Salaamu alaikum.  That's good for themselves And that's why I always lie to the people of the global minority and then I Made a video about black women in preventive protection and how if you want someone to protect you You're gonna have to listen to them and try to avoid being in dangerous situations And because you guys didn't like what I said I received death threats People wish that someone would bust my car window and pistol with me People wish that some people or that they themselves could find me and hit me with a brick all these young girls that are out here That are still wet behind the ears, but are aging like milk and bananas calling me old I'm not expecting y'all to be like oh my gosh I can't believe that because I know y'all don't care But I'm gonna say what I want regardless because I don't receive myself worth and validation based on what people say about me online I proudly grew up in a time before all of that and my self-worth and validation is based on my principles and my character Some of y'all wouldn't know nothing about that So I'll say this again for the people that have since preventive protection is the best kind of protection So urban dictionary defines a pick me as a woman that is willing to do anything for male approval She will embarrass or throw other women under the bus to achieve this goal The unfortunate thing about a pick me is usually the men that they are trying to seek approval from or of poor quality And treat women badly leaving little benefit for the pick me, you know I I actually agree with this definition of a pick me However, I think we've been using the term too loosely right so in my Estimation like a male version of a pick me is that that homeboy who always tries to play fight Or he always tries to joke with you by insulting you when women are around All right, he wants to Joan he wants to talk about how he beat you in arm wrestling Five years ago only when women come around and you know, obviously, I think they're female examples of that Maybe it's the the girl who similarly Talks about how your makeup looks bad or how your dress might look bad When other men are around to make herself look better or make herself look like the authority While bringing you down Like I said, I think unfortunately because of social media because of a lot of these conversations being had by Stupid people we throw the term around loosely right now if a woman has the audacity to agree with men She's a pick me if a girlfriend or a wife has the audacity to treat Her man with respect or with reverence or with consideration. She's a pick me And I think it just exemplifies how far away from logic and how far away from community mindedness we have Straight as a community and to the ladies who have never had a man love them enough to try to prevent something bad from happening to them You honestly have my sincere condolences and to those of you who say why don't you just tell men to stop abusing women? Why don't we hold them accountable if telling someone to stop being an abuser a thief or a murderer worked Then the prisons we wouldn't have a need for prisons. None of that would exist So excuse me for living in the real world. I'm a very proactive kind of person We can't change what happened in the past or things that have already happened to women But we could help minimize the risk of those things happening in the future ultimately when it comes to the archetype of women that we see It boils down to Who are we incentivizing with our attention? Unfortunately as men we are visual We're sexual so our priorities tend to be visual and sexual and Those women are not always reasonable and intelligent So that's how you see the Carly Russell's That's how you see, you know the the bride who refused to say her full vows That's how you see the woman on the ultimatum the One of my last case studies because ultimately some idiot dude Because maybe she looked good or maybe she coerced you into a relationship that now you can't get out of is Incentivizing her behavior and is ultimately incentivizing that behavior at large because other Carly Russell's other women like Row reacts will now see that Well, it doesn't matter how bad-behaved I am it doesn't matter if I lie if I cheat if I steal There will be people to jump to my aid Jump to my rescue because they have to fulfill this desire to keep black women in a Perpetual victim role with no nuance and no discussion about Certain ways that we make our lives harder Certain ways that we put ourselves in harm's way We just want to focus on how it's other people's responsibility to keep us safe The fact that nobody is questioning the fact that this woman deleted her tiktok I know the world coming to the N.  I never thought I'd see today It's crazy And what's really sad is that ain't now one of these women their bastards Gonna get on the internet and make a apology Because they are scared of the word accountability They don't want to hold nothing accountable for black men. We the reason for everything You know now it's coming out that it's a it's a hoax. There was no Guy with a brick I've heard some people say she injected herself with saline solution. I've heard other people say it's a It's an allergic reaction I've seen a clip from 2020 Where something similar happened apparently she was beaten up according to her Because she wants to be a doctor Regardless, I think it boils down to We as men are giving these problematic ass women the audacity to move the way that they move and When I see some of the men I saw them on Social media when I did a stream. I had one conversation with the brother who insisted that Every woman is deserving of protection this whole narrative that which I'm embarrassed about is really Stooped in fear and I believe more of Black men saying oh, I told you so because look at her Instagram and so forth and so on. It's just justification It really paints a picture of how Insidious this thing is and how we don't realize that our actions our defense is incentivizing Counterproductive and problematic behavior. I remember when I posted the mugshot of Carly Russell some of the comments that I got were Damn, but she's pretty though She looked good though.  There's no reason for them to stop There's no amount of accountability holding from other men that's gonna change that Similarly, there's no amount of Crimson cures that's gonna change The fact that these women are problematic because there's gonna be another guy who's ready and willing to protect her To provide for her and to tell her that she's not the problem Everybody else is what breaks my heart about this real react situation is that she's a mother She's a mother of a boy and only God knows how he's gonna grow up only God knows what his outlook is gonna be on women and Unfortunately, you know as boys we don't get to to say Our mothers were terrible. I know that firsthand because a clip of me talking about it Hypothetically is getting me dragged on Instagram But again women like real reacts are raising some of these boys And we only focus on the damage that those boys inevitably end up doing to other women We don't focus on the women who cause the original damage to those boys and even when we do that We still have to talk about whatever happened to her that made her such a terrible woman human being and mother and it's time we start adding some context to this conversation Is the reason why we have to decenter men is because they low-key don't like being respected They don't like it when you're nice to them. They don't like it when you like them They don't like it when you prioritize them. They like it when you feel nonchalant about them They want to seek your validation. They want to seek your approval That's usually when they put in the effort pursue you and treat you the best We're having conversations early some seeing conversations being had about Decentering men. All right, you see a lot of people on tiktok women feminists talking about You know decentering men, which is basically not Conforming to the male gaze. All right, so like women have been saying for a number of years now We don't get dressed for y'all. We don't put on makeup for y'all We don't do anything basically for y'all a couple years ago Women refused to shave their armpits and it was a sign of rebellion. All right, they were rebelling against the patriarchy and the oppressive nature of The male gaze and you know men men's beauty expectations We're not gonna do any of the things that we used to do to make ourselves presentable to you However, we still expect every single privilege that we used to enjoy and more All right, I expect you to continue to do your job and Do some of my job, but I don't expect anything for me And this is what this is where we are. All right, so it's okay for random black men who Didn't want to jump into this fictitious Brawl, I guess in defense of a black woman It's okay for them to be dragged and I'm not seeing anybody coming out and apologizing to black men at large Or black men at the event Now that it's coming out that this is made up But I think ultimately we as black men we have to look at ourselves And you know during the live stream that I did I wanted to kind of get into What I what I'll call the protection paradox, right because protection doesn't happen for free protection is a privilege, it's not a right and Everything comes with a cost right for instance Part of how the government protects us is that it's constantly surveilling The internet it's constantly surveilling phone lines It's constantly surveilling streets for potential threats, right is this guy wearing Suicide vests, right? We we were constantly being surveilled The cost of that is privacy The benefit is protection and the only way to get protection Without sacrificing your privacy is to be in charge of your own protection But in these conversations, we're not having or adding that nuance to it The only thing or person that can protect you is somebody who you are under their jurisdiction Because sometimes protection isn't over jumping out and jumping in the middle of sometimes as guidance And if I can't guide you I can't protect you And I'm disappointed that Men aren't adding that to the conversation. I'm disappointed that women aren't adding that to the conversation As we saw Erica Lachey Was being dragged on the internet Simply because she made that point Simply because she had the audacity to say that how women protect men is To make sure they're not putting themselves in situations where those men might have to risk their freedom Or their lives in defense of her But in today's world where As a woman I want to enjoy all the privileges with none of the responsibility We're not willing to have these conversations And it really ticks me off when I see these dudes on the internet these quote-unquote woke dudes these Liberal guys like consciously Refusing or maybe just ignorant to The nuance in the additional context that's necessary when talking about things like protection Because in real life, it doesn't work like that. It's not until You have to consider what I want my son patrolling the streets like Batman Before you take a step back and realize that oh, it's not that simple that just random men should jump at the defense of random women Despite that woman's behavior Prior to or during an altercation And what's funny what's hilarious is Some of these same people who were Pissed off at imaginary black men for not Protecting this woman in her fictitious story have been threatening a woman who they've labeled as a pygmy They've been threatening her her safety They've been hoping that bad things happen to her and it really just shows and demonstrates the hypocrisy of some of this pseudo liberalism This nonsensical feminism and the fact that we Adopt these blanket statements protect black women defund the police Black Lives Matter and we don't talk about some of the complexity some of the nuances some of the layers of these things it demonstrates our ignorance and It actually demonstrates our unwillingness to actually truly confront and solve these problems Because we'd rather just bitch and moan and hope other people solve it without even considering if they are incentivized to Ultimately, I Don't know if this is a hoax There's a lot of evidence to suggest and supports that it is but in this culture of Carly Russell's of This potential hoax things are gonna get bad and Unfortunately, I think things are gonna get bad For our sisters because now when something actually happens when there actually is a Carly Russell that's honestly been abducted.  She say he lives in Nashville He never was in Houston and he did all of that talking making up that story for clicks life in views All I'm gonna say is the club owner is an audio of talking to the club owner and he says None none of that stuff happened. He got camera footage and He said his security is out there 24-7 and he is


Ooh, so 1999, again ready to graduate from high school. And me and my friends are sitting around talking about possible senior pranks. And of course, one of the ideas was a technology based one, messing with the school computers. And so me and my friends are sitting around and we're talking about wondering if the school wipes the computers because supposedly they wipe the computers every summer, but you know, they probably don't. And if we could infect the computers with something with a delayed reaction that did something the next year after we're already gone and home said retired, gone and what do you call it, graduated. It's that way we don't get in trouble with the school though obviously, especially nowadays that you're looking at legal problems. We ended up actually never doing the idea with the school computers, but I did implement it somewhere else. So this was the idea. Write a program, not time. Back in the day I was a Windows user and I did most things through batch files and not batch files, batch files and visual basic. And at the time, Windows had the obvious flaw. This just shows how Windows developers were just that at the time a teenager, anybody, obviously this was a bad idea that you create a CD and you put an INI, an auto INI file on there that says the name of a program on the CD and it runs that program when you put it in automatically without the user interaction, trying to make things simple but obviously that's a bad idea. So I used to make these CDs. Before that, I used to make Windows boot disks, the floppy disks, but CDs are even faster and just drop it in. You know, at the time Windows had no permissions. You drop it in, you can do whatever you want. So the idea, getting back to the prank, was to have it where we could, I would make this program, put it on disk, give it to a bunch of people and they would go around to all the school computers. Everyone, they'd get in, pop it in and basically it would run, they would ding and eject the CD after it's done installing the program. And what was programmed, it was weighed for a certain date. Every time the computer turned on, it checked the date and after a certain date, it would lock the keyboard and then full screen display a very inappropriate picture. I was a teenager. That's the sort of things teenagers do. And so again, we never did this at the school but I worked at a place that sold computers and I wouldn't mess with the computers quite often that we sold just because. And so I was actually upset. It was actually after I stopped working there. I'm sorry, remembering more of the story as I'm telling it. I quit there. I actually bought something from there and went to return and they gave me a run around with the return and it's a preferable refund. So I was a little upset. So I decided, hey, I'm gonna use that idea on their display computers. So I made the CD and acted like I was at the computer, dropped it into three or four of them and set it for a few days later when the computers turned on. Again, it would wait a couple hours because the computers turned on when in the morning before the store's open and you want these things to pop up while there's customers in the store. So basically it would run the program, the computer would count down two or three hours and then display this image on the screen and lock the keyboard. Well, I installed it on four of these machines, waited a couple of days, went in later that day with a buddy of mine and I know most of the people who work there because I used to work there myself. So I was about to walk in and someone would be like, hey, you won't believe what happened today. This, this, that, but nobody's saying anything. So I'm like, I must have wrote something wrong. The program didn't run like it was supposed to. So I said to my buddy, I go, help me go in and go to these four computers and we're gonna delete the files and we're gonna try again. So I go to one, he goes to one and we delete files. I go to another one, you delete file.  I go, oh, we pressed the screen button. The computer was on, the screen was off. We pressed the button and the picture was there and I grabbed my buddy and we just walked out. Nobody ever said anything but we just left it sitting there. Anyway, that was a prank at the time. Inappropriate, wouldn't do that now but as a teenager, it was kind of funny at the time. That's it for this story. Thanks for watching. As always, I hope that you have a great day.


Hi, my name is Julia Schmidt and I am the Program Administrator for Transition to Leadership.  In this two-year program, you'll meet monthly with a mentor, as well as come together with your mentor to two learning events per year, once in the spring and once in the fall. For the two-day learning events, you'll join others in worship, times of reflection and learning sessions led by consultants from AMBS and faculty and other leaders in the church. In addition to the learning sessions, there'll be times for you to meet in small groups to talk about topics pertinent to your own ministry. For learning events alongside the topic times and worship, for me what's been most helpful is just the side conversations that can happen, where you can be vulnerable and honest with new pastors that are in similar situations and mentors who have experienced what you're going through. Maybe not the exact thing, but just being vulnerable and honest with people who know where you are at. Mentoring pairs also have time to meet together at these learning events to set goals. You, as a participant, will be able to set goals that are unique to your own ministry experience to help you grow over your time in the program. My monthly meetings with my mentor were extremely important. They gave me a chance to process things that were happening in the congregation. I'm in the second year, but I'm surrounded by, first of all, my mentor and advisors, and I was able to share my experience and have the people pray for me, so I was well-equipped. In addition to the learning events and your mentoring, you, as a participant, will also have a chance to join monthly Zoom calls for additional support and check-in from the consultants, as well as have one-on-one consultations. For people who are just graduating seminary or for people who are entering a new profession, pastoring is like no other profession out there. It requires some skill and some emotional intellect that maybe some other professions don't, and so in this program I believe it's helpful for people to have a cohort and a mentor that can help them through some of the difficult beginnings of ministry. It's often said that the first year of ministry is the most difficult. So the transition to leadership ministry program, what we do is we help participants think about their self-awareness, but their curiosity, and their intercultural competence as they are working in their ministry settings. We want them to be as effective as possible. You are in the process of taking up a role that is both demanding as well as widely varied and even the most supportive of congregation. In transition to leadership, you will be invited to be part of a cohort with other pastors who are beginning their journey in congregational ministry as well. You'll be able to process questions that have arisen for you in ministry and to seek counsel with consultants and your peers in ministry and return to your congregation with some new insights and clear focus on the work that is before you as a shepherd of a congregation. And so we also go over issues of system, dynamics, we talk about power, we talk about issues of justice, particularly undoing racism as they're beginning to work in their settings. And we also really talk about self-care needs, about setting boundaries and engaging in practices that will help them to really thrive. It's giving me support, wings to fly and go somewhere to not feel dangling, which is kind of how I was feeling through COVID and after that. And I've just appreciated so much that I've been able to be invited into this program and to have these wonderful consultants share with us what they know. As a new pastor, I'm really grateful that this program gives me the opportunity to create spaces to reflect and think about all the work that I'm doing so that I can go back and do the work in better and new and creative and more curious ways. We hope that you'll consider joining this unique program. For more information, visit ambias.edu slash transition to leadership. There you will find more information as well as my contact info.


Hello friends, welcome back to the channel. The seven star terror event for Empolion is now back in Skull and Violet. We're going to cover all of the details of this raid as well as the best Pokemon to solo this with in your game. So returning for its second phase in Pokemon Skull and Violet, the Empolion terror event is back and it will be running over this weekend from the 9th of February until the 11th. It will be level 100. It will have the mightiest mark. Ice is its terror typing. It can never be shiny. But it will have its hidden ability competitive. The moves it will have access to or surf, flash cannon, ice beam, grass knot with additional moves, snowscape, blizzard and iron defense. It will have a modest nature. So going to be hitting pretty hard. And this is only catchable once per save file. Going to get some really nice item drops with this one. So this one's good for going and just farming through for the high cost items like your nuggets, comic shorts, star pieces and other items as well as level up candies and terror shots and those elusive ability patches. Like I say, this is the second time out from Polyon. So if you missed it the first weekend from the second to the fourth, this is your last chance to get it with the mightiest mark while it is running in game. Now to access this event in your game, once you come to your main menu, make sure you are connected to the internet. Then come down to your poker portal and then come down to mystery gifts and check poker portal news. This will just update all of the dens in the Piled Air region. This event will not be appearing in Ketokami or in the Blueberry Academy, just in Piled Air. Once you locate the seven star terror aid then on your map, you'll be able to head over to it and take it on. Now in last week's video, we covered two really consistent easy builds that you're going to be able to use in your game, which are going to be the Vaporeon and the Mew. It will be linked in the top right hand corner of this video now and down in the description if you want to check the builds out for those Pokemon. But we do have another alternative build that is going to be just as good as those to feature in today's video and it is going to be Galead. So Galead going to be a fighting and psychic type that is going to have the fighting terror type on there. The held item is going to be a COVID clock that's going to prevent you from getting frozen in the raid, which is very useful, level 100 and hyper train. So making sure that all those IVs are 31. Of course, the build will be down in the description below if you want to take a look at that after the video. The moveset is going to be skillswap, mystical fire, sword stance and drain punch. Just be aware that mystical fire is an egg move to find something in your boxes that has the move mystical fire. Forget a move on the Galead and then put the mystical fire Pokemon in your party alongside the Galead and give the Galead a mirror herb item to hold. Set up a picnic and then that egg move will be transferred on to the Galead. So this is the moveset. We've got the ability steadfast. It really doesn't matter what ability you choose for this one. And the EV spread is going to be 252 EVs and attack 252 EVs in special defense with an adamant nature. So when you first come into the raid with Galead you're going to see the turn zero of the Empolion go for the snowscape that's going to summon the hail storm to the field for five turns.  So that is going to be 100% accurate in the hail and do some considerable damage to you and your teammates. But you should be able to take this pretty comfortably with Galead because you're so bulky. First turn we're going to lock in with the skillswap and we're going to steal the competitive ability on the Empolion meaning that we don't have to worry about it getting random boosts to its special attack throughout the rest of the raid. This is going to make it easier for us to just manage and set up our strategy. Next turn, what we're going to do is lock in with a mystical fire. Now, if you've got a belly bolt like we have it's a really good STR option for partnering Pokemon. It's going to set up a light screen as well. So it's going to just mean that you're able to take these attacks even better. Nice thing about mystical fire is it does reduce the special attack on the Empolion by one stage every time you use it. So we're going to fire off another one as well because we want this Empolion to not be as threatening going forward while we get our setup. And what we're waiting for really before we go for a sword stance is the fact that it will nullify stats on our side of the field. If you're getting low on HP, just click in with the drain punch, just recover some health back so you carry on the rest of the strategy and kind of wait out the turn where you see your stats and abilities nullified on your side of the field. Once that happens, we're kind of free to start firing off our swords dances. The nice thing about mystical fire as well and our drain punch is that we're in the point where we can trastleize now, but we don't want to click in with that until we're kind of ready to do some really big damage. So you can see here, there's the shield popping up from the Empolion and it will nullify our stats on our side of the field as well as pod parcel of this. If it doesn't nullify the stats on our side of the field, just go for your trastleization and go for another drain punch. It will inevitably come when it hits that kind of 80% mark of its health. So probably just going to have to just chip it down a little bit here and then that will happen and you may get there a little bit quicker depending on the partnering Pokemon that you've got. You can see it's not going to do a massive amount of damage but it's a chipping away at it nicely. Like I say, we're just getting to the point where we're able to set up our swords dances and not have to worry about our stats being nullified because we don't want to waste turns setting up swords dances early on in this raid where we have to kind of just set them up again. So we want to get to the point where we are in a position where we can go for those swords dances. So just go for those drain punches in the meantime while we're waiting for those to be nullified. And then once we get the swords dances under our belt, it's going to really expedite the amount of damage you can do. And here you can see nullified stat changes and abilities on our side of the field, super fine. And because of those mystical fires that we filed off earlier, the Empolion, as you can see, it's not really going to be able to do very much damage to us.  Three will be enough that will max your attack out to plus six and then we're going to be able to do some really big damage. And this is sword dance number three and then our attacks that is on plus six. I think the one thing that you have to worry about with the Empolion is that it does set up an iron defense. So we'll slow you down a little bit. It'll nullify our stats on our side of the field again. But you can see the damage that we're doing here. We're catching up with the raid timer, which is the main thing. Of course, this isn't going to be like a super quick raid to do, but it's very consistent and you're going to have no trouble at all with the glade even in the initial set up early on. You're going to have a really easy time kind of taking down the Empolion if it is your first time doing it to capture it in your game or if you're wanting to farm it for these high cost item drops that you do get from the raids, like level up candies and things like that, which are really, really useful for further terror raids, builds and things like that that you can do in your game. It's going to nullify stats on our side of the field again. So we can just take a few turns just to set the sword stances up once again. So we'll just need another three of those that'll just max out our attack. The rest of this raid here as the shield is broken. Now it will nullify its stat drops on its side of the field. So you have to bear in mind that once it does that, its attacks will be hitting a little bit harder. The Mystical Fire is something that you can just fire off at any point in order to reduce that special attack stat once again on the Empolion. So you're not taking as much damage than you can see here negative effect from its side of the field. So we can fire off a Mystical Fire once again just to put it to minus one. So like I say, it isn't hitting as hard and we're still in a good shape with the Raid Timer as well. But I think the big thing to think about with the Glades, it's just a super consistent method to be able to take down this Empolion. You aren't really going to be in a position where you're worried about getting knocked out, worried about getting frozen. All the bases are kind of covered here. It's just a little bit slower and you're going to have to have a little bit of patience but there's not really too much to it honestly. Just Skill Swap turn one. Mystical Fire turns two, three. Drain Punch into Contrast Lies. Wait for the stats being nullified on your side of the field. Set your three sword stances up and then Drain Punch. Whenever it does nullify the stat drops on your side of the field. Set your sword stances up again. Drain Punch again. And then use Mystical Fire whenever required after it nullifies the stat drops on its side of the field. And then basically that is the basic premise of this whole build. And like I say, we're catching up with the Raid Timer. Another few Drain Punches will be enough to close this one up. And this is the last Drain Punch. This should be enough to take down the Impoleon. And just like the new build that we featured in last week's video alongside the Vaporeon, the Galad is another brilliant option that you're going to be able to utilize throughout this raid. Have no trouble beating. And this one's probably one that you can take online as well and support fellow players because of the ability to lower the special attack on the Impoleon with the Mystical Fire and the ability to remove that ability in competitive as well. And you can just reap the rewards and cycle through the raids as much as you want while the event is running until the 11th of February. So that is everything for today's video, friends. Like I say, we featured two extra builds last week with the Mew and the Vaporeon. And then alongside the Galad, which we featured this week, we've got a lot of variety of Pokemon that you can choose from to take on this raid. Other Pokemon that are going to be very good at this raid are going to be things like Volcanion and Mageana. I haven't purposefully featured these Pokemon because they're not as readily available as the ones we featured on the channel. Trying to make it as accessible as possible to everyone and easy enough to solo the Impoleon. But I hope you've had fun with this event. This has been a really fun 7-star Terror Raid event. I do hope we get another one announced this weekend. Down in the comments section, get down there. Let me know what you think the next 7-star Terror Raid event will be. What do you think we'll not get one until maybe Pokemon Day, which is just around the corner. But thank you so much for tuning in, friends. As always, if the video has been helpful, do drop a like, do subscribe to the channel, and I will see you all in another video very soon. Until then, take care and bye-bye.


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And if you got a question for us, throw it in the chat room, because I believe Mike Merlino is in charge of the chat room tonight. Yes, he is. And he'll be tossing your questions, because I'm sure you got lots of questions for Issa. Or if you got a tech question, throw it in the chat room. Now would be a really good time. We'll be covering that in the next segment. That's right. We also can take your questions on Zoom. So if you want to have your question answered live, audio and video, or just audio defined to, we can do that as well. So if you like to do that, we'll put the Zoom link in the chat room on VOBS.tv. Alrighty. Well, it's time to introduce our guest. And, you know, Issa Lopez has a specific flair for radio imaging. Oh, yeah. And can cover the full range from energetic and playful to sexy and sultry. Can't wait to hear that. And as a result, Issa is one of the most in-demand, bilingual voices in the freelance voice over world. And let's welcome to Voice Over Body Shop, Issa Lopez. Hey, guys. There she is. Thanks so much for having me. It's great having you. And now you're in Denver, Colorado, high in the Mile High City there. Yes. I just moved to a smaller town, a real cow town. It's called Peyton, Colorado. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Colorado. Denver is fascinating. You drive the city ends and then you're like, where'd the city go? What is it? You're out in the country. It's still building the borders. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Yep. Yep, yep, yep. You're somebody who does a tremendous amount of imaging work.  How did you get there? You started off singing and doing music? Yes. My father was one of the creators of, I'm really going to tell my age now, but do you remember Menudo with like Ricky Martin and all those? Yes. I remember that. Very huge. Yeah. Very, very known in Puerto Rico and very talented musician, actually toured with Casey and the Sunshine Band and Cool and the Gang for 10 years. Really amazing musician. So I got a lot of that musical background, a lot of people from Puerto Rico, even Rosie, that you guys know, Amador and her family, they sing, they write music. It's just kind of in us. So pushing forward, I really wanted to do that singing thing. So when Star Search went on the road, I won that when I was 11. And I also won the Apollo when they went on the road to Colorado. I won that at 14. And by the time I was 25, 26, I had my first official, you know, record deal. Everything was like there.  And then I sat there in that room of executives. And when I saw the, when I saw their plans for me, let's just put it this way. It was not what I expected. And it's just, I decided to walk away from that deal. It was one of the hardest things I have ever done, actually.  You can only go up. So I got really, really depressed. But to pay the bills, I became a nanny. And the guy, the guy was really crazy. I'm not even into kids. So that's really a nanny. Yeah. That's usually kind of a requirement for a nanny for what I remember. It's not a requirement. It's not a requirement for teaching, apparently. Based on some of the teachers I've met. Yeah. So the guy that I was nanny for, he provided glasses for a lot of the program directors. And Colorado, and he was overhearing them that they were about to that clear channel at the time, which is now I heart. If you're listening and you're not sure, like, who, what's clear channel? That's the original name of I heart. And they were about to start a bilingual radio format. And they were looking for a female that can go from, you know, Spanish right into English, English to Spanish.  I'm sure it happens on a daily basis. You're like, Oh, Buenos dias. Okay. I want a burger with some gas.  So I went in. It's kind of normal for us. So I went in and I interviewed and I, I must have left some kind of impression. I never really heard back, but I sent them all a thank you card. And I had already been doing jingles locally for TV affiliates. I also sang the morning show song for the hottest radio show at the time here in Colorado. So I had some stuff on paper, you know, writing jingles, singing them. And I think about a month and a half later, I got a call from the PD at the time. And I never forgot it because I was doing the nanny job and then I had a receptionist job. And then I was teaching aerobics at curbs at night.   And I'm like, huh? So very unrealistic. If you're listening and you're interested in getting into radio, I got my own radio show, morning show to be, to be a specific, very, very unrealistic. So I was with clear channel slash I heart for almost gosh, 12 years. So I was with them a really long time. And in that radio world, I got not only more commercial experience, very important. I got comfortable with the mic, which is something that is you have to master, right? You have to be comfortable with the mic. And I got my chance to do in 2005, I got my chance to do my first radio imaging gig with I heart after I did well with them. I just started to build a rapport with producers, which is it's something that I bring up a lot when I talk to people and they ask me, Issa, I want to get into radio imaging and it's so important to keep relationships positive with everyone involved. Because it's not just your voice, right? It's the imaging producers that also put in their magic and it takes a long time though. Like a lot of people that may like you may go to my Instagram or you may go to, you know, someone else's Instagram and you or any social media, right? And you may be like, Oh my God, this is fun. This sounds like, you know, she's having a great time. And yes, I am. But it took years, years to get a lot of radio stations behind me on my own roster. Right. What did that involve? I mean, you're doing jingles at I heart and you're, but how did you get other stations to take you on saying, Hey, I can do your imaging for you? Is that other companies that do that or do you have to go out and freelance on your own and say, Hey, I can do this better than what you got or what? So being in house was a lot of help for me. I happened to be in a local building that had the regional I heart guy there. So I was lucky. So I was always in his face kind of like, Hey, you got a new station that's about to flip or like, what's going on? Because I can do it, you know, and I would always just in town that in them. Another thing that is important. And this is easy to do, guys. If you are listening and you're interested in radio imaging and you're admiring people out there, it doesn't. And this goes for all form of VO. I don't care how amazing and spectacular you can be with VO. We all can't do it all. Okay. I have to say no to a lot of things. What I mean by that is where this is going is that I had the luxury of Roger Keeler, amazing imaging producer. He introduced me to who still these two women are still amazing in radio imaging today, which is Andy Wigg and Jennifer Sweeney. And so excuse me, they were able to take me under their wing and kind of mentor me. And so that's when more gigs started. So how I got a lot of my gigs, excuse me, is let me just take some water. No problem. It's Colorado. It's very dry. You got to keep yourself hydrated. Yeah. So as I was being mentored by these women, you need demos. You need something to show people. So yeah, I had that one station, but I needed more stuff. So I had to start doing stuff for free. So I had one of my ladies that was mentoring me. She's like, listen, there's a station in Brazil. They are like top notch. I can't take it right now. They don't pay a lot of money, but Isa, he's an amazing producer, which, you know, that's the one thing I don't do. I don't produce. And she's like, I think you should take it. So that's what I did. I was a voice of RC and radio in Brazil for years. And that alone got me content.  You need something to show what you can do. And so and also it got me familiar with a lot of copy that radio imaging, you know, entails. It's saying, you know, wild 101.5, but there's way more to radio imaging that just saying wild 101.5. There's, there's concert promos. You have to engage the listener. You're kind of like the seasoning for the station. You brand that station is so important. How does that process work? I mean, does each station say we want it like this? We want it like that? Or, you know, you know how to do this, just go do it. And what is your technique that makes you different from other people doing that type of stuff? Absolutely. Um, it depending on the format, right? You get an audition, right? From somebody that hits you up and you just, you read the lines and you kind of wing it. So common sense number one, guys, if someone's sending you a script or an opportunity, because let me say radio imaging now, even when I started, there was no podcasts. There was no interest. There are so many ways that you can get a demo together of stuff that you can do with your voice when it comes to like radio or podcast intros, right? You have all kinds of ways of getting that opportunity. You got to do common sense. Like if you're going to try out for a station, do your homework, just don't send it in. It's kind of like interviewing for something. You know, you want to know a little bit about the company so that the top 40 station, well, guess what? I'm going to talk like this. Why? Because it's kids listening to it. Right.  I'm just sick and tired of all this. It's not going to be that sound, you know? So you just, you got to kind of gauge it. Yeah. Yeah. Let me just stop you there for a second. If you're just joining us, we're talking with Issa Lopez. She is a bilingual imaging voice and she does a lot of that. Of course, a lot of other commercial stuff, which we can talk about. If you have a question for Issa about any of this stuff, and I know all you guys out there. Especially imaging stuff. You want to do imaging. Yeah. It's a competitive market. Throw your question in the chat room that Mike Berlino is currently moderating, and he will get that question to us. I know you got questions about this. Put it in there now. Okay. You were saying that you were talking a little bit about technique there. Yeah.  Like I'm speaking about stuff that's worked for me. Okay. I've tried a lot of formats and you got to be believable. Kind of like Dan before the podcast started, we were talking about how you got to be believable, right? Right. And so where I have found my niche is doing the Spanglish thing.  You know, en tres, dos, uno, ceta, noventa, nueve, nueve, your station. So, it's like English Spanish. So, you got to find a niche in that world. But with anything, you really got to believe in what you're doing. We all, as VO people, we want to engage in so many different types of VO, but if you're really wanting to get into that radio imaging world, I ask you to do your homework and to, you know, kind of be prepared. On a good note, if you're interested in getting in radio imaging, the good things, let me start with a couple of things. You don't need an agent. You don't need to be union. Okay. You can start that train by yourself. There are so many ways of getting lists of radio stations. There are certain times of the year. There's a word that we use in radio a lot where radio stations flip. It happens all the time. A flip may be someone's losing their job in radio imaging, and I have to talk about that too. But that may open a door for you as well, because if they're turning into another format, like a country station may turn to a heavy metal station. Or as the station manager would always say when he would call me into his office, we're going in another direction. Oh, let me tell you. I know that for a fact. That is how I went full-time VO. I had told you guys, I was there almost 12 years, and I never forgot it. It was January of 2016. I was not only being locally very successful, but I was syndicated and Spanish through iHeart, and everything was great, and changes just happened. But sometimes in life, things happen to kind of nudge you to really do what your passion is. And I had built a studio with the money that I had set aside. I really wanted a studio in the house. And after losing my job and interviewing in other places, I said to myself, OK, Isa, you have about a year's saving. Why don't you just try this VO thing for a year?  And these are people that are amazing voices with VO, with radio imaging. Cayman Kelly, who's the voice of the Breakfast Club for iHeart. That's one of the hottest radio shows in the US and online. And Joseph Riano, he was like, Isa, do it, but keep doing something on the weekends. And so a lot of people, they see me, and they see me having all these stations right now and doing really, really well. But I want people to know it took a long time to really get things going. And I just stopped that part-time job on the weekends, I think in September of this last year. But what it took for me to actually start flying by myself was just probably 85% marketing and practicing. And when I mean marketing, I mean low, like, studying stations, hitting them up, following people on LinkedIn, saying hello. Not in a bugaboo type of way. If you're like, Isa, what's a bugaboo? Bugaboo, you know what I mean. Like, and you're like, hey, I do this, I do that. You know what I mean? No. There's a class, there's a class of way of doing it. But I just hit hard with advertising. I had relationships already with people in radio, so I was lucky that way. But regardless, regardless, I want people that are listening to know that even at the status that I was at radio imaging-wise on my own, making good money with a lot of, especially international stations in South America and in the Caribbean, it took me 11 years to get a radio imaging agent. So don't think it happens overnight. And another important thing I have to say about radio imaging and getting an agent, because it's easy to become offended, right? Oh, well, why don't they represent me? Always remember something. My fiancee told me this because he's a music manager. And when he said it, I was like, dang, he's right. I remember a couple years ago saying, I just don't understand. I just don't understand. And he's like, always remember, you have to have something to manage for someone to manage you. So always remember that. You got to have stuff on your roster. You got to have, like, your own buzz going. All righty. Say, hey. Yeah. If you're just joining us. Is that the bell? 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Who said saving the planet couldn't be stylish? Hey, it's J. Michael Collins.  I think they speak for themselves. But I will give you my email. It's jmichael at jmcvoiceover.com. Now, if Dan will stop waxing his mustache for a minute, we'll get back to the show. We're back here on Voice Over Body Shop. We're talking with Issa Lopez, and we're talking about imaging, which is not an easy genre to get yourself into. It's, as I've been saying, nice work if you can get it. But is it fun? Let me ask you that. Yeah, that's a good question. Fun genre? Do you enjoy it? Is it something really fun for you? Absolutely. You know, on a good point, you guys, like I said, you don't have to be union. You don't have to have an agent, right? But be prepared to be available a lot, like ASAP. Like when you get liners from a program director, I always say they want it yesterday.  No, you have to stick to it. Anybody that's like super, super busy in radio imaging, if there's a couple people that you want to look up and to listen to their stuff, Steve Stone, you know, Andy Wigg, Kelly Doherty, Rachel McGrath, Chad Erickson, they will tell you they do not leave the mic. They're super busy. Yeah, they love what they do. I love what I do. But you have to be there. It has to be a quick, quick turnaround. Very quick turnaround. You got to be good at reading, you know? If you get it, and it kind of like VO, right? You guys, a comma is there for a reason. An exclamation point is there for a reason. A word that's bolded, they want it out there, you know?  But, you know, just be flexible and be like, yo, tell me if this was wrong, I'll send it over. The easier you are to work with, these producers talk to themselves all the time.  And people talk. And if you're nice to work with and you do things right, I'm telling you, it's going to go a long way. But you just got to be around. Don't believe in the house. All right.  I do. I would say, I have about 20 plus stations. And I only have that I have Kiss and Cincinnati, Kiss 1071 in Cincinnati. So if you're over there, that's in English. Most of my stations are in Spanish. Most of my stations are in Spanish. I just got my first Spanglish kind of station, my second one in Philadelphia. And let me tell you that imaging style is just really, really, it's amazing. It's really amazing. I just came out with a brand new Spanglish demo. Is that actually what it's being called? It says Spanglish on there. I'm calling it that. Oh, what did they call it in the biz? What's the technical term? They're really bilingual. Bilingual, OK. But I'm like, OK, this is a new Spanglish demo. And it's amazing because it just goes from English to Spanish. And it's just something that you're seeing a lot of. A lot of these formats, like top 40 formats when you're in your car, you're going to hear a lot of reggaeton and a lot of Spanish music. That's like an all Spanish right now, and that's currently. And so to me, it's exciting because the need for English Spanish is just growing. And, you know, another thing about radio imaging that I really wanted to tell the women that are listening, this is not a field where it's just all the men, you know. Yeah, we appreciate the Steve Stones and the, you know, Josh Goodman's and the Joseph Rianos. But this is a field where it's friendly for women to get into. And it's so exciting because you hear, you know, all kinds of powerful voices like Rachel McGrath and Kelly Kelly Kelly, you know, that are groundbreaking voices. And they're women and they're doing it. They are doing it. So it's positive. What is doing all this imaging involve?  I mean, so the technical side of things.  I mean, as we like to call it golden handcuffs or I wouldn't say that. Like, okay, let's say you let's say you land a station. Okay. Like I landed a new station on the first week of 2019, which is great. I can't really say where it's going to be at. But that'll happen in February when I tell everyone. But anyway, so here's what's going to happen. So you got to do everything in the beginning. So you'll get about four pages of stuff. Right. You talk with the PD.  Cause it's your baby. Right. And so I take those pages. I send them back on a regular basis. I'm going to hear from that producer, maybe two or maybe twice for that week. And you're going to get a couple liners and maybe a promo. But guess what? If you have an agent and you have that contract, that money is every single month. And that's another positive thing about radio imaging. As, as VO artists, not talking about imaging, we all know we wake up unemployed every day. We don't know what we're going to do a month from now. Right. This is what we live. But with radio imaging, as well as, you know, like TV affiliate and promo, you have that contract with that radio station. It can last from one year to legendary stations can last to 20. You never know. But the positive thing is that it's a guarantee check every single month. And it's to me, it's low maintenance. I mean, I have over 20 stations. The session that I have for a station, let's say I just finished a session. I've never been behind the mic more than five minutes for that session. And now if you complain about that, you got a serious problem. Yeah. And it's self directed. You get the script. You pump it out. You send it back. OK. It depends on the. It depends on the producer. Some are not working for them. I worked for them. Let's see for a good four years, but I had one guy that didn't even want me to say anything, not one vowel without him on the phone directing me. You have to get to know the producer that you're with. You know, sometimes sometimes they'll kind of bicycle you or on in the beginning.  But there are some that, you know, that want to be on, you know, in the session. But again, these sessions, not even 10 minutes, you guys, at least again, I'm talking on a personal level. Let me ask you something, a technical question, which I know George probably knows the answer to. When you record this stuff and you send it out, what are you doing to it? Is it just, it's just your dry voice? Or are you, are you, they say you got to process this and you got to process that because you have to sound like on your radio, which. No, I didn't think so. They don't want anything. They don't want you to do nothing because that's their baby.  At least in personal level. I'll switch to, I'm pointing to my other mic. I'll switch to the shotgun mic. Yeah. Because most, you know, imaging people will let you know they prefer that mic because this TLM will pick up everything. So I'll do that mic, which is, it's also strategically, a lot of us do that mic because that's the mic we're going to travel with too. Because again, if you're traveling and you're not on vacation, guys, you got to take your mic with you. Because if there's a, you know, if a celebrity has passed away or anything breaking, anything, again, you have to be there for the station at most, at all times. And the turnaround is very, very quick. So yeah, I just, I do the liners and I send it right over without anything. Right. Not one thing. How about auditioning? The same deal? Or do you process for auditions? Okay. I know some people in the industry that have skills and for those auditions, they even have people, they even pay people to produce it for them. I have not done that myself. I know that that has gotten people to gig many, many, many times. It's a nice trick. I haven't done it. But how many gigs did they not get because they were doing that? You see? I don't know. It's sort of the luck of the draw. I'm not talking about mixing. I'm talking about just the voice with some processing. I'm not talking about a full mix. You're saying people pay somebody else to process their voice for an audition? You're saying people have to fully produce it? No. I'll tell you stuff further. You mean with music effects? Let me tell you this. Here's another trick. Because if you're listening and you want to get into radio imaging, which I know a lot of people want to get into radio imaging and they do production. That's one thing that I don't do and I admire. If you know how to produce, there is nothing wrong with finding a station. Maybe it's somewhere close to you. Something that you really want or you heard a rumor that, you know, I'm going to tell you now, a great time to send a demo to people is, you know, after September, because closer to budget season, that's when things start to, okay, we're going to flip the station in November or December or January. I've known people to land gigs because they have sent in stuff fully produced. And it gives that person, you know, it addresses that person, that picture. And if you've got the time and the skills, do it. Why not? You better have the skills, though.  They're going to laugh when they hear that. Right. I know someone who's done it. Produced demo. I know someone who's done it and has landed. He landed a gig in Chicago. That's a great market and that's great pay because he had it produced and went that extra level. I don't got the skills or the time to do that. I'm glad you said pay. So this is pretty much all non-union. Who is establishing the rate? Are you establishing your rate or are you going from some kind of a rate chart that's out there? Okay. So here's how it works. Pay is about where it is. So of course, market one and two is New York in L.A. Right. You know, Texas is pretty up there, too. So when you have an agent, which thank God I do because there is one thing. I may have a lot of talents in this world, but negotiating is not one of them. Okay. They are the ones that do that part, which is a beautiful part of my day because I just sit here, look pretty and voice it. And that's it. So yes. But before I had an agent, thank goodness, I had the Jen Sweeney and the Andy Wigg and the Cayman Kellys of the world, including people like Joseph Riano, the nicest guy in the world. You know, if you have an established relationship with people that are in the field and that they know that you're legit and that you're getting the ball rolling, there's nothing wrong with shooting them over and email. Never call busy radio people ever, by the way. Okay. Don't do that. So email them and say, yo, this station in Dallas, Texas, you know, what do you think I should tell them?  See if they go down to 300. You know, you start to learn, you know, but I will tell you this and a lot of people may disagree with me, you guys. I did a lot of things for free in the beginning because I wanted practice. I wanted versatility. And I wanted some slamming productions. So since they were coming from people that I looked up to and they vouched for these people and I knew that these stations were legit. I decided to take those stations on because they're the ones that got me more stations that actually paid because I needed production. Okay. I have some exciting info for people that are listening, especially for today. If you are interested in radio imaging coaching, which if I would have had the opportunity to coach with one of the most iconic voices, Kelly, Kelly, Kelly, she is doing coaching as of February. So just go to theimaginghouse.com and you can email me issaatisavoice.com and I will send you this stuff without a problem. But Kelly is doing voice radio imaging coaching and also a producer that's done two of my demos that have gotten me a lot of work. Eric Romanowski from Ear Blowing Audio. He also does radio imaging coaching. Now, my reason for being okay with their coaching, again, everyone has their own opinion. It's because they both come from production world of radio imaging. They know what those producers want to hear out of you and that is so important because hell, you could have a session with me and I could be like, yeah, you sound cool but I'm not going to know what that PD wants. So I encourage you to that if you're going to take the time and coach that you coach with someone who knows what that industry wants and is looking for and how you deliver. It's super important. Once now, not a year ago. That's right. It better yet what they want in six months. Absolutely. You know, that also happens station switches and I had a station that I was talking like this. It was this tone and it went from this to talking like this and I wanted to die but... That's the biz. We're talking with Issa Lopez. If you got a question again, throw it in our chat room or the Facebook chat room but we do have a question from Fred's voice. Do we not? We do.  I do but since I'm really good at networking I have people that work for me that I hire to do any type of production if I do need it and I pay them so I'm grateful for that but yes it has and at this point I'm very grateful to say I don't have the time to learn it at this particular time but the good thing is that I don't know I would say close to 90 even higher than 90% of imaging that you guys do you guys you're going to be sending in dry because they've hired someone for it to produce. Absolutely. Got one more question for you here because you'd like to talk about social media. You got a lot of followers. Have you developed that many followers? Does that take a lot of work? Yeah it does. It's constant marketing but in the right way not in a corny way. You know I always tell people people have strengths you know I'm horrible at written anything don't ask me to write you a letter because you'll be like what is wrong with like this is not my thing but when it comes to talking and the cameras and talking to you and I'm good at that. I'm good at personal relationships I'm doing another thing that as far as networking I encourage you guys to you know go to like the worldwide radio summits and other summits like that that you know that there's going to be a lot of radio imaging people there because there's still a magic to meeting people in person and if you're not good at that you have to find what you're good at. If you're good at written, fine but don't you dare write an email without because how am I going to have you built my house if I've never seen your house? Good point good point. Come on now. Well Issa thanks so much for joining us tonight if people want to get a hold of you or you want them to go to your website where do they go? IssaVoice.com Alrighty Issa Lopez thanks so much for being with us and we'll talk to you again real soon it's great having you on. Alright we're going to take a break right back. We believe in creating fast mobile friendly responsive highly functional designs that are easy to read and easy to use. 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It was only a coincidence that during one of the darkest periods in aviation history, thunderstorm research phase two got off to a flying start. For the month of May 1947, also marked the beginning of the thunderstorm season in the area around Wright Field's all-weather flying center at Wilmington, Ohio. Setting up the research program to make flying safer through thunderstorm areas had required several months of preparation and coordination of equipment and personnel of the Air Force, U.S. Weather Bureau, Navy, and NACA. Although pilots have long known the dangers of tangling with Mother Nature's Mickey Finn's, no detailed and comprehensive data had been compiled on their structure and exact nature. So now plans had been formulated for investigative missions based on the few known factors and many hazards. From these flights utilizing the latest developments in instruments, recording devices, radio, and radar, it was ascertained that data and information might be secured and correlated for the formulation of scientific flying procedures in thunderstorm areas. The type of aircraft selected for these observations inside thunderstorms was the Black Widow Night fighter, or P-61, with a slow stalling speed of 105 miles per hour with wheels and flaps down. Space to carry the necessary equipment and personnel and its ability to withstand forces up to six Gs or six times the pull of gravity. The Air Force had provided an adequate number of these P-61s and each aircraft was equipped with special instruments furnished by the Air Force, Navy, NACA, and MIT for procuring aerial data from the storms and measuring the effect of turbulence and gusts on aircraft's structure. Motion picture films recorded instrument readings and control signals registered during flight on an auxiliary instrument panel in the rear compartment. All such film records were to be analyzed to determine the disturbed attitudes of the plane resulting from turbulence and the magnitude of corrective control motions applied by the pilot. The measurement of turbulence being essential in formulating any rules and procedures for safe flying techniques. In each P-61 the crew was to be made up of an experienced instrument pilot, a weather observer, and an especially trained radar observer. All flying personnel had been carefully screened according to type plus experience. Each one a volunteer for aerial experiences crowded with unknown factors and hazards. Airborne radar installations in each P-61 consisted of an SCR 720 receiver with a range of 80 miles and an APN 19 transmitter having a 100 mile range. This transmitter was designed to send out signals to the controller at the radar mission monitoring station who could then identify and note the position of any aircraft and thus control the flight pattern by radio transmitted direction. All radar scope and photo panel data recorded on motion picture film during each mission was prepared for critical evaluation often entailing a comparison of indications from several instruments photographed simultaneously. This phase of work at the start of the thunderstorm season soon developed into a tedious and exacting full-time job for many weather bureau specialists. Several types of aircraft other than the P-61 had also been assigned and equipped for special purposes. One F-15 was to be used for photographing close-ups of thunderstorms and the making of complete reconnaissance flights around them at fixed intervals. The photographic equipment in this aircraft was a motion picture camera mounted in the nose section to be operated by the pilot. By tracing the path of this plane on each reconnaissance circle with radar the exact location and dimension of the visible cloud could be obtained. Another type of aircraft an AT-6 was to be used for snooping around and even penetrating some of the smaller thunderstorm clouds particularly during the early stages of formation. In this installation the photo recording setup utilized the standard instrument panel in the rear cockpit. The motion picture camera and lights for illuminating the instruments were turned on by the pilot. Before and after every mission photographic installations on all aircraft were to be checked by a photo engineer for focus, lens setting, camera operation, film and illumination. This frequent and thorough checking was necessary to ensure legible recordings photographed under turbulent flying conditions. Huge navy hangar at Minneapolis another F-15 airplane was flown to be equipped with instruments to aid in the evaluation of flight hazards presented when lightning strikes an aircraft. Here a man-made lightning could be generated aimed and made to strike with a force equal to that of mother nature's product. A comparatively small generator made up of hundreds of transformers for high ampere output when hooked up with a massive one for producing high voltage was capable of discharging crest voltages of 8 million volts and currents of 250,000 amperes. To record the magnitude and wave shape of high-tension discharges man-made or natural refinements of existing oscillographs were necessary. The large and very heavy type on the left could not be airborne so one was developed that weighed only 30 pounds including a built-in camera for recording all data presented on the surface of its scope. The entire assembly is enclosed in an airtight case 30 inches high and the film loading arrangements are simple. Simple two was the equipment of Benjamin Franklin when compared to the potential sources of modern lightning research today. In utilizing the new lightweight oscillographs and the F-15 aircraft six of these instruments were installed in the nose each one connected by a heavily insulated cable leading to a part of the aircraft most likely to be struck with actual lightning. The nose wing tips tail fins and canopy where the station selected. One oscillograph had already been connected to the plexiglass canopy. Protection for the canopy against lightning was provided by a copper bar fastened to the plexiglass at the top running from front to rear and which served to pass currents to the outside surface of the aircraft. For lightning bolt tests aimed at the canopy the generators were now turned on and set for a crest discharge of 4 million volts and 50,000 amperes. Shades of Ben Franklin. The canopy remains intact and so do the nerves of the scientist in charge of the test believe it or not. After the tests on the canopy which proved the effectiveness of the method employed lightning rods were installed at the stations on the aircraft selected as the most likely locations for lightning bolts to strike during flight. On the nose on each tail fin and at the tip of each wing. Five contacts in addition to the copper bar protecting the canopy. With each of these points connected to the oscillographs installed in the nose section the contact bristling aircraft was now ready for its nature-baiting mission. Research procedures of the pilot weather observer and radar observer were to be closely coordinated with many ground-based weather radio and radar stations. Of the several radar installations of varying capacities and locations the principal station was situated approximately north and 20 miles from the Clinton County base of operations. This powerful v-beam radar the only one of its kind in use and its personnel were to control flight procedures of all thunderstorm missions. As its massive and complex antennae scanned the sky for indications in three dimensions of all cold fronts thunderstorms and aircraft within a range of 200 miles. Meteorologists, air force pilots and radar specialists aside from the airborne crews had been trained as a team in spotting the location development and travel of both storm and aircraft. Here the operators and controllers at many scopes could correlate their scope indications and plot the positions of all thunderstorm aircraft. This information chalked up on transparent position boards provided ringside seats for all operating personnel so that the exact location of each plane could be confirmed at all times. In order to obtain permanent records of scope indications motion picture cameras affixed to several scopes were timed to operate at four second intervals photographing the movement development and time of each storm and the position of all aircraft. This data to be compared later with the aerial information obtained by the p61. Range height indicators were used to provide a third dimension by measuring the height of thunderstorms from the ground. From indications resembling vertical spurts of flame storms can be measured as high as 65,000 feet. To the trained observer this planned position indicator reveals all the information necessary for controlling the movements of aircraft in the thunderstorm area although at this moment that cold front is seen moving in. By means of such an advanced combination of radar and radio thunderstorm research aloft can be controlled in any desired dimension. Radar and radio are also combined in the functioning of the GCA or ground control approach unit located close to the runways at the base of operations. In the event of closed in weather for landing the position of a returning aircraft can be seen and a safe landing procedure instituted. Within a range of 25 miles this GCA can take over the vectoring of an aircraft from the V-beam station and channel in the plane with almost uncanny accuracy. The incoming aircraft's position, elevation and drift are noted on scopes of varying ranges or stages and then by using a predetermined channel of VHF radio the pilot is talked in to a safe landing. Even with perfect weather conditions all thunderstorm aircraft landings were to be made under the guidance of GCA. In using VHF as the primary means of communication all channels during thunderstorm missions were designated for specific purposes. For air to ground and ground to air communication a pilot was to be vectored through thunderstorms on channel Fox and for GCA landings channel George was to be used. With the latest developments in radar and radio so combined flight procedures had incorporated every precaution for the safety of air crew and aircraft. Barring of course those unpredictable hazards inside the churning structure of the thunderstorm itself. For securing the predictable factors of atmospheric conditions relative to thunderstorm research the United States Weather Bureau had set up a micro network of stations over a 350 square mile area just south of the base of operations. Of the 75 installations in this area 63 were surface stations for recording the daily rainfall, temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind direction and velocity at ground level. Seven radio sound ray wind stations would procure the same data accepting rainfall at all altitudes by means of balloon born radio sounds. For data on the vertical structure of thunderstorms five radar ray wind stations were equipped to track freely rising balloons with radar. From the movement of a balloon born target in three dimensions the horizontal and vertical wind velocities could be determined. All weather bureau stations had been equipped with automatic recording instruments arranged in the most suitable combinations of army, navy and civilian meteorological devices. For procuring data during a fixed period at low altitudes this blimp like device dubbed a kite tune is as the name implies a cross between a kite and a balloon. Its movement while captivated is a combination of flying like a kite and soaring like a balloon. The metal cylinder suspended by the kite tune and closes a thermometer connected to the captivating wire cable anchored on a reel. When this is paid out to a length of about 500 feet instruments in the shelter record temperatures and wind directions at the varying altitudes of the kite tune. These records obtained at such intermediate elevations will be correlated with the data procured by other stations from high altitudes and ground level. For the ground level recording of atmospheric conditions 63 surface stations like this one had been spaced at an average of two miles apart each one equipped with wind and rain measuring devices recording micro barographs sensitive to minor pressure changes and hygrothermographs which utilize human hair blonde preferred no kidding to determine relative humidity. Weather bureau personnel had been assigned to maintain and service these installations for the duration of the thunderstorm season. All automatically recorded data was to be collected daily and each device checked and serviced each day's collection would include records of the previous 24 hours rainfall surface wind direction and velocity and changes in both temperature and humidity all to be compared later with similar data procured at higher altitudes from other types of weather stations bordering the network area five radar ray one stations were located for the purpose of tracking balloon born targets through altitudes as high as the top of any thunderstorm and thus obtain horizontal and vertical wind velocities the under surfaces of this lightweight target were covered with metallic foil as the best possible surface for reflecting the projected radar beam with the moment of release time the early part of the flight is tracked manually when the balloon and target have reached an altitude favorable for automatic tracking this device is switched on and the reflected radar impulses can be computed in terms of horizontal and vertical wind velocities more comprehensive data from balloon born devices was to be procured by the seven radio sonde installations distributed well within the area's network of weather stations a parachute is included for this trip in search of information this will aid in the recovery of the radio sonde a device that sends out signals indicating relative humidity pressure and temperature as demonstrated in the radar target release this flight is also timed as balloon parachute and radio sonde take off on their free flight to as high as the lower atmospheric pressures at high altitudes will permit or to the bursting point of the slowly expanding balloon these balloons usually burst when about 10 or 12 miles up here again in order to compute wind direction along with horizontal and vertical wind velocities radar is used for tracking through the critical altitude the signal sent out by the soaring radio sonde are received by radio and recorded on a moving roll of paper these signals recorded at frequent intervals indicate the degrees of relative humidity pressure and temperature at various altitudes and are noted on a condensed form for study and evaluation data of the flight procured by radar cracking is also transposed on a more comprehensive chart and when combined with the radio sonde information will present a complete picture of weather conditions on a certain date and during a specific period of time from this one particular station and the weather bureau offices at the base data from many daily reports forms and charts are combined a parachute with radio sonde still attached is returned in a not too bad condition after having been recovered from a point several hundred miles away here too meteorologists at their plotting boards will transpose the figures of station made observations to charts and graphs in this manner reports from all the 75 radio sonde radar and surface stations are correlated and reduced to a few simple graphs these will present a comprehensive picture of all weather data obtained at the many stations within the local network and represent local weather conditions within the past few hours as an aid in forecasting local weather in the weather section at the base an actual picture of distant conditions is produced on a facsimile receiver every few hours this device is similar to a wire photo receiver and provides a true copy of the current weather map and other data compiled at the point of transmission which may be thousands of miles away also the vast teletype network which blankets the continental united states constantly contributes information on weather conditions existing at thousands of weather stations and airports these coded reports are made up chiefly of factors pertinent to surface analysis of winds temperatures cloud types at various altitudes and many other points of vital interest factors such as sudden and unforeseen changes in the movements or developments of cold fronts squalls and storms are noted on the weather map and will subsequently influence the decisions of the forecasting officer charts with indications relative to cold fronts and areas where thunderstorms are likely to build up are posted and the information passed on to personnel active in the thunderstorm research project an auxiliary apq 13 radar set installed in the weather section provides a means by which information on a chart can be compared with possible indications within the range of this particular installation an auxiliary scope permits a closer study and broader interpretation of weather variables by more than a single forecaster or observer at a time discovering a cold front pushing in from the northwest means the probable building up of thunderheads in this area and soon now with all aircraft radar radio and weather stations coordinated let's inspect the flying personnel at close quarters men of a type plus experience selected for a now well integrated procedure in hazardous research men alert confident careful and eager air force top instrument pilots air trained radar and weather observers with a total number of air hours that match the figures of a congressional appropriation a lineup of guys that would please the most exacting of co ground crews and maintenance men had been just as carefully selected for their ability to keep the p61s in the best possible condition for such rugged missions as the penetration of thunderstorms penetrations were easily photographed by the f-15 aircraft but when the black widows were being pushed around inside the thunderstorms following them with a motion picture camera was photographically and tactically impossible however a clear picture of their attitudes and reactions to violent up and down drafts can be seen in a p61s photo panel film made during one penetration note the disturbed attitude registered on the upper right instrument while on the altimeter lower right rapid and extreme changes can be seen bearing in mind of course that these indications were photographed at one six their normal speed the end of the star roger this is triple three turning 180 degrees to the left first always the turbulence up there now three five six roger this is three five six turbulence moderate to heavy precipitation heavy old three uh you should be now entering the storm again over a roger this is triple three am uh you should now be entering the storm again oh eight ten seconds ago can now start a victor towards base of 180 over again nicely with 200 missions accomplished during the season starting in may and ending in september it was also a coincidence that this month chronicled another achievement in automatic flight likewise developed and initiated at this same clinton county all weather flying center all summer long each mission had ended with the recovery of film magazines from each returning aircraft every all important film record made during flight was properly identified for processing and analysis 24 hour alerts seven days a week for five months had resulted in 200 productive missions hundreds of thunderstorms of all sizes and stages of development were investigated and 1300 data procuring penetrations accomplished through heavy rain hail snow ice and lightning motion picture film exposed in photo panel and radar scope cameras by the end of the thunderstorm season had assumed proportions of something more than a full-time job a critical analysis and evaluation of 200 000 feet of flight instrument and radar scope indications will take many months to document however evaluated data procured by mechanical and scientific means alone is not sufficient and only the human equation can provide the needed dimension in research so immediately after landing the crew of each p61 was interrogated while reactions and observations were still fresh in their minds a check on air speed attitudes and flying characteristics of the aircraft was important as was the pilot's interpretation of flight conditions and his reactions during turbulence notes by the radar observer on the progress of the storm through both radar and visual observations were compared with those of the pilot and the weather observers interpretation of cloud size and formation is integrated in each written report of the interrogator although any flight of aircraft through thunderstorms is potentially hazardous these facts have been ascertained with properly trained crews and adequately instrumented tactical aircraft thunderstorms can be penetrated with safety during these tests several aircraft were damaged by lightning propellers were bent and noses pushed in by hail however no structural failures were incurred and no injury to air crews experience when the results of experience and research are documented this project will have substantially aided and the making of today's hazards tomorrow's routine


The Brooklyn Nets still the favorite at plus 135, the Utah Jazz who are up to nothing in their series of the Clippers at plus 250, where is the action coming in right now in the futures market? Are you guys still taking bets as we have seen the playoffs roll through? Yeah, I mean, the most volume and the biggest liability we had built up was on the 76 years and that really won't change. I'm still a lot of demand there for them just given their price. We'll continue to see money for Brooklyn plus 135 is a big move. I mean, they've moved all the way out from plus 105 after losing what was a bit of a nonsense game last night in Milwaukee, can't see Brooklyn shooting the ball as badly as they did last night again. And for me, it's, you know, you saw the reliance that they had on Middleton and Yanis last night. And, you know, I just think Brooklyn find a way to get this done, expect them to win game four and five and move on and then they'll be really hard to beat, obviously.