This is Jack Gunner, author of The Way of Men. All right, my guest today really needs no introduction. It's millions of men around the world who follow him on YouTube, who follow his lifting, who follow his spiritual advice, who go to his grounding camps, who've watched his speeches at the 21 convention. He is the man who wants to make men strong again. Mr. Elliot Hulse. Elliot, thanks for coming on the show. You got it, Jack. Thank you, man. All right, so, you know, we started out around the same time talking about a lot of the stuff. I saw that I went on your website this morning, I was looking over things, and I said that you started posting videos to YouTube in 2007. And I think my first book came out in 2007. And we've both been writing and talking about masculinity for a long time. And you started out lifting. And so I wanted to ask you, when did it become obvious to you from lifting and posting your videos and so forth, when did it become obvious to you that helping men and helping make men strong again was an important part of your mission and put you in that direction? What did you see was wrong and what did you wanna fix? Well, of course I started out helping men build muscle, get stronger, mostly athletes for football, baseball, you know, basketball, jump higher, run faster, just being overall more muscular, athletic beast. And so I had a lot of young men that would come to my camps. They would be trained in the park, that's where you started, and then I had a little warehouse gym, and, you know, so I had humble beginnings, but I quickly began to realize and appreciate the fact that the young men would wanna stick around after the workouts and ask me all kinds of questions about girlfriends, parents, school, career, work, all the other things that are important to a man, right? You know, I built up a level of trust with them because I was getting them good results in the gym. So I guess they just figured that I could trust this man with other aspects of their life. And so the way that unfolded in my gym is the same way it sort of unfolded online, you know? I started making workout videos, mainly to get more clients into my gym, little did I realize that, you know, millions of people would be watching it worldwide. Wasn't my intention to be a YouTube celebrity because back then that didn't exist. I just thought it was a cool thing. And I would answer questions about lifting, but then the other questions started coming in. Questions about girls, about parents, about school, about all the other things. And apparently they enjoyed the kind of answers that I would give. And so that kind of just evolved, you know? So I kind of had like a two pronged approach. It was help men get stronger and help men be stronger. Yeah, so you talk a lot about, on your website, about, you know, there's physical weakness and physical strength, but, you know, there's also metaphysical weakness and metaphysical strength. And how would you define metaphysical strength as how do you help men become better in that way? Well, it's the inner stuff, right? The mind, the heart, the soul, the things that are like the ghost in the machine, you know? It's cool to build a powerful machine, but what really keeps the machine going really motivates the machine and is its essence, you know? It's why. And so when I talk about physical strength, it's very obvious, but when I talk about metaphysical strength, like the word sort of points to, it's next to physical, or it's in addition to physical, but it's also less tangible. And that's really where the root of our physical expression is, right? It's the soil from which the mighty oak or the puny bubblegum tree comes up out of it, right? Yeah. Really depends on the soil, right? The mindset, the heart, the soul. Yeah, so I mean, what are some of the ways that you help build that with men? So what's lacking more than anything in our world, particularly as it relates to men, are strong father figures, strong fathers, strong men, strong elders, men that young men can at least trust with their concerns or problems, men that mirror young men, that understand young men that are willing to put themselves in their shoes and support them in becoming all that they hope and maybe that the world has convinced them that they could be, but from a practical place, right? That's what practical patriarchy was all about. That's what the fathers did for the young men. And that's really, that's the big thing that's lacking right now. So if I have to recognize what I do at its root, at its core, it's I'm a father figure. I'm a father to four children. I've been married 18 years, married my high school sweetheart. I've been together for over 26 years. I had a strong father. I come from a strong family. My father is a patriarch, he's an alpha male leader. And I realized how much of a blessing that is and I realized how rare it is and I recognize how I can be that in the way that the internet allows for a lot of the young men that are father hungry. That's what Robert Bly says. Yeah, and there's a lot of guys who maybe did have that father figure out there who grew up in a very traditional environment or whatever and they kind of hate on young men who haven't had that because they see how they behave and whatever. And they don't realize that they didn't have that experience.  And I see a lot of guys who were interested in my work who, you know, I always say they come from two camps. There's either the camp that, you know, they're done military service, they've had all that. They've done all those things. They've done all the man stuff and they just look at my work and they're like, oh, you were right. Yeah, that is correct, that is what I understand.  Oh, I should be more like a man. All right, well, how do I do that? You know, and so, and you know, it's important, I think to recognize that there's a need there. And I think that's what you do as well, you know, recognize that there's a need that these guys haven't had that kind of leadership and they haven't had some kind of father figure and they haven't had any guy who actually wants to make them stronger because the whole world right now is telling them it's okay to be weaker, you know?  Male is female and female is male. Everything's so freaking confused that even if you grow up, like, I gotta use myself as an example, but even though I grew up with a father and with a strong father, because I was conditioned by the media, the music, the schools, I didn't, I not only didn't recognize the blessing of having a strong father, but I resented him. And so there's this push away called toxic masculinity. There's this push away from traditional masculinity. My father grew up in the jungle. He knew nothing about intersectional feminism.  He grew up in a jungle. He was the law of the jungle and he's the type of man that he had to be in order to literally survive.  He didn't honor our flimsy requests. He had his way of doing things and that was it. And so I saw my friends who now in retrospect, I recognize, oh, they had weak dads. I saw my friends that could do whatever they want. They could say whatever they want. They could go wherever they want. They had very little boundaries and where that ultimately led, which is most of them live pretty degenerate lives at this point. So even in a world where there are no strong men, when a strong man shows up, people don't know how to respond or react to him. They don't know what to do. They get freaked out in the same way that people react to Donald Trump because Donald Trump represents the strong father they never had. They rebel. They just wanna fight. They wanna pull out their hair. They can't stand it that this man is so strong and we can't use shaming tactics to pull him down and to bend him to our feminist will.  I mean, men have been doing that since the beginning of time, that's what you do, but because you're trying to make yourself independent. And I did that too. I mean, I was a totally different person 20 years ago. But I had a pretty strong father figure as well. And what I actually got from him was, he was actually handicapped. My dad actually had polio. So he also has no sympathy for the virus thing. He had polio when he was a kid, but he was always of the mindset of that older school mindset of like, well, okay, so I have that. Well, I don't want people to feel sorry for me. I just wanna be better. I just wanna be treated as a normal and I'm just gonna do what I'm gonna do in life and be successful anyway. Right. And so he was very much- There's no values of being a victim. Yeah, exactly, like everybody wants to be a victim now. And my dad was like, my favorite thing is he, whenever somebody asked him out about his limp, he's like, oh yeah, I was in a car accident. Like he doesn't go into the story and make people feel sorry for me. And so I was lucky in that way too. I had a little bit of that. Yeah, now you have so many people that are telling men that it's okay to be saddened. That's the easy path, right? It's the easy path to just like, hey, you don't have to be anything. You can just be how you are right now and that's perfect. Yeah. And that's the message that they're getting. And it's kind of a mom message, right? Yes.  You know, like you wanna feel safe and comforted and whatever, it's a mom message, but you need that order, that structure figure that is going to say, no, actually what you're doing is not good enough. Like you could do better. Mm-hmm. You know, cause that's funny that you say that. Yeah, go ahead. About moms, cause I was just re-reading, Steppen Arneo, may he rest in peace, his book, Hard Times, Great Strong Men. He has a great quote in there where he says, when things are good, everybody wants mom in charge. But when she hits the fan, everybody looks to dad to fix it. And right now, this is where we're at in history where things have been so good that mommy rules. Everybody wants the, it's the mommy culture, the cuddle culture, the you're good enough culture, which is completely soft, degenerate, and does, is not life affirming, does not, is not life affirming for men. And so we're gonna hit these hard times. And that's why we see strong men making a comeback because there's this sense, and we don't even have to sense it.  Man, I hope so. There's a, there's definitely, something that really interests me right now is the difference between order and disorder. And because order and chaos, and what we're seeing is a lot of chaos because it's complete permissiveness.  You know, it's fine. It's temperature. Yeah, like, you're showing us your feelings. It's fine, you know? But that's not how society works. I mean, that's not a productive, long-term strategy for anything. And you need some kind of order in life. And I think that that's one of the spiritual things that men are really oriented around is creating order. And that's their job. That's the father's job. The patriarch's job is to create order around him. Cause, you know, you can't just, you know, the other option is the womb, right?   But, and that's why, you know, you bristle against strong father figures because they are aggressive and they're asserting rules and they're making lines and they're saying, this is not this, this is not that, this is good, this is evil, this is permissible, this is not.    You know, like they'll just do whatever and you can't really do that. And I think that when you, if you look at the history of feminism, it's, a lot of the big literature comes out of the 1960s and the 1960s and the 1970s. And a lot of it is, you know, you can go back and look at it now and it's pretty obviously daddy issues. You know, you have this whole generation where their parents fought in World War II and went through a great depression.   He has this John Wayne attitude and, you know, like he needs to be more sensitive and more in touch with himself. And they started pushing men this whole generation. And what we're seeing, I think in many cases is the end of that. Because baby boomers are now like retiring. And they've created this world that we're living in now with their daddy issues.  There's a book called, I think the 49% majority. And it's one of the first books like this. And it's all these essayists from like 1971 or something like that in 1969. And they're writing about stories about how, you know, like, it's all against John Wayne. You know, like they're all mad about John Wayne, basically.  And so a lot of this is so, it's just a repetition of things. So I guess one of the things that I get questions a lot about and you get questions a lot about, I think is obviously we're in some interesting times right now.  You know, however, it's really hard for men to keep it together right now. I mean, and it's their job to keep it together because that's what men do. Right. If dad's freaking out, then everybody freaks out. Right. So, you know, it's really important for men to not let their emotions get away from them and stay the course, you know, and not be just pulled into whatever craziness that's on the news. I love that you talk about the news being a problem. You know, like people watch the news every day and it just gets them riled up and they want to go in with this direction and that direction and they just lose it. But that's with everything. Yeah, oh, it's sensationalism. We've become addicted to feelings. So if it's not pornography, if it's not smoking weed, it's not video games, if it's not the new movie where shit is blowing up, it's the news. The whole thing is that we have become overly very addicted. I guess that's really the right term. It's an addiction to these dopamine feeling hits that come from the myriad of entertainments that we have at our disposal. I like the way you put it when you said we live in a bonobo masturbation culture. Yeah. That's really what it is. It is. It is.  Right. Sit in your home and consume. And that's, and consume like whatever, you know, it'll be interesting to see what happens when they run out of Netflix shows because they aren't producing them. So I don't know what's gonna happen when that happens. I think that would be a great thing. It'll be great.  Sometimes I wish the internet would blow up. In fact, I'm a little bit of a weirdo, but like I'm kind of excited about the way things are crumbling. Like I want to be, I want to fix stuff. You know, that's just my nature. I like chaos because I like grabbing it by the horns and making it right again. So as these things start falling apart, like I'm almost sitting here, like this is just the moment I've been waiting for. I know a lot of guys like that. Yeah, yeah. And that's the thing too. It's like men are against chaos, but it defines them as well. You know, like men want to create order, but we don't get to do our job of creating order unless there is chaos. Right. And it's a little boring. Yeah, exactly. So yeah, I know I have a best friend who, if there's a snowstorm and everything's screwed up and no one can drive on the roads, he's like, woo, this is perfect. Yes. Yeah, yeah. And that's what men do is they create order from chaos. But yeah, it does define us. You know, one of the things I'm writing about right now is that, you know, if you think about the great heroes, they're all defined by their monsters. Like they're defined by, like you think theses. Oh, well, minotaur. You know, like what monster did he kill? What did he do? You know, and so we're defined by our monsters in some way.  It's definitely the monster. As opposed to fighting fake monsters, right? Right, video games. With the video games. Yeah, yeah. So it's all make-believe stuff. And it's interesting because given the affluence and the time that we have in our hands, you would imagine, and maybe our ancestors perhaps use this, you know, affluence a little bit differently. But this is a time where we can actually go in battle inner demons. Like you don't have the wolf literally at the door. You have everything that you need. So why not take the moment to turn in and look at the inner dragons and evolve that way.  So you could just numb yourself with fake dragons rather than going and dealing with those inner dragons. Until the inner dragon, as you may know, gets so ferocious that you can't ignore him anymore. And then, you know, you have a crisis, but that's usually, again, that's a good thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, it's definitely, you know, most, and the thing is for all the complaints about society as it was, say in 2019, there obviously there were a lot of very successful guys.  And, you know, it's better that we have, if we get more people who aren't there to feed the machine, that's good.   We've become more and more useless. You know, those, I was listening to an audio program by Mike Adams, the health ranger, and he's talking about this global reset that's imminent. And he explains, you know, why it's happening and what's going on. And in the program, he talks about how the, how you would say the lords of this world, maybe, recognize that 90% of the people, especially in these, the most recent generations, cannot do anything. They can't do anything except swipe right and charge their phone. They have absolutely zero skills whatsoever. So in a way, they are basically useless people. What's the point? Just get rid of them. Yeah, yeah, I mean, and we'll see. I mean, who knows? I mean, there's so many different ways you could go with the, you know, the things that are going on right now. But that's actually one of the things I wanted to bring up because I was really excited. You put out a video called the American Mindvirus and I just reposted it on YouTube and whatever. And it was good because you were saying pretty much what I was saying at the same time, you know, and people maybe wouldn't expect that or whatever. I have guys in my inbox every day.     Right. And it really is. It's order versus chaos. We see chaos happening everywhere and it's not okay. And a lot of men want to go and do something about it, but it's really easy for them to be pushed in the wrong direction. Yeah.     It's like, let's pull everyone into this giant conflict and it just seems like such a piece of theater. Yeah. And it's like, it's a bad direction, I think for everyone to go. So I was really excited to see, you know, you putting out that same message, you know, that it's not about that. You know, like I think that there are men who love freedom all around the country and they want freedom in order. Right. And that's, if you're gonna have a war, let's have a war for that. Let's have a war for freedom in order, not like these people against these people because that's all, like you said, a divide and conquer thing that they're doing. You know, because they, like it's, men all around the country who care about freedom in order. Right. I think those are manly men. Those are usually men that have had fathers.  And so a lot of those, a lot of these angry kids that are out there and adults that are out there causing the chaos, they do not understand, cannot appreciate, have never experienced any type of real masculine order in their lives. All they know is chaos. Yeah. Yeah. And now they're just being free reigns. It's like, you know, like let my dogs out and let them do what they really want. You know, like, well, they're just gonna make a mess.  You know, he said they were doing that for like all night.   You work really hard to make something and then to watch it just be destroyed by this rolling chaos that no one cares about. You know, like no one will stop. Must be really, really just crushing, you know, for those people, you know, it's really sad.   I mean, what are you telling those guys? Where are you getting them? Well, I think we have in our constitution a really good, a really good institution for this. It's called the Second Amendment. And the Second Amendment isn't just about being able to bear arms. It's about being able to organize militias. And you know, they will make it seem in the media today that there's something right wing or there's something racist or white supremacist about that because it's from the constitution. But the fact of the matter is that the founding fathers understood that at some point good people will need to get together to protect freedom in order, like you were saying. And so I've discovered and have been urging the men in my programs to check out your state's law rules are on it. And if there is any organized state militia. And so what happens is that Florida has an organized state militia. They do lots of training and they are, they're ready, willing and able to step up to the plate when things go awry. So that's just one example, which I think is probably one of the better things to get involved with because it's written right there in the constitution and the founders of our country knew that we were gonna face times like this. And so they put that in there so that we could defend ourselves. We could defend freedom. We could defend the constitution. And so that out of the chaos, perhaps some order will be reestablished. Man, I hope that's the way I go.  Right? There's a lot of experience and a lot of weapons out there. And I think that, I'm actually amazed that things haven't touched off more than they did. When things first started happening, I was like, I actually put a video out which I pulled down later cause I'm like, now I'm mad. But at first I was like, I was like, you know when Corona first came out, I was like, hold on, don't go crazy. Cause I know so many guys who were like, it's time. You know? And I'm like, hold on, like let's see what's happening now.   It looks like, I look like the bad guy that joins the militia. But those are the good guys and the militias are where the ex-military law enforcement, right now it's happening and law enforcement is backing the side of the militias. Oh yeah. And I'm talking about like constitutional militias. I'm not talking about, you know, private organized guys who are just looking for trouble. These are organized, not even organized, you know? They're not organizations at all. They're basically just Americans who love America who are protecting the constitution, protecting their rights and following the law as it was written. Right. So to me, it seems like that's the only right way. And if someone has something negative to say about it, that means they haven't paid attention. They're not actually, they're un-American.  I mean, but I just have found in the past when I joined a group that it becomes a thing. But so, but what I did do, just because I'm like, well, let's do whatever I can that's legal before whatever happens is gonna happen. Right. And I didn't make a big deal about it because I wasn't sure how it would be taken or whatever, but I volunteered three or four times to be, I've been sitting out at the recall the governor booth taking signatures with all the little ladies of whatever, like, doing, I'm like, this is what we have right now. Right. So like, let's do something that's positive. You know, because I didn't know what to do. So I'm like, I'm gonna do something that's positive and see if maybe we can get this evil woman governess thrown out and at least kind of send a message. Right. And that's the starting thing. I mean, if you look at actually the American Revolution, I'm actually reading George Washington's biography right now, the one by Chernov. And A, if you read that and you don't feel like you've been lazy, then you're pretty awesome because that dude does a lot. Yeah. He got a lot done.  Right.  You know, and I think that that's probably what has to happen if anything real is gonna happen.  Cause that's generally how it works. Where are the lawyers?  Yeah. That's the first thing I asked when all the mask mandates started happening. I'm like, where are the lawyers? Cause really, you're right. That's where the battle begins. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. You need people who are invested on that level. Some just kind of interested to see like, cause there's a lot of, there's a lot of mainly dudes out there and they're online, they have big names or whatever and they have that kind of background and they have, you know, they have all this going. I'm like, just interested to watch as how many of them jump forward and be like, okay, that's my line. Like that, no, we're not doing this. Right. You know, so it'll be interesting to see how it unfolds. I think like you said, we're in interesting times for sure, but. So what are some of the things that you're most excited about now, aside from chaos and taking the bull by the horns? Well, I think that's it. I think that's what I'm most excited about right now. Chaos. Yeah. I feel like I've been waiting for this my entire life. Watching as things devolve. And you know, this is not the first time I've experienced to this particular degree. I think every election to cycle, there's probably some form of chaos and you know, in some way shape or form, but it seems like it's reaching a climax. And I don't want to be a pretend like I'm a prophet or anything like that or honor prophecy too much. But it's been written that we're going to reach this moment of tribulation and chaos and challenge and I'm ready for it. I want to be physically ready for it, you know, training my body, training with firearms, prepping in my home, preparing my family, but then also sharing that message with other men because even if shit doesn't hit the fan and that, you know, and they're a literal, you know, which there already are, but like burning in the streets, like all of America doesn't collapse, we're still at a point where what will be required for any of this to take a good, take a right turn, to take the right turn is for men to come back to what make men manly and to do strong man things, like being able to provide, right? Without having to rely on the food trucks, without having to rely on microwaves, protect without having to rely on the police because now they want to defund the police, right? And prepare for the inevitable. I think that's what men did in order to create civilization anyway was to fight against or to put boundaries up against the chaos of darkness and things have just been way too easy. Like I kind of resentful about how easy things have been. I kind of look for trouble. And if I don't have enough trouble in my life, I'll go and get into trouble. But now it's like, I'm climaxing, and I'm like, I'm like a kid. I'm like, yes, it's the perfect time in my life. You know, I have a home. I have my family. I've got enough resources. I'm ready. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. It'll be challenging. I mean, I think, in many ways, like the whole defund the police thing, I kind of want them to do it. Okay, this is a teachable moment. Like I want them to do it. And then for everyone to see with their own eyes what happens, right?  No, that's not how, that's not what works. And my best essay I ever read, ever wrote most shared thing I ever did was called Violence is Gold. And that was really, people always think that it's like me wishing that, you know, I wanted to live in the third world country and be surrounded by violence. And no, it's just me understanding how the world works. Me like, I think you're an adult. Like if you take away the people with who will stop you, someone else from doing something, everybody can do whatever they want. And most people will take advantage of that. You know, like most people will. Most people are pretty good, you know, by nature they'll behave themselves within a certain parameter. But you know, we all break the law a little. We all speed a little bit in the car. We all do this, you know, push the boundaries a little bit. And if there are no boundaries and there's no thing that you're going to get caught for, yeah, that's complete chaos. People will do whatever they want. I mean, the only reason someone doesn't break into my house at night is because they think they're going to get caught.  But some stranger kind of trying to break into a house, they, the thing that's stopping them is that, you know, eventually some men with guns are going to come and put them in handcuffs and put them in a concrete, you know, like playpad for forever. And so they don't do it. Yeah, unless they have no ability to plan whatsoever. You know, but, you know, but if you take that, that thread away of those guys with guns coming to forcibly take you away because that's violence, then you, you have a problem. So I, you know, just have mass chaos.   Like as this has unfolded, I'll probably move here soon. I think to a slightly bigger area cause I'm bored. But, you know, there's not enough people here. It's not enough cool dudes doing cool things. But, but yeah, I think that I was glad I didn't live in a city, but I do see that in the cities, things are going to get really bad, really fast, you know, cause people just don't realize how protected they are and have always been in their lives. And so it'll, I want them to defund the police. Do it, do it, let everybody know, let everybody see. And that might be the kind of like turning point, you know, like you were talking about. If things get bad enough that people understand why rules are there. Right.   Right. This is how the patriarchy makes its comeback. Like I said earlier, we should hit the fan, everybody wants daddy to fix it. Daddy is bored right now. It's mommy ruled world. And it's turned into complete chaos. So a number of things that's gonna be a byproduct of this is men will be forced to be strong again. They'll have no choice and women and children will, not because they're coerced, but because it is just prudent to begin respecting men again. Yeah, I mean, evolutionary history, it's like there's this narrative that men have always oppressed women. And that's why, you know, we've just been keeping them down for all of history forever. You know, like it's some conspiracy that men have been doing. But reality, it's a prudent division of labor. Right. In actual order. I have men do what they're best at doing.  And you have women raising kids and building relationships because it's not like women's only purposes to raise kids. They also, you know, I always say, if you don't have a woman in your household, you don't send Christmas cards. Well, I like how you say that women represent the future. Yeah, yeah, totally. Yeah, they represent the future and they build all the relationships and they make sure everybody stays connected and do all these things.  You know, like that's not what I do. But, you know, I think that, you know, yeah, hopefully if people are forced to realize that there is a good divisional labor there. Right. You know, and that it's not about oppressing women. You know, like men's purpose is to oppress women. You know, that's a Marxist idea that infiltrated our culture through the universities and the media to destroy our culture. It is against one another. We see it with BLM. But BLM is run by lesbians, by feminists. So it's just a different manifestation of the same dilemma that we found in the garden with Adam and Eve and the serpent sneaking up besides his wife's ear and telling her, you don't need to listen to your husband and his father. You can do whatever you want. Kill the baby in the womb. Be your own woman. You don't need him. And so it happened in the beginning and we're watching the blood in the streets right now. BLM as a manifestation of the same thing. Totally. And it's so hard to get people to understand that because there's so many, I mean, honestly, there's so many like white people who want it. They wouldn't do the right thing. They want to be fair and be nice. And so they're supporting this thing and not seeing what it is, you know, like they say. And like it, that's not nice. That's not like decent law abiding cool black people. You know what? Like who are about freedom and order. It's not the, that's not what's happening out there.    I know too well cause I hung out with them for a while. And then, you know, it's the other mirror of that. They're both dysfunctional. A lot of political activists, I think generally are just really dysfunctional people. The difference is that everybody has adopted BLM as their stepchild is something wonderful. And I think it's because say it's so sneaky that he has this, I mean, they did such a good job.  So when you say black lives matter, you can't argue with that, right?   The opposite is not that black lives don't matter. I like to tell people that I just don't support black lives matter. Black lives matter is an organization. Black lives do matter, but black lives matter is evil. Yeah, yeah. No, I totally agree. And it's really unfortunate that good people who want to do the right thing can't see that. Because that's what gives them so much power.  Right. You know, so many that could actually help black people live better lives. Right. And the other thing, I mean, that's what bugged me about it is that, man, all these, you know, like burning down all these neighborhoods and small businesses and stuff. If you want to rise out of poverty, you need a middle class to go to. And everything that's happening right now is kind of destroying the middle class.  It's not all just people who just magically have it.  You know, like you just, you know, work at something and find out what you're good at and get better at it and, you know, work hard. And that's even a value that they're, I've seen them like take down. Well, it's the welfare state. You don't need to do anything. You don't need to learn how to do anything. And you're entitled to handouts. Yeah, it's, well, an allowance is what it is really.  Right. You know, like that's daddy giving you an allowance or mommy is giving you allowance every week. And then you can go and play and do whatever you want.  Right. And actually take responsibility for what you're doing. You know, that's, that's really unfortunate.  I mean, we look at like Venezuela and Argentina. These countries that lived in the type of affluence that Americans take for granted that with the flip of a switch, they're digging, they're not digging in ground. They're digging in dumpsters.  And if we want a good look at what we're, what's in store for us, if we keep going down this route, well, then we have it. A really good contemporary example in Venezuela. Oh yeah. Well, and it's being played out. I mean, I went to Portland for the first time in a few months recently. And I just went to have some cigars with some buddies who I've been friends with for years. And I didn't even go downtown, you know. And Portland used to be a really beautiful city. I moved there from LA and I loved it. I'm like, this is clean and nice. And like it's pretty working class and like there are some hipsters, but they're probably like a thousand of them is before Portland and everything. And you know, it was a nice place. It was a beautiful city.   I mean, driving down streets, I'm seeing nothing but tents and tents and tents and like converted buses and people living out of their cars and all this kind of stuff. And you know, like all the stores are like boarded up with OSB and then I have the graffiti all over them. And like this was like one of the easiest, nicest places to live like eight years ago. Wow, it happened so quickly. Yeah, I mean, but I mean, all that happened in the past like year. Yeah. You know, it was, Portland was becoming so affluent that like, and their streets weren't built for it was one of those smaller kind of cities that all the stores, they started, I know cause I used to drive a truck and you couldn't drive a truck through these places to deliver the fancy food that all the hipsters wanted to eat. Like you still drive, truck drivers don't have to get through there, you know? And so there just wasn't room for all this growth that they were having. And now it's just a dump. And I don't know if anyone would ever want to put money back in that city for a really long time. Yeah. And I think we're seeing that happen in New York City now. Yeah. COVID, LA of course has been a shithole for a while. A lot of the cities that's, people are fleeing.  Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I like, I really like the way you pulled Adam and Eve into it. That was a good, it's always good to use myth. I mean, that's what myth is for, right? Myth and religion and all that. I mean, that's what it's for, is to tell a story that makes sense in a way that is universal. I mean, that's, yeah, I mean, that makes sense because we're watching it happen now, it's happening then, you know? Like, and all myths in all cultures are really like that.   If you're a kid, they all seem crazy. But like, if you look at the underlying message to so many things, myth is important just because it tells a story in a way that is relatable to everybody, but you're gonna watch it play out again and again and again. Yeah. So what are some of the other myths and stories? Because you incorporate a lot of stuff into your grounding camps and so forth. I mean, I remember when I first kind of became aware that you were speaking at 21 and I was like, I was checking out.  And I had just been out to Enelope because that show had been on about Oshona and you were quoting Oshona. I was like, what? I was like, that's crazy. Oshona fans. I mean, that was a good show. You know, like they did some cool stuff and they're not wrong about everything. But because I live in the town actually, because actually right now I live in the Dalles, the town where they were the poisoning happened. Wow, that's where you live. Yeah, that's where I live right now. Yeah, so yeah, it was only like a two hour drive. I drove down to Enelope to see where they had there, saw some of the old, you know, like buildings that they had that are still down there. And I just wanted to check it out because obviously some history happened that I had no idea about before that show. But, you know, I was interested because obviously that's some very Eastern stuff. Yeah. So what are some of your favorite things that you pull in to help convey your message to men? Well, you know, any message that I share with men come from my own internal search, my own seeking. And so for me, being of mixed race, growing up in Long Island, New York, one of the questions that adults and even my peers would ask me is, Elliot, what are you, right? And so that's kind of a very obvious question when they were asking me, but it's also a very existential question and one that I wrestled with from the time I was a kid, like, what am I? And so I just happened to maybe be around 12, 13 years old and I was in the library. And I came across the philosophy section and I found a book that said, what are you? Like, what are you really? I think it was the name of the book by a quantum physicist and also a Buddhist by the name, I think it was Apollo May, I think it was his name. And my mind was blown when I started reading about religion and science as a means for self-exploration.  I didn't grow up with the internet, but when I was in college, maybe like my first, that's maybe like 1998 or something like that.  And we came across the work of Alan Watts and we'd be sitting there. I must have been like 19, 20 years old and me and my brother would just sit there for hours on and listening to this witty English dude talk about the religions of the East, Buddhism and Hinduism and Taoism and the living philosophy that came out of it, came out of them. And it just resonated with me so deeply. I grew up Catholic and also living in the West where Christianity has been all but destroyed through feminism. Christianity, I didn't feel like it offered me much, right? Doesn't offer men much at all because it has been subverted by the same communists that are destroying our schools and our media and Hollywood. So the church has fallen into apostasy as a result and I could see that now as an adult when I look back, but I was seeking. I wanted something, I wanted to know who I am. Why am I here? What is God? What is this all about? And so that thirst, which has never been quenched, I don't think it's ever really quenched, began to receive some quenching at that age. And so I've explored so many different religions and philosophies, I'm grateful for the fact that the internet has exposed me to all these ideas, but then at the same time, it could also be daunting, right? Because they're all truths, right? Depending on who you ask and in what context and when and where and why. And so it's chaos, you know? And so in looking for order, I just found more chaos. It'd be more books, more different religions, more gurus like Osho, more philosophies to the point where I was like, I can't stand it anymore. It seemed almost like the quest for oneness, the quest for truth, the quest for order had done nothing but make my mind and heart more confused and more chaotic. And I think that's where a lot of us are, you know? The destruction of the West, of course, has a lot to do, in my opinion, and you could see it with the destruction of the church and the destruction of religion. But at the same time, the infiltration of all kinds of New Age stuff, which does, among other things, creates more confusion. What to believe? So, you know, we're at the point here where everything, everything is completely subjective. What do you feel? What do you want? What do you think? Which is the complete antithesis to order. There's absolutely no order when everybody's whatever they wanna be. Yeah. You know, and everybody can think whatever they want. Your truth is one of the terms. Yeah, your truth, yeah, yeah, yeah.  They're just kind of floating around whatever hits them, hits them, and they're like, they're just floating around the ocean. And there you go. Whatever's stylish for the day, whatever's a new trend in religion. Exactly, exactly. But I mean, that's one of my projects is going back to, you know, connecting a lot of dots. Because that is a cool thing about the internet in this age, this is our fate. This is our fate to see all these things. You know, this is our age. And so, as Nietzsche said, you have to love your fate. And so, if you go back and connect all these things, and then you start to see how similar most of them are.  But if you look at the oldest stories in the world, I mean, you know, I started out with the Germanic stuff, but then you look at the Greek stuff and you look at the Roman stuff and then you look at the Vedic stuff. That's all connected super tightly. The myths are basically the same. And then even jumping a culture that's not Indo-European, you go into like Sumeria and Marduk is Thor. You know, it's basically like they're Marduk.  And then like Odin does in the stories, you know, tear it apart and build the world from its corpse and create an order from, you know, this chaos. And it's just the same story. And that's like one of the oldest stories in the world. It's like written on tablets. And, you know, and so all these stories have a lot in common. There are a lot of the ideas that we're talking about, you know, like that men have always been in this conflict between order and chaos and that's what defines them. It's always been around. And so I think that's all there.  You know, like, and that's what you see. Like, give me a handout, give me a thing. I deserve this because I'm alive.  I need the things too. I mean, that's all resentment. I mean, so much of this society is based off of resentment. And so I think it's really interesting to connect the whole dots. And what you said about figuring out who you are, it's a very American question. It is very ego centric, narcissistic. That too. That too. And I'm totally fine with that. But it's a very American question because Americans are, they're all from different places in Europe.  They're often different places in Europe. So you have Germans and you have Irish and they were all races against each other. And they didn't like each other at all. And then over time, they kind of become Americans. Right. But they're not any of those things that they used to be. Right.  You know, like I didn't grow up in Germany. That's not my home. That's not who I am really. I'm an American. You know, like I've always been an American. Right. And so it's a very American question. Like, who am I really? You know, because people were looking for this old, old answer. Right. Like, what am I really connected to? Well, you're connected to the whole world that came here. You know, like that's what America is. Yes. So like it's a way to figure out what matters. And, you know, it's a bit of a tangent, but like the end of European myths, there's a bunch of cattle wrestling in it. Like in all the old myths, there's like who stole the cattle? The hero went and got the cattle back. And that's the American story because it's like a new place.  You know, so it's, I think, you know, that answers it for a lot of it to a certain degree. You know, like- Yeah, I appreciate that. Yeah. You're American, you're American. Yeah. And that's what we're, and we have our own weird constitution and not just the physical one, but our own makeup.  I don't like being told what to do. That's for sure, you know. Yeah, right. You know, I mean, there's a, we definitely have that streak in us still, I think, from the revolution. Yup. Part of our culture and part of who we are. Yup. So anyway, what do you have coming up? What do you- Well, we got the 21 convention. Yeah. I think I'm just coming to watch it and hang out. That's cool, man.  So you're speaking of that, any preview about what you're going to talk about? Nope. I have no idea yet. I have some, I have actually last night in the shower I was thinking about some ideas that came up, but we'll see how that unfolds. Right, right. But I'm really excited about what the event stands for, you know, about making men great again, but then also the patriarch event for fathers. I really think that's where we're going to, the linchpin for all of this is going to be when fathers are strong again, families are strong again. That is the cellular nucleus of our society. If the families are weak, as a result, men are weak, so the families are weak, the whole society is going to, it is suffering. That's why we're suffering. We're suffering because men are weak and families weak. And then I love the idea that making women great again is something Anthony decided to put together. I think it's cool, but I think women will just fall into place when men become strong again. I don't think we need to teach them anything. They know exactly what they need to do, but what's required is for men to take our place first.  Well, I think women will just snap back into place when men are doing and being what men need to be. So I'm pretty excited about that. Pretty cool. I think those are awesome. And then I have my final grounding camp coming up after that, which is, I'm excited that it's done. I've been doing it for four years, but I've moved on to just different, different formulations of the same service and message. You know, COVID created quite a hit where travel has just gotten more and more challenging. I don't feel like getting on airplanes anymore. In fact, I probably just will not. I will not travel if they're gonna require me to dress up in their costume, their clown suit, and put on, or to have vaccines or whatever they're gonna force on me. I'm an American, man.  That's right. So I'll just get in my pickup truck and wherever a gas is taking me, ask where I'm going. Yeah, so I decided to make a shift in that regard, man. So like I said, you know, mainly, I gotta be completely honest. I'm more selfish now than ever before.  And I don't wanna be on social media anymore. And of course I do, because it's what I do, it's who I am, but I can't wait for the day to just hide. I just wanna go away. That's it. That's my mindset. I just wanna disappear. But until then, who knows if that'll ever happen. Until then, it's a matter of just showing up and being E. That's all I can do, man. Awesome, man. All right, well, thanks for coming on Start the World. And I'll put some links to where you can find Elliot if for some reason you've been on a rock and you don't know where he is or how to find him. But, anyway, thanks again, man. I appreciate it.


In this video, we're going to have a look at how to expand squared brackets. You should already know how to expand double brackets by multiplying each term in the first bracket by each term in the second bracket, and then simplifying. If you've forgotten, you may want to watch this video first. So what do you reckon we do here? Just like three squared means three times three, the squared here means the bracket times the bracket, and then expand it as you normally would for two brackets, so one of these methods. x squared minus 5x minus 5x plus 25, and simplify so the final answer is x squared minus 10x plus 25. Here are some for you to do. Pause the video, expand the brackets, and click play when you're ready. Did you get them right? So to recap, when brackets are being squared, write them out in full one bracket next to the other, then expand them, multiplying everything in the first bracket by everything in the second bracket, and then simplify. Make sure you end up with exactly three terms. If you liked the video, give it a thumbs up, and don't forget to subscribe, comment below if you have any questions. Why not check out our Fuse school app as well? Until next time.


Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE! Covering AWS re-invent 2019. Brought to you by Amazon Web Services and Intel, along with its ecosystem partners. Hey, welcome back to theCUBE's coverage of AWS 19 from Las Vegas. This is day two of our coverage of three days, two sets, lots of CUBE content. Lisa Martin here with Justin Warren, founder and chief analyst of Pivot 9. Justin and I are joined by a couple of guests new to theCUBE. We've got David Peister next to me, global head of sales for Io Tahoe, welcome. Yeah, glad to be here. Eddie Edwards, what a cool name. Global data services director from Direct Energy. Welcome Eddie. Hi, thank you. Okay, so David, I know we had somebody from Io Tahoe on yesterday, but I'd love for you to give our audience an overview of Io Tahoe, and then you got to tell us what the name means. Oh, okay. Well, Dave Peister, Io Tahoe, thanks, it's a wonderful event here at AWS, and excited to be here. Io Tahoe, we're located in downtown Wall Street, New York. And Io Tahoe, well, there's a lot of different meanings, but mainly Tahoe for Data Lake, input, output into the lake is how it was originally meant. But a little background on Io Tahoe, we are, 2014, we started in Stealth, came out of Stealth in 2017 with two signature clients, one you're going to hear from in a moment, Direct Energy, the other one GE, and we'll speak to those in just a moment. Io Tahoe takes a unique approach. We have nine machine learning algorithms, 14 future sets that interrogates the data at the data level. We go past metadata, so solving that really difficult data challenge. And I'm going to let Eddie describe some of the use cases that were around data migration, PII discovery, and so over to you. Thank you. First tell us a little bit about Direct Energy, what you were, you're located, and what you guys do, and how data is absolutely critical to your business. Yeah, sure. So Direct Energy, well, it's the largest, residential energy supplier in the US, around 5,000 employees. Lots of this has come from acquisitions. So as you can imagine, we have a vast amount of data that we need to manage. So currently I've got just under 1,700 applications in my portfolio, and a lot of the challenges we get are around the cost, driving down cost to serve, so we can pass that back on to our consumers. And the challenge that we've had is, how best to gain that understanding where IOTA hole came into play. It was mainly around our ability to use the product quickly for being able to connect to our existing sources, to discover the data, but then to catalog that information, to start applying the rules around whether it be legislation like GDPR, or we get a lot of cases where there's a difference between the state's understandings and definitions, so the product gives us the ability to bring a common approach to that information. Good success story would be about three months ago, we took 13 applications for our North America home business. We were able to run it through the product within a week, and that gave us the information to then consolidate the state downwards, working with our business colleagues to identify all the data redundancy, the archival retention rules, and bring more meaning to the data, and actually improve ourselves opportunities by highlighting that rich information that was not known previously. Yeah, so you mentioned that you've grown through acquisition. One thing that people tend to underestimate around IT is that it's not a homogeneous environment, it's heterogeneous. As soon as you buy another company, you've got another silo, you've got another data set, you've got something else. So walk us through how IOTA who actually deals with that very disparate set of data that you've no doubt inherited from just acquiring all of these different companies. Yeah, so exactly right. Every time we acquire an organization, they would have various different applications that were running in the estate, whether it be an old Oracle, SAP, SQL type environment. What we're able to do is use the product to plug in and then profile to understand what insight knowledge they have around their customer base and how we can then bring that in to build up a single view and offer additional products, value-adding products or rewards for customers, whether that be on our HVAC side, our heating, ventilation and aircon unit, which again we have 4,600 engineers in that space. So it's opening up new opportunities and territories to us. Go ahead. As I say additionally to that, we're across multiple sectors, but the problem, Death by Excel, was in the financial services. We're located in Wall Street, as I mentioned, and this problem of legacy disparate data sources and understanding and knowing your data was a common problem. Banks were just throwing people with the problem. So his use case with 1,700 applications, a lot of them legacy, it fits right into what we do. And cataloging is a, he mentioned we catalog, with that discover and search engine that we have, we enable search across the enterprise, but discovery, we auto-tag and auto-classify the sensitive data into the catalog automatically, and that's a key part of what we do, and yeah. Was that, Dave, something, I'm thinking of differentiation, wanting to know what is unique about iOtahoe, what was the opportunity that you guys saw, but is the cataloging of the sensitive information one of the key things that makes it different? We enable data governance, so it's not just sensitive information, we catalog the entire data set, multiple data sets, and what makes us, what differentiates us is that the machine learning, we interrogate and brute force the data. So every single, so metadata beyond, so billion rows, 100,000 columns, large, complex data sets, we interrogate every field value, and we tell you, well this looks like a phone number, this looks like an address, this looks like a first name, this looks like a last name, and we tag that to the catalog, and then anything that's sensitive in nature will color code it, red, green, highly sensitive, sensitive, so that's our big differentiator. So it's that like 100% visibility into the granularity of what is in this data? Yes, and that's one of the issues is that we're here at AWS, we're finding a lot of folks are wanting to go to the cloud, but they can't get access to the data, they don't know their data, they don't understand it, and so we're that bridge, we're a key strategic partner for AWS, and we're excited about the opportunity that's come about in the last six months with AWS, because we're going to be that key piece for migration to the cloud. So the Data Lake, I love the name, Iow Chahou, but in your opinion, you know you can hear so many different things about Data Lake, data's turning into data swamp, is there's still a lot of value in Data Lakes that customers just like you were saying before, they just don't know what they have. Well what's interesting, and this is a good transition to one of our other clients, but and I just want to make a note that we actually started in the relational world, so we're RWMS, we're across heterogeneous environment, but Tahoe does have more to do with Lake, but at a time, a few years back, everybody was just dumping data into the lake, they didn't understand what was in there, and it's created in this era of privacy a big issue, and Comcast had this problem, the large teradata instance just dumping into the lake, not understanding data flows, how their data's flowing, not understanding what's in the lake sensitivity wise, and they want to start, you know, they want to enable BI, they want to start doing analytics, but they got to understand and know the data, right? So for Comcast, we enabled data ops for them, automatically with our machine learning, so that was one of the use cases, and then they put the information in and we integrated it with Apache Atlas, and they have a large AWS instance, and they're able to then better govern their data, and GE Digital, one other customer, very complex use case around their data, 36 ERPs being migrated to one virtual ERP in the lake, and think about finance data, how difficult that is to manage and understand, so we were a key piece in helping that migration happen in weeks rather than months. So David, you mentioned cloud, clearly we're at a cloud show, but you mentioned knowing your data, one of the aspects of that cloud is that it moves fast, and it's at a much bigger scale than what we've been used to, so I'm interested, maybe Eddie, you can fill us in here as well, about the use of a tool to help you know your data when we're not creating any less data, there's just more and more data, so at this speed and at this scale, how important is it that you actually have tooling to provide to the humans who have to go and operate on all of this data? Building on what David was saying around the speed and the agility side, all our information now for our North America home business is in AWS, all an NS3 bucket. We are already starting work with AWS Connect and the call center side, being able to stream that information through, so we're getting to the point now as an organization where we're able to profile the data real time and take that information, but predict what the customer's going to do as part of the machine learning side, so we're starting to trial where we will interject into a call to say, well, you know, a customer might be on your digital site trying to do a journey, you can see the challenges around data, and you could then go in with a chat using say the new AWS chat that's just coming through at the moment, so great opportunities. I'm hearing, sorry Eddie, is the opportunity to leverage the insights into the data to deliver more, you mentioned like customer rewards or more personalized experiences or a call center agent knowing this is the problem that this customer is experiencing, this, we have tried X, Y and Z to resolve or this customer is loyal, they pay their bills on time, they should be eligible for some sort of reward program. I think as consumers that I think Amazon.com has created this demanding consumer that we expect you to know us, we expect you to serve us up things that you think we want, talk to me about the opportunity that IOTI is giving your business to be able to delight customers in ways that you probably couldn't even have predicted. Well, David touched on the tagging earlier, you know, so by understanding the data that's coming through, being able to use the data flow technology and categorizing, we're able then to link it in with the wider estate. So David mentioned Comcast around 36 ERP, you know, we've just gone through the same in other parts of our organization, we're driving that additional level of value, turning it away from being a manually labor intensive task. So I used to have, you know, 20 architects that daily go through trying to build and understanding the relationship. I do not need that now. I just have a couple of people that are able to take the outputs and then be able to validate the information using the products. And I'd like to add there's just so much, you mentioned customer 360 example at a call center. There's so much data ops that has to happen to make that happen. And that's the most, you know, difficult challenge to solve and that's where we come in after you catalog the data, I just want to touch on this, we enable search for the enterprise. So you've now connected to 5,100, 1,500 sources with our software. Now you've cataloged it, you profiled it. Now you can search. Karen, Kim, Kim Smith. So your engineers, your architect, your data stewards, your influencers, your business analysts, business folks can now search anything they want and find anything sensitive, find that person, find an invoice. And that helps enable what you mentioned, the customer 360. Right, that 360, but I can also, what I'm hearing is it has the potential to enable a better relationship between IT and the business. Absolutely, it brings those both together because they're so siloed in this day and age. Your data is siloed and your business is siloed in the different business units. So this helps exactly collaborate crowdsource, bring it all together to one platform. And how many, so 1,700 applications, how many you mentioned that 36 are so ERPs, what percentage, if you can guess, have you been able to reduce duplicate, triplicate, et cetera applications and what are some of the overarching business benefits that direct energy is achieving? So in terms of the direct synergy side, we're just at the beginning of that journey. We're about four months in, but we've already decommissioned 12 of the applications and we're starting to move out to the wider side. In terms of benefits, ROI probably around 300% at the moment. And in a few, 300% ROI in just a few months? Yes, just another, you know, you've got some of the basic savings around the storage side. We're also getting large savings from some of the existing support agreements that we have in place. David touched on data ops. I've been able to reduce the amount of people that are required to support the team. There is now a more common understanding within the organization. And I've managed to turn it more into a self-care opportunity with the business operations by pushing the line from being a technical problem to a business challenge. And at the end of the day, they're the experts. They understand the data better than any IT fault that are set in a corner, right? So... I've got to ask you one more question, Eddie. Yeah, sure. What gave you the confidence that IoTahoe was the right solution for you? Purely down to the open source side. So we come from a, you know, I've been using IoTahoe probably for about two years in parts of the organization. We were very early adopters on other technologies in the open source market. And it was just the ability to, on the proof of concepts, be able to turn it around. Items where you'll go to a traditional vendor, which would take a few months, large business cases, didn't need any of that. We were able to show results within 24, 48 hours. And that buys the confidence. And I'm sure David would take the challenge of being able to plug in some data sets and show you the data. Cool stuff, guys. Well, thank you for sharing with us what you guys are doing in IoTahoe, keeping that data lake blue, and the successes that you're achieving in such a short time at Direct Energy. Appreciate your time, guys. Thank you for having us on. Our pleasure. No your data. Exactly, no your data, for my guests and my co-host, Justin Warren. I'm Lisa Martin. I'm going to go off and learn my data now. You've been watching theCUBE at AWS Reinvent 19. Thanks for watching.


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Michael Myers returns to Haddonfield after 40 years to re- Reve- Ahem Ahem F**k Michael Myers is back for another slasher happy semi-reboot thanks to Jason Bloom and the unlikely duo of David Gordon Green and Danny McBride But with so many incarnations of the killer listed simply as the shape How much do we really know about the man behind the mask and how he was created? Welcome to another edition of Classic Characters where we investigate the story of Michael Myers. In 1978, John Carpenter released the first ever Halloween to the big screen. It became the most successful independent film of the decade and paved the way for the slasher genre that we know and love today. The original idea came from producer Irwin Yablans, who approached Carpenter with an idea for a horror film named The Babysitter Murders in which, yeah, you guessed it, babysitters were stalked by a killer. Carpenter loved the idea and drafted a script with his long-esteem colleague Deborah Hill. Yablans then made another suggestion that the murders occurred on Halloween night, a concept that had not yet been exploited in film. Michael Audrey Myers was born. What? Audrey? As a boy, Michael has sent to Smith's Grove Sanitarium for the brutal murder of his older sister Judith. He escapes 15 years later and returns to his hometown to finish what he started. Carpenter's described the character as an almost supernatural evil force that is unkillable. His inspiration for that evil came when he was in college.  Among those patients was a young boy who gave Carpenter a schizophrenic evil stare which he found unsettling, creepy and completely insane. With the limited booby, boobies, budget, f***! With the limited budget of only $325,000, Carpenter had to use what little resources he had to create the look for Michael. Production designer, art director and co-editor Tom Lee Wallace created Michael's mask from a willing Shatner Halloween mask purchased for $1.98. There have been several different versions of the mask in the sequels but none have been as quite as good as the original and none have been as near as bad as Halloween 4's. Yikes! In the credits, Michael was referred to as the shape. This was taken from the original script where Carpenter describes a shape jumping in the back of Marion's car. For script consistency, he was referred to as the shape for every scene. He's also known as the Bogeyman and weirdly, the Nightmare Man. Michael has appeared in six sequels in the franchise and a reboot from Rob Zombie that we don't like to talk about. Halloween 2 followed on directly from the original film with Michael terrorizing Laurie inside a hospital and Loomis hotening his heels once again. Carpenter took a step back from the director's chair but stayed on as writer and producer. The studio then decided to go into a bizarre direction and released a Michael-less Halloween 3 season of The Witch, also without the presence of Carpenter. It's safe to say that that didn't work out as Michael made a comeback for the aptly named Halloween 4, The Return of Michael Myers. Again, Carpenter remained absent. Two more sequels followed, Halloween 5, The Revenge of Michael Myers and Halloween, The Curse of Michael Myers. While each sequel offered its own take on the story, what it didn't offer is continuity. Michael has died a number of times in the franchise only to make a miraculous return. This is probably down to the ambiguous nature of his existence as an unstoppable, unkillable force. However, it is Jamie Lee Curtis' character Laurie who apparently also possesses these supernatural healing abilities. In Halloween 4, it is suggested that she is dead, wanting to make a return in Halloween H2O in 1998 and then killed off again in the final movie of the franchise, Halloween Resurrection. Now, Laurie has returned in Jason Bloom's 2018 sequel, Halloween, which is a direct sequel to the original 1978 film and dismisses all other Halloween's that followed. Carpenter is back on production duties and we even get a cameo from the first ever actor to play Michael, Nick Castle. What a time to be alive. Michael Myers has appeared in many forms of literature including novels and his own comic book, even as his own badass video game. Many a fan theory surrounds the existence of Michael, is he supernatural? Is he a zombie? Or is it just bad writing? Carpenter's original diagnosis is that Michael is pure evil and the scariest explanations to his origins are the ones we don't get, not naming any names. I spent eight years trying to reach him and then another seven trying to keep him locked up because I realized that what was living behind that boy's eyes was purely and simply evil. That's it for another episode of Classic Characters. What's your favorite Michael Myers movie moment? 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Item Number SCP-818 Object Class Neutralized Previously Cater Special Containment Procedures SCP-818 was confined in a circular area of no less than 4 meters across with no object directly obscuring the walls. SCP-818's containment area contained one sleeping mattress, one table, and one light fixture fitted with high wattage fluorescent light bulbs. SCP-818's cell was not under any circumstances rearranged, nor was the light turned off. Personnel were not permitted in SCP-818's holding cell nor any area within an additional 10 meters around the cell's perimeter during its active times from exactly 8.43 a.m. to 9.21 p.m. Personnel exposed to SCP-818's area of effect during its active time were reclassified to Class D and enrolled in SCP-818's test group. The following document attributed to the original project head Dr. R. R. 1990 was considered the major directive of the project for 8 years and was given to each new member of the research staff. It is retained here for archival purposes. It should be noted that SCP-818 is a creature of precise habits. It will follow a specific script, see attached file SCP-818 script without fail each day to the letter. Built into this model are the times of deviation during which SCP-818 must be closely monitored. It should go without saying that failure to note any and all additional deviations could be disastrous. Description SCP-818 is a young male appearing to be approximately 7 to 12 years of age. Additionally, SCP-818 displays all the signs of behavior consistent with low functioning nonverbal autism. The examinations of on-site behaviorists and recovered medical records show that this condition has been present for SCP-818's entire life. SCP-818's physical features have a tendency to shift when active. However, during a resting state, it has been noted as having black hair and dark skin. SCP-818 cannot speak and possesses no known direct ability to communicate. SCP-818 has shown no need for nutrition or waste removal, but it has been recorded breathing and, presumably, sleeping. SCP-818 does not appear to age and has been known to shift between heights, ranging from 1.17 to 1.84 meters and weights 65 to 80 kilograms, making any determination impossible. This, coupled with the incomplete state of the recovered medical records, leaves much of SCP-818's history blank. SCP-818 is potentially capable of changing the universe on a fundamental level, but its abilities are severely hampered by its impairment. The changes it makes are presumably an attempt to make the world conform to how it perceives things. Pigmentation in all objects has a tendency to shift and flow. Utensils and tools take on strange shapes and sounds will emanate from no discernible source. These effects have demonstrated a range of approximately 10 meters. SCP-818 has also shown the ability to spontaneously generate matter. Nebulous objects have been noted to appear, particularly after sessions in which SCP-818 has been doing a creative activity, such as coloring or finger painting. See Experiment Log 818-1 Most of these objects remain for less than a few minutes before vanishing again, though some have been recorded as staying for several hours. Because of this, SCP-818's holding cell has been gradually stripped of all materials that may be used for these purposes. None of the created objects move further than SCP-818's line of sight, leading to Dr. P...'s hypothesis that SCP-818 is literally creating phosphines, possibly caused by the contrast of the colors from the arts and crafts and the white walls of its cell. Further testing is required to determine if this is true. SCP-818 was recovered from what is believed to have been its grandparents' home in rural where it had apparently been left since their deaths in 19... from a presumably unrelated accident. One local banker and two real estate agents were assessing the property when they encountered SCP-818. Their failure to return prompted local police to investigate. After subsequent disappearances, the Foundation was alerted, and special task force was reported to investigate. Upon their arrival, subsequently, Dr. P... suggested that... leading to SCP-818's capture. SCP-818-A Script Times below are accurate within one minute of SCP-818's schedule. More detailed scripts, including number of footsteps taken, and times recorded to within one-tenth of a second, are available upon request to Dr. P... This script was slowly imposed on SCP-818 over a course of seven weeks by Agent M and Dr. P... Any and all deviations must be noted to help in maintaining the efficacy of this containment procedure. 8.43 AM SCP-818 awakes, walking northward from its bed to the wall. SCP-818 will then walk the circumference of its wall eight times, then continue for an additional walk until reaching the exact southern point of the room. 9.11 AM SCP-818 will face the southern wall. 9.51 AM SCP-818 will turn abruptly and walk to the middle of the room. It will then stare at the ceiling light. SCP-818 must not be disturbed during this period under any circumstances. See incident report SCP-818-3Z 10.38 AM SCP-818 will return to its bed and stare at the northwest curve of the wall. Floating color-based images can be observed at this point. 11.41 AM SCP-818 will get up and walk to the table, kneeling at it. For the duration, SCP-818 can be approached. SCP-818 should not be spoken to during this time. 12.58 PM SCP-818 will stand and proceed to the easternmost wall. It will then follow the circumference of the wall sixteen times. 143 PM SCP-818 will suddenly turn sharply, return to table quickly, sitting and kneeling again. 3 PM SCP-818 will begin to cry soundlessly. SCP-818 must not be disturbed during this period under any circumstances. 3.43 PM SCP-818 will return to its bed and lay down, opening and closing its eyes. 4.15 PM SCP-818 will leave its bed and return again to the table. SCP-818 should not be approached at this time. 3 PM SCP-8187N An additional termination report of D-1922. 5.30 PM SCP-818 will enter its dangerous phase. For the duration of this stage, it will exercise its abilities, changing colors, randomly generating objects, and running about the room. Doctor seems to believe that this is some kind of tantrum that SCP-818 used to throw every day. Regardless, this is the one period of time that constant, vigilant observation must be made. 5.38 PM SCP-818 ceases its tantrum and will lay on its bed, apparently crying again. 5.47 PM SCP-818 will get up from its bed and walk to the northernmost point of the room. It will then cross to the southernmost point, and back again. From this point until it enters its passive state, SCP-818's behaviors are more erratic, with a few exceptions noted below. Agent M and Doctor R were unable to modify this section of SCP-818's behavior beyond a few points, including between 6 PM and 6.45 PM, SCP-818 will scream and hit the surface of the table. Between 6.30 PM and 8 PM, SCP-818 will manifest an object of some sort. Generally, this object appears to be a misshapen clump of dirt, wood, or metal. No analysis has been attempted due to SCP-818's unpredictable nature during this period. Between 7 PM and 8 PM, SCP-818 will cease breathing and fall to the floor for approximately 7 minutes. Between 6 PM and 9.15 PM, SCP-818 will manifest a number of small objects and proceed to arrange them in size from largest to smallest. Occasionally, SCP-818's innate abilities will manifest, causing the objects to shift in size, leading to extreme agitation and anger, as they no longer follow the pattern. If the objects fail to stabilize, execute protocol and immediately notify Doctor R. 9.21 PM SCP-818 will return to its bed, laying down, closing its eyes, and entering a passive state. End log Addendum SCP-818-T During the last years, the containment procedures for SCPs with similar effects have drastically improved, in part to the efforts of SCP-818's containment staff. However, due to an increasingly erratic and dangerous lack of absolute adherence to the established control script and the increasing presence of more dangerous and deadly effects, we have no other choice but to authorize the termination of SCP-818. C. Addendum SCP-818-00T Neutralization Experiment log, 818-1 Test subjects entering SCP-818's radius of effect during active hours reported highly distorted vision, auditory and sensory hallucinations, inability to control their motion, and a tendency to repeat actions. After removal of subject, these effects seem to have lessened, but repeated exposures seem to extend the duration. Presumably, continual exposure would result in the permanence of these symptoms. The nature and severity of symptoms seems to relate directly to what part of SCP-818's scripted program was being enacted. For the purposes of this testing, subjects were chosen for a resemblance to people in photographs recovered from SCP-818's home in 19... a slight family resemblance with the passive phase appearance of SCP-818 was inferred from the photographs, and three Class D personnel, D-1922, D-921, and D-837 were selected. On... 17... 19... Testing was scheduled to determine how SCP-818 would react to certain events. Specifically, those which have shown flexibility in the past, being manipulated. After the failures of D-1922 and D-921 to elicit positive reactions, D-837 entered the enclosure. The highlights of this testing are listed below. 19... Subject... Coloring... Procedure... D-837 entered SCP-818's enclosure at PM. Previous information discovered during recovery suggested that this was a specific time when SCP-818 would be at a low point for negative activity. D-837 entered and placed three crayons on the table. One red, one blue, and one yellow.  SCP-818 examined each crayon before changing the yellow one to green and proceeding to color. After exactly... minutes, SCP-818 ceased coloring and proceeded to the wall of the enclosure, beginning to follow it. D-837 exited the enclosure before symptoms could worsen. Details... D-837 complained for several days of visual hallucinations, all of which were the color green. No other symptoms were noted. D-837's termination temporarily delayed due to SCP-818's seeming acquiescence to her presence. Testing with D-837 will continue. Date... 19... Subject... Finger painting... Procedure... D-837 entered SCP-818's enclosure at the same time as all previous tests, only having replaced the previous crayons with finger paints of the same colors. SCP-818 was initially hesitant, but eventually changed the color of the yellow paint to green, as in all previous tests. SCP-818 proceeded to paint for several minutes until, at... PM... It ceased and proceeded to the wall of the enclosure, beginning to follow it as usual. D-837 exited the enclosure. Details... D-837 has been experiencing an increase in the symptoms of SCP-818 exposure. After the small change in today's schedule, D-837's vision is entirely tinted green. On September 17, 2000, D-837 was killed during a breach of SCP-818. The next day, when D-837 did not appear in its containment unit, SCP-818 became extremely agitated, resulting in causing the death of two research subjects currently contained in its effect radius. Subject for D-837 may be necessary. Date... September 20, 2000... Subject... Finger Painting... Procedure... D-18274 entered SCP-818's enclosure at the same time as all previous tests with both the crayons and the finger paints. D-18274 was chosen for her resemblance to D-837. First time, SCP-818 chose multiple colors, mixing them together on the paper. Additionally, SCP-818 breached its script more severely than any other time, coloring for an additional... minutes. Details... Upon D-18274's emergence from SCP-818's enclosure, D-18274 began demonstrating many of the previous habits observed in D-837, including... and a tendency to whistle show tunes. After two additional exposures, each mirroring the first, D-18274 is essentially the same person as D-837. Blood tests confirm a parent genetic match. D-18274 is reclassified, as D-837. D-837's delay of termination, is refiled. Addendum... SCP-81800T Neutralization... On January 17th, 2000... Dr. R. R. entered SCP-818's containment chamber during its passive phase, and administered an injection of R. R. R. resulting in SCP-818 first completely ceasing breathing, and then, ceasing all other recorded bodily functions. Autopsy reports show that the subject died of anaphylactic shock. Remains are remanded to site, and are available for study. Lesson complete. If you missed the previous orientation, go watch SCP-817, Random Metamorphism. Right now. Or for the complete course, watch this playlist.


Tannehill's in the gun, he's got Henry on his left hip. Blitz coming, Tannehill firing, pass caught, AJ. Tom is a shock to no one. After all, production is what number 11 has been all about in his first two years as a Tennessee Titans wide receiver. Rob Moore has seen every one of Brown's snaps since he came into the NFL, so he's hardly shocked by what happened on Monday. AJ is, he's phenomenal because he's almost ambidextrous in both hands in terms of he's equal.  He can catch the ball with either hand and not bat or not. AJ's strengths are hands down, his play strength, his ability to catch the football, his ability to make contested catches, and his ability to run after the catch. The thing I enjoy most about coaching AJ is he's so cultured.  He's extremely curious as a player. You know, always starting to find new ways to get better 12 o'clock at night, I'll get a text message of a video of some drill he saw that he likes. He's always, you know, searching. You find different ways to get better, and you love players with that kind of curiosity. I think the biggest improvement is AJ knows who he is as a player now in terms of what his identity is and what makes him who he is. His first couple years, he's trying to figure it out, and I think now he really truly understands who he is as a player, what his strengths are, and he's constantly working on and developing things that he wants to get better at. We all have our favorite plays from our favorite players. You have your favorite Derrick Henry Run or Ryan Tannehill Pass or Kevin Byrd Interception. For AJ Brown, there have been many special plays early in his career, but for everyone, just one play stands out. Oh, and our question is did Baltimore again? Tannehill looks, fires, Brown makes the catch of the 10. Spinning, driving his way to the 5, into the end zone. How did he do it? Touchdown Titans. Arthur won, Brown carrying them. Well, he broke inside and caught the Nile route and basically put the team on his back and got in the end zone. What people are understanding is up to that point, you know, he was what planned all that great, but he knew it was a moment in the game. We needed him to step up there. He was disappointed in how he was playing and he overcame that, made a play for us and then continued to play that way for the duration of the game.  When you watch his hand-eye coordination and how you watch practice and watch him catch the ball with one hand with both hands and all those things, you play catch with him. You can see the velocity on the ball. You see how he can track the default and just, you know, the football in general. All those things lend to being a great baseball player. And then when you look at his power and his strength, you know, he's a guy who could probably knock it out of the park as well.  So, I'm not surprised by that. Anytime you have guys that have that kind of talent and ability and love football, usually you're going to have some success.