How do you grind properly by throwing a TLC album that's not what it was Is it what it was yeah, we grind no, that's not it at all my mind's telling me no But my body My body's telling me.  That's our Kelly. That's our Kelly by the way So that's bumping water. That's bumping grind You're listening to barbell logic brought to you by barbell logic online coaching where each week We take a systematic walk through strength training and the refining power of voluntary hardship How do y'all welcome back to barbell logic? This is your producer Trent again and welcome to the second episode in this month's rebroadcast series today We're going back to another oldie but goody. This is an episode that originally ran at number 27 And it's called embracing the grind So if you haven't noticed the theme yet We are going back to the basics of training which as I said in last week's episode Sometimes we can all be guilty about over complicating this stuff and from time to time loose touch with some of the fundamentals of training And one of those fundamentals is simply effort you know, I caught myself at the gym the other day doing some heavy presses I was doing heavy triples and On the third set. I was really starting to feel the fatigue in my torso everything was feeling crazy heavy and I missed the third rep I Gave it a good hard fight or so I thought and I let it back down and put it back in the rack Well, I figured I'd at least try to grind the thing for three or four seconds Probably not a full five, but at least a good three or four seconds. I'll go back and check my training video Nope, I tried to power through the thing for maybe like one second before I let it right back down to put it back in the rack Now I'm not gonna argue and I don't think anyone else would argue here that every rep needs to be a total bone-on-bone grinder But watching that video made me realize that man, you know my sense of what Effort feels like subjectively during the set has gotten miscalibrated a little bit I've been doing a lot of volume work lately Haven't been hitting some real heavy PRs, especially my upper body work in a while And so now I know going forward into the neck next time I do it heavy set that I'm gonna have to bear down and give Those reps a little bit more effort And probably get somebody to yell at me in the process that always seems to help All right. Well, that's enough blathering for me. Let's get to the episode. This is episode number 27 embracing the grind Welcome to the barbell logic podcast. I'm Scott Hamburg and I got of course Matt Reynolds with us today And we're gonna talk about grinding here in a little bit. Yep But first man, we wanted to talk about some friends that have been helping us helping us out with our supply You know, it's not easy finding all these whiskies, you know I want to give a shout out to my boy Jason He is the manager of the International Wine Center Brown Derby International Wine Center Springfield, Missouri That is one of the better liquor stores that have ever been to in the country And I know they're like a top-10 wine liquor store, but they've got an incredible selection of whiskey And I have got some Jason has hooked me up with some great whiskey over the years And so I'm very thankful for what he's he's done for me. He knows we've talked about this that I Don't even think we've mentioned this on the podcast. I can't stand the secondary market in whiskey You can but you know these bottles of whiskey they're free market of you. Yeah, I know but the problem is that they said that the problem is Well Free market would be they would sell for for the what's supply and demand would demand that they sell for right on the shelf But instead they retail for you know, a hundred bucks hundred five bucks hundred fifty bucks Whatever and then they're people paying a thousand bucks two thousand bucks for these bottles of whiskey So I can't stand it so What some people might not know is the second you crack open a bottle of whiskey it's worth zero sure and so Jason at International Wine Center at Brown Derby International Wine Center, which by the way is where Bass Pro shops started The guy that owns Bass Pro Bass Pro headquarters are here in Springfield, Missouri Actually, our wives right now are taking our kids to the wonders of wildlife museum It got started in the back corner of a Brown Derby Johnny Morris the owner of Bass Pro his dad Owned the Brown Derby and now there are about I don't know 40 locations here in Springfield, Missouri Some of which are super super nice international wine centers the nicest one. There's some super sketchy ones that are you know the Hobos for the aristocrat buying the aristocrat vodka. They need serve to yeah, they've got it. Yeah, so again supply and demand But Jason's done a really good job of make sure he knows that any bottle that I buy I drink I'm never gonna put a bottle in the secondary market So he knows and I told him like the rule is you sell me a bottle of something cool I will open it up and we'll share a drink together here in the store. And so he's done awesome He's been a great guy. So I just want to give him a shout out. I'm not getting I don't get anything from that He didn't pay for that International Wine Center. I just wanted to give a shout out We do a lot of whiskey here. And if you were in the Springfield, Missouri area by the way They they do some online stuff Contact them and ask for Jason till the Matt Reynolds and you and so thanks Jason. Thanks And you guys have been awesome for me. He's got more bidders than I've ever seen.  I've talked about those a couple times the brown Walnut or the black walnut bidders In an old-fashioned. It's just absolutely incredible. So shout out to those guys. We're gonna talk about grinding In the past we talked about yeah, it's like college age Not that kind of grinding that kind of grinding. Do you know that the okay nevermind? Go ahead. Well, no, it's fine. I'm not gonna go there.  Yeah, we were the You just blew my mind. Sorry. So a couple episodes ago We talked about you know things that cause people to fall out on your progression You know pitfalls right and one of them is not knowing how to grind and so we we've got enough to say about this We can make a whole episode. Yeah about it. How do you grind properly? So take it my throwing a TLC album? Is it what it was no, that's not it at all So that was your go my mind's telling me no, but my body my body's telling me We just had a bunch of followers. That's our Kelly. That's our Kelly by the way, so that's my owner.  Yeah, you can't tell it's moving. Yeah, so Let's let's start with what people think is going on So before we like joke about it and talk about the real serious part of this I taught my mom who's 63 had a had a deadlift. She's not listening to this So it's because I'm already saying bumping grind by our Kelly But I taught her how to deadlift and she had great form She had actually was I was really surprised how good her form was and it got her up to her first 100-pound deadlift she did a hundred pounds and Start to pull the bar and the bar moves incredibly fast all the way to lock out and the whole time is moving She was she said oh my god. Oh my god. It's so heavy. It's so heavy. It's so he's talking She's talking during the thing and and she said it back down and she's a son son. That's so heavy, right? Indicator number one if you can talk it's not heavy Yeah, right and I said so I stopped and of course I've had lots of out-of-town clients and clients over the years The same sort of thing and and I think here's the thing that we have to understand 100 pounds for my mom who was 63 is the heaviest thing Maybe that she's ever picked up and definitely the heaviest thing. She's picked up in four decades Yeah, if you're not doing what you do what we do.  The thing is is the bar speed Told me that it wasn't heavy and when I say it's not heavy I don't mean just not heavy to humanity in general I mean it wasn't heavy to her, but because it bar move fast That's not a grind. So our brains are built with a governor like an engine is that says If it starts to move slow put it back down, right?  But we have to learn how to overcome that and when the bar moves insanely slow We keep pulling or we keep pushing or we keep squatting or whatever it is And so we have to learn how to grind because at the end of linear progression Everything is a grind the first rep is usually decent grind and the second rep is a big grind and the third and fourth and fifth are Insane right grinds, right? And we can't continue to make progress and we can't get that refinement that we talk about every episode Without learning how to do this. So if you have been coached by me This is most easily learned on the deadlift because the deadlift starts at the bottom I tell my clients. I've told I told every person who's ever been coached by me. I want five Full Seconds of grind before you put the bar down So they start to deadlift even I tell them even if you're positive that you can't get the weight I still have to have a five full seconds of grind because I need an appropriate stress To be able to recover from and then adapt to get stronger and my body doesn't know to benefit from that You benefit from it. Of course you benefit from it, right? Like it's a it's a huge oh my body doesn't know if I hit the weight or not The only thing that knows that I hit the weight or not is my is my brain is my own psyche is my own Confidence factor and so if I pull on 700 pounds Which is which is near my max 725 is my my max I pull on 720 700 pounds And it stops at like mid-shin to be able to barasti, you know two three inches below the knee and I grind and shake Yep, and the bar just won't move and I grind on it for two three four or five Okay, it's not gonna go and I set it down six seconds, right?  There was nothing to adapt to That's the problem. Yep That's why we have to learn how to grind and so you tell these people I mean I've heard you've told me I've heard you tell a hundred people five full second five seconds of full effort Yep, and they'll start the deadlift and you count back five four So so that's a that's a big deal. So your training partner needs to count for you Yeah, I'm four three another thing. I tell people it's like you can't quit. I'll tell you when you can quit Yep I'll tell you want to put it down. It tells you know if somebody's been training And I've been coaching them for a little while that'll work Yep The five four three two one thing helps better for people that are helps more for people that are newer into training if they trust me I can tell them, you know Put it down and they'll put it down and they get their good grind in And so every lift has a spot that's tough Right, it's typically when one extents her hands off to another Yeah, like so in your deadlift there's a hard spot like you know a little over your mid-shin Yep, where your quads are kind of done working and it's handing it off to your hamstrings. Yep, and that's hard It's no man's land. Yeah, those two muscle groups are not at their most efficient at that place. It's kind of interesting It's kind of funny for all the years. I've coached. I've never actually considered it the way you're saying it But you're exactly right. It's when when one muscle group, which is that kind of the major force in the lift Disapates and hands off to the next muscle group and there's obviously overlap. Yeah, that's where the sticking point is Yeah, so where's the sticking point on the bench press at the bench press is when your pecs are handing off your triceps That's exactly right. That's exactly when it happens, right? So in the beginning it's all like pecs and front delts and then there's transitions away from the pecs and front delts into the Triceps and at that point where it transitions. That's where the sticking point is. Yeah It's in it's sort of normally two joints main the way I see it as two main joints in the lift like in the squat It's a knee in the hip, right?  That's the hard spot. So you're your hamstrings Yeah, you're handing it off to your glutes your hamstrings are handed off to your glutes Yeah, and so there's a hard spot in all these lists. So press has one, you know About your hairline and maybe a little but maybe a little higher. Yeah, that's what you're how what your arm links are so all of these got a hard spot and That's okay. It's okay, and it's okay for the bar to move slow. What's where it should move so by the way If it if you miss it if you miss it at other others at another spot. It's a form issue. That's right or you or psychological Yeah, so I had I went through a spell on the squat where I would get about five inches off the bottom Which is that spot. Yep five maybe eight, you know, I don't know five to eight inches somewhere in there and and it literally felt like the floor Disappeared like there was nothing to push against it wasn't that I didn't grind. I couldn't yep And I have a friend his name is Dick Gordon, Jr.    Yeah, right. So I'm gonna tell my guitar. I'm gonna tell my guitar story. This is my grinding story so when I came to him I was already an okay guitarist okay and He has a yeah, he wrote all of his own materials and so I got to like chapter 7 of these materials he wrote and I'll never forget I got to exercise 7c and I would play And he would put on like a click track or look a drum track and you just play with the drum track and I would stop He said looks kind of you know when you play music You can't stop like you can make a mistake with this But you know people are dancing people are listening you got to go on man The drummer still drumming the bass player still you got to play all right from the top three two Play play play and I get to the spot and stop. He's like look man. You can't stop Can't we did again stop? He said go home go home practice this. Don't stop.  I'm like, I don't know what that means But the guy's got broke me like a glass Man, I cried and cried and cried and how old are you? 34 I Don't know something like that and so we talked about it and and I and I found we finally Spend enough time on it that I we I learned that I when it when it got hard. I literally couldn't see anything right page went blank. I couldn't even see the music and Had some root and like some fear of failure or something like that, right? You know, so I just wouldn't even do it, right?  I said man, you know, this is what's happening and described it to him. He says the same thing, dude Remember, I'm gonna go yeah Remember he said here's what I want you to do he said And that in that liminal time like when you're getting ready to when you're when you're in bed and you're not asleep yet But you're relaxed and you know you're in that kind of liminal space, you know, he said I want you to visualize That place where it gets really hard as a membrane It's like parallel to the ground And he said when when you're when you're relaxed and he said I want you to picture yourself Pushing and pushing through that membrane And so I want you to do that every time that you're you have nothing else to do. I want you to visualize that and So when it gets hard You push to that membrane and it's just a membrane. Yep. That's all it is And you just push through that. That's good And I went back the week next time like I don't know I was on a four-day split at the time I think and so I didn't it wasn't you know the next day or whatever sure I had a little bit of time And I could push yeah So anyway, I don't know if that's everybody's problem, but there's stuff going on sure there's a lot of you know 90% of the time people Just are quitting too early. You know, they're just quitting too early But sometimes we have to practice that mentally we have to go through the mental exercise Like what am I going to think? What does my experience going to be when I'm squatting here? How am I going to do this? Because if you try to figure out how you're going to grind when you're when it's time to grind it's too late Yeah, right too late. You've got to visualize it. I think through it now the idea of the membrane You know like a drum head.  So useful and you have to practice. You know, what am I going to do? You have to visualize it and think about what am I going to do when that happens? What is that going to feel like and how will I deal with it at that time? You've got to practice that when the bar is on your back. So when it's on your back, it's too late. Yeah, that's good Yeah, it's it's weird because there's this if you practice the other thing Which is failing Then you set the motor pattern to fail, right? Which is what happens to a lot of people, right? So how often do we fail squats? How would you fell a squat not supposed to I probably fell a squat once every 18 months. Oh Well, I do more than that, but yeah, but that's okay once a year once every six months Whatever it's just like that. It's like it's pretty rare You know like I probably fail a deadlift more often more Mentally and it doesn't break the ground if the deadlift comes off the ground. I Usually finish it. I probably miss two deadlifts a year that come off the ground that I don't finish I missed one Not that long ago Where was that was that the strenuous life thing? I think so okay? No, I pulled that let's see I pulled that it was it was the time before that I don't I don't remember so I put We were in Tulsa I pulled six 55 and got it to mid shin and felt like I strained for five seconds I put it down and when I watch the video I was trying for one second right down. This is the problem That's why you have to have somebody counting right five four Three right they've got to go through that because you're you're you have no concept of time when you start to strain so It's not okay to miss You have to learn how to grind through the things right you gotta learn how to grind through the stuff now I miss more presses and everybody's gonna miss more pressing anything else because press is so It's so much harder to keep over the middle of your foot what's that one for you every three months I mean there are times yeah I mean and putt not only that but I program you know that I program press starts a lot And so a press start is essentially a program press miss. That's really what it is right so a program a press start which is say Five percent to seven percent over your actual max after you're done with your press Main press work terrible you take it out of the rack It's really heavy and you try to press it and you and of course it grinds at your forehead level and you grind and grind and grind And it comes back down you know fails and you rack it and what's weird is usually like the third week People actually press it and hit a PR. They accidentally hit like a five percent PR Yep, and so I'll miss that sometimes because it's easier to you know to kind of misgroove a press a bench I now misgrooving something different right like if that squat gets ahead of you know gets out over your toes or something You know there ain't no grinding. Yeah, there's no grinding Although it's one of those deals where I rarely misgroove a squat to the point that I fail one.  One of the things we've actually learned from CrossFit from guys like rich fronning is they realize that their brain is actually limiting factor with That's right.    Yeah, right? Yeah, if you haven't if you haven't had some incontinence from straining On a heavy deadlift or heavy squat you probably haven't actually strained enough right especially if you've had kids Especially if you've given birth vaginally to kids like you're gonna know when I had kids That's what I really started right of course right? Yeah, I mean there's you Even if you don't blow blood vessels in your eyes any time I do a parallel to me I blow a little blood vessels in my eyelids I have little dots of red little red dots in my in my eyelids because of the strain and so when I get really heavy weight on my back and squat like a 500 pounds doesn't do it for me. It takes like 550 or over I've described this a couple times before I take the weight Out of the rack and I walk back and the second I start my descent Usually there's music playing. It's that a meat, you know, so it's got loud metal music as I start to descend The music drops an octave right like it's you can hear the you know the beat and it's It does that yeah And then my eyesight interest so the first thing that goes as I start to descend in a squat is my hearing and The next thing that goes is my eyesight So I can see fine at the top as I start to descend it all turns red and in the bottom It goes black and I can see nothing so in the bottom It's almost like you're at the bottom of the ocean where there's like insane pressure The sound is really weird you know and And you can see nothing and then as you come up out of the hole in the bottom of the squat The octave starts the key starts to raise in the music and the site starts to come back and at the top I can see again, and I put it back in it's usually still I can see red by the time I rack it back and it's the route Yeah, I get red.   I don't care. Yeah, I don't care Yeah, I don't Barney. I don't care like I can't hear anything.  Yeah I can't hear you or anything. I get in trouble more than anybody at the meets because I'm yelling at every client Like I'm trying to talk to my lifter and you can't talk to him. You have to scream I know you got a screen on the platform So I'm 20 feet away. So I'm screaming at them trying to get it and I understand But like I really don't care what everybody else thinks I'm a lifter to complete the lift And so they they you know, they've got to be able to hear my voice my voice has to be loud So this five-second grind thing is a big deal Being able to learn how to grind is the most refining thing you can do in the process of the end of LP and And going in your intermediate training. So y'all be be honest with yourselves be brutally honest, you know, did you give it everything? Think about what was your experience like as you failed? You know, you know, if you had a sharper shooting pain, okay, I'll give you that one maybe sure But but if you're just like gosh, you know, I don't think I can do any more well Then you probably didn't grind right? What was your experience? So when I said when I actually was able to sit down and get some distance from the lift and they say what was my experience?  I was gonna say it's important to be brutally honest and vulnerable, right? So if it's okay like still we all still sometimes give up early We just have to recognize that it's not not okay to give up early, right? So if you give up early be honest with yourself and say, you know what I watch the video I felt like I strained for five seconds I strained for a second and a half That wasn't enough and next time I have to know if I don't have somebody counting down for me It might feel like you have to strain for 10 or 15 seconds to actually be five seconds There's a time warp when it's heavy. That's right. You can't you can't get it So the key is everybody's gonna make this mistake Everybody's gonna have times where they don't pull hard enough or long enough or whatever give up early on whatever rep That that in and of itself is not is not a huge problem as long as you recognize it when you do it It's that you know to work on the thing like oh, you know what I felt like I strained that long I didn't brutal honesty brutal honesty Well, there's another episode guys Check us out on Facebook Instagram We've gone through all these handles. You guys know what they are, but please tell a friend share it episode That's that's the thing that we need the most. Thanks for listening So we are drinking the finest whiskey we've had so far on this Podcasts we're drinking arguably 25 year-old Talisker.   Mighty complex. Yeah, it's really good.  It's just like cam for my tongue. It's like somebody just rubbed like yeah, like Vix on it or something Yeah, that's good. That's good. That's a very good Yeah, very good description comes in a beautiful box and it's all and the the bottle isn't wow Did you see this bottle like it's just awesome? So beautiful bottle comes in this uh, you know get the wooden so stopper padded Yeah, wouldn't stopper awesome. That's what happens when you've got a you know, thanks. This is a twenty eight dollars a hundred dollar $28. Well, I don't know. What do you think for a pour of that?  Yeah, but you know, you know the rule. It's all it's all open, man I know you're born sure with sure with everybody. Okay


This presentation is based on a discussion document I submitted to a competition run by the Electricity Association of Ireland, for which the given title was Dinosaurs of the Past or Innovators of the Future, designing digital strategies to engage domestic customers. I was hugely honoured to have been selected to represent the Association at the Euroelectric Conference in Berlin and also to have won the European level competition due to what I can only fathom to have been a combination of luck, human error and a small dash of electrical engineering know-how and obviously because I'm from UCD as well. On my own background, I'm a PhD student at the Electricity Research Centre, conducting my research into the network impacts of residential demand response on the networks under Dr. Andrew Keane. The ERC is supported by a network of major electricity industry players from Ireland, along with major funding and national and international funding agencies. My own research is funded by the Sustainable Electrical Energy Systems Cluster, funded by a consortium of ERC industry members and Science Foundation Ireland. So the title of this talk is considering whether the electricity industry will be the dinosaurs of the past or the innovators of the future. Now, as you've probably guessed, I've not come up here to tell the assembled delegates from the electricity industry that they are in fact a legion of prehistoric lizards. As for innovators of the future, well, I'm no soothsayer, so they're either. So I'll consign myself to what has been and the rapid change that is happening now. We often forget how much electricity has changed and transformed our lives and is this forgetfulness of how far the industry has come that has led to such disparaging dinosaur remarks. So to remedy this, my talk begins at no better place than the starting point of the beginning of the industry itself with electrification. Electrification was one of the greatest and often most overlooked achievements of the 20th century. It required ambitions of national scale. It was up to the nation states of Europe to set up vertically-integrated, state-owned utilities to provide the generation, transmission, distribution, and supply of electricity. As a society, we are totally disconnected to an idea of a world before electricity, a world before the services sector, before widespread communications. This was a world of letters, steam engines, gas lamps, and intense smog, a time when what we now consider mundane tasks such as washing, drying, cleaning, or hard, laborious jobs. This was a time when the Ford factory floor assembly line was run by legions of labourers instead of a multitude of robotic arms and digital sensors. We often forget that the provision of electrical energy played a key role in promoting economic prosperity, social cohesion, the liberation of women, and defining the health and quality of life for Europeans of today. Electricity gave its benefactors the ability to work, provided the lighting, heating, refrigeration, and cleaning appliances with the energy they need in the home and energised the agricultural, industrial, manufacturing, and commercial processes that are the backbone of the modern economy. This is Europe electrified, the light of the European power system, one of the largest and most complicated systems in the world, connecting every socket, house, building, and generator in Europe, a critical piece of infrastructure with which we can't live without. Looking at this system, it is important to remember that electricity actually is not that old. Even in the most urban areas of Europe, electricity has been delivered to it most for generations. Today we would find it hard to imagine a life without electricity, and that is again because it is so fundamentally shaped and changed the world we live in. The fundamental challenge of the 21st century is how we can maintain the same standard of living in a sustainable way. It is a challenge that is increasingly imperative in the face of the potential consequences of climate change. It is not our electric world that is causing climate change, but rather the way in which we generate the power we consume. We could, if you wanted, reorganise the title of this talk to the phrase that in order to be the innovators of the future, we must stop consuming the dinosaurs of the past. This is our Earth from the International Space Station. It's pictures like this that give us a sense of perspective.  The future electricity system will also need to be global, and we will need to continue to radically change our power systems and pool our resources to transform our global energy system.  We are undergoing a generation transition, and I mean that in two senses. We are moving away from a generation of people who did not need to worry about the impact of their consumption to another generation who will fully bear the consequences of how they consume energy. And we are also moving away from a system where the primary source of electricity generation was from fossil fuels to a system with large-scale renewable generation. This is a paradigm shift in both the electricity system and society as a whole. Not only this, but both the drive to sustainability and depleting fossil fuels will eventually lead to a complete transformation of the transport and heating sectors. The electrification of which could easily treble current electricity demand, the second worldwide electrification. But this needs to be seen not only as a challenge, but a huge opportunity to reinvent a system not only for this generation, but for future generations to come. The way in which the nation states of Europe deal with these challenges will be fundamentally different to that which has gone before. The vertically integrated state-owned utilities of the 20th century have generally been dismantled into a whole host of different entities to form the competitive electricity markets of the 21st century. As a requirement of increased competition and the dismantling of state-owned electricity monopolies, European states must achieve these difficult tasks by providing economic incentives for the market to make this energy transition without direct state intervention or control. We meet the challenge of climate change as a time when the digital realm is further transforming our world and our lives. The staggering speed at which technology has changed since the creation of the first transistor, the number per square inch closely following Gordon Moore's prediction of doubling every two years since 1975 has led to most European consumers having a piece of technology sitting in their pockets that has more computing power than that which helped put the first men on the moon. Here we have two chips. On your left is one of the first integrated circuits or ICs with the mere 16 transistors. On the right is what we have today, 2.6 trillion transistors on a single integrated circuit. Have we realized the potential of the technology we have today? What are we using the trillions of transistors we have in our mobiles, laptops and tablets to actually do? Well, it's safe to say that we probably haven't reached the potential of this technology and we've barely begun to realize what we can do with it. Even if Moore's law is reaching saturation, that is of little consequence itself as there is a huge gap between the capability of the current technology and what we actually use it for. But utilizing the full capability of this technology coupled with the communications revolution of the internet has the potential to lead to the creation of the Internet of Things. The Internet of Things will be a network of senses on our physical and electronic devices providing connectivity, data transfer and control to enable more intelligent use of the engineering world around us. And it is this network of connected devices that can be used to provide the flexibility and communication networks needed to transition from our current grid to an integrated energy system and smart grid that will deliver sustainability. The electricity system we use was designed to go from the few to the many.  But this is changing. The grid of the future will be one in which a myriad of different technologies will be connected from wind to solar, heat pumps to electric vehicles rooftop solar photovoltaic to home energy battery systems. Power flow will no longer be unidirectional but will flow in all directions from a multitude of distributed resources. And this new system electricity may transition to be a service rather than a commodity in itself as more and more renewables come online and conventional generation transitions from being energy based to capacity based. In this system to mirror increased variable output of renewable generation the customer will have to become more flexible in their consumption patterns. We are moving away from the paradigm that electricity demand is an inflexible quantity that must be served at all times towards a system where flexibility is required by both generation and demand to manage renewable energy sources. It is only by controlling this multitude of different resources that we have that we can achieve the sustainable energy system that we are striving towards. The question is how can we achieve this and the answer is by using the digital world. Designing digital strategies to maximize the potential of our technology is key to engaging the customers of tomorrow. At current we have the technology to generate power for renewable generation to transition towards the electrification of heat and transport and to achieve the new building retrofit that will deliver passive and more energy efficient buildings. What is lacking is the digital infrastructure to enable the data transfer of monitoring and control between the myriad of different technologies that will make up the future energy system. The integration of these technologies will be achieved through linking the physical and digital worlds to provide better communication and control. Linking the electronic and physical worlds is key to providing the level of flexibility, control and efficiency that will be required to transition to the sustainable energy systems of the future. Only when we offer a product that not only brings energy efficiency and flexibility but improves the lives of the consumer will we be truly on the path to sustainability. But ultimately this vision will not be achieved unless we turn our focus on the consumer. The power system was built to serve the customer with a secure, reliable and affordable electricity and it must continue to do so. In this energy transition there is a widespread misconception among consumers that sustainability means sacrificing quality of life sacrificing reliable electricity. But why should the consumer worry about switching off light bulbs scheduling washing machine towers of low electricity demand trying to match the timers on their water heaters to when they need hot water changing their consumption patterns to integrate renewable technologies we are simply asking too much particularly when electricity is such a cheap commodity and has such a low priority in the reality of most people's lives. Spend 600 euro on a smartphone and it will cost you less than a euro to run it for a year. Electricity typically accounts for less than 2% of the annual household budget but the value we place in electricity is much greater than the cost we pay so how do we motivate consumers to adapt to this new sustainable power system? The answer lies in offering a digital platform that increases the consumers quality of life, reduces inefficiency and helps integrate renewable electricity sources. Don't tell the consumers that they need to worry about turning off lights but offer them a product that means that they will never need to operate a light switch again. Using digital strategies to link the physical and electronic worlds means that the consumer will no longer need to worry about their consumption but can focus on how they want to live their life whilst not worrying about their impact on the environment. The electricity consumers of Europe are those of the biggest role and responsibility in this energy transition and they are consumers and need to be sold a product that works for them. Yes we need to be more flexible and more efficient in the way we consume energy yes we need to decrease our alliance in conventional generation sources and smart use of technology through the digital world is how to achieve this. There are huge developments in the automotive industry with work and self-driving cars but from a consumer's perspective what we are offering is not a self-driving car but a self-driving house where you don't need to worry about your space heating, water heating, lighting ventilation and clean electricity. Sell the consumer a suite of products that takes those worries away and they will buy it. If we are to achieve the transition towards a sustainable energy system we need to ensure that we not only maintain but improve the standard of living of the citizens of Europe. Analogous to the economic growth and productivity that accompanied electrification in the 20th century the transition towards a sustainable integrated energy system also holds the potential to revolutionise and reimagine the economic and social model of Europe. We are undergoing the second great electric revolution and ultimately this transition should, can and needs to be in the interest of the economy, society and the environment but fundamentally as citizens and consumers of Europe. Thank you.


All right. Investors are optimistic about their investment goals according to a new survey. And we are joined now by Frederick Axeter from Wells Fargo, the firm behind the survey. So Frederick, 72 percent of respondents are confident about their investment goals over the next five years. But with the record rally we've had, are people going to be disappointed in the sense that some of these big returns might not last? I think you're right. I think there is some, you know, historically we've seen quite a bit of correlation between past returns and kind of the optimism. And like you're saying, it's, you know, people feel after this rally that we've seen, you're optimistic about meeting your five-year goals. So what kind of returns in the S&P 500, for example, should we expect every year for the next decade? I think the long-term kind of sustainable growth rate is in the order of 7 percent. And we feel that moderately optimistic for the U.S., but we in particular see investment opportunities outside of the U.S., especially around small-cap international equities. And this is something that came up also in our survey. What else are you telling clients about 2018, especially when it comes to the markets? Are there certain sectors that you should be overweight, underweight? Well, one of the things that came up in the survey is that investors feel hesitant about taking the money outside of the U.S. In fact, 53 percent of investors think that outside of the U.S. investments are much more risky or at least a bit more risky. Do you think that's wrong? I think they're, in a way, exaggerating. And especially this is with older investors that think there are political risks outside of the U.S. I think there are political risks everywhere from an investment perspective. So the most important thing is a well-diversified portfolio across all markets. Do you like overseas stocks better than U.S. from an evaluation point of view, that overseas stocks haven't run up as much as U.S. stocks have? Yes, it's both from an evaluation standpoint and also because they're kind of in an earlier stage of their economic recovery, there are some good opportunities from that standpoint. All right. What about Bitcoin? I mean, the surge has been incredible. Is that an investment in your view? You know, it's something that we're starting to hear about from investors and even in 401K plans. But I think that it kind of has a place in a long-term portfolio, I'd say no. So it's more of a gamble? It's more of at least a short-term trade, you know, and you can view it as a gamble. Maybe you have other information, but it's not a long-term core holding in my mind. All right. Frederick Axeter will watch how it all plays out. Thank you for joining us. Thank you very much.


looking pretty solid just like MK did on his lead run this is almost a mirror of the last run MK reeling him in towards the end. What's up everybody welcome back to the channel I'm EvilRabbit here on Forza Horizon 3 with a couple of my teammates who ate my hamster MK6 and USA Stance we're here to you know demonstrate the EVL Pro Drift Championship that I'd like to bring to the channel so I figured I'd bring this episode out to you guys and explain to you guys how this is gonna work we did a little test run to find out you know to work out some of the bugs for you know points scoring qualifying tandem runs and such we only did with four of us we couldn't get more people on like I had hoped so basically what I want to run is I want to run like a five round series on Horizon 3 formula drift style tandem competition for points with an overall winner at the end of five rounds so you know I'm opening this up to the community to you guys so if you go on to compete there's some rules that you got to comply to when it comes to cars and such that we all comply to as well I'm gonna explain all of that in the video right now before we get into showing you guys exactly you know how we ran it you know with qualifying and stuff like that you know the videos in the background to show you guys you know for a little bit of you know visual instead of me just talking so basically the rules are here as follows for the EVL Pro Drift Championship presented by NRG and EVL Rabbit tuning so cars must be rear wheel drive no all-wheel drive with 100% rear bias obviously it's a drift competition cars got to be rear wheel drive all cars must have full roll cages the max tire compound you can use on a car is sport tires so that means there's no horizon edition cars because those come with basically race tires so if the car comes with stock tires and then the next tire compound is street and then sport you can run the sports which can't go any higher now if you go to a car in the car the stock tire compound is there the next tire compound is race that's sport compound on the car you can't run any higher than that so the next one is no v12 swaps on any of the cars you know that's kind of we kind of decided to stay away from v12 swaps and then four rotors are okay though if you're running like a miata or a you know rx-7 four rotors can be okay but there is a max horsepower cap of 1100 horsepower most of us are running around 800 a little bit less some of us like 820 but we're running around the 800 horsepower range so if you want to keep it around that that's fine but the max cap is 1100 most of the courses will be run in either the parking lot or we will glitch out traffic and we will be running certain sections in like double hairpins or in Byron Bay certain sections that will set up now when we get to the rounds you know we'll explain clipping points as you can see MK is running right now he's out on that clipping point out on that wall that island right there's a clip that front there is right there a clip then he's got to get as close as again to the outer zone here as well as close as again the outer zone there he's on a pretty good run here and then he's got one more outer clip right there which he just hops over and then he comes way off that out clip on that island right there but that's basically the run round one we're gonna be running is this course I'll get more into details on the course once we find out who actually wants to compete but like I said it's gonna be a points championship so you guys can if you can make a round you get points for the championship if you can't make around okay you know I want to get this out to more guys out there so we can get more tandems in so to continue the rules all cars must have the EVL window banner slash door stickers on both doors are a must now for cars with a carbon fiber roof here I'll show you the stickers right now you can see the door panels right here it's got the EVL logo my gamer tag and my number on each door those are a must you must have that on all your cars so it makes you guys have to have your own custom paint scheme you can download this both of them are on the storefront if you type in EVL you'll be able to find both of those for the window banner and the door placard now the window banner as you can see on this picture is on my e46 now see it's right on top of the window it's set there now for cars with carbon fiber roofs you do not have to have it or cars with a glass roof such as the c5 Corvette's that hamster is running in the video right now as you can see he's teamed up with actually mk6 I believe they are running c5 Corvette's so going into teams basically you're allowed to team up with drivers if you want to have a team but I'm trying to limit it to like only two drivers so you can have a team with one or other person that way you guys can share tunes or I mean you can make your own tune you can download a tune I'm not really restricting it to you know if you if you don't have to in a car and you have somebody else's tune whatever but I'm trying to make it so everybody has like different types of cars so you know if you want to team up with somebody you know make sure your liveries are somewhat close maybe a little bit different different colors and such you know make it kind of more like formula D you know there's a lot of teams that have identical cars like Peter Vincek and James Dean they have very identical cars but the coloring is a little different on Chelsea to know if I'm falling in junior have identical cars pretty much the same setup but way different paint schemes so you know that's where it comes into teaming and you know teams like that so now when it comes to like qualifying what you're actually seeing right now we're basing qualifying on a 50 point max run losing one to three points based on distance to the clip and you can lose 10 points for straightening up loss of five points for hitting a clip spinning out as an instant zero you will get two runs in qualifying non-consecutive just like formula D now as you can see here here I'm about to take my qualifying run I'm actually heating up my tires because we are running simulation damage in this competition you are allowed to change tires in a repair your car after two runs lead and chase but if it keeps going to one more time you continue using the same tires to make it harder so we're gonna take a look at my qualifying run here I'm gonna commentate for you see I start off you know getting right there then I'm gonna initiate right here I'm gonna get deep out into that outer zone up against that fence tapping it for a little bit get really close to that outer clip right there not hitting it though and then a little bit off that clip but I was really close to that clip anyway so it didn't get any docked points way out on that outer zone right there definitely out on that outer zone right there coming into this outer clip right here just off the outer clip right here I hopped over that last outer clip so I got a deduction of like one point because that wasn't a huge hit I didn't go two tires over I kind of just went over one tire so it was kind of like a one point deduction I ended up getting a you know a 49 on my qualifying run in there which was almost a perfect that wouldn't have jumped over that curb I would have gotten a perfect 50 qualifying run so that's how qualifying goes and then we go into basically lead and chase follow where one car leads the other car follows myself MK6 hamster and I believe one other of our team who are there depending on who's there or not will be judging and then when I'm running or he's running we'll have another person judge based on you know who I can trust to judge fairly so it will be judged on proximity the lead car has to obviously get as close to a 50 point run as possible the chase driver has to mirror the lead driver's line as possible here's MK6's run we're gonna watch his run real quick I'm gonna commentate for you guys he comes in nice and at he enters in nice and deep getting really a little off that outside clip not too much off that outer touch and go nice on that clip though and then he comes back he's really nice on that clip doesn't hop it so he's a little bit off that first outer zone he's way deep in that second outer zone nice and deep on that third outer zone then he gets a little little shaky a little straightened up then he gets right on there but then he hops over that curb right there you can see his tire might going over there so we ended up getting a pretty decent run there for you know his qualifying run but you know wasn't a perfect run by any means so like I said I wanted to bring this out to you guys and you know have you know this championship out there five rounds you know if you guys want to come into it and compete in one round maybe you want to compete in all five rounds you know that's up to you guys you know if you want to compete let me know you know shoot me an email or shoot me a message on Xbox saying you want to compete I'll get with you guys on you know when I'm doing the rounds round one will be here soon I'm looking forward to doing hopefully round one this week maybe this weekend with the holidays probably not during the week probably this weekend I'm gonna try to get it to a decent time where a lot of people can get on like I said if you can't make it and you wanted to compete and you missed the round you know it's not a big deal you know you can come into round two or three or four or five you know you don't have to compete in every round if you don't want to but you want to compete in every round we're trying to get as many people as we can to make this you know tandem competition like the like I called it the EVL Pro Drift Championship you know on the channel get you guys drifting with us you know get some good tandem battles going and such like you'll see some tandem battles here very soon in this because we did run basically four of us with qualifying I ended up getting top qualifying spot as well as MK6 got second qualifying and Hamster got third and stance got fourth so we ended up bracketing up in that way to running basically it came out pretty interesting at the end because it ended up actually starting raining and it kind of screwed a bunch of us up as you see here stance ends up spinning on his initiation so he gets a zero for that run but he did have points for his first run so he did actually get into the show because obviously we didn't have 30 like 33 drivers so so that's basically what I want to come to you guys explain to you guys the you know the rules on the cars like just a quick lowdown back on the rules cars must be rear-wheel-drive not all will drive with 100% bias they must have a full cage max tire compound of sport no horizon edition cars because those do not come with sport tires those come with horizon edition which actually are race tires no v12 swaps four rotors are okay maximum 1100 horsepower and the window banners and door stickers are a must unless it has a carbon fiber or glass roof or no roof if it's convertible so that's kind of a lowdown on the cars that's the only restrictions we have if you want to compete make sure your car complies with those rules that we set because we're all running those rules like I said most of us are running around 800 horsepower I have my s15 v8 supercharged it's running about 825 I believe isn't here I'm going for another qualifying run here I tapped that wall again good initiation there good on that outside clip coming in really nice on that inside clip but I believe I got I got pretty nice out on the touch and go came a little I was a little bit off that touch and go now I'm not as close as I could have been then I really curb hop that straightened up a little bit and curb hop that one but I did have a good qualifying run to begin with so that's what it is I'm gonna leave you guys with the rest of this video I hope you guys enjoy the tandem competition that we are doing so we're gonna get into our actual bracket runs now so if you guys like what you see don't forget to tap that like button subscribe to the channel I do appreciate the support as well as send me a message on Xbox ad me evil rabbit 07 add me on there join team it's on horizon it is an open team you're more than welcome to join EVL hashtag EVL on horizon 3 if you want to find it so I hope you guys enjoy this if you guys want to join in I'll let you guys know when round one is going to be so stay tuned to the channel to find out more when round one will be because I'll be announcing it on the channel in my normal daily uploads when round one's going to be I will also be giving you guys the track map layout for round one if you guys watch this video this is going to be round one this is the actual track map we are going to be running for round one so like I said I'm gonna leave you guys to the video enjoy and comment down below if you got any questions or you know maybe just want to talk to chat you know this is how I communicate with you guys back and forth if I'm not in open lobby with you guys so we're actually getting in the tandem battles here in the competition it's going to be mk6 versus hamster the two teammates actually got bracketed up with each other they're you know right there they're you know smoking their tires getting them warmed up because we are on sim damage so like I said I can explain more about sim damage in a later episode so enjoy the tandem battles it was kind of a shorter tandem competition we thought because the rain kind of screwed a couple of us over so let's get to the action I kind of did I kind of saw happening either he was going to get three or I was going to get two or like vice versa all right hamster you need to switch away no he's yeah he's got yeah and I'm first I'm so used to leading maybe alone all right oh you too red love allows me to lock my phone I know I love it all right I'm ready whenever you are all right guys first run here in round one of the evl project championship is between mk6 and who ate my hamster mk6 is gonna lead hamster is gonna give chase proximity and everything from the D style rules runs going clean start no need for a red flag restart both the drivers entering into the first zone decent proximity actually really good proximity by hamster mk getting out to that zone hamster was a bit of a straight now mk6 on a pretty pretty good chaseable run mk6 on a very good run hamster real in the middle towards the end of the run but a little bit of a deficit for hamster with that straightening up so mk6 is gonna have to have a pretty decent chase run and hamster is gonna have to throw a pretty much near perfect lead run in order to deficit that straight now unless mk does straighten out we may go one more time drivers are staged up again whenever you guys are ready make your second run mk6 with a little bit of an advantage going into this run both drivers initiating in hamster way out to that zone oh mk with a bit of a straight in there pretty much the same spot hamster straightened up in and hamster is looking pretty solid just like mk did on his lead run this is almost a mirror of the last run mk reeling him in towards the end so guys you guys pretty much mirrored each other's lead and chase so I'm gonna have you guys go one more time which is gonna be one more time between these guys you guys can't change your tires because mk straightened up in his chase hamster straightened up in his chase and both drivers had pretty identical lead runs oh and the rain starts oh fuck are we swapping rolls or oh yeah you go back to another one and run you go another lead and chase so one more time so mk will lead hamster will give chase we're gonna do another two runs for these guys and we are not there not a lot of change tires in that that's the only rule that we have implemented is you cannot change tires and now it is raining wherever you guys are ready make your run like how you had to zero one stripes thank you there they go lead and chase mk leading hamster giving chase entering into the zone a wide initiation by hamster but still able to somehow find the line nice follow a little bit of a curb hop by hamster mk on a very good run oh hamster on his door though the doors are real hamster an mks door that entire run that was a good chase a little bit of a curb hop by hamster so he's got a very good very good follow run with a little curb hop so mk is gonna have to stay pretty tight on hamster in his chase which I feel is very possible give me one second he put back on music oh my palms are sweaty knees weak arms are heavy my shirt mom's brother brother alright whenever you guys are ready we are in a one more time battle tune you guys right now the score is pretty even from run one entering into the zone mk staying nice and tight on hamster hamster a little bit off that clip oh hamster with a little bit of a little bit of a break but oh hamster into the wall straightening up mk try and find the door as this yeah that is pretty much gonna go to mk taking that win with hamster hitting the wall and having to straighten up in his run so that is going to make mk advance into the semi-finals or finals actually we are in the final so now it is going to be stance and I in our runs what are my tires that isn't proper English all right I'm still good on tires gonna heat them up the rabbit using proper English yeah stance and all right I will get to lead first I'm not liking the fact that's raining I like how it started to rain for our started terrain and then after our initiation it stopped raining yeah so enter six and hamster pretty much going to be judges for minus dances run whatever judges are ready I am ready hamster would you like to follow stance and I will follow rabbit got it so stance and every you're ready make a little roll off all right we are under way for our second round stall from stance gonna have to work to catch up to rabbit rabbit with a good line getting out to that outer clip zone and into the second zone stance has fun out giving rabbit a big advantage going into his chase stance I can do this with the rain Jesus I know the rain is I'm like feathering my car normally I'm just in but now I'm just feathering it that's bad you're leading now stance gotta make sure it's a neutral yeah we're times all right judges are ready rabbit when you're ready go ahead and do a bit of a roll-off stance so stance can start going we are off the second go around to stance kind of a bit of a straighten up there ooh major straight enough from stance rabbit with a bit of a curb hop but he had to avoid hitting stance there stance like he's having all sorts of car problems right now rain is definitely not helping the situation as long as rabbit doesn't spin out he's good yeah that was so hard not to spin out wow okay and and our finals will be mk6 in the c5 versus evil rabbit in the s15 so before we go into that we will do the battle for a third which will be stance boy and hamster my tires up yeah after the two runs you are allowed to re-repair your cars yes you just cannot repair in between one more time battles as we had 30% wear so yeah you don't really wear much in the rain I was at like 20% when we started that one more time oh man all right so with hamster having the higher qualifying run he will get to lead first maybe maybe there won't be a third place run gives the cars will be damaged all right and they could technically call a competition timeout if they needed to but yeah all right you guys ready battle for third yeah it's make a roll off whenever you're ready mk mk and I are judging this a little bit of a hit me a little bit of a late entry by stance whoa hamster I am pretty good line a huge straighten up for stance stance having all the issues in the rain that car is not very happy in the rain as long as hamster doesn't spin out he has a huge advantage in this run hamster across the line yeah I can't stand his spun out stance we found stances kryptonite is rain I'm hoping it dries up before the finals I would love for it to drive up all right stance be awesome you will lead this time and hamster will follow hamsters pretty much just got to do a very decent case run not not with you know inactive chase where he's too far behind he's got to do a decent style chase but not spin out so whenever you guys are ready make a run battle for third hamster taking a very cautious and wow hamster taking a really big flick entry and stance already hitting the wall hamster having to shut it down behind him not to hit him but back into drifting stance is not having good time in the rain here hamster throwing on the pressure even though he doesn't really have to he's gotta be careful he does not spin out but I do not think that's gonna happen so that's gonna get hamster hamster that third place stance is gonna take fourth but since there's only four he will get some points it for the overall championship I'm pretty sure he'll be doing some more tuning on that car to make that car handle a lot better maybe for the rain I am definitely gonna repair my car now before this pair the car it is going to take forever for us to warm up our tires in the rain I'm letting you know this now oh wait I should start recording because both of the guys who were recording are running yes let me open up to which I'm recording if you want I just follow him I don't know how to say the broadcast I can't figure that out exactly well you have to have it set up before you broadcast ah well how do you set that up settings like we said you know what in the settings it's under settings it's yeah it's archive you click it you click save my archive we're having a dance drift battle in the burnout box I save my heart what it says archive broadcast no you do yes archive yes you can download them later oh hello it isn't you have one view I gotta do the thing no you're a dead very good the thing oh yeah I did the thing okay all right final run here between MK69 the rain did not stop nope all right we are doing a formula drift kind of like Long Beach where all the competitors that are running the rain oh boy so this should be interesting between MK6 and rabbit all right those drivers are ready judges ready you ready MK as he rolls off and we are on to our first run of final round looks like rabbit oh MK has to do a little bit of shallow oh strains up just a ton trying to keep off of rabbit rabbit pulls away just by a few hard lengths MK pulling off a shallow shallow entry just to keep up with rabbit but strains up one more time and a little bit from rabbit but I that's not really how I really didn't huge advantage going into the next round as long as he does not stream up and has pretty flawless chase run he should be fine I love how on your screen I straighten up but on my screen I was still completely sideways I was sideways my screen your time straight well we'll see how this is rain sucks MK it really does I mean if you'd like to wait until it dries up I you know we'll both have better runs it'd be a better show all right judges ready well it's been fun y'all yep there is two guys as you can see their MK6 ended up spinning out in the final round giving me as long as I finished my run the win overall in this round in this little test round we did it ran out pretty good unfortunately the rain kind of screwed us a little bit but we will be running in the rain in the competition if it happens so if you guys make a tune or whatever make sure it can drive in the rain practice in the rain you know it played havoc on MK and it played havoc on me as well I tried ever I was sawing at the wheel and feathering the throttle trying not to spin out so I said guys if you guys want to join this EVL pro drift championship add me on Xbox live EVL rabbit 07 just like my gamer tag in the game obviously add me up and join in the EVL pro drift championship like I said follow all the rules for the cars and you know everything will be good as long as you're cool cool with the rules and the car complies you know you're more than welcome to you know compete you know I'd like to get some more people out here and get some more people competing and you know maybe have you know a huge bracket of people so like I said as you know you just follow me on Facebook twitch Twitter and Instagram all of what you found in the description box below I'd like to thank you guys for watching I hope you guys enjoyed this little glimpse of the EVL pro drift championship until next time guys I'm evil rabbit I'm out


Explosions Can't wait to see what happens this week last episode was a doozy this episode particularly haunting from what I've understood just from the Opening zero zero zero zero image. I'll give you a small glimpse. There it is terrifying. Don't know what it means So we're gonna find out.  How's this busy gonna kill?  They hear them crying What's the rest of those lyrics doesn't matter on help. Yeah, so last episode was all crows of bastards We had spy rows are bad. What are we all that guy trans vestite?  Apparently. That's what has just been deduced Like as like some people that's just going along with it I was like, are we the only people who just never acknowledged that that happened Was it stated that it was done by bad crows or was it just the crows? I don't know cuz my assumption cuz we don't know I thought the guy was just wrongfully convicted not that the crows Framed him specifically to get away with it themselves.   I mean they did it in the boys So I feel like this is just another step forward another show. I have the shows do it. Why not? I can't wait for them to do it in the next haunting series. Hooray. It'll be amazing I don't know if there's anything else for us to really talk about everything is so crazy. Yeah Yeah, nothing I got nothing. Is everything with the they still haven't done anything with miracle blood, have they? No, oh miracle. We are the flower tonight The kryptonite wound as well. Yeah, it's glowing. No one cares. Yeah, I think we had Mary. She found out about it Yeah, but she didn't have that much like oh no wounds She didn't notice it was glowing in pulsing It was weird because in the scene where she was put in the thing on it It seemed as though it wasn't it's like the one time it didn't pulsate green It was just it's not doing its thing because then when she took it off later It's like oh, no, they had to they have to keep the budgets down on these not as many people are watching Oh the bats the toxic bats did we get a payoff yet for cuz remember that was the episode I think oh They got blown up in the bus. Yeah, but I thought the the infa no, sorry It wasn't the bats. It was the it was whatever Alice gave thingy to spread through Remember when we were talking about how there was a worry that that might play into something later No, no, I don't remember that. Oh, we definitely did We I remember I suggested she might use some kind of mind control. I was trying to go a little extreme and Fringy was like Oh, no The potential and it could happen.  Yeah I mean again from this opening frame excitement abound I'm with that. I guess I'm ready to start watching. How about you guys?  I guess. Yeah, let's do it Let's check it out. All right, then go Patient a is a ten-year-old logitech web cam. Yeah, I was about to say We discovered 72 hours later that it also cured his stage for leukemia. Oh my goodness gracious Why did Mary not mention this sooner? Why hasn't Mary done nothing about it really that the way why they got why they got to be white blood cells Let me avoid this because it would be catastrophic to the wheel building to release something that cures disease We're gonna cure leukemia, but the only camera we could afford for a research was a logitech I guess the only way this can work is if it doesn't work.  How did I even try to relax you she's talking to the webcam for help We can't replicate it so try again. Yeah, keep trying man. Yeah, that's a ton of people with yeah We're supposed to test it on mice and stuff in that the process. Yeah Well, it came from somewhere, right? What's up that follow? Really think someone's gonna just hand over the secret to a miracle cure.  Oh my god It's dead space You didn't hear the door don't we got a fixed up not at the moment. I'm afraid What where's the other guy doing oh, he's back now, how did you do that? We're having an episode right now There is a cure for you.  He's not stop. Wow Just take the suit away for fuck's sake. This is what I mean. Yeah, just Defibrillating stunner or something. I need to sit Luke down and be like so you're letting a fugitive Just use the bats. You can't breathe any better with that off. Yeah, I would say the mouth isn't even covered I Also, they didn't show it, of course Look, it's a drug dealer. Yeah, so it's an ex-con on parole. He's using the bat woman's suit strictly by force Like that's the situation we're in. Oh, well, actually, I'm not her attending Oh, actually, have you heard of a little issue in your medical community called implicit bias?  You're so amazing.  She had drugs and everything in the last episode I want to help people Jesus Had it a couple of months Oh my god, it's Mary. Why would you go? I want to talk first thing cuz it's kryptonite related woman a spider My work stock room. Do you want to be cured or do you want to lie to the doctors? Yeah, the doctors can't help you if you don't tell them what caused it run some tests or something Run some tests her insurance doesn't cover any blood work. I'll cover it then. Why do you just pay with money? Isn't she a billionaire? Just use money if you don't have insurance then just use your money like who's paying me more first fine's way sources So much wrong about woman can't get money from the Wayne estate. Who's controlling the money of the Wayne estate I'm gonna say if Kate can see it shortly. She can steal it.  I'm a botanist I work alone. I keep to myself. I'm a botanist. I thought you're an assassin I guess you moonlight is a button assassin She's he's poison ivy a man. Is everybody at the Sophia place botanist then I guess The flower like this occult that worships the old queue of flowers, right?  I don't care about you Yeah, like you started this season with her murdering an innocent person Instantly like as a reflex to remind us. I'm curious like if I could ask the writers What do you want us to feel about Alice like what are you going for?  I tried to leave with one of her precious flowers. I thought I could grow That's a cry I don't see how you couldn't just leave an island. I got busted and She exiled me. You tried to leave so they exiled you.  It's not a broad amnesia It's literally she's edited the memories so that they remember leaving with the rose, but not together The whole plan involved just themselves and not each other I bet that's just some other magical power the flowers have is as selective amnesia I was gonna say semi-permeable memory loss just straight-up magic. How do you the universe has magic in it? So the Napier's a fake what? What I did the forager to a 30-something male in Gotham. They're getting there. He says it's a good chance Ocean ocean is the forager, but he's a botanist So he's a botanist and an art forger and an assassin Is this a plan somehow is this on purpose well, they've done it I was actually waiting for this to happen. Wow again. How did you orchestrate? Well, how did you know that they would be going down this? It was the crazy guy?  What are the odds of that? It's a main street. I'm looking for her supplier goes by ocean Never heard of him. Angelic has you don't have to ask her anything once. This is within range of her cell It'll install an invisible high-frequency generator receiver app Okay What if I have another You say that with such a straight face. Yeah, it's kind of presser.  I love the idea of her calling out an ethical procedure in terms of stopping crimes Yeah, it's great.  It's glorious.   Not for God.  Yeah, a little bit Don't Hamilton used on the bat toxin. So where is it? She doesn't know anything about it either. I know literally everything about it See Jacob Trump put his leg up No, no, it's nice touch is old. Yeah, that probably wasn't in the script. He just thought to do it He's trying to help this show out Mine just all the time in this show Would you believe me?  Well, once it's been extracted from the second bloodstream. It loses its cure to properties.  I was about to say she said a second bloodstream.  I think Catherine knew about it though, right? Oh my god What are you going to actually go to a doctor not just like visit one for a check No, like actually go to a doctor. That's what I meant when the they were like run some tests It's like there's nothing they Mary Mary's the one that could help you if anyone can by the way Well, yeah, you don't have to have a second You just get your blood from Mary like the idea that she went to queue up and then get a name in and then Realize you can't even pay for the like oh, I was so dumb. Just go to Mary You kept the plant.  It's your uniform For your new job at the hold up. It's a different kind of bad acting I guess it's like Kate was so much more stiff and I miss it Do you have any skills in this area or do we need to train you now?  She's probably actually an amazing bartender one of the best bartenders in the country You didn't get the word she deserved because she was gay Why can't we ever have stories about people who were just okay to good things that they do Excellent at everything. It's really boring. You're misrepresent. Remember when she fell over once she threw a battering wrong once I think oh, yeah, you may have defeated every single person.  She went to prison for her and do you remember what happened to her foster parent?  Please don't give her powers. Oh, I was really concerned during the first scene That's what was gonna happen when they had it happen Gosh, she's like a revision or something. Oh, she's doing it. Wait, is the you could do this at any time It's the implication that she only did this because they had the fight or if she was she gets to do it anyway No, the visions were real worry. They're in the medicine cabinet You couldn't have done this at any other time like at night It takes 12 seconds of your phone on her phone and you get it and it's done by the way Did we talk about how she rightfully did go to prison because there's no she said she was framed, right? She said she took So because I guess and I think this got straight to me because of J long bones review She took her drugs for her and then she was caught up by the police for like an arbitrary reason They would just be in dicks to it and then they found the drugs and so she went to prison for that Which is like, oh, that wasn't her going to prison for her. That's just circumstantial. I was gonna say she I mean That's just yeah, that's how low Yeah, if you have the drugs on you, I don't care if they belong to your friend you have them You're carrying them with you. The offense is that you have them. Yeah, yeah, even if you proved definitively that it was your friend It's like, I don't know what it's like.  Oh, that's the testing that did it.  It's like, why don't you just tell them? Okay? What Wow How many times has he been injured now Mary just lied to him to buy time say okay But you have to untie me and I have to have a computer and a laboratory and I need time Instead of just yelling no at him when he has a scalpel at Jacob. What is the guy want again? Do you want to cure the antidote?  Whatever.  Yeah For the catwick just say that whenever it mixes with somebody else's blood. It's neutralized or something Well, it's too way explanation thing that would have been great But it's too late because they've already established that it cured that little kid of everything Yeah, but it went in it went from her to the bat and from the bat to the kid But if it went from the bat to the kid to the kid to the adult then it remember the bat toxin was cured by Alice's blood Oh, that's right.  Yeah, is it bad that like I don't think Jacob can die in the show at all But I would Actually killed him though, and it better not be this guy. Yeah Two rubs up against my amygdala and Jesus Christ stop doing that. Jacob's from like always me. Oh, why do I always get hurt? It takes him what episode to fully heal I know Where Mary no, there's an island. No You can have all the cure that you want and you don't know and you didn't tell Jacob about the island Or just take a know about the island this again to go back to what you say before about the hole to have access to the Either the thing or the information of the thing and to keep it to yourself is almost just straight up evil Criminal evil. Mary has been like if we either of any of us had knowledge of it. We'd be excited.     Oh, I don't see. Oh, so this is like a a prop of mechanic. No, okay Whenever we touch each other.  It's the only way we can get our memories.  So it might work in this show I don't think there has been one like straight normal quote-unquote typical couple in this show Is luke Where is luke? Do they not have him for this episode? They had him earlier and they got him out of the way Oh, here. It'll be him. Yay luke's here. They're only good at the character He's been checked in all day. Why are you hiding that from him? You need help again? Yeah, I think they do it in awkward. She just doesn't trust them busy betraying my girlfriend So your crow soapy can make a drug bust.   Oh, it's not all bs. We need ocean to find kate. What does he have to do with kate? Other people are telling you that there's a lead between the two Now are you talking to alice? Yeah, right. So At soapy's condo the other day, she was there and when I showed up she put a gun on me And then you left and promptly caught 911 He just explained that alice is his way to getting kate back. So alice is his way to getting kate Alice is our only way to koreana. There you go. There you go. There you go. Also. I love this righteous indignation She's got when remember she told nobody about the kid snatching woman for entire life.  Mary everything good. I'm fine lukas. Just bring me the map. I'm not messing around She's never called me lukas Ever I like that Oh, no, it's the wound it's as green as your sweater How many times does this have to happen?   Then he was like she never calls me that. It's like oh, maybe they should probably set up a system like that if ever I'm trapped.  I'm not like an actual one. They agree on Do not care about this plot at all I don't care about you.    Yeah I was the most trained in the back lighting up the red light. Yeah, that's production value. Oh My bad. It's a light that turns on and off Did you hear that?  You're sick.  The correct. I honestly think that that was a chance for dialogue for her to be like that's Brilliant, you know like to have her appreciate another person's the horrible thing But nope what you carry that in a case Well, I guess you'd have to be right. What else is that? Is that what we do in this season? She's lost the butterfly dive. She has the switchblade instead Is that like the cool this from the kryptonite? You said you were fine.  What was I supposed to say after I begged to put on the suit Hey gotta take a sick day. No, that's no. Yes. That would have you that would have been something Getting injured. I would have been an improvement Getting injured like this was directly tied She would have to give up the bat soon if she said that she was ill, which is absurd No, and and it was an injury connected to the job.  Oh my god.  She's It's so much more the knife sound we got the knife sound even though she didn't pull it out from anything Wait, why is she deciding to do this now? Yeah, so what's gonna happen here?  Oh, thank god. Oh, thank god. It's sophie with a gun killing both I'm agent more with the crows. Where's the napier painting?  You brought backup, right? Sophie with the crows Yeah, show me the map. Whoa back away back away. Yeah get away. I can hate when they do that back away Uh You're serious we had this back-to-back with cruella. Oh my god Fire is magic. Oh, she's got the map. It's like actual cavemen. Please don't turn you back to where you just came from Wow, she went and she got the map successfully and she left Yeah, wow, you know for a fact that the plot needed her to if that's possible, you know, like Clearly that island has grown the only thing on this planet that has a shot at carrying me No, mary's blood Mary's blood, but also wouldn't mary's blood cure correct tonight's poisoning That's one way to find out. I got this.  We'll be really awesome as she turns around walks away things to knock over things to knock over What's up desperately plays as well. It was so obvious right there. You knew that Let me put this oh, do you remember um the cgi gloss that kk came broke in that one episode? Do you remember that it broke all wrong? It was funny. Hamilton doctors did this to you You said this happened five years ago. Yeah, my mom was ceo Then she would have never signed off on secret human testing.  Why is he so strong? Was she dead? Oh, that was clever. I swear to god. Jacob, please stab this guy to death. Oh god.  To be honest with you, Jacob probably should have bled out if this Oh, is bad woman gonna come in and save him? What?   How are you a martial arts expert? You've been a patient in a room for years Wait, no, you can't be serious. He's taking the map Oh Was that like some adrenaline? Oh, okay. All right Yes Oh, what? Who are you? Just a man looking for a man. Don't give it to him.  It's the doctor guy from the beginning Oh From his shoes Probably shouldn't have said for jacob and the others to go I guess Why didn't sophie take a picture of the map? Well, as soon as they leave as soon as they leave get him Actually, no get him. Go get him. Go run. You're bad bulletproof. Go get him There's loads of things wrong all at once Jesus christ man, because you're right. She would have taken a photo of it. Any normal person would have Ryan's made the street safer She's inspired the city Anybody in that suit can do that.   No, I hope so dad in the gut. Yeah, look he's gonna be fine Like a hospital bed. He's fine I have to ask sophie why she didn't take a picture of that map and email it to me immediately Do you think mom knew what they were Doing to that girl.  So maybe I know you're pissed about the clinic I'm shutting it down. Mary Why why would you do that? It's illegal. Yeah, but a lot of people in gotham can't afford health care in the Practical without a license impersonating a doctor possession of narcotics.  What's general can't say that I'm not questioning your passion or the good that you've done But did you not listen to what the man said? This is exactly how your mother started with good intentions and a lot of Disappearing lines in the sand. I actually like this Proud of me. She was conducting human experiments. Mary.  You finally pay attention to me Go ahead chastise if he's right. How many people died because of misdiagnoses in bad medication I liked you better when you acted like I didn't exist.  He's way better He must have forgotten for you.   Let me guess cops got you on the hook for something. Why would you think that? I don't know Ryan. Why would I think that? I don't know. Why would you have no idea? Okay, that that was a fun conversational cul-de-sac I take onto my phone. Oh, how do you know that? Oh that And so you just assumed she put it on there. Yeah, I did not have a choice I don't care about these characters.  Also, you could just explain the reason you tell her Yeah, I did it to keep you out of prison I am so sorry that you can't drug dealing peace. I am so Sorry, I cannot trust you. That's not even close. That's not even comparable I also I really do find it weird because it's like she did go to prison because of your drugs for a long time Like she surely has earned something from you the romances and the like relationships in this show Are so fake and artificial. It boggles the mind They just like they just follow the formula just yell at each other have sad music in the background Boom instant relationship drama. Just add water. I'm more than happy for them to be broken up. That's fine That invisible untraceable hacker It was I was it was wishful thinking to assume the last scene would be with jaco Oh, hi But what ocean's dirt? I'll need to see his body And I'll bring it and you'll just take a picture just cut off his head No, just what what is uh, he's gonna get up look at the frame.  What is this like a tracking night?  Oh, so who did you get this spot? So you killed?  Oh god this show. That was oh my god. That was amazing That was really bad. But it's probably my favorite jacob episode in the entire two seasons. Oh, yeah Yeah, I think so he said a lot of the things that we have said when covering this show Which is she's like, I save people's life and the cool thing is credit to the one scene for the dialogue writer He said i'm not questioning your passion.  Yeah, he's chastised for it Like the show shits on him the show is like you're wrong jacob. It's like no, he's right Absolutely right and this is a man who's just been stabbed twice. He's got into like a fist fight Do it his best in every way to get you out of there.  I want to be illegal And of course he's aptly pointing out like if if anything goes wrong and someone dies You're going to jail. She should be going to jail anyway, right? Well, she would anyway, i'm telling you like somebody died if you're like a doctor and you did the best you could and they died It's like, oh cool, but if you're not a doctor, it's like dude All all those people who got worse and died you didn't hear about them because they were dead and they couldn't come back And there is no recourse for them.   He's like, did you did you not hear? You can't just do anything you want I guess that's a problem with a lot of characters in the show. They just think they can do whatever they want It's like the show wants to be like, yeah, you know what jacob is Is that a the jacob just said everything that's all legal and should it be that way? It's like, yes Yeah I mean if you yeah, if you want to like talk about some of the finer points of this that and the other thing That's a separate conversation to have and it's also not up to jacob.  I'd be like, I think he might be right. Yeah I think I think he's right like you can't just pretend to be a doctor. That's fucked up Jacob is is the best character on the show. Luke is coming in at a strong second place though Well, well he occasionally buckles. Yeah, he buckles more than jacob does unfortunately But the thing is it's uh relative to the show too because the show thinks jacob is absolutely wrong Well, luke is only ever mistaken and then right I do like how that girlfriend character meant to feel bad for her But it's like it's really hard with these two because it's like you're both you both suck But but she didn't go to jail for you and you're there like getting mad at her It's like well went to jail for you for carrying your drugs. It's like I don't know It's hard to pick sides when I hate both of them and jesus christ the alice subplots like go away Ryan's Why is she so like indignant and self-righteous like when she has no reason to be Because the show treats her as being always like correct always regardless of context or situation or logic She's just always right in her Righteous indignation is always justified Like I really like jacob this episode even from a position of like you you handled him really well that whole kick thing You're highlighted Then the fact that I think he tanked the two hits and even told her that he's trained Like this is something he could handle paid while so it which you could argue is something that May or may not be some level of true in terms of handling pain But also just to reassure his daughter that he's not gonna die like I like that. That's good And then of course the um the battle he does the second that uh batwoman takes over He starts untying his daughter instead of like assisting the battle ever because he's got that's his priorities Then mentioning that he wants to save his soldier as well.   Yeah, so you have to protect that fire You have a responsibility I would say the interesting part though is the um him throwing that to her drops the scalpel right next to Mary's first like that's lucky the map comes away from her when I thought she had the strap like Down and diagonal and that's just i'm turning around and then of course her gun's gone too And then he he pushes her into a wall and that knocks her out. It's like Damn that whole scene is just so strong. Yeah, I don't know pat woman everyone Of all this drama is coming from the fact that mary pretends like she can't blood let to save the world That's just something we haven't addressed yet, and I guess we never will well It seems like the plot line is going to be all about going to that island to get the um Yeah, I think we knew that was where the finale was going to be the first time We saw that they'd rent it out of villa for shooting six though and they have they have like that's oh I guess they have to get the map now. Don't they well. How many episodes do we have this season? I remember they said that nine were filmed and they're filming the rest now So we'll I think nine is going to be the finale Half season finale. I guess uh, yeah filming best. They're currently filming. Yeah, dude Sophia could be dead by episode died for we do Yeah, this show you never know because they killed off ned flanders way sooner than I thought any of than any of us thought they would Yeah, it's really bad. Uh Yeah, I got I got nothing else. I hate the relationship between ryan and and girlfriend.   Yeah, she's just insufferable I remember we got that we we haven't seen the the else worlds episode that she was in before Infinite crisis so technically there is kate came batwoman content out there that we haven't seen yet And I almost want to just hold on to it forever that we haven't seen it cherish it Yeah, I can only see us doing it for like some kind of special. It's like welcome back kate Because there was that thing that she got removed from like the promotional image for uh, the justice league Or whatever they call it get she was in the original and they've just sort of airbrushed her out They're denying history everyone. They're deleting her Which as I saw a viewer Honestly point out do you guys remember with the episode where we found out she when she was gay and the um They removed the fact that she came first Like I think it was a shooting range thing and then the show Like proudly proclaimed she turned up to that drunk and she still beat everyone there. We were all like wow That's incredibly dangerous.  Yeah, she must have really pissed them off Well, they pissed her off to just erase her from the history of the show Basically, like she was never even there like for the promotion for the show Yeah, no way. Yeah, there's no way they did if that's what this is what's happening She had to get spinal surgery because of an injury on set, right? Yeah.  Well, I mean, you know when it comes to you know If I got a spinal injury at a job, I'd be I probably wouldn't want to be there.  Also. Here's a lot of money Sweet in the pot. But yeah, Batwoman episode six season two wonderful One of my favorites actually that was kind of one of my favorites to watch It was really easy to chew on in terms of like we could tell what was happening And it was really easy to criticize because it's yeah, it was really obviously bad And then there was some stuff that was obviously good or obviously consistent anyway Yeah, all righty catch you next time folks. Yeah, see everybody later Hooray next time Belch We have been waiting for a doctor for two hours. Oh, actually, I'm not her attending. Don't raise it. Why'd you bring me?