This is an 80 millimeter refractor, and this is an 80 millimeter refractor, and this you may have guessed it by now is also an 80 millimeter refractor. So why does this one cost $130, this one cost $600, and this one cost $1,750? In this video I'll explain why and I'll share everything that you should look out for when buying your first refractor telescope for astrophotography. Hey welcome this is Nico from Nebula Photos. This is a channel all about amateur astrophotography, and I cover everything about that hobby including tutorials, explainers, and reviews like this video today. And since this is a review comparing these three telescopes, I need to share a few disclosures up top here. Both the Ascar ADPHQ and the SV Bony SV 503 telescopes were sent to me by the respective manufacturers, and that was at my request for the purpose of this review.  The Orion Short Tube 80 as well as the mount, the Skywatcher mount, the Sigma FP mirrorless camera, the guiding equipment they used, those are all items I've bought myself for the channel, but with financial support from my generous patrons over on patreon.com slash Nebula Photos. And that support is really what keeps the lights on for this channel, but I'll say more about it at the end of the video. So let's first jump into the design of a refractor and what makes a design well suited for astrophotography. And we will specifically be looking at the design of these three telescopes of course. So the first thing that you want to look for is how many glass elements are actually in the tube, and then how many of those elements are ED glass. ED stands for extra low dispersion and without at least one element being made of ED glass you get a lot of blue, violet or magenta fringing on your stars and that can be really pretty distracting and hard to remove in post-processing without leaving some kind of artifact. Now there are fringe killer or minus violet filters and those can work pretty good for removing it optically, but keep in mind there is no free lunch and with those filters you'll be removing some colors from your photos. So in order to treat the symptom of the problem stars you might get worse color reproduction otherwise. So it's always best if you can afford it to get a refractor with ED glass, extra low dispersion glass. So in my comparison here the Ryan short tube 80 is a doublet with two glass elements but neither have ED glass. This is also a doublet the SV Boney, but one of those elements is an ED glass and FPL 51 and the Ascar is a quadruplet meaning four elements and two of those are ED glass. So two, one, zero. Now another word you'll see that is related to the number of glass elements and the type of glass that they're using is apochromatic or acromatic and this refers to the telescope's ability to focus all the colors at the same time all the colors in the visible spectrum and that's an important ability especially when you're shooting with DSLRs or one-shot color cameras. There's some debate online whether a doublet with ED glass can count as apochromatic an apochromatic telescope. My opinion is really what matters is the images. So if you can take a photo with an ED doublet and not see any obvious fringing on the stars then we should basically consider that apochromatic whether it is technically or not. But of course people will have different standards for this kind of thing and some people are much pickier than others so I'll be presenting a little bit later in the video actual image comparison so you can really decide for yourself what level of perfection you need. But general takeaways here again a refractor with more ED glass is going to give you better color reproduction tighter stars typically and the worst kind of refractor for especially for one-shot color camera is an acromat. Last thing about this is that with a doublet or a triplet you'll typically want a field flattener or a flattener reducer. With this SV bony there's a matched flattener reducer available so I've included that in the price of $600. I didn't see one available for the Orion and with the way this focuser is designed I don't think there are any on the market that would work. Now the Asgard does not need a field flattener because it's designed for imaging and so the corrector is actually built in to the telescope design because it's a quid droplet. But Asgard does offer an optional reducer it's just a reducer only and you know no flattening element but I did use it for these image tests and included it in the price here. So that's a pretty cool feature of the Asgard is that you can use it at 600 millimeter focal length if you want to go at f 7.5 or you can use that 0.7x 0.76x reducer to bring it down to like 450 millimeters. Let's next look at price. I picked these three telescopes on purpose as I think it gives you a pretty good idea of what to expect at each sort of type of telescopes. So this is an acromat not really designed for imaging it's more designed as like a quick go-to scope or guide scope and they started around $100 go up from there. This is an ED doublet $600 with the field flattener is pretty sort of standard on the low end and this is more of like a premium astrograph kind of refractor so 1750 is not unusual they go up from there. There's some that are cheaper but typically for smaller astrographs like a red cat or an FRA 300 so for an 80 millimeter astrograph I think this Asgard is competitively priced. So I'm rather not go really into the discussion of value because I think that's really subjective it's really just about what you're looking for in a telescope. So after watching this whole review I'm just really going to leave it up to you again what level of perfection you're trying to achieve with like the tightness of your stars and how much fringing they have that's the main thing that sort of differentiates these especially these two on the higher end. The one thing I do want to say about price and cost is you really don't want to skimp on the mount. So if you could save money somewhere save money with the telescope and the camera I'd say especially the camera doesn't matter that much but the mount is very important. So for something like an 80 millimeter refractor this one's a little bit lighter than the other two but you could go with one of these like small mounts like I have here like the ioptron Smart EQ but I'd really suggest going up to like a EQM35 HEQ5 and ioptron 726 something like that's going to be better. And I tested all three on my EQ6R again probably overkill maybe but I wanted to make sure that I was just testing the optical performance so I used a very good mount so that there was no problem with tracking. Now let's go ahead and look at the physical characteristics of these telescopes including the weight, the focusers, the build quality and everything that sort of included like the rings or the brackets and things like that. The Orion Short Tube 80 is 15 inches long or 380 millimeters. The Dew Shield does not retract but it's already so compact that it's not really a big deal. When I bought it I remember it just coming with this small Vixen dovetail plate you know bolted on to the bottom but I looked online now and I see there's a bunch of different configurations with different accessories so if I were to get it today with imaging in mind I'd probably get the rings because with this configuration there's no way to rotate. Well if I had rings I could at least rotate the whole scope in the rings and sometimes rotation is very nice to have. In terms of what it comes with it does come with this Cinta style finder shoe built into the focuser. It comes with a plastic cap for the front and the focuser is a single speed it's not a two inch it's and you can hear it makes a little bit of sort of crinkly noise that I associate with low quality focusers it's not perfectly smooth and so the focuser is not a full two inch focuser so you can't use any of your two inch eyepieces or any 48 millimeters accessories with this. This also makes finding a field flattener for this very difficult because all of the third-party field flatteners have 48 millimeter threads on the telescope side but the good thing that they did with the focuser is this is 42 millimeter standard T thread so that means you can just get standard T adapters not the wide T adapters but just the normal M42 T adapters to get your DSLR or mirrorless camera put on to the telescope and I should also say that because it doesn't use any kind of field corrector you can just put your camera on and then as soon as it reaches focus you're in focus there's no there's no worry about particular back focus with with this telescope. The focuser does extend quite a ways as you can see but you could also put on spacers as if you need it even more back focus travel but I've had no problem with getting into focus with the Orion Short Tube 80 and the telescope has a focal length of 400 millimeters and a focal ratio of f5 which is printed right on the scope right there. Let's move on here to the SV Bony SV50380ED. It's close to around 18 inches or 450 millimeters long with the dew shield retracted and then with the dew shield extended it is about 24 inches or 620 millimeters long. The weight with the field flattener reducer installed back here is around 6.6 pounds or 3 kilograms so not heavy by any means but also not super light like the Orion was. It comes with very nice rings with nice big knobs as you can see for loosening and tightening and it also has a vixen dovetail plate installed on the bottom. It comes with a metal front cap and it doesn't actually come with a synthestyle finder shoe. I installed that afterwards. I just got this off eBay but it does come with plenty of places to put one if you so desire but it doesn't come with this so this is be something you have to add. It has a very nice two speed focuser. There's the course and there's the fine and it works very very well and it's very smooth so I've had no problems with that and it does offer full 360 rotation on the focuser.  You see the focuser does have gauge markings in millimeters so that's nice for repeatable focus. In terms of installing the Field Fladdener it has these three thumb screws that have a compression ring inside here and then the Field Fladdener simply slides in to the focuser like that which works fine and then the Field Fladdener itself has normal 48 millimeter thread on the camera side. If you do plan to get this telescope again this is the SV Boney SV503 I'd highly recommend getting this 0.8x photo reducer and Field Fladdener because that's going to make the stars a lot better and with the reducer it comes down from 560 millimeters f7 to 448 millimeters f5.6 which is a very nice focal length and ratio for lots of deep sky targets. Alright so that's the SV Boney SV503 80ED in terms of its physical makeup. Okay and finally we have the Ascar 80PHQ Q4 Quad and this one is in a fairly new line of quadruplet telescopes from Ascar that all have long native focal length for their respective aperture so this is an 80 millimeter scope but it's at f7.5 600 millimeter focal length. But then you can also get a 0.7x times reducer for it and that brings it down to 456 millimeter focal length at f5.7 and what's really cool about this line of telescope and the reducer is that both the native focal length and with the reducer you're corrected for a full frame sensor and so that's actually fairly rare in a telescope this price point that it would be well corrected out to full frame. So that is the big reason why this one is so much more expensive than the SV Boney. This one's 1,750 SV Boney is 600 is because of that being able to have it really meant for full frame imaging. Okay with the dew shield retracted like this it's about the same length as the SV Boney 18 inches long or 450 millimeters. With the dew shield extended out it's just a little bit shorter than the SV Boney it's 22 inches or about 570 millimeters long. The weight of this scope with the reducer is 10.6 pounds or 4.8 kilograms which is fairly heavy for an 80 millimeter refractor but quads are always heavy for their size because there's big glass elements and there's four of them in this while there's only two in the other two telescopes I showed you which were doublets. And then also the reducer itself adds a couple pounds since it's a three inch reducer so that's a fairly large reducer. The telescope comes with very nice rings with tons of tapped holes all around and a nice long green dovetail plate fixed in style. It comes with this top handle that I've been using to manipulate the telescope. It's a metal front cap with the name of the telescope on the front and then one thing that is really cool which I've never seen before is it comes with not just one but four different options threaded connections for connecting your camera or your spacers or whatever you're using. So let me show you how this works. So each of these back here is another threaded connection. We have M76, M68, M54 and M48. So all kinds of different threaded connections are included. You don't have to go out and find those if you have a specialty connection that's needed. This is the reducer, the 0.7x reducer. And I just want to show you how this goes into the telescope. You use this stack of threaded connections that comes with the telescope. You thread the reducer in here like that and then the whole thing slides perfectly into the focuser and then threads on to the back of the telescope. So I thought that was a really neat design to have the reducer have a threaded connection into this adapter that then threads onto the back of the focuser. And there's diagrams included showing you how to use all these different adapters.  And as soon as you're in focus, you're good to go. With the reducer installed, you're going to want 55mm back focus. In terms of markings, this both has markings for focal distance, but it also has markings for the rotator, which is really handy. I wish all telescopes had that. So it's a 360 rotator and it has every degree marked right there. It comes with one Cintiff style finder shoe standard, but it also has a place for another right there. You could easily install a ZWO EAF or other electronic focuser and there are already mounting holes. And lastly, I'll just say this is a very substantial three inch focuser that feels nice and sturdy and quite premium. It does have two speeds, of course. Okay, now we're on to my favorite part, which is actually looking at the images and doing some comparisons. Before I launch into that, let me just show you the stats of this imaging session. So I was shooting the Iris Nebula from Portal 4, the moon was new. I waited until the Iris was very high up in the sky, which was two to three AM, which is also the darkest time, I think. And then I was using a Skywatcher EQ6R, which is a nice beefy mount, so no problems with tracking. But just to make sure I was also guiding with a William Optics Uniguide 50 millimeters and an ASI 290mm mini. I was using a Sigma FP full frame mirrorless camera. It does not have a low pass filter, but it was not modified. So it's a very good camera, I think for testing for these kinds of things, because it's going to have a nice sharp image without the low pass filter to really give us a good indication of the optical quality of these telescopes. I was shooting at ISO 1600 and for each telescope, I took four by four minutes in terms of exposure. So you know, I could have tried to take more, but I wanted to really limit it to just like one part of the sky as quickly as possible to try to keep the bias from changing sky conditions out of this as much as possible. So I did it all within an hour by moving very quickly. Okay, so first let's look at just some raw frames, highly stretched with the auto stretch. And the point of this is really just to look at what a single four minute raw looks like and how much vignetting is affecting the image. There is some shadowing of the corners vignetting in all of these images. This is the Orion short tube 80. There's the SV Bony SV 503. And then here is the Ascar 80PHQ. And the way that it vignettes on the Ascar is interesting. And I'm not sure. I'd be interested to try it with another full frame camera just to make sure that it's not some quirk of the Sigma FP that's creating this kind of vignette. I'm not really sure, but it does look sort of odd. These ones look more normal. But then the next question of course is, well, how does that calibrate out with flats? That's what the Orion looks like after I calibrated with flats, darks, and bias. Here's the SV Bony a bit better. And then there's the Ascar a bit better still. Now I'll get to this more as we go. But the SV Bony isn't correct or isn't really designed for full frame. So you know you can sort of see that that it really sort of corrects out to about there and then sort of there's some weirdness. While the Ascar is a full frame corrected telescope and the reducer is also for full frame. And the Orion we have no field corrector. So we really only have a small section here in the middle that has sharp stars. And then it very quickly gets sort of crazy. And just to show that another way here is just the corners and the center. So you can see the center of the Orion is quite sharp. But then in the corners it's pretty bad. The SV Bony is quite a bit better. But if we look out into the corners of a full frame sensor, you can see we have triangles instead of round stars. While with the Ascar, they are still quite sharp and quite round. And so I've emphasized this I think a number of times. But that's what you're really paying for with an astrograph like the Ascar is the ability to get fairly round sharp stars all the way out into the corners of a four frame sensor, which you're not going to be able to do with a scope that's more like $600. But you could just use a smaller sensor with this telescope and it would work quite well. Okay. And then this next set is well how we saw what it looks like with just calibration. It looked like that. But then if we run a dynamic background extraction, how does it look after that? And you can see the Orion gets quite a bit flatter as does the SV Bony. And the Ascar looks perfect. I mean, that's a very flat field with really no problems there. Okay. And then this is just that same picture we just saw about without the stars and it shows you that the SV Bony is corrected. You know, this this doesn't look like quite APSC maybe maybe just a but pretty close to APSC. And then the full frame part is just not corrected at all. And we're getting a lot of light fall off out there. Same thing with the Orion Starless, the DBE seemed to work a little bit better though. Or maybe it's just a stretch them differently. And then here's the Ascar. Again, pretty flat. Okay. And then here is the maybe what a lot of people have been waiting for. Here's my final images as I would process each one, including the crop. So with the Orion I'd crop quite a bit in just to that sort of central portion. So again, here's the full Orion frame and I'd cropped basically right into the center to avoid all of these weird stars out on the corners. But after you do that, it looks pretty good. The one sort of thing that stands out about this image, well, two things actually one is we get all this sort of violet fringing on all the bright stars. And then the other thing is we're not getting a whole lot of color on the iris. And I did try to bring it out and I'm still just not really getting that sort of cool blue reflection nebula color. I'm not sure why. But we do get some of the the dust around the iris. Here's the SV bony. And again, I cropped down. It's probably around a PSC, but it's a little bit squareer than a PSC is what I just I did a pretty lazy crop. I didn't try to correct this ring. So I really just took a crop and went boom, boom, boom, boom, and cropped like that to get this. And then here is the Ascar and with the Ascar I could use the full frame. Now I might still crop this down because this was just a very short integration. So there's not a whole lot going on yet. But if you imagine if I shot this for several hours, this whole frame would fill up with that beautiful dust and CFIUS and it would look really cool. Okay, and last comparison, I just cropped in to the center of each one and registered these together just to show you sort of the deep, you know, the detail difference and the sharpness difference at the center of the frame. If that's something you're you're interested in. So I don't know how clear it is. It's clear to me that the the Ascar is sharper than the SV bony. And then it should be clear even to everyone that they're both sharper than the Orion. But let me actually zoom in a little bit just to really drive this home. Pick some pick a star field that has sort of a mix of smaller stars and bigger stars that looks good. Okay, so this is pretty illustrative of what you're getting for 130, 600 and 1750. So you can see there's a pretty dramatic difference here between the 130 and 600 we drop a lot of this sort of ugly fringing around the stars and we get a huge sharpness increase, because you can see all of these dimmer stars that are basically invisible with the Orion. Now the difference between here and here, you can see is much more subtle. The stars are a little bit sharper. But really the big thing that you're paying for is not the the center sharpness getting so much better. But the fact that the corners and full frame are so much better. Because see here you get the triangle stars here. The corner stars are almost as sharp as they are in center. So that's what's so impressive. And that's why you pay more for a scope like the Ascar. Since this video is over 20 minutes long, you're now seeing all of my current members on Patreon. If you want to see your name in the credits, you can sign up over on patreon.com slash Nebula photos. It starts at $1 a month and signing up has a bunch of perks outside of your name in the credits, including exclusive videos, monthly zoom chats, a really awesome discord community, monthly imaging challenges with prizes, group imaging projects, other competitions to win gear, and of course a direct way to message me with your comments and questions. So if you like my videos and you want to accelerate your learning, consider joining there for as little again as $1 a month or there's also a $3 a month here and a $7 a month here. And again, the link is patreon.com slash Nebula photos. 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Your coca-cola bottler presents Claudia based on the famous play and novels by Rose Franken Brought to you transcribed Monday through Friday by your friendly neighbor who bottles coca-cola Relax and while you're listening refresh yourself have a coke and now Claudia Working Why don't I sound oh, I don't know humming and fidgeting around you just don't sound like a man working Besides you're awfully willing to be interrupted that I was interrupted in my train of thought does not indicate willingness It merely indicates that I was interrupted What do you want nothing? Then you weren't working you were only thinking so I really didn't interrupt your working. I was thinking about working. Oh It's a beautiful day, isn't it a wonderful day. There are clouds over on the horizon though might rain later Do you think so that'll be perfect? We've got you doing the wash. It'll be perfect for docks for trout, too That sounds silly. What difference would it make to a trout whether it rains or doesn't rain? He'll be wet in either case. It seems to make a great difference to the big ones Just before rain they sort of sense it and stare around and sometimes you can catch the wily old fellas Ugg Well, and your desk there. I thought it was alive. Oh, it's a fishing fly. It's a quill Gordon You mean there are different kinds. Well, they're about six hundred different kind And this particular one would be just about perfect for the smart old trout of Roger and I came on the other day He was having absolutely none of us. We used every trick of the trade on him and they didn't work He nuzzled Roger's fly and spit it five feet in the air. He just swished his tail at me This sounds very personal. It is. I always thought men just went fishing for fish not just one particular fish Do you know what I think I? Haven't the foggiest idea what you I am thinking that you are wasting your time with that far away look in your eye and the Biff McDonald Quill Gordon, there's no fly called a Biff McDonald Although the name sounds like it might be a good idea now.  Oh, sorry what I was trying to say is You're wasting your time trying to work in my candid opinion You ought to go fishing.  I do well Since you insist I insist but it's much against my will Come here. Why because I want to kiss you Mm-hmm as much to be said for trout fishing Come with me and be my love and we will some new pleasures prove on golden sands by Crystal Brooks With silken lines and silver hooks. That's nice And done thought so too. Who's and done? She was the beloved wife of John done and one summer morning about 330 years ago. She prevailed upon John to go fishing. Oh Very much against his will to Dan go to that the poet did not tell us but he asked her come with me and be my love Well, I'm waiting Would you really like to go? I'll be very quiet. All right. It's a deal and on a bright summer's morning in 1948 Claudia the beloved wife of David. We're the fishing Oh fishing we will go a fishing we will go a high over the Dario a fishing we will go fishing we will go The pool's just beyond that clump of thicket over there. It's like stalking big game in Africa There's more to this and meets the eye, isn't there? And the less that meets the trout's eye the better Just over there around that bush. I see see the glen of water right to there. Oh Do you see what I see a barefoot boy the fish pole and a string of fish Maybe he won't mind you're fishing the poor women Fisherman's ethics the pool belongs to the first man on it ethics and a 12-year-old boy Ethics have to begin at some age and life of man. So they do if I'd been here first. He would have respected my priority Or you'd have taught him some ethics Anyways, probably banged around so much the fish wouldn't bite again today This could be a tender point of ethics. Oh, hello son. How's luck? I caught this year's string quite a collection Just about one of everything there is Sunfish a perch a chub on a bullhead you didn't catch all of them here Did you know I caught these little pond across the road and what do you expect to catch here? I'm not expecting I've got over-expected so young to be disillusioned. There's trout in this here pool really There's one great big one. He's a sock doll. It's you don't say he's all of 15 inches I'll go along with you on that, but I bet he's close to 20, you know Oh, my husband knows him intimately. I don't know him as well as you do I discovered him last year. I come here all the time, but nobody's caught him I know two men who spent an afternoon and didn't catch it You don't take a real fisherman to catch this here fish Experiences brought me to agree with you But you were trying I just come here to look at him, but you're fishing just on the chance No, I got a worm down there, but I'm not fishing for that big fish I might catch some silly small trout, but that big fella he won't be took on no worm. He won't a Uh, what would you suggest for the big fella you wait around a minute or two and he'll show you what I would suggest There's a hatch on a hat a hatch of flies lady. Oh, maybe with just a hint of blue in them, huh? Just a little blue like Like this one maybe she ain't that pretty that's a humdinger of a fly mister a humdinger to catch a sock It'll take more than just having a fly before you have this fish This year flight have to float down through the air without a splash on the water And if it was dropped just right that's a pretty big if son This is a pretty big fish and if it was just right he wouldn't take it like no ordinary trout He'd look at it and size it up and then just for the heck of it because he ain't hungry He flip up through the water and take it from on top. I can see you know this particular trout pretty well Uh Just where would you put this fly just over there at the edge of that slack water beyond the yeti You just watch there. He's there. All right. There's a swirl on the water. That's him lady. Now wait There he is.  You sound like you hoped I wouldn't son I hope you do if you catch him you're a good fisherman and that fish belongs to a good fisherman My dad would have caught this fish Your dad Yeah, he was sort of hurt in the war and he died hmm and not having a fly rod a Fly line nine foot of very fine leader and a quill Gordon This trout is sort of out of your reach Even if I did have I I wouldn't catch that there fish. You mean you wouldn't want to I mean I wouldn't have the know-how to cast it just right now my father he Hey, mister, what are you doing breaking the hook off that fly? You won't catch no fish without a hook on your fly. I've got another fly just now I'm getting ready to catch some know-how some what some know-how Come on. Let's get back here in this matter out of sight of the pool You're going to cast from way back there. Yep We're going to do some casting Some dry casting and I've broken the hook off so we don't snag it up in the grass in the grass There is method and shall I call it my madness she mister this rod is a humdinger That's right a first-class humdinger. She is you're something of a first-class humdinger yourself now Come on back here in the field, son. Okay. Now hold up the rod this way like this. Yeah, get it with this hand Now bring it back not too far not too far All right darling now come on son. Let's get back to the pool. I'll put the fly on with a tent of blue Now now put your fly behind that Eddie All right. All right, son Now make your cast look mister. Maybe you better do it only a real fisherman is going to catch this fish Well, if you catch him that'll make you a real fisherman. Well, all right Here goes. All right. Let it go now just like I showed you I did it. You never make a better cast now. Don't move that fly easy now taking a little of slack line That's it. That's it pull it in just a little bit more. It's now or never It's not and it's now Strike strike. He's on. What do I do? Keep your line talk. Don't give him any slack. Okay. Now. He's turning He's hanging this way now. Now reel him in. Oh, huh? Come on reel him in. That's it. Take your time Don't get nervous now. Don't get nervous and watch him dance on his tail He's huge. He's a great granddaddy of them all now in with him. Come on.  Don't get nervous now. Now. Don't give him a second win. That's that's a boy That's a boy now into the shore. Come on. Bring him in there.  I get him. Well Well fisherman you caught yourself a fish He's better than 20 inches. Gee. I couldn't say it more perfectly myself. Gee I show the fellas down at the corner store.   I can't wait to show it now You run along now and show it to your friends and to your mom I don't forget what you showed me my own dad couldn't show me how better. Gee. Thanks, mister Are you going to fish some more David? No, I think the fishing's done for the day. There are other fish in the stream None quite so big. He was the one I was after just let that little boy catch it. Well, I had my fun out of it The fish really belonged to him. He discovered him over a year ago. I discovered something a year ago, David What I discovered the most wonderful father my son could ever have I Never really knew how wonderful until I saw you with that little boy Darling that sort of makes up for the trout. Kiss me again. I'll tell you something else about my son's father Lady consider yourself kiss. He's a humdinger of a sock dollager. Oh According we did go According we did go Dario Remember the days when people heat the table high with food and the housewife had to work the live-long day in order to prepare for guests Well, I think there's more than one thing to be said in favor of today's casual entertaining It's simple.  Hi there, Mr. King. Well, hello son Say that's a pretty big fish you've got there. That's a trout, Mr. King Did you catch him all by yourself? Well? I had little help you might say that that fellow who just moved up here Mr. Norton let me use his rod and his fly and he taught me some know-how and What and together we sort of caught this fish Well, that's pretty generous of you to share the credit for a fish like that I guess he taught me something about being generous to mr. King. He could have caught this fish by himself But he let me do it Say mr. King. I heard mrs. Norton say something about their son He wouldn't be about my age would he well in a manner of speaking their son isn't yet But he'll be along in a week or two But before he gets here David is gonna have some real boy trouble on his hands young Jeffrey killian His partner son has some troubles bigger even in that fish of yours. Oh, nothing could be bigger than this fish Well, they seem bigger to him hang around next week. Maybe you'll meet young Roger. Okay, mr. King I'll be seeing you. Bye son. I'll be seeing you Every day Monday through Friday Claudia comes to you transcribed with the best wishes of your friendly neighbor who bottles Coca-Cola So listen again Monday at the same time And now this is Joe King saying or of war and remember Whoever you are whatever you do wherever you may be when you think of refreshment think of Coca-Cola Or Coca-Cola makes any pause the pause that refreshes and ice-cold Coca-Cola is everywhere These programs star Catherine Bard is Claudia and Paul Crabtree is David and the entire production is supervised and directed by William Brown Maloney And now here's a word from your friendly neighbor who bottles Coca-Cola


Appalachian Wireless proudly brings you unlimited data. Unlimited data is only $80 a month for a single line. Four lines as low as $200. Better service? Bigger savings? That's today's Appalachian Wireless. An East Kentucky network company. The at a speed slow to 25 gigabytes per line to 512 kilobits for phones and tablets, and 15 gigabytes for motors. See store for more details. The National Women's March was held a year ago, and this past weekend, events were held across the country to commemorate that landmark demonstration, including one right here in the Papal City Park. Millions across the country took part in the National Women's March last year. Millions across the country took part Saturday in events marking the anniversary of that march, and more than 80 people turned out for such an event in Pikeville. Organizers said Saturday's event was a way to continue to bring awareness to issues facing women, including underrepresentation and sexual assault and discrimination. Last year, the Women's March was the largest coordinated protest in U.S. history, and we're just trying to keep that momentum going. Women are over half of Americans, but they're represented in Senate. They're less than 20 percent. So the real theme is power to the polls, but empowering women to serve in politics and to better serve our communities. We're creative, intuitive, and brave people because women write stuff.  And I believe that education is the only solution. I think that is what will empower women to change this. I am a strong woman because I was raised by a strong woman. A lot of people think I was raised by a strong man, which I was, but they didn't know my mother. Turning Point is committed to bringing awareness to our community about women's rights, abuse, domestic violence, child abuse, and all of those community problems that we share. And we just want to support the women and the men that come out today for this march. There was also heavy discussion about the need for more women to seek elected office. Right now, I am the only Democrat woman who spends the night in Frankfurt when I go down for session. That means I'm the only woman who has been elected in the Democrat Party from the rural community. Everyone else lives so close to Frankfurt that they drive home every night. I would really like some company. I would really, really love to not be the only woman who survives the red wave. Saturday speakers were mostly left-leaning progressives, but the event also drew the attention of some of those who lean to the right. We just really wanted to come down and check it out. I felt like conservative women and Republican women are a little bit underrepresented in situations and events like this. So I just wanted to let people also know that there is another side, and there were a lot of women that did vote for Donald Trump, and obviously he would. It also drew those of all ages. For a long time, I feel like we've pretended like these issues don't exist. They are very real. They may not be as pronounced as they were 100 years ago, but this war is not over. We've won many battles in this war, but there are more battles to come, and I'm counting on these little girls to fight them. I just want to be someone that stands up for us girls. I love to see these powerful girls come and give me inspiration from what I'm going to do when I'm older. Organizers said the message of the event is diverse, and they hope that it reaches all those who need to hear it. This is about helping people that are impoverished. This is about helping voices that aren't heard to be heard, and this is about supporting and uniting. Salute, stop the violence. Kentucky women won't be silenced. In Pikeville, Chris Anderson, EKB News.


Exercise Mobility Guardian gave us the opportunity to operate the fighter squadron from a forward operating base and then to maneuver out to four different contingency locations in less than a week. So over the last week we brought over 200 D.M. airmen out to both Field and Wisconsin and we've had our own logistics, our own security forces, our own comm and a bunch of other functions from our wing to support 12 aircraft and the fighter squadron to operate from this forward operating base. So the thing that we don't always get to practice is how quickly we need to reconstitute the people and reconstitute the gear that we use at those contingency locations. So here mobility assets are bringing us back all of our gear, bringing us back all of our people and then we're having to get those reconstituted out the door the next morning to go to a different contingency location. So we can keep our teams moving, we can keep our teams more lethal and more agile and more survivable and then fulfill the ATO from multiple locations as we maneuver. Exercising the dynamic wing concept and maneuvering our dynamic board adaptive basing teams has been really reliant on good command and control. So how do we talk between a forward operating base and a contingency location? What methods of communication are we using? How are we making sure that those communications are succinct and accurate and then what time cycle are we doing to make sure that everybody has the information that they need so that we can get resupply. So the collaboration between ACC and AMC has been really important this exercise. Not only is that how we move the personnel and the fuel and the weapons and the cargo that we need to actually operate from a contingency location, but the two teams working together are able to figure out how we're going to do that quicker. We were able to do integrated combat turns after C-17s delivered us built 500 pound bombs. We went out, we landed on a dirt landing zone with our own landing zone safety officers controlling the field and we were able to see in the field using all of the skills that our multi capable airmen have have honed over the last year or so. It was really important to get the squadron out to a new location that has different weather, different airspace, different assets that we're integrating with because when you bring all those things together you get a more complex and a more ambiguous exercise that's going to require people to make more difficult decisions and then learn from their decisions and learn from our mistakes so that we can go forward and actually accelerate change.


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Once again we keep our weekly appointment which takes us to the sedate old Victorian mansion on the corner of Fifth and Fourth. It is late afternoon. The long shadows fall across the quiet streets. A solitary flower peddler ambles slowly down the block.  The peddler is exercising a fine Italian tenor voice with a nicer young lady as a home. This is a coming day. A good afternoon, Miss Patsy. Hello Tony. Hot garibaldi. Oh, it's fine. Tony, have you got any climbing roses? We lost our, you know, wintercales. No. That's too bad. It's a shame too. You want a pole of scarlet or that new dawn or a blazer maybe? Well, I don't got them today, but I'm gonna get them for you. Good. We'll take one of each. Miss Patsy and your boss, he's home maybe? You mean Mr. Carter? Yes. Yes, he's upstairs in the laboratory. You ask him, please, can he see Tony? Well, it's after office hours, Tony. I gotta see him, Miss Patsy. Please, I gotta see him. What's it about? My sister, Maria. She's afraid. She's got afraid to death. What are you afraid of, Tony? A rocking chair. What? A rocking chair that belonged to an old lady. And this old lady is dead a long time ago. But some time she's a comeback. She sits in the rocking chair in a rock, in a rock, in a rock. And every time she's a rock, somebody gets dead. Hmm, that sounds promising. Suppose you tell me all about it, Tony. Then I'll see if I can't persuade Mr. Carter to pay your sister a visit and investigate that rocking chair. Oh, but, Nick, you could do with some fresh air. We could rent a speedboat and take her run up the sound. The island where Tony's sister lives isn't very far beyond Hellgate. How does Tony's sister happen to be living in an island the other side of Hellgate? It's the old Trumbull estate, Shipwreck Island. Tony's sister, Maria, is the housekeeper for Eric Trumbull, the famous painter who lives there now. Hmm, I see. The old house has been in the Trumbull family for three generations. It was built by Obadiah Trumbull, an old sea captain who was suspected of being a freebooter at the time of the Civil War. The old boy had four wives. In succession, I hope. Oh, but of course. Now, where does the rocking chair come in? Oh, that belonged to the last of old Obadiah's wives. He brought her home as sort of an afterthought when all the children of his other wives had grown up. They hated it.  Some say she was a creole and others claim she was Portuguese. At any rate, she talked with an accent and claimed to have the powers of a voodoo witch doctor. Probably hated her because they were afraid of her. Probably. Now, sooner was Obadiah safely in his grave than the children turned on her. Eric's father, who was the eldest, had her declared insane. Nice people. She was locked up in an attic room and fed three times a day, but no one ever spoke to her and she never came out of that room. No one would have known she was there if it hadn't been for that rocking chair. They could hear it creaking all hours of the day and night. After nearly 30 years, she was suddenly taken very ill. When she found she was going to die, she asked them to send for Eric's father. It was a nasty night with the wind howling about you.  So you have come in. The doctor is for you. I am about to die. And you think at last you will be rid of me?  You will never be rid of me. I will return sometimes and sit in that rocking chair where I have spent so many lonely years. You will not see me, but I will be there. Sometimes the chair will rock and that will mean there is to be a death in this family. There is about to be a death. And now I think, yes, see, the chair already starts to sway. This time it predicts my death, but it will rock for you, all of you. Rocks faster and faster, she died. Eric's father saw it. Probably a form of self-induced hypnosis brought about by the old girl's suggestion. Possibly. The rocking chair heard from again? Yes, every now and then. But the funny part is that almost every time, according to Tony's sister, someone in the family died within the year. A family that size, just by the law of average, is someone who has to die within the year, whether the rocking chair rocked or not. Well, I hadn't thought of it that way, Nick. Anybody living in the old house now, except Eric and Tony's sister? No. They came back a little over a year ago. Eric was too broke to live anywhere else. Has Tony's sister ever heard the famous rocking chair? Not until lately. Seems that everything was going along as well as could be expected until Captain Ralph Trumbull, Eric Trumbull's cousin, and his wife moved in. I gather the Captain's wife is very attractive. And the Captain isn't always home, and Eric is a notorious ladies' man. That's about the size of it. And to top off the whole thing, the rocking chair seems to have started to rock again. Well, what do you expect me to do? I just want you to find out what makes that rocking chair rock so Tony's sister can stop being frightened. All right, I'll look into it. If you can get them to rent us that new speedboat. But remember, I don't want any hard-boiled eggs in my lunch. We're coming. You'll be waiting for us on the dock. That must be the island up ahead, Nick. Well, you look at that house. It's got everything. You'll be loved. Waiter's walking. I'll bet there's even an iron deer on the front lawn. And I could certainly use a coat of paint. She's not exactly what you'd call a silk, is she? Oh, hand me that line, will you? Secretary. Oh, good. Give me your hand. I'll help you. Thank you. Be careful, please. So many of these boards are so old. OK. We'll be careful. Well, Maria, how about it? You think I can get a look at this notorious rocking chair that's causing all the trouble? See, that's easy. The Captain is away on a cruise. He won't be back until next week. Mr. Eric and the Captain's wife are in the studio. He's painting a picture. Painting a picture, is it? What's wrong with that? Oh, he's always painting her when the Captain is away. The studio's in the front on the second floor. The rumor with the rock and the chairs on the third floor over the kitchen. We'll take it the backstay. No one will see us. It has not been entered since Mr. Eric's father was found hanging to the rafters, and they threw the key into the well. Is there any way we can crawl in through a window? No. The only window is two floors above the roof of the kitchen. There's a tree out the side, but the branches are too small to hold anybody. Then I'll have to pick the lock. That shouldn't be much of a job with my pick lock. Those old houses are quiet. You almost feel it breathe. Wish it went so dark out here. Nick, Nick, you hear that? Santa Madonna, this is the chair again. The rocks. Someone want to die. Someone want to die. Quiet. The lock isn't as simple as it looks. Well, that didn't tick. The room is empty. Look, over there right beside the window, the rock is still rocking, and there's dust all over everything. There should be prints of some sort. But there aren't, Nick. Not a mark on the floor anywhere. The spirits are leaving no footprints. Now, the window. Little pain at the lower left-hand corner is missing. But the window is a locked pipe. Nobody could crawl through an opening so little as that. Nick, the cushion. The cushion on this chair is still warm. Where? Santa Maria, this is the captain. He's come home. He's looking for his wife. You better run down, Maria. See if you can stall him. Say that. And find your woman. You better handle her. A locked room and a rocking chair that rocks all by itself. With nobody around to set it rocking. And an angry captain trying to find his missing wife. How can Nick put all these things together and get the right answer? We'll see in just a moment. 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And Maria, Eric's Italian housekeeper, is scared of both the rocking chair and the quick-tempered captain. As we pick up our story, the captain is storming through the house looking for his wife. Maria, Maria! Oh, there you are. Where in thunder is my wife? Is she not in her room, Captain Trumbull? You know, blame well she's not. I remember now she's gone to the mainland to do the marketing. Yeah, now she hasn't. Her hat's right here on the table. And the rowboat's tied up to the dock. Well, maybe she got a lift. Who in places are you two? Just friends of Maria's brother. The Trumbulls don't like visitors. Captain Trumbull, don't you think you're a bit casey? Suppose your wife is posing for Eric Trumbull. Lots of perfectly nice women model these things. Not my wife. That's the door of his studio. Eric! Eric, open up! I know my wife's in there. Open this door or I'll break it down. All right, all right. Really, Ralph, you have to be so boisterous. You're not yelling into a gale, you know. Where are you, Claire? Well, Ralph, this is too naughty of you. I was having my portrait painted for your birthday as a surprise. There it is. Eric, I told you to keep away from my wife. But when I come back unexpectedly, I find you both in the studio with a door locked. Oh, don't be so Victorian, darling. Eric hates to be interrupted when he's painting. Yes, now do go away, old boy, so we can get out of the portrait. The blade is over the portrait. You'll never do any more painting on this canvas. You're making a fairing a picture of a train. Well, I'll get old C. Belginley. Ralph, I hope you realize you've destroyed a priceless work of art. Don't worry, I'll pay you for it. Although I have my doubts about how priceless it is, Claire, get your things together. We're leaving this house. No. This minute. Miss Bowen and I will be delighted to take you to the mainland with us. Good.  I'll join you on the dock as soon as I've made out a check for my cousin's priceless work of art. We just left it a short while ago. I know it, Pat, but I got to thinking. Eric Trumbull may not be the nicest guy in the world, but I'd hate to see anything happen to him. I think it ought to be fair to warn him. Warn him about what? About the captain's crazy jealousy. From the things he said as we were taking him and his wife back to the mainland, I suddenly realized how intensely he hates Eric. I don't think Eric realizes it. Good grief, Locke. Tied up to the tumble dock. It's a police launch. Yes. But too late, Patsy.  Oh, Nick, look. There's Lieutenant Riley standing on the breakwater. Something serious must have happened that he's been called in. Oh, oh, there, Nick. It's not should be back when you heard the news. But you're too late, everybody. The whole thing's solved. What's all of, Lieutenant? Eric Trumbull's death? I was afraid of that. What happened? Hanged himself, he did. We were just waiting for the photographers to finish before we cut him down. No, Riley, don't touch him. Don't touch a thing. Do I have a chance to see him? This isn't suicide. It's murder.  Because Eric Trumbull was psychologically incapable of killing himself. Do you think the captain came back and did it, Nick? No. The captain wouldn't have hanged him. Now, if he'd been beaten to death. Couldn't. What for? Where's the housekeeper? The room's just down the hall a bit here. Maria. Taking it awful hard, she is. OK, Nick, after you. Beat clear the ground by bare six inches. Six inches is enough. Medical examiner took a look at him and says it's death-based triangulation, me by no mistake. I'm not doubting that. Is there nothing to touch, Riley? Not a thing, Nick. And it's definitely murder. No, you don't, Nick. Just take a look at this here suicide note pinned there on his chest. I can't live without her, and I won't. I'm very troubled. That's me, boy, he's in his own head writing. Checks with the writing we found in his diary. It's possible that this is only part of a piece of paper. The upper part missing. So what? It's a suicide note. That's enough for me. Riley, if a man's going to commit suicide, he has to stand on something. Box, chair, even a few books, and then kick them away from him. But there's nothing here. Nothing within 15 feet of the spot with the bodies hanging. You're right. Consequently, Trumbull was strung up by someone else. Someone who threw the rope over that beam, hauled the body up, and then tied the rope to that bracket. I'm in another way to me. What would Mr. Trumbull be doing all that while? There's no signs of a struggle here. Probably because the murderer was careful to sneak up behind him and knock him unconscious first. Your medical examiner will take a good look, Riley. I think you'll discover a lump at the base of the brain somewhere. I'd better go and talk to him. Who would ever think of looking for a lump on the head for the day he was hiding in there? Nick? Nick, will you come out in the hall a minute? Right away, Patsy. And as I am, pin the so-called suicide note. All right. What's up? It's Maria here. She wants to talk to you. Mr. Carter, please. I hear what you said that it is not the suicide. Is that the truth? I'm afraid so, Maria. I know it. I know it. It was the captain. They had a terrible battle fight after you left to go to the boat this morning.  Is that the note you have in your hand? It's part of a letter Mr. Eric sent three days ago to New Bedford where the captain's ship had gone. Mr. Eric was in love with the captain's wife. He was bent on a picture of her. Yes, we know that. He did it then. I know it, so why don't you wait it on the dock? We were there less than five minutes. The captain is so strong. For him, a five minutes is a plenty. What makes you so sure it wasn't somebody else? Somebody who came to the island after we left. Because nobody came. When you are gone, I lock all of the doors in a window. I go to the kitchen to pick Mr. Eric's lunch. When I take it up to him, I find him like that. And you're sure no one else was here? You didn't open the door to anyone? I sway on the Bible. Tell me, Maria, why did you kill Eric? You think I did it? No, you're wrong. It was the captain that let the prove him. The captain didn't do it, Maria, for two reasons. One, the letter, though undoubtedly written by Eric, was never sent. But Nick, how could you possibly know that? Because this torn suicide note covers more than half a sheet of note paper. Any letter that's gone through the mail has been folded at least once. This one was never folded. Consequently, never sent. That's the second and the most important reason. As we left the island this morning with the captain and his wife, I happened to take a look at the house. Eric Trumbull, alive and healthy, was glaring at us from his studio window. No, no! Consequently, Maria, since no one entered the house after we left, and since you were alone with Eric Trumbull, the only person who can possibly be responsible for his death is you, Maria. Your last name is Trumbull, isn't it? Yes. Maria Trumbull. I was Eric's wife. That's why I killed him. Yes. Had an idea of that was the reason. He married me 20 years ago in Sorrento when I nursed him back up from the bed. Though in all this time, no one has ever known. I sold my house in a my little farm. It was that money paid for his first exhibition. I do not begrudge him that. He was a genius, senior. They are not like other men.  So long as it was only his model. You see, I knew they would not last long, Maria. But at this time, it was different. The captain's wife, she was the woman of his own class. He wanted her to divorce the captain and marry him. He don't know what would become of me. And it was this afternoon when I found out later he was writing to the captain. I know it was over between us. I know he was through with me. After all the hardships, all of the insults, something inside of me burned a strange in the core. And I killed him. I am not sorry. You think that is strange. No, I got the Berkey losses. In the sixth month, I'll be dead. Well, Nick, you're right again. He found a lump as big as an egg behind his left ear. You got any idea who could have done it? Maria knows, Rally. She was Eric's wife. I have no doubt she'll be glad to tell you whatever you wish to know. In just a moment, Nick will be back to give you the final details of today's story and tell you what caused the rocking of the haunted rocking chair. You and your family take pride in your home, of course. That's why you keep it bright and sparkling. And the finest household health you can find are the three great Linux home brightness. Take Linux Cream Polish, for instance. 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Make it a point too to stop at your nearest war bond headquarters for that extra war bond. It takes money as well as men to finish this war. The men are doing the big job overseas. Let's do our job over here to raise the money now during the mighty seventh war loan drive. Invest all you can in your future and America's. And now let's hear from Nick Carter himself. Nick, what happened to Maria? Did Riley arrest her? Yes, Kenny did, but she died before she could be brought to trial. What about the rocking chair? After considerable observation, we found out it was just a trumbled cat. They used to climb up the trees, jump through the broken pane and into the chair, which stood right beside the window. She'd sit there in the old chair and wash herself and her movement would make the old chair rock. But how come the cat just started recently to sit in the old chair like that? We learned it was only recently that the cat came to live at the house. Disgustingly simple when you know the answers. That's what I always say. And Nick always laughs at me when I say it, but it's true. What's about your story for next week, Nick? Got a couple of not-too-well-vailed hints on that one? Well, I don't see why not, Ken. Patsy and I were taking a shortcut through the park one day in my car. Which is more like a police squad car than a pleasure car. When we heard a police call over the radio, directing the nearest squad car to a certain address to take care of a dead body. And were we interested to find that the address where the body had been found was our own office at 4th and 5th? Well, that sounds like an interesting start to a story. And when the band of thieves kidnapped me and tried to... No, hold it, Patsy. Say something for next week. Well, Nick, what do you call a story? The body on the doorstep. Nick Carter, master detective, is copyrighted by Street and Smith Publications Incorporated. Lawn Clark is starred as Nick with Helen Chote as Patsy. Original music is played by Lou White. The programs are written by Edith Meiser, and any resemblance there into actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental. The entire production is under the direction of Jacques McGregor. Nick Carter, master detective, is presented at this time and over these same stations each week by the three great Linux home brightness. Linux Clear Gloss, Linux Cream Polish, and Linux Self-Polishing Wax, created by Acme, America's great producer of Acme's fine quality paint. This is Ken Powell speaking for the thousands of Linux dealers all over America and saying so long until next week. This is the Mutual Broadcasting System.


What's up everybody, Jason here for JaspiersCaseBrace.com. We just sold out another 2021 Mosaic Choice Basketball. This is a three box break, pick a team number three, and they got guys three boxes of Mosaic Choice, and we're giving away $500 in break credit, guys. How to get entered into that? Just buy two teams in this break. If you bought two teams, you get an entry, you bought four teams, you get two entries, six teams, three entries, et cetera. Now if you only buy one team, good luck to you. You won't get an entry into the giveaway, but just have a chance to get some nice hits. And the top two names each at the end win $250 in break credit. So we'll alphabetize this and we'll see who has two or more. We'll get you into a list randomizer here and then we'll randomize the names and top two get $250 back in break credit. I did post up another one of these already, guys. So if you guys are interested in doing more of this, of course it is on the website already. And here we go, guys. And here we go, Mosaic Choice. Maybe have a black gold, I'm not sure. Cancer, Odoka. And how about Baron Davis? Where's the real warrior fans at, huh? Back when they were wearing these unis? Baron Davis. Golden State Warriors. Oh no, I forgot to show the list. Golden State Warriors Conner. And we have Jada McDaniels for the Timberwolves to 88. We have Robert Covington to 88. And a Blake Griffin to 88. With the Isaac and Coral and nice James Wiseman. I don't know what that for, the Golden State Warriors. Cam Reddish, autograph there for the Atlanta Hawks. Going to Nico. And next one's a pretty nice one, actually. A little Tyrese Halliburne, that's a NBA debut, sorry, but still a nice one there, to 88. Sacramento Kings, going to Colin. There you go, buddy. We have a Michael Bridges for the Suns to 88. Going to Colin. And we have Rudy Gay. Spurs, going to Justin. And we have Jay Chantay with a nice Tyrese Maxi for the 76ers. That's also going to Colin. Go guys, last one here. Cole Anthony and Theo Melodon for the Thunder. Thunder's going to also Colin. Nice Cole Anthony there for Orlando as well for Colin. We have a DeAndre Hunter. Poku, Kyle Anderson for 88, and last two hits, Udoka. With a nice Halliburne for the Kings. All right guys, so I don't know if it was hit at number two, if anything crazy was hit, but remember this is coming from a fresh case, so there definitely could be some monster stuff. There you go guys. So now guys, let's see if we can get some of the, some couple people can get some money back. Maybe a little bit more than what they paid for. Depending on how many spots you got. So let's see, so Connor got 10, so that's five entries. Jessie got two, that's one entry. Jessie with only one, then Justin with two. So that's one entry. Colin you have eight, so that was four entries. Nico with six, that's three entries. And then of course Roy with just the one there. All right, so out of the possible 15, we got 14. So let's go top two, get 250 back. Roll, it's a six and a two. So again top two, boom, six and a two, eight times. Good luck, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. And boom, eight times, eight. Justin and Nico Martin, congratulations. There you go, six and a two, eight times. So both of you guys just got $250 back. Embrace credit, which let me send that to you now before I end this video, because I don't want to forget. 250, we'll put it, music, choice, giveaway, number three. And then Nico, some money back as well. All right, sweet guys. So again, another one is in the store. So you guys can start trimming down some teams if you guys like, but Cup Hockey is probably gonna be coming up next guys. So appreciate it guys.


Hello and welcome to NewsClick. Today we're going to discuss the economic stimulus that the Prime Minister and the Finance Minister have talked about. We have with us Professor Prabhat Patnaik and he will give us, I hope, an overview of what is happening. Prabhat, we have been talking about the stimulus and this is a series of so-called stimuli that has been offered to the Indian economy. Do you see this stimulus, the 20 lakh crore package which is being topped off as an economic stimulus which will set production as well as money in the hands of the people? No, in fact this is not a stimulus at all. The word stimulus used for this package is a complete misnomer because at the moment the Indian economy is essentially constrained severely by a shortage of demand. This was the case even before the pandemic began and this has now become even more serious because there are lots of people with no incomes whatsoever and therefore there is a shortage of demand. The whole idea was really to stimulate demand by putting purchasing power in the hands of the people and for this the government had to play a proactive role in ensuring income transfers to the people and in ensuring other kinds of welfare expenditures. This is not what the government has done. If you look at the total fiscal effort of the government, the total expenditure that is involved in the stimulus that actually or in the so-called stimulus that actually comes to less than 2 lakh crores which is really just about a bit less perhaps than 1% of the GDP. Now this is not only trivial compared to the kind of percentages with other countries are giving in the form of fiscal stimuli for their economies but this is also trivial compared to the requirements of the economy faced with this extremely serious humanitarian crisis. Basically the package consists of a whole lot of changes in policy in favor of private capital and multinationals and a lot of offer of bank credit to the business which in itself doesn't help in stimulating activity. The question that we have here is that instead of transferring purchasing power to the people therefore providing a push to the real economy which is production and consumption what we have here is essentially expansion of credit for the capitalist class big business or now medium and small scale as well though that has been redefined but we really are not going to see production pickup unless there is ability to purchase. Yes exactly and because of that even the credit offers are unlikely to be taken up because after all business requires credit in order to expand production. Credit is required to work in capital and so on. When demand picks up then there is the possibility of the business expanding output that's when it requires credit. Credit is a lubricant in actually the production process simply offering credit does not make people reduce more as a result even these offers of credit are unlikely to be actually picked up by the producers unless there is a stimulation of demand. So effectively what we have done apart from what has been offered to the medium small scale industries who at the moment cannot even pay their wage bill or cannot buy raw materials there is I think about a three and a half lakh crore being offered to the MSMEs that might see some offtake but otherwise there is really no incentive for anybody else as you said to even avail of the credit. Yes exactly you know even the offtake of credit that may be required because let's say wages have to be paid and so on is something which would really kick in only when people get employed and once employment increases that's really with a view to producing both. Now when that begins to happen then of course credit becomes relevant that will begin to happen only when there is the promise of being able to sell it on the market which means an expansion of demand or the books start increasing lengthening. So the second part of the issue of course is that the centralization we have seen of the government has meant that transfers to the state governments are also not taking place even the ones which are supposed to take place in any case like the GST devolution for example that the GST funds have to go to the states in the proportion they were promised. So that has stopped and the states out of the so-called stimulus and so-called expansion that the government claims to be making nothing has been left really in the state's kitty. Yes that's absolutely true because the states are now let's look at the condition of the states not only is it the case they haven't got the GST compensation which was actually legally their due which was which was solemnly promised to them when they signed on to the GST. Not only has that not been given but what is more their revenues have really drastically fallen in this period of closed down and so on while on the other hand they are having to make very substantial amounts of additional expenditure both for healthcare for hospitals and also for even for the for transporting migrant workers and all kinds of purposes of that kind they are being made to bear the brunt of this pandemic in fiscal terms as a result the states are in a desperate financial situation they cannot print notes and as a result it was essential for the central government to hand over larger amounts to the states and to finance it immediately by printing notes. So the key issue really is that while the central government can print notes increase its fiscal deficit thereby create liquidity the state governments don't have the power they can't print notes they cannot increase their deficit infinitely in the sense. No in fact they actually cannot increase their deficit without the center's permission in other words no state government can simply on its own enlarge its fiscal deficit if they would require permission from the center to borrow in the market and of course mind you this is the situation where borrowing in the market even if their fiscal deficit is enlarged borrowing in the market is not the best of options because to borrow in the market at a certain interest rate now that interest rate must exceed the rate of growth of the net state domestic product for the states not to fall into a debt trap now at this moment everybody knows we know that actually the rate of growth of state domestic products is not going to be very much probably close to zero if not negative and in this kind of a situation to borrow in the market is really out the reserve bank should actually give them concessional finance even for the fiscal deficit part of it that but in addition the center has to make resources available to them based on its own borrowings from the from the reserve bank of India that would be an immediate help to them. So these are the two aspects of the larger financial and economic question facing the country and from what we see the government seems to have a very accounting understanding of the economy which you saw also the monetization demonetization part that they seem to think accounts is finance accounts is the economy and which it is not and this is essentially what underlines the understanding of the stimulus as well as what is being called the credit being painted as stimulus would you agree that this is really the problem that is there absolutely but but there is one difference between the demonetization situation and now both are examples of the mindlessness on the part of the central government but demonetization was as it were its own its own original mindlessness where now there is a fear of the credit rating agencies which is involved in other words they are terrified and this is amazing because this entire package has been presented as a kind of means towards self-reliance as a matter of fact the package is what it is the total inability of the government to provide larger expenditure but to rely on borrowings is because they do not want the credit rating of the country to go down because they do not want to offend globalized finance and therefore they want to link the face of billions of people to the wins of credit rating agencies and to globalize finance they are worried that if they enlarge expenditures the fiscal deficit goes up in which case finance would leave the country now finance is already leaving the country very important at this stage is to actually think in terms of putting controls on financial outflows that the Modi government doesn't have the option to do which is why they are actually doing this kind of miserliness the other part of it is of course this they have used to do exactly what they wanted changing labor laws holding essentially labor hostage to capital it's not no longer waste slavery they want to really impose slavery higher and fire at will to 12 hour and sometime 14 hour weeks and it's also being supported by people like Narayan Murti who said labor should I agree to 60 hour week of course Azim Premji has said something different so at least one capitalist has spoken out that this is not in the interest of capital to hold labor hostage in this particular way and also in this particular time but you know this this mindset we also see in privatization of the public sector you are talking of self-reliance you are asking in international capital to come up to 74 percent in defense and space the two areas which were essentially government preserved till now and this is an amazing example to talk and call it self-reliance atman their barbaric particularly all that you are getting is offshoring some assembly in the last shall we say the last mile into India and calling this self-reliance yes I completely agree that you know the mendacity underlying this entire package and its its its publicity is just quite amazing because you claim for it something which is just the opposite of what it is meant to do and what is more what it is you know it would not even succeed in attracting substantial amounts of investment into India because in the international economy itself now the investment levels are down the world economy is moving into a very serious recession now in this kind of a situation in any case there is very little chance for investment productive investment to come into a country so no matter how much you open up you're not even going to get that but in the process you would have smashed your labor and you have you'd have withdrawn your labor laws and so on you'd have actually introduced a repressive labor regime for again that would not even arise I mean first of all it's doubtful if if if you can call it again of any kind but secondly it would not even come in the point I want to make is that you know this suppression of labor rights is really part of a whole range of other suppression suppression of democratic rights arrests of anti-caa activists this trend of the communal virus in the midst of this pandemic itself is part of the same mindset and that mindset is not just a mindset of course the mindset but additionally I believe it's going to grow because there'll be objective basis for it has been prepared by the government you see look at other countries in this period when people are in distress they're all coming with all kinds of relief packages here what happens when people are in distress there's no relief package now it does no relief package the legitimacy of the government is really on the question when it is questioned you therefore require other kinds of props for your legitimacy and one obvious prop is that the Muslims are behind this and we are anti-Muslim therefore you trust us and so on so it will try and seek public support all kinds of grounds other than its ability to provide relief therefore I I see this as a movement towards greater and greater authoritarianism and this be the the the smashing of the I mean the withdrawing the abrogation of labor laws really part of this whole scenario it's also interesting because what it will do is of course reduce employment if you have 12 hour day then of course you need less labor and if you have less labor you have less employment and then we come back to the issue where is the demand where is the buying purchasing power of the people if they don't have jobs so it's really that vicious circle again it's in fact it would actually reduce employment in the economy as a whole because any reduction in wages you see after all the whole purpose of all this ultimately is to shift income distribution away from the workers towards the capitalists I mean that's the as it were in a nutshell what all this supposed to achieve every such shift in income distribution reduces demand because the rupee shifted from the workers to the capitalists is if so fact to demand reducing of course there is one one further point here namely that it would not necessarily reduce the demand only for the corporate segment or only for the monopoly segment they may bear a bit of the brunt for the reduction in demand but they would make up for it through the increase in profit margins think of the non-corporate capitalists they would face the brunt of the reduction in demand but at the same time their profit margins are now going up in any way as the petty producers the small capitalists and so on and their also entails a shift in income distribution from the smaller capitalists and petty capitalists to the monopolists in the corporate segment and that is has been the political base of this political party the vjp for a long time is the petty trader petty commodity producer base or small capital but that's also being squeezed as also is the middle class although it is also another vociferous supporter of the communalization and authoritarian authoritarian trend that we see which is going to be hit but as long as others I guess are hit harder they may not therefore feel the pain so much so thank you Pramod for being with us and sharing your thoughts with us any last thoughts on which way India is now going to go well you know you can see that the traders have not welcomed this package so the traditional base in the vjp is not welcoming this package on the other hand of course the corporates are welcoming it and the corporate donations in the vjp gets are really very very substantial so we hope to make use of that so let's hope that the larger population in the country is slowly going to understand this package is not helping and we need something else as policies in order to fight the larger question arising out of the pandemic pandemic has triggered a larger set of questions and how we face it as people and nation is going to be the question thank you Pramod for being with us hope to see you again soon on this is the time we have today do keep watching news click and do visit our 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Hey guys Welcome back to yet again. Oh shoot. I got locked out of anything on phone yet again another vlogmas day in my life Wait, this girl and I have the same hoodie. She has the black version. Do you see this fake one? Oh my god, wait no get out of the car right now. Roll down your window. Stop. That is weird. We're grown guys. We're grown. We're literally grown. Stop. That's so weird. Stop. Are you two? Wait, stop, gell it. No. I did. I jumped. I jumped. That's right. You did. So anyways, tonight we're having our first annual Christmas party. Hi. It's very exciting. We thought we were just... You're so weird. Oh yeah, by the way, at the coffee table Alicia gave it to me in the back. It's been pouring. It's been pouring so I haven't been able to, what the heck, to move it into my house and we will tonight. Anyways, so on the agenda, we are now on our way to the Dollar Tree.  Yes. And then get ready for the Christmas party. I'm very excited. I think it'll be... We have some DJs coming that we hire and we also have a special guest appearance. So it's like a pretty big deal. No, this is like very serious. So that's like really important advice and stuff. Like if you didn't get one, I feel really happy. Do you think the suits like you have for being a Scooter Legend? A Scooter Legend, guys. We're literally passing a middle school on like telling all of their lives. Okay. That's so special. What about this tree skirt? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, this nose. Wait, it's literally this is what I'm wearing. They need to go to Paris. Here we go. I'm gonna put this on my front door just to be funny. Wait, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, perfect. Okay. I don't know. I don't know. What's going on here? Okay, who's wearing the Santa hats? I feel like we should just like... I get this one because it's sexy. Okay. No, never mind, never mind. Never mind, actually. Do you need help? Well, I'm not gonna help you. Imagine. What is this? Is it a lid? I'm like, is this what you use to lay snacks out? Oh, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, we need these, right? To lay out like cookies. How many do we need though? Three. What kind of cookies are we giving? We'll just make a thing. We'll have a lot of food, but it'll be like half Cheetos, half Doritos. Half Cheetos, half Doritos. What? Tom, literally what? Almost a cowgirl. Alright guys, come on, post for your picture. Wait, wait, wait, post for your photo. Perfect.  Put the black one on, that's cool. Oh yeah, so we're all matching. Where are you? Wait, stop. Literally, this is actually my... This is it, this is it. Perfect, there we go. Like, unreal, unreal. No idea why I'm so amused by this. You've never had one? No, wait, what? I've never seen this before in my life. What is it? It's Santa climbing up the ladder. Oh my gosh, that's so cute. That's so cute, I've never seen it before in my life. But apparently I didn't. I guess not. Kinda weird. Guys, we need... Oh, this girl is cute. Wait. Why? This is really ugly. Every time we go into a store, we're like, this is so ugly. It's so bad. You're so horrible. Perfect, just let me know. Pleasure doing business with you. I love you, bye. Ladies, I think we just got speakers. Oh, it's a party. It's a party. I told you, this target's weird. Wait. Guys, okay, so here's my new coffee table. From Alicia, all thanks to Alicia here. I'm gonna get a different rug here. But look at how cute it looks in the office. Giving you a little overview. Very cute. Then, oh, here we go. I'm gonna move my acrylic one out here. This looks much nicer. I love this look. We have all this stuff we have so much to do. So, so, so much to do. I need to put the lights on. Guys, I just got home to a delivery. So, Remy came out with her razor. Why is this not... Okay. Guys, guys, guys, no, no, no. Oh, that's all in it. No. We're taking this home back. No. Ask Taylor to get it. That was so cute, though. Hold on. Can you put the banner in front of that rug? No. Just look at that white part. Oh, no, we can't. Okay, one sec. Okay, guys. So, Remy came out with her very own razor with Gillette Venus. Let's see this. Oh, my gosh, it's so nice. Oh, it's so nice. Wait, why isn't it... Oh, this is so freaking cute. And get this, guys. Oh, yeah. So, they give you blades. And it's so funny. Wow. Thanks, Remy. Thanks, Gillette. Just got ready. I curled my hair out with just... This is my curling iron, by the way. Oh, it's still on. To the driver, a three-day vendor. And I'm just wearing the stress and then sneakers. This is good. This is really good. Ow. Wait. No, what's wrong with mine? Wow. I literally can't. Wow. Wow. Okay. Perfect. This is exactly what I was thinking for my look tonight. Same. Mm-hmm. Yeah, same, Orioles. We're ready for Taylor because of that wallpaper fiasco. We have other... No, wallpaper. What is it, wrapping paper? Mm-hmm. Whatever. It's on the way so we can make this. We've got about three hours before most people show up. So, awesome. Look who's here. Taylor saved the day and got us new wallpaper. No, wrapping paper. What are you saying? Um, so this is going to be our photo backdrop. It's very, very cute. So, Sab and I are about to do this. Brennan, special guest appearance. Wait, I have the push pins. No, I have them. Oh, you already have them? Look who's here. We're just prepping. Brennan literally flew in from Sacramento and is wearing a Santa suit as requested. Not only did I ask him to fly in from Sacramento to this party, wear a Santa suit and look at him. Look at his shoes. No, these are literally his girlfriend. Tell all of them. Stop, that's so funny. Okay, guys, hello. Oh, the push pin, do you need this? What happened? What happened? Wait, what happened? We can just cut them. My edge is down. I'm like, hey, talk to you. Can I see some of that gel? Yeah. Oh, my gosh, wait, no, literally.  Let's see. Wait, where did this come from?  Wait, literally, whose clothes is this off of? Wait, Sab, you're so talented. This is literally your Sarah Takeo in the making. Actually. Yeah, it's fine. It's like that whimsical look. Yeah, it's super boho. Oh, yeah, you're right. It's super boho. So, honestly, I know you guys thought this was a Christmas party and this is why I came here, but at your fan, no one's listening. I know. It's your American Idol audition. Exactly. Thank you. You would be the type that's good at this. You should be more unreal. Oh, okay, no, no, no, no. We need people to figure out a camera, huh? We need better lighting. Hi, Kenzie. We just want to tell you, one, you're really hot. Really, really hot. Um, we just love you a lot. We love you only because you're hot. Yeah. If you weren't, we wouldn't love you. Okay, Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. We love you for all the angles. Better than yours, yeah? If you weren't, I just don't know. I mean, it might be so about it. Yeah. Hey, how much do we love Kenzie? Words came in the scribe. Okay, give me, like, We love Kenzie. More than Kenzie loves Texas. Yes, and more. And more. So, top that. I'm like, yeah. Kenzie, Kenzie, Kenzie. How much do you love Kenzie? Tell me what kind of person she is. What do you think? Is that DLC approved? She's too much. Okay, guys. It's just me and Morgan. We're having a sleepover. Yeah, so it's really late. I'm so tired. Love you guys so much. The party was really fun. Hope you guys enjoyed today's vlog. See you next time.