In this video, we are going to learn about finding mean by assumed mean method and we have some data of age of people in society. The class interval shows the ages here and the frequency shows the number of people in that age range. So the frequency for 10 to 20 years is 3, 20 to 30 years is 6. That means there are 3 people aged between 10 to 20. 6 people aged between 20 to 30 and so on. Now our objective here is to find the mean age in the society given to us. We know different methods exist to find the mean. We can simply find the class mark for each. Class mark is the midpoint of the class intervals. So let's just quickly write it. One of the methods is that we can multiply the class mark with the frequency. So here the class mark is 15. In order to find the class mark, what we do is we add the lower and upper limits and divide it by 2. So we get 15. Similarly for the second one, 20 plus 30, 50 divided by 2 is 25 and so on. So we can complete writing the class marks. So if I write mean as x bar, one of the methods is to sum up fi xi divided by summation fi. That means multiplying each frequency and the respective class mark and then summing that up and then dividing it by the total number of frequency. Sometimes the procedure becomes complicated when the multiplication becomes complicated and in such instances what we do is we first assume some mean and once we assume that mean we find a deviation for each class mark from that mean. So the first step is to assume some mean. Now this assumed mean is somewhere in the middle when we arrange the class marks from in ascending order like this. So x1, x2, x3 and so on and we choose some middle value whatever to be the class mark. So here the class marks are 15, 25, 35, 45 and 55. We can choose our assumed mean to be 35 here. So let's just write that. So here we are assuming that our assumed mean is 35. Now we are interested in finding the deviation or DI for each class interval. So for class mark 15 this 35 is nothing but A. So the deviation will be that class mark minus the assumed mean. So in this case it will be 15 minus 35 which is minus 20. Similarly if we keep on doing the same process 25 minus 35 this is going to give me minus 10. Then 35 minus 35 is simply 0. For 45 minus 35 we get 10 and for 55 minus 35 we get 20. Now we are interested in finding F i DI. That means the multiplication of the frequency and the respective deviations. So for the first row we get minus 20 times 3 which is minus 60. And we can complete rest of the rows as follows. We get minus 10 times 6 which is minus 60 again. Then 0 times 8 which is 0. Then 10 times 4 which is 40 and then 20 times 5 which is 100. So in the next step what we do is then we sum up the values in the last column F i DI. So here the summation is minus 60 minus 60. So let me just quickly write it here. Summation F i DI is equal to minus 60 minus 60 plus 0 plus 40 plus 100. And that gives me 20. Let me also sum up all the frequencies. The summation of all the frequencies is 9 plus 8 17 plus 4 21 and 21 plus 5 as 26. Now I am ready to find the mean from assumed mean method. So the mean is found as A which is the assumed mean plus summation F i DI divided by summation F i. So basically we are adding some deviation term in the assumed mean from the data that we have. And we have already found summation F i DI which is 20 and summation F i which is 26. So we can find the mean as A which is 35 here plus summation F i DI that is 20 divided by 26. And this gives me 35.77. Let me just box it real nice like this and this is how we can find the mean by assumed mean method.


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What's the challenge in your eyes as you guys prefer to face the Patriots? Just got to stop the run. They're a good team. They're going to run the ball, try to establish the run game, so it's going to be enough to stop it. They're going to play action of it, so it's on the back. You've got to play with good eyes, play with discipline. They do a lot of short stuff and then try to get you over to the top and you have to be super disciplined for that? Yeah, definitely. Like I said, they're going to run the ball and you're going to stop the run and they're going to keep running it and it's going to open up passes and bring everybody up in the run game. So, you know, on the back end, we just want to make sure we do our job to see if he's got to come up and stop the run. And I said on the corners, we just got to make sure we don't let up no X plays. Like I said, they're going to do short passes to get us to be deep. You guys have been a lot better about X plays throughout the course of the season. Is there any kind of one thing that stands out about what you've been able to correct? I mean, we notice we play good defense when we don't give up X plays. So, we just took a big emphasis on that once we realize that that we got to be better just as a defense in the back and communicating. And that's where we had our mishaps at. So, I think we just put a big emphasis on it. You know, if we make them draw the ball, you know, we'll make, we'll live with that, you know, if they make scoring those draws. But we can't give up those X plays, you know, to make it a shorter drive for them. Christian, I felt like the guys were counting you out, like, as a team. Counting the Titans out for basically like a month. You kept proving off and you're not wrong.   Are you going to do England? Yeah, I'm sure they are. I mean, like you said, they count us out every week. So, we just got to stay with that chip on our shoulder. Like, we know we're a good team. We're not going to let last week affect us. So, we just got to come back, you know, and show the world every week, you know, while we feel like we're one of the best teams. Christian, do you feel like you guys have been able to get in some sort of group this week with Thanksgiving off and I know the walk-through earlier this week and how we're able to do today's practice when you head all together?    Just those little things, you know, that's going to help you be prepared come Sunday. You know, we can't put it all on the coaches, you know, to get us ready.


It's Hoodie Coco Super Bowl Special brought to you by Fudgies. These things are great. Put some lead in your gut It's the candy bar so good. You won't ask what it's made of. Now on with the show Everybody HoodieCobraCommander788 here. This is the show where we review every vintage GI Joe toy from 1982 to 1994. I've already reviewed the first Bazooka action figure. The second version of Bazooka was released in 1988 as part of Tiger Force Tiger Force was Hasbro's clever way of getting kids to buy toys They already had. Bazooka is a football themed action figure So I'm going to review Tiger Force Bazooka on the day that part of a continent Celebrates that specific region's favorite sport. There's a new six inch Tiger Force Bazooka action figure And we look at that one too. Since some people only tune into the big game for the commercials I'll have a special commercial break for you. HCC788 presents Tiger Force Bazooka This is Bazooka the Tiger Force Missile Specialist from 1988. This figure was introduced in 1988 and was also available in 1989. It was discontinued for 1990. This is the second version of Bazooka. This figure features no new parts or accessories There are three vintage versions of Bazooka, version one from 1985, version two the Tiger Force version from 1988 and Version three from Battlecore in 1993. Version two is entirely copied and recolored from version one Version three is the only one with a different sculpt and uniform It is a rather drastic change. As the Missile Specialist He was the successor to Zap, G.I. Joe's first Bazooka soldier from 1982. The term Bazooka is outdated The Bazooka was a World War II era anti-tank recoilless rifle The name Bazooka came from an instrument played by comedian Bob Burns in the 1930s and 40s Soldiers of the era would have been familiar with Bob Burns That's how the word became slang for the weapon that kind of looked like the Bazooka Larry Hama, the writer of the G.I. Joe comic book series and the file cards Objected to the term Bazooka because it was outdated and obsolete Alternate code names included long shot, rough tackle, heat man, armor, armor, and hard line If those are the alternatives, I'm glad they went with Bazooka Tiger Force was a sub team within G.I. Joe introduced in 1988 It consisted entirely of reissued action figures in different colors and one new character The only new character, Skystriker, was entirely made of reused parts Nothing in Tiger Force was original. Tiger Force had vehicles too There were five Tiger Force vehicles in 1988 and two more in 1989 There were no new Tiger Force figures in 1989 Tiger Force got its name from the NATO Tiger Association The NATO Tigers is an organization of NATO Air Forces They conduct annual Tiger Meets, at which airplanes and helicopters are painted with Tiger images and patterns There was another historical reference for Tiger Force A long-range reconnaissance patrol team from the 101st Airborne in Vietnam was nicknamed Tiger Force The team became notorious for many war crimes committed against civilians in that war Although it is awkward to have a G.I. Joe sub team called Tiger Force, I don't believe the creators had any idea that it would be a problematic reference The crimes of Tiger Force mostly came to public light in the early 2000s and would not have been known to the creative team at Hasbro in 1988 The first Bazooka figure from 1985 was designed by Ron Rudat for Hasbro Ron included the number 14 jersey for the New England Patriots quarterback Steve Grogan Bazooka wore the traditional red Patriots home jersey even though the character wasn't from New England He was from Minnesota so he probably would have been a Vikings fan Ron Rudat was and is a Patriots fan though Hasbro headquarters is located in Rhode Island so the jersey is a nod to a hometown hero Early concepts for Bazooka had him looking more like a traditional soldier but the designer just had to include a reference to a favorite player Bazooka version 2 changes the colors from red with blue numbers outlined in white to white with orange numbers outlined in green These colors relate to no professional football team as far as I know The original colors had a special meaning but the Tiger Force figure was not given as much thought and care Let's take a look at Bazooka's accessories Starting with his weapon The card contents call this an MAT missile launcher The card doesn't say what MAT stands for but it is probably missile anti-tank The missile launcher is in black plastic just like the version 1 missile launcher In fact these may be the same accessory If there's a difference between the two I can't see it If there's any difference at all it is quite subtle It is undersized for the main weapon for GI Joe's missile specialist It has a grip here on the front and that grip is a little bit too big to fit in my figure's hand It also has this strap and you can hang the weapon by the strap over the figure's shoulder and that also works This is roughly the same size and design as the real world M72 law rocket launcher but this seems to have the projectile poking out the front In 1985 Footloose also included a law rocket launcher and it was bigger than Bazooka's Next let's look at his helmet The helmet is in a caramel brown plastic It is a cloth covered pasquette or personal armor system for ground troops helmet It is the same as version 1 but the version 1 helmet was in green plastic Finally we get to the backpack The backpack is in a dark green the same green color as the lower half of the figure It has some pouches and a canteen and a rack with four missiles for the launcher Those missile tips can break off so do be careful with those The version 1 backpack was the same but it was in an olive drab green color With the accessories out of the way let's take a look at the articulation on Bazooka He had the articulation that was standard for GI Joe figures by 1985 but was still the standard by 1988 so he could turn his head from left to right and look up and down He could swing his arm up at the shoulder and swivel at the shoulder all the way around He had a hinge at the elbow so he could bend his arm at the elbow about 90 degrees He had a swivel at the bicep so he could swivel his arm all the way around This was an o-ring figure meaning the figure was held together with a rubber o-ring that looped around the inside so he could move at the torso of it He could move his legs apart about so far He could bend his leg at the hip about 90 degrees and bend at the knee about 90 degrees Now let's look at the sculpt design and color on Bazooka Starting with his head and on his head he has black hair and a black mustache This is very similar to the version 1 head The paint mask on the hair might be slightly different but they are otherwise identical At least they didn't change his hair color like they did on Tiger Force Duke I think he looks like 80s era Freddie Mercury You can tell me how much you think I'm right in the comments down below On his chest he has a white sports jersey with an orange collar He has an orange number 14 outlined in green on the chest The numbers are sculpted on they're not just painted on There is nothing on the back It doesn't have the numbers on the back This is the same chest as version 1 but with updated colors If they're going to change the colors I would like to see this in the Patriots Away colors rather than these random Tiger Force colors Another football-related figure released between these two was William the Refrigerator Perry a real player in this beautiful number 72 Chicago Bears jersey 1987 was a popular year for football in GI Joe because another football jersey-wearing figure was released that year Red dogs from Sergeant Slaughter's Renegades His arms feature short white sleeves with an orange stripe between two green stripes His forearms are bare and he has dark green sweat bands around his wrists and he has bare hands Again, these are the same arms as version 1 just in different colors His waist is dark green with a brown belt with brown pouches on the hips and a detailed belt buckle He has yellow tiger stripes on the dark green trousers This is the same waist as version 1 but for once we have more paint on the version 2 figure because the version 2 figure has those yellow tiger stripes The legs are in dark green with yellow tiger stripes He has large pockets on each of his thighs He has brown boots with straps around those boots These are the same legs as version 1 and again, version 2 has more paint because it has those yellow tiger stripes but the version 1 colors still look better We'll look at the classified version of Tiger Force Bazooka right after a word from our sponsor Yojo Jock Itch Cream Do you have Jock Itch? Are you tired of the itching? The burning The quarter-sized growths on your genitals Try Yojo Jock Itch Cream for possible relief of all of those symptoms and more Does it work? It's probably better than nothing Bam! Yojo Jock Itch It's Yojo for your little Joe There is a new version of Tiger Force Bazooka This is the GI Joe classified series Target Exclusive Tiger Force David L. Bazooka Katzenbogen 6-inch action figure This is an upscaled and updated modern action figure Unlike the 1988 figure, this classified Tiger Force Bazooka was released before the standard version Let's get this guy out of the box and compare and contrast with the 1988 original Here is classified Tiger Force Bazooka out of the box I will eventually do a full review on this figure I won't go into quite that much detail here I just wanted to get him out and compare and contrast with the original figure that he is trying to mimic One thing to notice immediately is that the colors are similar to the 1988 figure but updated a bit Some of the colors are updated in an important way that I will point out First, let's see what they did with the accessories because there's some cool stuff going on here He has his helmet This one is in red instead of brown but it has brown on the inside and it has some brown straps It is otherwise very similar to the vintage figure The missile launcher is proportionally much larger than the vintage one that's very beefed up and it looks much better It's also in green with these gray pads So it has a paint application on it It looks really good much more substantial It is a little bit difficult to get this grip in the figure's hand There's also a foregrip and that's also a little bit difficult to get in his hand But there are some posing options with this thing It also has the strap like the vintage one This missile launcher does something that would be difficult to do at the vintage scale This can be loaded with an anti-tank round This section in the back is hinged so it can be swung open So a round can be loaded in the back Bazooka does have some anti-tank rockets on his backpack This backpack is similar to the vintage one in that it does have four rockets for his launcher but these are removable These missiles can be loaded in the back of the launcher and that can be closed up and it is ready to fire It doesn't really fire though This is not a 90s spring-loaded launcher There are a couple more features that I will look at when I do a full review of this figure but I wanted to look at a couple things on the figure itself First, we get a different type of chest articulation than what we get on most classified figures He has this cut across the middle of the chest rather than the big hinge that we get on most classified figures I assume that's so the articulation would not interfere with the 14 on the chest It still does interfere a bit Another thing is the Tiger Force colors are a bit more muted than they are on the vintage figure but some of the colors are updated in a very important way Instead of the orange and green on the jersey we have red outlined in blue and this is an 80s style New England Patriots Away jersey This is perfect for Bazooka This is what the vintage figure should have been wearing and I think this is my favorite update for this classified Tiger Force Bazooka Now let's look at Tiger Force Bazooka's file card This file card is updated from the version 1 file card including some significant text updates His faction is GI Joe There's a portrait of Bazooka here This is the same artwork as the version 1 card with updated colors His codename is Bazooka He is the Tiger Force missile specialist His file name is David L. Katzenbogen His primary military specialty is armor defeating weapons systems Secondary military specialty is Tiger Shark Driver The secondary military specialty on the first file card was Tank Driver Of course because the Tiger Shark wasn't out in 1985 The Tiger Shark is a Tiger Force vehicle It's a boat It's the Tiger Force version of the Cobra Water Moccasin It's a water vehicle and has nothing to do with tanks or missiles It doesn't even have missiles on it The box art for the Tiger Shark does show Bazooka driving it It also shows spearhead in the gun turret He was not a Tiger Force character His birthplace is Hibbing, Minnesota, nowhere near New England And his grade is E5 This paragraph says Bazooka was driving an Abrams tank in the Third Horde In parentheses, Third Armored Division When he came to the realization that an illiterate farmer armed with a $200 disposable rocket launcher Could knock out a million dollar tank with less than two weeks training Abrams tank refers to the M1 Abrams tank Which began service in 1980 and is still in service today Third Horde should actually say Third Herd Which is the nickname for the Third Armored Division With that in mind, he put in for an immediate transfer to Tiger Force The Version 1 file card doesn't mention Tiger Force, of course It just says he put in for a transfer immediately I think the idea is that despite being surrounded by an entire tank He felt vulnerable to relatively inexpensive and unsophisticated anti-tank weapons The rest of this paragraph is new for the Version 2 file card It does not appear on the Version 1 file card at all It says Since that time, Bazooka has become a true specialist in the use of tactical assault missiles Now he can fire a surface to surface missile at a T-52 tank positioned over two miles away And blow off his gun barrel cleaner than a knife through butter T-52 tank is probably supposed to refer to the Soviet T-54 or T-55 tank Both of which were in service when this file card was written This bottom paragraph is new for the Version 2 file card It is not on Version 1 It says Bazooka can tell you everything you need to know about missile attack systems And then some He'd talk your ear off if he wasn't always on the missile range target shooting He never lets his missile launcher out of his sight Even in the shower Even when he goes for a joy ride in the tiger shark through cobra-infested waters He lives, by the words, be prepared for anything That is anything that can be resolved with a missile The Bazooka we read about on this file card is a pretty smart guy But in the animated series he is portrayed as something of a dunce Looking at how Bazooka was used in G.I. Joe Media In the animated series he first appeared in Pyramid of Darkness Part 1 Through the series he was partnered with Alpine They seemed to be buddies In Pyramid of Darkness Part 4 He and Alpine rescue Quick Kick They alter Bazooka's animation model to give him cold weather gear in the snow But not Quick Kicks He is still shirtless and barefoot Bazooka also has a strange obsession with the fudgies candy bar Fudgies! Say what? Fudgies! You mean the candy bar as I was plugging? Uh-huh Got any? He's probably most remembered for the episode Bazooka Saw a Sea Serpent It's a strange episode where Bazooka sees an underwater vehicle disguised as a sea serpent But nobody believes him Even when there are other witnesses who are attacked by it Nobody believes Bazooka To be fair, Bazooka is a f***ing moron If he says good morning, you better check your watch I don't usually cover post-vintage series But Bazooka was also known for dying in the first part of G.I. Joe Resolute In the comic book series published by Marvel Comics, Bazooka had a handful of appearances He first appeared in issue number 44 In that issue, some of the new Joes are testing out new vehicles When they get caught up in a demonstration of Dr. Meinbender's new inventions References say his final appearance was an issue number 100 But I've gone through that issue and I don't see him He was an issue number 90 It wasn't a big appearance but he was there He was never a major character in the comic book Bazooka's portrayal in the animated series may have been silly and dumb But at least the character was entertaining He was mostly a non-factor in the comic book He barely appears and does almost nothing Looking at Tiger Force Bazooka overall This is a middle-of-the-road figure It's one of the better Tiger Force figures Bazooka is a popular character so it's nice to have a new version of him This one has mostly the same strengths and weaknesses as the first version As a kid, Bazooka was a frustrating figure for me He was half of a military-looking figure He was like Chuckles from 1987 The lower half of the figure looked pretty cool But the top half was brightly colored As an adult collector, I have a lot more appreciation for Bazooka Now I understand the reference for the jersey Ron Ruddad is a New England Patriots fan, as am I And I love the nod to the history of the team The Tiger Force version loses that reference The jersey colors are changed so it's no longer a Pat's jersey In terms of camouflage, it's no worse than a bright red shirt At least the first version had the virtue of the connection to the creator's favorite team The best thing about the classified version is it fixes the jersey colors And now represents the same team as the first version Tiger Force Bazooka has one thing the first version doesn't have Painted camouflage It has painted Tiger Stripes on the lower half of the figure That is something special about Tiger Force figures They didn't just change the colors, they added the Tiger aesthetic Unfortunately, the Tiger Stripes are yellow So that negates the cool factor If Bazooka version 1 didn't exist I would say Tiger Force Bazooka is a totally fine average figure When I compare it to version 1 though, I like the first version a lot better Of course I would prefer a military looking figure But if it's going to have bright colors, I prefer the red, white, and blue That was my review of Tiger Force Bazooka I hope you enjoyed it And I hope everyone enjoys the big game I'm picking the chiefs by 4 points If you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up on YouTube Subscribe to the YouTube channel and share this video with your friends You can find me on social media on Facebook and Twitter And I have a website, hcc788.com Let's not forget the real sponsors of the show The supporters on Patreon They're the ones who helped make these videos possible I could not do it without them You see their names scrolling on the screen right now If you'd like your name to be there, please support the channel on Patreon That's all for now I'll be back soon with another vintage G.I. 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Changing against subject completely moving on to Who works for the ICT department? And I think he needs a chair as well. Do you think? Thank you Robin. Thank you everyone and Well, I'm glad to be here. Oh, by the way, hello Brussels. Hello mom So These days all of us rely on technology to get to the day So can you imagine working during the worst evil epidemic in history like this? In this day and age, we still have to see our clinicians collecting data on paper Then walking to the fence to show this information to someone else because they had to destroy the papers Afterwards to avoid risk of contagion This was not the best use of the limited time they could spend inside the high-risk zone And this way of working was prone to errors since it forces people to encode things twice And then one has to assume and the other person understood everything well, maybe asking to repeat it back to make sure And this data collection system failed to record information that is valuable information that we could use to better understand Ebola and find a way to treat the disease and This is how I one of the saw one of the few software engineers is still working in MSF Found a way to help those in the front line against Ebola So the aim of this this project alias, which is stands for Ebola link for emergency operational support was to replace the paper if not entirely at least partially To enable remote visibility to external clinicians into what's happening inside the high-risk zone of an Ebola management center EMC and To make things easier for the medical staff in the field because every meaning counts Especially when you have a critical situation with a large volume of patients and an overloaded staff a Situation like we saw in our three more. Oh, yeah. I feel completely overwhelmed. I feel Quite emotional because there's some really horrible situations in there I'm almost horrified by the scale of the center that we are constructing What we have here 120 beds? It's some it's horrible. It's horrible. What's the conditions inside what people are enduring? It's horrible. What the staff are having to do And you know the risk the heat everything To think that we're gonna double or triple this size triple this size So the project starts in September after bread the condition you saw in the video arrives in Brussels asking for help We assessed the different devices and systems and we contacted the medical staff in the field to have a better understanding About what information was required to be collected In October we started developing the software LAO's in-house and we outsourced development of the mobile application To a veteran company called the Z-test We deployed our system in November in our three and we decided to finish the pilot in March when we started the commission in LAO three So how does the system look like? Well on one hand you have the patients with Ebola who carry a bracelet inside the high-risk zone Over there and that's the bracelet with a barcode to be able to identify them We also have the the best inside the tents identified by using another barcode And finally the handheld devices used by clinicians in full personal protective equipment PPE to send and receive data via Wi-Fi Outside We have a server with a database which runs the backend software LAO's An application called MCL which allows the handheld devices connect to the server database via Wi-Fi We also have the laptops Accessing the server via Wi-Fi The laptops are used to display and enter data in different places such as triage nursing stations and so forth So now maybe you're wondering a PDA is anyone is still using them? Well, let me tell you why we identified the PDA is the best mobile device for this project It is a system to the current solution used in the EMC to disinfect It would sense a 1 meter immersion in water for 30 minutes, and it's totally protected against dust But also it was very easy to use while wearing the gloves Specified by the PPE directive because data can be entered either by touching the screen with the gloves or by using the buttons of the keypad And it's also a robust unreliable device which works in extreme weather conditions described by breath and Actually, you can also use it as a weapon So it is very resistant, so when we say resistant we really mean it So how does the system fit into the EMC workflow? First the patient arrives in triage, and he's given a bracelet with a unique identification by medical staff in full PPE The patient details are entered on a computer using the web application LAO's If the patient is confirmed Then he's transferred to the confirmed tent There a clinician can scan and confirm patient status and current location during each round using the PDA at the same time Naturally, the staff outside can organize the next round by consulting real-time data in LAO's On exit the patient outcome is also entered in LAO's so one of the biggest challenges of this project was actually to Make a decision about which data we wanted to collect which questions to ask on the PDA And I know we we love to think of ourselves as an organization without borders But when we when it comes to the scope of the projects we need to learn where to draw the line So we say to collect Or to ask questions for which the answers were useful in real time in other words We collected actionable data because it triggers follow-up actions for the different teams in the EMC For example a change of medical treatment or to request to have more staff going inside the tents Here we can see how the patient record looks like on the screen of the PDA There we have the patient details, which are practical to assure you have the right patient in front of you We also have the patient location given by tent and bed The series of information which are which helps the medics to assess the evolution of the patient And finally the last visit date and time important to avoid visiting the same patient twice during your round Here we have another screen. This is an screen an input screen on the PDA And as you can see it is an extremely simple data collection tool So it's worth noticing that the patient and location identification always shows on top The previous status ended for the patient during the last round is shown as a dot next to the option and also if you Press the number corresponding to the option on the keypad. It has the same effect as tapping it with the fingers on the screen We only allow users to select one option or select multiple options per screen So no typing or writing which means less errors or less stress while being on PPE and This is the part I think I like the most because this is when I get to show you the application. I developed Eleos And here we can see a screenshot of one of the dashboards That the clinicians used to check the current location and status of each patient in the emcee And what are the bigger successes of this project? Well, what is the improvement in the time that pays that the clinician spent entering patient data? It was also very easy for users to learn how to use the system Especially the barcodes which were of great value getting information into the system quickly And we deploy the system very fast and at a very low cost And what are the things we would like to improve in a future deployment? Well, we need to escape people in the field to support the IT infrastructure But the kind of profile is hard to find during an Ebola break Also, we experienced the connectivity issues between the PDA and the server and for that We used a buffer to store the information locally so we could send it later on whenever the connection was available again But then you lose the advantage of the real-time information And also as a data collection tool clinicians constantly change what data they want to collect and that is not a clear agreement about the patient information Essential to collect an Ebola break And finally we must be aware that the situation evolves very fast Because they're well you we are having less patience than we said to do clinical trials So in that sense it's important to do a constant follow-up with the field To make sure to prevent that the information you are collecting becomes a absolute for them for the clinical setting So the next steps in this project include the use of other mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets and we can do this Without the costly and time-consuming developing because we used a technology called MCL Which allows building the mobile application regardless of the operating system and then the Alliance hardware platform In we also source the the mobile software to another company But we are planning to lend the technology in-house So we can have more control over the software and react faster to the needs of our users and This project was conceived for Ebola, but we are exploring the possibility to use the the system in other types of emergencies With alleles we learned that usually the simplest ideas have the biggest impact So I strongly believe that the use of mobile devices in MSF operations And maybe for any healthcare setting can make patient care management simpler faster more reliable and more efficient And this in a situation like we saw in West Africa can make the difference. Thank you very much Thank you very much, Manny. So we move to some questions and we're gonna go to our online audience first I have a question from MSF Zimbabwe who are asking and what is the backup plan? And for example, do you still use paper? Copies of information. Yeah, they're like a bumblebee to go back to the paper collection system And when we were actually piloting the system, we had a sometimes is still using the paper and others using the PDA Thank you very much Okay question at the back there on the left-hand side, please stand up and state your name and Maths and student nurse at Kate Kings College And it's just a quick one of my placements was actually in the TB team here in London And one of the things that they were struggling with was dealing with the paperwork of having to test basically a school 300 kids in about three weeks and an awful lot of paperwork was involved in that Would you be it's possible you could work with other organizations that have that do similar things just to Make that process more efficient This looks all really good. Oh heck, I would have loved to not see through 300 plus sheets of paper So you ask essentially is it the role of MSF to As it can it could it could could other organizations be involved and used similar come the similar processes and ideas that you're coming up with More general question. Could the technology be used? Elsewhere so the question is more Could the technology that you use to get rid of the paper system in the field be used for any other Paper type system potentially. Well, of course, you know, this is what what we are actually planning out to do in Brussels We could use it for core outbreaks for my nutrition emergencies for TV HIV Yeah, the sky's the limit. I mean It's also a matter of getting together with the clinicians understanding that there needs with the I think the most difficult part and then Trying to to respond to the need with with a mobile device, which I think it would definitely improve the operations Thank you very much any other questions Yeah Hi, it's real as we from MSF. Sorry, I don't have a voice Thanks for the presentation I think this is very needed and it's been very useful But how much will will the presence of a developer be needed once once the once it's adapted to other Or Ebola or non Ebola how much will there be an absolute need for a developer in case? it's an emergency where we can't get hold of a developer immediately or You know the developers busy with something else and we want to get project up and running How much of it is easy to adapt? Well, I think first of all mobile the applications are something we can definitely afford to do in MSF in-house because they are Relatively simple and then like I said, we can respond faster to a change of requirements that if we outsource the application Now the time that we're considering here is Days I will say maybe even hours because of this platform that we are using that really allows us to have this application running on an Android on a PDA on a Windows mobile on Tablet, so it's really independent of the device and that makes actually the development cycle really really short Thank you very much


One of the things I really like about the J programming language is that it gets out of your way and lets you do work. So for instance, that becomes just like a big calculator. Now the minimalist approach to the display can't have a few odd things that come up. So for instance, I've got a variable A that's seven, variable B that's seven, it makes sense that I could add A to B. That doesn't make so much sense, but a domain error usually means there's a difference in type. Now, even if I say I had a different version of seven and C that was seven and I could add A and C to get 14, that doesn't mean they're going to act exactly the same way. So for instance, if I want to get the reciprocal of A, that's one way, if I want to get the reciprocal of C, now I've got a rational number, I've got an exact number compared to a floating point number. So what I wanted to do with my versions here was come up with a way to have a display that would actually clearly show me the differences between the different types. So let's start off with Boolean, zero is a Boolean value, it's going to look differently. If I want to find out, if I forget what that looks like, I can hover and it's going to have an atom and it's Boolean. Now this is being done in the JHS programming environment with the Chrome browser and I'm actually creating an SVG representation of the number that includes this extra information. So let's do an integer, we've seen integers before, integers actually look pretty much the same and I kind of figured that made sense for them being integers. So there we go, it's an integer and its shape is an atom. What about a floating point? Floating points look like that, if you forget, you just hover over top. What about a complex number? With a real part three and imaginary part four, J in the middle, that's what those look like. Now you might notice the visual proceeding it on each of the entry lines. I'm putting that in so I don't forget what form I'm in because if I flip back and forth like I am between the standard and the regular forms, the visual reminds me that's what I'm looking at. So again, if I hover over top, it's an atom and it's complex. I can also do a rational, so that's three quarters, an exact three quarters, and that's the rational representation. For the complex and the rational, what's interesting is the center letter can get separated by color as well as by the fact that it's a letter and not numbers. And that makes it a lot easier to see the differences between the part in front of the letter and the part behind the letter. I kind of like that as well. Also, I have extended, so if I have extended, this is kind of like rational, except there's not the ratio part of it, and it's still an exact and it looks a little different. We shall have had literals before. There's an example of a literal and I can actually show that it's a literal, but in here, if I hover over it, you might have seen that before, it actually tells me the ASCII value of it. So a little more information is available that way too. And finally, the one I'm working on currently, and I haven't got all the answers to it, is Unicode. Because Unicode does some very odd things in J. I've got to think about how I want this to look, but at least if I have a Unicode character at this point, I can display single Unicode characters and I can see that they are different than the others. So I'll switch back to the standard display and we'll take a quick look at this. What we see is numerals inside boxes, and the boxes may be a clue. The boxes are the way to glue the different types together. There are different types here. I'll go back to my enhanced display and see what this looks like. And you can see right away, this is a Unicode, this is a literal, this is rational, extended, floating. If you forget that that's what it looks like, complex, integer, and boolean. And as an extra bonus, because this is all actually its own list of boxes, I can also hover off here and I get its shape of eight boxes. So I'm going to go over a bit more of this in the succeeding videos. The next one actually will be more about the character, the literal variable, because there's a lot happening with literal when you start looking at it this way. And there's reasons that I've done a number of things that I have. Thanks for watching and I hope you continue to watch my view of the enhanced display of the J programming language.


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As comedy explodes around the world in Montreal, Scotland, and New York City this summer, why did San Francisco not remain the epicenter for stand-up comedy considering all the great acts who came from the city on the bay we talk with will-durst America's number one political satirist and one of the high priests of the San Francisco comedy scene. We have some fun premium content this week. I wanted Robert Smigel to do Donald Trump because he's famous for doing Donald Trump and I was going to write something and then I listened to something we did three years ago and thought, you know, we can't top this. So this week's premium content is Robert Smigel doing Donald Trump. $2.50 premium content go to David Feldman show dot com hit the premium content button and you'll see Smigel is Trump hysterical $2.50.  You can get all our premium content for free by becoming a monthly subscriber for as little as $5 a month we take all major credit cards go to David Feldman show dot com become a monthly subscriber join team Feldo for only $5 a month you gain access to all our premium content. Check it out. We're to welcome a couple of new members to team Feldo. We always are grateful for people who support this show by listening and by donating money by becoming monthly subscribers or just donating money or just by buying some of our premium content. Welcome to team Feldo, Jonathan Katz, Mark Walgen, Mark Rossbock, Russell Martucci, Nicholas James William Guthrie and David Addy. Thank you again and welcome to team Feldo. Well, this isn't really Will Durst joins us. This is just me talking to a guy who knows all my skeletons and probably got drunk with a few of them. How are you, sir? I'm still drinking, but not this morning. But last night I had a gig in Cloverdale and for some reason I hooked up with this incredible crew who used to work at the theater. They have a gorgeous little 99 seats federally funded grant to the city. It's called the Cloverdale Performing Arts Center, a CPAC. What? Yeah. But just this great crew of people. Would CPAC the conservative people? No, no, no. Cloverdale Performing Arts Center, CPAC. So, yeah, unfortunately named CPAC. So I just hooked up with these guys and they're having a benefit and I did my little one-man show about being a baby boomer last year here and it went over to, I guess, well. And then this year they're having a benefit for the theater and so they charge in huge amounts of money and giving out hors d'oeuvres and champagne and wine and beer and blah blah and then I'm performing and they wanted a new show. They didn't want the boomer show. Well, I don't have a new show, you know. So I just patched together stuff, you know, pieces and new stuff that I'm working on and more political stuff and so I did a Dirst case scenario last night and it went well and so then I hung out drinking with them till like 2.30 in the morning. By the way, Will Durst, for those of you who are just joining us, has been called possibly America's funniest political satirist by the New York Times. He is the funniest political satirist in America and my hero and he will be at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August. I want to talk to you about that because that is insane and we have listeners in Scotland. We do. Oh cool. Yeah. They got to come see my little show. So tell us about your show and I want my friends in Scotland to get a pad and pencil, write it down. Where are you, when are you and what is the name of the show? The name of the show is Bomer Raging. I'm at the Gilded Balloon in the Lion Bar at 5.30 every day. Every day throughout the entire festival except Tuesday, August 18th. But otherwise, every day 5.30 in the afternoon and I hope it goes well. What is the Edinburgh Festival? Explain that to me. The Edinburgh Festival started out in 1947 and it started out as a thank God we're not speaking German festival and they invited the best theatre in ballet and symphony and opera companies from around Europe and you know first couple years are kind of rough and then everybody jumped in and said yes we are the best theatre company and we will be glad to go to Edinburgh. So about seven years later, cut to the chase, all the theatre groups and people in London are going well for Chroma's sake, there's nobody here, everybody's in Edinburgh. Let's just rent out a little theatre in Edinburgh and when people get tired of the real festival, maybe they don't want to see highfalutin stuff and we'll just be on the fringe of the festival and that's where the whole fringe thing started and then the fringe got bigger and bigger and then these guys from Oxford or Cambridge or Oxbridge or whatever they call it, you know the Cambridge Footlikes and you know they have their amateur theatrical things and they came to Edinburgh for the fringe festival and then they were so good that they were invited back the next year to be part of the actual festival and they were called Beyond the Fringe, they called that show Beyond the Fringe, perhaps you remember it and that was Dudley Moore and Peter Cook and Dr. Jonathan Miller and a bunch of and a couple other guys I think there were four or five and so and now the fringe is huge, every garage space, every you know little space in a school is used and this will be my eighth, eighth Edinburgh fringe festival. Wow. Wow. First in 11 years but I've done you know eight months of my life, I will have spent in Edinburgh. Wow. All August. Wow and we're talking Scotland by the way so I want all my listeners in Scotland or Ireland or London and I got to stop calling them my listeners, I'm getting very possessive but you should go see Will Durst, tell us again the name of the show and where it's playing. Yeah it's called Boomer Raging, it's from LSD to OMG that's what happens when acid flashbacks meet dementia and it's at the Gilded Balloon at the wine bar at 5.30 every night, go to Wilders.com.  If one were to go to the festival, how many shows could one see? Well I used to work at the assembly rooms so this is what I know, assembly rooms had five different spaces and they had a 500 seat grand ballroom then they had a 250-seater, then they had a 150-seater, then they had a 99-seater and then they had a 60-seater and they had five spaces in this one venue and the 500-seater you know only a couple of times a day but all the other four spaces from noon until midnight would run with shows every 90 minutes a different show so we're talking like 30 or 40 shows per venue you know and then there's like six, seven venues like this and so I think per day there are 1200 performances. Wow so it's basically Branson with teeth but really bad teeth. Has that joke been done? Yeah I don't think so. Hey has this joke been done? A civilian gave it to me. Who? Has this joke been done? Who gave it to you? A civilian. Okay. So I don't know if they took it from a real profession. Yeah that's a problem usually. Go ahead. The joke is Donald Trump is that kid who fell down a well and then Lassie didn't tell anybody. Well yeah that would work yeah because he does look like Timmy he's got the hair well or Lassie's hair and somebody's hair. Yeah it works at a couple levels. I would try it have you done it yet? Yeah it kills. Then keep it I haven't heard that. There you go. You gotta be careful when civilians give you a line because you know they might have heard it from another civilian who might have gotten it from the tonight show. Right who might have gotten it from a comedian. Another comic. That was a I do remember couple of jokes that I decided to stop doing because I heard Jay had done them and you know Jay the problem with taking faxers you know the writer's guilt has been pretty lax about this but if you have a talk show it you can have people faxing and jokes from all over the world and you have to sign a release and I don't know how it works and it's good to encourage young writers the problem is they're not union and some of them go to comedy clubs to get ideas to get inspiration and I noticed are you still there sir? Yeah and I noticed I totally agree. Yeah so I believe in encouraging young comedy writers and I think faxing in is a probably a good way to I don't know but maybe it isn't because it's it's a you know for television shows it's a union job and if you have faxers you should do a better job of hiring your writers. You should you don't necessarily need faxers. Not to take anything away I know people get angry because a lot of listeners are butting comedy writers so I don't want to discourage people. Let me tell you why I don't watch John Stewart or Leno or Fallon or Kim or any of those guys and one of the reasons there's like three reasons one reason is I am constantly on the lookout for a new bit or a new line and I am afraid that right something that I see on one of those shows is gonna you know like DMSO kind of simmer down into my brain and then bubble up two months later and I'm gonna think that it was mine okay that's one problem right. Another problem is that I have seen on these shows a joke that I originated and it was too idiosyncratic for it to be one of those you know reach the same conclusion with the same information at the same time things which I totally understand and that can happen but this was a joke about Dick Cheney detaching his jaw and swallowing Lloyd Benson Hall I mean I mean it was too close and it was and it was and I've been doing it for months and then I saw it on the Stewart show and I got really pissed and I approached the joke differently now because I thought that the audience was aware what I was aware that somebody on TV had done it and I was projecting on them that they were gonna think that I ripped it off and I was so I had a whole different attitude about the joke and it was it never got the same response because I I stutter stepped it you know I didn't go into it with full confidence so that's now I'm sure a lot of my stuff as you know because what I'm saying about the you know the same information entering the same computer you know you're gonna come up with the same joke and so but I don't watch it so I don't know so I never have to worry about that there are two schools of thought one was don't watch other comedians you don't want to be influenced I think Adam Sandler has that theory Judd Apatow is an expert on comedy told me that when they were starting out Judd would always be going oh come look at this guy come look at this girl come come come come come and Adam said now I don't want to be influenced whereas Judd is a complete student a scholar of stand-up right there's and Carlin would never I mean I don't think Carlin went to movies because he didn't want to be influenced by someone else's version of the vision you know and I feel kind of guilty that I don't watch that much stand-up so should I feel guilty because somebody said because I've had these conversations with people that and I don't want to be influenced and honestly if somebody's really good I get jealous uh yeah unless they're great in a self-destructive way that I'm not threatened by them or they're doing something that I could never even do but we were starting out I really I didn't watch that much I would I remember I would go outside because I didn't want to watch other comics and I found the ones who watched other comics excessively kind of stalled and then they became like joke enforcers they became the comedy police this bit was stolen he's doing your bit and I thought I don't want to be the comedy police I don't want to be the that really locks up your creative process if you become a joke police officer oh yeah there's uh there's guys in Austin and Houston who are bill Hicks policemen you know they they they yelled at Kathleen Madigan for a joke that she did yeah I I think a lot of people come to the same conclusion you know I had a joke and that's why I've never really watched Bill Hicks I had a joke that I was doing about uh something about God created the earth in six days and if you that makes sense because it looks like a real rush job you know well that's funny joke yeah and then I go to England this was like you know 15 years ago and everybody's walking up to me going that's Bill Hicks's joke and I went what and I and something about God rushing it like he created the earth I don't know how I don't know how the bit goes so I stopped doing it I have the last thing but I had to go to England to be accused of stealing guys yeah yeah they they have a pretty uh pretty uh strong bill Hicks enforcement as they should so you're in Edinburgh I wrote a joke in I think 92 it's on my cassette and I did a cassette it's called none of the above and I did a joke and it was about Pat Buchanan building a wall on the Mexican border all right and how are we going to build the 1952 mile long 15 foot high fence on the Mexican border without using Mexican labor I did that joke like in 1992 now fast forward 15 years suddenly there's a huge argument about who wrote that joke and I'm not even in the conversation right right I mean that I mean Carlos Mencia did that joke and then Joe Rogan jumped on stage at the comedy store five years ago and used that joke to expose Carlos Mencia as a as a thief that he's and then I guess I don't remember specifically but I think Joe attributed to somebody I remember I got it on tape and it was a commercially produced tape yeah people can check well that's the good thing about Twitter is you can time stamp a joke you can go back in time and say I wrote this joke and there's the date but I don't get too much traction on Twitter I get more on Facebook I find Twitter to be Facebook has changed the algorithms now it's hard to get any traction they want you to buy advertising exactly well so what is a day in the life of a fringe festival comedian you get up at what time you have a show at 530 and you're there for the month how long is very civilized yes you're there for how long a month for month yeah 30 days arrive at August 3rd and I leave September 1st and is somebody running the festival well there's a fringe office I imagine there's a board and the major players because I always I've never done major players in terms of comedy are four the gilded balloon the pleasant the assembly rooms and the stand and those are I imagine that they have some you could you know some influence in terms of who sits on the fringe board and so the fringe puts everything together and then there's a couple of coalitions that they have and I haven't been there for 11 years so I don't know as opposed to the Montreal comedy festival which is very tight you know right now right it's going on right now yeah I had never been to the fringe I kind of equated to the Occupy movement and maybe I'm wrong about that where it's kind of fluid amorphous and anybody can go there as long as they can get a venue is that true yes but breaking out of the clutter you know just like today everything breaking through the clutter is impossible and you know the major newspapers are all sent in reviewers and you know but still there's so many shows and even comedy I think there's going to be like 40 comics at this venue that I'm at you know 40 different comics including proofs and in a bunch of British heroes you know really big time comics so I don't know if I'll be able to break through the clutter and the show that I'm doing I'm doing my boomer show but I'm doing a 65 minute version of the 90 minute show so it's going to be I think it's going to be jokier you know then the real show it's not going to have the ups and downs of the real show so and I don't know if it's going to translate I don't know if the boomer experience that I try to portray from America is going to be reflected in that because I'm sure the English boomer experience was totally different than ours they had a couple of booms during the war exactly and they lost a lot more men than we did yeah I think they look you know we lost what five percent of the guys who went over and they lost like 20 or something god if you couldn't get laid after world war two that is like that that's a joke that I've heard about burning man you know burning man yeah this guy this guy is so lame you couldn't get laid at burning man why are there so many women there it's so sexually free oh I'm talking about the odds that there were yeah I know the odds of of women to men I mean there must be after world war two it must have been five four or four three or something for as little as five dollars a month you can gain access to all our premium content by going to david feldman show.com and becoming a monthly subscriber we take all major credit cards check out this week's premium content it's robert smigel doing donald trump from three years ago it's hysterical it's two dollars and 50 cents if you don't laugh your ass off I will give you your money back two dollars and 50 cents or get it for free by becoming a monthly subscriber five dollars a month five dollars a month we accept all major credit cards and you gain access to all our premium content when is comedy day and you sit on the board of comedy I'm just on the advisory board Debbie's the actual Debbie's the CEO of the board she's president of the board so it's September 20th this year okay noon to five golden gate park and Sharon Meadow and uh it'll be a lot of fun and I think I'm gonna do it I have a gig the night before in Mendocino so I'm gonna drive home from Mendocino on a Sunday which is gonna be a bitch but you sit on the board of comedy day I'm gonna stir up some feces right now I'm gonna accuse San Francisco of starting something they couldn't finish I'm gonna they've been doing it for 35 years yeah I'm gonna go after my hometown we were there first in San Francisco when did comedy day start 1981 1981 this is what we did in San Francisco and I say we because you were there you came before I did but uh we created the concept that you didn't have to be a corporate comic to make a living and I'm gonna hang out for one second we'll durst okay I'm gonna give you a compliment and then I'm gonna rip you a new one okay okay all right early 80s there was a club scene in New York City that started in 1974 75 you always had the improv and then you always had the improv and then you had catch a rising star those are for comics and cabaret acts people who sang you know bet middler and pat benatar would perform at catch a rising star and the improv not just comedians and then you had comic strip opened up and there were these showcase clubs and in the early to mid 80s when I was starting out I looked around the scene in New York and there was one purpose to stand up comedy in the early 80s in New York and that was to get on the johnny karson show because if you're sharing that life or saturday night live because then you became an opening act on the road for a singer or a band or you got to be a headlighter there were no comedy clubs in middle america at the time there were a couple there were a couple in 1981 there might have been 20 full-time comedy clubs in the country there were a couple in chicago there were a couple in LA there were a couple in san francisco there were a couple in new york there were a couple in boston and then the comedy scene exploded with the rise of cable jumping ahead all right so what made you let me let me run this interview okay so there there we have david feldman columbia journalism graduate so you could write you kind of knew show business now why didn't you stay in new york which is where as our good friend tom rhodes wants to say what are the two places along with la where the cameras are plugged in why did you come to san francisco instead of new york because i thought i was a horrible human being and i needed basic training i'd read about like the marines if you join the marines they'll break you down and then rebuild you and i felt i needed to be rebuilt i knew enough because i was in therapy even back then i lacked empathy and uh had the wrong values so i knew that i needed to just be broken down and rebuilt and i thought i needed to do it in a place that anonymously but not anonymously because i was already anonymous in new york but i needed to do it in a safe loving space where people uh and san francisco was that place that's where you go to be hugged larry brown described me as a beaten dog you know twitching and all that kind of stuff and i wanted to be accepted by you and dr gonzo remember thinking wow if i could just you know hang out with will durst and dr gonzo i would be and and you had to prove that you were a good person to be accepted by the comedy community in san francisco it wasn't just about being funny you had to be a good person because we went on long car rides together nor the california so if you weren't a good person you weren't gonna get stage time and i thought well how do i get to be a good person how do you what what is what does it mean to be a good person because no one ever taught me that in new york city no one taught me how to be kind and empathetic and i've heard somebody say about show business it's all political and i said no that's you're cheapening show business show business isn't political it's a car ride and we're going to be on top of one another for a couple of hours are you going to get on my nerves because there are a million people who can do what i do and what you do are you going to get on my nerves that's really what show businesses are you there or did i get yeah or did i get on no i get on people's nerves yeah i get quiet okay so i came to san francisco and this is what i saw what year 82 82 and this is what i saw i went to the other cafe and i saw barry sobel on stage who i had never heard of he had fans then i heard about you who had fans and bobby slayton who had fans and i remember at first being in new york ago and what the what i mean fans who the hell are these people they've been doing comedy for you know nanoseconds what what what gives them the right to have fans jerry seinfeld had the same reaction about san francisco comics right seinfeld said that san francisco comics were like uh the the inhabitants of shangra la that they would do fine as long as they stayed within the confines but as soon as they tried to leave shangra la they would turn into a wizard and you know it wouldn't work and and he was partly true you know and and leno was kind of appalled when he came to san francisco that there were local celebrities oh really yeah i mean what's what's going on something and i was not appalled but i went huh you can get famous here in san francisco well in the early to mid eighties well the scene was such that yeah it was the only place in america possibly the world where you could be a famous comedian and have a following without doing johnny karson without being a movie star it was the only place in the world where local comics were treated as heroes is that a fair statement well yeah we were little rock stars yeah and and and bennett had a lot to do with it alex bennett who won't do my show but alex bennett had a and and robin alex and robin that's true robin brought a lot of people in but alex had a daily morning show that highlighted comedians he made little stars mm-hmm and so there was a thing called but also he used us i mean he used us for his show because most he created this whole format most most radio shows that had comics on where they have comics on for five minutes a half hour an hour tops he would join the show for an hour tops and alex made us stretch and we would be on for three hours a day we would do we would call host the show and you come in at seven and you'd work until ten and then you go out and have breakfast and uh he would buy you breakfast and that was his his way of repaying you and we learned how to stretch that muscle uh of being funny for three hours you know at a shot which is tough on the radio you know and he would he was like johnny curson he would give it up he knew that if people like the alex bennett show they wouldn't remember who got the laugh who who got the funniest joke of the day that they just oh did you hear the bennett show so he was uh he he was very instrumental in and creating the little man and and he would he would run hot and cold and remember ganzo uh was his golden boy and then he was banned from the show and slayton was a golden boy he was banned from the show ruben was a golden boy he was banned from the show so but they all came back and it was good gracious so yeah you know yeah he had he had power issues was very great to me so there was a thing called comedy day now this doesn't sound like anything big these days but when was the first comedy day 81 81 there was nothing like this anywhere in america i don't know when montreal started probably around the same time is that fair the festival in montreal perhaps perhaps but in america there was nothing like this what was comedy day and how big did it get well comedy day started as a dream of ossemon and becky urwin and i think uh john can't do john can't do john can't do and it started out in july of 81 and it was as many comics as we could fit out of the bill we played at the band show and then it started comedy started getting big and in 1991 91 it started in 81 but it started getting so big that it outgrew the bad show and it moved to the polo fields and robin would come whenever he wasn't filming if he wasn't on location and bobcat had just done the police academy movie so he was huge and whoopee had uh been in a couple of movies and they would do the show i think they did it a couple three years in a row alan alan and one year in the polo fields because of a convergence of comedy you know a cresting as a wave and also because sponsorship because channel two fox two would always do uh film us and then do a truncated version in our version put it on tv and the chronicle was a sponsor the sample to run a full page ad once a week for the six weeks previous to comedy a full page ad with all the comics were appearing with our faces you know in the ad and then the week before comedy day they ran the full page ad once a day so i think in 90 91 or 92 one of those years we had 60 000 people at the polo fields of golden gate park and it was huge and was massive and it was ugly and it was hot and it was it was magical it was magical you would always have one of the best sets because i would be hitler i this was my hitler moment i would look out and i thought this is my nuremberg rally i i am gonna speak before 50 000 people 20 000 people and i would get up there and just pretend i was hitler and i would uh yeah it was exhilarating are you still there i am and the other thing i remember i'm blowing my own but and of course you killed and everybody killed the two things i remember about comedy day my happiest moments were comedy day was is he or isn't he and he being robert yeah and everybody so in the back of my mind i always knew that people were waiting for robin is robin williams gonna show up today at the height of my powers as a stand-up comic and we're talking 20 years ago when i was good when i when i thought i was great but in reality just good i said bring me up as robin williams i said this will be one this was gonna be i said let's create one of the great stories of stand-up this will be i'm gonna do one of the great bombs of all and i said just bring up here is ladies and gentlemen robin williams and i would just walk out and go how you doing you know and then try to do my act and make the comics love me for being a supreme asshole and right before i went on a moment of clarity swept over me and i thought to what end why why would you do this to get the other comics to love you is that really is this really uh the other thing i remember was one of my sons had just learned to walk and he stood in the wings waiting for me to go out and i think it there must have been 50 000 people there and he's he's and he doesn't understand this he's just holding my hand he can barely stand and i go out and i do my stuff and i do pretty well and then i go off stage and he runs on to the stage going my turn my turn and i thought you know how fearless i think you know it took it was so hard for me to get up on stage and summon the courage and here's this little two-year-old running up in front of 50 000 people screaming my turn my turn like no fear how frightened were you when you first stepped on stage i was i mean i could not bring myself to stand on stage and tell jokes i was terrified is it easier now to envision yourself as a stand-up do you think the comics today and before we started we're talking about how much better they are than we were when we were starting out do you think they have the fear that we had getting up on stage for the first time that's an interesting question i know that i didn't have too much fear real hard part for no because i approached it from so many different directions you know i i had done musical theater i'd done community theater i'd done theater in high school and college and i wrote for the school newspaper and i wrote for the underground newspaper and so i had i had you know investigated those skills so it was a very small step it wasn't a huge leap you know i built the ramp to that stage so you know i had uh there's a scene in gilden uh rosencrantz and gildenstern are dead that are friend and i did uh and that's almost a comedy routine you know we did it as a double act so i had approached it from it wasn't that big of a deal but putting the first seven minutes together the first five minutes that was a big deal and where did you where did you get up on stage first uh i had a lot of fits and starts but i would say in college at the age of 21 1974 some november so no 22 22 years old a teacher at the university of wisconsin in the theater program named herb felsenfeld uh wanted us to do a performance mr felsenfeld herb felsenfeld mr felsenfeld professor felsenfeld professor felsenfeld who actually moved to san francisco moved to san francisco state have you seen professor felsenfeld lately i have i have he had his lovely wife gail uh yes and uh so i in this classroom at the university of wisconsin milwaukee i bought a case of beer of long necks and we used to have these stamped tin ashtrays in the student union and i brought those into the class and i shut down the banks of lights in the class and i left the one uh where i was going to do my stuff on and i sold beer and i handed out ashtrays encouraged them to smoke and i did my seven minutes and uh and he sold beer and i saw i actually made three dollars on my first gig wow yeah and then i had a set and i went down to the local open mic and we had a monday open mic at a place called the rusty nail i went on and the first time i went on at the open mic i was already like the third or fourth best one you know because i had a had stage time and i and i knew how to write and i remember there was one kid who was like 18 years old and he was doing he had stolen a bit from a bill cosby album and it was all about how it was when cosby goes to las vegas there's a mirror on the ceiling so when he wakes up the morning he thinks he's being attacked by a naked skydiver which is a funny joke yeah and but the kid told this verbatim from the album and we all recognize all the comics knew what was going on but the audience didn't believe him because he was like 18 he didn't look like he was married it didn't look like he'd never been to vegas they didn't buy any of his routine was he white or black it was a white kid uh-huh uh-huh it's interesting interesting you know i took notes remember going to the punchline i guess it was 82 or 83 seeing the callbacks for the competition and writing down i have these notes somewhere because everything's in boxes now of what i thought of certain comics who i thought had it and who i thought didn't this is before i even got up on stage it was sexy stand-up was i mean i just remember you know back in the early 80s you didn't take it for granted if somebody who could summon the courage to get up on stage was sexy it was powerful i don't know if that is still present i don't know if that force field of just not as much because the group of people who who did it like in the early 80s you know they were part of the baby boomer generation and and they were rocking they were living in the 60s you know they were living in 60s their version of what the you know the rock and rollers did and and so and and the audience was the same thing they were still on that high and there were a lot of drugs being used back and there was an electricity about going to a comedy club in the late 80s you would walk here and the punchline would be dead packed on a wednesday night and and people people would see when the comments walked in and you hear like a little buzz and stuff and and it's it's more commonplace now evening at the improv it made it so uh pedestrian it's more commonplace and you know fewer and fewer people are afraid to be put on television used to be a big thing to be on television now everybody's on television i'm talking about people who have no showbiz ambitions and i think the hecklers are better and less afraid of public speaking do you find that to be true nah i hate it i don't have many apples we have some fun premium content this week i wanted robert smidle to do donald trump because he's famous for doing donald trump and i was gonna write something and then i listened to something we did three years ago and thought you know we can't top this so this week's premium content is robert smidle doing donald trump two dollars and fifty cents premium content go to david feldman show dot com hit the premium content button and you'll see smigel is trump hysterical two dollars and fifty cents if you don't laugh your ass off i'll give you your money back you can get all our premium content for free by becoming a monthly subscriber for as little as five dollars a month we take all major credit cards go to david feldman show dot com become a monthly subscriber join team feldow for only five dollars a month you gain access to all our premium content check it out what happened to san francisco there is a phenomenon of comics who leave san francisco move to los angeles and begin to hate san francisco do you know about this phenomenon no yeah there's a phenomenon of comics expats who leave san francisco go to los angeles and really begin to see with anger that there's a place called san francisco where it's cool during the summer and people are nice and nobody's asking you what are you doing what are you doing and how gentle the audiences are and we don't hate san francisco we just resent the fact that we're no longer there uh that makes us angry uh that yeah that you can't stay you can't stay now is it fair to say that we not you but something went amiss in san francisco that there should have been a bigger more vital scene that celebrated san francisco's comedy roots that there should have been that there should have been a festival tied to comedy day that there should have been oh sure sure yeah that was that was a mistake uh limited vision limited vision keep it small keep it uh we had a couple of club owners who had had very tiny vision they didn't they didn't see the big picture that you know and they they were very satisfied with their own little fiefdoms and it was they spent all their time uh worried about little tiny incremental power struggles rather than seeing a larger picture and a lot of it had to do with that you know and i'm talking about tom swyer and john fox who uh they just didn't you know and alex bennett and anybody who had a fiefdom that that is is my rap against san francisco it's like that old joke about uh academic politics why is academic politics so brutal because so little is at stake wow yeah and that goes with another thing that bobby nickman told me remember bobby nickman no the comic bobby nickman no he used to work for uh robert moore bob moore a lot and that now he's a comedy writer sitcoms but he told me the shallower the pond the meaner the fish listen i love san francisco i you know i and i i i'd be dead if it weren't for san francisco i i don't think i would have survived had it not been for san francisco somebody said to me about san francisco that it can only handle one trend at a time so that it could spawn the birth of rock and roll i mean there was rock and roll everywhere but it really became a sanctuary for for rock and then that kind of didn't fade but they got older and then it was stand-up comedy and there was always a sense in san francisco of how long is this going to last is this a fad and it became a self-fulfilling prophecy there was yeah well you know clear channel bought everything but even before that there was this boom and bust mentality in san francisco about stand-up being a fad and we would kept saying how long is this going to last how long is this going to last and then it didn't last whereas in other parts of the country and the world it's grown exponentially i think it might have something to do with the geography of san francisco but the fad of the internet which is to the south of san francisco silicon valley they have more of an infinite view of commerce they they don't see it as boom and bust they just took on the world and i yeah but their half-life is like six months you know but nobody's saying how long is the internet going to last it's super attenuated no but all all the all the individual players i mean you know they it's really a hot house situation and so that's what they're creating in san francisco and now san francisco is a it's a it's a encapsulated little bubble it's a techie terrarium and and because there's so much money you're not going to pull a dominant straw scion with your housekeeper are they knocking on the door uh no but she's rolling her cart past me furiously where is clover dale very quickly where is it where is it clover dale is about 30 miles north of santa rosa oh it must be beautiful it is a little hot but it's beautiful okay will durst two hour listeners in scotland you can see them at the ember festival give us the dates the time and the name of the show yeah it's uh see me at the fringe and the show is called boomer raging from lsd to omg i'll be at the gilded balloon at 5 30 every day at the wine bar so go to will durst dot com or gilded balloon and will thank you buddy great talk it here yes we'll do it again real soon thank you sir sure that's our show our premium content this week is robert smigel doing donald trump go to david feldman show dot com get all our premium content for free by becoming a monthly subscriber for as little as five dollars a month we accept all major credit cards thank you for listening