Cobra Commander 788 here, and this is a review of a book. This is The Ultimate Guide to G.I. Joe 1982-1994 by Mark Belomo, 3rd edition. This book is brand new. It just shipped in 2018. I've had my copy for a couple weeks now and I'm ready to talk about it since this is probably the most important book in G.I. Joe collecting. This book is called The Ultimate Guide because it includes information about every domestic U.S. released G.I. Joe toy from 1982-1994. That is considered the vintage era. That covers pretty much everything I'm trying to cover on this channel. So this is like my YouTube channel in book form, but better. The third edition updates the second edition and the second edition of The Ultimate Guide has been the Bible for collectors for several years. It was published in 2009 and it's been out of print for a few years, which means it can be hard to find and expensive. Mark Belomo has written other books about toy collecting, such as The Ultimate Guide to Vintage Star Wars action figures. He's a fairly prolific writer on the subject of toy collecting, so if you are interested in toy collecting, he probably has something for you. Since the third edition was published, the prices for the second edition seem to have come down a little bit, so if you want to pick up a copy of the second edition, it's not quite as hard to get as it used to be. We were given the expectation that there would be no new photography or text in the third edition, so you might wonder if you even need to pick up the third edition, especially if you already have an earlier edition. But after going through it, I did notice a few updates that I think are significant. While most of the third edition is exactly the same as the second edition, there are some spots where both photography and text have changed. This book includes a price guide. It is an updated price guide from the second edition. The second edition actually says it's an identification and price guide on the front cover. That is not on the front cover of the third edition. I think they were maybe trying to de-emphasize the price guide, and I can understand why. Prices are so volatile nowadays, so any printed price guide is going to be outdated almost as soon as it's printed. I've got some bookmarks here because I've got a few things I want to talk about. We'll go through each of those. Cracking the book open. We have a lot of G.I. Joe. We have a table of contents. We have a forward by Kirk Bezigian. I've talked about Kirk Bezigian before he was at Hasbro at the time the vintage G.I. Joe line was running, and this is a new forward. This is not a copy of the forward that was in the second edition. The forward in the second edition was by Larry Hama, the writer of the G.I. Joe comic book. As you can see, it's much more succinct. Another thing that's updated is the intro spread for each series year. This is for 1982, and this appears to be new photography with a fancy background, kind of an action scene. It looks really cool. In the second edition, this is the introduction to 1982 in the second edition, much more plain, just a plain white background. So I think this is a nice improvement over the second edition. The text appears to be the same, but that new photography just looks very nice. As we get into the meat of the book, we have page after page of excellent photography of all of the figures and accessories and the vehicles with information about each. It even covers the variants. It is nicely done, and it's easy to see why a lot of collectors consider this to be their Bible. It is very thorough. There are a couple oddities in this book, as pointed out in Form BX257's review of the second edition. For instance, Grand Slam has the wrong waste piece here for the 1982 edition of that figure. But it's hard for me to complain about things like that. There are really not very many mistakes considering how much information is in this book. Certainly, this book has far fewer mistakes than I make. That's a pretty nice spread for 1987 with Battle Force 2000. As I mentioned, this is mostly the same as the second edition. But there are some updates, and I'd like to point them out now. This is the page for Steel Brigade. I'm a big fan of Steel Brigade. I like the figure and the concept behind it. But this is different from the second edition, and it's different in a very important way. As you can see, there are four variations of Steel Brigade and the Goldhead Steel Brigade that a lot of us regard as version two. They are labeled version A, B, C, and D. This is different from the second edition, which had five variations of Steel Brigade plus the Goldhead version. In the second edition, we have five variations of Steel Brigade plus the Goldhead Steel Brigade. They are labeled version A, B, C, D, E, and Goldhead is labeled version F. Version E is missing in the third edition. That is not a mistake. There is a very good reason for that. Collectors have reached a consensus that version E was not actually released by Hasbro. It was a kit bash from earlier versions and should no longer be counted as a variant. This is an important update to me, and as a collector, it's something I like to see. And it's one reason I'm happy to have the third edition. The text was updated to remove the information about version E, and the Goldhead version is no longer called version F. In fact, it doesn't have a letter designation. It's just called the Goldhead version. And that is fine with me. I consider the Goldhead Steel Brigade to be version two. What is not on this page is a text update about why version E was removed. I know why it was removed, but a newer collector may not know why there is no longer a version E. This for me is the most important page in this book. This is an actual update to the hobby. And I think Mr. Belomo should be very proud of this update and should write something about it. Here's an update to the photography. In the second edition, in the entry for 1991 Desert Scorpion, a couple of the accessories, the black hose and the yellow missile, were not in the photograph. Well, that has been fixed in this edition. This book does not focus on the packaging or the file cards. It does not reprint any of the artwork or the file cards. And that's fine. I think most collectors focus on the toys, the figures, the accessories, the vehicles. But there's one thing that I think is very strange. In this entry for Red Star in 1991, it talks about file card variants. This is helpful to me because I do collect file cards. And I'd like to track down the variants. This is actually the first I found out about those variants. In the entry for buzzer, the Dreadnock in 1985, it also talks about file card variants. And I do think those variants are very interesting. But then over in the entry for Zartan, this talks about the text of his file card, makes a lot of comments about his background as stated on the file card. But there is no mention of the file card variant. And I think this is one of the most important file card variants. Another surprise, the entry for the fridge mail away figure is with the 1986 series. All the information I have in the case this figure was released in early 1987. Maybe this is categorized by when the mail offer was issued. But my understanding is the figure was released in 1987. If I'm wrong about that, I am open to correction. One thing this book does not have is an index. And this type of book really does need an index. It is a reference book. An index is expected. But Mark Belomo has made some comments that something along those lines is coming soon. So I will be on the lookout for that. Looking at the ultimate guide to GI Joe overall, I really like this book. Since it is hardbound, it has a feel of quality. I can see why some people who already own the second edition may skip the third edition since the updates are minimal. But I think the updates are significant enough to make this worth it to me. Since the second edition has been out of print and prices for copies has gone through the roof. This is an excellent resource for anyone who was not able to get their hands on the second edition. All those great photos are there. All that information, all that great research, it's all here and for an affordable price. Some of you may be thinking there's no reason to buy this book at all. You may think all this information is on the internet. So why buy a book when you can just use Google? But I would disagree. I've been researching GI Joe for a few years now for this show. And I can tell you that some of the information in this book is not readily available on the internet. This is not just a print out of Google. This is not just yojo.com in book form. This has a lot of information you just can get anywhere else. I have to admit though, the price guide probably isn't too helpful. It is updated from the second edition and painstakingly researched. But prices being what they are, any prices in this book is probably going to be outdated within a few months or even a few weeks. If you're a GI Joe collector, or if you just have fond memories of these toys, or if you have a family member who likes GI Joe, and you're wondering what to get them for Christmas, this is something to look at. That was my review of the ultimate guide to GI Joe 1982 to 1994 third edition by Mark Balomo. I hope you enjoyed it. I have full in depth vintage GI Joe toy reviews coming up on this channel. 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And welcome to another talk story with John Whitehead and I want to especially thank those of you who have taken a moment out of your lives to listen to us. I know that these are trying times and people are scattered all over the islands trying to figure out what's the best way to take care of themselves and their families. So I thought it would be really interesting if we would invite back again Lieutenant Governor Josh Green, who is a medical doctor and a coordinator, health coordinator for the state of Hawaii and to force some insight on how we can deal with the current coronavirus crisis happening here in Hawaii. So today's episode is again, what's up, where are we and how can we get through all of this, the best way we know how. So welcome. How are you Lieutenant Governor? I know that usually you and I are buoyant individuals, but these are not the times when we find ourselves with a lot of humor. No thank you Governor. Look I'm honored to be on your program and happy to share everything I possibly know about our current situation with coronavirus. So let me tell you something. I woke up this morning, saw my newspaper and it said lockdown, lockdown and it was wow. So you know maybe we ought to start there, what's up with that? So what is it in fact? So that is a statement that was covering the county, Oahu county's decision to lock us down, to isolate in place and just moments ago at three o'clock in the afternoon today, Hawaii time, the governor followed suit and formalized the isolate in place plan for the entire state. So now Maui and Oahu had already decided that that was the place to go and I know that the governor was leaning that direction so now also Kauai will join them as will Big Island. So effective Wednesday at midnight we will have isolate in place rules which is home quarantine and we will allow for only essential services statewide which are mostly for simplicity, health care related and food related. People can still go out for a jog or a walk but we will not be allowing contact between individuals, people isolate in place. My expectation is it's going to go for two weeks and then probably be extended.  Well, I just don't know where to begin that there was so much information in that. Well, first of all, let's start with how many people, how many cases have been reported here in Hawaii if you know. Yes, 77. So right now we have 77 confirmed cases of COVID-19. We have several thousand tests that are outstanding and the testing has ramped up very significantly with the private labs. So we're now starting to see tests everywhere. So I can go to a hospital, I can go to a private lab, any of the private labs. Yes, and the advice we give people is go if you're symptomatic. If you have fever or cough or shortness of breath, that's the time to get tested. If you don't have any of those symptoms, just let's say you've been in touch with somebody but you have no symptoms, we're not really inclined to test because when you test without symptoms people are negative. But we still want, if you have concerns, for you to isolate at home. Now it's going to be mandatory anyway. People should not be going to work if they have any concern. Now, what if I work in an environment where I am, it's not in my home but it is also isolated. I mean, I'm in an office down the street that no one else is at. Actually, if it's not on the essential services list, you're not to do it. So for the benefit of people, so you're not walking by a lot of people, you're not out there and about for several hours, someone doesn't stop in. We want to avoid all that. Any contact could be dangerous and can spread the disease. So in order to bring the hammer down, we have to not allow any incidental contact. So that means, well, what do people do if they don't have the equipment to work at home? How much preparation was done leading up to any of this stuff? I have to defer somewhat to the mayor and the governor, but the basic premise is, if there's no way for you to do it from home, they do make some special dispensations to do that. And there are several classes of work that are necessary. For instance, some hotel work is necessary, almost all health care work is necessary. Food service is allowed, as long as it's not restaurant direct contact. If it's takeout, it's allowed. So there are several different ways you can be allowed to work still, so we don't completely shut down the economy. But there are going to be some sectors where it's simply not going to be allowed. And that's important, because if we do this for the short term, there won't be spread the COVID-19 crisis. We might not have to go through this for the long term. I was trying to get at whether one of the objectives was that you ought not to be doing any kind of activity where you're actually interacting with groups of people, or with people in general. That's right. So right now, because of the isolate-in-place home quarantine, there should be none of that. You should not have people over until this is finished. You should not go out in groups. If you're going to go out to exercise, you only go with your immediate family, who you're at home with anyway. And if there's transmission, it's going to be directly to one another. The schools are closed. It's unprecedented, no doubt. But the idea is to kind of do a decapitation strike on this problem, this COVID-19 problem. Also, we'll have no tourists coming in at all. Yeah, I saw an earlier report that part of all of this shutdown of Hawaii, lockdown of Hawaii, shutdown sounds a little bit... I don't know which is the better term, frankly. Yes. But part of it was that if I arrive in Hawaii, I have to go... The person arriving in Hawaii would be put into quarantine for 14 days. Yes. 14 days or as long as they're here, if it's shorter than that. So if someone arrives, they would, unfortunately, I think they would not be able to go out. So everyone is going to cancel their trips, everybody. If anybody does decide to come, they will be isolated in place at their hotel. They won't be allowed. What about residents? Residents will be at their homes. So they will be... Residents would be allowed to go... Residents of Hawaii would be allowed to go to their home. Yes. Yeah, so let's say you right now have had to be on business until this coming Friday. When you return home, you will have to do 14 days of home quarantine, no ifs, ands or buts. That's real quarantine. I mean, no leaving, no... Yes. No leaving at all.  That's right. And how is all of this going to be enforced? Well, it's pretty tough to enforce it globally, although I think because the risk factor of dying is so significant, especially for our capuna, very few people are messing around with this. And so I expect people to adhere to it. But they did tell us that if people do violate this, it's a misdemeanor punishable by up to a $5,000 fine or a year in prison, up to a year in prison. So I'm not joking because you might not get sick, but you might get the virus and pass it on to a capuna. And if someone's over 80 years old, their mortality risk or their rate of dying is over 14%. So we can't have that. And so this is what had to happen. Yeah, I can see that. And I know the reason why I asked about enforcement is that I know that I read that there were places on the continent where you had bar owners and others just saying, this is unconstitutional. I'm not going to obey any of it. They're going to get fined a lot of money if that happens. So I think it's in everybody's interest now not to go out. Plus the mayors all banded together and closed restaurants and bars down anyway just for delivery. So they'll be able to do a ton of delivery. And some people are actually doing quite well by this new model. But this is a short-term fix. I hope we only go through total, total of April 30th, and then it's done. And then we can start taking the lid off a little bit and going back to normal. You know, I was just today, as a matter of fact, went to Best Buy because I go there from time to time to relax, actually, to play with the toys that I don't understand how to use. And when I got there, the whole operation has changed. I mean, it's like if you want anything, smart thing to do is to go shopping online and then go there and pick it up if they have it. But that whole transition, that's a different way of life, frankly. It is. It's changing everything. And it will return back to normal over time because we're getting a great test of our resiliency. So I hope and expect this will come and go as it often does or always has with coronaviruses like the others, MERS and SARS that happened. But we're in a brave new world where they're going to be infectious diseases which are more impactful than terrorism. So it's a really big change for a lot of people. But with this change also comes new responsibility and people are being very responsible in general. It is quite amazing actually that we only have 77 cases at the moment. Yeah, I think that's pretty good, frankly. And I want to compliment you and all the other people who have been involved who took action for us to achieve that result. Although one of the things that bothers me as an individual is the idea that as an island state, if the virus didn't originate here, it had to have come into our state from outside. And I just boggles my mind to not think that there wasn't a way to just stop it from coming in. Yeah, that was because they came from tourists, right? So 75 out of the 77 cases I believe were all travel related. Two of them have been spread, maybe four of them have been spread from individuals who caught it and then spread it further to their family or friends. But almost all those cases came from people who were flying in from the mainland mostly. And it's just out there. The mainland right now is getting bludgeoned. We have 33,290 cases in the United States now and people travel here. People love it here. So I went on the news this weekend, national news, and did tell people, look, we love Hawaii. You love Hawaii. We love having you here. The 10 million tourists obviously make this something special in their lives. However, this is an international pandemic and we can't afford to overwhelm our hospitals here and kill people.  So it's important that we adhere to what's been done. Are there any kind of isolation units being built or places where if anyone has the virus they can be put into containment? Yes, a lot of that's going on. Well, right off the bat we have 166 hospital beds that are isolation beds that just give you isolation. Then of course we have the intensive care unit beds that can be private and then we have facilities that we've begun to look at through the Department of Defense and General Horrors Lead that we could use as major quarantine facilities if we needed to. Also for the homeless we've begun to put together some plans and I do appreciate the mayor's team and others that are working hard on this so we can isolate and give people rooms if they're homeless and positive. That was our first discussion six weeks ago actually. I think it was and that was the threat of the virus spreading to people who had no choice but to be up and about. Yeah and so we're now going to have a facility 26 beds on Kahahi Street down in Ivalet that will be surrounded by healthcare services and support in case we get any individuals that are positive. I also have begun to look at the possibility of getting some support over at Blaisdale and we're going to ask some questions to see if that's possible at the garage there. Well I'll tell you what Mr. President Governor we're going to take a short break now and when I come back I not only want to talk about what's happening in Hawaii but also on the national level. Hi I'm Rusty Kamori host of Beyond the Lines on Think Tech Hawaii. I was the head coach for the Punahou Boys varsity tennis team for 22 years and we were fortunate to win 22 consecutive state championships. My show is based on my book also titled Beyond the Lines and it's about leadership creating a superior culture of excellence and finding greatness. I feature a wide range of amazing guests who share valuable insights about how going Beyond the Lines leads to success in everything you do in life. I'm looking forward to you joining me every Monday at 11 a.m. Aloha. Welcome back to the second half of our conversation with Lieutenant Governor Josh Green one of the most knowledgeable people involved in this effort to help us all get past the coronavirus threat. Now one of the things Lieutenant Governor I know that as a physician and as a humanitarian most of your thoughts and focus have been on the on the health and safety of our of our citizenry. Now but there also has been all of this effort as well as the virus itself is going to have an economic impact yes on the state of Hawaii. You know I don't know a single time in the history of Hawaii except for maybe 1893 when people from Hawaii was saying like don't come ashore you know yes I'm there that's a joke in there for somebody I'm trying to keep this a little bit but anyway Lieutenant Governor what was really interesting to me and is this the national debate about all of well first of all let me ask you a question I need to lay some foundation. Sure. How bad is the coronavirus problem on the continent versus what we are facing here in the islands. Well that's actually a brilliant insightful question Governor because I did an assessment this morning right now there's 33,290 cases confirmed on the mainland and based on the algorithms I always use based on resources and need we should have at least twice the number of cases than we have right now which is good news for us because we've done a fair amount especially in the last 24 hours to curtail the potential for spread and so if we keep doing that we may come out of this much better and with a slower curve than most places. I could tell you this New York is hurting they're seeing an explosion of the disease they have over 9,000 people just in New York City alone and we have 77 in our whole state so if we do successfully and we are locking it down I mean there's not going to be almost any flights coming in here and I am very very in a heartfelt way sympathetic to the airlines industry we're going to have to support them after this and we will but we are doing a pretty good job and if we continue to really self quarantine and isolate in place we will not be hit as hard as Seattle or New York or wherever else and so we're better off than many although we have very very serious limitations I have some data here for you I talked with you about it some of this last time I can I wanted to update you I told you last show we have about 3,030 or 3,060 beds licensed healthcare beds in our whole state right I can now share with you that our total occupancy right now and this is good news is that 65 percent that means 65 percent or just under two-thirds of all of our hospital beds are occupied and because of the ingenuity of the hospital teams and systems healthcare association queens HPH they can surge our capacity by about 15 percent another 450 or so beds which means that we have capacity of that 35 percent plus another 15 percent which is 50 percent capacity of our whole healthcare system in case there's a surge of COVID-19 and we can use the ventilators to keep people alive so the key now is just to keep a lid on it and not let it explode like it's doing in other places well you know that's good news and I guess that's the silver lining in an otherwise really dark cloud yes but we have never gone through a period of time when our entire tourist industry for example or our export industry or anything else is just completely shut down yes and I one of your one of your objectives I'm sure is that when this is all over and believe me doc I I believe I believe that it'll be over yes I mean and it looks like from the statistics that you just gave us that there is room for optimism in an otherwise dismal situation right but when it gets over we are going to have to face up to the cost yes of all of this now how and the reason why I bring this up was I was watching the debate in the United States Senate last night on what they're calling I guess the third something stimulus three bill yes and the emphasis that was being placed on the economic redevelopment of the country was was the most important element in the conversation frankly that's right and and I thought and then I read some documents today that said that they are people and I don't who I don't agree with and then who there are people I guess you would call them political pundits of some sort who are on the television and other medium saying things like look the cure is worse than the disease that the cost of you know maybe we should let a few people and I'm summarized yeah but I actually said this way why I could let me do a the back of a napkin math for you okay so if we just let the disease roll over the United States completely roll over us if that were to happen 200 million people at least would become sick and if we allowed 3% of the people to die times 200 million that would be 6 million U.S. deaths yeah so if if we just let it roll over us completely like a like a crushing rock machine we'd have 6 million dead now I don't think anybody's willing to sacrifice 6 million people most of them are going to be our our kupuna right our elderly for those who are watching from the mainland you just can't do that and the cost is going to be well Hawaii's not going to do that no no and I gotta thank you for your insistence yeah we'll never let you brought about the changes that we are now having well so here's the trade the real trade is the world is going to shut down for 10 weeks and in exchange for shutting down the world for 10 weeks instead of losing 3% of our global population we're going to lose only 10 a couple 10,000 people we're probably going to have 50,000 or 75,000 deaths instead of tens of millions like we saw in the Spanish flu pandemic or you know like you were saying when it was not actually an inaccurate description at all if we had stopped the landing of Captain Cook and he brought smallpox to the islands that knocked out a million Hawaii residents a million Hawaiians so you just can't do that and also we better get ready anyway because this is not going to be the last pandemic we're going to see these every say 8 to 12 years we're going to see a pandemic of some sort next time we will have a mechanism in place to hit a pause button globally stop the markets from crashing we will know what the buyout cost is more or less know how much we have to have people immediately immediately isolate in place and we will have a much softer experience so humans can learn I certainly can learn some of the people that I work with are learning very quickly and this is an important test of humanity well I tell you you know and I have tried very hard to avoid at least when we discuss this particular subject to avoid coloring it with my any kind of political bias but I read an article today and listened to a few of the press conference where the President of the United States is suggesting that listening to people who are suggesting to him and he apparently is starting to respond that maybe we ought to back off of all of this social distancing and all of this stuff because of the cost to the economy well I can tell you this I mean I'm interested in politics almost as much as you Governor almost okay if the President backed off on social distancing and let this run its course and didn't do economic support it's and I don't get into too much global politics national policy he would absolutely with a hundred percent certainty lose reelection because the stock market would continue to collapse until it reached a fundamental way lower than it is now the number of deaths and inability to be outside for the next several months would be so ugly the number of body bags would be everywhere there's no way on earth that could be done so if that happened I don't know that the elections mean nothing to me compared to the loss of a few lives frankly so that would be like allowing a theater nuclear warhead to go off in several regions of our country you can't do that well I agree with you I agree with you and and I guess you know initially there were a bunch of people who were constantly sort of poo-hooing the whole idea of a pandemic and all of this stuff and that have changed yeah I mean I Chuck Tucker Coulson that his name he was one of the both Fox yeah yeah Fox commentators and he there was a 180 degree turn I mean you should have seen him today you know this is serious business we've got to take care of it and yet just a week or two ago you know this was a conspiracy probably launched by the North Koreans or some weird type of conspiracy theory well you know gov I know we're getting close to the end but it doesn't this is the doctor in me talking okay it doesn't take a lot of fear to change people's opinions and when people start hearing that there is a high probability that someone that they love or that they know is going to die if we don't act then people's political rhetoric changes quite quickly so this is the kind of thing that actually could pull people together I expect that they I hope so yeah the bailout package will probably be voted forward almost unanimously we will stop the virus in the course of the next eight to ten weeks statewide and nationally and then we'll emerge for quite a summer and people will return to Hawaii with hopefully very minimal loss of life well I tell you what it would be nice to see our Congress acting like the Congress of the old of a time when you and I remember when we actually got things done we only got about a minute left Lieutenant Governor tell us you know in a as short a checklist as you have available what does the average person have to look out for what should we do one more time sure so the recommendation is start to finish starting this moment that you see the show isolate in place do not go out unless you have to get food or medical care that's it isolate in place and if you have a fever cough or shortness of breath those are signs of COVID-19 call your healthcare provider and we'll get you checked what about do you need all three any one of them would cause you to be concerned yeah any one is concerned if you got all three you're very likely have COVID-19 these are similar symptoms to the flu but let me and the other medical community give you good guidance on whether or not to get tested if it's just feeling a little bit bad don't worry about it and stay at home don't be in touch with anybody isolate in place you're going to be okay all right thank you very much Lieutenant Governor Josh Green once again enlightening the people of Hawaii Aloha


at this way. Who is this economy really working for? It's doing great for a thinner and thinner slice at the top. When you've got a government, when you've got an economy that does great for those with money and isn't doing great for everyone else, that is corruption, pure and simple. We need to call it out, we need to attack it head on, and we need to make structural change in our government, in our economy, and in our country. It is about time that we have an economy that works for everybody, not just the wealthiest in our nation. But we need a party that has the guts to stand up to the powerful special interests who have so much power over the economic and political life of this country. We restore the power of our democracy into the hands of the voters, not into the Koch brothers. The American people deserve a president who will put your interests ahead of the rich and powerful. That's not what we have right now. Well, first of all, the government should never have made the deal with the big farmer that they couldn't negotiate. That was just part of the regular corruption by which multinational corporations have their way with us. And we face structural problems that we have to overcome with a broad coalition. It's the only way we can do it. We need to root out the corruption in Washington, expand people's right to get to the polls, and I think then we can succeed. They have made this country work much better for those who can make giant contributions, made it work better for those who hire armies of lobbyists and lawyers, and not made it work for the people. Until you go to the root of the corruption, the money in politics, the fact that Washington is run by the special interests, you are never going to solve any of these problems. I found a Washington that doesn't work for people like you and me. It's made of the rich and the disconnected. What's been missing is courage, courage in Washington to take on the giants. That's part of the corruption in this system. It has been far too long that the monopolies have been making the campaign contributions, have been funding the super PACs, have been out there making sure that their influence is heard and felt in every single decision that gets made in Washington. Where I want to start this is I want to return government to the people and that means calling out the names of the monopolies and saying I have the courage to go after them. And I have the most comprehensive approach for getting money out of politics with publicly funded elections to deal with political corruption. Nothing will change unless we have the guts to take on Wall Street, the insurance industry, the pharmaceutical industry, the military industrial complex and the fossil fuel industry. If we don't have the guts to take them on, we'll continue to have plans, we'll continue to have talk and the rich will get richer and everybody else will be struggling.


I'm here with Rocky. Why don't you introduce yourself and tell us what you've been working on, but sure. I'm Rocky Latka I'm the CTO at Magenik and here adding some tests to the toolbox project So that sounds like super easy, but when you're looking at adding tests to a project. It's already existing Sometimes that requires a little retooling. Did you did you have any of that happen? Oh, yeah Testings never actually. No, I know. I'm just saying it sounds easy But if you go to your manager and you're like, hey, we're gonna add some tests They're like that's super easy, but that's not what it is, right? No. In fact, there's you know, a lot of Existing code. So we've got to figure out what the code is doing and then in some cases figure out ways to be able to generate sample data or known data sets and and run through the code and so we've had to Change a few things here and there. Luckily. I've only found one real bug so far today. So that's good So is there is this the case and you tell me if you're going Into a project and there's not some tests Do you find that having to write some tests requires maybe sort of rewriting way the application might be working in order for the test to Work a little bit better sometimes. Yeah. All right. Well, let's take a look at what you've done and see if we can find any of that Sure. So really the project had very limited testing to start with everybody was joking. There was one That's not true. There was three right there were three. That's right and But then I've added some some new ones here so for example, we've got a test that is running through the idea of can we get activity detail and On the surface, you'd say, well, that's that's easy, right? If we look down here, the actual tests are not that hard We basically create a query And then call the handler and then in this case, I expect not to get anything back So I'm saying was it, you know, and all So that was the easy part. But then when you start saying, well, what about the test for something that does exist? Say, well, we do expect to get something back. Okay, fair enough But then there's all this code here because we have to actually have something to get back, right? And And days gone by And I'm sure a lot of people maybe still do this would set up a test database and have some sort of script Every time you run your tests and then re-initialize the data the actual database and you know Why I remember those days So in this case what we've got is we're using entity framework with an in-memory database model I see and So in fact if I go up one level higher And then here's one of the areas where we started refactoring some of this is we've got a base class for the tests that at least sets up some of the base configuration Information and in this case in particular is setting up our entity framework to be in it creates essentially an empty in memory database And and all of this is using dependency injection to pull the appropriate resources just like the app itself does So then back in my actual test class. I'm able to just implement a load test data Method retrieve that pre-existing empty and a framework context and then fill it out fill it up fill it up with then and Here here's an example where the app itself has got a sample data generator So that it's possible to run the website and you know just kind of see some meaningful information But that's really quite large and complex. It's six seven hundred lines of code that creates a complete Working set for somebody to play with right as an end user We want something for tests. That's a lot more focused on what we're really trying to test. I see this is kind of the minimum Set to get an activity in that an activity has to we have to be within a tenant an activity has to be within a campaign And then I can create an activity itself Interesting. So that's like the bare minimum Necessary and then once I've got that into the entity framework context then I can turn around Start pulling it out and call the actual Production code that would pull us back out and make sure that I really got it back And it's important to be clear here that we're not testing any frameworks capability to return data We're testing to make sure that the detail query is and the detail and the detail query handler are doing the right thing Well, and then it's really this Detail query handler that we're primarily testing and because it's got code Sure that does a query against the database or against entity framework And then does some mapping of that information back and we want to make sure and so this test is Really not complete the way that I've got it now All I've got so far is that I make sure I'm getting something back sure I need to Flesh out the test and make sure I'm getting all of the expected values back Okay, so I saw I saw on the test that using the fact attributes are using x-unit. Is that right? Yes? That's why x-unit In my case it was a decision made before I got so that's good. It was easy to make the reason for me This was not a problem. So let's talk a little bit about the tooling and how the tooling is helping you with unit test Is the tooling do anything for you when it comes to unit tests? Well, the tooling Is fairly nice. You know built into visual studio is this idea of the test Explorer and test runners So I'm able to just Run up here and say I'd like to you know run all of my tests We'll do a quick build and if we go back to the test Explorer now. We'll see right across here the Bar I've got one failing test, which I know I'm working on that now. Oh awesome. So I expect that to be failing. I'm not done with it Cool, and then I've got all a set of tests that are running more than three more than three. Nice. We were doing good That's awesome Yeah, this is not my normal view. This looks good for demo purposes sure just to say look at all the red and the green but In practice, I think if you start by class then you start to be able to Zoom in and say well, you know right now what we were looking at was the get activity detail And here's the two tests that exist within that context and looks like they're passing and it looks like those two are passing So in your experience and you've been doing this for a long time Coat coverage is there I know there's not like a you you don't have to hit a hundred percent But you certainly shouldn't be like a twenty percent right what do you what do you feel sort of like a good? Sort of smell for how much should I be testing? I really think It's difficult to narrow down on a specific percentage Certainly, I've worked or interacted with places that are all we want a hundred percent and I don't think that's Effective, I mean yeah, if you can even achieve it you're spending way more money than you should be right Yeah, twenty percent is typically bad pretty pretty bad So you probably want somewhere, you know well north of fifty percent, but I also think that you have to look at what you're testing because there's Code that's a lot more complex or a lot more on the critical path and then there's code That's that's arguably less important your perspective. I've always liked your perspective because you always put it in terms of What's it gonna cost? Well, yeah at the end of the day We're you know unless you're sending something to Mars and the any given little teeny mistake becomes super expensive, right? Yeah, for the rest of us It really is a business decision about just how much do I have to spend to? Build and get this done versus what kind of value am I going to get absolutely because in some cases You're not gonna get test coverage over auto implemented properties if you don't do a test on them And that's kind of a waste of time well certainly yeah, right okay, and yeah, and I think too You know that's that by itself is a good point because if you are one of the organizations that invest heavily in code generation And a lot do sure Then you got to ask yourself well Is there really value in having unit tests not say we shouldn't have tests but unit tests on generated code When you're never gonna fix the code you're gonna fix the generator, right? Right, so if you're gonna test anything you probably want to test the generator to make sure that it's coming up with The results that you're after awesome. So what do you have what kind of work do you have ahead of you? Well boy, we're just really getting started on this testing So we're you know, I've got a flesh out some of the tests that are here and now that we've got a model I think it'll be easier Maybe to get more people involved in writing some more tests on more handlers. Well awesome. Well, I'll let you get to work But great. Thanks. All right. Thanks bud


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Why is the narcissist so mean to you? There comes a point in your relationship with the narcissist Where they become very mean to you often after an argument or disagreement Or when you don't do what they want or think the way they want you to think Which can happen in a healthy relationship But it doesn't mean that you have to become enemies In a healthy relationship You can talk to the other person and you can end the relationship on good terms This doesn't happen with narcissistic relationships When you don't do what they want Or think the way they want you to think They will do everything they can to hurt you They will be mean They will become aggressive Because they're narcissists They lack empathy They cannot share your experience They're self-absorbed They're only concerned with their own feelings and needs Which is why it should be no surprise that they are mean to you A person with this type of personality Doesn't know how to be kind or considerate There's nothing motivating them to be that way towards you They can only pretend They can only imitate what they have seen from other people or movies And they will only do that when they are trying to manipulate you But if you are no longer susceptible to their manipulation They will be very mean to you There's no incentive for them to pretend anymore Because they know that you know what they're really like So that is when the mask comes off That is when they don't even try to conceal who they really are When you're still in the dark on what you're really dealing with They will pretend to be nice to make you think that they're good So that they can keep you as their source of supply But when you start to figure them out They're not even going to bother pretending anymore That is when they will start being mean to you That is when you will see how selfish they really are They will blame you for everything They will never reflect on their own fault's mistakes For anything that they might need to work on They will make you feel like everything is your fault They have to do this to protect their false self They are shame-based people who are doing everything they can to avoid reflecting on their shame And they don't want to deal with the consequences of their actions So they have to see you as being the cause of all the problems in the relationship Which they can then use to justify them being mean to you Because when you pull away from the narcissist in their minds, it's unfair In their minds, you are just using them because everything has to be about them They always have to be the victim And when they're being mean to you To them, they're just protecting themselves against this horrible person who took advantage of them You may not have done anything wrong But once you've been around the narcissist long enough They will be looking to punish you They will do everything to hurt you Because they want to watch you going through it So that they can feel better about themselves They will do anything to make you miserable They will sabotage anything that makes you happy Anything that is good in your life Because this is also a way for them to control you Anything outside of them that has an influence over you Is a threat to their control So they have to gain authority over it They have to bring it into their realm When you disagree with them on anything And you have your own ideas or opinions about something Or you refuse to do what they want you to do They feel like they are losing control So they will find another way to gain control When they are being mean to you They feel like they have control over you They can influence your emotions They can get you to react to what they're saying or doing And it makes them feel powerful It gives them satisfaction They're sadistic They derive pleasure from inflicting pain, suffering and humiliation on you As long as they can make you feel bad They don't feel bad It makes them feel better And they don't care about how it's affecting you Because they lack empathy They have an inability to feel or understand your emotions Which is why it may seem like they have no concern for you Which is why they're so cold towards you When the narcissist is mean to you You may take responsibility for it And think that it has something to do with you But really It has everything to do with them It has everything to do with where they are in the mind They're self-absorbed They only care about themselves And they're very cruel So naturally They will be mean to you That's just who they are If you experience the same situation With someone who is healthy It wouldn't have a very different outcome or result It would not result in them being mean to you They would respond to the situation In a mature and responsible way Rather than being directed by their emotions Because that is why narcissists are so mean It all comes from their emotions And they are using you to feel better about themselves Thank you for watching I hope this video resonated with you Please like, comment, 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itution. The buck stops with the Supreme Court, essentially. It doesn't say that in the Constitution, so that was a power grab by Supreme Court. First of all, that's false, as been shown by legal historian Philip Hamburger wrote a book called Long Judicial Duty that it was well understood at common law and for a very long time that courts that have the ultimate decision as to the determination of the interpretation of legal instruments and whether rights have been violated or not. Now, it's a valid decision and it has to be valid because there has to be a final decider. For the same reason, you can only have one government for the exact same reason. The same reason you can't have competing governments that offer their alternative. You can't have competing, you can't have different institutions within a government have equal say as to, well, we have equal authority that you can't talk. I'm Congress, so I can pass a law and the court can't say it's unconstitutional. Well, that's anarchy. Then what rule of law do you have? No one knows what the law is. You have Congress saying one thing and the Supreme Court saying the other, that's anarchy. That's like the same situation with competing governments. We're allegedly competing governments. We have two different governments saying two different things. At the end of the day, what does that reduce down to? It has to reduce down to people duking it out with military force in the streets because that's what happens when you don't have a state, a properly functioning state, which is an institution with the sole monopoly on the use of force in self-defense or in defense of individual rights. So there has to be a sole decider of what the meaning of the law is and what the meaning of the Constitution is. By the way, that's why the Constitution has mechanisms for amendment. The founders saw this. They said, yeah, if the Supreme Court screws it up, you can pass an amendment to overrule the Supreme Court. They've done that with amendments a couple of times. The Eleventh Amendment does that. The Eleventh Amendment was enacted specifically. It's a complex issue that I'm not going to get into, but the Eleventh Amendment, the very first amendment enacted after the Bill of Rights, was enacted to reverse a Supreme Court interpretation of the Constitution. It's a valid decision. Judicial review is legitimate and it's part and parcel of having a government. All right, Apollo Zoo says, why does Adam like Spiderman? Is it because of Steve Ditko? Yeah, so it's funny. I'm a geek. I like the Marvel Universe. Generally, I equals like DC, but for people who know me, I'm more of a sci-fi fan and also much more of a Star Wars fan. People know me for that, but I like all sci-fi. Star Trek, Star Wars, Firefly, Expans. As I joke, I'm sci-fi fluid. Yes, Expans was very good. So was Firefly. And there was the latest Star Wars. What was it? Andorre, which is fantastic. Andorre was very good. Star Wars by far. I 100% agree. It really shows you. You can actually do legitimate character-driven drama in the Star Wars universe. It's possible. Yeah, I agree. I guess you do more of that. Maybe I'll become a fan then. Let's say, I really thought fracking was an Alberta Canada innovation and discovered it is actual American. Well, you're not allowed to say American anymore, according to Stanford University. Because the Canadians are Americans too, according to them. Although Canadians deny it wholeheartedly. Downhole chemical treatment at all. What makes your innovations patentable anyway? What makes what innovations patentable? I missed that one. Fracking, I guess. What makes fracking? Oh, fracking as a patentable invention, because there are patents on it. So there are several different types of innovations that go into it. First is the ability to drill that deep, which involves very highly specialized machinery. At the depths that they go down to, the pressure and the temperatures are extreme. The fluid that's developed actually, the fluid that they inject down to crack the rocks, which is called fracking, that's actually protected by trade secret. That was a huge innovation in of itself. So there's massive innovations that went into making this incredible technology that for a brief period made the United States energy independent, right? We were actually at one point, we were actually exporting more oil. But this was like 10 years ago or 12 years ago. Then we were a net exporter of oil for a few years, which was fantastic. Tells you what innovation leads to. Let's see. Frank says, I wrote songs with my own music to words by Tolkien. I want to record them on a CD. If I try to sell it, will the Tolkien estate come after me? So I can't keep legal advice. You're asking about a very specific concrete act. So my primary advice is, so my initial statement is talk to a lawyer, because the Tolkien estate does have copyright in all words written by Tolkien. And if you're using his words, that's raising a potential copyright issue. It must be close to being in the public domain if it's not yet. Yeah, I think he wrote in the 30s. And I think the caught off point right now is 1923. Yeah. So like Sherlock Holmes recently fell into the public domain in a couple of other ways. It could be soon. It could be soon. All right, but talk to a lawyer. How do rights apply to personal, this is hello there. How do rights apply to personal identification information? Also, is the court's power to subpoena witnesses in initiation of force? Yeah, that's a topic. I remember debates in the nineties on back then on the use net, which, by the way, were justice, you know, vicious, rhetoric laden as the debate was worse. Yeah, it's just the nature of the internet, nature of human debates like that. But I'm sorry. So identification. So I think he's asking about data, like your Yeah, so your personal data, I think. So right now, unfortunately, the United States has taken the approach. You don't have property rights in data, which by the way is one of the fundamental problems with which is kind of facilitating the issues with what's called to big tech, right? If you imagine if you had rights in your data, your property rights, right, they would have to get permission from you to use your data. And one of the reasons why they feel like they can do anything with your data is because the United States took the position. No, this is you cannot property and data. Now we're seeing a byproduct of that. And of course, the solution isn't to then recognize property rights where there should exist. The solution is to use any trust and common carrier doctrine and all these other horrible doctrines. So they're just magnifying the problem. So you should have property rights in your data. And and it would resolve a lot of problems if you did. It's a peanut power. You know, yeah, this is an issue. This is like in the abstract that people argue and debate endlessly and objective is circles and libertarian circles generally. And I fall on the side that yes, subpoena powers are legitimate. If you know, if someone has information that is absolutely necessary for that, for a court to do its job as a court to resolve a dispute between two citizens, it can't resolve that dispute. And it may resolve dispute improperly. If it doesn't get access to that information, then we're undermining the very function and reason why we have courts. Yep. Let's see. Z ways. Samsung literally had an internal document 100 pages long, where quote, here's what Apple did on the left. Here's what we do on the right solution. Copyable. Next page repeat is just he's asking if you've seen that. No, I haven't. I haven't. I mean, as in this, by the way, so, like I said, Google was incredibly innovative. The search algorithm, of course, massively innovative. And they have brought information to our fingertips in a way that is unprecedented in human history, right? I mean, this is incredible, the world we live in today. You have the entirety of all of human knowledge available to you at a touch of a screen button. I mean, it's just incredible. And Google facilitated that.  And they've, and because of their policy positions, they've done some really bad things like to liberally copy and French other people's copyrights and patents and things of that sort. You know, and so I've, you know, you have to distinguish the company sometimes from in their innovators from what the company's policy positions are. And I always, I explain this in a certain sense when I tell people like, you should be suspicious of Google when their motto is do no evil. Because, because no one wakes up in the morning and looks in the mirror and says to themselves, make sure you do no evil today. If you have to do that, you have a problem. You have a real serious problem that you need to address. So, so that's that. Yeah. All right. This is a weird one. Let me just read this. I am 85% done writing a new Objectivist Constitution from scratch over the last five years. Can I get a voice call with Adam Ortega Smith to pitch it to them and gain their interest? You're on. I am the genius from Scott from Fabian Liberty told you about. Do you want to take a call from somebody who wants to pitch an Objectivist Constitution? Sure. An email they can send. Oh yeah, Mike, just Google me it. Google Adam and send him an email. Use Google. Like I just said, use Google. You can send me email. I get emails from people all the time. Or use chat GPT. Microsoft is buying chat GPT so that to compete with Google search, I think. Oh, interesting. That's that's that's cool. $100 million. I think it's cheap, I think. But by the way, I just want to say there's no such thing as an Objectivist Constitution. Objectivism is a philosophy. You know, the drafting of a Constitution and what goes into a Constitution is not philosophy. That's that's political. That's legitimate political science, right? What they talk about in the Federalist Papers. That's political theory as legal theory. And that's law and politics at the end of the day. That's applied philosophy. And so there are Objectivist applications in that space. But I I'm you know, you if you're thinking of the Objectivist Constitution, it's already you're somewhat mistaken about what actually is Objectivist. All right, friend Hopper says just just got here. Has anyone asked about AI, generated art trained on someone's copyrighted trademark? And if the artist can do anything about it, would it matter if the person with the AI art is making money with the image? So not that the image is copied, but that it was trained using copyrighted. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, this is that that other AI that the there's an art version of chat GBT that I that I that I played with with someone and it was really cool. And it's a really raises a really interesting question about how at what point, how far do you get from the original work that you've by putting in your own choices about the how it should be structured that you've actually created your own original work? It's a really that's a fascinating question. And it's one that's going to eventually have to be addressed by the courts. And again, it's why you need courts because it's a legitimate question. You know, it's not obvious what the answer is. Yeah, it's not. You can't. And this is why you this is why legal. This is why you have jurisprudence and legal theory and and laws and as a professional extra size, because you can't deduce straight from principles of the right to life, liberty, property and contract to specific answers to specific legal questions, especially when they're between legitimately good people, right, who just happened to have a disagreement as to what the boundary line of their respective rights are. Absolutely. All right, Justin's clarifying the previous question. So to clarify previous question. Oh, good. Yes, you may have cleverly combined into a new product to separate existing mechanical technologies owned by a single company. How do I protect the idea and sell it to said company? Well, if you're working for the company in your employment contract, it says they already own it. So he's not working for them. Well, if they've taken your so but if they cleverly combined it, that's an act of invention. So he's cleverly combined it. I'm sorry, he's cleverly combined. Yeah. Yeah, well, then that's an active invention. And if you've committed an active invention, you should go talk to a patent lawyer to see if you can get a patent on it.  The reason why the right brothers and Thomas they stand out is because they're the exceptions.  Most of the others patents are, as you're on just set, are combinations of preexisting materials. And those are just as important inventions, but their invention is still the same. All right, last three questions. Len says, what about time limits on drug patents? Is that legitimate? What technologies would necessity necessity time limits? It seems that information and art is blurred with software, music and dialogue. Well, there aren't any special limitations on drug patents. Drug patents have the same limitations as all other patents. So it's 20 years from data filing of the patent application is your term of patent copyright is life of author plus 70 years.  So it's 90 years straight. And the issue of term limits in IP is one that drives, you know, a lot of debates and consternation. It's a complex issue. I ran addresses it actually in her essay patents and copyrights. I think she addresses it appropriately. But of course, being the genius, she addresses it like in three or four paragraphs, because she instantly gets it and sees what the issues are.  And I did a whole talk on it at Ocon about about eight years ago called term limits for patents and copyrights and why they're valid. And it's an example of how property is an abstraction. It's a concept. So you have actually different protections for different types of materials, given the nature of those materials as values as they're used in human life. So you have property rights in water, property rights in land, property rights in personal goods, like your phone, your bike, your computer, property rights in stock and corporations, there's property rights in legal judgments, you can buy and sell legal judgments. You know, so in all of those property rights are structured differently because they all protect the exclusive control over something, but the thing is different in the nature of the value of how it's being used. So the protections are different. And given the fact that you're protecting underlying new innovations, you know, that are the foundation of all value creation in human life, the further you get out from the original innovator, the moral claim of ownership diminishes in a way that it doesn't with land and things of that sort. And so I don't want to go on March because I could go on for an hour about this because it's a complicated topic. So I'd recommend people just listen to my talk and if they have further questions about it, feel free to email them. All right. Paul says, after Apple created the Mac, a user interface Bill Gates went by Apple saw it and literally decided to copy it in Windows and rip off the Mac GUI. What is the moral status of a company that did that and created so much value?  So, you know, isn't that a moral company? So by the way, it's not exactly 100% right because they didn't create the Mac. The actual people who created the GUI interface is not Apple. It was people at Xerox. In fact, the Xerox researchers were really upset when Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, by the way, is the real technical genius. Jobs is not the programmer and a computer engineer. We're invited over to Xerox to look at everything because the researchers were like, you're giving away the crown jewels. This is everything. And they knew it at the time. But Microsoft still stole it because Apple licensed it and Microsoft didn't license it for me. Well, so that's why Apple sued Windows, right? And what Steve Jobs said to Steve famously was, well, your claims to IP, distinct IP in the Mac are not valid because they weren't original to you. And that's true. The GUI interface was not invented by Steve Jobs or Steve Wozniak. It was invented by the people at Xerox. And so the extent that he was claiming, I get IP rights in this, he didn't. And so Bill Gates had the right argument in that instance. And so I don't think of what Bill Gates did as immoral. In fact, Bill Gates is fundamentally a moral person in so many important ways. Oh my God, you're in trouble now, Adam. I mean, it doesn't matter what you set up until this point, the libertarians, the conservatives, some objectives. I just lost everyone. He just lost everybody. Bill Gates is the devil. What do you mean he's buying up land all over the United States in order to poison us all? I meant Microsoft. I don't mean Bill Gates post retirement. I mean Bill Gates and Microsoft. So he's responsible for the computer industry. A lot of people don't know this. He wrote, so he wrote a very famous open letter to what we're then in the 70s called hobbyists and who we would now call hackers. And it was a one page letter that explicitly said, we have to stop stealing each other's work because at that time the programmers were writing stuff and they were like, I can just take whatever I want and just make it. And he explicitly says, if we are going to make an industry, if we are going to revolutionize the world, we have to start respecting each other's property rights. We have to start respecting each other's rights. And he caught massive flak for that. He's hated by the entire programmer community, but that was fundamental to the creation of the high tech industry as we now know it. Paulo-Zu says, is the lack of use of land the same as public domain law? No. No. So public domain means completely unowned. So something is in the public domain or in the law, it's race nihilists. Totally unowned is the Latin term. That means no one had any claim to it whatsoever. And that's what space is public domain now and works that fall into the public domain can have no claim made on them. Non-use is just, I have a property right, but I'm not using it. Now that can be legitimate and some non-use, physical non-use can sometimes be a type of use, like for instance, real estate developers who buy up land because they foresee that that's going to be valuable land 10 or 20 years from now. So land can be an investment commodity, for instance, and that's a legitimate use of land. So we don't mean literally like physical use, but if real estate developer, if you buy up land, like once every 20 years, you need to go take a look at your land to make sure that there isn't someone actually that's now using it that has been using it. And that's not that big of an obligation. Okay. So this is the last question. I think Boaz has asked this question. There's a different Boaz. Different Boaz. He asked this question to every single one of my guests so far. I've only, I haven't had that many, but he's asked it. It sounds like he's going to ask it to every single one of them. He's actually uniquely qualified to answer this question, which the other guests were not. So here it is. Any tips for burnt out parents of a seven-month-old? So that's one. And then he says, just for the help, how to bring back focus and motivation. And what's your opinion on Bitcoin blockchain NFTs, Huawei, the Chinese company, AR, VR, and 3D printers, and all this for five bucks. Awesome. By the way, did I top Nikos? You did. Yeah. I was waiting to announce it. You are moved into the number one position. Awesome. You've also topped them in time. So we're getting to three hours here almost. So I'll go another hour. I need bed. It's a question of the questions. Okay. So any tips for burnt out parents of a seven-month-old? All right. Well, I have three children, two of whom are twins. So I know this quite well. Nikos was not. Yes. And my wife and I form a later principle. We call it selfish parenting. And the idea is that you have, yes, your children are important, but your life is at a fundamental more important. And you have a relationship with your wife that's also very important, and you have to prioritize that. And we set aside time where we were like, well, we're going to get a babysitter because we didn't have any family networks to fall back on. If you have family networks or something, just do that. But if you're done, you just very selfishly have to set aside time and be selfish.  And children pay attention to your action more than anything. In fact, my wife and I wrote children's values to each other, where we explicitly wrote out that we committed to each other that even though we were having a child, that our marriage was a value and our individual lives were values, and that we were going to continue to roots remain committed to them. And the other one is, it does get better. They were like, yes. No question. No question. You've got another two years or so, but yes, absolutely. Around three, they become amazing. Even a two, they're pretty much talking. But I liked every age. I mean, I did, too. I like, I like, but teach them sign language, too.  It's really awesome because yeah, they figured out that kids can, one of the reasons for the quote terrible twos is that they understand what they want, but they, but the vocal cords haven't, actually the nerves haven't formed yet. So they can't vocalize.  They just can't express it, but they can control their hands.  You just teach them, you know, like this is more and this is water and apple, you know, words like that. And it's amazing. And you're communicating with your kid at one. That's pretty cool. Yeah. All right. I don't know. Do you want to say anything about Bitcoin blockchain NFTs? Yeah. Okay. So Bitcoin Ponzi scheme, blockchain, kind of cool, but not really hard to see what, you know, what's going to happen with it. NFTs, total flash in the pan type thing, I think, not really fundamental or important. The, what was the other? ARVR and 3D printers. 3D print, incredible. That will be a manufacturing revolution if it isn't already. And it was AI, it said to, was it? ARVR, virtual reality. It has potential, but we're not there yet. I mean, so it's still too early, as I think the whole disaster of Facebook's virtual world is proving to be. And then what was the other one? So I can do that. That's it. That's it. All right. So Paul says, for David Gorgans of intellectual, for the David Gorgans of intellectual property, I take that as a compliment. I'm not sure who David Gorgans is, but he's referring to you. Thank you. I don't know who David Gorgans is either. So that's why I'm okay. Anyway, but it's a compliment. So he's the $20 to thank you. And then Ali, we shall have the final word. He says, do you have a book? Have you written a book? Unfortunately, no, because law professors primarily write our work through articles. So where can you find your articles? But all my articles are online and easily accessible on a website called SSRN.com. It stands for socialscienceresearchnetwork.com. I post all my articles there in PDF. It's downloadable. And because law journals allow that. And so in fact, you just Google my name, Adam Mossoff, SSRN. You'll see my page come up and even some hits are my articles. And the nice thing about law-read articles is they're accessible. I pride myself in writing articles that are accessible and understandable. You don't have to be a lawyer to read my articles. Well, this is great, Adam. Longest interview. Awesome. Most money raised in an interview. So we're getting to, this is like Lex Friedman length. We're competing with the big guys now. This is, what's his name, the other big podcast with those three hour interviews. So this is great. I really appreciate it. I know it's late. So thank you. And yeah, look, look at him up. It's easy to find. I think the leading voice today in defending IP in the world and is doing amazing work. Joe Rogan, yes. This is Joe Rogan length, like. I know Joe Rogan, yeah. Lex Friedman less so, but Joe Rogan, yes. I know Joe Rogan. All right. So thank you. Well, thank you. This has been awesome. You're on. I'm really honored to have been invited here. I get to ask fantastic questions. I really enjoyed myself. The best audience on the internet. The best audience on the internet. Well, of course, it's your audience. That's why my audience. I love them. So have a great weekend. Say hi to your family. And if I don't see you sooner, I'll see you at Ocon. I hope so. Yes. Yeah. I don't wait. Yeah. Sure. I'll see you somewhere. I'll pass somewhere, but looking forward to it. Same. Best to the family. Bye.


What's up, everyone? It's your girl, Kenzie here from Leighton Sports Cards. I'm ripping some personals for Sean R. We've got a 2022 Bowman Draft Baseball Sapphire Edition box, as well as a 2022 Panini Honors Football photo. We're gonna start with the Bowman Drafts. Good luck. See you big first here. Again, every one of these cards will get sleeved with top load for you. Two exclusive Sapphire Parallels per box. Come on, Pad Parashia. We've got first Alex McFarlane, Phillies, Raffella, first for the A's, Clark Elliott, and a Oscar Coloss. Hunter Barco first for the Pirates. Pull from the back here. Kendrie Mendez. A first of Gavin Cross, Royals. And our yellow for the Rays is gonna be a Curtis Mead, 34 of 99. Mr Mead for the Rays. He's a prospect for the Rays. We've got Green coming up. Juan Bencho. Simon Juan, Metz, Marcello Meyer. Come on, show me a first. Not a first. Twins is gonna be a Yassir Mercedes, 46 of 50 on the Green. It's Mercedes. All right, now let's see some big firsts. Come on. SirMac first, Olamar King Jr. first, Stephen Zobac first, and Chase Delotta first. Pack of firsts there. Got Robbie Snelling first, Padres, Anthony Volpe, Samuel Muñoz, Annie Girard Mackenzie first, Washington. Noah Schultz first, Chicago, Blaise Jordan, Alex De Jesus, and a Gabriel Runconas first, Phillies. Jackson Holiday. There you go, Sean.  Every one in every couple boxes at least. You definitely don't see him come around too often out of these. La Cruz, Pete Hansen first, and a Cole Phillips first. Last pack here. Edison Paulino, a Pedro Pineda, Emmanuel Rodriguez, and a Brady House. All right, that will do it for the Sapphire box. Now time for your Honours photo. Let's see some crazy out of here. Good luck, Sean. Honours photo time. Oh boy. Thanks for subscribing, Skully. First it up, we've got a rookie of Alec Pierce. Alec Pierce, that one is 55 of 75. And purple, rookie of K-Von Tibodeau. We've got Giants out of 12. Nice Tibodeau. All right, now time for your autos here, Sean. First up, we've got Colt's rookie auto, Alec Pierce. That is two out of 15. The year I'm thinking, oh yeah, baby. It's a big card here, Sean. How about a one of one Colossal Patch Auto Lamar Jackson? Boom! And this is from 2018 NT.  Oh my Colossal on the logo patch there. My goodness, that's crazy. Claire Warn on that as well. Sam's gonna love this one. Congrats on that, Sean. Hell of a hit there. Thanks so much. Congrats and we'll get this right out to you.


Most everybody loves seafood, garlic butter shrimp, baked mussel, milkfish relliano, steamed oyster and chili crabs. Thanks to aquaculture, we can satisfy our cravings anytime we want. Seafood supply and market profit are the main reasons why I studied aquaculture. But mind you, I almost got discouraged pursuing aquaculture. It was when our professor discussed about aquaculture being the culprit of mangrove loss in the Philippines. Mangrove areas had been converted to brushwater ponds as supported by the Philippine government as part of the Fish Pond Development Program in the country from 1950s to 1960s and continued until the 1980s to support intensive shrimp farming. This indeed increased seafood production and turned out to be profitable. However, losing mangrove ecosystems also means losing the goods and services it provides. Not only that, we have another problem to deal with, and that is biodiversity loss. As stated in ecosystems and human well-being of millennium ecosystem assessment, biodiversity contributes directly and indirectly to many constituents of human well-being, including security, basic material for a good life, health, good social relations and freedom of choice and action. Many people have benefited over the last century from the conversion of natural ecosystems to human-dominated ecosystems and the exploitation of biodiversity. At the same time, however, these losses in biodiversity and changes in ecosystem services have caused some people to experience declining well-being with poverty in some social groups being exacerbated. James Diana in Bioscience Journal listed the following negative effects of aquaculture as threats to biodiversity. Number one, escapement of aquatic crops and their potential hazard as invasive species. The Philippine aquaculture has been enhanced by species introduction, such as orychromis or tilapia, clarions or catfish, and syprinus or carp. Many aquaculture commodities are exotic species, which means these species are transported outside their natural habitat. Mozambique tilapia or oryochromis mozambicus was introduced into the Philippines from Thailand in 1950. Common carp or syprinus carpio was introduced into the Philippines from Hong Kong in 1915. The danger happens when these exotic species can escape from the culture system, being released to the environment, reproduce, compete with the native species and eventually dominate in the area. Invasive species can affect the population of other native species, or worst, can replace the native species thriving in the area. The potential of many aquaculture species to become invasive is high, since invasive species and aquaculture species shared similar characteristics or traits such as widely distributed original range, a broad environmental tolerance, high genetic variability, short generation time, and rapid growth. Number two, the relationships among effluents, eutrophication of water bodies and changes in the fauna of receiving waters. Effluents from aquaculture systems contain high levels of nutrients dissolved and particularly resulting from products of metabolism and uneaten food. These may affect bodies of water adversely as these may cause eutrophication or positively as additional nutrients can boost natural productivity. The direct effect of increasing nutrients in aquatic system is to increase growth rates of primary producers. Increasing productivity generally corresponds with a shift among groups of primary producers and habitats from benthic periphyton, epiphytes, and macrophytes to phytoplankton. When growth rates of primary producers exceed rates of consumption, large quantities of deceased organic material can also accumulate in the system. The composition of accumulated dead phytoplankton, aquatic macrophytes, zooplankton, and other organic material can result in oxygen depletion, known as hypoxia. Eutrophication therefore changes the amount of biomass in aquatic systems. Its spatial distribution and allocation among trophic levels and taxa, consequently, eutrophication alters the entire biological structure of an aquatic system, along with its physical chemical conditions. Number three, conversion of sensitive land areas, such as mangroves and wetlands, as well as water use. Conversion of land areas for aquaculture and other anthropogenic activities, such as deforestation, agricultural, industrial, and urban development, all contribute to habitat destruction or habitat loss. What would happen to the organisms if their homes were destroyed? Estimated to cover 400,000 to 500,000 hectares at the turn of the century, Philippine mangroves have decreased by more than half to 240,800 hectares as of 2010, due to over-exploitation by coastal dwellers and conversion to agriculture, salt ponds, industry, and settlements. Among these factors, aquaculture remains the major cause as mangroves declined at the rate of 5,000 hectares per year in the 1950s through the 1970s when the government promoted a pro-aquaculture policy. The Philippine government and NGOs developed programs that focus on mangrove replanting and rehabilitation. The Zoological Society of London and our Filipino scientists, for example, published a manual on mangrove reversion of abundant and illegal brackish water fishponds. Number four, other resources used such as fish meal and its concomitant over-exploitation of fish stocks. Do you know that aquaculture feeds contain fish meal and fish oil? Fishermen do not harvest fishes solely for human consumption, but also for sustaining aquaculture industries. Yes. Can you imagine how many bags of feeds are consumed daily to sustain aquaculture farms? About 28.3 million metric tons of seafood harvested in 2003, including 5.2 million metric tons of fish meal, were used for purposes other than human consumption. About 46 percent of this fish meal and about 81 percent of the fish oil produced in 2002 went into aquaculture. Given the current rates of aquaculture growth and the rising importance of intensive aquaculture, forecasts are for even higher demands for fish meal. Fish meal commonly comes from small pelagic species of fish whose harvest can reduce the population of its predator. Higher demand for fish meal may also cause over-exploitation of captured species resulting in the decline of biodiversity. This is our parasite transfer from captive to wild stocks. Aquaculture has been the fastest growing sector of food production, meeting the demand of the world's growing population. With a technological advancement, intensification of existing facilities and expansion into new areas contributes largely to the development of aquaculture. However, accompanying this development in aquaculture systems are problems that needs the aid of fish health management plans. Population size and density of pathogens and parasites are more likely to increase in an intensive aquaculture. The negative impact of aquaculture to biodiversity is in terms of transmission of the disease or parasite from cultured or captive stocks to wild stocks. This usually occurs in cages and pens where captive and wild stocks share the same water resource. Ameliodinium oscillatum and etoparasitic dinoflagellate infestations have been recorded in temperate and tropical countries causing fish cultures to suffer. Profonts, the feeding stage of ameliodinium oscillatum, commonly attached on skin, fins, eyes and gills, can interfere with gas exchange, osmoregulation and tissue integrity thus resulting to spasmodic gasping, uncoordinated movements and extensive mortalities of fishes. The introduction of parasite-contaminated water source to the culture system and vice versa from the influence of culture system to nearby bodies of water can cause ameliodiniosis to wild fin fishes to prevent disease outbreak, effective filtration system and proper sanitation procedures must be applied. Number six, antibiotic and chemical use which may influence aquatic species near aquaculture facilities. Antibiotics are drugs of natural or synthetic origin that have the capacity to kill or to inhibit the growth of microorganisms. Antibiotics that are sufficiently non-toxic to the host are used as chemotherapeutic agents in the treatment of infectious diseases. Some antibiotics used in aquaculture are oxytetracycline for medicated feed, fluorophanychol, sarofloxacin and erythromycin. These are used for the treatment of, for example, diseases caused by aromonas, pseudomonas and streptococcus bacteria. Antibiotics used in aquaculture as one of the fish health management strategies may exert selection pressure to local bacterial populations. Positively, this may enhance bacterial biodiversity in which the frequency of novel recombinant and mutant genotypes will increase, but negatively as these will also result in the production of antibiotic resistance strain bacteria. The increasing use of chemical treatments in aquaculture is likely to lead losses of biodiversity through destabilization of ecosystems subjected to effluence. This also affects food safety and consumer health. Bacteria that show multiple resistances to antibiotics can actually spread from animals to humans and even cross geographic borders. Other negative impacts of aquaculture to biodiversity are genetic alteration of existing stocks from escaped hatchery products and predator mortality caused by, for example, killing birds near aquaculture facilities. Oh no, does aquaculture really have negative impacts to biodiversity? I have to convince myself to love aquaculture. Here are some facts we'd love to know. Number one, fish production from aquaculture can reduce pressure on wild stocks which may be over-exploited. Instead of catching such aquatic species from the wild, aquaculture can provide us tons and tons of supply. This will reduce our reliability to harvested stocks from the wild and these benefits biodiversity. According to Food and Agriculture Organization, as stated by James Diana in Bioscience Journal, aquaculture production of Atlantic salmon has increased dramatically from almost none in 1960 to 1.2 million metric tons in 2005. Historically, Atlantic salmon was a captured fishery producing up to 16,000 metric tons per year. The peak harvest occurred in 1990, but by then many populations had declined dramatically. Now, cultured salmon have largely placed captured salmon in the market, which has brought down the market price of Atlantic salmon. Now, cultured salmon have largely replaced captured salmon in the market, which has brought down the market price of Atlantic salmon, allowed cultured products to be substituted for captured ones, and apparently contributed to the rebound of some local fish stocks. This rebound has occurred after many interventions, including intentional restocking of natural populations with hatchery-reared fish. Breeding by escaped fish from aquaculture systems reduced the demand for wild stocks because of the declining market value and reductions in harvests due to many management interventions. Good point number two, stocking organisms from aquaculture systems may help to enhance depleted stocks with limited reproductive success. Application of aquaculture technology through restocking, stock enhancement, and sea ranching coupled with reduction in fishing effort and fish habitat restoration promise to help restore lost production and possibly increase harvests from captured fisheries. Sea ranching or ocean ranching is a type of fish farming in which juvenile fish are released into the ocean to grow unprotected and unassisted to be subsequently harvested. Research and the development of sea ranching systems had been done in the Philippines, especially on sea cucumbers. Sea cucumber is a highly vulnerable shallow resource that can be obtained by gleaning in the shallows and is very accessible to those without the means to invest. Number three, effluence and waste from aquaculture can increase local production, abundance, and diversity of species. As I have mentioned earlier, effluence and waste from aquaculture may affect bodies of water adversely as this may cause eutrophication or positively as additional nutrients can boost natural productivity. And number four, destructive land use patterns such as lash and burn agriculture may be replaced by more sustainable patterns such as aquaculture in ponds which also regenerate income, reduce poverty, and improve human health. Aquaculture has both positive and negative impacts to biodiversity and this challenged me to explore this field more. We do not want to forget about the advantages of aquaculture as well as we do not want to destroy biodiversity. Can you think of ways, strategies, or solutions that will help reduce the negative impacts brought by aquaculture to biodiversity? Can you state existing laws in the Philippines that have been effectively enforced for us to achieve environmentally sound and sustainable aquaculture? Martinez-Porchez and Martinez-Cordova in their article entitled World Aquaculture Environmental Impacts and Troubleshooting Alternatives in the Scientific World Journal said, many strategies have been suggested, evaluated and or proven in order to advance in the sustainability of aquaculture. Basically, all of them respond to criticisms and are possible solutions to the problems attributed to the activity. The main aspects that have to be performed to advance towards such goal are the correct selection of the farming sites and species, the implementation of the most adequate culture system, use of the best feed and feeding practices, the use of bioremediation systems, decreasing the dependence of fish meal and fish oil, adequate management of the effluents, achieving certification of compliance with sustainability, and improving research and legislation related to evaluation and solution for aquaculture impacts.


Next question is from John Wilmoth for each of you What has been your favorite body weight and why your favorite body weight? Oh, geez when you were fit the thick Yeah, so I've my weight has been as high as 238 and I'd say I mean besides when I was a kid as low as I forgot my weight was when I got really really shredded for Maps and a ball it must have been 182 pounds or something like that or 180 pounds Which is way too. It was way too lean way too light definitely didn't like that 238 way too heavy. I Feel good When I'm at a good lean strong 195 that just feels the best for me It's when my my weight feels the most comfortable. I'm typically pretty strong at that body weight I'm lean enough to where I like the way I look my mobility is good Right now. I'm sitting at I don't know 206 207 So I'm a good 12 pounds heavier than and I would say my favorite body weight Yeah, that's a that's kind of a hard question to answer because like you Sal I've gone extreme extreme both ways and That that number fluctuates for me for as light as I think I hit stage for nationals at 199 and then I've been as heavy as 240 and And I could honestly say that everything between there and probably up to 230 because once I got beyond 230 That's too much. It was uncomfortable. Even when I was like shredded. It was uncomfortable. So between 200 and 225 to 230 I've I've I've got a I've been my happiest if that like so It just all depends on where my body fat is my mobility is at that I've had incredible strength low body fat good mobility as high as 230 ish and Then I've had the same thing all the way at the very bottom and so to pick a weight That I was happiest man. I really liked my first after my first pro show I was 219 pounds and shredded and I felt pretty amazing. I wasn't Uncomfortably big. I hadn't like completely lost my mobility Definitely filled out everything I was wearing But then I've also been like 205 were kind of like what you're alluding to Sal like I definitely felt More spry I could go play a basketball game. I feel like like right when I get over 220 a lot of muscle I don't feel like I can go hit the courts without potentially hurting myself or having a rough time so somewhere between 205 and 220 I like anywhere in between there if I'm maintaining a good body fat percentage lower body fat percentage in my mobility up That's the thing too Why I always tell clients don't get so hung up on a body weight target because I can literally show you the most Mobile the leanest version of you at all those all those body weights So it's really a personal preference of what it's what's easiest to maintain I guess like eating wise right that's one of the hard parts for me when I'm Lean and big 220 something that's a lot of food. I gotta eat So that's one of the drawbacks even though I may like the way my body looks It's expensive and time-consuming. Don't fit very well.  Yeah, you're wearing sweats. Oh, that's all you're doing all day Yeah, yeah for me. I'd I base it off of like what sport I was in at the time and how I felt So I would always try to get leaner into basketball season coming off of football season That was always tough for me because I would just start to get lean Towards the end of the season That's when I started to get my shot back and you know more athleticism and I could run up and down the court You know light on my feet But initially I was just stomping around just like slamming everybody under the hoop, you know Cuz I was just so heavy just coming off of football But it helps for football because the thing was you would get pushed around you would get punked if you were if I was like at my like 210 or even something like that where I was like I felt like real athletic and spry like I Would just get punked and so I had to get up to like 230 to 240 Especially when I was inside backer I had to put on a lot more weight and I was just like not mobile I was explosive but not mobile and I felt like shit So I would say like mine's probably around 215 where I still feel like I have some power But a lot more athletic and mobile. How far are you off from that right now? He sells 12 pounds off from what he thinks. Yeah, well, I'm kind of between like 227 ish like around there So yeah, see I'm probably around what I think I weighed myself the other day at 218 or so So I'm right there, but I'm not where I the way I like to look right so my body fat percentage is higher So yeah, that's why it's so different. I can look Composition yeah, I can look different at 218 and I've seen myself look a bunch of different ways So it's it's funny too. If this question was asked when I was younger. Oh, yeah, I'd have a number I like being 240 feels the best huge makes my ego feel the best if I'm being totally honest Feel the best get gassed walking up a flight of stairs, right?