What's up team? It is your biggest fan, the real Casadero. And in this video, we're talking about programming language is what is a programming language? Like, like exactly what is a programming language? I believe this knowledge, this knowledge is going to help a lot of people, a lot of people begin their journey into code because now they're going to have some understanding. And hopefully this philosophy will make you think about computers and programming in a whole different way. But where it doesn't seem so complex like you can't learn it, like it's just impossible. Like you have to come from a certain background and be raised by a certain family and go to a certain school. And you have to have these certain habits and all these things. The only habits we need in order to be successful, whatever successful is to achieve the things that we want to achieve is we have to have perseverance and that's pretty much it. But anyway team, let's get to it. This is what programming is. This is what programming languages are. Alright team, so let's break this down super, super, super duper simple, super duper simple, simple, simple. We're not going to go through the whole history of computing, but at some point we arrived in a place where we decided that in order to make computers do what we needed to do, all we needed to do was control an electrical pulse. Voltage, no voltage. Alive or dead and that created a one or zero in computer code. Well, in order to write a program, like let's just think about it this way. Let's think about it this way, right? The smallest possible piece of information that we can give to a computer is a bit. A byte is composed of eight bits. A character is composed of bits and eight bits make a byte. A character of one character like the letter A, B, C, D, E, F, G is one byte. So if we have a word, like a word that consists of five letters, that word could be five bytes. Now that word can get bigger because we can add metadata to it that tells whatever programming language that we're using that, hey, this thing right here that we're going to put in memory. This is a word. This thing right here that we're going to use in this computation. This is a word or this is a number. This is whatever. But that's what it all boils down to. Well, this meant that if we wanted to write one letter because one letter is eight bits, which makes up a byte to write one letter, we'd have to write a series of ones and zeros. And depending on how we wrote that series would determine what letter it was. Well, imagine if you wanted to write a word, it would take you a long time because you got to do this math, right to figure out these ones and zeros. And if you wanted to write a sense, it got even worse if you want to write a whole book. Oh my gosh, it got crazy.  It's insane. So at one point, somebody said, hey, we can abstract all this stuff away, right? Well, if we we if we can come up with a language to keep us from writing these ones and zeros, we'd be cool. And that language is called machine code or machine machine language machine code. This is just a step up from binary. All this stuff that I'm talking about here, you can just go out and Google it. I'm not going to like dig super deep into it in this particular video.  You're going to understand how to put programs together. So let's carry on. So we've got this machine code, which is which is hex still complicated. But now instead of writing, you know, eight ones and zeros, maybe we just write, you know, two or three regular letters that we understand a O, E and what I don't know what that is in hex code. But this would evaluate to something in binary, which would evaluate to a letter or number or whatever. Well, somebody said, hey, man, you know, that's kind of hard, right? This is this is difficult. I want to write a program. If you know, this is way easier than the writing ones zeros, but it could be better. What if we just talk to the computer like we would talk to a computer? Well, mean, you know, just based on the format that we're using right now, this whole YouTube format, that sometimes people say things and they are misinterpreted. This is this is the whole source of the news today. People taking what other people say out of context and just making it all kinds of crazy. So if we try to talk to computers like this the same way I'm talking to you right now, it would not work. Computers are just not smart enough. One day they will be. I don't know what day that'll be. It could be tomorrow. Maybe they are already that smart. We just don't know. I'm sure Google and Microsoft and Amazon and Facebook, all these people are working on ways. So we can just talk. I could just talk to a computer like I'm talking right now and the computer go, OK, let's build something and do something. But as it stands right now, we are not quite there in even. This is what's crazy for us to even get there.  So the next best thing to being able to speak a regular language, but not having to write ones and zeros or hex code. It's like this random, you know, series of cryptographic craziness. We came over programming languages inside of the programming language. There's mechanisms to help us do this stuff, right? We can say, hey, put a quote here, type our word, put a quote here and that makes it a string and the computer knows it's a word, but not right away. So what happens is we take all of the thoughts in our head, all of the commands we want to give to a computer and we write them down in the olden days. People used to write this stuff on a piece of paper. Now we just write it inside of the computer. The really good programmers, the really good coders, they still write this stuff on paper. It may not be written out exactly the way it's going to go into the computer, but they have some sort of flow, some sort of diagram that they're going to use that gives them a roadmap to follow while they're trying to translate this into a language that the computer can understand. So we go on to the computer, we open up a text document, we type everything in and we save it. Plain text document, nothing fancy about this. If you don't know what a plain text document is and you want to learn the code, just go to Google, type in plain text and you can learn all about plain text. I wouldn't go too deep. Just know that it is the most basic document you can have. It has no special formatting or anything. What we put in a plain text document is what is read from the plain text document. So we write all of our source code in plain text. Now we may use an editor for this, the editor or add features like different colors and all kinds of stuff. But at the end of the day, it's just the text editor that adds some extra stuff. All the text that we write in there, it's just plain text. It's just regular old text. That text document is then either fed into a piece of software or read by a piece of software. That piece of software is typically written in some other programming language. Most of the time it's written in C because C is a low level language. We can use it on most computers, but it's high enough for regular people to understand so we don't have to write binary. But before the compiler could exist, someone had to write the compiler using either binary or hexadecimal or machine code or whatever it is, right? So the compiler, the original compiler was not written in the same way that we see now. So those people who wrote those compilers, they'd be like, yo, these people don't know nothing about programming. And that's just the way it just is just the way it is, right?  Just means that they've done the workforce because they love us and they care about us and they don't want us to struggle into the future. So we've got this program called the compiler and what it does is it reads our text. Our text file is just instructions to another piece of software. And that piece of software sits on top of an operating system. That software talks to the operating system and the operating system talks to the hardware. Talks to the computer monitor and the printer, the fax machine, the headphone, talks to all that stuff. We don't have to think about it. When we go to write a program, we'd have to go sh**, man. I got to write some sound drivers so people can hear. I got to write some video drivers so people can see. I got to write some printer drivers so people can print. I got to write freaking. I got to write. I got to write. I got to write f**king file control protocols so I can transfer this. We don't have to think about any of that stuff. It's built into the language and all of this goes to a text document and it's read by an interpreter or compiler. Now, each language has constructs and inside of those constructs, we're able to encapsulate blocks of instructions that say, do this particular thing. Let's say, for instance, we want to print something to the screen. In Python, we would write print, space, quotation mark, whatever, hello world, quotation mark. And that would be an actual program. When we feed this to the Python interpreter, and I talked about compilers before, the interpreter is just a think of it as a compiler that does it on the fly like we talked about this in another video. So anyway, the Python interpreter reads these instructions, right? In this case, the instructions is print. When the interpreter reads, this says, okay, hey, here's the word print. We want to print this thing. The default for printing stuff is putting it on the screen. The interpreter is going to call the operating system and say, hey, we need to put some stuff on the screen. The operating system may say, where do you want to put it? Maybe the interpreter already knows where they're like, hey, we want to put this stuff on the screen inside of this window right here. The operating system goes, okay, cool. And it contacts the video card and whoever else it needs to do business with. Yo, take this information, put it on the screen. And then that thing puts it on the screen and it sends some other information back to us and says, yo, we wrote this on the screen. This is an error handling mechanism and beginning programmers. We don't see that typically too often because we haven't gotten to that point yet. Some people, some people never get to it, right? They'll be learning code for like 15 years and they'll like, they'll never even write an error handler. It just is what it is. I'm not saying that like you shouldn't or you should, you should understand all of this stuff if you want to go out and be a programmer, a software developer, a coder, all this stuff. You don't need to understand, like you don't have to master all of this stuff. There's no need to go out and get a degree and master all of this stuff. Just understand the very basics of it. Programs, programming languages, they're all just text documents that are being read by other programs. And those other programs are returning oftentimes information in that same format to be read by some other program or a human being. That is it team. That is how programming languages work. If you have any questions, concerns, complaints, whatever, let me know. Leave a comment in the notes below because there's a bunch of people out there who are like, I can't do this because it's too hard. I can't do this because I don't know where to start. I can't do this because of 101 other reasons. It's not that complex. I'm not a smart guy, right? I barely made it out of high school. I was in the army for 14, 15 years and I spent my time flying around the world setting up computer not even not even complex computer networks. People picture this stuff. They think it's so complex. It's not. It's not right. Once you do something over and over again, it just becomes inherent.  And after you're doing it so long, what seems complex to other people is very simple to you. But I'm here to tell you it's not it's not that hard. It really isn't any anyone can learn this stuff in their spare time. You don't need a course. You don't need any. All you need is a book and a computer and the willingness to learn and the commitment to act. All right, team. 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And number two, if you want to support the channel, all you got to do is go over to code 365 startup lab, sign up for one of the paid courses and boom, your money goes to support the channel and I can keep producing that course. Or you can check out writecodedrinkcoffee.com where you can get some swag and merch. So you get something. I get something. It's a win-win situation. All right, team, that is it. I'm your biggest fan, The Real Cassadero. This one went a bit long. I'll try to edit it down as much as I can. But I look forward to seeing you in the next episode. Share, subscribe, like, leave a thumbs up. Hit the notification bell if you want to be notified when I upload new videos and I will see you next time where we're talking about code, tech, spiritual. I don't know, man. It doesn't, it doesn't even just go out there and win. You can do this. I know you can. I did. It's hard, but not as hard as we think.


I'm pleased to introduce the Chairman and CEO of Michael's Strategy and also the trustee of the Sailor Academy who was noted in your program really knows firsthand the freedom and opportunity that debt-free education can provide. So with that ladies and gentlemen please help me welcome Michael Sailor. Thank you Jeff. I'd like to see you all this morning this afternoon. No still this morning for 60 seconds. Made it just in time. Jeff asked me to share a few thoughts on the credentialing economy and especially developments in an industry and the way employers are thinking about credentials and recruiting and and jobs and the types of jobs that are being formed in the modern economy right now. My my day job is I run MicroStrategy which is an enterprise software company and we have about 5,000 enterprise customers all around the world. So last year I circled the world about six times and I you know I was in Tokyo and I was in Beijing and Honjo and I was in Paris and London and Chicago and New York and San Francisco and everywhere I go I meet with about a dozen large enterprises so companies like there might be Facebook or Amazon or Citigroup or Emirates Airlines or Toyota they make cars their media companies their governments and I always ask them what is on your agenda in the coming year and and it gives you a broad based feel for what's on the minds of most industries and most and most employers and I guess I start with the big picture. If you look at the technology firmament the mobile wave and the cloud wave are driving an extraordinary avalanche of digital transformation and the mobile wave really in essence means everybody's got a smart phone in their pocket and that's a computer and on that computer I can place any piece of software nearly friction-free. Apple just announced that they got about a billion iOS devices and just last week they announced that their newest iOS operating system shipped to half of those devices in two weeks so you know if you look at the stock market when the mobile wave was written right in 2011 2010 we talked about the implications of a world where Google and Apple and Facebook and Amazon could put their software on everybody's phone and change the way people make decisions. Since then those four companies have emerged as four of the five most valuable companies on the face of the earth. All of the cynics and all the critics think oh well this doesn't make any sense I mean Apple can't be the most valuable company on earth there's never been a company as valuable as this it's a dangerous thing to buy the stock. What they miss out on is the observation that doesn't the reason Apple is the most valuable company in the world is because it's the company in the world most capable of creating value and there's never been a company in the history of the world that could create value as rapidly as Apple and that statistic is the great example which is in two weeks I could ship a new product or a new service to 500 million people with a variable cost of nearly zero. There's never in the history of the world been a company that could ship a product to 500 million people for zero and do it in two weeks. In fact there's never been an example of a company that could ship a product to 50 million people and if you roll the clock back 20 years you couldn't have shipped the product to 10 million people. So we live in an incredible new world where you can ship products and services to hundreds of millions of people very rapidly and of course the big obvious beneficiaries have been the Googles and the Facebooks and the Apples and the Amazons but they're simply the most visible indicator of a trend and the trend is toward the dematerialization of all products and all services to the extent they can be dematerialized and we're all familiar with camera dematerialized but of course you know if I take my watch and my Apple watch three third times the charm normally the first times a toy the second time doesn't quite work third time starts to work this is the truth with many things in life that's why the English language idiom third times a charm the third iPhone started to work the third Apple watch is starting to work when I double tap this I get my credit card and you know a watch is a crappy interface for building spreadsheets and it's actually a crappy interface for looking at spreadsheets but it's a pretty good it's a pretty good device for holding a digital token or a digital credential this happens to be a digital credential it's a it's a financial identity it could be a political identity it could be a student identity it you know it could be my scuba license you know it's like I well on the subject of credentials I I still have this little soft spot in my heart because 18 years ago I learned a scuba dive and they actually anybody scuba dive in the audience yeah some people you know you get your little now a certification and you got to have this card and if you ever want to go to any resort anywhere else and go scuba dive and they want to see the card so I went through the scuba dive in class and then I was all excited they gave me this paperwork and they said well you have to mail this into this registrar and they'll send you a card and I got the paperwork and then I put it somewhere and then I lost it and I never mailed it in and so now every single time I go to a resort anywhere they always ask me for this card and I always think oh no I can't scuba dive anymore and it really makes me irritated but it's but I can't help but think gosh if we lived in a modern network world I could have got my certificate issued maybe they could have put it on the blockchain by the way and then it would be sitting in a in a trusted verified environment and I would never have to worry about losing that stinking card which has been the scourge of my existence I'm it's like one of the things I'm embarrassed about you ever lose something and you're really irritated that you lost it well so I lost that one thing and I carry it with me but back to this issue right so I got a wearable device it's got a credential on it I can use it to buy a coffee what's going on in the economy well lots of profound things are going on the economy like number one thing is is Apple a bank and what's the relationship because because this is a visa credit card issued from Bank of America sitting on my wrist but it turns out that there's company that can actually rewrite the way that credit card works and ship it to 500 million people and do it over the weekend and that's a pretty profound thing now a lot of people have noticed that and that's driving the digital transformation waves so every enterprise on earth is thinking what's your digital strategy media companies need a digital strategy you know and we see it for example and it's they're good aspects of it and bad aspects of it like like for example when you look at your newsfeed the other when I look at my newsfeed Facebook or Twitter whatever they try to figure out what I'm going to react to and they actually spoon feed me based on my biases and it's a really great monetization strategy they make a lot of money but I actually find myself now enjoying looking at a physical newspaper because the newspaper doesn't know what I want to read and I might discover something and an unbiased something like I see stuff in the newspaper that never comes to me via Facebook or Instagram or Twitter because it doesn't know who I am and so this idea of edit edited content or a flat unbiased newsfeed you know is a is an old idea made new again right it might be regulated back into the digital marketplace I am you know I can't help but think though that this is having a big impact on a lot of people I meet with healthcare companies in healthcare they're thinking about how do I implement predictive algorithms to figure out who to let out of the hospital and who's going to recover and what the treatment ought to be in the area of insurance it's also it's also a lot of intelligence in the area of banking in the area of retail in the area of manufacturing there's a demand for two skill sets that are exploding one computer science and we want developers we want to hire everybody's hiring host of developers how do I put a thousand developers into my insurance company I have them all start to build custom applications to react to regulatory requirements or to seize market opportunity or to put a mobile app into the hands of my consumers and the second demand is data science computer science data science and that's really more leaning towards statistics statistical algorithms what is it that the customer wants to buy what is it I should sell them how should I present my product where are my risks etc the amount of demand for data science and computer science is just exploded and partly it's exploding because most of these enterprises there they're no longer satisfied to build an application I used to be oh I've got six projects and I'm gonna hire 10 people in each of the six projects and we're gonna work on that for three to six months now the rage is federated analytics and federated application development and by that it means means I'm an insurance company I want to put in place all of my standard securitized customer data and I want to hire 500 developers in 27 different departments and I want them all to work on 37 or 192 different things at the same time and I want to hire 500 analysts who are data scientists and I want them all to work on a different thing every day and so you're seeing a thousand people that are launching 500 projects on top of enterprise resources at the same time as fast as they can and this is a trend you see in retail you see in banking you see in government you see in media just about every industry and so it used to be you know when I was at MIT we numbered the courses they were like one through 21 right and I had a degree at 16 that's aeronautical engineering and 21 was was humanities and engineering and I thought well you know I've got one out of 20 degrees but it turns out that now the computer science area is becoming half of all the degrees and the data science is exploding so as the world dematerializes you know the the number of let's say conventional science conventional math Isaac Newton and men's calculus what is 1776 or something you know and it used to be that was a challenge a hurdle we had to get over if the master calculus you don't really need that many people to master calculus anymore you've got a calculus engine you just plug the engine in and so we're we're automating out basic science and basic techniques like that on the other hand there's some things you can't automate out yet we haven't figured out how to automate out the creation of new software and we haven't figured out how to automate out the statistical risk analysis so so what should I do and why should I do it that's you know if I was giving advice to a you know an 18 year old today and they said should I study statistics or should I study calculus I would say study statistics study study risk and probability because you're going to need that in so many different areas and you know so what do we do and what are what all these customers do if you want to build applications you're building two types of applications applications that extract insight that help you make a better decision and then applications that let you take action right this is a it's a it's an old theme you know micro strata sorry MIT's code of arms it says men and monies Latin for mind and hand and they've got a scholar and they got a blacksmith on their shield right and so that goes back a long time the general idea is I need to be able to think and I need to be able to do well that's not any different today in the digital economy people want to think what should I do and then how do I do it now if I can if I can extract the five items you're about to buy or you want to buy that's analytically interesting there's a big that's this field of data science but on the other hand if I deliver them to a propeller head analyst at the end of the month I'm just a critic I just explained why everything screwed up and why you're losing money and going out of business in a very articulate fashion I need to put the five things you want to buy in the palm of your hand when you're about to buy the sixth thing in order to monetize one of the first five things right Amazon does that well Facebook does that well you could argue they do it too well if you take YouTube you know if you if you decide you want to study videos on on how to do weightlifting while intermittent fasting you know and sleeping four hours a night YouTube will serve you up 1900 of these videos right it's like and you would think the world consists of you know intermittent fasters that are weight lifters that have opinions about whatever ketogenic diets and that's all you will get I you know I started watching chess matches online and YouTube serves me up every chess match in the history of the world with a running commentary each one 20 minutes long I could sit and spend the next 2000 hours watching chess commentary on YouTube right we've we live in a world of plenty and and there's too much of everything right Netflix is generating infinite million hours of video we've got you know I sometimes I row on a rowing machine right and you ever row on a on an erg machine and it tells you how many watts you're actually rowing and if you can get to 200 watts you're quite the athlete and that means if you do it for an hour that's 200 kilowatt hour 200 watt hours that means if you did it for a day that's a kilowatt so if anybody in the room set and generated all the energy they could in a day that's a kilowatt a kilowatts 12 cents you know and there are people 12 cents the value of all your energy is is a penny an hour maybe and by the way there are people talking about solar energy that's going to drive that to a couple of cents you know and so a hundred thousand years ago right we didn't have enough energy right you spent your entire day running around today if you're the friar later boy in McDonald's you have $9 an hour which means you have more energy at your disposal than Augusta Caesar right the most powerful person on the earth 2,000 years ago in fact you know like I you know used to be 20 horses 20 horses seems like a lot right if you ride a horse but like it's nothing now so we have infinite energy we have infinite mechanical energy we have infinite entertainment energy nine bucks gets you 40 million songs what which songs you're going to listen to right $9 gets you a million hours of Netflix $0 gets you a million hours of YouTube you know the there's a guy in Croatia and he basically sits on his computer and he creates commentary of chess games for a living and he has a chess channel and he's got I don't know every time he posts he gets like 75,000 people watching his television show he makes a living giving a commentary of chess games right like it's an explosion in stuff now um what is that what does that mean for a business well when we hire people we want people that can code or create content that's one thing the second thing we want is we want people that can QA it or test it so we want people that know how to break it and it takes a lot of creativity to break things the third thing is we want people that can market it marketing is like it's a you know amazing thing you know when I grew up if someone called you sugar that was a compliment and if someone called you fat that was an insult and it turns out today in the world of modern organic nutrition we now understand that sugar is not really good for you it's toxic and fat is actually pretty healthy for you and so marketers at some point figured out how to make a good thing bad and a bad thing good and they're still doing it today right in fact it's more important than ever to be able to market things so how do you communicate to people every single company on the face of the earth struggles with this issue because there are so many choices right I mean all these people creating this content it's like now how am I gonna market it to you how do I and by way marketing when I'm marketing to a consumer right is traditional marketing but then you get to the next challenge which is which is regulatory compliance how do you convince the governments to support this thing so the politics of it and politics are becoming more important everywhere regulatory drivers right well for example it's it's as of two weeks ago it's legal to gamble four weeks ago it wasn't legal to gamble except in certain places right the Supreme Court just made a pretty momentous decision it's going to change you know the lives of if not hundreds of thousands millions of people and we're gonna see probably these programs you can sit and watch a hockey game and you can bet on whether the powerplay is gonna score or not score on your iPhone right depending on what state you're in and how it works politics is pretty critical right for example let's take uber uber is a good idea and and people think they'll say well that was a good idea wish I had that idea well the truth of the matter is lots people had that idea right actually having the idea was the easiest thing other people think well the secret to uber is they could create the software well not really creating the software wasn't the challenge either lots people created software that worked what makes uber uber well they were able to raise 25 billion dollars okay that actually is pretty interesting how do you actually convince or persuade people to give you money right the world is a wash and money there's there's so much capital out there I think there's you know hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars looking for any idea so one of the challenges how do you persuade someone to give you the money after that then uber is big because they decided they would spend it all right and and that's interesting of just raw aggression if you want to actually spend 20 billion dollars and then waste another billion dollars every 12 weeks that's interesting yeah because they're basically still giving away a billion dollars of subsidies every quarter it's interesting because number one someone made a decision they'll just go ahead and spend a billion more than they're they're making and number two they they made the decision that they'll be able to raise more money and they seem to be doing fine right the world's being changed by people making those risks now the last piece that's interesting is that uber happens to be breaking the law and half the jurisdictions they do business in right and that that's very curious and getting away with it okay now you know once upon a time we had online poker and you know and that was kind of illegal and and it was interesting and popular until the feds started dragging the executives running these websites off of their planes at dollars airport and jailing them and so is uber is uber gonna continue or not continue and the district attorney of New York could change this you know the trajectory of that entire business and a heartbeat or maybe you know in Miami it happens to be illegal some places there's 18 different municipalities in Miami 18 different mayors 18 different police forces they're not hundreds but thousands of not tens of thousands of interesting municipalities so when you think about marketing we're not just marketing to convince you to trust our uber application and get in our car we're marketing to persuade tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of powerful actors to allow us to make that service available right Airbnb is in the same boat by the way it's illegal to rent an apartment in Miami Beach and yet Airbnb is got a thriving business renting apartments right now politically like how do I feel about that well I'm not sure how I feel about it but what I'm sure of is if you're in business today you have to be able to persuade people of your point of view and sometimes it's persuade consumers sometimes it's persuade people to drive for you sometimes it's persuade regulators not to jail you sometimes you know like a classic example right is when I was in when I was in college we didn't have we didn't have access to so much medicine and there was no such thing as Adderall okay and so interesting enough you know I went to MIT and I had I had stress right it's difficult getting through college with people that seem to be smarter than you that are better prepared than you you know so one week I thought I had a nervous breakdown and I didn't want to get out of bed and and the response was not to give me medical care the response was someone an upperclassman came and he shook the base and get out of bed and go back to work you know you'll be fine and so someone kicked me and I went back to work but somewhere between now and then the Shire Corporation invented Adderall Adderall is you know there's there's no need for it except if you have a hard time concentrating by the way I still have a hard time concentrating okay I know you know like how many people in the world have a hard time concentrating that's like the human condition so we invented disease you know called the temp attention deficit we invent a drug we patent a drug and then we sell the drug and then we well nobody wants to buy the drug so we market the disease but then you know then we sell it to some people but a lot of people in the middle class can't afford the drug and the lower class can't afford the drug because it costs $10 a day if I want to sell you a $400 a month drug I need to find a way to subsidize it so you know the great marketing here is I make it legal I roll a universal entitlement to free health care I then give you access to doctors then I co-op the doctors then I prescribe the drug then I give you the money from the taxpayers to buy the drug and then I convince your parents that if you have a hard time concentrating at age six you probably need a drug the result today is 14 million Americans have a prescription to Adderall and the Shire Corporation just sold for $64 billion to Takeda and 4 million kids have a prescription to Adderall and they didn't make that decision they just got diagnosed as having a hard time concentrating and of course when I was growing up every kid had hard time concentrating I was the I was the most successful person in my school I was voted most likely to succeed and I was universal and I was considered of one characteristic which I was really good at concentrating but I can't concentrate so the summary here is very interesting which is if you can market stuff you can actually convince people to buy it you convince governments to make it legal you can get a patent on it you can even convince the government to subsidize it and then you can turn the medical establishment and the university establishment and maybe even convince the parents of junior that they should actually give it to their kid right I grew up in a world where a day without orange juice is like a day without sunshine okay orange juice is like pure sugar but I grew up thinking orange juice was healthy and not only was it healthy it was very important for me to drink it it's classic marketing so you know there's a lot of interesting political implications of that but here's the most important thing from a credentialing point of view so we need people in business that can build things can can assess the effectiveness of things can market the things and then we get to finance and legal and work on the finance and legal aspects you know if you look at the biggest the biggest retailer Amazon you know they're currently shopping for you know headquarters to or HQ to or something like that I think there's a 75% likelihood they'll come to DC here even though it's only three of 20 different choices but it's pretty obvious that if you're going to sell anything or get in their business they're going to need to support the FAA the FDIC the FTC the SEC fill in the blank just about every regulatory agency and if they won't just need them to do business in the US but they're going to need them because let's take GDPR the GDPR didn't come out of the US GDPR came out of the EU so at some point the Europeans or the Chinese are going to actually slap regulations on these businesses and when they do they'll need the State Department and foggy bottom in order to protect them and so you know the logical thing to do is drop a few billion dollars on Washington DC as an insurance policy I'm I'm always flabbergasted right people write these stories about big companies lobbying and they go like well they're spending 15 million a year lobbying like that's a lot of money if you had 600 billion dollars at stake 15 million is not a lot of money right 15 million is nothing right it's like it's a rounding error if you had 600 billion dollars at stake you would think that you would drop six billion dollars as an insurance policy so I I think that it's pretty clear DC is going to be the most powerful city in the world in the 21st century it is the center of empire and and one of the reasons why is because English is now the predominant language the US law is the is the primary law the banking system the dollar is the primary currency all of these things are creating massive liquidity and and they're driving this digital transformation and there's just a couple of regulators in DC that could decide that this cool trick I just do with my watch makes Apple a bank and if Apple is a bank that changes the entire dynamic of what the Apple computer corporation can do and when Amazon ships you your bottle of Adderall does that make them a medical provider and are they on the hook for the misuse or the use of that or not right I mean because it's a very fine line between being a 64 billion dollar public pharmaceutical company and being a drug dealer it's a very fine line right and that and but and that line gets drawn here in the city actually and it gets redrawn every day you know as of a month ago the view was it's illegal to gamble right it's illegal to have a new Jersey can't have a law that makes gambling illegal and then two weeks ago that changed right it's very fine line they throw you in jail on one side of the line the other side of the line is just an entrepreneurial opportunity now I'm getting to the to the meat of the manner credentials well we live in a world where we're digitizing everything so we need digital skills the skills are evolving rapidly you hire people today that know data science we want them to know are and Python we don't need them to know the calculus of variations right we need them know are and Python you know it used to be if you knew fact that was really cool we sit around we're like well you know in 1976 somebody did something or other now I sit with like 20-somethings and I'll start talking about stuff that happened in 1980s and as I'm talking they're like typing on their phone like well actually no that was 1975 like well you know I think that's such and such bad at 294 like no actually about a 287 you know and knowing anything is now not that valuable because your teenager can like know it better than you can know it you know just playing with their phone it's very irksome right it's very irksome right sometimes we play a game just type any question into the Google right and the Google gives you the answer like I don't recollect it like that you know you could now here's an interesting point right you could have a PhD in fill-in-the-blank history you know but a 16 year old with the phone is probably got a better recollection than the PhD in history because the 16 year old with the phone is tapping into the Google which is actually pulling the statistically proper answer based upon 97,000 other PhDs opinions and so the market is just awesomely frighteningly powerful and some things matter and some things just they become they decay there's a half-life on this so certain things we want and you know we want us that talent to be fresh so our credentials are they transparent are they precise and are they relevant or are they stale so we we hire I guess a thousand people a year so I and I and we try to do smart recruiting we've actually got a product called smart recruiters that doesn't and I actually approve every single person we hire in the company and I do it from my phone here and you know and when we do it I don't have time to interview everybody but we must interview 10,000 people a year right we probably sift through 10 to 20,000 and so it used to be I would I would interview 30 a day or 25 a day and that's like a heroic thing but but you know you know you don't win wars by dying for your country you win wars by making the other person die for their country and nor are you successful in business by working hard you're successful in business by making other people work hard for you or making systems work hard for you so that heroic idea of working really hard got replaced with a new idea which is we actually apply diagnostics we call them ABCDE we give people an analytics diagnostic and a rating and we score them from zero to 100 and it's like the math version the SAT and then we give them a B rating which is business diagnostic and we score that from zero to 100 and you know the business diagnostic is you know do you understand how to get along with other educated adults and persuade them of something right and so we're testing to see whether or not you can sell anything or whether or not you can persuade someone of something then we have a C diagnostic it's coding and we check to see if you can write code and obviously not everyone needs to write code but if you do need to write code we give you the diagnostic and then we have a D diagnostic it's design and in our case we check to see whether you know how to actually create a software design that displays information in a clear fashion you know there's a way to put information in front of someone that's very elegant concise succinct transparent and there's another way to put information in front of people that's jumbled confusing noisy ambiguous and we want to see whether or not you lean 10 toward the better or the worst way and the E the E diagnostic is English okay can you actually master the English language now there's a we don't have a a universal set of credentials that we can go to from third parties that we can tap into but there's nothing particularly unique about these five diagnostics and I would say just about anybody in the digital economy trying to find people that could that could create any kind of application would want to do the same thing so I would guess that whereas we interview 10,000 people a year probably this is relevant to a hundred million to a billion interviews a year we do it ourselves because it's better than not doing it and it takes like half an hour per diagnostic so if you would put 10,000 people through it is 10,000 times two and a half or 25,000 hours of testing now the result is we get complete liquid transparency so when someone wants to hire someone we want to hire a such-and-such in Shanghai or software engineer in Warsaw I'll glance at my phone and I'll look at everybody's got a resume and they've all got something right everybody writes something and now you can't really be sure of the something there's 10,000 institutions I don't know any of these institutions and certainly I can't form an opinion I just look at the diagnostics and in one second I can I can take the measure of how well they'll fit now it's not a hundred percent perfect it's like it's an 80% match I can get to an 80% conclusion in one second and yesterday I rejected some one person I never met my entire life bang you like and I rejected it from six levels up because they were fairly average or mediocre and their analytical skills and I thought if there's no point in us hiring an entry-level consultant that was mediocre in that and that world might as well move on to the next one because and why well I can see the stream of the hundred people we previously hired from the same jurisdiction and they're all maxing out right like I can I can see exactly what they're going to be able to do and how fast they're going to be able to do it and it helps us to figure out what kind of roles to put them in I I can't help but think that we're on a cusp of an explosion in in credentialing because at the point that you actually create a public credential and there's nothing secret here right like public coding you know public data science by the way ABCDE is the basic you know we've also got an F and a G you know what F is French because if you're in France trying to sell the French you need to speak French but I'll tell you another secret if you speak English someone that lives in Paris that chatters you in French sounds like they speak French well but that doesn't mean they speak French well right you can't tell the difference between someone that's nearly a literate in French and in French versus someone that's actually extremely erudite in French so we I'll evaluate people in French and German and Mandarin you know in the major languages and Portuguese and Italian now here's an interesting idea wouldn't you think that the Italian government has a vested interest in being able to certify that you speak Italian right I mean wouldn't they be the number one beneficiary of that so if you're looking at technologies right we've got we've got infinite cloud power we've got infinite mobile power we've got new technologies like blockchain that allow you to upload a distributed ledger that's not that you can't tamper with right and everybody's trying to make that work for Bitcoin right it's like can you actually distribute decentralized money you can't tamper with but but you know credentials are like money like if you're a doctor you know can you scuba dive by the way when there's 20 people on my boat and I'm about to take them scuba diving there's massive risk and liability to me if they can't scuba dive I don't want them to die when they're underneath the surf so as soon as you go to that digital credential you can evaluate and certify someone in less than a second we have them we have a product and micro strategy and we issue digital credentials to the enterprise so we'll plug into the enterprise it's like if you're an employee that's a credential if you're a vendor that's a credential if you're an IT administrator that's a credential if you're qualified to move a million dollars around that's a credential so we issue these credentials put them on a phone then we turn them into transponders so if I issue you all a credential I can then take my phone out and I can scan the room and in 500 milliseconds I can count the number of people that are Italian speakers or our scuba instructors or our registered nurses or you know fill in the blank right who who have mastered analytics right who can who can design something so the 20th century world is I show up with a resume and it takes six hours of interviews in order to assess whether the person is a good fit and you know what we're wrong half the time 50 percent of the time like like I reject people all the time based upon oh they got a great resume and they interview well okay I'm I'll lay out interesting statistical observation right where where the apparent is the opposite of the actual if I'm not good at my job for example if I was incapable of building software but I went to a good school and I interview well I'm actually more likely to be looking for a job all the time so it's an example where where the person standing in front of you that interviews well of course they interview well because they interview a lot and they have a good right and they and they have a good resume because they had to dust it off because their resume goes with the interview and you know and then people come and they're like well we need to hire this person because you know they're like this cloud expert out of Amazon and then I look at the assessment I'm like well it looks like they're enumerate like they they haven't mastered English and they can't add and so they don't seem that bright like oh yeah but you know they had this experience at IBM and Amazon like well show me the resume well you know they got there for a year and they got pushed out and they got there for a year and they got pushed out the reason they have that great experience is because every other institution pushed them out because after they got in they couldn't do the job and so the interview is not a good representation of what you can do I mean everybody's biased and the resume doesn't really help that much either and and here's the other thing right like the institution doesn't help that much because this is like classic real estate problem you know um if I have a good house and it's priced fairly it will sell in five days if I have a crappy house that's priced fairly it will stay on the market for three years and if I have a good house that's priced to double the fair price it will stay on the market for a long time so if you look at a thousand listings ask the question how many listings statistically are actually a good house at a fair price you know the non-statistician thinks oh I looked at five houses and I picked the best of the five and I made a good decision well actually but the statistician says well statistically no more than five out of one thousand listings are actually a good house at a reasonable price because a crappy product at a bad price is going to sit on the market 100 times longer and so the statistical weighting of bad product in front of your face is going to be 99 percent garbage and one percent good uh and yet a non-statistician tends to think hey I found the best one percent well the best one percent means that you actually found just something right so having that's why statistics is so important and that's why credentials are so important when you when you um get to uh true liquidity and credentials and I what we're doing is is not the most efficient thing right we're wasting thousands and thousands of hours testing people when you get to um true liquid credentials you get to a network effect and instead of taking six hours to make a decision by the way it's it's six hours and if if I live in DC and I'm trying to hire someone in Warsaw you're talking about spending five thousand to ten thousand dollars in order to make a decision that takes about six weeks that's only 50 accurate so when I get to liquid credentials right at micro strategy our strategy is well we've reduced that down to the point where instead of taking five thousand dollars in six weeks maybe we could reduce it to like one week and five hundred dollars but at the point that the Italian government issues an eye rating that tells you whether speak Italian then someone shows up and instead of taking 30 seconds to apply for the job or 30 minutes to apply for that job they take 30 seconds a lot of people by the way they don't want to apply for a job if it takes them two and a half hours to apply right or three hours they get turned off by that so in a world where it takes 10 000 people three hours each that's 30 000 hours of impedance what happened if we just put those credentials in the public domain right and the University of Europe right there's there's no national jurisdiction on on being able to think clearly right it could be and by the way a billion people speak English so we could issue a standard credential to all billion people so if you actually start to put an array of standard credentials out there and I think that probably 24 to 36 credentials would probably cover 80 percent of all the hiring so it's not that many you put an array out there then someone is looking for a job could take those credentials post those credentials on the network and instead of applying to and this doesn't help my company at all right makes it harder for us instead of applying to uh six companies in order to get a job I could actually post my credentials online and apply to 600 000 companies simultaneously to get a job right and so we'll actually end up with a very different liquidity what if what if you're just a smart person living in Dubai right now and you wanted to apply to every company in America at the same time right well as long as they're heterogeneous in their approach you can't do it but uh at the point that you have a common set of credentials you can so we talk about currency the dollar is 83 percent of all the trades it's a common currency English is a common language TCP IP is a common networking protocol the rise of certificates for TCP IP you know uh has uh resulted in a worldwide web and a network I think that uh we are we are still in early days with regard to creating uh liquidity of human talent but uh all the technologies are there all the motives are there there are any number of organizations that have an incentive to do this it's what I you know when I uh you know talk about the sailor academy I say you know that the easiest thing was creating the course where not that it's easy but it's the first thing create the content the harder thing is to market it even if something for free it's hard to give it away uh and then the hardest thing is to work through the politics of it you know and the accreditation but uh that's where I think you guys are all doing great work and we can all do this together if we can start to just break this down bit by bit and it might be a win at the state level it might be a win at the federal level it might be something as simple as getting a you know national scuba diving you know credential uploaded as we start to see those liquid credentials come online I think there'll be an avalanche and it'll be bit by bit we'll break this down and and when we get to the point where you can uh uh acquire your credentials electronically and then post them electronically that's going to create the greatest opportunity for humans in history of the world because at that point anybody anywhere can apply for not anything can apply for everything and you're going to have you know for me I'll take my little company I would hire 1,000 people in the next 48 hours all around the world if they can hit our credential requirements right we have we have that much demand companies like google facebook the rest they hire 100,000 instantly if they can find the right people they might hire a million people instantly so there's a massive opportunity to to spread jobs spread wealth uh spread prosperity if we can break down the barriers and the impedance and the restraints uh to that progress and I think uh we're all working together to do that here today and so I want to thank everybody in the room that's actually made investments and credentials and is working on either the technology or the marketing or the politics or the legal aspects of them because they're all important and uh hopefully we can do good things together in the coming year


Sir, Mr. President, I would like to ask you to make a point here. Very good. Thank you. Good afternoon. Thanks to you. Hello, Tom. Nice to see you. This is President Bushman. Great. That's great. Mr. President, we're very grateful that you've taken this precious time to understand that in 10 minutes we're going to try to cover everything except I think church-to-state relations is more important than watching the football game. So therefore, I hope that a broad meeting will not be made on this day. As I said, I'm in Florida. I'm on the mayor of St. Paul. I'm the first vice president of the Nation of the States. We've just included setting out priorities. I think some of our conclusions demonstrate some unifying organization and some of the things the administration is trying to do with our strong support. We were the first organization to support the administration attacking the integrity problem, for example, even before we compromised package of the past fall. We reiterated in our priorities support for the energy. I know that we're all good at seeing each other individually. Let me right up the door. It's the end of the year. So please, sit down. The chairs should still be warm. We'll be starting today. Thank you. This president, I'm today Randall, I'm president of the Nation of the Nation. If we didn't prepare our state, if we didn't want to leave with women, we'd just like to have an opportunity to visit. We're so excited, thrilled that you're willing to see us. I don't know why all the nice events of the day, they have so crowded in the schedule that they don't have as much. The volunteers are out there in the trenches. I know. We are supporting you all the way. And I guess the biggest thing, the myth or fact, whatever it is, that women aren't supporting you as well is that I just think there are some things we have to look through that can change that perception. And if you have any thoughts for us, we certainly want to be about the business of trying to help you. Well, I've been disturbed to keep seeing the polls that I am unpopular with some of my best friends. And I think that with you, that it is a perception, although maybe some of the positions I've taken are not popular with all ladies. I would hope that they would be with those of you, for example, the squeal rule. I vetoed a measure similar to that in California when I was governor. I just don't believe that the government has a right to go into collusion with underage children, with girls, something as important as that and keep that secret from the parents. I think if we want to have the family institution as what it should be, then the government shouldn't try to substitute for it. I'm sure that many of them are opposed to my position on abortion. I feel that unless and until someone can establish that the unborn child is not a living entity, then you have to give it the benefit of the doubt and opt that it is and protect its right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And maybe some of those things, and I know that another one, two other ones, I know they feel we've been unfair in our trimming of the budget. I'm trying to trim it. No one has noticed that each budget has been bigger than the one before. All that we have cut is, as you know, the law requires that a president must project budgets five years in advance. All we've cut are the projected increases from the previous administration in the budget. It's good to see you here. Good to see you again. It's a pleasure for me to meet you again. Well, please. Good to see you. Well, that's it. Come here. Sit down. There's a chair over there. Good morning. How do you got, John? I know some of the other senators have gone over there. Here's the member. There he is. Good to see you. Thank you. Our side of the conversation. You personally, all that you've done in regard to the things that we are trying to accomplish, state how your country, Italy is certainly a staunch ally of participation together of peacekeeping forces and all and how grateful we are. Thank you. By local government and facing up to a problem at the local level rather than ignoring us, and I think that your cities have done that. And the third part of this formula, understand that in the 34 years that the municipal league or rather the citizens forum on self-government has been granting this prestigious All-American Cities award that this is the first time the presentation has been made at the White House. And Jim Hetland, your invitation has long overdue. And besides, how could I turn down a presentation that has two California winners? But it's appropriate that we are in this particular room today, the Roosevelt Room, because I understand that Theodore Roosevelt helped found the municipal league way back in 1894. Incidentally, we're kind of proud of something the entire clan of Roosevelt came in here some time ago and made this presentation which has never before been displayed. And that is his Nobel Peace Prize. And if you won't quote me, I said at the time that it was appropriate that he finally give it here and that he was a Republican and he proved it. He won it sitting on a yacht. Get even with all those people that are saying those nasty things about it. But it was on the yacht, presidential yacht where he brought the Japanese and the Russians together. Well, you all know my commitment to private sector initiatives and promotion of public-private partnerships, so I'm honored to have you all here today. I know the time and effort that's going into eight successful partnerships and I compliment the mayors and the business community partners for recognizing the importance of expanding citizen participation and providing these great examples for other communities to replicate. And which reminds me, I hope, Jim, that municipal league along with their partners and partners for livable places has included all those good examples in the data bank partnership data line USA. All right. Some of us here today have differing political philosophies but I believe that we all agree on the need for concern for our fellow citizens. And I think it's wonderful that in this time of stress in our country, instead of private enterprise help drying up, it's gone the other way. It has multiplied and increased as people have recognized there was a job to do and that they had a part in it. Now, from the health facility and neighborhood revitalization in Durham, North Carolina to the downtown assistance program in Santa Rosa, California, we witnessed successful local level solutions all expressing our concern and I would now like to have Jim come up here and we'll proceed with the presentation of these well-deserved awards.  The first award winner and I would like the mayor of Ames, Iowa, Father Paul Goodland. Iowa State Game. The mayor of Ann Arbor, Michigan, the Honorable Louis D. Belcher. But when I was a sports announcer Michigan's football stadium was known as an ammonia roll. The mayor of Durham, North Carolina, the Honorable Charles B. Markham. How about Fort Wayne? The mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana, the Honorable Winfield Moses Jr. The mayor of Salem, Oregon, the Honorable Sue Harris. The mayor of San Antonio, Texas, the Honorable Henry G. Sinaris. Santa Ana, California, the Honorable Gordon Brickin. I know this is non-partisan but that's where all the good Republicans go before they die. And finally and last but not least the mayor of Santa Rosa, California, Mr. Jack Keely. No, no. Madam Mayor. I'm sorry. Honorable Donna Boren. He picks me up. Congratulations to the winners and to all of you. Thank you for coming here and letting us participate in this for the first time in the White House. Thank you.


Look at that stick, it's a great stick bud.  We're asked to ride bikes. Good morning, good morning. Beautiful day, I think it's gonna be hot. The locals were saying it's gonna be in the 90s, which is okay with me, I like hot weather. Here we go, sun is rising, it's heating up, it's time to ride bikes, no crashies, no flaties, no whammy's, look at those birdies. There it goes, yeah, go for it. I've heard those cows, don't you? Not today. Whenever possible, I like to pick some sage and keep it for good luck on my bike rides, but not all my bike rides go through areas with sage, but we just found a nice open meadow with lots and lots of sage, it smells so good. Cliff bar break, and I was just telling John, just feels so good to be out here. It always feels good to be out here, no matter the circumstances, but after quarantine and being locked down as a single guy, I didn't have interaction with many humans or dogs. And it's something you take for granted, you know, like you just figure every day you're gonna interact and talk and hang out with people, but for a couple months there in Boulder, I was just chilling on my own in my apartment watching a lot of Netflix, and you know, I would see my mom, but we would stay distanced. I would sit on her back deck and just being out here is just such a great sense of freedom. She wants to play fetch already. Go get it. John, what did you do during lockdown? What did I do during lockdown? I was never really locked down. I was in Mexico when the things initially went off, I was taking Spanish classes and exploring Guanajuato, and since then I've been riding on the road and the trails from place to place. So yeah, I've had a unique experience during this time. So definitely physically distanced from people, but not socially isolated, so that's been nice for me. And while we're here, I wanna show you something that is just interesting and weird. Every single road sign that I've ridden by in Montana has bullet holes in it, and I just, I don't get it.  It's like, why? Why ruin all these things? I think it's dumb. I'm just gonna say it, it's dumb. Stop shooting signs. Alien thing. So we were riding by this house and out of the corner of our eyes, we're like, oh, an elk. This one's made with a bunch of old horseshoes, it looks like. Hey, I like that one a lot.  The detail in here is really impressive. That's enough of the trespassing. I need to keep my arm moving now. Going into Butte, Montana, home of Evil Coneval. Here we go, it looks pretty big. And if you're wondering what happens with Sweet Mirror when we go inside stores, she just sits in the basket and hangs out. She's such a good dog. We're outside of a grocery store here in Butte. We've both done our shopping, but the interesting shopping is the dog food. You gotta have dog food.  All right, John, what'd you get for Mirror? Got her some kibble, a 2KG bag. Yeah, four pounds or so. And I'm just transferring it over to a dry bag and then that'll go into her custom porcelain rocket food bag. This pretty much looks like our shopping. Tortillas are easy to travel with. Peanut butter, cheese, bars. John really likes ranch dressing, some apples. Healthy stuff. Yeah, oh, real healthy stuff. The gold bears, you gotta have them. Oh, I gotta have the bears. All of my food goes in this one. And it's bulging right now because I just filled it up. And then I have up here, instead of a water bottle now, I have lots and lots of bars, easy access. And if you're wondering, this is where I keep the drone and the controller and some other electronics up here in my front bag. The tent is tucked in right here under all the brake cables and all my camping equipment and clothes. This is the bear spray, extra belts and my flip flops. And then just some knickknacks, cords, cables, tools. Oh, we've got a serious tunnel here. This is the real deal. Get ready, ladies and gentlemen, sing along with us. Here we go. Oh, that was a good one. We have made it, 7,250 feet of elevation. And also check it out. You see this trail right here, this walking trail? This is the CDT, the Continental Divide Trail. This is what all those through hikers do from New Mexico all the way to the border of Canada. In this trail, Chris crosses our route here and there and we've seen backpackers with those big, heavy backpacks and it's pretty cool. Everybody's out here doing their own adventure. Maybe someday I'll do a hike like that. Although those hikes take like five or six months to do. And compared to a bike trip where you can get it done in a month and a half. You know, biking is pretty slow. Life at 15 miles an hour, I call it. You get to see the world at a slow pace, but walking, even slower. Maybe someday I'll do something like that. You know, I've done some treks in the Himalayas, which are pretty awesome.  What is the deal, people? All right, we're gonna learn a little about the Continental Divide. Beneath your feet runs one of the most geographically significant places in North America. The Continental Divide. Perched along the backbone of some of the highest western mountains, it separates waters that drain into the Pacific Ocean from those that drain into the Atlantic. The Continental Divide National Scenic Trail traces this backbone, spanning 3,100 miles between Mexico and Canada. Baby, I've been waiting for this all day. And it's laundry day. I gotta wash my clothes. Oh boy, that's cold. Oh, that's cold. Woo, feels so good though. So you might wonder how I dry off all of my clothes after jumping in water. And I decorate a tree like Merry Christmas time. And at the top, of course, I put the star, the chamois. Is it the end of the day? Is it time to play fetch?  Look at our beautiful campsite here in the trees. I first learned about Nutella when I lived in Sweden and I've been a fan ever since. It's like eating a French crepe, right? And for the main course today, surprise, surprise, I have refried beans, but also hatch green chilies from New Mexico. And John's eating peanut butter and jelly tortillas. No jelly, just peanut butter. Oh, while waiting for his soup to see what it looks like. Oh yeah, looking good. Come on. Bedtime. Mira, time to go to bed. I know it's light out and it's hard to sleep when it's light, but there's too many mosquitoes.  Oh yeah, get over there. That's it, lay down. Yeah. Little pre-bed cuddles. Good night, guys. Night, Ryan. Good night, John Boy. Love my tent because there's always a good view. Check it out. That's what I get to look at tonight and tomorrow morning. And I've been in Montana now for a whole week. And it's crazy. In a lot of ways, it seems like longer. In some other ways, it seems shorter. I've ridden already almost 500 miles, 500 pretty tough miles. Most days, gaining about 5,000 feet of elevation. And my body still feels good. My spirits are good. I'm really excited to be with John and Mira. And I'm loving the state. I'm loving the adventure. And I'm loving the freedom of just being out here. Makes me very happy. So I'm gonna go to bed now, safe from all of the mosquitoes. Good night.


really don't I swear like I I know she's got mental health issues I know she's got mental health problems but I was reading this thing and it's like munchausen something like that and it's basically where you like I was a faking illness but that's kind of what it is and some of the like things that she displays are alarmingly similar to one of the things I was like shocked about was she did a live stream I think it was on her YouTube but someone certainly liked some little bits from it and I was like right so she was moaning because her doctor would only give her I think I think it started with when she was inpatient the consultant that she saw as a fictitious disorder that was it and like that in itself is an issue like I'm not saying that but I think that like the medication thing really weirds me out because I think I like she's partly addicted well partly I think she's addicted to mex is as simple as that Hey what's up you guys welcome back to my channel if you're new here hi hello my name is Lydia my name is Hilfidy is here on YouTube pretty much every day and that's a lot you know I know the last few months you guys have seen me getting her asked a bullied store hospitalized attacked pretty much every other word you could use to describe what it's like to be bullied basically people have been trying to bully me off the platform the entire summer like full on the entire summer and that's not okay so all I've come here to say literally to this spot I got on a train to do this if you don't like me you are under no location to follow me or subscribe to me if I have blocked you do not make another account to see what I've heard you've been bought for a reason and that reason should be respected my way back to you till you make amends with the demons you've been through I can't regret leaving you alone 24 I am making a phone call we're connecting you to Metropolitan basically I've been sorry I've been I've replaced reports previously about a certain group of people who have been harassing me and they're continuing to do so and it it's just getting ridiculous right so I'm just making the thorough aware that I'm not gonna make an appointment for the appointment card to come out to you to get these three talks and then okay the next available thing we have is tomorrow evening appointments are 8 p.m. on 9 p.m. and then she wants to do something during the day I can't do any time on three the police are gonna be here in less than an hour and this is very real and raw thing that is going on don't take the whole big camera set up thing as me making a joke of a situation you have no idea how much has impacted my life it almost cost me my life earlier this month and now I'm taking action and documenting this experience because I know many of you have been afraid to speak out against people and stand up for yourself and getting the police involved because it's a long and it is a traumatic process but sometimes you just have to do it really don't I swear like I know she's mental health issues I know she's mental health problems but I was reading this thing and it's like one thousand something like that and it's basically where you like I was a fake illness but that's kind of what it is and some of the like things that she displays are alarmingly similar one of the things I was like shocked about was she did a live stream I think it was on her usually someone sent me like some little bits from it and I was like right so she was moaning because her doctor would only give her I think it started with when she was inpatient the consultant that she saw a fictitious disorder that was it and like that in itself is an issue like I'm not saying that but I think that like the medication thing really weird to me out because I think I like she's partly addicted but partly I think she's addicted to medicine so simple as that Sorry about that What's been happening? On the line people are just having on and on and on and last month definitely I thought I had decided that she wanted to make a live stream basically it was happening absolutely I think everybody has something done I'm just never gonna understand or comprehend the stupidity of people who don't like someone which is fine you don't have to like me no one's making you watch what I do she don't like saying what I do it's there's a really simple concept just don't follow me how complicated is that what she's done it constitutes so what's happening since this other she did a live stream last night and she was like she just wrote into everything about on Facebook so if I was gonna go and kill with that I should just do it it's a girl called Smir what did the recipe say? the most recent thing is a 50 minute live stream she's ripped everything I've said into pieces told me that I'm a drug addict even though that's a whole other thing but she's just she's making people hate me I've tried blocking it but then she comes back and you work out except all I would be able to do anyway is book an appointment so I can say that the appointment's already booked and we will be coming out so you so if you take all of the information have you snapped it? I can't it's a live stream I'm trying I'm so done with her I'm so done with Stephanie and her fucking drama she's just gonna hear me the fucker that one I'm gonna stay I'm wondering if that's all she has done it's all I recounted about and I am so done pretending that it's okay it's not anyone needs a water what are they saying? they're just saying like I mean she should just be not there she shouldn't be there she shouldn't be there and then it's like fine there's enough there's like fine do you write what you belong to and it's like I'm not seeing a report with you it's just so frankly what's she actually being kind of down to be? I don't know do you realise how many things can occur to an ethnic group? that's what it all started about because I made friends with someone and asked the police I didn't know about all that public and I just immediately cut off the connection and that's what it started about which was good I'm going to try and give you some perspective there's nothing else I can give you okay? 200 yeah? 200 people that have 11.3 thousand no but you gotta like it over 11,000 and of that that's the 1% of her asses that's better ratios than I get to talk to people walking down the street what the f**king name call him? like it's not okay what she's done that constitutes an offensive I'll go back I'll take the report that's on there I'm going to create another report for you do you know what one of those is? it's whenever someone's got any issues or has issues with anything to contact with and we create them and we can ask for help for them things like that yeah so I'll put a marker on there I'm going to leave it there if you think you're going to do anything call us first or call an ambulance or call someone or call the crisis fella what is that I got an expert for? calling us? yeah arrested? or what basis? at least in course call an ambulance call an ambulance then if you want or call the crisis to me it's going to be your best help because I want you to actually help call an ambulance then call everything have you taken any meds today? I've got water have you taken any of your other pan today? yeah how many of those do you have today? all four actually I did the updates I'll mark it up that you'd like some help if you need any help marketing you've got the help team you've got all that left you take care of yourself ok?


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