Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Evergreen Open Plan meeting. So weekly meeting that we have to every week at that hour roughly. Even when there's no time zone changes. So this week, I'm going to handle the thing. I'm going to just start sharing my screen right away on that. Oh, I can't do that. You haven't made a share screen? Oh, no, you got it. Yeah, I was trying to share a single screen, but for whatever reason with I3 wasn't working on that one. Anyway, that's a big issue. So I guess let's get started with you, Mandy. How was the week and how? Well, I've only been minimally involved right now. So I am working on fixing the bad tests that you pointed out to me. Good job. By the way, where is, why did that happen? Appear here? To take off the exclude clothes, it's one of those weird gear things. Oh, because of the fact it was fixed and then back to in progress, but it's taking in account probably the fixed thing. I have to get rid of that state. It's very frustrating. I think you can, but you have to reopen probably instead of just getting it back. Where is it? It doesn't matter. I'm working on fixing that and I will have it fixed and checked back in today. So that's that basically for people watching it. So that was not the one, by the way, it was more that one. So it just showed up. Okay, because it's closed here. Okay, it's really weird. Anyway, right. So great. Thank you. Anything else? Not right now. Thank you. The make check fails on macOS. Take it that you've got Mandy. Why don't we just unassign that and maybe we can convince somebody, somebody else in the Jenkins project to help with that? Because I know Batiste and I don't have max. Yeah, I'll go ahead and unassign the ones that I'm not going to get to you anytime soon. And please somebody else feel super motivated to pick them up. I'm sure there are plenty of people who want to fight with doctor on macOS. Really? No, it's going to require a significant resectoring of how we're doing doctor because everything from Mac has to be explicitly spelled out. And the last time I went down that road, it broke my head. I wonder how long and hard it would be to fix it now because I have never tried it, but I remember in the very beginning, so it was less convoluted in a way, had less tests and setups and everything. I remember Nicola Delov fixed the make check that wasn't working on macOS for some time, but I guess it's failed. It's now failing again for some other reason. So yeah, so yeah, last week and I spent the same thing and same time last week actually unassigning myself too. So now I think we have a bunch of things that are supposedly planned for my stone too, but that aren't assigned. So anyone watching, feel free to reach out. So for context, we have also tagged many of those as newbie friendly, which is the things you probably want or can dig into if you're interested into a hacktoberfest. But if it's not tagged this way, I mean, someone can still reach out to us and get guidance that things can be tackled because, well, we are pretty much very, very eager to have people. So we'll be welcoming anyone who want to try to give it a go. That's it. Tyler, your turn. Yeah, I'm super behind. Most of my evergreen time has actually been consumed by Daniel as uplink time, fortunately. So I know that Olivier was going to take a look at the read on my database access for y'all. So I think that's, yeah, he's got that in there. I don't know where he is on that. In the info status meeting yesterday, we didn't discuss it because it just completely slipped my mind. Yeah, from what I know, because we've discussed that way, the idea is going to be so there's no possibility to open easily Azure to some set of IPs or something like this. So what he's doing right now is to set up a gateway machine so that we would then make runs in that machine, a Docker image, with pre-provisioned public SSH keys so that people are allowed to go and to reach out to that DB. Their public key would be there and then be allowed to connect to that gateway machine having access to the DB in read only mode. So we really want to make a check here, Mandy, because I provided to Olivier a link to my own pub key. But if you want to do the same, I guess it would possibly help save an iteration there if you get access directly. Okay. So he's got that going on. The only other thing that's say a little bit block-like right now is there's these telemetry analytics and pipeline use of telemetry things. I'm still waiting for the pipeline developers to give me a sense of what they actually want or what they would actually need before moving forward on that. So I'm going to add a flag because these are all kind of blocked. So I guess you mean the 49852, that one? Yeah, there's three of them. And now they all have flags on them. So if you refresh your board, you'll see that. Oh my God, flags. Flags! But in parallel to that, I've been... This is related to this work but also to the uplink work that I've been doing with Daniel. Been researching some other open source projects privacy policies with how they handle the sort of telemetry data. I'm going to go ahead and put the KDE one in the Gitter channel. This is likely what we'll build off of. I think KDE actually has done a pretty good job on this. But this is probably going to be where I'm going to be spending my evergreen time this week is actually forming this into a job and explaining it to people. Because as it stands right now, technically I can grant access to some of the telemetry that we've been collecting and we've got this information going into Century as well as you both know. But we don't have any policies for how that data should be used or expectations set for users on how that data is going to be used. And we need that for both contributors and per-end users before we start putting a lot more, I would say, rich metrics and telemetry into any of our project systems. So did you, for instance, understand a bit more about, for instance, GDPR and the fact that will we be forced to have some kind of when the image is started, you know, some kind of agreement or we'd be in the wizard? For GDPR compliance, I haven't had a conversation with someone specifically about evergreen on that. I think what we are probably going to want to do, regardless of GDPR, is once we have a data retention policy, make that known to the end user. I don't know if we can come up with anything. Personally, I think these are stupid, but I don't think we can necessarily come up with a click OK to acknowledge and to agree to this sort of stuff. I think we have to make that more clear before a user starts evergreen. And once evergreen is up and running, what sort of data is being collected? But I don't know if we can have an explicit OK modal checkbox. The biggest concerns that I have are less about evergreen and more about uplink telemetry and our data retention policy is there. So evergreen, I think, is actually going to be a little bit easier. Uplink is less easy. OK. Policy, that's what I'm hacking this week. It's so much fun. Managerry things? Yes. Anything else? After last week, I know we said, our last meeting, we said, hey, Joe, if you're watching, send us an email. I haven't received an email from Joe. So we don't have any updates on an ECS-based cloud formation template. So there's that. Finally, I understood what you were saying. So you said you received or you didn't receive an email? I didn't. OK, I didn't. OK, I did not. I thought you said I did. OK. Right, right. So we'll probably just do a grip or something to fight all Joe's around San Francisco. I don't know where he was located. That's all just explained to the US. He was an American. So there's some Joe in the United States. That is the Joe we are looking for. Yeah. Indeed, you know some Joe's? Anyway, so I guess that's all or I guess you could talk. Is there anything else you want to talk about, Jenkins in general? I don't know. Not for me. You could. Not today. So I'm going to just hide closed ones where I am here. So the status right now I've got a bit more to talk about than last week, which is dangerous for people watching. So the Evergreen Automated rollback is now in review and almost review that would say about to be mergeable or merged, which is that one on the right. Then there's so this I've segregated two changes here. So that one is really about updating to a new update level and then realizing that Jenkins wouldn't start after it and then actually automatically running back to the previous one, but that doesn't handle any data format change. So if, for instance, that's what I'm now working on, there's something going wrong after an upgrade and something that that format has been upgraded.  That's the other one I'm working on in the very center. So the 57 at the end. But that one is blocked right now kind of, but I'm still moving forward globally on that global story, which is that one basically. What is it blocked on? On that one. Oh, they're just dependent. Yeah. There's a blocked on dependency between that one and that one because basically I'm right now working on something that will make me able to test that my rollback is actually working because then if I don't, then I could just rollback and be happy, but it could just not be working. So I've been spending and getting a bit crazy on that for almost the whole day because believe it or not, I've not been able to crush Jenkins. We were talking about that in the chat just before. I'm maybe going to try another alternative way. Even if I do know some ways, but for some reason I wasn't able to do that, but for instance, working on purpose, the config has got files between... If you need help crashing Jenkins, I know Carl Schultz. I think he might have some ideas for you. Yeah. So my main purpose here is to exercise the one below the 54.057. So basically I want to make sure the snapshot, the data snapshotting system, and so using it as a restore system works. So this is somewhat specific. So what I was trying the whole day was to have some plugin that would change its data format and upgrade from one version to another and then back and have it crash. I think I'm missing something obvious, but the good thing is that I pinged actually people knowing about Jenkins a bit earlier in the day, and JC told me that it wouldn't be easy, so I wasn't getting totally crazy and I would have to go out. Even JC said, well, it's going to be a bit hard. The alternative for doing that actually might be simpler if I go another way, which would be actually by using Docker exec during our tests, breaking or changing some config.js files, because we know also a config.js code is written in a way that it actually crush Jenkins during startup if YAML files are incorrect. So that might be a way, maybe a better way. I'm not sure. Anyway, overall what we want to test is, indeed, if we are to actually be able to, you know, go from one level to the other. For your purposes, what do you need to see from Jenkins to indicate a crash of Jenkins? Let's see it the other way around. I need to not see it. The JEP 306, which describes how hash checking is done, basically, I need the hash checking to be wrong. Okay. If it's not available, does that count as wrong? Yep, because hash checking then will fail after a timeout. So we'll consider that Jenkins is unreachable and then revert all back. So one thing that you might consider trying is with Jenkins, if you have two Jenkins instances running with the same Jenkins home, the Jenkins will fail. And it'll fail to boot. Like, it doesn't even boot properly. So there's some file, and I can't remember which file it is that indicates to Jenkins that it is currently running. It's like a PID file or something like that. For your test, it might be viable to just artificially create that file so that Jenkins thinks that another instance is using that directory. Yeah, that's a good point, though. It might also reveal something we don't cover, because actually I had a look at that code recently, and I don't remember exactly which classes, but I think it was someone asking for it on IRC or something. But basically maybe that file is actually out of the Jenkins home, maybe on top, probably there, yeah. Because I was thinking, because the JEP 302 is only, you know, snapshotting the Jenkins home. So if it's like under the Jenkins var, then things wouldn't be reverted. But yes, that's another alternative idea to actually touch that file. Anyway, I think I'm going to try a few alternatives and should be finding something at some point before the end of the week. By the way, about that, that makes me think on Friday of this week I will be in Copenhagen just for the day to have a talk about... It's the day of Jenkins, isn't it? Yeah. Woohoo! Yeah. What are you presenting? Something about Evergreen. What do you think? Are you not sure yet what you're going to present? No, no, I'm kidding. So it's the day of Jenkins. So that's that thing. And so I am presenting basically Evergreen. I know some of these faces. Yeah, some. And so I'll see how I do things until the end of the week, but I'm not sure I'm going to try and timebox the time I spent on the snapshotting, I think, because I would like possibly to table that for some time and maybe try to get AWS Flavor back to working, because it might be interesting to show that during the demo, during that conference, and overall useful for users and everything. So yeah, if anyone has any opinion about that, that could adjust my take, but yeah. And after the... Well, I'm thinking about that. After the conference, I'm on Hoide for one week. Anyone here? Yeah, right here. Cool. So we are on time or we are running out of time basically. So anything else before we close? No, I don't think so. Not the moment. Thanks. So thanks everybody. And so I'm going to stop the broadcast and bye-bye.


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We are standing here at beautiful limerock park It's a new version where we have the full road course as well as the indoor stuff And we are on the outside here of Adam I don't have a roof to my hand I had a melz ease FD RTR spec 5d with a headless Driver we're not gonna talk about that But we're here to give it a full rip and go full send here on this new track taking the road course on as well Some tracks that are very familiar so without further ado Let's get to it if you guys are new to the channel I'd appreciate if you hit that subscribe button if you guys are returning for more videos Hit that like button down below and we see if we can shred some of these knit-os off So we're gonna hop in and go full send All right, so we are sitting in the cockpit. We're going to get our wheel connected here on our Mazda base There we go So now we got our wheel connected and we are gonna go full send some of this track may look familiar Some of it will not so you guys are familiar with of course the limerock layout Down here, but there's a couple of little tracks. We're gonna run in this new section. So Let's go full send get this RTR ripping on a bass tune Looks like it's a third gear ripper right now So this section looks a little bit shorter compared to the other limerock part that everybody's been running But this is the newest version. I'll leave the link down below as well as the car There's a couple of different tracks. Like I said a couple of different paths you can take also is now Of course, we're ripping this in our Oculus Rift S So this track is a basic track that we all know and love This car is feeling quite nice.  So let's go see what we can do Come through pits and we're gonna pop ourselves out. Let's throw us into the first turn I'm gonna lie this RTR spec 5 E of NLZs was quite nice right now trying to Get this course float as much as possible There's clutch kick and a transition. This is what we're gonna do a little Oh a little grass love. Hope that ebrake to get the car sideways up this hill Take the short version. We'll take that airpin after the grass. Take that hairpin after Sing the fifth gear down the hill we go a little grass love now. We come to the very fun main stretch entry Decently cool Be fast too fast Set that a little bit too much. We're gonna need to start that transition a little bit earlier And since we hit the pavement the car water break loose, so we're gonna hit that a little bit earlier This car is five years but this is a Release from a competition car pack the ACDF I will leave the link for ACDFR. I will leave the link down in the description box below for this as well Because we'll get your hands on this wheel Thousand horsepower does not like curves What we managed to somewhat save it We're gonna try and hit that hairpin section. I'll be pushing that through third gear It's probably not the best option this gear hit down the hill again Does not like the curb Let's see if we can't get this Entry a little bit better now. We're gonna enter a little bit sooner Oh, yeah, that's much better. That's where we wanted to be Transition this car through here try and get this as a complete full lap As I say that we over rotate that I'm gonna sustain it Up this gear I think it's down the fours Up the hill I remember modding these straights and fours though All right, we're gonna try a big nasty maybe reverse entry and try this real quick or 360 If we had a little more track We would have had that. I mean we have it in the dirt. We're gonna hold on to it 360 in the dirt. I mean That kind of worked out I wonder if we could actually do that again this lap. We're gonna try that one more time So you guys are enjoying this style content This newer style content with all the different views in vr. Let me know down below I'd appreciate it and I appreciate all the support with everybody coming back And uh hanging out and watching new episodes Oh I almost wrecked the car don't wreck it. I'm gonna see this car. All right. We're gonna try this for we're gonna try this 360 again I'm gonna try this real quick Nope, it just wants to be reversed. I hit the brakes That was not what I wanted to do So this track is definitely a very fun track with all the different roads and everything like that It's uh, definitely fun to see limerock park get expanded to have all of it here in one, uh One track So I feel like I'm going to get my server up and running and run it here Because this is a great track to take out high powerful cars as well as some low speed cars and everything like that So big thank you to you guys for coming back to another episode. I appreciate all the support And I hope you guys enjoyed this episode and as always I thank you guys for coming back and watching We're gonna go put this car on the trailer so I don't wreck it So as always I like thank you for coming back and watching. I'm evil rabbit. I'll see you guys on the track


Hey everybody, J.R. Fisher here, and we know if you can hear me, you'll make sure my microphones work are good. But you make sure the video is working, make sure you can see me. So glad to see you guys today, where he is. It is a cloudy and rainy day out here in Texas. Don't know what it's like for your apps to get out of the chat box there. Join us in the chat box, say something. Love to have you in here. Looks like you have a PDF for us today. I don't have a PDF. But I do have a list, and you can write it down. You can make it a PDF if you'd like to. So I certainly do have that for you.  It's Monday morning, and we're in 2023. We are the people who made it through the World Builders. Can I say that? I think I can say that. Yeah, we made it through all that stuff. I'm over here. I apologize for not looking right at the camera. I'm looking at my iPad here, trying to catch some of y'all's comments here and making sure I see everything that you put in there today. I need to click on all these. When you guys put in comments, I'm going to throw them up on the screen just to let you know that so everybody can see them and everybody can share from them. If you're new to this channel, do me a favor. Make sure you subscribe. Let's see here. What do we got here? It looks like you have... Let me put this up on the screen. It sounds like there's an audio problem. Lots of buzzing. Lots of buzzing. That doesn't sound good. Let me make sure we've got everything turned down here so we don't have buzzing. We don't want buzzing. I'll see you here. See if that's any better there. I'm going to go on my laptop and that may have been interfering. Let me know if that's okay, guys. Do me a favor and subscribe if you would. Hit that subscribe button down there. Don't forget to ring the bell. Turn on all bell notifications so you're notified each and every time I go live. Or if I upload a video, either one of those things. Let me take that off of there now. Let me know how that sound is there, guys. If that sound is better now. I had a little bit of volume on my laptop so I want to make sure that wasn't affecting you guys. I want to make sure everything is working well online. Hope so. Hope so. Good to see you guys here today. Today we're going to talk about getting stuff done. Stuff done. I didn't exactly put it that way in the title, but you've got to be careful. You've got to be careful here on YouTube. You don't want to do anything to offend anybody, not trying to offend anybody, just trying to help you guys out, help you start running, grow your online businesses. I do have a lot of things today. It is better, but it's still there. Somebody else let me know if you're having any buzzing there. That way we can isolate it. We can figure out if it's his or mine. Let me try one other thing. Let me switch my audio and see if that works any differently. I have two audios. See if that audio is any better, guys. Put that in the chat section there. I just switched the microphone I'm using with a few clicks of a button. Technology is great, isn't it? I love technology. Put that in there if you would. Let me get started with my list. Hopefully you can hear me well. I want you to hear me well, but hey, we've got to move on, right? We've got to move on. Let's see here.  We're no different. We're no different from this thing called time. We all battle it because we know that it's limited. We know that it's limited. And as we get a little bit older, we start to realize more and more and more how limited it is. I've been watching a lot of people die this week. I think we got Louis Anderson died. Meatloaf died. Recently Norm MacDonald died. Bill Saget died. These are all people that I grew up with, basically. A lot of them are just a little bit older than I am.  That's why today's session is so important. Because if we have control of our time, we can get more out of life. And that's really what it's about. It's not just about getting more work done and making more money and all that stuff. But it's not just that, right? It's actually getting more out of life. So what I want to talk about first is controlling your time. And I mean physically controlling your time. That's number one, control your time. And the best way you can do that is use the Pomodoro method. It was a thing that was devised by Francisco Cirillo in the 1980s. And the idea was that you would break down a task into 25 minute chunks with a small break in between. Another way of thinking about this is really asking yourself how long you can get deep work done. So it seems like 20, 25 minutes is a good period of time. So what you do is for that 20 or 25 minutes, you set a timer, 20, 25 minutes, something like that. I do this. And then you take a break. You reward yourself. You say, you know what, after 25 minutes, I'm going to take a three to five minute break. And I'm going to, I don't know, look at my social feed. I'm going to go to Facebook. I'm going to shop on Amazon. I'm going to do whatever I want to do for three to five minutes. And then I'm going to get back to work. Now what this does is it kind of trains your brain to stay focused on one thing, okay? That's pretty important. Sound is working better now just before you switch mics. Switching mics added a little echo. All right, let me try one other thing, guys, and not to stop the training. But I do want you guys to be able to hear me okay. So let me see if I can do one other thing here. And I'm going to try audio, audio. This is live. So I apologize.  Let me know how that is. I've done a couple switches here. I have a couple alternatives for audio. Okay, so let's get back to this list here that I was talking to you guys about. There it is. Okay. You know, when I lived in San Diego, they opened a gym in the grocery store shopping center. And the name of the gym was Eat the Frog. Eat the Frog. And I never really thought much about it. And then one day I kind of Googled it and I wanted to find out what it was. And it really is a thing that I think it was, shoot, Mark Twain that came up with it. You know, you can correct me in the chat box there if you want. Like this audio better. Good, good, good. Thank you, Paul. I appreciate that. So anyhow, what Eat the Frog is, it's basically if you've got something in it, you know, just not pleasant to do, unpleasant to do, you just do it right away. You just do it. Okay. Get that over with. And I think it was Mark Twain. You can correct me if you want. But he said that if you've got to eat a frog in the morning, eat it right away. And if you've got two frogs and one's really big and one's small, eat the big one first. Okay, that's really unpleasant, right? That's a really unpleasant thing to have to do. But you know what? There's merit to this. You've got rid of all the really horrible things right off the bat. You've got rid of that stuff. And if you don't get rid of it, that weight on your mind of knowing that you've got to eat the frog or whatever it is, horrible thing you have to do, that thing weighs on your mind all day and it takes up space in your brain. And it drains you and it weakens you and it prevents you from doing well at everything else. So number two is eat the frog. Okay, you've got to eat the frog. Number three is add music, okay? Some people like music in the background. And this is an improvement to help people be more productive. Have the music. Now, here's the question. What kind of music? Is it classical? Is it hard rock? Is it heavy metal? I think it has a lot to do with what you're doing. I like some pleasant, easy listening music if I'm writing or doing something like that. But if I'm at the jam, I want heavy metal. Okay, that encourages me to do what I need to do to get my stuff done. So it's okay to play a little bit of music, okay? You can have a headset if you want. I don't like the headset. It bugs me, but I do use it in the agenda because I don't want to offend anybody else. And the next thing is, this is crazy. This is crazy. Have a plan. Have a plan if you want sugar to do. You know, I mean, this sounds really simple. Everybody's a lot of bread every day. I know what I want to do. But have you ever really sat down to do something and really got stuck and found yourself watching? Watching. You know, I don't know, maybe videos or whatever it is that you should be doing. I've done the same thing. But if you look at what you need to do and you work backwards to see what you need to do to make it happen, have a picture go, then of course you'll have what's on a real plan. Plan. You can use a planning plan like Trello. That's T-R-E-L-L-O. Something like Trello. I want to make sure that I'm doing what I'm saying. I'm doing all the comments on the screen. He says he's still picking up some kind of experience. I'm going to work with Roy. Paul says that I'm going to be sorry about this, guys. We'll just leave you here. I like to hire here with Bob. Bob Seeger was great. I'm going to talk about Bob Seeger. He was in the AGO years back. I think it was his last classroom. He ever did, ever did. But an amazing show. Amazing show. Next thing I'm going to do is... I'm a friend. I'm a friend. I'm a friend. I'm going to talk to him about what you've done that day. I can't guarantee that you know he's a nobody that's working out. But if I can even know somebody that's going to help you out, out, use that a new standard to keep you at the company, all about all of that stuff. And then you get wide wide, don't worry, leave it. We said, we said, we were going to be done. Please please, all of the writers, we're going to really help. Bob Seeger is a friend. I mean, I am a friend. They may not have fun, but it can be the weather, the weather, the weather, the weather, and how different it is. It could be you, the YouTube. It could be you, the YouTube. I've never seen a place that's made out of hand, hand, hand, hand, hand.  That's super, super, super, super. If you don't want to put a position through this long problem, you should be having light light. There's one light light. So try to have fun. Maybe it's being really, really stressed out. We're like, do you like to do that? Do you like to do that? How else? There's a motto to stop. So we're thinking, thank you, thank you. So how can you make some fun? Maybe that looks like taking yourself out for hot chocolate.  Maybe it's having a person, a person.  He has a part in the story, literally.  He has a part in the story. Sean Stevens is a wheelchairist. He has to wear a mask. I got you a great guy. You can shoot with Sean Stevens and listen to some of his stuff. Amazing, amazing. Next thing you can do is actually break it down. Okay, okay? Break it down. Sometimes it's too fast. When I work on a book, which I am right now, I'm so like, why are you breaking down all the different chapters? I'm working on a book, I'm working on a chapter. Break it down. There's no saying how to eat an elephant, but you can do it by one bite at a time. I always have a problem with music and audio there. I'm so sorry about that. I don't know why you are. In the end here, guys, if you have any quality audio, and I'm going to try to... I don't really have another alternative. I kind of got a split with what I've got here. So, of course, I have to do that. Next thing I'm going to tell you guys is simplify. Make it easier. Don't overcomplicate stuff. I love getting new ideas, but I'm the first to admit, when I get the idea, I can get completely taken away with excitement and I make it too complicated. I know I do. Then the excitement starts a little bit, because it's too difficult. So try to not make it so complicated. The next thing is ask for help. If you don't have any help, you can see here. Thomas said, I'm doing... Let me put it up on the screen for you guys. Get some comments in here. I want them to put it on the screen so they can see it. I'm doing a video capture of this. You want to copy, so you can tell what we're experiencing in audio. Sure, I'll be happy to get a copy of it. So, give me where it's the best to send it to training, jrfisher.com, Tom. Sometimes it's like a YouTube thing, and I just don't have any control over that. I use the same setup every time. I have the same microphone and camera and all that. The only thing I can do is stop and restart, and I hate to do that to you guys, because it's a pain to have to do that. So I don't want to do that. I would love to have that. I appreciate it, Thomas. Do you go by Tom or Thomas? Put that in the chat box there too. Let me know which one you go by. I go by JR, so if somebody calls me Jeff or something, it really drives me nuts. But anyhow, ask for help. Get some help, guys. If you need to hire somebody from Upwork, some freelance or whatever it is, get some help. Now, this one may sound a little color-intuitive, but give yourself a reward, but give it to yourself upfront.  I owe some work. I owe doing something. That's the thing that really, I think a lot of people miss is they reward themselves, but they do it after the task. And if they do it after the task, then the problem is they may not do the task. They may not ever get to it. And then think about your ratio. Don't work so much. I shoot for about a two-to-one fund ratio. So it's pretty simple. So much of the time, we approach getting stuff done is working with blinkers on and not stopping to eat or drink or doing anything else. And we just barge through it all. And it's very, very difficult for you to do that, for your mind to do that. So try to stay away from that. Try to do a two-to-one work ratio. Work twice as much as fun, but have some fun in there. Give yourself some fun in there. Stop and breathe. That's my next thing. Stop and breathe. Take a deep breath. Where are you at?  There's mindfulness as I think about more and more as I get older. But are you enjoying the moment right now? Are you enjoying the moment? Are things good for you right now? And if they're not, what can you do to make them good? What can you do to change that situation? What can you do to make it better? How can you change that? Let me get a sip real quick. There are things you can do to make it better. But what are they? What are they? What is it that is going to make you more comfortable? Breathing is one of them. Sometimes we just don't breathe well. And the next one is don't kid yourself. And here's what I mean by don't kid yourself. You are not multitasking. There is no such thing as multitasking. You cannot do three or four things at the same time. All you're doing is switching your thinking from one thing to the next to the next to the next. And when you're doing that, you're not really concentrating on any single one thing much. There's a lot of research about multitasking. But basically it just slows you down, okay? It changes your focus so often, it means you never really get into that flow state, the zone of genius. While it feels productive and you say, look at all these things I'm doing, it usually is anything but. It ends up with a disappointment of not actually having been able to do everything you need to do and not completing any one task that well. So you need to change that, okay? There's no such thing as multitasking. I don't care what anybody says. Can't prove it to me. Can't do it, okay? And then the next thing I would tell you is celebrate your small wins.  When I first started my business, my first sale was for $10 online. And I was thrilled. I was really thrilled about that. And a lot of people would say, well, JR, $10 isn't much money. I'm like, no, the point was that I made $10. That's the point. I was super excited about that because I knew if I made 10, I could do it again, again, again, again, again. Okay? And that's what motivated me. I remember when I first got my first retailer to sell my survival food. I was so excited I made this little folder filled out in this form, put it in a file cabinet. You guys remember what file cabinets were, don't you? And I was so excited about that that motivated me to call a whole lot more websites to get more people involved and to get more retailers. That first retailer never even sold anything. I don't even know if he ever put up a website. But it was motivation enough for me. And I celebrated that win, okay? So I thought that was very important. Next thing is hang out with people who encourage you.   It's not their fault. It's not their fault, okay? And you say, well, JR, it's my husband or my wife. Well, then you picked the wrong one. No, I'm going to break it to you. You picked the wrong one. And if they don't change, maybe you need to make a change.  If you've got negative friends, if you've got negative relatives, you got to get away from them. They're not going to help you out. They're not going to make you feel better, okay?  Next thing, and this is a big one. I've done this. My wife's done this.  Turn them off. Why do you need to be notified when somebody posts on Facebook? That's interrupting your day. Why do you need to be notified when you get a voicemail or you get an email? Why don't you just set a time of day that you're going to go check those things? Set a time of day that you're going to go check them. You don't need to be notified every single time it happens. Oh, God, Thomas. Where's Thomas? This is funny. He says, what do you say?  Very, very true. What he's meaning is that multitasking thing I was talking about. You can't do all these things, guys. You may think you can. You may think you're accomplishing stuff. You're not. You're just not. It's not happening. You're kidding yourself.  These people are, there's no such thing. There's no such thing as people acting like they're doing a bunch of things and people being distracted, right? Paul says, treat negative people like radioactive waste, time, distance, and shielding. Yes, you have to. This is a must. And you know, I'm doing a video now for my course with Casey Neistat. And I'm talking about going to the gym. And I realized when I was going to the gym and I was telling everybody I'm going to the gym now I'm going to go work out, I realized I didn't want to. I didn't want to go to the gym, but I thought it was really important to share it in the video and say, oh, by the way, I'm going to the gym and oh, by the way, I don't want to. I don't want to. I don't want to go to the gym. I don't want to go to work out. I don't want to go get sweaty. I don't want to get out of breath. But I know it's the right thing to do. Okay. If you only do things that are comfortable, if you're only doing things that are comfortable, you're never ever going to accomplish much. You're never really going to grow much. Okay. It's those uncomfortable things that are really going to get you going. So, you know, I would tell you, do things that are uncomfortable. You got to do something that's uncomfortable. And the next thing I want to tell you is take a break. Take a break. Now, a lot of people will say, but JR, I don't have enough time to take a break. You don't understand. I've got so much to do. Let alone take a break. I can't do that. Look, I know, and that's part of the problem. One of the biggest times you need to take a break is exactly when you feel like you can't. Okay. Mind is a funny thing. It's like when you don't want to work out, that's when you should work out. Okay. People who are maybe afraid of doing a video or getting on camera, that's exactly what they should do. That's how I got involved in it, because I was in a job where I had to do the sales meetings to get my promotion. And I was scared to stand up and talk in front of a group of people. But I forced myself to do it. I got some training in it. And it served me well since then. These are the things that you have to do. Okay. All these things. And taking a break is one of them. So, take a break often. Pay attention to those times when you feel like you can't. You come first. Okay. That's not a negotiable thing. Okay. You come first. And you got to treat yourself well. Now, here's the big one. This is the big one. You ready for this? Start. Start. That's the biggest problem is we procrastinate. We put off. We say we're going to go work out. We say we're going to start the book. We say we're going to build the website. We say we're going to do a video. We say, we say, we say. But do we start? Okay. Saying is not starting. Saying is just saying. That's all it is. Your biggest risk in never starting in the first place is missing out on all those things you could have accomplished, all those things you could have done. You'll never know. You know, I have somebody I talked to the other day who's a relative. They're relatively funny and they have an unusual look at life.  And this person said, well, yeah, I have people tell me it all the time. They've told me that my whole life. I've got a lot of good information. I feel like I could do something like that. But I just, I can't do that. I can't do that. And I said, wait a second.   And you believe they're right and yet you still don't do it. So it's that starting thing, guys. It's that starting thing. You know, Dave Chappelle, I've heard him talk about it before. He started comedy when he was 14. And in, you know, comedy clubs and bars, he started performing when he was 14 years old.  They just went and did it. Okay. And if you're not doing it, if you're talking about it and you've got all these plans, but you still haven't done anything, nothing concrete. And I'm, I'm, I really call people out on that.  Let me put some of these comments up here. Oh, okay. Quite a few good ones. Quite a few good ones. All right. I had that one up there. Here's a, I like how Elon Musk focused on one company a day and gave it his attention. It takes an average 10 minutes to get back to a task. Yeah. I've heard him talk about that, Paul, where he says, you know, I concentrate in chunks of time on different things. And that's important. Take five to 10 minutes every hour to get up and take a break and stretch and drink water. Yeah. As a matter of fact, my, my Apple watch at 10 minutes till the hour tells me to stand. It just tells me to stand. It's funny because sometimes my wife and I will both be up walking around the house.  And that's what our watches do. They just kind of tell us to do that. Let's see. I am facing myself to do some uncomfortable things now. And it has opened up some great new options for me that maybe I would not have for now or maybe for a long time. That's really good, Thomas. Really, really good, man. I mean, that's good stuff. And you know what is really cool about what you did is you said it. You said I'm facing these difficult uncomfortable things and I'm doing something about it. You know, that's a huge step. Hey guys, put your comments in there. We've got a few people commenting. We need more. I want to hear what you've got to say. And when you become part of the conversation, you become part of the solution, you become successful. Put your comments in there. I want to hear what you've got to say. I'll throw them up on the screen. Everybody can see them, too. Thomas also says things don't get done on what you plan to do. Action speaks more than words. Stuff gets done with massive amounts of inspired action. Yeah, action is it. Action is the one thing that it's the ingredient that makes it all happen, guys. Without action, without actually doing anything, your great ideas don't matter. Over the years, I've had so many people say, oh man, that's a cool invention. I thought about that years ago. I thought about doing that years ago. I thought about writing that book years ago. I already thought of that. But you didn't do anything. And if you don't do anything, it doesn't matter what you thought about. A lot of people think a lot of stuff. You drive by a graveyard and I bet there's a lot of good thoughts in there that never, ever came to fruition. Because all they did was think about it. All they did was talk about it. All they did was list all these ideas. You kind of actually do it. I find planning out a day before helps me get stuff done. Yeah, I usually do that late in the evening, Paul. Like last night, I sent out an email for this training. And I missed my one-on-saturday. I apologize for that. But we were out late. We went and saw, oh shoot, David Spade. David Spade and went out and had a nice dinner. It was a great evening. And we rewarded ourselves. We gave a reward because we had worked hard all week long. And we didn't feel guilty about that. We didn't feel guilty a bit because we owed it to ourselves. And this was a nice thing. My wife did actually, she bought me tickets to David Spade. And I bought her dinner to Gus's Fried Chicken. So that's where we went that night. But actually doing something, guys. And once again, I'm going to remind you in the chat box. And if you're not putting comments in there, you are missing an opportunity to make yourself successful. And I don't know how it works. I don't know why it works. I think it's just because you're starting. But when you put comments, when you ask questions in that chat box, you will leave this being a more successful person. It will motivate you to do more things. Let's say here, yes, but people are dying to get into the graveyard. They really are, aren't they? They say some of the best books never written are in the graveyard because people had stories. Everybody's got a story. Everybody's got an interesting story, guys. Yours may be sad. It may be happy. It may be probably is everything all over the place, but you've got a story and somebody's interested in it. How many times have you watched a movie and you said, oh, I've been through that or I've done that or that's happened to me. There's your story. You've got to share this stuff, guys. You've got to share it. Putting comments on this video right now is a huge start. Even if you're not watching this live and you think, well, nobody's going to see my comment. I will. As a matter of fact, after this live today, I'm going to go back through and I'm going to answer any comments I find in there this morning. So if you want to put some comments on videos, today would be a good day to do it because I'm going to go through and I'm going to answer every single one. I don't care if there's 200 of them. I'm going to answer every single one. And then I got to get back to work. I have a deadline of a video I have to turn in this evening for my course and I worked on it last night yesterday for about three or four hours and I woke up today and it was corrupted and I couldn't open the file and it was dead. So I have to build the whole video over again. Yay. I got to build the whole video over again. But you know what? That's the way it is. It doesn't mean I'm not going to do it. It just means it's a pain in the butt. I got to do it over again. So that's what we got to do. Paul says I have friends who have been planning for five years. Yeah. Man, about that. Never have taken action but have made a lot of excuses. Yes. Excuses are the bricks that builds the house of failure. My man, Paul has got some sayings, doesn't he? He's got some sayings and it is true. And excuses, you know, I just haven't had the time. I haven't gotten around to it. I had a friend who had these like wooden coins and he was a motivational speaker. And on the edge of it, it says around to it, T-U-I-T. It says around to it. And when people say, well, yeah, I just haven't got around to it, he would hand it to them and say, well, you have it now. You've got around to it now. So why don't you go ahead and get things done? And he would hand out these round to it, which I thought was the funniest thing in the world. And this goes back into the 80s. I knew this guy. I don't know whatever happened to him. He was a great speaker. I don't know if he ever made it big time, but you know, he helped a lot of people. I can tell you that. Stories help sell especially ones based in the hero's journey. We are all heroes. We all have a hero's journey, right? We're all on a journey. We're all going to go through ups and downs and problems and illnesses and losses and failures and successes. And we all have a journey. And we're all living it right now. And you know, we keep, you know, I think that's why a lot of people watch TV is they don't want to live their own life. They want to watch somebody else live their life. And I do get hooked on some shows right now. Ozark is back on. If you haven't watched Ozark, and I'm a little off track here, but if you haven't watched Ozark, don't start now. Got to go back to the very first one and start Ozark. But man, is it good. I mean, this season is like better than ever. And it seems like it keeps getting better. And that's one of my guilty pleasures. I don't watch TV during the day. I mean, maybe it's sometimes the lunch will turn on for a second while we're eating, but I don't watch TV during the day and rarely in the evening. I'll be working on something. But if I have a show like Ozark, I will say, hey, that's my guilty pleasure at dinner tonight. While we're eating, we're going to turn on Ozark. And sometimes that's a bad show to watch because it's a little bit bloody, but it's okay to have some guilty pleasures. Don't feel bad if you're not working all the time. Don't look at me and say, well, JR works all the time. I do not. I do not. That's not true. But when I work, I work. I'm serious about it, okay? I'm serious about you guys. I'm serious about sharing things with you guys that have already helped me. That means a lot to me. If I could help you guys with stuff that's already helped me, you know, well, then I've done something. And that's what I'm trying to do here. So I guess we're winding down. We're at 1031 now, guys. I really appreciate everybody being here. Feel free to put more comments in there in that chat section right now if you can. If you're watching this afterwards and it's not live, then what you want to do is put it in the comments section. I want to help you guys. If you've got a problem with making money online and you can identify what the problem is, put it in the comments section on this video. I will come back and I will try to help you with it, okay? That's what this channel is all about. It's me helping you guys overcome these problems. They're problems, but they're not obstacles. You can overcome any of these things. I've been through a lot of these things. I lost a video last night that I had been working on for days, okay?  I lost it, but it doesn't matter. It's just a problem. I'll overcome it. I'll get it. I got it. I'm not worried about it, okay? All right, guys. I really appreciate you being here. I will be here again on Wednesday at 10 a.m. and Friday at 10 a.m. And I'm going to try to do Saturday at 10 a.m. And keep in mind, I'm posting new videos every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, so you can also find those videos. So I'm doing anywhere from, you know, six to seven videos a week. So you should be able to find stuff that's going to help you out. Thank you so much for being here. And if you like this, put a comment in here that you did like it. Put a comment in here which you didn't like, which you want to hear about. A lot of my ideas come from you guys. I did a couple trainings last week with the director because people were asking about that. Paul says, have a blessed day and a long week, oh, a blessed week ahead, guys. And, guys, don't forget to subscribe, okay? And ring the bell, Paul says. Ring the bell. Turn on all bell notifications so you're notified each and every single time I go live. Guys, I love each and every one of you. I really appreciate you being here. I appreciate you listening. And I will see you on Wednesday.


The hum of the machinery and pipes around them was dull and constant. Malcolm's little sister curled up on the floor with a blanket. Small, silly-looking green men covered it like polka dots. The only light came from a cracked blue computer screen that gleamed in Malcolm's hands. Malcolm noted today's air quality was at 39% and cursed to himself. The patrols wouldn't be coming down this particular corridor for a few more hours, but running was going to be hard today. His sister, mewed in her sleep and rolled over. Malcolm stopped, raised his eyebrows, made sure she wasn't awake, and kept scrolling. Malcolm had been waiting for an opportunity like this since right after his sister was born. It was on the news then, too. A trade ship had landed. Now supplies meant a lot, but the important part was it meant they had a way out of there if they could play their cards right. Malcolm tried to picture his mother's face then. They dreamed about leaving together. He looked down at his sister again. Maybe… maybe she'd look like that? Short blonde hair like the both of them? An oval face that came down to a point at the chin? Large, wide-set eyes? He tried to place it, but he couldn't conjure anything he recognized. Somewhere in the intervening years, his mother had just become a feeling of warmth and love. Which was weird, because even when she was around, she seemed annoyed that he existed at all. The machinery around him knocked hard as the morning cycle started. His sister snorted and sat up on the blanket. Is it morning? She said. Uh, yeah. His sister stood up and smacked her lips. There any water left? Malcolm rolled his eyes. Yeah. He tossed her a half-filled plastic bottle. Glenn detrained what was left in a few gulps, and then put the lid back on the bottle. Well, if you'd listened to the director, you'd know we're in a shortage. Guys at the top are having a shortage. Malcolm mumbled, to no one in particular. Oh my god. Glenn chucked the empty bottle at Malcolm. Just join the serps already. Malcolm left. I can. I have to keep you from joining the empties. Glenn pointed a finger at Malcolm. Stop right there. Do you have clearance to be in this area? Malcolm pointed his finger back. Yeah, it's called being alive. I'm a free person. The two of them paused, looked at their finger guns, and laughed. Glenn started to gather up their only blanket, and they both went to find breakfast. The crossroads was full of all kinds of people, lights, and sounds. Men and women hawk their wares from small booths along the brown sidewalk. Passers-by avoided the gold-tinted street that slit the area twice, and from time to time, a shining vehicle would roll through almost too quick to see. The flashing lights above them pulsed orange and green. Each of them displayed advertisements for various products that neither of them could afford. And every once in a while, one of the bundles of rags lining the sidewalk shifted. A withered hand would extend and then retract as the siblings passed them by. Black-clad guards patrolled the streets beneath reflective face plates. Citizens gave the guards a wide berth, and the few people who walked near them got a light wrap from a baton. Just a reflexive tap on the nearest body part before they both continued on their way. Glinda was their point man for this particular operation, but both of them avoided the empty batons with well-practiced grace. One of the vendors, a large, barrel-chested man with a long beard, was selling meats and fruits in small, wrapped bundles. He caught Glinda's eye from across the way and perked up. He waved off the withered skeleton of a man who was currently staring at the wares. The skeleton man wandered away, revealing a sign attached the side of the stand that said Little Liam's. Glinda flashed her smile at Liam and walked over. Malcolm kept a respectful distance as he stalked around the stand. Glinda broke eye contact at the last second and gave a little, hey, Liam leveled his eyes. Glinn spent a little while. Yeah, sorry, been busy with school. The vendor snorted for a minute before stomping himself. Sorry, school though, really? Yes, she said as her eyes widened. Liam looked Glinda up and down with a practiced eye. Seems like a waste, but all right. Well, you're used to selling meats. Liam grabbed his heart in faux outrage before settling back and leaning on the counter. You buying? Glinda leaned onto the counter as well, getting face to face with the man. Come on, Liam. Liam's twinkling eyes went cold. Not today. There's a shortage. You runners probably don't get the news down in the tunnels. Glinda put her hand on the side of Liam's face. You don't have a little something for me just for the day? Liam stood up straight and moved away. A comeback after I close. We'll see what we can do. Glinda suppressed a snarl. And then she saw her brother moving away from the back of the stand and shrugged. Sure, hun. Same time as always. Liam nodded and grinned until one of the skeleton men bumped into the side of the wooden building and caught Liam's attention. Just to the left of where Liam looked was Malcolm carrying several bags of food. Liam's eyes went wide and then he looked back into his stall and saw the back door was open. A few other gaunt figures were already helping themselves to part of his stock. Thieves, he bellowed, pointing at both Glinda and Malcolm. The two of them ran into the crowd as the faceless guards chased after them. They'd settled into a corridor near the spaceport, completely out of breath. The underground tunnels that Chris cost the station ran under the docking base. Usually there was no one out here, docking ships being rare like they were. Today though, the entire port was crawling with empties and important-looking people. Glen and Mal observed the quiet corner near their maintenance shaft from behind a ventilation grate. The hanker was large enough to accommodate the massive ship that sat in it, but not much else. The ship was flat on the bottom and rounded on the top with a series of windows along the sides. The thing was dull white with some lettering on the side they couldn't quite make out from this angle, and small pods covered the underside. None of the hundreds of people between them and the boarding area were moving things off the ship though. The two siblings melted back into the shadows of the maintenance corridor, an empty patrol pass as they made their way towards the core of the city again. But this is the last one, right? Malcolm whispered, sounding unsure. They'd stopped to avoid another patrol. Glen smiled. Mal knew the tunnels and patrol routes like the back of his hand, but he wanted her to feel included, and she ignored the question. We don't have enough time to map out the patrols and the hanker. They're all new. We won't have to. We'll grab some supplies after they get offloaded, sell them ourselves, and maybe end up living beneath the spire instead of the crossroads. Big dreams. Malcolm laughed.  You wanna keep running around down here like rats? Glen depressed her lips, shook her head, and then said, they weren't offloading any cargo. They've been here for three days and they haven't unloaded anything. Malcolm cocked his head to the side. That was information he'd already absorbed, but it still didn't make any sense, so he just ignored it. It was a trade ship. They must have offloaded already, or maybe they were waiting for something. Malcolm broke his concentration, and said, I think we gotta talk to Bobby. She'll know what to do. The siblings backed into the shadows and continued towards the core of the city, and behind them, a small flying machine tracked their movements. The air was thick and stifling as close to the core of the city, especially underground. The siblings burst out into the Warrens with only a little bit of fanfare. The Warrens were a massive underground complex built into the underlying mechanical architecture of the city. It was one of the few places down here that didn't get regular patrols. Maybe 10 or 20,000 vagrants lived down here in and around the moving machinery. A pale, disheveled family, passed by the narrow entrance corridor as the two of them came out. The father looked up, but the mother and two children didn't bother.  Without knowing how well they'd been fed, those kids could be anywhere between five and 12 at that size. Either way, the family kept moving, holding to a well-practiced habit of avoiding unnecessary trouble. It was rare, actually, to see a whole family together like that. Kids with living parents were few and far between, not to mention how many had ended up in the spire's containment cells. The siblings' father had been one of those, stealing food like them, but not as fast and not as smart. One day, he never came back, and they had to fend for themselves. Their mother took it badly, and then, when she got sick, the two of them moved further into the warrens, passing dozens of alcoves filled with people and purpose. Most of the people down here had lived their entire lives, just beneath the gold streets or the crossroads, just a few meters away from, well, more pain and misery, actually. Being of both worlds themselves, the siblings knew that the people below always thought those above had it better, which gave Malcolm pause. Maybe the people living in the spire were starving like they were. That line of thought stopped once they reached their destination. The first temptation, a CD bar at the center of the warrens, glowed bright green and red in this otherwise dark place. The signs were likely scavenged from above, which meant that those inside had some means, at least. The first temptation was, so they'd been told, the first permanent building in the warrens, the owner, Bobby Johnson, built it for the runners and scavengers that had before, made their homes in the far flung and forgotten parts of the undercity. Runners, like Glen and Mal, would never really settle down, but having a place to stay from time to time was convenient. The scabs, on the other hand, they made this place a home, and the empties, try though they might, couldn't get them out. The rumor was, when it was first built, the empties came down in full force to clean the undercity once and for all, and none of them ever made it back. The bar stood as a monument of sorts to that fight, but no one still alive remembered it happening.  Malcolm opened the door, under the glowing green and red sign depicting a snake, wrapped around an apple, and the two of them went inside. Neither of the siblings recognized the song playing on the speakers, they did notice the click at the door behind them locked. The bar was furnished with a collection of metal chairs and tables, carved from the undercity itself.  The tables were empty, except for one. Bobby Johnson, the bar's owner, sat there, nursing and drank. Bobby Johnson was a dark-skinned woman with braided hair parted down the middle. Her eyes were piercing with red irises flecked with gold. She glanced up at the siblings as they entered, and made a sweeping motion with her hand at two empty chairs in front of her. Take a seat, children. Mal and Glenn knew better than to argue with Bobby. The woman had an ethereal quality about her that unsettled them both, and her reputation was one of a dangerous and unpredictable enemy. And they needed her to be their friend right now. They both sat down. Glinda opened her mouth before Bobby interrupted her. He doesn't know, does he? No, Glinda said, lowering her head. Mal looked puzzled. I don't know what. Bobby smiled. The spire is being evacuated. Mal's eyes went wide, and he looked at Glinda. What? Glinda put a hand up. They aren't offloading anything. The patrols have just been getting sloppier and sloppier over the last few days. They're under manned. We stole food, and they barely bothered to chase us. Mal's shoulders slumped. Why?  Ah, I can get that one. This place is dying. The supplies are overstretched. The air is dirty, and we lose more and more water every year. In 10 years, everyone and everything here will be dead. She paused for a moment, considering the siblings. You want to get out of here, right? Malcolm nodded first, followed by Glinda. The ship is a bad choice. The foundation doesn't play around, and even if you managed to stow away, it wouldn't matter. In the best-case scenario, you'd be prisoners. Worse, they'd jettison you into space. Glinda spoke up. If we're going to die in 10 years anyway, what's the harm in trying? Bobby shook her head. You two aren't going to die here.  Bobby paused and broke into a large smile. But first, you're going to save others. The siblings looked at Bobby with a similar confused expression. And Malcolm broke the silence. Look, all we need are weapons, and we'll fight our way onto the ship. If you send out word, the rest of the Serps will try to get on board, too. They can't stop all of us. Bobby smirked. They can, and they will. Besides, great behemoths of metal with ancient engines are all well and good. But there are other ways. Just then, a harsh rapping sounded on the door to the bar. The siblings jumped a bit in their seats. Bobby stood up and pulled a gun from a holster under her arm. She handed it to Glinda and pointed behind the bar. Go. There's a door back there that leads to a hallway. Keep running until you reach the end. You'll know when you're there. The rapping on the door stopped. A loud thud followed. The two siblings looked at each other and ran behind the bar. Bobby pulled two more guns from her hips, and leveled them at the door as it began to cave inwards. Another thud, and it smashed inward, hanging off the lower hinge as the other hinge flew across the floor. Bobby opened fire immediately as the faceless guards and flying machines began to pour through. Malcolm and Glinda were in the back room when they heard the gunfire begin. They ran. The hallway was dark with a faint gold glow at the end. They continued until they passed through, and suddenly the oppressive darkness gave way to blinding light. Their eyes took time to adjust to the new environment. Their lungs, though, immediately noticed the difference. It was like breathing for the first time, like they'd been drowning all their lives and just never noticed. And as their eyes adjusted to the landscape, they understood something important. This place was different from anything they'd ever seen before. A vast green meadow stretched out before them in all directions. Hills, spotted with clumps of trees, broke up the flat plain on occasion. Brilliant flowers of all colors covered the ground, and Malcolm looked up at the sky to see nothing but blue at first, with a shining bright orb above them. Then near the horizon, he spotted two moons, one a dark brown and the other, about half as large, a pale gray. A large flying creature of some kind passed overhead, casting a shadow on them as it went on its way. The siblings looked at each other with a mixture of wonder and horror. Then a man's head appeared about four feet from the ground, out of a similar gold-colored portal to the one they'd entered. The head sized them up and grinned. Now come on, we got work to do. Oh, what? Malcolm sputtered. The head was now accompanied by a disembodied hand that motioned them over. I don't have a whole day. Bobby said you'd have an MTF on your tail. Glinda, not for the last time or first time that day, looked confused. MTF? The empties. Look, I gotta close both the ways with or without you, so you come to the library and nod. Glinda and Malcolm looked at each other and nodded. And then they followed the floating head away from paradise. Took a little bit of a break, as you can tell, from the Versus series this week. I wrote this tail a few days back and wanted to read it for the channel. Didn't think it would hurt. I do want to get more suggestions in the comments down below of things you'd like to see in the Versus series. Also, you know, let me know what you think of the tail. Two weeks from now, we'll be back to the Versus series, so don't worry about that. In the meantime, if you liked this video, scroll down and hit the subscribe button. I said this in the last video, but YouTube has started telling me that a lot of the people that watch my videos don't actually subscribe to the channel. 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This is Witchspace news for Friday the 4th of November 2022, I'm CMDR Buur. An Elite Dangerous news this week, Frontier makes its first developer acquisition. We round up the details from last night's fdev live stream. There are engineered modules up for grabs in this week's trio of community goals. Frontier partners with its Elite Dangerous content creators and the Elite Dangerous Kickstarter is 10 years old. As always if you enjoy our stuff hit the thumbs up and don't forget to subscribe and click the little bell icon to see all our Elite Dangerous content. You can also join our Patreon which directly supports the work we do here at the pit, links to that and everything else are below. In a somewhat unexpected turn this week Frontier Developments announced that they were acquiring Complex Games, the Canada based developers of Warhammer 40,000 Chaos Gate Demon Hunters. Chaos Gate whilst being developed by Complex Games was published by Frontier under its Frontier Foundry banner and has been one of the publishing arms bigger successes receiving wide critical and player base acclaim for its uniquely Warhammer take on the turn based combat solidified by games like the XCOM series. The deal which is the first of its kind for Frontier is said to be worth in the region of up to 11 million pounds subject to some company targets being met. Frontier are launching a new content creators partner program this week as part of their continued support for Elite Dangerous. We're very pleased and proud to announce that we've been included in the program. Anyone who regularly streams or produces other Elite Dangerous content is able to apply via the Frontier Influencer site which you'll find linked below and the program promises to provide in-game cosmetics via Twitch drop campaigns and YouTube code bundles as well as exclusive partner program merchandise and other surprises. It's encouraging to see Frontier continuing to support Elite Dangerous and their community of content creators into the new year and here at the Burpit we look forward to bringing you the benefits of our inclusion in the program. My thanks to Commander Phoenix Defier of the Lave Radio podcast for the timely reminder that the Kickstarter that launched the public development of Elite Dangerous launched on November the 6th 2012 making the start of all that you see around you in the galaxy today 10 years old on Sunday just in case you weren't already feeling really old. The campaign originally planned to raise £1.25 million in its 60 days run but ended up raising just over £1.5 million after garnering support from 25,681 backers with the initial version of the game releasing just over a year later. Rewards for backing the campaign ranged from lifetime content passes including the exclusive Cobra Mark IV through to book license deals. A complete archive of the entire campaign including all of Frontier's videos is still available on the Kickstarter site which I've linked to below. There's a trio of community goals this week following Thursday's server tick and one of them sees everyone's favourite cackling moustache twirling megacor as a moth biotech trying to get a hand back in the game. This time Salvation's former employer is demanding materials to assist in building themselves an AX dedicated megaship and expanding their surface installation portfolio. As a sweetener on this particular dance with the devil participants are being offered a system permit to the Mabuni system where azimuth sells its top of the line AX gear. The top 75% of contributors will also receive one fixed mount class 2 overcharged guardian plasma charger and the top 25% of contributors will receive two fixed mount class 2 overcharged guardian plasma chargers. In an effort to demonstrate balance and fairness there is also a counter goal operating to disrupt azimuth's efforts with combat bonds gained against azimuth's security forces being collected in the one drama system. For their efforts the top 75 of contributors will receive one fixed mount class 2 rapid fire multi cannon and the top 25% of contributors will receive two fixed mount class 2 rapid fire multi cannons. As a counter to the counter community goal azimuth evil incorporated is further offering the top 75% and top 25% of contributors that bring them scalps of counter azimuth forces the same fixed mount class 2 overcharged guardian plasma chargers as per the other half of the azimuth goal. As per usual the goals are all scheduled to run for one week unless their targets are met before the deadline. It was live stream week this week for the Frontier Development's Elite Dangerous Community team and in a change from the usual format due to some scheduling conflicts and resultant technical constraints the stream was this week only available on Twitch and the presenters Sally and Arthur were locked into the smaller studio and not the usual larger broadcasting space that we'd become used to seeing. Arthur started the stream with a reminder that update 14 was scheduled for the end of November describing it as a doozy and also importantly not the final update. The stream featured two interviews this week and unusually these interviews were both with community figureheads. Kicking off the duet of interviews first we heard from commander LCU no full like one of canon interstellar research. In the pre-recorded interview LCU spoke to Bruce Guerrido about the approaching Stargoid phenomena talking about how they first came to be discovered and canon's tools and methodology for tracking the now 8 in number incoming anomalies. LCU also spoke about his work with the Galactic Exploration Catalog that tracks and maintains a public archive of significant commander discoveries and points of interest. The interview was unfortunately cut short due to technical problems but Frontier have promised to make an archive of the full interview available on YouTube and if you're curious to see canon's Stargoid tracking in action or the Galactic Exploration Catalog then I've linked to both of those tools below. The second interview was with Twitch streamer and lore aficionado grinning crow who sat down in the studio with Arthur talking lore, his relationship to it and how he attempts to interpret it for his audience. Arthur spoke about the creation of lore for the game and how nothing is put into the game for no reason. Some of it obvious, some of it not, being placed into the game more as a seed for something in the future. As a further example without wishing to delve into spoilers Arthur specifically made mention that he'd been asked whether a certain thing in the game was a mistake to which he replied no it was intentional. I'll leave it up to you to decipher what he could possibly be talking about there. The stream finishes with a reminder that the stream will be back in two weeks time back in the regular studio space and it's worth noting with that schedule in mind that this will be the last stream of the month and therefore the last opportunity for Frontier to talk about update 14 before it presumably releases scheduled as it is currently for the end of November. What secret do you think Arthur was alluding to? Were you part of the Elite Dangerous Kickstarter? And are you planning on backing or opposing Azimuth Biotech this week? Let us know in the comments below. That's it for now, thanks very much for watching, we'll be back later this week with more videos, until then 07 Commanders, follow the Greens on the way out and do keep clear of the toast rack, we very much look forward to seeing you next time.