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I'm joined now by Suzanne Moore, columnist at The Guardians. What can what's going on in Westminster tell us about other workplaces in Britain? You've written that this shows that Westminster is finally coming up to the 1970s, but do you think it is qualitatively different what's going on in Westminster? What particularities are there with the Westminster sexual harassment scandal and the condition of women in work generally? Well, Westminster is this sort of small contained environment that operates with its own rules and some of the things that we've seen are a complicity. For instance, the political parties will control the way that they deal with this stuff by saying, we've basically got dirt on you. I mean, the Tories are known for it. I'm not saying they've never done it, but we have some evidence that the Tories will say, we know that you're having an affair, you vote this way. So that kind of thing, you like young boys, you vote this way. So that's a complicity and abuse that's set up within a system. And another thing is that most people, normal people when they go to Westminster, feel this is a very strange place with very odd strange rules. It smells really weird. It just smells strange. But a certain kind of person, public school, people go there and feel at home. And what they feel at home with is often being in single sex environments where people are really other. I mean, who are these people who cannot be in a lift with somebody without touching them up?  So not even MPs can go, no bars, but so you've got all these bars, but no childcare. You know, this is this is the kind of strange organization of Westminster. And the other thing is a symbiosis between politicians and journalists. Journalists themselves, the world of journalism is very hypocritical and will trade all several information. So these things all prop each other up. And it is not good for anybody. Often you get young, ambitious people, men and women who just feel that they can't say anything or just can't cope. One of the things that's really sad, I think at the moment is that some people are saying, well, especially these kind of these sort of Harrod and women who say, I can cope. I can go actually, where are the people who couldn't cope? You know, you just couldn't hack it. You just didn't want to live like that. And there's a lot of people that should be in politics, should be in journalism, should be in positions of power that just aren't. I want to actually focus on that, what you've commented on about the relationship between journalists and politicians, meaning that this hasn't come out. Because I actually think that hasn't been discussed very much. It's been written a lot about how the whips having a vested interest in having secrets on politicians makes them inclined to not make that a formal complaint because it's quite useful to have a secret on someone. Do you think journalists have been doing the same thing? I think certain journalists have been part of this because of the lobby system. Because if you're locked out of that system, it's said that you can't get stories. I mean, the only two bits of journalism that I find so closed is fashion journalism and political journalism. I went to a fashion show once and people were crying because they couldn't get into Versace because they'd slagged off the last Versace collection, they thought they weren't letting, they couldn't do their jobs. And there's a little bit about the way the lobby operates, which I don't think any organization should, especially now, have anything to do with it. They just should not agree to, because it's politicians setting the access under rules by which journalists operate. And out of that comes all this kind of, this kind of quite sideways bizarre behavior and clubby behavior between sort of gangs and guys. No, I think journalists are part of this problem because a lot of journalists is also in kind of, I'm so cool because I know this stuff about people way. Journalists will exchange information like, oh, we all knew he was gay, didn't you know that? Or, you know, all this sort of stuff.  And that happens. And it's very hard when you go into Westminster. When I first went to Westminster in the 90s, you know, my editor said, I said, well, how do I get stories? And he said, and obviously it was years and years ago, he said, well, you just wear a short skirt and stand in central lobby and catch the eye of MPs when they come out of discussions, of debates. And I was, what?  And then they take you to lunch and then you talk about the various things going on in the lobby and they might put their hand on your leg at the end. And the other thing was this culture of lunching which I was suddenly involved with, which I'd never, you know, not something that I'd ever had anything to do with these long lunches, lots of alcohol. The other thing is that, and that has changed in Westminster, they just used to be pissed all day. A lot of drinking all day long, no, it's true. I think a lot of them still are pissed all day, right? Or is that the lords now? The lords and the bishops. But there's some are, but it is less, you know, it is less than it was. But, you know, you could, the reason that they have to be in the bars, apparently, till 10, 11, 12, whatever, is because they're waiting for the division bell. But what you've got is also a lot of people who don't live with their families. You know, those ones that get caught having a moment of madness or not knowing what they're doing or what about, I mean, there must be loads of them. I'm surprised there's not more of them really. It's, they do live a very bizarre, we ask MPs to live a very bizarre lifestyle. But they are completely propped up, they've propped each other up. I mean, I heard Caroline Nuka's talk the other day about the difference between the European Parliament, you know, which is arranged in a circular way, whereas the arse is adversarial.  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now that's in public. What are they going to do in private, exactly? I think it's easy to dwell on the kind of repulsive behaviour of these odd, older, rich, posh men. And sometimes what happens is you forget the actual consequences of it, which is that it discourages women from going into politics. It stops people progressing in their careers. Have you seen any progress in the last 20 years that gives you hope that that might change? And what do you think this particular scandal now, these allegations coming out now, will change? Well, there has been progress. And obviously, not all women are going to speak up, but not all women will change things. But yeah, we need more women in politics. I mean, that's not in question for me. I am really heartened by the fact that younger women will not, and younger guys, just are breaking this silence and making connections about the structures that they work in and not just saying, well, I asked for it or I didn't know what I was doing. They are fundamentally saying, I do not want this to happen to me in the workplace. And they are giving each other confidence by speaking up. And what I hope happens now is that the pressure keeps up. But it doesn't become really, I think you said this, it's not really a party political story. It's a huge political story because the next bit has to connect Westminster to the everyday stuff that women, the harassment that women put up with. And that's a huge loss because I mean, we're talking about patriarchy. I mean, we're talking about, and Westminster of course symbolizes absolutely then the heart of power and certain people feel comfortable with that. But I am heartened by what's happening now. I mean, it's been a long, long time coming. It does feel like a down breaking. And the strength of it is almost for me, I can see it in the backlash. People are trying very, very hard to say, this is a bit of flirtation. And they won't be able to say it when some of the allegations are proved. They just won't. And it sounds ridiculous at this point as well. It does. Cezanne, well thank you so much for coming to the studio today and joining us. This was The Fix. We'll be back in a week's time, hopefully on time. In the meantime, check out Navarra Media's Climate Week all week from Bonn. See you next week.


You know leaving YouTube and Twitter it really was nice like it was therapeutic because I feel like my mind has been cleared But every time like there's winter break there's always some sort of a drama that happens on left Twitter or YouTube and This year of course was no different. I think back in 2017 or 2018 We had the Justice Democrats drama where they kicked out Jank Jueger and then Kyle Kalinsky resigned as well in 2019 we had the Tulsi Gabbard drama. I was part of that unfortunately And now we have the force the vote drama now for those of you who are not aware I'll try to give you the rundown of it, but basically this turned into this really huge thing that has led to 50% of the left online hating the other 50% of the left online and It seems like a large portion of people on left Twitter and YouTube now hate members of the squad because ultimately Force the vote was not successful in getting them to get a floor vote on Medicare for all It's kind of a mess, but I do feel like after watching way too many hours of force the vote Material I've listened to a lot of takes both from proponents of force the vote and people who are critical of it I feel like I do have a pretty Solid and objective Perspective on this because I've heard out both sides and so my observations are going to be based largely on generalizations But I think that what I have to say I think it's useful and I kind of contemplated whether or not I should even talk about this because I don't I don't want to talk about something that is very clearly dividing the left which hurts us overall But I think that in order to move forward there has to be healing and in order to have healing You have to talk about things like you can't just sweep it under a rug So let's talk about it. So when it comes to force the vote, there's two main camps one camp as this Image explains they just simply want progressives to withhold a vote for Nancy Pelosi to become speaker of the house Unless she agrees to you know get a floor vote on Medicare for all now baked into this Demand is this assumption that we know about the inevitability of Nancy Pelosi We know that she's probably going to become speaker again because there's no other Challenger to the left of Nancy Pelosi like if it's not Nancy Pelosi It's probably someone worse than Nancy Pelosi to the right of Nancy Pelosi like Steny Hoyer or Hakim Jeffries So knowing that she's gonna be speaker again try to get something out of it Try to extract some concession and the concession that we want is a floor vote on Medicare for all We know it's not gonna pass. We know this won't actually get us Medicare for all but we think we can use this as ammunition to strengthen our position and You know have Democrats go on the record like show your cards Who's going to go on the record and deny their constituents Medicare for all during a pandemic? So that's one side. The other side says This isn't really a good idea Now I've heard multiple takes as to why they think this isn't a good idea and I'll tell you which camp I've fallen after I explained their position But on chapo trap house will Medicare made the point that you know what? This is just going to hurt our cause because it's gonna demoralize people They're gonna see Medicare for all fail and they're gonna get disappointed and want to check out of politics I'm paraphrasing of course. There are some individuals who will say, you know what? This isn't a good idea because it's going to put us in a worse off position Because then Nancy Pelosi can point to the failure of this to pass and she'll say look I told you it's not popular. We can't pass it So overall after listening to all of these arguments weighing out the pros and the cons I ultimately do fall into the camp of forced the vote ironically I found out about forced the vote through Sam Cedar when he talked about Jimmy door coming up with the strategy And I thought oh my god This could be something that's amazing because if you have Jimmy door and Sam Cedar agreeing on something to individuals who hate each Other's guts this really could be something that you know We all coalesce around and unify the left, but it's turned out to be like the opposite We're now everyone hates each other more than ever and you see people online Jen Yuger Jimmy door taking lots of shots against each other and it is getting Ugly I mean that is hard to watch like I've watched these guys Over the years and this is like watching two Titans in our bubble in our echo chamber go at it It's like you know Tupac versus Biggie Jay-Z versus Nos and so it's tough to watch And I don't think it needs to be this way. You know, I'm in the camp of forced the vote I think that this is a good strategy But I think that we have to acknowledge that there are valid criticisms from allies who definitely support Medicare for all but when things started to go down hill was when the Factualization really started to happen.  I don't like the criticisms that Jimmy door is just doing this for clicks. He's a grifter I believe Jimmy door believes in this. That's why he's angry and look He has a right to be angry, but you've got to acknowledge that if somebody sees, you know Jimmy door screaming at AOC Calling her a sellout.  You don't support the strategy It's going to turn off a lot of people and think okay This doesn't seem like a good strategy if you're just gonna yell at AOC She's already on our side from an optics perspective from a marketing perspective Getting people on board means convincing them and that's not going to be something that persuades a lot of people and You know after seeing that a lot of people thought oh, wow, well, I don't want to be associated with this I don't want to be associated with this dude online who's like screaming at people and so you had individuals try to kind of Salvage the force to vote campaign and say look, this isn't really about Jimmy door This is really about force to vote the substance He's just one individual who is a proponent of force to vote and sure he popularized it But you don't have to agree with Jimmy door and him screaming at AOC To still support force to vote and that was kind of my take like I think that Anger is a good thing, but I don't necessarily agree with like screaming at AOC I don't think that it's warranted just yet because I don't think that this necessarily proves that she's a sellout because she doesn't support this Particular strategy, you know There's just a disagreement and apparently her strategy was to negotiate with regard to Pago But still even having said that I think that AOC is wrong to say that oh well Jimmy door She didn't name Jimmy door, but it's heavily implied that Jimmy door saying fuck you to her is Tantum out to violence, which I unequivocally disagree with like I think that Jimmy door went too far in his criticism of AOC saying that she's basically Comparable to Nancy Pelosi or there's no difference.   What changed? I mean now that it's gaining momentum after saying you support it now you don't support it So I see that anger. I see why people are disappointed But on the opposite side of the same coin folks who are disappointed with individuals who reject this strategy Oftentimes take their criticisms way too far, you know labeling someone A sellout because they don't support this is unreasonable putting someone on a list Saying that these folks who rejected forced the vote are on the wrong side of history It doesn't make sense. These are all allies who support Medicare for all They just don't agree with this particular strategy because they don't believe that it's the best way to get to Medicare for all This is becoming like a no-true scotsman fallacy where it's like if you don't support forced the vote You're not a real progressive when that's It's a strategy disagreement like this isn't a hill to die on necessarily because it's just a strategy I think folks who support forced the vote know that this isn't actually going to get us to Medicare for all It is just a means to an end. It could increase our bargaining power going forward But of course there are pitfalls with this strategy.  You just disagree and that's fine Like I've had my disagreements with people who support Medicare for all I've been disappointed disappointed in jimmy door who when tulsi gabbered came out against Medicare for all You know, he kind of gave her the softball interview and she supported a multi-payer system She came out with like single payer plus and That's plus private insurance. So it's no longer single payer. It's a multi-payer system It doesn't eliminate eliminate private insurance and I was expecting jimmy door to rip her a new asshole But he didn't so it's like well, where was that energy? Where was that fire for tulsi gabbered when she came out against Medicare for all Isn't the standard that you're applying to aoc a lot more stringent and harsh than other politicians So there are disagreements there and the problem is that when youtubers and leftist pundits publicly disagree then their audiences kind of end up taking a side, you know And so that becomes this huge issue and it becomes a factionalized clusterfuck and just a mess and you've got people who are like making fun of the small crowd size And that really bothered me as well If you look at like what the activists there were saying one of them was joy marie a friend of mine Like she was passionately talking about why she needed medicare for all So why would we make fun of that if you disagree with the strategy? There's no need to make fun of that like we're all on the same side And so basically like this is getting already too convoluted, but there's so much basically my my main criticism Of forced to vote and all of this like both sides is that we don't communicate with each other We're talking past each other.  I'm done with them. I'm writing them off forever And we do this individually because you know, there's so much at stake as I stated like there's a lot of anger and hurt and The necessity of medicare for all it's never been higher during a pandemic So there's so much at stake and people have a right to be angry We just have to make sure we're angry at the right people and being angry at each other Taking shots at each other This isn't healthy and it doesn't help that youtubers online Are participating in this because their viewers are going to take sides and the viewers work will clash when all together We have to be a cohesive block if we ever want to be successful And I'm preaching right now, but I've been part of the problem as well I've gotten into many arguments with people online other leftist commentators So we just have to try to be more self-aware and not do this But the main issue here overall if I get stepped back And wrap all of this in one pretty package and hand it to you and tell you this is what I think is the main issue here It's a lack of communication It's a lack of communication not just with each other But between us and politicians members of the squad specifically because this is what it's about So fast forward to The day when all these members of congress are sworn in and we see whether or not They're gonna get anything for voting for Pelosi because we all expected them to vote for Nancy Pelosi and what happens They voted for Nancy Pelosi and we didn't get a floor vote on medicare for all so A lot of people responded I think in a reasonable way by saying look I get it, you know, they're I don't want to see them vote for Nancy Pelosi However, they're gonna do that because there's no other left-wing alternative I just hope that they extracted enough Concessions to make that vote worth it because by voting for Nancy Pelosi like it or not you're voting for someone Who's part of the problem who's against your interests?  That's what force to vote was about and then we saw a response that Was the opposite where fraud squad was trending and people were attacking members of the squad for voting for Nancy Pelosi There's a lot to say about this. First of all, I think that labeling them the fraud squad. I think that that goes too far but Without a mind, I don't think that anger at the squad is unwarranted. I think that anger at them voting for Nancy Pelosi Irrespective of the circumstances They have to explain that and this is where communication comes into play, right? Okay I get that there was no other left-wing challenger and the only alternative to Nancy Pelosi was a democrat that was more conservative, right? Someone like hakeem jeffreys or steny heuer So I get that I can rationalize their their reasoning and if they feel as if you know getting The exceptions for Medicare for all and the Green New Deal under pay go to then force Floor vote on Medicare for all later if they think that's enough then that's fine Like I don't think voting for Nancy Pelosi makes them sellouts if I were in congress Would I vote for Nancy Pelosi? No, I would not I would make sure I rally enough protest votes to make a big enough noise without Making us susceptible to getting an even more conservative speaker like steny heuer or hakeem jeffreys But that's just me. But if they took the time and explained it to us explained it to people This wouldn't be that big of an issue. Do they go too far in saying they're the fraud squad Who are critical of their votes for Pelosi? Yes, I even saw some people say like we need to primary the squad and That just is nonsensical because why waste your energy and you know a limited amount of resources and organizational power on primarying them when there are Democrats who are way worse. There are republicans who are worse So, you know, I think that that is too far There's some people who are just like overly attacking corey bush on her first day in congress When you also have marjorie taylor green being sworn in and why isn't your fire being directed towards her? She definitely doesn't support medicare for all. So, you know, that's my feelings But I'm also conflicted because when people Run on something like the expectations are higher like the standards for the squad Are higher, right? So I expect better from them. So if they let me down I'm going to be more disappointed Then by something that marjorie taylor green does or some other corporate democrat does because I expect better from them So here's the thing basically if they voted for Nancy Pelosi and then explain themselves That would be Really really helpful. It wouldn't make it so that way Disillusionment and disappointment with the squad wouldn't be as severe Because here's the thing if you're going to make this vote We all kind of expected them to make this vote you've got to take the time to explain yourselves But they vote for Nancy Pelosi and then they expect people to just accept well We had no other option But explain that to us like if you're going into congress and your corey bush and you support all the policies that we support You can't just vote for Nancy Pelosi and then like Never touch on that like if I did like a 30 second ad in lock for lockheed martin on this show a defense contractor And then just never address it again.  Why are you doing this?  I understand why you're frustrated Nancy Pelosi does not represent What I like but I had to vote for her because that was the only way I could get x y and z I could get this committee appointment this concession So I hope you can understand that I had to make this decision begrudgingly But it's what I think can best Improve my position in congress to have more bargaining power like if you explain it to people That would make matters a lot better, but there's no communication They make the vote and people are scratching their heads wondering why you just voted for Nancy Pelosi And perhaps again the reasons are valid because there isn't another option that's more left-wing than Nancy Pelosi But explain to us what happened. Why she's the speaker again Why during the last two years that you had you didn't find the time To rally around someone else who's to the left of Nancy Pelosi, especially now that you have more leverage when the house just lost ground Like you you just kind of like accepted Nancy Pelosi as an as an inevitability So I want you to explain to us what happened And it's not like they're forced to explain themselves to me like they don't have to Come on the humanist report every single time they do something bad or that I disagree with But if you want people who helped you get to congress Still be dedicated to you and fight for you and be loyal to you You do have to clue them in on these things you have to explain these things Because we're not going to be privy to all of these small little legislative maneuvers and back room deals that go on That leads to the things that are disappointing So you just got to explain it to us like what we need from members of the squad is reassurance that what we're doing Is is worthwhile Getting more progressive members elected to congress is worthwhile phone banking for them canvassing for them You know sending them money that it's all worthwhile because if every time We elect someone and we primary a corporate democrat successfully You just turn around and do what the establishment wants Like people are going to get demoralized and the squad isn't going to grow as easily So you've got to you've got to help us help you the online left is just like one component of The overall left collective in the united states But like it or not they did get you elected. They helped you get elected So you can't just make them feel as if once you're elected that institution is going to change you You have to explain to us that everything that we've been doing for the last couple of years You know, it wasn't for nothing. You still know that Nancy Pelosi is the enemy And you let us know you clue us in on these things But like there's a lot of things that kind of add up and people think it's trivial But I don't think it is trivial like you see Nancy Pelosi be called mama bear by aoc You see a or ilhan omar Sharing an endorsement of Nancy Pelosi and what she said about ilhan omar.  It irritates me to no end It does but it doesn't mean you're a sellout. So I kind of see like both sides here like I see Them going too far in saying they're the fraud squad But also the anger and disappointment with the squad It it really is warranted like there's so much at stake even if I'm misguided And the the squad really is behind the scenes doing everything in their power To get us in a better position The communication there's lacking And we have to talk but I want to end with this everyone who was involved enforced the vote whether you supported it or you don't support it Everyone has good intentions here Everyone is passionate because they believe this will either help or hurt our chances of securing medicare for all Further down the road because nobody believed this would lead to us getting medicare for all It just was a means to an end eventually maybe But at the end of the day, we all support medicare for all And we're mad because we care and that sounds corny But it's true like we're mad at each other We're taking shots at each other because so much is at stake and the left, you know, it seems like we're unreasonable And we're crazy because we're always like fighting each other and shitting on each other and dunking on each other But that isn't just unhinged behavior. I mean, well sometimes it is but That energy is there because people care people's lives are at stake people need medicare for all We need free college. We need a green new deal. So whenever, you know The stakes are that high emotions and tensions are going to be high as well And we have to remind ourselves of that of that and I feel like if I didn't like take this break from twitter I would probably be like right in the trenches like staking at a position arguing with everyone else because that's just how human beings are like we we say we support something and then somebody responds and rather than trying to You know, uh interpret what they're saying from The position of a good faith ally we kind of like harden our stance and we take shots at them and we feel attacked personally when That's that's not the case like the force to vote people They have to acknowledge that the people who didn't agree with the strategy are not sellouts But I think that tensions wouldn't be as high if political commentators like myself Didn't fan the flames like I feel like All of this has kind of led to me coming to this conclusion that political commentary online is Is like a double-edged sword on one hand. I think it is important because we I think I hope provide a service in simplifying political news and giving you like An interesting take and offering you commentary that is insightful. But on the other hand, you know like it or not These personalities kind of become larger than life and people end up Supporting the personality over the substance. So, you know, you see like when these personalities clash You know the audiences will clash and it becomes about the personality and not the issues And so I hope that like folks like jimmy door and jenke yuger Will stop taking shots at each other publicly for the betterment of the movement and like work this out privately But I feel like we all have to try to be more understanding of each other and empathetic And acknowledge that we're all good faith actors come coming from a position that um It's like well intentioned


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one i don't have any makeup i will put a little bitty a little bit of powder foundation just a smudge like right here on this band because i don't have any blonde hair right there and it's really just my edges in the black hair so i'm gonna put it a little bit on this band trying not to get to my actual blonde hair because baby i gotta go to work tonight a little something but whatever it doesn't come with any adjustable straps in the bag how most wigs do so hopefully it still fits pretty tight it does come with an elastic adjustable band that you can remove or keep in and adjust so i'm gonna pop it on right now and see if it's pretty snug or not it feels like it'll be snug and my hair is in a little ponytail so i like to put the band right here on the ponytail to kind of keep this flat so it doesn't look too bulky i don't like to put it back here if i'm wearing like a little ponytail it does have a comb in the back though so you can just clip that under here we got some work to do 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Pixar, the beating heart of animation, 18 Oscars, four toy stories, three car stories, two fish stories, and the other stories we all know and love. Being born in 2002 means I got to be at both pivotal moments of Pixar's legacy right beside them. The 2008 financial crisis that put Kihei Kwan-Wuri is and the COVID pandemic in 2020. And in the middle of both of them I had Pixar. The difference is that while my family was struggling, I was watching Wali, but when my graduation was robbed from me alongside the conclusion of my teenage high school life that put me in a weird place of limbo, I got to watch Onward with Chris Pratt. Pixar is one of the greatest animation studios of all time, revolutionizing 3D animation and also having some of the best animated movies ever. And recently, Pixar stinks, everything is on fire, they're losing millions of dollars, I heard a rumor that the staff is going to hell. The origin of Pixar is kind of funny and because I have a funny little brain, I talked about it in a video about the last of us for some reason. So yeah, Jamie, I'm gonna need you to replay that. So Pixar was a part of Lucasfilm, which revolutionized the world of animation, but when his wife divorced him, he lost everything. So he sold Pixar to Steve Jobs, who made Toy Story, then sold it to Disney, and then he died. I wasn't lying, it was short, but to the point, so yeah, that's the origin of Pixar. To talk about Pixar in a digestible way, we're gonna spread this topic into three eras. First, there's the innovation era, then the big money baller era, get that bag, and wake the hell up, what are you doing now? The innovation era of Pixar is why this video is being made to begin with.  The innovation era of Pixar has never been accomplished by any other studio. This era is so revolutionary, but what's more impressive was how consistent they were. They were pumping out these little gremlins constantly. And at first, you would think it's like a quantity over quality thing, but no, they're all really good. Toy Story changed the world of animation and had a drunk Buzz Lightyear.   Finding Nemo, not only females have daddy issues folks, try not to cry at the ending challenge. The Incredibles, the only Pixar movie where a guy tries to end it all. I understand now. Cars. Yes, yes, I have 100k on YouTube, please, no photos.  And I also have a wise doc Hudson. Ratatouille, rat cooks. Ali, a robot loves. Up, old people can be mean. And yes, we should all have an Asian best friend. Toy Story 3, The Holocaust. I'm not even trying to be edgy, people think this, and I kinda see it. To all the 2000s kids watching this video, we grew up with quality animated films that contained deep themes, imagery, and imagination year after year at extreme pace, and they kept striking gold every time. But the amazing thing about Pixar is that it wasn't just us getting these feelings.  But the adults also get to enjoy these movies just as much as the little kids. While you were mesmerized by all the colors of the ocean, mom and dad were bawling their eyes out to the amazing soundtrack.  They were making like a new one almost every year!  It's crazy! The main point is that if you ask anyone what their favorite Pixar movie is, it's most likely going to be from this innovation era.  The only other studio that can compare is Dreamworks. Dreamworks has some really good movies, but a lot of the films don't have amazing messages and emotional impact that the Pixar films had in their peak era.   B-movie, boss baby, and while Over the Hedge and Madagascar are really fun and like really cool, they ain't no ratatouille or Wally, like come on. Pixar was like the 1999 bowls team era, slam dunking on everything they did, getting hella rings, playing physical ball, but then they uh, but then they turn into little rats and they started to smell the cheddar and wanted a piece of it. So your picks are, you just dominated the 2000s by being original and awesome. You just went beast mode for like 10 years straight to lay down foundations, so now you want to make some cheddar cheese.  Toy Story 3 was the end of the innovation era and was the start of the big money baller era. Get that bag. This was the era where Pixar started to see the most success in the dollar signs. Because of the groundwork they put in, people were invested in wanting to see not just more of what they do, but also more of what they loved. Toy Story was the only thing from Pixar that had sequels and it got three of them before anybody else got a part two. Toy Story 3 made a lot of money because kids like Woody and Buzz, but you know what else kids like? Kids like some cars. Four wheel automated beast. The sequels of Pixar are strategic to not just box office, but also toys. Kids today don't like toys anymore. They rather be in the matrix glued to their device.  And me, I was making cars race. All the awesome kids like me were using their imaginations and it was awesome because I ended up really awesome and handsome. What do you think editing Skipper? You really are handsome. Oh my God. Stop it. No, you're just as handsome. I know, I know I am handsome. I'm so blessed.  These movies are still beautiful. I love Wally, but kids are kids, man. And Pixar is in the money baller era. So you got to do what you got to do. Cars two makes more money than cars one. Brave. I think they owed a favor to Disney. And while they were making Frozen, Pixar took the slack of making a boring princess movie that how to train your dragon did better. And in the future, they ended up making fun of this. So Monster's University makes more money than the first, but still has a baller as soundtrack. It also has cool messaging. The animation was a massive step up and it still looks really good today because it was more of art style over realism. The message terrified me about my place in the world inside out, made a lot of money and was an original piece of Pixar that's now beloved by a lot of people, but nobody slid for Bing Bong and he's not just dead but forgotten by everyone.  Good Dinosaur. This movie is a tech demo. The Pixar was getting ready for Incredibles 2, Finding Nemo 2, Cars 3 and Toy Story 4, so they wanted to step up their game in animation. Good Dinosaur is boring and doesn't have any elements of the innovation era and only stands out because of how pretty it looks and how realistic the water is. You could smell it a mile away. It released the same year as Inside Out and didn't have any intention of making money. It was the first Pixar bomb, but it did its job to show what Pixar has in store. And Inside Out carried the wait for Pixar anyway. It was destined to die, but it doesn't excuse anything. Tech Demo or not, you should make an effort for this film to have a legacy. After this, you have a rapid fire. You've got the Monster's Inc nostalgia bag. You've got the Cars nostalgia bag. Everyone loves Finding Nemo, so this is going to bang. Finding Dory made a billion dollars.  Next year, you have another Good Dinosaur situation. Cars 3 is kind of a tech demo for the next two big money printers, but Cars is still a money printer itself to sell a bunch of toys. It didn't make a billy, but it made $383 million against a $175 million budget. It was way better than Cars 2, while also being an allegory for Le Mickey's basketball career. Cars 3 is what the Good Dinosaur should have been. A nice message with great visuals that pushed animation. Cars 3 even now looks great, but that same year, you got Coco. After making films about bugs and cars and monsters, they decided, hey, how about we give the Mexicans a shot. $800 million and is some people's favorite Pixar film. You see the formula. Money printer, something bad, something new and fun. Money printer, something bad, something new and fun. Pixar had this formula down, and since Coco was the new inside out, you got the green light to shoot down the last two Moby Dicks in your arsenal. The hype around Incredibles 2 was insane, and because of this hype and extremely polished animation due to the time gap from the first movie, everyone wanted to see what the fuss was about. So it became Pixar's most profitable movie, making $1.243 billion. And then the year after, they made Toy Story 4, which was uncomfortably realistic looking, and it made a billion dollars as well. Money was hot, hot, hot, but there was a big problem with this era. You see, sometimes making a lot of money can be cool, but you also suffer a lot of consequences. You could get complacent, lazy, and when all the dough is collected, you might have damaged the process of making that same dough again. The money printers made money, but a lot of them were not that good. Finding Dory was not as enjoyed as Finding Nemo, and was also not as good as Finding Nemo, making Dory the main character, and it didn't really stick with people. There was no tears, and the daddy issues were not as impactful. Monsters University was controversial, I loved that film, but some people didn't like it as much as the first one. I don't know, 50-50, I have favoritism. Amurals! Cars 2 was hated. It was a universal hate. It took a nice message about ego death and made it a spy action movie. Kids liked it, I guess. It was shaking car keys. Pistachio ice cream still makes me laugh. Cars 3 was back to form and was grounded again, but people lost faith from the second one, so it performed worse than both. Incredibles 2 was pretty awful. It lost all the edge from the first movie, and had a terrible villain, and Toy Story 4 had no reason to exist. Toy Story 3 had the perfect ending, but it continued anyway, and it's continuing again with part 5?  Money was the main intention for these films, playing off of nostalgia set by the innovation era. And while extremely successful, Pixar wasn't being innovative. They were just playing it safe. The only way they innovated was with realism, and realism doesn't matter in animation. Toy Story 3 looks better than Toy Story 4 because of its art style. Toy Story 4 is 3, but so hyper realistic that it just looks uncanny, whereas Toy Story 3 was such an improvement from 2 that it looks normal and not creepy, but like an animated film still. Same with Monsters University. Pixar kept trying to make the water look nice, and the hair follicles detailed, and they forgot that the main reason people like Pixar is because it made them feel something, but in Disney fashion, they will always work on how the dollar signs work, without thinking of the consequences of their actions. It's like the Jurassic Park message.  But what Pixar lacks now is what the innovation era had, which was quality. It's ironic how every era starts with a Toy Story, but after the baller era, you had a freefall. The COVID pandemic was weird for the world of animation. Since everyone couldn't physically be with one another, real-life productions were halted, which gave a lot of time for people to come up with things and write scripts for future projects or be creative and think out the box. A lot of awesome things were made from COVID brainstorming, and a lot of animation studios saw that Disney was kind of in trouble because of a certain other animated movie. Disney dominated awards in box office. If Disney didn't win the Oscar, it was Pixar, and Pixar is owned by Disney. The Lego Movie was one of the best pieces of animation in a long time. It had hearts, a great message, and a beautiful style, something that would have came straight out of the innovation era. But this film came out during the money era for Disney, so they didn't hear any noise. It also got snubbed at the awards, not even getting nominated. But the same guys who made that movie teamed up with Sony and Marvel and made a Spider-Man animated movie, which changed everything. Into the Spider-Verse is the most important film in animation since Toy Story. It's important because it sparked a really good trend of competition to Disney's overshadowing presence of mediocrity. Sony was a laughing stock because of the emoji movie. A movie everyone loves, of course, that tried to copy the Lego Movie, which is ironic since the Lego Movie is about how corporatization kills creativity.  What Phil Lord and Chris Miller did with $65 million to make the Lego Movie is incredible. And what they did previously with the original Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs was also really good. And both the sequels to both those films were not made by them and were both bad.  Sony wanted to have them use their most popular IP to make something with around $90 million. This was going to be a reputation save for Sony, so quality is extremely important with this one. Animation and film prices are ridiculously inflated.  It doesn't make the movie great. Spider-Verse showed animation studios that art style and good writing could still have people in awe. Realism is smoke and mirrors, and Pixar ran that gimmick into the ground. Spider-Verse's art style, message, and presentation spread like wildfire. It was a breath of fresh air that hasn't been present in animation for a minute. Not just narratively, but also stylistically. Putting 2D animation over 3D animation while lowering the frame rate to look like a real comic book. And then the next year you have Klaus, which was also a great movie with a beautiful art style, and then Sony won the Oscar for Into the Spider-Verse. Conquering Disney's reign of terror and mediocrity that was dominating the academy that constantly snubbed stylistic art pieces for a year. Because Toy Story 4 won over way better movies. Disney has favoritism in the academy.   But Spider-Verse winning with a low budget and a lot of style sent shockwaves. That ended up with a lot of studios cooking through pandemic, while Disney was blind and stubborn. Every studio around Disney has been influenced by Spider-Verse. Creating a new innovation era, with Disney being on the outside looking in with pride. Netflix had Mitchell vs. The Machines and Sea of Beast that was created by the man who made Big Hero 6 in Moana. He was with Disney for 25 years before leaving to Netflix since Disney would not give him the creative freedom to make this passion project. They also let Guillermo del Toro make his passion project with Pinocchio and stop motion that won an Oscar. It also only cost $35 million to make. Puss in Boots the Last Wish was the revival for Dreamworks, who was in a creative drought and was once in the same problem that Disney is in now, with repetitive art styles and complacency for mediocrity. Nickelodeon that hasn't took a risk since Rango, which was a bold and unique film, is now making Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with the same Spider-Verse art style, with all the turtles being like realistic young teenagers with young teenager voices. Illumination that has the reputation of being the annoying cash printer company made an adaptation of the Mario movie going outside their familiar comfort zone, and it's now one of the biggest animated films of all time. And Sony once again made a groundbreaking cinematic breath of fresh air that cost $100 million and employed the most animators ever on one project. So what's been happening with Disney Pixar? Pixar released Onward in the pandemic and lost $100 million, which pissed off Disney. Also at the time, Disney Plus was fairly new, so if everything was doomed to fail in box office, then hopefully they can make some money through Disney Plus.  The streaming model can't work with Pixar because of how inflated the budgets are. Sol cost $150 million to make, and was streaming exclusively in America while around the world it made $121 million, which means the movie overall lost a shitload of money. And while Sol was a good movie with the great concept, it didn't revolutionize anything in the world of animation and was pretty bland. Its messages were the best part, but the Sol element was nothing special. As an animated project, it did not need to cost $150 million, and when you compare it to the recent Big Bang, the price to product is ridiculous. Same with Luca, this cute little film probably had a budget of around $150 million as well. Clearly this movie should not cost $150 million, and has become one of Pixar's lowest earning movies, losing over $100 million, but it gets worse with Turning Red, which lost around $168 million with only a $20 million box office, in comparison to Luca's $40 million box office. The reason they lost so much money was because Turning Red cost $178 million. Take in mind that Turning Red is a worse and shittier version of everything everywhere at once, and that movie cost $25 million. And Spider-Verse, which revolutionized the genre, cost $90 million.  Watch the movie, it's not groundbreaking at all. Lightyear does not need to exist, it's an esogibate. Extremely shit-film and lost $106 million. A reason for the big loss was due to it being banned in the Middle East and Asia, due to a gay relationship being in the film, so that lost them a lot of money, but regardless, the film cost $373 million to make. And as of writing this video in the month of June, you could watch Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse, which once again has innovated animation on $100 million, while giving jobs to over a thousand animators. Or you could watch Elemental, that cost $200 million to make and is doing the same Pixar trope of basic messages with no innovative presentation. Elemental is going to lose millions of dollars, because Pixar is so incredibly predictable and uninspired. But let me talk my mindset for a minute, because I feel really torn about all this. I have a love-hate relationship with Pixar failing, because animation is such an overlooked and under-appreciated medium.  And it's so deserved. And other aspects of animation are pretty much unnoticed, yet still put so much passion and heart into what they do. I made a whole video about online animators and how stuff like Don't Hug Me I'm Scared and Smiling Friends were made with tape and spit.  But Pixar is my childhood. The innovation era is not watered down by modern Pixar. I could throw on any of these movies right now, and remember why I am the person I am today. Without Pixar, I would not love film or animation.  And while I'm disappointed in Pixar and their modern catalogue, I know how companies work. There are creative people who are silenced and forced to play it safe that really do love animation in silence. But these are real people that need to provide for their families. Behind every shitty overinflated Pixar film are people behind the scenes that are working relentlessly to hit quotas and put food on the table. But because of Lightyear's failure in box office, a massive layoff happened. And in this layoff was the producer that saved Toy Story 2, Galen Sussman. A Pixar staff member ran a command that deleted 90% of the film, but due to her being pregnant, she was at home on maternity leave and had a copy. To be fair, that version ended up not getting used, but she still saved it if it was to be used. She's been a part of Pixar since the first Toy Story. People are losing their jobs and careers, but at the same time, Pixar is in a terrible place and needs new visionaries.  And the sad part about this video is that there's no solution. Disney isn't a bad place overall. They buy out all creative properties and try to turn them into factories. And by doing this, you get automated, look-alike products. And whenever something out the box does well, you then develop the whole factor around that thing, and the cycle never stops. A Toy Story 5 is in development, and Inside Out 2 is being made, and since Pixar needs money desperately, they are not going to try and be creative like they used to, but instead make Monsters Inc. 3, Cars 4, Wally 2, Rata 2e 2, and Recreate the Money Era. Rather than recreate the Innovation Era, because in usual fashion, the mouse is way more fascinated by the cheese of its products than how they were even made in the first place. But while Pixar is dying, look back at what they did. Remember that other studios are still inspired by the Innovation Era, and will continue to make films just like them. Animation is not dead because Pixar lost their way. Animation is in a new big bang because the Disney mindset is failing. Not everything is about money.  It touches people, changes their lives, and is art. Animation is art. And I'll forever love animation and what they've done for me. Including Pixar. Hey swim team and all you doggy dogs out there. Thank you for watching me talk about my childhood dying for the 100th time. I'm gonna keep making cool little videos like this, instead of the big hour, one hour things for a while. So if you like this format, please let me know by subscribing and liking, and saying it for yourself since you're a big kid. Thank you guys so much.


And I'm and I got the music to back it up. I got the pin game to back it up. So I'm saying is that Erica Banks included because Erica Banks has made waves. She's made waves over 1501 and, you know, reality shows and all that. She's she's nice. So you say you the best, though, in order to be the best. That mean everybody. I don't feel like it's nobody in Dallas forward that can my pin game. Yeah, we on boss talk one on one. Yeah, we gonna talk anyway. Let's move on. So what's the new music, man? Because I know you've been out here killing it, man. What was that video shoot today? Let me hear about it. Oh, I had a song called Ride That. Right there. Yeah.  So is it exactly what the name suggests? It's like more New Orleans style, because, you know, I'm from Louisiana. So it's like a New Orleans bounce beat. Oh, really? There's a lot of dancing. Yeah, because I'm trying to get more into, like, because, like, when I went to buy the classic, I had rented to a popular DJ from Eston Band Rouge. And he was just like, you need to come on home and do some stuff. And who was the DJ? DJ Woody Williams. OK, OK. Yeah, but he hit me up like you need to come home and do some stuff. Shout out. He was popping here, you know, because he was basically like, I see how Dallas is kind of mad, because I see all the comments saying, oh, she not from Louisiana. And it was one comment that said, it said, boosted me to come get her and take her back to Band Rouge. What's the.  I mean, you read everything. You kind of petty. I am a hothead, but I'm trying to control it. I'm trying to learn. I'm trying to learn to not read comments. Real. That's going to be hard for you, because you always do it. And when you when you be reading it, you really be sitting under and be mad at these people for it, for what they're saying. Now I'm talking to like, with me and my supposed to be reading them call, we be laughing. Oh, OK, that's all.   That's what I do it for. So I can't go in the comments mad about what they saying. And I know exactly what I'm doing when I'm saying it. OK, OK, well, let's get into that a little bit. I mean, we we had we had South Dallas Kiki on OTCU on the come up, which is the baddest, newest piece that comes off of Boston 101 prime time, right? And she said basically pretty much that when she was asked by the host, what did what did she ask? Do you remember because you want to clip it? Yeah, she said that rainwater in a recent interview on our show. Yeah, he did. So we did ask him who was better, Nina Loretta or South Dallas Kiki, because there's a lot of controversy with that concern. People say both, though, I didn't say both, but he did say her at one point in the interview. No, because whatever he said, he said both. We're always she made a mess. You know, I would say you can't just say both. No, you're always saying that, not me. Who is nobody because everybody has their own perspective. And as much as one person might be better in a certain arena, the other person might be better in a different part of it. So it's just clarification. I just needed that clarification, you know, and he did say South Dallas Kiki down and say South Dallas Kiki. Yeah, but it was hard. She asked her about that statement and you know what she said. And he made the statement that you were better than Nina Loretta. How do you feel about this?  She talked down to motherfucking much. That's what I do feel like.   Well, at the end of the day, I think the main thing is who's going to say somebody better than them? Who's going to tell you? Hey, yeah, she better than me. Ain't nobody fit to say that because you really ain't no podcast period better than this boss talking on the one night. That's not, you know, somebody else might say, you know what I'm saying? And please, man, these niggas got a million over here. They got this over there or that one in LA is this. You understand what I'm saying? But everybody has their opinion on what's the best. And when it comes to me, I don't think nobody else got the angles or the clarity or the or the lighting that I got. I think these niggas slipping the cameras, the expenses I pay. I don't think niggas is putting this up like this.  So I don't know what they look like. But in my mind, you can't tell me this ain't the baddest one in the world. You know what I'm saying? My take on that is, like, you supposed to feel like you a bitch, first of all, but I feel like until somebody makes it out, then nobody is really the best. But my thing is, like I said, I'm not in competition with nobody. Like, I feel like I'm online because, like, to be honest with you with this music game is 90 percent business is 10 percent talent. You can literally wrap me. You can literally be able to wrap circles around me. But do you have the full package? Like I said in my last interview, the labels don't care because you can rap better than me. Can they sell you? Like, do you have everything? Can you do you have the. What's everything? You got to have the looks. You got to have a hustle. You got to have the talent. You can't just because you can rap don't mean you're marketable. Like, this is a young generation. The this is the young people running running the music shit right now. So you might can rap, but can you grab the attention of the younger crowd? Can you make marketable music? Are you marketable? Like, so it don't matter if you can rap better than me.  Like over these years, I ain't dropped nothing.  Like, that's literally like, easy.  And I'm not on when you drop it, I'm making my first drop next week. But I'm not letting up on nobody when I say not letting up. I'm on next this year because I feel like it's now or never with me. Now I never say I'm on next.  I'm going to start out with an EP. But I'm I'm I'm going to keep it rolling with that EP. That EP is going to be hard enough to get me to the part where I can start one way.  And it's not like it's not like I'm saying I'm trying to beef with nobody.    Just go get in the studio and make a better song than me.   It's a friendly competition. No, I get it.  But right now I feel like can't nobody go harder than me. And I'm and I got the music to back it up. I got the pin game to back it up. So I'm saying is that Erica Banks included? Because Erica Banks has made waves. She's made waves over 1501 and, you know, reality shows and all that. She's nice. I'm not saying she's. You say you the best, though, in order to be the best. That mean everybody. I don't feel like it's nobody in Dallas forward that can my pin game. Wow. And that's that's facts. Anybody who a day one fan of me knows before I was even signed to boost it. I my pin game was retarded when I signed to boost the boost made it clear. This is not what sells. You got to make music that sells that is like the ash shaking the stuff that people are doing right now.  That's how I got on.  I didn't flew out the L.A. And all that writing for big artists, the biggest artists right now. My pin game is the sales like my music sale. You can call J. White on your phone right now. My music will sell. Wow. My music that I write.  Like facts. That's hard. That's really I can write for five. I can get in the room with six people and write for everybody, including myself and everything will go hard. Wow. That's that's dope. That's remarkable. Man. House talk one on one. Yeah, we going to.


Our defense forces, all these people who talk all kinds of irresponsible things, I would like them to go and spend some time. I just went to various places, particularly Siyashan. It's not the enemy who kills them, it's just the weather and the terrain which kills them every day.  So harshest weather and harshest terrain, because lines were drawn by some irresponsible people between two nations and all kinds of places where you cannot live, those kind of places you're trying to defend on a daily basis. So these forces, when they need something, without much fuss, quickly it should happen. Now the entire world knows what kind of aircraft we are buying and what capabilities it has. This is not the way to conduct your defense, all right? We have gotten used to handling everything through agents. Now government to government when it comes, everybody wants to know. When the agents handled, nobody knew what the hell is happening, right? Now when it comes to an aircraft, a fighter bomber aircraft, I don't know why this was not articulated properly. What I'm saying is, you buying an airplane, not a missile, all right? They're talking about a bare aircraft and a loaded aircraft. Once it is loaded, is it enough? I'm asking. It is loaded once, is it enough? So how many loads do you want to have? Whatever armament it has, how many times do you want to reload it? You want to tell the whole world, we've got only twelve reloads? I'm asking, is that a sensible thing to do? Not at all. So maybe we have fifty reloads, maybe we have hundred reloads. We don't want to tell you. It's nobody's business to know, even I should not know, you should not know, because if you and me know, everybody in the world will know. So are you buying a missile or an aircraft? When you buy an aircraft and there are specific armaments designed for us, how many reloads do you want? Suppose you get into a battle tomorrow, how many reloads do you want? One will do, somebody thinks one will do. Unfortunate.


September 2, 1945 was a day of rejoicing for Americans. World War II had ended with the surrender of Japan. The formation of the United Nations gave false hope to many, a belief that peace had finally arrived to stay. Demobilization was rapid. Former soldiers, sailors, and Marines turned quickly to peaceful pursuits. An Army Air Force's B-29 was flown from Honolulu to Egypt non-stop, demonstrating intercontinental capability of strategic forces. In the United States, the aircraft industry was developing a giant airplane, the XB-36. Six piston engines developed 3,500 horsepower each. Four jets each provided 5,200 pounds of thrust. It had a range of 4,000 miles. The B-36 became a major U.S. weapon in the Cold War that was developing between the United States and Russia. The jet airplane was born in World War II and in 1946 the P-80 set a new speed record from Long Beach to New York. Flight time 4 hours 13 minutes. In recognition of the importance of air power, national leaders designated the Army Air Forces as a separate service. The United States Air Force was born September 1947. The follow-on model to the P-80 started to roll off the assembly line. It was an aircraft destined to make a name for itself in later years, the F-86. Over the Mojave Desert, a B-29 full of recording instruments dropped a 5,000 pound airframe, the XS-1, from its Bombay mountain. The aircraft carried 8,000 pounds of fuel and Air Force pilot Captain Charles E. Yeager was the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound in level flight. In Berlin, the differences of opinion between the free world and the communist world blossomed into a very warm Cold War when Russians in East Germany decided to cut off 2.5 million West Berliners from their food and fuel. The people and allied occupation forces in Berlin were faced with what appeared to be a decision to surrender or starve. The only way into Berlin was by air. The United States and Great Britain used this route to supply the isolated populace. For 15 months, 300 planes and 20,000 men were committed to Operation Bittles. Daily they airlifted 4,500 tons of coal, sugar, coffee, flour, butter, milk and other foods to Berlin. At the end of World War II, the Japanese occupation of Korea had ended. By agreement, the United States accepted the Japanese surrender south of the 38th Parallel and Russia accepted surrender north of the 38th Parallel. North Korea immediately geared for war production. The South concentrated on industrial expansion to produce consumer goods. North-the-South was unprepared when on the 25th of June 1950 a North Korean invasion force crossed the 38th Parallel heading south. The North Koreans were apparently convinced that no nation would aid the South Koreans, but they were wrong. The United States set a fleet of B-29s to Okinawa within range of Korea, moved F-80s to southern Japan for immediate use across the narrow part of the dividing sea and stationed F-51s at Taegu in southern South Korea. The immediate tactic was to mount airstrikes against North Korea delaying that nation's efforts until ground troops could mass to repel the invaders. The United Nations committed member nations to assist South Korea. Of the bulk of the job fell upon the U.S. and early fighting was from the air as U.S. Air Forces went to work on enemy supplies, ammunition and airplanes. Any aircraft for any job. Ground troops went to Korea in C-47s and C-54s. They celebrated the 4th of July 1950 in a foreign land. The initial communist invasion drove Allied forces into a small area around Busan in the southern part of South Korea. By August, U.S. and U.N. troops had dug in along the Busan perimeter to buy time and keep a toehold on the Korean Peninsula. F-51s provided a close air support. B-26s and B-29s flying from Japan attacked North Korean airfields giving the F-51s air superiority. Again, the U.S. had to gear up. Air crew training became a high priority. The need was for large numbers of pilots and navigators to fly troop and cargo transports that would be constantly flying between the U.S. and Korea. The U.S. needed crews for heavy and light bombers and fighter pilots to learn the skills of flying the new jet fighters that were coming off assembly lines. By September, military air transports and civilian contractors were flying 250,000 air miles a day. With preparations complete, the U.N. offensive began. B-29s dropped thousands of bombs destroying North Korean transport supplies and communications. Then after heavy naval bombardment, General McArthur directed an Allied invasion from the sea at Incheon. The offensive cut off the enemy between Incheon and the south. The forces at Busan broke through. The combined air ground forces took another leapfrog jump in October. 3,000 paratroopers landed 30 miles north of the Korean capital of Pyongyang.  United Nations ground forces blitzed all the way to the Yellow River on the border of Manchuria. But at that point, the complexion of the war changed. China entered on the side of the north. Under massive attack, U.N. troops withdrew southward, consolidating their forces in the vicinity of the 38th parallel, the original border set up between the north and the south. Close air support of the U.N. withdrawal assumed vital importance. The Air Force was now facing a new enemy. Russian-built MiGs operating in North Korea posed a dangerous new threat in the air. They were excellent fighter aircraft. But the pilots of the United States Air Force and U.S. Navy achieved a 7 to 1 record over the MiGs due to superior flying skill and tactics. 39 Air Force pilots became aces. The final score would be 893 to 139. In mid-January 1951, U.N. forces attacked northward again. In mid-June, the North Koreans asked to go to the peace table. Two stocks began in July 1951, a little more than a year after the invasion by the north. It was to be the start of two long years of negotiations. All through this time, U.N. air forces continued to neutralize enemy activity with air assaults on their transportation, communication, airfields, and ground forces. Even before hostilities ended, the two combatants agreed to exchange prisoners. In April of 1953, the first of these, known as Little Switch, occurred. Some months later, Big Switch completed the agreement. Effective ground action combined with the pressure of the U.N. air attacks against the north convinced the North Koreans they couldn't win. They finally conceded. On July 27, 1953, the war ended. The U.S. Air Force played a vital role in holding the line against communist aggression.


to all presents the mysterious traveler this is the mysterious traveler inviting you to join me on another journey into the realm of the strange and the terrifying i hope you will enjoy the trip that it will free you a little and uh... chill you a little so settle back and get a good grip on your nerves if you can where are we going well let us say for the moment we're taking a little trip into time and a story i call new year's nightmare the year ended its last minute the crowds at the club propaganda were waiting expectantly for the clock to strike midnight at a ringside table a lovely young woman angrily whispers to the man with her chris if you take another drink i'll leave oh julie this is new year's eve it'll be nineteen forty seven and another minute gotta celebrate don't like just one more one more just one more that's what you always i wouldn't mind if it were just tonight but you're always getting drunk another bottle of champagne nothing i say means anything to you does it you think because i've forgiven you a dozen times in the past i'll do it again but you're wrong chris happy new year darling nineteen forty seven is going to be our year no chris it isn't i won't marry a man who gets drunk in new york and wakes up the next day in another city oh julie what are you saying you don't mean that you know i love you yes chris you love me but not enough to give up drinking i'll miss you chris miss you terribly but i know i'm doing the right thing julie don't talk like that i couldn't live without you you know that won't you i'm sorry chris here's your ring will you please take me home you don't have to leave the sight of my drinking is too much for you i'll go someplace else and do it martin will take you home happy new year and goodbye drink mister five o'clock in the morning and i'm dead on my feet sure i'll drink up no matter what she says that's right now you better go home and sleep it off good night and a happy nineteen forty seven thanks i'm the same to you find another bar new years got to celebrate another bar across the street got to celebrate hey mister look out for that car you're gonna get run down if you don't who's horn oh darling it's midnight new years oh my head is strobing so how did i get here why darling you live here live here what are you talking about charles i'd better call dr smith you look so strange connect me with dr smith's apartment please never seen this place before hello doctor this is blanche arnold it's charles isn't well could you come to our apartment at once oh thank you goodbye what do you mean i live here who are you where am i on your wife charles this is our home don't you remember here my wife you can't be i'm not married what am i doing here what's your game can't you remember anything about us what are you talking about i never saw you before and what you keep calling me charles my name is chris chris andrews chris andrews so that's what the initial c a stood for all that noise out there what are they making such a racket for because it's midnight new years eve but it was midnight hours ago when i left the club tropicana what are you talking about oh that must be dr smith i'll answer it dr smith i don't know any dr smith oh come in doctor i'm so glad you're here i think it's the amnesia it seems to have left him all of a sudden charles it's dr smith i don't know him and i don't know you and please stop talking to me charles i told you my name is chris andrews i want you to sit down mr andrews i'd like to talk with you for a few minutes what about tell me mr andrews what's the last thing you remember before finding yourself in this apartment why judy she and i were at the club tropicana celebrating new years eve i see i remember we quarreled about my drink i walked out on her and i had a few drinks someplace else that's all i can recall oh my head i had hangovers but i've never thought like this before what time is it it's just four minutes after twelve but it can't be four minutes after twelve new years eve that was hours ago when i left the tropicana mr andrews that was new years eve 1947 what do you mean that was new years eve 1947 this is new years eve 1948 1948 what are you talking about it's 1947 well here's the morning paper you can see the date for yourself there's de january first 1948 no it can't be it can't be a year gone just like that but where did it go i haven't lived it yet perhaps you'd better let me clear up a few things for you 1948 my name is smith i was a resident physician until recently at the park hospital when i was on duty last new years day 1947 you were brought into the hospital seriously injured having been run over by a car you recovered consciousness five days later you didn't know who you were you were a victim of amnesia amnesia yes and we didn't know who you were as you had no identification papers but my wallet letters they were gone the only clue to your identity was a belt buckle with the initials c a on it we didn't know your real name so i called you charles for the c blanche was your nurse i liked the name charles and that's for your last name we thought Arnold was as good as any so you became charles Arnold but what have i been doing since the day i recovered consciousness well you weren't discharged from the hospital until may then you went to work as an insurance clerk as an insurance clerk but i don't know anything about being a clerk i'm a reporter well there was no way of learning what your occupation had been so when blanche started this opening in an insurance office you applied for the position and that's where i've been working up to now yes and then after you got your job we were married married charles i mean chris don't you remember i'm afraid blanche you really can't married but judy it's like a dream my head keeps throbbing i keep expecting to wake up there's a date in the paper january 1st 1948 doctor you said he might never get over his amnesia well that was a strong possibility but apparently the sounds of new years brought back his memory you're going just like that judy my friends job all gone doctor where am i i mean what's the address of this apartment house 13 north 13th street philadelphia but how did i get to philadelphia now that we don't know all that i can tell you is that your accident occurred just a few blocks from here darling i know what a shock it must be strange you must have called me darling many times in the past and yet this is the first time i i've ever heard you call me that yes i know what did you say your name was oh doctor come in won't you how are you blanche all right i suppose how's chris getting along he's fine blanche what's this i've never seen you cry it's just that everything so changed those six months chris and i were married before he regained his memory with the happiest of my life and now this past month since he got his memory back it's been as though i were married to a stranger it isn't as though he doesn't try to be nice to me but it's also obvious he doesn't love me now blanche you mustn't say that it's true i tell you how can a man love a woman those first six months as he loved me and then fall out of love with her when he's regained his memory you must have patience blanche it will take time for chris to adjust himself to what's happened he fell in love with you as Charles Arnold and i'm sure he will as chris andrews you just must give him time oh just let me look at you this can't be true you're being here it is it's been a long time yes a year and a month since new year's eve 1947 chris what are you doing here in philadelphia i live here so do i i got a job with ryan company is a copywriter here a few months ago look judy we can't talk here on the side that's right well look i live only a few blocks from here we can go to my apartment oh that's fine there's so much i won't ask and there's so much to tell thank you would you like something to drink no i uh don't drink anymore chris you have changed you look so much older well you don't you're as lovely as that night i saw your last thank you chris judy you'll have to let me explain what happened after i left you that night at the tropicana if you find it difficult to believe i won't blame you it still seems like a nightmare to me that night after i left you and so now you know everything from the moment i last saw you to this one oh no wonder you look different after having gone through an experience like that you're all right now you know who you are you're happily married you have a job i'm not happily married judy chris you mustn't talk like that surely you must have loved your wife if you married her and she hasn't changed judy there's never been anyone for me but you you know that and you still feel that way about me no i don't when we met tonight that old look was still in your eyes you do care you know you do please chris no matter how i feel about you it's over now you're married and that's all there is to it i wish you'd go and i don't want to see you again i met a friend oh you look so tired do you feel well blanche this past month i tried my best to be a good husband haven't i well you have been done no there's something missing and you know it or it isn't your fault it's mine and as a result we're both unhappy you mustn't say that chris i feel that in time things will be as they were when we were first married when you were charles arnold but they won't be blanche it's no use i tell you chris who is the friend you met tonight the girl i was once engaged to i see blanche you've got to give me a divorce no chris i'll never do that but why you know i don't love you what's the sense in going on like this chris when you were charles arnold you did love me and we were happy together i had your love once and i mean to win it back i won't give you a divorce chris i asked you not to call on me again judy i've got to talk to you may i come in well alright but just for a few minutes thank you judy even if we hadn't met again a week ago things wouldn't have been any different between my wife and myself i'll never love her and i'm not going on with her what do you mean chris i'm going to leave her judy and start all over some place far away i just came around to say goodbye are you set on leaving her yes nothing can change my mind about that you've got to understand my position chris i could never be happy with you if i thought i'd been the one who came between you and your wife but if you are going to leave her i would like to see you again when you're free would you judy yes but i don't want to see you until she's given you a divorce uh divorce judy i am going to be free nothing is going to prevent it nothing how would you like to go out tonight go out yeah we might take in a show or go dancing didn't i ever take you out when i was charles arnold why yes we used to have wonderful evenings together then well why not now unless you don't want to oh chris there's nothing in the world i'd rather do hey why the tears oh it's just that i'm so happy oh come here did this mr arnold ever put his arms around you oh yes often chris stop squeezing me so tight sorry darling that's so you remember that i'm your husband and uh not mr arnold and a blanche oh yes chris i'm taking a week's vacation soon what do you say if we go up to the adirondack mountains for a week of winter sports oh chris i'd love to well it'll be like a second honeymoon all the view is wonderful from here isn't it being up here is like being alone in the world yes just the two of us all this past week's been a wonderful one chris i've never been so happy nor have i oh be careful chris don't go so near the edge had canyons four thousand feet deep oh this ledge is perfectly safe come over here and take a look at the valley below all right oh please keep your arms around me chris looking down like this frightens me there you're safe in my arms chris why are you looking at me that way what way dear i don't know is your is your head throbbing again no dear uh i don't suppose you've changed your mind about giving me a divorce have you giving you a divorce but i thought we were so happy together yes that's the impression i meant people to get chris you can't be serious why everything's been wonderful these past few weeks i see it won't be any use trying to talk you into it what do you mean i'm sorry blanche i don't want to do this but you've given me no alternative it's really your own fault that you must die let go of me no you're struggling darling no one can see or hear you you can't possibly escape you can't throw me off that ledge i'll hang you i don't think so dear we've been so happy these past few weeks i'm sure the police will see it i want to thank you for the note you sent me and blanche died i can't tell you how sorry i was to hear about it chris it all happened so quickly what have you been doing since then oh just working trying to straighten myself out yes judy perhaps i shouldn't talk about it now seeing that blanche has only been gone a month but i've been thinking of leaving town would you come with me please sit down chris you make me nervous walking back and forth like this all right but you haven't answered my question it isn't easy to answer it would be if you said yes i see in your eyes you mean no why chris i've met someone else recently someone else but you said if i were free you'd marry me i didn't say i'd marry you i said if you were free i'd like to see you again but now i'm not even sure of that it's so different from what you used to be stop being clever if you didn't say you'd marry me you'll imply this much please chris you're making it so difficult for me i'm making it difficult for you and i suppose what i've been through doesn't count i risked my life to get you risked your life chris what are you saying i used to your foolish to believe that blanche fell off that mountain didn't yes and i didn't because you said you'd marry me oh no i meant a divorce but she wouldn't give me a divorce it was the only way i could gain my freedom and now you tell me there's someone else oh chris i did it for you and you're going to marry me no i won't if i can't have you no one else will chris what's the matter with you we were meant for each other darling in life and in death chris if you come any closer i'll scream for help if you won't marry me you'll never marry anyone else there things like a nightmare by an automobile new year's morning would you mind telling me your name there weren't any identification papers in your clothing and we'd like to inform your relatives of what's happened my name it's i can't remember my name i see what about your address can you remember that no no i can't remember anything now you mustn't get excited it'll all come back to you you received a fractured skull from the accident there was a mountain mountain you mean you live near one i don't know there was a mountain and the police were chasing me and i jumped off a high building it's all mixed up you probably dreamed that while you were unconscious but you're all right now just need rest and quiet where am i you're in the park hospital philadelphia philadelphia what day is it it's january 5th 1947 it's 7 26 in the evening and you don't know my name no all we have is your belt buckle with the initials c a c a nurse will you look after the patient now i'll be in the c m later tonight yes doctor are you comfortable the initial c a what do you stand for perhaps the c is for charles charles charles i don't know well suppose i call you charles just for the time being i always like to name charles all right what's your name i'm miss thompson but you can call me blanche and charles let me be the first to wish you a happy 1947 have you enjoyed our little trip oh by the way i want to wish you all a very happy new year and i do hope you'll be careful about making new acquaintances and perhaps you'd better keep an eye on the old ones too after all who can foretell the future not even chris andrews or should i say charles arnold knows what's in store for him but we do don't we and speaking of the future i oh you're getting off here i'm sorry but i'm sure we'll meet again i take this same train every week at this same time most of these stations to a tale titled no grave can hold me another tale of the mysterious traveler this traveler has been presented from our new york studios carl caruso speaking this is the mutual broadcasting system


I'm going to trade us to another Tick Mill weekly market outlook with me, Patrick Munley, for week commencing the 24th of May. The dollar continues to slip and is less than 1% away now from the lows of the year. It's quite remarkable given the US 10-year yields have risen 70 basis points and a number of Fed participants want to be talking, tapering sooner rather than later. Yet the weakness in the dollar is a large part of the core of the Fed, unhurried about the need to withdraw stimulus and recovery stories elsewhere in the world. These core views are unlikely to be challenged in the week ahead because this US data calendar is relatively light. Here the focus will be on any possible upward revisions to 1st quarter 21 GDP but that may be some softer home sales and durable goods orders data. We will also see May's advanced US trade balance and a 92 billion dollar deficit is expected. It's quite a large hole to fill when the US Exceptionism of the 2018-2020 period is being challenged by overseas recovery and US real rates remain very negative. The week ahead will also see a variety of Fed speakers who largely sit on the dovish end of the spectrum. Away from the US calendar, the market will keep close watch on volatility in cryptocurrencies and tech stocks as well as developments in the RMMB. Any signs of independent RMMB strength could lend weight to the notion that the PBOC wants a stronger currency to insulate against imported commodity price rises. From a technical perspective, dollar index is carving out this this wave 5 an hour whilst we trade below the trend line here currently in the 1950 area. I'm looking for an extension through the prior year state lows 89-20 down to an ideal 87-50. We could extend further to test the descending trend line support down to 86-70 but I'm looking for completion of this major wave one into this 87-50 86-20 area and from there I think we can start to think about a corrective phase developing. To the upside if we do take out the channel resistance at the 1950 then I think we should see a test of 91-30 to 91-50 before we trade lower again. Eurodollar continues to hold up well and the key story here is probably the rotation to European asset markets as confidence in the recovery intensifies. In local currency terms, euro stocks has outperformed the S&P and flow data suggests US investors are increasingly interested in eurozone equity ETFs. Somewhat surprisingly the Treasury bund spread has also been narrowing since a wide of 200 basis points in late March a move which could discourage some of the reverse Yankee issuance which had been weighing on the euro. For the week ahead the highlights of the eurozone data calendar will be the May readings for consumer and business confidence. We'll also see the May reading for German EFO which risks come in a little softer based on manufacturing PMIs. The only part of the week we'll also see a special European Council meeting top of the agenda here is climate change and the EU's plan to implement a net reduction of greenhouse gases of at least 55% by 2030. Increasing interest from the corporate Treasury community in hedging of carbon emission allowances will see much focus on the EU does with its allowances and whether the spot price will surpass the recent peak of 56 euros per metric tonne. From a technical perspective euro dollar is continuing to grind up here in a what could be an ending diagonal pattern as 121.50 supports I'm looking for a test and breach of year-to-date highs before we see any type of meaningful pullback. To the downside if we do take out the trend line support here at 121.30 look for a pullback to test initially the descending trend line resistance to now act as support at 121.50 we fail here then we've been looking for support down to 119.60 but the base case for now is a grind higher here to test take out the prior highs at 123.50. In terms of the dollar yen US Treasury yields have stored around the 1.6 to 1.65% area and there does not seem to be a clear catalyst in the week ahead as to what will drive them higher. This has taken some of the steam out of the dollar yen rally and indeed if any currency pair showed a hint of reacting to last week's crypto crash it was the dollar yen. Let's see whether the dollar starts taking notice of the US trade deficit this coming week. The Japanese calendar is really quiet for coming week we've been hearing more about foreign rotations into Japanese equities but so far there is no evidence of that in the Japanese Ministry of Finance weekly portfolio flow data. So let's see this week if that changes from a technical perspective dollar yen is holding on to this trend line support here coming in at the 108.60 area if it can hold here then it has an equality objective at 110.78 however if we take out 108.30 as support then I look for an extension to the downside to test 106.50. Sterling managed to shake off the recent dollar rebound quite well and in line with the other European FX it now continues going higher. The strong UK main PMIs have underlined the optimistic case of the UK economic outlook and it's clearly a tailwind for Sterling although domestic data are unlikely to prove much of the boost this week it's quite it's a really quiet week on the domestic calendar front with the only printer note being the April UK public finance numbers on Tuesday and that's unlikely to have much of an impact on Sterling. Sterling is holding on to trend line support here at the 141 area as it does so anticipate a breach of the prior highs at 142.50 to extend as up into the monthly R3 143.30 is the next upside objective however if we take out trend line support here at the 141 area then I can see a pull back to the 140 as support before we make another leg to the upside. Lastly the Aussie has received mixed signals from the data side and the commodity sides last week and employment fell to 5.5% in March but the number of people employed actually shrank all in all it was broadly positive reads as it shrugged off the concerns about the impact of the end of jobkeeper wage subsidy scheme. Ultimately it may have applied a little more pressure on the RBA sandwiched although there are no speeches of public meetings due soon so we'll have to wait longer for any potential change in rhetoric. On the commodity side I'm all shared signs of recovery at the start of the week but then followed other commodities lower and broke decisively below the 180 US dollar metric ton. It's still trading at very high levels compared to historical standards although markets will remain highly focused on any signs of slump in prices that has further to go but the Aussie this remains along with other developments in the Aussie China trade relationships the main downside risks. From a technical perspective the Australian dollar holding its trend line support here as it does hold this 77 level we look for an extension higher to test monthly range resistance at 79.60 and then the prior cycle highs up to 80. If we fail to hold the trend line support then look for a move back to test the 76 level of support if we don't find support there buyers don't step in then we could trade lower to test 75 area as the next level of support. And that concludes the weekly market outlook for week commencing the 24th of May. As always traders join me on Thursdays at 1 pm for a deep dive into all asset classes and as always I wish you all the best of luck for the week ahead.


Temperatures out there you know walking on the asphalt for the dogs they have fur they don't sweat like us they tend to overheat very quickly especially in cars that are over hot and all that if you need to get in touch with somebody or try to get in touch with people if you find the dog in the car you definitely want to reach out to the security guards at the shopping centers try and make an announcement for them see if we can get the owners out there all all in all call the police department or call animal control so we can come out and keep our friends safe