Hello and welcome to NewsClick. I am Paranjoy Gohar Thakurtha with me here in the studio. I have Jeff Law. He is the editor of a website called Adani Watch. He's been a veteran environmental activist based in Hobart, Tasmania. This website, Adani Watch, is an initiative of the Bob Brown Foundation. And Jeff is among the people who are very, very perturbed in the manner in which the Adani Group is setting up a giant project in Queensland. So I'm going to discuss with him the project and why the Adani Group has become so controversial in his country. Thank you so much, Jeff, for coming here. My pleasure, Paranjoy. I just read a news report which has been published by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, which states that the Adani Group has been accused of giving false and misleading information in a court of law for which the group, the company is liable to be fined up to three million Australian dollars. Just tell us what is this all about? Well, this concerns their mining operation in Queensland, which involves clearing of the woodlands, the native vegetation, which has existed there for millennia. And Adani told the relevant authority in Queensland that it had not commenced those clearing operations when in fact they had already cleared 130 hectares. So they were accused in the court of providing false or misleading information to a government authority. They had to plead guilty because they knew they had done it and they have been fined about $20,000. Which could go up, you're saying? Well, in the scheme of things, this $20,000 is a little more than an embarrassment to the Adani Group. But as far as the people of Australia are concerned, it indicates again that this is a company which flouts environmental law and which has done so frequently in its Indian operations and which has been dogged in the courts and in the media by accusations of environmental destruction, as well as accusations of corruption over the period of its meteoric rise. In Australia, you have to understand that the proposed Adani Mine, as it's generally known as, this massive coal mine. This is in the Carmichael Basin and involves not just what is supposed to be the world's biggest greenfield coal mining project, but you have a railroad which goes all the way up to a point, Abbott Point, where there's a port under construction or port under renovation. And that's not very far from the Great Barrier Reef, which is a world heritage site, of course. Yeah, well, this whole operation has become the most notorious current business proposal in Australia because of the impact that it will have on global emissions through the burning of that coal in this country, in India, through the impacts on the Great Barrier Reef, both through climate change, but also by virtue of the passage of up to 500 ships per annum, carting that coal 10,000 kilometres across land and sea, and also because of the impacts on the indigenous people who have occupied that land for millennia. So it's become the most heavily criticised and most energetically opposed project in Australia. But Jeff, if I may interrupt you here. Yes, they had a grand plan of building a huge project. They've had to scale down the size and the scope of the project, but the fact is they've got clearances. They've got the green signal from the relevant government authorities and all the attempts by civil society organisations to challenge its implementation have not worked, including the petitions that have been moved by the indigenous peoples of that area. And in fact, though the project has been scaled down considerably, what was originally proposed some years ago and what it is at present is down, but the impression one gets out just reading media reports here in India is that cutting across political lines, there is support in the politicians of Australia who are supposed to represent the people of Australia for the project, especially the politicians of Queensland because it's going to create jobs for people in your country. Well, it's a tussle. It's a tussle between the people of Australia, a majority of whom are opposed to this coal mine and what it means for the reef and what it means for climate change, versus politicians who are favouring it and it would not... Who are supposed to represent these people? They're supposed to represent us, but it would not be the first time that a project which has obtained all of the necessary government approvals has fallen over because of public opposition. And that opposition is expressed in numerous ways in Australia. It's people on the streets, but it's also a very sophisticated campaign aimed at the contractors and other service industries that Adani requires for that mine to go ahead. And there have been more than 60 companies and contractors that have walked away from the project. And bankers, bankers. Including the big four banks of Australia. And it's a campaign that has spread not just throughout Australia, through all of the capital cities. Just two weeks ago, there were very intense protests in Munich at the headquarters of Siemens. That's right, because Siemens is supposed to supply the equipment for this project. I mean, what would you like to elucidate on what has... I mean, where does Siemens enter the picture? Well, Siemens has been contracted to provide the signalling equipment for the new 200 kilometres of rail line that would be required for the mine to proceed. And Siemens has found itself in the court of public opinion to be wanting, to be found wanting because it has said that it is going to go ahead with that contract. But it has tarnished its reputation by doing so and brought into question its own commitment to tackling climate change. But Jeff, what you say the court of public opinion is something which is very different from courts of law. And Siemens or Adani, the Adani group will say, look, you know, these are bleeding heart environmental activists. They don't want development. They don't want jobs for people in Australia. They don't want jobs for people in India. And they sort of pretend to be do-gooders, but they're actually opposed to development. That's the discourse. Well, this time 15 years ago, I was part of a campaign against a huge pulp mill that was going to devour the forests of Tasmania in Tasmania. And that pulp mill proposal acquired all of the necessary environmental approvals. And yet at the end of the day, it did not go ahead. And the company, which was the proponent of that pulp mill, no longer exists. We were told the same thing then, that this pulp mill was going to bring development, jobs, etc. and that we were flogging a dead horse by trying to stop it. Well, the mill didn't go ahead. The company behind it is dead. We've managed to protect many of those forests inside a World Heritage Area. We feel equally confident about our ability to stop the Adani machine in its tracks. You know, this is, I mean, it's not just your organization, the Bob Brown Foundation. There are large numbers of organization civil society groups within Australia who have been very, very active in opposing this project. And this is not today. It's been going on for several years now. But despite that, it seems that the project is going to go through and despite the best attempts by civil society organizations, activists such as you, it seems that Adani is going to have his way. And why is he going to have his way is because not only the federal government based in Canberra, but the government of Queensland is very, very supportive of this project. Well, the whole thing is very tenuous and it relies on a convoluted downright contrived plan whereby coal from Queensland in Australia would be shipped 10,000 kilometres across land and sea to a place called Goda. Right. I mean, it'll come to the dam report in Orissa and from there it'll move to Goda in Jharkhand. 700 kilometres past a whole lot of existing coal mines including past a coal lease owned by Adani itself. In order to get burnt at Goda to send power to Bangladesh, it is a complex contrived business plan reliant on sweetheart deals at every step of the way. Jeff, Adani says this is going to be good for India. This is going to be good for the people of Goda. It's going to be good for the people of Bangladesh. They're short of energy, they're short of power and people like you have no business to stop a project which is going to benefit large numbers of people in India, in Bangladesh and so on. Analysts say that the power will be overpriced, that it will be more expensive than power that can be produced through renewable means such as solar. Our job, from the point of view of an Australian, our priority is the future of the Great Barrier Reef and the future of the world's climate and the world simply cannot afford to have that massive basin of untapped coal resources opened up for exploitation not only by the Adani Group but by other companies that would use the infrastructure and the impact that that would have on the global climate at a time when we need to be scaling back the use of coal. But let me give you the counter view and it's not that I'm supporting big coal but the point is the argument is that when you look at generation of electricity, when you look at requirements, power requirements of developing countries like India, like Bangladesh, dependence on coal will come down but only gradually that renewables including solar energy remains very, very expensive. Capital, the capital investments required to set up comparable capacities for generation of electricity using solar panels and photovoltaic cells is still very, very expensive. Therefore, much as we hate that black coal, that black mineral, that black diamond, countries like India are going to depend on it in the foreseeable future and if India is going to get coal from a country like Australia which is superior to and better than the coal that's available in India, so what's wrong with that? So even if the government of India says yes, we want to become self-sufficient in coal and yes we have lots of coal but the economics of it in a sense favours especially if your power project or power generating project is not located very far from the coast where the coal comes, whether it be from Australia, whether it be from Indonesia. Well, in fact, the coal would be undercut. The power from the coal would be undercut by cheaper power coming from solar sources in India and it is simply a contrived way of selling that coal to take it all the way to the border with Bangladesh and then create power to sell to Bangladesh. If the power is so cheap, why isn't there an Indian market for it? Okay. So you're arguing that there's something terribly wrong with this project. You kept using the word contrived. Then the question would be why has it gone through? I mean, if indeed the price of electricity that would be formally would be eventually generated from this Godda project in Jharkhand would be expensive. I mean, if the economics of it and the business of it is not working out then why would the Adani group be setting up this project and why would it receive the kind of support it has not just from the government of India, different governments of India, though we have of course a new government in Jharkhand but certainly the government of Bangladesh. Well, it is a tussle as I said before. It's a tussle between those who are concerned about the future of the Earth's climate, the Earth's atmosphere and those who want to profit from continuing to use coal and who use this issue as a means of ingratiating themselves with people engaged in the coal mining industry as it currently is. So we have very self-serving arguments on the parts of those who say they are doing this in order to lift Indian people or Bangladeshi people out of poverty. In fact, these companies are out to make profits for themselves and if they can get governments to prop them up, they will do so. And meanwhile, those governments are doing what they can to ingratiate themselves with a particular demographic which wants to keep working in the coal industry. So what we are seeing is politics of division. Okay. My last question to you, Jeff. A little bit about the Bob Brown Foundation and why did you people, the foundation of which you're a part and you're the editor of Adani Watch, how do you feel the need to set up a website to talk about what the Adani Group is doing? Well, people in Australia are very familiar now with the Adani proposal to mine coal from Queensland, but they're not so familiar with the activities of the Adani Group across the rest of the world, whether it's the port facility they're attempting to set up in Myanmar, which involves a business arrangement with the corporation owned by the brutal Myanmar military or whether it's the string of ports around India whose expansion would push into fishing villages and destroy lagoons, fishing stocks, et cetera, or whether it's the destruction of parts of the ancient Hazdao Arand forest and the tribal... In Chhattisgarh, in Chhattisgarh. In the tribal lands being managed and that have been owned by the Gond people for millennia. And by the way, the Adani Group has supported a cultural project of the Gondes, the Gond tribal community just as they have in the case of the tribal people of Queensland, the original inhabitants. Yes, well, I think what they're trying to do here is greenwash their reputation through that project, especially when you consider the impacts that these mining operations are going to have on the indigenous people, whether in Australia or whether it's in India, on their water resources, on some of their cultural artifacts and sacred sites, and on their way of life. I think many will see the support of an indigenous art project as being rather disingenuous and self-serving. A few words about the Bob Brown Foundation. Well, the Bob Brown Foundation was set up by Bob Brown himself, who is a veteran of environmental battles and green issues in Australia over the last 45 years. Someone who is internationally recognised, who set up the Green Party in Australia, who spearheaded the campaign that stopped a dam in southwest Tasmania, who has pushed for extension of world heritage areas and protection of forests. Someone who is highly thought of all around the world, and he set up this foundation, and the Adani proposal in Queensland to extract that coal, have it burnt for power and pollute the atmosphere and destroy places such as the Barrier Reef by virtue of climate impacts is not something that can be ignored. Well, thank you so much, Jeff Law, for coming here to the studio of NewsClick and giving us your views. And time alone will tell whether environmental activists like Jeff Law, whether organisations like the Bob Brown Foundation and other civil society organisations would be able to check the implementation of a giant coal mine in Queensland, in Australia, and similar stories, a similar tussle is being played out in different parts of the world, in Goda and Jharkhand, in Bangladesh, in Myanmar. Well, time alone will tell who wins and who loses. Thank you very much for being with us on this programme. Keep watching NewsClick.


Good morning Hank, it's Tuesday. Today's video is like the ninth rib on my right side. It comes to you in two parts. Part one, my rib. So Hank, I broke my rib celebrating my 39th birthday last week. It's pretty uncomfortable. Like, activities that have suddenly become extremely painful include sitting down, standing up, laughing, and also breathing. Also, for the record, filming YouTube videos is not very comfortable. I really can't recommend any facet of the broken rib thing. This happens to be a particularly inconvenient time to have a broken rib, partly for reasons that will become clear in a couple weeks, and partly because the broken rib has coincided with a previously scheduled mid-life reflection. So I've been middle-aged for a while in the sense that if you were to double my current age, it would be a perfectly respectable human lifespan, but I've only recently begun to feel middle-aged in the sense of being, you know, acutely aware that I am not as young as I used to be. In fact, up until recently, I felt much better than I did 10 or 20 years ago, largely because when I was younger, I treated my body terribly. Like, I smoked cigarettes instead, fastly refused to exercise. I remember once when I was at boarding school, I was probably about 16. I ate nothing but nacho cheese Doritos and drank nothing but Mountain Dew for eight days straight. It was like a demented exploration of how poorly one can treat one's body before developing scurvy. In those days, I thought of my body as like a burden that I was biologically required to lug around. I thought living inside a body was the price I had to pay for consciousness, and I bought into the idea that the body wasn't just separate from the mind, but somehow the opposite of the mind. I imagined my body as an adversary, like I was this thinking, feeling, capitalized noun. And my body was a lowercase animal that needed to be placated so I could go on thinking and feeling. This is a seductive line of reasoning, but ultimately a flawed one, of course, because there is no distinct line between body and mind. Also, when I started treating my body better, I quit smoking in 2002, ran a mile for the first time since childhood in 2005. I found that I got better at the activities I most associated with my mind, reading and writing. So anyway, having treated my body terribly when I was an adolescent and somewhat less terribly in my 30s, I've been able to feel relatively young for the last decade or so. But now that time has passed, I am old and can no longer inhale without pain, and there really isn't any moral to this story. Except, I guess, one, your body is a temple. Do not fill it with Doritos. And also, two, do not fill it with beer on your 39th birthday, or else you will hurt yourself. Alright, moving on! Part two, The Future. So Hank, it's been almost five years since my book The Fault in Our Stars was published. Lots of awesome has happened in my life in those five years. Crash Course happened as did the art assignment. Alice happened. Some movies happened. But one thing that did not happen is that I have not published a new book. So I have decided to kind of clear my schedule for the next several months as I try to finish a draft of my new story. Meaning that over the next ten months or so, I will only be making three public appearances which are as follows. One, on October 14th and 15th, I will be at NerdCon Stories in Minneapolis. While there, I'll be speaking on a few panels recording a live edition of our podcast and also talking a little bit about mental illness and creativity. Two, in 2017, on February 25th and 26th, I will be at NerdCon Nerdfighteria in Boston. I'm very excited about that. And three, on May 3rd of 2017, I will be in Cleveland. Giving a speech on the topic of I don't know what yet because that seems very far away. Ticket info for all those events can be found in the doobly-doo below. Well, I'm sorry I'm not traveling more in the coming months, but I really, really, really want to finish a draft of the new book. So thanks for understanding, and I hope to see lots of you in Minneapolis, Boston, or Cleveland. Hank, DFTNYBR. I will see you on Friday.


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As part of Pike County's 4-H Fair, students from Eastridge High School displayed projects spending over 20 different subjects to build skills for later development. Tuesday Mountain Top spoke with County Extension Agent Novella Froman about the fair. These projects are done at home so that parents and grandparents are sharing their skills. So there are different types like photography can be useful like when you were of that age, if you had those kind of skills and the project and the training it would have helped you in your career. So it's different levels that teaches them, for example woodworking. We have some wonderful woodworking projects and the children learn how to put wood together and that's our future carpenter. So that's some of the ways that we prepare for the future. We are Pikeville Medical Center and we are an amazing place to work. Healthcare heroes of all types work here. All who deserve great rewards. So while our heroes are working hard to take care of our patients and visitors, we are taking care of them with top-tier benefits, higher pay rates, and great sign-on bonuses. So join our team today. So what are you waiting for? Apply today! Incredible opportunities await at PMCjobs.org During the fair, students came together for music and activities to celebrate their completed projects. Students Emily Conley and Alyssa Thompson describe how the projects work. And while students were excited to display their projects, Froman says she hopes the experience will create memories. I remember I had a public speaker that told me one time, he said, you know the first time I went to a 4-H fair I was so nervous because we think that take it for granted, but so nervous, but I couldn't believe that somebody really liked my art project and I got a blue rib and so that's what they've talked about, the memories and people tell me they have like the footstool they made for years that they made in 4-H and yeah and I think in 4-H we make the best better. For mountaintop news, I'm Joel Porjol


I live in the biggest house in the state of Louisiana. I have the biggest house of any preacher in America. I don't mean that arrogantly or pridefully. I have a name in my house, La Maison Dervée. The House of Dreams. You like going with the wind? My house has that same staircase that Scarlett O'Hara walked up. Oh, I paid cash for the home. Do you want to know how big it is? It's 40,000 square foot. Oh yeah, my shock. Look at Kathy. Oh Jesus, we're going to catch it again. It's 40,000 square foot. And a lot of times if I go out, cars start stopping, honking.


So, welcome back to the opening day of Prelude 2016. My name is Antje Ödel. I'm co-curator of the festival, together with Tom Sellers. So the event, this event is a very special event, actually, well, actually very early on in the process of putting together a list of artists that we were interested in. We were looking over the work in progress that they were working on. We were thinking, well, it would be really interesting to ask them about projects that, you know, they dream projects that they had in mind that they were working on, that they were trying to realize. But for some reason, they never really came about, never came to fruition. And so we asked, once the list program was made, we asked every participant if there was a project, that got away, basically, and if there are stories that they wanted to share with an audience and everyone. So that is how we have decided to do this event today. So we titled the event, we were kind of riffing on this video that David Critchley made, where he looked into the camera in his studio and talked about all of these projects that he wanted to make, but didn't make. So we invited everyone to kind of similarly riff, that was our idea for this hour. And this hour is the biggest experiment in our festival. We don't know exactly how this is going to go. We didn't know how many artists would want to talk about this or sign up, and we were really pleased that we got a nice handful of people who wanted to share. So they have the floor for something like three to six minutes each. So we'll do it sort of open mic style, except there is actually a set running order. And we will ask each artist to come up, and if you could introduce yourselves, so that we don't have to keep getting up to introduce you.  Some artists have images to share, which would be protected onto the screen, some don't. So we'll just kind of take it as it comes, but that's the format, one at a time. And we were just hoping that this would be a kind of amusing and possibly therapeutic hour of hearing about performances that could have taken place, but for one reason or another did not. And as Auntie said, when we were formulating this idea, who knows how many great performances, even masterpieces, died on the page or somewhere between the artist's conception and the stage that they never reached. So let's hear about them. Thank you. Okay. I'm John Collins. I'm the artistic director of Elevator Repair Service. I feel like I was just here. Real quick, I don't have any pictures to show because we abandoned this project twice and never took any pictures of it. But sort of in a funny way, the thing that I thought to talk about did actually happen eventually and it became GATS, which was this show of ours that was seen probably by more people than anything else we've done. But it did start out as a project that didn't happen. First, in 1999, we put together just a little piece of the great GAT speed to perform and it had lots of puppets in it, like lots of found objects with eyes stuck on them, like a copper bowl with eyes on it and a shoe with sunglasses on it. And these were going to play all of the parts. And James Hanahan played Tom wearing a ski mask. Some cast members survived, but that project, we tried it, we were excited about it. And then we thought, well, maybe we should ask for the rights. And they said, no, absolutely not. So we threw it away, but they told us the people at the Fitzgerald estate said, but we'd be happy for you to do this other novel, Fitzgerald's last unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon. And that was the one that really did become the project that didn't happen because we spent about six weeks trying to make that. We watched the movie version. We made a dance. Somebody brought in something called the Ronald McDonald dance. This thing that never saw the light of day and probably for the best.  And then that was the one where we said, no, this is just absolutely not working. And that's really the one piece we threw away and never picked back up again. At that point, we said, this is not working. We'll do the Bacchae instead. Later on, we did do the Great Gatsby and it did work out. But not until it had become the piece we didn't do twice. Hi, I'm Sunaz and I run a theater company called Built for Collapse. And I want to say, I think we had a picture, but I don't know if it, yeah. So it exists in a form, sort of. So four years ago, we were on tour with a show. And we started working on another show. And then I had an idea for a different show. And suddenly there were all these ideas for shows coming up. And one night, one late night in London, after a lovely time at a lovely bar, we had me, Vince and Ben, the sort of the triumvirate that runs the company, had this really good idea that we were going to have another show. And this show was going to be like where we could put all of our ideas for all of the shows that we were thinking about doing. And it'll come together somehow. And you may actually be familiar with it. And I think you were in a version of it called We Were Wild Once. And I had just seen Nature Theater of Oklahoma. So I was like, well, we'll do it in episodes, because that's a thing we could do. And we had lots of great formalistic ideas. And the idea, I think, overall was to, I don't even know why I brought this with me. The idea overall, the idea was we had all these one-off opportunities. But instead of trying to make the one-off opportunities just as little spurts, we were going to have it all build towards something. So each time we were given 15 minutes at Dixon Place or whatever it was going to be, we were going to show a new, further developed version of this show that eventually would come together all the episodes and it would all make sense together. But over the four years that we worked on it, our ideas changed. And what was important to us changed. And so every time we did an episode, it was completely different. I think that Tennessee Williams and Fitzgerald and T.S. Elliot, Sylvia Plath, like these all show up in different versions. Zeus, some woman named Gilda, the dance epidemic. I had a brain injury, so we put that in it at some point. So all of these things happened. And now we have seven episodes. And they don't go together at all. I put them all and we have another one coming up. And so ultimately what we decided about a week ago was that we are going to have as many episodes of this as we want for the next 20 years. And it's going to be that unfinished thing that we do forever. And that maybe the one thing that has and will continue to keep them somehow connected is that they're all sort of an experiment in process. So when I have a question about how to choreograph chaos, episode eight will be about that. And I think it's a fun thing. So, yeah. Oh, I'm supposed to plug my prelude. We're doing a prelude thing. It's Friday, 7.30, different show. Thank you. So Niles, can you just tell us what this is? Because I'm so intrigued by this image. Oh, this is episode four, which Blaze was in. I think you're somewhere in. Yeah, he's the one holding the corn flakes. And it was a night at Dixon Place, 7.30 show, I think it was. And he's learning how to eat cereal again. OK. My name is Brad Burgess. I'm the artistic director of the Living Theater. I'm going to let Judith speak for a couple of minutes first before I say anything and explain what this is. I'll let her lead us off with where her head was at. When we grow older, not only do we lose some of our faculty, we lose some faculty. But what we gain, a positive view, an optimistic view of growing older, because at the same time as we lose our physical strength, we gain a certain mental capacity. If we want to call it growing wiser, we can. Or we can call it growing more compassionate, or more understanding of what life is about, or all different kinds of things that people feel that they've gained at the same time as they're losing something, so that there's this balance. And I think that's a very important thing for people to realize that we keep growing and changing. Because I say in the play, we know that a five-year-old child is different from a 10-year-old child, and a 10-year-old is very different from a 15-year-old. And a 15-year-old person is different from a 20-year-old. But we don't realize that a 70-year-old person is not as wise as a 75-year-old. And a 75-year-old gets wiser when they become an 80-year-old. We don't think of that as growing. We think of that as, well, you have to pass the time. It's a tough time. And of course, it is a tough time. On the other hand, there is this change. And society is missing a big resource in not using that, especially American society. In Italy, older people stay with the family and are used to counsel, through advice, and are taken care of because they're useful in the family. And I think older people could be much more useful in society if we didn't have the social prejudice of, ah, she's just an old lady.  That's detrimental to a real possible contribution to society with our knowledge and our wisdom. What would you say to a 98-year-old woman? I would say, when you're 99, you'll be even smarter. Because that's where I am, 98. Wow. Yes, I am 98. You are 98? Yes. My goodness, you look like 68. Can you imagine that? I would have never guessed. I would never guess you were a day over 70. That's marvelous. You must be very good to yourself, keep yourself looking so good. That's wonderful. So I understand all that you're talking about. Good. What I want to do. So this was for a play. I'm not sure what that music is, but it's appropriately sad, I guess. This was for a play that Judith had called The Triumph of Time. And it was about the life of the residents at the actor's home that's run by the Actors Fund out in New Jersey. And we tried to work on it. We did some interviews. There are several interviews like this. And this 98-year-old woman goes on to tell her life story and how she wound up at the actor's home out in New Jersey. And I would say it was a societal failure. I was able to go see Judith two or three times a week because Frank has given me a job here at the Segal Center. That's flexible. So I could go out there and see her. And most of the people that lived out there would get one or two visitors every few months. And so to coordinate anything with them was very difficult. The resources weren't there. It wasn't something our culture could handle. And also there was a little bit, because of that lack of will on behalf of the other people that were not visited as much, they just were more or less content to sit and go to dinner at five o'clock and then go to sleep at six o'clock. So trying to organize a rehearsal after dinner was impossible. And they had activities or physical therapy during the day. And so the idea of the play was this wonderful idea, but the just practicality of it and the financial reality of it, it just couldn't ever happen. And I think that was a profound failure for us. It wasn't that Judith died and we didn't do it. We actually moved on from the project about a year and a half before she died because we just realized it's easier to bring her into New York and find a group of 20-somethings who are willing to do anything else. So that's the story of the triumph of time. I'm gonna try to use this. I hope it's okay. Hmm? I think that works. Yep, seems to be. Okay, thank you. I'm Norman Frisch. I'm a dramaturge and curator. I'll be talking on Friday afternoon as part of the Builders Association about a piece that we made about 20 years ago. Today, I'm going to talk about a production that was jogged in my memory a couple of weeks ago when Edward Albee died. People were posting lots of beautiful photographs and video clips of various productions of his plays. And I remembered about nearly 25 years ago now in 1992. I was living in Los Angeles. I was working on a series of arts festivals out there. And the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, MOCA, was doing a program of artists responding to AIDS. And in this program, Ron Vodder was visiting Los Angeles and performing his show Roy Cone Jack Smith. Ron Vodder was a wonderful actor who was a longtime member of the Worcester Group. And towards the end of his life, he separated himself from the Worcester Group long enough to do a series of other projects. And one of them was the beautiful show Roy Cone Jack Smith. And at the same time, Karen Finley, the performance artist and writer was at MOCA, performing one of her pieces. And Ron and Karen had some time to hang out together in Los Angeles and they were drinking. And they came up with the idea of a production for themselves of all these Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. They weren't entirely sure who would play Martha and who would play George, but or that they even necessarily had to decide. But it was an idea that really tickled them. And they continued to talk about it and bat it back and forth for a while. My friend, the director Peter Sellers was living in Los Angeles, working on these festivals and Ron enlisted Peter as a prospective director on the project. And Peter talked to me about it. We had worked on things together. And during that winter of 1992, 1993, back here in New York, Peter and Karen continued to get together. They would read the play. Ron felt fairly confident because he knew Albie that he might be able to persuade him to give them the rights, to do some kind of version of the play. And they decided to enlist two other actors to play Nick and Honey. They asked Wally, Sean to play Nick and Lola Paschalinsky, a wonderful actor to play Honey. And they began getting together periodically to read the play act by act. And during that winter of early, early 1993, Peter and I were back in New York and we met at Ron Potter and Greg Merton's apartment on Bleaker Street and did a read through of the play. I was skeptical coming into it. I tend not to like stunt casting. And I thought, oh, this was stunt casting. And yet, the play was absolutely illuminated. It was gorgeous. At some point, Ron and Karen, Ron is George and Karen is Martha, simply switched roles in the middle of an act. They had obviously pre-arranged it, but we were completely shocked. It went on for a while and then they swapped back. And one could see that there was tremendous possibility in this project. And at the end of the day, we agreed that, well, the next step was to invite Edward Albee and do a reading for him. And either we would schlep out to his place or sometime when he was going to be in the city. It was hard to coordinate these people. Karen was a very busy performer. Ron had a lot of projects on. In 1993, Peter was not often in New York. And so it became clear that somehow scheduling this visit with Albee and this reading was going to be difficult. And the talks went back and forth and dates for some time. And finally, towards the end of 1993, Ron was getting ready to go off to Europe. He had a couple of projects lined up. And the plan was that in the spring when he got back, we would do a trip out and we would spend a day with Albee and we would do a reading for him. And people who know Ron know that he went off that winter. He undertook these projects in Europe and he died there of AIDS in the early 1994. So this was a production that never came to be. I think it would have been legendary and probably unique. I'm Stephanie Abel Horwitz representing Tiny Little Band. We have a show that we abandoned, but it's way less of a failure than everybody else because we abandoned it very quickly. So we had this idea to make a whisper tube show. I think because I was at a playground and I played with a whisper tube and I thought, this is so fun. Let's make theater about it. And so we had this idea to have whisper tubes on two sides of a wall and the audience would come in on either side and some of the whisper tubes would go to the other side and some of them wouldn't and there'd be writing in some of them or sounds in some of them. And we wanted to try to sort of encourage people to maybe tell secrets through the whisper tubes. Like maybe you'd just be talking to another audience member and then we were like, oh, that's too hard. Like, what are we gonna do, get a lot of whisper tubes? And so we thought, okay, what if we tried this? No whisper tubes. And it was a room with a lot of tables and people came in and there were performers at some of them and you would sit down and activate the performer. I'm not sure how this would have worked. But again, it was something about getting people to maybe accidentally interact or have a kind of intimate thing in a public space. And we never made it. We never even tried to make it. I think, and maybe Senaz agrees with this, that sometimes we have ideas that are really a way for us to work out our bigger idea. And I think at the time we were making another show, we probably were. And somehow this is in that show. I have no idea how. And I asked Jerry if he thought, and we don't remember. But sometimes that helps you figure something else out or I think also in some way that show feels like our aesthetic in a deep way that we're interested in this intimacy in a public forum, like right here. So that was the Whisper Tube project. We're showing some of our new show, Your Hair Looked Great, tomorrow at 5 p.m., right here. Please come. Little taller. Hello. My name is Chris DeVita. I am a founding member and the choreographer of a group called I Am A Boy's Choir. And we have a performance on Friday at 8 p.m. that everybody should see. And I wrote notes because I'm a little nervous. But this is a project that started out as an amazing application called, this is a play by Jane Austen working title. And it was going to be a glitter storm of everything that Jane Austen is or was in movies and in the books and in like the zeitgeist, like all that stuff, but through a subversive, mischievous, really queer lens and then performed in drag.  And we made this amazing application in my living room on a day that it was really, really snowy. And we were like really feeling the spirit and all this amazing stuff was coming out.  And we were trying to get people interested in giving us some like time and space to like work on this thing. And we did it, we convinced them. We got six months of like free rehearsal space.   And we don't work with actors. I am a voice choirs made up of a choreographer, a designer, a composer and a dramaturg playwright. So we sort of were doing our best with that of sort of acting out these like scenes.  This isn't that explosive glitter storm that we were so excited about. This is like a really bad SNL moment where we were kind of like just making fun of Jane Austen and we weren't actually making a show about like class and gender performance and like what that was, which is what we were actually interested in. Typically our shows are like, we're just us being us sort of in the jungle gym of an idea or in the jungle gym of a structure and we sort of navigate our shows that way. So we thought, okay, let's just completely switch gears and let's try it out that way. And so we did that. And then what we made it ended up being like really kind of bad and like super boring. And so I think like at the end of the six months we had a really solid idea of what we needed to do to fix it. Like if we were really gonna like do the show like who we needed to hire and how we were gonna do it. And it was like song cycle and stuff. But like through the whole process. No, it was gonna be amazing. And through the whole process we never actually answered the question of why are we doing this? And actually moreover, why are we doing it now? And that was really, really important because as I'm sure everybody knows like it takes a lot of work to kind of get that ball rolling and to get people excited about your work, to wanna present it, to fund it, to show up, to tell their friends or like post about it on Facebook. And we weren't even convinced ourselves. And I think that's ultimately why we kind of ended up not necessarily abandoning the project. It's like sitting on a shelf in case we ever do find an answer to why are we doing this and when are we doing this? And yeah, yeah, that's it. I'm the last one. So we have some extra time. If anyone would like to spontaneously come to the stage and take this microphone or stand at this microphone or stand at the podium and share their own two minute story. We have like 15 minutes, which we could use for that if anyone is so moved. If you might be, raise your hand. All right, well, if not, thank you to the artists for sharing these stories. It's really very moving to me to think about what happens to an idea over time. And I think we see so many in all these stories in a way that's the underlying thread is what happens to an idea when it's tested against the vicissitudes of life and also of the process. Six months can be an incredibly long time to expose an idea. On the other hand, people grow old, people even die in the course of the lifespan of these projects. And it's just interesting in our form to think about how important time is as a commodity and as a factor. Thank you, I've learned a lot from this. Thank you for participating in our experiment and sharing your stories. So we have Matthew Ghoulish coming at seven o'clock to share the results of his or the history of his artistic research project called the Institute of Failure. And that will be followed at eight o'clock by an original performance, broken red balloon dog, the New York edition, which is an experiment conceived just for prelude with a group of artists and writers and performers who will be participating in this experiment. Recording failure also. So please come back to those events and please feel free to join us at 9.30 this evening when we will go over to the archive bar on 36th Street and celebrate together the opening night of prelude. Thanks.


This review of the Age of Surveillance Capitalism, the fight for a human future at the new frontier of power. Summed up, these are tech companies gathering data to control human behavior through behavioral modification. The profits involved sell predictions to behavior and do a complete analysis of human behavior to try to control it. They want to be there where you are, somewhat like the last of Mohicans, they will find you. Knowledge, data, power, and authority is the human capital. They oversee the systems of communication and systems of power, just like Big Brother. There's AI, machine learning, fancy algorithms, and automations. Then there's the tech titans such as the Lizard King, in other words, the Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. There's Google, Apple, and any other tech companies involved such as Amazon. These creative disruptors don't care or even want to take responsibility. And Shoshana Zoboff reveals a conquistador mentality. You do this, land is mine, brainwash and influence. Move on and that's the way it is. Not a strong arm tactic, but a strong brainwash tactic. Knowing where you are has increased due to GPS, even if it might be off. It knows we are by simply clicking that share button. The mentality of Silicon Valley, move fast and break things. Do not ask for permission, always apologize. It's invasion of the smartphone, always on watch. And self-conscious by the new Big Brother. Some of the tech junkies, the social media influencers, they want that quick fame through viral popularity. And surveillance capitalism understands its human behavior because it isn't conscious and it's there to exploit it. Prison animal. Next I want to talk about the few dislikes about the book. Some of it is redundant. I almost gave up reading it from the beginning of maybe the first two chapters, but I gave it a chance in it. It proved to be a worthy journey. She is a female tech writer, so this book would probably be a sleeper hit. Most of the tech industry is dominated by males, so they have more insider input and as well as, I would say, better technical analysis. I bought it for $4 and it costs about $20 in Kindle. Just wait for the price to drop. She didn't use Big Brother till the end of the book and she calls it The Big Other, which is about the only creative thing in this book. Not to insult her. However, there is good research and citations in this book. I'm fairly impressed and it's unfortunate few will read it and will just react to it on social media and hopefully this review will give it a boost. I want to do a quick summary of the companies involved such as Google. They have Google Glass. They are the dominant GPS system. Dominate search through that through YouTube and Google and they can know your history, age and sex and they have algorithms that can kind of determine what you want. The data is vast with Google. They are almost the encyclopedia. They can put information or manipulate information if they want. Amazon, which you really buy. There's Alexa always listening to you. Amazon packages being tracked, which you can buy, what you can predict you can buy. Alexa Voice can pick up on tonalities. Eventually, there's going to be some human type of element to pick up on certain types of tonalities such as yelling or outrage. And they can understand people buy when they're upset. So you can sell during bad moods. Interesting fact, there's Facebook, the Lizard King. They dominate text. They sell data to Cambridge Analytica, which is a big controversy. They could target ads, play some. They sell their stuff for free in the guise of free. There's Apple a bit lighter. There wasn't much talk about Apple has a better image. They protect data. However, they own the phone element as well as they have Siri, which is always listening. A few sleepers are Verizon and Yahoo. So they can analyze your data when you're calling who you're calling. And they are merged with other companies. So Yahoo and other cable companies. And they can control the influence if they want to. And in general, we know where you are going. The mic records all. And if you put companies in general, China has their own tech companies, just as Baidu and Alibaba.  There's less privacy. They have the numbers. They can invade at any moment. So it can be very scary how you can be positioned in that culture. And eventually they're going to have like a more of a revolution. They're going to have more issues in state America and West. You get dings for not doing what they want. You want to survive. You listen to the state. This next section I want to talk about darkness since that is an element of much of my videos. This is covert disruption. They operate in the dark. They may say we are a tech company so they don't have to hold any responsibility. They are doxing in the dark. Now the spotlight is on you. They can ruin your life. They hide their strategy. It's almost like an insurance company. They delay, deny, defend, and dumb down any type of reaction. We are tech, not a publisher. Why is porn free? Because ads in the feed when you don't even freaking want them. The dark is not seen. They'll position things to be in the light so you can see this pinpointed. And the big cell, the big act will be the drama. And they may distract you, upset you, and attract you with outrage while taking the crown for themselves. When you're unhappy they deliver more news to you to get you more addicted to the negativity to get more outrage to cause a shock culture.  You can monitor your pattern's purchases and make deals behind the scenes to get you to do more purchases. They're playing in the fear. They use immaculate storytelling. They virtue signal the rights in the light. When true freedom is in the darkness, freedom is in the sanctuary. The paint dark is bad when it actually can hold the truth. And how this has influenced me and what I learned. I want to check out The Road to Surften by F.A. Hayek as well as Walden 2 by Skinner. I have that first book, however, I'll check out Walden 2. And it's not just the pawn. It's not Henry David Thoreau, but a different behavior psychologist named Skinner. And these companies may personalize data, my data, to guides and bait me by these algorithms to keep me addicted to the computer, addicted to anything that they could sell me or to guide me for future predictions and for future bait tactics, whether it be bait and switch or something to sell me bullshit. In contrast, you could read and go outside, take action. Europe has a thing called right to be forgotten, yet people in general are especially young. They don't want to be fo-mowed, fear of missing out. There's freedom versus control. Choose wisely and I'll choose freedom. The young, especially connected to tech, they're disconnected and it's just a shallow world out there. There's a herd mentality, especially younger males getting weaker. And once before, they dominated nature. Now before, they're trying to dominate human nature. There's a hiding strategy, as I was saying in the dark. They give products for free. When in fact, if you read Robert Green's book, you just despise the free male. There's a catch. They're using gamification for drivers, such as Uber and Lyft drivers. They're giving you rewards and trying to give you a rating system or egg and you want or doing bait tactics to try to get you to do certain things. They're taking and sharing data. They're banning free speech and freedom in the social world, not so much in the wild world. And it's because they don't like it or someone doesn't like it. It gets in their way. It gets in the way of their capitalism system. There's easily pleasure and comfort in a ride in Disneyland. And then they can tell you to line up for six hours because what else other zombies are doing? I see it as a techy conquistador over the human free spirit. And I'm glad I read this book. It's 600 pages around there. It's a sleeper and not many people read it or will ignore it. I think it's due to her not really advertising as much. I've heard much about this book or seen many interviews with her. And at the end of the day, what is fair play? What is privacy? What can we use? Well, these companies just take the data and use it for their own will, whether they sell or control. I'll read Walden 2 by Skinner to understand behavioral psychology and modification. I have to be an individual. And it's going to be interesting seeing the buildup of youth wanting that fast fame of being an influencer. Digital agents of this surveillance capitalism. Not taking the time, wanting that quick rush, getting it too short, getting and grabbing that data. They will do whatever they want to get you addicted to the tech, to get you to do what they want. Suggested on that feed for the domesticated animal that they probably are. And at the end of the day, it's freedom versus control. Freedom's in the dark. They just need to back off. These companies don't, they don't have the visceral empathy. There's freedom in the sanctuary. Wherever the safe place is, not just a safe place, but somewhere you could be yourself.  Where these companies in general make you vomit.


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So Vinny is stuck up there if George taught even touches his box. No One way to get him unstuck is to literally touch his box and he discovered a new box because a new package came Yeah video Your body guard came Now Vinny will totally take care of Rocky I have all bets on this guy right here Where are you going? You better run George? You better run cuz this guy He's so cute Doc's threatening If we review it back, it's probably just you running off This box is like I dare you to come touch the boss throwing a tantrum in the back Hey guys, I thought I would just show you like a Sunday Okay literally What about you what about you then we'll check in it's too hot for her sweater don't be alarmed for those of you Just watching He's cheering because if Rocky moves at all he gets excited This is me trying to edit Vinny is up there. He's about to do another dive bomb Quickly guys, here's the story.  For those of you interested in bird behavior, he's up there because he's literally Getting a bird's-eye view of his boxes because he wants to dive bomb them again so for my entertainment We put George over there and then Vinny loves to dive bomb at him He's gonna kill you No, he's gonna come out I'm literally gonna hide You should actually hide in the bathroom Cody's laughing He says yeah, he likes this game by the way Accidentally pressed to the off button when I was turning the camera, but here's Vinny He's doing his gang saline.  That's it guys. Don't forget to subscribe I love you guys so much Are you screaming? She just screams every time a bird flies Really excited a flock mate. So like they flock together. So well Jersey can't fly but Okay, I think Vinny's actually looking for George. This is what I mean by he holds a grudge By the way, this is just a bit of fun. The Vinny's a really good bird. We're just playing around with him Don't forget to subscribe if you want to watch more antics.


So Gregory, you're wondering like when is the right time to decide to outsource or to delegate, like for example, you're saying well gosh you know with Facebook and stream ads great idea, but do I need to actually learn all the details of that stuff or just have someone else do it. And my framework around this is called EDA, EADA, eliminate, automate, delegate, appreciate, which basically, you know you can look into that I have a blog post on it but basically what you can't eliminate. Okay, looking at everything you do like can I possibly eliminate you should we should eliminate as much as possible. I have a shop here on the call would very much appreciate that right like less less but better, like we should eliminate as much of what we do as possible, like, of course, because then we have more energy in our life for, for useful and more impactful things purposeful things so can't eliminate something because you find it that important. Can you automate it. And when it comes to Facebook Instagram ads, you, you automate it to some degree but you have to set up the automation, right. So question is, if you can't automate it. How to automate it, do you then delegate it. Yeah, now delegating it means that you need to have enough of the budget to delegate, and you need to have a trustworthy person to delegate it to. So that's, that's what that's the hard part, it's like, well, how much am I supposed to be paying for this kind of thing. And how do I know I can trust that person to do a good job on it, which means you either that person comes from a trusted recommendation. That's the easiest way to get there or you have to know the stuff enough to be able to monitor them to know that they're actually doing the right job which is not easy even someone comes from a trusted source. Ideally, you still know enough about the task to say yeah you know I feel like they're getting on to the right thing or they're not doing the right thing, because they're what they're doing might not be aligned with your strategy so if you can't auto if you can't automate it or delegate it and one thing left to do you have to appreciate it, you have to do it yourself, you have to appreciate the value of doing it yourself like why, like why am I the one to do my keynote my own keynote speeches and not someone else. I shouldn't be delegating it that stuff. I'm the front man for my keynote speeches so I should be doing myself I should appreciate that. Or, you know, anyway so. So when it comes to for example the example of the Facebook ads stuff. Yeah, I mean there's so many I mean that's that's a really good example because there's so many people who would love to take that to take that task from you. And we can talk offline about who might who I might recommend for that. So, so yes, I would say, if you have the budget to do it we could talk about that too. Yes. So, great. Thank you that was very helpful. Welcome.


Ladies and gentlemen, we have a video on behavior chains.  Let's see, I've got one thing and then I can start to take, I'm not going to take my shirt off. I'm not that good looking underneath.  All right. So behavior chains, really simple, it's a complex behavior. It's made up of lots of behaviors, they're chained together, right? So if you've watched enough videos, you would have figured out that a behavior chain is a behavior that is, a complex behavior that's made up of many smaller behaviors, I guess if you will. So getting dressed is a type of behavior chain. Getting undressed is a more fun behavior chain. Maybe, I don't know, sleep is very rewarding. Might even be reinforcing. You never know. But anyway, so the behavior chain, a lot of steps, each step is the discriminative stimulus for the step after it and the subsequent step is a reinforcer for the previous. And that's how that whole thing works, right? Getting is a behavior chain. Getting undressed is a behavior chain. There's all sorts of behaviors that are involved. Driving is a very complex behavior chain. At least it should be if you're doing it well. So complex behaviors broken up into a bunch of individual behaviors, they're linked together with, each one reinforces the previous and prompts the one that's coming, right? So it's kind of confusing, but look at some of the other videos that will help make more sense.


I'm told that the only bird that would attack an eagle is a crow. When the crow attacks an eagle, he's not really attacking the eagle as much as just pecking on his back, really annoying him. But that makes sense, because when you look at the difference between a crow and an eagle, you begin to see why. When was the last time you've seen a large flock of eagles? Then when was the last time you've seen a large flock of crows? Crows hang crows make an awful lot of noise. Crows want to be heard. Crows are scavengers.  As a matter of fact, they love trash. Leave your trash out. If there's a crow around, he'll be in it. But not an eagle. An eagle's desires are refined. He won't consume just anything. However, a crow will. Crows are antagonistic, but the eagle, once that crow is pecking on his back, can do one of two things. Obviously, killing it. But in most cases, that eagle is not even that concern. The eagle will then turn and do what is natural to him. Take flight. And if that crow is still on his back trying to peck or trying to fly with him, then the eagle will just simply do what comes natural. The eagle will soar and soar and reach a height to where, one, the crow cannot continue to fly. And if he happens to be hanging on, he cannot breathe. He cannot handle the higher heights. The crow is typically relegated to the ground, whereas the eagle's natural domain is to be in the air, soaring. Even with the way the eagle soars, notice how the eagle can glide. He is strong enough, as well as majestic, to just catch the wind and glide. Crows don't glide. Crows have to flap and flap and flap. Crows do an awful lot of moving and make an awful lot of noise. When was the last time that you heard an eagle? However, you've heard a crow often, especially when they get in bunches. Crows tend to want to be seen. They tend to want to be heard, but not eagle. Whenever there's something going on in an urban area, you'll find crows. You don't find eagles in those same places. Why? Because an eagle's concerns are higher than a crow's.


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Are we really on no money spent? I really don't wanna play no money spent, bro. All right, all right, all right, let's go. All right, 2,800 points, boys. 2,800 points, full elite team. Oh, one of these teams. Oh, damn. I mean, I feel like we have to do the Herbert. Well, I feel like we have to, boys. We're getting Herbert, no money spent. We're getting it done, cause they got Herbert. I know Pitz and Kyle, Pitz and Chase might be better. I noticed some others couldn't get, but Herbert has carried no money spent, you know what I'm saying?  Say what you want. Let's go, man. All right, YouTube, no money spent, man. 23 is live now. What I did is I got the 2,200, 2,200 pack for offense. And they had Justin Herbert in the lead in the main position you get for that 2,200 pack. That's all I got. Instead of playing a bunch of much rap, what I could have won and got the points, we got 2,200. If you pre-order, man, you got 4,600 points. So we're getting less than half of that to start this team. And I wanna show you what the team looks like right now. No money spent. This the offense. We got the offensive pack. So it's looking good. Medcalf, we got Herbert leading us again. He's gonna lead us all season. Cordero Patterson, Marquise Brown, Jalen Waddle. More than enough weapons on offense. Good old lines. His second is gonna play tight end. These guys are actually pretty good. I'm really happy with them. They're gonna hold it down for us for some offense. Now defense is where we literally had about 30K coins. You guys saw, this is what we picked out. This is what we got. Troy Apke making his return. Chris Westree up top of safeties. We got Dante Jackson, the free luxurious need and Eric Stokes at corner. And we actually spent our money on a D-line. Our team captain is Sam Adams. We got the Neil Hunter and Montez Sweat. So that's a strong D-line. But the linebackers in our, you know, Justin Reed, Tyson Anderson, and we got some guy named Cross too. So my defense is Nick Cross, 68 overall. So the defense is really beyond budget. Honestly, I don't think you can have a worse defense. But we're gonna make it work. We're gonna play ranked. We're gonna just play games. No more solos, no solo battles. Everything I build this team with is gonna be from the grind of head to head boys. So let me know what other cards I need and who else I need on this team to get kicked off. But go ahead and let's watch this first game pop off. First game, first game, first game, first game. Let's go. I'm just Sly, the first opponent of no money spent. What do we do boys? Or do we get a dub? He has edge threat. So edge threat with swim move on it too. So he might be crazy. Kind of a little worried about my defense. I'm not worried about my offense. I feel like I should be able to move the ball for real. Like I really do. I feel like I should be good. All man's wanna be rough. Maybe, no, I feel like all man makes the defenders a little bit better. Yeah, I feel like you can make it get away with it.  A little cover three action from the ops. Herbert is not exactly Josh Allen. I'll tell you guys that right now. Let's go Cordero. Do we try to go up top? I think we gotta go up top here. Or should I keep taking what he gives me? Marquis Brown up top. Cordero. I mean this guy is liking his cover three right now. He really is. We're gonna double team the edge threat guy. We did not exactly hold up right there boys. We win this game boys. I'm telling you, we win this game. I honestly don't think it's really a problem right now. I played man covers right there. I'm gonna, oh, we didn't get to see. I didn't get intentional grounding there. Why? He went to man covers. We might be getting exposed now boys. My boys might have to get open. DK Metcalf and the boys. Little free form, little free form. Little free form action from the Herbie man. Little free form action from the Herbie man. This is a drive right here boys. This is a drive. Jisaki. And didn't exactly run that route. Didn't exactly run that route. Like, well, that's going 99 yards. I mean bro, come on. What, jeez. How do you, I don't know how you get a free form from that one drag and then that drag, those are free form right to a mother. Like, how is that possible dog? Like, come on man. I did the same exact dog that the one time we went up the field. That one just, now he's double A gap in me bro. We lost. Let's get some tempo. Marquis Brown, come on dog. Cross. The fastest player in my team I think is 83 speed. Same Adams with nuts right there though. Screen. I would play a dude in jumbo, wouldn't I? Wouldn't I? I don't lose tackle battles though. I don't care what my safety is, I do not lose tackle battles. Let's go, take down Jamar Taylor. Let's go. 11, do we try to loop him right here? The tackle, come on, come on. He snaps so fast bro. He snaps so fast I can't loop him bro. Like, cause I can't, I can't believe people in man.  Me points here. Bro, what the type of cheat code?  Let's see how you're gonna play cover two. He will, when I keep doing this, he's gonna go to cover two. Cause he has the mind of a peanut. He's gonna go to cover two.  Come cover two, you want to bro, you really like. I mean, a third of one he has to try to play cover two or shade down, right? There we go, good job buddy. Good job buddy, there he is. Look at him, Bill Belichick, let's go man. He danced on all shade down again, huh? Who's my kicker? I didn't even buy one. I got like the bronze, uh oh.   Let's go Medcaf, big drive boys, big drive. Now I'd be lying if I, York, this is my kicker boys. York, let's see how far he puts it out there boys. Now let's not say before I jinx myself, my special teams is probably all 71 speed. Thank God this kid doesn't know, he doesn't know though. If he knew, he would do something different. Oh thank God he's just running, let's go boys. Take it to the half.  Play good football, take it to the half. Only bad things can happen right now, that's it. Take it to the half buddy, let's go, good half boys. We can overcome two pick sixes first game with no money spent, we can do it. We can do it, I promise you guys, we can do it. This guy doesn't know. And they say you can't compete with a bad team. That's what they say, they can't compete with a bad team. I'm competing, he might be a potato but this is who you start playing at first. This is who you make your coins off, potatoes. Half of you guys watching are probably potatoes. Oh my God, no, he knows now. He's in a chat, he knows that I don't have no special teams. Let's go Harper. Yo, when he goes to the gun empty here boys, I can't lie, I'm kind of like.   I thought he was gonna throw it away. He likes this empty, he likes this empty. It's kind of his go-to. Oh my God, who is this user guy? Like you're moving like dog, how do you not pick?  You guys gotta get to it right now. Montez sweating the boys, come on.  Oh, good cut.  Yes. Oh, this is, who is this read guy, he's out. Yo, like he can't move, he's literally, dog. He's in five wide right here. He's gotta go screen here. He's just gotta go screen. He goes play action. Please don't catch this.  Bro, I gotta extend this game as long as I can. We gotta get this done. I don't think I've ever lost the first game of no money spent ever.  He's blitzing, he's blitzing. Cabado, I need you big time here. Thank God he sucks, dude. We need a defensive drive from the boys right now, boys. We need a defensive drive from the boys right now. Like, oh man, Rondell Moore, you ran solos for us.  I'm due for use, I'm due to lurk something. I'm playing like, please come out and five wide. Tackles, let's go man, come on. God, empty, here it is, here we go. Let's go cross, let's go, baby. Ready, let's go, man. Man coverage blitz again, we'll guard the running bag this time, boys. We did, look at Waddle. Look at Waddle.  Does nobody run slants? Like, I feel like people wanna beat man. Like, what do y'all, like a slant beats man coverage, dog, it really does. I don't know, like, people always say, how do you beat man, put a slant. Like, slant works, dude. It's worked for men forever, slant. Like, y'all wanna just run streaks or something. He got kinda baggy right there, boys. He got kinda baggy right there. I really feel like, I mean, I feel like this is covered too. No, he's audible and crazy. I don't think he knows. Let's get a ball to court arrow right here. Try to get a little something on the ground. We got, when I say a little something, we got a little something. Let's really use the clock a little bit here. Now I'm gonna tell you guys, as I go into this play, I don't wanna force it, but I like forcing. That's what I do when I play Madden.  Like a 90% chance. All right, boys. That's what Herbert does right here, boys. This is what he does. Herbert leads, gain women drives. Some people would have turned their head when they do two big sixes with no money spent.  I don't think he knows how to use timeouts. Oh, there it is.  I wanna touch them. I didn't think we'd get to this point here in the first game with no money spent. I really didn't. Oh my God, I missed it. He's gonna block it. He's gonna block it for the content. Oh, he didn't even try it nice. I didn't think we'd be at this moment. All the golds. All the golds out here for the game. All the golds are out here for the game. All the golds are out here. We brought them back. They held the door. They held it enough. Ron Delmore on specialty. Good cut back. No, no, no. He's going to the gun empty. Swatim, Westry, Apke, the boys. Justin Reed, does he start with the screen off the gate? No, he's going back to this play. Nothing doing. Lawrence Rolls, Lawrence is going to throw the ball away. Let's go, come on. Come on, sweating the boys. I should send the extra person. I should send, he has no timeouts. I don't need to guard the middle. I don't need to guard the middle here. We're gonna put 25-yard zones on, come on. Yo, Anderson, go get him, kid. Westry, baby. Westry, baby. Come on. He likes that play. I didn't think he'd go to it in this moment, but he likes it. I gotta remember that. He likes that. This is sweaty as it gets here, boys. I'm only up three, all right, hold up. No, no, no, no, no, no. Bro, you gotta get out there, cross. This is why they watch no money spent, baby. Heads never fails. Let's go, baby. Give me the ball. Give me the ball. I told you heads never fails, man. A man picks heads. Women pick tails. Give me the football, baby. Don't call, don't call, man. Don't call, man. Don't call, man. Don't call, man. Don't call, man. Please don't call, man. Double team, come on. That sack was huge. Thanks, pre-game. Thank you, man. I appreciate it, you know? It wasn't for my team, so I don't care, you know? Like, this is not fun, dude.  I thought it was. He didn't beat the press like I wanted to. I got rid of the ball instantly. I didn't beat the press. I wanted to beat the press for more. Feet, feet, feet, feet, feet. I looked at it. He didn't beat the press animation, so I looked at the other side of the field. Herbert. Herbert. Finish the night. He starts with the screen. He doesn't. Double slants. He's got nobody. He's got nobody. Somebody sh- Yes, come on. I'm not letting that in a row. We'll go down again. Oh, he did the... Man, I'm never ready for this.  Oh my God, he went to that guy.  Oh my God. I ran commit.  I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. Let's go, baby. Come on. Come on. Second OT, baby. Second OT. Oh my God. I'm not getting hit with that screen. I'm not getting hit with that. I might get hit with it. He snaps faster, boys. I'm gonna be honest. Hold the door, baby. Hold the door. Come on, Sam Adams. Come on, Sam Adams. I was a bot and put two contains. Let's go, baby, cross. Or stoke somebody. Come on, man. No money spent. Easy claps. Easy claps, man. Can't lie, my heart is racing. The heart is racing, boys. The heart is racing. That's why we pick Herbert, baby. That's why we pick him right there. Right there. That's why we pick him. Look at that debut. 434 yards. 434 yards against edge threats, user detackle power moves, 34 completions. Come on, man. 80% completion. Yeah, we do two pick sixes. We spotted them. We spotted them some points, but that's what champions do. Herbert has the pedigree. Three years in a row. He's the no money spent leader. Port Arrow Patterson had 15 catches, but you know that's what happens when they don't guard the flags. Waddle came up big. Giusecchi came up big. Medcalf with a huge touchdown to end the first half. There it is, boys. No money spent. Game number one. Put some memotes in the chat if you're ready for this series. Put some likes on the video if you're ready for this series.  Cross came up big with a big pick. So many dogs on this team already. So many dogs on this team already. I see them already.