Okay, so Hello guys My name is true. I am a software engineer from Databricks and that today my topic is experience with hard multi-tenancy in Kubernetes using Kata container So starting from some introduction of we are so Databricks provides a unified and open platform for data and analytics So we have our own data storage solution Which combines the data warehouse and the data lake house as a single concept and we call it lake house And meanwhile many of our services are built on top of Spark for data analyzing And we also have our own machine learning products for AI and data model training So in our classic infrastructure model We separate our own services and customers infrastructure infrastructure So we integrate with cloud storage compute and the security in our customers cloud account and We manage and deploy those cloud infrastructures on customers behalf and Also, we always provide services on top of multiple cloud providers such as like AWS Azure or or GCP for example So that's the traditional way that we provide our services and recently one of our Revolutionary aspect of our products is moving our services to a serverless mode. So what is the wireless mode? the meaning of the serverless is we migrate all the Infrastructure management so our own account instead of like inside a customer account So that it eliminates that overhas to manage those of cloud provider's assets from the customer account Meanwhile, there are a lot of benefits for service such as the service provisioning time will be super fast and the service will be super elastic So with serverless we usually can provide our spark cluster to customer in less than five seconds Also, since we take the ownership of the new front management We will have some more flexibility to play with it and lower customer's infrastructure cost so with the serverless mode We want to use Kubernetes as our infrastructure due to its great portability and Exe sensibility for containerized workloads and the Kubernetes is cloud agnostic and it has a rapid growing ecosystem So we market as our number one candidate Each customer's workloads will be a single pod or a set of pods basically a deployment or a demon set in You know our Kubernetes cluster However, like one of the main difference with traditional Kubernetes cluster is We requires the hard multi-tenancy. So what is hard multi-tenancy? It means that basically the tenants within a single-quantus cluster My comes from different colonies and they do not trust each other And also the infra infrastructure do not trust the tenant so in this case Asolation of the data plane and the control plane are both very critical And meanwhile there breaks also deploys our own service into the same cluster So we differentiate the service into two parts The service is deployed by our team our company is a first-party services, which is in trusted group and Any pass that is running customers for clothes are untrusted So the default security boundary between each pause are the container boundary basically in the traditional Kubernetes environments And the tricky part is you know environments customer can run arbitrary code like whatever they want one example is like The recent products that we recently release is our machine learning products where a customer can train in their own machine learning models in shared environments with other customers and Databricks has no idea like what customer is doing So in this case the container boundary might not be good enough because it has a pretty large attack surface And it's not safe for a hard multi-tenancy environments So think about case if there is a malicious user That write a program to break out a break out a container What it can do So basically like they can enter basic basically they can enter other customers container and access their data They can attack the node kernel to affect the services inside other customers pod or They can directly attack the Kubernetes control plane for example, or they can even like attack the database trusted services Basically like after the container breakout they can do whatever they want As a result we need to build additional security boundary around the traditional container and pause To ensure the hard multi-tenancy So one of the solution is using a club provider provided services, for example, like the Fargan from AWS However, it turns out that those services cannot a hundred percent fit our requirements For example, like some of our spark workloads request to build a spark cluster with multiple pause, right? And each pod needs to connect to each other to serve as a single spark cluster So you've seen the cloud provider services is not that flexible for us to build our own logic on top of it As a result We want to seek our own hard multi-tenancy solution on top of Kubernetes so we do some exploration with multiple directions and one of the direction that we explore to achieve this hard multi-tenancy solution is By using Cata container So what is Cata container? The hardware description of Cata container is it is a secure container runtime With lightweight virtual machines that feel and perform like containers with the macro VM It provides stronger workloads and solution using hardware virtualization technology as a second layer of defense instead of like in a traditional container boundary which is based on a software solution So the security advantage provided by Cata is obvious. It is provides a VM boundary instead of a container boundary However, like one of the trade-off here is When we use a Cata container We request the cloud provider's VM has the capability for the virtualization Basically, it means that we can create VMs inside the cloud provider's node as a result As a result not all the instance types from different cloud providers can support that So with the Cata container each pod will have its own CPU its own memory And it has its dedicated disks kernel and it is pretty hard for customers to break out of VM boundary So that is for the computation security and meanwhile for the network access control We rely on the Kubernetes native solution, which is network policy to shape shape the customer's traffic We also build a simple layer with a cloud provider's native firewall solution such as the network security group It's just for the defense in depth purpose so This is a single node view after onboarding Cata container So we use large machine machines to hold multiple Cata VMs from different customers Each Cata VM will consume their own compute and storage resources For each machine, we also need to reserve some cores for the system and direct services such as Kubernetes, for example, like there is logging services and our matrix submitting services etc So as you can see in the right graph The boundary between each pods are from Cata VM And there are no shared resources between each customers as well as with our first-party services So along with the Cata, this is the network policy layer that we built so basically A pod can only talk to pods from the same customer So we built the network policy basically disabled network connections between different customers We also disabled the access of the Kubernetes control plane And we also disabled the pod to talk to any other cloud providers VMs Especially like the open ports of the kubelet from like the nodes in the in the fleet And we also only allow a one-way connection from our trusted services to the customer's pod So one additional thing that I want to mention is Cata container makes the network policy more secure in multi-tenancy environments The way that CNI usually handles network policy is by translating the policy rules into either IP table rules or like the EBPM functions and apply those rules onto the host directly However, like without Cata container If a customer break out the container and earn the host a rule privilege It would be pretty easy for them to modify the IP table rules and then bypass the network policy However, like after using Cata container The VM boundary makes it almost impossible Even if the customer breaks out its own container, it can only access the IP table rules for its own Cata VM The host IP table rules is almost immutable by any processes inside the Cata VM So that's for the how we build the network and Integrate with the Cata So due to the high compatibility between Cata container and Kubernetes Unboarding Cata is pretty simple It's just a special container runtime, right? So what we did is after installing the Cata artifacts on the node We just add a special runtime name inside our policy back And also add a runtime handler inside our container configuration and then Like in a runtime the community can automatically figure out the right runtime and create a Cata VM as the policy sandbox and function net wise it just works but Exactly enough for Cata to directly run inside of our production environments And the answer is definitely no I will talk about the main challenges that we explore Not doing we explore the direction of the Cata container Let's start from the biggest problem, which is the performance So after onboarding vanilla cata, we find out that our spark workloads has 3x to 6x performance slowdown This means that we definitely cannot directly use our vanilla cata inside our production environment So What is the reason that There's a performance problem Why there are slowdown? So the nature of our spark workloads are both computing intensive memory intensive and IO intensive So by after onboarding cata it introduced an additional version layer and it makes all of these aspects more complex for example Our workload will run on another layer of virtual CPU inside of like the CPU on the host When executing instructions the CPU has to jump between cata guest vm and the host vm We call it vm exit And it takes time And also we have to rely on the word IO protocol to provide our virtual block devices into cata vm So all of these factors will introduce additional overhead for both the computation and the IO path So how do we solve this problem? Let's start from the storage performance swing So spark requires a pretty fast disk for the IO intensive workloads As a result instead of like using our cloud providers remote disk We are leveraging the local SSD on each machine to support such space So in our current pods spec, we have a pvc statement to ask Kubernetes to handle this special month So without cata the vanilla storage support for pv and pvc is just They mount that local SSD to a folder on the host namespace And then bind month this folder into the container namespace But after using cata the default way to support such scenario Is by using a component called virtual fs So this component virtualized our file system on the host and build a shared file system inside the cata vm As a result any IO happens on either host or gas will be synced in real time So this is similar to like bind month Folder inside the container However, like the performance is not that good because like during a single IO There are multiple contact switches between host user and kernel space And the IO packet will go through multiple files and layers like one layer is from the gas and We have to go to go through another layer inside a host So these facts will introduce additional latency For every single IO and it also shrinks the total throughput So here the technology that we use to solve the problem is called spdk So what is spdk? So the full name is called storage performance development kit So it is a open source projects which provides a set of tools and lips for writing high performance scalable user mode storage application So the most advantage that spdk can provide us are first It introduced a polling mode instead of like the traditional mode like waiting the system interrupts to trigger the actual IO second It can bypass the kernels file system layer on the host and directly talk to the kernel device driver or like directly talk to the device itself For example, like the mme device So with these technologies The IO path can be extremely simplified and the performance improves a lot So the way that we integrate with spdk countercontainer and Kubernetes is by implementing our own csi So with our own csi When a new pod creation request comes The kubelet will first ask our csi to prepare the pv for that pod So during this preparation process Our csi will talk to spdk to create the necessary virtual block device the control sockets etc And then it will utilize the direct volume function And he provided it by the counter runtime to record such virtual block device for that specific pod And then The kubelet will next call the cri to create the sandbox and the containers And during the sandbox creation the kala scheme will hot plug The virtual block device is directly into the kala vm and mount that bite mount that into the container namespace So that the any all the process can see such block devices mounting to a specific folder So that is the whole process like how we integrate spdk inside the kala vm and the container inside kala vm So with the integration of the spdk, this is the disk performance we tested We saw that both read and write Has significant performance improvements And the spdk disk performance is pretty close to what we have with native disks outside of the kala container So besides the storage we also did some exploration for the cpu and memory tuning first For all the cpu's that we got assigned to the kala vm, we isolated them from the latest scheduling It prevents the scheduler to assign other host processes onto this set of cpu's And also we pin each kala vm's virtual cpu to a dedicated and isolated core So that every single virtual cpu the process get assigned inside the kala vm Can statically get assigned to a fix the core on the host So these two tunings can benefit us a lot from both performance perspective and the security perspective It prevents the frequent contact switching between each stress on each single host core So that the cpu can have been more focused on a single kala vm's work close and has a better cpu cache locality Meanwhile, it prevents the customer share any computation resources with each other Which further prevents some side channel attack, for example And meanwhile also we we did some cpu state tunings including for example, I can enable the cpu performance mode And tune the cpu power management like option for like lower cpu latencies and another interesting Optimization that we explore is about the numa control. So So I'm basically interaction of what is numa. So the full name is called non-uniform memory access Basically like when kala provider provides as a large instance type It really contains multiple physical processors and multiple memory slots Some processors is basically closer to some memory slots Which can provide the best memory access latency However, like when a processor is trying to access a remote memory slot It will have a longer latency So a single numa node contains processors and memories close with each other And with a large instance type or like the bare metal machines provide a better call provider The node really contains multiple numa nodes As a result like when we try to do What we try to do is to make sure that for every single kala vm The cpu and memory resources that are assigned to it comes from a single numa node So in this case the memory access latency will be short and consistent And meanwhile we are also trying to balance the load between different numa nodes on the same host For example, like in this case, we saw that numa zero has two vms But numa one has only one vm and when there is a new vm kala vm comes We will make sure make sure that upcoming kala vm falls into numa one to balance the load So the way that we implement such scenarios by introducing an unknown services for physical resource management The resource management services is responsible for bookkeeping the physical resource usage metadata It will record which kala vm is using which core and which numas memory Then every time the kala runtime creates a new vm It will first ask this service for a hint And the hint contains a set of cores that we want to pin to this kala vm as well as like for example the numa id And then the kala runtime will use this hint to call the hypervisor with additional parameters And the newly created kala vm will consume The targeted resource that we specified so For the numa control we also explore some Kubernetes native solutions such as like cpu manager or like topology manager But it turns out that they cannot meet all of our requirements for example like for the cpu manager The cpu manager can specify like which kala vm use which cpu sets by specified inside a c-group However, it cannot pin each virtual cpu to a dedicated core And also like the topology manager is not compatible with the kala container as well So we finally like decided to implement our own services on load services instead of like using a native solution So with all the performance improvements that I introduced before We improve our workloads end-to-end performance from 3x to 6x slowdown to less than 5% slowdown So This indicates that performance wise kala is qualified to support our hard multi-tenancy infrastructure So in our exploration of kala container, we also identify some potential risks Besides the performance For example, like the noise neighbor problem. So inside a single node There are still some resources that will be shared by multi-cana VMs For example, like the L3 cache the memory bandwidth And maybe like different partitions from the same disk or like the network bandwidth from the same mic exact work So when multiple kala VMs access these shared resources at the same time It's possible that resource contention will happen and it might cause the performance variation So that's one of the potential risk and another risk is the additional cost of the infrastructure so our original architecture is like assigning a single pod onto a single VM And the VM size is just to fit the size of a single pod But after using kala, we have to use large machines, abandon the machines And we have to allocate multiple kala VMs on top of a single machine So The scheduler by default will balance the load across the node within the Kubernetes cluster And as the time goes by some pod will come and somehow some pod will go and The node cannot always be fully utilized like the graph are showing below some of the node might have some fragmentations and these fragmentations Makes more infrastructure costs from our like the SaaS company like us So those are some concerns And potential risk that we found during our exploration And there might be some other problems for example like When if we onboard a kala container into AWS, we have to use the bare metal machine And it turns out that the instance type capacity may not that large enough for the bare metal machine compared with like the normal VM and allocate additional We also need to allocate additional resource in a node to cover the virtualization costs for example like after onboarding sdk There are additional CPUs that will be used to Visible in the aisles and we also need to allocate memories and CPUs for the hypervisors And some of our product scenario is not well covered by the current kala VM such as like What if we want to do some machine learning data training model with the GPU? We have to device possibly do the device possible for the GPU inside a kala VM So those scenarios is not well supported currently in a kala upstream So, but what is the conclusion then? So the conclusion is The kala container is a great project to support the hard multi-sendancy increments It provides the VM boundary instead of a container boundary And make the container make the customer hard to break out a break out a container And by fine-tuning the performance kala container can reach similar performance level to native container technology However, on the other side kala container brings its own complexity If we want to use it in production Some additional efforts is required to make the infrastructure as consistent performance and cost efficient So that's all for today's share and finally I will do a short advertisement So Databricks serverless is now in public preview for both alis and azure And we were short goes to ga and we'll come to sure to try for our products and it's super amazing So that's it for today Thanks for attending the talk


Well, yes, I do feel good today. Thank you. I feel pretty good. I feel good today because in all honesty, like, I know people are losing and they lost, but I just feel like this had to happen in the crypto market to move forward. That's just how I feel like it had to be.  And I was glad that you guys listened to me and took your crypto off of the exchanges like I was talking about all the time and went from there. Let's see here, star. Rational Evidence is, Dan, please watch BitBoy's video from yesterday, live stream, proof of theft from beginning new material. Oh, yeah. I mean, look, that guy's, I think I doesn't go to jail. There's something wrong with our system. Let's see. And Mr. Wolf says, Noriel Robini, also known as Dr. Doom, is the economist calling out CZ. So he looks and acts like a cab driver from Naples, Italy. I love that there was a segment. I watched it where he said he talked negatively about CZ and how he's a crook and how crypto, of course, is a scam. And then he goes in to talk about his own fund. I'm just like, well, but if you were to invest in our fund, blah, blah, blah, blah. I'm like, ah, yeah, that's good salesmanship. Telling Guard says they were buying Bitcoin, then doing the withdrawal. Paper Bitcoin could not be put on chain. Exactly true. You can't just put anything on chain. Bitcoin is there. And it's, of course, it's verified by all the node operators. And that's why we have Bitcoin miners to secure the network. That's true. Vijay says, Vijay did not want, I think I said that right. He says, you promoted FTX, BlockFi, Voyager, and Celsius. True. I did. FTX is one of those things where I talked about, like I used it, but very sparingly. But still, I did use it. I didn't talk about it. And of course, I talked about the rules and things like that. BlockFi, I didn't promote BlockFi ever. I didn't understand that whole process. But Voyager and Celsius, yes, I absolutely did. And you are correct. However, I will just remind Vijay, I have no problems reminding everybody that, yes, I did that. And yes, it was not the greatest thing. But I will tell you, Voyager and Celsius worked until they didn't, until they got ahead of themselves. Either they had to step up their yield game, or they just did some bad practice and bad management and went against their risk assessment team. I don't know.  But again, they worked until they didn't. So this is the timeline. On June 12, I did a video. There's a video link right there. I says, hey, I came back from the census. I go, something's going on with Celsius. You don't like it.  I've been here in some reports. That was at 11 a.m., 9 p.m., withdrawals were frozen. Admittedly, yes. That's a little bit tight of a time frame. I got you. However, that's where the five rules were set. On June 20, I put them up. I'm always talking about that. On June 22, I learned that Voyager, hey, gave 500 million, I think it was 640 million plus to three euros capital. I said, look, I'm going to still use Voyager, but I'm not going to leave my crypto on Voyager.  Then two weeks later, withdrawals were frozen. So okay, you got me. But in all honesty, I did tell you this, right? Weeks in advance. And then of course, the last four months, I've been harping on the same thing and talking about my rules.  It's not like I had some backward deal with SPF to promote them in any way, shape, or fact. I didn't have anything. So it's like, I mean, when I learned, you learned. When the facts change, I change. That's it. Ah, crypto Esquire. Everyone take a haircut from FTX except SPF. Now, I think Sam's going to take a nice haircut. There's usually a nice haircut when you go to prison. Maybe I'm wrong. Alex Kazaziani. I hope I said that right. Are you still DCing some cryptos? I am, but I'm really, really lessening because the more that I see what this contagion, the things that are going on in the recession that's coming up in 2023, still means it's going to happen. I'm very leery about DCing. I've actually reduced even my micro DCing and I've gone from everything now is once a week and the amounts have actually reduced because I'm missing some, some, some troubling times ahead. Now, does that mean I've stopped altogether? No, but I've slowed down to a snail's pace of buying crypto right now. And it's very, it's not very much whatsoever in all honesty. And that's where we're at because I think there's some more troubling times ahead. Does that mean that we're going to have troubling times forever? No, that just means that I'll be honestly at 2023 is going to suck, I think, but I'll still be here. And I'll still be buying a little bit here and there. And let's just say, let's just say that, you know, Bitcoin goes at 13K. Well, what in 20, what about in 2025-26 that goes up to all time? Maybe it hits 69K again. I'll be celebrating. You'll be celebrating. It'll be okay. I just buy a little bit along the way. I think it'll be all right. As long as I don't invest more, I can afford to lose. Should be all right. Gary, it's a good time to take a massive loss in Seoul before it gets hairier. Yeah, who knows? Who knows about Solana? It all depends on, you know, what you think it's going to be and where you think it's going to go. Well, okay, so Dan, thank you, Dan. Blaming you tears your own lack of due due and it says more about you than it does about them. I need to stress one thing about this. It's nothing about VJ and what he said. And it's nothing about the things that go on. I will remind everybody that, you know, we always talk about in this industry, we'll do your own research and do your due diligence like Dan is talking about, which he is correct. However, you can do as much research as you want to do. But if somebody is committing fraud behind the scenes, you'll never know. You'll never know before it's too late. That's why I'm always preaching diversification. Did you know that Bernie Madoff, I mean, he was in business for decades, and he was actually a legit Wall Street person. Then towards the very end, he started, not towards the very end, but for years, he was just running a big policy scheme. He thought he'd get away with it. He almost did. And you never knew until, of course, the bear market came in 2007, eight, nine. That's what exposed him. So for all the due diligence we did, like, you don't think that that's the mooch. Anthony Scaramucci did a hellacious amount of research and his team on FTX. Mr. Wonderful, same thing. All the different athletes that got into it, all the different organizations, I mean, hell, even Simon U from Storm Max, founder and head of Storm Max the Crypto, he's the one that told me about Celsius. And he's the one that asked people about SVF and FTX. And they said, no, it's all fun. I mean, these are like big insiders, big people in the crypto space. And even they didn't know.  And that I think is a scarier proposition to understand that sometimes it doesn't matter how much you do.  Again, that's why I have the rules in place for myself. You can follow them or not, but they've done pretty well by me so far. And that's it. There's no dumb questions, trust me.  Can ledger seed phrases be used with Trasor to retrieve funds and vice versa or transfer over to ledger, etc. So seed phrases, mnemonic phrases, and they're the same thing just across the board. There's what allows you to get back. So you can use them wherever you want to. But it depends on, I'm not for sure exactly on how Trasor works. I just know with ledger, you just put the mnemonic phrase back in, then off you go. That's it. Jason JJ Jays says, Hey, Rob, any rumors yet on total polygon exposure to FTX? There's rumors, but then I'm substantiated. So right now, the question I think I have for everybody is this, are the projects fail us or do the exchanges fail us?  And the only thing that's failed us in DeFi are the DeFi protocols that just were, I think just pretty much rug pulls from the get go. So I still hold polygon. And they can do pretty well. And he says it works with Trasor too. Okay. Whoa, beardy. But we still have each other. That's right. Right, man. That's it. J. O'Keeves. J. O'Keeves got a good point. None of these exchanges did have Cardano. That's true. They didn't. Does Gemini have Cardano? Because they just had to suspend their earn program. And I'm just calling it out there. Benjamin Cohen. If you guys ever seen this guy, relatively smart gentleman, got a decent channel, you should check him out. I also steal all of his stuff from from his website. And I definitely recommend it. Yes, Ben, I sent you the information over DCA live tomorrow, where we're going to talk about all our mistakes tomorrow. So tune in for that. Vicky, Ben's YouTube channel, excellent right there. Who? Yeah, who is this Ben guy? Probably some spammer. Let's see. Vicky, Ben's across. Fine. Let's see. Nick. Hey, Rob, how do we know Binance doesn't get shut down by the feds in the future? It's a good question. So the thing is, there's, you have to understand, there's Binance International, and there's Binance US. Binance US could be shut down. I mean, at any point, it's an essentialized exchange, which means essentialized area of failure. However, with the global Binance centralized exchange, the fed, the fed, the government, the US government, I mean, they can shut down US, but they can't shut down the international exchange. And that's another thing. It's like, when we talk about all these, all these regulations coming about and things, and I think there's some things that could be done to help out. I don't think that that the, first of all, there was a great comment from Bernard from yesterday, and he was in the nuclear facility business for 30 years. And he talked about how the government regulated the nuclear facilities. However, between each of the facilities, they had their own internal SOPs, standard operating procedures, and they kind of kept each other in check. And that was even more so than the government regulations, which I got applauded because that would make sense to me to do those things, to make things at a higher level. So, you know, we didn't have a total meltdown. I can see the same thing happen here with the government going, look, CZ Binance and Binance came on. So we're going to have to take a look at proof of reserves. That's a great step, right? Move those things forward. However, when people are moving their crypto around from exchange to exchange to exchange, things a little bit fishy. So that's a good first step. I think audits could do pretty well by the government, I guess. And then, of course, the big thing is no commingling of funds. I don't see the point of, you can't do that. And then I think the biggest, biggest thing is this. If you have proof of reserves, great. If you can also show us some liabilities, fantastic. That's the whole point of public companies and things like that. But if you can come in and say, here's the proof of reserves, here's the liabilities, here's what we're doing as far as commingling or not commingling, and just make it transparent so much the better. I think the exchanges that do that will thrive and the ones that are sketchy, those people will go to them and they'll get burnt and they quite honestly will deserve it after that.  It's called Voyager, Celsius, and FTX. Remember those? And we go from there. But that's just how I see things. And it couldn't be wrong. The crypto shop. Rob Ben and James, the only training. Don't make a sign out of a center, but I appreciate you. Thank you. Bob Jarky, legend. Sorry to take part in my holdings in your pool. You have to wait 10 days to get the rewards, but I need to wait until six of days. Why? It doesn't make you rely on deposit draw from it. Jarky, I don't know if we're talking about, if we're talking about Cardano, because that's the only pool I have anymore. I used to have a avalanche one, but we did that for a year and stopped it. It's up to the protocol, in all honesty. And actually, let me show you something. The whole way I have this. First of all, if you're staking on an exchange, please take your Cardano off the exchange. If you'd like to stake with somebody, I got two options for you. You can put on mine. I got a couple of Cardano stake pools. We're 99.9% uptime, almost 100%. And we're doing pretty well. And also you can check out Ben. I think Ben's got a couple of Cardano stake pools, and it works out pretty well. So links in the description. I show you how to do it and all that good stuff. What I am looking for, right here. So as far as delegation, Jarky, it's a great question. And it really comes down to this part right here. So you have to understand when we initially stake for the delegation cycle, it's all put forth. We don't set the rules. The Cardano foundation sets the rules. So again, if you stake in like Epic, I know. I know how people say it's Epic. Epoch. Epic. So Charles says it. So I'm going to say like that. It's going to take a while, because it depends on when you actually get into. Every epic is five days. And it takes at least the bare minimum, I believe, 15 days to go from one to get the rewards. And it could take up to 20 days. But remember, if you un-stake here, you're still going to get them for another two or three epics. Which is how it works. I didn't make the rules. I just follow the rules. And that's that. Alrighty. Love DCA. That's a good question. FAM. FAM Tenzing. Dan, what are your chances of someone buying FTX? Do you think or do you know people who are buying a FTT token cheap right now? Or is it really game over and I should sell me FTX now? That would be a great question for your financial advisor. Or your dad. And of course, I'm neither of those. So FAM, I don't know about this one. I know some people made a killing shorting this one. But I wouldn't play with it. It's just not my wheelhouse. Just not that smart to do the trading. So sorry. Robert says, do you think our Bitcoin and I trust capital is safe? Kind of wish I didn't open an account. So I chose capital. I just recorded a video with the CEO of I trust also the CEO of crypto trader or coin ledger for the tax services. It'll be out on Saturday. I asked me these specific questions. How are we sure that things are safe? Especially an I trust because it's a retirement account. It's a Roth IRA. And he says, you have to understand where the funds come from. And he goes, and he said it perfectly said the exchanges, the ones that are doing the right things, they charge you a fee for a transaction. And that's it. And they make good money. And they are prudent in their investments that they do with that money.   They don't make crazy loans. They don't take things out. And he goes in for us, you know, we have everything the same thing that micro strategy uses, which is coin based custody. That's where your crypto funds are. And I asked them specifically about the proof of reserves. He says, we're going to work on that. That's one of the plans for coming up, moving forward. And that's it. And of course, you have to understand, what does I trust capital make their revenue? It's very simple. When you buy crypto on their platform for your retirement account, they charge you a percentage. And I think it's one, one or 1.25, I always forget. Coinbase does the same thing. Binance is the same thing.  I don't know if they have, I don't remember they have loans. They do have some yield because of the staking things like that. And then of course, their main thing is just the trading fees. And they're doing pretty well. They're the largest exchange out there.  You got to talk to your CPA and make sure that they understand because you can, you can move funds around for your Roth IRA. But remember, there is a tax liability if you sell your or if you not sell, but if you cash out and take the cash for a retirement account, that is here in the United States. If you're someplace else, not for sure. So I would talk with the guys, but that's what is I personally have left it there. I'm using for two years. Unfortunately, I can only put $7,000 a year in there. And that's it. Now if I lose for some, let's say something half, I don't know, Coinbase custody is a shell. And it was run by Sam Baikman Freed's twin brother. I don't know. And we lose everything. If I lose it, it's not going to crush me. That's why I diversify. And that's about it. So Amy's with Beardy. Good to know. Ben Amartegia says, yeah, the chat of the last DCA show was too early to even upload. It was pretty rough. That's a good point. Ben says, Struggle Street eventually intersects with Bull Run Highway, but the exit is still a few miles ahead. Remember that? Remember that when, of course, we're looking towards the future. Right now it seems kind of rough, but it always seems rough. It seemed rough. Like I remember in 2018, when I was like, God darn it, I bought the top of Bitcoin and everything else. And now everything just dropped by 80 some percent.  I could sell, but I said, I'm going to try this DCA thing and see how it works. I think things are going to grow. We're going to get more institutions in. I think things are going to do well. It did. It's amazing though. Like during the bear market, you just feel it more so because you hear it all around you. And then you feel more fear. And then, of course, in the bull market, you feel more hubris, more of the ability to go, you know what? I'm invincible. I don't need to sell this.  I'm going to keep going forward. And I think that's what crushes us. I think if we just have the plan and move forward and we know that bear cycles don't last forever, just like bull cycles don't, I think we'll be okay. Good point, Ben. Rich. Hey, Rob, what are you going to do the coin ledger video and tax stuff? I did an old one. I'll do an upload, a new one if you like. There's a link in the description. And I know I got a lot of links. But I got, I mean, one to a free website called Dan teaches crypto. I don't know if you heard about this one. This one, how to figure out if the scam email, I like that. Here's my exchange. I'm actually using Kiva to do micro loans, which of course, some of the revenue that we generate from the current stake pool, we give the Kiva. There's a stake pool. I trust changes. Ah, here it is. Crypto taxes made simple. It's an affiliate link. If you can't stand affiliate links, just go right to crypto trader dot tax. But the, how to use the video is right here. And I walk you through it. So don't be afraid of taxes. Just get them done and then go from there. I know taxes suck, but at least with, at least with coin ledger makes it simple. I tell you the time that I integrate my API integration with the exchanges, which are fewer now to, uh, when I spit it out, it doesn't take too long. Now, the big question I have is, is Voyager going to be able to, Voyager and sell is he's going to be able to push out, uh, that data for, for tax purposes by law, they are supposed to. So we will see. He says, Ben, unblock me.  I'm not. Is it just here in the U S, but it is global FTX global wonder how big it is. I mean, FTX is either, if not the second largest crypto exchange, it was at least a third. Mike says, can you stake with ledger? Great question, man. And let me show you. So, oh here, Daniel's trip of sign up. It'll, it'll cost you an email and I will spam the heck out of you. Now I'm just kidding. I only email you when I upload a new video, which isn't, uh, which isn't too often quite honestly. Let me log in. I'm logged in. So there's two things to note. One, go to module two safety, figure out by the scammers, how to avoid scams. I go over the ledger, how to use it, how to set up your nano ledger, your ledger live app, how to transfer crypto, how to back it up, everything you want to know how to up to the firmware. Cool, cool. And then for this one, it's talking about staking module five. How do I stake crypto? And this one in particular, how do I stake on stake polka dot for passive income? I show you exactly how to set it up with ledger and the same thing with cosmos and the same thing with near protocol. So, yes, you can stake within your ledger and that's the way that I prefer to do it personally. That's just me. And that's it. So, I'll be nice to your question. And, uh, cardigan b says, I don't listen to news only, Twitter, yes, I'm seeing a lot of it. If you want to find anything, go to Twitter. That's where everything happens. Thank you, Robin was Cody currency of the internet. I should probably do a deep dive on that. Dah, I'm talking about God. Yeah, man. It takes a long time. It's just the way that the way they set it up. Once you're in there, it's very simple. Thank you, Tom. Andrew Lieber says eight will be at five cents by next week. He must have a crypto ball. Listen to that man. I'm just kidding. I don't know if it's true, but if it is, that's cool because that's one of the cryptos that's IDCA and I moved it back to every week and less amounts because I don't know where things are going. Yes.  Yes, absolutely. So charity is is Kiva and it's also going to be going towards a protechos, which is, uh, it's a nonprofit organization here that, uh, they build, uh, uh, rooftops for people who have been affected by hurricanes or, and mostly it's a lower income individuals because that's just how it is because, you know, I can't afford it. So I give to them. I actually give to them, uh, for my, my annual amount that I have to give to, uh, so to local communities here for, um, for, for my requirements here for, uh, Puerto Rico. Anyhow, to answer your question, yeah, we just did, we just did, we just gave a matter of fact. This was on, when was this? November 13th. And we gave, it was mostly Puerto Rico people, Javier, Antonio, and Yadio. And we gave them to help them with their startups. Also, Antonio was a farmer helping him to grow his business and Yadio, same thing. So yeah, we still do it.  You can make a difference just, uh, little things, right? Just like we talked about, many nickels make, makes a muckl. It's a dumbest, right? But it does make sense. You decided to change the green screen. Yes, my mom was, uh, tired of the same angle. So she said, you should probably change that. Um, Tab says, Rob, thank you. Uh, correct. And that guy, but you can restore on a software wall. I think you're, I believe you're correct. Yes. Any good 10 years treasury bonds to buy as many as many as you want to stable. I mean, it doesn't keep up for inflation, but I mean, obviously neither did a crypto market. Ion says, Rob, did you hodl back then to that work? It worked.  And then if you got lucky, hit 3,000 in 2020, March 2020. And then of course, Ethereum was below 500, $400, $300. Cardano was my, probably my best one, five, six, seven cents. And it worked out, but, I mean, that's year, the 2021 class is worse because like I didn't keep mine on a ledger. I didn't keep mine on debtless wallets. I kept them on an exchange and that exchange went down. All the hard work I did would have been all for not. So these are the days that I appreciate when we're moving forward and we realize we can't do that. But yeah, it worked out pretty well. Now the, the, the next question is, did I sell as much as I should? And the answer is no, I got greedy. And I stuck, I stuck to my plan somewhat and I, you know, sold a good amount. I was able to buy, you know, more real estate with that, a house here in Puerto Rico, a couple of condos, and it worked out pretty well. However, if I would have sold the, what I should have sold, I would have done even more so. However, that's, that's either here or there. Moving forward in 2025, 2026, I did a video where I talked about when and when and how I'm going to sell my crypto and it's specific and a lot of these specifics come from a couple of different charts, looking at Bitcoin. And also we take a look at Ben's website into the crypto world. And I use that heavily, heavily for my exit strategy. So that's what it is. And you can find that video actually and Dan teaches crypto in the investing module three investing. That's it. Thanks, Audrey. Oh, I know it gets repetitive. What? Beardy hit 88 steps this week. I don't know if you did you move your refrigerator farther away, Beardy, or what did you do? How did you make them any steps? Ah, just kidding. I heard Mr. Wolf, I heard that the FTX hacker who stole all the crypto funds, they became the 38th or 35th largest Ethereum holder in the space. And I find that frighteningly hilarious, but just sad in all general because they stole people's funds.  He's about the two dangerous Hopium. Hopium is dangerous thing. And I mean, if you're looking at it, it's, we took a look at the Stockdale Paradox, the thing I've talked about before Stockdale Paradox. It was Jim Stockdale. He was a prisoner of war in the Vietnam War. He was at the Hanoi Hilton where he was tortured for seven plus years. And he says he goes, the thing that crushed everybody was hope. He said, What do you mean hope? How does that crush people? I should whip them up. He goes, no, you don't understand. He goes, you have to understand the reality of the situation that you're at right now.  He goes, but we don't really think about it too much. And then they started to get this Hopium, which he goes, the ones that didn't make it, the ones that died in those imprisonment camps. He said, we're the ones that would say, You know what, things are bad right now. But in by Thanksgiving, we're out of here. You know what? Okay, things are bad right now. But Thanksgiving went past. But by Christmas, I heard from somebody who said somebody that they're going to release us and there's a deal with the United States. And then it would keep going and going and going. So they never really, they never, they never took hold of their situation and just realized just how crushingly awful it was, and had some realistic expectations. He goes, that's the type of hope that we don't need. He goes, you just have to realize where we're at. Look towards the future and be realistic about that future. And that was the Stockdale Paradox. And he goes, that's what got me through. And that was it. So that's about it. I have deleted my Binance account one year ago, because I was at DeFi. This is okay. So a video, I got a question for you. So when you use DeFi, how, where do you use your fiat on ramp? Is it just like Bitcoin ATM? You know, how do you transfer fiat money into some type of crypto? Do you use like a like a MoonPay service like 4% transaction fees and go from there or just whatever you have on hand? Just Ray, thank you for becoming a member. I appreciate it. That $1.99 is going to go to a good use. I can tell you that right now. Thank you. I appreciate it. Jeff finally cuts in with a long day of working construction. What's up, Jeff?  Class is in. Anybody want to be an administrator? An admin? A wrench? Let me know. So Eden got a good question. I have a silly question. Not really. I use Kepler with my ledger. I don't know what Kepler is. They mean that's a third-party wallet with my ledger for Adam and Osmosis. Okay. If their blockchains go down, bankruptcy, etc., what happens to my coins? Well, if the, honestly, this is in a couple of ways. If it's like Solana where it goes down for a little bit, it'll come back up. But if you're talking about how if the chain itself, if goes to zero, well, then everything goes to zero. And that's really it. So everything that you stake, so like, if you stake your Adam or Cosmos, and you're gaining, I think it's a pretty high yield. I want to say it's around 14 to 16%. And let's say that you gain, I don't know, 20 Adam tokens. And then, of course, Adam, which is, I want to say it's around a dollar maybe. It goes to zero. Everything you just gained is just zero. And that's it. So, yeah. What is the price of Cosmos right now? Let me know. Viper Wall for Cody. Okay. GONGUP says, yes, you can stake it with ledger through Ditto. That's very true. Where were you going to go up when I lost all my Cardano in 2018? Wish I would have met you. I'm in the US, so I can't use Viper. Huh. Huh. FAM. Thank you. Super sticker. Buy bucks. Sweet. I'll be using that next week at the meetup. Smokehouse. Puerto Rico. Everybody should be there. Should be fun time. I buy the first round of beers, so I don't see why you shouldn't show up. Cryptopia. I've never seen anything like it. Do you have the knowledge to set up a stake pool? No. No, I do not. I have a team that does it for me. And they take care of everything. They were the team that does it for me were the ones that did their pool during the test net phase of Cardano. They do multiple pools throughout different chains. They are the real experts. I am just the face of it. Always listen to mom. Exactly, Jeff. Yeah. Probably in China. What's the bag 26 times? That's true. Very true. Gerald says, I'm jealous you guys here. I seem the only person to make any money in the past three years. The market is like the rain in Puerto Rico. If you don't like it, just stick around for a bit. It'll change. And that's the same thing going on here. Look, some people say that Bitcoin and crypto is going to zero. It's not going to zero. And we talked about why. I mean, there's just too much money sloshing around. There's too much risk for other assets to not be here. And of course, there's too much taxes that the government can collect by short and long-term capital gains for them to let that sweet, sweet money go. So they're going to let this thing ride. And of course, innovation, I don't think they really want to stifle it and let it go to other country where they're going to dominate. So that's why I think America is going to get on the ball and actually regulate it. Probably a little bit too much. However, knowing that and knowing these things, I felt the same way in 2018, 2019. I was like, damn it, I didn't make anything. I didn't sell anything. And everybody told me to diamond hands and they wouldn't lie to me. And the people that said that Bitcoin was going to a million, they wouldn't lie to me either. They were there. They only told me the same thing. Now here we are. So I was going to tell you this, Gerald, don't feel bad because, first of all, diamond hands is dumb. Just hold on forever. That's not even what the white paper said for Bitcoin. It was a peerless transaction, peer to peer, to be used for goods and services. So I don't know how people are talking about, you know, not selling it. If I get to sell Bitcoin to pay for goods and services, what's the problem? I sold Bitcoin to pay for a good, which is real estate. So as time goes on, you're going to find opportunities to sell. Bear markets don't last forever and sure as hell, bull markets don't either. But just know the difference and just know when to get out. Have a plan. If you don't have a plan, it's okay. Watch James, Ben's, my channel, other people's channel. Do the research as best you can.  But there's ways to get out of, there's a ways to get into a position, out of position, profitably. It just takes a little bit of effort. End time. You're right. Sorry. Gerald, there's no savers out there. The only saver, the only one that can save you is you, unfortunately. Really? You're the only YouTube content that has ever answered my questions. The answer may as I possibly can. Oh, Darth Mike is here. So the moral of the story is give up all. I don't think that's not the, that's not the moral of the story. The moral of the story is for the Stockdale paradox is realize the gravity of the situation and have realistic expectations, right? Like Stockdale even talked about it. He goes, I knew I was going to get out of this hellhole. I just didn't know exactly when. He goes, and that's what kept me going. I knew I would get out. I just don't know when. The same thing with these markets. I knew they, I know they will change. I just don't know when. So if everybody's calling the bottom, you can listen to them, but most of them are wrong anyhow. So that's about it. I didn't know that. Ledger Live has good options to bridge. I have to take a look there. Interesting. Jay and Chow always has good comments and questions. Binance stablecoin is 40 billion, but half of it is tether. Not back one by one reserve, mostly of Evergrande commercial papers. They're bankrupted. I hope it's not dirty. The question then is what is the percentage of Binance stablecoin for its overall portfolio of assets? I think that would be the next bigger question. That is concerning. However, I will say this, Mr. Chow, as much as I have been ambivalent or cautious, I would say, about tether, as much as I hate to use tether, it still has stood the test of time so far.  They've all collapsed. But here's tether. Even though I talk badly about it and say, well, they had an audit by somebody in the Bahamas and who knows if that's really the truth and how much they actually have, still here. I find it quite amazing. Ah, wrenches.  Hold on. Let me let the chat load and we'll go from there if any time. I'll wrench everybody up in a second. Joby, everybody's doing good, man. Wrench me, Paul. Florian, you're welcome. I have to ban myself. Not just I'm not where they're wrenched. I think we're all wrench worthy, right? French crew. DH, I answered this. No, I have a team that does it for me. They're much smarter than me. Technical people who are actual developers and can do stuff like that. Six bucks. Huh? Let's see. There we are. Thoughts on the Solana future. I will say this. J. Kiki Kiki. Congratulations.  Oh, but you just gave the 10 digital asset news memberships. Look at this guy. Look at this guy. Christmas comes early. Answer your question about Solana. Just take a look at the concentration of wallets and how much is held in each one of those wallets and go from there. That's all I'll say. You can use Misari. There's a free version. Paul, I'll get you next time. I don't know you that well. Mad Cal, you've already got one. Ben's got one. Old Bear. Well, Amy's been having one. Tesla's got one. Does everybody have one? There's more wretches than plebs. Jay and Chow is definitely one. Nosh, this is one. Jargi, aren't you one already? You should be. And thank you for gifting everybody these these memberships. Everybody loves you. I think we could look at that. Ooh, that's nice. See, good things happen when good people stop by. I just made that up. All right, everybody. So enjoy it. But Jargi, thank you so much for gifting everybody that that helps lift the spirits and good for the soul. Let's get out of here, everybody. It's been an hour and four minutes. So look, if you like today's video, like to hang out with us, consider subscribing. Also want to do a little like. Also tomorrow, another giveaway we're going to do. I think we're going to do a daily giveaway for the stone book or the shield folio. So you can write down your mnemonic phrases and have them. I'll probably give away two tomorrow. We'll just go with that. And that's it. 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Welcome to the 21 Report. I'm Frank Pesci, and I'm here with Jeff Younger, loving father, army veteran, successful entrepreneur, a proven leader, champion of family values, and gender sanity. Jeff, how are you? I'm well. Thanks for having me. Thanks for being here. Jeff, you came to the National Forefront because you had a case in family court that brought you national inflame. That's right. You cared to talk about that? Sure. It started when my son was two years old, and my ex-wife, who's a pediatrician in Capel, Texas, began to transition my son to a girl without my consent, even when I was married to her. And when I pushed back on that, she filed for divorce and used her connections with the psychologists in the area as a physician and forced me out of the house and socially transitioned my son. And this eventually culminated in her enrolling him in school as a girl. The school district actually transitioned my son without my consent or my knowledge. This is the Capel Independent School District. I would take my son to school in boys' clothes, and the teacher would give him a dress and make him use the girl's bathroom. And they would use a fake female name for him. And this went on for a year before I knew about it. So that culminated in a big trial in 2019 where the top transgender experts on both sides of this issue lined up at the 255th District Court in Dallas, Texas. And I got the original experts from the original John Hopkins Clinic that opened the first transgender clinic in the 1970s, where this whole scientific movement began. They shut their clinic down after four and a half years because their evidence showed that they were harming patients with those treatments. But we see a resurgence of this now under a political ideology rather than a medical treatment concept. And she brought in experts like Johanna Olson Kennedy. I deposed her, and I asked her a simple question in the deposition. I said, what justifies you in cutting healthy body parts off of children? What's the medical justification for that? And her answer was, well, if those body parts are causing psychological distress, they're not healthy. And she admitted that she had personally referred over 250 pubescent girls for total mastectomies. And as a result, they didn't put a single one of their expert witnesses on the stand in front of a Texas jury. Texas juries would have not liked to hear that evidence. And the court gave me 50-50 custody and no child support and ability to check my ex-wife from doing anything to my child, including social transitioning. But I'm facing down a very powerful law firm, which is the largest donor to judicial campaigns in the state of Texas. They're very well connected to the legal education network. And they were able to get that judge recused and they got me put into the most liberal court in Dallas County, the 301st district court with Judge Bloody Mary Brown. And Judge Bloody Mary Brown refused to implement the jury verdict, completely contrary to Texas law and the Texas Constitution. She put me under an illegal gag order, which gave me a permanent lifetime ban from doing interviews like this. This interview is actually illegal in the state of Texas. And I have just told the court I'm not obeying that. And I went about telling my fellow citizens what was happening to my son in Texas courts. And eventually I ran for office in order to change those laws because over two legislative sessions in Texas, I could not get conservative Republican legislators to pass laws against a castrate and little boys. And so I said, well, I have to go do it myself. So I ran for office. The governor of the state of Texas, Greg Abbott and the speaker of the house, they'd feel and spent combined about $3 million against me to keep me out of the house. So I've been a huge political force in Texas, not because of anything special I do, man.  But when it's your son on the line, you learn fast. And by quantitative measures for my bills to outlaw this transgender child abuse, we generated more political force than for any law in Texas history. There were some legislative officers getting 300 lobbyists a day in favor of my bill. And we still couldn't get it passed. So right now, the current status of the case is that this liberal judge recognizing that she has no political way to transition my son in the state of Texas just four or five days ago gave my ex-wife permission in a court order to move my son to California and put him under the new draconian SB 701, which gave a nuisance signed only four days ago. So you can see this as well planned. And California is now a sanctuary state of our transgender kids. And as soon as my son enters California, I believe he'll be sterilized and chemically castrated. Is there any way to stop that? The only way I can stop it in the Texas court is to go up on mandamus because the family courts in Texas are so bad that you cannot even appeal these rulings. There's no right of appeal for these rulings amazingly. So I have to go on what's called a mandamus, which has an incredibly high standard of proof. 99% of these are denied in Texas.  I suspect that the fifth appeals district, which I'll have to go to will deny me that, but I believe that the Texas Supreme Court will actually stop this judge from doing it to my son. If he gets to California, I will have to challenge the California law in federal court because this law is so bad it denies the full faith and credit of all other states in the union. So California will not obey subpoenas from states who wanna know if those children are okay. Like if I'm in Texas, it will not obey Texas subpoenas. It will not return the children to Texas. The courts are required to take jurisdiction over the children. And lastly, California has enabled district court judges to transition children and chemically castrate them without parental consent if the judge thinks it's in the best interest of the child. Can a federal court stop this? That's what I'm gonna have to do. I'm gonna have to go into federal court if my son's made to California and we're gonna challenge it up there on the full faith and credit clause. Will you be able to have time if they move to California and they decide that that's day one a priority? It's been made clear in the law. They will not grant a stay. So I'm gonna have to get an emergency stay in federal court and work my way up to the Supreme Court is that I will have to file suit in the federal district for California, which I anticipate losing in. So I'd have to go up to the Pills District and we'll probably want to put the Supreme Court over this. That was my question. Yeah, and that's the plan. And so I'm budgeting about a million bucks for this. I spent about 1.4 to 1.7 depending on how you calculate it. Million dollars keeping my son from being castrated. And I guess I'll spend a million more in federal court. I know you're a good father and that you actually care about your family and you want decisions to be made the right way. Yes. There is no more sacred relationship than parents to their children. That's right. To God-given relationship and children have a duty to honor their parents and we have a duty to honor our children and how we raise them and treat them. So I understand where you're coming from and I offer my prayers to you. Thank you. I could say that after first seeing your case on TV, I think 2017. Okay. I remember thinking like, oh man, that's tough. Wow.  Yeah. But then here I am, I come to a convention and I meet you. Right. And they say, hold on a second. After finding out who you were and hear your name, I say, wait a second. This is a regular guy. I'm just a dad. This is a dad. I'm just a dad. This is a gentleman, but you're not ill-equipped. You're a very brilliant guy in the conversations that I've had. Okay. I spent time listening to your speech. How do you fight this battle? You mentioned bringing up very specific law and presidents to force a stay or force a change of venue or intervene into this case. How do you have time to live regular life, run a business, be a parent to your children and prosecute this case from your position? You know, man, you make time for what's necessary to protect your children. And I have to make a lot of money to protect my children. I have to pay a lot of child support. I pay way more than maximal child support in Texas. And what I do is I just allocate my time very carefully and I don't sleep a lot. And I've tried to use my brain more than my brawn. I've tried to fight smart and hit the enemy where it really hurts him, where it can have an effect on the case to help my son. I've gone to big donors in Texas to influence the governor, speaker of the house and other legislators. I've made no secret that I will destroy the political career of anyone that lets my son be harmed. And it's very clear that they understand that I can do that now. And I have built a network of voters in Texas and I'm prepared to use them. In your speech, you used a frame of reference. You said that your battle was against the zeitgeist of our times. What does that mean? So the zeitgeist means the spirit of the age. Every age has a kind of animating principle that outlines the horizon of acceptable thinking. It determines what kind of questions you would ask. It would even delineate like what types of answers would be acceptable. And our current zeitgeist is very strange to people like me. The dominant view of most people now is that their sexual identity is the primary determinant of the self. And this sexual identity is an identity that they can determine. And it's completely socially constructed with no reference to biological reality at all. And just the classification for example of gender dysphoria by the American Psychological Association. It used to be called gender identity disorder, meaning it was something wrong with the person. They had disordered ideas. Gender dysphoria means something's wrong with the wider culture because they won't accept a natural human variation.  And it's not even considered a behavior but a status that you possess. And I don't believe any of these things and I don't believe that you can stop this transgender movement. I don't think you can stop the transgender child abuse of children. If we don't understand that we have to reject completely that view of the self. But doesn't an adult person have the right to choose how they wanna live? Yes. Humans have the right to choose how they wanna live. Societies have the right to reject their way of life as well. Hostrecision is a right that all societies have. And what you see here is an assault on all norms. So the idea is that you'll have them say, well, gender is a social construct which surprises many people, but I agree with that. Gender is a social construct. Well, that seems to imply to most people today that any form of gender construction then is okay and equivalent to any other. But it's actually not true, right? We have to have a conversation in which we can defend traditional social norms. And what we have today is an attack on all norms, particularly around sexual norms. And the future of this attack on sexual norms will be now that we're actually sexually mutilating children. And that's become normal. Now that we're doing that, the very next step is sexualizing children. And children as sex objects is already happening in places like California. Have you found strong voices that exist within the American medical complex and psychological complex that are sympathetic to your case? No. There are no strong voices that will speak out against this because they're all professional cowards. Last 21 convention, not this one, but the one before, we had two psychologists on a panel. And I asked the question of them. I said, under the rules of the American Psychology Association, can you gentlemen, as psychologists, you have a child who's come and presented to you with gender dysphoria. Under the rules of the APA, can you help him identify with his biological sex? And they both admitted that under the rules, they would not be able to do that. The rules of the psychological profession and psychiatry, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Endocrine Society, the American Medical Association, all consider that reparative therapy. So doctors and psychologists and psychiatrists can only help children take up an abnormal gender identity that's different than their biological sex. Do you currently have a relationship with your sons? I haven't seen my sons in one year and three months. I frequently write them letters. I write a combination of different kinds of letters. Some of them are oriented towards telling them what I'm doing. Some of them are actually written for their future selves. Should I never see them again? They'll need my advice and they'll need to carry my values into the future. So it's written to their future selves when they're old enough to understand. And some of them are written to their current self and what they're doing in school. How are you able to sustain in this fight? Prayer and fasting and doing good works. Do you feel like the Lord has come alongside of you to give you strength and support, angelic ministers and things like this? I'm unfortunately, I have not been given a gift of discernment of these things. All I know is that God makes my duty very clear to me and I do what he commands. Understood. And I ask you that because a prevailing principle that has driven this convention so far is I've seen a lot of guys who are speakers, who are influencers, who have been speaking about spiritual things and how their evolution of their message, their purpose, their assignment has been driven by revelation or just an understanding and discerning of the times. Now, few people have a battle as large as yours. That we'll readily admit that. But I'll tell you some of the things that I approach this with from a spiritual point of view. First of all, I will just admit as a sinner that I have yet to be able to pray for my ex-wife. And I mean, I can say the words, but I'm still sinning because I can't pray for my enemies. I struggle with that. I frequently do night prayer. I wake myself up in the middle of the night and I pray for the whole world and all the children in the world. I do that almost every night. And that has given me tremendous insight. God has provided me a tremendous insight into not only my problems, but a lot of other problems from the practice of daily prayer, particularly waking up and doing it at night when the world's very quiet and the world around me is asleep. And I can pray for that for those people who are not awake. Fasting has been a big part of helping me as well. And that's, you know, fasting from food. I fast from television and all sorts of things. And that'll allow, yes, me, how am I to get time? Well, I don't do television.  Avoid all useless activities. And by doing that, I can be immensely productive. Yeah. Does coming to an event like 21 Summit, an event that Anthony has put together for, I don't know, 12 or 13 years now. Yeah, he's an amazing guy. Does this regenerate you? Yes. It's often the case that I'm facing my enemies and I'm usually surrounded by my enemies, you know? I go to court or when I'm in a political battle at the Capitol, I'm surrounded by enemies. It's nice to be surrounded by allies and I don't get that opportunity very often. Are there any speakers here that influence your way of thinking? It sounds like you don't spend a lot of time consuming content. It sounds like you are one generating content with your actions. But was there anybody in particular at this event that you were able to connect with or spoke with you that gave you an insight that maybe you hadn't considered before? Yeah, I continually get real nuggets from Arthur Quantley. Excellent. And that's the reason I joined the Genesis Council with him. I think that, and this is definitely an orthodox position on the created world. But orthodoxy looks on the created world the way you might look upon an icon in a church, right? It signs and it teaches us and tells us a lot about the divine intelligence that created it. And when I talked in my speech about the social imaginary and how the social imaginary creates the horizon of acceptable thought, that social imaginary is best created and best modified by art. And that includes movies, writings and things like that. It's through the artistic medium that our imagination is stretched into different areas. And our enemies have been very, very skillful at using arts. For example, the mainstreaming of transgenderism, particularly even for kids, has been done primarily through entertainment mediums, right? So Arthur Quantley is onto something very important that really no one else is talking about. And I find his insights incredibly valuable. I had a great interview with Arthur. I really enjoyed speaking with him and in our conversation here at the table, I really just learned so much and he has a tremendous amount of insight into how arts communicate to us. He's actually probably the smartest guy at this convention. I probably don't disagree with you, he was brilliant. And I myself, we had the conversation about being discerning about the art that you hang in your house. Cause that's your sanctuary and that art is communicating to you. Are you diligent about the type of imagery that you surround yourself with? Yeah. And this is actually a very surprising law of people who come to my house when they see the kind of art that's in my home. So first of all, as an Orthodox Christian, we believe that every home is also a church. So in every spot somewhere in an Orthodox home, there's something called the iconostasis and that's where we worship in our home. Is that like an altar? It's an altar, plus there are icons, usually candles, incense, everything. Everything you'd see in an Orthodox church is present on the iconostasis. So I have many, many icons all throughout my home. Christ Pantocrotter is the one that you see right when you come in. St. Elizabeth, who's a great protector of children, is also there. But if we look at secular paintings, in my dining room, people often remark on this, there's a famous painting of the monk Perisevite, the Orthodox monk Perisevite, killing the commander of the Golden Horde of the Mongols at the Battle of Kulikovo. And Perisevite didn't actually know how to fight. He was not a warrior, so he arranged for a mutual kill. He sacrificed himself. And the loss of their commander led to the only defeat of the Mongol army in history. And the Russians defeated them there and saved all of Europe from the Mongol horde, their second invasion. The other painting is a painting of Charles Martel, Charles the Hammer, at the Battle of Tours, which inaugurated the reconquest of Spain from the Muslims for the Christians. And people are often taken aback by the battle imagery and the kind of image that's depicted a heroic image of violence. And that is definitely a value that I try to impart to my sons, that violence itself is something neutral. It's the use to which it's put that determines whether it's honorable or not. So we live in a time where overt violence is not acceptable unless it's done within the framework of a battlefield or self-defense of a home, for instance. But violence is actuated through other means today. What other classifications of violence would you identify as being overt violence other than on a battlefield? So there's, first of all, there's just straight up political violence on the streets. You see this with Antifa. I myself was involved in an Antifa riot at the University of North Texas.  They spit on me, they threw by the fluids on me. They used all of their intimidation tactics, but I wouldn't go away. Most conservative speakers just go away after five minutes when they can't do their talk. But I was like, I got an hour and a half speaking slot. Just protest me for an hour and a half. Let's see if you got the balls. What were you speaking about? I was speaking about the laws that I wanted to change in Texas to protect children from transgender child abuse. And they just were not gonna let me speak on those issues. So eventually 400, three to 400 Antifa, depending on who you ask, the Department of Public Safety says it was closer to 400, surrounded the building and tried to burn it down. So they evacuated the building. I got a rib broken when they evacuated me out the back. A guy tried to choke me out. I was able to gavel grip out of it. They tried to pull me out of a police car, tried to overturn the police car. The police could only get away by running over one of them. So I mean, I've been through Antifa riots. So there's definitely that kind of violence. Then there's a kind of social violence that's perpetrated against us. Where people smear our reputations, they try to cancel us from our jobs, they try to take our livelihoods. In order to, if they think that if they take our money, they can take away our voice, right? And then there's direct political violence perpetrated in the courts. I've never had a jury verdict implemented by a Texas judge. I mean, it's very clear that judges are largely unaccountable in family court and fathers, millions of fathers are losing their rights to their children. This is a particularly onerous form of political violence because it affects children in such a direct way. Are there other cases that are happening that are like yours? Yeah, there are tons of cases like mine. Well, why aren't these parents speaking up? Where are they? We never hear or hear about them. Are you familiar with them? Yeah. Do they reach out to you? How are you familiar with them? They do, they do. They call me all, I get dozens of calls a month. And what is your advice to them?  And the best way to do that in a democracy is to inform your fellow citizens about what the government is doing to your child and get your fellow citizens to join together in a political movement to stop it.  They're all afraid to violate their gag orders. They're afraid to go to jail.  Okay, that's three hots in a cot, almost near infinite leisure and plenty of time to plan your political moves when you get out in six months. Like, how bad is jail?  Like, there are a lot of things worse than jail, right? But we have so many people with a conventional morality. It's not really even a conventional morality. It's a conventional way of life where they just couldn't tolerate the reputational destruction of having them put in jail. Right? I tell my judge all the time, put me in jail. I'm violating your gag order and I'm never following it. So you need to put me in jail. And I have a writ of habeas corpus already prepared. I'll just take that right up to the Texas Supreme Court and we'll see who's right.   And that gag order was actually put on me to prevent me from running for political office. That's how corrupt the system is. They don't want me to get anywhere near legislators and lobby for laws that would constrain their ability to hurt kids. And these parents are cowards. They won't speak out. Now, you did run for Congress recently. I did. I did run for the Texas House, House District 63. And so I made it into the runoff. So we had me and a liberal established candidate. So I have conservative versus liberal. Here's a dirty secret that we don't ever talk about. We know that Democrats are fixing general elections, right? I think everybody knows that, certainly true in Texas. But Republicans have been fixing primary elections for a long time and that's the kind of deal they've worked out with the Democrats. We'll fix primaries and you fix generals and we'll both look the other way. And so what happened in my case is this is a textbook method that they use in Texas. They go to the conservative candidate. They gin up some fake moral outrage against them with lots of mailings and lots of negative ads. You know, I had a friend of mine in South Carolina. They actually had audio of a fake rape that they played against him. He was never involved in anything like that. Woman screaming and everything. With me, they did everything. They said that I was involved in domestic violence. That's not true.  That's not true.  I have been convicted of child abuse. I have never been convicted. I have no criminal record at all. But they did all this and what that does is it splits the vote from the conservative candidate. So now you have a split Republican vote, right? And then they make a deal with the Democratic Party to bring in 3,000 to 5,000 voters to swing it for their candidate. And how do they get the Democratic Party to do that? They make deals with them like, well, we won't do legislation on transgender this session. You help me get my candidates elected and we'll avoid that law. That's why my bills were killed for two legislative sessions.  So are you a content producer? Do you put things out there for people to consider and consume other than, of course, being running for Congress and having a case that is such high profile, you're obviously being put on the news, things are happening. Are you otherwise a content producer? Like, do you have fans? Do you have people that watch your work and want to connect with you? Yeah, I have a sub stack. It's JeffYounger.substack.com. Just one word, Jeff Younger. And you can connect with me on Facebook. Facebook is almost kind of like a blog feed for me. And then I spin off very in-depth articles on sub stack. On my sub stack, I don't deal with current political issues. There are a lot of good sub stacks that do that. And I link to them, ones that I recommend, right? Go there and do that. What I'm interested in is, one, the intellectual causes of these political problems that we're having. How do we get here? Two, how can we change it? And how can we get out of it? I'm more focused on those issues. So for example, if someone were interested in understanding why I oppose all forms of liberalism, classical liberalism, free market liberalism, left liberalism, libertarianism, I oppose all forms of liberalism. And I have a series of articles on why liberalism is really a sham and why it doesn't make sense. Why there were certain structural errors in the constitution that doomed it from the very beginning. There were errors. For example, they really believed, the founders really believed the judiciary would be too weak. And so they made it very hard to remove judges. But now we know the judiciary is by far the most powerful branch of government and they can actually stop the operations of the other branches. So there were some errors that were in the constitution. I look at those kinds of things that most conservatives just won't confront. I also talk a lot about propaganda. And I try to help people understand how to spot propaganda, how it's produced and how the people who produce it think about how to make it. And where you can go to find new sources that are telling you the real facts on the ground and how to find independent people. For example, when the Middle Eastern Crane War, you can get people who are there on the ground doing video. You don't have to rely on Reuters to get your news. So I try to help people navigate the world that way. I don't focus on the current events, but how we got here and how we can stop it. Jeff, what is your message to the world? If you don't stop the left's advance through the institutions and transgender, child transgender transitions are just emblematic of that march through the institutions. If you don't stop them now, you'll never be able to stop them. Jeff, what benefit would a man get from coming to an event like this where there's so many common shared ideas, common stories, and really just a desire towards being a better man in the 22 Covetches case, towards being a better woman, personal growth, all that good stuff? Let me put it this way. So you know I'm a boxer. I like it. I do, I do now. You wouldn't approach learning how to box by sitting in a classroom and learning how to box and then go in the ring and successfully pull it off, right? That's not how you learn how to box. The way you learn how to box is you go to a boxing gym and you don't know anything about it and you hang out with boxers who are good. And you start doing what they do. And eventually, from copying them, you can handle yourself. And then there comes a point. It's the, I call it the journeyman stage, right?  What the 21 Convention is, is that first stage, right? We're in a crisis of masculinity. There are very few masculine role models anywhere in the media. You have to come to 21 Convention. It's like a boxing gym.  And you learn it by doing it and being with men. And those opportunities in our society are very rare. There are no male spaces left. 21 Convention actually may be it. You're right, thank you. Thank you. For the 21 Report, I'm Frank Pesci with Jeff Younger. Thanks for watching. Thank you.


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Today is Sunday the 13th of November. We just finished the two-day event that we hold regularly at the COP. It's called Development and Climate Days at the COP. I started this way back in 2002 at the 8th Conference of Parties in Delhi as a one-day event which I called Adaptation Day at the COP where we brought together the people that worked on adaptation, which were a handful of people in the sea and mitigation people. And it was to share experience and get to know each other. I've continued that tradition since then. We expanded it to a two-day event which we call Adaptation and Development Days in subsequent COPs and then a few years ago we broadened it from Adaptation to Climate and called it Development and Climate Days. And it's a place where people come together. We get several hundred people over the course of two days, not everybody staying from beginning to end and just design that way for people to drop in and drop out and come when they want, attend sessions that they like. We try and push the boundaries of people's experience. We play games. We do all kinds of outdoor Fox sessions. We ensure everybody gets a chance to talk and speak and share. We emphasize listening rather than talking. We try and use more than just our ears and our eyes. We have food, all kinds of weird foods that teach us lessons. We do all kinds of improvisation with our games and touch and feel. So we try and use all the senses to acquire not just new knowledge but also feelings and most importantly have fun and make friends. And so at the end of these two days we have a whole big bunch of friends that have got to know each other, that have shared interests and hopefully this will now pass on into the future. We will continue this particularly those working on community-based adaptation at the next international conference on community-based adaptation. It's going to be the 11th in the series. It will be in Makareira University in Kampala in Uganda. The theme will be ecosystem-based adaptation with community-based adaptation. And then we'll come back again at the COP next year and development climate days again. So it's now in its 14th year, not everybody having been here for 14 years but obviously many people know of it and have been here for many years as well. So it's become a tradition at the COP and I think that we will be able to continue this tradition and keep the conversation rolling of activist, action people, action-oriented people and learning from action that these are the three elements of what we try and do here.