Hey, this is Darius Aria for the American Institute for Roman Culture. This is Ancient Rome Live. Today we're going to be talking about the life and afterlife of the Colosseum. So this is the world's greatest amphitheater. This is the great iconic symbol of Rome and Roman Empire, Ancient Rome. Let's take a look at its history and then let's talk about what's in store for the monument in the coming years. There is an ongoing conservation project funded by Todd's, which moves forward, which is guaranteed to give more access and better understanding of this, the greatest amphitheater from the Roman world. Hey there guys in Chicago. Thanks everyone for joining in. Sometimes I don't know we get spotty Wi-Fi or we have Zoom outages, but here we are.  Here we go. Okay, so what we're taking a look at today, what we're discussing today is the Colosseum. First, just a couple little points. There was something here before. It was the Lake of the Domus Aria of Nero, who's the emperor at the last of the Julio-Claudians reigning. So one of the great genial moves that the Spasian who's going to succeed him in the year, the four emperors, is to drain out that lake that was used for private enjoyment and entertainment of Nero and give that space to the people. It's a space that actually as known as today, the Colosseum Valley, it was already known in antiquity with very many important Roman monuments and shrines, particularly lining up against the Palatine Hill in this photo then behind me taking the picture into the right. So it was a way of giving back a big chunk of the city of where 100 acres of the Domus Aria were appropriated by Nero, giving some of that land back to the people. Why not the greatest venue from ancient times? Now there were previous amphitheaters in ancient Roman times, so we can go back and just basically and review. The first gladiatorial games are documented in Roman 264 BC in the Forum Boarium, but by the second century BC we're here about the gladiatorial games, the spectacles as they're known. They're set up temporarily in the piazza of the Roman Forum itself. And we won't have a proper permanent amphitheater in Rome. And to the time of Augustus, he doesn't build it. It's built by one of his friends and supporters, Statilius Taurus, somewhere in the southern campus marshes. So it takes a while to get a stone amphitheater in the city of Rome, in part because the Romans don't like huge entertainment venues to be permanent where people can gather and potentially outshine one another politically. So there's a reason why in the Republic they build them temporarily. Most famously, let's have Gaius Scribonius Curio in 53 BC builds a double theater, two theaters coming together to form that circle. And that's what the word actually means, double theater. But because it has a well-established practice and location in the Roman Forum, then it's in the Roman Forum that we get that elongated shape, which then defines all amphitheaters over 250 of them throughout the Roman Empire. So that real unique shape, that a perfect circle, is determined by some of the early games where people were fighting, performing in the long rectangular piazza of the Forum, and then you had to bleed your seats surrounding it in a kind of an ellipse or oval-like shape that will then determine the shape of all successive amphitheaters when they become a permanent. And the oldest stone amphitheater that's preserved with certainty is the one in Pompeii after it becomes a Roman colony during the Social Ward. And this becomes a colony established by the general Sulla. And we date that amphitheater there, known as Spatacula, plays for spectacles to about the mid-70s BC. So there is a long life of amphitheaters in Rome, but the first permanent one we can date to about 29 BC, Cetillus Taurus. Then we can turn to, we have notes of a wooden amphitheater being built by Gaius, otherwise known as Caligula near the Septum, the Cypita in the Circus in the Campus Marchus, that's abandoned by Claudius. Then we have an amphitheater of Nero built after the fire of 64. So the idea is the record show that the stone amphitheater of Cetillus Taurus have been destroyed. Here's a magnificent one, some people say not so magnificent, of Nero made of wood, and of Nero it's time for something new. What a big bold statement, a new stone permanent amphitheater for the city of Rome. Here it is, not known as the Colosseum until much later. It's known throughout antiquity as the new amphitheater to distinguish it from the previous ones. It's known as the Flaming Amphitheater named after the family name of the Spasian who built it. So we'll take a look today just briefly at the Colosseum and some very recent images, literally even taking just a few days ago. And we can see that the sod here, that brings it up to almost 50 meters in height, solid block stones of travertine have been cleaned, and this is part of the phase one of the conservation project that's sponsored by Todd's. You see in the distance the Arch of Constantine, the magnificent Arch of Constantine will be able to address it in the near future, and the big hole in the front where there's that sign that says Domosauria this way and entrance to the Colosseum this way, that's Metro C. So that work continues today. So it's a busy hub, it's the juncture point now for Metro B, which literally runs from the vantage point of where I'm standing, taking the photo, and then straight through underneath the Arch of Constantine on its way to the Circus Maximus on its way to the Port d'Astiense and the Pyramid of Cestius, so it's known as the Pyramide Stop. So again, we've had some breathtaking views as Rome loosens up and we're allowed to travel around. We get incredible views and vistas, and in this case here we see that section of the exterior wall of the Colosseum that is beautifully cleaned as well as it can be cleaned, and I'm going to give you a little insight on that process just shortly. There are some tours still, just local at this point, but you can see how everyone still amires the incredible work that was done in this long-term conservation project of the Colosseum. Now here's a vantage point, I'm going to be taking you up, up, up in the scaffolding to give you some great views of the Colosseum. Over the years I've been allowed to go up to the Colosseum, so I'm going to share some of those with you and then literally take you all around the structure. So number one, as you can see, get a sense already of scale, absolutely gigantic monstrous structure, and we've already talked about how it's replacing the Golden Houses Stagnum or Lake and the time of Nero, I'm going to move around here, turning around, I'm literally standing on the top wall of the Colosseum. You get a sense of the view, you get a sense of how high it is and then how small and low everything else is. This truly dominates the landscape of Rome. Today there's the Vittoriano Monument, the distance, you get an idea that you're about the same height, and we can see here that's the scaffolding that I was up, and of course you can see the crowds that are at the current moment not here. But you can also see, just to the right of the scaffolding, you have a big wedge of brick arcades. That's one of two restoration projects done in the 19th century, in this case this one here in 1827 by Beledier. It is an extreme effort to shore up that exterior wall still standing that it doesn't push out and collapse. So that is functional, it is in great shape, and it gives you an idea over the years, over the centuries, what people have done to maintain this precious ruin. So we can see from this vantage point again from the top, we can see different series of tiers, and we can see the arena floor partially reconstructed. And beneath that Roman floor, that floor of the arena is the sub-structures known as the hippo-jam, where in the end by the time of the mission and beyond you have series of permanent wall structures inserted into which there are channels, corridors, and of course elevator shafts to hoist up props, animals, gladiators. So this truly is one great forum space you can say for everyone of all walks of life to come and be entertained. So think about this as a grand arena. Think of the galleries. We'll talk about a lot of the activities, but essentially it's a place to come together as a community and to watch order in a sense being imposed. Because you have criminals put to death at noontime, you have a horrific warm-up act of men fighting against wild animals, and the main event, the moon arena, these public obligations that are paid for by the individuals, or in this case here the state, only the emperor in this venue, you have the gladiatorial games of man against man fighting often to the death. And we can see a little bit of the neighborhood. I don't want you ever to think about this structure existing in a bubble. It did not. It was surrounded in this case here by a big temple, the temple of Venus and Rome built by Hadrian, rebuilt by Max Enchus. But if you look down there at the base, you can see a bunch of large dark niches where we're told in one historic source, that's where a lot of the games machinery that's used for the spectacles of the Colosseum were actually stored. And that gigantic space occupied by the temple of Venus and Rome is actually the Velia, what we call the Velia Hill, we come back to us looking at the hills of Rome. And then to the left is part of the Palatine hill. Now I'm standing in the temple of Venus and Rome, looking at the Colosseum, how magnificent it is. Again, the outer walls intact on the left, the scaffolding's there in the middle. Then you have the wedge of restoring, shoring up brickwork of the 19th century. And then you have the inner ring that is preserved. So as we make our way to the right, the outer wall is gone. It's fallen down in an earthquake sometime in the mid-14th century, the stone. Think about that exterior wall of 100,000 tons of travertine stone, so much of it was carved away mostly in the Renaissance times and documented. So what was right next to the Colosseum? Again, I'm standing on the top wall of the Colosseum, almost 50 meters up, where the trees are, that's where you had the base, this is verified archaeologically, the base of the Colossus. Basically, think that that was where you had standing, a statue about the size of the Statue of Liberty, which in the time of Nero, we're told, was up on the Velia Hill by the Archiptitis, moved here after the construction of the Temple of Venus in Rome by the Emperor Hadron. So we can think about seating arrangements, four stories divided into four floors for 50 to 60,000 spectators. Everyone is arranged according to social class and that's going to affect their social experience here inside the Colosseum. Again, there's a morning show, a noontime of executions and gladiatorial fights in the afternoon. The wealthy people traditionally went away at noontime to have a nice meal. The execution of criminals, burning them, throwing to wild animals, and so forth, was largely left for the rabble. It wasn't considered something for the upper classes. Okay, here, literally on the top wall of the Colosseum, you can see different layers of cement and solidation work has taken place over the years, but it was a great honor, a great opportunity to stand at the top and I'll show you the view in just a little bit. But of course, again, the Colosseum I just want to underline was not in isolation, was not in a bubble or a vacuum. It was surrounded by four gladiatorial schools. Right here, we're looking at the Lutus Magnus. There's also the Lutus Matatinas, the morning show, the Lutus Gallicus, Lutus Decticus, and there's an armory and a hospital and a morgue. So there's a lot going on on this side of what we call the Kylian Hill, partially excavated remains of the Lutus Magnus.  This is where Maximus was locked up in the movie, just in the shadow of the Colosseum. And of course, you won't see any of the scaffolding up now on the exterior. That conservation work on the exterior phase one is complete. I'm just making our way around the magnificent structure. The original circumference is 545 meters. That's the length of the Circus Maximus. And you've got to think of the amenities, the bathrooms, the awning, the fountains, concession stands, souvenir stands, just as you would expect in any modern venue. We're making our way continually around here. We can see that when we look at the pavement, we can see where those white steps are. That's where the original exterior that has disappeared once went. We're looking now at some of the inner rings and the lower rings of the Colosseum. The walls are peppered with holes where the metal clamps, holding block to block, has been extracted in the Middle Ages as people are foraging for building material. This was a great source. This was, as I'd like to tell people, Home Depot, but for free. But by the 1200s or so, the Francipani family takes over this as a large fortification. What still stood could be reused. A lot of recycling history takes place later on in Rome's history. And it is amazing to think that even as a ruin, a lot of things were going on here. In the Middle Ages, of course, people are still making a buck off the Colosseum ticket sales. And of course, these centurions and gladiators have long since disappeared. But of course, you can still visit the Parque Colosseum reopening to the public after a closure of many months to the pandemic, it's opening up June 1st. So we think of this massive structure, 545 meters of circumference, almost 200 meters long, sometimes damaged by fire, 217 was a famous one to put it out of commission for five years. It largely served most of its life as a ruin because the gladiatorial games ended in 434 and the animal hunts ended in 523. There's already a church documented being inside and burial is already in the sixth and the late sixth century AD. And again, the Francipani family takes over in about 1200. That earthquake, mid 14th century, tunnels down that outer wall. So we can't see it in this photo. Can't see it in this photo. But that white line that's traced in the pavement shows us just how far out and how much of that exterior we are missing. It's a grand site as a ruin. And of course, we jump inside, we might see the occasional cat. We do see the different phases of the hippo jame, the substructures for the wooden floor here, partially reconstructed, sometimes in ashlar blocks of tuff, sometimes in brickwork. And potentially with the new conservation work, the entire floor will be reconstructed for more access to visitors we don't know. I would say it's more probable than not. So enjoy this view while it lasts. And we can see from this vantage point again, the floor, how much of the hippo jame is exposed. Later, if you look at it, more recent times, I haven't put up any of the more recent photos, the actual hippo jame walls have been beautifully restored and clean and consolidated. And they are now much more legible. Here's some reconstruction of some seating, which is incorrect because the seats at the bottom for the senators would have been much wider. And as you went up, then you got more closely related to that nosebleed kind of seat, less comfortable less showy, less visible. Of course, down at the bottom, you had the best views. And there was a gilded bronze fence in netting to protect you from being killed by gladiators or wild animals. It's a great view of the Colosseum and the arch of Constantine here from the Palatine Hill. I'm standing in the Vina Barbarini. It's a grand view from here. And from the top standing, you can see how tiny those people are now on the pavement of the arena floor. They were very up high. Indeed, the Castelli Romani, the Alvin Hills, where Romulus and Mabus were born, and we're all the way at the top for, I think, a quite unique view. Of course, who knows when the scaffolding is going to be up next. So I consider myself pretty lucky to have gone up there a number of times. Currently, again, the restoration work, the Grand Conservation Project funded by Todd's, is going to be concentrating, is concentrating on the interior spaces, the corridors, and so forth. They've made a lot of progress. And you'll notice that the next time you visit the Colosseum. So I want to thank you all. Let's see if there's any questions coming right back. Hey, then Indiana, great data that this is your favorite topic. And Todd's TOD, Apostrophe S, is essentially a luxury brand that makes things like shoes and clothing and purses. And the owner and CEO has donated money over the past years going towards this. And it really kickstarted Italian fashion brands to contribute to preserving the cultural heritage of Italy. It's been a great idea. It was a new idea at the time, now much more acceptable, much more current. Nobody's going to question anything like this today. But he was a real innovator to do this. And I think they've seen a lot of great results. The ongoing attention then will complete the conservation work on the interior. And then I think you're going to see some work also on the outside piazza, even with a new kind of guest center, information center and so forth, hidden out of view, but also another necessary step to accommodate people and having a better experience in the Colosseum. You can go underground, you can go up to the second tier, even the third tier. And of course you saw where I was, if I just come right over here, I was right up there and brought you to the tippy top when the scaffolding was up. Just give you some views of the Colosseum, the grand amphitheater, the new amphitheater, the Flavian amphitheater. Thank you very much for joining me for a little overview of the Colosseum, the structure and the ongoing conservation work that is taking place. Thanks for joining me here for Ancient Rome Live. You can support us, just go to ancientromelive.org slash donate. We're a U.S. non-profit and we are conducting live webinars on site on Wednesdays and on Sundays, always from Rome, 7 p.m. Rome time. Thank you for your support.


All the day has been very exciting actually. It's given me a lot of pleasure because I think now The contrast with about the first meeting I went on tropical deforestation In the Amazon in 1972 and this one is just it's just incredible Well the contrast isn't there There was a total confrontation Between people who wanted to protect the forest and avoid deforestation and the people who wanted to eat and At one point in that meeting I stood up and I says, you know the problem is The problem is there were no termites that we don't need wood We need agriculture and that was just everybody when you know sort of boo or yay total trade-off Between between food production and deforestation What do we see here from Dan Nebstad's work in Mato Grosso and his Brazilian colleagues is there's a synergy It's a synergy Agricultural production beef production soybean production is increasing the yields are increasing and deforestation is going down That's a synergy as opposed to the trade-off we had before and that's that's just that's just a very happy thing to see Now we have a very good example a real paradigm shift of You can have the synergies between Reducing tropical deforestation and increasing agricultural production in the same place. That's amazing It's it's it's essential what we're talking about is essential because this will guarantee environmental sustainability and Increasing the increasing the production of of food that we need To feed a world of nine billion people by 2050. This is one of the ways for how this will happen So it's it's essential to humankind


We're back on a Friday morning and we're here at one of my favorite shows. This is Trump Week because, you know, everybody has a duty to understand what's going on. And I don't mean to just listen to all the propaganda that comes out of the White House, but to understand what's going on. That's our mission here. So there's three hosts here, Tim Apichella, Cynthia Sinclair, and me, Jay. And today we're going to look at it on our given Friday. We're going to see what's happened this week. And I'm going to let Tim call the agenda. Okay? What's first in Trump Week today? Well, I think we should talk about the State of the Union address. Okay. So, one of the longest ones, hour and 20 minutes, certainly not short and snappy. Oh, that's long.  Certainly some of them expected and many of them not. I think the one that, you know, was hitting the headlines, of course, with the quote was, if there is going to be peace in legislation, there cannot be war and investigation. Snappy little rhyme, isn't it? But you know, when I heard that, I said, okay, that's the tone. That's the agenda. He's not making peace at all. It's a threat. It's a threat. Yeah, it's a threat. And I've heard that in many, many commentators is that to the extent that he suggested there'd be, you know, collaboration, he also suggested they would be war. So it's, I would like to say neutralizes itself, but it doesn't. At the end of the day, it comes out to war. It's nothing has changed. You agree with what I said? I totally agree. And he said it twice. He didn't just say it once. He reiterated it to really drive home his point.  Let's work together. Let's work together with the crime reform bill. And you know, so there was these little olive branches that we did get some things done on a bipartisan basis. That doesn't mean that's where he's going forward from this point. No, he still wants what he wants. He hasn't, he hasn't capitulated on anything. Right. He's pushing for the wall too. Oh yeah. And I noticed a tone, a change in the tone of his voice when he's throughout the speech and when he's those conciliatory offerings, he has this very sarcastic kind of ride tone to his voice when he's saying something that's not true. Well, he doesn't mean it. And when he doesn't mean it, it shows in his voice. It doesn't mean anything. It's like he's being forced to say it. Right. Yes. Well, that's the teleprompter of Donald Trump. Yeah. And once he gets, steers off the teleprompter, we start seeing the real Donald Trump. That's why they are mortified to say, stay on prompter. Right. Right.  What did you find? Well, narcissism is a really large thing that all of us have a little bit of in ourselves because it stems mostly from profound insecurity. And the ones that are really profoundly insecure are the ones that need to control everything around them the most. They cannot admit that anything is their fault. They always have to have a scapegoat in place. They are bullies. All the things that we see in Trump, but I think he takes it one step further. I think he goes into that. Okay. I've said this all along from the very first show, the projection that he does, which is when you're doing something, you accuse somebody else of it. And I have seen it repeatedly throughout. We all have. Yeah. That time is time in office. And just the other day, Nancy Pelosi actually stood up from the dais and said it, said that he's a projector. And that's what he is. And in my mind, and I'm saying the same thing I've sort of said all along, which is we need to sort of judge everything that comes out of his mouth by that theory of is he just projecting. Is he really doing it when he's pointing to somebody else and saying that they're doing it? That's something that he's doing. Yeah. So it goes beyond these textbook psychology. Yes. And I think it does. It's pathological. It's completely pathological. And I think he's sort of a classic sociopath. And I don't understand why main media does not talk about it. Hearing Nancy Pelosi the other day was the first time I really heard somebody. Well, hopefully they will. It's the new frontier that the media doesn't want to go into. Right. It's what it was to Franklin Roosevelt when he had to use crutches from the car and they would never show him actually on crutches. They wouldn't touch it. This is no different now. His mental illness is something that they don't want to go down that road and actually say this may be contributory to the bizarre behavior we get from the commander-in-chief and the bizarre policy switches back and forth. And that's something they don't want to do. So I come away and watch the whole thing because I actually couldn't. I could not bring myself to watch the whole thing. But I come away with, you know, it was hebrophrenic in the sense of jumping from one thing to another. Right. And it was all the schmals like he commuted the sentence of some woman who'd been in jail, shouldn't have been in jail. What has that got to do with the State of the Union? All the schmals he was bringing in to stroke people, maybe make his base feel that he had a real heart. We know he doesn't have a real heart. At the same time, you know, his position remains the same. And his pathology remains the same. So I think, you know, at the end of the day, and I'll take this out of him, I think it was the time, said it didn't make any difference. I agree. It didn't change anybody's mind. Right. Well, do you have any further thoughts on that? Well, I thought it was the first time when we had a midterm election that was the biggest seats gain since right after Nixon's departure. We had that kind of results in the House of Representatives, and it's the first time a president did not acknowledge a change of political flavor, you know, flavor. You know, we had 1995, George Bush, excuse me, 2007, George Bush had to admit that, you know, the midterms didn't work out well for him. Clinton had to do it in 95, and certainly Barack Obama did. So here's no acknowledgement of a change in shift. And in this case, when it came to the House of Representatives, a mandate. It was a mandate. And not one word to acknowledge in the state of the union address of that mandate. Alternative universe. That's what it is. It's not the same world we live in. Okay. What's next on your agenda? Well, a couple of other points is that, you know, we're talking about the announcement of North Korea in the meeting that's going to take place. We'll see if that is any more of an impact. I did get a kick out of the quote that he said, if I hadn't been elected, we would be right now, in my opinion, in a major war with North Korea. Now, is that the narcissist part that's coming out in Donald Trump? That he would have started. Right. You know, I mean, I think we are at risk around the world to become embroiled in more wars than you can shake a stick at. He talks about pulling out of, you know, untimely pulling out of Syria, talks about changing the players and the geopolitical positions in, you know, in the Middle East. But the fact is, it seems to me, I don't know how you guys feel about it, we are at greater risk of war, including a conflagration under his kind of foreign policy. I think he wants that.  Well, we know that the Iraq government didn't know this, you know, when he visited that area in Christmas time, he made, you know, similar overtures that Iraq is this who can become a satellite base for us to keep an eye on Syria, keep an eye, we didn't specifically mention Iran that time. But the point is, he's setting the stage for potential conflict when it's convenient for him. Because remember, it's the distraction of the distraction. And all these different places in the world can easily be a tinderbox and be the new distraction to get away from what? Yeah. Mueller's investigation. Right. Right. That's the whole idea. So he's setting the chess board up. Yeah. We're talking about what's going to happen in Venezuela, is he going to send some troops on the border there? Oh my God.  To keep making threats one of these days, you get into a fight. That's correct.  Anyway, from what he does in our own country to pit American against American. It's a scapegoat battle is what it is. Well, he can become more powerful if he can step in and say, look what I did. And that's what he's all about. And then, and I always heart back to martial law that, you know, if he declares a national emergency that is too close to martial law and gives him wide scoping power. I was worried he was going to do that in the State of the Union, but he didn't. I was surprised. Were you surprised? I was surprised that he didn't. I didn't feel that confident that he was going to do it, but it would not have surprised me had he done it. So doesn't that paint him further in the corner if he's going to hold up for the 5.7 billion? One link from today, boys and girls, is the end of the interim shutdown agreement, and so we're going to go back and shut down country on the 15th. That's one week from today. But didn't the State of the Union address paint him further into that corner? It did. It did. Yeah. He's still threatening. He's threatened it sort of in. He didn't actually declare it, but he was threatening it. He said, I can do it. Well, how's he going to get out of it now that he can't declare a national emergency? Well, another distraction. That's what it'll be. Yeah. What about immigration? Anything happening with immigration? Lots is happening with immigration. Unfortunately. They've just got proof now with this next last report that came out that says that they were separating families before they actually declared the zero tolerance. So there's already thousands of kids. They don't know the exact number. They don't have a database. They don't have a database. They didn't set one up. No. They had no intention of reunification of child to parent. Just punish me. Punish everybody in sight. Make them sweat. Make them suffer. That's what happened here. And anybody could have seen that coming. No database. And where did the kids go? With young kids who can't even identify themselves? Where did they go? And to say that they're just in foster care doesn't make any sense either because there are hundreds of thousands of American children in foster care that can't get foster homes. Right.  Well, here's the problem for the Trump administration is that this report came out of the administration of the office of Inspector General Government Accountability Office. And so this is an official report put out by the administration about the thousands of kids that were separated before the zero tolerance policy was announced back in June 14th, 2018. Now, I'm just going to take a little whirlwind here. Real quick one is how was the zero tolerance policy announced by Jeff Sessions? Does anyone remember? Oh, gosh. I don't think it was announced. It was. Wait, wait, wait. And he even cited the Bible saying that he was justified. Here it is. You got it? Oh, good. I would cite to you the Apostle Paul and his clear and wise command in Romans 13 to obey the laws of the government because God has ordained them for the purpose of order. June 14th, 2018. Jeff Sessions. Oh, gosh. So when you use God or you invoke the word of God to basically validate any horrible policy that you implement upon people, whether they're citizens of the United States or noncitizens of the United States, that's deplorable. I'm sorry. It is. Absolutely. And this whole policy of separating child from parents is something I can't imagine the United States has ever done. I mean, World War II, we did incarcerate Japanese Americans and that was very morally wrong. We didn't separate families. We didn't separate families. Let's take a short break. You guys will come back and we'll cover more points, including my personal favorite one involving Jeff Bezos. We'll be right back. Aloha. I'm Yukari Kunisue. The host of Konnichiwa, Hawaii, Japanese talk show on Think Tech, Hawaii. Konnichiwa, Hawaii is all Japanese broadcast show and streamed live on Think Tech at 2 p.m. every other Monday. Thank you so much for watching our show. We look forward to seeing you then. I'm Yukari Kunisue. Mahalo. I'm Jay Fidel of Think Tech. Our flagship energy show among the six energy shows we have is Hawaii, the state of clean energy. It plays every Wednesday at 4 p.m. Come around and see us. Learn about energy. Keep current on energy on ThinkTechHawaii.com. We're back with Trump week. Okay. And that's Tim Appichella and Cynthia Sinclair. And I'm Jay Fidel. And every Friday at 11 o'clock, we talk about what happened in the past week on Mr. Trump. And I don't know if we completely finished the possibility of another shutdown. That would really be Looney Tunes. It's in his control yet again. Right. And if he does another shutdown, he runs the risk of losing defectors from the Republican party or anything. How is he doing? Are there defections? Are there flaws and cracks and fractures in the Republican party these days? I would hope so. I would hope that these people can take their blinders off and spit out the Kool-Aid and actually look at the facts because the facts speak for themselves. And the behavior is obvious. And two, I don't understand how people can justify what's happening. I don't understand how the high ranking Republicans in the Senate can justify it. I was watching them interview Whitaker today in Congress, right? And the Republicans are just, they just like puff him up and, you know, give him all these compliments and don't even ask him real questions. And then as soon as the Democrats start to ask him really hard pointed questions, you know, did you talk to Washington, anyone in the White House about what you have learned about the Mueller investigation? And he wouldn't answer it. He just, you know, gives these crazy, skirting things. That sounds like the Trump administration. Nobody answers your question. I think the cracks were happening before the last shutdown and they certainly were there after story, after story, after story of the horrific trials and tribulations the government workers were going through to put food on the table to pay the bills, the whole thing. They didn't need that. That was a black eye for the Republican party. I agree. And I know for a fact that they don't want to see it again because many of those senators are coming up for election in red, purple states. And they're losing the popularity of the wall because of the shutdown. And they don't want to see that again. So you will see them come out. I hope so, I hope so. My prediction. I may be wrong, but it's my prediction. Well, I hope so too. What troubles me a lot is the whole thing about the press because the press has been changed. It's been morphed in some way since this administration began, lying to the press on a regular basis, criticizing the press, telling people that the press is the enemy of the people. And this is horrific because as the Washington Post says in his tagline, democracy dies in darkness. And we have now a confusion about what's true and what's not true. Who do you believe? And the press itself is suffering. So like this story that came out just yesterday about Jeff Bezos. Let me see if I can state what happened. Jeff Bezos, apparently, he's getting divorced or he got divorced. And there was a woman that he was seeing having an affair with. And there were photographs. And somehow the National Inquirer got those photographs and got some data about this.  Because somebody got it. Social media or somebody in his organization, I don't know where, but he wanted to find out where it had leaked to the National Inquirer. And they said something like, if you pursue that, this inquiry into how it leaked, we're going to put it public. And what he did was he put it public. I know, I love that. He proactively got ahead of it. He says, if I can't stand up to it, who can? And he called it, I think, what it is, blackmail and extortion. They extorted him about the news. And so what you have is flat out corruption within the media, assuming you call the National Inquirer a media. Thank you. You have corruption within the media. It's very scary now, the media fighting with itself. I mean, the way people would see it. And doing crimes and blackmail and extortion kind of crimes against it. And you don't know if there's more of that behind the curtain. Well, what scares me, or makes me laugh, not scares me, the parent company of the Inquirer said, we'll investigate this. Really? Sure. This is the same media outlet that announced that I married Bat Boy. And that was a front page, full page article back in the 1980s. No credibility at all. I married Bat Boy. So I'm not sure to what degree the Inquirer... See what troubles me is that there's a connection between Pecker and Trump. There is one.  And the playboy. The playboy bunny, right? I had a long-term relationship. Your names don't come to mind, but that was a capture-and-burn approach. And that works hand-in-hand with Donald Trump. And that's already been proven. He's already direct payments. This line has already been more or less flushed out in the spotlight. So what you don't know, what we don't know is if this whole affair with the extortion blackmail that Bezos is complaining about came from the White House. Because there was some indication that Trump might pardon Pecker for crimes. And that's really sleazy if it came from the White House. Remember, in his business career, Trump was always trying to manipulate the press. Even using phony names as sources back in New York. Well, if Bezos wasn't his arch-enemy, I wouldn't be so inclined to be suspicious of that very thing. But who else is going to go after him? I mean, lots of people, because he's, you know... The thing is that if you look at the three papers that are speaking out, maybe four, that are affirmatively every day speaking out against Trump. The New York Times. The Washington Post owned by Bezos. The Guardian. Really very good. And something called, I've been watching The Daily Costs, KOS. And they have lots of stories about him. You've got to look at this stuff. But what troubles me is that here he's creating this whole attack on Jeff Bezos. And he's attacked Bezos before. Through Picker, through the National Inquirer.  Well, you know, he used Fox and Friends, and he's used Fox News as his mouthpiece as well. In fact, back in November 26th, 2018, Donald Trump proposed a state-run news agency. That's so scary. Because he criticized CNN for being a powerful voice in the world, but it's unfair and false. And something has to be done about it, and that includes the possibility of starting an own worldwide network to show the world the way we really are. Great. Oh, wow. Okay, so, you know, there is something called Voice of America. We all kind of have a pseudo kind of news agency that does translate around the world. It's the grandchild of Radio Free Europe. So, that already sort of exists. But he wants to start a new news agency to be the mouthpiece for what Donald Trump thinks is his greatness. And the Homeland Security Office announced that it was keeping a list of all journalists. A matrix, a database of all journalists in the country who ever speak on political issues. And it was including in that list, in that database, their positions on things, namely whether they attack Trump or not. Nixon had a list. Yeah, he did. Right. I notice the difference for me. It's very scary when you start listing, including, you know, positions on journalists in the country. Ever since I've been on this show, my Facebook feed goes out to no one. It has, I mean, drastically changed. And maybe, you know, I'm just, you know, maybe it's coincidence, but I don't know, because I would have, you know, maybe upwards of a little over 100 people that I'm close friends with from high school and in different jobs and things. And they would always, that's how I would get my good numbers for my show, finding respect in the chaos and stuff. And every single show, I would get these great responses. Now I get three. I get four. I'm like, who's looking at my stuff? Nobody. So I went and did, you know, direct messages to all my friends. And they're like, I haven't seen your posts in, you know, about a month. And I'm thinking, oh, about the same amount of time I've been doing this show. That's interesting. Well, you know, we only have a couple of minutes left, and I wanted to ask you guys a question about where it's going. You know, because part of our job here is to connect the dots. How was it, say, in the inauguration of 2017? How is it now? How is the relationship with the press then and now? How is the government doing then and now? How are the courts doing? What's your sense? Pick a thread. And tell me how do you think it's going? Well, my thread is I remember distinctly after the inauguration, and people weren't sure about who Donald Trump was. They thought he was going to be able to transform to the office. He was going to elevate to the office. That was two years ago. And I remember distinctly people saying, let's give him a hundred days. Well, we're way past a hundred days. And he has not reason to the mantle of the office. He's below subterranean of the office. He's followed Putin's playlist when he's done and walked right down the line. And the state TV thing, a state news agency, is another one of the pieces in that puzzle. I'm concerned about that connection. And I think a lot of Americans are. And the thread is we have to be vigilant and keep an eye on that thread to make sure it doesn't accelerate here with distractions. Distractions or head-on collisions. Head-on collisions. That could be attorney general, not acting or otherwise. So, yeah, how is the Mueller investigation? Where are we on that? When is it coming out? Well, according to. And according to Whitaker, it's coming out very soon, which is something he never should have said in public and he's getting a lot of flack for. We have no idea when it's going to be done. I don't know how it can come out when Roger Stone is. It's just been delayed. Remember that for us? Yeah. It's not going to come out until all these new pieces have fallen into place. Congress, I mean, the House just sent their stuff over to Mueller. So he's got all this new stuff that's just come in because the Republicans wouldn't let it go over there before. They wouldn't send their stuff. I'm sorry. No, no, go ahead. It's just maybe a checklist of things he already knows. And it's just to say, I have one more piece to validate what I already have on my table. Right. So I'm not sure it's going to be new leads for him to follow more still than this check mark checklist. Oh, yeah, right. Well, here's a thread that I would like you guys to comment on. And that is when we started out with this, Trump was, you know, enjoying a lot of press, okay? But these days, he enjoys the whole thing. It's the whole enchilada is about him. I mean, it must be 95% of the articles you read, really, are about him. Right. Where does that go? Is that healthy? I don't know how the government can function if they're all tied up in investigations and dealing with him one way or the other on political issues and following his, his Michigas all around town. I don't know that way. So is the government functioning properly? No. Is the Congress functioning? They seem to be spending all the time on him and the press seems to be spending all its time on him. We are in kind of a spasm, a convulsion over this administration. Right? Yeah. Temporarily. I think the House of Representatives is focusing specifically on some very important things they did want to investigate, but they know that if they spend all the time, they won't get reelected two years from now. So I think that's going to be very short-lived and I think you're going to start seeing legislation being passed and then sent to the Senate and we'll see if those bills languish in the Senate. And then that will be reported on. Yeah, we need to get back to ordinary business as usual kind of legislation, legislative process and Congress. I don't think we're addressing.  What's the chances of that? The Democrats seem like they're relatively speaking united over it. I think they got some kind of program going and it's actually very appealing to, should be, appealing to everyone or at least most people. Is that attraction or is that a dead duck? We're polarized. We're a polarized nation. We're a polarized Congress. When cows fly. Okay, let's leave it there. It seems to me that we're spending all our time in the important thing for the government and every member of the Congress should recognize this, is to get back to business and do business and do policy and do legislation and depoliticize, you know, helping people and doing the right thing for the country. We need to get back to that. I hope so too. I hope we can finish what's happening in these investigations into Trump because I would hate for them to just walk away from it and say, well, we have other stuff to do now because I think it's pretty important to talk about who he is, be really set in stone. You think there's momentum building for impeachment right now? Oh, goodness, yes. I think so, absolutely. Momentum, but not facts. Momentum, but not facts yet. Not enough facts yet. But there kind of are, as soon as they can prove all the stuff Cohen said, it is. I mean, campaign finance laws, that he's not, he has not de-invest, no, disinvested. What's the word I need to say? The Amalian's Clause, he's totally blown that one out of the water. There's all kinds of facts and evidence for that. That's an impeachable offense right there. The only thing that's going to work is the really serious ones, that the high crimes. Right, connected, yeah. The practical ways. It won't be the small stuff because they won't get enough support for it, but if it's the high crimes that would show something really serious, I think even the Republican senators are going to have to say, we have to do our duty to the oath of the Constitution. And I think that will happen, but it has to be serious. Right. Well, and the other possibility is that the Republicans are not going to leave the ship. They're going to stay solid. 38% was still with Nixon? Didn't he have 38%? It depends on how surprising the Mueller investigation is. How shocking it is. No matter what happens in the interim, what really plays is in the 2020 elections. Right. Because that's, you know, there's a fair chance that the Mueller investigation will have its most significant effect in the 2020 elections. Right. And maybe there's a benefit in having it... Delayed. Delayed until... Because people forget. Right? If you put it out today, it's still a long time to 2020. By 2020. You know how people forget. That would be political gamemanship, but we wouldn't want that. We live in a new time. We do. Thank you, Tim. Thank you so much, Jay. Cynthia Sinclair. Thanks, Jay. Next week, Trump Week. You'll see.


From a body language perspective, he's pretty much batting down the hatches. This is for the person who doesn't know much about body language. This is one of those few times when you see crossed arms, and it means what you think it means. He's just completely locked down. He's got his arms crossed, he's got his legs crossed, everything's tight, he's not moving much. He's trying to stay in control because he's being put on the spot. He doesn't know what these guys know yet. He doesn't know what the questions are going to be, so he's got to be very careful, so he's paying attention to that.


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This is the Amherst Weekly Report from Amherst Media, Friday, April 9th, 2021. I'm Claire Healy and I'm Rebecca Duffy. These are the stories from this past week. The Town of Amherst has launched a new online engagement platform for community members. The platform, called Engage Amherst, allows people to offer input on local projects and initiatives. You can log on to EngageAmherst.com to provide insight and ask questions surrounding important town issues. The platform currently has engagements for Pomeroy Village Intersection Improvements, the North Amherst Library Building, and financing the Capitol Buildings in Amherst. According to the Amherst Town website, new projects will be discussed on the platform soon. Beginning April 5th, the state of Massachusetts has expanded COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to individuals 55 and over and those with one qualifying medical condition. This expansion means close to 1 million more Massachusetts residents are now eligible to receive a vaccine before April 19th, when access is set to become available to the general public aged 16 and older. Locally, those eligible can book a first dose vaccine appointment at the Bangs Community Center with openings for appointments occurring at 11 a.m. on Wednesdays online. Those eligible and affiliated with UMass Amherst can sign up when new appointments open on Fridays at 4 p.m. on their vaccine clinic website. Eligible residents are also encouraged to pre-register at a mass vaccination site and will be notified when an appointment becomes available. While closer vaccination sites are available, the nearest site for pre-registration is at the Eastfield Mall in Springfield. The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection has revoked an air permit for the proposed Palmer Renewable Energy biomass plant in Springfield following years of controversy surrounding its construction. The permit was revoked because it had been issued nearly nine years ago and little progress had been made in the proposed plant's construction since. This was coupled with growing concerns and opposition from the local community for the health of residents and the environment. The proposed plant would burn tons of wood per hour and emit large amounts of particulate matter as a result. The Asmone Allergy Foundation of America has previously labeled Springfield as the asthma capital of the nation. The Amherst Town Council voted on Monday evening to move forward with a $36.3 million project to expand and restore the Jones Library. After much conversation, the counselors voted 10 to 2 to be able to borrow $15.75 million for the renovation. Construction could begin as early as March 2022 and according to the Amherst Bulletin, the original 1928 structure would be rehabilitated and the addition completed in 1993 would be replaced. It will transform from 48,000 square feet to 63,000 square feet and will reopen in fall of 2023. Five large stone plaques commemorating Amherst Civil War soldiers have been relocated to the Bangs Community Center. They include the names of 300 Amherst soldiers who fought in the Union Army. They include the names of 21 Black residents, among the members of the famous 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment. This was one of among the first African American regiments during the Civil War. These plaques received renewed interest thanks to descendants of some of the soldiers. Amherst Weekly reports Chris McLaughlin has more. Thanks Claire. The tablets have largely been out of public display for over two decades. Now a new effort is being made to have them back on prominent display here in Amherst. Well when I first came in and saw these tablets it just brought tears to my eyes and I felt my father, who was standing next to me, because he's the one that started wanting these to be on display and worked very hard and raised money and when he passed away they were put back in storage and when my daughter and I came back my daughter Anika Lopes, when we came back to Amherst she made it her mission, we both did, but she worked very hard to make sure that she was going to finish what her grandfather started and it just, it gives me goosebumps standing here to know that it's finally come to fruition what my grandfather really wanted and it's just, it just like I said it just makes my heart soar to know that I know he's watching and saying it's about time. There are many names on these tablets that are my relations, the 54th Regiment, many names in Amherst of course that I went to school with but especially the 54th Regiment which was the Volunteer African American Regiment and on the 5th Calvary my great great great grandfather Christopher Thompson was actually at Juneteenth in 1865 in Texas to let people know that they were free two years after the fact that they didn't know so he's with the 5th Calvary so that's an amazing thing to find out which I did not know so it's just like I said when you look at these names and you actually touch the names of your family members and again it electrifies and it just feels wonderful. Recently the town manager Paul Vakaman has asked me to work with a small working group we're calling it some of whose members are descendants of some of those Civil War veterans and folks who served us during that period and we are working to find a permanent location for the tablets. Our short term goal is to work with community members to have them displayed on Juneteenth this year as part of the acknowledgement and celebration of that important date. As you may know the Jones Library is in the midst of a capital campaign and a campaign to expand their building and the trustees a few years ago voted to support having the tablets in a permanent fixture as part of their special collections and what would go on display in the Jones Library so we're going to explore that further now that the Jones Library recently as recently as Monday night got an affirmative vote from the town council to move forward with their project. We have short term goals of getting these ready with temporary interpretive materials for Juneteenth and then we're looking longer term to say to our community and to work with the trustees to say is the best place for these to be in the Jones Library. Well exact specifications are still being solidified. The continued effort of members of the local community makes the tablets display a greater reality. For the Amherst Weekly Report I'm Chris McLaughlin. During a weekend in April the Amherst town council is hosting an anti-racism workshop for its 13 council members the town manager and the council clerk despite reservations. According to the Daily Hampshire Gazette council members will be spending one weekend covering each portion of the virtual training from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. after their work week. However removing any of the modules makes the training less effective according to District 2 counselor Pat D'Angeles. Some counselors believe the timing for the training is wrong as new counselors will be elected this November. The hope is to make Amherst an anti-racist community. The country has seen a rise in anti-transgender legislation by Republican legislatures since the beginning of the year. According to the Human Rights Campaign at over 80 bills 2021 surpassed 2020 as the year with the highest number of anti-transgender bills in history. Al Jazeera reports that there are over 170 anti-LGTBQ bills going through state legislatures across the U.S. The majority of the bills fall under two categories those denying gender-affirming healthcare and those banning trans girls from playing sports. Monday one such bill passed in Arkansas after the Arkansas legislature overrode the governor's veto of the bill. This is now the first in the country to outlaw gender affirming treatment for trans youth. The Arkansas bill was called quote the single most extreme anti-trans law to ever pass through a state legislature by Chase Strangio. He is the deputy director for transgender justice at the American Civil Liberties Union LGBT and HIV project. And now we have some very exciting news. The UMass Amherst Cranberry Station is receiving $5.75 million in state funding to support the ongoing improvements of its facilities. Located in East Wareham, Massachusetts, the Cranberry Station has been a leader in cranberry research since 1910 and supports local growers and their bogs. UMass Amherst previously committed $2 million in 2018 for necessary maintenance projects bringing the total cost of the project to approximately $7.75 million. The Cranberry Station will use the funds to quote modernize and expand its research facilities, improve the environmental profile of the facility. It will also provide the tools needed to support programs in cranberry water, pest and nutrient management. Two new laboratories, additional office spaces and a new meeting room will be created as part of the developments while existing laboratories will also be renovated. The project is expected to be a 12 to 16 month operation but is projected to be completed by the summer of 2022. Amherst College has pledged to fully divest its $2.5 billion endowment from fossil fuel investments by 2030. Board of Trustees Chairman Andrew J. Nussbaum announced the decision which hopes to bring the college closer to its sustainability goals. The college is also pledging to make no new investments in gas and oil and anticipates that current investment levels will be reduced by 60% by 2025. According to Nussbaum the school has quote, neither held direct investments in fossil fuel companies nor made new commitments to fossil fuel funds in over two years. Amherst College students have been pushing for divestment since 2012 but no real progress was made until 2019's climate action plan. The plan sees the college fully transitioning its campus towards renewable energy. This will include the use of electric heat pumps and an investment of $80 million to switch their power plant to run entirely on geothermal energy. The climate action plan additionally sped up the college's expected deadline for committing to achieving carbon neutrality by five years from 2035 to 2030. Similar actions to divest fossil fuel investments have been announced at both Smith College and UMass Amherst over the last few years. That's all for this week. Thank you for watching the Amherst Weekly Report from Amherst Media. Once again, I'm Rebecca Duffy. And I'm Claire Healy. We'll see you at the same time next week. Have a good night.


Black Santa! Black Santa, did you see that last episode, boy? Eww, again, nigga. Black Santa thought that episode was such a banger. He invited me to the cookout.  Oh, I'm in, baby! I'm in! And I'm bringing, you know what I'm bringing to the cookout? I'm bringing, um, I'm bringing chicken. I don't fall, at least. Okay, but I'm seasoning it with some of the greatest, some of the greatest season my mom taught me this, some of the greatest seasonings we've got, you know, in my culture. I got salt, I got pepper. White people. I'll probably throw a little butter on the pan, and I'm gonna try and make it just as dry as possible. I feel like people really can get behind that, like the dry taste, you know, like a, like a potato chip, you know, but for chicken. I feel like people are really into that.  Oh, but low-key? I don't think Julama watched the last episode. I wondered if Julama was like, bro, how'd you like the last episode? And he was like, oh, dude, like, yeah. Julama. If you really, bro, like, if you really watched it, like, if you really, like, if you really watched it, if you really watched it, you wouldn't have said that.  If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with alfantitis, cock, please contact your nearspike, Sam. Oh my gosh. Some of you guys were tweaking that I had, like, smudges on these glasses. It's totally an OCD thing, but honest to God, I was literally so dialed into that episode that I didn't even look at my kid. The guy was not aware. Let's get this shmotty baby coming up with one of the hottest victories I've ever had in my entire life. You've seen this video on a Friday, okay? There is a chance that new Christmas content dropped this Friday that you're watching this. However, it is not physically possible for me to record and edit and post a Wilma on the same day. So if there's anything super heat that dropped, I apologize. Either way, I don't think it really matters because we just came off the hottest tub. The guy still hasn't responded to me, bro. It is crazy though that we have these insane wide receivers and we don't even hardly utilize them. Just throwing the wide receivers is just not that good this year. I mean, DK did have a super, super clutch catch when he burned his man last game, which set us up for a field goal. And hey, we won last game by a field goal. So a lot of times I'm always going for the touchdowns, but in this scenario is very good. I went for the field goal. We made our offensive line very good. You know, obviously people got like 95 overall teams now. So like 88s, don't, they look good compared to what we used to see in a Wilma, but they really don't cut it. Some areas where we really actually can improve, even though it doesn't look like it. Cornerback three, Justin Simmons, you're kind of a liability low key. Fred Warner's been really good. I don't got to mess with Fred Warner. Devin White's really good too. Honestly, Lawrence Taylor, so if there's anything I can really upgrade, it's going to be Justin Simmons for sure. Isaiah still are Simmons, really. It's going to be the Simmons. And I like our DNs. Another really big thing that we need to get back is a focused kicker, dude. No, offensively, I would definitely keep juicing our offensive line if I can. Also, I just want to say rest in peace to Marius Thomas.  And I've been getting a lot of comments about it. So I just want to say a little something. I wonder if EA will give him a tribute card. I don't know if that's kind of like, I don't know, taboo, but definitely give a good tribute up to the boy. All right boys, our first spin of the day. Our last first spin ended up being Horriblex. I only scored one touchdown, but it's going to be one, oh. This is a jackpot. Let me go on the sleeper app and see what's on the waiver wire. So I can get any single player, but they had to be on the waiver wire, okay? By the way, if you're wondering what this app is, it's Sleeper. They were our first ever sponsor on MMG Live. If you want the app, go to MMG Live on YouTube and click one of the links in the description that has the download there. That would do me a huge solid. If you want the app. Fuck, I'm selling out even when I'm not supposed to, but all right, hold up. Any player off the waiver, so Olimon obviously are not going to be on the waiver. So that's not going to help. I don't think I really want a quarterback, even if any of these had a good card. Rex Burkhead, Dantro Hilliard, Gavin Iguabique, Mike Davis, Amir Abdullah, Sharpenny. Okay, the waivers are going to look better in this league because the people in this league are not very good at fantasy football. Does Chase Clipwood have a good card in this game? He's an okay card. Mr. Celebrate when the clock's running. Stupid. Five seconds. Four seconds. Three seconds. Sorry. There's a Tavon Austin and Tavon Austin is, damn. There's a 90 overall, 92 speed Tavon Austin. I'm really digging deep here to like make something up. I was really hoping there'd be a kicker on waivers that I could pick up. But this Tavon Austin is actually sick. It's a 90 overall blitz Tavon Austin. 92 speed, 92 acceleration Tavon Austin. Oh boy.  Because I love my James Robinson, but backfield master is so OP. Like this Tavon Austin can probably get backfield master and James Robinson can't because he's a power back. And if I could give him a backfield master, oh, I would be so excited dude. All right, Damon Harris, you're coming out for Tavon Austin, who is a lot faster, but a lot weaker. He has 28 trucking. All right boys, our first wheel spin. Hey, he's on the waivers, okay? Our first wheel spin is an interesting one. Our second wheel spin, give me, I don't know how, but a kicker would be so sick.  Oh my God, yes! Wait, Tavon Austin! Tavon Austin's about to get set back to hell. This is a player, plus or minus one overall swap. I can take out one player on my team and sum them up for any player within one overall. I could take out Tavon Austin and put in 90 overall, Young Way Koo. I should have depth at other positions. Let me see if there's something else I could do this with. Stefan Tua, he is no longer even usable right now, because Montez Sweat took his spot. I'm gonna remove Stefan Tua from my lineup. All right, so Tua is out. Technically, I could get a 91 overall kicker, but I want Young Way Koo. Hey, I love Venus Guy, I love Young Way Koo. Black Santas protected me from the racism right now, but I'm gonna let you guys connect the dots, all right? All right, so we're six and one, honestly, I had like an abysmal attempt at the challenge real last, last game. Like I didn't even get close, no way. I'm so, dude, I'm so glad we kept Tavon Austin now. A hundred yards with a backup. It could be a hundred yards with Kyle Pitts. It could be 50 rushing yards with Tavon Austin and 50 receiving yards with Tavon Austin. Has to be one player, but it's scrimmage yards. So, Tavon Austin doesn't need a hundred rushing yards, but I think what I'm gonna do if it's realistic within the game plan, I'm gonna try and get Tavon Austin a hundred rushing, a hundred receiving. Jesus, 50 rushing, 50 receiving-ish. Young stack live. What do you got, big baller? Patrick Sertain, Mike Keynes, and Patrick Mahomes? Not a God squad. I smell not a God squad. Let's just start with a sack. Uh-oh, I blitzed a corner. See what he's going for here. Let's get on the QB, baby. Oh, play action. Oh my God, why are you getting so many yards? I need yards with Tavon Austin. I need a hundred yards with Tavon Austin. Gonna go half back. Oh, he does it! He throws a pick to Simmons! Let's go! Let's go! I did that a little too slow. I needed to start moving a lot sooner. Okay, this is gonna be so cheesy, but, bro, but I think it's called gun. Gun doubles half back week, and the substitution is Tavon Austin. I think this puts Tavon Austin in on my favorite play ever, shake half back corner. Yeah, unless he uses this or is running something really good, this is probably over. He's in man, but I think Tavon Austin should be able to burn a linebacker he does. He might go for a touchdown!  But that's 40 yards already with Tavon Austin. Let's give it an inside zone. Give me some blocks, boys. Great blocks! A little juke! I didn't need a juke, I should have known. That's five yards on this. 45 yards, Tavon Austin. Now we're gonna give him a little out route, and we're gonna roll left, and let's see if he can just burn his linebacker. Yup, yup. I almost could throw that. If I was a sketchy bastard, I could have thrown that, but I didn't wanna risk him lurking it. Oh, look at Waller. Actually, look at literally anybody. So what is my face cam doing, bro? What is wrong with you?  Guess I'm going for two. Oh, J-Rubb!  I'm a god! Camera, I gotta make it to the Wheel-Mop playoffs, all right? So, squeak this out. It's first to 10. Another run from Derek Henry, but Devin Wood's there this time. Let's go. Play action. Let's cover. Right here, right here, right here, right here. Oh, torched. Morven. I call them Morven. Marvin Jones just torched Ramsey? I don't know how he did that, but hey, we got a one-point lead. Kind of very clean. We got a two-point lead. Let's get a few more yards. Tayvon.  Wait, we can get 100, right side! We can get 100 if you're bonus! I literally just went at 100 already.  Oh, he really didn't get to it. AJ Green's gonna snag this one.   So if I got all 35 here with Tayvon, I'd be at 97. Stop running main coverage. Stop. What are you doing? Don't run something else. I'm not even proud of that touchdown. Oh, I got bazooka already! I know, it's run and gun. Perfect pass accuracy while throwing on the run. Let's bring Metcalf all the way across and let's roll right. Let's go, Josh! You don't need a skate artist, baby. 16 to six! Let's go!  Oh my god. Get on the quarterback so fast that he just can't do that. Yep, get to him. Head back! Lurked! Picture back! Let's go and run to the right! Come on, baby! Oh, I didn't see all those wide receivers. I thought that was Galaxy Brain. Either way, let's go! I think we could get our challenge. We could get our challenge done. Right now, if I throw this to Tayvon Austin, as well as, wait, get open.  Yes, sir. No, I was gonna say and a rage quit, but I didn't get to throw off. Shit, dude, that was another touchdown, bro. I swear to God, that was gonna be run and gun again. He's gonna run to it. All right, we'll just throw away J. Green. We'll just throw away J. Green. We'll get a little juke. All right, please don't quit. Please don't quit. Please don't quit. Please don't quit. I need to throw one more Tayvon Austin before you quit. I did it!  Oh! He got it! That's over 100 with Tayvon Austin. Let's go! I'm gonna throw one more. Oh my God. Can you run something different, bro?  Let's go cap to the end zone. He should be able to burn him. Oh, just kidding.  Okay! Great blocking, boys. This guy loves his blitzes.   I'm gonna go guard this poster out. I'm gonna use a Montez Sweat, because why not? Can't stop me. That's fine. J.R. Alexander, get the pitch! Oh! No!  Damn it. Let's get back out there, boys.   I swear it is. Oh my God. No, Josh! Joshie Pooh!  All right. Oh, sheesh. Oh, sheesh. Good catch! Get in there, Darren Waller! The juke- Oh, yes! Yes! Yes! We're into the playoffs, baby! Oh my God. After that last game, bro, after that last game, we deserved a gimme into the playoffs. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. Boys. All right, boys. First things first. Let's get a rage quit wheel spin and see how we can add to the team. That's huge. Going into the playoffs right now with this. Is that enough? Yes! Oh my God. Oh my God. 93, okay. Any, literally any 93 player in the game. Any 93 overall or a 92 with a power up. We really don't need a hat pack. We don't need a quarterback. Left guard center wouldn't be horrible. Dude, it's crazy. I don't know what to get. But I think I'm gonna get a detackle, actually. Actually, no. I'm gonna go right. I'm gonna go left guard. I was not getting a lot of pushes for run plays. Yeah, I'm gonna get Larry Allen. So I'll buy him and then I gotta go buy his power up and fully gas him. Larry Allen is gonna get promoted to starter significantly better than Joe Thune who I have in right now. Actually in every single stat. Excited to run behind him. We also get one of any pack in the store thanks to our challenge wheel.  We're basically going for the Hail Mary here. We're hoping that we can get one of the 95 overall crazy bow nose players. There's like Barry Sanders, Dan Diordorf.  So I think I'm guaranteed more of a legend fantasy pack. But my team's already so good.  Let me see the pack. Yes, let's go. There's the most feared player in here. Andrew Dowell, power up Miles Garrett. That is not a high damn. Hail Mary did not work. Alan Lizar, we do get damn. So we got Miles Garrett and his power up. Pretty dope, actually, but obviously we can't use it. All right, boys. Absolutely massive W. We have made it to the playoffs. So next episode, you will see me in the playoffs. I think that's Sunday. Yeah, Sunday, you're going to see the wild card. So let's pray that we clutch up. Let's play our absolute best Madden. Let's get it done, boys. Thanks for watching as always. I will see you then. Peace.


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we discuss the following question which says draw the letter s and state its order of rotational symmetry. Before we move on to the solution for this question, first let's see what is an order of rotational symmetry. The number of times a figure is onto itself, one complete rotation is called the order of rotational symmetry. This is the key idea for this question. Now let's see its solution. Consider this letter s. This is the original position of the letter s. Now when rotated through 180 degrees we would get this s. So we have when the letter s is rotated through 180 degrees and 360 degrees it will fit exactly onto itself each time. Thus the order of rotational symmetry for letter s is 2. So 2 is the final answer. This completes the session. Hope you have understood the solution for this question.


What's up? How are you guys today? It is a lovely afternoon in the middle of April and the first day I am getting some sun. We've done so many videos on vitamin D on my channel. We've talked about tanning beds, the metabolism, what nutrients it's synergistic with, the many health benefits, especially for your hormones, whether you're a male for testosterone, a female for estrogen. A few years ago we were talking about Frankie's ball of grease and how you should put vitamin D on your private parts for improved hormone synthesis as well But if you guys are familiar with all of those videos, you'll know that hey April isn't too early to tan You know most people wait till pretty deep into the summer to go to the beach But the UV index right now is at the point where you know It's kind of worth it to be outside to actually get some vitamin D and start feeling good You know you don't have the the downsides of the tanning bed high radiation levels It's causing some sort of health issues although the benefits of the tanning salon definitely outweigh the cons for most people So you know it's pretty warm outside today 60 degrees But even if it's 50 45 if it's sunny if it's not too windy You can still go outside and lay in the sun the main issue is that they spray I don't think I can say the word but the point is there are various vapors sprayed in the air by airplanes that are actually Intending to block the UVB the vitamin D I'm assuming because it's so early in the season that they're not doing it yet today I don't know so I spoke a little too soon. They are spraying Right there is one but the main thing is after they spray those then you got to see What happens so if they're hazy clouds appearing in front of the Sun then yeah They're probably blocking the UVB, but since that is kind of over that ways and not like directly above me It might be okay for a little while longer, so it can be a little hard to tell but after they spray Around the Sun It's not going to be like a deep blue sky It's going to be like a White-ish grayish blue because if you look over there like sky is perfectly dark blue But as we go closer to the Sun It's it gets almost cloudy, but there's no clouds so And you'll feel the reduced UV Sun after they do that when you go outside when you're laying here You can feel the rays of the Sun on your skin if you don't actually feel the Sun You know heating your skin up the warmth of it then the UV index is Probably not high enough. Although it's still beneficial to go out and feel good You know if your skin is pretty dark if you haven't going to the tanning salon then Maybe go outside at a different time of the day. I think earlier in the morning, you know Maybe 9 10 11 a.m. They haven't put too much stuff up in the sky yet or later in the day, but April early May might be the best time for most people because I know for like the past two years in New York They were just completely spraying it. You couldn't even tan. So my setup out here is Just this is actually a cot. I think it's on on Amazon. I think it's 50 to 100 dollars depending on the quality You get I'm just outside in the grass.   So if you're not getting sun and you're following a nutrient dense diet Your body is not going to use up those vitamins Because the skin obviously the epidermis is is a huge organ system covers so much of your body And for your body to heal that much tissue after being in the sun It takes an incredible amount of nutrients. That's why you see some people, you know They are sunburned for like weeks and weeks and weeks after one day in the sun They're always putting on tanning lotion, which we made another video on we talked about how Lotion is not actually good to be using and it's more beneficial to just be out in the sun with nothing on your skin But you know those people that can't heal their skin after weeks of being in the sun They have very high vegetable seed oil stores in their cells And they just don't have enough of the B vitamins to heal properly So if you're in a good metabolic state Even if you're perfectly healthy, it is very important to use up those nutrient stores because if you go 5 10 15 20 years without getting sun without recycling your skin You know your liver your organs your fat tissue is going to be storing up those vitamins for its anticipated sun exposure But if that never happens you could have Definitely an excess and imbalances of certain nutrients. So The problem is a vitamin D supplement will not alleviate that Vitamin D supplementation is okay. If you're super severely deficient Maybe it can get you to low to moderate levels instead of just zero But in regards to actually getting optimal levels of vitamin D feeling good that stuff you have to be in the sun And that was the perfect time to do it. So I'm just going to try to lay out here for an hour or two because you know, it's already a little later in the day I think around 1 32 o'clock.  So Uh, you know on one hand, I'm hoping they don't spray too much stuff in the air this year And I can get plenty of sun on the other hand, you know around my work schedule and that stuff You know being out in the sun for an hour or two or three hours every day is not really practical for most people So the solution to that is you either have to go to the tanning salons as I've said as I've done videos on explaining that in depth or You can try to take a small amount of vitamin D supplementation The lamps that you guys have told me those don't really work Maybe you can make some sort of UVB bulb set up in your house. I mean, I'm not an electrician I wouldn't know how to wire that but That might be a reasonable solution. You know, it's great if you're grounded too. I'm assuming this is grounded because Uh, there's the metal here And even though it's painted it's in touch with the earth So I'm assuming I am grounded out here. The issue is, you know in new york suburban areas Just the all the localized emf radiation is actually in the ground So I'm kind of electrifying myself to some degree. That's why you know inside, you know I would never try to ground myself with an outlet and uh in this high Frequency of an area because you know, you have all people smart meters. You have cell towers. You have all their wi-fi devices You have so much non native unnatural emf radiation levels In this type of area Now, you know, if you're in a rural area, if you can go out to a park to tan Um and in the forest anywhere where you can get sun exposure and there's not a lot of electronic devices Of course, you don't want to have your phone on you or any of that stuff that that would be perfect That would be ideal because not only are you getting the benefits of the sun you're in contact with the earth You're getting the earth's natural antioxidants. You're getting fresh air Oh guys, I've done videos on everything. We did a video on fresh air how you should open your window If everyone was outside doing this for an hour or two every day in the summer Doctors wouldn't be in business Doctors would not be in business to say the least I mean even if you're following a not so great diet Even if you have a bunch of other things you do that aren't that healthy this this really can alleviate a lot of those issues Now, of course If you've had, you know 5 10 15 20 years of bad lifestyle for me the liver damage from the carnivore diet You know, it's not like one or two seasons is going to fix all those health issues You're going to start feeling a lot better. You're going to look a lot better But you know, thankfully if you're younger if you don't have an experience those issues yet And you get started on doing stuff like this, you're going to you're going to be set up Good for later. Yeah, I mean the vitamin D the ball tanning stuff that actually has been getting really popular A lot of people are talking about tiktok youtube And that that tends to be the trend Um, these plagiarism copycats Will start talking about things that I did years ago on my youtube channel and no one really remembers me or Defends me on those videos And then they go try to sell their products or whatever products they came up with in that period of time. So It's a little discouraging, but um On the other hand, it's kind of crazy that no one else really came up with those ideas before me, you know in 2020 But anyway, thank you guys for joining me You can just search frank defano vitamin D frank defano tanning salon Frank defano tanning lotion, you know, there were the recalls last year for all the The toxins and the compounds the cancer causes stuff in the tanning lotion But I just felt like doing a little update video just reminding you guys Hey Now is the time where you can kind of get out in the sun if the weather's okay at least in the northern hemisphere I know some of you guys south america, australia Or watching me as well. You guys are going into i don't know fall or fall right now But you guys can check out frank dash defano.com We have a bunch of high quality meat products on frankie syringe meat Very important to get adequate b vitamins in you might even have to supplement some which we do have A natural b complex supplement on organ supplements.com. We have Water key for probiotic very high and b vitamins on frankie syringe foods.com guys Just really a bunch of really interesting stuff frankie's naturals We do have the vitamin d ball cream, which is also great for tanning and Some of you guys might remember this as well. Um, it can be kind of hard to Keep your feet and hands and face as tan as the rest of your body Because you know your feet are in your socks and it's very abrasive your hands are always washing and touching stuff your face Same thing always washing and touching your face So if you use the vitamin d cream on those parts of your body It can accelerate the tanning process for those parts for aesthetic reasons Also, you can Just wear like you can wear a long-sleeve shirt and t-shirt and just tan your face and hands Although I would prefer to go to the tanning salon for that because you don't want to lay out here for four hours just to tan If I think that's everything guys you can see on frankie syringe foods.com Almost forgot a lot of you guys might not have privacy To actually be naked, which is why clearly i'm not naked outside. I don't have that much privacy here So you don't have to worry about like not having your private parts exposed to the sun You're still going to get the vitamin d hormone benefits You might just want to try like one or two drops of a vitamin d supplement Like just literally just one or two a thousand or two thousand iu on those areas And of course, I've spoken about vitamin k2 the other synergistic stuff in my other videos