This 10th year of Daily Tech News show is made possible by its listeners. Thanks to all of you, including John Atwood, Pat, and DeGrasia A. Daniels. Coming up on DTNS, Bode from the Kilowatt podcast tells us the hot EV trends he saw at CES and how satellite internet is poised to sweep across the world. This is the Daily Tech News for Friday the 13th of January 2023 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. From Columbus, Ohio, I'm Rob Denwood. Drawing the top tech stories from Cleveland. I'm Len Peralta. I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. And joining us, the host of the Kilowatt podcast, Bode Grimm. Welcome back. Hello. Thank you so much for having me back. Thank you for surviving CES and making it back. Oh, I loved CES. It was great. Yeah. Dude, your feet are okay. No feet issues. Good. No feet issues. That's great. Well, I can't wait to talk to you about what you saw there, so let's get right in to... Oh, by the way. Yes, we know Twitter third party apps are having a problem, but we don't know what it is either. So if we find out, we'll tell you here are the rest of the quick hits. Reuters sources say the cyberspace administration of China and other Chinese regulators could allow DD Global to resume new user registration and relist its 25 banned mobile apps as early as next week. Sounds like China is relaxing on the tech as China's government eases those restrictions. It's also adding a slight bit of control. The government cyberspace administration also acquired 1% of Alibaba and got a board seat on January 4th. China's government had already acquired stakes in Weibo, the messaging company, and ByteDance subsidiary Duyan Information Service. It's in talks with Tencent to acquire a similar 1% stake in one of its domestic subsidiaries. YouTube confirmed to the Wall Street Journal that it is in talks to create a hub of free ad support of TV channels. YouTube told the Journal that it is running a test of such a service for a small number of users. Lionsgate, A&E Networks, and Filmrise apparently are among those participating in the test. If they move forward, it could launch later this year. Now y'all probably heard that Tim Cook got a pay cut. Here's what happened and why in case you don't want to be misled by certain headlines. Cook makes $3 million a year. That's actually his base salary. He's going to get that no matter what. That didn't get cut. He also can get a bonus of up to $6 million. That is also unchanged. He's probably going to get that bonus. What is changing is the stock he gets awarded. That's the largest part of those big numbers you hear. According to a Thursday filing, the amount of stock that he could get will fall from $75 million worth of stock in 2022 to $40 million worth of stock this year. And the percentage of that stock that is linked to Apple's performance is going up. The amount he wouldn't get if Apple performed badly. So the amount linked to performance will rise from 50% last year to 75% this year. According to the Financial Times, there was some concern about the increasing amount of equity that Cook was getting. The value of his pay because of stock rose 500% between 2020 and 2021. Filing said the adjustment was made because of shareholder feedback and I quote, a recommendation from Mr. Cook to adjust his compensation in light of the feedback received. The filing also noted there was, and I quote again, overwhelming support for Mr. Cook's exceptional leadership. Nvidia broadcast added a new eye contact but made a feature which uses algorithms to overlay simulated eyes on a person's face to make them aligned with their camera. Eye contact will try to match eye color and automatically disconnect if you look too far away. Apple offers a similar feature in FaceTime and Microsoft added a feature to Windows 11 for PCs with neural processing units. Medium has launched its own mastodon instance at me.dm. It began testing the instance with a few of its authors and eventually make it a perk if you're a paying member of Medium. Medium claims this will offer users reliable infrastructure, consistent moderation, an interesting local feed, and a shorter domain name for sharing. As part of the instance, Medium will create a sign up with Medium interface to ease on boarding. Don't forget, Medium started by former Twitter co-founders. And that is a look at LiquidKits. Alright before we get into EVs, let's talk a little bit about satellites. Satellites in low earth orbit are close enough to handle fast internet connections and the promise has always been that they could provide internet everywhere on earth. The holdup has been the cost, costs a lot to get them up, costs a lot to get the service going, but the idea is like once you make it ubiquitous those costs would start to come down. The war in Ukraine may be helping satellite internet get over that hump. The Economist's tech podcast Babbage had an episode this week discussing how SpaceX's Starlink satellites have become the main means of transmitting info for Ukraine's military. Why SpaceX, Rob? Well SpaceX brought down the cost of rocket launches making launching lots of satellites more cost effective. Starlink has 3500 satellites in orbit and aims to eventually have 2240,000. The Falcon 9 rocket can launch 50 Starlink satellites at once and SpaceX's Starship rocket can do 400 satellites at once and costs less than it does with the Falcon 9. So they're able to do it cheaper basically, that's what's going on. Starlink's commercial service has seen slow adoption though. Even at $600 they're losing money on each piece of equipment they sell people and they haven't got as many people to sign up as they'd like. However, two days into the war in Ukraine last year the country's Minister of Digital Transformation asked Starlink for help and within a couple days of that receivers were rolling into the country. Starlink's reception dishes are small enough and rugged enough to go mobile and the army has taken advantage of that. They can be powered off cigarette lighters and batteries which means citizens can use them sometimes even in places where there's power outages. Ukraine has added them to drones for piloting and for showing live video and because of the connection coming from space anyone can take advantage of the 100 megabit per second connection as long as they have a receiver and some battery. As a result communication has become ubiquitous within the army. What was once available to senior officers, satellite transmissions from big expensive satellites is now available to every soldier who has a phone. In all this usage in Ukraine has demonstrated the benefits of space based internet especially for militaries. In fact Starlink has created StarShield a division that markets its products to government militaries and Starlink isn't the only company getting into the business. Jeff Bezos' Khyper has plans to launch a network and one web owned by an Indian company in the UK government has launched its own satellites. Technologies are also looking at launching their own system since they want to control them. Taiwan is in talks with investors, Russia announced plans to launch 270 satellites and China is well along in its plans. Yeah, China has plans to launch 13,000 low earth orbit satellites. The effort is centralized under the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation's Giao Wang entity. While it is now and will likely remain state controlled, they are getting dozens of private startups to act as suppliers. Most of the world estimates that around two dozen satellite constellation projects are underway in China. Galaxy Space is one of the most successful, it's already a unicorn, says it can offer speeds five times faster. But Chinese automaker Geely is also in a month game. They've got a few satellites up in orbit already and they're planning to offer service to the centralized entity. Two percent of Starlink users are outside of North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. This leaves a large part of the world open for the Chinese owned internet service to eventually get traction. We're talking Latin America, Southeast Asia and Africa. We're going to have a lot of people competing. We're going to have a lot of militaries putting these services up. The military put up GPS, which now is used by everybody and is also, you know, been replicated with Galileo and Glonass and then things like that. Some more often end up developing technology that advances everybody's uses. Here we have both at work. I'm curious what y'all think, Bonnie, let's start with you. Do you think this looks like we're going to end up with just fast connections from space for everybody? If you can put it on the back of a drone and you can still fly and you can still get internet, then yes, I think so, yes. My family back in Alaska is actually using, or some of them anyway, are using, oh man, I just blanked Starlink. My family back in Alaska is using Starlink. So yes, I hope so. Like as a person who grew up in a very rural area where you didn't get a lot of any modern convenience, I think that this is a good thing overall. Rob, what do you think? So yeah, I think a couple of things. Number one, this is a new type of space race. We are getting back into that. But I think that we eventually are going to get to the point to where we're living in like a Star Trek world to where you literally can just pull out your tri-quarter and you have connectivity pretty much anywhere on earth. I think this is brilliant. I've actually just within the last probably six or seven years had co-workers who lived in remote areas and they had to use like site to site microwave to get high speed internet just because there was just no cell service out there, there was no broadband service. So I do see Starlink and other companies like it actually just making internet access more available to more people and it looks like at less cost. It's it's expensive, but it's not as expensive necessarily as having somebody dig a trench to bring broadband to your house. Thing is, if all of these start to take off, there's going to need to be coordination because, yes, low earth orbit is big. But when you've got multiple services with tens of thousands of satellites, you don't want them to run into each other. One of the advantages of this kind of service is it's hard to take out with a missile. If you just have one Telstar satellite broadcasting, you could you could conceivably shoot that down. That was a worry during the Cold War. If you try to shoot a missile into a crowd of, you know, 20,000 Starlink satellites. Well, yeah, you could have an effect, but you're not going to bring the whole network down. However, you could create enough debris that it causes everybody's satellite to have problems. So there's there's going to be there's going to have to be some kind of international cooperation on this. Yeah, Space Junk is becoming a real problem to where there's just I mean, there's literally thousands of pieces of metal just floating around.   And that stuff and that actually happens fairly regularly. Yeah, when when Russia tested a missile bringing down one of their own satellites, there was a lot of anger over them, you know, breaking the word, breaking treaties, possibly, et cetera, et cetera. There was plenty of worry about like, we don't care whether you broke your word or a treaty or anything else.  So it's it's a big it's a big part of this, too. Wednesday, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board chair, Jennifer Hommandy, told the Transportation Research Board in her keynote address. I'm concerned about the increased risk of severe injury and death for all road users from heavier curb weights and the increasing size, power and performance of vehicles on our roads, including electric vehicles. A V's can be heavy because of their batteries. The Ford F one fifty lightning is 2000 to 3000 pounds heavier than is non electric version. The GMC Hummery V has a curb weight of 9,053 pounds. Its battery pack weighs as much as a Honda Civic. And that's a problem. Yes, because a heavier vehicle causes more damage in a crash. And if you got two heavy vehicles, that's a lot more damage because they're both heavy. And then that is made more complicated by speed because the faster they go, the more damage that happens there. Vehicle power has increased 20 percent since 2004, meaning you've got more potential speed, not just more potential weight. A vehicle's kinetic energy is equal to half its mass multiplied by the square of its speed. So, Rob, would you like to do the math? Well, I would do it. But fortunately for us, A.R.S. Tectica's Jonathan M. Getland did the math for us. A four thousand pound light duty truck delivers 112 kilojoules of force at 25 miles per hour, increase speed 40 percent to 35 miles per hour. And you get an increase of force of 96 percent to 220 kilojoules. So, Bodie, is this really a problem or is it a problem just for trucks and hummers? I OK, so I'm going to preface all this with saying that I don't want to see anybody get hurt or die. Sure. So I'm going to go maybe to some darker places here. We would car accidents happen all the time. It could be a semi truck versus a regular car, a train, a bus. These things happen all the time. And it will always surprise me on how much damage is done to the vehicle and how the person who was in those vehicles or the people who were in those vehicles were able to either survive or come out uninjured. So this is all of this depends on, like you said, speed of the car. Where was the impact? Where were the people sitting? What are the size of the vehicles involved? Were they wearing their seat belts to the airbags deploy safely? Was there already damage to the car before the accident? All this stuff plays a factor in this. And just to say that, you know, there's a good chance if a GMC Hummer hit a smart car that's not going to be so good for the smart car. But in reality, we don't know, because weird things happen all the time. I was actually on a call a couple of years ago where a BMW ran through stoplight and hit a pickup truck. And unfortunately, the driver of the pickup truck died, but it separated the cab from the bed. Like it was it was a horrific accident. And the cab was a long way away from the bed. And the BMW actually continued on and hit a brick wall. The people in that car, while they were injured, they weren't seriously injured. So all of this stuff is is almost like magic. You know, you don't even you don't know what is going to happen. You can guess, right?  And then, you know, you might have a fatality or somebody seriously injured safety equipment adds to the weight. Maybe not as much as batteries do, but you know, yeah. The the Ars Technica article makes a good point of talking about how even the weights of things like, you know, not PT Cruiser, maybe PT Cruiser.  Mini Cooper, I think, is what they were talking about has been going up. I think what Jennifer Hamedy is saying is not we shouldn't make EVs, but she's saying these increased weights are going to make things just that much more dangerous. And we need to think about that. We need to think about is there a way to bring down the weights and still have the power efficiency? Are there other things we have to do?  It's you know, it's dangerous enough out there already. This is something we should also be thinking about in addition to all the other safety concerns we think about. Yeah, and these cars, I'm sorry, Rob, go ahead. Look, I was just going to say, I wonder if part of this, too, is that is it really everything or is it just that we when you start looking at that Hummer, I think weighs almost 10,000 pounds. That is different than the Ford Granite. The the F 150 is much heavier than a non electric F 150, but it's not over 9000 pounds. It's so is this really a Hummer thing or is this a all trucks thing? I I still don't think it's a it's an anything thing. I think that these there's so few Hummers on the road right now. And even when they get up to full production, there's going to still be not that many. It's a very expensive vehicle. Now, that's not to say that we shouldn't be worried about concern or concerned about accidents. I agree 100 percent with this person. We should be thinking about it.   And the reason why is because that's that's how they absorb that energy to keep the occupants in the car safe with the addition of airbags and stuff like that. To your point, Rob, the 93 Mini Cooper was one thousand four hundred pounds. The 2023 electric Mini Cooper SE three thousand one hundred forty four pounds. So the weight issue for everybody, the weight issue is going to be there for for a lot of cars, not not just for trucks. But yeah, whether that is as significant of an issue or not, as all these other things. Yeah, I'm listening to you, Bode, hopefully it's it's it's something we're we're adapting to and that we're we're planned for with our current safety measures. Hopefully technology and these new SUVs will be there so that they can help you avoid accidents, you know, or at least avoid more of them. I know that that's never going to be a complete, you know, remedy. But hopefully when these things are giant robots driving each other, they will know how to not hit each other. I agree. Yeah. Well, folks, let's lighten things up and chat away on social about what we had for lunch. You can get in touch with us and the rest of the DTS crowd at DTS show on Twitter, DTS show on Twitter, available on your third party app whenever it comes back, daily tech news show on Tiktok and DTS pics. DTS P I X on Instagram. Tesla cut prices of its vehicles by up to 20%, depending on which model you're looking at this week. There are loads of reasons why they did that, of course, but one of them is competition. There are more competitive EVs out there than ever. And you could see a lot of them at the Consumer Electronics show last week.  Bodie walked the floors looking over the latest EV developments. Bodie, what are some of the things you found most interesting? Well, first of all, last time I was on, we talked about Vin Fast, which is a Vietnamese company that brought an electric car to the United States within a year. They they actually delivered 999 in 2022. So it's pretty impressive. They released the specs for the VF 6 and the VF 7, which are the more affordable models of the Vin Fast SUV line for the electric vehicles. And I was able to take I was able to drive the VF 8, which is their bigger sedan or excuse me, the bigger SUV around a tiny course outside of the West Hall. And it was it was a lot of fun. That car was a lot of fun to drive. Unfortunately, the range might not be exactly what you would want for a fifty seven thousand dollar vehicle. The range, according to the EPA here in the United States, is one hundred and seventy eight miles. Vin Fast is saying two sixty. I don't know exactly who to believe, probably the EPA. All right. So so Vin Fast is still real. Still still an option out there. That's good to know. What about the reality of solar powered cars? We've talked about Lightyear before as well. Yeah, Lightyear is a Dutch company. And I was talking one of the reps, you know, and I was like, Hey, you know what, I think this is a cool car. But I'm super disappointed that this thing is so expensive. And he said, Well, we only built this car so that we could build the more affordable car, the Lightyear, too. And that is what spurred me to actually get an interview with this guy because it changed my old perspective of the company because I want everybody to be able to own electric vehicles, not just people who can afford a two hundred and fifty thousand dollar vehicle. So the Lightyear, like you said, has solar panels all around the vehicle. It also has in wheel hubs on all four wheels, which means that the electric motor is in the hub itself and you don't lose any efficiencies transferring power from a motor to the tires. The motor is in the tires. So these solar panels will also provide up to 43 miles of charge a day. And in, you know, the Netherlands, it's quite cloudy. And they said that this number is pretty accurate for them. The practical range is six hundred and twenty one miles, which is a thousand kilometers. And when they say practical range, it means you're going to charge up the car and then you drive around. And as you drive around and parked outside the grocery store, it's charging up into the battery won't let you go six hundred and twenty one miles. The battery will only let you go three hundred and forty seven miles or five hundred and sixty kilometers. But as as you're driving, you'll add range by the sun. That's cool. Yeah. And I think Apptera is another company that does this. And so now is a company in Germany that does this as well. And they offer a thirty five thousand dollar. OK, so we, none of us are on this show anyway. Well, maybe Rob are going to pay for the two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. But I'm yet, but how much is the light year two going to run us again? The light year two is forty thousand dollars. And they actually had it. It was like behind this wall and you could go back and look at it. And they had these slits that were about a half an inch. So you'd have a half an inch of wood and then a half an inch of blank space so you could look at the car and then another half an inch wood. So you really couldn't get a good look at the car, but the very small amount that I could see, it looked like a good looking car. All right. All right. And did they have any idea when? This summer, I believe, is when they're planning on coming out with that. All right. What about motorcycles speaking of hubless? Yes. So I spoke with the CEO of Finnish company, Verge Motorcycles, and they have a hubless tire as well, or excuse me, a hubless motor as well in the rear wheel. This vehicle looks like it should be owned by Batman. It is awesome looking like I am not responsible enough to own a motorcycle. I know that. But if I was responsible enough, it would be this motorcycle. The batteries actually sit in where the the the internal combustion motor would be on a normal motorcycle. So this is just a very nice compact bike and it is sporty. Yeah, very jealous of people who get to ride motorcycles. It'll give you it starts at 107 horsepower. Do you want me to give you the ultra specs or just the regular specs? Well, yeah, give us give us the the range in the dollar amounts. OK, so for twenty six thousand dollars, twenty six thousand nine hundred, you'll get a hundred and seven horsepower, one hundred and fifty five miles of range for the next model, one hundred and thirty seven horsepower, two hundred and seventeen miles of range, and that will cost you twenty nine thousand nine hundred. So probably worth upgrading there. But the ultra specs, this is a two hundred and one horsepower, two hundred and thirty three miles of range, and that will be forty four thousand nine hundred. And that also gives you a thousand nanometers of torque. So it's zero to sixty and two point four seconds or something like that. I was going to ask you where that extra fourteen thousand dollars was going because you didn't get a lot more range, but it's yeah, that makes sense. You're you're wanting this for other purposes than going a long way. You're paying for the thrill. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. How are these prices for because I haven't followed electric motorcycles at all. I'm not even sure how many are out there. How are these prices compare? I think they're up a little bit, but from what I can tell the the product is quality. So I can't tell you exactly. I don't cover electric motorcycles all that often, but this this one was so compelling to me when I saw it in real life. I was like, I got to talk to these folks and I waited for about twenty five minutes to interview the CEO. I can't remember his name off the top of my head now. But yeah, really nice guy. Yeah, nice looking bike. All right, there were also not cars, not even motorcycles there. You saw a boat. Yes, the Candela C8 is a 24 foot electric boat and it has hydrofoils. So normally when a boat is traveling through the water, it has to push that water out of its way and it's not going to get very good range. It's not very efficient that way. So the hydrofoils actually are deployed and they act like wings. And so as the water flows over to the hydrofoils, it lifts the boat out of the water two to three feet and through, you know, the computer, it's able to steady itself. So it's not you're not going to get that choppy ride.  And also because it is up and out of the water that causes that creates more efficiencies and at twenty eight knots, you're going to get about fifty two miles of range with this. And this is a very small forty eight kilowatt hour battery. And this is a twenty eight foot boat. It has in the in the bow, it has a cabin that will sleep too. And it's sizable down there. This is this is a big boat. So it does feel at fifty two miles that this is for like going out on the water for the day, not not for like traveling. This is this is for recreational use. Is that right? This is for people who could afford a yeah, they could afford to bring back a dodo and eat it for dinner. This thing is three hundred and ninety five thousand dollars and tops out of like five fifty, I think it's not a cheap boat. That's a reason to go for the the the light year model too. So you could save money for your boat. Right. Yeah, no, but but the the the candela I was actually very surprised. It's got a carbon fiber body in it. It's just really pretty. I actually got excited when I saw it like a like a schoolgirl. Nice, nice. Well, I do want to talk to you about some of the other electric related stuff, like like the Super Base five. We'll talk about that more on Good Day Internet. But if you had a real quick top line on that, what should people know? Because we talked about the eco flow, but we didn't talk about this one. So this is a a battery system that is portable and is modular so you can build up as you get more money. All right, good to know. We will have links to all of that in the show notes as well. Daily Tech News Show dot com. Let's check out the mail bag. Shane emailed us regarding the story of CNET using some algorithms to write their stories and in fact, CNET Connie Guglielmo, the editor-in-chief of CNET wrote up a nice explanation of like, here's what we were thinking. This is why we're doing it. We're trying out technology. This is how we're evolving our thinking about it. You should go read that as well. Shane says, in reference to your discussion on uses for AI, entitling and menial tasks related to podcasting, I was mentioning we use it on Sorden Laser as well. He says, I run an Instagram account for my bird photography and my least favorite part used to be writing the captions. Now I use chat GPT to not only generate the captions for the photographs, but it also does a very good job of generating relevant hashtags to go along with them. It has freed up a considerable amount of time and lets me build up a catalog of ready to go posts that I can keep in my back pocket. Thank you all so much for the work you put into the show to keep us all updated on what's happening in the tech world. Your show made me much cooler at parties. Well, Shane, we're putting that on the masthead. Made Shane cool at parties. Yeah, that's good. That's good stuff. And this is great. What a great use of it, creating captions for your bird photographs, hashtags and all that stuff. I feel like Rob, you could do something like that. I tell you what, these large language model AIs are changing how we do stuff. And I know that there's people. Oh, you're taking jobs away from copywriters and writers and all this kind of stuff. Well, in the case here, Shane was not hiring a writer to do this. He was agonizing doing it himself. And now he does not have that problem anymore. So I think that these things are here to stay. They're only going to get better. And we're just going to have to adjust to how we start to use them and our day-to-day work. Absolutely. All right. Somebody who will never be replaced by a machine learning algorithm is Len Peralta. He has been illustrating today's show, possibly with the aid of AI. I have no idea. Len, what have you drawn for us today? Thank you so much, by the way. No, you know what? So EVs are getting too heavy. You know, here's the thing. It's only two weeks into the new year. Can you give these guys a break, please? If they haven't even gotten a chance to really work out their resolutions. That's a good point. Yeah, just give them a break here. This image is called heft EV. And you can, if you're interested in this, you want to hang it up in your cubicle or whatever. Maybe you work for Ford or something or for the National Transportation and Security Board, too. Safety Board. You can pick this up at my Patreon, patreon.com, forward slash Len. Just become a member there. Or do the old-fashioned way. Go to my store, lenpraltestore.com, which, by the way, I'm open for commissions. If you're looking for me to draw for you, think about it because it is a new year and I have my own resolutions as well, so. You and the heavy EVs also have- The heft EVs. The heft EVs, sorry, my apologies. Rob Dunwood, a pleasure, as always, my friend. What do you got going on to tell folks about? It is always a pleasure being here on DTNS and you guys can find me pretty much everywhere on the web at Rob Dunwood and please check out my SMR podcast and the Tech John podcast. Those are the other two things that I work on pretty much every week. Yeah, do not miss them. Bodie Grimm, folks who should find more of the great information you bring us at your podcast, where can they go? You can just search for Kilowatt in their podcatcher of choice. I have all the interviews of the products that I talked about today up on the podcast now. I think I have two more to do tonight after we get done with this. And then I also had some non-EV stuff that interviews that are recorded. I gave those to Allison for the Nozfila cast. So if you're interested, go and subscribe to her podcast and she'll release those when she feels it's time. Yeah, go to podfeed.com for even more Bodie and Allison. Two of my favorites together. 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So, as we just saw, if we have occasional outliers that are very big because in the mean squared error that error grows quadratically, these small number of errors will have a very large influence on what we finally get. That's an alternative, mean-absurd error. Robust estimation is an important field for people who don't know that field yet. It is, how can we do estimates in domains where occasionally we have outliers? And the idea is that we want the effect of every single data points to be bounded. Look at the loss function. If you take the derivative of that, you will see how this is bounded. So the loss function that we have in this case is the sum of the absolute values of the reconstruction errors. So now, take that same data set that has a few outliers and check what the outliers do in this case.


As you guys know, I like to build things. There's just this amazing feeling when you have an idea and then turn it into a reality. Over the past two years I've been creating content and working full time from home. But not just home, this 8x10 room and while that worked for a while, it started to get really, really, really small. As it was getting even worse, I knew that it was time for some change. So this is a little awkward. It's been about two months that I haven't done anything publicly, any kind of content, any kind of courses, any kind of products on any of our websites or anything like that. And it might have seemed like I just quit and I'm just kind of making a quick update that I didn't. The reason I've been gone for so long is because as you've seen, I've moved out of my current office into a garage. Over the past couple months, maybe a year, we've been doing a lot more content with physical stuff like building robots or building sensors or working with some kind of electronics or mechanical things and I did all that in the room where I slept in and I worked full time in. So there was absolutely no room in there and I was like alright, it's time to find something bigger and that's what I've done now. I don't really want to make a video where I'm like showing off every single piece of the garage because that's not my goal. I tried to keep everything here under a budget. There were like a couple rules I had. One was keep everything under a budget. Two was keep everything like easy to move. So for example, if I have to leave this week from this location, I can take everything, put it in a small truck and get it to another location where I can continue working from there. The other one is that everything is secure obviously that if I work in here and I build things in here that I want to have it secure. So I have cameras all around the property. I have cameras inside of the garage. Everything's being monitored. I have a 3D printer in here that constantly is working and that's always being monitored with the Raspberry Pi so I can control it from my phone.  The main thing is that now I have a place where I don't have to build something, take it apart and then put everything away because I now have to do other things in that room. It's a place for one thing and one thing only creating content and building cool things. So for example, everything I've ever built up to now, publicly or privately, I've had to take apart unless I could find a place to store it which most of the time has not been the case. So if I ever had to go back and do another piece of content on that, I'd have to put it back together, do the content on it, take it apart and then you know put it away again and if I ever had to do it again, I'd have to restart. It was just terrible, super inefficient and it was really frustrating to not have like a place to do my thing. I kind of been working in here for the past like month just cleaning and setting things up. It kind of looks like a cheap budget Ironman studio. I didn't even close the door. The lighting looks terrible but this is what it looks like. I think I'll just take the camera and I'll do a quick walk around and show you guys what I've been working on. Well here's outside of it. It's just a garage door. I have got this go-kart I built a long time ago that's on its side right now and I'm hoping we could fix that up. This corner is going to be for cutting wood. This is all garbage being thrown out every Wednesday when they pick up big stuff.  Like every box is one type of thing and a bunch of scrap wood. If you continue inside, we got this like tool bench with a bunch of tools, much different power tools for whatever needs you have and I guess more garbage here. Vacuums, big office desk, aka plastic $50 Walmart desk and some shelves that are going to be holding all the stuff we build. This big box right here took me about a week to build. It's a giant 3D printer enclosure. So there's a 3D printer in there with a camera and a Raspberry Pi and it's controllable. You can monitor it. You can watch everything that's being printed. You can tell it what to print and when to print and all those details and you can always change settings from your phone. I got some cool LEDs in there so it looks even cooler. And then the bottom half is storage for all the printing stuff and camera stuff. Fridge, sink that isn't really installed. You kind of have to tap it into the wall and all that. And then just a giant work desk for building things, tools and electronics.  Looks pretty cool from this angle. That's all I really had to show you guys. I hope you enjoyed this and I'm looking forward to making some cool stuff in here. If there's something you want to see being built or something you want to learn, let me know. And we'll do it in the next one.


Here everyone happy Monday for May 17th here with your day trading recap a small green today cream day today plus 221 Was up quite a bit more gave some back here later in the morning. So let's go through these I'll show you what we did starting with our one mighty 90 trade in zoom booked for 75 No pairs trades today On the runners had a winner an apple for 346 a winner in Boeing for 155 Roblox plus 467 and then negative trades in Roku AMD and Zoom so let's take a look at these and I'll show you what we did starting with our first Trade which is a mighty 90 In zoom so let's take a look at zoom so zoom had this nice push up to start We'll spike in volume got short up here and caught this nice little down move here I would have gotten out with even more profit But I was what I was paying attention other trades and trying to get filled and then this thing bounced quick on me And so and getting out of my last piece after this little bounce So still booked for 75 nice winner in zoom and then on the runners.  It's a newer stock But this one did an upside runner with this big volume spike here really on this This is a little pullback, but got long right here got a nice push up Got out of a bunch of it came back down got in some more pushed up Got out of some came back down got in again pushed up and I was just saying super small here But through all that and then when it started to kind of Right here. It was it was the mark was really rallying and this thing was just kind of sitting there So I ended up cutting out of the last piece here did get another rally I was trying to wait for this pivot, but didn't quite get there in the time frame I wanted to so I just cut out, but still booked a $467 profit in row blocks amd Let's see Roku. Let's go to Roku So Roku I did have a decent profit in here and then she took it all away So I had a big big volume spike here on this pullback got long Caught a nice push up got out of Half of the position here and then when it came back down I added back in looking for another bounce And that didn't happen this thing just kind of flushed so I ended up when it bounced back up I ended up just closing out of that and taking a loss on Roku and then a couple late-day trades in amd So I was looking for the market look like it might potentially get strong So I was looking for some long positions AMD Initially had pushed up then it came all the way back down negative territory and then pushed up made a nice push Above yesterday's high above this pivot. So when it kind of started to pull back here I got long looking for a continuation higher, but the market just really started getting weak So when it flushed down, I just cut out of it took a loss of 315 and then zoom I sat in this one for a while Looking for some upside kind of the same got in about the same time as amd same kind of scenario It showed initial strength came down got negative and then pushed right back up And so when it was chopping around above yesterday above Friday's high got long here looking for a continuation This thing just chopped and chopped and chopped and chopped so when it started to break down here I just cut out and took a loss. So still small green day today plus 221 Could have been a lot better, but you know, that's the way trading goes sometimes So if you guys have any questions, let me know Otherwise, we'll be streaming live every day this week will be offline all of next week So look forward to seeing you in the live stream the next few days talk to you then


Okay folks, look, I got a smile on my face and I'm feeling real good because I'm cooking my favorite. Look, they pork chops. Actually my favorite, I like anything to smother, especially the pork chops, but today we're doing the pork chops and the air fry. And guess what folks, today's video is sponsored by Shopify. Okay folks, so look, I'm gonna go ahead and let the camera run right over these, some of these ingredients right here. Obviously, look, oh, ain't obvious, I gotta show you guys. Look, these right here, I've already cleaned, rinsed, cleaned, padded dry. These are my pork chops, right? I just want to show you this. Look, I got, I'm gonna do them thin.  I'm gonna show you how to do both. And what's gonna be key is, listen, you're gonna need to have yourself a meat thermometer because we want, you know, we want to make sure we got the right temperature, right? Now, listen, everything is really made, we all been grown up and taught to use 165 degree. These are pork chops, folks. Even the FDA, like, changed it. If you guys want juicy, well, you know, they cook throughout 145, right? So the thicker ones, when I get them to about 140, I'm gonna take them out, you know what I mean? Because then they're gonna rise up about five degrees and then they're gonna be perfect. This is gonna be the secret. And you guys been following me for a minute, know that I like to get down and do a little brining, but I'm gonna show you how to do it real simple. And take a look at this right here. I'm gonna be using my Breville oven, but it has a feature on here for air fry. So don't let the oven fool you or nothing like that. When we say air fry, I don't care what kind of air fry you get or you have, I'm gonna show you just what you need. Now, these ingredients and everything that you see right here is on my website, smokingandgrillingwithab.com and that's W-I-T-A-B.com. Now, I'm gonna take my dry ingredients, but I want to show you guys this right here. You see that? That is this. This is the branch and vine. Listen, this is, I want to call it a smoked bacon sea salt. Look, not made and done with no bacon or nothing like that. This is actually a vegan product, but I square by it.  I substitute this instead of using kosher salt, right? So now, we'll just add it here. Get yourself a whisk and we just want to mix it together.  So let me just go ahead and whisk this and get everything, you know, mixed together and I'll show you what we're going to do next. So if you pay attention, look at this right here. This is branch and vine. This is a garlic and fused olive oil. If you guys ever want to know what I'm using inside of this right here, I always keep that in there. I alternate between garlic and scallion. This is what I cook with, right? So what I'm going to do is I'm going to take a little bit of this and drizzle this on here.  Right? So these are the thin ones. And now that I think about it, I was going to put both of the thin and the thick in there together. I don't think I'm going to do that. Why? Because we need to go ahead and flip. I don't want to keep opening the door. We just want to be able to cook, right? So I'm going to go ahead and take these thin ones. I'm going to start with the thin ones, get those knocked out, and then I'm going to do the thick ones last. All right, so I'm going to take one of these thin ones, right? What I'm going to do is I'm just going to go ahead and just sprinkle, you know, a rub on here. Look at this right here. You want to make sure you get it everywhere. This is what's going to give us that flavor along with that garlic infusion. All right, then I flip it over. And I just stage them right here. Grab another one, set it on here. Just got that little bone in there. It looked like a regular, you know, thicker pork chop. This is more like traditional looking. Just lay it flat and just coat. Like I said, I'm going to be using my Breville oven, right? So as you can see, it's got a bunch of different names right here, like bagel broil, bake, bake, roast, warm. I'm going to go ahead and select this all the way down to air fry. Now, I'm going to hit start, because it always does a preheat. It starts to say preheating right there, 400 degrees, and it says 18 minutes. Now I'm going to tell you this, these thin chops, they're probably going to go for about 12 minutes, maybe 13, right? So after six minutes, I'm going to flip them over. But right now I want to get my preheating done and then I'm going to stick them in. Okay, the preheating went away, right? So we had 400 degrees in the inside, right? It's nice and warm. I told you we're going to do it for like 12 or 13 minutes. I'm probably going to put them in there for, I'm going to say 13. You know what I mean? I know my machine. I got this here. I'm going to go ahead and just set this in the inside just like this. Close it up. Now I'm going to set my time. We reduce this down to 13 minutes and we let it work. Again, I just want to go over this part again. Now I'm using an oven that has an air fryer feature. I don't care if you guys have air fryer on your actual double oven or single oven, our air fryer is an air fryer, right? So you want to do it just the way I showed you and you want to try to stay with that time. You know what I mean? But we're going to check it.  Now that we got the chops in the air fryer, right? Look, chances are if you bought any of my merch have been to my website, then you know today's sponsor Shopify. What is Shopify? Shopify is a commerce platform that's easy to use and it's ready. Listen, it's made for anybody. It helps you start, grow and manage your business no matter where you are. Listen, you can sell online in person and across all major platforms, right? Like Facebook, Instagram. You guys know all of the major platforms. They work with it. Shopify is there to support your business when you're starting, like in the beginning, say you're starting with like one product or you're somebody that has like a multiple product catalog. It doesn't matter. Listen, they're there from the beginning to the end, right? Now check this out. Not all your products have to be sold online, right? Listen, they have a Shopify POS, right? That can be integrated into what you're doing now. So listen, when you out, you can do tap to pay with the iPhone for your iPhone, you know, users out there. Listen, they have it all. Now to make it even easier, Shopify is offering a free trial, right? Listen, there's a QR code on the screen. And if you look right down below that, it's the URL. The URL is Shopify.com slash S-N-G-W-I-T-H-A-B. And that's Shopify.com slash S-N-G with A-B. Now when it comes to the thick pork chops, I'm going to do the exact same thing, right? Only thing is when I put them in there, when I flip them, I'm going to check them. And I'm going to probably say these will probably take the whole 13 minutes, right? They're not as thin. So I've already done this one. You can see, coat it front and back. I'll just put it right here and I'll do the rest. Okay, folks. So after seeing that, look, we got the thin, we got the thick. I only took one of the thick ones over here. You could just see it starting to cool. I had to take the pictures of it, get a thumbnail. You know what I mean? Let me do it like this. I'll just cut a little bit of here. Don't forget we got that bone right there, right? So you guys can look, you can see it's cooked throughout. And listen, if I just take this right here, look, you can see it's still tender. This one right here went to 149 total. You know what I mean? This one right here is right, folks. Hey, listen, I know you can hear it in my tone. You know what I mean? I get to talking like Barry White, you know, get to talking like, making it all sexy and all of that. But check this out. This is my favorite, folks, if you ever want to know. Hey, I'm going to tell you what. Remember that. What's my favorite? My favorite on the planet is smothered pork chop, but any pork chop, any kind of way. Cheers. Now I'm faking the funk, folks. I already ate one of these. They share it with everybody behind the camera. Everybody got a piece. So right now I got them held back in handcuffs so they don't come and eat up all my product. But this right here, fire. Now this right here, folks, is fire.  And then when you get it, do it and follow it, you know, step by step. I promise you this right here is going to turn it up for you. Hey, so with that being said, listen, using that airfryer, everybody got them. Or I probably think like one in three households got a airfryer. Like everybody house I go over, everybody got one. You know what I mean? Hey, they are as cheap as all the way down from $50 all the way up to like, you know, five, 600 bucks, you know what I mean? But you ask me, they all pretty much work the same. No oil. It's way more healthier. Hey, so with that being said, I'm not finna over talking, right? So listen, if you're new to my channel, I want to take this time to say, thank you for watching this video. Don't forget to like, don't forget to share this video and tell everybody out here. There's a channel out here to simplify these recipes and taking the mystery out of cooking. And you know what I'm about to do, folks? I'm about to tear into this and I'm out. Peace.


I am not good at Super Smash Bros.  But losing has never stopped me before. In fact, it's 90% of this very YouTube channel. So I decided it would make for a fun video to enter a real Super Smash Bros. tournament completely blind just to see how it goes. But, um, I'm not gonna lie. I did not know where to find a real online Smash tournament. So instead, I decided to settle for a warm-up tournament just through the game itself. Will I still get folded? Honestly, I think it's gonna come down to the character choice. And of course, I will be playing Hero because you can take the player away from the anime, but you can't take the anime out of the player. Also, I just like the fact that he has a lot of RNG elements. Now, the worst part about playing Hero is, unfortunately, you do have to be able to read and very fast. What is Hocus Pocus again? What? Did I just poison myself? What? Who am I facing? RNGesus! This is the perfect first match! Oh, he thinks he's the R... If he's RNGesus, he's about to run into the RNGod, bro. AKA me, what? I'm deleting him frame one with Wack. Oh, it's gonna look mad personal. It's gonna look so personal. Oh, it's gonna look so personal. Watch this. Frame one, frame one. Oh, I accidentally threw something. I oomped. I oomped. Does that raise my attack? He thought he was nasty, but I'm built difference. Oh, I thought I was nice. I thought I was nice. Here it comes. Here it comes. Got him! I'm not! You ain't RNGesus, bro. You fighting RNGod. You might be better than me. You might have combos, but you're not me. And that's all you could ever... That's where it ends. Do I have Zoom? Woo! He thought he was gonna spike me, but I'm different. I'm different than the rest. Damn. All right, he got me. All I need is one explosion. Magic burst! Oh, he dodged it. That was what I wanted to. I actually have to play the game now unless I get a crit right here. Run into me. Damn. He's nice. He's nice. He's trying. He's trying.  But I can win through luck, but I can win through luck. Whack! Oh, he got so lucky. Nice. No, he got another grab. Am I dead? I'm mashing. I'm mashing. Doom! From... He suplexed me! Bro, he... Oh, my God. He is so lucky. I can't read, man. If I could read, that game would have been over. Bro, why... Wait, wait. Why is Hero clapping like that? A winged Pikmin. What the... What is that? All right, we're loading it to the next one and I already... I can see that... What was that first guy's name? Okay, so that's what... Y'all some weirdos on the switch. Anyway, like I was saying, I see my problem now. I shouldn't have magic bursted as early as I did. I only did it because I was happy I got magic burst at all because I really wasn't expecting to. All right, this guy... This guy's not as good as the other guy. Hatchet man! Oh! This guy's not actually as good as the last one. I... Even I can tell that. Maybe... Maybe I still might lose, obviously, but... I don't think the... We won't get body slam like we did before. Doom! All right, so this is bad. This is very, very bad. No, no, no. Let's... Let's relax. Let's... Let's relax. Oh, come on. Oh, come on. I'm really gonna have to try it out. Bro, just let me RNG my way into a crit. It's so... It's difficult. Oh, he shot me! I didn't read magic, but he shot me. Damn, I'd be losing, bro. TV slash MISTIK. Am I live on someone's stream right now? All right, well, hold on, bro. If I'm gonna be live on someone's Twitch, let me get this win. I gotta stop. I gotta stop jumping, bro. That forward move is so slow. All right, just... Stop! Oh, yeah, you tried it. Zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom. No zoom. No zoom. No zoom. We unfortunately just died there. He grabbed me from that rate. Oh, oh, oh my God. I grabbed me again. David, dude. I got grabbed again.  Oh, haha. Go backwards. Oh, let's go. I'm nice. That should have... That should have... That should have absolutely destroyed him. Whoa!  No way. All right. You can run that fast. Double jump. There's a lot of good information. Hold on. I gotta write this down. All right, we are once again back, and I've realized now that I just... I need to utilize more of my kit, bro. The jump... Hero is too slow to be jumping and trying to go for these hits. So I'm gonna... You know, I'm gonna start using some side magic here. It's basically just what needs to happen at this point, but it just sucks because I want to use my other magic, bro. Like, kamikaze! Let's go. I almost took him out, though. That should have killed... That really should have... I needed that to kill him. I need this stuff to kill him, man. I need to make... Let him make the mistakes. Oh, that is a dangerous tool. Also, I need to use tornadoes there. Tornadoes there are gone. Like, let's go. Back him up. Back him up. Back him up. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Oh, I already dodged. I already dodged. Oh, that was close. Psych up. Psych up! I'm different. I'm different. I'm different. Finally a win. God damn, I'm bad. Let's go. Hero! Nah. All right. I'm winning out. This is my tournament now. This is my tournament. It looks like my next opponent has been decided. I'm fighting a Palutena, I think. A win here would put me in the semifinals. I need this. Does Palutena have any way around my new electricity strategy? Oh, that would have been a godlike read. And by read, I'm in accident. How do you miss that, man? You can't afford to be missing stuff like that. Nice. There we go. Finally some electricity. What is the... What are these teleports? Minotaur? Zoom. Zoom. Zoom. Zoom. God, the low percentage just is crucial. There we go. That should have spiked. What? There's no way. This life is just truly pain. Oh, no, no, no, don't bring me that far up. Life is pain. Don't give me best eight. Bro, all I had to do was win one match for that title. I don't care. What? All right. If last tournament wasn't my tournament, then this tournament must be my tournament, bro. Gas. Shout out to what an amazing stage. I hate the full charge version of that. Damn. A tornado strategy is actually... What in the... Damn. Damn. That was good. That was good. Magic burst. Magic burst. Yes. Yes. RNG. RNG. I got to trust in my RNG abilities. This guy is way better than me at the game. Oh, my God. I don't have any magic. I turned that magic person off my magic away. Be pan... That was kind of sick. No! No! I should have had that, man. I just played so bad. Magic burst should have won me that game. Oh, that first magic burst should have won me that game. Oh, no. What is this cursed image?  Oh, brother. We're back on the gas stage. Okay. Play my game. Play my game. Play my game. We want half charged electricity attacks. And don't overswing. Don't overswing. Hero... Hero, you know, and not the fastest guy, you know? You can't... You overswing. You overswing again. You're... Yeah! See you, Jigglypuff. Yeah! Yeah! Yeah, I'm like that. I'm like that. Oh, my magic burst. Go, go, go, go, go. No, no, no, no. Well, don't know if I'm going to make this one. I did. I did make it. All right. Take your time. Confirm these hits. That's all you need to do. Confirm these hits. This Jigglypuff is not hitting me with the level of stuff we've been hit with. All right. Bang was a bad idea. Oh, he went to sleep. Crit, crit, crit, crit, crit, crit, crit. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. I don't even know if that was a crit or not, but I'll take it. Hey, what are these slimes doing here?  What are you doing? Y'all cause it a ruckus. Oh, boy, round two again. And this time up against Inkling. Uh, uh, I'm so tired, dude. I'm so tired of losing.  What's going on? Wait, have I just learned? Have I truly become a king? That was sick. Do I have magic burst? No, but I have snooze, but I don't want to use that. Damn. Damn, I'm making it out of round two.  I will. You know what? You're getting snooze. Night night Inkling.  It's like way past your bedtime. Ah, give me out of the ground. I am covered in paint right now. This is just awful. Get out of here. What? No. All right, please don't let me throw this man. Oh, mercy me, dude. Mercy me mercy me man. Just just somebody just somebody somebody forgive me for becoming the person. I am today, man I'm ready for the house. Give me magic first man. Give me magic first Fall you gotta be kidding. Why do I keep going for these you get I keep going for these anime one-liners Roach is dying Roach is dying Role. It's not even that serious breath. Oh, please.  That was Cuberous, okay, maybe not the best mindset to be going into a tournament with but I just I need this This is the only outcome for me and that moved us so much damage. It's ridiculous. What is this lag, bro? This move is the best move this move the hero this is the heroes best move I have found I have found heroes best move.  He wants to go he wants us to yep. Yep. Oh wow. He didn't take us both out I am shocked. All right. He was just sitting on the ground. All right. Get me into round two I am no longer around one gamer, dude Even though I'm pretty sure like I fought some I fought some tournament winners, bro. Ain't no way I'm out of magic still fine though Yeah, it's it's it's GG, bro. It's she just get out of here tornadoes, okay, we're both back on the stage I'm out of magic Shut up All right next row next. Oh, hey, it's my peepee hard. They're back. They also lost There's also another hero named balls just really giving the hero community a great name over there rip and tear And he's a shadowy figure. What does that mean? He's a me gunner. Why is he still hiding his face? Oh, I guess cuz that's not I like that. Oh, it's actually the doom guy I don't know what he's doing. I've never seen these little guys. I'm taking bounce.  I just my personal opinion. I suppose You can't you can't over swing. Just take the two psych up. Yeah, get that psych up.  I'm not around to gamer anymore, man. I'm around to get I might be around to gamer I might be around to gamer. Oh No, I ran into that There we go. Okay, lucky crit lucky crit, but it doesn't matter if it's luck or skill.  Nope. No, give me out There's no way I Couldn't get up and vlog dude. I couldn't get up and block. What was I supposed to do? I guess just stall for time. I can't do it. I can't I just got beat by a chibi doom guy. Oh My god, I might come back to this bro This is this ridiculous well and leave a like bro I leave a like I need enough support on this video that I can come back and do this again I can't take it. I should have gotten around three, but I threw a jig. Oh, I can't know. I gotta go I gotta end the video. I can't think about this


It is my great pleasure to welcome you all to our winter choral festival. My name is Doug Watkins and I am the senior minister here and on behalf of the congregation we would like to offer you a warm season's greeting and we invite you to be a part of that warm welcome by briefly turning to those around you and offering your own's greeting to each other. Good morning. Good morning. In this season it is especially important for us to explore ancient gifts and words and so we are very honored to be together. This month this congregation is exploring in all of its layers peace and so it is appropriate that we turn to music this morning. As Unitarian Universalists we honor the spiritual power of music and its role in peacemaking. We draw in our tradition from a wide range of sources in order to glean spiritual truths for our lives which is consistent with what we will do today together. We draw from the sources of Jewish and Christian tradition. We draw from the words and deeds of prophetic people of all times and places. We draw from the wisdom that each of you bring to this place. For a moment we will invite us to gather with a sense of peace and quiet before we do that that would be this would be a perfect moment for you to silence any devices that you have with you for the rest of our time together. May we take a moment of quiet to center ourselves and to bring to mind a sense of the peaceful spirit we wish to bring into this place and into the world. May we share that moment now. It is our tradition as Unitarian Universalists to begin our time together with the lighting of a chalice. The symbol of the flaming chalice was an important part of Unitarian Universalism that began in World War II. Our service committee which is the outreach portion of our life together began its work in Europe and the flaming beacon was a symbol of hope and inclusion in their work as they tried to assist those threatened by the tyranny of the Nazis and so in a spirit of that beacon of truth a peace of light we will spark our chalice with the words written by Drew Collins and performed by Drew Collins. A new Isaiah. A new Isaiah a rewriting a prophetic scripture. I say Isaiah prophesying to the folks of Zion that for the darkness living bright light is given baby king is birthed supposed to rule the earth. Jesse, David and Solomon kings of Jews one and all of them. In this lofty line of big cheeses comes this itty bitty Jesus. We are told it will be a rain of peace. Announce that birth from a mountaintop. Truck stop, treetop, blacktop, backstop, bus stop, head shop, don't stop till you drop. Shout it. Tell them all that it will be a rain of peace. He the shepherd, we the sheep, lambs in his arms fall right to sleep.  It is your turn to join in the song. I invite us to rise in all the ways that we do as we join our voices together in hymn number 225, O come, O come, Emmanuel, bird of Kennedy delivered in 1966 in South Africa. Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. Here ends our reading. In singing together number 224, we invite our children and religious educators to class. Let Christmas come. Meaning standing for our response of reading. You'll find the reading in the text section. It is an insert in your order of service and it is in the top column here next to the word text. Daring for peace written by the Reverend Maureen Cloran. I invite you to respond to in the italicized portion of the text. As we are confronted by chaos, may we have the wisdom to believe in peace. Surrounded by voices of disagreement, may we have the audacity to speak for peace. Lured by the seduction of despair, may we have the courage to maintain a vision of possibility and peace. You may be seated. This morning's offering goes to benefit First Unitarian Society's music program. Those of you who are regular attendees in our congregation know what an important ministry it is for us. It's the way that it offers the gift of music throughout the year inviting us to think more broadly, to connect more deeply with what really matters. Our generosity this morning will allow for our program to have even more possibility of being an outreach to our community in the greater Madison area but also in larger places of connection. As we think about the gift of music that we are receiving this morning may inspire us to great generosity. Our offering will now be given and received in such a spirit. And now we move into the heart of the holiday narrative. A story so old and familiar in so many cultures that the nearest sentence can open the doorway to imagination. An imagination that has called us to honor this time as a time of deep connection. To honor this time as a call for all people to think about what it means for there to be peace on earth, goodwill to all. From the gospel according to Luke.  From this sentence comes great imagination and great call for love. Here ends the reading. I invite you to join your voices now in our next hymn. Number 245. Joy to the world. May we rise in all the ways that we do as we sing the first two verses from Maya Angelou. A Christmas poem under rumbles in the mountain passes and lightning rattles the eaves of our houses. Flood waters await in the avenues. Snow falls upon snow falls upon snow to avalanche over unprotected villages. The sky slips low and gray and threatening. We question ourselves what have we done to sow a front nature. We interrogate and worry God. Are you there? Are you really there? Does the covenant you made with us still hold? In this climate of fear and apprehension Christmas enters. Streaming lights of joy ringing bells of hope and singing carols of forgiveness high up in the bright air. The world is encouraged to come away from ranker. Come the way of friendship. We clap hands and welcome the peace of Christmas. We beckoned this good season to wait a while with us. We Baptist and Buddhist, Methodist and Muslim say, come peace. Come and fill us and our world with your majesty. We, the Jew and the dynast, the Catholic and the Confucian, implore you to stay a while with us so that we may learn by a shimmering light how to look beyond complexion and see community. We angels and mortals, believers and non-believers, look heavenward and speak the word aloud. Peace. We look at our world and speak the word aloud. Peace. We look at each other and then ourselves and we say without shyness or apology or hesitation. Peace, my brother. Peace, my sister. Peace, my soul.


So my journey from nursing started pretty much in the womb. My father was killed by a drunk driver and the medical center misdiagnosed him and he died in transport. And that's why I went into healthcare because I didn't want anyone else to have to go through that trauma that my family endured. So I'm really passionate about advocating for patients at their most vulnerable times and really being their voice that they don't have. I met Kelly back in 2013. She was a staff nurse on a cardiac step down unit and she just made the job look easy. I like to say reset and reignite. Tough shifts make you stronger. I think consistency, being there for each other, being there for your patients is really where we're at. Beyond proud, beyond proud that I get to work with you again after seven, eight years. And I have no doubt there is so much more to come from Kelly Murphy.


Welcome back, it's still the breakfast on Plus TV Africa and I'm glad to say we're joined by the man who is of Plus TV Sports, Wale Scott. As we look at the shocking news coming on a counter regarding Nigerian track star and record holder Blessing Ohabare who received a 10-year doping ban from the athletics authorities and of course the latest is that she has said she'll be reverting to her lawyer and approaching the cause of arbitration for sports to challenge the 10-year ban slammed on her by the athletics integrity unit for out-of-competition doping violations. The sprinters cancel Chinadu Udora disclosed this while speaking with Newsman in an interview saying that Ohabare's team will appeal the decision of the tribunal and is considering several options in addition to looking at things they believed were not right. Let's welcome Wale Scott at this time. Well is it Ohabare or Ohabare? Ohabare. Ohabare. Yes. Right, okay, interesting. Well this is a shock, I believe to some, to a lot of Nigerians if you look at what's going on in social media, way shocker. Somebody who is a sports expert and knows about these things but most of us do, were you surprised? Nigerian sports fans, yes, surprised, yes. I try to look at other humor in every situation, I don't try to see the seriousness in it. Nigerian fans, yes, shocked. Sports journalist? No. Because I'll explain to you, as a cub journalist, at a point in my, while I was still a cub reporter, I interviewed and at least I'll leave a name out of it this morning. You know, and... Quite popular. Yeah, quite popular. Was she a medal winner? I don't know. I think completely. You know, yes. You give her trouble. You know, we spoke about it and she was actually caught for doping at that point in time and she explained to me on my show then and said, well really, I had a cough, so I got a cough mixture and I didn't know codein was a banned substance. But you know, I'm just a sports journalist. I'm not a medical practitioner but I know codein is a banned substance. You know, so you ask yourself, where are the media team and your medical teams? They should know codein is a banned substance. But she claims she had a cough. Of course, as an athlete, as a human being, you can't have a cough. But to use a cough mixture that has codein in it, knowing that codein is a banned substance is wrong. The only reason why I can overlook her case medically is that codein doesn't make you any faster. It actually makes you slower. So that won't help our race or anything. You know, in a Cadbury's case, they consistently said, listen, we're not particularly angry at you because you doped. No. We're angry at you because we have invited you numerous times to investigate your situation and you have refused to come. Like Messi was asking a few minutes ago, why did she refuse to go? We don't know. Now, she's calling her lawyers. She wants to appeal. Appeal must be not going for your invitation. Which of the appeals does she want to appeal? The doping case or not going for the investigation panel? Because they're actually telling you not to listen. But not particularly, because let's ask ourselves a question. You use a human growth drug. Okay? Does it actually warrant 10 years? No. Really? It doesn't. 10 years is massive for any... A decade? For any event. And she's 33. So where does she start from at 43? Our career, all things being equal is over. But they are saying that, listen, we're not particularly punishing you because you doped. You can get two, three years, four years, max, five years for that. But we actually invited you numerous times and refused to come to the... A committee was set up consistently for her and she refused to go. So it brings me to this question now.  We've had several persons on that list, trauma, drama. You have Miro Nyali. Which list? The list of persons who have actually been banned and eventually returned to the game. So my question now is, is there a possibility that with this 10-year ban, she could go in, I mean, she could do the ban and then come back and return to the career, just like the few names I've mentioned? My friend who works with a foreign media station, we were talking yesterday and he said that he spoke to one of the committee members who were supposed to investigate Okagbari and he said the only reason why she was running from the panel was because she had something to hide. That will be a case for her. A lawyer will have a lot of work to do, a lot of work to do because you have to convince that committee that she had nothing to hide and then three, four times she didn't come for the, if there's something wrong somewhere. Okagbari was obviously hiding something and the party will tell you that they say, listen, we're not saying she didn't do, well, she agrees she doped. Okay. Two, three years max. But why was she running from the investigative panel? That's the problem she will have. So don't we have a system? So Nan, I'm not sure you've answered. I understand the point that you've made. My concern is, do you see her doing the 10-year ban and returning back just like her counterparts, the like of Miro Nyali and Trauma Joua? Really? Do you see her going, no, I'm asking you. You expect, you expect to come back at 43. So there's no possibility. And do what now? No, I'm asking you. Come back and do what at 43, how? Listen, this is not football, where they are 11 players on the field of play, where I can pass the ball to Mercy, pass the ball to Kofi and then we can actually rest while we pass the ball. This is a solo event, sport event, it's solo. So you're on your own. You have to be physically, mentally strong to actually get this done. And Oka Baria has been described many times in our media tabloids as the Queen of Tracks of Nigeria. At 33, she's already going down. There's always a decline at this point in this sport. And at 43, which come back and do what now? She has retired right now.  Even though you face, you tell us who that other person was, but I can understand, of course, it has to be in confidence. Some of the people out there, especially online have drawn, have said, you know, this is a racism. And they've looked at Maria Sharapova's case. I was, no, I was, I was going to, Sharapova's case is even too much. It's too far. Just recently, I don't want to use the word racism. I want to use the word double standards. I like that. You know, this young lady was caught for marijuana. What we call Igbo. Okay. She's an American, a black American. Scott for, what you call Igbo? Oh, the black American athlete. Yes. The one who said the THC does not. Yes, and they, and they banned her. Yeah. They banned her, and you ask yourself a question. In the state she lives in, in the country she lives in, cannabis sativa is actually illegal. It's not illegal, unlike in Nigeria. So she actually says what I did and what you are testing me for and saying I did wrong is actually legal in my country. So, but. And they banned her. And then a young lady Valiyeva, who used the same thing. Black or white. White. Who used the same thing that Ocarbari used was exempted as she was at the Winter Olympics. What, what, what, what reminds us of what Ocarbari is, search of use again? A human growth. Growth. Yeah. Yes. But this Valiyeva young lady used the same thing. She was exempted. She actually competed in the Winter Olympics at the last, at the end of yesterday. Well. So where I'm going is, I don't want to use the word racism. I want to use the word double standards. This girl used cannabis, which is legal in her country. And then Valiyeva used a human omen, omen, omen drug that Ocarbari used to and she was exempted and she competed and ended the Olympics with them last yesterday. All right. So she, I'm sure she has a double standard thing. What do you think about the reaction of Nigerians to Ocarbari's, the news of her ban? You know, love news outlets, carrying it, a lot of, and you get the sense that bad news flies fast because everywhere Ocarbari is in ban, ban, ban.   You know, so, I mean, do you think that the way we've talked about it, the way we've, I mean, even you said that, well, she had no excuse, blah, blah, blah. Do you think we should be more sympathetic towards her at this time in, in a coverage of this? Ocarbari is my person, as in person individually, and Ocarbari did something for Nigerians at the Commonwealth Games in Manchester, and I was fortunate to have been there, and she actually led a protest that the relate team would not run. Why? Because they give them a hundred pounds every day, and the hundred pounds wasn't coming, and she fought for the rest of the crew, and said, listen, we must get our money. Who gives to the Nigerian athletes? Yes, of course, the Nigerian government, and you know, it was sad that at that point in time, this is funny, it seems funny though, at that point in time while Ocarbari was protesting, a particular Nigerian minister who wasn't supposed to be on the entourage in the first place was actually being told by the hotel to pay them the two thousand eight hundred pounds he was owing for watching porn, and then we were not we're not giving our athletes. He had a porn channel on. Of course, and he was actually owing two thousand eight hundred pounds. That's on not no money. Exactly, we're not paying our athletes their hundred pounds daily, and Ocarbari stood up, everybody was like, I don't want to allow, I don't want to allow, Ocarbari was the only one who actually said, we're not going to run, we will stay, and that single incident gave me a lot of respect while I actually walked to our interview that day, and I said thank you very much. You know, I had to thank her because most Nigerians don't stand up for their rights. She did that day. For the other people as well, for the other. It wasn't for her, she was cool. She had enough funds to actually take care of herself, but some Nigerian athletes who actually work in Nigeria applied their traits here didn't have, and she was fighting for them. If you come back home, that money don't ever work. It don't finish. Let's talk about, you know, the issue of control now, with the doping issue. I remember, you know, this report that was put out in 2018, where you have the system and the structure saying the government, of course, at the time, not you know, the government in charge of the system. So, for instance, the Nigerian Olympic Committee saying, we have been doing a lot to control doping issues among athletes with collaboration, I mean international collaboration, one of that, because you also have mentioned on the other hand that sometimes someone could have a cough and then decide to treat it, not knowing what not to take. And so the approach, it feels like the approach over time, that the Nigerian structure or the structure, the Nigerian, the Olympic Committee has taken, is that of awareness? I think they should, I think it's one of the world anti-doping agency, the ones who are in charge of that, and they do their regular out-of-competition checks three times a year and all that, and so much.  There's a little who can do about it. Look at Nigeria, for example, we went for the Olympics recently, and over 16 or 17 athletes were sent back home because they failed their dope test.  And I'm asking myself, which can talk with us? You know, really, you say we sent for you, you didn't come for the test, and how can you say you sent for your athletes? And that was all the failure to do some routine tests in the country. Exactly, because Russia, for example, Russia has been banned. They actually go for competitions now as ROC. Without the flag. Without the flag? Yes, because they say it was state-sponsored doping, which means the government knew they were doping and looked away. But in Nigeria's case, it's negligence. Nigeria's case, we don't send for them at all. But you have the Nigerian on looping. Exactly, that's the point. Is that what happens when you have, you know, people who are not professionals in this sport of traffic? Yes, sports generally. Not even sports generally. In Nigeria generally, politics, sports, whatever, we need to put around pegs, around holes. As long as we have, for example, Kofi can print very well for this man. So when the man gets there and becomes somebody, Kofi becomes commissioner for something. I hope, I hope, I hope I don't stop anyone from giving. But this is the premise I'm coming from. The fact that you have the, because, I mean, one would like to know, the Nigerian Olympic Committee has been saying that they've been doing a lot in terms of, you know, ensuring that there's control with doping amongst athletes. I mean, the media person for the NOC, Femi Aditula, we still spoke yesterday, she sent me a message yesterday, I was a barbitin person. You know what, the issue is that case of those people that were sent back home for filling their dope tests, has already put a smear on the NOC, love it or leave it. So, so much. This athlete has consistently said, listen, we even, some even said they even called and said, when have we gone to all our tests? Oh, some athletes. Some of them actually said, we actually called and said, our tests, I won't run any tests this year yet. And they didn't, so what was the aftermath of that scandal? They've all gone back home, they have gone for their other businesses I'm talking about the, in terms of the national living committee or even the ministry of sports or whatever, what's the aftermath of that scandal? Was there any inquiry? As long as politics stays in sports in Nigeria, and politics doesn't leave sports in Nigeria, nobody's going to be queried. So nothing is going to, nothing is going to happen now. Has anything happened since then? Has maybe at least a national assembly called anyone to come in? Just even if it's just for the cameras, answer any questions? Well, I guess some, they were invited. I can't remember what actually, they explained themselves, they said the athletes is not common, all that, but all things being equal, it's all negligence, because it used to be said if the athlete, like I blame the athletes too, don't get me wrong, because like I always tell people, or I tell our coaches in Nigeria, they don't like me very much, they listen to me, it doesn't like me very much, everyone doesn't like me very much. But I tell them, I say listen, you guys want to be at power with foreign coaches. If the government, don't blame the government for every time rain falls too much or sun shines too much. If the government doesn't bring money to take you for courses, go on the internet, check for private courses for coaches, raise the money and go on, it's for your betterment, better yourself. So I'm saying that if the government are negligent, they don't call you to come and get your tests, come for your test by yourself. I'm telling them, I'm here now, I want my tests done now, then any government say no. So the athlete, some of them actually say we called, but how many of them called? If the government doesn't call you, you are an athlete, you should know better. So for me in all of this is, they have also cited the issue of ignorance amongst, you know, these athletes and what have you, not knowing what to take and to take. And the approach that they have over time said to control the issue of doping in the system, because we need to understand what they are doing to help us, you know, reduce the level of all of these kind of experiences. I mean, so they have said the strategy we have employed is to create awareness, education, because some of these athletes don't know what to take. Like you rightly mentioned that. I think it's a lie. Most of our athletes in Africa, not in Nigeria alone, I have to say the Nigerian thing, in Africa most of them are greedy. It's not like they are that poor, they are all right financially. They can actually afford even if it's one man, in your medical team, who is a doctor, a sports doctor, who can take care of you. Ignorance is not an excuse in law. So we're doing enough to educate these athletes in Nigeria? Educate too now.  You should have a medical team. I don't expect any athlete to know what drug to take and what drug. I expect that, for example, there's a long list of what to take and what not to take. And there are some funny, funny names there, Chasbo Kinikon, Kolo Kinikon. You can't know where it is. Only medical people know. You're being heard on these athletes. I'm not. It's not an excuse to say that. I don't know what to take. How many people who are ill in this country look at the fine print of the drugs each time they buy drugs to read everything? How many of them are athletes or footballers? I do agree that you should have your own personal interest that had to say my development and my advancement, my success, is dependent on what I can do for myself. True. But ultimately, there is a set of people who have been tasked with the responsibility of administering the sport. Let's look at track and field, for instance, in Nigeria. And you have to have a program, because sometimes illiteracy can come into play. True. I mean, this guy who is in I don't know which European country is in. Is it America now? The one said, I never expiried it, was the young man speaking from Delta State. Even when he said, I never expiried it. You know, with that level of education he had at the time and exposure, would he know everything? In Nigeria, I like this. If the guys who are meant to administer and have a program to make sure they educate these people and guide them. Exactly. Because you can't take that away. 19 athletes going to an international tournament and feeling, you have to blame that specifically. No doubt on the administration. See, we already know our administrators and negligence. We know that. They are irresponsible. We know that already. That's why I'm with one saying that listen, it's your career. Blessing or category. What if you call the government I won't, like you said some athletes said, you want to have tests. And those tests are not conducted. Because the government is negligent. It's what they do. It's bottleneck. Nothing now. You said it's true to be said. If the government will take care of you, take care of yourself. No, no. But can you go do your own test somewhere? Yes. Don't we have the standard? I have a friend. The standard original, like, like, because each state, each country should have its own procedures. Was it not be certified by the authorities? You know. No, you don't. It doesn't have to. You can just go anyway. If the government doesn't send your tests to WADA, the World Antidoping Agency, go to WADA yourself. And if you know that, okay, good. It's a case of my government's negligence. I'm not abroad. I'm in Nigeria here. Send WADA a letter. Or they just drink water. So my government, or they just drink water. I might have this. If the water can, I mean, this is on a lighter note because this covers me. Really? I'm getting very interest. Really? Maybe they don't seem to just drink water and that's the end. They can't do that. There's a guy who works with the Lagos state government. His name is Buki, Dr. Buki. He's a sports doctor. That's all he does. We call him Bukatu. And whenever there is going to be a small, maybe like the sports festival, I can assure you the Lagos state athletes, they might not win gold all the time. They might not be the best in what they do. I don't know what other states do. They're just talking on that day. We all know what other states do to ensure they win. You know what? That's up on that day. You know what? I can tell you that the free test athletes at the sports festival, at any of the festivals at the Lagos state athletes, because Bukatu will always sit them down. They're all youngsters.  Don't eat this. For now, don't drink this. For now, don't do this. So it's just in Vega of sports, sports and Lagos. Not really. He's a sports doctor. So this is what I'm talking about. That's okay. If an athlete can actually say, okay, good. I mean Lagos or I mean Buja or wherever. And I can raise most of them have sponsors. I can raise a little money. Dr. Wookie, please. Once in a while, just come check me. Tell me what to do. Or even if it's WhatsApp, tell me what to eat. Tell me what to drink. Tell me what to do. How should I work it out? He can tell you. Where I'm going to is that the government have failed us. No doubt. Should we feel ourselves? Should I wait for the government to always tell me how to do? It's your career. So moving forward, sounds like you're preferring a solution that these athletes need to take their career. More seriously. They need to begin to take some decisive steps. The government can't do it all. Including going to the extent of getting to those international sports and national level too. Ensuring that they have been verified or they have been, whatever the case might be, just blow that trumpet and alarm. Love is a little bit. Most of us who are sports presenters are actually disappointed. Very, very. Because she's someone who goes for regular international meets. So she should know. It's like saying table tennis, Hirona Kodri is banned for doping. And like this guy goes for international, like is going to Uyengbu. So they should know better. She might not be literate, like whatever. She might not be as non-legible as we know. But this is someone who is practically always abroad. Much more than she's in Nigeria. Ignorance in that this, on Okagbari's level, yes. At least we're sent to most of them in Nigeria. I can understand that. I can take that. But not an athlete like Okagbari at that level. Okagbari has a run with everybody who meets us in the female sprint world. Across every meet in the world. From Paghi to Scotland to London everywhere. So for an Okagbari to tell you, she doped. And people are even saying it's not the doping that is doing us. And they tell you to come for, and they invert you for investigation. Once, twice, thrice, four times. And you don't go. It means that that serious concern. They are saying she has something to hide. So moving forward, how do we prevent all of this? I mean, we know that you have young people who are aspiring and who are getting into the scene of this becoming an athlete and getting into the sporting world. What can the government do now? Because from your conversation, you are broken in doubt to the fact that government has a responsibility to play. These athletes as individuals also have a role to play in ensuring that their career is actually in the right direction and the right constant. So let's break it down in this strata. Who is supposed to do what level, the responsibility that everyone, because at the end of it, it's a national disgrace. I mean, that's what I think. The fact that you wake up and then you hear that your very favorite superstar has been banned 10 years for doping issues, whether or not it's a fault or whether or not whatever it is, how do we prevent all of this from happening? Who should do what? The athletes should do what first? No, no, first of all, at what point does the government coming, the federation, the sporting federation, I don't know how it's called? The government doesn't, they don't live with you. Okay. They don't know what you do. So, but I'm saying, I'm saying that there's a federation that controls everything. They're even the federation too, don't live with you. So the what you're talking about starts from discipline from the athletes themselves. Okay. I shouldn't do this. I shouldn't smoke marijuana. I shouldn't drink alcohol. I shouldn't they should know that first though. And then what the federation can do is once in a while call you guys to a big hall and talk to you guys and the doctors check you guys and all that. That's the best they can do but the bulk still falls on the table of the athletes. They must be disciplined. They must understand Cristiano Ronaldo went to Manchester United and the first thing he did was try to talk the players into changing their diets. I think they saw him eating very strictly in the center. Yeah. You guys, where has he gotten them to? Nowhere, yes, yes. But you know, he wants to start out the process. He wants to start it's a process, you know. So, and Okagbari, whatever she used, I have a very, I said this yesterday and I'm saying it without fear of favor. I am very sure whatever Okagbari used, she didn't do it no really. Okay. I'm very sure of that. You're sure of that? I'm very sure of that. It wasn't a problem. That's fantastic. I think the first time I heard about this doping was Ben Johnson. Ben Johnson, yes. And then we had the drugs. Drugs. The word doping was drugs is a big thing for us. You know, so it was Ben Johnson not going to take Okagbari. You know, having watched Scarface and all those boys and all that and seeing that and then, you know, but well, here we are. We hope for the best for Nigerian athletes. She's a national treasure and we wish her all the best. Let's hope that she gets a reduced sentence and gets off the hook. Well, that's so much good. Take what it's called. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. For your time. Thank you. And for expert analysis on this particular issue. It was a pleasure having you on the breakfast. Merci. Well, thank you for setting up any part of the conversation. 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