up here we should be coming in live we're hosting action for a song so let's see if that's kicked then it has it has awesome hi everyone this is chicho welcome to my channel and welcome to another comic book reading halloween special part two we're going to read a horror comic book from the golden age of comics that we decided on at war though how are you doing speedy gums Alice you're in awesome gang today is october 31st 2020 halloween in the can the united states europe i believe as well well it's halloween everywhere i guess right and this holiday is different cultures have a version of this holiday in in iran uh bush khabzani they call bush khabzani to a certain degree where you put all you do you sort of dress up as ghosts it's not really ghosts it's sort of when we did as a kid you put a sheet everybody just wears sheets over their heads and they go around and they bang uh spoons on a pot or utensil on a pot and then people come out and they give you candies and you collect candies so it sort of exists in different versions in different parts of the world so here it's very you know taken from the pagan rituals charl how are you doing hope you're doing well looking forward to these readings the horror by the way let me let me do a little correction from yesterday right we read this one web of mystery yesterday right and i looked back here and i said oh this is i graded this is 2.0 2 2.5 to 3 and small piece missing from the cover i'm like yeah no kidding and then i realized that this one and this one that i have a strike over the description of what's here are actually there were my large for a couple of other golden age comics that i had so i crossed them up because these weren't the descriptions or the grade of these ones so i'm going to do a little correction on this and this was when we did the reading for web of mystery yesterday this thing the covers the tash both the front and back covers the tash the comic is in whole whole condition the pages are nice right it's it's not white pages it's off-white it's you know browning pages and whatnot and just chipping on it and stuff but i just want to write the description here because that way i won't forget so i would grade this uh 1.5 to 1.8 you know good fair good good minus and covers detached covers okay that way i know so i would have crossed the sophomore legit that way i don't make the same mistake again first blood elder god how are you doing hope you're doing well hope the thing that you get went well but politics on politics streams right so this was a great read this was a fantastic read we did yesterday really i loved it these golden age comics some of these golden age comics because they tell what's what how what's really going on with modern age comics modern age comics now tell a series of stories uh i'm still in burma you're still in burma actually i don't know they tell a long story some of the stories that they tell you know they take three comic books four comics six count twelve comic books their stories being told that are taking like 30 30 issues to tell a lot of the golden age comics they were standalone stories so it's really beautiful just reading standalone stories uh and they're deep right jina how are you doing jina hjo and chat happy halloween happy halloween what are people dressing up as good day rafa live how are you doing right so it was really nice just reading a complete story and yesterday um i guess we decided we're gonna read tales of horror that was uh tales of mystery or web of mystery number 10 this is tales of horror number 10 and this is 1954 unless people want to read something else but uh i pretty much have my heart set on this now after reading that one the golden age books i love uh i should just you know there's so many comic books coming out i buy both gold silver brown i buy all ages right uh but i should just spend my time just buying golden age comics just for a year just to build up the golden age comic book collection uh because they're brilliant and i obviously i have more modern age than golden age uh well it's not obvious some people collect what you know they got all golden age right but it is sweet it is sweet getting these things um and having a read through history and the types of stories that were being told right aside from that while wait for people to roll in let me tell you guys what this is all about i am on i am on patreon patreon.com forward slash chico chy cho if you want to support this work patreon is a great way to do so i don't put anything about paywalls everything's creative commons share and share unlike and for those of you who've been supporting this work through patreon thank you very much for the support it is in large part because of your support that we're able to do this we are live streaming on twitch twitch.tv forward slash chico live chy cholive if you want to participate in these live streams you want to be a twitch okay and for those of you who are 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to read the last seven page story for a web of mystery i'd like to make sure we finish this book okay too slow yesterday too slow yesterday to get to her reading but we looked at some amazing covers and talk some comic books right so that's great starsky how are you doing it's been a long day has it been a long day my day well i get up early so it's late morning for me how's it going to you to doing good starsky looking forward to today um i it's just it's been nice and sunny i'm gonna go for a walk after this i haven't done a walk for a while i'm really busy and i mentioned i might do a comic book reading tomorrow i don't know we're like 10 probably i'll do a comic book reading tomorrow i'm gonna take care of the the garden that we have our patio the leaves have fallen down there's a lot of work to be done and i've been neglecting everything i'm focusing on live streams and stuff i've been doing good i like busy uh busy keeps me happy i wasn't proud was awesome i was up from 3am 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uh like when i loaded up the video the reading we did yesterday on the web of mystery number 10 i let it loose this morning both on pitchute and youtube lonely piggy how are you doing what's up when i let it loose on youtube and pitchute on youtube youtube we have like 32 000 subscribers right on pitchute we have 257 in the first hour we had the same number of views on the pitchute video as we did the youtube video so i'm assuming this weekend is a quiet weekend right and youtube sensors and filters are kicking in hard and and whatever it is right uh so uh it's a quiet weekend so i don't think there's going to be too many people uh coming on to the live stream everyone's busy and there's a lot of chaos going on uh so we're gonna have a nice quiet read youtube it's nice yes boris is forecasting the weather i see a store of hot tears oh my god gang i'm gonna take down our notifications okay and i'll give you guys the intro to the comic i'm gonna take down the chat i'll be back after the 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horror book a horror mystery book and it was fantastic great read and during that live stream we decided that we were going to read tales of horror number 10 from 1954 today uh two comic book readings sort of back to back in honor of halloween okay and this comic book let me tell you who the creators of this comic book are this is from toby press okay and man quinn ac it doesn't say toby press here but it's got the you know the bat here showing it right it says tales of terror terror and this guy i'm not sure what it says i want to take it out of the mylar so we lose the glare on this thing but the artists for this are the cover is ben brown and the inks is david gnats okay and ben brown and david gnats have done the pencils and the inks for all the stories except the last story in this and the last story is george oleson that uh did the artwork for this okay and uh this is a sought after series this is a sought after series okay and uh the tales of terror they put on an omni bus of i'm not sure if it's the complete stories or a few of the stories then and the cover they use for the omni bus that i saw is actually this cover tales of terror number 10 now let me take this out and the one thing i did was in yesterday's stream uh we have that we have that comic book in mylar as well let me grab it so we had this we did the reading for this uh in yesterday's comic book stream and both of these i have in mylar i had written down descriptions but i had crossed them out now after we read this reading i realized the description in the grade wasn't consistent with this so this thing back here was the grade that i had on a previous comic book that was in here so basically i regraded this thing that way i know what it is it's 1.5 to 1.8 and the covers are detached for the web of mystery number 10 but the comic book is in isn't pretty good condition so we read the whole thing okay and this one it says it's 2.5 to 3 foreign spine spells it's up but this is the wrong description so we'll figure out what the grade for this is when we crack it open and i'm pretty sure it's like a 2 i think the covers are still attached if i'm not mistaken but we'll find out mylar grabs onto the tape so let's crack this open yeah i would grade this a 2 2.5 maybe it's pretty uh it definitely has a tear so i would yeah i would grade this as a 2 2.5 the covers are attached which is fantastic and the pages are brown browning or brown okay and uh there isn't any huge chunks missing you know it's got the usual wear and tear of a two the comic book graded to 2.5 but i like it that the covers are still attached and i would give this a 2.5 maybe a beautiful cover a and c i'm not sure what the a and c stands for pick it up it's not able to us too mino mino and magazine mino and oh it's like minotaur look at that cows with the horns on it right and mino mino on magazine that's cool tails of terror very nice very cool and uh the the cover for this was uh let me bring it up again it was uh ben brown and david gnats did the cover for this beautiful let's have a read through this let's take a look what this is all about right to be gentle with this what are the advertisements we got start a fine business in spare time run the best shoe store business in your town it's interesting there was a we've seen a fair bit of ads from the golden age of comics for shoes you don't invest a cent everything furnished free so they sent you the product and they want you to sell it 1954 over 150 fast selling styles for men and women don't delay sent for free outfit important now you can fly a real jet plane us air force jet x f102 what is this it's a paper uh paper jet right cut out that's definitely you can see it's a cut out right or model anyway the way they've drawn it special offer if bought in the store jet jet x number 50 engine would cost a dollar 95 the jet x f102 95 cents a total cost of $2.90 rush the coupon and you get both the jet x f102 and the jet x number 50 jet engine for only $1.99 plus postage and handling charges cash on delivery cod includes fuel includes fuel supply the same to fuel as well that's what so this is the jet engine that they're selling check it out little jet engines amazing jacks number 50 jet engine the world's smallest jet engine and the most powerful engine of its size ever sold operates at a jet exhaust speed of 800 miles per hour runs on solid fuel start every time completely reliable no moving parts to break or wear out can be used to power model airplanes racing cars and boats no moving parts or how legit these were how legit these things were here's the web of mystery where's our fine print oh here's our fine print let's read our fine print gang we gotta have a read through these fine prints tales of horror number 10 april 1954 published bi-monthly by toby press incorporated 17 east 45th street new york 17 new york mel Lazarus art director benton j resnick general manager application for entry as second-class matter is pending single copies 10 cents subscription rate 10 issues for $1 in the united states and um and possessions and possessions united states possessions wow elsewhere dollar 50 copyrighted 1954 by toby press incorporated the story's names characters and incidents and institutions mentioned or portrayed in this periodical accepting those who have authorized the use of their names herein are entirely imaginary and fictitious and no identification with actual persons living or dead is intended or should be inferred printed united states the one thing uh interesting what this is i don't think we've ever read this little disclaimer uh you know the characters portrayed in this periodical comma except those who have authorized the use of their names herein so i don't think we've ever read that little parts for for the fine print for the intros to these things maybe that's one thing that ace publications or toby press was doing ace was a web of mystery here's uh the papers bent over so i'm gonna sometimes there's a no-no doing this beautiful we're gonna just start reading it right away again let's get into the reading and i believe this comic is completed i hope so anyway i hope so anyway the first story and this is signed as well brown and gnats purple claw mystery they could call it the valley of horror i a name it deserved by the number of victims mysteriously slain in its craggy canyon craggy canyon then came the purple claw to test this blood-chilling reputation only to be trapped herself himself by the deadly spider of the web the purple claw inspiring inspiring symbol of man's struggle against the power of supernatural evil given to dr jonathan wean weir by a grateful african witch doctor for stopping an epidemic that threatened to wipe out his congo village its strange powers to combat the horrors of the beyond were never tested more solely than when i when it stood between dr weir and the blood curling threat of the web of horror the valley of horror is no true valley but the size of a craggy range system in the italian alps fame for its climbing trails all right and so it's safe to ascend this tourist must be a stranger to the valley of horror for he whistles to himself as he walks along happy not a thought in his head of disaster or horror suddenly the pass is blocked gas blocked but not with rock or stone or timber but with silk silk so strong it cannot be ripped silk too tightly woven no air penetrates its fabric i can't breathe i can't rip the web i'm trapped help help the voice is muffled within the gasamir thin gasamir thin webbing but no help arrives on the contrary gasping for breath and weakened by his frenzy struggle to free himself the man is is no match for the triumphant beast who closes in for the kill by the time his friends reach the scene isn't that italo hanging in that spider web what could have happened look black widow spiders let let's get out of here oh those are all little spiders running towards them they're being overrun we can't they're all around us enzo they're all over us kill them their bite is death kill them oh these guys are screwed and these guys are in trouble right away oh what a way to go it's no mercy it's no use their arp gas enzo i can't keep them off spiders all over as the dying man draws his last last shattering breath a monstrous shape appears on the grag above a smile of amusement hovers around his atrocious maw a gleam of triumph shines in his eyes that evening as a donkey car climbs slowly along a road that along a valley road how far are we from the hotel now another two miles sig senior i have taken the long route the webs have not yet appeared on this path webs driver what webs webs of horror senior webs of destruction and death large enough to catch men and kill them as if they were flies webs that must be spun by the devil himself so that's why my friend italo asked me to meet him here he said he thinks there's something supernatural about this valley supernatural what could it be probably something connected with these webs italo is a scientist who usually laughed at the occult he believes the supernatural is just primitive folklore or peasant superstition but he is wrong i have seen these webs with my own eyes and what they have done may a merciful providence spare us from their devil's work i agree with you friend i do not scuff at mystery mystery mysteries science cannot explain perhaps italo has changed his mind i think italo is dead look out the donkey is caught in something oh the donkey is caught in the it's the web we're trapped in the web men have said that victims struggled until they they are exhausted and can no longer fight the doom that came upon them they're right this is no ordinary spider's webbing it shuts out the air its webbing is like steel we are doomed we'll never get out she says no my own power no but i've got something to combat supernatural devilry my purple claw oh this guy carries the purple claw five thousand years of man's terror of the unknown is wrapped up in this gauntlet all the power of witchcraft of secret incantations is concentrated in its mystic fabric like electrifying or something it will do its work as it's always done purple claw destroy this web destroy it and let us escape from it it's ripping the web to shreds she says passing through we are safe they broke the webbing apart this i have never seen before the guy says are there other such claws that one may be protected against the powers of the devil unfortunately this is the only object of his kind in the world i wish italo had been here he would not so easily scuff at the supernatural least of all that web how does it get get here who spins it no spider in existence can weave one one that large i do not know the answer i only know this is my last trip through the valley of horror without your purple claw my wife would be lighting candles to my memory later at the hotel your friend went out with two companions they should have returned hours ago we fear the worst senior i speak not not not of rocks lives or falls i know the web give me some torches and a guide i'll try to i'll try to find him an hour later in a canyon pass dead both of them they're a horrible sight each must have bitten a thousand times by black widow spiders look what lies ahead lies ahead italo caught on the web he is dead senior like the others his blood must be completely sucked out of his body that night at the hotel investigation is useless senior the police cannot fight crimes that we see the police can fight crime criminals that we see but how can we fight the unknown speaking of fights the dr talo uh chiasi make any enemies here well i hesitated to say that baron baron lateral became dr she chiasi's enemy but the two of them did fight last night over the countless arachini over countless arachini when she invited the doctor to her castle this afternoon that's where they say he was going when he was trapped by the web later when there when weird weird begins to talk to the baron i understand that you are third cousin to the countess arachini arachini that you love her and insanely jealous of her is this true acne that's what it is countess arachini someone on the live stream is correcting me thank you bitstorm arachini that's what it is who are you to ask me personal questions i have heard that dr chiasi is dead serves him right for daring to walk through the valley of horror chiasi was a fool i warned him about the superstitions that black widow spiders abound in the region that many men died mysteriously in giant webs he laughed at me you fought with him him over the countess you were heard threatening him he says what if i did what does that prove i've had enough of your stupid questioning let me pass not till you give me a minute minute by minute account of your were boss this afternoon he asks you'll let me pass or i'll kill you the word kill comes too naturally to your lips lateral i thought that dr chiasi invited me here for a simple holiday mountain climbing maybe i was wrong maybe he was looking for something you didn't want him to find work don't be a fool lateral drop that knife you will die for this he says you are so vicious that people will think you're guilty of something countess smack kicks him countess ha the baron has reason to be jealous ha ha an interesting knife baron it has a spider crust on it naturally the countess says the baron is a member of the arachni family arachni means spider ha ha wow she's like heavy smoker look at the puff i carry the spider crest on everything i wear or use my my compact my cigarette case my clothing you must visit me at the castle you will see the crest on everything she says thank you i expect accept your invitation he says let's hope you have more luck than that unfortunate doctor chiasi i heard about his dreadful dreadful accident terrible isn't it she says from the spider's point of view no from my point of view i shall not rest till i have vengeance for his murder well vengeance she asked you speak as if as if human beings not spiders are responsible for these deaths only human only humans murder not animals beasts exist my countess who are neither animal nor human like human they kill not for gain as the jungle beast does but for evil suddenly help those birds they attack me she says i never seen anything like this these mountain birds never attack human beings wonders they're gone how how strange it's as if you were their natural prey if i were a spider i could understand but look at me she says why should a bird think i was fair game animals have an instincts far deeper than man's as you say countess it's a mystery says the following morning as dr weir took the path to castle arachne strange strange people those arachnese they traced their lineage back to me medieval ages the age of witchcraft even took their family name for the spider that infested the valley those medieval families were just as superstitious as savages they had animals animal fetishes some worship unicorns some crocodile and snakes the arachne must have developed a spider called that gas i can't breathe the purple claw it's you it's use it i use it as i did yesterday gasp it's gone i've lost the purple claw a minute passes a ghastly suffocating minute weird collapses gasping for breath it's the end i'm trapped i'll never get out the monster approaches his prey but as he does lateral your stupid your stupid jealousies have interfered with my plans for the last time you've killed every man who looked at me the countess says i'm getting rid of you once and for all die lateral die no no that's it lateral change upon a death the monster is transferred back into the man weir will awaken to find your corpse but he will never solve its mystery that shall be our secret hey lateral i have waited long for the embrace of a man this time i shall not be cheated by a jealous fool who imagines he is in love with me i am a woman i shall love like a woman but when weir comes to lateral dead stab to death but who killed him who slashed the web who gasped the compact there's a spider chest on it a half hour later in the upper chambers of the arachne castle at last the countess arachne has who dwells alone in the stone prison has a guest a handsome guest she says your compact countess i found it beside the corpse of lateral i'll exchange it for something of mine she says or he says i bet you i know what it is and there's the the little box i guess the purple claw you stole it from me when i protect when i protected you from the birds there was only one way you could appreciate its value its magic you saw it destroy a web of the on the road leading to the hotel yes i saw what it did without the claw you're defenseless i'll i'm tossing it into the into the into the moat she's got it right there in her hand too look at that brought you here to taste my embrace weir now you fool since you know so much you shall taste my venom she's spinning a web around me like a spider look at that spider i am a spider i can transform myself into one at will spider size or giant size like this i've got to get the purple claw he says or things oh she threw it out already oh she was hanging it look at that she was hanging it out the window that's what that is and that's where it is it fell into the moat brethren spiders i summon you slay that man slay him it's floating on the surface of the moat he jumps he puts it on speeding on zalista quickly bobbing out from under the web dr rear dawns his claw it's her or me i'll zap zap the thread ye now to destroy those black widow spiders every one of them so it's just electrocuting them i guess zapping the purple claw is killing all of them good riddance heaven knows how many men they've destroyed but as weir rose dripping wet from the moat he saw dead he saw a dead woman beautiful beyond description floating in the water like everything evil she is beautiful only in death now she will remain changeless eternally and peace can come at last to the value of horror thanks to the purple claw they're both from the same family someone on the on the live stream was mentioning i found it funny when he first uses the purple claw check this out it's on his left hand someone pointed out it's a left hander and then it switches to the right hand it's a right hander and then it goes to the left hand again it's a left hander right and then someone mentioned there was a magical claw so it switches so it was funny when was that on what hand was it when he used it here over here is on his right one right right hand right hand and right hand cool happy halloween everyone happy halloween this is the purple claw again a purple claw mystery another purple claw interesting is there anything regarding a purple claw here this looks like uh it's the same guy this weir guy right there does he have the white hair up top no i don't see the white hair right maybe it could be and the cover is purple so maybe this is related to the purple claw we don't know should we read the next story let's read the next story the purple claw mystery the killer in the snow right and again brown and gnats signed looks like a nice little social gathering oh look at the back look at the window there's a monster there look at that let's see if this focuses oh there's a monster outside looking in the killer in the snow as best man i give you the bride and bride groom don and pita elkins and as maid of honor i say may they when they have they have more years of championship skiing but she's talking so it must be him and her maybe dr jonathan weir a guest at the weekend skiing party for dawn and peter peter pita elkins discovered that only the magic power of the purple claw was a match against the white murder against the white murder of the killer against the white murder of the killer in the snow white murder of the killer in the snow that horrible face in the window it's her that sees the face you must have been mistaken uh pret preta there's nothing here but i saw something like a huge snowman staring at us even that looks like a face now i'm pretty sure won't be that's too big preta darling a staring snowman really you're just too too love happy to know what you're saying you must believe me i saw it she says i wonder what preta did see see a little bit of uh melt of snow and uh this guy's like a detective i believe you preta i think you did see something oh thank you dr weir it was a snowman just like the one peter made before he died the memories of her first husband peter uh pally was too much for preta she burst into a storm of tears that quickly brought dawn to her side preta and i should never have come here dr weir it brings back too many bitter thoughts you see it was here in the in these very mountains that we saw peter fall to his death fred do you realize that outside of dr weir everyone in this room was here the weekend that peter died you're right agnes except that nobody but dawn and preta really saw peter fall the wind blows in dr weir i'm plenty scared where did this wind come from there wasn't the breath of air stirring a few minutes ago unless i'm sadly mistaken there will be work for the purple claw before the night is over he thinks i'm leaving now while the leaving is good in the rest if the rest of you had any brains you'd come along you're talking like a full fred grady better alive full than a dead husband dawn i'll get somebody from town to return these skis in the morning so long he's out of there that's it so fred would rather be a life full than a dead husband maybe he's got a point there dawn if you think so why not join him agnes agnes the husband's taken off he left the wife crazy look there it is again it it's preta snowman and he's after fred look at him go when he catch up to him he's dead stabbed through the heart with an icicle and dagger of ice there's a dagger of ice sticking out how many people were in this room oh yeah there was three guys it was this guy that took off right so that's the husband the husband didn't take off one of their friends took off had to check this out right that's the guy so this guy just got taken out fred was right we must leave now together that that killer in the snow won't take won't take after us after all of us later this is all wrong preta there's too much danger i only hope i can save you all from your own folly maybe i am wrong dr rear but i think it would be a greater folly to stay it looks like they all got skis on they got the ski poles poles and torches be careful one misstep here and we all can be buried in thousands of tons of snow there's the snowman look it's peter come back to haunt us to punish us that's the wife saying that her husband there's the wife the blonde hair is the husband guys in the front whoosh oh he's burying him with an avalanche crown out there all like snowed there's no escape he's going to kill us kill us all she says if there is no escape then there's only one thing to do that's for us to get him first rear says back at the lodge don don i'm so afraid don't go far away please we won't preta but we must track down and destroy that snow killer you can stay here alone and wait for the snowman to finish us off one by one preta but not me i'm not going to let those two men out out of my sight she says oh oh no agnes look out oh he looks back sees what's going on wasn't that preta crying out something has happened it sure has look down there come on let me go oh let me go help help oh look at all the snow on her she's frozen agnes agnes or you're right why don't you answer you'll find out soon enough don is frozen look at that is she she's dead frozen solid oh what a way to go fresta dagger of ice now fresta dagger of ice now this the snowman kills with his own element oh fresta a dagger of ice that was the guy that died before oh first a dagger of ice not fresta first a dagger of ice now this the snowman kills with his own elements and shall go out alone and meet the snowman face to face weird things either he or the purple claw shall win and the purple claw now is on the left hand it's no use dr. weir we're doomed only peter stood between dawn and me dr. weir so we killed him it was so easy we pushed them over the side of the cliff and left them to freeze to death agnes fred the others knew or guessed but did nothing about it to condone murder preta is practically as bad as committing it weir says so that's what happened they killed her ex-husband so she could be with this new guy and everybody knew it except weir you're talking too much preta we don't need any purple claw to help us not as long as we've got a gun yes yes don you're right let's go now and never come back to this horrible place if you know what is good for you dr. weir you'll forget all you've heard or seen tonight dawn preta don't go see your see don't you see your skiing in your skiing to your doom don't go he's warning them right on preta don't you see your skiing to your doom don't go weir says if i can only save them from themselves for the evil they did they must be punished but not by the killer in the snow he's skiing after them and the killer the snowman is chasing after them right so there they are skiing down the snowman is right behind them and weir is chasing chasing right behind as well dawn this is the same place we pushed peter i know and so does that thing thing in back of us the snowman is chasing us save us help oh they fall serves them right really i'm not afraid of you you're only a creature of ice and snow and the purple cloud will burn and sear you turning you back to water in a flash of purple flame the snowman vanishes forever now peter pally's revenge is complete preta his wife and don his best friend both whom betrayed him are within with him now for eternity in a tomb of ice murder mystery murder mystery what are the advertisements here that they were showing what are these complete birdhouse with bird care station only right and build bird care station only one dollar called the beautiful wild birds to you and make pets of them save 100 dollars quickly and easily with this automatic date and amount bank oh it shows you it's like a piggy bank but it has a you can sum it all up 25 cents a day keeps calendar up to date also total amount saved haha so i guess month means monday and then that would be the date and that's how much money there is right so it's got a counter for whenever you put a quarter in that's cool we haven't seen a piggy bank like that yet that's like high tech for 1954 maybe pretty cool pretty cool and a whole bunch of classified tricks magic novelties well for halloween let's read this classified tricks magic novelties cattle of 3200 novelties jokers tricks fund makers magic gadgets time savers hobbies models guns sporting goods jewelry camera optical goods etc sent 10 cents to johnson smith company department 712 detroit 7 michigan easy to play pan american band instruments let's go to the next story what do we got what do we got purple claw again look at that the purple claw i wonder if all of the this series tales of horror was purple claw related i don't know careful with this we don't want to tear that part out so purple claw story the third story let's check it out the serpent strikes and that's from the cover this is the feature story right and again brown and that's is the pose identical to the cover pretty much look at that the pose is pretty much identical to the cover if not exactly the same right see the two fingers in her eyes her eyes between the two what would that be right fingers right let's see if that's the case and that snake has the tongue out yeah it's got to be exactly the same image but that was just used for the cover right cool let's read what it says here too lovely and with windom ted redding's marriage to the exotic jungle born lyra lyra brought nightmares of snakes as well as heartbreak and thought the answer lay in modern psychiatry psychiatry but dr jonathan weir the wearer wearer of the purple claw knew definitely voodoo and black magic had brought the reptiles breathing clawing through and tormented nights i'll use in this reading we're rearing it was wonderful of you to come here with me this weekend dr weir i'm enjoying myself thoroughly so far and the redding's uh country home is a lovely place i know you think i'm being silly everyone else does because you dream of snakes no dreams can be many things rarity are they silly those are two people talking in the back there dr weir and and right there they're the two talking right coming out the door and these are the other two people there hey you two too lazy to join us perhaps and was too busy talking about snakes to the so nice and sympathetic dr weir to think about us she says lyra that's not fair so maybe then you try to make ted jealous with your foolish fantasies girls will be girls dr weir you know how it is guess we'd all we'd all better get dressed for dinner see you later she says i've tried to be friends with lyra ted's folks don't like her you see they never come here anymore and lyra knowing that resents you because you were the parent's choice for ted's wife i can never come here again but for ted's sake i won't leave until the weekend's over i'm going in to change now how about you in a moment and we are sad nice fools gotta die i'm looking for and dr weir ted insists i apologize to her but have you have you lost anything he's looking at the ground again not a thing lyra think i'll take a quick dive he's upset weir had been truthful he hadn't lost anything but what he didn't say was that he had found something the loathsome smear of snakes by the side of the pool nicks in the next page anyway here comes the glove again late that night a hysterical cry from anz room awakens weir i'm not having foolish fantasies there was a snake in here a huge dreadful hooded thing the same loathsome smear i saw by the pool here on the floor of the balcony weir is looking on the ground and is like totally passed out i don't understand these nightmares and always was so subtle so sensible disappointed in love can disappointment in love can do strange things that he's putting on the purple glove and this time it's on the right hand i couldn't tell ted that i suspect that it's not disappointment in love but the greater fear of losing it that is causing anz nightmares it's time now for the purple claw to act the purple claw knew that danger was near bam his fist fighting with the snake oh he's zapping it with his claws while the guy's waking up the sharp sudden glare of the floodlights blinded weir long enough for the venomous reptile to flee free itself oh there he goes look at this huge what is it what what has happened nothing and go back to bed they say look at that they're right below you were right ted not to frighten and she mustn't know of proven her dreams of snakes no nightmare but the truth the next day lyra darling you slept through a thrilling night he says did i i'm afraid i slept very soundly lyra says i'm sorry i missed all the excitement but it's just as well i think i'm catching catching cold my throat is so raw i can hardly swallow oh that's when the doctor weir here look at that grabbed her grabbed the snake's throat right oh maybe maybe maybe maybe yeah look at that we're about to find out sorry i jumped the gun i got excited i'll be glad to examine your throat and prescribe a remedy for you oh no thank you i'll be all right she says darling your hand feels so cold and clammy why don't you let weir examine you after all he is a doctor yes lyra why not what are you all trying to do let me let go of me she says lyra sweetheart we only want to help you please be reasonable the husband says don't you dare touch me lyra says why lyra one would think you had something to hide you haven't have you weir says fool you shall die for this there's his hand marks right there right on the throat i've made a bitter enemy of lyra for she knows now that i know the truth she is a facility one of the snake clan of ancient africa ha ha all that day from breakfast to dinner lyra had kept to her room darling i've brought you something to eat lyra where are you there's a snake there oh did she bite it oh it looks like it looks like she bites a neck even oh what was going on look it's ted he's been bitten by a snake your nightmare came to life and but attack ted not you and that's what i must find out why was ted bitten but not add only the purple claw can give me the answer weird thing i've done all i can for him now he must be quiet let no one enter this room until i return above all lyra he's not dead yet that's cool i don't understand but i'll do whatever you say she says oh man the snake's right there lyra in that position he's right there that's a cool up doctor weir come quickly i don't know where lyra came from but suddenly she was there and she forced me out of the room she's all alone with ted he's got the glove on and the gloves on the left hand this time read the history of this purple glove stop that oh look at the venomous bite there stop that i'm sucking the poison out of him to save his life so do this we do this many times in my family you're not interested in his life weir says you want his soul you want to make sure he'll never leave you you think you've won you and your purple claw but you haven't you haven't you haven't soon ted and i will be one truly the same she says so she does love him dr weir ted's delirious oh what has she done to him look at that he's like oh look at his tongue ted has been turned into a weir weir snake as lyra has herself now the purple claw was the now the purple claw was the only thing that could have saved him that could exercise the weird and terrible result of a thousand years of jungle witchcraft and sorcery from his soul or after our door deal went on through inconceivable horror and incredible terror but weir did not falter he knew that the purple claw was his test talisman and his shield why he's like exercising the weir weir snake from the guy that's cool weir snake ted is now ted is safe now no more harm can come to him thank heaven she says the snake shows up again grabs him grabs him the snake right and this looks like to be the same image on the cover right take a look at this and take a look at that right it's the same image identical i bet he's holding the tail his legs there yeah it's identical so they use the couple of the panels from the story to create the cover very cool very cool so he grabs her oh look at that she's in mid transformation copy lira was a weir snake one of those creatures from the unknown that could change from human to reptile at will more serpent than human she wanted to kill you she wanted to kill you and keep ted forever bewitched she's still sitting there let's check it out and and darling where are you here with you forever forever and ever sweetheart lucky he still gets the girl look at this one they'll be happy now with lira's death oh she did die lira's death death a great and strange evil has been lifted from all our lives thanks to the purple claw this didn't say the end usually they have the end written there that didn't cool that was a good story weir snake i don't think i've ever come across a cross a story with a weir snake in it i don't know if that's even a lure part of mythology i've heard of uh what do you call it uh shapeshifter that could change into snakes but never referred to as a weir snake this is the last story it's like five pages let's read this as well he walks by night he walks by night oh look at this he's uh what do you call it uh he's uh either sleepwalking on the ledge wow look at that a horn what does that say a horn honks dimly in the street street below an airplane airplane drones sluggishly overhead on the roof the man keeps walking his bare feet slithering softly towards the edge herman sleepwalking again i got up just in time herman no no you'll fall look at this he's right at the edge but the man keeps moving forward one foot is over the edge now all right there one foot is over the edge he walks by night i stop she's like what the he's like what look at that that's a great panel the artist for this one is different than the previous two stories previous three stories and gasp you almost walked off i caught you just in time you had no right to stop me ruth what he says had no right to stop you what do you mean you would have fallen 16 stories you would have been smashed to death on the pavement penthouse but herman blake professor of hindu philosophy at tollgate university answers his wife only with bloody silence what do i mean i can't tell you ruth i like to but you're too worldly you wouldn't be sympathetic you'd spoil it he thinks oh he's got some plans like this the next evening when professor blake returns from the university herman there's someone here to see you he's waiting in the parlor this is the purple claw guy no it's not a purple claw i'm dr morgan sir your wife called me in she tells me you walk in your sleep that you almost fell off the roof last night my wife had no right to call you sir he says what happened what happened last night requires no medical care and i refuse to discuss it any further good night but herman you could have been killed his wife please oh he's holding this what can i do he'll be killed last night wasn't the first time i caught him up there look at me mrs blake look deep into my eyes he says he's about to hypnotize her look at that he's holding her job on his wow wow that's pretty intimate right there mrs blake looks deep into the doctor's eyes the doctor's eyes that burn with greed and hypnotic power you're a beautiful woman mrs blake you are much younger than your husband you have everything to live for he says you heard your husband he doesn't want to be cured he's he's a recluse tied up in his studies hindu philosophy is all he cares about cares for he will walk off the roof roof one night mrs blake you can't stop him but you can't do something else you can ensure him heavenly you can ensure him heavily hypnotizing her she will do what i said she won't remember what i instructed her but she will do what i said and once the professor is dead and she has collected the insurance money and is alone i will come calling again he says where he thinks to himself anyway the next day you won't regret this mrs blake you couldn't get a better policy on your husband's life the next day she gets life insurance policy dr morgan this is mrs blake i thought you'd like to know that i got the policy today and it has a double and indemnity clause the hypnosis couldn't have been um complete she remembers me telling her about the policy that means she wants her husband to die and she's accepted me as a partner i'm glad you called mrs blake i think you were very wise oh that's what this meant i couldn't understand what this meant at first you can ensure him heavily not heavenly heavily you can ensure him heavily so basically telling her to go get a huge insurance policy on her on her husband wow meanwhile at the university unaware of how his wife and the doctor are plotting to profit by his death professor herman blake lectures calmly we do not fully understand yoga all we know is that it enables its practitioners to defile almost all the natural laws then one night dr morgan he's walking again he's going out the door towards the roof don't disturb him i'll be right over the doctor says a short time later see there he is the wife points shh he's heading for the ledge now let's stand by that corner corner would get a better view that's a great panel as well both of them he stopped why did he stop we'll wait a few more seconds if he doesn't move forward again i'll push him him he won't have to there he goes again he's about to start walking slowly falteringly one foot steps off the ledge but then the cornice is cracking i'm falling i for a brief second their screams slash the night air but then there's a double thud and and they lie crumpled and silent forever too bad for if they had lived they would have seen the professor's other foot leave the edge oh look at this he's walking on air i can do it i can do it i knew if i practiced yoga long i'd master the art of walking on air i'm pretty sure yoga practitioners would be extremely surprised i love this if you practice yoga long enough you can walk on air from 1954 right why did the thing crash so this thing broke they were standing there and they fell over i they both died that was surprising crazy ending crazy ending and the professor's walking on air by practicing yoga fun what are these guys let's check this out tell me what you want money for i'll help you get it all you need look at that you buy all the stuff right or decide to sell all the stuff we've seen these ones before right what the hell what is this this one is the trippiest what free while they last 10 hitler heads you gotta be kidding me less we forget the master villain villain of all time 10 unusual stamps shown evil dictator all different getting harder and harder to obtain hitler times 10 what elder god says that is crazy these are hitler stamps i guess right look at that that is the most insane advertisement we've seen do it just right do it just right and they're all uh they're all different look at that those two seem to be the same but they're different a little no they seem to be the same no no the price on them is different what does this say all different getting harder to find male coupon at once we'll send you this stamp at this complete fascinating set of 10 hitler stamps all different getting scarcer all the time yet they are yours free while they last to secure names for our mailing list so to secure names for your their mailing list they're collecting data this is data collection right crazy hitler stamps enticing people to send their names and addresses to get hitler stamps 10 hitler stamps to get into their database these valuable stats stamps come from four different countries including short-lived nations of bohemia moravia Germany russia ukraine and russia aust land all sought after supply limited so don't ask for more than one collection free advice on stamp collecting uh in addition to the free hitler stamps will also include other interesting offers for your inspection plus a free copy of our helpful informative how to collect stamps with the stamp collecting company prepared for us by the famous philat philat telic institute of cambridge it describes the lure of stamp collecting how and where to get stamps the honor code of the stamp collector adventuring with postage stamps etc how to collect stamps hitler stamps crazy super cool nice that was a good read the claw the purple claw and we've seen these ones before too i'll give you a watch air rifle yoke camera or any of the 70 big prizes what does this say gene see this ad of the american seed company it's as easy it's an easy way to get that camera i want let's send the coupon today i know lots of people who plant seeds yes bobby we need garden seeds i'll buy six packs oh nice so they're he's she's selling seeds to homeowners it was fun and easy to sell our seeds and here's the mailman with our prize this is a neat camera why don't you follow send the coupon today you can choose from 70 swell prizes 70 swell prizes fun that was good the purple claw gotta look into the history of the purple claw and that's tales of horror number 10 that came out in 1954 and definitely i would just grade this as a as a two two two point five i would say right but fantastic i hope you enjoyed the reading i'm gonna turn the chat the notifications of my camera back on where is the camera fun read fun read it had a couple of surprises for me it had a couple of surprises for me i want those hitlers down so i don't sense just for the novelty value yeah i wonder if they're worth anything i mean would they work anything be anything right now the garden seeds i mean what are they the garden seeds yeah what are the seeds what did they just buy right and what we're gonna do i'm just gonna write down what the greatest stuff was on this right so i would give this 2.0 to 2.5 and that's it covers intact and whatnot that's good enough description for me fantastic super fun super fun all my interactions now a bit storms chicho thanks for holding the corners back that was upsetting yeah i corrected as many as as many of them as i could right just clear them up and i do that with uh older comics that i have when i read them if things are folded i try to straighten out stuff right might as well why not uh it is you know for presentation as well for myself thank you chicho love your comic book collection yeah me too man it really it and as you can tell uh for me uh it's if i want something i don't chase just slap books i only have like i don't know like maybe 10 graded books now most of my collection by long shot it's all raw comic books because i'd like to flip through them i'd like to read them i'd like to hold them i'd like to smell them right just like even this had a old school aroma to it right like there's a sense of your reading history and you know so great to me is sort of relative right great cover a great cover art beautiful cover art there's a lot of politics discussion going on so that was fun i don't know how long we've been up oh we're up almost four months to two hours we did good timing on this awesome gang so gang um this was i don't know what stream this was in a row that we've done uh tomorrow i haven't scheduled anything i have a lot of things to do around the house that i need to take care of but if i get a chance i might do another reading tomorrow unscheduled reading don't hold your breath please this is at best like 20 chance that we might do one we might not okay yeah elder god i can bet you went to a rally in the uk and that would have got your blood boiling right so that's okay we did a comic book reading you let loose a little bit that's fine man i'm okay with that uh the chat wasn't coming on to the on to the reading and people could enjoy the reading after the video's been uploaded to bit shooting youtube right uh bit storm i i don't really collect much but i do have some older games in good condition i'm wondering if i should bag them up like they do with comics it depends i think there's huge gaming community out there what i would do is bit storm is check online to see you know if they're extremely rare like there are some games and some comics that are very very expensive like for video games there's one video game i forgot the name of the video game that just a box alone without even the game the box alone was selling it for ten thousand dollars like six years ago so i would check the prices man i would check the prices and then make your decisions accordingly right uh the three stooges how are you doing as a kid i walk into a mexican liquor store i see what looked to be a comic book turned turned turned out to be an adult kaya lots of adult comic books out there lockdown 5th of november to december 3rd oh man oh god remember remember the 5th of november what a time to pick it right uh bit storm at the moment they are just get thrown into boxes but even the newer stuff like ps2 the thin plastic box covers get uh micro scratches yeah and i've done that too it is what it is right but i would check the prices brother i would seriously check the prices and if you want to preserve them just put them in a box in a nice you know maybe put something between them uh for me i just put the stuff in boxes i didn't my main thing is the comic book collecting the other ones are just you know a little bit of gravy and fun historical artifacts and stuff that i have right that i cherish right gang let's call the stream uh maybe a stream tomorrow 10 percent chance 20 percent chance but on monday and tuesday we're doing julien assange streams we're gonna get caught up we're gonna read articles and we're gonna watch videos interviews and stuff that's our main thing we're gonna do tomorrow uh not tomorrow monday and tuesday okay we're on a mass burning party at the pub before lockdown oh wow elder god whoo that would be actually fun to do that would be a fun gathering to get to and then in iran there's something called char shambesuri where the you build fires and you jump over the fire and you say uh it's the same you say zerdiamen uh zerdiamen betul ghermezutobi man something like this it means my fears to you and your strength to me uh something fun to do and then what we'll do gang i'm gonna spend the next week sort of uploading the videos uh you know the custom elevator yeah we'll upload the videos on on youtube and the children next week or so and i'll do some back end stuff 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Hello and welcome to NewsClick's special science show. In this episode, we are going to talk about the COVID-19 pandemic and some of the aspects related to its global dimensions. For instance, what has been the response to the international community? What is the kind of politics that is happening between various countries around COVID-19? To talk more about this, we have with us Prabhupur Kaisa. Prabhupur, thank you so much for joining us. So what we see is that there is definitely a clear divide in terms of responses to COVID-19 between the developed countries and the developing countries, the global north and the global south, so to speak. But one of the key interesting aspects is that in the global north, the idea of how to respond to a pandemic itself, there's been a lot of confusion. It's like in some senses, it is public health in that sense, it's kind of disappeared from a lot of the perspectives of these countries. So could we start a bit by talking a bit about this? Yeah, you see, if we look at the issue of what I call the problem of infectious diseases in the West, it's really that it disappeared from public view, as you said. And what took over is infectious diseases are really the problems of the poor, the people who have not developed countries, dirty, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. It was essentially a colonial view of the world that infectious diseases are no longer the problem of the West or that and the colonial countries. But it is something which only bothers those who are colonized, the poor countries and who live in all kinds of filth. Now, if I take the racist part of it out, which of course it was, the underlying issue is that in advanced countries, they had actually been able to control infectious diseases, even before we have the quote-unquote rival of the modern medicines in the shape of antibiotics, the sulfur drugs and all of that, which really did, of course, have a huge effect on the infectious diseases. Before that itself, if you see the plague, for instance, which as you know, probably killed about 20 to 30% population in Europe, those infections were a real cause for concern. And you have this plague picture, which was basically of London and how it really decimated the people over there. Now, I'm not going to talk about how much it affected different sections of the people because we have now figures of different kinds to show it, of course, affected as it is doing now. Also the poor much more than it did the well-off, but it also did affect the rich then too as it is affecting now, even if it is less than what's affecting the poor. So this really spread over Eurasia. This is what's known as the second plague where the first one happened in 600 odd AD, what's called the Justinian plague. But if we leave that out, there is also a third plague which people seem to have forgotten. And that also took place in Eurasia. If you see, it really took place in countries like India, in countries like Southeast Asia, and of course China. And the total was something like 10, about 12 to 15 million people, 10 million died in India alone. Our memories are quite live to this picture of the plague. And when we had the Surat plague, if you remember, in India, there was an instant and immediate reaction. That is a part of our historical memory. But this did not happen in Europe. In fact, Europe saw only about 1,700 plague deaths in the third plague. So therefore they thought that this is not their problem. And of course, we are not going to talk about the impact of all of this in terms of inequality. It's also interesting, once you have the plagues in Europe, in fact, you had a labor shortage economy and the distribution of wealth actually improved. But because of the plague, but because of the consequence of the plague, it showed much less population. Now, people have tried to bring it about the influence epidemic also, the loss of the wealthy losing part of their wealth, being a less divided, less unequal society. But I think they forget it was really the socialist revolution of 1918, 1917, which coincided with the influence epidemic. So you see continuous reference to influence the epidemic being the last known epidemic. And what happens is we have a whole set of diseases, which you get forgot. As I said here, the third plague was not considered a major one by the West. They considered it that the last pandemic, therefore not the third plague, which continue up to about 1950, that they consider it only the last pandemic only being the Spanish flu, which of course, as we know now did not come from Spain, but came from Kansas, probably.  Peter Hotez has written a book on this, Forgotten People, Forgotten Diseases, and the question is if you take the population today, about 65% of the global population, if you also include in this Forgotten Diseases, TB, malaria, and dengue, if we include that 65% of the global population really suffers from the so-called forgotten diseases or what I would call as the diseases which are forgotten by the pharma companies and the advanced countries, the quote unquote advanced countries of the West. So here is the issue. These are forgotten diseases, but not by the people who are suffering from that. But really by those who do not see the effects of it on them. And that's where we come to the chart that I quite often show, that here you have what the Forbes magazine, Forbes publication quotes as the best prepared countries. Of course, it's not their preparation. It's really a global health security index prepared by John Hopkins and Johns Hopkins and I think some nuclear body which looks at all of these kinds of issues, nuclear threat index, I think that's what came from. And now they can also join with John Hopkins for a global health security index. Then you will see these figures are a couple of days old. You will see that those countries which are supposed to be the ones which are best prepared have fallen really victim to COVID-19 in a big way. I'm not going to make this a theoretical point that that is why because they did not look at infectious diseases, therefore they have suffered the most. The reality is, of course, they're also the most well-connected countries. And therefore it's not surprising that it has spread to them so fast. The real issue is that how unprepared they have been for the re-emergence of an infectious disease and the fact that people in the United States, for instance, the first thing they did when the lockdown was imminent was stock up on guns and ammunition. So that is their collective memory that they don't remember the infectious diseases and they don't know as a society how to respond to it. And of course the fact that CDC has been gutted under Trump, the fact that we have a person heading CDC who essentially represents the American right, all of that meant that CDC, which probably has a much bigger budget than the WHO, was completely unprepared for the epidemic could not even prepare a test kit, which a number of countries did even after the month after they had put out the kit and it had failed, they still could not develop from producer kit which was working. So from the time they launched the kit, which was somewhere in February, they took one more month because the testing could start in the United States. And as you know now, that one month is what made all the difference. So I think this is the first issue that we really need to look at, that essentially what we have is the fact that there is no collective memory. The public health system have been gutted in the West. They have been handed over to private capital. There is what is called just in time manufacturing principles applied to the health system by which you don't keep the beds empty. You plan for the influenza peak that comes in the flu seasons. And once that peak is met during the peak, you should just be cut to cut. That means you should really not have any surplus capacity. Then of course the fact that private health care has taken over in a big way. So what they're discovering is private health care as well as the pharma companies basically want ill health because that's what gives the money. Public health is completely opposite to that and that's something that seems to have forgotten. So and now we've reached a situation where say Trump is threatening India over hydroxychloroquine. There is a lot of tension between the U.S. and China. So let's start with the aspect of the medicines per se. So how is big corporate, the role of the big corporates actually working in terms of the medicines that are likely to be candidates to treat COVID-19 patients?  Miraculously, it will disappear. All of that means that he now leaves in Alibi why his administration performs so pathetically and why it is still raging in different states in the United States. Still numbers are not only far higher than China but even now there are various states which are threatening to take off. So it's not a comfortable situation there at all. So Trump is trying to turn the whole argument about his failure into saying that China did not tell us and it is all China's fault. So essentially scapegoating China. And this is a part of his larger issue really of uncoupling the U.S. economy from that of China. Today, if you see the way these two economies work, China produces a huge range of goods. United States owns a lot of intellectual property and also buys a lot of these goods and the trade as you know between the two are not balanced. But since United States has enormous ability to print dollars, the global currency, therefore it can sustain a deficit which is much higher than most other countries can without their currency collapsing. So at the moment, U.S. is trying to uncouple the two economies which means that the supply chains will then have to change from being China-centric to other countries coming into play because I don't think the U.S. has the ability today to emerge as a major producer of goods. So given that they will still focus on intellectual property but try and segue this whole uncoupling story to European Union and other countries which are under their influence and India they're hoping will be one of them, that these they would link to them and not to China. So essentially what is called the Belt Road Initiative of China then to really create an Eurasian wide network and market then would hopefully according to the United States fracture and they would get a part of it particularly the European Union being a part of their hegemony. So I think this is where the whole thing is going and that brings us to the next question. What happens in this particular case because the battle is going to be fought not only on Huawei as we know is already happening, also the China's response probably which will come in terms of Boeing and other companies with their likely to sanction but the whole battle right now is going to be fought over who has the medicine and who has the vaccine because this is going to be a part of who is able to influence the globe, who is able to influence other people by having the ability to give medicine. Now here is the issue that big pharma has essentially looked only at profits and they have not developed infectious disease drugs for the last 50 odd years. You can see the malaria drugs are almost 40 years old and they came during Vietnam war, TV drugs are very old as well and only some new drugs are now emerging but again big pharma is not very interested because they're interested in medicines which you have to take for life. That means that they get a constant profit, constant market so that's what they're interested in and even though the research is really done by government institutions, the government also gives them a monopoly and that's why the picture that I have over here that some people would call big pharma as big pharma. Now coming to this issue what happens to now the new drugs which might emerge and obviously the new drugs we only have talked about earlier Remdesivir being one of them and also the retrovirals which are essentially biologics and then we have the vaccines. Now we have seen earlier that when you talk about big pharma pricing we had a case, this is an Indian case where Nexavar which is a biologic medicine was selling for the cancer medicine kidney cancer essentially was selling for $65,000 as an annual cost and this obviously something nobody in the third world can play forget third world even poor people in the United States cannot pay this it has to come out of the insurance or out of essentially the government system, Medicaid, Medicare and all of that so this is the crucial issue that what you do with such medicine. In India's case, Natco got a compulsory license issued after which all compulsory licenses have been stopped under the US threat and we have the famous statement of Bayer CEO, Deckers who said this is theft. We did not develop this medicine for Indians, we developed it for Western patients who can afford it of course, we forget that $65,000 is not an affordable cost but it's very much the same issue that happened with the AIDS drug sales also remember it was 10 to $15,000 till India, SIPLA came in with $350 per year cost of again a drug cocktail and that actually brought down the drug cost to such an extent that Asia Africa could then use these drugs for its treatment so is this issue going to be repeated again is the key question now if you take the essential issues that are there we have to as we have discussed earlier also we can't find new drugs suddenly so we have to see what are the repurposed drugs hydrochlorocoxychloroquine and quite a bit of controversy it has serious side effects so it doesn't seem to be doing well the small molecule which is also remdesivir hydrochloroquine hydroxychloroquine and remdesivir are basically small molecules meaning that it's relatively easy to create copies of remdesivir or hydroxychloroquine interestingly there is a black market of the earlier version of the medicine which was tweaked a little to make it remdesivir which is also patented and it's used under the table as against a particular kind of coronavirus which affects cats so it's very easy it appears once you know the patent which is of course in public domain to make a copy of this earlier drug so I presume it's also easy to make a copy of remdesivir so the question is if it is going to be useful then will Gilead give it at low cost will the patent be broken by countries will India issue a compulsory license as it did for next hour to natco these are questions which we have to take up and these are questions particularly since the US trade representative USTR under 301 has threatened India just I think about 20 days or one month back so this is very much on the cards antiretrovirals all the ones which are being tried at the moment which is Caleta variations and some other antiretrovirals I think they fall most of them fall before India's patent act was passed we can certainly manufacture those runs with the too much trouble and given the current scenario of a pandemic WTO trips agreement also allows for their export to other countries who need it so this is not likely to be a problem but remdesivir certainly is going to be a problem so if we come to basically vaccines are what are also called monoclonal antibodies these are two areas currently again a part of the competition and of course the United States has backed heavily its own internal production of vaccines providing unlimited budget so we are seeing this spillover also to vaccine and what could be in the future medicines which are monoclonal monoclonal antibodies that you copy the body antibodies in your body in some way and use it against the disease itself against the virus so all of these are going to also come under patent protection as well as then the issue of compulsory licensing and what is going to happen in the global level will these be allowed as Costa Rica has argued they should be allowed freely to be used by people or will it remain as a part of the protected intellectual property which will be given at concessional rates but concessional rates also being far higher than what the global at least the poorer countries can afford so I think that's the battle that's going to come up in the future is being discussed in the world health assembly so we'll have to see what comes out of that and what have one of the countries going to do countries like India which have the capability to do with compulsory licensing produce these drugs and vaccines and whether we move in that direction or we'll also fall prey to trumps this engagement with China this entangling the two economies uncoupling the economies and then we coupling ourselves to United States therefore in foregoing the use of compulsory licensing thank you so much for being for talking to us in the coming days we'll be tracking both the developments around the world health assembly as well as trumps infamous warp speed operation which in which he promises a new vaccine so keep watching newslet


What's up everyone, we are back with another video. Today we're gonna be doing another taste test and it's gonna be for these Japanese Kit Kats. Now, I have done a taste test in the past, maybe over five years ago, just by myself, but I wanted to do it with Ashley because I think she's gonna absolutely love some of these and looking at some of them, they're different flavors than what I tried back in the day, so it is a different assortment. So, let's just open these up. We're just gonna go one by one. I think there's 24 or 25, but it does look like there's a lot, so there might be more. So, let's just get right into this. Okay, so the first one we're gonna try is this. It says Salt Lemon. Now, some of these, because they're Japanese, it might just have Japanese lettering on it, which I don't know Japanese, so it's gonna be a mystery of what it is, but this one here, even if it didn't say Salt Lemon, it does show a picture of a lemon, so you can assume all of these are gonna be the mini Kit Kats, so it's gonna be easy for us to just split. So, it literally looks like just white chocolate. Here you go. Which is really lemon. Yeah, really lemon. I don't personally like lemons, so. It was good at first, but they put a lot of salt, and I think the salt's in the wafer. Too strong. I like lemon and flavoring. I don't like sour stuff. It's just way too strong. It's way too salty. See, the next one that's on top, another citrus one, of course. Hopefully this one's better. This one has like a green hue to it. I'm scared. It's not as strong smelling as the first one. No, butter-ish. It was better. Until the wafer hit me, it seems like there's a lot of sourness in the wafer part. I'm gonna give the thumbs down for that one. I don't like it. What about you? No, not really. The next one is strawberry milk. That's gonna be good. Yeah. This one does have a red or pink hue to it.  Like it smells good. Strawberry, creamy. Literally tastes like a glass of strawberry milk. That's a good one. It's good. So this one is milk tea. This one just has like a brown hue to it. There is a little piece of something brown in the chocolate here. Okay, are you ready? I don't like it. This is gonna be really weird. You know what the wafer tastes like to me? Tastes like fruit loops. It literally just tastes like I'm eating fruit loops with milk. You don't get that. No. You don't taste that at all. I actually liked that one because that one tastes exactly like fruit loops to me. I didn't taste any tea. Maybe there's tea in fruit loops and I just never knew it. I liked it. What about you? I taste a hint of tea. I don't mind it, but not my thing. Peach parfait. Yeah, just like peach yogurt. It's actually really good. I have no idea what this one is. Kind of looks like a Halloween themes. There's a jack-o'-lantern on it. The wafer tastes a little stale on that one. No, it does. And that might be just the flavoring that they use like making it. So not a fan of that one at all. This one might be good. Passion fruit. Geez. That one smells really passion fruity. They're on the sour side in the center. No, I don't like it. Yeah. The next one here, we're just gonna go with the regular Kit Kat, which I've tried this in the past. And surprisingly, the Japanese original Kit Kat tastes completely different than ours. I don't know if they use a different formula for the chocolate or it smells richer. It tastes like a richer chocolate. That's the only difference. Ours tastes good. Over here in Canada, it's creamy. Milk chocolate, this here. I'd say it's still milk chocolate, but it has that hint of dark chocolate, that richness. Yeah. Yeah. It's actually really good though. It is good. Yeah, just more like a dark chocolate hint. No, this one, I'm not too sure what it is.  Japanese writing. Honey? Yeah. Maybe some floral? I don't know. Wheat. Wheat? Wheat. Like whole grain. You know what, they do have some flavors like that, so I could say that that does taste right on. You know what? After you said that, yeah, it does taste like it. You can taste grain throughout the chocolate, not just the wafer, just throughout the chocolate in general. I'm still gonna say it was a good one. I liked it. Yeah, just not something, definitely not something we have over here. All Japanese writing, but it has pictures of strawberries, so I think this one's a safe one. I'm gonna say it's strawberry, but is it better than strawberry milk? Yeah? Mm-hmm. I'm gonna say no. Strawberry milk just had a classic, you just made a glass of strawberry milk and drank it. I guess creamier. Mm-hmm. This one's still good. It's still up there, but I don't think it's better. It has no, like, it doesn't really say what it is. Yep. No, I think it's, it smells like tea. So it's probably probably... Smells like tea? Okay. Yeah. It just smells gross to me. I don't like it. Mm-hmm. It's green tea. Do you like it? Not really, but I don't really like green tea that much. Ooh, this one's one that I was looking forward to. This one's probably gonna be good. Mm-hmm. All right, this one is cheesecake. But just white. It smells different. That tastes like cheesecake. Wow, that's so good. All right, so this one just has Japanese writing. That's what the picture is on the front, so... Yeah, it smells like caramel. Yep. Whoa. Mm-hmm. That's good. Mm-hmm. That's really good. All right, so I wanna try, I don't even know what it's called, but I really wanna try that someday. Ooh, another apple one. Yeah. This one's not, the last one was apple, or cinnamon forward. So just apples. Just apples all over it. This one's completely melted inside. I'm just gonna, do you want a bite? We're just gonna do it like this because it's so melted that we're gonna make a mess. That one's very different. Yeah, I'm not a fan of that one though. No. The regular taste of chocolate mixed with the apple just doesn't taste good to me. The next one here looks like a classic one. It does say mints, and the inside is green. Mm-hmm. That's a nice touch. Mm, mint. Yeah. That one might be my favorite now. This is my second favorite. Yeah. I still like that caramel, dessert one. That one was pretty good too. Doesn't really say, but it looks like cheesecake. Tastes like strawberry, I think the strawberry one's too. Yeah. There's a hint of a fruit in there. It tastes like a traditional cheesecake. The other one tastes more like the Japanese style. This one says save the blue ocean. Just a regular white chocolate Kit Kat it looks like. Salty. Yeah. It tastes like salt water in the ocean. They kind of use it as a promoting thing, but also, I don't know, that to me is just wild that they would even do that. Just tastes like pure salt inside the Kit Kat. Mm-hmm. This next one here, it says absolutely nothing on it, except for Japanese texts. I'm gonna go with peach. It's having sour in the vapor. Yeah. Another one I'm not really gonna like pistachio. I mean, it's chocolate there, so that helps. Not a fan of it for me. It tastes pretty good. Chocolate orange. We both don't like chocolate orange. Yeah. I'm not sure. It has like, what it is. Tastes okay, there's something weird about it. Creamy, but kind of plain too. I have no idea what this is. Just a plain one Japanese already. Okay. The vapor tastes stale for that one too. Yeah. I don't like that one at all. I would assume if it's a promotion one, it should just be plain chocolate inside, but we've been wrong how many times for this video. This one's not the best. Do you wanna try it? It's kind of melted, so we're gonna have to just do it like this. There's something about it that's off for me. Yeah, I don't like that. So these were the Japanese Kit Kats. We finally, both of us got the chance to try them. Me for the second time, actually for the first time. What did you think of them? Which was your favorite and which was your least favorite? I liked the caramel dessert one. That was nice. And also like the strawberry one. Like the stronger strawberry one. The regular, yeah. The regular strawberry, yeah. I liked the, I'm gonna say mint was my favorite because even though that is something we have over here, not in a Kit Kat, but we have mint chocolates, it tastes spot on. Like it tastes amazing. And I guess that my second favorite one was going to be the strawberry milk. It just tastes a creamier, more classic and it tasted exactly like pouring a glass of strawberry milk and taking a sip. So definitely up there for me. Now what was your least favorite? Least favorite? Definitely the ocean blue one. Oh the one that we're not expecting. Like we weren't really sure what it was, but as soon as I took a bite, I was like mouthful of salt immediately. Yeah, it's just white chocolate and inside the wafer is just like a ton of salt. That's unexpected and because we don't read Japanese, we did not know about that. That one's definitely up there for my worst one. But I'm gonna say the matcha green tea because I absolutely hate it, always have. Not a fan, at least we didn't get wasabi this time. I think I got wasabi before. But yeah, not a fan. At least in my opinion, more than half of these were good. Other half it's just not flavors that we like. They don't mesh well to us, but maybe over in Japan they do. So good for them for expanding and making all these unique flavors that you don't typically see. But not really, yeah, interesting, but not really something that we have over here. So. We're not used to it. Yes, not a fan of most of them, but I hope you guys enjoyed this video. We're gonna leave this here. There's gonna be more taste tests coming in the future. So we'll see you guys in the next video. Please take care, peace.


The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what is in fortunes control and abandoning what lies in yours. Seneca, think about it. The mind is insidious, especially when it comes to two things. The mind has a way of fixating on an uncertain future, on focusing on what tomorrow brings. It also has a bad habit of fixating on the past, on remembering past events. The problem with these two things is that the future, the future is not promised. The future is often unclear to say the least. The past is often skewed. Many of our memories change each time we recall them. Many of our memories are shaped by emotions that we had at the time or later on past events. So we can't really trust our perception of the past and we can't really trust the tomorrow that our mind conjures. But what we do ignore is what is actually real and what is actually in front of us, which is the present moment. The present moment today takes a backseat to the mind. The mind is always worrying about something else. Today just seems like something that's in the way, something that needs to be done and removed as quickly as possible. We don't worry about today. Today is boring. Nothing is happening today. We are not happy today. Today is not what we want. Our circumstances are not right. We want the new car. We want to move out of our mom's place. We want the promotion. Maybe we want the girlfriend. We want the kids to grow up. Tomorrow is better. Tomorrow is always better. Tomorrow is better because tomorrow our problems will be solved. And there's the trick. The mind thinks that a day will come when the problems are solved. The promised land is a day when there are no more problems. That's what we wait for tomorrow. That's the trick. That's the illusion. No such day ever comes. If you understand life, you understand that life is always going to have problems. There's always going to be changes in circumstances. There's different types of quality problems. Yes, you might have paid off your student debt. Yes, you might have moved out of your house. But guess what? The tires need changing. Guess what? Financial recession is happening. Guess what? North Korea is bombing your city. Things are always going to happen. Don't wait for tomorrow because this promised land is not what you think it is.  Once you realize that life is always going to have problems, once you realize that there is no running away from them. You can learn to embrace the now because the now that you have today is going to be the now that you have tomorrow. Circumstances are going to be different, but you're going to be feeling the same until you change your perspective, until you understand that it's the small things.  I'm talking about drinking your tea extra slow. Feeling the breeze go through your hair, looking at the stars, watching a good movie, walking to the library. Shit, even cleaning the dishes is these small things that life is made out of. It's these small things that you have to learn to embrace to fully be happy. Because that's what life is made out of. Not this tomorrow that you're envisioning. Such a thing doesn't exist. So what are you going to do? Are you going to expect tomorrow and live life that way or are you going to embrace the now?