We're getting ready to go to bed the other night and my girlfriend takes off her clothes. She normally sleeps naked and I'm looking at her body and I'm like, something's a little bit off. Something's just a little bit off. Something's a little bit off. Something's just a little bit off. Donovan will attempt to report this video and get it taken down and it's bulls***. This woman is a public figure as we discussed. She is his business manager. She's all over the place. Uh, all these things. And guys, and this is funny when, when I lost my first of two YouTube channels, guys have told me, go to bitshoot, go to, go to here, go to there. So there you have it. That's Donovan Sharp admitting that two prior YouTube channels were deleted by YouTube terminated ban lost. Here is his current channel, over 110,000 subscribers, all these views. This is no less than the third channel he's had. The prior two were terminated by YouTube. This one by him and any YouTube employee can easily review this and find out that it was operated run by Donovan Sharp. It was all by him, just like his new channel. This one was banned for severe violations with hate speech. And this one was banned for severe violations with spam, deceptive practices, misleading content. Surprise, surprise. Right guys. So any YouTube employees watching this, put another notch on your belt and knock this channel out. You'll have a great day. Uh, Luis, uh, Patrice, show your girl, bro. No, you guys know the rules. You guys know the rules. Devin, let me get you into this conversation because I met you when you were 32. Uh, you are an older woman, quote unquote. Devin is a seven. She's a seven. A lot of people think, oh my God, Devin's a no. Devin's not a nine or a 10. She's a seven in the face. She's a six and a half. She has a six and a half face. She's not a, listen, she's not, again, listen, she has above average looks, slightly above average looks in the face.  Her face is a seven. Her body on the other hand is an eight and a half. Her body is an eight and a half. Her body is an eight on, on her worst day, on her best day. Her body is a hard nine. Maybe even a little higher depending upon what she is wearing. And anybody who just take a stroll through my social media feed. Devin's got a hot bod. You guys know that. All right.  The reason for this is because this is going to motivate her. We're getting ready to go to bed the other night and my girlfriend takes off her clothes. She normally sleeps naked and I'm looking at her body.  Something's just a little bit off. So I told her to step on the scale, but naked and the scale read a hundred and thirty three pounds. Now my girlfriend usually, her weight is usually somewhere between 120 and 125. Sometimes it gets to 127, 128, depending on that time to the month of she's bloated, retaining water, whatever the case may be, but one thirty three is unacceptable. Don't get me wrong. My girlfriend is still. She has a great body, probably a better body than probably 90% of women out there, but I don't give a sh. She needs to lose that weight because this is where it starts. So until she loses five count and five pounds, she is getting no sex from me. Period. By the way, it's not even about the weight guys. Devin weighs about a hundred and forty five pounds. Probably a little bit more, but she's very dense. She also has a lot of muscle and she's five six, so she's taller than most females. So she carries her weight very well, obviously. Those of you on the TSR primetime side will see how well she carries her weight. But also, listen, she, she works out three times a week with a personal trainer and is on HGH. That's how she maintains her body. Oh, by the way, unfortunately, most chicks in this country are grossly overweight to the tune of six of 67%. Guys, that is two out of three women in this country that are not bangable by men of value. Dude, no wonder men of value are having a hard time finding women. And what makes their obesity really bad is that fatties are becoming even more entitled. They walk around like they're God's gift to men when actually they're really God's gift to fast food restaurants. Devon's a spoiled brat, guys. Dude, if we sit down at a restaurant and our waiter or waitress isn't there within 30 seconds, she starts to look around. Right? Where are drinks? Where are appetizers? Right? This is too, this is too cold. This is too hot.   All the there's dude, dude, maybe I'm exaggerating and maybe I'm embellishing here for effect. But most of the time, there's always something about her food that she has to complain about.  They know damn well, that's not the case, man.  They know damn well, that's not the case, man. People don't know that you're very good with women like and you were a player back in the day. Like everyone thinks, oh, you know, he has a great LTR. He teaches you how to build a woman from the ground up. He teaches you how to run LTR game. But a lot of people don't know that you actually slayed it out.  I would put Vegas right up there with with Miami. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? So can you tell us a little bit about womanizing back then? Obviously, this was prior to IG and everything like that. Yeah, yeah, man. Yeah, I was I was sort of I came in on the back end of the of the classic, I guess, I guess I can say old school pickup game, Pua's.  They can say, oh, I'm big and I'm beautiful.   I mean, honestly, look at this girl. Look at this girl. Look at this. There are here another two couple of here. Another couple of pictures of her. Dude, look at this chick. This chick isn't even close to attractive, man. She's overweight. She's got a plain face. She's got short ish hair. She's got fat fingers and is not good looking. And she has a list of contacts that she can call for a horniness emergency. Guys, this is how easy it is for women to sleep around. All they have to do is decide to.  And she's got a roster. Yasmin or Yasmin, she is a five to look at the screen. Look at the screen. Yasmin, Yasmin is a five on a good day. But she has the gall to say just not good, good enough or great enough for me. Guys, this speaks to the gross overestimation of a woman's self-evaluated value.  You will take what you can get. You spent your 20s rejecting those guys. And now that you look like this, you guys can. And now that you look like this, right? And I know you thirsty dudes in the man. I would smash that if you would smash that. Honestly, if you would smash that, you are thirsty. Just because a woman is no longer as sexually attractive as she was when she was in her 20s, just because let's call her the average 46 year old, she may not be disgusting. She may not be a sex. Obviously she is not as sexually attractive as she was when she was 26. And we're talking about the average 46 year old woman, woman who probably has a drinking problem, probably smoke cigarettes, probably on anti-depressants. Probably isn't in the best shape in the world.  So they're already now we're using apex fallacies. We're using hyperbole to drive the point home.  That's biology. Men are more sexually attracted to younger women. Younger women do not have wrinkles. They do not have saggy skin. They do not have gray hair. That's just the way of it. That's not social conditioning. This is our hard drive. This is the masculine firmware. We don't wake up and decide, you know what?  No, this is just how it is. This is how it is.  Now, this doesn't mean that there aren't 43, 44, 45 and 47 year old women out there that aren't sexually appealing. Again, like I said, they are out there. This is who she is. Donovan's been lying about the nature of his relationship with this woman. He's been lying about her physical age. He's faking it. He's lying about her appearance and hiding it. Remember, he's striking down these channels. He's striking down the black pill channels and all these different things so that he can sell these courses. Woman is if he put a picture on the top of the sales page or his woman did, you know, Devon is the business manager in the coder, as he says at the website. If he put this picture at the top of the sales page for womanies right here, not a single person would buy it or he would have a 99% reduction in sales. That's why he hides it. He's been striking down channels and anybody trying to expose what she actually looks like. And instead, he misleads the public with false information and bull I know for a fact that is his wife, this woman right here. I have met this woman repeatedly in real life. I'm looking right at her. This is exactly who she is. Cynthia Devon Sharp on the internet. This is her. This is her cleaning up Donovan Studio. The studio that really she's a business manager of. What I want you guys to notice is that in none of these photos, is there a single clear shot of her body at any point? None, not one. If you go through his entire social media accounts on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, whatever the you will never find a single shot that is a clear straight up shot of her in a bikini. Or whatever, exposing what her body actually looks like.  There's even food hiding some of her body and some of these for whatever reason it was photoshopped in. It's always at special angles. Donovan's always in the shot covering up a lot of her body. It's goofy faces, heavy makeup and some of these. This one on Twitter is particularly revealing because one of the fans asked him there. He's basically responding to Donovan motto, motto, but definitely not an eight, more like a six. You're doing pretty good though. Donovan responds, laugh out loud exclamation point. Who said she was an eight?   Nobody's offended, but my girl is not an eight. Nor have I ever said she was one. Ha ha. Her body, on the other hand, is an eight and a half. Her body is an eight and a half. Her body is an eight on her worst day. On her best day, her body is a hard nine.  There are objective standards we have to hold people to. And people can have an opinion and that can give you a little bit. Like if you are doing Donovan, she was a four and she's her wife. I'm not going to say anything. It's your wife.  God bless, man. Do your thing. If that's what you want to spend your life with, that's what that's the best you can do. As you say, you know, Donovan, your results speak for themselves, right? Isn't that what you say? Dude, listen, man, my results speak for themselves, speak for themselves.


Tonight, on EKB Evening News 6, good news for home and business owners who need repairs from winter storm damage. Good evening, I'm Cindy Mae Johnson. Home and business owners who suffered damage from the severe storms of March 3rd through the 14th have some help on the way. The U.S. Small Business Administration is now offering assistance throughout the tri-state. EKB News reporter Shelby Steele has the story. Kentucky, West Virginia and Virginia businesses and residents affected by the severe storms, heavy snow and record low temperatures during March can now apply for low-interest disaster loans through the U.S. Small Business Administration. We have declared a disaster for Mingo County, West Virginia, and under the Small Business Administration guidelines, any county adjacent to Mingo County, including Martin and Pike here in Kentucky and Buchanan down in Virginia, our elders will apply. The Small Business Administration made the loans available in response to a letter from West Virginia Governor Earl Ray Tomlin requesting a disaster declaration by the SBA. The loans are offered to businesses, homeowners and renters. We're offering homeowners loans with interest rates as low as 1.8% for up to 30 years. The maximum amount for a homeowner is $200,000 for the real estate and up to $40,000 for personal property to cover up to 100% of their uninsured disaster-related losses. This would include things like carports or driveways or automobiles. This also can apply for the loans and they can borrow up to $2 million. The interest rates are as low as 4% for businesses. SBA's customer service representatives are available at the Disaster Loan Outreach Center to answer questions and help individuals complete applications. SBA has a temporary office in Williamson, West Virginia. We're located at the community services building on Alderson Street. We're going to be there from 8 to 5 on weekdays. This Saturday we're going to be there from 10 to 2. Now we will be closed. That's a temporary center so it's going to close next Thursday the 18th at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. If you are unable to make the drive to Williamson, you can apply online or over the phone by using the information on the screen. For EKB Evening News at 6, I'm Shelby Steele. Although SBA consumer service reps will leave the area on June 18th, you can still apply for a loan online or by phone until August 3rd. What began last night as a typical shoplifting incident quickly became an arrest for armed robbery. According to a police report, Walmart manager Benjamin Wagner allegedly observed 23-year-old Destiny H. Gooslin of Pikeville concealing merchandise on her person and then confronted her when she left the store. At first Gooslin allegedly turned over the merchandise, then grabbed it, pushed Wagner and attempted to run. Wagner grabbed the merchandise back and ran inside the store with Gooslin allegedly chasing, grabbing and hitting him. She also allegedly injured him with a box cutter and bit him. When police arrived and placed Gooslin in custody, they allegedly found a syringe in her possession. She was charged with first-degree robbery, second-degree assault and possession of drug paraphernalia. She's being held in the Pike County Detention Center. A Robinson Creek man is in jail on a charge of first-degree drug trafficking. According to his arrest warrant, 57-year-old Dameron Maggard allegedly sold oxycodone tablets June 5th to a witness cooperating with Kentucky State Police. The warrant further notes the transaction was captured on audio and video. Maggard was arrested yesterday afternoon in Pikeville. He's being held in the Pike County Detention Center. State Auditor Adam Edeland and the Kentucky Association of Sexual Assault Programs are planning a series of meetings across Kentucky as part of an investigation into the number of untested sexual assault exam kits in police departments throughout the state. In order to recommend reforms and how such evidence is collected and handled, Edeland says he wants to meet with victims, medical professionals, law enforcement and others who are involved in sexual assault investigations. The meetings will begin June 23rd, 14 meetings are scheduled over the next 30 days. On July 14th, meetings are scheduled in Prestonsburg and Hazard. Five environmental and citizens groups have again sent notice to Frazier Creek Mining of their intent to sue the company for violations of the Federal Clean Water Act. Abolation Voices, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, Kentucky River Keeper, Water Keeper Alliance and the Sierra Club delivered their intent to sue to the company Wednesday. It's their fourth such action in the last five years. In the previous action, filed back in November, the groups accused the company of falsifying water discharge reports by simply copying previous reports. The company has since corrected those issues, but now the groups say reports are again being falsified. According to a statement from the groups, raw laboratory data indicates that discharge violations occurred, but the reports don't match the data. The violations allegedly occurred in Floyd, Pike, McGuffin and Perry counties. Frazier Creek now has 60 days to respond or correct the alleged violations before the group can follow through with a lawsuit. Coming up, there could be a spot for you on a statewide health board and Pikeville is getting ready for its first major concert in the Riverville Arena. We'll be back in two minutes. This weekend, downtown Pikeville will feature no shortage of activity. Muscle on Main kicks off tomorrow night, followed by a full day of music on Saturday, topped off by the Marshall Tucker Band in the Riverville Arena Saturday night. EKB news reporter Shannon Deskins has all the details. This weekend, downtown Pikeville will be full of events from food to classic cars to live music in the Riverville. In addition to the regular Muscle on Main festivities starting on Friday, the first ever concert will be held at the Riverville Arena. On Saturday, the crowds will start on Main Street and then move towards the Riverville for the Marshall Tucker Band. East Kentucky Expo Center General Manager Cindy Collins told us that unlike most Expo Center shows, people will be able to come and go from the outdoor arena throughout the day. For $25, that's where the tickets start. They can get a wristband and come in, watch some of the music, watch Luna and Dave, and then decide that they want to go out and see the car shows for a while, or the kids are going to walk around, go do some of those things and then come back. You can come in and out with those, so I'm excited about it. But even though the concert will be in the Riverville and not technically inside the Expo Center, Collins said tickets will still have to be purchased at the Expo Center box office. Ticket sales due for technical reasons have to happen up here, so come to the Expo and get your wristband and get your ticket and then you're free to move around all day. The $25 ticket is good for all bands playing in the Riverville Arena, including the Marshall Tucker Band, scheduled to take the stage at 8 p.m. For EKB Evening News at 6, I'm Shannon Deskins. If you have an interest in public health policy, the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky might have a seat for you. Since its formation in 2001, the Foundation has invested $22 million in grants to improve access to health care, reduce risks and promote healthy lifestyles, as well as promoting health equity and reduce health disparities. Now the group has four spots open on its board of directors, including the region's seven seat, which covers much of eastern Kentucky. An out-large seat is also open. The group is also seeking nine members for a community advisory council. To nominate yourself or someone else, request a form through the contact on your screen. Fill it out and submit it to the Foundation. The deadline to make a nomination is July 24. House Speaker Greg Stumbo, House Majority Leader Rocky Atkins, House Speaker Pro Tim Jody Richards and House Majority Whip Johnny Bell traveled to Washington yesterday. They discussed a couple of high-profile road projects for eastern Kentucky. The group met with Congressman Hal Rogers, Senator Rand Paul and House Speaker John Boehner to discuss Stumbo's proposal to extend the mountain parkway from Prestonsburg to Beckley, West Virginia. They also talked about a separate proposal to bring the Hal Rogers Parkway up to interstate standards and extend it southeast into Tennessee. Afterwards, Stumbo characterized the meetings as positive, saying support for the projects is growing in Washington. Speaking of the mountain parkway, travelers along that highway might see some delays next week. Construction crews will begin demolishing the Gifford Road Bridge, its five miles west of Soutiersville. Demolition will begin Tuesday and is expected to take three days. During that time, officials say there will be delays lasting no more than 20 minutes. Later, the overpass will be replaced as part of a new interchange being constructed at the site. Coming up, Andrew Joyce will be in to tell us about a football camp at Pike Central, but first we'll check with EKB Chief Meteorologist Lathen Hopkins and see what that muggy meter has in store for us. We'll be back in two minutes. Now Lathen, what's the official true day, first day of summer by the calendar? It's still about a week and a half away on the 21st. No rain here. I believe we did hit 90 here at the station in Pikeville, National Weather Service, oh so close. That's summer. Not so much. We'll talk more about that here in just a second. Some of us picking up a few light rain showers though and that is just across the border in southwest Virginia from Buchanan County over to Dickinson County. We will have to watch these very closely. It looks like they're starting to fizzle out, but you'll see those right through here. And moving more to the north and to the west, so from Phelps down to Elkhorn City, you may get in on some cloud cover and maybe a quick shower before the evening is out. But again, once the sun sets, the showers, the thunderstorms will begin to dissipate across the region. It is that typical summertime pattern where you get the heat, the humidity, and of course the terrain of the Appalachian Mountains and there we see those showers popping up right along the highest elevations and then moving closer to the region. Pretty much that's all we have to talk about. As far as any kind of precipitation is involved, a beautiful day. You see blue sky across downtown Pikeville, the current temperature, well that has been the story of the day. 89 degrees, feels like 91 with the humidity of 50 percent, the winds from the south at around three miles per hour. That heat index has been as high as the mid 90s, a little bit earlier today and you might as well get used to that because that's going to stick around and I'll show you more here in just a second. Take a look at temperatures. Man, old man, 93 in Williamson, 89 in Pikeville, 90 in Prestonsburg, Payton'sville, I-NAS, 89 in Salyersville, and then the farther south you go, temperatures are still in the mid to upper 80s. Officially at the National Weather Service Office in Jackson, 88 degrees was the high today, two degrees shy of that record high of 90 that was set back in 1984. Overnight lows tonight dropping back into the mid and upper 60s and here we go again tomorrow. I think we'll see a little more in the way of cloud cover tomorrow. That may help keep temperatures down into the upper 80s but you still see some of the computer forecasting models forecasting highs very close to us near 90 degrees so it is definitely a possibility again during the day tomorrow. Cindy's favorite, ladies and gentlemen, here it is, the muggy meter. For tomorrow we are still running in the uncomfortable category, dew point still, running very, very high and as far as the UV forecast is concerned, it's running very high as well at a 9 out of a possible 11. Reduce your time outdoors between the hours of 10 and 4 and of course if you have to be out working in this heat, plenty, plenty of water. Alright, let's take a look at that poll account sponsored by Faith Pharmacy, Adams Plaza and Pikeville is expected to stay pretty low over the next three days as a matter of fact in the moderate category, 6.01 Friday, 5.7 Saturday and 5.8 on Sunday, 7 day forecast time and that typical summertime pattern I told you it was here to stay and it is Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday you get the point each and every day temperatures in the mid and upper 80s overnight lows in the mid and upper 60s and a daily threat of afternoon showers and storms so it's pretty much a rinse and repeat kind of a forecast over the next seven days. I rest my case. Yeah. It's summer. Summer's here. That's what summer is. I was just going to embrace it. And I don't hate the muggy meter it's just subjective. She does not like the muggy meter. When it's 90 I think it feels wonderful outside. What do you call it? And then you add the humidity to it and it feels like 95 or 100. But do you call that oppressive? It's uncomfortable. Uncomfortable. That you agree. No, I like it. Thanks, Leithan. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be back with sports in two minutes. Okay, I'm convinced the summer is here and that means camp season. Did you go to camp as a kid? Oh, every time I could. Okay, but you're not talking like sleep in a tent. You're talking baseball camp for you. It was typically dorms and those type of things but a lot of outdoor activities in the season is underway. Schools out and the camp season has begun. Basketball camp, soccer camps and football camps, teaching fundamentals and providing a fun experience in the games the kids love. The Pike County Central Hawks held their youth football camp for kids ranging from kindergarten to eighth grade. The camp began on Monday and wrapped up yesterday evening. McKay LaCauley had a chance to speak with coach Sean Thacker. Yesterday evening the Pike Central coaching staff held their final day of their youth football camp. This is our fifth, sixth and eighth and a lot of these kids play middle school. So basically what's done is giving them a jump on running the same offense and stuff and learning our terminology and just making sure they have the basic fundamentals down especially with the younger kids in fifth, sixth grade. We stress fundamentals of offense and defense and just learning our terminology and basically just having a good time with them. So they're not so scared of the big bad football coach. These children came out to spread their talent and to grow as athletes. I'm hoping they take away that this is a fun game. This group has surprised me. They're very talented. So I want to take away from it. I've got a pretty good future here if I can just win a few ball games. And these kids I think they'll take away just the basic fundamentals of the game. Even though it's too early to tell, coach Thacker believes his Hawks are looking promising for the fall. I think some people are going to be surprised about the product we put on the floor. You know, we lost a lot of great kids. But on the bright side, I get back my offensive line. I get back all five of them. They've been in the weight room all winter. What's bigger, what's stronger, what's faster. How will that carry over? I won't know for sure until August. For EKB Evening News at 6, I'm Makayla Colley. Thanks Makayla. It's not basketball season, but there's plenty of basketball action going on around the region. Belfrey is hosting their annual team camp that began today and continues tomorrow. Eight local teams are participating. Belfrey, Preston'sburg, Sheldon Clark, Pikes Central, Phelps, Tug Valley, Logan and Eastridge. Makayla Colley called up with camp director and Belfrey head coach Mark Thompson. The Belfrey Pirates are hosting a varsity and JV basketball team tournament that includes eight teams from around the area. We started 11 every day and go to about nine o'clock. So it is a full day of basketball. It is today and tomorrow, so like I said, there's a lot of basketball being played. These teams act on this annual opportunity and use it to their advantage to grow. Well, it's something that we've been doing every year. It gives us an opportunity to play on our floor. The local teams, you know, we get West Virginia teams and a lot of teams from the 15th region and we just have a good day of basketball. Two days of scrimmages allow players to become familiar with one another and with the teams they will face in regular season play. Well, you know, we all want to improve and as much time as we can get on the floor, you know, work on things and it's a little different in terms of regular season. We can, if coach needs to stop the game and want to go over something, we can do that. So it gives coaches an opportunity to really do some coaching. You can see what teams are going to have next year and kind of give you an insight of maybe who's that team to beat next year. For EKB Even News at 6, I'm Makayla Colley. All games are played at Belfry High School. The Cincinnati Reds are back in action this evening in the first of a four-game series facing National League Central rival, the Chicago Cubs. Michael Lorenzen is on the mound for Cincinnati. The Cubs counter with Suoshi Wada. The Reds will be without shortstop Zach Cozart who was injured yesterday after an awkward turn at first base. Cozart has been diagnosed with a torn tendon and ligaments in his right knee. He will need reconstructive surgery and is done for the year. First pitch, 805 with radio coverage on Hit City USA at 735. And the Golden State Warriors battle the Cavaliers as the NBA Finals continue tonight with game four in Cleveland. The first two games went into overtime and game three saw LeBron James go for 40 points and 12 rebounds. Let's not forget to mention Matthew Delevedova's 20 points and being taken to the hospital to receive fluids from his excessive efforts in that game three win. Cleveland owns a two-game-to-one advantage in the best of seven series. Complete radio coverage on ESPN Radio 95.9, 104.5 and 102.5 FM. I gotta say, if you run yourself out of fluids, you really worked hard in that game. He played so extremely hard and just left everything on the court. Went to the hospital, got fluids and he'll be back in action tonight. Literally left that sweat on the floor. You got it. Thanks so much. We'll be back in just a moment. So again, a summary, summary day today and it's going to keep on. And on, and on, and on. Over the next seven days. A few showers out there tonight. Those will be moving in from southwest Virginia into far southeastern Kentucky from Letcher to Pike County. And then we just keep that 30% chance of rain throughout the weekend. Temperatures each and every day in the mid and upper 80s. It's going to feel a little warmer than that with the humidity. But no washouts. No washouts. All right. We can deal with this. And we've got sports guys back tonight. We do. Sports guys on the air at seven tonight. You'll want to tune in. We talk about a lot of different topics. You guys are interesting. Yes. That's going to do it for tonight's EKB Evening News. Remember, you can always get more local news anytime by listening to the radio stations of East Kentucky Broadcasting. You can also follow EKB News and EKB TV on Facebook and Twitter. We're going to leave you tonight with Nightfall over the eastern Kentucky Mountains. Good night. Thanks for watching.


Hey, my name is Stacy, I am just dying to share my favorite scripture with you guys, or a scripture I really love because there's a ton that are awesome. But this one's really close to home and this is kind of one that I really just thought of. So I was at 15, verses 5 through 9, right, four verses, five verses. And it's really interesting because the verses have this kind of like, I'm not going to read them because I don't want to take a five minutes trying to read these verses, but pretty much verse 5 and 6 talk about how Jesus Christ was, how much he suffered and how much he went through and how much he was scorned and rejected and disowned and just beaten just like all these really like kind of sad verbs and that were enacted upon our Savior. And then verse 8 and 9 talk about how powerful he was and how strong he was and how much he did for us and how much he, you know, loosened the bands of death and acted the atonement, that kind of thing. And I always found it interesting because verses 5 and 6 are like really negative sad verses where it sounds like someone who is not powerful. And then verses 8 and 9 are just the most jubilee, just most powerful verses, you know, in this chapter. And it's cool because verse 7 explains why it is the way it is and I think that's something that's super relevant to us. And then verse 7 it says, And the flesh became becoming subject even unto death. The will of the Son being swallowed up in the will of the Father. This is a beautiful lesson in obedience and humility. Jesus Christ did exactly what his Father wanted him to do. And so while his life wasn't comfortable, he was punished or beaten and scorned that kind of thing, he was ultimately very powerful. And I think the same applies to our lives. We're not always going to have all the answers. We're not always going to be the most powerful, you know, beings in our own lives. But as long as we're being humble and trying our hardest to do the will of the Father, being obedient, the Lord will have our back. He will keep us strong and we will be strong. We will be able to change lives. We'll be able to change our own lives or life, I guess. But that's a section of verses that means so much to me and I know for a fact they're true. I love this book so much. It has changed my life. And so I hope that that means something to you too.


Welcome back to the third edition of our Portland Rising, a production of the Portland Phoenix and the Portland Media Center. And we thank them for their help on this. We have a great show today. Colin Ellis, our staff reporter, is going to be interviewing Michael from the ACLU. And our columnist, our monthly columnist, Nick Lund, will give a presentation on migration and some other interesting facts about birds. So to throw it to Colin right now, and Michael, go. Great. Thank you, Karen. As you said, we'll be talking to Michael from the ACLU, where he's policy counsel. Before that, Michael was a consumer rights advocate at Maine Equal Justice. And before that, he worked at the Portland Law Firm, Law Firm Verrill, a graduate of Boston College Law School. Michael is also a member of the city's upcoming charter commission. So Michael, thanks for joining us today. Thank you so much for having me, Colin. Yeah, yeah. I know I gave a quick little background there for you, but what made you want to, and how did you become the policy counsel for the Maine ACLU? I spent a lot of my spare time as a lawyer in private practice, working on social justice type things. And in the course of doing that, I met everyone who works at the ACLU of Maine. And the prospect of doing what I did for free part-time, and to some extent pro bono, green-lighted by my law firm, this prospect of doing that full-time struck me as very attractive. And when there was an opening I applied, and probably through some administrative error, I got hired. And how long have you been with them? About a year and a half. So I remember when you and I first spoke probably about six, seven, eight months ago, it was regarding the city's effort to put a ban on facial recognition technology. So why do you think that was something from a civil liberties perspective that was important for the city? Facial recognition is a very, very dangerous tool in the hands of law enforcement. That's because it poses grave threats to our civil liberties when it works. And it poses grave threats to our civil liberties when it does not work. Let me tell you a quick story about what happened to a Colorado man, a white man who was a banker, very middle-class to upper middle-class, had a family, kids house in the suburbs, I think in the suburbs of Denver, Colorado. One day a team of heavily armed police officers came to his house and arrested him because they determined, using facial recognition technology, that he had committed a bank robbery. He was arrested, imprisoned, and eventually cleared. But in this entire process, he lost his marriage and he lost custody over his children. And all that happened because of a case of mistaken identity and facial recognition was the culprit.  And so the story in Colorado is an illustration of what could happen throughout the country, including in Portland, if facial recognition started to be widely used. There's now a bill in the state legislature sponsored by Portland's representative, Grayson Luckner, to ban facial recognition statewide. If that passed, we would be the first state to do so. Great, and another thing I know you've spoken about, I think we've spoken about before, is also the police's use of body cameras in schools. So I know that with SROs, at least at some point, maybe temporarily being out of schools, is that a victory in banning that kind of technology? And in general, why is prohibiting that in schools important to begin with? Great, you've asked two questions. I'll take them one after the other. The first question is, why should police in schools be prohibited from wearing body cameras? And the second question is, why should police be prohibited from working in schools altogether? The first question has to do with what police do on the streets and what police do in schools. And what they do is what they swear and oath to do, which is uphold the laws that govern us. Now, a lot of the laws that govern us, if they were strictly enforced in every scenario where they could potentially be applied, would criminalize a lot of our behavior. For instance, in a school, if a kid is walking down the hallway and they're going through puberty, they're having a particularly bad day, they kick a trash can. That could be interpreted as criminal mischief, which is a crime under Maine's statutes. If a kid is tussling with another kid, either consensually or non-consensually. Maybe it's a friendly fight, maybe it's not a friendly fight. That could be interpreted as assault or assault and battery under Maine's statutes. All of these behaviors that students engage in and that we engage in day to day through the eyes of a police officer who has sworn to uphold the laws of Maine are potentially criminal. And what that means is the very presence of a police officer in school has a strong chance of criminalizing ordinary student behavior. Now, when you add a camera to the body of the police officer who's looking at this behavior, what that camera does is it multiplies the pairs of eyes that perceive student behavior. And it also stores footage of student behavior in a police server where many police officers a week later, two weeks later, a month later can find criminal behavior. And so the very presence of police in schools criminalizes student behavior, but the presence of police in schools with cameras on their bodies further criminalizes student behavior and strengthens what researchers and advocates have referred to as the school to prison pipeline or the school to supervision pipeline. What this means in short is ordinary student behavior, developmentally appropriate behavior gets treated as a criminal infraction. The behavior gets referred to a prosecutor, the prosecutor brings charges. And next thing you know, the student has a criminal record is entangled in the criminal legal system and it's possibly incarcerated. What that does is it starts the student, it starts the young person on a journey into second class status having a criminal record, having any source of sort of entanglement with the criminal legal system, dramatically magnifies your chances of being passed up for a job, rejected for an apartment, rejected from an institution of higher education and all kinds of other consequences. Great, great. And so those are two more specific questions and this is more general. Are there, what are a few things that you're working on with the Maine ACLU that are bubbling to the forefront or you'd like people to know about or you think are important that folks are knowing about in the coming months and year here? We are taking positions on dozens of bills in the legislature. And so if listeners and viewers are particularly interested in an issue, chances are that we have weighed in on lots of bills in the legislature that touch that issue. Our priorities right now are reforming Maine's system for responding to substance use disorders. You know, last year over 500 people died from opioid overdoses in the same period. Only a couple hundred people more died from COVID-19. And so we have a major health crisis in Maine and New England throughout the country that's driven by despair and that we've been using the criminal legal system to solve. We have a list of bills that we're working to push in the legislature that would do all kinds of things to the drug system and to the state's response to drug use that would move the state away from treating drug use as a crime and toward treating it as a health issue. And that includes decriminalizing drugs it includes the establishment of safe use sites throughout the state starting with Portland. My view personally is Maine has lots of safe use sites for drugs and those are bars and pubs where you can safely consume alcohol, which is a drug. Cafes as well where you can safely consume coffee, a drug that I was raised with and that was invented by the country I grew up in. We don't have a similar approach to drugs. Portugal has a program where it has established safe use sites and the results have been extremely hopeful and inspiring. And I think we would save lives to replicate it in Maine. Other legislative work that we've been doing focuses on criminalization of other health issues, behavioral disorders, mental health challenges, poverty and homelessness. Over half of the people in our jails right now have some form of substance use disorders. What that means is we are sending people to jail because we don't have a strong enough healthcare infrastructure to get people the treatment that they need. And so a lot of our advocacy in the legislature has to do with not just diverting resources from the criminal legal system to the healthcare system but creating new unhealthful resources in the healthcare system so that the criminal legal system can shrink to a fraction of a fraction of its current size. And I don't know how much time you have but I can continue down this road if you want. Those are good but I do wanna shift for the last little bit here because I know you personally, in addition to being a member of the Maine ACLU, you're a member of the city's upcoming charter commission. So you were one of almost 40 people who applied to be appointed to that. So I was just curious what interested you in wanting to be a member of this upcoming charter commission. Great, thank you. Once again, there must have been an administrative error in my being selected as one of the three charter commissioners. I'm thankful to the clerk who must have made a mistake but what drove me to apply is the events of last summer. The George Floyd and Breonna Taylor rebellion made me feel a greater sense of responsibility for the structure of my city, of the city of Portland, which I'd lived in for about five years but I'd never really felt like I belonged to until I met a group of people who had grown up here and the thing that brought me together with that group of people was the response, the mass response, the protests and the demonstrations against police violence and structural racism. And that made me feel like I had a place in Portland and belonged in Portland and with a greater sense of belonging I think comes a desire to take more responsibility for the community and institutions that one feels like they belong to. And fundamentally that's what pushed me to apply. I'm also just interested in the legal puzzle and the constitutional questions that arise from the process of rewriting a charter. I wanted to be a part of that process for purely selfish intellectual reasons in addition to the reasons I mentioned earlier. Great and we're just about almost out of time but I do have one last question for you. This actual upcoming race for the Charter Commission that folks who are gonna be elected, it was a very high turnout, kind of unusual for the city. So what do you make of that? What do you make of that high number of folks who took out papers and turned them back in? It's extremely exciting. I think Portland should be grateful that there's a great deal of interest and enthusiasm behind this effort. It's good for a democratic system to generate engagement and involvement. Governments are only as effective and as good as the level of pressure and the level of involvement that residents and citizens demonstrate. And I think that the events of the last year have increased the desire for political participation among the people who live in Portland. So I think it's a very hopeful and exciting development. And I think it has the potential to make Portland a more engaged democracy that it has the potential to raise the temperature of Portland's politics, which is a great thing. It has the potential to increase the amount of scrutiny that decisions made by Portland's government are met with. These are all great and excellent developments. I'm not a fan of sleepy democracies where only a core group of highly educated and well-connected insiders know what's going on. I think what's happening in Portland is that participation and involvement are being democratized, and that's a great thing. Well, great. Well, thank you, Michael. I appreciate you taking some time to chat with us on these very important issues. And now we're gonna throw it over to Nick Lund from the Maine Audubon. Great, thank you so much, Colin. Good morning, everyone. Nick Lund here, staffer at Maine Audubon, columnists for Into the Wild and Berger. And do you guys hear that? Do you hear that? The sound of billions of tiny wings working their way north, beating against the wind. That's right, it is spring finally. Thank goodness. And that means it is time for spring migration. This is what a good spring migration looks like, just absolute paradise spinning around in a field of flowers. You can't see the birds, but they're there, they're coming. And this is what it looks like, a good spring migration. This is not a photograph, I understand, but hundreds of different species of birds all working their way north, all in their sharp breeding colors, all looking great, all coming up, getting ready to breed, getting ready to have babies, getting ready to sing their little hearts out, getting ready to show off to birders like you and me. Let's do a quick numbers check here. So this is a map of the United States showing migrations, bird migration. So we'll look at the blue arrows here, the blue arrows are spring migration. And right now, starting now, already starting, not quite in the thick of it in Maine yet, but on its way, about three and a half billion birds are flying their way north from the Caribbean, from Central and South America, from Mexico, coming in, coming up north. About two and a half billion of those will continue on through the United States and head up to the wonderful boreal forest in Canada where they are gonna lay their eggs, have their babies and eat their fill. The orange arrows, just so we're talking about it, is fall migration. About four billion birds are gonna be coming south out of Canada in the fall. And about 4.7 billion are gonna be coming, picking up the United States and move in south to the Caribbean tropics, et cetera. Why, of course, is it a larger number in the fall than it is in the spring? Because they all had babies over the summer, and so there's more birds to fly south. So this is what we're talking about. We're talking about billions of birds with a bee here. I should say, too, if you probably double these numbers to get the birds that are non-migratory or birds that are resident throughout the United States, that gives you an estimate about the total number of birds in the United States, maybe seven billion or so. So huge numbers of birds. And what species are we talking about, right? Just some beauties. Let me just show you. This is some eye candy here. These birds are mostly what we're talking about today, mostly neotropical migrants. And some of the most famous are these warblers. Through Maine, we're gonna have about 25 or so species of warblers, these brightly colored songbirds, all with their own sharp little uniforms and their own songs. This here with the yellow cap, this is a chestnut-side warbler. You can see that little chestnut markings showing on its flanks right there, real stunner. This is a magnolia warbler. Beautiful, not in a magnolia here, but this is where they like to spend their winters. Beautiful yellow-chested, got black streaks down there. This one's singing, so it's a little ruffled up, but cool little black eye patch. One of the most beautiful birds in the country is the male scarlet tannager. This picture does not do it justice. If you were to actually look at this bird in real life, you'd have to put sunglasses on because it's so gleamingly bright scarlet with those jet black wings. Beautiful bird again. And then another warbler, a common yellow throat, it's called.  Again, this picture, not doing the correct justice. They like to stay low in watery reeds. Very common bird, this black bandit mask and the yellow throat there. These are just some of the millions and billions of birds that are winging their way north right now. Why, why, why are we doing this? Why do so many birds when it's springtime come all the way up? What is the point? The point is food, right? But it's not this food, right? These are the different types of seeds that we stock in our feeders right now and keep full for the chickadees and finches and things over the winter. This is food, this is bird food, but this is not the food that is causing billions of songbirds to come flying out from the tropics. What we are talking about is this insects, right? Insects, these birds are flying up because as we all know, in the thick of a main summer, we're covered in insects. This place is just flying and buzzing and crawling with insects. All of those insects are delicious food for somebody, including these little buggers here. We don't like to see them.   But they really aren't the type of insect that most birds are coming for. The number one best type of food, if you're trying to raise a baby, right? If you're trying to grow a young clutch of birds, you want these bad boys, these bad boys, caterpillars. In the spring and summer, in Maine, there are, I don't even know, trillions of caterpillars that are crawling around. So these are the young of butterflies, the young of tons of moths that are inching their way along the undersides of every piece of bark and every leaf in the forest, right?  Why? They're abundant, right? That's good. They're easy to catch, right? Caterpillars aren't running away from you. You can just kind of grab them off there. And they're full of protein, right? They are growing creatures themselves. And so they're packed full.  And so caterpillars are the number one favorite food for these growing birds. And it's the reason, as all of these caterpillars emerge in the springtime, it's the reason that all these billions of birds are risk, a huge migration to fly up. It's pretty dangerous. We'll talk about that in a minute. They're flying.  Insects are it, right? Here are some screenshots from a Facebook group called What the Birds Eat, showing different migratory birds munching on insects. There's all kinds of weird stuff, crickets and dragonflies and weird things. I don't even know what they are, some sort of arthropod. About 99% of birds in the United States, terrestrial birds, maybe not sea birds, but birds on land either eat insects or feed insects to their young, including birds that don't eat insects any other time of the year. So for example, your cardinals, right? Your cardinals that are coming to your feeders are coming and eating seeds.  So even those seed eating birds. So I want to pause here really quickly because insects are super important, right? So as we are coming up on the spring planting season, Maine Audubon and everyone who knows who wants to protect migratory birds, protect native species of birds, encourage you to plant native plants that are plants that have evolved to be at home in the main climate, because those plants have a great relationship with native insects. And we need lots of those caterpillars. These aren't pest insects, I'm sorry, I showed you the mosquito slide a minute ago. We're mostly talking about caterpillars that turn into moss that you never see, they don't bother you, but they're very important.  Okay, cool. All right, let's go back to migration. We are learning a whole ton about how birds migrate and exactly what times they do it. This is a little video slide, animated slide from eBird, which is a big bird reporting database, showing bird migration. So this is an Eastern Phoebe, these birds are here now. They winter in the Southern United States and boom, April, May, these birds flood up here. Eastern Phoebe's are famous for being one of the earliest migrants in spring, they are here now in April. So if you could hear a little gray fly catcher, singing in your backyard, it may be one of these birds. Let's show another map. So this is a woodthrush, woodthrushes spend their winters further south. This bird's in the Yucatan in Central America. And here we go, starting in January, let's get this in play in here, February, March, April, and you can see that boom, in about mid-April, May, they flood across the country. An unusual pattern here, watch how they jump from the Yucatan straight across. You notice they're not going up around Eastern Mexico. They gather in the Yucatan, they jump right across the Gulf of Mexico. It's pretty incredible and pretty dangerous. This is not an animated slide, but I wanna show you here another, this is bird called a morning warbler, beautiful little warbler. And I want you to notice here, this is a little harder to see, you can see the purple down here in Panama and Columbia and Venezuela. That is the wintering area of the morning warbler. And here's their breeding area. See all the purple up in Canada and the United States. I wanna point this out because it's the difference between the Panama, these winter range and the Northern range is much tighter in the winter. A lot of conservationists think about, making sure we protect not just the wide swaths of Canadian and Eastern forests where these birds breed, but also the much smaller areas of Central and South America where lots of species are concentrated in the winter. So when we think about conservation, we think I have to think about the winter and the summer ranges of these birds. Just a couple of different things. I mentioned all the warbler species up above here are three different ones. They're closely related birds, but they've all evolved different ecological niches and that has resulted in some very different territories. On this here on the left is bluebird, black-throated blue warbler and absolute stunner. It is sort of an understory bird, high elevation. Sometimes its breeding range sort of runs the appellations and up into Maine. Black and white warbler, not very creatively named, but that's what it is. A beautiful bird, winter is in Florida and comes through a big swath of the East. And then the yellow-rumped warbler. This is a bird that actually has evolved and learned in recent years to be able to eat fruit through the winter and so it doesn't need to migrate quite as far. And we actually have a few individuals at winter in Maine throughout the winter. Migration is not just for these little songbirds. Of course, our loons migrate. Why do loons migrate? It's not really for food. It's because they're breeding areas freeze solid in the wintertime, right? They spend their winters on lakes and ponds. Those things ain't gonna fly in the winter so they gotta go to open water. So they really only fly as far as they need to which is mostly the ocean. Loons are actually much more commonly seen in the winter on the ocean than they are in the summertime on their lakes. Here is an American black duck. They have sort of another sort of inland coastal and then coastal in the winter and then inland when it's frozen migration pattern. This is the way a lot of ducks do. You can't dabble in a frozen lake. So they move up and down. Raptors migrate too. Of course, not all raptors, about 60%. I would say raptors are migratory. Some going very far, including this Swainsons hawk which you can see some of their individuals goes all the way down through Argentina. You'll notice that unlike the woodthrush a minute ago with Swainsons hawks don't like to migrate over water. A lot of raptors don't like to go over water. So this bird is going right through the tight Panama canal area and up into the United States. And believe you me, if you are in some of these narrow areas in Central America during migration, you can see millions and millions of raptors. It's very cool. It looks like this. So I wanna make sure I'm on my time here. Here is another bird. This is a kestrel, another small falcon.  And then I have to say too, there are birds that don't migrate. Why do you not migrate? It's cause you don't need to, your food is fine. You can eat food in the winter. These birds are black-capped chickadee, the state bird of Maine are cedar waxwing here and are red crossbow. They've all learned to develop a diet of fruit, not exclusively but they can feed themselves through the winter when there aren't the insects around to eat. So that's why these birds don't migrate. It saves them a lot of time and trouble. All right, quickly. About migration, mostly happening at night. So right now every night, if the conditions are right about billions of birds are picking up and flying north, safer at night, you can avoid predators, generally calmer at night and birds use the stars, believe it or not, to migrate. How do we know that? There have been tests. Birds actually can tell north-south. Some people can put a, they did this test where they put an ink pad on the bottom of a cone and then the bird at nighttime so they can't see anything and where they're going. They could see in the morning which direction the ink pad feet were going. And when they put stars, they like beamed fake stars above the circle, the birds would follow the stars, whether it was north or south or different directions. So we know that they are using the stars for migration. And it's pretty crazy, it's pretty crazy. Some of them are flying just in a few days. This is some satellite tags from a black pole warbler down there. And you can see that in spring migration they generally go a little slower. They don't wanna get too far ahead of themselves if it's still cold up there. But you can see that in the fall, these orange lines, these birds in about two days, they're smaller than like your thumb are flying from Maine all the way to Colombia, Venezuela. Pretty insane. All right, as you are preparing for spring migration, how are you gonna get yourself ready? There are tools now, right? We are living in a data-driven world. I recommend everyone go to this site, Birdcast, from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. They use weather radar and timing patterns, all sorts of science to give forecasts about when really big migration nights might be coming. So check out Birdcast, you can see exactly when to expect lots of birds to fly in. And let me tell you, it's coming. These are the birds, look at all these. This is about 30 species of birds that may be in Maine. This is just a small swath. So people like me, birders and everyone out there should be ready for spring migration, should be excited and here it comes. Thank you. Well, thank you, Nick, and thank you, Michael, especially both of you for coming on our show today. A lot of interesting facts. And Michael, the insight on what you're doing with the ACLU I think is very important and interesting for those of us who are not connected to that kind of world to be more connected. Also, we wanna mention we've been looking in depth the key issues facing Portland and recently investigated the impact of closing, the closing of Milestone, the one and only Detox, one of the only Detox centers in the state. So that is a very important story. I hope you all read more about that. And also, if you didn't see this, you didn't see this anywhere else, we talked to the Portland counselor, Taichung, who criticized the local progressive leaders for their insensitivity to the Asian bias. So pick up our paper every week. We're out there everywhere. Give us an email, call us, tell us what you're thinking, what your reactions are, or just some news tips. We'd love to hear from you and thank you again to Michael and Nick and the Portland Media Center. We appreciate you and look for us next month. Thanks, everyone.


We've already talked a little bit about how drugs can act as agonists or antagonists for neurotransmitters, and that can be a mechanism for how a drug works. So we're going to look at a little bit general, a little bit specific. We're not going to look at specific drugs, but we're going to look at if a drug acts like an agonist. Then what are some mechanisms that it can use to do that? And if the drug acts like an antagonist, what are some mechanisms that it could use to do that? So remember an agonist is something that's going to increase the effect of the neurotransmitter, of a neurotransmitter. So if a drug is an agonist to a neurotransmitter, it's going to basically do the same thing that the neurotransmitter does, and there's several ways that this can happen. If a drug is an antagonist, it's going to decrease the effect of the neurotransmitter, and there's several ways that that can happen. Okay, let's talk about agonists first. In fact, what would be awesome is if you pushed pause and then just like brainstorm, like what are some things that a drug could do to increase the action of the neurotransmitter or to mimic the effect of the neurotransmitter? And well, dude, that's the very first one on my list is that it can basically look like the neurotransmitter. It looks and acts like, that's as like the neurotransmitter. It seems kind of obvious, but that means that it's going to bind to the proper receptor and stimulate the same response. What else can it do? An agonist could increase the neurotransmitter release. So an agonist could come in and bind to calcium channels and open up calcium channels, allow more calcium in, barf out more neurotransmitter, done. It increases the amount of neurotransmitter in there and so increases the effect of that neurotransmitter. That's an agonist action. It could also open, and this is kind of a weird one. It's even a channel that the neurotransmitter opens. So that's essentially having the same effect that the neurotransmitter has. And this is a huge one. An agonist molecule could come in and block the neurotransmitter enzyme. Now talk to me about that one. If a molecule comes in and blocks Pac-Man, what's going to happen to the neurotransmitter in the synapse? It's going to stay there. It's going to increase the drug blocked the enzyme and thereby increase the action of the neurotransmitter because it stayed in the synapse. Otherwise it would have gotten functionalized. Not a real word. Agonist actions. They're real folks, they're real. Look at these. I mean, I've said it. Did I say antagonist or agonist? I don't know. I meant antagonist actions. If an agonist opens the channel that a neurotransmitter opens, an antagonist is going to close it.  If an agonist, yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's actually look at this one. An agonist can block, think about this one, the sodium potassium pump. Does that blow your mind? What happens if the sodium potassium pump is blocked? You're not going to be able to maintain your membrane potential. And then can your neuron fire? No. And can you get neurotransmitter in the synapse if you don't get an action potential traveling down your neuron? No. I act like an antagonist. And my last one says I can block. I can block channels. I can close them and I can block them. What's the difference? Block channels or block channels? Dude, why don't we just block some channels? All right, I'll write it down. We'll block channels. How's that? A few block channels. Let's antagonize the system. Okay, we should be able to, as we go through the course, as you mess with your integration projects, you probably are going to be looking at treatments for various conditions. And one of the things, often treatments are drugs. And you should be able to identify is this drug acting as an agonist for something or an antagonist for something. Now the last thing we're going to talk about is an example of an illegal drug and some mechanisms by which it has the effect that it has.


Thanks for checking out this movie review video. This is for the 2020 film in Unquiet Grave and this is a shudder original and it's coming to shudder on Thursday June 24th and because I'm putting this review out ahead of time and because it's a newer film coming to shudder This is a no spoiler review. Although thematically speaking. I will be talking about some theme type things But none of the actual events of the film so Directed by Terrence Cray now. This is Terrence's first film directing He also wrote the script along with Christine Nyland. This is both of their first feature-length script Writing credits and Christine Nyland is the female lead in the film as well It's her and one other actor So it's very you can tell it's very low budget just knowing that it's only two people Very low budget you can really tell by the look and the feel of the film low budget Which isn't necessarily a problem like I said Thursday June 24th, it'll be on shudder quick little synopsis Not telling you too much like a sentence or two. It's about a husband who loses his wife and The sister of that woman who kind of come together and commiserate with one another about the loss and then look into ways to deal with that Obviously, it's a horror film so you can kind of make a guess at what types of stuff and up going on But I won't say anything else about that you can check it out for yourself And like I do want to say I want to say this up front. I say this a lot Every film is worth watching at least once if for no other reason than to figure out how you personally Feel about that film. I'm gonna say that because I did not really like this film I found a lot of problems with it There are some good things and that's what I always do with these reviews always give the good and the bad So it's kind of all laid out there for people as well as just me getting my feelings out there on it But overall, I don't think I would personally recommend this movie one of the big reasons being it's very Long and drawn out and feels relatively boring in my opinion I had a hard time Maintaining interest in the film because this is another one of these films and I know I've talked about this kind of recently but It's it's more of a short film. I mean the the idea is solid. The premise is there There is a resolution at the end, but it's not a film that Needs an hour and 15 minutes now I will applaud the filmmakers on not making it an hour and a half because my god That would that would be way too much for this film But the unfortunate thing is it's about an hour and 15 minutes with credits and it's still too long Unfortunately for what the material is and this just goes back to one of my gripes with film in general Which is when that you can tell that there's like a lot of stretching out for runtime purposes it feels like they stretch this film out just about as much as they could and An hour and 15 is basically all they could get It's tough The pacing really does suffer because of it. So yeah, but let me run through my notes and I'll give you the good in the bed The opening sequence sets up the backstory to it Which I think is pretty efficiently done while it also delivers some some a cryptic dialogue between the two main characters Which I think kind of helps to drive a little bit of interest at first as to what are they really hinting at? Like where are we really going with this? interesting enough Presentation of the premise like I said the back stories kind of thrown in there relatively quickly But then it just slows down a whole lot from there because with that opening sequence it feels like They're going to try and hit the ground running and then they really pull things back and really slow things down Which kind of bought I mean it bogs down the story. It really does Because of the dialogue and how it slowly progresses with a lot of rehashing You get the idea that this is going to be a slow film and it definitely is now What I'm talking about rehashing is a lot of the dialogue Especially early on in the film ends up feeling very repetitive that they're kind of just talking about the same thing over and over again Just using some different words Which for some people maybe they're gonna actually really enjoy that I really don't I don't like to have things rehashed I like to get you know new stuff continually with films And I just feel like the rehashing if it has a real purpose to the overall story That's fine, but I didn't feel like that was the case with this Some could argue in some ways it is important to it, but I just don't see it as much The directing is not bad with this. It's not like flashy directing There are a few shots that I think looked relatively inspired, but for the most part it feels like some relatively basic directing The acting is solid. I will say for how low budget you can tell this film is I think it's solid acting So that was good Now that said for a film that is as slow as this is and focuses as much as it does on just two people I think to really pull off something like this you need Phenomenal actors and the problem is you're not gonna get phenomenal actors usually with super low low budget films The phenomenal actors are typically the ones who have already been discovered and Good luck. You're gonna have to pay them a lot. So it's this kind of hard situation where a lot of super low-budget films like this are really just tied down by the constraints of budget, you know, and That's not everything with this film though because definitely things could be edited down and the story could be You know kind of spiced up quite a bit more even through just dialogue in my opinion About 20 minutes in they try to get the story rolling and the camera work to execute that specific event That you think's really gonna get things rolling is effective. This is one of those moments where I was like Oh, the camera works a little more inspired here. There's like a reverse Sequence like a reverse footage sequence that looked really cool I really enjoyed that nice artistic flourish to it and then kind of like a quick cut that works really well as well And I think that helped to build like a little bit of tension but the problem is after that a lot of the tension just goes away and that's kind of a Reoccurring issue with the film for me Which is there are times where it starts to build some tension and then it just gets rid of the tension by stagnating So it's kind of like Fog building up in your house and then someone opens the window and it just kind of slowly seeps out Like that's how it ends up feeling once that fog or tension starts to build up Someone opens that window and it just kind of seeps out over time. So Unfortunate a lot is shot in the dark with this film And you can for the most part you can see what you need to see and see what's going on which is good So I did want to throw that out there and say good job for the most part on doing lighting There are some moments here and there where it's a little too dark And I was like I wish I could see a little bit more But overall did a pretty good job, especially for how much of this is shot in the dark. So nice There are some really odd cuts in this film at one point There's there's a sequence like when a guy is going to you know settle in to go to bed okay, and There's just some there's like three weird cuts that they put in there where you can tell it's because they're cutting out events of Things he was doing getting ready to go to bed But prior to that they were showing pretty much everything in the film and not doing those weird cuts So the fact that it happens in there like that and then never happens again Makes it feel even more out of place and more odd as far as the film goes So I definitely think that should not have been in there I think Honestly with how stretched out this film is for runtime anyway Just put the all the events in there honestly because it takes people out of the film even more than the slow Pacing does when you see kind of like weird cuts like that It's like a speed bump when you're driving a car and you didn't see the speed bump coming. It's like oh my gosh There already said that there isn't much of a score to speak of which was kind of weird because most films You just take for granted that there will just be a score to it pretty much There is music in this but it's very sparse even more sparse than I've ever seen in any film before I want to say So I'm usually a big proponent of you know things being pretty quiet so that you can allow people to really take in You know the dialogue and the scene and and feel how they want to feel about the tension or whatever it's going on But I felt like there wasn't enough music at this point now Just get you know just get something very basic or reuse a certain song over and over again That's fine. Have it really low-key in the background. You don't need it to be like blasting at people But yeah, it just felt like it was kind of missing music that should have been there There is story resolution But I wouldn't say that there's actually good payoff in my opinion There just needed to be more work put into where they ultimately wanted to take the film and Actually a lot of you know, they needed to have more spiced up Events as the film was going on and like I said it doesn't all need to be tied into like bigger budget stuff Like you know having practical effects or doing CGI or anything like that like you can have more tension between the characters you can have I Don't know more interesting camerawork kind of pull off some tricks There are a lot of things that can be done and it just feels like this one has a very basic approach to it and Then there's another odd cut to end the film which I really did not like I thought that was a very bad way To end the film and it also feels like they end the film intentionally at a point where they're like They want you to wonder what was what was gonna happen next but You know at the same time that it wouldn't have been anything all that interesting so it was kind of like just Have it in there. Like I don't understand why you can't just put it in the film I just didn't understand that that choice But like I said, you know, there are gonna be people out there who really love this film and I hope there are I really hope there are because for every film I really do hope there's an audience because you know these filmmakers they made a film and that is a big achievement Certainly better filmmakers than I am. So, you know, I know I'm reviewing it But this is just my personal opinion on it and I wish them well I 100% do and I'd love to see more stuff from them Yeah, and hopefully They grow from this Not my review, but making their first film This plays with the question of how far would you go to get back to how things used to be in your life after you have a Traumatic experience or a loss or anything like that, which is a great idea I do like the kind of underlying theme in it It also speaks to processing loss and how it really does need to be done on an individual basis Just kind of the idea of you're not necessarily going to find What you want in other people as far as dealing with your own personal Traumas grief loss things like that, you know, you have to work on it individually You can work it work on it with another person, but you also have to work on it individually So it is a good point in this film Bravo on making the film an hour and 15 minutes like I said before but unfortunately It's still too long and too slow for what the actual script is and the content of the story The story idea is not bad, but it's a vague Concept that you really need to find an engaging way to pull off and I just don't think it was engaging enough like I said It's a solid idea. It's just the execution of it Didn't do it. It just it at least just did not do it for me And like I said, it does bear repeating solid acting in this but For something like this where you're focusing on these two Characters and not a whole lot's happening in the film. You need phenomenal actors to hold people Hold the eyeballs on the screen basically so That's just my opinion on it. I would love to hear differing opinions on this. What am I missing? Do you love it? Do you hate it? Are you in between? Let's talk about it in the comments and go ahead spoilers in the comments I always do that for these videos and we can just you know have a dialogue about it, but regardless I do need to do my Rating so out of five stars with half stars in play. I got to give it one and a half stars Unfortunately, I was between one and a half and two, but really it's just it's too long and meandering and I just don't feel like it comes together I got to go one and a half stars on this. I can't really recommend it But check it out for yourself and make up your own mind and then come back and tell me what your thoughts were I'm I would love to hear plenty of people say, you know what? This is actually a really great film I would love to hear that and tell me why let's go But regardless, I really do thank you for taking your time to watch this Please do me a quick favor hit that subscribe button if you like this review or any review I've ever done or any other view or any other video. I've ever done It's painless. It costs you no money. It's literally a second. Just hit that subscribe button And it means a lot to me. It really keeps me motivated to keep doing these reviews Also, just hit the notification bell button because on that way you'll know when I'm putting up new videos Whether it's review videos or haul videos or any of that jazz, but regardless like I said I do thank you for taking your time to check this out and until next time keep it brutal


What's up everyone it's your girl Kensie here from Leighton Sports Arts and I'm ripping a few WWE boxes here for Jeremy Z.  All right, let's go ahead and get started here for you Jeremy. Just double check all cards do ship out of the women's division. All right, I'm going to start with the women's division box here do revolution and then end with some frizzle. Looking for one autograph guaranteed. Let's see who we can get some cool die cuts out of here too. Got Mandy Rose some of the die cuts I got I was just talking about got hollow Sasha Banks I guess we should say foil huh same difference but just want to be correct. Yeah, it's up to you really. Got foil and the Ajax. All right, let's see a big auto. We've got Molly Holly on the women's division. Nice, there you go Jeremy. That is 22 of 25. Nice low numbered one there. Like your autograph. You got a little smiley face in the Y there. That's cool. That'll do it for your auto out of the box. Maybe we'll get a bonus, who knows. Foil of Asuka. Foil Nikki Cross. We've WWE select comes out next week. We've got foil, Alexa Bliss or possibly the week after I know it was coming out soon. That'll be a cool one. We've got wow, look at that patch. Charlotte flair patch commemorative logo patch that is six 73 of 150 superstar logo patch. That is really cool. There you go Jeremy. Thanks on there. That was a good jinx of a bonus hit. Foil of Tony Storm. Aliyah on the Dica. Foil of NXT Women's Champion. Whoever is having a great Sunday had a great weekend with the fam just hanging out relaxing. Appreciate you're watching the stream, hopping in any breaks, grabbing a personal. Always appreciate all the support. Me and Jack's foil. Again, every group break spot you buy into until Tuesday will get you entered into the big promo, nationals promo that we've got going on. Again, if you're not sure what that is, we do have a national breaks tab at the top of late and sports cards.com shows you all the breaks and then the promotion itself. Mandy Rose on the foil. Again, grand prize is a round trip for two out here to Orlando at the LSE headquarters. Be a guest breaker for the day. Hang out with some of the breakers, grab dinner with us. And then $10,000 shopping spree in the shop. Candice LaRae foil. So definitely don't miss out on that 100 total promos in that with the possibility of winning. So definitely check that out. And that's the grand prize we've got. It's a Spotted Almanac for a year. Sasha Binks on the foil. Spotted the Superbowl Mixer, which was valued at almost 15 grand. So really big prizes. Hobby Boxes, specialized coupons for group breaks for a year. Rich went all out this year on that. Ray Ripley foil. All right, that'll do it for the women's division there for you, Jeremy Knight's box. Do WWE Revolution next. Let's see here, that's my girl, Ron the Rousey. You gotta win the grand prize if you come internet famous. Sounds like a plan, Chris. That'd be cool. All right, Revolution. We have a Chad Gable, our sunburst out of 99. Shockwave Mandy Rose. Got Iron Chic on the Fractal JBL. Cianotto. Let's see in on it. Groove Rookie of Zion Quinn. Shawn Michaels. So 49. How about a Bobby Lashley auto? There you go, Jeremy. Jeremy's on a roll with the WWE boxes. Heck yeah. 26 of 49. We've got Astro Rick, Rick Box, Supernova of Kevin Owens. No, Chris, I don't believe so. I haven't seen him before. Cameron Grimes on the Fractal. Harlem Pete. Cianottos are not guaranteed out of these Revolution boxes. So nice hit. Astro of Demian Priest and Vortex of Asuka on the Sunburst out of 99. A couple packs left and we'll get into your Prism WWE, Jeremy. Astro of Andre the Giants, D-Generation X. Last pack of Revolution. Okay, we've got Natalia on the Cosmic out of 149 and Vortex of Byron. Let me read that man. A Bronbreaker. Sweet. Another nice box here for you, Jeremy. All right, last but not least, your Prism WWE. Here we go. Here we go. Cena Ford. Again, Rookie Mackenzie. Cracked Ice of Boa. Got Purple Mike Foley. Next level, Rey Mysterio. That's in Rookie. Baylor. Mace. Got Silver Rookie. Gyro. Red Rookie. Odyssey Jones. Asuka on the Golden Sir. Okay, see Owens. We've got Hyper of Randy Orton. Red Wave. Ultimate Warrior. Fearless Kofi Kingston. Crimeate Rookie. Bless her. Red Wave of Kevin Owens. Chrismatic Entrances. Drew McIntyre. Sticking Together. Jade Rookie. Booker T. Jordan Devlin Silver. First Auto Up. We've got Legendary Auto of Trish Stratus. Trish Stratus. Legendary Auto. First one out there for you, Jeremy. Next level of Riddle. Harlem Rookie. Cracked Ice Becky Lynch. Purple Shelton Benjamin. Prismatic Entrances. Randy Orton. Silver Rookie of Danny Luna. Red Mick Foley. Next level of AJ Styles. Undertaker. We've got Hyper of Joe Kofi. Red Wave of Naomi. And Gold Insert AJ Styles. Strength. Strong. Silver of Kate and Carter. Orange Wolfgang. And Fearless Ray Mysterio. Wendy Chu Rookie on the Front. Just leaving. Hold on. Silver Demian Priest. We've got Aqua Santos Escobar. That's a 33 of 49 on that one. Prismatic Becky Lynch. I'm not sure. We might have it up on the side. If it's not there, then I don't believe we do. Might be a little on that product. I know a lot of people ordered that recently. Let me check here for you after this break. MVP to Rock. Got Hyper MVP. Red Wave, Indy Hartwell. Becky Lynch. Next level. Last pack here for you, Jeremy. Looks like we've got your second auto coming up. Shina. Stereo Triple H. Silver of Nicki Ash. Auto. We've got MVP on the Sensational Signatures. MVP. And Fearless Big E. All right, Jeremy. That'll do it for your WWE boxes. Thanks again for hopping in. That was a fun rip and we'll get these right out to you.


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