A hermit was meditating by a river when a young man interrupted him. Master, I wish to become your disciple, said the young man. Hmm, why? The hermit asked. Well, like, you know, to find God and stuff, I guess. The young man responded. The hermit jumped up, grabbed the man by the scruff of the neck, and then dragged him into the river and plunged his head under the water. After holding him there for half a minute, with him kicking and struggling to come back up, the hermit finally pulled him out of the river. The young man coughed up water and gasped to catch his breath. And then the hermit asked, tell me, what did you want more than anything when you were under water? Air gasped the man very well.  Now, I gotta be real with you. This should be called the parable of the brutal hermit, I'll tell you that much. While we can mostly agree the methods probably aren't the best way to teach someone, poor guy probably has aquafobia now, the hermit does make a very good point. Spirituality is a lifestyle. It's a way of living life in alignment with your true self, being connected to the core of your being and the world around you. It isn't just something that you can turn off or on when it suits you. Many people who start on a spiritual journey may eventually become disillusioned with it because they find it isn't really an alignment with them or their core values or it just isn't what they imagined. In many cases, people sometimes want something but are afraid to give something else up in order to achieve it. As such, people often miss the simple truth of a spiritual path. I don't meditate to gain anything, I meditate to lose it. Contrary to what many religions may say, if you want to find God bad enough, you don't need someone else's help but to find true wisdom you must go after it with the same desperation as wanting air because in the way are many obstacles keeping you from actually finding it and applying it to life. But once you do find it and apply it, the cultivation of wisdom leads to inner peace, purposeful living and relationships that work. But most of all, it leads to freedom.


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we are going to discuss the following question and the question says that, classify the following matrices. First part, A is equal to the matrix containing elements 5 minus 1, 2, 3, 0, minus 6. Second part, B is the matrix with elements 1, 5, 3. Third part, C is the matrix with elements 2, 3, 1 and 5. Fourth part, D is the matrix with elements minus 13, 4 and 2. Fifth part, E is the matrix with elements 1, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 3. Now the first part is A is equal to matrix 5 minus 1, 2, 3, 0, minus 6. This is a rectangular matrix, number of rows is equal to 3, number of columns is equal to 2. So, number of rows is not equal to the number of columns. Therefore, this is a rectangular matrix. Now the second part is B is equal to the matrix 1, 5, 3. This is a row matrix, B has exactly one row. The third part is C is equal to 2, 3, 1, 5, which is a square matrix. The number of rows is equal to the number of columns is equal to 2. The fourth part is D is equal to minus 13, 4, 2. This is a column matrix. D has one column. Fifth part is E is equal to 1, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 3. This is a diagonal matrix. The diagonal elements are non-zero. All the other elements except the diagonal elements are zero. This completes our session. Hope you enjoyed the session.


Hi everyone, this is Jason here from Nathaniel and in today's lesson.  We also have a Zoom meeting group Which I've put a link in the description It'll be great if any of you wants to join you could be part of the class you could join in you can also Ask me questions and I can also see people other than myself and a few others currently Right, so do join soon if you'd like if not follow the Video get your books out and let's practice some rhythmic stuff. Okay, I Hope you guys can hear my piano good And my voice Great good to go right So we are going to look at rhythm basically how to count various kinds of rhythm and Today in today's class It's going to be Maybe not so long because otherwise rhythm will take a heck of a lot of time We'll focus on one kind of rhythm. Okay, so we'll try to focus on eighth note rhythms So, what do we mean by this stuff? What do we mean by eighth note? rhythms eighth note rhythm rhythms in in my book tend to divide the beat Into two okay, so when you divide the beat into two equal units The first thing you can decide is how you want to divide it Let me just explain this on the guitar that may be of some more help So if I take a couple of chords on the guitar And if I play them like this One two three four one two Basically right now I am playing on the pulse. I'm playing each note on the pulse How do I improve that a bit? I could improve that by dividing the beat The first thing we could do to divide the beat is to basically divide by two So if we divide by two it'll end up sounding as right So you go one two Three four, so if you observe I'm playing two notes for every pulse. So if I move my head one two three four one two I'm playing two chord hits for every one pulse movement So this is what we call a square verse eighth notes Dividing by two etc and on a guitar It's quite easy to generate this because I'm going one downstroke And then one upstroke. So I go one two three four one two three four and a great way to count this is to say something like this one and two and three and Four and right so the and signifies the on beat Sorry, the and signifies the off beat all those ends the end of the one the end of the two and of the three and of the four Signifies the off beats while the one two three four signifies the on beat Okay, so if I play this for you and count one two three four One and two and three and four and that's how you want to say it as a player One and two and three and four and one and two and three, right? And two and three so you could focus on specific So the a great practice would be to focus a bit more on the ends the off beats and give them a bit more emphasis for example So what did I do now I stressed a bit more on the end another thing you could try to do Especially on the guitar. It's easy to show you and then I'll try to move to the piano, of course. So if I go Just muted notes, okay, just basically muted notes And I could count One and two and three and four and one and two and three and four and one You could focus on specific beats which you'd like to play like maybe the one which is quite easy What I like about the guitar is it gives you this sort of ghost like sound so the sound Keeps going on while on a piano. You can't really do that on a piano You have to be like one and two and three and four and one two and three and four and one So you're pretty much going to choose specific hit points on the piano We're gonna come to all this in the lesson I'm just gonna give you an overview of what we are trying to do. So again We are going to try and count one and two and three and four and and try to say the ends a lot louder With more emphasis or with a little bit of a higher pitch if you will you could count something like this One and two and three and four and one and two and three and four and one and two and three and four And one two three, right? So that's the basis. So using this we can develop certain hit points like for example If you'd like to just play on the one the end of the two and the on of the four This could be a great thing to start practicing off You know right away. So if we are trying to focus on the one the end of the two and the on of the four What's going to happen in that instance? It's going to be One and two and three and four and one and two and three and four. What am I doing? I'm tapping the one the end of the two and the on of the four. Let's do that again One and two and three and four and one and two and three and four Right, this is also what we call as the tresio rhythm. It's a very popular rhythm used in latin music music. It's called Thresio rhythm. I've done a lot of videos on the Thresio rhythm. You can go to a playlist on YouTube called rhythm chops. I may not be able to share it right now because I'm teaching, but do check out the playlist called rhythm chops. We cover all these sort of things, Latin rhythms and a lot of grooves and stuff like that. Okay, Thresio also, all of these rhythms can be notated, right? So it'll be something like one and two and rest at the three and then on of the four. You could count it like this. Okay, one and two and three and four and to put things into perspective. If you follow this up with let's say two minims, if you follow this up with basically what do those two minims mean? The two minims means that the note lasts for two beats or for two counts. So one and two and three and four and one and two and three. You see, it gets a bit lazier here. So at these minims. So let's count this together. One, two, try and clap now. One and two and three and four and one, two, three, four, one and two and three and four and one, two, three, four. Okay, so this is just a introduction. We are going to really get to this and explore the eight note counting as best as we can. Okay, so if there are any questions, do type them in the chat. You can also join the zoom call. I've put the link in the comment. If not, if you have any questions, do let us know in the comments or just follow along with your instrument. Okay, so now moving on, I'm just going to look at the piano a little bit, the guitar a little bit. I'll try to demonstrate this on as many instruments as possible. And let's see where we can go from there. Okay. So I want you to first understand the concept of how rhythm patterns are generally built. Right, when you divide the beat into two equal units, when you divide the beat into two equal units, what you're ending up doing is you have two slots to fill. Agreed, you have two slots to fill for each respective beat. You have the on beat, right, or the down beat, and you have the upbeat or the off beat. So there are two kinds of ways, two kinds of beats basically, you have the on and you have the off on off. So one permutation could be to play both beats, the on beat and the off beat. So you could be doing a tick at the on and the tick at the off. The other option you can do is to do a cross or don't play the on, play only the off. The other opportunity you can have is to play the on beat, but do not play the off beat. And finally, play nothing. I've put two crosses indicating that you play nothing. But the beat is being divided into two units. This is the one and this is the and. So if we have to notate this using western notation, you have notation symbols for each of these, don't we? Tick tick would involve two quavers. Two quavers basically one and. So you're playing two beats, two notes and one beat basically. Okay, x tick is going to be a quaver rest and then a quaver x tick. So nothing, something. Okay, and then tick x, you can actually simplify by just writing down a quarter note or a crotchet. You could also write down a quaver and a quaver rest if you'd like, but I just prefer to go with this. It's a bit easy on the I okay, and it serves the purpose. The last is nothing. So you could end up putting a rest. Okay, so these are all the four permutations or binary permutations if you will, of dividing the beat into two units. How do we say binary permutations two to the part two, right, where basically the power is to show you how much the beat is being divided by. So once we get into dividing the beat by three into three equal units, it's going to be two part three, and thus it'll be eight possibilities, right? I'm sure some of you would remember this from a computer class. I'm sure you have learned at least binary permutations, right, that even I can say I learned. Okay, so moving on to dividing by two, you have these opportunities. So these are the four rhythms you're going to get when you divide the beat by two. And when you play these rhythms and when you perform these rhythms, you can perform them in two ways. You can perform them straight, and you can perform them swung. Let me just demonstrate the difference between the two swing could also be termed as shuffle in some cultures. Okay, again, I'll try and demonstrate this on the guitar. Hi, hi, everyone. Thanks for watching. I can see your comments. Thanks a ton. And do stay tuned till the end of the lesson, we're going to end up doing a lot. And this lesson is sort of improvised, if you will, but it's based on eighth note counting. Okay, so if you try and do straight music, it's going to be one and two and three and four. And for example, however, if you take the same thing and do it swung, it's going to sound like this. You still can count one and two and three and four and one and two and three and four and one and two and three, right? Two, three, four, one and two and three and four and one and two and just to show you so that swing and coming to our straight, you can do a few comparisons by maybe taking a song which is straight and maybe perhaps swinging it, like for example, let me just show you that on the keyboard very quickly. So if you take this rhythm, so beat it is actually on a straight feel, isn't it? It's so how do we count that one and two and three and four and one and two and three and four and one two and riffing now. So a song like beat it is basically straight, however, you could swing it. Now, that will definitely annoy a lot of people, but this is just to illustrate the concept where it could go. See what's happening there. We've actually sort of swung it, if you will. So that's the difference between straight and swing. So far in this lesson, we have basically covered what is an eighth note, what is an eighth note rhythm, an eighth note basically divides the beat into two equal units or swung, if you will, where you go one and two and three and four and or you go one and two and three and four and one and two and three and four and okay. And then you have two ways of looking at it. You can decide to hit on certain points of the bar. You can hit at the one, you can hit at the end and the four, this forms a thresio or else you could develop these sort of rhythm tools, what I also call as rhythmic devices. So these are what I call as rhythmic devices. So let's try and put this stuff together now on the piano and maybe even on the guitar. If there are any guitar players watching do send me a comment and I will definitely try to demonstrate this on the guitar, but the guitar is a very good instrument for demonstration because when you go down it's immediately the downbeat and whenever you go up it's immediately the upbeat or the offbeat, if you will. So let's now try and build a bunch of rhythm patterns using all the devices we have.  So I'm just going to try and use these rhythm patterns and build my music accordingly. So let's see how it goes. The first thing you could consider doing could be just a combo of maybe divide by two, don't divide, divide by two, don't divide. So that's pretty much the first thing you could consider. Now do we have a bar of four going on? I guess we do. We have a bar of four and one might argue that this is four by four. That's four crotchets of four of these guys in a bar. That's what four by four means. It means there are four crotchets or quarter notes as some people call it in a bar. This divides the, divides the beat into two units. This particular beat divides it into two units. This doesn't divide. This divides by two and this does, does not divide. So how do we count this again? Let me try and figure this out for you on the piano by taking maybe the note E as some of you who've learned from me before with my videos may know. I'm not a huge fan of C major, unfortunately. So I tend to not want to do on C. Yes, I will definitely show on guitar as well, Motox motivation. And again, a reminder for anyone who's watching, if you haven't subscribed to the channel, it'll be awesome if you can subscribe to the channel because I'll be hoping to do a lot of lessons. I would also encourage your feedback on what I can teach you moving forward.  So do consider subscribing and also hit the bell icon whenever we go live or put up a new video, you'll get a notification. So if I take maybe E, and if my goal is to figure out this rhythm, so a good thing to do on the piano could be something like this and keep all your five fingers ready and waiting. E F sharp G sharp A B E G F sharp G sharp A B Okay. Hi, Mateo. It's good to see you. It's good to see some of the guys who've joined in on the zoom call. Whoever wants to join in, you're very free to join in. I would love to see people's faces that makes, see, I'm immediately teaching better because I can see Mateo's face. So it's great that you joined. Okay. So now I'm doing these five notes, you could keep your five fingers held on on the instrument and let's first count the first rhythm. Okay. So one way to say this is in Indian conical we could say So what does this mean? It basically means I have two in one beat. Tha means I have one note in one beat. So I'm just going to play you the exercise on the keyboard and then you guys could try it out and then we'll flip things around and see how it goes. So basically you could take any of these five notes and do permutations around those five notes. So you could do something like that could work. Okay. Another way to do this is if you're not sure of the first five notes or if you're finding it a little bit uncomfortable, you could just take three notes and do the same drill or that and do different permutations. Okay. You could even go down. So basically what I'm trying to do here is I'm trying to build music using this rhythm pattern. Okay. And on the piano, since you have the other hand free, what can the other hand do? The other hand could produce the pulse. The other hand can play the pulse. So it could be two and three and four and one and two and right and four and one and so let's try and get a melody going. So I'm just trying to choose one of these five notes, something like so that's the basic structure. And now you can obviously make this a bit more interesting. What can we do in the next section or in the next bar? Maybe you could stack up the divides and stack up the don't divide. Basically you're trying to flip it and trying to do it in different permutations. So well, let's just write down the permutations. I keep using this word permutations. Maybe I should reduce that word a bit, but it basically means that you're trying to look at all the options which are available mathematically. So if the options available are four or eight, make a note of them, write them down and practice them. And the more options you have, it actually adds to your creativity and it will allow you to do a lot more on your instrument. So what's the other permutation we have? We can do this sort of a thing. You have a lot of options actually. So if I just take these four options for the class, so let's now work on this option, shall we? Let's now work on this particular option. So this is daba, daba, da, da, daba, daba, da, da. Agreed?  So what can you do here? Let me give you another option. Let's just keep adding options.  So if I have to build a blues scale, I will come back to that. Let's take the blues scale. So if we have to build a blues scale, it's going to be root, minor third, perfect fourth, tritone or the blue note, perfect fifth, and the minor seventh. This is basically the blues scale and the E blues will be what now? If you want the octave. So now I'm going to superimpose that rhythm over the scale. What is the rhythm again? Daba, daba, da, da. Let's try and do that. Write it again. So it's good to vocalize this. It's good to vocalize it and internalize it before you practice. So daba, daba, da, da, daba, daba, da, da, daba, try to say it with me. Daba, daba, da, da. Or in India we say, ta, ta, ta, ta, ta, ta, ta, ta, ta. So what do I do on the blues scale? So you could also now simplify it. Do a minimum there. So you kind of relax the music. So let's see how these two things sound together. Shall we? And mind you, this is all on a four by four. If I'm not mistaken, you're dividing, basically counting four beats in a bar. So if you're improvising on the blues, look at what my left hand's doing. My left hand's basically playing pretty much just the pulse. So you're doing, these could also so easily be chords. These could actually be chord rhythms. So if you actually do another rhythm now, let me play, let me notate another eight note rhythm. So now I hope things are getting easier and easier for you people. Let me know how you think. If you're having any doubts, text them in the comments, please.  I hope this one, right?  Something like that. Now what can we do? Let me try and demonstrate this maybe on another instrument, which is the guitar, which I have missed. So let's do that rhythm again. So we go. So if I do this on, let's say the E minor chord. Oh, so I do. This rhythm is what I'm trying to do. Let me break this down better. One and two and three and four and one and two and three and four and one and two and two. So you could do this with chords or you could do it with down and up strokes on your guitar. So many things, isn't it? It could be a chord pattern. It could be just a scale thing. It could just be a scale exercise. For example, if you're a keyboard player practicing the major scale, let's pull in another rhythm into the piece. Let's do this. Again, I'm just flipping things around. So I've just used two rhythms. What am I doing here? Da, da, da, da, da. Okay, you could actually take a major scale. Let's say you're taking E major, normal scale exercise, right? And you could do it in this rhythm. You could also try singing it. You could also practice your swaras or your solfege. In solfege, we say Dore Mipha Solati. In Indian Swaras, we say Sare Gama Padani. So you could actually work on your intervals or your ear training with that rhythm. And one thing I'd like to point out is whenever you're trying to work on ear training and melodic stuff, when you add rhythm into the equation, it makes the melodic ear training all that more tricky. It makes it all that more interesting because the rhythm kind of messes with your mind. Okay, let's do this again. Okay, the scale. But also jumble stuff out. Okay, change it a bit, but you get the idea. I quite like that as a tune you could practice. So something like that. It's a lot nicer to say Sare Gama Padani. It's a lot easier on the tongue. That's why I guess in the east, we say that and in the west, you guys who are watching will say Dore Mipha Solati. It's pretty much the same. It's just to train your ear and move forward. So now let's bring in the other two rhythms into the equation. What are the other two rhythms which we have to deal with now? Just a moment. There we go. So the other two rhythms, so totally we have four rhythms which are dividing by two. There's this one. There's this one. Yeah, thanks Chan. The whole idea is you need to practice it so that it does in fact sound good. So you have this one, you have this one, this one and this one. Now let's do some combos and let's bring all of them together. So this is a bar of music which we could try out now. So to count this particular thing, you just have to be a bit careful at this beat because these off beats are slightly on the trickier side. So you want to go da, da, da, da, da, da. What is happening here? One and two and three and four and, okay, if you observe beat two does not have an on beat. It has only an off beat. So this is going to be one and two and three and four and what do we do at the four? We need to engulf the entire beat. Okay, you need to basically play one clap for the entire beat four. So you go one and two and three and four and one and two and three and four and let's do it together. Two, one, start. One and two and three and four and one and two. So two basically I'm sort of reverse. Okay, one and two and three and four. One and two and three and four. Why don't we try to explore this using an arpeggio pattern on the piano? Maybe let's take this chord E minor, E G B and try to do this. Okay, so you go something like this. You could basically take any of these notes of the chord, the low note, the middle note or the high note and kind of jumble them up, put a pattern which you enjoy and play them together. For example, you could also add the pinky to play the high E if you'd like that could also work out really well.  Okay, so you could now add another rhythm and thus create another arpeggio pattern. Okay, this is another rhythm I'm writing for you. So what is this going to be now? Okay, that's one whole of one and of two, nothing on the two and of three, nothing on the three and then both the four and the end of the four. So it's going to end up being I hope I'm right. But yeah, you get the idea that the one and two and three and four and one and two and three and four. So let's try and create an arpeggio pattern around that. Try this out. I'm just on the E minor chord. And what I like to do in the left hand is just hold the root and do a pulse with the left and really take the rhythm to town as we say. So that's all I did was just explore this one rhythm. So again, recap, let's recap what you can do when presented with these rhythms, right? First off, you need to write it. Writing it is very crucial. You can write it using any which way you want notation would be recommended since notation is like the universal language. So in this entire lesson, I've been pretty much writing stuff down after you write it, make sure to clap it or vocalize it in some way or the other. Okay, do not touch your piano or the guitar yet, right?  So get used to that and then figure out what you'd like to do after having vocalized or you know, clap that particular pattern. One opportunity would just be scale practice. You can just basically practice your scale, you could do the blue scale, you could do the major scale, you can do the minor scale, whatever scale you'd like to do, you can basically do. Okay, so scale practice could work. The other thing is you could do a chord pattern, right? You could also do a melody line. And last but not least, as I showed you here, you can do an arpeggio. You can do all these things. So let me try and recap and summarize the whole thing. And then I'll be pretty much done with the lesson. So if I have this rhythm, we're going to just take and focus on this one rhythm pretty much only this thing. And let's try and explore all the possibilities of practice. So it's essentially this one rhythm is going to inspire you not only to practice and make your practice a lot more interesting. It's also going to help you compose music, I hope, because you could even play a melody. And yes, I do understand that some of you are having left hand and right hand coordination issues. There is no problem there. It'll take time. First focus on one hand, but the best way to get left hand and right hand coordination in my opinion is to first focus on the pulse, try and develop a steady pulse. I am actually planning to do a YouTube lesson just talking about the importance of the pulse. So I will do that very shortly. Okay, let me just summarize whatever we've discussed with all these four things. So we are taking this rhythm. How did this rhythm pattern come into existence again? We're dividing the beat by two. Okay. And we have permutations, which are actually all four come to think of it. The only thing I did not use is a rest at the entire beat. I'd leave that to you. Maybe you could work on that over the week. So the first thing is scale practice. Let's take the major scale like most pianists do. So instead of doing something as boring as make that a bit more interesting, you can do so one. Okay, maybe you can just stick with just the first five if you're uncomfortable with the thumb crossing. I like that. Always keep the pulse. The other thing you can try is the blue scale. Okay, the other thing you can try are chord patterns. Chord patterns meaning you take a chord like E minor, or maybe take a chord progression. E minor, G major, B dominant, C. Okay, so you go. I'm just taking four chords. So you can play this rhythm over those chords. Which rhythm am I doing? Am I not doing the exact same rhythm? It's the same thing. We can actually spend a few more hours on this rhythm possibly. I think we could actually entertain ourselves with this one rhythm I think overnight. Okay, the only challenge is it's very late in India and I tend to sleep early. So we may wind up shortly. So you go. So coming back to chord patterns. I hope all of you are understanding this. It's essentially one and two and three and four and one and two and three. You could also make an arpeggio pattern around it. Okay, someone asks what key, how can we know key that we play? Okay, I will talk about those doubts in another video. I plan to go live very often. This is a lot of fun for me. I'm really enjoying it. So I hope you are too. And next time I go live, there are some, there are five amazing people here on the group. Thank you for joining in. Next time we go live, I hope there'll be more because I prefer to always see people when I teach. And now I can see these really nice people. I hope I can hear from you at some point. Okay, so you go. The last thing you can do is the melody pattern. You can create basically a melody line on a particular scale. So in this case, I'm taking the blues scale and observe that we are playing this either in the straight form or in the swing form. Okay, you have the straight version. And you have the swung version. Right guys, so let's just have a quick recap. We've basically looked at eight note rhythm patterns. Yes, Manohar, I will definitely cover 16th note rhythm pattern soon. And any other topics which you'd like me to cover, I will be glad to do it. But I hope all of you are observing how the live stream works. Basically, I am writing down stuff in my notebook. And I would like you to work with me for you to get the best results out of this class, you have to teach, you have to do it while I'm explaining, right? Everything I'm trying to do live is very practical. As I play, I want you also to play. It's very, very important. Okay, so basically, today's lecture, we've focused on eight notes dividing the beat by two, we've understood how we can play it, we can play it using the straight version, as well as the swung version. And then we also have all these rhythmic devices, which you can build, which are four in number, it's not a big deal, isn't it? So you divide by two, and you can do four rhythms, you can do this one, this one, this one, this one. And then all through today's lesson, we basically put things together. We put things together in simple rhythm patterns. Eventually, it got to a very, very interesting stage. And then things started going forward quite fast, right? So again, this is Jason here and a few for final things. If you haven't already, do subscribe to our channel. A lot of you keep asking me to give you some of these notes of mine, which I keep writing. So what tends to happen is, whatever I teach, I end up writing it down. 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The Cavalcade of America, presented by DuPont, maker of better things for better living through chemistry. Every era in American history has been sagesly interpreted by its humorists. In the frantic era we've just passed through it was Will Rogers. As endearing to his generation as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Bill Nye and Mark Twain were to theirs, Will Rogers, in the words of a contemporary, was the spokesman for his countrymen, Vox Populi in person. His kindly humor enabled him to walk with kings, nor lose the common touch. The Cavalcade of America brings you his story, in an original radio play written by and starring his friend, the popular columnist Cal Tenney. Our Cavalcade Orchestra and the original musical score are under the direction of Don Voorhees. DuPont, maker of better things for better living through chemistry, presents Cal Tenney in the story of Will Rogers on the Cavalcade of America. And in territory, the year 1899. On the station platform in the little town of Claremont, Oklahoma, a lanky youth in boots and jeans is perched on the baggage truck, passing the time of day with the station agent. Yes, sir, see where they're making plans to get the territory admitted as a state. If you ask me, they don't know when they're well off. I'll come, Bill. It's nice and peaceful here now. Just a kind of a blank space on the map. I'll give it a name and a couple of senators. Pretty soon, there'll be so many people on the roads that we won't be able to drive the cattle to range. I guess there's something in there. Sure. Take Texas. Used to be Texas, it's just Cal Country. I was down there last June. Punter pointed out a fella to me, town's first citizen. A self-made man, what's more. When that fella come to Texas, he didn't have a penny. Now, he owes $100,000. Now, I'm right. She's on time. We're gonna have to climb down so I can move this truck up. You don't need it. Nobody coming in but my old man. I'll just lug this stuff over to the buckboard myself. Oh, there's Papa up ahead there. Hey, Papa! Son, you looking fine? Papa, gosh, it's good to see you. Here, let me help you. I ain't making it all right. Buggy's right over here. Well, son, how's things going? How's your courting coming along? Papa, I come to the conclusion women are like elephants. They're nice to look at, but I'd hate to own one. Well, you'll change your mind about that. Hank, if I know where you get your notion, not for me, anyway. Maybe not. You know, son, I was worried a little when the market fell the way it did. When I knew you'd have sense to sell our steers quick the minute prices started down. How much are you clear, actually? You see, it was this way, Papa. Gosh, I'm mighty. Look at that herd over there. Whoever that is must be crazy. Waiting for prices to go up. Why in Chicago they say they're going even lower. As a matter of fact, Papa... Absolutely. Sure of it. Well, I knew my boy would look after things. I'm proud of you, son. Thanks, Papa. Is it as I was saying to... Hey, wait a minute, Bill, rain up there. Whoa, whoa, whoa. What's the trouble, Papa? Why, Bill, that's our brand. Whole herd's our brand. Well, what does this mean? Right, and it means it's our herd. Well, of all that, what have you been doing all this time? Well, I entered the roping contest. And I won a medal. And $50. $50? I stand to lose my shirt so you can win $50. Well, I give up. What do you want to do, Willie? I don't know. I thought I'd sell you my herd and go to Argentina. Stop off and see London on the way. Well, son, I don't know how to advise you anymore. If you're going to be a fool, I guess there's no help for it. So go ahead and get it out of your system. I only ask you for one thing.  Johannesburg, South Africa, the year 1902. Ladies and gentlemen, step right up close. Little closer, please. That's right, one cautious thing. You've just seen me do this here now, stupendous rope trick. And I'm making a bonafide and sensational offer of $100 American dollars. 100 good old USA simoleons and a man, woman, all child in the audience today who can duplicate this trick. Now, if you think she can, just let them step right up here and try it. Just a minute there, brother. What is it, partner? If you don't mind, I think I'd like to pry my hand there. Well, here's your chance to show off what you can do, partner. Step right this way. Don't be afraid of the crowd. They won't bite you. That's it. Right down here. Get out of the way, sonny. Let that gen through. All right, partner. Here's your rope. Thanks, brother. He must think he's good. All right now, pal. Let's see you do it. Easy does it, you know. Right, slick rope you got here. Yeah. He's putting it out, fella. Regular cowboy. Honorable, just hear a minute. And to prove it, I'm going to take him inside and give him that $100. Just step in the tent here, stranger. Yes, sir. I sure will. Yeah, watch your head there.  That's it. All right. Yeah, great little town, Johannesburg, ain't it? Say, you sure are handy with the rope, kid. Well, what's your name? Will Rogers. Now, about that $100. Say, can you handle a horse as well as you can a rope? Sure. Road to range ever since is knee-high to a jackrabbit. Yeah. Well, how would you like to join my outfit here, rider and roper? We're going on to Australia. What'd you say? Well, what about that $100? I'm plumb, bro. Well, uh, to tell you the truth, I'm kind of hard up myself, friend. But I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll put you in my show instead. Billy has the Cherokee kid. How's that sound? What? I reckon so. Sure. We'll get back to Claremont, Bill. I'll be back in about a week. The place has changed. See, the town's got a new Nickelodeon now. Yeah, getting too settled, if you ask me. Heard you was with some Wild West outfit in the Orient, Bill. Yeah. You know what, Zack? That they billed me as the Cherokee kid. Get out. You should have seen us and said me. What are you doing now, Zack? Well, I'm getting together a little old riding and roping outfit for the pike at St. Louis Exposition. I'd like to have you join up with us, Bill. Thanks, Zack. I'll just, uh, I'll think it over. No, no, I can't seem to make up my mind to nothing. Tell your fortune for a dime, Jan. Step right this way, and the gypsy tanned only a dime. Fortune teller. Oh, 10 cents. Come on. May be good for lab. Ah, the two gentlemen wish the Laker to read the future. Come on. Come on. What do you say, Bill? Well... Why not? Okay, Zuleke. Here's your dime. One dime. Just step inside. I'll read the shy one first, yes. The hand, please. The youth has a pretentious future. The Laker has much to tell him. Listen, I ain't raising the ante none. Just a dime's worth, please. Huh? You have the hand of genius. It is a strange and wonderful hand, as I see here. Now, wait a minute. That bump's where a mule bit me. Well, that is no matter. Ah, you will become very famous. Maybe, uh, maybe on the stage. What's he going to play, Hamlet? It is not a joke. Yes, yes, he will be famous. People will throne to him. He will be paid there. He will be paid millions. What for? I see... I see a great talker. I see the great orator. I don't know. I don't know. It is in the hand. Talking to the multitude. Oh, that's enough.   Something's a matter with him. 1912. A down-at-the-hill opera house in a Midwestern town. I don't understand it, George. That's the best rope I've ever done. Last time on a horse and rider, just like that. Sure it was. An audience out there, they're just settin' on their hands. Bill, I'll tell you what's wrong. The act needs a little spiel. Huh? You know, the old build-up. I noticed when you were roping, you mumbled to yourself, well, why don't you try that? Only loud enough so the audience can hear it. But I ain't a talker that. Well, go ahead. Try it just once. Well, maybe. Well, try anything once. Oh, there's my cue now. Good luck, Bill. Two, Professor. Gentlemen.  I'm gonna throw about two of these ropes at once. Catching the pony with one and the rider with the other. Don't have any idea I'll get it, but here goes. It wasn't supposed to be funny. Just trying to tell you what I'm going to do. Ain't nothing funny about that. Unless it's cause folks nowadays don't hear the truth very often. Well, anyway, I'll do my best for you. Okay, Professor. See, George, I went and made a fool of myself. Just taking your advice. But Bill, the audience likes you. Didn't you hear them? I heard them laugh at me. That's what you mean. Sure, they laughed at you. It's the way you talk. Brother, I can talk English as good as they can. And I don't aim to be no laughing stock. Just cause I ain't so good talking on a stage.   All right, Bill, all right. But you're making a big mistake.   A casual word from a theatrical manager and Will Rogers discovered his destiny. From that moment on, he became the humorous interpreter of American Common Sense. It was this quality that so endeared him to audiences that by 1916 he was performing in the most envied place in the entertainment world, the Ziegfeld Follies. Broadway, the Midnight Follies, the war year 1917. You know, folks, this year's a new rope I got with me. Ain't quite broke in yet. Anyway, this is just sort of a little interlude, keeping your seats to help Mr. Ziegfield out while the girls are changing their outfits for you. You know, we had quite a lot of trouble keeping our girls together on tour. Every town we went to, some of them were married millionaires. But in a few weeks, they'd catch up with the show again. Oh, and now we'll take his hero. Bigger than the other one, ain't it? You know, this is one that Mr. Ziegfield bars from. So he can lasso the girls every time to see a pierced arrow somewhere. You know what? If they'd send a lot of these here follies pippings overseas in the same sort of costumes they wear here, they'd not only get the soldier boys out of the trenches but Christmas, dog on bed, have cars rebuilt and Clemens sew shooting crafts to see which one would head the line to the stage door. Oh, here the girls come. There I go. Hello, Mr. Rogers. Huh? Oh, hi, you sister. Say, how's the baby? Oh, he's well, Mr. Rogers. Cut his first tooth yesterday. Can you leave that? Say, lookit, take this, sis. Oh, no, no. I'll go and take it. Now, find the toothbrush with it. Oh, okay, I will. And thanks a lot, Mr. Rogers. Hello. How's tricks, Mr. Rogers? Oh, say, just a minute, sister. Hold on there, there. Huh? I see that fella again. Out there in the second row? Eight nights straight now, ain't it? Yeah. Cute, isn't he? You kind of like getting into limousine every night after show, don't you? Sure beats the subway. And he's a smart-looking young chap. What does he do for a living? Well, he doesn't have to work. There's millions in his family. Well, let me tell you something, sister. When it comes to a question of choosing the fella that can earn his meal ticket and the guy that inherits his, you're safer choosing the first one. Because the other fella loses his. Where are you? Well, out in the cold, I guess. You've earned too many of them. I've been around, sister. You watch your step. Well, thanks. Thanks, Mr. Rogers. I'll remember what you did. The twaties, ear of whoopee and the speakeasy, of the flapper, the hip flask and the coon-skin coat, of babbit-baiting and the boyish bob, the Charleston and the black bottom and the blues. Well, all I know is what I read in the papers. Looks to me like a marathon's like an insane asylum. They just sold in it to the limit that they're crazy. The Scopes Monkey Trial, teapot dorm and muscle shoals, gangsters, rum-runners and racketeers, the Florida boom, lady evangelists and Hindu messiahs, and the followers of Dr. Cuell. You know, there's still a lot of monkey in the human race. Throw anything you want into our cage and we'll give it serious consideration. Rudolph Valentino, King Tut and Queen Marie. Several thousand women were said to have fainted at the sight of the Prince of Wales. But Will Rogers weathered the storm and it was to Will Rogers that the air to England's throne went for understanding of the American public. In an atty room of a Long Island mansion, Will was received by the Prince's Aquary. You're familiar with the etiquette of royal audiences, Mr. Rogers. Oh, sure, sure. I'm Heaven's gift to the people that didn't get to see Queen Marie. Yes, correct. You understand, of course, that the Prince of Wales is here in Cognito as Baron Remprew, but must be addressed as your Royal Highness. Well, I get it. Very well. If you'll just come this way, Mr. Rogers. Thanks, thanks. Your Royal Highness, Mr. Will Rogers. Howdy, Prince, house tricks. Okay, Mr. Rogers. You know, I've seen Englishmen before, but I knew you'd be different, Prince.  I'll leave that to you, Mr. Rogers. I don't speak the language well enough. You're doing all right, Prince.  I'm glad you like it. Tell me, Mr. Rogers, how do you think I should go about being an ambassador of goodwill in America?  We figure it this way, Prince. You've made yourself mighty popular in spite of your birth. Americans admire any man who can rise above his surroundings. Another thing, Mr. Rogers, you know the stories that are going the rounds about my taking spills from horses and staple chases and polo matches. Sure, that's the best joke material sits the Model T. Of course, I don't care about myself, Mr. Rogers, but there is a more serious side to my American visit. Maybe you could help me out. I've heard in England you speak for America with few but very effective words. Prince, don't think I'll hit you that way. And I'll tell you what, I used to feel like you when people laughed at me, but I found taking it all and fun made people like me. Remember this, Prince, as long as your countryman and mine can laugh at each other's shortcomings, just so long and no longer, we'll be good friends. That sounds like good advice from a typical American. I ain't just a typical American, Prince. I'm an original American, too. Part Indian. My ancestors, oh, they didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat. The familiar sunburned face and the quizzical gray eyes, the careless forelock, and a good-natured smile. Will Rogers, a national figure, his syndicated news column read daily by 40 million readers, the spokesman of his generation. In Europe, it was accepted as fact that what Will Rogers said was what the American people thought. And it was in 1926 that President Calvin Coolidge summoned him to the White House. Mr. President, may I present Mr. Will Rogers? Big pardon. I didn't catch the name. Coolidge. Now, that wasn't fair, was it? I fussed you, and folks always laugh when they're fussed. Well, on the contrary, I was warned you'd try something like that. I laughed to oblige you. You called that a laugh? All right. I give up. Now, sit down, Mr. Rogers. Thanks. Thanks. Mr. Rogers, you've rendered your country a great service as a sort of ambassador at large. As a matter of fact, I called you here because I have been somewhat worried of late. Oh, God. I never knew any Vermonter to do much worrying on $75,000 a year. That's another matter. As President, I must tell you, our relations with Mexico are absolutely stalemated. You are the one man who could get President Coolidge to relax and talk freely with us. You mean just kid along? Like you and me, then kiddin'? That's the idea. Well, all right. But on one condition. And what is that, Mr. Rogers? That I can sleep late a morning. I don't hanker to be shot at sunrise. The 20s were tumbling to a chaotic close. Prosperity, bull markets, America riding the crest, the talkies, cellophane and streamlining. And then, 1929, Black Thursday, Headlines, breadlines, bonus marches, and Will Rogers continuing to voice the common sense of the American people. Seems funny to hear people carrying on about this country being broke. Hell, can it be broke? This'll be the first time a nation ever went to the poor house in an automobile. Just one thing worries me right now. That's all this talk about me running for President. Now, as long as it was a joke, it's okay. But let me make this clear. Now, once and for all, this country's got enough problems to face without putting a professional comedian in the White House. In Seattle on the morning of August 23rd, 1934, Will Rogers and Wiley Post took off on what was to have been a pioneering round-the-world flight to blaze a trail for North Polar Aviation. All the world knows the outcome of that flight. America remembers the picture of the man in a rumpled sack suit who emerged from that plane at Fairbanks, Alaska, the last picture ever taken of Will Rogers. Well, pal, I guess we're all set. Motor okay? Well, it's long, friend. We should see that this box fur piece gets mailed home. It gets a dandy pelt, ain't it? Sure is, yeah. Glad to mail it, Bill. But I think you and Wiley had ought to wait over. Just got a report of fog all along your route up to Point Barrow. Well, if we meet bad weather, we'll just set her down. Open up a can of chili. We'll throw a party till it clears. Won't we, Wiley? Ah, yeah, there you go, Bill. Okay. Well, here we go. All for some work. Goodbye, pal. Had a fine time here. See you next time around this way. Bye, Bill. Bye, Wiley. Good luck. Guess you like putting air everyone, Bill. Well, I've said it before and I'll say it again. I never met a man I didn't like. One of stone and bronze standing on a windswept hill near his hometown of Claremont, Oklahoma. The other in the hearts of his fellow men who have come to remember him for that gentle philosophy and homespun wit that characterized him as the spokesman of a fabulous era in American life. Will Rogers, whose memory belongs to the great tradition that is the cavalcade of America. To Calteni and the cavalcade players our thanks for their performance of the story of Will Rogers. And now the DuPont Company brings you its story from the wonder world of chemistry. The new year. The first day of the fifth decade of the 20th century of our Lord. Behind us fading like fireworks in the dark sky we put the dreams and deeds of the past year. But we do know that both the dreams and the deeds of men of good heart live after them. 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well hello guys crypto grounds here welcome back to another video well we got crypto clickers v1.4 finally out it's only been a month since that last official update but there are a lot of changes here so I'm going to address the I'm going to address the most important ones first which is the event because this is technically the events update even though this was supposed to be version 1.3 that's fine not we don't always have to follow but anyways I'm going to show you guys the new events all right so let's start with the Monday event so also I'm not in play mode so some things may not look realistic or exactly correct to what you'll see in the game but we're gonna start the crypto merge one which is for Monday so basically you have cryptos that spawn at a interval and you can merge all of them together when you have two they merge into the next level and each level will produce more tron and they produce per second and you can upgrade the spawn speed and the spawn level so it's deep so it's it's base spawn level I think some of you guys will like if you guys have played some merge games before you'll probably understand how these things work well anyways this is the Tuesday crypto rpg event so this is kind of a new thing I tried out I've never done any form of turn-based rpg mechanics before and it turned out great so basically the theme is crypto versus fiat if you don't know what fiat is basically like your cash you know your local currency so like the dollar the euro that's that's what fiat is and obviously what crypto is if you don't but anyways you can upgrade and unlock up to three cryptos you can improve their health and their damage and you fight and you go to the next stages to to fight against stronger fiat's yeah I really liked how this turned out I think it's fun it's pretty simple and it's it's idle so all you gotta do is just hit the next stage and upgrade and all that stuff so I think you guys really like this one already so this is a basic event but this is the Wednesday mini crypto clickers one so it's like the same thing where you claim uh you click the ethereum to get ethereum here also this is supposed to like tron trust me it says that in the actual event but uh you feel wait for this to fill up and you can claim it to get some tron you can upgrade its value and its speed and eventually it will automate itself so this is a very basic event but I think I like the aesthetics of this one already so Thursday so this is the farming event so this is kind of like the crypto merge but it's nothing merging wise you're still improving the crypto and you'll get the same icons but you can improve its crop value by three times but every time you level it up it reduces the speed by 50 percent um it'll also you can also improve the growth speed and you can lock up to four crops so this is the farming one and now the friday so this is the dripsad event this one was previously here so nothing new here I really like this event so I'm going to keep it and it will remain here probably forever so yeah this is the friday event if you guys have never played it this is what it looks like already so this is basically the new Wednesday event so if you don't remember what the old Wednesday one it's basically like the the exponential one where you had 10 generators producing tron or where they produce each other exponentially that one was really broken I didn't like that event so I decided to redo it here but with three so basically generator one will produce tron generator two will produce generator one and generator three this is generator three it's supposed to say three will produce generator two so it's pretty much the same thing but just with less and it's a slower growth and you also have a prestige here and now last but not least the sunday event so this is a trading one so basically the goal is to sell high buy a low so how this works is the price fluctuates in a sine wave you know a sine wave it basically just goes up and down at a long term increasingly rates so basically it just goes up and down and just keeps climbing okay so basically you want to buy your stocks when the price change is just recently changed from negative to positive because that's kind of like the lowest point and then sell when the price goes from positive to negative because that's how you know it's going to start going down and your goal is to basically just do that as much as you can and try to get as much tron out of it and this might be complicated for some people but once you get the hang of it should be pretty fun anyways that was all the events now i'm going to be reading off the the change log while you guys see me develop this in the background all right so let's start with the change log and you could find this on the discord server on the google doc i have a change log with all the previous updates so i'm just going to read off of this in case you just don't want to do that but anyways let's start with the added so remember the old happening navigate okay this is for people who kind of further in the game but if you guys remember the old happening navigation system where there was like an arrow for the next and right well that's gone i think that was kind of a little ridiculous to have to navigate through that because what if you just want to go to a and then oh i just want to go to e instead of having to click that back button five times well now on the side there are five small buttons so they're not intrusive and you can switch between all five time machines very easily so i got a request a few times for colorblind numbers to the challenge list so in the challenge list there are five different colors to indicate what the challenge status is either it's been completed it's not locked or it's unlocked or it can't be unlocked or you max it all out or you're currently in that challenge so i added numbers to indicate that and there's also a panel in there where you can see what the numbers actually mean and i think this will really help the colorblind people out and i've got some feedback from them and they said that they liked it so hopefully it's all good so this was a kind of a popular request but a buy max option for the big coin chip effect upgrades only so before there was a buy max for all the upgrades so now i added one for the just the chip effect upgrade and uh to addition to this i also added an option to delegate like your buying power so if you wanted to spend only 50 percent of your bitcoin rather than 100 by default you can change that and i believe yeah this is for the buy max itself like all of the upgrades so like the buy max for the chip effect and the buy max for like all upgrades and we're still in the chip section but i also added a set 100 button so instead of having to type that 100 every time you load it into the game or not every time you load it into the game but every time you did a refurbish you can just hit that 100 button as well so i have added numerous notations some of them are a bit uh silly i guess we could say i'll list them out real quick so here are some of the new notations that i've added so i've added engineering notation which is actually not which is actually useful um i have also added oh yeah i kind of fixed the letter notation a bit too since it was having a little issues i added iron bars notation so if you know what the iron bars challenge is well it's now notation um i added the flipped notation so basically it's just completely flipped so if it was 1.23e3 it's basically 3e123 everything it's just flipped so basically how this one works is the mantisa which is the 1.23 will be on the other side and the exponent will be on the left side so it's basically just flipped it's not completely flipped that's where we get to flipped v2 that's basically where the entire thing is flipped so i think you know what i mean by that i also added base 64 notation if you don't know what base 64 notation it basically just looks like a glob of characters so it's unreadable and yeah it's pretty funny so as a part of the server which we got a lot of stuff here but um especially the server but i finally added a buy max for server it was such a high demand request for this but i finally finally added the buy max for server and i'll also kind of explain more in the future because i got more stuff to add on to this um i also added a term dictionary for new players who might confuse with some currencies so basically just explains what ethereum bitcoin gens improvement points all that stuff and also yeah hard fork and grant hard fork and i'll possibly expand expand if i need to people ask me oh what does this mean i was like oh i might as well add this to the term dictionary um but yeah so that's all the things i have added so on with the change so there is quite a lot of stuff here and lots of good things change as well let's start with the server because this one's the most exciting one so server has been split into two trees production and automation finally now this is the good part right so automation upgrades require auto points which are passively generated do you know what that means no more server parts for automation upgrades woohoo so that means you don't have to decide whether you want to spend your server parts on production or automation so now you can just delegate all your server parts to production upgrades which i think is really exciting and people will really like that um so yeah so auto points will also if you've played in the past obviously you'll gain some auto points based on your previous progress on how far you got in the server tree and most of the time you'll not be able to complete the tree and especially fitness the game but you should be able to get most of it and there are also some upgrades where you can improve um no there's actually one upgrade where you can uh gain even more auto points so yeah so exciting change here so there was a bug in node where people would get stuck so i basically just replaced the the it's called like the emergency button i basically replaced it with a split button where you can uh split your ethereum and bitcoin transaction evenly if you uh get stuck so it's not like you can do it any time because i'd be kind of um broken but basically you can just do this one you get really stuck and that makes it uh easier to manage and prevent this from happening um so i also severely nerfed the offline and micro faucet node boost and honestly node in general and that the reason is because offline was so overpowered and it was insane and micro faucet basically took like a less than a minute to complete it was crazy so i definitely had to do something there because i didn't want people to break the game and finish it completely and there's a lot of stuff i needed to do for this still especially when you grant hard work for the first time progress is still so fast so i'm gonna be balancing that i know you guys probably won't like that but i think that's something i need to do so now auto refurbished buys one chip effects level and automatically sets the usage to um what it was prior to so if it was at 100 then it will set it to 100 again before it would just auto refurbish and do absolutely nothing it would stop you won't have any upgrades so i think that was kind of trash and useless so now it would buy the one chip effect upgrade and it will just keep on going so obviously you've probably seen in the screenshots and the previous clips the video and what you're watching right now but there is a new color theme i think it looks really nice and i want to personally thank the paper pilot and ackerson for helping me out with the font choice and making things look better also i wanted to thank adobe color for making that possible because it's a really helpful website so some people were confused with the three question mark button so i know this really isn't an important change but i made it say coming soon and then three question mark because people were really confused what that was and it was throwing some off and i'll also uh fix some places where it was missing notation such as like the requirements and i was also kind of throwing people off somehow so this is a major change to the refinery uh basically i changed one of the big the bit coin upgrades which is the refinery speed tokens times 1.05 to the power of tokens if you remember that upgrade it basically just made your friend refinery extremely fast and it means doing speed runs useless so i basically changed it to 11 times refinery speed permanent upgrade that's it nothing based on your tokens and i think it's good so i'm gonna have to still do some more adjustments there to make sure things are kind of even so i've also changed some navigation stuff in the bitcoin home screen so happening is now a button on the side of the left screen i missed it but it honestly i think it's for the better it was really throwing people off and the art style between the time machine and the miner on the home screen for bitcoin really didn't match up so now the secret and the happening button are on the left side and i think that makes it a lot much better and easier to access and i also kind of fix some of the weird navigation things that were occurring during that process oh yeah i also massively improved tutorials like for the the main one and for happening also for bitcoin too i've honestly improved them all i think that was really important since they were all especially bitcoin bitcoin was terrible it was really boring and happening uh i don't even know it wasn't really a tutorial it was kind of just explaining what everything did and just had like five paragraph essays and again it just wasn't fun so i massively improved that and i think uh there's still some bugs i gotta fix related to that like if you're using auto speedrun you can't really do the challenges unless you somehow find a way to get back to the bitcoin menu which is obviously quitting the game and so yeah i still gotta fix stuff like that so the daily reward pop-up was having a little issue so people didn't realize that you just had to click on the next day after the green which my fault because i didn't indicate that so now you see a golden glow uh on the button or the golden color on the button you need to click to indicate that uh that is the daily reward you need to claim and i also got rid of the icon on the top header just because it kind of was pointless i guess i don't know i just didn't need to be there and back to node with nerfing i added an upgrade for um for the therian boost if you've played node before it's just like the bitcoin one where you got to buy levels in order to make it like more effective i did that same thing for i did that same thing for a therian boost so basically i made it 250 000 times worse and i added an upgrade where you can upgrade it and make it a little better than what it was today not much though just very little and yeah i think that'll make bitcoin or the grand happenings not not grand happenings grand hard forks much uh more balanced because previously you do your very first grand hard fork and you already be at you 100 to 200 a therian which is kind of silly so anyways let's get off the fixes i'm going to go through this one really quickly i'm just going to like read this as fast as possible but so the ui bugs related to the swap sides has been fixed so there were some kind of weird things occurring with that um so the doge coin button in the secret game mode wasn't working i also fixed that i also fixed some challenge related display errors such as like the wrong start and max statuses i fixed this uh i got rid of the stat screen oops so um yeah so bitcoin home now works when in chips i fixed the bug where you couldn't access challenges during the tutorial replace atoshis with bitcoin so that's a major one so i basically replaced all the terms with satoshi and we with a therium and bitcoin because honestly those were just kind of awkward names when you could just say bitcoin and a therium rather than satoshi and we i don't know it was kind of weird so i fixed afk but so previously it was giving negative quilt on time it was also not giving you any like two time stuff at all so i basically just fixed some uh bugs related to that i fixed microphones it's not importing correctly so basically just reset half of it uh fixed happening ui issues so there was a lot of like really bad things wrong with the happening user interface that made it like like again like the whole navigation system was just screwed up so i kind of fixed all that um so so computer players uh can probably relate to this but there are large player.log files that would be created and that no longer occurs so server is no longer reset when you complete a challenge 18 uh manually and then perform a grain hard fork instead it buys as much as it can and yeah so basically what happens is that if you bought the upgrade where the server never resets what would happen is that once you do a grain hard fork your tree is gone because you can't afford um one of the upgrades that are that you need okay so here let's say let's say you have an upgrade and you're only able to get it if you complete a challenge 18 manually so when i mean my manually is not by challenge completion like when you buy it in the bit upgrades but so what happened is just it just completely wipes your tree and it was really annoying so basically just doesn't do that anymore and it just buys as much as it can and so obviously it's not going to buy like the previous upgrade that was that you had with challenge 18 but it'll at least will buy as much as it can so this is a bug for mobile but basically i fixed the bug we're watching an ad for two times game speed hides the two times game speed pop up and also sometimes doesn't even reward you uh that 10 minutes oh yeah so there's also a drone tier exploits where you can basically skip tiers all the way to 10 i i got rid of that i figured why that was occurring that was a really silly bug but i i fixed it i also fixed an infinity bug for bitcoin offline progress that luckily it didn't actually add to your your bitcoin it was just like i guess i display error or something like that and i honestly don't know why that was occurring but i fixed it so no need to panic for that and some things i need to that i removed was the cost for bitcoin chip refurbishing so if i was going to have an auto refurbish and then i'm i'm gonna have to redo like get rid of the cost and refurbish is honestly like slow to the point where it doesn't really matter so yeah i got rid of that the bitcoin cost for bitcoin chip refurbishing so now it's just erosion and i also got rid of the stats one it also wasn't used that much except for me i still use it for debugging just to see why things go wrong so i'm keeping it in the back end but for you guys i'm getting rid of it just because it really wasn't used i don't really like add on to it there's a lot of stuff that are missing and yeah i just didn't really want to keep on adding to it because it was kind of a tedious process anyway that was the entire changelog i hope you guys enjoyed this update i've spent a lot of time on this and i'm really excited to see what you guys think of this update so next up is more balancing for ethereum in general node possibly bitcoin and definitely happening as well and after that we got the third prestige baby we'll start doing that right afterwards and i've also started working on the gameplay as you guys probably have seen in one of my sneak peeks but it's time for things to get real here so i'm really excited to see where this goes and i really hope you guys are too if you enjoyed this video make sure you smash the like button subscribe my channel if you're new and turn on notifications for future live streams and videos also make sure you check out the updates tell your 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Good morning everyone, welcome back to theCUBE's day two coverage of VMware Explorer 23 live from the hub at Venetian Expo. Lisa Martin and Dave Vellante here. As I mentioned, this is our second day of coverage. We were here yesterday breaking down all the analysis. We are very pleased to welcome back Zia Karavala, one of our CUBE friends, the founder of ZK Research, who's going to, if you saw the last segment, tell us Zia's. The last segment we talked about Broadcom, we talked about Multicloud, we talked about AI. What did we miss?  I thought one of the underappreciated announcements here flew under the radar that was the edge announcement, the software defined edge. And I think, you know, given the position that VMware has in the data center, and you know, in the analyst Q&A yesterday, Ragu actually called it an uncontested position, which I agree with. If they can use that position then to expand that VMware operational model, which let's face it, a lot of IT pros love, right, to then expand to the edge. I think that creates an opportunity for them. That's as big as their current TAM right now. There's, when you look at a lot of the verticals, you know, retail, manufacturing, warehousing, transportation, you know, those are all industries where there's a lot more connectivity to things that are edge driven. And in fact, when I talked to Sirat Malik yesterday, I asked him who's the GM of the edge group, I asked him to define the edge because everyone uses it differently. And I actually thought his definition was good. He goes, I'm not going to define it by a location like a lot of people do. He said, I'm going to define it by the constraints that you have. When you have variable bandwidth, you've got, you know, compute and storage limitations to us, that's it. So that can even be in building, right? Maybe no connectivity even, right? Yeah. In a lot of cases, that's the case. And so I do think that the anchor they have in the data center, the fact that people love Visa, the fact that they love their operational model, the fact that as, you know, we talked about yesterday, you know, in the Q&A, it's almost impossible to decouple. If they can use that position then to expand to the edge, I think that creates a massive opportunity for them. And then from there, I'll be curious if they can attach some of the network connectivity with their SD-WAN portfolio and then security. And so it winds up becoming a bit of a land and expand where the core is where they've landed, and that can expand into these emerging areas. I'm glad you brought that up because it relates to the conversation we were having with David Nicholson around AI. Because, I mean, my take is that the cloud vendors have the advantage, they've got the AI optionality, they've got the AI history, they've got the innovation, they've obviously got the infrastructure and sort of the capex around it. So they've got that advantage in the developer affinity. The on-prem companies and, you know, Ragu and theCUBE, yesterday they say, hey, it's not about on-prem in the cloud. I understand that just as quick a quick aside because VMware runs in the cloud and it's a full VMware stack. But notwithstanding, I think they'd rather see things on-prem if they can get it because they get more control and less cloud competition. But anyway, they've got the advantage of the fear, uncertainty, and doubt of all the legal requirements. That's why they trotted out the general counsel. So their challenge is on-prem anyway, they've got to get that innovation flywheel going. And then the edge, that's all about latency, right? And all the items that Zeus just mentioned. And I think in many respects it is jump ball. I don't necessarily think the cloud vendors have any greater advantage than the incumbents. No, in fact, I think they're at a disadvantage in a way because they do tend to lock you into that environment. And I think with the edge, customers will want a little bit more freedom of being able to move their information around because it does come down to what's the use case, what's the workload you're trying to solve. And so the thing with the hyperscalers is customers say this all the time, they're like Hotel California, right? You can check out but you can't leave. And I think that's okay for certain workloads in the cloud. I'm not sure that's going to fly at the edge. So the hard cases in the edge like windmills and autos, autonomous vehicles. And that's where I think it is really interesting and it could be a whole new set of economics. Arm just published its registration to go public. There's a lot of really interesting information in there. They are dominant in mobile. They are really, really strong in things like automobiles. The reason I bring this up is because I think there's a new set of silicon economics that's emerging. I mean, this is edge. There's a GPU in here. Those are all arm based. Manage the screen. These are all arm devices. There's arms in this device. There's arm processors in Tesla autonomous vehicles because they're programming the NPU, the neural processing unit. And so there could be a whole new set of economics that emerges from the edge that eventually seeps into the data center. Stuff always happens in consumer first. That's where you get the volumes. That's where you get the pricing, economics. And when the enterprise first sees it, they poo poo it, cloud their booksellers or PCs or toys or open AI. ChatGPT is a toy. It all finds its way back to the enterprise. And so that's where I think the edge is really, really interesting. So the question over the edge is, will the operational model be driven cloud to edge or data center to edge? Right? And if it's cloud to edge, that puts the advanced hyperscaler. If it's data center to edge, then who else other than VMR really could do that? Or will there be a whole new operating model that emerges at the edge? I don't know. I think you'll take your data center operational model and expand it out. And I think you'll treat it as part of that. If the multi-cloud vision becomes real, where you wind up with one logical operational model that spans edges, data centers and clouds, I think you would take your data center operational model, which is very mature and expand that out. Well, it depends. Because if the edge is a Lowe's or a Home Depot store, I agree with you. But do you feel that way for a Tesla vehicle? Because you think about a Tesla vehicle, it persists very little data. It's doing stuff in real time, real time inferencing at the edge, if you will. And it's only persisting data and sending it back, very, very small amounts of that data. Well, small percentage, probably could be huge data to your point. So what is that operating model? That's, to me, something that's new. Yeah, well, that would be edge only. Because there's not really a data center component to that. And that probably would have a different option. Well, let's go back to the cloud, though.  For a different purpose. For modeling and training. It's not stop or not. Well, no, right. But for modeling and training. But then they will push that model back down and that intelligence back down. I think the one thing I can say about the edge that you cannot say about the cloud or the data center is you can't people your way out of it. Yes. When people run their operational models in the cloud or they run things in a data center, you can throw lots of people at it to actually make it work. You can't do it at the edge because you just don't have any local resource. That was a cloud example. There's a flip side example that favors the data center model, which is if you've got a manufacturing facility, you know, let's say remote and you've got, you know, central headquarters with the data center and they've got their data and they're running Gen AI on prem. That data is not going to go back to the cloud. That data is going to go back to the data center. So that is more of a data center-faving operating model. I think it's very hard to predict how that all shakes out. I think there's more of those in the Tesla example, so.  Yeah, I haven't studied it. So you may be right. That's interesting. Even hospitals, right? A lot of security concerns, privacy regulation. It's a little more likely to stay on prem. But I do think that creates a variance in opportunity for VMware to expand their operational model. And that's why they're so dominant. I don't know if their hypervisor is really any better than Microsoft's but vCenter, their operational model is rock solid. What were some of the things you... Oh, sorry, Dave. I do think they're hypervisors. VMware is hypervisors. Yeah, I do, too. But we're talking, I think the delta and the operational structure is bigger than it is in the technology. But better is not always appropriate for everybody. Yeah. You know, sometimes cheaper is better. Better fit for companies. Yeah, so... It hasn't proven that way in share. VMware dominates it, so... Yeah, yeah, that's true. Yeah, yeah. Zia, talk a little bit about... You both had conversations with Ragu and Sumit, the one I saw Sumit was on earlier, like an hour or so ago. What were they talking about with respect to Edge? VMware is edge in edge, if you will. Did you get to ask questions? Did you hear what you were looking to hear? Yeah, one of the things that I'm not sure about is how they're working into the suite approach. Because it seems like they're trying to go to market with bigger VMware offerings, right? And the challenge with that is that a lot of the technologies that go into that, that offering, are on different upgrade cycles, right? So it's not like a customer can say, yeah, I believe in your multi-cloud. I'm going to buy everything core to Edge and, you know, your SD-WAN, because those are different people. And so I did ask in the first Q&A how they would manage that from a sales motion perspective and he talked about, Regu talked about the ability to, you know, still sell breast to breed, but sell that suite approach and land and expand and stuff. But I didn't get a real great feel for how exactly that works. And I think there's a lot of complexity in that in being able to sell both ways. Go ahead, please. Yeah. And I do think that's something there's still largely to think through. And the other part of that, too, is the best to breed sale. Here, I'll sell you my SD-WAN versus this SD-WAN, right? It's a faster sale, right? But it is more competitive, which means margins are likely going to be lower. And so, you know, that suite approach takes a lot longer to sell, but you will wind up with bigger deals, better margins, but it's a different sales motion. And I think there's a bit of a, I guess, change in thought at VMware now and I'd be curious to see how they work through that. I would decode what I heard as a company like VMware has to have a, is there a horizontal technology play? And the problem the Edge brings is very fragmented and verticalized. Yeah. You know, think about it. Well, there really isn't an Edge market right now. Right, exactly. There's like a zillion of them. There's, we talked, there could be manufacturing sites. There could be windmills. There could be autos. There could be hospitals. I mean, it's very, very verticalized. I feel like windmills. So, I think I do. This is a perfect Edge example. There's like no connectivity or anything. There is now. But so, but so, VMware has to have that horizontal scalable play, but they've got to, and the answer, I think for their Edge play is they've got to have partners. Yeah. Like the GSIs who do have that vertical expertise and they've got the people who understand those industries very, very deeply and they can build solutions around that. And all those big, those big GSIs, you know, they used to be body shops, right? We'll just bring in and we'd build, build heads. Now they've got to build platforms and they are, they're building platforms and solutions on top of horizontal infrastructure. And I think, again, I think that's quite open. But that's what they're doing. They announced Edge for retail. Absolutely. And I expect down the road we're going to see an Edge for warehouse and Edge for transportation. You know, they, in San Jupal's Keynote demoed public safety in the Ford F-150 that's on the show floor. Oh, right, yeah. Right? And I think you will see them go to market with like a Surner and healthcare and things like that. And so I do think you are looking at it vertically and I do think that will be done largely through. Well, healthcare is interesting, right?  Yeah. Which is now Oracle. And by the way, VMware, I think, I think all three of those are running on VMware infrastructure. I got to check that. Who else would you run on? But yeah, VMware's got a very strong presence. Now, those are all proprietary systems. Yeah. Right. And it gets interesting, right? Oracle's trying to rule the world, put everything in Oracle. And that's never going to happen, right? Because, I mean, the government's going to mandate that these systems interoperate. But VMware's got a very strong position there. And again, that's where, when Haktan says we're going to invest in the ecosystem and the channel, he's no dumbass. I mean, he knows that that's where he's going to get leverage, sales leverage, operating leverage. Yep. Sanjay Upal is our next guest, actually. Oh. What are some of the questions, I didn't get a chance to see his keynote. What are some of the questions that you would ask, or you had a chance to sit down with him, too? Well, I watched his keynote, and I talked to him at our analyst reception last night for a while, so. Okay. Yeah. He's a good guy, and he runs that whole business you know now. I would ask about that concept of similarities and parallels and differences between software-defined data center and software-defined edge and how they use the fact that they've got that very mature software-defined data center model and then how they use that to be able to to gain momentum at the edge. I'd also, you know, from there then, how do they use that to gain traction and networking on the SD-WAN side because in a way they all kind of fit together. And then I guess the other thing I'd probably ask him is from a security perspective, that to me is the biggest question I have from their portfolio because security, as we talked about the Palo Alto event is becoming a game of sweets. And so they've either got to be all in or all out. I don't think you can half bake your way in security. And so they either do it through partners or they do it through, they build it themselves. And I think they're going through, I'd be curious to see how we answer that, actually to see if he wants to do that himself or do it through partners. So Zias really knows networking well. I'd love to get your take on NSX Plus. We sat in the sort of breakout. They basically do in the abstraction layer across the sort of super clouding NSX. They got a lot of work to do there. They haven't really connected up to the cross-cloud yet. They're sort of starting on-prem. But what's your take on NSX, NSX Plus, and its future? Yeah. Well, it's an important part of the stack, right? In fact, I think was there a ragu set on stage yesterday that when you look at the multi-cloud stack they put together, the networking is the hardest piece to solve. Yeah. Right? And so from that perspective, there's a good opportunity for them to go solve that and make it easy. The fact that the shift in everything to only subscription, I guess everyone's doing that. But I do think from the larger customers, some of them aren't very happy about that, but we'll see if that works for them. But I do think NSX has matured a lot over the last few years. And I think when they first acquired NYSERA, they made a lot of missteps, you know, targeting that towards server ops. They really alienated networking. And then I think they swung the pendulum too far where they almost ignored their traditional buyer. But I think they've brought it back now to center, which is good. But to me, it becomes a part of that stack versus a standalone offering where they'll go compete for that. You know, I don't think you'll see NSX supposed to become the lead for many things, but I think it becomes a very important part of that stack.  When you talk, when I look at the ETR data, you know, some customers prefer to end or mandate it. Others, you know, don't want it, right?  The one thing the description does though, and I think this is an under-appreciated aspect of it, is it helps customers stay current with innovation? So it's a little like this. So do you pay a subscription for this? You buy them outright, right? Most people pay a subscription. I can't remember. I probably pay a subscription. Most people pay a subscription. And then three years later, when the new one comes out, you go trade it. If all of a sudden, three years later, you had to pay $1,200. You might think twice about that, right? And so with IT purchasing, you see spend, spike, year zero, right? And then it flattens up to maintenance. And then I got a refresh. Now I'm looking at this huge spike in spend. Then I do, I do it. So that's easy to push for another year. Easy to push for another year. And then not what happens is your tech is three, four years old, right? That can have big implications of performance, security. You know, you think about how it can disrupt the business, right? And so when you, when you're subscription, it does mandate that you stay current with technology and innovation. And I think there's a long-term benefit for companies that is largely misunderstood. Do you see any differences in subscription versus perpetual licenses by industry? Or is that more of a cultural people-driven decision? Well, I know there are, there certainly are any industry that likes to advertise. So you look at any government agency, they want to do perpetual, right? So, you know, I think... Bankings are, banks are well-capitalized, so they might want to, they got cash, so they might want to spend their time. Yeah, healthcare is another one that tends to buy and stick with it for a long time. I do think you wind up with a lot of old technology, though. Healthcare is a good example where there's a lot of old tech. It's almost out of panic, because the stuff's so old, they can't do a lot of things they want to do. Yeah, you probably do end up spending more on a subscription. You know, it's like, like, renting. Renting, you're going to end up spending more, but there are conveniences. It depends on how fast you refer it. Yeah, absolutely, and there are other benefits, as Zias pointed out. Zias, what is the rest of your day in our last minute? Tell us what the rest of your day to... day two of VMware Explorer looks like for you. Oh, I'm going to head to the show floor, how that's kitted out. They actually had Barcelona at Mobile World Congress. They had a Tesla police car, so I'm assuming it's very similar to that. But I want to go check out some of the demos there, meeting with a couple of the integrated partners, things like that. So it's been a good show, though. It's a different VMware Explorer that I'm used to in the past. There was a lot more innovation here, I thought, and I wasn't sure if we'd see that with Broadcom looming, but it does look like they've kept the train running with that in the background. Excellent. Well, we're excited to have day two. When we appreciate ZSU coming on, giving us your insights on Edge, we'll definitely ask Sanjay Upal some of those questions as he's coming up next. All right. And it's been a while since I've seen you. I see him all the time. I ran into you at Mandalay Bay not too long ago. Yes. At some event, we were there a couple of years ago. Well, good to see you. All right. For ZS Caravola and Dave Vellante, I'm Lisa Martin. As we just said, Sanjay Upal is up next. We're going to be talking and digging into the Edge at VMware from a strategic and a tactical perspective. Thank you.


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