No, because nobody's replied to us. I have no idea what happened. I hit the button. We were turned on the music plate. Sarah, I've been chatting with you people for how long? Four minutes. Yeah, we thought we were live for four minutes. I hit the button, Sarah. I'm never hitting the button again as long as I did. So we were well into the question of the week. So we had to start over. Let's start over. Hi to everybody. I said hi to everybody. I went down the list that had to everybody. Yeah, I hit the live button. And you know where it says, are you ready to go live? The second button window came up. I clicked it. I played the music. I know, music and everything. Well, hello, everybody. Sorry. OK, so if you haven't noticed the front page, the front-facing page of WikiTree has not been updated. So if you're going over there to look for the links, then yeah, you're about to chat presentations yourselves. That's good, Sharon. If you go to the front-facing page and you're looking for the links to our stuff, you aren't going to find it because the page hasn't been updated, which is quite odd. It's that's the first time in my memory of 10 years that it didn't. I think we were talking to ghosts. We were. Yeah, Joe Mama. I was wondering why nobody was replying to anything I was saying, you know. So do you have actors in your family tree? That's the question of the week. We had already started on that. So we'll start over on that. Ben Johnson, my husband's first cousin. My aunt's husband's first cousin.  Catherine Hepburn's stepmother was this Sarah Furgioni or Furgioni for a great aunt with Catherine Hepburn's stepmother. That's pretty close. That's very close.  That's how close that was, right? My brother-in-law, Arliss Jeffery is active in various places from high school to college, community theater, various locations. There are a lot of people who talk about community theater and college theater and school theater in this. And even if you don't have famous relatives, it's great to go out and support your local community theater and see some great stuff. Okay, check that out. Nancy Culp, Nancy Jane Culp from the Beverly Hillbillies, Ms. Jane, fourth cousin was once removed. That's Diane Halschel there. Nicole Dumal says that she's got writers in her family, but she's related to Henry Kimball. So you can check them out if you wanna check them out. Sandy Van Orden Burton says that my husband has George Clooney in history. How cool is that? And she found a stuntman for Vin Diesel in her tree. And Vin Diesel does some pretty crazy stuff in his movies so that stuntin' double should be famous. Raymond Massey is a distant cousin. So some of these people I have never heard of before. I have heard of Elvis is a 10th cousin to her through her dad's lines and then Elizabeth Taylor are 11th cousins. Robert Redford, that's interesting from Christine Miller. Butch Smith, I have a few bad actors, but none that did it professionally. So we've got a lot of bad actor comments also. My aunt and uncle were in many shows on Broadway like Hello Dolly, My Fair Lady, and Evita. That's from Kelly Stamper. Mark Maxner says 25th cousins from Actress Betty White. And then David Moorhead answers him. Betty and David are 16th cousins. Nobody close from Wendy Tildenquik, but my grandpa had a cousin who was a Canadian broadcaster for the CVC. His name was Lamont Tilden. Yeah, you got it. Roderick Thomas Branch, not that I know of, except they had a drama queen in the family. I hope she grows out of it before middle school. Not sure I worked background on a bit show called Rectified, a movie called The Wrong Man with Julia Armand. That's Janie Archer. So she's like Ben and stuff. So that's cool. And Dalton Pope says just a couple. Oh, and there's a long list. Way on down through there. Tommy Buck. Tommy Buck. Red Pit at the bottom. What's that? Red Pit was the last one on that list. Yeah. So let's go over here. Why didn't this get big? Whoops. I have everything all set up. I just messed it up. Boy, I'm not doing things right this morning. Gayle Christie, Neil Patrick Harris and I are night cousins, both descended from Otterback original settlers of the German colony in 1714 in Virginia. Let's see. I had this set up for somebody particular that might have been Tommy Bucks. I might miss it. Here we go. Paula Franklin, Brad Pitt, third cousins. That's pretty close. That is close. That's kissing cousins close, right? Far enough away you could still date Brad Pitt. You could marry a guy and not have 10, 11 toes. Annie Potts, love this. Annie Potts, if you know Annie Potts, she's like one of my favorite actresses. She is related, six cousins, three times removed to Eileen Robinson. And Eileen was in some musicals in place in high school. Like I said, people were talking about how they had done some stuff. Slim Pickens was my first cousin. That is the closest connection we have. And that's with Charlie Freeman. And of course, Pip Shepherd thought that being that close to Slim Pickens was great because, you know, Pip. And then let's see. The next one I had set up was Ranny Meyer. My paternal grandmother Marie Lockhart was cousin to actress June Lockhart. I love this. And people were doing this, like the guy on Facebook that had the big long list. Through Wiki Tree, I learned this week that Tom Cruise because of the challenge this week. Tom Cruise is my ninth cousin once removed. So that's pretty cool from Craig Connelly. Mark Williams says, I'm a singer actor and my daughter is as well. Curiously, the only celebrities actress I've found so far are Paris Hilton. All right. And this was another one of those crazy long ones from Roy Pope. Humphrey and Caroline are my eighth cousins once removed from Caroline Napora. Tommy Buck, I had you all set up and I can't find it. So I'm sorry. I was gonna talk about your connection, I missed it on the first tree somewhere. I guess I could do this. I could go up and say, fine. Buck. Buck. Here we go. Tommy Buck. Dick Van Dyke, seventh cousins once removed. There you go. Tommy Buck, I got you. And everybody just likes to look at Chris Pine. So Alexis Nelson says, through Wiki Tree, Chris Pine, fifth cousin. Yeah, and not removed, fifth cousins. He's also a Star Trek actor too. He's a Star Trek guy. We did one on last time and he was the captain of the new Enterprise. Yeah, I think the focus was the older series. Or actually the alternate Enterprise, the alternate universe. The alternate universe with Chris Pine. So that is the question of the week and that was fun. And Tommy, I got you. I got you, man. I got you. I went, since they were talking about Tom Cruise, I went to see, I'm not actually related to him, but I'm 23 degrees away from Tom Cruise. It'd be fun to see how everybody's related to all of the Chris actors. Chris Pratt, Chris Pine, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Rock. They should have a Chris. They should have a Chris. That would be fun. A Chris connection here. And then we have Chris Whitton as the top one. That'd be true. We should suggest that to Aowyn. I think somebody was just on our, somebody said hello being wiki tree. So unless that was you bags. Somebody was like, I don't know who it was. We don't know who you are. They didn't reveal themselves. It could be Alash, it could be Aowyn, it could be Steve, it could be Mindy. It could be Mindy. Mindy's been sneaking in. Okay, now we have our profiles. Chris Ferriero says you should do a Chris and he should be included because Chris is such a cool name. Oh. It was you Chris, you were the wiki tree. He snuck into the wiki tree. Well, we have our I actually like this theme of our profiles of the week because. Yes. Just. Because you're an artistic person. What artists are you closely, most closely connected to with Rembrandt being our. It wasn't Chris, he's admitting it. Oh. Oh. And so we are featuring Rembrandt because apparently it's the anniversary of the opening of the Louvre, which was today's date in 1793. Wow. How many years is that? Somebody do the math please. Math, so many math. Somebody do math. And when was it? 1793. That was 229 years ago madam. Wow, that's a lot. Hi, June. Hi, June. So Rembrandt, I enjoy, I like him as an artist, studied him. So he was born in 1606 in the Netherlands. That's why it's 1669 in Amsterdam. If you're not familiar with his stuff. I was actually looking at this one yesterday. The night watch. You were in the museum looking at that yesterday. No, I was just, I just saw it on my, I guess. Are all of these paintings, all of these artists featured in the Louvre? I would assume so because it's about the Louvre. I guess we'll find out. I was gonna say, what is the common thread here? Well, it says artists. So I guess we'll see if they're all actually in the Louvre. We can do, we can go searching for them. You are 32 degrees, 32 degrees from him through your daddy. Oh, am I actually related to him? No. Oh. Like the relationship finder, the connection finder. So his profile is also in Dutch. So if you know Dutch or you wanna try to read the Dutch, it's also in Dutch. Where is Greg when we need him? I know. So he did a lot of, I like his stuff. So there you go. There is Rembrandt, Van Rien. Next on our- He's coming soon. He's had one, two, three, four, five children. Maybe more, at least that's all that's here on his profile. Next we have Mary Cassatt, born in 1844 in Pennsylvania and passed away in 1926 in France. So maybe we can assume she is in the Louvre. That is our closest, yours and mine. Yours is through your dad again, but not directly related. Mine is through, you're 17 and I'm 18 and mine is through my mom. Okay. How are you guys related? Throw some of those up. That's John Tanner says she's my closest at 21. So she was an American printmaker and artist mostly known for her theme of mother and child. Apparently she was a descendant of the French Huguenot Jackie's Cassart who came to New Amsterdam in 1662. Mary wanted to become an artist at a time when art was considered a social talent for women. Her father objected to her aspirations. Despite these barriers, she studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Philadelphia. She moved to Paris, but the institution, she studied privately with the teachers there as the institution did not accept women. And says, doesn't say here if she's in the Louvre, but we can, let's see. Mary goes that Louvre, is she in? That's interesting. Edgar Degas has a piece of art saying Mary Cassatt at the Louvre. So she's in a painting in the Louvre. Okay. Next on our list we have another one by a lot of you are familiar with Salvador Dali and born 1904 in Spain. He's a surrealist painter with his melting clocks, the persistence of memory. When did he pass away? In 1989. So not, you know, sometimes you think of these artists like sometimes they'll be like, oh, they were further away, but they're more recent. Does anybody else said who they're related to, Mags? Mags, I can't hear you. You're muted. Sorry about that. I had to burn my nose. My, I'm not hitting on all cylinders today. My third great grandmother, Margaret Hutton did a painting of her $3.00. It was a copy of Edward William Burton. I don't understand that, John. Can you explain that to us? Hillary, Hillary is closest to Tom Thompson. We want to agree. He's coming up at some, some point down here. I think it's the last one here. So, Dali actually met Pablo Picasso on his first trip to Paris in 1926. And then Dali also was suffered from depression, drug addiction and Parkinson-like symptoms. There is Dali. Do you not have any children? Your mama wants to know if your mama is related to Salvador Dali. She would really like to be, I can tell. Let's see. Check it out. We're not directly related, but we're 34 degrees, but through the, through our father, through my father, not through our father, through my father. Through your husband, through that man you married. Oh, John Tiner says, he's an Irish watercolor artist. He did the original painting. My ancestors were cognitive. Okay, thank you, John, thank you. Oh, Vermeer and Sargent are the closest to each other. I also like Vermeer. Yeah, yeah. Well, it's always through, because there's just more, I guess that side is more fleshed out on Weekey Tree, because we have some brick walls on my mom's side. She's a brick house. Oh, sorry.  Keep going. Okay, so next we have Theodore Jerry Colt. Jerry Colt, is that how you pronounce that makes? Uh-huh, sounds good, Jerry Colt.  You don't pronounce the H and you don't pronounce the T. You gonna know. Oh, yeah, I did pronounce that wrong. So Theodore. Well, there's nothing I can do with the Italian and Spanish sides. They're just, you know, I need to, what's a brick wall? Okay, and we go on. So Theodore was born in 1791 in France. He died fairly young at the age of 32. Best knows for his painting, The Raft of the Medusa. And we don't have, it's not on the profile. We don't have, it's not on the profile. And it's in the Louvre, this one's in the Louvre. Yep, that's the background picture for the, for the, yeah. I feel like people would want to see a better version of it, more clear. Oh yeah, then just the fringes there, for sure. Mm-hmm. Okay, so his first exhibit in 1819, and he died shortly after his death. He died at the age of 32. He died at the age of 13. He died at the age of 14. 1819, and he died shortly after that, in 1824. And then looks like the rest of that bit is in French. So why did he? And his brother, he's the brother of George Nicholas. And he lived, yeah, go ahead. I'm curious how he passed away, what caused him to die so young. He was one of the pioneers of the Romantic movement. Let's see. I will look here, some other of his works. Do-do, doesn't see. Says he never married from Lisa Gervais. Mm-hmm. Bring an Ottawa, bring an Ottawa. Did you see I was throwing up the picture of the bridge replacement, Lisa? You're not coming into town, I know that. It's a- Well, I think, I think we didn't, they actually didn't see that part because we weren't alive. I'll curl that up, I still haven't, it's still going on here in the background, there we go. Good stuff. Now I won't mess up your, go for it. So now we have Hans Hason, Hans Hason. Born in 1877, and he died in Australia in 1968. He's born in Germany in Hamburg. Yeah, Germany born Australian artist. His- And he's the British Empire too. So he's a Sir. Sir Hans. Sir Hans. Sir Hans Solo, no, sorry. His father emigrated to South Australia in 1883 and his mother brought the surviving five children the following year. At 14, Hason bought his first paints. I saw a drain pipe with stocks and reeds. It seemed to me beautiful, so I painted it. And he began formal lessons with James Ashton where his talent was soon recognized. How's it, I like that. I've never heard of him before. That's a nice landscape. And he, so he also studied in Paris at the Academy of Julian and some other places. And he traveled to Italy in 1903. So through Italy, he set up his studio, taught classes. And is he in the Louvre as well? I'm curious, I like that, I like that too. I'm looking to see. Let's look, Hans, Hason. Is he in the Louvre? It's not easily found. I spelled it wrong anyway. Does anybody know? It's not easily found. So we are going to go into the next person, Vermeer. Goes by his last name. He's a realist. Like his stuff too. He's a Baroque painter. If it ain't Baroque, don't fix it. I like Albrecht Drur, too. He's a realist, a realist. I'm assuming we're still connected because there's absolutely no conversation going on in the peanut gallery over there. Are we still here, people? You guys, are you guys still listening to us? Did I get the wrong button? Or did I ban you all? I mean, it's happened before. I wouldn't be surprised. I didn't ban everybody. Just a couple of people. People got booted and... Was it Steven? Oh, okay, good, we're still here. Okay, good. They're just so enthralled by your conversation. I know, my beautiful, the beautiful art and me describing it. Didn't we just discover something about the astronomer painting? That when they cleaned it up, there was something in the painting in the background, the one that's the white one on the... Didn't they just discover something about it? I don't know, I didn't hear anything about it. So the astronomer is in the loo. Let's see. Nothing comes up. I thought they did a cleanup on it, and when they did it, they found something in the background. Nothing that I can easily find. Ooh, are we having a family reunion today, Erin? We're just a gathering. A painting of Cupid in the background. I thought so, yeah. Okay. Yeah. Well, apparently Vermeer, he was actually, well, he's popular now. During his lifetime, he was not well regarded. So his family was left in debt upon his death. His debt upon his death. That was a tongue twister. He said that three times real fast. Debt upon his death. Debt upon his death. Okay. Next we have Bruno. Yeah. Go for it. Luciforce, born in Sweden in 1860. Also died in Sweden in 1939. Swedish artist known for painting animals. Oh my gosh. So now we have to go look at his stuff. Animals. I feel like if you're doing a profile on an artist, you have to have pictures of his pictures. Look, he did cats. Oh, look in a fox. I love this. Look at the cat on the phone. He's my new favorite artist. Of course he is. Well, I don't condone outdoor cats. That's still, it's cute photo for Bird, but cute photo. A little rabbit. How cute. Oh, that's a Bruno. Chris Cariella said, oh boy, here we go. It's the rest of the hour. And we're not gonna talk about anybody else. This is it. Apparently he was also part of group of gymnasts. The Victor Bellock Tordwith in England and Belgium. He also hunted. I guess that's why he did a lot of animal paintings because he was hunting. And we all know that outdoor cats are hunters. Endor cats are hunters too, but maybe that's why he painted them because they're hunters. Yeah. You know why you were gone this summer? I was telling everybody that you were out alligator wrestling. Mate, it's possible. It's possible. But do you have one out there? I know. Okay. So we all like Bruno. Does he paints cats and foxes? Next we have Margaret Macintosh, formerly McDonald's. Born in 1864 in England. And apparently we don't know where she died. It's a mystery. 1933. Apparently she was a second of five children of John, an engineer and coloring manager. I never heard of her either. That's interesting. Let's look at some. Margaret Macintosh. Let's look at her. Margaret Macintosh McDonald. I guess she was more of a line work. Art decor. Yeah, 30s. Oh, I feel, I've seen, definitely seen this one. Yeah. No, I've seen that one. Your mama says that you were margarita wrestling. Did I, what?  Oh. Yeah. I won though. I won that wrestling. I've seen that one. I have seen this one too. Yeah, the more I'm looking at it now, I definitely have seen her work, but I just never knew her name. It's very ethereal. And art deco. Yes. Large gesso paint panels. Her most dynamic words are large gesso panels. She designed with her husband. So she's in tea rooms, private residences. Oh, okay. And, yeah. I guess she died in England. I guess I need to update her death location because it says it's unknown here. Okay. Next we have Charles Porter, born in 1848 in Connecticut. Also died. He died on my birthday in 1923 in Connecticut. Look at that. So he was. Happy belated birthday. Huh? Happy belated birthday. Oh, thank you. Little, that's very belated, but. Very belated. Very belated. That's okay. So Charles Ethan Porter was an American painter who specialized in still life paintings. And he was the first African-Americans to exhibit at the National Academy of Design. Let's look at his stuff since also there's nothing here. Oh, fruit. Another still life. Still life is hard to do sometimes. That's my skill. You have to, that's your skill? No, it's, it is a, you know, I guess all art is a, you know, my grandma did stuff like this. My grandma painted still, still life stuff. Apparently Charles was one of 14 children. I mean, she, he was one of the first in the family to graduate high school. Lisa Dreves has been checking on theater. The Raph, the Medusa guy. The Raph of the Medusa guy. One of the top 20 paintings in the Louvre. Oh, okay. It seems like all of these artists seem like they're all on the Louvre. Hi. Yep. So that's Charles Porter. Next, we have John Sargent for an 1856 in Italy and died in England in 1925. You were 20 degrees from him. It's interesting to say he's an American expatriate artist considered the leading portrait painter of his generation. Yeah. Oh, I guess because his parents were originally from Philadelphia and born, and I guess they moved to Italy because they constantly moved around Europe. Is that his signature? What is that? I don't know. It doesn't say. It looks like it would be his signature. But probably he puts on his paintings. That's the cow. He's my closest to at 18. Apparently he was a fashionable society portraitists. Both of his pieces were commissioned from wealthy social figures. And in 1918, he was asked by Britain's War Office to become the official war artist in France, sketching everything from the soldiers to wrecked buildings. Let's go look at more of his stuff. Let's see. You can see like where he's doing the high end portraits and then some of the, I guess the ones that he did for the War Council. He was astonishingly realistic. Very impressive. Yep. And that is not his signature. No, what is it? I don't know. I haven't been able to find it. Odd. So we have Thomas Thompson. Tom Thompson. From Canada, in 1837, he was a popular influential Canadian artist in the early part of the 20th century. His painting, The West Wind and Jack Pine are familiar to most Canadians. Are you familiar with those, Max? I am. And apparently he drowned while canoeing in a canoe lake in Algonquin Park. Which is not hard for you. Let's see, Tom Thompson. There he is. His paintings. Morning, Az. Okay, we have, I think that was it. I thought I had one more. So that's all of our artists for the week. Yeah, he was a part of the group of seven and they painted landscapes. Oh. Pull that information up. Group of seven artists once known as the Algonquin School was a group of Canadian landscape painters from 1920 to 1933. Originally consisting of Franklin Carmichael, Lauren Harris, A.Y. Jackson, Franklin Johnson, Arthur Lismar, J.E.H. McDonald, Frederick Farley, A.J. Cassen was later, Edwin Holgate and Lemoine Fitzgerald. They did some incredibly beautiful, beautiful paintings of Canada. Yeah. Yeah. That's all of the painters. Now, I guess we can move over to... Where I've been showing them what I've been watching. The live replacement of a bridge on one of our main roads. Okay, bye. Grilling.  It was appropriate. It was appropriate. Because our photo of the week theme is means of transport. Oh, look at that one. Chick Loveley sitting on his father's car. What's the year of that? There should be a date on that. The photo is 1924. You can't make it out. It's convertible. Mm-hmm. Douglas Porter. Yes. On board a ship. 1928. I wonder if he's in uniform. Just wonder where he is, where he's going on a steam engine in Germany. The other tag says US Army 101st Airborne Pictures. Roadside picnic in 1960. In Vermont. Oh, look. It's a horse sled. Montana. It's a sleigh. Yeah, we've seen that picture before. I feel like we have. Oh, look, I just realized there's a dog. Oh, there's also a cat. Look at the cat. And a dog? Oh my goodness. It's been a good week so far. And horses, you know. You got paintings of animals. We have this. It's funny how you can see the shadow of the guy taking the picture right there, too. How do you like my car? Where is it? He's showing off his hat. My hat and my car. That is a means of transport. John Bear. Isabella McPherson in the family car, Oklahoma, 1948.  On a tricycle in North Dakota. That is a very old picture. Let's see, Morris was in 1905. So he's probably like five in this photo by 1910. Around that. Those are all the photos there. Let's see if we have any extras in the G2G post. Oh, we saw this one. We saw this one, too. We used to do that. Your family do that, like drive through an area and stop at these roadside picnic areas. We did. Probably around the same time. What year was that? 1960. Yep. The steam engine. Oh, we didn't see this one. Thomas and Candy in Taiwan. How cute. Your mom says, yes, we did, Sarah. We did stop at those roadside places on a candy. Oh, so we, when we drove to go camping, I guess we did stop at a rest stop in eight. Oh, we didn't see this one. My grandfather, Stanley Fulford at age 16. And his cousin, Muriel Kennedy, standing on the running board. This is his grandfather age 16. This was very old for 16 there. I don't know. I would never have guessed age 16. Lisa Gervais, I can't add photos because they're not currently online. Oh, no. You can upload them to a free space profile. Lisa, if you want to. Look at it. Scan them, too. And when we're done, Sarah's gonna show us how to do that. Oh, yes. We didn't see, okay, this one. In 1939, my mother's great uncle. Now you're gonna try that. Was a point of the job. Oh, yeah. Ying-Veve? That was my attempt. Point of the job as captain on the railway ship connecting Trailborg, Sweden with Sassnitz, Germany. He held that position for his retirement in 1950. Railroad ship. Yeah. That's interesting. Yeah. We saw this one. Might not meet today's safety expectations. No, I know. And that's it. I guess I'm showing everybody how to add a photo to the free space page or... So if you want to add a photo to the photo of the week's free space page, you can usually find it on G2G and G2G for each week they post an update. 52 photos. You can also look up the tag 52 photos. It's usually tagged.  And you just upload your file. You put a source because you wanna make sure the photo you're uploading, you have the right permission to post online. And like that funny picture where we thought it was Sargent's signature, tell us what the picture is about. Yes. Need the title. It's always good to put all of this information because the more information you put, the more likely someone is to find it too. So, and that is it. And while you can also post source photos like on your, I guess your personal pages or other free space pages. So. How do you do it if you already have it attached to a profile? Oh, look at that. That's a good, that's another good question. So let's say this one, let's say this is my photo. And I wanted to add it to either another free space page of mine or another just regular profile. You can come to this, the photo page and you scroll down and here you have all the settings to edit it. You can add it as a primary photo for one. You can change the title. You can remove them from certain pages. You would do that here. Or if you're adding, you either put the person or free space profile page here. Like the 52 photos of the meat week. Yeah. And then also if your watch list is also all here too. So if you can also scroll through. And add it to any of those profiles. Yep. Yep. You can add everything. It also gives you a little, the cheating. If you don't know exactly how and you would code it to put inside text, it gives you this. So you can just copy and paste it. And yeah, and you just save this. She didn't point to it, but that was the text over in the light gray on the right hand side of the screen. If you want to pop that text into a profile, it's as simple as that. And then here there's, if you want to like different size or align it to the right or the left. Right. And then you can add a caption. So many options here. You're welcome. Mm-hmm. And then if you also wanted to expand on what it's about, you can post a comment on it. Yes. Tell us what it's about. And you can share it in G2G from here too. Lots of stuff. Lots of stuff. Lots of stuff. Can you create an e-card from that picture? I've never done that before. I've never done that before either. Mm-hmm. Look, it gets stamped. You put a stamp on it? Oh, we can put a stamp on it. Let's do it. We were going to send it to you. Oh, let's send it. Oh, you don't want your email in there, do you? Well, it was there. Yeah, I said. We can tell it, Wiki Tree. Sorry guys. Tree.com. Oh wait, recipients. Yeah, we better not. We might get yelled at. But I'm curious to see what it is. All that is, we don't want to put our personal email address up on the video. I know. And we already already saw it, but. Yeah, yeah, we're going to have to. Yeah, sorry. It's okay. Check your spam folder. Your mama says that she's not getting emails anymore. Have you changed your email settings in your settings tab of your... Have you? Mom? Yeah, check your spam folder too. That's probably. That's what John Kiner says. Yeah. So, Sarah? Yes? You got big plans for the weekend. No, probably not. Not anything big plans. I just, it's probably going to rain this weekend. Not going to rain. Maybe I'll do a wrestling. Or a margarita. Or a margarita wrestling. Who knows? Yeah, not doing any margarita wrestling here either. I got to watch NFL football all day yesterday, which was exciting. Susan Anderson also says, thank you, Sarah, for showing them that. Does anybody have a question that we could answer for you about what you do? We still have some time. We've got some time here. We love answering questions when we get extra time. Maybe we can show your mama how to do those. Are those things in your spam? Otherwise, we're going to be watching the work being done. Oh boy. I know you're all excited about watching that. Knock, knock. Knock, knock. Okay, Joe. Who's there? I'm waiting. We've got to wait for the lag. I know. Well, did you mention Pillory's that her grandfather has a photo, she has a photo of her grandfather with the steamroller? I did post that, yes. Okay. Yeah, yeah, I saw that. The Perseid meteor shower last night. And also, it was the last super full moon. Yeah. Well, if so, nobody has a question. We can all open this. We already said who's there, Joanna. Give us the punchline. We're waiting. The punchline is, come on, Joe. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. This, Melissa says it must be at least the fourth bridge on Highway 417 that has been replaced in the last few years. It has, and it's been fascinating to watch. It's such a great way to do it. Being a former DOT engineer, I'm just having a great time watching it. They usually set up a grandstand so you can actually watch it, too. That thing is very interesting that people want to watch. Did you see your mom's answer in the knock-knock joke? I guess you forgot. I guess it's a good knock-knock joke or not a good knock-knock joke. They forgot who they were. Yeah. So, WikiTree, check out the challenge for this week. I don't know where you're gonna find the information since the update hasn't been done, but you can check out the page for the challenge and also look in G to G for the WikiTree challenge tags. Jennifer Lopez. Jennifer Lopez is coming off. She goes by a... She changed her name. She got married to... She's Jennifer Afflack now. No way! Yeah. She got married to how... Or she went... She was married to other people and she didn't change her name, but now she's changed it to Afflack. And this is not the first Jane Afflack either, which is the funny thing. And does a duck pop up and say, Afflack? She's looking to go... There's a commercial here, an insurance commercial where a duck jumps in and says, Afflack all the time about, yeah. Yeah. She's still gonna go by Jennifer Lopez as her stage name, but she changed her legal name to Afflack. Afflack. Her real name is Gennarero, Gennadrio. You pronounce that, you're better with that. Yes, that's her father's other last name. She has two last names. She probably does whatever her mother's other last name is. So they're working on J.Lo this week. Jenny from the block. Jenny from the block. All right, so cool on that. What other interesting things are going on on WikiTree? We have five minutes to fill, Sarah. I know. We need Greg. Greg, come fill our time for us, by the way. So Greg, what is Greg doing right now? Greg, unfortunately, Greg is at church playing. Unfortunately, he's at church. Playing for a funeral. Playing for a funeral. That's just the first part. That is the unfortunate part. But the good part is that he's playing and it's making people feel better. So when Ms. Greg, Greg said to tell everybody hello. All right, so Tom Cruise just finished. Thank you so much, John Tyner. Yeah, fill in that time. So are they gonna do anything on Ben Afflack when they do J.Lo or? No, I feel like we've said Afflack too much. I feel like we're saying it wrong. Afflack. I don't know that. Oh. That's not, there are personal grievances. I'm not posting that, Joe. So, whoa, if you wanna see what Joe said, go and check out the YouTube video. Yes, Tom. So that's the question of the week. Let's see, Jennifer Lopez, Wiki Tree Top. Did you guys check this out? Sure you did. It's pretty cool. Talking about how many thank yous, the most appreciated. I felt that was a pretty cool post. So the all time most thanked Susan Goldmark Larson. And look at this, Alexis Nelson, the most 30 day. Thank you. Yeah, Susan, she's always also date. I'm not surprised that David is number two. Yeah. And Pip, look, Pip's number five. Yeah, Pip is really good about getting a Maggie in, Robin Lee. Let me see, I'm down here. I recognize all of their, all of these names. Where am I? I'm right here. Look at you. I'm in the also rands. So the Wiki Tree Top stuff are pretty cool. Most appreciative, most communicative. Susan, yeah, she, Susan also. Most connected, the Wiki Tree tops. Wow. With 15,000, mine's way low, my connections. I have unusual surname, so that doesn't help. Thermally Web is a mover and a shaker. What is a mover and a shaker? I guess the most stuff over the past month, maybe. Most connections made. So most prolific. Prolific. Profiles edited, Kern Vanhoef, 7,117 in the month of July. And that's like way above everybody else. But didn't he do and work with one of the projects so he's doing lots of small, quick stuff? That's pretty cool. So if you're interested, check out the Wiki Tree Top stuff on the G to G. Let me get back there. Where am I? So, oh, look. Live now, thanks, Tommy. Yes. Look, David's on my, just a little bit. Look, David's on my, just got a wonderful Wiki Tree here. So I think we can wrap this up. Yes. Yeah. So make sure we actually click the end broadcast. You know what, I'm gonna click the music. You click the thing, but give the music time to start. We'll see you guys next week.


Air Jordan 1 low OG versus Air Jordan 185. What's the difference? They're both OGs or are they? Today I'm gonna be breaking down all the differences between these two models, showing you guys the ins and outs and going over all the history and how we got to this point today.  Starting off with the outsole as you guys can see when it comes to the overall shape and configuration on how they went about it, it does look very similar but there's a lot of differences simply with the outsole.  Now when it comes to the Nike branding in the center of the foot, you can see it looks very similar. One has a copyright twice and the other one has a copyright once. And another thing to note when it comes to the logo, it looks a little bit smaller and it's not as raised up as much from the outsole with the bigger lip right there where you can actually feel it with your nail. Now behind the text on the 85 cut, you can see it's more of a pebbled like look and then behind the logo here on the OG cut, you can see that it has more of a pattern like print with a bunch of squares and lines all throughout that. Now going to the circular area in the center of the ball of the foot right here on the front end, you can see you still have that smooth rubber here on the 85 cut and then when it comes to the OG, you have that same texture all throughout the circles and on the lines going to the middle of the ball. Now when it comes to the actual ball of the foot those are both going to be identical and it's going to be extremely flat when it comes to that rubber. Now moving forward to the toe of the foot, you can see that there are stars on both of the toes of these shoes but you can also see that they're a lot smaller and more refined when it comes to the 85 pair compared to the OG. Another thing to notice when it comes to the actual shape of the outsole, if you look in the center, middle of the foot right here where the Nike logo is, it's going to be a lot skinnier and more narrow on the foot and this is something that's going to also alter how the shoe feels on foot as well if you have a wider foot. Now wrapping up to the midsoles on the side of these two sneakers, if you look at the 85 pair, you can see obviously it's going to be a sale-like color more of an off-white compared to a pure white which will get into the colors and shades in a bit but also look at the actual print on there. Remember that print that we saw behind the text on the 85? It's going to be a similar type of print all throughout the midsole as well. When it comes to the midsole and the OG, you're also going to see that same type of print that you saw on the OG's outsole. Now on the 85, you have a sale stitch matching the midsole, connecting the upper and on the OG you have a pure white stitch matching the midsole, connecting the upper as well. Oh yeah, and if you didn't know by now, my name is DJ and this is the DNA show. Now before we get into all the details, styles, cuts and materials of the upper, we got to talk about the history first. Back in 1985, the original Air Jordan 1 hit the streets and in that time, we saw two original colorways hit the market. We saw the white natural gray Air Jordan 1 low and we saw the metallic navy Air Jordan 1 low. Over the years, through different retros and different branding, the sneaker has slowly evolved from the natural gray Air Jordan 1s to the neutral gray Air Jordan 1s. And it's also kind of funny because if I look at the labels on the shoe boxes, one says particle gray here for the OG, which is not neutral gray. And then on the new 85 cut, it says smoke gray instead of neutral gray on here. So even though the shoe has technically named something else, the people still call the shoe the neutral gray. And this is something that you may see slight differences as well when it comes to OG pairs and 85 pairs that may come out in the future. Currently right now, we have only seen two 85 pairs come out. We saw the neutral gray release in 2023 and the navy metallic release earlier in 2024. So this new modern day version of the 85 cut low is gonna be something very similar to the original from 1985 and they took all the elements and shapes and styles and cuts of that shoe and put it into this version right here. So I wouldn't be surprised over the next five to 10 years if we saw a bunch of new colorways that we have never seen before in the actual 85 cut. Now when it comes to this retro version of the OG cut, which is the modern day OG, we saw the first ever Air Jordan one low OG release in the bread colorway back in 2015. And during that time, it had that same style with the same outsole like you see on this pair, but the upper was a little bit different. The shape on the swoosh was a little bit bigger. And those actually had eight lace holes on the shoe compared to seven like this 2021 retro, which we'll get into all the nitty gritties a little bit later when it comes to the lace holes, but either way, the bread one was the first shoe that started this new trend of OG cut Air Jordan one lows. And just to date things a little bit back in the history for you guys, the first ever Air Jordan one high OG, the Royals back in 2013. Over those next few years, we saw a lot of OG colorways releasing when it came to the Royals, the breads, the shadows in the Chicago's in 2015, which then became everybody's favorite shoe years later. But this new modern day OG style was emerging onto the scene. And a lot of the OG collectors were loving it, but at the same time, a lot of these sneakers had on shelves. Similar to what we're seeing now with the 85 pairs, these things are going for below retail with the gray pair and the navy pair. So now again, speed it up fast forward real quick to 2020, we saw the first ever Air Jordan one high 85. And that was in the new beginnings pack and the reverse bread Air Jordan ones, those released during all-star weekend and I'll never forget that time. And just like we saw the OG high in 2013 and then a couple years later, the low in 2015, Jordan brand followed that same trend of giving us the high top 85 in 2020. And then a few years later, giving us the low top 85 in 2023. So now that you guys have a little bit more history about how we got here and the different eras and the different things like that, let's go ahead and go over all the cuts and materials of these two shoes because a lot of people love these for certain reasons and a lot of people love these for certain reasons. And hopefully this could help you guys decide which one you guys like the most. Hey yo, just real quick, I wanted to let you guys know we got a bunch of new merch on the website, shopdnashow.com. Also you guys can click on any of the links of the product tagged just below the video here if you're watching it on your mobile devices. I can't wait to see you guys rocking the gear. Whenever you cop something, make sure you post it on IG so I can see it and then I'll repost it. All right, let's get back to the video. So starting with the OG cut, as you can see on the materials, it looks like it has a slight tumble to it. It has a nice little texture to it. If you feel the materials, it does feel solid. But one thing that I can say is when I feel the leather and materials here on the 85 pair, I can say it does feel nicer. And that's because typically on these modern day OG cut pairs, they're giving us a synthetic leather compared to giving us an actual leather on the 85 pairs, which is also reason why the retail price is a little bit higher. Now, if I look at the label on this pair in particular from 2021, retail was $130. Current day, retail is $140 for a pair of OG lows. But when it comes to the 85 lows, the retail on these is $160. Which is another reason why I can see why these are going for under retail. But one thing that I definitely can say is you are getting what you pay for. And the 85 pair is definitely gonna be a nicer quality sneaker at the end of the day. Now, when it comes to the swoosh on these two sneakers, you can see that it has that light gray kind of suede material on these two. They feel very, very similar. The OG pair feels a little bit hairier to it, but besides that, they definitely feel similar. Now, the actual swoosh and the size and the placement, if you can see the orientation of it on the side of the shoe, you can see that the swoosh is a lot bigger on this 85 pair. And that's something that people liked when it came to the first set of OG Air Jordan 1 lows back in the, you know, 10 years ago. And they kind of got away from that here on the new modern day retro switch. Maybe I might have to make another video showing you guys old OG lows and new OG lows. But we'll get into that in another video.  And it's a lot more flat right here just going down this area. And then another thing is gonna be more narrow on this side panel right here. And it's gonna be thicker here on the side panel on the OG. Another thing to notice, if you put these two shoes at the right angle, you can see the OG pair, the cut of the leather is gonna be a lot thicker on this pair as well, which like I talked about earlier, it's an actual leather and it's a nicer material and it's gonna give you something higher quality. Now, going to the toe and the shape of these two shoes, you can see that it's peeled back a little bit higher right here on the front end. And it's gonna be a little bit wider here on the vamp area of the shoe, going closer to the top of the shoe where the crease is at. Now, when it comes to the actual perforations and the holes, those are gonna look pretty similar, not too much to complain about that area. And then you're gonna have your same double stitch all throughout the rest of the sneaker on the front end of the shoe here and on the side panels here. Now, these both come standard with a pair of all white laces, which again, we're not really talking about the colorway, but this is a great example because these are two of the same exact colorway, but I wanted to show you guys the actual differences of the models. So when we're looking at the laces, not just the colors, but look at the type of laces. The 85 pair has a lot more texture to it and this is definitely similar to how you used to see laces back in the day. Now, when it comes to the area behind the tongue, you're gonna have more of a canvas-like material here and it's gonna be a lot more gritty. I think a higher chance of potentially staining when it comes to this pair, but again, that's a lot more similar to the original from 1985. Now, when it comes to the OG pair, it's gonna have a lot more of a, I would say maybe like a nylon-type finish to it and it's gonna be more soft, more flexible and yes, you could still stain it. It doesn't look like it'll get as dirty as quick. Now, these both have the Nike Air branding on the top of the tongue with your white tab and the gray text, but this is gonna be another little detail, like we talked about earlier. It has that stitching on there where you can see the lines through the text and on the swoosh and that's again, similar to how we saw it in 85 and we know that they've refined their stitching patterns and their methods when it comes to their Nike branding now, so it makes it look a lot more smooth and clean finish on this OG cut. Looking behind the tongue on both of these two shoes, you're gonna have that same thing all white there and then around the collar, you're gonna have that light smoke or I would say neutral gray-type color to these two shoes. That's gonna be all around the collars here, but clearly you can see what these two shoes side by side. The collars are definitely different. It's a lot thicker here on the 85 pair and it's a lot thinner here on the OG. There's gonna be still some padding right here, but right when it drops down in that cup sole area, you can definitely feel it's just like a straight cardboard wall and then on this pair going all the way down toward the bottom of the heel right there, you can feel there's a little bit more padding on the 85. Now again, not talking about color in particular, but just actual insoles, you're gonna have a polyurethane insole here on the 85 pair, which is gonna be pretty nice. A lot of people really, really like that and you're gonna have your same Nike air branding on the insole, but honestly, I think the Nike air branding on the 85 pair looks a lot better than the Nike air branding here on the 2021 OG cut. Also looking underneath the 85 pair on the insole, you have a board last, which is gonna be similar to how the OG was created back in the day. And then when you look at the OG cup pair, you can see that it has more of that foam-like material and that's gonna be similar to how we get most of our retros now in current time. When it comes to the Air Jordan 1s, you do have an encapsulated air unit in both of these sneakers as well. So that's gonna be similar. I think they did switch the actual size of the air unit. I'm not 100% sure if it's the exact same size air unit as it is on the OG, but don't get me wrong, you guys can let me know down below in the comment section about that part. Also with the 2021 pair, as you can see from that blue insole right there, this is gonna be a cheaper insole, which is not gonna feel as good on the foot. And again, that's gonna be something that you pay for with that premium price. Now when it comes to the logo and branding on the back end of the two shoes, you can see you still have your Air Jordan wings logo, but this is gonna be a lot different when it comes to the actual process of incorporating the logo. So on here, it looks more like a screen print right here onto the material when it comes to the 85 pair. The gray looks really, really clean on there. And then when it comes to this OG retro, it looks more like a stamp on the back end of the shoe where it's kind of printed into it. And it doesn't look as clean when it comes to the lines in between all the details of the logo. Now, when I'm facing these two shoes in the same direction, you can see, yes, there are gonna be a lot of elements that look very, very similar. But like I talked about with the toe, how it turns up, or it's peeled back a little bit higher here on the 85 compared to the OG or how skinny it is right here. Even on the back end, you can see on the shoe just the slight differences between the heel shape. Now the stitching is gonna be the same. You're gonna have that V or that L-like shape right here on the side behind the swoosh. And then everything is gonna be pretty much identical there. But obviously you can tell with the photos and the videos of everything side by side, there are definitely some differences. Another dope detail when it comes to the 85 pair, you're gonna have that classic branding with the size and the style code here on the inside of the shoe. And that's gonna be on both of those feet. And then on the OG cut, it's just gonna be, you know, standard your size tag on the inside of the foot. These also do have a size tag, but it's nice to see that nostalgic branding on the inside of the shoe as well. All right you guys, that's gonna do it. I hope this was helpful, giving you guys a detailed look at the differences between an OG cut and an 85 cut. Let me know what you guys think down below in the comments section. Which pair do you prefer the most? Or do you like to have both in your collection like me? I would love to hear your responses. And also if you wanna see any other comparison videos, let me know and I'll make sure I get more for you guys. And I have a fully curated playlist of other comparison videos that I've done in the past. That way you guys can go back and check those out at the end of this video. All right you guys, I'm out. I would never let you down. Yo, if you made it to the end of this video and wanna take your collection to the next level, I built a full community with private meetups with me and other members in the community as well. So if you wanna be a part of that and get early access or behind the scene looks on how I run my businesses, this is definitely gonna be a place where I can help you scale your collection and potentially start investing in other things outside of sneakers like real estate. 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What is the separation of powers? Welcome to the Civics Academy governance series. In these videos we explore different aspects of democratic governance and the concept of the separation of powers as one of the key features of democracy. In this video we look at the concept of the separation of powers and why it is so important for our democracy. The separation of powers is a key feature of a democratic system of government. This system divides the state into three branches the legislative, executive and judicial branch and gives each the power to fulfill different tasks. Tests are assigned to the different branches and their institutions in such a way that each of them can check the exercise of power by the others. As a result, no single branch can become so powerful as to control the system completely. The separation of powers is important because it provides a vital system of checks and balances. It ensures that the different branches control each other. This is intended to make them accountable to each other. These are the checks. It divides power between the different branches of government. This balance aims to ensure that no individual or group of people in government is all powerful. Power is shared and not concentrated in one branch. The main purpose of the separation of powers is therefore to prevent the abuse of power. In South Africa, the Constitution sets out the principle of the separation of powers. In Chapter 4, 5 and 8, it lays out the structure, roles and responsibilities of the three branches of government. Chapter 4 of our Constitution establishes the legislative branch. The Legislature is also known as Parliament and consists of two Houses, the National Assembly and the National Council of Provinces. This is where laws are debated and passed. We explain the tasks and responsibilities of the Legislature in more detail in our video, What is the Legislature? The Executive branch, as established by Chapter 5, includes the President, the Deputy President and the Cabinet of Ministers. The Executive formulates policies, administers and implements the laws of the Legislature and enforces the decisions of the Judiciary. We explain the tasks and responsibilities of the Executive in more detail in our video, What is the Executive? The third branch is the Judiciary, established by Chapter 8 of the Constitution. This branch includes all courts as well as all judges and magistrates working in these courts. The Judiciary interprets and applies the law. In contrast to the other two branches which are made up of political party representatives, the Judiciary has to be impartial and non-political. We explain the tasks and responsibilities of the Judiciary in more detail in our video, What is the Judiciary? The design of the separation of powers differs from country to country. In some democracies, there is a clear separation not only of the functions but also of the personnel in each branch. In such systems, an individual cannot serve in more than one of the branches of government at the same time. In South Africa, we do not have this complete separation of personnel. Here, individuals can fill positions in two branches at the same time. Members of the Cabinet representing the Executive are usually also members of the National Assembly or Parliament, which is part of the Legislature. The Legislature controls the work of the Executive. This happens through oversight committees which consist of members of Parliament from different political parties. It is impossible to achieve an absolute separation. Some overlapping will happen, especially when members of the Cabinet and the majority of MPs in the National Assembly are from the governing party. However, the separation between the Judiciary and the other branches of government is usually very strict, as the Judiciary must act independently and free from political influence. In South Africa, the Judiciary has the power to pronounce upon the acts and decisions of the Executive and legislative branches of government. It can decide on the constitutionality of laws passed by Legislature and it can declare invalid any exercise of power by the Executive that is not authorised by law or that is in conflict with the Constitution. Summary The existence of a formal distinction between the three powers is an important characteristic of democratic governance. The division of powers between the Legislature, Executive and Judiciary provides a vital system of checks and balances. This is to prevent the abuse of power by government officials. The separation of powers ensures that the three branches of government control one another and are accountable to each other. This system further limits the power of each individual branch so that state power is shared.