Okay, I'm not sure if you could see this or if it's glaring but we I am James P. Madonna Of course a mega like 21, and I'm here with the great legendary trainer to the stars The car Mario Petrus We are we are returning for the second part part two of the flaming Grill supreme buffet today we're gonna do the dinner we've raised the dinner We'll see what the dinner is 12 bucks, and I'm gonna in now. What is this East Rutherford or Rutherford? Yeah, well filming. What are you looking at East Rutherford or Rutherford? All right now? Let's go in come on I don't know. I think it's East Rutherford New Jersey the flaming gorilla. I mean grill it happens to be Monday, how was it guys Good much how much you spend $7 each of all for the one guy's satisfied Good a lunch Yeah, what was I gonna say? This is Columbus Day 2014 Monday October 12 right Columbus Day The guy who screwed over screwed over the Indians Screwed over in Native Americans and and then the slave trade started the slave trade at some beach And here we are Here's the sign There's this sign the flaming girl the flaming gorilla Yeah, you can't beat this price Okay now For your sushi look at that sushi bar. Ah beautiful. You gotta love it. Gotta love it. All right I'm Mario Petrus. I don't think there's gonna be any smacks today today. I'm gonna be pretty sad Yeah, are you got you have anything to say before we enter the building?  All right.  Hold on. Hold on All right, I'm here with James P. Madonna mega life 21. Well, we're here to What's the name again? I Think we might we might be doing dinner instead of lunch. What do you think? Yeah? Yeah, we're doing the dinner I want to see what I and East rather than Jersey. I want to give a shout out to my good friend and former WWE wrestling Superstar Mr. Ken Thieson Sorry about that. Sorry about that. Otherwise known as Rocco Cipriano back then. I believe that was the name you Give a shout out to Mr. Ken Thieson competitive bodybuilder and tremendous impeccable Supreme personal trainer down in Boko Rotom Flora Greetings Ken. We send me a nice train to win t-shirt that I will proudly wear when I do hey I want one too man uncensored hard-hitting truth. You got to talk to Ken on Facebook come on Ken. All right We have very good invigorating business meeting yesterday So this is just the lunch right now So the new stuff's coming out right yeah about 40 plates ready. All right. Thank you Yeah, we do we do internet talk shows so we're gonna promote the restaurant What's your name you want a Okay, there's the sushi bar We are we are Mario and I are approaching the table. We will be sitting at Excuse me beautiful buffet beautiful Where the hell are what are we going are they giving us a good table or a booth? What do you want? We got a booth. It's nice and cozy here. I like it What I'm gonna have water because I squeezed lemons in it know what's your name again Oh, hi, how are you doing this our hostess now? When is the dinner sushi coming out? 5 minutes Yeah Alright, what are we gonna devour what what do we start better start with sushi now we start with sushi. All right All right, go you go first. You go first. Why break my balls? What? All right, we're going for the sushi now Okay, ah the kimchi and the baby octopi Octopus Octopus II I think I'm gonna take some of this because I always do when I come here Baby marinated spicy octopus You know what I mean jelly bean And what do we have here a little kimchi? Very very hot and spicy kimchi All right a fermented Korean cabbage Should be enough let me check out Right for the sushi or that's the tofu Special marinated tofu what do you call that edamame? soy bean Mario Petrus is here. I'm waiting for the dinner sushi waiting for the dinner sushi See if there's any unagi. I don't see it yet What's over there? What time you go when it when is the dinner sushi coming up? Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna wait for the dinner sushi Got the wasabi going Relevance of Destroyed ginger Yeah Well, I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna oh look at this macaron I like macro I like macro sashimi macaron Where am I gonna get a cup Dinner dinner dinner Not yet. All right, we'll we'll work on this Filling up the Soy sauce with wasabi in it Returning to the table because the dinner sushi is not out yet Flaming grill and supreme buffet. He's rather for New Jersey Returning to the table. We have our lemon water Very refreshing detoxifying beaver ah All right, all right Hopefully it'll help me digest the 13 pounds. I'm gonna eat today. That's it 13 pounds. Yeah Okay, all right Yeah, I could tell today. There's gonna be a beating with the sushi chef. He's looking at me taking over sushi I'm like dude. You better start making a lot more. You see this? This is gonna be one of 20 plates. You got it Beautiful got the salmon Wow high protein To put it out. You gotta go get it James. It's gonna be gone. Okay All right, here we are with James P. Madonna. He just got his sushi Zero in on this here. I got the salmon and tuna sashimi with the wasabi and Horse radish and I still have some more baby octopus left So I'm gonna want to be chowing down on a lot of sushi man a lot of sushi to overcast outside You know possibly rain and it puts me in a mood to see food on this This day it should not be a holiday, I mean I did not get any mail today cuz it's Columbus day Yeah, of course Columbus screwed over the Indians and and encourages a slave train We're gonna eat really good today Yeah, I'm the sushi is not you know a 10 the sushi quality. I'm gonna go I mean the quality I'm assuming it's okay, but they just cut it so thin See slice so thin. Yeah, I like that. Yeah, you can barely taste it You need at least a half an inch in other words.  Yeah, so you get filled up They're being cheap. She passed. I'm gonna start going up. They're just don't taking this off the rice I'm gonna leave the rice there just to show them. Don't mess with me. Tell them you're slicing it too thin You can't fool us because we are the premier buffet Critics here in the whole universe Mario Petrus and James P. Madonna. You can take that to the bank Stick that in your pipe and smoke What happened sushi chef sees me Like he like leaves because he's gonna make the silent pieces, right? He walks away. Hey, how are you? I need to eat a little more. What do you think? I'm just like I'm in good shape. No What's that? What did you say? Unbelievable how dare you how dare you? All right, so tell the story again. Yeah, the guy, you know He stops making the sushi he leaves like what are you doing? I'm waiting for the salmon while you leave I mean when you know I'm here, you know, I just want to grab him just smash his head right into the Simon, you know I'm saying so he didn't want to you don't want to work.  Let's see what I'm gonna have Here's the You must you you must know we're all the mackerel The macro I love the I love mackerel. I love oily strong tasting fish like bait fish Bunker men Hayden Herring like pickled herring. I love the mackerel Or mackerel Whatever you want to call the healthy Mackerel sashimi excellent excellent excellent Look at that look at that mackerel All right, more suey sauce Why savvy Wasabi All right, I can manage this I Got the soy sauce in the dispenser. There you go Yeah, I love it. We'll love it Think it's marinated. I doubt if it's raw mackerel, but is that unagi? No, I said that was unagi, which is roasted eel. I don't see any unagi Well, I'm just gonna have this As you can see, this is a very large comprehensive buffet at the Hibachi Grill over there Coming through coming through Got some nice mackerel sashimi. I was telling the folks Okay, what's happening over here?   Are you sure you? What's going on always making it I'm proud of you. My stomach gets in the way So are you looking forward to more salmon?  Oh Here we go. Here we go.  Okay.  I Always say that they should make pot pie out of octopus and they can call it octopot pie You know instead of chicken pot pie All right, Dr. Petrus I forgot to add before that According to the health food industry the vitamin industry the New Zealand green-lip muscle is now The richest known source of omega-3 fatty acids that actually surpasses salmon And all the others but you know Amazing amazing Look at that. Look at that. Whoo. All right now. We're talking now. We're talking there Look at all that tuna and salmon sashimi Mario Petrus is another one. I want to talk about Jessica Terrabacchia and Adolf Terrabacchia Who puts that park?  I help people you know I'm saying you get out of line I smack you around you know, but these people all mean 20 30 40 50 I could I could make any price because it would be it would be worth what I did You know saying so Jessica Adolf your mother your father remember my face because you're gonna pay Wow, look at that delicious pile Salmon sashimi from Flaming Grill buffet in East rather from New Jersey I know the Columbus or Columbus day brains. Okay.  Okay, I'm gonna take her to small claims court Actually, it's not gonna be small claim to be a lot more money than she thinks I have everything on paper Don't worry, and I have more than 10 witnesses that are gonna fill out after David's that are gonna be on my side Make sure she knows this or she could call me and take care of her end. Thank you All right, Columbus Day 2014 Monday October 12th Flaming Grill buffet Mario Petrus and James P. Madonna.  I think it's a little better now. Okay. You let me know You see Try it very good Let me try one Oh Yeah, you can taste it right I love Simon's you can taste it Excellent excellent back for more food. Let's see now. What am I gonna get? Nah Very selective And what I get I'm not gonna fill up on Some kind of a fish supposed to be prime rib, but it's well done Or like a medium rare Well done that's I'm gonna pass like pot roast I'm not sure what kind of fish this is Give it a shot No idea what kind of fish Sort of baked fish Much work But like Dungeon is crab or Jonah crabs much much work broccoli string bean mushrooms Farragas Farragas is good. It makes my urine stink I'm kind of grilled That baby macros or real fresh sardines.  I'm gonna pass cream spinach I'm only getting these because I need the I need the shells for another reason Another purpose Just get some Look at four of them because I need four shells You know three Don't really care for the stuffing though for What is this? I'm kind of fun I don't know if I have this bun I am going to Probably get bloated Let me try it never had it before That's where it is Oh, I said this is what they want you to eat potatoes so you fill up This is the fried section Various big rolls bring rolls chickens own fried potatoes fish filet founder I like the raw salmon grilled salmon Got her a barbecue section is the mongolian barbecue They take the ingredients you want you put it on a plate, and then a stir-fry it right there in the grill Goli and barbecue There's a guy in action Some desserts that I'm not ready yet for chocolate cake All right. He's a good Very dark chocolate. I'm a sucker for chocolate. They look like tiramisu's actually James, what's up, buddy? Hey, there he is. Is that it's that let me guess hold on This I'm not sure what it is. I didn't look at the sign. I don't know for tally, but not Wow, but uh, I know I need the shells these are scallop shells I am not crazy about the stuffing, but I need the shells for personal reasons I don't know what kind of bun this is but I'll find out here Yeah, it's running. It's running. Sorry James. I just had that little interaction with one of my ex clients You know, it's the great thing about unrehearsed ad-libbing unplanned Program you get as finest Is that anything can happen any type of interruption can take place? Anything can thank you so much Anything can go wrong Hopefully we're not gonna have that many things go wrong, but I like the ad-libbing You know Jackie Gleason did it with the honeymooners and I like it. Yeah, the honeymooners is the best He didn't believe in having you know, rehearsing scripts and everything But um, here we have some baked fish. Don't pay attention to these stuff Scallop shells because I need the shells Who are you using a protein? I'm using it for Poisonous reasons that I'll tell you later. Oh, okay.   Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah I scream ice cream. Yeah, we'll elevate the oxygen levels. Yeah, who's want to start an organic ice cream company called the ice cream have a Cartoon of an Eskimo screaming Ice cream ice cream and and the slogan is it's an utter delight and have a Eskimo Milk in the cow grabbing the teaps Unbelievable only James only James All right, what do we got over there? How do I zoom over here? Oh that that lever on top Yeah, there's a lever you go to the right to the left Waking yeah Working. Yeah. Wow. Yeah, the way buddy go away. Yeah, boy.  This looks like darker chocolate. Dr. Coco More rich for it more antioxidant enriched Compared to some of these other ones Some kind of strawberry cake I don't see real strawberries in there, but you actually that's what I like to have real strawberries. I don't see any Ice cream Get some ice cream Ice cream they don't have the soft ice cream machine in it at this buffet That's the only bad thing. I love green tea ice cream, but we don't have that here vanilla All right, I'll try a vanilla chocolate Vanilla chocolate I need a spoon Spoon holds more than a fork Sometimes you need a fork to pick things up, but you know when it comes to dessert I like a spoon Same thing with cereal and soup Okay, oh erstice Why not have mix a little couple oysters with dessert. How about that? How about that how about that? Oysters rich source of zinc very good for men if it'll be libido Not that many left They're not shucking they're not shucking fast enough All right, that's enough Kiwi Kiwi today All right, I'll take a couple Just gotta cut the rhino. Yeah, I'll put the kiwi on top of the oysters There you go Mac around more Look what I did I put kiwi on top of the oysters. It's nice. No, it's ice ice cream Dark chocolate cake man. I was gonna say I want time. Look at this raw oysters raw oysters and kiwi food What a perfect combination Gotta love it gotta love it. How you feel now I'm pretty full You know I'm saying you are feeling maybe I need to move around a little bit Maybe I'll just go grab the guy over there the sushi ship. Maybe I'll smack his head around a little bit I don't know. I just need to move around burn these calories now Do you have any get the circulation moving in any dut in the gastrointestinal tract? It's good, you know saying these are good methods, you know now Do you have any methods you have any words for any of the people out there in cyberspace? That will antagonize us after this show is put On you to come to my face. You'll see how quick you get smacked around. That's all you want You were born weaker. That's it.  Is that the guy that ran away from you when you were post the sushi bar? Yeah, yeah, you're in He saw me so he saw me over there. You don't want to get me any more sushi You know I'm saying I don't know what I got and he was cutting it too thin or sushi. Thank you. Can I have a little more? Thank you, sweetheart. All right. All right. Thank you All right James, what else was I gonna say? Yeah, I mean, you know, this was a little disappointing today this flaming grill buffet is usually the best for the buck I think the lunch is better. I mean the dinner is only 12 bucks 11.99. Yeah, but you know something You're right.  I think I forget it hot Yes, we have seven and change a good sweetheart 739 to 739. Yeah Yeah, it's not that much different with dinner Yeah, so we have decided that the best that the lunch is a much better value But this is still this is still Tom. I mean over all this is still the best value in northern, New Jersey that I know The flaming gorilla. I mean the flaming grill Okay, say it right or not gorilla All right grill grill Be careful Kids carrying a dessert All right, all right, we're here at the flaming grill 53 would 17 East rather friendly Jersey telephone 21438 1115 Anyway, this is for two people or you can eat sushi or you can eat everything I'm saying That's the price Still the best value Yeah, I'd say so still the best value for dinner Right got it Unbelievable all right three bucks and my ice cream my dessert and my sushi all you can eat I Usually get aggravated up a face because nothing goes my way, you know Everything went my way, you know, it'd be perfect little world, but yeah But that's the nature of life in our part of the country in our region, you know I gotta go gotta go to Crete the island of Crete and Greece All right, it's what's what's in the capital con the city of con get it concrete James stop breaking my balls. All right, okay, I'll let you eat your ice cream Okay, I know it's been a very bloating experience Okay myself Mario Petrus and I Headed for the men's room Just want to let you know it's the men's room Not to be confused with any other room Hold on two sumo's Tackling each other. All right guys are skinny sumo's bro. These guys are skinny sumo's. This is a sumo right here right here Sumo with the little higher No, that's good. Okay.  But look at this prime rib. It's it's it's a pot roast It's just supposed to be medium rare rare. It's well done My friend told me this is a Portuguese place Portuguese on yeah, really? Yeah, really? All right, we're leaving. There's Jessica Alba Jessica Alba chef. Let me tell you something next time I come here. You better be thrown sushi out 20 at a time Okay, 20 at a time next time. All right Bye. Thank you Oh Look at it out here Stripping wall nobody stripping. It's just why they call strip malls strip malls lined up on the strip Leaving the flaming grill supreme buffet These rather for New Jersey route 17 Mario Petrus is very full All right, don't worry Okay, Mario Petrus and James P. Madonna are in the car getting ready to leave the flaming grill Buffet on route 17 South and East Rutherford, New Jersey. I Hope it's East Rutherford Another word Rutherford is involved And every time I I'm outside some frigging airline has got to fly overhead And we are leaving now. We're in the car. There it is Bye This has been a mega life 21 production


Ahoy-hoi and welcome to the channel. I'm Dr. Sumerian, not a real doctor, and today we're going to talk about some great memes from the r slash dank memes from site 19 subreddit. But first, we need to talk about me and a collection of other SCP creators have come together to help form an SCP store, for lack of a better way to put it. And I'll just list off the other creators. Forlorn Foundry guys, they do a lot of live action work, SCP Illustrated. A lot of you guys have actually come from his channel, so you probably know who that is. But he does artwork and readings and original stories. The Sherm, the SCP lord of tiktok as far as I know, and also has a YouTube channel. Toad King Studios who creates a variety of merchandise is part of a part of a podcast. Is it SCP fam radio? And Mr. Clay, who has created a number of SCP related videos and is a very good VFX and CG artist. I'm reading a little bit off of a thing over here. But we've started up a store with SCP stuff. All of us together. You can find all of our stuff in the same place. I will say when we do the stores now opened up, we're going to try and bring in more creators over time. If you scroll down, you'll still see my Teespring ads, because those are actually able to be put underneath the video. But there'll be a link in the description of every video now, where you can go to the SCP store. It's literally scpstore.org. And check out all of our products all in the same place. So, that's that. Now, on to the memes. I will say this meme is inaccurate to SCP lore, I sleep. There are cannons in which this meme makes sense.  SCP memes are part of their own individual canon ascended. This one's by underscore shoulder underscore. I believe I have three memes by him and then two or three memes by another guy. A lot of memes in these videos are going to be shoulder memes, but that's because shoulder posts a lot of memes to the subreddit. That's how it goes. This reflects very heavily on a concept that I play with a lot, or not play with, but talk about a lot. And that is that something that a lot of people will tell you when we're talking about SCP content is that there is no canon. And I used to say that a lot too because it sounds nice. But I think, despite the fact that everyone says it, and then it sounds really nice and it's an easy thing to get out there, a more accurate version of that is there are infinite cannons. And what the third part of this meme actually says is completely true. Every article exists in its own individual canon. And if it decides it wants to reference outside articles, then cool. It's canon includes those articles. I have an article up on the wiki right now. I believe it's SCP 2987, which is integrated into four different cannons and could conceivably be integrated into a couple of others that I haven't bothered actually connecting it to. And you'd be like, how's that possible? And these some of these cannons are mutually contradictory. But where this article is concerned, it could exist in this story or in this story and still have those stories not change at all. Basically, it's the best way to put it. So it can exist in those cannons, even if those cannons can exist together. And that's true of every SCP article, by the way, even if it references another article, doesn't make that other articles, information less valid, or if something happens, say, let's say you read an SCP article, and in that article, something happens to SCP 173. That does not mean that the baseline canon of SCP 173's article has changed. It hasn't. That means that the article you read includes SCP 173 in its own storytelling. When you read an SCP and you have absolutely no idea what the hell was going on in the article, to the discussion page, I get this sometimes even myself. There was an article drafted somebody was pitching to me a while back, which was essentially, I guess, a Super Mario 64 meme turned into an SCP. And it was one of those things where it's like, when you're reading, it's gonna happen in real life, too. Whenever you have someone read something that you created, and they're just like hovering over you waiting, like, what did you think? And it's like, they don't want to give away the twist. But also, if you don't pick up on the twist, then the article doesn't make any sense to you. And that's exactly what happened with me with this article, because I had never played Super Mario Bros. 64 and the stairway thing that they were trying to get across completely went over my head. And like, sometimes they get a describe for me personally, if if an article doesn't stand on its own, and I can't understand what's going on, and it doesn't matter if there's a reference, I'm not getting I will generally they're neutral or downvote it. That's just how it is. Nab tab was taken created this one. Series one author is writing some of the greatest articles on the site only to go permanently and active, some of the most popular articles on the site. Let's hold the word greatest for the few of them that are actually a quality, not saying that this is an accurate and that some of the greatest articles on the site aren't in series one. I think that that's fair. But not most of them. Most of them are just very, very highly rated and very popular. There's a difference. And to be fair, there's nothing wrong with that. I always say there's nothing wrong with that because I always have to make the distinction. I feel like most people should know that already, that just because something isn't great, and is popular, doesn't mean that it doesn't have a value of some kind. It's just not the kind of value that I would like to attribute to the word greatest. That's all I'm saying. Series seven authors writing the strangest article you've ever read. Yeah, I guess that's accurate. Let's. Yeah, that's fair. That's fair. This is another nab tab was taken article or a meme, by the way. I don't know if it's the strange because I've read a lot articles in the way, not as many as some people. I am not as well read as I think most people would expect from somebody who does this kind of content on YouTube for a living. But I've read quite a lot of SCP articles and written quite a lot of SCP articles. And there's some strange stuff out there in the earlier series in the later series. It's all over the place. Is there maybe more of a? Yeah, yeah, I think it's because of the short form trend that got picked up more recently that's actually led to more strangeness. Because you can get away with it and that sort of thing, like if you're going to create a long article, you can create something a little bit more normal ish, it's still an anomaly, but normal ish, build a character, build a couple of characters if you're going short story length, and and build some sort of a scenario where everything comes together towards an end point. Whereas if you want to write something really really short, you got two real options, you can go super weird or super funny. There's I'm not saying that there aren't ways to develop characters in a 400 to or less word article or let's say 750 or word less article. But it's very, very difficult to build any real connections between yourself and the reader. There's also very difficult to build tension properly for a story. So you really only have, as I said, two options. And that's weird or funny. Both of those can be accomplished in less than 750 words in a way that creates a competent article. And that short form trend has then led to people writing more weird stuff because that's the stuff that lands and works. It's sort of evolving on its own. People don't even realize that's what they're doing. You know, they're trying to write, I see them ever all the time, even sometimes from established authors, people trying to write character pieces in less than 300 words. And it's just it doesn't do it doesn't work. I wrote a I mean, the last tail I wrote, which is almost exactly this exact has almost exactly this problem is it's like 400 ish words, I think maybe below 450, I think it might actually be closer to 400. Regardless, it's like 400 ish words. And it tries to build a connection between both the audience and the viewer and build tension at the same time. And it doesn't succeed on all counts. Is it good? I think so. Is it as good as I think it can be for the word count it has? Absolutely. Would it be better if it was longer? I don't know. It's that's the thing with these sorts of things. Everyone is its own concoction. But it doesn't definitely doesn't build that strength, a strong bond between the audience and the piece. And it definitely doesn't build enough tension, I think, to build to any sort of real breakpoint.  You can't even build one level of elevated tension in, you know, 500 words. So that's just my opinion on that sort of stuff. I'm getting a little bit further away from it. But I do think the short form thing is the reason why we have strange articles. Let's put that way. Is that the last one? I think no, there's one more. From wiser than you three? Yeah, wiser than you three. Same student 10 minute time lapse. Yeah, trying to read. So I actually gave myself actually tried to read inevitable. I read the core article. Well, probably maybe the core article, I don't actually I didn't get far enough into it to know if that probably shifted and changed, I would bet it does. And then I read the first tale that was part of it. Or I started to read the first tale that was part of it. And I just got bored. Don't think bored me. And I know it must have must not abort everybody because it was very popular article, but it's a little bit like, I don't know. I don't want to be that guy. I know I'm I tend to be overly critical of SCP content on the wiki sometimes. And I try to dial that back. But when it comes to some of the more popular new articles by people who I know and respect, and I respect their writing ability. I'm not saying that they're okay. I'm not saying they're bad. Right? inevitable is not bad. But it is a little boring. And it's very long. And when you have very long articles that are also a little boring. You start to lose interest in reading the rest of it. The pacing just doesn't hit properly for me. And and this is like, it's not just with this kind of stuff. I'm talking about popular articles that I just don't like. Why? Or the one about the fairies. 5000. Yeah, it's 5000. I think it's a 5000 or 4000. Either way, 4000 5000 are just they're just not my favorites, not by a long shot. And if we're looking at the none, the ones that were in the contest with them, but they're the ones that won. So they must be, they must have some level of quality to them. And they are pretty good. They're all right. I mean, in offensive, middle of the ground.  That's the worst compliment you can give to somebody is that it's not bad. It's not good. It's right there in the middle. But when it comes to winning a contest, getting a lot of views, in offensive and in the middle is exactly what you want. If you inspire strong emotions in a smaller group of people, you failed at a contest entry period, you want to have something that's in the middle, slow and steady wins the race. You don't want to offend too many people with it because you every offended person is a person that's not voting on it. And then these contest voting is important. It's a better article with less people viewing it is always going to lose to an inoffensive, but all right article. And that's just how the contests work. And I like to think that's and again, I like to think that's the reason why I don't like most of the contest winners or even some of the higher placing contest entries like inevitable, but that also feels dismissive because I haven't, for example, okay, so if the for why or the fairy one, what's it called? Oh, man. It's funny part is there's a meme about the title of that one's taboo taboo. So me not being able to remember the exact name and calling it something different every single time is hilarious. And on point. But inevitable I didn't finish. So maybe it is great. Maybe it gets better. But the early pacing was for me terrible. So I didn't finish it. It was just okay. Yeah. That's it. Thank you very much for I believe that's the last meme. Yep. And thank you very much for watching. 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China is preparing for war with the United States. Chinese President Xi Jinping has publicly criticized the US and accused it of leading a Western attempt to contain his country. Foreign Minister Qin Gang also warned Washington to hit the brakes or risk conflict and confrontation. Western countries, led by the United States, have implemented all-round containment, encirclement and suppression of China which has brought unprecedented severe challenges to our nation's development. Xi said in a rare verbal attack as quoted by state media. The Chinese leader was meeting with industry and business groups during an annual gathering of an advisory body to the Communist Party. His speech focused on the national economy with the remark about Washington's policy, illustrating what he called uncertain and unpredictable factors in the international environment. Xi normally refrains from targeted criticism of the US. Michael Swain, a senior research fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, told the New York Times that, to his knowledge, it was the first time the Chinese leader has publicly come out and identified the US as taking such actions. Meanwhile, another senior Chinese official accused Washington of using underhanded tactics. The US claims that it seeks to out-compete China but does not seek conflict. Yet in reality, its so-called competition means to contain and suppress China in all respects. Foreign Minister Qin Gang said in a speech on the sidelines of an ongoing session of the Chinese legislature, he compared the US government to an athlete trying to trip their opponent instead of giving its best performance. Washington wants Beijing not to push back when it is targeted by such action or slander, the minister suggested, adding that this was not possible. The US trajectory could lead to a disaster that no guardrails would be able to prevent he warned. If the US does not hit the brakes but continues to speed down the wrong path, no amount of guardrails can prevent derailing and there will surely be conflict and confrontation. Said Qin, who previously served as the Chinese ambassador to the US.


Hello and welcome to Book Review 19 on MIP TV, where Bob Cook from Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy reviews his favourite books and have a look at the playlist, because we've got just loads and loads of interviews where Bob talks about his book. But this one is quite an interesting book, changing lives to Redecision Therapy. So I'm guessing Bob, and cut me if I'm wrong, this may be the Redecision School in CAA. Absolutely, congratulations. You passed the TA test, that's correct. Great. So what? Yeah, so a specific school in the arc of the development of transactional analysis. So tell us a little bit about this book and share a little bit about the insights it gives into this School of Therapy. Okay, I was coming back, I can't remember from San Francisco about five or six years ago, and the person said to me, what do you do for a life? I said I was a psychotherapist and a transactionalist. He said, oh yes, transaction analysis, I know, that's about Eric Byrne. I said yes, and you know, we're now in 2006 or whatever it was, it's evolved a lot, and I was talking about the different approaches. And then I was talking about the Redecision approach by Bob and Mary Goulding, which really started to take its own wonderful format after Eric Byrne died in 1971 to 2000, 2002, 2003, and really became a real central school, if you like. And the person next to say, that's really interesting. So as you charted all these different approaches, what makes up a TA therapist then? So I said, look, a person who thinks of transactional analysis proper, that's, you know, a theory of communication, eager states, games and scripts, then you can call yourself a TA therapist and all the other approaches are simply styles. So this is a style or an approach which has evolved from 1971 to about 2002, 2003. And it was called the Redecision approach. It still is, of course, even though the founders are dead, of Robert and Mary Goulding. It was a very popular approach, if you want to put it that way. Basically, it's about the idea that, you know, people really make changes in their lives from the child eager state, and that you need to work with the child eager state because that's where the original decision, which are so often, was the aspect of the personality, which sabotage their own process, where they got stuck in, where they couldn't solve their problems from because they were actually living and coming from this young, more regressed place. So Mary and their ideas was that you need to go back in time, find out the decision which is so limiting to your script and your changes today, and then make a new redecision so that you can take ownership of your own life and change in the adult or present time. So it's working specifically with the unconscious and child eager state. Yeah, and it also sounds like it's working very much with scripts and the scripts that people make in childhood. I know we've just discussed another book where the theorist said that, you know, the script is developed through an arc of time, not just in childhood. And that's the kind of hallmark of this particular school, isn't it? What they're saying is that the initial decision is made in childhood subconsciously, and then it's developed. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a real hallmark. And with this book, what happens is you're completely correct, you really are, is the, Bob and Mary Goulding would say that you need to look at injunctions, counter injunctions, and the early decisions, and then make new redecisions. And the method for doing that was through going back into time to an earlier time you made those decisions, and through two-chair technique or simply playing or well-playing with different parts of yourself, you make new decisions, which you can integrate into your more mature part. And then hunky-dory. There we go. We take destiny of your own script. Well, there we go. You take your life in your old hands and write your own part in the world's play, as Shakespeare might say. I just want to pick up on something you said about two-chair work. A lot of people listening to this may very well say, isn't that a gishtel? Isn't that a gishtel idea, two-chair, empty-chair work? How does that play out in TA in this particular modality, if you like, or thinking? Okay. Fritz Perls stole the idea of two-chair technique from Merino. Merino was the psychoanalyst that started up the whole idea of psychodrama. And he used the idea of playing out or, yeah, playing out the different conflicts of the different side of yourself in actual drama, which sometimes is called psychodrama, sometimes sculpturing. And he used the method of two-chairs to actually play those two conflicts out. Now, you know, Fritz, when he came along, that's the originator of gishtel psychotherapy, he used those ideas from Merino and used the same ideas to enable people to actually play out the different conflicts of the self. And he called the two positions top dog or lower dog, and they became synonymous with gishtel psychotherapy. But like everything else, there's no original thought. Well, perhaps there's a bit, but the ideas were taken from Merino in terms of the methodology of those two chairs. Yeah. And what would happen is the client would be encouraged to speak to maybe an earlier self or... Yeah, a different part of the self. Yeah, yeah. So the hopeless self or the, you know, the compliant self or the rebellious self versus the more powerful self, which might represent different conflicts of the self, or even may represent the internalized parent talking to the compliant child in TA terms. Yeah. And I think what's really interesting, and this is what I love about these book reviews, Bob, is that you really kind of expand on the theory. You know, we've heard about scripts. We've already know that there's one school that thinks that this particular school thinks scripts developed strongly in childhood, got another school that thinks it developed over, but also about that re-decision about getting clients to read, rewrite their scripts. In other words, their character's in a play, but they are the directors and the scriptwriters of that play. That's right. Yeah. What a wonderful way to put it, Rory. I really like that. Yes. It's the only way I can understand it, Bob. Yeah, they are responsible for their own direction of their film, and therefore they can change that, and they're the people that really alter their destiny. So this book really outlines this particular idea within TA this style, as you discussed earlier, and useful for who. Who'd benefit from reading this, Bob? Students again, of course, in Transaction Analysis are great for people who want to know the early development again of Transaction Analysis. People want to know the development away from Eric Burns Classical School. People are interested in how people make changes in their own conscious, and it's a wonderful historical document of the early parts of Transaction Analysis in terms of evolution, of course. But the ideas making change from the unconscious is such a novel idea in terms of that you can be like a director in your own film, and you can make new decisions, and you can put them into practice. So for the student in particular, for the historians of Transaction Analysis, and people who want to think about how change really happens? Well, as always, just really rich information here, and for anybody watching, I just think it's brilliant to have so much in this short interaction we've had. As always, this isn't a paid book review. Bob's not getting paid for this, and neither am I as a book review. Bob just does this for the fun of it. We have to say that on YouTube now because of the way YouTube works. My free child has really, really gone wild. Yes, indeed. Yes, the free child of YouTube. Yes. So we're going to put a link in the description below. So if you want to inspect this book, click on it, and also in the outro, we'll put a graphic up so you can see what the book looks like, and also a description just to remind you. But as always, Bob Cook, thank you so much for giving the time and sharing this wonderful book. Thank you very much, Roy.


Internal Revenue Service IRS Tax News, National Small Business Week. Dang IRS, always call it a small like that. The IRS thinks they're so big. I'd be big too if I fed myself on everyone else's lunch money. I'll have you know IRS, my small business tax dollars are what pay for your big bureaucratic budget. Oh yeah, says the IRS. You want a first-hand look at what else your small business tax dollars pay for? Like the prisons? No. Then make sure to give us your money on a quarterly basis as per our arrangement. Or else we'll have to set up a mandatory meeting behind the gym. Where what, you're gonna beat me up? Oh no, something far worse. We call it an audit. Wow, that does sound scary. Yes, you don't want to have to meet us behind the gym for an audit. I suppose not. So make sure to pay up small business. Well, I guess I don't really need my lunch money. I was planning on going on a diet anyways. Yeah, that's what I'll tell everyone. We're going on a family diet people. But poor little Tim is already so skinny. IR 2022-103, May 5th, 2022 Washington. The Internal Revenue Service today urged small businesses to take advantage of the accuracy, speed and convenience of filing their payroll tax returns and making tax payments electronically during the National Small Business Week. It's almost over small businesses. Keep your head down. Just keep on rolling. That spotlight from the IRS is almost off of you so you can go out and start foraging again. So hang in there. During National Small Business Week, May 1st to 7th, the IRS is highlighting tax benefits and resources tied to the theme for this year's celebration, quote, building a better America through entrepreneurship, end quote. Filing and paying taxes electronically helps entrepreneurs leave more time for what they really want to do, build their businesses. Yes, that's what we want. Just leave us alone. Leave us alone. What are payroll taxes? Also known as employment taxes, payroll taxes include federal income tax withheld from employee wages, as well as both the employer and employee portions of the Social Security and Medicare taxes. In addition, payroll taxes include the federal unemployment tax, also known as FUTA, F-U-T-A, which most employers need to pay but is not withheld from employee wages. So when we're talking about the payroll taxes, clearly if someone is designated as an employee as opposed to a contractor, we are required to do withholdings from the employees, which are basically the payroll taxes. We've got the employer portion, the employee portion of the payroll taxes, meaning we're going to withhold from them on the federal tax side of things, their federal income tax. And then their Social Security and their Medicare, which gets confusing because we also have to match their Social Security and Medicare. So we're going to pay our half of Social Security and Medicare, which is basically our payroll taxes, which we're paying over and above the actual expenses of the payroll taxes. And then we've got the federal unemployment tax. And then you can deal with state taxes and withholdings, which are not the IRS's concern, typically here, except for, well, that's it. So in some cases, backup withholding applies to payments made to non-employees, usually because the recipient failed to provide the correct taxpayer identification number, the TIN, to the business making the payments. The TIN can be either a Social Security number, employer identification number, or individual taxpayer identification number. For more information about backup withholdings, see tax topic number 307. There's a link to that here. Why E-File? Because you told us to IRS? Dang dang it. That's the best answer I've ever heard, Gump. You're going to be the best small business ever. All of the returns reported in these taxes can either be filed electronically or on paper, though the number of payroll tax returns E-Filed has grown steadily in recent years. More than doubling in the last decade alone, more than 40% of them are still filed on paper, which is annoying the IRS because you know how they like the E-File stuff. They want everything electronic. Paper filers are missing out on all the advantages of the electronic filing. E-File saves time for the IRS and us, and it's secure and accurate. So that's probably one of the things that people have been kind of questioning about having the online kind of returns. So everything seems to be going online. So hopefully it's going to be secure. And you would think it would be more accurate because you might have some software capacity to help you out with any math errors and things like that. So plus the IRS acknowledges receipt of an electronically filed return within 24 hours. That doesn't happen with paper filing, especially with the short staffing they're experiencing over there. So the paper filing could take longer. So it's much easier to make a mistake on paper. So that's definitely true. Software is helpful. With electronic filing, any mistake is often discovered and fixed quickly. With paper filing, it may take weeks or even months to discover and correct mistakes. How to E-File? Employers have two options. Do it themselves or have a tax pro do it for them. So payroll taxes are complicated, so you probably want to have some payroll kind of system in place. Unfortunately, the employees are one of the biggest sources where you could have kind of problems and lawsuits and whatnot. So you'd like to have the payroll records as accurate as possible. So those choosing to do it themselves will need to purchase IRS approved software. Alternatively, the authorized IRS E-File providers, there's a link to that here. Locator service and online database can help any employer find a suitable tax professional. So you want to make sure you're finding a good payroll provider, someone that's been there. It's going to be around and that you can trust because, again, it's kind of an important part. And it's not an easy thing to kind of switch up, like especially mid-year to try to switch to another payroll provider because of all the withholdings and whatnot. And the reporting requirements and the caps on wages and stuff gets confusing. So for more information about both options, visit IRS.gov forward slash employment E-File. There's a link to that here. Pay taxes electronically. Those some employers, especially those with small payrolls, can choose to pay their taxes when they file their payroll tax returns. Most need to deposit them regularly with Treasury Department instead. So we want regular payments on the payroll taxes, says the IRS. Federal tax deposits must be made by electronic fund transfer, that's the EFT system. The fastest and easiest way to do that is through the electronic federal tax payment system, otherwise known as the EFTPS. There's a link to that here. It's a free service available from the Treasury Department. Payments can be made either online or by phone. Any business or individual can also use the EFTPS to pay other federal taxes, including quarterly estimated taxes. Enrollment is required to enroll or for more information. Visit the EFTPS.gov.gov.gov or call<PHONE_NUMBER> or TDD<PHONE_NUMBER>. More information about the tax rules that apply to employers can be found in Publication 15. That's the Circular E Employers Tax Guide. There's a link to that here. It's available on IRS.gov, IRS.gov, IRS.gov, be for victory over tax questions. And there's a link to that and all this other stuff that I said there was a link to. There is a link indeed here to them too, and there'll be a link to this in the description.


We all are celebrating Azadika Amrit Madhav on the occasion of the 75th Independence Day. I extend my gratitude to the real-life heroes who laid their lives so the country's future can breathe the air of freedom. As our fight for independence has put us on the world map then, now it's time for the country's economic growth. Startups are leading the way to economic surge and we are on the growth-touching field. We have seen the trend of innovation and disruption. Now it's the time to innovate and collaborate. Wishing everyone a happy Independence Day. I think let's make this Independence Day about how we want to see India in the next 10 years and what can be the role that we all can play towards creating that new India. Thank you.