And then this week we did a homerun derby episode. So, uh, that is, uh, obviously something that very, can, you know, red meat, as they say, pretty obvious, but we're pretty excited to, you know, talk about home runs. So great, greatest home run derby, who comes to your mind, Trev? Like if you think a home run performance guy, I think everyone's going to have, uh, like, you know, one's going to go to the top. Do you have a guy? Yeah, obviously everyone's going to think Josh Hamilton. And then you have to always tell people he didn't even win the home run derby, Justin Morneau, friend of the pod. Hold the home run derby. Wow. I'll tell you what I love. I'll tell you what I love.  And the BP picture for Ryan Braun, it was none other than our agent, Nez Balelo. What? Yeah. So Nez, big day for Nez Balelo. Yeah. So he's, he's, he's great, uh, been an agent for a long time.  He played in the Braves organization and was like a youth coach and had like a facility and all this stuff and parlayed that into becoming an agent. But like, I don't know if a lot of people know that he's out there. He throws the best BP, like the best BP. I think I got drafted as high as I did because when we would do these workouts for, for teams, like he would throw me BP and just knew, he just knew how to find the barrel. That's what he did. Those are my favorite stories of the home run Derby is the BP. We went back, so I, I went back and compiled data on the last 10 years, just since 2010 of every single thrower in the Derby and can't just found some great stuff. Did you know Yadier Molina threw to Matt Holiday in the Derby? Like he was his thrower. And he wore a glove.  How are the Cardinals letting that happen? Yeah, the catchers, catchers always throw the best BP. I know, but not the guy former catchers throw the best BP. Not your peak Yadier Molina. Oh, that's great. Another, another good one is Brian Dozier gets in the Derby. It's at target field in front of everyone. And then he picks his brother, which is awesome. Except that Clay couldn't find the strike zone. It was a really tough home run Derby. Like we had last year, Matt Chapman's dad. Oh, just totally ruining it for him. Like that was cool.  Cano, Harper, right? To some decent BP. Obviously, Jose Cano was pretty good. It's such a better story. Like, I would rather have my dad out there and like we have that forever than like some random like, dude, there's those good BP like that. I told Dozier that I told Chappy that too.   It's amazing. No, it's not true. Josh Hamilton's guy. There was a story on Josh Hamilton's guy. And this is from my memory of back then. But I believe he always started BP with just having Josh Hamilton like hold his bat out like vertically and he would throw the first ball and just nail the bat like right there. It's like, where do you want it? And he would hold his bat still and he would just hit it and then they would go from there. I think Hamilton's guy was his American legion coach in high school or something crazy like that. Yeah. So he's some high school coach. Yeah. We had Hoskins on who is in the Derby in DC and like did low key super well and he was talking about how he picked like this Phillies infield coordinator who he had taken hours and hours and hours of ground balls with in the minor leagues. And he was like, yeah, like this guy means something to me. And he throws the best BP. Yeah. So I, but I get Trevor's point. But at the same time, it's like, if you want to win, you do kind of have to have that part of it nailed down. Well, now that you win a million dollars, it's like, all right. Well, maybe dad, you know, Pete Alonso, right. Making more from the dad. Why don't you stay on the couch and I'll give you 250 K. Dad starts spiking one because they're in negotiations over how much he gets out of it. You know, that'd be fine. You know, what percentage do you give to dad for throwing beeps if you win a million? I don't know. It's gotta be a big chunk of that. Well, that's exciting. Yeah. So Homer Derbys fun. So that's so you obviously should go check out a lot of a lot of Griffey talk. Oh yeah, I'll probably one quick thing that I absolutely loved was he wins the Derby in 94. And in 98, the Derbies and cores and the Mariners like are playing the night before the Derby in Texas. And Griffey is like, I don't want to do the Derby. Like I'm going to be tired. I don't want to do it. He comes out for the workout day in 1998, the morning, Monday morning and gets booed by the fans for not doing the Derby changes his mind an hour before the Derby asks if he can be in it. They say yes. And then he wins it. Did someone get none of the fans? None of the fans knew that he was going to be in it. So could you imagine like Ken Griffey is the most popular baseball player of all time and you're some random schlub and Denver coming to the Derby and Griffey is like not going to do it.  And then they announce him and then he wins for the intros. Yeah, that's pretty cool. Who got booted? Did someone get booted? Because that person can be like, well, I would have won. But Griffey took my spot. No, because back in the day, they like they fluctuated the number of it every year. Like they didn't really care. It was just kind of like who wants to be in it. So they just went from nine to 10. Do you like the new format? I think the best change baseball's made recently is the home run Derby change of the four. Because it is makes a huge difference. And going back and watching the old ones, even watching the Hamilton one, which is amazing. Like I timed it how long Hamilton's round takes from first pitch to Vlad his 10th out when he hits 28 homers. It took 22 minutes. Vlad Jr. hit 29 homers in like four minutes, like four real minutes. And it's like, well, okay, this is obviously better. Like there's no, I mean, there are elements of it that, you know, maybe it builds with with more breaks in between, but it's so much better. And I was undeniably a better system. Trev, who would have been your home run Derby pitcher? Would it have been this? I don't know. And dude, if a million dollars at stake is a lot different than just like, hey, let's let's run the home and derby and see what happens.  A million dollars is different. I probably would have had nests. Yes. Or like, you know, someone I was comfortable with, like in the organization, but you know what I want? I want someone to choose their son to pitch them. Like Cecil Fielder has 14 year old Prince throwing BBs down the middle. That's that's when that happens. I'll be excited.  That'd be awesome. We'll dream. Yeah, that's a dream I have just in my dream bank. I will say I was on the back burner in 2012. They approached me like, Hey, there's a possibility you could be in the home run Derby because I like was going off at that point. Um, I was the year it was in Kansas City. That would have been horrible. That's a tough place for a home run Derby. Fuck. But what happened? Did they just snag the spot, Trevon? You didn't get it. I was like backup, backup, backup, you know, like, yeah, I was scrubbed. I was average, you know that Prince Fielder, Joey Bats, Trumbo at his peak, Beltran on the Cardinals, Carlos Gonzalez, McCutcheon, Kemp and Cano. This is your canoe hit zero and got booed. Didn't he win? Where would you, where would you have finished? Where would you have finished in that Derby? He won the year before in Arizona. OK, I don't know, man. I think a home at Derby is always about like the best. Hitter or even the strongest guy.  He wants to click million dollars 2012. Trevor Ploof from the start of the season to June 15. Forty four games, 39 starts, 14 Yabos.  Sounds like a backup, backup, backup, backup, home run Derby contestant to me. Can I just put a Wikipedia page on this year's Derby? Yeah, yeah, I had it. Trevor Ploof. There is there is a subtitle for Robinson Cano booing controversy. I'm going to add Trevor Ploof participation controversy. Well, it's considered was considered. Let's turn it down.  I wish I was a better baseball player, trust me. I would have loved to be in the comments. Everyone on this podcast. Yeah, probably say the same thing.


Hello friends and how are you all doing today? My name is Priyanka. The question says prove that the curves x is equal to y square and xy is equal to k. Cut at right angles if each k square is equal to 1. Now before proceeding on with the solution we should be well versed that two curves intersect at right angles if the tangent point of intersection pendicular each other. The knowledge of this fact is the key idea for this question. Now we are given that the equation of the curve is x is equal to y square. Right, xy is equal to k. Now on differentiating with respect to x we get 1 is equal to 2y dy by dx and here we have let us first solve this one. This means dy by dx is equal to 1 upon 2y and here we have x dy by dx plus y is equal to 0. This gives us dy by dx is equal to minus y by x. Now here we can substitute the value of y as here xy is equal to k so that means y will be equal to k by x. Right, so here we have dy by dx equal to 1 upon 2k by x or it can be written as dy by dx is equal to x upon 2k and here also we have dy by dx equal to minus k upon x was already here. One more x it will be x square. We can write it minus k upon x square. Now we have these slopes for both the curves. Now after studying our key idea we know that the point of intersection we perpendicular to each other and since the curves cut at right angles that means product of the slopes should be equal to what exactly it should be equal to minus 1. Now we have the slopes as x upon 2k getting multiplied by minus k upon x square should be equal to minus 1. We have 1 upon 2x equal to 1 or we can see that 2x is equal to 1 right or we can say that x is equal to 1 upon 2. Now when x is equal to 1 upon 2 we have the value of y as or before doing this step we were given that x is equal to y square and xy is equal to k. On squaring both the sides we have x square equal to y raised to the power 4 x square y square is equal to k square. Now we can see that the value of y square is equal to x so we can write it as x square into x equal to k square. This is because y square is equal to x which is x cube is equal to k square right. Now we have proved above that 2x is equal to 1 right. Now on cubing both the sides it will be 8x cube equal to 1 right. Now putting the value of x cube as k square we have 8k square equal to 1 right and this is what we were required to prove in this question. So we can write that hence we have proved that 8k square is equal to 1 right. This completes the session hope you understood it well and enjoyed it have a nice day.


Hello and welcome to Gallery Works. My name is Kitty Lynn Klisch and we're in the studio today with two of three sisters. Each one of them has chosen a different path in her art. We have two of the gals here and we'll be talking about the third one later in the show. It's my very most pleasure to introduce you to Therese Randall and Patty Strong. I'm so glad you could come today. Welcome to the show. Very glad to be here. Good, good. And tell me gals, how... Now you're all three artists and we're talking about your sister, like she's not with us and that's because she isn't anymore. Only in spirit. Only in spirit, right. Okay, so but how did the three of you gals get started in your particular forms of art?  You work in oil and acrylic. Yes. Patty, you work with fabric. And I also paint. And you... Oh, you also paint, too. Oh, okay. I didn't realize that. And your sister's name was Sue. Susan, okay. What medium did Susan work in? She worked in oils and acrylics and mostly in pencil. Mostly in pencil. Okay, all right.  Well, we played Go Fish and Old Maid, too. Okay. But we had something and I think we all noticed that other children couldn't do what we did. I can remember being in kindergarten and we were all told to make an animal drawing. And I looked at all of them and thought, why don't the other children's animals look like what they're supposed to look like? Because I drew a zebra and my zebra actually looked like a zebra. So we knew from when we were really, really young that we had something. We had a gift that other people didn't have. Yeah, yeah. And I assumed, I thought, almost till I went to college, that I thought everybody could paint and draw. It's just that they chose not to do it. I didn't know that they couldn't. Yeah. Because it's like all of our family, my aunts, my mother and my father were both very talented and very artistic. My grandma did China painting and they had a ceramic shop and there was nothing they could not paint. I mean, it was just a man. It was amazing. But growing up around people like that, everybody in our family did that. Right. They were very artistic. So you're from this area, right? And you were born and raised in the St. Neeson's Manitowoc area. Okay. St. Neeson's Manitowoc area. Yeah. All right. That's so interesting because it's something that sounds like it's been passed down generational. Oh, it had been. With that type of being and that type of environment, that would be very inspiring to a young child. Oh, that's wonderful. Especially the really young child when you were really young. It was just wonderful. Absolutely wonderful. Yeah. And we were like our aunts always encouraged us and it's like there's there's nothing you can't do. Mm hmm.  Well, actually, when I went to my guidance counselor in high school, I said I wanted to be a painter and she said, what are you going to paint houses? Yeah, a lot of encouragement there. So but it you know, it wasn't we didn't we didn't think that it wasn't possible that we could do what we wanted to do. Well, I I think your work, all of you, I mean, your work is spectacular. Thank you. And I'd like to I'd like to talk about your work. Right now, Therese, the the painting that we opened the show with. I believe those are Lily's tulips or tulips. Okay. Aren't they amazing? Yes, tulips like that are like a little past. They're just just about. That's exactly what was happening. Right. Yeah. And and that's gorgeous in your use of color. Now, are these tulips from your garden? I actually went to the meat market in in St. Cloud and the woman there knows I'm an artist and she said, you have to go over to my house and see my tulips. And it was right after a rainstorm. And it was still gray and and the wind was moving them around. And I thought, oh, they're so beautiful.  And I went home and the photographs, I have to do a painting of this. Sure. So that's how that happened. Yeah, and you can add I see what you mean about, you know, a windstorm and rain and everything because that's the way they look, they look like they've been, you know, disturbed abused a little bit. Yeah, yeah. And and but there's but it creates a movement and an energy in the painting. You know, they don't it is just beautiful. And the other thing that strikes me is this gorgeous, complimentary color that you have put in that makes the the tulips pop. Very, very good. I did. You taught me that. Well, thank you. It's beautiful. That that is truly beautiful. Thank you. I love that painting. Thank you. And okay, and then we over here, we have an elk. Yes, yes. Okay. Tell me about that fellow. He's really beautiful. My husband, and brother, and a couple other guys went out to Montana hunting. And I just went along for the experience. I used to hunt, I can't hunt anymore. It's too difficult for me. Is it difficult? Why is it difficult?  It's hard for me to see something living. And then maybe the one that stops that. My dad used to take me hunting when I was little. I was very little and he would take me out. And he taught me what the different plants were and what the different birds were. And I was maybe in first grade. And I knew the difference between a white oak and a scarlet oak and a red oak. And, and I was surprised that other people didn't know those things. Because I had known it for so long. And I'd catch butterflies.  He took me duck hunting. And, and so I was kind of raised with hunting. Mm hmm. But it was, it was just really hard for me to both. At that point that you realized how beautiful they are. Yes. Alive and emotion. Yes. I agree. I just, I couldn't, couldn't do it anymore. All right. Well, back to this fellow here. What's the story on him? So we, it was interesting. We're in Montana. There's a snowstorm. And we were driving into this place where we were supposed to be hunting. And it was just like the Hartford commercial.   I have all these photos and movies in my head. And it's like there was the Hartford commercial. And so some guys went this way and some guys went that way and, and he got to have a big elk. I wasn't, I know it's a real, it's a really difficult thing. Yeah, they're very excited about doing this. But yeah, now he's alive always. Yeah, exactly. And I, you know, don't misunderstand me. I'm not critiquing your paintings. But I just, you were my student once. And, and I just need to reinforce and point out to you the really strong composition here, trees, you really nailed that comp, that composition. I love it. I mean, it's so strong. You give us just enough information that we can feel the moment. And yet, you know, there's still things about it that we don't know. And I really like that. That's a very beautiful painting. I won the Robert Hoyle award with that painting. Oh, good for you, girl. I know I was like, I don't get it.  I didn't understand what he said. You know why? No, I know. I want you to take your mic, honey, and, and make it come up a little bit. It's kind yeah, there we go. There we go. Yeah. Because I want to make sure you're heard. Okay. All right. And then we have this piece here with the cardinal, which I just finished. You just finished. Yes. Okay. Oh, I forgot to ask you the the tulips are they oil or acrylic? That's acrylic, acrylic and the moves that are the other that's oil, that's oil. Okay. And this one? This is acrylic, acrylic. Okay. Yes. That is just gorgeous. I was so inspired with there was so much milkweed this year. Although I didn't see as many monarchs as I usually do. No, I only found one monarch caterpillar this year. But the milkweed was so fantastic. And the purple asters were amazing. And that's beautiful. And I just I love this time of year. I just want to stay home and paint this time of year. Exactly. Well, you know, the colors are exactly and the way the light plays in the trees. And what's so beautiful about this is this this vignette feeling that we have, because we have the cardinal in beautiful, beautiful detail.  And then there's this great sense of distance. I mean, it just looks like you could just go all the way back. And yet you did that without giving us too much detail. And that is the secret to creating space.  And that you you've captured that feeling there beautifully. Thank you. That's very nicely done. Thank you. I sometimes don't know. We never went to school. So you're self taught. I learned by just taking that one class from you. Some technical things that I had never been taught. Sure. And sometimes when I'm painting, I just have colors laying out. And I just, well, I don't even know sometimes how I know how to do it. You know, there's a certain point where it becomes intuitive. Yeah, with a painter. And I think that I think that's very important to know that to trust your first gut reaction to something, trust that because the more you model with it, you know, and work with it, most likely, you're not going to improve it, you're only going to wipe out that bit of genius that that first stroke put on the canvas, you know, so we've talked about that many times. I'm like, I just had to touch it one more time and I messed it up. Well, there you go. Right.   And then, you know, and then I then they come back to me, you know, like a month or two later and they say, Oh, kitty, I thought I could do it better. And I messed it up.  You know, and the older I've gotten, the more I've learned to trust that. Yeah. Where it's like, Okay, this is good. Because I thought about doing more to it. And I'm like, No, this is good. Just let it alone. Right, right. It almost tells you when it's done. Yes, it does. It does. Susie used to say that. That picture will tell you when it's done. Exactly, Patty. A painting will talk to you. Absolutely. Tell you what you need if you're in tune to it. Absolutely. And it will tell you when you're finished. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah, that's really, that's really gorgeous. Thank you very much. I like your work a lot. I love it when you when I see your working gallery 110 north. And aren't you excited? Yes, we're having the whole Plymouth Art Center remodeled and enlarged. And we're going to have this fabulous place, fabulous gallery, fabulous classrooms. And you could give a class there, Teresa. People have asked me to do that. I don't know on wildlife. Yeah, I don't know how much I could, since I don't know how I can do things. I don't know how much I could teach people, but I could try it. You want to maybe like a beginners class, because I'll tell you, you'll really learn a lot about yourself and your own art as a teacher. I know I have over the years. I've learned every bit as much from my students as they have learned from me. You know, and so that's, it would be a good thing for you, honey. It really would be a beginners class there. Beginners have no place to start, you know, and a good, good idea to think about. And Patty, we're not ignoring you. Tell us about this quilt, honey. This thing is gorgeous. It's called trees. And it's basically a root ball. And those are all strips, they're hand pieced and appliqued. Every little one of them are there. And then it's like my sister trees, this my trees, is my trees, is my trees. She said that. She's such a, she's such a grower of things. I mean, goodness and kindness and vibrant and vibrant and she's just the best. So I said, I made trees for trees. And it's basically the same thing I with painting is with the fabric. I never know. When I see a piece of fabric, I get inspired. And I can see it. I do custom garments and stuff too. And I, I see a piece of fabric and I see it in a finished product. And that's like I said, with the, just like with the painting, it tells you when it's done. I always tell, they go, well, what are you gonna do with that? And I go, I don't know, it's just gonna start and just starts to grow. And I start to get ideas and then as it gets, as I add on to it, and it gets bigger. I never know how big some, some of them are into being king size, some of them end up being small. Right. But it tells me what it's done. But they're all signed in number. I signed a name and number, each one of them. I have 137. Oh, my. Well, are they for sale? They're all there. I've got four left. They're all they've all been sold. Oh my gosh, honey. Yeah, that's fabulous. Yeah, they sell like, I don't get them done. I don't get them done fast enough. It's like, just word of mouth in there, a local little store that carries my stuff. What's the name of the store, honey? It's called As You Like It. And it's part of Kramer Pharmacy in downtown Fond du Lac. Okay. And my children's dresses, I make children's clothing. Peter Rabbit dresses and, and custom painting on little Easter dresses and specialty Christmas dressers with matching hats. Yeah, and stuff like that. Okay. And you custom children's furniture too. Sure. For like little children's bedrooms and stuff like that. Well, that's real. That is really nice. And then she also carries my quilts. So it's nice as I do. I'll do a set of children's furniture and then make the quilt to match the bed and matches the furniture. And then, and then I'll get called to go in and very custom design the room. I can go do that. I do the hand painted borders that match the match the quilt and stuff. So very, very special. I have so much fun. Oh, yes. Somebody asked me the other day. What do you do for a living? What do you do? Where do you work? And I went, I haven't worked a day in my life. Like, well, what do you mean? I said, honest to God, I have not worked a day in my life. And I swear, I was like, if I had to go tomorrow, I have had the best life and the most fun and I've been able to do my art my entire life and have been able to be content and happy with it. And I just, I just couldn't have a better gift than a sister like her and a sister like Sue and the kind of gifts that our parents gave us is just been wonderful and meeting people like you and getting to do things like this. I mean, art is such a gift to a community. Yes, yes, it is.  I years ago, I had a an art instructor who was very famous and I was just when I took one of her workshops and when she came to me, I couldn't breathe. That's how much I admired her. I couldn't I couldn't breathe. And and then she came out with a book. And I went to that lecture, that book signing and and she wrote in my book, Art is a beautiful place to live. Oh, it's nice. And I have never forgotten that. And what you've just said sums that up so beautifully. Really, it's like people come to my home because I'm like a little one bohemian. I've been called to town gypsy. But my house is just my it's just my it's like it's art. It's just like, I have it on the walls, I have it on the ceiling, I haven't. Well, that's, that's the way it should be. Wonderful. My house is just wonderful. I just, yeah, I and I just love it. I love it. Sure. Sure. Because you're in your environment. Oh, absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. That's great. Suzy. Suzy is your dear sister. Your dear sister. Yes. And how long has Suzy been gone? Three years. About three years. It was the 4th of July. 4th of July. The 4th of July. Three years ago. Without getting too personal. May I ask what happened? She was four wheeling in the mountains in Colorado. And the brakes started going out on the four wheeler and they were headed for a deep ravine. And she got scared and she jumped off and she hit her head. And but the the guy who was driving the four wheeler, he tried to stop it and he couldn't. And so the four wheeler did go over the edge. And when he came back and found her, her two dogs were laying alongside of her. And she was gone. And there were three missionaries there praying with her. So just I know she's okay. She was a wonderful, generous, super, super funny person. And very challenging. Very extremely. She was she was a very, very well known artist in Colorado. That's where she was from? Yes. Yes. She had moved out there. Probably 25 years ago. Yeah. Had a lot of good friends out there. She's just so generous. So generous, but very, very talented. And what what type of of art? This was Susie decline to she loved horses. She always loved horses. Did she ride? She loved riding. In fact, when she was little, and people asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up, she wanted to be a horse or a dog. That's adorable. This is a portrait of the Budweiser Clydesdales. She, she actually the Budweiser plant is out near Fort Collins, Colorado. So she would go out there by the horses. And she cares some horses for anhyzer bush when they had horses that were down. She had to place that. Oh my, keep their Belgians in their Clydesdales form and take care of them. And then she paint the big red wagons. Yes, she also had anhyzer bush. You know, I would see those commercials on television. And I always wished that I could have access to that scene. Yes. And this is a this is a portrait of some Arabians that a friend of hers owned. But yeah, she would do decorative. Well, originally Susie and I did sign painting in this area. We did all the work for Road America. Really? We did Got Sucker Realty, one of the liquor stores in Chicago again. She painted AJ Ford's Amir and Dreadig's Race Cars. She used to do the race cars at Elkhart. Yeah. So we started out doing some sign painting just because it was a good way to make a living and truck lettering. And we used to do all that. And she still did a lot of it out in Colorado, too. Yeah. And then she got this idea about bunnies doing strange things. So and that was that was more aimed toward children just like your art is a lot of it is aimed toward children. But this one was called Angel Hair. It was called the hairline. All of the prints had hair in them. So there was rabbit hair dressing and hair. Oh, okay. And a receding hairline. With the bunnies back. So it was something. It was something. Okay. A little plan words. Yes. Yeah. Hair pulling. There was a grandma rabbit trying to pull her baby into the doctor's office. And what was interesting is she like the bed that's on that picture was a bed that we had when we were little. Oh, and she would put like one of the pictures has a table that our grandpa was a carpenter and he had made that table. And so that table was in her drawing. Some of the wallpapers that were in our houses. Wallpaper from our grandma Elsie's house when we were real little kids. And then she also did dogs. This is called librarian. Oh, that's adorable. It's made cute. So she's yeah, she had a shellty from a storm. It's a shellty with a rain umbrella. There was Betty Cocker, which was a Cocker spaniel mixing and cake. Yeah. Cookies. Yeah. This was retrieving a file. What an imagination. Oh, she was wild. She was. Oh, gosh. I think of all of us, she had the strangest imagination. Well, maybe maybe a more a little more to the comical. Oh, no, she was so funny. Yeah. There was no one funnier than Susie. So I'm sorry for your loss. And I'm in the art world. She's still here. She's still here. She's still here. She makes me laugh some days.  Was there much of a difference in your age group? No, it was me and then her and then about 13 months apart. Yeah. And 13 months apart. Okay. So you were all really close together in age. And didn't always get along so good. Didn't always get along so good. Mostly because of boys. Mostly because of boys. Yeah. Oh, girls don't even go. Yeah, I know.  And and do you have anything in, you know, in the future that you would like to embark on? Are you thinking anything of, I mean, any new paintings, anything that you I mean, we're almost out of time. But I guess what I want to know, Teresa, is there is there anything that you haven't painted yet that you long to paint? I just I see paintings all the time. So I don't think I have enough time to do all the paintings I want to do. I knew that answer was going to be that I knew it. Because that's the same way I am. You were just in Italy. You know, there's a whole new problem for you. How many paintings did you see there? Oh, I know. I'm just dying to go there. I can't believe we're out of time already. This has been such a wonderful, beautiful conversation with two very talented, beautiful women. And I appreciate you so much for being on the show today. Once again, Teresa Randall and Patty Strom. Thank you so much. Thank you. Once again, this is Kitty Lynn Klisch with Gallery Works. Don't miss the next show because it'll be another good one. Bye bye for now.


Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Hello, early birds. Thank you so much for getting up so early and running over to this very early morning session because we are having a great discussion on some of the key issues that the world is looking at closely today, which is called energy amid rivalry. This is an interesting topic, eye-catching certainly, when you have a rivalry thrown over there. But I've been talking to our web colleagues. They're trying to tell me that this is an interesting headline. Behind this is a thorough discussion about how the stakeholders in the issue of energy are going to work together both with their domestic agenda and also with our collective global goals. So I just want to explain the topic a little bit. Having said that, though, it is not just the traditional energy that we're looking at. We're certainly looking at the development of the new energy and all the discussions related to it. Meanwhile, when we are talking about energy, we're not talking about commodities alone. Economies alone. We're talking about real people, real innovations behind all of this. So let's get our conversation started. Ladies and gentlemen, my great honor as the moderator of this session to introduce our panelists. They are coming from different parts of the world and bringing in their opinions from different sectors of our economy and society. My great honor to introduce Capri Simpson, Commissioner for Energy from the European Commission based in Brussels. And now she's with us here. Good to see you. Good morning to you. Meanwhile, Mr. Shunichi Miyanaka, Good morning, Chairman of the Board with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. He's based in Japan. He's also coming from the Council of International Business with World Economic Forum. Good to see you, sir. Last but not least, we are joining here by Megan O'Sullivan, who is a well-known scholar in the field. She is a professor of the practice of international affairs and also director of geopolitics of energy project with Harvard University, originally based in the United States with us here as well. Meanwhile, on the road, he's going to be here very soon. We have a minister of petroleum natural gas and minister of housing and urban affairs from India. And Mr. Minister is going to join us very soon. Let me start by asking about the latest going on on the European continent. We understand the new policies are turning out, as we speak, regarding the future of energy, especially new energy. And yet, how is that working together with our global goals, for example, reflected in the results of COP28, Madam Commissioner? Thank you, and once again, good morning. It's a pleasure to be with you here. And indeed, in Europe, we have finalized all the legislative pieces that will set our targets for 2030. So we know what needs to be done to achieve a significant share in our overall energy mix to be covered by renewables. We aim for 42.5%. And doing so, we will prioritize also all the technologies that help us to save the energy. Because lesson learned from past two years is that despite the fact that European consumers could replace lost Russian fossil fuels by alternative suppliers, we don't want to do that, because that would create unwanted consequences across the globe. And we prioritize savings. We did so in 2022. We saved 18% of gas, usually consumed by our consumers in average. Now, we are at the final stage to set our targets for 2040. And that means that we will, of course, prioritize renewables, but we will also need all the other low carbon technologies that will help us to cut CO2 emissions. And that means that after two weeks, when we present our 2040 targets, very ambitious targets, we will also company this with our communication on carbon removals, industrial carbon removals. And we will also launch industrial SMR alliance. All these technologies are necessary in the decade beyond 2030. Well, we're looking at the policy lines. Regarding policy lines, North America, United States, for example, Professor, where you are based, also have been turning out new policies. The IRA, for example, is one of those. So how do you see that as working with the domestic agenda while at the same time serving in any way with the global goals we're seeing? How about its implementation so far? Sure. Thank you.  Good to see you. I actually think you mentioned the IRA, the Inflation Reduction Act, which is the largest piece of climate legislation that the United States has ever undertaken. And it's really, I would say, a great example of how domestic priorities are coming together with actually the rivalry that's in the title of this session to produce a piece of legislation that is aimed to advance America's climate agenda. And what I mean by that, you have the domestic piece. A big portion of the IRA is actually about domestic competitiveness and about the United States really wanting to bring more manufacturing back to the United States to provide more jobs, a real domestic agenda. But it's combined with the realization that China has become a real leader in energy transition. And that's going to have a lot of advantages, economic and geopolitical to China. And the US and its policymakers and lawmakers really wanting to be competitive with China, those two objectives come together in this legislation that will do the most of any other piece of legislation, as I said, to advance America's objective to get to net zero. So it's a good example of how rivalry doesn't necessarily have to detract from the path to net zero but can actually spur us further along. What about its implementation? Details are in the implementation, so to say. No, no. I would go with that question to Madam Commissioner as well. Sure. Well, I mean, as you're intimating, the implementation is really the hard part, putting the strategy in place is generally the easy part. And I would say that on the one hand, initial buy-in to the legislation and investments made in the renewable energy space, which the legislation was intended to spur, have been even greater than anticipated. And so, initially, the thought was that the IRA, because it doesn't cap the subsidies, initially it was thought maybe it'll be $300,000,000,000,000,000. But now it looks like it'll be more over a trillion dollars because there's such an uptake in the desire for those subsidies. On the other hand, implementation is really hard. And these are huge sums of money we're talking about. And there are debates and still specifications coming out about how this money can be used, what it's subject to, what the made-in-America components are to this legislation. So there's internal debates within the US about it, particularly around things like hydrogen. And then, of course, there's a secondary reaction to our partners and allies around the world who are actually less excited about this. From their perspective, they see it more as protectionism than they see it as a climate move ahead. That's certainly one of the questions we need to handle. That is, what about the double-sword interpretations of all these policies being put out? Let's go to the industry side. Business leaders sitting here. We have 800 of them this time at the World Economic Forum. Now, tell me more, sir, about how business leaders are articulating both the grand plans. These two wonderful ladies have just illustrated from their parts of the world. And what does it really mean for businesses? Yes. Thank you very much. I'm very much impressed. And I've heard the European approach and how to overcome that kind of climate change issues. And the United States approach. I was very much impressed by the IRAs challenge. Because one, the European challenge is mainly consists of the renewable and hydrogen and other kind of pure green technologies. And then the American approach is also promoting and advocating a lot the hydrogen and the new technologies. And those are the very big incentives. But at the same time, from the perspective of the business side, especially our company, especially in the series, is a technology company. And our core businesses, the energy, has been, I think, over five decades and so on. The energy has been the core business. And we have promoted and will enhance the multiple pathways toward carbon neutrality. Because we have been working very hard in Europe to provide with some hydrogen-related technologies. And in the United States, we have been working very hard to supply the studies and physical studies and commercialization of the carbon capture and utilization and storage system. At the same time, we are exploring the hydrogen business opportunities. But we do need to think about the other countries, the remaining part of the world. And there are a lot of companies and regions that need a little traditional technologies, utilizing their existing infrastructure, energy infrastructure. So of course, mainly due to their developing stage, economical situations and so on, they cannot afford the new technologies at once. And so we need to, yes, provide them with the less carbon dioxide emission technologies, like the converting from coal firing to natural gas firing technologies. And then the natural gas with the carbon capture systems and so on. By doing so, we can optimize all over the world the movement toward the carbon neutrality. And it is very important for us. Mr. Miyanaga raised a very important point about the diversity of the stages of development of all economies that we're facing today. So Madam Commissioner, naturally, I would not go to you about that. Well, the European continent is looking quote unquote inside, but actually, of course, with the Global Vision. How are you trying to facilitate or articulate what this gentleman have just suggested? How are the Europeans likely to work with these realities of the world while not using the policies as a trade protection tool? First of all, the European Union has never aimed to close our borders. We do know that right now, we are very dependent on imported fossil fuels. And even if we achieve our climate neutrality, we still need some additional green hydrogen that we will not be able to produce ourselves from our trading partners. That means that in the recent years, when I was traveling around to find alternative LNG supplies, we always offered our partners also future-proof partnerships. That means partnerships on hydrogen, but also on critical raw materials. And we have signed many memorandums of understandings across the globe, also for raw materials, because we do know that if we finished these very dangerous dependence on Russian fossil fuels, we don't want to end up being dependent on one single supplier. So we call it T-risking, creating many first-worthy partnerships. And on critical raw materials, we have signed these, for example, with Canada and Kazakhstan, with Chile, and many several African countries. Now, European Union is also very diverse. We have 27 member states, very different geographical locations. For example, in northern part, we have lots of potential for offshore wind, because we have shallow coasts of waters. In southern part, we have to promote more floating wind. And then we have our neighbors. Many of those are still very dependent on coal. We try to promote renewables by offering them also trade prospects. So we are not only supporting the interconnections between European member states, but we have decided also that we will support subsea cables that will connect us with northern Africa, or through the Black Sea, with Georgia and Azerbaijan. So and we have even closer partnership with Ukraine, of course, and with Western Balkan countries. So the single market that we do have is a very attractive market. And by connecting our closest neighbors with us, we are also promoting renewables in these regions. What about in the US? Of course, Professor, don't let me limit you to a US perspective, because I know you are the expert in the field. But about that question, we know this is a very interesting year, 2024. In November, we're going to see something happening in the country. So how do you see the vulnerability of all the current plans? What does that mean for all the other stakeholders to plan in advance and look at all the possibilities? Sure. Well, it's actually an interesting year for the world in that respect. About half of the world's population will be going to elections this year. So it's not just the United States, although you could make the argument that that is perhaps one of the most consequential elections that we'll see. And I think there are considerable concerns about whether or not a different administration, a Republican administration, per se, would be as supportive of the IRA-type legislation that we've seen in place thus far. And I think the hope and expectation of many advocates of this legislation and this approach is that they are providing such broad-based benefits to the US population that they're building constituencies that are not partisan in nature. So if you look at a map and you see how these different policies are expected to benefit different states and different communities, there's actually a disproportionate benefit expected to red states or Republican states. And so the idea is this, hopefully over time, will be over even in the course of this year, it will be a little less politicized. So I think time will tell, but certainly we're moving in the direction where more and more of the population will benefit from some of these programs. And at the same time, it's more and more evident to the US population that climate change or a change in the weather is certainly something that affects us all in particular direct ways with the very large price tags for reconstruction of storms and other critical weather events that have happened just in the last year. Could I just say one thing building on your question to the commissioner earlier about helping the developing world? Because I think it's very, as an American, I'm acutely aware, 88% of the emissions that are going to happen in the future are happening outside the United States. So it's absolutely critical to the world if we are to make this energy transition, and if we're to do it on the timeframe that we anticipate or not anticipate, we hope for, that the developing world needs to be brought in and needs to be assisted in making this transition at the same time. And so like many in this room, I was at COP 28 this year in a big focus on climate finance. And I think the focus has shifted to trying to augment the huge flows of finance that are needed to get to the developing world. But we also have to think about how that finance is delivered and what that finance is for. If you speak to leaders in the global south, and we hope will be joined by the minister very shortly, sometimes there's the perception that Western entities want to lend money so that the developing countries can buy goods from Western countries. Well, that's not actually achieving what is needed. What is needed is climate finance to build competitiveness in the global south so that they can be part of the supply chain for a clean energy industry. And that is the kind of the goal, the vision that we should all have in order to make this a more equitable transition and therefore one that can actually happen ideally on the timeframe that the climate requires. Yes, just as everybody is very well aware, as the debates in COP 28 and earlier, a lot of the questions are really surrounding about the traditional emitters, the storage of emissions already piled up over the history by the developed economies and also the growth of the developing countries. But of course, we're not dividing the world into two. But rather, how can we work as one? I think that is what people have realized after several years of great debate, hopefully. But go to you on that, because we see even developing economies, the business partner you're working with are very diversified. For example, some of them are raw materials providers for the new, so-called new energy. New energy. And for example, some in Africa, some in Latin America, as I mean Asia as well. Of course, also North America and Europe, but minority. Secondly, you also see India and China. The minister will be with us, hopefully soon. China, I'm originally coming from that country. You see tremendous development of a new energy. By the way, it has already become the biggest exporter of cars and vehicles and one of the biggest exporters of new energy as well. Solar panel, everything that this goes on. So very diversified, even looking at the so-called global south. How do you see when you are doing business with them, when you are lining up your global agenda, how will these factors work into your articulation of the policies and implementations? From, yes. I think there are a variety of the wide range of the perspectives, even in the business, private and business sectors. Like the financial institute or the trading companies or the raw material investment investors. Those are, those will be are, yes, influenced by the political changes and some rivalries and so on. They should be very careful and how to handle it, some investment. But I think the technology side, technological solution provider, yes, they need to, yes, continue their effort to advance their technologies and improve the more, yes, innovations or the encouraged innovations and others. And such kind of activities and will, yes, provide the developing countries and late coming regions with the early advantage, like a kind of the skipping effect because they can skip some technologies. They can just use the new technologies. But I think they are, but still it is very, yes, helpful for them to use and improve the existing facilities. At the same time, the jumping effect, the speaking, the new technology adoptions. And then we would like to be the provider of wide range of both technologies, most advanced one and the new technologies and the conventional, yes, is a kind of the, yes, the auxiliary technologies, but still very important and effective. And then the, I think the two, yes, encourage that kind of activities. We should be very, yes, close, well connected with the financial institutions and others to this part should be kept as a long-term investment. And then the regardless the political changes and others. Of course, the other part of we need, we understand the investors and others can, yes, and we can be, yes, influenced or it could be influenced very much. Then the, depending on such kind of issues, but still the fundamental and basic layers of the technology side should be, yes, and the private sector of that kind of engaged in such business. The, we should be very consistent and make our best efforts to continue the innovations. Consistency and long-term vision. Long-term vision. That's what you are saying, an implementation, of course. And I'm so glad, ladies and gentlemen, we are now joined by the minister from India, Mr. Hardip Singh Puri. Minister is the minister of petroleum and natural gas and also minister of housing and urban affairs from his country. Thank you so much, sir. Fighting all the morning traffic to get here. We really appreciate that. Earlier, we are all expecting your perspective, coming from an emerging economy, a fast growing economy. Your understanding of the topic today, please. No, let me start by saying that the changes that are taking place in the world, we are facing multiple crises. And for a country like India, which now has, I think the largest population in the world, it requires a transition to sustainability without in any way, jeopardizing or undermining the need to deliver basic welfare to a large and growing population. Now, let me set the context, do some context setting on where we are just now. We are close to a $4 trillion economy, but with a lot of developmental challenges. That involves, and you referred to it as a fast growing. I've also heard the word fastest growing. Well, we are currently, I think the last three quarters, our rate of growth was upwards of 7.2, 7.3%. If you look at the two portfolios that I have the privilege of dealing with, let me start with the petroleum and natural gas. If you look at the global scenario today, India's consumption is growing at three times the global average. In the next 20 years or so, India will account for 25% of the energy demand of the world globally, one country. If you look at the housing and urban affairs ministry that I'm also associated with, we are, and I'm not citing a figure which I have come up with, it's a Mackenzie study of a few years ago. India is currently in the position of building between 700 and 900 million square meters of urban space every year, which is the equivalent of a Chicago. Now, given these broad pointers, today I think what happens in India is also important for the rest of the world. I mean, I was at Davos, I think that was two years ago, when the Russia-Ukrain military factor was very much in everybody's mind. I said then and I say that now that all these new challenges that we have to face, we have to face them pragmatically. And I say this not to provoke anyone, but to just mention, if India had chosen at that point of time not to be pragmatic, we would have had a situation where oil would have gone beyond $200. Why? Because in India we cannot stop, we import 85% of our crude and we have to deal with issues of availability, affordability and sustainability. If India had allowed itself to be put into a situation where we were to draw on the same resources, but other parts of the world did not take the kind of position we took, we are acutely conscious of that. And as a result of which, if you look at the LNG market, I mean you can quantify what the cost has been to them. But today for us in India, I think it's paramount that we achieve all this, which I mean availability, there's never been any difficulty on that. Affordability, yes, I think, we have one of the few countries, Miyanage-san would perhaps know that. I think Japan is another country where oil prices in the last two years at the bank have actually declined. In India, the cost of petrol over the two years, why? Because we've had to forego central government revenue because at the same time, whilst we were feeding 800 million people three meals of dry ration in a day, something which we are continuing for five years. So I would say that in these new challenges which arise and how we face them, there is a very strong listing, but there is also a global commitment. We have not allowed our domestic preoccupations to in any way undermine or dilute our commitment to sustainability. That's brought out in biofuels. We are making rapid progress in what we are doing for green hydrogen, et cetera. Okay. I see a key word that you just mentioned, Mr. Minister, which is pragmatism. How is that articulated and also interpreted, Madam Commissioner, from your side? Well, I just want to comment on that. India held last year the President's of G20 and it was a very strongly, well, so that India presented this pragmatic approach from European Union point of view. We did our utmost to avoid implications that will put the rest of the world in very bad position, despite the fact that gas crisis was artificially created by Russia. This was not a result of sanctions, but it was unilateral decision made by Russia to cut gas supplies to European companies, despite the fact that they had long-term contracts. And as a result, yes, European companies had to find some alternatives and LNG was a solid alternative, but we knew that we cannot cover all the lost volumes from Russia with LNG because otherwise it would have created huge deficit. And that's why we promoted fuel switch where it was possible we replaced gas, these renewables, and just listening now that the demand in India will be grow so fast that cheaper alternatives to cover this demand are always homegrown renewables, just not to be so dependent on imports. That what we did two years ago was first year in Europe when we produced more electricity from wind and solar than from gas. And last year 2023 was even better. We do have very ambitious plans for our offshore wind. That means that we have to promote all the actions to expand our creeds. And I think that this is one sector where we can share our knowledge, how to interconnect different markets and how to use the existing creeds in maximum. And this is something that we are doing also. We do have these special partnerships. We call them just energy transition partnerships where we help members of countries across the globe who are very dependent on coal right now to opt for cleaner alternatives. So we are very pragmatic. We do understand that even if Europe is climate neutral, this is not enough. We need to find partners and we are willing to share our knowledge and our technology. As we all know, Professor, it is not just about, it is really not about political correctness, but really it is about making all the economies beneficial, benefiting from the latest discussion that we are having. But here comes an interesting issue. Role material is an important one. Our business leaders just mentioned. For example, let's just say a country in Africa on its way to prosperity, but facing many challenges. But there are also a lot of developing economies in Africa that are doing very well. But what I'm just saying is an abstract example, not to mention anybody's name. It has the best role materials for some of the renewable energies that we need in the world. We see this tremendous competition looking for these role materials. But at the same time, people are also concerned whether the old story will be repeated again, that the role materials will be out of that country for exports at a price, sounds reasonable, but still that country will continue to be poor, which we saw decades already happening. So are we really doing things to make sure those stories are not repeated? If you look at our audience today, they're coming from everywhere. Maybe they have their own stories to tell, later in our Q&A session. But this is one of those things in people's mind. We really need to address this. Professor, your thoughts on this. Sure. I think you're addressing a number of things in the abstract example. In adding to those three. Which could be conceived as you're talking about, the Congo and cobalt, or there are places that really are very dominant right now in the clean energy supply chain. And I would say there's a couple of concerns here. One is on the side of the countries looking to secure those materials in terms of what is required there. And the commissioner mentioned that it's just sensible, pragmatic, strategic, not to be overly reliant on one player in the market. Not just for the production of these raw materials, but for the processing as well. And that's where the supply chain actually gets very, very constricted, is because so many of these minerals are actually processed in China. So they may be produced around the world, but they're processed in one country. And that creates bottlenecks, potentially geopolitically or for natural disasters or for any types of reasons. So I think on the one hand, from the perspective of the consumer, there's the need to diversify the suppliers. From the perspective of the producer, the Congo or another country that may have this, there is, I would say, an imperative to see that this race to secure these raw materials leads to broader-based development and doesn't recreate what has been known as the resource curse in a lot of other countries that have been able to develop and export oil that has come with a certain number of development challenges. And here, I'd say we still have a long way to go to make sure that the investments going into these raw material productions are ones which can be broad-based. And I think there's a role to develop international standards here so that you can have agreements among countries and there are efforts in progress where there can be an agreement if you uphold these standards in terms of labor and other factors, then you'll have access to concessional financing. Pragmatism is also what I heard from Mr. Minister. Of course, what you have said is a beautiful picture. And yet, sometimes we know beautiful pictures might not function at any time. So do we wait for the beautiful picture to be drawn up before we act? Or we will go with the imperfect picture, but work on issues to avoid repeating of the old story, Mr. Minister. Madam moderator, I think what the professor said initially is that you combine the large number of issues and you compress them into the question that you put to her. If you are talking about access to raw materials, well, the materials you're dealing with today are strategic minerals or whatever. That may have a slightly different thing, but this whole process of accessing raw materials has been going on for centuries. And as a student of history, I mean, you can look at it. What is different now? There are fundamental differences. I think what we have to take into account is today, and I speak from my Indian experience, there are literally millions of people in different parts of the world who require access to clean energy. I'll give you one of our schemes, which is the Ujwala scheme, which involves providing liquefied petroleum gas, LPG, to economically weaker sections of our population. And we've already handed out about 110 million of those connections. And that the gas that is supplied there for cooking purposes, otherwise they are using firewood, coal, and all this. So if you have to wean them away and we subsidize it marginally to the, at the point of, it's a consumer's subsidy. And we have also taken electricity to every household, clean drinking water to every household. I think there are large parts of the world. Now, if you're talking about extractive industries and parts of large continents where they are rich in terms of minerals, yes, I think we have to ensure that the benefits of that also go down to their population. The professor was mentioning standards. I mean, those have been discussed. I've been a diplomat professional 39 years. So we've discussed labor standards. We've discussed other issues. Clearly that didn't go far enough. It didn't go far enough. And so many attempts have been made because people mouth those platitudes if I may, but we don't act. Now, what do we need to do? I think fundamentally to bring people, and if you're talking about Africa, I don't have no intention of Africa, large parts of Latin America and other parts of the world. We need to take those benefits of development to those people. Well said, Mr. Miyanaka. Yes. I think for raw material, it is very crucial. And I think it will take to complete the full process of new development of the raw materials from extractions and refining and smelting and selection and smelting and product manufacturing. And then all such investment will be very big. It will be very big and it takes very long. And investment recovery, yes. And also the most advanced technology should be applied to I think the new investment. And then I think there will be a lot of, but at the same time, we do hope such kind of technology will be supported by the new energies and green energies and less carbon dioxide emission technologies and so on. And then such kind of overall investment will be secured through some international scheme. That will be very important because I think without that kind of security, we cannot devote ourselves to such kind of improvement on development and supply the equipment. And I think probably in the pretty new future, I do hope personally and as a management of business, private sector, there will be such kind of another scheme, international scheme to secure that kind of the raw material development in the other countries and hopefully in developing and emerging countries. It will help their growth. Thank you very much. I think we have very limited for questions time, but I do want to invite the expertise coming from the audience. Maybe we quickly have two questions at no time. Oh, OK. Sorry, everyone. Well, thank you so much, all the panelists for your wonderful input coming from different perspectives. I'm sure discussion like this will continue. And it's very important that we are all involved in such discussions. Appreciate it. Have a great day. Thank you. Thank you.


It was the end of a storied career as Cece Sabathia threw his last pitch and walked off the mound at Yankee Stadium in game four of the ALCS. A few months have now passed and Cece is recovering from surgery. Recently he and his wife Amber reflected on the emotional ending to his career and they talked about what they are looking forward to as a family. Good chance this is his final appearance at Yankee Stadium whose announces retirement. I was thinking about maybe coming back you know what I'm saying like maybe trying to pitch out of the bullpen or something but like just to have that clear-cut sign like Nas is over like you know my arm went till it couldn't go anymore. They're gonna want to go check on possibly his knee or possibly something that didn't feel right. Maybe it's his shoulder. I knew it was over right and it was just for the like to hear that the fans the way they were applauding and like to give that appreciation it just felt good. It's too bad. Now just heartbreak and fixtures as Cece Sabathia walks off the mound and off the field in pain. Serious respect coming from the other side. But something just told me like that was it and when I saw his arm and I was like that's his shoulder he's done. You can tell the crowd was trying to give him one more adrenaline rush of a cheer to possibly that warm up pitch get through but he just couldn't do it. I was really crying because I knew it was over and I could hear the applause. I was one of the only times in 11 years I pitched to Yankee stadium that I could hear the fans and just so happened to be one of the last times I walked off. I hate to see this be the way he walks off with a diamond for the final time here. Yeah it was super emotional even I did an interview the other day MLB Network and I saw myself walking off and kind of got emotional again. I think when I got hurt it kind of like finalized it for me. We all knew it was like not only was like you know a higher power was telling us it's over but it was a good way to just end and close a chapter on his season on his career and then go on to the next thing. I'm at peace I'm good with it I'm ready to see what comes next like I'm ready to travel in the summertime and not be constricted to like three months in the winter you know so I'm excited to see what comes next for our family. It was a roller coaster ride but the best ride I've ever been on and I thank him for allowing us and the kids to be on that ride with him through his whole career ups and downs but it all made for what that legacy season was so worth it it was great. Strikeout number 3000 for C.C. Sebastian. Every milestone that he hit was so much emotion behind it the kids were able to be there every game and it was a great year a great season and a great way to end it.


certain things that have been put into place in western democracy in the United States where you protect citizens of a nation from rule of the majority, right? So for example rule the majority is this, let's assume 51% in a country vote for a certain party and 49% vote for the other party. Well true democracy, the 51% get to rule, right? There's laws in place in Canada, the United States that says, you know what, you can't just have 51% of a nation deciding everything for the 14, for the 100% of the population. It doesn't work by the way, that's the idea, right? Population, because they could come out the 51% could say, oh yeah, that 49% is an enemy to our country, we have to kill them all. That's the majority, the majority votes. I think George Carlin explained it best, I think it was George Carlin saying that democracies like this it's like 10 people being in a room and nine people vote to sodomize you and one person votes not to sodomize you, you being the one voting for people not to sodomize you, 90% voted to sodomize you, so they take care of business, majority voted for democracy, right? You have to have protections to protect people, the minority from the majority, right? That's a no-brainer, okay?


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