I'm 840 here, so I find it surprising how many people, particularly on the right, feel like they're living in a dystopia, feel like they're living in a hellhole, feel like they're living in an asshole, feel like they're living in a crap hole. In the United States of America today, when there's a land of so much opportunity, land of so many blessings, the most powerful nation in the world, this is the place where the future is being created. And yet on my section of the internet, on the dissident right, in my section of YouTube, I keep getting this sentiment in YouTube chat that we're living in a dystopia. Like America in 2021 is supposedly a dystopia, equivalent to North Korea, equivalent to living under communist repression. I just think it's absolutely absurd that there's no common sensical or empirical basis for regarding America in 2021 as a dystopia. Now, if you're right-wing, not everything in America is going your way. Obviously, the right is consistently losing the culture wars, granted. The notion that we have a same-sex marriage is shocking for someone with my traditional sensibility. And I understand you can make a good case from Torah that a Jew is not allowed to live in a country of such moral depravity that it institutionalizes same-sex marriage. So you can make a good case from orthodox Judaism that it would be better for a Jew to live in Putin's Russia rather than the United States of America because Putin's Russia does not have same-sex marriage. And so there are considerable sentiments within the Masora, the Jewish tradition that the same-sex marriage is an absolute abomination and that it renders a land so sunk in moral depravity that a Jew should not live there. For example, the Talmud was written after the Jews had just fought two bloody wars with the Romans. And the Talmud is not generally given to praising the Romans, but it does praise the Romans for three things. One of them is that they don't permit them. They don't conduct marriage ceremonies between men and men. But I understand the right is consistently losing the culture wars. And I don't like it. And I find that sad. And there even been times I felt quite down because of the consistent losing of the right in the culture wars.  Are you not permitted to marry the woman that you love? Are you not permitted to court the woman that you love? Are you not permitted to have children? You're not permitted to go to the church or the synagogue or the mosque of your choosing? Are you not permitted to be an atheist? Are you not permitted to fill your house with sacred objects? You're not permitted to study Shakespeare or study cutting edge post-modernism or modern economic theory or biological determinism. Anything you want to study, you can study it in the United States of America. If you think that we're living in hell, then that's about you. That's not about the world. You're not seeing America as it is. You're seeing America as you are. If you think this is a hellhole, the only hellhole here exists in your soul.    No.  You likely also think that you're hard done by in life when in our likelihood the reality is that you have been unnecessarily harsh on other people. You probably think you're the victim. The truth is probably that you're consistently the victimizer.   You think that you're consistently being taken advantage of by others.  You think you're consistently getting screwed over by the United States of America. I suspect that you are consistently screwing over your fellow Americans. You think this is a hellhole. You think that we need an American Caesar.   I think you're probably a wuss in your own life. I think you're probably weak in your own life.  I think that's what's going on. I notice people carrying these huge chips on their shoulders and usually the truth is the very opposite of what they're thinking. They're probably thinking like the type of disaffected people who say that we're living in a hellhole in the United States of America, generally people who have a disaffected relationship with their family.  You have disappointed your family. You have let down your family. You have screwed over your family.   You think that your community is holding you back.  In all likelihood, you are taking advantage of the kindness of your community. You think that you can't get ahead in the United States of America because all the odds are stacked against you. No, you can't get ahead because you're getting in your own way. You have constructed a life where people don't want to have much to do with you. You think that we need a Caesar in America. You think we need a dictator in America. Well, that's because you have no control over your own life in all likelihood.  You're not moving ahead in your own life.   You've fallen out with your family. You can't sustain friendships. No woman wants to make love to you and nobody wants to pay you more than $20 an hour. Then you take your own personal feelings and you say, oh, America's a hellhole. No, America's not a hellhole. There's a hellhole in you. There's a hole in your soul. There's something wrong with you. You are disaffected. You feel like a pariah. You can't get along with other people. You are restless, irritable, and discontented. You can't stop using porn. You can't stop avoiding reality by spending an inordinate amount of time in daydreaming. You are wasting your life in fantasies. You are going to become that person who sits on the bar and tells the guy next to him, oh, what I could have been. You're not taking charge of your own life. You're not moving ahead in your own life.    You're blaming that on the Democratic Party. I mean, wake up and smell the coffee, bucko. The problem's in you. You think this is a hellhole. You think this is a dystopia. You think this is an SHIT hole right now in the United States of America. The problem's with you. You have no desire to be of service to other people. You have no desire to help other people. You have no desire to contribute to other people. You have no desire to be of assistance to your boss. You just do the bare minimum at work. You have no desire to help your clients.  You're not building up anything in your community. You're not learning new skills and you just blame it on America. Now, the more tired we get, the harder we work, the more pressure we're under, then the less likely we are to have empathy for other people. If you are working hard and you have a lot of obligations, you've got a wife to support, you've got kids to support, you've got obligations for your community and to your profession, then it makes perfect sense where you don't have much empathy for people above and beyond those for whom you have substantial obligations right now. We all only have so much willpower. We all only have so much empathy. We just can't extend the same amount of empathy to everyone or it's not empathy. If you're under those circumstances, you've got four kids, you've got a spouse, you've got to earn $150,000 just to keep a roof over your head and keep everyone moving along in your family. You also have obligations to your profession, to your employer, to your community, to your church or synagogue, to your family, to your ailing parents. All right, then under all those pressures, it would make perfect sense if you lack empathy for people outside of those for whom you owe obligations. But a normal person, a normal happy person, does have empathy for others, right? If you don't feel for other people, if you're unable to ever see things from another person's point of view, if you don't have a desire for other people to flourish, if you are not eager to help and to contribute and to volunteer and to give, right?  There's something wrong with you. If you're not interested in contributing to the lives of other people, there's something wrong with you if it does not make you happy to increase the happiness of the people around you, right?  And I understand if you're under just this inordinate amount of pressure, and so you're bearing up on the significant adult responsibilities, then the more pressure, the more tension that you're under, obviously the less empathy you're going to have. But a normal person who's enjoying life, he's going to welcome opportunities to help other people. It's going to make him happy to contribute something to an acquaintance, to a friend, to a member of his community. If you're a normal person and you're in the elevator with other strangers, and you see someone struggling, carrying a box, you volunteer to help them out. If you see someone's blind and they're having a hard time getting across the street with all the traffic, a normal, happy person is happy and glad to assist that blind person. A normal, happy person finds out that there's like a lonely Holocaust survivor living on their block, goes volunteers, brings them food. That's normal, right? It's not like it's some inordinate, strange burden to be of assistance to other people. A normal, happy person enjoys opportunities to be of assistance to others. Now, that doesn't mean you give up everything. That doesn't mean you forget about your own welfare. That doesn't mean that you're always on call whenever anyone has a whim. No, you have to use good sense. You help moderately. But this idea that we're living in a hell hall, what the hell's in you? You know, there's something wrong with your soul, right? When you feel happy, all right? You naturally incline towards treating other people nicely. You naturally incline to be of assistance. You naturally want to contribute. You naturally want to volunteer. Like if I see something that requires very little effort from me and it really helps someone else, I love to do it because I feel great, right? But if you feel like a prior, if you feel like an outcast, if you just fear and loathe other people because you think everybody sucks, then there's some radical rejiggering that you need to do. So you can talk about it in biochemical, neurological terms that you need to reprogram your reactions to stimuli. You can talk about it in spiritual terms. So instead of just following your own will, you connect with higher power, with God, with the universe or with reality. You can phrase it in many different ways.  My father loved that saying by Jean-Paul Sard, hell is other people. Well, my father was a very unhappy man. Now he had his own list of accomplishments and there were many admirable, admirable calls. Sounds like coming gobbledygook to want to be of assistance to other people, to feel happiness when you can contribute to the life of someone else that's communist. I mean, this is just basic human psychology, unhappy people don't want to help others. Happy people are glad to be of assistance to other people.  If you genuinely incline towards being of assistance to others, there's no way you can't be prosperous. If you genuinely take pleasure in other people being happy, if you genuinely want to contribute, if you genuinely want to assist, if you genuinely want to moderately help other people, then you will naturally become prosperous. You can't be poor when you have a natural inclination towards connection with other people and being an upstanding member of your community and contributing something.   And I don't envy that. And he didn't choose that. I don't think you should blame yourself.   You don't beat yourself down because you feel like a social outcast. You didn't choose this. My father didn't choose his level of misery and anxiety. But if there's a better way to live, why would you not seek something out?  And my father had more than a share of misery. I remember my therapist said to me once when I confess and like, oh no, I feel like I'm repeating parts of my father's life, the social isolation and the rejection. And my therapist said, why would you want to repeat your father's life? I wouldn't want to do that for all the tea in China. So, yeah, I react to the notion that being close to others is some communist gobbledygook. It's a funny line from Norm MacDonald.  And it's in my domain. I encounter it all the time on YouTube and in the distant right. I don't think it's productive. I don't think it's good for people. I don't think it's good for society. Okay. Why do I like the 12 step approach so much? Because every other thing that I did to improve my life didn't work. All right. I have always been in love with self-improvement. I've always been an enthusiast. It's like, oh, yeah, this new thing running marathons or doing investigative journalism. Or, oh, I'm going to embrace Judaism and convert to Orthodox Judaism. I've always been seeking something to turn my life around. And none of it worked. The only thing that I've ever turned my life around was 12 step programs. So I don't know why, but it just really seemed to work for me. So there's something about 12 step programs. You go into them and you find you're not alone.  So most of my life was not like that, but there are enough days that it was, it was not good.  So yeah, I am an extremist. I am naturally unbalanced. I am an enthusiast who like bounces from like one enthusiasm to another. I'm an intellectual jiggler who like falls in love with every beautiful, comely idea that comes along, but ultimately staying loyal to none. But 12 step programs. So I step into a room, I find out, oh, there are all these other people who have problems with debt. There are all these other people who have problems with underwriting.  Oh, here's a program for all these other people who tend to love addiction, where you get infatuated and falling in love and you get that rush. And it's just so exciting, but you can't sustain it. And you can't sustain any relationship over a year. That's my life. Then you find that 40 other people in the room have the same problem you do. And many of them have found recovery and they've found a way to sustain a relationship and they've gotten married and they have kids and they have a thriving, prosperous career.   These real life examples that I count in 12 steps. So the shared experience and then the hope, people who've had the same problem that I do and have completely turned things around, people who felt alienated from their family. I get into a room and I see that many of the problems that I've had with, say, my father or my mother or other members of relatives, I find it's common and I find that there's recovery. So getting into a room, like I've gone through much of my life feeling isolated. I get into a room with other people who've gone through most of their life feeling isolated and they've recovered from it. So I too can recover. There's a path, there's a way, there's a program. There's other people who will help me, mentor me, who will sponsor me, who will take my cause, who I can reach out to if I'm feeling isolated, depressed, down, wanting to act out in my various addictions. I can reach out to people and get help. So you get into a room full of people who struggle with isolation and they're usually going to be people that have overcome that problem and built a good life and I can learn from them and maybe one of them will sponsor me. I've spent much of my life feeling uneasy with other people. I can get into a room with other people who struggle with the feeling of lack of ease, who feel totally irritable, restless and discontented and I can learn from their story and how they found recovery from perennially feeling uneasy around other people. I can get into a room with people just having knee jerk hatred and opposition to authority usually carrying on from one's own troubled relationship with one's father.  I was not doomed, however, to continue that because I found help in torture programs. I was able to recognize the problem. I carried around this vast chip on my shoulder, this resentment, much of it not conscious towards my father that I then carried on to all authority figures and I was able to let that go and that just changed my life. I no longer instinctively just hated everyone who was in authority and I was able to recognize my own tendency to always think that I was smarter than everyone else. Therefore, I should be in charge. Therefore, I should be the authority and I was able to look and see how ridiculous that was. Do I remind myself of my father very much of the three kids of my father? I am the most similar to my father. I'm very much like my father. I love to give you my opinions. I love to fancy myself a leader, fancy myself a leader of men, a spiritual teacher. I resemble my father in so many ways except as one girl told me, yeah, you're quite like your father, but he's not as pompous. Okay, sometimes to protect myself, my own fragile sense of identity, I've often compromised myself and become a people pleaser.  I couldn't handle the peer pressure dumping on Republicans. So my own sense of self has been so fragile that I tended to take on the personality of whatever the group was that I wanted to join or whatever I saw would get me the most attention. I would just be a chameleon.  Much of my life, I would perceive any personal criticism as a threat. So just have an instinctive fear and loathing of any personal criticism when much of the personal criticism, it can benefit me like all feedbacks a gift, some feedbacks more a gift than others. So I would lose myself in my addictions because I had such a fragile hold over myself and I couldn't stand living being uneasy around other people, thinking other people suck, thinking that other people, you know, hell is other people and so because I couldn't connect with others, I had to connect with something so I'd connect to a process like sports addiction or Netflix addiction or porn addiction or fantasy addiction or love addiction, right? Because I was so uncomfortable with who I was or I would try to rescue people who had these addictive tendencies. So I've gotten a great high at times out of trying to rescue people, you know, including pornoes, including sluts, including the mentally ill, including the trouble, the trouble. I would get high from rescuing and I would get high from the prospect of being rescued. I think a major reason that I started blogging and doing all this stuff online was as I said, desperately wanted to be rescued. But if I just put my story out there, someone will hear my story and they'll reach out and they'll help me.  You know, I'll find the connection that I need. I'll find the friends that I need. I'll find the supplements or the program or the community that I need. And that's why I spent so much effort, you know, putting myself out there on YouTube and on the internet and through blogging. Just it was like a desperate reaching out because I, you know, this help out there, I just need to, you know, get myself out there as much as possible, expose myself to as many people as possible and connect with that help. Do I think the distant ride has any legitimate grievances? Absolutely. Yes. We need to sort ourselves out as George Peterson would put it. Yeah. You need to sort yourself out if you want to be happy and if you want to be effective and if you want to be prosperous. But if you want to live in a world of delusion and just blame everyone else for your problems, then there's no need to sort yourself out. Luke, you have a nice healthy glow about you. Is this the fruit of the spirit or is it the fruit of the booster? Or is it just good lighting? It's just because I'm so annoyed with my fellows on the distant ride. I think that America's a hellhole and America's a dystopia. Like America, the beautiful from seed to shining seed. There's so much goodness and beauty in this world. Yeah, there's ugliness too, but there's so much beauty in America that I'm convinced that most of the people who think that America's a hellhole, that the hellhole's in them and the healing has to come from within. America is the great Satan. Yeah. There's certainly many sistenic aspects to America, but there's also so many beautiful aspects to America. All right. So I've often been attracted to other compulsive personalities because I needed to fulfill my own sick need for abandonment. Like abandonment was the most rejection and abandonment with the most emotionally intense parts of my childhood. And so I created a life where I get to re-experience those most intense emotions of my childhood again and again and again. I converted Orthodox Judaism, then made it absolutely impossible for Orthodox Jews to have me around. Like I consistently tried to join groups that didn't want anything to do with me. I have created a life where those whose connection I most wanted rejected me. I remember there's this one person I really admired had a great relationship with him, but I kept going on and on saying things that I knew he found offensive, but I thought they were very witty.  And then I went back at him and I completely destroyed what was and should have been and continued to be a beautiful friendship. And I just blew it up because I ignored his signals that he found many of my comments offensive. And I just ignored his signals and I just trampled on his sensibilities again and again in the workplace until he just blew up and no relationship anymore. What was I saying that's so offensive? Well, it wasn't a good idea. I would say things like after I'd say something incredibly offensive and crass and provocative, I'd say, I wasn't like this before I converted to Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox Judaism morally desensitized me. I mean, I was just trying to say something like completely out of left field and shocking, but it's not a good thing to say. Or I also said when two Jews in the workplace were discussing techniques on how to bargain, how to hundle, how to approach a particular deal, and what would be the right bargaining approach. I said, oh, I love I love to hear you guys talking Torah.  But this guy given me the signals like eight times that he did not find these jokes funny. And yet I kept making them until he blew up and destroyed that friendship. Do I believe that the mainstream is treating white people fairly? Yeah, generally speaking, I think white people are being treated fairly. So there are exceptions from new action obviously works against white people's interests. When you when we brought in the civil rights revolution that that destroyed our traditional order, so you no longer had as much authority over who you hire and who you rent to. So people lost lost a lot of freedom of association. Sounds like these Jews need to get thicker skins. Well, everybody has sensitivities like I blow up at times, like I get annoyed and offended at times. I mean, I don't get offended by people's political and cultural views, but I get triggered at times we were all far more vulnerable than we may otherwise appear. We all are tremendously vulnerable. We all have huge numbers of weak points that can if someone pokes them we go. There's no escape from being human. Why do so many distant right content creator site in the Babylonian town? Because it's so enormous that you can find something in there. Well, there are also all these bogus analyses of the Talmud trying to make it look like the most authentic document ever. And most of their quotes are not authentic to the Talmud. So hating the Talmud has a long history. And while they're undoubtedly all sorts of elements of the Talmud that are jarring and offensive to one sensibilities, most of the compilations of the most outrageous Talmudic quotes are bogus. America is great. And also much of it is in decline. And certainly we have much less social cohesion than we did 20 30 40 50 60 100 years ago. There are many ways that America is worse off now compared to 20 30 40 50 100 200 years ago. And there are ways that we're better off. I'm almost entirely invulnerable. That is a delusion. You just don't know your vulnerability. You may get a toothache after this show. Your back may go out as you get up from your chair right now. You may stub your toe. You may get an ingrown toe nail. You may have somebody say something and you will be laid low. None of us are invulnerable. When will you and Joseph Cotto talk again? Schedule another chat with him. You guys have great discussions. I really enjoy talking to Joseph. I love going on his show. I've never turned down an opportunity to go on his show. I hope to go on his show soon. None of those things happen. Yeah, well, you're living in a world of delusion if you think that you're invulnerable.  Life will always humble you. How old are you, Randy? You sound like a young person. So usually someone by their late 30s, I'm protected by divine intervention. Yeah, I think that's a delusion. God never promises that you won't be laid low. Yeah, right, you're eternal. So much of my life, I've lived from the standpoint of the victim even though I deny it. But my inner talk would be, oh, I'm so effed, eff me. There's no hope. Why does this always happen to me? I've often had this overdeveloped sense of responsibility. I'd much rather be concerned with other people than with myself. I go into therapy and I talk about a friend. And my therapist said, why are you going on and on about your friend? And I couldn't figure it out. And the therapist said, well, maybe it's because your friend reminds you of you. But much of my life, I'd rather get ultra concerned with other people's lives in an unhealthy way, not in a healthy, contributing, caring way, but in an unhealthy obsession to get myself out of my concern for my own failures. And then on those occasions, when I appropriately stood up for myself, I would often get a feeling of guilt because I just didn't give in to others. I've gone through my life as a reactor rather than an actor, letting other people take the initiative.  I've often been a dependent personality, clinging desperately to other people, terrified of abandonment. They're willing to do anything to hold on to our relationship, to not be abandoned, and just put up with abusive behavior. We have a substantial say in how other people treat us. And if you put up with bad behavior, you encourage it, you license it, and you bring on more of it. I would choose insecure relationships because they matched my childhood dysfunctional relationships. I choose insecure relationships because they would bring about the abandonment and rejection which I experienced so intensely in my childhood. I grew up for a time in foster care. My mother died of cancer when I was three. I moved around a lot of different homes and my stepmother was very ill and very angry, so constant chaos, abandonment, rejection in my childhood. Then I created an adult life where I bring that about again and again and again, not being able to sustain romantic relationships, not being able to sustain many of my friendships that blew up. Now, I've had some friendships from childhood. I've had some friendships that have lasted through my life, but I've blown up unnecessarily a lot of friendships. Yeah, I was afraid of feelings. I was afraid of emotions. I was afraid of being honest. I was afraid of accepting my fallibility. I would confuse love with pity. I would tend to love those I could rescue. And I became addicted to excitement in all of my affairs. I prefer constant drama and upset as opposed to working relationships and actual accomplishments. So living that way is simply not sustainable. Here are 40 questions of self-diagnosis from Sex and Lovatics Anonymous. There are about 10 sex addiction 12-step programs. Society needs a pressure release valve for these energies. Well, there are so many pressure relief valves. The best pressure relief valve is talking to a friend, having friends. That's the best pressure relief valve. Have you ever tried to control how much sex you have or how often you would see someone, sign of addiction? You find yourself unable to stop seeing a specific person even though you know seeing this person is destructive to you. Yeah, I've gotten into more than my share of destructive relationships because I couldn't say no to the sex. You feel that you don't want anyone to know about your sexual or romantic activities.  It really damaged my standing in my Orthodox Jewish community. I really don't want to be promiscuous and then try to build a coherent, stable life in Orthodox Judaism. Sexual promiscuity, Orthodox Judaism, very much at odds with each other. But because I was so uneasy with other people and uneasy with myself, I would constantly seek to get high from sex and from romance and from fantasies and delusions of grandeur. So I'd get high chasing sexual highs, romantic highs, intensity highs, and then I'd crash.   What makes for a good friend? Sometimes they can be overbearing. Well, it's hard to sustain friendships if you're not a good friend to yourself. So until you start to become a good friend to yourself, start wanting to give yourself the care, the concern, the nurturing, the love, the admiration that you want from other people until you start wanting to give that to yourself, you're unlikely to be a good friend with other people. When you want to become at ease with yourself, then you will be able to be more at ease with other people. Because, glib mainly, I was unnecessarily harsh on you yesterday and I apologize. You made a good point that the NFL was unable to expand internationally, therefore is trying to expand domestically with the world crowd and with the women and the homosexuals, etc. And that was a good point. And I was unnecessarily harsh too often and too much with you yesterday, glib. You make me want to be a better man. Your comments are so sharp. Dennis Prager's anti-vax position surprised you. Yes, it does. Now, I haven't listened to Dennis Prager on a consistent basis for about three years or so. So I thought Dennis Prager did a much better show when it was only on the weekends, but once he got into the more of producing a daily three-hour nationally syndicated show, he had to fit in with the formula for winning talk radio, and that is to engender a sense of victimhood in your audience and tell your audience that you are going to battle on behalf of them. So I'm not sure Dennis Prager, who only did radio, say one night a week or two nights a week, would have taken on the ludicrous positions he's taken on with regard to COVID. So Dennis Prager said that the lockdowns were the greatest mistake in human history. And I think that's absurd. Now, I'm not saying that every lockdown in all aspects was a good idea. I don't have enough expertise with regard to social policy, but certainly social distancing in reaction to a pandemic in general makes a certain amount of sense. It's a policy that's there in the Torah. The Torah uses social distancing. Social distancing has been around thousands of years as a rational response to a pandemic. So is Prager fully vaccinated? It does not sound like he's vaccinated. And this idea that a natural immune response is better than getting vaccinated is absurd. It's just this naturalistic fantasy that everything that is natural is superior to that which is artificial. In the natural world, many of us would be dead. Like in the natural world, the old and the weak die in a much quicker than they do in our unnatural world. So sometimes that which is natural is better than that which is artificial. And much of the time that which is artificial is better than that which is natural. There's nothing inherently superior about natural or artificial. So Leponius, I'm curious you're talking about how you don't care to extend empathy to those who impose vaccine mandates. So Leponius, I'm curious to whom do you extend empathy?  Now empathy is tiring. So I only have a limited amount of empathy. The more pressure I'm under, the less empathy I have. The heavier the burdens I'm under, the less empathy I have. So empathy is tiring. We just can't dole it out indiscriminately. We should be judicious. But Leponius is such a smart guy. I would wonder how would he not be able to extend empathy to all sorts of people? Like Leponius, it's like you are living in, you know, right here with me. You have so much empathy for me. Like you read me so acutely. You're such a keen observer of the human condition. I'm just curious, what groups do you have empathy for? Leponius says, I believe people should take the vaccine if they want to. I don't like mandates, vaccines protect you, not others. No, they also, what about with regard to measles and polio? And other diseases for which we all get vaccinated, right? We got to wipe out all sorts of diseases like polio by making sure that everyone was vaccinated. So what about our responsibilities to other people? Do you want to bend the curve, bro? Come on, bro, let's bend the curve. If more people get vaccinated, then COVID's ability to spread is reduced. So why would we not want to be pro-social and do our little bit to reduce the spread of a deadly disease? What is the answer to love, deprivation, loneliness, isolation, and porn addiction? The answer is connection. The opposite of addiction is connection. Johan Hari makes this point in one of his TED Talks and one of his books. So the opposite of addiction is connection. We have to learn to feel at ease with other people and that usually begins with learning to feel at ease with yourself and accepting, you did not choose to be loved or deprived. You did not choose to be lonely.  So you should not beat yourself down for those things.  So don't beat yourself down. Don't trash yourself because you have these addictions. But recognize you have a serious problem and the answer is connection and it's going to take some work. So if you feel like a social outcast and a pariah, you have to learn to feel at ease with yourself and with others. So I found, for me, 12-step programs were the most effective vehicle, but anything that helps you to connect with other people who are healthy and good for you, you should pursue. So is there not some kind of healthy community where you feel at ease? Don't you have mentors or I mean study how to feel at ease with yourself? How to be a good friend with yourself? There are so many resources online. So once you learn to be a good friend with yourself, just start writing everything out. Start a notebook and be a friend to yourself. Like, dear self, today I felt lonely, today I felt sad, today I felt angry when so-and-so said this, today I gave in to my porn addiction. I really wish there was a better way to live. Like, spill it all out in a notebook. Like, let your notebook be your friend and the clarity that you get from writing out everything that you're feeling. Like, keep a feelings journal. Notice what you're feeling and write it down on a regular basis. When you start to acknowledge what you're feeling, start to be a good friend with yourself. Start to develop clarity on what's going on in your life. Clarity always leads to strength and increased happiness and well-being and an increased sense of self-efficacy that you are more effective. Clarity leads to passion, leads to strength, leads to success, leads to feeling at ease with yourself and getting along better with others. Empathy causes poor decision-making. Emotion takes precedence over logic and reason. Empathy sometimes causes poor decision-making. Glib, I don't know you well enough but I'm gonna, I'm gonna profit this, this thought. I think I'm suspecting Glib that you, like me, have often been overwhelmed by empathy and you've had inappropriate levels of empathy at times and this has led you to make bad decisions.  I have often been flooded with empathy and this has reduced my ability to do the things I need to do. I am going to wage you, Glib, that you have had enough occasions of being flooded with empathy so that you became essentially incapacitated and unable to make good decisions. So, the problem is not empathy, the problem is an inappropriate level of empathy. Why have we suffered from inappropriate levels of empathy and getting emotionally flooded? Because we are broken and we need to heal and we need to get well and we need to learn to extend empathy for ourselves. Empathy should begin right here. Shoulder empathy for ourselves. We should not hate ourselves for our failures. We should not loathe ourselves for our setbacks and shortcomings. We should not beat ourselves down for not being married with kids, being more successful for not being prosperous, for not being pillars of our community. Once we start to extend a little bit of empathy for ourselves and for the mess that we have made of our lives, then we can start extending appropriate amounts of empathy for other people and that will reduce our tendencies to get flooded with empathy, inappropriately flooded with empathy incapacitated by our empathy. So, until maybe the last three years, I would often experience while reading a novel or watching a movie or a TV show, I would get flooded with unbelievable amounts of empathy that essentially incapacitated me. So, you don't want to be flooded with empathy. You want an appropriate level of empathy and no, you don't want to just be cool, calm and calculated. You want to be emotionally real too. You want to know what you're feeling. If you don't know what you're feeling, sometimes you want to be brave, sometimes you want to be dominant but other times you want to be run away, all right. There are never going to be all circumstances where you're going to be brave. There'll be situations where you're brave and there'll be situations where you cowardly. There will be times when you want to confront and there'll be times when you want to run away. You've got to know when to hold them, you've got to know when to fall them, You've got to know when to walk away and you've got to know when to run. There's a time for counting, but it's not when you're at the table. There'll be time enough for counting when the dealings done. Is 40 streaming with a flip phone? The resolution is terrible. I'm streaming with the iPhone 11. What's the best solution to stop being an under order? To connect normally and naturally with yourself, first of all, to have an appropriate level of empathy for yourself and then to extend that empathy out to other people appropriately and moderately. Once you learn to connect with other people, once you learn to be of service and to contribute to other people's lives moderately and appropriately, like I'm not saying go out and subsidize and enable drug addicts and horrible people. Use an appropriate amount of empathy and an appropriate amount of helping other people. Once you learn to connect with others and you become a blessing with others, you can't help but start to become prosperous. You cannot be poor as long as you're a valued member of your community. If other people are excited when you walk into a room, when other people love you, you cannot be poor. Good people love you, like you and respect you, the money will flow. I dislike most humans and consider them beneath me. I have zero empathy, says Loponius. So who did this to you?   And to try to protect yourself from being hurt like that, again, you have developed this cynical shell. But what you think, right? You think that your lack of empathy is the weapon that protects you, but maybe Loponius, maybe you will never heal until you put your weapon of cynicism and lack of empathy down. Maybe to heal and to get well and to get whole, you have to let go of your cynical defenses. I had a therapist who said to me, maybe you'll never get well until you put down your weapon, meaning blogging. I was using blogging as a weapon to try to keep myself safe, but now when people would screw me over, then when people would try to destroy me, then I'd have my blog to fight back. The therapist said, maybe you'll never get well until you put down your weapon. Medicine is inhumane. Sometimes medicine is inhumane, but it's notion that like Jordan Peterson offered that medicine is killing more people than it saves. That's insane. There's no empirical basis for that. Since the 1930s, medicine has saved a considerable number of lives and has made many lives better. Now, it's not the primary cause of our increased lifespan, and many people do just fine without any medical interventions, but medicine overall is not inhumane. It has its shortcomings like any other profession or any other part of society, but generally speaking, most people would prefer to have access to medical care, like for most people they experience a piece of mind knowing that they have access to medical care if they need it. How does empathy increase my panacea? Because people would rather do business with people they like. People would rather work for people that they like. People would rather hang out with people that they like.  They're not going to want to spend time with you, and it's going to reduce their desire to do business with you. The leading cause of death in the US is preventable medical error. I think that's somewhat overstated, but it is significant. Something like 100,000 people a year die from medical malpractice. But what's the alternative? So obviously, medical malpractice and medical error is a major issue. That's why you need a system, right? That's why we need checklists. That's why we need habits. So when a pilot gets ready for the plane to take off, he just doesn't do what he thinks is right. He's going through a checklist, right? Because that reduces error. Medical professionals need to follow a checklist because that reduces error. We all need checklists in our lives because that reduces error. We need practices and procedures and habits that reduces error. Yes, Leponius, you can pretend to be likeable, bro. You do it all the time. Yes, and you saved my life from the black mold that was in my bottle. So is that too much black mold? Is it time for me to scrub that again? Is that like a healthy amount of black mold, Leponius?  Is a connection a way for people to take advantage of us? That's why if you know yourself, you will have a better understanding of other people. I know how easily I become self-absorbed. I know how easily I become self-aggrandizing. I know how easily I've been willing to sacrifice everything for an erotic encounter with a beautiful young woman. Now, I know how easily I choose the lazy way out rather than fulfilling my responsibilities. Once you come to terms with who you are, you will have a better read on other people. Once you come to terms with yourself, once you become much more emotionally cognizant, once you recognize your own emotions, you'll have a much better opportunity to recognize the emotions in others. So you'll notice if someone's having a bad day and you'll say, hey, it looks like you're having a bad day. People love that. People love that when you recognize their emotions. Looks like you're having a great day. People love it when you show that tiny little bit of empathy, right? So you learn about yourself, you learn about your emotions. You come to terms with yourself. You forgive yourself. You accept yourself. You have empathy for yourself. Then you'll extend an appropriate amount of empathy to others. You'll read other people much more accurately. And you won't be driven by your addictions. As long as you're driven by your addictions, your life's going to be a hellhole, right? You're driven by your addictions to porn or to dating or to excitement, all right? You're going to be distracted from reality. And your life's going to fall apart again and again and again. But you come to terms with yourself, then you start to come to terms with other people. You come to terms with God. You come to terms with the universe. You come to terms with reality. Once you form a positive relationship with reality, you'll be much less likely to be taken advantage of by others. I can't think of the last time someone took advantage of me. It's very rare because I think I have a reasonable understanding of myself and my own mixed motivations. And I've been forming a more productive relationship with reality. When you form a positive relationship with reality, when you accept reality, acceptance is the answer.  You accept other people are similarly fallible. You accept how the world works. You accept how business works. You accept how politics and culture works. You accept your place in the universe. You accept that you can't control very much. You have an ability to control yourself to varying degrees and you have an ability to have some influence over a small number of people. But outside of that, life is not under your control. So once you come to terms with reality, form a positive relationship with reality, you'll get along much more effectively with other people and they will, you will not leave yourself wide open to be taken advantage of. What is your strategy for dealing with overly hysterical people? Avoid them, minimize contact with them. So there are people in 12-step programs who want to talk to me about their suicidal ideation. I stop it. You cannot talk to me about your suicidal ideation. I have no interest. I'm not going to put up with it, right? There are other people who are depressed and after I've spoken to them three, four, five times and they're such deep levels of depression, I just stop. I give up. I never return their calls. If they're sharing on a phone meeting I'm on, I just unplug from that meeting for those three minutes when they're sharing. So overly hysterical people, distance yourself from them. Is watching porn immoral and a thing or wrong? I think for most people, it is not a benefit to them. So as you come to terms with yourself and your own tendencies towards hysteria, when you start building a productive life, you're not going to have time or interest in hanging out with dramatic people, right? For productive people, they have no interest in hanging out with drama queens, right? You build a good life. You start becoming enthused about things that you're working towards. You become enthused about your life. You're going to have no time or interest in hanging out with drama queens, right? For most people drama is their substitute for achievement, for people who are actually achieving something. They have no time for the drama queens, right? You're not going to want overly dramatic people in your life. You're not going to want people who are dysfunctional. Once you pull out of the quicksand of under-earning, you're going to pick up the stench of under-earning on other people and you're going to avoid them unless they're also in recovery doing the work to recover from under-earning. So when you pick up the stench of sex addiction, love addiction, under-earning, dead-ing addiction, alcoholism, drug addiction, once you recognize your own addictive tendencies start getting healthy, you will pick up the stench of addiction in other people. Like a normal, healthy person does not want to hang out with under-earners and debtors and love addicts and sex addicts and alcoholics and drug addicts. Once you recognize your own addictive tendencies, start getting on a healthy path, you will hang out with the winners. That's classic advice in 12-step programs. Hang out with the winners, stay away from the losers unless you can be of service to them and then help moderately. Don't become overly engaged in other people's problems. Bye-bye.


Hi guys happy Sunday, and also happy Father's Day to all of those in the UK that are celebrating I hope you've all had nice days and great weeks as well same process will run through the charts how they finished From Friday and a look ahead at some key levels for the coming days I was just on Twitter briefly a moment ago and saw the German R number Has gone from to well from 1.79 to 2.88 Based on the four-day average, so that along with Well that development along with some other headlines and we are looking at US stocks At least are gonna get down at 1% on the open as it stands at the moment So something to bear in mind however cast ourselves back seven days ago We got down and actually finished up on the week So unless there's gonna be an actual lockdown I think the downside is gonna be limited personally We'll have to wait and see and the charts gonna tell us that as well Let's have a quick look over how we did finish from Friday The euro hit my area are marked up here to the tick On 111.89 fantastic, weren't it really good really good area of Support is this gonna hold we have to to see it's a tricky one with the dollar in terms of overall Direction for this well not just this market but the dollar in general whether it's gonna be a Safe haven as the second lockdown the second wave fears come back into the market Or is it gonna be the Fed are gonna do more than any other central bank and then the dollar weakens It's gonna be hard. It's gonna be hard to say, but below 111.89 then we would be looking down to this next area along with these highs. So Would I be long here? I think I would have liked to see False breaks and maybe in the coming days. I will Prefer to be long around that area and it's just cleaning it this up a bit On the euro you can see the cup choppy. It was really on the way down and we Probably now just be looking at any of these areas. I mean to be honest. It's it's messy But above and I would probably have it more as a zone, but above this Area here, I would you know be be happy to say on a daily close that we can then push back up to The recent high that we had on the 10th of June now However below here and I talked about this last Sunday Just these previous highs that on the daily haven't come back really to get a test I'd be be looking for for those potentially to come in this week if we close below 111.89 that high That we had back on the 27th of March just going to have a look here on that weekly timeframe for for the euro and you can see Depending I think where you Where you get this this trend line on from Let's just get that drawn up roughly you can see Just how well respect this is going up to May 18 Do we just get the rejection there where the sellers can come back in hindsight? We'll obviously tell us whether it was the opportunity or not But even more so here in the weekly you can just see the importance of this level now Is this just an area where the buyers then come back in and also just be aware the high That we had on the 26th of May week as well So big area support coming up for the euro that goes and then you could be forgiven thinking a quicker move comes back down Towards these highs that we had back on the back end of April around that 110 handle on the future So euro set up nicely for an interesting week on such an important level I Would be bullish if we get some nice price action around here or be late to the party Above 1282 for the next opportunity to get long towards those highs. Yeah, but below here You'd struggle to be to be bullish for the pound it broke that trend line didn't it broke the trend line quite nicely on On Friday and had a lovely retest of that whole level We also broke this area came back to retest the low of the 15th of June So, yeah, I mean you can you can see again the 200 day moving average work quite well We came back to test that early on on I think it was Tuesday was that be the 16th 16th Monday found support on our area We circled up here then resistance on these previous loads 200 day moving average closed below the Low of the week on Thursday Bank of England didn't really deliver enough To breathe some light into the pound those lowest tons of resistance We came back down we're now below the trend line and you would say also the fact that we're below the 29th May high the next area to be aware of is that one twenty two 65 and if we do have Risk off on the open which we're looking like we're going to let's be honest I would say by the end of Monday. We probably are trading at one twenty two sixty five Which is a very key area where people will be looking to get Long or or take profit from a technical point of view This really was key for the read the rally. We had it back end of May a month ago. So back below there just be aware of 121 58 and then the low 120 80 So we still got these levels marked up below to the upside. I would probably leave everything I've got on there I don't necessarily think we're gonna test the the 200 day moving average But you know why not still have it on because it has been important at the moment You've got to be bearish where does a long come back in I would say Firstly above the trend line, which obviously gets higher as we Go along the week or weeks This looks like a quite key level one twenty four sixty seven So above these two areas, is that gonna come on Monday? I would say it's unlikely However last Monday things weren't looking too good and we finished the day positive. So time will tell Ozzy dollar choppy, but we did come lower Yeah, still on that zone isn't it where it's it's it's messy. What was the Monday the 15th you can see Pushed higher. It's worth having a note and before we'll go on to this in US equities in a moment There's the contract rollover last week. So the equities will look slightly different But you can see here. This is just a 240 of the the Ozzy dollar so choppy around there You know, there's there's times to trade certain markets and and the Ozzy perhaps is one to potentially leave alone 200 day moving average these lows here look interesting the double bottom that we had from Monday, which is also The second of June so keep a watch out for that. I'm just gonna remove everything here on The the Ozzy dollar except that 200 day moving average I think that's a good align in the sand as you can get for the Ozzy So below there then a quicker move to that 200 day moving average be late to the party You know, it's my new saying and that would be for me above the the 69 handle But that then has to be taken into account as more of a zone you would say around this whole Area here, but yeah, if we can at some point get next week above this level Then I would expect You know the higher the well I guess that's the recent highs to come in into play as well But you could see here we found a bit of support back on the 16th that Monday low if that does give way and the low Sorry the lower Monday here, but so the low Tuesday if that does give go give way that low the Monday comes in And then as we know from that daily chart if that breaks through Then it could be a clean sweep down towards the 67 hand or so quite a big move the S&P You know I like on this Sunday to review how my levels played out unfortunately, I've got to Well, this isn't how it paid out because obviously the contract roll over and you can see how we finished on the Friday we actually finished on the low of the day on the future. So let's just clear up a Few of these Levels we have to start again for the equities, which is fine Which is fine. Let's just bring in the S&P here 240 but you can see that just the way we traded on On Friday for me quite interesting that we came to this area support and we closed a bit below it I mean for me, that's still testing. You can't say it's a clean break, but Also, we have the gap down that we're gonna see on On the open so other areas certainly on the 240 to be aware or I'll just mark up Obviously the low last week This whole area more of a zone, isn't it decent enough price action? Where would I be happy getting long? Well, I don't know whether I mean the way Monday played out last week was you can see we we had that gap down and It was a close below and it's almost like you have these areas now where they're being good support So obviously access and theory resistance. So if we were to get back above 2983 That's where you know, you're comfortable to look for long. So where does that come in today or I should say tomorrow? For me, it's 3060. Can we then get back above that area and then push on? We have to see of course I think a lot of people are bearish on the open rightly so so we probably got a gap down and I would say we can We can most likely get a test of the the low of last Monday put relatively early on what happens from there Well, I have to mark up some of these points got the 2900 handle You've got some of these Previous highs that we broke through in the 17th and then suddenly, you know, you're looking back down towards these levels That seems so far away, of course, and I don't think that does happen For me, it is going to be a fundamentally driven market on the the sort of second wave Which leads to potentially a second lockdown a cynical as it is it sounds if there's not a second Lockdown, I think stocks still go higher But we do need to price in the possibility of that second wave materializing into a lockdown So stocks bearish on the open on the Monday on Sunday evening this evening into Monday expected For the NASDAQ, how did we finish on Friday? Of course similar, but tech had a not a bad week actually finished positive again, it doesn't actually look like that money to to change the the settings On that for the NASDAQ as it did finish low, but you can see here on the 60 minute war and I mean it's choppy agreed But big area of support here now if this zone goes Where you could expect a flush down like we we saw at the beginning of the week that fell obviously fell in Thursday Sorry, and then the Monday But then we had that recovery and this is what I was saying with the the S&P Get an area where the support has held.  This is fine But at some point we may remember cover and it's above 9915 That I'm bullish again Let the market tell you what's going on And then obviously 10,000 in the mix there as well NASDAQ above 10,000 who default that not long ago Incredible, but yet these would be the areas that I'd mark up for the NASDAQ. Can we get to last week's low? Yeah, I would say so. Can we get there on Monday? I I reckon it's a possibility. It happens early on. I think we're gonna have a risk on risk off start Just whether that can actually materialize into the whole week. It didn't last week for the Dow Jones You can see a bigger close below our support level and we'll have this as definitely more of a zone really held fantastically Thursday big reaction off that level. We then pushed higher only to come back down on Friday Areas of support would have been lovely here to potentially look for a long however, we're gonna close below interestingly now for For the for the Dow, you can see we're not far away I was just looking at this on 240 and forth for a second as a daily chart But interestingly, you can see these this is where we get down and it's the same reaction as we saw in the both the S&P and the NASDAQ let the market tell you when when to get in for these longs if you're Like me and still bullish overall Where's that place to be in and the same here above 25 708 so for the S&P we want it above here for the NASDAQ We want it above above That area sorry on the 60 looks clearer and then same for the Dow However, if we do push loads be aware 25,000 looks good than the low last week And then as we put this on to Just a longer time frame the chart obviously the new contract gets a bit messy So yeah, just be aware of some of those previous levels to the downside that could come in Let's have a look at oil. How did we finish? Got that trend line that I had on or potential trend line And it shows here that other people in the market were looking at it and on the 60 minute Just then flicking through good reaction. Good reaction break comes back on Friday five o'clock Look at that Moved a dollar and a bit higher For oil so trend line still worth having on is it bullish we're above? Yes, however It didn't quite get to our higher point there. Well, actually, what was the high? Friday in the futures I 46 yeah a lot of support below here and I know I think when we're looking at this trend line for oil if we come back below it then Especially if the risk of developed then, you know We could get a bit of a flush lower to be honest. I think overall you know it's If we have a look at what could happen this week if we do push down and I know you you're looking at this and go from 41 to 34 You know what I'm about to say is you know below 30 basically below for this area 34 86 I'd be bearish. I know it's So seven dollars away from the top end of the range over the bullish above But I'd be happy to be late to he got a good sort of line in the sand where I'd have 36 96 and You know giving that really that previous high around here then they these lows You know that would be my area if we were to find support here Then we could get that further push through below 37 on a close of the day 34 86 and me comes quicker And then you can get these bigger moves down towards that 30 buck handle where we had such good support back in the beginning Sorry the the end of May The end of May above 41 next week Just be aware of these lows that we had the beginning of March and then we really start to talk towards 45 dollars And and is that possible next week? Probably not But with oil who knows who knows but yeah, this is I kind of keep it quite simple with these There's horizontal levels. Obviously got your the trend line We had on back below there and below 30 704 was 34 86 not out the question and let's have a look at Gold finished last week bang on this next level didn't bang on that next level Doesn't make it easy to it to decide whether to go long at the open or not What interestingly Monday we We we had a down day so it acted and let's go. That's a 60 minute to stop Monday Let's want to see exactly how we How are we reacted on this Monday at the 15th? Yeah, you can see here with stocks pushing Pushing down gold also came off So to predict what's going to happen at the open here on gold With that move lower in stocks. We might well see this this area hold However, it is of course, you know, let the market tell you what's going on and 60 minute You can just see how important this resistance level is 1760 so above there obviously just be aware of these these previous highs here this area where before we broke down back on the 18th Of May and then you're really looking towards some of those Highs of the year to come back in again. I was saying to the interns on the summer interns on I think it was Wednesday or third Thursday it was That gold is range bowed and and don't let anyone tell you otherwise It is you know going back here to the 14th of April to two tests at the bottom two of the low We're above that sort of mid-range point here that that held well last week We're now coming up to another resistance level, which we've just seen is very key But decision comes really bigger term, you know once these these points go so for gold I want to see how it opens on on Monday, but going back to that 60 minute and you know really sort of drawing up this resistance level up here, you know along above here towards 1770 and 1778 it makes sense Back below there, then it could get you know choppy again like we've seen Trendline on here has held very well from the low of the fifth Low of the 15th low of the 18th So just when sometimes you feel gold is going to go and go and go You know you get a rejection of these highs back below the trend line and see you later Yeah, we'll have to wait and see for that for sure Let's have a quick look over the DAX as well how we finished on on Friday on that 60 minute Doesn't look too promising when you also know we're about a gap down We're gonna feel this little gap that we had on the 15th to the 16th opening So we'll probably get open, you know around Well below those lows and suddenly you're looking at last week's lows coming in relatively quickly in what was Pretty sideways moving market last week. You can see here held up on Friday, but with the the gap coming below Yeah, you've got to be bearish on the open but that said just like equities You can get long if we come back above there. That's the way I see it, you know But you know when we push lower obviously these Areas where the mouse is turns to resistance if we do get above there That's your signal that the buyers are now back in control and you can push on for the balls But yeah expect the open to to have us pushing lower and then we'll see how you react in the morning Is the way I would say it but any questions as usual guys Please do let me know and I hope you all enjoy the rest of your evenings or if you're watching tomorrow I hope you will have a great week ahead as well. Thank you guys


What's up everyone? It's your girl Kenzie here from Layton Sports Cards. I'm ripping a couple of Personals here for Michael B. We've got three 2021 Bowman Inception Baseball Hobbies. All right, best of luck Michael. Here we go. I haven't ripped any of these in a while. Bowman Inception. Beautiful looking cards. We've got a Ace of Lacy, Shailen Polanco, Brett Beatty, Nicoladolo, and our Parallel is a Jackson Rutledge. Thanks for subscribing, Joshua. Those ones were ordered for Ship Sealed, Michael. Did you want them ripped live? You ordered the Ship Ship Sealed for the Donress Basketball. I don't know if we're ripping those live anymore. I think those are the Ship It Sealed option only. We've got 213 out of 600, a Jefferson Carroll for the Brewers. The check on the site. And gold of 50, Johan Rojas. Johan Rojas. Nice one. 29 of 50, Phillies on the gold. Nice one there. Let me check and see if we have any in stock for Ship It for Rippets. See, I don't feel like I've ripped any of those, so that's choice. Donras. You may have gotten the last. I'm only seeing Donner's Choice. Origen's Donner's Choice. Not seeing any Donner's. You may have gotten the last two. That's probably why they, it was probably a Ship It only option on those, Michael. So I'm not seeing any more in stock on the site. Just see Donner's Choice. If it's only a Ship It option, they don't have the option to rip it. Especially with that one because it's such a heavy East products. I believe we only do those shipped. Ed Howard, Grushan's, and Marco Luciano. Purple to 75, Riley Green. Nice one there, Tigers. And parallel of Marco Luciano for the Giants. Man, back to back boxes with gold. We've got Ivan Herrera, 24 out of 50. Ivan Herrera for the Cardinals. And out of 600, we've got a Thad Ward for the Red Sox. Thad Ward out of 600. Yeah, sorry about that, Michael. Yeah, I did, I did see those two on attached on the same order. They'll, they should ship together for you. So we'll ship those sealed. Let us know if you pour anything big out of them. Yeah. All right, last one here. Thanks for your understanding though, for sure. Again, I haven't ripped any of those. Wow. Nice. Last box, we've got three autos. Let's go. Michael Bush, a Christian Robinson. Angel Martinez and Blue. Michael Toglia out of 99. Thanks, Toglia. First auto up for the Raze out of 99. Carlos Colmenares. Nice prospect there for the Raze. Out of 600, we have Angel Martinez for the Guardians. 323 out of 600. And last one, 31 out of 600 of Jared Schuster for the Raze. Schuster. Nice bonus auto there for you. Alrighty, Michael. That'll do for you. Three boxes of Inception. Thanks again for hopping in and for your patience. We'll get these right out to you.


Reacting to the protest, Nigeria's aviation ministry expressed its displeasure at the warning strike by the aviation unions and called for a rethink. The ministry said the protest was unnecessary, as it would increase the hardship on the citizens, affect flight schedules, lead economic losses, and negatively impact the country's rating globally. The aviation ministry noted that the planned demolition of certain buildings obstructing the runway was in the interest of the public. On the concession of airports, the ministry said the unions were aware of global practices, and that for the aviation industry in Nigeria to be the hub in Africa, concession was the way to improve infrastructure and make airports economically viable.


That one wasn't too bad. Oh, hitting that lock stop. Oh! Hello everybody, I'm EvilRabbit. We're here on a set of Corsa, on a track I know, and a car I know, with the Fan Attack, to see if this is still a viable wheel for me here on a set of Corsa. Make sure you guys follow me on all social media. I'll check out the description box below. Let's get to it. So we're gonna see how this works out. I can already feel a difference than what I'm used to from the moza wheels that I've been using for quite some time. The belt drive V2.5, of course my wheel settings may not be fully correct for this wheel, comparatively to my direct drive wheels, but we're gonna give it a full send and our best ditch effort. Oh man, oh, as I say ditch, we go almost into the ditch. The E92 Eurofighter, definitely one of my favorite cars. This was my practice car to my M4 that I built, but I wanted to practice with the car and the physics and everything before I fully released that car. So, oh my, I mean, it's real motion. This V2.5 with the NRG innovations, lightweight sim wheel, definitely bring in back memories of using my fan attack setup. Before I hooked up with moza and got the direct drive wheels, definitely can appreciate the smoothness and the linearity of those direct drive wheels now. I'm comparatively going back to this, oh man. Now, this wheel is still a very good viable wheel. I still feel that this is a extremely nice wheel, but I've been spoiled by my R21, my R9, my R5, but this is bringing back the feels banging red line with this car. This car was really created way before I even got hooked up with moza, because if you notice the door decal is not, do not have was a racing on them. So it's before we are just lighten this thing up. I think I may have tire damage on. We definitely have tire damage on because I absolutely have, this is sixth gear with absolutely no tires. Well, instead of changing the tire wear, we decided to come to Long Beach and run it in an FD style course to see if we can still run this course with the Fan Attack. I was on Fan Attack in Forza Motorsports and all that on this course before, so I should be able to do this. We're gonna find out. Short there, wasn't too bad. Little hit in that lock stop. Little wall tap, nothing major. So overall that run was not too bad. We're gonna try and get one more solid run in on another set of tires. Let's take a look at the outside. Other than I believe, because we were deep there, I think we were, yeah, we missed this zone completely, but we were all the way out digging out that first zone. So hopefully we can actually go out to that second zone on that wall and not go into the wall and we'll take a look at the replays because that was a pretty solid run. So the Fan Attack V2.5 definitely still a very, very viable wheel for myself. Definitely do love the feel of my Mosul wheels, but we have this on the rig that we come back and give it a shot, go back in the feels of it and the style job of it. Run number two, oh no, that was a wall. I said we wanted to get out to the wall, not into the wall. Of course, we got into the wall, I think we bent something. So let's take a look at those two replays because those were some pretty solid runs. We're gonna have to run this. We're running from the chase cam because there's no replaying. So we'll take a look at the first run, see where we were really at. Entry was pretty good. We punted that, really got out. We transitioned too late and that's why we were not there. We definitely dug into that wall and that zone. So other than that one zone, that was a very, very solid run. Little wall tap at the end. Take a look at this final run. Make sure you guys follow me on all social media on the description box below. Hope you guys are enjoying all the content. If you guys aren't subscribed, I appreciate you hitting that subscribe button and tapping the like button. I appreciate all the continued support from you guys here on the channel. This run probably was not as good. I think, yeah. Entry, Gallo got out there and then, oops, too much of a wall hit there. So it was always the only thing I should come back and watching. Be more avid. I'll see you guys on the track.