During this pandemic, I've introduced you to many new concepts, concepts such as shared fantasy, modification, dissociation, secondary psychopathy. All these concepts are relatively new. Shared fantasy was first described in 1989, the same year that covert narcissism had been first diagnosed. So, what I will attempt to do in this video is to provide you with checklists. Checklists, bullet points, signs, one, two, three, four, tests, tests that you can apply at home. Just follow the algorithm. Apply the tests, the list of signs, the list of behaviors, the list of symptoms in order to reach a conclusion. What is it? Which animal is it that you're dealing with? And I'm going to dissect, disembowel, eviscerate, and analyze all the typical behaviors of the narcissist within the cycle of the shared fantasy. And this is going to be in capsule form. So, you're going to have a short list for modification, a short list for shared fantasy, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And I hope you find it helpful. There's also a link at the description. In the description, there's a link where you can download a PDF file with the entire text of this video, except my jokes, which are proprietary and this famous announcement. My name is Sam Vaknim and I, I am the author of Malignant Self-Love, Narcissism Revisited, and a host of books, e-books, videos, et cetera, et cetera about pathological narcissism and personality disorders. I am also, also I insist, a professor of psychology. So, let's dive right in, scuba gear and all, shall we? Let's start with a list of a test for romantic jealousy. How do you know if your narcissist is romantically jealous or not?  They become possessive, but generally they're not. Still, there are certain relationships, certain intimate relationships, where the narcissist does actually become romantically jealous. And here are, here are the three signs. When the narcissist is attached to his intimate partner in a way that he misperceives as love, when the narcissist tells himself that he is in love with his intimate partner, he socializes with her friends and family as well. If he is not in love with her, he rejects her friends and family. This is test number one. Does he agree to socialize with your friends and family? Test number two, when the narcissist tells himself that he is in love with an intimate partner, he does react to triangulation. If he does not love the intimate partner, he does not react at all with jealousy, with competitiveness, or with possessiveness, never mind what you do with other men, even in his presence. Test number three, women tend to conform. Well, we are talking, I'm using the gender pronouns loosely. It applies vice versa. That means when I say he, it applies to a she. When I say she, it applies to a he. So in the case of a heterosexual male narcissist, women tend to conform to the narcissist's expectations. They tend to mold themselves in order to please the narcissist. When the narcissist loves a woman, she would tend to play and act the slot. Those narcissists are very attracted to this specific type of woman. We are going to discuss it a bit later. So the changes in your own behavior, if you find yourself that you're more, shall we say, slattish, more flirtatious, more seductive, more open to the advances, sexual and emotional advances of other men, it's an indicator that your narcissist actually considers himself to be in love with you. Similarly, if your narcissist is not in love with you, you would tend to act as a homely service provider, a housekeeper, personal assistant, a housewife. Let's recap the tests. How do you know if your narcissist thinks that he's in love with you? How do you know if your narcissist is romantically jealous? One, he socializes with your friends and family. Two, he reacts to your misbehavior with other men, including triangulation. Number three, you change. You tend to become more and more open, not to say slattish with other men in his presence. How do we know, how do you know if the narcissist is mortified or is it only narcissistic injury? How can you tell if the narcissist had been, is in the throes of mortification or if he is just sulking because he had been narcissistically injured? When the narcissist admits to being abusive, sadistic, crazy, his own worst enemy, when he says I inflict unendurable pain on myself by knowingly hurting people and abusing them, if he owns up to his predatory behavior, that's sign of mortification. Sign number two, if he begins to self-deprecate, if he says that even that other men are vastly preferable to him, he would say, I'm not good for you. Go look for some other men. You know, if he presents himself as irredimably inferior, disabled, not superior, infantile or not a man at all, that's sign number two. Sign number three for mortification, if he feels disrespected, if he berates himself, if he feels that people fear him or hate him or are revolted by him, in other words, if he detects negative emotionality in other people, negative reactions in other people, that's a sign of mortification. Number four, if he feels that he is not loved, that he is not safe, that his needs and his health are no one's priorities, that even his most profound need weighs less than the most trifling desire or wish of his nearest and dearest, that's a sign of mortification.  And he explains it because of the shared fantasy, he says I'm like that because of the shared fantasy, I live in fantasy, or I'm in a post-traumatic state, or I'm dissociating, I can't remember things, or my reality testing is short, I don't gauge reality properly, or I'm grandiose, or I'm disempathic, I don't have enough empathy, I can't read people, can't read social cues or sexual cues or body language, if he admits to any of these things. That's a sure sign of mortification. Narcissists behave in these five ways, only, only and exclusively when they are mortified, not when they are narcissistically injured, not when they go through a life crisis, not in any other circumstances. These are the five signs of mortification. Okay, why does this cerebral schizoid narcissist accept cheating within his shared fantasy? Narcissists are terrified and nauseated by the perfidy, deceptiveness and promiscuity of women precisely because they have a preference for this potentially mortifying profile in made selection. I'm going to increase the font because I'm exceedingly old and I can't see anything. Right, so they're attracted to this kind of women and they are terrified of their own attraction. And so to survive, the narcissist needs either to avoid women altogether, which makes him infinitely sad, or to accept that in order to persevere and survive within his increasingly more sexless shared fantasy, his intimate partner has to meet her or his sexual needs and emotional needs with other men. Within the shared fantasy, the narcissist is a child or a father, but never an adult man.  And he acquiesces, he accepts this glaring asymmetry, this bizarre arrangement for various reasons. Number one, as long as there are no indications of women and abandonment, he doesn't care if she is with other men, but he knows that she would be hurt and she would feel insecure, were he to have any interaction with other women. Of course, remember the gender pronouns are interchangeable. He, she, she, he. Reason number two, he should be grateful to his intimate partner for any time spent with him and or on his needs.  She's doing him a huge favor. He has no right and is in no position to establish boundaries or rules and to enforce them. He needs to become unboundary. Otherwise, she would just walk away. Number three, she is an adult. He is not.  He does not. So he has to compromise. He has to sacrifice in order to allow her to secure her needs and to make sure that she's present in his life, to secure her commitment to the relationship. He needs to let her go. He needs to free her. He needs to free her. The cerebral narcissist intimate partners are virtual singles. That's when a married woman behaves as a single. She's a virtual single. She's married to or she's in a relationship with a petulant child or a stern father at home. Dating others is the only outlet and the only escape. And it's easily provable that the cerebral schizoid narcissist has an infantile and immature state of mind, not that of an adult man. Only during an active shared fantasy, such a narcissist experiences fear of loss and abandonment, separation, anxiety. So only during a shared fantasy, he is capable of experiencing romantic jealousy when he's faced with abandonment, but he never experiences competition with other men, as all males do. The cerebral schizoid has only the first typical of a pre-edible child. Only the first attribute, abandonment, anxiety. He rarely has romantic jealousy when he's faced with abandonment, actual abandonment, and he never competes with other males. He gives up.  He would not protest, he would not stand up to his rights, he would not challenge, nothing. He would just walk away. The fourth reason, he can have sex only within a shared fantasy, a new relationship. So cerebral schizoid narcissist, to have sex, needs to abandon his intimate partner and find a new one. His intimate partner, on the other hand, can compartmentalize.  The next reason, any new shared fantasy will end the same way with sexlessness and acrimony. So I bother, as long as he is getting supply and services, however meager, better stay put and forget about sex. He moves on to a new shared fantasy only when two of the three S's are missing. To remind you of the three S's are supply, sadistic and narcissistic, sex and services. When two of the three are missing, the woman, the intimate partner, had come to replicate his bed dead mother. She had become his dead mother and she had failed in her role as a good enough mother, which he perceives as betrayal. The next reason for the asymmetric arrangement where the intimate partner can cheat and then cerebral schizoid narcissist cannot, only mentally ill, broken, damaged and traumatized women succumb to the narcissist psychosexuality. Only such women enter the shared fantasy. And this poses, of course, serious risks. Exposure, blackmail, suicide, criminal liability, so scouting for a new shared fantasy, is an absolute desperate last resort. Next reason is that the cerebral schizoid narcissist successfully sublimates his auto-erotic, sadistic, kinky sex drive. He really prefers solitary activities such as, I don't know, reading books, watching movies, to sex. And he's far more gratified by these activities as well. The biological drive of this schizoid cerebral narcissist is entirely satisfied with pornography. His psychosexual kink and sadism require a compliant life body, but the price is not worth the price, so he suppresses his urges. He suppresses his drive. Exactly the same way, for example, practitioners of pedophilia or other parapherias suppress their drive, their sex drive, in order not to harm children, or latent homosexuals who are not out, did not out. They also suppress their drive, rejecting women, frustrating and humiliating them when he cannot have them for his sadistic pleasures. Sometimes this kind of causing pain is preferable to sex, as good as sex, feels as good as sex. And finally, allowing the partner to cheat on him restores the narcissist's delusion of being in control. I made her do it. She had my blessing and she had my permission. And it restores his status as the morally upright victim. Okay, that's the bullet list for unilateral cheating or legitimized cheating in relationships with cerebral schizoid narcissist, that the narcissist cerebral osomatic ends up with dependent, codependent immature women with borderline, histrionic, narcissistic or psychopathic features is totally understandable. Only broken, damaged, traumatized women would be attracted to the narcissist's emanations and his magic spell during the love-bombing or grooming phase. But narcissists also end up conjuring shared fantasies with totally healthy women, women with a healthy sex drive, women who are boundary, women who are self-sufficient in the best sense of the word. Why at all? Why do they seek the company of women at all? And again, genders are interchangeable. Got it? If I say he, you can replace it with she. Why does the narcissist seek to have a shared fantasy at all? If he is so versed to intimacy, if he regards emotions as a form of weakness, if he is incapable of maintaining regular sexuality, regular sexual relationships in the relations in the long term, winding up with women at all, even the somatic narcissist becomes asexual after a while with the same woman. That's why he needs to change them so often.  Once a partner is acquired and secured, the narcissist becomes essentially celibate, loses all interest in sex. So why go through the inevitable deception? The acrimony in the wake of ineluctable sexlessness. There are 10 good reasons. I promised you bullet lists. So here's another one.  The purpose is to create an illusion, a delusion and a self delusion of normalcy. The narcissist tries to broadcast to the world and to convince himself that nothing is wrong with him, that he is actually normal. It's the same motivation that drives latent homosexuals to get married. Still trying to, it's form of virtual signaling. I'm not homosexual. Everything is okay with me.  Don't misunderstand me. But many homosexuals who are latent, didn't out, do think that homosexuality is a problem. Until 1973, by the way, homosexuality used to be a mental health diagnosis in the diagnostic and statistical manner. Anyhow, narcissists are trying to tell everyone, look at me, I have a normal wife, I have normal kids, I have a normal life. So choosing an asexual woman defeats the purpose. Number two, sex. Even the memory of sex guarantees addiction.  And addiction guarantees no abandonment. If the woman gets addicted to the narcissist, she will not abandon him even when the sex stops. It is a continuing delusional hope that things will get better. The narcissist binds the woman powerfully and this reduces the risk of abandonment. And he does this via sparkling, scintillating sex at the beginning. Technicolor, fireworks. Reason number three, to convert his partner into a bed per secretary object, thereby justifying and perpetuating the narcissist's moral superiority and victim stance. I'm a victim, a moralist superior. She is cheating on me.  Number four, to reenact early childhood traumas with his rejecting absent dead mother. Number five, to test his partner's unconditional love and allegiance. I'm going to be asexual or sexless. Let's see how long you're going to love me. Let's see how long you're going to remain faithful. Let's see how long it will take you to betray me, stab me in the back and cheat on me. It's a test. Number six, to control his partner via her guilt and shame over her inevitable misbehavior with men as she seeks to cater to her most fundamental and basic needs of love, intimacy and sex. Number seven, sexlessness legitimizes sexlessness and the inevitable ineluctable betrayal or cheating or abandonment legitimizes defiance and contempt for the partner, restores a sense of grandiosity. She has to answer for her misdeeds. She has to deceive and pretend and act.  Reason number eight, allowing the partner total freedom including the freedom to cheat and misbehave with others. This total freedom guarantees that she will stay out of the narcissist affairs. She will let him be and the narcissist delights in solitary pursuits within his solipsistic black hole. All narcissists, even somatic ones, even gregarious ones, even prosocial and communal ones, all of them have a schizoid core. Gregariousness comes at a cost. Narcissists have to pretend and act. It's energy depleting. They want to be left alone most of the time. Number nine, pushing the partner to cheat, collusive infidelity, masochistically is an act of masochism. It is intended to masochistically punish the narcissist for his own self-loathing and self-hatred owing to his disabling mental illness. The narcissist perceives himself as bed unworthy object in such machinations, driving his intimate partners to misbehave. This guarantees extreme pain and finally modification. Number 10, sadistic narcissists, a small minority of narcissists use sexual droll to punish and control their partners. Why remain in an abusive dead relationship? Why be constantly betrayed, humiliated and reduced? Because multiple relationships had failed in the past. Multiple relationship failures in the past had convinced the narcissist that he can do no better. So I bother to try again with someone else. And this applies equally well to co-dependence, borderlines.  Multiple, multiple stream uninterrupted, uninterrupted stream of failed, painful, hurtful, damaging, destructive, mortifying relationships. So I go through it again. If you have a personality disorder, for example, such gloomy self-disparagement is fully justified and realistic. All future liaisons are doomed and they're doomed to end in acrimony, in cheating, in hurt and pain. Why not remain single then?  Well remaining single is of course preferable to engaging in an endless stream of failed relationships. It is.  But some narcissists require a shared fantasy, shared fantasy with an insignificant other, with an intimate, so-called intimate partner, and they need the shared fantasy in order to avoid decompensation and depression. They settle for anything on the table, however lurid, however degrading, however humiliating, they realize that no one is going to agree to be with them unless they make massive concessions. And so they render themselves unboundary doormats. And ironically, this very prostration, this very submissiveness and obedience and doormatness, this obsequiousness, it is exactly the thing that drives their partners away. Their partners are disgusted with the desperation of the narcissists. The partner is disappointed. The partner is angry at herself for having settled for a spineless womb rather than a man. Having been repeatedly damaged, these partners recoil from any attempt by the errant narcissists to hover lovebomb or groom them into a new round of approach avoids. Sooner or later, narcissists end up the same way, abandoned time and again until it is too late for the narcissists to find the next willing collaborator in his charade of a life unlived.


What's the word y'all? All right, I'm a level with you. I will not be overreacting to the things I saw today. It was basically a ploy for me to get you to click the video. And I guess we can say mission accomplished because here you are. We just watched the Miami heat take care of businesses against the Philadelphia 76ers. And then the Phoenix Sun shot like 100% from the field to beat the Dallas Mavericks. We will be talking about these things. We will be reacting to these things. But overreaction is a bit of a stretch because we all understand that this is a long seven game series. Leave a like, subscribe. I'm just a guy with a microphone. My opinion basically has no way whatsoever, but I appreciate you listening. All right, I'm getting a lot better at putting down notes as I'm watching these games. So before the game started between Miami and Philadelphia, a lot of people were wondering what the start of lineup was gonna look like for the 76ers going into this one. And some people speculated that Deandre Jordan was gonna get the start. And boy were they right. Unfortunately for 76ers fans, man. Deandre Jordan, and I've said this in a video before, has coasted his way over the last two seasons with basically being a nothing on the offensive or the defensive side of the ball. And what makes it even worse is that, okay, so he ended up playing 17 minutes in this game. And I think I saw something on Twitter that if you get rid of the Deandre Jordan minutes completely, the 76ers win this game. I know it's easier said than done or it was just a weird hypothetical if he don't play, then it don't matter. But in these 17 minutes, I didn't see bro positively impact the game whatsoever. So you're like, all right, can it ain't that big of a deal?  Doc Rivers gonna make those adjustments. Doc Rivers went to his post game interview and said, hey, we gonna keep playing Deandre Jordan. Why? Oh, because you want a lobster for James Harden? He threw one pass to Deandre Jordan the entire game. Bro has been coasting along and I was praying even when Joellen B ran out, he was not going to be traveling to Miami. I was thinking to myself, all right, ain't no way Deandre Jordan is going to get real minutes. You know, you got B ball Paul who did get minutes in this one. You got Paul Milsep who basically ain't played in a long time. But both of those options will be better than Deandre Jordan. And he still got the minutes and it was a lot of them. I cannot believe that the, here go my notes. Oh, here go my notes.   I'm expecting Doc to make the adjustments to have that lineup that went on that run to basically, they took the lead in a game where they were the heavy underdog. I think it was an eight point underdog. They took the lead going into the halftime because this one lineup, here's a tweet. In the final five minutes of the first half, the 76ers play Tarris Max, James Harden, Danny Green to buy his Harris and George Nieng. That's their small ball lineup. They went on an eight to two run to take their first lead of the game. That lineup did not see the floor again.  The 76ers had a ton of mental lapses in that third quarter where the Miami Heat decided to basically wake up. Tyler Harrow had like three possessions in the third quarter where he ended up wide open on threes. And I think he had two of them wide open on threes and was like afterwards the entire 76er lineup looking at each other like how the hell did he get open? But it happened again and again and again. And those were the things that weren't happening very often in the first half. They kind of kept them into this game. And well, James Harden, one of the things we said in the preview without Joellenby being there and I know it's confirmed for sure now that he won't be there for game one or game two. The optimistic that he can get there for game three or game four, but we were like, man, James Harden's gonna have to turn back the clock at least a little bit. Nope, not the case. And part of it of course is him. But the other part is like the Miami Heat defense. We just saw them make Trey Young average like 15 points per game in a series. Trey Young averaged 30 points in the regular season. And then he got to a series against the Miami Heat and he averaged 15 on poor efficiency. So yes, James Harden, was it the James Harden they expected or they needed to be? But it was also the Miami Heat defense doing what they do best. And that's just like completely taking out a star player. I give my MVPs for these games. And listen, yesterday's video or a couple of days ago whenever we were talking about game one between Bucks and Celtics, I said my MVP was Brook Lopez. And one of the top comments was like Kenny, the MVP is undoubtedly Yannis. Of course, my boy. But everybody gonna talk about Yannis. It's the thing on this channel that's called the Kenny for All Stars. And these are the people that aren't the superstar players because you know the superstar players for the most part are gonna have good games. Yannis played amazingly. He had a triple double. He was dominant even though he didn't shoot the ball officially. He had the most dominant performance for somebody that wasn't a fish from the field. But everybody gonna talk about Yannis's performance. So my MVP was Brook Lopez. And in this game, of course, Tyler Hero had a great game. And Bam on the Bio had his best playoff game of this season so far. My MVP was PJ Tucker. Yep, PJ Tucker. How's it plays? Drawing charges. It's like you would have thought he played with James Harden once upon a time. Okay. Because his defense on James Harden was great. It seemed like he knew the moves. He drew a couple charges. He got into the passing lanes. They basically smothered James Harden to the point where he had to pass out to these non-shooters. Or I guess people that are normally shooters but became non-shooters like George Nyang. Or I guess Danny Green. The Miami Heat defense is just that elite. And I think that they can continue that same mindset or that same game plan. We're gonna smother James Harden and see if anybody else can do anything. I thought the 76ers were best in this game when they were getting out and running. I know they weren't necessarily fast break points but like off a make. It was a couple of possessions when they were just down court. Tobias Harris. Oh my God, have I gone this long without mentioning Tobias Harris. Beautiful game for Tobias Harris.  But again, I think that if they have a chance in the series or they want to have a chance in the series, they need, and I mean this honestly, they need to take game two in Miami. And they need James Harden to find a way. Cause let's be honest with you. James Harden has been guarded a couple of different ways in this career. We're talking about a former MVP. He's seen a lot of different coverages. So what the Miami Heat are doing is great for sure but James still needs to be James. He still needs to find a way to break it. And maybe breaking it is finding the shooters and they make the shots this time around or him turning back the clock but I don't see a world even with Joel and me coming back in game three, game four where they're down 0-2 and they ended up winning the series. So they need to make it happen. But it's gonna be hard to happen because the Miami Heat are just that good. And it's a testament to great coaching. People understanding their role and just great depth. Game one in the first round, Duncan Robinson hit eight threes. He got a DMP coach's decision today. Just wasn't the time that they needed him to shoot threes. Crazy depth where even with Cal Laury still being injured and people were making jokes about his fit. I thought his fit was fire, especially when we got people going to the Met Gala and I can't relate to none of the outfits. High fashion, can't relate to none of that. I could relate to what Cal Laury was wearing. You know, I swung a golf club before he felt like he was playing golf out there. So shout out to the Heat, taking care of business. Even though in that first half it had me a little worried about what the heck they was doing, they fixed it. We got to talk about the Suns beating the Dallas Mavericks in the game where Luca had 45, 12 and eight assists. Jeez, Luca, Luca, Luca. And in our preview of this series, I was talking about all the different bodies that the Phoenix Suns could throw at them. It's gonna be Michele. It's gonna be a little bit of book. It's going to be Jay Crowder. It's going to be Tori Craig. And I was writing that. They threw a bunch of bodies at him. None of that mattered whatsoever. None of that mattered whatsoever. And it's just so cool to see Luca do these things. Obviously they didn't win, but we are really witnessing like just a guy that will go down in history if he can tell you to stay healthy. As it's one of the greatest of all time. We're seeing this. How old is Luca Dutchess? I'm gonna guess 24. He's 23 and he's a young 23. He just turned 23. Luca is the youngest player with 45 points and 10 rebounds in a playoff game since Kobe did it in 2000, 2001. He's a young 23 and he just put out 45 on the number one team in the entire NBA. Unfortunately, some of the people that he relied on heavily or the team needed to perform did not. Jalen Brunson struggled heavily. And I think part of that had to do with the amount of length that the Phoenix Suns have, we saw him destroy the Utah Jazz because the Jazz has Mike Hanley and Donovan Mitchell who are both like 6-1 guards. They don't really have the length that the Suns had and the Suns do a lot of length his way. And he struggled. His footwork was still crazy. I think we can all agree that like when it comes to guards and the NBA, Jalen Brunson got some of the best footwork of anybody that's not like a super superstar. You know what I'm saying? Shout out to JB, but this was not his game. He has to find a way to evolve to the point where he can be impactful because that length is not going anywhere. You know, he needs to look at what he did in game two and try to find ways to use his quickness and scored the ball more. Spicer-Denwoodie, who we said was the X factor for the series for the Dallas Mavericks gave them literally nothing today. And it was a lot of of Maxi Kleber and a lot of Luca Doncis, but everything in between was a bit iffy. In my notes, I said, the maps can hang question mark because in a time where I was ready to basically turn off the game and start filming his video, they went on a little run in that fourth quarter and I was trying to figure out, was this them turning it up and showcasing what they could be? Or was this the songs like, oh, we good. We could just dribble out the clock and take lazy shots and not really defend, just make sure we don't foul. And it might be a little bit of both. I don't really know, but I think that they can hang for sure. Like I said, I have the sons winning this series, but I think they can hang. Miney William said something at the end of the third quarter in this interview that I just thought was like genius, but also so very simple.  But he was basically just saying the exact opposite of what the Utah Jazz did in their entire series. He was just basically saying that it starts at the point of attack. And if you could focus on a point of attack that gets rid of all the other options on the wing is for our shooting goals. I mean, it was that. And I guess the point of attack defense wasn't as great because, you know what, I'm at the point now where I can still say somebody played great defense and got killed, played great defense and got killed. Let me give you some of the examples. Hold on, hopefully, hopefully these clips have gone live. Here's an example of like good defense, but Luca is just a dog. So it doesn't matter. You know, sometimes you just get those players. You'd be like, okay, we did what we could on this play. A pick, they do switch and Javel McGee knows what's coming. He gets a little step back. You know what Luca about to do. That's a contest. That's a good contest if you ask me.  So we had a couple of plays like that in this game where the defense was good, but Luca was better. There's a lot of possessions where he made some of the greatest defenders, perimeter defenders in basketball look foolish. Like, Mikel is a good defender. He's one of the better defenders in the league, but Luca just made him look foolish sometimes. You know, that's how good of a player he is. Next thing in my notes says Booker needed that rest. Next thing in my notes said Booker needed the rest. We were talking about game six versus the Pelicans and Booker just did not look like the best version of himself. Today he did, which is dope. Aiden made them pay, which was a big thing coming into the series. You remember my preview where like it's a lot different when someone gets really good bearer who don't, it don't matter who's guarding him. They won't pass on the ball. They will force feed DeAndre Aiden and let him do a thing. And he can bruise, he can do the little mid-range jump shot. He's got a big bag for center, you know? And he made them pay today. And a lot of the Dallas Mavericks' defense is predicated on forcing teams to take two pointers, forcing teams to try to get to the basket or forcing teams to make mid-range jump shots. And unfortunately for them, two of the best mid-range shooters in all of basketball play for the Suns. So Chris Paul today ended up 7-4-13 from the field and the Devon Booker only shot 35% but still they have mid-range shooters on their team. So I'm not saying that the Dallas Mavericks have to change their defense because it worked for them all season long and you don't want to just change it right now on a whim after a game one, but maybe adjust it slightly to prevent those guys from taking over the mid-range because those are the two dudes you do not want taking those shots. Also it's kind of hard to talk about games that aren't necessarily close. Like this game ended up being close seven point game but let's be honest, man, Phoenix at this game the entire time. You know, Dallas came out flat, Phoenix did not. The crowd was rocking. This is a really, really good crowd of Phoenix. So it's kind of hard to talk about games that are blowouts. I just hope that for game number two Philly shows up and Dallas plays a little bit better because me as a neutral basketball fan, I like long series, man. I don't want to see nothing ending four because the NBA is predictable when it comes to this playoffs, but also if they're going to be predictable, at least make it fun predictable. You know, if the higher seed is going to win every single series, at least make it a little dramatic. Give us a six, give us a seven or something. And yeah, anything can happen. Tomorrow we got game two of Milwaukee versus Dallas. Okay, all right, all right. I think they were talking about on the broadcast that Thursday there's no games whatsoever, which is weird to me.  So I don't know. I guess there's some old tweets that we can react to. Content, baby content is king.


Oh, God, this is terrible. Ooh, that's a hot mug, guys. Hey guys, this is my review for New Moon, the second film in the Twilight series. And you may notice there's a little bit of a difference here with the screen. It's because I'm actually using a new lens. This is a Sigma Art 18 by 35 millimeter lens. It's not as wide as I was hoping it would be because I've gotten an adapter. So it cuts off a little bit of the poster wall. But immediately I wanted to try something a little different for this review. I wanted to see if this camera would work. By doing so, I've already probably put more effort into this movie review than this movie did for itself because this movie's trash. This one is by far the almost most pointless one. Other than the fact that it re-establishes Taylor Lautner's character Jacob as a kind of love triangle character, even though there's absolutely no way this dude has a chance.  And maybe she might have been a little bit in pure beast mode all the time. Maybe she might be into some furry action but because he's like, you're wrong for me. You have to forget about me, Bella. I think the amount of times I rolled my eyes in this movie, I lost track. There's something that this film does not understand at all and that is subtlety.  You know those moments where you're supposed to let the audience understand or visually interpret what you're showing, let them think for themselves, let them figure it out. Nope, this movie doesn't do that. Whether it's from the dialogue, the character's interactions are just the visual aspect of the film. Probably the best element I can explain to you for this is when Edward goes away and Bella goes into her depressive and Edward can be a kind of zone is when there is this very good, very nice, actually pretty intriguing 360 camera which just keeps revolving around her and every time you see out the window you see it's a new season but they couldn't just do that.  They had to say spring, summer, fall. Why did you need to do that? I got it already. But the movie continues to do this because again, subtlety is just non-existent. Everything from how really obviously rapey a little bit that Jacob is to the absolute ridiculousness of Bella sending an email to an Andrus that does not exist every day for what seems like months. Kirsten Stewart's acting is once again just really shitting it but that's what happens when you have a primary character that has no other motivation than to get freaky with vampires. Oh, Taylor Lautner, man. Bull boy. I'll give him credit. He got into shape for this movie. Apparently they weren't gonna hire him. They were gonna change over his character but he agreed to get into shape and he did and that's probably about the most amount of effort he put into this movie because his acting is just truddy. I will give the cinematography one note, one point and that's because they went away from the blue, they oversaturated blue. There is some color in this world and that's probably the only thing that keeps you from falling asleep. The story, despite being two goddamn hours long, is literally the same five minute thing being repeated over and over and over and over again for about an hour and 40 minutes. The beginning of the movie has one of Edward's crony families getting a little bit juped up when Bella cuts her finger. She's like, oh, oh no. What, what is that? Bella, I'm dangerous for you. I've gotta go kill myself.  Bella is literally reading Romeo and Juliet at one point in the movie. Like I said, subtlety does not exist in this movie. It is absent in all realms of storytelling. The ending of the movie, when it finally God willing comes, it doesn't really pay off anything of what you were sitting through. Sure, Edward doesn't kill himself. And you find out about the odd vampire order with Dakota Fanning and Michael Sheen and yeah, that's it.  But I know she says no because I've already seen Eclipse. Yeah, I'm committed to this. So yeah, no, it's just a terrible movie. It's the worst one from what I've been told and I can a hundred percent agree so far. It's worse than Eclipse. Eclipse wasn't bad, even though Eclipse was just as pointless as this goddamn movie was. The characters are terrible. The motivation is terrible. The subtlety is non-existent. It doesn't allow the audience to have to think for themselves. But again, that's pretty much like the character. The character doesn't think for herself either. And it's just all around. It's just a really boring, boring, boring, boring movie. You probably could make a shot game out of this. Every time there's an eye rolling or groan-inducing moment, you could take a shot, you might die, but you could do it. Either way, New Moon gets a one out of seven from me. The last one at least has some elements that made it attentive at redeeming. There's no redeeming this movie whatsoever. Even that one good shot, nothing at all. Anyways, guys, I hope you enjoyed this review. I hope you're looking forward to Eclipse next, because I'm not, but I will be reviewing that. Otherwise, if you enjoyed the review, leave a like, and if you're interested in more, subscribe. Anyways, see you guys next time. Thanks for watching the video. My name is Knitz, and you might remember me from the animated cult classic TV show, Undergrads. It's been a while, but I'm happy to say the click is finally getting back together in an all new movie, thanks to a successful Kickstarter campaign. But we are still asking for your support. To see any and all updates about the upcoming Undergrads movie, be sure to check out and like the Bring Back Undergrads Facebook page. And with any luck, we'll see you guys soon.


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Hello, my name is Joe. I'm here with David Olsen from BlockFi today And we're going to talk a little bit about Europe Institutions and of course the new money coming into cryptocurrency. So David, it's lovely to be with you today Would you like to introduce yourself to our readers and watchers at home? Sure. Absolutely. Thanks. Thanks Joe for having me here And speaking with with us. I'm David Olsen. I'm the global head of institutional distribution of BlockFi For those of you that don't know about BlockFi, we're a financial services company in crypto that serves both retail Clients with wealth management products including crypto back loan and interest accounts Trading from one cryptocurrency to another and a Bitcoin rewards credit card in the US on the institutional side Which is the side that I'm most closely associated with yeah, we have a an institutional platform called BlockFi Prime Where our clients can finance For capital efficiency borrow coins for hedging and shorting as well as an Institutional grade trading infrastructure that they can avail themselves of Globally 24-7 Fantastic. Yeah, and of course we're we're here today in La Bourse, which is the former stock exchange and You know the big thing that everyone's talking about is institutional money, you know But before we get into that You of course have a big focus on Europe you spend a lot of time working in London and Cadet Suisse And what would you say is the strategic importance of BlockFi's European operations for the global group? At the moment BlockFi is really ramping up its international strategy. So we really think that it's Obviously the US is our is our base and where we're headquartered And where two-thirds of our clients are But we see a lot of opportunity and international expansion. We recently Incorporated a Bermuda entity and our staffing up there To be a hub for our international business So and moving our our retail clients and institutional clients into that entity But it's also important and we really feel that being a credible player means that we need to also be regulated And as we saw in the US we've you know, we've reached sort of a landmark Agreement with with the SEC and we'll also Be looking to participate in other markets that are extremely important One of those is Europe and the UK is the most obvious It's the most obvious place given the deep pool of talent As well as the financial the financial services industry there. Fantastic. Yeah I mean are there any interesting European or maybe UK trends to pick out from amongst, you know, the BlockFi Portfolio of clients that you manage Absolutely, so we have talked I would say out of the top 50 hedge funds in the world We've probably spoken to about 80% of them. Okay They all are embarking on some sort of crypto journey of starting a desk Mm-hmm or for the moment a lot of them are investing into crypto native firms run by 25 30 year olds that know how to extract alpha from From crypto capital markets know how to manage the risks. Yep And you really see it as a generational story So probably the people that are heads of trading at these at these firms long only asset managers are hedge funds Are you know my generation or older and so they don't have kind of the natural Digital native perspective that someone that's younger that are at these firms That you know that are really looking at at crypto markets at at the moment We're seeing some people go into some of the traditional firms Directly and getting hired in But at the moment, it's mostly not a balance sheet not on their own balance sheets, but investing through other through other firms Yeah, is the trend but We're just seeing a tremendous amount of interest. It's hard to keep it's hard to keep up at the moment Yeah, and I mean with obviously all the hectic activity here. You wouldn't know that we're in like a quote baby bear market Yeah, I think as well that hedge funds have been preparing for some time to come in to crypto given the liquidity and Institutionalization of space and that's continuing. Yeah. Yeah, let's ignore that this bear is right next to us, you know It's still a bull market, right? Yeah, I mean, yeah, let's let's talk about that right now So Flory Marquez the co-founder of bloke by set a couple of days ago that she's you know incredibly bullish long-term on the crypto market I'm going to assume that you have the same sentiment Absolutely, yeah Well, what are the reasons to be bullish right now? Sure I think there's there's there's some some short-term bullish reasons and some long-term bullish reasons I think the short-term bullish reasons are that Crypto is the future right now. It's expressed mainly through some of the top coins like Bitcoin and Ethereum Bitcoin is a defense against monetary inflation and so it should see Money rotating into it as we see some of the inflationary data come in And if you look at it from a generational standpoint as well Anyone that's kind of Gen Y or Gen Z doesn't say oh, let me buy gold because there's been a hot inflation print They're thinking themselves. I need to protect what I'm earning. I'm gonna buy Bitcoin. It's really easy I can buy it through a block by app or through another app. Yeah, so I think that's and then Ethereum There's kind of a structural obviously a structural Play going on with the with the merge coming up And so that should also drive You know price action in the short term in the long term again I think it's it's down to crypto can do everything so it can fix the plumbing of the financial System worldwide it can eliminate Expensive fees from banks obviously black flies to see if I platform But we're all about friction having a frictionless And inexpensive way to access financial services around the world We know that's part of the international pivot is let's give people in places that don't have easy access to say US dollar we can give them access to stablecoins. We can give them access to loans. Yeah and so I think that There's so many different applications for crypto whether it's NFTs or web 3 Or just borrowing and lending derivatives That you'll find that there's a lot of reasons to be bullish absolutely glad to hear it Yeah, and so David you're obviously an industry veteran or a tradfire traditional finance veteran with your experience at good It's recent amongst others We've talked a bit about the institutional investment obviously sat in that books the former stock exchange is Institutional or institutional interest is clearly here is institutional investment here Yeah, I think so there was there's an interesting fidelity study That said that 70% of institutions plan to invest in Crypto in the next year 90% in the next five years. Okay. Yeah, I think it's There's two things driving it one is returns. Okay, Bitcoin for example has returned more than 100% on average of the last 10 years Yep, way more like I think if you look at equities over the same time period It's probably low T10 somewhere at 12% Yeah, so that's that's part of that's part of it And it's just becoming too big in the in terms of mind share for people for people to ignore in terms of the liquidity the infrastructure the ability to To earn outsize returns we're in such an early market. It's really retail dominated. So for professional investors There are lots of investing opportunities. Okay But is there or would you say is there a catalyst or like, you know, some sort of Acceleratory factor that's really going to get the institutions involved. Is it, you know price action or is it regulatory? What's that, you know missing link? I think that's a really that's a really excellent question Because what's missing right now is the predominant places where there's liquidity Those places do not have regulation So the institutions don't feel a hundred percent comfortable And that's why as a as a as a company we've always sought regulatory clarity and that was part of the ruling right, you know That we reach with the regulator. So Now we're seeing retail participation somewhat level out volumes and crypto have been flat down to get the next wave of adoption and Money come big money coming into crypto and that equals price returns Yeah, I'm freezing you need an institutional infrastructure, which means KYC AML Which means financial transparency cyber security all the things they care about okay I think we're gonna see and maybe some of your other interview guests will have alluded to this We're going to see them making big moves to make sure that If not if they don't have regulation necessarily yet They will have all the things that a regulator would require. Okay over the short term. Yeah Yeah, I presume that's your your biggest headache on a daily basis right this you know the regulatory clarity I think I Think so and it's it's what we're asking from from from our partners that at the regulator and it's coming slowly and We just need to operate in in a bit of and we've gotten used to operating in in it, you know a bit of a Gray zone there But we're really excited about the things that you know are growing on globally that the conversation has started in That it's being really Taken seriously for example with Biden in the executive order. Yeah, or some of the European regulation that's coming Fantastic. Well, David, it's a pleasure to speak to you today. We're really looking forward to seeing how BlockFi Develop in the in this year in 2022. Is there anything else you'd like to add before before we sign out from here? Sure I think as as a company as I said BlockFi we really want to expand our international business We've just launched a lot more coins on the platform that people can check out It's a very frictionless easy to use turnkey way to earn interest on those points And trade and trade them so I would just say check out your app if you're located outside the US Yeah, great way to finish Good. Thank you very much. My name is David with Cointelegraph. Thank you very much