They're all black women, are nerds, very few. I may be less than 1% in the world. I think my mum would say I'm destructible. I never can stick to one thing for too long. But it's not that. It's been one thing has evolved into another, into another. For me actually where electrocouture started was a point of frustration while I was working in a tech environment surrounded by boys and there was a uniform. And the uniform was jeans and t-shirts. I never wear jeans and t-shirts. But I'm a nerd, I love technology. And that was the point where I got really really frustrated. Like why can't I look smart and pretty at the same time? When I was a kid I saw satellites just crossing in the nice sky. And I thought what are those things? And people told me those are actually machines. I thought when I grew up I wanted to understand those things. I have this weird creative technologist blend. But my idea is to be able to introduce people to a world of technology that they might not have experienced before. I mean I would tell any woman of color just put your hands on something that is in technology.   We're like in a world where you can communicate and exchange information really quickly. So for me that means everybody has a chance. I don't have to be trained in that way. I don't have to go into this university. There are no boundaries, there are no frontiers. All those things are in our hands. That one thing that I really wanted to do is now I'm doing it at the age of 54. So I'm not regretting it one bit. Good evening everyone. Welcome to Singapore Constellation. I almost forgot where I was for a second. Hi, I am Daniel. I'm the Director of Solutions Engineering for APAC for GitHub. I'm based in a tiny little town about 100 kilometres west of Sydney and I really want to welcome you all here tonight. Just a quick question. Did anyone actually watch that video just then? Cool, yeah, awesome. So I've got a question to ask. What was the common thing amongst all those people before they said I am a developer? What's the common thing amongst them all? No idea? Okay, cool. Because I had a T-shirt for someone but obviously you're going to miss out now. The thing is that they came from all kinds of walks of life. These people weren't coders to begin with, right? They were fashion designers. They were drone engineers. I can't remember all of them now off the top of my head despite the fact that I was... Oh, grandmother, right? And all of a sudden at some stage they made a decision. They came to a realisation. Hello, everyone over here. Hi. They came to a realisation that, you know what? They wanted to code because coding was the thing that actually helped them do everything else they wanted to do. And those kinds of things are basically moments. We have all of those moments in our life where we realise, you know what? Even though we do a particular thing really well, how do we drive it further? And all these people decided to be coders. They decided to be developers. So hands up, everyone here is a developer. Awesome. Hands up, everyone here who has worked on an open source project. Like, they've contributed to an open source project and had the PR kind of accepted. Pretty cool, huh? It's the best part about being a developer. Anyone here who's never actually contributed to an open source project but wants to. So what are you waiting for? All right, come in. Have that moment be part of the whole thing. So thank you very much, everyone, for coming along. We've got a great night in store for you tonight. There's plenty of drinks, plenty of food. Please get involved. Again, our friends down here who are sitting on the corner, they may not see all the slides, but we'll try and talk to you whenever we can. And just thank you so much for being here. A little bit of housekeeping. Oops, a little bit of housekeeping before we get going. Can we just confirm that the ladies' restrooms are now working? Is that correct? Awesome. So the restrooms are just down here in the back to my left over here. Here, there's the details for the Wi-Fi. We really love you to actually hop onto social media, Facebook, Twitter, whatever you want to hop onto and now talk about what you see here tonight. It's not about us. This night is all about you, right? This is a community event tonight. We've got some great speakers involved. And let's get looking at what's going to happen there. So, oh, last thing I got told is that the bar closes at 10 o'clock. All right, so last drinks is just going to be a little bit before 10. So we've got some lightning talks coming in from our community members. With the final talk kicking in around 9.10. Then we're going to do a bunch of networking after that. So like I said, this is about you guys talking to each other.  Find out what they're doing. See if you can become part of it. So what I want to talk about now is this little sentence here. You may have heard of a little event that we have in October in San Francisco called Universe. Does anyone have actually been to our Universe conference? See it's really hard to get there from this part of the world. So what we want to do is we actually want to start coming out more to where you are. So we've done a couple of these now in Australia. We just did one in Auckland last week. And now we're doing one here in Singapore. We are going to be back. We're going to do a lot more as we start to build our team out here in this region. Can everyone who's a GitHub employee just pop your hands up right now? All right, all these people work in this region to work for you guys. I want you to go and say hello to them at some stage tonight. In fact, we've got a little game we're going to play. I've got 10 vouchers for t-shirts. All right, and what I'm going to do is you need to go up and say hi to one of those people. And Sam and Fatton, can you just pop your hands up for a second? So the three of us used to work in a different company before we joined GitHub. You need to walk up to somebody from GitHub and ask them what company that was. The first 10 people at the end of the night that comes to me and tell me what that company is will receive a t-shirt voucher, right? So you hop on the store, pick your own design, pick your own size, we'll ship it to you no matter where you are. There are two people in the audience who are disqualified from that, and that's Zach and Jack, and they know who they are and they know why they're disqualified from that particular thing. All right, so why are we in Singapore? So there are 49,035 users of GitHub, and that's freaking awesome, so congratulations, guys. Now, normally when we're doing this, we kind of look at the cities and we break it down by the city and we say, okay, Auckland, you had 54%, and Wellington has 46%, so we hold this in Auckland, but it's really difficult because everybody in Singapore is in Singapore. So you got 100% of the market in Singapore, that's fantastic, and that's why we're here tonight. A couple of things. I hope you're enjoying the drinks and the food, and we've got some great speakers for you, but for the next 10 minutes or so, I've got to do the sales pitch, all right? So just hang with me for a sec. We're going to talk about a couple of things. It's more about what's new in GitHub so that you understand the stuff that's there that you can access and you can use right now, all right? So has anyone heard of GitHub? Everyone's heard of GitHub? Does everyone use it? Keep your hand up if you use it. Does anyone pay for it? People paying for it? Okay, slightly less paying for it, that's okay. Does anyone here use a product called GitLab or BitBucket? All right. You use GitLab and BitBucket.  I can't even talk to you.  That's pretty brave. Anyone else use GitLab or BitBucket? All right, gentlemen there. Do you use it for work? Do you use it for work, GitLab or BitBucket? Do you use it for work? Yes? No? Yeah, you. If I gave you a T-shirt, would you wear it to work? All right, give that guy... Can someone hand that guy a T-shirt? All right. So I've got nine of these now to give away at the end of the night. All right, so what's new in GitHub? Let's talk about a couple of things that we announced at our Universe session last year, just to give you an idea of what we're bringing into the product. Actually, we've got a fantastic presentation tomorrow about what we're looking at bringing in, what we're thinking about for the future, but tonight's about what's there now that we're looking at today. So I spoke about earlier, I asked you who's actually not contributed to an open source project, but they want to. Does anyone still want to do that? Often a lot of the reasons why you don't know where to start, where you want to begin. So what we've done is we've kind of made it a lot easier for you to find projects that you might be interested in. You might be interested in a particular platform like Node, you might be interested in a particular language like Ruby, but you could be interested in, for example, I can't point at the screen, there's no screen behind me, but you might be interested in something like Made in Africa or Open Journalism or Government Data. It may be features or maybe topics like that that make you way more interested. So we started to put together things like curated lists. So if there's something that you're specifically interested in being part of, we can now find it for you and help you get involved. Like I said, there are topics like Node, JS and Rails. And it's because we're starting to take advantage of things like big data. I'm going to talk about that a little bit more tomorrow, but the thing to understand is that we now have about 500 terabytes of data. And we want to start taking advantage of that to allow you to write better code. So some of the things we brought in, for example, are things like topics. So you can add topics to your repository so that people can easily discover your code so they can start using your code in the project, but they may want to contribute to your code as well. Things like we start looking at the kinds of projects that you follow or you get involved in, and we start recommending other projects that you might want to be interested in. So the more that you start, the more people that you follow, the more we can actually automatically configure this to meet your needs. Again, we're using a hell of a lot of data at the moment to go through that process to determine it for you. We're starting to report to you things like, well, okay, here are all the open-source projects that your project relies on.  And as we kind of grow in that area, we're going to do a lot more. So recently we released the idea of the fact that we can now go and have a look at your project. We can look at all the projects that you're using, look them up in national security databases, and actually tell you what packages have security vulnerabilities that you're using right now. Not only just tell you what that is, but we can actually open a pull request, write the package files, and then submit that pull request. So all you've got to do is approve it, merge it, and your application is up to date and more secure. The other thing we had from our open-source community members is that they wanted to have a chance to have a chat about, you know, they might have wanted to discuss specific topics, but not necessarily within an issue or within a pull request. So we now got the idea of team discussions happening in place, so that open-source repository maintainers can now have a secure, simple area where they can actually have discussions around the projects that are going on, that they are looking after. So let's start talking about, that's it. Like I said, it was a quick one. It was all good to go. So let's now start bringing our speakers on stage. So we've got several tonight, like Michelle, Hu Jing, we have Ken So, we have Alyssa Ong from Microsoft, and we even have Sao Xiong from Singapore Power Group. And they've got an amazing range of presentations for you tonight. So what we're going to do now is we're going to start off first with Michelle. Michelle's known as the Hackathon Queen back at home in Australia. She's at the forefront of Melbourne's entrepreneurial culture. Not only has she founded a couple of companies, she's heavily involved in the start-up ecosystem from running hackathons to MCing, speaking, eSports, and facilitating a range of events. She's currently started a new venture working with corporates on their innovation strategies, running hack days and design workshops. And she wants to talk to you tonight about the fact that tech doesn't necessarily equal software. Can you please join me in welcoming Michelle up on stage.


So, now we are going to show that we show that there exist mu and mu prime suffices to show that. So, if I can show that there exist parameters mu and mu prime such that. So, if I can show that on this instance either mu or mu prime. So, when I say mu this is collection of this Gaussian distribution when mu prime is collection of this distribution if I can be able to choose this Gaussian distribution with this parameter certain parameters. So, that the max of this regrets happens to be larger than c square root k t then it kind of implies my regret lower bound right. So, now let us start looking into what are these parameters. So, for mu I am going to set such that this mu i is going to be delta for i equals to 1 and it is going to be 0 otherwise. Yeah. So, this example we are running through Gaussian case. Yeah, but we also said in the statement that it is sigma Gaussian it should be fine ok. Yeah, if it is fine for sigma sub Gaussian it all automatically implied for bounded one right. So, I am looking for one banded instance now where the first term has mean delta and others are all have 0 mean ok. So, how I have chosen this delta we have not specified just for time being adjust assume that the delta is something which is positive strictly positive and other hams has 0 mean. Now, for this banded instance clearly arm one is the optimal arm ok. Now, what is the regret is going to be? It is regret is going to be. So, number of rounds in that you just pull whatever the number of times you have played the optimal arms. So, this is the regret of this is the regret we are going to get for this instance. Is that correct? So, let us say whatever is n 1 t denotes what number of place of the arm one. So, these are the one which are this many in the expectations these many rounds do not give any regret. Other than this place all the place t minus these many rounds they are going to you are you are going to incur regret and each one of them is going to add a regret of delta. So, this is the total regret if you have this problem instance ok. Now, we have total in number of rounds to be capital T let us say then the claim is there should be at least one arm which would have been played less than t by k number of rounds is that correct? Yeah, no by what principle? Vision arms principle. So, we are just going to apply that. So, one of the arms which are like not the optimal arm there should be one arm which is going to be at least played less than t by k number of rounds. So, there exists i such that expected number of. So, this is not true the total number of place is going to be greater than t ok. Now, based on this arm so whichever is that i naught equals to 1 we are going to now what yeah ok. So, let us say that is right I have excluded i equals to 1 if i I have included everything this is fine ok. So, if I say this should be correct right. So, just forget the optimal arm. So, this is the remaining number of place you have and from that you are going to play and there are from the remaining k minus 1 rounds. So, I am just going to be upper bounded further and just take it k minus 1 earlier one was correct, but it was loose fine ok. Now, we are going to now construct the second bandit instance as following we are going to say now construct. So, what I am going to do is mu j phi prime. So, the new set of parameters I am going to define like mu j for j naught equals to i and then I am going to define delta day for j equals to r. So, what we are just saying is so there should be at least one arm i naught equals to 1 for which this upper bound expected number of poles has to be t k minus 1. Let us say for that arm I am going to make now the mean reward to be 2 delta others I am keeping the same. Now, what has changed earlier the mu my mu look like delta 0 0 0 0 0 right and now my mu prime looks like this delta 0 0. Let us say this i th one is is is the this one whatever I got let me call it as 2 delta like this. So, what is the optimal arm in the first bandit instance and what is that in the second bandit instance i th arm right it has now the question is the two instances differ only in the i th arm the two optimal arms in the two scenarios are different. Now, the question is can I set my delta in such a way that even if my bandit instance it happens to be 2, but my algorithm thinks it is still bandit instance 1 and ends up selecting my arm 1 most of the time. If I can do this then I have made my algorithm make error right I will make it error most number of the times. So, now let us see what will be a good choice of delta here. So, here on it will be too much hand waving now this is just like we will make the thing bit more formal. So, right now assume that. So, just you notice that the upper and lower bounds they have a factor n delta square right n into delta square. Suppose I set my delta n. So, I had this delta such that. So, before I write this let me. So, when I wrote this expectation here. So, this expectation is induced by the interaction between my policy and the environment that is going to induce the environment here is defined by nu. So, the interaction between nu and my policy resulted in that induce this expectation here. Now for this bandit instance what is the expectation expected regret expected regret suppose if I continue to apply the same policy on this also first time is no more optimal, but that is going to cost me a regret of delta factor right because it is off by delta the optimal is 2 delta arm 1 is delta. So, the regret by the place of arm 1 is going to be this much and then there is no regret from the ith arm in this bandit instance because that is the optimal and other than arm 1 and arm j everybody is going to cost me a regret and what is that amount j not equals to 1 and i expected value of n j t and 2 delta and this quantity has to be at least delta times expectation of n more t. So, I just written the expression for regret that I am going to incur on the bandit instant. Now suppose if I set this delta to be let us say 1 upon expected number of n i t what is this expected number of place. So, and here what is e here this is I am going to put e prime here because this expectation is induced by interaction my policy pi with environment nu prime whereas, this expectation was induced by interaction of my policy pi with environment nu. Now suppose whatever be the expected number of pools I had with respect to my original or initial bandit instance right let us say this was the number of expected number of pools I know that this quantity has to be upper bounded by t upon k minus 1. So, this quantity let us say. So, what I have basically made is suppose if you ignore the expectation here just do some hand waving and just take this to be simply the number of pools of ith arm then what I am basically doing is delta square times number of pools of ith arm I am just setting it to be 1 that is I am making the factor n delta square big enough that is close to 1 ok. Now if I can do this by choosing it in such a fashion. Now you can again go and see that on even this instance I can come up with a similar apparent lower bounds I had earlier on the sample mean of a Gaussian random variable and you can see that my algorithm will fail to identify this as the optimal arm with this and it may still end up choosing on this instance this as and it will confuse this instance as this instance and think this is the arm one is the optimal arm most of the times. So, that again will make it more formal, but that is the idea like if you can formally argue that by the choice of this delta even on this instance it is likely that my algorithm will still continue to think that it is this instance and plays arm one most of the times that means it is making a wrong choice right in terms of the optimal arm and even if that is the case in that case by this choice let us say then we expect because my algorithm got confused between these two instance the number of times it is it would have pulled is going to be closed as expect number of times that would have pulled under banded in the second instance. So, in this case it is clear that let us assume that the algorithm is making eventually a figuring out arm one as the best term. Now with the appropriate choice of this delta there is still a possibility that even in this instance this will continue to make a bad yeah no no no again again it is like I just restarted and give you a new banded instance. Once I start algorithm I am not going to change the banded instance ok. In this case because even in this instance my algorithm got confused thinking it as this instance then it is going to spend most of the time on the first arm we are going to expect the expected number of pulls on banded the expected number of pulls that I am going to see with the second instance is almost going to be same as that I am going to have it in the first banded instance. Now I think we are more or less done ok. Now first we are going to consider now consider the case expected number of pulls is going to be n by 2 t by 2 this is the case. So, earlier we had demonstrated that RT of pi nu is what is equals to t plus expected number of pulls of. Now if this is the case then this is nothing but what this is t by 2 and delta and what is my delta we have set it as k minus 1 by 2. So, this is like sum k minus 1 root k t by for t times k minus 1 right ok. Now consider the second case where has happened to be h equals to then we have also argued that this k r t pi nu prime we have had a lower bound here this lower bound here we had shown this is nothing but delta expected value of n 1 t. But then using this approximation here this is nothing but expected value of n 1 t and this will give us now this will give us again the same thing right again it is going to be half of. So, this quantity this one I am going to replace it by t by 2 and delta from that this is going to be k t times k minus 1. So, for both the cases we have this lower bound and now we have are now if you are going to take max over these two instances. Now we have that the regret is going to be order square root t k minus 1 and there is a half factor here. So, this is just like very heuristic top level arguments we have. So, what is happening is we are able to come up with I mean we are just arguing that if at all we have this instance where my algorithm is going to confuse it with the other instance then it is possible that my regret is going to be order square root t k on these two instances ok. Now we have to make this bit more formal ok. So, for this we need some information theoretic quantities and some bounds based on them I am just going to introduce them in today's class and in the next class we will try to go through the steps formally. So, how many of you know already entropy you know or no half you know half ok. Now we are just going to some definitions. So, suppose let us say if we have a probability distribution p on k alphabets we are going to define entropy of this distribution as expected value of p i log 1 by p i. So, those who know this entropy can they tell what is the meaning what is the operational meaning of entropy. I mean we know that the amount of information contained is inversely proportional to its probability right like suppose if I event is going to happen with probability 1 is there any information contained in that you already know that is going to happen right. If my event is very less likely then maybe like information contained in it is more right because if something rare happens like that is the big news right. So, in that way the amount of information contained is like inversely proportional to its probability and also and that way I mean you can also give a interpretation that if something is more frequent and if you want to assign let us say some codes to it you are going to assign larger code or shorter codes the things which are going to appear occur very frequently. You want to assign shorter right because it is appearing more and more times the one which are going to appear less frequently are going to you may have you will be forced to assign larger one because you need to distinguish right. If all the small length codes are taken by the quantities which are happening frequently then what remains is the larger one. In a way the if you want to like encode something you want to encode something which is more frequently with less code lengths and the one which are happening rarely with larger code lengths. So, in that way if you are going to think this law 1 p as the length to code a message let us say then this is going to give you basically the expected length of the code and the information that tells that this is the minimum average code length you need if you want to recover the message correctly ok. So, fine this is for a given entropy of course, like I am assuming that all these quantities P i's have positive mass like if some P i is 0 this 1 by P i is not well defined right. So, I am assuming that all all the alphabets I have here positive mass. Then there is a quantity called divergence this also we defined in the last class let us now here I am assuming that both P and Q are a distribution on the same probability space ok. Let us say P and Q are defined on the same probability space then divergence between these two quantities defined as log P i by Q i. Can I write it in terms of entropy? So, in that case it is like if I have to write it in terms of entropy it is like minus HP then in a way. So, if you are just going to give the same interpretation that we just gave here. So, if you are feeling that let us say some messages are generated according to probability distribution P i bus you misinterpret that and you assume that they are generated according to distribution Q i right. The true generation is P i the messages, but you are you somehow got confused and think that they are generated according to another distribution P i Q i sorry. So, then the length you are going to assign is log 1 by Q i and but the true one happens to be P i right. So, this is still the expected length you are going to code those symbols and this is anyway minus the best you could have done right. This is you are not doing that good right. So, this is the best you could have done, but this is not the best you could have done. What you think this difference has to be positive or negative? It has to be positive right because this quantity is going to be larger than this. So, this quantity divergence we already discussed when we discussed the proof of KL UCB that using this for at least Bernoulli case we can get a very tight upper bounds ok. And now in general this is this divergence is have other names like Kullbach label divergence KL divergence in short. It has some nice properties it kinds of measures the distance between two distributions even though it is not a true metric though ok. So, it is not a true metric because it does not satisfy the transitivity property ok. Let us see now I am now just going to state one result and then we will stop which is going to become handy to us when we are going to state our proof formally. By the way like if P happens to be Gaussian normal with Gaussian with mean mu 1 and sigma square and Q happens to be another Gaussian with parameter mu 2 and sigma square. So, notice that the way I have defined here this is assuming that these are discrete probabilities right like they are these probabilities defined on discrete random variables. But this random this distribution could be on a continuous random variable in which case I have to appropriately define this ok. So, that definition is has something bit involved it depends on the radon equating derivative, but just let me write it here this is defined as log of dQ by 0 otherwise. So, it is defined as this should be P here sorry. So, this is defined as dP by dQ of omega d of P omega here this is integrated. So, this is ok right P is absolutely continuous with Q. So, that means, I just want to make sure that this is well defined by making sure that this guy is in the denominator I do not end up with zeros right. And whenever this guy and also like these do not end up with 0 by 0 format in this. I just recall what do you mean by just absolute continuity whenever P is non-zero Q is going to be non-zero. So, if it is Q is P is 0 and Q is not 0 this is 0 by log 0 right ok log 0 is yeah 0 log 0 to be 0 fine fine. So, we want as long as Q i to be positive then non-zero P i to be non-zero no no there is a d this is what we have this Radon-Nickon derivative this is dP by dQ into omega let us not go into that it is yeah it is a density function density P and Q are the density functions, but this is something different ok. So, let us let us leave it like this is another quantity we have to slightly interpret in a different way ok. So, now, if you have P and Q we are going to get it as d of P Q you can just compute this we only need this that is why I am writing instead of working out all this this is going to be mu 1 minus mu 2 whole square by 2 sigma square ok next theorem. Let P and Q be probability measure the same, let A belongs to A component is omega by omega. So, this is we are going to not going to prove this it says that if we have two measures or two let us say probability measures P and Q on the same space omega and script F then if you look at probability of A and probability of its complement, but with respect to another measure Q that is going to be lower bounded by exponential of minus divergence between these two measures ok. So, what it is basically saying is if you are interested in an event with respect to some measure P then that not happening with respect to another measure Q that shows total sum is going to be lower bounded by like this ok. So, we will just going to use this result later to prove that ok. So, let us stop here. So, we will continue to the next class.


I am extremely proud of the excellent work that has been done so far by the team, the survivors led by Ambassador Omeyam Katabun, the Honourable Minister. I think that one of the most important things about what we've tried to do here is first to show that it is possible to have a scheme that will be executed properly and executed transparently. And this is in many senses a template for doing bigger interventions in the education sector and bigger interventions in other sectors. So we are all extremely proud of how this has turned out and also the fact that we can talk to you directly and you can give us a feedback on what you experienced in the whole process of getting this funds to you. So I want to congratulate the survival fund team led by Ambassador Katabun and the coordinator Mr. Tola Johnson and all the other members of the team. But having said this, I also want to say, you know, I also want to thank and thank you very much all of the owners of schools and representatives of schools that are here today. I think that one of the very important things for us when the Economic Sustainability Plan was being designed was that we wanted to look at certain critical sectors of the Nigerian economy that required intervention in the wake of the fallouts of the COVID-19 pandemic. We, of course, recognize that schools were vital in this whole arena and that private schools in particular, because as you know, of course, public schools, teachers in public schools continued to be paid while the pandemic, while the lockdowns were taking place and the pandemic was raging. But private school proprietors and private school teachers obviously were in a much more difficult place and most businesses just given the very nature of the business. So we thought that it would be important to support private school teachers and to do so directly, which is what we try to do. So we then ensured that we had a platform, you know, from which we could enumerate and pay teachers in private schools directly. Now it would have been, of course, Mr. President's best, what would have been best for him in his own opinion would have been to pay every private school teacher in Nigeria. But obviously the cost of doing that is so humongous that it would have been in very, very dire straits. So we've tried to rationalize this as much as possible. But I think that the success of the scheme so far is bound to, you know, lead to future interventions. It may not be this type of intervention, but there certainly will be other interventions. And the fact that we've been able to enumerate, we know where you are, we know that you exist and that you're actually providing an important service, the education of children. I think that that in itself is a good enough, it's a good enough reason for us to think of other schemes and other ways by which we could make the work of school proprietors easier and make the lives of teachers better. It's possible, I think, using platforms, you know, such as have been created to even probably send educational materials useful, useful information from government, from the Ministry of Education, and useful information from other parts of the world. There's so much that can be done because of this platform that's now been opened. And I would also want to say that one of the very important takeaways for me from this meeting is that it is then possible for us to hold future meetings such as we have done today. I see that there are people from as far away as U-Bay State, River State, you know, from Lagos State, so many, from different states of the Federation of Nigeria. So I think that this is really exciting and it just shows us what the possibilities are. We had someone from Abya State who spoke a few minutes ago, Bono State, Abu Jaya, Pekano. So it's incredible what is possible if we're able to maintain these kinds of platforms and interactions. So again, just to thank you very much, the feedback has been excellent. I'm very happy to hear that most people have received their funds and this is evidence of the fact that the work is being done and that it's being done seriously and transparently. I'm sure that by the time I report back to Mr. President about the excellent work that has been done at the reception and then your feedback, I'm sure that it will encourage him to look at more ways of being useful to the education sector, especially private education. So just to say thank you again and to wish you well and to let you know that we're open to whatever ideas and suggestions you have and I'm sure that the Secretariat will keep this channel open so that we can interact in the future and exchange ideas and thoughts. Thank you very much.


Yes, I want to do them just step out and be like yeah, that's me So everybody that comes in and a lot of people in here if I said just hey hit double-legs high crunch singles You'll stand right in front of the sky So what I want you to think about every time you take the shot for you name There's two ways I can do that hand fight or motion right now. We're just gonna do really really simple weather feet Really simple creating an angle.  They're straight line, right? This is bad. This is defensive position Straight line no angle. I'm defensive mind when I create an angle.   So the first thing instead of putting my hands on the guy I'm gonna create an angle just stay right there for a second. So I created the angle with my back foot Now I'm penetrating him to my shot There's no wasted motion shooting sideways Most of you guys will do it. Okay on a double or high crotch single leg.   So I'm in my stance my back foot Remember right in the center of my gravity needs to be right over his foot.  There's no wasted motion sideways and my corner gets really easy We can't waste any momentum power shooting sideways on the best guys.  Have I got it? Let's get to where it goes


Does human life have any purpose? Is there any reason for it anything that might define success in living? What does it mean to improve human life? Historical searches for the meaning of life have largely gone negative, finding no consistent purpose to it. Performance thinking is immediately suspicious of even the approach being taken—the attempt to find purpose for the isolated human being. We exist in a veritable sea of associations all the way from family to humanity as a whole. Looking at an individual in isolation is self-limiting the study. We, as human civilization, do have an organizational purpose—a purpose that provides positive and indeed directive answers. We do have a definition for improved human operation of human civilization, which further defines improvement for its many parts. Corporate entities always get their purpose from corporate owners, and people are the ultimate owners of civilization out of everything that is owned within it. The purpose of corporate humanity is the purpose of people as a corporate body. We have already worked with universal human values, and three of these are family, personal freedom, and personal prosperity. To use this knowledge, we need performance engineering, which is an expertise in bringing resources together to gain a valued result, and this indicates a need to specifically define success for our civilization-level efforts. We cannot find some measure for support of family or personal freedom or prosperity that satisfies this need. Instead of measuring them directly, we can take relative measures. We do have the ability to tell when there is an increase in support for the human family or increase in our personal freedom and prosperity. Increasing these will define a successful change in human civilization. For you, the teenage student, it defines a second level of success in education, where education is specific to supporting your growth into an effective adult. There is also the longer-term effort to support your potential efforts at increasing that educational effect.  You will note that this is not just a personal success, but a success for humanity as a whole. It is every bit as important to your parents as it will be to you as an adult. They too have value in assuring that you receive an improved education, one that is better than what it passed through in their teen years. Of course, this all seems too far away, too far into the future to demand any of your present time and attention. How, after all, are you supposed to invest anything today that will impact your future generations?  The answer is that you are never truly alone, and most especially not in the educational setting. You are just the active learner and an educational team that includes your family as a source of educational purpose. Family leaders are that part of civilization that is most centered on your individual progress toward becoming an effective adult. Education also includes your teachers as the current experts in the techniques and processes of education. There are past generations involved, people who are intimately concerned with your success in becoming an effective adult. They are the ones who will see if you are better educated than they were. You have their vision as at least a partial guide in saying to the success or failure of the educational process that you are experiencing. You are part of a team, part of a gathering that has a single purpose and sense of value in your becoming an effective adult member of society. This is where you can tap into that larger sense of benefit, knowing that you, too, in turn, will be addressing the same issue when you have teenage children. I hope that this is ever a comfort to you, that you are not alone. In your preteen education, you are not even given the option of being alone. You are made part of an educational team in saying to the parental purpose and being subject to the exercise of educators. As a teen, the decision on how you interact with parents and teachers in your educational environment are increasingly placed into your hands. This is not something that you can decide to address today, especially as a teenage human. You are in learning mode, not being able to redirect large groups of people to new or changed efforts. That is for the future, for when you are an effective adult, it is then that you can address the larger issues associated with improving civilization for your children. As in so much else in education, your teenage years are a time of preparation more than a time of action.


It's D.K. and I'm back today with another spark video. She was trying to everybody tune in. If you want to subscribe, make sure you subscribe, and give me a thumbs up, and do not skip those ads. It is June 15th, and it's time for us to get to this bag. In this video, guess what? Everything was going smooth, baby. Do, do, do, do, do. We was getting them orders, getting busy, getting this money. And then the last three orders were out of control, baby. So you guys want to make sure you stay tuned to the full video. Also, if you want to buy some of the merch, all you got to do is to email me at Rollsauceviewsanddeword.com and let me know what you want, baby. What colors, what, how you want to do it, baby. If you like the other video, also, make sure you subscribe, make sure you give me a thumbs up, and do not skip those ads. It's time for us to get to this bag. Let's go. One more thing before we go. And you are just now tuned in to this video, and you've never watched Cars & Crips before. Just so you guys know, I move fast, talk fast, and get cashed. Let's have a blast. Two orders, 4.7 miles for 17.54. Y'all know we about to get this dough. One number two is all. One more two orders, 3.4 miles for 30.86. We about to get in the mix. Let's go. Remember the times when I did have enough and the people, I love you. We are here to drop off order number one. We about to get it done. This one says, call them. Do not ring the buzzer. So I'm gonna call them. Let them know that I'm here. Hopefully they come down so we can get busy, move to get the order number two. They're gonna meet up my business partner, pick her up, go get that other all the way sparked up order to get an order. You know what I'm talking about? You know what I'm talking about? So they say, do not ring the buzzer. Call me first. They don't answer. I'm gonna text them. I'm trying to follow their directions. What you gonna do? Come on, let me go. I ain't gonna say everything else, I'm gonna ring the bell. And that bell, bell. All right, I'm gonna ring them buzzer. How you doing? I'm in the kitchen. Here you go. How you doing? Thank you. I'm doing good. Thank you so much. You're welcome. And I'm just me the signature. Okay, thank my daughter as well. All right, you have a great day. Thank you. We are here to drop off order number two. My flow stick like comment below and let me know what I'm about to say, baby. This one says, make sure we ring the doorbell. I will always make sure I ring the doorbell anyway. I guess some people been dropping stuff and not ringing the doorbell. That's what I do. Come on. Ring the doorbell and lock. They don't sound like they didn't go off. This is okay, doggy doggy. Don't get me. I don't want no problem. Doggy, I don't want no problem. I just want to drop your food off. If people ain't going around with my dad. With the mat and the cage. Drop like it's hot. Step back. I dropped my phone. Step back. You know what's the photo you already know those? Matt, let's go. Oh, the first time she wasn't. Okay. Yeah, she just got here.  Well, I brought you a lot of Gatorade. Oh, thank you very much. We got us some Gatorade. She hooked us up. Okay. This is the bigger one. Do you want these in there in the backseat? You can put the bigger one in the trunk and you just put this like off to the side. I'll put these two off to the side for now. Yeah, I did. We put that in last. I'll put this all in. Do you like working by yourself or absolutely not? Um, it depends on how busy we are. Yeah. Has it been super busy or not really? Yeah, we had 12 deliveries. Already? Yep. They got big juices too. We are here to drop off order number one. This joint's kind of big, baby. It has a lot of boxes, seems like, or bigger items. The back is a decent size, decent heaviness, but not that critical, baby. They had to smush this in here. I'm gonna get it out. I'm gonna put this in this hand. I don't know why they would put cantaloupe with eggs. Oh, they ain't cantaloupe. That's kiwis, cantaloupe and kiwis. And then we're gonna have to come back and get these tissues and the pepper towels. That second order has so many milks, guys. I'm talking like, they need some milk. I think he's going to a business, so.  They trying to get it here, and they trying to get that bread and get it here. And the door's gone. Jumped out of his hair.  Oh, I'm kidding. He's already squirting hot in his eyes. We're not gonna lift up this one, it was 81 greens. You're welcome.  Then we gotta go drop up order number two. So hopefully we get some good orders after this. It was some bad orders on this morning. Like earlier, super bad orders on tomorrow. Super bad, like the morning. Step back, oh. Step back and it falls, Mac, we're gone. We are here to drop up order number two, and they got all these milks. It's going to the, how you doing, sir? I'm doing great, I can't complain. I have a delivery for you guys. More, more, more. These joints extra heavy, and I got three bags. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do to get this bag. You understand me? Like I said, put them on. I don't know what to put these joints in. It's here on the floor on the table. It's for sure not gon' fit on the table. I can barely fit through the door. Let's put, maybe I'll put it right here. We in egg express, egg express. I'm gon' take this one there. Instead of had us a meal ready, you know what I'm doing?  Has six, here 41 it. I got that music plan, it's trying to copyright a player. Copyright a player from the Himalayas. Is that to get these two milks? The chocolate and regular milk. And get that signature when we gone. Hopefully we get another all the way sparked up order or sand club. Oh, the same thing. I'm a little off today, guys. Don't mind me. Please do right here. And then that just came to signature. Thank you very much. We have a great day, sir. Order number three. We about to put up and get this cheese. Why am I walking in three by three miles for 16, 22? Y'all know what we about to do. How long have you been working here? For real? What did you do before this? I was a caterer. Miss you like that? Or no, absolutely not. Oh, I love it. You did? Why did you come here? Catering shut down for COVID. Oh. Here, I grabbed her one. Thank you very much. She drove off before I could do it. I thank you. You have a good one. Order number four. I will remember when we was po. Seth's got more than 8.7 miles for 2352. Getting his money is just what we do. Let's go. We are here, baby. We are here, and we are in the clear. Know what I'm talking about? They don't have that many idols, baby. Get this Gatorade for the Haterades. Everybody's sipping that Haterade. We're gonna get this Gatorade. Get them electrolytes, baby. And huge house about girl with Kayla. She got us some Gatorades. Know what I'm talking about? From Walmart, from Walmiggity. She got us together. She know we are here getting this channel. Upside, they got a rug. They got a Rucksacky. Washing powder. They got some smoker. They got some Kabocha, too. They got my little setup. They got my little setup. This is what I'll be getting, baby. I'm not gonna do it. I'm not gonna do it. I ain't gonna do it, but I'll do it with the photos. Mac, let's go. Well, guys, we are here just about this Sam's Club order to get in the order. I'm bringing out that dolly for the Ollie. Know what I'm talking about? Drop this one in here, just right here. And we got the box. They hooked us up with the boxes. So I'm gonna put this one in here. Bam ski. Get in with the bam ski. Ski. Right there. You're gonna put this right on top of that. Bam. You're gonna put that milk in that hand. And it's time for us to get these bans.  I'm a cold. I got to fill it, I'm gonna fill it. I did that wrong, but it's all good, baby. Part of the way I'm moving this dolly to the tree. Oh, yes. They need to clean this job now. Drop these flowers. I don't know how to drop these. Ah, let's go. It's all good, baby. Drop these flowers. I just dropped it. Oh, I'm making stuff. I don't know what you're doing. I don't know what you're doing. I didn't know. I'm out of pocket. I'm just right here, bam. Right there. Bam. Step back with the photo. Hello, how you doing, sir? That is everything. You have a great day. God bless you too, sir. Order number five. It's a recession in disguise. Why my tour is 511 miles for 2403. It's time to get these cheese. Let's go. It's order to get an order. And this one is an apartment. Hopefully it's on the bottom floor. I don't know if it is or not, but we're gonna find out, baby. They got that Agua, three of them things. If it's not, we're gonna get a little exercise. Well, kind of a lot of exercise, but either way, go. It's time for us to sco. You already know. I mean that. Oh, I ain't need to beat this long enough. I'm on a hill too. Isn't that Joe, like Fat Joe? Lean back. Oh, dang it. I gotta go up this little hill too. I ain't going all the way around here. You don't figure it out, baby. Let's see. I have to look at the name now because it only has the names on here. There we go, the bottom floor. You have a great one. Okay. Yes, we got us an extra fin ski. Got an extra fin ski. Let's go. Guess what, baby? We are here to drop an order number two. They got them a fin ski. They hot as a pan-tree. Yeah, they got the fin ski, baby. They ain't playing no game. They about to do their thing. I like this. It's nice. Make that end close. That'll be legendary. Jump like this high, like this high. Step back. I keep dropping this phone. I keep on getting caught in my shorts. That's why I hit it with the phone all smack. Knock on that door all. Let's go. Order six and seven. Thank God for his blessings. One more to order 12.2 miles for 38, 16. It's time for us to get this green. Order number seven. It's all up. One more to order six more nine miles for 27, 13, it's 91 degrees and it's gore-ching. We're here to drop an order number one and just have some fun, baby. I'm gonna rip this dish. Huh? Yes, I'm a delivery person too. Let's go, baby. I've been to this house before. She said she did some door-dash and everything. That girl was telling me that she had a delivery from Charity. But I remember coming to this house, baby. I think that she, I came to the back door last time. I remember that. Hello. Hello, how you doing, sir? I'm good. Here you go. I'm here with your Walmart order. Okay. Is she a... It's someone else. Is she supposed to give you a tip? I mean, if she wants to. Oh, I don't know what you're supposed to do. Let me grab her, okay? Alrighty. I'm waiting for him. He said he wants to go get her now. Oh, no, no, no, I'm gonna do that. I just, I pulled her right behind you. Yeah, that's all I was like, oh, they coming home, like, all right. That's usually perfect, huh? So what are you doing? Door dash or... Door dash. Uh-huh. Is that what you're doing? This is spark. Okay. Yeah. Hi. Hello. Hi, Charity. Here you go. Thanks, yeah. So I'm grabbing the rest of your items from door dash, okay? Okay, thank you. Those are spark words. I'm good to go. All right. Thank you, sir. Oh, he got the tissue already. Alrighty, you have a good one. You too. We are here to drop off order number two, baby. Grab this jar, put it on the arm. Then we got two RCs. Let's go. This is nice out here, guys. It's a lot of land. Maybe I could get in these bags with a lot of land. Back on the dodo just in case we want to come out and hang this busy. Something like the move kind of shifted. We do still have to do another order. My business partner probably still at Walmart, man. We was waiting for like, I was waiting for like, probably like 20 minutes. She was probably waiting there for like, 35, 40 minutes, man. He did the order, her order. How you doing, sir? Not bad, you? I'm doing great. I can't complain. Hey, those are beautiful dogs. Thank you. Husties? Yep. Yeah, sisters. Oh, yeah? Yep. Hey, girls. They're beautiful. Our huskies are pretty good dogs. They're actually, they're not. They're difficult dogs to own. Mm-hmm. Just because they like to destroy things. Oh, really? They're very active. Uh-huh, so you have to take them out a lot.  Oh, really? Wow. Just because they get bored. Yeah. That's great. I never knew that. But if you give them a job, then... Yep. So do you give them a job? They get to run around and play, but they're naughty huskies, so... Yeah, they're gonna do stuff anyway. And that is everything. You have a great day, sir. Thank you, too. Oh, one more order, 6.1 miles for 1878. We about to get this cake. Let's go. Guess what happened, guys? If we go to the lines already, something's happening. And it's something so small. Look at this. They got one item, WAP. It's actually a notebook. That's it, that's all. So I go there, pick up the item. I try to scan it. It does not scan this sticker right here, but it's saying that it has to have another sticker. So now I talked to them about it. They said that they can't print anymore stickers. I try to scan these other three stickers they had. That didn't work. So guess what I gotta do? Now I gotta call Spark. So my plan, the plan stand, what was the plan stand? The plan was for me to call Spark and drive to the house already while I'm talking to them on the phone. But I cannot see the address because it's stuck on the one screen. So now I guess what? I just gotta sit by here by Walmart and call them. But I hope you guys enjoyed the video. Make sure you're subscribing. Make sure you give me a thumbs up. And do not skip those ads. Don't be, don't get mad, baby. Get glad. Cause we're gonna keep on getting this bag. Sometimes the things, sometimes the life things are just gonna happen, baby. Don't complain about it. Maintain about it. And get this change about it. Let's go. Hi, is your WRK number over here? Hey, how you doing, sir? I'm in an order right now. The order's in my queue and Walmart gave me the item and the item only had one sticker on it. But the app is sending these two stickers. And I spoke with them and they said there's no other stickers for the item. It's actually only a notebook. Okay, it's really simple. Just deliver the order and then call us back and we could complete the order for you. Because why did the label issue that won't let you proceed? Yeah, it won't let me start the delivery. They said scanning incomplete labels must be scanned or manually entered for each bag in the trip to proceed. Please try again. So I can't even get the address to go to the house. I can't notice. I could give you the address. Okay, all righty, I'm ready. So I just got off the phone all the way. Chirped up to the maximum. So guess what they said, guys? They said they gave me the address and they told me to put it in my phone and my Google Maps manually, deliver the order and then I have to call them back so they can take it off my thing. That's what we gotta do, baby. We the way it go. We about to go. We about to get to this door. I hope you guys are enjoying this video and I hope you out there getting busy too.  Let's go. Now we are here to draw this last order to get it, Lord. It was terrible. God, I couldn't find a joint for nothing. Don't get me, doggy, doggy. Get that notebook right there. You know what to put on your own notes? Man, let's go. I got the order. I went to Walmart. I picked the order up. It was supposed to be an instant pickup so I had to scan the items. The system said it was supposed to be two stickers on there but there was only one on there and Walmart could not give me another sticker. They didn't have any more stickers to give me to scan. So I called you guys.  So I delivered the order already so they told me to give you guys a call back so you can take it off my queue and mark it as delivered. All right, sir. Yes, sir. So it was just a notebook? Yes, it was just a notebook. One notebook. Okay, notebook. Okay. Is that the customer's lean mode time? Yes. I got it. I found it. Okay, I got you. All right, just give me a second. I'm just going to start working on it. Okay. Yes. I delivered the order already. And then again, so you will see that the order was complete. Can you complete that to me, please? Yes, all right. Do it away.  What's my pleasure to help you with that problem? Is there anything that I can do for you? No, thank you. In just like that, it is the end of the video. I hope you guys enjoyed the content. We made two 1340s, shorty. This is the time. It's 1.46, we can't be gotten mixed. I'm going to say this. We would have been done about 12 o'clock, man. I ain't going to lie. But those last, well, three orders. My business partner had one. I had one. And that last order we just dropped off but that notebook was critical. I had to sit at Walmart for 20 minutes and then my business partner, she probably was there for like 45 minutes to 50. Like maybe almost, there's something like that because guess what? I went and dropped off the order where that was 12.2 miles away and called her after I was done. She was still at the Walmart. It was crazy, baby. And that last order was a disaster calling her always parked up back and everything. But either way, go, we came and we go, baby. I hope you guys enjoyed the video.  I hope you guys enjoyed the video. I'll see you guys on next one. Oh yeah, one more thing. If you are sitting at home right now, get up and go get this money, baby. Cause the money's out here to be made and stop making excuses, baby. We out here getting busy and hope you guys are with me cause don't forget. 232 is back season. We gon' give them a reason. I'll see you guys on next one. Be cool, be cool before you already know the ZDK and I'm on my way.


Good day May 40 here. So I'm looking at this Dallas Morning News article from 2016 and rereading it is Skip Bayless the most hated man in sports. So that reminds me of my decade writing about the porn industry for many of those years. I'd be referred to as the most hated man in the porn industry. So I have been a Skip Bayless fan since about 1980. So Skip Bayless is nationally syndicated sports columnist, started out writing for the Miami Herald and he went to the Los Angeles Times and he got hired by the Dallas Morning News. So I've been paying attention to Skip Bayless for about 40 years and I just really enjoy the guy. And he's now on Fox but he's just a lot of fun to listen to. I just finished his rereading his 1990 book, his biography of Tom Landry, God's Curge and such a good reader. It's the second time I read it. And apparently both Tom Landry and Skip Bayless were Methodists and I grew up a seventh Day Adventist. So Seventh Day Adventists are a spiritual descendants of the Methodists. So Seventh Day Adventism is an extension really of Methodism but keeping the Seventh Day Sabbath. So Skip Bayless very much a man of routine. At the beginning of each week he orders five days worth of chicken and broccoli, no sauce. Those are his nightly dinners. This is this article is from 2016 so we're still living in Manhattan. So every weekend he'd stop by the same Manhattan Delhi by five sandwiches to bring to his weekday home in Connecticut for his daily lunch. There's a health nurse who exercises twice a day. Every Sunday morning he goes to church. Every Friday night is date night with his fiancee Ernestine. And every evening in between is the same chicken and broccoli and sports. So this article says that Bayless may be the most polarizing figure in sports today. He is insistent on everything no matter how contrarian or outlandish. He has an argument both for any sports topic. So he has an incredible touch for the topics around people's minds. He's a lot like Riccardo. Like he's kind of got a visceral sense for what people are thinking about and talking about. So the article talks about his rough childhood. He had two alcoholic parents. His regimented lifestyle, his fixed principles, his unwavering sense of confidence that underlies it all. And it quotes some close friends of his who've known him for 50 years. He's totally different in person. The skip I know is a quiet guy. When we see him on TV, my wife says I can't believe that skip. So essentially he sacrifices everything for his job. So he's how old is he now? He's he's about 67, 68 years of age. He's divorced. He's childless. He sees his good friends only once or twice a year. So he was named after his father. He was Chris and John Edward II, but he was always caused called skip. His parents owned a barbecue restaurant in Oklahoma City. Both of his parents were alcoholics. Says his father was really rough on him. My father was just an evil man. And he's the black sheep in the family. So he has a brother who credits their father for his success. So Rick Bayless is a popular TV chef on PBS, published in nine books. Open Summer Chicago's best restaurants is a favorite of the Obamas. He's never publicly lamented his upbringing. He cites his father as his greatest influence. And skip and Rick Bayless, these brothers, they have virtually no relationship. So it's a little bit like Aaron Rodgers, the Packers quarterback in his family, virtually no relationship. Skip says that he and Rick were never close. We have nothing in common except a mom. And skip was the oldest. So skip, except as a scholarship to Vanderbilt, left his two siblings alone in a volatile home. They resented my leaving them in a lurch. Skip's father died of cirrhosis of the liver. While skip was away at Vanderbilt. He returned to Oklahoma for the for the funeral, but he refused to carry, help carry the casket. In the 1990s, Bayless legally changed his name to skip, cutting off a final tie with his father. The only time skip Bayless ever got drunk was with Joe Namath. So the only time I ever got drunk was at my high school graduation night had the equivalent of two glasses of wine and same with skip. So 1977 skip Bayless is 25 years old. He was a sports writer for Los Angeles Times. He had the exclusive that Joe Namath was retiring. Namath agreed to meet at a bar. Bayless didn't drink. He ordered red wine to be social and he politely sipped his way through two glasses while Namath told him old stories. And Bayless remembers I looked at my watch, I realized I had to leave, I got up, I planted to turn, I completely lost my equilibrium and crashed into a man at the next table falling on the floor. I looked up and Joe Namath was leaning over me and he says an Alabama accent son, you're drunk. So Bayless is still a T toddler today. So his former sports editor Dave Smith says skip was not well liked. He had an ego like nobody in the world. He was very reclusive. So skip wouldn't go drink with the other sports writers. So they resented him. Some of them wouldn't even speak to him. When his newspaper The Times Herald forwarded in 1991, Bayless began a fact service. He would send his column electronically to subscribers for $99 a year. And then he wrote a trilogy of books on the Dallas Cowboys. So he met his fiance in 2004, Ernestine Sclafani. She was in PR and she brought entourage actor Kevin Dillon to ESPN for the show called pizza. And he skipped Bayless took it to dinner. And he tells her you'll never be more important than my job. That's that's basically what my father told my stepmother that his mission to God comes first. That when my father was dying in his final testament, he wanted people to know that he diverted his entire life, his entire adult life to pursuing theological truth. That's what was on my dad's mind in his final days. So now they both live in Century City, I believe. Skip Bayless compares being a TV personality to being a vampire, you get bitten and you turn into a vampire. So this book, God's coach is just so much fun to read. If you're a Dallas Cowboys fan or football fan, it's really hard to put down. So Tom Landry, he loved to present a humble or shucks exterior, but he very much enjoyed being a celebrity and he would always return sports writers calls and he would call them by their first name. It always be very polite no matter what they'd written about him. So in 1983, Landry did an American Express commercial where it shows him walking into a bar. He says, you don't know me, but I'm the most famous cowboy in Texas. You never know when you'll be surrounded by redskins.  So various Dallas area TV reporters thought maybe they could have some fun with him. Landry was bald. So they did a story. One reporter did a story giving Landry a hairdryer for his birthday. And when he gives Landry the hairdryer, Landry says, I wanted a curling iron. I mean, no other coach of football would go along with the things that Tom Landry did. I mean, he'd do just about anything. Like for another Dallas TV station, Landry ducks into a phone booth, as if he were changing into Superman attire. Oh, he did goofy bits to promote radio stations. Like he'd say, Hi, I'm Tom Landry. And even I listened to K rock. So by 1980, he was 55 years of age, right? And he was he was past his prime. But he was still juggling his religious business and football commitment. So his son went broke, I think with oil speculation. So that was one incentive for Landry to keep working. Landry consistently devoted the fewest year round hours to football of any NFL coach. The sports writers loved him. Landry was considered a saint because he always promptly returned phone calls. And he was always civil. He even returned skip bales as calls. The Cowboys great wide receiver and kick return of Butch Johnson said Tom Landry knew exactly how to play the camera angles during games. He'd turn away and say under his breath, God damn it, but he'd turn away from the camera before he'd swear. So Landry, the coach became addicted to his adulation. So he suffered from delusions of grandeur. So Dexter, Kling scale, the Cowboys safety from 1982 to 85 said by 1980, we were through with the great wonderful 70s. Roger Storbach was gone. Players were starting to understand that they could use PR for their own personal gain. We were realizing that if we just blindly played our technique in Landry's scheme, you would wind up in surgery the way so many of the 70s Cowboys did, and that there were ways to preserve yourself. And the players would say, you know, why is Tom keeping all these old coaches around him? Skip bales notes that Tom Landry was a Christian in church. He was a Christian when he was praying, but he did business and operated the Dallas Cowboys like a pagan and a corporate CEO be a Christian, a Donald Trump. Nature of the NFL is so violent, takes you back to Roman times. We weren't people we were gladiators. Is it Christian for me to want to blast the crap out of somebody for the pleasure of those in the stands? It's not the same as hitting a tennis ball the same type of fury. Sometimes we would hit each other and cause cause paralysis. The average life expectancy for an ex NFL player is around 52 or 53 years of age. You're doing so much banging of the brain and tearing of the limbs and damaging of the organs. Who knows what else you're causing when you ingest all the painkillers that they want you to ingest. So Coach Landry was down on wide receiver Doug Donnelly because he wouldn't take a pain injection and play with pain. The Dexter Klink scale says, I wish I'd just walked up to Tom Landry at rookie orientation introduced myself and gone on back home so I could hold on to my image of him as opposed to the reality. For years, people on TV said Jim Baker was a Christian, but his friends knew he didn't always do Christian things. Pat Somerall and John Madden can talk about Tom Landry's relationship with Jesus Christ. But the way he operated the Cowboys is just like a pagan. When I'd hear people say what a great Christian speaker a coach Landry was, I think, man, I wish he talked to us like that. Here's a great quote. The Cowboys were really hung up on image. Whereas the Steelers were more concerned with the end result, which is winning. So skip. The Cowboys used to practice at Thousand Oaks California because everyone in Cowboys management had, you know, a woman there that they were carrying on a high octane affair. And so there was this one Blonde that skip got to know and she was having a high voltage on off affair with a prominent married assistant Cowboys coach, mostly in road hotels. She was also seeing a rookie wide receiver and she was also seeing a TV sportscaster traveled with the team. And I asked her why she was putting herself through all this. She said, there's something about this Dallas Cowboys team that makes a woman lose her head. Seems like they only draft beautiful guys. They wear the sexiest uniforms.  And it's weird. You don't feel so guilty about it because of Tom. Tom Landry makes it okay. Being such a Christian and all. So God, God looks the other way for God's team under Tom Landry or sins are waived. Dallas Cowboys played the 1980s with no fresh bullets. It was mostly Landry system versus the world and the world began to win. By 1982, but Butch Johnson says we were no longer a football team. We'd become rock stars with people lining up at hotels to see us. Biggest competition was dressing for the team plane. Tom had his image too. We'd be warming up before games and we look over at him and he'd have on his full length cashmere coat and fur lined hat. By 1982, we become reflections of reflections. So before a key game in 1982 season, which would have given them home field advantage through the playoffs. Most of the players are up, you know, banging and screwing around until four a.m. And then they I think lost that game to Minnesota 31 27 because they'd have all these groupies and so they'd bang all night. Randy White, the manster of the Cowboys defensive tackle. He was the most successful of the Dallas Cowboys steroid users in the late 1970s early 80s. So when Randy White came to the Cowboys in 1975 as a middle linebacker, he weighed about 235 pounds. The flax defense overwhelmed him even as a strong side linebacker. So he's moved to defensive tackle. And Randy White was driven maniacally to try to succeed in football. He had to find a way. So he began ingesting injecting steroids and lifting massive amounts of weight and it helped him bulk up to 270 pounds. He turned into a raging, incredible Hulk. So Randy tells Skip Bayless, I'd look across the line of those Pittsburgh Steelers. So the Steelers were pioneers in the use of steroids. And I'd see them with their sleeves rolled up and those huge arms and I had to do something. I figured they were using steroids too. So you look at like the Dallas Cowboy offensive line in the 1970s, they got these bellies hanging out over their belts, but the Steelers offensive line raw, roided up. Very muscular. So Larry Cole played next to Randy White and he said Randy was a little man who became a big man, a manster, half man, half monster. Randy White was so strong, so quick, so crazy during games. He often blew through a blocker as if the poor fellow had the molecule density of a ghost. So Bob Ward Cowboys fitness consultant said about 25% of the Cowboys were using steroids. And ex defensive and Pat Toomey, who left Dallas just before Bob Ward arrived, said tax-tram brought in Ward because he envisioned that the day all players would be bionic. And Skip Bayless wrote a column about this the next day a Cowboy star asked him, we're supposed to take steroids to get bigger and stronger. And if we're supposed to take Damarole shots to dull the pain, to play with pain, why shouldn't we be tempted to use a little cocaine at night to get all the pain and the pressure. Skip interview, Denny White, what it was like to play for Landry. Denny said, one of the hardest things about being a Cowboys quarterback is making a decision whether to do what Coach Landry tells you to do or what he really means. So by this time, Landry's not so sharp. So Storback, I mean, Meredith, Storback, White, Steve Pallure, they all had to try to interpret and guess what what Tom Landry really meant. So there was this key game. I'll never forget this moment. I was watching it live 1983. I think the Cowboys were 12 and two and the Redskins were 12 and two. So all the marbles are on the line. I think this game was played in Dallas. And I think the game was 10-10. And the Cowboys have the ball on something like the Washington 40 yard line. And it's fourth and one and the Cowboys decided to go for it. And so Doug Cosby, the tight end messenger comes in with a play called 36 switch. And but he tells Denny White, I think he means 37 switch. So Denny White tries to do what he thinks Tom Landry means. At this time, Landry thought otherwise. So on fourth and one, Denny White audibles to a play sending fullback run spring off tackle. So it was basically against an 11 man line just like running into a brick wall. And the play takes too long to unfold. Springs is thrown for a loss, as was Landry. And CBS camera captures Landry in a rare flash of emotion, which is replayed repeatedly the next few weeks. No, Denny Landry yelled as White audible. No, no. I kind of became an epitaph of White's career. Washington ended up winning 31 to 10. So there's a whole chapter about perhaps the most fun season for the Cowboys was the 1985 season. I remember that I just come back to America from spending a year in Australia. The Cowboys were not very good, but they won the NFC East. And Cowboys offensive coordinator Paul Hackett reviewed the two upsets of Washington, the two upsets of New York said, for that team to win the NFC East was one of the all time great upsets in the history of sports. People just couldn't see it because it happened over several games that are just one. So the 85 Cowboys were not very good, but somehow they managed to steal the NFC East. And the reason why is because of the defensive backfield, which was nicknamed Thurman's thieves. So Dennis Thurman would come in when they needed an extra defensive back. So Cowboys made a franchise record 62 sacks. Everson Walls became the first player to lead the NFL in Innoception three times. So by 1985, it appeared Landry preferred to win with inferior talent because how much satisfaction or credit could he get if he won with superior talent? There was so much decay. On the coaching staff, Landry was more comfortable with the old school coaches, the Southern gentlemen, the old school, Southern racists. So Gil Brandt, the scouting, had he preferred to lose with his guys and win with other people's recommendations. Talks about Landry and Brandt even talk bad about Jerry Rice, the best receiver in football ever. And before the playoff game, doughnuts. So Dennis Thurman Dexter Klinkscale remember boxes and boxes of doughnuts on locker room tables, before the divisional playoff game against the Rams in Anaheim. And lots of guys were kicking back eating doughnuts.  So the Cowboys lost 20 to nothing. Paul Hackett, the offensive coordinator, he was underwhelmed with quarterback Denny White's talent. Hackett believed in the Bill Walsh philosophy. So the QB just goes through a progression of read. So he looks to number one, receive a number one, if he's covered, then go to receive a number two. If he's covered, then go to receive a number three. If he's covered, then you throw the ball away. So you don't really care what the defense is doing.  If that guy's covered, you go to your third. If all three are covered, you throw the ball away. But in Landry's scheme, the quarterback and the receivers would read and react to the defense. And trying to combine these two systems was like combining solar systems, like these planners collided in Denny White's mind. So Paul Hackett said, we cannot win in this league with the offensive tackles we have at staggering how poorly this team has drafted for the last eight years. So the Cowboys did not draft well after 1975 until 1988. You compare this team with the 49ers and it's a joke. Paul Hackett could not believe that Tom Landry and his staff would call it a day at 6pm. So Landry put in fewer hours on the job than any NFL coach. So Hackett wanted the staff to stay late two or three nights a week to prepare a game plan. But Landry forbade that. It's not the way things are done here. And he talked about Tom Landry falling asleep during coaches meetings. Skip Bayless ran into Terry Bradshaw, the former Steeler quarterback and CBS commentator in the 1980s. And Bradshaw said Skip, look, sad truth is the game has passed Tom Landry by. It's a young man's game. Tom just isn't willing to put in the hours these other guys do. Why should he? At his age, he had a great run. He should have gotten out several years ago.  And Skip Bayless concludes his book was God's coach. Tom Landry, a great coach. In the 60s and 70s he got good results. In reality, no. It was Storeback, Gill Brandt, Tech Shram, and even the owner, Clint Murchison, they deserve credit for Tom Landry's first ballot, Hall of Fame selection. So I found it interesting that both Skip Bayless and Tom Landry were both Methodists, both born-again Christians. And Bayless says he had a month to research this book after his proposal was accepted and then three months to write it. And my editors debated whether or not to bring it out that I Skip Bayless was a born-again Christian. And he says I wanted some credibility that this was not some secular attack on Tom Landry's faith. He details that Tom Landry would lie to players about their injuries. And they're playing status and how he would humiliate them. It seemed he had to check his Christianity at the locker room door. So in church, Landry was a Christian. In business, he was a pagan. Now, is it possible to be a winning coach? And a Christian Skip Bayless says yes, and he notes examples such as Joe Gibbs and Dan Reeves. They differ from Landry in that they admit their faults while Landry basks in his sainthood. So Bayless says Landry was an ordinary coach who won with great players, such as quarterback Roger Storbach, who changed many of Landry's cause of the line. In his final years, Landry turned senile. He would just lose it on the sidelines, get overwhelmed calling plays. And Skip says that Landry and Jerry Jones have always been the best in common. Each benefited by this franchise changing force. For Landry is the transcendent leadership of quarterback Roger Storbach. For Jerry Jones, it was coach Jimmy Johnson's rage to win. Landry's teams begin their slide after concussions forced Roger Storbach to retire. Jerry Jones's descent began after he fired Jimmy Johnson. So Jerry Jones needs to fire Jerry Jones, but he's never, he won't fire himself as GM Cowboys since 1996 at two and seven in playoff games. They'll probably never even get back to a championship game while Jerry Jones remains general manager. So Skip Bayless says that many of the Cowboys' miracle wins hinged less upon Tom Landry's brilliant strategy and upon the improvisations of the quarterback's Dom Meredith and Roger Storbach and the receivers. When things went well, Landry was glad to take full credit. When they didn't go well, he blamed the players. So Landry began to mistake media hype for reality. He was hypnotized by the myth of his own genius. He treated his assistants tyrannically. He listened to nobody, failed to keep up with the times, the tactical and real changes that made his earlier innovations obsolete. So after years of running some of the most original offensive and defensive schemes in the NFL by the 1980s, the Cowboys were playing with a predictability that made them easy pickings. Culturally speaking, Landry never outgrew the authoritarian style typical of small town Texas coaches during the 1940s and 50s. Got a Brian Curtis article here from 2016 saying by 1996, Skip Bayless was as polarizing a figure in Dallas as he is now across America. Most of the local sports writers didn't like him because he was a loner and he wouldn't drink with the boys. He doesn't drink. And he published in 1996 Hellbent about the Cowboys Super Bowl win under Barry Switzer and reports this rumor that came from the Barry Switzer camp that Troy Aikman was gay or bisexual. So many of the black stars on the Cowboys believe that Troy Aikman was bisexual. But Bayless simply reports it as that it's a rumor. It's presented as a rumor in Hellbent. It was circulated by Troy Aikman's own head coach Barry Switzer. So Bayless talked to Aikman's agent, Lee Steinberg, he talked to a Dallas police source, team source, Aikman sportscaster, pal, Dale Henson, they all said there was no evidence that Aikman was gay. So the rumor that Troy Aikman was gay takes up about six of the books 290 pages. And Bayless concludes that you could find no evidence the rumor was true. So Skip says about writing this first book it almost put me in an early grave because I barely slept for four months. Of all the books I wrote the Tom Landry book is the one I'm most proud of and it's probably the one that gets the least acclaim. The editor put a subtitle on it that I was always squeamish about I think was a little bit of a turn off. The hymns, hype and hypocrisy of Tom Landry's Dallas Cowboys was just a little strong. And Skip says there's a huge difference between talk radio and talk TV. Like on the radio, I can talk in your car for 1012 straight minutes. And it's not a problem. But on TV, if I speak for more than 30 seconds, I'm pushing it, you'll look look away because you can't stand to stare at a talking head for that long. I will lose you. Your mind will wander to the pimple on my forehead. Or the one head that's out of place or my shirt that doesn't really go with my suit or anything that might distract you. Okay, let's see if any comments in the chat, anything I need to catch up on here. Oh, so Biden coordinate Yahoo. Finally is coordinate Yahoo. That's true. Ultra testosterone says are you all on welfare like Angelo John Gage? What are other negative side effects to lithium other than the metallic smell you put on weight and you draw? So my Daphne by contrast, that gets you energised. So Biden going to go back bomb Syria again. What else? What else am I, what else am I missing in the chat? Final, final core for responsible questions and comments. Elliot says sugar ruins everything. And Scott says, says he prefers Rick Bayless to Skip Bayless.