Hi everybody, I'm Tom Woods. Well, this has to be the easiest crowd to please I've ever addressed. Daniel finished unexpectedly early, so I guess I have a little extra time to talk to you in greater depth about our next speaker. I've been following our next speaker since reading his book, How Would a Patriot Act? And that was a long time ago. And heading over here from the hotel, I was explaining to my daughter Veronica. My daughter Veronica Woods is here, by the way, right up front. I pointed that out the way I did because I knew if you cheered my name, there was a good chance you might cheer hers also. But as we're driving over here, I'm here with probably my least political daughter. And not that she doesn't care about these things, but she trusts her dad. And, you know, whatever, you know, more or less what what dad says is probably more or less correct. I appreciate that. She has a mind of her own. It's true. But she has a respect for what I do and I appreciate that. And I'm trying to describe for her who Glenn Greenwald is. And I said, he's the kind of guy who says to his own followers that they're wrong and that they're hypocrites who says, why were you up in arms when Trump did A, B or C? But silent as a church mouse when Biden does D, E and F, which are worse than A, B and C. What's going on here? Why are left liberals in love with the FBI and the CIA? There's something wrong here. I might add, by the way, Glenn, that most of these so-called respectable libertarians love the FBI and the CIA, too. So we share your pain. But he asks these kind of questions. How is it possible that with the massive media institutions we have that's something like Russiagate could go unquestioned for so long? If the media is what it really claims to be, this tremendous watchdog for society telling the truth for us. I've watched Glenn particularly over the past couple of years, because I follow him very closely on Twitter. I'm telling you, Twitter has a lot of problems, but Glenn Greenwald's account alone is worth being on it. It's just fire day after day. He gets to the heart of things day after day, reminding left liberals of the principles they used to believe in, or I guess we now know pretended to believe in. And I find myself saying, why can't libertarians, particularly of the DC variety, say any of these things that Glenn Greenwald has the guts to say? And to me, Glenn is better than almost all the DC libertarians put together. Glenn Greenwald, one man. Glenn, if you can hear me, I'm sorry for that extremely faint praise. Now Glenn and I once had a little bit of a Twitter spat, and I don't even remember what it was about, but it was about one of those areas where we do disagree. Glenn is one of those people who's able to say, such and such person is terrible on issues A and B, but really, really good on issues C and D. Remember when society was capable of doing that? Now it's, these people are terrible on A and B, so they're not even really human. And Glenn is still able to be that old fashioned kind of person we once knew like six or seven years ago. He's still able to do that. But I hope that our, whatever, I don't remember what it was about, but look, Glenn, whatever it is, I'm sorry. I just want to be your friend. You were one of the coolest people I know, because I consider what he's done to be extremely brave and heroic at a time when most people I find just want to say what the establishment wants them to say, say what's comfortable, tell their followers what they want to hear. That's the opposite of what we need. So ladies and gentlemen, joining us right now is our friend, Glenn Greenberg. Hey everybody, can you hear me? Well, first of all, thank you so much for this event for inviting me to speak here at a conference designed to examine a lot of issues that I regard as extremely important. And thank you as well for those nice introductory remarks. I can assure you that whatever Twitter spot we had will not preclude my positive future interaction with you.  So I consider Twitter spots to be kind of a prerequisite in some ways for me to be able to engage with people. It's just that kind of a venue. So, you know, I spent the moments leading up to the event kind of reflecting on the movement that had been galvanized by Ron Paul and the events that it in the dynamics that I think that it reflected not even necessarily created but kind of shown a light on that was already there. And obviously the importance of independent media, which is something that I've been asked to speak on has been central to my entire career and a lot of these, a lot of ways for me these two topics seemingly disparate topics really do converge. Certainly in the work that I've done, but also just in our political culture in general. There's a lot of talk now about the importance of independent media because primarily because there obviously is an increased in level of aggression and repression on the part of big tech social media companies to censor and restrict and control our political discourse. The first, the fact that this censorship comes from these big tech monopolies, these corporations that are more powerful than any in human history, not just because of the wealth that they've amassed or because of the data that they collect on us the ability to buy up most of the brain power of artificial intelligence, like this book and Google have done and to start exploiting that in ways that have almost no transparency and that are beyond democratic accountability and of course the ability to control and police are discourse in in in January of this year. They united these Silicon Valley companies did to remove the sitting president of the United States from the most influential internet platforms that people use to communicate that was I think the pinnacle of their assertion of power to make clear what has long been obvious but not particularly an acknowledgement which is that in many ways these corporations have become so powerful that they're actually more powerful than a lot of nation states and people are starting to really maybe all nation states. I mean, obviously people I think are starting to really question and become very concerned about what it means that so much power is centralized in the hands of a few unaccountable corporations to be able to dictate what ideas are and which ideas are imp permissible and on some level even more alarmingly to dictate what is true and what is false so that quote unquote disinformation becomes prohibited and by disinformation what they mean is ideas or opinions or dissent or questioning that somebody that has invested their credibility and competence in determine truth and amazingly he bristic and arrogant power for human beings to believe that they are competent to exercise that these institutions that have invested witness power can actually understand what is true. And that not only means that we're told these ideas are false but these ideas become prohibited from being expressed on the most significant and influential communication platforms on the internet. And that is to describe that I think is to demonstrate why it's incredibly alarming. And you know I think one of the often overlooked components of this dynamic is that typically it is assumed that what this means is that the executives of the Silicon Valley Silicon Valley companies have become power hungry that they have seen the potential of the machines that they created of the technology that they develop to constrain political discourse and to control what people think and are kind of power hungry or power mad with power and are now trying to use it to censor the internet in accordance with their ideological preferences. And while there is perhaps some truth to that framework. I think it's a very simplistic assumption and it's actually one that is less accurate than people often realize If you go and look at how the internet was conceived of when it first emerged as a pervasive technology in our lives in the mid 1990s. It came from this new sector in Silicon Valley that I would describe and politically more than anything else is being libertarian It's not necessarily libertarian in the classical economic sense in the sense of your Institute or the Cato Institute or classic libertarian economic theory but libertarian in the sense in the in the ethos that what made the internet so exciting what made the internet so potentially revolutionary was that it would empower citizens to communicate with one another and organize and disseminate information without having to be mediated and controlled by centralized corporate and governmental authority that was the vision the triumphalist vision that Silicon Valley pioneers who created these companies almost unanimously embrace they never in a million years set out to try and create a regime of censorship. And when I say that sometimes people say that that seems like I'm romanticizing or downplaying the corrupt nature nature of Silicon Valley executives that perhaps they didn't begin with that intention but power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely and they've kind of become corrupted But the reality is even if you talk to them now and you can hear this in some of their public pronouncements Mark Zuckerberg and the executives the founders and current management of Google obviously Jack Dorsey who just left Twitter but for a long time have been resistant to this idea that they ought to be deciding what is truth and falsity that they ought to be exercising assuming this role to police our discourse. I remember there was a controversial interview with Mark Zuckerberg that Kara Swisher can switch her conducted the New York Times journalist who has been around Silicon Valley for a long time, in which she kind of was pressing him on what she regarded and what a lot of people regard as the failures of these companies to censor enough. That's the amazing thing is that for a lot of us, we view the danger, the grave danger that these corporations that are unaccountable that are accountable to nobody are exercising so much power and censoring more and more but to many people in media, especially journalists that's the most bizarre part. The real criticism is not that they're censoring too much but that they're not censoring enough. And it's not just the media that believes that the Democratic Party, all but explicitly says that in fact there's now been four times four times in the last 12 months, when the Democrats who control both houses of Congress have summoned before them, the executives of the three leading social media companies Facebook, Google and Twitter. And each time they do they become increasingly explicit about their demands that they want these companies to censor not more scrupulously or meticulously or with greater caution but quite the opposite they want them to censor with much greater aggression almost more indiscriminately and are now explicitly threatening these companies that if you do not censor more in accordance with our worldview to remove what we the Democratic Party and Democratic Party politicians regard as disinformation or if you don't remove what we regard as harmful political opinions what we call hate speech. We will begin to punish you using our majoritarian control over both houses of Congress and the executive branch by imposing legal and regulatory retaliation against you. Okay, so when Kara Swisher interviewed Mark Zuckerberg I believe it was in 2017 and it was really at the kind of the start of this idea that Silicon Valley was at fault for not censoring enough they the Democrats did blamed Facebook and Twitter and virtually everybody else in the world for Hillary Clinton's defeat they blamed everybody in the world, except Hillary Clinton herself for the fact that she lost to what basically was a game show host and a very unpopular one at that they instead of engaging in self critique or asking why they in their neoliberal ideology or so were repulsive to so many people they instead look for everyone to blame and they said oh who's to blame James Comey is to blame. Jill Stein is to blame with the leaks is to blame, but they also keep a lot of blame on Silicon Valley and said oh you allowed too many people to be heard you allowed too much what we regard as disinformation meaning criticisms of the Democratic Party. And so when Kara Swisher interviewed Mark Zuckerberg in this interview the kind of the climate was very much anger at Facebook for not censoring enough and she challenged him on that he basically said look. I went to Harvard and and undergraduate school and then I created Facebook how am I competent to dictate what is true and what is false about complex political and scientific and sociological and cultural debates why why would anyone want me. Engaging in that kind of an incredibly powerful role who irrigated that power and to me to do that. And she said so even when it comes to for example history. You aren't capable of saying oh look this person is engaged in holocaust revisionism and therefore that's obviously disinformation and therefore should be removed from your platform. So actually I don't think I'm competent to assess claims about history to the point where obviously I have an opinion about them I think holocaust denialism or revisionism is grotesque I'm a Jew he said I my family parish in the holocaust. So it's not like I don't have opinions but I don't believe I should be playing that role. And it was incredibly controversial. The fact that he said that. And so if you talk to people who know Silicon Valley executives or if you talk to them themselves a much more complex and I think more disturbing vision arises about why there is so much censorship increasing censorship. When it comes to our political speech it's not necessarily because these tech executives want to be censoring. I mean even if you don't believe what I argued which is that their ethos and their impulse is more libertarian they believe in a free internet not one that's controlled. Even if you think that's naive of me just on the basis of self interest alone. If you're someone who runs Facebook or owns Google or runs Twitter and founded Twitter you don't want to be in the business of arbitrating political disputes and kicking people off your platform. It's a thankless task you never make anyone happy that way whenever you censor someone you're making someone happy but someone angry. And if you're a big corporation all big corporations want to avoid angering people they want to have everybody be welcome to use their service. But also they don't want to be people off their platform they want to be growing the number of people who who are their users. So I think a big part of why we now live under a regime of such crossing crushing censorship. When it comes to what was supposed to be this emancipatory technology which is the internet is not necessarily because these tech giants wanted to censor but because this obligation was foisted upon them. By a mixture of corporate journalists who use shame and all kinds of coercive tactics to pressure these companies to censor more.  This extremism to take root on his platform or Jack Dorsey does or or Google does and you know billionaires despite being billionaires are also human beings who live in our society and they don't want to have that kind of shame attached them they feel that they feel when the New York Times and CNN and NBC News use their gigantic megaphones to disparage and destroy the reputations of these corporate executives on the grounds that they're not censoring enough. That shame is a strongly felt emotion human beings were all tribal and you know as recently as 5000 years ago if we were cast out of our tribe it meant that we wouldn't survive we would die. So belonging to society is an important impulse just instinctively that we have and that's why shame is such a powerful tool so it's amazing that it is journalists or more accurately employees of media corporations I think it's their job title as journalists I think what they really are our employees of media corporations that you think about them that way it all makes more sense have really taken the lead in pressuring these companies to undertake this role. And the Democratic Party has used its power has abused its political power in order to force these companies to censor in accordance with their ideology let me just give you one example that I think illustrates this really well. So for a long time, whenever I and others would argue that Facebook and Google and Amazon and Apple had become classic monopolies and violation of the antitrust laws that their powers were too great to allow a free market to thrive that no competition was possible. The answer was to those of us saying that that's not true if you want to go and create your own social media platform that allows more permits to free speech and Facebook and Google and Twitter you can just go and create your own social media company that you like more. And there were people who heard that argument that who were complaining about political censorship on Twitter and Facebook and Google and who heard that that that kind of dare look if you don't like what is being done on these platforms go create your own. And they did they they said you know what that's that's true we should go do that and they were actually not people despite the media narrative who are Trump supporters who did that they were actually more libertarians people would actually worked in the Ron Paul movement the rant with Ron Paul, mostly libertarians who said you know what let's go and do that let's go just create our own company instead of whining to the government or whining to the media about how we don't like what these private companies are doing. And we'll prove that we can, there's a market for a platform that doesn't censor and they called that competitor parlor. And in January of 2021 after the January 6 riot after there were so much censorship in the weeks leading up to the 2020 election where Twitter and Facebook banned banned any discussion of reporting of the New York Post that reflected poorly on Joe Biden based on a lie concocted by the CIA that those emails from Hunter Biden's laptop or Russian disinformation Twitter banned any posting of the Lincoln and Facebook algorithmically suppressed the spread of the story, despite what was obvious at the time and what has since been proven which was those emails were totally authentic. When people saw that, and then saw Silicon Valley uniting to ban the sitting president in the United States the person who was elected president by the American people through the constitutional electoral process, basically banned from the internet for all intents and purposes, because he was banned from the sites most people use. Parlor became the number one, most popular, most downloaded at more popular than Facebook and tiktok and Instagram and Twitter. And it proved that there was this huge anger about the fact that there was no longer a free internet. And people were migrating to parlor in droves to the point where they really did become the single most popular down number one downloaded platform on both the Apple and Google stores. And when that happened, it really scared parts of the liberal app. And Alexandria Ocasio Cortez went on Twitter to her 12 and a half million Twitter followers. And she said, Apple and Google, how is it possible that you can allow this app to continue to be downloaded through your stores when so much of the extremism that led to January six is percolating on this platform. Now, what she said was a lot. As it turned out, there was a lot more planning of January six on platforms like Facebook and YouTube than there was on parlor. But that was her argument. She said, they're responsible for January six and by allowing them to be downloaded on your stores. You basically are having butt on your hands and then other prominent liberals, Democrats, who are prominent on social media like Ro Khanna made the same argument. And within 24 hours, 24 hours, Apple and Google use their monopoly power to kick parlor off of their stores so that it became impossible to download parlor from the Apple Play Store or Google. So if you had an Android or you had an iPhone, there was no longer any way to download parlor. And if you had already downloaded parlor, there'd be no way to get the updates that you need for it to continue being functional. And once Google and Amazon obeyed the demands of AOC and other Democrats to use their monopoly power to destroy parlor by preventing them from being downloaded any further. AOC went back onto Twitter and said, OK, congratulations, Google and Amazon Apple rather for having done the right thing. But Amazon, what about you? You're hosting parlor on your web services, which is a dominant company that hosts 80% of websites. Why are you allowing parlor to continue to operate on the web? The only place that you could continue to use parlor now that you could no longer use them on your phones within 24 hours after that, Amazon announced that they had removed parlor and canceled their contract. So within 48 hours at the behest of Democratic Party leaders, the combination of Apple, Google and Amazon, which the Democratic Party itself says are classic monopolies using anti-trust laws, had essentially completely destroyed parlor. The free speech alternative to Twitter, to Facebook and Google. So this idea that, oh, don't worry, there's a marketplace where you can go and compete with these companies where you can go and create a more free, positive free speech platform if you don't like is a myth. Because the Democratic Party and its allies in the media, which applauded the destruction of parlor by the Silicon Valley monopolies almost unanimously applauded it. Very few of us were actually denouncing it. So for me, the question of independent media is, you know, it's something that I've always regarded as crucial and that probably goes back to the way that I began my writing career. Some of you might know, it's a long time ago now, it feels like 10 lifetimes ago, but in 2005, I was not a journalist. I had no public platform to talk about politics. I was a constitutional lawyer working in New York. And by early 2005, I had moved to Brazil because I met my Brazilian husband and kind of had to have a career change. I obviously couldn't keep being a lawyer if I was living in Brazil. And so in late 2005, I created my own blog. At the time there was free blog creation software from Google called Blogspot. And I just went and I just hit create blog. It was literally that easy. And suddenly I had my own blog and I had a blank screen every day and I could fill it up with whatever I wanted. I had no editor. I had no corporations, no advertisers telling me what I couldn't say. I just was saying whatever I wanted to say. And my motive at the time was that I had, I really believed and obviously still do that civil liberties in 2005 were under grave assault, grave assault by these very radical theories of executive power that had been implemented in the name of the war on terror by the Bush Cheney administration. They were secretly spying on Americans, not just foreign nationals, but Americans without the words required by law, asserting the power to ignore Congress. Obviously engaging in new wars without congressional approval, just trampling over the Constitution and basic rights. And I did not believe that there was anywhere near sufficient attention being paid because the corporate media was largely on their side. And by creating a blog to focus on these issues and using my expertise as a constitutional lawyer to be able to do it. I developed a large audience very quickly, in part because liberals and Democrats and they love to forget that this was the case, but were the main supporters of my work, because I was very harshly criticizing George Bush and Dick Cheney, and they were pretending at the time to care about civil liberties. But I also had developed really early on a large component of my audience and readership, which were libertarians, because some of the leading and most vocal and most insightful voices against the war on terror against the war in Iraq. Were really not on the left, but were people like Ron Paul and Pat Buchanan and the Kato Institute. And within I think maybe six months of my creating a blog I had written a book, I was asked to write a book on the civil liberties abuses and the first place that I went to present my book was the ACLU and the second place I went was the Kato Institute. And that was possible this kind of construction of an audience that was focused on the abuses of civil liberties by the war on terror which the media was petrified of questioning. And the ability to create an audience that really was ideologically diverse and mixed it really wasn't left or right. It was a huge group of people who had come together on a common concern for civil liberties that was possible only because independent media had finally begun to have the technology the tools to reach large audiences without having to go to work for the New York Times or NBC News where you could never have done what I was doing. So independent media has been central to my work since the time that I began working as a journalist. And one of the things that I noticed that was a very formative formative factor or episode in my career was the fact that from 2005 to 2008 the popularity of my writing and I eventually after about a year and a half got invited to go work at salon which was this less liberal online magazine one of the first it was a pioneer of internet journalism because of the popularity of my blog. It was in large part because so many liberals and Democrats had come to love my work because they saw it as a criticism of George Bush and Dick Cheney a cudgel that can be used against them. And when Barack Obama campaigned on the grounds that he was going to reverse the civil liberty assaults reverse the abuses of the war on terror citing the fact that he was a constitutional lawyer because I was still kind of naive I was only two or three years into writing about politics actually took that seriously I thought he meant that and I know it sounds preposterous with hindsight but at the time he was very convincing he's a very good politician. And a lot of liberals were applauding him with such passion because they had convinced themselves that they cared so much about civil liberties. And then when he won and then in early 2009 he sent his lawyers into court under Eric Holder to argue in favor of the very Bush Cheney war on terror policies that he had spent the campaign bowing to a brute. And then eventually began expanding them even beyond the point where they were to the point where he even claimed the power to target American citizens for assassination by drone. Without even bothering to have to go to a court to charge the person with a crime let alone present evidence of their guilt as the Constitution requires. It became obvious to me that he was at least as great of a menace to civil liberties as George Bush and Dick Cheney were, and in many ways worse because he had cultivated this image that he was somehow so sensitive to civil liberties as this kind of softer more cerebral president who had this constitutional lawyer pedigree and in some ways he was a lot more dangerous to the civil liberties cause then Bush and Cheney were able to be because of how kind of blunt they were in their attack on it. And my ability to then continue to criticize harshly Barack Obama and maintain some of my audience but also find another one is, you know, essentially only was a possible because of independent media because I wasn't being forced into the left wing or the right wing camp. And then I was able to start asking liberals who claim for so many years to care so deeply about anti war issues and civil liberties issues. Why it was if they were so devoted to the Democratic Party, which was starting new wars in Libya and elsewhere which was running roughshod over civil liberties under Obama when you had a presidential candidate and Ron Paul who although he has some positions and the ethical to the Democrats into the left had many, including being one of the first and most vocal opponents of the war on drugs and the punitive criminal justice system that it engendered and speaking so forcefully against war and against civil liberties abuses and defense of privacy rights and basic constitutional guarantees where I was able to ask freely, why is it that he's not more appealing to people on the left than given what it is if they pretend to believe in and so independent media was crucial to my whole trajectory. And I think that, given what Silicon Valley is now doing independent media has never been more important. And so, ever since I left the media outlet that I created, which ironically tried to censor me for the first time in the week leading up to the election when I wanted to report on Joe Biden and Hunter Biden's emails and what reflected about Joe Biden China and Ukraine. I've been able to be much freer than ever before my journalism. And what you're seeing now is this kind of emergence of an independent ecosystem in the media. You see it with the immense popularity of people like Joe Rogan who's captive to nobody and who doesn't have any corporate backing and yet has five, six, seven, 10 times the audience of even primetime cable shows with all of their corporate backing. You see it with the emergence of platforms like substack and rumble, which is a free speech competitor to YouTube and to and now a new podcast app that I've been working with it called Colin. I think you're going to start to see an even further migration a disappearance of the audience that had paid attention to and trusted corporate media slowly realizing that neither large big tech platforms nor corporate media can provide a reliable way for people to communicate with one another or disseminate information and that only truly independent platforms that vow when there's an idea you just like or disagree with not to try and delete it or censor it but to engage it in reason discourse. So these are the only platforms that are going to restore faith and credibility in journalism and in political discourse in general and so actually am very optimistic that I think the attack and corporate media and the Democratic Party have gone so far, have been drunk with power so inevigorated with the righteousness of their cause especially once they began fighting Donald Trump and convince themselves that they were defending democracy against the fascist takeover when once you start believing that your cause is that noble and lady historically anything becomes justifiable I think they've become so extreme that they're generating a backlash that has been very helpful in fueling the rise of independent media and for me that has become my overarching cause is to work with and promote and fortify and use my platform to strengthen those platforms that are truly devoted to independent media because I think therein lies our salvation the ability to engage in free inquiry and free discourse without that. We're just kind of serfs being propagandized without any means of combating it so you know I think that covers a lot. Like I said I think all of these issues are are integrated in my work but also in the political culture generally. So let me thank you once again for inviting me here and I'll try and leave as much time as possible for questions. Alright well thank you Glenn very much we have microphones out here I think we have those portable ones maybe we can throw around the room or do we have the old fat we have the old fashioned kind of better not throw these. Glenn just want to thank you for your courage. You and I probably are completely opposite in our world view and yet we are completely united in our willingness to speak freely and I just want to thank you personally for that I am curious my first interaction with you many years ago was with Snowden and I'm curious just on a personal note how you landed that how did that go are you still in touch with Snowden and just want to hear your thoughts about that. Yeah so you know interestingly I mean I'm glad you brought that up because the reason Edward Snowden came to me once he decided that he had discovered something that he couldn't in good conscience allowed or a main hidden which is at the NSA had unbeknownst to everybody converted the internet into the most extreme tool of social coercion and political surveillance ever known to humanity. The reason he came to me with that archive that he wanted to work with me was because he had been a reader of mine. Over the course of the last several years and he had I think it's well known had donated money to Ron Paul's campaign he had at the time Libertarian ethos. And he's talked to about before how he also thought that you know Barack Obama was going to reverse a lot of these abuses and was so disappointed when he didn't. And so the reason he came to me a lot of people assume is because I shared his antipathy to mass surveillance but the reality was it was much more because I always was a critic of excessive journalistic deference or subservience to the security he was worried that he was going to unravel his life to present this archive to a paper like the Washington Post of the New York Times and they would publish one or two documents collect their Pulitzers and be intimidated or persuaded by the government not to publish the rest and he knew that that wouldn't be my case so he contacted me in late 2012 anonymously it took a few months to kind of create a climate of trust. And by the time he was ready to meet he was already in Hong Kong which was a place he had chosen because he felt like it was safe for us to meet where the United States couldn't get a hold of us while we were working together. You know and the rest journalistically is history we were able to do the reporting freely we got threatened by the government for a year with prison. But it won a Pulitzer and a Polk and a film was made about our work that won an Oscar and so the government's hands were tied to really persecute us. Snowden unfortunately did get charged with multiple felonies and he saw the asylum in Russia. A place he never wanted to be they kind of forced him to to to remain there when he was trying to leave to get to Latin America where he intended to see refuge. So he's been there for the last eight years. It's a disgrace that our government forces him to stay in Russia because the second he steps foot outside of it they will nab him and put him in prison for the rest of his life. But on the other hand you know he was able to marry his longtime girlfriend who we had at the time who we met in the United States Lindsey Krause who he married they now have a baby. He lives in Moscow he's able to do interviews and speeches he wrote a book he's able to participate in the debate that he helped galvanize. We talk all the time where we're good friends to this very day. We both founded a group to defend press freedom called freedom of the press foundation and so look you know it's not great that he's trapped in Russia and can't leave but compared to what we thought was going to be his almost certain outcome which was being apprehended by the United States and put in a maximum security cage for the next 50 years of the rest of his life on national security crimes.  And one of the things I always say when people ask is the person I know in my life who is the most kind of at peace with who they are. And the most content with what they've done with their lives despite all the threats despite the limitations is Edward Snowden because he gets to put his head down on his pillow every night knowing that when forced with the choice of being brave and sacrificing his own liberty and his own life for the public good or being a coward and kind of going along with the crowd he chose the former option and I think there's no substitute for having a clean conscience when it comes to being happy in life. Glenn Glenn has a hard finish in just a few minutes so can we take one more quick question. Okay back in the all the way in the back. Glenn. What has happened to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. They used to be a very sincere friend of free speech. You know I think that what has happened to them is the same thing that has happened to so many groups which is on the one hand, there is a huge sector of American political life that got caught up in this insane mania that Donald Trump was this unprecedented threat to all things decent. The conspiracy that consumed the American media and our political life for four years was something that's going to take years to realize how insane it was the idea that the Kremlin had infiltrated American institutions and basically controlled the government through clandestine blackmail for over Donald Trump but they kept feeding on this mania with each other that he was the new Hitler that he had sold the United States out to Russia that they basically relinquished all of their previously held principles I don't mean just EFF but I mean, a lot of these institutions were affected in general including the ACLU, because this group think led them to believe that they could no longer afford principles that they had to, they were involved in a war on the front line to protect everything decent and that meant you couldn't afford principles that were a war of power. I think the other problem with the EFF is that they always have been very close to Silicon Valley funded by Silicon Valley and so as Silicon Valley became more aligned with the Democratic Party and liberal politics and started doing more EFF lost his ability to be this kind of independent force to be a bulwark against the kind of censorship they once would have condemned when we created the freedom of the press foundation that I just alluded to at Edward Snowden. One of the founders was Barlow who was crucial to the founding of EFF and was an outspoken proponent his whole life for a free internet a free and an open internet and to watch EFF kind of fall into the same group bank as so many other groups is kind of sad but I think that's what explains it. Okay we are going to let Glenn run so let's have one more round of applause for the great Glenn Greenwald. Thank you everybody really appreciate it. Thank you very much Glenn. Good talk to you.


Hi everyone, happy Sunday. I'm Joe for jaspyscasebrakes.com. I think about a week from now. I think exactly seven days from now, maybe earlier in the day. Our first World Cup match will be happening. I think it's Cutter versus Ecuador. I think might be the opening match. The host country will get their own day. So we're almost there ladies and gentlemen and we've got a nice World Cup promo happening. So check out the details of that on jaspyscasebrakes.com. Now let's do this one box break of 2022 Panini National Treasures. FIFA Road to the World Cup Soccer. There you go. So here are the people that bought their teams straight up. Thank you. David B ended up with a triple last bottom mojo there. Got the last three teams. Before I pull the remaining teams to create a R&B, a random number lock. So we did that randomizer in a different video. There is the results right there. And we only have two boxes from that case left. So the next break will be the final box. Alright. Now let's use a die to select which box we're going to do. We're going to go one, two, three for the top box and four, five, six for the bottom box. And it's six. One, two, three, four, five, six bottom box. And so the next one will be Pick Your Team 29. And that's already in the store. No filler yet. So if you missed out on grabbing your team straight up, do not miss out next time. Now for the purposes of the World Cup promo, we're giving away that World Cup promo spot you saw in the item description, that we're going to randomize the countries, not your names, the countries. So if the country on top happens to be one of those random number block teams, right, which is Argentina, France, England, Netherlands, Portugal, United States, then I'll randomize that list of names right there and then the name on top will get that World Cup promo spot. All that's in the item description. Alright. Now without further ado, let's see what we got here. Alright. We're going to lead off with Luis Sinisterra, 54 out of 99. That'll be for Brazil. That'll be for David. Or check that. That'll be for Columbia. That'll be for Daniel. Sorry. Next up, three out of 25 for Sweden. That's Emil Forsberg. Daniel with Sweden. Oh, we got a dual autograph. Are these players? I know, but this player is on. Yeah, they're both on the same club. We got dual autographs for Spain. That's Anzu Fatih and Miquel Orir Zabal. Orir Zabal plays for Real Sociedad. Of course, Anzu Fatih is with Barcelona.  Could be a big World Cup for him. David B, Spain. Last thought, Mojo. Very nice. Alright. Next one. 45 out of 49. Diago Dalot for Portugal. Portugal's a number block team, so we go by that digit right there if you're not familiar with it. 45. So that's Steve H with Portugal 5. We got Giuseppe Rossi, 4 out of 25. That is for Italy. That'll be for David B. Common conno... No, unfortunately not. That box in the store is our last box, just in general. So if you want to try to get into the last box, I would do so. After that, we don't have any more. 97 out of 99, Jack Reelish, until we get more. But I don't know if we are. Prices might be kind of wild at this point. Just a week out from the World Cup. Here's England's Jack Reelish going to number 7. And that'll be for Randy on the number 7. We got to 99. Arturo Vidal. Legendary Sancturus. Nice. 97 out of 99. And that's going to go to Chile. That'll be for Daniel Smith. Well, not here. Common country. Not here. That doesn't happen here. And that goes to Daniel and Chile. And we got Patrice Evra for Le Bleu, for France. 18 out of 25. France's number block team right there. That goes to number 8. And that'll be for Mark on the number 8. A couple more here to 49. We got Serginio Dest for the United States. U.S. is a number block team. 37 out of 49. Randy with the number 7. Last one to another American. Landon Donovan to 99. National Archives, Inc. And that's 37 out of 99. And that'll be for Randy with the number 7. With that extra spot that you want coming in handy. Nice. And there you go, gang. We got one more box left in the store. A one box pick your team. But now let's see who's going to get that World Cup spot. So like I mentioned, we're going to grab all the teams right here and randomize them. And if it lands on a number block team, then we're randomizing the number block names and see whose name ends up on top. Good luck, everybody. Let's roll it. Randomize it one into three, four times for the teams. One, two, three, and fourth and final time. After four, name on top or team on top is going to be very close, Daniel. It's going to be Columbia. Oh, that's for Daniel. There's no doubt about it, Daniel. There you go. There's Columbia on top. That's Daniel Smith. Daniel, we'll see you in the World Cup promo. Jaspyscasebreaks.com. Bye-bye.


Live from Orlando, Florida, extracting a signal from the noise. It's theCUBE covering Pentaho World 2015. Now your host, Dave Vellante and George Gilbert. Hi, everybody. We're back. This is theCUBE. We're live here at Pentaho World. This is day one of a two-day CUBE event. We're going to go wall-to-wall coverage. Kevin Eagleston is here. He's the Senior Vice President of Social Innovation at Hitachi. Kevin, welcome to theCUBE. So, you do a lot of Twitter? Is that the deal? So, I am now tweeting, but I sort of asked to have it done. You know, I looked up on Twitter and was like, wow, it's not a huge social graph. Social innovation, of course, Hitachi. Let me just have a shout-out to Michelle. So, I love this story. I love the acquisition. When it first happened, first of all, I liked it because I thought it was a nice play for Hitachi data systems content, you know, business. But now, having heard you today and start to think about the amazing opportunity, $80 billion company, an industrial giant, the fit that Pentaho has. So, congratulations on picking up a gem. Thanks so much. Really amazing. Yeah, we've gotten a lot of words and congratulations that you bought the right company. That's how we feel. So, let's help our audience understand what social innovation at Hitachi is all about and your internet of things and big data vision. Sure. So, as you saw in my presentation, social innovation is our IoT and big data strategy. The longer story of that is that it really reflects the 105-year sort of motto that we live by at Hitachi and that is that we've always wanted to take what we're really good at and solve big problems and make a difference in the world. And that's the social aspect or the societal aspect of what social innovation is all about. But now it reflects our IoT and big data strategy and we think that delivering IoT solutions solving big IoT problems is the best way to make a difference. So, people think, historically, Hitachi, Hitachi data systems, mainframes, storage, but Hitachi Consultant, you guys got server infrastructure, you've got obviously industrial aspects of your business, medical. Talk about that business and how it's the scope of the traditional HDS team is expanding. Sure. So, Hitachi, historically, has been operated like a conglomerate. So, it's over 900 companies operating pretty independently and HDS being one. We've been around a long time as you guys know. You've worked with us over 30 years independent U.S.-based, Silicon Valley-based company focused globally in the IT space. The Internet of Things has really brought us all together. What it's driving is with us, kind of at the pointy end, especially Pentaho at the very pointy end of this, this new revolution of IoT means that this is the time for the industrial side and the IT, big data, analytics sides to all come together to bring solutions to market. So, move from a pure product in a particular industry to a real solution to an IoT or big data problem. So, I'm very interested in the go-to market. How do you see that playing out? I'm probably still figuring it out, but Pentaho to me is like, I'm reminded of Napoleon Hill. A little lever can make a huge game-changing difference. And Pentaho, you're talking about tip of the spear, how do you plan to go to market with Pentaho and build solutions? Sure, so Pentaho specifically, there are two paths. We're taking this huge sales force that HDS has. 2,000 people globally in the field, plus the Japanese Hitachi sales force to grow Pentaho's organic business. So everything Pentaho does and has proven itself in the market to do, it's going to be a vast expansion. That's what we call synergy, our synergy play. And then, embedding Pentaho and everything we do from a solution perspective. So you see Pentaho over time embedded in the solutions we bring to market. So how did the acquisition come about? Because when I saw it, I was like, hmm, that's interesting. And then I started to understand it a little bit better. So take us back to... Sure, I'll go back a couple years. We've done a lot of acquisitions and our style of acquiring is let's date and then let's decide if this makes sense, if this relationship makes sense.  We internally wanted to make an acquisition that did what Pentaho did for us, in terms of strategic direction into IoT and big data. We looked at over 100 companies, but as we were looking at over 100 companies, we started to build a relationship with Pentaho because it was pretty clear that they stood out to us as a great match for us. So we put an OEM agreement in place so that we would start the process of embedding and in the meantime get to know each other. There was simply no question who the best acquisition was and that was Pentaho. So GE made a lot of noise about industrial internet. They put an investment in Pivotal, which I think they seem to be, you know, on part of it sort of back peddling. Their idea sounds at least superficially like yours where they were going to be drawing sensor data from all their equipment and in some sense adding a service capability back to it all, whether it's, you know, selling uptime for jet engines, you know, or uptime for turbines, you know, for power dams or whatever. How is what you're doing different and the choice of tools is very different that the two companies made. How does that reflect the two strategies? Yeah, so they are two strategies, but they are very similar. We've actually have compared notes with GE because GE is actually a great partner of Hitachi's. So we have a joint venture in the nuclear business. We do a lot of business on the HDS side with a couple of different parts of GE and GE is a great Pentaho partner as well. So they embed Pentaho in a solution that they have. So what's different about between the two companies is, you know, besides the fact that it's an American or Japanese company, is that GE didn't have their own big IT operation, right? It had been sold off some time ago. In fact, I think Quinton has a history with that side of GE. We did. So GE made an investment in Pivotal and partners with a lot of companies and we would expect that over time because our goal in IoT is we just want to make that pie bigger, faster. And it's a very big pie, the IoT pie. We think a partnership with GE, yeah, you know, in many companies will it be some competition, no question about it. We think a partnership also is a good plan. Talk about the TAM a little bit. You threw up some big numbers today. I think I saw one number, seven trillion. Whoa, that caught my attention. That was sort of the value creation. And then I think still, two trillion was the market you're going after. Talk about the TAM, how you look at it. So seven trillion represents the entire IoT market according to IDC for 2020. And then we actually hired a consulting company to take a look at everything that we do commercially and match it to what that market looks like and it's about a two trillion dollar market. And the way we look at it though is maybe a little different. We're a commercial, publicly owned company that we need to drive returns to shareholders so a two trillion dollar TAM gets our attention and all. But we also look at that as that's an investment that people are making around the world in IoT solutions for which they expect they're going to get a return. So that return means that that impact of IoT in the world and the impact that we can have is much greater than two trillion dollars in terms of economic growth and standards of living and health care outcomes, more efficient transportation, so many ways to have a real impact and that's the other way we look at that big TAM. That's potentially conservative. You know, a seven to two ratio. I could see it being a lot bigger. You know, and it's a very long-term market, right? This isn't going to be one of those you know, up and down kind of things. This is decades. Well, I wanted to ask you that. I saw a chart the other day and it showed disruptions in the industry. It showed a mainframe and then mini and then internet, you know, PC and then internet and it showed IoT is lower than those curves. I said, I don't get it. Less disruptive? I talked to the person who did the chart and he said, well, it's the guys who own the things that are going to evolve to dominate internet of things. So value creation, bigger than all of those. But in terms of disruption, it's the guys who, it's the GEs, the Hitachi's who have the infrastructure in place that are going to you know, profit from this. Does that make sense to you? And not only profit, it does, and not only profit, but they're in the best position to actually drive the value for the clients, whether it's cities trying to become smart cities or whether it's hospitals trying to deliver better outcomes or it's other industrial sorts of plays. We're just in a unique position to be able to do that. So that leads me to the ecosystem question. So talk about your ecosystem, how deliberate you will be around IoT. Obviously, you can't go it alone. It takes more than a village. It takes a glow. Talk about your ecosystem strategy. Yeah, so it's huge. It's going to take a huge ego for all of us. And if you're not partnering to deliver value in this space, you can't be successful. You can't be selfish. You can't be a not invented here kind of a company. And so, we're very, one of the reasons that you heard from me that we acquire Pintaro is because we're moving down the open source path. So you see increasingly in our software business becoming more and more open source and as a service model as well. So we incorporate a lot of open source technologies in our solutions and in our stack. We're part of our future, no question about it. And while we're really good at a lot of things, we have tremendous scale in terms of innovation, technology and people. All the 500 data scientists we have, we also recognize we're not good at everything. There are companies who are better at elements of a solution or a stack or however you want to look at it. So we're not at all proud about saying, okay, we're good at that. We will build that. We're going to partner for this. We'll OEM for that. We'll license for this. So just to understand the different strategies just because GE has been somewhat vocal or somewhat articulate at least over here about what their intentions are. So they might say, rather than sell a jet engine, we're going to sell flying time. If you were in the jet engine business and you're packaging up something that includes Pentaho and other things, what would you be selling? So rather than jet engines I'll tell you what we're doing in the train business because that's a business that we're really big in. So we make bullet trains and all of that. So in the UK, we've won a series of train contracts, which traditionally in the old days would be locomotives and carriages and some services and all of that. That's transportation as a service now. So we have a 28-year contract in England and across the UK actually that's purely SLA-driven as transportation as a service, much like your example with jet engines. And so what that means is that we will, we're providing all the investment, the capital investment. We've supplied as a service to SLA levels. We leverage big data and analytics to drive the normal efficiencies, better customer experience, and we're incented to be as good as possible at that. Well, and then the other thing you said in your talk is you've digitized or begun that journey internally and that's huge, right? When you think about IoT you think about digitizing everything. Can you talk a little bit more about that and sort of what you've learned through that process? Sure. So, as we at HDS and Pentaho have gotten to know our colleagues around the different industrial elements or sections of Hitachi, what's clear is one is that they're always known as, no matter what business it is, like you knew us in the mainframe of the storage business as being the best in class, like never break and that's been the case across all of our industrial solutions and products as well. And in order to do that, we've always had to be the most advanced. So we've sensorized everything that we do and we collect data on everything that we do so that we can deliver great reliability whether we're making a compressor or a wind turbine or a gas turbine or whatever it is. And so we've sensorized it and then we turn that into valuable data to just make stuff run better and now ultimately to provide new revenue models for our customers. Kevin, you also said in your keynote we want to be more like Pentaho. We want to look more like them. What did you mean by that? I mean you talked about open source but what did you really mean by that? Yeah, what I meant by that is that like I said before, we've been just an industrial conglomerate so really good at widgets a lot of different widgets but Pentaho is good at is blending data they are the big data future and IOT future for you but that's why all of these customers use and embed Pentaho what they do and their open source and their fresh and young and new to the industry all of that if we were to suck them in and try to make Pentaho look like us, they die they would just sort of dissipate and we'd lose all the power of that what all of our Hitachi colleagues and us at HDSC and Pentaho this is the direction of the universe. This is where business is going, where IT and industry is going they've got a model, whether it's subscription based, whether it's all the things they do technologically and open source, that everything that they do, that's what we want to be and they've figured out how to do it and they've made money doing it. I've followed Hitachi, had a relationship with them for over, well over 20 years, 20, 25 years been to Japan a bunch of times, been to Otawara a bunch, was always cloudy, could never see Mount Fuji, but it was always a company that thought for the long term so I want to ask you, this week we saw an acquisition or announced Dell EMC you've seen companies like Informix go private, you know, DMC Dell went private so that they could take a longer term view as somebody who's been in that business competing against DMC for all these years, you guys must be thinking, is this really how it ends? What does it say about the industry that we're in generally and Hitachi's strategy specifically? Having worked in other companies that were publicly held American headquartered companies, we're very different even though we're publicly held, retreated on the Tokyo Stock Exchange at all, we're still the Japanese long term business culture permeates everything that we do I've always felt as though it's much more like working for a private company, we're certainly driven to produce return to our investors, you know, all of that but the attitude is different there's not that, you know, last two weeks of a quarter desperation to get to an earnings per share number and do unnatural things that are good for the short term and horrible for the long term, we really have worked very much like that as Hitachi and as a subsidiary of Hitachi's, so I think that we've already we have the benefit of that we're super excited for the road ahead we're out of time but I'll give you the last word Kevin so, thinking about sort of the bumper sticker on this event and as a launch pad for the future of of social innovation, what's the tag line, what's the bumper sticker? Well, I'm going to go back to how we look at the Internet of Things and this is what the Pentaho acquisition was all about and that is that we want to play in the we want to be a dominant player in the Internet of Things space, specifically in the Internet of Things that matter, where we can make a big difference, that's what it's all about huge opportunity for value creation and it's not just about as you said before, the profit from the vendor it's about the value that you're creating downstream so, as I say, we're super excited thanks so much for coming on theCUBE, but thanks for having us here yeah, well thanks for coming it's really fun to have you guys here, you've really spiced it up yeah, it's really our pleasure keep right there everybody, we'll be back to wrap we're live here at Pentaho World 2015 this is theCUBE, right back


Yeah. So a second topic today is Nintendo announced something that is very weird, to be honest, the 2DS XL. And it releases on July 28th. It costs $149.99. Essentially what it is, is a new Nintendo 3DS XL without 3D, which, you know, the 2DS is a 3DS without 3D, except it doesn't have a clamshell design. This does have a clamshell design. It is quite literally a new Nintendo 3DS XL. You mean an ergonomic design. A new ergonomic clamshell design, you know, you mean just like the 3DS. So the reason I think it's such a weird announcement is I'm trying to understand the marketplace for this system. So it costs $149.99. The original 2DS costs $129.99, and that's often, especially during the holidays, discounted to $99. The 2DS, because it just releases this year, the 2DS XL, I'm sorry, probably won't have any discounts this holiday since it just came out, or it will be just coming out. I don't understand. I mean, okay, to frame things, you and me are not exactly excited about 3DS as it is right now, because the Switch has kind of sapped our excitement away from the 3DS. And we talked last week about how, what could bring us back? We know it was certain games that could bring us back. The 2DS XL is not something that's going to bring you back, obviously, because I already own a 3DS. And what I want to try to figure out, and maybe you can help me, is what's Nintendo doing? What's the market for another 2DS that is literally a 3DS XL without 3D? Which, again, I understand the market for the without 3D. Yeah. What I don't understand is, like, why does, like, you already have the 2DS XL, which was built to be more durable, harder to break for kids. And the clamshell has always been easier to break. So it's obviously going to be for older kids, but older kids can have 3D. Yeah. You just have to be over the age of six. Yeah. So, I mean, what's the point? That it's $20 cheaper than 3DS? Yeah. And even 3DS is used, you can get them for, like, $150 and under? Yeah, I don't, I really have no clue where they're going with this. Yeah, you did. No, it's, I'm just really confused. I'm not confused in what Nintendo's clear messaging here is. And it's that 3DS isn't going anywhere. They're going to keep that thing going. As much as I feel like they need to stop, they're not. They're not going to listen to me. Nintendo's going to do what they do. Yeah. So, good on them. Kudos. Yada, yada, yada. Congratulations, Nintendo. But I just don't understand.   Yeah, but the reality is the 3D, if parenting is done right, it's probably been turned off. But yeah, I was going to say, even then, even though I had a 3DS, I don't think I ever, hardly ever took on a 3D. Now, see, that's a point there. If you're someone out there that wants to get a 3DS and wants to get it cheap, but you don't care about 3D, this could fit into the market. Yeah, that would be about the only market I could see besides maybe some kids, but. I still don't, that's the thing. I don't care about the 3D. Is it really that big of a market, though? I don't know. Well, okay, to put it this way, I think, based on my experience being around other people who play 3DS, I'm pretty sure it's like 80% of 3DS players don't really care about the 3D. I mean, maybe for a new game, they'll turn it off for a second and see how cool it is and then get bored of it. And the main reason is obviously because on the original 3DS, it was really easy to, it was really angle based on if the 3D worked or not, so it was really easy to bug out your eyes. The new 3DS fixed it with face tracking, and so like you could turn it a lot more and it stays like a good 3D image, so you don't get as big addicts. But still, it's kind of one of those things that 3D is more of a novelty. It's kind of like when you think of 3D movies, movies come on 3D versus 2D, the 2D movies always sell out before the 3D movies do. Right, I'm still, I still have yet really to find a 3D movie that really actually needs to be in 3D. Well, I don't think movies need to be in 3D. I think the idea of 3D, especially for like movies, and I didn't even say for video games now, is that it's supposed to make you feel more immersed, and if I feel like 3D is on half step, virtual reality is immersed. Like if they took a movie like Avatar, which is probably the only movie out there that made 3D almost feel like it improved the experience a little bit, if they could turn that into a virtual reality everywhere I look around me, I'm in the world of Avatar as this movie is going on, that would be cool. And that's what virtual reality video games are like. So I kind of feel like 3D doesn't matter anymore. I think it's cool that its glass is free 3D, but it's still just one of those things that I think the 3DS, if nothing else, has proven that 3D isn't a really mainstream thing anymore.   Usually you see 4K curved, you know, things that consumers actually care about instead of 3D. So I guess I understand where the 2DS XL fits in. But I feel like this is what it fit in like two years ago, better than it fits in today. Right. It seems like they're just trying to leg along the this type of handheld and just kind of Yeah. Okay. So Nintendo has done a lot of interesting things with 3DS in terms of like now you got faceplates for the new 3DS, the new 3DS XL and the old 3DS XL, you could buy like they like with every game that came out there like a new custom designed 3DS you can get like collectors or want to keep buying it. And I wonder if like the idea of the 2DS XL isn't necessary to build a bigger consumer base, but they just sell more 3DS units and make more money off of the same hardware to people who just got to own every type of 3DS. Yeah. And that feels weird because like why would Nintendo release a product that's such a limited audience that you know, doesn't have the money to keep buying all these 3DS hardware. But that's the thing I just at this point in time, I don't know what the point is of a 2DS XL. Again, yes, you know, $20, $50 cheaper, I guess that Nintendo 3DS XL, which is probably going to come down in price this year. And now that you say that, I thought the 3DS wasn't going anywhere. This to me kind of almost seems like a final nail in it because like you said, most people really don't care about the 3DS aspect of it. At least most people that I didn't know anyways, I'm sure there's people out there that do. Yeah, if you're in the audience and you love the 3DS right? No, definitely. It's cool. It is cool. But it is really cool. Especially like the using the 3D when you're doing the AR games. Yeah, that came with it came with 3DS. Yeah, that's cool. I wish there was more they did with that, right? Right. But this being, you know, how many dollars cheaper, I have a feeling that this is going to actually, you know, basically almost in a way, kill out the 3DS because if you can get for cheaper and you don't care about the 3D, why not? But at the same point, it's like, how could it kill the 3DS if everyone who wants it already has it? Like that's kind of where I am with the 3DS is yes, I realized the 3DS sold over 7 million units last year. Like that's that's great. Like that's millions of sales. But like how many of those were resales? Like people who used to want a 3DS sold it, got back to do it for Pokemon. Yeah, or one of the collectors edition Pokemon Southern Moon 3DS or something. Yeah, it's like one of those how many of these sales are just people who already own 3DS versus actual new customers. Right. And that's where I wonder is like, there has to be a cut off point for the 3DS eventually. If the Nintendo claims are going to keep running the switch and the 3DS simultaneously, they're going to have their own exclusive games. And there's going to be two separate markets. And that's fine. Nintendo has to say all this. I just, and maybe the 2DS XL is them trying to like re prove Hey, we're still dedicated to to pushing this 3DS unit. I just, I don't know what the end game here is. I was thinking it was the big money. But how much more money do they really think is in this 3DS market beyond, you know, games, which will sell to people who already own it. It's a tough position because we're both in a position where we don't really care as much about the system since the switch came out. So in the audience, you know, I'm not saying the 2DS XL is a bad system. I think if it had come out a couple years ago, that's the system I would own right now, instead of a new Nintendo 3DS XL. But that's just not the direction we're going in. See, Eric, a little upset over there. Sorry, shaking his head. But I don't really know what else there's to say. So are you excited for the 2DS XL? Let us know down in the comments below.


I'm going to show you a club that I guarantee will help you find fairies and it's the last club that you would ever think of picking up if you walked into a golf shop. Yet this video is not what I plan to make and to be honest with you when I first picked up this club this morning I thought do you know what and that you're going just too much down this route of the kind of a gimmick style video and maybe it is but I've already hit some golf balls with this club and I've got to say I'm amazed as is everybody else who's come and witnessed this along the way it has been a real eye-opener and you're going to see some results that I think are going to be quite shocking. Now for those of you who watch the channel quite a bit you'll know we've done some interesting videos in recent weeks and they've been really looking at considering what is the best type and style of clubs for average golfers because I really do believe that we're making this game perhaps a little bit more difficult than it needs be and there's plenty of help out there on the shelves that can make this life a little bit easier for us but this morning like I said I had a big big shock because I went and picked up a club that I'd not really seen before and I'd never take any notes of it pulled it out the bag took a look at it and the big thing was length of shaft size of head it was a junior driver and it was from Ping it's the Ping Prodigy Driver now don't switch off seriously hang on a minute because I like you thought this was like I've said in the intro a bit of a gimmick but what I've just had a little bit of a look at first of all is the technology that is in the Prodigy G Driver head is essentially what you're going to find in the G410 so the latest technology the latest driver technology from Ping it's then coupled with an extremely short shaft I don't know the length of the shaft but I'll put it on the bottom for you now I will have found that information out and I took it into the bay I've already hit this ball I've already hit numbers because like I said at first thought is this too much of a gimmick then I started it in golf balls and thought no this is a video that people need to see so we've got essentially a G410 a 460 drive ahead it's got turbulators and dragonfly technology and all them other things that you're finding a G410 in a very very short shaft one which I've no idea the length I think it's very similar to what you're finding sort of a seven iron six iron length of shaft that's how it feels let's get it and some balls on the camera and I'll tell you and show you what the biggest surprise I've had since doing these videos is when I test out this Prodigy G Driver from Ping now trust me stick around because this is not a gimmick video it started off like I said as possibly being one but I learned a huge lesson here this morning with the testing that I've done so we've got a 460cc head we've got a short shaft I've just picked out a 7 iron like I said I don't know the I'll throw down the number or I have done already in terms of length as you have but it's about an inch longer than what this 7 iron is from Zuno and this thing is about the test or what I did this morning was concentrate on one thing and one thing only control can I find that target line that center of the fairway so I wasn't worried about how far this went I was worried about what control I had could I drop the tempo of the swing really look to find a nice rhythm and just concentrate on control and that's the bit that shocked me massively because the answer is before we see the numbers before we see the spread I can tell you that yes I did and that's the reason we're doing the video right now if you look at some of the shots that I've hit here that are just playing over you can probably see that the swing is slowed down considerably and it's all concentrating on tempo it's still a full swing but I've very much it's all about control and I found that I could do exactly that with this shorter club and I cannot believe that in recent weeks yes I've learned that from the videos that we did that length of shaft was ultra important in terms of control and we looked at hybrids hybrids shafts in five woods and getting us that greater control and yet it definitely played a major part but this is this is taken to the extremes and I'm not suggesting that people go out and buy a Prodigy driver a junior driver that's not the purpose of the video the video is to take it to an extreme and prove to me as much as anybody else that control length of club shaft is mega important and control is everything we can't play from the rough you can't play from out of bounds you want to be in the middle of those fairways so this kind of shortened shaft our obsession that we have with distance with drivers is incredible that's all we want to do and what's that meant what that has meant is that every driver that is released by a manufacturer essentially has a 44 inch shaft in attached to it and that's incredibly difficult for us average golfers to control and this takes it to the opposite extreme and I cannot believe the confidence as this gives I played a mini driver and I play it for the sort of the same reasons as this but to put down a 460cc head that's got essentially the same tech as a G410 with a shaft length that is a little bit odd at first to get used to but believe me you'll overcome it when you hit a few golf balls I can assure you it's confidence inspiring and like I said for me just concentrating on tempo and I'll try and hit one on camera I mean I'm amazed at the results I'm amazed at where that ball has gone and I'm amazed at the control that I've got I can't believe it even so much as this lightweight shaft I've no particular issues with it to be quite honest with you I think if you do the couple that I tried when I when I tried to sort of step on it a little bit give it a bit of a hoof the lightweight shaft meant I lost a little bit of control in that sense but obviously that's not necessarily where you'd go with this like I said the idea is could you be looking at your driver with a much shorter shaft in it to gain that greater control and really shouldn't manufacturers be looking at driver heads but a lot shorter in terms of shaft length to give us that greater control but the issue is we don't want that we're obsessed with distance we don't want control we want distance and I think I mean seriously I really do wish you could see that ball because it is bullet straight right down the middle I've had people walk in here this morning laughing and then had a look at what I've done in terms of it in the golf ball and seriously I think they're all amazed as well as much as I am and my bet is this and I challenge you to do this most ping distributors have been have got a set of Prodigy Gs as a demo set for kids to come in and try next time you go in get over the embarrassment ask can you have a go of the Prodigy G driver take out on the driving range try it against yours and I'll bet you any money that this outperforms it in terms of control by a million miles seriously you I have no doubt that you will be as surprised as I am as shocked as I am what results you can get from that driver and it's a massive lesson to be learned but I'm going to hit one more ball because I love it in this thing we're going to have a look at numbers I'll give you the big reveal in terms of what I hit what I obtained in terms of distances what numbers I got how tightly packed my dispersion was and I'll give you an overall verdict let's even give this one a bit of a whack mate I swear to god that ball that ball has gone I could gain that well I've just been in a little bit of a coffee break and talk to the lads there and I can honestly say it's the biggest it's the most surprising video that I've done since I've started at YouTube and honestly that's how much surprise I've got in terms of this the control elements and let's get straight into no we won't start with numbers let's start with dispersion because ultimately that is what it's been all about have a look at this spread of numbers and you know if I'm honest with you I mean I'm a little bit where you would I'm an average golfer and in terms of I couldn't hit me seven iron as tightly grouped as what I've just done with that driver a 15 degree driver and I literally one after the other down the target line get your heads around that if you will but I will throw up the numbers next up for you but just look at this right there's a real ratio between clubbed speed and you can see where the sort of clubbed speed in relation to ball speed that is look how consistent it is on both elements but ball speed at 125 on average spinning at three and a half 185 carry 11 degree launch I mean a peak height of 57 it honestly did everything you'd want it to do in terms of the ultimate fairway finder that's the only way I could describe it in terms of the distance if I can carry a sort of 190 carry and I can get three and a thousand spin that's probably a 210 ball or in terms of running out on the fairways in height of summer are most courses that I play and probably you play 350 to 400 yard par fours that is more than enough for average golfers especially if it means that you're finding fairways and you're playing your second shot from the short stuff because I guarantee that most of us would benefit from playing from 200 yards on most par fours having a second shot in at greens from that short grass and I think it would make a massive difference to our scores but like I said the message is a quite simple one I suppose I apologize if this in any way came over as a gimmick video because I'm always conscious of doing what I would say gimmick video something that completely pointless and reviewing a kids club a junior club in in the first instance it's completely pointless but it's not about the club it's about the concept the concept of control and it went to the extreme to prove to me anyway that control is mega mega important and to get that greater control the shorter the shaft the more control we've got it's a very very simple message anyway as ever thank you for watching comments down below and I'll see you soon I ain't standing here too long because as you can probably see it's flipping Baltic in the UK right now but I enjoyed that video a lot as you can probably tell right see you soon


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The average life expectancy in the U.S. is 76 for men and 81 for women, as against 50 in the 1900s. Advances in health, education and disease prevention and treatments are said to be the reasons for the increase and that makes sense. But what you may not know is that similarly unimportant everyday habits or circumstances in your past can influence how long and how well you live. In this video, I will share with you 9 of these habits that show you will live more than 100. 1. You eat more vegetables, fruits and purple food According to the University of Michigan study of 700 participants in their 70s, women who consumed the most veggies and fruits had a 46% lower chance of dying over 5 years compared with those who ate them infrequently. Further studies also asserted that conquered grapes, blueberries, red wine all get that deep vibrant color from polyphenols. Polyphenols are compounds that help keep blood vessels and arteries flexible and healthy. They reduce heart disease risk and may also protect against Alzheimer's disease. Residents of Okinawa, Japan have one of the highest number of centurions in the world, 50 per 100,000 people. It is observed that old Okinawans consumed plant-based diets for most of their lives. Most of them have or had a garden. 2. Your pulse beats 15 times in 15 seconds 15 beats in 15 seconds amounts to 60 beats in 1 minute. Your heart rate changes from minute to minute. It depends on whether you are standing or lying down, moving around or sitting still, stressed or relaxed. When you have been at rest for a bit, the heart beat settles down. This is your resting heart rate. The average resting heart beat rate for a healthy person is 60 to 100 beats per minute. Scientific researchers have disclosed that men with fast resting heart rates were more likely to develop high blood pressure than those with slower speeds. The lower the heart rate at rest, the more effective the heart functions and the better the cardiovascular fitness. Director of the Women's Cardiovascular Center at Cleveland Clinic, Leslie Cho, once asserted that a lower heart pulse implies that your heart does not have to work as much and could last longer. 3. You have a positive outlook about life According to a 2012 study of 243 volunteers in the journal Agen, Nearing Centenarians share several personality traits, including optimism and joyfulness. Your mental health and perception of life plays a huge role in determining your lifespan. Your ability to adapt to life's changes and think positive, in worst case scenario, reduces mental stress and anxiety and increases longevity. According to a recent study of more than 500 men and women aged 78 and older from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, outgoing people are 50% less likely to develop dementia. The participants describe themselves as grateful individuals who are not easily stressed. When you think only negativity and pessimism, soul can isolate yourself, the chances of getting up to 100 is lower. Still, when your energy level is high and your view about the situation is full of life, then you are most likely going to stay alive till 100. 4. You love to work out Archives of internal medicine reported that a survey which was carried on 19,000 middle-aged adults found that the fittest amongst them were less likely to develop Alzheimer's, certain cancers, heart disease and type 2 diabetes in their 70s and beyond. Another study proved that middle-aged people who did a run for a total of about 5 hours per week no longer functioned better physically and cognitively as they got older. In essence, skip and fit can reduce your risk of diabetes, heart disease and other health complications. Furthermore, in every individual, age leads to loss of muscle mass. However, for a person who exercises, muscle mass is built and metabolism is revved up to maintain a healthy weight. Thus, if you are the type of person who loves to sweat it out, the chances are high that you would live up to 100 years of age. 5. You sleep well Working or sleeping around the clock is a wrong approach to living. A survey carried out by the School of Medicine in the University of California looked at 1.1 million adults between 30 and 102 years old, over 6 years and found that people who slept for 8 hours or more each night or less than 4 hours died earlier than those who slept somewhere in between. Shockingly, even people who slept only 5 hours each night on average lived longer than folks who snoozed for 8 hours or more. What this means is that the average hours of night sleep that individuals are expected to have is between 5 to 7 hours. Anything more or less can reduce the individual's lifespan. One attitude that many people develop when they are young is staying awake every day during the week and sleeping excessively at weekends. However, if you can get the recommended hours of sleep daily, there is a high possibility that your lifespan will reach and even exceed 100. 6. You hang around healthy people First, having good interpersonal relationship with people act as a buffer against stress. Knowing you have people who support you keeps you healthy, mentally and physically and can increase your longevity. The otherwise shortens your lifespan by 4 to 8 years. Also, the New England Journal of Medicine claims that if your friends gain weight, your chances of doing so increase by a whopping 57%. This claim shows that the healthier your friends are, the higher your chances of living longer. According to researcher Nicholas A. Christakis, to maintain a healthy lifestyle, it's important to associate with people who have similar goals. Of course, it does not mean that you should abandon your friends because of ill health. Instead, support them and help them to become healthier again. 7. You love to drink tea In a study of more than 40,500 Japanese men and women, those who drank 5 or more cups of green tea every day had the lowest risk of dying from heart disease or stroke. Other studies involving black tea showed similar results. Both green and black tea contains catechins which relax blood vessels. Drinking one or more cups of tea a day is excellent for your heart. So, if you naturally love to drink tea, there's a high chance that you will live longer. However, further studies have also shown that ready to drink tea is to not offer the same health benefits because once water is added to tea leaves, the catechins dissolve within a few days. Adding milk to your tea can also reduce the tea's protective effects on the cardiovascular system. So, you might want to opt for honey or lemon instead. 8. You'd rather walk than drive A recent study of 2,603 men and women showed that people who walked for about 30 minutes a day are more likely to live longer than those who walk less, regardless of how much body fat they have. Consequently, overweight women can improve their heart health by adding just 10 minutes of activity to their daily routine. Lower body strength translates into flexibility, the right balance and endurance which are essential to reducing the risk of falls and hip fractures which lead to a decline in the health of older people. Robert Butler, MD, president of the International Longevity Center USA, emphasizes that having weak time muscles is the number one predicator of frailty in old age. Hence, a person who would instead take a walk than drive or remain in the same position for a long time is more likely to be healthier and leave longer than one who is always in the driver or car owner's seat. 9. You feel 13 years younger than you are The old saying age is just a number is nothing but the actual truth. As you grow older it does not matter how old you are but how old you feel. A recent British study examined subjects who fill 3 or more years younger than their real age. It was concluded that these groups of 65-plus seniors were less likely to die over 8 years than were people who felt their age or older. Also, the study revealed that feeling older was linked to a 41% increased risk of dying. In other words, researcher Jacquie Smith, professor of psychology at the University of Michigan says the reason why feeling youthful is linked to better health and longer life is that the feeling improves optimism and motivation to overcome challenges. This improvement helps to reduce stress and boost your immune system and ultimately lowers your risk of disease. Research shows that there are more than 72,000 centenarians in America today and over 573,000 in the whole world. Do you want to be a part of this community later in the future? Then pay attention to your everyday practices.


We are at the Tops. This is the local grocery store. It's called Tops. Grabbed a little grub before we hit the road. Back to Colorado. Crazy day. But we did, before packing, manage to get in a few more flights. Up we go. Okay. Yeah. Yep. It's time. Good job. Okay. How was it? Okay, well they did not have spicy ones. Yeah. I just got the honey barbecue ones. That's all right. And then there was only two, maybe they're hammered turkey, so I got turkey. Okay. And then I got lemonade instead of a snack bowl. And a water. Perfect. And I'm so hungry and so excited. I know it's time. We are starting. Okay. We need food. Here. It's just time. I know. We just kind of, we haven't eaten since breakfast. That's how it happened. Yeah. Yeah. This is your wallet and the thing.  I'm going to pay my homage to the great Yankees. I'm a Yankee fan. Six months ago the vlog got really serious. Up the right hand corner, click on that vlog. It's called Losing Pearls with Joe DiMaggio. In that vlog I'm reading a book on Joe DiMaggio. Bottom line is I am a history buff and I love the New York Yankees. They are a part of New York history and American history, really. Why am I a Yankee fan? My mom has nine siblings.