What's happening guys? It's Shane here and today we're going to be talking about how to actually prepare for college.  You're somebody who decided to go right into the workforce, but you're thinking about going back to college. You've decided that you want to play the game of loans. How do you prepare yourself for that?  But before we get into that, make sure to gently tap that like button for the YouTube algorithm and hit the subscribe button, ring the notification bell if you haven't done it already. Most people on the channel, I think only like 18%, I think right now, I'll have that pop up right now of people who watch my videos, don't actually subscribe and hit the notification bell. What's going on guys? Make sure you're doing that. All right. So first, let's say you are somebody who hasn't even started high school yet. What are you doing?  Why are you even watching these videos? Just kidding. If you're somebody who hasn't even started high school yet, you're already thinking about college. Why are you even thinking about college? College is just that thing that you see in the movies on like American pie where people go to party, right? That's probably what you think college is. Welcome to college boys. Just kidding. If you're somebody who's looking that far ahead, that's awesome. I definitely wasn't looking that far ahead when I was in middle school, but if you're doing that, that's awesome. Welcome to my channel. This is a great place to be. But honestly, even if you're like a freshman or a sophomore in high school and you're watching these videos, you're doing this research, you are way ahead of the curve. So I'm going to start there. Let's say you're watching this and you're like either before high school, a freshman or a sophomore, I'm going to group all of those people together and we're going to talk about what you should be doing right now in order to get the most out of your college experience and basically how to prepare yourself to do that. Now, first of all, let's talk about scholarships. There are scholarships that are only available to people who are in middle school. There are scholarships that are only available to people who are freshmen in high school. Same thing with sophomores. A lot of people don't realize this, but there are scholarships that are available specifically to those people. So if you're a junior or a senior, you cannot apply to some of these scholarships that are only available to freshmen. So you should definitely be taking advantage of that. Look up scholarships online, check with your school counselor, ask them what scholarships are available to whatever you happen to be in right now, right? Whatever phase of your life you're in. They are rare. There's not a lot of them around, but you should definitely look into them. Another thing you should be looking into at this point when you're a freshman or a sophomore in high school is how you can get the most out of high school itself. So I talk about this extensively in other videos. I also go over this in great detail in my college 101 course, which you can find down in the description below. But basically there are many ways for you to either graduate high school early or get college credit while you're still in high school. And by doing this, what that's going to allow you to do is you're going to be able to graduate college early. That's going to save you time. First of all, it's going to save you a lot of money. College is on average about $80,000 total. And people go on average about $40,000 in debt to get a bachelor degree. So if you're able to shave a year off, boom, you saved yourself $20,000 right there. If you're able to save two years off, you might have saved yourself $40,000 there. But on top of that, you're going to be saving yourself time and more importantly, opportunity costs. So if you are able to graduate two years earlier with your bachelor degree, all of your friends are still going to be going to college for those extra two years while you are going to be earning money. Money, money, money, right? So they're going to be paying money to the college in order to attend it. While you are going to be earning money and also on top of that, getting real life work experience. Now, if you are somebody who specifically wants to try to graduate high school early, I think you do have to start thinking about that and your freshman or sophomore year. And like I said, there are a lot of different options for how you can graduate college early. But if that's the specific one that you're trying to do, you do have to kind of start thinking about that and start planning things very early on. And the reason for that is a lot of the time, there's a class, you know, like you have to take X class before Y class and Y class before Z class.  And so you really want to talk to your high school counselor and kind of like make a map or a plan for you to be able to graduate early. Very common to see people graduate a semester early or even a year early. Another option you might be able to consider at this stage is starting to take what are known as AP classes or IB classes, that's advanced placement or international baccalaureate. And then after you take those classes, you would take exams, for instance, with AP, you take an exam, usually very difficult, you have to score at least a three in order to get college credit with some colleges, even higher than that. If you are a gifted student, sometimes there are very special programs where you can skip a lot of classes or test out of them. That's definitely something that you should look into as well. Now to be honest with you, a lot of the options that are going to be available in your junior and senior year are not available to you in your freshman or sophomore year. So for instance, a lot of scholarships really you're not going to start applying for them until your junior or senior year, I would say the vast majority of them. And on top of that, a lot of the programs that are available for you to get college credit won't be available until your junior or senior year as well. But with that being said, one thing that you can do that's going to help you a tremendous amount in high school, especially early on in high school, is getting good grades. Okay, I'm probably going to sound like a parent here. Okay, I'm sorry if I sound like your parent, but you will listen to me. Getting good grades helps tremendously in high school. First of all, it's going to help you get scholarships. It's so much easier to get scholarships if you get good grades. Some of the biggest and easiest to get scholarships that universities offer, basically all they require is that you have really good grades and then you do well on the ACT or the SAT. Sometimes they only require one or the other. I'm going to tell you right now that it may seem kind of difficult, but after you've gone to college, you're going to look back on your high school classes and you're going to think they are super easy. And it's not because you aren't smart, it's just because you haven't really taken those harder classes yet. And as you take harder classes, you grow as a person and you realize that it's not that difficult. The situation you're in right now really isn't that difficult. So it's absolutely worth it for you to try and get really good grades in high school. Now funny enough, not really going to go into this too much. A lot of the times in college, getting good grades doesn't matter all that much. I mean, you do have to get decent grades, but in high school, getting good grades is going to help you out a lot. So a few things you can do that are really going to help you out later on down the line is one, plan your classes out strategically, making sure that you're taking the right classes at the right time so that you can try to graduate early. And then the second thing is to get really good grades. Try to get perfect grades if possible. Sometimes you can take like AP classes or advanced classes and you can get even above a 4.0. But yeah, do whatever it takes in order to get perfect grades.  It's okay, not the end of the world. All I'm saying is some of the lowest hanging fruit, the easiest scholarships that you can possibly get and the biggest ones where you only have to apply to one scholarship, and it's pretty much a guarantee that you're going to get it as long as you have certain grades and a certain score on a test or sometimes just one or the other, is going to be these scholarships that schools offer. And a lot of the time, these scholarships are going to be like $5,000, $10,000 per semester. So they basically pay for nearly all of your college expenses as long as you don't go to like a really expensive college. Now let's move on to your junior year of high school. So this is where you really want to start focusing on applying to scholarships. So there's a lot of scholarships out there. Sometimes they're going to be local scholarships that are just within your community. Sometimes they're going to be scholarships that are just at your school that you will start applying for around your junior year. And not only scholarships, but there's also essay contests on top of that. To get more detail on this, you can watch my video where I talk about how to pay for college. I go over in great detail about how to apply to these different essay contests as well as scholarships. But basically this is where you can start really getting ahead of everybody else because usually people don't start applying for scholarships until their senior year. So right before your junior year, you should start looking at these different scholarships and essay contests. And you're going to notice that a lot of them have very similar prompts, right? So many of the scholarships will require essays and then obviously the essay contests are going to require essays, but a lot of the time the prompts are going to be very similar. Now tell me about a time in your life where you experienced adversity and you were able to overcome that, something along those lines. And so you can basically make kind of like a template for the type of essay that you would submit to these. And so you're not going to have to write a new essay for every single scholarship you apply to. You can basically just copy, paste, change a few things here and there and apply to different scholarships that way. Plagiarism is a pretty serious charge, are you sure? It's not plagiarism because it's your own essay. And at this point you should start looking into the school you want to go to, the degree that you want to get, as well as the career path you want to go down. Now you don't have to make your decision up at this point, but you really should start looking. This involves doing research online of course, watching videos like my videos, looking at different websites like BLS, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, figuring out what your passions are, what your strengths are, what your weaknesses are, doing basic level research on different careers that you might want to go down. And another thing that I think you should highly consider, especially if you're somebody who has their grades down, like you're getting really good grades and you find yourself with extra time, is I think you should really highly consider getting a job. Now a lot of the time this is going to be a very basic entry level job. And I think there's a lot of value in doing that as early as possible. Even if you plan on being an entrepreneur in the future, like you plan on being a manager, a boss, a CEO, an entrepreneur, I think that it's going to be something where you're going to have a lot more empathy for your employees because you're somebody who has been in those entry level positions, even if it's a job that kind of sucks, you're going to have that perspective. And I can't say enough about that, like having the perspective of somebody who's in an entry level position, even if it's the worst job you ever have, at least you kind of have like a bar that's been set. And so you're going to feel really lucky when you get yourself into a good job. And you're going to know that's a good job because you know what a bad job looks like. But a lot of the time you're not going to have that bad of an experience. It's just going to be a pretty good experience. You're going to earn money and you're going to learn the basics of professionalism, you know, being there on time and you know, work culture and all of those things that you really can't learn about until you actually do it. There's a lot of soft skills that you're going to learn that you could never learn by reading a book or watching videos or anything like that. You just simply have to do it. It's kind of like riding a bicycle. There's no way for you to learn how to ride a bicycle until you actually get on the bike and try to ride it. You could read every book on riding a bicycle, you could watch every video, hire, you know, the world class expert on riding, like Lance Armstrong, something along those lines. But until you actually hop on the bike and try to ride it, you're not going to be able to learn how to do it. And the same thing goes for a lot of these soft skills that you learn when you get a job. And it's also nice to have a little bit of extra money as well. Now, usually this is just going to be a part-time job. You might just do like one shift a week, one shift every two weeks, something along those lines, but trust me, it's going to be worth it for you.  So what a lot of ambitious people do is they basically do like all the extracurriculars. So they're taking like three different sports. They're joining debate, forensics, all these different clubs, they're getting all these leadership positions. And what ends up happening is they string themselves out so much that they don't really accomplish all that much in any of them. What's much better for you to do if you're one of these ambitious people, like I said, you don't have to do this if you just want to go to college like a normal person, but if you're trying to go to like an Ivy League school, you're a very ambitious person, is maybe do one or two of them. So like one sport and maybe one other thing that's kind of very creative and specific to you, specific to your passions. And then with the sport, maybe you become a team captain, you win a state championship, you do something that's outstanding.  Very, very important. That last part's very important because anybody can become a president of an organization, but you want to be able to talk about exactly what you accomplished while you were in that leadership position. So for instance, this is an example of one thing that I did while I was in college is I helped to actually create a scholarship while I was getting my doctorate degree in pharmacy when I was living in Henderson, Nevada, which is basically Las Vegas, Nevada. So I helped to create a scholarship for the local community. It was the drug abuse awareness that had to do with drug abuse. People would write an essay about drug abuse and, you know, things that have to do with that. And then we would pick the best essay and give that person a scholarship. So that's something that I actually accomplished while I was in the position. I didn't just do the day-to-day tasks that you're supposed to do. You did something extra and that is what colleges are looking for. They don't just want somebody who goes through the motions and does the bare minimum. They want somebody who does the extra stuff, right? They go the extra mile, they create something new, they create something unique. So this is something that you should think about starting to do when you're like a junior or a senior in high school. Now, moving on to when you are a senior in high school, this is very similar to when you're a junior, but it's just there's a few little differences. First of all, when it comes to scholarships and essay contests, you should definitely be filling these out. Like this is basically free money. A lot of the time schools, for instance, high schools will offer scholarships and pretty much nobody applies to them. So if you apply to them and you don't even write a good essay or anything, it's just basically free money. So you want to be figuring out the scholarships to apply to, apply to a bunch of them, get a system down for how to do that, which I talked about in the other video. And you're going to be getting tons of free money. At this point, you should really be getting a good idea at what schools you want to go to as well. And you should also be progressing on what degree you want to pick. And the degree that you want to pick is going to have a lot to do with what career you're going for. So what I always recommend on this channel is look into the careers, do a lot of research on the careers, and then go backwards from there, right? So reverse engineer the steps you need to take in order to get to that career. And there's like surface level research that you can do, which I talk about in a lot of my videos. But when you get it down to kind of like a smaller list, like maybe three different careers you're looking at, you really want to reach out to people who are in that career, right? Reach out to them, ask them questions that you just cannot get from the internet. Unfortunately, you know, the internet is kind of just general information. You need to get specific information that is tailored to you. So you want to talk to people who are currently doing that career and ask them what their advice is on how you should go into getting into that career, as well as if you should get into the career. Also as a junior and especially as a senior, there are a ton of different opportunities out there for you. First of all, you could graduate early. Generally, you have to kind of start that off earlier on in your freshman or sophomore year, but that's one option. There's also dual enrollment. That's where you basically take high school classes and college classes at the same time. So you're taking a college class, but you get college and high school credit for it.  Washington, for instance, has what's known as the running start program where you can take college classes in your junior and senior year of high school and you could theoretically knock out basically two years of college right there. That also looks really good when you're applying to different colleges. If they've seen that you're already taking college classes, that's going to look really good to them because they know that you're going to be ready for that. Now along with the AP and IB exams that you might be taking in order to knock some of those classes out, you can also start taking exams that are called CLEP. And that stands for the college level examination program. So there are these CLEP exams that you can take in order to get college credit. At this time, there's around 34 exams total that you can take. And most of these are kind of the entry level classes that you would be taking at your freshman and your sophomore year of college.  Next, let's talk about what you can do if you are a graduate, right? You're somebody who's already graduated high school, maybe you already started your career, but you're thinking about going back to college. Well, first of all, you want to make sure that you have a plan. You don't want to go back to college if you don't already know kind of what career you're going for. Once you know what career you're going for, you can kind of reverse engineer those steps, go to college. What you should do is consider going to a community college, first of all, because they're much cheaper than universities. You can get those first two years done, transfer all of those credits to university, and then do the last two years. You can also look into different accelerated programs where maybe instead of four years, you can get the degree done in two or three years. I've talked about this before on the channel, but Western Governor University for certain types of degrees is a great option for that. There are videos here on YouTube of people getting their WGU degrees in one to two years, degrees that would normally take four. You can also take CLEP exams in your free time before you begin college. That can shave sometimes one or even like one and a half years off of your college degree length. Then you should also still try to apply for scholarships because there's some scholarships that are specifically for people who are not in high school. Basically, any situation you're in, there's going to be scholarships that apply to that specific situation and you should be applying for those. Now once you've started college, you're actually in college. The first thing you should do is you want to make a plan. You want to map out the exact classes that you need to take in order to get that degree. Then you need to figure out what classes you need to take first. So I've talked about this before, but sometimes you have to take X class before Y class and Y class before Z class. You need to figure out exactly what those classes are, which ones you have to take first. And then once you've done that, I really just recommend making an excel sheet or a Google Sheets sheet and figure out the exact classes you want to take at the exact time.  Now unless you're taking engineering and you change your major a couple of times, that is totally unacceptable. You should not be taking seven years to get your bachelor's degree. If that's the case, there's a very good chance that your college is one of those that are kind of sketchy because obviously if somebody takes longer to get the bachelor degree, that means the college is getting more money. I also think during this time, it's a very good idea for you to get a job while you're in college because realistically, employers care a lot more about work experience than they do about like the extracurriculars you did or the grades you got in most cases. There are some exceptions to that, especially if you're trying to go to graduate school for instance, but in most cases people are going to care way more about your work experience. Another point is to continue applying for scholarships while you're still in college. There are scholarships that are only available to freshmen in college, sophomores in college, juniors in college, seniors in college. I think you get the idea here. You should always be applying for scholarships pretty much no matter what point you are in your educational journey, even if you're in graduate school. And if you've been applying all along for these types of scholarships, it's going to be ridiculously easy for you because you've already written so many essays that all you have to do is just copy paste and then just change a few things here and there based on what the prompt is and you're good to go. So instead of a scholarship taking an hour or two for you to apply to, it's probably going to take like 10 or 15 minutes. All right, that's all I have for you in this video. Again, this was very surface level. I couldn't really dive very deep into these concepts. This is something that I dive very deeply onto in my college 101 course, as well as other videos on my channel. So definitely check those out. But if you haven't already, go ahead gently tap the like button, hit the subscribe button, ring the notification bell and comment down below any thoughts, comments, criticisms, et cetera that you have on the video, as well as things that you think that I might have missed. Comment all of that down below and I will see you guys next time.


Hello everyone, welcome to NewsClip. I'm Anushka. Here's another episode of the Daily Roundup, the very first for 2019. Let's take a look at the top stories for today. On the 1st of January 2019, the women of Kerala made history. The new year began with lakhs of women from across the state lining up to form the women's world or the Vanita Mother to stand for gender equality and the values of race. The world started with women lining up from the Nathakost district, Kasatpur, all the way to Trivandrum, the southernmost district of Kerala, a distance of 620 kilometers. 55 lakh women were part of this world. Later, in the wee hours of 2nd January 2019, history was made again when two women finally entered the Shabimala temple. The day after, on 3rd January 2019, a Hurtal was called by the Shabimala Karmasamati, a Samparivar-sponsored group leading the protests since the Supreme Court verdict of September 28 that allowed Shabimala women's entry. The day saw violence being unleashed by Hindu fringe groups across the state, with streets being rampaged, battles being waged with the police and political rivals, scores of people including journalists, police personnel and pedestrians were injured, 1369 miscreants were arrested and 801 cases were registered so far related to the violent incidents. The government of Kerala, having stood by the Supreme Court verdict that allowed women's entry to Shabimala temple, continues to uphold the values of the constitution and in doing so, has set an example for other states in the country to follow. There has been a significant spurt in cow-related violence in India after the Modi government came to power in 2014. According to data analysis website India Spent, a total of 88 incidents of cow-related violence were reported since 2012 of which 86 were reported during BJP rule. It's interesting to note that only 7% of the seas' name sent for testing between the years 2014 and 2017 that's when BJP was in power belonged to cows. That's 8 out of the 122 samples. 22 of those samples were buffalo meat, 63 samples were male bull, 11 a mix of cattle and buffalo, 2 were even camel meat, 2 samples of chicken and 1 sample of goat meat. These are findings that are part of a report prepared by the National Research Centre on meat. Since 2012, 188 people have been majorly assaulted due to cow-related violence, 81 have suffered minor injuries and 33 people have been alleged to death. It's not surprising that the three states that reported the highest number of such incidents in 2017 were Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. Haryana and Uttar Pradesh are ruled by the BJP and Rajasthan has only recently transferred hands to the Congress. It's appalling to think that these incidences will continue to recur until strict laws are not only introduced but also implemented. However, with the police also being in danger of being attacked by the mobs, one really has to consider what has led to such a state of lawlessness. The answer is not that hard to find. Is the Trump-Modi romance over just a year after Modi hugged Trump on the lawns of the White House? Talking to the press following his first cabinet meeting of 2019 at the White House, Trump made fun of Prime Minister Modi. I get along very well with India and Prime Minister Modi, but he's constantly telling me he built a library in Afghanistan. Okay, a library. That's like, you know what that is? That's like five hours of what we spend. And he tells it and he's very smart and we're supposed to say, oh, thank you for the library. I don't know who's using it in Afghanistan. Never before has an Indian PM been publicly mocked in this fashion by a foreign head of state, let alone supposedly India's ally and Modi's friend. Indian defence experts have been talking about India becoming a global player as it is now a part of the US containment of China in the South China Sea. And its role in Afghanistan now shows up as just hot air. In Afghanistan, Trump in his speech made clear the role he expects Pakistan to play and his expectations from the new leadership in Pakistan. As the saying goes, it is dangerous to be an enemy of the US. The only thing more dangerous is to be its friend. So welcome, Mr. Modi, to the real world of geopolitics and the US self-interest. That's all we have time for in this episode of The Daily Roundup. For a more detailed analysis, you can always visit our website newsclick.in and you can always check out more videos on our Facebook page and two followers on our YouTube channel.


Team keep it clean for those of you that get this notification I think we should be good because YouTube normally in the mornings. They send out the notifications So team keep it clean. What is going on? It's engraving here with another video. I am running late for work this morning I just was just all over the place. But anyway We got another episode of NFL question from subscribers and this question came from my guide G Xer Hit me up on Instagram. Send me a DM on Instagram and ask the question and say he knows it's early He knows it's early But what positions should the Ravens be thinking about drafting next year? And you know what now that I think about it, it might actually never be too early. Good morning. What's up, Paul? What's up, Jay money? What's going on Jose? But it when you think about it's never too early because when we were talking yesterday Lunch break team. Oh, you're on lunch break already. You must all work really early man. I'm on my way to work But when we were talking about yesterday in the stream With the Ravens is that they always have a plan in place And they have shown that over the years that they've always they've got a plan in place For everything so it's actually when I think when he first sent me the question I'm thinking like wow this dude asking about the next year's draft already We ain't even get to preset. We need we need to get to training camp yet I'm like man. Let's do really asking this question so early, but then now that I think about it It's never too early.  Not one bit. This ain't no high-tech channel. This ain't no It's not gonna be not gonna be seeing stuff in 6k But what you see is what you get straight forward and real just like that So appreciate y'all that that been rocking with me for a while appreciate the new people that have recently subscribed I love all y'all man appreciate the positive people all the negative people too Cuz y'all make the positive people that much better So thank y'all for coming through make sure you subscribe follow on Twitter and turn notifications on too Man said and set the notifications to all so you don't miss a video Hey, what's up Johnny boy? What's going on? So I Said a receiver for Jackson. That's funny, man But that's true because I will see if it's Jackson's team yet or if it's still flex team either way And appreciate the people that's been donating to the GoFundMe. Thanks a lot. I appreciate that a lot But anyway What should we draft next year next year? Well, Michael Crabtree will be a year older Chris Moore, we'll see how he does this year Perryman will probably be gone We'll see what Jordan Brown does but we got all these We got all these short-term answers that receivers besides lastly and besides your little Scott But we got to see how they pan out too And we won't really be able to judge them after one year because they will be rookies in Number one and number two most likely. I mean, it's not settled until it's settled But most likely they won't be starters this year. I mean would we never know how it could turn out? You never know you never know but it's saying that they're probably not gonna be starters this year neither one of the two But so we got those those guys your little Scott and Jordan lastly are the only receivers We have for the long term. I know we sound Michael Crabtree to a three-year deal But does anybody really think he's gonna finish that out? Right now, I mean the way that Baltimore usually does it with the veteran. Oh, I mean, we'll see cuz Steve Smith He finished his three-year stint And he I mean it feel like it was only a one-year stint because I feel like we only got one good year out of The other years he started getting hurt and stuff and just didn't go well and Then Derek may oh Derek Mason. He was here for six years five or six years. He did pretty good with us I mean, so we'll see what happens But either way, whether Michael Crabtree is here past this year or not Receiver receiver receiver receiver We need to find we need to find our guy and it's gonna be Eric the cost is first draft as a GM We need to Martianna's gonna be another year older So you need to start looking for his replacement I mean, I wouldn't have been mad if they would have started looking for his replacement this year Cuz Marsha yonder ain't getting no younger, baby. He ain't getting no younger. He's not oh, they 25 and 28 But they signed for one and two-year deals That's why they that's why I say they not long-term solution They signed for a one-year deal and a two-year deal one year and two-year not long-term I know contracts can change and get updated and extended and all that good stuff But those girls those guys are short solutions right now So and like I said a lot depends on how the season goes a lot depends on that But right now when we thinking about the draft next year those guys are not long-term solutions They signed to a one-year deal and a two-year deal. That's not long-term. That's definitely short-term. That's right here right now So but we we need to draft our old guys Something's got to give with the receivers man. Something has got to give because it's been 20 some years And we have never drafted a beast of a receiver Um Terrell sucks replacement to I know Matt Jude on his there, but we need a premier pass rush And we're gonna see how Bowser does and hopefully they get more time We're gonna see how Tim Williams does help hopefully he'll get more time to Hopefully those those young pass rushes will um, we'll just step up a lot and hopefully they can just they can be beasts I'm hopeful. I'm hoping they can just be monsters man. That's what I really want to see out of those two guys So I mean we'll see how that goes So yeah, I would definitely say oh and free safety Eric Wettel. I think this could end up being his last year All right, I really do this can end up being he last year and hopefully we can send him out with a superbowl That would be great But I think this could end up being his last year just playing football And even even still even still if it's not We got to start finding our guy who's gonna who's he's gonna teach and he's gonna show the ropes Because we got up I feel like we got like six 16 strong safeties on the team But we only got one free safety on that that being Eric Wettel because we got a dish on Elliott We got a Tony Jefferson. We got a Chuck Clark We got Anthony Levine. Anthony Levine is like a super hybrid guy So he ain't no real free safety, but we got all these I feel like we got all these strong safeties But we only got one free safety He says sign a read or Eric you mean Eric read or Eddie read Can you put it but then you put read like Eric reads last name Speller? He said watch out for the Sean Elliott. He balled in college last year I'm hoping he gets a shot to on the team and some packages some plays whatever special teams whatever may be So he can earn a spot So I look forward to that. Oh, you mean Eric read. Okay No, and we're talking about draft or not even just free agent We're talking about who we should draft for So, yeah, definitely the free safety position somebody who's a true a true free safety And who can grow with the team and take over that role? What's going on George? So that's that's what I think we should be drafting next year man receiver Somebody are Marchion to replacement and free safety. Those are the things that I think are the top Priorities because they they hit on quarterback this year and they hit on tight end this year We'll obviously see how those guys pan out running back We'll see what happens with Alex Collins And Kenneth Dixon and Buck Allen. I think Buck Allen will be a free agent after this year I don't see them resigning him But I mean, we'll see how he does because I think Buck Allen could end up He can end up getting the opportunity elsewhere So, yeah depth at the back position They don't drag full backs What else we're gonna need a punter Sam Cook is another year old I mean that guy could probably probably play forever. You can probably play another 10 15 years if you wanted to D-line D-line. Yeah, I mean they always they are even pretty good at drafting and developing the offensive and defensive linemen. That's their specialty But yeah top priorities for me though free safety wide receiver and in a guard a gun Offensive linemen to take that spot for um, what's it called for? Shriyanda So we'll see we're gonna see how it all works out and of course if Jimmy Smith is gone We're gonna have Marlon home free and hopefully still branding car.  I feel like if everything pans, of course I mean, we won't know till we know you said we really we need a real center Yeah, who is a who was our center Matt score right now? We'll see how he goes. So yeah, that could be a possibility to depending on how he works out to get a center since Jensen is gone and Whoever's gonna be taken over. We'll see it's not determined yet, but we'll yeah It's gonna be interesting as it always is. Yeah tape on young is still there But tape on young is not no outside corner back way. He is definitely a slot corner back So yeah, anyway Yeah, y'all of course, let me know in the comment section who you think it should be What's up, Erin? So I'm pulling up to the job now. I appreciate y'all Thank y'all for coming with me on my ride to work. I should have had this ride to work about 10 minutes ago But anyway, it's all good man life happens. So thank y'all for coming through y'all make sure y'all have a real good day-to-day Man, you're making sure y'all have a real real good day-to-day. I've always appreciate y'all I love y'all see when I pull into the job I usually see these two girls walking together and they usually a little further down this way But the girl she's all the way up this way. So that's when I know I'm late Because she's not walking in the same spot that I usually pull up in when I see them. So yeah, man Y'all have a real good day. Of course, y'all know I see y'all later on if I go on a break or something Or just decide something something something crazy happens in NFL. Y'all know we'll be on it. So appreciate it Thank you. Looks like a lot of people took off work today Thank you for coming through Got a decent parking spot. I love y'all He said if you get fired you got us. Oh, yeah, for sure, man That's when you I'd be streaming all the time if you so if y'all see me streaming all the time Monday through Friday Then y'all know I do not have a job and I will have made this My full-time job why they hiring at my job? No, I don't think they want more streamers that on on a job So appreciate y'all. I love y'all


Unlike every other 2020 Democratic Party presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders acknowledges a reality that's probably really uncomfortable for other lawmakers to acknowledge. He acknowledges that class warfare is a real thing and it's not being waged by the poor, it's being waged on the poor. Now a reason why other lawmakers and presidential candidates probably don't want to acknowledge that there is a real class warfare going on is because a lot of them are from that ruling class, they are elites themselves, so they don't want to admit that it's the haves versus the have-nots because they're the haves and that makes them look bad and they want to cultivate legitimacy at every point they can, so they can't acknowledge this. But Bernie Sanders does and in a tweet from August, this is what he said about class warfare. If there's going to be class warfare in this country, it's about time the working class won that war. Now that is a very powerful statement and it tells me that Bernie Sanders, unlike every other politician, he knows the reality of the country, of the economy, he knows that we are being exploited for our labor. As we work harder and longer, elites are getting richer and we're getting poorer. So what's happening? What does class warfare actually look like? Well one component of class warfare can be measured by how much CEOs are paid relative to workers and as Daniel Moranz of HuffPost reports, CEO pay has exploded relative to the compensation received by ordinary workers in the past few decades. In 2018, the average CEO to median worker pay of a corporation in the S&P 500 index was 287 to 1 according to an AFL-CIO analysis of data collected by the federal government. Prior to the 1970s, the gap between executive pay and that of ordinary workers at their companies was dramatically narrower. CEO compensation including stock options at the biggest 350 firms grew 940% since 1978 even as typical worker pay climbed just 12% over the same period according to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute. The EPI analysis, which looks at average rather than median worker compensation, found that the CEO to average worker pay ratio went from 20 to 1 in 1965 to 58 to 1 in 1989 to 278 to 1 in 2018. The Institute for Policy Studies, a left-leaning Washington think tank, released a report documenting high CEO pay on Monday as well. The report found that 50 publicly traded companies with the highest CEO to median worker pay gaps, the median worker would have to work 1,000 years to earn the CEO's pay. So make no mistake about it, this is exploitation. They are getting rich off of your labor and you are not seeing the fruits of your labor. Now if you subscribe to Trickle Down Economics then in theory, as the rich get richer, that wealth should trickle down. You should see, you know, an increase because a rising tide lifts all boats except that's not what's happening in practice. The rich are just getting massively rich and workers aren't doing much better. This is class warfare, it's one component of class warfare anyways and thankfully Bernie Sanders understands that. So a lot of politicians, they don't like to acknowledge the reality of class warfare because this just seems like something that is incredibly divisive. But to me, whenever I see someone say that class warfare is divisive, I just think that's a cop out. Because it's happening, it's real. We're not the ones who chose to wage this war. The poor didn't choose to engage in class warfare, the elites did. So what we have to do, recognizing our class collectively, is respond accordingly. We have to fight back. So what's Bernie Sanders' plan to help the poor have a better shot of winning this class war? Well in addition to his wealth tax that he proposed, it's not Elizabeth Warren's idea, it was initially his idea. Here's what he also wants to do. He wants to cap CEO pay. Senator Bernie Sanders released an income inequality tax plan on Monday that would increase taxes on big companies where CEO pay is more than 50 times higher than that of the median worker. Sanders, a fierce critic of income inequality who is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, identifies the explosion in compensation for top corporate executives as a key factor depressing ordinary workers wages. At a time of massive income and wealth inequality, the American people are demanding that large profitable corporations pay their fair share of taxes, Sanders said in a statement accompanying the plan. It is time to send a message to corporate America. If you do not end your greed and corruption, we will end it for you. Sanders' proposal, which applies to publicly and privately held companies with annual revenue of 100 million or more, would increase companies corporate tax rate by 0.5 percentage points if their CEO received compensation worth between 50 and 100 times what the company's median employee earned. The higher a company's CEO to median worker pay ratio would go, the higher the surtax it would endure under Sanders' plan. The legislation would levy a one point tax hike on companies with CEO to median worker ratios between 100 to 1 and 200 to 1, a two point tax hike for those with ratios between 200 to 1 and 300 to 1, a three point tax hike for those with ratios between 300 to 1 and 400 to 1, a four point tax hike for those with ratios between 400 to 1 and 500 to 1, and a five point tax hike for those with ratios more than 500 to 1. So I love this proposal because what he's saying is, you know what, if you are going to keep getting more greedy and increasing the pay of your CEOs, it's going to cost you. It will cost you more money. Have fun explaining that to investors because their goal is to increase shareholder value. That's what they're obligated to do. So if this starts cutting into their bottom line, then the CEOs will actually be held accountable more. So this is such a brilliant plan. Bernie Sanders, he really does have a plan for everything and I have a plan for everything tagline that Elizabeth Warren invented, but it really is more apt for Bernie Sanders because he is the one who every week is introducing more and more policy proposals, more bold, more sweeping. And if he were elected, even if he got 10% of his agenda implemented, can you imagine how that would remake the economy? It would be structural reform that would be life changing to so many Americans. So this is what you do if you want to communicate to us that you're with the working class or with the people. You acknowledge the reality of class warfare and you respond accordingly. You take a side because sitting on the fence when people are going bankrupt due to medical debt, when they're losing their homes, that's not bold. That's not courageous. You're showing us that you're too afraid to admit what's happening, how capitalism is crushing normal Americans. But by acknowledging the reality of class warfare and responding with policies, that shows me Bernie is the real deal. That's why I absolutely hope he wins this primary because if he doesn't, then I just can't imagine a scenario where any other politician gets us all the trajectory of true social democracy, maybe until Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is old enough to run for president. But I mean, who knows? Bernie Sanders may be one of a kind. After he gets out of politics, maybe talk of class warfare and single-parent Medicare for all goes away. Movements need a leader to be successful. Look at Occupy. Media bias was part of the reason why Occupy failed, but I mean, leadership, it really matters. It's important. But look, as we see articles about Bernie Sanders' campaign being in trouble, acknowledge something. Don't get demoralized. Get energized. Realize that nobody has even cast a vote yet. It's not like it's over for us. What are we doing? We're going to sit back and let Elizabeth Warren rise and Joe Biden and her just be the top two. Absolutely not. If Bernie Sanders is your candidate, if his vision represents what you want, then fight for it. Don't sit at home. Don't feel demoralized and discouraged. Fight for it. Convince your friends and family. Knock on doors. Phone bake for Bernie. It's not over until it's over, and right now it's not over. We can get Bernie Sanders elected. We just have to fight for it. So take action.


This is Mises Weekends with your host, Jeff Dice. Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, to another episode of Mises Weekends. We're joined today by a friend of the Mises Institute comedian, stand-up comic frequent guest on Fox News, and host of his own part of the problem show, Dave Smith, coming to us from New York City this morning. So Dave, thanks very much for joining. Thank you. Thanks for having me. It's an honor to be here. Well, I don't know you personally. I know you're friends with Tom Woods and some other people who are close to the Mises Institute. Tell us a little bit about how you came to be a Rothbardian anarcho-capitalist.  Is this correct? That is correct. And I was always, I think I considered myself fairly left wing always because that's just what you have to be there.  Like that was the range. And to me, it was like growing up in Park Slope, it was like you could either be like all the way radical lefty or a Democrat. Like that was the range of acceptable opinion. And then I got, I was very anti-war during the George W. Bush years. And then I saw Ron Paul in the Ron Paul Juliani moment. And that was my introduction to libertarianism. And then I made the huge mistake of reading all about it. And then I got sucked in the wormhole and now I'm here. But yeah, I found Tom Woods and Peter Schiff. And then once I started reading Murray Rothbard, it was all over from there. Well, it's interesting that you say you were anti-war as a lefty. Was that in the true sense of the word? And that, because a lot of people on the left support fomenting certain revolutions when it's for the right purpose. And then they're not always opposed to what the CIA does or what the US military does if it's for, you know, purportedly humanitarian purposes. Right, well, I guess when I was, so I was like, I was born in 1983. I was 18 or 19 when 9-11 happened. So I was just coming in, it was under George W. Bush. And so when it was a Republican who was, you know, getting us into disastrous wars, the left was all in being anti-war. So at the time I saw it, we were like really anti-war. And then as I went in the more libertarian direction and Obama came in, I got, I found out that it wasn't, as you're pointing out that it wasn't really, the Democrats weren't so anti-war. And the left didn't even really seem to care about being anti-war. And then, you know, I mean, Ron Paul really made, because I kind of felt like the Democrats were the anti-war candidate, were the anti-war party. And then when I saw Ron Paul, I was like, wow, this guy's really anti-war. And that was kind of one of the things he revealed was then looking back at the Democrats and then starting to read about the history of the Democratic Party and you realize, oh, they're not anti-war at all. And in fact, all the Democrats who are celebrated by all the modern liberals, like every one of them, were huge war mongers.  Well, but now there's this connection in the left's mind, unfortunately, that anti-war means provincial. That, you know, if you're anti-war, you're also anti-globalism, you're also anti-universalism, and that this is some sort of fevered isolationist mindset, as opposed to a peaceable mindset, which I think was the point that Ron was trying to make. Yeah, well, I mean, you know, today it's gotten so crazy that all I see now, the only anti-war movement I see is actually coming out of the right. And I see a lot of people who are upset with Trump for not following through on his campaign promises to get us out of some of these wars, but that's right. It seems like if Trump can bomb the heck out of the third world, and that'll be like the only day that the left leaves him alone, like that day they're like, okay, fine, but he better not say anything offensive to transgender people. That would be like a really big offense, but just bomb a third world country. Okay, that's normal, that seems to be where we're at. No, it is sad. You know, I want to talk to you a little bit about your professional life. Is being a libertarian part of your identity as a comic? Does it come through? Is it something that's hurt you or helped you in your career? Well, it definitely comes through, and I mean, I'm putting out my debut comedy special. It's coming out this month. It's Dave Smith, Libertas, so you can look for that. And there's no question.   And I personally think, I mean, I just think we live in profoundly hilarious times. And I can't not, so that bleeds into my comedy. I mean, literally, what you're, the whole thing that the ridiculous, baseless, like accusations that come at the Mises Institute, I find hilarious.  And then once you've got everyone suckered in, you'll dog whistler. Like this is the plan.  That's them. And they're slamming everybody else. Like, I just see that as hilarious. I see the anti-Trump thing as hilarious. You know, the fact that Obama was deporting people and was at war every day and they don't care. There's just so much funny in that. So that does bleed through in my comedy all the time. Now, whether that's helped or hurt me, you know, I don't really know. I guess I could have played it a different way and maybe gone down a different path. You know, when I go into the Fox News gigs, I have the distinct feeling that if I was like a really passionate neo-conservative, I would have moved up the ranks a little bit faster. But, you know, who knows? The whole thing about Fox News, I've gotten to know Judge Napolitano a little bit and I've spoken to John Stoss a little bit.  I want them to have Michael Malison. But when I'm watching any cable news show, I get the strong sense that the people on those shows are not necessarily any smarter or better informed than me or any other viewer. I get the sense that there's a dumbing down and kind of an unseriousness to the affair. Oh, it's unbelievable. I mean, I'll tell you right now, there are people straight up on these shows who don't read, who will tell you that. Like, I don't really read books.  They could not sit down and talk for an hour and a half on these issues without exposing themselves, just exposing themselves. I mean, and then of course you also have a few people in there who are very, very smart. And there's not to say everyone who disagrees with us, like there are, you know, smart people, there are smart neocons and smart other, but there's a lot of that, a lot of that. And then the issues are just incredibly dumbed down and even the really brilliant people, like Judge Napolitano, you know, he gets like a minute to get off the one thing that they want him to get off, which is like, okay, so why should Hillary Clinton be in jail now that move away from, you know, why also the Republicans are just as bad. And so, I mean, look, when he had freedom watch, he got a lot of really good stuff off on that show. And then you saw how that ended.  There's a cultural component to all this. And you and I were talking off air about how libertarians are bad at inserting themselves into the cultural flow of things. And Michael Malus has talked about this. He said, you know, the libertarian think tank model isn't working, it's kind of dead. And that doesn't offend me. I don't consider the Mises Institute of think tank because we're not trying to influence policy. We're trying to get directly to people. You know, talk about how libertarians are bad at culture and how we, we don't have a lot of cultural icons and people on the left have plenty.  But I mean, if you don't think culture matters, then just take a look at the left and what they've done over the last 50 years. If you don't think culture matters. And if you think we're, you know, like the left has created this culture where saying me in words is worse than, you know, any state offense. And that just can't work for libertarians. Like we need something. So yeah, I think you're right.   So they have that. And then I guess what we haven't done a good enough job is, is kind of branding a libertarian, like, like libertarians, which I think what I try to do, and I think what Eric July, if you're familiar with him, what he tries to do is just be like, I'm out there, I'm just an artist just in the world, just like you are. And I happen to be an unapologetic libertarian too. And just at least make it like this thing that there's nothing wrong with that. There's nothing, because far too often, what we have out there are like people who, and this is why Gary Johnson was so terrible as a defender of, as a promoter of the message, because you'd have this thing where you go like, well, you know, I think a pot should be legal. And it'd be like, well, what about heroin? It'd be like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, you're probably right. That would be really, really bad. Well, what about freedom of association? Oh, no, no, no, that would be really bad, really bad. You know, if we're out there constantly running away from our own message, and this is like what I learned from Ron Paul, I think you got to go out there, be unapologetic, stand for what you stand for, and be willing to face the booze if they come. Like that's what Ron Paul was always willing to do. It's like, hey, if I get booed out of here, then that's fine. And then he did that to the point that he was getting cheered out of the stadium. But at first, if you remember, I mean, you were there closer than any of us were, it seemed like he was just like, look, I'll just go do this, I'll get booed out of the house, and then that's fine, I'll stick to my principles. And like, we all come around in this age of the internet, we're like, I'm 34 and I get to go out on the road and I have like all my fans come out and I have a podcast with a big platform now. Like I have so much more support than he ever had. He didn't have that until he was in his 70s, probably, you know? And so I look at those guys like Rothbard and Ron Paul, it's like, oh man, if they could keep doing it, then we got to keep fighting. I think I got off from what your question actually was there. But there's this tension between libertarian desire to have a cool factor and libertarian, you know, which Ron didn't have, but by being so pure and sticking to his message, he actually won a lot of converts that maybe Gary Johnson didn't. And the only analogy I can think of is that if you look at mainline Protestant churches, they're trying to have happy, clappy services and let people wear shorts. And of course, they're losing people in these denominations, whereas the denominations that are more orthodox or sticking, you know, as a matter of doctrine, more to scripture, are gaining interference. So it seems like when we try to water things down, it doesn't work. No, I completely agree with you. And I get the idea that maybe kind of a left-wing idea that you don't want a culture that like is really nasty or demonizes people who live an alternative lifestyle, right? Like, and we don't want that either. We want people to be free to do what they want to do.  However, it seems like today you have almost a cultural split where one side kind of prefers the traditional lifestyle. And then the other side just wants to praise anything that is an alternative lifestyle and is completely hostile towards traditional, which is just, that's like unworkable. I mean, like that's not gonna create a society that is gonna have self-reliant people who are like smart enough to not think they need to depend on the state. There's no chance of that. So I'm just kind of come to the conclusion that we do need to at least, libertarians kind of need to learn our cultural lesson. And a lot of these other people need to learn their economic lesson. I think I'm badly quoting Hapa who said something on this line. But like, I've just kind of come to the conclusion that, okay, maybe the right-wing isn't perfect in their culture, but we have to have some type of traditional order, like some type of promotion of family, like raise your kids, don't abandon them, be good to people, have communities. I mean, this stuff doesn't happen with left-wing culture. Well, I mean, you know, elaborating on this idea of the cool factor, I don't know if you saw this, I didn't watch it, but I read some accounts. Apparently the MTV video of Music Awards the other night were this dreary affair and there's this conformity that's just enforced on anybody who wants to be in the performing arts or who is on the left side of the culture. And I think, I certainly suspect that the left is kind of freaking out over having lost some of the cool or the edgy factor to some of these new self-appointed journalists, people who have platforms on YouTube, people who have platforms on Twitter. I think they're really worried about losing the cool factor, especially among young people. Yeah, I think you're right. And I think the fact that there's just something, you know what they'll say, like being establishment or being traditional is the new counterculture or like not having a tattoo is the new having a tattoo. You know, it's like after a while, you get to this thing where it flips where the establishment, the media, Hollywood, your college professors, like everyone's in line with this same way of thinking. So how cool is it really to just agree with all the, look, say whatever you want, right?  And, you know, some of the stuff we didn't like, maybe that Trump was saying, right? But I would still recognize that a kid who puts on a make America great again hat on a college campus, he is demonstrating a lot more courage than somebody who throws on a Black Lives Matter shirt on a college campus. That's just the truth, whatever you agree with either of those sides at all. And I have seen a thing where the right, and I think this is something that I hesitate to sloppily use the term alt, right? But like a lot of the more popular right-wing people who have come up, you know, people like, like Lauren Southern and like some of those like people, they've been able to capture on what you're talking about that there's like almost a cool factor that's up for grabs that it's like, well here, you can actually rebel against the system in a way that's kind of like, that takes a little bit more courage. So I think I see what you're talking about. The left-wing is upset because they might be losing that, but that's something maybe positive. Because like you said before, Ron Paul almost went, he almost did take the cool factor after a while just because he showed so much courage. So maybe we can reclaim that. Part of our ability to reclaim that has been new platforms in the internet, which has obviously been a huge boon to Libertarian movement because it was such a great equalizer. It's not hard to imagine a world in which let's say, comic Dave Smith loses his platforms.  Twitter says, Sayonara, YouTube takes your videos down. Libertarians tend to talk about state power, talk a little bit about corporate power and whether we should be worried about it. Yeah, well, I remember Tom Woods made this point on his show a couple months back that there's no debate about it. That's the real threat to free speech right now. It's not the state in America, which I'd like it to be. That fits my narrative a little bit better. That would be a little bit simpler for me, but no, and this is part of my realization over the last few years that it's like, oh, that's not enough. So the fact that the government isn't infringing on free speech, like, okay, that's, or not at all, but we want them to not be. That's one thing. But then you realize if anybody who's to the right of Hillary Clinton can't speak on a college campus, well, that's a pretty big problem too. And what you said, yeah, look, I personally had that fear. And that's why I have, you know, we set up our own podcast network. My friend, Lewis J. Gomez, who's a comedian, he set it up at gasdigitalnetwork.com and you guys have like the Mises Institute, of course, and you want to have your own thing. I'm prepared for the fact that, yeah, I could get kicked off of iTunes and Google, but just to get back to what we were saying before, it's like, that's one of the things that woke me up to like, oh no, we actually need as libertarians to like promote a culture that says, oh, we believe in free speech. You have to kind of have like, we have to get on board with almost like a backlash to like when Google or YouTube or any of these people do pull someone off, there has to be another market force that's like all of us saying like, no, we support this being a platform for free speech. I mean, I saw was one of Ron Paul's videos got flagged, recently as being inappropriate for children. I mean, if Ron Paul is inappropriate for children, Ron Paul has delivered thousands of children. He's responsible for children and he's the most family friendly human being on the planet. So, you know, yeah, look, I share your concern. That's a very dangerous slippery slope. But there's a little more to it because we tend to think of corporate power in terms of its nexus with the state and fascism. In other words, when Google shares data with NSA, we say, okay, that's a meld of corporate and state power. That's the path to fascism and we rightfully worry about that. But to the extent Google is a private company, when it simply says, as a private company, we control our search results, we control our algorithms. We've decided Dave Smith's a bad guy. And so when, you know, we're not gonna have his videos or whatever show up in our search results. In a sense, that is private action by a private company and it then becomes incumbent on you, Dave, to go build a new search engine that finds your results. But our critics, certainly among them, the alt-right, would say, ha ha ha, you libertarians. Look, you've been focused on the state all this time and it turns out it's awfully hard to build a search engine that competes with Google. So now what are you gonna do? Well, right, so I agree with you and the first part of what you said is correct. I mean, look, they have the right to do it. I'm not, like the only thing I think the libertarian, right, just purely being a libertarian has to say about that is like, yeah, we can't write a government rule that says they can't do that. Like we have to fight this fight in the market. And that's why I'm saying like we have to get, roll up our sleeves and get into the cultural fight. So you can still maintain the complete libertarian, like look, they do have a right to discriminate. They do. I believe in the right to discriminate. I don't want Google to discriminate based on these issues because these companies are so big. So we gotta just be like, okay, I hope enough of their customers put a lot of pressure on them. Look, the alt-right can laugh at us all they want for not having a state answer, but they don't have one either. They just say, let's write a law that says we have to have this and you'll never get it. As you see, they got Trump in there. And now we know if the government does get more involved, they're just gonna get more involved on the side that we don't want them to be on. It's not so much that, like there is a market failure there. There is, but government is still a worse failure. So I think we still have to fight that fight in the market. But when you talk about libertarians being involved and getting out there, I'm a little older than you. I've always had a sense that libertarians are kind of over here. And then the Republicans and Democrats and mainstream media were over here and that we've been a part. Part of the talk I gave a couple of weeks ago that weirdly turned out to be controversial was to try to integrate libertarianism more as just a part of ordinary society. In other words, your neighbor is six foot tall. Your neighbor has blue eyes. Your neighbor's a particular religion. Your neighbor's a libertarian. In other words, just making that sort of part and parcel of ordinary life and the world as it is as opposed to this kind of off to the side ideology that we, in other words, how do we escape this libertarian ghetto that we sometimes find ourselves in? And it's also an echo chamber. For all of our infighting, we do tend to talk to each other more than when we ought to be talking to other people. So how do we escape the ghetto? Well, I, God, I actually kind of hate saying this, but I've been convinced more and more over the last year that we do need a good leader in the political realm, not for anything in terms of the operation of government just to do what Ron Paul was doing. And I just look at the libertarian movement and I feel like we've lost a lot of juice since Ron Paul left politics. And Ron Paul is still doing phenomenal work, by the way. I mean, the guy's got the work ethic of God. Like it's unbelievable that the man could retire and he's contributed more to liberty than any of us, but he's just still writing multiple pieces a week and doing podcasts every day. But as you said, he's kind of just talking to us now. He's not getting up and talking to the world and being in a debate where he's kind of clowning all of these other people and exposing them. So I don't know, to me, I look at what Ayn Rand did with novels, really spoke to a large group of people. I don't think novels are really where the culture's at in 2017, I don't think, I think like you said, podcasts are more likely to do it than that, but I do think that Ron Paul being in the political game, so maybe we need like another great leader to get up there and kind of help in that sense, but I do agree with the point that you were making in your speech, the point that you were actually making for anyone who cares to listen to it, which is just like you have to look at what actually motivates human beings, what people actually care about, and it's not just the things that we care about, but the thing that I've kind of really, I guess as like the left has been more and more openly just hostile to Western civilization and capitalism and white people and the whole, it has kind of woken me up to the fact that I guess I took for granted how far we had come culturally. Like I think maybe we all took for granted the fact that non-aggression is basically accepted in every realm except the state. Say like not maybe not so much with Antifa rallies lately, which is like what we're losing kind of, right? But for the last say 50, 60, I mean, you could make the argument and we all do when we're arguing about like libertarianism that we would go, okay, well morally speaking, what other group can do this besides the state? You know, like what other group can do this and people would be like, well, no, you're right, morally speaking, I can't decide, oh, I don't like the plant you're smoking. I built a cage in my backyard.  Like we all be like, no, you can't do that. But you know, if you were to just like land in the middle of, in the middle of like, I don't know, in the middle of Palestine tomorrow or something like that.  Like they're like, we're gonna go get him and you were like, well guys, the government couldn't do that. They'd be like, yeah, they can and we can do it too. Like, you know, there's a lot of cultures that haven't accepted non-aggression. So it's almost like now that I see the left is actively trying to tear that apart. I do think it's not unreasonable for libertarians to be like, let's kind of like culturally join the fight with the right-wing people, support that kind of Western civilization. Because within there, we can still make the argument for non-aggression. You know, like so, I don't know. That's kind of how I see it. Dave, let's wrap up by going a little bit deeper into what seems to be this left and right divide that even infects libertarianism, but it certainly infects the greater culture. I mean, it's really more of a cultural preference between people, how they wanna live. But if we can all agree at least among libertarians that our goal is to significantly reduce or even eliminate the role of the state in society. And beyond that, let people live peaceably but let the cultural chips fall where they may, can't we sort of bypass this left-right debate and say, hey, we're willing to accept the consequences of a world where the state has very little role. In other words, you can certainly have a socialist enclave to your heart's content in Ron Paul's America. You can't have an enclave that opts out of social security in Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton's America. And I would argue that's the difference. Yeah, look, I mean, I completely agree with you. I think that to me was one of the most compelling points that sold me on being a libertarian in the beginning. It was kind of like, oh, well, if this, if what all the socialist economists say is true or they've kind of given up on this argument, but they always say this is gonna be more efficient than fine, go do it and good luck. It's the fact that you need to rule over the rest of society kind of reveals how inferior your economic system is. Yeah, I agree with that, but it just seems to me like if you're talking about like within libertarians, the cultural split to me seems to be like, okay, so you've got like the Mises people, Ron Paul, you know, Tom Woods, Bob Murphy, like that whole wing who are like consistent libertarians and who have the attitude you just had. You know where it's like, okay, you let the culture play out however it will. Because truthfully speaking, we kind of know how it's gonna play out absent of state interference. It's like, yeah, you can go have an unstable lifestyle, but no one's gonna subsidize that at the end. And like that's fine. But the thing is that the left libertarians or the mainstream half and the half that I'm around all the time, you know, I just did an interview for Reason Magazine yesterday and I talked to these guys and this half of people, well, some of them are very nice to me. I mean, they think that saying like a no-no word or if maybe someone wrote something 30 years ago that was racially insensitive, they think that is like more of an outrageous offense than nominating a person, a vice presidential candidate who supported the war in Iraq. Like that's where their mind states at. So I don't know how we bridge that with them. This is what's been getting me more frustrated lately. It's like, I don't know how, you know, that seems to me to be someone who's more concerned with sucking up to the left than actually reducing the state as you were saying before. So I think maybe in a way we gotta, I don't know, we gotta figure that out. I would love to see, you know, I would love to see the LP like nominate a really great libertarian candidate that we could all get behind. But I just, I don't know. I wish we could do what you're saying. We could all just come together as like, look, we're against the state. Let the chips fall where they may. But I don't know. I don't know how to bridge that divide. Well, Dave, we gotta leave it there. How can people find you on Twitter and how can they find the part of the problem show? Well, part of the problem is on gasdigitalnetwork.com. You can also find it on iTunes and YouTube for now. We'll see about that. But Comic Dave Smith on Twitter. Also I'll be on the Contra Cruise with your favorite people, Tom Woods and Bob Murphy. Next month. So if you guys look for that. Hey, thanks so much for your time. It was great talking to you. Ladies and gentlemen, have a great weekend. Subscribe to Mises Weekends via iTunes U, Stitcher and SoundCloud, or listen on Mises.org and YouTube.


Good afternoon. I'm Ernie Bauer with the CSIS Southeast Asia Program, and I'm here today with the U.S. Ambassador to ASEAN. David Cardin, thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me. You've been in the job for five months now. Could you tell us a little bit about your role and what the U.S. mission to ASEAN has done since you've arrived in Jakarta? It's been actually very gratifying, the reception that I've gotten in these first five months. We've convened any number of conversations over the course of that time period with my new friends and colleagues, the ambassadors to ASEAN from each of the countries, as well as the dialogue partners that exist. Japan also has an ambassador, Takio Yamada, and we are in regular conversations on issues that are part of our portfolio, which as you well know is a very broad one. Yes. You must be planning for President Obama's trip to Indonesia in November. He'll be there for the EAS East Asia Summit and the Third ASEAN U.S. Leaders Summit. Could you tell us a little bit about preparations for those and what could we expect from that trip? One of the things we've been doing over the course of the early part of my tenure is negotiating a plan of action for the United States engagement with ASEAN going forward for the next five years. That plan of action is very detailed, quite granular, and it will provide the basis for a conversation in Bali in November. And items will be, I think, highlighted and initiatives pursued that come from the plan of action that has been negotiated. The plan of action has been something which has been thought through very deeply and in consultation with our ASEAN friends. So that will be the template for where we go from here. Trade seems to be a core part of engagement in Asia and certainly in our foreign policy in Asia. Would it ever be possible for the United States to have a free trade agreement with the 10 ASEAN countries? And if not, what are the key obstacles to pursuing that? If so, what are the prospects? Well, ever is a long time, I say to some of my friends, that causation has a twin and that's time. So I can't speak to that. It's also true, of course, that my colleagues at USTR are responsible for those trade issues. They speak for the administration on them. I can say that trade obviously is an important question. These are economies that are in different states of development. Some of them quite advanced, as you well know, like Singapore. Some of them not very advanced and more agrarian such as Laos. They are not in the same place. But part of ASEAN's plan is for them to evolve. And for the lower Mekong countries, for example, to be given opportunities to further develop their economies. So as I said, ever is a long time. But at this juncture, I think that's the place that the region is presently situated. You are indeed the first US ambassador to ASEAN resident in Jakarta. So in a sense, you're pioneering a bit. Could you tell us a little bit about the day and the life of David Carton as ambassador to ASEAN? And also, what do you think that might look like 10 years from now after things you've institutionalized some of this? Well, there's been a lot of curiosity about my arrival. In fact, I think curiosity understates that there's a great deal of interest. And so there are invitations of all types to speak and to write and to go to meetings and the like, as you might imagine. We've been trying to do a number of things in this time period. Building the mission is an important aspect of what we're trying to accomplish. And I'm happy to say that in the course of the last five months, we've doubled the size of the mission in times which are both resource constrained and where we have space issues. I've been spending a great deal of time on that question. We've also been trying to identify those issues that we can most immediately work on with our new ASEAN friends. And they are several in number. And as a consequence, we address those very regularly. So apart from waking up in the morning having breakfast and exercising, which I do every morning, I make it to the mission or make it to the secretariat or I make it to one of the ambassadorial offices. And we are in the conversations that are advancing the interests of the country going forward. And I think the interests of the region as well. And channeling ahead ten years, you think there will be more institutions around the U.S.-ASEAN relationship? One of the first things that I did when I arrived was ask any number of countries to send an ambassador. I think it's extremely important that we engage ASEAN across a much broader spectrum. I'm pleased to say I think that will be happening. And Secretary Clinton also requested by letter this July, I believe, that other countries send ambassadors to ASEAN. I expect early next year the first will begin to arrive. I'm hopeful that there'll be any number of them in the coming years. Of course, all of them have or many have double-headed ambassador. I'm talking about an ambassador to ASEAN alone. So that will be a change, I believe. I think it's also true that the capacity of ASEAN to actually carry forward the conversations that it has undertaken in EAS and in all of the ASEAN for will improve. And they will be made more robust as a consequence of the engagement with its dialogue partners. And it's also the case that our own mission will grow. It will have very many different additional components. As you may know, our portfolio includes things such as disaster relief and pandemic preparedness, climate change, trafficking in persons and trafficking in wildlife. Experts with regard to those issues I think will appear on the scene at various times and will collaborate with our friends to sort of move those agenda items forward. So I expect that the mission will grow in the coming years and I expect that the missions of other countries will also not only be established but will grow as ASEAN takes the stage to push the agenda forward, which they've defined for themselves. Well, David Cardin, I wish you the best of luck. And Jakarta, thank you for your leadership there. And thanks for coming to see us. Thank you for having me. Thank you. Jordy.


What is going on guys welcome back to channel critical overload here? So this would be another video for scream six and in this video I'm gonna be talking about yes as you see in the thumbnail how stew mokker can make an appearance in scream six without being in live Even though I know people are not gonna watch you're just gonna go straight to the comment section. Oh, he's dude But just to jump right on into I need to shout out these two reddit users really quick embarrassed tough 55 and Also the Shawshank erection shout out to you too because I'm gonna be incorporating some of what you brought up over on reddit into my theory here today. So With scream six We know that We can expect some characters that we didn't see in screen five to appear a lot of us are expecting Leslie Mokker we're expecting Christina Carpenter and Yeah, though, I think those are the two primary ones But let's say that in scream six the overall motive this time around is someone who is not a fan of the stab franchise They're also not a fan of how cinema exploits real-world tragedies To line up the pockets of filmmakers those involved with said films, etc They're not a big fan of that. They're also not a fan of how innocent people seem to keep dying because of individuals like Sydney Prescott Gale Weathers and Now Sam and Tara Carpenter Chad and Mindy Meeks Martin now and these people while again They're not actively doing anything there They're considered not innocent in the eyes of this individual who is gonna be my killer that I'm gonna get to in a second They also want to eliminate these individuals because they are loose ends They think that by eliminating any and all potential survivors You will put an end to the ghost face killing sprees that keep on affecting and impacting innocent people Which in this case for this person again will not include any of the survivors that you're targeting since Every time there's a killing spree that rises it has to do with them You know you again and know yourself for making it about them. So who is this individual this individual? I'm thinking of yes would be Leslie Mocker Leslie Mocker could be a character that we have implemented into scream six Utilizing a way similar to how Debbie Salt was used and then be a big revelation in the end that this is stew Mocker's sister and We could learn a lot of stuff from this individual. We have not heard how the Mocker family really was impacted by the events of scream 1996 we have heard all this stuff about Loomis this Loomis that all these affairs that went on between Hank and learning that Mrs. Loomis left because of that affair. We learned a lot of details about the Loomis family But we rarely hear stuff about the Mockers outside of now knowing that stew has a sister and he has a nephew. So This sister again, I'm considering this killer would be Leslie Mocker. She could be again an individual coming from a place of she's tired of real-world tragedies being exploited for cinema and Then and the entertainment of others not a big supporter of the staff franchise This could be a way to commentate on that on that type of aspect of filmmaking to watching movies based on real-world events What does that say about you as a viewer etc? Maybe something that makes you self-reflect as you're watching the movie even though it's not based on again real-world events But we know there's a lot of things out there that do that This is also a woman who of course would be heartbroken because she's now lost her son to another ghost-faced killing spree This is also a woman who's wanting to capitalize on the fact that again She's been around since day one when her brother was the one behind it all and she saw how fast these other killing sprees came When someone was trying to target Sydney Prescott, so now that the narrative is shifted over to Sam Carpenter There's got to be somebody else out there that wants to go after Sam and her sister, right? So why not get ahead of the curve? Why not take them all out since you already have a grudge against them to begin with and You want to clear up any and all loose ends to put an end to this once and for all Again, this could be someone who is not a fan of the cinema exploitation They're not a fan also of how these survivors seem to keep on benefiting from all of these real-world tragedies Even though some of them we know have not wanted to like a Sydney Prescott who has done a lot of What she could to stay out of the public eye, but she's still a celebrity But now she's also written a book so that to Leslie Mockabeal her way of benefiting off of tragedies in the real-world Gail Weathers who we know is also someone who for a lot of it has wanted to benefit from it Does not mind it whatsoever and then you can incorporate those individuals that we now have the new character Sam Tara Carpenter Chad and Mindy. How are they benefiting from it? Even Kirby who seems to be doing interviews? On what she's went through so all of these people who are benefiting from these tragedies Meanwhile a family like the Mockers who again probably got ran out of Woodsboro. Let's pretend that happened they got ran out of Woodsboro by Relatives and neighbors who took out all their anger about what stew had done on them which ultimately led to them leaving town They were never the same mentally unstable Marriage fell apart their daughter watched that all unfold Tried to raise their son away from it all with this man Schneider. She married at a very young age and had a son with and She could express all this in a post ghostface mask reveal when she's explaining why she's doing this and in this could be a way for us to have Matthew Lillard reprise his role of stew Mocker how you do that would be again just by her giving some type of monologue and then have a Visual to play out of what she's imagining in her head of her life with her brother if he was still around and that's where you could have Matthew Lillard Who doesn't have to be de-aged at all for this it could just be Her reminiscing on how her life could have been if she had been a better sister Something about just how regretful and how she might blame herself in ways for what stew did and how stew ended up with the whole Billy Loomis scenario he got involved in and That's something that could be used to get stew markers to appear on screen not to say that's what satisfied most people Most of them want stew to be alive. I'm just thinking about the easiest simplest way to have Matthew Lillard back Similar to how skewed over which came back for screen five So I think that would be something that a lot of people could get behind But I also know that most of that sounds like something you would say for a scream seven Since you since it would involve someone wanting to tie up loose ends and put an end to people Benefiting from these real-world tragedies. He was not a fan of the stab franchise Who who I also could say if you wanted to poke it poking fun at the fandom in their theories They could make it seem like they are they themselves are stew marker make it seem like stew marker is somehow alive to mislead Not only your audience, but also mislead Those investigating the new ghost face killing spree in scream six So I know a lot of people were probably comment saying this sounds more like a final film scenario But I've also seen people talk about the idea of Leslie Mocker being the killer So I just want to come out here and share my thoughts on and how that could be used to again Give Matthew Lillard a chance to reprise his role as Stu Mocker just have a character who is heartbroken who is tired of the stab franchise She's also tired of all see all these survivors attracting all these killers and Benefiting from it while everyone else who's innocent in their eyes just doesn't let me know just think about all this down The comment section below if you haven't already of course make sure you subscribe turn on postification in this video in Description I links in my social media accounts on Facebook Twitter and Instagram you can message me there Of course, and there's any movies news or if you'd like me to cover in the future with all that in mind guys I will see you in the next video


What's up everybody, I am the Mangus, you are awesome and it's time for another edition of Call to Arms, trying to appeal to predecessor and core to fix some of the things that Epic did wrong. Today I want to talk about a hero that is near and dear to my heart, thick boy Rick. Now I of course thought Ricker was a great hero, he was my number one favorite followed closely by the Fae. I think a lot of people got the wrong idea for my Drongo video, I didn't think Drongo sucked, I just think he was released at the wrong time in Paragon's life cycle. Same with Ricker, I of course don't think that Ricker sucks, but I do think there is some room for improvement with his kit. Alrighty boys, let's get to it. The first thing I want to talk about is of course electrocute. I think I said it best in my honest hero review for Ricker. Electrocute is an ability. It was one of, if not the, most boring ability in Paragon. It really seemed like an afterthought on Epic's part, like uhhhh, this guy needs another ability.  It really didn't do that much damage unless you went like full on ability damage Ricker and there was no reason to use it except for wave clear, which it didn't do well at either.   Now I toyed around with what could possibly make this ability more interesting. One suggestion I've seen Bandit about is to put a slow on it. That would be fun, but I think it would be really overpowered. Ricker is already the crowd control king, giving him another form of CC would just be over the top. I want Ricker to be fun and viable, not overpowered. Everybody in a match should have fun and feel impactful in some way. I loved Ricker, but I never want any of these games to introduce a hero that's overpowered to the point that it breaks the game. I don't want a hero that can win a game all on their own. If you made a hero like that, it would be so impossible to balance them that you would have to remove them from the game at some point just to attempt to address the issue. Why would any gaming company design a hero like that and give them more CC? That would never happen, right?  So if established that any kind of slow route or stun on electrocute would probably be too good, so what do you do? I propose that you turn Ricker into the anti-tank tank and put basic armor shred on electrocute. Nothing over the top, maybe each tick of damage shreds just a little bit of armor so no one wants to just stand in it. If you really wanted to make him a tank buster, you could make that damage percent based. Instead of shredding armor, each tick could deal like 1% of a hero's max health or something. Another thing you could possibly do with electrocute is bake an anti-heal into it. Kinda like Baneflesh where it would reduce healing effects. I think 75% may be a bit much, but 50% sounds right. Allow Ricker to counter heroes like Chimera and Kuang or just any hero that benefits massively from lifesteal. If you want to get really crazy with it, give Ricker the ability to toggle between the three so you can customize electrocute to the situation at hand. I'm not sure what direction electrocute needs to go in, but it needs something. Next up is Shock Therapy, Ricker's silencing ability. I really don't think anything needs to be done here. I actually liked it when they turned it into an instant cast punch instead of tying it to his basics. We can leave Shock Therapy alone. Now Rip Lash on the other hand could use some very slight tweaks, mainly in the mana department. A level 1 Ricker could only cast Rip Lash once and not have enough mana for another. I know it was a high impact ability that should cost a lot. A good hook should result in a kill and that needs to be balanced accordingly, but holy hell, more than half of your mana pull at level 1? No other ability cost that damn much, and Rip Lash had its own inherent drawback without making the mana cost prohibitive.  In my opinion, it was the hardest skill shot in Paragon, so why did it cost so damn much? Rev over there throwing obliterates out like candy, evaporating half your health with his eyes closed while Ricker can throw one Rip Lash. The other change I want to see for Rip Lash, and this is more of a quality of life thing, is the ability to cast it while in the air.  Having the ability to 360 off a platform and then pull someone's B hole out their pie hole really doesn't add anything gameplay wise, but it would be cool and I want to add it. Moving on to Ricker's ultimate, otherwise known as the self destruct button. Any ability in Paragon that caused you to root yourself, no matter how powerful it was, was a death sentence. Yes I fully understand that it's up to the player to pick when it's appropriate to use your ultimate, and that's what separates the good from the bad, but damn man, skewer causing you to stand in one place for what felt like an eternity was a problem and anyone that has ever played Ricker knows it. I've seen some pretty good ideas on how to fix it, like giving Rick an armor buff during the ability, but I think I have a better solution. Make the chesticles absorb projectiles, kinda like Steel's Wall. I mean they're out there waving in the wind, there's no way anything is getting past those chains. Of course you could still damage him from the side and Guinea could still drop space turds on his head, but make him completely immune to frontal damage during his ult. That would still make skewer dangerous to use while rewarding good positioning. I think that's about all I have for my boy Ricker, other than a Sumo skin, I really want a Sumo Ricker skin. Anyway, let me do my real youtuber stuff and say, if you liked this video hit that like button and subscribe if you haven't already. Even more youtuber stuff, I do have one piece of merch and it's fitting for this video in particular. It's the I Love Fat Hooker T-Shirt. Express your love for Ricker and be prepared to answer a lot of questions from your friends and family. Also, you will probably be propositioned by an obese prostitute. I'm outta here. Man goooo.