shows different price of the X1 this point again shows its different price. And the third also shows the third price in the manner that price of X1 prime and at the second this and this the third prime. And the third price is less than the second and the second is like this. So in this manner now we have the combinations where we can draw the points of X1 on the X axis in the vertically. So we are going to extend this point of X1 downward this amount of the X1 purchased again to downward. And this from this bundle what were the commodity purchased of X1 to downward. And now on the Y axis we are going to have the prices of commodity X1. When we draw the curve with related to the price we come up with the relationship this that is called price consumption curve. And at the same time it shows the relationship of the commodity quantity demanded with relation to its price and it is also called consumer demand curve. So this price consumption curve it provides the solution to the economist to draw the relationship in the form of the demand curve with the help of this price consumption curve. And now if we take the example of the perfect complements we know that the perfect complements they are utilized in the form of a combination. So when there will be one commodity utilized in a manner that its price is going to change but it will have no effect on the quantity demanded of that commodity because consumer will not be able to change its demand. He has to change his demand only and only if he will be able to purchase that fixed amount bundle or the fixed proportion of the both. So when we take the example like this we can see that the price consumption curve of the complements that will move like this because here if we see the price consumption curve they will be in the form of this vertex. So they will be whenever they will be shifting they will be shifting only and only in a manner that they are available to the consumer when the both is having the fixed proportion. So when we join these commodities bundle with the change in the price we can have with the in this form a straight line price consumption curve. And if we draw again the demand curve from this diagram we can extend the points of X1 again on the other curve on the X axis. And respective to these points we are going to have the price of commodities X1 on the vertical and then when we join this we may have this demand curve that is depicted in the form of the diagram. Thank you.


In this video, we're going to talk about Durgecoin. We talked about this in February, and I thought it would be under the right for me to give an update on this one. And it is also the only crypto that we've mentioned on this channel, okay, is actually Durgecoin. So I do want to give an update on this. I did say back in those videos that I do believe because of the media virality of the coin, because we're seeing a lot of attention and a lot of traction to the coin, because it can be highly marketable. The coin can be highly marketable. I see this one moving up, and it has moved up. But of course, we've got to put that into perspective and to say that obviously, cryptos overall have been moving up, certainly in the past few weeks in the industry overall, right, as an overall industry. So we're going to see a lot of this in this video in terms of Durgecoin, and we're going to talk about this. Now, do let me know in the comments if you wanted me to cover more crypto or you want me to cover a particular type of crypto. Let me know in the comments. But again, this is the only one we've covered, and it's one that is doing quite well. Okay, and we'll go into this. So Durgecoin price has soared more than 100% to new record after Elon Musk tweets. So Elon has been tweeting about this coin again, again. So this is a continuous process where actually it's been mentioned over and over again by Elon Musk. And I don't think this is if this continues, if that's like like a medium to long term area where it's going to continuously treat tweet about this. I do see that that always has a good impact on the price of the coin. Okay, and it does deserve to have that confidence level to investors who are investing in Durgecoin as well. Now we see the price here. Just look at this price 0.36 24 hour change is actually now 179.59% in the making of this video. Okay, and then also the market cap is now at 47 billion. Okay, so it's absolutely exploding. Okay, you can see the graph here all the way from March up until April where it's absolutely exploded to record highs. Okay, now moving into this, we did cover like I said in February, we talked about this coin. Okay, and I was talking about Elon Musk, I was talking about the potential for this coin, the advantages, the disadvantages and whether it could reach $1 after this. So we're going to look into this because it is moving its way up to that level. It's not there yet, of course, but it's certainly on the upward trends towards that level. And many people said that it won't reach that level because of the market cap and reaching that level would just reach an insane level of market cap. But we've seen it with many cryptos where the market cap is just absolutely exploding and it's actually going beyond anybody's expectations. Okay, so that's the good thing about crypto is that it can absolutely provide you with massive returns. But of course, within in addition to that, it's also very volatile. Now, in February, it was around sort of 0.050. Okay, it's now 0.36. So you can see from here, it's moved up massively, a massive movement upwards and certainly recently. Okay, so I do see this one is getting to this point where it may have a little bit of a cool down. Okay, so you wouldn't want to get like if you haven't bought into this yet, you wouldn't sort of want to get firmer because, you know, that could not work out for you. So what you would want to kind of wait for is for it to stabilize a little bit and see what the movement is like if you've not got into this one yet. Okay, but I would say that it does have the potential to reach in $1. It's literally, you know, at 0.36 already. Okay, and this is just in, you know, a couple of months here, three months or so since I last covered it. Okay, so can you buy Dogecoin on Coinbase? So this is the area where if Dogecoin is actually going to be in more trading apps, cryptocurrency trading apps. If they get accepted into more of these apps, then of course what you're going to get is more investors that potentially invest in the coin. So what we need to see is maybe one of the catalysts is more trading apps actually allowing the coin. And there is this interesting thought in terms of Coinbase where this could only be a matter of time where it's allowed on Coinbase. And you've got this Coinbase is one of the most popular crypto exchanges out there. A crypto exchange is a kind of marketplace where users can buy crypto occurrences with cash and also trade them. An exchange is basically an app or website that gives you access to the crypto marketplace. Coinbase is one of the biggest such exchanges. This exchange was recently released on the Nasdaq index and went public on the Coinbase IPO on April 14th. However, at this time of writing the article, users cannot buy Dogecoin on Coinbase. However, in the future, Coinbase may choose to add it to the collection of cryptos to trade. So if that happens, that could be a catalyst because it's one of the biggest crypto exchanges. So then there's more investor sentiment. And I think it's getting to the point where actually this coin could actually be accepted into a lot of these crypto exchanges. And then that's going to impact the price. Also, you've got to think of the brand awareness. A lot of people know about this coin now. So it's got a lot of brand awareness, which to be honest is something that's been underestimated at the moment. Now also some interesting news is also that the coin has actually been allowed on to in terms of accepting payments on a Latvian Airlines. They've started accepting payments in Doge as well as some other cryptos. So what we're seeing is actually more businesses here in the airline industry, for example, but more businesses all around actually accepting this as a form of payment. So this adds credibility to the coin because you can actually pair with this coin as well. So that is a starting to continue to happen, which is another reason why it could reach $1. Again, back to what Elon did, he's recently been tweeting about it. So he's put Doge backing at the moon. So he's put out another meme of the coin. Now what I want to ask you, what price tag do you think this will reach? So let me know in the comments down below, what do you think this will reach? I would say that I've always said that I do think that it's got the potential to reach that dollar. And it's starting to move up to that level. But we've seen with this coin, there is always that kind of cooling off period. It tends to be with a lot of the cryptos. There is this cooling off period where it shoots up and it cools off, of course.  But again, I do think that it does have the potential to reach, let's just say 0.50 to a dollar. That's where I see this has the potential to reach. But let me know in the comments section down below on what price you think that the coin can reach. And also let me know down below if you want me to cover any more cryptocurrencies into the future. That would be very interesting if you can let us know. Thank you for watching the video. Don't forget to subscribe and like the video, and I'll see everybody in the next one.