The challenge of the Yukon Wonder dog King's swiftest and strongest of Eskimo lead dogs Blazes a trail through storm and snow for Sergeant Preston as he meets the challenge of the Yukon Sergeant Preston was typical of the small band of Northwest knotted police who preserve law and order in the new Northwest country Where the greed for wealth and power led to frequent violence and bloodshed But in spite of the odds against them Sergeant Preston and his Wonder dog King met that challenge and justice rule triumphant Old Captain McCarthy had retired from his sailing ship and for two summers had panned gold in the Yukon His pet parrot skipper was his constant companion had spent many years on the sea with him The captain was a hearty old salt with a fond of stories and Sergeant Preston of the Northwest knotted Like to spend evenings with the old man listening to his tales of the sea. Yes, sergeant Here we are skipper and me drop an anchor in the Yukon again We both missed the swing of the sea, but last summer we panned enough gold to give us a calm winter in California with no hard blows to bother us. Well, it's nice to back captain King and I both missed you when you left didn't we boy Listen to that bird. He hasn't forgotten King's name. He remembered it as soon as he heard it You know, I believe King remembers skipper Skipper has a sharp memory. He's nobody's fool and that's a fact.  He has a better memory Remember when I taught him to shouters to King the way you do But I'll never grant to be smarter than King. Let's see if they remember that trick they used to do King go over and see skipper I told you that bird had a memory But look at that King remembers too.  Yeah, the dog is lugging him your hat. I told you so captain Yes, we never will subtle the argument as to which is smarter your parrot or my dog They're both clean-timbered and good shipmates I'll hate to see summer come to an end King and I missed you and skipper and you left last year And if it weren't for skipper, I'd stole my duffel here for the winter But he can't stand the cold he used to be tough as new hemp, but he's getting a bit rusty in the joints like me Well our company coming aboard Step in hello captain sergeant Preston here. Oh, hello sergeant. How are you dog? They told me I'd find you here That's quite a bird you have got Quiet skipper take some slack in your jar title before I heave you overboard Now maybe we'll have a calm for a spell and hear what you're saying doc I wanted to see you sergeant Preston very serious thing isn't yes a bad epidemic of smallpox has broken out in the Indian village smallpox That is serious an Indian boy who used to work for me came in with it says many of them are sick and some have died I'm afraid we'll spread it to town if we don't do something about it at once I'll have to be vaccinated and those who already have it isolated. That's just the trouble sergeant You know these Indians superstitious frightened If I attempt to vaccinate them they'll disappear into the woods and spread the disease worse than ever Yes, I know I may be able to convince I had the parks once my chin whiskers hide the scars lost half my crew with it But skipper and me come through you were lucky Another thing is to try to make them destroy the furs. They're planning to trade They contaminated and they'll spread the disease everywhere. We might organize a committee of minors But I don't like trouble the Indians using force won't do I'd hate to risk Is that parrot calling your dog it's a trick we taught him smart pair of lovers. They'd be true They'd make quite a bone will act Doctor I just thought of something yes captain you say you have the smallpox once Would you be willing to go to the Indian village with us? If I could help any my timbers are rotten a bit, but I calculate I could still lay into it with a belaying pin I wouldn't use force. We'd use your parrot skipper. What do you mean? Doctor have you ever seen the totem pole in the Indian village? No, they have their medicine man I never go near the place as a totem pole in front of the chief's lodge and skipper looks just like the figure on top of it a Beat bird well, what's that got to do with the pox the Indians have never seen a parrot I think skippers the first one has ever been in the icon and I saw to it They didn't see skipper. They'd want his feathers for their heads I never let an Indian get a look at him They wouldn't hurt him if they thought he was a spirit spirit the spirit on the totem pole Coming to tell them how to drive the sickness in their village, but how could you captain? How long would it take skipper to learn how to say burn furs? I can teach him anything in a half a day just by repeating and repeating.   We see him look white man come now The Indians watched as Preston a doctor and the captain entered the village the old captain made an impressive picture The captain's cap is white beard and the brilliantly colored parrot perched on his shoulder King stayed at Preston's side as the money talked in low tones to the captain Is that box of vaccine still tied to skipper's leg gap?    He says to scratch his picture on the arms of all the people in the tribe He has a magic needle. This will drive away the evil spirits Where is magic needle see chief on his foot as a box? Tell your people what to do The Indians amaze but aboard the bird that talked we're soon crowding Iran Preston and Dr Rockwell eager to have his image scratched on their arms Preston the doctor and the captain were visibly vaccinating but toward the back of the crowd Lurk Black Hawk the half-breed he talked in a low tone another Indian them not scratch picture on arm of Black Hawk That white man trick bird is Naka Him say do it listen What him say him say?  I'll keep on you Oh Black Hawk's face Like how cute but it gets your cabinet once the evil spirit has cut you he's got smallpox The early Yukon dawn was breaking as Preston and the doctor sat on the captain's cabin while he brewed them some tea Was a good night's work Preston Exonating the whole tribe. Yes. It was doctor saved a bad epidemic the lover sure done with the skipper said He was one full away that bird learn to say burn furs so quickly Why are you skipper that was good work getting those furs burned Look at King William He just as much as says you can't give skipper all the credits if it weren't for him I lost my shipmate. Yes, King old fella. You did a fine job tonight. Good work boy These copyrighted dramas originate in the studios of WXYZ Detroit and all characters names places and incidents used are fictitious They are sent to you each week at this same time and reach you from our transcription studios Howl Neal speaking. This is the Michigan radio network


Being in a relationship has rewarding experiences. When you're with a healthy partner, you learn to grow with someone, step out of your comfort zone, and your social life expands as you build connections with their family members and friends. But being single has its benefits too. We're tired of social media mainly highlighting relationship goals. Why not start a hashtag single goals movement too? Here are eight reasons to be single. 1. You can save money. Who else here is a broke millennial? Although there are ways to be creative and spend less on dates, a certain budget still has to be established when entering relationships. Transportation and gift giving, for instance, are harder aspects to avoid. But when you're single, your bank account will thank you for it. Unless you're an impulsive spender in general. To gain insights on how to spend more wisely, check out the Financial Diets channel. They offer practical advice that's easy to use, anyone can use it. Whether you're still a student figuring out finances or someone who wants to travel more. 2. You can fortify your friendships and family relationships. When people enter relationships, it's common for them to pull the Disappearing Act. They might not see their family and friends until they enter the comfortable stage of their relationship, which can take up to six months to a year for them to realize they actually miss having a social life outside of their partner. When you're single, however, you can make plans with your close loved ones without having to consider your partner's schedule too. Yay, freedom. 3. You can explore new hobbies. This isn't to say you can't do the same when you enter a relationship with someone. In fact, they might actually encourage you to try new things you never would have considered in the first place. But there's something special about embarking on this journey alone. Whether that means taking up knitting, snowboarding, or cooking classes. You become one with your passion with less interruptions and distractions. 4. You can go after your dream job more easily. The thing about being in relationships is that they require compromise on both partners to grow on the same page in order to sustain. But when you're single, you don't have to limit yourself to one location, which may affect your ideal job opportunities.  If your heart is tugging you to move into the big city to become a fashion designer, no problem. Or if you want solitude and quiet, residing in the middle of nowhere is also an option without having to worry about neglecting your partner. 5. You can be selfish without consequences. My boyfriend and I take turns watching our shows on TV, and I'm not going to lie. I often miss those days where I could just binge watch my drama series without having to worry about hogging the screen. But when you're single, you can be selfish without hurting someone else. If you want to go to that restaurant this weekend, you can. The less people you have to run a decision by, the better. Because when you experience these moments alone, the only person it affects is you. 6. You deal with less drama.  But when you're with the right person, the fights serve well in which they strengthen your relationship instead of weakening it. Single life, however, works in your favor. Because the only drama you have to deal with is from family, friends, and work. You have one less life department to worry about. Therefore, you also have fewer emotions to sort through. 7. You master self-sufficiency. If you're someone who needs validation frequently, being single can work to your advantage. I know you might be itching for a fulfilling relationship. But establishing a strong, healthy relationship with yourself is actually the most vital to your growth. Once you've established a strong sense of self, you're more likely to avoid codependent relationships in the future. How is that not fantastic? 8. You still experience the excitement of finding your soulmate. The possibilities will seem endless. You might meet the one on your summer trip, or maybe the happen is it next to you in next semester's class. Work on yourself. Surround yourself with the things you love, and the right person will come along. You never know what's going to happen. So be patient, enjoy the present, and be thankful that you're alive in this very moment. What are you grateful for towards single life? Share your thoughts with us and leave a comment down below. If you also like this video, be sure to give it a thumbs up. As always, thanks for watching.


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we discuss the following question which says what is the principal value of sin inverse of minus root 3 by 2. Before moving on to the solution, let's discuss the definition of the principal value of an inverse trigonometric function the value of an inverse trigonometric function which lies in the range of principal branch is called the principal value inverse trigonometric function This is the key idea that we use for this question Let's proceed with the solution now We are supposed to find the principal value of sin inverse of minus root 3 by 2 So for this we suppose that y be equal to sin inverse of minus root 3 by 2 So this means sin y is equal to minus root 3 by 2 or you can say sin y is equal to minus sin pi by 3 Since we know that sin pi by 3 is root 3 by 2 or you can say sin y is equal to sin of minus pi by 3 by 3 is equal to root 3 by 2 The principal value is the close interval minus pi by 2 by 3 belongs to the close interval minus pi by 2 by 2 and sin of minus pi by 3 is equal to minus root 3 by 2 Since we have taken y equal to sin inverse of minus root 3 by 2 this root 3 by 2 has sin of minus pi by 3 So this could be equal to minus pi by 3 that is sin inverse of minus root 3 by 2 is equal to minus pi by 3 and this value belongs to the range of the principal value branch of sin inverse As we know from the key idea that the value of the inverse trigonometric function which lies in the range of the principal branch is the principal value of that inverse trigonometric function So therefore we can say that the principal value minus root 3 by 2 is equal to minus pi by 3 is our final answer This completes the fashion, hope you have understood the solution of this question


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Patriot Prime here once again with another Transformers review. But before I start talking about the subject bot of this video, I need you guys to do me a favor. If you're watching this video right here and have not subscribed to Patriot Prime Reviews, please hit that subscribe button right now. It won't cost you a thing, but will help me and my channel out tremendously. Now, on to the review. The figure I'm going to talk about in this video was another figure that I picked up at TFCon DC a couple of weekends ago. But this wasn't a figure I found on the Dealer Room floor. Friend of the channel and fellow YouTuber CavemanReviews sent me a Facebook message asking if I would like to have one of the Walmart exclusive 35th anniversary Bluestrick figures. And I of course said yes, I've yet to see one in my area at all. Everybody's posting these wonderful images of the big Transformers display but not here in West Virginia. So anyway, I told CavemanReviews yes, I'll get him. I'll buy him from you. Meet you at TFCon. So he tracked me down on the Dealer Room floor and lo and behold, I got the figure. Caveman Reviews, thank you so much. I really appreciate it. Like I said, I've yet to see this. I've really been wanting this guy. So enough of me blabbing on about how I got him. Let's take a look at the box. First off, you can see Bluestrick right here in robot mode. This is your typical siege packaging. You've got the great artwork there on the side. I love that. I do hope they come out with a siege art book, artwork book. One of these days on the back of the packaging, you see Bluestrick in robot and vehicle mode. Now on the side, it has the big 35 for the 35th anniversary of the Transformers. Man, we're getting old. So anyway, that's it for the box. Let's go ahead and get this figure cracked open and take a look at him. And oh yeah, welcome to Patriot Prime Reviews. Now once you get Bluestrick out of the packaging, you'll see that he comes with a sheet of instructions, and these are the normal siege instructions. They're beautifully illustrated and very easy to follow. I love the siege instruction manuals. You also get this warning sheet. I have yet to see these in one of my Transformer figures. Warning, choking hazard, small parts, not for children under three years. And then all the other languages on the back, just stuff. So I thought that was odd. I've yet to get one of those in a Transformer figure. He also comes with a rifle. This is a nice chrome painted rifle. It's the gray plastic with painted chrome. Looks really, really good. And he gets two shoulder cannons. And it's so nice to finally get one of these Dotson figures that come with the gun and the shoulder cannons. I've got prowl. I've got barricade. Prowl came with a gun and a light bar. Barricade came with the two shoulder cannons and a light bar. I guess since Bluestrick doesn't have a light bar, he gets the proper weapons. So anyway, let's go ahead and take a look at the figure. I tell you, Bluestrick looks fantastic. This is a great recolor of prowl. And that he is. He is a straight repaint of prowl, but he looks fantastic. Love that head sculpt. Head sculpt looks great. He's got the gray helmet, silver face, blue eyes. The black and gray just really, really stand out on this figure, especially with that red Autobot logo right there. He's got silver headlights. I mean, this thing just looks great. He's got the basic siege articulation that prowl and barricade have. Arms can do a complete 360, up, down, elbow bend, bicep rotation, wrist swivels, waist rotation, legs up, down, all around, knee bend, and slight ankle tilt. But yeah, this thing looks great. Let's go ahead and get his weapons attached. And there you have war for Cybertron siege Bluestrick all armed and ready for battle. This figure is going to pop on my display shelf. Now let's take a look at him in vehicle mode. Bluestrick's vehicle mode is that of a sleek Cybertronian sports car. And just like robot mode, the collars work very well on this vehicle also.  He's got tinted black windshield. Of course, that tinted plastic goes all the way across, looks really, really good. The tires now prowl had clear tires, barricade had the clear purple. His are clear, but they're tinted so dark, they look solid. I mean, it looks really good. Plus, he's got those nice silver chrome rims. Headlights there on the front, Autobot symbol, very prominent. On the back of the vehicle, he's got painted tail lights. The other two did not have that. I mean, this car looks fantastic. Now you can also mount Bluestrick's weapons in this mode. The shoulder cannons can be mounted on either side of the hood and the rifle can be mounted dead center on top of the vehicle. Or, I forgot to show this earlier, you can take these two shoulder cannons and actually piece them together. Let me find how to do it. You got to get the same sections here. They clip together. That forms a handle so he can hold it in robot mode. So you can do this. You can place this new double barrel cannon on top of the rifle and now he has a triple barreled machine gun on top of the vehicle. I think that looks really, really cool. Now let's bring in prowl, which I've enhanced with Toyhacks decals and barricade. As I said earlier, both prowl and barricade come with a light bar on top. Therefore, they only got one extra weapon. Prowl got his rifle and barricade got shoulder cannons, which, just like Bluestrick, can be mounted on the front of the vehicle. So there you go. I think these cars look great together. Now for some quick size comparisons, here is the 35th anniversary Wal-Mart Bluestrick with Siege Optimus Prime, Siege Ratchet, and Siege Prowl, which, as I said before, is enhanced with Toyhacks decals. Now that we have these two together, let me show you the one difference that I've noticed. Is it just me or do these two have a completely different face sculpt? It seems like Bluestrick has a wider mouth where Prowl has his lips pursed together or something, but that right there is the only difference that I've seen between these two figures as far as the mold is concerned. Transformers War for Cybertron Siege 35th anniversary Bluestrick may just be a straight repaint of Prowl, but he is a fantastic looking repaint. And if you're going to complain about repaints, you haven't been collecting Transformers. They've been doing the repaint game since 1984. So even if you have the other molds of this character, barricade and Prowl, Bluestrick is still going to fit in really well with the rest of your collection. Now I just have to hunt down Smokescreen. So there you go guys, Transformers War for Cybertron Siege 35th anniversary Bluestrick. Now wait a damn minute, he doesn't have one ounce of blue on him. So does a 35th anniversary Bluestrick belong in your collection? Absolutely. I freaking love this figure. He's got great coloring plus he's the only Dotson brother we've got so far that comes with the shoulder cannons and a gun. And I hate to say it, this may be one figure that I have no desire to toy hacks. He just looks great. And I couldn't be happier. This is a fantastic looking toy. And another shout out to caveman reviews for getting this guy for me. I really appreciate it. And I appreciate you guys stopping by and checking out my videos. Don't forget to like and don't forget to subscribe.  I appreciate each and every one of you. This is Patriot Pride, signing out. HELLO!


Welcome to Toffy TV. It is the math reaction. Everton to Norwich City Nill at Gwderson Park today. The Blues back to winning ways after obviously a disappointing week losing at Aston Villa and then going out on penalties to Queen's Park Rangers. Turned up today at Gwderson facing a team that had lost 15 Premier League games on the run. I've seen quite a few people on social media saying time for Everton and all of that. But the Blues got the job done and that was the most important thing about today was actually winning the football game and Everton have managed to do that today with a clean sheet as well. You know which is excellent. Before the game obviously Everton welcome back to Overton Pickford after missing the last couple of games through injury. He was back in the side. Ben Godfrey was at right back. We had Jerry Meen and Michael Keane in the heart of the defence. Luca Dean was fit to play despite there being some worries that he'd missed the game after limping off at QPR. In midfield the core eight Alan and we had Alex O'Wobee, Damari Gray and Andros Tamsen behind Salomon Rondon. A couple of young lads on the bench Ella Sims and Lewis Dobbin. Jared Branthart was on the bench despite playing against Manchester United for the 23s as well. So it was a thin bench because obviously there was the no Gomez and Gabaman and players like this. And you could see that it was just a game that Everton had to simply manage by winning the game. You know big game at United next week, a tough game at Manchester United next week. And you know this was represented an opportunity to get some momentum swung back our way. And that's what we did. You know I think Everton started the game okay in control of the game. I would say a lot of nice intricate football of times but really lacking some on putting the foot through the ball in and around the edge of the penalty area. And probably the best move we had was one down the left hand side and it eventually came over to Rondon. He laid it off and Andros Tamsen hit a shot which Krull saved comfortably. That being probably the slickest move we've had. We'd had ones where we'd broken quickly in the wrong ball. It just wouldn't fall to the players in the right area. Ben Goffrey had a shot which deflected into the arms of Krull. Norwich got bodies in the way of shots as well. But Everton for me just took too many touches in the first half in the final third. But we did get a penalty. And Alan who Iman D'Corey I thought were excellent. Alan picked the ball up, went on a run, got into the penalty area, was side down. The referee initially didn't give anything. I think he might have given a corner. But obviously the VAR referee had seen that there was clear contact with Alan. The referee went over to have a look at it. And when you see it again, it's a penalty. A first look. I don't know why it took so long to get the referee over to have a look at it. But he did go over. He did decide it was a penalty. And Andros Tamsen stepped up and sent Krull the wrong way to give Everton the lead. He's been fantastic since coming in as a free transfer in the summer. Everton doing very well this season out of penalties. Our third penalty of the season gave us the lead. And off we went from there and you know could have added to it in the first half. Norwich for their part, still plate. Really nice football. But there's just nothing in that side. He can't get chances created for Puckie who we know can score. They have one shot from the edge of the box which Job and Pickford pushed wide.  And that was kind of like the summer day of effort in the first half. Went in the break. Everton's totally in control. Came out for the second half. And I thought Everton started the second half quite well as well on the front foot. Andros Tamsen flashed a shot into the side netting. We certainly just had all of the ball and moving it round. But then Norwich grew into the game and got better and better I thought. But again without really lacking in that final third. There was a shot from just outside the box which Job and Pickford tipped over the bar. And they had a free header inside the box which the centre back really should have done better. I think it might have been Kebach should have done better. But other than that it was a lot of intricate play with Norwich but no end product whatsoever. Everton did get the second goal. It was a very good second goal as well. D'Corey involved Tamsen. They involved a great run on the outside of Tamsen by Adelaide D'Corey. Andros Tamsen rolled them in and D'Corey dispatched it beyond cruel to give Everton the tune he'll lead and basically seal the game. There was still time for the manager to give a Premier League debut to Lewis Dobb and he came on with five or six minutes left. Show some nice bright touches in that as well. There was a lot of people thinking Rondon was going to be going off after a bar an hour. But I think obviously the manager just wanted to get some, you know, a 19-minute in his legs. He finished the game. Andros, Tamsen, and Damari great both substituted in there. But it was a good win for Everton. It was only Everton about winning the game today. It was always going to be a tricky game. Norwich, you know, could have caught us out today. Last time they were up in the Premier League they come to Godderson on, you know, not on great form and beat us too little. And today was making sure that didn't happen. And Everton have negotiated it well and have won the game. And that's all that really matters. And we now go to Manchester United next weekend on the same point as United. They bat a filler today and were beating in the last minute. So, you know, you never know. Maybe we'll do the same to them next week. But we go there with 13 points, the same as then, the same as Manchester City, the same as Chelsea. So, you know, doing okay, doing well, doing well. It's been a good start of the season. Obviously going off the cut was disappointing, but it's been a good start of the season. And, you know, let's get to this international breaking and try to get a few more players back as well and get up to what we will consider our first choice side. Man o dem atrw i fi was Abdelai D'Corey. I know Andrew Tarn's end worked his socks off, scored the goal, created the goal, which is fantastic. But D'Corey for me was everywhere today, box to box, getting in amongst the goals, which is exactly what we want to see from him. He seems to be everywhere. I thought Alan was excellent as well, and Gerri Mina, absolutely brilliant. And in Damari Gray, you always have got someone who carries a threat all the time. But for me, my man o dem atrw is Abdelai D'Corey. That is it. Give the video a thumbs up. Let me know what you think in the comments section below. Subscribe if you haven't, check out all of the other aftermatch reaction stuff. 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The radical, fundamental principles of freedom, rational self-interest, and individual rights. This is The Iran Book Show. All right, everybody. Welcome to Iran Book Show on this Thursday, July 13th, everybody. It's having a fantastic week. Are you guys all enjoying yourselves? Doing productive work and stuff. All right, today we are going to cover a wide array of stories. This will be, I think, a fairly brief show. We're going to talk about NATO. We're going to talk about Elizabeth Wan and JD Vance. Chips, i.e. microchips. Not the potato chips kind, but the microchip kind. Some hacking and Taka, Taka Carlson. Let's see. Reminder, we have, of course, oh, you haven't started this. Let me start this. We have fundraising goals. We have a target for every one of our shows. We try to meet those targets. That's how we fund The Iran Book Show. Of course, the best way to support The Iran Book Show is through monthly contributions. You can do so on Patreon or on PayPal at youranbrookshow.com. Last support, Robert. Thank you. Thank you. Robert's already got us going with some support right at the beginning of the show here, which for some reason is not being captured by my software, but we're good. So what else do we want to say before we get going? Nothing much except those of you on Twitter. Wow. I mean, the nuttiness and says, if I asked someone to dinner, should I pay? This is related to Twitter. So Tom Woods came out with a tweet an hour ago saying that I've invited someone to dinner repeatedly and never offered to pay, never even considered paying. I have no idea what he's talking about. Literally no idea what he's talking about. I don't think I've ever invited Tom Woods to dinner. So I'm pretty sure I've never met Tom. Maybe I have long, long time ago, but I don't think I've ever met him. I don't think I've ever invited him to dinner. But it is causing quite a stir on Twitter. This is the kind of stuff people get excited about. So I don't think I've ever been to dinner with Tom Woods. I don't think he would come to dinner with me. I'm a bloodthirsty maniac. Somebody else telling the story. Who do I know that has gone to dinner with Tom Woods? Who would tell him a story like this? I have no idea. But let me reassure you, Ann, because I know you care so deeply and are concerned that I, wow, I always offer to pay dinner. I always offer to pay for dinner. Certainly if I invite somebody to dinner, I always offer. At most, I offer to split the bill. The idea that I wouldn't do that. Again, assuming I was invited, I invited usually when somebody invites me, I offer to pay the bill. Some relationships, one assumes that after a while. Anyway, I mean, all kinds of relationships have their own dynamic after a while. But this is like nuts. Where's this even coming from? Who is he talking about? Anyway, I find it funny that Tom Woods, who is this famous Ann Cap, not anti-American moral subjectivist, I have no idea where this comes from. I can't think of who I know in common. He's friendly with Michael Malus. He's Mises Institute, Tom Woods, not Tim Woods. Mises Institute, Economist, Podcaster. He's following, and he has a very big following, and he has a big following on Twitter.  But I'm really, you know, he's got me thinking about who I've gone to dinner with, who would tell him a story like that about me. I can think of one person, but I can't think of that actually being true about that one person. So, I don't know. If any of you find out, who is telling Tom Wood that I never offered to pay for dinner, I'm just at this point kind of curious. I'm sure the curiosity will die by tomorrow, but I'm kind of curious because I don't like it when people lie about me or take things out of context. That's kind of sleazy. And the other question is, why is Tom even bringing this up? What's the context? Where does this come from? Sleazy comes to mind, underhanded? I don't know. And of course, I'm not going to engage with him on Twitter. All right, but let's get to the news. So, yes, I want to make this one more point about Sweden joining NATO because this is, I think, a big deal, which I don't think is played enough, is discussed enough in the media and among strategic analysts. Russia is a country that has limited access to the Atlantic Ocean. It is a country with ambitions, with global ambitions. It's a country that has a large navy and has global ambitions with regard to that navy. And yet it has limited access to the Atlantic Ocean. We'll talk about the Pacific Ocean in a minute. It has basically two points of entry. One is through the Black Sea, and then it has to pass through straits that are controlled 100% by Turkey, Turkey being a NATO member, that's right. And then it has to go through the Mediterranean, Mediterranean having its entire northern shore controlled by NATO members, and then pass through the Straits of Gibraltar controlled by, to some extent, at least a NATO member, and only then go into the Atlantic Ocean. That's one. I guess there's a third path. So the second path, the second path is, in a season where the Arctic Ocean is not frozen, it can come in from the north. It can come in from its northern bases on the Arctic Ocean and come in from the north through the northern Atlantic. But that's difficult in winter, often impossible. But one of the main ways in which it enters the Atlantic is through the Baltic Sea. So let's look at a map of the Baltic Sea. So here you see a map of the Baltic Sea. And you can see that Russia has two basic entry points into the Baltic Sea. One from the St. Petersburg area through the Gulf of Finland, it can travel, its navy can travel into the Baltic Sea, and then from the Baltic Sea through the gap between Denmark and Sweden, it can travel into the Atlantic. The other place is Kaliningrad. Kaliningrad is a little island, not an island literally surrounded by sea, but a little island in the sense that it's not connected to the rest of Russia, but it is part of Russia, which sits between Poland and Lithuania. Poland and Lithuania, so it's completely isolated and the Russians have a significant port there, and that port again allows them access into the Baltic Sea and out into the North Sea, which is ultimately the path to the Atlantic Ocean. Notice what happens when Finland and Sweden join NATO.  I mean, the Russian fleet can be completely blocked by the Swedes near Copenhagen there. It can be, you know, the Gulf of Finland can be completely controlled by Finland and Estonia, where you see Helsinki and Thailand on the other side completely blocking it. I mean, basically the Russians are completely isolated from the Atlantic Ocean through the Baltic Sea and indeed completely isolated in the Baltic Sea itself a massive strategically important place for them. Now, you know, Sweden, the importance of Sweden joining not only the Sweden produce, I've said this many times, produce military equipment, but Sweden has a significant submarine fleet which basically controls the Baltic Sea. Now Sweden is a part of NATO. In other words, NATO has a submarine fleet controlling the Baltic Sea. No way it controls the Norwegian Sea, which would be the access from the Baltic Circle. Turkey controls access to the Black Sea. Basically, if NATO wanted to, NATO could cut Russia off completely with very little effort from the Atlantic Ocean. And this is a major strategic issue. It's a major strategic advantage NATO has over Russia. And this kind of sets Russia back in terms of any kind of ambitions that they have to be a global power, any kind of ambitions that they have to exert influence outside of Russia, particularly exert influence on Europe, but even to get somewhere like Africa is not easy for them, not easy for them. At least by sea. So, I've said this so many times, but it bears repeating. Finland and Sweden joining NATO is massive, massive. It is a strategic defeat for Putin, a massive strategic defeat for Putin. Now I want you to show you one other map, and this is a map, whoops, close that.  This is a map. I did not intend to do that, sorry. This is a map of Russia. And you can see that the scale of Russia is in a massive country. And you can see that it has access, obviously to the Arctic Ocean, but that's a very difficult place to access and often frozen over. And in order to get to the Atlantic, they would have to go along the Norwegian coast, so Norway has access to it. On the other side, they would have to go by Alaska, which is difficult. But really, the other access Russia has is to the Pacific, and it has a very extensive shoreline on the Pacific. But this is the challenge that the Russians have on the Pacific side. That area is mostly empty. Russia's population centers, industry centers are all in the West, not in the East. They're all Moscow, St. Petersburg. That kind of area, not way out in the Eastern Russia in Siberia. There's very little there. So yes, Russia has this lengthy Pacific coast. Not much they can do with it. In addition, you know, Russia's foot was with Japan and lost. And the real power when you look at the Pacific coast is not Russia. The real power, if you look at Asia here, this part of Northern and Eastern Asia is not Russia, as much as the Russians would like to believe it is. But the real power here is China. And indeed, if you are in Kazakhstan or Uzbekistan or Kyrgyzstan or any of the stands, and you have an historical alliance with Russia, an historical connection with Russia, because they occupied you when they were the USSR and maybe occupied you during the Russian Empire, now, when you look at Putin, when you look at Russia, when you look at the failure, when you look at NATO growing, when you look at everything else, who are you more likely to align with? A dying empire? A dying geopolitical force, Russia, which can offer you very little or relatively, certainly relatively to Russia, a dynamic, thriving economy which wants to trade extensively with you even if you have to give up a little bit of sovereignty which is China. Kazakhstan is much more likely to move in the direction of being under the influence of China than returning to the influence of Russia. Basically, what Putin has done in a very, very short period of time is he has weakened Russia so much he has, you know, basically killed any kind of Russian ambition in terms of any kind of geopolitical ambitions that the Russians might have. It's finished. It's over. There is nothing. China doesn't trust Putin. China has no interest in Putin. China is aligned with Russia only to the extent that it gets some cheap oil and cheap natural gas only to the extent that it gets them there. China knows and believes that it's fossil period to anything China has to offer. China believes that it's the future. Russia is the distant past. The real force in Asia is China, maybe India. Russia is in decline. And it's always been in decline. It's been declined since the fall of the USSR in the direction of power. But what Putin has done is he's accelerated the visibility of that. He's accelerated our awareness of that. The world now knows. And you can see it, by the way, one of the elements of this is India. The India Modi is traveling around the world. He's just in France now buying weapons systems from everybody except the Russians. Except the Russians. All right. Just wanted to... I thought that particularly the picture of the Baltic Sea is, I thought, so illuminating in terms of the strategic disaster that Putin has created for Russia militarily. All right. Some quick stories. Found this story on political... It's a little old, but it kind of reinforces the kind of stuff that I've been saying for a while. The new power couple taking on Wall Street, the new power couple taking on business in Washington, D.C. is J.D. Vance and Elizabeth Warren. Indeed, it's turned out that J.D. Vance finds much in common, not only with Elizabeth Warren but with Dick Durbin, the Democrat from Illinois. But this is consistent with... Remember, we talked about the fact that Tucker Carlson praised Elizabeth Warren's economic proposals when she was running for president. J.D. Vance is very much along the line of populist Republicans, populist economic policies, anti-Wall Street, anti-big business policies. So part of the things that he wants is banks that go bankrupt, clawing back CEO salary. He's sponsored a bill with Elizabeth Warren to do that. He wants to stop bank mergers. He's with a bill with everybody else.  Another few bills that Democrats support, that J.D. Vance is on top. I mean, this is your new right. Your new right is socially super-conservative, fiscally super-leftist, fiscally business-wise, antitrust-wise, regulatory-wise super-left. The new right is basically the worst of all worlds. I don't know where the virtue is, where the benefit is. Where's the overlap where we are allies in some way? On what? What are we allies on? All right. That was a quick one. Let's see. Yeah, chips. So as you know, we've talked about this a lot. I consider the chip industry maybe the second most important industry out there right now in terms of importance to the global economy, second only probably to the energy industry. Scott said J.D. Vance is better than Juan. Of course he is. He's better than her on abortion. Oh, no, he's not. He's worse than her on abortion. He's better than her on, I don't know, state-religion issues. Oh, no, no. He's much worse than Elizabeth Juan on state and religion issues. He's better than her on economic issues. Well, he's exactly where she is on many of them. And he's a little better than her on some, I'm sure. But he's exactly where she is on others. And in a lot of issues, he's much worse than her, social issues. So how is he better than Elizabeth Juan? Elizabeth Juan is like the worst of the worst. And how is he better than Elizabeth Juan? He's a Republican. He's part of Scott's tribe. It's part of Scott's tribe. All right. So the chip industry is super important. Biden, together with significant Republican support, passed legislation called the Chip Act, which involves massive subsidies for chip companies to build chips in this country, in the United States. And these companies are in the process of building those chips. So that's one side of kind of the chip issue. The other is there's a concerted effort to restrict sophisticated chips, high-end chips from China. So chips that can be used in military projects, chips that are the state of the art, the latest state of the art, there's now a boycott, a boycott of selling those chips to Russia. It's a boycott that not only the United States is participating in, but so is many of the European countries, particularly the Netherlands, where ASML, the chip products, the chip equipment manufacturing is produced, and Japan in South Korea. So there is a real restriction. China is really being squeezed in terms of high-end chips. So a number of things going on. One, yeah, you can see China is really hooding. China has its electronics industry is in decline. In terms of military uses, they are having to use older design chips, chips that are far less sophisticated than the latest chips. They also engaged massively in trying to smuggle chips into China. So there is a significant effort by the Chinese government and by Chinese businesses and by Chinese crime syndicates to try to steal chips, sophisticated, the most sophisticated chips, and get them into China. You can get a lot of money for the highest best chips right now in China. At the same time, China is pouring doodles of money, huge quantities of money into its own chip manufacturing plants. They are producing lots of chips, not the high-end chips because they can't, but they are producing a lot of the medium to low-end chips, huge amounts of investment. They are also trying to invest in trying to mimic the West's ability to produce the high-end chips. So they are trying to create their own ASML in terms of typical manufacturers. This is China's number one industrial strategic goal, is to try to create a domestic chip industry to compete with the West. And likely to be successful, I have to say. The sophistication, the kind of supply chain that you would have to put together, the kind of expertise that you would have to get put together, very unlikely to do it within one country, even a country as big and with as much talent as China has. It's going to take them a decade or two to catch up, and by the time they catch up, they'll be a decade or two behind. They cannot build, they cannot copy, they cannot copy because they cannot build equipment to copy. The reality is, I've talked about this in the past, to make the kind of ultra-UV light equipment that ASML makes, you have to have the best mirrors in the world, the best mirrors in the world are made in Germany, and those German companies are not selling them to China. And there's just nobody in the world right now who can make that quality mirror, other than those companies in Germany. For China to build a mirror industry that can match the mirror industry that Germany has, that German companies have been refining for 100 years, will take them a long time. Lasers, the leading laser companies in the world in California, US-based, China just doesn't have that technology. They would have to copy us in laser technology. It's going to take them years, if not decades, to catch up on laser technology. Of course those are years and decades in which companies in the United States improve their own processes. Companies in Germany make even better mirrors. ASML is working on the next generation of ultra-UV lighting that's going to take the chips another decade into the future, several decades into the future. So China just can't catch up. So that's one point. The second point is, Biden is traveling around the country pitching his Biden economics, Biden economics, we're building manufacturing. And I showed you that, yeah, it's working in a sense that there's a ton of building of manufacturing plants going on in the United States. Almost all of them being subsidized in one way or another by the federal government. The problem is that when it comes to chips, these are all relatively trivial. And it's not clear that any of these factories will actually open. It's not clear that these factories will actually produce the full capacity. There's still problems of labor and costs and everything else that is associated, the lack of labor that's associated with building these things in the United States. On the other hand, there is significant chip development and chip manufacturing going on and new plants and new projects being done in Europe. There are substantial new projects being done in Japan and in South Korea. The United States is never going to become a chip manufacturing powerhouse. It's where most chips are designed. It's where the design, the software to design chips is produced. But the tools to make chips, Japan and the Netherlands, real chip production, South Korea, Taiwan, and maybe to some extent Japan, European Union and the US. But this idea that the government throwing a few tens of billions of dollars to Intel into some other countries, other companies is going to suddenly create a renaissance in chip production in the United States. It's just in happening, right? In Intel, while it's investing 20 billion in Arizona and 2 billion in Ohio, it's also investing 30 billion in a new wafer facilities in Germany. It's putting an assembly plant in Poland and it's spending 4.6 billion there. And I didn't know this, but this is quite stunning. Intel is investing 25 billion dollars more than they're investing in the US, in Israel. Which is more than Intel has invested in Israel since it started investing in Israel. So it's entire history of investing in Israel. I don't know if you know, but I was the construction manager on Intel's first clean room on its headquarters in Israel in the 1980s. We built the first Intel facility in Israel where they had a clean room. We built that building still standing outside of Haifa in Israel. And it's been investing in Israel since 1974. And it's going to be investing 25 billion dollars in the next few years in Israel. So as much as these companies are investing in the US, it's peanuts. And you know, manufacturing is not coming back even if you pour subsidies into it. It doesn't make sense to be here. Partially because we don't have the labor force, particularly if we don't reform our immigration system. We're not going to have the labor force to be able to do it. All right, there's a story this morning about Chinese hackers hacking into the US government email accounts. Pretty amazing that the stuff is happening. I mean, I guess it's not amazing it's happening. What's amazing is we let it happen. What's amazing to me is there's no retaliation or at least none that we are aware of, that we don't make it very, very clear to the Chinese government, and to the Russian government, the other big major international hacker, that this is unacceptable, that this is basically an act of war, and that we will retaliate in ways that will disrupt everything their entire life, their entire world. That we will not just let this happen. So, yeah, I mean, China hacking our government and us just shrugging, or I don't know, the NSA ramping up its ability to protect government emails, but not retaliating in ways that the whole world would see, so that nobody would dare hack us again.  And that's American weakness. That's America being a paper tiger. That's not standing up for ourselves. And it's sad, but this has been the American stance for years. All right, we are running out of time, so let's quickly do this last one. Taka, I think this Friday, I think tomorrow, is having a candidate, you know, hosting a candidate round table or candidate conference out in Iowa, where the first presidential primary will be held. Iowa caucuses in January of next year. Everybody's going to be there, I guess, except Trump. Why would Trump go? He's leading by such a margin. And why would Trump put himself through an interview by Taka Carlson? Taka might actually ask him why the wall isn't built, and why some of his, why he supported trans when he was president, all the stuff that, you know, what's his name, is making a big dissent, is making a big deal out of. But Taka is the kingmaker within the Republican Party, it looks like, which is a very, very, very sad testament to the Republican Party. I mean, Taka just published his big thing, was just published an hour and a half interview with Tate. This is, this is Taka's, Taka's this is now a guide to the Republican Party, and yet the Republican Party, a conservative party, a party concerned with conservative traditional values, is a party that endorses the Tate brothers. I mean, that to me is bizarre and crazy, just suggests a low the Republican Party and the Republican Party is sunk, and those who support the Republican Party are sunk. I mean, these people are going to be at this Iowa thing, all evangelicals, and Taka is appealing to evangelicals, and evangelicals are somehow on the same bandwagon as Andrew Tate. These are their values, this is what they believe in. I just find that stunning. Now, I guess he's a sinner or a sinner, so it's okay, but he's anti-left. Cool. Well, four, as long as you're anti-left, you're good. Just, you know, we saw this with the fact that the evangelicals support a Trump, and Trump being exactly, you know, in many regards, the opposite, but in many regards, the same as the evangelical approach to so much, but the same in terms of both authoritarian mentality, both have an authoritarian epistemology, both view the world through an authoritarian lens, and that is what unites Taka, Tate, and the modern Republican Party. It's basically the interest and willingness and desire to impose your values and everybody else by through coercion. So, yes, we're going to be talking a lot about elections, and Taka, and DeSantis, and Trump, and it's going to be very depressing. I mean, every time I see this, it's so depressing. The people defending Andrew Tate, the people defending the right, like Scott, who says it's better to be anti-left than not anti-left, which is just disgusting. You know, yeah, let's get in with anybody who's anti-left. Hitler was anti-left. Isn't that how Hitler came to power? Basically, as an anti-left candidate. God help us from allies like that. And, all right, let's answer some questions. We've got a few. DigiGbis says, off topic, should the Parthenon marble return to Greece? What's the objective to you and the ownership of artifacts and the responsibility of archaeologists to the country's cultures from which the artifacts are excavated? I mean, the challenge here is that the land is not private land. If the land was private land, then it belongs to the private land owner. This is land because it's not privately owned. Then the discoverer of artifacts on that land owns the artifacts. So to me, the archaeologists are the ones that own it. Greece, as a country, doesn't own anything. You know, and the private owner, and if Greece wants to buy it from the archaeologist or buy it from the British Museum, where the archaeologist in this case donated it to the British Museum or gave it to the British Museum or sold it, I don't even know. But no, the archaeologists who discovered this stuff, if they stole it, if there was clear ownership and they stole it, but if they dug into the ground and found stuff and that ground was called publicly owned, then it's theirs. It's nobody else's. There's no, you know, link, mystical link between artifacts and the land in which they were discovered or the land in which they were originally made. So, no. All right.  Yes, there's a question about Tucker. I follow Tucker on Twitter, JJJGree says. Because I'm curious. I agree with you about him, but I understand why people follow him. I can't take my eyes off of it. He is an effective surface, maybe, but no doubt effective. I guess so, but I think the effectiveness comes from figuring out how to appeal to a mindless audience. Because I'm sorry, but his audience is mindless. I watch him and I can't stand more than two minutes of it. I have to turn it off.  I have the same feeling about many of the people in MSNBC and like that, but he is so blatantly unconnected to reality that I can't stand watching him. Now I'm going to watch the Andrew Tate debate, not debate interview, because there's a bigger cultural issue here, so I have to. But if I could never, if I never watch anything by, I find, you know, once in a while I'll do a clip for you guys, but I can't watch him over time.  I think he is purposefully lying. I think he knows. I think he understands. He has gotten himself to the point where he is the philosopher king and he knows what's good for you. Plus he knows what's good for him in terms of the money. He'll say anything. Whether it's factual or not is irrelevant. He is completely purposefully, consciously in my view, divorced himself from reality. And yeah, once in a while he's going to be right, because when he points out the craziness of the left, yeah, he'll be right in pointing it out, not in explaining it, because he can't explain it. Okay, Mike says, sometimes we could have Amish adulteration back on again. I would like to ask him if the government has changed its way of doing business at all after COVID and also if COVID was finally proven that AIDS is not caused by a virus. Why is, what's the relationship between COVID and AIDS in terms of proving that it was not caused by a virus? I think it's pretty well established and unequivocal that AIDS is caused by a virus. So I'm not sure about all that. Yes, Amish will be on next Thursday, a week from today. He'll be on next Thursday. So yeah, I'm sure a lot of you have questions. Prepare all your questions for Amish. We'll be talking to him. And if you want to talk about AIDS or COVID or relationship between them or anything like that, the government, of course, all of that, the Amish will be on. Let me just check the calendar so I don't give you information, but I did see it when I was cruising through my calendar. Yes, Amish will be on next Thursday. He'll be on. All right, we are way off the target. Come on, guys. Yeah, we're not getting huge live audiences because I'm doing these shows earlier. I think later in the day we'll get bigger audiences. But still, if everybody listening around does $3, we make it. So please consider doing a sticker for 3, 5, 10, 20, 100, and see if we can get us closer to the show. Don't forget to like the show before you leave. But please, if you can afford it and if you find value for value, please consider making a contribution towards funding the news roundup shows. Andrew says, Rand said both parties were socialist in the 1950s, worse now. And though Republicans are for some economic freedom, some Republicans in some areas, their controls are advertised as capitalism makes their economic program more dangerous in some ways. I agree completely. Their fascist views, which is basically what they are in economics because they want to control, that gets connected and their conyism, that gets connected to capitalism because they promote it as if it's capitalism. And because of that, capitalism gets tainted with republicanism or conservatism. And that is very, very bad for all of us. All right. Frank says, you like Russian movies Einstein, Tarkovsky. I can't say I really like Russian movies. I appreciate the artistry. I appreciate what Eisenstein did for his innovations and for movies back then, Tarkovsky. So I appreciate that. I can't say that I enjoy the movies, but I have an appreciation for the contribution that they made. Ryan says, Finland should build a land bridge to Estonia. And yeah, I mean, Finland Helsinki, they should have a bridge at the very least. But I'm not sure, Ryan, you can afford to fund a land bridge. That stuff is expensive. Thank you, John. That's amazing. John did $20 with a sticker. You too can do a sticker. We're down to just $2 a person and we can make the goal. Daniel says, Tom, we're just still ranting about you. I noticed that.  And I pissed him off in some way. And it goes deeper than just what I said about him. But he's telling stories about me that I'm curious of the origin because I have no idea what he's talking about. Ryan says, $10 for watching the Tate Carlson interview so we don't have to. Yeah, I'm going to watch it. I'm not looking forward to watching it. And I despise Taka and I despise Andrew Tate. But given the millions of people now have watched this interview, I'm curious. I'm curious what is actually being said and how it's handled. God. So those interested in what's his name in Tom Woods, you can find it all on Twitter. His engagement all on Twitter. I'm not firing back to Tom Woods on Twitter. He doesn't deserve it. Let him rant away. I'll use my platform. This is my platform to say what I want to say. Everybody thanks tonight. Don't forget tonight. We've got Jim Lennox. Jim Lennox is a philosopher of science and an expert on the philosophy of science vis-a-vis evolution. Darwin. Also an Aristotelian scholar. We're going to talk about the connection between Aristotle and Aristotelian scholarship. And I ran. We're going to talk about his career in academia as a philosopher of science. He is now retired or semi-retired. We'll talk about evolution. We might talk a little bit at least in broad strokes of evolutionary psychology. So if you have any questions about that, if you have any thoughts about biology, evolution, philosophy of science, but particularly on the side of biology, if you have any questions, I might ask him some stuff on bioethics. I'm interested to know his thoughts there. So yeah. Join us. I think it's going to be a really fascinating conversation. I don't think many of you know Jim Lennox. So he's spoken at a few Alcons, but I don't think many people know him. So I think this would be a good conversation and a good opportunity for you to ask the kind of biology-slash-philosophy questions you might have. And I find biology of all the sciences the one most interesting and in many respects most relevant because I'm a biological entity and it's super relevant to my life. So evolution is really interesting. And there's a lot of misconceptions about evolution. So feel free to jump in and join us. Tonight, 8 p.m. East Coast time. Lewis just came in with a question. Do you think any rant was wrong? Do you think Ayn Rand, I assume, was wrong to not compromise on having Atlas Shrug movie made by the producer of The Godfather? I don't know. I really don't know because I wasn't there and I don't know the details and what we really have is just his side of the story and I don't know what hers was. And so no reason for me to think she was wrong, but I just don't know. Obviously he's a good producer and it would have been better than the movies made now. But whether he would have done it justice or not I've no way of knowing, right? Jeff, he says, come back to New York. New restaurant opening eight seats. New restaurant opening. All right, send me, can you send me an email? I'll be in New York in September. Will they be opened by then? September, middle of September. I'll have my wife with me. Let's talk. I'm eager, eager, eager to come. I was actually going to write you an email about a new restaurant with eight seats. Sounds super interesting. So, yeah. All right, Jeff, send me an email. And some off topic. I sent you some mildly organized information and arguments about non-proliferation. I'd like to confirm that you received it. And I'm wondering if you want anything more from me or a thought on it. I did receive it, skimmed it. I intend to read it more seriously and comment on it maybe on the show. So thank you. I really, really appreciate the effort. So I will promise to get back to you on it probably on the show, some future episodes. But I'm just swamped right now. But I will get to it. I've got these long lists of emails that I have not responded to. They're all flagged. They're all there waiting for me to get engaged with. And that will happen. All right. All right. Jeff, he says it's opening in August. I am excited. Cool. Very cool. All right, guys. We chipped a little into the deficit, but we didn't quite make the goal, but we chipped away at it. I see we've got some additional people just joined. So if anybody wants to do some stickers quickly to get us through the top, that would be great. All right. I will see you all tonight. Jim Lennox, philosophy of science, biology, evolution, maybe even evolutionist psychology, stuff like this, come over, bring questions. Bring questions that quality, the scope of the show will be determined by you. Aristotle. We'll talk a lot about Aristotle. His connection to Iron Man. All fun, interesting stuff that we haven't talked about before, come on over, and it should be a great conversation. Bye, everybody.


There are currently 7 giga coasters operating around the world. The first one opened in 2000, while the newest one debuted in July of 2020. Gigacoasters haven't become as commonplace over 20 years as hypercoasters did, and for very good reason.  Five of these gigacoasters are located at Cedar Fair Parks in North America, with the other two being located at Nagashima Spa Land in Japan, and Ferrari Land in Spain. With Cedar Fair already having a giga at all of their major parks, and Six Flags investing in cheaper coasters, there doesn't seem to be many options for another park that would be willing to build a gigacoaster. However, I think there could be a few. Today, I'm going to discuss a few parks that I think potentially could be contenders for a gigacoaster in the coming years. As usual with videos like these, this is all speculation and my opinion, so take all of this with a huge grain of salt. There are four parks I want to discuss that I think could have a shot at getting a giga in the future. The first one is a bit of an asterisk because of something we heard about several months back. That is Busch Gardens Williamsburg. Busch Gardens Williamsburg was actually all but confirmed at one point to be building an intimate shuttle gigacoaster with a huge spike standing at over 300 feet tall. This project really seems to be up in the air at this point though due to circumstances the world is in right now, and BGW didn't even have the opportunity to open their new intimate multi-launch pantheon this year as they were supposed to. This shuttle giga is definitely off the shelf for 2021 at this point, but whether or not this project sees the light of day remains to be seen. This was such a weird project to learn about when the planning documents were leaked early this year. Pantheon was slated to open this year and is another intimate multi-launch coaster with forwards and backwards sections, while this shuttle gigacoaster, nicknamed Drakenspire by enthusiasts, mimics a lot of similar features to Pantheon, making it seem very redundant at the park. This led to speculation that perhaps at one point Pantheon and Drakenspire were intended to be one huge project that crossed over the Rhine River. Due to plans for this year being halted, I really wouldn't be surprised if Drakenspire ultimately gets scrapped altogether. And this doesn't really bother me either. This potential giga shuttle coaster, as I mentioned, just seems so redundant with a brand new Pantheon which hasn't even opened yet, being in the same park. The leaked blueprint layout of this giga wasn't all too creative either, which left me ultimately pretty underwhelmed. There is another park, however, related to BGW that I think could have a shot at getting a great gigacoaster in the future, Busch Gardens Tampa. Busch Gardens Tampa does have a height limit of 200 feet if I'm not mistaken, but they've received approval to build beyond this in the past with Falcons Fury and Iron Guasi. I could actually see BGT having a gigacoaster built similarly to Orion. If they're not able to build up to the 300 foot mark, they could maybe get approval to build 250 or 275 feet for example, then dig below the ground to achieve a 300 foot drop. This could help to save on material and construction cost as well. It would maybe be around the same length of Orion as well, in order to help keep costs down. I certainly wouldn't expect something as massive as Fury, but imagine how well a gigacoaster would work here to compliment an already stellar lineup. If BGT were to build a B&M or Intamin gigacoaster along the lines of Intimidator 305 or Orion, that would draw tons of people to Tampa to visit this park if they weren't already planning on making it a destination. While I do think a gigacoaster has a fair shot for the future at BGT, I don't see this happening very soon for obvious reasons, probably more like 5-10 years down the road. This is one where I'm a bit on the fence though. One park that I absolutely had to address in the small list is Poland's Energylandia. This park, which only just opened in 2014, has seen an unreal rise to stardom in the amusement industry, with the theme park being home to a whopping 15 coasters, with three more under construction to open in 2021. This park has begun to add some real elite coasters to their lineup in the form of the ground-up RMC Hyper Hybrid known as Zadra, the gigantic Intamin Hyper in Hyperion, and the very first Vekoma Shockwave model being well underway for 2021, which will be known as Abyss, and looks to be a stellar coaster as well. What is even more crazy though perhaps to think about is what a gigacoaster at Energylandia could potentially look like. They are not afraid to take on some really bold moves, with the rate they've been adding coasters along with the sheer scale of recent additions. I'm sure there would be nothing holding them back from adding a B&M giga in the vein of Orion or Leviathan, but they've worked a lot with Vekoma, Intamin, and more recently RMC, so I think it may be much more likely to see something by Intamin or even RMC. Vekoma hasn't even built a Hyper at this point, though we know they are willing to do so, so I'm leaving Vekoma out of the discussion for a giga. Even though that wouldn't shock me too much either, given the huge moves this park makes when adding new cutting edge coasters, plus they have added many Vekomas in the past and are still working with them currently. Basically, there's not much I wouldn't consider for this park, knowing their crazy history and their mere 6 years of operation. It really seems the sky's the limit with Energylandia. The last park that comes to mind, which I'd like to discuss, is Fuji Q Highland. This amazing looking park in Japan already has a pretty impressive lineup of intense record smashing coasters and they have announced they would be opening a new coaster for the year 2022 at an amount which equals almost 34.5 million US dollars, so this project, whatever it is, will be huge. It is worth noting that coasters in Japan have to be built with earthquake resistance in mind, which often leads to more hefty price tags. It still seems though that a giga coaster may be feasible with that budget. This park has built some insane coasters in the past and they go all out. Imagine if they were to bring an Intamin to work their magic and build something along the lines of I-505 with a twisting layout that stays low to the ground weaving through the largely developed park. That is one issue though with putting a giga here. That being space. However, maybe this giga would be more like a Red Force, which takes up a skinny, albeit long, plot of land. Given FujiQ's history, I think they would be a park very willing to take on a crazy project of the scale, whether it be an accelerator style coaster or a more traditional giga. This could also give people a reason to come to FujiQ Highland instead of Nagashima Spa Land while visiting Japan, because Nagashima's giga coaster, Steel Dragon 2000 is 20 years old at this point, and creating a new, more extreme giga coaster at FujiQ Highland could create healthy competition in the Japanese theme park industry, which would be awesome to see. 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Welcome to Toffy TV. Today I am joined by a rising star of Snooker, 18-year-old Sean Maddux, Evertonian. Is in the room, Sean. Welcome to Toffy TV mate. Snooker. Snooker. Scouts are playing Snooker. It's always good after John Parrott, Evertonian as well. Famous Snooker player in the city, but how did you get into Snooker and why Snooker no football? It was football at first, and then you get through a level and you're just not going to make a career out of it. Early decision, yeah? So why Snooker then? It was better. That's fair enough, very honest, and how did that come about playing Snooker? At first, I was in the pool table in the shed and I used to just have a couple of games on that. Then one day my grandad was watching the Snooker. He used to play years ago, so he still watches it sometimes. I was just bored so I was watching it with him. It caught my attention and I got into it. I watched the end of that match. It was the World Championship final. Oh right, yeah. It was John Higgins playing Jude Trump, and that just caught my eye and I was watching it. I watched it from the start to the end, it was just that one match. I started playing it, just getting into it more and more. First time I ever went to a full-size table, I went to have a lesson with my coach. I'm still with him now, but he thought I had a lot of natural talent at first. Straight away, yeah? Yeah, yeah. Obviously, it got to you tonight. I can't remember, but he said to me like I did your break first time I ever played.  I can't remember. So I just got into it more and more and then I started practising. He plays and he coaches in Old Swan, in George Guts Newer Club. I just started going up there once or twice a week and I just started getting better and better. I used to have a tournament, they still have a tournament there every Saturday against other kids round in Liverpool. I started winning them all the time then. It was like a handicap system. So I started off on like plus 30, and most players started off like plus 60 odd. So I was already at a start on them, and they'd been playing longer than me, so I was taking to it quick. And then by the time I was like 12, I made my first century break in there. At the age of 12? Yeah. Incredible. Yeah, and then...  Yeah. Age of 12, making that brilliant. I kept missing. After that one I kept missing the last ball to make another one. Did you? Yeah. And I ended up, by the time I made my next one, my second century break, I just started making loads then. Did you? I made about 100 in a year, when I was about 13. So I started just making loads, and so I was getting more confident then. I was just, I started making bigger breaks more often. Yeah, yeah. And I take it into my tournament, and I ended up winning a couple of junior tournaments, like the North West Junior tournament. And I won that five years on the bounce. Okay. By the time I was 15, I started to do better than the men in the tournament then. And I won the Mergyside Open when I was 15. I beat John Parrott y record from, like, 1980s. Yeah. He was 18 when he won, and I was 15. Incredible. Yeah, and then a couple of months before that, I made the youngest 147 in the tournament. And how about this, in the Guinness Book of Records with this? Yeah. He was 18 years of age, making a 147 maximum break. Yeah. Taking a snooker player who's quite good record, actually, do you want to say it was? Ronni O Sullivan. Ronni O Sullivan, who's an elevator player. So, I mean, what does that feel like to be in the Guinness Book of World Records? Good. Yeah, good, but just weird really, I don't know. I think it was 28 years of record, 34. So, I'll just say all on my own stand for now. I mean, you took John Parrott's month after the 1980s, and it's another 28 years. So, this isn't something that happens regularly. So, it should be incredibly proud of. But when you were making the 147, I mean, what was that like? Was your bottle gone? How early did you know you were? How early were you thinking about it in that break?  They just looked like I had made one there, and I hadn't made one in practice either. Haven't you know? No, not until that point. That was the first 147 I'd made. But they just looked like they were there to be taken, yeah. Oh, my God. And... Were you nervous? Not really, no. He was a pro. Gary Wilson was playing on the next table to me in the tournament. And he was what I was seeing him in the corner of me I was watching. So, I was concentrating on not missing an easy shot, really. I was just standing there falling on the block all the time. And I got to about... I remember I got to about 56, and they were just all there. They were just like an easy shot. So, it was just more concentration than anything. Easy shot, yeah. Yeah. I was standing. It must have been... It must have been... It must have been nervous then. Come on. I had a black for the 147. No. More on the pink. I had a tough shot on the pink. Oh, did you? Yeah. And I finished perfect on the black, so I couldn't really miss it. I mean, I've seen people like Jamie White missing straight blacks in Welsh Championship finals. They're never easy. You might say it's easy. They're never easy. And so, obviously, you've got that record, which is amazing. 15-year-old doing that. It's saying that you'd won the European Championship under 17. Yeah, I won the European under 17. I was 14. I was in Malta. It was the first time I'd been to a different country to play. Yeah. And my coach came over with me. Right. And we won that. I was with a brand new cue as well, my cue, bro. Two days before I went over there. That's like the nightmare. That's the equivalent of your favourite pair of boots. Not being there, you know, isn't it? Incredible. To win it with a new cue. Yeah. I played well towards the end of that. It was a good standard of player in that tournament. So I've done well to win that. And then it was the status the same year I made the 147. I was 14 when I won that. And I was just 15 when I made the 147. Good year then. Yeah. It was, yeah. And then towards, like the last couple of years, I entered the cue school last May. Is that qualifying school for it to be gone before? That's the team professional, like, yeah. And it was like, I think it was the record number, like 250 players or something in it. 240 players in it. And he played out, like, the last four of each tournament. So you've got to win, like, six or seven matches to ten, bro. And I had a really tough draw. I was just playing, like, top players. And I weren't favourite to come through at all. And I lost in the last round. Right. That was a 16, I think. I think I was 16. So you were close, very, very close. Yeah. And my next tournament after that was in Malta, the world in the 18s. Nice. And that was the team professional, the winner team professional. Okay. And I got to the final. I think he only dropped. I think he dropped, like, three frames to get to the final. Three or four frames. And that was a really good tournament as well. Yeah, yeah. And I just got beat in the final. That was to automatically turn pro. Right. But in the last couple of months, I got awarded a two-year professional card off that tournament, yeah. From that? Yeah. That's brilliant, isn't it? So, I mean, what does that feel like? Because obviously going from your shed, your nan's shed, to becoming a pro. I mean, must be a great feeling now. Yeah, it's good. But it's just going to see how far I can get in the game. Yeah. Hard work starts now and all that. It's always been hard work. Well, yeah.  I do between, like, five and eight hours a day, every day. Sometimes I'll have a Sunday off. Yeah, yeah. But the most days, yeah. That, I don't have to try. Yeah. Just different shots or playing frames. Well, sometimes I'll practice with players. Yeah, yeah. Like other professionals and good amateurs. Yeah, yeah. And then the days I'm not doing that, I might be with my coach. And if I'm not doing that, I'll just have a day on my own. Just practicing whatever I need to practice. And whatever I need to practice on. Who's the highest profile player you've played against? I've played, like, I've played John Higgins. I've played Karen Wilson, who's just lost in the World Final. Oh, right. I've beat both of them in exhibition matches. Beat John Higgins? Yeah. I've played, I think I've played Steve Davis. Sure, maybe. Have you played Davis? Yeah. Sure, maybe. And Ken Zawty, as well. And honestly, you're breaking them up, then, aren't you? Yeah. I think that. I mean, I've got to bring something up, because obviously it was in the news a couple of weeks ago. I love Ronnie O'Suller, and I think he's incredible. But he come out with a statement after one of his matches, which has caught a lot of attention. And obviously he then goes and wins stuff, so it kind of backs up what he was saying. I guess, I guess. But he come out and said that the standard of young player isn't great because people like him shouldn't still be getting to finals. So I'm up to John Higgins as well, I think. I think, you know, where the old place shouldn't be getting there.  What does that make you feel like? It depends what way you look, right? I was laughing mad off when he said it. When he watched it live, yeah. And some people take it the wrong way. Right. But he just said it. He doesn't mean to say that, because he's said it in another interview. They are really good players, they just need to improve their consistency. Yeah, yeah. So it's how you take it? Yeah, because I was waiting for him to say something else. Yeah, because I know what he's like. Yeah. And it's just, you've just got to ignore what he says, because the likes of John Higgins says the standard's getting better all the time anyway. So just to go in on the pro tour now. When, like Ronnie O'Sullivan was coming through, if he was as good as he was, if he was as good as he is now, he'd have probably been world number one when he was like 16 or 17. Because the standard just went as good then. Yeah, yeah. So it's, it depends what you look at it. And it's hard, the games getting harder and harder. I suppose it's a, you look at it like you're going the throne down, can't you? It's like, you know. And that's how I took it. I thought it was just laughing when I seen it, because I thought, you know what Ronnie's like. He does come out with Matt Statings at times. Doesn't he? But you know, he's a character, and you need characters in Snooker. But it is, I will take it, I think, especially by your talent, I'll show you. I know what he means, I know what he means, but he says it the wrong way. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Interesting. But you can use that as a little bit of, a little bit of firing your belly to show him motivation, to show him, and have you got a message you want to give him a message? No. Just prove it on the green base, can't you? Yeah, and waiting for the, there's a draw for me, second tournament on the calendar. Right. And I can draw Ronnie. I can draw Ronnie in any tournament, but I think there's a good chance of me drawing a top player in this one. Right. That'll be coming out. Would you like to play, because obviously, as a Snooker player, when you're young, coming through, you must want to play the best, to see where you're at, so would you like to get them in it? Yeah, because they're not going to be round for a much more time, so you want to play them all you can, yeah? Play them, beat them in it, say that for the interview. See the old players aren't that good, yeah? Yeah, yeah. Well, tarn, again it is, I guess like there is the go on, because it's a chance for you to go on and hopefully you'll go on and better what he's done. He's been an incredible, and still is an incredible snooker player, isn't he? Well, he's the benchmark, he's what you're aim. He's like the person, you copy what he's, the amount of practice he's done, stuff like that. Cos that's the only way you get as good as well. Is he like, would it be fitting, I wouldn't embarrass you saying, is he hero, but is he someone you'd look up to and go, well, if there was like a snooker icon, would it be him or is there somebody else? It's him and John Higgins. John Higgins, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's just like, the two, Ronnie's like the best. John Higgins is probably like number three. Yeah, yeah. I think Stephen Engey was, Stephen Engey was the best and Ronnie took over him. So, it'd be. Any of them three? Yeah. Yeah, if you're looking up to them, you can't really look up to anyone better than them. Out of them three, this might be a hard question, but if you look at them three, who style you, would you say you were closest to? In between, John Higgins and Ronnie. Ah, yeah, yeah. Got that little bit of flair and go after people, yeah. Yeah. He's got like too much flair for me, but. Yeah. Yeah. Interest. It's going to be interesting to see where you go.  Next week, yeah. Yeah. In Milton Keynes, the championship league. Right, okay. Yeah. So you're feeling good. Yeah. Can't wait. No. It's been ages since I've had a tournament, so I'm all looking forward to that more than that. Will this be your first tournament since saying I'm proud? I played in the World Championship, but I went into that as an amateur. Oh, okay. So this will be my first professional fight. First professional. Yeah, first tournament as a professional. Yeah, brilliant. Yeah. Brilliant. And you're going to, for this next one, there's an evident link because I think you're going to wear... Yeah, going to wear the event on the way to school. Yeah. So that's going to be that your charity that you're using for this one. So a nice little link there to our football club as well. And the city, because even though it is evident, it is a city charity there. They do incredible stuff for our city, don't they so? Yeah. Probably if not the best, if not the best, isn't it? Oh, God, they're out of shadow. I mean, I've only got a team that could be as good as they are. Just like touch on the team. First, obviously you'd never thrown in what you said before. So are you excited by what's going on recently? Obviously, Carlo Ancelotti and... Yeah. You know, the signs of later. I think when he came, I think a lot of people expected a lot of them just because of who he is. Yeah. But I think now the signings, I think the signings will just improve the team massively anyway. I think a lot of people will expect like European football in the next couple of years. Yeah, definitely. I do, because we've got the money now, haven't we? Got it? Yeah. Got a bill to see? Yeah. I'm looking forward to seeing how they get on. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I think we are all excited at what's going on with the mums.  Who can you... Who would be someone you... Probably Duncan Ferguson. Big Duncan. Yeah. Yeah. I think he's the best thing. I mean, it's great seeing him. Managed for a few games as well, wasn't it before Carlo coming, but I think Duncan's a lot of people's... I'd less report about iconic, and he's iconic. Player was my big dunk. So, I was in here a while ago, sat in here, coming and seeing us. So, it's great to see him still there and obviously with Carlo, won't you lot? It's getting exciting times for you and hopefully Everton as well, moving forward. So, hopefully it's a good year. I'll be looking out for you now, won't we? And loads of Evertonians, but not just Evertonians, because on Maisie's side we do generally get behind. The team, things a bit different obviously, but when it's sports, the people from this city, the city generally does get behind. I mentioned John Parrott before, you know, the city, even though he was never Tony, and the city were behind, he became world champion, and we've seen it with Tony Belgyr, even though he's a, you know, he's a diar blue, and a lot of, a lot of the city get behind him, and we do kind of take our sports people to our hearts. So, I think there's an opportunity for someone to get involved and back here local businesses, there's still a place to support you. And as you go forward, isn't it? So, if anyone is interested, who's watching, who's got a local business, the link will be in the description, chance to sponsor Sean, get involved with Sean's journey, one of the rising stars of Snugha.  And we were joking actually before you come in, trying things, Sean will come in with the waistcoat on, and I was sure that the top of the day was coming like some relax today, but if you wanted the opportunity to get involved and sponsor Sean, one of the city's bright sportsman, like I said, the link is in the description and we'll have some social stuff as well, look out for them there. But I just want to thank you for coming in and having a chat with you, all the very best mates on your journey and hopefully you'll get a chance to put Ronnie in his place. It will be quite interesting to watch. So, how can we find you know, Sean 147 Maddox on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Make sure you follow, give Sean a follow, get behind and play to say one of the rising stars of the city, you can catch him at Sean 147 Maddox, just again, just in case you missed it there. Thanks for coming in and having a chat. 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