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He awaited the verdict in a small shack about two miles from town. This companion, a hard-looking man, was named Bardo. I don't know why you're worrying, Mr. Blenheim. After what you told me, I don't see how any jury could find Slade Gilley. It's better to be prepared for the worst. Sure it is, but after all, if that woman Margie Bevan is in the hands of Moose Hoyt and his brother, and her husband knows she'll die if Slade's convicted, what would you do in her husband's place? Would you give hanging testimony to the jury? No. Bardo, what's that? The dogs, of course. They see someone coming. Probably it's Kreevich. I'll take a look. Is it Kreevich? Yeah, and he's traveling fast. Hi there, Kreevich! Is Blenheim still here? Yeah, he's here biggest life, but his new mucklucks and park are all set to hit the trail. And then he had better hit it. What's that? What's that, Kreevich? He said you'd better hit the trail. What happened in town? What happened? The worst. The trial is over? Yes. The verdict is guilty. What? Slade is due to hang. He's determined he won't hang without you. When I left, he was telling the court that he was working in your interests, and under your orders when that newspaper man was killed. Well, tell me all about it.  We're ready to move as soon as we hit the dogs. Then get him hitched. Well, I'll tell Blenheim what happened with Dorsey. Yes, yes, tell me. Go ahead. I'll let you know when we're ready. Close the door. Did Bevan give his testimony in spite of the fact that his wife was held as hostage? Bevan was on the witness stand. He was evading and sidestepping. Yes. His testimony wouldn't have been worth a dime until Sergeant Preston came into the court and they had Marge Bevan with him. He did. When Bevan saw that his wife was safe, he told everything. Then his father took the stand and testified and Marge herself. The jury brought in a verdict of guilty without even leaving the box. Now Preston's looking for you with a warrant for your arrest as an accessory before the fact. Yes, I've got to get away. I've got to get across the border. You and Bardo promised to get me out of the Yukon territory. You've got to keep your word. You hear me, Cleavage? You've got to keep your word. Take it easy, Blenheim. Take it easy. But call my shirt. We'll get you across the border. Does anyone know your left town to bring the word to me? No. Does Preston know where to find me? Of course not. I already know where you're hiding. He don't even know your left town. With that dog named King. If he can follow my trail... He can't. The snow's been falling hard ever since you left Dawson.  I noticed that when I came here. That's for your scent.  There's a limit to what even King can do. Come on, then. We've got to hurry. We've got plenty of time. And now we'll be at Hairpin Canyon. And after that, it's open country. We can watch our back trail as we move. Preston won't catch up with us. Don't you worry. Blenheim was too fat to walk or ride the runners of the sled. He rode beneath a heavy bare-skinned blanket. Crevage handled the dog team, and Bardo trotted alongside. In about an hour, they came to the brink of Hairpin Canyon. Oh, boy, oh! Have you stopped? We can't lose time. Keep going. Take it easy, Blenheim. We've got to rest the dogs. Blenheim, it's about time you've stopped giving order. You've covered your trail, Blenheim. He's done better than that. He hasn't even left the trail. There's not even a cent for King to follow. That's right. Blenheim hasn't put foot on the ground since leaving the shack. He's the only one the Preston's looking for. Ain't that so crazy? Yeah. That's so. No one has any cause to look for us. Nope. The fact is, if we left Blenheim here, we wouldn't have any idea we were mixed up in this. Nope. What do you mean? Why are you talking like that? He wants to know why we're talking like that. Tell him, Crevage. He's got to know sooner or later. Yeah, he's got to know. I may as well tell him. What's the matter with you two? Why are you looking at me? This is the end of the trip, Blenheim. What? Stay right there on the sleigh. Don't try to get up. Go on that sleigh beneath that nice warm blanket. What do you mean? We want cash as much as you do. We'll go just as far to get it. Crevage, got the traces on the sleigh. Wait. Listen to me.  Let me out of here. That's it. You got the traces cut? Yeah. Grab that money when I turn the dogs loose. All right. Get up there. March. The dogs. March. All right. Get out. There. That'll take care of them. They'll be found and everyone will figure that Blenheim's sled broke loose and went over the canyon. They will if it's found on the floor of the canyon. Here, give me a hand and push her over. I'm ready. I'll put the cash down here. Now come on together. There she goes. Look out for me. That's it, Crevage. The sled has smashed the smithereens and so has Blenheim. Now let's get on to that shack. You own the apparel city. With this cash, we can live the life of Riley. Sergeant Preston spent the entire day and evening trying to serve the warrant on Arnold Blenheim, but no one had seen the banker. It was not until the following morning, two hours after the bank had opened, that the money realized the truth. He got it from the constable. I got it straight from the assistant manager of the bank. Blenheim's disappeared and taken a lot of money with him. Bank money? Yes. He's taken all that paper currency. There's nothing left but gold and silver. Anyone in the bank know anything? No. How much cash was taken? Well, I have to tally up all the records to get the exact amount, but it's well over $20,000 and about two-thirds of its new money. New money? Yeah. Paper that had never been circulated. Hey, hey, Sergeant Preston. Someone's calling you. It's John Bevin. The king recognized him. Wait there, Sergeant. I want to talk to you. I thought he and his wife and father left Dawson two, three hours ago. They did. They were going back to their home to go for rapids. What's he doing back here? Oh, find out. Hello, John. I'll bring you back here. Where's your wife and father? They kept on going to our home with the sled and the dogs. What are you doing back here? Found Arnold Blenheim on the trail. Blenheim? Yes.  That's right. We just learned that he had skipped out with a lot of the bank money. Well, he's dead. What? Dead. You were traveling through the bottom of hairpin canyon. We found him in the ruins of his sled close to the edge. I'd say he went over the rim. Give me ten minutes to get my gear together and I'll go with you, John. Good. Constable, I'll take King and go with Bevin. You hit your dog team and follow along with the sled to get Blenheim's body.  Sergeant Preston and take his team are sled. But the great dog King accompanied him when he went with John Bevin to the place where the body of Arnold Blenheim lay amid the wreckage of his sled on the floor of hairpin canyon. Preston examined the banker carefully. Broken bones, money bruises, but no knife or bullet marks. Did you expect to find anything like that? I wonder who did this. Who did it? I'm pretty sure one man, at least, was traveling with Blenheim. Why do you say that? Because, John, you're no thief. Thief? What do you mean by that? We've gathered everything that went over the edge, ruins of the sled, the blankets, the bearskin, food supplies, everything. But the money's not here. Oh. But Blenheim left Dawson, he carried a lot of paper money, new uncirculated money from his bank. And here, John, look at these harness straps. I saw that they were broken. I figured that that's how it happened, that the sled went over. Broken nothing, they were cut. That being the case, what's our next move? I'd like to help you, if I may. I can use some help. We'll wait here until the constable comes with the sled to remove the body. And we'll take King up to the rim of the canyon and see if he can pick up a trail. John watched Sergeant Preston and his dog at work on the rim of the canyon. The new fallen snow had filled in the tracks that had been made on the previous afternoon. But the Mountie knew approximately where the sled had gone over the edge. He and King cast about in wide circles, paying particular attention to the ground where trees grow densely enough to provide a limited amount of shelter. Here they found tracks that had not been completely filled in, tracks that had been made by dogs. They're wandering at large. Do you think they belong to the team that pulled the sled? Probably, but it's not dog tracks we're looking for. Here, Bevan, look at this. Boots. Two men went through here. Here, King. These are the tracks we want, boy. Can you get this side, fella? What does that mean, Sergeant? He has it. On, King. Lead the way, boy. We'll follow. We'll continue our story in just a moment. I can't see a thing. Me either. I wish we knew what to do. Hey, Mary, look. Look over there. See those green and red flashes? Yeah, I see them, Billy. Boy, they're aimed right at us. They're the signals we're waiting for. See? Two green flashes and three red flashes. That's our gang. Over there in the woods. They're signaling to us. That's our secret code. Those flashes mean com at once. But keep your eyes open. There may be danger. That's our code, all right. Flash an answer to them, Billy. Okay, here goes. I'm sending out three green flashes. That means we're coming on the double. Welles and girls, for sending secret codes and messages, boy, oh boy, the new official challenge of the Yukon secret two-way signal flashlight is out of this world. Believe me, don't wait to send for yours. You'll want one. This secret signal flashlight is a real flashlight. 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Also include your name and address printed plainly on a slip of paper. Send together with one box top from Quaker Puffed Wheat or Quaker Puffed Rice. That's one box top from Quaker Puffed Wheat or Quaker Puffed Rice. They're the swell taste in cereal shot from guns. Mail to Flashlight Chicago 50 Illinois. Got it? The address is Flashlight Chicago 50 Illinois. And here's a tip. Hurry. Send tonight. Now to continue our story. After leaving the scene of Arnold Blenheim's murder, Craveage and Bardo traveled all night to reach a shack at the edge of a tough mining community known as Farrow City. Tired to the point of exhaustion, they slept all day. It was late afternoon when they awakened, pulled down their boots, and dressed in anticipation of a gala evening. Cassius hid away in Craveage? Sure. Don't you remember we put it under the floorboards beneath the bunk before we turned in? That's what I thought, but I was so dark-gone tired going out here I couldn't be sure we took care of it. It's taken care of, all right. I don't suppose our tracks will be followed, eh? The way it was snowing, those tracks were filled in half an hour after we made them. All we've got to do is play it careful. We don't want to go around spending a lot of cash all of a sudden to make people suspicious. No, we won't. Like you say, Craveage. We'll play it careful. Hey. What's that? Someone at the door. What do you think it was? Don't be so skittish. No reason why we shouldn't have a visitor. Coming to find out why this cabin's lighted and who's here. Press. Hello, eh, Bardo? I wonder who I'd find here. Want to talk to you? What do you want here? You too, Craveage. Come on, King.  King won't make trouble unless you start it. I think both of you know John Bevan. I've seen them in town, but I've never met them. I've heard of you. What do you want, Preston? The cash you stole from Arnold Blenheim. Why, you easy Craveage. What are you talking about, Preston? I'm talking about a banker who was killed when his slat went over the edge of Hairpin Canyon. Now, listen, Preston, for a long time you've been trying to get something on me, but this is just about the most far-fetched deal I ever heard of. You followed my trail. You couldn't follow any trail because of the snowstorm. What's more, me and Craveage were nowhere near Hairpin Canyon. Well, that's several hours of the trail from here. Can you prove you weren't there? No, and you can prove we were. King followed your scent. I saw him do it. He came directly to this cabin. Our scent? He followed our scent all this time? Listen to him, Craveage. What are you going to do about it, Preston? Put us under arrest for robbery and murder and then go into court with flimsy evidence like that? No, you're not. When I take you into court, there'll be evidence enough to hang you, both of you. Don't make any arrests until you're sure of that. You suppose King could have made a mistake? That's always possible. If I've made a mistake, Bardo, I'll apologize. I'm pretty sure the men I want came this way.  Come on, King, let's get going. What do you make of that, Sergeant Preston? Bardo was pretty sure of himself. Do you think he's guilty? In spite of what I said, King does not make mistakes. I'm sure Bardo's guilty, but I can't prove it. I can't arrest him and take him to Dawson without more evidence. How can you get it? John, you came along to help me. Yeah. That's what you're going to do. Well, stay here in Pharaoh's city. I'll come with me to the hotel and make our plans. Come on, King. King lay on the floor of a first-floor hotel room. His chin rested on his extended paws. His ears were alert, and his eyes fixed steadily on Sergeant Preston, as the Mouty and John Bevan prepared a move calculated to get evidence against Creavage and Bardo. This disguise will be crude, John, but I think it'll be adequate. Where did you find these clothes, anyway? Borrowed them from a friend of mine here in Pharaoh's city.  Oh, did I miss a few places? I'll be right here. Here. Look in this class. Dark hair sure changes a man's appearance. Use plenty of that menstrual makeup. When I start getting rough with you, what's King going to do? Don't worry about King. I'm going to leave him here in the room. Now, here's the money. Put it in your pocket. It's brand new, just like the money Blenheim took from his bank. Do you really have the serial numbers of the bills that were stolen? No, but Bardo and Creavage don't know it. I'll put that cash in your pocket and then take this. Oh, that's the electric signal that my dad made for you. Take it with you and give me a signal as I explain. Right. I sure hope things work out as you expect. We don't find them in one cafe. We'll find them in the other. Let's go, John. Bardo and Creavage sat at the table in the Faro City Cafe enjoying a hearty meal topped off with wine. At first they paid no attention to a slim man wearing the clothing of a prospector who sat down nearby in order to meal. They were more interested in Sergeant Preston, who stood near the door with his back against the wall, eyeing the patrons. Why don't that monte go away and leave us alone? Oh, Creavage, you're just trying to get under our skin. You follow us and watch us and the whole thing we show signs of nervousness. Huh. We're in that clear. You can't prove a thing on us. This meat's not good. What's the matter with that critter? What's the matter with you, mister? I said this meat's not good. Stop. Too well cooked. You're looking for trouble. Yeah. Now, look here, Sarado, if you don't like the way we cook our food, you'll go somewhere else to eat. Look here. I've got enough to buy this place. Maybe I'll do that.  Put your cash away, mister. We've heard big talk before. Just a minute. What do you want, monte? You're waving some new money around. Yeah, what about it? Hey, Bardo, new money. Let me see it. Not so fast. I want to see the serial numbers on that currency. Where'd you get it? It's mine, see? Where I got it's none of your business. Yes, it is. I'm looking for some money like this. I guess I've been suspecting the wrong men, hey, Bardo? What's that? See here. Better come with me, we'll talk this over. Yeah. Yeah, sure. All right, Bardo, y'all go. I'll go like you said. I'm not with you!  Do you hurt, Sergeant? No, I'm all right. Just knock the window to me. I'll get that for you. Excited comments fill the cafe, but men in places of that sort had learned to mind their own business. No one interfered with a man in snow glasses who fled through the door to escape from Sergeant Preston. Creavage looked at Bardo, and Bardo returned the look. What do you make of it, Bardo? He heard what the Mounties said. He knew the serial numbers of those bills. He spotted them with some of Blinheim's money. But how could it be? The cash we hid was new money. Remember that? Would I forget it? Do you suppose he found a hiding place? I don't know. It was a stranger to me. Look like a drifter. A lot of drifters use that cabin where we hold up. I'm going to look and see if our cash is still there. I'll go with you. After leaving the cafe, Sergeant Preston made a pretence of going in pursuit of the disguise John Bevan. But after traveling a short distance, he cut back to the hotel, went to his room and got his great dog King. Bardo and Creavage went to their cabin. I got a match right here. I like the candle. I don't see how anyone could have found that cash, but I'll feel better when I'm sure. Don't say to me that that critter in the cafe would wave the money around right under our noses. They didn't know it was ours. Creavage, someone's been here. Sure enough. Look, our gear's spread all over the place. Quick, Bardo. Pull up that floorboard and see if the cash is still there. Yeah, that's what I'm doing. It would be easier if we moved the bunk. No, I can reach under it. Here we are. Is it there? Look. The pack is just as we put it there. Unwrap it fast and see if we... What's the matter, Creavage? Someone's in the woodshed. How do you know? I heard the floorboard creak.  I'll open the door, son. I'll talk normal. Well, it beats me. I don't see how Preston could have made a mistake in the serial numbers.  You're covered. Come in here, you! All right. All right. You have me. We saw you in the cafe. You were waving cash around. I'll take that gun. Wait just a minute, fellas. I'm hiding from that Marty. I wonder. Give me those snow glasses. Let me have a better look at you. There's something about you that's familiar. Bardo. I know this critter. Come here, you. Give me your hat. Let me have a look at your hair. What's the idea? Put those guns down. Listen to me. Not so fast. Look at this, Bardo. Black stuff on his hair. Come off in my hand. The last time we saw this gent, his hair was light, and he was with Sergeant Preston. John Bepp. The same. So now you know. So you and Preston put on an act. You tried to make us believe you found the Blenheim money. We played right into your hands, didn't we? Yes! Stop! Get him! Knock the bell in here. Let me get this door open. There he is. Don't shoot him. I'll fix him. My gun barrel did the job all right. Did you kill him? Oh, I didn't hit him hard enough for that. Hey, look. Something in his hand. It's shining red. I see what it is. It was a lighter, some kind. Here we are. Look at this, Bardo. This little black cylinder shines a red light at the front. Ah, here's how it works. You push this little button at the back. That's pretty slick. I know what it is. It's that electric signal light I heard about in town. Bevin's father made it for Sergeant Preston. He's got the Mounties name on it. Look. Now it's green. I moved this lever. Give me that. Ah, now I savvy why Bevin made that sudden break. He knew he couldn't get away, but he wanted to flash a danger signal.  What are you doing? I'm signaling with a green light. Stand ready. We'll see what happens. You think it will bring Preston here? It's doing that very thing. Look out there. See? He's coming. Hey, I don't like the idea of killing a Monty. That particular Mountie's been living on borrowed time. Bardo made sure Bevin would remain unconscious for the next few minutes. Then he drew back with Kravitch. The two held their guns in readiness while Sergeant Preston approached the cabin, boldly circled from the rear to the front door and walked in. Get him up. We got you, Preston. Aren't you men playing a dangerous game? Dangerous for you. You saw the green light and thought Bevin was sending for you, huh? Yeah. You figured he had the situation well in hand. So you know about his signal. You bet we do. And if you're curious about your pal, he's back in the woodshed and you'll be unconscious for some time. At the Blenheim money in those packages? Yeah. Now don't mind telling you now that your hunch was right. There was a clever trick you tried to pull. Only sort of backfire, didn't it? No, not a bit. Oh, no. I half expected I'd walk into the muzzles of your guns. That's why I told King to stay back. He's just waiting for the word from me. What's it? What's it? Look out! Let me go! Oh, my arm! Fido dropped his gun when Preston's bullet struck his arm. King had a grip on the forearm of Crevich who was trying to bring his gun to bear. Then Sergeant Preston closed in. I'll take that gun. Come on, my arm.  Come on, King. My boy, on guard. Keep an eye on this one while I get Crevich. If either of you try a fast move, King will take over. You're both wanted in the name of the queen for the murder of Arnold Blenheim. John Bevin regained consciousness to find Sergeant Preston bathing his face with cold water. In the candlelit room, he saw Bardo and Crevich handcuffed his prisoners and a bandage around Bardo's wounded arm. King stood watching the two. You all right, John? You just got a hard wrap on the head. Yeah. Headaches. I guess I'm all right. Our plan worked. These crooks had the money out in plain sight. I tried to send you a warning signal. I saw a flash of red and then it disappeared. When I saw the signal light again, it had changed to green. We had you, Preston. You walked right into the trap. We had two guns on you, so don't you go taking any bouts for captioning this. You wouldn't be in handcuffs right now, but it wasn't for that doggy. That's true, Bardo, and you're not the first crooks who've had the same complaint about King. This is just one more instance where because of King, the case is closed. In just a moment, Sergeant Preston will give you a preview of Monday's adventure. 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Sure. Okay. Wonderful. Well, my name is Medea Benjamin with Code Pink, and I'm joined by other colleagues here from Code Pink, Ariel Gold, we have Marcy Winograd, Shae behind the scenes, thank you for all the help in setting this up, and we have our wonderful guest who I'll introduce in just a minute. But I want to say how urgent this moment is, and I think all of you who are on here understand this urgency. We had just last week, a lot of emphasis coming from the White House and the State Department that negotiations was the way forward, and that the way to negotiate, they even had this on their State Department list, that the way best way to get negotiations to be successful was to deescalate. And then all of a sudden we see the Biden administration saying that there are now 8,500 troops on high alert to be sent to the region. They're talking about sending more war material to the region. And we have in both the Senate and the House, both from the Republican and the Democrat side, new pieces of legislation that are getting tremendous support that are authorizing new huge sums of money to go to Ukraine. The Republicans called for 450 million and the Democrats said, oh, we better up them, and so we're calling for 500 million. And they're each putting in their list of sanctions against some aspect of the Russian economy, or even those who trade with Russia, meaning our own friends, our own allies. And so it is really getting very, very dangerous. And we will be on this webinar, for those of you who've never done this with us before, we'll be hearing from Larry having a discussion. We'll get to some of your questions that you can post in the chat. In the meantime, put all your comments in. Be nice to Larry and me, and you don't have to be too nice to the administration, but let's be civil. And then we're going to thank Larry and take action. And we hope you will stay with us to take action. Marcy is going to lead us through that, as she does on our Code Pink Congress action ours. And that means we're going to call the White House, we're going to leave messages, email, and or your representatives. So she'll walk us all through that when that time comes. But please don't leave us so we can take the actions. There's just not enough reaction from the peace side of this country that can be heard by the White House and needs to be heard by Congress. And I also see in the chat that people are sending good articles that they've found. And that's very helpful sending links to videos or articles. And we will save the chat and have that available to you afterwards if you would like. So with that, I want to introduce our speaker, who is Larry Wilkerson. He is a professor at the College of William and Mary. And he was the Chief of Staff for Colin Powell, Secretary of State Colin Powell, and has since become one of the leading voices in this country for sanity. And by sanity, I mean a leading voice against unbridled militarism. And that is the reason we thought it was so important to talk to him today. So Larry, if you could start out just by giving us your overall sense of where things are at today, why we're at the point we're at. And then from there we'll start talking more about what are possible solutions. So thank you very much for joining us today, Larry. Well, thank you for having me and thank everybody for tuning in. You can't talk about this problem without at least for a minute or so going back. And you have to go back to William Clinton. And what you go back to is you go back to a political move and a move to satiate the military industrial complex, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, other stellar members thereof, by expanding NATO. And violating what was a promise from H.W. Bush, President H.W. Bush and his secretary of state, Jim Baker, to average over Nazi, Baker's counterpart in the then Soviet Union, later Russia, and Mikhail Gorbachev, affirmed to Boris Elton later. We just violated that and we did it so we could sell missiles and bombs and other things, airplanes, F-16s, the Poland and other countries, and expand the profits of these people. We also did it for political reasons. Bill Clinton was facing re-election and he wanted something in foreign policy that would give him some so let's just expand NATO. A tragic mistake, as Putin himself said, he didn't care that much about Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, not even that much about Poland and maybe one or two others. But when we started coming into his country in his vision, Ukraine has been, Catherine the Great, the breadbasket of Russia. Indeed, some of its tank foundries, its cannon foundries for artillery, some of Russia's are in Ukraine. And when we started talking about Georgia, my president went to Georgia and essentially in public announced that Georgia would be a member of NATO. You may recall that right after that Putin invaded part of Georgia and he hasn't left yet. If I were Putin and I have no reason to like Vladimir Putin, but if I were he, I'd be doing exactly what he's doing, just out of sheer strategic necessity. Now what we've done of late though is exacerbated majorly with our media, just breathlessly running headlines about how Russians are here, Russians are there. By the way, all those Russians are in Russia. Now they might be close to the Ukrainian border, but they're in Russia. It's kind of like we were exercising in Texas. And Mexico said, ooh, an attack is imminent. An attack is imminent.  At the same time, Putin has figured out that our media and Jake Sullivan and Tony Blinken and Joe Biden are very, very influenceable. That is to say, in our democracy, all you got to do is scream holler and look like you're going to do something bad, move a few nukes around. And all of a sudden you have got people quivering in their boots and media running headlines, imminent war, imminent war. That's exactly what Putin wants, because every headline that gets run and every time he moves a troop from here to there or puts some more up in Russia, for example, he's got Ukraine surrounded on two sides right now, from the north and from the east. Every time he does that, the media runs another tentulating headline and Biden gets more frightened and so does Sullivan and Blinken, two of the rankest amateurs I've ever seen try to execute diplomacy in this very dangerous world. And in this dangerous situation, there are even more. So now we're flooding Ukraine. Yeah, right. We don't have enough troops to flood Ukraine. Our entire army couldn't match the troops that Putin has in the vicinity of the Ukrainian borders. NATO, take a look at NATO. Take a look at what we've done. This is not very smart.  I certainly don't want a war, but it's not very smart to make moves like you're going to have a war and not have the weather with all to back it up. And don't tell me that anybody else does other than maybe Germany and look at what Germany's been. Very circumspect. Germany's not joining in much of this hoopla about Mr. Putin and about his maneuvering your troops. I don't blame him one bit. No one knows Russia nor Russia know anyone else better than Germany, Russia, Russia, Germany. They've had lots of relations over the last 150, 200 years. So they are staying relatively, the Germans are staying relatively calm. So should we, this should be settled with diplomacy. And we should be willing to say in private at least some maya culpas and say, we understand now your concern. And let's see what we can do. And the solution for Ukraine is what I said it was six years ago with Jack Matlock, what others have said it was by the way, the last ambassador to Moscow and Andy Brains studied neutrality. What do we mean by that? We mean that Ukraine, one of the most corrupt governments on the face of the earth, whether you're looking at the Russian side, the neo-nazi side, the so-called democratic side, they're corrupt. They're, they beat us. And that's a feat. They are corrupt as heck. So give Ukraine 15, 20 years and help them with government council, with finance, with economics, with political help and stay away from them for any other reason. That goes for the EU, that goes for NATO, that goes for Russia, that goes for China, that goes for the United States, studied neutrality. Ukraine is a neutral country. In the meantime, get ahold of the Minsk agreement, expand it a bit and see if you can't work out something that will last longer than say 10 or 15 years of a sworn neutrality. This is the only way to handle it diplomatically, in other words, and quit all this warmongering. This morning I heard we have three people pushing for an AUMF. We all know what AUMFs do. They give the president an endless writ to wage war wherever he wants to wage war, in this case, on the European front. An AUMF. Yeah, can you just explain what AUMF stands for for those who don't know? Yeah, it's an authorization for the use of military force, which we are still beleaguered to be operating under because of 2001 and 9-11.  Of course, we don't like to go to Congress as presidents anyway, but at least that was a performance check on the president. There is no check on the president. Now he can go anywhere he wants to, till anybody with a drone he wants to under that AUMF. Meaning in the Congress, some good people in the Congress, on both sides of the aisle, been trying to get rid of that for the last decade. They don't seem to be able to do it. We do not need another blank check for the president to use military force, in this case, anywhere in Europe he wants to. Well, that's it. No nutshell. So what you didn't bring up in terms of solution was NATO and Ukraine being able to go in. Now, it seems like the Biden administration has gotten itself in a bind and NATO by saying there's this long-standing open-door policy, but Ukraine wasn't about to go into NATO anyway. What is the saving face? Is it saying that there would be a moratorium on expansion of NATO for like 10 or 20 years or what could it be? Yeah, neutrality would have to have that as a come call me, Tom. You'd have to say with neutrality comes no membership in the EU, no membership in NATO, no membership in anything.  You do not belong to anyone. Now fix yourself. And once you fix yourself, maybe we can begin deliberations over where you might best fit into the European Union. NATO is a moral bundle. That's one of the reasons we're so desperately trying to keep it vital. It is not vital. It died when the Soviet Union died. And ever since, we've been searching for a new mission for NATO out of very operation. So imagine this, if you will. Article 5 is the most salient part of the NATO treaty, an attack on once and an attack on all. Well, how was article 5 operating? Thank you very much, in Afghanistan. How was it operating in Iraq? How was it operating in Libya? That's NATO's essence. And yet it didn't even have an applicability to those three out of area conflicts. So we're stretching this. We're making a mountain out of a molehill. In fact, the molehill doesn't even exist. And we're doing it for what? Profit. Profit. Profit. And this is profit from the military industrial complex once? Absolutely. And not just, we're not just talking, you know, the military industrial complex is a narrow framework. We're talking about ExxonMobil, the largest seller of fossil fuel. And the largest consumer of fossil fuel on the face of the earth is a single entity is DoD. If it were a country, it would rank in the list of 200 countries right there with Portugal at 55th. So the military industrial complex is a lot bigger than what Eisenhower thought in January 1961. And what are the oil companies want out of this? Well, they want more customers and they want to essentially take out Russia as a competitor. Now, they're not going to do that, but they very much like to take out some of their more potent components like Nord Stream 2, for example. And look at what just happened. Here's how conniving this business really is. My power company here in Virginia, Dominion, the second largest power company on the East Coast next to Duke Power. My power company was building a $12 plus billion investment, LNG terminal on the East Coast. Yes, who killed that? Yes, who wanted it did. Because how do you give the Germans and other Europeans an alternative to Gazprom and Nord Stream 2 best? Well, you let Iran put its pipeline up. No, we hate Iran. Can't do that. Iran's pipeline has been ready to go for some time. It stopped because of us basically sanctions. This East Coast pipeline would have given another alternative to Germany and other Europeans. We killed it. We killed it. Why did we kill it? Trump killed it. Why did Trump kill it? Was Trump working for someone? And the environmentalists jumped on that because bees in West Virginia were threatened by the pipeline. Okay, that's fine. We killed it though. And that was going to give an alternative for Europe in terms of energy. If we keep on going like this, Putin's going to have a walk on much of Europe because he's providing all of there. And if it's a really cold winter, this is important, especially to the Germans. He's providing all their heat as well, their energy. So here we are in this very dangerous situation. And are you following what Congress is doing? And how do you feel about the role of the two parties in this right now? And what are they trying to get out of this politically? Well, you got it right in your opening remarks. The Democrats are trying to outdo the Republicans. When you take something like this, a serious national security issue, and you've already in the press and elsewhere hyped it so much, and both Democrats and Republicans have. In fact, I have to say, Democrats have hyped it more than Republicans really, because they see it as the national security issue over which they can bash the Republicans. Because you do have a few Republicans run around saying things like, we should be doing this. We don't want a war. We don't want a war over Ukraine, in particular. I don't see too many Democrats doing that other than what I would call the usual crowd from the progressives and from the caucuses. I see Schumer, Pelosi, Hoyer, and others like that being as big a war hawks as anyone else. And that's a real problem when you get both parties, leadership at least, about parties willing to do, because willing to do war because they don't want to seem weak. They don't want to back off. That's how you get the buildup and the momentum for a war that you don't need for sure. So why was there this very quick turnaround by the administration that was really first focusing? It seemed on diplomacy. They said that U.S. troops are off the table. And now it just seems like this is turning around in a very dangerous fashion. What do you think happened? I mean, they're blaming it on Putin and saying Putin won't back down. I think Putin has read us rather well. Now, ultimately, it might be to his own disappointment and even danger. But I think he's read us rather well to this point. And he knows that when he does things like move troops around, announce this or that maneuver, announce that there are tactical nuclear weapons in the vicinity and so forth, he really gets our media stirred up and headlines start going. Not only does that help him with his own constituency in Russia, which is becoming a little less, shall we say, in favor of him. He doesn't have the polls that he used to have. It also helps him in terms of frightening our leadership so that he gets more and more effort going in that direction. The more he frightens the leadership, the more he plays on that fight. The more he puts things out to increase that fight, the more he then plays on that fight. And they're playing right into it. I hope. I don't have a moment's confidence that what I'm going to say is accurate, because I just haven't seen the competence. Not out of Sullivan, not out of Blinken, not even out of Biden, and I thought better of him. But they just might be doing this because they're coming to a point in negotiations that I know nothing about except that they're happening, that they feel they need maximum leverage and Putin feels he needs maximum leverage. So they're both playing this game. And once both have figured that they can't get any more leverage, they've got all they can get, then the diplomacy will happen and we'll have some sort of solution in room or maybe midterm. I hope long term, but I doubt it. That could be happening. And if it is, I withdraw all my remarks about them being neophytes at diplomacy on both sides, Russia and the U.S. And I will applaud, but I just don't have that confidence. Well, as somebody just said in the chat about playing chicken with nuclear arms states, it could easily spin out of control. So what is the other scenario? Well, the other scenario, of course, is the same one we're looking at. And I think even more dangerously with China and Taiwan, and that is that we actually do start something that begins with everyone assuring themselves will stay, start and stay conventional. That is to say, no nuclear weapons. And at some point in it, one side or the other will get to the point where it feels like it's desperation as such that it has to turn to nuclear weapons, tactical nuclear weapons first, of course. So Russian doctrine now says that Russian doctrine now says that if there were an incursion into Russian space, that they would hit the point and the flanks of that incursion with tactical nuclear weapons. That's one reason why we responded with INF Treaty gone. And we're now building our own weapons to do the same thing in reverse. Very dangerous world we put ourselves in here now.  We've dismantled, starting with my president, George Bush, George W. Bush, and the ABM Treaty, we've dismantled all the painfully arrived at hard work to get to arms control treaties that we had. The only thing left is this new start. And with this kind of brouhaha going on, I don't see new start surviving much longer. I think one of the things you said has been confusing to some people. I see it in the chat. Why does Putin want to frighten our leadership in the media? Isn't this dangerous? What does he gain by it? Well, he gains, as I said, first of all, more traction with his own people because he's losing that traction to a certain extent. And he's always got to be worried about what group of oligarchs is going to get to the point where they take him out. That's his domestic reason. His international or strategic diplomatic reason, if you will, is that he really, and this is what Matlock is so good. Ambassador Matlock, the interview he just did, there's a transcript online. It's about page 30, 31, 32. He talks about this is serious. This is very serious when you brush away all the rhetoric and you say, okay, who has the real threat in his heart? Putin does. This is not a threat to the United States. Whether Ukraine is a member of NATO or not is not a threat in any fashion or form to the United States either way. What is a threat to Putin is Ukraine being antagonistic to Russia. That's what's important. And he's willing to go to war over that. So there's also a question about US companies that operate in Russia, especially in the energy industry. Don't they want to tamp down this conflict? You would think so. You would think so. But those people sometimes get caught up in the political rhetoric and in the political movement and don't have the influence they otherwise would have. I would hope that there would be all kinds of energy people who would be talking right now and saying, we do not need this. We do not need this at all. We've got huge problems right now. If I'm ExxonMobil, if I'm Royal Dutch Shell, if I'm Total, if I'm any of these bigger oil magnets, I'd be talking about things like climate change and what the market is doing to my ability to market some 20 to 40 trillion dollars of stranded assets. You know, Saudi oil minister once said the Stone Age didn't end because the world ran out of stone. The implication is clear. The oil age won't end because we run out of oil. And no one must be left with those quote stranded assets, unquote, of trillions of dollars because we forced the market to move rapidly into renewables. I'd love to see that happen.  So it should happen over time and it should happen with reasonable replacements in the market for what's being lost in terms of jobs and profits. So I want to see that happen on a logical time frame, but it's got to happen. And they know it's got to happen so that they don't want to force things that will make it happen even faster. And no one's more worried about this than Muhammad bin Salman in Saudi Arabia. I mean, he's embroiled in a war he's losing, and he's got all kinds of assets that are going to be stranded. There's just, there's no way around it. They are going to be stranded. So we have somebody who wants to go back to the role of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and I guess Victoria Newland and the 2014 coup. Is there something that it can you kind of briefly go over the US role in that? Now, if I were handing out culpability awards at the lower end of the scale, I would hand out one to the top end of the scale. As I said, I would hand out for expansion of NATO. But at the lower end of the scale, I would hand out to CIA money ammunition and support for neo-Nazis in Ukraine. Okay, that's the only people we could find. Oh, okay. You have to back the neo-Nazis in Ukraine. Give me a break, please. We have to do better than this. The whole apparatus, Kazakhstan, Venezuela, you name it. There have been so many attempts at so-called color revolutions or flat out coups as against Maduro in Caracas, that we have abysmally messed up, failed at, made a mess of the country in which we were doing it. It's hard to assess the blame except to say, shame on you, United States of America, and in particular, shame on the CIA. But that's what we've been doing. There's no question in my mind we were behind this effort in Kazakhstan. Now, that might have operated indirectly to our advantage because Putin, in going into Kazakhstan, in the sense that he's now backing that brutal leader in Kazakhstan, may have overextended himself a little bit. You look at his map now, and he's got, he's got commitments in places that he simply doesn't have the power to enforce. So if someone were to call them all at one time or most of them at one time, he'd be in trouble. He'd be in big trouble. Maybe he knows that, or maybe that's one reason he's trying to focus on this one, which he seems to be able to manage simply because he's better at chess than anybody on the other side. So I want to say that we've got over 500 people on this webinar. And for those of you who are anywhere near the D.C. area or can get you there, we are having a protest in front of the White House on Thursday at 1 p.m. You can, if please come and join us, tell your friends in the area. We need to have some showing of an anti-war movement. We're also going to be taking action in a couple of minutes to be calling the White House and our Congress people. But I just want to go to a few more questions, Larry, that we're getting from people in the chat and some sending it to me. One is asking if you could speak about the divisions in Europe over this, and might it be hopeful that some countries like Germany have more at stake in this and would be more of a rational voice? Yes, and that gives me some hope. France, too. Macron has made some statements in the last 24 hours lead me to believe that he probably doesn't see the situation quite like Berlin, but is close enough. And to get France and Berlin on the same sheet of music dealing with Russia is a major achievement. I think they're saying voices if they'll be allowed. And that's another thing that worries me about this guy that I've known for years who's supposed to be an expert at policy and not showing it. I don't know if it's age. I don't know if it's politics. I don't know if it's desperation because his polls are dropping. But right now he's not showing me the skill that I know that Joe Biden I knew when he was the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has. He needs to find that skill again, and he needs to start using it. And he needs to put some harnesses on some of the people around him who are more aggressive in what they want to do. I read an article this morning suggesting that we put Putin on the state sponsors of terrorism list. I put Moscow on that list. And the rationale for the article was this is one way to really isolate Putin. While that has some attraction to it in terms of a non-military solution to a problem, at the same time it shows I think a lack of understanding of Putin. I think Putin would take that as take it personally. And that's what you don't want to do to this professional KGB, FSB, NKVD, GRU type individual who ultimately acts like that as Prime Minister, Premier, President, whatever. I mean, he doesn't seem to come out of that cloak. He doesn't seem to come out of that world. That's the world he's operating in. Well, it's very beneficial for him when he's up against a bunch of people like like we've got right now. But at the same time it's very dangerous. And if he thinks that at the end of the day, we won't eventually stand up and do what's necessary. Should he actually put some kind of force into Ukraine, he's thinking wrong. Now, I don't think he is, but I can't be certain. So we have a, I think maybe we'll have two more questions. One here, is there any locus of power, political power in the US that would logically be against war in Ukraine? It's helpful to know which are the centers of power in favor, but it could also be helpful to know which of the powers like industries might be against. So any ideas on that front? I think I'm not an expert on this. So I'm sort of just guessing at this, but it's an educated guess. I've read enough in the last week to understand that there are a lot of people in this country who are, one, aghast at what we're doing. That is to say they can't believe we're doing it. And these are people in industry. These are people in business. These are people at high tech firms and so forth. And two, that they don't know what to do. They don't know how to weigh in with the current group of people. One of the things we've done is to try and give them some ideas on how to weigh in. But I don't think the bulk of the American people, no one listens to them anymore, but I don't think the bulk of the American elite, other than in the, and it's a huge complex now, the war complex wants war. I don't think so. And here's another thing that Matlock brought out. And I'd read it somewhere else yesterday in a fairly competent authority, I think. The Russian people don't want war either. 75, 76, 77% have been on who's poll you look at. They don't want war. So this is crazy. We've got two leaderships that are playing with fire while basically their people and some of their elites, money deletes, don't. This shouldn't be happening. What about the people of Ukraine? There's a question there about what do they want? It depends on who you're talking about. Are you talking about the Russians or are you talking about the Ukrainians as it were? Are you talking about the ones who are neo-Nazis or are you talking about the ones who are basically former communists and would welcome perhaps Putin? There are all kinds of elements in Ukraine. I think it's fair to say that the majority of Ukrainians, even some of those who are fluent Russian speakers and feel more affinity to Russia than they do perhaps to Europe, don't want war. And they're frustrated. They're frustrated at what is happening. At the same time, if you look back at World War II and you look back at what the Nazis did in Ukraine and around that area, you look at the agreements between Tito, for example, and partisans and leaders in Ukraine. You look at how the Nazis spent tens of thousands of soldiers in that area and really didn't accomplish very much. You can understand how that could devolve very quickly into a Balkans-like times-10 guerrilla war and really suck a lot of people in. And I don't think anybody wants that. You've got a surface pioneer, the neo-Nazis and others who would love it, but you've got the bulk of the people who don't want that. And here we are again, marching the war against the wishes of the bulk of the people on all sides. So I see in the chat, there's a lot of people saying, where else can we go to protest if we're not in the D.C. area? And yes, there should be protests all over the country. If it's too late to get something together in your area this week, then you can do next week, but we need to have protests all over the place. So whoever's on this call, you're already in the vanguard of saying no to war and we need you to organize in your community. And for those of you in the D.C. area at the White House on Thursday at 1 p.m., we would love it if you would come out. There's a question, Larry, that says, do you think that Bernie Sanders and Ron Paul could get together and maybe start something in the Senate that was opposed to this Menendez on the Democratic side and Rich on the Republican side that are both war hawks?  The one from Idaho who is brain dead. And the other one, I don't know about Bob anymore. I mean, I tried to work with him on the Khashoggi murder and I just backed away. It's impossible to work with him. You got to find people like Bernie and you got to find people like Ron Paul in the terms of being opposed to war and like Mike Lee from Utah and in terms of being opposed to war. But I don't know how you stirred them up on this because I think Mike Lee is probably on this one going to be on the side of the Warriors. This is a different war. Yesterday, I was told by an individual that we are right on the verge of getting the votes in both houses again to pass the War Powers Resolution legislation that we passed with Trump and Trump vetoed to get us out of the war in Yemen and that we may see that. Unfortunately, I think this bruja over Ukraine and all the tempest around it may derail that at least for a while. But I don't think Biden would be able to veto that like Trump did, even if it just barely passed. I don't think he'd be able to veto it and survive. So anything you can do out in the hustings is helpful. I recently saw several people join the climate causes. I said, why did you join the climate causes? Well, I went home to my town hall meeting and my people were concerned about climate change. Whoa. So you're not really committed to fixing the climate crisis as best as possible. You're just responding to your people. Well, yeah, but that's how you do it. I mean, people went home to Harris County in Texas, for example, the county around Houston, and they found a lot of people who were really energized over climate change with regard to what had just happened to them with the flooding and the hurricanes. Now they're members of the climate caucus. Oh, well, okay, let's do something like this has got to be a lot faster. But it's got to be, you know, let's get these people concerned about what their constituents are telling them from Houston, Salt Lake City, Detroit, and so forth. Absolutely. And I think that's the perfect note to end on, which is that we have to make our voices heard, whether it's in the streets, in front of the White House, in front of your local state house, in front of the media, or contacting the media and complaining about the coverage. There's all kinds of things that we need to do. And we're going to start that right now by having Marcy lead us in an action. So don't leave, we need the hundreds of you who are on here. But we do Marcy, do you think we can, with all these people, unmute to say goodbye to Larry or should? Sure, let's do it. Thank you so much.  And thank you so much for emotionally folks can unmute on the webinar. We can all unmute, but so we'll do it in everybody else's honor, which is to say thank you so much for joining us. Thank you for the work that you're doing for the rational voice you present to us and for inspiring us to take action, which is what we're going to do right now with Marcy. So thank you and bye bye to you, Larry. We appreciate you. Bye bye. And it's I that should be thanking you.


Hello there, everyone, and welcome. This is Melissa, our most stocks-washed reviewing DIY. So I saw this this morning. Unfortunately, I wish I had done it in the morning, but it had no volume. Had no volume in the pre-market or barely any at all, and then no volume really until later. In fact, let's just see when the volume actually did come into this, to be, as I am wondering. Yeah, this was so thin this morning. This was a good half an hour to the volume came into this, geez. This was unfortunate. This is unfortunate. We could have done this early today, and it would have been a much, much, much better day. Now, this did not have a volume in it until good 20 minutes into the open. Anyways, by the time I saw it, I was looking for an entry, it was far away, and then I ended up sending out this to the rum. Here was the good entry, and got the drop. I said 70 was the target. Came all the way down, it almost got there. I felt confident that it could get there if the market continued down. This was just unfortunate that we didn't get it early, and I usually like to get these things early. I don't know why this was so thin. This was earnings. Yeah, I mean, some of these days here I'm seeing now are kind of thin, that's probably why. Yeah, this is less than 300,000. Yeah, that's probably why. Shoot. Anyways, called the late trade in it when the volume was there, and it worked. And it worked, and if you did the ad, it was a nice drop in. And I was trying to find something that made sense with the difference between the entry and the stop, because that's where you get the risk to reward. And it wasn't there earlier, and it was too thin. So we'll see what we get tomorrow, but it's a kind of week where you have to pick careful things, and you have to be careful, and I'm gonna be fully aware of that tomorrow morning, but this did work as a late trade today. I prefer the fast trades, I prefer the early trades. This did work. If anybody did it, congrats. You got it down, and again, you definitely should be out of this because the market closes in 45 minutes, so. So, look, everyone, we'll see what we get next week. If you're interested in the Golden Gap course, it's June 12th and 13th. Email me if you have any questions at Melissa at thestuxwush.com.


guys welcome back to our channel. My name is Andrea. I'm Howard and we are with Foodimentary Adventures in Food and we are here today with a comfort foods taste test from Chick-fil-A. So they have some seasonal things out that are right now we wanted to try them and so we thought we would share that with you. So the first thing that we are going to try from Chick-fil-A is this chicken tortilla soup. Now I don't know if this is a regional thing or not but I definitely know it's a seasonal thing. Chicken tortilla soup it has beans in it. It has chicken of course. It came with these seasoned tortilla strips. Do you want any of these? No. Okay so it comes with these but I will say the consistency of this soup I'm gonna try is it's pretty thick let me show you it's pretty thick and I've corn in there too and there's corn it looks like there's corn looks like there's maybe navy beans and also black beans in there too so thicker than what I'm used to seeing chicken tortilla soup so we're gonna give this a try ready cheers. I think it's good. You like it? I like it. You don't like it? It's a little bit too thick for me. I'm used to chicken tortilla soup being a little bit looser but it does taste like it definitely has a taco flavor and taco seasoning. The seasonings are very good but it's just too thick for me. I'll eat it. Okay all right your turn. I feel a little spicy kick after. Next up is chicken noodle soup and there are big old chunks of carrots which you love. These beans are casted not really I don't really care for carrots. Is there any other vegetable in there? I don't know. So there's a carrot and it's like celery. Oh that's celery. And it looks like noodles. Is it kind of thick too? Yeah but it's not as thick as that chicken tortilla soup. I'll have some carrots here. I don't like the carrot. Got some too. Cheers. It's good too. You like it? Yeah. I'm not a big fan of that either. I like soup. Yeah he does like soup but I'm not a big fan of that. I like them both. I taste a lot of carrot in it even though I didn't have any carrot like the carrots took over the broth flavor and it's thick. I guess maybe I don't like thick soups unless it's a chowder or something. It's all good to me. Okay your turn. Okay next up good old mac and cheese. Now this one I was most excited about trying because everyone says it tastes like homemade kind of baked macaroni cheese. I got mine size piece. You got a little smaller. Cheers. I like it too. That's pretty good. That does take taste almost homemade. It does taste like a baked macaroni cheese.  It's very cheesy. Mmm that's pretty good. I like it. I like that one too. Three for three. I like them all. One for three for me. The last thing that we are going to try out is they have a new yogurt parfait. It's a new improved recipe. So here it is. You can't really see the yogurt under all of it. So you have two options. You can get your yogurt topped with granola or you can get it topped with cookies. So I have it topped with cookies and you can see there are some berries underneath. Looks like blueberries, strawberries underneath that but again this is supposed to be a new and improved yogurt. So let me grab a spoon real quick. So here we go. Ready? Let me get to the yogurt part. Mmm.  It's a cookie and yogurt. Ready? Cheers. I think that's good too. Are those cookies like Oreos? I think they are like Oreos. I will say so the yogurt is not like a Greek tangy type of yogurt. It's very smooth and sweet. Did you think it was tangy? I like sweet. Yeah so you like sweet. It is good but I do prefer like a tangier type yogurt and this is not a tangy yogurt. Would I get it again? Probably but I don't think I would get it topped with cookies. I would probably get it topped with just the traditional granola. You get cookies again? Yeah and I wouldn't think of getting it because it's chocolate but yeah I liked it. Yeah it's pretty good. So far four for four. Four for four and there is I know you can't see it very well but there's probably like they're like half an inch of cookie in there so there's a lot of cookie in there. Cookie crumbles I should say. So that's it for our taste test. What was your favorite thing? I like them all. What was your favorite thing? Oh I like the soups and the mac and cheese. Better than I like the yeah that's. This is my frustration. What's your favorite thing? Can't they all be this big? No we have to get one favorite. I don't know the mac and cheese is pretty good. Okay and I would have to say the mac and cheese is my favorite too. So would I substitute the waffle fries for the mac and cheese in a combo meal? I probably would not I would probably stick with my waffle truck. You would get an addition? Yeah I get more not less. But that's it I think my least favorite thing would probably be that chicken tortilla soup because it was way way too thick for me. What was your least favorite? The yogurt just because it's yogurt. All right so that is our taste test I hope you guys enjoyed it. If you did like this video please make sure to give us a thumbs up and if you haven't subscribed to our channel we hope that you'll do so and we'll see you guys next time. Bye.


Everyone here with a little bit of a late night video for you guys. I'm gonna have a few videos preloaded here over the next Few days. I am traveling over the weekend. We're starting our vacation in all of that So I'm gonna have you know video going up on Saturday and Sunday and I think Monday and Tuesday as well But all these videos will be pre-made So you're gonna get a lot of voice over gameplay and all of that coming up We do plan to do a single live stream. Yes one live stream While we are on vacation So you can look forward to that happening next week But until then let's talk about this news today because I feel like this is relevant in the conversation around Steam Deck I'm this channel, you know, we obviously cover a lot of switch I obviously have bias towards Nintendo But I play everything and the steam deck has been in this interesting place for me where it competes with switch But then it doesn't really compete with switch. It's more so a companion for people who play games on PC Obviously, it's probably going to be an emulation beast. I see no reason this thing isn't gonna be able to emulate Practically everything up through switch, although we'll see what PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 those emulators are Really hit and miss on different types of hardware. So Let's see what happens here, but today Valve confirmed that steam deck Can basically run any game on PC But the target for their games the target for games in general on this device is 30 FPS Which if you're a PC gamer I'm a PC gamer It's a bit of a red flag, but we'll get into it in a moment I want to announce we are giving away a switch OLED by the way if you would like to win one Literally all you have to do is subscribe to the channel So I'm reading this article on WCCF tech and we're gonna go over this the title says steam deck targeting 30 FPS Valve hasn't found any games. It couldn't handle So it says last week valve announced the steam deck their portable Zen 2 powered gaming PC that they promised will be able to run most games at 1280 by 800 although Resolution really doesn't mean that much on its own if you don't know what type of performance the machine is targeting Well valve recently let out a few more details about the steam deck slip in a recent interview with IGN and those hoping for glorious 60 FPS or unlocked portable gameplay are in for disappointment According to steam deck developer Pierre loop griffos achieving 30 FPS in games is their Target and this is thanks to PC gamer for a transcription says if people are still valuing high frame rates and high resolutions on other platforms I think that the content will scale down to our 800p 30 Hertz target really well if people are start heavily Favouring image quality. We might be in position where we might have trade-offs But we haven't really seen that yet 800p is obviously not a big deal to people.  I've also said this before for Nintendo switch That's why the 720p isn't really that big of a deal for the size screen It is I know our phones plenty of phone to 4k below I get it But it's not really that big of a deal at that size But the 30 FPS target is kind of a bummer Obviously the steam deck is a PC so some games will run better than that But I imagine that what you'll be looking at for many newer games speaking of which according to Griffiths Valve has tested numerous recent steam games on the deck and they haven't found any that couldn't hit that 30 FPS target This is the first time we've achieved the level of performance That is required to really run the latest generation of games without problems all the games We wanted to be playable is really the entire steam library We haven't really found something we could throw at this device that it couldn't handle Those who haven't been keeping up the scene that runs a custom AMD Van Gogh APU is then to GPU rdni to GPU cores cost between $400 and 650 depending on what storage you opt in for all that jazz This is the it starts be shipping in December and it's back ordered deep into 2022. So here's the thing What do we learn here? We learn Something very interesting here that their internal target is that every game needs a hit 30 FPS Some games are gonna obviously run at 60 I mean, but we can't ignore this some games will run at 60 Oh, I would venture to guess pretty much every indie game is gonna run at 60 a lot of older games You know from from 3 4 5 6 plus years ago. All those games are probably gonna hit 60 FPS as well But what he's basically saying is that newer releases ones that are demanding ones that are trying to impress you visually which is Basically modern AAA gaming in a nutshell Are not hitting 60 FPS on this thing at at at 800 pu 720p, whatever it's hitting 30 FPS And I feel like we need to keep in mind when we talk about the steam deck a number of things and I think one thing that Goes untalked about because guys this is significantly more powerful than switch no doubt But would I be surprised if like when the new Assassin's Creed comes out on PC and that you know Obviously is gonna be instantly playable on steam deck a steam deck is a PC That it might actually look worse than breath of the wild to at 30 FPS on significantly worse hardware. I Wouldn't say I'd be shocked, but here is why I wouldn't be shocked again Something that is being overlooked by a lot of people excited for this device Nothing is being optimized for steam deck. I want to be clear steam deck is using what we term in the PC gaming industry on board graphics onboard graphics have made leaps and bounds right and the latest GPU tech using rd&a2 is going to be in the new APU onboard graphics that are going to be coming in low budget You know low-end gaming laptops valve themselves is basically saying that this that they've essentially come on set themselves That this is a low-budget gaming laptop in your hands Well low-budget gaming laptops really struggle to run Games even on low settings at 60 FPS. It just doesn't really happen. It's one of the Things you trade off for for buying a four hundred dollar or really five hundred is more so the entry point for the real low-end You know laptops that you would consider gaming capable that at least have a gaming capable either a separate GPU or at least a Integrated GPU that is gaming capable is around five hundred dollars and like That doesn't run games. Well Now granted this is a newer GPU tech architecture That is not currently available in any gaming laptops at this point, but it kind of underscores the fact that if valve themselves is saying hey when we throw new You know newer games at this new you know current releases upcoming releases at this thing it hits 30 FPS That's not impressive That's not It's showing the one limitation of this platform is that Nothing on PC is Optimized for this hardware See what happens with switch is if you want to bring your game to switch You need to optimize your game to run on that platform Some optimizations are better than others, but you need to optimize the game specifically for that target of hardware to release on it This is an open platform because it's just a Laptop in a different form right? Let's just call this what it is. This is a laptop in a different form and Because of that it's just gonna run the same games that release on everything else So any sort of high-end AAA release is not going to run very well on this thing. Will it hit 30 FPS? Absolutely. Will it be a solid 30 FPS? Probably although they did note by the way that some of the most graphically intense future games that come out might struggle to hit 30 FPS They're basically admitting. Hey, you know When we get some big AAA PC Game coming here in the next year or two It's possible that it doesn't even hit 30 FPS on this at 800p like they're they're just admitting openly Hey, look everything we throw out at now is what we can't really rule out the fact that hey games coming in the future You know, you know a year or two years from now. They might not even run at 30 FPS on this And again, we there's so many considerations here. I'm not trying to put the steam deck down The steam deck is great But it has the problem that every low-end laptop has and that's that games aren't optimized for the low-end They're optimized for essentially PC games for those in a PC game development. They generally target the largest market Of hardware for PC, which is essentially middle-of-the-road Gaming computers right middle of the road computers ones that have Dedicated GPUs not onboard graphic GPUs ones that are You know basically cost about at least you know at MSRP if you can get an MSRP around $800 to build 800 to a thousand bucks That you know, you know you get like a $1200 laptop something that that's kind of sort of what they are targeting If you look at just know the most common resolutions and GPUs on steam. Yeah, they're older, but they're They're they're they're I just want this to be clear to people. I Know it feels like I'm shitting on the steam deck If you're excited for this device be excited, I'm just trying to set the expectations Realistically and that is what valve is doing here if people value high frame it's a resolution of the platforms Current content will scale down to 800p at 30 Hertz really well But if future games are heavily favoring image quality Yeah, there's gonna be some trade-offs and at some point we might not hit 30 FPS like They're telling you right now this machine is just hitting 30 FPS with some of the most demanding games And what do you think the settings of those demanding games are set at do you think they're saying oh? It's hitting 30 FPS running on high settings No, they're they're going in there and saying look when we put the most demanding game on here And we set it to the low settings it hits 30 FPS That's acceptable to us and every game that comes to the platform is going to run and hit at least 30 FPS I I'm sorry. I'm not excited by that and by the way. I'm not sitting here touting switch over this device I want to be clear here Switch struggles to hit 30 FPS in some games We see it in Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity, which by the way is a Warriors game issue that Warriors has FPS issues on like everything It's dumb don't know why they haven't overhauled this engine or at least Like try the different engine how about a brand new engine for Warriors games team injured come on man It's time to get off this ancient hardware or this ancient not hardware I guess ancient you know iteration of Game developing you're doing for Warriors games, but we've seen it in tennis on Nintendo games to struggle to hit 30 We've obviously seen many Nintendo games struggle to hit 60 So like we know right switch is weak. It's weak as hell in 2021 we know it. I think Nintendo is making a mistake with the switch OLED not having it be more powerful We all know the switch is weak But we play for the games right the whole reason that we buy hardware for the games So the big thing that Steam Deck obviously is always gonna have going for it Is it has a massive library of games that it's gonna be bigger than any platform in existence one? Because literally you can emulate everything up through switch number two Yeah, you have the entire PC gaming library going back to the beginning of PC gaming So there's obviously a massive library to draw on for this device And that is an advantage for a steam deck and that could be you know if you're just someone who plays older games You know this could be fine. This could be absolutely fine for you if you're someone who just plays older games So yeah, I don't know this is just me spitballing to the wind here switch obviously You know, it's only advantage. You know is that hey it has exclusive games built for the platform That's cool And you can't get those games, you know necessarily in the best form on PC I'm actually gonna be curious I've seen some of the comparable like the IA Neo as an example. I've seen it run switch emulators And while it runs a switch emulator fine, and it plays switch games I haven't seen those switch games really necessarily running at 60 FPS I could be wrong on that front but from what I have seen of videos of it the switch games aren't hitting 60 FPS Which you know is what it is all I know is this hardware is nice But the mitigating factor is that nothing is going to be made specifically for it and Because of that it's always going to suffer at getting the low end of the stick This device is way more capable than 30 FPS in the latest triple-a games If companies want to optimize for it, but they won't because it's a PC and It's open architecture on an open platform So because of that it's never going to be optimized for it The one advantage of consoles is things are always optimized for that specific hardware on that device sometimes reportedly optimized But they are optimized on PC. It's a crapshoot some hardware is just going to run things better than others It is what it is. This hardware is going to run triple-a games at 30 FPS and For most some people that's going to be fine For me as a PC gamer do the whole reason my PC game is to get higher FPS So this thing already didn't really interest me much at 60 Hertz let alone Let alone running like modern games at 30 I get to those 400 bucks. What do you expect for 400 right? Just be happy it runs everything. I guess at that price point But I mean games are gonna look better on Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 just a fact It's gonna look better. They're more powerful platforms similar pricing can't take them on the go though That is a huge advantage. It's the advantage switch has and it's gonna be advantage of this what the market is for this I don't know. I think maybe again They're just trying to get people who weren't into PC gaming into PC gaming I think there's a big market they could tap into by doing that by making PC gaming accessible But I'm very curious if you are a current PC gamer That that plays a lot of modern titles. Are you interested in this device? Now that you know your modern title might run at low settings at 30 FPS Are you interested still in the steam deck? And if you are cool? I get why you are play your game anywhere. Well, 30 FPS is still better than zero FPS like not being able to play it on the go Totally can understand that argument, but I'm just curious as a PC gamer myself. I ain't really interested in going below 60 That's the whole reason I am a PC gamer So I know everything that I run on my PC is gonna be over 60 FPS Anyways, folks, I understand a little jazz from the top. I'm thanks so much for tuning in and I'll catch you in the next video I