It's actually a beautiful day outside. It's not too humid. Recently it's been so humid, so hot. And today it's actually pretty nice. We got some cloud cover in the air this morning. The breeze is just feeling pretty good because it's been dead calm, like no wind, like humidity through the roof. It has been so bad recently. But it just feels good to get outside without being drenched in sweat. Let me tell you, the last week has been brutal. It's been brutal. If you guys are down here, you guys already know something about the humidity, the thickness in the air. I went outside to get something out of my truck last night. And I just took a breather, man. I was like, whoa, it's just like this. The air is so thick. If you guys know what I'm talking about, let me know down below. But it's been a little weird. But if you guys are new to the channel, please hit that subscribe button, hit the notification bell, and also hit the like button if you guys have been enjoying the content. Hope you guys are having a great morning. Today we're gonna be doing some frog fishing at a place that I haven't been to in a very long time. So let's go ahead and check out this place. So we've got my rod right there, but no need to talk about that right now. But this is the beautiful little place that we're gonna be fishing today. And yes, there's pads. That is one of my favorite things to fish of all time is some pads. And we're gonna be taking the old brand new six sense frog. We used it, I think we used it a couple of times before. That's not the poppin' pickle. That's a different one, but it's still a sexy looking frog. It walks pretty good. It's still a juicy looking color too. And I got this paired up on my Mott Crush by Luz, if you guys were wondering with 65 pound braid. And that is the setup right there. So we're gonna go ahead and hop into this. By the way, I'm gonna put out a little update about the Yachty video. You guys have been asking me about it. I believe it's dropping in a couple of days, man. I believe it's dropping in a couple of days. Just stay tuned to my Instagram. You need to go follow me there because I keep you guys updated. You know, I'll post stuff about it. Make sure I keep you guys informed. It's gonna be awesome, guys. I'm excited to release this. It was a fun day on the water. It was an awesome experience because Yachty got to do something different that he's usually not doing every single day. So I think you guys are gonna enjoy the video.  It's one of my favorite videos we've ever filmed over the years that I've been doing it. But let's go ahead and get this started today. We're gonna get that frog down there by the pads and hopefully get a fish. Fishing has been tough. We're gonna try our best today. And you best of bet, we got that big bass energy. All right, this is our first problem about this pond is it's very hard to fish. Like, there's nowhere to really cast at, to be honest with you.  I'm not feeling too good about this. No snakey boys up in here, boys. You don't mess with no snakeies. We're gonna go around this way. It was already hard enough to fish.  I might come back here and actually pick up some of this trash. I might be what I, I might end up doing that. Oh my gosh, cause there's a lot of trash here. Do not litter guys. Do not litter. Ooh, did something jump there? The water was moving. Let's see. Cast this frog on that. Oh my God. See it's hard to catch everything about this situation. And then we got like trees above us. It's kind of hard to hook set. And you know, we got a frog too. So we're gonna have to give it to him. I haven't been fishing here in a very long time. There's some good fish in here. I've caught some good ones on frogs. Like I said, the only bad part about this place is, you know, being able to fish it from the bank, it's pretty difficult.  So I mean, we're gonna try our best. I just wanna see if we can hook a big one. I've lost a few really good fish out here. I've caught a few pretty good fish too. Alan Bob's caught a few good ones out here too. I'm actually caught some on a rat. I'm just hoping we get slammed on this frog. Ah, these pads are so thick. Why, why would you do that? Don't do that to me. The grass looks so good. Come on, what did I hook? First fish today. Not really fish, but first little catch. Got some grass. Nice.  This rod, this is my big hunkin' frog rod. Let's catch it over there. I'm telling you, if we hook a fish, I don't even know how I'm gonna get him in. I'm gonna be honest with you. All right, so that other side was just so difficult. I'm not gonna lie, it was so bad. So I'm gonna come over here. We can actually cast.  There's still some big pads. There's a lot of dollar pads as well. And this frog actually goes through the dollar pad. If you guys don't know what a dollar pad is, really, really small lily pad, pretty much. There's a ton. Gah! He has a good one. Hammered it through the dollar pads. Oh, he's not that big, what? Ha ha, he seems so big. I thought you were a good one. I don't care, man, that was awesome. Look at that. Yo-ho! Look at that, six cents frog. Just munched that thing right in the top of his mouth. That is awesome. Heck yeah, guys. Not a big fish by any means, but look how dark that bass is. If you guys are wondering why these fish get so dark, when they live up in this vegetation, in these pads, in this dirty grass, that's the color that gets on their body. Look how dark that fish is. Beautiful one, though. Just about a pound, hammered that frog. That was awesome right there. He came right through those dollar pads. This is gonna be a lot of fun if we can catch him like that. I'm gonna give him a toss, because there is no, I'm not even near the water. Just give him just a little throw. There he goes. Holy cow, first fish. That was awesome. He creamed it through the dollar pads. That was the first cast. That was a good sign. Oh man, that gets me excited, guys. So as I was saying, we were talking about the dollar pads. This frog can go through the dollar pads a lot easier. See, when you're fishing like big pads, like these big, thick pads, it's a little different. You're like trying to find these little open holes next to the pads to kind of get your frog through. Well, the dollar pads are a little bit different. You know, you can pretty much get your frog right through them. You know, they're so small that when you pop it, you're going right through it, and the fish can hit it right through the dollar pads without a problem. Gosh, that's a cast to be a good one. Oh yeah, that's like a two pounder. Oh my gosh. Are they really going to do this right now? Look how dark he is. That's almost a two pound fish right there. If he was a little bit fatter. Right there. Dude, you got to love frog fishing, guys. You got to freaking love it. Oh my God, they munching it. They're slamming it through those dollar pads. This is a good sign, man. Look at that beautiful bass. Another dark one, almost two pounds. He's just so skinny, man. He's long. He's got the head of a two pounder. He's got the body of it. Just needs a little more weight. Thank you, bud. Dude, this is crazy, man.  Give him a throw. All right, holy cow. Guys, they were hitting this frog, man. That was two casts around the same spot of dollar pads. I'm popping it pretty quick, too. I'm not really letting it sit too long. I'm just popping it across those dollar pads, trying to get that basses attention. And they're coming up and just hammering that thing. That one seemed like a big fish. First one I thought was a good one, too. And they hammered that frog. It's just so exciting.  And by the way, guys, these have not came out yet. I think you guys already know that, but for the people that have been asking me, hey, where can I get the six cents frog? They're actually not available. They're not available yet. But I'll keep you guys updated on that. And when they come available, I'll let you guys know. But man, like I was saying, these dollar pads, they can be deadly. Popping this frog fairly quick through them, trying to get a basses attention. They are blowing up through these dollar pads, man. Let's keep on casting and see if we can get some more. We caught two in the same spot, so that's a good sign. That is money. We should get hammered right there, boys. All right, so I brought another rod out here just to try. I actually have a stroker curl on a Texas rig, and this is in Green Pumpkin Burst. It's the one I've been just whacking them on recently. I've had a lot of luck for this stroker curl. We're gonna throw this on the edge of these pads. I've actually seen some bait popping around the edge of these dollar pads. So I think there's gonna be some fish right here on the edge. It'd be perfect for this little Texas rig to throw out there. You know, we threw around the frog a little bit, covered some water, tried to get some of the active ones in the pads and the dollar pads. Now we're gonna take a Texas rig, slow down, fish the edge, see if we can get some of them in the bite. Oh, yes. Oh, he's in those pads. Come on, fish. Dude, I had to crank that fish. I haven't done that in a minute. That felt good. That felt good. He's not a big one, but hey, I was on the stroker curl. They were right out there on the edge and I felt a little tiny guy. Give me a little toss, bud. Sorry. Hate to have to throw them, but I don't have a choice. That was awesome right there. Got one on the stroker. This thing has just been killing it recently, guys. So we switched up, we threw the frog, we covered the top, got the bites that we could, then we're like, you know what? Let's give them a different presentation. Let's fish a different part of this, or this vegetation. We got this stroker curl, started throwing it on the edge. Boom, got a bite. That's awesome, man. I just shows you, that's why you need to have different baits. I got another one, same cast. Oh yeah, that's a decent one. They might be loaded out there. Got a little lead, boys. Come on. Yes, he's still on. Dude, this is so much fun, man.  That was the same cast. They might be stacked out there. I didn't even move it. It hit the bottom and that fish already had it. Look how dark they are. In this vegetation. That is awesome, man. That's four fish already, dude. This is crazy because usually I don't catch them like this here. Fish must be biting right now. Old stroker curl getting munched. You gotta love that, man. We're gonna throw it right back in the same spot. There might be more. That's two casts in a row. I threw it right out there and got hammered. Look at the stuff that we're pulling up too. I don't even know. Look at that. It's all slimy. It's hard to get this fish through that cover. That's very important. All right, so let's talk about something for a second. So when you're fishing heavy cover like this, especially how I'm throwing out, when you guys can see, there's not, you know, I'm way out there. You know, there's at least 15 foot right here just for me to all the dollar pads and lily pads and grass. And then there's another 15 foot of lily pads and dollar pads that go out. So when you hook this fish, we have to huff them guys. Your rod needs to be up in the air. The last thing you wanna do is hook set sideways and be pulling sideways and dragging that fish. You wanna keep your rod high, keep that constant pressure, crank down on that fish and huff them in. Another important thing is to make sure you're using, you know, some heavy line when fishing this stuff because if you're over here throwing 10 to 15 pound fluorocarbon, I don't know. I got another one, same spot, boys. All right, watch me.  You guys can't really see. Look, I'm keeping my rod up, skirting that fish across. Bro, this is crazy. Holy cow, they're not big, but they're just loaded out there. It took my stroker crawl too. I'm gonna have to go back to my car, see if I have another one. I got them right by the eye. Beautiful little fish. You guys saw what I did there. You know, I hook set, I kept my rod high. You guys probably didn't even see my rod and reel in the frame and I was just cranking that fish across the grass.  You gotta keep that constant pressure. Keep your rod high. I don't think I've talked about this, which is a really good topic right now. But keep that rod high, crank that fish in. You know, a lot of people ask me, no, why are you reeling so fast? No, why are you doing this? Why are you doing that? That is why, you know, if you're fishing stuff like this, super heavy vegetation, you don't have a choice.  So another pretty bass. Give him a little toss. That's five, just like that, man. I'm gonna go see if I have some more stroker crawls in my truck. Well, I didn't have any stroker crawls, but I have a few clouts in here. We're gonna give that clout a try. I don't know if they're gonna eat it as good. Like recently, I haven't been catching them as much on the clout, but they've been loving the stroker crawl. And it puts off a little bit of vibration. Got those little tails fluttering in and through the water. They've been digging that, man. Like recently, that's really all I've needed to throw to catch fish. Like, yeah, I wanna experiment with some frogs and different stuff and just have some fun, but at the end of the day, if I just went out with a stroker crawl, I can freaking whack the heck out of them. So let's try this clout out. Let's see if they'll eat it over here. They're in the same area. There's so many fish stacked right there. We caught three in the same hole. And think about this too. We caught this two frogfish in the exact same spot as well. So that's another thing to think about. Like when you catch a fish, hone in on that spot. That's one thing I realized, fishing thick and heavy vegetation is that usually when you find the fish, you can keep catching them, you can duplicate it. There's usually more than one fish there. So keep that in mind. You catch one, throw a couple more casts there, make sure you fish the water correctly, and you've covered it good because there could be a lot more fish out there that you could catch. Look at that. Oh, he came off, that was my bad. Oh, he's got it. Oh, he stole it. He freaking stole it. That was my last good one, man. There's so many fish right there. They are just stacked on that drop off. Look at that. Now let me tell you why this is a problem because these other ones are only have one more in this bag and it's already used. It's used pretty good. We're just gonna have to use this little turd right here. I had not come prepared for this. I thought I was just gonna be frog fishing these pads for the most part. Little turd. I should eat that. Let's give her a beam. Yup. All right, we're gonna catch one right here. I think he already hit me. Yup. Oh, man.  That felt like a good one. Oh, no. That was like the first fish today that actually like felt pretty big right there. Like this frog fish I watched jump up and I thought they were big but that one actually felt very large. Dang, man. There's some big ones in here too. Don't let it fool you.  God, Lee, man, that one felt like a good one. I threw it in there and he hit it right away. There's another one. Oh, no. This is crazy. Dude, one just hit me as I was reeling it in. How many fish are right there? This is crazy, man. I really wanna hook a good one. That fish that I lost, I'm telling you, that was a good fish. I really wanna just go down there and see how many fish are stacked up. We probably have like five or six bites in that one area. Guys, I have an idea. I have a killer idea. I'm gonna go re-break. Since I'm kinda out of the clouds and the stroker crawls right now I have a brilliant game plan. I think that they're gonna munch the way that they're eating this. All right, this is what we're gonna do.  We're gonna take the weight off. We're gonna take the cloud off. We're gonna tie just the EWG on the hook. It's a three-out, by the way. I wish I had a four, but the three-outs would work just fine. Tie a basic uni knot. Censure down. Boom. Now we're gonna take a Zoom super fluke. Yes, you guys guessed it. I know some of you guys were already like, I know exactly what Noah's doing. You guys were correct. The way that these fish are munching they're gonna eat a super fluke. We're gonna throw it in there and they're gonna crank this thing. Let me tell you. That is money. Just a pearl white, very basic. Right there, that's the rig. You guys know how I said it was super humid? Like, it's been super humid, but today it's pretty nice. It is just, the humidity is creeping upon me right now. We got that Zoom super fluke. Watch this, man. Watch this. The way that they're stacked out there they're gonna munch this right here. It's good to give them some different, too. You know, they saw that curl in that Sanko for. Look at that. Yo, is this a big one? Come on, fish. Guys, holy cow.  That's exactly why I need braid. Oh man, that hurts my heart. That hurts my heart. I just, that was our first cast. We just rigged it up and I actually felt like a good one. Man, I'm kinda upset about that. I mean, fishing thick stuff like that and that's what happens. A 17 pound fluorocarbon. I really should be using braid in this. Man, that's all right. Let's go see if we have something else to rig up with. All right, back to the rigging station. That's what we're gonna use. These are the Stout Wide Guide Hooks by Six Sense.  These are the ones I've been using. These are three-odd. They've been working very well. I like the four-odds, too. I really love the four-odds, but three-odd and four-odd, they're both good. I recommend the four-odd if you guys are gonna go buy some regular Wide Gap Hooks, but these are legit man-sharp hooks. All right, here we go. Back in business, baby. Back in business. If you guys are wondering how I'm rigging this, you go right through the head, all right? All the way up, you break it through, twist the bait back around, line it up on the hook, okay?  Boom, tuck it in, make it weedless right there. Beautiful little fluke. All right, here we go. We can't lose them this time. These fish are smart, man. Right when they eat it, they start running right towards the grass. They know exactly what they're doing. All right, we're going back to the frog for a minute. I wanna try it out. It's been a second. The other bite calmed down a little bit. The reason I think the other bite calmed down is because I freaking caught so many. One, and two, I think I just hooked a ton. I mean, I hooked to so many of them and they just came off or broke me off. We probably had the opportunity to catch a lot more fish. I just could not get them to stay pinned. It's hard fishing this bank because when you're so far away from the water and then you're so far away from the edge of these pads, looks like they're chasing bait out there. This fluke would be perfect for it if I can just make the right cast, pick the fluke back up. Couldn't really get any more on that frog, I don't know. I feel like they're just roaming the edge of the pads rather than being up in it, which makes sense. See today's overcast. When it's overcast, like I always talk about, those fish, they start roaming. You know, if it's very sunny out, those fish would be more pushed up under those pads. But right now with the cloud cover up, these fish are roaming a little bit more. They're more roaming the edge and eating bait fish. I mean, I've seen it. I'm watching it with my own two eyes. I feel like we could throw that frog and catch a fish here and there, but the good bite is gonna be fishing on the edge of that stuff. Of course, I'm gonna keep this going. That should be a fish right there. No. Wait, wait. I actually have them. Do I have a fish? There's no way. I do have a fr... Well, I've knocked myself out. I do have a fish. He's so small, I didn't even know I had him. These guys are just tiny. They're chewing like crazy over there. I think there's some big ones in the mix though, because I wanted to hook, so I'm telling you, I think that was a good one. Twanky. I threw my fluke off the hook. Let's grab us another one. Not a big one, but whatever. Still a fish. Guys, if I was in a kayak or a boat, we would be smoking the fish. I was actually looking across the lake over here. There's some more fish eating bait on that other point. If we just were in a kayak, oh man, we would put a herding on these fish. Throwing a little stroker crawl, throwing a fluke and a frog. Oh man. I feel like a popper would smoke them. Watch, so we throw it out there. We just don't let it sit. Oh my gosh. Yes, a lot better than those last ones. Only about a pound and a half still, but it's a lot better than those freaking tiny, tiny, not even a pound and a half, this is a pound. Those other ones are like half a pound. That's good though. I got him right up. Like I hooked at him and I was skirting him across that grass. The other ones keep on getting me up in it. He wasn't as smart as the other ones, surprisingly. Wow.


nue to oppose the named person scheme, we will be your voice. Adam Tomkins made the point that by failing to pass on the lifting of the tax threshold, it will be even more difficult to recruit teachers and nurses. This is a massive issue in the north-east and will remain so as a direct function of this government's decisions. I am persuaded by the point made by Annie Wells who said that it was no longer acceptable to blame the UK Government. That is never more apparent than in the Scottish Government decisions in the north-east. Christina McKelvie constantly said, we want to, we want to. Well, do it then. You have been in government for nine years. Stop blaming, start doing. Let me close by asking the House to support the amendment proposed by Adam Tomkins to this motion. That amendment inserts that the social security system should help those who want to work to find employment through on-going support and commit to building 50,000 affordable homes. That is absolutely what this Parliament should be doing. Is there really any MSP in this House who will stand before the people and vote against that amendment with such laudable aims? I am absolutely persuaded from the contributions today that the way to create a fair of Scotland is to remember that people, not governments, make the best choices about their money, their families and their communities. Graham Simpson talked about centralisation and the hallmark of this Parliament. Maria Evans said, we have started decentralisation. Good, not before time. If I may shamelessly paraphrase, big centralised government is not the solution to our problems. Big centralised government is the problem. The way to create a fair and prosperous Scotland in which people flourish is to trust them. End this rampant centralisation. Empower communities and people as the motion craves. Create fairness in our tax system, our welfare and our communities, and that will deliver a stronger and fairer Scotland. I call on Kevin Stewart to wind up the debate. Around 10 minutes please, minister. Thank you very much, Presiding Officer. I welcome you and your colleagues to your post, and I also welcome all of the front bench teams on their appointments. Presiding Officer, I am pleased to have the opportunity to discuss this crucial topic in the chamber. The Scottish Government is fully committed to our vision of a fairer and more prosperous Scotland, where people are healthier, happier and are treated with respect, and where opportunities, wealth and power are spread more equally. We have heard some thoughtful contributions in the chamber today, and some a little less thoughtful it has to be said. I look forward to working constructively together to deliver the fairer Scotland that I am certain all members want to see. I have listened with interest to what colleagues across the chamber have talked about today, and I will come back to some of their points in more detail. There is one thing that I would like to be clear on. Tackling poverty remains a key priority for this Government, and we will do all that we can within the powers that we have to continue to address and reduce the deep-seated inequalities that unfortunately still exist in our society. Let me turn to some of the first speeches that we heard today. Claire Hawley will make an excellent representative for Glasgow, rather than Glenn. One of the points that she made about fairness is that this Government will continue to pay nurses and midwives in training bursaries, which I think is extremely important for our health service, which will always remain free at the point of delivery. Maurice Corry talked of the Armed Forces Covenant, and it is something that I have dealt with as a constituency MSP on a regular basis. I have to say that some things do annoy me. I wish that the Ministry of Defence would put more into helping folk with mental health difficulties when they leave the armed forces. I am sure that we can maybe work together in that front. However, I am also happy that in various areas throughout Scotland, in Citizens Advice Bureau, we have folk who are helping to ensure that the armed forces covenant is lived up to. Unfortunately, as I say, the MODs are sometimes the ones who are failing and not the public services here in Scotland. Monica Lennon talked of Kirsty. I thought that that was extremely well thought-out speech. I hope that we can work across this chamber to ensure that we eradicate poverty. Gail Ross talked of the Toshrey family, and I am sure that all in this chamber wish them very well indeed. To Carolyn, I thank you very much for your fundraising efforts. I am sure that that will be appreciated by many people right across the country. Finally—no, not finally, I beg your pardon—Marie Evans talked about the Grassic Gibbon Centre. Leslie Mitchell, I probably should not say this, but I will, because a very small person who I will not identify used to pass that sign quite regularly and say, I want to go and see the monkeys, because the Grassic Gibbon Centre thought that there were lots of monkeys there. However, that area will do well with you as its MSP. I am pleased that you recognise the strides that we have made in terms of empowering communities. The Government is determined to ensure that we give more power to communities and build upon the community empowerment act that we have already passed. To Liam Kerr, Mark McDonald is a minister, Maureen Watt is a minister and myself is a minister. To the folk in the north-east, I say, we will be your voice in government. I would also say to Mr Kerr that, in terms of receiving more resource for the north-east of Scotland, one of the things that he could do is join us and ask the UK Government to match the Scottish Government's commitment to the Aberdeen city and Shire city deal. The Scottish Government has committed £379 million. The Westminster Government only £125 million. Join us and ask them to match our commitment to the north-east of Scotland. Beyond that, I will say to the people of Fraserborough, who were mentioned by Mr Kerr, that Minister Paul Wheelhouse will be in Fraserborough on Monday to chair the Fraserborough task force. Fergus Ewing did it previously and did it well. I am sure that Mr Wheelhouse will be equally as good. Keith Brown and Mr Wheelhouse will also be meeting representatives of the oil and gas industry in Aberdeen tomorrow. We will be your voice. I will give way to Mr Finlay. I will ask if one of the ministers, in sum and up, would address the specific issue of the £15 million that has been cut from the drugs support budget. The drugs support organisations are extremely concerned about the impact of the cut on very vulnerable people. Will the minister address that with his colleagues in government and report back to his police? One of the things that you will find is that this Government will work across the board and co-operate with one another to ensure that we tackle some of the real difficulties that we have in our society. Mr Rowley in his speech asked about the Government's poverty strategy and whether that would work right across government. I can give you that commitment, Mr Rowley, that we will be a cross-cutting Government and ensure that that poverty strategy is embedded right across our Government. If I can turn to Mr Tomkins in an usual speech, we are looking at transfer of powers and timescales, where the cabinet secretary is due to have a meeting of the joint ministerial working group on welfare shortly. The Scottish Government is committed to working with the UK Government to ensure that those transfer powers work as smoothly as possible. We want to ensure that we do the best for the people of Scotland. We welcome the Secretary of State for Scotland's commitment to work with the Scottish Government and the Parliament on that issue. However, we have to take a wee bit of a backstack and look at the realities of that. Yes, we are gaining some powers, but £15 billion of welfare spending stays with the UK Government, including most of universal credit. It would have been so much better if those powers had been transferred here so that we could have created a system that works for all. I also say that, in terms of some of the things that have come from the Conservative benches today, Mr Simpson in particular talked about why we should have gender equality, why we should have positive discrimination and why we should have 50-50 boards, because it should not be based on gender. Throughout history, gender has dictated that folk get jobs. Throughout history, men have gotten jobs because of their gender. It is now time to ensure that we have fairness in that regard and give women the opportunities that men have had right throughout history. Mr Riley asked for some assurances from the Government, as did Ms Johnson round about the warm homes bill. We will be bringing forward a warm homes bill. I know that there is cross-party support for that, and we will ensure that that happens. Beyond that, we have to step beyond this Parliament and look at some of the things that we do not control, but we can act together to try and get change in terms of regulation. It really riles me that some of the folks who are paying the highest bills in this country are the poorest folks who use card meters. I think that we should unite as a Parliament and look elsewhere and get them to change laws to ensure that there is fairness in that regard, too. Also to Mr Riley, I say that house building is happening now, and the More Homes Scotland initiative is very worthy. We will do all that we can to ensure our commitment to 50,000 affordable houses and 35,000 of those for social rent. I would gently say to the Conservatives in terms of their amendment where they talk of 100,000 houses. In the last five years, 53,000 houses were built in the private sector. In the last year, 12,000 houses were built in the private sector. Your commitment is less in what is happening at this moment in time. You want to see a reduced amount of houses in the private sector during the course of this Parliament, which I find rather strange. It is always best to check your facts before you lodge an amendment. In conclusion, Presiding Officer, I want to reinforce the Government's strong record of taking action to create a fairer Scotland. We have invested £296 million over the past three years to mitigate the worst of the UK Government's welfare cuts to protect children and low-income households, but we want to go further than just mitigation. We will continue to strive for a Scotland that is fair, equal and prosperous. I commend this motion to the Parliament. I thank the minister for concluding his remarks. That takes us to decision time, and there are three questions to be put as a result of today's business. The first question is that motion 282.1, in the name of Adam Tompkins, which seeks to amend motion 282 in the name of Angela Constance, be agreed to. Are we all agreed? We are not agreed. There will therefore be a vote. Members should cast their votes now. The result of the vote is as follows. Yes, 30. No, 90. There were no abstentions. The amendment is therefore not agreed. The next question is that amendment 280.2, in the name of Alec Rowley, which seeks to amend motion 280 in the name of Angela Constance, be agreed to. Are we all agreed? We are not agreed. Members will please cast their votes now. The result of the vote is as follows. Yes, 26. No, 94. There were no abstentions. The amendment is therefore not agreed. The next question is that motion 280, in the name of Angela Constance, on taking Scotland forward, creating a fairer Scotland, be agreed to. Are we all agreed? Yes. We are all agreed. We are all agreed. Members should cast their votes now. Members are not agreed. We will move to a vote. Members should cast their votes now. The result of the vote on motion 280, in the name of Angela Constance, is as follows. Yes, 100. No, 20. There were no abstentions. The motion is therefore agreed. That concludes decision time.


Hey there, chameleons! Today I'm gonna get my makeup done by Offbeat Look. Offbeat Look! You guys saw the video already where Dakota did my makeup, so it's his turn to get his makeup done. And we're starting out with a CC cream. Do you know what that is? Um, it's one after the BB cream. Wow, yeah, it's like BB cream. Wait, so how do you know about BB cream? I was just naming robots from Star Wars. Oh my goodness. I'm gonna stipple this on his face. Those are words? Yes, this is a stippling brush. Oh, I don't know if this is your color, but we're going with it. Oh, this is, I'm not that white. How bad is it? It's gonna blend in fine. Okay, we'll just roll with it then. Yeah, it says your skin but better. I'm offended, my skin's already great. You were just complaining about it like three seconds ago. Okay, just- I don't know how well this blends. Well, we're gonna find out. Yeah, I've never used this before. You have a widow's peak too? Yeah. Oh my gosh, I never noticed that. It's because I- Because your hair is- Conceal it, I don't feel it. So what's your objective today?  See, I was thinking about that, like, I could have, like, you kind of made me look really bad, so I could do that to you, but like, I could also make you look really good. I'm a fan of that. Yeah, I think I want to do that. Can I open my eyes? Oh yeah, you can. Please. Please. You don't want to see what's gonna happen next, close to your face. Jokes on you, I opened them already. It works. Alright, so we're just gonna be setting the CC cream, which means it's gonna, like, not move around. When you go to a barber shop, do you ever, like, feel like you've never been to a barber shop? I've never had my hair done. Really? I do it myself. Wow. Ever since I was born. Good for you. Thank you. Well actually, my mom used to do it. You used to do it as a baby. I did.  I was a talented baby. Alright, alright. Mom! Mom! Mom! I want to do the cord rows. Sucking your cheeks? Okay, so you want to do, like, a duck, like, yeah. So this is just so we can find the natural contour of your face. So then I'm gonna contour your jawline. Am I gonna have a really nice, like, hard jawline? Yeah, like nice and chiseled. I feel stronger already. And then we're gonna contour a little bit up here. You look like, who do you remind me of with your, when your hair is, it's not, um, what's his face? Angle, Elves, whatever. What is his name? Ansel Elgort. Angle. Angle. Angle, Elgort. Angles. I'm sure he loves being called Angle. Okay, so I'm blushing your face with this. Oh wow, I'm embarrassed. Can you turn your face, actually? Oh perfect, thank you. This is highlighter. Okay. So this is what's gonna make you look like- This is not the kind of highlighters I had in elementary school. No, they're different. It's a different company, that's why. Can I still make sure I get my notes then? Yeah, you can use this to, um, underline things, or like, um, rub on top of important words. Oh. It does rub off though, so you would just end up with a sparkly look. That's all of my books are sparkly. For different reasons though. All right, so this is what's gonna make you look like a glazed donut. I get to look like a glazed donut? Yeah. This is all I've ever wanted. Oh, I know. It's everyone's dream. What kind of glazed donut? Just regular plain old glazed donuts. Those are the best though. Are they? They're my favorite. I'd be willing to debate this in the court of law. I mean, my eyebrow game's already pretty strong, so. Yeah, we're just gonna strengthen it a little bit. We're gonna accent that. Yeah. Okay. You made a mistake? No. Are you sure? I made a decision. Everything is just a decision here. Exactly. Okay, what would you consider a mistake? You. Oh! That's true. Is that your t-shirt? A little bit. Oh my gosh, you look like that girl that does the... Except I can only move my eyebrows up and down. I can't do dances with them. I can go. Yeah. Oh wow, there's two things on the one pencil. Yeah. It's amazing. It's double sided. Oh, it's like we're those markers from kids time. Why is everything about... I am really reminiscing today. I've also act like I'm four, so wow, these are very strong. Look at those eyebrows. Everyday brows. Look at them. Look at them. Look at those eyebrows. Okay, so close your eyes. Close them. So I'm putting eyeshadow primer on your lids right now. Guess what I... I mean, eyeshadow's coming next. Yeah. I'm so good at this. You're getting so good at this. Well, sometimes I paint things and you prime the wall before you paint them. No one ever uses these things. What? These. I used them and I'm a professional, so... I guess I've been wrong. You've been wrong all this time. We're going to start out with this light color right here for his brow bone. Seems fitting. Yeah. Why? I don't know. So this is going to be a very pretty highlight. Okay, I think we're going to do something a little bit dramatic. I have a flare for the dramatic. I'm going to use this to blend in his crease as the transition shade with the brush that used for my brows. Okay, so easy. What's that brush called? It's a tapered blending brush. Oh, right. Yes, I recall. I brought this very pretty, these two shades by Color Pop. This is Birthday Girl by Color Pop. That's me, the birthday girl. Oh, yeah. My birthday is in like a month and a half. Yeah, so you're almost a birthday girl. And then this is on the rocks, which I would not have called this color on the rocks. No, it doesn't look like rocks at all. Unless your rocks are gold. Oh, this is eyeshadow. Oh, fun. So I'm going to wet the brush. So then this is going to be even more... Is it just water? No, it's primer. What's in it? I'm so curious. I want to learn. It's like vitamin E and some other stuff. Good to know. Oh, yeah. Guys, you're learning as I am. Guys, close, tilt. And this is going on the inner part of your eye. These shadows are so weird. It's like not a powder, but not a cream. And then there's glitter. I'm so excited for there to be glitter on my face. One day I'll do full on drag makeup on you. I was supposed to do drag makeup on my friend Tim. Hey, Tim. Hey, Tim. I dropped out of school before it happened. You could still do it. I'm sure Tim really wants it still. Outside, we're using on the rocks. Actually, I'm going to start off with a different color. So many colors. No, you're going to look great. Don't worry about it. When you smile, your eyes close. That happens to me too, like in pictures. If I'm smiling, I won't have eyes. Where'd they go? I've been wondering my whole entire life. Always got to blend your shadows. That's what my mom told me. When she was growing up, she was like, Dakota, if you ever see two shadows, make sure they blend. Oh, yeah. And there's that whole YouTube channel about can it blend? It would be really funny if they did an eyeshadow episode. Yeah, I know. We look blend, eyeshadow. And then they just did makeup for five minutes. Yeah. I was like, where's the blender? We're going to do gold on the inside. Oh, goodness. I'm so ready. Look at these smoky eyes. Yeah, that's actually what they are. I know. Oh. I'm not that dumb. No, you're like really good at makeup terminology. Thank you. I watched a lot of Project Runway. Oh my gosh, why? Don't question my methods. Did you watch it alone? Sometimes. Sometimes. I'm hungry. I'm hungry? I'm dead. I told you the long dad joke. The long dad joke? Yeah. Did I, the best dad joke in the world? You probably did, but tell me again. Okay. Well, a new father is consulting with his dad and talking to him about his new child. And his dad is just so proud of him. I mean, he's a grandfather now. He's so excited to be a grandfather. Yeah. And he says to his son, hey son, I have a gift for you. I have something I need you to have. And he pulls out from the bag behind him a book and he hands it over to his son. It's a thousand one dad jokes, first volume. Okay. And his son says, dad, this is incredible. I don't know what to say. I'm honored. And his dad turns to him and he says, hi, honored. I'm dad. Oh, I love it! What was that Ben Stiller steel something? Blue steel? Blue steel. There's blue steel, Ferrari, the Tigra, and Magnum. Oh, right. Do all of them. Okay. Oh my gosh. In the viewfinder, you look so pretty. Thank you. Not in real life, though. In the viewfinder, I look pretty. I've been preparing my whole life to have you do my makeup. Wow, even before you knew it. Even before I knew you. I was just like, I felt it. I was like, someone's going to do my makeup someday. What is this? Let me read the label. I'll tell you. Is that a cheese? Black noir. That doesn't tell me. Precise eyeliner marker. Okay, so it's a... It's for precision. Yeah. Do I have wings now? Let me see. Oh my gosh, when you smile, they like bend down. Since I'm already over here, I'm going to do this side of mascara. Oh, kiddo, kiddo. It's going to be so hard to do mascara on you because you just move a lot. I'm sorry, I like moving. You have some really nice lashes. I've been telling them to be really good since I was a pet child. You hit them in the morning. I was like, you be good lashes. Don't let them touch your face. Oh. What do I do? Oh no. Everything is... Look at that. We can fix that. Where is that? No, no, I can fix it. You got it. I'm just going to do this for my entire life. People have asked me, like, why do you dye your hair? Are you sad? Someone asked me that one. It's like a 60-year-old lady. I was like, I don't see the correlation. I can. What? Sadness and dye hair? The thing is when you're sad, you want to make a change in your life because you think it will help. An external change is the easiest one to make and so dyeing your hair can be a result of that.  They could be... I could do like a really nice... I know what I'm doing. Decisions have been made. They have. All right. This is a new lip liner that I haven't even opened yet. Well, now I'm getting some chapstick. Yeah. It's the same one I own. Cherry chapstick? Is it because of Katy Perry? Because that's 100% of the reason I got mine.  Yeah. Yeah. I kissed a girl and I liked it. At YouTube Space yesterday, a makeup artist came in and she showed us a trick on how to make someone's lips look plumper. And it's a trick that she's used on Beyonce and J-Lo. So you know it works. Exactly. And because people always... A lot of people over-line their lips but it doesn't look like either Beyonce or J-Lo does so people are wondering how. And she pretty much contours their lips. Interesting.  I'm gonna have to get some tacos after this. Yeah. Because Chelsea Market is right below us right now and there's delicious tacos there. I'm going to add the slightest shadow below your lips. So then it will give the illusion of fuller lips. So now we're gonna do lip liner and we're gonna over-line. I'm like playing the dentist where I'm like trying to talk to you while doing your lips. It's crazy how well this matches your lip color. Alright so this is a gloss but I'm mostly just gonna put that in the center and then I was gonna say blink your lips. Yeah. Just one more time. That just makes them look a little bit fuller. And then the last way that we're gonna make your lips look full is by highlighting. We're gonna put this on your cupid's bow and then we're gonna do it right at the bottom. The under cupid's bow. I don't know what this is. The dupid's bow. That was so clever. Thank you. Oh my gosh we should add some freckles. Do you want freckles? Yes. I'm just gonna add a few freckles right across the nose area. I always wanted freckles and then never got one. You can paint them on. Yeah. I've done white freckles before. I think those are pretty cool. Hey you did those in your tutorial thing. Aw. You know just to blend those into your skin and make it look a little bit more natural. I'm gonna go in with the powder. This is the finished look. Hi chameleons. Look at how different I look today. You look so pretty. You look like that. I don't remember what his name is but he's a guy beauty blogger and he has really strong brows. So you look like him. Yes. I'm glad I look like a named man. Yeah. I love the freckles. What do you think about the freckles? I like them. It's fun. I think I'm gonna go out like this. I'm gonna walk out into the world like this. I'm so happy. I don't know if that's true. No you are. Okay. I'm gonna go into Chelsea Market at least like this. Okay. And then you're gonna give me a lot of that makeup remover. Hey guys. Thank you for watching. I hope you guys liked this video. Be sure to subscribe to Camille here because you know she's great. It's her channel. This is the best makeup I've ever had done on me. I am Dakota. I make videos too. They're terrible. They're in the description. They're mediocre actually. Yeah. At best. If you want to watch those you can check them out. All the links are in the description to Camille's other channels. And then all of her social media links like her Instagram. Which you should follow. You should follow her on Instagram. I do. Yeah. And that was the best decision he ever made. It was. A lot. My life changed forever. Thanks so much for watching and we'll see you Camillians in the next video. Kisses.


Thank you. Admiral Gilday, I want to talk about your choice to include books like How to be an Anti-Racist and the New Jim Crow on your professional reading list. We discussed this last week in our phone call. Normally, I wouldn't disclose that conversation, but you said the exact same thing from the Armed Services Committee in the House last week, which I found deeply disappointing. When you ask questions about this, you characterize it as a criticism of sailors for being weak. That is a straw man. It's not a criticism of sailors being weak. It's a criticism of your decision to include these books on your professional reading list, which ensigns and sailors across your service take very seriously. So I just want to give you a sampling of some of the things that are included in books like this, that the notion that capitalism is essentially racist and racism is essentially capitalist. That the only remedy for past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy for present discrimination is future discrimination. That some individuals, by virtue of his or her race, are inherently oppressive or privileged, while others are victimized or oppressed, that individuals can bear some kind of collective responsibility or collective guilt for the actions committed by members of his or her race. Admiral Gilday, how did these books get on your reading list? So I chose a variety of books. There were over 50 books in my reading list to give ourselves a wide range of information from which I hope they can make facts-based decisions on both their ability to look outwardly at potential aggressors like China and Russia, as well as looking inwardly and being honest with ourselves in areas that we need to improve. And talking to sailors over the past year, it's clearly obvious to me and others that the murder of George Floyd and the events surrounding that, the discussions in this country about racism, which go back for years and years and years, are still a painful part of our culture and that talking about them, understanding them, is the best approach. And that offering books like Kendi's for people to read. And they don't have to agree with every assertion that Kendi makes. I don't accept every assertion that Kendi makes. And I wouldn't think that all sailors would as well. But they need to be exposed to it so that they're making facts-based. We need critical thinkers in the Navy and throughout the military in our enlisted force. Again, we not only think outwardly but inwardly so that they make objective, hopefully objective, facts-based decisions or draw conclusions in a world that it's increasingly more difficult to get an unbiased view at a really tough problem. Even if they're looking at things on social media, artificial intelligence associated with those platforms feeds them more of whatever they tend to look at. I'm offering them one book among 53 as a different perspective. And you're saying, yes, I agree, there's a lot of information like that on social media and in our culture. And you're saying as the senior leader of the Navy that you want 18-year-old sailors and 22-year-old incense to read a book that asserts that capitalism is essentially racist. Do you agree that capitalism is essentially racist? Sir, with all due respect, I'm not going to engage without understanding the context of statements like that, but these are the same sayings. So, Admiral, I'm sorry, our time is very limited here. I know you said this in the House Armed Service Committee last week. In what context could the claim that capitalism essentially racist possibly be something with which you would agree? So I have to go back to the book to take a look at that, but again, this comes down to trusting sailors who are running nuclear power plants on submarines at hundreds of feet under the water, under the polar ice cap, that are maintaining the highest, the most complicated and complex jets in the world. We put them in harm's way every day. I think, sir, I believe that we can trust them to read books like that and to draw reasonable... Well, it's not just a matter of trusting them, it's a matter of how they spend their time. And you, as the Chief of Naval Operations, are suggesting in your professional reading list that it's a worthwhile endeavor for our sailors and incense to spend their time reading books like these as opposed to, say, books on maritime strategy or basic seafaring skills, which also are included on your list. But there's plenty that are not included on your list that I think would also benefit them. I mean, the Navy has had genuine cultural problems now for many years, whether it's the McCain and the Fitzgerald having collisions in the Western Pacific, the bottom were shard catching fire in port, the Fat Leonard scandal, a Navy SEAL team being recalled from Iraq because of a breakdown in basic military order. Patrol boat in the Persian Gulf is surrendering to what is little more than Iranian fishing boat. The Navy has had some genuine cultural problems and drift and lack of focus that it needs to address. Assigning books like these and encouraging your sailors to take the time to do so is not a way for the Navy to regain its focus admiral.


It's Saturday, January 23rd, and this is For Good Reason. Welcome to For Good Reason, I'm DJ Grothy. For Good Reason is the radio show and the podcast produced in association with the James Randi Educational Foundation, an international nonprofit whose mission is to advance critical thinking about the paranormal, pseudoscience, and the supernatural. Before we get to this week's guest, James Randi, here's what's going to be a regular feature on For Good Reason, Jamie Ian Swiss, The Honest Liar. What's it mean to be an honest liar? The magician Carl Jermaine, a famous American stage performer at the turn of the 20th century, said that conjuring is the only absolutely honest profession. The conjurer promises to deceive and does. So you see, if I didn't tell you first, I'd be in advertising or maybe politics. But Jermaine nailed it.  But it's okay. It's my job.  He's lying about the fact that he's lying. He's saying, no, honest, I'm telling you the truth, it's not a trick, it's supernatural powers.  Now sometimes people wonder why someone who makes his living as a professional deceiver might get upset about people being deceived. Well, it's because magicians make an honest living as honest liars. And some of us, not all of us, but many magicians are offended when people misuse the tools of our honest living to mislead people about the way the universe works. People who want to manipulate your worldview for prestige, power, or profit. Now it turns out that magicians have been speaking out about this subject for a very, very long time. The first book published in English that included explanations of magic tricks was called The Discovery of Witchcraft by Reginald Scott, published in England in 1584. But Discovery of Witchcraft, discovery in that time and usage meant explanation of, is not a book about magic tricks. It's a book of rational inquiry. Scott wrote the book to debunk the witch burnings that were prevalent in the time of Jamesy in England. In fact, when James I subsequently took the throne in 1603, he declared the book heretical and ordered all copies burned, an unmistakable sign of a good book. Now Scott doesn't claim in the book that witches don't exist, rather he questions the evidence. He says that the evidence being presented was insufficient to convict people of witchcraft, and he provides a brief chapter explaining magic tricks to make the point that people can be deceived, but that seeing a magician perform a trick like, well, the cups and balls should not be sufficient cause to burn him at the stake. Thankfully my job is a little safer these days. Scott was in effect foreshadowing a basic credo of critical thinking popularized by Carl Sagan among others to wit, Dying Extraordinary Claim, Requireth that Thou Presenteth Some Extraordinary Provingeth, whatever. So that's more than four centuries that magicians and skeptics have been conjoined at least in the literature, and it's likely that our role as critical thinkers and debunkers of paranormal claims long predates even that. But skip ahead now, 250 years to the mid-19th century and the age of spiritualism when seances in all manner of communication with the dead became a growth industry. Enter Harry Houdini, the world's most famous magician who would become notorious for busting phony seance mediums. Houdini would even attend seances in disguise and then at the appropriate moment suddenly a lighter match in the dark and unmask the medium as a fraud, catching her in flagrante philatia as it were, emblazing trickery, illuminating the medium at the very instant when she had secretly untied her bindings and was waving about bells and tambourines on sticks. By the time Harry Houdini died in 1926, spiritualism was gasping its final breath as well, and the use of physical phenomena, spirits moving objects in the seance room, writing on slates and other ghostly manifestations, would fall all but dead as it were for the next 50 years. Until that is, an obscure Israeli magician arrived on the scene who claimed he could bend silverware just by thinking about it, as long of course as he could get his grubby paws on it and fiddle with it for a while too, and just as a spiritualist at the turn of the century had to contend with Harry Houdini, the metal warpers of the 1970s were challenged by the most important skeptic of our time, James Randi. For myself, I've known Randi first as an inspiration, then as a colleague, and finally as a friend. As a boy, I saw him perform magic on a local New York children's program called Wonderama hosted by Sunny Fox. I saw Randi perform magic and I knew that's what I wanted to do too. Later when I was in my early 20s, Randi wrote a book entitled The Magic of Yuri Geller. That book didn't tell me much I didn't already know about Geller and what he was doing. I've been doing magic since I was 7 years old, I was probably a skeptic by the age of 11, but Randi's book opened my mind to the implications and the dangers of the gallows of the world. The cost and lost time and resources in pursuing false beliefs. The cost of lost money and perhaps even personal fortunes to purveyors of phony supernatural claims. I'd go into bookstores that didn't carry the book and insist they order it. I'd order half a dozen copies, give them away to people, then order another batch somewhere else. Randi raised my consciousness, my sense of moral outrage. He radicalized me, and he taught me the difference between honest lying and dishonest lying.  This is Jamie Ian-Swiss, and I am the Honest Liar. Thanks, Randi. See you next week. Honest. I'm really happy that my first guest on For Good Reason is James Randi. Of course, he's a world-renowned magician, skeptic, investigator of paranormal claims. He's really the central figure in the founding of the worldwide skeptical movement, along with other folks like Carl Sagan, Paul Kurtz, Isaac Asimov others. Perhaps he's best known for his $1 million challenge, in which the James Randi Educational Foundation will award $1 million to anyone who's able to show evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power or event under mutually agreed-upon conditions. He's appeared widely in the media, including on Johnny Carson, some 22 times.  He's received a number of awards and recognitions, including the MacArthur Genius Grant and the American Physical Society's Forum Award for promoting public understanding of the relation of physics to society. He's the author of many books, including The Truth About Uri Geller, Flim Flam, and The Faith Healers. James Randi, welcome to the first episode of For Good Reason. It's good to be here. Let's catch up our listeners on some recent news. First, you've finished with your chemo regimen. You're feeling better than ever, right? That's correct, and I've managed to beat it very well, mostly due to attitude and following the instructions. It was medical science, not homeopathy, prayer, chanting, or symbols or anything like that. Right. Thank God for medical science, right? Exactly, yes. OK. In this whole process, I know from conversations we've had off the air, you're kind of stunned by how much junk science, how much quack medicine is pedaled to cancer patients. Yes, and particularly through the NIH, who in every one of their publications, they mention the possibility of acupuncture as a means of combating side effects of chemotherapy. Now, this is total nonsense, because acupuncture doesn't work. And yet the NIH is giving passive approval to it by mentioning it in all of their literature. Now, I've been over to several cancer treatment places here, and I can build this place and whatnot. Very good places to visit when you're undergoing this ordeal. And I've looked through all of the literature, and almost invariably anything published by the NIH, the National Institutes of Health in Washington, D.C., an official organ of the U.S. government, will mention the fact that you should ask your physician about acupuncture. That is nonsense. It's, as I say, passive approval of acupuncture. And I'm trying to do something about that. Why do you think that the federal government would support something like that? Is it moneyed interests? Is it just that they're being open-minded despite the evidence? What is it? I think it's being politically correct, because there are people, now I find people at this place, even when we sit around in the evenings and we chat among ourselves, and I find people say, oh, no, acupuncture has worked beautifully for me. Before acupuncture, oh, I had all kinds of side effects. And you can't put that sort of in these people are convinced that since they show some signs of improvement or lack of side effects, it must be due to the acupuncture. Nonsense. Well, I know I speak for so many others when I say how thrilled I am that you're back in the saddle, you're feeling a lot better. And at the end of this month, you're going to, we're hoping you'll get a clean bill of health and then kind of get out there speaking more, doing what you love to do. Oh, yes. And I prefer to do it now, but my physicians have told me, just wait till you get the pet scan, which is going to scan my coral body. And it's going to tell me whether there are any nodules of cancer still in my lymph gland or some hidden place like that. But it's a very good test. It's painless. I fall asleep in the cylinder. And they wake me up an hour later and the pet scan is already done. So it's another triumph of medical science. Other recent news, Randy. Well, just yesterday it happened that James McCormick, this huckster who was selling the dowsing devices that supposedly detected bombs, he was arrested in the UK on fraud charges. Yes. Well, that's only one make of the dowsing things, except that they're all exactly the same. They're junk science and what they are. They excuse people get away with this. Oh, there are no electronics in there that really work. No, because it's dowsing, you see. And they seem to believe in dowsing. Now, I have, as I explained on the video, which is now up on Swift, as you know, I explain in detail that it was I that was responsible and therefore the JRF that was responsible for directing the Department of Energy to investigate the reality or lack of reality of the so-called dowsing rock that were being sold by these con artists like McCormick, who has, as you mentioned there, has now been apprehended. He's been charged with fraud in the UK. Of course, you'll get out and he's got millions of dollars to fight it. And he may even run, which as I say clearly, that would be the best outcome of this whole thing that McCormick would plead to escape prostitution. That would make him an internationally sought fugitive, and it would prove our case. He doesn't have anything to say, lots of claims, lots of noise, but he has refused to accept the million-dollar challenge of the JRF for one thing. And it seems odd that a fellow wouldn't want to make it for about 20 minutes of his valuable time, make an investigation of this artist, this dowsing stick that he sells to see whether or not it worked. He can make one million dollars, DJ. One million dollars, since I did 20 minutes. But he doesn't want that. Now anybody who doesn't want a million dollars to 20 minutes of work is intellectually and documentally challenged, I would say. I'd like to let our listeners know that you can find the link to that video where Randy shares his extensive remarks on McCormick and these bomb detection devices on our website forgoodreason.org. Randy, what amazes me about all of this is that even after your public exposé of McCormick's and other similar devices, government officials in the UK, in the US, and in Iraq, they all got snookered. McCormick sold something like $85 million worth of these things, these ADE 561 bomb detection devices. How can they buy into that even when you're so clearly showing the stuff's bunk? Well again, there's a lot of political correctness involved. For example, we know that in Iraq alone, that they sold so many of these things and they were sold, incidentally, through a general, an army general there who insisted that thing works, naturally he insisted it works because he's got a share of the profits of selling this thing. And they're selling them for up to $60,000 a unit, something with no working electronics in it, no battery whatsoever, is supposed to work on the human aura and the human magnetic field and such. Total nonsense, quackery of the most advanced nature. So McCormick, he's getting your ire up, but you reserve much of your indignation for these gullible government officials who bought the things. Some folks often charge us with doing trivial stuff. Oh, that skepticism stuff is trivial. Here's an example though, Randy, of how untrivial it is. Belief in these untested pseudoscience claims, they actually cost lives. If you think the gizmo is going to detect bombs and it doesn't, people will die. Well, for example, the ADE 651, which is the one that McCormick has been currently selling, this is the one which is used at all entrances and exits of every major access to the city of Baghdad. For example, that's only one example of where it's used. All over the Middle East, in cafes and police departments, in military depots, on access points, on roads and at intersections, but they want to inspect vehicles. And often, these vehicles leave that scene and half a block away, they blow up because they've got bombs aboard them. The ADE 651 machine, and it's not a machine, it's just a force. This is somewhere, very similar to all the other machines including the quadro and the mole and these various other so-called dowsing rods. It does not work and it costs lives of civilians and militia all over the country. All over the world. Randy, let me ask you, why are you, this magician kind of critical thinking advocate, why does it fall to you to raise the alarm bells about these dowsing devices that purport to save people's lives by detecting bombs when they don't actually work? Why does it fall on a magician critical thinking skeptic rather than some governmental body or some watchdog group?  Why is that? Well, I really wish I knew, DJ, I don't quite understand it yet, except again, for the political correctness rule, all the army and military forces all over the world are subject to commanding officers. If the commanding officer says, this is something we should look into or this is something we should buy, no one dares make any questions about it or offer any objections, they simply buy the thing. Now, I have a couple of contacts and I won't tell you within what agency because I don't want to expose these people. Right, we don't want to make that public. Well, we don't want to make it public because we would betray these people's confidence, but I've heard from them privately, quite a few people just two days ago, for example, and from other agencies, again, that we won't mention, who are saying, yes, you're absolutely right, Mr. Randy, I wish I could get somebody here to do something, but they're helpless because there's somebody is at a higher rank than they are that believe that this stuff works or even if they don't believe it works, they want to say, I did the correct thing, they're very much like lawyers, whose answer is always no, don't do this, and then they try to get around the possibilities of errors that they might find in their procedure, but the safe answer is no, I don't look into this thing, don't go any further with it. So, as I was suggesting earlier in our conversation, if anyone wants a concrete crystal clear example of how skepticism matters, this kind of skepticism, your work here will actually save lives. If it weren't for you raising the alarm bell about McCormick, he wouldn't have been investigated, he wouldn't have been arrested on fraud charges, that's the way I see it. That's very true. So, I wanted you on our first show, not only so we could touch on some of these recent news items, but so that we could let our listeners know what's in store for them at the James Randy Educational Foundation. You and I have had some long discussions over the last couple months about strategy for the foundation going forward. We're excited to build on the great track record of the foundation, even while we're really revved up to try some new things to increase our impact. What's getting you excited looking into the future of the foundation? Well, almost everything, DJ, I must say, since you came aboard, we've had a big changes made here. You've had to initiate some... Well, I was gonna say unfortunate, not unfortunate, but difficult to swallow adaptations and changes in the general setup of the JRF. And I have stood back and I've watched you do this sort of thing. You've done it with grace and with delicacy. And I must say, and I think you'll admit, our staff has taken these adjustments. They have accepted what you've said that there hasn't been any problem involved in it. Now, a couple of the, well, maybe minor disappointments and changes, but nothing is going to affect the operation of the JRF. In fact, the JRF is soaring ahead. You've made a great change and I thank you for that. Well, I appreciate you saying that. And I couldn't agree with you more about the staff. It's a great team, a lot of innovative ideas, energy, enthusiasm and the commitment level is really impressive to me. What's amazing about the staff is how just fiercely loyal they are to your vision for advancing critical thinking and skepticism out there. And they work long hours, as you mentioned, we've instituted some just nonprofit business management practices, but everyone's revved up and excited and we're all rolling up our sleeves to do the important work of the foundation. I'm excited, you're excited. Let's talk about some of the specifics. Well, first is the million dollar challenge. It's not going away. In fact, we're going to continue it and even work to expand it in various ways, right? Yes, that's right. And then many people have bricked me, but the challenge is being terminated. They don't read the page carefully, obviously, because quite some months ago, I came up with an announcement that because the woo-woo's out there, we're celebrating the fact that the million dollar challenge was off. And as you know, DJ, it's very obvious to anyone. This is the one factor that they consider in their way. They can't get away with their flummary unless they get rid of the million dollar challenge because they don't have an adequate response to it. Why don't you take the million dollar challenge? Now, the regular won't answer that. And the other people that John Edward don't answer, when I wrote to John Edward's representative at the network when he was on American television with his regular program crossing over, I got a letter from this press agent which really said, dear sir, that's me, apparently, John Edward does not respond to criticism, period. You're Australian, find it. This is an answer. He doesn't want a million dollars. Now, if John Edward doesn't want a million dollars for doing 20 minutes of a test of these powers, I think the man is intellectually advertising previously judgmentally challenged. Who doesn't want a million dollars? I know that I'd be chomping at the bit to get it and I think there'd be a lineup outside my home or outside the JRAP office this very moment. But there isn't. This isn't that strange. It's crazy if there's a million dollars on the table and someone has an ability or can substantiate a claim to get that million dollars and then they walk away from it. That doesn't make any sense, I agree. So our plans to expand the million dollar challenge, we wanna take it on the road, not just take applications, but do some live tests. Really, it's our chief means of raising awareness about these, I think, irresponsible claimants or at least the irresponsible claims. It's also the big way we have of raising consciousness among the public about their own responsibility to be skeptical about all this stuff. Another thing though, DJ, I'm most intractive for just one second. I'm increasingly now, in the last few weeks, I've gotten notes from people that say, I have this wonderful power, but I don't want my name used and I don't wanna be tested in public. I just wanna do this all very privately and I don't want anyone to know my identity. Get out of here, come on. You want a million dollars, you gotta go along with the rules. I won't make an exception to those rules. Or will you, of course, these are firmly established rules that are right on the webpage. You can find that by clicking in on million dollars challenge. You'll see all the rules there. At least people decide, oh, but I'm special because I really got the power. I'm not like the earlier, thanks, you see. I'm the one that's got the power, so I want exceptions. They won't get any exception. You do it our way or you don't do it. You're not offering a million dollars. We're offering a million dollars. Right, and on that point, sometimes we're challenged by claimants who say, oh, the deck is stacked, your rules are unfair. No, in fact, the rules are public. We just want a way to shine the light of the public on the process. That's why everything's public. That's why we want people to reveal their names. If they're making a claim that should overturn the laws of physics, say, well, they should be willing to stand up and take credit for it, right? I would think so and take the price. And more than that, the tests that we conduct are conducted under mutually agreed upon scientific circumstances. So it's not that the JREF has these challenges or these tests that no one has a say in. No, it's mutually agreed upon if some claimant comes and tries for the million dollars. We actually want someone to win the million dollars if it means that they're real and we've discovered some, as yet unreported, amazing claim. Well, I can see that a Nobel Prize here, at least, can't you, D.J.? Emphatically, yes. And it just so happens that in all the years you've offered the million dollar challenge, no one has ever come forward with evidence to substantiate their claims. That's correct. It's been tested for more than 10 years now and none of these people have beaten the odds at all and the odds are very fairly stacked in their direction, in their favor. Our statisticians make sure that that's the case and yet no one can beat the odds so far. Now, maybe tomorrow or maybe in the next 20 minutes, somebody will come forward and maybe this broadcast itself will stimulate people out there to say, oh, well, I've got the power. I guess I can easily prove it. Read the rules, first, please. Don't bother us with all kinds of factuous claims that you're too shy or you've got something in the oven that you can't reveal. Come on, do the thing, perform, do your thing, collect a million dollars and go home laughing. So when you hear a claimant dismiss the million dollar challenge as just a publicity stunt, your response is, well, there is a publicity aspect about it. We want to raise people's awareness, their consciousness, but it's not that we're disinterested in discovering successful paranormal claimants. Yes, there's a publicity element, but we also are genuinely inquiring to try to find out if any of these claims are real. That's true. Now, I don't expect any of them to be quite frank with you. You said earlier that we want someone to win the million dollar prize. Now, my personal impetus is not that I want someone to win the million dollar prize. Now, I frankly don't expect it because I've been in this business. Well, I'm 81 now going on at 82. I've been in the business since I was about 14 years of age. I've been investigating these things and that experience over all those decades. I'll let you do the subtractive because I'm not that great at mathematics. So after you do the subtractive, you will find out the number of years that I've actually had this offer up in front of people though it wasn't always a million dollars at one time. It was only a thousand dollars, and then it was 10,000, and then became a million. But we've had this offer out there all the time. I don't expect that anyone's going to be able to beat it. It won't be because we stacked anything against them. This is done in the open, as you say, very plainly. Frankly, in the open, everybody can see it. They can see the development of it and they can judge it for themselves. It's done 100% fairly and in very, very large majority of cases, I'm not involved, you're not involved. In fact, no one from the JREP has actually involved. These are usually done in other countries, in the homeland of the people who are making the claims, as far as Russia and Argentina and Canada, all over the United States and Europe, of course, it's done there by people who are certified as having the ability to conduct fair tests. They're all academics, they're statisticians, they're scientists, and you can't question their integrity or their ability. So we have nothing to do with it, we just get the report from these people saying, oops, they failed. Not much of a surprise to us, but there it is. Yeah, but on that point, so you've been around the block, you think it's unlikely any of these claimants are real, but you're not so close-minded that if someone won, they wouldn't get the million dollars. I mean, it's really there for the taking, if anyone proves it. Well, it's not only that. We are legally committed to seek by law. If you examine our webpage, we'll be promised this sort of thing. I've done it in my books, I've done it in my articles, I've done it in all of my public lectures and speeches around the world. I have declared the presence of this million-dollar child. It's there, the million dollars is with Goldman Sachs in New York City, it's on deposit there, it gathers interest for us every year. I forgot what it's at, now it's a 1.4 million or something right now, and we can take that excess off the top to help run the foundation if and when we might need it. We don't usually do that because the rate of interest is very good on such an account. The money is there, the price is real. It's all on offer and we are legally committed to paying the million dollars. Any lawyer will tell you that. We have compared ourselves publicly and out in the open. We are declared. Now there's a fellow in Australia who you'll be, you'll know the name, Samet. This man has been saying for years now, there's no million dollars, there's no such offer, that he is lying and such. In fact, we post the Goldman Sachs statements on our website, yeah. That's right, and if we did that and it was not proper, Goldman Sachs would certainly be suing our ass immediately. They wouldn't stand for anything like that. Samet in Australia is a lawyer, now retired I believe, but this guy has been claiming that it's not a legitimate offer and he's wanted this to make a firm commitment with a document. Now I drew up the document, I had lawyers help me do it. I filled it off to him and said, we will sign this document, is this satisfactory? Silence, DJ. Silence, we haven't heard from Samet since that point. He now knows he's confronted with the fact we will sign the document as presented and it is legally binding internationally in school. And yet he won't approve of that document. He won't correspond with us in any way whatsoever. So Samet, he knows and he won't admit it. Well, of course he won't accept the document because he gets more play out of making the baseless charge that the million dollar challenge is fake than actually working with us to use the million dollar challenge to ferret out unsuccessful or possibly successful claimants. So touching on just a couple other things, Randy, looking forward to the future of the JREF, we've decided to renew our investment in the grassroots, grassroots skeptical organizing, and this means regional workshops, more resources to local skeptics groups. You really see the grassroots as the future of organized skepticism. Oh, absolutely, there's no question of that. And I think that your presence, DJ, has done a great deal to promote this attitude and this venture within the James Randy Educational Foundation. It's pretty well due to you and I give you full credit. Well, as you mentioned earlier though, you have a great team there already and we're all working together to implement this kind of vision at the grassroots. I'm excited like you are. One last thing I wanna mention before we finish up, and I know you're incredibly enthusiastic about this prospect, it's the expansion of the amazing meetings around the world. Last year saw our first international amazing meeting in London. We're repeating that this year as well as expanding into Australia, very excited about that. Then next year, hopefully into Europe. So question about this international expansion. People everywhere are asking us. I've seen the emails, I've gotten some myself. People want us to come into their countries and do a national conference on critical thinking, an amazing meeting in this, that, or the other country. Why do you think there's all this new interest in amazing meetings around the world, Randy? Well, I think that people are getting more aware of the JRS, of course, and of our work in general. Certainly Switzerland isn't very much aware, but I've got a lot of good friends in Switzerland, and they have been emailing me, oh, I hear you're coming to Switzerland. That's the European connection that you referred to a moment ago. And I can't wait to get to Switzerland again, not only is it a beautiful country, but wonderful, wonderful people who are very curious, very scientifically minded people who really want to see something like this happen. It'll happen in 2011, I believe, in Switzerland, that's the present plan. It'll take a while to get that underway, but I can't wait to expand internationally, and we have some possible affiliations with other skeptical groups coming up as well, but we won't speak about that because that's all information, right? Exactly, we can say we're very excited about strategic alliances with groups around the world. A lot is in the works, and I could not be more optimistic, even as a skeptic, you know, not a cynic, but a skeptic about the future of the James Randy Educational Foundation and with your kind of vision and inspiring folks, both at the grassroots and at the foundation, it's just nothing but critical thinking, success going forward. Well, before leaving, DJ, I'm gonna give our listeners a little bit of a secret about you. Oh. You see, I must say that I think that, I may be wrong about this, but I think that you were saying, for example, when you announced to me privately and in the confidential emails, some of the changes that were really made at the JREF, and you wondered on those correspondences with me, you just wondered whether or not the staff was going to take it correctly, and I assured you that there was no problem, that they were flexible, that they were willing to accept. I think you were a bit surprised to find how easily it went down with the staff because they're all thinking, rational people, and they're accepting. They know that you're the new boss here, and you were just a tad surprised, I think, that they took it that easily. Am I correct? You're correct, you must be a mind reader because when I took up the helm of the JREF, as everyone knows non-profits, not just the JREF, but non-profits all over the place, sometimes have to make minor course corrections to have more increased impact for their missions, and coming into an organization that I hadn't been a part of, I had these questions as you recount, I have been incredibly impressed with both the enthusiasm and the commitment, but also the stick-to-itiveness of the staff. People are rolling up their sleeves saying, okay, let's figure out what we need to do to take the JREF to the next level, so you're absolutely right. There's not only a lot of enthusiasm, but there's a lot of just kind of nose-to-the-grindstone mentality, and that's what we need if we're going to continue growing like the JREF needs to grow in order to respond to all of these irresponsible claims in society. We were talking about the ADE-561 bomb detection devices earlier and how the government bought into all of that, and it was up to you to ring the alarm bells. That's why the JREF is so important. It kind of stands between all the credulous masses out there who believe nonsense, some of which is actually harmful, stands between the nonsense claims and the public. We do a vital work and I'm excited about the team we have to do that work. So Randy, thanks for having me aboard and nothing but good stuff to report for the future. Well, welcome to the group, DJ. It's been a great pleasure having just a bit of a broadcast. I must say, your last remark there, you said the government, but you're talking about governments all over the world because in every country of the world, they have accepted these so-called dowsing rods, and I think we're doing all those folks a great favor as well. I certainly hope so. Well, thank you, Randy, and we look forward to talking to you next time you're on the show. Great discussion. Thank you. Thank you for listening to this first episode of For Good Reason. I want to especially single out Richard Dawkins and the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science for generous initial underwriting support to make For Good Reason possible. To get involved with an online conversation about today's show, join the discussion at forgoodreason.org. Views expressed on For Good Reason aren't necessarily the views of the James Randy Educational Foundation. Questions and comments on today's show can be sent to info at forgoodreason.org. For Good Reason is produced by Thomas Donnelly and recorded from St. Louis, Missouri. Our music is composed for us by Emmy Award-nominated Gary Stockdale. Contributors to today's show included Jamie Ian-Swiss and Christina Stevens. I'm your host, DJ Growthy.


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What does your doctor not want to tell you in your diabetes care? Let's make one thing clear. This is not just another eat better or eat no carb, et cetera video. Today we are talking about politics. The politics of medicine, how doctors really treat diabetes and what they know about it and whether or not they tell you about it. As an endocrinologist practicing daily, there are things that I want to tell my patients and sometimes I do, but I cannot keep saying that to every patient, right? Otherwise I will lose my mind. What are they? Do you wanna know? Well, your doctor may not know or tell you about diabetes treatments, for example, other than just insulin or metformin. You know why? Your doctor was not really trained to treat diabetes as an outpatient. Most doctors are trained in hospital settings and see patients in the ER and in the hospital beds in training. The outpatient part of the training is less than 10%. Why? Because residents are cheap doctors, right? The hospital system wants to use them and employ them in the hospital where the money is. On the other hand, where are the most of the patients? Not in the hospital. Over 90% of doctor-patient relationships happen in the outpatient setting. Here's the problem. Doctors are trained to treat diabetes with insulin in the hospital. Why is it? Because it is easy. It is cost effective for the hospital. It is easier to control the whole insulin thing. Since the insulin they use is mostly short acting and stuff like that. And the point is though, that they're not trained to treat diabetes with anything else.  And if these things don't work, you end up going right on insulin. That is why it is important to know the experience level of your doctor with regards to diabetes. The second thing your doctor won't tell you is, how do you eat right? They have not been really through nutritional training during their residency either. As I said, they're busy intubating ICU patients, typically in their training.  So how is it that your doctor's ICU or inpatient skills going to help you? Most of you need nutritional education, right? You either don't know much or you're stuck with what you can find online on Google or YouTube. You're lucky actually that you are right now watching this channel. But in reality, there are not many good sources of nutritional resources for you to learn from. Some YouTube channels argue that for example, carnivore diet is the only way to go, only for the good health, while the others argue that the plant-based diet is the only way to go. So you turn to your doctor because you may have some conditions like kidney disease, et cetera. And what do they say? They say just do it in moderation. That's why eating in moderation is bashed by so many YouTubers because in reality, yes, you should eat in moderation, you should eat in moderation, but eat what in moderation? What if you're insulin dependent? What if you have gastrointestinal issues? What if you have gastroparesis? Who is going to give you that personalized dietary guidance? Yeah, your doctor. Your doctor has no idea about the diets. Ironically, most doctors actually eat horribly themselves because during those residency days, they just had to eat whatever they found and that got used to it. How are they going to give you sensible information? That is why I took extra classes to become a diabetes educator after I became a doctor. It's the reverse way. People, doctors say, oh, diabetes educator, why would I do that? I'm a doctor, but that's what you need to do. As an endocrinologist, I'm aware that everyone has unique nutritional needs and in this, I try to provide all that information that I have to give you some guidance. Your doctor won't tell you also about the price of the medications, right? Why is that? Well, most of the time, you go to the doctor. Let's say you go see an endocrinologist just like myself. What happens is that we come up with a great diabetes plan where the medications that you will be using will help you lose weight. They will probably improve your cardiovascular risk profile. We try to choose those medications and they will probably protect your kidneys. That's what I try to do, you know, try to kind of kill multiple birds with one stone and lower inflammation, et cetera, et cetera. You're happy, right? At the end of the visit? Until you see the price tag on the medication copay. Why? Because your insurance willingly and on purpose won't let the doctors know the out-of-pocket expenses that the patient experience.  He or she is trying their best to give you the most state-of-the-art treatment, but they're not informed. Insurance companies know that if doctor did not know and the copay was expensive, patients would not fill the prescription so that they let it ride. Unfortunately, not every insurance is the same, but in my area, the insurances do that frequently and they watch that. They watch the patient going to the doctor, getting a prescription and ending up not filling the prescription because of the expense and they make it look like they're doing their job. Yeah, they watch it just like a movie that they set up. Who wins? Yeah, insurance companies. 50% of the prescriptions go unfilled. Isn't that crazy? Your doctor also will not tell you about natural or alternative treatments. The truth is that there is a division between the mainstream and the holistic doctors, but luckily there's something called integrative medicine. Integrative doctors combine the modern medicine with the natural approaches. The problem is that the modern medical schools do not teach anything about natural or holistic approaches. Holistic providers also like chiropractors and so forth, they're not trained at all in modern scientific medical diagnostics or treatments either. So you should look for medical doctors who are open-minded about using natural approaches or alternative approaches in treating diabetes or anything in that matter, for example.  Like I said, modern medicine cannot be denied. I use them every day. They work great, but not for everyone. They are not always the solution to everyone or for every problem. Plus, they are not inexpensive like the natural approaches. They tend to have side effects and I love combining natural and modern medicine because natural medications sometimes are not adequate either. So you have to sometimes combine them to have a balance and keep the number of medications on the low side. Now, another problem we said that the insurance companies want doctors to prescribe generic and cheap medications regardless of their side effects. So for example, your insurance will say, yeah, we cover medications for diabetes, but they will only cover the medications that will cost them only a few pennies. Your doctor has no choice but to prescribe them because they're forced to. In my practice, I give my patients options. We weigh the benefits to risk the cost and all that and we make a decision together whether if you're gonna be going for generic or the brand medication or a natural approach or whatever it may be. Now, your doctor also want to tell you about what insurance companies are forcing them to do. I'm not talking about the medications here like in terms of medication prices, but for example, insurance companies will send you or your doctors about not being on metformin or a statin or an ACE inhibitor or something like that because they say it's indicated, right? In reality, the same insurance company won't honor the cholesterol medication or prescription that I write for a statin intolerant patient, somebody who cannot take statins for one or the other reason. Why? They will not honor that because they say, oh, that's expensive. Forced your patients take statins because it cost them pennies by sending these letters to you. They're actually sending a message to the stockholders at Wall Street. They say, look, what I'm doing a great job. I'm sending letters. I'm forcing everybody. I'm forcing doctors to write medications to make sure everybody is so healthy to make sure everybody's on statins and so forth. If your doctor does not force that statin on you, what happens? Insurance companies will lower the payment on your doctor or penalize them. Even if you have all sorts of complications or side effects, your doctor will still try to force you to take it. What a double-faced approach by the insurance companies, right? It's disgusting. Well, your doctor does not have time to explain all that drama to you. So your doctor says, either take this medication or I cannot see you anymore. Some of you probably heard that before, but inside he says, or else insurance company will fire me. Sad, but true. Your doctor may not tell you that also you may have a kidney disease or liver disease. That's crazy, right? Why is that? Well, that's because they may not have anything to offer. Until recently, for example, the lower kidney function was not a very treatable condition, except control your diabetes, cholesterol, and so forth, or just end up with dialysis. Now, sometimes doctors won't open the conversation also if they think that it will upset you or it can make you ask a lot of questions they don't have answers for. So you should look at your labs and if you have something that bothers you, ask your doctor. If you're not getting a satisfactory answer, talk to a specialist or ask for a referral. For example, SPLT-2 inhibitors. It's a class such as Jardines or Farsiga. They were recently found to lower the risk of progression to dialysis dramatically. Also, there is a new groundbreaking treatment called Kerendia that also lowers the inflammation in your kidneys, et cetera. Now, there are medications that will prevent going to dialysis, but your doctor may not be aware of it or they may not wanna talk about it because of the insurance limitations. Like we discussed, many factors, your doctor may not even want to talk about those treatments.  Until the day it becomes your job to answer those questions sometimes or ask your doctor's more questions and ask for options. So guys, thank you for watching. I hope that helped you and we will see you in the next video.  See you next time. Hey guys, I hope you're enjoying this channel so far and I hope you subscribed already. If you didn't do it and if you did, watch this video right there. I think that will help you too.


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