You get out of this car and you hug me right now. How you been? You embrace me right now. Damn you been too long It's been way too long glad to be back I mean I probably won't be around you know pulling them 30 hour shifts back to back to back anymore, but oh, yeah I mean that that's fine, but still seeing you around a little bit.  I know there's other car It wasn't me What did you touch? I swear it wasn't me. Are you sure? No? Oh, hey, Fred, how you doing? I'm doing good.  No, I'm at the garage. We just got done showering in a wrestling Hello, it is cornwood. Yes, who's this? This is Candice. We need you. We need to hear us. We're up at the observatory There's a raccoon here raccoon raccoon. There's a raccoon. Yep, and we need you He said we need heroes and we thought of you. Okay observatory now the observatory Okay, I'll be I'll be there with me And we need you. Okay. Well, you need to do you need to surround the raccoon. Okay, make sure don't get away He's living in speaking to us like he's not gonna run away. Wait, so it's a human or not Actually, he's kind of a human Okay, I'll be there as soon as I can all right great. See you soon observatory season.   Yeah Okay, I'll be there soon Okay, apparently y'all need to drop me off at the observatory Do you want to get serial killed?  Well, you think she's a double agent Probably Okay, well, here's what we got to do y'all drop me off But you keep an eye on me from a distance if things if things go haywire Starts working just starts working Okay.  Do you not see what you're looking at human beings? It's Kyle Pratt Gordon Whatever hey that is. What is happening another furry compatriot? I'm I'm Star-Lord. I prefer the name Star-Lord If we got us if I got to save the world again I'm sailing to destroy it I'm a cream pie candy. I was listening to Joe Rogan on the way over here. I'm sorry I don't think I'm gonna listen to that anymore. Yeah, you know what? I love that last one that he did I don't know if I agree with some of the things he's starting to say. I think that I don't know anything about it other than people are mad at Joe Rogan. All right I think we should get to the port listen. Those were determined if someone was a witch people with very short attention span That's why we have to keep it relatively small for this part at least probably wondering where I was where I've been I was beamed up like Scotty. Is that a quote like beam me up Scotty never had a bit Sure, whatever. Yeah, so that happened and then I was was Introduced to a person by the name of Chauncey miracle. You've seen the Hunger Games, right? Yeah, yeah, it's like one of those You know the high-paid people in the Hunger Games the way they dress and talk Really weird, but we need to go meet them real quick. It's probably the best way to You know get you guys informed. Okay. All right, whatever you say Rocket. Yeah, we're ready to meet chat chat Chauncey Chauncey Chauncey miracle My system of the day you guys are wrangler just trying to hear you cornwood get in with you and then just follow us All right, what do you mean? You're trying to hear me. I've been screaming the entire time. What was that? Sorry? I was too far away All the years of firearms. No, yeah, we of course we need cornwood really. He's he like a meat shield. He's senior captain. He's my He's my superior, so I'm doing good. I'm doing real good actually Talk to a raccoon. Who taught that thing American? No, no, that's a human Quick hey Mina cornwood, you're not supposed to say my name. Oh, hey Matthew, yeah, there you go. All right, if you're not safe the safe word Is cantaloupe? Well, I can't bounce that it's too big. I'm currently watermelon Watermelon, are you not safe blink twice? He's coffee. He's not safe. I think everything's okay. I'm a ringer.  Is Claire calling wrangler? Yes, hold on. So we are we having a four-way conversation separately two ways I don't know at this point. Um, she's talking to him. I'm talking. Yeah. Yeah, we're doing that Listen Claire is it we're in the She's roving the tunnels, but we'll keep our distance. Did someone try to keep your distance because I actually don't think I had any Wait, no wrangler thinks he's gonna get killed. What?  I don't know. All right, Mina. I gotta go Hey, wait, what is this the is this the anniversary event? That's John C See, I told you it kind of looks like the hunger games, right? And you brought your little friends good They're not friends the guardians. We're guardians of low santhos. Isn't that right guys? Yes, yep I would say marry the first Yeah There's problems afoot and you have been assembled to annihilate that problem But a part of this is acquiring some information. We need to know who the patient zero is We need to analyze and understand what is happening I need you to take this rifle And with this rifle you will take a specimen from the patient zero You need to collect the projectile from it and analyze it so that we can understand and save people before it's too late Ah, so develop some sort of vaccine Oh, well, I don't believe in those Yeah, I'm not using that Oh, okay. I'll use a cure. I'm not using the vaccine though. Yeah Listen, we all we we're good with some herd immunity. Okay. We don't need no damn vaccine Yeah, we kind of heard, huh Yeah, we did it. We saved low santhos with herd immunity. That's why we're the guardian others racket Hey, uh, boss, I'll prove to you that we're the best guardians the city's ever had Even though I don't know the fat man's name, but he's kind of funny. He looks like the pills buried dough boy Call him dough boy My name is cornwood.  You do need a cute nickname though You need to stick together and work together as a team Yeah, yeah, yeah, we heard you. I'll see what else I can do for you. Who is doing the raccoon?  I'm gonna teach you the language Which is god to you ready? Yeah. Yeah So language is that me and uh my receptionist talk all the time when I have to pay rent you ready? Yeah I think I think I got you. Yeah You know, you kind of remind me like you could just be a tree I am one would probably it's the same intellectual capacity too. Yeah, that's right like a redwood except corn We got a mission team. All right Maybe you guys should all be on a different channel on the radio. Yeah, I was thinking that too 7.1 Let's go to 8.1. Once we find the individual We need to scout them out and then Fred will like to take the shot Just gotta see, you know How do I get to the point ones just put in point one on the radio All right, and then on the radio Oh, I got one of the old ones that just got buttons.   Why don't we why don't I just wrestle them in the uh, you know locker room You could get big and then you could get infected. You know what that's a good point If that's what you want to do if you want to if you want to wrestle them to distract them So we can make the shot and so be it All right, but what if we let this guy live and then everyone could develop herd immunity wouldn't that be better? Yeah, I think that's a good idea herd immunity. Well, I mean Maybe I mean you want to test that theory? Yeah, we could corn would we got to protect this guy? We can't let pret shoot. Yeah pres.  I got an idea.  And have them get bit when we verify who patient zero is and see what happened. Okay. Yeah, we gotta grab All right, uh, you know what I tell you what I won't I'm just uh, let me ask you something there racket How much wiggle room do I got here? What do you mean by that? How much wiggle room do I got here? In what way? Do we got a mission we got to take care of? I'm trying to clarify it with the rest of the potty I'll just stick with the mission. All right. You think that'd be for the best corn would corn would didn't even understand How to use his radio properly listen if you want you can just just send me an email Well, let's get after it 10 to their wrangler. All right, we're uh, where are we going? Um, We're going to go check Dean's world and watch out for the so if someone's coughing you're going to shoot them No, I'm not going to shoot somebody if they're coughing I'm sure we'll know who the person is that we're supposed to shoot There has to be some sign other than a cough. Listen, uh, we'll we'll we'll work as a team And if I end up at shooting the wrong person, we're all going down together agreed. Perfect I'm gonna be honest.  I come into this damn city We got talking raccoons. We got vaccines.   It's the dog. It's the dog. It's the dog.  It's the dog. It's the dog.  Shoot it. Fred, take the shot. One second. I'm getting the phone. Take the shot, Fred Fred, take the shot. He's foaming at the mouth. He is foaming at the mouth Am I supposed to take the shot? Take that shot. That dog is sick. Am I taking it?  I just checked Can I get close to maybe not uh, I push I push the carcass into my dog So you're telling me our one chance of evidence is in the water. Well, I think it was the wrong dog All right, you know what? Hey, hey, let's just chalk this up is a learning experience now Sir sir what's coming at my officer?   We have no problems. So thank you We got to have a chat over radio once we need to roll out There's some stuff going on and I make them feel like they're the ones who did something wrong and then we forget We don't even know if that dog didn't have no damn Concealed weapon or whatever and if it did it could have you have a license all right one second We got to investigate twaddle real quick everybody. All right. I'm just uh, you know, no matter what happens I'm just glad that we stopped that dog Wrangler people are not happy about this dog, sir.   Hospital. Hospital. You made labs. You made labs. You made labs So that's where what could be made Viruses, I'm just gonna say 28 days later started with monkeys.  I really think it was the dog The monkeys in 28 days later were in a laboratory not appear That could have been a lab dog a lab ritual. That's it. We're looking for a lab. All right, everyone spread out Nice to see wedding room, I'll take that where did Jesus Christ raise from The dead No, he was in a tomb that just helps me smile. He was in a thank you man in all serious cemetery Okay, yeah, we need a cemetery So let's go there and shoot Brian's dog Okay, mercy, thank you for the five dollars dude. I've got to run people I'm glad you have a place where you can go. Okay, mercy All right, let's let's run out of here. Why yeah, why the hell top of the hill top of the hill.  What am I just permacorn? It's a server event and I State emergency read email and you're me.  What happened to Wrangler? Wrangler is not breathing You're my income now. I take 80 percent of your payback Great, if you can hear me Oh my gosh, you know what? I'm gonna try to come to you All right, so we're we made it out. We got to we got out of there Wrangler and cornwood.  I'm pumping.  I'm trying my best here. I'm pumping Copy all right.  Wrangler was the dog Who is he? The dog here was the dog Keeping people currently going around biting each other Can you tell us the story some more on Cornwood? Basically the story so far with from cornwood pov is I was going out with Claire Mina and Wrangler where you at?  There's a disease yada yada yada We need to go find patient zero and he's he basically puts us sends us on a quest. Oh, man. The service here is great Okay, I'm doing just fine now I don't know what the hell happened to you guys. What happened to you wrangler?    What's happening?  Nothing but thick fog. I can see six feet in front of me Oh my god, is that the wrong kind of wavy? Yeah, yeah, it is. Okay. We got to find this damn dog. I'm telling you with that.  It was the dog I did but oh my god I couldn't be a part of the sky sir A dog infected in the highest city in out this It was a dog. This is not a good one. I'm coming in you guys with the rhino on now Apparently a dog infected. All right. Well prep's coming with a rhino, so that's good Johnson told me seek shelter a virus has started spread their loss and does not get close to any manic individuals that may attempt to bite you He's got he's got like a skull mask. I'm right.  It's a state emergency because I didn't even know I had email installed on my phone. So they're zombies you guys up right up. I'm shooting everybody I mean that's for patient zero. I guess it all makes sense now.    I'm shooting them guys get inside the car All right, let's just head over to Zankudo Dude, I actually love this. I got rpg. Yeah. Hell. I didn't even know there's that many people that exist I wasn't expecting that many people at the grip. Why did they shoot us? I don't know why they shot you guys. Maybe it was because they got infected Hey, we should take over the lost compound The hell? Go to zinc. We're going to Zankudo. There's some supplies there and then from there Maybe we can hold up at the law Zankudo has been breached Yeah, apparently it's by what? Cell service will terminate shortly. Seed shelter Hey, hey, hey, I got an email. Cell service will cell service will terminate All right, listen, we still got radios, but if you guys are heading to the yacht, why are we just dead again? Should we switch to 3.8 then? Because we got to think of a plan. Listen, apparently Zankudo's already been It's been breached over the lost compound Yeah, Rackett just told us what the plan was Regrouping at the yacht right now There's a blue aura going over the lost compound Oh yeah, let's go there. Let's go to the blue aura You're supposed to go to the blue aura Let me hear you moron The show's the fight is stuff sit and Don't act out of this orders compromise No, no, no, no, Ryan's the stuff sit and looks good, Ryan.  It's the fight of the hand to zinc Kudo. We gotta get the Zankudo stash


wish that in a circumstance like this I would be able to concede to a worthy opponent but I do not have a worthy opponent to which I can concede this was the most deeply deceitful dishonorable despicable campaign I have ever seen run for the courts it was truly beneath contempt now I say this not because we did not prevail I do not say this because of the rancid slanders that were launched against me although that was bad enough but that is not my concern my concern is the damage done to the institution of the courts that salty bitch you just heard from most Republican Daniel Kelly who's a candidate for Wisconsin State Supreme Court and yesterday he was defeated by his Democratic opponent and as a result him and Republicans really across the country are outraged because this election was enormously consequential not just for Wisconsin but for the entirety of the country as 2020 stopped the steel founder Ali Alexander put it his defeat may actually jeopardize the GOP's chances of taking back the White House in 2024 why well it's because if he was in this position of power he could have potentially rigged the election for Republicans which is something that he tried to do in 2020 as Wisconsin watch explains Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Daniel Kelly advised the Republican Party officials on a plan to have a group of Wisconsin Republican signed paperwork falsely claiming to be electors in the 2020 presidential election and so now since he was defeated all that goes out the window and he's not going to be able to help Republicans advance any future potential fake elector schemes at least in Wisconsin but it goes deeper than that because his common dreams puts it quote Judge Patasawix's victory is a huge win for protecting Wisconsinites fundamental freedoms said Sean Eldridge founder and president of the progressive advocacy group stand up America quote Judge Patasawix will act as a check on conservative efforts to take away reproductive freedom disenfranchised voters of color through racial gerrymandering and overturn election results they don't like her victory helps build a firewall for democracy and the freedom to vote ahead of 2024 Eldridge continued so that right there is why we're seeing so much coping and seething because Republicans in the state won't be able to disenfranchise voters of color and their antiquated ban on abortion from the 19th century literally is likely going to be overturned now but let's watch more of Kelly's concession speech because as you're going to see he was very bitter about the fact that voters chose democracy over his right wing authoritarianism my opponent is a serial liar she's disregarded judicial ethics she's demeaned the judiciary with her behavior and this is the future that we have to look forward to in Wisconsin I've been committed to the rule of law my entire career I understand this to be the most fundamental basic promise of civilization and in its heart it lives in the judiciary and if not there nowhere at all we have this laid out plainly for us we could have the rule of law or the rule of Janet when the people of Wisconsin have chosen the rule of Janet the rule of Janet it is I guess his tears are delicious now yesterday just in general was a pretty bad day for the right because as Charlie Kirk puts it Trump was arraigned at Marxist wins mayoral race in Chicago and Democrats flip Supreme Court in Wisconsin very bad day no spin no BS country is in collapse we need God and dutiful action look maybe if you guys stopped acting like literal fucking Nazis I don't know maybe voters would embrace you again but they can't help themselves they wear their contempt for democracy on their sleeves and then they have a surprised Pikachu face whenever voters reject their authoritarianism and Charlie Kirk like Ali Alexander admitted that this defeat is indeed going to make it more difficult for Republican to win the presidency with the subtext being that they won't be able to rig it in that state yesterday was not a good day not only was Trump arraigned Wisconsin was a blowout and there goes the Wisconsin Supreme Court and it decreases our chance to be able to win the White House in 2024 it's not impossible but we tried to warn people turning point actions on the ground we were knocking on doors trying to raise money the RNC in order to be found MIA that's why we tried to do everything we could to get regime change done at the RNC they wouldn't be bothered they were too busy doing their things that they do which is nothing but pay themselves and take care of their DC consultants and then Chicago not as if it was in a going in a hopeful direction decided to elect an outright Marxist total Marxist is going to become mayor of Chicago we'll go we'll get to these stories but let's get to the one that is leading which is the arraignment of Donald Trump boohoo so sad now Republicans are going to have to try to win in Wisconsin by convincing voters to actually vote for them instead of rigging and rat fucking their way to victory as they usually do it must be so hard to grapple with this new reality and live in a world where democracy at least for now still prevails now I'd be remiss to not mention the Marxist that he referenced in that video because that was another monumental victory for progressives the Daily Beast explains Democrat Brandon Johnson has been elected mayor of Chicago defeating his opponent Paul Vallas Tuesday night in nail biting fashion the close race was called just after 10 30pm Eastern time by the Associated Press and others capping a hotly contested race that largely centered around questions of crime and public safety the former Cook County commissioner and union organizer was endorsed by the Chicago teachers union and united working families he even earned the support of Bernie Sanders who came to Chicago on Thursday to rally support for Johnson he ran on policies such as improving mental health treatment and providing Chicago's youth with jobs he also called for eight hundred million dollars in new taxes on the city's businesses and most wealthy incredible so allow me to unironically say let's go Brandon but you know there you have it there's a little bit of hope yam to help you get through the rest of the week voters or at least for now anyways continuing to reject far right authoritarian candidates and as a result I'm a little bit more optimistic about the future for American democracy it doesn't mean that we're out of the woods yet but the C voters again and again say we don't want these mega extremists who are openly talking about rigging elections that is something that is very very valuable like I can't overstate how important that is that Americans are still pro-democracy I mean certainly there's a number of them who are explicitly anti-democracy now thanks to Donald Trump but the overwhelming majority are seemingly still in support of democracy and that is something that I think should be celebrated so these victories are great and these Republican tears just make these victories that much sweeter so keep crying and if you want to win again Republicans again maybe stop being so goddamn extreme and vicious towards marginalized people towards democracy just I don't know try to do better but I mean I'm not trying to give you advice because I want you to win but I think that we all have a vested interest in making sure that one of two major parties that are electorally viable in the United States isn't completely fascistic but I'll leave that there


Righty, I know I promised this video a couple days ago, but we were busy in the discord server Taking the newest teaser and dissecting it down to its core and boy Did we figure out a lot and I'm even ready to make a wild Kind of like speculation on what it could be referencing And it's kind of bold and maybe you guys won't be too excited It doesn't appear to be about a new coaster and less things have changed and they've moved up our year to 2024 But I more so think it's about the entire new direction that frontier Canada is about to head So for those that don't know Canada's Wonderland has stabbed Yukon striker with a new teaser literally stabbed it It is in the regular queue line just under the stairs for the employees near their break room or locker room There's a knife with the other half of the deed that was missing from the tundra twister theming area And it has a lot to say so without going too in detail because it's boring boring blah blah blah I will say a massive kudos to whoever is in charge of these teasers slash theming pieces for frontier Canada and Yeah, I mean like Literally jasm and a huge huge. Thank you to Jasmine Jasmine was a huge part of the discord Going through everything blah blah blah and we have pretty much come to the same kind of understanding of what's going on It is a hundred percent a storyline. They are forming for the next Expansion for frontier Canada so similar to the maverick steel vengeance feud It looks like there's going to be a feud forming or has already formed So far in the frontier Canada Realm between the Wayne Wright family it looks like they bought land together and there was some sort of disagreement and now they ripped the deed in half and The one of the brothers is about to do his business on his plot of land to counter the Yukon striker mining Co so miracle mining co is going to be that kind of like Company that comes in and tries to take over Yukon striker mining Co And that is probably going to be the next coaster in the whitewater Canyon area, but the teaser doesn't seem to be Referencing any coaster in Particular but it a hundred percent looks like it references whitewater Canyon. So on the map There's a map that goes from Yukon striker territory All the way up to Dawson City So Dawson City has a new arrow pointed at it as if they're leaving that area and going there again one of the brothers And the path that starts halfway there is the exact layout of the queue line for whitewater Canyon like to a tee So that's really interesting so again, that could just be coincidental but Everything we've looked up it appears that this is a hundred percent teasing a whole new area and Maybe a ride, but I'm more so thinking a storyline So I think it's pretty safe to predict that whitewater Canyon is going to be the next home of our Expansion for Frontier Canada. You're gonna see a very in-depth storyline start forming in 2024 with whatever addition comes Whether that's action theater or a whitewater Canyon complete upgrade Which I think is the safest bet to predict considering Carolin's is also surveying their guests For a water attraction upgrade, whether it be a log flume a whitewater Canyon upgrade for their whitewater Canyon Rapids ride Or a mock power splash water coaster. So I think it's pretty transparent that cedar fair is looking at Carolin's and Canada's Wonderland's raft rides and looking at what to do with them and I can't see Wonderland getting rid of theirs It's a really popular attraction, but it is in need of a facelift and upgrades similar to what timber wolf falls received So why not upgrade it as a whole with that little area? We saw with that wooden coaster Surveying in the survey upgrading that in 2024 and then the coaster comes in 2025 Again, if any of those coasters were to come in 2025, it looks like the wooden coaster would be the most likely Yes, it's a family coaster, but hey, maybe things will change I don't think that that coaster is receiving quite the feedback that the park was expecting in the surveys I do think that they are getting a lot of boredom and I think that they might be in slight panic phase with how Unpopular tonsure twister is amongst the general public. I don't think they were expecting that So they will be in panic phase with this whole concept of adding slightly more GP friendlies and boring rides No matter how you look at things it is starting to affect the park now There are things outside of their realm affecting the park as well blah blah blah I'm not gonna get into that but I do think that the park needs to sit down and have a look at their future planned attractions and Realize that you know, they need to start planning something that is going to wow The general public and I do think despite my opinions on the wing coaster not necessarily being the right launch coaster for the park It does look like that wowed people in the survey So I can see them a hundred percent moving forward with that, but again, they're still surveying the land So I can't see that being for 2025 unless it is a Val Raven and they do it. So last minute blah blah blah I'm not gonna get into that either nonetheless really excited about the teaser and how it is foreshadowing a feud similar to cedar points feud and a storyline forming for the 2024 2025 additions anyways, have you uh You guys have a look at these teasers and let me know in the comment section if you see anything that I potentially missed There are numbers on here. I'm gonna choose to ignore some of them But there are some in brackets. There are some in different colors. So they definitely have some sort of reference again I will say whoever made these teasers slash storyline theming pieces at Canada's Wonderland this year did it so well that we found the exact Documents that these were forged from to create ours So again very impressive on Wonderland's part in whoever is doing this at Wonderland It did not go unnoticed We found those documents that you used and these are very historically accurate down to the dates guys They have the dates on here for the storyline and everything they match in with the Yukon striker or not you can trick at the Yukon territory gold rush so Kudos to you really impressed by this. Anyways, thanks so much for watching today's Analysis of the teasers that we have so far. Definitely go check out the knife and Yukon striker and see you guys at the park Have a good one. Bye


Hey guys, what is up? Welcome to my channel. So for today's video, I am going to finally be doing my ranking, my Pat McGrath labs eyeshadow palettes from Least Fever to Most Fever. If you would like to hear my thoughts on them, then just keep watching. So you guys really seem to enjoy my last ranking video where I ranked my Natasha Denona palettes from Least of Fever and I got so many comments asking if I would do my Pat McGrath rankings. So here they are. Okay, let me preface this. So for the last couple of weeks, I have been hemming and hauling, feeling stressed out about how I was going to rank these palettes from Least to Most Fever. Because if you follow my channel in any sort of way, you probably know that I've never said anything bad about Pat McGrath. Her eyeshadow palettes are the bomb.  So really actually ranking these was so difficult. It actually really stressed me out. This was like almost not fun for me. Honestly, these are the best of the best eyeshadow palettes. So even my lowest ranked palette, I love. And to be honest, I don't really know like how sure I am of this ranking. At the very least, this is just a general preview of these eyeshadow palettes. If you're interested in looking at them, seeing them, hearing about them, if you want to try out Pat McGrath for the first time, I think this would be a really helpful guide for you guys. I also am going to try and insert pictures of looks that I've done with each palette, just so you can kind of see what I've created with them. So anyways, let's get into it. So I'm going to start off with number 11. So she has 11 palettes. This is my least favorite of her line. This is the Mothership Sublime Bronze Temptation. This is from her brand new opulence collection. You want to see the looks that I did with the opulence collection. I did just upload a tutorial using all three of the palettes. It was three different looks. So I'm just going to open this so you can see this is what it looks like. And honestly, of the opulence collection, this is probably the most wearable. The thing with Pat McGrath is you're paying so much for it. I'm going to buy Pat McGrath for the creativity of it and the uniqueness of it. So this definitely, if you're looking for something more wearable in her new opulence collection, this is the way to go. But for me personally, this color, it looks like a beautiful cranberry, but when you get it on the lid, the duo chrome in it is so strong that it's almost like a yellowy bronze duo chrome. The duo chrome is weird on the eyelid because it's so strong. So when I put it on my lid, I was looking for a really cranberry color just the way the light was hitting it, I couldn't get it to look like that. It almost was just, I don't know, it's duo chrome colors, kind of weird. Anyways, so I thought I would love that color and I don't. But the quality of it is amazing. And then also this green color, it's what's all over my lid. I did put a teal glare on top, so I did kind of change it. But it is really, really gorgeous. But she just has so many other beautiful, greeny, glittery colors. So I have to say this is my number 11, but I mean, it's still freaking gorgeous. The quality is amazing, but I didn't have a choice. Something has to be number 11. Alright, moving on. Number 10, we have the mothership subversive metamorphosis palette. Again, this is one of her eyeshadow palettes from the opulence collection. I feel bad that my bottom two are from this collection, but I did say I didn't like this mini collection as much as her other mini collection. And this palette is really, really gorgeous. The look that I created, you guys seem to love it. Honestly, it was so stunning. But I mean, just for everyday use, you're definitely going to have to dig into other palettes. I did create a look just using this, but it was very difficult. I did still have to go in with a matte brown. But that being said, this palette really isn't made to be a one in all look, and that's okay. But it is $55. The colors are really gorgeous, and the quality is absolutely perfection. These colors are so pigmented, you really don't even need to use them wet. I don't know, but something had to be number 10. I don't have anything bad to say about this. This is just not my favorite array of colors. Alright, so let's move on to number nine. My number nine favorite is the Mothership Subliminal Platinum Bronze. Now this guy is gorgeous. The only thing I have to say about this is they are kind of in the same tone. They look like they'd be very similar. There's not too much depth in this palette. This is from the mini eyeshadow collection that came out to be for the opulence collection. And when I first opened this, I didn't think I would like it. This would be my least favorite eyeshadow palette from her. But honestly, the look I created with it when I first got it was so stunning, and I just realized how versatile and wearable this palette is, and I really love these cool tone browns a lot more than I thought I would. And this is the last time I'm going to talk about formulation. All the formulation and all these palettes are good, so I'm not even going to mention formulation. This is more about color schemes and color layouts, and kind of how I wear them, and what is the color scheme for me. Because at the end of the day, that's how these are going to be ranked for you. It's just based on what color scheme works for you and what you're going to wear and use. Alright, number eight. This is the first of her big palettes. Now you will notice the majority of my small palettes are kind of towards the bottom of the list. I just feel like that's the way it should be because those are $55, and the big ones are $125. So with that price margin, I really would hope the big ones would be more towards the top. This one just happens to be my least favorite. Now this is called the Mothership for Subversive Palette, and I did do a full review and a full tutorial on that. And by the way, most of these palettes I have a review and a tutorial on, so I will link those down below for you. I definitely recommend you check them out if you're interested in a specific palette. But I believe this was limited edition, so you can't get it anymore. But what I was disappointed by with this palette is that I didn't have her Micro Fine Glitter Formula. Now none of the little palettes have that, but that's okay because those are $55. This is $125. If I'm paying $125, I want that Micro Fine Glitter Formula. And I mean, I don't know. It's not difficult to create a look with this, but compared to the other palettes, this one just isn't as inspiring to me. Again, it's really gorgeous, but if I had to put it somewhere, this is just where it happened to fell in my ranking. But again, it's a very unique array of colors, and each color is beautiful in its own way, but it had to fall somewhere, okay? Like this is really difficult for me. Number seven, I don't know. This might come as a surprise to you guys, but this is the Mothership Subversive La Vie en Rose. Now this is honestly one of her most beautiful palettes that she's come out with, and definitely of the mini collection line. This is probably her most gorgeous. This gold right here is one of the most beautiful colors ever. One of the most beautiful gold formulas ever. I mean, all of her gold eyeshadows honestly are the best gold eyeshadow formula in the world. I am not exaggerating with that. I don't know. This is like super beautiful and I love purples, but it is very, very out there. I just haven't used it quite as much. I will say with these colors, I've created really good, gorgeous, beautiful looks, but after some point, I did kind of start to feel a little less inspired by it just because I used up all of the combinations, but I mean, it's only a six color palette. So really gorgeous, really beautiful purples if you're into very vibrant palettes. So my number six favorite is from her new Opulence collection. This is the Mothership Subliminal Dark Star Palette. This, what I thought was going to be my least favorite palette in her Opulence collection, but now that I've used it and played with it, it is my most favorite, and it's very up high on the ranking scale. This color palette is gorgeous. If you like smoky eyes, this is your palette. You are going to love this, and this color is one of the most beautiful colors I have ever seen, and it works so well with this gray color. You have, again, the beautiful gold formula that she's amazing at. I just truly love this palette. I love every single look I have managed to create with it. So even though I'm only showing you one picture, I've created multiple beautiful looks with this palette just playing in my room before bed. I just wasn't expecting to love this as much as I love this. All right, so this is the last mini palette. So number five is the Mothership Sublime Bronze Ambition. Now, this is a very wearable palette, but it's just I've created one of my favorite looks ever with this palette. So I think if you're looking for one of her little $55 eyeshadow palettes, you definitely should go for this one. I just think it's so stunning. This, if you want to try her formula, is a really amazing takeaway from that. This is just a very comfortable color scheme for me, and the looks I create, even though it looks quite plain, I feel like every single look I do with this is just breathtaking. This is definitely my favorite mini palette, I think. Mind you, I'm saying all of this with a little bit of hesitation because if I were to rank this on a different day, it could possibly be in a different order. So my fourth favorite, this is when we're going to get into the more expensive palette. So this is the Mothership to Sublime palette, and I mean, I don't really have too much to say about these. These are when the palettes start to have that beautiful, super micro fine glitter formula that I've never found in another eyeshadow palette. They're slightly duo chrome. The glitters are so fine. When you put them all over the lid, they really just change your makeup game just by putting that simple glitter color on your lid.  You look so glamorous. And what I do like about this palette too is they have a lot of kind of neutral satins as well that blend like butter and are great for every day. And you can create really pretty mobby looks with that as well. I mean, with these top four, they really are super close. I had to put them in an order, but these four are like, I would literally rank them all in first place if I could. Moving on, this is the Mothership number one, the Sublime palette. All right, so when I ordered this palette, I was like, this one's definitely going to be my least favorite, but it actually, I know it's in third place, but it's seriously one of my absolute favorites. This is in a very hesitant third place because the number two and three, they are straight up neck and neck. I just, in my mood today, I put this in number three, but it looks like one of her more plain basic palettes. So if you aren't as adventurous with your makeup, I would definitely recommend it because you can create a very neutral, everyday work-friendly look, but you have these four colors over here to truly, truly amp it up. They do not look as beautiful in the pan as they do in the eye. When you put these on your eye, you are going to be like, shook. Like, I'm just saying, these four colors are beautiful. This color layered on top of this color is like one of the most prettiest eye looks I have ever created. Cannot say enough good things about this palette. All right, so this is the Mothership number three, the Subversive Palette. Now, for this guy, I think I put it in second just because looking at it, it definitely is one of the most pleasing palettes of hers to look at.  This is one of the most beautiful colors I have ever seen. Same with this color, same with this color. Oh my gosh, she also just does duo chromes the best. I've never seen another brand that does duo chromes like her. Never seen another brand that does glitter formulas like her. Wow, I just looked at this purple color and now I'm going to take this makeup off and create a look with it. So if you're a little bit more adventurous with color, go for the Mothership two. But if you are a little bit more subdued, then I would go with Mothership one. All right, so let's talk about the number one favorite. If you've watched any of my other PamaGraph videos of late, you would know that this is my favorite. Some of you guys were actually commenting and you were like, I want to see your rankings even though I know it's going to be number one because I have not been shy to mention this as my number one favorite. But this is her newest big Mothership palette. So this is the Mothership five bronze seduction. Now I will say one negative thing I have to say about PamaGraph is I do not like her names because I can never remember them for some reason. I really always need to look them up online. But anyways, all the names kind of confuse me because they all kind of have the same names. That's just, that's really not even an issue. I just want, for me who does videos, it's kind of annoying. But oh my goodness. And honestly, this doesn't even look like the most beautiful palette of hers. But on the eyes, this palette is unmatched with her other one. This one is easily my favorite. This is the only sure thing palette in this ranking that I knew where I was going to put without even thinking about it. I just feel like she lays out these beautiful crease colors that of course I would always reach for. And then she has a lot of my favorite glitter formula in here as well. I don't know, I have a review on this and I just want you to watch it so I can stop talking. But I don't know, I have a review on this. I would suggest you go watch it to get my full opinions on it. But yeah, this guy is number one easily love this palette. They are extending the VIB Rouge sale. So if you didn't pick this up, please do if you're interested in buying it. But anyways, yeah, that was my Pat McGrath palettes ranked from least to most favorite. It's a pretty long video because you guys know I'm so passionate about Pat McGrath and her brand and her product and everything about her and these eyeshadow palettes. So I hope you guys enjoyed. I want to get into making more of these ranked videos. So yeah, if there's any kind of ranked video you want to see, let me know down below. I was thinking maybe ranking my two face palettes from least to most favorite, ranking my ABH palettes from least to most favorite. Seriously, if there's anything you want to see, comment down below. I'm always in need of your guys' ideas. I love to do them. And just any other video in general that you would like to see, don't be afraid to ask me and I'll write it down and see if I can get to it. I hope you guys enjoyed this video. Remember to subscribe to my channel and of course comment down below. Tell me what your rankings are. I'm seriously super interested in hearing how ours differ. And I will see you guys in the next video. Bye.


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Sam here with late in sports cards ripping 22 panini immaculate UFC hobby five box case break number four random card style here is how it's going to work we got a list of our 30 participants in one random org we've got our second random org where all of our hits going to go Donnie is going to be typing in the names of the descriptions of all the cards what we'll do is then transfer them over to the random document right here random both the names and the hits the same amount of times and then whatever card your name is next to is what you will get so good luck guys let's do some UFC imac no we're not gonna recap yeah no no recap on this yeah i would say i'll make a magpile for you as well for these yeah do that because i'll have an idea here we're actually just tell me what the bag and i'll put it off to the side okay i gotta type down the name anyway yeah that's true all right we've got first box of imac good luck everybody i haven't seen these yet so yeah the ones we uh pulled earlier ones we pulled earlier yeah it's haven't been like a live pull in a minute all right starting off with a base card of Frankie Edgar that is 16 out of 49 Frankie Edgar 16 out of 49 we've got oh that's cool tie to evasa dude that's sick that is gonna be uh on the is that a mat relic that's three of 49 octagon canvas materials used at ufc 271 that's cool this next one's nasty i'll nag this next one's next one's disgusting tie to evasa how about seven of eight glover to shara on the official ufc glove fighter worn slash used materials seven of eight glover to share a good luck on that one that's so sick very nice we'll mag that one for you congrats and good luck on that we've got all-time great 79 of 99 that is mark Coleman mark Coleman on the on-card auto 79 of 99 yeah these are fire dude followed by rookie memorabilia autographs redemption that is uh tom aspenall nice one there on the redemption tom aspenall good luck on the aspenall that's pretty cool and nice one at the end we've got on-card marks of greatness jaylin turner as a lightweight seven of 10 that's uh signed tarantula that's his nickname that's so sick dude marks of greatness tarantula jaylin turner nice one there good luck on that box two yeah really solid first box there i have to say overall exemption on the bottom uh this is cool and right here we got base is gonna be uh leeching lang that is 35 out of 49 nice one there the leech congrats on that leeching lang to uh 49 followed by bantam weight fighter used material that is rob font 24 of 25 very solid hit there as well rob font other relic light heavyweight that is gonna be um jeerie uh oh god i forgot how to say this jeerie pro uh pro chasca jeerie pro chasca that's 40 out of 99 pro chasca this one there we've got memorabilia there's technically an rpa right here two color is gonna be 48 of 49 chris docus pro huska thank you pro huska chris docus on that one all right so on there next up we've got another marks of greatness 58 of 99 that is gonna be a uh edmund uh what is it shabbaz yan shabbaz yan edmund shabbaz yan 58 out of 99 nice one there as well good luck on that and then we've got shadow box signatures that's gonna be redemption leeching lang congrats on that the leech uh it'll have rookie on it it'll have rookie on it leeching lang box three the leech baby that's gonna be uh base is gonna be marlon vera that is 13 out of 49 bantam weight next up we've got relic uh rookie that is 10 out of 60 adrian yannis rookie uh relic card adrian yannis followed by this is sick uh we've got that is holly holm 19 out of 99 that is fighter worn slash used material nice holly holm knocked out ronda rousey way back one next up we've got marks of greatness that is all-time great six out of 99 that's next one's sick you can magnus next one coming up too in the magpile nice matt brown all-time greats on card auto how about uh relic auto 25 out of 49 that is cowboy seroni oh nice one there congrats on that that's so cool so sick too dude she might have been i don't remember to be honest eric all right kyle correct me if i'm wrong on this i think i know this um we've got moments auto 95 out of 99 how about a henry casciutto moments uh becomes double champ 6 8 19 casciutto i think that's how you said i'm not a hundred percent sure yeah remember you're telling me about that you liked uh cowboy seroni on the moments auto sehudo okay that's how it is henry sehudo my bad henry sehudo sehudo my fault on that one henry sehudo sehudo sehudo casciutto what an idiot i was nunez retired rousey gotcha oh this is cool i love this guy we've got bobby king green it's 24 up 25 lightweight sehudo okay nice bobby king green love me some bobby king green that's gonna be 91 out of 99 paul craig on the fighter worn slash uh oh that's cool was used uh fight knight whittaker versus till nice one there robert whittaker versus where's the charles till uh nice one here this is sick yeah juliana peña that's awesome two of 99 uh we did not hook i we did not juliana peña dare until that's what it is dare until that was the when she beat nunez i was one of the craziest fights i'd ever seen was he she was like plus 1000 going into that fight or something that's crazy uh shadowbox rookie auto is gonna be an 89 of 99 that is shan strickland shan strickland on that one we've got marks of greatness oh that's so nasty is uh tony ferguson come back this next one donnie tony ferguson on the lightweight marks of greatness 73 of 99 this is so sick dude oh man i remember this fight too 75 of 99 how about moments out of charles olivera moments wins lightweight title may 15th 2021 wow dude the bronx yeah that's when he beat michael chandler oh yeah that's so sick the olivera that's so sick i do like olivera i hated that he missed weight for that one fight but he is such a beast and then we've got last box good luck everybody chuckie olives he did work chandler in that fight i remember that was one of the last ones i watched for a while yeah i was a great auto on that one too eric i agree we've got andre mute uh munez that is 41 out of 49 on the base rookie followed by a Pedro munoz that is uh one of 10 fight knight memorabilia was worn at dosanios versus alvarez and that we've got uh baneel derish that is um 53 out of 75 this is a nice one right here we've got uh 59 out of 99 that's going to be a santiago pontinibio good luck on that one 59 of 99 on the uh um what is it called uh relic auto come back the last one in this uh grade two not this not these next two but the one after we've got uh that's pretty cool 35 of 99 on the relic auto that's going to be alexander racket uh racquetch 35 of 99 nice one there yeah he has been an absolute tear lately uh lately yeah legal for sure and then 10 of 99 shadowbox signatures brock lesnar good luck on that one 10 of 99 big brock i'll see you magnet brock and the other one's fine all right uh donny's typing the last couple in here so give me one second all right thank you donny appreciate you killed it on that one take you over to the random we've got all of our hits now 30 hits gonna go ahead and roll the dice random each list nine times one two three four five six seven eight nine matthew m down to kyle m we've got nine times on your hits or your cards one one two three four five six seven eight nine uh edmund uh shabazzian down to bobby green donny is doing a great job tonight thanks god matthew m edmund shabazzian auto tom k juliana panya michael w lesnar nice edward p chris thawkus h chen adrian yanez that's uh alexander jalen turner kyle with the alexander rakic steven l tom aspenall redemption jonathan l tony ferguson tom k with uh the eerie uh pro chasca uh gregory r cowboy seroni relic autos steven l with the olivera uh george s holly home simon h with the uh shan strickland that's brian f with the rob font kyle p frankie edger uh mark d with the uh what is it kahoo uh kahoodo um william g baniel darish uh simon h marlon vera tom k santiago uh 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if you can prove your point with research, with findings of whether it's statistics or archival research, then we can settle some of these vex debates. But what I learned in seeing the attacks on my work from some of these co-funded professors is that they're not interested in the truth. They're not interested in an honest look at this history of the movement or of some of its leading thinkers and actors. What they want to do is take down the messengers. This is Rob Johnson, president of the Institute for New Economic Thinking. I'm here today with Nancy McLean. She's the William Chaff Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University and she's recently written a paper, How Milton Friedman Aided and Abetted Segregationists in his quest to privatize public education. Nancy, thanks for joining me. It's a pleasure to be with you, Rob. I'm a great admirer of Inet. Well, Inet's a great admirer of you, so a lot of smiling to do here. At any rate, let's start with what inspired you. This, I mean, obviously coming out of discussions related to James Buchanan and others, your awareness of the Mount Pellerin Society, its funders like the Volcker Foundation was. I can see some momentum, but it's leading you to what you might call the front porch of Milton Friedman and this context of, how would I say, continuing and perhaps fortifying racial problems in the United States. So let's start with where, what brought you to this beachhead? What brought you to this beachhead? Yeah, it's actually a really interesting question because I never set out to find Milton Friedman or in the previous work, James Buchanan, Charles Koch, any of them. I'm a historian of the modern U.S., deep interest in political economy and social movements and a particular interest in the South. And in 2006, I had just finished another book and I was at a conference in Philadelphia and I went into the American Friends Service Committee Archives and there they had a display involving the shutdown of the public, entire public education system in Prince Edward County, Virginia from 1959 to 1964 to punish the students there for having struck for a decent high school in one of the cases that was folded into brown. And I was very moved by what I found, I knew, and I quickly found out that vouchers were involved and so I started digging into this and I started to find people I never would have expected to find in a trail of Virginia's massive resistance to Brown versus Board of Education. The first of those was a gentleman I named in the paper Leon Durer, a former Washington Post reporter who went on to Winston Salem and actually helped destroy the first civil rights union in America. So, and he was saying things like, the market solves all our problems, freedom is the solution, while he was raising money for two segregation academies. So I started following Durer, but once I got into Durer's papers, there was Milton Friedman and there was James Buchanan and there were all these other organizations and so I became very interested in that and I thought initially that my story in the book would involve Friedman primarily, but as I learned about James Buchanan and his connections to supplying the ideas that the Koch Network has operated on, the book shifted to Buchanan. So in coming back to this research on Milton Friedman, it was almost like it was unfinished business for me. I had thought that it was really interesting, that it was really important that it spoke powerfully to our own time, to our own historical moment, but it was research that had not gone into democracy and change. So I wanted it to stand independently and I thought, what better site to publish it with than I net because you have such a global network of people who are deeply engaged with these questions of political economy and probably feel the lack of good economic history or history of the profession in some of the things that you're doing. So I was hoping to find some new conversation partners, I guess you would say, and it's delightful to be here with you. Yeah, it's a delight to have you here as well. And I'm always reminded of a book that I read in my formative years by a man named Mary Ferner called Advocacy versus Objectivity. And the book was really about at the time of distributional tensions late 19th century, how the abstract marginalists took over the profession from the institutionalists. Now, what you might call reintegration of political economy and the reintroduction or reinvigoration of the history of thought and economic history actually, how would I say, catalyzes a bridge to people like yourself that are in history departments and what you might call inherently multidisciplinary. And I think that, so you set an example, particularly for our young scholars of the kind of things and kind of ways of approaching problems. And then I'm gonna use my silly joke, the pandemic unmasked how sterile things were in economic science. And there's some great rigorous evidence-based analysis and so forth, but clinging to the abstract, what I'll call idolization of the economy and not seeing these more textured elements like healthcare, like climate, like notions of the common goods. It'll go back to Henry George and like the question of race. And I often, in my formative years, I grew up in Detroit, Michigan, but I remember reading things by the Chicago School, which we're suggesting that the market was the tool that was going to end racism because if somebody's marginal product was more than they were getting paid for, there was a profit opportunity. So I saw those arguments being used and market versus state arguments being used on the right. And I guess what's awkward now is there are so many people that are worried about concentration of wealth, money and politics, like my research director, Tom Ferguson, that we're in a place where people on the left don't trust the government now. It's almost like George Stigler's work at Chicago was prescient from their standpoint. But let's, I need to, your help in unpacking what Milton Friedman did as an economist, what he was after and how this relates to intensifying segregation in schools and racial polarity.  And in other arenas, he's really a household name. But in this period, he was the young guy. You know, when he went to the Montelloran Society Founding Meeting in 1947, he was kind of a kid, you know, among the big luminaries at the time, you know, Hayek and Van Mises and his own, or his colleague, Frank Knight. And he was not a big player. And I think part of what happened, you know, he came home and he wrote this piece that, you know, is well known, neoliberalism and its prospects in 1951. And he was very anxious to turn the tide of public opinion, to really find a way to shift people from the kind of Keynesian world that prevailed then, the support for the New Deal, for labor unions, social security, you know, public goods of all kinds. And I think what happened as near as I can tell is that when the fights began over equal schooling in the South, he was noticing, you couldn't help but notice, he was in all the national newspapers. The strike in Prince Edward County by the Black High School students was in 1951, you know, when, you know, became involved in the NAACP litigation. And you had Southern reactionary governors saying that they would shut down the public school systems before they'd integrate. You know, you had James Jackson Kilpatrick in, at the Richmond News Leader, the day that the Black students filed in Prince Edward County, their lawsuit, he said, it's time to start talking about private schooling. So all this news is bubbling up. I mean, I can't prove or deny that Milton Friedman read this, but any regular newspaper reader of the time would have known this was bubbling. And he used the occasion of a festrift to publish this piece called The Role of Government in Education, which was really, and he wanted it to be a kind of a manifesto to say, even if government funds education, why should government provide it? And he even fought on language. He said, why do we call them public schools? We should call them government schools, right? And he used in that piece all the kind of language that has become part and parcel of the school choice movement today, language of choice and liberty and parental rights and parental control. But he was writing this piece, issuing this piece just at the moment when resistance to the Brown versus Board of Education decision was heating up in the South. And one of the crucial elements of massive resistance was tax-funded vouchers for private segregation academies because they actually understood that white solidarity was a myth, that there weren't enough white parents who cared deeply enough about segregation to dig deeply into their own pockets and fund private school tuition for their kids. So they needed those public dollars. And Friedman, I think, appreciated that. He saw that and he saw it as an opportunity. By this point, he had spoken of his economic views as a new faith. He used a language of conversion. And so he was deeply of the mind that what he had imbibed through the Montpelerin Society and beyond was really a kind of gospel that would free the world and make it better. And he just couldn't take in any evidence to the contrary. And he rebuffed it when it came from his contemporaries such as Robert Solo, not Robert Solo, the Nobel Prize winner, but another economist with the same name and no W on the end. He raised all the questions you or I would raise today in the correspondence that I cite in the paper and Friedman would hear none of it. He wouldn't respond to a single particular of what Solo raised. In fact, he said to even consider questions of prejudice would put one on a par with the Nazis, with Hitler enforcing, what did he call it, tastes and tastes and something else, but language of taste in neoclassical economics. But anyway, so that intrigued me, finding that correspondence and the deeper I dug, the more I found that seemed really important to surface because we're also in a situation today in our current moment when we see the libertarian right in this country, particularly the organizations and operations funded by Charles Koch, being willing to recognize prejudice of all kinds, use disinformation and so forth to achieve their ends. We've just seen that Koch funded an organization that was promoting vaccine denial and school board fights about mask wearing. We know the climate denial runs back for decades, the work with the tobacco companies in the 1980s, the funding of these politicians who were involved in the January 6th election. So it just seemed like to me this was a good time for some deep truth telling. And as a historian, I believe passionately, it's the nature of my craft that history is powerful. As James Baldwin said, it's with us in all we do. And William Faulkner, the past is never dead, right? So, until we come to terms with what human actors did in our past and the consequences of that, I don't think that we can solve the problems that we're faced with right now in our world. So let's talk a little bit about Friedman in the correspondence that you saw with Robert Solow. Spelled like Napoleon Solow, but different than the Nobel laureate from MIT who happened to be my undergraduate advisor. Oh, really? He was my colleague at the Russell Sage Foundation. Oh, there's a fellow there.  And this was a place in the spectrum of things that are provided in society where reducing the size of government was what mattered to him. And then I'll ask the second dimension of this, which is even if he wasn't on board with race, did he see these what you might call strange bedfellows like the Ku Klux Klan or explicitly racist groups as a conduit to his mission just as they might see him as a conduit to their mission in keeping schools segregated? How conscious do you think he knows of that partnership's consequences? Important questions. The first thing I do is rule the Ku Klux Klan out of court. The Ku Klux Klan was not playing a big role here actually. And I think that is kind of telling too what we were talking about, particularly in Virginia, which is the side of my story, is an elite that had profited from and worked to maintain racial capitalism since before the US was a country, right? The plantation elite there were the first to adopt racial slavery. They created one of the most undemocratic systems in America. The great political scientist, V.O. Key in his book about Southern politics, said that compared to Virginia, Mississippi was a hotbed of democracy. So in other words, these are mainly elite actors. They are not the Northern stereotype of who is a racist and who is enforcing this system. This was a system that Virginia's elite profited from mightily and they had the tightest political organization in the South in that period of the, it was interlocking corporate and political elites. Nothing went on without Harry Bird's organization ruling it okay. And this elite had first tried to defend segregation of public education in the Brown case. Actually, the president of the University of Virginia, Colgate Darden testified for segregation and then went on to hire James Buchanan later and set up this center for political economy. Anyway, so first I think we need to really understand how racism works in a way that African-American and many white scholars have been encouraging us to do for a long time, but I don't think our media does such a good job with or many of our churches because they ask us to think about racism as a sin of the heart, right? A personal kind of ailment. And that is the language in which James Buchanan was defended by many of his colleagues when I tried to point out his history and democracy in chains. And that's really not the relevant question. I mean, I don't know what was in James Buchanan's heart. I don't care. I don't know what was in Milton Friedman's heart. I don't care. I don't think he was primarily activated by racism, not at all, but I think he clung to an economic dogma that said that freeing markets from any government interference would solve every problem in the world. And that's why he opposed federal fair employment practices laws when they were supported by every major African-American organization in the country and the labor movement. That's why he opposed the Civil Rights Act and worked as an economic advisor to Barry Goldwater who was against social security, against minimum wage, et cetera. So I don't think, you know, Milton Friedman wasn't going down there and speaking in the same tones as the White Citizens' Councils. But he was working with, the Virginia and I show him working with this former New York Times reporter who had retired to a huge horse farm outside Charlottesville. You know, Friedman was working with him. This guy was publicly known as a fundraiser for two segregationist academies in Charlottesville, one named after Robert E. Lee. You know, he worked with James Buchanan and Warren Nutter at the University of Virginia. They were all supporting this effort to get tax-funded school vouchers in the name of freedom. But the problem was those vouchers were opposed to a person by African-Americans, to a person by the NAACP who knew that this was an effort to steal the victory they won in Brown versus Board of Education. So I actually quote in the paper, Oliver Hill, who was the lead Virginia attorney involved in the Brown versus Board of Education decision. And he just said it plainly. He said, no one has a right to have his private prejudices subsidized by tax dollars. And that's what these guys were trying to do. They were trying to make taxpayers subsidize the parents who did not want their white children to go to school with black children. I mean, it was that simple. There's no getting around the reality on the ground there. And Friedman said he supported their right to do that in the name of freedom. He also said he opposed forced segregation. But at the same time, he never recognized the complexities that Robert Solow tried to point out to him. Robert Solow said, hey, how can you say this?  They can't control the government that's taking their tax dollars to fund these segregation academies. How can you even be talking about freedom in a context like this? They need collective action. They need the courts. They need force, basically, to break up this otherwise rock-solid system. And Friedman would have none of it. And he worked closely with the people who were trying to get those tax dollars to segregation academies. So again, what's in his heart? To me, as a historian, it's not really relevant. I'm not a psychologist. I'm not a mind reader. I'm not a personal biographer. But it doesn't matter. And to me, to be honest though, because I can ask this question so much about James Buchanan, if I were an ethicist and I were asked to choose, what's worse, someone who operates in the heat of passion from a deeply believed commitment that a whole other group of people are inferior to them? Is that worse? Or is it worse for someone who doesn't hold that view? Who knows those views are wrong?  I'm gonna use these people to get this thing I want. In a lot of ways, that's what Republican, wealthy Republican voters do now. They're saying, okay, get up on the black people and the immigrants, take away their voting rights, take away abortion rights for women, but just don't raise my taxes. It's all a care about, right? And to me, again, I'm not a religious person, but I have a lot of respect for many really good people of faith. And I think the ethics would say, it's a greater sin if you don't believe it, but you're willing to use dark forces like that. And in fact, we see the Koch Network doing this trans-nationally. Peter Buttke, who's the outgoing past head of the Mont Pelerin Society, based at the Koch operation at George Mason, is quoted in Ian Wasserman's book about Austrian economics saying, we have to give up the label of Austrian economics because it's been too corrupted by the alt-right and the racist forces who have enlisted that. And he's saying that because part of the Hayek Society in Germany and in Austria, they're playing footsie with neo-Nazis. Top people in those organizations that are part of the Atlas Network are starting to work with street fascists and talk about getting somebody like Trump to carry their movement because they know their ideas will never be popular otherwise. They can't get masses of people to line up for an agenda of privatizing social security and public education, stopping action on the climate, not having anti-discrimination enforcement. So we're talking about a cause here that is really far outside of the normal pale, but because it's so wealthy, they have been able to create what James Buchanan called a gravy train to bring many people, mostly young men, into this. And get them in for the long term. So it looks really academically respectable, but they don't act like normal academics. It's not a disinterested pursuit of truth. They engage in a form of denialism whenever any inconvenient evidence comes along. One thing that I did love about researching freedmen is he was very honest and open. And so when I went through his papers, he said what he thought to everybody. So I'd be writing to my husband from the archives, can you believe, he's saying this like over and over again. He talked about how vouchers were not an end in themselves. They were a tactic. School choice was a tactic. He wanted to privatize education completely so that parents, as he said, would pay for their children's education like they do for their food and shelter. In the libertarian dream world, we have no public education. We have no post office. We have no national parks. That is the dream world. And freedmen, to his credit, was honest about it. And in 2005, I saw him saying, you know, why don't we just wrap up the Montpellor in society? You know, we've won. Everybody believes in markets now. You know, enough is enough. But these other figures like Coke and James Buchanan are like, no, we want to go on and rig the rules of the game to get what we want. So I think that poses a challenge to folks like us who are in, you know, academic spaces and spaces that, you know, where we think, well, empirical research should be the deciding factor, right? If you can prove your point with research, you know, with findings of whether it's statistics or archival research, you know, then we can settle some of these vexed debates. But what I learned in seeing the tax on my work from some of these Coke-funded professors is that they're not interested in the truth, right? They're not interested in an honest look at this history of the movement or of some of its leading thinkers and actors. What they want to do is take down the messengers. You know, so character assassination of, you know, established respected scholars, denial of the substance of what they've written, refusal to engage in the core findings of the research, and instead a kind of silly, you know, kind of bait-and-switch operation which we see in all denialist movements. They try to change the subject.  And anyway, it's kind of fascinating to see it work, but I don't think we as a country are prepared for the levels of disinformation that are coming from self-interested actors.  You know, I know, for instance, the scholar Naomi Oreskes. Yes, she's the friend. She's written books, you know, Merchants of Doubt. You were referring earlier to the tobacco era and how that propagated Michael Mann at Penn State who was a guest on this podcast a few months ago on the nature of what you might call disinformation strategies to arrest the attempt to bring fossil fuels, how would I say, to a lower value as assets because of the side effects that they produce. And so there's, I think there's a lot of anxiety now, particularly after the onset of the pandemic that we can identify climate change, the IPCC reports and so, but we don't have a strategy in the context of our real political economy and information systems and concentrations of wealth and money, politics, et cetera, to move forward. And I think it's starting to scare people a great deal that it's almost like being sent to the doctor and getting diagnosed for a critical illness, but then not being able to be treated. Yes, that's a really, really good analogy. And that's scary, that's haunting. But if our democracies were functioning well and normally, we would be able to address these issues. But what we see instead, and I'll just now talk about the U.S. case, is strategic actors. And again, I don't think anyone of them, a few scholars and independent researchers has really come to grips with and journalists, heroic journalists like Jane Mayer, but how big the COPE network is and what they have wrought. But what you see is state after state is really smart strategy to get control of state legislatures, state governments, where so many of the rules about democracy, about labor, about education are made, and then use that control of state governments, now 30, to systematically rewrite the rules. So to engage in the most radical redistricting we've ever seen in our political history using the most sophisticated technology and the most audacious power grabs that really misrepresent the citizenry on all questions in many of our state legislatures, including my own in North Carolina, to engage in voter suppression, mass voter suppression under the misleading rubric that this is somehow election integrity when there is no problem of voter fraud, to undermine the power of labor unions, which they know will add at least 3% to their side from the other sides. I mean, this is very, very smart strategic stuff. Going back to our earlier discussion, this is not the Ku Klux Klan crowd in hoods coming out of the gas station. No, this is really determined actors and some of the richest men in the world, and here I point to Charles Koch, who understand who see an existential threat to their current and future profit stream from action on the climate and are willing to wreck democracy and stir up all these demons in order to make sure that that doesn't happen. So my conclusion from my book research, but I think it would also be true from this paper, is that informing people of what's happening and prioritizing democracy reform are the most critical things that we can do in this moment to make sure, at the time I wrote Democracy in Chains, it's probably worse now. We were, I believe the figure was it's in the conclusion 132 of 178 democracies in the levels of voter participation. That's a scandal, right? We should be ashamed of that. We should be doing everything that we can to make sure that people are participating in elections. But instead, we have this cause, which is use donor control and Fox News and weaponizing the base to stir up, essentially capture one of our political parties. And they are preventing us from taking action on any of this. And they're actually making it worse as we speak. And I don't think a lot of the mainstream media has gotten on top of this. What it means that we have two different media universes. I don't know if you've ever interviewed Yokai Benkler at Harvard, a really interesting communications scholar, but who has written about how Fox News and Breitbart are just a bubble, like in the rest of the spectrum, we all go around. I read the way, you know, I'm not a fan of the Wall Street Journal editorial page, but I read it, the paper.  Well, for the core base that they have there, which is now the base of voters of the Republican Party, they don't get out. And what they get is a daily diet of having their identity consolidated and then they're made to feel embattled. So it's almost like a stress response and you have to go out and fight the other side. So you're right that it's just so frustrating because on issue after issue, the vast majority, including Republican voters, you know, knows that there's things we need to do, you know, as people, as societies, and we're not being able to do it because of the way that our democracy has been shackled and distorted by these forces.


Alrighty, let's watch it in full first. Nice. That's cool. I like it. Let's see what this is. Okay I think that's okay in terms of the cuts. I almost wish it was a bit further away. He's not hugely different in size. I like that there's definitely a set change. Whoa, I'm still on error mode here. A change in set but it's almost like a pop. So if you can have something where you know whatever background you have could be. I almost see this is like higher up in the mountains. You know he could have some landscaping things, some mountains there. I think crazy but then when it cuts through this the mountain might finish and then you have like trees or something. So that's just a very clear change visually and then I would zoom out a little bit because then it will also give you the opportunity to have that more in frame. So imagine you know it might be this small and then you can continue wherever you have your arm here with your back and in the frame it could be maybe maybe even all the way up to here. That would be my first comment. It's not huge. I think that would be you know can easily be fixed even once you're done. So that is for that. This what I'm concerned about is that this is still fairly high in terms of where he appears from right. So it would have to be somewhere fairly higher and he comes down straight into this and then goes over this way where to me it seems like you're gonna have to have him really really squat this way even potentially putting down down his hand. Just the compression to me seems not enough. Yeah it's too easy to go over this way. That's cool. I like that. I like that as you're spying this I would definitely try to maybe even more profile really push and sell that moment of I am still looking to the left and then I wouldn't go too far yet it feels a bit small foot wise. So what I'm saying is not go too far with the rotation so that the foot is still like that. You have a better idea of the structure. It gets very tiny even if just a little bit would be nicer. Gets into this into that that's fine. I love that. Let's play this timing wise. The step I mean you know you're gonna you have massive work ahead in terms of something like that like there's so many huge changes over one frame. So we'll see how the actual timing will be. I think that could be faster. More of a jump up into that. Currently in step I think this is too slow and this too this feels slow especially with something if you're going like this and you're leaning so far off balance to then take a step and this is the foot here like this foot is here now so it's it's gonna slip there and this guy is here like it feels like he would be he would be here and then even this there's momentum so even after that he would be to me jumping off this way but then it's here so that sudden move doesn't go anywhere by jumping straight up there. So we might have to extend this but still that see that will be the tricky thing I mean you're gonna have to have some potential traveling with the camera or panning I mean this whole thing could also be done in one shot potentially just throwing that out there but yeah timing wise it felt like that's kind of odd but slow and even that the arc in the drop just a bit it's okay to have hang time here but yeah for momentum and just a bit a bit like 10% faster but that's kind of that I like the idea a lot it's gonna be some fun stuff there and I'm assuming this is a window so I would put in some transparency and then you can see the continuation of a room maybe a table with a pot something that you know unless this is like a solid wall and you didn't get it but it'd be kind of fun if it was glass and fairly transparent and then you can see the rest in here anyway just throwing out some ideas but that is that school stuff thanks all right there's an email you can sign up you can start whenever you want you can submit whatever you want you get 16 submissions either way a like and subscribe would be awesome all right thank you