Melissa Armo, she's the owner of Educational Firm, the Stock Swoosh. Melissa, when we first started talking to you, the Dow was down 1,500 points. Now it's recovered half of that amount. What's your takeaway from that? I would say that if we close strong today, which we still got about almost a half an hour left, if we close over where we opened at the beginning of the year 2018, it's a good sign for the short term here in the next couple of days. We could do that. We're right there above it, slightly right now, even with the drop off today. So we look for that number if anybody's looking at the Dow, if you're looking at the Spiders, look to see where we opened the calendar year and see if we can close right around that number above it today. That would be a good sign for right now the next couple of days. But as far as the rally here into the close, I'm not surprised about it at all because, like I said, I think this is profit taking and a buying opportunity for some people who are looking at long term ahead, not just the next week, but the rest of 2018 and even beyond. Remember, it's not just 2018. If you're a long term investor, then it doesn't matter if you have one or two down days, even like we've had in the last 48 hours. If you're a short term day trader or if you do overnight where you're in and out in swing trades, well, obviously then you would have wanted to get out Friday when things started dropping or you got out before that or you got out maybe even in December or November. The market power trended all of this year and all of last year. Something is not going to go in a straight line up forever and ever and ever. That's not realistic. You will have pullbacks in the market, wait until the market gaps up again in the morning, which could happen, like I said, in the next week or the next two and see and watch how it acts between now and then if you want to wait to get back in. But aggressive people will probably buy this into the close today, to be honest with you. Okay, so yeah, Melissa, to that point, obviously it fools Aaron to try to time the market in the big picture. I mean, it's very difficult to be successful in doing that, but we could have said the same thing after Friday's loss a sell-off of 666 points on the Dow. That was a buying opportunity. So my question for you is how do we know when this sell-off reaches bottom? You wait till the market gaps up. That's what I look at. I look at gaps, market gap down today and it tried to hold itself in the morning the first 30 minutes and it couldn't do it and started trapping and then you saw all the red. We gap down Friday, we sold off. Wait till the market gaps up. Don't buy into support. We're into support. We were into support on Friday. So you're right. If people bought on Friday, they were down this morning into the open, but the market gap down Friday, that's not a time to buy. You don't buy support. You wait till the market gaps up, which is a foolish sign that institutions are buying in the pre-market, in the post-market and that's what you want to see. You want to see that sign. And I wouldn't be surprised if you see that one day in the next couple of days or the next two weeks and one of the people that was just on mentioned about 2016, how we opened very bearish in the year. Guess what? We did and we recovered within two weeks of that and then took off from there and never looked back. Never even looked back at that $200 level around $192,200 since we rallied over it. So in two weeks that's it and we recovered. So the sell-offs in the last two days could be recovered very quickly and here's why, okay? It's not just technically, even though technically, still very strong. The reason is the market to sell off, we have to have something that would create people wanting to sell that would be a panicky reaction like, for example, something to happen with North Korea. I mean, God forbid that would happen but to be honest with you, we are all looking at ourselves and we're talking to them, well, why is this happening? We can make by reasons why maybe it's happening but really there's nothing like we're saying, oh my God, it's the end of the world. No, there really isn't any reason. It's profit-taking and we're going to recover soon. If there was a reason, there was a reason you could stick your hand and say, oh my gosh, this is, you know, terrible, then I could see a continuation of the sell-off but there really isn't and we're trying to figure it out. We're like, oh, why? Because people are just up and they're taking profits. No one really ever knows with these things. Melissa, I want to ask you the same question we asked John for treaties, which is what advice you would have for the average investor here on a day like today? On a day like today, don't look at anything. If you're in it for the long term, don't look at anything and turn off the TV because you're going to panic. You're going to panic because you're going to see yourself being up a set amount of money and now you're not up as much.  If you're a long-term investor, don't look at anything, turn off the TV and go out about your day because these kinds of things happen and by long term I mean five years, ten years, retirement accounts, 401ks, don't look at stuff. If you're a day trader, you could be shorting this. I would short it but you could be shorting this today and making money to the short side and you cover all your long positions in the last three hours and you'd wait and get back in. Yeah, and maybe if we see... You don't have to trade too far. No, and maybe if we see more buying here we might have an indication of covering some short positions. John, I don't know if you're still with us here but if you are, I want to get your reaction to what Melissa said there. You basically are on the same page if you're a day trader today was probably not a good day for you if you didn't have your positions placed on the right bets here and if you are looking for the long term especially if you're diversified and you've got money in different asset classes and you're seeing these yields go up here in the bond market, you might have had an OK day but at what point though John should we start to get concerned? This is day two now of the Dow dropping here, S&P raising all losses so what happens tomorrow? What happens on Wednesday? Yeah, I mean without a crystal ball there are three things we don't know but we know when a market sells off that a market will sell off at some point in time we just don't know for how long and how much so it always comes back to what's the fundamentals of the business that you're buying into and what are you willing to pay for that and when you have a sell-off in a stock of a company that's very strong then that's a great buying opportunity if the underlying fundamentals of the business are good that's the key here. And I do want to ask you about that because you know you're talking about us sitting here, standing here on a rainy day but the fundamentals are good what are those fundamentals that you think are strong? Sure, so does a company have more cash than debt on its balance sheet? How much free cash flow does the underlying business generate which is income minus capital expenditures? Does the company reinvest that cash into its business in a smart way? Is the company's top line growing? Are they only growing their earnings by buying back stock and because of a tax rebate? How healthy is the underlying business and does the sell-off allow you to buy it at a bit more attractive price? I know what was mentioned in the Cheddar 50 is NVIDIA. NVIDIA has been one of the great stocks in the S&P 500 over the past two years and it's getting shell-acked today. Well, if you liked NVIDIA's prospects by the way, we don't own NVIDIA nor do I personally but if you like the prospects of NVIDIA well, you shouldn't be fearful just because the stock is down whatever it is today you should be greedy because you think the underlying potential is so much more attractive and today presents a great buying opportunity for you. That's the key. Do you want to pay $400,000 for a Ferrari or $200,000 for a Ferrari? You want to buy it at a cheaper price than a business that is like a fast-growing car? Yeah, we'll see if these fundamentals still hold we have a lot of earnings this week SNAP Disney reporting. We want to thank our round table here today Melissa Armo, owner of educational firm The Stock Solution front of the show here John Petrides, the managing director and portfolio manager over at Point View Walk Management. Thank you both for joining us today.


Do you feel like you're up strong contender right now for Garakul? Yeah, I mean, we're definitely, you know, in the heavy hitter category, no question about it. But unfortunately, you know, there's a, I'm sure quite a few teams sitting there with us. So that's usually what happens in free agency with these premier type players. So, you know, I can tell you, we'll put our best foot forward and see where it takes us. Brian, you were obviously leading the charge in that meeting with Garakul. What did you take away from the meeting? You know, I thought it was a great conversation. You know, he's obviously, we all know what he's like on the field as a competitor. But it was really, it was a good opportunity for all of us to get to know the person. I think, you know, he would fit in anybody's clubhouse as a player, but he clearly would fit in our clubhouse as a person, too. I think we have a tremendous chemistry in there and a group of Mary men that I think he'd fit right in with the performance and the personality. And so again, I think he's put himself in a great position to be courted. And at some point, you know, he'll have decisions to make sooner than later.  And, and, you know, he'll just have to pick a location sooner than later. But he's a great player and, you know, obviously it's an option opportunity. He's put himself in a great spot. He's worked hard to get here and now we'll see where it goes. Brian, it was an interesting group. You took out to meet him. You had Andy Pett at the great Yankee left-hander. Your new pitching coach, Matt Blake. And we know with all these pictures now, they crave the information and the numbers. Did you sense there was a connection with your new pitching coach? I mean, clearly without being on the field and in uniform and going through all this stuff, I thought so. I mean, again, it was it was an easy conversation to have. I thought that there was connection with all parties involved. And I thought Matt Blake did a great job of, of, you know, trying to explain who and what he is and how he goes about his business. And I think it was a great opportunity for Booney.    And, and so that, you know, it says a lot. So it was less about trying to convince him about New York as much as educate him and his wife about New York. And because again, it's this process is all about, like, if they're going to make a good decision for their family, it's going to be a good decision for us. We don't want to drag anybody to an environment that they might not flourish or enjoy as well.  And, and, and for the best of all worlds, it's about an educational component about the culture, the people, the family. And, and, you know, obviously what all of New York provides. And so it's a big stage, but it's a great stage. Brian, as you've been pursuing Cole and planning what to offer him, how did Strasburg's contract with the Nats impact what you might have had planning to do? Well, clearly every data point that it's thrown on the board, you know, is going to have an effect, whether it's positive or negative. And so, you know, it was a tremendous contract for, for a tremendous picture. So we had a, we had a chance to, to meet with Stephen Strasburg after our Garakul meeting. And, and so what a tremendous person he is, and obviously a great competitor in his own right. So, but obviously every, every contract in theory is going to affect the next one, too. So it all plays a role, I'm sure.  Well, I thought you brought up a great point in that next season should have full seasons from Severino, Jordan Montgomery. How important is that? What's, you know, it's vitally important. This last year was a unique circumstance year wise, why we played this whole thing out and, and losing some of those important chess pieces, you know, it's just impossible almost to, to survive it. We found a way to do so. So I really, you know, dream about a year like next year potentially could be what would it really be like if we had our A team most of the time, if we had the quality innings coming from the people you expected from, especially, and if we can add to it all the better too. So, but you're right. These, you know, the one thing that I keep falling back to is we have a great team right now already despite some free agents and that we clearly we don't have on the roster, but, you know, improving 103 win team is difficult. But the fallback happens to be that we have great players on the positional side all over the place. We have a bullpen ready to go. And if you talk about the rotation and a healthy rotation of that with Seve, Paxton and Tanaka, those three alone line up with just about anybody's top three. Then you got a half. You got Montgomery coming back.  And so, you know, at some point, you know, obviously that will resolve itself. But there's a lot of talent on all aspects of the roster and some that haven't even declared a name yet for themselves because our fans haven't had a chance to see him, you know, rock and roll in New York just yet. So if we can add to it all the better. One guy that will not be on the roster this year is Dede Gregorius. News came out today that he signed with one year deal with the Phillies. Do you feel comfortable and confident in Glaber Torres playing shortstop every day or is that an area that you'll address? Well, obviously, you know, there's no official word yet, whether Dede has signed yet. I know it's leaked out that he's chosen the Phillies. So whenever that declares itself officially, it'll be easier to talk to. But, you know, we've had conversations with Jim Murray, his representation. And but if Dede wasn't here, for instance, we learned last year, April, May and June, we had Glaber Torres, we had Estrada, Tyler Wade. So we have a number of different players have shown that they can hold that position and thrive. And so our fallback at the very least is a comfortable spot because we have some great players there that we can turn to. But that doesn't preclude ourselves. The looking at the trade market doesn't preclude ourselves from staying in free agency. And so at the very least, we're pretty strong. And at the very most, we have the opportunity to get stronger if we feel that an opportunity presents itself along the way. Brian, one of the strengths of your ballclub is a bullpen last year without Dylan Batances with all the injuries that he had to deal with. Now he's a free agent. I'm sure there's a market out there for him. Are you interested in bringing back a homegrown Yankee? Well, we've we've talked to Dylan. We've talked to obviously Guardi. We've talked to Dede and Cameron Maybin and Romine. So we're checking all the boxes and staying engaged. Obviously, our biggest focus has been on the premier starter because we feel like that's the best way to fastly and vastly improve our club. And in many of these cases, the fallbacks are we are covered in some of these other areas. So we have a chance to be a little bit more careful and slow walk those other ones. So with Dylan Batances, it's been a great Yankee. And the fact that we were somehow able to survive last year out of the bullpen, he's been one of the premier relievers in the game for a long time. Unfortunately, that, you know, the double injuries he had, you know, took him offline and denied us in the fan base the opportunity to watch him do what he does best. So so we'll stay engaged with Jim Murray, his representation, him and Casey Close. But there's going to be competition at the same time. You know, Dylan is a great person, but he's a great competitor. And so obviously, when healthy, you know what he's capable of doing because we lived through it and benefited from it for a long time. Brian, I know your focus is on making the 2020 Yankees better. But one of the biggest stories of the off season has been the alleged sign stealing with the Astros. How agitating is it to maybe have been victimized by a team using those methods? Well, obviously, it's a little hard to talk to right now, given the fact that there's no, you know, MLB is going through an investigation. The stuff that's gone public has been very disturbing. And so we're anxiously awaiting to see how this plays out. But but I could just I just tell you that what's been playing out publicly in a lot of the allegations, if they're true or or half true, it's very disturbing. And so I think we, like all the clubs in the game, we're waiting to see how this gets handled from the commissioner side. Hey, Brian, I'm curious. Just back to the coal negotiations for a second. The angels are also in the game. Your former assistant, Billy Epler, is a guy trying to outgun you. Do you have any thoughts on that? I mean, that's that's it's the Wild West out there. We're all trying to outgun each other. And, you know, and, you know, whether it's trades or free agency, we're, you know, we're all charged with the same directive, which is to find a way to win a world championship. And there's a lot of different ways to do it, whether it's, you know, with small deals or through the draft or through international signs and player development or or obviously, you know, premier free agent signs at the same time on top of it all. So, you know, that's the nature of the beast. So, yeah, you know, when when when Billy Epler left us for Anaheim, you know, he left us. So so he's he's an angel now. And and, you know, so but we'll see what happens. Scott Boris continually says he thinks things are closed, thinks things are closed. Do you think Cole makes a decision by the end of this week, by the end of winter meetings? I'd have to take Scott as his word on his end if he's saying that because ultimately all we can do is make sure that we, you know, signal and provide what we're willing to do. And then he's got to factor that in with all the other opportunities to present themselves. And so at some point, you know, the Cole family will make a decision with advice from the Scott Boris Corporation. And and then, you know, we live with the results one way or the other. Brian, I also appreciate the time. I guess we'll all wait for the smoke to come out of the chimney. Figure out what's going on with Cole, right? That's right.  We, we, you know, draft and we didn't get a chance to sign them. And then obviously trade, we tried to trade form with Pittsburgh and it didn't work out. So now, you know, maybe three is a charm. We'll see. If not, you know, there's different ways to remind people last year we played around with obviously a lot of premier free agents. We we broke bread with Corbin. We broke bread with Machado. And then we want to pivoting and signing D.G. Lamaehue and Ottavino and Britain and did some extensions on some homegrown guys. And so at the end of the day, there's a lot of different ways to put a championship caliber contending team on the field. You know, there's some ways are more public, more obvious, but but that doesn't mean that if, you know, the routes you take, you want to get in some obstructions here or there. You find a different way up that mountain, if possible.


Fsethe Maker Wanna play a fantasy themed top down action game?  Okay that sounds kinda weird, but that's what the developers behind firestriker pulled off. It's like a video-pinball adventure game, not too far removed from stuff like pinball quest on NES. You play as Slater. No not that Slater, he's the last firestriker from the Kingdom of Wind, and he's called a firestriker because he has the ability to control the world's most powerful weapon, the triolight. Long ago, Archmage Wild created the Trialite to rule over the world's four kingdoms, and whichever kingdom could claim it would unite the four kingdoms and rule the world. The kingdom of wind won, but the mage evidently got bored with peace and conjured four monsters to overthrow the unified world, and the monsters summoned to beast that could turn humans into...storn? What? Anyway, the Trialite is the pinball thing you bat around with your sword, breaking apart everything in your path to feeding enemies and unlocking chests to collect power-ups and health. Each stage ends when you get the Trialite up into the next screen, but there are stages where you have to find an item hidden somewhere or just destroy all the enemies on the screen. What's fascinating here is the gameplay. Even in single-player mode, you control two characters. The red guy Slater is controlled by the D-pad, and he's free to move around just about anywhere he wants to, but the blue guy stays at the bottom of the stage and can only slide left or right using the L and R buttons, so he essentially functions as the paddle in the game like breakout. This is especially important because if the Trialite falls into a pit behind him, it's game over. You also get a game over if Slater takes too much damage from enemies. Bear in mind, however, in two-player mode, both characters can go everywhere, but you definitely want to have someone at least be kind of a makeshift goaltender to make sure nothing gets behind them. The further you progress in this one, the more chaotic the stages and the gameplay. It's a really interesting single-player experience trying to control both characters at the same time. I'm not sure what other game I could even compare this to. In addition to the pinball-style gameplay, there's some adventure game elements thrown in too, like unlocking new characters like the phoenix who is much faster, and you also earn extra heart containers when you defeat a boss. There's also a four-player compatible mode where you use the Trialite to play soccer. Yeah, who cares about the fate of the world, let's use this massive weapon to play soccer! But yeah, this game is pretty much just PONG as you can see, but it's pretty fun for what it's worth. So Fire Striker sounds cool, and it's definitely unique, but it's got some pretty major flaws. The main one is that the physics behind the Trialite are incredibly inconsistent. This thing varies in speed, direction, trajectory, it goes all over the place, whether you like it or not. It's unpredictable and unreliable. Not to the point that it breaks the game or anything, it's just really kind of a bummer. If they had been able to capture some better pinball physics here, this game really could have been great. But as it is, it can be kind of a bummer as you're sitting there trying to get the stupid thing to go where you need it to go. Also, Fire Striker has all of its levels laid out on a world map, and it gives the impression that you can go anywhere at any time. And yeah, you can still get into the stages and play them, but you can't beat them. You're locked out until you beat the previous levels. Why would the game let me do this if I can't even beat the freaking level? Again, not game breaking, just annoying. But what may be a game breaker for some people is that there's no battery save or password system here, and you gotta finish the game in one playthrough. But yeah, Fire Striker takes two completely different things and makes them work reasonably well. It's not perfect, but this is still an interesting play through. I really enjoyed the boss battles in particular, and getting into the zone while controlling both characters in single-player mode is something that not many other 16-bit games can offer. Yeah, the triolite physics kind of suck, and it can be tough to get a good feel for the game, but I'd still recommend this one.  You can get the Super Famicom version titled Holy Striker for much cheaper. Fire Striker is unlike any other game I've played for better or for worse, and it's certainly worth checking out today.


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Hello everyone, this is financial author Amit Dan of amitdan.com On this channel, you'll find financial travel and more videos just like the one you're watching right now. If you like what you see, just give me the thumbs up and consider subscribing. Hello everyone, this is financial author Amit Dan of amitdan.com today I'll talk about Roger's platinum mastercard and Fido mastercard. There's some important changes coming to these cards and There's another post I have which is about the Roger's world elite mastercard and these posts are related and I'll provide it a Link in the description box below. So let's start with the today's post Roger's platinum mastercard and Fido mastercard And I'll take you to the to my laptop screen for the rest of the video. Thank you Hello everyone, Roger's has decided to devalue its Roger's platinum mastercard and Fido mastercard starting May 23rd 2018 So if you're one of the card holders, you must have received a notification from Roger's via email or via post if not, then Roger's has all the information on the website, which is rogersbank.com And today I'll go over some of the change some of the changes which will be affecting these two cards So one of them is Roger's platinum mastercard and the other one is Fido mastercard so in the past or still now the Roger's platinum mastercard has a 29 dollars per year annual fee this is going to be Eliminated and Fido mastercard didn't have any annual fee So there will not be any annual fee for both of these two cards starting May 23rd account maintenance fee I'm going to talk about that. I'll move on to the earn rate, which is the most important part so in the past Roger's platinum mastercard has Had four percent unlimited cashback on foreign purchases So which would basically eliminating foreign currency fees, which is usually at 2.5 percent So it was still at 1.5 percent gain After paying the foreign currency conversion fee So the total earn rate is 4 percent on any purchases Without anything else but canadian dollars And the regular earn rate is 1.75 percent cashback for all other purchases in canadian dollars So this is a very good rate for a free credit card But this is going to change and starting March 13, I'm sorry, it's starting May 23rd So the earn rate on the Roger's platinum mastercard is going to be 3 percent unlimited cashback on foreign currency, so which is basically reducing your Ink earn after paying the foreign currency conversion fee, which is 2.5 percent So you're going to be at net plus for only half percent and two percent unlimited cashback on Roger's products and services And 1.25 percent unlimited cashback on anything else And the same rate would apply to the Fido Mastercard starting May 23rd 3 percent 2 percent and 1.25 percent Now The reason of these changes is basically they're introducing a new card, which is called the Roger's World Elite Mastercard and these old 4 percent and 1.25 percent rates will be transferred or converted to the Roger's World Elite Mastercard And if you are One of the card holders existing card holders Roger's is sending notification to Those to convert from these regular card to World Elite Mastercard, which has actually higher Income requirements, so it's personal income $80,000 annually and household income $150,000 annually So if you're eligible for that, then it's a good idea to convert to the Roger's World Elite Mastercard Because that card will have higher Earn rate which is to be the old Earn rate for the Roger's platinum mastercard and Fido Mastercard And except that the World Elite Mastercard will be offering Some premium insurance benefits such as a trip interruption trip cancellation And travel medical insurance plus other insurances without any annual fee. So that's a good card to have instead of the regular Roger's platinum mastercard and Fido Mastercard So I have another video on Roger's World Elite Mastercard and I'll provide you a link in the description box below So basically that's what's happening with their Roger's credit cards And There are a few new credit cards appearing on the Canadian credit card market. I have updates on those on my channel so If you are interested to know more about those credit cards, for example, Scotia passport visa infinite card and Dream World Elite Mastercard Both of these cards do not charge any foreign currency conversion fee Just go to my website, my YouTube channel and I'll provide you a link and you'll be able to find out more So that's all for now. If you like what you see, please give it a thumbs up and consider subscribing and there'll be more videos coming up Thank you


It's Monday. It's one o'clock rock. We have Heather Caluna here. She is a postdoc fellow at HIGP, the Y Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, and she is into space weather. And that is exactly why we're calling this show Space Has Weather to Eye Heather. Hey, how's it going? It's good. Now that you're here. So, buzz is thus with weather in space.  No, I'm not kidding. I mean, weather on earth, for the most part, is stuff that erodes surfaces, right? So, if you leave something outside, even if it's just a pair of slippers, over time it starts to get dried, eroded, a little bit like gray, right? The colors change. And so, the same thing happens in space, but there's different processes that are responsible for it. So, for example, I'm interested primarily in micrometerite impacts. Would you say that again? Micrometerite impact. I haven't heard of that. We do not discuss that at my dinner table. Oh, wonderful. Kiskesekusah. It's basically little dust particles flying through space that impact different surfaces. And space weathering really is important only for those bodies that don't have an atmosphere. Basically, they don't have something to protect them from these particles. And so, when you look at the night sky and you see a little shooting star, that's basically speck of dust entering our atmosphere. And so, if I was on an asteroid, for example, I didn't have an atmosphere. That speck of dust would come straight through and hit me. And so, it would hurt you. It would hurt me, just a little bit. Of course, these objects get bigger in size and we see, you know... It would hurt more. It would hurt a lot more. But fortunately, those occur much less frequently. So, yeah.  But there are other sources of space weathering, such as the solar wind. And so, are you familiar with the solar wind at all? So, it might be a bit of a surprise. It's kind of like the wind we have here on Earth. You know, it's a flow of particles that are moving past you. The solar wind is a flow of particles that come out from the sun. And so, these happen to be charged particles, like hydrogen and helium. And so, these particles, as they fly through space, can also impact surfaces that don't have atmospheres. And they also erode the surfaces over time. Like sandpaper. Kind of like sandpaper. Dig a little hole. Very fine sandpaper. Very fine sandpaper. Like sandblasting. Like sandblasting. Slower though. Yeah, exactly. Oh, how interesting. So, you call it weather. That's pretty loose connection, isn't it? I mean, what does weather mean in the space context? It means solar wind. It means micrometer. Micrometer, right? Impact? Impact. What else? Well, those are the two major components for the most part.  So, you have sunlight hitting your surface. Really? Yeah. You have stuff baking, basically, in the sun. Yeah. So, these things, these things are, it's not constant. Not the solar wind, not the micrometer impact, not the solar radiation. They change. Well, the solar wind and the solar radiation is pretty constant, right? So, we're constantly receiving sunlight from the sun. It only gets dark on earth because our portion of the earth rotates out of view of the sun. But the sun is still shining. And so, the solar wind is operating the same way like the radiation. It's constantly flowing out of the sun. You might have some bursts due to some activity on the sun. You might have an eruption on the surface of the sun that sends out basically a large surplus of these particles. And so, in that sense, you can get a flux or a variation in these particles. The micrometer rates now, you're right, that does change. You know, that isn't constant. What changes the rate of micro impact? The impacts depend on where your object is. So, if you look at the moon, for example, you have impacts, you know, occurring every, I don't know, every 10 seconds, every few minutes. Okay. But as you get to different parts of the solar system, so you get further out towards Jupiter, you're going to have a different density of dust. There's not going to be necessarily as many particles. And so, you won't have as many, your frequency of these impacts is going to be less. So, your job, I'm sure you decide to accept, as a space weather person, research person, scientist person, is to find out what causes these changes. Am I right? Or where you can find these phenomenon? And what makes them happen here, not there, or happen this way, not that way? Tell me what it is. Yeah, basically. As my astronomy background takes me into observing asteroid surfaces. And so, what I want to see is actually how these processes affect the surfaces over time. And so, I look at young asteroids and I look at old asteroids and I see how do they change? How does the spectra of these asteroids change? So, you're looking at the surface to see how they were beat up by these various phenomena. And how it manifests in the colors or the spectra of the asteroid. And so, are you familiar with a spectrum? No. I assume I'm a carte blanche. Okay. A rainbow is essentially a spectrum. So, when you take white light and you shine it through a prism, and it produces a rainbow, that rainbow is your spectrum. Except instead of recording on a telescope computer, it's recording on your eye, right? You see those colors and they're recording on your eye. But what you're taking, what you're doing is you're taking that white light and you're splitting it into a bunch of different colors. So, you're splitting it into its individual components. And so, what I do is I study these colors of these asteroids. And over time what we see is that certain colors actually get affected more prominently than others as a result of space weathering. And what happens is, unfortunately, this is where space weathering, there's a downside to it in the sense of we use spectra. So, we use these colors to try to understand the compositions of asteroids, right? We can't send spacecraft there any time we want. It's an expensive endeavor. Very rarely have we been able to sample these asteroids. They move fast and they have orbits that you don't know where they're going, I guess. It gets pretty complicated. And then it's even more so complicated to, say, land a spacecraft on an asteroid, collect a sample and bring it back. Oh, that would be hard, wouldn't it? That would be hard. And we would regret probably having tried. There is one, the Japanese actually have done this for an asteroid that was nearby Earth. The human person? Not a human person. It was a robotic. Nice machine. Yeah, yeah. No, people are necessary. But it successfully landed on the surface. Some dust on the surface got knocked into a little carrier that got delivered back to Earth. And so that's the only asteroid we've ever directly sampled. So, if you got the dust from the whatever the container was that the Japanese picked up off the asteroid, what would you do with the dust? What would you look for? How would you look at it? Right. So, there's people who actually specialize in this. And this is a little outside of my field. But what I do is, aside from my observations of asteroids in the lab, I simulate these processes by using a laser, a pulse laser that basically heats up and vaporizes whatever sample I put in, you know, my lab. Could be a rock. It is a rock. Usually a ground up rock. Okay. So, to simulate the dust that you see on the surfaces of the asteroids. But what I'm trying to simulate is exactly what we find in these samples that the Japanese picked up. So, we see these little melt blobs, right? They're basically regions where the little micrometer it came in and hit the surface. The heat from that impact vaporized some material and some of that material cools down and recondenses on the grains surrounding it. How can you tell the difference between the material that was vaporized and fell back down again and the material that was there in the first place? So, you can actually, I mean, just looking at, there's really amazing instrumentation nowadays that can get you really down to a very fine scale. Basically, you can see, you know, things on the scale of the thickness of your hair. And so, you get down to this detail and you actually start to see things pop out.  Like you like piled a big glob of glue on a melt grain. And it's like, okay, that's not a normal mineral structure. So, you compare it against what you see in the background. Exactly. And it looks different like a blob maybe. Yeah. And then you start looking at that. So, now you have your blob. Right. What do you do with the blob? So, I actually take a step back. Okay. We know about space, actually from the Apollo missions. So, the astronauts brought back samples from the moon. Okay. And these samples included rocks and soils, right? So, some of this space are this lunar dust. And when you look at the lunar dust, you can actually see these same things, these melt blobs. We can also see, if you like cut one of these lunar soil grains in half, you actually see that there's a glassy rim around some of these grains. And within that glassy rim, there's nanometer sized metallic iron particles. And so, this is not always, but for the most part, you know, we see it pretty pervasively in the sample. Okay. And so, it's interesting because people wondered, oh right, you know, what is this that we're seeing? What's causing it? And part of what I'm investigating is whether or not, you know, is the solar wind that isn't primarily responsible for producing these features or is these micrometer impacts? And so, there's a big question about which one is the more dominant process. However, what's interesting is that if you look at these soils, right, that were collected directly from the moon, and if you compare it to a soil that you make by grinding up a lunar rock. Sorry, I don't know the answer. Oh, that's so interesting. That's an echo machine. She must have said something that triggered her, but clearly she didn't know the answer. She doesn't know the answer. That's really interesting. I did that to my phone recently too, I don't know. Maybe it's my voice. This is time for a break. We're going to take a short break and we're going to turn her off. Okay. Okay, that's Heather Kaluna. She's a postdoc fellow at HIGP at UH Manoa, and she's studying researching space weathering at HIGP. This is research at Manoa. 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Okay, we're back on Research at Manoa, one o'clock clock on every Monday. And we have Heather Kaluna. She's a postdoc fellow at HIGP, the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, and you're talking to us about her research, which is space weathering. So Heather, how did you get into this business?  Well, really it's an interesting question. I got into this business through my PhD program. Which was? Astronomy. So I went to the Institute for Astronomy, which is our master's and PhD program at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. And when I first went there, my advisor, she's actually someone who we call an astrobiologist. Have you heard of an astrobiologist? I have, but I never did understand it, though. It's basically an interdisciplinary sort of perspective on astronomy and life in the universe. And what she did when she, you know, I was trying to find an advisor, she spoke to me about this topic that I just, it just hit me and it was so amazing. And the topic is the origin of earth's water. And you might be thinking, how is this related to space weather? I am thinking that. And I will get there. But what's really interesting is that we think that earth forms so close to the sun that it actually was too warm for it to have its own water. And that water had to be delivered through impacts from comets and surprisingly wet asteroids. And so I got really interested in these wet asteroids. Because it was a mystery. It's a mystery. And I'm born and raised in Big Island. I'm a water girl all the way through up by the beach. And so really being able to study water in space was really fascinating to me. However, in order to characterize which asteroids have water on them, getting back to these spectral features or these colors and these fingerprints. If space weathering is removing and making some of these fingerprints disappear, that reduces our ability to detect these water-rich asteroids. Or characterize their water compositions. It's like the traces of what happened before washed away like in the beach. The sand and the waves wash away the history of it. You slowly start to see the words disappear every time the wave comes up, right? And so that's why I got into space weathering. It's like, I'm really interested in this question of how much water did asteroids contribute to earth's, you know, our oceans? And so in order to answer that, we first have to look at this question of space weathering. How does space weathering modify these features that we used to characterize the water and the water histories? Can I roll it back for a minute though? Why do you say water? Water is so easy to make, more than it is hydrogen and oxygen. Why wasn't there hydrogen and oxygen here on earth? And why wasn't there some sort of natural process, some kind of physical phenomenon that happened that put them together as water? Why does it have to be external delivery? Right. And so that has to do with the temperature basically, right? So when you look at the interplanets, they're primarily rocky bodies, right?  But as soon as you get out to Jupiter, the game changes, right? You have suddenly a huge massive planet that has actually a ton of hydrogen in it. And this has to do with the fact that there was a certain temperature in our solar system when it was forming. So when our planets were forming, there was a certain temperature away from where the star is warming, our sun is warming, basically in the center, where the temperatures get cool enough that water in that vapor, basically in the gas, that's what we call it, the solar nebula, that water exists as a gas form close into the sun. And once you get to a certain distance, that vapor can actually turn into a solid and can turn into water ice. And so as little... Vapor is steam, we're talking about steam, right? Basically, yeah. And so this vapor, once it becomes solid, can now become incorporated into these, we call them protoplanets. They're like little planetary embryos of a sort or eggs. And so that's where it becomes important, is because if you're too close to the star, if you're too close to the sun, you're only going to have solid materials that are hitting each other and sticking to each other, right? You're not going to have gases that just suddenly collide and clump together. Like, we don't see that, you know? Well, why? Why not? Because the sun will burn them off or the gravity of the sun will pull them in. Why are they not there? So the water is there in vapor form nearer.  Not necessarily, right? It's the mud that's going to be sticking to each other for the most part. Yes, I see. And so that's essentially what's going on. I mean, that's the best analogy I can come up. It's a medium. It's a medium, right? And so basically the inner planets only formed from the stuff that was solid. And most of the planets in the outer solar system like Jupiter, Saturn, whatnot, because they were about to form from a combination of ice and rocks, right? They got their cores built up very quickly. Their gravity became so massive that they actually could steal some of the gas, the hydrogen gas that was around them. So that's why they have these giant gases envelopes. But Earth and the other planets in the inner solar system never got big enough to be able to trap gases quite like that. So have you been developing a theory about how all the water actually got here, the delivery of the water? I mean, I can imagine these planets that are largely water somehow, and what they come down from heaven and splat. They're on Earth. I mean, I've splashed the wrong stuff. No, splat's great. I like splat. Because that means it's a nice wet asteroid. Is that... I mean, do you have a theory about how this happened? So this is actually a little beyond what I do. And that's where we have these big picture questions in science. So this is the end game. This is the gold medal once one day, hopefully, once we piece together all the little components that everyone's working on, we can actually answer that question. So I'm personally not trying to figure out how these asteroids got here. There's people who design models and try to see if Jupiter and Saturn moved in our solar system as it was forming. How does that toss things around? And they look at that kind of thing. But instead I'm looking at these spectral features of these asteroids to see, given this knowledge of what we see today, can we trace back to what these objects were like when they first formed, so that way we can actually see these impacts that hit the Earth early when it was forming. How much water did they give us? Okay, so you know what's happening today because you can... Well, I'm trying to figure out what's happening today. Well, aside from the Japanese dust, how else can you do spectral analysis of what's going on on the asteroid? I mean, you can look at it through a telescope. So I go up to Monocale.  Oh, sure, when you get to it, I've been at Manaloa and I know how that works. Yeah, it's a very subtle difference in elevation there. So yeah, so I use the telescopes. We have special instruments that take the light coming in from an asteroid and make a spectrum out of it. So we have basically a prism inside the telescope that splits the light up and we can start to search for those fingerprints that tell us that there's water-rich minerals on these asteroids or there's water itself on the asteroid. Okay, so now you know the composition which is complicated of an asteroid. You know about the globs and everything on the asteroid and so you're learning the real-time characteristics of the asteroid and the existence of the water on the asteroid. But how can you compare that against the way it was a long time ago? You can't see that anymore. How do you know the way it was a long time ago? So this is where models come into play and so that's why the observations are very important because in order to really... I mean you can model anything honestly and say this is how it was but if you don't have the observations to really give it some ground truth you're not going to be able to say much. And so that's why these observations are important because if I can say these many asteroids have water on them then they can start to say okay well based on our model of the early solar system and the temperatures and the amount of bodies that were in that region they can say this is how many objects we expected to impact the Earth based on our model and so it really comes down to taking the observations and tying it into the models. So you're working it backwards? Working it backwards. That's all we can do is work it backwards. Yeah because you know I mean we're talking about what millions of years ago? Millions, billions of years. Millions, oh sorry. Yeah, I mean yeah. Okay so this is pretty sophisticated stuff. What kind of interest... I mean if I go with you one morning to your laboratory in HIGP and I walk in what am I going to see there? Can you describe it for me? Yeah so you basically have this long rectangular tube that actually houses a laser and so it's an infrared laser and we can't actually see that with our eyes. Okay.  It wouldn't hurt me though. It would hurt you. Oh sorry. It could zap you.  And so you know I won't... I don't think you'd burn a hole through your hand unless you just leave it there. And so yes so you have this laser it goes through there's a couple lenses to help redirect the laser down onto our sample.  Okay but it's only this big? Yeah it's not very big. I mean our sample is we literally I use a half a gram of powder in our samples. But we put it inside this chamber and we shut the chamber and we actually pump the air out of it. So we try to get it down to pressures that are close to what we see in space. So very very low very low vacuum type pressures. Just trying to emulate the pressure in space you're not getting getting it down to zero. Exactly. Zero okay okay. Yeah and so yep so we put our sample inside the chamber close it get the air out of there and we turn on the laser and it's pulsed so it's meant to sort of speed up the impact process right so the impacts don't occur you know instantaneously and continuously like you're asking but we'd also don't have time to stay here and simulate it exactly according to the rate that happens in space. Yeah. So we speed up the process by pulsing the laser right and so we do you know once every 20 second or sorry 20 pulses a second is how quickly we're actually bombarding our sample. Okay. And so we do that for whatever period of time we're interested in doing it for. Until lunch. Until lunch. Usually I'll do like a few minutes take it out of the chamber and then I have a spectrometer and so this is a thing that images you know it takes the light splits it up and it images my sample so I can actually see how these features vary. So you can see that the elements from the periodic table what's what right. Isn't that what this spectroscopy does. Yeah but instead of elements we're actually looking at minerals so there's specific features that correspond to minerals like all living and purexing. My favorite minerals are the ones that I'm interested in are these clay minerals so they're basically muddy clay minerals. Because there's water in there. Yeah because there's water in there. And we call them phylicits and really honestly as a graduate student coming from an astronomy background this is a whole new ball game. Sure yeah and there's some pictures we had a picture a minute ago. Okay so all right so I just want to get you know we have a couple minutes left I just want to get where this fits you spoke before there are some scientific leaders out there who've been thinking about the comprehensive and where where all this fits of what you're doing and others and you know sort of the look back on how it was way back when and how and sort of to find lessons about how the universe works and how the the weather works and those three kinds of weather phenomenon that you have. I mean they become important for asteroids I mean you know when you talk about space travel yeah these processes are important understanding how do they affect people much less you know asteroids is an important thing to quantify. I mean if you're on an asteroid or if you're on a planet if you're on Mars. If you're on the moon you know these kind of things it could be bad you could have the solar storm it would really give you a headache. Exactly. So what about identifying asteroids coming in that's not part of it though. That's not what I do but there are people who do that. Yeah. And so but that's yeah that's right. So I'm Joe Blow walking down the street. Okay. How does your research affect me and that's a hard one I know how does your research affect me what what how are you thinking of me and how should I be thinking of you in terms of the connection of science and our daily lives. I think there's two answers I could give to that. The first one comes back to this origin of water you know that's really water is essential for life and so it's kind of getting back to our origin story from a scientific perspective and I think that you know is important to anyone you know I think religion is a big thing because people care about their origins and so I think that's why what I do is really important at least to me and the other answer is you know aside from our origins it's also our future and so if we look at space travel and space flight you know there's a whole new group of people trying to you know SpaceX all these groups that are trying to develop technologies to have more space travel and what one of the possibilities that we can do is actually well this is a idea that is floating around out there and I think it's exciting floating is the opportunity to look again but the idea is to use asteroids with water on them that have these clay minerals to refuel so say you know you're flying through space and you only had so much fuel to get you to say the moon but there's an asteroid nearby that has water features on it and you can say hey look at this asteroid I know there's water on it I can stop by there have my little contraption whatever that's for someone else to get the water out of it get the water out of it refuel my spacecraft and then mosey on to wherever I want to go next but it raises I mean that raises maybe it's inherent in that question but it raises in my mind another question that is you know we're having problems with water already on this planet and in the years to come we'll probably have more profound problems with it and maybe just maybe we'll find out more about water and the origin of water we'll find out how it got here in the first place maybe we'll find out how to get more of it is that part of what you're doing I've never thought about it like that but that is an interesting perspective hopefully we never have to get to that point but one of the things that does one of the questions that does pop up in this research topic is you know is the water on the surface of the earth all the water that is right so we have oceans and there's you know a sea floor but what about the water is there water trapped in our mantle is there water trapped in the magma the lava that is beneath our surface of our earth and people think there is and some people think there might be like five times our oceans worth of water submerged in the magma and we can learn about that from looking at space can learn about water which is an essential part of life yeah it all fits into that story it's another piece of the puzzle yeah another piece of the puzzle well thank you for working on the puzzle for us thank you for appreciating come back and talk more about your studies and your research and your writing this is heather kaluta she's a phd in astronomy at the ifa then she's a postdoc fellow at higp studying space weathering what an interesting discussion thank you for that I hope you enjoyed thank you very much awesome I love you


Do you consider yourself a deep thinker and feel things much more intensely than others? If you answered yes, then chances are you're part of the small percentage of people who are highly sensitive. So, what does that mean? Well, being a highly sensitive person, or HSP, means that you are naturally predisposed to process and perceive information on a much deeper level than most. You're likely perceptive, empathetic, intuitive, and self-aware. HSPs are also emotionally intelligent and incredibly creative, passionate people. As you can imagine, though, feeling and processing more intensely has some downsides. So, without further ado, here are 13 struggles only highly sensitive people will probably relate to. 1. You can't function without sleep. Isn't it great when you wake up after a good night of sleep? And isn't it exactly the opposite when you don't? Like a lot of us, highly sensitive people don't do well when they're sleep deprived. They might feel the effects of being cranky, groggy, and on edge more than others. This is because, as studies have shown, HSPs need more sleep than most to function. 2. You can't stand loud noises. Does the thought of a party or going to a busy bar for the big game sound kind of terrible to you? If yes, you might be an HSP. HSPs get easily overwhelmed where there are large crowds or lots of commotion. Events like concerts, going clubbing, or festivals may be the popular idea of fun, but to HSPs, it might just sound like a direct path to a personal shutdown. So, if you're not an HSP but someone you know is, they're not being a Debbie Downer or boring. They're practicing self-preservation. 3. You often feel emotionally exhausted. Anyone ever tell you that they appreciate your empathy? Do you have mixed feelings about it because it also exhausts you? A key characteristic of being a highly sensitive person is that you feel things more deeply and intensely than others.  4. You scrutinize social interactions. Ever been in a situation where your friends wowed that you're spot on when reading a situation? Well, that's because you notice things, lots of things. These things are cues others often miss, particularly in social situations. You're very good at perceiving non-verbal cues and analyzing another person's tone. Unfortunately, this means you also tend to overanalyze things, which can lead you to making a mountain out of a molehill. 5. You're easily triggered by violence. How do you feel about watching movies with Gore? How about listening to details of a heinous crime? If all you're thinking or feeling right now is, nope, nope, nope, this is a sign you may have HSP. HSP's have very strong visceral reactions towards violence and cruelty, even if they know it's fake, like a movie, which is why it can be so unsettling for them to watch or hear about anything too graphic. 6. You have a hard time moving on. Does a breakup from three months ago still sting like yesterday? Still bitter and hurt over being backstabbed five years ago? You're okay, and it's not weird. It's just high sensitivity. One of the most painful downsides to being so sensitive is that you could have a hard time letting go. Emotional pain received, be it from an insult to a breakup, just tends to linger with you. You know in the back of your mind that it's not really a big deal, but you can't help making it one anyway. 7. You're uncomfortable with change. Do you feel anxious when eating somewhere new or trying something you've never done before? Do you spend so much time getting comfortable with your usual routine that it feels uncomfortable to suddenly change things up? When you're in HSP, navigating new environments can be taxing on you because you have to take everything in before you can start to feel comfortable. 8. You don't react well to criticism and conflict. How do you take it when you hand something in and someone tells you, yeah but I wanted it different? How do you feel? HSP's are some of the gentlest and most tender people you will ever meet. They're emotional and soft-hearted, which means dealing with them requires a more careful approach. Criticizing them, raising your voice at them, and getting upset with them in any way can hurt them deeply, even if it comes from a good place. 9. You don't do well under pressure. Ever heard, yes, I work well under pressure or pressure makes me do better? Yeah, those people aren't HSP's. Deadlines and similar time pressure can cause serious distress to a highly sensitive person. They hate having to rush into anything and juggling several tasks at once. They're much more content taking their time with their projects and giving their full singular focus to whatever they're doing. 10. Your boundaries are easily crossed. If your friend is disappointed or sincerely asking for help, we know you feel bad for them.  But how bad do you feel? Are you still able to say no if it's beyond your boundary or is the compassion so intense that it overrides it? HSP's are more emotionally aware than most, so they feel compassion for someone's situation quicker and deeper. Because of this, they often end up saying yes to a lot of things they don't want to do, just to please those around them and avoid letting them down. 11.  Are you already thinking of a small mistake you made earlier this week? It's okay. You know that we all make mistakes. A highly sensitive person finds it difficult to come to terms with their personal failures. They beat themselves up over every little goof they made and hold themselves to an impossibly high standard. No one is harsher or more demanding of themselves than an HSP. 12. You require a long time. Ever tell someone you need quiet time and they still don't leave the room or they still continue texting you constantly? They likely don't understand that you require solitude. HSP's can't be around other people for long periods of time and some days are simply too much for them to bear. Because they process things at such a deep level, they need more time to rest and recover from all the mental and emotional energy they expend. 13. You are often misunderstood.  Because only one in every five people have this trait of high sensitivity, it can be difficult for other people to relate to you and understand your point of view. Also, many people likely don't know that this is a trait, not a full, voluntary choice like choosing what's for dinner. Despite the issues we've listed here, being a highly sensitive person is a wonderful trait to have. These issues are simply the darkness to the light. With the light being your insightful, artistic sense and open-minded nature, those deep emotions also mean that you have a huge capacity for compassion, understanding and kindness. Your very presence makes this world a better place. To know more about HSP, check out our video Eight Sons You Are a Highly Sensitive Person and six different types of highly sensitive people. Links are in the description below. Do you or someone you know relate to any of these problems? What experiences with HSP's can you share? Please help get the word out by commenting below, liking and sharing. As always, thanks for watching. We'll see you in the next video.


Hi, some of you wrestling fans Y'all need to get outside and enjoy life y'all need to experience a woman's touch y'all need to I don't know the cliche term is touch grass because some of y'all can't have actual lives the way you guys react to certain things it it just you can't do anything else but be on Twitter and Instagram voicing your trash-ass opinions some of y'all not only up but some of y'all are just just the worst I Gotta show y'all this man Gotta show y'all this This is from my Twitter actually from last night When Adam made his debut in AEW Adam aka edge is in AEW now. Let's go. You think you know me. Just like very excited for edge My guy Ryan here decides to respond I Don't know him now Wait, no, no, no. I got to do the deluser Wrestling boys my bad. I don't know him now Because I've lost a lot of respect for him as much as I lost a lot of respect for the wrestling fandom That's how I Imagine his nerdy voice sounding I Respond you lost respect for him because he went to another company to wrestle with some of his close closest friends He responds are you literally trying to twist my words into something I didn't actually say in context I mean, I lost all respect for him because he has thrown a 25 years of Everything WWE gave him and everything. He has given them.  I just was really confused by his logic And he decided to hit me with the low blow going on my YouTube channel So I decided to quote tween him look guys a butthurt nerd Cannot support edge anymore because he threw away a 25-year career in WWE to go to AEW Gotta love the internet Now the reason why I bring this up is simple because edge himself on his Twitter Decided to address a lot of the naysayers a lot of the people that quote-on-quote Are upset with him for making his decision to go to AEW he decided to write a Lethy a lethy response to just the criticism He's been receiving from these quote-on-quote fans of his so we're gonna check that out cuz I I'm pretty sure he's gotten many of messages just like My boy over here Ryan Ryan He I'm pretty sure he had a lot of Ryan's in his comment section Talking about his recent Move to AEW so this is from Edge's official Twitter From the desk of as some of you may now know I am no longer with WWE my new home is AEW I'm excited whole new roster some familiar faces that I wanted to work with again and a whole set of First-ever matches new challenges, and if you follow my career, you know That's what I've always been driven by He proceeds to go on even more but First and foremost. I want to address my 25 years with WWE I love WWE and appreciate everything the company did for me always have always will they put me on the map and gave me an Amazing opportunities and through hard work on both ends. I've been supplied with a wonderful life Hell WWE helped me meet the woman. I started my family with sometimes relationships just grow apart and I feel The WWE and I have just outgrown each other. I wanted to do more They didn't have much for me to do simple as that and that's okay I'll still be watching and supporting all of my friends there sounds like a reasonable reason why he left No hard feelings there. I don't buy into this odd mentality of one company or the other It's weird if you took offense to that take a walk Get some fresh air and soak up some sunshine Like I said at the beginning of this video go outside and live a life, bro. Enjoy life Like seriously you over here getting mad because of his personal decision to go to another company Take a walk outside man. Walk your dog something Jesus It's wrestling an amazing gig, but still it's relaxing Relax, it's supposed to be fun And it's just a segment of the fans not most of fans and definitely not the performers within the industry We all know that more choices is better for everyone and pushes us all to be better as a wrestling fan Which I still am it's exciting that there are viable companies providing wrestling on a national and worldwide platform If you're actually a fan of wrestling and not acronyms, that should that should make you happy too Couldn't have said it better myself edge couldn't have said it better myself and then one more tweet.  Just try to have fun like it should be because trust me I'll be having fun every time I'm out there in an AEW ring. Let's go Couldn't have said it better myself So and then as you can see under his initial tweet the nerds and the The don't touch grass crew are just coming out in droves So much for retiring. I can't believe you sold out to go work for the mud show I feel like all these individuals sound the same because they're all nerd virgins the way they're acting But that's neither here nor there. I won't be watching your work because those initials don't work for me I've tried watching a few times just not for me.  It's y'all disrespecting everything. This man is done in his career Over here talking about all his legacy has died I've literally seen someone send me messages of People's reactions to it like on different social media platforms and some loser nerd said oh, he'll never make it into the WWE Hall of Fame Idiot. He's already in the WWE Hall of Fame. What are we talking about? Is this people saying stuff? They don't even know what they're even talking about. This is just ridiculous and like I said I just got a little taste of it. Just me a dress in my happiness about it I can only imagine the messages he's gotten from these nerd virgin losers Talking about how much they hate him now and his legacy is over his career Everything he's worked for is dead and gone because he went to AEW They are upset that a man chose to do his profession in another company I just don't get it sometimes man I do not get the entitlement of some of you guys some of you girls too How y'all feel that someone doing what's best for them hurts you in the end If you don't care for him to be in AEW, that's fine.    Oh my god, but comment down below Let me know how do you guys feel about edge being in AEW there? Is it one of those things where you like you're happy for me? You looking forward to seeing the matches in AEW or are you on the camp of individuals that don't really watch? AEW you're probably not gonna watch it even if edge is over there, but you're still happy for him or are you? Unfortunately, I have to say this are you one of those very Nurgent out there that are gonna that's really upset with edge that he would go to this other show that you don't support and You hate it and you hate everything about him now Let me know if you're part of that camp too so we can all collectively make fun of you But I appreciate all the love support wrote 250k still young speedy you to wrestling champion the world Appreciate y'all kicking with me. See y'all next one before I say peace even though I just said peace Come here. You're closer. I want y'all to get real close. It's okay to step outside and live a normal life There's more to life Then wrestling That's all peace out


If you recall when after the election of 2020 and the results came out in favor of Biden, there were a lot of people who were upset with that and Trump really wasn't admitting any kind of defeat. And so there was one that being a big rally and the rally wound up sort of getting out of hand and heading down to the Capitol and storming the gates and it sort of turned everything upside down. The left claimed it was an insurrection, the right claimed it was just a protest that got out of hand turned rightist kind of like what we saw most of 2020 Democrats seem to be okay with. But anyways so that's kind of what we have and since then we haven't been able to get away from it there's been a lot of people jailed unlike most of the other riots of 2020 and there's been a lot of political chicanery that's come from it. But of course this this committee now that was just announced turned out to be something where they wanted to make it a prime time thing. So they ran this thing on I believe it was last Thursday night, Thursday would have been the 9th I believe June 9th and this wound up being something that was aired on all the news networks except for Fox which ran it on their Fox business channel I guess. And so they had about 19 or 20 million viewers total which you know it's for watching any one event that's pretty big but considering how many people normally watch the news every night and since this was on most of the news channels it's I guess it's kind of status quo so maybe it was a huge success for the Democrats maybe it wasn't as far as viewership it's kind of debatable. This article from the Federalist is kind of saying it wasn't such a big deal and they tried to make the case that they wound up having a lot less viewers a lot of them than normal except for maybe like CNN and MSNBC. But anyways that's kind of setting the stage for it a little bit and another item too and unfortunately my visuals are slow here so I can't jump to the next one but another issue of this whole trial being sort of a show trial is that it was pretty much handpicked people from where it had Republicans on the panel as well they were mostly handpicked by Nancy Pelosi apparently early on oh gosh I'm trying to think of the guy who runs things on the Republican side. McCarthy. Yeah McCarthy yeah so he tried to select the people he wanted and Nancy Pelosi would not accept them all and so he said okay well if you're not going to give me any of them then this is just a show trial so I'm not going to pick any of them and we're just going to put it all on you and so she handpicked all of the people so it's kind of Nancy's inquisition for the most part just kind of like all of the other stuff he's been doing constantly with Trump in fact I think I have the image here from that story too as well so maybe we could get that image back up and then I'll kick it over to you guys. So that was McCarthy pulling his picks when Nancy would not giving him all of the people that he wanted on that committee. So I have some other images to show but you know what are your guys initial thoughts on all this? Then go ahead. Oh well you know it's no different I mean just there's a split this chasm between the left and the right and it's never going to go anywhere else what do you expect? You know if you have one party calling everybody in the pocket of Putin and making stuff literally making stuff up or buying into what stuff is made up by members of the FBI and the CIA to disparage Trump back in the old days I mean you know you have that kind of lack of credibility in their opinions what do you expect and so I'm sure this January 6th thing will just be right down party lines and for the most part I mean you're going to have some people that are probably going to be a little more honest with it and those would probably be Republicans on the most part that are saying things that maybe Trump said or did or other people said or did related to this January 6th thing that were probably you know a little bit closer to the truth so I don't know I just don't see it as anything but you know what you would want to expect or you would expect not want to expect but you actually expect from from the behavior of these people in Washington that's about it. Well the whole thing the whole thing that we are dealing with here is this riot that occurred in in the capital on January 6th 2021 but the most troubling aspect of all of this is the dispensation of justice as a result of the riot. Now as you mentioned Jason you spoke about 2020 you spoke about the fact that you know we had all these riots I'm not talking about the protests protests is a part of our traditions and we should never get away from that I am talking about the riots there are over 500 riots declared during the summer of 2020 over 500 and if I could can we get a visual up here while Leon's talking about this because I did have some images from the riots as well and this is something I was going to show from the Capitol before we show that let me jump to the riot this was the culmination of the riots Seattle where essentially Jenny Durkin had said this is going to be the summer of love when they surrendered six blocks to armed protesters in Seattle where you know they literally they looted a police station and they they just took over I mean if you lived in those blocks you literally had armed people on the street who claimed they were the police that had nothing to do with Seattle's government so and and of course it ended in some violence where a lot of you know a few people got killed but you know this are some of the images from what was happening in Seattle at the time where Democrats literally they just called it hey this is the summer of love you know violent riotous protests you know that that's kind of what we're about you know and this is so so anyways it's kind of set the stage a little bit for the whole you know it wasn't I guess business as usual going into January 6th or put it that way so sorry Lee I'm not no problem but but the whole the problem here is the dispensation of justice we had over the summer of 2021 we had looting people burning down our cities we had people were killed and how many people have been arrested to date how many people all because the summer of 2020 was classified as a mostly peaceful protest in the name of social justice that's what it became in the name of social justice so in the name of social justice we can tolerate the amount of lawlessness we saw then came Capitol Hill um in 20 very early 2021 and all of a sudden everybody all the Democrats all the leftists all these people who were cheering on the the looting and the and the arson and the and and the murders all of that which was going on in the summer of 2021 those people now become people who believe in law and order they wanted all of those people arrested and they were they have been charged lately there's somebody been charged with sedition all of these things whether you're looking at January 6th or whether you're looking at the summer of 2021 all of these things will attack upon our sovereignty our sovereignty because we own Capitol Hill and we own all of the businesses that were burned all of the streets that were damaged all the people that were killed they were all part of our sovereignty both were attacks upon our sovereignty and you know what happened the left is now treating the summer of 2020 as something sacred we cannot attack that but January 6th that was an insurrection and the other thing too that is most disturbing about this everybody's talking about Trump responsibility during the January 6th during the January 6th riots on Capitol Hill well Trump is not the head of the legislative branch of government he's the head of the executive branch of government he has no responsibility for the security of the Capitol that actually is Nancy Pelosi and nobody is investigating her role or her lack of being a leader in terms of managing the crowds at the Capitol on January 6th nobody's talking about that and that is why she rejected the picks of Kevin McCarthy she rejected them so that she could put her own people in there i'm talking about the republicans she put on the community she could put her own people in there so they could cover up her lack of leadership for the security for the security of the Capitol on January 6th they're just trying to cover it up so this is nothing but a show trial and it's it's not going to get us anywhere life liberty and the pursuit of happiness always and forever