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Do you see yourself doing anything other than music? Yeah. I see myself doing everything. That's the problem. Everything. Everything like acting. Everything that comes my way I want to do. I feel like, I feel like I don't think about doing stuff until like, like, I don't, I don't, today, right now, I don't see myself in a movie. But tomorrow, if somebody hit me up and asks me if I want to be in a movie, yeah. You going to be with it? Yeah. What type of role you will play? I think I could play. We don't have to hit get 15 on the phone. Because I'm, it's giving BMF, it's giving BMF. Oh, BMF? It's not giving goals? You don't want to be a college student with them? No, no, no. I would, I would do that. I would, I would body that role. But I think it's giving BMF. It's giving 80s? You don't want to do that? That's interesting. So do you see yourself? I want my hair and curls. I want to wear a dark lipstick and. Giving lala? Yeah.  So you didn't have to have a big chain in the 80s. The girls, I'm talking about. Okay, okay, okay, okay.  Like, I want to wear stuff like that. Not a word. This, I told, I'm getting married in this. I'm never taking this off years later of a word.  Cause I know you dippled and dabbled in the YouTube. And you said you wanted to connect with your fans more. Yeah, I'm about to start vlogging. Okay. So YouTube. Yeah. Full time? Like you see yourself being like a... No, like, I feel like I'm going to vlog stuff that has to do with music. I'm about to be doing pranks and stuff like that. No, I'm doing like studio vlogs. Get ready with me for video shoots or a big show or like collab studio sessions, like stuff like that. Okay, promote yourself still. Promote your music. Love that. So, do you, are you still doing the videos with Nody in the car? Yeah, yeah. Nody, like in particular? Or like both? Um, I mean... I just started like... YouTube videos in general, let's take a look. Yeah, oh, yeah, okay. I stopped doing them for a minute. Mm-hmm. And then I just started, I don't think... I just told Nody this because, I don't know, I read comments. Okay. I want you to know, I read comments. So, I don't like when fans, we try to make it seem like, I need this platform. Okay. So that's making me feel like I don't want to do it, but... I was gonna ask you why you stopped doing videos with Nody for a while.  Well, he was a cloud chaser, we cool now.  And like that whole narrative, like we were dating, it was just turning me off, like, it was cool at first, like, okay, that's just something the fans are saying, but like when he started pushing the narrative, it started turning me off. So I'm like, all right, bro, now you just giving weird.  So you feel like, do you feel like the pranks in the, all of those videos, you feel like they be going too far sometimes?  Not even the videos. I feel like they, not even they, like, Boo was good, like, Boo would know if I tell him like, bro, I'm not doing that, he's not even gonna, like, but like with NoDi at that time, is that I will tell him like, bro, okay, I don't want to do this. And I'll give him a logical explanation too, like it's not that I don't want to do it because you want me to do it just, I don't want to do it because at the end of the day, I'm a rapper, I'm not, we're not in the scene. Right.  Right.  So yeah. I did watch y'all, well I watched his reaction to y'all's latest video and he was in the video talking about, you know you can do normal content if people still watch.  You're not into putting on for the camera section. Like bro, I'm not about to jump at you because you told me, like you get what I'm saying? Like that's what you be wanting me to do. Like it's like, that's not me. And I know I can't like, I'm not into that.  It's just gonna look fake.  I don't really, you get what I'm saying? But yeah, so. Hey guys, it's Taylor. Make sure you follow us for more exclusives at www.talkofthetownshow.com Like, comment and subscribe.


Hi everybody, I'm David Martins, I'm the Director of the Vermont Affordable Housing Coalition and welcome back to our June installment of In the House Live where we speak with different members of our communities to talk about housing from a variety of different perspectives. This month is, the month of June is Pride Month and so this week I, well this month and for a couple of reasons actually, I have invited Representative Taylor Small to join us, one fierce advocate for LGBTQ issues and also which happens to be my representative and I'm hoping that as we talk today, I kind of want to touch on a little bit about the importance of civic involvement, the importance of folks being involved in the process and so I thought you would be the perfect example of that. Well thank you so much for having me David, I'm happy to be here. Yeah, so welcome and this was your first, this was your first biennium right? My first biennium, the COVID biennium, well I don't know if I get to claim that one, at least we started online. You started, you did start online, yeah. Our first year, yeah. And so what's sort of your first, someone says to you, well what did you think of your first round in this? Oh, what a complicated question. The first round was, you know, really amazing. I feel like I got a very warm welcome into this space, especially in a time where you felt so disconnected with the first year being online, it's hard to make those connections and relationships but I came in with a fierce first class of folks who I think it was because of being online and having that displacement of being on Zoom that allowed us to speak up more and be more active in the process rather than what's usually accustomed for a first term member is to be quiet and listen and learn and not speak up as much. And we did plenty of listening and learning but we also got to the speak up point as well. You did, you did some speaking too, that's for sure. We did, we did. I put in my legislative wrap up for the coalition, the first line said, Joe, you're on mute because how many of us in Zoom meetings, you know, so used to having to tell someone, so you're on mute, someone says you're on mute. And despite being on Zoom, the legislature was certainly not on mute. It certainly was not. I think we were asked to mute more often than being asked to unmute. Many of your thoughts about just some, some two major pieces of housing legislation were passed were sort of those just in the housing world are, were a little bit nervous about one of them, but we're pretty confident in the other and the mental health and safety bill. I was at a groundbreaking event today though that Governor Scott was at and he plainly said when I signed these two housing bills next week, so hopefully that's a good sign. But two big pieces, right, the rent housing safety bill and the omnibus housing bill. Some other pieces kind of, or some other bills sort of showed up in the first few weeks and then got picked apart and re-added and so on just caused eviction. Of course it was vetoed ultimately. But kind of any thoughts about the housing bills? Yeah. I think we had an easy year when it came to doing housing work. You know, I think across the nation we've been understanding that there's a housing crisis and in Vermont in particular our issue is having an old housing stock and a lot of folks using rental homes are having second homes which reduces the availability for others who are living here in the state. And so I think we were able to make some really massive investments into infrastructure and new building and I think the trouble will come in the next biennium when we don't have this overflow of cash and really need to start looking at our policies and I think there are a lot of policy updates that we need to make especially when it comes to protecting renters' rights. You highlighted the bill that was near and dear to my heart, which was really fighting for just cause eviction in Burlington, knowing that it really should be a statewide initiative. Vermont is a leader when it comes to tenant rights, but no cause eviction is just a modern-day form of discrimination in the housing world. It allows folks to evict someone just because it wasn't the right fit. And how often have we heard that in marginalized communities where we're not the right fit because our identities aren't showing up right or because they don't agree with our lifestyle or how we're living? I would never want to lose housing over that, especially as a trans person I think that comes really clearly, but also recognizing the reckoning that we're having around racial justice and how that impacts housing access and what we've seen even in my city in Wenewski. Yeah, absolutely. So do you think, I would say off the record, but we're on television so I guess it's kind of on the record. It's on. But you think that I've heard from many that the same sentiment about that at a statewide level this is really what, you know, we even heard it from a couple legislators in committees, right, as it was being discussed, and I'm sure that someone will suggest that for, do you anticipate that it would have the same outcome though at the state level as it did with the charter change? You know, the question really is about who we elect in this upcoming year. We're seeing some massive turnover in the House and Senate and a lot of leaders, a lot of committee chairs are moving either into higher positions or just getting exhausted from the work. So I think with new energy there might be this buildup and desire to have just cause on the state level, but I know of various municipalities that are going to be working in this off-session to pass charter changes similarly to Burlington's to enact a just cause eviction. And that's how it seems to start, just like what we did with Wenewski and Montpelier last year in doing all-resident voting, something we would love to see on the statewide level but are just not at that point yet. We don't have the buy-in yet, but for the communities where it really counts, I think it's important to have those protections and the participation in civics available. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And I think that the, it was funny you heard in, I don't know how much you watch, you're busy enough in your own committees, so I don't know how much you watch the other committees, but when Just Cause was in the Senate GovOps committee, the sentiment was kind of, you know, some changes, as I'm sure you heard, some changes were made in the House GovOps committee that advocates were kind of, were not really in favor of, you know, and then, and then I think it was Senator Clarkson in Government Ops in the Senate, that's one of her committees? I believe so, yes. Someone said, I think it was her, said, let's just put it the way that, the way that it passed Burlington, it's, you know, this impacts the people of that town, they, this is what they want, this is what they passed, let's just, and they were all kind of like, yeah, I agree. I said, well, this, well, this is great. Just kind of, and I think for me, that was one of the most frustrating parts of the whole thing was that like, this is, this is something that this community has already made clear that they, that they want to move forward, you know, but. And it's a sentiment we hear time and time again when it comes to charter changes, is wanting to follow the will of the voters. It is a, it feels like a duplicative process when we have folks already voting on what they want to see enacted for their city and town, and then having to have it go through both chambers and be signed by the governor for it actually to go into effect. I think, I know Vermont League of Cities and Towns has been advocating for an update of, of the rules and whether it's, if you're able to enact it in one city or town, if it gets passed through both chambers and signed by the governor, then the same legislation or the same charter change should be able to be put in place in any town across Vermont. Why would it be different town to town or city to city? So I think it's an important question to ask as to how, what is our responsibility as a legislature when it comes to charter changes, and should we be making edits when it isn't following the will of the voters? Yeah, yeah. I think that it's a, you know, when the, after the incidents of July 6th in Washington there a couple years ago, we heard people talk about the, refer to the capital as these hallowed halls, and I think that's so beautiful because there really is something hallowed about it. There's something really, the responsibility, I know I was always struck sitting in the balcony watching all of you in the chamber and think to myself, these people all have full-time jobs, and this ain't it. Which is bad. You know, and they, I mean, it's a real, it's a real sacrifice and a real commitment that for little to no reward, right? I mean, I would imagine, I would hope that you get thank you letters and stuff from constituents, but I'm sure you also get the comments from the other side, and I just thought to myself, this really is not only are these hallowed halls, but these are people who are doing, who are doing hallowed work, you know, for, that steers the course of so many communities as a statewide community, but really just out of a love for Vermont and Vermonters, and that was really profound to me, coming from a state where the, you know, where it was their full-time job, it does make for some different dynamics, and so if no one else has said thank you, I'll say thank you, both as a constituent and as someone who works in advocacy. You've just been a wonderful advocate for housing, and so many of you in the chamber have, it's been wonderful. I appreciate it, and I think you address a really key issue there, and having a part-time citizen legislature is that it is a work of love. It's loving your community, it's loving your state, and wanting to enact policies that are really going to better Vermont. And I think it is a privilege on my end in being a legislator that is in a state house where that is the case. It's not the case across the nation and most definitely not at the federal level where we're seeing this fighting that happens through the media. It's not these conversations that are happening in the state house itself, where you're sitting down either at lunch or across the table from someone who's from a completely different party than you are, and they see the issue in a very different light. But what you know at the base of the conversation is that you're both working in the best interest of Vermonters. But the other piece is having to have a full-time job is that who's excluded and who's not able to run, even if they have that passion and love for Vermont, to be able to come in and serve and have those really great ideas and new approaches to the work such as housing. And I think that's a barrier that we're running into with a lot of legislators in this past biennium and previous being landlords themselves and taking a lot of these bills on a personal level of, as a landlord, I would never do this. So why would you put these policies in place? Instead of recognizing the larger issue is that not all landlords are acting in the same fashion, and we really need to be protecting the most vulnerable Vermonters, which are folks who are dependent on someone else for housing when they're not building their own equity. They're not creating a pathway to home ownership, but instead are paying someone else's livelihood at the end of the day. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. One more, kind of for your thoughts about a directly housing issue. And before we kind of change gears, I would guess that you hear from members of the LGBTQ plus community between your work in the legislature and in your day job. Can we tell them your day job? Of course, it's public. Representative Small works at the Pride Center. You just had a job change too, right? I did. Moved from being the director of our health and wellness program to now managing our education program, which is really the heart of the work that I love, which is getting out there and improving access to services for LGBTQ and just marginalized Vermonters. Yeah, super. And what do you think, we're talking about housing and housing for vulnerable Vermonters. I don't know about your experience, but my experience has been that sometimes people, I think, feel like that we've moved past the era of LGBTQ discrimination, you know, like I remember, I think that it's a safe bet that I'm a little bit older than you. And I remember like when marriage equality passed, there was a lot of discussion and I was in Rhode Island at the time, and we had a lot of discussion about how this isn't because it was a sentiment of like, we did it. We're here, you know, and people kind of like, there's a lot of these other, you know, not even like other issues that if they get, it could end up impacting this, like there's just more to do within LGBTQ rights and within just the way that we are, we engage with the larger community, right?  I'm all for it. Like that was really kind of the sentiment and I think even in Vermont to a certain degree because we think, well, Vermont is so accepting and so welcoming and there's rainbow flags all over, all over Burlington. There's, you know, well, that's all very true, but the Pride Center was vandalized, so obviously not everybody is hanging those flags, right? So what have you heard in terms of how the housing issue is impacting our community specifically? Well, I think you bring up a really great point that the issues are still very much there and I think a few issues come to mind. One is thinking of no cause eviction again and knowing that that is a way of ending leases with LGBTQ people and moving them out of more urban areas. What we see traditionally in our community is that folks tend to migrate towards more urban and more diverse areas where you're able to be around community, you're able to participate in queer events, you're able to not feel alone out in rural parts of Vermont. And yet what we're seeing is that with the increase in housing costs and rental costs, it's pushing LGBTQ folks farther and farther out into rural parts of Vermont. And don't get me wrong, there are plenty of rural queers who are living their best life out in the woods and there are plenty of folks who want to be closer to community and want to be involved in the urban scene and just aren't able to afford it. And then it brings in transportation. If you don't have reliable transportation and you're out in Vermont, how are you connecting back to community? So I think the pandemic really opened up a lot of opportunities for Pride Center to be able to hear more about the issues and connect with folks outside of Chittenden County. What was really impactful is in 2020, we did a virtual Town Hall series where we did a Zoom meetings with LGBTQ folks around the state of Vermont and they were focused on various issues, whether it was health justice, racial justice, housing was a big one that we talked about. And folks named all of the pieces that we already know. There's not a lot of housing available, housing is getting way more expensive, it's unaffordable for most folks. And what we're seeing is a lot of young queer folks are leaving Vermont at the end of the day. Luckily, they come back. There's a cycle. There's this magic with Vermont where you leave for a bit, but you always come back to it. But it is, it's still really sad to know that the opportunities don't feel available for young LGBTQ people in Vermont, where they need to go to these major cities or other areas where they can get better paying jobs, more affordable housing. They build their families up and then they come back when they're able to settle and afford Vermont. Yeah, I think that for a long time, there was a sort of sentiment that people in the LGBTQ community, that like we had more money, you know, there's that, that old because we didn't have no kids. Yeah, exactly. So we must have, we must just be just swimming and loaded and money. But first of all, many of us do choose to have kids, right? And not for anything, but like, we're all paying the same rents. Absolutely are. You know, so that notion is really sort of absurd. And at least for us in, you know, in these times that, that we're in, I personally think it was always sort of an absurd notion. But and, and I think that it's that exact housing crisis that, that just in fact perpetuates the unfortunate truth of the exact opposite of that. Exactly. Exactly. Because we also recognize that LGBTQ folks, especially trans women and trans women of color are put into positions that are not typically high paying. There isn't a lot of ascension that happens within corporations or within businesses. And so we still see folks in minimum wage jobs trying to pay rent and again, not building that equity up. So where are those robust supports for folks who are feeling that impact of, of not being able to get into the job market and not being able to see those opportunities for themselves? Absolutely. So I think that for anyone who's watching that the one message that we can really drive home is that this issue, I say it every time we have one of these shows that this housing situation truly impacts every Vermont or does, you know, shift gears a little bit, that it's Pride Month, which we, we know is about more than just the parties that, right, that Pride Month recognizes the Stonewall, we began with the Stonewall riots and recognizes all the incredible things that have happened since then.  Reality of it is we do have to recognize, though, that we have come an awful long way. We have since Stonewall, right? And, and that that's an important thing for us to remember during Pride Month, I think. And to remember, though, that Pride Stonewall was a bunch of people who said, we're not doing this anymore. Enough is enough. Enough is enough. And we have to, we're going to do something. Have you ever seen the, the docuseries when we rise? I have, yes. Oh my God, I love it. It is fantastic. And that whole notion that Cleve puts forward about like one fight. This is one struggle, one fight. This is line, right? And, and he has the girl whose name, everybody else's name escapes me right now, but who worked in the women's center. And then the, the sailor, the part of the BIPOC community. And they're all talking, and we see the roots of all of these different movements, all being born out of Harvey Milk's office. And I think that it just, it's a very powerful reminder of that, of that reality that it is, it's one struggle, one fight. It's important that, that we remember that, I think. Oh, especially in a time of such division where we're seeing that across various communities and even within our own, where there's this, this separation that I don't think should ever exist, but we've seen cycle through, which is the LGB and the T being separate, as if, as sexuality and gender are two very separate things instead of this one fight mentality that we are all in this together, that if we're fighting for equal rights and equal representation, why would we pick off one by one based on identity? Why wouldn't we want this inclusive movement that's looking at the holistic view of who we are and what we want the world to be? Absolutely. Right. We've made significant strides from Harvey Milk serving in office and sadly being assassinated in office to now having trans representation here in Vermont in, in politics. We see Sarah McBride as a senator in Delaware and even our commissioner of health on the, on the US scene is also a trans woman who is leading the way. Dr. Well, Rachel Levine, not to be confused with our own Dr. Of course, of course. Yeah.  Jones. I'm also bad with names. Well, he, his partner dies in the, in the beginnings of the AIDS pandemic and they've been living together for a number of years. I want to say it was something like a decade that they had been, because they got together when it was the younger guy playing him and they were still together in the later and the partner dies, but the house was in his name and the family shows up and just put, they put the guy right out in the street, completely lost his housing with no recourse, nothing to, nothing to lean on, you know. And so I think it's sort of a twofold thing of like, thank God, that's not where we are anymore. But by the same token, something like no cause of fiction could put someone in the same, in the same boat. So I just think it's a, it's a delicate dance between, yes, it's great how far we've come, but to remember that we still have a long way to go. Yeah. And that policies can do a lot to support folks, that we have policies in place around housing, employment and health care discrimination on the state and national level. But policies only go so far because we do, I think there's two policies in housing that really come to mind when it comes to renters and being able to know that they have housing as a human right. I think as you've addressed in this show many times, and as we need to keep talking about, housing is, is health care, housing is how we keep our community safe and with no cause of eviction, and then also the eviction process where if the landlord lives in the same building, they can legally discriminate against who's living there because it's they're a boat. And so it does put us in this very tricky situation where the power dynamics are, you are the person providing me housing that I need to sustain and to live. And what, what is that payoff? What happens? Am I able to speak up if there are code violations? If there's black mold, if there's infestations of rats or mice, or is that going to jeopardize my opportunity of staying in housing? And that's what we saw in Winooski. Yeah, we saw in Winooski where folks who finally stood up and said, our housing conditions are terrible. We have black mold, we have cockroaches in our building, and we haven't felt safe to speak up about it. It got news coverage. And then what happened a few months later, they were all given an eviction notice and told that they had to move out because they were going to make those renovations and upgrade the whole space. Luckily, city officials and community members were able to step in and say, this is unacceptable. These are community members. These are folks who are multi lingual. These are students who are about to lose the resources because there was no other housing available in Winooski. They would be pushed into a completely different school district who weren't and would not be set up in time for multi-lingual students. So it is the crux of the issue time and time again. And I think there's, as I said earlier on, there are some significant policy updates that we need to do on a state level that go beyond putting money into it, though the money aspect is very important. Definitely, definitely. But it's definitely not all of it. You're absolutely right. What do you think, just sort of as some kind of closing thoughts, the power of the people, not to use a cliche, somewhat cliche term, I guess, but the power of the people we saw at Stonewall, I think that, I think in a way we saw it a bit during the legislative session, people kind of really, as one thing I was really struck by was just the accessibility to, you know, to all of you. I tried to not take advantage of it by pestering you too much, but I definitely shat a text your way a few times. But like, but there is some real kind of power in the people that civic involvement, primaries are coming up. Yes. Right. And then, and then, of course, November a word or two about the importance of of voting, the importance of being part of that process. It's super easy here. It is super easy. You can get registered online. You can register when you get your new license or ID card at the DMV. Everyone should be registered to vote and should vote in both the primary election on August 9th. And of course, again, in the general election in November. And we don't pick a party. You do have to pick a party in the primary. But you never have to stick to that party. We're very liberal in that respect of it is just when you are filling out the primary ballot because it is for the major party candidates. But general election, you don't pick a party. It's the same ballot for every single person. And again, with all of this turnover this year, I think there needs to be some significant conversations with candidates about what their plans are when they come in around advocating for housing policy or what we need to do to change. And there are some big ticket items that are on the ballot this year, including amending our constitution, which I can't help but highlight. Proposition two and five will be on the ballot for folks to vote on. One is officially abolishing slavery here in the state of Vermont, taking it out of our constitution. Luckily, slavery is illegal in the state, but this feels like a much needed update to our state constitution. And of course, in the face of Roe versus Wade being overturned on the federal level, we really need to enshrine reproductive liberties in our state constitution. And the reproductive liberty amendment will also be on the ballot in November. And similar to well, similar to different to the charter change, this has gone through a thorough. This isn't like four years. You know, someone gets an idea and it goes on. I mean, this has gone through two full bienniums. So it's two two different batches of legislators and now goes to the people and if the people all vote in favor of either either change, the governor cannot veto it. Is that correct? It cannot be vetoed. It would go into that into the Constitution. And luckily, our governor is in support of both of these propositions and has come out with very clear support on them. So. So that means it's up to it's up to you. The voters to do this. You can. It's up to Vermonters. So go online, get registered. It's very easy to do. I did it myself. Not. I've been here less than a year. So I had to do the Vermont registration process. I was really struck by how easy it is. And and and yes, to get out there and vote. I think that and I was also struck by how involved people are at the statehouse just by how we really can like those email addresses that you all have on the on the website. They're really your email addresses. It's not like it goes to a staffer. It goes to you. We do. We do not have any staff. It's all all us. And I think another piece in talking about civic participation is is really messaging and reaching out to your legislators when there is an issue coming up and when you want to see that change happen. But my one note is please don't do the copy and paste emails. They are so much better when we know that it's an actual person on the other end. And we want to hear your feedback. We want to hear your perspective on the legislation that's coming before us. So please reach out by any means necessary. Well, thank you. Thank you so much for taking time to to be here. I know that you probably were hoping to catch a breath or two with the session done and with Pride Month starting. I'm sure you have a million in one event. You have to be probably have a couple of seconds for you to plug one of them. Oh, upcoming events. Well, I think the upcoming event for this weekend would be highlighting pride Montpelier Pride on the State House lawn is happening this Saturday, June 4th from noon to five p.m. Full slate of activities throughout the weekend. Super. Representative Small, thank you very much. Once again, 12 of you will see you or you'll see me at least in two months and in August. So thank you again and we'll see you then.


You mentioned short management earlier. Why is that vital in a DCC layout? Well, Rick, I don't want the layout to shut down when something shorts the track. And to do that, I use auto taillight bulbs. Car taillights? How does that work? I go to the local Walmart and buy some 1156 taillight bulbs. And then I wire them in series with the track feeders. So what happens if there's a short when it's wired with one of these bulbs? Well, let me show you. Take this throttle and run this loco down the main here at Diller. It'll take this quarter and short the track. And notice that the train stops immediately and the taillight bulb comes on. But now a taillight bulb when cold has almost no resistance, so the train runs normally. Because it put the quarter on the track, the bulb sees increased current flow and it becomes the main load in the circuit. But it doesn't register as a short at the booster. Then when I take the quarter off, the train starts running again immediately because the booster never saw a short. That's what's so cool about the auto taillight bulbs. You can split your layout up into power districts with a booster on each district. This means that you need less amps and it helps isolate shorts. So only the power district with the short goes down and all the others keep running? Yes, Rick. It's the ability of the taillight bulb to keep a short from ever registering at the booster. That's the key. That lets you keep the trains running within a single power district, even if another train in the same power district happens to cause a short. Now how do you manage that? I simply cut gaps in the track so that each power district contains several train length blocks and then the feeder to each train block has an 1156 bulb attached to it. If a train happens to short the track in that train block, a train that's in another train block but in the same power district keeps right on running. Oh, because the power booster for that district doesn't see the short. Right, Rick. Any train that's in another train block keeps right on running, even though it's in the same power district. So it may slow, but it won't stop. But we'd like to see that. Sure. Rick, here take this throttle and we'll run another loco down the siding here at Dillard. Okay? Now this siding is on a separate train block from the main and the siding has its own 1156 bulb on the feeder bus. But these two train blocks are in the same power district. Now I'll run my loco down the main as before and I'll go ahead and place the quarter on the track and short it and notice that your loco keeps running. Wow, that really works slick, Joe. Yeah, it sure does. I've rewired the layout to take advantage of this sort of short management and I tell you the cries of, hey, who's short of the layout? They're gone.


much. I thought it would be nice to take you to sunny Italy to start our program. That was the first moment from Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony after his sunny holiday he had there. Although the snow is so gorgeous here maybe we didn't need that much of a sunny holiday. In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Crystal Awards the World Economic Forum has commissioned a little piece by British composer Anna Klein who's with us tonight. The piece is called Restless Oceans and that's a line from a poem by an African American poet named Audre Lorde. The title of the poem is A Woman Speaks and I think you'll be able to hear that title reflected in this piece. Thank you and I wanted to just introduce these wonderful musicians. Most are music students, several are professional musicians who've joined us for this special occasion and thank you all for being here with me. This is a unique experience for me and in speaking about Yehudi Menuhin of course he was such a an idol for me as a violinist growing up and I got to meet him. He heard I had a swing band for a while and he heard us play. I played violin in a swing band and he fell in love with it and he was so supportive. He even hired us to play for his son Jeremy's wedding so he was awesome in my book and we thought it would be only fitting really to remember him. I'm sure he's here with us tonight especially to hear this incredibly talented young violinist who won the 2018 Menuhin Junior Competition. She's gonna play the first movement from Mozart's fifth violin concerto. Please welcome Clara Shen. We'll close our short concert today with I think possibly the most iconic piece of classical music ever written. It's been used to sell every product I think known to mankind and still maintains its integrity. I won't tell you what it is but you'll know very soon. I know I know everyone's running to many things but do you mind if we play Anna Klein's piece one more time for you? It's only two minutes. All right awesome.


Okay folks, mid-afternoon update for TFNN. We've got the markets a little bit higher. They continue to move higher, we're going to go over that in the second half of the show today. We're down a little bit off the highs, but not very much at all. Treasury bonds have rallied a little bit, but still a full point under the high that we had when the Fed was out there. Gold is still under pressure. We've got down to 1963. We're trading at 1970 right now. If you sold that up around that 20-09 level, your first price objective would have been made, and now what you're waiting to do is to see the next retracement, which would be up around 1982, I think would be the 382 retracement on that. So watch that one very, very closely. Also, if you shorted the euro the other day like we suspected, we've had a very, very nice move down in the euro, and I'll bring up the chart here so you can see it. There was the ABCD up here, and we've made the 382 retracement so far today, folks. So that locked in $1,000 profit. I would certainly be susceptible to taking profits here because I've already done that, but anyway, that was a very nice move, risking about 40 pips. We made quite a bit more than that. They don't always work this way, of course, but when they do, that makes it quite nice to see them unfold the way that we're looking at them right here. So I hope that helps as we look at some of these things unfolding here because it's going to be interesting to see how the rest of the day pulls out. We've had a big move up in stocks, as you well know, since the 27th of October, and we have a lot of things up in this area cycle-wise that should be telling us, yes, the markets do for a correction in here. We had a nice correction in the S&P, did exactly what we thought it was going to do yesterday, went right down 30 pips from the high at 30 handles, and that was the exact 382. We'll cover that because it's one of the things we mentioned to the folks yesterday, we had several people on that to take a good idea of that right now. So anyway, that's what we're paying attention to here today. I want to get the old clock on the wall up here because we got 34 seconds into this segment. Jim Bartoloni was supposed to be our guest today, but Jim is really very busy. So we're going to have him on next...<PHONE_NUMBER>.


Welcome back folks to another episode of Let's Play, Dragon Quest XI-S on the Switch. Last episode we made it to Galopolis and we talked to a new friend, or I guess he's a friend, Prince Ferris who needs our help for something and he's willing to give us the rain ball in return which is, well that's a great deal, that's what we need, right? So we're currently in 2D mode and I think we'll proceed in 2D mode until the next checkpoint. You gotta kinda wait until you get to the next town in order to switch back to 3D, that's what I've noticed. So as you can see we are in 2D mode, very nice, okay so let's take a look at what we need to do. Look at this door is locked, that's one of the doors that requires those keys. So we need to go to sleep and meet Ferris at the tent, assuming that we saved and we are going to meet him. Let's go check up on him real quick just to make sure everything's set to go. Gotta say the 2D unit mode is really nice in this game, it's almost like if Dragon Quest XI was made in the 90s and it could have been right. So yeah we're meeting him at the circus. The circus will drown out our voices while we talk about secret stuff. Let me know what you think about this 2D mode, I think it's pretty great. So the inn, I hope he's paying for it, after all we're doing him a favor.  I always find it interesting that in these games for some reason the bank owners always know your name.  Like there was that wizard outside of the castle who also thought that, oh some pretty Betsy huh.  I'm just gonna rest for a while, oh that's interesting, normally when you say rest for a while they give you multiple options for resting. It's also interesting that it's all dark in here now, I wonder if they're asleep or something. Are they still arguing? It's the middle of the night and they're still arguing about him stepping in poop, oh yeah it's night time now, looks like we should head on over to the circus, there's Prince Harris. Alright the noise of the circus allows us to speak without being overheard, should we go inside? Yeah let's go inside. Circus is already started so we're gonna enter now. Wondering wonder who mazes audiences wherever he goes, experience like no wonder, so vando. Oh there he is, oh he sure is spinning around, isn't he? Oh he's juggling swords now, look at that, and now they're on fire. Oh no it's all going wrong, it's too hot to handle, watch out everyone, didn't happen in the original game, oh yeah it did, they turned to roses. Ladies and gentlemen, no need to be afraid, you'll never be in a dangerous adoring audience. Wow they're going nuts for him, a lot of cheering, oh he seems interesting. Alright so while everyone's distracted we're gonna talk with Ferris to find out what he wants. San National, yeah, yep he can't ride a horse, yep, so Prince of Galop was not to take part in San National in the year of his coming of age, unthinkable. Oh he wants me to dress up like him and pretend to be him and ride the horse because I'm a man of the world and I can do that. You're double? How's that gonna work? Won't everyone notice as soon as you walk home to the truck? The fates have provided that also. For you see the royal family always races in full armor, oh wow.  Talk about shameless, call me what you will, it changes nothing, you'll lose a fate, switch and take place in my race, no? No, a thousand fardens couldn't hear you, that was the crowd, yeah okay. Our horses are getting us a room for the night, we still have to pay for it. Alright evening at the circus, the royal dressing room, okay so we gotta head over to that royal dressing room, oh hello there, oh I'm taking part, oh her dad's racing against me, oh wow. Well that's exciting, oh hello, oh no his horse is not moving so he's not gonna be able to race, they're betting against Prince Farris, what is that guy saying about Prince Farris, okay I'm guessing he's betting against Farris, so here's the royal dressing room, we can, wait what if I try to go in here, where's my boy Faz at, he opened the gates for me, a horse is the night's best friend, yeah that's sure it's true, alright let's go, let's go for switch places with this, with this loser, my friend here will ask him about the branch, alright we'll, we'll take a, I'll take your armor, that's cool, I'm starting one of my men for you to wait at the racetrack, meet me afterward and pass everybody at least to racetrack, you'll get in the helm and no one will be any wiser, remember your Prince of Galapalus, your public expects great things, you don't make a fool of me, okay here's a funny thing, if you, even if you lose a race it doesn't make a difference, he's not gonna be embarrassed or anything, but there's special dialogue if you win though, is that Faz? Super clown, okay that's weird, so I was raised to win even when I race against royalty, so that's Faz, alright everyone's watching, there's so many people around here, that's the girl whose dad is racing, well he's gonna lose, oh yeah how is the race gonna even work in this version, 3D Angel Highness, okay, go race, there's my horse, I've never done this before in 2D mode, I've only done it in 3D mode, I'm pretty good at the 3D mode version but still, hello Galapalutans, this is our no ordinary San National um, oh they're just cheering for him, not bad, real life prince huh, Savando's pretty smart, see, so I had to step in last minute, Savando, okay, we're gonna be racing Savano, he's really tough at racing, I don't even know how to do it in 2D mode, like I've never done this before, so I'm not sure what to do, this is gonna be completely different, oh it's in 3D, it switches to 3D when you're doing, when you're doing the race then, look at the cape glitching out, there's Savando on the right, you see him, oh, oh, he thinks he's cool, all right, all right, I've got this, I've got this, when you jump over the thing, all right, all right, see, see, I know what I'm doing, I know exactly what I'm doing, oh no, no, no, no, no, it's not good, not good, okay good, if I bump into the pumpkin that's not gonna, oh wow, battle music, isn't it kind of weird that you're drifting a horse, all right, all right, just hug the corners, I lost the first time I did this, but I played the Dragon Quest 11 so many times, oh, I'm lapping this guy, all right, all right, we're gonna win, we're gonna win, yep, we won, we won the race, and Savando, we beat him, that was not bad, Savando kicked my ass the first time I played a regional PS4, but I win this time, because I practiced, I practiced for a long time, magnificent, he surprised I won, of course I won on the luminary, okay, of course I'm gonna win, adulation, all right, the cheers of his adoring public and all that stuff, well good, he's honoring his promise to get me the rainbow, uh-oh, he's barged right in, uh-oh, oh wait, he knew, look, he's gasping, he knows that it was me the old time, I took lobsters, can I ride a horse, is it Disgraced at Kingdom, uh man, because he's a knight and he's like lying, traveling jester, mock me, lecture me, and trip chillery, he's hiding me, Elton wishes to see you, Your Highness, your magnificent display of horsemanship has pleased him greatly, oh man, we're in trouble now, all right, well, just me and Savando here now, okay, all right, I'll stand in, I get it, by the way, you may not notice this, but the 2D mode is 60 frames per second, clearly it's a really solid 60 frames per second, I'm currently recording videos in 30 FPS, so if you would really prefer 60 FPS, I can do 60 FPS next episode, it looks nice, I gotta admit, it looks really nice, is this the guy who got hurt, who Savando had to take his place, that's a cruel twist of faith, uh, oh no, his replacement wrote off with all his glory, after Fazz withdrew last minute, we were all in panic about what to do, it was Fazz who got hurt, he's not, he's no knight, that's for sure, Prince Farris, he's an embarrassment to knights, honestly, him lying about this is not, what is this, substitute, oh they're surprised with Savando, Savando brings house down with stunning pre-raised extravaganza, wow, nobody knew Savando could ride horse, I wonder, wait, what is this, the knight's pledge, the knight's word is his bond, his kingdom is master, he serves the weak entirely, challenges a strong unflinchingly and never retreats in the face of adversity, wow, these are good, these are good lessons that Dragon Quest teaches you, you know, about being chivalrous and being heroic and all that stuff, let's go see the Sultan, because we need that rainbow now, truly I am humbled, all I have ever desired is to fulfill his duties as a prince, all right what about us, I'm sorry for the rainbow, oh what, they interrupted him, the beast is returned, Slayer Sans is back, why must the accursed creature always appear on this the happiest day of the year, it appears every year on this day, oh no, oh no, oh no this is not good, they're gonna send him off to fight the monster and he's like, oh coward, oh he's in a lot of trouble now, gotta go see him in his chambers now, talk to the king, he just rode horse, like riding a horse and fighting a monster of two different things, oh yeah you would gladly volunteer instead, everybody's afraid, all these people are saying that they don't want to do it because they want, they need to stay here, okay okay let's go talk to the prince, I think I know what he's uh gonna ask us to do, look someone ashen, oh he's, he's bowing, please I beg of you the Slayer Sans will tear you limb from limb unless you hate me, open like a true desperate knight, seriously you can't handle this on your own, oh man he's no knight, he neglected his training, oh man that sucks, you're no fault, first of all it is your fault okay, but I'm gonna say no, uh he's gonna bow again, I'm begging you, fine I'll do it for Galopolis, not for you, you better speak to him about that rainbow, I need that rainbow after this, but thank you excuse for prince, just sitting there in a little bore outfit and making fun of him, all right I'm gonna take this from your room because you're making me run around out of the iron broadsword, slip in your viscous, I already get that iron broadsword, let me see what he's got, bronze sword, bronze sword, bronco staff, Serena's wand, the menu system is very organized, do you notice that, I just want you to know I'm only helping capture this Slayer thing because you made the call, hey, now what do you say you made us again the castle gates, all right, I'm not making any excuses for Prince Farris, but what Serena said is probably true, I suppose we better make sure he doesn't get himself maimed or something, yeah we should probably go kill the Slayer sands just because it's the right thing to do, hey I was wondering actually, what happens if you change your outfit, if I change my outfit to Aids outfit, the Trojan bandana, oh look at that, it actually changes to uh it changes to Aids costume, kind of like the regular luminary outfit though, all right let's head on downwards, castle gates is where Prince Farris said he'd meet us, everyone's saying goodbye to him, all right buddy, yeah we're gonna help you, there's like Luke and HR, oh hello there, it's Silvando, he's gonna come with us, there's also something that's a good beast on friend, if I were you I'd run back to the circus, well aren't you just lovely patronizing little deer looking for the half blue prince getting himself killed, can it come with you or not, playing hard to get, I said no and he's like yeah I'm coming with you anyway, I was gonna get there, so if you talked to everyone, everyone thinks he's gonna do it, he's not brave at all, sign his autograph for imaginary friends, have you heard Prince Farris, yeah I heard, make sure I don't get in his way, okay I won't get in his way, let's see what happens then, yeah his style is that he can't ride a goddamn horse, okay, let's see what these people are saying, oh that happens to me sometimes, proof that I'm a raising expert, oh he said that he would win, what is this guy, Fazz's late withdrawal, lost him a bunch of money, so you notice something, when in this game after an event has occurred and you talk to all the people in town, every single person in the town has a different dialogue option, that changes, I think he's talking about Silvando now after the battle was over, do you see other rpgs that have this kind of attention to detail where every single NPC has a different line of dialogue after an event has occurred, it doesn't really happen like that does it, like let's see what this girl's talking to say about her dad losing, oh see she's noticing that Silvando's with us, say hello to her father, all right let's go, let's head on over, I would love to talk to the townspeople more but we got work to do, where did they say it was, head west, head west, onward, oh there's a campsite, oh these guys are tough, okay they're tough, they're tough, they're tough, okay that's not, that's not good, yikes, how are they that tough, they haven't died yet, I died, why the hell are they so tough, yikes, kill them please, oh my goodness, I mean it's a good thing the main character can die and it's like not a big deal, yes I'm gonna make a campsite, holy crud, okay, let's talk to the merchant, all right let's buy something good, I don't have any money, I have like no money at all, wrong medicine, yeah I might as well buy a bunch of those, okay those those those uh monsters were tough so we gotta watch out, I don't even have that much money, I might have to grind, all right you know I'm gonna use my spells this time, flame slash you guys, oh nice, nice job Veronica with your crack, why did Serena do that, all right we're gonna use my medicinal herbs, the west checkpoint, is it, yep we're accompanying Prince Ferris, all right let's let's head on over, oh the slayer stands runs it as our old times, all right let's just keep going, oh what is this, interesting this is kind of very interesting, he's a researcher from Sniflheim, he's got permission to investigate these ancient ruins, stars can be seen so clearly from the desert which is why I'm thinking he still needs to use for some sort of star related ceremony, isn't that interesting, Eric doesn't trust Silvando, all right so Veronica likes Silvando, what is this, this is very mysterious this whole place, don't you think it is, but anyway we'll head on over through here, all right you, okay I'm basically about to die, Rena please please heal me, she's she's shy box, Arboria's blessing, that might be good actually, oh what about Veronica where she have, okay let's do it, I'm gonna defend and Eric will flame slash this guy, nice this is really tough, well I just got killed, all right I'm gonna have to use flame slash on him, well they just killed Veronica, this is really difficult, I mean I did not think that the 2D mode would be so hard, we're literally all about to die now, what the heck, this is the original game I never died ever and now I'm just getting killed left and right, all right you know what we need to do right, we need this freaking grind now, I mean I know it sounds silly but we got, that's what we have to do, we have to grind at this point and I also need better equipment, why is a shopkeeper lying to me, I need actual to buy stuff okay, all right all right let's see the turban, that'll be good for me but it's really expensive, that's really expensive too, oh Veronica has a bunny ears though, okay the baby boar is better probably, yeah he does not trust Silvando at all, okay well what is this, oh well, oh there's some good stuff here, is there a door, yeah there's a door, I need the jail key for that, all right whatever let's go, let's grind a little bit, there's a taco there, all right just gonna do a little bit of grinding, you can just use flame slash, we're just doing this to, yikes, he's really tough, okay so let's press this one more time, he just killed me, again this adds some sort of added difficulty or something like that, he's solely crap, all right here's what we gotta do, you are going to focus on healing and yeah, all right let's try this one more time, let's get a little bit closer to Hato so we can grind a little more because I'm too weak right now to go uh defeat that sand monster, all right good job, good job, we're gonna make a camp actually, I need to talk to the statue and see how many more exp points, I don't know wait I'm gonna check absolution, oh I can do that, all right are we gonna get rid of the draconian quest because it's really annoying, I think we will, yeah I definitely think we will, so let's do this, it was fun for the demo but you know I think we're done with this crap, no more super super shy pox or any of that crap, okay so we're done with that draconian quest stuff and let's rest up, hopefully now the enemies won't be as tough, oh look at that, oh you're making, all right that wasn't too bad, all right we'll do sis on these guys, the bongo drongos, I mean this is a let's play after all, we're not really doing this for like the challenge or the difficulty, we're doing this to get through the game you know, as quickly as possible, so yeah draconian quest goodbye, forget you, screw you, how can beat these guys at brownies huh, look at them, they're pretty resilient actually, they're quite resilient, they're muster under strength which means I gotta, I gotta get knock them out quickly, he's tough, he's a tough one isn't he, victory, I don't wanna do handy heal all, everyone's, everyone's perfectly healed, that's cool, cacti balls, dizzying them, each part of memory looks like she's 183, okay, 111, oh evac that's gonna be useful, I think we already have that though, uh yeah sure, five points for me, Veronica's a lot, I can't believe I didn't use that yet, okay so the wizard wand, magical might, hypno whip, heavy wands, pieces of magical might, I already have this one I think, yeah we want this, magical might increase by 10, now she's way more powerful, all right she has four skill points left actually, yeah swords, swords for Eric, he has seven, need seven for this one which is dragon slash, and what that, attack when wielding, oh you want this higher then, okay Serena, she can give me magical mending higher wands, yeah this is better, so and then there's me, I already have that, not enough skill points, all right let's just get out of here, I'm gonna rest up and move onwards, maybe we'll be able to beat the uh the dude now, boss, active all, thinks he can beat us, hope Veronica doesn't use up all her magic before it's even time to go, oh what is that, a golden globe, like the awards of golden globe, um yeah I want to kill that golden globe, nice damage, all right I'm gonna use one more flame slash and golden globe, actually wait why don't I just use, actually just Sizz these guys and use Eric, have Eric do golden globe, why did you do Frieza, you're supposed to do Sizz, thank you, Serena dies, okay Veronica, uh he said I did not think they would be this tough, oh my, they killed me, okay we're all dead, no not good, not good, at least you keep all your progress, 200 gold, all right we'll move onwards, try again, try again, that's our motto, what about flea, oh that was easy, spit's fire, I don't have dragon slash, that looks like a tough monster, he doesn't have uh either, he's allowed to go twice, all right at least Serena's healing, that's good, okay nice we beat him, that was a lot of exp, Veronica just leveled up, bang, fizzle, there's a campsite right there, he feels a lot safer now that Silvano joined us, they were talented, there's Ferris, so me and Silver are gonna talk while I run sleeping, two boys and two girls on a lovely adventure together however I take, what kind of adventure, I need us a road trip, why stealing them that, all right big mouth that's enough, you don't need to tell a jolly just our whole life story, barely know, boring old stories, beddie buys, he just falls asleep, I think we're gonna switch back to 3d mode when we get to the next area because I don't know there's something about the 3d mode, it's like a lot more, where we're supposed to go right, no no upwards here right, oh flythons I remember these guys, yikes, okay, okay nice, I've gotta have squelch, where's squelch, oh there we go, who's poisoned, Eric, oh no, there it is, all right time to fight, boss fight time, the Slayer of the Sands draws in here, all right we gotta be, we gotta be careful, like we're gonna be using rubble rouser as a sigil that Eric can use, my magical might is not that powerful, all right so what if I use flame slash on him, and I have Eric do flame slash also, actually I should have Eric do sword stance, she should follow my orders actually now that I'm thinking about it, yeah, oh she has a lot of, she has a lot of spells right now, all right let's try this, nice, all right zap worked, oh he killed Veronica, oh my, no you can't just kill Veronica, but Veronica's always dying, hyped up, Serena I'll heal her, I'll have Eric do flame slash on him, nice, see they both heal each other, and now pet powers, care prayer, yeah that's a good idea, it should be Serena to do it though, all right care prayer, rubble rousers back, which doesn't really do much, I'll see that the defensive one up like crazy, all right, yeah now I'm going to be using flame slash on this guy like crazy, he almost killed Eric, heal him yes, you see that, you should heal him in one hit, all right flame slash, thanks, scorched earth, okay and I'll use heal on Serena and she can use heal on me, scorched earth, yes see we healed each other, we're so in sync with each other, you see that, all right uh who's popped up, Serena's popped up, 35 damage, thanks, almost killed our care prayer again and then I'm going to use abilities flame slash on that and then I'm going to use flame slash on him, heal yourself Serena, hey we beat him, Veronica died though, okay so 1440, wow not bad, so we we managed to beat the Slayer of the Sands on our first time on our first try, Serena leveled up, Veronica did not level up unfortunately because she got destroyed, yeah sure why not, wait a minute the one Serena right, there we go, you have eight so that means magical mending on wielding wands, that's what you want, Eric uh does not have enough, oh I've got some good stuff here, I can slash, I don't have enough for that, all right nice, nice job team, oh this is fun, it's my time up now, they saw what happened, of course your highness did, they saw me beat him, not the prince, taking all the credit, valuable contribution, yeah you better give me that rainbow, I swear, really princey food I think you're gonna play it and you think they'll be expecting you next day, oh man Silvando's guilt tripping him, well this thing feels all kinds of wrong, you're right Silvando, nothing's going to change if it keeps on pretending, he thinks the poor boy that knows well enough only needs a little push, okay so that was not bad and Veronica seems to be fine, uh bread winner for getting a total of 5000 gold, what's here, a yellow eye, and Veronica is very hurt, here I'm gonna heal her because I'm a good, I'm a good friend, see that, care, we share, we share and care and all that stuff so zooming to glablicity, all right that was quick, my fellow gole politens, pharise your prince, my son, our hero, has vanquished a slayer of the suns and as far as your love, your adoration, they gave me strength, oh my gosh, that's not good, we have nobody to be afraid, prince pharise will protect us, oh my, they're all, they're all cheering him on right in front of them, your people are white, show them, feel his desert now you become, a knight's word, what, his bond, his kingdom, his master, oh savando, he serves the weak entire, look at the, the monster is even looking at savando, he like turned over and he's like what, what are you doing here, the more, that's more like an appearance, if you want, do you want to be remembered as a miserable coward or a hero who died fine to the end, knight of a galopolis, oh wow, he's actually pushing him back, oh savando, jump right in and kill them in one hit, I won't always be here, mind you wouldn't be here tonight, so don't go forgetting, where did you become so well versed in the ways of chivalry, are you, a knight, oh is he a knight, he is a knight, who knows, it's possible, savando's a very mysterious character if you haven't noticed, we don't really know much about him yet, that was he, oh that's nice that they understand each other now, it seems you have learned something too despite your protestations, the braver you showed his word, they have a true knight, sir hentrick would be happy to take on one such as yourself, sir hentrick, huh, that's the guys chasing us, yeah, the rainbow, finally, the royal treasure, could you agree that they done more not to deserve it, oh of course, thank you, what, he sold it, he sold the rainbow, he sold the branch of igrezil to a traveling merchant, why would he do that, just for the sand national, he sold the rainbow just for that, so everything we just did was for nothing, gondolia, that's where the merchant went in this, oh thanks for the letter man, thank you, this is a waste of time, oh he's, oh no, all right apology accepted, it's fine, we'll move on, it's okay, crack shot crossbow, oh, did he just say that, I don't like this guy one bit, they're still trying to forgive him, he's talking to a cat, oh that's his pet, that's very nice of meow, wow, knight material, sure, I'll be a knight, yeah yeah, when I come back, maybe I'll be a knight, sounds great, oh this guy is made, whoa, wait, his nurse and him are dating now, a fondness for a cat named princess furris, so he's dating the nurse now, the royal records indicate that the rainbow originally came from dunderzil, but has been kept here in galopolis for many generations, oh so the rainbow belongs to me anyway because I am the prince of dunderzil, so that means that that originally was mine to begin with, so that's my birthright that rainbow, so somehow the king of dunderzil got that, I missed that detail when I first played the game, I didn't realize that the king of dunderzil had it, so that's where rainbow came from, really somebody found a really tall ladder, wow, even the cats feel entrusted by him, oh meow, I will defeat you, you will not beat me, taste my steel, all right not bad, not bad at all, yeah we are gonna go to 2d mode, 3d mode next, so I think we should rest, well actually let's see what we got, everyone's a full health, yeah everyone's looking good, prince furris deceived us all, I didn't think there was something different about him during the sand national, everyone was so willing to forgive him, yeah I guess so, oh these are his groupies, the girls who liked him right, let's see what they're thinking, we all saw prince furris when we wanted to see him, we knew nothing of his true character, when I saw the way he stood up to slayer stand everybody's, he is a far greater man, oh come on, he only did that because, yeah it was me, so, oh there's something princely about me, oh come on, first of all I am a prince, okay so let's not, let's not get ahead of ourselves, the kitchen is currently closed, oh that golden globe thing, I need to kill that to get him, to get the cactus cutlet, yeah sure I'll take it, new quest, a rarefied monster is not easy, you need to keep on, I've met one but it killed me, the rarefied monsters in this game are really hard to kill, they're like a different color, they're like kind of like a shiny pokemon, except there's, it's easier to find them, oh the bar looks way nicer than it does in the 3d version, oh hello there, yeah yeah that was me, oh wow more races coming up soon, oh she's impressed by me huh, yeah I do impress a lot of people, he's gonna go to the waves rave track, came all those wages to see him, okay you know I've had enough of this crap, people should be praising me and now instead of praising him because some creatures at the golden globule, alright let's get the heck out of here, oh it's savando again, you again, what do you want this time, oh don't be coy, I want to come with you of course, oh of course we told him about it, you seem tragedy, the savando once come along with me, oh he joins, he didn't ask, he wasn't even asking, he just showed up, that really doesn't take no for an answer huh, what's our next move? we get to atresil, when you need to get the rainbow and a travel merger took it to gondolia, probably hopped on a boat, fairy, little people, ronka probably got offended by that little person comment because of her condition, what's your bright idea then, the tip of ours might be more chic you know, and luckily for you I happened to pick up a lovely number in the end of season sails, well he has a ship, savando has his own boat, he'd be really willing to let us use our ship, oh gondolia is where his boat is docked also, five's a crowd, a maximum of four party members can participate in the battle at the same time, the rest will be placed on standby ready to be called upon when needed, to swap them in and out, change lineup, you can also change party members mid-battle, gondola is a long way, a horse hailer, horse will come galloping, am I able to change the 3d mode yet, let me check, push the 3d mode, okay so it's not time yet, yeah we haven't gone to that point yet so we gotta get to the next town, kind of don't know how you have to do that but whatever, let's move onwards so that we can friggin end this episode because I'm not gonna end it until I, I'm not ending it until I get to the next town, I'm telling you right now, yeah the random encounters is getting really on my nerves, I'm getting really annoyed by it so yeah I'd like to stop, cut it out with that crap soon as possible, okay there should be it, this should be gondolia right, akim, yeah oh he's a favorite ask, he has a sister named Akia, she works in a baker in the city, she's been busy and she's been unable to come home and visit so she wrote her letter, I can't leave, yeah I'll give her a letter, why not, she works in a bakery in the northwestern part of gondolia, okay, oh he saw a merchant with a colorful branch, yep the sultan's letter, all right well thank you, moving onwards let's go, no more desert just grass now, it's a long, long way, yeah let's try that, these guys are really tough, I hate these these guys, all right frizz, I'm gonna frizz him, okay nice, grab her, dab her, do, all right nice we beat him, are I gonna do handy heal, all right I'm checking the map, okay so we got a world map here too, that's the world of erdrea isn't it, that's cool and that's complicated, all right I do think I see gondolia from here, this is gonna be really tough, what if I leave, whatever run, flee, all right we'll come back here later, uh splattypunks, the enemies are blocking the way, are you kidding me, all right all right fleeing one more time, all right let me check the map again, going down up and around, yeah that should that should be the best option, really hard getting there, all right let's let's try some more time frizzing him, gonna do a flame slash on him and dancing, okay let's do a dance again, all right nice, ect up, okay so we up here around this corner, hopefully no more monsters pop up and it's just straight, gotta go straight down to, oh where are tigers, fizz them, we'll flame slash them, we'll fizz them again, come on die, oh they're tough, okay thank you Serena, all right we're gonna fizz them, nice, all right here we are at gondolia, that was a lot quicker than it would have taken in the 3D version, the 3D version took forever, wow this is gondolia huh, I heard there were some big scores that we had here, rich merchants from all over the world, what's it steal from, don't tell me you're some kind of millionaire, Ronnie darling, I like how he calls a Ronnie, that's a nice nickname, the merchant, the rainbow already left, that sucks, where is, oh yeah there's a map, I forgot about that, okay so the church should be right here, all right I want to switch it, I want to save it, completely different than arboria, I didn't suppose you might have to do a bit of shopping here, actually the country girl huh, all right let's switch to 3D mode, all right let's hopefully this will work, we can switch to 3D mode, going to gondolia, all right nice job team, all right we got our 3D mode back, yeah the 2D mode was really getting on my nerves a little bit, I was really looking forward to doing it but I feel like it's better doing it in one go as like a challenge mode sort of, I kind of want to see the cutscenes, so this must be where I'm still in Galopolis it looks like, wait but I should be able to zoom over there shouldn't I, it looks like I can't, okay so what we're gonna do is we're actually going to save here, all right so here's what I think we're gonna do, this is gonna be the end of the episode because it's been over an hour of me just playing dragon quest 11 and the time just completely goes by, so yeah I'll see you guys next time when we continue onwards towards gondolia in the 3D version just kind of just to get through it or I could skip, I could skip over there in my own free time, we can, we'll see either way, uh so yeah thanks for watching, see you next time


Hey everybody, it's Hari Swaminathan. It is Tuesday, December 8th. We are looking at the SMP futures here. It's a one-year daily chart. We're looking at, it's been under pressure all through the pre-market. It's down about 19 points and yesterday also was a down day, not a significantly down day, but also a down day. It's basically the vaccine. I mean, the vaccine news is good, but the numbers are not looking good on the COVID-19 and so that's the uncertainty here. If things will get much worse before the vaccine gets rolled out. Regardless, let's go take a look at our trades. Apple is recovering well. Chipotle is doing well. This is a $1,500 profit here and I think we can take it off today. Facebook also, Facebook made a big move yesterday and we opened this short call. Now, I want to do an adjustment on Facebook. I want to do an adjustment on PayPal to protect this profit. Shopify is fine. The SPX is going to open around 3670. Now, we've got a short put at 3630. So I think this can make a little bit more profit here today and we can probably look at it tomorrow. However, just want to keep one eye on this because if it starts going too much down, then we want to close this iron condor. So I would say that if it goes below 3660 or 3655, then it's better to close it out. But as of now, I'm not closing it. Tesla made a huge move yesterday and now it's going to go down a little bit. It's picked up a nice profit of 1300. So once again, I think it's time to take Tesla also off. The adjustments I'm looking at for Facebook and PayPal. Let's go take a look for Facebook. What I want to do is take off the existing 285 short call. You can see it's got a loss of about 350. And then I want to roll it over to the 290. So we'll close the 285 and open a new 290 in the 11th December, which expires this week. And meanwhile, the long call should do well if Facebook continues to go up. But we can recover if there's enough premium here to cover up for the 285 call. Similarly on PayPal, what I want to do is PayPal is an interesting scene. This is in the money as of now. You can see it closed at 217.93. But it may not open in the money. What I want to do is I want to sell the 220 call in the 18th December getting really good premium for that. And so that is the adjustment for PayPal. Now you can see on the swing algo, we have all stocks are in the very bullish segment. And so given that it may be a down day, I don't want to take a new trade today. Let's see how the day goes and then tomorrow we'll take a new trade. Otherwise for today we're closing CMG, closing Tesla. That's a good almost $3,000 profit there between them. And then I'm adjusting Facebook as well as PayPal. No new trade today. Thank you.