Two men find themselves in jail in connection to two Pike County armed robberies, and a jail inmate escapes after allegedly assaulting a jailer, and it all happened this week. Welcome everyone to This Week. I'm Shawn Allen. For the next half hour, we'll catch you up on news you may have missed and give you updates on the week that was in your hometown. One of the many results of the drug epidemic is the rise in crime rates, and those rates continued to rise Tuesday as a man walked into a belfry pharmacy, pointed a gun at the workers, and demanded drugs. EKB's Shelby Porter has the story. Police in Belfry are investigating an early morning robbery. Around 9.30 Tuesday morning, a man wearing a mask allegedly walked into total pharmacy care of Belfry, brandished a firearm, and demanded prescription medication. It was an email, so they thought it would be about six foot tall or in that gray or dark colored hoodie. The business opened just 30 minutes earlier, and employees were completely shaken by the incident. We've had some sparkles come in at night, but never during the day. According to police, after stealing $30 worth of Xanax pills, the male subject left in a black car, possibly a Ford sedan, and headed in the direction of Route 319. Total pharmacy care closed after the incident in order for employees to relax and spend time with their families. They're a little shaken, so it becomes a little good. It's a scary situation for everyone. Total pharmacy care will be open tomorrow during regular business hours. The pharmacy is offering a $5,000 reward for anyone with information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the individual. Police urge anyone who spots the man not to initiate contact. If you have any information regarding the incident or the alleged robber, contact Kentucky State Police post 9 at the number listed on your screen. Callers may remain anonymous. In Belfrey, Shelby Porter, EKB News. This week's theme of Pike County Armed Robberies continued as an investigation began Thursday in the second armed robbery to be committed in Pike County in less than a week. This time at a gas station convenience store. Troopers told EKB News they received a 911 call reporting a robbery at the Justice Bill Double Quick just after midnight. The subject came in with what appeared to be a shotgun, demanded money, and cigarettes. A person had on a black leather jacket, mask, and gloves. He did have on sunglasses also. The subject left with a determined amount of money, some cigarettes, and a purple hatchback is all we know at this time. Kentucky State Police also added considering the possibility that Thursday's robbery is linked to the one at the Belfrey Pharmacy earlier in the week. Police also released pictures of a car used in the Belfrey robbery, which is a black Ford Focus with Arizona tags. They also gave us the name and photograph of a man they say is wanted in questioning for both incidents. Shortly after the story aired, that man wanted for questioning. Timothy Mark Damon was arrested. Damon was wanted for questioning in the robbery at the Justice Bill Double Quick as well as the Total Pharmacy Care Robbery in Belfrey Tuesday. We will continue to follow this story and bring you further updates. A man has been indicted in connection to another Pike County robbery from last week. 23-year-old Austin Douglas Sloan of Elkhorn City is accused of using a knife to rob two people at the Elwood Heights apartments in Elkhorn City last Saturday. An investigation led officers to an apartment where they allegedly overheard Sloan through a partially open door admitting to the robbery and detailing the crime. It's very dangerous because some of these people in the stores are trained to how to respond appropriately to a threatening situation, but private individuals are not so trained and sometimes people end up getting seriously hurt or killed in these type situations. So we're glad that the police department, the state police and the Elkhorn police working together were able to identify this robber and able to bring this in for prosecution. Austin Sloan remains lodged in the Pike County Detention Center. He could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted on the first-degree robbery charge. State officials in Frankfurt are taking issue with the official story being offered by Pike County officials for why property tax bills skyrocketed for residents this year. During a meeting last week, county officials said their hands were tied by a change in how oil, gas and un-mined coal taxes are assessed, leading Frankfurt to mandate drastically higher rates for other taxpayers. But officials with the finance and administration cabinet and the Department of Revenue tell EKB News that simply isn't the case. Local communities, there's different districts that set local tax rates such as the fiscal court or the library board or the cooperative extension service. So in this instance, if a body does not set a tax rate, then the compensating rate takes effect and that rate is set by statute. So it is not arbitrarily determined by the Department of Revenue or anybody else in Frankfurt, but it does take effect per statute. There's been some counties that have actually voted on a lesser rate and they've done that maybe to help out their citizens in lowering their tax rate. And the fiscal court did that through budget reductions or tightening their belts so that they didn't need to have that compensating rate take effect. Officials with the two agencies further tell EKB News that local officials were made aware that the higher compensation rate would go into effect back in the summer. Authorities in Johnson County were on the hunt for an escaped inmate Thursday after he allegedly assaulted a MacGuffin County jailer, Brian Montgomery, as he was transporting several detainees to the Big Sandy Regional Detention Center in Paintsville. 36-year-old Jeremy Ray Arnett was arrested in MacGuffin County in charge with fourth-degree assault. As Arnett was being transported, he allegedly claimed to be sick. And when jailer Montgomery pulled over, that's when Arnett made his move. When he pulled over, Jeremy opened the door and began trying to jump out of his cruiser. Montgomery advised that he got a hold of Jeremy.  Montgomery advised he chased Jeremy up the hill for a small period but was unable to continue on because there were more inmates in his cruiser at the time. He then contacted us and we met him there on 460 where all this was occurring next to mixed auto sales. Myself and three other deputies searched the woods and till it become dark was unable to locate Jeremy anywhere in the woods. Shortly after that story aired, Arnett was found and taken into custody. He was charged with third-degree assault of a correctional employee and third-degree escape in addition to his original charge of fourth-degree assault. Coming up, family members of a missing toddler pleading for the safe return of their family. It's coming up next on This Week. Provide comprehensive treatment for circulatory disorders specializing in limb salvage, aortic disease, carotid artery disease, dialysis, and varicose veins. Find out if you are a candidate for vascular screenings. Call<PHONE_NUMBER>. Hikeville Medical Center, Mayo Clinic Care Network member. 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Pikeville Medical Center offers a higher level of care right here at home. Pikeville Medical Center. The specialists are here. Family members of a missing North Carolina toddler are doing what they can to aid in the search from Kentucky. An Amber Alert was issued this week for three-year-old Mariah Woods after she vanished from her Onslo County home in North Carolina reportedly sometime between Sunday night and Monday morning. Since that time, over 200 officials with 14 different agencies have aided in the search for her.  We have been in some contact with the grandmother. The grandmother just is devastated. She's in tears every time we spoke to her. We actually just received a text from her that says, Keep praying. Nothing is impossible with God. I'm getting so weak. I can't pray anymore. Just please help us. Just please don't hurt her and bring her back home. She's a wonderful little girl. We go out there every summer on vacation. We actually just seen her in July and she's just a wonderful little girl. Just please bring her home. We miss her and we just want her back home with us. Back home to know that she's safe with her mommy, her grandparents and her brothers. Anyone with information about the whereabouts of Mariah Woods is urged to call the FBI's Charlotte Field Office or the Onslo County Sheriff's Office at the numbers listed on your screen. You may also contact your local FBI office or the nearest American MNC or consulate. It's not every day that a famous Christmas villain wanders into town and ends up in the back of a police cruiser, but that is exactly what happened in Coal Run last Saturday. EKB News reporter Shannon Deskins explains. This past weekend was the official kickoff for the Christmas shopping season and thousands of shoppers throughout the region took advantage of weekend specials. But as the shopping season gets underway, so does the season for thefts. On Saturday, the Coal Run Police Department arrested one of the country's most famous thieves, the Grinch himself. What we're trying to do is to get awareness out about how to protect yourself best from being a victim of theft during the holidays. Mayor Andrew Scott says Coal Run police officers will be more visible in shopping areas between now and Christmas, but consumers can help by not tempting would-be thieves. When you go back to put things in your car, you want to try to cover it up. I mean, don't leave it to where people can walk by and see it there because this is a time of year where thefts spike throughout the United States. Women are encouraged to wear their purses around their neck and shoulder, and men should carry their wallets in their front pockets.  Many retail locations will have lost prevention officers and plain clothes throughout the stores to help deter shoplifters because, ultimately, less theft equals lower prices. It affects everyone. When businesses have to suffer the losses and eat the losses that occurred during the holidays or any other time of year, for that matter, then they have to pass that on to the consumer. Police departments throughout the region will also be increasing patrols and encouraging everyone to not get so caught up in the hustle and bustle of Christmas shopping that they forget to pay attention to their surroundings. In Coal Run Village, I'm Shannon Deskins, EKB News. A talented singer-songwriter came home to the mountains to a sold-out crowd last weekend. We'll take you to the Mack in Prestonburg, and we return. For the clearest, most up-to-date look at your weather, check out the EKB Weather Cam. Brought to you by American Heating & Cooling. Get a bird's-eye view of the skies above Pikeville. Rain or shine day or night, watch for the EKB Weather Cam every day at 6 and 10. Brought to you by American Heating & Cooling. Hefner's Jewelers help you find exactly what you're looking for from classic timepieces to the perfect engagement ring. Hefner's Jewelers is here for you. Hefner's Jewelers, three generations of exceptional quality. In the Weddington Plaza, Pikeville. Floyd County deputies were on a mission to bring someone into the courthouse Friday, but their target wasn't a wanted criminal. EKB News reporter Shelby Porter fills us in. A 95-year-old woman was the talk of the town this morning as she was picked up by Floyd County sheriff's deputies in a police cruiser and taken to the sheriff's department. One may think, what on earth could this sweet woman do to get taken in by police? Today, Gertrude Tyson wasn't brought in for crime, it was to celebrate her birthday. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, sister Tyson. Happy birthday to you. Check on a senior today was implemented by the Floyd County Sheriff's Office roughly eight months ago. The COST program allows a volunteer with the sheriff's office to call to check on elderly residents who don't have family in the area. If the senior doesn't answer two consecutive phone calls, the sheriff's department will send someone to check on them. I'm a senior citizen too, and I've been retired for quite a while. It gets me out of the house. These senior citizens that I call, they'll say, your call is the only call that we get during the day and we wait for you to call. Sister Tyson is the oldest senior participating in the COST program in Floyd County. We just got to thinking, if you don't have anybody calling and checking on them or if they don't have anybody going by and checking on them, they ain't going to be really celebrating a birthday or a special occasion. During today's surprise party, cake, refreshments and presents were shared with sister Tyson. In Prestonsburg, Shelby Porter, EKB News. There is a wealth of talented singer-songwriters embedded in these mountains. You'll see names like Loretta Lynn, Dwight Yochum and Chris Stapleton. Another talented product of this region made his way home to the mountains last weekend to a sold-out crowd at the Mountain Arts Center in Prestonsburg. Ronnie Hilton and myself was there for the concert. Lawrence County native Tyler Childress has been making waves in the country music industry with his new LP purgatory. Tyler says growing up in these mountains played a big part of who he is today as an artist. It's a foundation for just me as a person and the way that I've grown to see the world around me and it's influenced the characters that I write about. It's influenced the sound, what I want to hear out of my music, out of other people's music, what I think is quality and what's not. Rolling Stone Magazine describes Tyler's sound as a raw look at the darker regions of modern-day Appalachia where bluegrass is in the soul, but cocaine is in the blood. However, Tyler describes it a little differently. The sound I'm trying to go for is a combination of a lot of things, but like Marty Stewart says we're doing a little thing called the Hillbilly Rock. I grew up listening to a lot of Southern gospel and a lot of bluegrass. Growing up in this region of country music was a big influence early on. I listened to a lot of Ricky Skaggs and Mary Cordell and pretty partial to D-White. So all that just welded together with some drive-by-truckers and I don't really know how to explain it other than that. Those who knew Tyler early on knew right away he was something special and was destined to do big things. I teach at Lawrence County High School and I teach freshman and I had Tyler several years ago in my freshman government class. A little bright-eyed red-haired kid and I play music and a lot of people know that so me and Tyler connected pretty early because he played music. It didn't take long to figure out that Tyler wasn't like most of the other children. He was already writing songs and was interested in some pretty esoteric stuff. We always knew that he would grow. It's like, okay, we've got to watch this. I can't wait to see him in a few years because we know he's headed for bigger and better things. Wherever he is, he's going to take that next step. If you missed Tyler's show at the Mountain Arts Center you can catch him this week on December 2nd and 3rd at the V-Club in Huntington, West Virginia. Reporting from Prestonsburg, I'm Shawn Allen for EKB News. Coming up, Edward St. Pay will be in with a look at your forecast and Andrew Joyce will be in with the fact that we can sports. And we return on this week. With a team of board-certified doctors and membership in the Mayo Clinic Care Network, Pikeville Medical Center offers a higher level of care right here at home. Pikeville Medical Center, the specialists are here. We have over 150 choices, but the only one that matters is yours. Golden Corral, your choice rules. Hefner's Jewelers is here for you. Hefner's Jewelers, three generations of exceptional quality. In the Weddington Plaza, Pikeville. This holiday season, enjoy all that Prestonsburg has to offer. The whole family will love the Christmas lights in Archer Park. The annual Winter Carnival. And these festive shows at the Mac. Christmas with Cory Cottle. The Kentucky Opry Christmas Show. And the Johnson Central High School Christmas Concert. Get into the Christmas spirit this season in Prestonsburg. Well, we've had an interesting weather picture, especially in daytime highs in recent days. Finally, some rainfall coming into the picture. We're going to see more of that in the coming week. Not without a little bit of sunshine to precede that. Plenty of sunshine on Sunday, high near 60 degrees, even a high near 70 degrees on Monday, under partly cloudy skies expected. But then we'll start to see a change up. Usually when you see unseasonably warm periods like this, it's usually followed by something that's not quite as good. In this case, it's going to be rainfall. An 80% chance of showers and thunderstorms expected on Tuesday, a high near 60 degrees. Now the overnight lows still kind of in the chilly factor, except for Monday night. But we'll see that start to get colder and colder as the week goes along. Now the rain starts to taper off on Wednesday, a 20% chance of showers. We should see that by midday gone completely. High only in the mid 40s though. Overnight lows expected. Oh, wow, the coldest it's been in quite a while. And that's going to continue for three straight nights, the mid 20s for the most part. It could even drop a degree or two lower in the higher elevations. And those highs only getting up in the low 40s after Wednesday. Well, what do you think that means? It means that we're getting into what is the pre-winter weather. And following the days of next week and after the weekend, we should see some interesting patterns develop. But we're going to leave it for that for right now. But we'll see it get colder after Wednesday, both day and night. Not with that a little bit of sunshine and rainfall first. Andrew Joyce and this week in sports, we saw state semifinal football. In Raceland, Class A state semifinal action, and it was a dandy. Pikeville facing the host Rams in front of a capacity crowd. This one was a tale of two halves. Pikeville dominated the first half. The Panthers got the scoring started with the screen pass to Christian Billiter. He gets a block, breaks a tackle. He's gone 60 yards for the touchdown. Then early in the second half, after a long drive downfield, the Rams inside the five, that's Judd Adkins. He'll take the handoff up the middle, and that is a Raceland touchdown. The Panthers answer with a long drive of their own capped up by Zach Roberts with this three-yard touchdown to take the lead. After starting with good field position, the Rams call the time out to set up this play deep in Pikeville territory. Adkins again, straight up the middle again, and he'll score again to tie the game. Finally, game tied at 14, three ticks left on the clock. The Rams call on kicker Luke Lamaster to seal the deal. Here's the snap, the hold, the kick is up. It's good, Rams celebrate, and Raceland defeats Pikeville 17-14. Raceland goes on to the Class A state championship, their first trip to the finals in school history. And this week, Johnson Central punched their ticket for the third straight year. Johnson Central's Golden Eagles return to the Kentucky Class 4A state football championship after beating Wayne County 43-24 last week in the semifinals. Central head Coach Jim Matney shared his thoughts on the win and what it means to have a chance to defend their title. Well, Franklin Simpson is almost a mirror reflection. They run a very similar offense that we do. Same formations, same plays. They have a lot of good athletes. They do a few things a little bit different, but you know, it's a very similar team with a lot of very good athletes. They take their football very serious down in Franklin Simpson. I think this is maybe their seventh time they've been in the state title game. I think always one of the keys that you have to do in big games is turnovers and penalties.  And I think that was one of the things that helped us last week as we played turnover free for the most part and just made a couple of penalties. You can't make silly mistakes. You have to play that you keep your mindset strong at all times. State semifinal football and of course Johnson Central taking on Franklin Simpson that happened earlier this afternoon. Best of luck to the Golden Eagles and congratulations to all of our local teams for deep runs in the playoffs. That's sports this week. Sometimes you need more advanced care and it's good to know you can get it right here at home. It can be scary to hear that your doctor or local hospital needs to transfer you somewhere else. So if that happens, ask about Pikeville Medical Center first with a team of board certified doctors and membership in the Mayo Clinic Care Network. Pikeville Medical Center offers a higher level of care right here at home. Pikeville Medical Center, the specialists are here. For the clearest most up-to-date look at your weather check out the EKB Weather Cam. Brought to you by American Heating and Cooling. Get a bird's eye view of the skies above Pikeville. Rain or shine day or night. Watch for the EKB Weather Cam every day at 6 and 10. Brought to you by American Heating and Cooling. Looking for an amazing gift for that special lady or man in your life? Or maybe you'd just like to treat yourself to a classic piece of jewelry or the latest Pandora ring or bracelet. Let Hefner's Jewelers help you find exactly what you're looking for from classic timepieces to the perfect engagement ring. Hefner's Jewelers is here for you. Hefner's Jewelers, three generations of exceptional quality. In the Weddington Plaza of Pikeville. Eastern Kentucky, beautiful, green, peaceful, friendly. But there's a darker side to these mountains. When crime is committed, sometimes cases go unsolved. Occasionally the perpetrators even get away with murder. On our latest news segment, The Scene of the Crime, I'll be working with local law enforcement to help find justice for victims and their families. The Scene of the Crime, Fridays at 6 and 10. Welcome out to you by Billy Johnson, your injury attorney. I hope you enjoyed our look back at some of the stories that made headlines this week. Be sure to tune in next weekend right here on EKB-TV at 6.30. For This Week, I'm Shawn Allen. Have a great weekend.


We have worked out the number of ways to distribute n-balls among any number of boxes, with a1 balls in the first box, a2 in the second, and so on. This number is gamma equals n factorial over a1 factorial times a2 factorial, etc. Now, we want to apply this result to count the atomic states of an ideal monatomic gas. Assume the atoms are confined to a box with side lengths Lx, Ly, and Lz. An atom can have any position within the box specified by coordinates x, y, and z. In addition to position, an atomic state is specified by three components of momentum, px, py, and pz. We want to count how many atoms have a particular position and a particular momentum. For this purpose, we employ the concept of the system's so-called phase space. We form a two-dimensional coordinate system with coordinates x and px. Then, we overlay a rectangular grid with spacing delta x and delta px. We denote the, quote, area of a single rectangle by h. This is not a standard area, but has units of momentum times length, which we call action. Kilograms meters squared per second, which is equivalent to joule seconds. We form similar systems for the y and z coordinates. This allows us to specify the dynamical state of an atom by plotting a point on each of these three plots. Each point shows the value of one spatial coordinate and the value of the associated momentum. So at a given time, each atom is in a single six-dimensional cell of elementary volume h cubed and with kinetic energy px squared plus py squared plus pz squared over 2m. If the particle moves freely with constant momentum, these three points will move at a constant rate to the right or left, depending on the algebraic sign and magnitude of the corresponding component of momentum. If the particle suffers a collision, then one or more momentum values will undergo a sudden change. Let's look at a two-dimensional simulation of 16 balls in a box. Initially, they are uniformly spread out and have random velocities. One of the balls is colored red and its position in phase space is shown in the middle and right panels. When the red ball suffers a collision, one or both of its momentum values suddenly change. In between collisions, the phase space points drift to the right or left, depending on the corresponding momentum value. If we plot the phase space trajectories for all 16 balls, the plots get quite busy. Nonetheless, at any instant, these plots represent the complete dynamical state of the system. Now, let's consider how, in principle, we could collect phase space statistics. Suppose we track a single atom, the red ball in our simulation. We are interested in the probability it will fall into the highlighted phase space cell. Assume this is the ith cell in our bookkeeping scheme. We take snapshots of phase space at time intervals that are long enough that we can consider the atoms to have been randomly reshuffled. And we keep track of the number of times the tracked atom falls in the ith cell. There's a hit. For these nine snapshots, the ith cell was occupied one time. Therefore, the occupation frequency of the ith cell was fi equals 1 over 9. As we increase the number of snapshots, fi will change. But as the number of snapshots grows arbitrarily large, fi should approach a constant value. This will represent the probability that an atom would be found in the ith cell in a randomly selected snapshot. In theory, of course, for each snapshot, we could track all n atoms and keep statistics for every phase space cell. In any case, the need to collect statistics leads us to consider the idea of a statistical ensemble. We want to gather enough statistics that the resulting occupation frequencies are good estimates of the corresponding occupation probabilities. We can take r snapshots of our n gas atoms at different times with r as large as needed to get good statistics. Alternately, we can imagine taking a single snapshot of r independent gas samples each with the same n, v, and t values. In any case, if cell i is occupied ai times, then the occupation frequency is fi equals ai over rn. rn, because each of the r snapshots or samples has n atoms. Now we apply our balls and boxes theory to find the number of ways to get specific values a1, a2, etc. Gamma equals rn factorial over a1 factorial times a2 factorial and so on for every phase space cell. Since f1 equals a1 over rn, we can replace a1 by f1, rn, a2 by f2, rn, etc. Now we need to dig into quite a bit of math. At the end, this will lead to two important equations that will be central to the rest of our analysis. We will work with the natural logarithm of gamma. Reason one, entropy is proportional to this. Reason two, logs convert quotients to differences and products to sums which makes analysis much easier. We have log gamma equals log rn factorial minus sum over i log fi rn factorial. We take r large enough that for every log of a factorial in our expression, log a factorial equals a log a minus a is a good approximation. For reference, for a at least 90, this gives an error of less than 1%. With this approximation, log gamma equals rn log rn minus rn minus sum over i fi rn log fi rn minus fi rn. The last term is minus minus, which is plus, sum over i fi rn. This equals rn times sum over i fi, but this last sum is just 1. 100% of the time, and Adam is in one of the cells. So the original sum is just rn. This plus rn cancels the minus rn in our expression. This leaves us with log gamma equals rn log rn minus sum over i fi rn log fi rn. Here's that expression again. Let's work on the sum. We can factor out rn. The log can be written as log fi plus log rn. This breaks our sum into two terms, rn times sum over i fi log fi plus rn log rn sum over i fi. Again, the last sum is 1, so the second term is simply rn log rn. This last term cancels the first term in the top expression. Finally, we are left with log gamma equals minus rn sum over i fi log fi. We want to find the fi values that maximize this expression. This will be the most probable macrostate of the system. From our previous analysis, we expect that the system will not deviate significantly from this most probable state, and that the log of gamma for these optimal fi values will define the entropy of this system. We can drop the constant factor rn and use the fact that maximizing an expression is equivalent to minimizing its negative. So we seek to minimize sum over i fi log fi. We need to do this subject to two constraints. First, the sum of occupation frequencies over all cells has to be 1. So sum over i fi must be 1. Second, the average energy of an atom needs to be 3 halves kt, and the average energy is sum over i fi epsilon i. The probability an atom is in the ith cell times the energy of the ith cell. We do this using the method of Lagrange multipliers. We form an augmented function, which is the original function plus a new term for each constraint. Each of these terms is an unknown multiplier times the constraint expressed as a quantity that must be 0. Then, an unconstrained minimization of this function with respect to the fi values and the two multipliers solves our original problem. Our augmented function is sum over i fi log fi plus alpha times sum over i fi minus 1 plus beta times sum over i fi epsilon i minus 3 halves kt. To see why this method works, call our augmented function big f. For this to be a minimum with respect to alpha, f must not change if we change alpha by an infinitesimal amount. Otherwise, we could follow this change to a smaller value of f. Formally, we write the partial derivative of f with respect to alpha equals 0. But this derivative is simply the constraint sum over i fi minus 1 equals 0. Likewise, for the beta term. So, minimizing f with respect to alpha and beta enforces our constraints. With the constraints enforced, the alpha and beta terms are 0. So, the minimum of our augmented function with respect to fi is simply the minimum of our original function sum over i fi log fi subject to the constraints.


OK, we have Chad Green here, and we have Meredith with the first question. Meredith, go right ahead and unmute. As mentioning on our broadcast that you've been working on a new breaking pitch, how did that all come about and how comfortable do you now feel throwing that pitch? Yeah, that goes back to the offseason, the first offseason. Just talking with him, just wanted to get something with more depth on it, something to change the hitter's eye level. And so that's something I worked on in the first offseason, trying to get more comfortable with it and spring training. And then over this quarantine period, I was able to get just a lot of reps with it, which was ended up being a good thing. So right now it feels good. So it's just going to be continuing to get the shape I want, the speed I want, just to get as many reps with it as possible. How improved is that pitch from when you first started throwing it? Definitely way more comfortable than when I first started throwing it. Completely new grip, something that I'd never had messed with in the past. So like I said, just getting as many reps in as I can with it, game reps really, because I can throw as much as I want in the bullpen or on a flat ground or stuff like that. But until I throw it in a game against hitters, that's when I can really get some good feedback on it. How does that change your arsenal? How does that help you on the mound, adding that pitch? Yeah, I mean, I think it's no secret that I've been 10 to be one-dimensional at times, just not having a secondary pitch that I trust too much. So it's just being more comfortable, being more versatile, getting some easier outs, not having to grind through every inning, every at bat. So that's kind of the plan moving forward. Take the next question from Ron Blum. Ron, go ahead. Yeah, it's really, hey, Ron, just so you know, it's coming through really staticky. We can make it out, but just for future reference, there's something going on there. Okay, I'll switch to one of these. Into this chat, do you have any qualms about the health protocols and everything that you go through, or are you pretty satisfied that safety is as close to 100% as it could be? Yeah, I feel like, I mean, I can't speak for other teams, but I feel like the Yankees have done a great job. I mean, obviously when we showed up the first time, everybody had a lot of questions on like what exactly are the protocols, but since we've been here, it's been great. I mean, I think everybody's getting in a routine of what they have to do each day to make this place as safe as possible. So I think the staff and everybody's done a great job. What are your biggest fears about what's been going on? I think it's a long, I mean, it's just, you can't control what guys do outside the stadium. So I think it's just gonna be everybody doing their part. When we leave the stadium to make sure that this season goes on. Thank you. Yep. Marley Rivera, you have the next question. Go right ahead. Hey, Chad, thank you so much for giving us a few minutes. Was there anything that you learned from your slow start last year in 19 that you can apply this season, or because the season is so different, it really just doesn't apply this year?  I mean, I think learning from that and what it takes to be good at this level every day. I'm not good great at this level every day because obviously you're facing the best players here. So I mean, just being able to put in the work every day, knowing what I gotta do to compete at this level is something that I'm not gonna take just this year, but something that I can look back on when maybe things start unraveling at times because that's gonna happen. So just being able to learn from that, learn because the great relievers have such a short-term memory and are able to use a reset button pretty much every day. So that's something that just talking to guys like Britt and Otto and guys that have kind of been through similar things, because everybody's kind of struggled at some point. So just trying to learn from other people as long as taking what I learned from that time and kind of carrying it over into this year. What specifically would you learn from that time, Chet, if you don't mind sharing? Yeah, I mean, just that every day is a new day and that you can't take past outings with you and even the good ones, you take it and move on and you have to treat the bad ones just like that as well. And making sure you do put in the work every day and not just take it for granted that's gonna be there every day and whether it's mental notes, writing in a journal, stuff like it could be anything. So yeah, I'd say that's probably the biggest thing. Thank you. Yep. We'll take a question from Max Goodman from Sports Illustrated. Max, go ahead. Chet, thanks for taking a second with us. We saw you guys from the bullpen getting some work in today with the extra innings rolled effectively. Yeah. Second to start the inning. Adam just had some pretty negative comments about it. I'm just curious how you feel about the new rule and how it was working with it today. I mean, obviously I'm personally not a fan of it just because I don't know who wants to pitch with runner on second and nobody out in an extra inning game. So that's not something that you'd necessarily look forward to when you're about to run out there. So I think I heard Otto say that he would like the people to earn it when they get on second. I kind of echo that. So it's not something that I necessarily enjoy.


Which Asian American athlete inspired you growing up? Let us know in the comments down below because here's a list of the 10 most influential Asian American athletes. Yeah, we're going to go through and review each one of the 10 people on this list. And then of course, we're going to give you our takeaway. Then we're going to get to some athletes, Andrew, that didn't make this list. Maybe they were born in Asia or for whatever reason, they weren't on here and then give you our breakdown of them too. So make sure you like, subscribe, turn on your notifications and do may is over. However, we didn't get to all the API month content that we wanted to. Yeah, true. I mean, I think every month is API month on our channel, but also real quick. I think that seeing Asians achieve at a high level in sports, whether it's contact sports or individual sports, I think it's very important because it basically makes Asian Americans feel like we're more than just what people think we are. Right. You're saying what we think we are as what tech workers, maybe service workers, maybe medical workers, or even just chefs, like there's nothing wrong with any of those professions. But I think sports because it's still rare to see an Asian achieve at a high level that it's just really cool. Yeah. And it's like society maybe doesn't believe in us to be super good at sports. Maybe our own parents and community doesn't fully even encourage us, you know what I mean? Or give us the necessary support. I'm not blaming anybody, but there's just a lot of barriers to Asians being super good at sports right in America. Exactly. So let's get into the list. What's the number one Asian athlete on this list? All right. So by the way, this is not our list, but we are giving our opinion. Shout out to Michelle Kwan. Number one, Andrew, she won 43 skating championships, including two Olympic medals, a silver and a bronze in 2002 Salt Lake City. Now she's a retired figure skater in the U.S. Ambassador Belize, where she got a talk with another legend from the early 2000s, Shine. Wow. What are they talking about? I remember growing up when I was really young, always hearing about Michelle Kwan, Christy Yamaguchi, and figure skating was a lot more in the news. I thought it was a bigger deal. It was kind of where a lot of the drama was with Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan and all that stuff, even though they were white. But I'm saying like, I guess like figure skating used to be a bigger deal, but shout out to her because that is a name from my childhood. Yeah. And at that time, you know, like you said, Christy Yamaguchi, there was also other not as high profile Asian female figure skaters. And I feel like that was sort of like almost before even there was media representation. There was Olympic representation. That's true. Yeah. And I think also her ability to transition from being an Olympic athlete to becoming a U.S. Ambassador now. That's pretty interesting. Pretty impressive. Pretty impressive. Moving on, Andrew, we got BJ Penn, the first World Jujitsu Championship Master from Hawaii, half Hawaiian slash Korean. Yeah. BJ Penn, I remember hearing about him when I was younger, right? You remember hearing that name, but I guess I didn't really know what he was doing, but I would hear that like, oh, BJ Penn is like doing this. And then I'd be like, who is BJ Penn? Is that like Cal Penn? Because Cal Penn is an Indian dude. Right. There is a lot of professional fighters, Andrew, whether it's UFC one championship, this kickboxing Muay Thai coming out of Hawaii. And a lot of people in Hawaii are mixed Asian obviously mixed with like a lot of other things or a lot of different Asians plus Pacific Island will combine. Yeah, BJ Penn, that was a name before actually UFC, before UFC actually started. There was like, you would just, that's why it wasn't as well known. Right. Obviously now there's Max Holloway, who's also from Hawaii. There's a ton of fighters from Hawaii now. Andrew, moving on, number three on the Next Sharks list, we got Troy Palamalu. Mmm. Oh man, I remember all the Samoans growing up, man. They would all rock his jersey on the Steelers, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was wondering, I was like, wait, how come all our friends are wearing Steelers face?  He's a big deal in the Samoan community. And I would say he's probably one of the more successful Samoan football players. Yeah. Even though there's a lot of Islander football players. Yeah, there was a lot of Islanders that have had some career in the NFL as well. I remember growing up, the star quarterback for UW was Marcus Tuuyasasopo. And he was kind of like Kyler Murray before Kyler Murray in the sense that he was very undersized. Obviously not necessarily as good as Kyler Murray, but shout out to Tuuyasasopo. Moving on to Khloe Kim, Andrew, you did a food video with her. Yeah, we did a video together. I'll leave it down below. But Khloe Kim, especially for the younger generation and in snowboarding, because it's kind of like one of those cool like bro-ish sports for her to win the gold was pretty cool. Also, I think just like she's very relatable to like, you know, just the Gen Z younger millennial market. So I think that's cool for a lot of people. Yeah. And she really embodies.  Moving on. Nathan Chen, who was born in Salt Lake City. He is a six time national champion like his Japanese rival, Yuzuru Ice Prince Hanyu.  Yeah, I almost feel like Nathan Chen would have even been a bigger star if this was like 15 years ago in the Olympics when figure skating was even one of like the premier sports. But yeah, shout out to him. I think he did well to be honest. I'm not as much into figure skating like it doesn't really like, I guess, influence me personally at my age. But I could see that, you know, he's just a good representation. He's a nice guy. He is good looking. It helps. And I do think it bridged the gap a little bit for a Chinese American, especially, you know, who knows if you want to get into the geopolitical thing beat out a Japanese guy, you know, even though it's for America, but he's like Chinese. No, no, he, he, he decided he could have potentially been on team China, like what Eileen goo did, but he chose not to. He wanted to play for the home team, which is America. Shout out. Um, Sunisa Lee Andrew born in St. Paul, Minnesota. She's the first Hmong American to ever win a gold medal when she took home the top award in the individual all around jibs. This event in Tokyo in 2021. Yeah, guys, we did a whole video about Sunisa Lee and the significance of what she did. Obviously grown up in Seattle and the West Coast. Also really Gen Z, but more on the urban side. I feel like she represents a lot of Southeast Asian girls. We knew growing up in South Seattle, also West Seattle. Yeah, yeah. She's a little bit more like Bellevue. She's more like Tik Tok, I guess. Uh, and, uh, yeah, no, I mean, Sunisa Lee is really cool.  And I just feel like that, um, you know, for a group like the Hmong people, which are so small and they don't even really have like a nation. It's almost like this is like one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know what you're saying. You're saying it's like it's different than being from a bigger group where it's like you're almost picking from your representation that more relates to you.  We got Tiger Woods, Andrew Tiger Woods classic. Probably widely considered Andrew the greatest golfer of all time. Yeah. Uh, I would say obviously him being half Asian. Uh, like I feel like there was always debate on how Asian he was. Like, was it his Asian side or his black side that made him good at golfing? Uh, well, I feel like most people in America consider him black, but he did come out and say, I'm Kablan Asian one time, which was kind of like a controversial remark. Also, there was the racial draft on the Chappelle show. And then of course his voice is more, I guess like whiter Asian. Um, I'll take him out. It's, uh, it's Tiger. Hey, did you go ahead and delete those text messages? Listen, Tiger is the Tiger is a very Asian animal. I'll take it. Yo, shout out to Tiger Woods, man. Uh, Michael Chang Andrew Michael Chang was, I believe at that time, one of the youngest guys to ever win, uh, the grand slam. Yeah, dude, shout out to Michael Chang. Super quick. Um, I think he did help get a lot of Asian families into tennis. I remember hearing his name a lot. I got to meet him in Seattle once because, uh, he was like running this league that we were playing basketball. He ran like a Christian Chinese sports league. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And so, uh, shout out to Michael Chang, man. I think that's big for especially Asians in tennis. For sure. Uh, it showed that Asians could be good at tennis even in the 80s and win the whole thing, even though he's very, very young. Somebody, uh, and last but not least on next shark's list, we got Bruce Lee. Of course, a legend, you know, invented his own martial arts. People still, you know, do jikundo to this day. But this sort of leads us Andrew into our own list. And it's so interesting because, you know, everybody like sort of is into different things, right? So these are the athletes that inspired us growing up. Yeah. And, uh, Andrew, there's a connection here with Bruce Lee. Manny Pacquiao. Manny Pacquiao is considered the greatest Asian boxer of all time. Uh, there's a really big Japanese boxer right now. Yeah. Now, uh, in a way, he's like pretty much the best in his weight class. Um, but Pacquiao actually, I think he's like an eight division world champion, which is hyper impressive because most people just stay in their division to dominate. Yeah. And I think actually I was watching a lot of different boxing opinions from professional people like the commentators and they pretty much put Pacquiao like you could put him top five. Just because he dominated at different weight classes, even though he's not like undefeated like Mayweather. And you know what Pacquiao said? He said, yes, I was inspired by Bruce Lee because he values a more offensive centric approach, which is more one of the tenants of Jicundo obviously has a derivative of Wing Chun. Moving on to baseball and we grew up in Seattle, man. Ichiro, Ichiro was the man. Yo, that's Sasaki too. Yo, Ichiro was so cool. And I think Ichiro was cool too. Like he was actually cool. Like he's cool. He looks cool, right? Goatee was cool. He talked cool, even though he didn't really talk that much, but that was kind of cool. I remember there was like, what's your favorite show? And then he would just go, uh, SpongeBob SquarePants, um, but very personable though. You know what I mean? Of course, nowadays they got Shohei Otani. I believe Andrew, they both want MVP. Yeah. So Ichiro was the Japanese MVP. Shohei Otani as well. Moving on Andrew to the fight world. Our Korean zombie was huge. He was one of the biggest MMA fighters growing up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was huge, especially like we were in college and we had more Korean friends. They were super into them. So I think that was influential before that even was Kung-Lay. Kung-Lay came before UFC. Right. He was fighting in, uh, King boxing. I don't know what that league was called. There was a lot of leagues before like the consolidation. It was an MMA league before UFC. And actually shout out to the part Asian Brazilians to Andrew Lioto Machita. You know, a lot of these guys, uh, you know, a part Asian or like Japanese dads or whatever like that. Of course, there's a lot of current fighters that are really popping. Andrew, Zhang Wili, Song Yadong, Du Ho Choi, Andrew, Rod Tang. Yeah. Andrew, I think Rod Tang's videos fighting Muay Thai is some of the craziest things I ever seen when he just like Andrew, Andrew, he just lets people hit him four times and then he beats them up. It is insane. Very inspiring. Andrew, moving on to the NFL. I even followed Scott Fujita who as it turns out Andrew is not part Japanese. It's because his step-grandfather was Japanese. So interesting. But dad, that was actually like a thing growing up. I mean, obviously with that last name, everybody assumes he's Asian, but Eugene Chung was actually the cousin of our Taekwondo master. Yo, shout out to, yo, shout out to fantastic Korean Mike Kim. His dad was our Taekwondo master growing up and his cousin was Eugene Chung, who was the first full Asian, you know, that super looked Asian to play in the NFL. Yeah. And then Heinz Ward won some Super Bowl along with Troy Palamalu, Doug Baldwin, Taylor Rapp, our friend Patrick Chung, who's like part Chinese. Oh, shout out to that win. Yeah. That win. A full Vietnamese guy was like a pro bowler on the defensive side. Right. Obviously Kyler Murray, Ed Wang, a lot of the Islander guys, man. Shout out to Samoans, Tongans, Guamanians, Micronesians, Polynesians, Hawaiians. What up, ooze? Yeah. Um, Andrew, of course, we're moving into the NBA section now we've got Jeremy Lin. Yeah. You know, we nothing needs to be more said about him other than I guess one of the most interesting things about Jeremy is that he broke a lot of stereotypes and he confirmed a lot of stereotypes too because he still went to Harvard. Yeah. But I would say Jeremy Lin on this list is probably one of probably if the most famous. Yeah. Full Asian. Yeah. Um, Andrew, Yao Ming. Yao Ming was cool. Yo, Andrew, remember dad would take us to all the Yao Ming games? Our dad was not big on taking us to Sonic's games growing up, but he was taking us to all the Yao Ming games. We get good tickets. So we went to Yao Ming game. I remember and then our dad painted a poster because I was like, yo, we got to bring a poster. And then he wrote Jio. Yeah. Right. And that was like the first time like I didn't even speak Chinese. I didn't even know really what Jio meant. But dad wrote it and then somebody asked me and was like, Hey man, what does that mean? And then I was just like, I don't know. What is positive? Yo, I remember Yao Ming was in the layup line and he looked up at the signs though. I always thought that was tight, man. Um, Utah, Watanabe, Ruihachimura, Andrew, these guys are currently they're going to be in the NBA next year from Japan. Japan's got some great basketball training systems right now, but we got to go to the lesser known NBA players and Andrew, you know, we be following this. A lot of people don't follow this. We follow this. Andrew Utah Tabuse. Yeah. Do a lot of people know about this guy? Nah, man. He was kind of before the days of social media. Yi Jianlan also considered the Chinese Kevin Garnett. He's still playing in China, but he had some decent years in America and the NBA, but he probably didn't live up to the expectations. I think it was a lottery pick. Um, Menge Batir Andrew, who is actually a inner Mongolian person from China. So it's like his ethnic wise, I guess he's like actually Mongolian, but yo, I'll tell you this, man, dad has got to be one of the strongest guys ever. Yeah. Uh, they had this gigantic Korean guy, Ha Sung Jin. I remember he played for the Portland Trail Blazers.  You know, he didn't really last too long in the NBA, but you know, I think there's, there's actually a couple Korean college players right now that could make the NBA right now. Yeah. I knew somebody who knew Ha Sung Jin from college. Uh, Sun Yuen won a championship with the Lakers. Andrew, actually he wasn't on the playoff roster, but he got a ring. He still gets the ring. Yeah. Um, I think Sun Yuen, he could have been good, but I just think, you know, because he was tall and he had some point guard skills. It was just, you know, maybe a lack of burst, lack of scoring explosiveness. Oh, somebody who did have a lot of scoring explosiveness Andrew, Wang Ji Ji. Yeah. Low-key, this guy has multiple 20 point games for the Clippers. Yeah, definitely, man.  I believe Zou Chi is playing. He's not playing in China right now. I think he's playing at MBL in Australia. Yeah. He's playing in Australia right now. So I think that's an interesting, uh, move for him. Yuki Togashi, these are guys who are really more in the Summer League or G League. Yeah. Or G League, but they didn't quite make it to the NBA. You die, Baba. Actually, I think still has a chance to make it into the G League right now. No, no, he's in the G League. He hasn't. He might have a chance to make it to the NBA. Yeah. Okay, he's got a chance. He's got a chance. He's just got to get the shooting numbers up. Sean Chen from Taiwan was also a guy that was a lot of people were looking at, you know, Summer League, G League player. Ding Han Yu Huang getting buckets in the Summer League. Oh, dang. He plays like Bogdan Bogdanovich or Bojan Bogdanovich, right? The pisses guy. He had a flamethrower, man. So I mean, I think that everybody looks, Andrew, at like different sports to get their inspiration, right? And I think that, let's be honest, guys, there's always like that tribalism where you relate to somebody more if they're more from your background, right? Like, if they're Chinese, I get it. Like, you're probably more likely to feel some closeness with them or if they're Korean or if they just look like you, even if they're just of the same Asian. Some people don't care and they're just happy to see any Asian. You know what I mean? That represents the larger group. So I think like it can be, it just all depends on what sport you're into and what you're looking for. For sure. For sure. Shout out to the mixed Asians as well, Jordan Clarkson, Jaylen Green. Yeah. I mean, some people take a lot of pride even with the mixed Asians or some people take pride. Even, I know some Chinese people who are not as much into Jeremy Lin, right? Right. Because like maybe they didn't relate to him per se or but then like they relate to other people. So I guess basically, I think there are enough Asian athletes at this time on the way that like you can find one you relate to. Yeah, for sure. And I do think that athletics is really cool because it obviously runs counter to Asian stereotypes. Right? I'm not saying that it's bad to be good at things that are stereotypically Asian either because that's what makes us strong or have, you know, the lives that we have. But also it's good to counterbalance that. Anyway, let us know who in the comment section below is an Asian American athlete that you were inspired by growing up. They could be part Asian. Let us know what you thought of our analysis and until next time, we're going to hop out boys. We out.


Should we just start it like something like that? It's different how he's in his battles, isn't it? He has to hype himself up before the camera gets on. We're getting deep now. So it's not hyping myself up. I just like foreplay. Is this on? This is foreplay. My thing is the real thing.  It's like that with Pedro. Time. You don't get to rebut that. No, rebut on him saying you're like a second shag. A second shag?  Not in rhyme. I mean for once just talking. What is it he said to say again? He's saying that he would have to wait a while until he gets hyped up to battle you again. Me? I'm always calm until I... No, I don't even know. You said that so chill. I think that I'm more hyped before a battle. When a battle actually calms down these days. When it's written I usually get hyped but when it's freestyle I'm chilled just because... I don't even know if that answers your question. It didn't really but we can read about it. Are we starting the real end of you? How much preparation have you actually done? Because you do so many varying levels of preparation but you always do well. But how much have you done for this? I've done more than the old Shea one for this. But I haven't written for that one. But yeah I've done more than the old Shea one. Basically... How much was the old Shea one? The old Shea one I had most of my first... Well I had about just over a minute and I made that minute last three minutes because I got such good reaction. But it's true and in the second round I must have had like eight bars and I thought there was shit so I took them out. Basically I've written the two rounds at the beginning and put it in one round and that's why my first round was like sick. And then my second two were mostly freestyle.  But this one, my first two rounds are like... I've got two rounds written but I'm going to freestyle in the two rounds anyway. My third round freestyle. You're going to freestyle the third round? Yeah, people want to see me freestyle. I feel like in here say that and not be like fuck's sake. No, not a blanket. That sounds heavy. I don't want to have three written rounds because I'll spit three written rounds. I want to be able to freestyle something and you get me? Yeah. And it's going to pop.  I tied it with a kango sign. I didn't even know he was probably like... I told him I got my passport. I want to get it in. And he's all like... It's the cat Pedro man. You like him.  So I was like okay whatever. I didn't even know he was going to... I didn't even know he was like... He was like really a big name. I was kind of mad at first. I was like... I was like down. I was like down. My first battle on Dunflop. I wanted to be a big name. But I didn't know he was... I didn't know he was like... But I watched one of his battles and I still didn't know he was big. He just said something about... I'm going to side-amize you for the side-amizing that you did to your kid or something.  And then like... So I'm like... So it's that right there.  But then I found out it was big enough. And I was like oh okay that was plus. You know what I'm saying? I pretty much got him in the middle of his umbro sign prime. It's mom's joke time. Your mom's got a tattoo of the umbro sign. It's actually the best time to battle. No that is. This couldn't be a bird. Yo I've got a question for you. See when you do your actions when you rap your profile. Do you plan that out? Do you plan how you move when you rap?  Like what? Your move? Your arm will like... Because you always do like mad actions when you rap. Do you plan that out?  I actually uh... I just let myself... I just let loose. You know what I'm saying? That's all I do. I let loose. And I just let myself get possessed by hip hop. And that's just straight hip hop doing that. The battle's going on in a different channel. Like when I'm doing like this and just... You have to understand you can't comment, don't flop and say possessed by hip hop. Those kind of phrases are bad from 2007 on. I think it's part of a bar. Like whenever my hands move with the bar. Like I think like after I say the bar and I know that my hands do that. Like it's because I'm like letting loose. Like it's kind of like how Raiden would let his electricity come out. You know what I'm saying? Like I'm letting my bar out. Like this is kind of how I do it. The bar's shooting out. The more I hear you talk, the more I think it's a better battle. Like we thought it was good. We thought it was a good battle. It is a good battle.     You're the first one to put it on camera and start talking about Bruv, I feel like I'm raiding. How does it feel to go from basically being hated to being like completely top five loved in the league in like two battles? Because that's what I really want to know. It feels good. But I always knew that would happen though. Because like I was, I don't even know. I just knew it would happen in it. Like I was a hundred percent sure that I was going to be the sickest freestyler at least. And like yeah, basically I'm not even there yet.  Like my best, like that old Cheyenne. That was like 50% how good I can do. Same with Lyft when it was like 30.  You get me? I just have to be in the right mood. That's it. It doesn't matter how much bars I've got. The mood for killing someone in the battle. Like I will get the whole crowd popping. You get me? It's more about my personality. And if I'm like shook about the battle and not really thinking I'm going to do sick, I won't do sick. I have to know. Like for the last like year, every battle had gone in. Like I didn't even see any way I could have got beat. Just because like I've been too confident. Yeah. How does that make you feel that like you're so cool now? And your voice really calm people. But the second you step on stage, it's game over for both of you. Part of the game. It's like it's not just like, like I don't feel like, I know like there's people who battle who like need to get into like a mind frame where they're like, I hate this guy.  I've never really felt like that. Like I've always been super competitive.   And I've never felt like I had to hate the other team or the other person to perform to the best of my ability. Do you feel the same? Yeah, it's like it's like a sport. And if you played sports and I like the boxing when I was young. So I understand that as soon as you in that ring, it's a different mindset and you're trying to damage each other. But as soon as you're outside, it's all you know what I'm saying. It's all you know what I'm saying. You shake hands. Puts gloves. That's what it is, 100%. And do you both feel like there might be any bias either way to either of you tomorrow? And if so, like based on anything? I think a lot of, um, like my sort of plan for this battle is like to create bias towards me. But in what way do you mean sorry? At the angles of shows. Create bias towards you. Does that worry you? I'm sure it's not worried. I've got a complete opposite. Yeah. Like, yeah. The complete opposite. So, yeah. Um, I always felt like because C's always got like a huge buzz in London that I was always going to be coming into like sort of hostile territory or people who want to see C do well or whatever, like, not say London's going to be bias against me.  So I chose a lot of angles that are going to try and I feel the opposite. I feel like coming into the battle. I feel like Don't Flop exists like outside of UK Hip Hop and stuff. It exists its own entity and I feel like the fans with Don't Flop like they do crossover a little bit because obviously they see you on here and then they go and watch the videos or whatever. But my fan base exists outside of Don't Flop and I've got a little one inside as well, you know what I'm saying? So I feel like Seoul's fan base in Don't Flop is a lot stronger than mine and I feel like when it's got announced I was seeing a lot of the comments and there was a big bias towards you. That's how I feel about it. Yeah, but sorry. I think like what I'm talking about is inside the venue. Like a lot of these people are going to be posting like because I have a pretty vocal fan base but it's a lot of people from Scotland or whatever who are not going to be there because like I'm the only sort of active Scottish battler in like English leagues and overseas and stuff. So like a lot of them like get behind me like on pay-per-views and stuff like that. So I think like the bias online is not going to be reflective. I don't think there's going to be bias in the room but in case there is like that's the sort of angle I'm looking for. And like how do you both feel about Tony like giving it up? Would you rather would each of you rather you were just the next guy to battle Tony or are you happy that you're battling each other? What's the better outcome? You know what it is? Yeah, like I don't actually want to battle Tony because I think he is like a really like safe guy but like the just for like legitimacy like of the title.


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So as we start forces, let's do a little bit of a review on our units, our dimensions, our symbols. Starting back from kinematics, we had time, which was typically given a symbol of t. And it had a dimension that we used just as capital T with a standard metric unit of seconds. We then have things like positions and displacements. And a position might be an x or a y or something like that. It has a dimension of length and a standard of meters. We then added to our list velocity, general symbol of v. That always had a length per time. And that was a unit of meter per second. Now, our acceleration, given a symbol a, was a length per time squared with a standard unit of meters per second squared. Now we add force. Force is generally given a symbol of a capital F. How do we know what its dimensions and its units are? Well, if I use our dimensional analysis, we come back to what our equation says. Equation is force is mass times acceleration. Well, in order to figure out the force, that means we also need to know something about mass. So let's add that to our chart. And again, typically as a symbol of m. Well, it's a new type of dimension. It's not a length or time or combination of those things. It actually has capital M mass as being one of the fundamental properties. And its standard metric unit is a kilogram. So once we've got that line in there, now we can come back and do an analysis here on our dimensions of our F equals ma equation. The dimensions for force that we don't know yet is a combination of the dimension of mass times the dimensions for acceleration length per time squared. So that means what I have to have is a mass times length per time squared. Now, if we take a look at the basic units for that, that's going to be a kilogram meter per second squared. This is our broken down in terms of our basic metric quantities. That unit is also given a new name called a Newton. So one Newton is one kilogram meter per second squared. So Newton is really a combination of these other base units. And those other base units leads back to what our dimensions have to be. And we can confirm those dimensions based on our equation.


589 what is given is central break though separation between the state small days what 490.3 oh sorry this is 12 mm next question see try not much I mean what if you solve 60 70 problems also do not miss on that finish this chapter in next 2-3 days I mean what before coming next class and this part in half so you did the first experiment that is why the intensity is 2.2 gone sorry I know that I am gone so cos square 5 by 2 becomes 1 by 2 plus minus so plus minus means one point will be above for the sake of simplicity 5 by 2 is difference is 5 by 2 ok at location y what is the path difference d 10 theta it happens to be d 5 by d so this is a path difference at a distance y so what is the phase difference to this 2 pi so d 5 by d correspond to 2 pi by lambda d by capital D so this should be equal to that when you quit it what do you get 2 pi by lambda by d by d is equal to pi by 2 pi by 1 y is equal to d lambda by 4 d so at this location above and below you have intensity which is half of the maximum possible intensity ok so today we have covered almost 80% of way of this fine and almost 90% fine go back home today itself at least try 30 question your own 30 question will take one hour remember this have this thing in your head 30 question is equal into one hour of effort don't count your effort sitting on the desk count with number of question 30 question means one hour whether you do it in 5 hours 6 hours whether if you put phone in front of you 30 question will be done in 5 hours fine so I am asking you to spend one hour only and solve 30 questions ok and next day tomorrow you do not have a sentence so at least try 100 question then this chapter will be done for all you will never have to look back on this chapter


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I'm David Feldman best wishes to actress Demi Moore who was being treated for addiction to nitrous oxide commonly known as laughing gas Demi got addicted to laughing gas after she visited Ashton Kutcher on the set of two and a half men and Sampled what Chuck Lorre forced the studio audience to suck on The state of Washington is considering a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage Seattle-based Starbucks officially came out in favor of the bill this week and to show support for gay marriage Starbucks immediately began putting mom and mom coffee shops out of business After getting shot in the head last year congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords retired this week And I was proud of President Obama the Republicans and the media for making a US Congresswoman getting shot in the head a feel-good story of hope and inspiration Instead of trivializing a US congresswoman getting shot in the head By discussing the National Rifle Association's stranglehold over Washington I'm proud to live in a country Where a United States congresswoman can get shot in the head and not a single lawmaker or pundit So much as mentions the words assault weapons ban Mitt Romney released his tax returns and it turns out he had a Swiss bank account Because just like Romney Switzerland won't take a side either After making all his money at Bain Capital Romney shipped American dollars overseas because he was all out of American jobs to send there Apple reported record profits Who would have ever guessed there was so much money to make and not paying your employees? 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There was a head don't deny it Had nothing to do with the head The body yes An old guitar a lucky star and I'll be getting on by Just a cactus cactus crooner just a minstrel of the mesquite Right now my cat is proud and tall Settle up and harmonize with a lonely cow and a car Just a cactus crooner that song bibbity clout For the trail I go was singing just a cactus crooner a chaparral can't have later Warbling as the tumble we roll by warbling as the tumble we roll by Say I ought to change my ways, but they just can't answer me. Why no So just a cactus crooner Oh just a cactus crooner and Hold it.  You're welcome, Davey. Great job From north hollywood. It's pepato tonight Starring eddie pepato. I'm frank conif along with chris pina and the progressive radio orchestra Inviting you to join eddie and his guests former governor mid romney amanda knocks and montee rock the third And now ladies and gentlemen eddie pepato Frank you look terrific Thanks, eddie. You know folks frank is very good to his liver. He visits it every sunday at the nursing home My liver says hello by the way frank's liver is talking again folks.  Hey, I'm great eddie.  Uh, not that I know of would you like to eat dog food chris panna? Yes only if there's time Anyway chris. That's quite an outfit you got on there. Well, thanks eddie. It's a poochie.  It makes you look like a brazilian substitute teacher after she's been gang massaged by dwarves I don't get the substitute teacher part. Whoa Okay, now it's time for a segment we call pep walking I go into the streets of hollywood and ask random strangers questions In order to prove what a moron the average american is He doesn't mean you nice folks in the audience. Oh, no frank I mean some other folks who aren't here tonight.  Could we roll the video now? Hey folks once again, we're here at hollywood and highland or as I like to call it dumb Central and we're talking with uh, what is your name, sir dug dug? Would you prefer a question about movies or television? Uh, I'll take television. Here's your tv question. In what year was television first invented? Oh, that's a tough one. I'm gonna say 1922. I'm sorry dug, but you're way off It was 1926. I was only off by four Is that what your bank tells you when they make a mistake in your checking account? I I thought these questions were gonna be about television. Who invented the cathode ray tube Oh, I I used to know this I used to know that damn it brawn sub was it renavon brawn? No It was call brawn dug Call brawn totally different person. Sorry. I thought you knew all about television I thought I did too eddie. I'll give you one more chance to redeem yourself tv or movies Okay movies movies. We'll do movies this time. Okay. What's the highest grossing movie to date? I'm gonna say avatar. You're right dug. It is avatar. Yes. I got one. Don't be too sure that dug. It's a two-parter How much did avatar gross? Worldwide, I was just thinking about this while I was brushing my teeth this morning.  I'm sorry Damn it. I feel so dumb.    My name is consuelo ross And what do you do for a living? I'm an interpreter You mean in english to spanish interpreter? No, no, I don't speak english Okay consuelo. Do you like music? Oh very much, senority Okay, here's a musical question for you consuelo. What's the most popular Beatles song? Oh, that would have to be jester day jester day That's right consuelo and how many times was that song played in the 20th century? Oh, that's a good question Seven million times correct consuelo and can you tell me how many different versions of jester day? Have been recorded I would have to say 3000 virgins, senority. No You're wrong consuelo.  It's more than 3000 virgins How many more senority? I have no idea consuelo, but official estimates put it as more than 3000 a swing and a miss Could you tell me your name? Greg? Are you sure you're not dug? Uh, I didn't know the questions were going to be about me. They're not greg. That wouldn't be fair Are you really any pepper ton? Yes, greg and never looked me directly in the eye Would you like a question about sports or ballet? I'll take sports Okay, sports. What famous baseball player died of lou garrix disease? Lou garreg very good greg and what's the proper name for lou garrix disease? Uh, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Correct. Could you explain to me what lou garrix disease is please? Oh boy. Um I think it's a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord And often leads to paralysis and death Very good And how many people are diagnosed with lou garrix disease in the united states each year greg Uh, I believe it's approximately 5600 people each year eddie. You really know your baseball. Don't you greg? I try eddie. Do you like football? Love it. Tell me greg. How long is a football field in centimeters? Geez, I don't know. You can't even guess. I don't know the metric system eddie. Can I give you a hint? Okay, it's 9144 centimeters greg. I thought you were gonna give me a hint. I decided not to Well, thanks greg you sports guys aren't much for book learning. Are you I guess not I'm here with Jane lino j. Have you ever given a direct answer to a question? Listen, I've got a show letterman's got a show Conan's got another show. Everybody's getting a show now. It's just a business. It's a show business It's not show cleverness. How much money do you make? I make a lot of money letterman makes money Conan makes money everybody makes money Didn't you steal this bit from Howard Stern? Listen, I steal you steal everybody steals Everybody makes money. Howard Stern makes money. I make money. It's show business. It's not show Don't ever steal anything. Look the thing with the 10 o'clock thing was they told me that I could come back If I ate some for a while, so I ate some for a while. Then I came back. I ate Conan ate Letterman ate everybody ate Everybody except jimmy kimmel. He never ate Thanks j. Hey, listen, you're welcome letterman's welcome conan's welcome. Everybody's welcome Frank once again. I think I proved my point.  Deader than merv griffin Well, that's our show folks my apologies to mit romney amanda nox and montey rock the third We'll try to have them back. Who's on the show next week frank next week eddie's guests will be jennifer hudson russian cosmonaut mackayl baritino vitz corny enko and robert blake Today's show is written by steve rosenfield guy nicolucci frank conif and david weiss It featured rick overton paul dually eddie pepatoe frank conif chris pinna dillen brody and janey had dad tompkins Our executive producer is troy conrad special. Thanks to matt parez ali lexa jimmy door and alan minceki From the kpfk studios in southern california. I'm david felton