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We live on nothing and we're just surviving and don't forget by the way copyright disclaimer under section 107 of the copyright act 1976 Allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism comment news reporting teaching scholarship and research Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing Non-profit educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use No copyright infringement intended All rights belong to the respective owners You're kidding me Let's go It's a weekday morning on grimsby's east marsh estate where residents are beginning their day in the poorest part of the nation date where Residents are beginning their day in the poorest part of the nation Of course, that's not to say everyone here is living on the poverty line, but the data is striking The average annual income for an entire household here sits at just 22,000 pounds a year That's over 10 grand less than the uk national average and almost a staggering 86,000 pounds below london's affluent clapper maria Which has the highest in the country at just above 108,000 pounds Knowing I can't afford it, but i'm going It's in east marsh where we meet natalie who lives in the center of the estate with her partner and four children She receives around 2000 pounds a month in benefits But as she begins her shopping with christmas on the way she's struggling to make ends meet She receives 24 000 a year from From aid That's higher than the national average in that area And she's still struggling She do got four kids and probably I don't want to say it too early, but we'll see how her husband acts or her partner I get tight. Well, especially this time of year. I get tight on my budget I make sure i'm in bills and not a big shop and then whatever's left I get little bits obviously me christmas presents and my son's birthday presents birthday stuff at moment I'm not one of these with loads and loads of money like Where you can just spend it every day And just going to do big shopping I get quite a few benefits at the moment because i'm classed as one of the boys Care risks one of them's disabled So, uh, I used that to get my christmas presents and I've done my shopping online, which is a lot cheaper than in shops And natalie isn't alone Up and down the country the cost of living has hit homes and families hard With the price of energy rising by up to 60 percent in the last two years And those and is it true like if you go if natalie wants to go get a real job She would lose some of her benefits, right? Because it's on condition that she's can't work or something like that Prizes are felt acutely here Single mum Cheryl lives in a property that's covered in black mold and infested with mice But turning up the heating means less money for her and the kids It is very difficult. I've got like said four kids and then i'm trying to keep on top of mold mice and Condensation windows because I've got that one and my bathroom windows the same as well. So when you got mold You got condensation everywhere it helps to keep your ac on Like on florida mold is common in a lot of places man where the where the windows aren't Properly sealed correctly and in florida in general though like in florida in general just not if the windows are not sealed correctly mold will grow in your closets because of the Humidity and things of that nature but out in florida They say as long as you keep the ac running Then you good But who wants to do that though? What kind of energy bill are you going to be having at the end of the year? Especially in the uk florida energy is like a little bit different because like if you run ac all day It doesn't hit the same as if you run ac all day and say like chicago It's going to be a different number amount It is difficult I've got my heating on all day every day because obviously with the condensation it means the heat's escaping So my house is colder than what it should be So I'm paying more on my gas and electric than I should be per week just to keep the house on to keep my kids on This is brimsby. It is very tight. Yeah. I mean I make sure that it's always got what they need But yeah, he's definitely It can be a struggle. It feels awful. You know, I've got the kids coming up to me you know We need to sort them all out in the room again. Mummy are we're just in a mouse run across the floor mummy, you know it's it's not pleasant Stories like this are sadly nothing new for grimsby and especially the east marsh The area is the most deprived across the whole of northeast lingonshire and nearly every street Think about mold though. You can clean it as much as you want. It's going to always come back Once there's mold you just got to stay on top of it until they tear out the wall and fix the actual problem It's in the top one percent of deprivation across the country It's become associated with higher levels of crime and desocial behavior and homelessness Or if you can if you can afford a dehumidifier Takes moisture out of the air and and then get an air purifier. That'll help too Something with higher levels of crime and desocial behavior and homelessness Something visible all over Grimsby. I want somewhere to live I want somewhere to go I want to work But I'm just finding it hard How long have you been living on the streets for now and what's that like? I've been held just about it really Residents here are aware of the problems and sometimes help from within the community can come from the unlikeliest of sources With the lowest incomes in the country, it's perhaps Lenard has Perhaps no surprise that the nation's cheapest chippy is right here in No, it's crazy. I was about to say that probably that chippy behind them or nard's chippy. Is that what it was? Matthew, where did I get Lenard's? Matthew's chippy probably fire Anytime you in the hood and you see one of these especially especially when it's the corner apartment Like it's dead on the corner. It's always good It's perhaps no surprise that the nation's cheapest chippy is right here in east marsh Where a portion of fish and chips with a side of peas will set you back only three pounds UK fish and chip prices have soared in recent years with the classic takeaway now setting customers back nine pounds on average But at matthew's chippy on east marshes fish and chips at a restaurant here 18 dollars Stanley street owner stan matthew's explains how he keeps his prices at rock bottom Because i'm down on the docks. We buy our own fish We smoke we've got our own smoke house And so it all comes in line where we can get that product a bit cheaper Saying that they have gone up.  So we have to up it by 50 pennies. So So three pound they're still getting a good meal for three pounds. Yeah, it's fresh Like this and with a community in need He serves plenty of puntes every day who queue outside the door even before it opens Some eat here every night of the week and the product is well received including by me Three pound fish and chips. I mean that's a steal, isn't it? It's great for all pensioners every every penny counts, don't it? Three quid you can't knock it, can you? I come here Or every every time for a fishing chips the portion you get Is brilliant. Absolutely amazing quality good meal. You can't be People this is three dollar meal. He's doing something for the community People still coming here and disrespect them and giving fake notes He's brilliant. Absolutely amazing quality good meal. You can't be by a burger for three pound There's not a lot of money in it. We're in enough just to pay like the mortgage The gas electric that's about it, but we're feeding people that's That's the way I look at it. People are coming in and they're getting more and more He's doing it out the loan. Let's talk Chief takeaways alone aren't going to solve the issues facing Grimsby While the cost of living crisis has exacerbated things the challenges for the town are deep rooted Other needs here Greater than anywhere else in the country when it comes to citizen advice They they echo them They Think that's spice, isn't it? Yeah gotta be. Yeah, roll over there. Tweaking out the drug Tony Gaskin runs citizens advice for northeast Lincolnshire and says more people are using his service than ever before Well, that's three years. We've seen something like a 300 percent increase in emergency Charitable supports, which is food bank applications fuel and energy vouchers People needing help with homelessness. So around about 300 percent is is a massive figure But it's and it's really worrying. We've seen an even bigger percentage increase for personal independence payment And and and around about a 200 percent increase in council tax arrears and worryingly about another 220 percent on on energy debts What is it that drives places like east marsh west marsh to be So poor compared to other parts of the country? I think we're looking at a number of factors. We're looking at but people are in part-time employment people in the long-term Unemployment people with high high percentages in eastern west marsh with people with long-term disabilities And struggle to get to fine work whether do fine work and the limited by the number of hours that they work people have got struggling with the fuel costs because 19 pre 1919 properties that are difficult to heat difficult to insulate so there's a raft of problems But there's also a really engaged Infrastructure trying to bring people out of poverty in northeast Lincolnshire And particularly in these two wards and the work that's going on is remarkable But the the challenges that individuals face is is huge. So what's the best solution? Well, it depends who you are all of these people that always look for a solution It's gonna be here and some members of the public have different ideas to the experts about what's causing these issues I was talking to two young lads the other day and they was on about the cost of living I said you should have lived through the ages and you would have known what the cost of living was But it's a different generation now, isn't it the wolves tolerate low wages and bad work anybody could walk into a job and now because of Um, how can I say this family tax credit people realize they don't have to work anymore. So they don't let's take advantage of it A lot of people won't work because the way and the way it's often and working so I know people will say well, that's a load of rubbish But I spoke to people and said well, I'm not weird in the time I've paid me rent Pay me council tax. There's no pay me gas electorate. No, no extra to get food in If you look at the at the figures, there has been no inflationary increase to benefits for 10 years other than the one last year And in real terms people on benefits now with about 25% worse off than they were in 2010 With the cost of living increases it hits then that just exacerbates that problem and makes it Looking for an easier way to Oh, I used to like in a cycle that's not getting better for you It's getting worse and worse about a year go by here and makes it more difficult increases It hits then that just exacerbates that problem and makes it more severe and makes it more difficult to manage And in the interim in the short term Increasing benefits by the rate of inflation is the right thing to do But with a quarter of people in the area, right? That's not likely an active as of march 2023 How did this once prosperous town find itself in this situation? Grimsby's fishing here increased benefits at the same prices at the same speed as inflation come on now Who you fooling right now? And it stretches back over a thousand years and by the mid 20th century It had reached its peak when over 500 trawlers a day would leave these shores in search of a catch Then the cod wars happened It seems that the countries that are barren is from the fishing grounds, which have traditionally been ours Are standing back now and taking a market and laughing at us Between 1950 and 1976 the cod wars were a series of disputes between Britain and Iceland Which changed Grimsby and British fishing forever It's like briskly UK vessels have been fishing in Icelandic waters since the 14th century But after the tiny country gained independence from Denmark things changed Iceland expanded the area other countries could fish from its coastline from four nautical miles To an area eventually 50 times that size While the industry was already in retreat these moves along with a declining cod population Decimated British fishing and the EU's common fisheries policy in 1980 Nixon LB resubd appreciate the resub. There it is. I couldn't see it E3 which brought months to restrictions and quote as became the final nail in the coffin Thousands of British fishermen lost their jobs as a result But had to wait until the year 2000 before the government paid out any compensation for the pain caused Grimsby fishing heritage centre retired trawler men still get together once a week To share stories about how they risked their lives to put fish on British plates The young ones of today are struggling Because there isn't the work for them anymore 85 Because there isn't the work For many why the glasses look like that? Are those the ones that adjusted to sunlight gotta be because that's crazy anymore 85 to 90 percent of people in Grimsby had something to do with the fishing industry And it's everybody hard and I think That's why we're like that now in Grimsby We were over fishing If you saw a farmer Yeah, man, all of these fisher town all of these fishermen towns or industry like big plant towns They're all doing bad I don't like is there a case where one of them are doing good? That we just haven't seen Going around showing his cattle when I've been a young me and say what's happening this bloody lunatic And we were catching fish with a rose and Rose and it's breaking my heart in the spawning season because of self fish came on the shoals And I thought why don't we stop? And the end there was fish less fish less fish less fish It used to be great Grimsby When fishing was going I had two families. I had a family at sea and I had a family itself Grimsby to me has gone downhill These days, there's barely any homegrown trawlers left in Grimsby's iconic docks But that doesn't mean the industry is dead Produced by iconic docks, but that's how fish be looking man. Why I look like it's like Rotten or something. It looks slimy doesn't mean the industry is dead Produced from Scotland Iceland the pharaohs and Norway is sold and processed here instead Before being shipped around the UK And at the crack of dawn We get a glimpse of what Grimsby's fishing heritage looks like in the 21st century I kind of want to do this like what he's doing like go check it out and be a part of it for a day, but like I'm just like You know what I'm saying? I'm too and I'm too city I would do it, but I wouldn't like it Good morning Straight in then gents hey and then 275 80 270 a kilo 270 Here at the grip. What is this like actions? Grimsby fish market traders say they used to shift about 7,000 boxers a day Now they're lucky if they hit 7,000 a week Despite the change in fishing fortunes the market CEO Martin Boyers takes a more philosophical view and is far more upbeat than most when it comes to Grimsby's future The industry is is quite complex and what we've managed to do in Grimsby is to be able to diversify So as you've seen today with some of these vessels, we're not just a fishing port anymore We're also an offshore wind farm port. So what's called operations and maintenance And that diversification has allowed us to continue with the Grimsby fish market even at that smaller level as you rightly point out But like a lot of things it's it's not like it used to be Yeah, because everything else is subsidized and taken care of all the bills That fishing market ain't gonna do it no more But it's still here. We're still busy people still eat fish It's a good protein and there's still a good demand for it What does the future look like are you hopeful that things will get better for Grimsby? I think it's a great opportunity and what we've got to do is actually get that message over to the young people in Particularly in a place like Grimsby that there's a lot of jobs available in fish processing It's not about going to sea people just do to think you know if you didn't do any good at school Or you can always go to sea well that was all right in the 1960s, but that's gone But it wasn't supposed to be like this. There's no way. I don't I don't care how much money Is on the line you're not getting me to go up to sea I've never done a do it I don't think I would ever do it if you'd be like man, you got to be on this this ocean For three months, but we'll give you a million dollars. I don't think I'm gonna do it Because the chances of me losing my life are like 60 percent And that's too much of a chance for me 70 percent of people in Grimsby voted to leave the EU in 2016 And it was hoped that brexit would help change the future of britain's fishermen It's an opportunity here to look at one of the ways in which this country will build a Take that control of a massive industry. I'll work out because water's got 200 miles and there's a potential to Do really well for for uk fish martin says it hasn't quite worked out that way But he doesn't regret his further better designs make A lot of the a lot of people's decisions to separate from the EU and the bricks in situation like I'm not educated enough to speak on it like crazy But just from me watching a lot of these videos I see a lot of people are not happy with that decision low-key But they just too prideful to admit that they was wrong Hey It wasn't quite worked out that way, but he doesn't regret his vote to leave the EU. Yeah, yes, it was never as simple Uh towards in the industry for those certainly to me as it was portrayed to the great british public And one of the things you find about the fish industry is that when it's when it's the election is that economically in terms of gdp It's very very small, but in terms of emotion It's very very high. So I just thought it was a bit of a bandwagon and a bit of a cheap trick actually Back in london. We caught up with the conservative MP for great grimsby leonichi She's positive the town is far better off outside the EU and that any damage had already been done Well, let's be clear 70 percent of people in grimsby wanted brexit You know undoubtedly we're a brexit town and people wanted to be free of the EU But people didn't make that decision based on business. They based that wanting to be sovereign country You know when I talk to people about that that's undoubtedly they say yes We know that there are going to be pros and cons with being part of the EU or not being part of the EU So somebody in the comments like explain like Like the whole oh should I watch a video okay now this is big miss them. I think I did watch a video before so I kind of got an understanding of it, but like I want to know like The widespread effect of it all you know People who don't come from grimsby that think that we've got some amazing fishing industry And that brexit has been terrible for us. Well, let me tell you the fishing industry died the day that we joined the common market What do you do to try to stem the losses that we hear about from business leaders in grim I'd just be feeling anybody in these positions of power They'd just be chatting just to make themselves and the decisions that they made sound better Or less impactful Who said before the vote before britain left the european union It was so much easier to do business and actually it was easier to generate profits for grimsby I've worked hard to make sure that people can see a different kind of mp I've been out there. I've been working with people on practical projects helping them to to succeed in areas You know east marsh has been one of the poorest areas in the uk for five decades or more Um, it's not something that's going to be fixed quickly All I can say is i'm working hard making sure I can do the best that I can To really be noisy to grimsby and I have been I've been at the center of government Making sure grimsby being represented Build a school and build a hospital Once you do that Everything's on an up and up man. Once you build that hospital Brand new i'm talking about if they can afford to see you can afford it build a hospital everything around that hospital is going to thrive everything going up Great grimsby had been a labor seat in every election since 1945 Making up part of the so-called red wall that crumbled to the Tories in 2019 Those we spoke to weren't completely sold on their relatively new mp But with a general election just around the corner. There wasn't much appetite for labor either The uh, local area mp. Have you seen much of it? Never see it Um, can't remember what her name is. What's her name now lia? Oh, yeah, lia nicker.  No So she just came on here and just did all that capping. I'm out here with the people I'm doing this and doing that and my face is like come on now. Nobody's seen you. Do you think of your local area mp? Uh, I can't give an opinion Somebody I don't know I won't be voting because it to me don't matter who you vote for They're all those bats The unseen I'm sorry.  Like how long is there when they're voted in how long does their term? Is it the same as the president u.s president four years? And then it's another vote or what? Jane Hilden king was once mayor of northeast Lincolnshire and now works for the fisherman's mission Giving support to retired workers and their families She was born in the east marsh and has a much better understanding than many about how grimsby found itself in this situation We have a thriving docks. We had numerous companies from fish fingers, bird's eye, rosses Fingers, we had the humble bank with all this employment Look around today. No three factories or very few if they are the very small We've lost basically all the oil industries and the big industries from the humble bank And I think generally the public did y'all see them man. This is all subject She just mentioned oil, but I know y'all might have seen this. This is world news or something Somebody was digging in some ice and they found oil I don't know the whole story or where like I know they was probably actually searching for it But they found it Instant billionaires is crazy. Don't let me find the oil Listen So No jobs in the big industries from the humble bank And I think generally the poverty is because no jobs and we are suffering in this area to lack of employment So therefore because of employment what jobs are around are very low paid And of course our people are suffering really badly and I don't think people grasp it I don't think the government grasp it. We put the comments of people in the town to Leonici who told us It is impossible for me to meet or 88,000 residents who live in the constituency I live in Grimsby. I have spent most of my life working in and around Grimsby I meet constituents in the town every week and work hard to represent them and will continue to do so It's fair to say that towns like Grimsby sometimes It's cap. I don't believe you. It's come with an unwanted rep. The people have spoken mutation Post industrial decline as a story heard up and down the country and walking around the town It's hard not to notice the deprivation on display But there's more to a place than just its high street and Grimsby has a proud community For 18 years entertainer Andy Carr had a unique insight into his hometown and what makes its people tick He was the original mighty mariner Grimsby town football club's official mascot Every week he saw thousands of fans make their way here to cheer on their team and their town and his passion Jorge has always Trying to see why is that the mascot though? Like what's the what's the Junior in his love for Grimsby and doesn't understand why it comes with such a reputation It annoys me because I wouldn't you know, I'm a homie. I love living in the area and Grimsby because it's my family The same there's a lot of areas. There's more areas than bad areas for me in Grimsby and Cleetops But it's just a shame that once again Grimsby Cleetops is being tired with the negative brush When actually there's a lot more positive To come out the area and and the people the people in Grimsby and Cleetops, you know There's a lot of good people. Yeah, we've got some bad, you know, there's you know Some unditiables as you get again instantly when he started talking about a bad people He couldn't get this statement out. He was yeah, we got some bad Some undesirables, you know, but uh That mean there's more undesirables than he really wanted to lead on in all towns and cities I just I just wish that um, I just wish that the positives for the area Outweighed the negatives which I actually think they do How do you feel then when you hear about those statistics from the ons? It's one area We're talking about one area of Grimsby Cleetops I haven't to be fair seen the statistics of what the other areas are But what about all the other areas in Grimsby Cleetops? Um, you know that um probably nowhere near the bottom, you know, they've obviously singled it out It's good in one sense that it's been singled out because maybe you can do something about that area But I personally would never move away from Grimsby Cleetops I love living it. You know love living down here and the fact that I'm a big Grimsby town fan I couldn't I couldn't move away and not come to the games But as crowds leave this stadium Sometimes you got to move to grow And if you satisfied being stagnant didn't hope for a show stay where you at or you got a family and you just You like that life stay but if you're trying to go Reach the sky you can't reach it from your hometown. I don't care how great of a hometown you live in People will only see you as that person who you are In that town they'll never see you as more Every other weekend and head home. What sort of situation are they returning to? In some ways it feels like Grimsby has been left behind Depending on who you ask it could be in for a bright future One thing feels certain though that the last couple of years have not helped the situation And if UK living standards don't improve fast It could be the difference between Grimsby's resurgence or further declined They're not bothered about this down here and that's been like it for years What you can see is just rough. It's rubbish everywhere. There's a lot being done And whether or not it's enough that's debatable whether or not it's too late. I doubt it I think that that we've got time to try and turn things around A lot more could be done in this area because I know I'm not the only house with mold or mice either So a lot more could be done to to help There's always a lot more that could be done man. It's just is there money that can be allocated to the to helping Where are we taking this money from? And is it worth to get relocated to where it's being relocated or acts to be relocated? And that's nine times buying out of ten times the problem every time Like yeah, we're not going to take this money from over there to put it here. Sorry Figure it out man. TLO leave a like comment subscribe turn your post notification bell.


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Going on everyone Sam here with late sports cards rip in 23 tops tier 1 baseball hobby 12 box case number 18 picker team style Redophilus of our names our teams Alexander H with the Rays Andreas a Giants Benjamin B pirates Billy H athletics Chad M Royals Dana S white socks Dixon K Dodgers Edward P Padres Brewers Gordon P red socks Gerstmar S with the Angels Ian J Diamondbacks J C D Tigers Jerry B Matt smark S Rockies Phillies Matt P twins blue J's Matthew S Orioles Nate S Nationals Paul F Yankees potion H Marlins Bobby R with the Cubs Sean P Braves Steven M reds Mariners Rangers and Cardinals Swaggy G Guardians and Trevor W with the Astros Good luck here. Everybody again 12 to go Bowman Chrome you breaks next on Bowman Chrome you breaks Next good luck. Here we go. Yes, not That's not Empty case you could see over there. Well, there you go all 12. Here we go God's 221 average season elsewhere. All right starting off with an Oswald Parazza to 400 for the Yankees nice one. He inks 318 at 400 and Ozzie Smith to 200 go into the Cardinals Max Meyer rookie auto. Let's go into the Marlins 25 out of 299 Max Maya and Javier Assad that is 18 out of 25 Cubs rookie at bronze ink auto That's on that 18 out of 25 Javier Assad Nice Jase there you go buddy Riley Greene to 400 you want to win now ain't going to Boston Brice and stop nice one there to 299 Congrats on that Philly's there you go Phills and go into the White Sox Paul Canerco 179 out of 249 for again the Chicago White Sox to your ones out It's a 400 Craig B. Gio, I mean they can't afford him There congrats Astros my guy Craig B. Gio 12 to go on Bominio Got nice the 149 for the brew crew is Christian Yelich Christian Yelich Nice one there at Milwaukee, and then rookie auto to 299 for the A's Cody Thomas Congrats Oakland 195 out of 299 Cody Thomas. That'd be dope Tom Glavin 400 October no Tony Drive the whole team nice one there. We've got the 25. This is sick jazz chiseled 17 out of 25 bat in four colored patch auto for the Marlins So sorry, but it's not too little tiny in a cup bitch, right? Let's see and 2 at 299 Jeter Downs rookie auto for the nationals This one there now see that jazz patch was pretty solid a jazz patch was kind of nasty Yeah, like Shiz you like Garrett Cole to 400 nice one for the inks Grats Yankees and Walker Bueller to 400 for the Dodgers Asturi at Ruiz rookie auto for the A's Officially on the Palo bandwagon. There you go. Shife. Go shite. And then Jack Flaherty 2199 for the Cardinals nice one there You know what I know to the Hawks are 3-0 and Jalen Johnson starts and they make it 4-0 tonight I hope they do it with Jalen Johnson starts. They're going to us. Okay season ball out Dude Clint Capella is gonna eat chat in the paint for breakfast Chats like 30 pounds. So what? Clint Capella and his 13 rebounds a game will do just fine.  Yeah Jase yeah, let's go Carl five and a little seas right now Let's keep that going. I wouldn't be bad Sleep Robert picking up really Jalen Johnson black prism. Let's go dude. The Hawks are 3-0 when he starts. So that's a big time by right now What did it go for? Not much $75 Christopher Morel to 400 Nice one there Nice to 199 J rod going to the Mariners. There we go Seattle very solid. We'll take that all day Jayrod second-year action there. Nice J. So you had a Riley green Jersey? 1300 Wow and a that's 13,000 That is JT Real Muto nine of ten going it to the Phillies He has been playing really well, dude. He has been playing really well That's kind of insane though. That's kind of insane Yeah, Nick you're 100% right, bro. I agree That is Sean Bouchard to 299 We've got nice the big unit for the Mariners eight of ten Randy Johnson That's so sick doing on a silver ink Grads on that Yeah, three autos no relic on this one. It was weird felt thin But I mean, apparently we got the most amount of hits we're supposed to get Again 12 to go everybody 12 to go breaks next is Bowman Chrome you these man and to 299 is Y'all all rookie auto Stars and Stripes hero NPA and zero PA. That's one there. You like jazz Shiz you like jazz That guy's not up Brandon Nemo to 400 finding Nemo 347 out of 400 Nice one Mets nice one here for the twins is Joe Maurer. That's pretty cool 69 of 99 Joe Maurer Joe Mawa and leave on Soto 275 out of 299 for the angels leave on Soto Congrats. I lost him Jock Peterson to 400 for the Giants Here one that does have a lot of Joe Maurer love. I like it though Yeah, I'm not against it. It's a 149 Larry Walker. There you go Rockies nice one there Hashtag Rocktober. Yes, sir as always and to 299 Garrett Hill rookie auto for the Tigers There you go. Jace 290 out of 299 Shohei to 1 or 400 nice one there for the angels Congrats angels 157 out of 400 and Corbin Carroll to 400 pretty good relics. I can say out of there Pretty good relics out of that one for sure Corbin Carroll for the D-backs got going to the pirates to 299 O'Neil cruise O'Neil cruise for the pirates Nate Eaton to 299 for the Royals. Congrats KC Good old Tiger legend Garrett Hill Miguel Cabrera to 400 actual Tigers legend Yes. Yeah, this is the second one Jace. Okay. There was a carry carpenter auto in the first one, but I Think that was really it Tori Hunter does 175 for the angels Nice one there Congrats Los Angeles 11 out of 175 and then a to 299 Matt Swarmer Going to the Cubbies Carry bombs. Yes, sir. He's always referred to as by me from now on a med Rosario for the Guardians the 400 216 out of 400 on the relic We've got nice for the Astros tier one talent. Mr. Bagwell Jeff Bagwell 43 out of 199 Grats on that Houston very nice and a Will Brennan to 299 for the Guardians, right? Yeah Cleveland Congrats Guardians Very nice as well. All right everybody quick recap time Start off with our relics a med Rosario Jack Peterson Miguel Cabrera Shohei Ozzani Corbin Carroll Brandon Nemo Christopher Morel Walker Buehler Garrett Cole Tom Glavin Craig Bijio Oswald Paraza Riley Greene and Ozzie Smith and autos we have Will Bren Jeff Bagwell Matt Swarmer Tori Hunter O'Neill Cruz Nate Eaton Larry Walker Garrett Hill Joe Maurer deal hall Leave on Soto Sean Bouchard JT Real Muto Christian Yelich Asturi at Ruiz Jack Flaherty Cody Thomas Jeter Downs Bryson Stop Paul Conerco Max Meyer Javier Assad J-Rod Randy Johnson and Jess Chisholm That will do it for the break everybody. Thanks again for the Phil coming up next is Bumper from you


It's great to see that a lot of countries are involved in coming out to EVO and that's why it's so important because it's an open tournament. Anyone can enter. It's not a closed thing or it's an invitational. If you think you have the skills and you want to try your luck, come out to Vegas and play with the world's best and see what you got. It's gotta be tough. It's gotta be real tough. This is tough in Vegas, you know, like to go to bed early. If you can't control yourself, you just want to drink and party. No, why wouldn't I party? I mean, I have nothing to do tomorrow. How about your sleep and you help me train? Yeah. How about you do that? Right now, this is how we train, you know, for the tournament, motor combat. How do we get to this level? We don't know. Where we going? I can't tell you. Right now, because, you know, it's EVO and we have to practice as much as we can. I drink and stuff, but if I have a good sleep, my, you know, my brain is reset. It's working perfectly. I spend a lot of money traveling to tournaments and you just want me to come here and play games? Yeah. I have to enjoy myself. And what about if I lose? If I lose, I spent my money. I lost my money. I didn't have fun. You should have that if in your mentality, because then you're already losing mentally. Yeah. I'm not losing anyway, you know. I'm just enjoying myself. I don't care if I lose or win.  So far, EVO has been pretty crazy. A lot of things have happened that I haven't expected to happen. My friend of ours collapsed in the road. He had a heat stroke because it's like 100 degrees every day here. I was walking through the street and I thought I'd pass out and get six staples in my head, do you want to see? It was really scary, because I mean, you know, I thought he was going to die, you know. It was really weird seeing him in the state he was in. Vegas didn't quite get a fatality. No! The Mk community is a really tight-knit group. They practice at each other's house. They practice online together. They talk on the same message boards together. I want to trade this community for the world. I love all the players I meet and hang out with. I think the community is just as great as the game. One of the things that I like, that I love about the Mortal Kombat community is that top players, they don't alienate themselves from the players that aren't that good. That's why I like the community, because we help each other. We help each other grow. We help each other get better. Everyone's really friendly. Everyone's really nice. You can tell that CD Junior is a really competitive guy. But, you know, who isn't at this kind of event? It doesn't seem like everyone in the community is just very cool, chill guys. It's very cool to chill out in a hotel room with them, honestly. It makes things a lot more light-hearted when you're not actually competing against them. Welcome to the Evo 2012 Mortal Kombat US vs. UK exhibition. We've got the best of the UK, the top four undisputed UK players, versus four of the top United States players. This is an exhibition a year in the making. The team in the United States is extremely accomplished. We've got CD Junior. We've got the 2011 Evo Champion, perfect legend. We've got Detroit Ballin. And then we have a guy you might know by the name of Rio. We have to give credit to the UK players, too. The Foxy, Grandpa, Mustard, Ketchup, Use for Glue. These guys are here. They're ready. They want this more than anything. The UK has lost two team battles today. Yep. These four American players are on top of the world right now. Let's get hyped for the Mortal Kombat 2012 Evo tournament. The next episode of Mortal Kombat, the road to Evo. I came here to play. If I lose, I don't have no one to blame but myself. Master and Mustard, go ahead and play on the open setup. He's following a code of honor that doesn't exist in this game. Everything could have gone wrong. It's gone wrong.


What's up YouTube? Realistic Gaming here and today we're on Boombuster BB's channel and we're gonna be reacting to some of his Sonic videos They are scary by the way, so just a heads up if you're a little scary cat Do not watch this and the funny part is that the Sonic movie is about to come out on Friday So that should be awesome But before we begin this video make sure to kick back relax grab some snacks and like the video spooky He's dressed as Pikachu Yo, what the Oh Yeah, that's Sonic EXE music tails That was out of nowhere Unexpected The power of Christ compels you Stand there right in the eye with the cross. Hey tails about it, bro. He really would it do not mess with tails Animation is on that of it by Alfredo. Hey, that's me man. All right, so that was pretty sure We do have two more of his videos. Let's check them out. Our next clip is Knuckles night Yo Whoa Okay, Sonic you got me. I suppose those dead flakies are stuffed animals, huh? All right, Sonic you get that make up out of you now.    What the? Oh Mocking him He's always getting sucker punch, bro.   Oh rain should I say that's cap. He's still alive, bro of course You can never defeat Sonic Yixie bro. Remember he is God and our final clip from boom busters VB is Eggman's chaos emerald He's always around destroying my plans to take over the world At least I stole this chaos emerald All I have to do is search for six more and my eclipse cannon will be unstoppable Dr. We have company. What is it now? Huh heck is he flowing in the space and he's going to take this chaos emerald from me How can he breathe and outer space and what happened to his eyes? As he's obviously alive. Otherwise, he wouldn't be huh. Sonic had never appeared like that before There's doctor Ivo Robotnik. That's strange. He always calls me an egghead Something tells me that's not Sonic doctor You'll hand over that chaos emerald if you know what's good for you. Huh? Who do you think you are giving commands to me?  No Demon of Sonic so funny I'm done messed up, bro. That's the funniest thing. I've heard all evening So why don't you fly back to where you came from and if that's how you want it?   Yes, sir You know way. He's just beating like that, bro. Oh, I guess he actually did Thanks for watching. Wow.  I'm a little surprised. He actually beat Sonic, but oh there is I knew it That was very terrifying. All right, you guys. Well, there you have it That was Sonic EXE by boomster BB shout out to him and go check out his channel that his animation was pretty dope I like the style and everything and they were pretty well made Two thumbs up. Thank you for watching. Thank you all for the major support and I will see you on the next one Peace


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we are going to discuss the following question and the question says that which is a better investment? 12% stock at $120 or 8% stock at $90. Let us start with the solution. Now, 12% stock $120 means market value of one share is $120. Its nominal value or face value is $100. And the dividend paid is 12%. Similarly, 8% stock $90 means market value of one share is $90. Its nominal value or face value is $100. The dividend paid is 8%. So in the first case, income on $120 is 12% of $100 which is equal to $12 upon 100 into 100 which is equal to $12. Therefore, income on $100 is equal to 12 upon 120 into 100 which is equal to $10. And now in the second case income on $90 is equal to 8% of $100 which is equal to 8 upon 100 into 100 which is equal to $8. Therefore, income on $100 will be equal to 8 upon 90 into 100 which is equal to $80 upon 9. That is equal to $8.88. So as by the first investment, the income on $100 is $10 and by the second investment, the income on $100 is $8.88. Hence, the first investment is better. This completes our session. Hope you enjoyed the session.


Let's just go. This is the introduction song. It's not very good, but it's not too long. Okay, in all seriousness real quick, I do want to put out a very fast spoiler warning for all of these series that are listed here, in no particular order, because there will be, you know, massive spoilers up until the endings of all of these that I'm mentioning, so if that bothers you then just be aware of that. Starting off the list at number ten, we have Sauron from Lord of the Rings. Now, the thing about Sauron is that he isn't really that great of a villain.  He's more of an event that the characters have to stop than he is an actual person or thing that they can fight against.  Like, Lord of the Rings is what started Epic Fantasy, and Sauron is what started the Epic Fantasy Dark Lord trope. You know, the very powerful dude who sits up in a tower and sends out his minions and is just impossibly powerful. And sometimes this trope is done well, sometimes it's done poorly, but the fact that Sauron was able to start it off and has able to maintain his relevance in the genre as the progenitor of this character archetype even after almost 70 years, yeah, I think that's worth something, so, yeah. Sauron's on the list. Coming in at number nine, we have Galvatorex from the Inheritance Cycle, aka Aragon. Now, a lot of people over the years have derided Aragon for being just like Star Wars in Middle Earth, and I'm not saying that they're wrong, because, yeah, it basically is. And following that logic, Galvatorex is basically the Emperor Palpatine of the story. You know, a long time ago, before everything began, he overthrew this powerful peacekeeping magic force, which in his case was the Dragonriders and Palpatine's case was the Jedi, and now he rules over this Empire with an iron fist, and now a good guy, a new magical force, which in this case is Aragon, a new Dragonrider, and the other one it was Luke, a new Jedi, is coming along with a rebellion to try and overthrow him. And in both cases, the character just kind of stays in the background until the final entry of the series. Palpatine, we don't see him for the first two movies at all. And Galvatorex, we don't even see him until about halfway through the final book. And so, it's difficult for a character to leave any sort of presence when they're not even on screen. Galvatorex manages to do that. See, unlike with Palpatine, we get a pretty good rundown of how Galvatorex overthrew all the Dragonriders. He only had a handful of companions with him, and they were able to defeat hundreds of other riders. So we know right off the bat how unimaginably powerful this guy is. And even setting that aside, we see his other really powerful minions, like Durza the Shade, and like Murtog when he becomes a Dragonrider later.  They almost kill the main characters at multiple times, and we know that they're only really following Galvatorex because he was able to force them into submission. So, as time is going on, he's being built up more and more in the reader's heads as someone who is just impossible to overcome in any way, and how are the good guys going to beat him?  And so, he's more of a presence than an actual character for a long time. And then when he finally shows up, he makes good on all those promises. Okay? He literally can command all magic. Like, he can make magic stop working or stop working correctly. When other people use it, he can make it work however he wants. And I've already said before that Aragon is my favorite magic system. This is one of the reasons why, because this guy found a loophole, and can now, it is basically a demigod. He can control everything in existence. And so, when the main characters finally beat him, they don't beat him by just being more powerful or by outsmarting him. They have to beat him by finding another loophole in the magic system. And in this case, it's just casting magic without using any actual words, which is not really a loophole, I guess, but it's more a way of using it that no one ever does. And they make him feel all the pain that he's caused.  Oh, God. I did all that. That was awful. Then he dies. And Galvatorex was not a particularly deep character. You know, he just kind of wanted power for power's sake. And we get a little bit of personality from him because we see, yeah, he really is just crazy. So, yeah, he's not like someone who thought he was doing the right thing or anything. He just was a crazy evil bad guy. But he had all the power to back that up so it still works.  Because, guess what? Just beating the bad guy doesn't mean the damage he caused went away. Like, all the dragon riders are still dead. Like, Aragon is trying to re-found it, but that's going to take a lot of time and a lot of effort. And he has to leave his homeland forever in order to do that. The political situation is completely destroyed and it has to be rebuilt back up. The human lands have been split into multiple kingdoms. And their ties with the elves and the dwarves and the urgals are completely wrecked. So, just because he's gone, well, the characters still have a lot of work ahead of them. And a lot of people have called Aragon childish before. It's just aimed at kids. And, yeah, it kind of is. But really, when you think about it, the fact that just defeating the bad guy didn't automatically save the day and the heroes still have to fix a lot of problems he caused, well, that's a very mature way of looking at things. And so, for the reason that all of his machinations, all of his evil doings lasted long after his death, Galvatorex belongs on this list. Number eight is Jake Featherston from the Southern Victory Series. So, for those unfamiliar, the Southern Victory Series is an alternate timeline story. I've mentioned it a couple of times on here. It's all basically about the Confederate States of America winning the American Civil War and becoming an independent nation. And then it goes for like another 80 years of history all the way up until the end of World War II, just seeing how things would change. And Jake Featherston, at first, is just one character among many. He's a sergeant in the Confederate Army during World War I. He's fighting against the United States. And at that point, he doesn't seem that unusual. He's very angry, very racist. He's an ultra-nationalist. He's a very violent person. But he doesn't stand out all that much because a lot of other characters in the series are also that. But then, as time goes on, you realize he is meant to parallel Adolf Hitler. Because this series is alternate history. It has parallels with real history. And Jake Featherston is Adolf Hitler. But you don't realize that at first.  Then once you start getting into the interwar years, and he's being involved in low-level politics, and he's making all these speeches and stuff, it starts to move into place.  And so, while you never exactly feel sympathetic for him, you don't realize exactly what kind of monster he is until much later on. And even by the end of the series, he is kind of a crazy person, yes. But he doesn't go the full Hitler route where he just kills himself in a bunker. Featherston actually wants to continue the fighting. And so he tries to take his plane and fly off somewhere where he can do that, but it gets shot down and he winds up getting killed by a band of partisans. And so, even in the end, he wasn't able to let go of his madness. He was still this angry, bitter prick that just wanted to wreck everything good in the world. And, well, that's something. Number seven is the T-Rex from Jurassic Park. Now, I'm pretty sure all of you already know what Jurassic Park is. They made an amazing movie of it in the 90s with Steven Spielberg and all that. It's a great movie. I think that the book is a little bit better, because it is fairly similar to the movie. The basic idea of people going to an island with clone dinosaurs and then stuff goes wrong and they have to run away from the dinosaurs, that's the same in basically both things. But the book adds in just a few extra scenes that really cement the T-Rex as being great in my mind. Because the thing about it is, it's not a complex villain. It doesn't have a complex plan. It doesn't have complex reasons for wanting to do what it does.  And that strikes a primal chord inside humans, because guess what? We don't like to be eaten. Okay, our ancestors had to deal with that, and so we're afraid of it today.  And without rambling too much, there's basically two scenes in the book that the movie didn't have that just make it the best thing ever. So the first one is when Dr. Grant and the kids are getting in a raft and they paddle down a river and the T-Rex is chasing after them when that happens. Because it turns out T-Rexes can swim in this. They swim like crocodiles with their head over the water and their tail just swishes back and forth to push them. And then after they escape that, later on, they're about to go over a waterfall and they notice that a T-Rex is standing at the bottom of the waterfall with her mouth open, ready to catch them. Seriously, if you haven't read the book for Jurassic Park, go do that, it's amazing. But yeah, I think those two scenes alone cement the T-Rex as one of the best villains ever. Number six, the Sphere from Sphere. So this is the second Michael Crichton book that I'm putting on here, and it's also the last one. And just like the T-Rex, the Sphere is not a complex villain, except at the same time that it is a complex villain. So, basically, for those of you unfamiliar with Sphere, because it's very underappreciated, the story revolves around humans found this ship at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. It's a spaceship which was not made by any human nation, and it's also been there for about 300 years. So they get some scientists and stuff together and they send them to this base at the bottom of the ocean and tell them, hey, take a look at the ship. And so they look around in the ship a little bit and they realize it was made by humans, but it was made many hundreds of years in the future at some point because stuff in it is written in English and they find the American flag on there at some point. So it's human technology. They don't know how it got there. At some point it just went back in time. They don't know what happened and they never find out what happened. But on the ship they find this big orb, like, bigger than a human. And that was not made by humans. Somehow the ship picked it up and brought it back to Earth and somehow went back in time. And we don't know what its purpose was. We don't know how it got here. We don't know how it got back in time. We never find any of that out. But the Sphere itself is unimaginably powerful because when people mess around with it, it gives them power. It gives them power to summon infinite numbers of fish or to summon giant storms without even realizing it. And in the end, the main characters realize, okay, we have this power, but we need to make ourselves forget about it. So that's what they do. They just use it to make themselves forget about it. And we never find out what the Sphere's purpose is. We never find out if it's malevolent. It could be. We don't know. Or if it's just curious, it could be. We don't know. We don't know if it's sentient or not. We don't know. And in this way, the Sphere itself is not that scary, but what it represents is scary. It represents the vast unknowable nature of outer space and how humans should maybe not mess around with that too much. It's similar to the great old ones in all of HP Lovecraft's work. Like, yes, this unimaginably powerful thing, you should not mess around with it. Number five, we have St. John from Rotten Ruin. So, I mentioned recently that Rotten Ruin is a pretty good series. You know, it has its issues, and it is like, you know, a zombie story, and a lot of people are just not interested in those anymore because they got oversaturated in the past 10 years, but Rotten Ruin is still a really solid, really good series. And a big part of the reason for that is St. John. Because in these types of zombie stories, the main villain is almost always a human or a group of humans. And I can't exactly say why that is, but that is the case.  Before the apocalypse started, he was a serial killer. Okay, he went around chopping people up and he managed to avoid getting caught. But then the apocalypse happened and he saw all these people not only dying around him, but people dying and then rising back up and then killing others. And so when he saw this, he was just confused. He didn't know what to do. And so he started talking to the God of Death, Thanatos, because, oh, guess what, he can talk to the God of Death apparently. And eventually he decided that, oh, okay, Thanatos is trying to kill all the humans and bring their souls into the void where they just don't exist anymore and they are free from suffering.   And by the time the main series rolls around, he has an entire army of people called the Reapers, who they just go around and kill all the humans. And they're not doing it for any sadistic reasons. They're doing it because they really sincerely believe that this is the right thing. And besides their big army, they also have a way to kind of herd the zombies and control them and to prevent themselves from being attacked by them. So yeah, they're a bit of a threat. And even though we learn that a pretty big portion of the Reapers army are not people who believe in all this, they're just people who didn't want to get killed and so they joined up themselves or they were just psychos or thugs or something that wanted to have an excuse to kill people. Some of them are like that, yes. But the core group of St. John and all his lieutenants, they sincerely do believe everything they're saying. And the only thing that kept St. John from being higher on this list is his embarrassingly bad ending because in the end the main characters manage to surround his whole army and get them trapped in this area which is just soaked with like a diesel and gasoline. And the main character tells them, hey, if you don't surrender, I'm gonna set this on fire and kill all of us, including ourselves. And the thing is, the Reapers who don't really believe what they're saying, I can believe that they would surrender in this case. But St. John and his inner circle, his inner circle also surrenders and they were supposed to be the ones that were like the true believers. And then St. John himself is so in anguished by this that he commits suicide. So, yeah, his ending is just embarrassingly bad, but up until that point, fantastic. Number four is Teran Santoro from The Young Elites. Now, a while ago I read and reviewed the first Young Elite book and overall I just kind of thought it was fine except for the ending because the climax was really good and took it in an unexpected direction. And the main villain, Teran. And I have since read the other two books in the trilogy and I will like review them all as one lump, probably my next review compilation. So if you want to know my full thoughts, you'll get them at some point. But Teran was the only like legitimately fantastic part of the first book I thought. Because in this world, in this story, there was this sickness that went around called the blood fever a while ago. And that killed most of the people that it infected, but the people that survived, most of whom were kids, they became marked and they became what's known as mouthfettos. And the marks were different for everybody. Some of them had changed their hair color, some of them it was just like a big blotch on their skin somewhere, almost like a birthmark. Sometimes it would like change the color of their fingernails. It was kind of weird. And a couple of them, not all of them, but a couple got like these weird powers too, including most of the main characters. And while this happened, one of the people who became a mouthfetto was the prince of a country called Canetra. And the prince, his younger sister wanted to become queen. So she managed to find Teran, one of their childhood friends, and convince him that the blood fever was a punishment from the gods and that the mouthfettos were being marked as abominations by the gods. And so they all needed to be killed. And Teran was already extremely religious at this point and was looking for reasons as to why all this was happening, so it was pretty easy to convince him. Oh yeah, and also he's totally in love with the princess. We can see that from our perspective, but not as obvious from his. Anyways, and so she's able to convince him to kill the head of the inquisitors, which is like religious police in their role, and take over himself and make them into a much more hard-line military organization. And then they exile the prince, so the princess becomes queen.  And just like St. John, Teran, you can tell, believes wholeheartedly that what he's doing is right. And it really does make sense when you see his backstory. It makes sense that he would be so religious, it makes sense that he would see this huge disaster as a punishment from the gods, and it makes sense that he would be in love with the princess. But the thing is that because she's just manipulating him for political gain, there starts to form a rift between them. And so by the end of the second book, he's started to realize, hey, you're not here to cleanse the world, you're just here for your own power, and he eventually kills her, but he immediately regrets it. And then in the final book, which I know this might sound confusing, but I don't want to summarize them in too much detail, in the final book, he has to team up with the good guys in order to save the world.  But the thing is, in most of those instances, it feels like the bad guy is only doing it because he wants to live.   But in this case, Taren always felt that he was saving the world. He always felt that he was doing the right thing, so it makes perfect sense that he would do this. And he's also trying to kind of atone for his sins, because, one, he killed his girlfriend, and two, guess what, he himself is a moutheddo. And so, up until the moment he dies, you can tell that he is very happy with what he's doing. It's not easy on him, and he feels tremendous guilt over some of it, but he's happy that he's able to do it, and he feels he's doing the right thing. And even without all of that, he's still just a very powerful, intimidating force, okay? Every time that... Well, not every time he's on screen, but every time he shows up and you know he's about to kill somebody, the tension gets ratcheted up. So, even though the Young Elites overall is not a particularly great series, I don't think, it is legitimately an amazing villain. Number three, Winston Duarte from The Expanse. Now, the thing about Winston is that he doesn't actually show up in the series until seven books in. He's mentioned a couple of times before that, and we see the results of his actions before that, but we don't actually see him until pretty late on. So what makes him work is not like Galvatorex where he himself is just insanely powerful, but rather we see what his actions are even before we see him. So, before he even shows up, he manages to steal a huge portion of the Martian Space Navy, he manages to get a huge portion of the personnel to mutiny and to follow him, and he does it without getting caught.  And when the asteroids hit, they kill... we don't get an exact number, but it's literally billions of people dead. And then he just goes off to another system and starts a colony and starts sending out a message saying, don't come here, don't mess with us. And for the longest time, the humans of the rest of the various colonies and the solar system, they don't bother with him because they don't feel he's worth the effort of going after. But they always feel like they could if they wanted to. And then 30 years later, he comes back with crazy advanced alien technology and takes over all of human space, like all the billions of people, the hundreds of solar systems that we've spread out to by that point, he takes all of it over completely. And it's not even really difficult for him at this point because he's been preparing for it for so long. And while all of this is going on, he is undergoing treatments to make himself immortal. Like using some weird alien technology, he is trying to make himself undying. And he doesn't want to do it for anybody else, except for his daughter, which I'll get to in a sec.  He needs to be here in order to guide humanity and to protect it. And he knows that he can't trust anybody else to keep doing it generation after generation, so he himself just wants to be immortal.   Granted, his character arc isn't completed yet because there's still one more book out. But unless they really drop the ball, St. John's style here, I think he deserves the number three spot. Number two is Isha Myle from The Wheel of Time. So, for those unfamiliar, in The Wheel of Time, time is cyclical. You know, when somebody dies, they always get reincarnated. And whenever an event happens, it's going to happen again in a similar way somewhere down the line. You know, it's a circle or a wheel, if you will. And every couple of thousand years, the dark one, who is just this unfathomably powerful, evil God, is going to try and escape from his prison.  And Isha Myle looked at this and he said, well, we're going to have to try and defeat him over and over and over again. And even when we defeat him, he's still going to come back. Whereas if he wins, which he will eventually because he has an infinite number of tries, but when he wins, that's game over for us. That's the end. So no matter what we do, it's going to end up the same way. And after coming to this admittedly correct conclusion, Isha Myle just decided to serve the dark one. He said, you know what? I can speed up the process. I can rule for a little while before everything gets destroyed. Let's just do it. And so he became the leader of the Forsaken, who are the dark one's most powerful lieutenants. There's most powerful human allies.  Not because he particularly wants to, but because he feels it's necessary. And because, well, he's kind of a nihilist. He doesn't see the point in trying to protect things because eventually they are going to all be destroyed. And while he is correct in the sense that eventually everything we love will die, everything we love will be destroyed, he's wrong in the sense that that makes things not matter. And by the end of the series, he kind of realizes that he's wrong. Because just like life, his world is going to end in the same way eventually. Just like life. Every life ends with us dying at the end. But that doesn't give you an excuse to give up. And Isha Myle himself seems to realize this by the end of the series, but he's so far gone that he just can't bring himself to try and get away from the darkness and to just give up. So he continues to fight with everything that he has to free the dark one. And even setting aside the fact that he is correct. Even setting that aside and the fact that he's pretty obviously got some depressing mindsets and you feel kind of bad for him, he is just insanely powerful. This guy is on about the same level as Rand by the end of the series. He knows way more about channeling than anyone else alive. He could destroy mountains and cities if he wanted to, but he doesn't want to.  He wants to free the dark one and just end it all. And that's... well, that's kind of sad. Before we get to the number one spot, here's a couple of honorable mentions. Honorable mention number one, Harathin from Elantris. Now, Harathin is interesting in that he's never really trying to kill the good guys. In fact, he's actually trying to protect them because he knows an army is going to come and invade them in just a couple of months if they don't convert to the proper religion and so he's trying to get them to convert to that religion. And he does some morally questionable things while he's doing that, but he doesn't do anything that's just straight up evil. And in fact, by the end of the story, he is actually fighting to protect them because they're going to get killed anyways and well, that's never what he signed up for. So overall, Harathin is genuinely just a good person trying to do the right thing. He just is in conflict with the main characters and so for that reason I'd say he's probably Brandon Sanderson's best villain. Next up is Flag from the Stand and keep in mind I'm only referring to flag in the stand here. I'm not referring to the way he fits into the wider Stephen King expanded universe. I know he's also the villain in The Eyes of the Dragon and in The Dark Tower, but just in the stand, everyone is dead. Almost everyone in the world is dead and there's very few supernatural elements to the story there. Except for flag. Because while most of these people are like normal, going about their post-apocalyptic lives just trying to live, flag actually can do magic. And we don't really know the limits of this, but that just makes it even creepier and more mysterious and therefore better because he's a villain. And we also know that he just gets some sort of sadistic pleasure in causing pain to others. Because while most of the people, most of the survivors are gathering up to be like, you know, just normal people, flag decides to gather up all the crazies. All the serial killers, all the murderers, all the schizophrenics, all of them.  So yeah, flag's cool. Then there's Cthulhu from the Lovecraft mythos and the thing about Cthulhu is that, like I said before, the great old ones aren't really scary because of what they are, but rather what they represent. And so I could have put all of them on here. But the thing is, with Cthulhu, even if you're not familiar with Lovecraft, you know what Cthulhu looks like. You've seen that tentacle face before.  And then there's Ari from Maximum Ride. The original trilogy of Maximum Ride, by the way. So Ari is just a kid. Okay, that's the thing about him. He's just a kid who is horribly abused and subjected to nasty experiments which turn him into something that looks almost like an adult. And then he's just sent to fight the main characters. And he has an unhealthy way of dealing with everything. You know, he's overly violent all the time and he seems to like fighting people.  And later on in the series, we see that. We see how he wants to try and connect with Max because he feels that she will help him with his pain. And later on, even after that, we see that he tries to become a good guy because he thinks that'll help.  And it's not really done in a heroic way so much as he's a victim and we feel bad for him. But he was a victim who tried to make the best of his circumstances. And his entire character growth feels very natural. And if you want to see a more in-depth look at that then just watch my Rise and Fall of Maximum Ride video.  And finally, the number one greatest villain in all of literature so far is Lord Lost from the Demonada. Now, I know the Demonada is not a particularly huge series. A lot of you have probably never read it and a lot of you have probably never even heard of it. The basic idea is that there are an infinite number of universes out there and each of those universes is also infinite. And the one we live in with Earth is, you know, it's infinite. And, you know, you can go out in space and there are other sentient races out on other planets there. But we don't have the technology to move around that way. And the majority of the other dimensions are full of demons. And normal demons are bad. But the rulers of the demons, the demon lords, are called Demonada. And they are unfathomably powerful to us, okay?  And sometimes they'll come into our dimension and they'll just wipe out entire planets of other sentient races because they can do that. And among the Demonada there's one who is unusual because he likes to visit humans a lot. And his name is Lord Loss. And the main characters of the series all have a special connection with him at the beginning of the series. And I won't get into all that right now because this is already a long video as is. But they all have perfectly good reason to hate him. And whenever they manage to beat him, which isn't very often, it's only by outsmarting him. It's not by being more powerful than him because we are less than insects compared to one of the Demonada. But as the series goes on, demons manage to open, like, much bigger portals onto Earth. And so just many demons are coming in, killing bunches of people. And Lord Loss appears to be one of their leaders. And at the very end of the series, the main characters manage to get a hold of this weapon that they think will help them win. And a portal is opened, which lets in more Demonada. And we see then that while we are less than insects to Lord Loss, Lord Loss is less than insects to these other Demonada. He's nothing compared to them. And so they try in vain to fight them and it doesn't work. But then they destroy the entire universe and rebuild it. And when they rebuild it, they rebuild it without Demonada except for Lord Loss. Because Lord Loss manages to manipulate them into just killing all the other powerful demons and allowing him to rule over all the demons of all the dimensions for all time. Now, he's not a complicated character, I don't think. He doesn't have reasons for doing what he does other than that he gets some sadistic pleasure from torturing and killing people and all that. But even among villains on the rest of this list who do have complex reasons and who are very powerful, Lord Loss won. None of the other villains I mentioned here really won at the end of the day, except maybe Spear. Lord Loss was able to overcome Demonada who are older than time itself. They've been around since before the Big Bang which was 13 billion years ago. He was able to overcome them and defeat them and become the ruler of their kingdoms. Okay, he was able to overcome and defeat the main characters who destroyed the entire universe and then rebuilt it. And he did that not by being more powerful but by being smart. And so, Lord Loss won. So, let me know down below what kind of villains you like the most and what ones you think I should have put on here and whether or not I should kill myself because those pop up now and again. Thanks for watching. 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