God's beauty is all around us and my goal as an artist is to capture and interpret that beauty on canvas and to take you the viewer along with me on this painting journey. Hello and welcome to Painting Journeys. My name is Kitty Lindquist and we're going to take another journey today. It's going to be to Bayfield, Wisconsin, but I'll tell you about that in a little bit. You're watching Painting Journeys and as you know this in this program I journey across the canvas and take you to different destinations. Well in our last episode I had taken you to see Old Faithful. Okay and here is the completed painting of Old Faithful. It was completed almost entirely on the show. When I took it to my home studio the only thing I had to adjust a little bit was the width of how of the steam coming out of the geyser at the time. But really it's very much very similar. A little has been done to it. I was able to call that finished when I took it with me, of which was a really good thing. Now I hope you like it. Today we're going to go to the northwestern edge of Wisconsin to Bayfield, Wisconsin. It's right on Lake Superior. In Bayfield in the fall they have their annual Apple Festival and it's really something. I mean there's orchards all over and thousands of people come but I was fortunate enough to be there last fall just before all of the other people got there for the festival. I was there just before the festival and we had some adventures but I'm going to tell you about those later. I want to tell you about this restaurant right now. This is a restaurant that I'm going to be painting and of course it's fall in Wisconsin. The colors especially in northern Wisconsin they start turning very early in sometimes in the middle of September and so this was oh I don't know it must have been maybe first week of October or something but the colors were already just gorgeous and my husband and I we were there together on a little mini vacation and he took me to this restaurant and it's one of the oldest restaurants that has been a restaurant in existence for since the 1940s I think or 30s maybe and you go inside and there's all these photographs of these different movie stars Humphrey Bogart and and Lauren McCall and Dean Martin and they're all signed photographs and you can tell they're really old because they're starting to turn yellow and wrinkle and everything it's really something it's it's the restaurant is quite entertaining and just just to be there and and look at all the memorabilia so this is what we're going to be painting today we're going to take you to Bayfield so I better just get busy right now and start blocking this in I think I'll first of all I'll get my the restaurant established and it's a those shadows were very strong that day so I'm seeing the restaurant is being right about in here and coming over to right about here now I'm not using the color that that it is because that's not important I just want to get something blocked in here for you so that you can see what I'm doing okay all righty and then we'll block in a couple of windows there today you have the fun of seeing me struggle from the start the absolute start of it I don't have any drawing on here and so this is when it's can be a little you know it's a little if and touching go situation like I always tell you 50% chance of a mess or a masterpiece let me see we've got a nice big window right about here and another one is over here but we can hardly see it not the same and then right underneath here is that was the entrance way it was a little bit wider and underneath here is another window and right here same on the other side it looks tiny but it was actually rather a rather large place and I see now that this actually comes over here and comes down and it's there it's really that big so we'll just have to take some paper towel and see if we can scrub some of this out this first line doesn't really matter because when we put paint on it we're going to get rid of it anyway so that's okay now then we have this gorgeous red tree right here in the center so I just want to I'm just going to block in the the the trunk of the tree because it's coming right up alongside where the house is and I don't want this to be in the center of the canvas because that wouldn't be very good composition I'm going to tell you more about my my journey and our adventures there a little later on right now I'm trying to concentrate really hard on getting this my placement proper on my canvas my drawing so there's branches that come across nope not that far low okay they're up here more alright see so I don't have very much paint this is almost like a scumbling technique I'm kind of scumbling in the painting now we have more trees over in here and we have a couple of trees here that are kind of interesting we have this is coming around here and then it comes around this tree here and it comes back this way and so see you see I'm right now I'm looking for the shapes the basic shapes of big shapes and then I want to put in the little shapes later find the shapes within the shape so right now we have this double tree right about here and it's back there and then there's another one coming up right about in here and that's going like that and coming on up and there now before I go too far with this I'm going to have to put the sky in what's behind there actually over here there's a street and there's more houses I don't really want to put well I don't think I want to put those in there's that gorgeous tree back there right here this one here I'm talking about see that yeah I want to put that in there so maybe I will have that one little cottage sitting in front of it there these little cottages were so cute you know it's I envy people that have these little cottages up north and they can just go to little special places like this and stay and and maybe just maybe just come for the for the apple harvest and make a little money and take the rest of the year off wouldn't that be lovely okay and I think there's another house over here that we would just might suggest there we go okay now I'm not going to put the cars in I do not like to see cars in paintings I I don't know I don't put in telephone poles or telephone wires either I just I don't like that I like things to look like like they're there without the the cars and things that show that people are all over I don't know I hope you understand what I'm trying to say okay all right there's a big long dark shadow right here let's just go ahead and block that in so that we have that shape and we don't lose it and there's a big long dark shadow over here like I said I'm not having much paint on your on your brush this is called scumbling it's just trying to get something laid down some sort of a pattern so that you have a little idea of where you're going what you're doing and then okay now I'm going to come back behind I see all of this is tree right in here so I only need to worry about sky in this little area here and sky in here and then sky all in here and then the trees are going to go on top so now we'll mix up some sky paint and the painting is the the dominant color of this painting is red and the complement of the red would be the greens that we see and that's why it's really a very perfect subject matter because so much of this is already in the photograph it's already figured out for you you know and how the the red restaurant the Sun where it's hitting on the restaurant right here it just glows so this area right in here is where my focal area is going to be because that's where the lightest light is meeting the darkest dark we'll add little more drama in some of the other places but this is this is a very exciting area to me as well as the tree of course now I'm gonna I'm not gonna make the sky a blue blue sky I'm going to make it a little have it be a little more greenish blue I think that that would be because of our dominant hue being red and our complement being green I think a bluish green sky would be appropriate you know just because the sky looks blue in the in the photograph that does not mean that that's what we have to do as the artist we have the license to put in what we want how we want it to be okay I think I'm coming up with something I I like here I'm just using my regular wooden palette with my limited palette colors my reds my warm colors my white and my cool colors keeping it simple that's the most enjoyable way keep it simple okay now let's see I think I think that needs a little more white in it right in here I'm sorry that it takes so long to mix the colors but I don't want to have them pre-mixed because as an a la prima painter meaning that I paint all at once wet into wet I I don't like to have my colors all mixed up beforehand I like to just be able to mix them as I see them because I'm constantly making decisions right on the spot and I may I may change my mind and so I'm gonna have this blue in here now I think that's too dark I'm gonna lighten it I want this to be really really light down here as we all know at the horizon level the sky is lighter and so that's what we're gonna do here we're gonna make this a little little bit lighter there we go and then that's gonna come up in there and it's gonna keep getting going up and I'm good I see a little bit in here and I'm just gonna kind of poke it in where I see it here in a few places that doesn't mean that it's going to that's a little bluer now okay now we're gonna just scumble this sky in and if I have to wipe out I'll just wipe out where I want the tree to go on top okay and you see how that's getting a little bluer little darker as we go to the top of the canvas dark over in here now this way this shows us a a sky that is variegated and it's light towards the bottom and darker towards the top and that's the way it should be that while we were up there the weather was just gorgeous absolutely gorgeous and we would walk each day for miles it's a beautiful beautiful little town I I think maybe I'm not sure you could look it up on the internet but I'm sure there probably are more than about 1500 permanent residents there but it's very very nice little town and they this is where you go if you want to go to see the Apostle Islands I'm happy with my sky yeah I'm happy with that and I'm gonna have to wipe out now where I want some of these red trees to be here so that's gonna I'm gonna be wiping out here because I want this red of this tree coming down through here not everywhere just a little bit in through here and coming out over here and there's some wipe out here and then we have this right in here that's still kind of light this red tree is coming is coming in here and then it's coming up there and this is coming down just a little bit okay and there's a little bit here okay now I think I'm gonna get the dark greens in anyway as I was telling you you can rent this tour boat and it takes you out into Lake Superior and it takes you all around the Apostle Islands and the islands I mean it's a day-long tour and believe me the water is cold and the wind is cold you know but you're really quite comfortable if you want to stay inside the boat in this tour going around the Apostle Islands it showed how there was caves that were that went back into the sides of the islands and I guess there are some hearty young people that actually kayak back around the islands and go back into those caves I don't I wouldn't be that brave myself but it some people do it and the caves are all different shapes and and they have the I think they're called stalactites and stalagmites these conical things coming down and some going up when you the boat took us over close by so we could see so that was really interesting massing in this dark where I want it here and I'm going to put a little dark on this side too kind of balance that out right in here okay now I think I'll go ahead and start on the little houses so that was that was really a lovely thing to do is take the the ferry or the tour boat in tour they had a book I was absolutely enchanted with a captain of the tour boat absolutely enchanted with it he was so handsome and they were calling these books about the Apostle Islands and so I bought one and I chased the captain down and I said would you please autograph my book and he would very graciously did but then I looked up and I saw the rest of the crew on the boat and they were all laughing so I don't know I guess I felt a little silly afterwards but that was okay I was what I wanted you know so that was okay to do that what the heck I didn't hurt anybody there is tunnels that we walked around and through beautiful tunnels and I remember one day we were walking on this one trail and these two boys came out from underneath this culvert and they kind of scared us we were on a very narrow bridge crossing it and these boys came up and I don't know we just kind of scared us you know we didn't know if they were gonna try to mug us or what but not it not don't misunderstand me not that it's that type of place it just it was just a scary thing you know the boys had obviously been down underneath the that big culvert or something you know either smoking or hopefully not worse and they came staggering up and so anyway that was a mini adventure okay we're gonna put this tree in here it's got a little bit of yellow in it very pretty tree coming through here a little bit too I think I'll use a little bit of this I think this is supposed to be coming out here kitty because this is over this cottage you better look again girl look a little more carefully here this tree is coming out here there's green on it I didn't wipe out enough okay this is coming up here there we go you know we're gonna have the the green on top of it we'll come back to that later let's get the house in the restaurant that's the dark side the green leaves are coming over the rest of it and this is going to be a little bit lighter here on this side and this is coming down like this you know I always want to when I go to a place like this I always dream about you know being able to take my easel and along and and paint I never do though because a person does have to have a vacation once in a while that's most important vacations are good for you everything about this restaurant was so old and I don't know we almost didn't go in there until somebody said the food is absolutely delightful so we went picking up some greens here there that's what I want and that part of it is dark it's a little darker hill we're in here and then we've got the sky up here and you know hard to see looks like there's a tree there we're in here yeah there is a tree coming up right in there so we'll go ahead and and put that on and better get a different brush here let's see I'll go for this one I think I'm going to make that really light bright red then I see first they had all sorts of things going on as far as hay rides and all these farms apple apple orchards you know and they'd have these barns and you could tour them and they'd have fresh apple pies that you could purchase or apple homemade apple butter you know and it was really a lot of fun as far as that was concerned at our bed and breakfast every morning they either the gentleman or his wife would fix this tremendous breakfast I mean food like I've never tasted before it was it was just so unusual and good good tasting you know you'd go out of there well I would should say you felt like you rolled out of there to go on about your day but the only thing that kind of bothered me was that the the host he really liked to talk and so it was kind of hard if you were on a schedule it was kind of hard to get away from him you know that's okay that's okay too there we go there's a little more dark inside of here and trying a different color today that I haven't used before a friend of mine told me to try it and so I'm trying it not completely sold yet but I'm trying it I think I better lighten up this edge a little bit so that that shows better but this is darker over here those are some good windows aren't they oh well you know we can fix those things as long as we have paint we can fix okay now up in here we have some really dark darks that the is underneath the the reds of the tree and notice how I don't like to change my brush too often you know when I was teaching I always used to tell my students you know have a different brush for each color but for myself I just find that that just slows me down I I don't I don't know I know it's not good to have all your paint all muddy together but oh well so where I do it okay now we've got some brighter stuff coming right in here you notice I'm kind of leaving this blank for that big red shape there let's see there's a little bit of a brighter green in coming down right in here underneath there oh I see okay there's tree trunks here so we'll make a little bit of a marble lavender ish purple put those tree trunks in and we'll come back over and fix it with some bright yellow okay I don't want to do too much finish in there I do see a little red right there all righty don't want to get too carried away with a spot putting a little bit of green underneath here and it's coming down and then when I come back over this and we'll really brighten that up and give it lots of oomph right now I think I'll do the windows a big window right there we should have a shadow coming under here we have some little dark in here in the windows now these windows over here they're pretty dark because they're in the shadow there we go now then this shadow to echo that so I'll take my bigger brush and do that and that's coming right from behind this tree here get a little more blue in it so anyway if you're ever in Wisconsin and you want to see a really beautiful beautiful place you'll want to go to Bayfield it's enchanting it's kind of on a built on a hill and well it's very hilly in that area and as you walk down I mean as you look down the main street then it just dead ends right into the Lake Superior Lake Superior is very cold as a rule I don't think too many people swim there we've got a little bit of light right in front here that I want to get in okay now I'm gonna take my wipeout tool and I want to suggest that white trim there I'll probably leave this for later this is coming down like this and it's kind of dark behind here and this is not here there is a bush or something there a little touch of white right in here that's important because that's where that highlight that's where our focal area is there more I play with it the messier I guess I would just have to clean it up what was I saying about not using many brushes I see I've got a lot of them going now I want that even brighter and hotter right there on that corner that's really important around that window that that is super super bright and hot now then we have the little awning and it's pretty white too maybe with a little blue in it you've ever been to some place where you just felt like oh gosh I wish I could live here that's how I felt when I was there I didn't want to come home of course I'm kind of like that wherever I go wherever I think I'm a gypsy I have a gypsy soul and wherever I go lay my head that can be home to me we're dragging in some of that red but that's okay it gives us a little shadow and then we'll put a little highlight of of the white on top to kind of perk it up there maybe a touch more who says we can't use thick paint I think I'd like to clean this up a little bit this is kind of bothering me all right maybe that is better okay let's see now this underneath here that door is dark right there and then there's the red again dark under there and red this is very very dark back here I'll put those little white poles here they're holding this sign I'll do that later I just want this to kind of have a chance to sit up a little bit before I some of these things on this painting because it's a rather busy painting and has a lot going on I may have to just wait and finish in my home studio and then show you the the finished results on our next program I do hope you watch try to watch the programs in order because when I finish when I work on a painting on one segment if you watch the next segment then you'll be able to see how that painting was completed if I had anything to do to it or not so it is kind of important if you have the opportunity depending upon how your station airs the program it is important for you to try to watch them in and you know one after another in the same way that I that I am taping them for you I'm very proud to say that I found out at my last episode that the show my show is being downloaded in about 45 states now well maybe not maybe 35 states about 35 states and it's nearing the 800 download so that means that there's 90 or more cities in these 35 or 40 states that are seeing the program and this makes me feel absolutely wonderful I love the fact that I'm able to come into your home and spend this time with you and share share my gift with you the gift of my painting you know it's it means everything to me that you are able to to watch this and and enjoy it I hope you enjoy it I hope you like to see the things come to pass how they how they materialize on the out of the end of my brush now you can see right in here we're gonna put just just you know some of these things I'm doing now because I want to show you what's gonna happen when I do something here I want to show you how an area is gonna sing when I when I bring it to life a little bit I can't bring it to life all over but I want you to be able to see in different areas what that is gonna look like okay oh I just got the 15 minute sign where is the time going today I'm a slowpoke I think today guess I better just start concentrating on getting this masked in here I don't care I'm gonna put a little bit of highlights on this back here so you can see what that would look like and then behind this tree we have a green tree so we're gonna mask that in and that's all green back in there this is a darker green here and a little brighter okay that little house there seems to be kind of a gray color and then front will make a little bit brighter and that's a little cooler on this that in this line a little door in there we'll just suggest it you see here I'll get a big brush and get some of the driveway in there so we can get more canvas covered see how we're doing here kind of a violet driveway there again in the red tones now you can see how I'm really kicking it I have to get busy here and get get something on this for you I can't leave you with with looking like this and just got the 10 minute sign I don't know where the time went today I really don't you know I enjoy I enjoy this so much I enjoy being with you being able to talk and share my experiences share my travels with you so much that I guess I should have talked less and painted faster but oh well here we go again with the big brush alright now let's see here I want to get my tree in there that's kind of important this tree right here and it's coming up and it's coming out and it's going that way okay and it needs more color that needs to be a little bit bigger okay and that's what all that red is going to be on alright now over here we have a couple of very dark trees so they're going to be this one is coming right down here and this one is in here and he's quite dark quite quite dark and we're going to make him just a little bit bigger because the thing you don't understand or a lot of people don't understand maybe you do but a lot of people don't understand is that when you paint from a photograph rather than life everything is smaller and because the photograph makes things go back and so it's smaller this over here I'm just going to make all in in the trees in the reds and dark reds all back in here I'm just going to let this just be all tree I don't I don't want a bunch of houses I don't want it to look like a street I'm just going to make it look like this and then I want to cover this shadow right here and that's coming right in there and across here and it's coming out in here let's say here we have lots of the golds in here too so we're going to have a little bit of gold coming out lighter yellow I keep watching that cameraman I know any minute he's going to say five minutes and then I'm going to think oh my goodness let's see here okay I think we need to bring the shadow up a little bit and there I see some red in the shadow yeah there's lots of red because the the leaves have fallen and so they're all over the ground down here too and the shadows coming down over here too alright in there this is actually much lighter back in here and let me see there's a dark on this little house tree that's right in front of this little house right here now I'm going to have to really do some serious work on this when I take this back to the studio with me but I do hope that you can see where I'm going with it and let me just quickly block in some reds down in here and over in here now this is this you know this isn't finished this is just trying to give you an idea of what we're going to have when we get it the way we want it whoo-hoo I just shouldn't use that yellow on oh well that's okay pick a little bit of that up put it someplace else back a what over here okay and then of course we have this area right in here that's coming up like this okay this is you know this is dual time it's between me and the clock at this moment I'm gonna have to put some branches on this but I think I did get the canvas covered at least that's good put some little red in here maybe some more greens right up in here okay we're down to four minutes four minutes and counting too yellow boom boom all right let's pop this out here a little bit get a little bit of yellow in there okay and we want a little bit of dark on the side of this tree couple branches coming oops little branches coming well I guess I can't do those right now I do one little bit of yellow right in there come on now be nice to me be nice to me okay well like I said at the beginning it's a fifty percent fifty fifty percent chance mess or a masterpiece and I guess it's all in the eye of the beholder right I think it's redeemable I truly do I think this is redeemable we are going to be able to fix this and the next time you watch the show it's going to be lovely it's going to be very nice because it was a beautiful setting and a beautiful time in Bayfield Wisconsin and I want you to be sure and catch me next time I think next time we're going to go in from fall into winter what do you think hey you've been watching Kitty Lindquist with painting journeys be sure and catch us next time and thank you so much for watching bye bye for now


I'm TFG and I own the Bull Armory TAC 4.25. I'm Ryder's Range and I've got the Cicado P. Nothing beats the Cicado P. Hey there friends, thanks for checking in. This is my Bull Armory SAS 2 TAC 4.25. I've only owned it for about two and a half weeks but I have fallen in love with it. Love the polymer grip, has a great feel to it, a gritty texturing, nice main spring housing and front strap, a flared magwell. It has an aluminum frame, four and a quarter inch barrel, full length guide rod, deep cut slide serrations. They all come optic ready. I have a Hollison 507C on there, taller sights which will allow a nice co-witness and lightening cuts in the slide. It has 18 round magazines which is very nice and a trigger that is sub two pounds. It's a beautiful trigger. I think it looks super cool with the cutouts in there but also that 1911 trigger is just amazing. You can take a look at it right there. Ambidextrous thumb safety comes with a great carry case, patch tools and so much in the case and an MSRP of $1,760. Yeah, I love it. It shoots great. It's been extremely reliable and it handles so well. The Staccato P, man, I bought this a couple of years ago and I love this gun, I love Staccato's in general. The P, this is actually an older generation. The new one's changed the texture a little bit but like so many of the 2011's, it's a hybrid grip module. It's got an aluminum frame with a polymer grip module and steel rails in it. A fairly aggressive pattern type texture. It's not really checkered or anything but it gives a good solid grip even with wet hands on it. Of course, typical grip safety, a polymer face trigger. This thing breaks at right around two pounds. It's a duty guy. If I was still working in uniform, I'd be carrying this. Really aggressive serrations front and back, easier to do a press check. Got just a one-slot rail on it which is kind of typical of the 1911 or 2011's. Ambidextrous safety. This does come as an optic ready version however you got to buy the optic plates from I think Dawson Precision sells them. The nice thing about the Staccato P is it's cut for the Lupo Delta Point Pro. So you don't have to have a plate. It's a direct mount on it and the Delta Point Pro actually comes with an optional rear sight. Fiber optic front sight, a very slight reverse crown or target crown of the barrel. Man, this gun drills everything. I love it. Oh, aluminum mag well too. For a duty gun, you can't beat it. Here is Ryder's Staccato P. I've shot this before, I've enjoyed it. It also handles very well. Extremely accurate shooting handgun. 17 round mags. Am I gonna love it more than the bull? I don't know, but let's take a few shots. I'll admit that I like bullarmory product. I never tried the double stack. I never had a reason to. I like my Staccato.  Let's just see how it'll work here on the plates. Am I gonna convert to my Staccato P? I don't know, he's gotta convince me. Here we have the Staccato P on the right, the Tac 4.25 on the left. The Staccato has an NSRP right around $2,500. So it's much more expensive than the Bullarmory Tac 4.25 here. We're looking at $1,730. So we're looking at over $700 more for the Staccato. Is it worth it? Let's take a look at these. Now, this has a 4.25 inch barrel. You'll notice some rain, we're outside here. And then this has a 4.4 inch barrel. The barrel length is essentially the same. As we mentioned, the grip is a little thicker with the Staccato P. I feel just to be a hair thinner there. The texturing's a little bit different, but Ryder told me that Staccato's now making a more gritty texture, such as the Tac 4.25. And here we're looking at the back, not a lot to say there. No, this is a loophole site, rear site here. But both are serrated black. This has a fiber optic front site. This is a black site that is serrated. Both have an extra safeties. I think the slide serrations are a bit deeper cut with the Tac 4.25 compared to the Staccato P. Both have bull barrels. So I left the action open. We'll take a look at this. A little bit of a reverse crown on the right with the Staccato P. And not so much with the Tac 4.25. The plate that needs to be ordered that Ryder talked about is an additional cost above and beyond that 2,500 as where Bull has this plate already installed for an RMR footprint. That's why I have the Hollison 507C on there. So it was so easy just to mount that for the original cost of the pistol. The triggers, both are great, both sub two pounds, but here we have that trigger with the Bull is so nice with the reset right there. I like the way it's cut there. And then the Staccato is nice too. But I don't know, I think I like the Bull just a little bit better. Maybe I'm biased here, but I think I like the Bull a little bit better. That's nice though. I have to say that's nice. See on the 1911, 2011, both very nice triggers. The Staccato has a 17 round mag Bull is able to keep the same size mag and use a 18 round mag. So that is certainly a benefit in favor of the Bull TAC four and a quarter. If I'm a guy mentioned all the specs on it, but you know, I've been a Staccato guy going from well way back when the C first came out. I've got three Staccatos, I really do like them. The fact that this has the Dawson tool list guide rod makes it real easy to take down the gun. One complaint I have about those much as I love Staccatos is the optics. It doesn't come with any optics plates at all. The, it's $50 to get the kit to mount the Lupo Delta Point Pro directly to the gun. It's about $160 to get any other plate that you want that's optics specific. Not real fan of that. But on the other hand, I still like my Staccato. I think I mentioned that this has a single rail on it, whereas the Bull has a pick rail. A couple of other things that again, firearm guy mentioned some of the specifics. The SAS-2 is a little bit lighter. This is a steel frame Staccato P. Now they do make this also an aluminum frame, which gets it down closer to the same weight. But big turn off on that is going to be the price. Wow, it's really hard to beat this. Now if I'd never bought a Staccato, would I be looking at the Bull? I have to say with my experience with Bull 1911s.  Well, that's not true. The Bull is actually quite full of features and I like it. Both have very light recoil springs. The Bull is a 11 pound recoil spring and it feels like the Staccato P is the same. The Bull has cutouts in the slide and the philosophy there is to take that weight off of the slide, which would account for the addition of the optic. And so that makes it really nice. You don't have to change it out. The Staccato does not have a cutout or anything, but it does have an extended magazine release and we'll see the same thing with the Bull. Both very nice. The fit and finish on both of these is first class. There's no doubt about that. Both shoot incredibly well. Both very nice handguns. The advantage with the TAC-4 in a quarter, you're getting a lesser cost, especially with the MSRP by a lot. It also has the optic plate included, as I mentioned, cut for an RMR and 18 round magazines. The Staccato has advantage too. It is made in America. It comes with 217 and 120 round mags, so you get an additional mag with the Staccato and it's a great shooting handgun. People, I have to believe, are gonna say, well, I like the Staccato because it's out and it's available more. Other people have told me they want to get their hands on this or having trouble locating it. This is the most popular gun that Bull Armory produces by far and for good reason. This thing is amazing. I have not been convinced today that I would trade in the Bull TAC in a four and a quarter for the Staccato P. I would choose the TAC-4 in a quarter. I just think it's phenomenal. I like everything about it. This is a great handgun. Let's get Ryder's thoughts. I've got to agree. If I didn't already have the Staccato, this checks all the boxes really, except for the fact that, as the fire guy mentioned, not made in America, but other than that, it checks all the boxes. It's every bit as accurate. It's as reliable. It's as easy to shoot. It's a little bit lighter and it's a little bit lighter on the wallet. What's not to like about that? Okay, am I convinced? Am I gonna sell my Staccato P and buy a Bull? Oh, probably not. Does that mean that I'm gonna be looking for a Bull? I just may be. I think I may be convinced. Well, I always appreciate making my way out to Ryder's range. He has a great range here. Phenomenal shooter. I learned a lot from this guy. I certainly enjoyed comparing these two handguns. We both made our decisions. What we really wanna know is what you think and why don't you tell us a little bit about what you have going on? Yeah, I've got a whole bunch of stuff coming up on Ryder's range. Just picked up another Kimber KDS-9. I have borrowed the H&K USB expert from the firearm guy and I'm no expert, but so far I'm having fun with a gun. Yes, you are. I'm having a good time out here with, I got some stuff in the can that we're still working on, but it was just a great opportunity to work with a firearm guy out here on my range and look at a gun that I have never shot before and I'm glad I did. That is a really, really nice gun. And as I said, checks all the boxes. And you got an opportunity to join the Ryder's range YouTube channel. We sure appreciate it. Yeah, for sure. Been a pleasure. Pleasure's mine. If you like videos like this, please subscribe and share. I always appreciate thumbs up button. Thanks for watching and you guys be safe.


Advise the team at call 08 that increment system is beginning and report when they are ready to proceed. Well, Salem stands for Simulated Electronic Launch Miniman. And it's when we go out there and we test all the ground equipment. So basically everything except for launching a missile and flight. It's important for the nation and really the whole world because, you know, we have the number one nuclear terms in the world. You know, our mission is very important. It's 24-7. No matter what's going on in the world, we need to have our missionaries in our capsules, you know, pretends to be a key turn. But if we're not confident in our missiles to actually launch, then it kind of gives us doubt and worry. And then also, that's our adversaries know that we're not ready. But by providing these tests and having these results, we're more confident in what we're doing so that we stand strong with our nuclear terms.


So, finally, we are headed towards proving Orison's matrization theorem. So, let us begin with some definitions. So, topological space x is said to be second countable if it has a basis B whose cardinality is countable. So, R n is second countable because we can take open subsets of the type balls A of radius epsilon, where epsilon belongs to rationals and this vector A belongs to q, right. So, this is this forms a basis and this is going to be a countable collection. So, therefore, R n is second countable and if x is second countable then it is subspace of x is second countable, ok. So, next let us define a regular space so topological space x is said to be regular if given a point x and a closed subspace A then there exists open sets u and v such that x is in u, A is contained in v and u intersection B is disjoint. So, earlier we had seen the example of normal topological spaces. So, regular is weaker than normal and obviously every normal topological space is regular. So, what we need is given a point x and this closed subspace A we should be able to find a neighborhood around x and a neighborhood around A which are disjoint, ok. Obviously, implies regular and for normal subspaces we had proved the following lemma. We have a similar we had proved a lemma similar to the following one. So, analog is a similar proof, ok let me just write the statement first. Let x be a regular space x in u where u is open. So, then we can find an open subset v such that x is in v which is contained in v closure which is contained in v. So, what do we have? We have a point x over here and we have an open subset u. So, then we can find a smaller neighborhood of x which is v such that the closure of v is completely contained inside and the proof we have proved a similar lemma for normal spaces, right. So, there instead of x we had a closed subset A. We had a closed subset A and an open subset open set u which contained A. So, imitate that proof. So, the main theorem we want to prove is the following. The main theorem of this lecture a regular and second countable space is normal, ok. So, let us prove this. So, let b denote a countable basis for x. So, let us say our space is x, right. So, x is second countable. So, that means by definition x has a basis whose cardinality is countable, right. So, let c and d be two disjoint closed subsets. So, we need to find open sets u and v such that c is contained in u, d is contained in v and u intersection v is empty, ok. So, first we use as follows fix for x in d not fix sorry using the lemma using the lemma we can find an open set v such that x belongs to v, v is contained in v closure and v closure is contained in x minus c, right. So, d is contained in x minus c since c and d are disjoint, right. So, a picture is something like this we have two disjoint open subset c and this is d, right. So, d is contained in the complement of c which is this, right. So, we just use any x in d and we can find a neighborhood v such that its closure is also contained in x minus c, this is using the lemma, ok. So, clearly we are allowed to shrink v if necessary, yeah. So, thus replacing v by a smaller basic open subset we may assume. So, we have a basis for our topology and that v is in, right x is in v. So, that means that there is a basic open subset which contains so, x is in v. So, there is a basic open subset which contains x and is completely contained inside v, yeah. So, therefore, we can replace our v by a smaller basic open subset which contains x and the same condition we will hold, ok. So, we can do this for each x in, right. So, for every x, so what are we done? So, for every x we get basic open set v sub x such that, so this is in v such that v sub x closure does not meet c, ok. So, since b is countable enumerate this collection v x, right. So, we can just number these, this is a subset of a countable set and therefore, this has countable cardinality. So, we can just say this v n is for n greater than equal to 1, right. So, now, define w n to be equal to the union i equal to 1 to n v i's, right. So, then what do we have? We have this w 1 is a subset of w 2 and so on. It is an increasing chain of open subsets to d is contained in the union of these w i's. This is because as every x in d is in some v i. The third condition is that w n closure is equal to union i equal to 1 to n v i closure, sorry w n closure intersection c, intersection c. Now, there is a finite union and therefore, the closure will go inside v i closure intersected c and each v i closure intersected c is empty. So, this is empty, right. So, we can do the same for points of c. So, in the above we were doing this for points of d. So, we can do this for points of c. We get once again this increasing chain of open subsets c is contained in the union of these and 3 u n closure intersected with d is empty, ok. So, note that this implies that is contained in x minus u n closure, right. So, this implies that when we intersect both sides with w we get w n intersected d is contained in w n minus u n closure. So, this implies that the union w n intersected d is contained in the union w n. Now, w n is open and u n closure is closed. So, when we look at w n minus u n closure this an open subset, right. And this union is equal to union n greater than equal to 1 w n intersected with d, but as d is contained in this union there is going to be equal to d, right. So, so thus we get d is contained in the union of this open sets. And similarly c will be contained in the union of u n minus w n closure. So, we claim that these are the required open subsets, yeah. So, we so we just have to show that the intersection is empty. So, we claim that the intersection is empty, right. If not there exists i comma j such that w i intersected with u j is now empty. So, let us assume that first assume that i is greater than equal to j w i w j is contained in w i and u j is contained in u i, right. So, if we take an x in the intersection this intersection, right. So, this implies that x is in x is in u j, but x does not belong to u i closure, right. But this implies that x is in u j, but and x does not belong to u i, yeah, which is a contradiction. So, similarly if j is greater than equal to i then we will have w i is contained in w j. So, which will imply that x belongs to w i and so this will imply that x does not belong to w j closure x that is x is in w i and x does not belong to w j which is a contradiction. So, thus the intersection. So, this completes proof of the theorem. So, we will end this lecture here.


Ang karunungan ay kapangyarihan. Now, let's put that power to the test. It's time for K-Check! So everyone, I am Jonella Bore. Ako po si Julian Baldo-Cubello, and this is K-Check. Hindi lang ito tagisa ng talino para sa ating mga contestants. Ito ay para rin sa inyong lahat. Nagusung laging dinadagdagan ang inyong mga kaalaman. Every K-Check is an opportunity for us to teach and learn. Samahan yung kami until the final week of competition when we find out kung sino ang tatangling kaunaw na hang K-Check champion. Apat na contestants ang dadaan sa ating karunungan check sa araw na ito. Our first contestant is Rob, a BS interior design student from Kesson City. He used to compete in several research competitions. He loves arts and design, photography, and dancing.  Our third contestant is Gwen, a second year theater student at UP Dileman and has been devoted to the arts ever since she was a child. Our fourth contestant is Bon, a civil servant who has been working with the government for seven years. These four will be competing under the watchful eyes of today's K-Check panel of experts. We have Professor Neil Santillian, chairperson of the UP Dileman Department of History, Professor Gillesi Atpienza, the College of Arts and Letters UP Dileman, and Professor Ricky Nelyas of the Institute of Chemistry UP Dileman. And now, contestants, papasok na tayo sa K-Check para mihan where each correct answer is worth ten points. This is your chance to bank as many points as you can and take the all-important early lead. Let's begin! Rob, what is the last letter of the Greek alphabet? Z. Malay, mega. Versil, what is the largest animal in the world? Blue one. K-Check. Gwen, what is one half of 86? 44. Malay, 43. Bon, what kind of animal is Winnie the Pooh? Bear. K-Check. Rob, what is one-third of 606? 301. Malay, 202. Versil, what country that is one-third below sea level is famous for windmills and tulips? Netherlands. K-Check. Gwen, what animal has young called colts and fillies? Correct answer is pores. Bon, what is one fourth of 84? Correct answer is 21. Rob, what kind of reptile has a shell having a carapace? Snail. Malay, turtle. Versil, what is one-third of 69? 33. Malay, 23. Gwen, what is the local name of the food store, Pam, whose leaf is a national leaf of the Philippines? Correct answer is anahau. Last question. Bon, in music, what large horn is the lowest pitched brass instrument in an orchestra? Bass. Malay. Nuba. Okay? And that's it for the first round, our K-Check Paramihan round. Daming master sa round na yo ano. Kinabahan ka ba do? Best in master ko ng high school. Nung high school? Uh-uh. May qualifier. Correct. O na'y kita ko yung face ni Prof Neal, para lang kukwenta talaga siya sa mga desi master. Mga gana. As a chairperson of the Department of History, you have to be knowledgeable. As competitive. Uh-uh. Tama ba yun ang assessment namin? Nutawa ko dun. Kumuhal ako ng matman, pa. General mat. In depth, unknowledge. Early 1990s. Pero yung mga tanong sa mattingina, nakayanan ko. Pero tingin ko na tarantala mga contestants. Iba pag contestant kasi isang quiz show. Ayon. Medyo nararamdaman pangan natin yung pag... May ano pa no? May... May... Konting... Ano pa ng buto, no? Kulang pa. Kulang pa. First round. Yes. So, i-init ang competition mamaya. Kailangan merong gamit na buzzer. Para mas exciting yung quiz show. Tama. Mamaya, mamaya. May ka tanungang ka ba sa mga contestant? Ya, may tanungo para kay Vaughn. Si Vaughn ay matagal na or 7 years ko na nagtatrabaho sa isang government agency, diba. Pwede di ka bang magkwento ano yung ginagawa mo bilang isang civil servant? Very recently po, I was an executive assistant of an undersecretary sa DICP. So, yun. Last, hanggang last August motion. So ngayon medyo tambay po ako ngayon. So, nagkahanap po ako ng work. So baka may opening po kaya yun siya. Yung EA, yung EA na paka-importanting trabaho yan. Lalo-lalo na naging EA ka para sa cabinet secretary. Undersecretary. Undersecretary sa isang use. No, na paka-importanting trabaho ang pagiging EA. At kung interesado kang mag-apply, merong UPHRTO, may mga, diba, may mga notices na vacancies, pwede ka magkahanap ng trabaho. Kailangan namin ng mga efficient ng mga EA sa UPHRTO. Kailangan natin ng ganyang class ng Salvisio Prof Neal. I'll ask and you shall receive. Karak. Ayan. Ayan ako magtatanong pa ako. Ayan na ako nangtriga ako sa devotee of the arts. Ayan. Kaya Gwyn. Paano kaya, ano ang typical napag-explain natin sa tao nagtatanong? Ano ginagaw na mga tao devoted to the arts? Kasi para hindi siya typical na occupation or efficiency. So kaya ako po na sabi na I'm devoted to the arts. Kasi ever since I was in my second grade in elementary, na mulat na po ako sa singing, sa pag-arte at simula po noon, doon na po lumago yung pagmamahal ko sa atend, piratuda. Hanggang magkole yun na po ako. Pero powered, claim mo yun. As a label. Anong classing arts ito yung bata ka pa yung pinupuntahan mo? Nung grade 2 po ako, masalip ako sa contest ng storytelling. Kasi na kita po nung teacher ko na may Ibu buka ko. May ibu buka po ako pagdating sa storytelling. Kaya po, simula po noon. Ayan nga po, lumunat na po ko sa pag-arte dahil kailangan po nang official expressions, gestures. Ayan po. At ngayon, ready na ba kayo lahat sa our sa ating pabilisan round? Next here on K-check. Nang ating karunungan check. I see Versil with 20 points. Susunod naman, I see Vaughn with 10 points at pahahabol definitely si Gwynn at Siro. Maganda yung laba na mga iyari sa mga susunod na eksen. Definitely, mayhabol at mayhahabol pa sa ating ito. Okay? So we're now going to K-check pabilisan buzz in first for the right to answer the question. Correct answers are with 20 points, pero sa round na ito minus 10 points ang baling sagot. Kaya contestants, pag-isipan muna bago i-press ang buzzer. Let's begin. One of the billion dollar earning blockbuster movies of 2019 was a live-action adaptation of a 1992 Disney animated film. What is the title of it? What? The Lion King? What is the title of this movie that featured Will Smith as the genie? Gwynn? I'll add it. K-check. Second question. If hydrosphere is the water at the surface of the Earth, what do you call the solid outer part of the Earth? Geosphere. Malay. What do you call the solid of the Earth? Lightest sphere. K-check. I'll finish the question. What is what do you call the solid outer part of the Earth that includes mostly the crust? Question three. Two of the latest hit songs of this male singer are Bad Habits and Shivers. One. And Sharon. K-check. Question four. Which 16th century German religious leader founded the Lutheran Church and is regarded one? Martin Luther. K-check. Okay. I'll just finish the question. The Lutheran Church and is regarded as a founder of Protestant Incident. Question five. Higa na kontet. Which stone carved about 2,400 years ago was key to deciphering the Egyptian script? What? The Sphinx. Kale. Rosyata stone. K-check. Question six. Question six. This is a problem-solving question in mathematics. When I was two years old, my brother was half my age.  Versal? 14. 30. Let me finish the question. How old is my brother now? Hindi yung mabot. Okay? Hindi yung mabot. Am I right? Hindi yung mabot. Okay. Okay. The answer is 49. So sayang yung 48 na yun. Okay. Let's move to question seven. The largest omnivore in the world is also the biggest fish in all of our oceans. What is the sea creature? Versal. Wail shark? K-check. Okay. What is the sea creature that can reach 20 meters in length? Question eight. What is the capital of the Chinese province of Hubei where the novel coronavirus was discovered in Versal? Wuhan. Wuhan. K-check. This novel coronavirus was discovered in 2019. Question nine. In mythology, what is the name of the boatman who carried passengers Versal? Karun. K-check. Who carried passengers across the river Styx and is also the name of the largest moon of Hubei. All right. Question ten. This American singer first hit number one with a song I'll never smile again. Who was this music icon known as Chairman of the Board and Old Blue Eyes? See Frank Sinatra. Okay? We're down to the second to the last question. What is the name of the military installation in Kentucky also known as the United States Bullion Depository that stores more than 140 billion ounces of gold? Okay. The answer is pork knots. This is the last question for round two. Which cell structure did Francis Crick and James Watson clay was in the shape of a double helix drum? DNA. K-check. And that's the end of our K-check Poblison round. Point three kapun na tayo. Na unang ngayon si Versal na may 110 points sumusanod si Bond with 30 points. Rob has 10 points. Kasama si Gwen na may 10 points then. Nakahabol kung baga si Versal from the first round. At po rin po nipalaman umaragwa baga. Si Bond, si Rob siya ka si Gwen. Sa kayo umaragwa. Correct. Bahai nila talagang umaragwa. Oh, ibao? Pagay may fighting spirit. Hindi ko ha. Nero ng momentum at may inertia. Tamatangot. Speaking of fighting spirit. Prof. Ricky, alam po may fighting spirit ka, di ba? Muka. Ikao pa ba? May mga katanunga ka ba sa ating contestant? Tanang tayo sa ating physicist, future physicist. Bakit physics at anong specialty sa physics kaya ang magugustuhan? Nag-physics po kasi yung parampasyan ko since I was elementary po. Sa masayap po yung math and science ko combined sa... Sa... What's your second question, Pagay? Yung specialty ng physics ng magugustuhan? Speciality ko. Speciality yung physics po. Eronautics po or masayap po yung about rocket tree po astrodynamics. Okay. Passion niya simula ba na paano. How I wish na sabi ko yung na ba? How I passion ako sa physics? Merong din. Merong na wala sa where along to be. Inain na mga raffles. Yes. Prof. Bless na yung passion mo ba ang physics kaya yung bata ka pa. Pagusapan nalang natin yung kung ko sa passion nang isa ating contestant na si Rob. Rob na ko na sa interior design ka pala. Ano ba ang challenge ng mga small spaces lalo na pag nandito ka sa urban centers? Paano ba yung considerations pag nandindesign sa ngayon? Lalo na puruk plastic ang mga bagay pag. Ayun po. Bilang isong interior design student po. Ina-acknowledge ko din po and na-recognize ko din po na challenge po talaga yung pagkakaraon po ng small space po halimbawa lalo na po dito sa mga lugar po na urban and minsan po yung small spaces parang nagiging cosplay na hindi nagiging efficient yung pag-work lalo na ngayong pandemic na ano po marami po mga tao yung nag-work from home. Ano siguro po isa po sa mga parang dapat gawin isyong pagpapplano po sa space like yung pag-choose po ng tama mga furniture and mga interior accessories po na dapat ilagay po sa log ng bahay kasi mas magiging effective yung pagtatrabaho or efficient po yung pagtatrabaho if ganun po yung mga yung mga yun. Speaking of challenge now this time our contestants mas marami po sa lang challenge sa kakaharapin when they face the toughest challenge yet dahil na ating ultimate pagaling around universal with 110 points ang sumusano na isibon with 30 points at ahabong magpagpakampanti si versa kasi magpagpending mga bubble zero at si Gwen with 10 points. Hmm go go na to ang bagan wala na ibang around kung di ito So we'll find out in our K-check ultimate pagalingan where correct answers are worth 30 points wrong answers get a 15 point deduction. At para mas madagbagan ang kalama na ito sa mga professors ng ating panel of experts mga galing ang mga tanong At the end of this round malalaman na natin kung sino ang takang haling K-check daily winner contestants let's begin So number one Prof. Nio This refers to logisitive acts that authorize the disbursement of public money from treasury to fund government program. General Appropriations Act Mano? Saya ang sagot ni von yung sagot na nandun sa git na nang binangkit yung mga mga salitan. So ang tamang sagot ay appropriation. Amista Lorentone Prof. Nio Prof. Messi Mike Bambu Organ of Las Pinas accompanied choirs and masses and played other forms of religious musing. Who invented the bamboo organ of Las Pinas? Tamang sagot ay Diego Thank you Prof. Ricky Science naman tayong. What is the term for a narrow body of water that connects two larger bodies of water? Rob Fever Malay May continue bodies of water and it may be formed by a fracture in an ismos. Familiar tayo sa straight of Magellan Malaca Hormones and Gibraltar. The correct answer is straight. Thank you Prof. Ricky Prof. Nio Give three of six countries in Asia that belong to a historical geographical region dubbed as the Mediterranean Levan. Von Turkey Cyprus and Lebanon Malay Sayang ulip Von Tamang dalawang sagot mo pero hindi kasama ang Cyprus. Kasi ang Cyprus isang kivalay na okay. So kasama sila ang Levan it's a French term for east eastern portion of the Mediterranean. So ang mga posibling tamang sagot ay ang sumusunot Syria Lebanon Jordan Israel Palestine and Turkey. Thank you Prof. Leslie Who is a daughter of Kabesang Thales in the novel El-Philipus Therism? Bersel Huli Huli Ah, si Huli K-check Thank you Prof. Ricky What is the largest group of biological classification? Bersel Kingdom Pwede rin sa tawag na dominion Super Kingdom Priam Empire at ang well-known na bacteria, archaea at yukarya ay tinatawag na domain. The correct answer is domain. Domain Prof. Neil So ito na yung tanong in world alliances what does N-A-T-O or NATO stand for? Von North Atlantic Treaty Organization So this time, Von tamang sagot Thank you from Neil from Leslie This musical instrument is composed of gongs in graduated sizes arranged in a row. It may be played by a single performer as a solo instrument or as part of an ensemble. What is the name of this musical instrument from the south? The answer is kulinta kulinta Thank you Prof. Ricky What do you call an instrument that responds to ground noises and shakings such as caused by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and exclusion? Yes It's for detection and recording of earthquakes at K-Chem Thank you Last set of questions? Huling tanong mula sa akin so world history ito What event led to a U.S.-led boycott of the Moscow Summer Olympic Games in 1980? Ili pa kaya kasi pinapanganap ng 1979 Ang tamang sagot ay Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 Arami salamat Prof. Leslie next question What is the name of the fictitious Bayan in Francisco Balactasis Florante at Laura Von Albania K-Chem Arami salamat Prof. Leslie Final question from Prof. Lee Chemistry tayo What acid-base definition describes a compound that accepts an electron pair? After American physical chemist Gilbert Lewis it's called Lewis acid And that's it for the K-Check Ultimate Pagalingan Congratulations to Brazil our K-Check Daily Winner with a final score of 155 points He will receive a power bank from TVUV because he versed it again on Friday when he competes with our other Daily Winners first pop in our semifinal Thanks to Rob, Gwyn and Von for joining and to the members of our panel of experts Prof. Deal Prof. Glessy and Prof. Ricky This is Julian Baldo Kubelo And I am Jonella Bor Join us again tomorrow for another K-Check!


5 Reasons Empaths Rarely Cross Paths It is very difficult to meet another empath because empaths rarely encounter each other. Empaths tend to get involved with narcissists which is why there are so many channels on narcissistic abuse. Narcissists pretend to be empaths. Empaths desire true love and if they lose a loved one they have difficulty finding another one and the reason for that is because empaths care more about others than themselves so they put other people's needs before their own and even when they think they've found someone who can give them the love and attention that they're looking for. It ends up being a narcissist instead because narcissists pretend to be kind and compassionate. 2 Empaths are rare so it's unlikely that two empaths will cross paths but if they do they will get along very well. Empaths focus their attention on the people around them they're not concerned about finding someone who can give them what they need because their main concern is helping other people but even if they do try to find another empath they may just run into a narcissist and then they may assume that they're fine on their own or they may believe that there is no one else like them because empaths are very private. They don't like to share too much about themselves unless they feel comfortable. 3 Empaths need someone who needs them. Empaths want to feel needed and narcissists want someone who will give them what they need so it is far more likely for an empath to meet a narcissist rather than another empath. Empaths are surrounded by people who need them rather than people who can give them what they need so it is very rare that they will find another empath who can care for and protect them because without outside influence or intervention empaths can sustain themselves. They don't need help in satisfying their basic needs. 4 They may not be compatible. Empaths may not always be who you expect them to be. You may have an image of an empath in your mind but that's not who they may be in person. Empaths may not be physically attracted to each other as empaths typically aren't too concerned about their appearance. They may also not have a lot of money as they invest everything they have into taking care of other people's needs instead of worrying about their own. 5 Empaths know that they are rare. They know that there aren't many people out there who are like them because throughout their lives they have always been the one who is taking care of someone else. They may never have experienced someone who attends to their needs so they may assume that they are the only one and they may stop searching for other empaths. Thank you for watching. If you found this video helpful please give it a thumbs up. Share your thoughts in the comments section. Hit the subscribe button to receive the notifications. If you would like to support the channel you can donate at paypal.me slash Narc Survivor. You can book a one on one with me on my website it's narcsurvivor.co.uk. Thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon.


Will Ravens ever make another Super Bowl under John Hallbaugh? Would it be a good idea for the Ravens to sign Antonio Brown? Should the Ravens start to shine Elliot over Tony Jefferson? These and many, many more on this episode of NFL Questions from Subscribers. Just what I mean, you too, I'm with y'all. You too, team keeping clean. What's going on is to engrave and hit with another video and another episode of NFL Questions from Subscribers, which is a series where you can ask me any NFL question you want to based off of any NFL team. And we answered in the video just like this. Now, if you want to be part of NFL Questions from Subscribers, all you got to do is send me a DM on Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook. Or you can send me an email at teamkeepingclean at gmail.com. Or you can send something to the PO Box like a lot of you have done already, which I appreciate. Thank you. And I'll answer your question in the video. So appreciate y'all. Real quick, shout out to Lyme. That's our sponsor. And you know if you need tickets for the low, without all the extra fees and all that and the hitting costs and all the seller fees and the delivery fees and all that. No. Hit up Lyme. The information is down in the description with all my other goodies. Merch coming very soon with the new logo on it. Let's get into it. First question, well, slash comment. Uh-oh. Oh, this is a, whoa, this is going to be a doozy. Came from my boy Carlo. Iron at it on YouTube. He said, I have more of a comment than a question. I've been doing some film study on the new linebacker LJ Fortway recently signed. And I must say, he may be a valuable acquisition for us. Here's the numbers. He went undrafted in 2012, just like the Ravens like him. Played one season for Cleveland where he started as a rookie and had 20 tackles, one sack and one interception. After that, he's had one year stints with a few teams. Denver, Seattle, Cincinnati, New England, and then Pittsburgh in 2016. He played 14 games with only four tackles and only three solo tackles. 2017, he played 15 games and had 11 tackles, one sack, nine solo tackles, and then 2018, he played 15 games and recorded 48 tackles, one sack, 38 solo tackles. While making the splash defensive plays on defense and special teams, which John Hardball loves, Steelers lose him as an unrestricted free agent to the Eagles. Well, we all have seen him before, but a lot of people don't remember. He is actually the same linebacker that Lamar shook out of his shoes in a joint practice. But somehow, I remember this fact. During that play, we can take a few things away from the humor. We took part in one, he was rushing Lamar, which is a task within itself, which we all know. Two, his instincts took correctly diagnosed the play. And three, his pursuit angle to where if it was anyone but Lamar, it would have been a tackle for a loss. At least, or at the least, I think the costa may be up to something. I like to sign him even more after I watched the tape. He confirms all of the above, he is fast, he can hit, which we are lacking at the moment. He takes great run fit angles. His block shedding is better than you would think for his size. He can rush the passer in a 3-4, which we run. Or a 4-3. His own coverage is decent and his man is okay, but what stands out about his play recognition, what stands out is his play recognition, diagnosing a play where the run or pass is greatly important. And I would say he has an above average play recognition IQ. Watching more film of our pre-season game against him, and it wasn't hard finding number 58. I promise if you rewatch that game, you will see him near almost every run, if not making the hit. Or somewhere near or heading in the direction of where the ball is going on passing plays. I think the costa strikes again, and the Ravens sign a low key, great signing. I like what Shane Ray could have been. Oh no, like what Shane Ray could have been. Let me know what you think. I know it's long and I know there's a lot in here, but I just wanted to do my part for team keeping clean. Unlike Calvin Johnson after every game. Yikes. All right, appreciate that, Carlo. So we're gonna see. We're gonna see. LJ Fort is that super low key. Like you said, definitely a super, super low key signing. And we're gonna see how it all works out, man. I am, I'm looking forward to it. I mean, because from what we've seen from our linebackers, it hasn't been much to look forward to a week. But I'm looking forward to see what LJ Fort does and see if he can deliver on all his promise. But one thing that was brought to my attention is that if this guy is really that good, if he is really that underrated, if he is really that talented, then why is he still a free agent? Why was he still a free agent? Not to say that there aren't any good free agents out there. There aren't guys who can play. There aren't guys who can ball. There aren't guys that can prove themselves that a free agent, but why? Hopefully we don't find out when he plays. Next question came from my boy, Tyrus Antoine. He said, do you think it's time for Ravens to start The Beast, DeSean Elliott over Tony Jefferson? I wouldn't mind that at all. Reason I wouldn't mind that is because he may be a lot more rangier than Tony Jefferson. He may be able to cover better than Tony Jefferson and he may actually wrap up when he tackles. Tony Jefferson has not been good this year so far. It's been really rough. I had a lot of promise, especially going from last year, I thought he was gonna be a lot better than this, especially early on because, like I said before, when Chuck Clark, when Tony Jefferson was injured last year with his hamstring injury and Chuck Clark played, it really made me appreciate Tony Jefferson that much more. And when Tony Jefferson came back and played for the rest of the games, he did pretty good. But then this year, it hasn't been good at all. And maybe it's a communication thing. Maybe again, it's the football IQ that's out there on the field. They ain't got no weight or no Sugs, no Moseley, so things are a lot different than they used to be. Even Jimmy Smith, too. He's not out there. Tayvon Young, he's not out there. So it's a lot of guys, ooh, that's a lot of guys. That's some powerful people that we lost, man, because I didn't even think about that. Every time we talk about the football IQ and we speak about Wettel, Moseley and Sugs, we forget that Jimmy Smith, too, now. And Tayvon Young, Tayvon Young always around the ball. So we lost a lot. And then Zadaria Smith provided in the pass rush and yeah, we lost a whole lot. And we haven't been able to overcome it yet. But in regards to starting to show on Elliott, yes, I think they might as well. I know they're not going to yet, but I think it wouldn't hurt. It really wouldn't hurt. It would not hurt at all. So it's like, why not? Next question came from a guy tied at great. He said, why doesn't the media highlight Lamar's accomplishments like the other quarterbacks? Instead, they only talk about his negatives. Well, it's because the media is just, they are hoping that Lamar can be how they view the stereotypical black quarterback where they can run, but they're not good passers and they never will be good passers. And there's only a handful of them that will be good passers. So I think that's what it is because there has been that narrative for a while. He has been proving them wrong now, especially you look at the numbers, you look at him passing on film, he has been proving them wrong. And he's going to have to continue doing that. And not all the media has been talking about his negatives. There's some that talk about his positives too. But like I said before, there's always going to be whether it be people, whether it be fans, whether it be media, whether it be whatever that stay on the negative and don't even bring up the positive at all. Next question came from a boy, Pete Browning. He said, engraving, hope all is good. Just finished watching the post game show. Do you think that John Harbaugh has lost or is losing the support of the team because of his recent comments? In his post game interview, he said, good game for Browns and bad game for Ravens. Not bad game for us. That's a good observation right there. He said, maybe I'm looking too much into it, but people usually say what they mean. Keep up the great work, sir. I appreciate that. Wow. So John Harbaugh, if that's what he said, because I didn't really watch it. If he said, good game for Browns, bad game for Ravens and he didn't say it was a bad game for us, that is telling. Because that creates separation. That is a bad display of leadership, if that's what he said, because it is his team. He is the head coach. So you are the leader of that team. You are the leader of the football team. You may not be the owner of the team. You may not be the owner of the front office, but you are the leader of that football team because the head coach, as somebody who works closely with the front office, you also work the closest with the players out of everybody in the front office. So if he said that, yeah, that's not a good look at all. Next question came from a boy in man 902-1. He said, I know this teams are not blitzing the Ravens offense that much. They're dropping back in coverage. They're not stacking a box on them. Do you think it's because of them drafting Marquis Brown and what they saw in week one versus the Dolphins? Or you think teams and coaches are convinced Lamar can throw the ball? Well, I think it's a mix of both, but the biggest thing with Hollywood, they don't want to get beat deep. They do not want to get beat deep and they saw it in week one. They saw it in week two a little bit, but not as much, but that play at the very end, they were like, we cannot be called slipping. And now he was beating the Chiefs in week three too, but Lamar just kept overthrowing. He kept overthrowing. And then in week four, we barely saw him. So yeah, they are playing smart. They like, we're not gonna let them beat us. Like people know Lamar can throw. Teams know Lamar can throw, but they do not want Hollywood to get behind them. Next question came from TVA0706. He said, Earl Thomas hasn't seen to be doing much for us. Do you think it is because of the weight that he gained or do you think that we shouldn't have signed him? I think we should use the Sean Elliott now and Lamar Jackson needs to pass more anyway. And he said, love the vids, keep up the good work. Appreciate that TVA, thank you, man. So I don't think it's because of the weight. He does definitely look big now. He is a big boy, but he was a big boy in that week one game and when he got that pick, he was moving. He was moving pretty good. And not that us big boys can't move, but he was moving pretty good for it with that weight that he put on. But it may make him a tad bit slower, but he can still move. Now for that second question, do you think we should start the Sean Elliott? Oh no, he said, I think we should use the Sean Elliott now. Okay, well yeah, they definitely should. I think he should be out there. I would not mind if he started at all. I wouldn't mind it. That would be a big boy move from the Ravens and that would show like, hey, we are taking play over pay. Because enough teams, especially the Ravens, they take the play, I mean they take the pay over the play.  We paying you for a reason, right? But at the same time, if the play is bad, then we'll still keep you out there. So I think they should change that. And as far as the money is to pass more, I just, as long, whatever winning football is, game by game, man. Whatever the winning football formula is, game by game, man. That's the only thing I want him to do. Play winning football and play his style of football. Don't try to conform to all these other people. Play your game. Next question came from a boy, Jeremy. He said, with Tony Jefferson's poor player, strong safety, why haven't the Ravens kicked the tires on Eric Berry? He's still unsigned. Well, I think that's because they got the Sean Elliott. And I think that's because they, like we said in the last question, they're paying Tony Jefferson all this money and they taking the pay over the play. With Eric Berry, I don't think they will sign him unless DeSean Elliott, something happened with him. But I think that DeSean Elliott would get a chance to step in there before and Eric Berry would. And I mean, with Eric Berry, it's like nobody signed him. He's still out there. It's week four and nobody has even brought him in for a visit recently or less than something we don't know about. His market has been super, super, super quiet. Next question came from a boy, Jody Summers. He said, do you think it would be a bad idea to sign Antonio Brown? Because to be honest, I was hiked about Earl coming over but now I'm starting to doubt him. Like, I don't like how he is with the media and from what we see the energy he brings not running to prevent an injury, LOL. And on top of that, starting issues with one of our veterans. I think Antonio Brown would be a good addition, I feel as though.  Okay, that's cool. But then he said the part about starting an issue with one of our veterans. Then he said he thinks it would be a good idea to sign Antonio Brown. Let's keep reading. I think AB would be a good addition. I feel as though this season, if we wanna compete, we need more power and offense. Next year, there are gonna be many great defensive players in the free agency that we can draft. But I say give the offense even more of a boost with Antonio Brown, Hollywood and Boykin and Snead, plus the tight ends, it would be scary. On top of that, AB speaks highly of Lamar and I think we can get him for a cheap deal considering the current circumstances. They certainly could get him. They certainly could get him and you never know. Never say never. But I don't think the Ravens would even look his way. Especially with all the stuff pending but even after it's clear, he would definitely help the offense because he would actually be a legitimate receiver that can get separation, which we don't have much of. Hollywood is really the only one that's been really getting separation like that. But I don't think that's happening, man. I don't think that's happening at all. Next question came from a boy at Keene. He said, I wanted to show on Elliot to replace TJ but unfortunately our coaching staff doesn't believe in making big boy moves. We love the status quo. I'm tired of seeing guys thinking a man is gonna fall just because they throw a little shoulder out there.  Guys look little league out there and that's not how we as Ravens get down. I don't even need to say anything about that. I don't even need to, there's no follow up. There's no follow up. That's about as straight up as you can be. Next question is came from BB. He said, with continuous miscommunication issues and the secondary and blown coverages, what do you suggest Ravens best options are to get better moving forward? Fundamentals, fundamentals. Find somebody who knows the defense and with the green dot, just don't move it around. Just have somebody and have them stick with it. Cause if you keep flipping, flipping, flipping, flipping, flipping and I know they only did it twice. They only gave it to two people, Peanut and then Tony Jefferson, but give it to somebody who knows that stuff and knows the defense and is going to be able to call the game. Somebody with a good IQ and it could be Tony Jefferson as the best one cause maybe he got the most experience cause we would say Earl Thomas, but if he's struggling to even grasp the Ravens defense then it wouldn't be a good idea for him in the heaven. So we, wow, that is scary. Tony Jefferson might be the best man for it, but then at the same time, a lot of us don't want him to start anymore. So it's crazy, man. It's just, Ravens are in a tricky position because if they did start to shine earlier, which I wouldn't mind, you would lose that much more brains. It would be a risk I'd be willing to take them. His next question was with the inconsistency with the pass rush on defense, how important do you feel it is to make a move to improve the pass rush? It's something that I thought they were gonna do during pre-season, but they didn't and they still haven't. There are guys out there that they can at least reach out to or reach out about. But we'll see. That really hasn't been Ravens way to make mid-season trades, but again, it ain't nothing wrong with shaking some stuff up a little bit during the season, especially if it's gonna help your football team, especially if it's in an area where you know you need help bad and pass rush is definitely one of them areas. And his next question was, can you recall a time, these are questions still from BB. He said, can you recall a time when the Ravens defense has been any more suspect than they currently are? Only in that Browns game back in 2000, I don't remember the year, was it 2015? I don't remember where, where Josh McCown came in through for 500 yards, 500 some yards on Ravens defense and through for like four or five touchdowns in that game. But this consistently bad, even though it's only been four weeks, really three weeks to the bad defense. But this bad, this consistently, I can't really recall. And he said, have you seen more blown coverages by Ravens secondary on a week to week basis? My goodness, our secondary has been extremely suspect so far this season. Again, same thing now, I haven't. It's been really, really bad, really, really bad. And then his last question was, how do you feel about Greg Roman and Lamar and the offense as a whole, not getting Hollywood involved versus Brown Corners playing eight yards off Hollywood, yet no slants, no stop routes. I be confused sometimes watching our so-called new revolutionary offense, shaking my head. Yes, this is the revolutionary offense. This is it. This is it. We will hope, again, we talked about this with Marty, with Marty Mournerway. He had a plan A, if that plan A didn't work, there was no plan B. There was no plan C. He stuck with that plan A. Now, with Greg Roman in the offense, with Hollywood, of course, you wanna take your deep shots with him. But if the deep shots aren't available, yeah, throw it to him short. Now, they got him involved in one pass across the middle, but he dropped it. But you gotta keep it up, man. Keep it up. I remember, there was a question from a subscriber during the off season that talked about the Ravens with the deep ball. And it's something that happened to them before when Joe Flecker was a quarterback. When they weren't getting the deep ball, they weren't getting the deep ball. And it was something that was asked, are you worried that if the Ravens don't get the deep ball early enough in the game, that they'll just go away from it completely? And I was saying that that's something that's very scary, and I hope they don't do that. But that's how it is with Hollywood, man. It's scary to think that with the Ravens, they're not getting Hollywood involved early, then he won't be involved. And he wasn't involved much in this game at all. But they gotta find ways. They gotta create ways, create mismatches, create plays where he can get his hands on the ball, while his boy can see everybody, Seth Roberts. You gotta give different guys opportunities because with the Ravens, it's just been Andrews, Hollywood, Andrews, Hollywood, Andrews, Hollywood in the passing game. And yeah, other guys have gotten passes too, but those two have been the focal points. So if teams take those two guys away, what's left? Next question came from a boy, Will Adams, 91. He said, undrafted players and late-rounders look in the park. Bring back Willie Henry. I wish, not happening. Besides Marlon Humphrey, who was your top-rated player on defense this season? He said, I'll wait. Video's a great team. Keep it clean. Appreciate that, Will. Thank you, man. I appreciate that big time, man. Who was my top-rated player on the defense this season? Well, besides Marlon Humphrey, though, it's Earl Thomas. Earl Thomas, besides that chop play, besides the chop 88-yard run, it's Earl Thomas. Nobody is, they're not throwing his way. He ain't giving up no deep plays. He's making tackles. He's making a lot of tackles. Once those running backs and tight ends and receivers get passed, the defensive line-and-line backers in the corners, Earl, he's the wrap-up tackler. But yeah, Earl Thomas, he will be the guy. Next question came from a boy, official Jared B. You can tell, sometimes you can just tell the date that all these questions came from. He said, do you think that Tony Jefferson gets benched for Deshaun Elliott because of the horrible play recently? I'm honestly to the point where I want the Ravens to switch to a 4-3 and give up on a 3-4 defensive scheme. Well, do I think Tony Jefferson is going to get benched for Deshaun Elliott because of the horrible play? I don't think so. But I do think that the team may end up thinking about it if Tony Jefferson plays really, really, really bad in the next game. And then possibly really bad in the game after that, too. I think that they may give it like two more games of just really bad play, really poor play at that position. And it would have to be really bad. Because Ravens don't normally do stuff like that. They won't bench a guy who's making all this money like that. But I do think because it's been really rough. I think it's time. But again, this is not so Ravens for them to make a move like that. But again, don't base it off for the pay. Base it off for the play. Next question came from my boy, FA26. He said, would you like to see a first rounder for Von Miller? He's 29. First rounder. Right now, I would rather like a second. It's like as the season goes, I'm like, I feel J. Laram's OK here.  First rounder, before I would have been with it.  Second, fourth, and fifth. Second, fifth, and sixth. But a second and change, I would rather that. Next question came from my boy, Ice Lethal. He said, should us fans be worried about if Jimmy Smith will come back? And I had to ask him the question. I said, this season or next year? And he said, this season. And yeah, I think they should. Especially after his pass defense has been without Jimmy Smith, again, it's been ugly. It's been ugly. So if the Ravens stand put at what they have at the cornerback position, it's probably going to continue. It's probably going to continue.  And with Brandon Carr, it hasn't been too pretty. So I think this may end up being his last year as a Raven. Especially I think they may be looking to redo this defense. I mean, they started redoing the offense, but maybe looking to redo the defense as well. Not completely blow them up, anything like that, but really do a redo. Next question came from my boy, John Moore. Shout out to John Moore. Y'all know who he is. He said, do you think that the Ravens will ever win another Super Bowl or even make it to a Super Bowl under John Harbaugh and his crew of friends? I love that question, man. I love it. So will the Ravens ever make it or win another Super Bowl under John Harbaugh and his crew of friends? Wow, that is a great question. Oh, wow, that's a great question. That is a tough one. Under John Harbaugh and his crew of friends, it's possible. I really think it's possible. But I think it would be a lot more likely if John Harbaugh takes more advice, if he took more advice. Like if he listened more and didn't just go based off of him. Because I feel like with John Harbaugh, of course, he, him as a head coach, he wants it to be his show, which I can understand. But at the same time, again, two to three games a year. Two to three games a year. John Harbaugh loses the Ravens. Why? Due to poor coaching decisions. And I'm not saying that with coaches, they're never going to make mistakes. They're never going to make bad decisions. But they are decisions that you could cut down on. A mistake is a lot different from a bad decision. And Harbaugh makes some bad decisions. Again, those two to three games a year, it never fails. So I think they could if he just took more advice from other people. And not to say that he should have 20 miles to his ears. Like, no, not like that. But then if he just let up eased up on some of his power control, then I think they could. And you know just what I mean. You too, team, keep it clean.