This video is a debate between two characters, both played by me. But don't expect to see one side get destroyed. I aim to present strong arguments on both sides. Be patient though, one of the sides takes a little while to get warmed up. Hi Luna. Alex, wow! I'm surprised to hear from you after, um, you know. Yeah, I need to talk to you. Uh-oh. Is it about? No, no. It's just, ugh, the election.  You called me to talk about the election. My least favorite topic. Alright, what's on your mind? Well, when Bernie Sanders didn't get the presidential nomination, I was like, no. No way am I voting for anyone but him.  But I changed my mind. I'm gonna vote for Biden. Oh, Alex. Do you hate me? I could never hate you. You're my favorite liberal. I'm not a liberal. I don't think we should talk about this. We'll both get upset. Look, I know that Biden is trash, okay? He has a 40-year record of being a loyal servant to corporations, supporting austerity, mass incarceration, imperialist wars. But compared to Donald Trump, Joe Biden is the lesser evil. The lesser evil is still evil. You want to indulge in some fantasy where that's not the case? Go ahead and vote, but I'm gonna stay home and find a more pleasant way to indulge my fantasies. Sounds fun. But I live in a swing state. If I don't vote Biden, I make it more likely that Trump wins and that would be a disaster. Look at global warming. We're speeding towards irreversible climate change tipping points and if we pass them, humanity is doomed, literally. Scientists say this could make huge regions of the world unable to support human life, cause massive food shortages, make civilization impossible or even basic survival of the human race impossible. How can you think the shitty policies of Biden and the Democratic Party will stop global warming? It's at least an improvement. Even though Biden rejects the Green New Deal, his climate policies are way better than Trump's and better than any Democratic presidential candidate in history. It won't be enough to stop climate change.  Better to be walking towards the edge of a cliff than running towards it. Well, at least you admit you're voting for collective suicide.  All you radicals boycotting the election don't solve anything. You just gallop around on your moral high horse. At least that horse ain't galloping off a cliff.  You want suggestions? How about activism and class struggle? Organizing workplaces and communities. You know, real politics. Activism is important, but it's also important to elect someone who will be sympathetic to the demands that activists make. You think Biden and the Democrats will be sympathetic? They at least have to pretend to care about workers and climate change and social justice, so they're more likely to bow to pressure from activists. We need to fight for reform, but always vote for the person who will be easiest to fight. But you're sabotaging yourself. Why would Biden grant any demands if he knows that the people making these demands have promised to vote for him? He already has what he wants. I have thought about this, that maybe it's better not to endorse Biden unless he adopts a more progressive platform. Show him that he has to earn our vote. We won't just give it unconditionally because he's the lesser evil. Oh, gross, don't say our vote. Leave me out of this. Okay, okay. Anyways, this is why I wasn't gonna vote for Biden because we need to show the Democrats that they can't expect us to keep voting for these piece of shit neoliberals like Biden that if they wanna win elections, they need to give us someone further to the left like Bernie Sanders. But I changed my mind because the alternative is to let Trump win and with the survival of humanity at risk, that's unacceptable. Humanity is at risk whether Trump wins or loses. But he escalates that risk. He tore to shreds international treaties on nuclear weapons and soon another treaty is due for renewal. If Trump is in office, he will let this treaty die. These are weapons with the power to cause humanity's extinction. Doesn't that worry you? You're putting blame in the wrong place. Yes, I'm worried about nuclear war and climate change and 127 other things. But the source of our problems isn't which party or leader holds power, it's capitalism. You can't seriously believe it doesn't matter who's in power. There are differences in the policies of the Democrat Party and Republican Party and in other countries, there are differences in the policies of their major parties. And because government has so much power, even small differences have enormous consequences, even life or death consequences for an enormous number of people. Both parties are loyal to the capitalist class and voting for either one is voting for a boot on your neck, grinding your face into the dirt. The only choice is whether the boot is on the left foot or the right foot. Trump stomps your face with both boots. Just look at the judges he appoints. He's stacking the judiciary with far-right zealots who wanna crush the rights of women, gays and trans people. And Trump is pushing this country towards fascism. You wanna talk about what's pushing us towards fascism? How about the increasing hardship and humiliation inflicted by capitalism? This causes anger and fear and some people misdirect those emotions at people of color and immigrants. But Trump makes more people misdirect their fear and anger because of the racist things he says. You think Biden will stop the rise of fascism? Didn't you see what happened when Obama was president? The Obama years are when fascism and white supremacy started gaining or I should say regaining popularity as ideas and as organized movements. The Trump years just continue to this trend. True, the flames of fascism were already spreading but Trump throws gasoline on the fire. He spews horrible slander about immigrants and Muslims.  He dog whistles support for white supremacists and fascists. It's just words but it has an impact. Because he's the president, the media has no choice but to give him a platform for everything he says. And because he's president, people give what he says moral authority. No wonder fascism is spreading. But you don't know how things would have turned out if Hillary Clinton had beaten Trump last election. The popularity of fascism might have accelerated just as much. What? And four years of Biden could spread fascism as much as four more years of Trump.  Can you prove me wrong? It's impossible to prove wrong. I don't have a parallel universe to do a controlled study in. It's just common sense. Allowing common sense to take the place of evidence and logic is one of the most dangerous habits of mind. Well, it's also logical. Who's more likely to make fascism gain popularity? A neoliberal like Biden or a borderline neo-fascist like Trump? You're oversimplifying. There are other factors you're missing. Okay, I'm skeptical but let's hear it. So on social issues, the Democrats are liberal. On economic policy, Democrats lean to the right, though slightly less than Republicans. But according to conservative media like Fox News, the Democratic party is full of socialists. If only it were true. When Democrats control government, people who are on the conservative right feel threatened. They feel under attack and that can push them even further to the right, sometimes as far as fascism. Do you have any proof? You can see it for yourself. Fox News and Rightwing Talk Radio constantly screech about the radical socialist Democrats who are conspiring to crush your freedom. And when there's a Democrat in the White House or Democrat majority in Congress, this alarmist fear mongering kicks into overdrive. Mm, I'm not sure this proves your theory. Maybe not, but there's another thing about the Democrats that could exacerbate fascism.  All this sounds like the opposite of what fascists are into. So yeah, but meanwhile, the Democrats wage a brutal class war against working class people of every race and gender. However, people get this false perception and I stress that it's a false perception that the Democratic Party makes life better for people of color and immigrants, giving them special privileges. And this makes some white people jealous and resentful.  Luna, it sounds like you're making excuses for Nazis. I'm not making excuses, I'm describing reality. You're describing a theory and even if it's true, what are you suggesting that we should stop supporting progress and protections for marginalized groups? No, we absolutely should support this. We should fight for it. But we also need to fight for class issues and we need to show that these issues are connected. We need to show that the working class can never liberate itself as long as we keep allowing racism and nationalism to divide us. Fine, but it's still absurd to say that fascism would spread more under Biden than Trump. I never said that. I said you don't know who will be worse. But Trump is a borderline fascist. In the debate, he told the Proud Boys to stand back and stand by and he's telling his supporters to go to the polls and watch. That's voter intimidation. You wanna stop fascism? Then we need to build the type of mass movement that can show all working class people of every race and every identity group that our fates are connected. That it's not about putting one group ahead of the other because none of us can find liberation unless we all find it together, you know? You're so right. And Bernie Sanders was spreading that exact message. Oh, I wish Bernie was facing Trump in the election.  Then we could both vote with a clear conscience.  Say what? I don't vote, period. Sorry, I didn't realize this whole time I'd been speaking to an absolute dumbass. Look, I'm anti-capitalist and anti-state. Every politician is pro-capitalist and wants to run the state. These are our class enemies. Why would I vote for our enemies? We're taught that voting is an act of power, but it's an act of submission. You vote for who has power over you. If this is power, then choosing your prison guards is freedom.  I wish you to try it, but you just can't deny it. All you wanna do was fry it.   Alex? Alex? Alex? Huh? Oh, sorry. So why don't you vote? The same reason I don't write letters to Santa Claus asking for world peace. I find the refusal to vote disgusting. Know what I find disgusting?  It's disgusting that every election, people rally support for the ruling class. It's bad enough you won't vote for Biden, but not even Bernie. His reforms would have transformed people's lives. Free healthcare, free college. If you don't care about that enough to vote, it's the mark of your obscene level of privilege.  You should be attacking the ruling class, which includes Bernie Sanders. And who says I'm that privileged? I need these reforms too.   Half the population doesn't vote and what does that achieve? Nothing. It's a symbolic boycott with no material impact. All it does is make you feel good about yourself for not getting your hands dirty. Well, guess what?  Calm down. So I don't vote. You act like I personally stabbed a shiv into the back of our great democracy. If you care about the oppressed, then we need class struggle, not voting. Well, how do you make it sound like we have to choose one or the other? Have you ever grasped the concept that we can do both?  As much as I hate voting, I don't tell other people not to vote and I don't shame them if they do. Voting is not the problem. The problem is electoral politics, which is when you try to encourage people to vote or to vote a certain way. Electoral politics includes things like sticking campaign signs in your lawn, bumper stickers, door knocking, social media posts for or against a candidate.  We should not ignore something so important as who will have the power to make decisions for society. But when you pin your hopes for change on an election and convince others to do the same, that hinders us from finding real solutions to our problems. I realize that democracy is a 365 day a year activity and voting is only one day of it. Then why don't you act like it? I follow you on Twitter. I see how focused you are on elections. You talked endlessly about Bernie Sanders all through 2019 and the start of 2020. Not endlessly. Then when Bernie dropped out of the presidential race, you spent like a month complaining about it. But that was a disaster. And ever since then you talk nonstop about Biden versus Trump. You're exaggerating. In 2018, you did the same with the congressional election. It never stops. I talk about other issues. If you look at my Twitter, you'll see that. Oh, I guess I do talk about it a lot. But so what? It matters a lot who controls government. So why not try to convince people to vote a certain way? Cause it's harmful. Oh my God. How, how could it be harmful? Well, what have you been saying about why people should vote for Biden? That we need to get Trump out of office because he's dangerous and makes everything worse. Exactly. Focusing on how terrible Trump is takes the focus off the real source of our misery. Being alive in 2020. No, capitalism. Anytime you put blame on a politician or political party for our problems, you cover up what's really to blame. Why not both? We can recognize that certain politicians make things worse or better and also recognize that capitalism is a problem. That's not what happens in practice. I've heard you criticize the climate policies of the Republicans and the Democrats, but you never talk about how the roots of climate change are in capitalism. If you're worried about capitalism, then elections can help. Some countries have socialist parties. Socialist parties?  Oh my God. You think everyone's a liberal? Well, that's the thing about liberals. Half of them won't admit what they are. I feel personally attacked right now, but I'll let it slide. The best that these socialist parties will give you is social democracy. Good. Look how much better things are in social democratic countries like Sweden. A lot of countries have tried social democracy or at least tried some social democratic policies. And yeah, social democracy can be comparatively better than other forms of capitalism, but sometimes it's kind of a disaster. How could it be a disaster to tax the rich and use that money for the good of all? Unless you think it's a disaster that rich people can no longer afford a second mansion. Well, if social democracy is kept within limits that the capitalist class finds tolerable, it can create economic growth. But if it passes those limits, it causes economic crisis. Though to be fair, we've also seen that neoliberalism or any set of economic policies within capitalism can cause economic crisis. So what's the problem? The problem for social democracy is that capitalists tend not to like it. They don't wanna pay high taxes and high wages. And they're afraid that high wages will cause high inflation and drain the value of their wealth. Oh boo-hoo, who cares if they don't like it? That's their problem, but they make it our problem. They react with what's called a capital strike. Many become either unable or unwilling to invest. Finance capitalists pull their money out of the country and invest elsewhere.  Unemployment rises, people become desperate for work so they accept lower wages, which pushes wages down for everyone. The tax base shrinks, which means less money for public services. So what are you saying that we can't have nice things? In capitalism, no. We're damned if we do, damned if we don't. Then how do you explain all the countries with free healthcare, free college, and better social programs than we have in the States? I don't see their economies crashing. Some countries suffered a capital strike in the past, then cut back their social democratic policies. Others never went that far with these policies to begin with. And all these countries have had decades of neoliberal austerity, just like us. They still have free healthcare and other free public services, but these services have suffered damage from decades of budget cuts and neglect. Even long time social democratic countries like Sweden have slowly become less social democratic than they once were. But they have it better than us. It's better, but don't be fooled into thinking that social democracy can solve the problems of capitalism. There's only so much taxation and wage increases that capitalists will tolerate before they stop investing, or worse, overthrow the government like they did to President Evo Morales in Bolivia. A government can get away with a limited degree of social democracy, but they have to avoid pushing things beyond what capitalists will tolerate. So what I'm hearing is that we can have social democracy. We just have to keep it within limits. But those limits are a problem. No matter who we elect to government, the capitalist class has the ultimate power because they can hold an economy hostage. Well, what we have now is neoliberalism on steroids. So even a limited social democracy sounds pretty good. And we could have had it if Bernie Sanders had won. He came so close, but that's okay. Democrat voters are shifting to the left. We're electing socialists to Congress. 2024 could give us a socialist presidential candidate. Oh, Luna, everything you say about electoral politics is true. We need to build working class power and fight for revolution. Oh, Alex, you mean it? Yes, you've convinced me with your brilliant rhetoric. Oh, Alex, I'm so happy. And Luna, remember last time when you said you loved me and I said I didn't love you back? I lied. You did? Yes, Luna. Your face still is kind of weird, but I think I could work with what you got if you grew a beard. What? A beard? Yeah, you mean like this? Taking a big old Marx or Kropotkin beard, but this'll do. Luna, did you hear anything I said? Yes, Alex, I heard every word and it was beautiful. Oh, so you agree? If a candidate is as left wing as Bernie, we should convince people to vote for them. What? No, so, so what? So wait, do you want me to grow a beard? What? Nevermind, I probably can't anyways, but I was gonna try for you. Okay. Anyways, if we want social democratic policies, let's pursue this through activism and strikes, not elections. Elections are a circus that distract us from taking effective action. We need to build working class power. This is the only way to get real socialism. The idea that politicians can solve our problems is a fairy tale that keeps us passive. It won't be a fairy tale if we get left wing politicians elected.  But it's not false hope. Leftist politicians make real improvements. Fine, they won't get rid of capitalism, but at least- Then it's not enough, our only hope is ourselves. If you encourage people to vote, you promote our reliance on politicians to solve our problems. You make us rely on their power rather than build our own. But we're capable of doing both.  It's not the voting, it's the mentality and habit of relying on politicians to improve things. This is a mentality and habit of dependency. But we are dependent on them. That's not a mentality or habit, it's just the reality that politicians have power and we don't. But we need to change that. We need to become powerful. And that means building a mass movement of a united working class. But that's hard to do when we keep hearing why it's so important to get this or that person elected, because the hidden message is that we could never gain the power to solve our problems, that our only hope is to prostrate ourselves under the table of the ruling class in the hopes they'll sweep us a few crumbs. You're turning electoral politics into a scapegoat. The huge working class movements of the past no longer exist today, but it's silly to blame that on electoral politics. There are other explanations, deindustrialization, improved techniques of union busting, the class collaborating compromises by mainstream unions, generations of propaganda making people fear socialism. Need I go on? Look, I know electoral politics is not the only factor, but we'll never build power from below as long as we're looking for saviors from above. Wow, that's very deep. Oh, thank you. Honestly, Luna, I respect that you have these idealistic goals, but we need to be realistic. Yes, and being realistic means acknowledging that capitalism is cancer and revolution is the only solution. Even assuming that revolution could possibly work and wouldn't just descend into violence or another dictatorship, and that's a big assumption. Do you know how far away revolution is? How impossible it seems from here? Should we reschedule for earlier? Maybe you're too privileged to realize this, but people are suffering, dying. We don't have time to wait for your revolution. In the meantime, people need healthcare and affordable housing. Of course we need these things, but we can win them and other reforms through activism and class struggle. Yeah, we can do this and try to get left-wing politicians elected. But it's not just the reforms that matter, but how you achieve them. We must not pursue reforms in a way that sabotages our future potential for revolution. And that's what happens when we point to elections as a way to get reform. It keeps us dependent on a political class that is not on our side, a political class with no desire to create socialism and no capacity to even if they did. We whimper at their feet and we need to be standing tall. We sabotage our long-term goals for the gamble of measly short-term goals. Measly? You're so privileged.  Okay, true, but we can't sacrifice long-term goals for short-term goals. This is why we must win reforms through our own actions because this builds our confidence, builds our autonomy and solidarity as a class, builds our capacity to organize and builds our power. And as all these things grow, we become increasingly prepared to escalate from reform to revolution. I'm skeptical. This year, there's been months of protests in multiple cities and they've only won some small superficial reforms by local government. The reforms that elections can offer are much bigger. Unfortunately, protests are rarely enough to win more than a few minor reforms. We need a stronger arsenal of tactics than protest. But to win big reforms like the Green New Deal or Medicare for All, I can't see that being won by activism alone. We also need politicians in office who support these things. Not necessarily. The most economically progressive legislation this country has ever seen was the New Deal.  But no, in 1932, the year he was elected, he was a fiscal conservative. But one year later, he passed the New Deal, not what you'd expect from a fiscal conservative. Why the turnaround? He was pressured into it by activists and striking workers. This is just one cherry-picked example. And besides, building the capacity to win reforms of this size through class struggle is no easy task. It can take months, even years, for workers to win gains in a single workplace. How many years will it take to create a movement that has power to win reform on a municipal or national level? In the meantime, we cannot afford to ignore elections. But imagine if we put the same effort into organizing a general strike as we do into telling people to vote a certain way. Thousands of activists campaigned for Bernie Sanders. Imagine if they'd put that same time into actual class struggle. Maybe if we did these things, we'd already be a united working class capable of winning huge reforms. I'm sorry. These reforms are too important to wait. We must get them by any means necessary, and that includes campaigning for the lesser evil. You know, I have the perfect meme to respond to what you just said. Here, I'll send it to you. Oh, great. I love it when people use memes in a debate to prove a point. Very credible. Damn right. Fine. Let's see. The long-term effects of voting for the lesser evil. The left, the center, the right. Then the left moves to the center. Then the left moves further to the right, and even further. Okay, I get it, but it's just a meme and a meme using Comic Sans, the cringiest of fonts. Don't go dragging Comic Sans into this, okay? It doesn't prove anything. But this is what has actually happened, and not just in this country. It reminds me of something that Hunter S. Thompson said. He was an author and journalist, right? Right, so he wrote this back in 1972, but it could have been written today if he just switched the names of President Nixon for President Trump. The big thing this year is beating Nixon, but that was also the big thing, as I recall, 12 years ago in 1960, and as far as I can tell, we've gone from bad to worse to rotten since then, and the outlooks is for more of the same. Sound familiar? Yeah, but it proves nothing.   I admit that things have gone from bad to worse to rotten to whatever the hell comes after rotten, but how do you know this is caused by electoral politics? There are many factors you're leaving out of the equation. It's at least one of the factors. It's probably a result of material conditions like the falling rate of profit, and you claiming that it's caused by lesser evil electoral politics?  It's simple logic. You don't have an alternate timeline where you can see how things would have turned out if we hadn't done lesser evil voting this whole time. If you ask me, it would have turned out even worse. Now you're speculating. Even if this is having the negative effect you say it is, how much damage is it doing? And how does that compare to the damage that would be caused by not doing lesser evil politics and increasing the chances that the greater evil wins? That would be worse. You don't know that. Oh, but you do? Alex, just think if all the time people spent on electoral politics had instead been spent building a working class movement, this movement would be pushing both parties to the left. If we had done this, maybe the greater evil candidate would look like Bernie Sanders. I can't wait to speculate. This is the most dangerous moment in human history. The doomsday clock is closer to midnight than it's ever been. With Trump, an apocalyptic level of global warming is inevitable and nuclear war is a lot more likely. It's you who's speculating if you think Biden will make us safer. I give up, I give up. I've explained over and over why voting for Biden is the only reasonable decision, but you refuse to listen and continue to shame me for voting. I'm not shaming you.    What's depressing is that even with humanity's survival and the balance, you still refuse to vote. I knew we shouldn't have had this conversation. I don't think we should keep talking. Good. I don't think we should talk either. Maybe not for a while. No, I didn't mean it like that. Well, I did. Alex, wait. Shit.  Can you believe that crazy-ass anarchist? She thinks she knows everything. She thinks she has it all figured out. Just vote for the lesser evil and get the less evil outcome. She thinks she can look at history and pinpoint what got us here, as if things aren't way more complex. Things are way more complex. She doesn't see all the unintended consequences. She makes these baseless, wild assumptions, and yet she's so sure of herself. I just wish I could say this to her in a way she understood. Times equals three. Might not unfold. I wish she'd call me back.  Luna, sorry I hung up. That's okay. I'm just in a bad mood lately.  Ugh, it's been two months, Brejen. You need to take care of that. Look, some things are coming together in my mind and I'll try to say them, but you have to be patient with me, okay? I can do that. I really value what you said about the importance of organizing. I would love to see the working class taking action to win reforms. I would love if through that struggle, we build the capacity, confidence, solidarity, and shared vision of radical transformation to create a new and better world. I'm happy to hear that. My problem is that we are so far away from having anything even close to that. There was a time when we were organized and powerful and we carried the vision of a new world in our hearts, but those days are long gone. And until we rebuild a movement like that, I don't think we're ready to stop giving elections our attention. But how are we gonna get there? I know what you're gonna say. Electoral politics damages our ability to build this movement. I'm not convinced by that enough to stay silent on elections, but I do think I need to give elections less attention than I have been. Hopefully way less. And put more attention on building a movement, because you're right. We need to break this cycle of dependency on politicians. Well, okay. Does that satisfy you? Well, satisfy is a pretty high bar. I mean, I appreciate your progress. Oh God, I sound condescending. I'm sorry, but I can't lie to you, Alex. You're right that we don't currently have a working class movement, let alone a socialist movement, but I think this is all the more reason to reject electoral politics, because if we don't, we make it harder to build the solution we need. All right, that's how you feel. But I honestly am grateful that you've been open-minded to what I've said and come to some new conclusions. Thank you. What about you? Huh? Have you come to new conclusions? Based on what I said, that I should grow a beard. Huh? Uh, so you're not gonna vote? No. But Luna, just take 20 minutes out of one day to vote for the least bad option, then get back to organizing the revolution or whatever. I'm not gonna do it. Oh well, I tried. Oh, I'm sorry.  Oh? What? Come, I'll show you. Come where? How? Just come, trust me. Okay. Isn't this great?  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Hi guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here today I'm going to be taking a look at an app called a check off for Android I am looking for I've been looking for a couple of years actually really for a reusable checklist Without actually having that much success what I'm looking for is a checklist app that can be reused So if you're doing stuff like leaving the house or you know something Driving you're getting into your car that you have a little checklist So this app is kind of for people just like me who tend to be a bit ditzy In fact someone yesterday said that I am a disorganized mess. Can you believe it? So it was not my wife It was another individual this person if she ever watched this video knows who she is so I took it to heart and I have been having a Disorganized spree recently I think because I've been under quite a lot of stress and pressure so I Been looking to various things. I have a tile on my wallet. I'm upgrading to another tile soon And I thought a checklist app would be great anyone who has shares my interest in aviation Probably knows that the aviation industry and I did a few flight lessons back in the day Both at the private level and at the commercial level are obsessed Obsessed is probably the wrong word. They have to it's a safety thing There a checklist are part of the flying process from engine start through to engine shutdown So I think it's a good example to follow So I didn't really have that much success what I'm looking for is a checklist app that has a cloud for example a web UI and an Android client what I found instead was a Not so wonderful cloud based product. It's called a fire sob I'll put a link in the description. Although. I don't think it's brilliant. That doesn't have a Mobile UI or Android app and then the one that I found that hat is a mobile app Doesn't have a web client So I wanted the web clients that I can do my checklist and create them from my computer and then use them on my phone So I didn't find exactly what I was looking for both have their flaws The good thing about the check off app is that it does it will sink back and forth to Google So you'll at least be able to back up and restore even if it doesn't have that interface So here it is. Let me show you firstly how to find it in the Google Play Store I'm just going to grab my Android here through my computer Done so go into Google Play Store. It's it's right there. You don't have to search for it I just typed in reusable checklist and I went for this one by Dave O'Brien There are currently running a beta program So I'm going to join that after making this video, but this is the first one I came across that had reusable checklist in its title So this is my checklist. I've just built here and I'll just show you how to build one In fact, why don't we just start this from scratch? So I'll just show you guys real quick How this works it comes pre-populated with a groceries checklist like apples bananas, whatever But you can you can build your own ones of course I don't use any limits as to how many you can install. Let me show you guys what settings there are There's a dark mode. There is a sound you can toggle on and off when you finish your your list And that's pretty much it. It's kind of a bit a little bit too minimalist for my liking, but sometimes Simplicity is good. So I'm going to go ahead and create a new lists if I can figure out how to do so So when I use a new app, I like stuff to be intuitive So if this is not going to be intuitive, here we go So you can back up or restore from the cloud There's a little tip thing here that gives you a little tour But again, it looks to me pretty Little bit on the basic site, but it is what it is. So here's how you create a list you click on create new lists I couldn't get rid of this grocery on so I'm going to call this.  So I guess when I'm leaving the house I'm going to go for a car because I'm leaving into my car or walking but cars kind of good enough. I don't need quantities It's not a shopping list show note icons in list No, when they're done, I want to cross them off instead of hide them And then you just build build out your little checklist I'm going to go for you can also paste paste text as new items So you can have I guess a notepad with your checklist or just pop them in one by one I'm going to go for the pop in one by one option here. So let's go for When I'm leaving the house, I need to make sure that I Have my wallets and then you can nest these into groups as well. So I'm going to call this I don't know essentials. Maybe Let's go with essentials first because wallet would definitely be in that category You can pick a color scheme for the group And I'm going to say yes, so have my wallets and then there's another one here that you can you can either just add one Or you can create your next to do item. So add new item and if you click on let's say What else have keys pop that into essentials to and this time if I click on this icon for tick Plus that little arrow up there. I'm going to be able to jump straight to the next next screen So have my let me just think about this have my keys have my wallets have my phone So you kind of pick up a rhythm and that's why I also using it for the computer why I wanted to I'm actually using it through An Android emulator here What else do I need to do have my wallets have phone charger or power bank? I'm going to just try to keep this one pretty simple. So this video doesn't run super long So the next one I'm going to do is sometimes I want my at a medication have medication with me I take two medications a day and click on Accept or add next thing I want to do so I'm going to create another category of video Have video bag if applicable sometimes in going out to shoot stuff. So I'm going to call this As well make a video group.  Oh, click on okay It's got its own color click on save Click on save. All right. Now. I have a six item checklist for leaving the house Have my keys have my medication have my phone have my wallet phone charger I can't think of what else is really essential for survival This is probably how this word knows the Amazon forgetting stuff as I'm trying to make this list But let's say this is fine for the moment. So you can see up the top here You have an edit button and you have a use button so I can flip out of edit mode and into use mode and now I've got my little checklist with its two items there and Now this is what I haven't figured out yet. So let's say I'm going through this, right? I have my phone on my hand physically and I say, okay, great I have my keys have my medication have my phone my wallet and going through my pockets and going through blah, blah, blah That should be video pack, but we'll leave it go. So it's all done. Excellent. So My question is how do I use this again, right? So let's just go back to the home screen leaving the house is showing is all done and I can delete the grocery list now because like it won't allow me to Least have only one thing. So now you've got my leave in the house. Everything's ticked off and I'm guessing It's this magic button Really hide the completed items Okay, six crossed out items hidden. So this is where I say anytime anytime. There's any doubt about How to use an app, I think the design's a little bit bad like my question now is okay, great So I went through my checklist now. I want to reuse my checklist. This is the whole point of this What do I do? And I think I need to on tick Mark all items as on need is No mark. Sorry other way around mark all as needed and now I'm back to my fresh checklist So that I guess is how I can't see how else you're supposed to use this thing It just seems a bit untreated that there isn't a button that says like reuse checklist because that's me would be way More obvious than going through this menu and clicking but it does the job I guess you can duplicate the list share it as a text and unless I'm missing something in the Some way that this is intended to to work. Let me go through the whole Tour adding an item we figured out marking need items you figured out quantities you figured out grouping we figured out Using the list show using the lists Take tick them off Untick you can untick us once you create a list you can reuse it over and over for example You might go to the grocery store tick everything off your list, but later you can go back to the edit screen to mark items as needed again So I guess That was the way you're supposed to use it. So that might would be my feedback for the developer is you need to make this like more More obvious because yeah, but anyway, that's it guys. That's the check off app there for For Android and as he said in the cloud there is the fire sub app But I haven't found one that syncs up on both ends if you do know of such an app Please do drop me a line and thank you guys for watching the video


Hi, my name is Alex, I'm a librarian at the University of Alabama, and today we're going to talk about another aspect of conducting a systematic review, the exploratory or introductory search. When starting a systematic review, there are some clear first steps. Among other things, you'll need to construct a research question, assemble a review team, create a systematic review protocol, search for published systematic reviews on your topic, and develop a search strategy. Developing a search strategy involves several steps. You'll need to choose relevant databases, develop a list of keywords and subject headings, and construct a plan for searching gray literature. During this process, we also recommend that you conduct what we're going to call an exploratory search. Sometimes, this is also referred to as a scoping search, although that can get confusing because there is also a scoping review, which is a specific type of literature review. For the exploratory search, you'll want to choose one to two of your most relevant databases. We've chosen PubMed for this video. You'll then want to construct a search using keywords and or subject headings. The first thing I want to establish with an exploratory search is the volume of results we're getting. Does a well-constructed search bring back enough results to support a systematic review? If not, you may need to look at broadening your research question. Conversely, too many results might prompt your team to narrow the question or the inclusion-exclusion criteria. It's also worthwhile to experiment with search strings at this point. You'll want to test various search strings in order to determine their efficacy. And you'll want to use the exploratory search in order to continue to iterate on and build out your list of keywords and subject headings. You may simply notice keywords popping up in the titles and abstracts of relevant articles. You'll also find author-supplied keywords on the record page of an article. Finally, the record page of the article is also an excellent place to find relevant subject headings. On PubMed, they're called Mesh Terms. And you can simply click on the list of terms of any relevant article. And that's all for this video. Hopefully you now have a better understanding of what an exploratory slash scoping search is, and why it's an important step in the systematic review process. And remember, if you have any questions, just ask a librarian.


of age viewer discretion is advised. Hey, what's going on guys? I guess is there anybody watching? Nobody's watching yet. Hey, there's burnt burnt. How are you? Yes, this is a unscheduled Patriot Prime live. This is a surprise. So surprise for all of us. There's Inutabi, Jason, Ryan Gunn 128. I know.  How is everybody doing? Happy Monday. I'm hoping it's good. Elites. I'm hoping. Hold on one second. I left my water over here. Wasn't too prepared. Been organizing my masters of the universe stuff. I just got this guy in today. So don't really review the master stuff. I just kind of collect this for fun. And he came with an extra head. So what I did, I took a Hordak body and made myself a couple of insectoid troopers here. So do you see the Road Ranger and Puffer release? Yes, sir. And I even linked them on my pages through my affiliate link. Ordered them as soon as they dropped. I actually went to lunch, came back at one and that's when they dropped. And that's when I picked it up. I don't have pipes yet. I don't know if anybody has pipes. Let's see. Anybody else asking anything? What'd you say, Jay? Facebook restricted me because they said what many say about an annoying Christmas song. Too early for Christmas. Puffer. Actually, I don't know if Fire Talks wants me to say it or not because he made an accessory already for Puffer because of his name. Who knows, Runes? We may still get a Transformer Tuesday tomorrow. You never know what Hasbro anymore in a way. They throw out Transformers. I'll turn my air on. Still a little warm here in old WV. Let's do Halloween before Christmas. I'm all for Halloween. I'm ready to decorate. I need to mow at least one more time, get the grass down so we can put up all of our Halloween inflatables. 20 people in the watching right now. Greetings. Hello. An upgrade for Puffer. Yes, you probably know what it is. Hello, sovereign knight. So anyway, we got 22 people in the chat. Let me tell you what's going on. Last week, I think it was last week, Jason Wade Cox lent me his giant KO side swipe to review. That was a really, really cool figure. So I reviewed it. It was actually a pretty big hit. Sent it back to him and another Patriot Prime fan named Kevin. That's what he asked me to say. Call him. There we go. Asked me or he sent me a message. He says, Hey, I got a couple more KO figures that you're more than welcome to borrow and shoot as well. And I said, Yeah, sure. It's the giant KO siege Megatron. Love Megatron. Got every version except the one that came with the purple Paleo tracks and a KO siege Nemesis Prime. And he said, Yeah, we'll send you those two figures, two figures. This box arrived today. That's a little big for two figures. And this is heavy. So Kevin, I'm excited to see what's in here. I have not opened it up. The only thing I've done to this box is I tore our addresses on it because I am known for showing my address mistakenly anytime I do these live things. And there's stuff rattling around in there. So I can't wait to see what what treasures are in this box. And when I mentioned it to him, he asked, he said, Hey, did you get your package? He was really worried to make sure he got or that I got it. And he was text me and I finally told him, I said, Yeah, you and me both, buddy, this live stream will end really quick if that's the case. So where was it? Yeah, he just keeps messaging you get the package, you get the package. Now I see why he was so worried. So let's get into this thing. When I messaged him and said, man, this box is a little bit big for two figures. And he says, Well, when you read the letter, you'll understand. So let's go ahead and get this open and see what we got. Now tomorrow, I'll be sitting down with Kato again for a second sit rep. Let's see. P prime. So let's read the note first. Oh, and it's tight. I hope you are well. And thanks for the videos here a list of what I sent for reference the AOA met AOA O Y I I'm going to just call them a mech a mech nemesis a mech optimus a mech Megatron iron factory Hound iron factory beast Wars Megatron flame devil the scaled up version of this figure and transformer trading cards holders and pages. I do not need the cards returned. If you want to keep them, I have plenty to work with. I put two instruction booklets in the nemesis box. There's also how to play on the transformers app or trading card app. It has trade tracking deck building and can be used in games, track damage and combiners have a good day. Sign KM the second. So awesome. He asked me before. Now I remember if I had ever played the transformer collectible card game, I'd seen them, but I never picked them up because there's just there's nobody around here to play these things with. I thought the art was pretty neat though. So right up here up top we've got the protector sleeves. Now Dylan may be interested in playing now because he's all about Pokemon now.  Well, hello elites. Thank you very much for the super chat. Let's give you a Bert. I mean a super chat. That's what you get. Let's get you. Let's give you the original Bert. Thanks so much elites. And yes, I'm looking forward to actually meeting you face to face at TFCon. All right.  So here is the KOC Optimus Prime. Good Lord look at the size of that thing. That's what she said. Wow. That's unreal. Here we have, I guess those are more card protectors. Okay, here we have that's your iron factory hound. Deluxe Baldwin is going to be happy to see me review these. That's pretty cool. I've never fooled with an iron factory figure. Here we have heat death. This looks kind of like the Beast Wars Megatron figure that I reviewed last month. Very close to it. Maybe about the same figure. We'll find out. So we got heat death. I am running out of room. Oh my goodness.  That's why the boxes are heavy. There's the trading cards. Wow. Whoops. Throw them in the floor already. Oh, come here. You got devastation. Man, I have a good time looking through these. That is a lot of trading cards or collectible cards or game cards, whatever you call them. Sweet. I am two elites. But last time I was at TFCon, I saw tons of those things and I almost picked up so many, but I got the giant figures instead. Okay, here is another box of cards. Whoops. There's a whole another box of cards right there. I'm going to be busy with those. All right, what else we got? Here is a loot crate box. I've heard of loot crate. I have never got one before. So what is in here might just be the box. What this is? Oh, it's Optimus Prime statue. That's pretty sweet. That's awesome. I don't have a big enough lap. Optimus Prime loot crate box. Well, I guess it says what it is right there on packaging. Okay, so there's that. We're going to put you right here in the floor. Then we have the Star Commander. I bet this is Nemesis. It kind of tricks you. He's white on the front. Yes. Good Lord. Look at the size of this thing. That is unreal. I love this. I'm going to have to go buy one already. I can tell that right now because I do love my Nemesis Prime. That is sick. That's so cool. Get back in there. Put you over here. This last one. This has got to be the Marty Megatron in a Shozy wrapper. Love Shozy. Boy, they pack their stuff good.  See, I don't see his tank barrel. That is a big Megatron. Let me see if the tank barrel maybe fell out in here somewhere. Maybe it's in another box. I do not see the tank barrel or the sword, so I have to check another box for that. My gosh, Kevin, thank you so much. I am going to be busy for a few weeks. Not like I don't have enough stuff to review already. Plus, get ready for TF Con. I can't get over the size. Okay, there's Megatron's sword and tank barrel right there. Everything is complete. Which one should I review first? Giant Megatron, Giant Optimus, the Giant Nemesis. It might be Nemesis because it's Nemesis. Then I've got the heat depth and the iron factory. Kevin, thank you so much. This is awesome. I can't get over how heavy this thing is too. Of course, the side swipe really impressed me as well.  I'll be going through all those cards for the next couple hours. I don't want to go to bed early tonight. All right, Giant Optimus Prime, Optimus Prime. We need to get the Megs and Starscream. Hold on. Where did you order from, Jay Lee? Hey, Kato. Missed you in the chat. Everybody's saying hi. Hi to everyone. Got 50 people in the chat. A lot of good responses on my DCS drone. I got to find a couple more of those. I only had the one because I wasn't interested in army building. I never am. I just need the one figure. But now I got this guy decked out. I need to have like two more to flank him on either side. Kevin, once again, thank you so much. This is awesome. I can't wait to check out the iron factory figure. I'll have to message Deluxe and tell him what I'm doing and he'll get all excited and take his pants off for it. All right. Definitely getting Paul. Yeah, I've got a lot of stuff through Pulse too. Now Hasbro Pulse is who announced the Puffer and Road Ranger. And then when I saw they were on Amazon, I decided to go with Amazon first because it's an Amazon exclusive. And I figured hop on quick. Good chance I'll get it. And that that just seems to be it with Amazon. I mean, if you don't get on there fast, they're gone. But a lot of people, at least judging from my post, weren't that interested in those two. I love the collar scheme and hell, Huffer is one of the best figures in the line right now, as far as I'm concerned. Hey, Nick, Shattered Glass, Goldbug. I can foresee after Shattered Glass comes out and give it about a month or two, we're going to have a regular generation selects Goldbug.  That's smart, Kato. Order through Pulse and Amazon, cancel whichever is last. I think I've mentioned it before.  So you put it in your card, it's in the order. And I go to Kroger every week to get groceries. And Kroger always has these sales when specials, when you buy like a gift card, you get extra gas points. So I'll buy every week a gas card or excuse me, a Amazon card to get gas points, use that Amazon card, 25, 50 or whatever, and put on the pre-orders that I have. So by the time pre-orders are due to ship, I've already paid them off. Hey, elites. Oh, so if it's for Nick, let's pick Nick a good one for Nick. I'm sure Burt will do that for you live at TF Con for those of you going.  This time next month, TF Con will be a memory.  I've been looking so forward to it for so long, and it's like it's right here. And I actually forgot with all the excitement about TF Con, Monday is my four-year anniversary on YouTube. So I cannot believe I've been going freaking four years doing this. Hey, Larkin. So here's my plan for my four-year anniversary video. You know, when you do these chats right here, and there's a pen chat at the top, the pen chat at the top will be a StreamYard link for anybody in the chat who has a camera facing them to come on to my channel, say hi, ask me a question, and be on Patriot Prime reviews. I'm trying to think of something different. And that's what I came up with. TJ Eclipse, his birthday was yesterday. How old are you, TJ? Don't say in your teens because then I'll feel really old. Hell yeah, Bruce Campbell. Which cons he going to? This is so weird. I'm so used to having guests. It's odd being on here by myself. Scarefest. Oh yeah, I'm so excited. Does anybody have the Shutter app, the horror movie app? I was debating on getting that for October. My wife is dead set on seeing Halloween kills, and I think the last Halloween movie I watched was H2O. However many years ago that was. Yeah, you have to seem live, man. Everybody likes to see a Burt. Well, I've got a couple others. It's not all Burt's. The closest theater showing that for me was in Roanoke, Virginia, which was about an hour and a half away, and I just couldn't get away to do it. We had other things playing for the weekend. Halloween kills looks awesome. I watched the good old red band trailer and that looks pretty good. I mean, it's such a huge Friday the 13th fan. I just never fell into that Halloween category for some reason. I think it comes out. Aw, woos. First horror movie I ever saw was Alien, 1979.  We used to go to Roanoke all the time. Of course, whereas that year on me was happy. Nick's birthday, October 22nd. We have to do a special Burt only stream for Nick. Of course, what was funny growing up is my name is Jason and I have a brother named Michael, so we always got a kick out of Halloween. You know, the first predator was kind of a horror movie. And if you really dig into it, I watched it not too long ago because it's one of those movies I can watch over and over again. The original Terminator movie was done more as a horror movie than an action film. Yeah, I knew your birthday was coming up soon, Kato, because I think last year, right after my anniversary thing, we had like a birthday thing for you. That's another series. It's okay, but it's just not Fred. The Freddy movies are just too slow for me. I want my kills fast. Speaking of the predator, I just bought Astro Train and has Tyrannosaurus Rex Gun. I don't know what it has to do with the predator, but what's the Tyrannosaurus Rex Gun? He's got Sea Jaster Train with the big old monster blasters. You all get Burt's. A Burt for you, a Burt for you. Broadside. I remember when I got him, when I was after all the G1s, I never had a Broadside before. When I got him, I buy him off eBay, open him up, and I'm like, that's it. I know G1s are bricks, but my gosh, I'm trying to think what else I got coming. I've really got nothing else on pre-order coming in. I kind of reeled myself in from buying stuff because of TF coin. Of course, last time I don't remember buying that much. The room's going to be like $300 gas to get up there, food and stuff. So I'm kind of, I don't know. Dude, the Walmart's where everybody's at sucks. I went to mine today because a buddy of mine posted a picture that at his Walmart, he found Waspinator and Shadow Panthers. I got excited, went to my Walmart, wave one deluxes of kingdom, multiple he-mans and Skeletors, one flocked battle cat, one revelations battle cat, and Minecraft figures. Man, that was it. Yes! Psyched for Venom. That's the one I can't wait to see. I liked the first one. Now when I first watched it, I was like, man, this is way off from the comic origin. But then when I watched it the second time, knowing what I was going, getting into, I enjoyed it a lot more. I am trying to thank elites. There was a comic bookstore I used to love going to in Roanoke. Of course, we're talking about late 80s. I cannot remember it for nothing. I've got a lot of Batman comics there. It's where I bought my death in the family book. I went there in 89. I remember specifically when the Batman hype was just nuts and bought so much Batman stuff. Actually, Ruinus, I am not. I debated and debated on getting it. And they're taking the, well, it was $179. They were taking that $179 out like October 16th. And that would have been out of my TF Con fund. And of course, I have no attachment to Star Saber. He looks awesome, but it's just, I don't think that's one for me. B&D comics. I'm not sure. I can't, I can't remember the name of the road. I remember I can visualize the strip and where you go down to get it. But I cannot remember where it was. It was like in a house. It was awesome. Hello, Jack MCM. I have Unicron sitting over there in a box. He hadn't been opened up yet. He actually came. I'm holding him for a subscriber to the channel. See, I need to look that up. I've heard stories, but I haven't dug into what she looks like. Is she going to be a generation selects? Is she Hasbro third party? Well, we appreciate you stopping by. Thank you so much. G2 laser prime. Ah, here we go. Which one you say is the best Titan so far? My absolute favorite. Without a doubt, I don't even have to think about it. Scorponok. I love that figure. Plus I beefed him up. He's got the gun upgrade, the city upgrades. I didn't get the leg upgrades. A lot of people bought that so he can stay in side by side with Metroplex, but I don't have Metroplex. So I could care less about that. He's, he looks pretty good on my display right now. Oh, she's a Walgreens exclusive. Awesome. Gotta love those exclusives. Entertainment Earth had a, uh, they had a pre-order for him for a while and I think there may be a pre-order for him on Big Bad Toy Store. Big Bad Toy Store is where I got mine. He came up for sale. He was like in stock and a lot of people complained about Big Bad, but I ordered him and I had him in hand three days later. So I just lucked out. Did you hear about movie repaints in generations? I mean, like Bayverse movie repaints of generation figures? No, it wasn't in a log cabinet. It was a White House. Hell, it may be a neat comics. Oh, that's, I said that was an 89 man. That's a lot of time ago. I would because I love that Overlord figure. Which would you say is your least favorite generation selects figure so far? Huh? Least favorite generation? Oh, that's a hard one. Probably Hubcap. I mean, he wasn't bad, but there just wasn't much to him. He was just a bright yellow cliff jumper with a new head with an orange face. Yet, I mean, all the generation selects or repaints, but Hubcap just, he was all right. He just wasn't the best. Williamson Road. That's it. Okay, you're right. Williamson Road, BND Comics. You win. You won. So let's see. Thank you. You know how long it took me to make that one? Oh my God. Where's that comment? I feel you, David CT. The nineties were a blur, man. That was my clubbing days. Come on, Nick. It wasn't a Burt. Oh, Jason. I hadn't seen that one. Oh, I like your ash cosplay. I just noticed your picture.  How are you tonight? Dark. Their lightest hour. That just popped in my head, man. I like how the question of least favorite always ends up being this, I guess. Well, the thing is with least favorites, to be honest, I usually sell them or get rid of them, and I don't have them anymore. One of the worst ones I remember buying over the last couple years was, what was the last movie? Age of Extinction that came out.  So I remember I bought Barricade. I liked him. And then I bought the SUV police car, a dreadlock, Berserker, whatever the police car was, the dread.  It fell apart constantly, couldn't get to Transform. It went right into garbage. I didn't even try to sell it. Yeah, that's true. I had a domino effect earlier. I went to put something, Rettgar. I just reviewed him. So I went to put him up on the shelf and I had his axe. I don't pose mine static. They're always in some kind of action pose. And his axe hit one figure that fell into another figure. And he's on the sick shelf up and they started falling. I'm like, oh my God, my luck with clear plastics been fantastic lately because I've had no breaks and Toy Hacks has been covering up the ones I can't stand. Last night, Berserker, that was it.  I don't know if you watched my review Lazy, but I refused to say the word nipple in that review because everybody has done it. And I thought, I am not going to be that guy. I'm going to be above that. But I didn't like a little joke where I tweaked him. All the original 84 Autobots, the only ones that haven't gotten new releases in the War for Cybertron trilogy are Wincharger, Braun, and Gears. I would love to have Gears because Gears was my first Transformer figure. Gears always has a special place in my heart because not only was he my first Transformer figure, but my first experience with the Transformers in any way was issue number three of the Marvel Comics series where Spider-Man teamed up with Gears. So Gears and introducing to the Transformers is like this. So I would love to have a good Gears. I don't even have a Chug Style Gears. I think one came out, they used on the Swerve mold. I don't even have any version of Gears other than G1. I thought about that right after I fit during the editing. I'm like, I should have done that. And of course, I always think of the better stuff during editing or always realize where I screwed up because I did not notice that Rettgar's wheels were different widths. One's a back tire, one's a front tire. Didn't notice at all as much as I fooled around with him because I got him at work. I have all my stuff delivered at work because I don't trust a lot of things here at the house. So I took him out of the packaging. I love the fact you can take some of these things out of the packaging, mess with them, familiarize yourself with them. Did not notice he had thicker wheels until I premiered the review and everybody in the chat's like, make sure you put the back wheel in the back.  Why, thank you, Mr. Guzman. I don't want to mess up your first name. Thank you so much. Hey, Fire Tox. I was just talking about you and your special accessory that you're making for Puffer, Puffer the Magic Dragon. You're right. They haven't done any... I lost it. Where did you go? I lost a question. There you are, Craig Oxford. They haven't done any of the throttle butts yet. I would love to have a freeway. He was my first transform. The only one they did was the red one. What was his name? I've got all of them looking at him right there. Chase. I think it was Chase, but they did him in the power of the Prime's line. But yeah, I've mentioned this many, many times. I am so sick. I'm going to buy him anyway, but every time a new line comes out, all they do is reintroduce 84 through 86. They may dabble a little bit in 87 and so on, but come on, man. Let's do 87 through 91. You could make great new figures out of the pretenders, and to be honest, they don't even need to be pretenders. They could base robot modes off the shell. I'd be cool with that. You got fantastic characters with the pretenders, the power masters. There's target masters that haven't been touched yet. Not to mention, they could probably do really cool versions of micro masters and deluxe sizes. I mean, look at Barricade, for example. He used to be a micro master. Actually, I think I said, yeah, here is your G1 Barricade compared to what he is now. Granted, that was Bayverse that created him. But still, there's awesome figures and characters that they haven't touched that they could add to this existing line. It'll give everybody what they want, new characters, and still hit that G1 nostalgia for us old farts. So yeah, there's my little rant. If I get him, I've held off on buying the Ark once again because of TF Con. Now, if I don't buy a lot at TF Con, because I've been saving, I don't buy a lot at TF Con, I'll probably be getting the Ark then. I mean, I don't know. I just, I have no list for TF Con other than four G1 items, accessories that I need. Not yet, fire talks, make some truck nuts. That's right, you bought two Ark's, didn't you? You know, to be honest, when Dylan was younger, he watched a lot of the rescue bots. And I think some of those would make great chub figures. I mean, bring them over into our line.  What is it? Blades, the helicopter, and boulder, the boulders. Yeah, I think boulders, boulder was the bulldozer. I mean, those would be cool in our versions because if you think about it, probably a lot of those kids that grew up with rescue bots are now, well, they're probably teens and they're more into girls and stuff than toys. But you see what I'm getting. Those look really good. I saw that, man. They looked really good. So if I ever get an Ark, I'll probably get them. My big thing too is I have no idea where I'm going to put the Ark. Of course, I'm ordering Black Zerik. Well, I just love Scorponauts so much. And I am just totally running out of room in here. I'm going to probably move the rest of my Star Wars stuff out, put it in storage. I have room over here in the far corner, put up some more shelves. Yeah, hoist agrees with me. Chug rescue bots. Rescue bots never did have Decepticons, did they? Yeah, there we go. No needle nose. We got spinnister. We got quake. We never got needle nose. We also didn't get quick mix or landfill. We got scoop. And that was actually a pretty good character. And I liked the Target Masters he came with. Yep. They don't remember making the previous line and then making the same characters over and over. That's what kind of got me out of Star Wars. I was like, how many Darth Vader's and Luke's can you have?  You're not going to have a new mode. It's just Luke. You got Luke with a fist. You got Luke with a pointy finger. I do not. I had a Soundwave years ago, but he was part of my 2012 Transformers purge. Yep, sure shot. We didn't get point blank either. We just got crosshairs. I don't know. I guess they're on their way. I guess everybody got burned out with them in combiner wars. Quick shadow, high tides. Oh yeah, there's all kinds of rescue bot figures. Yeah, the special Luke with a yellow belt buckle. I would like to see the Beast Wars Combiner's come back. Back when I had Beast Wars figures, I had Tripreticus, awesome name, and Magna Balls. And I thought those were really cool, especially considering they were combiners that only took three figures to make. You know, I have that, the double barrel one. Funnily, funnily, the new, new word. Funny enough, I bought him a TF Con in 2019. He was one of those. They were closing up. I'm walking out, looked over and I thought, I remember that. How much did that go by? Uh, three bucks sold. Really? I have to look it up. I did or did it. Yeah, I did a review on the cap pistol. You saw him behind me. Where? He's, he's way up there on the top shelf. He's way up there. See more bot. I remember that Dylan has that figure. He has so many transformers and rescue bots and they're all in his toy box. He doesn't play with toys anymore. He's all about Minecraft and Pokemon. What specific figure from 87 to 91 would you like to see? Thunder Wing. Thunder Wing was one of my all time favorite Generation 1 characters, mainly because the way he was portrayed in Marvel Comics. And he needs an upgrade. He needs a modern updated figure. We got the Generations version a few years back, thrilling 30 maybe. And he was all right, but he was in the lux.   But yeah, Scorponaut, not Scorponaut, Thunder Wing. And don't make him IDW Thunder Wing, Marvel Comic Thunder Wing. No, I will not let him play those games yet. I don't want him anywhere near online gamers. Oh, yes. Thanks, Josh. I've seen that one before. Yep, that is Rescue Bot Blur. Hold on. Let me show everybody what we're talking about. Engineer Hoist. We're on Facebook together. Here is that Rescue Bot Blur he was talking about. Now the OmniBots, that would be good. They've never been touched other than third party. Lugnut. Yep. No, no, Thunder Wing, don't look nothing like Lugnut. Oh, you are. Well, there's a, I lost. Yes, there we go. Thank you. I appreciate it. This fine gentleman here was looking for an Earthrise Optimus Prime, and I happen to have that one that I bought just to have one for reviews. And I was like, he was desperately searching for one. I thought, man, I got one. I'll sell you. And he got him today. So you are welcome. Enjoy it. I'm glad he has a good home. Those were cool. I need to get the one power dasher. I need, I got the drill guy. I got, I need the one that came with the Amazon exclusive pack. I've got the two generation selects ones. A commander class Lugnut would be awesome. His reveal the shield figure was amazing. And one of the ones I really regret selling in 2012. And that's one I haven't got back yet. The other one was that big purple Galvatron up there. But I got him last month. I didn't get him. If somebody wants to send me one and I'll review him and send him back, yes, but I didn't get him. Aragon, that's the one. I know I can never remember his name. I mean, he's the Lord of the Rings character. You're right. Just reissue that character. I wish Hasbro would do what Nekka's doing. Nekka just they'll pull figures back and then re-release them later on as Ultimates. And we'll just add a couple tweaks here and there. Time isn't 10 o'clock. I'll go for about 10 more minutes. A commander class broadside would be cool. ROTB Offroad Bumblebee. Is that the gray one? I've got the yellow. I had to buy him because he was a Jeep. I'm a Jeep guy. Oh, there's another set of figures we don't have, like the trigger cons. Crankcase. What are their names? Look at them right now. Wind Sweeper, Crankcase. Man, I'm terrible. I know these G1 characters. Ruckus. I like that name. And then you got the Autobots, which was Dogfight, Backstreet, and Override. Yeah, there's six new characters right there that haven't been touched. Commander Cl... Oh, yes. Yes. You know, usually I'm pretty good with the G1 names. I can go across my shelf and name them until you guys put me on the spot. But when I get to the Micro Masters, you can never remember hardly any of those. Yes, new insecticons. We are getting, I'm pretty sure it's the original three that ones everybody knows so well, but I would love to see the deluxe insecticons make a comeback. The only one we saw was Chopshop, who came out in Power of the Primes. We got two versions of him. There was a little dinky one that came with the Legends Megatron. And then there was the Legends Chopshop that was repainting a shrapnel and actually a pretty good looking bot. Yep, jump starters were done. Transformers raw. Hello. A new quick switch that isn't a re-tool, right? More wreckers. Let's play. I was just talking about Generation Select subcap. Is he not on Hasbro Pulse anymore? My new favorite place to shop for Transformers is Mercari. You can usually find pretty good deals there and the prices are set. You're not bidding against somebody. Yes, these rumored stunnacons I'm really excited about because the stunnacons is my favorite combiner team and the combiner wars ones sucked. You know Memo, if you remember Marvel Comics, Marvel did the Transformers universe. Remember they showed crannies and Arbalus in their spaceship modes? The Lythonians could actually transform according to Marvel Comics. So yeah, that would be pretty cool. Mercari is legit. I bought quite a few Transformers. That big purple Galvatron came from Mercari. There's another figure standing beside him that came from Mercari that I won't put in front of the camera. I've got quite a few Neca figures from Mercari. So yeah, they're pretty decent. Get some Blu-rays from them. Yes, I brought this up in a chat there and I would love to see a monstructor and making Giant like he was in the comics. I think IDW really did him good. But the original monstructor for it. All right, for you, non-G-1ers, monstructor was the six pretender monsters. I mean evil Decepticon monsters that could form into the mighty monstructor. But the mighty monstructor is only deluxe size. So we need a giant monstructor. It always scares me to touch this figure. As long as I don't grab him by the left arm, I'm good. Yep. Of course, if we get a monstructor, you know there's going to be a generation to select Dino King right behind him. But would they give us the pretender shells? And this day and age, I mean just judging by, I wish I had access to grab a pretender. Well, let's do Ice Pick here for example. So all your pretender was, now these are the pretender monster shells and they're just rubber. So there's nothing to them.  But with today's technology, there's no way that they couldn't design this. So you'd have this big section where the robot would fit that the arms could not be articulated. The legs, you can have shoulder joints, bicep swivels. The head could rotate. The legs can move. You know they could do it now. And it's, they're missing the big opportunity because I think you throw pretenders out. Now, back when I was a kid, when the pretenders first came out, nobody really liked them.  And all of a sudden you've got giant monsters and giant humans because the Autobots were in human shells.  I like how the Decepticons are actually monsters. And it was always a cool concept because the Decepticon or Transformer could hop out of the shell and you had two figures because in the lore of Marvel Comics, the shell or the robot could control the shell. And of course, kind of like a Tomek Zemott thing. If the shell would get damaged, the pretender, the inner robot would feel it. So they kind of sucked when they came out. But when I started collecting them, I really got a brand new appreciation for them and kind of dig the originality that Hasbro put forth with them.  When you have a Transformer who turns into a vehicle, hops into a pretender that is a vehicle. Yeah, we're on pretenders. I love bludgeon. Marvel Comics did him so good. I never got into Action Master for that same reason. Yep. I only have a couple of Action Masters in my collection. I've got Bonsai Tron and Croc. What a Croc. Oh, yeah. Die for an original working official Voyager Pretender bludgeon. Have you seen the Super 7 bludgeon they got coming out? I think next spring, it's not a pretender, but it's an awesome looking bludgeon. It looks just like the G1 Marvel Comics appearance. It comes with the turret cannon. It's got the swords, the guns, multiple head sculpts. Sure have. That's that self-transforming one for 700 bucks. Those are the good ones. I still lack quite a few Autobot pretenders. The problem with them now, the Autobot ones are really expensive. Well, I missed that one. Yeah, that was the gimmick. They won a G.I. Joe was popular at time. Ninja Turtles were popular at the time and they thought, hey, let's make Transformers action figures. And I don't have one. Nothing's within easy reach. I'd show them off. I need to review those just to show people. Especially when they made Devastator and he was the same size as all the others. That'd be nice. A new updated version of that Dragon Megatron would be sweet. DNA design bludgeon will do. I'll check him out now. I'll show him to everybody. I might know the one you're talking about. I'm familiar with third party figures, but I can never think of their name right off. Oh yeah, I've seen that one before. Just, he's all right. Let me share my screens so you guys can see it. He looks good, but he doesn't, if that makes any sense. I just don't like the face. Now I got the revenge of the following one that came out a few years back with the upgrade set that gave him the Marvel G1 head sculpt. Oh, that thing's sweet. See right there, I would love to see a modernized take on Transformers animated Megatron, where he's that dual bladed helicopter. I think that would be pretty sick. Sick. I'm starting to sound like my son. Yeah, $700 transformer would get me in divorce court. All right guys, what is 1030? I'm going to get off here. Like I said, this was a surprise live stream just I could show what was in the box and big shout out to Kevin for all of these goodies. I cannot wait to crack into them and check them out. So it looks like my October is going to be quite a few KO reviews of these jumbo size Transformers. And yeah, good. I don't have to buy anything before TEFCon. Guys, once again, I appreciate each and every one of you. Tune in tomorrow night. It's going to be me and Kato doing a sit rep together. And then Sunday night is going to be my four year anniversary special live stream where hopefully I can get to talk to some of you face to face. A couple requests is have a webcam. I want to see your face. I don't want an icon. If you're going to talk to me, I want to talk to a person and I figure the best way to do it. Pop in. I'll be like, hey, introduce yourself. Pleasure to meet you. And one question and then we'll move on to the next person because I don't know how many people be on and you don't want it to get overwhelmed. So that'll be Saturday. Not Saturday. Hell, I'm already confused Sunday because my anniversary is the fourth. So Sunday would be the third. And that's why we'll do this. So got away with only one Bert. Yeah, you did. Well, there was two birds. You missed the first one. Where's elites? Elites will probably give you one to go. I won't be so nervous. I'll be careful drinking the TEFCon. There you go. There you go, Nick. All right, elites. Once again, thank you so much. I appreciate those super chats, brother. And everyone of you rest or all the rest of you have a great night. We will see you tomorrow here live with Kato and then hopefully Sunday. So once again, don't forget to like, don't forget to subscribe. This is Patriot Prime signing out. Everybody have a great night. Figure out how to close these things out.


Hello, I wanted to share with you today one small thing that I've been doing, which has really helped with my anxiety and general feeling of overwhelm at the moment. I wish there were like quick fixes and a magic wand, which would make everything okay, but there aren't. However, I find some of these little hacks can make a big difference. So something that I've been doing lately is in the morning when I wake up, not looking at my phone, not checking in with email or social media or anything in the outside world, essentially, until such points that I decide I want to engage with the world. Now, the reason why I do this is many fold. Part of it is that I've got two daughters in year six who I need to get up and get out the door to school and that time in the morning with them is quite precious and quite pressured sometimes. But also, when I open up my phone or my computer or any other communication device and I allow myself to look at messages incoming from email, social media or other places, then those messages dictate how I feel and what I do. And instantly I start to begin to think about how I'm going to respond to those things or they might change my mood and flip how I'm feeling and they can really set the tone for the whole morning. Now, I can't do anything about anything that's incoming until about half past eight or nine o'clock when I get back from having done the school run and coming back home. So looking at those messages a couple of hours earlier isn't going to do anything other than add them as additional weights on my mind of things I could or should be doing or that worried me. And the other thing I find is that when I look quickly at my phone, email, social media and so on first thing, then I don't take time to really digest what people are saying. And I often misconstrue. So I spend time thinking about things in the wrong direction or often worrying unnecessarily because I overly negatively interpret tone and content. And I know that's something that many other people struggle with as well. But I have a brain that, you know, someone could say 99 positive things and one that's just a little ambiguous and I will read this as a wholly negative message. So not helpful to read those in a hurry and have that stressing me out when I can't fully read and respond and do in that moment. So that's it. That's that's the whole hack here is don't pick up your phone and engage with the outside world first off. This may or may not work for you. It might not be possible for you. It might be even that you just allow yourself like 15 minutes before you engage with such things. But I have found that it's led to more productive, more mindful mornings where I'm wholly engaged with my family. We tend to get out the house on time and I'm not overly stressing out about things that I can't do anything about right now. So for me, it's made a really big difference. It might do so for you too. If you want to try this or any of the other kind of hacks that I try and recommend to you sometimes. I would suggest trying it for several days before you decide whether or not it's having an impact. And I would love to hear from you whether this is something that you find helpful to. Or if there are other suggestions that you would make of things that make a big difference. I'm going to link in the comments down below to a really brilliant Twitter thread. So I started a thread on Twitter a couple of days ago saying what were people's kind of well being hacks? What are the little things they were doing to make themselves feel a bit better that we could all learn from? And there's so many responses on there. So I'll link to that in the comments just that you might find that a really helpful thread to tap into and be inspired by. But this is my one. Do not check devices until the point of your choosing. You should determine when you want to interact with the outside world and respond rather than have the outside world determine the shape of your mood and morning. Preach over. Bye.


hoodedCoverCommander788 here, this is a video I've been thinking about making for a long time. In GI Joe Collecting we talk about variants and versions a lot. On Yojo.com you will see multiple versions of a character and you will see variants of a particular figure. On my own website, HCC788.com, you will find the same thing. Sometimes I disagree with Yojo about whether a figure is a variant or a version. I want to explain my thought process in determining if a figure is a variant or a different version. This shouldn't be considered the definitive answer to the question of whether a figure is a variant, this is just how I think of it which may or may not be useful to you. Take it for what it's worth. For those who wonder what the difference between a version and a variant is, I wanted to lay it out for you so you can know what toy collectors mean when they use those words. The difference between a version and a variant is not entirely clear. It would be convenient if we had definitions that always provided the correct answer, unfortunately there is some gray area between the two. When you're determining if a figure is a version or a variant, it means you have two action figures of the same character that are different in some way. These terms version and variant are collector terms, they're usually placed on a product after the fact. Sometimes they match up with the intent of the manufacturer, sometimes we are labeling something that the manufacturer didn't intend to have a separate label. Even when the manufacturer did intend a figure to be a new version of a character, they don't usually label it version 2 or version 3. Collectors do that. For instance, you have version 1 of Snake Eyes from 1982 and version 2 from 1985. The figures are entirely different, the packaging was different, they were manufactured at different times. Here it seems clear that the manufacturer wanted to produce a new version of the earlier figure. The 1985 Snake Eyes clearly fits in the version category, it is not a variant of the first version. Now take for example Steel Brigade, there are five variations of Steel Brigade, they are all different but we don't consider them different versions. Although the parts are changed out, the manufacturer appears to have been trying to issue the same figure with the parts that were available. They weren't advertised or packaged differently, they look similar, they are clearly in the variant category. Since there are so many variants, we label them with letter designations, version 1A, version 1B, version 1C and so on. Sometimes they are referred to as sub versions but they are really variants. But what about figures that are less clear? Look at these two lifeline figures, at first glance they look the same. When you look closer you see some differences, different parts were used. Even though the parts were switched around, the manufacturer seems to have been trying to issue the same figure as version 1, using the parts that were available. Just like Steel Brigade, Yojo.com calls these two figures different versions, not variants. Why would that be? Let's break it down and see if we can sort it out. I've seen a few definitions of variant from different sources and I don't find most of them very satisfying. Most to nail down hard and fast rules for each category still tend to leave some gray area. Transformers Wiki gave what I thought was a fair attempt at a definition. Their definition was honest about the gray area. They said, A variant is a product, usually a toy, in recent years also often a comic, that is available in more than one version but is technically considered the same product from a manufacturing standpoint. Each version differs from the others in one or more ways. The exact definition of a variant is not cut and dry and varies from person to person. Though a variant is generally different from a redeco or re-release, even that line is blurry in some cases. The problem gets more complicated when you try to decide where factory errors fit in. Sometimes factory errors will slip by quality control so you'll get a figure with two left arms or the wrong figure packaged on a card. Are these variants? Most collectors don't think so, but if enough of them are produced, they may be considered variants. If the only difference between a factory error and a variant is the number of examples, then factory errors are variants, just not the kind collectors like to find. Here I will set out the rules I follow to decide if a figure is a version or a variant. To determine if a figure is a new version, the question to answer is, did the manufacturer intend to produce a new version of a character? The main premise is that all versions are intentional, whereas variants may be either intentional or unintentional. An intentional variation that is released during the same run as an earlier variation with no change to the packaging or marketing is referred to as a running change. An unintentional variation is a factory error that was released in sufficient numbers for collectors to consider it a variant rather than just a mistake. To make this determination, I apply a ranked factors test. Note that these factors can't be added up with mathematical precision to reach the correct answer every time. Some factors may have greater weight than others, so reasonable people may disagree on the outcome, but they do provide some guidance. To determine the manufacturer's intent, I look at these factors ranked in order of importance. 1. The packaging. This factor has the greatest weight. Does it advertise a new version? Is the packaging drastically different from the earlier release? If the packaging looks like a new version, it is. The manufacturer is declaring their intent, so there's no gray area here. Packaging may not conclude the matter, though. There is an exception for mail-away offers. Instead of the retail-carded packaging, it may have come in a sealed plastic bag. If there are no other differences in the figure, it is the same version and not a variant. Two similar but different figures that were released in identical packaging are more likely to be variants than different versions. 2. How different are the figures? If the two figures in question are nearly the same, they are more likely to be variants rather than different versions. Do they share all or most of the same parts? Do they look like the same figure at first glance? Are the paint applications mostly the same? Sharing the same parts does not necessarily mean they are variants. Like for instance, Flint and Tiger Force Flint. They share the same parts, but they were advertised in different packaging. The first factor at the packaging outweighs the similarities in the figures. Different color schemes may not mean different versions though. I'll address that later. 3. Was there a separation of time between the release of the figures? If one figure ceased to be manufactured before the next one started, it's more likely to be a new version. If there are intervening versions between the two, they are more likely to be separate versions. Malloway figures complicate things again. For instance, Grunt Version 1.5 was released in 1983. That same year, Grunt Version 2 was released as the pilot of the Falcon Glider. Then Version 1.5 was released again as a Malloway offer in 1986 and 1987. But the Malloway Grunt is not a new version, nor is it a variant. It's the same Version 1.5 because the first rule has a Malloway exception. And it's identical to the original release. The intervening Version 2 figure doesn't change that. Take note of this. There is a special category for 1982 G.I. Joe figures that were re-released in 1983 with Swivel Arm Battle Grip. All of the 1982 lineup was re-released the following year with new articulation. Based on my factors, they would be considered variants. But collectors refer to them as Versions 1.5. And they are the only G.I. Joe figures that are referred to with 0.5 versions because they are a special category. Let's apply these factors to some figures and see if they should be considered versions or variants. This is Copperhead. Let's apply the factors. Factor 1. They were released in the same packaging as the driver of the water moccasin. Factor 2. The only difference between them is the paint color on certain parts, particularly the gloves. Factor 3. They were released during the same run. There is no separation in time between their manufacturer. They are variants. This looks like an unintentional variant. It looks like the wrong paint color was loaded in the machine. So all the places where the light green paint was supposed to be used, the dark green was used instead. If this had only happened one or two times, it would be called a factory error. Duke and Tiger Force Duke. Factor 1. The packaging is different. Even though some of the original artwork was used, it was altered to reflect the new figure's colors. The Tiger Force branding was added. The file card now says Tiger Force First Sergeant. Factor 2. Tiger Force Duke reuses most of the parts from version 1. The colors are obviously different, but the overall look of the figure doesn't vary wildly from the original. Different parts were used probably because the original molds weren't available when this figure was manufactured. Factor 3. Version 1 was taken off the shelves in 1985, and Tiger Force Duke was released in 1988. There was a gap between the two, but there was no intervening version between them. They are different versions. Even before we consider the differences between the figures, the packaging made clear distinctions between these two figures. They wanted the later one to be regarded as the new Tiger Force version. Zerana. This is one of my favorite changes on an action figure. Applying the factors. Factor 1. The packaging is the same. No change was advertised. Factor 2. There is only one difference between the two, but it's a major difference. They have different heads. This would have required new sculpting and new tooling, so it was intentional.  At first glance, they appear to be the same figure. Factor 3. They were released in the same series, and there was no intervening figure between them. They are variants. Since the variation was intentional, and it was within the same series, it is a running change. Let's try one that's harder. Outback versions 3 and 4. Yojo.com considers them to be different versions. Let's apply the factors. Factor 1. The packaging for both versions is identical. Nothing was changed. There is nothing to tell the consumer that this is a new version. Even the numbering in the number series remains the same. Factor 2. The colors are significantly different. This could be a flag that these are different versions rather than variants. The color change also appears to be intentional. Despite this, there is no other change. The sculpt is the same. The accessories are the same. Factor 3. They were released within the same run. There is no intervening version between them. I consider them to be variants. Though they are significantly different in color, the first factor carries the most weight. It suggests an intention to release a variant rather than a new version. Since it is an intentional variant, released in the same series, it is a running change. Now let's get back to the variant I started with. Lifeline. A lot of collectors consider these to be separate versions of lifeline and I understand why. Yojo.com agrees with them. Applying my factors, it's still no slam dunk. Some people may still consider them to be separate versions. But I think they are variants. Factor 1. The packaging is not the same. The earlier lifeline was released as a carded figure. The later one was released as a mail away offer through Rice Krispies cereal. That's why it's called the Rice Krispies lifeline. The difference in marketing could push this toward being different versions. But I make an exception to this factor for mail away figures. As such, the difference in packaging is not conclusive. So we have to go to factor 2. Factor 2. Different parts are used, but the color scheme is all the same. There's a difference in accessories, but only in the sense that the Rice Krispies version comes with fewer accessories. But when you look at the two figures, it looks like they were trying to make the same figure. Despite the different parts, the difference between the figures is minimal. This is kind of like Steel Brigade, where they changed the parts around from time to time, but they were trying to make the figures look as alike as possible. The differences were minimized. Factor 3. There was a gap between these two figures. The first lifeline was released in 1986. The later one was released as a mail away in 1991. Normally, that wouldn't make much difference except for one thing. Tiger Force Lifeline was released in 1988 between these two figures, and it is clearly a new version. Despite the complications of factor 3, factor 2 carries the most weight, and it falls in the mail away exception of factor 1, so I consider it a variant. But some collectors may give greater weight to the minor differences between the two figures and decide factor 2 comes down on the side of version rather than variant. For me though, the similarities are more important than the differences. So is that clear as mud? If you are a collector, how do you determine what is a version and what is a variant? Do you just follow the consensus on collector websites? There's nothing wrong with that. After all, these are collector terms, so the important thing is that we all understand each other. Thanks for indulging me in this discussion. It's something I've been thinking about for a while, and I wanted to put my ideas out there. There's plenty of room for disagreement on this. I just wanted to explain my thought process in deciding what is a variant. In some of my old videos, I got it wrong. For example, I thought the target exclusive hit and run with parachute pack was a different version. But based on my factors, it's probably just a variant. But hey, I'm still learning just like everyone else. I hope this was helpful to you. Thanks everyone for watching. I'll be back with a full GI Joe toy review soon.


I'm Ash Sarka for Navarra Media and I'm here with the one and only Diane Avert, Shadow Home Secretary. Thank you so much for joining us. It's a pleasure to be here. So I've got a few questions for you and one of them is you are one of the most experienced MPs in Jeremy Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet. What has changed for women of colour in politics since 1987? Well, first of all there are more women of colour in politics at every level. Jeremy has one, two, three, four women of colour in the Shadow Cabinet and that's a first. I think that in all the professions actually women of colour are in numbers, they were not before but that doesn't mean to say that we've defeated racism or sexism. There's no question that since 1987 you see more women of colour in professional positions. So when you first became an MP there was a vibrant populist anti-racist movement in the UK, things have changed quite a bit. Do you think that Labour is connecting well with that kind of grassroots anti-racist movement? Is there stuff that Labour could do better? Do you have any ambitions or hopes for seeing a revival of that kind of mass scale anti-racist organised? Well, Jeremy himself has consistently been involved in grassroots anti-racist organising and still continues to support it and take part in events. I think what happened was that a generation of young people of colour who thought the way forward was to keep their heads down and become sort of new Labour if you like and that was unfortunate because it stalled the progress that people like myself and Bernie made in the 80s and early 90s but I think we've been liberated from that and you're seeing some amazing young black activists out there and Jeremy and I and many others want to engage with and support those activists. You mentioned people being afraid to put their head above the parapet, you've of course done that and to see you handle such horrendous abuse with grace, poise and fearlessness has been inspiring. For women of colour watching you go through all that and who might be put off entering politics or putting their head above the parapet, what's your advice for them? Well first of all some of the horribleness that I've endeared as a politician is only a sort of exaggerated version of some of the negativity that black women and a lot of professions and a lot of roles in society have to experience so and it's coming from the same place and I think what will get you through it is knowing what you're believing, the support for your friends and family and knowing that it's really important that all of us in however greater way or smaller way make things better for a younger generation. Cool, thank you so much for joining us Diane and good luck over conference. Thank you.