Welcome back to the 21 convention 2020 of Orlando, Florida being held for the first time ever at the big bad-ass 21 summit Our next speaker is a glorious returning speaker to the 21 convention speaking for his first time last year at our 18th 21 convention in Orlando, Florida last fall He's also the world's most controversial dating coach and the world's leading expert on hypergamy Without further ado, please let me welcome back to the 21 convention stage Pat Steadman Unfortunately today, we're not going to be talking about hypergamy save that for another time Last speech I talked about the three pillars of attraction and the third pillar that I talked about was personality Now we didn't have a lot of time to go into it last speech because it's a very deep subject How do you deal with making a personality more healthy? But I wanted to spend some time about it today because it's something that I work on with a lot of clients And I wanted to talk about how to heal yourself as a man so One of the things that I see a ton For instance in the manasphere is this idea of Of self-improvement and where does self-improvement? There's this idea come from so You look around at people and I think everybody here can relate to this You have a voice in your head that we might call it the inner critic And it's this voice that I'll tell you.   You have it. You don't make enough money And a lot of guys when they're first starting off When they're in their teens or early 20s, this voice is very sort of subtle Or I wouldn't say subtle necessarily so much as they can't they don't think they can do anything about it So you have this critic and it's just kind of beats them down. They don't feel very good about themselves and They don't feel like they have any agency. They have this victim attitude And then something tends to happen for a lot of guys in their early 20s or maybe after a serious breakup or a job loss And they have this revelation all of a sudden where they feel like well actually maybe I can change my life Maybe I can improve and I think every guy here has certainly made that jump You wouldn't be at a convention like this that is all about becoming a better man If you didn't think that you could become a better man But there's a dark side to self-improvement that I've seen and it's this idea That you have to constantly Get to a certain point So you have this inner critic and what happens is when guys have this revelation is it's like another that That voice evolves and it says we're gonna become stronger.  I see it on Twitter.  They're jack. They can date any girl they want They have multiple businesses and They're still not happy on a certain level. They still don't feel like they can get close to people So to do that we have to go back to the critics. So the topic today How to heal yourself as a man gonna get this marker off And there's gonna be three steps To healing yourself Now I recommend of course I think that you can go through this process a lot faster if you work with somebody But a lot of guys even if you do this on your own and you don't work with somebody it's important to Just be aware of it. So the first thing step number one is reconcile with your father reconcile with your father and Put boundaries on your mother so Why is this important With a critical voice Tends to come From our father. I'm not always exactly from our father It could come from other men in a life. It could come from a brother Could even come from your mother could come from being bullied for instance, right? I think that you know We have a very nuance of view on bullying here because on one hand we think you know guys Maybe need to get a little bit more tough in and up and I agree with that entirely but bullying is Not so much like a guy telling you to get be stronger. It's often an abusive dynamic And it can really like working with guys who have been bullied. It can really mess with your psyche for years And so wherever you got this but very often very often It's the father very often is the father and even if it did come from for instance the mother over Coddling on a fundamental level That's because the father was somehow Not bringing a healthy masculine energy and so very often you see with fathers you see that they're critical or abusive even Or they're Distant maybe they've been away from home on from work all the time so then you feel abandoned as a child Maybe they are just simply weak and they get walked over. There's a really really good movie I think people should see it just because it's a classic But it's actually like it has so many interesting themes in this and I was never expecting it when I saw it And that's rebel without a cause. This is James Dean and It's funny because it's like rebel without a cause and James Dean is phenomenal in it But it's not that he doesn't like he has a cause His cause is for him to have a different relationship with his father So to paint the picture of this family you have James Dean this rebellious teenager and then you have his father Who it is you have his father his mother and his grandmother and they all live together And his father is just constantly run over by his mother and his grandmother He's just like the most henpecked guy in the world and he's kind of a buffoon and there's a really like Poignant scenes like James Dean is so frustrated by this. He's so frustrated at how weak His father is there's a scene in it where he's like contemplating going out to going like drag racing and he's kind of on the edge Like this isn't a good thing. I know I shouldn't do it and His father he sees his father Here's a noise and he sees his father had come upstairs with this breakfast tray and he was bringing breakfast for his mother Now I don't think it's like a bad thing for you to ever bring, you know food for your wife Under any circumstances my wife is in the room, so she probably would agree with that But to understand the context of this relationship This is a guy who's People-pleasing right he's doing this because oh she's had you know She was complaining so he wants to try to make her feel better So he's gonna he's gonna bring her this food and so then he's gonna get the approval And to really like make this scene so powerful for the viewer they have the father dressed in this like 1950s Like housewife apron So he just looks like absurd and completely emasculated And so he's going up the stairs and he sort of like I guess he trips and he drops the breakfast on the floor and James Dean kind of catches him and they're and he's like you drop the breakfast and that they're kind of laughing about it But then the father's like Trying to clean it up. He's like I got to clean it up to make sure that they don't you know They don't see it before they notice and James Dean is like leave it there Let him see it dad let him see it and this is the theme throughout the movie, right? His mother is telling him at one point not to tell the truth When his father had told him to tell the truth and he tells his father to stand up for him And his father won't do it things don't get better in a certain. So I'm not gonna there's a lot more to the movie so you still see it but Things don't really resolve the pain that James Dean feels doesn't really resolve until his father at the end says Stand up son. I'll stand up with you. I'll be as strong as you need me to be So this this issue with our fathers, it's really really powerful and Even if we have issues with our mother it always seems to come back to our father in some way because he didn't have a Constraining influence on that Elliot was talking earlier yesterday about the the dark mother, right? This is this is what happens a dark mother expands When the father is not there So we have to talk to our fathers because this critical voice that we have is a distillation of our father even if it's not exactly his voice even if it's a voice that we Cultivated on our own as some degree of a you know projection of our emotions at the time By healing our relationship with the father we heal our relationship With masculinity in with being a man that's not distorted Now, how do you go about doing this? Well first off you have to I mean There's a range of experiences guys have with their father sometimes the wound like the father was pretty good Right, even a very good father can still wound a child in some way with a comment so sometimes it's a lot worse but Regardless of the degree of this especially when you're a man Understand that if your father has done things that have hurt you he hasn't been perfect, right a lot of this comes from his own wounds You know the issues I had with my father my father was pretty much left by his parents You know they were socialites So he was left all the time with a nanny like create his own imaginary world And there's a dissociation that children will experience and so when he was more distant to me It was had a hard time getting close to me Well, I have to understand that Okay, yeah, you didn't give me this and this hurt when I was a kid, but at the same time Like I have to understand that this is something that you got passed down to and nobody did nobody dealt with it with you And so you're just that's these generational cycles of trauma What you'll find is that in the vast majority of cases the father like wants to have this conversation He just doesn't know how to do it Because he wasn't he didn't grow up with the emotional range to express it especially as he gets older Because you have these situations where you know the mother maybe bonds more with you And so in a certain sense he gets pushed to the side so he has all sorts of complicated feelings He doesn't know how to express So you go into the conversation With an enormous amount of like love and compassion But you you do put the question to him like why did you know why did you do this? Why do you do these things like? This is how it made me feel And what you'll find is that he has a lot of emotions too usually and that he welcomes this and there's a big There's a big reconciliation here, and it's and it clears you out so much This is very very important now if your father's not in the picture anymore Some people's fathers have died some people never knew their fathers Some people you know their fathers just that it's they really don't think that there's based on the dynamic that there's any real attempt to even communicate and in these cases it's obviously not ideal, but you can still go through some of this work I really recommend you write write them a letter write them something that puts out all these emotions out there And of course you don't have to send it But to do on your own time this sort of process of forgiving and Reconciling now at the same time as this This conversation with your father has to occur really in private and certainly away from your mother certainly away from other women Because one of the big issues here is that you know we were We were supposed to move as men we were supposed to move like in our early teens You were supposed to move from our mother's house so to speak to our father's house And a lot of different cultures throughout the the world have had rituals like this where the children would be taken away From their mother and we may look at it as being Extreme by modern standards and maybe it isn't the correct way to go about doing it in some sense Maybe but there's something definitely to be said about the fact that we have never been able to move Boys into this relationship with other men So we're trying to do some work by dealing with our father later on in life and by putting up more boundaries in general with our mother It not only helps us to move more towards our father Which we should have been doing already but better late than never but it's also very very important as an aside for your relationships because if you're in a situation where You know you're trying to get serious with a woman But your mother is still super involved in the picture and you're bonding more with your mother than your wife I mean this is how a lot of very distorted Generational cycles can occur with intimacy like you see this happen a lot for instance in in India Where you have the mother moves in with the new couple and the son is with the mother basically the entire time and The mother oppresses the wife and then their marriage isn't so good And then when the mother dies the wife does that with the new son and just kind of creates this this real dissatisfaction So we I mean that's more of an extreme example happens more and more in the West as well So what happens after we we deal with the father we do this reconciliation with the father well There will be a big release because somebody that you really cared about and always wanted to connect with Now you have the opportunity to do that and you can start to build a relationship that maybe got neglected and When you also get a better idea of how to parent yourself We talked about this inner critic and we talked about how the critic responds, right? We talked about how the critic responds to To us so this is where we're going to get a little bit weird here. Okay, because the next point here is about Parenting the inner child Parenting the inner child like it needed So what does this mean? We can say that the critic is Is a voice right, but who is the critic talking to the critic is talking to something else and The critic is I mean effectively talking to a child, right? This is this is what we would call your inner child so this gets weird because now we start to talk about sub personalities and And and you know when we talk about personality health Really what we're talking about is a healthy relationship between these different sub personalities that we have now You could get really specific and you could try to like Find a lot of micro ones and and as far as my experience with this goes You know, obviously there are certain mental illnesses multiple personality disorder where people actually embody these sub personalities temporarily Or they create them due to various traumas But I don't know if you guys have read any of Eckhart Tolle's work But one of the things he talks about in a new earth is he talks about how he saw this Crazy person talking to himself on the sidewalk. I mean live in New York City. So you see that quite a bit and This is somebody who's you know, maybe has schizophrenia or something They're talking to themselves and he was saying that this other person's crazy But then he realized himself that he was doing the same thing So it's very common for us to have this sort of parent child dynamic internally When you reconcile things with the father the parent actually eases up a bit because you start to think like Because you actually in some sense become the father to your father and so then you're able to You know not be so abusive so to speak to that inner child But the problem here is that Okay, this is a big this is a big step forward and maybe the parent does a bit of a better job But the child still has a lot of internal pain And so what a lot of guys do is they reconcile this and so they they no longer are beating themselves up But they're still like okay kid, you know, but let's now we're gonna go forward We don't really need to worry about you anymore because I'm not gonna I'm not gonna attack anymore. We're good Whereas the kid still feels like crap And this is something that's really important because if any of you have ever had a situation where you started to get anxious You didn't know why right or you you procrastinated a lot You didn't know why you were procrastinating you would set self sabotage even if you really were like This is a really important thing for me to do.  You're like, why am I doing this? Okay? Why am I doing this? Well, what's going on is the inner child's like Hey, what's going on here? Like you haven't been paying attention to me Like you're putting too much pressure on me like I'm scared. I'm I'm not feeling great And so the anxiety we feel because what is procrastination and this is the whole thing like I think discipline is great But if you have to be constantly Disciplined in everything you do that moves your life forward like discipline is a tactical thing Like okay, there's a little bit extra pressure. I'm gonna push through this Discipline is not like I got to be disciplined and get up That's you know the right time in the morning. I got to be disciplined and go to work I got to be disciplined and go to the gym like this is a not a discipline issue This is an issue with internal alignment And so you have this child gets upset it has these little tantrums And a lot of people what they would do before this step is they'd usually that's when they'd attack themselves And then they redirect energy internally and they actually can't do stuff All procrastination is is an anxiety response That's it It's distraction you want to distract yourself from something because you feel anxious And so the issue isn't like you know Set the 20-minute timer. I mean maybe you can do that but The fundamental issue is like what's going on that you are feeling that anxiety And so for a lot of people with this inner child And I'm gonna be doing a workshop after lunch today And if you guys it's kind of a weird exercise, but if guys have some issues with this We're gonna be going into Some like how to get in touch with that inner child because there's some interesting sort of there's interesting process, but Creating this dialogue and checking in like what's going on with this kid? How's this kid feeling? Very often what you see happen here is that it's not getting a break kid doesn't get a break from you at all Tons and tons of pressure on this kid And so when we don't relax, you know, there's this I was hearing something in a Telegram chat this morning this guy was talking about his his friend who works this like really like you know It's not a very good IT job and he's in front of a screen all day long and what happens is he comes back from the job He feels like crap and then he goes in plays video games on his phone for five hours And this is a really like common thing that regular people do and guys in this room Would be like well, I'm not doing that because this is you know self-improvement, right? We know it's not good to do that But at the same time like what like that guy is Relaxing he's not relaxing All this distraction stuff. It's him trying to not focus on his need in the inner child has a lot of needs Sometimes they're very simple sometimes they're like play with me, right? Let's go do something fun Like let's just not feel like we have to do anything Or maybe it's a boundary issue right a lot of the nice guy stuff comes from the inner child's wounds Where the inner child's like oh well, I have to you know It thinks that you have to caretake and you have to be if to do whatever like a woman says or whatever If you're gonna be able to get your needs met So it decides not to even think about its needs Let's like tune them out a lot of guys do that they tune out their needs entirely and the needs are the inner child so Some of the things that you can do with that is just really pay attention to it There's a mentor that I had Alex Allman, and I started working with him. It's kind of like he's brilliant I mean he's a relationship intimacy coach and he's been around for like 15 years or something and I Like I had known about him since I even got started on this journey It was like 20 years old in college watching his videos in my dorm room And so it was really cool like two years back when I started to work with him and like a mentor capacity And I was doing it because I wanted to you know Seal up some stuff within my relationship But it was interesting that the conversation I had with him that was actually the most impactful had to do with this concept of of laziness and productivity And I was talking to him.  It was out of control because in the past I would have You know, I would have the fact that okay, there's a deadline right if I didn't finish this paper I get an F and then You know, I wouldn't be good enough and then so I'm gonna finish the paper Even if I have to stay up all night and then the same thing repeat itself when I had my corporate job And they had to do some report Okay, I was put off put it off. It's like all right. I got a pull an all-nighter and stay at the office But when I started my own business, there's no boss now. It was just me And so I had all these problems with productivity. I try to I try to work and I would most days I wouldn't get anything done at all. I just kind of get to a spiral I go distract myself. There was so much like anxiety with him I didn't realize so I was talking to him about this this point things had gotten a little bit better but it was still pretty rough it was still pretty rough and I said, you know, how did you really become productive in everything? He's like, well, what do you mean? It was like, well, what did you do to like really help to build up your business and you know, I've been struggling with with productivity and You know, how did you stop being lazy? He said, well, I didn't stop being lazy.  It's kind of like, all right cool But when you have a guy like that who's got a beautiful wife got an incredible life Wealthy and he tells you yeah, I'm lazy It's like, okay, I'm listening here.  And so I was thinking to myself. I was like Must have been the freshman year in college so long story short basically my whole family was Ivy League Dartmouth and I my freshman sophomore year in high school I didn't do too well in a couple of classes did well my SATs pulled my pulled it together end of high school But you know my GPA had kind of dropped a bit and I was like I was gonna I was not gonna get into the school I was worried about that and I didn't get in and it was devastating for me I mean it seems silly in hindsight to think like I didn't get into a college big deal But emotionally for me at that time it was an association with my father And so for me to not get into the school was for me to not be good enough and it sort of confirmed Like I had had for like 11 years or so this contract with myself that if you get in then you're gonna be good enough for him and Then I didn't get in and it was like Nothing matters now And so I go to a great school freshman year, but I but I didn't care about the school I was like, you know fuck the school because I was like it's like I'm not good enough the school is not good enough like we're all not good enough here, right? It was this sort of thing and Then something happened, so I was Was in a relationship and my girlfriend was going to be applying to you pen and I had not really thought of myself as going to a city school But I was thinking like well, you know my issue was my first two years in high school So if I do really well my my freshman year in college I'll be able to get into that school. Maybe I can get in and You know you pens and Ivy League. It's even better than Dartmouth, you know, then I'll really be I'll be able to fix all this and I'll be able to stay with my high school girlfriend So I got in I mean we broke up before the school started, but I Got in and so I told him I said, you know, this was this is when I was most proud of myself Yeah, I worked. I had almost no friends that year. I just worked constantly at school to try to really make sure my grades were incredible and You know, I was really like I like probably never been more depressed like I'd have these I Wasn't suicidal, but I'd have these sort of You know, I'd think to myself like I just want to wander off in the woods with nobody can find me It's like kind of like close to that And he said you realize that you just said that the time you were most proud of yourself is When you were like borderline suicidal, it's like man, this is like a kind of weird belief here That I'm only actually good enough if I'm doing things that are That like don't make my inner child feel good It's like every single thing Okay, like inner child shuts up and doesn't get in the way Then things are good and this is the problem like you know guys who do the self-improvement thing They think they can kill this part of their personality and they can't You can't bully Or overpower the inner child you can like stuff them in a closet and then he'll like Rattle on the closet door eventually So all you can do is heal it so you heal the inner child you start to pay attention to it You start to prioritize the inner child over other people. This is boundaries by the way boundaries is basically you're taking consideration of your needs before other people's and it's important because if the inner child is Not getting its needs met then you're not able to actually perform the crazy thing is after I took Alex's advice and I've continued to You know push that further over time when I say push that further. I mean take more time off My productivity has gone up dramatically. I went from struggling to get stuff done like three days a week To being able to easily work six So it was kind of like funny this paradox of like okay, I'm gonna be lazy Which actually just made me a more hard worker because I was finally taking into consideration my emotional needs Which brings us to point number three. I have to use the red marker again because apparently Blue doesn't show very well So things are much better now because now you're listening to this child But there's a little there's still one more issue here Right and this is something that a lot of guys have a hard time with they're like well this child is still How long is this child gonna have its needs for how much am I gonna have to like constantly stop and check in with this? And this is where a lot of therapy and like New Age work stops They just kind of consider this child is always going to be something that you need to just Deal with and to an extent. They're right to an extent. They're right because you know it is a part of you and Initially things are gonna be tough resolving resolving the issues are gonna be tough because you have to think of it like it's a relationship This is a relationship that you've like you've done a very bad job maintaining this relationship for like a decade or more And so you're gonna have to take some time and rebuilding the trust Then you can negotiate a little bit more with this child saying hey, we're gonna go out and play But today we have to really work. Okay, you just got to deal with these like alright I trust you whereas initially is kind of like screw that you never do that you never play right? But the child doesn't really want to stay a child like this is the whole thing when it comes to Personality work like you have these sub personalities, but ultimately what you want. I mean if you look listen to people You know trying to get quiet minds. I mean you can meditate you can meditate But if you don't do this work, it just pops up again. You have to do the healing Ultimately what you want that when you want that alignment that alignment is that the inner child is more integrated with the rest Of your personality and so how do you do that so it doesn't just stay a child that? Constantly is tugging on your leg You have to initiate the child which basically means to turn them into a man a lot of the Masculinity work that people guys do their issue is that they skip these early steps And so they're like it's got to be tough. We got to do these things and so the child is Doing some of this stuff acting like a man, but doesn't really feel like It belongs in a certain sense. It doesn't have a you don't have a good relationship with it Whereas contrast with more like New Age healing stuff. They stop here they really don't understand this part because This is a really important thing for men in particular men have lost their initiation we talked about how men when they were in their early teens used to be taken and Educated so to speak they would go on a process from the older men in the community Where they would basically turn into a to a man They'd test themselves Today we don't really have that You don't really have that anymore a lot of those rituals disappeared in the Middle Ages and then since the industrial revolution Fathers have been completely taken away from their sons more and more as Less less and less people farmed in America up until 1910. You still had 90% of people worked on farms contrast that by the 1950s Is it any wonder that there is a revolution that got tired of all the you know people romanticized the 1950s, but There is a lot of stuff going on beneath the surface That led to it in addition to all the psi-op stuff that we've talked about which I 100% agree with So what do we do with this child? now part of it is finding other mentors and coaches people who can act as You know as Robert Bly iron John would talk about as the sacred king someone who could do the work that the father couldn't do To help to move them in that direction and that's 100% Helpful and usually they play certain roles in that journey and speed up the process dramatically But I think that you also need to go to the place where all initiations happened all initiations throughout history always happened in the same environment the wilderness nature Teaches a man how to be a man You're not distracted by other things out there You may have to fend for yourself. You have to deal with the elements you have to deal with potential dangers some animals bears whatever especially when you go out to real serious wildernesses and what happens in this journey is You and the child are together And you can take that child and you start to pull it through the process. You're working together to accomplish a goal Now I'm gonna be fully honest here I'm still experimenting a lot with this area Because there's not a there's not a lot of Benchmarks or guides to show us how to do it, but last week I tried something different So I went on a 80 mile trek in the Appalachians for a week and I didn't eat Is that about a hundred fifty two hour fast by the end of it and the purpose of this was to put me through mental and physical and spiritual conditions That maybe there'd be some sort of initiation that would come out of it I'll be right about that in more depth, but You know, I don't know how many of you guys have fasted fast things very I mean I lost 10 pounds guess great, but it's it's it's a very like powerful experience from a spiritual perspective you lose a lot of energy especially going uphill the second day of that trip was very Very rough because your body has to transition But after that you get this incredible clear headedness I mean physically it's still you're going about half as fast as you would go normally But you start to get really clear headed in the rest of the world starts to fade away And one of the things that that I noticed in here Was that I started to lean have more more and more heavily on The highest father I suppose you could say and I started to feel a sense of initiation that was coming from above that I was getting guidance I was getting support. I don't know if this is going to be everybody's path but Going out in the wilderness in testing yourself I mean it was cold all the time.  You're tired But you feel it's hard to feel unified and since I've come back. I'm still in this processing Because a lot of the the child part doesn't feel so much like a child anymore It feels more like a teenager Like it's gone through something and it doesn't want to act like a child now This is not a single process is not like a single event. You have to continue to reiterate this But I think for a lot of you guys that are struggling to fully get past all Of this sort of you know internal dynamics really recommend you go out of nature and test yourself so putting this all together what is What is like real self-improvement self-improvement? That's Like healthy and you know wholesome good for guys because we can say that remember self-improvement in The context of being a victim is a step in the right direction But at a certain point you realize that you know of me watching these other accounts and they're talking about this You know, they're talking about they're like Playboy lifestyle or they're talking about you know making you know seven figures on some e-com thing Eventually like a lot of guys if they don't have their direction They can get pulled in all these different that you can put all these different directions and they feel like they can lose themselves What you start to realize as you get down this process more and more It's it's not about addition. It's about subtraction That you guys have each of you have your own incredible journey ahead of you And you really lose out in the end when you focus on somebody else's journey When you see that somebody's doing this and that maybe I could do that This is part of the busy mind There's real serious clarity underneath it all in the more stuff you begin to remove The more the path becomes clear And it's and it's an incredible adventure So if there's anything I can leave you guys with today It's this idea of taking what resonates and leaving the rest Right now you're at a conference. You're being exposed to ideas. This is a period of openness And you guys are receiving once this is done Let it marinate and see what resonates keep that and discard the rest of it. That's how you become a true man Thank you Happy to take some questions if anybody has questions Thank you Pat. That was a great talk I think the necessity of inner transformation for men and initiation isn't talked about enough And just to speak to that point. I do have a question but just to speak to that point There's an organization called the mankind project that runs a weekend called the new warrior training adventure They run it's a men's initiation 48 hours. I attended that in 2013 and that was the beginning of my journey through masculinity It's an incredibly powerful experience and I highly recommend it to every man in this room And I think they'll begin running if they've initiated 70,000 men around the world And all all different countries in Europe and Australia and Mexico and all these different places So I highly recommend every man in the room. Check it out. It's it's a great experience for men That's awesome. Thank you for sharing that you're welcome Well, I have great respect for your own Initiation that 80 mile hike while fasting, you know, I fasted for for 10 days before and I wasn't hiking I wasn't doing anything, but I couldn't imagine like doing an 80 mile mile hike. So major respect for that Speak I was wondering if you could speak more you said procrastination is an anxiety response and you said that your mentor said that he was also lazy I wonder if you could elaborate a little bit on how laziness showed up for him Was he actually being lazy or was he just reframing the idea in a way for you? That's a really good question. I don't know what he was doing, but over time I've sort of reframed it myself because Really what laziness means to me in this context we live in like a workaholic culture I mean, it's kind of like I get really tired of seeing it online or it's like Hustle 16 hours. It's like, all right, you know, there's periods where you can do that stuff, but It takes a toll.  It doesn't does not Does not end well for them So in the context of what my my mentor was saying I think he was really talking about like Knowing when the take breaks and not feeling like you have to work There's really something to be said for the power of boredom So kind of like a little hack when it comes to dealing with procrastination Um, and I think it's this tactical I would try to expand it to a broader part of life It was one of the benefits of this sort of initiation process because there's no dopamine, right? You're not getting any dopamine out there Is allowing yourself to be bored Like what happens is that we start to feel this tension inside of us like And it's usually anxiety about something we have to do and then our mind will flip like Oh, I meant to check out this video Oh, I wonder what's you know Going on over here And in our mind just flies over there immediately So part of it has to do with us not being able to deal with tension in our body But then there's also this point like well We don't rest We don't rest Just sitting there and doing nothing Like before this speech I sat down. I did nothing for an hour Just like sat on my bed like quasi meditating Just let the mind chill out. I do that more and more and since the trip I'm really like doing it more regularly because I can see how I get pulled in To okay social media or this thing So when you when you relax more your nervous system starts to I mean just even talking physiologically not having to go into the depth stuff Your nervous system starts to To relax and and then you're able to actually produce more people talk about this like You can get more done in four to five hours in a day if you're really focused Then you can like just fucking around for 12 Any other questions? Awesome Thank you guys


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Thank you so much. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Jacqueline Lukman, and I am a member of the Black Alliance for Peace. I am the co-coordinator of the Mid-Atlantic region for the Black Alliance for Peace, and I am the co-host of, by any means necessary, on Radio Sputnik here in Washington D.C. with my comrade and friend, Sean Blackman. It's interesting that, you know, I am here representing two organizations or two entities that have faced repression from the U.S. government. Sputnik News, that has been the subject of U.S. government attempts to shut it down since 2016 when Russia gate proliferated all over the country because the Democrats lost the election that they didn't want to admit that they lost for their own foolishness. And the Black Alliance for Peace, one of many black radical organizations that are always under scrutiny by the U.S. government, the State Department, the FBI, particularly our comrades in the African People's Socialist Party, that were raided a few months ago. These realities of how we exist and operate in the alleged land of the free are always near in our consciousness. We always understand that there are those of us in this country who are not free. We are not free to speak our minds. We are not free to print whatever we choose, especially if what we print is the truth about the crimes this government commits. And of course, this brings me to why we are here today, and that is Julian Assange. Julian Assange is imprisoned not because he committed a crime, not because he spied against the United States, not because he violated the Ex Espionage Act. Julian Assange is in prison because the United States government, right along with their friends, the British government, are punishing him because he printed the truth about the crimes this government was committing in other countries. So this is why you don't hear Julian Assange's name mentioned at all on corporate media because if they talk about Julian Assange, they have to talk about why he's in prison. If they talk about why he's in prison, they have to talk about that collateral damage video. They have to talk about WikiLeaks in general and how nothing that has been published by WikiLeaks was false. Every bit of it was true, and every bit of it implicates the corrupt people and the very corrupt institutions that make up this government and its allies like these folks, the British, who are colluding with the United States to deny Julian Assange his freedom as a member of the press to attack him mentally, to wear him down physically. But this is par for the course, you see, for how the United States government and its allies treats political prisoners. I'm so glad this sign is here. Free all political prisoners. You have to understand that this is how the U.S. government deals with all of its political prisoners. They deny you healthcare. They create conditions in these institutions, prisons, these U.S. and British penal colonies.  The United States carceral state is a penal colony. The Department of Corrections is the U.S. Gulag, the political institution that controls all the prisons. Let's stop slinging around these ridiculous words, accusing Russia or any other country of being less democratic than the country with 5% of the population of the world, but 25% of all incarcerated people on the planet. So the way Julian Assange is treated, is being treated, his health is declining, his mental capacity is declining. This is the way the United States treats all political prisoners. And for those of us who have been in the struggle to free political prisoners, those of us who have been in the struggle to get Mumia Abu Jamal off death row successfully and we're continuing to struggle for his freedom. Those of us who have struggled to free Dr. Matulu Shakur. Those of us who struggle to free brother Jamil Amuntakim and others and all these other political prisoners we're fighting for. We understand that what is happening to Julian Assange is what this country has always done. This is how it treats political prisoners. They want to throw our people behind the wall, throw away the key and they hope that we forget about them while they rot away in 40 years of solitary confinement and die. Never being thought of again, but that cannot happen. Not with Julian Assange and not with all the other political prisoners behind the wall. They can be free. We can free Julian Assange and other political prisoners. We can free Leonard Peltier. We can free all of these other political prisoners. We just have to fight for their freedom because as we are fighting for their freedom, we're fighting for ours. So whatever you do, do not forget that it is possible a better world is possible for political prisoners. Their freedom is possible and a better world for us is possible. We just have to fight for it. I'm Jackie Luquan with the Black Alliance for Peace. Thank you very much.


Welcome to German East Bay's third anniversary. So I think we will be in this conference in about three years and that was basically because of Bay Area Science Class School. The Bay Area Science Class School is actually next week and Rebecca and I can't thank you for showing up a week early. We had some really great talks. I didn't have an intro for the library, but my titles life and my intro for the Microsoft works. The open public library has been joining us for over a year now. They're on that back table. If you don't have a library card, you should get one. We should also talk to them about all the awesome events they have. For example, on Thursday at the 22nd, they have a librarian that likes to tell you how old your house is and the history, so they'll dig through all the tax records and tell you why the government knows as much about your house as it does. We also have the real cheese guy. We have some great tropical drinks and cheap beer at the bar so we can fill this up. So our first speaker is going to tell us a little about dams and especially some of the dumb ways we build dams. That's not the only dumb thing we do. Does anyone know who this is? Anyone from UCS? So this is Charles Hatfield. He was famous as a rain maker. He supposedly successfully made rain at many places. So in 1915, San Diego, which had the marina dam that looked like this, said there's not nearly enough water in our reservoir so we'll pay you $10,000 which will give us 40 to 50 inches of rain. In January, it worked. So this is a sweet water dam in the family. This is a bridge. This was after only 30 feet of rain. So this is San Diego. Obviously the rain maker probably didn't do this in science there. They didn't stop him from trying to collapse his $10,000. And the city refused to pay him. Not because they didn't think he made the rain. They said, well, if you did make the rain, you're liable for all of this damage, which is way more than $10,000. And apparently this traveled through the courts many times until finally some judge said, look, this was an act of God. You're not liable for the damage that we're also not paying you. I didn't want to tell a tale of a slightly more successful dam. So this is the Hoover Dam built only 15 years after that big flame. The Hoover Dam is responsible for generating between three or ten a terawatt hours of electricity a year. Quite a bit of electricity. It actually has four million cubic yards of concrete. If they had poured it all at once, it would have taken 125 years for it to cool. So instead, they carved these squares and filled it through each square with concrete. They also had cool water from the river, Colorado River, running through it to help solidify faster. They're expecting this dam to last 10,000 years and actually have a star chart at the base of this dam that's lost the last 14,000 years and accurately tell people in the future why exactly the dam was constructed. That means that a lot of the dams that we have are not built so brilliantly and tell you a little bit about that here is Henry Benz. This damnation. What happens at the end-life of dams? What happens when we construct something large, when we do a lot of engineering near the dams? I'm not going to go into the how, when, why of dams, why they're built, where they're built so much, and the things like hydropower, electricity, all the ways that we use them because we get into a lot of politics and that just gets along that spot at the end. But why me? Mostly because I'm a river person. I like rivers. I've spent more than a decade restoring rivers throughout the Southwest in areas where often our rivers have no water and sometimes our national forests have no trees. But I like all things rivers and dams. Generally, they've been rivers. Jason's known. But beyond that, I like big, apocalyptic movies. I like movies where the volcano explodes or where we get the big earthquake and dams kind of fall into that pyramid. Often dams are big, apocalyptic things when they end, which makes the in-light a lot more fascinating.    Are you ready? We're actually out there, sir. Looks anyway. It's kind of good for something after all. So this is what I get from a liberal arts education. I went to Prescott College. Liberal arts for arts and the environment being pay-friendly. 75,000 and 84,000 dams that are large enough for us to track them. Nobody really knows how many. It depends on what lists you with what you look at nationally. And this is going to include all dams. Really knows how many or exactly where all of them are at this point. Out of those 75 to 84,000 dams we have approximately 14,000 that are considered high hazard dams. So high hazard dams aren't necessarily the size of the dam. It means that it should something happen to the dam.  It will take out towns. It will take out houses. It will take out cars. It will take out women. There's something wrong with these dams. And in that subset of both of those we have 2,000 deficient high hazard dams. There are approximately 2,000 dams that we know are likely to fail and should they fail are going to kill people. And they're the ones that are still up. Also, not generally a known list. So dams are busts. We started in 1902 with the National Reclamation Act. And the National Reclamation Act was meant to help us settle the west. To bring water to the arid regions of the western U.S. to help us settle and become the red basket of America in the world. So in 1903 we had 5 projects. In 1904 we had 6 projects. We went like that for a couple of years running. And then toward the end of World War II all the way through the end of the 60s where we had 5 to 6 large dam projects finishing each day. We went from having 5 or 6 a year to having 5 or 6 a day. And that's how we got up to 200,000 dams in this area. And they're still building them. They're still building big dams. I heard somebody say tonight that they're not building dams anymore but it's not really true. We just don't hear about them. They're building a large one on the People River in New Mexico. So we build all these dams. We semi-keep track of them kind of.  Yeah, everything dies. Including not so great engineering. So dams do two things at the end of their lives. Dams fall down and dams fill up. So what happens when dams fall down? And by fall down we mean they explode catastrophically and occasionally take out people and resources and towns. These are just an idea. Dam started falling down kind of as soon as we as a country started building them. This isn't something new. We've known it happens. And we end up with things like the Johnstown flood. 1889, one of the largest disasters in the country associated with dams, over 2,200 people killed. Whole towns taken out. And this is a tree going through somebody's house at the house's tumble downstream. And they rebuilt the Johnstown dam and it went out again in the 1970s. And it kept happening into the 1900s. We start getting more dams and it continues to happen. We get better engineering and it continues to happen. The St. Francis Dam, this is down towards L.A. Mulholland that brought all the water from Owens Valley and helped L.A. to grow. Mulholland who engineered dams and wasn't actually an engineer. So he built, he got kind of a type of dam you like and then he scaled it up for this project. And almost immediately it started leaking. It started exfiltrating there were wet spots. People were a little concerned. He kept getting called out to look at it and he kept saying, yeah, that's what the inspect, that's expected for this side of dam. This side leaks, that side leaks. Eventually the center of it starts to leak and the dam keeper calls him out. He takes a look and he decides, yeah, that's an expected variation that's within spec for this side of a dam. And on that same day somewhere right before midnight it became not within spec for that side of a dam. And a 150 foot wall of water goes rushing down the cannon and it starts taking out the dam keeper and his family. It takes out a construction crew that's camped downstream and all of their people. And then this 150 foot wall of water starts rushing town through town through Ventura County all the way to the ocean. Oops. And it keeps happening. The 1970s. This is within my lifetime now. I don't know how many of you were my age, maybe not everyone. But this is semi recent history. The Teton Dam collapse. The largest earthen dam collapse in our country's history. So we have this giant lake of water. We have lots and lots of water that goes back with dirt. We put a lot of dirt in front of it. We put up a big plug and it starts to leak. And right before this picture, not too long before it, there's a picture of a caterpillar, a bulldozer. You'll hear more about caterpillars in the talk later. This is the different kind. This is the big yellow machine kind.  And the giant wall of dirt eventually succumbs to all of the water behind it. And the water pushes through and there's this all the dirt and all the water rushing down. This is in Montana. It takes out 3,000 head of cattle and it keeps happening into the 80s into the 2000s. And we're not only holding back big sets of water with it. We're not only putting recreation or hydropower behind dams. We're putting mighty waste. We're putting coal sleds. We're putting this. And we all heard about the Animas River recently. Colorado's had it. West Virginia has it regularly. When you get toxic sludge running through your town and washing your house downstream. This was in 2000. Does anybody remember hearing about this on the news? Yeah. Not so much. Not unless you read the particular news. But we keep going into the 2000s. This is fairly recent. And these are only the big explosions that take out loss of life and limb and property in towns. You know, your car, maybe even you attach the vehicle not running up a tree. And it continues to happen all the way until this month. This month in the storms in South Carolina, 11 dams burst in a week. In less than a week. 11 dams in what was originally thought to be a thousand-year flood, which sounds big and impressive. A thousand-year flood is now the 100-year flood. And 100-year floods kind of happen about every 10 years. So this month, 11 dams in this country in one state, in one small region in just a few days. And these are the big ones. These are the ones that actually make news when the people pay attention to. These aren't the one in West Virginia or Wisconsin or, you know, a local small piece, relatively small one, burst through. But what happens to the ones that don't fall down? Well, dams, the lot. My background is really in rivers. And rivers move sediment. It's part of what they do. It's part of their life cycle. They tend to move back and forth through the dirt, through sediment. And they move the sediment with them. It's part of what they're supposed to do. When you put something in the way, the sediment fills up behind them. They start filling in. So the second option for dams, if they don't fall down, is that they fill up. Even the big ones. Glen Canyon. The second largest impoundment in the U.S. One of the most apocalyptic sets of numbers has it built in 1966 and filling in within 55 years. Can anybody do the math on that one? 1966 plus 55. What is that? Yeah, that's like tomorrow, almost. Yeah, it's 2021. But realistically, in terms of, this is a huge project. Yeah, this is a big canyon. This is a lot of money. And it fills in potentially really, really quick. So there's another option. Dams fall down, dams fill up, or we choose to take dams down. We plan for this. Let's see if this works. I was told girls can't make good noises when we do these things. This is the White Salmon in Idaho. It's also happening on the Elwa twice in Washington State. There are some great videos, particularly if you look at American Rivers on YouTube. We have the option to choose the dams and to take them out. So here, from back on, this one you probably can't see it very well. On the side, it's a little easier. We'll take out dams in the U.S. This is a map of the dams that have been taken out. Compared to the approximately 200,000 that we have, it's not a whole lot of dams. But we started taking them out. We take out one every couple of years. Then we start taking out one a year. Now we're taking out tens per year. And it doesn't need to be every dam. Some dams are doing their job. There's a reason that we build dams. There's a reason we might want them there. Some of them that we know might come down unexpectedly and kill people. Or ones that are feeling nervous, we should plan for how and when this happens instead of just kind of letting them take out dams. And there are dams nearby. So we don't want them to take out all the dams. The other part when dams come down, when we choose to take them out, is that it's kind of a lot of fun. When we get the apocalyptic piece where we choose to take out the dams, they're no longer meeting our needs.  Because what goes up must eventually come down. So that's the end of our dams talk. With the Sam Committee. The Sam Committee dam in the Bay Area, I don't know that one in particular, due to the Bay Area, I do know there's one on the campus of one of our local colleges that might not be meeting its needs and could perhaps be blocking salmon rent. That they should come out in the Bay Area. There are some great groups working on them in the Google Dam. There are local groups and local people working on the dams that perhaps aren't meeting our needs. That's destructive for dams when we blow them up with dynamite. Which is kind of a lot of fun as opposed to letting them burst. It's because we can plan for it. It's not unexpected. We can put the measures in place. We can blow parts of it. We can blow sections and not have the whole thing catastrophically fail at once. We can put measures in place to protect the areas that are most vulnerable. Oh, that's actually pretty well known. When can you dam might have been put in as a silk trap for the dam just downstream? We're very protective of our Colorado River water in California and various other southern Southwest states. It's silting pretty rapidly. Throughout the world, the average is 0.8% a year depending on, you know, what type of rockets going through. It's actually silting in fairly quickly. And also just for the first time recently with below it's ability to perhaps produce power. Came back up after rains, but yeah, as it's rising we are losing the ability to do what it's needing to do. Yeah, that's a big question. After they've built them with silt then what? The Elba River in Washington state is actually a really great example of that. It was pretty well filled in. Glyne's Canyon Dam and there was a second one on the Elba if you look them up. They're fairly well silted in. Within a year they start meandering as a river. They not only flow but they start moving back and forth. When we look at things like Hedge Henshey the projections are I believe, and I haven't worked with the groups that are particularly involved with them, that if we take out dams that are pretty well silted in then within a decade they'll start moving and start functioning as regular rivers again. Then we will see natural restoration starting to happen even if we don't go back in and start replanting. So we as humans we like to mess with things. It's kind of our thing. We're really semi-good at it and that we keep doing it. But if you take them out they actually will restore themselves within a fairly short period of time. They will start moving as a river again. One more? Anyone? I think we're good. So thanks so much for being here to give a quick ten minute break. So we'll go and talk to the open public library and grab a drink, grab some grilled cheese. If you are wearing a stylish alomot t-shirt like this or have brought a teahe mug and you did not get one of these cards you should go talk to the people on the front table because they're also judging you how you get a prize that's much much cooler than this card. We'll be back in ten. So right now I have a slight confession. I work for The Man but kind of if I didn't I'm not personally a big fan of Reed. This is my real personal choice so I love having to talk about a technology closer. I love Ron. I'm surprised about some of the history of Ron. First of all, Ron is essentially a byproduct of this. When we take sugar pain and make sugar we end up with a whole bunch of almost toxic stuff. In addition to how cool is used to harvest all this we get a whole bunch of molasses. By 1540 there were nearly 3,000 share mills in Brazil and yet there was essentially no Ron. We didn't have Ron by then. Molasses is gross and nasty at least with stuff like this. This is the 1919 in Boston and the molasses fled. Ron was discovered on this ship. It was at 1628. This is the Flassa. Ron and the Navy go quite well together. The Brits used to actually give it out as a parcel so they had a daily ration of Ron. We get the term proof because the way that soldiers checked if the Ron was good enough was that they doused gunpowder in this alcoholic beverage with no longer light. In Britain 100 proof means 57% ABV whereas here it's 50% ABV so make sure you buy some British liquor. We used to put beer on ships. Beer doesn't travel well. In the 1700s Ron essentially replaced it. Eventually they used to get half a pint of Ron a day. This is extremely high proof stuff because it looked like white sugar getting something to collapse. Edward Vernon called Old Grog because of an outfit he liked to wear ordered that it be diluted one to four but he still got that whole half a pint which is now distributed to you in a court or so. The U.S. Navy was the first Navy to finally say you know what maybe we don't need soldiers drinking all this Ron so we cancelled the ritual in 1862. It actually stayed in the UK until 1970 and I was surprised to learn that apparently the Canadian Navy and the New Zealand Navy both like to drink a lot and the New Zealand Navy didn't actually cancel their Ron rations until 1970. Ron goes with Tiki beverages quite well as well. It's often combined with fruit juice, citrus juice, you know, wards off the sturdy so it's a vitamin C deficiency. There's an interesting word to that as well so lemons actually have a ton of vitamin C they have over twice as much vitamin C as limes but there's a sort of linguistic ambiguity where limes and lemons the words are often used interchangeably for very different plants and limes tend to be very acidic so they're very tart and the limes will work better unfortunately that doesn't come due to the vitamin C if you're storing lime juice in copper kilns like this or if you're heating it up or if it's exposed to light all that causes the vitamin C to evaporate as well so there's actually relative leaps and pieces including the Scott expedition and Antarctica where people with lots of lime juice contracted surgery so it's kind of interesting but yeah here to tell you a little bit about the art that is probably what's keeping me in Ah, thanks sir I was listening to you and learning and I'm not going to say anything about rum I'm just going to talk about who we're looking at and if you're in the contest like if you wore a Hawaiian shirt or you brought a mug there will be a contest oh that's about something like that this is a clicker the prizes will be given only after my speech so you have to stay for my speech anyways so thank you Rick thank you Rebecca for your work thank you to the other speakers I'm Aldo Von Strohlein I published a zine cultique news back in the 90s if anybody was alive then and now I do an event called tiki oasis with my wife and so and that's my soundtrack thank you Zane you can get rid of you can disregard this slide because tiki is not about being quiet I don't know why I mean this is a lodge so they want you to be quiet that's very un-tiki to be quiet so if you have any questions or want me to stop I can just yell it out and I'll just stop so anyways how many people here have heard the word tiki and think they know what tiki means that's pretty good so let's do a little pop quiz here what is that and what is that and what is that tiki for now okay if you answered tiki to all of these things you're correct because they're all pretty different from each other so what is tiki the tiki is I'm going to be referring to tiki as tiki style or Polynesian pop it's an art movement that ran from the early 30s to the late 1970s in America and then it was revived in the mid 1990s again here in America so what I'm going to do is cover approximately 40-60 years of tiki history and then approximately 25 years of tiki revival in the next 20 minutes so the dictionary definition of tiki is a wooden or stone image of the Polynesian god but that's not how I'm probably going to be referring to the word tiki as you can see the term tiki is applied very liberally to all kinds of things and has become common vernacular for tiki torches tiki that's tiki act I'm going to be referring to it as tiki style so tiki didn't just pop up out of the ground there were waves of infatuation with different things that were Hawaiian there was these trauma throughout the 20s and 30s so there was a strong base for the tiki movement to actually happen obviously there was a Hawaiian shirt craze there's Gary Truman Elvis and a really super nice picture shirt that's almost tiki because it's got tiki mods on it and also much further before that a hundred years before that a lot of writers romanticized and created this for the general public in America so our appetites were wedded by that and by these vaguely exotic clubs that existed across the nation but had a high density in the LA area so things like the 70s club holly this one's called the caravan room it's just vaguely exotic it doesn't really say where it's from that was in Brooklyn again, it's not specifically tiki and Zambolanga I don't know what that means so the tiki craze essentially is credited to this one guy Don Beach according to the book of tiki he is the guy who started the tiki movement there was other beach covers in the Hollywood area like this guy Eli Headlake he came up to the right and he also worked for Disneyland and furnished tiki's for them around the frontier line and stuff and he worked in Hollywood and he gave me four bond beach but Don wrote to the top quickly because Don opened a cafe in 1933 and then turned it into a bar in 1937 I'm not sure exactly what the transition is but he moved across the street in 37 and made it a little bit nicer the main thing about Don's Bar is that it was in the middle of Hollywood and his drink menu had approximately 80 rum drinks on it which was unheard of if you went into a cocktail lounge of that day if they had a bar menu at all it would have about five or six drinks it would have a Manhattan martini, etc so that's Don's Bar about 20 years later once it really got popular and here's Don the version of Don sitting on the beach and kind of a hyper cooler version of Don like from the 70's still on the beach with a full head of hair so once Don set this example and kind of was very successful you can see at this point in the 70's or actually I guess that would be the mid 60's he's got like five restaurants and then the chain later grew to about 30 locations which of course spawned a lot of imitators his success you know these guys said hey that guy can do it we can do it too but his most famous imitator is Trader Dick who had a little restaurant called Hinky Dinks in the mid 30's and after he visited Don and saw his success he changed his Hinky Dinks to Trader Dick's there and it's at 6500 San Pablo which is now an empty lot and you can see he's got kind of the same motif as Don there sitting on the beach but he's more of a trader he's got the goods and then that's actually the current menu but it's from the 50's you can go to Trader Dick's today in Emeryville and they're still using that same menu which is pretty cool and that menu spawned lots of imitators also Trader Dick had his own imitators from Phoenix, Arizona and there were many others that stole that motif from Trader Dick to have this party sort of atmosphere on your menu but this one really went a lot the guy passed out and more topless women than they could cram on it is a little bit more debauched seen there and then these are some of the people that copied Trader Dick anymore but you can see they go across the nation Canada you can find them everywhere copiers of Don and Vic so Don and Vic fueled the Tiki movement with their success and their imitators another person that fueled the Tiki movement was Thor Hyrule who in 1947 sailed his raft across the Pacific and then wrote books about it they're so popular they're number one sellers around the world translated into 20-30 languages they're all over Europe there were even textbooks in the US and in some European countries so they were required reading for children so people that would maybe live up older than me actually read these in school another person that fueled the Tiki craze in a big way and this is where people get the myth of the military being an important aspect to the Tiki craze is James Michener he was obviously in the military he came back he wrote Tales of the South Pacific 1948 Pulitzer Prize winning novel then in 1949 he became a musical and then in 59 he became a movie and he also had a return to paradise in 1953 so James Michener and the soundtrack to the musical and the musical and the movie really fueled the South Pacific craze and also fueled the myth that the Tiki craze is a military thing somebody who also fueled the Tiki craze in a big way is the Bishop Museum that's me at the Bishop Museum and this is their star artifact it's one of the few surviving Hawaiian Tiki's of its size it looks like it's about 9 feet tall but it's really only about 6 feet tall it's on a pedestal and so United Airlines was using that image and the Bishop Museum was using that image in their promotions United Airlines for jet travel in the 50s and 60s and then of course the US government was using it in the state of 1959 so between like say 55 and 59 this guy whose name is Kuka Ili Mogu but we know him as just Kuu he's probably the most famous Tiki outside of the Easter Island moans so kind of the last big thing that fueled the Tiki craze and you wouldn't know from those fans is Disneyland and Walt Disney I mean Disneyland was huge Walt Disney was very respected his films were taken off and in 1963 he put in the Tiki Room June of 1963 so that was kind of the last thing that propelled the Tiki movement obviously it has the word Tiki it has the image of a Tiki and so that's what kind of created and fueled the Tiki craze in America and then of course this is an American movement it's an international movement obviously Thor Heidergall being from Europe and all these big trade expanded to Europe so basically all countries in every city across America had Tiki bars they were people asked me sometimes how many Tiki bars were there that would be like saying but not only are there Tiki bars in the Tiki movement the cool thing about the Tiki movement is it produced a lot of artifacts so Tiki was applied to almost every day like any imaginable product you can imagine lights and condiment dispensers table lamps mugs soap on the row what other trend or artifact has soap on the row of course Tiki covers the gamut of all the arts there's Tiki music Martin Denny and his number one record Quiet Village Tiki music is also known as Exotica named after Martin Denny's first record Tiki also covers architecture of course and the social sciences geography and ethnology fashion of course I try to get a couple of obscure fashion things here a rayon ad and a sketch for a hostess outfit for the Luau in Beverly Hills of course Tiki covers the culinary arts that's Trader Vic putting on the Luau and then a pineapple dish that is not made by Trader Vic that's unrelated but I gotta throw some pineapple in there and of course mixology is important over there is the Tiki serving the coffee diablo or coffee grog and this is Domino Beach cover making up some of his concussions there of course Tiki supports the fine arts like velvet painting that's a v-tag and Tiki supports the graphic arts you know all Tiki parts have really nice menus and that was kind of a calling card right? I chose these menus because these particular ones actually won art director awards or some kind of award for the art director's club in Los Angeles so they were actually award winning graphics because they were just awesome graphics and of course Tiki covered sex I just gotta throw that in there I don't know if you caught this cover of the magazine and then you open it up and it's like her clothes disappeared same Tiki okay so where are we so anyway the Tiki style and the Polynesia Pop movement lasted from 1934 until around 1955 here it is in the 70s you can see it's starting to degenerate a little bit over here with Domino Beach cover serving a cheap buffet and billboarding the site I was building instead of having a really great facade like we saw earlier but then the 60s came around and people became a little more self-aware you know the next generation was into Eastern religion they didn't want to go to some fake Tiki bar and then of course the 70s with the the me generation and disco and new wave you know the 80s Tiki bar because people didn't want to go to a Tiki bar and be square they wanted to be new and they wanted something different they didn't have the kind of respect for a Tiki bar that their elders did they didn't want to be square sitting in some fake environment they didn't want to drink alcohol they didn't want to take drugs at the bottom we have Richard Nixon at the Trader Vicks in Washington DC I believe so we have the devolution of Tiki then so here's Kalbo's before and after it's a I don't know if you can tell on the right you live too much later I don't know if it's still open but that's Fantasy Island's showroom it's a strip club now a really low and kind of strip club is it still a strip club? okay good I'm glad I didn't get it entertainment Kalbo's always had entertainment and dancing all night this is the Hanalei Hotel on the left which is now the Crown Plaza on the right you can see they remodeled it very nicely into something very generic that everybody will love they did keep their Outrigger though if you look underneath the logo and the pork crochet in there that's an Outrigger hanging out there but this is their original 1963 remodel when they changed from just a roadside hotel to a Tiki hotel and it was extremely well done and well respected and now it's not so much so if your build theme wasn't getting completely remodeled and de-fasotted and your bar still stayed open maybe your drinks were going from something really nice and classy like this which is Stephen Crane's Blue Out which was kind of a pinnacle of Tiki drinks and peaked in the late 50's and then we had cheap imitators so you can see the difference in quality here versus here you see the mint and the crushed ice and the custom ice cones and stuff and here it just looks like a bunch of Kool-Aid in different colors they do have an ice cone, they do have a lot but you see what I mean so this is kind of the end of the first era of Tiki you can see it got so cheap and so devolved that even the original people that went there kind of stopped going there so a lot of the old places died and that kind of set the stage for the Tiki Revolution which so the cool thing about the Tiki Revolution is that we have a template before us and the people that are in college in Tiki style now we have people that have done it right before us and so that's Sven Kirsten that's why we're dressed like that new Tiki movement and every movement needs a manifesto so in Tiki news everybody could follow it and be good well I can't actually read what it says


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Hi everyone, my name is Rokas and in this video you will see how I tried to make myself into the most cursed man in the world by doing everything that superstitious people avoid doing. And for 10 days I documented how everything went, which also included taking free flights to a different country, traveling, doing a lot of other activities. So if you're interested to see how it all worked out, stay tuned for this The Journey episode. In this world, and especially my country, Lithuania, there are a lot of people who believe in superstitions. The unfortunate side to it is that it limits people's lives and decisions. So for example, if there's a black cat somewhere down the road, those people will not go through that way, even if that way would be the best way for them to go through. The belief in superstitions also creates a lot of stress. If I knocked a soul chaker, then I start to stress that, oh my goodness, now something bad will happen. If I break a mirror, I start to stress about that. So the belief in superstitions can create a lot of discomfort. The thing though is that while a lot of people believe in superstitions, nobody pressure tests it. Nobody tries out and sees, so do they really work? So I decided to take a risk to potentially sacrifice my own well-being if superstitions are real and to see if I will be able to make myself into the most cursed man in the world in the next 10 days. In order to do that, I went on Wikipedia and found a list of the most believed in superstitions across the whole globe and I did everything I could to create bad luck for myself. My first step was to go to a store and collect as many objects that would help me curse myself as I could. Luckily a local store which sells a lot of nonsense was perfect for that. I found almost everything I need besides a horse shoe. I bought chopsticks, a soul chaker, a mirror, which were all key ingredients to curse myself. I then went on by making myself a bowl of rice and sticking the chopsticks into it, which is a bad omen in Japanese culture. To make sure that the curse would really work, I kept the chopsticks there for a while and I also ate the rice itself with those chopsticks. Then I went on by continuing to write down all the possible cursed numbers and by putting them on the wall and keeping them for the next 10 days in my room where I lived. To make sure that the curse would really work out, the two Japanese numbers which hired a bad omen, I made sure to write them down also in a kanji form. The next step was to spill the soul chaker. To make sure that the curse would really work out, I also took a couple of other soul chakers that I had and I spilled them as well, but the soul didn't come out that much so just in case I took the main soul chaker, opened it up and made sure that it would really spill some soul as I knocked it down. I then took a mirror that I bought and started breaking it. Unfortunately it was not as easy as I thought but after about the first attempt I was able to break it and then I hung the broken mirror next to the cursed numbers in my room so that the curse would definitely stay and that I would always be surrounded by it. I continued to put on my hoodie inside out which is apparently a bad omen in the German culture and I will continue to wear the hoodie inside out for the next 10 days. Then I opened up an umbrella in my room and put on both of my feet on the table and kept them there for five minutes to make sure the curse would really get into me. With all that being done I decided to keep track of a few different realms of my life which should technically become cursed and I should have that like in and those realms are my health, my romantic relationship, my finances and a general lookout for how unlucky things will go for me and if things will fall apart as I try to do them over the next 10 days. Now with everything in place I'm ready to live my life and see what happens. So today is day three of me trying to become the most cursed man in the world and unfortunately so far nothing bad has really happened. There has been no significant change in my finances, my health as well, my relationship as well. So far I'm having no luck and making myself cursed. These days I keep wearing my hoodie inside out as a jog and also as I go to the cafe and actually kind of liked it. It looks like a pretty cool style so I'm actually starting to think maybe I will continue to wear that even further but whether that will make me cursed or not we'll see and also just to make sure that the curse would really get there I ordered a handmade horseshoe that I could hang it upside down in my room whenever it will come out. So I will get that in a couple of days and we'll see what changed until then. Today is day five of me trying to make myself into the most cursed man in the world. I finally got my horseshoe that I ordered and I quickly placed it above the door of where I live upside down so that all of my life will hopefully fall out of it. Although the package wasn't as lucky as the horseshoe since it was eaten by my dog. Unfortunately I still see no signs of my curse because my luck seems to be pretty good so far. I even went to Brazilian Jiu Jitsu training where it's easy to get yourself hurt but to be honest actually that day I did pretty well actually got some compliments from the people I rolled with I trained with they said I'm doing really well so no luck so far in getting myself cursed but hopefully things will continue to get worse as time progresses. Especially since my trip to Dublin is coming up close and if things will go bad they will definitely go bad during a trip. So today is day six of me trying to become the most cursed man in the world and as you see the environment changed it's because I'm in my bed I am a bit sick I got a cold. Now you could say that maybe is the very first sign of me being cursed but actually the cold is not that intense and I think it's more likely that I got a cold because for the last six days I was jogging outside with light clothes on through quite a cold weather but I'll let you decide whether this is the first sign of being cursed or it's just a side effect of what I've done. So my flight and trip to Dublin is in two days so let's see how much further my curse will go. So it's day eight of me trying to be the most cursed man in the world and I am in the airport. In regards to my health I feel much better and yesterday I even taught a yoga class didn't hurt myself nothing bad happened. Today is the flight and obviously in trips and flying if I'm to be cursed if something bad is going to happen it's going to happen today either doing the flight or actually doing the next few days while I'm traveling because a lot of mess tends to happen when you're traveling but we'll see if significantly much more mess is going to happen especially during the flight because of the curse. So we're going to board the plane pretty soon we're going to have two flights forward food Copenhagen so we'll see if the curse comes true or not this is the moment of truth. So here I am safe and sound in Dublin city center both connecting flights went really well I have nothing to complain about so I don't know I think the only curse that I feel where I'm not lucky is that I'm not able to curse myself I feel that's the part maybe that that's how I'm cursed I'm cursed to not be able to achieve my desire to get cursed but who knows let's spend a few more days here in Dublin I have a lot of things to do a lot of interviews that I'll take from various people so a lot of things can still go wrong but so far things are just too good but let's see how things continue to go. So yesterday I got as cursed or as close to being cursed as I did up until now and funny enough I didn't even realize yesterday that this could be potentially part of the curse because I didn't even record it when it happened I just thought today everything is going smooth but it said wait what about that so what happened is after I ended filming the Bellatory Dublin event it was 12 30 a.m and apparently in Dublin on a Saturday night public transport stops working at that hour and also too there were no taxis around there and the taxi app didn't bring up any taxis so I had to walk for 40 minutes to the place where I spent the night it was raining and I still had the sore throat even when I stopped the taxi turns out you need cash in order to go with it and I didn't have cash so basically I walked for 40 minutes through the rain feeling quite sick but part of me actually started to feel like you know that's an adventure you know part of traveling is getting into all sorts of trouble and finding your way out of it and anyway that accident was enjoyable I spent a good night I'm feeling better and my health I didn't get worse so so much for a curse but to be honest as much as somebody would like to maybe pin this on the curse I honestly think if public transport doesn't work from midnight in Dublin could have happened to anyone so to blame it on the curse I don't think so but let's see if things will continue to become even worse as we move further in the stream so today is day 11 of me trying to make myself the most cursed man in the world the 10 days that I documented have passed and it's time to make a summary well even more so to make things even worse I finally found a ladder in Dublin and went under it nevertheless things didn't seem to become worse still well I have to be honest when I took the flight to Dublin whenever there was turbulence for the first 10 or 20 seconds I thought you know this is all fine this is all fine you know superstitions doesn't exist or to be honest of course I don't think they do exist but still those superstitions are so deeply ingrained into our psyche by our cultural conditioning that after the turbulence went on for longer I did feel a part of my brain would think oh my gosh I hope I didn't kill myself by doing this experiment but in the end nothing happened all the flights went well my flight back went well and the trip besides the taxi accident it was all good and even with my midnight walk in Dublin where I couldn't get the taxi and there was no public transport functioning well you could consider that that was a curse at the same time a couple of people that live in Dublin that I talked to and told that story to they said no this is not a curse this is Dublin I saw a bunch of people struggling with the same problem of not having public transport or a taxi around at that time because it's a silly thing that happens in Dublin all the time on Saturday nights basically all of the things that I was attentive to my relationship was being great during the whole 10 days my finances didn't change and there were no signs of more bad luck than usual because bad things happen sooner or later anyway and of course it's easy to blame superstitionists or something you've done you knock a soul chaker or whatever and blame it on that but I did a bunch of that I did as much as I can but things didn't become worse I just had a natural ratio of bad things that every person gets sooner or later the only other thing you could consider that was part of the curse manifesting was me becoming sick but even so first of all I didn't get sick so bad that I had to skip my flight to Dublin that actually all went pretty well and I recovered quite fast it makes much more sense that the fact that I was jogging for the past 10 days in cold weather was the reason for me getting sick versus the curse manifesting in the end the real reason why I did this video is not only to pressure cast superstitionists and to show that it limits our life by believing in something that does make sense but also to show an example that that applies to many aspects of our life there's so many beliefs we take for granted we take them from our culture we take them from other people who didn't pressure test it we didn't question it they tell us that's the truth they tell us that's reality and so many bad beliefs become part of our life part of our belief system impacts our judgment in bad ways and until we question it so many things can go off but by engaging critical thinking by questioning by asking ourselves by testing our belief by testing what we think is true we can find so much better answers much more efficient decisions which can improve our lives dramatically so I hope that this video and this example has inspired you to consider applying pressure testing applying questioning critical thinking into more aspects of your life than just superstitionists so while this video is just the first step towards this direction I will continue to dive deeper into this subject and as the next step of the next video you will see me pressure testing a different thing this time a practice of developing habits testing of something that I read in a book has worked for me as I try to apply it in my life so if you're interested to see the next video or you like this video subscribe like this video let me know in the comments what do you think about the pressure testing this is this not enough information for you to believe that superstitionist doesn't really work do you think it's me that failed in cursing myself or you think and agree with me that superstitiousness is just ridiculous let me know in the comments I'm looking forward to hear more about that from you and until then keep questioning


Hi and welcome to the session. Today we will learn about pairs of lines. First of all we have intersecting lines, intersect if they have a point in common. Like this, now here the common point say O is called the point of intersection of the two lines L and M. Now you will find that two lines cannot intersect in more than one point. Next we have transversal a line that intersects two or more lines at distinct points transversal line P intersects two lines L and M at distinct points. So here line P is a transversal to the lines L and line P intersects lines L and M at same point. So that means here line P is not a transversal to the lines L and M because line P does not intersects lines L and M at distinct points. Our next topic is angles made by a transversal. Lines L and M are cut by the transversal P and in this we have marked the eight angles formed by the lines L and M with the transversal P. Here the angles marked from 1 to 8 have their special names. So let's see that angle 3, angle 4, angle 6 are called interior angles, angle 1, angle 2, angle 7 and angle 8 are called exterior angles. Next we have angle 1 and angle 5, angle 7, angle 4 and angle 8 corresponding angles. Now let us consider one pair of corresponding angles say angle 1 and angle 5. The corresponding angles have different vertices they are on the same side of the transversal like here angle 1 and angle 5 are on the same side of the transversal. And they are in corresponding positions like above or below left or right relative to the two lines. And angle 6, angle 4 and angle 5 alternate say angle 3 and angle 6 have different vertices they are on the opposite side of the transversal. Like angle 3 is on the left of the transversal and angle 6 is on the right of the transversal and they lie between the two lines that is L and M. Now angle 1 and angle 8 and angle 2 and angle 7 form pairs of alternate. And lastly we have angle 3 and angle 5 and angle 4 and angle 6 interior on the same side. Let's move on to our next topic transversal of parallel lines. First of all let us see what are parallel lines. When drawn on a sheet of paper do not meet however far produced we call them to be parallel lines. So here line N and line M do not meet anywhere. So that means line N and N are parallel lines. Transversal P cuts at distinct points. Now when a transversal responding angles are equal so here angle 1 is equal to angle 5. Angle 3 is equal to angle 7. Angle 2 is equal to angle 6. Angle 4 is equal to angle 8. Next we have alternate interior angles equal. So this implies angle 3 is equal to angle 6. Angle 4 is equal to angle 5. Lastly of interior angles transversal supplementary. That means angle 3 plus angle 5 is equal to 180 degrees that is their supplementary. Also angle 4 plus angle 6 is equal to 180 degrees. Now our last topic is checking for parallel lines. Here we have 3 rules when a transversal corresponding angles are equal. Lines have to be second alternate. Interior angles are equal then line. Interior angles on the of the transversal supplementary then lines have to be parallel. Now let's take an example. Line N and M are cut by the transversal N and we have given the measure of these 2 angles and we need to check whether line N is parallel to line M or not. So first of all let us mark all the angles over here. Now here we have given that angle 4 is equal to 136 degrees and angle 6 is equal to 44 degrees. If we add angle 4 and angle 6 then we will get angle 4 plus angle 6 is equal to 136 degrees plus 44 degrees which is equal to 180 degrees. Now angle 4 and angle 6 form a pair of interior angles on the same side of the transversal and they are supplementary also and we know that when a transversal cuts 2 lines such that a pair of interior angles on the same side of the transversal is supplementary then the lines have to be parallel. So that means line N is parallel to line M. With this we finished this session. Hope you must have understood all the concepts. Goodbye, take care and have a nice day.


In this presentation, we will take a look at the budget committee as we go through the budgeting process. When we consider the corporate structure, we typically consider it as a top-down type of structure. We have the management, we have the top management, we have the middle management, then we have the supervisor. So we have the top management with the overarching goals and objectives. We've got the middle management that's going to help to oversee the supervisors, and then we have the supervisors typically focus on the day-to-day type of activities. They're managing the activities that happen on a day-to-day process. So we note that the company is not a democracy. We're not voting for what is going on. It's a top-down type of structure. It's a top-town type of organization. So we would think given that that the budget process would be something that possibly would be dictated by the top and the top would then just tell the rest of the company the map of where we are going. And of course, the final decision on the budget, what budget process will be implemented, will be done by