Thank you all for coming. We live in pretty amazing times, and I think quite exciting times. We've got this Occupy Wall Street movement going on. We've got the Tea Parties, which I think are creating, for the first time in a very long time, a real debate in this country. I think there's a real interest today, again, for the first time in a very long time, in ideas, in what's going on with the country, what are the solutions? Are there solutions? Where do we go wrong? People are coming out to have a real conversation, and I find this exciting, a real opportunity that must not be missed, to engage in that debate. Because I think the side that I represent, that you all hear tonight, is often not being represented in this debate. We hear much from many of the other sides, many sides, not just two. But very little for what I will call the capitalist side. So, I view this as part of that exchange that's going on out there in the world. And I think the flyers labeled this, Washington or Wall Street. Who's to blame? Who should we occupy? And luckily we're closer to DC, so I'm all for occupying Pennsylvania Avenue and Capitol Hill. Why is it that the Occupy Wall Street is happening? Why is it generating so much energy and so much interest? What is it about this movement that has a sudden semblance of reality? What is it? I think within the American people and within the media and within the world we live in, it gives it any kind of credibility. Because it seems to have, I mean, a lot of respectable in some circles anyway. People have come out and endorsed this movement, supported it, or seem to be promoting it. And certainly the media seems to be quite favorably inclined unless you're at Oakland. But what are they tapping into? And we can talk about what the Tea Party taps into, because I think they tap into very similar things, different and yet similar. I think what they're tapping into is an immense frustration at the system we have today. It seems truly unfit. It seems wrong. We get an enormous financial crisis that to some extent or another, most of us suffer from. We get huge unemployment. On the other hand, we get bailouts. That seem random, right? They bail out, they get burst students and then six months later they don't bail out Lehman Brothers and then 24 hours they do bail out AIG and then Bush kind of bails out the auto industry and then Obama completes the process and bails them completely out. And it seems completely random. Some people get bailed out and little businesses don't get bailed out. Some homeowners, they have plans to bail them out and other homeowners, they have no plans to bail them out. And there's this sense of, it's random, it's frustrating, it's unintelligent, it's unintelligent. And to a large extent, it is unintelligent. It's a mess and a random mess. And yet most of us are suffering from what is going on. So why are we suffering when Wall Street seemingly is getting a bailout and people are getting rich? And then you've got this financial crisis, right? And I don't know, you know, financial crisis was only two, three years ago, but I don't know how much of you remember, you know, the headlines, the headlines were what? Capitalism is dead. Capitalism killed this market. It's all capitalism's fault. Wall Street is to blame for it. And really, there was no other side of the story in most of the media for months and months and months. It was one story, capitalism's failed, markets have failed, finances failed, these are the demons, these are the devils. And the solution is, the solution we always have in every financial or economic crisis, more regulation, more government, more info. And there's almost no other voicehood, you know, unless you're in the economics department, at George Mason, you have to be around here where you get lots of other voices, but this is pretty unique as a school. In most economic departments, there's no other voicehood anyway. So it's not surprised to me that the occupied Wall Street movement, extended to movement, views Wall Street as the problem. And that's what we've been talking about for the last three years, it's capitalism's fault, it's Wall Street's fault. And it's no surprise to me that so many people feel sympathetic because people are frustrated whether they blame Wall Street or not. They're not sure, they're confused.  And the fact is, the fact is, that American people in spite of their general benevolence and in spite of their general leaning towards capitalism and their general leaning towards free markets all have these really anti-free market kind of almost instincts, kind of emotional responses. It's easy to look for government for solutions. It's easy to blame the capitalists. And what I wanna talk about today to a large extent is why it's always, why is our almost immediate instinctual response to go, yes, that must be capitalism, yes, that must be democracy. Even before, we actually have the data to look at stuff and evaluate what actually happened. So I think there's a lot of frustration out there. And of course, I think the Tea Party kind of took a different spin on things and they were kind of the American people raising up, not after the financial crisis, more after Obama gets elected and really Obama came and stimulus and all the government spending and the growth of government. I feel the Tea Party is standing up and saying, we don't know exactly what's wrong, but we know this is bad. We know this is too much.  This is overreach. We don't know how to shrink government. We don't know exactly what to do about getting things right. But we know at an emotional level, this can't be good. And another question is, so why can't they articulate, because they can't. Where we should go? What we should do? They want smaller government, but what does that mean? What should we cut? How do we do it? When you start talking about specific programs with them, it's very difficult to find the cuts, the shrinkage of government that they actually want. It's easy to say, we're for small government and the Constitution. But what does that mean in terms of content? That is the real challenge that they face. And I think they too are held back from being able to give an articulate answer to that question. And the question is, what is it that is holding them back? I think they're deeper issues than purely economic or purely political issues that are holding them back. So let me first state, as if, let me assume you don't know this already, you don't know my position on this. And I encourage you, if you don't agree with me, or if you don't know, or if you want a fuller explanation, because I'm just gonna throw it out. My view of the financial crisis. So I believe financial crisis was caused by government. It was caused by government almost from A to Z. So over 90% of the causes of the financial crisis were government causes. And I'll give you two and I'd be happy to answer challenges or questions in the Q&A. By the way, you know, if you don't feel like being respectful, I can handle it. Two, I'm just gonna give two. And there are lots of subsidiary, there are lots of little things. But every time somebody points me in another direction, well, what about this?  But I'll just give you two, and these are the two major ones. So these are the big ones. A, Federal Reserve Policy. And here I go back to the dot com bubble boosting, if you remember in 2000, March of 2000 starts. It continues through 2000, 2001. 2001, we get the added hits of 9-11. The economy is spiraling downwards. We're heading towards the recession. Now we have this view in this country. You know, really, it's mostly since the 1980s, but this view that we don't need to have recessions, that we can avoid recessions. That the Federal Reserve can finagle things so that we have soft landings. And that we will never have to suffer a recession. And there was the great, what's it called? The great, I forgot the term, but a Greenspan term that, you know, this period that we could go through where we have little dips, but then we'd rise up smoothly. And a Greenspan could manipulate interest rates to give us this perfection. This is central planning par excellence. And for some reason, while we understand that central planning almost works no way and in no field, in the one field of banking and interest rates, and Greenspan was such a genius, right? We believed that he could do it. A maestro, he was called, remember? He was a conductor. What was he conducting? The economy, right? And I thought when the Berlin Wall fell, we understood that that doesn't work. But anyway, I mean, then obviously we didn't learn the lesson. So in 2002, given a spiraling towards a recession, Allen Greenspan, lowest interest rates at the fastest rates in American history to 1%. Now, I won't spend a lot of time on this, but 1% was below the rate of inflation. Rate of inflation was about 3%. That creates what in finance we call a negative real rate of return. And that means, in terms of behavior, what? It means they're subsidizing borrowing. It means that paying you to borrow money. What do people do when there's a strong incentive to do something? They do it. So we borrowed, we borrowed like crazy. We borrowed on our college, we borrowed on our credit cards. And in particular, we borrowed on our homes. And that of course drove prices up and everything. But why our homes? I mean, why not everything else? And this is my second piece, right? So number one, when you lower the rate of interest, but lower the rate of inflation, bad stuff happens. Can't tell you exactly which bad stuff. Can't tell you where it exactly happened. Can't even tell you when it will happen exactly. We have no theory of that in economics. What we do know is bad stuff will happen. By the way, interest rates today is at zero. Inflation is depending on how you measure it, anyway between two to maybe even eight percent. Bad stuff is going to happen. Don't know when, don't know when, don't know when it manifests itself. Bad stuff will happen. Simple principle in economics. You can't run negative real rates of return and expect good stuff to happen. That's reason number one. I fear that some economics graduate students or undergraduates students here that might correct me afterwards. I'll stick to that story for now. Reason number two. Number two is housing policy. The United States doesn't believe in a free market in housing. We have a government that has housing policy. We've had this policy since the 1930s and it's already created major mayhem in markets. People don't think about this in these terms. But what are the crisis before this financial crisis was caused by government housing policy? Anybody have a clue? You whispered it so he would know what you're talking about. SNL crisis. SNL crisis, I know most of you are too young because you weren't born when it happened. Or born about when it happened. But the SNL crisis that happened in the 1980s, SNLs were created in the 1930s or formalized in the 1930s. They existed before, formalized in the 1930s. They can only do one thing. And that is lend 30 year fixed rate mortgages. All they could do is they had these 30 year assets, right? What happened to their liabilities? Liabilities were saving accounts so much shorter than 30 years. What happens when you have inflation, right? You economists and finance people, what happens? When you have high interest rates, what happens to the value of the assets? The value of the liabilities goes down as well but at a much slower rate. So SNL crisis actually happened in the 1970s with inflation destroyed the SNLs, brought them down. 1980s was just, we just saw the mess that that created when Congress then said, now that you're bankrupt, we're gonna deregulate you and you could take the, the insured deposits that we the government insured and gamble with them. Go buy a lot of your tickets. So they go went and bought a lot of your tickets and that's the SNL crisis. But this is a housing problem. This is because why did we form SNLs? So make it easy for Americans to own homes. How many of you rent? Well, you're students, most of you probably will. So let me ask the, well, anybody. How many have paid off your mortgage? You own your home, I'll try. A few of you, right? Thank you for all of you who rent.  I appreciate it because I have a pretty large mortgage because I get to deduct the interest that I pay on my mortgage. You don't get to deduct your rent and you don't get to deduct your paid off mortgage. So we have government policy that encourages people to take on debt in a very simple way for buying their home. And we encourage people to buy a home. There are lots of ways in which we do this. We encourage speculation and we encourage speculation at home by. You know that if you make money on your house, what's the capital gains rate? Zero. There's no capital gains up to the first half million a profit. That's a lot of profit on a home, right? First half a million a profit, there's no capital gains tax. The only asset class that that exists. Pretty cool stuff. They want you to buy a home. Government's not neutral about this question. And that's before I start talking about FETI and FANI and the FETI Home Loan Bank and half a dozen other government run institutions that all exist to get you into a home at all costs. In 1999, FETI and FANI, they're government creations and you know why they were created? You know, people talk about CDOs and securitized mortgages and all this stuff. Well, who created those? FETI and FANI were created in order to securitize mortgages. That was their purpose. That's why government created it. So before that, they were run pretty conservatively. They securitized mortgages, they created these CDOs, collateralized debt obligations. You don't know what they mean. I can tell you afterwards if you're really interested. And everything. So in 1999, Clinton told them, we want you to have up to half of your portfolio in alt-A and sub-prime, which are the lower quality mortgages. They'd only be doing a higher quality one. So they started doing lower quality mortgages. And it wasn't enough in the marketplace for them to have half the portfolio. So they encouraged more and more and more creation of really, really, really low quality mortgages. And they would buy them. So bankers didn't care. And FANI and FANI would just package them and sell them. And we could get, if you asked me about the rating agencies and all that stuff, I'd be happy to answer. But this kind of work. You see, they were government entities. They didn't care how much risk they were taking. By some estimates, they will leverage hundreds of dollars to $1 of equity. No private organization could ever carry that leverage. Nobody would lend it money. Why were people lending money to FANI and FANI? Because the government guaranteed their debt. So they could do whatever they wanted. They could lower wage as much as they wanted. And they were immune from any kind of market discipline. So just those two things. Government funneling money towards housing, encouraging us to funnel all money towards housing, making it so attractive, so cheap.  That, you know, we all did it. We all took on mortgages. And then they told us, and Alan Greenstein said, you know, the best type of mortgage you should take is a variable rate mortgage. Fixed rate mortgages, those are passé. If you look at the past, they never pay off. They don't pay off as well as variable rate mortgages. We all pay variable rate mortgages. It's really a bad, when bad times happen. And he said low wage states will stay forever. And for some reason, Americans believe that as well. So here's an accumulation of all coming from the top. Now, did people behave badly? Sure. Homeowners bought homes they couldn't afford. Banks issued loans they should have never issued. You know, investors bought securities they should have never bought because they didn't understand the cash flows.  But if we're looking for underlying causes, the causes are all government related.  I think this stuff is pretty. The economics of it are not that complicated. Yeah, if you get into, you know, CDSs and CDOs and the derivatives part of it, it gets very complicated. That's why regulators can't regulate it because they don't understand it. They never, they don't, they just don't. They can't, they can't hire the talent to understand it because it costs too much money. But if you put that side of the market aside and it's not a big part of this crisis anyway, this is easy stuff. So why did nobody, almost nobody stand up and say, no, why did everybody buy the story that this is the market, this is Wall Street, this is bankers, this is capitalism? Now, let's do a little bit of kind of a loose definition. What do we mean by capitalism? I mean by capitalism. I mean free markets. Free of what? When we say free markets, free of what? If you have government, if you have control, if you have regulations, if you have manipulation, free of intervention. So removed from markets. So just a simple thought experiment. How could capitalism have failed? If capitalism means free markets, when there were no free markets in 2007. So the idea is in 2007 we had capitalism and it failed. What are the markets that failed? Banking, mortgage business, and housing, right? Free markets. Those are the main culprits in this crisis. I would challenge you to find three more regulated, controlled and manipulated markets in the United States. Banking is by far the most regulated business. Maybe electrical utilities are more regulated, but just barely more regulated. Regulators are involved in any aspect of the creation of a bank, of the running of a bank, of the expansion of a bank. You cannot do a bank module without regulatory approval. You cannot found a bank, just start a bank, just as a... You cannot start a bank in the United States of America, the land of the free, without getting permission from the regulators for your business plan, for your executive team, for your board of directors, and for your investors. You cannot start a bank in the United States without those four things. In other words, without permission, and without approval of everything, right? Because that's everything that you need to start a bank. That's not exactly capitalism, not exactly free markets. Regulators go into the offices of banks, particularly the big banks, at least every quarter, and examine their books, and penalize them, and tell them which loans to write down, which loans are okay, which loans are not. That's not capitalism. Every bank in the United States is regulated by at least five different regulatory agencies. See if I remember them all. Federal Reserve, FDIC, Federal Deposit Insurance, OCC. You didn't even know there was such a thing. Office of the Comptroller of the Coency. This is a leftover from the Civil War that never went away, and keeps finding new responsibilities. State regulators in which the bank functions, and if you're cross-state, you get multiple states regulating you, and if you're public, the SEC. And that's, and they're more, right? These are just the obvious ones. They're more literal. Freddie and Fannie, each had a regulatory agency dedicated just to them. They didn't regulate anybody else. Freddie had one, Fannie had one, and they were the biggest bankruptcies in the whole system. So just on its face, without any economic analysis, without looking at anything, this crisis is about regulations in government. It can't be about capitalism, because it was no capitalism. It can't be about free markets. They won't know free markets. If this crisis had happened in, I don't know, what's a relatively free market up there? What's that? Well, I was thinking within the United States, even what's a relatively free industry there? Yeah, computers, if this crisis had happened in computers, you know, maybe it had a case, markets have failed. But it didn't. It happened in housing, which is heavily regulated, mortgages with Freddie and Fannie dominating, and banking, which is controlled and regulated by government. So this is easy stuff. You know, it really is. I have not heard yet a semi-legitimate rational argument that would point this to government. And I've done plenty of debates on this topic. I've seen plenty of people try to explain the other side. There is no legitimate argument in my view. And you can try to make one later if you want. And how this is caused by the free market or caused by capitalism. Because those free markets and capitalism didn't exist in 2007, six, five, four. You need to have an existence in this country for a very, very long time, particularly in those three areas. So what's going on? Something's going on, right? There's some big conspiracy, right? To hide the free market. No, okay. What is it that prevents people from getting it and from understanding it? And what is it more importantly that creates this gut response, almost instinctual to blame markets and capitalism? By the way, this isn't new. The Great Depression was blamed on bankers and capitalism and most economists today, I think most economists, even ones on the left, would agree looking back at the data that government made a huge amount of mistakes that caused the Great Depression. Nobody can legitimate the argue that FDR got us out of the Great Depression because unemployment in 33 when he took office and 39 when the war started in Europe was the same, basically. And the economy had been flat, almost, listen up, send out, basically flat. We know this stuff yet. We still teach our kids in school that the Great Depression was caused by, not by the Federal Reserve, and not by the government, but by, why, what is this thing that prevents us from giving credit to markets, from blaming government for not allowing us to celebrate markets or to, you know, give them the credit they deserve. Unless, you know, we're very, very few exceptions. What are markets about? You're cheating, as you probably know. You've been there in the book, it's nothing. Hate students. Self-interest, how does that manifest itself? Well, I like to use my iPhone as a prop. When Steve Jobs makes one of these, why does he do it? Why did he do it? Unfortunately, it's not what he's anymore. But why did he do it? Profit. Profit is certainly one thing.  Because I would have wanted to pay half of this. And the profit margins of these are about 60%. He didn't wake up every morning and say, I gotta answer my social utility, make my fellow man better off. He got up every morning and said, how can I make the coolest, prettiest, most efficient, whatever that I want? You know how many focus groups Apple went? Zero. You know how many consumer surveys they did? Zero. And then by the way, really hated for this, particularly by marketing professors. You teach that that's the way to do marketing. Steve Josh created these because he loved it, because he had fun doing it, because he believed in it, and because he made a lot of money doing it. All of those things, loving it, having a passion for it, believing in it, and wanting to make money at it, are all self-interested reasons. When you go buy something, you know, Anna Smith got this, right? When you go and buy bread from the baker, he's not selling it to you because he likes you. He's selling it to you because that's how he makes a living. He's trying to take care of himself, and his children, and his family, and his wife. So we know, we all know, even kids know, that people in business are in it for themselves. They're in it to make money, and they're in it to have fun, and they're in it to pursue their self-interest. Now there's another piece to the marketplace, and of course I went and bought one of these in the mall. And the first iPhone that I bought was in 2008, just as the economy was kind of spiraling out of control. So I went to the mall because I wanted to stimulate the economy. Right? That's why you guys go to the mall, right? You go buy stuff because you care about your fellow man, and you want to make sure they have jobs. Right? Consumption creates jobs, haven't you, Hood? That's Keynes and Coogman's theory of how the economy works. So you want to be good consumers because you want to create jobs, right? We go to the marketplace because we want to make our lives better. I bought this because I thought it was cool. I thought it would make me more productive, and I would have fun with it. And I was thinking only of me when I bought it. And you guys are kind of feeling uncomfortable a little bit right now because you know that's true of some of you, some of you are not. Because you know that's true. You all really, really suffer. And you act as well. That's how I used to ask my students when I taught. I used to ask, how many of you, when you decided what to study in college, what to major in college, how many of you sat down and made a list of all the possible professions, and then ranked them based on their social utility, and chose the one with the highest social utility and went for them?  And I said, how many of you chose your major because you thought you would enjoy it, you thought you would make money at it, you thought you would have fun doing it?  Because they were awesome, right? So here we are, here's a marketplace in which the users are selling us stuff for their self-interest because they're motivated by profit, because they want to make their lives better, because they're trying to take care of themselves. And here's a marketplace where we go into, to try to make our lives better, to try to feed our families, to try to buy some good stuff that we can use that will make us, and some it's just for fun, and some it's for productivity, and whatever. Everybody in the marketplace is going to the marketplace with the intent of pursuing their own self-interest. They might be wrong. It might turn out that they don't. It might turn out that they buy something they didn't really want, or they might just be driven by emotion, but their intention is to pursue, to make their lives better. Marketplace is a place in which people are pursuing what they think of that moment is going to enhance their lives in some way or emotionally feel that it's going to, but it's about them. It's about being selfish, being self-interested. And what do we know? What do we know is why somebody's squirming a little bit when I say that, and if you don't, then other groups when I speak certainly do. What do we know about selfishness? What do we know about selfishness? Well, I know that when I was growing up, I grew up in a good Jewish family, and my mother told me, think of yourself last. Think of others first. Selflessness is the essence of virtue. She wasn't quite Christian, she didn't say sacrifice, right? But, right? But sacrifice is the model idea, right? That's just a fact. Not a slam on anybody except my mother. Now, my mother failed dramatically, as you can tell. But, she, like everybody else, their intention is to grow up a kid with morals, and morals means it means in the culture we live in today. It means being selfless. It means giving up stuff. It means sacrifice. What is a sacrifice? When we trade in the marketplace, when I buy the iPhone, who loses? No one. No one, win-win, right? I buy something for a certain amount of money that I think is worth more than that amount to me. The other party is selling it for profit, so it's worth less to them. Win-win. What's a sacrifice? Do both parties win? Then it's a trade, and it's not a sacrifice. What's a sacrifice? Net loss. Net loss, somebody has to lose. So if I'm sacrificing, I'm giving something up and expecting what in return. Less or nothing. That's what a sacrifice means. And our ethic today and our culture is all about sacrifice. That equals virtue. Self-sacrifice is virtue. So think of Bill Gates, right? He's the guy who created billions and billions and billions of dollars of wealth for himself and for many others. He sold his products, we all bought, we all used our lives a gazillion times better because we used them. Now this is from an Apple person, so. It's hard for me to say this, but it's true in spite of the fact that I am. I've been an Apple devotee since 89. Office. I still use office, there you go. So even we use office on Apple, right? And yet, when he made his money, what did we think of him from an ethical perspective? We might have thought it was a great businessman, but what did he think of him as an ethical person, as a mall person? Mostly nothing. What's an issue? Somewhat negative. He's greedy, he's making a lot of money for himself. He's not giving a lot away. A lot of people thought negative things about Bill Gates. You know, I don't know if you saw the articles that came out about a week after Steve Jobs died. They didn't do it the first week, because they had some respect, but about a week later, criticizing him. Why did they criticize him? He only cared about his own point of view. He wasn't a good boss because he yelled at people sometimes and he didn't really respect their point of view when they were gone. Because obviously he was right because the success Apple's had. And he wasn't for that thought. So obviously he was a bad guy.  The guy was a bad guy because he wasn't. Sacrificing. He didn't do anything for his fellow man, right? He did huge amount for his fellow man. But what's the problem? Why don't we like him? Because he gained from it. Now take Bill Gates today. What do we think of him today? From an ethical perspective, I was Bill Gates. He's the same one. No, he's not quite the same. I'll tell you how he becomes the same in a minute. I'll take my lions away. He's good. You know, these are a tolical question, right? I'm kidding, I'm kidding. I like that, I like the concept. He's great right now because he's giving it away. And he's charitable, he's not only that, he's giving it away far away. So he can't even say he's trying to make his own city better because he doesn't give much to Seattle. He gives it to Africa, so he's really helping people he doesn't really know or doesn't really probably care about because he's giving it far away, right? Which proves how good he is. Now he's sacrificing, but not really. What would make him a saint, going to the same question? Here's what would make him a saint. I guarantee the Pope would do it, right? He had to give it all the way, move into a tent with his kids. They need to see blood, they need to see blood. I know tax breaks. Absolutely no tax breaks. Give it away and pay taxes on it. That's the mall code we live in. It's a mall code that the sainthood, virtue, morality is equal to sacrificing one's own value. It's the morality that says the moderation is a saint of all saints, the ideal person. And the Bill Gates and Steve Jobs who are creating their wealth at M. So, so. It's the morality that says that when you do, what do you call it, the micro loans in the third world countries, if you make a profit doing it, what some organizations do, you're bad. But if you do the exact same loans and don't make a profit, i.e. sacrifice, it's good. All hints of self-interest needs to be wiped out. So, a morality like that is gonna view capitalism how? Here's a system of self-interest. A system that everybody engages in self-interest. And if Smith got this, we get this. Every child gets this. We're not gonna view it positively. We might participate in it. We might still try to pursue our self-interest while condemning it. Oh, we're hypocrites, most people are hypocrites. Most people don't live the ideas that they believe in. Otherwise they'd go on, like, I mean, the one thing you can say about Mother Teresa is she lived her ideas, right? She wasn't just saying it, she lived it. Well, if everybody who believed in that morality went off to India, we could have capitalism here. The problem is they wouldn't be much of us left here. That's the problem. Because implicitly, most people accept our morality and most people don't live it. Almost all the people accept it, don't live it. And that results in when you have an ideal and you know you're never gonna live up to that ideal, what does it cause you to feel? Guilt, guilt, frustration, modernity. Guilt, so that most capitalists in this country feel guilty. Many people in this country feel guilty because they didn't live on Mother Teresa's elect. They don't really want to live on Mother Teresa's elect, but they've convinced themselves, they've been convinced that that is some kind of moral ideal and to get into heaven, that's what they should have done. And you know, now they've lost out something. J.P. Morgan, towards the end of his life, the great banker, tried to give his money away so fast because he was trying to buy himself into heaven. He wanted to pay back somehow, all the sins he had committed by making the money because making the money, he was self-interested and that was sinful. He didn't cheat anybody, he didn't like anybody. He made it in the market place. To me, this is the fundamental problem that we face. It's not a lack of economic understanding although there's plenty of that and there's a lot of economic education that has to go out there.  Indeed, it is consistent with any form of statism you can imagine. It's consistent with socialism and fascism and all the mixtures in between. And until we actually present an alternative to that view of morality, until we're willing to challenge that view of morality and present an alternative and convince people of that alternative, we cannot succeed in convincing people that free markets are good, that capitalism is good, that freedom is a good thing. Now what is the alternative? The alternative is, I meant she's the only one since I have a start up, to present a morality of self-interest, to take the core of what is capitalism and give it a moral defense. Now it's not why she did it, she didn't start with capitalism and build up an ethics but it's the only ethical system consistent with capitalism. So what is Iron Man's kind of quick five minute, Iron Man's morality five minutes? It's basically the idea, and at some extent, to some extent, not a full extent, but at some extent this is the idea of the founding fathers. Because what is the American revolution about? What is the fundamental revolution that is American? The freedom for whom? And for what? It's sovereignty. It's all about sovereignty. Before the American revolution, who did you belong to? I mean, it's a funny question. Somebody, the king, the chieftain, the tribe, the pope, the witch doctor, you name it, depending on which culture you in, depending on which country you in, depending on who the ruler was, the emperor, you were owned by somebody else. You were just a puppet to be played with by whoever ruled over you. What did American founders say? No, and this comes straight out of the Enlightenment thinking. No, you own yourself.  Your life is yours to live. That's what the right to life means, your life, right? So Iron Man takes that concept, it takes it one level deeper, much deeper. And from an ethical perspective, as he says, ethics is about living your life, living, making your life a life worth living, making your life the best life that it can be. Your more responsibility, your entire code of morality should be those principles, all the virtues, all the values, all the principles, but those principles that you need to adopt in order to make your life the best life that you can be. It's about you. It's about self-interest. It's all about pursuit of happiness, again, a term from the Declaration of Independence, right?  And what is it? What is it that does it? What is it that makes possible for a human being, for the animal that we are, right? For the species that we are, what is it that makes possible everything we have, all the values, all the things that benefit us, come from where? Where do they come from? Computer, the desk, the carpet, the food, the clothing, the clock, the building, everything. Where does it all come from? It's in your mind. Your mind! We are not born with a gene that can feed us. We're not. Cheetahs know how to get their food. Their mothers can teach them a few simple tricks, but they know gazelle food, run, catch, white, eat. Look at your neighbor.  We have no claws, we have no fangs, we're slow and we're weak. You put yourself against a saber-toothed tiger, who do you think wins? Well, it depends. Yeah, I saw that, my wife too. Who do you think wins? Well, it depends, right? Depends on what? If we're just like this, well, the saber-toothed tiger wins every time. But if we have what? If we can use our minds, now it's not clear, because I can build a weapon. But it's only my mind that can figure out how to build a weapon. We don't know how to build a hut. I don't know how to build a hut, even today. With all the knowledge that I have, all my PhD and everything, I can't build a hut. People figured it out, some genius of his time, Steve Jobs of his time, figured out how to build a hut. How to plant a seed, how to grow food. All these things people had to use their mind to figure out and then to act on them. So for when self-interest is about being wrapped, it's about using one's mind, it's about using one's reason. If you had a boyhood ethics to one statement, it's think, use reason, use your mind. Everything else is a detail. Be honest, why be honest? Because your mind needs facts, not falsehoods. To function properly, your mind has to be attached to the real reality that's out there.   You damage the mechanism that's your mind. It depends on facts. You're sneaking into the front, you can compartmentalize it, you can keep apart the lies and apart the truth. But where are my integrating machines? They want to connect, and whether you do it consciously or not, you're gonna screw up. Those lies and those facts are gonna get messed up, particularly when you're my age, and you barely remember what actually happened. And this is a no-off, this is just... Now I have to remember, if I'm lying, I have to remember what happened and what I told people. And I need to remember which people I told that lie and which people I told actually what happened. Way too complicated for me. I don't have the brain power for that. I don't know, maybe some of you can pull it up, but may it off really try this on a grand scale and look what happened to him. He lived a miserable, horrible life and is in jail today. And he's actually claiming now that he's happier in jail than he was. And I believe him, because the efforts, the energy to lie like that and to sustain it, and to sustain it day in, day out with the people that you're most close and intimate with on a day-to-day basis is exhausting, it wipes you out, you cannot have fun while doing it. Liars don't have fun. They're not happy. They're not successful at the end of the day. They can fake it for a while, but only for a while and it's fake. So Iron Man's Ethics is pretty simple.  The Bernie Madoff's out, sacrifice is out. Now what kind of society and what kind of economy do individuals living for themselves want? Do they want somebody sitting in their shoulder telling them, don't do that, can't do that? Oh, you can't walk over there. Don't run, you might slip.  Worse. Worse than your mother, but, I should say he's bad about my mother. I just do it all the time, it's not fair. Right?  That's why they call it paternalism, right? But it's the government. It's the government bureaucrat sitting on your shoulder and it's exactly what you feel like if you're in business. Particularly if you're in bank. A person of self-esteem, a person pursuing his own happiness, a person who wants to live his life and make the best of his life, live life to the fullest, wants to be left alone, to pursue his values, to trade with other people. He wants the camaraderie of being with other people, but as a trader, not as a sacrificial animal, not as somebody who's told what to do, but as an engaged trader, somebody gives values and gets values, gets something real in return. In other words, somebody who believes in racial self-interest, somebody who really internalizes that, is going to be, his gut response, his immediate reaction to anything would be give me more freedom, not give me more regulation. And if Iron Man's ethics of racial self-interest is necessitates, if you will, a political system that is free in his capitalist. It necessitates free market. And it's the only morality that doesn't. It's the only morality consistent with that behavior we experience when going to the marketplace. There's no other morality they can justify that in full. And in that sense, again, I think Iron Man completes the work that the Founding Fathers began. The Founding Fathers created a political system implicitly based on this principle. There's no other way, there's just no other way that the Founders could have articulated in what I think is the most important political document in human history, much more important than constitution, and that is a declaration of independence. They articulate the inalienable right, and the inalienable right means that it's something that cannot be taken away from you. Not by 10 people, not by 100 people, not by a million people, not by seven billion people, the entire population of it. Nobody can take a right away from you. That's what inalienable means. And what are these rights? These rights are the right to your own life, to be left alone to live your life as you choose fit. The right to your liberty to make choices and decisions and actions based on your evaluations, not somebody else's, nobody can force you to do things you don't wanna do. That's the right to liberty. And in the most selfish political statement in human history, each one of us has an inalienable right to pursue our own happiness. Now if we can capture the self-esteem and the passion and the ideas behind that simple sentence and the declaration of independence, we can have freedom, capitalism, free market, and a great American future. Thank you all. Thank you.


Item number SCP-5339 Object Class, Euclid Special Containment Procedures SCP-5339 is contained within a vertically extended humanoid containment cell decorated with the personal possessions of Mickey E. Dem. All meals given to SCP-5339 must consist of soft semi-solids such as applesauce, watermelon slices, or jam. SCP-5339 is to be given weekly English and ASL lessons on a rotational shift basis by selected researchers.  SCP-5339 has three legs which are spaced equidistantly from one another. Despite this, SCP-5339 has difficulty remaining stable for more than 15 seconds. Discovery On March 12, 2013, Hannah E. Dem gave birth to a child, Mickey E. Dem, who had developed an accessory arm underneath his left pectoral during the late stages of Mrs. E. Dem's pregnancy. Mickey E. Dem was born in the St. Raymond, Nenetus Hospital with expected complications, although Mickey and Hannah E. Dem both recovered within a reasonable time period. One year after Mickey E. Dem's birth, he disappeared due to unknown circumstances while on vacation with Mrs. E. Dem. Upon returning to replace a residence, Mrs. E. Dem located SCP-5339 in Mickey E. Dem's room. Test log, 5339-1, March 12, 2014. In order to determine how SCP-5339 relates to Mickey E. Dem, a variety of tests were conducted. The following table lists Object 1, Object 2, and the result of the test. One cubic meter of grass and one cubic meter of assorted bovine flesh, SCP-5339 appears uninterested in the grass and sniffs the flesh before emitting a loud vocalization and retreat into the corner of its containment unit. Mickey E. Dem's blanket, nearly severed for unknown reasons, or an undamaged blanket. SCP-5339 moves toward the nearly torn blanket and successfully tears it down the center with one of its legs in its jaw. SCP-5339 places one half of the blanket over its head and the other half underneath itself. A framed photograph of Hannah E. Dem and a tattered photograph of Will E. Dem, Mrs. Dem's husband, who expired one year previously. SCP-5339 approaches Will E. Dem's photograph with the parent interest. SCP-5339 grunts and moves to Mrs. Dem's photo. At the end of the test, SCP-5339 resisted the research staff who had attempted to remove Mrs. Dem's photo and slid the photo around the cell until a researcher grabbed SCP-5339's leg to allow another researcher to retrieve the photo. A photograph of Mickey E. Dem and a photograph of SCP-5339, SCP-5339 pauses momentarily and then moves towards the image of Mickey E. Dem. SCP-5339 lowers its head and pushes the image of Mickey E. Dem with its snout. Addendum 5339-2, March 12, 2014 Dr. Green was instructed to retrieve certain objects from SCP-5339's containment cell once testing had concluded. While Dr. Green attempted to remove the cubic meter of assorted bovine flesh, SCP-5339 moved behind them and produced a vocalization similar to that of a child in distress. Dr. Green questioned SCP-5339 who paused and then addressed Dr. Green as maw. It is unknown whether or not SCP-5339 has awareness of what its vocalizations allude to. Further research is to commence. SCP-5339's potential for sapient thought can currently be approximated to that of a one-year-old child. To improve SCP-5339's vocabulary and speech, weekly English lessons are implemented into SCP-5339's containment procedures. Lesson plans have been designed with the assistance of ASL and other non-verbal speech therapy methods. Please note that the following table only consists of notable lessons where SCP-5339 showed noticeable improvement. Lesson The research staff joined SCP-5339 for a short period of time in its containment cell while being monitored by several Foundation security guards. Staff were instructed to assume a semi-formal disposition and verbally communicate frequently with one another. Result SCP-5339 began emitting several vocalizations that research staff believed sounded significantly like mom, drink, toy, and food. Lesson Research staff allowed SCP-5339 to play with a beach ball for five minutes before retrieving the ball and waiting to see if it requested for the ball to be given back. Result SCP-5339 played with the ball for the entire elated period of time. When the ball was retrieved, it showed signs of distress and attempted to kick it out of Dr. Green's hands. Eventually, SCP-5339 said give ball, where they were then allowed the ball for the remainder of the day. Lesson Research staff requested a brief recreational meeting with SCP-5339 in its containment cell. SCP-5339 was given a cup of applesauce while the rest of the staff were given coffee. Result SCP-5339 learned the word sauce, cup, person, and friend. Lesson Research staff placed several objects inside of SCP-5339's containment cell that it has not learned the name of. Research staff hoped that it may attempt to expand its own vocabulary by creating compound words. Result SCP-5339 vocalized the phrases long animal to indicate a stuffed snake, talk metal to indicate a speaker, and bad water to indicate an image of an ocean. Addendum SCP-5339-2, July 22, 2016 Upon a private meeting with Dr. Green, SCP-5339 vocalized their first complete sentence. After several indistinguishable grunts, SCP-5339 said, Mommy, the water is too deep. Dr. Green promptly exited the containment cell, and SCP-5339 was provided with their beach ball and an additional serving of semi-solids.


Let me get one thing straight before I get accused of being a Tier 3 Grand Wizard in Pokémane's army. I don't like nor dislike Pokémane.  But one thing I dislike overall are outraged hypocrites. Before I can explain what outraged hypocrites are, I have to first explain the situation in its entirety.    It only becomes outraged hypocrisy after the trend evolves into something completely different and you become a near exact inverse of that same thing you're speaking out against. In this case, the trend evolved into a war, the war against sims. Anyone that enjoyed Pokémane's content was branded a sim. Anyone caught defending Pokémane's actions was called out for being a sim. Anyone caught even using the letter P in a sentence was called out for being a sim. Oh, these sims, they're so sad, they watch Pokémane all day, they watch, they watch her content, they're just so obsessed with something they'll never get.  Hey, by the way, did you see that eighth video that that Leafy made on Pokémane? Indubitably, I've watched all of them, that is out of the question. I would never miss a chance to make one of that poor. I also watched 17 other videos making fun of Pokémane and her sims just to let people know how anti-sim I am.  While these sims spend a considerable amount of time worshipping and praising this woman, you also on the other side of the spectrum spend that same considerable amount of time antagonizing and debasing her. Listen to me, both you sims and anti-sim, I'm not saying you can't like or dislike Pokémane, but at the end of the day, why are on your keyboard searching for more Pokémane exposed videos or on your keyboards looking for more Pokémane thick compilations?    I don't know, right?


I'm Kerry Law, I'm an oil painter and my studio is in Green Point, Brooklyn. I make oil paintings and four different motifs basically. One is with the Empire State Building and that is they're small, they're foot square. So there's a lot of repetition in my work and I think that when I find something that works, you know, a format that works that I'm comfortable working in, you know, the work kind of spurs itself. I'm a representational painter but, you know, really like there's a, to a large degree like the subject of my painting is painting. So I'm always looking for different ways to do things. A lot of my work is done a la Prima, which means it's all done in one session. And that's an important thing for me because, you know, especially working in these series, it's really about a moment or a day. This one was an interesting one because, you know, the clouds in the background had this kind of mustardy color about them. And then this cloud here, you know, it picked up the green from the Empire State Building. And I remember that when I painted that cloud, you know, I was like that really, I really felt like I captured what it looked like but I didn't think that people would believe, you know, that it looked like that because it was just so alien almost. I've been in this studio for a little over three years, but I've been in Brooklyn for 10, 15 years. I don't know, I lost count. And I just love it.  So there's a lot going on in Brooklyn, art-wise.


As part of a luncheon held at the May Lodge in Floyd County, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron spoke with local leaders about recent efforts within the Commonwealth. During the luncheon, Cameron spoke on issues ranging from human trafficking, COVID-19 legislation, and advancements in the opioid epidemic. I'll also note that our human trafficking unit has made progress in tracking down and apprehending traffickers in Kentucky. Some of you might know, and the Governor myself just announced, the completed Operation United Front, which we rescued 21 human trafficking victims, two of which were minors, and arrested 46 suspected human traffickers. Like many of our most successful projects, this operation was the result of collaboration amongst our local, state, and federal law enforcement community. Because of their actions, their appearance in our state that can sleep better tonight, knowing that some predator is not trying to exploit their child. Later Cameron spoke with Mountaintop about possible steps in fighting the opioid epidemic. What I hoped to communicate with the remarks I provided or gave in there, and what I've been trying to articulate to folks is that ending the opioid epidemic, ending the drug epidemic. We used the word drug because opioids continue to be a big driver, but now we're seeing meth, we're seeing resurgence in meth, we're seeing pressed pills, maybe they have fentanyl or car fentanyl in them that are having just as dangerous consequences for folks that ingest them. So my view is that we need a two-pronged approach. We need interdiction, we need our law enforcement to continue locking up the bad guys and the traffickers that are pushing this poison into our communities. But we also need to make sure that we're holding accountable any distributors or wholesalers that help exacerbate the problem. And so what we've done in the AG's office, and not only our office, other AG offices across the country, have joined on to a global settlement, if you will, that will bring in excess of $482 million to Kentucky to help with what I call abatement or rehabilitation services, training, transportation, education, things that can help restore hope and help people that have found themselves in the cycle of addiction. That money, I'm hopeful, when it's split between state government and the counties and cities will help break those cycles of addiction and ultimately we can push back and turn the tide against this epidemic. For Mountain Top News, I'm Joel Porjol.


Welcome everybody. This is Rod from Burn to Learn. Today we're going to show you part 1 of how to create an input and output table to keep track of your key business activities using Excel 2016. Please be sure to watch part 2 in our next video. Let's say you're in charge of a large warehouse with an inventory of hundreds of products. Instead of struggling anymore to accurately track inventory as it comes in and out all day every day, you want to see if you can save time and have precise and accurate inventory information in real time by automating the tracking process. Using tools you have already learned from earlier Burn to Learn videos, you create a table by going to the tab function and choosing insert then table. Then you check my table has headers and name your table products. You should then check to verify the range selected for the table covers A3 through 16. Now let's repeat the same process to create input and output tables. And don't forget to name each table. Now the three tables have the same format. Let's start by filling in inputs. As you can see in the next example, we have already filled in the input table to show that you received several pieces of product yesterday. We type the product codes in the column and their descriptions appeared automatically. Then we typed the dates and the amounts and the input table was complete. And now let's show how you can do this in the output table. Type the function equal sign V lookup with an open parentheses. Select the code cell which Excel automatically places in brackets. Then type A comma. Then type the table name products with a comma, which tells Excel where to find product information. Now type the number two with a comma, which tells Excel to look for the information in column two. Now select the word false to obtain the exact details. Type a close parenthesis, press enter, and you've completed the process. Now let's test our table. Today someone used 400 pieces of B1001. So here's what you do. Type B1001 in the output code cell. See the description appears automatically. Now type in the date and then the amount. As you can see, this output transaction is now complete. And you can follow the same steps to record future output transactions. Now you know how to create and fill in input and output tables using Excel 2016. In part two, we will show how you can make some magic and make your input output transactions appear in real time automatically. So please be sure to watch. If you liked this video, please remember to comment, share it, and hit the like button. And do subscribe to our channel for more upcoming videos. Also remember, if you can access a computer, you can burn to learn. Until the next time, goodbye and thanks for watching.


These are the Skechers anti-slip memory foam work shoes Taken them out today for the first time very comfortable work shoes didn't bother me I wore them for about 10 hours very comfortable. No no pain. I walk through all kinds of surfaces I need very sturdy shoes that no slip like a little rock walls. I go through slippery grass I go on on decks that are slippery. I definitely need something anti-slip these things worked really well Look at them and they're very comfortable I can't imagine anything more comfortable than these the memory foam and like I said I had them on for about 10 hours and no pain no no blisters no issues whatsoever and that's Skechers work shoes Memory foam anti-slip


He's not doing anything if I just hit square is he dead How's it going everybody dots it away here and allow me to explain myself because I already know this seems weird very recently I was trying to get some sleep and right as I was about to doze off my eyes shot open And I remember that there was a one punch man game that was pretty recently released turns out It was over a year ago now, but I didn't know that at the time, but yeah, somehow this game just completely escaped me I've never seen anything on it let alone played the game And so I immediately at 3 a.m. Went to Metacritic to check the reviews and uh, you know They weren't all positive in fact most people seem to agree that the game was lackluster if not just bad Of course, it's just both a huge fan of the show and fighting games in general I knew this was something I just had to check out for myself $60 this game still $60. I don't want to pay $60, but I decided to go ahead and push through anyway So with all of that out of the way, let's go ahead and check out one punch man a hero Nobody knows. Oh wow. I already passed my What why do I look like that? I got my hero name all set I'm ready to enter the world check me to see if you're online the hero. Oh, no problem. Yeah, let's play an online mode Avatar creation. Okay, so there's actually I do remember seeing that it had pretty extensive. Oh, that's my photo Let's not take the photo just yet. I could be happier sad. I'm gonna choose. I'm gonna choose happy. What? Okay, there has to be a way to move why Why would my face mask me up there? There has to be a way to move this row. There's there's no way. What body? Oh Cuz I can put it on my face. I See I see I thought these would all have different options Why can I put a what? Why I guess you can never be too safe nowadays What Advanced accessory. Oh, I can move them myself. Here we go. This is what I'm talking about, dude I could be written like face mask man. Hold on. I'm gonna be face mask man and perfect All right, I I've decided to be I wish I could go back and change my name. I'm face mask man, bro This is my best year. This really is the hero. Nobody knows You've earned the following hero what they call They took all they took all They took all of the hero association looked at my hero and they said because you're wearing sandals your name is sandals I got okay, yeah, I get to we're not we're not sandals that honestly would be funny I guess we'll just be face mask. I couldn't fit in face mask man. Yeah, dude There we go. All right. Now. I'm high.  Oh No, I can't believe it. I can't believe it dude Dodget dude Saitama the ultimate inspiration, dude, you would have never beaten face mask man. Let me make that clear. Oh Why did they show that man getting bodied?  Oh, I got a message your name has been add to the hero registry. Nice I'm already living life, dude. Yeah, just the newest hero in town a face mask man Looks like I need to get through chapters one and two of the story.  Who are you the latest pickle? Damn, I'm a look at me talking like this. All right first fight. Oh Damn not bad at all. Oh set that guy back and hold on. I'm not this you with the super then come here Let's go Face mask, man. He's not taking no for an answer come back here. Oh, oh, oh, damn. He's good. He's good. He's good He's good much better than I expected stop stop Wow, this guy is not bad at all perfect guard too bad. I had the setups too bad I had the set I'm let me hit this guy again with the oh That was sick didn't expect the armor move a well got to finish him off somehow Mmm should have kept six feet or more Should have kept the distance of six feet or more The perfect line dude nice battle ranking as well that guy just another guy taken out by face mask man Let's also stop the robber why not if we're if we're here We might as well take it on all the requests of the city and he's got a face mask I can respect you but you're clearly a few levels behind me and for that I gotta hit you with the combo nice Oh my goodness, he can't handle it the knockdown pressure. Oh perfect guard. I can respect that. No For a burglary this guy has hands Whoa, oh my god the burglar shuffle combos. I don't need the space. Why are we delivering space pods for a burglary? Another battle one This guy wants me to deliver something to somebody. I didn't I wasn't really paying attention Dapper gentlemen. All right, and we'll just set the set the goal and I'll just run there, dude Rose like five feet wait. I can literally see where I was standing when I accepted the quest. I Can literally see you. Why did you send me over there? You could have done that you didn't need a hero You didn't need face mask, but oh he didn't have a face mask so he couldn't get I see never mind I was perfect for this mission Alright, we're finally making story progress. I got to talk to this mustache guy and then we should just be good to go I don't know what chapter one We got to get to chapter two to beat up to be able to play online, which is what I really want to do I don't remember if you can even use your custom character online, but I'm really hoping you can oh My god the level of play here has greatly gone up. Oh, they're robbing this guy.  He is shaky. Do you look scared? Oh, I get to play as this guy. Nah, I'm good Actually, you know what let me see what he has Perfect guard that let's go. Oh, let me hit you with mmm level three. He no way this random biker blocked that dive kick power up Okay, you're good. You're good. You're good. You're good. Wow Once these guys stop blogging they just get washed the class as hero.  We got a scram As for your strength of skill you've got a long way to go on that note. Oh, are you interested in the martial arts? You bet I am dude. We're getting a teacher already. You are well as a novice hero.  He is not playing around. He is not playing around I need a sidestep hold on perfect guard. No, not gonna get the perfect guard. That's fine. Let me step it up five He's he this is gonna be impossible. I just looked at his health bar I got a drop this man below 50% and I am not hurting him. He this guy is unnaturally strong He even how do you would stay in my classic move? Oh My god, stop stop I Don't say this lightly. Am I good? Yes, I don't know how he saw I had potential from that, but nice Let's have a rematch when we do oh dude This is gonna be like one of those things where I like beat him at the end of the game We've got a second killer move. Well, can I just put anything there? Or did we just unlock a slot dude if we can get another iconic move that would be pretty much all we need I think uh, what's this guy doing just standing around? Okay, he doesn't know me. That's fine. Oh another cutscene. Oh, it's Moomin rider Dude, it's all right. I'm a hero to my man. Oh my god, somebody help her This is emerging some sort of disturbance seems to have occurred in the central. Oh We got an emergency meeting all heroes on deck. I'm coming face mask man is on the way help me Oh, no, somebody's in trouble. Oh, no, is it another guy with a face mask? How many people are gonna soil the name? All right, okay, it's just a normal mask. We're fine He's just hiding his identity.  Okay, never mind. You're quite nice Am I supposed to lose because this guy seems tough like are they supposed to take that little damage? Okay, no, he was he was supposed to be tough. Oh wait a minute. Is that me? Hey, let's go, dude You can't take him out alone. Let me help out. Let me help out. All right, not so fast You thought it was gonna be easy, huh? Hmm.  I'm not calling in help dude I'm doing this alone. Okay, maybe I can't do it alone. Has anybody helped somebody help somebody help All right. Thank you. Thank you tank top black hole Giant swing. Oh, let's go. I knew calling in help was the best bet I definitely wasn't against it a few seconds ago. Wait, look at the damage Yo, my character really is just trash.  Here we go. I'm ending this right here Right here nice That's what I'm talking about dude. We had to get the credit for ourselves We couldn't let the other guys steal it. You really have my little bro back there. Thank you anonymous hero Anytime dude anytime power type. Why would I not be a power type? Wait a minute That sounds like it could be fun if I could just be ripped Specializing combat on the front lines and lets you learn close combat moves like angel tackle and tank top tackle. Oh, we've got it boys We've got it. I'm getting giant swing. Hello if face mask it could be that that is crazy And then we could use the second one as well. Oh, we're geniuses dude. We're geniuses All right, now I have to take down a monster. What is that? What is that?  What is it? What is that? Oh my god Come here. Oh, oh my god frame one that was sick. Yeah, this guy's dead.  Wow, I I'm tough. I'm built different. All right on our way to association HQ for the big mission Dude, this is probably the mission that finally gets us out of chapter one I assume. Oh, we finally made it back to the hero HQ level punch Oh, no, if it's level punch it must be pretty serious. Oh My god male fiend What are these why dude still though? I'm not really afraid after I switch the power of this game got a lot easier, dude I just start punching people and they start dying God. He's good. He's good at the game. Come here. Oh, why? male fiend stop Uppercut big damage.  Oh, he did break my guard But it's fine. I'm just gonna counter with a grab throw this man to another side of the stage And you know what come over here? Hey, I'm not done with you Throw him back to the other side. I like them better over there Another fiend taken down. Oh, we actually went up in hero ranking. The male fiend was a popular villain I guess thank you for your efforts to resolve Christ's as they carry. Well, dude We're making the town a safer place. Oh What we just ah Why why are they gatekeeping us from online? We just can't play online until we keep increasing our Contributionship and the injurious incident. All right, I can I can end an incident dude.  Let me see how strong this guy is how much help does he lose from the giant swing? No, I could definitely beat this guy on my Own I'm really not sure why an s-class hero is coming. Oh my god. He's here. Is Gino still here. Did he leave? Oh, no, I can tell one into him. All right incineration. Okay, let's try it. Oh Why did he even bother coming here? Was there nothing else Gino's could have been doing with his time. Oh My god, all right now. We have another association mission So I have to go back to the headquarters and then once I get to the headquarters I can unlock the shopping area, which means I'll have to come back to the shopping area, but overall not too bad We're making moves. We're making moves. It's male fiend again. What are you doing? Male fiend how many times do I have to teach you this lesson old man? Come here I don't have to teach it to you the hard way that did I not grab you enough times? This guy is light work dude. Look. He's dead already. Oh Just the overhead he should have blocked high. Oh God damn, and I played the same mission didn't I I just played the male fiend mission. No wonder male fiend came back I didn't do the right mission Come on babe, why so shy?  What is going on here? Oh, dude spring mustachio You think you could fight two heroes, buddy?  Whoa No, there we go All right some new moves unlocked finally finally love to see it Let me grab that he was still on the ground. He was still on the ground. No not again not again I keep getting stuck grab this man. Nice.   I'm switching out I'm switching out this guy's just this guy's good. Wait a minute. Just get back. Hold on.  Oh, yeah Keep talking keep talking over there. I'm gonna have to hit you every time Never mind. You're pretty strong. Oh lock it. Oh dodged it. No face mask Go through his guard go through his guard go through his guard. Please. Yes. All right. Is he dead off that? Yes, well that actually got kind of close That guy was good dude. Hey, but another level of law. I'm only getting better, dude. Oh my god I can't even teleport directly to this.   I have to take the bus everywhere All right shopping area. All right. I can finally shut. Oh new t-shirt I can get new clothes for face mask man a cap.  If they force me to put the hat on I'll piss. No Yeah, I'm good face I'm about as iconic as I'm ever gonna get I think who to association HQ. Oh, man I got to take the bus back to association HQ Every time every time I have to take the bus back.   Don't tangle with the monster. It's way too dangerous.  Why would I do that? Go on? I don't know your hero name, but it's face mask. You couldn't tell by the face mask All the yes, I knew I was gonna fight it. Oh come on. Tell me this is No Why why did but making my hero face mask man actually turned out so good. Hey, dude.  He never saw me and he's not taking any damage And he's literally the strongest guy we face come here. You think I can't take him down though. Boom He's going all the way across town. Oh Oh my god That scene man, he was not truly I should have Somebody help somebody help vaccine man is crazy. Stop stop it. No, you don't know you don't not against face mask He's too good.  Let's go He's here, dude. He's saved us. Do I finally get to play a Saitama?  I thought I was gonna hate this game I thought I was gonna hate this maybe your disciple Please sure. Yes Yes, you agreed. You have to cut legally. You're contractually a blind No Please no, dude.   I'm a power guy. I'm a level of my attack and my my HP I guess a stronger than I've ever been. Oh, and I can also raise this up. Nice Can I fight people yet? Can I fight people? Wait? Hold on. Hello, Cedric. Would you like to fight request battle? I can fight this guy fight me. I dare you to fight me, dude Fight me right now. Come on.  I dare you to fight me as class hero wannabe, dude I'm C rank. No No, please somebody fight me, dude Somebody fight me. I don't have access to online. I don't think where's online versus your training program. Yes Yes, I can play online face mask a giant lobster vaccine man. All right. Finally, dude Okay, we're searching for a ranked match finally Finally face mask man will be able to prove himself in battle.  Oh, we got a match. We got a match. I was staring at a lobster guy, but we got a match. Hey, oh My god, this guy's max rank. He you think you could be face mask. It's time to do this. Oh I blocked it game over. Oh, oh my god.  Boom. All right. It's not over yet If I can just get the okie.  Oh No Face mask. Oh damn. Oh, he's good at the game. He's good at the game. Dude. This guy's actually good. He's got juggles Tekken combos Tekken combos Juggles damn. He's gaming This guy is playing right now. That was a combo. Oh He did a shield break. Okay should have dodged. All right. All right You know that wasn't even my main vaccine man's my main nice dodge good movement tech and he got a perfect dodge He got a perfect dodge. How do I even how do I even defend against that?  Okay still down on my luck still down on my luck dodge it. What is he doing? What is he? What is that? What is going on I? Don't even know what's happening Nice follow-up though. Nice follow-up. I can also try to crush their guard if I live get up Nice guard crush the guard nice. Oh There's a wall there. How's I supposed to know that no my shields broken?  No way. Okay. Well, it kind of did. I Don't think it did as much damage as it was supposed to I think I'm just dead dude. I think I just was out classed Oh You're pretty good you're pretty good. I'll give you that I will give you that well didn't get any rank points But I did have a surprisingly good time Thank you guys so much for watching a hero nobody knows let me know what you your thoughts on the game are I kind of forgot like I said, I forgot this game existed and was a pleasantly surprised I hate that it took me so long to get to online But still I had fun with it if you enjoyed the video though Make sure to let me know down low in the comment section by hitting the like button or just by hitting subscribe to stay up to date on all The videos we put out here and check out some other videos It should be on your screen if you like those as well other than that I have been Datsunoya and Wear your face mask. All right. Goodbye