Good morning students, in the last lecture, we talked about passive safety and in this lecture we will continue with some more features. Just to recapitulate what you heard in the last lecture, I introduce you to the difference between passive safety and active safety. In passive safety, active components like based on mechanical energy or based on electrical energy are not involved and the process happens through natural loss. I had also given you that an absolute passive system is difficult because you do require some energization, some signal at some point. So this has led to the classification of different types of categories of passive systems starting from the most passive to the minimum passive and this basically helps in assessing the reliability of the system. Now, when we talk about safety, I mentioned to you that we are talking about two important things in the safety of a nuclear reactor. One is the shutdown, that is the reactor must be shut down in case of any event. Similarly, the decay heat removal system must be there, so you must have some coolant which could pass through the core and take the heat out of the core to another environment. So here last time we saw some of the shutdown systems and also the decay heat removal systems which were acting in a passive manner. Now today if I look up, we will talk about the passive safety systems for containment cooling. Now why is containment cooling essential? You know in case of a loss of coolant, let us say a pipe is ruptured, the water has come out and it flashes into steam inside the containment. So there is a increase of pressure and heat which is being taken to the containment. So the heat if removed from the containment would help in two ways. It will maintain the temperature of the containment, not only that, it will be able to help you in reducing the pressure within the containment. So let us look what are. So there are two types of containment. One is a containment pressure suppression pool. So here basically we are looking for taking the containment cooling whatever is there. So the whole thing whatever which ever cools the containment is taken to a pressure suppression system. The other is the containment passive heat removal and the third is passive containment spray. We just will see the three how they are. We take up the containment pressure suppression pool. This is basically has been used for the boiling water reactor designs for many years. Following a loka as I said the steam is generated in the primary containment that is essentially because the water flashes into steam and then it really pressurizes the thing. So this steam coming out into the containment is forced through lines which are vent lines and they are submerged. If you see here these lines are submerged in a suppression pool. What is a suppression pool? Basically it is a pool of water through which this steam is passed and the steam will condense. The moment steam condenses automatically the pressure will come down in the containment. Here it is not completely passive because there needs to be a system to vent it to the suppression pool. So it is partly a category B and partly a category C passive system as we shall see. Next we talked about containment passive heat removal. Here what we do? We have a tank at a good elevation and this contains a pool of water and here the steam which is vented into the containment actually it condenses on the, this will have a water circuit. The steam will heat up this water in this pipeline. Once the water gets heated up it will reduce in density and it will go up and that will push the water down and here when the water gets cooled it will push the water down. So this way there is a natural circulation setup and the heat which is coming into the containment is getting continuously removed. Of course this was an indirect means by having a heat exchanger. There could be the other means of having the steam directly go through this coil to the pool and then this pool would condense and the condensate would come here to the suppression pool. So essentially as I mentioned earlier for any natural convection your sink of the heat sink must be at a higher level, must be at a higher level than the heat source. So this is a very important point to be kept in mind. Now we go to the passive containment spray system. As the name indicates the passive containment spray means the you are spraying water. So what let us have a look after a loss of coolant accident steam is in contact with the inside surface of the steel containment. This is the steel containment and steam is in contact whatever steam is produced is in contact with this. Now so heat is transferred to this wall. This wall can conduct the heat to the external air here in the space and this external air picks up the heat and goes up. In addition to this there is a pool at the top and this from this pool you have a spray of water. So here basically if you see you have air flow cooling the annulus besides water also. So this way it is able to effectively remove heat and this at the top there is a spray. So the spray needs to be activated you require a signal. So this containment vessel spray could be categorized as a category D passive system while the air cooling could be put in a category B. So you see that this sort of thing is actually has been used in most of the many of the pressurized water reactors and here I just show you what is the passive containment cooling system adopted in the Kodangulam reactor which is in operation in Tamil Nadu. So here exactly as I mentioned there is a air going through and in fact if you look in the actual building there is a lot of annulus space. So atmospheric air is entering like this picks up the heat from the containment and then goes out. So this way it is able to do even when there is a power failure there is no power still you are able to do that means you are not dependent on any electrical power or mechanical power you are able to do by natural convection. So it is not that we are talking in the air it is actually happening and if you go to the Kodangulam power plant you can have a real nice look at it. All of you know that then you have a loss of coolant accident it is quite likely that the clad will get overheated because the heat is not getting removed. So the clad zirconium will react with the steam and at a temperature above 350 to 400 degrees centigrade we saw that it forms zirconium hydride and releases hydrogen also. So this hydrogen should would be there in the containment and we know that hydrogen concentration in an area if it goes more than about 4 to 9% it can catch fire. So one of the important things or which is safety should be regarding how to remove the hydrogen or to see how the hydrogen can be burnt ourselves so that it does not cause an explosion. Now why this point is being talked about you know both in the 3 mile island reactor accident and the Fukushima accident hydrogen was produced luckily for us in the 3 mile island the there was no explosion but in the case of Fukushima there was a hydrogen explosion it was not a nuclear explosion mind you it was a hydrogen explosion. So people have done research and already lot of autocatalytic recombiners have been developed and now since we wanted to act without any of the energy source either electrical or mechanical there has been a development of passive autocatalytic recombiners. Let us see what these are. Now this passive autocatalytic recombiners are basically a means to see that the hydrogen comes in contact with the air so that the hydrogen and oxygen are recombined catalytically. What does this mean? An exothermic reaction occurs at the surface of the catalyst plates when hydrogen and oxygen are present in the atmosphere. The heat of the reaction combined with the vertical arrangement and spacing of the catalyst promotes natural convective flow. I mentioned no if it is a horizontal there cannot be in a vertical way there is a natural convection through the recombiner and warm humid air and the unreacted hydrogen are exhausted. So this is a passive autocatalytic recombiner basically it is platinum put on a charcoal substrate is there and here the hydrogen is coming water and whatever water it becomes water it condenses down. So this sort of passive hydrogen recombiners have been designed and they operate over a wide range of temperature and humidity levels and they are very good for converting hydrogen to water and they are not deactivated because of the flow of water or water vapor and these developments have taken place in Canada and France and today most of the reactors are provided with passive autocatalytic recombiners. Now these recombiners will be mounted onto the concrete and so that and not only that remember in case of a seismic condition this should not fall down because that is the time when you can have a real accident. So and that condition these should so they are also seismically qualified. So it is a passive system and also seismically qualified. So these are important aspects if you just see in safety we look for as absolute safety as possible even though absolute safety is not possible. Now just to give an example of reactor designs which are already developed there is a reactor called as AP600 it is an advanced pressurized water reactor. The original design was 600 megawatt electrical. Now we do have a AP1000 design also. In fact AP1000 design construction is going on for some plants in China. So what does this AP600 passive related safety systems? Let us look at it. It has a passive residual heat removal system as I mentioned based on natural convection and cooling I will give you the details later. It consists of 2 core make up tanks that means it has 2 tanks which can which have got enough water for cooling the core then your 4 stage automatic depressions system. Suddenly what is this depressions system coming? You know these core tanks can put in water into the thing they are at a low pressure there is no force flow. So the pressures will be less so that means you have to depressurize the system then only you can put water into the system. So that is why we talk about automatic depressurizing systems. Then accumulator tanks so that you have enough water inventory. Then not only that you see it contains a refueling water storage tank. This is a very important you must note here refueling water storage tank that means this has essentially got to do with the spent fuel. So the spent fuel as I mentioned to you produces some heat because of the fission product decay. So under the case of that case the spent fuel cooling has to be continuous even though the heat level is less maybe initially about 5% of the full power and then gradually coming down nevertheless this has got to be cooled. In fact in the case of Fukushima accident the spent fuel storage was not cooled it did not get the enough cooling supply that was also one more reason. So they have put in the loop the refueling water storage tank. Then a sum a lower containment sum so that the thing is getting collected and of course not the least the passive containment cooling system which we saw sometime back. Let us see what further here you see the figure of the AP600 core cooling. So this is the refueling water storage tank and this goes you here you have the break. So this refueling water storage tank is normally used to flood the core when it is shut down for refueling and it is also used for emergency decay heat removal. So what is there inside this tank you have a heat exchanger and this heat exchanger is part of a natural convection loop like this like this then like this back. So this is one this is the passive residual removal system and here you have got the depressurization systems to bring down the pressure. Besides thus these are the accumulators which can supply water to the reactor core again to cool. Now this heat exchanger needs to be activated they are all activate that valves are there which are activated by air driven valves. So this gives you a figure of the emergency core cooling as well as the containment cooling. This is the emergency core cooling as we saw it comes from the refueling water storage tank there is a small low pressure injection pump which pumps into the core then you have accumulator injection also here basically what is happened you have gas pressure. The moment the pressure in the reactor comes down as a consequence of reduction of pressure this water also is able to enter. So this way emergency cooling is assured in the AP600. Coming to the containment cooling exactly what we saw about the kurungulum you have got a steel containment the steam comes and this is getting cooled. And you have a gravity driven water tank from where water is also falling on the containment. So this way the heat is getting removed. I can tell you you might wonder why this sort of a cooling this sort of a cooling can help you to remove some of the decay heat not a complete decay heat because the idea is this is actually to protect the containment. This cannot be the main path for decay heat removal. This is to basically protect the containment because if the containment integrity must not be lost at any stage because if the containment integrity is lost then you can have the fission products coming out to the atmosphere. So basically this is to keep the temperature of the containment within limits yeah. So having looked at some of the passive features of the AP600 I would be failing in my duty if I do not give you some ideas about the advanced heavy water reactor which we are developing in India and it is quite gone a quite a long way and we should be able to have the start of the construction in a year or two and this advanced heavy water reactor idea is we have tried to put as many passive safety features as possible. So that is the idea and we have taken the experience of the pressurized heavy water reactors. So what it is this advanced heavy water reactor is a 300 megawatt electrical is a boiling light water cooled and heavy water moderated vertical pressure tube type reactor. This vertical pressure tube unlike our all our PHWRs are horizontal pressure tubes. This is a vertical pressure tube and the core consists of thorium uranium 233 in oxide form and also thorium plutonium in oxide form. So basically we are using the uranium 233 from which is obtained from the other reactors like the pressure water reactors and the plutonium which are getting from the heavy water reactors as well as our fast reactors. Now one of our main idea is how to use this advanced heavy water reactor with thorium breeding with the self sustained thorium breeding. It is something like you put a fuel into the reactor and the thorium the thorium breeds generates fuel and it sustains. So that is our idea. Now here the thorium based fuel is basically advantages because it is a negative wide coefficient of reactivity unlike uranium. Then we also in this advanced heavy water reactor we have passive systems for core heat removal both under normal operating and shadow conditions. Just underline the words under normal operating. So really speaking under normal operation itself we do not have a pump. We have only natural convection. We set up the natural convection slowly and go upon power. Yes the rising of power would be slow but it is a passive. So it is one of the unique designs in the world and it also has passive containment cooling and passive containment isolation. And what are the other features? Direct injection of emergency core cooling system water into the fuel bundle. Then we have an accumulator as we saw other everywhere you needed an accumulator for high pressure ECC. Then we have again a gravity driven water pool at a high elevation because as I said then only the water will be able to flow inside. Let us look at how the AHWR passive core cooling works. As I mentioned natural circulation is used to remove heat from the reactor core under normal as well as shut down conditions. So then from the reactor you get a two-phase steam mixture and it flows through pipes. Then it flows through the stream drum where it gets separated from water. The water comes through this downcomer back into the inlet header and the steam goes to the turbine and this is a bypass across the turbine in case turbine is not available and rest of the system is similar to a conventional or a any other nuclear power plant. So if you see here this is by natural that is the water getting heated rising up this itself is by natural circulation. So basically we will raise the heat in the core and by raising the controlled rods and slowly the power will rise the power will rise then the temperature will rise the flow would develop like that. Now I can tell you this being a new feature we have already set up lot of test loops to see how this process can be optimized. In the Indian Institute of Technology at Mumbai we already have set up a 2 megawatt loop which is in operation and has given lot of feedback for us in deciding how we will start up the reactor. So as I mentioned the large density difference between the hot leg which is the core and the cold leg which is the steam generator they are all possible to be achieved in 2-phase flow systems. So everything is the why why not you go for a pump the idea is if you have a pump again you must have a standby pump so that you can assure that it will be there not only that you have a pump then you have to consider all the events related to a pump trip pump seizure and pump trips are one of the most important when case when you lose power. So it may be a power supply failure or any other failure so you get rid of all these transients so the absence of pumps not only reduces operating cost but also eliminates all postulated transients and steady state flow will prevail in a natural circulation through there is no difficulty as long as your buoyancy force is balanced by the retarding friction forces. So it sets up yes the natural circulation flow will be much lower you require a large driving force. So one of the ways is how to minimize the frictional losses in the pipe. So we have to design the system in such a way that frictional losses must be minimized so we use big diameter pipes larger the diameter lesser is the friction pressure drop we try to reduce the number of bends we reduce the number of valves not only that we also eliminate mechanical separators in the steam drum because mechanical separators again they have a pressure drop they are adding the emergency core cooling system of the AHWR in the event of a rupture of any pressure primary coolant boundary. So initially you have the water flow from the high pressure accumulators then later this gravity driven water pool will continue to cool the reactor for nearly 3 days there will be a small low pressure injection pump which can pump this water into the core. So this of course is the passive decay heat removal here you see already it is passive even under normal conditions. So it is also passive under the any case of a power failure condition having talked about passive safety then why not all people build reactors which are passively safe so can you can say that okay I have achieved the safety but then there are some issues which are important to be resolved one and most important is how do you quantify the reliability of a passive system then how a passive system can fail very simplest example I can give you suppose I have a pump which is running and going through the core water flow is going through the core I have a standby pump if I want to check whether the standby pump is going to operate I can just need to put it on and see whether flow is coming that is all so I can monitor that system is a force circulation but I can I can monitor a force circulation system but if it is a natural circulation system how do I monitor yes you have the flows but that flows will come in a system which is already in operation a system which has to develop natural circulation how do I do it so one of the important issues is in what ways failure can be there and how to measure the reliability so inclusion of failure modes and reliability estimates of passive components is one of the important things which has done attention and these are in progress today many methodologies have been evolved and consensus is getting reached based on how we should make a probabilistic safety assessment of such passive systems and most important is a natural circulation for which still there is not an agreed approach but still it is in progress then what are the important phenomena based on which natural circulation will happen yes one is steady state operation of natural circulation systems how they suppose it is a single phase surely you have no difficulty but suppose it is a two phase natural circulation then you have to think about what is called as the instability of natural circulation two phase flow systems are prone to flow instabilities so this is one area where enough attention needs to be given the other one is I talked about startup of natural circulation systems as I talked to you about the advanced heavy water reactor where we want to start the reactor based on a natural circulation system so it needs not it is not difficult so only thing is it has to be given enough attention then of course design and validation of computer codes which you use for natural circulation systems believe here under natural circulation flow the velocities are low so you must have enough data of friction factors and pressure drop correlations for such low flows and when you have a low flow you have you know when you have a pool you have a thermal stratification when a low flow that would not be good mixing and when there is no good mixing the hot will be at the top and the cold will be at the bottom so it will be stratification and this itself can oppose your natural convection flow then what are the uncertainties we talk about uncertainties first and foremost as I mentioned to you the friction pressure drop so in the case of a pump you would have some margin you can always have a increase of speed of the pump and then get a higher head and go ahead but here it is not possible so it should not happen that you design a reactor for 300 megawatt electrical and you are not able to reach the flow beyond 200 megawatt electrical so lot of experimental data and experience is required to do this so in important is identify the uncertainties in terms of the critical parameters the modes of failures and how it happens in the presence of non condensables if air were there non condensables are there the condensation process also will get affected so how this and as I mentioned thermal stratification so these add some sort of a I would not say that it is a fear it needs attention that is all because for everything you have to pay a price for passive safety also you need to pay a price so in a comparative sense let us look at the advantages and disadvantages or drawbacks of passive systems advantage no external power supply so no loss of power incident can be conceived because there is no external power supply no human factor because it is based on natural loss but as I mentioned there is a degree of human factor may be involved in case one has to actuate a button better impact on public acceptance the idea is that public would be able to accept such reactors with ease because you are dependent on the natural forces like gravity and buoyancy so it is going to happen gravity is not going to fail you but then what are the drawbacks or the disadvantages low driving force because the buoyancy forces are low so it requires a very large height between the source and the sink so more means it also increases your pressure drop so you are relying on a system and just because you want to minimize the pressure drop you have large pipes then what about the licensing requirement this is a very open issue this needs a lot of so in fact you would be happy to note that the at present our advanced evo reactor design is with the atomic energy regulatory board where they are going through the licensing aspects and how to license this also will be a one of the issues which will be resolved then need for operational tests now testing of the system for operation as I mentioned monitoring monitoring the thing how will be able to monitor so here again the person who's to monitor the systems and say that's working or not here again a human factory is getting involved and of course last but not the least the reliability assessment and as I mentioned earlier the flows are so low may not be difficult to make quite difficult to monitor sometimes because the flow is very much less yes before summarizing I would just compare the existing force systems or active systems to passive systems in a very simple way active systems I can say are known devil's while passive systems are the unknown angels so in this lecture last two lectures let us see what we have covered we covered the passive safety what is passive safety why this attractive basically because of simplicity public appeal and high reliability but mind you reliability and passivity are not same that is a major thing which I indicated in the beginning of my lecture it is not necessary that the passive system is reliable it needs to be made reliable then many designs evolutionary designs have been incorporated these enhancements of course while retaining the economic aspect we talked about two reactors AP 600 in the USA and our reactor in India the advanced water reactor so one is today it is not a proven technology to show it has to be a proof proving the technology is going to be the major challenge and yes if this challenge is met it is will be surely possible to have passively safe reactors in the next generation as usual I have put here a bibliography for some of the systems this is an IAA passive safety systems and natural circulation in water cold nuclear reactors is a very good document for understanding how the different developments are going on this is the first one is the safety related terms which I had explained to you in the first lecture this gives you an overview of the AP 600 design and we do have what innovative design concepts we are going to use for the future fast-meter reactors because we have two types of reactors in India the precious hay water reactor and the advanced hay water reactors so this paper deals with the passive safety of future fast-meter reactors and this with the advanced hay water reactors is a very good paper this is a small assignment for you to see whether you have understood and you may really probe this further thank you


updates. Good afternoon, folks. This is Steve Rhodes coming to you live from the shores of sunny Delray Beach, Florida. This year, 2 p.m. update. We've got a bit of a mixed bag out here that mix goes like this. You've got the Dow off four points. That is flat. The S&P's off five points. That's just slightly above flat. And you've got the Nasdaq off eight tenths percent. That's 102. That is not flat out there. The Russell's up six. The semis are down 39. Trendy's are up three points. Flat out there. Gold's not flat. It's off about 10 bucks. 17, is the print. Silver's off 28 cents. 1833 is the print there. Light's recruited up about 68. Natural gas up 32 cents. And the 30-year treasury printed out at 141.13. That's off 21 ticks. Let's go spend a little bit of time. Take a look at our cash indices charts out there. We'll begin by taking a look at the Dow. And we take a look at the Dow. You can visually see, excuse me, an A to B equals CD pattern. To the upside, it has not completed. And even though you got a little dark cloud cover candle, on Friday you do not have a completed A to B equals CD pattern. That does not mean that it won't pull back and test the Saucer and Changeline at the 31 to 90 area. You have that same condition inside the S&P 500. The S&P 500 didn't even generate a bearish reversal candle, but it also has not generated or completed the one-to-one move of its A to B equals CD pattern. Different story when we take a look at the NDX100. It completed the one-to-one move, generated the bearish reversal candle on Friday, and that suggests that it may be pulling back to its Saucer and Changeline. That is in a 12 or 34 level. The Russell 2000, the same thing as the NDX100. It confirms a sell the D point pattern. It gets to the at least the one-to-one area, and that might be signaling to you and I a price targeted for around 1762 its Saucer and Changeline. In the case of the semis out there, they do a 1 to 1.618 or so A to B equals CD to the upside, generate a bearish slash candle. Therefore, price might be pulling back to its Saucer and Changeline at the 2690 level. The Dow transports no topping pattern there, might be really targeting 14478 to the upside. NASDAQ composite also a sell the D point pattern. It might be targeting 11510 out there. And right now, you've got the XAU. This is a totally divergence from the GDX out there, but you have the XAU still maintains its, is that pretty right? 1100.47? That's not pretty right. I'm 102.14. So I've got a bad read. Looks like I got a bad read on all these, to be quite frank. I don't know what's going on there. I'm going to have to try to fix that. Hey folks, stay tuned. Your favorite polar bear, David Whites, up next. I'll see you back here tomorrow on terrific Tuesday. You have a magnificent Monday, folks.


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The other day I think it was yesterday what happened is I went into the lounge and my housemate had moved things around like He'd moved I think my entire guitar amp both the guitars and a giant shelving unit From one side of the room to the other side of the room And I didn't notice that he'd done it for at least a couple of hours And then he said do you notice anything different? And I obviously looked around and still didn't really notice anything had changed And then he pointed that he pointed out they had moved these big things and I said oh wow Okay, like that's I was very surprised. I didn't notice these changes and It's led me to remind myself about a very important concept with lucid dream in which everyone sometimes forgets and That it's it's about awareness If you if you can like go through your day with things like that happening and you not being aware of them Then something's wrong like I was something was wrong with me Because to not notice something that big of it like to not notice that big of a change Means that in that moment or it you know that day yesterday. I was not aware of myself I was on autopilot and it's probably because I was tired from going to the gender day before and I hadn't really slept well But that's beside the point you should if something like that happens And if you know if you realize that you can't actually pick up on changes in your environment And you don't notice things happening around you. That's going to be detrimental to your litter dreaming and It was sort of a reminder for myself, I guess to be more aware and to pay more attention To what's going on around me because if something like that can happen. I'm not paying off attention So here's a little challenge for you what I would what I've started doing is every every sort of Day or two not every single day, but every every couple of days I will Spend 10 minutes where I just sit in a room and just take in every single detail that I possibly can really look around and Think like is this whiteboard in the right place? Is this clock in the right place? There's this wall color the same color it normally is is this cupboard shelving unit in line of these cards in a straight line As the colors changed is this remote straight like is the reflection in the mirror correct these things are Gonna build your critical awareness because you're gonna look at the things that you take for granted and Question them and criticize whether they are that way. I think one of the biggest tests you can do as well It's to sit in a room and close your eyes and ask yourself questions about the house you live in But for example, what color are your bathroom walls? That's usually fairly easy, right? What floor is in your kitchen? What is the pattern on the flooring? What is the pattern on the ceiling? You know roughly where in your room are your plug sockets in your shower? Try and visualize the shower knob where you change the temperature and the numbers Which way does it go and is the hottest at the bottom or the top and like really ask yourself these questions? Where you try and build your memory of the places you take for granted because a lot of people just go on autopilot and assume They know where everything is in the house a lot of people just do this stuff on autopilot most of the time And they don't realize that they don't actually know things about the place They they spend most of their lives in the houses And this is all about awareness and critical thinking So interrogate yourself about like about your own house ask yourself questions like where is a certain object? Or what is the pattern on like try and describe or visualize specific things with your eyes closed? It's actually a lot harder than you think really is a lot harder than you think like for example, what brand is a fridge? What brand is your TV? I mean you see the logo every day, but what brand is it? I couldn't tell you mine and I literally watch TV every evening So it's kind of an interesting experiment I guess just to ask yourself certain questions about the environment you live in and pay more attention I think the ultimate message of this video is just to pay attention to what's going on around you and try and pick up on changes That's going to give you a very good chance of lucid dreaming Because you're gonna ask yourself questions and criticize your environment and think okay Well, that's not quite right. Maybe something's wrong here. Maybe I'm dreaming and then you lose it just like that So that's it for today guys done Thanks for watching guys this video and this channel was supported by my patreon followers who are updated in the description of every video at The time of uploading please consider giving just a dollar a month to support this channel or just click the links in the description You'll find links to various lucid dreaming products articles techniques and tutorials if you did enjoy this video Please click the notification bell and subscribe and I'll see you next time Why are you still watching this you should have clicked one of my related videos by now right or subscribed or gone on to my website or something like that


Today, I am speaking with a friend of mine who also happens to be a pro and we're going to discuss the very real danger of suicidal people at shooting ranges or getting shooting instruction that might choose that as a location to hurt themselves. So welcome, Sloan. Will you tell us a bit about yourself? Hey, shepherd. Thank you so much for having me on here and my background is in clinical mental health counseling. I got my master's degree in that in 2018 I've worked with veterans with PTSD and I've also worked as a crisis counselor. In the rural area of western Colorado and that allowed me to respond a lot to clients who are experiencing suicidal ideations, homicidal ideations, suicide attempts and psychosis. There are very interesting cases all people who have really kind of reached an emotional limit to and have with hit their bandwidth on their emotional coping skills that they have. And so everybody deserves somebody to talk to everybody deserves to be seen and heard. And sometimes a lot of people don't have access to that and so unfortunately they resort to suicides. So one of the gun ranges and gun shop owners come in is how can we allow suicide prevention aspects to come in for people who are trying to find means to commit suicide. Gun shop wounds as death for suicide actually hit about 60%. A lot of people think that the gun deaths in this country come from mass shootings or homicides in the cities but unfortunately the guns are pertaining more and more to suicides. Yeah, that's been interesting as I've looked at numbers over the years. It's been interesting for me to look at the, there are statistics out there that make guns look bad that that say you know there's all this gun violence. And it's like, well, you know ropes, what about rope violence people hanging themselves, but it would make sense if you want to get a job done whether it's screwing a screw in a board or whatever you want to do you're going to grab a tool that's handiest for it. And yeah, I hopefully we can learn things today that those of us that are around guns a lot and that are hanging around with people we don't know who have guns in their hands that we're handing to them. Hopefully we can find some ways to make sure we don't hand the guns to a people who we have any way of knowing our suicidal. So what are some of your kind of bottom line what's your general advice what kind of an opener to our conversation today do you have any good advice for us. Yeah, I would love to share some good advice on how to address it as a say somebody walks into your shop and they are looking to rent a weapon to kill themselves on your range. And this statistic actually is really low when it comes to firearms suicide. It's less than 1%, however, they do happen. And for some reason a lot of the articles I was finding to find are in were from Florida. So that was interesting. And they're really big state that is pushed back against all the red flag laws and all this so there's a lot of criticism on them for not implementing more structure, more policies and more red tape, so to speak. But as a mental health professional and looking at the red flag laws that are passed down. I'm not sure that's actually pro mental health those seem to be more. Let's use mental health to cover our attempt to really downplay the Second Amendment. And so I, I'm an advocate of people being able to have access to firearms. I'm an advocate of people being responsible with those firearms. And so, when it comes to people walking into your shop, they.  So that's one of the first cues to pay attention to. There is an interesting statistics that I found recently around the time of deliberation of suicide in the time of getting their hands on a weapon to actually commit suicide was an average of 10 minutes. If you can engage on a personal level as the as the coach as the employee that's behind the counter about to rent the gun and just try to start a dialogue with an if one person is coming in by themselves to rent a gun and they kind of look a little sad. It might be the best way to describe it or kind of blank, like not really having any kind of emotional effect on them. If you can pick up those cues and then just try to ask a couple questions. One thing I've kind of wanted to get from you later is. Is there a questionnaire list that you guys offer through your range and if there is maybe in that process there's a couple questions that you can add that have a more mental health slant. And that way it's not all just talking but you can pick up cues on what they write in there. Okay, that's that makes good sense and so maybe it's not overtly.  That's the hope behind it. They tend to not necessarily have any plans. They tend, they could potentially not have any idea about the gun that they're picking up. They might just be coming in and saying, Oh, that gun looks good. I want to try to test it. It doesn't matter. I don't really care about the safety protocols. I don't really care about training. I just want to shoot it. What's the ammunition like if they have no knowledge of the guns or any knowledge about safety protocols or they've never done their own training and they're not interested in their own training. Those might be little red flags that go off of like, well, maybe we should get you some lessons first, or maybe we should offer you bear spray or like something else besides, and that's more, instead of renting that comment was more towards if people are trying to buy firearms that they're not wanting to get any kind of more training or more information on they're just saying I want to take this okay cool. That allows your coaches your employees to kind of pick up on factors that they might not necessarily be there for a long term gun advocacy and gun usage more short term solution to a distressful situation in their life that's happening right now. It's really interesting the 10 minute thing that gosh and it's you know time is money but if whether a person is at a gun store or in our business's case. We're with our clients for an average of three hours each, but just taking that time at the very beginning to maybe look him in the eye and say so how are you doing today. Maybe that little and tell me if I'm on the right track here, maybe that showing the care to them could be the one little thing that at least helps them hold on another day. Is that is that true or is that just fantasy thinking. No, it's definitely true. Unfortunately, a lot of people who happen to be suicidal have nobody that's advocating for them have nobody that's listening to them. A lot of a lot of people who fit in that 50% of the 10 minute time range. They have something that just impacted them immediately and something like it just, it's so overwhelming and it just feels like there's no way out of this and so the easiest route is just to take care of it I'm, I'm a burden on my family. I can I don't have a job I can't find a job I just lost the job. I'm getting into divorce, the breakup they were cheating, like there's so many social economic factors that play into each other there's no one. So 10.1 thing that leads to suicide. There's so many different factors. And the other problem is that you can be a super seasoned psychologist seeing somebody for the first time and trying to do a suicide risk assessment on them, but people can adapt and they can lie very well if they really want to get an end to the end for them, paying attention to the people around you, having close relationships. Obviously this isn't going to come into effect with your employees and the customer, but if people could just engage more with the people around them with their family members with their friends. And if you start to send something off and just showing them that you care about them, that in and of itself can be a mitigating factor towards people suicide. Okay, now another question I watched a video some years ago of somebody that was at a range with a shooting instructor, and they took the gun and suddenly turned it on themselves. And I think they just grazed themselves and they actually hit the shooting instructor, but this person didn't really give any big warning. Are these statistics or are there general guidelines to people usually like to say a sentence of, I am just sick of it all, and then commit suicide, or is it kind of like the video I saw where there's not even that few words of tell everybody I love them, there's no final words, it's just kind of the go for it. Are there any numbers statistics anything that would help us there. Otherwise, I'm not exactly sure.  There's some people that have that kind of mentality. And there's others that actually are related that you might actually see people that are really calm and happy and joyful because they've made a final decision that that it's all going to end now. So there and they're not going to say anything. And then you have the people that have no facial affect and no verbal response so unfortunately suicide is a nasty mix of a very wide range of different responses and how people are going to finally complete it. Okay. Okay, there's a thing that you know there's the the joke or the saying in the gun world that the pro gun rights world that you know you never see people going in and doing mass shootings at gun stores or at gun shows that kind of thing. So there's this this idea that a homicidal person still has a desire to live at the end of the day, and thinks that they have an escape for that. And so there's kind of that that reason or that rational thought that they still have. What about suicidal people during those last moments right beforehand is reason still there are rational thought, or are they complete completely void of that. That's an interesting question chapter or shepherd sorry, and I would say that logical reasoning versus emotional reasoning. There's going to be an interplay of both of those. Can you reason with somebody. Listen to survivors of suicide attempts. They say that all they wanted was somebody to talk to them, somebody to ask them and authentically be there for them not try to fix their situation but just hear them. And so, I would like to advocate for that aspect of there is an ability to reason with them both on a logical side, but more peppered and flavored with some emotional reasonings within there. People don't want to be told that it's not that hard, you're like your life is fine. They want to know like, you know, this is really hard and I can understand where you're going through but life is precious and you have so much opportunity if you could just get through this hurdle, and and be there for you and if we can we take some stress out on the range by shooting at the target not at ourselves but like, because I would say that a lot of people are able to if you can. If you can exert yourself in some way that shows dominance that shows that you were able to succeed over something like that is invigorating and it brings some like life giving energy back. Like if you could get into a jiu-jitsu class and you start wrestling and you actually find out that you can actually hold somebody or at least not get choked out yourself. Or if you can make your circle on the gun range a little bit smaller and smaller as you go through like these all can be healthy outlets for trying to get better control of your life circumstances they don't have to be negative. If your coaches are able to just see people for the people that they are and try to relate on the emotional side with little pellets of logic thrown in there that I feel like would be a helpful approach to people who may be suicidal. Okay. What and you've mentioned so kind of to go back over the stronger points that you know if I if I only had 30 seconds to give advice to somebody to watch out so blank stare. Sadness despair if we can see that in a person. The flip side maybe elation or just this peaceful feeling of good now I've got a decision looks like I'm getting a way to solve this. What else avoiding glances are avoiding looking in the eye. What else am I missing that would be a good kind of summary or recap of what to watch out for. Somebody who's not a gun enthusiast or a gun advocate and necessarily somebody that's just coming in because they want to find a means. And so if they have no knowledge no history of training and no interest in pursuing that. I don't know what a caliber is or what type of ammunition they need that could be some signs and they're just saying okay well what goes with this. Those can just be little cues that you can pick up on and start to question a little bit further. What do you plan on doing with this. The initial kind of like if somebody were to walk into your shop and you ask them like as they're as you're engaging in and questions about certain thing or the gun access. If you're able to ascertain how like how's life going for you and just kind of pick up on their first immediate response. Okay, some people want to vent. Some people will tell you I lost my job and I'm going through a divorce and all this stuff and so there's certain things that are cues that life is a bit disturbed. Then maybe that would be a good sign to pick up on as well. Okay, okay. Have we not talked about have I not asked about that would be good for gunman, like, like myself like our coaches like gunstore owners. What else would be a, what else I haven't I asked that would be a good thing to think about. Yeah, so one thing that I'm thinking about that you could ask is how can gun stores be one of those barriers in suicide prevention. There is a coalition that started in New Hampshire, and they're currently called connect I think, but if you were to look up the gun shop project. They did this, and they are advocates for gun policies, which usually throws people who are gun right activists up in arms, and they reached out across the aisle so to speak, and they asked gun shop owners and they asked range owners to come together and just look at the statistics. And so one gun shop owner in particular. It was brought to his attention that three, they weren't the gun ranges it was a gun shop. So three guns within a week period that were purchased from his shop resulted in suicide. And so he felt like it's not necessarily he doesn't agree that our second amendment needs to be taken away or that limitations need to be put on that, but he does care about people and he believes that people should have a barrier in place in the sense of here's all the information I can give you. And they have reached out to multiple states, and multiple states have reached out to them and they come in and they do training, and they approach it from a systematic mental health side social barrier side, all kinds of different information that they try to highlight for business owners for gun shop owners gun range owners, and I just feel like that's a really unique. And inspirational and actually working towards prevention response that I've seen so far. Okay, wow that's good to know about that resource. And then also you are available in this short training session that we're doing now in the, the quiz afterward. This is a good first step. And you are available to come to a range or a business like ours and provide live training as well as soon as the whole phobia of 2020 goes away. You're available to travel for that and you also do zoom sessions or for training or tell us a little bit about your practice and what's available if somebody wants to follow up and get more training. Gotcha. So currently I do private practice counseling through the voluntary community. And so you can find me via website, which is restored empower calm. And I'm also on telegram. And if people have access to that it's just at restore and power. I do zoom calls, I do voice and video calls through telegram if people want a more encrypted route, although I'm curious if there's any real encryption out there or how secure and save everything really is but that's a step of trying to do that. And then if people want in person trainings I would love to travel for that I would love to be able to help wherever I can. And shop owners the gun range owners like yourself that are taking the initiative to trying to help support the idea that we want to prevent suicide just like everybody else. I think is a great investment in your time and resources because it's going to help with the wave of backlash that comes from suicide happening. This shows that you guys are trying and you're wanting to encourage people to still have guns still go shooting and yet still take care of their lives as well. There was one statistic I wanted to bring up because I found this really interesting. There's data from 1999 to 2017, where there's a steady increase from 1999 to 2006 of 1% of suicides a year. And then after 2006 it goes to about a 2% increase every year and so we've continuously been on an increase of people committed suicide. A little outlier of that was 2009 and that jumped to between 4% and 6% depending on the statistics that you're reading, but that was in my head a correlation to the housing market crash. And so there's been astronomical crashing of the economy in this last year that a lot of people aren't talking about and with that has come loss of jobs, loss of housing, loss of food availability. And if you can extrapolate from 2009 into what's coming in this next year, I would suggest that we should be more aware and vigilant on the potential risks and suicides that are coming. That is such a good point. The whole crisis that the government, the media have created since March of 2020. Yeah, I've lost a friend to suicide over it and I know that they call it the year of suicides this last year. We're recording this in March of 2021. So that's a very good point that it's not going to end just when if they decide to turn scientific and get rid of masks and allow people to move freely, it's not just going to be completely over then. There's still going to be lots of divorces, lots of bankruptcies still happening, businesses closing, houses being taken away. So yeah, this is a particularly important time to pay close attention. Thank you. Well, that brings us to a close. Thank you Sloan so much for coming on and giving us some ideas on how we can all achieve the goal we want, which is saving lives. Thank you. Thank you, Sheppard.


What is the difference between Okinawan and Japanese karate? And more importantly, why should you care? Many may claim, well, what does it matter? It's all just karate. Oh, but it matters enough so that by not understanding the difference You might be missing your own training goals We're gonna break this down into a few key segments We're going to explore the origin of the two the differences in training methods And then we'll illustrate this with an example between a Shoren Ryu and Shoto kankata And I bet once you see the differences, you'll never be able to unsee them And for those of you who stick to the end, we'll talk about a very common karate phrase that probably shouldn't be used in an Okinawan Dojo Okinawan karate has its roots in the indigenous martial arts of Okinawa, which at the time was known as the Ryu-Kyu Kingdom Now the development can be traced back to the late 14th century when martial arts were practiced and taught by Okinawan nobility And warriors as a means of self-defense and combat training Now these early martial arts were influenced by the various Chinese martial arts brought to Okinawa through maritime trade and cultural exchange So the specific origins of Okinawan karate as a distinct art are difficult to pinpoint However, over the centuries through cross-cultural exchange, three main styles of te or hand emerged These systems were shurite, nahate, and tomarete, named for the cities that they were establishing Later the term karate emerged, meaning tang hand The modernizing and standardization of Okinawan karate began in the early 20th century when karate was introduced to mainly in Japan Gichin Funukoshi, the founder of shuritake on karate, is largely credited with this migration Now while he wasn't the only one to bring karate to Japan, he was definitely the most influential He was dubbed the father of modern karate and he made several changes when he introduced karate from Okinawa to mainland Japan These changes were motivated by various factors including the desire to make karate more accessible, understandable, and acceptable to the Japanese population So for the cultural adaptation, Funukoshi recognized that karate, as practiced in Okinawa, had historical connections to China that might not resonate with the Japanese people The two countries were at odds with each other and therefore he adopted karate to align more with closely with Japanese culture and societal norms This included changing the kanji name from tang hand or chinese hand to empty hand, though the pronunciation remained the same He introduced a more structured and systematic approach to training Including the use of belt ranks to denote skill levels and the organization of techniques into a formal curriculum Now while he implemented the color belt system, he didn't create it That credit goes to his friend and judo founder, Jigoro Kano Funukoshi standardized it across Japanese karate and it became so ingrained in training that the influence even traveled back to Okinawa Where several schools chose to utilize it as well Funukoshi emphasized the philosophical and moral aspects of karate promoting values such as discipline, respect, and self-improvement He saw karate not only as a means of self-defense, but also as a path to personal development and enlightenment So overall Japanese karate is a modern adaptation of the okinawan systems that root back hundreds of years If you like our content and you want us to keep developing more episodes like this Then please help us out by visiting artofwondoja.com We have a store with exclusive shirts that feature various martial arts styles and grandmasters And for a limited time you can use the code WUSHU2024 to get 10% off of any t-shirt This is our way of thanking you for being a part of our dojo family and you can fashionably represent your art Okay, so let's run through a list of some of the more notable differences And after this you should start to see the clear distinction between okinawan and Japanese karate Stances in okinawan karate stances tend to be higher and narrower emphasizing mobility and agility This allows practitioners to move quickly and efficiently In contrast Japanese karate often adopts deeper and lower stances which provides stability and power generation These stances are designed to root the practitioner into the ground allowing them for strong and forceful techniques Also as a generality okinawan karate utilizes a combination of circular and linear motions stemming from its chinese influences When karate came to japan it blended with existing japanese arts and reflects a more direct linear style range Okinawan karate emphasizes close-range combat techniques incorporating strikes and vigorous grappling maneuvers Techniques are often executed in a compact and efficient manner Making use of close-quarter fighting tactics such as elbow strikes knee strikes violent giant joint locks and takedowns In contrast Japanese karate tends to utilize more linear and powerful range attacks Techniques are executed with precision and focus on generating maximum force from a distance This includes techniques such as straight punches front kicks and footwork that allow practitioners to maintain distance and control engagement Conditioning now okinawan karate often incorporates strength building tools such as the makiwara and hojo undu or supplementary exercises into training regiments These tools are used to develop physical conditioning power and precision through repetitive striking and conditioning drills The makiwara for example is used for practicing powerful strikes while experiencing some resistance While hojo undu implements tools such as stone weights and gripping jars are used to strengthen the body's muscles and joints In contrast Japanese karate typically relies less on the strength training building tools and focuses more on kata kihon which are basic techniques and kumite sparring for physical conditioning and skill development kata okinawan karate places a strong emphasis on the practical application or bunkai of techniques Which involves understanding the context and purpose behind each movement within kata Practitioners analyze kata to extract self-defense applications Exploring how techniques can be applied effectively in a real combat situation Japanese karate on the other hand tends to place greater importance on the form and technical precision of the kata Now while bunkai is still taught in practice Japanese karate styles often prioritize perfecting the execution of kata movements focusing on correct posture timing and alignment This emphasis on technical precision reflects Japanese karate's dedication to discipline mastery and aesthetic beauty in martial arts practice Class setting okinawan classes typically feature smaller more intimate settings where the instructor encourages questions and fosters understanding among students The learning environment prioritizes individualized interaction allowing students to engage with the instructor and deepen their understanding of their techniques and principles Japanese karate has been adopted to accommodate much larger class sizes often teaching to the masses in more structured settings Question is sensei can sometimes be perceived as disrespectful and students are generally expected to follow technical instructions without much deviation The focus is on learning through repetition and following the instructor's guidance rather than engaging in an extensive dialogue or exploration of concepts power generation In Japanese karate there is a key term called kimei Now kimei signifies a focus and explosive contraction of muscles upon strike It is the act of delivering maximum power and precision through a coordinated breath body mechanics and mental focus Characterized by a momentary freeze upon impact. It allows for effective power transfer and a decisive finish Now okinawa has a different term called jinkuchi Now the word is a bit hard to translate directly But it refers to internal strength or power at the point of contact It's fundamental in okinawa martial arts like goji ryu Now unlike kimei, which capitalizes on explosive energy release, jinkuchi focuses on continuous power flow Achieved through subtle body alignments coordination and breathing It channels power from the body's core to the limbs often involving circular movements techniques appear fluid Get powerful with a constant connection to the opponent. It's a subtle difference, but it's a major difference So we can keep getting into the nuances of the two different cultures, but I think the differences are becoming clear So I thought it would be interesting to take the same kata that is in both okinawan and japanese systems Shoren Ryu is one of the oldest styles of okinawan krate stemmed from shirite Shottokan is essentially for Nogoshi's interpretation of the art Both arts have a beginning kata called pinan shodan which translates to peaceful mind first level Now the form teaches the beginning student the first couple of basic stances blocks and strikes in motion Now for the purpose of the comparison I watched quite a few different versions of each and the kata does appear to change the performance depending on the school So I picked two samples that were closer in sequence Also worth noting just as funakoshi changed the spell of the krate to distance it from its chinese roots He changed the name of this kata as well Dropping the word pinan he renamed it to heian shodan, which also means peaceful mind With the performances side by side, you can immediately see the differences Heian shodan utilizes the lower stances each step is deep linear and explosively powerful at the end of each strike Now you can see the kimei and definitely the conclusion of each move at the end of the punch Also notice that for the most part those deep stances generally maintain a constant height for the practitioner In pinan shodan, you can clearly see a difference in the footwork Stances are higher and narrower with their height changing in certain steps It's also very subtle But there are more you know nuanced circular motions in the strikes and while the pause and the focus seems similar The jinkuchi is a little bit more evident here with the power generated in the core and exhibiting slightly more fluid movements Now this was just a general comparison and i'm already anticipating comments correcting me on what versions I use or sending links to different performances If you look around you're going to find different variations that will blur the lines of what we discussed here I just thought that this served as an interesting side by side to see the two different flavors of krate in motion One more subtle difference. I would like to point out is the term us Now this is something you hear in many japanese dojos and it can mean many different things It can be said as an agreement to a command. It can be a greeting I understand or a thank you or it can be an expression of respect There are different explanations of where the word came from one of them being a combination of a japanese expression for good morning But the truth is it's an expression that is often used differently in different settings You will likely hear it a lot in kiyokushin krate dojos or even more commonly these days Brazilian jujitsu clubs. Now we use it in our own japanese jujitsu school as a sign of respect Now regardless of the meaning and the origin of the term before you use it Learn the context of it in the school that you are attending Do not assume that just because you're in a dojo that is acceptable to use Especially in an okinawan art where osu is not even a word in no vocabulary And if you use it incorrectly you may receive some confused looks or be thought of as ignorant or in the worst case Possibly insult someone so like other rules of dojo etiquette. It's probably best to ask if it's accepted before just assuming That gesture alone will at least show you that you respect the school enough to ask So why does this even matter well first? I personally think it's a fascinating study to see how arts evolve Is a migrate from one country to another adapting new cultural aspects Second if you are interested in starting karate it helps to note the differences so that you can make better choices Are you more interested in a powerful in your fighting system with a little more range or prefer a style that focuses heavily on competition? Then a japanese style may be your answer But if you're more interested in close-range self-defense that includes stand-up and some grappling techniques and heavier boomkai and kata study Well, then an okinawan art may be a better fit Always do your research identify your goals and align your options with those goals I just want to reiterate that this is once again a general classification None of these are hard rules and especially in today's global landscape is easier for the lines to blur However, I think sometimes it helps by putting things in boxes so that you can take a step back And get a sense of things on a broader scale and that's exactly what we did right here with kung fu The chinese martial arts are another beast altogether and with hundreds of styles existing It can be challenging to know where to draw those lines Now if we think that japanese and okinawan karate is different just wait until you see how diverse northern and southern kung fu styles are


Hello people of the internet, my name is Johnny and welcome back finally to another video. Listen, second episode of the year, we're like halfway through January, I'm sorry. If you saw my community post or you follow me on Twitter, which by the way you should follow me on Twitter, I had quite the eventful end of last year and start of this year. Of course, we had FNAF Security Breach come out, we did a whole playthrough on that. I still have a bit more SB content I want to cover since I know a lot of people have been wondering, what are my thoughts on the game? What are my theories on the game? So I will be doing more videos on that game. But we finished our playthrough, right? Christmas came, I got freaking COVID, that sucked. Had it all the way through New Years and then I was recovering a couple weeks into January and we're finally back. But first up, I just want to say thank you, thank you, thank you so much for the support. While I was gone, the channel freaking blew up all thanks to that 150 random FNAF facts video, which I'm still proud of, not how I sound in that video, but the editing I'm proud of.  I was a little busy with SB, with being sick with COVID. But we're all good now, right? I feel fine, I'm ready to hop back into making some more content. And while I've been gone, we've gotten a lot, a lot of news. We got some port news, we got some fanverse news, official merchandise news. I mean, even the other day we got two brand new books revealed and speaking of books, we got the Ultimate Guide to talk about, the How to Draw FNAF book to talk about. But I thought I'd keep the return pretty plain and simple with a merchandise review video on some brand new. Well, I say brand new, it's not nearly as brand new as it was going to be when I wanted to upload this video. But some pretty relatively new FNAF security breach merch. So let's get this long intro out of the way, hit the like button, subscribe. We're almost at 30,000 subs, which again is crazy.  To make things easier, I've already taken everything out of their boxes and packages. So I'm still going to show them off, but keep in mind just for the sake of time, my time, they're already out of the box. But not too long ago, we got some brand new squishmeas. These are actually jumbo jumbo squishmeas. So as you'll see, these things are pretty big. I mean, compared to like a, like a pop figure, I've got a little Sonic right here. They're bigger than a pop, you know, almost maybe double like 1.5 times the size. These things are huge.  Not a whole bunch of detail on these guys. Here's Freddy as well. They just look funny, you know, not a whole bunch of detail, which for $15, even though these things are jumbo size, you know, I'd hope for a bit more detail. But the main thing is that these guys, they do, I mean, they do squish, as you can see, they do squish. But I mean, if you're getting them for detail, maybe don't get these. If you're getting them for squishy, definitely get them. We also got some more just toys products in the form of FNAF craftables. They're just little miniature statues that you can build, which I think it's a pretty neat selling point, you know, being able to build the actual, ah, this way, the actual, you know, figures. The figures themselves, not really the best, especially when these things cost, I think it's like 10 bucks each. It's crazy. Like these things don't really have a whole lot of detail. They look kind of funny. The whole building aspect is kind of annoying since they can fall apart very easily. So this is Freddy, big head, huge jaw, holding his microphone. I got a set of five and I got two Freddy's. I got everybody else, all I'm missing is Vanny. Here's Monty and here's his, uh, his palm tree. It doesn't stay on his thing though, because again, when you can build things, they can also fall apart very easily, because you have to be able to build them very easily. I mean, they do look like the characters, but again, not a whole lot of detail, which is kind of upsetting. Here's Chica. She actually doesn't look that bad. I don't think, definitely probably the best one I'd say. A lot of detail, you know, she's got a speaker here. I don't know what this is. Yeah, actually not that bad. Probably the best one still looks weird, the mold, still missing a lot of detail, but compared to the other ones, she's not that bad. But then we get to the bad one, which is Roxanne Wolfe. She does not look good at all. Keep in mind, this is what she looks like on the box. These are not the same thing. These are most definitely not the same thing at all. I like her pose. I like the mold. I think it's probably the best one, but you know, the detail, it's just not there at all. She's also gray, for some reason, not purple gray. Yeah, just honestly, not the best merch we've seen. But now let's move on to some of the better merchandise in this video, the Game Theory Creator Inc. FNAF Security Breach Collaboration. It's a whole lot of things. First, I want to start it off with the lamp. This is the one they did earlier. As you can see, it has the FNAF One Gang. This one, Security Breach Gang. I'll show you on the box because it's easier. You got Monty, Chica, Apios Vanny, Roxanne, Freddy Main Center, Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizza Plex. It's actually a pretty cool design, I think. And here's the light. Again, you can't really see a whole lot of detail. Oh, actually you can. And here's the light in action. Hey, it looks pretty good. And it switches between different colors, as you can see. Going to orange. Now it's red. Now it's purple, like purple guy. Going to blue. It's actually pretty good. Next up in the Creator Inc merchandise, we have some Security Breach Pins. So you got Freddy, Rockstar, Monty saying Rar with a little holographic thing. Look at that, that's cool. Chica with her guitar saying let's party. And then you have Roxanne with skills. I don't know why she says skills, I guess because of the racing game. But these are pretty cool. They're pretty big, though. So I don't really know where I'm going to put them, if I'm going to put them on anything. For the most part, they look pretty good. Roxanne looks a bit strange. Same thing with Monty and Chica. Freddy looks the best, I'd say. And then you have those same designs, but this time as patches that you can stick on clothing. Again, they're so huge. Like I can barely fit maybe two of these on a t-shirt, or a jacket or something. These are huge, but they do come out very well. They look fantastic, probably because they're so big. Then you've got a lanyard, which you can put your keys, or if you go to like a convention, you can put your pass on the lanyard. The same design is on the actual lanyard itself.   The photo pass to go hang out with the Rockstar animatronics, the Glamrock animatronics. That is not the first time I've made that mistake. All right, there's too many goddamn characters in this franchise. Next up, we've got a whole bunch of socks with, again, the same design. They're made out of a strange material, so it's probably not socks I'd wear a whole lot. But overall, I mean, it's the same designs. They look pretty cool. I guess if you want to wear them on your socks. And then you have more of a, like a neon lights aesthetic to them. What does that say? Oh, it says Glamrocks. Huh, would you look at that? You got Chica, Monty, right there. Roxanne and Freddy at the top. Pretty cool designs, I like them. Again, not sure if socks were the best article of clothing to put them on, but you know, I bought them, I'll wear them, I guess. These are made of a much better material than the other ones, so I'd probably wear these over the other ones. And now I think all we have left are some t-shirts to put on. I got all the t-shirts, Freddy, Monty, Chica, Roxanne, Vanny. I didn't get any of the jackets because those were pretty pricey. First t-shirt is a completely black one that just says, you know, Security Breach. It's got the logo on the front. It's a fantastic t-shirt.  Nah, that's lame. Let's throw Vanny on the back. I would have accepted just the logo. That would have been cool. I mean, it's a cool design. It's nice, I like it, but do you really need it? Hey, not bad. That was the back looking. Oh, sick, baby. Look at that. Not bad. I kind of like it. Again, I would have been fine with just the logo. Vanny on the back is cool, but again, I don't really see why it was necessary. I like it. I like the design. It's cool. Just kind of a weird addition to throw on the back. Next t-shirt is, who is this?  My man. So this is for Monty's Gator Golf. Home of the Hurricane, Hole in One. Nice. This is sick. And if you've played the game or you've seen someone play the game, these are their action figure poses and designs. I think that's so funny. I'm guessing that's just the reference they were given. But yeah, all these other shirts, they have nothing on the back. It's just the design on the front with the four rock star. Glam Rocks.  Glam Rock and Matronix. So here it is, Monty's Gator Golf. Again, home of the Hurricane, Hole in One. Not bad. I kind of dig it. All the designs I love, by the way, feels good. You know, the material is great. It doesn't feel like a strange, cheap Halloween t-shirt. You'd buy it like party city or something. No, this feels pretty good. And again, the design, pretty spot on. I love it. I dig it. Going through these kind of fast, because I mean, it's just the design of the t-shirt. Not really much different. Here is Chica's Glam Rock Salon, I think. All right, interesting. It just says Chica's Glam Rock. All right. So the salon in the game itself belongs to Roxanne's Raceway. So interesting that they kind of gave it to Chica for the t-shirt. Or who knows, maybe it was going to be for Chica like early on in development. And they switched it to Roxanne. I don't know. But this is Chica. Looks pretty good. Again, that is the action figure design. Looks nice. And here it is a big complaint I see about, you know, merchandise like this that has the characters and the character's names is that it's difficult to wear in public. Because like, let's be honest, I probably won't be walking around town, you know, sporting my Chica's Glam Rock Salon t-shirt. Just because it so apparently has a finath aesthetic to it. You know, obviously, I mean, this is Chica. It does say Chica.  But I think people are hoping for a bit more subtlety with the t-shirts in this wave of merchandise, which I think is completely understandable, unfortunately or fortunately in this case, because I do like the designs, this is what we got. So kind of frustrating. I know some people are like, I wish it was a bit more subtle. Hopefully sometime in the future, we can get something like that. But again, even though I personally would not wear this out in public, I still dig the designs. Ooh, next up is Freddy's Phaser Blast, as they call it in the game. Obviously it's meant to be Phaser Blast, but because everything's pretty phas, bear it's Phaser Blast. So I guess what's interesting here is that the Phaser Blast is actually, you know, Freddy's mini game. We could have assumed that because it's called Phaser Blast. Again, Freddy Phas bear, do you get the joke at this point? They do it a whole lot in the game. Wait, wait, way too many times in the game. But yeah, this is technically Freddy's mini game. Again, pretty sick design. Goes along with the, you know, Phaser Blast aesthetic of it. Way to go superstar. Look at this. Again, I love the designs. I know some people aren't going to like it because it's not as subtle. Again, like I mentioned, but I dig it. I think it's awesome. You know, I really don't care if people know like, Hey, that's the five nights at Freddy. I don't care because the designs are just, man, they're so cool. I love it. I don't know how much longer this is going to be available. I'll leave it linked down below in case you do want to get some. I know some stuff is most likely already sold out. And again, keep in mind that this isn't like Funko. You know, this isn't just toys, which I mean the craftables were like 10 bucks. So maybe this is just toys, but some of this stuff is actually pretty expensive. So just keep that in mind. I think in total, I spent about $200 on, on all of this creator ink stuff. So, hey, if you're watching and you're not subscribed yet, please fricking do so. I spent too much money on this video. And the final one is our girl, Roxanne Wolfe and her racing club, not the raceway Roxanne's or Roxie's raceway, the racing club. I don't know if this was a early name for the attraction, for, you know, the minigame, what have you. But I mean, it's interesting. It's not Roxie's raceway. It's the racing club, which in full honesty, there's probably some like club subscription service, you know, VIP pass to get into the racing club at the, at the mega pizza flex. That's definitely a Fazbear entertainment move. And here we go. She looks pretty good. Nice. I will say the eyes are green. I got pointed this out, someone pointed this out to me a little bit ago. Her eyes are green on the t-shirt. But in the game and on the website, they're yellow. Now normally I'd say like, I really don't care because to be honest, I don't. But the fact that it's on the website and then the t-shirt has them be green, that's kind of false marketing. I know it's, it's eyes. They're like two pixels on the t-shirt. You can't really tell. But the fact that people did notice it tells, yeah, some people can tell and some people do care because I mean, it's a pretty big detail to miss. But this is Roxanne's racing club. Looks pretty good. I love all the t-shirts. I love all the merch. Oh, yeah, that is going to do it. Oh, I didn't show these things off. But again, the, the packaging on this stuff is so, it's so fun. I love it. Yeah, that's going to do it for today's video. It might be a bit of a long one. I've been recording for about 30 minutes. So I don't know. I'm happy to be back. I know I have a lot of catching up to do. I have a lot of videos to make. And again, I apologize for being gone for so long. But again, thank you for the support while I was gone. I really missed uploading. So I'm ready to get back into it. Again, we've got a lot of stuff to cover. So I'm hoping we can kind of pick back up pace. But it might be a bit slow, being honest. But I am back. So, you know, don't worry about me missing for another week or two. I am back. Videos are coming back. Thanks for the support. And that's going to do it for this video. Thank you so much for watching. And I'll see you all on the flip side. Goodbye.