Welcome viewers to our ongoing program focus coming to you from Channel 17 Center for Media and Democracy here in Burlington, Vermont. I'm your host Margaret Harrington in the Channel 17 newsroom and my special guest today is Ken Quinn from US Term Limits. Welcome Ken. Margaret thank you so much for having me on today I appreciate it. Thank you very much we have this very important subject here the title for our program is it's time we term limit Congress. So Ken let's start off with some questions here. Would you start off by telling us about the term limits for Congress legislation that is being supported by some bipartisan legislators here in Vermont? Yeah we have some real exciting news just to kind of give folks a little bit of background to what this issue is about we we're trying to get the states to propose a term limit amendment on Congress now here in New Hampshire Vermont we have two sponsors we have a sponsor in the house the the resolution is JRH2 and the sponsors Bob Helm and then we have a sponsor in the Senate Senator Debbie Ingram and that's going to be coming out probably not a week or so and what this resolution is that we need the state legislature to pass is a what's called an article 5 application it's applying to Congress to call an article 5 convention to allow the states to meet draft the amendment vote on it and then send it out to the states for ratification so we need 34 states to call the convention and then 38 states to ratify the amendment and so that's what this resolution is all about. Okay so that's article 5 of the United States Constitution. Yes yes which is the amending provision in the Constitution. Okay now briefly basically what article 5 allows is only two ways to propose amendments either two-thirds of both houses of Congress propose it and then send it out to the states for ratification and that's how we have gotten all of our 27 amendments came from Congress. The second option allows the states the exact same ability to propose amendments and so we need two thirds of the states to agree on the subject matter because it's limited to what they submit in their applications and so our application is for a single subject which is a congressional term-limit amendment. Okay and can you give us some idea of what the language is in that proposed amendment to the Vermont legislature? Yeah actually it's very we are not even advocating how long the term should be we just want to have the states to have this discussion on behalf of the American people. Now we are also trying to advance this through Congress so we actually do have an amendment in Congress right now and that amendment calls for limiting US senators to two terms so their term is six years each so that'd be a total of 12 years and then limiting House of Representatives to three terms for a total of six years. So one person combined could serve a total of 18 years in Congress. Now that's currently in Congress right now. I don't have a lot of hope that's going to get passed by the two thirds of Congress and so that's why we're advancing it through the states and what the state initiative is not advocating those specific terms. We left that kind of open to let the states have that discussion in the convention. Okay so how long has this been before Congress? How long is this this proposal? Well the our amendment in Congress we typically have it introduced every session and like I said we actually this year we did have a committee hearing on behalf of this amendment. I think it's been 20 years since we've been even been able to get a committee hearing and so obviously our biggest roadblock to getting this done is Congress itself and so that's why we need the states to do this because without the state's pressuring Congress to do something it's just probably not going to happen. Now personally I don't I want to go all the way to have the states have this meeting to do it because I think the amendment that they draft and vote on is probably going to have a little more teeth into it than what Congress would propose. Okay and what so far is the progress with the states that having a voting for this convention? Yeah well the process is very interesting these these applications they're called article five applications. It requires two thirds of the states to submit or basically it's a passage of a resolution by the legislatures so we need today 34 state legislatures to pass these on the same subject matter. Now there's been over 400 of these applications passed by the states now they they've never gotten to that critical mass of two thirds. It came very close a few times for the 17th amendment the 17th amendment which is the direct election of senators was proposed by Congress but it was because of the pressure the states put on through this process they get within two states shy of calling the convention to propose it themselves and that pressure prodded Congress to do it. So right now there are 15 state legislatures that have submitted an application to Congress on this subject matter. Okay no that brings us to what is the major resistance to you as congressional term limits? Well number one would be Congress they don't like this idea you know the people the American people 82% in a recent poll 82% of the American voters want term limits on Congress and that polls high with Republicans Democrats independence across the board it's it's really a very popular subject. Now back in our history back in the 1990s 23 states actually passed laws most of them at the ballot box by the people to put term limits on their own members of Congress in their states and unfortunately what happened was in the case against us it was US term limits versus thoughts and US Supreme Court ruled against those state laws overturned all of them and ruled that the only way this can be accomplished was under Article 5 of the US Constitution either by Congress or the states. Okay yeah so we're pushing it both ways and I'm very excited that we have this in the Vermont legislature the Senate resolution is going to be coming out probably next week and so if you're out there listening and watching we need your help we want to get this passed this is a reform that is desperately needed for the American people Washington DC Congress is broken it's dysfunctional and we need to send new people with fresh ideas down to DC and get things done that need to get done the incumbents in Washington who have been there for decades continue to kick the cans kick the can down the road on really important issues and the problem is they seem to care more about their reelection and maintaining power and this will help break up that backlog that we have. Well can can you tell people here in Vermont voters here what we can do about the resolution the pending resolution? Well here the first thing you could do I really appreciate is sign our petition at termlimits.com that's important because that's how I'm going to communicate with everybody in the state once you sign that you'll be in our database and we only use it to communicate through email and we will be sending out calls to action we'll be doing probably events at the Capitol with definitely public hearings we're hoping to get a public hearing here in Vermont and the Senate and the House so that the people of Vermont can come and share in front of the members of the committees why they want this and so we are going to need as many people in Vermont as possible to make send the emails to their legislators asking them to pass this and come on out to the Capitol to testify so that's really critical if they don't hear from the their constituents they don't see it as that important of an issue and so we just got to make some noise and the the website is www.termlimits.com yeah okay and we can right there in the front okay great so and how do we get to this how did we in our history in the United States our short history how did we get to this being acceptable that politicians have lifetime positions in the US Congress how did this come about yeah it's it's fascinating history part of it has to do with our lifespans lifespans have greatly increased over the decades due to technology and you know back in the old days people didn't live to 70 and 80 all that often so but what happened was our first Constitution had term limits back then they called it rotation of office so the articles of confederation had rotation of office many of the state constitutions had rotation of office term limits and what the reason for that was the founders believe that anybody who holds a seat for too long it gets to their head and it becomes more about maintaining power and influence than doing the will of the people and so they saw rotation of office or what we call term limits today as a probably the number one way of protecting our freedom in our liberty and not letting it turn into an elite aristocracy unfortunately what happened is over time it's human nature and we have just kind of not paid a lot of attention now back in the 1990s the American people were really pushing for term limits as we saw with the with the state's passage of those state laws unfortunately because state legislators have been sort of unaware of their own authority under article five or in some of them have been afraid of using this they have allowed this continue for decades and so we need the state legislators to stand up use their authority under article five they had the same authority to propose amendments as Congress does now I don't want to go down too far a rabbit hole here but Congress has introduced 12,000 amendments to the US Constitution 12,000 since 1789 only 33 of those were proposed by the two-thirds needed and then 27 of those have been ratified on the other side the states have never introduced one under article five so they've never even had the opportunity to meet to discuss an issue and all we're seeking is to give the states the same opportunity Congress has taken advantage of 12,000 times that's all this is so so Ken could you go into what were the results when there was a rotation of office what were the results in legislation well it yeah if you if you were to look at our founders our framers many of them were in office for many years but they didn't hold the same seat they moved around governor Congress Senate and so this doesn't prevent somebody from serving the people it just prevents them from holding one seat for decades and so it's it keeps the government robust it keeps the representation closer to the to the people the voters and it gives more opportunity for regular folks citizens to participate in our government and so it's critical to maintaining a functioning democracy and so we need to have term limits so that the will of the people that our voices heard right now they're not listening to us they listen to the funders they listen to the packs the lobbyists and the special interest groups that are spending millions of dollars down in Washington and yet they leave us behind and that everybody knows that and this is the only way we can fix it well then have we reached a tipping point and will term limits soon be the law in the United States well we haven't reached the tipping point yet but we need to and the only way we're going to reach that tipping point is by getting the people to rise up and demand this we cannot depend on Congress to do it they've been talking about term limits every year last year alone 60 amendments were introduced by Congress 60 about 15 of those were for term limits ours amongst the others and it gets lip service you know I believe the sponsors intend and and want it but we can never get enough of them in Congress to pass it by the two thirds and so we need the states and we need the people in the states to demand from their state legislator not their federal legislators their state legislators to do this and we need to take action we can't allow this to continue much longer because things are only going to get worse if you really want to make a difference in the direction of our nation we need to initiate term limits it's not the silver bullet for everything but what it will do it will break up the power that the incumbent party has in Washington DC it's this is not a left or right problem they're both guilty it's those in power they're controlling everything and by having term limits established on Congress it will get infusion of new people with new ideas new energy and will break up this this hold that the lobbyists have over these incumbents that have been there for decades and so I'm excited about it I think it's going to be a tremendous reform but it's going to be a very heavy lift once we get close to calling this convention the amount of money that's going to be spent to stop us is going to be overwhelming and it's going to be a tough battle but we can get it done we've done it once before with the president we have term limits on the president that it's the 22nd amendment and I want to mention that briefly because next week on February 27th is national term limits day we started this last year as a way to educate the folks the people on this this effort and we chose that day because that's the date the 22nd amendment was ratified in 1951 which put two terms on the U.S. presidents 1951 1951 that's within a lot of our our lifetime so yes and so if it's good enough for the president which I believe it is it should be good enough for members of Congress and we've got to get it done and well what I will let's go in deeper into what are the main benefits of having congressional term limits yeah there's many we would have a greater representation of citizens you would right now a lot of folks in Washington they become career politicians they know that they can turn that into a lifelong career we would have people from different backgrounds teachers artists farmers instead of the lawyers and the multi-millionaire CEOs you know we just need better representation term limits actually would give regular people like you and I a real shot of of winning an election because right now it takes millions of dollars to go against an incumbents and a lot of good people don't even bother to run for office because they know they can't raise that kind of money with term limits people will know that hey in two years that seats gonna be open I've got a good shot at that and so they will take the time and plan and run for that seat term limits is provides fair and competitive elections right now only about 20% of the races for Congress are competitive 20% and we need to make that a hundred percent and term limits will go a long way to making that happen we will get new people with fresh ideas we will break up this hold that the big corporations have the the packs the lobbies have on these individuals in Washington DC it will reduce corruption tremendously right now 97% of corporate pack money goes to incumbents they don't give it to a challenger they give it to the people that they've been owned in their back pocket for decades and so we got to change this this corrupt system it we have to change the structure of it and that's what this will help accomplish well going back into a little bit into the history like in 1951 the amendment limits the presidency to to two terms and but but what what were was there any tipping point in the past for for your term limits to it well I would say the 1990s was a tipping point that's when 23 states tried to put it on their own members of Congress 22 states passed laws to put term limits on their state legislatures so the 1990s was really when term okay they were the state legislators Congress and the state legislatures and right now out of those 22 states 15 of those are still in place so some of the states overturned their term limits wait a minute so the the U.S. Supreme Court couldn't overturn the state's constriction on correct yeah oh so that either and I don't know every states a little bit different some of those states it was done by the legislature I believe some required an amendment to their constitution so every states a little bit different now I'm from Maine we have term limits in Maine on the state legislators basically it doesn't ban them for life they have to serve I think four terms in the house then four terms in the Senate they have to sit out for I think one term and then they can go back and hold those seats again now so currently we have 15 states that still have term limits on their state legislatures now what's interesting there was a report that came out I think it was the mercadics I forget the name is report on the fine fiscal ratings of the states all 50 states of four out of the top five of those states have term limits on their legislature now I'm not saying I'm not making the connection that term limits make a state more fiscally responsible but what I'm saying is it doesn't just what we hear often is that oh terms are bad for a state you know it's the end of the world it's simply not true it just simply not true it allows more people to participate in the government and what's good about that is once they're out they have to now live under the laws that they passed and so we have more people think about that if Congress if we had a lot of people going to Congress knowing they had a short amount of time to get the job done and then had to return to live under those laws I think we'd see a lot of different laws being passed or or not passed right now that they've got it kind of cushy because they're kind of protected and so we need to change that you know it's seen it does seem like a big machine machine politics that has been in place for a very long time I'm excited though we can get this done and what's great about it is this is something that the people want you know out of all of the issues out there today this is probably the number one issue that can unite everybody because everyone sees the dysfunction in Washington DC they they're frustrated with Congress they see that it's more about them raising money for their reelection and their party and doing the favors from the funders what we need is to change that take that power away from them redistribute that power to the people back to the people so that more people can be involved in this process think about this think about the choices we will have as voters every time there's an open seat election we're gonna have instead of the same two people running for that seat we're gonna have maybe 10 people in a primary you know so it's going to increase the competition and hopefully increase better candidates over time for us and so it's it's a really a win-win for everybody okay and it's it's not about there's no possibility of eliminating money from the whole process well not completely but it will do it greatly reduce the amount of money spent right now because it's right now they are so hold into the lobbyists and the PACs because they have to get reelected and they get caught up in this vicious cycle of constantly running for reelection and raising money for that you know 60 minutes to the great reports it's called dialing for dollars I think it's called on YouTube just Google that 30 to 70% of times by members of Congress has spent raising money for their party or the reelection with term limits money will not be such an issue because they're going to be there for a short period of time and then they're gone the lobbyists are going to lose the the impact that they have on these people because you're gonna be we're gonna be crashing the shores of Congress with new people all the time and now the lobbyists are instead of owning them for decades they're gonna have to actually defend their issue and sell their issue on the integrity of it and the importance of it than just buying them off that's the importance of this so it will go a long way to reducing the amount of money in politics okay so can you presented this very clearly that we are it in it in a kind of crisis about term limits that it seems to be accepted by the great populace because we are uneducated about the possibility of not of actually having term limits yeah I'd like to give the voters hope you know we can do more than just elect people you know electing people is great but that's not our only option the framers in their wisdom gave us article 5 as a check against a runaway federal government and one of the reasons they gave us this convention mode was because they knew that the government they were creating would they actually predicted would become tyrannical and would not listen to the people and so they wanted the people through their state legislators to have a voice in the amending process and if they felt there there were certain amendments needed that Congress has refused to propose then you know what we'll do it through the states and the states will get it done because only the states can amend the Constitution that they're the ones that have the power to ratify amendments Congress can't ratify Congress can only propose so why are we leaving it up to Congress to always be the one proposing if they're the problem if they're not listening to us why do we think they're going to give us the solution so it's time that we turned to the states and advocate our legislators to pass our term limit application to pass other applications that are out there that can really bring necessary reforms to our government so what what is your plan as as a the regional director of us term limits today well my plan ultimately is to get that is convention and have the states propose this amendment that's my long-term goal in the short term I cover 17 states and I was sharing with you earlier Margaret how I've got like 10 states that are active right now so I'm going to be doing a lot of traveling I'm very excited that Vermont is introducing the resolution it should be coming out I think next week and that's why for your listeners please email me or first go to our website sign that petition I will be sending out notifications of the entry of the resolution the calls to action if they want to help me I need help we need grassroots people in the state I live in Maine is a little bit of a drive for me this morning about three and a half hours so we need local people to volunteer to get come alongside me and help us get this done because we can do this if we get people involved and you're meeting with who is that again I have a meeting I'm heading to the Capitol right now to meet with Senator Debbie Ingram who is our Senate sponsor and that's going to be coming out hopefully next week the resolution and as Senate sponsor she will introduce this proposal yep she's introducing the resolution our representative of Bob Helm has already introduced it in the House so we're going to have it in the House and the Senate this year and we want to have the committees call at least a public hearing so we can have the people of Vermont come and speak on behalf of this issue okay and then the process would be a public hearing from the committee but what is the name of the committee oh boy I I think it's government operations on the House I I can get that for you okay if you just look up JR H2 that's the resolution you'll show you which a committee it's been assigned to okay so how the process works is you know once the the committee will have a hearing where the public is allowed to come and testify and usually in every states a little bit different but most states will typically they will vote on that resolution or that bill week or so afterwards not always but in Maine that's how it's usually done in my state so some states if it passes the committee then it's straight to the House or the Senate for a vote the full-floor vote and then the process starts all over again in the other body okay some states even if it doesn't pass the committee it still may get a vote in Maine everything gets voted on in Maine even if it even if the committee didn't recommend it so we need to get to a hearing here in Vermont we need to pass it there's absolutely no reason Vermont actually passed an article 5 resolution a few years ago for a campaign finance amendment and so this is a great reform along with campaign finance and that's what we need to do we gotta you have this hearing and get a vote this year and pass it and we always here in Vermont we always have time town meeting resolutions where each each section of Vermont can pass resolutions at their town meeting so there's a possibility this could get on maybe next year's town meeting well that's a great idea I haven't really thought about that but if that would help us absolutely I'll have to talk to you more about that because that's a great idea please talk to the legislators when you meet with them today okay yeah I'm very excited so we really could use a lot of help here in Vermont and signing that petition will get you connected to me and I promise I don't send a lot of emails we don't send out a lot of emails but it's very important when we do yeah and and you've awakened us immensely today can and just send us out with with some of the main reasons again why should we why should we we should limit terms for Congress to begin with the con with the US Congress yeah well we all know Washington DC is broken it's dysfunctional the biggest problem we see down there is that those that hold the power are refusing to make the tough choices for the American people we have a health care crisis immigration crisis you name it spending credit we've been hearing this for decades nothing's getting done and so it's time that we the people rose up and the first thing we need to do is eliminate how long people can stay in office it can no longer be a career for people a lifelong career and what termums will do is reinvigorate this government of ours we'll get the we'll have the ability to send new people with fresh ideas more people will participate the voters will have more options and through that we will then have enough people down in Washington who will tackle the tough issues because now they're free they know hey I only have a short period of time to get this done I'm gonna get it done they don't become trapped on this vicious cycle of we're having to raise money to win their reelection we gotta end it it is time to end that only terms can get that done so we would really appreciate your support I'll go to term limits dot com sign our petition my email address is there I think on the screen Kay Quinn at term limits dot com if you want to help there's a volunteer tab fill out the survey that's a great way getting connected with me and I'm looking forward to working with you and let's pass this in Vermont this year thank you Ken Quinn US term limits all right thank you Margaret for your time I really appreciate it thank you viewers and thanks channel 17 goodbye for now


So here are the rules for balancing a redox equation. We're doing this in acidic conditions So you need to write skeleton equations of the reduction and oxidation half reactions balance for everything other than hydrogen and oxygen Balance for oxygen by adding water where required balance for hydrogen by adding hydrogen ions where required Balance for charge by adding electrons Then you need to get the same number of electrons in the reduction and oxidation half equations Then you add together and cancel out anything on both sides of the arrow and then at the end you check So let's do an example So we're going to balance this equation here So the first step we need to write the oxidation or reduction half equations. So I'm going to start with technician So technician goes to TE03 to minus And in O3 minus goes to N2O4 All right, so we've done the half equations now What I need to do is our balance for everything other than oxygen and hydrogen So if we look we've got one technician one technician so the top equation is okay Bottom one we've got two nitrogens on the left and only one on the two nitrogens on the right and one on the left So I need to double my number of nitrate ions Next step is we need to balance for oxygen by adding water molecules where required So we now first equation here. We've got Three water three oxygen molecules on the right-hand side. So you need to add three water Molecules to the left-hand side In our bottom one, we've got two two times three So we've got six oxygens on the left-hand side and only four on the right-hand side. So I need add Two water molecules on the right Next step is we need to balance for hydrogen by adding hydrogen ions where required So we've got six hydrogens on the left-hand side here and on the right So I need to add six hydrogen ions to the right now bottom one. We've got four hydrogens On the right-hand side. So we need to add four hydrogen ions to the left Next step is we need to balance for charge by adding electrons. So if we look at our top equation here We've got no charge anywhere. So our charge is zero on the left-hand side if we look at our right-hand side Got minus two here and six H pluses here So we've got plus six minus two so a total charge is plus four So to get the charges the same on both sides I need to add four electrons to the right-hand side of our top equation look at our bottom equation I've got a charge of zero on the right-hand side then on the left-hand side. I've got Two negatives there and plus four so my total charge on this side So minus two plus four is plus two. So that means I need to add two electrons To the left-hand side of the bottom equation next step is we need to Get the number of electrons the same. So if I look at the top I've got four electrons at the top and only two down the bottom So I need times everything down the bottom by two. So now I've got four electrons plus four Nitrate ions plus eight hydrogen ions Going to two into four plus four Water molecules, so I'm just using it as if it's a mathematical equation I'm multiplying everything down the bottom by two Next step we need to treat these equations as their mathematical equations and cancel out things that are on both sides the arrow And then add them together So if we have a look at our equations here You should be able to get rid of the electrons if you can't get rid of the electrons you've done something wrong We've got three water molecules on the left of the arrow at the top before down the bottom So you can get rid of all three up here and we've got one water molecule left on the right hand side down the bottom We can also get rid of our hydrogen ions or some of them So we've got six hydrogen ions here eight down the bottom. So that leaves me with two hydrogen ions And now we write out our what we have left over. So we've got technician plus four Nitrate Plus two hydrogen ions goes to Teo three two minus plus into Oh four plus each two oh Next step is we need to check to make sure we've got the same on both sides of the equation So first thing we're going to do is check for charge So I've got minus four down here and plus two over here So minus four plus two is minus two so the total charge of minus two On our right hand side over here. We've got minus two so our charges minus two on both sides So that's a good now a good thing to see Next we need to check that we've got the right number of all the atoms there So we've got one technician one technician four nitrogen For the two there we go. So I've got that too. So two times two. So we've got four nitrogen I've got four times three. So 12 oxygens. I've got eight plus three is 11 plus one is 12 oxygens Two hydrogen is two hydrogeners. So everything's balanced there. So that one is done So we've done the redox equation for those two and added them together


Hello and welcome back to the craft box. My name is Brent and today we are on episode 299 nearly 300 of the death walkthrough last episode if you haven't checked it out already We were in the candy corn farm We went and defeated some toasted brutal and also some hangry gobblers So if that sounds interesting and you don't want to see spoilers for what is about to happen You should go watch last episode otherwise. Let's head into the factory because surely nothing bad can happen in the factory You know, okay? We are going to need pictures of everything in here so the weird sisters can inspect what is going on Let us start in this room. Those look like the main goomy jelly vats You can see where the gobblers sweat is piped in use photo man say to get a picture of them Right, let us use photo man see to get a picture of the bats. That sounds cool There we go. Give me that now from what I can tell the assembly line goes like this after the gobblers sweat is mixed in The blended jelly is in sin from the vats into the bond division to be molded into goomies and stamped with their functionality Then the completed goomies go to the farmers house branch for approval final processing and shipments throughout caramel That means the bond division is where we need to go.  Let's head into this non non-descript sigil that surely has nothing bad behind it because why would a sigil ever have anything bad behind it? You know surely it's completely fine and nothing is going to destroy us instantly Hopefully one would hope is that the case? possibly not Look a freshly pressed goomba Jack. It does not seem to be hostile. Is it not sour yet? No, you're not sour at all. Oh, you have no idea what sad state of affairs led to your creation No, you That's interesting right goomba jacks. I will be back once I've defeated them. We have defeated them multiple times previously Right, I am back. Hopefully this kills. We do have two blades. So we will see it should probably maybe But yeah, these guys are not too bad. I don't think they even shielded Which is their fault. I guess for being so bad. They do have brace though. Actually, no, that's not even a brace I just can't tell colors apparently. I'm just really bad at this game. It didn't even kill what what? This is so they have like five health or something. This is not okay. This is not okay at all Absolutely not okay Now there's a brace. Okay, that makes sense You ask for a brace and you shall receive. This is the problem. I'm not getting anything 168. It's ridiculous Right, let's just discard all of those all of those find what we're looking for and then it's adapt Adapt to a new strategy Oh, King Art. Hello. What does ice King Art do? I can't even remember. Can't even remember what ice King Art does It's just one that I never ever see being used ever Looks cool though, but ah It's a taunt Is it a taunt? It might be a taunt. You also get one pep. Interesting. No, it's not a taunt It's not a soothe either. Interesting.  Yep way way way too much killage there way too much. Anyway, there we go fight is done GG we did it easy peasy next What was that all about they just turned sour right on this spot is gobless But really that zesty it was a fresh gummy so it did not degrade or go bad It was made bad. Maybe something is a function stumping that gives gummies their jobs Take a picture of the molds visit then we will go find out Take a picture of mold there we go lovely I have an idea it is a weird theory It makes no sense and if it is true It means the sour gummy problem is much darker than resort, but I think I know what's set off the goomba jugs come this way Oh, we are getting into the thick plot now. Oh Yeah, you see it is a trigger word the gummies turn sour when someone says sad Yeah, okay, just let me find these again, um, but that's okay I'll be back in just a little bit once I've fought these ones as well, right.  It is not negligence or cutting corners that is making the gummies go sour They were designed to go sour at a specific time when somebody says the right code word Nana is not making shoddy products She is making a time-release army of gummies, but how does goblest bet do that? There is one more room down here. Perhaps it is where all the answers are stored Interesting what is down here all look at the cranberries More gummy molds, but what does these gummies they are making by those are the platinum line of Nana's happiness Initiative And now there is a creepy voiced PA guy Wunderbar creepy. I'm so terribly sorry. I did not mean to disturb you So the last thing I want is to make you sad Right, let us defeat these cranberries they are elite rank 18 death So we'll see how we go without prisms we can just cut the faint who needs a faint not me I am going faintless today faint. This is good. Goodness. That's what they say Definitely what they say. What is this? Okay a banshee a weird colored banshee fair enough. I Can't remember what what? Okay, that's what it does gives it trap fair enough Understandable have a nice day. Um, let's inch on this We're gonna need both of these blades. We might even have to go for a Lulu as well wouldn't be surprised wouldn't be surprised there and Hopefully that would kill as long as they don't get the spell or you know other death related Weakness stuff or debt shield or stuff like that. We should be fine. Hopefully hopefully But it could be wrong could be wrong. We will see. Oh, that's nice Kind of not nice, but also nice at the same time. It's like a yes. Yes. No sort of thing Like yes, we'll we'll happily accept it, but no it is going to damage us quite significantly But hey, you know, they might just banshee again. Oh, this is a blade. Oh Yes, it is a blade. Oh scary Scary it's even a better blade as well. How much this could actually do quite a lot This could do quite a lot. I'm actually very worried about this Yeah, that didn't quite a lot Quite a lot there geez these guys are not to be messed with holy moly right Crane for raise Let's let's destroy you once and for all and send you back to the Goomy Goomy plant, which is where you are actually at the moment, but you know what I mean Oh, we didn't even kill. That's good.  I'm still alive. You didn't kill me yet Just quite sad quite sad Actually, we can't stop say sad that triggers them So we might need to stop saying sad for a bit. Oh well, um, right Let's go for a we're gonna do a Lulu just because it does more damage So therefore has higher chance to kill just because Without blades we're kind of bordering on the edge of how much we can do with resist With a ship of force, so it's probably safer bet to do this. I would say Probably safer.  Mm-hmm, right? That was a lot of XP nice We still do not know why Nana's doing this perhaps of retch on the loudspeaker can tell us unlikely fools But come find me if you dare then you will learn no one leaves the factory of Wilhelm Vankie alive Except for his employees over tolp come along visit Yes, that is very true. Hopefully his employees leave alive You never know they may not wouldn't be surprised. It is caramel after all Is caramel so wouldn't be surprised, but hey that was a fun dungeon. I quite like that one It's really cool.  What are you thinking? Let us review we know Nana is using goblah sweat instead of fairy dust to make the gummies Somehow this makes the gummies sour not sweet and we know that the sourness is a feature not a flaw It seems Nana likely the grand Nana is playing a diabolical game right under our noses But what is her aim? Why do all this the farmers house branches where these gummy sleeper agents go for approval and final processing? I bet we will find our mysterious mr. Wonky there. No doubt the factory's boss has the answers we seek Okay, let's go and defeat. I mean not defeat We would never defeat someone called a villian Vankie. That is clearly a villain. Definitely not. Why would we do that? Slight spoilers But we'll go and see what's happening in this in this area, you know makes sense a farmer's house branch Fair enough five four three two One Let's go Right, what do we got in here? Oh? Told you There he is visit tell us wonky. What are you really doing here? Oh, no I do not think I've ever been telling you the intricate plan We have devised and unfurled over decades good day to use it Actually, it is right on that board over there so one titled the true happiness initiative It says ramp up treat production makes secret sour gummies sell throughout the spiral destroy all competition Do not look upon my secret plan scrum board. That's a hideous invasion of my privacy, and I said good day Interesting right let's defeat Wilhelm wonky Wilhelm wonky He is storm rank 19 quite a bit of health So we'll see how this goes Obviously it has met hamster with them not too bad. We've defeated multiple of them before or at least I have Storm dispel love to see it. They really love dispels and caramel. They really do hammer of Thor like I said things in Caramel really love hammer of Thor storm thing in caramel. It will cast hammer of Thor at you 100% guaranteed 100% guaranteed It just happens, you know it just happens Right there is a nice we faint. He doesn't remove it lovely lovely lovely I mean we could go for another faint or we could go for a blade. Let's go for another faint I think that is a good idea because faints are a lot harder for them to remove since their storm Than blades storm has a lot of blade removal stuff, but not a lot of faint removal We're just gonna trap a little bit just a little bit just a smidge probably will do this one and then a Then should we do a blade will probably do a blade next sounds like a plan. Oh See hammer of Thor again. What am I saying? You know, it's a hundred percent true Hundred percent true It's just how it be. It's such a cool spell though such a cool spell It does quite a bit as well He has a lot of damage or a lot of PS one or the other or both who knows But yeah, there is two two traps two faints. We do have a potent now But yeah, we're just gonna discard that and blade real fast. I don't think we're gonna go three traps I think that's a little bit overkill just a smidge and overkill But hey, we'll see we'll see we'll go for a blade and Hopefully next up we can hit Nope, we can't we're gonna just cut you I kind of don't want to ship a force, but I would kind of like to see how much it does So we're gonna do it who cares, you know who cares we are going to kill Kill maybe we'll see we're definitely gonna cast ship of course We probably won't kill the minion, but we might kill the boss But I don't know how much this does with one blade and a couple of feints So it'll be interesting to see how good we actually are Because I don't really use ship of course is like an actual hitting spell It's more of just a finisher offer. That was so close. Wow. I'm impressed there. I'm very impressed Very very impressed. It killed the minion, which is cool and Wilhelm is got 98 health man That was that was pretty good. That was pretty good. I think if I had slightly more current that would have killed But hey, that's pretty cool pretty cool Here we go with the kill though, not too bad Wilhelm bonky is not a very difficult boss It's pretty easy as long as you hit pretty quickly Otherwise you might slowly die But hey that's storm for you Gigi or Chris bees So the happiness initiative to expand caramel delights to the spiral was a front for creating an army to Destroy all other candy makers Well destroy all candy makers so we can spread caramel delights to the spiral Yeah, we won't just be the best. We will be the only snack company I still do not understand how the goblers fed spits in how does that make so go me sour? Because when goblers sugar crash their bodies produce anti-joys that is why they get so Dangerously hungry seemed a good fit for our plan speaking of which visit get a photo of the secret plan scrambled Yeah, sounds good. We can't even read it. I would love to know what all of it says but unfortunately I Ain't that good at reading that should do it now. Let us get out of here You will not win you cannot soon Nana will be everywhere Nana will be everything and Sweetness will prevail. I Don't like how they constantly say sweetness will prevail. I don't think it's prevailing so far just saying So, you know kind of kind of fake advertising Misleading advertising we don't like that here. We really don't we need to go to Greta who is all the way out the front We're gonna run all the way there. Oh, no. Oh, no so slow so slow Right Greta, where are you? Where for art thou right here? We have pictures of the whole process evidence to show the rest of caramels as a happiness initiative is a lie We should return to the red sisters, but first let us attend to our gobbler friends. Are you calming down? You sorry about before it's just we hadn't eaten in a while. No blood sugar makes gobblers angry So I hear well believe it or not I actually know a place you can go to get help an acquaintance has a house in the forest It is hard to find so I am told you have to follow your nose Hey, is that cobbleberry pie? I love cobbleberry pie. Let's go everyone. Yeah, I know I do not smell anything either. Let us just get back to the treehouse Right that is where we're gonna end off today. We live it up. We are now level 137 we're getting close to 140 so close. Um, yeah, that is all for today. Thank you every everybody for watching I appreciate it. Um, if you leave this far you should leave a like and you should subscribe and you should also press the bell So you know exactly what I post another video and you should also remember to craft outside the box


Hi there and welcome to my channel. So I can hardly believe that it is almost time to start our indoor seedlings for our spring and summer garden this year. I have been so busy all winter growing food indoors such as lettuce, tomatoes, herbs, and cucumbers that the time to start seedlings indoors has kind of crept on me pretty fast. So I've been going through my calendar counting back from the last frost date and kind of getting things planned up for starting seeds indoors. So here in zone 3 Saskatchewan our last frost date is around May 15 according to the farmers Almanac. We usually plant our garden on the May long weekend which is about the third week of May. So for today we are going to talk about starting some flower seeds indoors and these are flower seeds that I have collected from plants that I grew last year. So a couple that I need to get going pretty soon because they should be started according to some of the directions I've read. They should be started 10 to 12 weeks before our last frost date. So we're into almost mid-February so you know sometime in before the end of this month I should have these started because I got other things planned in my schedule by the end of February early March. I want to get these started and hopefully they will sprout and from there find room under the grow lights. So it'll be interesting to see what kind of germination I get from these.  I just really love having white flowers in my garden. So I had to do some searching to find these online and I got them from Stems Flower Farm in Ontario which is a wonderful website. If you haven't ever checked it out I found these Chantilly White Snapdragons. I started them from seed a little late last year because I ordered these a little late but I did get a nice little crop of them so I want to try and get some more. I collected as many seeds as I could myself and put them in these packages. I also purchased white petunias from the greenhouse last summer and had them planted throughout my flower bed. I want to get a quite a few more going this year. I had a hard time finding white petunias in the greenhouses. So I got a whole bunch of those seeds collected. They're very tiny. I also took petunia seeds from Pink Petunias. I purchased some coral snapdragon from the greenhouse. They were beautiful color so I collected a bunch of those seeds and then at the end of the fall when I was getting really lazy I just ripped some of my stems from my petunias. A couple different colors. I think these are blue or purple petunia. Just threw them into these bags and we're going to see if we can get any seeds out of these now. So I plan on starting these seeds of course using some seed starting mix. I'm going to use these loaf pans that I purchased from the dollar store. You can get a three-pack for $1.25 and I want to use them because I'm not really sure how good these seeds are if they're going to mate. I don't want to bother planting them in individual cells right now. So my plan is to spread some soil in here. Sprinkle the seeds and see what kind of germination we get and from there I will transplant them into larger seed cells. First of all we'll see if we can find some seeds in these petunia branches that I cut last fall. Okay so we're going to see what kind of seeds we got if any from these branches that I ripped from my petunia plants. It's a little tricky here.  So I just grabbed the marker out of the pot so I knew what color it was. These are Easy Wave Blue. I think some of these little tiny black things here could be seeds. I'm trying to look to see if I can find any pods on my branches that I took. So I just want to show you what petunia seeds look like just so you know what I'm trying to find here. You can see that this is pink petunia seeds that I collected from the pods found on the petunia plants. Super, super tiny. Okay so looking through the branches of this one petunia that I took off the plant in the fall I'm not confident if I actually got any seeds. Can't really find any pods to break open that usually are full of seeds and usually quite easy to identify but now that it's dried out it's a little bit harder. I did break apart this one. I think you know there could be some seeds there. So what I think I'll do is I'll just kind of sift this out a little bit, get rid of the bigger pieces. We'll just spread it on to some seed starting soil and keep it moist and see what happens in the next couple weeks.  So hopefully all this effort is worth it. Okay so I'm only filling up these containers about halfway with the seed starting mix that will give about two inches or so of growth space. I don't intend on keeping the seedlings in here very long if we have good germination. I will be probably potting them up into different seed cells after a couple weeks. Something that I always do with my any kind of potting soil that I bring into the home. What I usually do is boil water and use that as a way to first of all moisten the soil and give it some extra moisture and it also just is a way of keeping any fungus gnats or fungus eggs that just might be in the soil. Usually this is with good quality soil. That isn't an issue but I find it's just a little extra way of making sure that you don't be bringing any extra bugs into your house because once you get those fungus gnats going in your indoor growing they're a real pain to try and get rid of. So we're gonna get six of these ready and start sprinkling around the seeds. So one of the benefits of collecting your own seeds from your flowers of course is that you have a lot extra seeds to work with compared to what you get when you buy a little package like this from the seed store. I can't recall what this is, what this costs, but I know petunias that you buy like the McKenzie brand, but petunias are usually $3.99 and you probably don't even get that many seeds in a packet. So if you can collect your own seeds from your flowers every year if you're interested in trying to start them indoors yourself it is much cheaper collecting your own seeds. So we're going to start with the white snapdragon ones here, see what they look like. As you can see I got a lot of extra materials in there but there's a lot of seeds there as well. So I have a lot to work with and I've just taken Popsicle sticks to write the names of these seeds on here. So I'll try to spread them as thinly as possible. It's kind of like planting carrot seeds, it's radishes, it's pretty hard to keep them thin. I'll just gently sprinkle them over the tops here. I think I'll have way more seeds than I will actually need. So I think that is enough of those seeds right now. I'm just going to put a very light layer of dirt on here and then we'll give it a good spray with a spray bottle. So these flowers seeds here that we collected from those dried branches that I just saved from a couple plants last fall are kind of the ones that I'm most curious to see how they turn out. This is the wave purple and I'll just show you from all that sifting we did. I'm very confident that there is some seeds in there. I'm just gonna generously sprinkle this all around here. Try to get what looks like seeds to tell but some of it just feels like powder but I said I'm gonna give it a good sprinkling and we'll see what happens. Hopefully I didn't bring any weed seeds into my indoor growing but sometimes that happens. So I am gonna be putting these into a grow box that I made myself. It's kind of a DIY project that I did and I have a video on my channel. I'll put the link up at the top of the screen so if it's something you want to try making for yourself it's a great way to start seeds. I actually used it to start my petunias and some other flowers last spring and it works really good. So the other one is called an easy wave blue. So I think germination for petunias is about 10 to 14 days and germination for snap dragons is 7 to 14 days. So we will check back and I will keep you posted on how things are going. Okay so this is the grow box that I'm gonna be using to sprout these flowers today and as you can see here I got all six of the containers inside this grow box that I made. This is simply a large rubber made tub that I've lined with tinfoil. I've used a clamp light here that I've cut into the lid. See here and this is a $4 dollar dollar store grow light that I purchased from Dollarama. So I'll be just turning on the light. You can see it's got a nice pink color. I have it plugged into my power bar here that's connected to a timer so this is going to run on the same time as all my other indoor grow lights here where they're 16 hours on and 8 hours off. So I will just continue to spritz these, keep them moist over the next week to 10 days and when I bring you back hopefully I will have some sprouting action to show you. Okay so it has been eight days. These seedlings have been in the grow box here. Let's check out and see what kind of progress we have. So as you can see here we got lots of little seedlings popping up. The petunias, snap dragons, the white sap snap dragons. The ones that I was really curious about to see if they were going to sprout were these two that I gathered in the fall just some branches from some dead petunia plants and as you can see we got a whole pile of them coming up here. Over here I didn't think there was any but now I can see definitely some action going on there and lots of pink petunias. So I hope you will subscribe and keep watching for more videos on how to start your seeds indoors, getting ready for your outdoor garden season. Thanks for watching.


Hey, welcome back everybody drone tech here I have to apologize ahead of time just for putting you all through this, but you know Misery does love company and if I got to go through this I do feel a little bit better knowing that you're all going going through it with me and experiencing the same thing so Today on the view they are for some reason once again letting whoopee Goldberg just spew a bunch of nonsense I don't I guess they're not worried about it But you may remember I've said Going back 20 years if you follow me that long that the left is particularly dangerous because they can rationalize anything and here We have yet another glimmering example of that where on the spew They are whoopee anyway called for and they all agreed that Fox News should be Prosecuted should be the government should go in there They should shut down Fox News and then they should prosecute the journalists at Fox News for recruiting domestic terrorists Yes, and that's what I mean by rationalizing.  I have a question. How come this is not thought of as being Recruiting how come they're not thinking about this? Okay, so she's talking about Fox News. I guess this January 6th footage and putting it out They keep accusing Fox and Tucker of lying. I don't know what they think they're lying about They're just showing footage footage that these people apparently think should be hidden by the government And so that's what's going on and you know the first amendment. That's what's going on We have free speech in America whoopee Why isn't why and why is this not being scrutinized the way that they scrutinize other yeah Because to me this wait The way they scrutinize other Things what will be what are you talking about? I have no idea what she's talking about so far. Do you? This is this should be against the law. You should not be able to lay to lie To the American knowingly You know it's one thing if you made a mistake and you didn't know but we heard for five or six years how you know The media was lying second. Do they were fake news? They were this so how come? Those are opinions whoopee like They always say this. How can you knowingly lie like how does she know that people are knowingly lying? They're giving their opinions like how do we know that she's not knowingly lying everything she's saying right now You should be prosecuted will be because you're knowingly lying right now I somehow know like these people want us to live in the movie minority report and you know I always say 1984 and you know that's pretty cliche at this point But you know just the other day whoopee said that it's like 1984 that Tucker Carlson is showing this footage that up till now the Governments that are the government the Democrats and the media have all been hiding this footage from the public and now For Tucker to show it. She thinks it's just like 1984 which makes no sense In fact her saying that is more like 1984 than anything Tucker's doing is that what is our What do we do as Americans? To to say this is not okay. I think first amendment doesn't allow you to willingly First of all it does actually you can willingly lie With the first amendment like how are you gonna police that? How do you know when someone's willingly lying or not? You can take a Test for that sort of thing But and then there's things like the Salem witch trials where they like dunked witches into the into the water You know until they told the truth like this is just this is getting into crazy territory And you would think that somebody here on this show would have some sense to be like, ah, let's tone this back No, no they go full bore here. We go Can I just say one thing I think he's Tucker Carlson is more destructive to American political discourse than Donald Trump And I think he's more powerful. I think they're all destructive because they lie willingly Just I mean this is a man who basically goes on his airwaves and says, you know What would be so bad if Putin won or against Ukraine? He says insane things. He wait wait all right So I looked into this I she's on the show. They've said this before I couldn't find anywhere Tucker's saying that those words anyway, I searched I did find a couple videos where Tucker's talking about the war and talking about the Possible peace deals that could have been made before it got this far and that people like Joe Biden actually stood in the way of that And that instead of peace deals That Biden was pushing regime change in Russia Okay, and the reason Tucker has an issue with that is because he like many of us me included are worried about this Escalating to a point of World War three and then worldwide nuclear war. I don't know why people like this Don't seem concerned about that at all Maybe because they already have their bunker spots picked out They already know that you know if it does go south, you know, they're gonna be in an underground bunker somewhere So they'll be fine, but you know Tucker has made clear On these in these pieces and you can go find them yourself But he makes very clear in these that he's not pro Putin, you know He's he's anti-war in this case and he's right because this can quickly escalate It can quickly go out of control and why aren't we looking for peace?  You're with the terrorists I George W. Bush even said that if you're not with us you're with the terrorists and at the time It was widely mocked, but now today apparently It's back in style because it's the exact same thing Americans against each other knowingly lying to them and he's I'm sorry. I keep stopping it. He pits them against each other really like you're doing right now That's the common theme about this entire thing I'll kick it back here a little bit and replay it, but you're gonna notice a common theme And it's gonna be the usual lack of self-awareness. Let me just kick it back a little bit Can I just say one thing I think Tucker Carlson is more destructive to American political discourse than Donald Trump And I think he's more power. I just agree. I think you guys are destructive because they I Mean this is a man who basically goes on his airwaves and says, you know, what would be so bad if Putin won you're against Ukraine he's saying things he pits Americans against each other knowingly lying to them and he's it even if it's not Trump Whoever the next Republican politician is they're gonna have to win the Tucker Carlson He's just an entertainer though. He's not a new judge the judge found that but whoopee you just said something I don't think I've ever heard on these people are just entertainers like again. I'm sorry But over and over again, we're seeing that the things they're accusing Tucker of you could easily accuse them of but Somehow they have absolved themselves from these standards They're not worried that the standards that they now want to apply they want to use the government to shut down Fox News one of their competitors and The administration's biggest critics, okay They want the government to come in and shut that down and then prosecute the journalists at Fox News Like that is completely insane like the one network out there that is really critical of this administration and the left's Ideology in general. Let's shut that down Silence it forever and then in prison the people who worked at Fox That's literally what they want to do But if we then turn that around on them and then said that we want to imprison them for the things They say do you think they'd be like? Oh, yeah, that totally would all you know the studio audience. I'll be applauding like train seals I doubt it. Oh About about domestic terrorists. Yes Because you had the FBI director Chris Ray say the number one threat to our country to the survival of our democracy is domestic terrorists, how do you recruit domestic terrorists? How do you do that? Information yeah having these kinds of rallies saying these things Stacks and someone would cross and you would know better than I do how many millions and millions of viewers We get the most million on this show. That's a lot. He's the most proud man in cable. He gets more than that I mean it seems like that's the that's what's really bothering them The fact that Tucker Carlson gets way more views way more audience than them Get rid of Tucker Carlson and then somehow they'll get that audience I don't know. It just seems completely wild that these women who on multiple occasions have told lies themselves And it's well documented. I mean it wasn't that long ago that whoopee was saying that white people need to get beat up She she went out and said oh, maybe white people need to get beat up by police You think maybe that might recruit some extremists to go out and do what you're bidding what you just called for Or how about when the view backed up AOC when AOC was calling ICE facilities Concentration camps Joy Behar and the rest of the view backed her up and even went further saying that Trump was moving towards Exterminating illegal immigrants, right? But then there were attacks on ICE facilities by left-wingers, okay? So there they were spreading misinformation on the view that literally led To terrorist attacks on ICE facilities But do you think that the standard that they've now set up will Should be applied to them? Of course not and that's what's so dangerous about these people. I Honestly do not put it past them someday Soon even to start calling for the mass arrest the mass rounding up of all of us Who say things that they don't like and they'll tell themselves that oh, no This is okay because I'm stopping terrorism If I just lock up all these people who are saying these things that I don't like Which they never confront either. I mean look the republican The republican on their show just said that it doesn't matter who replaces trump They're going to be worse than itler, which is true. That's the way it always is It goes back to george w bush who they claim to love now But he was everything they called trump now back then same with uh Romney and same with mccain they just do it with whoever the prominent figure is All right, folks. That's all I have for that one. Thanks for watching Please if you enjoyed it hit that like button share subscribe Hit that bell notification and then as always make sure to leave a comment to continue the discussion Thanks a lot. I'll see you all in the next one


Oh my god.  We're on this tutu Charles mod opala bird is actually tutu Charles. It is pretty freaking amazing and let me show you guys I can actually be there. He is getting closer. I can actually control the spider opala bear. Look at this This is crazy. Look at his legs like they're so freakishly long. I don't know dude. I'm weirded out by this mod It's cool and weird at the same time overall. It is freaking amazing. Okay, look at this You look kind of goofy.  Um, let's just keep on going to chew. Can I jump off the cliff? Oh, that would be so epic jump. Okay. I can't even jump. Oh, oh my god. Okay. He blew up All right, Eugene. Well the exterior that gun. Let's start this adventure. All right. Here goes nothing Let's go straight. Dude. I forgot how to play this online.  Oh, there he is. Okay. No shoot him. Oh Okay, oh, why is he just crashing into me? No, oh Okay, I forgot Eugene dies. All right, Pete Eugene for the second time dude. He won't stop bashing me. Somebody help me, please What is going on? Like on top of the train just like on my train, how? What Okay, what is going on?  Oh, I'm dead. I'm dead. Go train. Why did the train stop bring them over? Okay, what is going on? Why is it going backwards?  Listen my time to shine Okay, God. Oh, no, please stop it somebody please help me Okay, he seems to be Loving my train a little too much Doesn't leave me alone Okay, he doesn't actually destroy my train Bro, get away from my train Okay, I cannot defeat this guy out alone what's going on.  Let me go third person. Okay, that did not work. Okay. That was trippy. How does that work?  He wouldn't stop. It was like he got Stuck to the train or something. It was weird. Look at this guy's rip war and Al death by Charles sad face All right, well, we've all been waiting for the boss battle I'm gonna attempt this boss battle with the pillow bird even though my train is not maxed out I'm gonna give it my best but here goes nothing Well, I wonder if we see a pillow bird here instead of a choo-choo Charles I'm pretty sure we will and built the red You don't know what you're doing Just put the bootleg monopoly guy lay flat on the ground You'll hurt far too many people if you follow through with whatever you're planning That is so cool the slow motion. Oh, be not Charles. Oh, it's gonna go like You know mega Charles not just yet.   I'm gonna try my best to defeat Charles. Okay. We're doing damage.  I hear a bird chicken naked now.  It takes forever to freakin reload man. Okay, let me get close to burn him so he gets low down Yeah, yeah, we should have with the rockets.  What's up with his legs? He was hitting the main day. He was doing the stanky leg or something.  Why is it not firing away? Why is the fire now during the fire thing? Okay, oh, we have health came he's already held Charles. We got him have health. Oh, no, this is not looking bueno This is looking like a close battle Dude, my train is almost dead. I told you guys my train is not maxed out and I'm still trying to beat this boss battle No He's too fast. No way.  That was so sick. Oh, he got trapped dude. I forgot I had to grab three pairs Dude, he's trapped inside the barn. Okay. Oh my god. How did it catch up so quick? What was that? Like that boy got Sonic Street now Yeah Okay, we got him half ways Where's yet? He's like so quick and swift No bird bird bird. Okay, shoot them switch Okay, we're almost nearing the bridge. I got come on Getting close again. I can't let it get too close Okay, getting too crazy now the audio's getting choppy. There's too much going on On my panic press star. Okay, we're almost there. Come on.   This over so pretty them. Oh, this is epic It's really going and this is really happening right now No, the fire glitch in the way. We couldn't even see it. What is going to what? No freaking way it glitched out. We really couldn't see the end. Oh Come on, man. I can sort of see his appeal of bird right there. It's so weird. Dude. What the heck? It's like glitching out at the end. All right. Well, we managed to defeat the pila Charles O pila Charles I know I can't set the pila, but O pila choo choo Charles I don't know what happened at the end. It like totally glitched. We can't even see the model no more like dead That would have been cool seeing the pila dead there, but there we have it shot out to my mother mythical He's the best model you can ever ask for and yeah, oh wait forgot about this Is it gonna show baby of pila birds? Maybe I Highly doubt it, but we shall see I Don't think it is because they don't hatch. I don't know Let me know what you guys think what your expectations are for after if there's gonna be a choo choo Charles, too I expected it to go crazy, man I'm gonna be psyched to this is like a no pila bird inside Because I don't recall if it hatches or not. I don't think it does. All right. Why that's a bummer See you guys on the next one and have a great weekend


So everyone, well, I will go fast because I don't have much time. So I'm one of the VLC guys for quite a long time now, working on a lot of things and breaking a lot of things as well. So we will see today VLC 4, which is the next release that everyone is waiting for. And my first answer for you is when it is released and I don't know, I still don't know. So we had some objectives, a lot of big changes to fix long old bugs. So for the audio sampling we introduced a new clock model for the video resource management. We changed the model to a pull model instead of push. And for having a proper stream output, which is mostly transcoding and passing to some other modules, we had to rework the way we were dealing with the time. And also what everyone is asking is the new UI because the old one doesn't suit everyone. So we are on this scene quite a long time, six years now. Lots of commits, lots of merge requests, still a lot of merge requests waiting, a lot of changes. And we are still expiring milestone. We are turning into vaporware soon, like some well-known video game. We are progressing. What happened is that we are dealing with really old code because the core is hard for us. We are not the guy who wrote it.  So we knew what kind of trouble we were, we would be running to and we went into it. But everything is getting better. So we did the new clock, it works quite well. The video side is also done. The timestamps still have some issues. And the modern UI is on good progress and of course we still have to deal with more regression because the fix triggers a new regression. We will change the Chromecast because the current Chromecast is still buggy. So we had to provide a full HLS server for people knowing what it means. Instead of streaming the file directly to the Chromecast. So the Chromecast has better control of the buffering and doesn't run out of data. And also provide support for real subtitles which never really worked without HLS. We also removed things from the next release. We were providing a lot of VR, HMD, 3D, virtual, movie, theater and things. It was hype. The guy with the code is gone. So probably we won't maintain this or maybe not for this version. And on the audio output we are able to achieve finally as a video player, Gapless output for Gapless audio for when you are turning into an audio player. No more resampling glitches, something that people were always complaining that VRC is always sampling audio. And we also properly dealing with audio delay, which means when you plug your Bluetooth headset, video keeps in sync with audio. It's not the same for AirPlay which has quite a huge delay like two seconds. So those things are fixed and good and improved. And we also have some things we couldn't think we could fix. Like the frame by frame which was quite buggy for us. So you can do more than five frames ahead without running into issues. And also the guy which fixed this understood the thing so well that he also introduced a hack to provide a previous frame. And in video it's really hard to go back in time. And currently we have people working on super resolution, so upscaling. Most of this is done for Nvidia video cards and Intel. It works, doesn't provide much enhancement, but things are getting better. Also the stream output, so that was for the HLS output. We introduced hardware encoding on this side because we liked to drain battery for people doing Comcast. So now it's way better. Also we improved the subtittles on Android. It was quite laggy. We had to improve that and find a better way to upload textures. And so it's quite better now. For us, for the developer side and contributors, we are now able to build with Nissan. So Auto Tools is gone soon. Also we are probably starting to write Rust modules for improved security. So we made some changes to be more Rust friendly at the ABI level. And to provide a new player, we had to provide a new way to show video to people to present your collection. And so we had to write a media library. So this was a concept which was really buggy because it was built into the UI, in the older releases. Now we have a dedicated library. It discovers all your media on your device. It gets us metadata. It does terminating. It stores the playback restoration state, your preferences in language. It does everything what a modern video player should do. It provides full search and it's already used by the Android version and the macOS version. So it's quite well tested. For the developer, we are replacing a lot of things. So we are exposing a lot of API. I'm not sure how much time I have left. Okay, good. And we also discarding Bogus event model. But anyway, that's not interesting for this one. And we also have a lot of wrappers. So the old CPP, JNI, which is for Android, VLC kit, which is for macOS. We have a wrapper for VLC shop, which is also used by VLC for Unity, which is available in a different license, but that's another question. And we are also working on providing VLC on Unreal Engine for video games. So everything good on this side. But we also achieve something really interesting for people and professionals. The world, which is low latency, something that VLC never really achieved. So we had to deal with some of the buffering, framing, delay, decoder. So always one second on two seconds late. And we have a new option, which is low delay. So we treat a lot of things. We are able to target some decoder which can do low latency, because you need some kind of specific profile. And we are around 50 million seconds on the local network, which is really nice. Which means also that's less than three frames at 60 fps. And that's good. So that's a screenshot of glass to glass. And you can see that the counter of number of frames locally is around two and a half. So this is really hard to see that very latency now. But that's a specific mode. And the new UI, so that's what you're waiting for. Everything is rewritten using Qt Quick, which is mostly JavaScript, CSS. So a lot of changes, a lot of trouble. We are about not to provide light and dark teams, which was really nearly almost impossible in Qt4 without a lot of hacks. That's why we are not progressing on this. We are running through a lot of Qt issue. We still are running through, especially with Wayland on Linux. And also we need to provide a legacy interface, because not everyone will be happy to have a new interface. And some people still like the old interface. And we have to drop it. So we need to provide a way to provide that interface to people. So how does it look? Well, you have your library, and you have all the features when you can board into the categories and the discoveries, all the categories you had before, and everything is integrated. Yeah, and I need to do a demo. So this is dark. But that's not the right screen. So how do I switch? Okay, so probably I need to change the streaming up to something, to another, you know? Yeah, because it's not mirroring my screen, so no, no, it's already mirroring. Okay, good. This is duplicating. Yeah, okay. Well, good. So this is the dark team, which is switching automatically depending on the system. So you have this library, which is creating thumbnails and everything. So you have your progress bar, like on the video streaming websites. You have the quality and everything. You can resume your video, okay? So you have your subtletors selection. You have the drop down menu, which is disappearing, yeah, okay. So everything that you should expect from a recent player, and also you have a picture-in-picture. So you can still browse and find other content, and you have a modern music player, like some others, and, for example, where do I go to the tracks? So you still have your playlist, so that's not what I want to do, okay. And I'm also discovering some recent changes. So you should have the tracks, the list of tracks when discovering your albums. Yeah, okay. So that is... Yeah, sorry for this, yeah, okay, anyway, it doesn't matter. So I can go back to my slides, sorry for that. Okay, so we can try. It's available on 90 builds. Of course, it's still unstable, but it works quite well right now. So if you have feedback, we can take it and know what's going next. So we will probably provide a way to have more standardized hotkeys, that's something what people want. Also provide some upscaling shaders for, we're already working on Super Resolution, but very specific shaders for, for example, Anime, which are quite popular. We need to fix the HDR on Linux platforms. We are still waiting for a proper API. So we remove the subtleties in the black bar below this video for some platforms. That's another request. For some reason, we want also to provide some transparency support. Mostly this is for the video game engines that I mentioned before. And we are also sandboxing for security. So that's something we've worked for a long time now. It starts working. It's available on Linux windows. It's based on Linux on a Rust library, which is written in Rust. And also, we have a project which is quite successful, is that we are rebuilding the whole VFC into Wazem. The reason is that you no longer have web plugins in your browser. Depending on your browser, you have a lot of limitations, which means if you want to play back some video, you need usually to be in MP4, and you are limited to some codecs, and you cannot do what the old player was doing, and you cannot do this also using a plugin. So rebuilding everything in Wazem and using the web codecs acceleration provides you hardware acceleration in most of the cases, but it removes all the browser limitations you would have. So you have everything that VFC provides, all the formats, all the subtletors. You can watch DVD, ISO, in your browser. You have support for every comma you want, of course with convention or the depth. And if you want to do VP9 4K in software, you have that level of performance. So everything works. There is a link if you want to try it, but if you step to set up your browser, we move some limitations, but it works quite well in Chrome, and especially in Windows. Okay, I think I'm done, and I'm on time. Well, thank you for listening. If you have a question, technical, or we can talk after, because we are a bit late on this kiddo. Thank you. Thank you very much. And please test, provide feedback.