It is now January 2nd 2017 the year 2016 finally ended I Wanted to make sure that it was completely over before I did my December wrap-up and I'm gonna combine it with my favorites of 2016. I did so little book wise in December that I just have a couple of things and then I'll move on to the Recommendations the favorites for 2016. I only bought one book for December This is the tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu my understanding is that this is Considered the world's first novel the very first Lady Murasaki Shikibu born in the year 978 the other purchase I made was Blu-ray of a fantastic planet This is one of the best science fiction films of the 20th century one of the best animated films of the 20th century You don't hear people talking about it it's um It's very strange very disturbing And very good science fiction I've always intended to give this its own review. I may do it At some point this year The only book I've been reading in December was Orbitsville departure by Bob Shaw. This is the sequel to Orbitsville. I started reading it at the beginning of December I'm only about Three-quarters of the way through I didn't even read one complete book in December my fellow youtuber Becky just published her December wrap-up. She read 14 books in December her as far as the statistics for the channel go I am above 620 subscribers here on YouTube So I gained About 20 subscribers in December. That's more than I usually get in a month for the last 30 days and for the last 90 days by far the most popular video on my channel has been the review of Of Was the name that movie at independent science fiction film called coherence. That's it. It's not just The most popular by a little ways. It's destroying all competition. I don't have an explanation for it The the views just keep coming and keep coming No matter how you look at it Whether by numbers of views or by numbers of minutes watched My top 10 videos do not include any book reviews It always includes Two of those board game videos that I did one of them is the That Magnavox Odyssey game I can't remember the name it right now and the other one is the alien board game. I need to do More complete videos of those and I have plans in mind for that and I'll do it someday And I need to do a follow-up to the coherence movie review. Maybe get more views that way all right on to favorites of 2016 now all the recommendations I'm gonna make and I have eight of them I Actually read eight books in 2016 that were good enough for me to recommend without reservation These are not necessarily new books, but they're new to me. I've read them for the first time and Six of them actually are new books that were published either last year or the year before Number one man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick This is unusual for Philip K. Dick or unusual for the books by Dick that I have read It is a more thoughtful work. It is a more carefully constructed work a very well-constructed World very well-constructed characters. Usually his books are very sketchy Often they're even just jokes You might want to go back and look at my review of it. The TV show is Excellent as well. It's very different But it starts with the same premise and takes off from there and it does an excellent job Number two lagoon by Nettie Okara for this one's unusual in that It has a new kind of writing approach and a new kind of perspective that I've never seen before It's good science fiction. It has a non-western Feel and vibe to it number three silver on the road by Laura Ann Gilman. This is a real surprise This is what you would call weird Western entirely new Magical mythology that doesn't seem to be based on anything that I've seen before Excellent stuff. I couldn't put it down number four orbitsville by Bob Shaw Which I referenced just a couple of minutes ago. This is the other book on the list. That's not a new book This was really entertaining very well written it read very smoothly and quickly it involves the discovery of a Dyson sphere, which I'm not gonna bother to explain right now, but the the manner in which the thing is built is a Completely different approach to anything. I've ever read about any Dyson sphere before very refreshing and number See what number am I on here number five the library at Mount char by Scott Hawkins Like I said in my review of it before I cannot describe this book to you. I'm not even gonna try I'm just gonna tell you it's not a perfect book by far. It's not it's not a perfect book But the reason I'm so jazzed about it is because it's so Unique I've never read anything like this before and this is the same thing I'm gonna say about a number of these these new books. It is a completely fresh Idea a completely new World a completely new mythology. It's not based on or spawned from anything that I've ever seen or even heard of before I Can't stress that enough. This is One of the most unique things I've ever seen if certainly the most unique book of this year and I've read a lot of unique books this year all right number Number whatever the next one the road by Cormac McCarthy Very unusually written an unusual approach to writing very short very unpleasant and Probably the most realistic approach to a post-apocalyptic world that I've ever seen I recommend it highly Number seven I guess this would be hex by Thomas Oldie Weveld again completely unique Never seen anything quite like it before a really new and interesting approach to horror a lot of people who review it say that that It keeps them awake at night. They're so horrified. I can see why Go get it. This is another one that I recommend a hundred percent and Finally a girl with all the gifts Another post apocalypse story this time a zombie apocalypse It's unique for a zombie apocalypse story and the uniqueness on the strong writing Carry through all the way to the last page which I see so many authors drop the ball This guy doesn't I have a couple honorable mentions. It's a darkling C Which I reviewed early in the year Just a good Solid science fiction book the first chapter surprised me a lot and that never happened Trigger warning by Neil Gaiman a collection of short stories some really unique stuff in This book some really unique and new worlds that I'm never gonna forget and then Childhoods End by Arthur C. Clark. I thought I had read this many years ago. Turns out I hadn't a truly classic Arthur C. Clark Weird ending much weirder than I expected and weirder than probably you would expect and finally The screw tape letters by CS Lewis. I did a review of the audiobook read by John Cleese And I'll include a link to it here. It's all on YouTube if you've never heard it before You need to listen to it. I I believe that if you start listening to chapter one, you won't be able to stop That's it. I think The bulk of the video work that I've done Starting in September is over on the 53 channel. 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Well folks, it's the second final of the 2017 NCHA Lucas Oil Superstakes and tonight it was the older horses showing what they know in the open classic final. The man of the moment was Bo Galleon who rode metallic rebel and scored an exciting 229. Congratulations to you Bo. Thank you very much.  Feels really good. Really good. I'm glad to see you too. You said that you had a good feeling tonight it was going to come together. How do you make that happen? That was probably the one thing of why it hadn't happened yet is because you can't make it happen. You know and I had a good friend tell me at the last horse show, don't force it, trust the process and you know I had that in mind all week long and the Cattlemen's really helped me coming into this show know to just you know trust the process, don't make it happen. You know at the Derby they got me for moving my hand and it was just because I was so into the run and trying to make it happen and you know I would have had a 226 there if that doesn't happen so I knew that the horse is capable and you know the horse has great owners that are very supportive of just do whatever you want both so I had everything on my side to you know just get the job done, just stay out of the horse's way and just cut what me, Wes and Lee Frantz-Wall thought were the three best available cows there and don't try to force anything. Your last win in the Will Rogers was nine years ago, the Ferturity win in 08. Too long ago. So you could say it's been a long time between drinks but you've made countless finals at all the Triple Crown events, you've been reserve champion twice here at the Superstakes, what does this buckle mean to you and how does it compare to the Ferturity win? Well I tell you you know it was a goal of ours after we won the Ferturity, me and the Fultz and living in Amarillo we put a lot of heart and soul into Metallicad and five years of really trying to you know prove this stallion and you know kind of along that way I forgot about myself and what it took to be you know as good as the competition is to compete with him and once I got this horse all of a sudden he started reminding me and so you know we started pushing and concentrating a little more and working a little harder and so I'm blessed to have this horse because I feel like that he's kind of that horse to really change my program for the better and you know kind of show that we're serious again and really love what we do and so I just I feel very yeah I'm in the zone very blessed great owners great team I mean Matt and Taylor they take care of us from you know sunrise to sunset and and of course my wife Ashley you know that's yeah she's she's truly amazing she gets that horse ready and takes care of me and tells me you know hey you should maybe work in and pin one this week and then that's what we did and it's felt extremely good the horses felt ready the whole time so I felt we had a good shot all right so take us through your run tell us what was going through your mind at the time well I had the yellow hair for horns and the red slick and the yellow hair for horns was at top and as I went walking down there and me and Lee had talked about it too let's just you know let's stay cool down there and as soon as I was walking down there the yellow hair for horns went to the back wall so I happened to kind of switch over to the red slick and she was down and just started walking out just like everybody talks about when you win here just she just walked right out and we got behind her and cut her and really wasn't into the run as far as into the herd or taking any time off the clock so I knew I had to stay you know real cool and get back on time management of the run so it worked out good Wesley said it on the second cow when we went to the yellow hair for horns that she had a little feel of was pretty gauging so he was a titch worry but he didn't want to put any worry in my mind and and we were going after she was out on the outside and in a good spot and she started a little and then she took off and got real good and then the last cow was real tricky and tough and I was looking forward to hearing the buzzard what about on that last cow when the rain was stuck on the ear did that worry you I didn't even know it was stuck on the ear I was I'm watching the the cow I'm not even looking at his head or ears I just he's on that cow because I'm on that cow and I didn't even know it was stuck on it fortunately didn't take long you know it just sorted itself out so tell us a little bit about metallic rebel what when what's the stunning like to show and and train I mean he he means the world to me I mean just like I said I think he's he's changed my program he's he's changed my way of thinking just getting me back into that you know competitive you know and he just he gives you a horse that gives you an opportunity to learn again as Metallica did you know we were so full force with Metallica and and and winning and what's similar about them they allow you to win I mean if you do your job they put you in a winning scenario and not every horse can do that and there for you learn and a lot because you don't always win and so when you don't win you better learn and and those are the kind of horses that you learn a lot on because they give you that opportunity so they're different enough in that they they taught you to do different things as a trainer and show them by the sounds of it yeah I mean draws matter you know you're you can't always force it you can't you know you can't always win and so you're just having to to be calculated with them at all times and and they're such you know extremely blessed animals and it must be satisfying to you know you champion one successful stallion and then it's progeny is now successful yes and and I feel that Tom and Lisa or you know it's it seems like a very similar scenario you know they're a lot like Alvin and Becky they have a lot of trust in me and and and I think that's what allows us to do our job so well is when they give you that trust you feel you know makes you feel really confident that somebody believes in you that much all right exciting to watch was definite crowd favorite thank you very much congratulations


Let's check this out. Make sure we're coming in live. And there we are. Awesome, awesome, awesome. Good morning, good morning everyone. Hope you're doing well. This is Chicho and welcome to my channel. Welcome to another live stream. Today is January 28th, 2021. And we're doing the first of seven live streams that we've scheduled for the next six days, I think. At least we're going to do seven. We're doing two today. Okay, later on this afternoon, we're going to do a discussion on education. But this live stream, I figured for this seven set, we would start off by playing with kittens. But where are the kittens? The kittens got up with me this morning and around, I got up early, 4.30, 5 o'clock in the morning. And that's what they usually do. I usually get up fairly early in the morning and 5 o'clock, 5.30, I'm up and up and about and doing my stuff. And the kittens have been here with us for about a week, our charter days. Thank you very much for the Twitch Prime sub. So the kittens have been here with us for about a week.  And then while I do, you know, get online and check my news, like the comments and do my stuff, they snooze again. And then they get up and start playing around 8.39 o'clock and I play with them. This time, they didn't go to sleep when they got up with me.  They say, Chico, hope you and Chad are having a great day. It's doing a fantastic day on Saturdays. Thank you very much to you as well, brother. Of course, right? The real MC Mike, how are you doing? Morning, morning, and cats.  Did you get the comic? No, not yet, brother. I sent a, I did a second eBay, you know, issue, whatever claim. And the guy finally got in touch with me. He goes, Oh, I'm trying to sort it out. I sent it to this guy trying to get that comic to you. But I have until next week to let eBay know if it's been resolved or not. The guy, he tried to refund me $60 where I said, okay, I'll accept the 60. I want to accept it. And then it didn't go through. So I'm like, dude, like you even refunding partial refund doesn't even work with them. And he's like, Oh, I'm so sorry. It just didn't go through. I don't know why. And so I'm going to give them until the end of the week. And I'm going to until tomorrow and I'm going to send them a message saying, listen, eBay needs to know we got to resolve this. So we'll see where it goes. We'll see where it goes. Great lasagna. How are you doing? Hey, Chicho, how are you doing? Doing well. Hey, Chicho, Debus, how are you doing? Think, Bobber, I've decided Via is a beautiful name. It was in my hand. Randomly awesome. Awesome thing, Bobber. Gang, let me go get the kittens for you guys. Really, they're usually up and about for the last five days or so. They've been up and around around this time and I've been playing with them and stuff, but they played hard for the last three hours, four hours. So they passed out. I'm going to go bring them here. Check on chat. I'll give my intro while the kittens are here and you know, we can wake them up. We'll see the kittens when they pass it out. They're passing out hard, but every now and then I can get them arousing again or we can just watch them sleep and just chill, talk about whatever. Howdy, Chicho, Felix. I'm assuming you've seen the insanity going, oh, for sure, brother. Some of the fun stuff. I'm going to allow that. For some reason, AutoMod zapped it. Hello all and Chicho Koval, how are you doing? Regal 306. Chicho, how are you this afternoon? I'm doing fantastic, man. I had a nice yogurt, cereal, fruit, breakfast. The setup looks so cozy, so cozy, man. So cozy. I hope I got to sort it out too on Friday days. I really want those comics. That's the reason I bit on that a lot, but it is what it is. The man, the legend, Smith, how are you doing? Why is GS AMC skyrocketing? Well, AMC's down today, like $10, $11 in it for the attendees. Bullhawk from buying more. Haha, Smith, are you? Let me go get the kittens for you guys, gang. So at least we have the kittens. At least it's supposed to be a kitten stream, so we have the kittens here anyway. Say hi to everyone. What's going on? Yeah, I'll put you guys in the corner. Oh, sorry, Sal. The one with the collar is Sal. We decided to put a collar on one of them. I think we had them wrong on the last stream. The names, cats. They're super cool, man. They're so nice and chill. What's going on? I moved you guys. The odds are they'll probably go back to sleep. They're sticking it to the Wall Street hedge fund. I don't know if they are AMC Mike. They are to a certain degree, to some of them, but that's the low-hanging fruit of Wall Street, right? That's the low-hanging fruit of Wall Street. Chih-chou, don't get bit by walking tigers from the slumber. No, I won't. Where did these cats come from? They were from Toronto. We had them. We got them from Toronto. They're like fire right on. Hey, cats. What's up, Chih-chou dragons? How are you doing? Greetings, blessings, Dr. B. Chih-chou, craziness happening in the markets and happening in the markets indeed. Graham, take it to the moon. Cheryl. Oh, and hi. Cheryl, how are you doing? Jacks left over. Chih-chou did. Hey, cats. I got an iPhone advert before the stream. Do they know who they're dealing? Maybe. Can some examples? What's happening with whatever is going on? Sure, Elder God. Let me give you guys a... The cats are just clean. We'll let them clean themselves for a bit. Gang, I want to do my quick little intro. Unfortunately, the stuff is going to on top of the kitties. But, gang, if you want to follow this work, if you want to know what this work is about, I'm on Patreon. Patreon.com forward slash Chih-chou, C-H-Y-C-H-O. I don't point anything behind paywall. Everything's great. The comments, share and share. We got construction going on outside. Crazy construction. Hopefully it's not going to last a while. 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And we will be uploading these streams to YouTube, BitShoot, Rumble, and I've tried doing it on Odyssey. I'm having hiccups on Odyssey, gang, for a few different reasons with the phone linking up and with that they need name, name and address and all this crap to link things up because what it is is for every video I'm uploading to Odyssey, I had a certain amount of Odyssey money there, coins there, right? So I used all those up to upload whatever videos we uploaded so far and I don't have any more Odyssey coins to upload any more videos. So as soon as I'm able to get that sorted out where the Odyssey coins go on the cancer plane, I'll start uploading to Odyssey again. But for now, gang, YouTube, BitShoot, Rumble, everything goes to BitShoot and Rumble, SensorTube doesn't allow us to load everything. Gang, thanks for being here. Aside from that, let me just get caught up with chat and the cats are awake, we can play. Playtime with kitty cats. Toronto cats, so they think they're better than everyone are basically living dead one day on Friday. Yes, and by the way gang, just to let you know regarding GameStop and what's going on in the markets, for the first hour of tomorrow's stream, which is a mathematics stream, we'll talk about it. Okay, I'll lay down how I see things playing out and why they're playing out this way and what this all means and whatnot. So I can give you a quick lowdown today regarding GameStop. Okay, Alderga, let me explain GameStop. Institutional investors got caught short-selling, okay, but selling more than 100% of the shares existed popular, where Redd has found out, but knowing that they would have to buy it back eventually. One guy turned 50, yeah, into 50 million. I saw that Smith. Graham linked that up to us. We can't buy in Robinhood today, indeed, and they control the markets, they control the game. Right? Ho boh, Bridges81HU Cho, hope you're all doing well. Oh my god, Alderga. Smith, we can sell, we just can't buy, but who we sell to is nobody can buy, yeah. Well, if you can't buy on Robinhood, they can buy on the other exchanges, right? Fidelity is functional in case it's helpful for anyone, yeah. Yeah, right. And different kinds of investors. I haven't seen Spider-Man on the live streams for a while now. I wonder if he's doing okay. I think he's doing okay. I think Spider-Man need to take a break from all the politics, stuff that was coming up, mainly because of the elections and stuff, right? And I don't blame him, right? So I think Spider-Man just, he's taking a break. He is welcome any time he wants, man. Spider-Man is one of the kindest dudes we've come across. Lots of love to Spider-Man. I hope he's watching. And just so you guys know, we're going less and less politics, more and more real life, okay? We are doing our current event streams and stuff, but there's a lot going on. But Trump Derangement Syndrome, it's not even over yet. They're even blaming this game's spot stop on Trumpism. It's so crazy. Keep cats, thanks on Try Todays. Sal has been scrapped. Sal is the one by the fire. He's been scratching himself a little bit. So rules for thee, but not for me indeed, Graham. Indeed. Is there something behind the stock market situation, Elder God? It's pizza time for Spider-Man. Pizza time for Spider-Man. Yeah, just a quick, we'll get into detail on GameSpot tomorrow in the math stream, right? But because a lot of people want to know what's going on with GameSpot and the GameStop and the markets and stuff like this, basically naming the game is this, right? When you get into the stock market, you have to have an appreciation for your playing a game that is rigged, right? You're just choosing to play and hopefully you can take some money, cream off the top as you learn how the game is played and can optimize your ability to take a little bit of cream off the top. You have to appreciate that you can be knocked out anytime that the central powers want to knock you out. They make the rules. They've made the rules. They can change the rules anytime they want. They have access to unlimited funds at interest-free, right? No matter how much, how much money there's seven and a half billion people on this planet have. Seven and a half billion people on this planet can generate those 0.00001% that control the money supply can crush the seven and a half billion people that can generate whatever money they want, right? Because all they do is press a button on the computer and they generate trillions of dollars for themselves, right? The best example you can have is the bailouts in the United States of America, right? Overnight, they sent trillions of dollars to Wall Street but they can't send Americans $600, $1400. It takes a month to roll this out, right? So that should give you an idea of how much money they control and how much money the retail investor controls. Now regarding GameStop or any other stock that you've seen short squeezes and whatnot, right? So GameStop, there's a lot of stocks, right? So if you do an analysis, and this is all mathematics by the way, just in case people are new here, everything I do is layered on mathematics, right? So, and apologies if I'm not reading the chat. I just want to go through this little GameStop intro and we'll talk about it in a lot more detail tomorrow doing a math stream, right? So if you look at the data in the markets, look at the stock in the markets, stocks in the markets, right? You can dig down multiple layers and figure out what's going on with each different stock. If the insiders are buying, if the insiders are selling, which head funds might be invested in them, the top ones anyway, right? You can look at the chart with the prices down over time and you can find out what the short position is on any stock that allows shorting, right? Because there's derivatives, there's puts you can buy, calls you can buy, there's multiple derivatives in play, right? So, a whole bunch of people got together or one person got together or a handful of people got together and they started analyzing the markets, analyzing the stocks and this isn't something new that has happened on Wall Street bets or it's something new that has happened last few months. This is something that's been going on forever since the stock market came into existence, right? So a handful of people got together and started looking at information. Some of, most likely a lot of these people were individuals looking at the markets, they got onto a forum, right? Started talking and saying, hey, listen, I've been looking at this stock, this is what the short position is, this is what their revenue is, this is what their cost of revenue is, this is what their P is, this is what their stocks do and then other people started sharing their information and as a collective, right, they started filtering out the ones that they really weren't interested in playing the way they wanted to play it because the markets, right, the stock markets, there are multiple games that play in the stock market. People can do different things in the stock market, right? So these people decided to say, okay, what we're going to do or what I want to do or what we should do is pick the stocks that have the largest short interest, right? And pick the stocks that really don't deserve to be beaten down by hedge funds to that level, to be shorted to that level, right? And people have to appreciate this as well. In the markets, okay, you can make money on the way up and you can make money on the way down, right? When you short a stock, you're making money on the way down, right? If the stock is allowed to be sold short, if the stock is allowed to be sold short, what you can do is sell stocks in that company that you don't even have, right? So let's say there's a million shares in the stock and all of them aren't people's hands. Big money can come in and start selling shares that they don't even have. They borrow shares and sell at a certain price, pushing the stock price down and then they buy it at a lower price, the borrowed shares. It's all fake, right? The borrowed shares and they make the money difference, right? So they've been pushing the stock down for a year or whatever it is and they do those to multiple stocks and they built a position anywhere between 100 to 140-150% short position on the stock. That means when there's let's say a million, million the cats are awesome, if there's a million, what do you call it? The float in the company is a million. They sold an extra million to a million and a half shares in this company that didn't even exist. Fictitious shares and they pushed the stock down. Now what happens when you short something? If you short it at a certain price, when the stock price goes down, you sell it at this price, you cover your short, you make the difference, right? If the stock goes up and you have to cover your shorts, that means the stock is getting away from you and if you were forced to buy it at a high price, you have to cover that difference, right? So if you shorter the $10, the stock goes down to 5 and you buy it back at 5, this imaginary share, you make $5 profit. If the stock goes up to 15, then you're forced to cover this, buy this back, now you're paying an extra $5 per share that you sold, so you're losing $5. What happened was a bunch of people got together, right? The collar is on the cast mark. Is it? Oh, I gotta go check it out. Cheecho, you must check it out. Oh, poor kitty. I got the collar. Okay. Cheecho, actually listen, loosen the collar. Actually, you might have to tighten it if it's too tight. This is the first time this happened. We just put the collar on a couple of days ago. I was trying it. Oh really? He was scratching it. He's got the, even before we put on the collar, he was scratching his neck. Yeah, I got scratched a little bit, right? But that's okay.  We have to put collars on him at some point, right? Oh, you guys were telling me so early on, whoever doesn't have the collar, via kicks because my dealer can't submit it. Oh, help the cat, dude, please. Oh, man. I didn't realize it was a couple of minutes like that, right? I have been living and put options on a better way to short limit it. Cheecho, he was trying to get it off for five minutes, and that was a result. Thank you. Yeah, my pleasure. I'm going to go get them.  Okay, I'm going to give them some treats actually. They're doing good. One of them, one of them, they both went and started drinking water. One of them went to the the pooper to take care of business and the other one is eating some food. So I'll go get them in about a minute or so, in a couple of minutes, two to five minutes or so. Okay, as far as the play goes, GameStop play goes. This is what happens when you start talking about the markets, right? You forget about everything else. A lot of things that are important, right? Such as kitty cats. So what happened was these people got together and said, hey, this company GameStop doesn't deserve to be pushed down so far. Or maybe it did, right?  But what happened? Which one is the badass? Sal is the badass. Oh, there goes. Sal is the badass. Via is gentle. The one with the collar is the badass, right? Which doesn't have a collar now. My hat cut a collar for a while, but the dog kept unlatching it when he was... Oh, really? That's what happened. They were wrestling playing. Yeah, come here. Yeah, give you guys some treats.  This one is Via. Via is so nice and chill.  Cats, we have... Right now we've set up two places for them to have water. One of them has a water fountain as well. Cats love running water. This is so cute, Chico. Can I send 10 pound of catnip to... Actually, check this out thing, Bobber. We have catnip, right? And we gave them... I tried giving them catnip a couple of days ago and they were like, what's this, right? So catnip desire hasn't kicked in yet. And I believe for some cats, it doesn't kick in. Yeah, and that's the kicker with Robin Hood, right? Don't eat that. He's going after my core. Let's play with cats gang. We'll talk about the game stuff tomorrow during the math, the drama today. Chico, I know the trick. You know the trick. You have to crumble and rip apart the catnip. That's what we did. I did that. It didn't work. Oh, he's eating them. That girl, he likes it. We're going to play with kittens. They love this guy. He's like a dog. He carries it away. They'll need a little break. They'll need a little break. Super fun, super fun. And when they wrestle together like this, super fun. They go crazy, just watch your latest video. I hope you were able to get the comic stuff. I'm not yet top fiver. I still haven't sorted it out yet. But thanks our CharterDays. Loving them. This is the first time I've ever lived with kittens.   And very well behaved, very well behaved, very well behaved. Yeah, they're probably going to go get some munchies or some more water or something. We've opened up the space. We've closed up some space so they can't access. So they have access to about two thirds of the space that we have. And about a third of it is closed off where I do my work, comic books, guest room is closed off. We kind of barnage. Do cats actually have fun when they chase toys? Or oh, I'm guessing they do for sure. Otherwise, I'm assuming they wouldn't do it. They're not supposed to be outdoor cats. And our neighborhood is a rough neighborhood for cats. So what I'm going to do in the spring towards the end of winter is create our patio in a way where they can go out into the patio. But we're not going to allow them to go out in the neighborhood. Our previous cat that we had that passed away like three years ago now, three or four years ago now, he used to go out a lot. He was an outdoor cat. And at that time when he was going out, there was like five cats in our neighborhood. And every now and then we hear cat fights and stuff like this. Now, our cat's previous cat was a very gentle cat. But, you know, he could take care of himself. But there were some bully cats around. And we have raccoons in our, that come up our driveway. And we had birds of prey in our area. So not yet, they're not going to go out, not yet. They're just five months old. Here they come. Three more survey days to go. This is helping. Awesome Elder God. Maybe you should extend it for one more month. We can have barnes, wire nets around the patio or an outdoor cage really helps them adjust to the outdoors. Yeah, we're gonna, I'm gonna put a wire mesh around the railings, right? But for example, last summer we had raccoon come up into our patio and he was munching on the grapes. So I'm gonna make sure the pathway, the stairs down the patio is closed off with a mesh. Because, you know, we want to make sure they're okay. Are you joking?  See, check out Sal, he's scratching his neck. So, Viya doesn't scratch his neck, but Sal scratches his neck. So maybe we'll put the collar on Viya and see how that works out. You could do it. Easy peasy. Yeah, I'm with Cheryl, Elder God. If you wanted to, you could do it, right? Really, for me, there's been peers in my life where I didn't drink for a few years. I decided to cut it out, right? And same goes with cannabis, right? Same goes with cannabis. That being said, diet diet, thank you for the tier once supporting a father of two. Thanks. It's taken a lot of work getting to get the house cat friendly, kitten friendly. We have to do a lot of like, like in the background, we've been so crazy busy just getting the place set up, right? So the kittens could come, they'd be safe and whatnot, right? The real MC Mike, this video and the kitties are super helpful for studying for my vector calculus exam next week. Awesome. What a great morning. My pleasure. My pleasure, MC Mike. I hope you do well in the test. Elder God, I'm British. It's what we do. That's one thing, gang. When I traveled to Europe, I couldn't believe the amount of alcohol being consumed there. And that being said, cherry liqueur, the cherries, fantastic snack, chichot, thorns, Wall Street manipulating the markets. Cabobs, we talked about it a little bit earlier.  So I have to go deal with that. Tomorrow morning, during a mass stream, I'm going to, at the beginning, I'm assuming if a math question comes up, we'll deal with the math questions and we'll do it at the end. But tomorrow during a mass stream, I'm going to set up a side, a little bit of time to talk about what's going on with GameStop, the markets, stock market in general, and the game at play. Okay. That way, I can have the board and show everything. The dolphin, chichot, when you do decide whether it's time to take a break from alcohol or camp, when, for me, if I find myself being addicted to anything or dependent on anything, I cut it out. I don't like anything external governing my way of being. So if I find myself that I can't do without something, I stop consuming that thing. That's when I, that's me keeping control of my own life. Right? Thank you. We do our best to keep it cozy, Bridges. It's just the way I decided to live for many, many, many years. Oh, the kitten's got one of the toys. I have some of these toys hanging from places where they go around and just play with it, play with the toys hanging. Boredom prevention, yeah. We kind of burnies. It's been 11 months since I've last smoked. The paranoia keeps creeping on me, so I really don't like smoking, unless if I have found a strain that suits my needs. Cool. Kebabs regardless. I've made a lot of money from this, so I'm happy. Awesome. Awesome. Happy for you Kebabs. Yeah, elder god. And I used to do that as well. And what I ended up doing is realize that that can lead into bad habits. So I stopped being bored. Trying to stop being bored. Tink, how are you doing? Cute cast. My sister's getting the very first dog our family has ever had on Monday. Awesome. Congrats. M-O-D day off. On Friday is Chicho. I'm trying to learn mathematics. I haven't touched the subject since I was in high school. Graduated university near two years ago. Do you have any advice on how to start? On charter days I would say start off with the basics, right? Just look at how to deal just straight up algebra. A lot of people forget how to deal with fractions, and fractions are ridiculously important. So just if you're okay with just doing algebra as meditation, like adding subtracting fractions, multiplying fractions, combining like terms, solving for equations, just do some of that. Just practice that. If you want visuals, learn how to graph a line again. And once you learn how to graph a line, learn how to graph quadratic functions, which is basically completing the square. And there's like three different methods of graphing a quadratic function, or two main different well, two main methods of graphing a quadratic function. Learn the two ways of graphing a quadratic function. That's fantastic practice. And then once you build up your skills to a level where you're comfortable with all your algebra, you're comfortable with graphing and functions, get into trigonometry, and get into generating the function for like tides of the ocean, or a ferris wheel, and stuff like that. And by the way, what I just said, if you're starting off with just the basics of algebra, it will take you a long time to get to that level, depending on where you are. So deal with each one of those first. Again, don't forget free assange, free assange, free assange. Julian Assange is a publisher and journalist that is being crucified for trying to bring transparency and accountability of capitalist power to humanity, right? For more information, you can check out our Julian Assange WikiLeaks playlist. Dolphin, I'm sorry I haven't been keeping up with your content. Are you still tutoring math? For sure, Dolphin. Tomorrow morning, 8 30 a.m. PST my time. And today at 4 p.m. PST my time, we start talking about education, okay? The fire is very cozy. Supreme leader of twitch, cider was an addiction, but it's been 2.5 months since I drank that awesome elder god. I find siler heavy man, a lot of sugar, a tremendous amount of sugar. Dolphin finding roots by factoring with quadratic formula are the two methods I think. Cool, Dolphin. Yeah, factoring, finding cube roots, fourth root, square root of just natural numbers is a good way just to get that practice going. It's very visual. It's pretty. Break it down. And then graphing quadratic is important. And then apply that to finding maximum revenue of something, finding the maximum area of something, right? I still got it. Does it go with mathematics earlier? Still looks like a Trojan horse to me. Elder god, funny. We kind of barnies. Okay, I'm gonna cheat you, okay? I'm gonna allow that. Twitch didn't like, what do you call it? Who was that? We kind of barnies. Twitch didn't like facial video, beard. Can you make a new beard? I've been meaning to, man. I just love my goatee right now so much. And I do go through trimming yet every now and then but the trimming takes me like I swear. Shaving and trimming my beard takes me a total of like less than two minutes. That's one reason I love the goatee, right? It keeps me with facial hair and maintaining it is like super ridiculously easy. Slick Mac. For me, what I really needed to refresh was using trigonometry to solve real world problems. Intergrating and differentiating and differentiation hugely improved as well in graphing exponentials, exponentially area under the curve, etc. My two, my two cents, yeah. And using derivative to graph, once you are able to graph quadratic functions, you can go into graphing polynomial of higher degree than degree two, which are quadratic functions, right? So graphing polynomials or any other function by finding the restrictions, finding the asymptotes vertical, horizontal, the holes, and then graphing that way is pretty good to do. And free as much other God. On Charity Day, Chico, thank you for my pleasure on Charity Days. Dolphin. He got scared here right now. They play hide and seek and wrestle a lot. We kind of burn these. Where do we go Dolphin? How do you think Biden will deal with Assange? And how would have Trump dealt with it? How should have Trump dealt with it? Trump should have pardoned Assange. He was a foolish, foolish, foolish puppet that didn't and puppet is the ultimate word. As far as Biden goes, business as usual, man. It's a one-party system, right? Hey, Chico, can you make a new, yeah, your beard? Yeah.  I'll get maybe spring. Okay. End of spring. Remind me again. It's been a while since I did one. We got to do, we got to do on Charity Day, Chico. Is it okay if tomorrow you go some basic algebra? For sure. We can go into some basic algebra. 100% on Charity Days. Pop up tomorrow. If you pop up early, we'll deal with that first and then we'll do the market mathematics or my explanation of the markets. The Twitch tried to censor me. They did. Twitch or bot, I don't know if it's a bot. I think it's Twitch. Didn't like facial for obvious reasons, right? But man, that's the problem with automation, with bots. They're not thinking human beings. Elder God's Sal. I knew it. Sal is like, he's, it's very, they're brothers. Totally different characters. Via is very submissive, right? Like when Via's eating food, Sal will pop in and go, and Via goes, okay, you eat, right? And then Sal eats the food. Funny, funny. Initially, we're only gonna get one, Via. And then we talked about it and decided to go with two. And Sal was my, my choice to get. There were four kittens. One of them was already spoken for. There was three. And I liked Via. I like Sal. I like Via too. They're awesome. Supreme Leader of Twitch. Why is Twitch suddenly censoring random words and chat and turning them into asterisks? I don't remember ever enabling such a thing. Feels, feels bad, brother. A censorship is a horrendous thing. Censorship is the downfall of humanity. Right? Especially when bots are doing it as well. Like, you doing a good cleaning? Yeah, you do. Bezos is taking, taking your freedom of speech away. Indeed. This should be censored. Blur out of ID. Right. Context matters. It feels like Twitch censor, censor bot is very aggressive, very aggressive. Hello, crafter. How are you doing? Oh, they're gone. Sal. Sal, crazy times we're living. Haha, indeed. I wish I could do that. That reminds me of a Bill Hicks. That reminds me of Bill Hicks' joke. He says, ladies, Bill Hicks is one of his stand-ups. He goes, ladies, if men could do what cats do, you'd be sitting in the audience alone right now.   Censorship, look, prohibition and censorship, those are two things that have been on my top list to be against my whole life. Okay. F censorship, F prohibition, period, end of story.  I don't care what censorship it is. Okay. Gang, I learned something getting the two kittens. If you're gonna get a kitten, get cats, get two. I can't even imagine what their lives would have been like if they were separated, if they didn't have each other to play with. Really, right? Telegram was getting moved from Apple. Well, that's my prediction. I think Telegram, what did Telegram do? Google tried to censor it or something, didn't they? Crafter, last final of the semester tomorrow evening. Awesome crafter, congrats, congrats.  We'll talk more about that this afternoon. We're doing another live stream at 4 p.m. PST, right? In how many hours? In six hours? My first gap was in 1988. Elder God, wow, wow, wow. Supreme Leader of Twitch, yeah, they attempt to censor harmful words and hate speech. It's pretty silly. It's extremely subjective. Yeah, and cancel culture, cancel culture censorship, cancel it. It's crazy, right? Dolphin. Some people are patriotic to this extent when they support their government censoring. I see this happening in Turkish independent media, quite, yeah. And once you brought up Turkey, there was a reporter in Turkey, Henrik Dink, that got assassinated because he was writing about the Armenian genocide and he got assassinated like 10 years ago or something like this, right? Turkey is totalitarian state. It's censored up the yin and yang. If you speak out like personally, a person like me could never live in Turkey or any totalitarian state like this, right? Because if you speak out, you get disappeared, right? On Fridays, we only have one cat at the moment and you are right. They get lonely. They get lonely. Look at them play, right? I'm doing my exams for this semester as well. Still three to go. Six hours, thanks Elder God. In 2007, the pub I worked at had six cats. Six cats? Outdoor cats, I'm assuming, or were they all indoors? That's awesome. That pub had no mouse or rat problem, right? I'm assuming Elder God. Is that correct? Herant. No, not Henrik. Herant Dink. Yeah, thank you very much, Sonny. That was the reporter that got assassinated in Turkey because he wrote about the Armenian genocide, like facts, right? Like, it's not even disputed what he wrote. And a fanatic, and there's a lot of fanatics in Turkey, assassinated him. MC Mike, that reminded me. I wanted to share this resource about censorship and data privacy we can all use. His name is Rob Baxman, and you can find him on YouTube, aka CensorTube, or no links. You can't provide links, MC Mike. So if you're going to share links, you should share on our Discord page, which is better than CensorTube. I'm assuming that's BitShoot. Is that BitShoot you're linking to? Anyways, check him out. And he does a great job explaining the concept and how to protect yourself. Cool. Yeah, link it up on our Discord, Mike. In UK, you need a good reason to leave the country and inside only, but had a big garden, had a big garden. Cool. Look at the cats go away. Love gang. If you have a kitty cat, get yourself one of these tunnels. They love this tunnel. They absolutely love the tunnel. Thanks, Mike. Link in it up. Dolphin, what do you feel your cats? What do you feed your cats? You know what? That department is my partner's department. Like for me, I was okay not getting cats. One reason is I don't like the shedding. Gang, Balinese, links, Balinese kittens, no shedding, no hair. Right? So I'm in love. Really, I'm in love. Okay. However, both these cats are my partner's cats. Okay. She was the one. Yeah, Cheryl, like no hair, like zero. I've never ever even heard of this. I've heard about, you know, hypoallergenic and stuff like this. I've met dogs and cats that are hypoallergenic and stuff, but they still shed. Like they might shed in the spring, right? But like there's no, I shed, I give off more hair than they do. A lot of extra dust or not. No, a lot of extra dust or not really. No, I haven't noticed anything. They've only been here for a week though. So as far as feeding the cats, Dolphin, my partner's got some wet food because kittens have to eat wet food. And from what I understand, she's done all this. She's, she bought the cats, she bought the standing thing there. And we have another one here. She bought all these cushions for the cats. Like if you can, if you've seen, we had a carpet here. So it was a cashmere carpet. So I removed that, right? So we got these things for the cat. So we did a lot of prep work, right? But she got everything. And from what she's told me, male kittens and male cats need to drink a lot of water because they get dehydrated. So they have kidney problems if they don't drink a lot of water. As far as kittens go, she's feeding them both wet food and dry food, right? So wet and dry. Look at them go. Awesome. So both wet and dry. Every now and then we give them little treats. We're teaching them not to go on the table. So we have one thing, if you want to train your cats, tin foil is fantastic. We put tin foil on the table. They were going on the table, put tin foil on the table. They're not going on the coffee table. They're not going on the coffee table. We put tin foil on the ledge, so they won't go on the ledge in certain areas where we have fragile things. So we're still working on it. But food-wise, it's wet food and dry food. If you want, I could get a list of what she's feeding them and I could post it on our Discord. Oh, is that the elder god? Is that the American? Was he Japanese? Chinese. I think he's American Chinese. Is that the guy you've been linking up on our Discord? On our Discord page? If it is, he's phenomenal. That he also has a VPN that you could subscribe to that you could get? Is that the guy? And gang, don't forget. Don't forget. Free Assange, free Assange, free Assange. Julian Assange is a publisher and journalist that has been crucified for trying to bring transparency and accountability of capitalist power to humanity. More information on Julian Assange and WikiLeaks playlist. The real MC Mike. Same elder god. I really into data privacy and cybersecurity now. Whenever I have free time, nice. Oh, it's just crumpled. Probably beating a dead horse at this point. But what do you think of the stock market situation that's occurring? Madal, Zuna 1? Oh, wow. They're so, so, so yeah, they're very. We talked a little bit about, a little bit about the GameStop and what's going on in the markets earlier in the stream. And we're going to get into it tomorrow morning during our math stream, starting at 8 30 a.m. Okay. So we have a two-hour math stream tomorrow and I'm going to probably take about anywhere between half an hour to an hour to explain to everyone my perspective what's going on. Tinfoil. Wow. I had no idea. Yeah. Dolphin. Tinfoil. Like this table where I have the camera set up and the mic set up is covered with tinfoil because they were going on this. The counters we had, we put foil and they're not even going on there anymore. There's a ledge we have that we don't want them to go there because it's got a huge fall. So we put foil there. They're not going there. It works amazing. Is the cooker cat safe? Cooker cat. No way of them getting behind it. They can go behind it, behind the fireplace and it's safe. The only thing they did back there was scrape off a little bit of the metal. It's not metal but it is metal and they were chewing on it. So we took those out of it. So we vacuumed up. That was a great attack. Nice. Don't ask. This is like cat WWE. In a minute one's going to bring out this steel chair. Oh, he's Filipino. Yeah, that guy. Fantastic. He lived in Halas Young Man. Yeah. I can imagine. I really like him and thanks for introducing us on Discord to that Elder God. Fantastic. Real MC Mike. Okay, I shared the Rob Braxman link in the general chat on Discord. Thank you very much. And by the way MC Mike, we do have a privacy and censorship folder on Discord as well. So if you're on Discord still, link those up in our privacy folder. That way we're keeping things organized so people can access information in the appropriate places. And it's the Ring Dive. Knock out a boom. Alligator for messaging and currently using Signal and Telegram for now. Here's the thing with MC Mike. Signal. Jack Dorsey from Twitter is promoting Signal. And I think he has a stake in Signal. If Dorsey has a stake in Signal, I'm not using Signal. Okay. So I'm not cool with anything Jack Dorsey is doing. He can go to Hal. I'm still on Twitter, but that's for now. Nothing else that he gets involved in I will participate in. Okay. F Jack Dorsey. Okay. Three of the pub cats were killed when they got struck. Oh, stuck behind the cooker. Death by, oh no. Elder God Boo. Crafter. I'm kind of scared that Discord is going to get punished sometime soon. Well they took and then by the way, if this Discord gets taken out, if our Discord gets taken out, gang message me will start a whole new server on Telegram. Okay. If Telegram gets taken out, we'll do movements. Okay. If we reach a point where Discord is getting iffy, we'll create a secondary folder where we share information, we have it, and we'll constantly remind people to join there just in case. Decentralize, decentralize, decentralize. That like I usually just use smoke signals and carrier pictures. And MC Mike, I got rid of Twitter and all things Facebook. Yeah, I deleted all my friends on Facebook except one that I'm waiting to hear from and two that are the other accounts that I used that I have. Actually one is 420 math, the other one math in real life. So I deleted everyone and my Facebook image profile pic is a Facebook pixelated F U. And I've told and some of my some of the people that I know there, my friends on there, have joined me on Telegram now. Okay. Apple is thinking about removing Telegram because they're having to deal with BS lawsuits from hate speech watch groups. Well, F Apple. I barely do. I don't think I use anything Apple to tell you the truth. Right. So and gang at some point, Apple and if it's not happening now, hopefully it's going to happen sooner, Apple is going to start losing market share. Right. Even though Telegram does remove extremist neo nazis. Yeah, Dr. Sivit Dolphin, if all else fails, just point join parlor. Yeah, they keep on saying to if you don't like our platforms, just create your own, create your own. And then people create their own. And then they censor them, they block them, they de-platform them.  We did. People did.  It's like the BDS movement. Right. They say, Oh, Palestinians should protest peacefully. And then they start a peaceful protest.  I have been looking for a discord alternative. Let us know what it is. I've got matrix key base and gilded us as good. Okay. Simple Trump 2000. I was off Facebook. Did you hear that tin foil? So this is sound. It's got to be sound. This is sound. Sorry about the noise game. And he was trying to get into the, Oh, he's, I put the toys up there. Hold on a second.


It did make my life easier is that since we cannot possibly exceed the principle of full accommodation, which is we started 15 minutes late, we will end 15 minutes late, we cannot go above that, I think that we have now to open the floor to general debate. I will abuse my position by posing the first question to the panel, which does bring together, I believe, themes from three of the four presentations. Eleni takes Keynes from your presentation, that is, in the economic consequences of the peace, and Keynes is one of Vitor's favorite authors, the very first lines of that book, Keynes basically says that people take the international system for granted, and that in Europe, he's talking about Europe, the powers are free riding, I'm using my own language, on the system because they're taking it for granted. By doing so, Keynes forecast the collapse of the system, and one of his life missions was to rebuild it, which eventually he helped doing at Bretton Woods. So given that that is preceding your quote in the Keynes book, how do we see this problematic today given the transformation that is ongoing, the globalization trends, the great divide, the difference in the relative power across Europe, the United States, India, and China. I think this is not a bad question for the panel, but it will be dealt with together with your own questions. Who wants to intervene third row here at the middle? Mike is coming. I think I found very ironic that Richard Baldwin is talking about real convergence in the global economy, in the global space. At a time, we are so worried about fragmentation and fractures inside Europe, but also around the world. I think this is an irony, and I have a very hard time in rationalizing it. Secondly, I think in all the presentation was being lying behind, but not sufficiently explained, is there is a tremendous shift of power. It's not like we are thinking about a new Bretton Woods arrangements in a Western world's center. I mean, it's a global economy. It's an enormous shift of power. And this is why the Chinese and other are contemplating, I mean, it's an alternative to the international policy regime. And I think this is something we should worry us. And now to get back to your point, I mean, Richard, real convergence. Apply your logic to the Euro area, where we have a huge cleavage between the northern fringe and the southern fringe. Is it going to solve the problems in the Euro area? And then forget about redesigning the mechanism and the policy arrangements are. I don't buy it. Thank you. Can you pass the mic to John Willbauer? Oh, you have it. Super. A clarifying comment on Ben Friedman's excellent remarks. You might have thought there's a contradiction between my evidence yesterday that there is a stable Sagan Phillips curve and the flattening of the Phillips curve that Ben Friedman was talking about. There is a contradiction. Let me explain. The research that I pointed to yesterday suggested that in addition to via the unemployment rate, in other words, the output gap, the transmission mechanism also works through the housing market through the exchange rate. The exchange rate channel is fairly weak because there's a lot of pricing by foreign companies to the US. The housing market one, of course, is very complex. And credit factors are a very important part of the story apart from interest rates. That also applies to the output gap or the unemployment rate in terms of the transmission mechanism because the financial system, the credit system has been transformed. The role of credit and housing and asset prices in the linkage between monetary policy and unemployment is now very different from what it was before. So in that sense, in a policy sense, he's right, Ben Friedman is right, the transmission, the Phillips curve has flattened in the sense that the mechanism of interest rates to inflation is much more complicated now than it was before. Thank you. Could you pass the mic to Jean-Pizani please? This is a question to Richard. I wish you your book, very, very many readers, because it's a great book. Now assume that you reached the US median voter and the US median voter reads it. Would he or she conclude that Mr. Trump is right to try to slow down the transmission of technology and intellectual property to the US, to China, sorry. Thank you. So we're a bit in trouble in terms of time. I would suggest to come back to the panel now and assign Max two minutes to each in reverse order. So, André, you would be first. Well, I don't really have much to add to what I said in my remarks. I will just comment on your question. I mean, will we be able, will the world community be able to respond to the challenges? And I do agree with Daniel that those are huge challenges. It's a huge transformation. I call it the great transformation for a reason. I really believe that it is a great transformation. Now, will we be able to do that? It will require obviously huge amount of leadership. Where is the leadership at the moment to do that? Where is the Keynes, who was the person that indeed had the vision coming out of a very difficult period and was a great mind, but then really rolled his sleeves up and got himself involved in the nitty gritty of the policy with always sort of this political economy vision? Where are those people? Where is the cordial hello? We see the Nobel Prize, who was really the person behind what Roosevelt did in assembling the United Nations and the global institutions. So I think we're in a very, very difficult situation. Will it come from China? I think China has clearly a role to play. And China should have a great interest in doing this. So the difficulty is to have leadership in the countries in decline. I think this is really the problem. As long as the US stays on this view, you know, make America greater grand and tell a story to their citizens, which is a false story, we cannot roll back history. And obviously, America can remain rich, as Europe can remain rich, but we cannot be such a dominant share of the global economy. And therefore, I would think it's, in a sense, from China to show some wisdom here. Thank you. Richard? So let me, first, on the skepticism about the real conversion. So this is an arbitrage of where there's a very high know-how-to-labor ratio. And the arbitrage is proportional to the differences. Those aren't that different in Europe. If you want to see what is going on in Europe, it's a shift to manufacturing from, say, Germany to Central and Eastern Europe with the outsourcing and global value chains. So that's going on. But if you're not part of this high-tech, low-wage thing, you're hurt by it. So the fact that countries can now produce manufacturing with high-tech and low-wages, if you're still trying to do it, low-tech, low-wages, you can't compete. So that's led to this premature deindustrialization. So inside the rich countries, this is highly divisive. But my point is, if you look at the world as a whole, it's incredibly positive. 600 million people have come out of dire poverty during this time. And what you see is globalization is super popular in the emerging markets. If you look at the Pew, it's only in the rich countries. So I'm going to talk with yours to put up together. You can think about this as two football teams. And in the old globalization, they exchanged players. And if they actually did exchange players, everybody won. What's going on since 1990 until now is the trainer of the better team went to the pitch of the worst team and trained up the worst team, which was very good for the worst team. It made the whole league more competitive. But it's not at all sure it was good for the players and the best team who used to have a monopoly on the know-how of their coach. And that's essentially what's happened in the G7. The workers used to have a monopoly on G7 knowledge for technological reasons. Now they no longer do. You can look at Branko Malanovic's elephant diagram to see sort of things like that. The, for Jean, as I said, when I launched the book Seven Days After Trump Got Elected in Washington, DC, globalization is not something that the foreigners are doing to America. And so in my story, it's really this movement of knowledge. But I don't think that can be stopped. But the point is, it's not the median American. It's just the manufacturing workers who are really being hurt by this. I think the median America has done relatively well and there's all sorts of other problems. Also, a lot of the discussion that we've had about pro and anti-globalization, I'd like to make two distinctions. One, put in a Trump fix factor and look at the world again. And you'll be a lot calmer. The second is, if you distinguish between anti-immigration and anti-globalization, the world will look a lot clearer. In Europe, we have a lot of anti-immigration coming from particular shocks, Finland, Sweden, whatever. But very few people are against pre-trading goods in Europe and the basic principles. And the ones who sort of may be backed against it with Brexit, they're regretting it. And nobody's looking at Brexit and saying, wow, we need to do that too. So in my mind, a lot of the confusion is that people are conflating anti-immigration and anti-globalization. And they're really very separate things. If the immigration flow stopped tomorrow, the world economy would not collapse. If the trade flows stopped tomorrow, they would collapse. So even from an economic perspective, they're very, very different things. Thank you. Ellen? Two quick points. I was very happy about the exchange between John and Ben on the Phillips curve because I also think that introducing some more macro finance characteristics in the Phillips curve and the notion of risk somewhere has to be there. And that could be one of the way to improve the way we think about the transmission of monetary policy. On the more kind of big question on the structural change of the international economy, and that was also a code there, of a change in the international financial system, monetary system, with the rise of China, I think it's pretty much clear that the world is becoming more multipolar. Now this happens at different speeds in different domains. So in trade, it happens quite fast. In the financial markets, we do have all these measures that still point towards a very preeminent dollar. But we also know that the yuan potentially might make an inway. We had the coming in of the euro. So the world is becoming at a different speed multipolar. The effect that might have and the consequences on the institutional setup are probably going to be quite deep. But these are definitely a lot of different issues to think about. You can think about this issue from the supply of safe assets in the world, resupplying them in terms of nominal stability. That's a very deep issue. And the multipolar world may increase the supply of these nominally safe assets. That's one angle. Another angle is if you have different international currencies, they become more substitutable with one another. More substitution across currencies could lead to more portfolio shift if you have some shifts of credibility on one area or the other. So that might lead to more instability. So all these different effects may come through at the same time. And I think it's fair to say that for the moment, we haven't really put all of that together. Thank you. Ben, you have the last word before Peter. Let me say something quickly in response to John. I have no disagreement with the idea that the factors that many of us have discussed, and in fact, my discussion was really about the globalization of labor. But also you talked yesterday about unionization and increasing concentration. All of these are important for understanding why the Phillips curve has flattened. But there's a difference between understanding why it's flattened and recognizing for purposes of monetary policy the fact that it has flattened. And the issue is that even though we may understand it better, the fact that the Phillips curve is flatter has profound implications for monetary policy and all the more so under an inflation targeting regime. Ironically, as we know more and more about the transmission mechanism that links what central banks do to the real economy, I think we know less and less about the transmission mechanism that links what central banks do and the price and wage setting process. And again, if we're in an inflation targeting world, that lecuna is especially unfortunate. Let me conclude if I may by disagree. I loved Richard's presentation, but I have to disagree with something you said at the very end. And it's important. Median America is not doing well. And I think perhaps the greatest key to understanding the origins of the not just regrettable because they are and for an American embarrassing because they are developments in my country. But the genuinely worrisome developments not just for us but for the world at large in all sorts of ways that have deeply, deeply troubling historical resonances is precisely to realize that at the median, in the middle ranges of the distribution, America, my fellow citizens are not doing well. And I wish it were true that Median America was doing well. It isn't. Thanks, Ben. Please join me thanking the panel for a very enlightening presentation. And to Victor, please accept my apologies for the delay.


Hello and welcome to the Groundline Review, your source for everything one piece. Today we're going to embark on an examination of some rather obscure paramecias, and we'll be getting the ball rolling with the eternally underestimated Berry Berry No-Me. The Berry Berry No-Me is a paramecia-type fruit that allows its user to transform their body into a wide variety of balls, giving the user the appearance of a punnet of berries, which according to the official translation makes the user a grape human. But I feel like ball human is much more fun to say so that's what we're going to go with. This fruit was consumed by Captain Very Good and first put on very, very brief display during the tail end of the Anisobi Ark. This fruit takes its name from the Japanese loan word Berry, which is their rather direct way of saying the English word Berry, you know as in fruit berries, which is not to be confused with the currency of the one piece world, which is also called Berry's. And as you can probably predict, this resulted in both Fizz and Funimation deciding not to throw any curveballs at us this time, but rather keeping the original name of the Berry Berry Fruit. Look, I'm not going to lie from what we know in the series, there isn't really a whole lot to this fruit. It's quite a simple paramecia really, with a bit of a quirky ability, and you might write off the ability to become balls of various sizes at first, but this fruit does present some pretty decent potential. For example, by virtue of becoming a ball human, you are more or less completely immune to blunt attacks.  Or you use your bodily craziness to craft a nice distraction for your opponent, who will almost certainly not be able to keep up with all of the balls, and then go on to conduct a nice strategic counter-strike, something along those lines. Because really, this fruit is pretty much the exact opposite of the Barabara Nomi used by Buggy. So any potential that fruit presented is 100% a possibility with the Berry Berry Nomi, including the chance of fake flight. By which I mean that the user of the Barabara Nomi can make any part of their body with the exception of their feet levitate within a certain radius, which from the brief showcase we've seen of the Berry Berry Nomi seems to be the case here as well. As for that levitation diameter could be, I'd hazard a guess of something like 200 Berry Berry. And also similarly to the Barabara Nomi, there is no known limit to how small of a ball the user can turn their various body parts into. And not only that, but there's also no known number of how many of these balls one can split themselves up into at any given time. Although I would assume that the artifact would depend on the level of the user and their physical and or mental capacity to control however many balls at once.  But it does hold at least one pretty profound weakness, which is against any sort of cutting attacks, which was demonstrated by Zorro in a filler segment in the Anislobi Ark. The precise nature of slicing is not conducive to absorbing attacks via becoming balls. And so the user of the Berry Berry Nomi is much better matched up against combatants like Frankie, who primarily rely on blunt force. And speaking of blunt force, that would be one pretty major advantage depending on the force at which one was able to project balls at an opponent. Judging from the Barabara Nomi, the user should be capable of launching parts of themselves at opponents. And if that user were to say coat their various balls in armor metaki, then you've got easy access to human cannonballs right there. And that idea minus the Haki is probably the best use of the fruit we've seen in the series by very good. At this stage, it should really be noted that he's only appeared twice in the series, one for a very brief conflict with Frankie and Anislobi, and once in the CP9 incident report cover story. And I can't really say that either case went very well for him. And I suppose I should go on to point out that very good using his fruit like mini cannonballs was something only shown in the anime. In the manga, he just became balls, and that was that. Going on to promptly disappear in the chaos of Anislobi. So to use the anime original material as a judgment of his full capabilities using the Berry Berry Nomi seems a bit unfair, but at the same time, it's all we've got. And it had him moving quite swiftly. But his balls were nowhere near strong enough to deal any damage to the cyborg body of Frankie whatsoever. And in his second appearance, we didn't really get to see any usage of the fruit, as he was just left in a big pile of balls after being defeated by CP9. So to label him as a good, bad, or even very good user of the fruit is a bit difficult at this stage of the series. However, what isn't so difficult is imagining the sheer madness that would be the awakening of the Berry Berry Nomi. And my vision for this would essentially be turning the world around you into a gigantic ball pit. I said this with the Awa Awa Nomi, but any awakened fruit that gives you the potential to make the ground intangible is a pretty fantastic advantage in combat, and not to be underestimated. Although even more so in this case, as these balls should be capable of far more devastating damage than bubbles and should the awakened user be able to control them individually, then that really does present a limitless potential for chaos. Some other miscellaneous things to consider when becoming a ball human. If you're not keen on the whole combat thing, then this fruit does present you with some other options to make use of yourself. For example, if you or some friends were avid sports players, then you'd never need to buy a soccer, tennis, cricket, or any round style ball ever again.   Well, better yet, you could even just become a ball for my border collie to chase. The options are limitless. Alternatively, you could also use the fruit to break into the cosplay scene, and what I'm thinking is that you split yourself up into seven balls and become the seven dragon balls. Or you could even cosplay as devil fruits in the One Piece world.  Sounds an awful lot like something I do, to be honest. So in the end, if you weren't sold on the very, very no meat to begin with, I'm not at all confident that I've been able to change your mind here today. It's tricky paramecia, but not without potential. And it does come with at least one fantastic ability in regards to blunt force immunity. But where the fruit really suffers is your options encounter attacking afterwards. I'm sure that a particularly strategic individual would be able to make pretty fantastic use of the fruit just by moving their body parts around like pieces on a chessboard. But the average person would probably be at a bit of a loss of how to make decent use of themselves in most aspects of life, not just combat. And so I do find it quite hard to recommend, but it is certainly not the worst devil fruit we've ever examined or will ever examine for that matter. And with that, we are going to commit the berry berry no meat to the devil fruit encyclopedia. Next week, we have another excellently obscure paramecia for the encyclopedia, which also happens to be the bane of all swordsmen, the sabi sabi no meat. If you enjoyed this video and the content this channel produced in general, then please do consider donating to the Grand Line Review Patreon, because the support of all of your amazing people is what continues to make this channel possible. 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