Section 1 of The Hunting of the Snark This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, go to www.librivox.org. This reading by Sean Craig Smith. The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll. Preface. If. And the thing is, wildly possible, the charge of writing nonsense were ever brought against the author of this brief but instructive poem, it would be based, I feel convinced, on the line, then the boast writ got mixed with the rudder sometimes. In view of this painful possibility, I will not, as I might, appeal indignantly to my other writings as a proof that I am incapable of such a deed. I will not, as I might, point to the strong moral purpose of this poem itself, to the arithmetical principles so cautiously inculcated in it, or to its noble teachings in natural history. I'll take the more prosaic course of simply explaining how it happened. The Bellman, who was almost morbidly sensitive about appearances, used to have the boast writ unshipped once or twice a week to be re-varnished, and it more than once happened when the time came for replacing it that no one on board could remember which end of the ship it belonged to. They knew it was not of the slightest use to appeal to the Bellman about it. He would only refer to his naval code and read out in pathetic tones admiral-teen instructions which none of them had ever been able to understand. So it generally ended in its being fastened on anyhow across the rudder. The helm's been used to stand by with tears in his eyes. He knew it was all wrong, but alas, Rule 42 of the code, no one shall speak to the man at the helm, had been completed by the Bellman himself with the words, and the man at the helm shall speak to no one. So remonstrance was impossible, and no steering could be done until the next varnishing day. During these bewildering intervals, the ship usually sailed backwards. As this poem is, to some extent, connected with the lay of the Jabberwock, let me take this opportunity of answering a question that has often been asked me, how to pronounce Sly the Toves? The I in Sly the is long, as in arrive, and Toves is pronounced as to rhyme with groves. Again, the first O in a borough goes is pronounced like the O in borrow. I have heard people try to give it the sound of the O in worry. Such is human perversity. This also seems a fitting occasion to notice the other hard words in that poem. Humpty Dumpty's theory of two meanings packed into one word like a portmanteau seems to me the right explanation for all. For instance, take the two words, fuming and furious. Make up your mind that you will say both words, but leave it unsettled, which you will say first.  If your thoughts incline ever so little towards fuming, you will say fuming furious. If they turn by even a hair's breath towards furious, you will say furious fuming. But if you have that rarest of gifts, a perfectly balanced mind, you will say frumius. Supposing that when Pistol uttered the well-known words, under which King Byzonian speak or die, Justice Shallow had felt certain that it was either William or Richard, but had not been able to settle which so that he could not possibly say either name before the other. Can it be doubted that rather than die he would have gasped out? Rilceum. Fit the first, the landing. Just the place for a snark, the bellman cried as he landed his crew with care, supporting each man on the top of the tide by a finger entwined in his hair. Just the place for a snark I have said it twice, that alone should encourage the crew. Just the place for a snark I have said it thrice, what I tell you three times is true. The crew was complete. It included a boot, a maker of bonnets and hoods, a barrister brought to arrange their disputes, and a broker to value their goods. A billiard marker whose skill was immense might perhaps have won more than his share, but a banker, engaged at enormous expense, had the whole of their cash in his care. There was also a beaver that paced on the deck or would sit making lace in the bow, and had often, the bellman said, saved them from wreck, though none of the sailors knew how. There was one who was famed for the number of things he forgot when he entered the ship. His umbrella, his watch, all his jewels and rings, and the clothes he had bought for the trip. He had forty-two boxes all carefully packed with his name painted clearly on each, but since he omitted to mention the fact, they were all left behind on the beach. The loss of his clothes hardly mattered because he had seven coats on when he came with three pairs of boots, but the worst of it was, he had wholly forgotten his name. He would answer too high, or to any loud cry, such as, fry me, or frit or my wig, to what you may call him, or what was his name, but especially, thingamajig. While for those who preferred a more forcible word, he had different names from these. His intimate friends called him Candelands, and his enemies toasted cheese. His form is ungainly, his intellect small, so the Bellman would often remark, but his courage is perfect, and that, after all, is the thing that one needs with a snark. He would joke with hyenas, returning their stare with an impudent wag of the head, and he once went to walk, paw in paw, with a bear, just to keep up its spirits, he said. He came as a baker, but owned when too late, and it drove the poor Bellman half mad. He could only bake bread cake, for which I may state, no materials were to be had. The last of the crew needs a special remark, though he looked an incredible dunce. He had just one idea, but that one being snark, the good Bellman engaged him at once. He came as a butcher, but gravely declared, when the ship had been sailing a week, he could only kill beavers. The Bellman looked scared, and was almost too frightened to speak. But at length, he explained in a tremulous tone, there was only one beaver on board, and that was a tame one he had of his own, whose death would be deeply deplored. The beaver, who happened to hear the remark, protested with tears in its eyes, that not even the rapture of hunting the snark could atone for that dismal surprise. It strongly advised that the butcher should be conveyed in a separate ship, but the Bellman declared that would never agree with the plans he had made for the trip. Navigation was always a difficult art, though with only one ship and one bell, and he feared he must really decline for his part, undertaking another as well. The beaver's best course was, no doubt, to procure a second-hand dagger-proof coat. So the baker advised it, and next to ensure its life, in some office of note. This the banker suggested, and offered for hire on moderate terms, or for sale, two excellent policies, one against fire, and one against damage from hail. Yet still, ever after that sorrowful day, whenever the butcher was by, the beaver kept looking the opposite way, and appeared unaccountably shy. Fit the second. The Bellman's Speech The Bellman himself, they all praised to the skies, such a carriage, such ease, and such grace, such solemnity too, one could see he was wise, the moment one looked in his face. He had bought a large map representing the sea without the least vestige of land, and the crew were much pleased when they found it to be a map they could all understand. What's the good of Mercator's north poles and equators, tropics, zones, and meridian lines? So the Bellman would cry, and the crew would reply. They are merely conventional signs. Other maps are such shapes with their islands and capes, but we've got our brave captain to thank, so the crew would protest, that he's bought us the best, a perfect and absolute blank. This was charming, no doubt, but they shortly found out that the captain they trusted so well had only one notion for crossing the ocean, and that was to tingle his bell. He was thoughtful and grave, and the orders he gave were enough to bewilder a crew. When he cried, steer to Starbird, but keep her at Larbird. What on earth was the helmsman to do? Then the bow sprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes, a thing, as the Bellman remarked, that frequently happens in tropical climes when a vessel is, so to speak, snarked. But the principal failing occurred in the sailing, and the Bellman, perplexed and distressed, said he had hoped at least when the wind blew due east that the ship would not travel due west. But the danger was past, they had landed at last with their boxes, portmanteaus, and bags. Yet at first sight the crew were not pleased with the view, which consisted of chasms and crags. The Bellman perceived that their spirits were low and repeated in musical tone some jokes he had kept for a season of woe. But the crew would do nothing but groan. He served out some grog with a liberal hand and bid them sit down on the beach, and they could not but own that their captain looked grand as he stood and delivered his speech. Friends, Romans, and countrymen lend me your ears. They were all of them fond of quotations, so they drank to his health, and they gave him three cheers while he served out additional rations. We have sailed many months, we have sailed many weeks. Four weeks to the month, you may mark. But never as yet, tis your captain who speaks, have we caught the least glimpse of a snark. We have sailed many weeks, we have sailed many days. Seven days to the week I allow, but a snark on the which we might lovingly gaze. We have never beheld till now. Come, listen, my men, while I tell you again, the five unmistakable marks by which you may know wheresoever you go, the warranted genuine snarks. Let us take them in order, the first is the taste, which is meager and hollow but crisp, like a coat that is rather too tight in the waist with a flavor of will the wisp. It's habit of getting up late you'll agree that it carries too far when I say that it frequently breakfasts at five o'clock tea and dines on the following day. The third is its slowness in taking a jest. Should you happen to venture on one, it will sigh like a thing that is deeply distressed and it always looks grave at a pun. The fourth is its fondness for bathing machines which it constantly carries about and believes that they add to the beauty of scenes. A sentiment open to doubt. The fifth is ambition, it next will be right to describe each particular batch distinguishing those that have feathers and bite from those that have whiskers and scratch. For although common snarks do no manner of harm yet I feel it my duty to say some are bougiems. The bellman broke off in alarm for the baker had fainted away. End of section one. Section two of The Hunting of the Snark. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Recording by Sean Craig Smith. The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll. Section two. Fit the third. The baker's tale. They roused him with muffins. They roused him with ice. They roused him with mustard and cress. They roused him with jam and judicious advice. They set him conundrums to guess. When at length he sat up and was able to speak his sad story he offered to tell. And the bellman cried silence not even a shriek and excitedly tingled his bell. There was silence supreme. Not a shriek, not a scream. Scarcely even a howl or a groan. As the man they called ho told his story of woe in an antediluvian tone. My father and mother were honest though poor. Skip all that. Cried the bellman in haste. If it once becomes dark there's no chance of a snark. We have hardly a minute to waste. I skip forty years said the baker in tears and proceed without further remark to the day when you took me aboard of your ship to help you in hunting the snark. A dear uncle of mine after whom I was named remarked when I bid him farewell.  The bellman exclaimed as he angrily tingled his bell. He remarked to me then said that mildest of men if your snark be a snark that is right. Fetch it home by all means you may serve it with greens and it's andy for striking a light. You may seek it with thimbles and seek it with care. You may hunt it with forks and hope. You may threaten its life with a railway share. You may charm it with smiles and soap. That's exactly the method. The bellman bold and hasty parenthesis cried. That's exactly the way I have always been told that the capture of snark should be tried. But, oh beamish nephew, be aware of the day if your snark be a boujum. For then you will softly and suddenly vanish away and never be met with again. It is this, it is this that oppresses my soul when I think of my uncle's last words and my heart is like nothing so much as a bowl brimming over with quivering curds. It is this, it is this. We have heard that before. The bellman indignantly said and the baker replied, let me say it once more. It is this, it is this that I dread. I engage with the snark every night after dark in a dreamy, delirious fight. I serve it with greens in those shadowy scenes and I use it for striking a light. But if ever I meet with a boujum that day in a moment of this I am sure I shall softly and suddenly vanish away and the notion I cannot endure fit the forth, the hunting. The bellman looked offish and wrinkled his brow. If only you'd spoken before. It's excessively awkward to mention it now with the snark, so to speak, at the door. We should all of us grieve as you well may believe if you never were met with again. But surely my man, when the voyage began you might have suggested it then. It's excessively awkward to mention it now as I think I've already remarked. And the man they called high replied with a sigh. I informed you the day we embarked. You may charge me with murder or want of sense. We are all of us weak at times. But the slightest approach to a false pretense was never among my crimes. I set it in Hebrew. I set it in Dutch. I set it in German and Greek. But I wholly forgot. And it vexes me much. That English is what you speak. Tis a pitiful tale, said the bellman, whose face had grown longer at every word. But now that you've stated the whole of your case more debate would be simply absurd. The rest of my speech he explained to his men. You shall hear when I've leisure to speak it. But the snark is at hand. Let me tell you again. Tis your glorious duty to seek it. To seek it with thimbles. To seek it with care. To pursue it with forks and hope. To threaten its life with a railway share. To charm it with smiles and soap. For the snark's a peculiar creature that won't be caught in a commonplace way. Do all that you know and try all that you don't. Not a chance must be wasted today. For England expects. I forbear to proceed. Tis a maxim tremendous. But trite. And you'd best be unpacking the things that you need to rid yourselves out for the fight. Then the banker endorsed a blank cheque which he crossed and changed his loose silver for notes. The baker with care combed his whiskers and hair and shook the dust out of his coats. The boots and the broker were sharpening a spade, each working the grindstone in turn. But the beaver went on making lace and displayed no interest in the concern. Though the barrister tried to appeal to its pride and vainly proceeded to cite a number of cases in which making laces had proved an infringement of right. The maker of bonnets ferociously planned a novel arrangement of bows while the billiard marker with quivering hand was chalking the tip of his nose. But the butcher turned nervous and dressed himself fine with yellow kid gloves and a ruff. Said he felt it exactly like going to dine which the bellman declared was all stuff. Introduce me. Now there's a good fellow. He said, if we happen to meet it together. And the bellman, sagesiously nodding his head, said, that must depend on the weather.  Be a man, said the bellman in wrath as he heard the butcher beginning to sob. Should we meet with a jub-jub, that desperate bird, we shall need all our strength for the job. End of Section 2, this recording by Sean Craig Smith. Section 3 of The Hunting of the Snark. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. Recording by Sean Craig Smith. The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll. Section 3. Fit the Fifth, The Beaver's Lesson. They sought it with thimbles. They sought it with care. They pursued it with forks and hope. They threatened its life with a railway share. They charmed it with smiles and soap. Then the butcher contrived an ingenious plan for making a separate sally and had fixed on a spot unfrequented by man, a dismal and desolate valley. But the very same plan to the beaver occurred. It had chosen the very same place, yet neither betrayed by a sign or a word the disgust that appeared in his face. Each thought he was thinking of nothing but snark and the glorious work of the day and each tried to pretend that he did not remark that the other was going that way. But the valley grew narrow and narrower still and the evening got darker and colder till merely from nervousness, not from good will, they marched along shoulder to shoulder. Then a scream, shrill and high, read the shuddering sky and they knew that some danger was near. The beaver turned pale to the tip of its tail and even the butcher felt queer. He thought of his childhood left far, far behind that blissful and innocent state. The sound so exactly recalled to his mind a pencil that squeaks on a slate. "'Tis the voice of the jub-jub,' he suddenly cried, this man that they used to call dunce. "'As the bellman would tell you,' he added with pride, "'I have uttered that sentiment once. "'Tis the note of the jub-jub. "'Keep count, I entreat. "'You will find I have told it you twice. "'Tis the song of the jub-jub. "'The proof is complete. "'If only I've stated it thrice.'" The beaver had counted with scrupulous care attending to every word, but it fairly lost heart and outgrabe in despair when the third repetition occurred. It felt that, in spite of all possible pains, it had somehow contrived to lose count, and the only thing now was to rack its poor brains by reckoning up the amount. "'Tru, I don't run, if that could not be done,' it said, with one's fingers and thumbs. Recollecting with tears how, in earlier years, it had taken no pains with its sums. "'The thing can be done,' said the butcher. "'I think. The thing must be done, I am sure. "'The thing shall be done. "'Bring me paper and ink. "'The best there's time to procure.'" The beaver brought paper, portfolio, pens, and ink in unfailing supplies while strange, creepy creatures came out of their dens and watched them, with wondering eyes. So engrossed was the butcher, he heated them not, as he wrote with a pen in each hand, and explained all the while in a popular style which the beaver could well understand. Taking three as the subject to reason about, a convenient number to state, we had seven and ten, and then multiply out by one thousand, diminished by eight. The result we proceed to levide, as you see, by nine hundred and ninety and two. Then subtract seventeen, and the answer must be exactly and perfectly true. The method employed I would gladly explain while I have it so clear in my head, if I had but the time and you had but the brain, what much yet remains to be said. In one moment I've seen what has ever do been enveloped in absolute mystery, and without extra charge I will give you at large a lesson in natural history. In his genial way he proceeded to say forgetting all laws of propriety and that giving instruction without introduction would have caused quite a thrill in society. As to temper the jub-jubs a desperate bird, since it lives in perpetual passion, its taste in costume is entirely absurd, it is ages ahead of the fashion, but it knows any friend it has met once before, it never will look at a bribe, and in charity meetings it stands at the door and collects though it does not subscribe. Its flavour when cooked is more exquisite far than mutton or oysters or eggs, something it keeps best in an ivory jar, and some in mahogany kegs. You boil it in sawdust, you salt it in glue, you condense it with locus and tape, still keeping one's principal object in view to preserve its symmetrical shape. The butcher would gladly have talked till next day, but he felt that the lesson must end, and he wept with delight in attempting to say he considered the beaver his friend, while the beaver confessed with affection it looks more eloquent even than tears. It had learnt in ten minutes far more than all books would have taught it in seventy years. They returned hand in hand, and the bellman unmanned for the moment with noble emotion said, this amply repays all the weary some days we have spent on the billowy ocean. Such friends, as the beaver and butcher became, have seldom if ever been known. In winter or summer, twas always the same, you could never meet either alone. And when quarrels arose as one frequently finds quarrels will, spite of every endeavour, the song of the jub-jub recurred to their minds and cemented their friendship forever. Fit the sixth, the bearster's dream. They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care, they pursued it with forks and hope, they threatened its life with a railway share, they charmed it with smiles and soap. But the bearster, weary of proving in vain that the beaver's lace-making was wrong, fell asleep, and in dreams saw the creature quite plain that his fancy had dwelt on so long. He dreamed that he stood in a shadowy court where the snark with a glass in its eye, dressed in gown, bands and wig, was defending a pig on the charge of deserting its sty. The witnesses proved without error or flaw that the sty was deserted when found, and the judge kept explaining the state of the law in a soft, undercurrent of sound. The indictment had never been clearly expressed, and it seemed that the snark had begun and had spoken three hours before anyone guessed what the pig was supposed to have done. The jury had each formed a different view, long before the indictment was read, and they all spoke at once so that none of them knew one word that the others had said. You must know, said the judge, but the snark exclaimed, Fudge, that statute is obsolete quite. Let me tell you, my friends, the whole question depends on an ancient manorial right. In the matter of treason, the pig would appear to have aided, but scarcely abetted. While the charge of insolvency fails, it is clear, if you grant the plea, never indebted. The fact of desertion I will not dispute, but its guilt, as I trust, is removed, so far as relates to the course of this suit by the alibi which has been proved. My poor client state now depends on your votes. Here the speaker sat down in his place, and directed the judge to refer to his notes, and briefly to sum up the case. But the judge said he never had summed up before, so the snark undertook it instead, and summed it so well that it came too far more than the witnesses ever had said. When the verdict was called for the jury declined as the word was so puzzling to spell, but they ventured to hope that the snark wouldn't mind undertaking that duty as well. So the snark found the verdict, although as it owned it was spent with the toils of the day. When it said the word guilty, the jury all groaned, and some of them fainted away. Then the snark pronounced sentence, the judge being quite too nervous to utter a word. When it rose to its feet, there was silence, like night, and the fall of a pin might be heard. Transportation for life was the sentence it gave, and then to be fined forty pound. The jury all cheered, though the judge said he feared that the phrase was not legally sound, but their wild exultation was suddenly checked when the jailer informed them with tears.  The judge left the court looking deeply disgusted, but the snark, though a little aghast, as the lawyer to whom the defense was entrusted, went bellowing on to the last. Thus the barrister dreamed, while the bellowing seemed to grow every moment more clear, till he woke to the knell of the furious bell, which the bellman rang close at his ear. End of section three, recording by Sean Craig Smith. Section four of The Hunting of the Snark. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Recording by Sean Craig Smith. The Hunting of the Snark. Section four. Fit the seventh. The banker's fate. They sought it with thimbles. They sought it with care. They pursued it with forks and hope. They threatened its life with a railway share. They charmed it with smiles and soap. And the banker, inspired with the courage so new, it was a matter for a general remark, rushed madly ahead and was lost to their view in his zeal to discover the snark. But while he was seeking with thimbles and care, a bandersnatch swiftly drew nigh and grabbed at the banker who shrieked in despair, for he knew it was useless to fly. He offered large discount. He offered a check drawn to bearer for seven pounds ten. But the bandersnatch merely extended its neck and grabbed at the banker again without rest or pause while those frumious jaws went savagely snapping around. He skipped and he hopped and he floundered and flopped till fainting. He fell to the ground. The bandersnatch fled as the others appeared, led on by that fear-stricken yell. And the bellman remarked, It is just as I feared. And solemnly told on his bell, he was black in the face and they scarcely could trace the least likeness to what he had been. So great was his fright that his waistcoat turned white. A wonderful thing to be seen. To the horror of all who were present that day, he up rose in full evening dress and with senseless grimaces endeavored to say what his tongue could no longer express. Down he sank in a chair, ran his hands through his hair and chanted in mimsious tones words whose utter inanity proved his insanity while he rattled a couple of bones. Leave him here to his fate. It is getting so late, the bellman exclaimed in a fright. We have lost half the day any further delay and we shan't catch a snark before night. Fit the Eighth. The Vanishing. They sought it with thimbles. They sought it with care. They pursued it with forks and hope. They threatened its life with a railway share. They charmed it with smiles and soap. They shuttered to think that the chase might fail and the beaver, excited at last, went bounding along on the tip of its tail for the daylight was nearly past. There is thing of mob shouting, the bellman said.  He is waving his hands. He is wagging his head. He has certainly found a snark. They gazed into light while the butcher exclaimed, he was always a desperate wag. They beheld him, their baker, their hero unnamed, on top of a neighboring crag, erect and sublime for one moment of time. In the next, that wild figure they saw, as if stung by a spasm, plunged into a chasm, while they waited and listened in awe. It's a snark! Was the sound that first came to their ears and seemed almost too good to be true, then followed a torrent of laughter and cheers, then the ominous words, It's a boot! Then silence. Some fancied they heard in the air a weary and wandering sigh. That sounded like, Jump! But the others declare, it was only a breeze that went by. They hunted till darkness came on, but they found not a button or feather or mark by which they could tell that they stood on the ground where the baker had met with the snark. In the midst of the word he was trying to say, in the midst of his laughter and glee, he had softly and suddenly vanished away. For the snark was a bugem, you see. End of section 3 Recording by Sean Craig Smith End of The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll


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What's good George the Bull rocks back again with another video. So we're gonna check out WWE wrestlers threatened to walk out WWE sales update John Cena romance and other wrestling related news Now you guys like you guys saw my video late last night on the whole rumor of WWE being sold to the Saudi Arabians, but More news came out today saying that it's not true. It hasn't been any sale so far and once again Like I said in that video that was a rumor, but I wanted to kind of get your guys Feedback on it if it was possibly true and one thing I know about Vince McMahon is he loves his $1 and one thing we know about the Saudi Arabia government. They have money to just throw They just they have plenty of money to throw So I wouldn't be surprised if that does happen in the future or maybe there was talks with Vince in the Saudi Saudi people and Maybe there's some things in motion who knows but we will see what happens in the upcoming weeks and months But we're gonna check this out man by wrestling me appreciate all love and support You guys have been showing on channel you guys are amazing and I am still getting undisputed YouTube wrestling champ on the world So don't forget that let's get right into this video man. What is going on guys? It is WrestleMania here backward some more news I'll join us now as we look at the wildest new stories and rumors you need to know including WWE wrestlers threatened to walk out on its sale rumors has the WWE really been sold John Cena dated a women's champion and much more be sure to subscribe and hit that notification Bell for daily wrestling Also, check out our new channel WrestleMania short and I'll see the intro and get straight into our first story First we look set has the WWE been sold a top of today's news is a riveting report that the WWE has been sold to the Saudi Arabia's public investment fund the PIF We're reported on this in a previous news video But as you'd expect from a huge story many more details are emerging of course There are multiple reports that a deal has been worked out the sale has not been finalized according to body slam Dot next Cassidy Hayes who tweeted Update here's what I put together so far The deal isn't completely finalized because WWE must provide notice to shareholders and other parties There are legalities to go through as a company is publicly traded, but again, I'm told a deal has been agreed to in principle Well shareholders approved the sale the sale may not be easy to pull off as Vince McMahon once Recall us noting that there are reports that a shareholder suit may be filed by the law firm There's a last year the firm announced it was investigating whether members of WWE's board of directors or senior management failed to manage WWE in an acceptable manner and this is a thing once again this whole suit could really Really put a stop to any potential sale right now So it things are really developing behind the scenes in WWE, which is crazy to say like this It's probably been the most like active Hype but for the wrong reasons you think people be more hype for Royal Rumble But people are more like interested in what's going on behind the scenes before we even get to the rumble It's crazy in breach of their fiduciary duties to WWE and whether WWE and its shareholders have suffered damages as a result The suit seemed to fade into the background when Vince McMahon retired But McMahon's return appears to a renewed interest in the suit No, we aren't commenting on the merits of any prospective lawsuit It wouldn't surprise us if other law firms piggybacked on the idea that there is money to be made from suing the company on behalf of shareholders One of the most interesting aspects of this situation is whether the prospective owners might just throw large sums of money at the Plaintiffs to settle the suit and proceed with a sale because they have a No-deal they keep in mind so far a deal has not been confirmed and now the mba hours aerial hell one He recently tweeted contrary to reports stating otherwise last night There is no deal in place at this precise moment for WWE to be sold to Saudi Arabia's public investment fund or any entity sources say The organization is still exploring all options. I'm told developing according to Wrestling Observer figure four online's Josh Nason, how one he is a former client of WWE CEO Nick Khan in light of the many reports and rumors We want to remind viewers that some business organizations and stock speculators It used said reports and rumors for their own advantage Which often makes it difficult to pin down the facts. Of course, of course really have to hear from WWE themselves Did WWE got got by Vince McMahon as rumors continue that the WWE is being sold to the PIF a Startling story is coming out that Vince McMahon has been working on a potential deal ever since he retired from the WWE last summer Meltzer discussed this on the Wrestling Observer radio saying one thing that we do know is ever since Vince was ousted He did open up talks with the Saudis. I mean, this didn't come in the last week This coming back was obviously to close the deal Running the company for all the reasons we're talking about probably felt very uneasy about the deal closing Because they are perhaps looking out for the long-term future of their company and their own assets too and this tap That would make sense Vince didn't come back for just, you know Defeated Zigo, you know Vince came back More so on the business side of things to maybe potentially finalize a deal with selling the company and once again He's majority shareholder so he can do that shit Yeah, they ousted him out with the you know the allegations is all this other stuff But best believe I'm pretty sure he was in motion to make some things happen I don't want y'all to think Vince was just at home sitting there soaking over Monday night raw not being ran by him I'm pretty sure he was definitely making some moves behind the scenes to make sure he can do whatever he can to get back to WWE and do what he he ultimately may want to do we'll just sell the company As we noted on our website when the news of Vince returning to his seat as executive chairman broke McMahon moved at lightning speed to accomplish a fate to comply if the WWE is sold that seems to be the case Meltzer added to his take on things saying so that's another layer Obviously the people on board Nick Khan and Triple H who voted one way before to keep McMahon out of the board of directors And they voted it another way today if this reporter Vince going to work on a sale following his retirement is accurate It raises the question whether Vince McMahon pulled a fast one on the WWE's power structure There's been speculation that Vince's retirement was forced upon him in some sort of power play behind their scenes This has never been confirmed But the sudden return of Triple H and Stephanie McMahon after they had previously appeared to have lost any authority in the company led to questions as to why they were suddenly put on top of WWE's food chain Stephanie's abrupt exit on 10th January following Vince's return as executive chairman should raise eyebrows He does assuming Vince was ousted out It's not a stretch to hypothesize that he showed why still one of the sharpest minds in the business On the other hand those who gained control of the WWE may somehow be working with Vince creating a clever cover story of a power play while everyone is working at the same goal the fast sale of the WWE to a big money buyer that allows things to move quickly to Vince's best interest and this is But this is like a goddamn WrestleMania storyline With all twist and turns in and bro Bro Where was this creative? Few years ago. This is this is literally some type of damn. This could be like a movie, bro The way things are playing out right now. It's insane, bro. This is the most talked about Situation in WWE and it's not even a royal rumble. It's Vince McMahon coming back and just raising all kind of hell Critics of this theory may argue that the WWE's board told Vince flat out that they didn't want him back in control But this could have been a case of the board covering his collective ass Knowing full well that Vince McMahon's voting shares allow him to proceed as he chooses Next up WWE superstars a chagrin as you'd expect the idea of WWE being sold to the Saudis It's led to feelings of uncertainty and dread Dave Meltzer reported on the Wrestling Observer Radio That as soon as the rumors about Saudi deal broke everyone was talking about it inside wrestling Everyone at the NXT tapings who was here heard the rumors and everyone was scared whether it was their jobs That was a lot of uncertainty there and certainty in the company Wrestlers in the WWE's developmental territory may feel particularly troubled due to questions about whether NXT will continue The uncertainty may be affecting Bray Wyatt as well as Wyatt liked to tweet from a fan who tweeted Dear Bray Wyatt, I know you're not that man anymore, but turns out I do have fear Bray I fear of you losing again from the WWE. That's my fear Wyatt is one of the superstars that Triple H brought back following Vince's departure and possibility of the WWE releasing him and others can't be dismissed WWE facing mass workouts It's unknown what wrestlers could face under new management, but apparently some wrestlers are already Contemplating action fightful Sean Ross tap tweeted there have been multiple wrestlers who have told me they'd leave WWE if the company ends up being Saudi Arabia led Sam's report isn't an earth-shaking announcement Superstars either flat out refused to work in Saudi Arabia who've expressed being uncomfortable working there Nonetheless it again raises the question who might demand their release from WWE Honor related note There's also the question of which superstars the Saudis might not want to work with whether it's LGBTQ wrestlers or performers That have been told they are personaed on grata in Saudi Arabia such as Sami Zayn The Saudis may cut certain wrestlers due to the government's problematic political and social views Yeah, next up is their uncertainty about w and this is this is about this craze This raises a lot of questions a lot of Uncertainty among the wrestlers the talent the people that work there, you know, so I don't know once again, this is about that bottom dollar you would think 30 plus years of cultivating this company cultivating this this business Being the largest wrestling company in the world is not even close the largest wrestling company in the world And you end up selling it Quote-unquote some would say for blood money It comes in the question the end of the day was it all worth it? And maybe to Vince if they do if he does end up selling it to them Maybe Tim maybe the money was worth it Maybe them trying to get him out the company was I bet I'ma show you our southern motherfucking company That could be a play that could be a situation So, you know what I recant mother statement saying it's not about ego is definitely with ego events How could you outs me? How could you try to get me out of my company? You know what screw that? I'ma sell it to the highest bidder. It could be a simple situation like that We don't know we don't know what goes on in the madman's mind of Vince McMahon. We don't know WWE's current television rights deal If the WWE is sold to the Saudis will it affect the WWE's current deals with NBC and Fox to broadcast raw and XT and Smackdown? The TV deals are in place through the end of 2023 and there was talk WWE will begin negotiating new deals later this year However, if it's sold before then would there be any impact on the deals? They've Meltzer discussed this saying maybe he's Vince McMahon's already talked to people at Fox and the NBCU and they've assured him that he's okay I don't see them cancelling him right now. It's a very problematic company at this point There's gonna be jobs lost while NBCU and Fox might be comfortable working with a Saudi own company due to the optics Well, they want to drop programming that is delivered for them so far Also, if they wanted to it's undone if any clause in the rights deal that allows them for cancelling their shows and recouping any Money from the deal early on in the deal there were rumors that WWE had to deliver a certain rating in order to keep it To deal with Fox going Meltzer also discussed what might happen if the WWE were to lose its TV rights deal if they were dropped Or no one picks them up when they expire as the WWE purchased a propaganda ploy Well, I also had lots of interesting things to say about a political purchase by Saudi Arabia Including the WWE's value for propaganda purposes, you know, here's the other thing too You know does this become a propaganda piece every Monday night like we do on those paper views if you watch any of the WWE Saudi Arabia events you've likely seen the various hype video showcasing what a wonderful place Saudi Arabia is We also seen the pre and post-show publicity where the WWE shows its superstars enjoying culture and interacting with the fans Critics for Christ sportswashing and they may be right, but that won't stop the PR from continuing its propaganda practices Next up a raw faction continues to earn accolades a good news for the judgment day as Raw's heel faction continues to be praised by fans and people back stage Fightful select recently commented that the group was lauded backstage Bella priests for repliant Dominic Visterio We're tired in the ring and on the mic to get over Dominic's new gimmick is a Plenty of laughs from fans on Monday when he appeared on miss TV.  He'll never lies on everyone else. He thinks he's tough. It worked It it worked and everybody else has benefited. I do think real Ripley all jokes aside I do think she may win the Royal Rumble this year. It only makes sense for her to win it Like her her transformation has been the greatest because before she wasn't going nowhere fast Now her transformation has truly been Fantastic for her career. I'm liking what Damian Priests becoming more of this this The enforcer and Finn Balor Finn Balor being the leader of another faction another group and people actually giving a damn about him It's pretty cool. I'm rocking with it I'm hoping the rumors are true him and Edge do have that one more clash with each other I think that's gonna be very interesting as well. If they do set that up, but either way, man I'm loving where the judgment day stands right now as a faction Finally a WWE women's champion reveals romance with John Cena Last but not least former superstar victorious spilling the tea when it comes to a brief romance She had with John Cena the former women's champion a multiple-time impact wrestling knockouts champion tall figure four online I dated John Cena for about a month down in 2006 or 2007 It was in 2002. Oh, damn when we were both in Louisville. I was married, but separated John Cena was single I was never his road girl friend. What would you think of that romance though? Let us know in the comments She said I was married but separated So technically she was legally married, but they weren't I guess messing with each other. So technically Technically she cheated on a husband, but I don't Hey to each his own. Hey shout out to John man. John John Cena may seem like a you know The the the amazing superhero the the honorable guy, but we got to remember he was the doctor The doctor of thug and now makes was probably getting around spitting the bars I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. But yeah, this was a very interesting video. Hey, I Will say this if it does come out to be true and Vince has sold it or is in the process of selling to the Saudi Arabians I can see a lot of people walking out I can see this really being a detrimental thing especially for the most social media I can see people not wanting to check out the product be honest with you Yeah, it may go private and that could be an exciting thing for some people It won't be a publicly traded company, but at what cost at what cost do you do that? You know I'm saying so. I don't know Comment down below. Let me know do you guys think you know that Vince could possibly sell to them Or do you think he may sell to somebody else also? Do you think this is more of a power play like in the sense of because they have Initially tried to get them out the company to push them out for him to come back Do you think this is a way to say you know what screw you guys? I'm gonna do what I want to do because I own majority of the company still so I'm gonna do this Just to spite people. Let me know man Do you think Vince McMahon is willing to throw away 30 plus years or give away 30 plus years? I wouldn't say give but sell 30 plus years of what he's done for the company to just spite some people I don't know maybe let me know down below But I appreciate all love and support man roll 250k and I am still your undisputed youtubers on shampoo the world Appreciate jacket you and me. See you next


Statistics and Excel. Correlation, Baseball Statistics. Get ready, taking a deep breath, holding it in for 10 seconds, looking forward to a smooth, soothing Excel. Here we are in Excel. If you don't have access to this workbook, that's okay because we'll basically build this from a blank worksheet. But if you do have access, there's three tabs down below. Example, practice blank. Example, in essence, answer key. Practice tab, having pre-formatted cells so you can get to the heart of the practice problem. The blank tab, blank worksheet so we can practice formatting these cells within Excel as we work through the practice problem. Let's go to the example tab to get an idea of what we will be doing, where we will be going. We're looking at correlation once again when we're thinking about two different data sets to see if there's a mathematical relationship between them. Are they moving together in some way, shape, or form in other words? If there is a mathematical relationship, the next logical question would be, is there a cause-and-effect relationship? If there is a cause-and-effect relationship, the next logical question would be, what's the causal factor in that relationship? This time we're going to be pulling Baseball Statistics data and we'll compare a couple things from it. We'll trim down our data set to start off with and then we're going to be looking at the age versus the batting average doing our correlations, calculations from that data set and then we'll do another one looking at the correlation between the batting average and the RBI. So let's go back to the left. Let's go to the blank tab. We're going to pull our data set. I'm just going to look up Baseball Statistics. I find Baseball Statistics at Baseball Reference has some information for us. I'm looking at the batting averages for 2022 and I'm going to see what they have for us down here. So they have it by team. I don't want it by team. I want it by player. So I'm going to go to the stats by player and then in this dropdown, they say we can drop it down and pull this in. I don't want to pick the Excel workbook because it gets limited to 500 lines and we want all the lines. So I'm going to make it into a CSV format and it gives our CSV information down below, which is a comma deliminated format. And then I could just copy all this and I should be able to just copy and paste this into our Excel worksheet, hopefully without giving us a virus or anything. I'm trusting the site here. It's going to be just good data right here. We're going to copy this whole thing. I'm going to put this over in our worksheet in A1. Right click and paste it. Let's paste it. Either way is fine. I'm going to hold control, scroll down. Notice it's all in column one here and it's a mess. But I want to transfer it from a comma deliminated data to a table. So to do that, I'm just going to keep that first column highlighted because everything is in the first column. We're going to go to our data up top and we want to go to the data tools and then text two columns tool. Text two columns. I'm going to say it's going to be deliminated. Delimitator charters such as commas. Let's keep that. And then I want to deliminate it with a comma. That's the deliminating factor, not the tabs.  So I'm going to say OK and then finish it. Finish it. And so there we have it. Now I'm going to call this our data tab. And I'm actually going to make a separate data tab from the one that we're going to be working in because we might need to do a little bit more cleaning up of the data from this tab. So I'm going to double click down here and call it the data blank tab. And so there we have that. And so that looks good. The headers, maybe I'll go up top and make this the header column by going into the home tab font and insert. And if I go all the way to the bottom by hitting control shift down, let's do it over here, control shift down. Then this last row, they give me a total. I don't really want the total down here. I don't think I did this last time and I kept the totals in there, which wasn't what I wanted to do. I'll just delete the totals down here and so we just have the data. OK, so then I'm going to go back up top and we're going to say let's insert a table. Insert tables and I'm just going to insert the table here. And so there is our information. So we've got the name, we've got the age and so on and so forth. So what I want to think about is the batting average. That's going to be how many times people get on base in essence. What's the percentage of times that they get on base? And let's see if there's a correlation between that and their age over here. So let's pick those two up. So I'm going to pick up, let's add another tab down here. I'm just clicking on the plus button. I'm going to double click on the tab and call it a blank tab. And then I'll just pull in my data and we'll pull it into this blank tab. So I'm going to go back to our data tab. I'm going to select the entire column of B, which has our names. The entire column of C, which has the ages. And then over here with the batting averages over here, we're going to copy that all that copy that. And let's go on over to our blank tab and just paste it on down in column A. We're just going to paste it on down. I think we could just paste it normal and it'll give us our formatting that's fine. I'm going to hold control and scroll up. So there is our data. Now I'm going to format the entire worksheet first and then I'll go back into your noting that these are decimals and these have no decimals. So I'm going to format the entire worksheet and then reformat these two columns to an appropriate formatting. So I'm going to select the entire worksheet. I'm going to right click on it and we're going to say that let's format the cells. And I like to make it currency, negative numbers, bracketed, no dollar sign. I'm going to remove the decimals and then add them back as needed. Removing the decimals okay. And then I'll add the decimals back to this column because we need them in here clearly because that's what the batting average is represented as in this data set. So home tab number group, adding some decimals, decimalizing it. I'm also going to make the entire thing bold because we like to work in the bold. Okay, because it's better for the screencast. You don't have to do that if you don't want to. So then let's go ahead and do some of our statistical calculations which we know by heart at this point in time with our actual data. But before we do, let's clean up our data a little bit. Let's go to the insert tab up top. Let's go to the tables and add a table. I'm going to put a table around this whole thing. Now note that when we look at this data, the batting average has some blank stuff in it. And also if people didn't have that many at bats, then you might want to remove the batting averages for those items as well. So I might sort this now by the batting average and I'm going to say A to Z and then everything.


What's going on, everyone? Sam here with late sports cards, ripping one box of 2022 Top's Gold Label Baseball Hobby for Tony Ken. So good luck here, Tony. Let's do it, my friend. No, Rock and Dad. We still got about another hour or so, depending on orders and such. Can we still have like seven orders in queue or so? Let's get you a twin in here. Let's get you a nice twin. Shaneboss, the Grom, Poppy, Aranada, Matt Manning. Again, Tony, I will denote what needs to be sleeved and top-loaded. There's a Shrout, Acunya. This is the Top's Gold Label right here. Just came out today. Nolan Ryden. There is a Riley. There's a Torque. Edward Cabrera. Top's Gold Label Baseball. Pretty cool. Wanzo, Ted Williams. Santos. Goldy. There's an Aaron Ashby. That is $5.99. Blue for the Brew Crew. Wanzoto. Alex Santos. Vidal Bruhan. Diaz. Wanzoto. Austin Riley. Alright, let's do your frame. Good luck here, Tony. See what we got, buddy. It's Mookie Betts and Anthony Rizzo. We've got nice. It's going to be a Shane Bieber, former Cy Young winner for the Guardians. Nice one there, Tony. Division rival, unfortunately. It's still very nice on the frame. That'll do it for your break there, Tony. Thanks as always for your support, buddy. We'll get them right out to you, my friend.