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When you give your guests good food, a big orchestra, and the champagne flows like water, how can you miss? Yeah. Well, close the window, Rochester. We can't watch Ronald Coleman's party all night. Close the window. Good. Now help me off this box. Well, Rochester, I just can't understand it. What, boss? Well, the Coleman's and I are next door neighbors. And when Ronnie first moved in, I used to go to all his parties. But the last few years, he's had a dozen big affairs, and I haven't received an invitation to a single one of them. What do you suppose it could be? Maybe he lost your address. Well, come on, let's finish our game of gin rummy. Okay, it was your turn to throw a card. Yeah, let's see now. First you discarded the ten of clubs, then the three of spades, the six of hearts, the jack of diamonds, the eight of hearts, the five of spades. What's so funny? It's your health when you've got them written down. Well, if you play your way, and I'll play mine.  Here you are, the king of spades. Gin! Are you lucky? Deal them up again. Rochester, are you sure I didn't get an invitation to Coleman's party? Positive. They must have sent me an invitation and got lost in the mail. Excuse me a minute. What are you doing, boss? I'm going to call the post office.  While you're by the boss, tell them they didn't deliver the gas bill this month either. It's your play, Rochester. Gee, I got a pretty good hand this time. You'll need it. Why? I got gin! Again? That's the most unusual. I'll get it. Hello? Oh, hello. Is this Mr. Benny? Yes. Well, this is Sherwood, Mr. Coleman's butler. Oh, Sherwood. Yes, yes, yes. Yes, yes, yes. Well, Mr. Coleman was a trifle embarrassed to even broach the subject of this late hour. But we're having a party here. I know. I know. 183 guests. Oh, I say you've been on that box again.  Well, at any rate, Mr. Coleman thought you might like to slip into your tuxedo and come over. Would I? I certainly would, Sherwood. I'll be glad to come over. Good. And remember, you serve from the left and remove from the right. I look, Sherwood. I'm not waiting on tables for Ronald Cohen or anyone else. So goodbye. Oh, the nerve. They can keep their party. I'm just as happy here at home with you, Rochester. But, boss, I'm going out tonight. Going out? Gee, I thought you were going to stay with me. I'd like to, but I made plans to take the night off. But, Rochester, you were off last week. Oh, boss, you're not counting Tuesday night, are you? Why not? That's when I had my appendage taken out. What's the difference? You didn't get home till three in the morning. The whole night he wants for that. Well, if he wants the night off, you better get started then. Okay, I'm going upstairs and put a tie on.  See, what'll I do with myself all night? It's only someone I could play cards with. I wonder if Remli's home. Yeah, he cheats. Jesus is going to be a boring evening. I don't know what... Hello? Hello, Mr. Benny. This is Dennis.  Nothing. Are you going to be home tonight? Yes, why? Well, I thought I might come over and visit you. Oh, wonderful, Dennis. Come on over. Okay, don't go away. Goodbye. Goodbye. I'm not ready to go, boss, but if you really mind staying alone... It's all right, Rochester. Dennis just called. He's coming over to keep me company. Well, that's nice of him. It sure is. I wonder what I can serve him. Well, let's sandwich bread and some cold cuts in the refrigerator. Yeah, and Dennis has such a sweet tooth. Have we plenty of candy? Oh, yeah, we've got caramels, tootsie rolls, licorice and some O'Henry bars. Oh, good. Shall I put them in the machine? Oh, no, I can do it. You run along. Okay, good night, boss. So long, Rochester. Gee, it's nice of Dennis to want to spend the evening with me. He'll sit around, he'll talk to me, discuss his problem, drive me nuts. Anyway, I'll be alone, so it'll be nice. Hmm, now, who can that be? Oh, hello, Mr. Benny. Dennis, how'd you get here so fast? I was next door at the Coleman's party. What? I would've got here sooner, but I walked. Now, look, Dennis, I'm in no mood for any s- Shh, not so loud. If they find out I'm with you, they might not let me back in. You might not have got that line out, either.  Well, don't you even want to hear my song for tomorrow's show? No, I don't. But it'll cheer you up. All right, all right, go ahead and cheer me up. I've changed my mind. Dennis, sing that song!  An Irishman, an Irishman will steal your heart away He'll be devil you and be guy you with this hollabaloo belay When that rogue turns on the brook your heart will go astray An Irishman, an Irishman will steal your heart away An Englishman has manners An Englishman has charm They say it's truly difficult to raffle his plums He'll hurt you and he'll kiss you but wherever he may be At four o'clock he'll have to stop to sip a cup of tea But an Irishman, an Irishman will steal your heart away He'll be devil you and be guy you with this hollabaloo belay When that rogue turns on the brook your heart will go astray An Irishman, an Irishman will steal your heart away Italian men are fiery Italian men are warm and when they love they love with all the fury of a storm But you can turn the flame to ice and make them run for life For all you've got to do is eat a spaghetti with a knife An Irishman, an Irishman will steal your heart away He'll be devil you and be guy you with this hollabaloo belay When that rogue turns on the brook your heart will go astray An Irishman, an Irishman will steal your heart away A Frenchman is romantic The French have savoie faire When he makes love to you it's always Torre Torre de Bonaire He'll say to you Touche-ou-la-mouve My life and you depends But next day he'll be making love to two of your best friends An Irishman, an Irishman will steal your heart away He'll be devil you and be guy you with this hollabaloo belay When that rogue turns on the brook your heart will go astray An Irishman, an Irishman will steal your heart away The German man is steady The German man is smart For he'll come round and round again to win the Freiland's heart But you can lose him easily and make him hide his faith When he comes round to see you tell him This is not a play He'll steal your heart away He'll be devil you and be guy you with this hollabaloo belay When that rogue turns on the brook your heart will go astray An Irishman, an Irishman will steal your heart away Well, I am seeing if you'd like to take in a movie with me A movie? Gee, I'm glad you thought of it That's a wonderful idea I didn't have anything to do tonight I've been to a movie in months Maybe Dennis will go with us Dennis? Where is he?  Sure, what's playing? Well, I was going to the Palisades Drive in there showing that new English film there Murder in Piccadilly Oh, let's go there And they've also got a surprise second feature I hear they've had some great ones lately Yeah, I like that, two features Gee, that sounds pretty good I've never been to a drive-in Come on, fellas, my car's in the driveway I think we're getting near the drive-in theater There's a cowboy picture at the strand Dennis, you'll go where we go You're only alone Jack, Jack, stop, the light's changing Okay Say, look who's in the car next to us Where? Why, it's the sportsman Hi, fellas Hope you have a nice time, fellas Nice time? Where are they going, Don? Well, don't you know, Jack, they're going away for the weekend Oh, hey, where are you going, boys? We're going to Gilly, Gilly, Austin, Pfeffer, Katsunel and Boken by the sea Oh, Gilly, Gilly, Gossel, Pfeffer Yeah, it's a beautiful place I've been there many times There's a tiny house By a tiny stream Where a lovely laugh Had a lovely dream And a dream came true Quite unexpectedly In Gilly, Gilly, Austin, Pfeffer, Katsunel And Boken by the sea She was out one day Where the two had grown When a handsome lad Stopped to say hello And before she knew He kissed her tenderly In Gilly, Gilly, Austin, Pfeffer, Katsunel And Boken by the sea Hey, Don Down there's a crowd-gathering around us And the last I heard Look at the crowd on the street Now, look at the whole crowd here In Gilly, Gilly, Austin, Pfeffer, Katsunel Now, everybody, just repeat the words after me Ready? There's a cigarette L-S-M-F-T And it's the best smoke yet It's the best smoke yet Lucky strike for me Lucky strike for me To get better taste To get better taste L-S-M-F-T L-S-M-F-T Light a lucky strike Light a lucky strike It's the smoke we like It's the smoke we like Cleaner through and through Cleaner through and through And it's smoother too And it's smoother too Take a puff and see Take a puff and see Wow And go lucky See you when you get back See, I hope we get in at the start of the picture Well, theater's right in the next block Yeah, there's a sign Well, turn here, Jack You have to go up this winding driveway to the box office Yeah, I've never been in a driveway before Pull up to that man next to the booth, Jack He'll give us our tickets Street, I've been biting my nails Cracks about my car Oh, is that a car? A flying saucer that made a bad landing Never mind How much for the ticket? It's $2.40, says That's 80 a piece Here you are, mister Here's a five-dollar bill Alrighty Here you are Thank you Come on, Jack, drive inside Okay I'm sure it's crowded here in this driving theater I don't see any empty spaces Well, why don't you follow that car in front of you? Yeah, he seems to know where he's going Okay You're following the wrong car That other one turned left He did not I'm doing the driving Nobody listens to me Well, hang on I'm going back in It's not so fast That'll be $2.40, please What are you talking about? We paid you one Well, don't get so huffy It was that's those money Whose money it was? Instead of being so sarcastic Why don't you tell a fellow Where we can park and see the show? Section H, go there I think I see a space in the next row Yeah, better hurry before somebody else gets it Okay You're a tight squeeze Watch your side down Here I go Come on, plenty of room over here Watch it to the right To the right To the right Come on, come on Oh, hold it, hold it, hold it, Jack To the left, to the left Don't make a scene Oh, but, Moira, you think They were stalking the Queen Mary Hold it down, little fellas And how am I on your side, Don? Fine, Jack A little more A little more There, there, that's worth it Now, let's all settle back And watch the movie Gee, I don't like the angle from here What's wrong with it? Well, the actor on the screen Has a pointed head You're looking in the mirror I think we're a little too far to the side Maybe we could get something more to the center Look, I had enough trouble finding this face I'm not moving, so forget it Baby up Oh, for goodness sakes Quick, Herman, give her the mill I can't, you made it too hot Now, how about you practicing what you preach? Look, you woke the baby up All right, I'm sorry I didn't intend to, and I apologize We're all here to see a movie So let's relax and enjoy ourselves You want to be friends? Certainly Okay, stick your hand out the window All right, there Ouch! You see, Moidal, I told you the bottle was too hot What about the kids? The other kids Yeah, Billy, Tom, and Susie, Thicky, and Oiving, a light sleeper And if they wake up, they'll disturb Katie, Alice, Melvin, Julius, and the twins How many children have you got?  Okay Here, I'll just hang it over the window ledge here No, Abigail Abigail, my darling, these moments with you Were like a dream Yes, Charles I only live when we're together Oh, hold me closer How I love you, Abigail But these secret rendezvous What if your husband catches us? Oh, that's impossible He's away for the weekend Don, turn the speaker up a little It isn't on yet That's the couple in the next car There, it's on now Hey, this is exciting Yeah, Abigail's kissing him again Watch the picture Yes, Ray Brighton I'm not blowing your horn I'm not blowing it, it's stuck There must be a short Can't they blackball me?  I should move I should move It's just no sense staying here Why don't you take that space over in the next row Oh, maybe you're right Some people just won't let you have a good time Better go in here, Jack Next to this convertible Oh, yeah, there's a spot there Now maybe we can enjoy the picture Come closer, Cynthia Your kisses do something to me And yours drill me too But Robert, I worry so What if your wife catches us? Impossible Abigail thinks I'm out of town for the weekend She's a whole family is here I wonder if I should tell Abigail Now, why get involved? Look, look, they're about to start the surprise feature Oh, good, the second feature I turn up the speaker, Don And now, ladies and gentlemen, the Palisade's driving Takes pleasure in presenting another Oh, boy, I hope this is a good one Jack will be back in just a minute But first, a word to you smokers Who are looking for better taste in a cigarette Better taste, friends Is the prime concern of the makers of Lucky Strike That's why a lucky is made of fine, good-tasting tobacco That's toasted to taste even better Yes, better taste begins with fine, light, mild tobacco Good-tasting tobacco And then that tobacco is toasted It's toasted, the famous Lucky Strike process Brings Lucky's fine tobacco to its peak of flavor Tones up this naturally good-tasting tobacco To make it taste even better, cleaner, fresher, smoother So make your next carton Lucky Strike And be happy, go Lucky If you want better taste from your cigarette Lucky Strike is the brand to get It's toasted to give you the best taste Yet it's the toasted cigarette They take fine tobacco, it's light Tobacco, it's mild tobacco And it's toasted, yes, it's toasted Because the toasting brings the flavor right through So to get better taste from your cigarette Lucky Strike is the brand to get It's toasted to give you the best taste Yet it's the toasted cigarette It's me, Rochester Boys, you're home early Didn't they have a second feature at the drive-in? Yes, but most of the people left Well, that doesn't make any difference As opposed to show it anyway I know, but in the middle of the third reel The projectionist committed suicide Good night, Rochester, I'm going to bed The Jack Benny program is written by Sam Perrin, Milt Josephsburg, George Balzer, John Packaberry, Al Gordon, Al Goldman And produced and transcribed by Hilliard Marx The Jack Benny program is brought to you by Lucky Strike Product of the American Tobacco Company America's leading manufacturer of cigarettes


Now, I turn to Jeffrey Frieden. We know Jeff, even if it was not last year here, if I understand well. I was teaching. He was teaching. Sometimes we have to teach. He teaches very, very brilliantly at his professor of government, his chair, if I'm not misled, of the Harvard Department of Government. And he, of course, is one of the most important and well-known professor in our domain. So he has the floor. We will be very, very keen on having your own judgment. Well, thank you, John Claude. I mean, I take the opportunity to take into account your questions and the expectation that we could answer them one in five minutes. I'm going to avoid that by invoking my own comparative advantage, which is political economy, that is the intersection of politics and economics. And I want to focus on a couple of issues that I think are central. They are, I absolutely agree with the previous speaker about the importance of what's happening in West Africa and developing a world more generally. But again, given my comparative advantage, I'm going to focus on some of the problems that face us in the developed countries in the OECD and especially the US. The end of cheap money has very, very broad and deep implications, as John Claude has indicated. And the most direct is that it creates a whole series of sources, new or, in most cases, renewed sources of financial instability as markets reequilibrate. We saw bubbles in market after market over the course of the last 15 or 20 years, with very, very low or even negative real interest rates. That era is coming to an end that will lead to, I think, a whole series of possibilities of financial difficulties as rebalancing takes place. It's not surprising, as John Claude has indicated, I think that many of these problems will surface in the non-bank sector, in the non-bank financial institutions. There is, in the regulatory literature, a concept of regulatory dialectic, which is that the markets innovate, regulators try to run behind the markets, try to figure out how to strike a balance between innovative activity on the one hand and safety on the other. But of course, the regulators are usually running after the markets rather than the other way around. The regulators catch up eventually, usually in times of crisis, when the riskier, the financial institutions have collapsed. They impose a whole series of new regulations, and then in the next round, the private sector tries to find their way around them. And that's what's happening in this instance as well. And so I think that we face the unfortunate prospect of a new round of zombie financial institutions and zombie firms that will exercise, or at least have the threat of exercising a serious drag on economic growth. So that's the first problem, I think. What are the, not just where is the financial instability gonna come from, and not just what will the policy response be, but because there are such powerful pressures, political pressures, to keep essentially insolvent financial institutions and non-financial institutions alive to try to avoid a further crisis, will we have another, I would say, Japanese style or other series of zombie banks and institutions with the resultant drag on economic growth? Second problem is more general, and that is the constraints on economic policy in the current period. Monetary policy has been practically, or was practically the sole tool of economic policy for much of the most recent period, especially after the great financial crisis. Then the pandemic hit, and virtually every developed country and many developing countries spent, I think, dramatic amounts of money, and I think justifiably so to keep their economies going in the face of a global pandemic. What that means is that fiscal policy in most countries is now heavily constrained by a very large public debt burden coming out of the global financial crisis and the pandemic. In an ideal world, we would have a monetary policy that was accompanied by a fiscal policy to try to, in this case, because we understand that the monetary policy that's necessary in the current circumstances is going to be restrictive, we would have a fiscal policy that would try to cushion the blow, especially for some of the more vulnerable segments of the population. But as is in the first instance in the previous periods, monetary policy had carried too much of the burden. Now we would hope that there could be some sharing of the burden of economic policy shift with fiscal policy, but most countries find their fiscal policy opportunities or their fiscal policy possibilities tightly constrained by the existing burden of public debt. So I think we face a very difficult time in the making of economic policy where monetary policy has no choice, but I think seems to have no choice but to focus on fighting inflation and fiscal policy or the fiscal policy that could dampen or soften some of the blows of that restrictive monetary policy is tightly constrained. Final point, and this is a bit of, if you will, political speculation, is to think about some of the political implications about what's going on. We are in only the very beginning of a period of restrictive monetary policy after three decades at least of the great moderation in which interest rates were extremely low and growth was reasonable. In that context, as restrictive monetary policies kick in, they will slow growth as they already have in some countries more than the US, but in other countries, eventually that will kick in, that after all is the purpose of restrictive monetary policy. I think that from a political standpoint, we can anticipate substantial pressure arising to take the breaks off monetary policy. That is the, now we could argue about whether these, whether this is justified and there are current debates going on in the US as to whether it's worth the candle to raise interest rates at a time when, or what the appropriate balance is between concern over inflation and concern over employment, we find ourselves in a sort of a sweet spot now where employment is doing very, very well, but that won't continue forever. And when there is a clear trade-off between fighting inflation on the one hand and creating jobs or avoiding unemployment on the other, I think there will be political consequences. So to be very specific, I think that this will almost certainly in countries that face increasing recessions in the context of tight monetary policy, that this will provoke a resurgence of populist pressure from segments of the population that believe that central banks and the bankers that they are in league with, at least in the view of some, are doing what they can to impoverish the working population and that they should be taken under control by the political system. So that I think that the prospects, the medium-term prospects, political prospects also presage a great deal of controversy over the appropriate measures to be taken. So those are my thoughts about the intersection of the economic events that we're experiencing and some of the political and policy dilemmas that we'll face moving forward. Thank you. Thank you very much, indeed, Jeff. I only note, en passant, that inflation is also triggering populist reaction that are very violent. And I interpret the dialogue between the present of the US and the president, the chair of the central bank as the president of the US telling more or less, you are responsible for inflation. I count on you to do the job. I see that you're nodding. We will discuss that, of course. So thank you so much.


Right, we're going to start today's video about a driver by talking about irons, the ZX5 and the ZX7 irons were, there were a massive shock for me in terms of how they performed, how they felt, how they looked, how they were priced, they literally ticked every box, it was a 10 out of 10 review, but we've now got the ZX5 and ZX7 drivers and my question is, and it's a big question, is why would you buy a ZX5 or a ZX? Yes, it's a big bought. These 2 drivers retail at 399 for the ZX5, 419 for the ZX7, they're the best price I can find on both of these products. Now you've got to compare that to a couple of other options, look at these, you've got the G410 from Ping you've got the Taylor Made sim both retail at the same price, but then consider the Cobra driver is in at 49, ac y driver maesuno, y gweithio'r gweithio maesuno o'r 2020, yw'r 299. That's a huge difference! And I think it's an issue! A'r the issue of shaft options. If we look, this is a Tricks and Fit cart. We've got a fair few options on the irons, but we've got two, four, six, seven. One of them is already shafted up one of their heads. So you've got eight choices of shaft in terms of driver option. And compare that to some of these others. Take a standard cart for Callaway. It's 14 different shaft options. That'll be similar for tailor-made, same for maesuno, and not too dissimilar for tightlist. It's got a bit of a camera place there.  And, er, well, I'm not too sure which one it is, but we're having it at the camera anyway. So we've discussed the money. It's not exactly jumping out of me in terms of price. We've looked at the shaft option, and it's limited. You're then talking about how it looks in terms of shelf appeal. And I think for me, the ZX5 and the 7, they're not really jumping out at me. It doesn't say a great deal. It doesn't do a great deal at all, to be quite honest with you. But that's a very personal choice. And for others, maybe it does appeal. But what I'm not particularly interested in is the fact that it doesn't even give off that feel of a quality-made product. Nothing like, again, what it does when I look at the irons by comparison. So there's a lot of issues that are building up. But we all know we can dismiss all of that if this thing performs. But it's now got to really perform to make me overcome all those issues and make me buy it. Yeah, I've been pretty harsh so far. That's fair to say. But look, this is a product review. And these are the questions we've got to be asking ourselves when a new product comes to market. Surely they're the same question that you'd be asking yourself. So I'm struggling right now as to where this fits in. And don't forget, I haven't even hit a golf ball yet. But I'm looking at the reasons as to why I want to try it. Why I want to have a go. Why I want it to perform so well. I'm going to start with the first positive. And there could be a few more to follow. But from the top line, I love the carbon crown they've got. It is, again, very, very similar to others that are out there. It almost seems to have followed suit. I could place a few alongside this and they would look very, very similar. So it's nothing new again. It's nothing too innovative. But it does look good. Gloss finish sits nice at address. I'm going to hit the first ball and I'm going to see what I think of in terms of how this thing sounds. And let's hope we can continue with some positives. I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll hit a few more balls before I comment on that. That was an okay strike. It was a little bit loud for my liking. But let me go and collect some data and then we'll give hopefully a few more bits of positive feedback for this ZX7. And I'm going to try the ZX5. It's a much better ball. Deson ball flight. We could be about to turn a corner. Let's see. Right. In terms of technology and a marketing story, it's kind of what I like about Shrixon, but what I also don't like, there's no major story. Now I'll know a lot of people can get upset by the kind of big grand marketing claims that a lot of brands make. So on that side of the corner, I suppose you can say well they kind of underplay it, but at the same time, I don't really sell the product to me that greatly. So it's kind of like, it's very underwhelming again. The most exciting part of their story, if you like, is the rebound frame. They're claiming it to be as everybody does incredibly fast off the face rebound frame. Obviously is sort of very much self-explanatory. There's a different weighting system between the two club heads and the ZX5 is the more forgiving of the two, the ZX7, the lower spinning and clearly aimed at supposedly two different players. But that's it. There's no other great story behind it. So for a lot of people, that's very much your positive, but on the flip side, come on Shrixon, do a bit of a job and sell this thing to me, will you? I'll have to do some ball again. I'm going to throw some positives in there because yes, there are some and I don't really, I'm going to look at data as yet, but what I know, I wouldn't even be persuaded otherwise because for me the ZX7, I much prefer. I think I would always put myself in the category of the kind of ZX5 in terms of that, the more forgiving of the two. But I don't know what it is and again, I can't pinpoint in terms of exactly why, but for me, I get on much better with this ZX7. I like the sound of it. I like the way it sits behind the ball again, which was a positive. And the performance for me seems, I mean it relatively decent. I'm not spraying this thing all over the place right now. I would always suggest that's down to the swing you've got on the day rather than just how good the club is, but we'll see. And the ball is going out there, but I think that's enough. Let's get down to dribble data and see if the performance is good enough to make me overcome some of the issues that I've already highlighted and we'll see. Right, so back where we started and that question still remains and may have been a little bit harsh in this drive review, but to me, like I said halfway through, I'm asking the questions that surely you must ask as a punter when you're going to buy something. And for me, why would I buy this driver when there are so many almost obstacles put in my way? So no matter how good it performs, and we'll get to performance now, I might appear at a point where we don't even get there because of all the issues that have been raised. Drive all data in front of you now and this driver did well. It performed really well, my driving stats are sort of 235 to 245 is the best I can do in terms of carry, ball speed in relation to clubhead speed was good, spin was good, launch was good, everything you would want from a driver, it did. So I've got no criticism in terms of its performance. What I have an issue with is me getting there, is me getting to the point where would I actually pick this up and say, let me have a go? Would I go into the driving range and put this on my wish list? I'm not sure because like I said, there are so many obstacles that we've already highlighted in this video and I'm not going to go and repeat those again. But many of those things are subjective, I might have it completely wrong and for you the looks might be good, the price point might be good. Like I said, there may be many things why you might think differently than I did. But for me it's such a disappointment when the ZX5 and ZX7Is were just so good, they've fallen away short with this driver offering for me at least this time round. But the question is, if you've bought the driver or you're considering buying the driver, then tell me why you did or why you're considering it, stick those comments down below and we'll get a bit of a conversation going. Anyway, as ever, thank you for joining me, appreciate your time and I'll see you all soon.


I was just thinking about how last year I did my own DIY commercial Christmas commercial because I didn't get cast in one and I absolutely love Christmas so last year during vlogmas I made an Etsy commercial where I featured some of my friends Etsy shops. This holiday season we're all looking for affordable gifts that mean something. The best way to find small businesses is on Etsy. Mike and I thought why don't I make another one because I did buy more things off of Etsy Duh for Christmas presents but also for myself throughout the year. I am gathering the things that I have bought from Etsy and seeing what ideas I can come up with. If you go to their YouTube channel Etsy's big thing this year is give more than a gift. Some of them are very sentimental. The commercials that make me cry the most are the ones that people are alone for the holidays like older people alone for the holidays. Oh my god that kills me. So let's come up with an idea. Let me show you the items that I want to use for this DIY commercial starring me written by me, directed by me, edited by me, filmed by me. So I just took this ornament off of my Christmas tree but this is from Jack Manion. This is custom-made. It's based off of our Christmas card from last year. If you guys have ever seen National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation that's what this is and this is paper and then something else I just got. Is this amazing print from Cat Charles? It is so cool. It's donuts with like jelly but eyeballs. I really like dark art especially when you're playing with something as fun and playful as food and jelly and it's pink and there's teeth right here. The last thing is actually a Christmas present that I got for my sister. I love personalized gifts if you guys saw my gift guide. The shop is called Mini Decor Shop and I saw this cute name plate. Can you guys see it says Katia? This is wrapped in surround wrap to protect it but it's plexiglass and then you put it on this wooden stand and plug it in and it lights up. None of these Etsy shops know that I'm doing this.  These are the three items that I want to use because I thought if maybe I could fit in like love light and then another word maybe art love light art love because we're a couple light because it's a light and then art but now I have to make it make sense. Maybe I should watch some Etsy commercials to get some ideas or inspo. Another theme that they are using a lot this year is or tagline is give more than a gift. I mean it doesn't have to be like according to what they're going for this year but I just wanted to get inspo like that since I'm doing the whole commercial. What if I do something that's like the storyline or the message is don't buy off of amazon look for something personal and creative something personalized. So I was having some trouble coming up with ideas. I don't know if I'm going to do this one but my partner just suggested that it be cool if I did it in a different style like an infomercial and featured this ornament and talked about how much cooler a personalized ornament and how much better it would be than one that you just get out of a box from like Target or Michaels or whatever. So I'm going to think about that one because that would be fun to do a more comedic one versus last year it was much more sentimental. So maybe that's what we'll do. Okay so I have to give credit to my partner because he gave me a lot of really good ideas and I'm running with it. This is our Christmas card from last year. I photoshopped us into the scene. It says Merry Christmas. Shitter was full and I think it's hilarious. This is the shop that I'm going to be featuring for this commercial. I want to make it 15 seconds about 15 seconds because usually commercials are 15 to 30 seconds the ones that you see online and I'm thinking for the beginning of it making it be me shopping at a store like black and white infomercial style and then at home looking at the bad ornaments and then opening up the custom ornament that I bought from Etsy and transitioning from this Christmas card to this ornament. Okay we just drove to at home to get those clips of the ornaments so let's go. Just got back from the store so now I'm going to set up opening this customized ornament and I thought I would use this cardboard box from the light that I showed you guys earlier to pretend that's how this one came in. So I'm going to wrap it up in this paper and then open it up and I'm going to do a video of this as well transitioning into this. I just finished filming the shots that I want for this commercial so now I'm going to go into the closet and film the voiceover. Do you really want another boring Christmas? Move over yucky ornaments get a personalized one instead shop etsy.com


Hello to your fans, Cakes. Cakes is done with us now. It was fun while it lasted. Today's video is sponsored by one of my absolute favorite companies, Skillshare. Stay tuned in this video to hear me talk about them a little bit later. Hello there, my beautiful, lovely, wonderful, delightful, talented internet friends. Welcome back to my channel. Thank you so much for joining me here today on Footless Show where I am Jo and I am still missing a foot and oh boy, do I have some exciting news to share with you guys. So if you've been on my channel for a little while, none of this is going to be new information to you. But if you're new here, welcome. I'm really glad to see you here. I am, as you know, a below the knee amputee. I lost my leg about two years ago after having surgeries and surgeries and surgeries on my ankle for 14 years prior to that. Eventually we made the decision to just cut our losses, quite literally take it off and have a hope of a life with less pain and able to do more things. And that dream has been realized. There have been a lot of ups and downs in this journey so far, which I've all documented on my channel, but I am now at the place where I'm able to walk every day with minimal pain, where I'm able to go for hikes. I can take my dogs for a walk. I can try new things like cartwheels, things that would not have been possible with the leg that I had previously are now possible with my prosthetic. However, since the age of 13, when I had my initial horseback riding accident that caused all of this, there's been one thing I've never been able to do. And that is run. It's a very normal, average human thing to be able to do. But because of the surgeries that I was having, because of the pain that I was in, because of the damage that it would cause, running was a no go. And when I had my amputation, I knew, like in the back of my mind, who are we kidding?  I knew that being able to run is a possibility. There would be obstacles in this journey. Like for instance, some people simply can't use running blades. You can't get the fit right or it's too painful. Also, they're really expensive. And to me, the dream of being able to run again has been like icing on the cake, right? Like I'm okay if all I can do is walk and like go for hikes and you know, try some physical new things. Okay, cool. But what if what if I could actually run a few months ago, an amazing friend of mine who you will see later in this video made this dream possible by gifting me a running blade, which was an incredible, incredible gift. And I brought it to my prosthetist. He worked his magic and just a couple weeks ago, I was able to try running for the first time. But it was still like in the office, it was very short distance. We just went on to the parking lot, like try running for a second. It was freaking amazing. But I couldn't take it home yet because they actually had to finalize it. Now a seemingly petty and yet very important thing was what color to make this running blade. I had the ability to choose kind of like the pattern and the color I wanted to make it look like. Generally I go like black and boring because it goes with everything. But I was like, this is a running blade. I can have fun with it. So over on Patreon, my patrons voted on what we were going to do with it. I went with what they decided. I'm so excited to show this to you. So I got the call that this was ready for pickup that I could actually bring it home. I could start like learning and training. And that glories appointment happened. And here's how it went. Are you ready to see this unpleasant personal? Oh my God. Look at this. Look at this beautiful, beautiful device. So Zach and Tyler and my prosthetics team surprised me by making it like sparkly and super pretty and cool. And I absolutely love it. It's perfect. So once I actually had this beautiful thing in hand, it was time to try it out, do some final adjustments. So running blades and aligning them is a little bit more complicated than you might think. It takes some trial and error. So I ran some practice runs down the hallway. They took a look. They adjusted things. We made it better. And then someone made this suggestion that I raised my friend, Annika. I am not one to back down from friendly conversations. So I said, heck yes, absolutely. I'd like to pause for a moment and recognize that this may not have been the smartest decision as you are about to see. But as we are learning about better decisions to make on our first days of getting a running blade, let me take just a moment from this video to introduce you to our sponsor Skillshare. I know you've heard me mention them before. You've heard other YouTubers talk about them. But Skillshare is an online learning community that I absolutely love and fully endorse. This is a service I used well before I partnered with them for these videos. One of the reasons I really love it is because it's great in finding new direction or exploring creativity, especially when so many of us are stuck at home and there's literally nothing to do outside of the house because the world shut down. Most recently, I've been going through a course on unlocking your style. This class in particular involves five hands-on exercises to help unlock your artistic identity, which I think is pretty cool. I'm an artist. I always grow in expanding what I can do, and this helps me think in new ways. Whether you are looking to fend off pandemic, stuck at home, boredom, or just invest in some self-care, check out the link right down below. The first 1,000 people who use that link will get a free trial of Skillshare's premium membership, something like I said I would highly recommend. Thank you so much to Skillshare for sponsoring this video. With that being said, let's dive back in. I really do love this company and being able to work with them. I recently started watercolor painting, which I've never done before, and so I've taken some courses on Skillshare regarding that, so I highly recommend them. Check out that link down below. It helps to support the channel, but I also think it's a fantastic service, and I'm pretty darn sure you're going to love it. But without further ado, let us proceed to the race. So not really to anyone's shock, I definitely wiped out on that first race run. Thankfully, I came away with very minor bruises. My knee is still sore, but was it worth it? Yes, of course it was. I also want to note the fact that a dear, sweet, lovely Anika stopped and waited for me to get up and then like ran with me to the finish line. Clearly, she's the grand winner today, but give me six months and maybe I'll be a challenge. So having completed all the minor adjustments on this puppy right here, it was time to try her out in the real world. So we just got back from picking up my running blade. Anika's got her running blade on, and she's going to teach me a few more drills, which I have definitely never learned. What are we going to be practicing today? The basic warm-up. We're going to do a couple of just jogging around the track, then we'll do some static stretching, some dynamic stretching. And then if you want, we can do some starts. I've never, I've always seen starts. People look very cool doing them. I've never tried them. I'm not one of those people that looks cool. Yeah, then I'm a good company. Okay, cool. Let's go do this. Yes. Awesome. Anika, Brian and I went to a local track to actually kind of try some practices and warm-ups. Anika's worked with a coach. She's obviously come a fantastically long way in running. She looks amazing running. It is definitely not intuitive or easy to run properly on a prosthetic. So I aspire to one day run as well as she does. So we spent probably about an hour there going over different track things and running and how to like actually swing both arms because I tend to keep this one really static, like I'm protecting my side. It's weird. I'm working on it. Working on different drills and training things and things to strengthen different parts of my body. And it was amazing. And I got to bring it and one journey ends. The journey to get a running blade and another one begins. The one I've actually been waiting for where I get to really learn to run again. I get to run again. I don't know about you, but for me personally, I find that I do a lot better when I have some kind of goal or deadline in mind. And so I'm definitely planning on finding a 5k to attempt to run perhaps six months from now. Hopefully when it's a little bit safer to be around humans in the outside world, the cool and the challenging part now gets to actually begin. I have a long way to go, but I can't wait for that journey for that process. And now onto a community exciting part of the video. This puppy needs a name. We can't just keep calling it a running blade or this puppy. She needs a name because she has a personality. She's her own unique being and I would love your help in doing that. Instead of just doing, you know, comment your name below and I'll consider it. I wanted to do an actual live stream where we would determine this all together in live. We'll have voting, we'll have some games. I think it'll be a lot of fun. That live stream is going to be taking place this Tuesday night. Time and additional details are displayed on the screen, but I would love to see you guys there. We're going to have a lot of fun and we're going to give her a name. I do think she's a her. What do you think? Do you think she's a her? I don't know. She just, she's a feminine energy about her. It strikes me. Thank you again from the bottom of my heart to Annika for giving me this blade and to my fantastic team at Rise Prosthetics for creating this for me. It is, I don't say dream come true for many things but this is quite literally a dream come true and I am unbelievably excited and grateful for this. Thank you. And now the journey begins. I can't wait to bring you along. Thank you for being here. Thank you so much everyone who's been so excited for me. It touches my heart and tears me up and just truly thank you. A big thank you and round of applause goes out to Skillshare again. Thank you for sponsoring this video and making these videos possible. To my patrons over on Patreon I am unbelievably grateful for each and every one of you. If you are interested in checking out Patreon or what that is or if you want to be able to vote in future polls like the poll that everyone voted in to be able to determine this cool galaxy pattern check out Patreon linked on screen also down below. But to you most importantly watching this video thank you for spending a few minutes out of your day here with me today. You could be anywhere in the world doing absolutely anything and you chose to spend a few minutes with me and that means a lot to me. I appreciate it. I love you guys. I'm thinking about you and I will see you in the next video. Bye guys.


What in the freaking world? Devonte Adams has been traded to the Las Vegas Raiders in exchange for two draft picks. One of them being a first round draft pick in this year's draft.  This is wild. This is wild. There's a lot. Okay. Aaron Rodgers just signed his contract. Derek Carr. Okay. Let me gather my thoughts because I literally just heard about this four minutes ago is when Adam Schifter tweeted this out.  If you're a Packers fan, dude, all right, okay, let's break this down from the perspective of both teams. Okay. Let's first talk about the Green Bay Packers and then we'll talk about the Las Vegas Raiders, which by the way, I mean, you got to look at that off. That they have in Vegas with Josh Jacobs and Darren Waller, Hunter Renfro. Now you got Devonte Adams. Like this is wild. Everybody on Twitter has gone crazy about this. Derek Carr just retweeted it. That's reunited with Devonte Adams. Okay. Everybody's getting in on the action. I love it. I love it a lot. Okay. We'll talk about the Raiders in just a bit. Let's talk about the Packers. Okay. Let's talk about the reaction with the Packers and what this means for them. If you are Aaron Rodgers, this blows, man. This freaking blows. He was like, since last offseason, nah, you're not helping me. You're not getting me any weapons. I want to sit out. I don't know if I'm going to stay here. I don't know. I don't know if I want to go somewhere else. Hey, I like the Broncos. I like the Titans. There's a lot of other teams out there, Steelers also, but the Packers, Matt LaFleur, they're very adamant.  We will do whatever it takes.  And then Aaron Rodgers tweeted out himself saying, sure, let's happen. Let's make it happen. Four-year contract extension, over $130 million. Let's make it happen. So that happened. Aaron Rodgers stuck. No weapons. Aaron Jones, AJ Dillon, that's it. MBS, Marquess of Alta Scantling, everybody wanted him to be a thing. The next wide receiver too for the Green Bay Packers. I guess technically he was a wide receiver too, but it was like wide receiver two, and then wide receiver one, Devonte Adams. Like it was night and day. Al-Lil Azard is going to be a free agent. They could resign and they could bring him back. Robert Tony is a free agent.  I get it. You get a first-run pick in 2022, and I don't know what the other pick is. But from my assumption, it's a high draft pick. I don't know whether it's a first-run pick from next year or not, I don't know. But if you're a Packers fan, I am sorry. I am sorry.  It really does. Oh man. Anyways, Devonte Adams has been traded to the Las Vegas Raiders. Green Bay Packers tough spot, going to have to rebuild on the draft. Let's get on to the Raiders, and let's talk a little bit more optimistic side of things. Let's talk about the offense that is going to be brewing inside of Vegas, inside of the mind of Josh McDaniels. Some people may call him an offensive guru. People get that moniker all the time, and then it doesn't work out. Like Adam Gaze per se, Josh McDaniels, head coaching experience with the Denver Broglers didn't work out. He's a head coach. He brings in Devonte Adams to reunite with his Fresno State quarterback from college. And Derek Carr, you know that car, is more excited than anything about this happening. I mean, it gets a true number one wide receiver, and finally we get to see if Derek Carr is the real deal. The trade talks that has been happening with Carr for four years, I want to say at this point, about how he is not a legit quarterback that can lead a team to a Super Bowl.  Everybody's going to get their answer right now. Is Derek Carr that quarterback? Everybody can be talking about, you don't have the weapons, you don't have the weapons. Maybe you have Darren Waller. Besides that, who else did you have in your career? Amari Cooper? Didn't really work out with him in the Las Vegas Raiders. Now there's no excuse, because we know what Devonte Adams is capable of, and we know how good of a talent he is. And Carr, you better step your game up, and I know he's going to step his game up in that offense with so many options to dial in with and throw the ball to Waller, Adams, Renfro, Jacobs, guys, this is massive. Josh McDaniels has so many toys to play with. Now I'm excited about watching this Las Vegas Raiders offense that went to the postseason at 9 and 8, and they just keep on getting better and better and better. Devonte Adams, huge, huge. Anyways, I just wanted to come on here. I just wanted to make a video, just to give you my initial reaction. Like I said, I started hitting record like five minutes after this news broke. I want to interact with the guys. I really do. Leave your comments and your thoughts down below. What do you think? What are you guys making of this? I want to hear what you guys on YouTube are saying, because I really want to interact with you, because I love freaking off-season football, man. I really do. This is huge. This is huge. So please comment down below. Let me interact with the guys. I want to reply to your comments. What are your thoughts? Where do the Raiders go from here on out? What are your predictions? What do you think it's going to lead to? Is Carr going to be much better? Is Devonte Adams going to be worse without Aaron Rodgers? Or talking on the Green Bay Packers side, where do the Green Bay Packers go from here? And how bad do you feel for Aaron Rodgers? I feel like there's a lot of people that don't feel bad for him. I don't know. I kind of feel bad for the guy, honestly, if I'm kind of giving my initial thoughts. But yeah, leave your comments down below. I would love to interact with the guys. Appreciate you guys watching.


This itself leads to an interesting pattern. You might think that positive and negative charges are opposite sides of the same coin, which is kind of true, but they behave very different in a membrane. Lycine and Arginine for that matter, they're positively tarred side chains. They will have this pattern that I showed you that they're sticking out a bit. We're going to call that snorkeling in a few slides. That particular means that they can interact with water, but they don't have to stretch as far as the water. They can interact with those negatively charged oxygens in the carbonyl groups, which is the charged group located closest to the interior in the lipid bilayer. But note that oxygen is negative. It can pair up with a positively charged head group, but it cannot pair up with a negatively charged amino acid, such as aspartic acid. Aspartic or glutamic acid, they are negatively charged side chains instead, which again would seem just like the positive charged one, just with different sign. This helix, or these side chains here, they cannot interact with the carbonyl groups. They have to stretch that all the way out to the water or the phosphates. Do you see what the difference is? This is a far larger distortion of the entire helix and the membrane around it. This is going to be much, much, much costlier. So it's harder to introduce negatively charged residues on the inside of membranes than positively charged ones. Now, friend of order would say, can't we just forget about that by not trying to introduce any charged ones at all? But it's going to be functionally relevant to introduce them at some points. And I'll show you why in 20 minutes or so. Just remember, when we need a charge in the membrane, it's better to have positive charges that we work with than negative charges. And finally, just to complete this, here we have a residue that was not charged, but tyrosine, kind of similar to tryptophan that it has an aromatic ring. Do you see how these rings locate? This is not a simplified model or my illustration. This is a snapshot from a computer simulation. The rings orient in the way so that they intercalate between the lipid chains. They would never be in this orientation because that would require them to push away five or six different lipid chains. So this is a very particular pattern for aromatic side chains, positively charged side chains and negatively charged side chains. Let's minimize that a bit and take this into the lipid environment here. The reason for the positive charges is that they interact with these groups. The negatively charged side chains, on the other hand, had to stretch all the way up here or even the water. And the tyrosines in particular, they need to orient this way to avoid interfering too much with the chains.