Everybody Matt here for late and sports cards ripping 2023 leaf metal draft football jumbo This is eight box full case break number one random teams Here we go 28 spots 28 names. Let's do it. We will randomize seven times on each list It's one two three four five six and seven Dane B data rich L and seven times on the teams one two three four five six And seven Broncos down to bills. All right. We have Dane B Broncos Jeff in Cowboys rich H Vikings Joseph S Giants Felix in Colts Jeff in Patriots Felix in Ravens Roy M. Packers Jordy H Niners Joseph S. Rams David F. Panthers Dan P falcons Shane W. Chargers rich H Bengals Stephen P chiefs Browns Jeff K. Dolphins bucks Michael S. H. E. Lions Stephen P. Seahawks Mike K. Jets Cardinals Michael S. H. E. Raiders Felix in Steelers Bears Daniel T. Texans Taylor R. Jags Jason R. Eagles Michael S. T. O. Commanders Matthew B. Sainz Felix in Titans and Rich L. Bills All right, these results posted and we'll get this started. I will be looking up almost every hit just to verify Just to verify the right teams All right, let's do it. Um, it would be pushed So later so Like if the leaf metal draft hobby doesn't sell out It'll be pushed it tonight. We go first up. That is black and white wave Marvin Mems, Jr This is four of four. Like I said, they cut production. These are low numbered Marvin Mems Broncos This is gonna be a very slow break because I'm going to be looking the names up also typing them in On a spreadsheet next to the player's name that way.  So it'll be smooth sailing the rest of the way That is K. Sean boot or booty pink ice auto One of three. Um, he is Patriots Next up is Jalen Milrow Purple scope state pride auto That is one of four Jalen Milrow. That'll be a random to all. So just Sorry again, this is gonna be this is auto white Quinn Ewers one of three Quinn Ewers Random to all so we're gonna do a single random at the end for any Players that don't have a team says Jalen Cropper Xrc pink one of four Jalen Cropper that is cowboys Cowboys on the Jalen Cropper next up. This is Packers Xrc Luke Musgrave Purple wave five of five or blue wave blue wave five of five and redemption that is Devon Witherspoon Seahawks and Broncos gold scope auto Jerry Judy Is that a one-of-one? It is one-of-one Jerry Judy. You go Broncos It was Dain B with the Broncos and I'll have to look this one up that is Drake May Purple auto three of seven that is a random to all This is Raiders one-of-one pre-production proof mojo purple auto Tyree Wilson And you go Raiders with the one-of-one pre-production proof Autograph this is vangals Welcome, or I'm sorry. Here comes the boom auto Jordan battle. That is one-of-two red ice This is Niners That's a silver and white wave Cameron Lattu 49ers three of eight. This is Cardinals pink wave auto Michael Wilson five of five Chargers That is Money Xrc Quentin Johnston nice one Chargers Two of two you go Chargers nice hit This will be a random to all that is orange wave auto brought Glenn two of three This is random to all Jermaine Burton state pride auto two of two Jermaine Burton two of two and we'll do a single random I'm here in a little while for that or for all the all those cars. That's Phil Jirkovich Phil Jirkovich Yeah, actually Phil Jirkovich That is a one-of-one signed proof that is He is still in college. So that is Gonna be a random to all leave this one is Seahawks Seahawks Xrc Jackson Smith and Jigba That is two of ten nice one Seahawks and Cowboys Red ice money auto Emmett Smith. This is one-of-one Congrats on the one-of-one Emmett Cowboys and this is Jordan Addison Vikings one-of-one autograph pre-production proof crystal red box number three we have a 15 box hobby case Scheduled after this See where we're at on that 23 to go on that one. I'll drop you a link here if you want to grab a spot.  That is Cowboys Don't know if he got drafted Yep This is Niners Red, white and blue auto Ronnie Bell. This is one of four You go Niners It's be fun to say This is tie-dye auto Amika a buka That is three of four Meek a book. That is a random to all. All right. This is dolphins That is a one-of-one signed proof Elijah Higgins You go dolphins the one-of-one signed proof and a dual auto that is Clark Phillips and Dalton Kincaid three of four Dalton Kincaid is bills. I'll have to look up Clark Phillips Falcons so bills and Falcons. We make sure the same person doesn't have both of those teams Richell has the bills Dan P has the Falcons. He's right. Yeah, Clark Phillips the third CP3 This is Browns legacy collection auto Jim Brown That is nine of 20 That is Browns. That is a combo spot Congrats Steven P. Nice Jim Brown auto. This is Lions One-of-one autograph pre-production proof wave red, white and blue Jamir Gibbs Nice one Detroit. This is Seahawks Red, white, blue auto Kenny McIntosh Seahawks that is one of three and dolphins Purple Mojo auto Elijah Higgins That's five of five So we have 23 to go on the hobby case This will be a random to all that is auto Inea Smith One of seven. This is Panthers wave auto Cameron Peoples Panthers three of six and this is Browns state pride auto Black Mojo Cedric Tillman That's three of three This is Patriots auto Malik Cunningham one of three Patriots and Steelers redemption Joey Porter, Jr. Nice Joey Porter, Jr. This one up earlier. Yeah, this is Lions state pride Pig scan auto Jamir Gibbs Five yep one of five and this will be a random to all that is Brock Bowers red, white and blue auto One of four This is gonna be a random to all one-of-one autograph pre-production proof crystal red Xavier worthy That will be a random to all box number five This is Ravens Green Mojo auto One-of-one sign proof Trenton Simpson is Ravens Xavier Hutchinson Xavier Hutchinson wave auto Texans That is one of eight. This is Tideye. It's a multicolor. That's Tyler Scott Auto I will have to look him up. He is no that's number two of two hairs on the Tyler Scott Seahawks Pink ice auto Zach Charbonnet Four of five nice low-numbered Charbonnet Donovan Edwards Pig skin auto that is One-of-one look him up random to all this is Saints Blue Wave auto AT Perry six of seven and Eagles Redemption Nolan Smith Eagles all right This is dual auto red ice max Duggan and Kendray Miller one-of-one dual auto Duggan Let's see Kendray Miller is Saints max Duggan is Chargers. So Chargers and Saints Chargers is Shane W Saints is Matthew B So we'll random that one at the end Appreciate everybody's patience on this. I know this is a Very slow break But after this one should be a lot smoother armed in dangerous auto Caleb Williams one of seven Look that one up That's a random to all and one-of-one autograph pre-production proof prismatic pig skin Will Anderson Jr. That is Texans One-of-one autograph pre-production proof. All right three boxes to go. All right. This is wave auto don't avian wicks And it's four of eight on Tavia and wicks. That is Packers and this is Luke Schoonmaker Blue Wave auto three of five Schoonmaker Cowboys on the Schoonmaker armed in dangerous auto Dylan Gabriel up. That is a three of three It's a random to all One-of-one printing plate auto Brian Branch that is Lions the one-of-one plate auto This is Falcon state pride auto Zach Harrison. That is one of three and Dante Demis Jr Purple ice auto two of three. He is Ravens Patriots Auto Malik Cunningham so money That's cool looking card. That's a one-of-one sign proof There you go Patriots and Texans auto Will Anderson Jr one of three So be a random to all like ice auto bow Knicks two of four and This is Tanner McKee one-of-one autograph pre-production proof auto. I think I said auto twice Tanner McKee off a little come up That's Eagles. All right two boxes to go This is Titans pigskin auto Josh Weill That is autograph pre-production proof one-of-one or autograph proof one-of-one. There you go again. That was Titans and Chiefs mojo auto sky more. That is one of six Ty Simpson armed in dangerous auto is Three of four. That's a random to all. This is Devin Brown red white and blue auto One of two that is a random to all. This is Cowboys red white and blue auto doospawn That is one of two and Max Duggan auto Chargers Four of seven you go Chargers. This is jets Auto Israel Abany Kanda one-of-one proof Go Chargers. No, I'm sorry jets. I was looking at the wrong line. Sorry about that Jets on the Abany Kanda. This is Quinn yours auto That is one of five It's not even on the checklist for me. Oh, that's a random to all. That's Malachi Nelson. That'll be a random to all blue wave auto five of seven and Doospawn autograph pre-production proof one-of-one That was Cowboys, right? Yep Cowboys You go Dallas right last box This is Lions blue auto Brian branch Lions Three of seven. This is Cowboys state pride auto hunter loopy blue scope four of four You go Cowboys and pig skin here comes the boom auto Jalen Carter. That is Eagles One of two. This is Saints.  This is Giants wave auto Jalen Hyatt one of four Giants Redemption, this is Packers grant to Bose This is Bengals Savage auto chase Brown and it's four of ten. I don't think we've seen anything numbered higher than ten heavily Vikings green scope auto Jordan Addison. It's two of two And on the back is Seahawks one-of-one autograph pre-production proof Kaleidoscope pink Zach Charbonnet, right that'll do it for the case. We're gonna have a few randoms here We get those Ready to go. So we're gonna do three randoms. Oh There's oh, yeah the Jim Brown to 20. That's right. Well, if you're gonna have one that's high never might as well be Jim Brown, right? So we have Clark Phillips and Dalton Kincaid Falcons and bills that'll be our first random our second random will be the one-of-one Dual auto max Duggan and Kendra Miller chargers and Saints and then our third Will be all of our random to all's and we'll just do them in order. It'll be Spot one at the end of the random will be Jalen Milrow two Quinn yours three Drake may for Brock Lynn five Jermaine Burton six Phil Durkovec Seven Amika a buga a buga eight. I need I need us Smith nine Brock Bowers 10 one-of-one pre-production proof auto Xavier worthy number 10 and then number 11 Donovan Edwards 12 Caleb Williams 13 Dylan Gabriel 14 bone X 15 Ty Simpson 16 Devin Brown 17 Quinn Ewers and 18 Malachi Nelson So 18 spots are gonna get one of the random to all Just a second to get this ready First was that was Falcons bills one-of-one dual chargers 28 and then four four all right We're gonna I'll do a single dice roll and this will be for all the randoms We'll randomize three times first the between the Falcons and bills one two three Falcons get that one and then Chargers and Saints. Oh, that was three times One two three chargers get the one-of-one dual auto congrats chargers and three times Again, I think it was the top 18 Each get one of these and I'll read off the results of that one one two and three so Bengals get the Jalen Milrow Steelers bears the Quinn Ewers Right away doing this Hang on So Bengals get the Jalen Milrow Steelers bears Quinn Ewers Bills Drake May Rams Brock Glenn Chargers Jermaine Burton Giants Phil Yerkeveck Patriots Amika Agbuca Niners Aeneas Smith Titans Brock Bowers Colts the one-of-one pre-production proof of Xavier Worthy Vikings Donovan Edwards Ravens Kayla Williams Lions Dylan Gabriel Jets Cardinals bow Knicks Panthers Ty Simpson Dolphins Bucks Devin Brown Falcons Quinn Ewers and Commanders Malachi Nelson All right, that'll do it for the break. Thank you everybody appreciate it Hobby is up next


Live from Boston, Massachusetts, it's theCUBE, covering Spark Summit East 2017, brought to you by Databricks. Now, here are your hosts, Dave Vellante and George Gilbert. Boston, everybody, where the city is bracing for a big snowstorm, still euphoric over the Patriots' big win. Aaron Colcourt is here, he's the director of engineering at FIS Global, and he's joined by Dave Fevella, who's the director of BI at FIS Global. Gentlemen, welcome to theCUBE. It's good to see you. Thanks so much for coming on. So Dave, set it up, FIS Global, the company that does a ton of work in financial services that nobody's ever heard of. Absolutely, absolutely, yeah. We serve and touch, basically, virtually every credit union or bank in the United States and have services that extend globally, and that ranges anywhere from back office services to technology services that we provide by way of mobile banking or online banking. And so, we're a Fortune 500 company with a reach, like I said, throughout the nation and globally.   So we are considered a fintech company and one of the largest fintech companies there is. And Aaron, your role as the director of engineering, maybe talk about that a little bit. My role is primarily about the mobile data analytics about creating a product that's able to not only be able to give the basic behavior of our mobile application, but be able to actually dig deeper and create interesting analytics, insights into the data to give our customers understanding about not only the mobile application, but be able to, even as we're building right now, a use case for being able to take action on that data. So, I mean, mobile obviously is sweeping the banking industry by storming. Banks have always been basically IT companies when you think about a huge component of IT, but now mobile comes in and maybe talk a little bit about sort of the big drivers in the business and how mobile is fitting in. Absolutely, so first of all, you see a shift that's happening with the end user, you, David, as a user of mobile banking, right? You probably have gone into the branch maybe once in the last 90 days, but have logged into mobile banking 10 times. So we've seen anywhere from an eight to nine time shift in usage and engagement on the digital channel. And what that means is more interactions and more touch points that the bank is getting off of the consumer behavior. And so what we're trying to do here is turn that into getting to know the customer profile better so that they could better serve in this digital channel, where there's a lot more interactions occurring.  I mean, my kids don't even use checks, right?  So what's the infrastructure behind that that enables it?  I mean, probably back end still is, but what else do you have to create to enable that? Well, it's been a tremendous amount of transformation on the back ends over the last 10 years. And particularly when we talk about how that interaction has changed from becoming a more formal experience to becoming a more intimate experience to the mobile, to the mobile client. But that more specifically to the back end, we have actually implemented Apache Spark as one of our platforms to actually help transform and move the data faster. Mobile actually creates a tremendous amount of back end activity, sometimes even more than what we're able to see in other channels. Yeah, and if you think about it, if you just kind of step back a little bit, this is about core banking, right? And as you speak to IT systems. And so if you think about all the transactions that happen on the daily, whether you're in-branch, at ATM, on a mobile device, it's processed through a core banking system. And so one of the challenges that I think this industry and fintech is up against is that you've got all these legacy old systems that have been built that can't compute all this data at a fast enough rate. And so for us, bringing in Aaron, this is about how do you actually leverage new technology and take the technical debt of the old sort of systems, data schemas and models and marry the two to provide sort of data, key data that's being generated. Without shutting down the business. Without shutting down the business. Can you elaborate on that? Because that's a non-trivial, it used to be when banks merged, could take years for the back office systems to come together. So now, let's say a bank comes to you, they have their, I don't want to say legacy systems, the systems they've built up over time, but they want the more modern capabilities. How do you marry the two? You want to take it first, Dan? Well, it is actually a very complicated process because you always have to try to understand data itself and how to put those two things together. More specifically in the mobile client, because of the way that we are able to think about how data can be transformed and transported, we came up with a very flexible mechanism to allow data to actually be interpreted on the fly and processed. So that when you talk about two different banks, by transforming it into this type of format, we're able to kind of reinterpret it and process it. Would this be, could you think of this as a very, very smart stream process where ETL would be at the most basic layer and then you're adding meaning to the data so that it shows up to the mobile client in a way that coheres to the user model that the user is experiencing on their device? I think that's a really good way of putting it. I mean, there's, we like to think of it, I call it a semantic layer of how you one treat ETL as one process and then you have a semantic layer that you basically transform the bottom bits, so to speak, into components that you can then assemble semantically so that it starts making sense to the end user. And to that point, to your integration question, it is very challenging because you're trying to marry the old with the new and we'll tease the section for tomorrow which Erin will talk about that. But for us at an enterprise grade, it has to be done very cautiously, right? And we're under heavy regulation and compliance and security. And so it's not about abandoning the old, right? It's trying to figure out how do we take that, what's been in place and been stable and then couple it with sort of new technology that we're introducing. It was interesting conversation, the old versus new and I look at your title, Dave, and it's got BI in it. I remember I interviewed Kristin Chabot who was then CEO of Tableau and he's like, old, slow, BI. Okay, now you guys here are talking about Spark. Spark's all about real time and speed and memory and everything else. Talk about the transformation in your role as this industry is transformed. Yeah, absolutely. So when we think about business intelligence and creating that intelligence layer, we elected the mobile channel, right? Because we're seeing the most inter-activities happen there. So for us an intelligent BI solution is not just data management and analytics platform. There has to be the fulfillment. You talk a lot about actioning on your data. So for us is if we could actually create intelligence layer to analytics level, how can we feed marketing solutions with this intelligence to have the full circle and insights back? I believe the gentleman, they were talking about the RISE lab in this morning's session, right? If you- They follow on to AMP, basically. Yeah, exactly. So there was all about that feedback loop, right? And so for us when we think about BI, the whole loop is from data management to end-to-end marketing solutions and then back so we could serve the mobile customer. Well, so the original promise of the data warehouse was this 365, what you just described, right? And being able to affect business outcomes. And that is now the promise of so-called big data. And even though people don't really like that term anymore. So my question is, is it same wine, new bottle, or is it really transformational? Are we going to live up to that challenge this time around as practitioners? I'd really love your input on that. I think I'd love to expand on that. Yeah, I mean, I don't think it's, I think it's a whole new bottle and a whole new wine. David here is from wine country and there's definitely the data warehouse introduced the important concepts of which is a tremendous foundation for us to stand on. You know, you always stand, like to stand on the shoulders of giants. They, it introduced the concepts, but in the case of marrying the new with the old, there's a tremendous extra third dimension, okay? So we have a velocity dimension when we start talking about Apache Spark. We can accelerate it, it might go quick, and we can get that data. There's the, there's another aspect there when we start talking about, like for example, hey, different banks have different types of way that like to talk to it. So now we're kind of like talking about, like there's variation in people's data. And Apache Spark actually is able to give that capability to process data, you know, that is different than each other and then be able to marry it down the pipe together. But, and then the additional, what I think is actually making it into a new wine is when we start talking about data, the traditional mechanism, data warehousing, that 360 view of the customer, they were thinking more of data as in, I like to think of it as let's count beans, right? Let's just come up with how many people were doing acts, how many were doing this. Accurate reporting. Exactly. And if you think about it, it was driving the business to the rear view mirror because all you had to do was base it off of the historical information and that's how we're going to drive the business. We're going to look in the rear view mirror, we're going to look at what's been going on and then we're going to see what's going on. And I think the transformation here is taking technologies and being able to say, how do we put not only predictive analytics inside play, but how do we actually allow the customer to take control and actually move forward and then as well expand those use cases for variation, use that same technology to look for, between the data points, are there more data points? That can be actually derived and move forward. George, I love that description. You have one of your reports, I remember. George had this picture of this boat and he said, oh, I imagine trying to drive the boat is looking at the wake. You know, I'm looking in the rear view mirror. But in addition to that, yeah, it's like you're driving the rear view mirror, but you also said something interesting about sort of, I guess the words I used to use were anticipating and influencing the customer. Exactly.  Ah. Well, a lot of it is still being done offline, mostly because, you know, as trying to serve a bank, you have to also be able to serve their immediate needs. So really we're revolving to actually build that use case around the real time. We actually do have the technology already in place. We built the POCs, we built the technology inside for being able to move real time and we're ready to go there. What will be the difference? Me as a consumer, how will that change my experience? I think that would probably be best for you. Yeah, well, just kind of step back a little bit too, because, you know, what we're representing here is the digital channel mobile analytics, right? But there's other areas within FIS, global, right, that handles real time payments with real time analytics, such as the credit card division, right? So both are happening, you know, sort of in parallel right now. For us, from our perspective on the mobile and digital front, the experience and how that's going to change is that from a, if you're a bank, and as a bank or credit union, you're receiving this behavioral data from our product, you want to be able to offer up better services that meet your consumer profile, right? And so from our standpoint, we're working with other teams within FIS global via Spark and Cloud to essentially get that holistic profile, to offer up those services that are more targeted, that are, I think, more meaningful to the consumer when they're in the mobile banking application. So does FIS provide that sort of data service, that behavioral service, sort of as a turnkey service or as a service, or is that something that you sort of teach the bank or the credit union how to fish? That's a really good question. We stated our mission statement as helping these institutions, creating a culture of being data driven, right? So give them the taste of data in a way that democratizing data, if you will, as we talked about this morning. That concept's really important to us because with that comes, give FIS more data, right? Send them more data or help them teach us how to manage all this data to have a data science experience where we can go in and play with the data to create our own sub-targeting. Because our belief is that our clients know their customers the best, so we're here to serve them with the tools to do that. So I want to come back to the role of Spark. I mean with Hadoop, Hadoop was profound. Ship five megabytes of code to a petabyte of data, no doubt about it. But at the same time, it was a heavy lift. It still is a heavy lift. So talk about the role of Spark in terms of catalyzing that vision that we've been talking about. Oh, definitely. So Apache Spark, when we talk in terms of big data, big data got started with Hadoop and MapReduce was definitely an interesting concept. But Apache Spark really lifted and accelerates the entire vision of big data. When you look at, for example, MapReduce, you need to go get a team of trained engineers who are typically going to work in a lower level language like Java. And they no longer focus in on what the business objectives are. They're focused in on the programming objectives, the requirements. With Spark, because it takes a more high level of abstraction of how we process data, it means that you're more focused in on what's the actual business case? How are we actually abstracting the data? How are we moving data? But then it also gives you that same capability to go inside the actual APIs, get a little bit lower to modify it for what your specific needs. So I think the true transformation with Apache Spark is basically allowing us now, like for example, in the presentation this morning, there's a lot of people who are using Scala, we use Scala ourselves. There's now a lot of people who are using Python and everybody's using SQL. How does SQL, something that has survived so robustly for almost 30, 40 years, still keep on coming back like a boomerang on us? And it's because a language composed of four simple keywords is just so easy to use and so descriptive and declarative that allows us to actually just concentrate on the business. And I think that's actually the acceleration of Apache Spark actually brings to the business as being able to just focus in on what you're actually trying to do and focus in on your objectives. And it actually lowers the actual, that same team of engineers that you're using for MapReduce now become extremely more productive. I mean, when I look at the number of lines of codes that we had to do to figure out machine learning and Hadoop to the amount of lines that you have to do in Apache Spark, it's tremendously, it's like five lines in Apache Spark, 30 in MapReduce. And the system just responds and gives it to you a hundred times faster. Why Spark too? I mean Spark, when we saw it two years ago to your point of like this tidal wave of data, we saw more mobile phone adoption. We saw those people that were on mobile banking using it more, logging in more. And then we're seeing the proliferation of devices, right, in IoT. So for us, these are all these interaction and data points that is a tsunami that's coming our way. So that's when we strategically elected to go Spark so we can handle the volume in the compute storage. Yeah, and Aaron, what you just described is all the attention used to be on just making it work. And now it's putting it to work really. Exactly. You see that in your businesses. Quick question. Do you see now that you have this sort of lower and lower latency analytics and ability to access more of what previously were data silos, do you see services that are possible that banks couldn't have thought of before beyond just sort of making different products recommended at the appropriate moment? Are there new things that banks can offer? It's interesting, on one hand, you free up their time from an analysis standpoint to where they can actually start to get out of the weeds to think about new products and services. So from that component, yes. From the standpoint of seeing pattern recognition in the data and seeing what it can do aside from target marketing, our products are actually often used by our product owners internally to understand what are the consumers doing on the device so that they could actually come up with better services to ultimately serve them aside from marketing solutions. Notwithstanding your political affiliations, we won't go there, but there's certainly a mood of a trend toward deregulation and that's presumably good news for the financial services industry. Can you comment on that or what's the narrative going on in your customer base? Are they excited about sort of fewer regulations or is that just all political nonsense? Any thoughts? Yeah. You know, on one hand, the why people come to FIS is because we do it here to compliance and regulation. Complexity is a friend, then. Yeah, absolutely, right. So they can trust us in that regard. And so from our vantage point, you know, will it go away entirely? No, it's absolutely not, right? I think cloud introduces a whole new layer of complexity because how do you handle cloud computing and NPI and PII data in the cloud? And our customers look to us to make sure that first and foremost security for the end consumer is in place. So, but I think it's an interesting question and one that you are seeing end users click through without even viewing agreements or whatnot. They just want to get to product, right? Right. So, you know, will it go away or do we see it coming when we know? But... You guys don't read all that text, do you? No comment? Required to. You know, no matter where it goes with the politics, I think there's a theme over the last 10 years and the 10 years before it, things are transforming, things are evolving in ways and sometimes going extremely, extremely fast in ways that we don't truly can anticipate. I think if we were to think about just a mobile application or a mobile bank experience 10 years ago, all we wanted was just to be able to see just the bank balance. And now we're able to take that same application, not only see our bank balance, but be able to deposit our check or even replace the card in our pocket completely with the mobile app. And I think we're going to see the exact same types of transformations over the industry over the next 10 years whether or not it's more regulation or different regulation. I think it's going to still speak to the same services which FIS is there to help deliver. Yeah, and you're right, there are going to be new regulations because they'll evolve maybe out with the old and with the new. You're seeing global regulations around Runbook and you mentioned cloud, there's data locality and you know, it's never ending. That's great for your business. Fantastic. Yeah, it comes down to truss ultimately. Yeah. Are they still, like our customers still go to banks and credit unions because they trust them with their data, if you will, right? Or their online currency in some regard. So, you know, that's not going to change. Right. Well, Aaron, Dave, thanks very much for coming to theCUBE. Absolutely. Thank you very much for your time. All right, keep it right there, everybody. We'll be back with our next guest. This is theCUBE, we're live from Boston. Spark Summit East, hashtag Spark Summit. We'll be right back. I remember when I had such a fantastic batting practice.


And now stay tuned for the mystery program that is unique among all mystery programs. Because even when you know who is guilty, you always receive a startling surprise at the final curtain. In the signal oil program, The Whistler. Signal, the famous go farther gasoline.  I am The Whistler and I know many things for I walk by night. I know many strange tales hidden in the hearts of men and women who have stepped into the shadows. Yes, I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak. And now for the signal oil company, The Whistler's strange story. The Clay Tree. Russ Thompson's movements were quiet. His steps slow and even as he paced back and forth across the wide corridor. Outside the approaching storm was creeping closer. Russ would stop occasionally. Look up to where the winding heavy rail staircase disappeared to the floor above. It was almost as if he could see what was going on up there. An old alvira clays bedroom. The doctor checking alvira's fading pulse. Jennifer Clay, alvira's knee looking on. You start to pace again, Russ.  What do you think, Jayce? You think the doctor's right that alvira won't laugh? She's old Russ, very old, quite tired. I wish Jennifer would come down and let us know. You heard the doctor's last report. You're attitude, Russ. What about it? Most admirable. I know you've always fought a lot of the clays. I mean far beyond your management of their land and holdings. I've tried to do what's right. You've done nobody. Even this feeling about poor old alvira. After all, it isn't as if she could live a good, long life. That isn't everything. It helped. Killing of her son didn't help any, especially the way he was killed. Poor alvira. I still wish you would try to talk her out of leading that tree up there on the hill with that plaque on it to the memory of hasty hands that took justice and law unto themselves. It's the monument of shame. That's what it is. Why shouldn't it be? Your only son was hanged by a wild mob. It was done by Miss Stake, Russ. Terrible mistake. That doesn't bring the boy back. No, no, no. The Anderson girl. They thought he killed. Look, what are you going to do? Alvira's son was going with the girl. They quarreled. When she was murdered, it was natural for people to think he did it natural. It wasn't natural to hang him, take the law into their own hands. But Stake did, Russ. He then learned too late that the boy couldn't possibly have done it. That it was someone else who killed her. Anyway, I don't condemn alvira. I mean for putting a plaque on that tree up there. Going to stay there, you know. It seems, Russ, there was that crowd up on the hill. They're pretty mad.  I wish she'd change her mind. And I hope she doesn't. It's a strange situation, isn't it, Russ? Attorney Jace Devlin mistaking your attitude for strong devotion to Alvira Clay. Actually, it's far different, isn't it? Yes. And as you walk to the window and look up toward the big tree on the hill, you're trembling inside. Trembling with fear and anxiety. A little crowd of townspeople around the tree, Russ. Supposing they got excited. Decided to tear the tree down. The old clay tree. You hate it as much as any of them, don't you? But for a much different reason. And in spite of your hate, you realize the tree must not be touched. At least for a while. Jace. Yes, Russ? I'm going out for a walk. In this weather? That's right. Going up to have another look at the tree. What if I am? Well, I... If the people know how you feel anyway, it will be a long time before they're in the mood to harm anyone else. Alvira's at least accomplished that. Yes, she's at least accomplished that. Fighting the wind as you stride up the hill toward the old tree. Your mind spins, doesn't it, Russ? The branches silhouetted against the sky look weird, accusing. Equally accusing of the softly muttering people standing around at the base of the tree. Staring at the plaque which Alvira ordered placed there, following the hanging death of her son. You're thankful that the plaque is all that these people can see, aren't you, Russ? Yes. As you reach the summit and the small group of muttering townspeople, you see Hank talking to a news photographer. Hard to plan the old woman for putting up that plaque. Now, let's see now. I want to get a picture of it. Well, he's right there right in front of you, plain to see who the memory of hasty hands that took justice and the law unto themselves. You didn't have to come all the way down here, miss you, those words been in the papers a lot the past two weeks. On ours at the different angle, pictures. We do a layout covering the whole story. The tree here, the plaque, reaction shot to the townspeople. They won't like it. Am I right, Mr. Thompson? What? I say folks won't like this magazine fella taking pictures. They're ashamed, but they're pretty fed up. Folks, would you move aside a little, please? I don't want to get a close shot of that plaque. Now that does it. I'll get another for protection. Then a few folks don't mind. Maybe a few of you are looking up at the tree. Suppose we do mind. Yes, we've just about suffered enough. Now, now, now, easy folks. Mr. Thompson, you better talk to them. I'm not interested. Look, folks, I'm just doing my job. It's news. My magazine, they sent me down here. We're sending you back. Come on. We're not posting. You have your picture of the plaque. You better do what he says, Mr. I can't be responsible. Well, I... Okay, okay. Take it easy. You don't have to shove. I'm calling. I'll see you later, Mr. Thompson. I better help him get out of here. Sure, sure. Go ahead, Hank. You wait until a small crowd of townspeople and the protesting magazine photographer have all gone. Then you look around, decide there's no one watching, then step quickly over to the tree, reach your arm down inside the hollow trunk, where your secret is hidden. Secret evidence, Russ. Murder evidence against you. Evidence proving you committed the murder for which Alvira's son was hung. The letters that the Anderson girl had written you. The gun you killed her with. Yes, Russ. Murder evidence. Evidence that could hang you. Evidence you hurriedly disposed of the night you killed her. But now as you try to reach them, you find that the hollow extends much deeper than you thought. Now it's no use. Probably hollow cleared out of the base of the tree. Mr. Thompson? You will. Drawing your arm quickly out of the tree trunk. Your hand empty. As Hank, the caretaker, comes back up the hill. Well, he's gone, Mr. Thompson, that reporter.  Just as well. Been somebody around here ever since it happened. Yeah. What do you think will happen to the tree now, Mr. Thompson? Happen? Why should anything happen to it? Well, haven't you heard? I thought you handled all the clay property. Well, my office does, of course, but I don't know what you... Well, I heard only yesterday that some fellow named Carson's aimin' to buy this property. Wants to put up a new house. Right smacked on the nose here. Oh, no, no. Oh, Alvira'd never stand for that. But if she dies, Mr. Thompson, and it seems as if she will, then what? Well, then there's her niece Jennifer, a good sensible girl. Yeah, but Jen never did hank her too much after puttin' that plaque up there. Thought it was unfair to all the people in town that didn't have nothin' to do with the hangin'. Jen might just sell, don't you think, Mr. Thompson? Well, I don't know, I'm sure. You don't mind hank, I've got to get back inside. I forgot I left Jayce Devlin' waiting for me.  The fear inside you is mounting so. You were so certain you could reach the gun in those letters. Didn't realize that the hollow in the tree went so far down. And that you'll have to improvise a way to fish them out when you get the chance. You hurry back to the house, discover Jayce Devlin on his feet, looking toward the wide, circular staircase. Jennifer is standing there, isn't she, Ruff? White face, silent, looking down on both of you. Then... He's dead. And how Vira's dead. It's up to me now to look after the house of Clay. In that popular new song, he lived on the morning side of the mountain. He lived on the twilight side of the hill. They tell of a boy and girl who lived so near to each other, yet never got acquainted, never got to know each other. Well, don't laugh, friend. You may be living even closer than that to wonderfully improved performance for your car, yet never get to know what proud performance your car can deliver, unless you get acquainted with signal ethyl gasoline. 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And the townspeople in their fury will see you in the same way they destroyed Alvira's son. You know that tree must stand, don't you, Russ? At least until you can somehow fish the gun and letters out of the hollow trunk. You wish the people would stop paying visits to the tree. Then one morning at your real estate office, another visit occurs, a frightening one in the person of a Mr. Carson. Good morning, Mr. Carson. That's right. Mr. Clay Carson, I understand you handle the Clay properties? I do. There's one particular piece I'm interested in. The no just above their place. You know the one I'm sure with the old tree. That piece of property, Mr. Carson, is not for sale. Oh, but I thought since the old lady is passed on... The old lady, as you call her. Alvira Clay, as I call her, would not have wanted to sell. And I'm certain her niece will respect those wishes. Oh, I see. I hope you do, sir. I think it easier for both of us if we respect the wishes of the deceased. Well, I must say that the noble attitude, I didn't think that the average sale... No need for there to be any unpleasantness between us, Mr. Carson. Perhaps I can show you something else? Not today, thank you. You see, I... Well, I more or less had my heart set on that no. Well, Mr. Carson, I'll see you again, perhaps. Any other property in town, Mr. Carson, I'd be happy to help you in any way. Thank you. Good day, Mr. Carson. You're safe for the time being, aren't you, Russ? But that isn't good enough, is it? You've got to find a way to protect the secret that Clay Tree holds. Make certain it will never be taken down. At least until you can somehow find an opportunity to remove the gun and letters from the hollow trunk. You think about it in the days that follow. Finally, the answer comes to you one morning as you're having a late breakfast at the corner lunch room where you've grabbed quick snacks for years. You listen to the idle chatter of Frank the counterman. Well, Mr. Thompson, I guess the Clay House will have a lot of callers from now on, huh? What do you mean, Frank? I mean Miss Jennifer. Now that she's come into the Clay Money, I guess some of the young fellas around town will be dropping in to see her. Oh, yes, I suppose so. Nice girl, Miss Jennifer.  She's all right.  I'm afraid I don't.  We've been friends for a long time. I got an idea she'd like it better if you two were more than just friends. Really? Yep. That's what I think. What do you think? I think I'll have some more coffee, Frank. Pressure would ease, wouldn't it, Russ? If you could be certain that at least for the present, Jennifer won't sell the Clay Tree property. She's always liked you. You know that. But you've never paid much attention to her, have you? Hardly noticed it. But, Frank, the counterman gives you an idea.  And in the weeks that pass, you're most attentive. She's pleased, isn't she, Russ? Until one night as you stop by the house to pick her up. Hello, Jen. Well, not ready yet. I thought we were going out to dinner. Come in, Russ. I'll only be a moment. Sure. I've had a visitor. Oh? Anyone I know? Competition plan? Hardly. My caller was Mr. Carson. Carson? Yes. He told me he'd made you an offer for the Clay Tree property. Is that right? Yes, that's right. And you turned it down? Yes, I did. Why wasn't I consulted about this? Well, I didn't think it was necessary. Didn't you? Well, now look, Jennifer. Oh, I know. You just naturally assumed it because and Alvira and the tree, I'd turned down Carson, too. Of course. Well, you're wrong. What? I've accepted Mr. Carson's offer. You've accepted? Yes. A very generous offer, I think. But the tree, he'll have it taken down. I timed someone, did. Oh, you can't mean that. I most certainly do. I never dare tell Alvira, but that tree, that horrible plaque, the whole idea of it. Well, I think it's perfectly hideous. Now, Jennifer, listen to me. It's no use. I've made up my mind. I know Alvira thought very highly of you, Russ. Listen to your advice. I intend to do the same. In all matters, except this. I insist the Clay Tree property be sold. I see. Mr. Carson will be expecting your call in the morning. I want you to handle all of the details. Of course. Well, I'd drop the matter, shall we? It seems hopeless, doesn't it, Russ? You're certain you can't talk Jennifer into changing her mind. Carson's won. He'll have the tree chopped down immediately. And unless you can recover the damning evidence against you first, its fall will reveal your guilt. You spend a sleepless night trying to think of a quick way out. Following day, you're in your office when a visitor calls. It's Jace Devlin, Alvira Clay's attorney. I found you in, Russ. Why, something wrong, Jace? I've just heard some rather disturbing news. Oh? The talk around town is that George Carson is going to buy the Clay Tree property. Well, yes, that's right. I tried to talk Jennifer out of it, but she... She can't sell, you know. What? According to the terms of Alvira Clay's will, Jennifer cannot sell that property. She can't sell? That's right. It was Alvira's way of making certain nothing would happen to that tree. Jace. Jace Devlin, are you sure? Of course I am. Throughout the will myself. I'm surprised Jennifer didn't know about it. She...she can't sell. Something amusing, Russ. I'm certainly certain I can't sell, Russ. According to Jace Devlin, and he ought to know, he drew up the will for your aunt. Oh, I see. I gather you didn't bother to read the will yet. Oh, no, I didn't see any reason why I should. I knew, and Alvira had left everything to me, and... Well, that I suppose. No sale. No sale. If you'll excuse me now, I'd better look up Carson and tell him it's all off. Oh, won't you stay for lunch? Uh, better now to have a busy day. All right. Will I see you tonight? Afraid not, Jen. I'm going to be busy then, too. Oh, I see. I'll phone you tomorrow, though, Jen. Yes. Do that. The tree is temporarily safe, isn't it, Russ? And time is on your side again. Soon the tree will be forgotten, deserted. And you can do whatever is necessary to get your gun and letters out, even chop into it. Jennifer isn't important now. You hurry back to your office. Put in a call to George Carson. He's disappointed when you tell him the deal is off. But then something he says sends a wave of fear sweeping over you. The sale was on, and I wanted to get started right away. You sent Hank Thomas out to chop down the clay tree? Yes, he's probably out there now. I just got started. The tree isn't going to be chopped down. But Mr. Carson said... Never mind what Carson said, the deal is off. I just talked to him on the phone. The sale is off, huh? That's right. How about that $5 he pays me? You can keep it. Well, that's fine with me. You know, I was just thinking I should have charged him $10 at least. He's a bigger job than I thought. Well, I guess I might as well get on back to the house. Now, wait a minute, wait a minute. You're not going to leave the tree half chopped like this, are you? Why not? Well, there's a storm coming up. You better do something about propping it. Oh, I don't think that'll be necessary, Mr. Carson. As you can see, I didn't chop very deep into the trunk. I don't want to take any chances. Well, whatever you say. I'll get some rope from the house and... Let me see. I could loop a rope around that top branch, anchor it with a stake in the ground over there, and then I could do the same thing on the other side. Yes, yes, yes. I think that'll do fine. Will you get started, Hank? Sure thing, Mr. Thompson. A few minutes later, Hank returns with several long coils of rope and two iron hooks. Passing the hooks to the topmost branch and then climbs down to draw the ropes tight around some heavy stakes. All secure, Hank? Well, if you ought to hold fine, Mr. Thompson, in the morning I'll see what I can do about something more permanent. Maybe put a jacket or seaman around the base of the tree. Just send me the bill when you've finished, Hank. Right. Well, I'll see you later, Mr. Thompson. I got some chores to tend to.  You watch Hank start away down the hill.  The ropes and iron hooks he'd fasten near the top of the tree to fish your gun in the packet of the Anderson Girls' letters from the Hollow Tree trunk. The first real chance you've had. It'll be easy, won't it? First! It's Jase Devill, Alvira's attorney. You know you must find a way to get rid of him quickly. The wind is increasing in fury and... you're not certain the tree can withstand the pressure of the storm after Hank's chopping into the trunk. And until the evidence against you is removed from the tree, the letters destroyed in the gun disposal will always be a threat to you. Hello, Jase. Hi, Ruff. You're worried about the tree? Well, I thought... I thought it best to take certain precautions. Of course. I must say you've shown great concern over the welfare of the clay tree, Ruff. Well, yes, but you see, I... I felt a certain responsibility, Jase. After all, I should have checked with you before okaying Jennifer's sale to cost. I understand, my boy. I understand. Well, I guess I'll get back to the house, Russ. Coming along? Uh, no, not right away. The wind's rising. I want to see how those ropes hold. I'll be along. All right. Don't think you have to worry, though. I say the old clay tree's going to stand for a long time. Yes. Yes, it does seem that way. Because so many tires these days claim to have some kind of guarantee. Tonight I'd like to point out the difference in tire guarantees. Point out the extra protection you get in the double guarantee on Lee tires. 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The news of the tragedy spread quickly and the townspeople flocked hurriedly to the scene. A wind swept hill, a twisted misshapen tree silhouetted against the sky. Exactly how the accident happened was not quite clear to them. But one thing was, the clay tree had claimed another victim. The one man in the position to guess what might have happened, Attorney Jayce Devlin, told his story to the sheriff. When I left, Russ Thompson was standing right here, sheriff. He was worried about the tree standing against the storm. I figured he was going to climb up, tighten things up a bit. I guess that's what he did, all right. Up at the house, I came back, and there he was, up there swinging at the end of the rope, by his neck. From where the rope is hanging over the limb, it looks as though he climbed the tree, unfastened the hook, and was bringing it down to fasten it lower down on the tree. He must have tried to throw the rope over that other limb there and slipped. I guess that's how the rope got tangled around his neck as he fell. That's the way it must have happened. Too bad. All right. The pity of it is that the very tree he was trying so hard to protect, for albira clay's sake, finally hang him. Let that whistle be your signal for the signal oil program The Whistler each Sunday night at the same time. Meantime, signal oil company and the friendly independent dealers who help you go farther with signal gasoline hope you'll remember. Regardless of what gasoline you use, you'll enjoy more miles of happy driving. If you drive at sensible speeds, obey traffic regulations, and avoid taking chances.  Featured in tonight's story were Bill Foreman as The Whistler, Larry Dobkin, Jean Bates, Herb Butterfield, Parley Baer, George Niece, and Britt Wood. The Whistler was produced and directed by George W. Allen, with story by Adrian Jaundau, music by Wilbur Hatch, and was transmitted overseas by the Armed Forces Radio Service. 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Hello, and welcome to this very simple Sun Salutations practice here on Gnostic TV. I'm so, so happy that you clicked on this video. The Sun Salutations are a key element of the traditional yoga practice. In Sanskrit, this is said as Surya Namaskar. Many people in the Western world confuse the Sun Salutations. They believe that the Sun Salutations are a form of sun worship, but that is not true. The Sun is basically an emblem, a symbol, or a mascot for the pranic energy within the human body. The pranic energy, or the chi, is the life force within the human body, and Namaskar, or Namaste, is basically just a greeting. So Surya Namaskar basically translates into warming up the body, creating life force friction sweat in the body. In the traditional workings of yoga, we have Surya Namaskar A and Surya Namaskar B. In Surya Namaskar A, there are nine vinyasas. In Surya Namaskar B, there are 17 vinyasas. Vinyasa basically means a choreographed movement with breath, an on-purpose movement with breath. The inhalation is correlated directly to the pranic arising energy, the sun energy of the body, as the exhalation is correlated to the aponic or lowering energy in the body. We will do a video very soon on this series where we explain all of this in great detail, the energy that you're working with, the pranic, the aponic, the hatha energy that is working within the body that you are actually juggling within physical exercise. Now, as always, please, please, please be very careful, please speak to your doctor before you're doing this or any other exercise routine. In my opinion, the sun salutations are some of the greatest exercises that we can do. Sun salutations themselves can be their own workout, their own practice. However, I tend to use them if I'm not doing my Phalaunashtanga practice that day. I tend to use sun salutations as my warm-up. If I'm doing a bar class or a movement class, I always start with the sun salutations because there's such an incredible way to really, really warm the body up. But again, if you're new to exercise, this can be your just your own workout for this day. And again, be easy on yourself, watch your mind. When your mind gets frustrated, just observe it, acknowledge it and try to stay. Try to go a little bit further. If you have any questions about the sun salutations or any other topic in this series, please feel free to reach out to me at GnosticTVBrice at gmail.com. I hope you guys have a wonderful, wonderful practice. To watch this show and get access to all shows on the GnosticTV network, just click the link in the description below.


This is part of a series of videos on diet and longevity. Last time we talked about caloric restriction, eating fewer calories than normal. That's tough to keep up, so many people prefer an easier sounding alternative, intermittent fasting. But does intermittent fasting work? And if so, how should you do it? Stick around to find out. Welcome to X10, your one-stop YouTube show for all things life extension. Learn the science, keep up with new research, and live longer and healthier. To get updates from X10, click the red button below to subscribe. And don't forget to hit the bell icon and select all notifications. The idea behind intermittent fasting comes from the fact that rodents in caloric restriction experiments quickly ate all of the food they were given. That meant that they weren't just getting fewer calories, their eating pattern also changed to a single large meal followed by a long fast. So the improvements in these experiments might have been because of the reduction in calories, or because of the unusual eating pattern. To find out, scientists did experiments to separate the effect of fasting from eating fewer calories. For example, animals would be allowed to eat as much as they want, but only during a window of a few hours a day. The rest of the time, they had to fast. Broadly speaking, experiments with nematodes, fruit flies, and rodents showed that many of the health and lifespan benefits of caloric restriction also happened on a fasting diet. Yeah, broadly speaking. Why can't the answer ever be as simple, this just works? Well, biology is complicated. In mice, one study found that the effect of intermittent fasting depended on how old the mice were when it started. In fruit flies, one fasting diet increased lifespan, but another didn't. That's the other complication. What exactly is intermittent fasting? There are lots of different ways to do it, and different experiments use different approaches. For example, alternate day fasting means eating normally one day, and then fasting or eating very little the next day. But there are also diets with a different number of fasting or feasting days. The fruit flies which lived longer were on a 2-5 diet, 2 days feasting, 5 days fasting. The diet that didn't work for fruit flies was a time-restricted diet, unlimited food during part of the day, and nothing for the rest of the day. Even though they didn't live longer, another experiment showed that a similar diet improved the flies' muscle performance and lessened age-related cardiac dysfunction. None of that changes the fact that, as we've said before, fruit flies aren't humans. And even though the results in flies and mice and rats and nematodes are complex enough to be a bit unclear, the overall trend is encouraging. But the real question is, what is the effect of intermittent fasting in humans? Unfortunately, we don't have a good answer to that. Like the experiments in model animals, human studies pick from a smorgasbord of intermittent fasting diets, so it's hard to generalize. The studies are also often limited to a specific group of people. For example, intermittent fasting seems to reduce weight and improve the health of overweight and obese people, but it's not clear if that holds true for people who aren't overweight or obese. A different study found that eating one meal a day led to a reduction in fat mass, but it also an increase in blood pressure and LDL and HDL cholesterol. There might also be differences related to sex, age, or general fitness, and all of this variability is compounded by the fact that human studies generally have small sample sizes and run for only a short while, usually a few weeks or months. The logic behind intermittent fasting is appealing. The idea is that a long period of fasting causes your body to flip a metabolic switch, shifting its energy source to stored fat instead of sugar. That switch affects lots of other pathways, and there's even evidence that it could reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. That sounds great, but it's still too soon to say whether it actually works. We need large randomized control trials to test the effect of intermittent fasting, and we need to agree on which diet to try. That's all for now. If you'd like to get notified about new X10 videos, subscribe and remember to click the little bell icon. And don't forget to like the video and share it if you found it useful. Once again, a big thanks to all the lifespan heroes. This show is possible thanks to their crowdfunding support. If you'd like to become a lifespan hero to support X10 and Lifespan.io, head over to lifespan.io slash hero and make a pledge.


All right everybody day three just back from lunch Everyone's excited full looking forward to dinner tonight for all you attendees. Sorry everyone out there.  We have a great treat for you guys here speaking on the three Pillars of seductive success Australia's number one attraction coach James Marshall Good afternoon gentlemen. How are we all?  That's very good. One thing I've noticed is that anywhere that was colonized by the British empire Tends to have issues with picking up girls Have you noticed that there's uh very little in the way of seduction coaching going on in france and spain and portugal and brazil Uh, there's there's a reason why we're not going to set up business over there because we would Be having way too much fun and be out of business real quick um I'll give you an example this I was dating a a french model for some time and uh, she had to go back to france uh to attend to some team And uh, she was calling me from a public phone box We were chatting away and then I hear this scuffling noise This is and then there's a man's voice out on a horse admission And I hear her speaking And I'm like what the fuck's going on and she said oh, it's uh, it's okay a man Just pushed his way into the cubicle and said you have a charming I would like to take you out on dinner and I was just there like He did what?  He's like What do you do?  He's like, but then she'd know that I'm like Now she knows and it was he had this epiphany.  We have one seduction technique Now I do not necessarily endorse this technique because it's ugly, but it works.  It's it's brutal, but it works Whereas the um polite gentleman who goes up and has a pleasant chat about um topics and interests and so on Goes basically nowhere For a number of reasons which we'll get into Now when I'm teaching what is what is called natural seduction? Okay, so now I definitely was not always natural at this and this is Something a lot of guys think when they meet me because I'm very confident. I'm charismatic I know how to look people in the eye and fuck them in the brain with my eye contact Uh that I was always that way But I definitely wasn't I'm self-taught natural and the and I've hung out with a lot of guys who are way better than me when it comes to picking up girls um You know, I'm voted Australia's best dating coach and best natural Using a uh an election process that's similar to an African election, I guess Um, not necessarily indicative of the actual realities, but I'm definitely the best dating coach when it comes to natural game Because the difference between me and some of my friends is that they don't know how or why it works And so they'll say things like What was one beautiful quote? Man Fuck whole that was that was like the entire Um description of of the the method and for a natural that's that's all it is It's because anything else that doesn't go without reality doesn't exist And anyone who doesn't understand that it's it seems very very confusing But I went through a very long and arduous process to get to the point where what I do is freeform and natural But because I was able to go through that entire process I understand the stages that all you guys are at and will be at in the future Which is the advantage in my my teaching So let me tell you a little bit about the genesis of me as as a great ladies man um Was anyone here bullied at school?  Oh And look at him now. We all want to talk to him Okay, I was I was savagely bullied at school because Um, I was quite good at music classical music as a as a young man and I went to a very sporty school And my mother read a book called the right instrument for your child And uh, it was based on you know, your physique And your temperament and and then they would choose an instrument for you And this would be the right one for you apparently due to the fact that I was wave-like and nervous the flute Was the right instrument for her child Which as you all know is one of the sexiest and manliest instruments available And so I studied the flute and I became quite good at it And as a result I got beaten up a lot at school Because I didn't fucking like that because that's a poof as instrument and instruments in general poof There's a bit definitely the flute one is a poof instrument and so I went home to my mother and you know, I was crying because you know with my flute bent and and bruised and so on Like the guys beat me up, but she's like, you know what you should just hit them back I'm like all right. I'm gonna do that. So the the next afternoon or the next time a group of large savage Australian kids came at me. I went To one of them and then they beat me up a lot harder And so it didn't really work But what I did do then is I did seek out martial arts teachers I decided that originally I got into it because I wanted to learn how to not get beat up so much Because this knows if it ever gets broken is going to ruin my beautiful face And I kind of afford that because then I'd have to rely on my charm and um So I started doing martial arts at a young age And this along with music became my obsession And I was lucky enough to find some very very traditional Shaolin kung fu teachers in in Australia believe it or not and Decided to follow that and see where it would lead me Now I'm going to be talking a little bit later about lifestyle design because I think that's an area that tends to get neglected in this field And it's one of the best ways to get laid to have awesome experiences to create opportunities in your life Is to engineer a lifestyle that is attractive because then it becomes a machine for drawing people into you It's not the only thing that you have to do you have to you do need to know how to be able to go out there Meet strangers on the street or wherever it is and draw them into your life But if you don't have an amazing life to draw them into if they're I hate to say this word high value If they're women with high self-esteem that lots of people want to be around then they want to be around guys Who've got something going on? so many years later I I went to china to study chinese medicine and If you want to if you want to study at Shaolin temple if you want to study kung fu there You you can't just rock up. You can't just turn up and go teach me There's there's a very very strict process.  She's like, yeah, sure Hey True. All right, I'll just make up chinese words All right She said where are you going and I said i'm going to the mountain And she said no no no come and stay at my place and then she and then when we're halfway there Then she like said it's going to be very expensive, which is you know, good chinese businesswoman And um asking me what asking me what I do.  She ran off and then five minutes later coming down the mountain was The Chao who Is the monk that I had always dreamed to to meet And he's he's my height a huge mongolian with a massive beard and carrying a monk spade Which is this huge thing with blades on either end just like in a movie walking down the road.  He looked me in the eyes and asked me that and in that moment I had the choice I could say well You know, I just came to check it out.  I wanted that more than anything else And I found myself by good karma or some circumstances or whatever it was in a situation where I had one shot And so straight away I called my teacher back in Australia and I explained look I'm being offered to train tomorrow morning with The chow and I know I'm not supposed to be here, but he's like all right.  Are you guys being yourselves right now? Something they're like, I don't know am I just getting all too existential for me We're always being ourselves, but what we're actually not being is we're not being all of ourselves And we have generally a fairly limited idea of what it is to be ourselves I always tell guys find out what else you are Because you're an infinite being with amazing potential you can try and be and do anything There are all sorts of behaviors that maybe you haven't tried yet which you can which you can try out And that's why when I got guys coming in saying well, I you know, I I like the idea of direct, but that's just not me Well, I like the idea of sort of letting go of the lines and sort of being more natural But I just feel like that's not really me That's bullshit. That's simply that you haven't experienced that part of yourself yet And sure there will be some things that are not you But as other speakers have said we'll test that out a few times and see where it takes you


For more videos on people's struggles, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. Welcome to People's Dispatch. I'm so happy today to be joined by Roger Waters. Roger, there's a lot of conflicting reports about what's happening in Cuba. We know that there are great moves being made by the United States government to once again, once again, after six decades to try to overthrow the Cuban Revolution. What are your thoughts or feelings about Cuba and what has Cuba meant for you? Cuba has always been a great figurehead in the struggle against American imperialism. They have held out, since they got rid of Baptista and the American-led and run dictatorship, that they have managed to stay there, a thorn in the side of the Monroe Doctrine and everything else that's bad about United States imperialism. I was watching a TV, I think it was the beginning part of a series, very, very moving, about one of the massacres in 1982 in Guatemala. You can't talk about Guatemala in 1982 without talking about Cuba and about Cuba's leadership to Honduras, Guatemala, or Nicaragua, Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela, all of these Latin American countries who have been attempting to govern themselves on principles of egality and fraternity and liberty. Along with Santo Domingo, obviously, Haiti, and we're seeing the same effing thing happening again in Haiti now, American interference to try and maintain the stranglehold of big business north of the border on that island as well. But Fidel Castro and the Revolution and the people of Cuba, the good people of Cuba in their steadfast struggle, not only have resisted the attempts by the United States and some of them crude, crude invasions, the Bay of Pigs being the most notable example, but they have spread their enduring love for their brothers and sisters all over the globe in small and large ways, whether it was in West Africa, where they actually sent troops back in 1970 whenever it was. I don't know, so Cuba has been immensely important and now, of course, a lot of the medical help in the COVID pandemic that has been going over the world came from Cuba because they train a lot of doctors and they train doctors with big hearts. I'm not saying that they're the only country, there are doctors from all kinds of Western countries as well, but in Cuba, it's enshrined almost in their constitution that this is who they are and this is what they do. But the fact of the matter is, as you know and as you said that Cuba has stood as a beacon of hope against really suffocation and during the pandemic, the United States government has intensified the blockade. Trump put 243 new gripping sanctions against Cuba and so there's been a real social impact of these sanctions, this blockade. At the same time, a wave of the pandemic has kicked in on the island and there was some protests on Sunday against the situation. Immediately, the US government said that, yes, go out on the streets and overthrow the government. They attempted to make it into a rebellion. Biden made a statement saying, go and fight for freedom and the Cuban president Miguel Diaz Canel went out on the streets and met people and said, look, we are facing a serious challenge, but let's not convert a social problem into a political problem. And in fact, around the world, there's a lot of confusion because people are saying, oh, maybe the government needs to be overthrown. How casual people are with their language, maybe the government should be overthrown, not 11 million people, but people outside like Biden deciding like the Pope, which government should be excommunicated. Well, they've almost had their way in many countries. So they've succeeded in the Philippines and in Honduras and probably now again in Guatemala, but they have failed in Perú and they have failed in Nicaragua and they have failed in Venezuela with the weight of the IMF and the Treasury and the printing of dollars and the blah blah blah, but they have failed to overthrow the will of the people. Hopefully they will fail in Chile as well in the upcoming presidential elections there and in the rewriting of the constitution to give the people of Chile more of a chance of developing a society more like Cuba. Of course, they want to get rid of it because imagine Cuba without having to live under the jackboot of American international financial muscle like Cuba has had to since its inception and like Venezuela has had to for the last 20 years and like Nicaragua has to, you know, how they have to fight against this huge weight of money pouring in all the time and also pouring into the mainstream media all over the world explaining how these countries are communists and they're disgusting and the people are imprisoned and blah blah blah, but we all know what thank goodness. I mean, thanks somewhat to the people's dispatch, obviously, and globetrotter and the work that you do and some other things. I mentioned RT recently, there are people who are trying to say, whoa, hold on a minute, can we have a grown-up conversation about some of this and actually look at the reality of what goes on in the world and fight our way through it and eventually figure out in a sanguine fashion how to come up with collective and responsible programs in order to alleviate the sufferings of our brothers and sisters all over the world and that's what we're trying to do and to some extent we're succeeding. So if I was a betting man, I would bet that there are economic problems in Cuba and I would bet that some of the people are suffering and wondering even where maybe probably not whether the next meal's coming from, but you know, why they haven't got a TV set or something, I've no idea what it might be. I'm sure that may be the case, but if you hand the country back to the gangsters, back to the mob, back to the United States government who has a history of doing nothing but rape and pillage, wherever it is in the world, will the situation be better for the people? No, it won't. Any more than it would be better for the people if you gave them Venezuela, which they desperately want, because they want the oil and they want all the other minerals. They want the lithium, they want the this, the that, the other, they want all the stuff that's under the ground and they want to come and steal it and they can do that if they allow the Spanish or the Portuguese or the English or the Germans or the Belgium, so whoever it might be, whoever the colonial master, if they let them go on running the show, they can do business with them and as Raoul Peck, have you seen his new series? It's excellent. I highly recommend it. I'm glad you watched it. Yeah, Exterminate the Brutes. Yeah, Exterminate all the Brutes is what it's called by the way. I got that wrong when I was talking about it the other day, so it's called Exterminate all the Brutes and yeah, everybody, you have to watch this documentary. It's fundamental to all of our lives and our understanding. So yeah, what else should we talk about? Well, I wanted to ask you a personal question about this. Could you reflect a little bit on when something like Cuba or Cuba itself came onto your consciousness? When did you first start thinking about Cuba and in what way? Well, I probably started thinking about it a lot before many other people do because I was, you know, after school, my mother used to take me to British China Friendship Association meetings in the Friends Meeting House in Cambridge and whatever. So I used to sit in the cold on the hard wooden floor and watch grainy eight millimeter movies of the people struggle against the puppet government of the Japanese and so I watched all those movies of the Great March in 1948. Well, in 1948, I was five, so the films must have started coming out soon after that. So maybe when I was seven or eight or whatever, sometime like that. So Cuba would have been the name of a country that was on the lips of people like my mother who were members of the Communist Party in England and stayed with the Communist Party in England up until 1956. When to a man and woman, they all left and the Communist Party almost disappeared in England simply because it refused to condemn the Russian invasion of Hungary, which it did. It refused. It said, well, Uncle Joe can do no wrong, you know. And luckily enough, there was enough heart and soul in the body politic of the car. No, well in the body of the people who were who were card-carrying members of the party in England that they went, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Which does some huge credit, people like my mum. But Cuba was always there, you know, from whenever it was. When was Baptista gone in 1959? Yeah, there you go. And so it wasn't long after that that our friend, you know, Ray McGovern was sitting in the cabinet room as an advisor to John Kennedy and we came within a hair of all being emulated in a proper nuclear war over Cuba, the missile crisis. And so, okay, so before 1959, all I knew was that it was a Caribbean island run by gangsters and despots. It was run by a despotic dictatorship, the Baptista regime. But the basically, all the pieces were moved by the mob. And how wonderful that the Cuban people had their revolution. And they have now, at least they've had a chance to build a society that is, to some extent, egalitarian, or maybe completely, I've no idea, because I've never been, it's been hard to travel there because of the blockade. And so that's Roger, this is interesting, because when your memoir comes out, and it's going to come out soon, and it's going to be an international bestseller, you and I are going to travel together to Havana, to the Havana Book Fair, and we shall do a big event under the stars, talking about your life in Cuba, to the Cuban people who you know, they are going to not allow their process to be detailed. So what do you think about that? Yeah, I would love to do that. I'm trying to remember the name of the documentary that I recently watched about Cuba, extraordinarily eloquent, but brilliantly kind of colorful and deeply, deeply moving, heartwarming documentary about contemporary Havana, which still obviously, you know, utopia is still a way off. Let us put it that way. And, you know, it's interesting, would we want to live there or not? I sort of don't know. I don't, I know I don't want to live in God's heaven. You know, I wrote this piece in my memoir, the other, I shouldn't really say this, but I'm going to, which was a sort of a bit of a, a little bit of a joke at the expense of parts of Roman Catholicism. And it says about, it's like asking a question of a nun and saying, well, how much fun is it being married to a dead bloke like Jesus? And her answer, of course, is none. N-U-N. It's quite, it's quite a good new use of her name, you know. And I know you're, you're chuckling now, which is a very good thing because so am I.  I think it's just called Oscar. Anyway, it's searching for the survivors of the Dos Aires massacre in Guatemala in December 1982. I think it was in December. And as you know, they, they, they went into this village because there had been an ambush on some government killers and then stolen 23 rifles. So they went in and they slaughtered 200 people and threw them all in a well, all of them, men, women, children, babies, everybody, boom, all together. And they've been, they exhumed them slowly over, after, you know, once, once there was a change of, of, of government. And I can't name you the year, but it's incredibly moving. And they found two survivors who had been adopted. So it's like, oh, it's the same story that I've been involved in in Argentina with the Disaparacidos, you know, and the madres, the Cinco Mile and, and their extraordinary work in finding the children of dead patriots and, and activists who, who the hunter and the servants of the hunter kidnapped back in the, you know, back in the days when the colonels were in Georgia and Argentina and took them and just stole the babies and brought them up. And they found hundreds of them with DNA testing and whatever. And obviously then the problems begin. You tell some kid who thinks his father is this army officer and says, no, your father would, they killed him.   It's all the same story over and over and over again, you know. And it's the same story from the Argentinian child to the Native American child in Canada. I mean, also taken from a family raised in this way that bodies found in, you know, shallow graves and, you know, the way we're saying, do we want to return to these thugs? I think that's the question in Cuba now is that, okay, we are suffering a problem because of the blockade, but do we want to return to the thugs and look at that choice? I mean, God, well, you would be choosing, exterminate all the brutes. And guess what? You're the brutes. He's quite, Raul Peck in his documentary, where he's completely clear about it because of course, he's Haitian. His roots are in Haiti or whatever.  And so he never, he never adopted his given position as being one of the brutes. He was thought, whoa, hold on a minute, this doesn't sit right. That's why he was able to make that amazing documentary with James Baldwin. I am not your Negro. He's a remarkable filmmaker, I think. But yeah, this is all global.  And it's all masters ruling class trying to maintain control, holding sacred, not holding sacred human life, holding their lives sacred. And maybe their children, maybe their wives and children as well. But nobody else, no worker, no native, no indigenous person anyway, they are worthless. They are all the brutes. Amazing. When those things, I mean, I read, I lay awake nights when I was reading the Leopold Bloody Book about the Belgian Congo, which I read about 15 years ago or something. You'd go, oh, they did that. Oh my God, they did that. All for a bit of rubber. Wow. Generation after generation of children with no bloody hands, you know, because they did the wrong thing or because they didn't work fast enough or quickly enough. And you go, wow, only just now, only just now are a few of the descendants of the real brutes who did all of that, beginning to come out of the woodwork. Just occasionally one will pop their head out and go, I'm sorry. What? Speak up. It's amazing, isn't it? It is amazing. Roger Waters, thanks a lot. We're keeping Cuba in our thoughts and hopefully we won't return to the gangsters' paradise of the past. Thanks a lot for that. Not at all. Thank you for having me as usual.


Hi, I'm George Kau and I am a recovering affiliate marketer. Let me explain. In the first couple years of my business, I made a lot of money doing affiliate marketing. This was how I made most of my money in the first couple years, like probably 90% of it. And what I mean by affiliate marketing is there are other people who have already built audiences, they built it different ways that would probably love your product or service or program. And instead of, or in addition to you building your own audience, why don't you just go to other people who already have audiences and ask them to promote your product or service or program and in return you pay them a commission based on the sales. So that's what affiliate marketing basically is. I made most of my money from 2009 to 2012 of doing it that way. Now, I burned out. Why did I burn out and why did I eventually talk, stand against affiliate marketing? And I'll tell you about that and then I'll tell you why I'm back to a more moderate position and what I think authentic affiliate marketing is. Okay, so why I burned out is that the affiliate marketing world is very shark-like. It's very money-driven. It's all about not leaving money on the table. You got to make every possible scent possible because if somebody clicks on a link and you're just promoting somebody else without getting a commission, then you should be getting a commission for it and everything should be monetized. And the problem I have with that is, well, now I've realized the problem there was I was so greedy and so fearful and so money-driven that I was really looking at my audience as, oh, I'm going to have a bigger audience so I can get to make more money by them hearing my endorsements and clicking on my link. And it just started to feel very graspy. It's like always chasing and always not enough and no, don't want to leave money on the table. Well, I burned out because the relationships I was making in that industry was not genuine. We were just promoting each other. We didn't really care about each other's businesses. We never even really used each other's product. We couldn't even wholeheartedly vouch for each other's product. We were just promoting it for the money, for the audience growth and it wasn't genuine friendships. And you might say, well, this is business. No, no, no. I do business very differently now. I actually have business friends who actually care about me. I care about them. We occasionally promote each other, but most of our money is made selling our own products now, selling our own thing to our own audience. OK, so let me, this is why I burned out. This is why I kind of stood against affiliate marketing, also the price. So let me tell you the principles now of authentic affiliate marketing. I'm working these out right now. I'm open to your feedback and your suggestions. But the first principle is that you've got to be able to wholeheartedly vouch for somebody's product or service. So either you have used it and you really benefited from it personally, or you've had a lot of clients use it. And they all say this is really worthwhile and therefore you can honestly say to your audience, even though I haven't used it, my clients have and I thought you all should know about it. OK, so that's the first principle. Second principle is that you should let people know that you're getting an affiliate commission for it. And this is not just a principle, it's also the law. It's just part of the FTC legal because of the fact is we're all human beings and we are all susceptible to financial incentives. So if I am vigorously promoting something and I didn't tell you I was getting paid to do it, you know, am I being, there is no such thing as pure, there's no such thing as pure endorsement when you're getting paid for something because it's just it just it brings that picture in and it's OK to say, listen, I'm making money on this and you could say it in an authentic way. So for example, you could say, I believe in this product. I really believe in it. I've used it myself for my clients. I've used it and I've decided that I want to promote it now and become one of their affiliates. So they're a sponsor. You can call them a sponsor for your, you know, for your blog or for whatever or for your channel or for your, you know, they're a sponsor. Or you could say, hey, listen, when you buy the product through my link, right, you pay the same price as everybody else or maybe you even get a discount and in return, they pay me something if you end up buying it. So you're also supporting my business as well and I want to thank you for that, right. So you can do it that way. And so that's second principle, just be transparent about the commission you're receiving third is to wholeheartedly vouch for that other company's marketing that your audience is going to be seeing. Because if you're promoting somebody and they're joining someone's email list and you don't know what it's like to be that part of a person's email list, that might be a really bad experience. They might be using a lot of hype and scarcity and manipulation that you wouldn't vouch for, that you wouldn't want your audience to associate you with. But if you haven't joined that person's email list and experienced it yourself, how can you know, right? So you got to vouch for that person's marketing. Oh, okay, next principle is to only sparsely use affiliate marketing. Don't let it be a huge part of your finances because or I should say don't be promoting a lot of products. You can promote one product and make a lot of money from it, that's okay. But I think promoting a lot of products makes you look untrustworthy. You end up looking like a salesman. Like I don't know when to trust you because every link you have is an affiliate link. So you're incentivized by everything. Like you see what I mean? So for my, for example, if you go to my website and go to my tools page on my website, I have a list of dozens of tools that I use in my business. Software websites I use and I put at the top there. I used to have affiliate links for a bunch of these, but I'd taken all the affiliate links out. Now they're non-affiliate links. I promote them because I use them myself and I believe in them and I want their companies to succeed. That's it. Yes, I'm probably losing out on tens of thousands of dollars a year in not putting affiliate links there, but it's worth it to me because I have an audience that trusts me so much so that when I sell my own thing, my audience buys very eagerly and when I occasionally sell someone else's thing and I'm transparent, my audience also buys. That is worth way more than the $20,000 I could earn a year from having affiliate links on my website. So it is a good thing to leave money on the table. You have to, the trade-off is trust. So you have to look at the trade-off and see what's more worthwhile to you. To me it's trust and the trust has a long-term, huge long-term benefit from my business, but also just for my heart. It's just better for my heart. So, and then the final principle is that when it comes to your own income, if possible, sorry, when it comes to your own products, your own products, try not to make most of the products you create yourself and sell out there. If most of it is sold through affiliates and they're taking a huge chunk, like they're taking 50%, then the price of your product is inflated by definition because you're only getting 50% back and you are therefore really only able to deliver 50% of the value. Whereas when I sell most of my income from the products I sell that I've created myself, I earn 100% of it. So I'm incentivized to deliver you that 100% of the value. When I use affiliates to promote anything, I'm doing it because they're friends of mine and I want to support them financially. I want to give them 50%, even though I'm taking a lot less money than I would sell it myself. I want to help them out and they give me access to a new audience that I didn't have otherwise. So anyway, I hope these principles make sense. If you want more, I'm running out of time with this 10 minute limit on Instagram, but if you want more, go to my website, georgcal.com slash blog slash JV. JV stands for joint venture. georgcal.com slash blog slash JV and there's a whole long blog poster about all this stuff. I hope this helps and any comments, of course I'm always welcome and open to it. Take care. Thank you.