Good afternoon everybody. Welcome to DAV's Patriots Pitch. I'm your host and director of DAV Patriot Boot Camp, Nick Brophy. The A.V. Patriots Pitch is a unique pitch competition which showcases top finalists from our most recent DAV Patriot Boot Camp cohort, which we held last month at our national HQ in Erlanga, Kentucky. Yes, it's inspired by the TV show Shark Tank. Our dynamic event brings together these entrepreneurs and a panel of accomplished judges, many of which are investors, industry experts, and successful entrepreneurs themselves who are eager to support and invest in veteran-led and or veteran-spouse-led businesses. The top contestant today will win $1,500 in non-dilutive capital, always an entrepreneur's favorite kind of capital. The runner-up will win $1,000 and the veteran coming in third place, $500. Sadly, since we have four contestants today, one entrepreneur will walk away without money, but will gain the wealth of experience and, of course, DAV's community. And while these funds may provide some cushion to support their ventures, each entrepreneur was offered a chance for one-on-one coaching focused on further improving their ability to sell their ideas to customers and potentially future investors. But before we begin and cover the rules, I'd like to take a moment to introduce our panel of judges for today's competition. We're going to start first with Taylor Macklemore, co-founder and CEO of Future State Ventures and a co-founder of Patriot Bootcamp and is now the co-chair of DAV's National Veterans Entrepreneurship Council. Taylor is a venture builder, scale operator, community connector, and investor. He's also an advisor to Shurm Labs and sits on a number of startup boards. Taylor's also served on the Colorado banking board and he serves as a pension fund trustee for the Colorado Public Employees Retirement Association. That's a mouthful. Previously, he was a managing director of ABLE, a venture and product studio. Taylor was responsible for ABLE's new venture and investing practices in all finance, legal operations, and human resources functions for three offices on two continents while the company achieved over 15x growth. While at ABLE, he was also a co-founder and investment lead for codable coding school in Latin America. Before his work there, Taylor worked in investment banking assisting in the arrangement of more than 12 billion financing for leveraged buyouts, acquisitions, and other corporate transactions. And while that is a long resume, we are very, very pleased to have Taylor Macklemore. Welcome, Taylor, to the panel. Thank you for having me. I'm grateful to be here. More than anything, I'd just like to say I'm grateful to be a part of this DAV community and I believe in the power and potential of veteran entrepreneurs. So I'm excited to hear what people have to say and see how we can support them. And our next judge, Valerie Lavin, is a DAV Patriot Boot Camp Council member as well, mentor and of course respected leader in the veterinary community down in the Tampa Bay area. She is actively serving her fellow veterinarians through ActionZone Inc, a Florida-based nonprofit that provides education and training and entrepreneurship to those who served. Valerie is also a board member of the Institute of Strategic Policy Solutions and an impact board member of, is it Synapsee, Florida? She's worked with the Tampa Bay Chamber of Commerce and Bunker Labs as a volunteer city leader and as a director of ecosystem development. She helped Bunker Labs develop its ambassador program, a service-disabled retired soldier with more than two decades of service. Valerie served in the military intelligence community before being called to duty at US CENTCOM, Commandant Headquarters as a First Sergeant. She's CEO of Luminary Global, a company that provides the military law enforcement and first responders with specialized equipment and supplies and Valerie has received numerous honors and recognition for her military service and more importantly, contributions to the business community. Valerie, welcome to DAV's Patriots Bits for the first time, I believe. Yeah, the first time. Thank you so much. I'm honored to be here and like Taylor, I am very excited and love watching a veteran and military spouse entrepreneurs thrive in small business ownership. Great. We're so happy to have both of you and that leads us to our final and third judge, our third and final judge, rather Tom Cox, the founder of Vertical Motion, an organization devoted to helping mid-career professionals and aspiring leaders become authentic, empathetic and audacious executives. The two-time VC back startup founder, Tom, is closed more than one and a half billion in B2B sales and B2G sales, is a former senior executive in publicly traded organizations and an Army veteran holds an MBA and is a recent leukemia survivor and we are so thankful for that, Tom. Tom holds several patents for his work in revolutionizing satellite communications and other technology breakthroughs throughout its career. Recovering from cancer, Tom retired from his 25-year space satellite career to become executive career coach for aspiring executives and Tom has mentored hundreds of professionals and entrepreneurs more than a decade and has been a mentor to the DAV Patriot Bootcamp and Techstars communities since 2017. Tom, thanks for carving time out of your day and again, thank you for being a part of DAV Patriot Bootcamp and Patriot's pitch panel. Welcome, Tom. Thank you, Nick. Thank you, everybody. I'm really glad to be here. Love DAV's mission, love working with the organization and I'm glad to be on this side of the table as opposed to pitching myself. Sure you are. And Taylor, Valerie and Tom, I mean, they're inviting them to be judges. They're living examples of the quality of instruction and mentorship available within the DAV Patriot Bootcamp ecosystem and frankly all entrepreneurial ecosystems and we're grateful for all that they do for us to make this program possible and all the support that they provide. So I bet everyone out there is wondering when are we going to get to the contest? Well, we are going to get to the contest here in just a moment but first we're going to cover the rules and then we're going to jump right in. So contestants, I hope you're getting ready. To start the program, first I'm going to introduce each participant by name. When they begin, so will the clock and they have two minutes to present without any slides before they experience the dreaded cowbell which I do have sitting right next to me. After their pitch, the judges will have three minutes or so to ask clarifying questions before we move on to the next contestant. Once all the contestants have presented their pitches, the judges and actually everybody out there watching will be able to vote for the top three contestants and then we'll announce the winners towards the end. So without further ado, I think it makes sense to move on to our first contestant and our first contestant is Mr. Michael Malinsky, Marine Corps veteran, father of three and founder of people, a founder of TADPulse Swimsuit, a company focused on providing innovative and high quality swimsuits that enhance the swimming experience for children. With a passion for safety, inherent playfulness and helping young swimmers build confidence through core understanding of progressive swimming techniques in a fun and effective suit. Ladies and gentlemen and everybody else out there, Michael Malinsky, Mike, take a deep breath because remember the timer will start when you do. What if learning how to swim was as easy as play? What would it look like? It would be fun, it would feel natural and it would be empowering. My name is Michael Malinsky, inventor of the TADPulse Swimsuit. Completely changing the way children learn to swim, I created a full body swimsuit that evenly spreads buoyancy from ankle to elbow with 24 strategically placed pockets each with a removable foam insert. There are two main problems with today's swim aides, they're all located across the chest and arms and they're binary. It's either helping them tread water in a forward motion or they sink like a rock when it's not in use. TADPulse swimsuits design not only provides buoyancy and freedom of movement but also evolves as young swimmers gain confidence. By removing a foam insert one at a time the child has to work a little bit harder just to keep their head above the water just like an athlete adds weights to get stronger in the gym. TADPulse swimsuit is more than just a retail company, we're socially aware and we transcend conventional business boundaries. That's with with every ninth swimsuit sold the 10th one will be given away to a community historically marginalized when it comes to access the public swimming areas. We strive not only to save lives through water safety but also contribute to broader societal healing. Today I'm asking you for $1,500 to increase inventory and cover marketing expenses. Funding will allow me to send samples to a parent's number one trusted water safety advisor, their kid's swim instructor. This is the ripple effect that I need to spread the word of my design's efficacy and create social proof that it works. Thank you for making water safety and confidence building a priority with TADPulse swimsuit. Excellent, excellent. All right, so TADPulse swimsuit, Mike Malinsky, let's start with Tom and see if he has any questions for Mike. Excellent pitch, Mike, I appreciate that. Question for you, can you tell me a little bit about your current revenue run rate and profitability? So right now the suits cost me about $26 a piece and I retail for $100. I'm bootstrapping the entire thing, haven't taken any investment and I do have a purchase order from a local pool store for 40 units and I'll be getting that done later this month. I was actually just wrapping that up before our pitch contest. Excellent, okay, thank you. Anything from you, Valerie? Great job, Michael. I do have a couple of questions about the suit itself. Tell me about the material. Is it SPF or does it provide any protection? How easy is it to get on and off? Does it cause rashes? I'm just thinking, you know, parents, that seems very a lot to put on before I take my kids swimming. Sure, this is actually SPF 40, so it does provide UV protection and the swimsuit material is the same material as all other swimsuits. It's mostly spandex and so far no rashes. It's the same design as a full-body swimsuit. A parent would order to just to cover protection from the sun, but mine has the patent-pending pockets on there to spread out the buoyancy. Okay, thank you. I do have another question, Nick, but I can wait my turn.  How are you marketing this? What is your go-to-market strategy with this? How are you reaching the parents? Having it at the pool store is great, but how are we getting the parents to the pool store? So right now I have Facebook, Instagram, my own website launched just in December. This is like a brand new product and now that this mannequin actually just came in today, I'll be making videos and showcasing more of that. YouTube channel started and TikToks around the corner. Yeah, it's just right now it's organic, sending it out to friends and family and everybody that sees a kid wearing one of these crazy-looking suits, you know, their interest is peaked and so right now it's word of mouth. Okay, thank you. Great, I can see Taylor's stomping at the bit. Taylor has little kids too. Taylor, what questions do you have? I always have questions, especially when it comes to kids' projects, the products. This is really well done on the pitch. How big do you think this market is? You know, there's a lot of kids out there and this is a critical skill, but have you put your arms around how you would quantify it? Sure. Yeah, let me just, just my thing here. So there are 400, sorry, 49 million children in the United States under the age of 10 and the number one cause of death in children, foreign under, is drowning and it's number two from 10 to five. That's a rate of 2.5 per day. So there is a market out there. The cost of a suit is less than what somebody would pay for a set of swim instructions. So that's where I say it's empowering. So it gives parents the confidence to put something on their child, know that they won't sink in the water, but they can have, they can splash around and beat and do what the big kids are doing. So the market's there.  If you were, if you make less than $50,000 a year, that household, it has 80% likely to have poor swim skills.  And that's where my mission statement comes into for every night I sell, I'm going to give one away. That's where I'm giving away to. And I'm not trying to make that the marketing pitch. I just kind of want to do that behind closed doors and just make a difference. I really appreciate your mission. Thanks for the response. Great. Mike, thank you so much for your pitch. That was great. We're going to move on to our second contestant, everybody. And our second contestant today is Jasmine Paul. So Jasmine is an Air Force veteran and founder of the Wealth Playground, a financial education startup teaching kids about money. Her work was selected by Harvard's Read Labs to teach all third graders in the Charlotte Mecklenburg School District. Her work has impacted the lives of over 10,000 young people in counting. The Wealth Playground designs interactive, engaging, and memorable experiences for youth ages five to 18 years old. Through their award-winning children's book series, Financial Education Workshops and Curriculum Development, they are empowering the next generation of wealth builders. Ladies and gentlemen, Jasmine Paul. Jasmine, remember, once you start talking, the timer starts when you do. Hi, everyone. My name is Jasmine Paul, and I'm the founder of the Wealth Playground. When I was a senior in college, I had a 3.4 GPA studying communications and Arabic. My friends and family would say that I was smart and successful, but I had a secret. I was living in my car and on friends' couches. It wasn't about ambition or intelligence. It had everything to do with not managing my money well and not asking for help. So I learned as much as I could about saving and investing through hours at the library and reading tons of books and asking mentors, and I finally figured it out. So while I was managing multi-billion-dollar budgets and holding the keys to nuclear weapons in the Air Force, I started teaching my coworkers and friends, and I was able to help 110 people repay $350,000 in student loan and credit card debt. And then I thought, why not teach kids? So that's why I created the Wealth Playground, a series of children's books, curricula, and workshops that inspire the next generation of wealth builders between the ages of five to 13. And we make it fun and enjoyable. To date, we've been able to sell 10,000 copies of our children's book series and work with organizations like the Taco Bell Foundation, Harvard University's Read Labs, the San Antonio Museum, schools in several states, and so much more. Today, we're seeking funding to reband the Wealth Playground and increase our user experience and to hire a curriculum development team to ensure that our curriculum is the best throughout the country. The Wealth Playground is impacting the next generation of wealth builders to live out their best dreams instead of living in their cars. Thank you. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. Okay, we're going to start with, we're going to go to reverse for a minute. We're going to start with Taylor if he has any questions. What's the largest challenge that you're facing to drive growth and launch right now? The largest challenge that I'm facing currently is reaching the decision makers in the different school systems. I feel there's teachers and people that are serving on school boards who are super interested. So I think my biggest challenge right now is like reaching the decision maker because I believe once I reach them, they're all in. That's great. And I really appreciate what you're working on. Great to see. So thank you. Thank you. Valerie, what questions do you have for Jasmine? Hi, Jasmine. Great job. Fun fact, Jasmine is actually alumni of ActionZone. So it's amazing to have watched her journey and have her here today. Jasmine is just incredible. So just to add on to your current challenge that Taylor asked, are you registered in county and states as a potential vendor for schools? We can just get into the decision maker. Okay, you are. So I'm on by boards here in the state of Texas as well as the South Central Textures Regional Certification Agency. And then I'm currently in the process of working through a few ISDs that are in the state of Texas. And when are you coming back to Florida? Whenever like we need to find a school that's ready for an author visit or financial literacy workshop and I'm down. Okay, so my question, my next question is what does it cost a school system to adopt your program? Yes, so it depends on the type of model. If it's the after school program, it's going to cost anywhere between $55 to $75 per student that will be involved in the program. And that's a licensing curriculum. And that will be for a facilitator of my staff to come in, help the school and then they would provide the financial literacy curriculum. And what kind of profit does that provide you? It's about, it's between a 45 to 50% profit margin. And it just depends again on the deliverability. If they want online only, it's going to increase the profit on our side. Great. Thank you. Tom, what about yourself, sir? Any questions for Jasmine? I love the theme today so far. It's been for helping children. I love this. My question to you, what are the materials like? What do the children actually interact with? Yes, so we have a series of five different children's books as well as worksheets, digital products, and then videos. So I can show you here. So here's our first book that we've been able to sell 10,000 copies of. We have our workbook that has about 40 activities ranging from saving, investing, and growing money. Here's another book. And then we also have the Spanish versions of the books as well as our worksheets that will, worksheets and facilitators guides that will help our teachers to facilitate the information. And then my other question for you is, is this something that I could buy online as a parent, even if I'm not aware of, like if I'm not part of a school that you have a partnership with? Absolutely. So you can go over to thewealthplayground.com slash shop and shop there, as well as we're on Amazon, Bards and Noble, and then currently in 11 bookstores throughout the state of Texas, Massachusetts, and Missouri. And then all of your marketing so far has been organic? Everything has been organic, have not done paid ads. It's been word of mouth. We currently have about 5,000 followers across our social media. That's on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Facebook. And it's truly been people have found us on Instagram or they found us on Amazon and have formed a relationship from there. Excellent. Great pitch, great product, great presentation. Thank you. All right. Thank you, judges, and thank you, Jasmine, for your presentation. Our next contestant, let's get down to business with Dr. Oskar Vasquez and his associate. And Oskar is a Marine Corps veteran passionate about scientific discovery and patient-centered care. This is why he founded and is the CEO of Hanser Mune Inc., a biotechnology startup founded in collaboration with faculty and colleagues from the One Health team at UC Davis. Hanser Mune is dedicated to pursuing groundbreaking science to discover and develop medicines for people and animals with severe and life-threatening diseases. And their transformational discoveries include the first immunotherapies to prevent and treat cancers. Dr. Oskar Vasquez, the clock starts when you do. Thank you, everyone. In 2019, a 40-year-old mother with young children was running out of time. Rosa had stage 4 breast cancer that she and her doctors have been fighting with every treatment available, but nothing worked. At this point in her disease, oncologists would consider Rosa a patient with a very poor prognosis, while others would just simply consider her a hopeless case. That's why she visited our colleague and friend, Dr. Juan Marquez, at the Sonora Cancer Center. He gave her the experimental cancer treatment that we developed. And after one year, her cancer was in remission, gone, undetectable in her body. This story is the same for 24 other women that were part of this critical trial. We are cancer immune, and this is the most exciting research that our team has conducted so far. I am Dr. Oskar Vasquez, an MD-PhD focused in Neuro-Incology. And I'm Dr. Elizabeth Tenborg, a UC Davis-trained veterinarian specializing in immunology. Our team includes a PhD immunologist who founded a biotech company that went public, an MD-PhD with 10 years of experiencing developing immunotherapies, and a PhD data scientist who uses AI to develop novel immunotherapies. We leverage AI to find cancer cell biomarkers most likely to generate an effective immune response and use these markers to detect cancer long before traditional and more expensive diagnostics.  We need funding to file our patents and move to the next phase of clinical trials. For Rosa, one of the hopeless cases, cancer immune treatment was life-saving, and a good reason to be hopeful. We can save the lives of millions of other patients around the world with your help. Okay, great. Wonderful. All right, judges, I see some ears perked. So let's start with, let's start with Valerie this time. Valerie, what questions do you have for cancer mute? So what, to get the patents, but is this accessible to the general public or wherever you are located? Meaning that to get the patents or? No, to have the test done. Are you doing the testing now? You're just trying to raise money to get the patents, right? Yeah, so the testing that we are talking about, for example, we have done already in collaboration with the Sonora Cancer Research Center. And with them, we were able to actually test on patients the effectiveness of our diagnostic test, which is one of our products to identify biomarkers of cancer much earlier than, let's say, in the case of patients with breast cancer like Rosa, than a mammogram would. And so the idea would be that once a diagnostic is developed, it would be still a testing that is done at a clinical setting and not precisely, not the patient himself. Okay, all right, thank you. Taylor, what do you have for the team at Cancer Mute? I'm interested in, what is the time that you expect it all take to go to market with this? Because building biomedical innovation like this, I generally think of it as not quick, but it's such a pressing issue that I think it's valuable that you all are working on this to bring it to market. But what's the timing look like? That's a great question. And right now, the projections that we have to bring specifically the breast cancer diagnostics through that phase one clinical trial and into the market is going to be approximately four years. And that's our conservative estimate. And as you know, with clinical trials for therapies, that timeframe does tend to be longer. The unfair advantage that we're working with is that we actually know this technology works already due to the pilot trial that we've ran with the Sonora Cancer Center. So with that in mind, although clinical trials to get immunotherapy onto market can be anywhere from eight to 12 years, we expect this will be able to deliver on the shorter end of that timeframe. Thanks for the work that you're doing, critical issue. Of course. Great. Tom, any last questions for Cancer Mute? Yeah, so obviously I have a little bit of experience with these types of clinical trials. So my question, I think Taylor answered the question I had about the timeframe and those timeframes make sense to me. Who buys this? Who ultimately is your target customer? Because I can understand that you're identifying cancer very early. But is that something that a GP would want to order a test for? Or is this more for oncology departments to use? For the diagnostic test, which by the way, let me just start by saying this. Thank you for sharing your story at the beginning of the event today. That's very powerful and inspiring for us, the clinicians. So the clients here would be for the diagnostic test. It would be general practice providers that would include gynecologists, for example, that do a lot of, manage a lot of the early detection of these kind of lesions. So primary care physicians, family medicine physicians, internists, health systems that basically holds this kind of services will be the primary customer. Okay, see the long road ahead of you, years for the whole clinical trial process. And ultimately, once you receive acceptance, at that point, then it's a matter of awareness, getting your message out there. So what is your plan in terms of a long-term business strategy for going through the trials and then doing the customer awareness piece? So part of the plan that we will leverage is actually which is one of the reasons why our partnership with Dr. Tambor and the faculty at the School of Veterinary Medicine is that one of the things that we can do to bridge, I mean to bring closer the gap between development, R&D, and eventual marketing commercialization of a product that makes revenue is that we can use similar technology that we use to develop the diagnostic in humans to develop a diagnostic in animals. So and the regulatory threshold to market a product in veterinary medicine is a little bit shorter. So by doing both development pipelines simultaneously, we hope that we'll have a product in market addressing the needs of the veterinary medicine community much quicker. And then eventually what ends up happening in many diagnostic areas or even therapeutic areas in the United States at least and most places throughout the world is that once you have the data out of the trials to prove the safety and efficacy of a product, adoption kind of falls in a domino path in that then the governing bodies within the practice of medicine start endorsing the use of that technology. So a lot of the marketing is actually done internally between the clinicians practicing that kind of medicine because the moment that you have access to a tool that is more efficacious at actually doing the diagnostic or in this case doing the treatment then adoption kind of follows the recommendations of the College of Gynecologics practitioners for example in the United States and eventually the world. Appreciate what you're doing. Thank you and I'll say I love the idea of sprinting to revenue through the veterinary service first. Love it. Thank you. Great, great questions judges, quick, great responses, contestants and so we're going to move on to our fourth and final pitch competitor for today and this is E. Jacob Slody an Air Force veteran, Harvard Business School alumni and founder of Veterans Communication Group America's first veteran-owned and operated national advertising agency that focuses on creating a bridge for veterans to enter the marketing advertising industry where they are sorely underrepresented. So let's have a warm welcome from Mr. E. Jacob Slody and so remember E when the when you start speaking the clock starts too. Okay well welcome for my spacious college dormitory today I'm E. Slody and I'm going to talk to you about advertising. Now I know a lot of people don't like advertising and honestly what I'm about to tell you is probably going to make you like it even less but stick with me it's going to get better as I talk. Okay so here's the ugly. Over 10 million dollars is spent in the advertising industry to communicate and help veterans but almost none of that money ever goes to veterans. It goes to advertising agencies owned by civilians because they believe that the people who have never served in the military are the communication experts when speaking to people in the military. It simply makes no sense but it has been the way that this business has run for a hundred years. My company Veterans Communication Group is about to disrupt that because we are the first national veteran-owned and operated advertising agency in America. Top line this business hires and trains vets for careers in advertising. Our model is to service the 99 million dollars of advertising set aside issued by the government every year and be the premium subcontractor entity for the 7 billion dollar military recruitment market that is currently returning to worst ROI since 1940. This system has to change. Even commercial brands are struggling to find an authentic way to communicate to veterans in a market that's worth 43 billion dollars. These are big numbers that demand big change and Veterans Communication Group is committed to making that happen because we are the right company with the right people at the right time. Be a part of that change today and help me fund this company. Thank you. All right. All right. Judges, what questions do you have? We're going to start with Tom this time. Tom, what questions do you have for E? Great pitch. E, can you tell me a little bit about this 99 million set aside? Is that funding that the U.S. federal government spends on military recruitment or is it set aside for different things? That's a good, that's a great question. That is part of the 10, that is a section of the 10 billion I discussed about. The 99 is the about 0.6, the 0.6, 6.6 percent of military contracts that are put out equals about an advertising. It's about 1.5, but they have special set-asides just for veterans to pitch and win. That small number is dedicated to us. There are other groups in that boat, but once again, there is no national advertising agency that is veteran-owned and operated servicing that category. It's a little bit of blue water. And do you have the ability to generate a better row as return on ad spend for these clients? I understand that you understand the mission, but can you translate that into actually, actual ads that convert? It's a very good question. Yes, yes. I've been in the industry for 17 years. I won area award. I've won CANS multiple times. I am the top awarded veteran creative director in America. I have helped lead and be a part of CANS North America agency of the year, ad ages, agency of the year, and ad weeks, agency of the decade. Excellent credentials. I appreciate it. Great pitch. Those are all my mentors. I was part of that. Yeah. Awesome. Thank you. Taylor, what do you think? What questions do you have for E? Impressive experience to go after this mission. Tell us more about the team that you need to build to be successful. I have two other founders already. I'm going to leave them nameless because they're employed somewhere else right now. The team I need immediately is me and these two founders. I represent the creative side. I have a client services and then a strategist. Now, the expanding that team, I am in contract negotiations right now with bolting on another ad agency that's been around for about 150 years. I have a lot of experience with them. I've managed their teams before, so we're going to bolt them on and that's going to be media and also production and any loose holes that we have. Throughout the years, when I get going and funded, I'll start decreasing all the non-veterans and replace them with veterans. I'm very upfront with that with everyone I freelance and hire. This is a temporary position that will be filled by a veteran because that is the mission of this entity. Great. Thank you. All right, Valerie, what questions do you have for E? I appreciate your mission. It drives me crazy when organizations use veterans to market their organizations and then don't do anything for veterans. I appreciate that. I call it green wallpapering. I call it green wallpapering. I was trying to be political in my comments. I hope there's been any non-veteran people listening. Mike, I have two questions. One, does your agency help non-profits because their pocket books are much smaller? Well, they're carrying change persons compared to pocket books. That's part of the give back of this program is I will be part of DAV and all these veterans coming through that have these great ideas, product services, that's going to be our give back. We're going to help them and we're going to create campaigns for them. Within reason, I don't have a million bucks, but I'll help them promote their items and products and push their ideas out and suggest media. If the business is good, I'm not afraid to give a portion of that media and pay for it myself. Well, that's great. I know DAV and the Patriot Big Camp members will appreciate that. My second question is, what would you do with the $1,500? Should you be selected as the winner for this competition? I'm buying new laptops from the three founders. That's what we need. That would be a portion of that. Okay. Thank you. All right. Great. Now, another great round of questions from the judges and thank you, Yi, for the pitch and congratulations to all for contestants for finishing, getting through the pitches. We didn't even ring the cowbell once. We barely scratched the surface. We came close on one, but you guys timed it perfectly. Wonderful. I'm glad I don't have to ring that cowbell. So I thank you for that. Now it's time for voting. Now that we've heard from everybody, it's time to cast a vote. If you're on a social media platform of sorts, we have posted a link by this time to cast your votes. We'll give a few minutes to vote and then we'll announce the winner. Go ahead and access the link and cast your vote. While you're doing that, I'd like to thank a few people for being here today. First, I want to thank our judges, of course, Taylor, Valerie, and Tom for all your contributions mentioned in the beginning, but we can't mention it enough for all the things you do for DAV Patriot Boot Camp and carving time out of your day. So thank you for all of that. And for being constructive on your questions and feedback. Really, I'm sure that's well received by the participants. Second, I want to thank our contestants for carving out time. I realize you guys got busy things going on, whether that be full-time jobs and or your venture. So we really were always appreciative that you that you take time to come to DAV Patriot Boot Camp and that you take the time to participate in the competition because you could very well not and we really are grateful for that. And then lastly, anyone out there who's watching on social media or on some other platform, thank you for showing your support to each of these entrepreneurs. That's what we love most about the DAV Patriot Boot Camp and our community is how we encourage and support one another and tune in and find ways to connect. So grateful for all that you do there. If you're not familiar with DAV Patriot Boot Camp and you're here watching, we thank you for that too. If you're looking to learn more about the program, you can visit DAV PatriotBootCamp.org or you can follow us on LinkedIn or Facebook under DAV Patriot Boot Camp, which is probably what you're watching this on right now. So if you're interested in a cohort, we got our next one coming up in May, which is going to be here in the Cincinnati area in Erlanga, Kentucky. That application is posted, you can apply in our October link, which will be held in Washington, D.C., will be posted here in the near future.  And then while if you don't know about how it works, participants are typically asked to pay for their travel and to cover their lodging at our partner hotel. But outside of that, we pay for everything. And we've had many folks estimate the value of this program minimally at $7,500. And of course, you gain access to a network of support, like you've seen here today, that is absolutely transformative. As a matter of fact, one participant from our last cohort had to say this. There are a few places, there are a few places where you can enter a room and have 50 other people who are unequivocally dedicated to your growth. And DAV PatriotBootCamp brings in some of the best and brightest peers and mentors to advance that mission. And I think that speaks for itself. Another alumnus said that they spent nearly $40,000 on masterminds last year. And they were all amazing masterminds, but this event blew them out of the water. And so those are examples, real examples from our last cohort of what people feel about DAV PatriotBootCamp. We really appreciate that. What else can we say other than thank you to those who support us? 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Do something funny. Do something funny. Nothing funny ever happens after that sentence.  This is Corbin. That's Rick. And you can follow us on- I'm funny. Instagram and Twitter from all juicy content. It's so juicy. Bye!  Nothing. Today, we are reacting to another drone footage, but this one's of Hyderabad, which we haven't been to. But after the first drone footage, this one is also going viral, and so people asked us to react to this one. We haven't been to Hyderabad. On to. It's in- I forget. I don't know how to say this state name. Tel- Telangelana? It's central- It's basically central. So it's a little south-central of Mumbai. So right there. So like Mumbai's over here on the west coast. So a tiny bit south and center. And central. Got it. So it's right there. But this is the drone footage commissioned by that government. It shows area views of Hyderabad during the 21-day lockdown, which is now a longer lockdown.  Here we go. I always like saying that. Three, two, one, go. Oh, that's sad. It looks like a special effect. It does. This is a cinematographer's, like, dream. Yeah, it does. It looks like they just shut the roads down to film. So pretty and peaceful. Yeah. I don't know what that mask is doing. The cage. Big old body of water. That's the subway. Oh, it's a bus. It looks like a beautiful city. It really does. It looks very different from... I mean, obviously we only went to four places when we were there, but like it looked very different from the big city. I know it's Hyderabad. It's one of the biggest cities in India, but it looked very different from the Mumbai city and in the New Delhi city. That massive lake. Is that right in the center of the city? That was insane. Yeah. I don't know what that helmet was doing, though. It was like a football helmet. I know. Was it being worn by the person cleaning the bus or was it being worn by police? Oh, is he protecting himself from a riot, maybe? Yeah, I thought it was police in the event that they had to disperse a group of people who were gathering and shouldn't have been. I don't know. Oh, well, I didn't know if they thought it would be a substitute for like a medical mask, which like over the face so you don't get sprayed, but I was like, you're just... I'm wearing that. Nothing's blocking your face. That's what I'm gonna wear. That's what I'm gonna wear. The next time I go to the grocery store, I'll walk in and say, excuse me, sure, that's unacceptable. Well, you obviously have not been paying attention to the international community. This is the more proper thing to wear. But, sir, it's... there's space in there.   That's the point. Oh, oh, Rick. Oh, what? Here, hold on. I'm gonna send you something else. That was cool. One, I don't know if we'll come next time, but like I said, next time we come to India, we're going to go to the south of India and this would be in the south. So, but we'll see if obviously we don't have anything planned right now for our next trip because we can't plan anything right now.  Yes. Because we get messages all the time, people wanting us to go to the past time we were there because there's so many people down there. But there's a quick video. This is not in India, but this is four cities in America. So San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, and New York drone footage. Oh, wow, cool. So it's only a two minute video. So if you don't care about the United States cities, it's just a little extra. Yeah, but please, please do stick around if you do care because we live in Los Angeles and I was born in New York and I got family in New York. Yeah. So, all right, you ready? Now I got to skip the ad. Okay. Okay, yeah, ready when you are. Three, two, one, go. Bend to all these cities too, have you? Not Seattle, but I've been to the rest. Oh, no, not New York. So LA and San Francisco. Is this LA? Can't tell. San Francisco. Dang. Wow, dude. That's New York. Hey, I know where that is. Can't really tell from these shots. It sets on the bottom right. There we go. No, no, no, no. I want to see the streets. Oh, gotcha. Wow, is that down by the market? That's down by the water. Wow, there's nobody there. Good.  No one playing basketball. LA, basketball courts in LA, everybody are loaded most days. Wow. That's LA. That's the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Yep. I wonder if I'll see my house. That's crazy. It's like beans. You can tell there's more people not abiding by in America than in India. Yeah. Because freedom. Dang. Yeah, for those who haven't been to New York, LA, San Francisco, the streets are never empty ever. Obviously, just similar to India. Did you become Rajasthani? My moustache. Yeah, you're growing it out. You're going to become Rajasthani? My moustache. Anyway. I'm going to be Ranveer from Bustrami Mazanan. You know what it reminds me of too? It reminds me of at the border after doing all the dances that one guy would... So cool. Anyway. But yeah, those streets, just like India, are never empty, especially cars. You could tell less people were abiding by here in America. But every time I see one of these drone footage, I think that's what every filmmaker should be doing right now. Getting a drone. Yeah, getting their footage. And getting their footage. Just even if you're not making an apocalyptic movie right now, that's just good footage to have. It's just good footage to have in the can. Absolutely. You should definitely consider just buying a drone to get those shots. Absolutely. Because the other thing you're going to get is you're going to be able to get that camera into places where the police would typically not allow you to bring a camera in to get your shot. So, they should be. Well, that was cool. Yeah. Very, very cool. Everybody stay inside. It's going to be a long... Yeah, and that reminds me, by the way, if you guys don't know this, you should be... We mean it when you say, when we say follow us on Instagram and Twitter on all of our social media platforms for both Corbin and I personally and for our stupid reactions. Because I get messages and I'm sure Corbin's getting messages too.   The friends that I've made that maybe I've never even seen them because they're in different parts of India or parts of the world. Guys, you have to be isolated, but don't isolate relationally.  Message people.   So I really need to say that. Absolutely. That's why you should follow us on Instagram and Twitter. I don't mean to belittle the point.


How can you tell if a horse is fresh and what does a horse do if it hasn't been loped enough? Well, we'll talk a lot about a horse being in your feet and a horse that's fresh will not take your feet. I mean there are some horses that will never take your feet. Some horses don't like that. But to me a fresh horse is going to, you know, they're not going to come back to you. When you're riding them, when you're trotting them and loping them, they're not going to want to come back to you. Like from a lope, come down to a trot or then from a trot, you know, to when you want to stop.  If the horse is fresh, you know, when you hand it to the trainer and they walk across the timeline and they jump 10 foot past a cow or they ring their tail or squeal, you probably didn't ride them enough. When you're out of cutting, there's some generalized etiquette that we all like to follow. People walking are in the walk in the middle of the arena and people traveling at faster rates of speed, you know, trot or lope are on the outside.   Other people get really mad if you do that kind of stuff. So you just kind of want to be mindful of your surroundings. Always kind of, I always kind of try to stay like on the general same path. I don't want to be weaving in and out of lanes of traffic.  They don't much appreciate that. Would you say are some of the biggest mistakes you see people making when they're trying to get a horse ready? Well, I mean just kind of the way I had started out with things that bother me personally like getting on a horse and just walking away.


if somebody has an intuitive notion about a God that could be evidence that there's a God, it could be evidence that they're delusional. If it's an intuition that there are pink elephants in this room and it's just me who has that intuition, yeah, you have to show that I'm not delusional. But if it's an intuition that everyone is sharing on the basis of biology and natural psychology, that's something else entirely. How are all of these people across the world at different times coming up with the same exact kind of theology? The Paraha and the Amazon that had no God concept until somebody decided to jump in and present them with one, there's a reason why religions come in conflict because they have competing intuitions about a God and no way to demonstrate which, if any of them are right.


تفتح قادك الأيام فتا سوف نتعود إلى المندوب والمباح المندوب والمباح والمندوب الشيخ رحمه الله يقول والمندوب is ما يثابه the thing in which the person is rewarded على فعليه doing it the person will be rewarded in doing it now is the side point the word ما the word ما in the Arabic language it is you it comes in the Arabic language the usage of the word ما in ten meanings five is it comes as an اسم and another five it comes as a حرف as a particle when it comes as an اسم the five that it comes as an اسم is when it is a استفهمية or the second one which is شرطية the third which is موصولة the fourth which is تعجبية fifth which is نكرة تنطامة that is when it is an اسم حرف is when it is حرف نفي it is a harf which is نفي حرف كافة حرف زائدة حرف مزدرية and حرف الظرفية and those are the five those are the five when it is حرف when it is a poet he brought it into his poetry he said محامل ما عشر إذا رمت عدها فحافظ على بيت شهير تقررى ستفهم شرطة وصل فعجب نكرها بكفن ونفي زيد بكفن ونفي زيد ضرف ومزدرى those are the ten usage that the word ما is used so he said that the word ما is موصولة when it is a connective and that is when it is an اسم والمندوب ما يثابه على فعليه مندوب is that which if a person does he will be rewarded for doing it remember امتثالن امتثالن that he comes with the intention for sincerity and following the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم in it then he gets rewarded so that word امتثالن has to be added to it but وليعقب على تركي we won't say like we said in the واجب remember the واجب we said ويستحقه remember that's what we said ويستحقه تاريكه العقاب that's what we said right here we don't have to add that to it because the مندوب if a person does leave it وليعقب على تركي we don't have to bring the word يستحقه what does مندوب mean linguistically that's the sheikh again defining امو عالي الجويني he's defining it here right now with what we mentioned it it is the definition that he's doing here is the definition which is تعريفه بالرسل he's defining it by its outcome its effect but it's not تعريفه defining it اما بيانوا الحقيقة والمهيئ that's what he's doing and we spoke about that previously so what is مندوب مندوب اولا is اسم مفعول من الندبي is اسم مفعول that comes from the word ندب it comes from the word ندب what does ندب mean what does the word ندب mean ندب means ادعاء وإلى الفعلي it is to be called for an action it is to be called to an action if a person calls you to an action تعال تعال do this اخي do this do this it's ندب لكن سفي يوديل الامدي رحمه الله الامام الامدي رحمه الله he said it's not just calling a person to an action he said it is calling a person to an action which is important he said ادعاء الى امر المهم the thing has to be important that you're calling the person to that is ندب ندب means ادعاء الى امر المهم the Arab poet said لا يسألون أخاهم حين يندبهم في النائبات على ما قال برهانا the poet he said and then this poetry is in the كتاب باي لأبي تمام in the كتاب الحماسة he said لا يسألون أخاهم they do not ask their brother حين يندبهم when he calls them to an important matter they don't ask him they don't ask him hey why are you calling us what's the problem what's happened they don't ask him في النائبات in matters great matters when he calls them to it على ما قال برهانا they don't ask him evidence for what he claims so if he calls them to a battle and a fight and an army that they were fighting with or something they don't ask him what happened is what you are saying the truth they are loyal people basically if he calls them to a battle they just go in they don't ask anything they fight that's it so he says لا يسألون أخاهم حين يندبهم they don't ask their brother حين يندبهم that's what we want from it the use of that word يندبهم is what حين يدعوهم إلى أمر مهم when he is calling them to an important matter or when he is calling them to a matter في النائبات على ما قال برهانا they don't ask him for برهان حجة proof what is this so the Arabs used to use that word as what الدعاء الدعاء إلى الفعلي أما أسفين دي للمين it means الدعاء إلى أمر مهم calling a person to a matter which is important that's what it means linguistically technically what does it mean and now the definition the technical definition that we are giving here now is بيان حقيقته وما هيته وما هيته وما هيته ومانتش إن حقيق أن ما هيه of it هيه is بيان الحقيقة وما هيه pay attention which is what ما طالب الشارع فعله طالبا غير جازب ما طالب الشارع فعله طالبا غير جازب it is what الشريعة the Kitab and the Sunnah have requested for you to do but not in a forceful manner that's the definition that should be defined with as for the definition which says ما يثابوا على فعلهم تتالن ولا يعاقبوا على تركي that's the outcome and the Rasm it is not the definition of the حقيقة الماهية and we spoke about that previously such as what سواك to use the سواك is مندوب مندوب the shari'a didn't request for you to do it yes it did request you for you to use them as well but didn't request for you to do it in a forceful manner I didn't request such as what التطيب اليوم الجمعة to clean yourself on a Friday to clean yourself on a Friday and sorry when I clean I don't mean to have a bath bath is obligatory we're talking about perfume and oil in yourself and have it done on and perfume in yourself والرواواتب I'm praying that سنن رواواتب سنن it's all what what is it all it's all مندوب it's all مندوب so when we say ما طالب الشارع افعله what exits when we say ما طالب الشارع افعله that which the shari'a request for you to do will automatically leave in the Muharram does the shari'a order you to do the Haram no بكروه مباح three of the shari'a does not order you so those from the akham with the technique are three already out the next part which is طالب غير جازمين a request which is not forceful which one leaves الواجب because the wajib where you order to do the wajib the shari'a request for you to do it but he leaves at the last point of the qayt which is what that is called جامع ومانع you see جامع encompass the meaning of the word مندوب and also what did he do it also منع took out the other four احكام وتكليف which is محرم ومباح and the wajib very good that's a definition pay attention now the mandub brothers خادم للواجب the mandub serves katers for the wajib the mandub a katers for the wajib فَوَا دَافِعُنْ قَوِيُنْ عَلَى الْتِزَامِ it's a a very solid wall that helps a person to be consistent upon the wajibat what does that mean if a person is doing the mandub he is easy for him to stay on the wajibat if a woman if we agree that oh sorry sorry if we say that the رواتب right now which we just took the راتب the sunnah which are the رواتب are you all with me the رواتب brothers are the sunnah before Fajr the sunnah these are called the رواتب they are 12 like that every day when you play sunnah these sunnahs if somebody is playing a راتب and he is playing qia mullayl would he miss the five daily prayers they are a big strong they are a powerful fence for a person you see إضافة إلا أنه يجب أن نخص فيها and that's the first benefit the second thing that it has for you as well is what يجبور بمعنى it fills the gaps of the deficiencies that come in the wajibat that are present in you the wajibat that you're doing if there's deficiencies in them what does it do it completes those deficiencies for you it does كما دلت سنة على ذلك as the sunnah had showed this as I mentioned أول ما يحاسبوا بل عبدو يوم القيامة الصلاة we took that the first thing that the person will be accounted for the day of judgment is what صلاة if he's good with the salah if he's not some missing what happens the things that are missing from the prayer that he didn't pray properly what would the sunnahs do they would complete it for you your prayers would be richer so the person's sunnah the person's sunnah and the rawatib and the mandubat what he does for him it completes for him the wajibat يقول الإمام الشاطبي إمام الشاطبي رحم الله يساين in his كتاب الموافقات إمام الشاطبي the great scholar of this field he said المندوب إذا اعتبرته he said the mandub if you think about it you analyze it and you think about it اعتبار أعما وجدته خادمة للواجب if you really think about it very comprehensively and openly and widely if you look at it you realize that it serves the wajib لأنه إمام مقدمة الله أو تذكيرا به it is either an introduction for it are we going to see what he means by that or it is what a reminder for it whether that a reminder is what من جنسيه so what is the راتب before something the سواك before the salah is a prayer is a مقدمة an introduction that goes before it and it is also a reminder for it تذكار and what does that mean that تذكار is either from that same the wajib that you are doing it for something that is a reminder for it which is the same as it or it is a تذكار which is not the same as it it is two different things فالذي من جنسيه الواجب كنوافل صلاة مع فرائضها فجر is two raka'a there are two raka'a which are before it as a reminder for you those two are من دوبات that you are praying which are before it are they for salah like the fajر so what is it it is not a salah so it is a salah من جنسيه from the same thing it is not من جنسيه والذي من غير جنسيه كالسواك like the سواك والتعجيل الإفطار and hasting the iftar hasting the iftar is what is it the same as the iftar it is the opposite of it it is the eating والتعخير الصحور so what the sheikh is trying to say is أن من حافظ على المن دوبات anyone who save gods the sunan and the man do bat anyone who does that حافظ على الواجبات he would save god his wajibat ومن قصر في المن دوبات and anyone who shoot in the man do bat فوعرضة لي أن يقصر في الواجبات then that person is open for his wajibat to be deducted he is open for it because the attack now is directly at war he is wajib if you place that wall between you and shaitan shaitan has to first put down the sunnah first for you and once he succeeds in putting the sunnah down for you what happens then he is going to go for the wajib you are smart insha'Allah once you see that the sunnah is going you are going to be what you are going to realize okay it is getting bad now so you are going to go back on the sunnah so the battle between you and shaitan is basically going to be on the what then no one do bat which is good other names that the man do bat has سنة it is called sunnah ومستحب and it is also called what مستحب so sometimes the man do bat these are synonyms they are mutaradif سنة and man do bat is the same مستحب and man do bat is the same and سنة تطوع and سنة and مستحب all are the same ونفلن all are the same so if you hear the word man do bat سنة مستحب تطوع نفل all five of them are names that are the same this is the view of the جمهور of the أصولين خلافة للحرفية حناف are opposite حناف are opposite again because the wajib remember they were opposite they said that the wajib and the fardha are not the same we spoke about that didn't we not نعم the wajib and the wajib and the fardha are not the same they said that the wajib and the fardha the difference between it is one is based upon علم الظني and one is based upon علم النقيني one is based on علم الظني and one is based on علم اليقيني خلافة للحرفية الذين جعلوا المندوبة مرادفة للنفل they said that that they made the مندوب the synonym of what نفل نفل and مندوب are synonyms that's what they said ولا كراه تألم في تركي and there's no dislike in leaving it leaving this نافيلة or the mandoub to them is not dislike وفرقوا بين السنة والنفل and they said there's a difference between سنة and نفل فجعلوا أعلى منه رتب رتبة they made it a bit higher than it فإن كانت مؤكدة if it's highly emphasized on فتركوها مكو it is dislike to be left تحريما نحفوص في حرام وين وإن كان غير مؤكدة if it's not highly emphasized on then it becomes مكروها تنزيها it becomes مكرو by تنزي now we're going to go to the third type which is المباح المباح we're on the third one which is أحكام التكليف المباح so we finished المندوب we finished المندوب so المباح what does it mean linguistically مباح لنوستيكلي means two meanings to only two meanings so the one مباح لنوستيكلي revolves around two meanings the first one is المعلنو المعلنو means is to bring something out in the open إعلان is to announce something announcing something والمأذون مأذون means giving permission those are the two meanings that the word مباح revolves around linguistically that's what you find that the poet said لا لا he said لا أبوح بحب بثنة إنها أخذت علي مواثقا وعوه دا it's a man who loved a woman by the name of بثنة so he said لا لا no no لا لا أبوح أبوح ممعنة I'm not going to announce بحب بثنة the love I have for بثنة I'm not going to announce it إنها where is she has أخذت علي مواثقا وعوه دا she took from me vowels and oaths she has taken from me vowels and oaths so I'm not going to spread the love of بثنة so the word we want from here is أبوح and it's the same thing as the مخشري رحمة الله he said the great معتزلي he said the same thing because they said he used to hide his madhab what madhab he was upon he used to hide it right he didn't want to tell the people which madhab he was upon was he a Hanafi was he a Maliki was he a Shafi was he a Hambali they knew he was a معتزلي they never told what madhab he was upon in terms of his fiq but they say that he was a Hanafi that's what people say but this is what he said he said وإي يسألوا عن مدهبي لم أبوح به if they ask me about my madhab لم أبوح أبوح ما معنى أبوح I'm not going to announce it if they ask me about ما مدهب لم أبوح به I'm not going to announce it وأكتومه I'm going to hide it وكتمانه لي أسلمه I'm going to be safe فأمي تحايد أن not tell anyone is better for me فإن حنفي if I say أنا حنفي قلت they will say قالوا بأنني they will say that I said أبوح that I make وهو الشراب المحرمه and it's I'm going to say to me he permits خمر and that is what حنفي مدهب believes which is حنفي مدهب believes if the خمر is not made from grapes if it's made out of dates or barley for them it's not خمر it only becomes خمر when it's made out of what dates that's what they said so you can actually prove the date فهم العام so and he said if I say فأين حنفي ينقلت قالوا بأنني if I say أنا حنفي they're going to say to me أبوح I make they're going to say to me وإن مالكين قلت قالوا بأنني if I say أنا مالكين now قالوا بأنني they will say أعي أبيح لهم أبيح لهم لحم الكلاب وهم وهم وهم they will say I make permissible for them the dog the meat of the dog and they are it meaning the chef مالكين believed that the dog the impurity of the dog is not the skin outside and they say that us cleaning ourselves from the dog is not because of impurity they said it's because تعبّث but worshipping Allah I am washing it it's just that a ritual that we are doing it's a ritual فقط it has nothing to do with impurity that's what they said so they said if I say أنا مالكي then they say I'll make permissible eat in the dog the meat of the dog it's allowed to that's what they say آه we say أنا مع the chef عمد they will say بأنني وَاَيْ أُبِيْحُنْ لِكَاحَ الْبِنْتِ وَالْبِنْتُ تَحْرُمُهُ that I made permissible of the marrying of your daughter and marrying your daughter is haram he is referring to that he was described to Shafi'it that if a man commit zina and he has a child from that zina that that child he can marry him the so called father can get married to that girl because it is not his daughter in the Sharia zina and that child is not described to the father so he said if I say I am Shafi'it then they are going to say any man say try to generalize it that any man can marry what? any man can marry his daughter that's what they are going to say I say وَاَيْشَافِعِيْنْ قَالْتُ قَالُهُ بِأَنَّنْنِهِ وَبِيْحُنِكَاحَ الْبِنْتِ وَالْبِنْتُ تَحْرُمُهُ وَاَيْنَ حَمْبَلِيْنْ قُلْتُ قَالُهُ بِأَنَّنِهِ but if I say I am Hanbali the rest if you analyze he is talking about look at that but when he comes Imam Ahmad he comes to عقيدة issue why? لأن خبث عقيدة is filthy is عقيدة المعتزلة is the عقيد of the so he criticizes Imam Ahmad on the base of عقيدة وَإِنْ حَمْبَلِيْنْ قُلْتُ قَالُهُ بِأَنَّنْنِهِ if I say I am Hanbali they say ثقيل حلولي بغيض مجسم when some say مشبه حلولي بغيض مجسم they will say to me أسرون what's it called? أسرون موتس مشبه a person who makes Allah's creation the same as the creation but مجسمون one who gives Allah a body حلوليون one who believes Allah and his creations are entering each other that's what they will say I believe so أحمل محمل it was عقيدة issue he hold him for and the rest was but the point here right now is the first part he said وَكِتْ مَانُهُ وَاكْتُمُهُ وَكِتْ مَانُهُ لِيْ أَسْلَمُهُ if they ask me بما مذهب لم أبوه به I'm not going to tell them about it وَكِتْ مَانُهُ وَكِتْ مَانُهُ وَكِتْ مَانُهُ لِيْ أَسْلَمُهُ safe I'm much more safe in that way


Ysbytyd chi'n rai'r cyffredineth i'r pairedrfyniad llawer o'r tynnu a'r gweithio... ...a'r cyffredineth hyn sy'n ymgyrch yn ei bwysigol... ...y'i gyda gydig i lefainio'r gweithio'r gwasanaeth... ...ig ydych chi'n fwy�ch ar y broses yma? Ynogi nhw, gan hefyd, mae chi'n i'n bwysigol yn y gwaith i'r cyfa'i hefyd... a'r amser i'r ddod o'r ddechrau'saeth a'r cyfnodd ac i'n rhoi'r ddod. Yn rhai wneud o'r cyfnodd, yn ymlaen, yma, yn dda i'r UK, dyma'r ddod o'r erbyn sy'n ei fod yn rhanu'r cyfnodd llwyddiadol ac yn gyfnodd o'r ddod o'r cyfnodd, pan'r ddod o'r cyfnodd, yn ddod o'r ddod o'r ddod o'r cyfnodd, mae'r ddod o'r cyfnodd, dydyn ni'n ei ddod o'r ddod o'r cyfnodd, It will change a lot of things, but you still have people involved, and it's still going to require governance. It might require a different set of processes in the governance structure. It's not going to get rid of governments or get rid of governance, it just changes the way in which we might manage it. The centre itself, we have about 6-7 people working in it at the moment, the director is a Professor of Computer Science, We have a very interdisciplinary approach precisely because these technologies are so broadly applicable. We have people from medicine. We have people from social science. We have people from economics and business and people like myself who are split between both economics and technology. This is one of the reasons that I find this area so exciting is that actually I think this is the first truly digital economy piece of technology or solution we've actually ever seen. It combines technology with economics in a way that I don't think we've ever seen previously. You can't do technology research in this area without understanding the economics of the consensus protocol and you can't actually do good economics research without understanding how the consensus protocol works and what are the incentives behind those mechanisms. Within the centre we have two really broad areas of research. The first one is the engineering and computer science aspect. How do we ensure that the protocols are robust and scalable, for example, but also we're starting to look quite a lot at smart contracts and the concept of non-determinism. If you put a Turing complete computing language into a smart contract, this actually might create a really interesting situation where we have a non-deterministic smart contract, if you will, that is competing with what is effectively a deterministic world. When you look at the way that a contract is established by lawyers, it is deterministic and it has to be that because of the nature of people, if you will. For that reason we've started to move away from calling them smart contracts actually. They effectively are distributed applications. It's a new way of doing distributed applications and sharing data between them.  Who is legally responsible if somebody writes bad code? That contract, for example, then sits in a theorem or another smart contract mechanism and it never actually executes. Despite the fact that the service has been delivered, the person who's delivered the service doesn't get paid. Where does that responsibility lie? I think there's a parallel to be drawn with autonomous vehicles whereby if an autonomous vehicle crashes into someone or a bus or something, who's actually responsible for it, is the car manufacturer? Is it the person who owns the car? Is it potentially Google who may have forgotten to put a reference in or a pointer? It doesn't work very well so it's crashed. These are really challenging areas for society right now to understand how they work. The other area that I think is interesting for a lot of people in the room is that we also look at applications. Where can we try to build proofs of concept and actual working solutions in industry? We've done quite a few. We've done smart contracts or distributed applications for government where we were looking at how you can use these contracts to reduce the cost and create more transparency and efficiency for local authorities. We investigated specifically the case of waste management. Collecting garbage quite often is subcontracted from the council in the UK in local authorities. Quite often if a citizen has a problem with the way that the garbage is being maintained or collected, they have to ring their council and make a complaint. That process can take two to three weeks if there's not enough people to handle the request. Using the blockchain we built a solution whereby you could as a citizen register a complaint or even a positive remark if you wanted to, that's immediately transparent to everybody in that ecosystem. It's transparent to the contractor, it's transparent to other citizens in the area who might want to also say, hey this has been a problem for a very long time, but it's also transparent to the council. The idea then is the contractor could automatically come and pick something up if something's been missed and alternatively if the contract is not executed properly over a certain period of time, they might not get a penalty or not get paid. It's an interesting trial of that smart contract idea. The other one that is quite interesting as well is we've been looking at some ID management issues. Blockchain is often referred to as a really great mechanism for ID management. I think the United Nations were talking about it even last week or the week before. It was a method to create universal identity. We've looked at it from a university perspective. How do we prove the identity and the qualifications of our students? For example, we're often asked for universities across the UK and across the world reference requests come in quite often. You'll find that people lie either about the exact degree that they had or the marks that they got. By registering all of those things onto the blockchain, you can remove a lot of delay in the hiring process. For example, at some universities in the UK, it was so delayed getting the identity check done or the qualification check done that they missed the job because the reference didn't come through in time. It removes costs for the hiring person, so the company who's trying to hire, because they don't need to pay the reference check fee, it makes students' lives a lot easier, they don't need to constantly ask the university to get that reference, and the university doesn't need to constantly file through what are effectively paper records. That's quite a neat solution, and also it's one of those good examples of blockchain which you can run in parallel. I think what we're going to see is systems running in parallel, rather than necessarily completely obliterating the established system. You can still have your paper graduation certificates alongside a blockchain one. We're also looking at the peer-to-peer economy, sharing economy. We've also been looking quite a lot at humanitarian solutions, so how can blockchain be used in humanitarian situations. Another interesting one is looking at the distributed ledgers for the protection of critical infrastructure. As I'm sure everyone's aware, we've got the concept of a smart city, which requires much the same as a smart contract. It's a bit of a misnomer, but it requires the embedding of sensors into critical infrastructure across the cities. If we do that, actually you're allowing critical infrastructure to be exposed to hacking. One of the good things that you can do with a distributed ledger is register on or hash into the distributed ledger the current firmware of a particular device. There are obviously scalability issues that need to be thought about in order to address that properly, but we've built a demo solution whereby you're able to see or get an early warning on when something has been tampered with in the network. You don't fix the security problem, but you know that something has changed, so you need to actually change something there. Some of the other projects that we're looking at from a purely research and theoretical perspective is if we think about digital technologies and in particular this idea of the distributed ledger, becoming a new form of economic structure, a thing that's very important to understand from a regulatory perspective is the power relationships. What are the power relationships actually in the Bitcoin network? That requires looking at both the monetary flows but also the actual distribution of nodes in the network. If any of you have been watching the debate going on in the Bitcoin network, a lot of people are saying this is now a Chinese currency because so many of the nodes actually sit in China. Is it really? The mining might be sitting there, but there are other transactions sitting there. We're currently looking at some of those power relationships and trying to understand how governments can work within those new frameworks. We're also looking quite a lot at the barriers and opportunities, so we're doing some social science research in order to understand what are the real organisational barriers in order to implement these technologies. I think quite obviously one of the big problems with distributed ledgers is the fact that you have to get so many people to agree before you can build the ledger itself. You can also see in the Bitcoin network there's arguments about block size, so they can achieve consensus technically, but again people can't achieve consensus when they're talking to each other, so it's an interesting conundrum there.  It's a really interesting place to study incentives and how they're working. All of these statistical and game theoretical analysis will use to improve the protocol. We'll take the economics learning in order to develop and improve protocols in the blockchain area. From a regulation perspective, as I said, it's just a technology, and I personally think that every industry will be having to regulate this in a different way because industries have different requirements, different needs. Financial services will have no your customer or all these kind of activities, but in supply chain management, it really depends on what's in your supply chain, how you'll be regulated. Other than that, I really enjoy it, so I'm happy to talk to anyone about it afterwards. Thanks.


What's going on guys welcome back to the channel critical overload here since I'm a Halloween ends in this video here again today Talking about this new trailer that kind of snuck its way I'll call it a sneak peek that snuck its way not snuck But it was a part of the NBC special that came on last night And it was it's gonna be available on peacock at some point and I heard some people say there was a moment with Jamie Lee Curtis and how she was again hyping up the movie She's got very emotional rightfully so because again it really doesn't seem like she will be Revisiting this franchise ever again or this character who we know helped launch her career So we got a look at Halloween ends again I'm also gonna talk about what David Gordon Green had to say about what he did with kills and Touch on the box office projections that are out here to that say this is gonna do much more than Halloween kills domestically so when it relates to this footage that came out from the NBC special last night I'll call it a new trailer sneak peek whatever it gave us another look at the movie It was like a minute and 52 seconds. There's an HD version. You can find over on reddit or somewhere on Twitter I'm sure or even YouTube if you type it in We get to see mostly Willie the kid. I would say given a voice over at the start of the start of the footage and Then we get more shots of Haddonfield see other shots of things We've already seen the woman who gets pinned to the Bulletin board Corey Allison Michael Laurie, you know the usual sewer stuff But there's one instance in this in this footage that seems to confirm to me that Michael Myers and Corey Cunningham will be teaming up There's like a split second when it happens where Michael is lunging himself at someone and in the background Now I might have been seeing something but I'm pretty certain that was Corey Cunningham standing behind Michael It's a very quick thing It's a very quick thing that you might have to put the put this little footage in like a slow motion version So you can catch it, but or slow it down slow the pacing down of the video so you can catch it It's clearly someone behind Michael and it looks like Corey Cunningham So there you have it if that was Corey that I spotted in this footage There there you have it something is gonna go down with Corey and Michael so many people for whatever reason I don't know why they were convincing themselves that there's nothing that's going to happen between these two Even though things kept on lining up and why I mean people were convincing themselves is not gonna happen I mean people who are actively still watching videos like this looking up tracklist titles looking up things on Reddit But yet they kept convincing themselves. It's not going to happen. Yes, it is It's it's highlighted in the track listing by one specific title Corey and Michael It's highlighted in the trailer the very first one we got back in July It's highlighted very profoundly in that one where we see Michael wearing a ring something We've never seen him do in the past But then in another quick snippet of same trailer we see Corey wearing a ring or someone who we at the time of soon was Corey wearing a ring and then So many other things that were just not adding up the fingers and the lack the the regrowth of said fingers Even though we that's not gonna happen. His fingers are still missing All that has lined up with someone has put on this man's clothes And he's gonna go after them and get his freaking clothes back And that someone is Corey Cunningham and Michael Myers is going to have him up the team up stuff I would say might have been that would that the first trailer kind of definitely Solidified the copycat stuff Everything else after that has more than enough profoundly Demonstrated that they are gonna be working together in some fashion Who is this person that Michael and Corey are working together to kill in this footage? I'm going to assume this might be a cop character Because there is also a track called kill the cop so was this the cop that might be giving Lori not Lori but Corey problems, but Well, we'll all guess of course get our answers when this move releases in the coming weeks or the coming couple weeks because what it comes out not this week, but next week or maybe a week after but Corey Cunningham and Michael Myers, they are going to get it on They are going to be thick as thieves and then something happens midway through where maybe Michael says, you know And I'm done with this this kid is annoying. He stole my mask now Well, Corey might be the one that ultimately Triggers this when he's when he might have a problem with Michael and how he's going about killing people Hey, you're not killing the people I want to kill so you're not doing enough You won't come out of this sewer either because I think Corey at first Maybe more try to get Michael to come out of the sewer But Michael won't do it. So Corey like, you know what bro? I'm gonna take this old man's mask He won't he doesn't have to get up and go but I do I'm gonna go take out the people who caused me so much so much trauma and so much So much trouble in Haddonfield because bringing them to the sewers. That's too much work I'm just gonna get it done myself. I'm gonna dress up as Michael Myers though to frame him So he does that he decides to do that Michael says, you know what this kid has stolen my clothes And I'm gonna go get my mask back from him because we know that's what will get Michael up and going his mask He loves that mask But uh jumping into the box office apparently the box office projections for Halloween ends has his movie doing like a 130 million dollars domestically right now by the time the domestic run is over now All I can say about this is this just means people love they love a good start and they love a good finish people Love a good return with Halloween 2018 They love when things come back and people will show up when things in if you if you market them Right or at least garner interest which Michael Myers in and of itself with very little marketing that many people think went into this Michael Myers himself is a big settling point very big settling point with the way the 2018 movie Over X or exceeded expectations This doesn't shock me really too much and this is very impressive considering that again the peacock deal that many people were so concerned about Obviously, yes, I can't admit if we didn't have the peacock thing This would be making more money at the domestic box office sure I'll say that but still this is more than enough for for a movie that is closing out this current iteration of Michael Myers as we know it David Gordon Green has also stated that he is proud of what came from his Halloween kills movie He says it turned out to be exactly how he envisioned it or wanted it to be he revealed this in a recent interview I'll try to leave that a link to this in the description. All I can say about that is You set out to make a movie that was carnage candy With lackluster character work in the mix I mean, that's that's fine if you set out to do that But at the end of the day that carnage candy could have still existed with a compelling set of characters to follow Halloween kills does a very big disservice to the legacy stars in a lot of ways It's kind of like okay. Well, why is Lori Stroll still here? You know, you can find her to a bed and then on top of that We know that this is supposed to be her resting point But it's kind of ruined since you decided, you know, hey, let's do this time jump four year Halloween kills is not a very good movie. It was just something that was still better than some of the other awful ones Let me know just think about all this bit down in the comment section below If you haven't already, of course, make sure you go ahead and subscribe turn on post notification It never is video in the description. 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