Welcome to Digital Asset News to get top stories in cryptocurrency and digital assets and bring them out of bite-sized pieces. Today we've already done the news and talked about the great things going on. A couple more billionaires getting into the game. Ripple and Brad Garlinghouse settled a lawsuit with YouTube and the IRS is really knocking heads as far as a new operation to bust people who are doing tax evasion, whatever. But let's take a step back and look at where we're coming from, where we are at now, and potentially where we're going. I think this is going to help you kind of get a clear vision and just kind of get out of your head a little bit. So first of all, just so you know, today for reference, we've got this March 10, 2021. And Bitcoin right now is about, gosh, I don't want to say it's about 56,000 somewhere around there. And Ethereum, yeah, Bitcoin's almost 57,000. Ethereum is 1,800, Binance Coin 287, Cardano was $1.17, and Tether's Tether. So that's what's going on in the market just for a reference for later on. But I want to bring you back real quick and talk about the four-year cycles, which we talked about pretty much ad nauseum here on the channel. But I want to take a look back at where we were as far as Ethereum and Bitcoin at the same time, this different bull run back in the day. I also want to take a look at what it's going to take to get to that 150K, 250K, 300, 500K Bitcoin that people are talking about all over the place. And then just take a look at some numbers as far as market cap. So let's just back up for a bit, shall we? All right. So if you're new to crypto, hey, welcome. Just so you know, all this volatility that's going on, it's normal. And 20% swings, 40% swings in the traditional market, that is like the worst day ever. People are jumping out of windows, but we just call that a Tuesday here in crypto land. So just relax at some point. If you don't like the percentage loss, just wait a couple of days, it'll turn around. And that's usually what it is. And the big thing that we're here on the channel is all about investing, not about trading so much, just investing. And this is why. So for your cycles for crypto market, you have to take a look at what happened in the past. And just so you know, it always kind of follows this, this same type of routine. There's a Bitcoin halving, which everything kind of comes off of that play. 2012 we had a halving when Bitcoin was a whopping $5 to $14. I don't remember those days. Actually, I do. A little quick side story. My son came to me and said, Hey, if you want, one of my friends has, he's selling Bitcoin 500, 500 Bitcoin for 500 bucks in a hard drive. And I asked Michael, what's Bitcoin?  Who would do that? Now here I am with the champ. So anyhow, that's just how it goes. So back in the day, it was between five and 14 bucks, then you had after the halving that everything just the amount of Bitcoin that miners can actually get in a 10 minute block gets reduced by half halving. And then demand supply and demand, everything rockets up all time high in 2013. Then you have a massive dip or reset over the next two years. Then you go to the next four year cycles. And that's what most of us remember. 2016, you had Bitcoin about a thousand bucks, not too bad.  And then you just had a sideways action that reset in 2019 back to 12,000. Okay. And then coming forward, we had the halving in 2020. And then we don't know what's going to happen in 2021. But if there's any indication, it's going to look something like what we just saw in 2013 and 2017, it's just going to be an all time high. And what's going to happen is it's going to skyrocket up crazily. And what will break it is at some point, nothing goes up forever. And you have to understand that as things go up, things are going to get massively overbought. So if you think like an 80 K Bitcoin is crazy, it's coming. If you think 120 K Bitcoin is crazy, it's coming. 150 K Bitcoin is coming. That's my prediction between 2021. I could be wrong. I hope I'm wrong. I hope it goes to 300,000 or 500,000. I'll be happily wrong there. But once it goes up to this, this hockey stick pattern, smart minds be like, you know what, this is a mania. This is FOMO. People don't know what the heck they're getting into. I'm out. And then once you see, and people will always say to me, well, the institutions, they're not selling. They're selling. Michael Saylor is not selling because he controls the board. Elon Musk, debatable, mass mutual, probably not. You know, they're going to be around for a while, but these other big institutions, corporations, hedge funds, they're going to be like, we're selling because we know how the cycles work. We're not here for the long haul. We're here to make money and we're out just like traders. Traders are not here. They're not investors. They're here to make a quick cash and then they turn around and do whatever they want with it. Now I and some of the people are, you can be a trader and an investor. I'm a 95% investor, 5% trader. Some are 50, 50, some are 20. I said it doesn't matter. But you understand that there's always going to be people out there who are greedy, who are manipulators, people who just need to take profits. Something comes up in their lives or people that just really understand cycles. So when people say, Robbie understands different, not different. As long as people remain the same, this market will remain the same and we'll still have these massive peace and value. So that's what's going on. So when we take a look at this, we want to start to think about when's the best time to invest. The best time to invest is when it's boring as hell and nothing's going on because when this is happening, this was the best time to invest, 2016. I didn't get to invest here. I invested up here at the top and you can't really see my mouse, but in 2017, I invested as it was rocketing up and I learned my lesson and I started to invest right here in the second boring line and there was nothing going on. Dollar cost average, very boring and dull. Nobody cares. Just poke around. That's it. Now, the second best time to invest I think is right now because you were right before that huge hockey stick pattern. So this is not financial advice, not a financial advisor, but this is what I am doing right now. I'm investing heavily in the crypto. I still dollar cost average. I still buy the same things every day. I've actually stopped buying Bitcoin because I think it's going to retrace, but that's another video. But I still buy Cardano every day. I still buy Voyager every day and I've been getting into Swissborg and I will explain why in a later video, Swissborg to me is the next Voyager. That's just how I see it. So this is like the great time. So when we take a look back and we say, well, what is going to happen later on? Well, I don't know what's going to happen, but I can just tell you that 2021 is going to be pretty great. And really it comes down to what are your goals? Like my goal is to do really great this bull run and set myself for the next one. Some people are in their 80s and 90s on my channel. They're like, I don't care about the next bull run right now. So they're going to cash everything out. So it just depends on your specific goals. Maybe you're younger and maybe in your 20s, 1918, 17 years old and like, Hey, I'll just keep plugging away. And if it crashes later, I don't care. I want to go for the next bull run, which is if we talk about four year cycles is going to happen 2024. Because there's another Bitcoin having coming just around the pipe. Now I think the gains won't be as much as this one. But again, it could be wrong. So it's all really about what you want to do. So let's talk about where we are at right now, where we were before and where we're going. So just take a look at, we already know where we're at, right? Ethereum is roughly 1800, pretty good. Bitcoin is we're sitting at around 56,000. So if we want to take a look at what this bull run could potentially do in 2021, let's take a look back at where we were at before. So that is kind of like taking a look at, let's take a look at March, 2017, because that's kind of like a repeat of the pattern, right? So Ethereum, you're going to, this is crazy. Actually, no, I'm going to start with Bitcoin. That's not so crazy. So Bitcoin back in January, 2017 was 800 bucks. Actually, let me blow this up. Okay. So we're talking about in 2017, March, what is it? I can't get 11. Let's say the 13th. No, I'll say the 10th. Yeah, 11, about 1200 bucks. That's how much Bitcoin was, 1200 bucks. And then it rocketed all the way up to almost 20,000. So that's about, well, 10 would be 12,000, 20 be 24,000. So you're looking at about an 18X from here to here. Now, do I think that Bitcoin can do an 18X from 56,000? No, that's, it's not outside the normal possibility, but I'm going to show you why that's pretty improbable in a bit. But do I think that it can do a 3X or a 5X or a 6X? Sure. I don't see why it couldn't do that. But again, it would be a lot of factors to go into. So now that we know what's going on with Bitcoin, let's take a look at what potentially we were at as far as Ethereum. This was where it gets crazy. So we take a look at Ethereum, and we go all the way back down to, whoa, that's 2016. February, look at that. March, that's not 1,763. That's $17.63. That's it. March 8th. And on March 11th, crazy 23 bucks and 44 bucks and so on and so forth. So just from here in March, we went to $1,400. So from about 14 bucks, 18 bucks, what is that, about 100X? Yeah, 14 times 10, 140. Yeah, 100X. So 100X. So that is the power of what would be considered altcoins, right? Because Bitcoin can only do so much, because there's only so much money sloshing around the world. So that's why people look at altcoins ago. And Ethereum, if you haven't read the book, The Invisible Machine, is that what it is? I think it's what it is. It talks about the foundation of Ethereum and how it was actually built. And when it came out, there was a lot of hatred by Bitcoin maximalists who said that the only reason that Ethereum was built was to take money out of Bitcoin and to scam you into buying Ethereum. Of course, we know that's why it wasn't true. But the same thing gets said again and again and again, even in today's crypto world. So we take a look at this. This is a pretty good deal, right? Do I think that Ethereum can do another 100X or whatever it is, 80X? No, I don't think it can do that. And I'll explain why. But it is not outside the realm of possibility to do, for Bitcoin to do, like I said, a five or six X, maybe Ethereum. Ethereum right now is, where are we at? 1800? Or it to go to do a five X? Sure. I mean, I can definitely see that. A lot of things have to come into play, especially with what's going on with their scalability and the problems they're having with the fees. But maybe those will get resolved. I have no idea. Not me personally. It's a battle between Ethereum and Cardano. And then that's why we're always taking a look at what is going on with the market as far as all the different cryptos that are out there. Just take a pick. I mean, what I do is just take a look at how good is the foundations? How good is the white paper that has actually solved an issue? What is the team like? Who is the leadership with the financial backing? And what kind of direction is this going? That's just how I see these things. To me, it's still a business. These are still business. And it's still run by people, except for Bitcoin. So when you're taking a look at, well, which ones can really lead it here? What kind of team is it? And then you just kind of go from there. I invest in people. Not so much projects, just the people itself. And that's why I'm big into these types of things. Bitcoin, because it's the first and it's already known. And it's really on the conscience of everybody's mind. Ethereum, because I mean, it's the second biggest one, Vitalik Buterin. And all the different developers that work on Ethereum can do great things. Binance Coin, I haven't invested into because I can't get Binance Coin. I don't have Binance. Even I can't get Binance to U.S. and Texas. I know of, unless I'm in change. Cardano, I invest because of Charles Hoskinson. Voyager, I invest because of Steve Urlich. And Celsius, I invest because of Alex Poshinsky. And Polkadot, because of Dr. Gavin Wood. Because, you know, Wood and Hoskinson, they already built Ethereum. So why not? So to take a look at what could happen here, let's just take Bitcoin, for example, right? So we were at, what do I say, around $1,200 this time in the last bull run. So why couldn't it go from $56,000 to $500,000, right?  You know, there was a 20X, right? Just a 10X wasn't even a 20X for this time. Here's the thing. So just, you know, the circulating supply is about $18.6 million, right? And if I want to take a look at what that would take, I need to take a look at Market Cap Calculator. So if the circulating supply is $18.5 million, and I want it to go to, let's say I want to go to $150,000, oops. Then that means that its Market Cap has to be almost $2.8 trillion. Right now it's at $1 trillion and look how hard it was to get there. So for it to just to make it to my prediction, $2.8 trillion. Let's talk about other people's predictions. $300,000. You're looking at $5.5 trillion. Let's take a look at the other people's predictions of $500,000. You're looking at almost, well, $9.2 trillion. $9.2 trillion. Now I want to take a look and you think that's, you're like, well, that's pretty crazy, right? Check this out. This is all the money's markets in the world. I haven't done this in a long time, so this is exciting for me. I haven't done this in a good amount of space.  So just keep that in mind. And this was written on May 27, 2020.  So just so you know, here's crypto back then. It was only a market cap of $244 billion. That was the market, $244. Right now I think we're looking for sitting at $1.7 trillion out of all the crypto out there. Here's all the military spending, U.S. budget deficit. Pretty good, right? Coins and banknotes. And this right here, the budget, the U.S. budget deficit is $3.8 trillion. Coins and banknotes, tangible currency. What people consider money is $6.6 trillion. That's it. The Fed's balance sheet, and I'm just a little hint. It's a lot more today. $7 trillion. Billionaires, they own $8 trillion for all the different things they have. And this is a big one, gold. It's $11 trillion. I think now it's around $12 trillion. So for us to get to that $300,000, about $6 trillion, you're looking at about half the market cap of gold. Or if you take a look at, let's see, the Fortune 500 companies, you're looking at, wow, doesn't really say, but you're looking at a ton of money. I think it's like $18 trillion, $20 trillion something. Here's a little money in the stock market, $89 trillion.  The entire money supply is $95 trillion. But this green part here is what will be considered like physical, like stacks of money. That'll be like the physical money. But all this stuff in this dark blue and then purple is non-physical, zeroes and ones on a computer screen, and that's really what it is. And that's what banks have to deal with. Global debt, you're looking at $253 trillion real estate, $280 trillion. So when you start talking about to tokenize real estate, that can be a big boom for not Bitcoin, maybe Bitcoin, but cryptocurrency in general. And then we get into global wealth. But the big thing is derivatives, which is $11.6 trillion of what we know. And then well, actually the low end estimate is $558 trillion.  But what we know of it is $500 trillion. And what we don't know, the things that we don't see, different markets that are out there, different people just trading back and forth about whatever, it could be up to one quadrillion, which I didn't know that word existed until I saw this graph. So not to infuse you too much with a bunch of opium, and not to say that this is what it's going to do. Because again, this is not financial bias and a financial planner. But if you take a look at where we were, Bitcoin in 2017 bull run was only $1,200 in March 2017. Then you had Ethereum at around 20 bucks. That's crazy, 20 bucks, 20 bucks in March 2017 to where it went to that point. Now we take a look at what's going to happen. We're in March 2021. And we're really just getting started. So let that just sink in. And let me know what you think as far as your price predictions for your top cryptocurrency altcoin, digital asset, whatever else. So that is it. So look, if you liked that video and you made it all the way in first, thanks so much for watching the whole thing. Hit the thumbs up that helps the channel tremendously. And I super appreciate it. Also, if you like these types of videos, consider subscribing. And I'm going to put two more up. I'm going to also put up my price predictions for 2021. That'll be in the left and then right. I'll let YouTube do its magic. And that is it for today. So first of all, thanks so much. I appreciate it. And I'll see you on the next one.


You know, there were, you know, good healthy part of the process. It was a great opportunity to get to, you know, clearly it's very public. We met with Garrett Cole and Strausberg while I was on the West Coast. At least that's what you all are aware of so far, who knows who I met with. But anyway, it was a good opportunity to meet, you know, some amazing competitors that we've seen do great things from afar. So, so got a chance to give him the opportunity to get to know us. And, and get a chance to get to know them a lot better too. So very impressive personnel. Did you meet with anybody else? Wouldn't say.  As far as your contingent was you, Aaron, Matt Blake and Andy Pettit? Is that right? And Mike Fishman. Okay. Yeah. When you met with them, did you get any gauge of a timeframe on what the process would be with them? No. No. And so, you know, again, it was, you know, I think it was an important part of the process for them. It sounds like they've met with many, many of teams. And, you know, so obviously I can't predict the future and the timing of their futures. Only really they control that. So, but again, it was, you know, hopefully it was a trip at the very least, you know, you know, I'll cross pass with them if there was somebody else down the line and, and, you know, be in a position at least to, you know, say hello. But at the very most it might lead to something. So, you will be in their neighborhood next week. Was there any setting up of meeting them again next week or at any time? Wouldn't, wouldn't say. But obviously I'll be flying back out after this event. And in the meantime, staying engaged like, you know, I took the red eye back and put in the office all day yesterday and, and we'll stay connected today through the weekend and then on a plane I'll be in San Diego by early morning or late morning on Monday. And, you know, I'm open to do clearly whatever, you know, as always is important for the Yankees.  Text, phone, in-person meetings would have you. But it's very volatile circumstances as everybody knows, you know, with 29 other clubs, you know, looking for ways to improve themselves. It's very hard to predict timing of anything. And, and certainly, you know, when, when agents and players are doing their job, the best of their abilities in this negotiating market, they never tip their hands about what really is going down and how, you know, it's going to go down and just, you know, sometimes you're forced to land, you know, what you're looking for and other times it doesn't work out. So we're just not sure what category we will fall in on this. What's the sentiment? Cole is from Southern California. There's two Southern California teams interested in him. And Strasburg has spent his whole career with the National Association. Has been very content there. Do you sense you have a geographic disadvantage or either of both of these guys? It's really a question for, you know, it's not from my end, you know, I think it's not, it's hard for me to gauge that. You know, I think that the players from their perspective are really, you know, they've worked hard to get to free agency. They spend a lot of time and effort to put themselves in a great position, which, which in their cases, they've done, you know, a great job putting themselves in an enviable position. And so ultimately, I think they just like all players in free agency, they want to really gauge the pure landscape and all the opportunities that really exist. And then, you know, they're going to give whatever weight to location, league, team, teammates, you know, that they want to give.   And so, you know, I think they're, I'm sure, going to be very thorough with their process. So, but I think, you know, the Yankees have a lot to offer.  You know, I think those ingredients, you know, should put us on anybody's list of places to be interested in considering. And I think, I think at the very least, you know, we qualify for that. So, you mentioned getting to know them better. What did you learn about Cole or Strasburg that you didn't know previously? Well, I mean, you just see what they, how they carved lineups up, but you never get a chance to know better the person. So, in both of those cases, they're really good, genuine people and good family people. And so, despite their, you know, competitive nature when they've had the ball on them, on the mound every five days. They, you know, you walk away going, realizing that they would fit in anybody's clubhouse in a real positive way, not just because of performance, just because of the type of people they seem to be in. And Strasburg, obviously, our franchise doesn't know very well, but in Garrett Cole's case, there's various members of our franchise. You know, Damon Oppenheimer is our scouting director still. Him and a number of his staff members, they obviously got a chance to know Garrett Cole because we drafted him way back when we weren't unable to sign him. So, some of our people know Garrett Cole already, you know, on a personal level, him and his, his parents and stuff, but they're not, you know, not me. So, in my case, that was the real first, you know, sit down, you know, where I got a chance to know Garrett Cole. But both, you know, people are very impressive people and not surprising why they're successful. You see the ability, but when you get a chance to get to know the makeup a lot better and the people, you could just, again, they're going to be very productive members of any organization. So, we'll see what happens. You meet with the family at all too, or just the players? You know, Garrett's wife was there, and, but that was in that one meeting in Stevens Strasburg, meaning it was Stephen.  What does that say to you about what the market is going to be like this year compared to the past two? It's hard to say. I mean, I don't really compare the markets, you know, it's hard to recall some years things move faster than others.  If there's a lot of players flooding the market via trade that are easily accessible via trade, then I think it slows down the free agent market. If there's, you know, if, you know, the matches in free agency and with demand lineup, things are going to move fast. You know, depending on the talent level and how deep the pools are in various categories and if they match a lot of needs, things can move quick. And thinking if there's not a lot, it's going to move slow. And if the demands are, you know, off and it's going to move slow, it's every, everyone's, you know, unique in its own right. And I, you know, it's a hard time for me to kind of measure what globally, how things play out in the industry. And just know from our end, our focus is obviously always trying to improve the club, but, you know, if we can improve the front of the rotation even more. And I like our rotation. I say that and I do say it though with all due respect with, I like to remind people that we do have Tanaka and Severino and Paxton and, you know, and obviously the Vermont situation isn't resolved yet. You know, it's in the hands of Major League Baseball and the Players Association, but he's obviously an extreme talent. And then you have Jay Hap and you got Montgomery coming back. So our rotation is really strong and we've got kids pushing up to the bottom that are hungry to take a spot, whether it's Michael King or Debbie Garcia or a whole bunch of other guys. So we'll see. We just love to add to it if we can because it's a long season and so you feel always better in putting your head on the pillar when you can run out one of the premier starters in the game to add to that crew that's already formidable in its own right. So what is the sentiment from Helen from the ownership about potentially laying out a huge or potentially record breaking contract for a pitcher?  Of course, we're interested in players at this level and it's not that we haven't been in the past. We always have. That doesn't guarantee anything. We went through the process last year and talked to a lot of high end quality, talented, premier, top shelf. Free agents and when the dust settled, you know, we signed DJ LaMahew and Zach Britton and Ottavino and extended some of our internal cannabis. And so, you know, I think the public narrative was covering things that we were considering and talking through and walking through and competing for it at some degree. But you can't predict how the winners play out. You can't predict how, you know, how things present themselves in the course of time. So, so again, the winner of the last year started with with a lot of speculation on, for instance, Manny Machado and Patrick Corbin and for good reason. And then he wound up with Troy Tulaewitzky and and DJ LaMahew and Britton and Ottavino and an extension and money left over for extensions of Seve and and Hicks. So, so I don't know what this one is going to bring. But but we are playing the the all encompassing game where it's just, you know, continuing to stay engaged with 29 clubs about what might be available, what they're looking for, trying to see if we have matches. And at the same time, you know, engaging free agents both high and low. And but pulling back and recognizing that we have a really great team period right now, even if we did nothing. And so with each with all that being considered, we're taking all the steps necessary and making sharing that information above. And hopefully see if we can find a way to improve the club now. And if we can't, you know, we'll wait and try to improve it later and just have to wait and see how it shakes out.  We, you know, staying in touch with their agents, obviously free agency to get a lot of considerations clearly and opportunities. But, you know, certainly, if I can wave the magic wand, we love to have everybody back if possible. But but if not, it's my job to line up alternatives, whether it's fall back to what we have or or or adjust and and try something new. So but I've, you know, Joe Bick is the agent for the Guardi, I've stayed in touch with Joe. You know, obviously Jim Murray is the agent for DD and Tansys, we stayed in touch there. You know, obviously Billy Rose is the agent for Romine. And so so it's just, you know, doing the dance that you have to do. And in each of these cases, obviously they're really talented, quality, unbelievable people that that, you know, opportunities is going to be presenting themselves, you know, both here and elsewhere. And so, you know, I managed to see what happens. So I just can't, again, just like, just like anything in free agency, I don't know what and how it's going to play out. But we're making sure we're part of the process and sharing our content to them and their representatives and ultimately decisions get made. A couple of years ago, when you were here, you were wrapping up the DD tree. Are you that close on anything today? Any, uh, doing any work on going down the building? No, unfortunately, like, you know, I think the DD tree we had done and he was going through medicals while I was going down the building. So, uh, and then at some time that weekend, I think I remember, uh, holiday, I got done coming off the building. Um, so Matty holiday was a guy we signed to one year. So, I mean, I can't predict how these things play and how fast they speed up and, but am I going to be breaking news? If I was right now, I'd be breaking it at this moment, you know, and but I don't, I'm not going to be coming off that rope with. And I'm not going to get a text at six or seven or eight a.m. this morning saying deal. So, you know, it's not, you know, that's not going to happen here in the next hour or so. But, but I certainly, you can't predict how the world spins here.  You know, so we're, you know, we're ready to rock and roll at any time. But it just takes time, unfortunately. And sometimes, you know, even though you go through the process with the time frames, it doesn't necessarily guarantee clearly that you get where you want to go.


And now, for your U.S. Army Europe spotlight. Celebrity chef Robert Irvine teamed up with chefs across U.S. Army Europe to cater an event for our injured service members and veterans. At first, all the volunteers were kind of a little bit nervous, but once he walked in, he kind of broke the ice, and everybody was like, okay, this is going to be fun. Hey, hey, hey, what are we doing? What are we doing? What are we doing? Too much. Yeah, too much. Too much, too much. You're going to let it dry and then do another one. Okay. Come on, Chris. So you're already forming the collar. You're actually faking the oven out. Chris knows how to cook and just love to give him a hard time. After all, guess what? We're in Germany. I travel about 150 days a year with our military, so taking care of our men and women in uniform, to me, is what I was part of this planet for. It's the most important thing for me. Television gives me a voice to be able to make sure the American people do not forget our men and women who serve around the world every day for our freedom. I mean, Lancel Medical Center in Germany. Strong soldier, strong team. Thank you.


Polycystic ovary syndrome, PCOs, is a common condition that affects up to one in five women of reproductive age. It has significant clinical implications including reproductive, metabolic and psychological features. PCOs is a heterogeneous condition with a wide range of phenotypes depending on life stage, genotype, ethnicity and environmental factors. The increasing obesity prevalence worldwide exacerbates the features of PCOs, making it even more important to focus on lifestyle improvement as the initial treatment strategy. Modest weight loss has been shown to improve many of the features of PCOs. Comprehensive evidence-based guidelines are needed to aid early diagnosis, appropriate investigation, regular screening and treatment of this common condition. This review primarily focuses on the cardiometabolic and psychological features of PCOs.


Let's go to John and Orlando. Hey, John, what's going on? Hey, good morning, Tom. Tommy, how are you doing? Good morning, John. Hey, every morning, you guys are part of my breakfast here. I've listened to you on YouTube. Wow, that's a beautiful day. That's awesome, man. Appreciate your growling and prowling with us, man. We do. All right. Hey, I only brought in at 63, DPST deposit. It's the Regional Bank, ETF. Look at this thing, man. OK, so you get DPST. This is the Direction Regional Bank, Free Times Bull Levered Position. It's trading 77.33. He's up 10% waking up this morning. Yeah, see what you got. Yeah. This is a wild pride always, just like a roller coaster every day. Yeah, right. Well, that's why you live in Florida, man.  Well, no, that's Bush Gardens. Bush Gardens in Tampa, Tommy, right? Yeah. It is. Is that the biggest roller coaster? Yeah, yeah. They haven't been able to open it yet, because they just built a new one, exactly. They saw it the last time I was there, man. I was at Bush Gardens in February, right before the shutdown. I saw the thing getting built, yeah. I've got a visit. Hey, listen, man, yeah, you get a set up here. I mean, the real question is, is that you're up 10% like, would you buy this yesterday or the day before? Yes, but let me ask you, it depends on the interest rate, the 10-year bonds, you know. OK. These things move with that.  So if that's what you're banking on, the bonds, right today, so we take a look at them, the bonds are down, OK? But you're going to see, they're down in dramatically lighter volume. But these bonds still want higher price, lower yield. You've only got 864,000 contracts thus far in the 10 year, and I think you're going into 2.7 million. Let me see, pull this up. When we broke down, well, no, 1.4 million. Yeah, it's not that bad actually. Well, no, there it is right there, 2.2. That's 137.30. We hit 138. That's when we had the yield at like almost 9 tenths, right? Yeah, it's going to be hard to break this down, man. I would take your bread, man. You know, you're up 10. In your opinion, are we going at like 0 rate on the 10 year, or no lower? I don't think we'll go 0, because they're just going to manage. They don't want to go negative. They told us that a million times. They're managing this rate. And it looks to me like, yeah, the rate's probably going to stay between 6 tenths and 9 tenths for the next couple of years. Right now we're at 7 tenths of 1, because they can manage it. That's the bottom line, you know? Yeah, yeah, OK. You had the break downtown last week, a false break, whether it's uptown or downtown, it came right back on the other side of it. So it's like one of these deals that keep it in range. They're keeping it in a range. Yeah, keeping it in a range is no doubt. Cookin', brother. All right, thanks, John. Have a great one, man. Have a safe one. Appreciate it, man.


Realizing that the link between meat and cancer is so strong, particularly processed meat, a new article in the journal Meat Science asked, should we become vegetarians, or can we make meat safer? There's a bunch of additives, for example, that can suppress the toxic effects of heme iron, the blood iron that's found in meat. These additives are still under study, but could provide an acceptable way to prevent colon cancer, because evidently avoiding meat is just out of the question. I mean, if the National Cancer Institute recommendations to reduce meat consumption were adhered to, sure, cancer incidents may be reduced, but farmers in the meat industry would suffer important economical problems.


Luffy and Usopp present one of the best friendships in all of media. The two go together like wine and cheese, or pasta and cheese, or cheese and other cheese, or most importantly, like you and the subscribe button for the Grand Line Review, the greatest friendship of all, which will result in regular One Piece content being uploaded straight into your YouTube feed. Hello and welcome to the Grand Line Review, yourselves for everything One Piece, and today we are going to continue our exploration into the more detailed depths of relationships between straw hats. And today we have quite a powerful and often underrated one, as we are going to dive into the Captain and the Sniper. Now previously I have described Luffy's relationship with Zoro and Nami as more of a respective partnership. In each of those cases, Zoro and Nami brings a compounding quality to Luffy, and they almost fuse together to create a sort of unbeatable presence on land, as well as on sea. However, Usopp is quite different. Yes, he does possess a whole host of qualities that Luffy does not, but in this case, I would describe this duo as a tale of best friends. In fact, Luffy and Usopp is a really fascinating examination right from the beginning, because Usopp would have been the first straw hat who just immediately hit it off with Luffy.  Wildly amicable in comparison to the meeting of every other straw hat, except Broke actually, that was pretty amicable, and it's because these personalities whilst incredibly different are a near perfect fit for one another. You know, there's this really fun dynamic where Usopp gets swept up in Luffy's adventurous nature, while Luffy often gets swept up in Usopp's imagination. And this works really well, because as we all know by now, Luffy is the kind of guy who dreams bigger than most people, if not all people. He has aimed directly for the top of this world in regards to his goal of becoming the Pirate King, but each and every time he hears of something dangerous, impossible, or potentially entirely fabricated, he latches onto it with an intense desire to explore and conquer it. He's the kind of guy who hears a tale about an island existing in the sky and is willing to risk everything on the off chance that maybe, just maybe, it does exist. And Usopp is able to feed this part of Luffy. Usopp is capable of stoking his captain's imagination like nobody else, primarily through the realm of exorbitant lies, and at the same time Luffy believing these lies feeds into Usopp, forming a very dangerous almost childlike combination really. Because with the addition of chopper, Luffy and Usopp make up the easily carried away trio of the crew, and form this band of dreamers unrestricted by any kind of logic or reality, and as such they primarily just have a lot of fun together. And weirdly enough, fun is a pretty new word for these relationship explorations, because I actually would not describe Luffy's relationships with half of the crew as primarily fun, but when it comes to Usopp, this is what they've got, two best friends exploring the world together. Although that does come with some very interesting implications for Usopp, because as much as these two heavily click, there is a stark stark line drawn between the captain and the sniper, the most obvious feature of which would be the juxtaposition of bravery and cowardice. When thinking about Luffy, I find it difficult to identify a time in the series where he has been scared, and I mean truly scared. I'm not talking about the more comical stuff like running into zombies on thriller bark, or being afraid of suffering the comical wrath of Nami. When it comes down to it, Luffy will very willingly walk into any kind of danger that he is presented with. Consequences be damned, and maybe bravery is not necessarily the right word for that, because in theory you do need to actually be scared to enact bravery. But Luffy has this quality that Usopp is spending the entire series simply trying to attain. Luffy just had this from the get go, whereas Usopp is struck with fear in almost every given circumstance, and would be unwilling to walk into a mildly dimly lit cave, much less all of the insane stuff that Luffy takes on. And Usopp holds great admiration for Luffy because of that. In some ways you may even be able to consider it a student teacher dynamic, because Usopp spends a lot of time in the background very much observing Luffy, and more often than not he will spawn his own courage as a direct result of watching Luffy in action. That, or simply being in close proximity to Luffy, kind of just forces him into acting, which you know is just a former very extreme exposure therapy really. However before we dive into that aspect in a bit more detail, I would like to point out one other key difference, because it isn't just Luffy bringing something to the table for Usopp here, it very much works the other way around as well. Usopp might not be the greatest of individuals in the area of combat, bravery or intelligence, but what he offers in terms of utility is priceless. When you think about it, Usopp is a very enviable character, because his skills cover such a wide breadth of areas, from engineering to the arts. And a fantastic example of this would be the straw hat Jelly Roger. This is Usopp's creation, following Luffy's design brief of course, but still to think that our Sniper is the man responsible for crafting what will surely become one of the world's most recognizable pirate symbols is extraordinary. And that is just one of many many examples of Usopp's utility and sheer ability. The subtleties and skills required for which will always be completely locked off to a figure like Luffy. And Luffy might be um questionably intelligent, but he is more than aware of that as well. And that is part of the reason for his enduring faith in Usopp, which is a particular brand of faith that I'm not so sure any other straw hat, or even readers or watchers of the series initially had an old Usopp. I mean to put it quite blatantly, he was a coward, a liar, and evidently quite physically weak. He did not seem like the kind of figure who you would want to entrust an issue of any brand of importance to. And that's of course your Luffy, because for whatever reason our rubber lad in his infinite wisdom places 100% unconditional trust in Usopp. And that is a super powerful thing, and that trust is reciprocated. As a result of his experiences and permanent admiration of his best friend, Usopp has 100% faith in Luffy as well, which would even culminate in a particularly famous scene on Alabasta, where Usopp was told that Luffy had been killed, and he just flat out refused to believe it. But why did he do that? Last time we saw Luffy, he was facing off one on one against a wall out of the sea, whose ability seemed insurmountable, and the captain had not been seen since. All of the available evidence would point to Luffy having been killed or at the very least, being defeated and down for the count. But in Usopp's mind, that was never even a possibility, which I find amazing given that Usopp's brain tends to always move to the worst-case scenario possible when thinking about himself. However, the best part was yet to come because following that, Usopp used this faith in Luffy as his own driving force to muster the bravery and endurance to eventually defeat Miss Merry Christmas and Mr. Four, which was an incredible step forward in his own personal journey of growth. And the moment in which I would personally pinpoint in the series, that I began to take Usopp seriously. And he only continued to grow from here, because Luffy has consistently forced Usopp out of his comfort zone and into situations where he is tackling and overcoming greater and greater senses of fear. So this is a heavily symbiotic relationship. Usopp feeds Luffy's imagination and more juvenile side, while at the same time Luffy is guiding Usopp on his journey to become the brave adult warrior of the sea that he one day dreams of being. But if that's all there was to it, then I'm not sure that this video would have been worth making, because there is another massive layer yet to come. Luffy and Usopp is not a flat story, I've shown them best friends who just get along at all times, and in fact this relationship has completely broken down on one occasion during the Water Seven Arc. And I really cannot emphasise this moment enough, because this is the first and only time that Luffy has experienced an internal conflict on this level. I mean yes, other straw hats have left the crew like Sanji and Robin, but there were much greater outside forces facilitating that, and actually just outright blackmailing them. Whereas Usopp made the choice to leave in order to fight for his beliefs. That is a very, very different situation. This was a case where Usopp profoundly disagreed with Luffy's philosophy in regards to the Going Merry, which Usopp had always treated as a genuine crew member. And this is because he was always much more connected to the ship than any other member, having it being gifted to them by Kaia, and even acting as a makeshift shipwright prior to the existence of Frankie. Usopp had a really strong relationship with the Going Merry, and in this case from his perspective, Luffy was far too willing to leave a wounded friend on the battlefield, and that played heavily on his mind because of Usopp's own weakness. And at one point, Usopp even questioned if Luffy would do the same to him, because that is how Usopp saw himself, a weak link of the straw hats. And if Luffy was willing to do this to one of his comrades, then why wouldn't he do the same to Usopp? Now in this situation I personally feel like both were right and both were wrong, which is fine in the context of friendship and is almost often the case, but unfortunately there is also a crew structure to consider here. A disagreement between friends is one thing, but under this umbrella, this was an outright mutiny against the decision of the captain. Regardless of whether Luffy was right or whether he was wrong, this was a breakdown of crew hierarchy, one that was only made possible via the extremely close friendship that Luffy and Usopp had built up. And that put Luffy in a really rough position as well, because the decision to let go of Mary was not made lightly, and so this disagreement between friends eventually devolved into a full on fist fight, which I would like to say, even though it was under very unpleasant circumstances, also very much served to evolve both of these characters. Usopp for quite probably the first time in his life was knowingly facing off against a stronger opponent without a single shred of fear, because he felt that his ideals were worth fighting for. Meanwhile, Luffy was put in a position where his place as captain was being stress tested. A test which he would go on to pass, albeit barely. And after the conclusion of this, Usopp left the crew and faced a life on his own for a while anyway, which is a pretty terrifying thought from his perspective. A weak coward all on his own within the grand line, but this time on his own would also lead him into grand acts of bravery, some that he simply may not have been capable of if he was still a member of the Straw Hat Pirates. Such as getting involved in the events of the sea train or any slobby, putting his life directly on the line against impossible odds for the sake of Robin. But speaking of any slobby, the Luffy-Usopp relationship was effectively the key to victory on this island, because faced with the overwhelming power of Robbucci, there was a moment where it looked like Luffy was down and out. Where rather uncharacteristically, Luffy was mentally broken and simply thought that he could not go on, and as such the entire rescue Robin endeavour was on the verge of absolute failure. But it was in that moment with every other crew member fighting for their lives, where it fell to Usopp to do what Usopp does best and flame the fire that is Luffy. He delivered what is hands down one of the greatest speeches in One Piece, and at least in my eyes, he is directly responsible for Luffy's eventual victory over Robbucci. Without Usopp and without that relationship, One Piece probably ends during the any slobby arc. That is how powerful this bond is. And of course, the two would then go on to reconcile with Usopp admitting that he was wrong and asking to rejoin the crew. And the moment that the Captain and the Sniper were properly reunited was a powerful one indeed. And this is because some of the strongest connections in this world are forged through tough experiences like these. I don't know a single couple or pair of best friends who have not had at least one major potentially relationship-ending experience, but once they got past that, their bond had not only strengthened, but become nigh on invincible. And this is the position that we find Luffy and Usopp in today. Sadly, as with many post-Time Skip straw hat interactions, this one hasn't been particularly expanded on because throughout the New World Era arcs, Luffy and Usopp have been generally kept separate from each other, even in ones where they're both on the same island like Dressrosa, Fishman Island, Punk Hazard, and of course, Wano. But even though we don't blatantly see it as much, you can still feel this bond between them. No matter where they are, Luffy and Usopp still retain that unconditional belief in one another. That is why Usopp is able to operate these days in the context of Wano. Faced with the prospect of going up directly against Kaido, a figure who is quite literally referred to as the strongest living creature in One Piece, but what does that even matter? Usopp is still going to act without a single doubt in Luffy's abilities. Meanwhile, Luffy's stance has not changed one bit since the early days of Zero Village. Luffy always has and always will believe in Usopp, and thus propagating one of the strongest friendships in the entirety of the series. But what do you guys think? Please do leave your thoughts in the comments below or even join my Discord server. And if you'd like to see more videos like this, then please do go and check out some of my other content, or even subscribe to the channel for more glorious One Piece business, upload it straight until YouTube feeds. But for now, this has been the Grand Line Review, and I'll see you next time.


The place is Korea, the time early October 1950. UN landings at Incheon have been successful. Troops of Major General Edward M. Allman's 10th Corps are mopping up around liberated Seoul. Now plans are made to sweep on North into enemy territory to crush the retreating Red. New mission of the 8th Army is to continue its drive up the West Coast. Objective, Pyongyang, North Korean capital. To weaken any strong Red resistance, the UN command plans an amphibious assault on the enemy's left flank. Should Pyongyang fall to the 8th Army, UN forces attacking from the east would swing northward, clearing northeast Korea of remaining Red troops. The 10th Corps is given this job. By mid-October, the Corps is ready for another amphibious operation. The 1st Marine Division embarks at Incheon. 7th Division troops go over land and sail from Busan. These two divisions, with the 2nd Engineer Special Brigade and the 1st Marine Air Wing, make up the striking force of 10th Corps at this time. Within three days, the convoy lies off Wonsan, North Korean port selected for the landing. But on land, the tactical situation has changed. Fast-moving ROK troops driving up the east coast and crossing the 38th parallel have moved north into enemy territory. Covering 15 miles a day by rapid foot marches, they drive on to Wonsan. After capturing that city, they push on toward Hamhong. With beaches in friendly hands, the 10th Corps troops could land unopposed at Wonsan to support the 8th Army attack on Pyongyang. But landings must be delayed when the waters are found to be heavily mined. A few days pass while elements of the Corps stand offshore waiting. Then, as the Navy Task Force under command of Rear Admiral Thackeray succeeds in clearing paths through the intensive minefield, preparations for landings are completed. But by this time, the 8th Army driving up the west coast has captured Pyongyang and is continuing northward after the retreating communists. The original plan for the 10th Corps to drive west to link up with the 8th Army is discarded and the alternate plan put into effect. New mission? To destroy or drive the enemy out of northeast Korea. The Corps is assigned the entire area east of the Taibak mountain range and north of the coastal town of Kojo. Initially, the Corps area is divided into two zones. The 1st Rock Corps, now under operational control of 10th Corps, is assigned the northern zone. The 1st Marine Division takes over the area in the south. While the new situation is being assessed and plans are prepared for the general advance to the north, the 1st Marine Division commanded by Major General Smith lands unopposed at Wansan. The main body of the Marine Division moves north to the Hamhong area. Remaining elements go west to Meijan and south to Kojo to protect the Corps rear from roving bands of North Korean troops bypassed by the 8th Army and 1st Rock Corps in their sweeping drives up the peninsula. These communist forces have organized into strong guerrilla bands. In the north they threaten to cut 10th Corps supply routes along its rear and western boundaries. Marines at Kojo are first to meet these bands. There is fierce fighting before the Reds are driven off. The guerrillas drift northwestward and are met by Marines at Meijan. While fighting is going on at Kojo and Meijan, the Corps area is re-divided into three zones. ROK troops are already in the northern zone assigned to them. Marines are moving into their western zone. The 7th Infantry Division, commanded by Major General Barr, takes over the central sector. Instead of going ashore at Wansan with the Marines, the 7th, with the 2nd Engineer Special Brigade, moves up the coast to Iwan. Once again, an assault landing is unnecessary, but the beach must be checked and surrounding waters cleared of mines before the division can go ashore. As the 7th lands, its units quickly move inland. Vanning out over the area the division is to cover, troops start north after the retreating enemy. Meanwhile, throughout the entire Corps area where U.N. forces are in control, the command is busy re-establishing order in the pattern of democracy. Native specialists are called on to help with medical supplies and other civilian needs. By the time the Corps is ready to move north, the civil government has been reorganized to conform to democratic principles. By the middle of November, the 3rd Infantry Division under command of Major General Sol arrives from Japan remaining in the Wansan area to protect supply routes from bypassed Red Gorillas. Marine elements move north from Kojo and Meijan to join the main body of the 1st Marine Division, which is slowly probing its way toward the Chozen Reservoir. One reason for the slow, cautious advance is the stiffening enemy resistance. ROK patrols have reported encountering Chinese communist troops which apparently have moved down across the Korean border from Manchuria. These reports are confirmed when Marines bring in prisoners. Elements of several Chinese communist divisions are identified in the area. Weather and terrain also slow the advance. It's rugged, mountainous country all the way, and roads are bad. In the east along the coast where terrain and roads are better, ROK troops move faster advancing toward Chongjin. Here, rocks are fighting the last organized remnants of North Korean forces between them and the Manchurian-Soviet border. Offshore, U.N. warships soften enemy strong points. Carrier-based planes furnish close air support for both the rocks in the east and the 7th Infantry Division pushing north. With the main body of the division fanning out behind them, forward elements of the 7th approach their objective, Isanjin on the Yalu River along the Manchurian border. Other elements of the 7th Division clear the sector of bypassed communist forces. Less than one month after they landed at Iwan, troops of the 7th Enter Isanjin, there's nothing between them and Manchuria except the frozen Yalu. By Thanksgiving they have taken up positions along the river. To most of these men, the war appears to be over or should be by Christmas. Their optimism seems to be shared by everyone and it is to accomplish just this, that the 8th Army launches its all-out assault to drive the remaining Reds out of Korea. The main body of the North Koreans facing UN forces in the west is receiving reinforcements and supplies from Manchuria. One of the main supply lines crosses the Yalu at Manpojin and follows the main highway south to the front. New mission of the 10th Corps is to cut this supply route at Mupyeong and then drive north to Manpojin. As the new UN plan of attack goes into effect, the western boundary of 10th Corps shifts to take in the new area of operation. There's a corresponding shift of divisional boundaries and troops. The 3rd remains in the south. Marine and 7th Division zones swing westward. Rocks retain the northeast sector. Only the rocks continue to drive northward. The 7th pulls back. Elements are ordered west to protect the right flank of the Marines already moving to spearhead the attack. The 3rd moves north to guard the left flank. This new plan of attack presents the Corps command with a difficult supply problem. The railroad ends a few miles beyond Hamhong and from there supplies must be hauled by truck. The main supply route, poor and in need of repair, cannot logistically support more than a division. On 24 November, the 8th Army launches its all-out assault. Forward elements of the Marines reach Yudam. Suddenly and without warning, the Chinese attack. They check the 8th Army advance and block the 10th Corps at Yudam. But the 8th Army's right flank receives the heaviest blow. It disintegrates and Chinese sweep south in overwhelming numbers. Elements of the 3rd deploy to protect 10th Corps' exposed western flank. As for the Marines at Yudam, it's no longer a question of advancing. Completely surrounded, they hold their position. Elements of the 7th Division on the right flank of the Marines are not so fortunate. Overwhelming layout numbered, they are driven back and trapped on the east side of the Chosin Reservoir. In desperate fighting, these heavily depleted units withdraw to Hagaru. The Marines also receive orders to pull back to Hagaru. They have to fight their way back in the bitter cold of the Korean winter which has enveloped the front. Under continuous fire from the Chinese, they find little time to rest or warm themselves. Close support by the Air Force and Marine Air Wing helps balance the power for the UN. After the initial surprise assault, they keep the Chinese from massing for a major attack against the 10th Corps. Planes of the Combat Cargo Command also play an important role. Without regular airdrops of ammunition and essential supplies, it would be difficult for any of the encircled units to get out. Marines finally reach Hagaru. It takes them five cold, bloody days and nights of fighting. But Hagaru is also surrounded and fighting continues mostly at night. Planes take over pinning the enemy to the hills. The C-47 landing strip started when Hagaru was first taken is placed in operation. A steady stream of planes brings in supplies and takes out wounded and cold-weather casualties. With Hagaru only 20 minutes by air from Hongnam and only four hours from Japan, the mortality rate even among the seriously wounded is surprisingly low. As the tactical situation develops, the command decides to concentrate troops in the Hongnam area to form a stronger and more effective fighting force. The third division is ordered up from the south. The seventh division and first rock corps are ordered down from the north. At the same time, a task force made up of units of the third is sent to open the Hagaru Ham-Hung Road for core troops trapped in the reservoir region. The task force starts toward Koto. Other elements of the corps deploy in the mountains east and west of the rescue road to hold back the main body of Chinese. Opening the road is slow work. Roadblocks have to be removed. The Chinese must be driven out of the hills on either side. And once the road is cleared, it must be held open. The task force works its way north, and fighting continues at Hagaru. Anything that might be of use to the enemy is destroyed. Marines and elements of the seventh infantry division that managed to escape the red trap around the reservoir starts south toward Hongnam. Plank and advance guards move to the sides and ahead of the main body of troops to drive back the Chinese. Some of men and equipment moves slowly. Often it must stop in the cold, sometimes for hours while engineers repair the road. At this time, General MacArthur visits Yongpo to confer with his combat commanders. As a result of this conference, the UN commander orders the 10th corps to withdraw from northeast Korea and an evacuation area is prepared around Ham-Hung and the port of Hongnam. The defense perimeter is established as each infantry division and the rock corps is assigned a sector.  At night, they withdraw to prepare defensive positions within the inner perimeter. All the artillery of the 10th corps is concentrated on the beach. Coordinated with guns of warships in the harbor, it provides a curtain of steel for the entire perimeter. With the problem of defense solved, the corps command turns its attention to the problem of evacuation. Before a method is decided upon, every available means is considered. Overland is found impractical due to the poor roads and the distance involved. Because of the limited number of planes available, a mass air evacuation is also held to be impractical. Evacuation by sea is the logical means. Already a number of vessels are in the harbor. More can be diverted from other Korean ports and from Japan. Busan, the destination of the 10th corps, is little more than a 24-hour trip by sea. The Navy is confident that by utilizing turnaround shipping, enough will be available to complete the evacuation. Back in the mountains, corps troops have reached Koto, a regimental position below Hagaru. But their stop here is brief. Within a few hours, they begin breaking camp and prepare to start down through the mountains to Hongnam. The small airstrip at Koto can handle only light aircraft. They are used to evacuate the wounded and serious cold-weather casualties. Finally, the column starts down the last icy stretch of mountain road that separates it from Ham-Hung. Security forces drive the communists away from the road. But a few miles outside of Koto, where the road crosses the face of a steep cliff, the Reds have destroyed a vital bridge. Within a matter of hours, the combat cargo command is preparing to send a new bridge by air. A short time later, 8 C-119s, each carrying a span of the bridge, are over the column. The 16-ton bridge is dropped. The first time an airdrop of a complete bridge has been attempted in combat. A few hours later, the column is again on the move. At Hongnam, the work to build up and strengthen the defense perimeter continues. With the road held open, the column moves faster. In less than a day, leading elements are out of the mountains and are being ham-hung. Camps have been set up in the port area. With dock facilities limited, a landing craft shuttle service has been established to carry troops to the ships in the harbor. The wounded that were not flown out earlier are the first to be evacuated. Troops come next. The evacuation is carefully timed. There is a minimum of waiting. When troops arrive at the docks, landing craft are ready to take them aboard. The operational equipment follows. The amount of equipment being brought out is evidence of how completely the situation is under control during the withdrawal. Tenth-core units have been ordered to bring out everything. They are doing just that. Nothing is left behind unless it is completely useless. For three days, troops continue to pour into ham-hung. Elements of the third division keep the road open. With the boarding of the last Marine combat troops, the core control group in charge of loading is mentioned to huge stockpiles of fuel and supplies that jam the port. North Korean civilians are called in to help. Following the plan of evacuation, the rocks are pulled from the perimeter and out-loaded. Many rock units have been taken out earlier from ports further north, as the evacuation progresses, fighting around the perimeter continues. Demolition squads lay explosives throughout the city. The perimeter tightens. Young-po airfield on the edge of the city is abandoned. Seventh division is the next aboard ship. Again, the perimeter tightens. Big guns of the fleet continue to pound the Chinese in the hills. As the evacuation nears its final phase, thousands of North Korean refugees swarm into the area, hoping to be taken out with the troops. As many as possible are evacuated. Demolition squads destroy everything that might be useful to the enemy. Finally, the third division begins to move out. The perimeter shrinks to a beachhead, held by one lone battalion. Warships cover their withdrawal. Explosives have been placed around the remaining buildings, piers, and other installations of the port. The day before Christmas, the last battalion of the third division is evacuated, and what remains of Hung Nam is abandoned to the enemy. After the last boat leaves shore, the order is given and the entire port blown up. Heaps from the time it was ordered, evacuation of the 10th Corps is completed. Over 200,000 troops and refugees have been evacuated, and along with them, 350,000 tons of supplies and equipment, and 17,000 vehicles of every kind. Not only has this huge UN fighting force been evacuated in tech, but within seven days, 10th Corps units are again battling the enemy in central Korea.


Going on everyone, Sam here with Layton Sports Gardsman, 22's Top Star Wars Masterwork Hobby, 8 box case number 2, random mini box style, going to open the case first, boxes 1-4 in the front, 5-8 on the back, so we know which one is which, and we'll do the random after. This will be through 4, again flip them around so the box is facing us, this one there, and then same thing with 5-8, so they're facing us, so there you go, empty box, okay, so there are boxes, we're going to go and do the random now, bring you over here, we've got 32 participants, 32 numbers, 1-32 representing your mini box number, we go 5 times, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, my cards, Barbera down to Mark S, and 5 times on your numbers, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, 20 down to 11, copy, Barbera with 20, Lane K-15, Francis D-3, Mark S-14, Steve G-7, Jonathan L-17, Sean P-12, Michael J-4, Barbera 6 and 9, Mark S-21, Dixon K-31, Josh H-10, Barbera 19, Francis D-29, Michael C-H-32, Tyler M-25, Barbera 8, Francis D-27, Barbera 1 and 23, Jake N-13, Socrates J-2, Michael C-Z-16, Steve G-18, Chris K-30, Shigunori U-22, Michael C-Z-24, Lindsey H-5, Shipmikers Barbera 28, Daniel F-26, and Mark S-11. So we got these copied over, really quickly, and I'm going to get them organized for us as well. Thank you, Mr. Socrates taking a spot in 4. Appreciate you, buddy. I was Barbera, basically. Barbera had 8 spots in this one. We got 20 to go in the next one, everybody. 20, 20, 8 and 27 now. No, 20, 27, 28 now. 20, 27 and 28. There is your link. There you go. Let me get these organized now so we know who is who and where, who is where. Sort range, column B, sort and I'm going to start with Barbera at 1. Barbera at 1. Good luck here, everybody. Let's do some more masterworks. Here we go. Again, mini boxes. We're just going to go left to right. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, so on and so forth. So we get to 32. Here we go. Good luck. Number 1, Barbera. Nice staying that right to trading card. It's not Barbera. It's Barbera, here we go. Dengar and Purple Owen Lars to 90, no, 50. 50 Owen Lars. Commander, Pyre, Fennec Shand. Nice. That is a Gorkorosh on the canvas auto to 25. One of 25. For us, it's Wemby, Wemby, Wemby. I love it. I love it. And Ray on the stamp relics. Technically, two hits in that one, Wemby. Nice one there, buddy. Congrats. Box number two is Mr. Socrates J. Good luck here at Socrates. Look, Socrates. See what we've got. It is so uncivilized, quote card. Tech on the blue. Got Bo-Katan. Holofoil of Greedo. Let's go, my guy. 2, 2, 99. Greedo on the rainbow foil. And Otto of Bartender. That is Ellen Graf as Bartender. Congrats on that. Number three is Francis D. Francis D at three base gallon or so green in 99. Greedo shop first. Chalcestis the Mandalorian and Jar Jar Binks. Hell yeah. I'm at best as Jar Jar Binks. Let's go. So dope. Frank picking up some spots. Steelers gone in 26, thanks to Luke. And number four is Michael Jack. Good luck here, Michael. Got a sketch. Base and blue of Marin. Got a sketch. Brogu. Seri Juna. Let's go.  Let's go. Imperial Royal Guard. My favorite characters, dude. I love this. Congrats, Michael. Let's go. Oh, that's so fire, dude. That's funny. That's so, so sick, man. I'm so fired up about that. Love me some Imperial Royal Guards. All right, 20 to go on Masterwork. Number three.  Not going to lie to you. So we got five, six, seven, eight here. Lindsay, Barbera, Steve, and Barbera. All right, good luck here. Lindsay at number five. And Boba Fett on the orange to 10. Congrats on that one, Lindsay. That's a pretty big card right there, so you can probably bag this one. Yeah. So sick. Let's go. Good stuff, Lindsay. Base, Imwe, and A. Magistrate Morgan Ellsbyth on the source fabric relic. Congrats on that one. Very nice. Number six, Barbera. Base and blue. Imwe. Boba Fett. Cad Bane. Let's go. Boba Fett auto. Dude. Samora Morrison, 33 of 50. What a box this is. Let's go, Wemby. Good stuff, buddy. Get that into a mag as well. God, that's nasty. Boba Fett box right here. Boba. Boba Fett. Yeah, dude, I was using Boba all day yesterday. Boba Fett. Let's go. Good stuff, Wemby. All right, number seven, Steve. Steve G. Yeah, this stuff is fire, man. Again, still spots available for the rest of the day. Aura Singh and Luke on the blue. Captain Rex, Obi-Wan, and A. Nightwind Assassin. Two at 99. Paul Darnell is Nightwind Assassin on the blue auto. Nice one there as well. Chase with two spots down to 18. Shipe getting in on the fun, down to 16. Let's go, Shipe. There we go, Shipe. Good luck, Shipe. There we go, Shipe. And number eight is Barbera again, Wemby. I will say I am not like a Die Hard Star Wars fan, I would say I'm a casual Star Wars fan. I've seen all the original movies. I've seen Rogue One. This is the only Star Wars product I've personally ever bought into, because it's just that nice. I might buy into one tonight with Forrest, if I'm getting bored. I could see a lot of people here buying into this one too. Bass and Bass Malvis. Nice one there. We've got Cannon Jarrus use the Force Luke on the foil to 299. That's true. That's very true. Very, very true trading cards. And we've got Chris Bartlett as Teacher Droid. Teacher Droid. All right, now we have nine through 12. Barbera, Josh, Mark, and Sean. Haha, appreciate it, preacher. Yeah, this has got a lane personal written all over it right here. This is lane personal written all over it for sure. Miles with a couple of masterwork boxes. There we go. What's up, Yogi? Yeah, it's only three ten a box. It ain't bad. Three ten a box on this. Sixteen to go, everybody. Sixteen to go on number three. All right, keep it moving here, everybody. We've got Barbera. Good luck to your buddy. I'll see you sketch for Barbera. Barbera's due. Oh, we got a, that's going to be an on set relic, I bet. Or a medallion, one or the other. On set or a medallion. It's going well, Yogi. How are you doing, buddy? Oh, it is. And it's orange, it looks like. IG-88. And green, Torre Doza, $2.99. Got Darth Sidious. IG-11. And General Merrick on the orange. One of ten on-screen prop relic.  Low numbered. That is a Rebel Base Radar screen. Nice one there. Congrats on that. Yeah, in the same way, Lane. I'm the same exact way as you are, man. I agree with that. All right, there you go, Barbera. Josh H now at number 10. Mr. Hobbes. Good luck to your Hobbes. Here, Hobbes, base, and Wrecker. Mace Windu, Pelimoto, and Cad Bane on the auto. That's dope. Dorian King, performer for Cad Bane. Very nice one there. Blake always makes fun of me. Were you here when Blake was here or no? No. I met him at the soccer game. Okay, that's right. Number 11 now. He always makes fun of me because I didn't know who Cad Bane was when I pulled a sketch of him. It's the nicest sketch I've pulled yet, I have to say. Yeah, it's inside. You can see it's in there. It's a clear plastic piece almost, Jewel. And he'll always make fun of me because I was like, what? I'm like, we've got a sketch. That's awesome, basically. Yeah, gotta play it off. Yeah, base. And Kazuda Siano, 250 on the purple. I'm sure he was like, come on. Yeah, Tatooine SandEat, Wrecker, and Otto of Threnalli, CI Threnalli. Nice one there, Paul Casey. Got the new COVID shot all achy. Didn't go to work today. At least he missed work today. That's not the worst thing in the world, Yogi. And 12 is Sean P. Man was left speechless. Pretty much honest. Literally speechless, Blake. Literally speechless. Yeah, that was a freaking dope sketch, man. Oh, I'm sure. Boba. And blue Cobb Vanth, both of that. Exactly, bro. That's why I use it. Holofoil is a Obi-Wan Kenobi to 299. And green Trident Voss, 84 of 99. Congrats on that one on the sourced fabric relic of the shirt. All right, 13, 14, 15, 16. Jake N, Marcus, Lane, and Michael C.G. Good luck, guys. Again, 16 to go on the next one, ladies and gents. 16 to go. Again, a Togo for you all. Togo. So literally halfway sold out on the next, everyone. Very nice. All right, again, 13 is Mr. Jake N. Good luck here at Jake. All right, Jawas and Asajj Ventress Green to 99, right? Yes, the 99. Megs Mayfield, K2SO, and a gold, the armorer. One of one. Sourced frame relic. Featuring the belt from the armorer. Hell yeah. Let's go. Jake N. Congrats, buddy, at 13. One of one, gold. It had to have been, to be honest. It had to have been. One of one, the armorer. God, that's so nasty. That's what I'm saying, 40s. Hell yeah. That's what I said. 14, Marcus. That's the fun of masterwork for you, Shythe. Exactly. The stuff is crazy, man. With some sort here. Bass and Calcestis. Got Major Von Reg. Nice. That is a two of ten shubaka on the wood. What? Congrats, Mark. Let's go, dude. Chill, dude. Stuff is silly right now. Chill. Let's go ten with two spots in the next one.  Down to 14 on the next one. Number to ten, we've got, this is insane. This is a great case, dude. This is a great case right here. Say you could probably mag that one, to be honest. And Otto is Alpha Traveler. That is Tate Fletcher's, or Alpha Trawler. Excuse me, Alpha Trawler. I misread that. God, that's so sick, dude. Lane K at 15. Let's go, Lane-O. Come on, baby. This is thick, Lane. This could be one of the short-printed medallions, potentially. Got the Mandalorian and a blue Lando Calrissian. Tom Rivora. Koska Reeves. And nice, Moff Gideon. That's sick. That's fire. The Darksaber, 94 and 99. Good old Giancarlo Esposito. Gustavo Fring and the main villain from Far Cry 6, as well as Moff Gideon. That is awesome. Dude, let's go. That's sick. Let's go, Lane. Good stuff, dude. That's really freaking cool.  We can probably get that done, honestly. Michael CZ at number 16 now. We still have the one hanging over there, too. We still have the game-used one. All right, base and IG-11 on the blue. Cassian Andor, Babufrik, and Otto of Drummer, to 50 on the foil. Foil, Drummer, Otto. Very nice. Grats on that one. On to 17 through 20. Jonathan L, Steve G, and then Barbera, twice. Or one-on-one. Disgusting. Yeah, that was fire. Okay, still no second sketch yet. I think we gotta be getting close to another one here. So good luck here, Jonathan, at 17. We gotta see an angel of Elis, dude. He is the guy for sketchers like this, yeah. He is the best artist in this set. His are significantly more than, like, not saying anybody's a bad artist, obviously. Every sketch is awesome. But his just goes for crazy money. Blue, or blue. Green, Eris and Dula, 2.99. BD1. Foil of 2.99. Job of the Hut. And that's awesome, too. The Mandalorian. 2.99. Featuring the Mandalorian's jet pack. Yup, that's 2.99 on the green. God, they did such a good job on the freaking, what's it called, on the medallions this year. Sean with a spot in the next one. Michael with a spot in four and five. Thank you. Appreciate you guys. On to the next one. We've got number 18 is Steve G. Steve G. That is a blue Obi-Wan. Qui-Gon, Quinlan Voss and Bacer. Missing a hit in this, I'm gonna send you an empty box and wrapper. Sorry about that, Steve. I do apologize. I'll get you an empty box and wrapper, though, for sure. That does happen on a kick from time to time in this set. That did happen, not a lot, but it would happen last year. Sorry about that. That'll go with Steve G. at box 18. Sorry, Steve. Again, do apologize on that. 18. I'll just put it for you. Thank you. Yep. 18. Don't like to see that. All right. Barbera at number 19 now. 19 and 20 is Barbera. Base and blue of Janna. Hunter, C3PO, and Captain Carson Tiva. I'll see Sun Hyung Lee as Captain Carson Tiva on the on-a-card autograph. Zachary with a spot on the next one. We're getting close to selling the next one out, everybody. We're at 11 to go now. No, 12 to go. We're at 12 to go, everyone, on Masterwork. Number three. Hello there. All right, Barbera again. Barbera again. Let's see it, Barbera. Come on, Lando and Carson Tiva. Four of five on the Carson Tiva. Nice one there. Congrats, man. That's a low-numbered one. Low-numbered stuff coming out of this, which is awesome. Mon Mothma. Damn, that's going to be a canvas. Use the force loop to 25. Two low-numbered cards in this one for you, Wenbi. Congrats, buddy. And then a Jawa auto. Nice one there. Leilani Shu as Jawa. All right. Now we've got 21. Mark S. Shiginoryu, Barbera, and then Michael CZ. So 21, 22, 23, 24. Yeah, three sketches in the last one, Sean. We hit a 101, 101 Relic as well, from part of the belt of a pretty big character. Couple cards number to like 10. One number to five just in the last one. Looks like we got another on-screen prop. Darth Vader blue. Good luck here, Mark. Valon Hess, Jared Yeager, and Cassian Andor. Nice one there on the base radar screen, or rebel base radar screen on the on-screen prop. Congrats on that one. Very cool. There you go. Mark on to number 22, Shiginoryu. You're on 21 right now. Shiginoryu now. Yeah, three sketches last case. Only one so far this case. Surprisingly only one so far this case, but see if we can change that. Han Solo, Blue General Grievous, Echo, Axe-Wolves, and Sabine Wren, Blue Auto to 99 to Yestercar. Michael B with some spots later today. Thank you, buddy. Basically, there's 32 spots, Cory, and 32 names. We'll random off the names and numbers one through 32, and whatever name is next to your, whatever number is next to your name is the mini box you get. So like Barbera, got number 23. This is mini box 23 right here. So good luck, buddy. Barbera again. Oh, we got a sketch. Barbera with the sketch, baby. Blue Sabine Wren. Speak it into existence. Yes, sir. Director Krennic, second sister. Oh, let's go. Is that Fraud? Not Fraud, lady right now. Um, Maz Katana. Yeah, yep, yep. Maz. Uh, nice. That's her last name, but Maz is her. That's awesome. Maz Kanata, is it? Yes, Maz Kanata. Maz Kanata. Maz Kanata. That's a gorgeous sketch, too, as well. Nice. Let's go. Wemby, Wemby, Wemby, baby. Nice one there. Gorgeous sketch. We'll get that into a map for you. Wemby. And Michael CZ at 24. Good luck here, Michael CZ. He's in a green grief cargo. Chew at 99. Oh boy. God, dude. Foil is a quote card. And auto of Lattice Rossi. That's Clare Grant, or Latt's Rossi. I just want to, yeah, the sketches with the color are disgusting, too, man. All right, we've got Tyler M., Daniel F., Francis D., and, um, Barbera. Again, good luck, guys. Again, should average around three sketches a case. I mean, with the 101 and the lower number of stuff we have, that might not be the case in this one. But, um, but yeah, let's keep it going. Good luck, everybody. Tyler M., good luck, Tyler. Justin with a couple of pirate spots. Corey with a spot, number three, down to 11. 11 to go on the next one, everybody. 11 to go. That is awesome. Thank you all. Appreciate it. Appreciate it very much. The over halfway full throughout all of our masterwork breaks this morning slash afternoon. Let's keep it moving. Good luck, Tyler. Yeah, the sketch with Jack Black was fire, man. Base and Mace Windu Red at 25. What? Hell yeah. Let's go, Tyler. Good stuff, dude. Awesome, man. Base, got Finn, Body Rook, and Taun Way to 99 on the blue auto. We've got Daniel F. at 26 now. Those are the inscribed ones.  That makes sense. Daniel F., good luck here. Danny, we got you a sketch, brother, with the one spot. Nine sister. Danny with the one spot sketch. Let's go. Carson Tiva. Dude, that's so nasty. Ian McKesson. That is insane, dude. Unbelievable. These sketches have been just on point, man. There's like watercolor on a lot of these, too. Unreal. Congrats. Danny, let's go, baby. Daniel F., so sick, dude. So sick. Francis D. at 27. Up next, we got nothing. We've got nothing. If we stay long enough, we might hear that today, Blake. Up next, we got nothing. We are done. Penechand Blue Han Solo. That's my cue every day, Blake. We've got a Boba Fett to 2.99 on the rainbow foil, and a Fixer Auto. Schuyler Bible as Fixer. Very nice. And then 28 is Barbera again. That is it. We are done. Next, we've got nothing. We've got nothing. We are all done. Blake loved that, dude. That is Bass and Blue Podemeron. Got Drash. Foil is another quote card of only a sip, deals, and absolutes to 2.99. And then Frog Lady. Nice one there is Misty Rosas. Misty Rosas has a really nice auto. Whenever you pull a Frog Lady, the auto is always beautiful. Shout out Misty. Shout out Frog Lady. All right. There you go, Barbera. Now we got Francis D., Chris K., Dixon K., and Michael C. H. at the 29 through 32, everyone. Don't worry about pictures either. I'm just going to take them at the end of the day. Trust me, I wasn't worried. Get them out. Let's not worry. Get them out. It's the last thing I'm going to do. Go home.  We played it. Stayed up way too late playing Lego Fortnite. Put a bed. Francis D. at 29. Get some sleep. Didn't tell Sean that, dude. Yeah, Sean stayed up way too late playing Lego Fortnite. I had a feeling that I was going to call him. Sean loves Lego Fortnite, bro. He'd be like, no, only babies play that. Bass and Green Bo-Katon. Nice one there, 2.99 on the Bo-Katon Green. Grant Inquisitors, Ori Bliss, and Auto of Imperial comms officer, Katie O'Brien, Imperial comms officer. Dude, Blake, I'm so invested. We love that, dude. Blake, it's so much fun. Chris K., number 30. Yeah. Yeah, it was pretty much what we all did. Lego Fortnite for an absurd amount of hours just. Yeah. Okay. You got like some sort of relic or something. Ray on the, uh, blue. Taylor Ghana. Nice. Leo Organa on the stamp relic. 5th, 14 of 99 on the green. Nice one there. Congrats, Chris. Kevin with a couple inception spots. Ronald with a Star Wars spot. And Keith with the Colton Lions in 45 and 46. John F. with a bunch of Bowman draft teams as well. There you go. That's killing it right now. Thank you all. There you go. All right. On to number 31, Dixon K., good luck, Dixon. Maybe a little behind going into certified. Got to get the rest of the bricks filled up. Not a big deal, but it may be, um, maybe a bit behind to end the day today. I will do my best, though. All right. Quote card and Cad Bane blue. BB8. Crosshair. Jango Fett. Rainbow foil to 2.99. Congrats on that one. Is that part of the card? I can't tell if that's part of the card. Is that part of it? Is that part of his thing? Baru Lars. Baru Lars, Bonnie PS, 27 of 50. No, I think that's part of the card. Is it? Yeah. Like he's, I think he's like tied on, like something's tied on to his wrist. Yeah, okay. That makes sense. He walks on the ground or something like that. Congrats, Dixon. And Michael CH, ending us off at 32. Good luck, buddy. Michael CH at 32. Got me a spot with my government name. Let's go Quicks. Hell yeah. Went too close to the card there. Yeah. Boba and Axe Woves purple to 50. Got Leith. Holofoil of Obi-Wan. Nice one there. And a Relic card. The Mandalorian. That is Cloak, Source Fabric Relic of the Mandalorian's Cloak. Congrats on that one. Great way to end it, Michael CH. Michael CH. Very nice. All right, everybody, that is going to do it for the break. Thank you all again for filling that up. Only under 10 spots to go in the next. Appreciate y'all.


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