I think the Fed is making a mistake. They're so tight. I think the Fed has gone crazy. So you could say that, well, that's a lot of safety, actually, and it is a lot of safety. And it gives you a lot of margins. But I think the Fed has gone crazy. There you have it. That was right at the top of our show. President Trump sharing his opinion on the Federal Reserve and just what an aggressive Fed means. Going crazy, wrecking the economy, wrecking his achievement, what he's put together in hurting the stock market in the process. Now to discuss David Nelson. Bell Point Management's Chief Strategist, Melissa R. Mones back with us. David, you know, we of course know President Trump, you know, just very reluctant to see the Fed move in there. No president likes to see the Fed hike rates. And I think in this particular case, what worries me is that it feels like almost every time Main Street starts to make a little bit of cash, that's when the Fed wants to take away the punch ball. Look, Trump is not alone with this, but beware here, you know, the only thing worse than an independent Fed is a politicized one. So it kind of blocks them into a corner there. And I think, you know, Powell is pretty pragmatic. If he sees that this is actually starting to slow down the economy or could possibly be worse than this, he'll take a pause. He'll take a break right now. But I think I agree with that. I think they're moving just a little bit too fast. No, what I will say is I don't think the Fed is going crazy. I think Wall Street's anticipation of the Fed's next move is what's crazy. And I don't know why Wall Street is so convinced that Jay Powell is going to wreck this thing. Everything he has said thus far, particularly out in Wyoming, has signaled to me that, hey, I understand. I'm not one of these guys who's, you know, just looking at spreadsheets. You know, I've lived the world. I was with Carlisle. I'm not a classically trained economist. I understand Main Street. The message I hear from Chairman Powell is that I have to raise rates at certain times, but I'm not going to kill this thing if I don't have to. But then almost every time he says that, he also is hinting at the economy overheating. So that's why Trump keeps making these comments after it. So yeah, he will say that. And then right at the end, boom, he'll say something else to contradict that. So I think it's very hard to read. Did any one of you have, were you uncomfortable after the Fed meeting, the FOMC with the so-called dot plot? So, but we had apparently one rate hike in December, the three next year, one in 2020. Is that okay? I mean, is that too much? Not okay for me. I actually came away with four next year. I thought after those comments that we would have one every quarter. And I guess the fear that investors have is that the Fed is one step away from a policy mistake. And frankly, history is- That's a legitimate fear. You know, that's a legitimate fear because history kind of bears that out. We've had a lot of market corrections and bear markets caused by the Fed. And to President Trump's point, there's a legitimate fear for the president to have. You can't go through all of this work. You can't lower these regulations. You can't put in these tax policies. You can't ignite the animal spirits that we're missing in this economy and then have the Federal Reserve snuff it out. That's right, because don't forget. The Trump administration had the tax savings to help people. So people out there, regular people, most people have credit cards, mortgages, some kind of loan where it's tied into an interest rate that may not be fixed. So when interest rates go up, that affects people. So for some people, the savings were great with the tax cuts. For some people, they were not as big as others. And so if you have a bump in interest rates that will take away the savings for that, going into 2019, that's what's upsetting Trump. And I think that is what's not going to be good for consumers. So it's a very fine line. By the same token, rates are relatively low. The yields are relatively low on the 10-year. Historically speaking, these aren't levels that generally derailed economies or stock market values. I don't think so. I started in the 90s. We were a lot higher than this, obviously. I think the problem for the Fed is the tools they use, their blunt instruments, and they're trying to move around a battleship. Very difficult. And what Fed officials have to do is kind of think in advance here. I think they're pushing on a string here. I think the markets are going to tell them, slow down, take a breath. You don't have to snuff this out. Which is exactly what happened to Janet Yellen the first time she hiked rates in late December of 2016. She did it for no other reason except to express independence from Wall Street. They showed her what they could do. The market sold off the first two weeks. It was a disaster, I mean 2016, a disaster those first two weeks. After that, she seemed to be more thoughtful or mindful. Listen, I'm feeling very positive because we're going to earning season. I have a different outlook maybe of the sell-off today if it was December 15th. But it's not. It's the middle of October. We got tech reporting at the end of this month beginning of November. It's a busy volatile momentum time in the market. And remember, Black Friday, all these things coming up at the end of the year is a good time for retail. I don't feel like today's sell-off is any reason to get crazy. All right, you ready to buy something soon? Come on. I'll let you know when. All right, well, I'm getting ready too. I'm getting my list ready, folks. All right, thank you both very much. I want to get back to that other major story of today, of course.


Hello So I might or might not to use my slides depending on the answer to this question And I can't really resist the opportunity to ask a question when I have a captive audience like this How many of you have been in a physical bookstore this year? Practically everyone wow The clay people didn't make it done it We got to work on them put some chips or some motors in them or something Well, wow that's that's you know amazing So my name is Praveen Madan and you know my engineer and MBA and for many many years I was working down in Silicon Valley like thousands of other engineers and MBAs You know working away in corporate America and doing pretty well And then about five years ago. I met a left turn in my career. I decided to focus on bookstores. I Saw there was something very powerful going on Where every time a bookstore would close There will be this sigh and moaning from the community people who change themselves and give try to give bookstores money Please don't go out of business. We need you You don't see that with any other commercial institution in this country With banks you're seeing the exact opposite the Occupy movement So I was really intrigued what was it about bookstores that people love so much that they're trying to save them And they're trying to you know make them work and then they're trying to make them stick around So five years ago on a hunch. I you know left my corporate career and jumped into it you know, we took over our first bookstore in San Francisco the Booksmith and You know, we've been working on it. It's you know, our sales are growing double digits every year or you know We are winning awards every year And it's doing really well and now I'm involved with Kepler's How many of you from the Bay Area? No, mostly all people so hopefully you guys know about Kepler's Kepler's has been the bookstore of Silicon Valley for about half a century It's outlasted Sun Microsystems web van Netscape All these technology companies they come and go every five or ten years Kepler's is still standing so a few weeks before Christmas they called me and Clark Kepler said I don't think I'm gonna make it and I'm planning to liquidate my business And do you want to buy my mailing list? And I said you're out of your mind Kepler's is like Yosemite National Park You can't close Yosemite National Park. It's a community asset so And even I had questions whether you know, whether there was a market for it I mean, this is the heart of Silicon Valley Practically everyone has an iPad or a Kindle and you know people are reading e-books and they all this larger narrative That with the digital books we don't need bookstores and we don't need physical books anymore Well, my narrative started getting questioned very early on as I got involved with Kepler's in the middle of December I was standing there in the bookstore Waiting for to talk to somebody and I saw this guy walking around he was wearing one of those corporate given You know jackets and it said the Google ventures And I you know the networker and me said hey somebody from Google ventures in here. Let's talk to this guy Well, it turned out it was David Drummond anyone from Google here No, nobody from Google. So David Drummond is on the executive team of Google. He's been there for 10 years He heads illegal corporate development and you know, he and then he tells me he's actually managed Google's e-book program for about two years So when I realized who I'm talking to I turned to when I said David, what are you doing here? You're the type of guy we would expect is only reading digital books and here you are in an independent bookstore And you're buying books and he's got a basket and he's packing it full of books He's got six books in there already and he's still shopping. I'm like, what are you doing here? And he didn't even have to think about it He looked straight at me and said Praveen Pixels don't do it for me when it comes to books. I still need real books. That's what I'm doing here I'm shopping for real bucks and he said I live in Los Gatos. There's no good bookstores in Los Gatos So I come here and then he pointed to his son his four-year-old son who was You know running around in the children's section at Kepler's and said and I want my kid to know real bucks.   That's a pretty solid mailing list You know in January we did a survey and we asked people well, what do you value at your bookstore? 95% of the people said they'll value coming to Kepler's because They want to be able to come to a place where they can browse and they can discover new ideas 91% of the people said the value Kepler's were buying books. This is in Silicon Valley This in the heart of Silicon Valley the new Facebook headquarters is one mile from Kepler's You know the venture capital community is on Sand Hill Road, you know another two miles You know on a different side so in the heart of Silicon Valley people are telling me the still want a bookstore They want a bookstore to come to author events. They want a bookstore to meet other you know intellectuals. They want a bookstore, you know to be able to You know browse and discover, you know new things Physical browsing is still three times. They've been studies done on this physical browsing is still three times more powerful To help you discover new Material new ideas new books and think about this Amazon has been at this for 18 years But there are algorithms and physical stores are still ahead in terms of creating a you know beautiful well-curated, you know physical display so Let me jump to you know forward to you know just to talk a couple minutes about DP LA What would we bookstores like from DP LA? I Think first and foremost we would like to be included as I'm reading the program I see a list of institutions mentioned here and it doesn't mention bookstores So so we would like to be included we will very much like to be part of this new digital future that you know bookstores are creating Technology has been the Achilles heel of bookstores and continues to be that way We have no good technology partners You know, it's not our booksellers association, you know, who's basically you know doing this with you know Three and a half engineers in New Jersey. It's not Google who just dropped the ball on you know working with independent bookstores We've been looking and looking and looking would really need good technology partners And the opportunity that we see as we become you know more and more focused on our true mission of literacy and spreading books and spreading literature is that books have only reached about 50% penetration in this country so far Think about that cable television reaches 90 plus percent of the people internet reaches 90 plus percent of the people But 50% of Americans do not read a book after the graduate from high school. This is based on any if the National Education Association says You know studies So our mission really is to continue spreading books and literature and we would love to have access to an open source Platform through which you know, there's rich metadata. We can build our own applications. We can target our communities We can build you know new and interesting revenue models because our communities want us They want us to stick around they want us to be relevant, but we really need to you know play more strategically in the digital world So that's what we would like to see. Thank you


Everybody forced you ripping 20 22 23 prism w2e hobby 1 box number 26 random back style I got Donnie So randomized right now see who's got which pack before we open the box I'm just gonna leave like this and display. I will go 1 through 12 straight back. So front to back 1 through 12. Good luck 4 and 1 5 times names first one 2 3 4 and 5 Matthew M down to Edward P and packs here 1 2 3 4 5 4 down to 10 on these Eagles crack in Cavaliers and guardians Matthew M for Jason G 8 Norman K 2 James H 1 Russell S 9 Sam Y 11 Jim L 3 Jason G 12 Russell S 5 Norman K 7 Chris G 6 and Edward P 10 Like he's posted to the site Now that I see it is kind of all over the place Steve is there a reason you picked the teams you did? That's how it be or did you just go to random.org in this type of I'm out to random.org my Premier League team next season. Hey, son Because it's still the same season Well, I want to do it. I want to do it later. So Oh My right, I'm gonna do what I want It's my it's my random. I'm not saying There's no hope all the good thing is I've never felt hope so I was never hopeful about the potential of hope All right pack one Back one got a ruby wave of Walking wild and an orange prism of Cody Rhodes American Nightmare Cody Rhodes to 99 nice Solid start we go pack one See I'm gonna use that too what Did he get one shan what do you get? back to Hyper Brock Lesnar and a red prism of Gable Steve sent out of 299 There's a person who doesn't watch wrestling as much anymore or ever Pack three did Cody Rhodes become like a thing He wrestled like a while Oh, yeah, Shane. Oh, no, I don't I don't want to see that though. So Ruby wave rookie saw Ruka and Silver mad cat moss. I know he's out for injury Pack four has a redemption Big time right there silver Elton Prince It is to my so Champa on the superstar auto prism red to my so Champa That was pack four pack five Solid hit on the red she beats in 99 on the Champa solid hit onto what five now pack five Of macho man Randy Savage Purple Dominic Mysterio Number to 149 pack six Ruby wave Roman Reigns and Ron Breaker Ron Breaker number to 299 the red onto seven Ruby wave of walking wild and a silver Elias pack eight second auto and pack eight And it is a Sonya the Ville base sensational signatures Sonya the Ville silver scarlet book a T Number nine wave here of Oro Mensa and purple to 149 Tiffany Stratton pack 10 hyper Aranda Rousey blue prism of Aliyah Aliyah number to 199 one of 199 in that Aliyah number 11 Ruby wave Tony the Angelo and a silver of Andre the Giant and Number 12 last pack hyper Yokozuna And a silver of Ivy Nile and that will do it. Thank you again everybody. We got number 27 coming up next now


These judgments of other people arise in the ego because you're trying to compare yourself to them. It's always in a comparison, you know, the men actually to support these comparisons which are always anyway saying that you're better than them. And when you know your own truth, you don't have to be better than anyone else. So you don't make those judgments and suddenly, you know, that overweight lady next door who's always eating sausages becomes this very interesting person who can actually come up with some amazing wisdoms which you didn't think of before. It's like an opening to an entirely new dimension of communication. We invite you to an audio live satsang with Maharishika Preeti this Sunday. For more information, visit maharishika.org.


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebrakes.com coming at you with 2021 Panini National Treasures Collegiate Football. Two box, pick your team number five from jaspyscasebrakes.com. Half case break from a fresh case. I'm making sure that the personal breaks don't accidentally take that. There it is. Thanks very much everyone for getting into the action. Yeah, my Raiders beating the Eagles today. We had a few, a few Eagles fans out here on the staff. I think we're still, I mean, I haven't heard from them today. I think we're all on speaking terms. I mean, the Eagles went into the game as underdogs, so I don't know how high the expectation for wins are going to, we're going to be. All right, so now you can see on the top camera there's two boxes that are kind of angled this way and then two boxes down here. We're going to roll the die. We're going to select one first. And we'll go one, two, three for the top two boxes right here and then four, five, six for the bottom two boxes right there. It's one. Wasn't much of a roll, but there it is. It's one and we'll save this for next time, which is going to be pick your team six. And I've already posted pick your team six on the site. So if you missed out on your teams the first time, you don't want to miss out the second time. It's available now if you're listening live or watching live. There's a good chance we can run that back tonight. Now, a very big thanks to everyone here for getting in on the action. Here are the people that picked their teams straight up on a Sunday, the 24 that I appreciated. David ended up with quintuple last ball emoji. I think he got the last five teams all at once. So thanks to him. Thanks to everybody for getting in. Now you notice the R&B spots right here. We pulled out those teams and then turned them into serial number breaks. So you get a block of numbers right here. So here's one right here for that group of teams. Here's another group of teams right over there. And all of these were posted in separate videos. I realized I didn't post the most recent one, but let me just do that really quick. And again, second half is in the store, jaspyscasebrakes.com. Get as many of those, especially if you missed out on the teams, get as many of those teams as possible because we don't want, sometimes those number blocks can kind of get in the way of some swift momentum. And I believe that we can probably fill up one of these straight up. We have filled up some of these straight up before already. So get in on it. Make myself a little room here. Oh, also I want to drop the checklist to this because it's all collegiate stuff. So we'll be going by the checklist on groupbreakchecklists.com. And I'll have a block of posting notes here so I can tag the teams on the back. So these will be sorted just that much faster and then shipped to you just a little bit faster. Now remember, ladies and gentlemen, as we get closer and closer to the holiday season, I think a lot of you are already aware that the United States Postal Service has made some changes in delivery times, especially first class stuff. And the holidays usually just gets really busy and a lot of times we lose step by step, point by point tracking. So just be aware of that and be patient with us and the shipping services. All right, let's use a blank card. I got a blank card here. Let's use this blank card to slow play the hits a little bit. We've got some extras now. All right, 28 out of 99, Josh Allen. David with the bills. Buffalo! Our first relic is gonna be Josh Jacobs. 39 out of 75, nice win for my Raiders. I'm gonna say Josh Jacobs had a decent day too.  And that will be for, that'll be for Adam. Next up is a randomized triple relic. Got a Mari Rogers, Trevzettian, and Trevor Lawrence. 41 out of 99. But Jacksonville does have the odds on this one because a Mari Rogers is Green Bay, but the other two, Etienne and Trevor Lawrence, are both Jacksonville. So we'll do that randomizer along with any others at the end. Next up is 2-2 Atwell, 68 out of 99. Three color patch and autograph. That'll be for the Rams. That's gonna go to David.  Next up is Dwayne Eskridge, 17 out of 99. And that will be for the Seahawks. That's David with the Hawks of the Sea. Dwayne Eskridge again, Jersey and autograph. I feel like we see this a lot. Dwayne Eskridge back to back. 42 out of 99, some weird collating thing that happened at the factory. But nevertheless, there's Dwayne Eskridge. Another one for Seattle. And we've got Travis Etienne. Nice, 49 out of 49. Three color jersey and autograph. Poor Travis Etienne. He's really looking forward to his dynamic play this season, but got injured early on. But this is one to hold on to. Jacksonville picked up straight up by David. And the last thing here is two color jersey and autograph. Davis Mills, 69 out of 99. For the Texans, Eric Leal with Houston. Not sure if Davis Mills ever expected to be starting games this early in his career, but I guess he's making a valiant effort of it. All right, that was the first box. Second box. All right, good luck, everybody. Remember, the second half is in the store, jaskiescasebreaks.com. Let's run it back. Looks like we've got a redemption or some sort of thin card in the middle here. Good luck, there's Joey Bosa, 33 out of 99. For the Chargers. We'll see his brother, we shouldn't be seeing his brother, Nick, in action later tonight. The Niners game, Sunday Night Football. Next is Big Relic here, 83 out of 99, Michael Carter. For the Jets. New York Jets are a number block team. Jets three is gonna be for Adam. Adam and his Jets. Rough day at the office for the Jets, but did Michael Carter have, did he have a touch? I'm looking at the box score right now. I thought he did something today. Something positive today. Let's go to the box score. Michael Carter, no. But he had 11 carries for 37 yards. Eight receptions for 67 yards. Elijah Moore had the TD either way. Put up a lot of yards though. There you go, maybe a sign of things to come. Positive sign of things to come. Next is another randomizer, Kaderius Tony for the Giants. Kyle Pitts for the Falcon and Kyle Trask for the Buccaneers. That is 73, 75, that's another randomizer. Oh, there's the redemption and it's Demetric Felton. College Materials and Tripoli, laundry tag team logo. I'm almost certain that's a train whistle for the Browns. I actually saw Demetric Felton do okay in that Thursday night game. Let's go to cardboardconnection.com. I'm almost certain that this is a train whistle hit. NT Collegiate, where's my checklist here? Fault is saying that's a one of one. I think it is too. College Materials and Tripoli's checklist, booklet, laundry tag team logo, brand logo, conference logo, team logo shield, one of one. Yeah, it's gotta be a one of one. There you go. So Cleveland picked up straight up by Nathan. And Nathan, out of fives and under, get the world famous train whistle. All aboard the Big Hit Express, whoop, whoop. Cleveland, this is for you. We got a four out of seven, Joshua Kelly from NT Collegiate Football. And that is a charger, or a ram. Joshua Kelly is a charger. That'll be for Oliver and the Bolts. We got rookie silhouette signatures, Kine and Wang Wu, 10 out of 75. And Kine and Wang Wu is a Minnesota Viking.  Couple more here. We got Pat Friarmyth, two color jersey and autograph 21 out of 99.  And last but not least is, ooh, a nice Mac Jones. Five out of 99, Patriots had a great day today. That goes to the New England Patriots number block group. And that goes to number five, New England five, Adam Cupperman. Which is, I guess I'm not sure how Adam feels about this. On one hand, this guy and his team beat Adam's Jets. Beat him down. But on the other hand, this is pretty good for the hobby. I think Adam Cupperman has mixed feelings on this one, but there you go, Adam. Maybe this brightens the football day a little bit. That's it boys and girls. Rubbing it in, but I'll take it says Adam. Mark Patriots on that. All right, so now let's do a couple randomizers for these triple relics. So let's go to random.org. There it is. We'll use one dice roll for both lists. The first one is the Green Bay Jacksonville, Jacksonville one. And the other one was the Cadarius Tony, one Kyle Pitts, et cetera, et cetera. Giants Atlanta and Tampa Bay. All right, let's roll it, let's randomize it. Four and a six, 10 times for names, for those groups of teams that is for both lists. 10 times. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and 10th and final time. After 10, yeah, Jacksonville had the odds. Jacksonville is on top. That's gonna go to David. You get the triple relic. Amari Rogers, Travis Etienne, and Trevor Lawrence. All right, next triple relic. Once again, four and a six, 10 times. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and 10th and final time. Team on top, New York Football Giants. That will be for Mark, New York Football Giants with a win today. And there you have it. That was 2021 Panini National Treasures Collegiate Football, half case, two boxes. Half case, pick your team number five. The next pick your team is in the store right now, jaspyscasebreaks.com.  I'll see you next time for the next break. Bye-bye.


Hello, welcome everyone to another capsule international relations capsule for Shankar IA's academy. Today we shall discuss the midterm U.S. poll which was held on 9th of November but the results are not yet final. In fact, when we think of elections in the U.S. we are always perplexed by the fact that the oldest democracy in the world still cannot hold elections without problems. We are a much bigger country, much bigger waters list lists but we have a uniform pattern for all the states and there is a very efficient election commission and so on. So our results come out very fast and very few cases of dispute arise and mostly the judgment is immediately available and the government is formed in a few days. But this is not the case in the U.S. Firstly, because different states have different rules and regulations regarding elections. Ballot papers are very different and the counting process in spite of all the technology that they have is done by hand in many cases depending on from state to state. So even when there is a general election there is some confusion as to where the results will be and the last one we all know how Mr. Trump claimed that Biden has stolen his election and created such a havoc in the country and democracy itself was in danger the way we went about and this happens even in midterm polls. You know it's called midterm polls because these are held in the middle of the term of the president. Biden has just completed two years and he has two more years to go and it is in the middle of the president's term that some elections are held. What happens is the Congress members at the House of Representatives have only two year terms but there is no limit to the number of times they can contest but it means that they have to face an election every two years. The members of the Senate on the other hand face elections only every six years. They have six years term but it is based in such a way that many of one third of the senators come up for elections every two years. So one third retires and the two thirds remain and the next year another one third retires. So what happens is for all the 435 seats of the Congress which is the House of Representatives went to went for elections and in the Senate about 35 of them one third of the Senate members were also up for election. So the results have come and the trends are quite visible but still the final results may not come till the end of December or so because one Senate seat neither of the parties, neither of the candidates had a required number of votes and therefore it may not decided yet. It may go for repolling in December. So that means the result of the Senate we will know only after that is over in Georgia but the present situation is of course the Democrats are leading with 50 seats in the Senate. There are 100 seats in the Senate. They already have 50 and Republicans have 49. So one seat pending but the situation is such that Democrats have already won the Senate because they have 50 seats and the Vice President has a casting vote. So Democrats will have a majority. They had a majority already of one seat but now they have a more precarious majority having to use the Vice President in the time of voting to cast a vote. So Senate they already captured this was not expected at all. There was considerable speculation that the Republicans were going to win the Senate and the Congress and Donald Trump the former president was leading the Republicans and he created the impression that they were winning. So Senate they clearly won but in the Congress that is the House of Representatives Democrats have 209 seats and the Republicans have 217 seats which means that it is likely to be won by the Republicans because they did only one more seat to get the majority. So while in the first term as President, President Biden had majority in the Senate and also majority in the Congress and that is being upset now. Now he will be Democratic. Senate will be Democratic but the House of Representatives will be Republican with a fairly four or five seats majority. And this was most unexpected because there was this speculation in fact prediction that it will be a red wave. You know the Republicans are red color and Democrats are blue color and there will be a red wave this time but that was proved wrong and Mr. Trump has been discredited because many of his candidates he put up for the midterm polls failed. Some of them were very famous characters in many ways distinguished etc but the people turned against him in a sense and that is why he could not get a majority in the Senate. The Congress majority will be there but to be rather small. So the negotiating capability of the Republicans is less because of course President has to go to the Congress for budget passing so many resolutions to be passed etc. So what they do is if there is difference of opinion they negotiate and the concessions are made for the opposition etc that's how it works in the US Congress. So this time in the Congress he will have problem but the Senate is more powerful because all the presidential appointments have to be you know supported by the Senate by a vote of majority. So we can appoint whoever he wants because the Senate will approve it. If the Senate majority was lost then he would have been finding it difficult to appoint ambassadors or any other positions in the in the government. So that advantage he has and also since the majority of the Republicans in the Congress is likely to be small we don't know the final results likely to be small the difficulties that the President might have otherwise have in the US Congress will not be there. So Mr Biden in a sense has won these elections from expected failure he actually won the elections and he is very comfortable to go ahead. So President Trump's chances of becoming the Republican candidates has become less but at the same time he has already announced yesterday that he will try to be the Republican candidate but there is no great enthusiasm for him there may be another Republican candidate may emerge anytime and President Biden of course has also indicated interest in a second term which is normally given to presidents but in this particular case the problem is his health and also his ability to withstand the pressures for two years and then another four years. I think it may be too difficult to expect because of his present health is particularly not very good and the Americans are very sensitive about the health of the President even if there is an illness they start worrying about what will happen if something happens to the President and therefore it is possible that somebody from the Democratic Party might challenge him but with this victory he is likely to be the next candidate and he could well be President if his health is reasonable. So this was most unexpected and therefore the next two years President Biden will have a very comfortable performance if he wants to give more money to the Ukrainians or do various things with NATO etc. it will be easy for him to do it and so he is on a what we call a strong we kept in here next two years and if he gets the nomination of the Democratic Party he may well be the next President. So this is the situation. So why did this happen? Normally what happens is in the midterm polls presidents normally lose because nobody would have listened to the expectation of the electorate so in many cases there are some yardsticks in which the presidents lose the majority in the Senate and the Congress like for example if unemployment rate is above 7% history shows that all those presidents in this situation lost the majority in the houses in the Congress and the Senate. Similarly there are other occasions when for other reasons presidents do not get majority but here even though his presidency over the last two years not very promising to some somewhat lackluster but still he managed to get the elections through and so he should be happy. So in a sense we can say that Biden has won the election but one thing is the Georgia if there is a repeated poll and the Republicans win then there will be 50-50 and still there will be no problem he will not lose the Senate and Congress is not likely to win. So what are the reasons why he won or Democrats won? The general assessment is this was all because of the abortion law. There were two major topics of discussion during the elections. One was inflation, the patient rate has reached about 7% which is very serious for the economy. So people were blaming the president for it and therefore there was a feeling that he may not get sufficient number of seats in the a republic or the Senate. Senate he already got it in Republicans and the second issue was abortion because as you may remember in 1973 there was a Supreme Court decision which gave the rights for women for abortion in certain circumstances and that was just recently. The Supreme Court itself has overturned that it was a big surprise and the Supreme Court overturned it and as a result abortion has become illegal but it's not true that all of them have become illegal because in the US each state has separate regulations and rules. So the states themselves can legislate and if they legislate in a particular way the abortion rights will come back to the women in decisions but Republicans have been opposing it and therefore since Republicans are not in favor of abortion and Democrats are in favor of abortion, apparently the vote went in the favor of Democrats. This is what one hears about the analysis. This might be true because that's a sensitive matter in the United States and there is general reference for abortion to be possible in any circumstances that is what the Americans prefer. So according to all the estimates and analyses that have appeared in the American press the inflation issue was less important than the abortion issue and therefore the Republicans have lost and President Biden has won the elections. I already mentioned the consequences of it in the sense that the president will be comfortable with both the houses and that's good for him. The President Trump has lost his popularity as a result but he is still a candidate and as you know when he started off in his first election he did not have even one person's support and he won the elections. So anything can happen any miracle can happen whether he will be my candidate or not is a question but he is the most visible to public and candidates. So and as far as impact on the world is concerned President Biden has not had any remarkable success. He had problems in Afghanistan as we all know then the visit of Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan did not help him in any way necessarily provoke the Chinese and the Chinese have now declared that whatever happens they will go for reunification of China whether it be peacefully or otherwise. So they say that we'll try to do it peacefully but if that happens we will use force. What Xi Jinping said was that we cannot rule out or we can never promise that we'll not use force in the sense that if it gets delayed beyond a point America in China is willing to use force which is a highly dangerous thing because the Americans are bound to support and there could be a world war in case China takes Taiwan by force. And the other complication there is that since China is now supporting Russia on Ukraine Russia is bound to support China in the case of Taiwan if there is a conflict. So that's a very serious matter. Other than that this will not make a big difference to the world. President Biden is going to continue corona in the two years and he may even win the elections next year next term. But the present situation is calm and there is no reason for anxiety. As far as India is concerned as you all know it is the support for India is bipartisan. Both the parties believe that relationship with India is good. So there will be no difference really who is the president but there have been differences in the past because on certain issues the situation becomes very sensitive. So in our case it is a matter of the quad as well as China because Republicans are not are the Democrats are more tolerant of China Republicans. Like for example when Ladakh the Chinese incursion took place we got very big support from President Trump because that's also because Mr. Prime Minister Modi had a good relationship with Trump because he has even had even better relationship with the Democrats than Obama was president. So it depends but Republicans generally are opposed to the Chinese presence and the power and they are inclined to support us. Not that they will come and fight the war for us in a moment. We may get some support from in terms of intelligence and we may also get some support of arms being supplied to us etc. Even in 1962 because the war had ended when American supplies were sent into India and there was nobody to use it because we were completely shattered. So they have a tendency to support anybody against against China Republicans and so there is a confrontation between China and India. It is believed that the Republicans will maybe have greater support to us than the Democrats. So that is one angle we have to think about but otherwise normally it will not make any difference to India-US relations and the things will go smoothly because depending on priorities and so on what issues come up because last two years we had all the issues like the pandemic, the war, economic crisis, all kinds of things happened and so we should be prepared for another turbulent two years for President Biden and how he performs and how he else performs. All this will be factors in determining what will happen to India-US relations in the next two years. But there is no particular concern about this because the Kamala Harris is waiting in the wings if something happens to the President but that is something which nobody can predict. So as before the US situation will remain very active and track the table. But the one sad thing about it all is that United States has not yet mastered conducting of elections peacefully and also declaring results. That is very sad for us. With all our inefficiency and lack of technology we do a better job than elections than the American elections. That is something of great comfort to us but certainly the democratic process will cease. There have been cases where the presidents were nominated by the Supreme Court because nobody could know how people voted when there was confusion. So it is a classic case of that and that continues and therefore the results will not be available till the end of December when the Senate may have another runoff voting as they call it because if neither of the candidates has a clear majority then they have to go for another poll and that will be known only at the end of December. But it is very clear that the Democrats have the Senate and the Republicans have the Congress and the Democrats have the President and so they have an upper hand in the politics in the United States. So thank you very much. There are questions I shall try to answer. Thank you. This is a legitimate question but we don't know. The answer is we don't know because naturally the President will try his best to improve the economic condition of the US but there are so many important reports. We don't know how long the Russia-Ukraine war will last and that is a question which nobody can answer, not even President Putin. So the economic situation may continue to be precarious, inflation rate may go up, price of oil has already gone up and supply of oil from Russia may not be available for Europe. So there is a thorough turbulence in the economic field like almost like 2008. The world has just recovered from that and then another thing may follow. And as far as India is concerned, of course, whatever happens in the United States will have its impact on the whole world, particularly India for good or for bad, it will have implications for us. So how it's going to affect us will depend on our own policies. The trade agreement has not come into being. There are other issues and these are all we discussed. The trade facts are being discussed by the two sides and let's hope that even if there is a big issue in the United States, India will be able to manage as we did in 2008. Back in 2008 it was Dr. Manmohan Singh who showed the way to the world how to overcome that. So that's why Mr. Obama used to call Manmohan Singh my guru in economics and that is what led to the G20 which we are going to be chairmen. So there are very many interesting things happening. So we can't predict what the situation will be as of now. These are all unknown questions. The Republican party is divided, we all know. In fact, Donald Trump came into that as a candidate, as a usurper. He was not expected to be the candidate at all. But he manipulated his way all the way up. So it's not impossible that he may do that again. Whether he got the support of the Russians or not, that was the allegation against him. But there is no guarantee that the Republican voice will be united. For that matter, even democratic positions may not be united for. But that is a democracy. And let the best man win, that's all that we can wish. And who the best man is? The people of America themselves. I wish I was an astrologer. Nobody else can answer that question. Of course, people are doing things very fast in order to deal with this difficult situation. The Europeans have said that they have no objection to other people buying Russian oil provided the prices are kept at a minimum. So sanctions will continue if the war goes on. You'll get even more aggressive. And therefore, every country will be affected in the world. Our Prime Minister at the G20 meeting today spoke about poverty and the lack of shortage of food. He said that now it is shortage of fertilizers, but it will result in shortage of food. And it will be a big challenge. So what has happened to what's going to happen in Europe in the winter? Because now they're talking about the next winter rather than this one. This one, there is really no hope of resolving it. So that is where it is. Well, depending on the question that they ask, there can be a question relating to the midterm polls and the chances of the future there could be. Then a question as to what are the factors which resulted in the success for the Democrats? And that you know the main factor is supposed to be the abortion law, which was overturned by the Supreme Court. So this will be any one of these questions and cameras. Why do you want to do that? We can do anything. We can ban anything that's possible, but we'll not do anything against the right to information, right to the freedom for expression. And all these reflected in Twitter as in other social media. And they cannot do, no government can suffocate the people. But the person who is suffocating the people happens to be the richest man in the world. And he buys the high-stitcher of four billion dollars or whatever. And then he is silencing it in various ways. It's very strange that this is happening. But I see no reason for Twitter to be banned in India. We have taken actions against them and Facebook etc., for not observing the rules in India. And we are in touch with them. We find them sometimes. But I see no possibility of any of the social media being banned in India. Yes, this is more or less known, but there is really no evidence. You know, the impeachment case came up and it lost. So there is no evidence to show that Russians, but there were indications. I don't know whether publicly acknowledged it. But there is some concern that this happened. So people will try not to happen. Russia has already been told about the undesirability of intervention. And that doesn't prevent them from intervening, if they think Trump would be a better choice or whatever. And now technology has developed to such an extent that these things are possible. And we cannot really, but if they support Trump again, if Trump becomes the candidate, and he wins, there will be other consequences. So this is all a matter of speculation at the moment. There have been some reports that the Americans are talking to Iran. Because when it comes to oil diplomacy, those who have the oil matter, others do not matter, ideologies do not matter. So they will do whatever they can as possible. So the President Biden had gone to Saudi Arabia to persuade them to reduce production so that price remains steady. But Saudi Arabia had refused to do that. But now it appears that OPEC is lowering its production, which may be helpful. And other countries like Iran and Venezuela are in sanction, actually. And we can't say how it will evolve. I'm sure everybody will talk to everybody else. When it comes to existence and poverty and all of the problems, this is not, anything is, anything is possible, in your region it is possible. Yeah, it was in 1973 that abortion became legal in the U.S. But in the U.S., the system is that whatever rules are framed for the country as a whole need not necessarily apply to all the states because the states have flexibility in developing their own regulations. So this was suddenly struck off by the Supreme Court in 2002. So Supreme Court reversed the judgment of 1973. And there was a lot of questions and complaints and agitations and so on. And now it has happened that the Democrats support abortion while, sorry, Republicans support abortion while Democrats oppose it for various reasons, religions, so it looks, it appears as though Republicans would have otherwise won, lost because the people believed in the democratic policy of being open to abortion rather than, so they put it as the most important issue in the election. So whether it was inflation or control or not, they wanted that this issue should be resolved for the interests of the people. And so if Republicans come back to power that will create more problems for the people and therefore they opposed. And that is the reason why the Democrats got more votes. But these things keep changing the U.S. abortion, same-sex marriage, all kinds of things are under discussion and sometimes very surprising decisions are taken. The Supreme Court reversing this itself was a big surprise. But this is how the United States works and legislation works because this is not the majority party which is ruling. Then it's easier because in the Indian parliament the government does not have to struggle because the majority party can pass any legislation. But in the U.S. it is not that. That's because the president is in a particular party. He cannot get anything done in the Congress. The Congress majority matters, the debate matters, the relationship with the president, with the legislators will matter. And final compromise are made in the middle of the night. Sometimes the governments get closed down for several days because the parliament cannot agree. So such things happen. It is strange but democracy when it is very strong such things will happen. They are appointed by the president and then they have to get the approval of the Senate. That's how it is. There is no collegiate. The president can appoint anyone he wants. And the record of the judges in question. And that is what is examined. How has he voted on certain issues? All these are debated. And then only they will get support. There have been rejection by the Senate of judges appointed by presidents. So president and the Senate are the only factors in this. And the Senate majority is there for the president. His nominations will go to him. Okay then. Thank you very much. See you again.


I've been lucky enough to know a few of the people that worked directly with Steve Jobs, including his chief of staff, this guy, James Higa, brilliant. He would come up with a concept of, I need to be able to find any one of my songs in three clicks. That's it. Go and do it. It was not show me things constantly and James said to me, he said, in our exec meetings, that would be three hours, four hours long every week, we'd carve out time and for three hours we'd discuss things like, what is a better city design, Tokyo or Paris and why? Not, how are we going to outmaneuver Microsoft? And that's just so different than what you would think you could read Walter Isaacson's amazing biography on Steve Jobs, which is so detailed. So he's the best biographer in the world and yet it doesn't capture how he actually thought or how executive meetings would go. They're very, it's very different than you would think.


Okay, so this is a nice little poem from Nuli Sardar and I'm not going to say too much of it or catch on as I'm going inshallah It's called I'm in love her sent his heavens very sad Her touch it leaves me But her Her presence Settles my heart beat her taste is sweeter than water The thought of her absence Destroys me and her name is Karbala


The Kraft Foods Company presents The Great Gildersleeve. Gildersleeve, starring Harold Perry, brought to you by The Kraft Foods Company, makers of a complete line of famous quality food products. Man, Gildersleeve is quite a walker. But on bad days coming home from the office, he sometimes takes the V-line bus. There have been a lot of bad days lately, and this is one of them. Shop back with ya. What do you think I'm doing? Pardon, madam. It's little crowded, isn't it? Awful. Not to be a law. Yeah, you said it. As a matter of fact, I only happen to be riding on the bus because my car's in the shop. Mrs. Bullard has the station wagon. Me too. I just happen to be riding on it. You think of the election, or have I asked you that? It's a mandate from the people. My opinion exactly. By the way, how is Mrs. Bullard? No, she's fine, fine. That's good. And the rest of the family? She's a little Craig around much lately. Yes, we must get him and your boy together one of these days. Yes, we must. Is your boy learning anything at that school? School? Well, I don't know. I guess so. Why? Well, I'm darned if I think they teach them a thing. Now, Craig's been going to that school for two years. Can't read. Can't read a blooming thing. Well, after all, Craig's only... Can't even spell his own name. Well, I could read when I was five. It's this modern education, Gildersleeve. They don't teach him anything. You don't think so? Everything is projects.  Wasn't that way when I went to school? We worked. Oh, me too. We really had to buckle down. Yes, sir. Discipline. That's what's lacking these days. Discipline. A little of that old hickory stick. That's the idea. Why, do you know when Craig was in kindergarten last year, I found out the teacher had them sitting on the floor? On mats? What kind of foreign ideas that? Well, that's news to me, Bullard. In my day, we had desks and benches. You're darn right we did. Kept our hands folded, too. We kept them folded or else. Yes, sir. I hated school. I kicked like a steer all the way through. But by Harry when I got out, I knew something. Me, too. These darn kids. All they do is have a good time. What kind of a school is that? I don't know. Why, they don't even teach them manners.  Say, grab that seat before somebody else gets it. No, no, no. You take it, Mr. Bullard. Oh, please. Oh, too late. They learn women. They slide in a head of you every time. Well, I don't know what you're going to do about it, but I have a good mind. He ain't Craig out of there and sent him to private school like the older boy. Well, to tell the truth, I haven't paid much attention, I guess. There's a lot of monkey business goes on down their gilded sleeve. You ought to look into it. Yes, sir, I'll do that. Glad you mentioned it. See, what do you think of the election? Well, I guess I asked you that. It's a mandate from the people. Yeah, I guess I asked you that. All over the place. I didn't do it. Craig did it. Well, I ain't going to stand for it. That's all. I don't care who did it. I'm going to have to tell your uncle. Yes, sir, this time, I'm really going to tell him. I'm going to tell him. That's all. I'm just going to tell him. I'll clean it up. Well, you better, because I'm going to tell him. I mean it. I'm going to tell him. The minute he walks in here, I'm going to tell him. I'm going to say, Mr. Gilded Seed, just look at this living room. It's a mess. I'm going to tell him who did it, too. I'm cleaning it up, Bertie. Well, you better, because I'm going to tell him. Tell him that's all. Even, Mr. Gilded Seed. Gilded Seed. Leroy, what are these cards doing all over the floor? Or all those boxes? What's that stuff under the piano? Oh, they were just playing, Mr. Gilded Seed. You know how it is. Rainy day, two boys and nothing to do. Yeah, it was all Craig's idea. Won't take me a second to straighten it up. Craig, eh? Nothing to do, eh? Why aren't you upstairs doing your homework? It's done. Oh, it is, is it? Well, we'll just see about that. Hello, Anki, you're late. Good evening.  I didn't have any. I did it all yesterday. Leroy, you know so much. What's the capital of Maine? Uh, the capital? Yes, the capital of Maine. Maine, gosh. What's the capital? I'll give you to like, count five. One. Well, I seem to... You're not concentrating.  All right, three. Come on, come on. Four. Audrey, can you tell Leroy the capital of Maine? Certainly. Well? Can you? All right, what's the capital of Washington? The state, yes. What's the capital? Oh, you're not asking me. You're supposed to tell me. Well, what... Ask the trouble, Leroy. You don't really know, do you? You don't really know. Well, you keep hollering at me. Gosh, how can I... Ask the trouble with these modern schools. They don't teach you anything. I was talking with Mr. Bullard about this on the way home. I don't know whether the fall is yours or your teacher's, Leroy, but by George... By George, I mean to find out. Yes, Leroy, why are you waving your hand? The capital of Maine is Augusta. Did you tell him, Audrey? Certainly not. Well, you're too late, my boy. I'm going down there to school with you tomorrow morning, and I'm going to have a talk with your teacher. Oh, Anki, you're not going to do that. Why not?   Who said anything about messing around? Well, she's the principal in after all. All right, I'll have it out with Miss Goodwin. Maybe you're right. Maybe I ought to take it up with her first. After all, I haven't seen her even some time. I might just run over to her place after dinner. I know what she'll say, of course, but I know what I'll say. I'm going to get to the bottom of this. I'm going to find out whether she's got those kids tending to business or sitting on the floor. Do you evidently think it's worth your attention or you wouldn't come running over here with it? I didn't run, I... Frankly, Throckmorton, I'm very tired of hearing people complain about the school. We're badly overcrowded. The teachers are overworked and they're underpaid, but they're doing the best they can with the little they have. And I think they deserve great credit for it. Oh, so do I. Yes, indeed. Don't misunderstand me. I think I understand you very well.  Isn't that so? Well... Are you so perfect? Are any of us? If we had learned all there was to be learned, would the world be in such a mess today? I guess not. School can't take all the responsibility for a child, you know. If you feel Leroy isn't developing as he should, it's just possible that what is partly to blame is the intellectual atmosphere around the home. Do I? Tell me. Do you ever read? Well, certainly. I read to the children, I read to them, well, I read to Christmas Carol every year. Once a year. Do you ever discuss things with Leroy? Oh, all the time. I mean besides his faults. Well, I'm busy. Gosh. Do you ever read yourself? Now and then. Whenever I can. Now and then. Well, I told you Eve, I'm busy. Busy at what? Well, things. Throckmorton, be honest with yourself. Do you remember any of the things you learned at college? Or have you tried to keep up any of the interests you had then? Gosh Eve, I came over here to talk to you about Leroy. This has a great deal to do with Leroy. This is very important to Leroy. Because don't you see, you're Leroy's hero.  You're his hero. And that's a very great responsibility. I guess I'm no good, Eve. I guess I'm just a drifter. Oh, I wouldn't say that. I guess you must hate me, all right? And I don't blame you. You're wrong.  Because you're human. And so am I. Yeah? It doesn't really seem right. It doesn't really seem right that weekly should be an attraction. But nevertheless... Oh, I'm awfully weak. Nevertheless... I sometimes think the only thing that makes life tolerable is the little weaknesses we share in common. Why don't you move over here where it's comfortable, Eve? I've got another little weakness we could share. Now I'm afraid you're making a joke at the whole thing. Oh, no, I'm not. Believe me, Eve. Just the same. Why don't you move over?  I think we're getting off the subject. Nuts. Have you ever read Plato's Republic, Throckmorton? Fui, why should I read that? What'd you say? I said no, I've never read it, Eve. Oh, you should. It's one of the truly great books. In fact, I believe it's included in the hundred great books. The what? The hundred great books of all time. Some universities drawn up a list of them. It's really very worthwhile. All the students are required to read them. Read a hundred books? Oh, I think everyone should read them, if he hasn't already. Gosh, even if you join a book of the month, you only have to read twelve. You're not suggesting I should... Did you mean what you said, Throckmorton? Do you want to be an example to Leroy? Or do you just want to drift? I want to drift. Only kidding, Eve, I'm only kidding. I never know. I'll do anything you say, Eve. Oh, why don't you just try this book? Just to begin. I'd love to lend it to you. Well... Hmm. The Republic of Plato. Three hundred and eighty-nine pages. I don't know, Eve, this looks kind of heavy. For Leroy, Throckmorton. Yeah, for Leroy. You say there are ninety-nine others? Don't let that frighten you. You read them one at a time. Oh, say, maybe we could read this together, huh? I think you'd get more out of it if you read it alone. Yeah, yeah. But any time you run into trouble with it, why, come over and I'll be glad to help you out. Is that a promise? That's a promise. I'm pretty rusty. It's still a promise. Bye, George, the things I'll do for Leroy. The fine cook is always very particular about the salad she serves, preferring to make them whatever she can with one of two famous products, Kraft Kitchen Fresh Mayonnaise or the popular Miracle Whip, also made by Kraft. 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Now let's get back to the great Gildersleeve, who is about to rebuild his life at the 11th hour. He's finished a thoughtful supper and now he advances into the living room, which is already occupied by his niece and nephew. Marjorie is sitting on the sofa reading and Lee Roy is lying on his stomach in front of the radio, which is playing. I turn off that radio, please. I have work I wish to do. Marjorie is doing her homework. What do you think I'm doing? Homework with your head practically in the loudspeaker? Turn it off. Get your books up off the floor. Okay. I must say, Marjorie, what makes you think you can concentrate without music playing? It doesn't bother me. Me, either. Now listen to me, both of you. No wonder you're not learning anything in school. I'm doing all right. Well, maybe you are, but Lee Roy isn't. Anyhow, nobody can possibly study with that radio bladding out that hooray for Bob or whatever it is. You've got to play the radio. Why don't you play symphonic music? Why can't we have a little culture around here? Well? It's okay with me. I'm glad to hear it. What is it? What's what? What's what? Culture? Yeah. I'll tell you what culture is, young man. It's a love for the finer things of life. Oil painting, symphonies, great books like, where's that book I had before supper? Where? Oh, here. Look at that. Plato. What's it about? It isn't about anything. It's philosophy. 389 pages of it. You're going to read it? Certainly I'm going to read it. And I'm going to enjoy it, too. Well, Plato was one of the greatest thinkers that ever lived. I know. We had him last semester. Oh, you did? He made up a stale thing called platonic love. It had nothing to do with holding hands. It had nothing to do with the physical love. Plato was a very great philosopher above such things. Some thinker. Marjorie, I'm surprised at you. Lee Roy doesn't know any better, but you're in high school. Well, from now on, we're going to run this house differently. How? You'll see. I'll get back to your homework, Lee Roy. I want to read. Okay. That was in a book. There's nothing funny about it. It's the way it should be. Let's see here. Special introduction. Guess I can skip that. Lee Roy, can't you sit somewhere else? For culpa? No, children. Can't we all be quiet and enjoy our reading? Enjoyous. Very interesting subject. See that you learn it. See. Translators introduction. Seems to be a lot of that too. See, if I skip all this, it won't be so bad. Here. The Republic. Book one. Must be about page 50. Page one. Page one? What the... Oh, they use those darn little Roman numerals for all that introduction. Phew. Still 389 pages to go. Well, here goes. I could, Anki. Oh, fine. Great stuff. Deep, though, deep. See, if a man loves justice, he needs fear no attack from a dishonorable citizen for the just man cares nothing for possessions. A dishonorable man loves only wealth. For the more of a man loves justice, the gods run his side until eternity. Eternity is a companion virtue of truth and truth is the opposite of dishonor. Thus the wisest man is the eternal man and the eternal man is a philosopher. Judas. Say, maybe I could get a little help on this first part. Where are you going? You keep right home with your work, my boy. I'm going out for a little advanced instruction. From Miss Goodwin? Yes. She promised to help me. With Plato. I'll see you later. Okay, but keep it platonic, Anki. But Eve, what do I do now? Well, might as well go in, I guess. Cozy for somebody. What time is it? About 7.30. Sure, it's me. Who'd you think it was? Getting someone else a little later. Tell him not to come. I can't possibly. But Eve, you said you'd help me with my studying.  Wait a minute, I'll be out. You mind if I take off my coat? What was it you wanted help with? Plato, what do you think? That's deep stuff, Eve. How much of it did you read? How much? Yes. You mean how many pages? Yes. Well, I don't know exactly. That introduction is pretty long. Oh, I'm glad you read that. It's an excellent explanation of the whole book. It is? Well, I sort of skimmed it. And then you started in at the beginning of book one? Yes. I couldn't make head or tail of it, Eve. A lot of characters with long, Greek names running around talking to each other. What's it all about? Throck more than look me in the eye. What for? I want you to tell me the truth. Did you read one single page of the book? Why, Eve, sure I... Look me in the eye. I think I read a page. I will help you, Throck more than. But you've got to make a real effort to help yourself first. Now go back and try again. Read the introduction. Don't skim through it. Read it. And then read the first 20 pages. 20 pages? That's a lot. The introduction's long, too. All right, 10 pages. Read the first 10 pages. And if you don't understand it, come over and we'll talk about it. But if you could give me a little idea what it's about, Eve. I mean, right now, before I start. I've got to go out, Throck more than. Who with? I don't believe you know him. He's a teacher at the normal school. Going to some concert, I suppose. No. As a matter of fact, we're going dancing. Go on with your work. I finished it. You finished what? Your geography? Yeah. What about your history? I can do it tomorrow. No, sir. None of that. You get that right now and get it done. When you're finished, I'll examine you. Gosh. Now. Brand's later's introduction. The Republic of Plato is the longest of his works. They're telling me. Why the devil does he have to pick the longest one? Keep working, Leroy. I'll answer it. But you're mean. I will answer it. Up over. Then she might drop right back where she came from. I don't wish to be disturbed this evening. Goodbye, Gildy. I saw the light in the far right. But if you're busy. Not at all. Now sit, you do miss bell. Good evening, Marjorie, Leroy. Good evening, Judge. Hi. Doing a little homework, I see. Sure we won't disturb you. No, no, Judge. They've learned to concentrate. Have a chair. Tell me what you've been doing. Who's been reading Plato's Republic? I was glancing through it. I like to read a little philosophy occasionally. And when you're in the mood for philosophy, you can't beat Plato. You've been reading? No practical value, whatever. Why fill your head with a lot of theoretical stuff you're never going to use? Am I right, Horace? You bet I am. How about a game of checkers? It suits me fine. Where's the checker, boy? Here, underneath. Well, Leroy, what are you... What about your history? I've done enough. You've done practically nothing. You get your nose in that history book and learn it.  We're not working here. I'll have no ignoramuses in this household. Which hand do you want, Judge? I get to move first. Well, the frost is on the pumpkin and Thanksgiving's almost here. 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Hey, this is Brett, and this 2020 Ford F-250 Crew Cab Short Box XLTFX4 is stock number 13473Z. I am here at Summit Automotive in Von Lack, Wisconsin, your new and used heavy-duty truck headquarters. This 2020 Ford F-250 has the 6.7 liter power stroke diesel engine, puts out 475 horsepower and 1,050 foot-pounds of torque. It's paired up with the 10-speed automatic transmission. This truck has been fully-safetyed and inspected by our service shop, has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off, and this truck is 100% ready to go. I'm going to go all the way around in this video inside underneath, start it up, and take a look under the hood to give you the most accurate representation of the vehicle as possible. Oxford White is the color, and I shoot all my videos in 4K, so if you have HD capabilities, turn them on now because it is your best way to check out the quality, condition options, and of course, cleanliness of the truck before seeing it in person. As you go down this side of the truck, driver's side box, cab, and doors all look very good. I didn't see any dents, I didn't see any dings. Front fender is in great shape as well. If you like the video, you can subscribe to my YouTube channel, which is youtube.com slash Summit Auto. Click the bell notifications and you'll get updates on the videos I do each and every day here at Summit Automotive. So this one comes with the 18-inch chromed alloy wheels, no major scuffs or scrapes on there, and it has Cooper Discover AT3 tires. These are LT27570R18s, and I would say they have probably about 60-70% of the tread left on them. Frame and underbody is in very nice clean condition. Coming around to the front bumper, no dents or dings on there, it does have the factory fog lights, the chrome tow hooks, lower valance is in nice shape as well. Chrome trimmed grille and the hood is in fantastic condition, I didn't see any dents or dings on there. No dents or dings on there, and the passenger side front rim, no scuffs or scrapes. Now as you go down this side of this 2020 Ford F250, take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. I take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by, you just cannot make the trip down, but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle, you can see the truck, hear the truck, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. So when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. If this video helps you make that buying decision, let your salesman know that you saw the video that was helpful and that Brett sent you. Back rim is in excellent shape as well, and the back tires have just as much tires as front tires. This one does have rear airbag suspension, that's an air lift system, and you pump that up right there. Frame and underbody all the way underneath is like new, has all the remaining factory exhaust, so it hasn't been altered in any way, and it comes with a nice chrome step bars. They are in excellent shape as well, and you get the chrome tipped exhaust back here as well. Rear bumper, no denser dings, and there it does have the backup parking sensors. Full towing package, which includes a receiver hitch, four-pin and seven-pin wiring. That tailgate is in excellent condition. It comes with a Truxport soft roll-up tonneau cover. It's actually made by Truxedo, and it comes with a bed rug and bed mat kind of conversion or a hybrid, I guess you could say. That bed mat goes on to the tailgate, has the tailgate step assist as well. That shuts nice and solidly. For full disclosure, this back wheel, no scuffs or scrapes on there, and that's where you would pump up the driver's side rear airbag. Down the rest of this side of the truck once again, doors and cab all look really good. It does have the driver's side door code entry. We do have the code for this truck, and if you ever wanted to figure out what your code is for your 17 to 22 Super Duty in the upper right hand part of the screen, there's a video showing you how to do that. There's blind spot monitoring on the mirrors, built in directional signals. These are the power scope, so they power fold in, power telescope, but I'll show you that in a second. Inside the XLT package gives you the gray cloth interior. There are no rips or tears on these seats. Smells very clean inside this truck. Power driver's seat, weather tech floor mats, power pedals, auto headlamps, tilt, telescopic steering wheel, LED side lights, power windows locks and mirrors. Like I said, these mirrors do power fold in. I was like showing both sides so that you know that both sides are working properly, and then they do power telescope in and out. Once again, both sides working nicely. Take a quick look at the back seats. They are just as clean as the front seats, no rips or tears back here. It does have the latch child safety system for any child car seats you may have. Fixed glass rear window with the built-in rear defrost. These seats fold up for extra storage.  Weather tech floor mat. Over here you get a USB, USB-C and 110 volt, 400 watt max plug-in and a 12 volt power point. Let's go back down like so. Child safety locks on the back doors and the bottoms and inside of the doors all look really good on this truck. I want to show you the VIN and tire loading information sticker. There is that, and then there is the tire and loading information sticker. We'll hop inside, check out the miles, radio, and everything that this truck has to offer on the interior. You can see that this one has 49,914 miles. You do get the digital spinometer and compass display. And spring cluster is very nice and clean. Here in wheel you get cruise controls and information center controls on the left, Bluetooth and audio controls on the right. There's your shifter for that 10-speed automatic transmission with the optional tap shift. It comes with the sync 8-inch radio. You get AM, FM, and Serious XM radio as well as Bluetooth capabilities. Over here are all your different settings, including Ford Pass Connect, Apple CarPlay, Android Auto. You can project your cell phone to the screen. So while this one doesn't have the factory navigation system, project your phone to the screen with Waze or Google Maps, and it's like you have Nav right in the screen. So that's a pretty cool system right there. I'll show you the backup camera once we start it up. Factory exhaust brake, stability control, downhill assist control, lane departure warning. Turned out four-wheel drive, factory brake controller. There are your heated seat buttons and climate controls. You get a USB, USB-C jack right there. Two cupholders, four cupholders, 12-volt PowerPoint, and another 110-volt, 400-watt max plug-in. You do get the dual-glob boxes right there, and the passenger side format and seat are in excellent condition. Once again, I don't think this truck's ever been smoked in, and the headliner is in fantastic condition as well. You do get six auxiliary-upfit switches right there, and map lights there as well. We'll start it up and take a look under the hood. Starts right up, no check engine lights or anything like that. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today. There are those LED side lights. And hopefully from this HD video, you've been able to verify the quality condition options and, of course, cleanliness of this truck all the way around inside and out under the hood. We have a 6.7-liter power stroke diesel engine. Engine day is very clean. Runs very smooth. Once again, this truck has been fully safety to and inspected by our service shop as a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off. And it is 100% ready to go. Light and shocks are working nicely. There is the emissions sticker. And I would highly recommend this truck from a quality and condition standpoint. I didn't see a single ding on it. I'd feel comfortable shipping this one to California, Texas, Florida, New York, wherever. Whoever gets this truck's gonna be very happy. And to see more pictures of this truck and one of our other 550 new-news cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, Wranglers, half-tons, three-quarter-tons, one-tons. You name it, we gotta go to that website. Right there is summitauto.com. Full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at summitauto.com. And if you'd like to check out more HD videos, you can go to youtube.com slash summitauto. Remember to like, subscribe, and share on this video. And all the videos that you see there, click the bell notifications. You'll get updates on the videos I do each and every day here at Summit Automotive. In fact, in a second, you'll see a link to subscribe to my YouTube channel on the upper left. Links more of 250 videos like this one, the upper right link to this vehicle and a link to one of our latest YouTube videos on the lower right. With those, check us out. We're super excited to help you with this Ultra Clean 2020 Ford F-250 Crew Cab Short Box XLT FX4 into Oxford White Crew Coat. Thanks again for checking out the video. Remember to like, subscribe, and share on the YouTube channel. I really appreciate it. Thanks again.