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John Danaher

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“Your task and training is to make the training competitive enough that you actually get used to the rigors of real combat. But on the other hand, it can't be so brutal that the athletes get broken down in the gym to a point where they're no longer effective. And so this duality of hardness and softness, which we see in the case of blades is there in the training of the jiu-jitsu athlete. So I often give a gift of a knife to a student when they've done something significant because it demonstrates in a metaphorical way these key themes of the sport.”
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“Harder you make steel, the better its edge retention becomes. The longer that edge will stay sharp. This is good, but it comes at a price. The harder you make steel, the more brittle it becomes. And now that edge can be damaged easily. So, the solution is to make the steel softer, more malleable, that will prevent breakage of the blade and chipping of the edge. When you make the steel softer, that comes at a price. And that price is now the edge loses its sharpness very easily And so Riddle of steel is how to Work with these two to the greatest degree possible and create an edge which is hard enough to stay sharp for long periods of time but without making the steel so brittle that the blade overall is compromised. So too in Jitsu.”
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“but can also be used for murder, for the worst possible purposes. Jiu-Jitsu is the same way. Jiu-Jitsu can make you a better person. It can make you a worse person. Jiu-Jitsu is just a power. It's not a particularly great power, but it is a power. And like all power, it can be used for both good and bad. It's morally neutral in itself. And it's up to us to make sure that just as the knife gets used for good purposes rather than bad to let jiu-jitsu be used for good purposes rather than bad. There's also an element where Basis of the knife is steel. And historically, there's always been a riddle of steel, which is Steal is the property of both. Hardness and suppleness.”
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“It is in need of constant maintenance. It will fall apart through rust and neglect will destroy a blade both in terms of rust and the edge falling apart. And so just as the martial artist, it's not good enough just to learn the techniques, you need to maintain them over time. And just as steel is perishable, so too are the skills of martial arts. And that when I give a gift of a knife to a student, these metaphorical elements start to emerge. They see, okay, I began as iron ore and I want to become the finished blade. Another sense in which a knife is morally neutral. Knife can be used to save a life. It can be used to cook a meal.”
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“Unfinished product, which through the enactment of knowledge, time and discipline can be transformed into beautiful shining steel. It can have something which it begins as something which has no real function and becomes one of the most functional and important tools in all of human history without which human civilization could never have even begun. It's what separated humans and took us from the bottom of the food chain and began our gradual rise towards the top of the food chain. So it has immense historical and cultural value, but it has this metaphorical value insofar as the martial artist begins as a white belt like iron ore, but over time transforms into some beautiful shining steel, which can have immense value. In addition, there's a sense of maintenance as remarkable as steel is.”
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“come from by the way that's more metaphorical the truth is that in the modern world a knife is not an efficient weapon easily be overwhelmed by firearms my fascination with with knives comes more in the sense that they convey a spirit to my students where Made of steel, and steel begins as ore in the ground.”
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“Think it's not just compelling to me but to anyone. I mean, there's nothing we value more than our lives. And to be able to say I'm prepared to die for a sense of honor, things that are so foreign to our modern society. Imagine we criticize people for something as simple as like road rage. And yet you can imagine someone who has a sufficiently developed sense of honor if you took them out of the 17th century and put them in a modern car. They might be killing people on the side of the road on a regular basis just over smaller stacks of iron to say that your sense of self overwhelms your sense of self-preservation. It's a very unusual thing in the modern age and yet it appears to have been quite common back then.”
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“I don't feel qualified to talk about him because I haven't made an in-depth study of his life and times. And we also don't know how much truth there is to his recollections. And there's a lot of controversy over this. So I don't feel like you can give a definitive statement of, certainly I can't give a definitive statement of his prowess, but his writings are fascinating and deeply insightful. But Esther, what actually happened out there in his duels, it's unclear”
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“I think about the other elements. An Anacond has no ability to disengage from the fight. Once the fight's on, it's got to go until the end. It has no ability to disengage and get away Its only hope would be ambush, and it's got a tiny, tiny chance against. A truly formidable animal. And the fact that if we look at actual concrete real-world results, when Puma and Jaguar are kicking your ass, you know, lion and bear, it's going to be a lot worse.”
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“I'll put it you this way. On video, you can watch Puma. And similar sized cats, jaguar, destroy anacondas. Even in water, which is Anaconda's preferred domain. So Given that Puma and Jaguar several orders below Lion, you have to go with the idea that Lion would utterly decimate Anaconda. So it's probably good that we did skip over it.”
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“I think that would I mean, maybe the first few months would be good. And then after that, I think it would be a disaster. I mean, given that Humans are fairly easy to study from the standpoint of psychology, I'm sure it's not that difficult to gain expertise. Things like picking people up the same way advertisers can pick up your attention to sell a product. You can do the same thing, presumably with romance and sex. I don't know. I If you became very good at it, Would end up being very disappointed by the results. And so as I said, I think there's some things in life where it's better to be a beginner.”
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“Yes, and I think the magic of romantic love is the fact that we're all beginners at it. And the minute you try to gain expertise in it, what does that even mean? Like, what would it mean to any and would it be good? I don't think it would. I think you're better off just having fun with it and plowing through and making dumb mistakes and looking like a fool and then whatever success, whatever that means comes in a kind of lighthearted, frivolous kind of way. And that, I think, is. The course of our lifetime far more desirable than having expertise and affairs of love. So I don't think it's even a good thing to study too much. And I think if you did, you would actually take something good out of your life.”
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“There's a sense in which I'm kind of glad I'm not an expert on that. Imagine what it would be to be an expert on romantic love. You would take the one thing in life that's actually interesting and make it boring because once you develop an expertise about something, you can start to predict how things are going to unfold. You get answers before events even occur. see, you can read into the future of everything. I think there are certain parts of human life where you want to be a beginner at all times and you don't want to gain expertise.”
2022-10-10 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #328 – John Danaher: Submission Grappling, ADCC, Animal Combat, and Knives · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“When Jiu-Jitsu players meet each other, they often shake hands and then give a quick hug. So I thought it was the most appropriate emoji for Jiu Jitsu players.”
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“Doesn't matter. Different perspectives. It's the intent that counts. Yeah, no, that's impressive. He's actually quite an athlete. He's in great shape and strong and flexible. And I'm glad he's doing well with his due genes.”
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“An organization which caters to former soldiers who were badly injured in combat and many of whom lost limbs and suffered mental trauma and they come in and train and they often speak very very highly of their degree to which jiu-jitsu has helped them come back into civilian life and for them it's even worse because they come back not only mentally but physically disadvantaged after war and I've always been proud to be associated with We Defy and I'm very happy to see Tom working with this organization. Is this an organization based in England for English veterans or is it international?”
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“There's also a similar kind of esteem towards skill, just as regular soldiers look up to special forces soldiers because they see them as people who have greater skill than themselves, something to aspire to. So too in judiciary, the thing that we esteem most on Jiu Jitsu Matters scale, no one gives a damn what you look like or what you think you're judged mostly by your skill level. And so they tend to identify with that. I do think that most people from a military background kind of find a natural gravitation towards the atmosphere of jiu-jitsu learning. And if it proves to be a positive way for them to rehabilitate and come back into civilian life, then that's a wonderful, wonderful thing. I know we're linked with we defy, which is a...”
2022-10-10 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #328 – John Danaher: Submission Grappling, ADCC, Animal Combat, and Knives · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Want of a better word of rustic and primitive sense of humor and a kind of soldierly way of talking to each other and disparaging self-deprecating sense of humor. And it's something that most people with military service kind of naturally come into because it's part of what they were And so it's like a toned down version of it, which enables them to. Form a stepping stone between the The military life that they were in all the way down to civilian life and jiu-jitsu was kind of like a bridge between those two.”
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“There's nothing in their experience that would enable you to have a conversation with them. They don't even, how do you talk to your new girlfriend about watching one of your friends' legs get taken off? There's no conversation you could have with them. So I find that typically they do best when they hang out with each other because they have shared experience and they can talk about these things. But I do find that Most jiu-jitsu schools have something like a kind of military barracks. Demeanor to them of camaraderie, hard work, shared hard work. Teamwork building towards a goal over time, the acquisition of skills usually along with that a kind of”
2022-10-10 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #328 – John Danaher: Submission Grappling, ADCC, Animal Combat, and Knives · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You go from incredible intensity and war Just mundane boring life and going from one to the other where people are yelling at you or nagging you over issues that just seem so inconsequential compared to what you've been through. And you're supposed to take these people seriously and listen to them.”
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“People are arguing with them over parking spots. Just like the average person's. Day-to-day life is so mundane that imagine what must be going through a man's head. Who a few weeks or months ago was literally fighting for his life and his comrades' lives, watching people that he loved die or get mutilated in front of him. Things In a matter of seconds, people's lives can be torn apart and changed forever. And then suddenly you get thrown into a life where people are arguing over. Who's cut in line to buy a coffee?”
2022-10-10 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #328 – John Danaher: Submission Grappling, ADCC, Animal Combat, and Knives · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“First of all, I think that's just a beautiful statement by Mr. Hari that I must give him a phone call after this and talk to him. It was beautiful to read One thing that's always struck me when I train people who either have a military background or on more than a few occasions we have special forces soldiers come and train with us for a week or two. And when you talk to them, The overwhelming sentiment I get when the conversation's over and we go our separate ways is I'm always asking myself the transition from military life, especially the more extreme military lives of special forces soldiers. To civilian life, it must be the craziest experience of all. You've got people who Fighting and dying alongside their comrades in the most extreme circumstances that any human being can go through. And then they're pulled back into a life where”
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“Oh, yeah, absolutely He used to consult with me a little bit on moves when he was starting out. He's a very, very nice person.”
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“We could turn this down, forget about Gordon fighting a lion or a bear. That's completely impossible An adult male chimp will destroy Gordon. So not even”
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“My advice would be very simple. I would say Gordon, you're fuck You're going to die badly. Choose the lion because it will strangle you to death rather than pin you down and maul you to death.”
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“It's going to injure it, tear it up, and do immediate damage. I put it this way. If Lion and Bear fight first 15 minutes, I favor the lion 100%. But then as time goes by, that size and weight and endurance is going to have an effect.”
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“I still think that the size and endurance of the bear, if they were locked in a cage together, I would still favor the bear under those circumstances. But in the wild, I believe the bear will back away, caught it in the cage.”
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“I'm saying lion would win in the wild because they can't kill each other, they can't end the fight. That's one of our most important criteria. But lions can almost always initiate the action because they have much better ability to see at night, for example. Bears have very average night vision. Lions have superb night vision. So at nighttime, they can always initiate the fight. Lions are natural ambush predators. So it's always going to be out of have the advantage of ambush. The great advantage that bears have is endurance. But bears are very risk averse and they're not used to fighting like the toughest, toughest animals. The toughest animal they fight is a moose or a caribou. These are not even close to the animals that lions have to go up against on a regular basis.”
2022-10-10 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #328 – John Danaher: Submission Grappling, ADCC, Animal Combat, and Knives · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Bears fight each other, but it's largely theatrical. They never kill each other. When lions fight each other, they kill each other all the time. Someone would have seen it by now.”
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“It's more about the beer. Like, in theory, a beer should be able to crush a cougar. But it seems to be the bear is just saying this thing could hurt me. So I'm not going to risk injury and backs away. I think it would back away in the wild from a lion, but put him in a cage. And I slightly favor the grizzly based on endurance.”
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“They had more expertise of us than we do because they had a big population of wild animals, which they just put to fight each other. Unfortunately, there's nothing that they wrote about bears versus lion. They did talk about bears versus bulls. They did talk about lions versus tigers, but they never mentioned bear versus lions. So we don't have any evidence for that. So we had to be a little bit more speculative. Now, given that bears do get chased off by cougar and cougar is weak compared with a male lion,”
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“I would slightly favor a beer. Now, I still think that the lion would have a chance, but I would favor the bear in a betting match. Some of the best evidence we have for animal versus animal fights come from the ancient Romans who actually used to put animals in gladiatorial combat. For example, had several incidents where they wrote about tiger vs. lion conflict. And in one famous passage, they described a lion getting destroyed by a female tiger. So there's some evidence to suggest that”
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“Exactly, exactly. The bears are risk averse. What I would say is this. The bears are very, very powerful in their domain, but they don't have the battle experience of a lion. They don't take on animals as tough as a cape buffalo. They don't take on elephant. What the toughest thing it would probably take on would probably be a bull moose and a bull moose is a formidable animal, but it's nothing like a cape buffalo. It's nothing like an elephant or a hippopotamus. So what I would suggest is this in the wild, I don't believe either one is capable of killing the other, but I do believe based on video evidence of cougars and wolverines chasing off bears that a lion would provide enough threat in a brief fight that a bear would back away. If you put them in a cage, however, where neither one could back away,”
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“If they fight over meat, and say, for example, a cougar has killed something and the beer wants the meat, the cougar will risk risk.”
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“It would come down to endurance. Now, that's where things get interesting because the bear is much more of an endurance hunter and the lion is much more of an ambush hunter. Lion's quick, explosive, much higher top speed. They got a top speed of 45 to 50 miles an hour. A bear can do up to 35, but it can run. Very long periods. They're mostly an endurance hunter. They just run elk and moose down until they're exhausted and then pin them and kill them. So if it came down to endurance, might go the way of the bear. If they were caged up together, however, there is very strong evidence from both hunters and video, which shows on many occasions bears being chased off by cougar and wolverines.”
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“They would both fail on the finishing criteria. The lion would not be able to strangle a bear, even in a best-case scenario where he got his teeth into the neck, the bear can stand up and presumably shake him off. The bear would never be able to pin a lion for long enough to be able to hold it down and slowly maul it over time the way it can with an elk or a caribou. I don't believe either would be able to finish the other.”
2022-10-10 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #328 – John Danaher: Submission Grappling, ADCC, Animal Combat, and Knives · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Also, they have a much more limited set of animals that they prey upon. So pretty sure grizzly is going to be tough to beat as far as top beer goes. Grizzly beer, I believe, would be a formidable adversary, even for a male lion. They're literally twice their size. They have an ability to get away from strangleholds by standing up on two legs. So the lion's primary method of killing, which is to strangle, would be very difficult for them to employ upon a bear. Interestingly, the bear's primary method of killing is to pin. It pins animals and then just slowly eats them while they're still alive. They have a rather barbaric means of killing lions of much more humane in the way they kill. What I see is the primary problem is that neither one would be able to kill the other.”
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“Okay, no, this is an interesting question. Okay, you get a fully grown North American grizzly versus an African lion. This is an interesting bat.”
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“Also go further into this. Let's talk about concentration of force. The lion has the quintessential concentration of force, which is fangs and claws The gorilla is the exact opposite. It can't even make a fist. And so it can only throw open-handed slaps and grab things. So it has no ability with its arms to concentrate force in any kind of efficient way. When a lion or a tiger or a bear, for that matter, swings at you, it's got four claws from four to six inches long. It's like four blades going into you. They can retract their claws so they're always sharp.”
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“What I'm saying is, I know it's not equivalent, but the fact that a leopard does so well against even fully grown male gorillas makes you, should make you rather suspicious of a gorilla's ability to fight a lion.”
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“No anecdotal, it was observed by a group of people who specialized in observing gorillas over a 12-year period. They regularly found gorilla toes and leopard defecation. They also saw that over a certain period some 36 guerrillas had been killed. And evidence strongly suggested leopard predation was the reason. Apparently, leopards had figured out that there was a femoral artery in gorillas' legs and were doing a move which, from the sounds of it, sounds a lot like a barumbol. That was spinning underneath gorillas and biting the femoral artery and then disengaging and watching them bleed out and die and then eating them. Now a leopard. No match for a lion. The only defense it has to align is to run up a tree. It cannot engage with a lion on anything close to equal terms.”
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“Intelligence is a huge, huge asset. Humanity is positive proof that it is the most important asset, but it takes time in order to... Work is magic. It took humans. 200,000 years to go from the bottom of the food chain to the top of the food chain. And gorillas have a lot of work to do before they get to that level. You said in theory gorillas could do this, but let's talk about practice now. First off, there are many documented incidents. Of leopards killing gorillas.”
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“This kind of harsh combat experience, no other animal can claim to have this between what they kill to eat and what they have to do to defend their steak and a pride. No other animal fights like that They just bring a level of depth to combat which is unmatched in the animal kingdom. They also have some other elements too that they get to luxury because of their social nature of taking more risks than other animals. Like a tiger hunts alone. So if it gets injured, it's a big problem. It can die if it's injured. A lion can fight Kate Buffalo, get injured, and be covered by the other lions for food until it recovers. So it learns to take risks and it's not afraid to go out and fight very, very hard, whereas other animals tend to shy away from risk because they're solitary. Bears are solitary, tigers are solitary. So they learn from an early age not to take the big risks, to go to a certain level and stop.”
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“I mean, even lions, when they fight each other, the mortality rate when lions fight each other, male lions, for ownership of a pride. Very, very high, much, much higher than I believe any other species on Earth. There almost always fights to the death for the simple reason that when a male lion loses control of a pride, the first act, the new lion does is to kill the genetic offspring of the previous male lion. So when a lion fights another male lion, when one male lion fights another, it's not just to fight for his own life. It's a fight for his genetic. Offspring. And failure means not only does he die, all his offspring dies. And so when they fight, the implications are so deep. It's like a fight for your, not just you, but your DNA. Most male lions have very short runs at the top. Killed or run off by other lions.”
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“Given that particular dynamic. Now, let's contrast that with a male lion. Take on the biggest, meanest, toughest animals in the most competitive killing war. Planet Earth, which is continental Africa. And they Literally just take, I mean, occasionally they lose, but it's rare and they take out everything just in order to eat, they have to take down wildebeest, cape buffalo, like Cape Buffalo are incredibly dangerous beasts just by themselves. And yet lions regularly take them down. Occasionally, large numbers of lions will even swarm elephant. over 12 hour periods take down elephant on some occasions. This is all on video. This is not just speculation. So they just have a level of combat experience which no other animal can do.”
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“Even the presence of canines doesn't make a lot of sense. They're not going to use them. What are they? Comes down to this idea of their big thing is intimidation.”
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“Fighting. Let's stop going through our animals. Okay, when you look at the gorilla, you will see immediately that almost every experience a gorilla has of combat is theatrical. They don't engage in killing things. They scare rival males away in order to gain ownership of females. But there is almost no intraspecies death in those conflicts. They're almost entirely theatrical. They have, for example, enormous canine teeth, but there is no record of them ever being used in combat Appear to be used purely for intimidation purposes. There's a sense in which they have this tremendous appearance and they have tremendous potential. They really do have freakish levels of strength in many different ways. And yet their actual track record of using it is negligible.”
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“Yeah. And so when you ask yourself, okay, which one of these animals are going to be the most successful on combat? Ask yourself, well, there's these three elements which tend to determine success or failure and warfare which animals exhibit these three principles the best. And we'll discuss this. But as far as generalities go, whenever you ask a question, who will win between A and B? ask yourself in terms of the light of what we've just discussed. What is their skill set? What are their attributes, both mental and physical? What is their experience in utilizing these in real-world situations? And then the four more tactical elements. Who gets to initiate contact? Can you break off contact at any given time? What is your endurance? Can you keep going longer than your opponent does?”
2022-10-10 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #328 – John Danaher: Submission Grappling, ADCC, Animal Combat, and Knives · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, we would. Humans are pretty damn good at it too. And then the third is endurance. Okay. Species, some people, humans actually are pretty good at this using endurance as a weapon. And they simply wear an opponent down over time and break them internationally. This can be done economically through numbers, et cetera, et cetera. And you can destroy someone with sheer endurance.”
2022-10-10 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #328 – John Danaher: Submission Grappling, ADCC, Animal Combat, and Knives · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, this is one of the great combat strategies across the animal kingdom, across human history, etc. Second would be ambush tactics. You can ambush an opponent with the element of surprise. This is huge for success in combat. Almost all the truly successful predators on this planet are ambush predators. The ability to get off to a good start. Way where opponents simply can't recover is huge for combat”
2022-10-10 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #328 – John Danaher: Submission Grappling, ADCC, Animal Combat, and Knives · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source