Nobody likes being forced to enter data in forms on websites, especially not on mobile and certainly not when you're out and about and you're busy trying to get 10 things done at once. Autofill by the browser helps users to avoid re-entering data. Autofill can increase data accuracy and make forms more accessible. People like Autofill. Chrome data shows that users trigger Autofill more than 50% of the time when it's offered. And we see fewer forms abandoned when data is autofilled. So getting Autofill to work well is a collaboration between the browser and the web developer. Browsers need to interpret form code to provide easy-to-use interface features on desktop and mobile to enable the user to store Autofill data and then select from those stored values each time they encounter a form. Now, at the same time, web developers need forms to fit their data requirements and that doesn't always work as well as intended. So I'm Sam Dutton, a developer advocate working with the Chrome team and in this session, I'll show you a few ways that Chrome is evolving to make Autofill work better. Now, just going back to basics for a moment. Well, what actually is Autofill in Chrome? Well, Chrome helps users manage their commonly shared personal data to store and a fill, address, payment and login forms. Now, here you can see Chrome Autofill storing an address that's entered in a form and you can manage your Autofill data in Chrome settings and then use data for Autofill in forms on different sites. Now, one thing you might also have seen Chrome offers suggestions for input fields that are not related to address or credit card or login data. Well, in addition to offering Autofill for structured sets of data, such as address and payment details, Chrome helps users avoid having to re-enter data for single form fields that can't be handled by Autofill. When a form has a field with a name attribute that Chrome has encountered before, Chrome can suggest values so you don't need to re-enter data. Now, looking at the Chrome DevTools, you can see from the code that this form field doesn't have attributes that are meaningful to the browser. It has a name attribute of N300 and well, that's it. The field does not correspond to a value in a set of structured data that would make it appropriate for Chrome Autofill, but Chrome can still help the user if Chrome encounters a field with this name in the future. The Chrome DevTools team is building additional new features to help you debug forms and debug Autofill. These features are at an early stage of design and implementation and we need your help to make sure we get them right. And I'll explain later how to access the new features and how to give us your feedback. DevTools can help developers understand how Autofill works and why it sometimes fails. What criteria are used by Autofill to fill a form field, which fields didn't get filled by Autofill? And last, why does a form field not get filled by Autofill? So, first up, we've added functionality to the Chrome DevTools issues tab in the elements panel to help developers debug Autofill glitches. Open the issues tab on a page that includes a form with problems. And as you can see here, this form is a mess. You know, there's a form field without an ID or name attribute, elements with duplicate IDs, a label with a four attribute that doesn't match an element ID and a field with an empty autocomplete attribute. To try out the new functionality, for the moment, you'll need to run Chrome from the command line with the Autofill enabled DevTools issues flag. Now, on Mac, the command looks like this. And just an obvious tip here, you know, whenever you're regularly running Chrome with a flag, you might want to set an alias for that command like this. The DevTools issues tab can also highlight Autofill accessibility problems such as a form field that's missing an ARIA labeled by attribute or label. And we're also working on a dedicated Autofill panel in DevTools. As well as building new Autofill debugging tools for developers, we're continuing to enhance the Autofill experience for end users and to help them avoid re-entering data whenever that's possible. In particular, Chrome has made several improvements to Autofill accessibility. Autofill can help make forms more accessible and easier to use for everyone, especially users with cognitive or motor disabilities, impaired vision or impaired memory. If you get Autofill right, forms can also work much better with assistive technologies. For example, to improve the way Chrome Talkback works with Autofill and the way events are handled by Chrome Autofill, how we announce when form elements are filled on Mac OS and improvements to how we announce the password generation pop up on desktop. Along with accessibility fixes, we're continuing to find ways to make data entry quicker, easier and more accurate and to help users avoid having to re-enter data whenever possible. First up, keyboard accessory. A good Autofill experience isn't just about functionality. You know, you need to get the interface design that's appropriate to the device. On mobile, providing Autofill suggestions in a drop-down menu can make a form hard to use, in particular when the menu gets in the way of the form underneath. We need to allow Autofill without obscuring form UI to make sure users are aware of multiple Autofill suggestions. So we've experimented with using UI chips instead of menu items. And by the way, if you swipe all the way to the right, you can also use this accessory to manually access your Autofill data from any form filled, you know, regardless of how Chrome classified it. Next, payments bottom sheet and touch to log in. Well, in the past, when Chrome offered to fill credit card details, we used the same UI approach as for desktop for the Autofill menu. And, you know, this kind of works, but it's not optimal because, again, the menu covers most of the screen real estate, and it's also hard for users to dismiss the menu. For passwords, we solve this with touch to log in. The first time the user interacts with a field, instead of the keyboard, a more prominent bottom sheet is displayed. For payment form Autofill, Chrome is taking a similar approach. And you can try out the payment bottom sheet functionality by enabling enable Autofill touch to fill for credit cards from Chrome flags in Chrome beta. By the way, on the subject of payments, many merchants rely on iframes hosted by a payment service provider to segregate credit card information from their website to make it easier for the site to reach PCI compliance. Now, this means that each credit card field may be in a separate iframe. Chrome has launched Autofill's support across these iframe boundaries, so you trigger Autofill on the first or second or third field and all the other fields are automatically filled as well. Now, that said, sometimes the credit card holder name is the first field of a credit card form and is hosted in the main frame. So if a user triggers Autofill for their credit card on the main frame, we respect the security origins and don't fill into iframes that are hosted on different security origins. Overall, we recommend having all fields of a credit card form on the same security origin. And going forward, we're trying to build consensus about a mechanism that allows the main frame to explicitly opt into filling into iframes. I want to finish with a few tips to help you code forms so they work really well with Chrome Autofill. And the key idea here is to help your browser, help your users. So first, avoid non-standard autocomplete values, even if they're well-intentioned and make sense for your site's internal data systems. Chrome's Autofill is smart enough to figure out the purpose of a web field even when there's no autocomplete attribute specified, but using a non-standard autocomplete attribute can really cause problems. Using non-standard values for autocomplete means that Chrome Autofill is unlikely to work. Now, you can find a list of standard values on the MDN autocomplete page. And by the way, don't try to use nearly but not quite autocomplete value. Once again, use standard values or nothing. In the example here, the form uses company, but the standard autocomplete value is organization. Likewise, the standard value is family name, not last name. If there is no appropriate values, well, it's better to use no autocomplete attribute rather than an approximation. You should also avoid giving the autocomplete attribute a non-standard value to fit your site's data requirements, such as billing logic. The autocomplete attribute is designed to allow your site code to help the browser. So just to reiterate, it only works with standard values and non-standard values can break Autofill for the user. So use the name or ID attribute instead where you need to. And if necessary, leave out autocomplete. Next, the humble label element. Well, this helps browsers and assistive devices, such as screen readers, to understand the meaning and purpose of form fields in order to provide a better experience for users. And the most important point here is to correctly use the for attribute. The label should have a for attribute that matches the ID of a form field. By the way, the new Chrome DevTools features will warn if you get this wrong. Now, one obvious thing to remember is that if you incorrectly mark up a form, then the user is more likely to store data in Chrome that's incorrect. Of course, we try to prevent this, but simple mistakes can unknowingly lead to a persistently bad user experience. So please double check your form code, ID, name and attribute values. Now here, the form uses last name instead of the standard value, family name and company instead of the standard organization. And by the way, also be careful to wrap logical units in individual form tags. For example, don't mix a login form with a shipping address form. And finally, a reminder that when you help browsers do autofill well, you'll make your forms far more accessible for your users. And you should always check how autofill works with assistive devices for your forms. So let's see how Chrome TalkBack handles autofill on a valid address form on Android. Address form, edit box, name, double tap to edit text, passwords available, showing autofill pop-up, showing English, UK, QWERTY. Sam Dutton, N1C4 hag, enlist showing autofill pop-up, window pop-up window. The form was filled in. Sam Dutton, actions available, use tap with three fingers to view. Now you can learn a lot more about autofill forms and more from our guidance on web.dev. We also have several forms, code labs and these are a great way to help newer members of your dev team to get to grips with the basics of autofill and form best practice. To find out more about the new Chrome DevTools features for debugging autofill, check out our blog post and you can find out there how to provide feedback, how to suggest improvements, new features and to warn us about bugs. So thanks for watching.


Hi guys, good morning and welcome to today's products and focus markets have staged a small recovery this morning Actually, yeah, kind of opening up ever so slightly in the middle of two ranges us 30 there Round about sixteen five hundred and forty three next potential resistance sixteen five ninety eight next potential support sixteen four oh one and this is falling on from non-farm Peerles on Friday Which came out a little bit worse than expected real mixed bag of economic data Nobody really knows what's going on with them with it with interest rates No, you know some data had come out to say it was looking quite a resilient that 2014 was going to be the 2014 was going to be the time But then you've had your non-farm Peerles come out a little bit worse than expected As some other US economic data was less than Rosie is still only China That looks to be quite decent most of Europe's and disarray again this morning But the German companies suffering the most over that Sanction area from from Russia and this could be a lot of traders looking this the dead cat bounce It really needs to get above sixteen five ninety eight and close above that before we're going to get any meaningful Reaction to to move higher because right now with this massive technical break here A lot of people will be a little bit anxious But then there is a lot of other traders who are waiting for a good entry point to get back in and get back long I guess the question being is is this it or is it a Level slightly lower, so we expect further volatility throughout the week. So looking at the UK 100 It also kind of gapped up this morning, but like most of Europe has now gone to negative territory Germany 30 to prime example of this looking especially weak as is Spain Portugal and most of Europe as well So potential resistance 16701 is the potential resistance Which was broken support. We're now looking again at six six six six as potential Support on the downside and obviously we've been much lower up there on Friday But we hit 6623 and that will certainly be a level many people are looking at UK 100 has been an aside with moving market now for almost a year now looking at things from here You know by the time certainly we come into October If we start reaching, you know levels of 65 6400 It will be looking quite clean or quite keenly like a sideways moving market But there are obviously always opportunities to be had if you get in at the right levels. So looking at Japan 2 to 5 Really struggled there on Friday After coming off so harshly there on Thursday But we are bouncing around 54 88 which the potential support slash resistance right now We keep bobbing on either side of it. So that's the level to go ahead and have a look at So the dollar bulls what happened to them with dollar yen obviously reversed course slightly The one or two spot 90 is still the potential resistance It's not been an absolute massacre massacre on the dollar Incidentally, there are still some some dollar bulls there Obviously with the fact that we do have a positive candle today technical indicators do look slightly overbought Have come out through the levels. There is definitely technical pressure on here. So close to potential resistance If we do get reversal though, there is a long way to go on that dollar yen 101 spot 35 is quite far and the moving averages are still quite disconnected from when the price action is right now So should the dollar? Fail to continue momentum and it has certainly wobbled after Friday You know there is far a long way to come But there are others that think you know obviously data was exactly terrible, but wasn't exactly stratospheric either So we'll be keeping a close eye on that kind of data. Of course, there's none out today of any significance But we'll come on to what's coming up later on crude oil best Texas Still coming off even as I says take over more Kurdish areas of Iraq Obviously Tripoli's on fire pretty much Libya going through a lot of trouble right now But a lot of the demand there is a bit of a glut just now with there with oil supply Demand is diminishing slightly or longer term demand is diminishing and that seems to be outweighing all the fundamentals as ever and $99 is potential resistance $97 potential support looking at gold Gold safe Haven got a big a big left there on Friday potential resistance 1295 remaining intact day That's the level to watch would be very interesting for gold. That's very strategic. You should keep an eye on that your dollar Your dollar has retraced back up close to one spot 3455 Hopefully assistive well not hopefully but it might be just be a retracement back up to potential resistance to resume It's downwards move should the dollar manage to wrestle control obviously your zone is in trouble a little bit under pressure Anyway as well, so your dollar should be primed should the dollar begin to wrestle control again Your dollar should be an FX pair to watch And then you've got cable and cable is massively on the wrong side right now This is a horrible move by cable Real negative candle there on Friday stopped dead on potential support one spot 6820 This level is very strategic if you look at where it stopped there today Keep an eye on that so as I said, there's no economic data today of significance tomorrow You've got PMI and non-manufacturing business index in the US And then you got go on to Wednesday and you've got lots of UK industrial production good for cable good for UK 100 Keep you on the chart for him make insights part of your leg going forward as ever and join me again tomorrow to find out what happened next


Stalls there. Stalls where? Stalls then. Stalls why? Stalls how? You ask me stalls soon? I'll tell you stalls now. Karen stalls now. Karen stalls now, ladies and gentlemen. So as you know the themes this year at TAM include fortune telling in the future and some of you might know I'm a linguist so I'm going to talk about prediction and language. So what are some of the ways that people believe that they can talk to tomorrow? Now this talk is going to treat some topics which are explored in my forthcoming book Language Myths, Mysteries and Magic and this is to be published by the University of Chicago Press. So many people ask me, well how is linguistics useful to skepticism? So I'm going to show you. Most paranormal and pseudo-scientific beliefs and practices involve language in some way. So a lot of beliefs and practices that we're interested in require communication on some kind of level. So linguistics can help find natural explanations for a lot of these claims. So this is just a short list including graphology, backmasking, glossolalia, which is the posh term for speaking in tongues, and alleged recordings of voices of the dead. So some of these are unexpected as well for example that big fort and aliens have language and we haven't discovered them so far. So that's an interesting one, but some of these involve prediction as well. But of course many psychics use cold reading and hot reading to predict things that we already know. But many psychics also tend to predict the past. So their readings are interpreted to fit an event that's already transpired and forced to fit the present somehow. So these are called retroactive predictions or post-dictions. This is also known as hindsight bias. And probably the best example, and you've all heard of this guy Nostradamus, the French seer, and he was believed to have predicted the future with about 1,000 different quatrains that he wrote in French obviously way back in the 16th century. But these are very ambiguous predictions and they're complicated by linguistic evolution and translation as well. So they're really just recycled to apply to modern events. And a lesser known soothsayer, her name's Ursula Southhill. She's better known as Mother Shipton and she was kind of the Nostradamus of England way back in the 17th century. And she allegedly predicted the advent of cars and planes and ships. But again these are modern interpretations of her very vague and archaic predictions. So let's look at some language-related methods for predicting the future. So first one, slate writing. This is the original kind of automatic writing. There are many different types and claims, but they're all some form of handwriting that is produced by an external spiritual source. So slate writing was discovered by a doctor, Henry Slade. He is a very infamous Victorian psychic. So this was during the heyday of the spiritualism movement and during seances these magical messages would appear on blackboards, mini blackboards. So they were supposedly written by spirits who tried to validate contact with the dead and also to predict the future which is pretty easy when it's vague and you can just make it up. Now Slade underwent a series of controlled experiments and he failed these when the protocols were put in place to avoid any kind of trickery. Because Slade was faking the writing. He was using tiny pieces of chalk that he was holding in his fingers or between his toes or even in his mouth to produce these messages from the dead. And here is a picture of a seance table. It was called the pew table and there's a little compartment. It's hard to see, but it's a mesh compartment underneath which held musical instruments and props and things like that. So another form of automatic writing and people use these terms interchangeably as well. Trans writing, ghost writing, autography, psychography. So this is written mediumship where a channeler or a host is possessed by some kind of spirit or entity and this proceeds the Ouija board and you'll see the familiar planchette here as well in this picture. And there are several famous cases that you might have heard of. One is the case of Patience Worth and she was an author who would channel various other authors and she wrote plays and poetry and novels and also Rosemary Brown who would channel Chopin and List and even John Lennon and she would another deceased composer who would write music through her so she claimed. And it was actually a famous case with Houdini. He had a reading with Lady Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's mother and she wrote a very long letter supposedly from Houdini's mother. It was about 16 pages long and when Houdini reviewed this he thought this was full of generalizations. This wasn't psychic or this wasn't automatic writing in any way. So he tried to replicate the practice and this actually left Doyle convinced that Houdini had psychic powers instead. So I once did an investigation of an automatic writer and found the same thing. This was called reading. Her reading was full of generalizations and I think that the idiomotor effect was at play as well. This was kind of stream of consciousness, her writing style and really it's about as paranormal as James Joyce who used to use that style. So this is a creative tool of many authors too that the poet Samuel Taylor Colleridge he would use that as a technique. So there's nothing mystical about this or maybe some authors might think that they're to visit from the muses in some way. I meant to show that basically if you do attempt spirit writing this is what it's going to look like. These will be the results. So the last form of spirit writing, automatic writing is phantom writing and this is mysterious handwriting that appears magically on walls and windows. Maybe books on paper written with pens or with blood. So the best case here is a picture of barley rectory. You may have heard of this place. It's a very high profile case. This was the most haunted house in England well before the days of ghost hunters where everything was the most haunted. This is in the late 19th century, early 20th century and the Bull and Foster families were haunted apparently by a series of poltergeists and ghosts. There's a ghostly nun and a headless coachman and this case was investigated by the legendary investigator Harry Price. You may have heard of him. So here's an example of some of the automatic writing that took place there and these disembodied pens would appear and right on the walls. So these are some creepy examples of spirits requesting light and prayers and help. So these were revealed to be pranks basically by the families who were involved and you see these writings were scrubbed off the wall straight after they appeared. Yet amazingly they were described and photographed many years later. So like to look at graphology briefly this is the claim that we can identify and predict personality traits based on the style of our handwriting. The dots on our eyes and the crosses on our T's and we're not talking about assuming that someone is a doctor because his or her handwriting is eligible. So this is yet another kind of body related divination like palmistry or iridology reading the eyes. Some of you may have heard of rumpology that was popularized by Jackie Stallone which is reading the arse. I once wrote about a woman who could read people's toes and she claimed she could tell if someone was raped by the lines on their toes and all kinds of crazy things. So if you read some of these analyses here they're usually quite metaphorical that's a form of sympathetic magic in a sense.  So I wanted to do a mini demonstration George if you come out here. So I'd just like you to find and this might be difficult for you to see on here. I'd like you to find your Y on this chart. How do you draw your Y's? We'll be the closest anyway. I was hard pressed to find mine on here but everyone have a look and see if you can find your Y. He's drawing it in the air. That's that motion by the way. Is it ten? Ten. Okay. Number ten, yeah. Okay. So this is a graphology chart that attributes the way that we find Y. It's true George. So apparently you're open to any kind of sexual activity and you're very inquisitive. Wow, okay. Yeah. You've learned something about yourself. Yes, yeah. Put it back. Does not even masturbate. Wow, that's... Remove sexual... Wow. I'll show you the recipe. Okay, yeah, cool. Thank you. You're pressed for time here. Thanks. So there are lots of different schools of thought. That's why I wanted to show this. I just found this online. These are very subjective obviously and there are many conflicting interpretations that you'll find of these handwriting styles. There's also the theory of graphotherapy. I'm not sure if you might have heard of that. That is if you change your handwriting, you can somehow change your future.  So there was a show in Britain in the 1990s called James Randy's Psychic Investigator. And in episode six... Woo! In episode six, a graphologist appears on the show. And as a test, a mini-test, he was asked to connect subjects to their professions on the basis of their handwriting. So here's what happened. That's not kicking in. I'm sorry, I need the video to play. I'm going to ask each one of these ladies in turn, first of all, number one, are you indeed... I'm so sorry, I'll play this again. I'm going to ask each one of these ladies in turn, first of all, number one, are you indeed a salesman? Vote with yes or no. You are not a salesperson. And number two, are you a computer expert? You are not. Number three, are you the artist? Ah, you are. And number four, are you that secretary we're looking for? Apparently not. And number five, are you a farmer? I see. Well, would you please move to the correct positions that you belong in, the four ladies that were not correct? Would you move to the correct positions? Now we know who is really in that profession. We expected that according to chance, Duncan, you would get one correct, and you've got exactly one correct. Thank you very much, Duncan. We're very grateful for you coming along here this evening. As we mentioned earlier, graphology is widely used on the continent, and its use is increasing here in Britain. But there seems to be quite a margin of error. How would you feel if your career depended on the analysis of your handwriting? So Randy raises an important point here, and that is that he highlights one of the dangers of graphology, that it's discriminatory if it's used in human resources for some way or as expert testimony in court. Although I haven't been able to find any examples of that for my book. It's also dangerous if it's used for diagnosis. Very few conditions are evident in our handwriting styles, but they're not, can't be diagnosed with graphology anyway. For example, there's a condition called, or a symptom called micrographia, where your handwriting becomes very small and scrolled, and it becomes progressively smaller. And that's a feature of Parkinson's disease. Now, graphology is popular in many magazines to interpret celebrities' handwriting. In the former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, he attended the World Economic Forum back in 2005, and some scribblings of his were snatched up by some graphologists who wanted to interpret them to gain some insight into his mind. So their analysis showed that Tony Blair is struggling to concentrate. He's not a natural leader. I mean, there may be some truth to this. Struggling to keep control of a confusing world than an unstable man who's feeling under enormous pressure. But it turns out that this wasn't Blair's handwriting. I'm sorry, I'm screwing with this. So this was the handwriting of Bill Gates. I'm sorry, I'm going through this again. And the graphologists were basically doing a cold reading of Blair. So moving on to letters from heaven. So these are letters that claim divine authorship. Some are believed to be written by God or Jesus or angels. And the original letters were said to be written in gold or with the blood of Jesus, that they fell from heaven, that they were found near the crucifixion site or that they were delivered by an apparition of the Virgin Mary. They would contain commandments, biblical narratives and prayers, and they're found across languages and across religions, which I think is really interesting. The recipients were instructed to copy and carry the letter as a kind of amulet, and they were promised forgiveness of their sins if they did so. However, if they should doubt the contents, then they'd be threatened with disease and death. So is this sounding familiar at all to everyone? These are the predecessors to chain letters. So early chain letters began with money chain letters. Some of you may have heard of the prosperity club letters and sender dime letters, where the recipient is instructed to send money to people who are listed on a list, and then they update that and then they forward it on to other people and hope that they're going to receive money. So as we know as skeptics, something for nothing rarely works for more than a few people at the very beginning. And these are the forerunners to multi-level marketing, and I've lost my notes here. I've lost everything on the screen. And so he comes up again. He's deliberately set me up. This is his way of getting some stage time. How often do you get to get on the main stage? Apparently just once. No, twice. So this is before the days of the internet, but these would still replicate quickly. The original sender dime letters were copied over a billion times in the first couple of months. So these later chain letters became about sharing good luck or bad luck and maintaining the chain. So some of you may have seen these St. Jude Novinas in newspapers. They still kick around, published in newspapers and online nowadays too. So readers are asked to petition St. Jude to perform a miracle for a hopeless cause, maybe to cure a terminal illness or to fix an irreconcilable relationship. And the readers instructed to say a prayer like the one here, nine times, perhaps over nine days, or always over nine days rather, and then to republish the ad and they're told that it never fails. So those words are always used in the ads. And St. Jude is the patron saint of hopeless causes, and he couldn't escape his own hopeless cause. He suffered martyrdom in 65 AD. So chain emails. So these are the kinds of chain letters that we receive in our inboxes daily. They feature tacky animations and inspirational statements. So this is the modern format. A lot of them masqueraders, jokes and stories. I put that up there. So in an article in Nature magazine, Dawkins actually likens chain letters to kind of mind virus for some of their features that they feature replication and their periodic outbreaks of particular ones. And there's a kind of immunization effect when you discover that they don't work like this anti-chain letter here. So there are some common features of chain letters and emails and texts. They promise good luck for complying. They promise that you'll receive money or you'll win the lottery or get a new job. However, if you don't comply, you'll receive some kind of bad luck. You'll lose your job. You'll suffer misfortune. You'll die. They contain testimonials, which we're all familiar with, to test to the veracity of the chain letter. And these are usually written by untraceable people. So these are elements of urban legends to chain letters. Nigerian letters, I think they're related to chain letters too, but they're usually presented as a kind of secret offer just between the recipient and the sender. So they're not a mass mailing as such. So moving on, bibliomancy. There are many different kinds of divination that involve language, the aiching and runes. So how do you do it? Well, you take a book and you think about a question. You open it at random. You get a message at random and then you interpret the words as being predictive. Now Saint Augustine, he converted to Christianity due to bibliomancy. He heard a voice in the background telling him to take and read, but that was in Latin, obviously. Not in English. And ironically, later on, he condemned the act. So historically, when churchgoers would go to church and hear hymns being sung, they'd take the first words that they heard as soon as they entered as being predictive in some way. Some people even thinking about a verse of scripture suddenly is believed to be being presented with a revelation of some kind. So bibliomancy is a popular part of... It was a part of pop culture today. Some of you may have seen the book of Answers by Carol Bolt. It's like a book version of the magic eight ball. So I want to do a really quick demonstration because we're running short on time.  And I want everyone to think about a question. Normally there's a whole ritual to this, but everyone in the room can just think of a question, meditate on it very briefly. George, again. I'd like you to select an answer for everyone in the audience. Just randomly open it. Randomly open it. And read it. Startling events may occur as a result. So did that answer your question? No. Did it? No. Think about it. Go away and think about it. That's what psychics will tell you anyway. So why does it seem to work for some people? Well, they attribute it to their own life. It's a personal interpretation, basically. And they make it fit. So it's why fortune cookies seem to work for a lot of people as well. Now, people usually use the Bible, the Torah, the Koran, some kind of scripture. They might use classical works by Homer or Virgil. You could use any book if you wanted. You could use a telephone book. You could use Flimflam if you wanted to. So who uses this practice today? Religious people still do use it. And it's also a technique that's used by paranormal groups, I've found. So I've got a quick example here of Bibliomansi taken from a documentary about the haunted Stanley Hotel in Estes Park in Colorado where a girl is scratched in this clip. She's scratched by an angry ghost. And a psychic medium by the name of Chris Fleming. His solution is to use Bibliomansi as protection from these evil spirits. Is there a Bible in there? There should be one in every room. I want you to do something now. Over 1200 pages? Went right to Psalm 90 and 91. Chloe, come here. I want you to read this. And believe this when you read this. Okay, because it's true. Read this down here, okay? Right now? Yeah. He who dwells in the secret place of the most high shall abide unto the shadow of the Almighty. I will say, of the Lord, he is my refugees of my fortress. My God and him I will trust. Surely he will deliver you from the snare of the follower and from the perliest person. Sorry, this just goes on. He shall cover you with his feathers in clear hand. I'm feeling it on my back again. Keep going. He doesn't want you to read this. He shall not be afraid of the terror of my night nor of the arrow that flies by day. Nor of clear hand. I'm feeling it. There was a bit more to that, but I think that's enough, isn't it? I will satisfy him. How are you feeling now? I'm okay. She feels better. The Bible is also used for other methods of prediction, such as finding hidden messages that don't really exist. So the perfect example of this is Michael Drossen's Bible code, which uses the equidistant letter sequence code to predict the future, but more often to predict the past. And the study that influenced Drossen and discovered the names and date debts of a number of rabbis, but this was after they died, so it's not terribly amazing. Drossen has made many Armageddon predictions that didn't come true that the world would end in 2002 or 2006. He just kept trying. And the Bible code was mostly debunked by a mathematician, an Australian mathematician, by the name of Brendan McKay. However, maybe there is something to this theory. In the book's sequel, a skeptic by the name of Dave Thomas found this shocking secret message. There must be something to this. Before there was Mr. Ed, there were many smart horses, Morocco and Mascota, and also a horse called Beautiful Jim Key, who could cite Bible passages that mentioned horses. Now, in 1900, Clever Hans was introduced to the world and he seemed to be able to understand language, he could perform mathematical calculations, he could tell the time, he could recognise people by name. Now, a number of academics investigated this situation and discovered that the idiomotor effect was at play. So Clever Hans was really just responding to subtle cues that were made by his owner. So when Clever Hans couldn't see the person who knew the answer, well then Hans, he didn't know the answer either. So intelligent horses are really a product of intelligent training. However, Lady Wonder is psychic. Now, this was a horse that was owned by Mrs. Fonda of Richmond in Virginia in the first half of the 20th century. So it was claimed that Lady Wonder could understand English, she could answer questions and make all kinds of predictions. So how did she speak? Well, she would nudge alphabet blocks with her muzzle. You can see this contraption here. It was kind of a horse-sized typewriter with levers that would activate alphabetical cards and numbers. And over 150,000 people visited her during her lifetime and paid $1 to ask three questions. So she was a kind of horse oracle. She predicted the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the U.S. entry into World War II. But she also made a lot of inaccurate predictions as well. So this was, again, the Clever Hans phenomenon at play and the device was a kind of facilitated communication for horses. Now, Lady Wonder was also kind of Sherlock horse. She'd spelled out cues as to the whereabouts of missing people. But these clues simply reflected current media speculation and public opinion and police activity. So for example, when Lady Wonder predicted that the Illinois police would find the body of a murdered boy in a river, the authorities were dragging the river at that time. So this information was public knowledge and horse detective psychics are really just like the human psychic detectives. So Lady's predictions were just Mrs. Fonda's predictions. So a quick look at some channelers. These are psychic mediums. They're different in the sense that they are a host or a vehicle for a spirit or an entity or an ascended master to communicate somehow. So they're here a few famous channelers. The Law of Attraction proponents, Jerry and Esther Hicks. Esther channels Abraham, which is a collective or a council of teachers. Sylvia Brown channels a spirit guide named Francine. And James Van Prague, he's got a whole series of spirit guides. There's a sister Teresa. There's Golden Feather, who's a Native American, an English doctor named Harry Aldrich and a Chinese spiritual teacher named Master Chang. So channeling has been around since the spiritualism movement, but it really became popular in the 1980s with the emergence of Jay-Z Knight. So in 1977 she just started channeling Ramtha, a 35,000 year old spirit warrior who was apparently born in Lemuria and fought against Atlantis. And he never actually died. He just instead ascended. So he spent these 35,000 years doing stuff. He taught the ancient Egyptians. He influenced Hinduism and Judaism. He inspired Socrates and Leonardo da Vinci. And then he chose this simple housewife as his host so that he could come back and share his philosophies and warn us about the future. So very conveniently though, Ramtha speaks Jay-Z's native language, English. So he's an ascended master, but he can't speak any other language. So channeling is different to claims of speaking in tongues and xenoglossia because the entities conveniently speak in the language of the channeler. So there are lots of explanations for this that the spirits use the same voice as the host because they're using that person's vocal voice. Or they speak English because the hero is understanding English. So Jay-Z adopts a different accent when she's possessed by Ramtha. So let's watch a short clip of this. The greatest prophet assaulted by the powers that be and yet in this audience we worship freedom and righteousness and to survive in an earth to where we enjoy the resources of our inheritance without being taken over. We love your revolution. We are behind you. So that was in Libya, as you saw. So apparently Ramtha can't speak Arabic either, but it seems like Ramtha likes a drink. A different accent, that's just not evidence of channeling in any way. Any competent actor can do that. It's not terribly convincing. Esther Hicks and Sylvia Brown and James Van Prague, they used to adopt fake accents and they've given that up, which is very curious. Now Jay-Z has exposed herself as a fraud in many ways already. This is a picture after a little bit of plastic surgery, I think. So Ramtha makes many failed predictions and many historical and linguistic inaccuracies. So he wrongly prophesied the start of another world war and a Holocaust, rather, back in 1985, and Ramtha claims to have led an army of 2.5 million men into battle 35,000 years ago, but this figure is more than twice the population of the earth at that time. And of course there's no evidence of the existence of Atlantis and Lemuria, apart from Dr. Atlantis from Monster Talk. And Jay-Z only exhibits some very superficial changes linguistically. She adopts a deeper pitch and a different accent, but it's very inconsistent, as you could see there. And strangely, if Ramtha has a native language, Jay-Z doesn't share any examples from this. How valuable would this be to receive samples of grammar and vocabulary from this ancient language? And also, we don't know what an indigenous language sounds like from the Pleistocene Ice Age, but this gives her free reign to make up whatever she likes. But most tellingly of all is that both Jay-Z and Ramtha mispronounce the exact same words. This was just a quick glimpse into some paranormal and pseudo-scientific beliefs and practices that linguistics can help to explain. So thank you very much.


CFM fans we got another one Can't lie the CFM has been popping my Minnesota Vikings are making their playoff push But it advances every two days, you know, and I can't lie CFM has given me juice and Madden the only way to get that juice is to join another one, right? So I've been looking at different CFMs to try to play a different CFM game every day upload a different CFM every day And I found the one but this league is awesome. I'll show you guys it is every team's best team So you're looking at like the 72 Dolphins Joe Montana's 49ers Terry Bradshaw Steelers the 90s Cowboys whatever year is perceived their best year That's the team you get and I got the Eagles. Let's go go birds 04 Eagles McNabbin TO we're gonna run this that's who I got I'll show you guys what I did with my abilities and who I'm gonna put abilities on But let's take a look at my roster right now boys Brian Dawkins obviously lead the best player on the team Brian Dawkins safety We got TO a wide receiver Trey Thomas left tackle McNabb Lethal Shepard Jeremiah Trotter Brian Westbrook Michael Lewis Javon curse the freak Corey Simon John Runyon Acres a kicker Darwin Walker the boys man. So definitely a dope league Definitely looking forward to taking probably my favorite team growing up and making it to the Super Bowl and winning the Super Bowl this time Because this team actually lost the Super Bowl to the Patriots where we got cheated by spy gate The NFL still hasn't awarded the teams that got cheated by spy gate with their Super Bowl trophy We're still waiting on that. So this is what I'm gonna do with this team We're gonna go ahead and start this. I believe this is a two-season CFM It's actually run by lobby up if you guys check out lobby up I believe you can play money games on there. That's their site They threw this CFM and it's joined with a lot of sweats a lot of a lot of regular players and a good mixture Our boy, Mexi bronze in here Swolesmo the Canadian representative in bot wars is in here a lot of other sweats and fake sweats and all those guys that ruin The CFM with abilities, but we're starting this CFM fresh So I'll be honest a lot of the other teams are great And I'll show you guys those teams as I play them and I'll show you guys those teams You know as we get in different games and playoff matchups and everything like that But I'm gonna show you what we did with this league to start development. You know if you start a CFM There's no abilities to start First of all every every quarterback gets ability. So no matter what your quarterback is you're gonna get abilities McNabb we got abilities. He's got everything fearless gunslinger Passly to lead hot rod master all that stuff. So every quarterback is is is perfect Which is a little weird, but every quarterback is perfect Nobody wants to play a man in with the bad quarterback regardless So every quarterback is perfect then you get three superstars on each side You can pick any three superstars on each side of the ball And you can also reset the age of two players on either side of the ball So you don't lose them after the season and they can gain XP faster now. I'm not gonna lose anybody with edge threats So Unfortunately, I had the superstar two of my tackles which sucks, but I want secure protector I have two good tackles already Trey Thomas and John Runyon these guys I'm never gonna beat any need never want to lose the people with just edge threats. That's number one. All right Then I thought about why receiver whom I'm gonna put abilities on maybe leave to with no abilities and put abilities on a lesser Why receiver but instead we're gonna have to souped up super goon to we'll put abilities on him Probably short in and short out something like that just to make him a stud Defensively now I thought about throwing abilities on Javon curse Darwin Walker Hugh Douglas making these guys studs But I figured if I do that most of the smart players in the league are gonna put their abilities on their tackles That's how I feel I feel like the guys you're gonna meet in the playoffs the guys you want to make a run a Super Bowl are going to have Secure protector on the tackle. So for me, I was like, you know what? We're gonna put it all on a second there So what we did was we put Leto Shepherd abilities Sheldon Brown and of course Brian Dawkins You know now we can change whatever ability we want So it's gonna fluctuate throughout the year depending on how the game plays Depending on what ability we want But mostly we're probably want to put man coverage on these guys and try to run But the 04 Eagles probably my favorite team ever now we have control of them This is where we got this is the new CFM boys still rocking the Viking CFM Of course, but we have to hopefully upload new CFM games the rest of the summer Keeping man alive. If you guys like the CFM, let me know We're gonna keep farming the CFM boys. All right first game week one We are playing the Lions boys. Let's take a look at who they have now. Okay live This team made some trades, which I don't know if I feel One of the reasons I was hesitant to join this is because I'm like a real hardcore Eagles fan Especially 2004 so I don't want to trade my team. I don't want to mix this team up I want to play with the players that were on the team, you know Part of me that nostalgic part of me really wants to play with those players and these guys really don't care about that As this person in the Lions, they traded Herman Moore to get Richard Sherman So this team is already super changed up, but he's got Rodney Pete a little bit of speed mobile quarterback I say 83 pretty mobile. He's got Barry Sanders 94 speed Barry Sanders. That's insanely good Somehow he has Calvin, which I didn't think Calvin and Barry ever played on the same team But they're both on the Lions team So I don't know what all-time team this is that they snuck Barry Calvin Johnson 96 speed on I don't know and apparently when he traded Herman Moore, he got your main curse too So he has two stud wide receivers that are super stars. That's gonna be tough to deal with for sure tight end Zach Miller who I believe Arizona State. This was the Zach Miller that was on Seattle for a long time. So he might have came from the Legion of Boom trade I really don't know what trade went down a little bit fishy. We'll see how it works out He has 1-0 lineman. That's good. That has abilities So hopefully Javon Kersen the boys can get after the quarterback before he can just throw the ball to Calvin or Jermaine Kers We will see Defensively, I don't know if he's really that strong. We'll see Robert Porsche was a beast, but he doesn't have any abilities right there Linebackers, it's so bad like every time I look through this I'm just Reminded of how bad linebackers aren't mad and dude I had to put Jeremiah Trotter on the defensive line to make him relevant It's actually insane how bad linebackers are. Richard Sherman is a stud 94 speed 6-3. We know that Bryant Westbrook the fake Brian Westbrook Bryant Westbrook 94 speed He's also good. So two real good corners then a good Corey Redmond So four three good corners. These guys are pretty tough Obviously abilities on all three of them So we're gonna have Richard Sherman with one step ahead and deep route knockout That's what I have on Dawkins and Leto Shepherd. We have Bryant Westbrook here With the good old inside shade deep route knockout and we'll see if we have Corey Redmond in here with just inside shade. So we have similar rosters as far as abilities on defense I was like my D lines a lot better mark carrier is safety. This guy has this guy with safety So he has four guys with abilities on defense, which is a little bit weird I guess cuz he traded for Sherman. So he has one two three four guys with I don't know Tough tough scene tough scene recent transactions. I don't know how I do that lead transactions All right, it's got all this edited. Oh trades. I could probably do trades right traded. Okay, Seahawks Okay, let's see this trade that my opponent did before we get started. All right The Lions gave up a first round pick The Lions gave up a left tackle the Lions gave up David Sloan and Herman Moore The Lions got Zach Miller Jermaine curse and Richard Sherman and the Lions got a seventh round pick. So the Seahawks Traded Sherman Jermaine curse who somehow was 95 speed and Zach Miller for Herman Moore and a first round pick is what I'm looking at and Ray Roberts I don't know is Ray Roberts good. I feel like you give up first of all Jermaine curses just as good as Herman Moore. He's just taller and then you get Sherman who's like a stud So the Seahawks guy is bad. So he just Okay, yes Jermaine curse is faster than to I don't know. I don't make up the rules I just play. Yeah, so the deal is a little fishy. So that's how this guy the first guy I'm playing of course has all these abilities on defense. So we'll see we got McNabb room. What else matters? We're playing Alan Clamps. I don't know if I've ever played this person in my life. Is he correct? He definitely robbed Seattle in the trade. So he's definitely a trade demon. All right, David Eggers is left-footed Okay, we got to change that. Oh my god I crease on his specials Let's do got Barry Sanders returning kicks. Jesus. Give it a break. All right. Who's missing tackles early on the Eagles? Who's missing tackles here? Could have been a pick could have been a pick Michael Lewis. Oh My god, I didn't see that much get out of there. Oh, yeah Good job Simon, let's go Just shock it to Calvin dude. Come on man. Just throwing a streak to the running back Come on, man. Yeah, Calvin did not play with this team. So yeah, I just played all zone right there And I realized having man coverage on those guys is just not elite. Look. This is why I got what's been called though Nasty streak they'd be doing work Tio Tio Tio Tio. This is like though. He got like the all-time Lions. It's not even like one team So it's all time Tio Tio Tio Tio. All right, I can't lie Tio. I don't know how we don't get in like that right there I really don't know. Yeah, that's what I thought. I felt like Tio had to fight right there But he didn't so what are we gonna do right? Westbrook fault though. How did 58 get get like how did 58 get in there? How dude? Just block 58 and we walk in the end zone. Thank you, dude. Like it's not hard Touchdown birds by far the easiest been to stop to run out of dollars this year is This year, you don't even have to try to stop the run. Oh, this is fun. Why would you stop? Who do you think you are? What are you just absolute bum? Come here?  Good play, buddy. Oh Trotter, that's why we put you at the end. Let's go try Let's go making your presence felt. He can make trades though. I might hire this guy to be my GM Honestly, I might hire him to be my GM bad new bad move or good move boys Tio Okay Okay, who the hell do you think you are dude has 5,000 abilities man? What am I playing? Look at these This is nasty ain't it? Of course.  Ah I feel like that guy was in his own and they just matched To trade it and a to a to a two season league do trade it for a draft pick I might have to hit up the Seahawks guy, bro. I might really have to hit him up Come on dawg.  Oh my god. He's just no huddling I just run base dude, please Pick pick artists nice play 31. I don't know how you are. Is that when 31? There's just no way we just get perfect blocks on that play dude.  Oh my god. Gee like dude.    I mean, I can't lie how bad to always getting blocked is nuts Our tail is getting bumped is like actually insane, dude when it went in doubt run two men under and then we're gonna We're gonna run spinner Dude, Westbrook.  It's ridiculous.  Absolutely just garbage mode Like what are we doing? Absolute disgusting dude somehow we're in a game now Cuz of one snap throw the ball to what you call it It's not a all-time CFM. He's the only guy with the all-time team He's the only one with the guys from different errors.    I have never seen this play get this bumped. I Really haven't God these dudes are bagged. All right, come on All right, we got to start playing dude has four corners with one step ahead dude In week one Awesome, dude. This is the most fun. I've ever had playing Madden. Let me tell you that boys snap the ball here How's he got a knockout on that? Oh Like what is going on man? Good throw dude way to look at the field. Oh My god, like we're sure we're actually trolling right now.  It honestly like just absolutely just terrible, man Just miserable man. Let's get for a bit for one step ahead with knockout and just play two man under just absolutely Absolutely miserable experience on CFM. It really is absolutely miserable.  That's what he's doing putting his DB's back. It's just miserable. Yep. There it is boys As if we didn't doubt Dude every time I run That dude just disengages so fast. I swear he has like he this guy knows where my guys are gonna be I swear to God he does Good blocking good blocking 84 if you would have blocked your corner. We would have we would have had yards right there That's dude.  Oh my god.   Just add I only to do is don't all you to do is wait for Calvin.   He's got knockout my bad. Hold up. I forgot everybody got Everybody hold on hold up. This is a blitz No wonder you play CFM. No wonder you play CFM.  Come on There we go.  Like this is so disgusting that y'all play this game or this Would be time to run. Yeah, it would be time to run dude. It's time to run It's time to know huddle. Come on. It's time to run now. I'm this guy bagged. It's time to run. Come on That's the best though. You've done all day, buddy That's the best panic throw you've thrown all day. This is nasty nasty Yeah, you're trying to milk the whole quarter by lobbing a running back in route across the field That's what he's trying to do. Definitely. No, just never mind. I pressed Calvin. This is my fault.    It's a great throw. I'm giving him another chance. Just give him another chance Oh, you're gonna kick you're gonna kick and give me the ball for the game. Wow Bull strategy cotton I mean, I don't blame him for I really haven't been frying them No, I really haven't been frying them especially if he goes with two men under I'd rather him blitz right now Then go to man under for some reason. He's getting really good coverage He's getting better coverage than the guys in the CFM, dude. I don't know I don't know if quest in Minnesota got better wire receivers than these guys, but I honestly don't know I Don't know if I would have went for that. I don't know Fourth and eight like it was fourth and five or fourth and less than five Yeah, I think you got it try to be a little bit safe here or blitz and maybe I guess of a big play He's in spinner. I thought I play so much and that was the worst that ever like worked He's going back to two man under here Call time out for me. Okay. Oh my god. I can't lie. My boys are so trash my wide receivers right now school Westbrook school Westbrook Threat Detector just knew I could do that for a first down again I mean like the rule number one of spinners you have to guard the running back like that's rule number one boys I don't know if you guys have played Madden or this guy's played a lot of man But that's like rule number one and when you're playing against spinner your rule needs to be how can I beat? How can I use the running back? Seriously? Where's the DB fire one or the other? My boy Greg Lewis picking them up getting out of bounds 42 52 57 yard field goal right now I mean, I feel like this is just a runnable spot right here. It really is Tio Tio Tio Tio Tio Tio Tio Tio He should call time out like right now make me run another play Now okay, okay, Alan Clamps super sweat and I'll tell you what I'm the super sweat of them all Well, actually now I won't get a ice field. Oh, I don't think I should have ran another play I'm gonna use my time out here. Oh, is that how you knew to call time out? Oh my god Hopefully I can take a second off the clock here No second.  I'm just trying to take a second off the clock Why not right? Oh, we got a one second. Can we get to seven? Can we get the seven seconds here every second counts boys when you got Calvin and Megatron and boys? Oh My god, there's just no way. There's no way. There is no way.  That's a rule. Oh my god Do I really don't even know to do I feel like I get the dub. I feel like that's a dub. Sorry. It's a dub No way. I'm restarting that game. I feel like there's no way as a madden player in week one You should say no restart.  I'm not read.  I'm not missing a 40 yard ice field. Oh, dude. I'm not He's not scoring with three seconds. They know why I'm not re-in. I'm not doing anything That's a dub or I'm done. I can't lie I'm done if that's not a dub in this league if this league do not have integrity to give me the w right there Then I can't play the league no more. I can't play with them kids. I can't I can't waste my energy on these kids to be honest No, gg's allen gg's See allen knows allen. That's my dub, right? Like I get a dub for that Agreed it makes sense though. No, it does make sense.  You're a good guy So all right you guys youtube everybody's only asked me what happened in the game Why did I get kicked what happened was he called timeout with nine seconds, right? Now I can try to run some more clock to make that play the last play of the game So I could run the ball, but I didn't have I did have a timeout But I had to use that to get out of field will right so I go back It's first down. I have no timeouts. How can I run some time off the clock safely spike? You call spike, right? Even if it's a half a second if you do it three times you get a second and a half off of the clock If there's nine seconds at the end of the day that second and a half mean something because the field goals Want to take three seconds now all of a sudden on the kickoff He only has two seconds or three seconds rather than seven it doesn't seem like much, but this is my point Why not do it?  That was a tough game


This is the SF Productions Podcast Network. In the year 2020! From the Bob Kulture Bunker, I'm Mindy. And I'm Mark. You can check out our audio podcast, How I Got My Wife to Read Comics on iTunes, or on our website SFPodcastNetwork.com. We're recording this right before Christmas. We're decorated for Christmas. Exactly. And as we charge into a new decade, I thought it would be a good opportunity to cover pop culture items coming up for an anniversary in 2020. Going back 100 years, the biggest film of 1920 was Way Down East, a melodrama directed by D.W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish. It earned about a million dollars in profits, which would be about 12 million dollars today. Then moving up to 1930, a young John Wayne had his first starring role in The Big Trail. The Hollywood Reporter was first published and Betty Boop made her first film appearance. The top film was Paramount's adaptation of Tom Sawyer, starring Jackie Coogan, aka Uncle Fester, making 160 million in today's dollars, quite the blockbuster, and all quiet on the western front when the Academy Award in its third outing. There were also nascent television events that year, a theater in Schenectady, New York displayed closed-circuit TV for the first time, and the world's first TV commercial, for a hair-waving product, was broadcast in England. Wow! Moving to 1940, a huge year for animated films. Tom and Jerry and Bugs Bunny all make their official debuts while Pinocchio and Vintage are released. The top film is Rebecca, 107 million in today's dollars, and Rebecca wins the Academy Award. Hattie McDaniel became the first African-American to win an Oscar. The first hockey and basketball games are broadcast on TV, as well as the first metropolitan opera performance on television. NBC broadcasts the Republican National Convention from Philadelphia, and Captain America first appears in comics despite a 1941 cover date, but it actually came out in 1940, this is the classic shot of him punching out Hitler. DC never punched out Hitler. 75 years ago in 1945, the Bells of St. Mary's grossed $119 million in today's dollars, the Lost Weekend won Best Picture, and Paramount released a cartoon short called The Friendly Ghost starring Casper. Sci-Fi writer Arthur C. Clarke introduced the concept of a communication satellite in a magazine article. With the end of World War II, commercial television and the availability of TV sets resumed. The voice of Firestone Televiews begins, which would run in fits and starts all the way until 1963. 1950's King Solomon's Mines grossed $105 million in today's dollars. All about Eve won Best Picture, John Wayne was the biggest earning star, and James Dean got his big break in a Pepsi commercial. Speaking of TV, quiz shows ruled the day, mostly transferred from radio. The top TV series was Texaco Star Theater with Uncle Mildee with a rating of 61.6. Now as a comparison, the Big Bang Theory got a 5.8 rating in 2016. Supposedly, they actually closed movie theaters the night the Texaco Star Theater was on, because nobody went to the movie theater. Restaurants closed.  Everybody's at home watching Milton Berle. Burns and Allen also brought their show over from radio and Vaudeville before that. Desi Arnais and Lucille Ball formed Desilu. While the FCC approved a color television system from CBS that was incompatible with the system used at the time, this ended up not actually standing. In 1960, Elvis returns from military duty and shoots the movie GI Blues. Good old Elvis. Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho also premieres, only beat out for Top Grossing Picture by Spartacus, $121 million in today's dollars. The apartment wins the Oscar while Jane Fonda and Robert Redford both debut in Tall Story. She co-stars, he's uncredited. 1960 was a big year for TV. The top show was Gunsmoke with a 37.3 rating. Jack Parr walks off his Tonight Show for a month after getting preempted, and then returns with the line, as I was saying before I was interrupted, the Olympics is broadcast in the U.S. for the first time. CBS paid all of $60,000 for the rights. They now pay more like billions for the rights. Puppet Show Howdy Doody ends a 13-year run with otherwise mute clown Clara Bell saying goodbye, kids. The Kennedy-Nixon debates are held, which some believe gave JFK a leg up. In the U.K., the long-running soap Coronation Street begins and is still on. The Flintstones, My Three Sons, and The Andy Griffith Show begin their runs. Finally, Etch-a-Sketch goes on sale for the first time. 50 years ago, 1970, the top grossing film is Love Story at $706 million in today's dollars. I still haven't seen it. Neither have I. And airport makes almost as much. Patton wins Best Picture. The IMAX projection system is introduced, while Future Hot Throbs, Tom Selleck, and Sylvester Stallone make their first appearances in cult films Myra Breckenridge and The Party at Kitty and Studs, respectively. That second one is almost soft-core porn. National Education Television is replaced by PBS and Chant Huntley leaves NBC's Huntley Brinkley Report. Good night, David. Good night, Chet. The top TV show was Marcus Welby M.D. with a 33.3 rating. All My Children, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Partridge Family, Monday Night Football, and The Odd Couple all premier that year. 40 years ago, this is 1980. The Empire Strikes Back grosses $684 million in today's dollars. The Shining and Airplane are released, and Heaven's Gate basically takes down a studio united artists. Ordinary People wins the Oscar, and Drew Barrymore, Tom Hanks, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sharon Stone, and Bruce Willis all make their film debuts that year. I'm starting to feel really old at this point. I know, absolutely. Al Michael delivers the Do You Believe in Miracles line at the Winter Olympics. JR Ewing is shot on Dallas, the top show with a 34.5 rating. Not as high as that 61 Milton Burrow rating. But still quite a bit higher than current network TV. Absolutely. CNN and Cinemax begin broadcasting. David Letterman gets a morning show on NBC that quickly fails. Don't worry, he'll be back. And Howard Cosell announces the death of John Lennon during Monday Night Football. The Emmys go on as scheduled despite being in the middle of an actor strike. All but one nominated actor boycotted the event. Powers Booth appeared to take his award for Guyana Tragedy, the story of Jim Jones. They had trouble actually finding a host for it. So it ended up being the Smothers Brothers and Steve Allen were the only ones willing to go over the picket line. Ironically the Smothers Brothers because they're generally very left-leaning. And yet here we are. Solid Gold, Cosmos, Too Close for Comfort, Boozom Buddies, and Magnum PI all premiered that year. One of those things is not like the others. And finally, the Rubik's Cube goes on sale in the U.S. We're now up to 1990, 30 years ago. Ghost is the top grossing film with $1 billion in today's dollars. Dances with Wolves, Wins Fest Picture, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles becomes the highest grossing independent film as of that time. CGI is introduced in films such as Total Recall, Die Hard 2, and Robocop 2. Russell Crowe, Vin Diesel, Juliana Moore, and Catherine Zeta-Jones make their film debuts. Then over in TV, Cheers is the number one show with a 21.3 rating. The Simpsons broadcast their first regular episode after a 1989 Christmas special and the final episode of New Heart Airs with a callback to his previous series. Captain Picard is assimilated into the Borg on Star Trek The Next Generation, the G-Network, the Sci-Fi Channel, and the Family Channel all premiere, along with Twin Peaks in Living Color, Wings, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Law & Order, and Beverly Hills 90210. So at this point in time, we're seeing network TV begin its long, slow decline. 25 years ago in 1995, Die Hard with a Vengeance is the number one film with grosses of $614 million in today's dollars, and Braveheart wins the Oscar. Toy Story is the first feature-length film created on a computer, and Peter Dinklage, Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd, and Charlize Theron make their film debuts. The number one TV series is ER with a 22 rating. The History Channel, the WB, and the UPN debut, of course they would eventually merge into the CW. The OJ Trial takes over Daytime TV with $150 million watching The Vertic Live. A TV show called Rocks is the first to be distributed on the internet as the world turns reaches 10,000 episodes, and The Walt Disney Company buys ABC and ESPN. Now we'll wrap it up in the year 2000, 20 years ago! The top grossing film is Mission Impossible 2 with $815 million in today's dollars while Gladiator wins the best picture. Sasha Berenkoen, Chris Evans, Chris Pratt, and Zoe Saldana all make their film debuts. Over on television, David Letterman has quadruple bypass surgery returning to air the next month, while Oxygen, Boomerang, Tech TV, Malcolm in the Middle, BattleBots, Gilmore Girls, CSI, and Trading Spaces all premiere. Reality shows take over Prime Time with Big Brother and Survivor. The top series with a rating of 17.4. Yes, and let's see in 20 years when they say what the top rating for this year's network TV show is. 0.3. Doesn't even matter anymore. Right, because there probably won't be broadcast networks. We probably have more viewers than some of broadcasts to be. Indeed. And so if you're like our show, you can check out our audio podcast, How I Got My Wife to Read Comics on iTunes, or on our website, sfpodcastnetwork.com. From the Pop Culture Bunker, I'm Mindy. And I'm Mark. Thanks for watching.


My new concepts are now being shamelessly, plagiarized, pilfered, pillaged, and stolen, and not for the first time. Snapshotting, confusing external and internal or introjected objects. The dual mothership principle, regression to infancy in intimate relationships, the shared fantasy space, among many other concepts. Rather than get angry, I took this as an opportunity to explore the psychology behind such sordid behavior. You see, every silver lining has a cloud, especially on YouTube. One disclaimer, I found a single exception, a member of an extinct species, the honest person. One, unfortunately, only one. And that is Shadow de Angelis on Instagram or Cyber Viking on TikTok. Amazingly, shockingly, he attributes these concepts to me in his short videos, giving credit where it's due. I don't know what's wrong with this guy, but I hope he never changes. Why does the covert narcissist steal your life? Three hints, psychosis, rivalry, and envy. Before I proceed, watch yesterday's video about malicious envy and narcissistic rivalry and what they do to the covert narcissist. How they drive him to behave or misbehave, actually, in certain ways. The video went a bit viral and for good reason, because it is founded on the most recent cutting-edge research. Conducted of all places, in Italy, the birthplace of the Cosannostra and the mafia were covert narcissists proliferate, I should assume. Okay, let's get serious. Guys and gaiets, dudes and do-dates, why does the covert narcissist steal your life? Covert narcissists steal from you habitually. The covert narcissist steals your ideas. He steals your life's work. He steals your girlfriends and your wives. He steals your job. He steals your money. He steals anything he can. It's almost reflexive. It's as if he doesn't even bother to think about what he's doing, as if there's no analysis involved. Just a knee-jerk reaction, like a frog, a dead frog, electrocuted in a biology laboratory. And the covert narcissist acts this way for three reasons. But before we go to the reasons, let us remind ourselves, what is a covert narcissist? A covert narcissist is someone who believes himself to be a genius, unrecognized genius, of course. Outstanding, godlike, superhandsome, amazing, omnipotent, fascinating, omniscient God's gift to humanity. And yet, no one recognizes this. The covert narcissist fails to obtain supply. So what the covert narcissist does, he steals the personality and the life of an overt narcissist. And then, under the guise of the overt narcissist, he succeeds to obtain supply. It's as if the covert narcissist annihilates himself, shape-shifts, metamorphosizes into an overt narcissist, a specific overt narcissist. Someone he envies, someone he regards as a rival, someone who is far superior to him intellectually or bodily or in some way, maybe richer, I don't know, someone superior to him. And then the covert narcissist deletes himself, erases himself and reappears, reinvents himself in the shape of the envid overt narcissist. It's a form of inverted narcissism. It's a form of codependency. It's a form of covert narcissism.  And he does it for three reasons. Number one, self-aggrandizement. The covert narcissist is a collapsed narcissist. It's a narcissist who has failed, who has failed in obtaining supply. So to aggrandize them himself, he self-supplies by becoming someone else. It's as if the covert narcissist's original false self has failed him, and so he needs to adopt someone else's personality in lieu as a substitute for the failed false self. If every narcissist, overt or covert, develops a false self in early childhood, but in the case of the covert narcissist, the false self is dysfunctional. It's not working. The narcissist, the covert narcissist doesn't have sufficient intelligence, usually, to pull it off. He fails even as a con artist.  It's as if he imbibes the essence of people around him and becomes, in a smoke and mirror act, becomes these people, not himself. Self-aggrandizement. That way, he feels that he is superior. That way, he can garner and generate narcissistic supply from gullible people who don't bother to look deep and who don't do their research. The second reason, one upmanship, the covert narcissist, is extremely competitive. He's seething with malicious envy, malevolent resentment, rage at his own failures, repeated failures. He looks around him, and everyone seems happy. Everyone has money, everyone has fame or celebrity. Everyone comes up with 10 ideas a minute when he fails to come with a single idea in a lifetime, and he can't tolerate this. The harsh inner critic inside him wants to annihilate him, wants to vitiate and negate him, wants to destroy him.   The only way open to him, to become a hero, is one upmanship.  I'm going to find someone who is successful at what I wish to accomplish, and I'm going to take over that person, I'm going to render them an extension of myself, I'm going to subsume them, consume them, or I'm going to erase them.  It sounds unbelievable, but it's happening daily, including to me. Okay, one upmanship. The third reason is passive aggression.  They're furious at the world for having denied them their due, because they are superb and unique and amazing, and irresistible and fascinating. They are the world, and yet, who recognizes this, nobody, unless and until they succeed to imitate someone, mimicry, mimesis, unless and until they become someone else, but even then, when they have successfully become someone else, the praise, the narcissistic supply, doesn't feel real, it feels fake, because they are being praised for what they haven't done, for ideas they've never had, for a girlfriend they've stolen from someone, they are not being praised for who they are and what they've accomplished, they are being praised for who they pretend to be, and for what they would have wanted to accomplish and failed. This is a bittersweet state of existence, where you know, as a covert narcissist, that everyone who gives you a compliment, everyone who praises you, everyone who holds you in high regard and high esteem, is actually holding the original in high regard. You are just a faded and fading copy, that's who you are, that's how the narcissist feels, the covert narcissist, so it's never enough, and this creates a normal amount of aggression, but because most covert narcissists are co-dependent, they depend on other people for obtaining supply, and because they are also, in some cases, people-pleasers and so on and so forth, their aggression is passive, passive aggression.  There's no more reason for rivalry or envy, because now he is gone symbolically and you have become him, you've become that object of envy and rivalry, this is a dynamic so, so profoundly sick that it can only be described as psychotic, because it involves a mechanism called hyperreflexivity, hyperreflexivity is when an individual who is profoundly mentally ill, confuses internal objects with external objects, when this kind of individual consumes other people, steals their life work, their ideas, their partners, their money, their identity, identity theft in effect, this is identity theft, I mean, when they do this, they merge and fuse with that other person, it's a process of becoming the world, and that's a great description of psychosis, this is exactly what's happening in psychosis, the psychotic person confuses internal processes with external reality, so if he has a voice in his mind, he thinks his voice is coming from the outside, if he imagines something, he sees it out there, the same with the covert narcissist, when the covert narcissist hijacks another person's identity, kidnaps that person's life, property, loved ones, work, ideas, when the covert narcissist commits this grand larceny, the covert narcissist annexes, consumes, digests and subsumes that person whose life they have taken over and stolen, and this is of course completely psychotic, these people are really, really seriously ill, require urgent intervention and medication on a regular basis, they're able to pull off a facade of normality, what Clackley called, Harvey Clackley called in the 1940s, the mask of sanity, but it's just a mask, behind this mask of sanity, there is gaping unprecedented, unbelievable and unbridled, inner sanity, these are the most insane people I know, now, to be able to face himself in the mirror, and also to allay his justified fear of retribution, because not everyone is going to tolerate this, peacefully, of course, so knowing that retribution might be coming, and realizing that what he's doing is shameless, evil, wicked, and horrible, morally unsustainable, ethically repulsive, repugnant, realizing all this, the covert narcissist deploys a host of good object, infantile, primitive defenses, now that's not an insult, primitive simply means early childhood, so what the covert narcissist does, he regresses to the narcissistic stage of early childhood, what is known as primary narcissist, and then he lies to himself, he creates a narrative, he convinces himself that he is a good object, that he is a good person, and to accomplish this unbelievable counterfactual feat of self-deception, the covert narcissist uses four defense mechanisms, number one, denial, he says to himself, whatever it is that I'm stealing, pilfering, plagiarizing, this theft, the things I'm stealing, the ideas, the work, the concepts, the loved ones, the girlfriends, the wives, the money, the car, the house, whatever it is that I'm stealing, these things don't really belong to the other guy or to the other girl, they don't really belong to them, actually what I'm doing, I'm doing for the greater good, not for my own sake, yeah, in the process I'm making a load of money and I'm becoming a celebrity and I have access to beautiful girls, more than normally, more than I would have had I been just myself, so yeah, there are benefits and perks, but I am on a mission, I'm on a crusade, I'm a good person doing good things, and that's my only motivation, all the rest is incidental and whatever it is that I'm stealing from this guy or from this girl, it doesn't belong to them, they got all these things in a dishonest way, and so I have a full right to take it away from them and to attribute these things to myself and to own these things from now on. The second defense mechanism is repression, so the first one is denial, denying that what he's doing is actually theft, the second mechanism is repression, the covert narcissist says, I don't recall that these stolen goods, stolen money, stolen ideas, stolen work, stolen concepts, stolen husband, stolen wife, stolen girlfriend, stolen boyfriend, I don't recall that they used to belong to someone else, I thought they were free, I thought they were available, I thought they were, you know, I didn't realize I was stealing, I didn't realize I was absconding with someone's belongings or property or including intellectual property, I didn't know that. I wasn't cognizant that what I'm doing is wrong, neither do I think to this very day that what I'm doing is wrong. So this is repression. The third mechanism is splitting, yeah, it's true, I am plagiarizing, I am stealing, I am absconding with someone else's property, I am doing all these things, but I'm doing all these things because he is a bad person, he deserves what I'm doing to him. So my acts of pure, unadulterated, very often criminal theft are punitive and they are morally upright, I'm restoring cosmic justice because I'm a superhero fighting supervillains. This is splitting, all good, all bad, all black, all white and of course the pilfering thief covert narcissist presents himself as or believes himself to be all good and the target of his criminal activities is all bad, so he deserves, he has it coming, he deserves what the covert narcissist is doing to him. The covert narcissist cloaks his inadmissible and unacceptable activities in a mantle in a guise of effusive morality is the guardian of values. This is a morality play or he is the leader of the forces of all good against the devilish and demonic other party. And of course, a la guerre comme la guerre in a war, it's inevitable, there's always loot and the other guy's property, ideas, concepts, life's work, girlfriend, wife, you name it, money, this is loot, this is the loot of this war, but this war is a just war, in a just cause and he is the good guy, never mind what he's doing. And finally, the final mechanism is projection, covert narcissist says, yeah, I stole all these things, I plagiarized, I pilfered, I did all these things, but it's because this, all these things belong to me. He stole these things from me, because for example, I paid for them, I paid for this work, I paid for this production, I paid for this, for his wedding, I paid for his, I helped him with his car, I gave him a loan to buy the house, so these things belong to me, I paid for them, or morally they belong to me. I should have been the one who came up with this original idea, or he actually plagiarized from me, or I served as the catalyst and the trigger that led him to this discovery, or this innovation, or this enterprise, or these profits, or I have been without me, had I not been there, none of this would have happened, so it's all mine by right, I'm just reclaiming what's mine. You see how contorted, convoluted, and again, profoundly deranged and demented these defenses are. These are really dangerous and sick people. They're snakes in the grass, they're sheep, they're sheep in wolves clothing, and with an overclock of a tiger, they are wolves in sheep's clothing, so sometimes they're predators, sometimes they're prey. When it's convenient for them, they're the latter, sheep in wolves clothing, when they are out to attack or to counterattack, then they are wolves in sheep's clothing, so they play both sides of the game. The problem is, not the transgressions themselves, criminals abound, the problem is the inner conviction of the rightness of the acts, and the total suspension of reality.  I think that this model and this understanding is critical to understand the abuse you are suffering, have suffered, or how to move forward from it as a bedrock layer to what's kind of happened. So we all know idealization, devalue, discard. Well, this goes much deeper because this is the dual mothership model. Let's start here. Let's go back to childhood with the narcissist. We know that the narcissist never completes a developmental process called individuation. So you start out life, they become an extension of their parent, they merge, they fuse, and they get trapped there. They never get to individuate through their lifetime. So deep subconsciously, they're going to pick relationships and they're really interviewing for a mother. And this isn't gender specific. Man, woman, whatever it is, they're trying to merge and fuse is what he refers to it as. To become one with the targets. This happens. This is the point where nothing you can do is wrong. You're idealized. It's called co-idealization because it's becoming ideal as one part of the shared fantasy. Now, after that, merge and fuse, and they succeed at becoming one with you and getting you enmeshed that deeply with them. It's when they're going to start doing the devaluation. Because that devaluation deep down is an attempt for them to complete a developmental process called individuation. They're trying to individuate. And so to do that, they're going to levy every insult. They're going to demean. They're going to break you down. They're looking to try to separate and individuate, leaving you in a state of mind where you're confused and you're trying to reconcile out. How can I be? I was just perfect. Why was I treated like that? And now I can't all be bad. But to the narcissist in order to individuate, they need to make you into a bad object, completely bad, right? To be able to separate and complete that process. And this is my opinion, not Sam Vakman's what I'm about to mention. But I think it's a fundamentally a sense of satisfaction comes from that punishment and that rejection from what's suppressed in their psyche and deep developmental process that never could happen to become an adult, which is why they're like a child trapped in an adult's body. So research it for yourself, the dual mothership model. Narcissistic snapshotting. It's a term that Professor Sam Vakman coined and most of the terms around narcissism today were actually coined by him back in the 90s. So if you're not familiar, Professor Vakman is basically my primary resource for going way deeper into the mind of a narcissist, a narcissistic relationship, abuse, borderline, psychopathy, the sub variants of each highly recommend if you if you are interested to have the time is going to do a much better job than I am. But what I aim to do is distill little nuggets and be the bridge to him. One of those nuggets is narcissistic snapshotting. Narcissistic snapshotting. Very quick explanation is from the moment that a narcissist identifies a potential intimate partner.  From that moment forward, you do not exist as an individual to them. You exist as an internal object. What what Professor Vakman calls an introject. An introject is like a model, an apparition, an idea of somebody that you've internalized to mean something in relation to yourself. And an interject or like the voices that go through life with you for that person living in your head. We all have interjects, but narcissists basically only have interjects. And so these internal objects, aka you have to stay in alignment with this grandiose perfect idealized snapshot they've made of you because it's yet another way for them to idealize themselves and you just become an accessory, so to speak. So that's what snapshotting is. And what happens when we deviate from that snapshot that idealized image, we get punished, aka devalued or discarded because the narcissist is actually experiencing injury from that. Almost like a little crack in the psyche, very uncomfortable for them.  It will make them very uncomfortable and anxious. And so as we look to the delusion of true narcissism, right, not just narcissistic traits, but a true NPD. What we're talking about is delusion so deep where the world to them is only objects.  An idea that if you don't live up to or deviate from what they need you to be for them for their own delusion, you will then be discarded, devalued, ultimately punished. It goes much deeper. I recommend you do your own research, but that's snapshotting in three minutes.


Alright top secret we have a video that we're going to play and then we're going to bounce right to questions and then we're going to Balance home and go to sleep and then rinse and repeat. All right. Take it away us. Lady. What is this? This is me writing a circuit Python Python driver for this resistive Touch controller chip called the TSC 207 which was featured on the Great Search a while ago because it's a replacement for the STMP 610-811 chip which is discontinued as we've got hooked up here to my feather and four with an OLED and I've got it So when I'm touching the screen The touch points are showing up on the OLED so it detects the touch It detects the pressure and then it prints out the X and Y so resistive touch screens They always have like pretty much four wires They're basically two potentiometers and you don't technically need a chip to do it Like you could read it with just the analog inputs on a microcontroller but these chips do all the filtering for you and like they can detect pressure and there's all the math and like It's all done for you. So it's an easy I squared C stem IQT board coming into the store soon