Coming up on D TNS, the internet goes on a manhunt and again gets the wrong guy. Twitter opens the blue check mark for all to apply, but not all will receive. And Google opens a gift shop. I mean, an Apple store. I mean, they've got a retail store coming. This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday, May 20th, 2021 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane from Austin, Texas. I'm Justin Robert Young and I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. You know, I do want to say Justin, it is nice that we're not all California when you're on the show now. Representing, yeah, you know, we can I'm glad to finally stand up to you. West Coast elites, third coast represent. Hey, folks, fly over country will be heard. If you want to hear about how my dad made military precision peanut butter and jelly, get the wider conversation on our expanded show. Good day, internet. We're just having a good time talking about all kinds of stuff. Patreon dot com slash D TNS. Let's start with a few tech things you should know. Apple announced a number of new accessibility features, including a one on one sign language interpreting service called Sign Time for shopping and support sessions set to launch on May 20th in the US, the UK and France. Apple also brought a assistive touch to Apple Watch will introduce eye tracking support for onscreen pointer to the iPad with compatible my five devices later this year and add support for new bi-directional hearing aids. Scientists from TSMC, the chip maker MIT, the university and National Taiwan University published a paper in nature describing processes that use semi metal bismuth to make semiconductors below one nanometer. The process requires a helium ion beam lithography system. TSMC currently uses tungsten interconnects and Intel uses cobalt. So it would be a big change. The one nanometer process is in R&D production. That's research and development only. And is years away from being implemented at high volume, if at all. The next version of Chrome OS will feature full support for Linux apps on the platform, which previously launched in beta back in 2018. Chrome OS 91 also adds a new terminal app, better USB support for Linux apps and faster updates to the underlying Linux container. ByteDance CEO Zhang Yiming announced he will step down from the role naming his longtime colleague and ByteDance's head of HR, Liang Rubou, as his replacement. Yiming will move to a key strategy position with ByteDance by the end of 2021 and remain chairman of the company. Snap announced Story Studio, an iOS app for creating and editing mobile videos. The app will pull trending data from Snapchat and Snapchat's TikTok competitor Spotlight to inspire creators to make content that others will like, popular content. Users can share videos directly to Snapchat or upload them into other apps. Story Studio content won't include a watermark to avoid other platforms demoting them in their algorithms. Snap also announced it would stop distributing one million dollars per day to its top Spotlight creators, instead distributing millions per month starting June 1st, but didn't really specify any more than that. Snap's latest gen Spectacles AR glasses are now up for pre-order. Plus, it's latest generation of a new VR camera feature that lets users try on clothes, accessories and makeup. Yeah, Snap's been saying it's a camera company for years. It's good to see that kind of becoming more of a real thing. Snap, I mean, their product rollout is unmatched. I really, I got a hand at them. They release a lot of products. All right, let's talk about a place to buy products, Sarah. Let's do it. Starting this summer, Google will open its first permanent physical retail store at its Chelsea campus in New York City.  It's also not a pop-up store. This is a real physical retail shop with employees and people coming in and looking at Google products. The store will sell a variety of Google hardware, like Pixel phones, Nest devices, Fitbit wearables and Pixel books, as well as serve as a pickup location for online orders. And there will also be in-store experts to help with troubleshooting repairs, setting up new devices and offering how to workshop. So very much the kind of store that we are understand exists with with other companies. But yeah, Google's Google's making it official. So wait a minute. Why isn't it an alphabet store if it's selling Nests and Fitbits? Fitbit and Nest are owned by Google. Google, not by Alphabet's. Yeah. Well, they're all owned by Alphabet, really. Nest used to be another bet, but they moved Nest back into Google. So yeah, you're right, Sarah. They're all owned by Alphabet, but they are. These are also owned by Google, particularly. OK, and Alphabet, I just want to make sure everybody's ready for all familiar brands for all the pen dance out there that always want to jump up like everybody knows exactly where which angels are dancing on the head of the pin of Google versus Alphabet. Please go ahead. Yeah, this smart move. I made a crack about it being a gift shop because it's on the campus. But honestly, this is this is a great move to try out a store idea. You do it in Manhattan, where you got a lot of foot traffic and you do it in a building you already control. And if you've been over in Chelsea, there's the YouTube space studio that's over there. There's the Google building.  So it's not like, oh, I'd have to go on to a Google campus like you would in in California. You're just walking down the street. You're going to see a Google store. You might you might drop in. And if it goes well, then yeah, they might do this more places. Yeah, I mean, Google has a large presence in New York City. I know a few people who work at that campus and the idea that especially as, you know, Fitbit wearables, for example, we're talking about, you know, wear OS and more options for smart watches in the future and and, you know, then of course, pixel books, which is it's a great category to be like, you know, but what does it feel like, you know, how is it to type on that kind of stuff? I think this is a great idea. And frankly, when I read this news this morning, I was like, have we not done this yet? Really just thought it existed somewhere. And I just hadn't been there. I also wonder how long this has been in gestation, whether or not it's something that they planned on introducing earlier because this does seem about the earliest possible that anybody could announce a new physical anything and not on some level get a negative backlash to what should be at at at its worst, a boring or ho hum news, but hopefully joyous news that a new thing is going to come out. I think it is a good sign in terms of that. And also a good sign that there is Google Hardware because Google Hardware has not something that historically has been the biggest strong suit for them. And that is, I think, now fully shed. There should be a place where top end pixel phones are sold. Yeah, but if anybody's wondering, Manhattan just reopened, you know, indoor dining and all that kind of thing. So, you know, there there are people out and about on the streets of Manhattan in big numbers again. And this announcement comes with a whole section on COVID sanitization and how they're cleaning the store and all that all that sort of thing. There will be limited capacity in the store, etc. Oh, Internet. Last Friday, a fire broke out in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles County, reaching 1150 acres and causing the evacuation of thousands of people. Now, fires are not rare in California these days, but this outbreak was a little early in the year and during a cool even moist time of weather conditions. Helicopter pilots also reported they saw a man in the fire zone setting fires Friday night, but he disappeared. That's where the app Citizen comes in. The app debuted in 2016. You may remember it as Vigilante. It was banned from the Apple App Store. It rebranded and relaunched in 2017 as Citizen got accepted. Employees of Citizen listen to emergency communications in 20 cities and generate alerts about criminal activity in your area. And there's also a community element as well. Citizen has marketed itself as a safety app, saying it does not want users to try to solve crimes or run toward danger. Just be aware. Saturday night in Los Angeles, the second night of the Palisades fire, Citizen used a new feature, kind of a clubhouse like feature, called on air to show a photo of a man and give his name and offer $30,000 for information leading to his arrest. About 860,000 citizen users received that broadcast. Citizen on air host urged listeners to, quote, get out there and bring this guide at justice. And the police had told a residence association that they were looking for the man that was named by Citizen. The association itself had posted some info to next door in Facebook, but did not use the man's name or post a photo. So Citizen got that part of it some other way. Sunday, the man in question was briefly detained and then let go due to lack of evidence. Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, Lieutenant Jim Brayden, called the actions of Citizen potentially disastrous because it wasn't the guy. Citizen says it failed to follow its validation protocols. It's going to work on not letting this happen again. They did get a guy. Sunday, a resident saw a different man coming out of a trail head who appeared to need help. So he asked the security folks like, hey, check this guy out. Turns out that man was arrested and charged Tuesday with one felony count each of arson of a structure or forest and arson during a state of emergency. Now, that man has pleaded not guilty, but the Sheriff's Department think they got the right guy this time. Palisades Fire was at 66 percent containment and no structures had been lost as of this recording, if you're curious about that. But there was a guy, but good old fashioned legwork is what got the suspect, not citizen. Yeah. So we have our hall of fame of Internet sleuthing. I don't know if this one necessarily is more blunderous than Reddit attempting to find the Boston bomber subject and leaving a trail of doxxed innocence behind them. But I don't know if there is any app that should be pushing this particular function. I'm a citizen user. I used it in Oakland. I use it now here in Austin. I do find it to be valuable on some level for what they have employees doing on it, which is listening to police scanners and then reporting and pushing alerts on those police scanners. But then again, I also have a context for that because I used to listen to that as a reporter. Like I had to get used to in a newsroom just having the police scanner on at all times because that's how you would find out what news was happening. I don't know if beyond that bizarre trait because of my background, if citizen is necessarily even a good idea, I do know that that example is something that went too far. And we do need to be mindful of using these platforms as mob justice tools beyond how guilty we know some of these people could be. And citizen says they employ journalists. The LinkedIn social media profiles say, according to recode anyway, that they have employees from the Daily Beast, CBS News, New York Daily News. So these are people with experience with that. But even then, from a newspaper perspective, if you're going to put on the front page, find this guy and get him without the police saying that they need to bring him to justice, that's irresponsible too. It's irresponsible on so many levels. I mean, it's irresponsible to point a finger at somebody where you actually don't want a bunch of citizens involved in this sort of thing, especially when the app is like, OK, we're not trying to solve crimes. We're not trying to put you in danger. However, let's go get this guy. It's like it's mayhem. I mean, that's just I mean, to say like, yeah, we didn't really vet this one correctly is like that is a real understatement.  Would you like to go live? Like that that I think inherently is kind of a problem. All right. Yeah. Wednesday's episode of the Apple, the epic Apple trial sealed with the fact that iOS locks down their ecosystem, but Mac OS does not. Apple's head of software engineering, Craig Federighi, took a stand to explain. He noted that far more people use iOS than Mac OS. So it's a larger target. Also, he asserted that people more casually download apps on a phone than they do on a Mac. He also argued phones are more attractive targets because they contain more personal data about you. But his explanation that received the most attention was the target audience. Apparently the Mac is a car and the iPhone and iPad are for kids or something. Let's just use Federighi's own words here. Quote, the Mac is a car. You can take it off road if you want and you can drive wherever you want. That's what you wanted to buy. There's a certain level of responsibility required. With iOS, you wanted to buy something where children can operate an iOS device and feel safe doing so. It's a really different product, end quote. Well, okay, that's almost exactly what he said. So is a Mac even safe at any speed? Craig says, quote, it's safe if operated correctly much like a car. If you know how to operate a car and you obey the rules of the road and are very cautious, yes, if you're not, I've had a couple of my family members who have gotten some malware on their Mac but ultimately I think that the Mac can be operated safely, end quote. It's a privilege and a responsibility to drive a Mac. Thanks, Dad Craig. Federighi made several quote-worthy statements calling the level of malware on Mac unacceptable, saying it's a high bar for consumer protection on iOS and noting specifically that there have been more than 130 types of Mac malware identified since last May, including one that infected 300,000 systems. Epic's lawyers noted that Apple markets Mac as being suitable for use by children and does not position iOS as safer or more secure than the Mac. So to the legal aspect of this testimony, what Epic is gonna try to show is that Apple has two different standards and why don't they use the standard they use on Mac on iOS? Apple's trying to say it's two different markets, that's why we have a different standard. Really, this is gonna hinge on the whole monopoly and is iOS a market unto itself? I don't know that this is gonna feed that much in and I don't know if any of this testimony really is gonna be determinative to the judge's decision on any of that. But boy, there are some juicy quotes in there when Federighi's talking about his family getting malware on their Macs. I mean, a lot of this too is, it's like, okay, the Mac is a car and the iOS devices are more for kids and you just have to assume there's just gonna be a lot of more weird stuff that's installed on the ladder. And yeah, some of that is true. It really seems more like price points to me. I mean, if you get the cheapest Mac possible, it's still gonna be more expensive than the cheapest iPhone possible, right? So sure, you can think of the Mac as like the slightly fancier vehicle that more adults can only afford to drive, but it's a bit of a stretch. I don't, I get what he's saying, but I think it's sort of a thin argument. It is a very fuzzy metaphor that I'm sure was rehearsed many, many times with many, many lawyers and that's what they came up with and that's what we're gonna get in this big high profile situation. I think it's very interesting that this is kind of the topic of conversation because Mac has rightly or wrongly had a reputation of safety back in the day. I wonder how much all that is going to change as a PC ownership continues to shift and change and what we think of as a PC continues to shift and change, but for iOS, I think their idea to lock that down, now extending to the store is a different story, but philosophically, I think that Apple learned lessons of where the Mac was going to go in terms of being as vulnerable as PC is to viruses as things kind of went along and that informed how they wanted to lock down things like their app store and make it a totally top-down situation as opposed to the Mac which has traditionally been a little bit more of a Wild West. Yeah, I mean, some of it's just where it's been and where it's going, right? Laptops and computers were a hobbyist thing. They were an enterprise thing. They were not a mass market thing and they still really aren't. I think for those of us who always use a laptop and a phone, it's hard to imagine not having both but there are a lot more people with just phones and no computer than you might expect and that is what Federighi's trying to say is like, there are plenty of people out there that just get by on a phone and they don't have the level of expertise that is developed when you have to use a computer. There's weaknesses in that argument but I think that's what he's trying to say and I don't think it's as outlandish as some people may think it sounds. And we think of those phone-only people as children. That is crevice. Phone-ly, you phone-ly people. Phone-ly, you phone-ly child. Phone-ly children. All right, everyone. Yeah. Hey, folks, if you are listening to this and going, man, what did Justin, Tom and Sarah's faces look like just now? Well, we have a video podcast, you could see. Go get the video RSS feed at dailytechnewshow.com slash subscribe. Hey, you want that blue check mark on Twitter? I've had it. Twitter has relaunched its public verification program. You'll need to meet the new verification criteria which includes being authentic, notable, and active in one of six categories, government, companies, brands, and organizations, news organizations and journalists, entertainment, sports, and gaming, or activists, organizers, and other influential individuals. That sounded like 12 categories but it was only six, yeah. It's only six. Trust us, it's very simple. The option to apply will show up in account settings sometimes over the next few weeks and you'll get a response within a few days. If you get turned down, you can reapply in 30 days. Twitter paused its verification program in 2017 when it was using it simply to verify that a person was who they said they were and verified someone, people, and verified someone people found objectionable. They announced that the new criteria which emphasizes nobility this past January, notability, not nobility. Oh, sorry, notability, notability.  I'm just saying. Twitter says it plans to add more categories later this year including scientists, academics, and religious leaders. Twitter is also planning to overhaul the profile page to include things like a field for preferred pronouns and a label for automated accounts. You'll also be able to quote unquote confirm your account by email or phone and show that in your about page to prove that you are not a bot. I found the last to be the most interesting. Yeah, right, Sarah? I think you agree with me on that. I very much do. Listen, the verification stuff, the blue check mark, I have had one for a while. I don't really remember why. Did you ask for it? No, this is a long time ago. And honestly, I think it has to do with the fact that there's a somewhat popular Sarah Lane, who's a ballerina, who's not me. And at some point, there was a distinction that was made. And I got a check mark because my Twitter handle is at Sarah Lane. I really don't remember, but it's old news. But I know that over the years, there's been lots of mumbling and grumbling. Like Twitter does not make it clear why some people get it and some people don't. There's not an easy way to ask. Or there is an easy way to ask, but there's not an easy way to get a response. And then it's like Twitter saying, we're going to revamp this. Then they go silent for a long time. And now it's like, look, we're back with lots of categories. But not scientists or religious leaders. That's going to come later after the influential individuals that aren't in a category at all. I mean, it's more a mess to me. And also, it almost seems like if you really want this, you're probably in one of these categories or it could make a claim that you are. And what are what is the points? I think the original point of the blue check mark was there were parody accounts. And Twitter wanted a way to say, look, this is actually Richard Nixon. Oh, wait, he's dead. So none of these are real. But you know what I mean? This is actually Barack Obama. It was Shaq. Shaq came on the blackboard. Shaq was a big deal. And so they started the blue check marks. But that meant, because they were doing it manually, that they needed to make sure it was actually the person's account. So they could only do ones that they were sure were actual people, which meant they tended to be famous people, because that's the ones that were more likely to be parodied and the ones that was easier to figure out who it was. When they decided to say, let's do this for everybody, we have a system for verifying who you are, by that time, the blue check mark had come to be associated with famous accounts, because that's all they'd used them for. And it started to be seen as a prestige thing to get the blue check mark. So Twitter backed off on it and said, ah, we created a monster fine. All right, we're gonna create a blue check mark thing for no double people here. But also on the back end, we're gonna do a confirm your account, which is really what we wanted the check mark to be in the first place. And I think that's great that anybody will be able to have on their profile confirmed. Yes, this is me. I am not a bot. I really, all right, go ahead, Justin. No, that's all I wanted to say is that I went through this process before they shut it down. I think it was probably months before they shut it down, actually, judging by the timeframe here. And it was nice, it's nice to have. I would actually prefer to sell it. It would be great if it was transferable. That'd be great. I feel like- Your identity, your authentic identity was transferable. Well, no, just the check mark. Like, and then I'll try to get it again. I feel like this could be a hospital. It could be like an NFT thing. I haven't thought this through well enough yet. I would sell one. If you guys could sell it, you could sell your blue check mark as an NFT. No, no, no, no, not as an NFT. No, in the Twitter ecosystem. If you could sell your blue check mark, would you? All right. Well, Google has got some good news for you smart home fans. They're gonna update all Nest displays, speakers, and the latest Nest thermostat, not all the Nest thermostats, but the latest basic Nest thermostat to support the interconnected cross-platform smart home standard, MATTER. MATTER was formerly known as Project Chip, if you heard it covered as that. MATTER will let Google Assistant control any other device on the network that supports MATTER. That will mean that MATTER will be used for Google Assistant to control devices eventually from Apple, Amazon, Samsung, Huawei, Philips, Hue, Comcast, and more. Newer devices with thread support built in, like the Nest Wi-Fi, Nest Hub Max, and the second gen Nest Hub, can also serve as MATTER connection hubs. And Google will build MATTER support into Android, which will bring devices that use thread, but previously didn't support Android into the fold. That could eventually mean the Echo or HomeKit devices that support thread. Google's launching a directory of Assistant-compatible devices along with some video tutorials and is also adding support for WebRTC to reduce live video and audio latency. There's a lot of steps in all of this, especially from the non-Google device makers who have yet to have it be put in their devices. But Google's taken the first step of saying, we've got the support for MATTER in our devices now. So when the next wave comes from the other companies, they'll be ready. So by 2022, it may be possible to just be able to buy smart home stuff and know if it says MATTER on the box that it's likely to work with any of the other stuff you have at home. Yeah, that's so great. And be able to control them through a variety of apps on a variety of different OSs. Do you wanna use Assistant for Siri or Amazon? Fine, whatever you want.  As a consumer, I'm like, they're making it so easy. Why would they do this? But it's because you end up selling more items overall. It just makes sense.  So I just don't even look at the Google stuff because I've gone with Amazon. Now I'll be able to look at these products and fairly evaluate them, which I think is good for everybody. Yeah, I think they got to the point where the limit on sales is people being confused and being like, you know what? Fine, I don't even, I don't know. I don't want to buy into a market because not everything works and it's confusing. And so they can all increase sales by all interoperating and making it easier. Like, yeah, just go buy your thing and plug it in. You don't have to worry about what you got. Well, now that folks are not only traveling, but thinking about possibly traveling in the future, let's hand it over to Chris Christensen, our amateur traveler who has some excellent underwater photography tips. This is Chris Christensen from Amateur Traveler with another Tech in Travel Minute. I often do recommendations on this and first I want to do a negative recommendation. I just came back from the Galapagos Islands and did a lot of underwater photography or was attempting to do a lot of underwater photography with iPhone cases, underwater iPhone cases. And I failed with two different ones that I brought. They just weren't that successful. We had much more luck with the people on the trip who had one of two waterproof cameras. One was an Olympus Tough and the other one of course was a GoPro. Anything after version eight is waterproof. While the iPhone is waterproof and many of the Android devices also waterproof and salt waterproof are not necessarily the same thing. And when you put them in a waterproof case, you often have trouble controlling them. And when you're trying to take a picture of a sea lion swimming around you, it can just be frustrating. So if you're going to do something like that, you may want a waterproof camera. I'm Chris Christensen from Amateur Traveler. Yeah, it sounds like it's one of those situations where Chris didn't have the right stuff, but at least somebody did. So he's able to pass along some good info to us. That's great. And it's good for taking pictures of sea lions, which is always important. All right, let's check out the mail bank. Let's do it in your, Tom, latest editor's guest. You editor's desk, rather, although guests are sort of part of the story too. You asked for ideas on future limited series ideas. What could we kind of, yeah, like explain a little bit more about what you're looking for. So coming up in July, our new science correspondent, Dr. Nicole Ackermans, Nikki, who does the Sunday Science Supplement on Daily Tech Headlines, is going to do a series of interviews with seniors in tech because Nikki also does a great podcast of her own called Stories Granny Never Told You, where she interviews people about stories that they had never told their families and it's awesome. So we're going to have that, but for people with their technology stories and do them on the weekends for like three weekends in a row in July. So I was asking on the editor's desk for more of those kinds of ideas. Like, what other stuff would you like to hear? Well, Joshua had an idea. In fact, in fact, he was our first comment on Patreon. So Joshua, you get a gold story although we've gotten a few more since then. Joshua says, I've recently gotten into consumer radiation equipment as an eccentric hobby. Joshua says, Joshua says, while the industry is small, I have a new appreciation for the role that technology plays in ensuring we aren't exposed to dangerous levels of radiation in relevant circumstances, medical imaging mainly, although I'm more interested in nuclear facilities for obvious reasons because nuclear power is pretty cool. Joshua also mentioned he's interested in Oracle networks and their impact on businesses that normally would be completely divorced from sophisticated technology like crop insurance and how the rates are adjusted based on measurements made by Oracle networks. Joshua, you have opened my eyes to a whole new area of consumer technology I'd never thought about it before. Yeah, that's great, I love it. Thanks for the ideas.  It's been a while since I asked and I'd like to see them. Feedback at dailytechnewshow.com is where to send those emails. Also shout out to patrons at our master and grandmaster levels. Today they include Philip Less, Daniel Dorado and John Atwood. Special, special thanks to Kevin today who's one of our top lifetime supporters for DTNS. Thank you for all the years of support, Kevin. And by the way, Kevin also had an idea for a future limited show series and that has to do with exercise and how everything being goal-based might change the way that we're exercising in general. It was a really good one. Thanks to Justin Robert Young for being with us today. Justin, what's been going on with you and your new habitat? I feel like we need a special limited series on Sarah Lane's Jingle Writing because that was excellent and I would like to know more. Politics, politics, politics available. We actually were starting a new segment on Friday's edition of the show where throughout this kind of fallow period for election news at least for the next year or so, we're gonna go through some of the most epic, iconic and heinous negative ads of all time. We're gonna, it's a little bit more like Raise the Dead. So if you like some of my history deep dive stuff, this gives you a little bit of that. One negative ad at a time. We begin on Friday with the iconic 1988 Willie Horton ad or Weekend Pass is what it was actually called. But please go ahead and check that out. That is px3podcast.com. Excellent. We are live on this show Monday through Friday at 4.30 p.m. Eastern. That's 2030 UTC. Find out more at dailytechnewshow.com slash live. Tom's out tomorrow, but Rick Struffalino would be with us and Patrick Norton joins us as well. Talk to you then. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Get more at frogpants.com. I hope you have enjoyed this program.


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In this video I want to talk about a frequently asked question on this channel We're gonna talk about technology and oh no, we're gonna talk about the social and personal ramifications of using technology I don't want that. I'm a smooth brain Luke. I just want to consume product Okay, if you want to consume next technology product, there are a lot of other channels you could watch if you want that That's not what we do here. Okay, so I Want to talk I get asked all the time. I've been asked for like months years about this thing purisms Libram 5 phone Okay, if you don't know what this is it is a cell phone under development. I think they're prototypes I think that might be selling stuff already I don't really keep my you know fingers on the pulse because I don't care But there's a company called purism. They're developing a free software open hardware phone Okay, that's what they're supposed to do and I in some sense. I agree with what they're doing Okay, they're doing something very sensible. They're taking cell phones, which are a monitoring device Everything you do on your Android phone is basically pinged right to Google. They have root privileges on your phone You don't Same thing with you know Apple phones same concept so In some ethereal world I should be for this stuff and people want me to talk people want me to advertise the stuff basically I think that's what it boils down to. I don't know if the people I'm been getting emails from are actually from purism I don't know.  I don't know if we can I don't know if given him any money is gonna do us any good And that's probably actually true, but why do I not care about the purism phone? Okay? I don't care fundamentally for me. This is how I look at it. I don't like proprietary cell phones I don't like them because they have proprietary cell phone or proprietary software But I'm more disliked them because they are cell phones. Okay.  That is my way of thinking of it because there are multiple reasons for this now you could take the the The side of oh well just not having softwares even harder to monitor and that is true I mean there can be vulnerabilities and free software, but that's not really what I care about what I really care about is Basically cell phones are not good for you. Okay, and I of course, I'm a long I've been using cell phone since I was a kid too. I don't know. I got my first cell phone at 16 or something And it's been man. It's now that I'm a literal 30 year old boomer. You can do the math So I've had cell phones for over a decade But of course there have been periods of my time where I've been addicted to that cell phone and now I'm at a point where I basically do not use a cell phone and I encourage people to Minimize or entirely cut out the usage of their cell phone as a good thing So it's not very appealing to me to have a free software friend Oh, let me talk about some of the reasons. I don't like cell phones Cell phones are an electronic brain that you use and you basically it changes your attention It changes the way you think about things and it's one of those things you can when you meet someone You can almost always tell how addicted to their phones. Are they? You know one thing I've said before that really unnerves me. This is how to tell if you're addicted to your phone Okay, if you cannot tolerate being bored Okay, if you sit yourself down in a room with nothing to do How long does it take for you to pull out your cell phone and start idly scrolling? How quickly if you're sitting with someone at a table and you're not talking how quickly do do you pull out your phone? Now my guess is most people even me most of my life I would pull out my phone, you know, if you're not talking or saying anything else you pull it out immediately because You get if you're a chronic cell phone user you get in the state where you always have this kind of superficial Consciousness where you're always looking for just instant not even gratification But stimulation in some minor way and the thing about cell phones is to give you exactly that they don't Cell phones contrary to their advocates ideas. They are not magical World knowledge machines or something like that.  They're just phenomenally good. Think about think about how it actually changes the way you think You know it puts you in a place The social media feed that you scroll through on you know snapchat or fit I don't even know if snapchat works like that. Sorry boomer. I don't know but you know Facebook or Twitter or something like that Those kind of feeds are deliberately created because they're minor stimulation that you get as you scroll through them And you just sort of run with it. It feels good. It feels like you're getting something out of it It feels like you're learning something and then you waste, you know eight hours of your life if you're sitting up there You know trying to go to bed or something just doing nothing. Okay, so for me Cell phones are just generally a thing that are bad to people and you literally can Tell when you meet someone who is a cell phone user and who isn't or at least a chronic cell phone user now Do I have a cell phone? Yeah, it's right here. You know what I use my cell phone for?  That's what I use my cell phone for. It's a vestigial organ from when I used to use the cell phone But I'm the kind of person I know that everyone gets so reliant on cell phones for everything They're like I need it to drive. I need it. What if there's an emergency? I need to be contacted You know where I keep my cell phone? I keep my cell phone in my house all the time I do not I don't even get reception at my house. So if you send a text message to me The next time I'll read it will be whenever I happen to take myself I'll accidentally put it in my pocket and take it out walking. Oops.  I've missed nothing when people know that you don't have a cell phone They realize very quickly. There are other ways to get in contact with you or even more importantly It helps you cut out the superficial relationships the super the little stimulation you get in your life that does not matter if someone if you have a Friend who's only gonna contact you on one social media thing.  You're gonna email them.   I'm sorry. I'm a boomer. I actually do that. That's the literal cringe You can do that around here though. I will say that But one of the reasons you can't do it in big cities is because everyone is so real well Not just because you might get killed, but you know, we live in a time where if you go in public This is one of the craziest things and you know a lot of people will wonder why why isn't our society like the movies? I mean aside from the fact that the movies are fiction, but I mean if you go out in public It's abnormal nowadays to to talk to someone to ask them directions to ask them What's going on or to have a conversation with them because you don't need social stimulation in real life because you get this Superficial social stimulation from your phone. So you if you walk into a gas station You have no inclination to talk to any of the people there. Okay, if you You know, if you need directions in a town, you don't ask you just look at Google You just tell Google where you are and Google will tell you where to go. Okay, you don't have friends anymore You just have Google and that a lot of people will complain about society about oh how everyone's so alienated here Let me post about it on my phone or whatever Okay, just that that's what I'm trying to say is that if you ever feel like your life is unnatural, okay? Well, let me let's see it from your perspective. Okay, if you're a chronic cell phone user You see you can imagine all the things that not using a cell phone will make worse about your life Oh, I won't be able to contact this person more conveniently. I won't be able to do this that or the other Um That's fine You can see that but what you don't see is how not having a cell phone can change the way you think how it changes How you interact with people how it changes how you think you get time This is really crazy You get time to actually think about things in your head when you don't have a distraction like that You can actually dwell on things that's something that people cannot do anymore Because if they get even if they get something even approaching boredom, they'll open up their phone and just do whatever You know people ask me oh Luke How did you get good at this or how did you learn to do that and how did you do this in the thing when it comes down to it? When you actually have time to yourself Mentally those kind of things will happen naturally you do not need to the craziness of our society nowadays is that people They they think of really the cell phone as being their Interface with the world like give me a if I want to learn all language let's say I'll get an app I'll get what is it duo linguo or whatever. Oh, I'll get an app and that'll help me do it It doesn't work ever hurt anyone who learned a language from an application. I'm gonna guess no Okay, no one who no one can learn anything from a cell phone itself It's just a minor stimulation to give you some superficial exposure to something that you want okay now Of course cell phones can be useful. Yes. There are many people. I'm sure Whose lives have been saved by cell phones, you know They're in a disaster situation and they use a cell phone, but I want you to be real about your life. Okay be real Just try living without it. Just try going without it. Just try for a couple weeks You can start slow. You can you don't have to quit cell phones called turkey But just don't take it to school a day. Don't take it to work a day. See if that works. It's gonna work Try try going out on the town with your friends not having a cell phone. They'll still have cell phones It's not so much different. Just try going without them go with your other, you know encourage your other friends that you want I guarantee you Living it without this anvil in your pocket will make your life better. It'll make it more enjoyable. You will not You will not regret it and yes, there are conveniences to having a cell phone I'm not in denial of any of those things you will get you do get things nice out of having a cell phone But the rest of what your brain is not evolved to enjoy cell phones Your brain is invo- Let me start that over again.  Just trust me on that one. Okay, so that's my video on the Libram 5 phone Don't expect another one or unless it I don't know maybe so that's what I have to say about cell phones I've said this stuff before frankly, but I just wanted to make it clear. That's it. See you guys next time


You've been with us, we're coming and calling, now you're with me for safe soil, we're testing. I'll be there, forever. I like the commitment. Every third Sunday, our parents would always bring us to Kerala, have full afternoon on games and stuff. If I know a journey of probably 500 kilometers and I need sleep and I'm tired. You want a horseback? Most people thought I won't survive 100 days. They don't know the true, true path which was behind the surgery. 10 million, but each of you get, I'll give you. I told Samanta, 25 million. Don't do this, Samanta can afford to have 25 million. Namaskaram, sir. Namaskaram, I'm seeing the wonderful seeing you. So, so happy to be here. Thank you for this opportunity. I'm so grateful to be here. You've been with us, we're coming and calling, now you're with me for safe soil, we're testing. I'll be there, forever. I like the commitment. Yes, I'll be there, forever. I'll be following you, like millions others. I'm very good at English. I'm very good at English. I'm very good at English. I'm very good at English. I'm from Canada, Indonesia. Okay, done. Sathri, so you've been… you're too early in my sort and I know that you grew up here. How did this place change since last 30, 40 years? How did you see this place? What do you think? You know, like when we were children, every third Sunday, our parents would always bring us to Kuiara. At that time there was no the separate road. We had to come on the dam. We were so excited about that. Red light will come, you can't go. Green light will come, you can go. Those days we had not seen these things that rode with the control like this. So, we used to come every third Sunday and as we became twelve-thirty years of age, it became once in two months, then it kind of receded and as we grew up, you know, we went our own ways. But later on, you know, me, my wife and Radhe when she was young, we used to come very often, but I wouldn't come in the evening because I don't like this very surishty kind of setup. So, I would come in the daytime, the other side, where the Vishweshwarya canal is there and there is lot of fruit trees and stuff. So, we used to come there with a small group and play frisbee and have full afternoon games and stuff and then go back before this whole tourist guy once came. But when we were children, these things were, this whole garden was lit up with regular bouts, garish lighting, red, blue, green and all that. I don't think it's… it's yet there. What… the memories that you have of… No. After that, I remember, I don't know which year, the Philips took the, what do you say, the contract for re-lighting it and they did it in a very subtle way, which was actually nice. The people of Mysore didn't like it. Oh, this is not… this is not Kairas. The Kairas should be like that and all that. But I think it stayed when they did not only that dancing fountain or dynamic fountain came up, but even now the lighting is… This is subtler. …little looking like it's not lit up. Yeah, yeah. I think it's a bit too shallow, I would say, because fountains are not being seen. At that time, fountains would be right lit up. Blowing up. Yeah. I remember seeing the old pictures. This green mantapam would be fully green, you know. Yeah, yeah. Fully green means like how the palace is lit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like that, green mantapam sitting there. It's all ready. Yeah, now they painted it green and it's not looking like that. I'm surprised it's so low, the light. The city is almost same, I believe. The Mysore city is almost same, I believe, almost. No, it's changed a lot. But still it has that little quaintness, unlike Bangalore. I hope it retains that. Till now there's a sixth lane road to Bangalore. If you want a big city, you can always be there in an hour. In an hour or so. So, I hope Mysore retains its city of palaces and gardens kind of image. Green. Yeah. New York City. It was very beautiful. You're here at the end of 30,000 kilometers and going strong. Whereas I, if I do a journey of probably 500 kilometers and I need sleep and I'm tired. And what? On a horseback? So that's what I was coming to that. You put all the youngsters to sleep. How do you do this? I know everybody asks you this, but I have to ask this one common question. How do you do this? I've been telling you you must do inner engineering, alright? That's the answer. Yep, it is. Because say, any machine for example, anything, any mechanism. If it's well engineered, it'll function with least amount of friction. Essentially, if good engineering needs, you take away the friction with action whatever activity it performs is almost seamless and effortless. This is also a very complex mechanism.  The important thing is that you take away all the friction. If there is friction within you, what it means is you yourself are an issue in your life. Then how will you handle other issues when you are an issue yourself? This one thing you must decide in your life. We will face many issues in life. The more active you are, the more issues you will face. That's okay.  You can be an issue in somebody else's life. I'll give you the freedom. In your life you shouldn't be the problem, isn't it? Then what is it? That's the dumbest thing to do. But for most people, their own thought, their own emotions are a big, big issue. They don't need anybody else. They don't need enemies. Most of them are doing great by themselves. Self-consciousness. I know. So, yeah, I think, in an engineering… This machine runs smooth, so it runs easy. No friction, frictionless. Most people thought I won't survive 100 days and 30,000 kilometers. Here I am, just another 250 kilometers and I'm dead. They don't know the true, true power behind such rules. So, yeah, now they're aware of that. So, I hope when I'm mature, you know, I write like this when I'm at your age. But how different, what difference did you make here? I've already promised the… Nobody would do it? The girl Samanta. I have promised an Indonesian girl. She's a very famous actor. Okay. And… What is the promise? I'm very curious. I told her, see, if you get 10 million Earth bodies, I'll… you'll get to ride with me. So, she just flew to Dubai. I was in Dubai and said, «Sadhguru, I've come to ride with you. I've done… I've done enough number of Earth bodies. I'll ride with you. Okay. So, I was… Is it a good 10 million? I don't know. I don't count. When she says she's done, I'll go with that. So, then I was at the, you know, UAE agro-farm. They have a farm. So she came there. She said, I bought a new helmet and she had safe soil sticker on it. I said, «All right. Are you really ready? Because the temperatures were soaring. On that day, on road, the temperatures were around 50 to 50 degrees. So, she sat in my back seat and I rode. Like, you know, the speed limit is 160. So, I was hitting 160 and she's like in fifteen minutes. Sathguru, Sathguru, please I love you. Sathguru, stop. Oh my God! But she got to sit in there for fifteen minutes. She got to… she was privileged, but she was tired of it. Just like that. And you use… Just too fast. And you usually ride at that speed or more. Hey, I won't tell you those things. It is the only time I come into my life. Speed. Oh my God! But in Germany, it was not a crime. So, I can tell you. Okay. So, I'm sure it's above 160. My motorcycle is capped at 275. Digitally, electronically capped. If we release that, it'll do probably 330, 340. Right now, it's capped at 275. And the vehicles that follow you, they can catch up to you or I… I don't think they can catch up to you ever. Capped up somewhere. Capped up somewhere. Okay, okay. I think then I need to aim at getting ten million. Ten million Earth Buddies if you get. I can come and strike, right? That I need a ride? Yes. Okay. You will get a ride. You don't have to strike. I'll give you a ride. Okay, done. Noted. So, I'm going to do that. I told Samanta, 25 million. What? Are you not ashamed? You're taking only ten million. Come on. Don't do this. Samanta can afford to have 25 million. Right now, I can't afford to have 25 million. All right. Ten million. Okay, ten million. Done. Done. Okay. I'm so sweet. You gave me ten million. That's the secret. Don't do this to anybody else. Just me, ten million. So, yeah, I wanted to ask that what different you did when you were young, so that… I mean, you had your childhood and when you were growing up, but now you're… like this, what was the different thing that you did and probably we could also do it now, growing up? One important thing that I think I did was I never identified myself with any… I was involved with everything. Family, religion, politics, I was very involved. Okay. I was involved with school, education, especially education. But when you say you don't identify yourself, you're not… See, the moment you identify, you get prejudiced. See, right now, nationality, for example, or religion, you get identified with that. Suddenly you're prejudiced. Everything that's yours looked good, everything that's somebody else's looked good. So that's one thing I did, but I never identified with anything. I think this looked at everything the way it is. So, if you see things the way they are, it's very effortless to navigate through life. Right now the problem is people get strongly identified. And because of that, they have strong opinions.  You have an opinion about what I am. See, the prejudice, I could be anything tomorrow morning different from what you're thinking, right? So the moment you form opinions, you will be prejudiced. Right now people are acting like it's their right to have their strong opinions. I have my own opinion. Now, the so-called whatever the civilized people, what they do is, I agree with your opinion, you agree with my opinion.  This is rubbish. At least if you fight about your opinion, because you believe that's right, I would appreciate that. Yeah, I'll take yours, you'll take mine.  It's very hard for people to understand. People who are around me for more than twenty-five, thirty years. Even today when I look at them, I don't have an opinion about them. I just look at them, how they stand right now. See them for what they are today. Because what they were for last twenty-five years, today they need not be that. That's why the human being is important because it's always a possibility. You know, like for example, we started these programs, how people wanted to do HR programs, human resources. I said human is not a resource. Human is a possibility. So we'll call it human possibility, not a resource. Resource means we know the quantity. We know the qualities of that. We take, let's say sand or iron ore or steel or something, we know the quality of that. We know what it is and we know what we can do and what we cannot do. A human being is not like that. It's not a resource. It is a possibility. If you nurture a human being properly, people will do things that you never imagined possible. Never imagined possible. See, even this, you know, 100-day journey, when I announced this on 3rd of January, people thought it's impossible. I said, you just do it. Okay, it will happen. And then some people who don't trust this, they went about inquiring with professional agencies, who can organize a tour like this, who can take care of this, who can take care of the logistics. Everybody looked at the mad schedule and they said, no, we can't do this seamlessly. Across twenty-seven nations, these eight states non-stop. Without a single day of contingency, there's no contingency plan, either for the man or the machine. They planned this in such a way one day if the machine is not working or if the man is not well, there is no contingency. Simply 100 days packed. See, when it comes to body, that's your body, this is my body. One day when we are buried, we will understand that is also not true. But at least for now, that is your body, this is my body. This is my mind, that's your body. But there is no such thing as this is my life and that's your life. Selimine cosmos.  How much life you capture within you will determine how significant your presence will be, your experience will be.  That means if you sit here simply by yourself, still your experience of life is significant. Right now for most human beings, they have to do something to become significant. Without doing anything you are very significant. Then action becomes effortless, there is no stress about what will happen what will not happen because anyway your existence is very significant. This needs to happen to every human being. This is why save soil is under the banner of conscious land. We need to think twice why it's called conscious land because we are living so unconsciously right now. So talking about youth, it's the day that we are living. Talking about me. You are the leader of that gang. You are the leader of that gang. The question that I am asking that doesn't include you because you are fools and I want an answer for that. We have heard you telling that if youth is not church, well it can be disastrous. India being a young country where if youth are on the right track it could do wonders. Whereas I feel most of the youth we are always in this state of confusion no canarity, there is no focus. How do we get that change that have that focus that when you want to do something you do it. You don't, you don't believe it. See can you read this board? Yes. Royal No, no, read by alphabet. R-O-Y-A-L O-R-C-H-I-D Oh, you know all the alphabets. Shankaro. No, no, no. Okay. How many years did you take to learn just 26 alphabets? At least three years. How many years to make words out of it? A lot of few years to do it. How many years to make sentences out of it? A lot of three years. How many years to make literature out of it? Five, six years. A lot of time. So when you take that much time to learn there is just a big language that brings things together. Why is it everybody is asking when it comes to most important aspects of life? Shankaro, what is the take away? Give it to me in two minutes. That means people are not giving enough significance to their life. If your life is significant is it not important for the well-being of your life to invest a certain amount of time? Now I'm telling you you invest 30 to 32 hours of time. We'll teach you something with which your chemistry will become blissful. If you simply stand here you're blissed out. Now once you're joyful by your own nature you're not an issue, isn't it? Right now your own issues are going on all the time. Life has many issues. The more activity you're doing there are more issues about it but you are not the issue. If this has to happen you must be joyful by your own nature and this there are many ways to approach it. The simple thing is if your chemistry becomes joyful people are trying attempting this with a bottle or a pill or something. Well it works for a little bit of time and then you know what all happens to them. So there is another way because this is the greatest chemical factory in the universe that we know. Most complex and sophisticated chemical factories here if you are a good manager of this factory would you create blissful chemistry or miserable chemistry? Blissful, miserable, yeah.  So this is all it is. If you bring your... Yes, without taking care of it without paying enough attention without doing the necessary work with it you touch the world. Even if you touch it with best intentions it will only cause harm. Right now that's what has happened to the soil. That's what has happened to the soil.  Why don't you speak Kannada? I know. You speak English. No, I don't. I speak very Kannada. No one can understand it. No one can understand it. Just listen to Kannada. Okay? There are many young people living in the city. Most of the youth in urban sectors, village areas, urban sectors. They would not even remember it. Last time, they were cleaning the soil. They were cleaning the city concrete, cleaning the vehicles, cleaning the houses.  I'm not talking about the ladies fashion. Yeah, I don't, I understand. They are above the ground. Yeah. So last time they were cleaning the soil. They were cleaning the soil. So how… How much it creates problem and how does it affect the youth and everybody in general, people that is the youth who have not stepped out? I've never been talking about this in various different ways. Now that you ask the question, see the way the lifestyle changed that's happened. There are many aspects to it. One is not being in touch with any aspect of nature, not being in touch with any of the five elements except for consumption. There is no contact with water, fresh air, fire, anything, okay? Most people have never sat around a fire. Because there is no connection with any of the five elements, that is one aspect. Another aspect is today, if they are living in big cities like Bangalore, Mumbai, wherever else, most of the Indian cities are like that. If they step out of their home, they are straight into the traffic. They don't have the… very… this thing about simply running out of your home like a butterfly and hopping all over the place and nothing hits you. They always become… become concerned and conscious. Yes. But this in another fifteen, twenty years will pay a huge price. The number of people with psychological ailments will go up in a very massive way. One thing is lack of contact with five elements. Another is lack of carefree living when they are young. So we need to change this as a part of this. I'm part of this, what is called as future cities. So I am suggesting a one-building city. Someday when you have the time, I'll explain to it. You and maybe you can do a project, one-building city around Bangalore. See, if you go fifty kilometers offside the city, the realistic costs are probably ten percent or less. Right? So you buy fifty acres. You build only one acre. Fifty floors or more, up to hundred floors you can build whatever you want. Residences, offices, a small school up till seven standard, a small theater to watch your movies. See, I'm making accommodation for everybody. I'm loving it, sir. I'm loving it. A little sports center. I'm very actually calculating this plan. I really like it. Little sports center, gymnasium, whatever people need. Everything in the building. Remaining forty-nine acres, absolutely no building. At the most you can build some digibos and mantapams like that where people can sit. But no construction, no enclosed construction. Rest you just make it like a forest. Water bodies and buildings. Whatever this care is, if not manicured like this, simply you can have it like this, not like this, but full of trees where children will grow up very healthy. One aspect of life is children. Whether we individually want to have children or not, the future of the world is that generation. If they grow up sick, very early on. Sick because you removed them from the source of life. They never swam in a river. I can't believe most of them have never swam in a river. You know I must tell you because you've come from Mangalore, Netravati. I'm at that time made like this that if I see water, I just jump in. See a hill, I have to climb it. I'm like... So I'm riding on a motorcycle, my wife is new, she's just married just for three months or so. She's riding with me. I come and Netravati Bridge was new at that time. It's more than a kilometer long bridge, you know. So I park there and I unbutton my shirt, I take off my trousers in my underpants. I just jump off the... She must have been shocked. I just jump off the bridge maybe about forty feet, forty-five feet something like that. I'm scared. What if you hit some rock or something? No, no, I...  I can see the depth. And I jump where the bridge wall is, you know, where the wall is. The water is coming up almost five, six feet more because it hits the wall and coming up. I go right there. So I got extra five, six feet buffer.  So I... almost twenty-five, thirty minutes when I come back a huge crowd has gathered. This girl is standing there drying her heart out because she's looking on the other side. You said, oh, why are you looking this side? If I fall this side, the river is flowing that side. I will come there even if it's... she's looking here and crying that I drowned. Oh, my God! I can't blame a... anybody would have cried her girl suddenly out of the middle of the jump. If she had come this way, she would have seen me swimming. At least go for swimming. But you... after forty minutes, cooking minutes of... About twenty-five, thirty minutes because I had to swim out, come to that shore and walk back. So, yeah, that... that is lacking these days, these kids. They don't have to do those kind of things. At least touch the mud or...  And I travelled across India. I never stayed in hotels. I always camped next to a small stream or somewhere I parked there with my motorcycle and just washed myself there and, you know, stayed around that and... being in nature, what it does to you cannot be described. It just cannot be described. The... for weeks on end, I've been in Western Guards, trekking and in Gopal Swamy, but these readings, once I was out there holding nearly twenty-three days, like no equipment those days, except my HMT watch. You know what's a HMT? Hmm, I know. You know HMT. The belt is old-fashioned, see. So, HMT watch is the only equipment I have. There are no phones, there is no other equipment I don't even have a torchlight. The matchbox that I carry by second day, it's all wet and warm. Twenty-three days. I buy about eighth or ninth day, something like that. My shirt, half of my shirt is gone because when I was getting off the tree, it went off. So, I always slept on the trees and in the daytime I looked for food and walked around. I've worked hundred-and-sixty-three kilometers, I think, but twenty-three days through the jungle, I saw all kinds of animals, tigers, elephants, bison, there are lots of them. So, alone by myself, finding my own food because my food ran out on third-fourth day. That's all you can carry. No light, no matchbox, no nothing. When you're cold, you're cold when you're hot, you're hot and you walk through everything. I'm saying what it does to you, both physically and mentally. If you don't do those things at all, not at all exposed, everybody need not go alone and risk their life. Even in some organized way they can do something, at least come to care and then walk around. Something, you need contact with nature because, see who you are right now is a consequence of what's happening in this 15-year-old species. These organisms, these microorganisms are like miniature human beings. The fantastic thing is there is one super-microorganism. Exact replica, there'll be a little larger one. Exact replica, larger one. Till now, people have seen fifteen to seventeen like this. There could be many more. That is super-super-microorganism becomes little more micro-micro, still microscopic only. But, fifteen layers of the same design. Larger than each species. Yes, larger than each species. They are different species. Like this, there are a trillion species.  Only forty percent is parental genetics. And we don't get this. We still think they are parents' kids. The parents think you are their kids. Parents think they are kids. Yeah, I am very sorry.   She is not going to like it. She is not going to like it, but that's the truth. That's the truth of our life. So, we read these facts and these doomsday predictions. No facts and all these predictions. And if we don't do what we should do, in the next thirty-forty years there will be disasters and all that. Whereas even the youth, we understand it and we are worried also to some extent. But how we change is that attitude change, they are not just worry or understand it, act upon it, do something about it. So, that attitude change, they are not just being worried and understanding about the issues. There is one problem everywhere, but particularly in India, is people are always asking, Sathir, what will happen after thirty years? What will happen after hundred years? So, essentially what they are looking for is they want a prediction. What will happen? Prediction means something is predetermined. Except your foolishness, nothing else is predetermined. What it is? So, I always ask them, do you want a prediction or do you want a plan? If you are incompetent to make a plan and you can make a plan, then you look for predictions. But what should happen on this planet? You will look at every other planet and every other star. All the stars you are looking at, most of them actually don't exist. You know that? They have gone long time ago. Their light is coming to us still. They are gone. So, you are looking at other things, it's of looking here and thinking. If you are looking at the next step, you are thinking of something else which you can't pick. So, it's a prediction. If you look at how can we do this? If there is a plan, maybe not a perfect plan. At least you have a reasonably good plan. We can always improve the plan and work on it, things will turn around. So, never ask for a prediction about anything, whether it's your personal life or the general situation in the world. What is the plan? Well, everything that you plan may not happen. But if your commitment is relentless, you can make it happen largely. A few things may not happen, but it's okay. Everything that we plan need not happen. So, everything that we plan need not happen absolutely. It is just that if as you bring more clarity to what you see, then you will see most of the things that you plan will become real because you have seen it clearly. That is, say if this is my issue all the time in my life for people around me, I start talking about something that is not tomorrow, that is day after tomorrow. I start acting on it right now, preparing the situation. It doesn't make any logical sense to anybody because it doesn't even seem relevant. But I am preparing a nut and bolt for day after tomorrow to fix it. They are the most of seeing, smelling tomorrow. They can't understand that day after tomorrow can be fixed now. So always people are either in confusion or they get angry or resentful because they think, oh, what is it doing? It doesn't make any sense. But after it happens, they say, oh, this is fantastic. Now they are connecting the dots. So that's why when something very big is being planned in my mind, I never tell anybody because if you tell them everything, they will get mind boggled. They will get, you know, incapacitated. All this is going to happen. It's better to do one by one, step by step. You tell them the next step, they are happy. You tell them the next step, they are happy. You tell them what is after twenty-five steps, they will go crazy. That's okay. For the minds like us, I think taking it each step is better than getting confused with the whole plan. This is why one needs to work on the clarity that you learn to see things very clearly. That's the problem with the you, like us including all of us. This is why I said what I said there. See, if you're not identified with anything, you will become more and more clear. See, right now, let's say for example, you're a young woman. You get very identified with your gender. Now you can't see life the way it is. You go on thinking this is it, that is it, because you're identified with a certain body form, which is a woman's body. Now you can't see life as it is. If you... Yes, you're a woman, hundred percent there's no good thing about that. But if you're not identified with it, you can see both sides of everything, which will give you clarity of life. Otherwise it will just give you strong emotions. You will also be on... Yes, it will give you strong emotions, which will throw you around here and there. It looks like it's a great thing, especially because you're in the movies, I'm telling you. I'm sorry, I'm not making a comment. Because this television series, I don't see them, but here and there, whatever when I'm sitting, news channels at least, whatever sometimes flashes, everywhere it become like this, that how do we settle the difference between you and me. Let's say we have a difference of opinion. You think that is blue, but I'm telling you it's green. No, you insist it's blue. How do you settle this?  This is how we are encouraging you to settle this.  Whether it is western movies or Indian movies, everything is like that.  Five-year-old kids are shooting, shooting, shooting, shooting somebody. So tomorrow, suppose I get a gun in my hand, if I have to press this trigger, I don't feel too much about your life because I've been shooting right from age, you know, age of five. On the screen I have been shooting and I've become eighteen, twenty. I would like to get a little real. This is happening, you see in America all the time. So we need to look at these things. How, what kind of society do we want to build? I said this and nobody liked it but let me say to you, maybe not so much in south Indian movies, but in Hindi movies during seventies and early eighties, there used to be a few people who are called rape experts. We've been raped, you know, like very, very violent kind of rapes being shown on the screen. Two-three people were rape experts. So all the very young people who watch those rape experts, today if they do those things in the world, suddenly it looks so bad, but you are coaching them, this is the way to treat a woman, right? In a way you're nurturing it or not? So if you're going on the street, I will come and pull your hair. That is, that was called heroic, romantic, isn't it? Being done or not? I'll come on the bicycle and tug your hair and if you fall down and sing a song, that was great. So I'm not saying you, the cinema has the responsibility of fixing everything in the society. No, I will not say that. After all it's entertainment, you can do it whichever way. But some sense of what are we doing to people who watch this? Because people who watch this are so simple-minded that they see you in the cinema and they think this is real. They are not seeing it as just to do our cinema entertainment and going home. Their heads are revved up with this and they think this is for real. So when that kind of population is what is watching cinema, I think little more restaurants believe in it. Look, at the same time I wouldn't put the burden of fixing everything in the society through cinema.  It's okay the way you make it. But little more consciousness about it. See, right now they brought a law, you can't show a hero smoking. All the old movies everybody was smoking. Well, it's a responsible thing. But you are showing criminals and all kinds of people. How come they don't smoke? Non-smoking criminals... By default they'll assume they will do. No, I'm saying it would be natural for him to smoke. But we are not showing that. So we don't need laws like that. By self-control we must see what is the impact we are having on other people. Are we building a healthy society by doing this or not? Little bit. As I said I'm repeating this again. I wouldn't want to put the burden of fixing the society on entertainment industry. First, like you said, there should be... Conscious, yeah. Some sense should be there about it. At least I don't know what opposite it will come my way. At least I try to... let me try to choose the work. At least you died in the movie. Yeah, at least there I died in the movie. Yeah, yeah, true. I tweak my eyes so much because it's right that even in the night... Till night I'm writing and writing, that's what I'm saying. I walk through the forest without any light or thoughts anywhere. How come the animals can walk and I cannot? So I paid attention, paid attention, paid attention to everything in such a way. If you pay enough attention without unproduced attention, see the problem is human things. Now if I am a man, I see a young woman, I pay attention to you. But another young man is going, I ignore. This is not the nature of attention. Attention is like light. The light is on.  That's how your attention should be. But it just lights up, what is there? You don't make it prejudiced. You only light up this one, not light up that one. Once you do that, this is what I mean by identity. Once you're identified, you cannot even see other things. You cannot even actually see the things that exist around you. You're not paying attention. Yeah. Because your attention is prejudiced already, because you've taken an identity. So I went into the jungle and paid attention and attention. Then I always wondered why I can't see behind the tree, why I can't see behind the wall. I was just thinking, can I bend my vision so I can hear what's behind the tree, but I can't see. So I spent hours and hours and days just seeing if I can do this. That's different. But as I paid attention, I learned how when I want to tweak my eyes, I tweak them up to a certain amount of energy. I see clearly in the night, even today, most of the time I don't turn on lights in my home unless I want to read or something else. Normal walking around, I just walk around. As it is in little starlight, something may be there, but it's fine. So now I'm riding through the night with glasses on. The helmet wiser has a tinted glass, just like this. Otherwise I'm wearing this and riding. But the high beams from the opposite side would be perfect. Most of the roads we've been driving have medians, so the high beams are not really in your face. That's not the thing.  So now after I finish this, you know, the two days, I have to tone down my eyes because if I live like this, it will burn my eyes out. I can't live like this for too long. No, no, no, we need it. I'll tone it down after sometime. Okay, two days after this, if please tone it down or whatever is needed. Then you will see me without glasses. Yeah, please. I want to see the eyes also.  So don't tone it down. Okay, so I wanted to ask this, that when it came to Rally for Rivers, we started with a missed call, then we started with the campaigns and all that. And then after that the signature happened, the signing of the document happened. And then the things that happened, the farmers taking the plants in. So with respect to soil here, now that we've started in the Semiteco Nations in five, six states here signed MOU, after this, what next, what we can do? Youth and everybody, what we can do? What is the next step? Right now, this is the whole thing. If we do not approach a certain activity with the needed strategy, we will just do things out of emotion and not achieve anything. Right now, the strategy is to keep the voices up, voices up, voices up because if democratically elected governments have to act, they must know that people are totally on this. They should not fade off. Yes, if you just quieten down, then they'll think, okay, something he did and now everything's okay. Let's focus on something else, something else, something else. Every day there's some issue. You can't even blame them. Every day there is some trouble, some issue going on in the country. So they're always focusing on this. So we must keep the voice up. Once the incentive-based policy is done, then we'll get on the ground to talk to the farmers how to make these incentives, how to benefit from that. But till then, our duty is to talk about soil. To keep the conversation going about soil because the admin should understand that people really want it to happen.  We need to keep up your voice. So this should be up, so that you know it's real. So you're not at the end of the campaign. You can go back to what's been said and you're coming to Bangalore, the thing is that we have a lot of work. We said it yesterday, we have a lot of work. So yeah, we will keep, we will do everything in our capacity for the soil not to die off, for the soil to be there. See, people are not really grasping this to people are beginning to. People are at the most thinking in town, the food sector. Yes, which is also an important thing. It's a very important thing. But there's something more fundamental. See, as I was saying, 50% of your body might be alive. See, similar composition to that of the soil. If the organic content or if the organism starts dropping down, like 27,000 species per year are going to extinction. If it continues like this, when it goes into stumble, when the biodiversity starts collapsing, it will also collapse in your body. It's not because of lack of nourishment that you will collapse. You are very fundamental. Not like here you will fall apart but you will see it becomes weaker, it becomes susceptible to so many things. Even this corona virus has it there. See, if you ask any... not some great virologist, if you ask any ordinary doctor, a simple doctor, he will tell you that in your nutrition, in your food, if there is not enough vitamin A, B6 and B12, D, C, C, D, calcium, foliate, iron, zinc, papa, if these things are not there in your diet, you will become very susceptible to waste or infection. One reason why a simple virus like that takes this kind of a toll on humanity is nutritional value of the food has gone down significantly. See, even in India, you can see this everywhere, you can see this. See, how much it tortures the city people. How to what extent it affects the rural people? Very different. Because they are living a certain life where they pluck things and eat just like that. See, a simple thing, every day in the morning in your garden, it is a mango juice. Each two or three tender leaves, your immunity will boom. Don't watch it. Simply eat it as it is. It will make a huge difference. So they are eating things like that, whole western thing, wash your hands with soap, now they are soaking you in alcohol. Sanitizers, yeah. Too much. You want to live like a lab rat. So people who are living in rural area, they were not so seriously affected. Only the very aged people got hurt. Others, nobody... They treated us fever and cold, they came in wine. The same could have been in cities. If nutrition value was moved that way, you think it is much better. That can only happen by enhancing the quality. So right now people are predicting, the WHO is predicting and some agencies are predicting that in another three or four years, there could be another pandemic which is far more severe than this. So in case it's coming or not coming, is it not important to keep your body in such a way it stays with you as long as it should? Let's not keep it, please. I mean, not death. Nothing else happens, it's okay. If someone goes, what will it be? But unfortunately, you know, I am feeling so... I have to say, ignore it. The virus is completely ignored. Do not use nothing. No. No, no, no, no, no, touch it. No, no, no. I think the virus is like... WHO is this another competition for me? Hey, you are calling me a virus? You know, somebody was stronger than me, he was not letting me enter. The virus is not that strong, but... Yeah, the body is adjustable. Ignore me.   Thank you so much, Sardar. Thank you. Thank you.


Securities. What the SEC considers a security today might not be a security tomorrow. And what I am talking about is there was a interesting conversation between MSNBC and former SEC chair Jay Clayton. If you don't know who Jay Clayton is, this is Jay Clayton. He was the former head of the US SEC from 2017 till 2020, also a lawyer. And I find it interesting that the people who search for Jay Clayton also search for Jamie Dimon and of course Gary Gensler. And the piece, if you think that's confusing what he said here, just wait till we get into it. And before we go on I want to say this is our second attempt at doing a live stream today on Saturday. Unfortunately for today I had some people show up during the first live stream and clean this blue screen or green screen behind us. And when the green screen cleaners come, they make a lot of noise and it's a little bit more difficult so we had to shut things down. But this will be hopefully just fine. So I find this interesting because when we go through this, you're going to ask yourself, well, you know, what exactly is Jay trying to say here? And I think as we move forward, and we're trying to get a little bit of clarity about what is a security and what is not a security, I think it's this type of speak gives the SEC room to pivot, but I'll let you make the judge of that. So when asked if Ether is a security or a commodity, Jay Clayton, this is of course on CNBC, he responded, things can go from being a security to not a security. And he referenced William Hinman, which was the then director of the SEC division of corporate finance. And he said, looking at the way a crypto asset is sold is the best way to sell to say whether it is a security or not. Noting that current offers and sales of Ethereum are not security transaction. Now this was from William Hinman. This is in 2018, a speech that he gave. This has nothing to do with right now. But back in those days, it seemed like Bitcoin and Ethereum were a shoe in for not a security, maybe a commodity. Clayton seemed to agree with him and stand saying, and this is where it gets kind of confusing. And I'm not a lawyer, Jay Clayton is a lawyer. So when he talks about these things, maybe this is just a little bit above my pay grade. But tell me if this makes sense. He says, look, Broadway tickets, Broadway tickets received for investing in a yet to be produced play would be securities. Tickets bought years later to see that same show would not be. Let me say that one more time. This is what Jay believes as a security versus not a security. If you go by Broadway tickets for a show that hasn't been produced yet, that is a security. That is a security. And if you just waited for when the actual play was actually out there and bought tickets, it would not be a security. So if we take a look at the Howie Prom, there has to be some kind of investment contract. There has to be something where it's in a common enterprise. And there has to be an expectation of profits. I don't understand where Broadway tickets received for investing. If you receive Broadway tickets, I don't understand where the expectations of profit would actually be for a yet to be produced play. Because to me, tickets are tickets and is a utility type of thing. But in here, he's saying, no, Broadway tickets yet to be produced play. But if you wait for a little bit later, that's okay. So here's the question I have for everybody else. If you have a blockchain, let's say Ethereum is already there, it's already decentralized and everything's out. And you use Ethereum because it's already out there just like this show is. And there's no expectations of profit from Ethereum because you're using that for actually like a utility just like the tickets. Then what's the problem? Where are we here with the securities? Because the way that Jay breaks it down, the way that I see things, it kind of looks like if you have a blockchain, if you have a crypto on a platform, and you're using for a specific utility, and it's already been produced, it's already out there, that I don't understand where the problem is. Now, this is just me is lame and looking at things. But this is what Jay Clayton believes. And then finish up, he says, Ether has many more hallmarks of just being a ticket. And it does a means to raise money. But I gotta tell you, there's a lot of things like that. Now, Grant was just came out and the SEC says that that is potentially a security as well. But doesn't that the same thing? There's already out there. It's already decentralized. It's already being used as a utility. Maybe I'm just seeing this as a very layman. But that's what Jay Clayton believes. Anyhow, let me know what you think about that in the comments section. And then also, lately, we've been seeing a lot of different negativity, especially around crypto, and more so about Bitcoin, and the amount of energy it uses, there's always something that that's going to be said as far as energy use. And then also, of course, listed activity. This is a fact sheet. From the White House, climate and energy implications of crypto assets in the United States. And it just talks about how vast amounts of power that Bitcoin actually uses. And, you know, it's true. But there's a couple of things I think for people to remember. And this is a good story about how electricity is being used to mine Bitcoin, to do other things to fund an entire village. So this is from post from coin desk. And it talks about the problem, as far as people having no access to electricity, which you would think you don't have access to electricity. Well, well, should we be using that for for Bitcoin? Maybe we should just take all that electricity and give it to all these people that don't have it just wait. So in rural Africa, there's two reasons people don't have electricity, either lack of disposable income or lack of infrastructure. And they can choose and said you can either choose between if you don't have income to ration funds for other things like mobile data on their smartphones, because it doesn't matter, you know, majority of the world actually has smartphones right now, it seems crazy, but it's true. Africans have adapted so called micro grids. It's an electrical grid that contains both the generation of storage of energy and distributes it to the immediate surrounding area. And rich of these micro grids, the smokes are called micro grids. This is where it gets interesting. In March 2022, there was a startup gridless. And the main aim was to offer affordable energy through micro grids, Bitcoin just enabled it. Gridless partners with an energy producer to co locate a Bitcoin mining operation with the production point of a micro grid near a rural community, whatever electricity isn't purchased by the community is used for mining Bitcoin. The mine Bitcoin then leads itself to more profitability. Next question you might have is well, how do they produce electricity? Very simple. This is it. It's just hydroelectric plants in small, small rivers located throughout rural Africa produces electricity, the electricity that is not purchased by the village that it's supporting goes to the miners. Because if not, it would just been lost. The miners then mine Bitcoin, they sell the Bitcoin, and they make everything profitable. So to me, like I look at this thing, and it's the same thing, it got me thinking though about how much electricity are we wasting because there's always going to be the politicians like an Elizabeth Warner comes out and says, you know, this is the worst thing ever for you for the environment and we're wasting all this electricity. But I got to ask myself like, well, how much is actually being wasted? This is a report from the US Energy Information Administration. And it's not it's relatively recent 2020. More than 60% of energy used for electricity generation is lost in conversion. So maybe it's not so much that we're not producing enough electricity, but we're not efficient enough to use it. The tech and type of fuel use to generate electricity affect the efficiency of power plants of the 11.9 quads of natural gas consumed for electricity generation, natural gas plants convert only 45% into net generation of electricity by contrast 10 quads of coal convert 32% into net generation. That's not a lot. And then if I take a look at it. So again, if we're taking a look at the electricity that's being used in Bitcoin miners, why can't we just use the overflow? And if we're using too much, why can't why don't we just turn it off? Well, that's exactly what happens. For riot blockchain. This happens right here in Texas. And you probably heard about this, I'll just remind everybody that when the electricity grid here in Texas gets over tax, especially when it gets too hot, they just ask the Bitcoin miners, Hey, all that excessive energy that we were, you guys were using, because you know, you're a paying customer, and we're on a free market society, we'd like to shut off your plant so we can give the electricity to all of our people here in Texas, and maybe not overload the grid so much. Sure. And they do that, and they make money. And then when the electric grid goes, okay, we're good, let me turn it back on. And then on top of that, if we're going to take a look at just waste and things that maybe Elizabeth Warren should be aware of, you know, a lot of Bitcoin miners, they use gas flaring. So this is just excessive energy that just blown off or natural liquid gas. And if we're looking at the ESG compliance issues, this is a study and problem of gas flaring 2020, the World Bank are everybody's favorite estimate that annual gas flaring had increased to 5.3 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, the highest in decades. So let's just blow it off into the atmosphere, not the greatest for the atmosphere, and just waste it. You know, much that is, that's 25% of the total US consumption. That's a lot. And a matter of fact, it's equivalent to 25% of the US yearly gas consumption. So if we could capture this, and use this for Bitcoin miners, I don't get the problem. So again, these are just some of the things that come out and I take a look at I go, why are we complaining about this part? But it's either here or there. So let me know what you think about that. And then to finish up, I know that everybody's talking about this is the greatest bull run. And we're gonna, you know, just keep going up a little bit of pullback. But we might see all time highs this year, people have been talking about maybe 100,000 Bitcoin. And I'm just kind of concerned that that might be it. I know people will say, Ah, Robbie, just too, too bearish. But I mean, just some things, you kind of take a look around. First of all, Bitcoin's gone down 10%. Doesn't mean it can't retrace. But that's where we're at. Also, as of April 7, I don't know if people were talking about this or not, but Apple has been selling up a lot of their shares on top of BlackRock CEO Larry Fink sell 7%. So it's a little bit different from traditional finance. And of course, of course, our markets, but just take a look at what's going on. And the last time we've had a lot of people sell off. You know, and that was December 2021. Got even people like like Elon Musk, Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos, they were selling a lot of their shares. And guess what time to market perfectly. Now we've got Apple and black with the same thing. So insiders have sold over 40 million shares of Apple since March 22. Apple's largest supplier Foxconn reported 20% decrease in sales. Say the sales will continue to crease through Q one low demand for VR headsets. And also Apple is lagging the AI race compared to Google and Microsoft. So who exactly is selling off? Well, there's this guy named Tim Cook, who is the CEO selling about 9 million or so William and Jeffrey, the COO, Catherine Adams, General Counsel, Chief Financial Officer. And then of course, you've got a lot of Tim Cook here, Catherine Adams, General Counsel, and so on and so forth. So the people that are selling off for the people who probably know the best have the most data, but that's just what I see. Also, Larry Fink, head of BlackRock with his 10 trillion assets under management, just sold 7% of a stake in the company itself. Any net profits of about 25 million. Not saying that's bad. I'm just saying that's what it is. Last week, the New York based company reported an 18% drop in its first quarter profit, but trounced the analyst estimates as investors continue to pour money into its funds. So, you know, the investors are pouring money into it. And Larry's like, well, it's time to take some profits. I have nothing wrong with that. I'm just saying, before we believe that we're going to go to a massive bull run, take a look at what's going around in traditional finance and the people who have some birds eye view of what is going on. So that concludes everything for today. Also just real quick, there was a great video from Aaron Bennett. There's been some updates as far as Celsius goes and illegal notifications as far as earn and custody. So there is a great video I linked in the description. And underneath there, you'll be able to find as far as like the claim filing process and all that stuff. In the in Aaron's video, it'll take you to this document.  Anyhow, if you just scroll all the way down, pick the letter of your first name at your last name. And you can find if you have a claim or not right here. And it breaks it down by earn and custody, and what you need to do, which will be on that website. So excellent video from Aaron. And that is it for today. So look, I guess second time's a charm. Sorry about the first one. But just like, it's just like investing, you know, things don't go right. That's happens. You just have to get back on the horse and just do it until you get it right. And that's it. So look, like this video, give it a thumbs up, consider subscribing all things to talk about our time sensitive. And again, this is not a set and forget it. A lot of things are going on. So right now, that'll conclude for the news. If you want to stick around, we'll do a talk and answer all your questions, the best of my abilities. And then go from there. So thanks so much. We got to take off, get out of here. See you on the next one. Now, let's get into it. Oh, also, I've got to talk to you about gala. So gala is going to be doing not an airdrop, but a swap gala version to gala v2. And usually when they have those types of events, as I understand it, it's gonna be a one to one swap. So when you have those types of events, usually there's a nice little run up in price, not financial advice, but that's just what I've seen in the past. So the interesting take on what happens. I'm a fan of gala and what they're doing, but we'll see. Now we'll get into your stuff. There we go.