So let's just get this in this next topic out of the way because This is the only game Eric has played And that's obviously the premiere launch game once you switch Once you switch maybe no breath of the wild so Just just to frame the conversation a little bit Probably while it's currently sitting at a 97 on Metacritic it did go down a point after two Metacritic calls them mixed reviews The one was by Jim Sterling who gave it a seven out of ten and He looked like what people don't understand about Jim Sterling's radiance is that it's not like most of the industry A seven is really damn good Like that's really high for Jim Sterling And I know some people like oh, but he gave horizon at 9.5 because he liked horizon better Then that's okay.  It's not the end of the world but we've all played Zelda and Right now it sits as like the best-selling launch game in Nintendo history and Obviously getting lots of praise so let's just sit back for a moment and We'll keep it spoiler-free. You know full disclosure. I've beaten the end boss in the game Have not beaten everything. I won't I think I've just now passed 10% today like 10% of 100% completion So like I have a long ways to go to 100% this game long ways But I know Eric's probably just a little bit off the plateau and I don't have no idea how far Mason is Yeah, I'm past the plateau. I would say I'm probably 25 hours in just a lot of exploring rather I'm not too far into the story itself, but I've just done a lot of explaining. I've seen a lot of places so far So let's just talk about what How do we feel about this game, you know We've talked about it before like Eric and I've talked extensively about our e3 experience with it But now we have it. It's in our hands. The only thing preventing us from playing more of it is our lives So like Mason, let's start with you. What's your takeaway now that you have this game? Like like what what impression does it leave on you? All right. Well, the thing was whenever I got I was obviously really hype. We've been waiting for forever But whenever I started playing it, believe it or not, I was not a fan I'm gonna get like killed for that But hear me out like it was it's my first open world game like true open world And it was almost overwhelming in a way at the start I didn't know I was trying to advance to the plot and stuff and I was trying to get things done I had no clue where to go because you know, but as I played through I began to just learn The exploration is what makes this game fun, you know It's like you can't expect to just miss every single thing you walk past because look at what's all around you There's so much so much to do so much to see and all of that it's just like you can't not go explore and While you do that you get weapons you get food all this stuff that you can use to advance this story then after So it was just kind of a learning experience more than anything after the beginning I wouldn't say it was boring at the start It just had me with very mixed feelings because I want to like it because it was Zelda But at the same time I'm like I can't bias myself like that like be real Mason But I wanted to love it and as I play through more and more now. I'm just this game is incredible Yeah Is there anything you don't like about it so far? Um, that's kind of I mean one thing I really really wish they could change maybe is like for New beginners all the players, you know, I would probably in all seriousness I played a few Zelda games before this, but I'd probably use this mode where they dialed out enemies a little bit in terms of power like You can go and find I think his name's a lineman or something like that.  There's such a Distance between those and like not say it's bad because like I said exploration is a fun thing for this now That's that's probably what their intention was but it's just like It was very it's a very overwhelming game if you never played open-world. I think yeah Well, like I said It's a lot like Zelda one Very easy to die in Zelda one you don't even have a weapon right away just like in this game, you know And if you don't go down to the cave and get your sword you're probably gonna be dying a lot So And I think that was the goal with this game It wasn't it didn't want to hold your hand like at all Right, like you could go throughout most of this game and not even know you could shield serve Like it's crazy one of League's primary abilities and you could just like never use it because you don't know it exists So it is a game that doesn't do a lot of explaining I personally like it But I'm also a Zelda veteran. So like I don't want to be told things And I almost feel like this game This I don't think this game is to it I think this game is going to going to do something in Kind of ironic way because I think Nintendo built this game to be for hardcore Zelda fans and Ironically, I think it's going to actually expand the Zelda fan base like opening of time did Where you're gonna get a bunch of people who've never played Zelda kind of like Eric over here Into the game because of the kind of game it is like people who don't like Zelda or don't usually play it or going to play And I don't think Nintendo intended that with this game Based on everything that's set up. It's definitely for like Zelda veterans and yet every time Nintendo seems to do this That's when the series gets its broadest appeal And every time Nintendo tries to cater it for a specific like a younger audience as an example like say With the Wind Waker they chose an art style to try to appeal to children as an example It ends up doing the opposite and children don't want to play So it's a very weird thing that this is probably Nintendo's most hardcore game. Maybe they've ever made and You know, it's most serious game It's most lack of hand-holding the most catered to people who are highly experienced with Zelda And it's gonna be the game that appeals to more people It might even become the best-selling Zelda game of all time Which you know, it only has to cross like 8 million in sales or whatever to pull that off But yeah, I This game man Even after finishing the end game, which apparently there's multiple endings So I've been told It's just one of those things that I Have a hard time putting it down I will be like, oh, I'm just gonna play a half hour here. I look up and it's been two hours Because you just get lost in this world And there's always something more Something to see in the distance You think oh, I'm just gonna beat this enemy or beat the shrine to be done And all of a sudden you're about to shut it off and on the distance you spot something You really want to go check out.  I'm just gonna take 10 minutes to check that out and then Let alone it takes a half hour to find the get there and then when you do get there You got all these enemy camps to go through and like oh, I should stop like oh before I stop Maybe I should unlock that tower so I can get the math And then you fight the way to the top of the tower and like I know some people don't like the towers because it Apparently feels a lot like Ubisoft games where they have towers that unlock maps and stuff like that kind of like an assassin's creed But I think what's different about the Zelda towers is they made it a challenge just to even get to the top Whereas in like games, it's just you know, I just climb off the building and get as high as you can get to the top And in Zelda, it's like no you have to basically complete a puzzle to even get to the top You have to figure out how do you get around these thorns? How do you get around this gunk? How do you all you don't have enough stamina to climb from the bottom? How do you know how are you gonna get high enough up on it? To have enough stamina to get to the top if you fly to it You're gonna be using up too much of your stamina to fly to it So like there's just so many different ways. They made it interesting to get to the top of those towers Sometimes it frustrates me because sometimes like I just want to unlock the map. I don't want to do this Like I just wanted to spend two minutes on a lot the map I didn't want to spend a half hour to figure out how to unlock the map But again, that's not a frustrating thing. It's just This game grabs you and doesn't let you go And I think that's like my biggest takeaway after spending over 40 hours with it Is that it's so hard to put down and I haven't felt this way about a video game Years decades Yeah, I mean maybe Man, I'm trying to even remember the last time I got so immersed in the game that I could not put it down Maybe Banjo-Kazooie back in the day. Yeah, Conker's Conker's bad for a day after that Especially the first time through. Yeah You know, obviously opening of time. It's kind of one I was I still took two years with it So I obviously put it down quite a bit, but I didn't own it for most of those two years You know, even most of all the games they don't grip me or if they do grip me It's one of those games that by this amount of hours that I put in I not only Beat the game. I 100% of the game. Oh, yeah, like that. I did all there was to do And in about for a while, I'm 40 hours in I've already beaten the emboss and I have only completed 10% That means, you know, you extrapolate that 10% by time. I mean 9 times 40 hours, that's how many hours I have left to sing into this game before DLC even hits Like you're starting to talk about Hyrule Warriors kind of hours and Hyrule Warriors is most of grinding, right? Yeah, so it's like man You know, I'm gonna spend 400 hours the breath of the wild It's crazy. Yeah, but the thing is it's easy to do. It's not like it's one of those Things is you don't it's not one of those things where like in Hyrule Warriors. Oh, I gotta grind my character up I got a grind for rupees. Yeah, I don't ever feel like I'm grinding here. Yeah, I'm not you know Like yeah, I'm exploring and being rewarded for my exploration with better gear. I am Wanting to see what's over that next mountain range. In fact, there was one point I did this one area I won't I won't spoil what it is, but it was towards the edge of the map and One thing I haven't done is see what happens when I get to edge of the map There was a mountain range and according to EJ Noah, you see it. You can go to it Can I get to it?  Yeah, is this actually an island? Is there more going on? Is this where the DLC is gonna take place? So like I haven't even done that yet and I really really want to do that And I've said this before and I'm gonna keep saying it because the only other game I think has made me feel this way I've played a bunch of open-world games put lots of Zelda games You know got my witchers and my skyrims and all that stuff in my background. I Have never felt this sense of exploration with any game Except for world of warcraft the like vanilla world of warcraft And it feels very same except it's an MMORPG The point is is to do your do your dungeons, you know, do your raids have fun gear up Etc. Etc. But there was always this aspect of will a warcraft that I think went completely Unappreciated back when it came out and that was a sense of exploration It wasn't so much that I was always looking for new enemies I just wanted to see what was next what was over that mountain top or like they would be like Oh, we're gonna have this in this area opening up right for like the room and release a patch It's unleashing this new dungeon in this one area that you can't access yet well that area technically exists in the game is there a way I can find to traverse the mountain to get to it and Oftentimes you would find a way to do it. Do they want you to do it? Well, of course they did you kind of had a glitch your way in but I still did it anyways There's that sense of exploration. I want to know what's next. What's there? What's out there? and Zelda not only delivers that sense of I just want to keep going. It's they deliver the world size wise That doesn't that that makes me feel there's always something more there's like there's so I could be in an area I said the Great Plateau I can spend 20 hours there probably still find something new somewhere You know like like right before I left the Great Plateau Because I thought I had done everything there was to do in the Great Plateau I discovered a new coraxie puzzle that I didn't even know existed Like okay, that's crazy like I'm still finding new stuff So it's just a very interesting game And it's a very almost a unique experience as I said outside of World of Warcraft where I just don't experience games that make me want to explore it like this And I could talk about the story, but as I'm going to try to keep all the spoilers out I'll say that maybe for the review. I did reveal that when I do review Breath of the Wild I'm not putting like a big thing under the like I'm not doing that I can't talk about spoilers thing That's what pretty much all the 90 plus reviews out there. I've done so you don't want spoilers Don't watch my review. I Don't know how many spoilers are gonna be in because I haven't wrote it yet But it just like I'm gonna be talking about story and stuff in there because I feel like To probably review something. How can you review the story without talking about the story, right? And that's usually what people care about the most of spoilers So I'm going to be talking about story in my review, so I won't talk about that here But just gameplay wise You know what one thing I like about this game that surprised me The breakable equipment Yes, so a lot there's been a lot of hate going around for this breakable item system Especially early on because sometimes you won't even defeat one enemy before your bogey club breaks or whatever But dude I Love this system. I almost feel like all other systems are inferior to this and I feel like my opinion on this It's severely in the minority Um Just like my opinion of voice acting in the games probably the minority too, you know spoiler warning, I guess I liked it Yeah, I do too Well, I do too so many people like this is just bad voice acting. I'm just like, okay. Well, that's fine Maybe my expectation Maybe my expectation of a voice acting just aren't as high as some people. I don't expect this to be a movie It's a video I feel like Yeah, I was gonna say real quick Everybody was like I've seen people beg for voice acting in this all the game and then once they get it They're like so I'm grateful. I'm like, this is cool though, you know, like still doesn't talk He still has that character to him and it's great to see I'm sorry. He doesn't okay. I would say he does it in this game He does not physically like there's no voice acting for him I thought it was really that's why I mentioned I know that I totally just ruined it for me since like what? No, I'm mind blown. No, I'm sorry. I thought it was confirmed elsewhere That's why I mentioned it, but I didn't know that was a thing. You know, what's really cool about what this game? So in most in most other games, right? Link is just silent to be silent. It's just a gameplay gimmick for Creating a connection between the player and the character In this game, I won't say where I won't say how you find it out because again, I don't want to get spoilers But it does there's there's a part of this game that and you only find this if you explore right? It there's no cutscene for it There's part of this game that explains exactly why link doesn't talk in this particular game by this version of link rarely if ever speaks and It's an extremely deep Deep thing that's to do with link the character I Can't wait for you to find it out because it's now is when you post a little small video of Link with the Vietnam war stuff going on in the background because he's seen some That's not even why It's it took me a back that they put that they put this in the game Like as it's always just been a gameplay gimmick and in this it's not a gameplay gimmick There is a lid like the reason that he doesn't speak is just Man, yeah, I don't want to say it, but it is just When you guys find out about it, we got to have a conversation. I feel like you should just tell me like Actually, I'll mention something to you after this all over. I don't know anything Eric didn't a lot of talking yet. Yeah So you got the plateau yep in the first area haven't even got to your first village yet Nope What's your take away so far this game? Um, I kind of would agree with Manson that when you first start out You really don't know what the hell they do if there is so many opportunities to Do things that it's kind of like well, what do I want to do first? Do I want to do this first? Do I want to do that first? I I don't really know what to do first and so and then at the same point time that is a Good thing because there are so many opportunities Well, let me counter this for a second Because I hear people on the on you know, then maybe it's a little too free at the beginning The game tells you like literally you you walk like 30 feet. I don't feel this is a spoiler This is like the very beginning you walk like 30 feet from the game the game and a voice title says link Go to this place mark on your she come out. So like the game's giving you direction. You just don't have to do it. Yeah Yeah, no, I know but Yeah I'll give you that one Well, they like How the main quest works is always that way you always know where you're supposed to go next for the main quest It's just the game doesn't be like oh now you need to go there So go there now like in previous all the games would be like okay Well, you're supposed to go to this dungeon So just go there now and that's the only choice you really have yeah, and this game It's like oh, yeah, so here's some story and oh by the way, here's where you can go next for the main quest, but like Have fun. We don't really need to you you want to go help this kid find a dog. You want to go You know collect bugs you want to go you want to just go explore go with the nothing in this games Holding you back from doing anything you want to do And that's something I really appreciate But obviously I just want to get that point in that like I Feel personally the game gives you enough direction if you just want to do the main story Because you have no direction with side quests. Yeah at all Outside of in-game hints which again, I think it's another thing this game does brilliantly, but I'm sorry go on yeah No, you're fine Overall though, I am definitely still Impressed with this game. It is still meeting my expectations and exceeding them The more I get into it Yeah, even just from like it like e3 it is still getting better So that's kind of impressive because I know it with e3. I was really impressed so Yeah, I can still the craziness in me as I'm already beating the emboss. I still don't want to stop playing. Yeah, I Still don't even know the full story That's crazy. I beat the emboss. I know how it ends. I Still know the full story. I don't have all the memories done. I Don't know what I'm doing. Huh. Yeah, I mean I know what I'm trying to do next right now But after I complete that I don't know what I'm doing and even as I'm doing it I find new things I want to do like I already got lost in the desert. I got completely lost finding the Master Sword like it's scheme man this game So I'm gonna move on from breath of the wild because I don't want to get too in-depth Right now. I think there's gonna be a time and a place for us in the future to have a really in-depth Conversation on this and I think that time and place is gonna be when you've had a chance to be in there when Mason's being it when We have gone through enough of this world and there's been enough time. Let's say maybe a month from now Where I feel like look, we're just telling one right away. We're gonna be talking in-depth about our thoughts on lots of spoiler stuff But I don't think that time is right now. Yeah, I know you don't have enough experience I Have you have eaten boss and I feel like I still don't have enough experience Which again is why our review of breath of the wild is not being rushed. I am not rushing this this game deserves Real time put into it


Welcome Monet Café subscribers and newcomers to the second in the series I call Artistic Meditations. This is a chance for you to relax and enjoy the process of creating art. The full version of this lesson is over on my Patreon page, but you'll learn lots here as well. So let's get started and remember you can always substitute the products with whatever you have. I'll be using an inexpensive sheet of Arteza watercolor paper. And I'll need a watercolor brush, which is fairly large. This is one brush that I really love. It is by Princeton. It's called Velvet Touch and it's a size 12 long round. I'll keep some water and some paper towels handy. And what I'm going to be doing is creating a watercolor underpainting. And I'm using this set that I really like. It's by Me Lang. Somebody correct me if I'm saying that wrong. I've used this set quite a bit. The company was generous enough to donate it for a product review video and I really do love it. I like the fact that they give this color chart. I always recommend, even if they don't provide one in a watercolor set, to make your own. The reason is because watercolors look substantially darker in the palette rather than how they do on the paper. So it's a really great little set. It even comes with this little travel watercolor pen or brush and it works really great. Now this might look odd, but I'm actually going to be using a sheet of plastic wrap and some salt. Salt actually has some neat effects with watercolor. I don't have regular iodized table salt. I have Himalayan pink salt, the one on the right, and sea salt. So I just had to improvise so we'll see how that works. As with the first episode in this series, I'm using the color meditation deck again. This is a neat card system that will prompt you artistically. And I'm going to use the one card that says color schemes to come up with a color palette basically for my underpainting. Now it has lots of cards, lots of prompts and ideas to get started. And if you want to know more about this color meditation deck, go back to the first episode in this series, Artistic Meditations. Now again, I'm using the color scheme card and I'm choosing a triadic color scheme. It's a really great way to begin a painting. All it means triad, think of a triangle. You basically look for colors that are in the shape of a triangle on your color wheel. And I'm going to choose the colors of a beautiful green, orangey color and magenta. You can get creative and choose a different color palette strategy if you like. By the way, on the back of the pocket color wheel is a wealth of information. You can see all of the different color palette strategies get a little mini color theory lesson with your pocket color wheel. Now I'm going to get started and I'm choosing some lovely colors from the watercolor set. It's like a magenta and one that's a little bit more purple. And I like to go ahead and make some puddles, get it fairly wet and runny. I mean, this is the point of an underpainting is to have it loose and free and not tight and fussy. So I've got my beautiful magenta purples, my golden colors and a couple of beautiful grassy greens. Now I want to recommend you can follow my tutorial, you know, just follow along and do what I do. Or you can branch out on your own. And if you branch out on your own and do your own thing, I recommend that you give a try what I did. I did not pre-select a reference image. I simply played with the color. That's one of the points about this artistic meditation series is just to play. And so I did get really loose. I really could have used a larger watercolor brush, but I just had this in my hand. So that's one of the points about this too is pre-select your items that you're going to work with your products. So you don't have to get up. We want this to be an experience.  But one of the points of this is to paint for the joy of painting or creating. And we want to put on some soft music, make yourself a cup of tea. Find a moment if you can. If you're your mom with young kids, trust me, I know how hard that was. I don't know if I did much of any painting for myself when I was a mother with younger kids. But see if you can steal away a moment of time. So this is play time. I'm literally just playing with color and shapes. I did start to see almost like some flowers emerge. So you can kind of go with your gut, but mostly just have fun. Now I'm going to do something else to loosen this up. I just have water on my brush and I'm splattering water and what it's going to do, it's going to make these little dots and I'm going to sprinkle some salt on my surface. Now the whole surface is fairly wet still, but I also have those little water driplets in there that will make some interesting shapes. And now is when I'm using my saran wrap. I saw another artist do this a while ago and basically while the surface is still damp, you're going to crinkle up some saran wrap and just scrunch it up in some shapes and lay it flat and then wait for your surface to dry. And when it does, you just peel it back. And what happens is it makes some really interesting abstract shapes. Isn't that neat? I just love this effect. I think it would be fun to do these in multiples. Do another one. Do four or five of them so you have these surfaces to create paintings from that are very loose beginnings. Now I'm going to add pastel to this and I'm going to use the set that's called the Paris Collection by Sennelier. It's still one of the most economically priced pastel sets of this quality. I don't even think I used the Prismacolor new pastels I just showed, but again, use whatever you have. Now here's the reference image I found. I was seeing in the image that I painted with the watercolor like some large flowers. And this one had some beautiful flower shapes in it. This is from unsplash.com. And so I'm using this photo to inspire me. I'm not going to copy it. I'm just getting inspiration from this image. And now I'm going to do what I do all the time, which is one of the best ways to create your own pastel surface is to use clear gesso, not regular gesso. Liquitex Clear Gesso is the brand that I've been using for years. It has little bits of grit or sand in it and it dries clear. So you've literally just made your own little sanded pastel surface and it's going to hold soft pastels beautifully. I'm just using a foam brush and I'm brushing it on now. Sometimes watercolor will bleed a little bit like mine's doing. But to me, this just adds to the whole soft and moody feel. I only applied one coat that always seems to work for me. And now I'm going to use these little markers. You could use whatever little markers you have or you don't even have to do the stage. But it's Moigane. Gosh, I'm terrible with these names. But I'm choosing one that's rather fine, a very thin line. And I have the reference image in front of me and I'm just using it as a guide. I'm looking at some of the flower shapes and some of the shapes of the leaves and really just again playing and using my gut when it comes to my intuition, when it comes to where I'm putting things. And I did like how those large magenta shapes I had painted with the watercolor felt like a stalk or a stem of flowers and like the flowers similar in the reference image. And so I'm keeping this super loose, resisting any urge to get super detailed and just making some basic and very gestural shapes. I did like the shapes of the eucalyptus leaves in this reference image and I thought they made a neat kind of graphical element. You'll see me develop. Now that I have my loose sketch in, I'm going to tape down my surface. The reason I'm doing this is because I don't want it to move while I'm filming. I'm filming from overhead and sometimes I've moved my surface right out of the filming viewing zone. So now you would think maybe that I would paint some purple flowers or some magenta flowers with this mass of that shape I originally put down with the watercolor. Instead though, I felt like it made a nice darker contrast to make these flowers lighter. You know how I'm often saying we often paint dark to light and even with flowers will put its darkest element that you see in that flower down first and then gradually add the middle and the lighter highlights. Well that's what I'm doing here. I'm choosing to make the magenta color the base of some lighter flowers and I'm using some of these pretty almost peachy pink and whiteish. This one's more of a warm white here and I'm focusing on the general shape of the flower but not getting so carried away. I'm keeping my strokes almost linear. You know how a lot of times I'll lay my pastel on its side and I do that at some point in this painting or on some occasions in this painting but I'm doing a lot of little sketchy marks too.  So if you're a patron of mine you can obviously copy along with me with this reference image or you can branch out on your own and maybe use some of those photos as inspiration. And now I'm going to add some peaceful music for you to be able to watch the rest of this painting intuitive creation with a meditative goal. And even though this content on the Monet Café version is sped up with no commentary I still think it should be a wonderful painting experience for you. I hope you'll try it. Remember you can always slow down the video by clicking the gear icon at the lower right of the YouTube video screen. It's a little gear icon. You can slow it down and I hope you will try this. If you're a patron of mine, I know that I'll get to see some of your results in our homework album and again it's only $5 a month to become a patron if you'd like to pop in and join my Patreon family. Now I do ask real quickly, I have noticed that I have about 50% of the people or more of the people who watch my videos on YouTube have not yet subscribed so if you would do me a favor and go ahead and click that subscribe button and the like button, the thumbs up and leave me a comment if you like. That really helps YouTube to share this video more often for other people to see it. Alright enjoy this process, relax and I'll be back at the end. Also finish watching the video just by doing that that helps this particular video get shared more on YouTube. Alright enjoy, relax and I hope you try this yourself. I'm adding some final touches and punching up a few colors and I must say I'm so happy personally that I started this series on my Patreon page and also obviously sharing here on Monet Café because I needed this. Art business, being a full-time artist, I know we have these visions that it's just, you know, romantic life and painting all day. It's a lot of behind the scenes business and marketing and just too much to mention so I need these artistic meditation paintings myself but I really do believe that others are enjoying them as well. So let me know what you think if you'd like to see these series coming and here's the final, very fresh, colorful, loose, not overworked and just a peaceful experience. Alright everyone, thank you for watching. Please subscribe if you haven't already like this video and become a patron if you'd like for more content. I have hundreds of lessons on my Patreon page that have more content and goodies available. 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Wow, Trump Week this week, we have a million things to talk about. Tim Appichella and me. Hi, Tim. Good morning, Jay. Nice to see you. Nice to see you as well. Very important we do this work. But first, a moment of comic relief, you know, out of Shakespeare, out of Hamlet. A moment of comic relief. Watch this, this is on the internet, and it celebrates Halloween. David, this is what people in general are starting to think. This is a perfect Halloween celebration. When is your birthday, Tim? I'd like to get you one. Please don't, because you'll be out of office by then. It'll be passe. Well, that would be nice. So let's talk about this week. A lot of things happen this week. We are, you know, chock-a-block with things this week. I guess the first one is the one we ought to, you know, see as the most important thing not to be distracted from. That is the impeachment. What's the status? Where are we going with this? First off, you expect me to speak on a serious note after that video? Well, you know, the impeachment process is moving along.  And wasn't that an interesting read on what's not required? So he's trying to hijack the entire process, and he's trying to hijack the narrative, which he has actually starting to do. That's starting to happen. And that's, I told you, and we talked about this, is that that's the concern. If you give this guy too much time, you'll hijack the narrative and paint the picture that these are the Democrats that are just trying to basically have retaliation for the loss of 2016 election. You know, I saw the letter they wrote about Giuliani, why Giuliani was not going to show up or share any documents. And it was, it was prairie. It was something that a first year law student would write. And he just threw every objection in the book in there, and none of them made sense.  And that's what he said in defense of his contempt of Congress. My only view, by the way, just to a footnote to this, my only view is that Congress has the power to hold somebody in contempt. And one of the sanctions for that is to find that person, a money fine. And that to be a criminal fine, I think it could be a civil fine too. And if they find these guys like big bucks, that will sober them up somehow because that fine will last longer than their time in office. A lot of them are going to go sooner. And arguably, it's not something they can be pardoned for. You know, it seems to me that the Republicans get away with these kind of stern maneuvers, if you will. When the Democrats try it, it's they're, you know, they just don't pull it off or they don't want to pull it off. I think your comments are right on tune. If they refuse subpoenas for the documents or they refuse the testimonies in front of the committees. Yeah, start finding them. They'll waste your time. Right now, they're taking these ridiculous positions. They say that the whole thing is unconstitutional. That's what they say. I mean, it's like throwing it on the wall and seeing if it sticks. Well, let's talk about just for a second how many people are actually being, will either come forward or have already refused to come forward or have already tested. Yeah, please. You know, we're talking about Mike Pence now. You know, his involvement in this is starting to get in the airwaves. And there'll be a question whether or not those documents are going to be supplied by Mike Pence. It doesn't look like it's going to be. Oh, I'm sure it's not. That's the, you know, Trump has instructed them all not to participate. Yeah, Mark Esper, Defense Secretary. We have Russ, Russ Voight, who is the Office of Management and Budget. There's some documents that I'm sure he's sitting on that the committees would like to see. We have Rick Perry. We have, well, first up, before we talk about Rick Perry, Mick Mulvaney's name is starting to creep out now, as he back in May of 2019 started to orchestrate Rick Perry. He's a very important man, Mulvaney. Yeah, Kurt Volker. He's the chief of staff. Yeah, he's that, yeah. Kurt Volker and Gordon Sondland. The three that actually were put on detail for the Ukraine back channel communications. You know, what this tells you is that everyone around him was involved in this initiative. It was no small thing.  Everyone. In 1974, the title of the movie was All the President's Men. Yeah. The reality of what's happening now is all the president's henchmen. Yeah, it's true. Yeah, they're all doing their part. They have a loyal duty to do whatever the president has asked them to do behind closed doors. And they enacted it. History will not judge them kindly. Okay, so we did have a couple of witnesses. So who were they? What did they say, as far as we know? Well, we have, let's see, what did we have? We had the former ambassador to Ukraine. Yavonovitch. Yeah, she came forward. And a lot of them are saying, we don't care what your advice is to us. We don't care about your attorneys either accompanist to these or telling us not to show up. We're going anyway. So there's a lot of courage. There's a profile and courage for the ambassador. They go down well in history. And I'm losing her name. She was an aide and she spent nine, 10 hours in front of. Hill. Hill, thank you. Yeah. Fiona Hill. Fiona Hill. And what a profile and courage she is.  And at some point the floodgates can't be held back. Well, we don't know exactly what they said. It'll be interesting. And he's complaining he doesn't have a chance to cross examine them. He doesn't have the right to cross examine them. This is an investigation, not a trial. Again, remember. A trial comes later. He gets to make it up. Yeah, sure. And this is like the grand jury indictment. They can do that in private. Well, what I find interesting is that he's trying to use this as a way to, you know, derogate the whole process. But where's the stand-up to this?  Because you can't do that. I'm not hearing that. So what he's saying is actually catching traction. Yeah. I'm looking among his face, anyway. I mean, the knowledgeable people know that he, you know, Congress can and will and should do this, that the House can do this.  And he's lying one day after another. But you're right. Some people buy it. Some people go along with it. A number of senators, Republican senators have gone along with it. And they've repeated this.  Well, let's talk a little bit about what behind the scenes Giuliani's been up to. I mean, he's doing more. I never said that.  And he himself has an attorney. I think he just let him go. Was that right? Yeah. I think he just said, I don't need him anymore. Was that attorney that wrote the letter that I'm talking about? Yeah. I don't need him because I'm not testifying. What great logic is that? I'm in legal peril for contempt of Congress, potentially. And I don't need an attorney because I'm not showing up. Now, there's a sound thinking board. A lawyer, by the way, is practicing out of Florida, Miami, I think. Sounds like somebody Trump might know. You mean, one of the holdovers from Mar-a-Lago? Yeah, right. You never know. So, you know, I mean, the old adage, when you're in a hole, stop digging. And they just continue to dig. They are. They're making it worse. And this is clear obstruction now. And I'm thinking that there's no question there's going to be an article there in the articles of impeachment that include obstruction. And we have examples of it every day. So, the only question we should just discuss on this notion, the other question, is timing. Everybody says, oh, well, maybe by Thanksgiving, maybe by Christmas, maybe by the end of the year. As far as I'm concerned, this has got to go happen right now. For Thanksgiving. And the question is put in the debate. Before Thanksgiving. Is there enough evidence right now to impeach them? And the answer is probably yes. Well, I think they want to dot their eyes, cross their T's, and actually lay out enough testimony. Very succinct to get, you know, two verbose on this. It's going to be a nightmare. People won't get their arms around it. But I think they want to put out very succinct statements from all these witnesses and let that be part of the record before the vote is taken. You can overdo this. You sure can. And leave it to the Democrats. They will. If you give them the opportunity, they will overdo this. They've got to get some guys to work all night and pull together, you know, a memo about it and make articles of impeachment and then put them on the floor. Yeah. I've got to do that soon. I don't know what the big holdup is because the holdup works in his favor, obviously. And there are a lot of people in the country that feel we should resolve that, I don't agree with them, that we should resolve this in the election, not in an impeachment inquiry. And so the closer you get to the election, the more involved in those people, the more support those people will have, you know, for the argument that we should wait till the... But in fact, this is a judicial matter. It's a matter for the House under the Constitution. They have to act. They should act right now. Well, we've argued this point on Trump week four months now, you know. How far do you get into the election year? And you're still talking about this stuff. And to what degree do they say, see, it's a witch hunt. They're just trying to, you know, have me lose on the ratings and lose my voter base. And they'll play right into that narrative. They'll play right into it. One of the big failures of the Mueller investigation was it took too long and it came out to be a nothing burger. And he was diffident. He just never really addressed it. I don't think it was a nothing burger. I think there was 10 salient points on obstruction. Yeah. They just couldn't get their arms around it. Right. It was too convoluted, too complex, too long. Too much time went by. Yeah. And Mueller didn't wrap it up in a nice clean bow, you know, in a package. He didn't do it. Right. So that doesn't count. I mean, it counts maybe, you know, in terms of your perception. It'll be a side note now. It'll be an asterisk somewhere on a page on these articles. What counts is what's coming out right now and all these witnesses are supporting it. And I suppose maybe there's one more round of witnesses after the witnesses this week. But then they got to stop. They got enough. Yeah. I'm getting back to Giuliani. The two guys that can't shoot straight is how they're being described in the media. Igor Sormin and Lev Parnas. There's a third one. He was arrested in Washington yesterday. Oh, I didn't catch that. Another guy. I think he's Ukrainian also. And he was he was consorting and conspiring with those two that were arrested last week. They have Giuliani palling around with a guy named Igor. Cool. Yeah. Well, Giuliani into it up to his eyeballs. Remember, he got $500,000. Is it $500,000 from these two guys arrested at the airport? His company, so to speak. And that had to be money that went back to Trump. That was payoff of some kind. Yeah. Remember the one way to get that. He was the bag man for a payoff back to Trump. You know, having to do with Trump's efforts, Trump's release of the military, you know, military money to Ukraine. It was all kinds of stuff going on. But this gives that to what we're talking about. If you follow down too many rabbit holes, the maze, if you will, gets too complex and people lose interest. They can't follow the maze.  And it was hard to follow it. Yeah, so they got to move. They got to move. They can't let Trump command the agenda. Now, but Trump tried to command the agenda over this past weekend with his move on Syria and Turkey and the Kurds, which was, I suppose he tried to do that to get into the headlines. He tried to do that to change the subject. That's what he does. That's his MO. You and I have talked about that many times. But this was a horrendous mistake.  And it's irreconcilable now. It's unfixable. Yeah, it's done. It's done. We're out. Well, we're almost out. You know, he's sending Pence over there. I think Pompeo is going to. They're all going to trying to impose on Erdogan to have him stop, these incursions into Syria and the killing of the Kurds. They're going to try to get him to stop. And he's saying, nope. It's a full mission. I reject that. Yeah, it's a full mission. I mean, it's a waste of time. Yeah. It's a waste of time. They're going over there as a waste of time. It's visible. And if he really cared, he'd go over there himself. I have a feeling, though, he's been trying to call Erdogan. Erdogan's not taking his calls. I have a funny feeling you're right. Yeah. So he's sending these guys in order to direct some. But this is not going to come away. I mean, of all the distractions that you and I were talking about and trying to predict with Venezuela or, you know, all these different avenues for distraction, who would imagine, as Lindsey Graham has just recently stated, this will be his worst mistake of his presidency? It is a question because it destabilizes the whole region. So, you know, A, it kills the Kurds, thousands of them right now as we speak. That's incredible because they're our allies and they were into this with our blessing, with our help, with our promise. And there was footage yesterday on the tube as the Americans were leaving. They were hugging the Kurds. And it's so sad, leaving them to be killed. Thank you, Mr. Trump. That's so the Kurds are a sad story. And you had a quote about the Kurds. Well, I did because... Trump is trying to defend his action against the Kurds. Well, first off, let's go back a little bit of the time when this first came out. First, he said, I'm not abandoning the Kurds. That was one of his initial statements when this, you know, they started to take flak. I'm not abandoning the Kurds. Well, okay, he's way past that statement. Then he said, well, you know what? I was reading an article and, you know, the Kurds really never did help us in World War II or Normandy on the beach landing. Okay, so that was kind of like his next statement about the Kurds. So, you know, one of today, the Kurds are...  All of them are. Okay, all right. Okay, let's keep going. The Kurds are no angels. And here's the one that really kind of got me on this one. The Kurds are no angels. Take a look at the PPK. Now, the PPK is kind of their...  They won't, you know, they're kind of more of the extremists of the Kurds. Yeah, but that's what everyone wants to stop and kill. They want civilians. Here, in one sentence, really, Donald Trump has taken 20 to 25 million Kurds and he's lumped them all in one sentence as the PPK. How convenient. So therefore, if they get slaughtered, well, they're terrorists. They're extremists. Yeah, and not angels. See how Trump does that with the ease and grace of a magician? Yeah, and then he made some statement. I think it was about the Syrians, it was about one of the groups that's involved. He said, they like war. They're always involved. They've been fighting for years and years. We don't like war. They like war. They like to be killed. Well, he compared it to, they've been fighting for many years, like the Palestinians and the Israelis. So that was a quote this morning and then they've been fighting for a thousand years. So therefore, it's okay for us to just give up on our... We back out of the situation. We let it all fold in on itself and we let them continue to fight. Well, a genocide occurred because they've been doing it for a thousand years anyway. That's basically what he said this morning as far as I'm concerned. It's not like that though because the Syrians, what he did gives the Syrians an open road to the border actually, to Turkey. What he did builds a relationship between the Syrians, builds the existing relationship between Syria and Russia who would love to make us fools, Putin. It builds a relationship between Turkey and Russia. Russia wins. It becomes the honest hope that we should have been. He does weak in NATO. Okay. And of course Iran comes out ahead because Iran is involved. So he's destabilizing all these people and he is paying homage to Russia. It's funny that every time you look he's doing something that favors Russia. The guy has a thing about Russia and you wonder what Russia has on him because every move he makes it benefits Russia. That question has been asked for the last three years. What does Russia have on Donald Trump? Again it pops up. In any event he's losing a lot of support in Congress in the Republican side of Congress and I think in the country too because you can't justify what he did. There are reports that the Republicans in the Senate are starting to back down on that the criticism. They're starting to soften their tone. That's because he's working day and night to talk to them and to make a telephone call. It has an effect on them. The power of his personality and who knows the cult of his personality seems to be taking hold again. It has and obviously they're starting to back down from this criticism. Before we end on this topic I just want to throw out a couple of quotes that again it just shows how out of touch he is with humanity and how obtuse he is as he looks at the world and how he just by himself will pull out of these important regions of the world. One single phone call over the weekend he was asked about this thing about putting a knife in the Kurds back and the United States basically has done that. He said well you know what no American soldiers have been killed you know why that happened? He said that's why it goes. That's just the way it goes and that's the way it is we're the boss. So when there's pointed criticism and not only does criticism about how this looks bad how this compromises our allegiances with Europeans around the world and these are pointed criticisms and his only response is that's just the way it is we're the boss. Now that's an argument from a three year old. A five year old. And he seems to get away with this. People buy it, I swear to God it's amazing to find they buy it and his base is still apparently rock solid after this huge gaffe. So at the same time lest we not forget that he's still wrecking the environment he's wrecking our immigration policy he's abandoned you know Hong Kong democracy in Hong Kong Congress, the House passed a bill making it's not going to pass to the Senate but making it illegal to you know oppose the Hong Kong protests or something like that and that's not going to get through but he hasn't done anything about it he hasn't done anything about Venezuela he hasn't done anything about North Korea he hasn't made a deal you know I got a piece coming on called the art of the non-deal Tim because in fact he hasn't made a deal about anything there's no deal he's only on rabble deals whatever deal you can think we had before he's unraveled it so the art of the non-deal is in full play and his attack on the environment denial of climate change is all incredible how negative it is and his racial bigotry has poisoned the country so we can't forget that because that still goes on you forgot one item the wall in fact just recently opposed to the House and the Senate bipartisan effort passed passed a bill to say there is no emergency and he vetoed that and now there won't be enough votes to overwrite his veto but they did take another pass at it saying there is no national emergency at the southern border there's a national emergency in the Middle East he can create one like that there it is anyway so let's talk about let's talk about the debate last night I guess you'd call it the October debate there'll be another one in November and every month thereafter there'll be a lot of people on the stage so the Times had an interesting report ranking how well they did last night and Elizabeth Warren seemed to come out first and some others were successful I remember Amy Klobuchar which she was successful also Buttigieg was successful I don't know how Sanders is doing he's up there and Biden is up there but Biden doesn't sound like a president this is not going to happen he's losing his luster he's losing his luster what it tells us I think is that things are changing and they are going to change and we really don't know that Elizabeth Warren is going to be the candidate I think the people at the far ends Paul sees an example and a couple of others I think she did put a nail in her coffin last night she basically kept saying this was all about regime change you know going into Syria and backing up the Kurds was about regime change and it wasn't it was about basically fighting ISIS she's got a very odd view of things she does and I think she got hit hard enough by Buttigieg that basically I think that took her out of the running because clearly her repeated statements I think it was like nine times during the night she kept harping on regime change and clearly she doesn't either know or she wants to ignore the fact that this was not about that it was about taking on ISIS and having a partnership with the Kurds to do that I think Harris is out I had high hopes for Harris but I think she's out press was not kind to her either she did not rate her very high so the question is whether Elizabeth Warren was in this position and I'm not sure that she is Elizabeth Warren by the way wrote a tweet over the weekend supporting the protestors on Monacaia I thought was really uninformed what does she know about it well it's the underdog issue politicians love to glom onto an underdog issue that's getting some airtime in the papers in the newscast this is a popular thing to talk to another candidate I don't believe any of these guys can beat Trump and right now assuming he doesn't get impeached that's a good assumption given the senate so what came out a few days ago was that Bloomberg former mayor he's floating a balloon he's floating a balloon and if Biden drops out and Biden may Biden seems weak and undetermined somehow Bloomberg said he would come in and he would be a very interesting candidate in that field and you could say about him more than the others really honestly at least what we know of him that he could beat Trump he would be the proverbial dark horse candidate but at some point it's too late so when does he make that decision hopefully if he does it's before Thanksgiving because I don't know when the deadline is it probably is until next year into file papers and of course he has a certain amount of name recognition in the northeast I'm not sure he has national name recognition right okay so what do you think is going to happen this week Tim complex there's a lot of oysters in the stew here not enough potatoes you know I really I worry about the country I worry that these debates are not they're not really presenting a candidate that you want to vote for I worry about Trump getting away with it I worry about the loss of synergy yeah it's just again how much time go the synergy is lost the air out of the balloon is gone and that concerns me because this needs to be followed up rather quickly the stakes are so high do you think Nancy is going to go past Thanksgiving on this I do you do I think she's going to delay it until after Thanksgiving yes I think she's as much as said that this is a big problem and so if he gets the chance to do the agenda and come up with another Syria he'll try to make something good out of something bad he'll attack somebody to get involved in a name calling contest he'll find some dirt on any one of those candidates or on Nancy and before you know it he'll have the agenda again you mean the bright and shiny object yeah and the media will follow that and she was but you and I will see it clearly right we strive to we persevere to endure thank you Jim we'll be back next week with more


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Hi, and welcome to the session. I'm Shashi. Let us do one question. Question is, choose the correct answer in the following questions. If a is equal to matrix alpha beta gamma minus alpha, it's such that a squared is equal to i, where i is the identity matrix. Then a, 1 plus alpha squared plus beta gamma is equal to 0. b, 1 minus alpha squared plus beta gamma is equal to 0. c, 1 minus alpha squared minus beta gamma is equal to 0. d, 1 plus alpha squared minus beta gamma is equal to 0. We have to choose the correct answer. Let us now start with the solution. We know a is equal to matrix alpha beta gamma minus alpha. And we know a squared is equal to a modified by a. So we can write alpha beta gamma minus alpha multiplied by alpha beta gamma minus alpha. Both matrix are square matrix of same order, so their multiplication is defined.  On simplifying further, we get a squared is equal to alpha squared plus beta gamma alpha beta minus alpha beta is equal to 0. Similarly, gamma alpha minus gamma alpha is equal to 0. And last element is alpha squared plus beta gamma. Now we are given in the question that a squared is equal to i, where i is the identity matrix. So we can write a squared is equal to this matrix. So alpha squared plus beta gamma 0 alpha squared plus beta gamma is equal to matrix 1, 0, 0, 1, that is identity matrix. So on comparing the corresponding elements of the matrices, we get alpha squared plus beta gamma must be equal to 1. This further implies 1 minus alpha squared minus beta gamma is equal to 0. So our required answer is c. As the equation in the c part is 1 minus alpha squared minus beta gamma is equal to 0, which is same as we have obtained in the answer. So c is our required answer. This completes the session. Hope you understood the session. Take care and goodbye.


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He didn't know these unusual holes would lead him to a mysterious discovery. Old houses can sometimes be full of secrets you'd never expected, whether that be secret rooms or hidden passageways, or sometimes things you never wanted to find in the first place. Sometimes hidden things should remain hidden, and other times you might just stumble onto hidden treasure worth a fortune. Wouldn't you want to know exactly what's going on in your own home? This man certainly did. He found something in his storage unit that captivated the internet, and he captured it all on camera. It all started one day when a man, known only by his YouTube username Cyrex686, started looking around his home. He had always noticed that there were strange markings on the wall, but he had no clue what they meant or why they were there. He asked around his building, and he also asked his friends to take a look at the markings on his wall, but no one had any inkling of what they were. For some strange reason, Cyrex686 couldn't get the markings out of his mind. The markings on his wall were circular, and there was more than just one. There were two smaller ones and one large one. Perhaps large enough for a person to fit into. Strangely, it appeared that something had once been there. Cyrex686 thought that the two smaller circular markings might have been pipes that were filled in. But they weren't filled in well enough to hide their outlines from plain sight. His gut told him that there was something going on behind the wall, but little was expecting what he'd eventually find. After a while, Cyrex686's curiosity got the best of him, and he made a decision that few others would have made in his position. He was going to find out what the markings were, and if there was something behind his wall. And better yet, he decided that he was going to document the entire process and upload the video to YouTube for the entire world to see. But what he would find would only raise more questions than answers. He hadn't noticed or paid much attention to the holes when he first moved in, but now they were taunting him. Unsure of what he would potentially discover, he prepared to film what he was about to do. The holes were sitting there in his house just begging to unveil their secrets. So Cyrex686 decided that he was going to dig deeper and deeper, until he uncovered the real story behind the perplexing markings on his wall. Surprised that he hadn't noticed the closed over circular holes earlier, Cyrex6868 decided to take matters into his own hands and find out just what they were. He knew that he was on the brink of discovering something incredibly interesting. That's when Cyrex686 went to go find his drill, and get to the bottom of the mystery of the strange circles. He started drilling one of the smaller holes first, and he was very surprised at what he immediately found out. Cyrex686 hadn't been expecting to find something so quickly. But after just a short while he curiously found that inside the circle was wood. It was particularly odd as the rest of the wall was made of concrete. This just sparked his interest further. Why had these holes been plugged up? Just by tapping on the holes, Cyrex686 could tell that they were hollow on the inside. That development increasingly made him wonder whether they were just pipes, or if they lead to something bigger and more mysterious. Cyrex686 immediately knew that he had stumbled onto something big and exciting. He ran off to tell one of his friends about the strange discovery. At first, the friend didn't believe him, but then he saw the hole for himself. The two friends banded together determined to find out what the hole led to, and what was behind the wall. They were finally able to extract a wooden plug filling one of the holes and shine a flashlight in the empty space to get a better look. Cyrex686 wasn't able to see much through the small hole in the wall, but he could tell that there certainly was something behind the wall. Hidden. Perhaps for decades. But that begged the question, just why had the space been sealed shut? Perhaps there was a very good reason why the space had been closed up, locked tight away from the rest of the building. But that wasn't about to stop Cyrex686 from going forward and trying to open the larger hole, the one a person could fit through. The building that Cyrex686 was living in was centuries old. It had once been used as an industrial factory. Surely in a building that old, that had been renovated so many times, there were bound to be a few secrets hanging around. Even though Cyrex686 could see through the hole with a flashlight, he still couldn't tell what kind of secret was waiting for him behind the wall. But he was determined to find out, no matter what. Even if it cost him dearly. What cost might there be in opening a hole in the wall of your home you might ask? Well, the place where Cyrex686 was living wasn't exactly a home, it was a storage unit. And also, it wasn't his. He was only renting the place. Cyrex686, assumingly, hadn't asked permission before he started drilling holes in his wall, something that is certainly against his rental agreement with the landlord of the building. If discovered, he would possibly be thrown out of the place. Or even fined. By this point, Cyrex686 had uploaded one video recording of his mysterious discovery, and subsequent dig to YouTube. As the videos started to gain attention, viewers started leaving him comments of warning about his unusual excavation work. Many YouTube commenters wished Cyrex686 luck in getting his security deposit back if he got caught. If the landlord got wind of what was going on in his building, he might be inclined to stop the project, leaving Cyrex686 to forever wonder what was behind the wall of his rented storage unit. But would that be his fate? Luckily for him, the landlord apparently never caught on to what Cyrex686 was doing in his storage unit, despite the drilling and loud banging. And soon enough, the hole was large enough for a person to fit through. However, he never could have expected what he was about to find. Cyrex686 had expected that the circular markings on his wall would turn out to be nothing more than some pipes that were no longer in use and plugged up. But when he looked inside the now massive hole, he received the shock of his life. Cyrex686 was amazed to find that behind the wall was a cavernous room. It was completely pitch black, and even with the help of his flashlight, he could barely see anything. But he knew that he had stumbled onto something big. Unsatisfied by what he could see from the comfort of the inside of his storage unit, he decided to do the unthinkable. He wanted to go into the hole. So, without knowing what was on the other side, he entered the mysterious hole, legs first. Cyrex686's friend had been recording the entire event. After posting the video that showed him drilling the hole, a second video was now uploaded to YouTube, showing him going into the hole. Viewers of the first part had been waiting in suspense until now, speculating as to what might actually be behind the structure. Not knowing what might be behind the wall, and not really being able to see with his flashlight into the dark void, Cyrex686 was talking a risk. A risk with his own light should something dangerous be in the dark passageway. YouTube commenters were very intrigued by the first part of the video, leading them to guess for themselves on what the space might have been used for in the past. Some of the comments seemed fairly reasonable, while others left the public with grand visions of imagination. One of the most popular lines of thought was that the secret chamber had been used to make illicit narcotics. After all, it would be a perfect space for someone to do illegal activities and hide their tracks later on. But that wasn't all. As Cyrex stumbled through the dark chamber with a small flashlight, he hoped that he wouldn't encounter any illegal activities, past, present or future. Commenters also speculated that the room could have been used for as a torture chamber. After all, why else would someone seal off an entire room? Many guesses suggested the mysterious room had been used for something valuable in terms of real estate for the landlord, such as an additional rental space. Incredibly, though, all those guesses would turn out to be incorrect. One of the more far-fetched ideas that the commenters had was that Cyrex 686 had uncovered some type of satanic lair, and possibly, at the same time, was releasing evil spirits or ghosts. But there turned out to be nothing of the sort waiting in the chamber. Finally, Cyrex 686 had made it inside the dark chamber. There was no wind or light inside the room, indicating that it had been sealed off from every side. The room was large enough to fit multiple people. But still there was no indication of what it was used for. Cyrex 686 made his way around the dark room, exploring every nook and cranny. He found a few items that he found peculiar. There was a pipe on the floor, but it wasn't connected to anything. Even more peculiar still, he also found a hook attached to the ceiling. There was no evidence that the room had been used recently. How terrifying would it be to find out someone had been living in the dark chamber, just inches away from your home? But still, there were strange markings on the walls that he just couldn't explain. The markings on the wall were lines, running horizontally up and down the room, on all sides, were lines. Each line was a slightly different color than the last. Was this finally a hint that would finally reveal what the room was used for in the past? By this point, Cyrex 686 was totally stumped about what the purpose of the hidden room. However, he had an abundance of guesses and speculation at his disposal. So he looked to the YouTube comments to see if they could help him figure out what the room had been used for. Another popular theory among the YouTube users was that the room had been used as a secret grow room for marijuana. There were pipes in the ceiling that looked like they could have been used for ventilation before they were closed up. But that theory just didn't hold up. There were no electrical outlets in the room, and still, that didn't explain the odd markings on the wall. Even though Cyrex 686 was finally able to get inside the room, he was still no closer to discovering what the room had been actually used for. The room was largely bare. Apart from a pipe on the floor and a hook on the ceiling, there was no evidence left behind in the room to explain what it had been used for. Much to the chagrin of the YouTube commenters following his progress, there was no evidence of illegal activities. The lack of clues that could point to an ominous purpose for the hidden room only raised more questions and curiosity. Still, Cyrex 686 was intent on figuring out what the room was used for, no matter what. So far, none of the theories had panned out. But one big hint still remained. The strange lines that marked the walls from top to bottom. What were they? Why were they there? This would be the clue that would bust the whole mystery wide open. At first, Cyrex 686 thought that the room might have been used as a storage facility, but that didn't make sense. And that's when it dawned on him. He had finally figured out what the strange lines on the walls were from. The strange lines on the walls were actually markings made by liquid. They were all over the wall to indicate the changing levels of the liquid over time. He thought that the secret room had possibly been used for sewage. That would certainly explain the reason that there were no entrance points into the room if it had been used as a storage tank for liquid. But that wasn't exactly the real answer. The secret room behind the hole had actually been used for something else completely. With the help of some friendly YouTube comments, Cyrex 686 learned that the secret room was actually most likely a cistern, a tank used to hold water, used when the building was an industrial factory over 100 years ago. Cisterns were widely used before the time that man invented indoor plumbing. The cistern would collect rainwater and store it in a tank for later use. The strange markings on the walls inside the secret room were actually from water levels rising and falling. But why had it been mysteriously sealed off? The cistern could be put back into use, but modern technology rendered it essentially useless. Many people commented that in older buildings, especially industrial ones, things like cisterns can be found. As they are no longer needed they are simply closed. The cost of removing the cistern would have been much larger than just closing it off.   So now what would he do? Even though many people who followed the suspenseful developments were amazed and inspired to search their own houses for secret rooms, there were of course, the naysayers who criticized what Cyrex 686 had done to his residence. But why? Many of the YouTube commenters criticized what Cyrex 686 did because he had made a huge hole in the wall of his residence without permission. Many people couldn't believe that his actions weren't initially discovered. Still no one could have guessed what his landlord would eventually do. It might amaze you to hear, but Cyrex 686 actually did receive his security deposit back from the landlord. Or at least he claimed as such in a YouTube comment. As it turned out, his landlord didn't mind the holes at all. In fact, the landlord was probably just as interested to find out what was behind the wall as his tenant was. Maybe now he can do something with the room, like renovate it or lease it out as another storage space. But Cyrex 686's story doesn't end there. The videos of his exploration of the mysterious holes have gained millions of views since they were first uploaded in 2011. Cyrex 686 has since moved out of the storage unit into a house. His curiosity was still as strong as ever, and he decided to explore the new house for any possible hidden secret stored away through the ages. What are the chances that he would make two amazing finds in his lifetime though? If you think that surely there aren't many houses that have hidden secrets like the water cistern in the industrial building, then you're in for a surprise. Cyrex 686 ended up finding a secret door in his new house. It had long been painted over and was stuck shut. But as we all know, nothing was going to stop him from getting that door open and finding out what was inside. Surely he was hoping this time to finally find some valuables, but that wasn't the case. After finally prying the door open, inside there was a number of paint cans. The room had been used as a storage area long ago. Cyrex 686 hasn't been the only one to find amazing hidden discoveries in his home. A man in Turkey was renovating his house, which required him to knock down a wall in the basement when he found something changed history. What started off as just a tunnel, became much more and surprised historians everywhere. It turned out that he had uncovered something thousands of years old, and the location quickly became a national treasure. It's even a museum now. So check it out here.


So as you probably have heard, the Russian army has been amassing for the last two weeks where there's been almost no action in Ukraine, except in Mariupol, where the Russians are slowly gaining ground and slowly taking over the city. And the Ukrainians are just heroically and resisting the Russians. But the Russians have taken their troops out of northern Ukraine and moved them all to the east. And today it looks like they launched a massive attack along the entire eastern front of Ukraine from, I can't remember the name of the city, kind of in the center all the way south throughout the Donbass area. This is an area the Russians claim once autonomy from Ukraine. This is an area dominated by ethnic Russians. And this is the whole Donbass area. And this is Ukrainian territory. The Russian has no claim against it, has no legitimate claim against it. Joe, thank you, really appreciate it. I will definitely answer the question soon. And they are the fresh because they've been resting up. They brought in new forces. They brought in forces from the north that were devastated, but the remnants of them. They've also brought people in, I think, from different parts of the Russian, from Russia itself, to reinforce the troops. And they have a lot of firepower, a lot of forces arrayed. The Ukrainians are super motivated. And as I've told you earlier, I think motivation is super important. I think the atrocities that the Russians committed in north of Kiev, the killing of women and children and civilians, the raping of women, the maiming of people just cutting them up and body parts. On the other hand, the amazing heroic resistance of Ukrainian forces in Maripole all, I think, will inspire the Ukrainian forces to fight even harder, to be motivated even more than they were before. The Ukrainians clearly have something to fight for. They're fighting for their homes, their families, their land. And they're fighting against evil. And now they've seen evil. They've seen evil in the nakedness of evil. They've seen evil manifest itself in the Russian atrocities all over Ukraine wherever they've touched. And they've also experienced victory, the victory in the north stopping the Russians from taking Kiev. And of course, in the sinking of the Russian flagship, the Moskva. Moskva is basically Moscow. This was the pride of the Russian Black Sea fleet. This was a flagship. Thank you, Sam. Appreciate the support. This was the flagship. This is the ship that those soldiers told to F-off at the beginning of the war. This is the ship that represented Russian supremacy on the Black Sea. And it got hit, it appears, by an anti-ship missile launched from Ukraine, from the shore. It probably hit one of their ammunition rooms, started a fire, and ultimately the ship literally sunk. To this day, we don't know how many of the onboard sailors actually drowned, actually were killed, because Russia won't release that number. There's just been no talk of it, but clearly many of them did. And the fact that it just wasn't just hurt, it wasn't just crippled, it was literally sunk is quite an amazing feat. And again, a testament, I think, to the Western weapons systems that the Ukrainians are using, this was a Western, as far as I know, it was a Western anti-ship missile that sunk the Moskova and more evidence, as if we needed one, that Western weaponry, Western weapons systems, just a dramatically superior to anything that the Russians can master to the superiority of numbers, the superiority of firepower, the Western weapons systems, just defeat them time and time again. PR says the only world in which you could implement Iron Man's ideology, the libertarian ideology, is a world in which Putin wins. PR, you don't understand Iron Man's philosophy, you don't understand free markets, and you have no conception of who Putin is or what he is if you think that.  Sam?  Didn't Sam shake some sense into you? I don't know who Sam is. So Ukraine is going to hold on here. It's not going to be easy for them. They're going to take massive casualties. So is the Russians. I don't think Ukraine has the capacity because it doesn't have the firepower to take back much of the lands that have been taken from it. They have tried, particularly in the Gerson area, in the area of the south-central Ukraine, and they have not been overly successful there. And I doubt that they have enough to be able to really push the Russians back into Russia. But I do think that they have enough to withstand the Russian assault and to inflict massive casualties in Russia. And look, Russia's already lost, as I told you on day, I don't know, five of this war. No matter what happens, Russia's lost. The latest significant evidence of the loss of Russia is the fact that both Finland and Sweden are considering joining NATO, not considering a likely, very likely, the summit to join NATO. I mean, if Sweden and Norway join NATO, this war will be one of the greatest strategic blunders in military history. And this is Putin, the strategic genius. And it will extend NATO's border with Russia significantly. It will place the Swedish military, which is a very well-trained, very effective military. It has a Sweden, I don't know if you guys know, but Sweden has a military industrial complex. It produces military equipment, very good military equipment. It will place that industry at the behest of NATO. Finland, which has fought Russia in the past, has a very motivated, very lethal military force. Again, that force will now be at the disposal of NATO. This will be a massive, massive strategic blunder. And it already is. So basically all Putin has managed to achieve in this war is to unite Europe against him and to bring Sweden and Finland into NATO, which will be huge. So he's already lost the war, no matter what happens on the frontier. But I expect, yeah, Putin is a massive looter. Leon, thank you. Wow. So I appreciate that. So we are now at $600. Thank you, guys. Anything above this is kind of to compensate for the few shows that I've done. But of course, I don't deserve it if I do so few shows. But keep it coming. It'll be great to have a good month in spite of the fact that I did so few shows. And let me also say, I know I owe at least two Iran rules for life shows, and I will make those up. I'm not exactly when, but I'm keeping count of the ones I owe and I will make them up. So it's $651. Ukraine has received a lot of Western equipment during this lull in fighting over the last three weeks. I expect that equipment to be well used in the east. I expect the Ukrainian forces are being reinforced by fighters from the north. So not only did Russia reinforce its forces, so did the Ukrainians. I expect the Ukrainians to continue to pound on the supply problems, the logistic problems that the Russians had in the north, and I suspect we'll have in the east. I don't think strategy. I don't think Russia has hired any brilliant new generals. I don't think they have any new fantastic tanks. They don't have any new weapons systems that we didn't know about. So I expect that Ukraine is going to put up a real fight. I expect that Ukraine will hold its ground. They might be defeated here or there, but overall, I think they will be holding its ground. They might take some ground from the Russians. It's going to be brutal. It's going to be bloody. It's going to be massive casualties. And Russia will lose. Russia will lose because they already have lost. And because the longer this goes, the greater the embarrassment and humiliation is for the Russians. And note, for example, that we haven't heard much from China about its support of Russia in recent weeks. And that's because China has, to a large extent, backtracked from supporting the Russians, another Russian significant Russian loss. So again, I think everything I said in the first day of this war continues to be true. I don't think anything has changed. We will watch closely to see what happens with this new front opening up. Ashton, thank you. Wow, Ashton's being a terrific supporter of the show the last few weeks. This is terrific. Thank you. And Taze, thank you as well. So yeah, I will keep track. I'll update you. If anything changes, we'll update you as fighting continues on the Eastern Fronts. If the dramatic change is either way, I do not think Putin will result in nuclear.  Remember, I was wrong when it came to my estimation of Putin invading Ukraine. I did not think he would do it. I was wrong on that. I could be wrong on the nuclear option. But the nuclear option really is a nuclear option. And I wouldn't be surprised if he used gas. But nukes are very difficult to control, very difficult to basically control how they're used, where the radiation goes, who gets suffered, and how do you stop it from deteriorating from just a local nuclear tactical thing into a massive World War III. Thank you for listening or watching the Iran Brook show. If you'd like to support the show, we make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me. You get value from listening. You get value from watching. Show your appreciation. You can do that by going to iranbrookshow.com slash support.  Also, if you'd like to see the Iran Book Show grow, please consider sharing our content and of course, subscribe. Press that little bell button right down there on YouTube so that you get an announcement when we go live. Those of you who are already subscribers and those of you who are already supporters of the show, thank you. I very much appreciate it.


Hey everyone, SheaBear1000 here today. On this 2010 Chevy Traverse we're going to be putting in one of these. This is the sprayer. This sprays windshield washer fluid up on your windshield. The one on the passenger side broke. Not sure why but it did. Here a while back. And so I ordered a couple. You get two in a pack they were like eight or ten dollars. So we're gonna put this in there and I'll show you where it goes and I'll show you how this goes in. Okay so we're on the hood. This is going to go in here like that. There's the original right here on this side. So we're gonna put this in. I may change that one. I'm not sure. It does work fine but this one's gonna be shinier. So let me get the hood up and I'll show you what we got to do to get this to put this in there. So what we're gonna have to do we got to peel. This is to help with flames if you have an under the hood fire. It kind of helps stuff the flames out. Your car may be already missing it. This one's still in good shape. So right here we have a plastic plug that we've got to pull out. Now they make tools for these. I can't find my tools so I'll show you how I do it. If they break don't be alarmed because they might break. But I'll show you how I'm going to do it. You can use a screwdriver. Sometimes you can get a pair of needle nose in there and pop that out. We're only going to have to do this one to get up inside of here because this will peel back a little bit. So I got a pair of these needle nose pliers. I'm just going to go right up in there on either side of the post or show you when we get it off of here. Alright let me pick that up. So this is what it is. And what I did was I got up underneath there and went on either side of that post and just pried it out like that. So that's pretty simple. Hopefully we won't have to take this one out. And then you'll have these tabs here. See these tabs? They go into them holes. And I can see the hole right there. And here's the washer line right here. There's the washer line. And as you can see that one's just crumbling from the heat while I'm focused. So it's just crumbling from the heat. That's what I'm doing now. I'm just kind of breaking that out of there to get that the rest of the way out. You may have to take that off which I'm going to go ahead and do. This is what it looks like a lot of times. These are rubber. They'll crack and break and leak. If they're not real bad you can put some silicon sealant around there. So as you can see maybe inside there. Maybe you can't see it. But inside there is the rest of that. You might be able to see it now. See that? You got to get that out of there or it'll just clog up on you and you're doing it again. So I pretty much got it cleaned out. There's another piece that goes with this. Let me go grab it for you and I'll show you what it does. Let me back out a little bit. Now this is just a little gasket and it's going to go on just like that. You can also, what you can do is you can fish your your line up through if you can up through that hole. But I found it's a lot easier doing it this way.  I don't know if I can get you up here. I know it sounds strange but make sure this thing is pointing at the windshield because if not you'll be squirting stuff.  Okay see that little hole? I got my gasket on there. We're gonna put this in here and that's all there is to that. Now we're gonna go back up under here and hook up our line.  And this is just going to go on to our washer thing. Let me see if I can get you up in here to show you that. This is a big camera right up there. That's how that hooks on. Just like that will not come out. Now all that's left to do is we're gonna put our, first we're gonna put that tab up in that little hole just like that.  That's all you got to do.  You can do that. I just always find it's easier doing it this way but if you're afraid of breaking these plugs you can buy these plugs. You know it's not like a lot of these little parts to where they're like big foot and you can't find them anywhere but I'm gonna go ahead and do this side because well I want them to match. I wasn't going to hopefully this one don't break because then I can have an extra one but yeah see that's out of that tab. This stuff's fiberglass so if you're if you can't stand fiberglass make sure you wear some kind of long glove or long sleeve. So let me get that put in there and then we'll put the windshield washer fluid in it. I noticed monkey already has a gallon in there on the floorboard that wasn't in there before so I think she's she's kind of hinting for me to get this done so I gotta fix that too. I'm a little like this. That one broke. There we go. Alright let me get this one put in and we'll fill it up and try it out. Okay so I want to show you this. This one's got three spur holes. Now a lot of your aftermarket parts don't look identical. The ones we put in like was this wasn't what this wasn't white it was all black and you can see this one kind of broke off there but it is it'll work for a spare but this one has three holes the other one had one hole which might be divided inside. We'll just have to see but let's go ahead and put some fluid in here or yeah I want you to wash your fluid and let's check it out and make sure it's gonna work all right for her. Now this one has one we're yet right here. This one has one place to put it. Now some places this one does have a rear rear wiper and washer. Sometimes yours might have a tank like this in the back just for that one but this one has the tank up here that operates both of them so that's leading me to believe of course since there's no Wi-Fi liquid that there has to be a rubber line coming from here and out to the back so but I know it wasn't leaking so I don't have to worry about that so let me get the get the washer fluid and let's put in here. Not too bad the reason why I brought that up was because someone brought their car to me one time a customer and said that they're said that they had a leak even when it wasn't raining come to find out that's what it was it was only leaking when they would use their washers on the rear of their their vehicles so all right now we're going to get in and okay I need to close this we're going to get in and try it out. Now the one on the drive or on the passenger side has been replaced. See the difference in the color this is the driver side this is a passenger side see how nice and white that is and it's a little bigger size yeah so it's been replaced so but we have a spare now and this will work on either side it doesn't matter there's no left or right what it is is your your hose will come in and it has a tee it'll come in tee off one of going to here so you have an inlet one of going to here and the other side will go out to the passenger side. Alright we'll put our key in and turn this on and I don't know that radio is going to kick on I'm sure. Right here is the button for this and that side's always sprayed lower than the left side for some reason don't know why. Now let's do the back now down here that's a windshield washer or the windshield wiper in the rear there's the fluid and I can hear the pump up front pumping let's see if it's working back there it may take a second to get up there there it is no it's up there I put all new wipers on here too so yeah there we go there we go alright that's done I put new windshield windshield wipers on and I didn't bore you guys with that because I've shared that before in a previous video yeah those wipers seem to do pretty good yeah awesome this one comes out right up here a lot of people think that's a camera it's not this is what's next again down here in Florida you guys out west you know and Las Vegas the stuff no one talking about here just someone to get I have to get new roof racks we're thinking about getting one of the big tall ones kind of about this tall one put stuff up there when we're camping and have the clearance lights up there I don't know we'll see but yeah there it is guys so awesome all right another quick video for you I got another one coming up I got a new mic we're gonna try it out and then I got something else so stick around for that thanks for watching guys appreciate it we'll see y'all in the next one bye bye guys take care


Grand Rapids Greenway, they're in Duluth tonight playing the Northern Stars. The Lightning struck early on the power plays. Already up one, Maddie Schaefer then knocks it in for her second goal of the game. That'll put them up 2-0. Then later this time Sadie Part gets a stick on the puck and deflects it in for the score. They go up by 3, they would go on to win by 3. Final score of this one, 5-2. Lakeland PBS