Mae genchu ein lockwur. isch o gwahanol i ddechrau Y Llywodraeth i chi ddim yn cakei'r ddylai andre出ydag Again, will those members please leave now and do so or stay? The next item of business is a statement by Michael Matheson on Greenhouse Gas Emissions Statistics 2019. The Cabinet Secretary will take questions at the end of his statement, and so there should be no interventions or interruptions. Last week, we debated one of the defining issues of our time—the global climate emergency. Scotland can rightly be proud of the progress that we have already made and our plans to achieve a net zero and climate resilient future. The next decade is crucial and the time to act is now. However it is, I will continue to be a very challenging journey. The purpose of my statement today is to further update members on progress towards the world-leading targets that the Parliament agreed during its last term, which shaped the pathway for Scotland's just transition to a net zero society by 2045. The official statistics on Scotland's greenhouse gas emissions during 2019 were published this morning. We must crucially remember that this data is always historic in nature. The new figures only cover the period to the end of 2019 and do not reflect the step change in action taken since then. In particular, the update to our climate change plan was only published in December 2020. Not that these figures yet tell us anything about the impacts of Covid-19 on emissions. On the statutory reporting basis set out by Parliament through the recent Climate Change Act, Scotland's emissions during 2019 were down by 51.5 per cent since the 1990 baseline. That clearly falls short of the annual target of a 55 per cent reduction. Although it is undoubtedly disappointing that the annual target has not been met, the figures do still show good progress. Emissions fell by 2.3 per cent between 2018 and 2019. We continue to outperform the UK as a whole in delivering long-term reductions and, crucially, we are now over halfway to becoming a net zero society. We should be proud of the steps taken so far, but also recognise that there is a long way to go. Our Parliament has, quite rightly, said truly world-leading climate change targets. It is easy to overlook the fact that our economy-wide targets for every year in the 2020s and 2030s are the most stretching of any country in the world. There can be no question about Scotland's ambition here, and this Government is fully committed to rising to that challenge. We are updated the climate change plan, the effects of which, as I have said, are not yet reflected in today's figures, including over 100 new policies to accelerate progress and is supported by a record £1.9 billion of capital funding in 2021-22 to tackle climate change and to create good green jobs. That policy package reflects our understanding that more needs to be done and represents a credible pathway to meeting the increased ambition of Scotland's targets over the period to 2032. Our attention is firmly on implementing and delivering those policies to achieve real, on-the-ground changes in emissions, as well as the wider benefits for our economy through green jobs, for our society through improved health and wellbeing and outcomes and for our environment. That will be vital to delivering the green recovery from Covid-19 that we want to see. We are already making progress. Provisional figures for 2020 indicate that the equivalent of 97.4 per cent of gross electricity consumption was from renewable sources. In 2019, the whole-life carbon impact of Scotland's household waste reached its lowest level since official records began. We now have hydrogen buses on the streets in Aberdeen and Dundee, and we are building the UK's largest electric vehicle charging hub in Glasgow. We are seeing an influx of young talent to Scotland's forestry sector through the growing rural talent initiative. We are seeing farmer-led groups who are looking at low-carbon farming practices, and we are providing long-term investment in peatland restoration. We are giving 75 per cent cashback to households for zero-emission heating, as well as interest-free loans to purchase a new electric car or motorcycle. We want to go further. We will phase out the need for new petrol and diesel cars and vans and heat 1 million homes with zero-emission technologies both by 2030. Meeting Scotland's world-leading emissions targets to reach net zero by 2045 lies at the heart of our response to the global climate emergency. However, as we debated last week, the response is also much more than that. The manner in which emissions reductions are achieved is every bit as important as the reductions themselves. We are committed to implementing the recommendations of the Just Transition Commission, and we will respond fully later in the summer to that. Our recognition that climate change is a social justice issue is also reflected in the doubling of our pioneering international climate justice fund and our position as co-chair of the global under-2 coalition. It also cannot go unnoticed that Scotland's ability to deliver a green recovery and reach our targets is very much dependent upon action from the UK Government in areas that unfortunately remain reserved. That is something that the independent climate change committee has been clear on. As well as reducing our emissions, we are also preparing for the locked-in impact of climate change here in Scotland, including the risk to our precious biodiversity. We are investing in climate resilience as part of a green recovery from Covid-19 with an extra £150 million for flood risk management over this Parliament. That all forms part of our integrated response to the global climate emergency. Of course, a global challenge also requires international collaboration. It is now less than five months until the UN's landmark climate conference in Scotland. COP26 represents the world's best chance to deliver a global deal that supports the goals of the Paris agreement and delivers lasting action towards net zero and climate resilience future in a way that is fair and just. The eyes of the world will be on Glasgow, providing a unique opportunity to demonstrate the world-leading climate action that Scotland is already taking with people and wellbeing at the centre of all that we do, underpinned by our global values. We will also be listening to and learning from others as we all work to turn commitments into national and local action. We know that we have taken on a huge challenge with such ambitious emission targets. It is imperative that we in government and all of us in this chamber continue to challenge ourselves to do even more in order to meet those targets. Even when we do fall a little short, as unfortunately is the case today, Scotland's climate legislation ensures that even deeper reductions will be achieved in the future. Implementing and delivering the update to the climate change plan must remain our priority, but we will now urgently develop a catch-up report from the missed 2019 target and aim to publish it within six months at the very latest. Looking further ahead into the session, we agreed during last week's debate that the next full climate change plan should also then be brought forward as soon as possible. That approach reflects the urgency that the climate emergency demands. I will be proud to present Scotland's story and leadership on climate change ambition and delivery to the international community at COP26. The Glasgow COP will, I am sure, inspire all of us to exhilarate our efforts to achieve our shared goal of a just and fair net zero future. Thank you, cabinet secretary, and the cabinet secretary will now take questions on the issues raised in his statement, and I will allow 20 minutes for questions after which time we will have to move on to the next item of business. It would be helpful if members who wish to ask a question were to press their request to speak buttons now, and I would remind members that questions and answers should be succinct. We are really tight for time and otherwise we will not get everybody in. I call Liam Kerr. Thank you, Presiding Officer. The Scottish Conservatives believe that few things are as urgent as tackling the climate emergency and preventing its disastrous consequences for people all over the world. That is why today's publication of the latest greenhouse gas emissions targets were, to use the cabinet secretary's words, disappointing. I think that it is much more serious than that, because yet again this SNP Government has missed its own statutory target for reducing emissions. The cabinet secretary mentioned numerous actions about what is being done, but we are already seeing schemes fail. For example, just this week there were reports that retrofitted eco buses could still be banned from low emissions zones for breaching pollution laws. That is potentially £10 million of public money wasted. That is the first question. What is the Scottish Government's response to this, and how will it be rectified? Secondly, time and time again, in portfolio after portfolio, be it health, justice, education, now this, we see this SNP Government put statutory targets in place, which are then missed, then blame others for that failure. Despite what the cabinet secretary says, the legislation clearly does not ensure reductions. Can the cabinet secretary tell me what sanction or penalty is applied for failing to hit statutory targets, and to whom, and going forward, how will this Government not just promise to hit those targets, but actually ensure that they are achieved? Thank you, Presiding Officer. I am grateful to Liam Kerr for his question. I am particularly pleased to hear that the Conservatives place such importance on the issue of tackling climate change, and it is always important when it comes to tackling issues such as climate change that we show the right type of leadership. It is questioned when you have someone like the Prime Minister getting a flight from London to Cornwall to discuss issues such as climate change is not the type of leadership. I would have thought that the Conservatives would want to show on such an important issue. I think that it is important that we all show the right type of leadership in these issues, including his colleagues in Westminster. I turn to the points that he has made in relation to the retrofitting of buses and the technical issue that has been identified. Some of the equipment that has been deployed for some of the buses in Glasgow in particular has presently been investigated in order to look at addressing that programme through the Bayer programme and to deal with the technical issues that have been identified through that. Equally, the member would recognise that the largest bus charging infrastructure is currently being constructed in Glasgow in order to deploy the largest amount of electric buses in any city in the country. As a result of the direct investment that we are making as a Government in our Scottish Outer Low Emission Bus Fund, we are not only helping to get more zero-emission buses on the road, but we are also helping to support vital companies such as Alexander Dennis's, based in my constituency, who are world leaders in this technology and supporting them during a very difficult time. A commitment that has not been matched by his counterparts in Westminster as yet, which I know has disappointed the bus industry as a whole. In relation to the statutory targets that were set by Parliament in the legislation, what is very clear now is our requirement to bring a catch-up plan, which I set out that we will do in the next six months identifying the measures that will take place. I know that the member is new to the portfolio, but he will also be aware that we published our climate change plan update in December last year that sets out 100 additional measures and actions that we will take in order to drive forward our commitment to meeting those targets, and that is exactly what we are determined to do to make sure that Scotland becomes an zero country by 2045. Thank you, Presiding Officer. I thank the cabinet secretary for advance sight of the statements. It is disappointing that the Scottish Government has again missed its targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. With Glasgow hosting COP26 this year, we all want Scotland to live up to our ambitions and set a good example globally. Today is a wake-up call to get our own house in order, and we are all new to the portfolio, so hopefully we can work together on that. We welcome the commitment to catch-up plan, cabinet secretary. Indeed, section 36 of the Climate Change Act requires the Government to produce such a report in lay in Parliament so that MSPs can scrutinise policy and proposals. I gently suggest to the cabinet secretary that up to six months is quite a long time. That could take us to Christmas and after COP26, so could we get a commitment that will get an earlier date on that? After failing to prevent the loss of blue carbon habitat during the last 10 years, will the Scottish Government commit to developing a strategy for Scottish fisheries to contribute to net zero, including the protection of blue carbon? On the final point that the member has made, I will come back to her specifically on that issue once I have engaged with my colleague the cabinet secretary for rural affairs that leads in these matters and give her a much more detailed response to that. First, I welcome the tone and nature of her contribution to this. The need for us to not only take this as a wake-up call but a commitment to work collectively together in order to make sure that we meet the statutory targets that have been set by this Parliament, the most stretching targets of any country in the world, to the point that the Climate Change Committee has said that they are beyond the present technical capabilities of being reached, but nevertheless the 75 per cent target is the target that the Parliament has set, and we need to stretch ourselves to doing so. What I can assure the member of is that, in relation to the catch-up plan, is that I have set and I have asked officials for that to be completed in the next six months, not necessarily by six months but as soon as in the next six months, in order to make sure that we are looking at what further policy measures we can take forward. That is a catch-up to the missing of the target in 2019. What I can also say to the member is that, as I mentioned in my statement last week, we accepted the Green Party's amendment to bring forward our climate change plan update earlier in this parliamentary session, and that is what I am committed to doing as well, to make sure that we continue to look at what further measures we can implement and take forward in order to meet this challenge both here at national level and globally. I can assure the member that I will move forward as quickly as I can, and I will, of course, look to engage with members if they have views on what they think should be in that catch-up plan. I know that I have a meeting with the member fairly soon, and I will take that opportunity to have that discussion with her at that particular point. Can the cabinet secretary outline what he expects to see in the UK Government's net zero strategy? Given that, as he highlighted, our ability to reach our targets is dependent on action from the UK Government, since we do not yet have all the levers at our disposal. Our ambitious climate change plan update contains a number of asks of the UK Government, including on fiscal levers, the future of the gas grid and hydrogen. Those are particularly important because responsibility for development of the electricity system is a matter that is reserved to the UK Government. It is critical that the UK Government takes the opportunity to support the development of a fully sustainable and secure net zero carbon electricity or energy system. That is why it is critical that it takes forward the necessary measures that we have set out in our climate change plan to address that. We hope that the UK Government will work with us and to match our ambition as we announce the actions that we will take forward in the actions that they take forward in their UK net zero strategy, which is due to be published. I believe that, later on this year, but, as yet, we have no sight of that. We will certainly continue to engage with them to try to make sure that they have the same urgency that we have in moving those matters forward. Brian Whittle, to be followed by Gillian Martin. I spoke to the Woodland Trust yesterday and they said that the Scottish Environment, Link and other stakeholders are concerned that the Scottish Forestry are holding back from publishing the guidance for soil cultivation in forestry operations. They feel that the consequences in Scotland's net zero pathway due to carbon release from soil disturbance and plowing peaty soils could make some forestry a source of emissions. Can I ask the cabinet secretary if he will commit the Scottish Government to pushing the Forestry commission to publish this report after it has already had its two-year consultation period? I am not aware of the specific report that the member made reference to, but I am more than happy to look into the matter and respond to the member directly. Gillian Martin, to be followed by Mercedes Villalba. I see from the figures published that there have been significant peatland data revisions. Can the cabinet secretary outline the impact of those changes in our emissions levels given Scotland's vast peatland resources? It changes to the international scientific guidelines on the compilation of emission data has led to a fundamental change in the scope of the UK-wide greenhouse gas inventory. Technical decisions on those matters are made solely by the UK Government. The latest data includes, for the first time, the impact of historical drainage and rewetting of peatlands. That is particularly important for Scotland and has acted as a significant as that has resulted in a significant increase in our reported emission levels across all time periods, with an additional 9.4 megatons added to our 1990 baseline. Improvements in the science of emissions measurements is also welcome, and the current changes further emphasise the importance of taking ambitious action to restore Scotland's peatlands, which we are already committed to doing. Mercedes Villalba, to be followed by Emma Harper. Today's report shows that, in 2019, domestic transport was the largest source of net emissions in Scotland, which means that more must be done to create sustainable public transport for all. It's Scottish Labour's ambition to create a net zero publicly-owned universal free bus service for all, which is why we led on legislative change to lift the ban on local councils running their own bus services, but more than 18 months since it was passed in this chamber, the Scottish Government has still not implemented the Transport Act in full. So can the cabinet secretary tell us by what date the Transport Act will be fully implemented? As the minister who took the act through Parliament, it's a multi-topic piece of legislation that covers a whole range of different provisions within transport. The member made reference to one specific element of that. The member will also recognise that, during the course of the last 14 months, staff who were dealing with the regulations that had to be developed, associated with the various elements of the Transport Act, have had to pivot to deal with matters relating to Covid, which has resulted in a delay in that work. What I can assure the member is that that work is now on-going. Officials started to move those areas of policy again towards the latter part of last year and have a programme of work to look at implementing all the various areas within the Transport Act. I can assure the member that attention has now been given to that and progress will be made on it as quickly as possible. I am sure that the member will also recognise that there is limited capacity for staff to deal with the issues associated with the pandemic, as well as dealing with some of the regulatory aspects of the legislation. However, she can be assured that we are now making progress on the issues that she raised. Can the cabinet secretary expand a bit on how people across Scottish communities, particularly in rural areas such as Dumfries and Galloway and the Scottish Borders, can use the advice from the climate change committee and how action can be taken from that advice? It is extremely important to recognise that tackling the issue of climate change is not something that is going to be addressed by the Government itself. It requires everyone to play their part on an individual basis, an organisational basis but also a national basis where the Government has a role. I encourage anyone who has an interest in tackling the issues that are associated with climate change to consider the measures that have been set out by the Committee on Climate Change in its own report. Later on this week, we expect to also receive the Committee on Climate Change's adaptation report, which will set out further work that will be necessary to adapt to the challenges that are associated with the locked-in elements of climate change. I would also encourage those that Emma Harper made reference to to look at the measures that have been set out in our climate change plan update that was published last December that sets out a range of policies and actions that will be taken forward by Government and to encourage those organisations and individuals that can play a part or a role in helping to implement them and to promote them to do so in a way that will encourage more people to play their part in tackling climate change. The cabinet secretary says that he wants to phase out the need for new petrol and diesel cars by 2030. Can he say how he plans to do that? In doing so, could he tell the chamber what progress has been made in delivering a hydrogen highway in the north-east? The member will be aware of the very ambitious programme that we have with the most extensive electrical charging infrastructure programme for any part of the UK to support people moving to zero-emission vehicles, in particular electric vehicles. That is a key part of our strategy to help to support businesses and individuals in being able to move towards zero-emission vehicles. Part of that is why we have also provided the interest-free loan to support people and also for businesses to be able to get support in moving to electric and zero-emission vehicles. That is all part of the programme to help us to achieve that particular target. The member also made reference to the hydrogen programme in the north-east, where we have hydrogen buses operating. That is part of the framework that was set out in the last Parliament in our hydrogen framework, and we are also going to be developing a hydrogen action plan, which will set out in further detail not only about investment but about the actions that we are taking in order to make sure that we develop and expand the capacity and the capability and the benefits that can come particularly from green hydrogen. That will help to support more businesses and also new technology to be developed in this area in a way that can help to support us in delivering our commitment to a just transition. Three years of mis-target showed that we do need that transformative step change, but we have already seen what is possible with renewable electricity, where this country has taken a great lead within the UK. On renewable heat, the statement talks about a million homes needing to switch over to green heating by 2030. That is 100,000 a year, cabinet secretary, and yet last year we only saw 3,000 installations in homes in Scotland. How will the cabinet secretary work across the Government and the chamber to fill that huge gap between ambition and reality? There is a piece of work that we are taking forward. The interim report was published fairly recently, just in the course of last week, from those involved in the heat industry in looking at the measures that will be necessary in order to deliver the scale and nature of our ambition. I think that the report was published yesterday, if I recall correctly, and that will be considered further in order to be developed into a finalised report that will inform the approach and strategy that the Government will take forward in order to deliver at the type of transition that we need to see in domestic heating in particular. I recognise and I agree with the member that it is a hugely ambitious target that we have set. However, the nature of the climate emergency that we face determines that it is critical that we drive this area of policy forward. If we fail to do so, we will not only meet our targets, but we will be failing for future generations and the climate damage that will be caused as a result. The work that we are taking forward with the advisory group in considering these issues will help to inform the policy that we will take forward. However, I am keen to make sure that we do everything that we can to support the sector and to be able to invest and develop the sector as broadly and as quickly as possible in order to achieve our ambition. That work that we are taking forward with the sector is critical to supporting us in achieving that. I can get two more members in if there are very brief questions and answers. Jim Fairleys, we are followed by Liam McArthur. I will be very brief and thank you very much, Presiding Officer. I understand that, given our historic nature, the statistics do not tell us about the impact of Covid on emissions, but we do know that lots of people switch to active travel. Can the cabinet secretary outline what action the Scottish Government has taken to ensure that these changes get locked in? Presiding Officer, the pandemic has created an unprecedented pressure for our transport sector, but there has also been encouraging shifts taking place during the course of the pandemic, such as the reduction in commuter journeys and an increase in cycling. We want to make sure that we try to help to maintain those and support them going forward. That is why one of the positive initiatives that we have taken forward over the course of the pandemic has been the almost £40 million that we invested in spaces for people initiative to fund local authorities to deliver temporary walking and cycling routes. More generally, we are committed to investing some £500 million for active travel infrastructure and £500 million for bus priorities over the course of the next five years. As we support an increasing focus on localism through our commitment to 20-minute neighbourhoods, we also want to make sure that we build in some of the benefits that we have gained during the course of the pandemic into our future design of local communities, which is why we are also taking forward the local challenge programme to support that. I welcome the cabinet secretary's post, but that is an inauspicious start. We are nowhere near where we need to be in reducing emissions and the Government's warm words are simply making for a warmer planet. Given the particular challenge in relation to transport, where emissions are high and have not budged, will the cabinet secretary now take the opportunity to reverse the SNP's support for a third runway that he threw? I recognise the issue that the member raised. It was an issue that was debated last week and was roundly rejected by Parliament at the time, but I also point out to him that the transport emissions is the update report that was published today that demonstrates a decline in transport emissions. What we want to do is to build on that. That is why we have a hugely ambitious programme of helping to support the decarbonisation of our public transport network, the decarbonisation of our regional aviation network and our rail network. We are the only parts of the UK to make such commitments because we are determined to move those forward and decarbonise them in order to help to support us in achieving our climate change targets. Although there has been a reduction this year, we want to build on that year in, year out. I am determined to work with colleagues across Government to make sure that we do that and that transport plays its part in helping to support us in achieving our climate change targets. 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good morning everybody it's a little colder out now we're on our way down to vita manitoba i got a step deck tri axle behind me i don't think i'm going to need the tri axle but at least i have it right it's the only step deck available i needed a step deck for the slowd we're going to pick that right up and we're going to deliver it into rug beat north dakota today trying to keep us up north in the cold you know just having the load here we've got a crisscross chain in the front to hold it in there strap down through the middle through the top and same thing in the back i'd say we're ready to rock and roll let's get out of here there's a button down tight to have triple quadruple checked everything i'm gonna stop down the road oh hey i replaced my hub cover somewhere are you proud of me i'm in my truck here i just hadn't put them in yet i was chilly yeah i'm gonna put a sweater on delivering to a farm in north dakota near rugby trailer still attached as it should be expect anything different if you never know you always got to check anyway just in case forgot to show you my new headlights i'll have to do that next time i stop i really like them they look cool or they look good much better job pounds which will put me in the ballpark of about 69 70 000 pounds gross weight liver today i come straight back empty i got a load to pick up an oversize load to pick up in winnipeg tomorrow that's going to take you down to wisconsin good car you know a good car what a long ways for me 16 years old then the customer knows i'm coming i'm going to be unloading on his farm we're hoping to be able to get unloaded before the sun goes down that'll be at about 5 30 and i'm hoping to get there around four so we'll have an hour and a half or so to so that should be enough should all work out just fine i know i say that about most small visit every now and then living and spending time in i'll see these every now and then slight ride on main street west 95 slight right that looks like a hard right straight up right turn what do you mean slight right slightly 90 degree angle turn slight slight turn slight right main street or something close to a big city how about that then you can drive there anytime you want you know you can go to the hockey game you can go to baseball games new steer tires and newer drives so they're picking up a lot of the rocks it happened again guys got dark so fast i got here and the sun was still above the horizon i haven't been here that long at least hasn't doesn't feel like it's been that long i'm already empty but so hard to show you guys anything is so dark right away but i'm in the middle of a pasture i believe and farm in north dakota brought them some cattle fencing so now they can keep their cows and they got a thousand calves just over there makes me hungry so i'll show you my new headlights since it's night time now check that out all sorts of blends in look at this how cool is that i like it so it's got the halos those are my running lights and if i turn my signals on look what happens to them my four ways on here for you real quick but now my marker light over there just went out so i have to fix that yet right go and you got all the rest of these and these lights are so bright see the signal light still works well on the passenger side there that means the signal wire and the ground are good but the the marker light line i must have bumped or pulled on a little bit too hard when i was installing the lights on this side and i probably pulled a little too hard so i gotta fix that yet but it's an easy fix i don't know what do you guys think you guys like that halo look i do i just pulled off the farmer's land over there so he could go home and go to bed i wanted to show you these lights with my better camera gives us a much better night shot right that's just from the the halos focus on this light so you can see the difference very typical planes or prairie farmer just the friendliest person you could ever meet i love our farmers yeah get out of all these layers oh so one thing i don't like about winter the one thing one of the things that i like about winter not that i'm complaining is that i have to carry around all these layers everywhere right so i got my winter boots on here i got a sweater and i got a winter jacket and then i got my big fleece winter pants and if those aren't warm enough then i have like my big winter coveralls yet that i wear and then all of my face shields and face masks i gotta take my boots off now it's like i'm disassembling disassembling my leg or something yeah okay they're really warm i get uh these are my winter shoes that i wear they're uh workwear i got them from mark's work warehouse they're waterproof really warm but don't wear them in summer because they're really warm feet will get uncomfortably hot i wear these these are my other new shoes it's like it just actually got these these are dakota brand fitting as we're in north dakota right now i'm not trying to sell you anything i know you get it showing you my shoes okay they're blue look they're blue of course they are those are the shoes that i wear in and out of the truck stops uh when there's pavement when there's not a lot of deep snow and when it's not too cold because those shoes your feet will get cold in even with wool socks they breathe very well so your feet won't sweat whereas in these shoes you wear them for long enough your feet will sweat and they'll stink but your feet will be warm and dry all right let's get some paperwork all organized here then i'm gonna head back to winnipeg uh i gotta drop this trailer off in our yard pick up a different step deck one of those lower deck ones uh we call it boat trailers one of the lower ones we gotta pick up that because i have an oversized load to pick up in winnipeg tomorrow that's gonna take me to wisconsin it should be fun let me clean things up a bit here and we'll go just to give you an idea of how bright these lights are those are just those running lights right i'll turn on my dims and my high beams kapow back through cavalier north dakota now at night got all this garland and wreaths lit up leaders slide left on division avenue n d18 so this town does christmas right look at that big christmas tree off the side there every lamppost has one too right this door has been giving me issues too lights there we go so let's see what we're doing and now i want to use one of these these pairs of gloves because they're insulation i'm gonna leave this trailer here i was supposed to pick up what we call a boat trailer like i was telling you earlier it's a it's a step deck but it's got a lower drop than our other step decks right i need one of those for my load tomorrow because it's an oversized load and i need the lower deck i'm not seeing any anywhere like this is a boat trailer here but it's red tagged so i can't take this one right this one right here's got a red tag on it and that is because this one has a broken airbag mount under there so definitely can't take this one but that's a boat trailer see it has a little bit of a whereas where's an example of a regular step deck i don't see one way out there but the fisheye lens will probably won't be able to tell it's not quite as low right i'm so glad my bunk heater is working now i forget if i told the vlog already or not but uh this weekend in the shop i ran straight kerosene through it for a few hours on high i was told by google by the internet that if i want to fix my soot problem inside my bunk heater i should run it on high for a few hours just on straight pure kerosene so what i did was i found out where where the pump was taking diesel fuel out of my tank it's on the driver side i took it off the fuel tank and i dipped it into a jar of kerosene and i cranked her up and i let her run for like three hours and now it's running just fine so now i don't got to get it fixed so it did work google was right if you're wondering how to clean the soot out of your bunk heater you should be doing this regularly from what i've heard hear it running now that sounds good and healthy and no smoke and you see that solved my problem just burning it for three hours on kerosene if you do that every three months even every year once a year crank her up on straight kerosene that's supposed to keep it clean so that's something i'm going to do regularly if not every quarter every six months like every three to six months just to keep that thing clean kerosene burns a lot hotter than diesel fuel right and you let it run on high to burn off all the soot on the burner inside of there i don't know all the science of it but google was right it worked so if you're wondering it worked saved me some money a few hundred dollars at least and all it cost me was a twenty good twenty dollar jug of kerosene and i only used half of it so ten dollars of kerosene fixed a few hundred dollar problem let's get rid of this trailer and i'll do a loop around the yard to see if i can find a boat trailer i didn't see one oh this is one of these kind of likes to groan i know you're sad to see me go it's crying i know let it out let it out still gonna drop you right here got my tarps off here yet too but i can't believe how well that worked i kind of had my doubts i was like no this can't work very happy very happy and i think next weekend just to be safe i'm gonna do it on another cycle of kerosene i'm gonna do it again just to extra clean it because it's obviously been so long since this thing's been serviced at bunk heater it's a airtronic that's the brand name i should have loosened this earlier before i got in here there we go the thing fires up now right away first try i just can't get over that i mean definitely hashtag and press oh the flatbed life all these drive-in drivers you know they're looking at me right now all they do is they pull in roll down the dollies pull the pin take the airlines off and drive away just drop the trailer and go not so for the life of a flatbedder it's drafts to roll up i have a little thingy that rolls it up faster but this is just a short one it'll be fine so put that there pull this out because i'm gonna be using this so i have two end tarps and one center tarp the way i tell them apart when they're rolled up is the center tarp i put three bungees on the end tarps i just put two bungees on so i always know which one's my center tarp and i don't unravel this whole thing just to find out it doesn't have an end flap on it that's annoying roll it all the way back up for no reason i'm gonna be buying new tarps within the year hopefully they'll be blue again but for now these are holding out still got a pretty good patch kit for them these tarps all together are about 230 pounds plus all the snow and ice and water that gets stuck in them so probably 240 250 pounds just to look out of here i'm just gonna tie them right on here that way just in case if i need to go bobtail somewhere in the morning i'm not gonna worry about tying them down then right that's what i do is i take this toss it over fail what i do then is toss that over there like that walk around to the other side and the yard's quiet tonight take it from here and hook it onto my frame under there those tarps stay very close to me all the time this side onto this side of the frame giving a few cranks the rest of this going nowhere he's got to release that pin on there yet and here is the last thing i do decoupled and this truck and trailer or boat to have a divorce and separate they've been married all day i'm going to go and do a little bit of a roll around the yard look for a trailer if i don't find one i'm just gonna park somewhere in the yard everybody gets into the office at 7 a.m tomorrow well everybody gets 7 to 7 30 a.m they get here and we'll figure it out then we can't find one just an inch just to get out of the the pin lock there that's attached but i don't go out from under the trailer yet just like that and i set the trailer down that's what i call it i take the the air out of my airbags in my truck i lower the back end of my truck that sets the trailer down nice and easy and then go kuthunk on you but then you stop the airbags to inflate again you don't want to drive very far at all with those airbags deflated especially with mine i got those half fenders and i don't want those half fenders to rub on my tires they don't but you know they're very very close there's somebody there is that a boat trailer nope that's flatbed hey good day sir that's brian oh hell good day what you doing up so late nine bucks on amazon for all four bright two mine is one of my good work buddies here he drives uh that kenworth w900 that uh i used to drive back when i first started making vlogs in 2011 now those videos of me driving that exact truck are on my channel going to my playlist to the very beginning as far back as you can go you'll see me driving that truck it's it's a good truck and now i have a very similar truck but that is the truck that made me fall in love with kenworth w900s i mean i already liked them but it was always up in the air for me you know between the peterbilt 379 389 and kenworth w900 and then i got into that truck ever since then i've been a just a diehard and w900 guy that doesn't mean that the the 389s and 379s aren't nice too in their own way they're beautiful trucks i love to drive one would never complain about driving one but for me personally i'll always take the w900 and uh yeah living the dream here and uh so we're parked here at work uh brian's here as well too burnt down over there he's gonna sleep here as well he's got a head west tomorrow and i've got a head south the only thing is there's no trailer here for me there's no trailers at all like any stepdecks whatsoever except for the one that i brought back unless they want me to take that rental the the tri axle but from the sounds of it like the load i need to pick up tomorrow morning i need a specific trailer a type of trailer that we have and there's none in the yard so maybe they have something in mind maybe one is coming in tomorrow morning i don't know how early i have to be there to load i don't know when i have to deliver all i know is i'm picking up a winnipeg it's oversized and it's going to wisconsin and i need a specific trailer for it with a low deck that's all i know so i'm going to bed right here and figure it out in the morning thanks for joining me today i'm tired it's time to wrap this up so remember drive safe out there one second oh he's trying to hold it back until after oh but i couldn't i can't hide it guys i'm tired that's why i'm going to bed makes sense so remember guys when you're on the road drive safe please just take the extra time look one more time before changing lanes before crossing traffic keep your stick on the ice and that means uh that's sort of canadian for be ready for anything be prepared and so i'll try to get home to our families i'll see you tomorrow


Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome. Welcome to the Stocks' Wish Show Marker Review of the Spy. Thought I would do a review today, even though it is December 29th. It's Monday. Not trading this week. It is going to be a slow week in the market for stocks. And someone had emailed me this morning, I said, listen, if you are going to do anything at all this week, I would trade only in the morning, very, very quickly, and basically scow of anything that you trade. But I really think it's a good idea for people to take off in the holiday time, not just to rest and refresh yourself, but also so that you don't really do anything silly going into the end of the month or the end of a calendar year, which we're in now. In the last final week of the year, the last trading days of the year, it's just not a good idea for people to set a negative tone for themselves by doing silly things like trading when there isn't a lot of volatility, there isn't a lot of volume, and there isn't a lot of momentum. Now that being said, that being said, there actually could be in the market, yes, in the QQQs or the spy. There could be some volatility, momentum and volume coming in either tomorrow or the 31st in the QQQs of the spy. It would be either really possibly the 31st. I mean, it really could happen on the last calendar day of the year or possibly the first. It's going to happen either December 30th, December 31st, January, well, it would be actually January 5th, which is Monday, or January 2nd, which is Tuesday, which is Friday. I don't know, in the next one, two, three, four days. In the next four days, I don't know exactly what day it's going to happen. I really wouldn't know unless I'd see the gap in the morning. But in the next four days, between now and next Monday, and this includes next Monday, next week, with the markets closed on New Year's Day, the market's probably going to have a big green day. It's probably going to have a big, big green day. It'll be interesting to see if the closes out the year or starts the new year, because it's probably going to be one of the above, one of either ones. The market could have a huge massive rally on the last trading day of the year or prior to the last trading day of the year, or the first or second trading days of the year. So I won't know that until I see the gap. And again, I'm not trading, but I'm seeing that it's, that is going to happen. And the interesting thing is that I really saw, I've been expecting this for so long actually, like back in September here, at this point here. I remember talking about it. Now we have had some big green days in here. Don't get me wrong. And this isn't the kind of thing I'm talking about. We've had some big green days in here. But what I thought could possibly set up here looks like it's going to set up here soon now any day, which is a breakout, higher, continuing higher to lift the market in a massive, massive day of buying, which could have happened back in September. So the market pulled in. But then we just continued higher anyways. And we ended up making it high. And now we're in the spine. The target, the next target is 210. We hit two or nine today, basically, 297. So we're one dollar away from the next target and could get to 210, 212. We could still get there before the end of the year, because if we had that big green bar day before the end of the year, it'll be a $2 day or more. And again, it could happen very, very first part of January too. I think it's going to happen in the next week, though, the way this is setting up. So one of the scenarios I gave a couple of days ago, or maybe it was right before Christmas, I did the video, where I said, we're either going to shoot up in a really, really big bar before the end of the year and just get to the next numbers like that quickly, quickly, or we'd stair step case it about just gradually boom, boom, boom, boom. And that's really what the market is doing. I mean, that's what the market's doing. But I still see the big green bar day setting up. It's going to have a big huge rally. It could happen for the end of the year still. But we're basically almost up the next target, which is 210. We're a dollar away from there. And if we stair step case up the next two days, we'll get there, which is 210. And interesting thing is we gap down today. So we closed 208.44 on Friday. And we opened a 208.22. I mean, this is a gap down. It's really neutral. But this is really neutral. But this we did get down. We did get down this morning and held and I saw us hold like immediately. It's good. Look here at the one minute chart. This is this morning. 930, bounce. 932. Boom. You actually see here, I mean, this is what I'm talking about. You could have scout the market a long, you would have had to know to do that though. And you would have had to know to do that number. But again, I took the week off. And I think that it's good for people to recharge their minds before the next year. It's a good time to think about your goals for 2015 now at the end of the year. I've personally been doing that for a while. And I think it's very important for people. So the markets definitely higher love the way the market looks. And I think it could possibly have a monster green bar day, which I've been expecting for months, either into the end of the year or the beginning of next year. The market will close at probably new highs here in the spy for the end of the calendar year. And we just got up to 209 today. And I saw this all setting up. So it looks great. This market is perfect, perfect, perfect, perfect. And it's one of these things where, you know, whether doing a gap down or a gap up, I mean, really have to know which gaps are qualified gaps to go along or to short. I was talking to someone earlier today, was a new person that had been referred to me by someone that actually follows me, but never did my class. And this person informed me that that person basically started a hedge fund. And I was, I was, I was surprised about that. And started thinking about it, you know, there's, there's so many people actually start funds. I mean, there are people that start funds with like just a million dollars. Now, I'm not saying just a million dollars made a million dollars a lot of money, but there's so many different levels. Okay, there's just so I mean, this is why this is why you know, this is why you have days like this here in the market. I mean, this is why you have days like this here in the market. Remember, remember this drop off in here was hard. Okay, you have three red bars down here this drop off and happen back at the beginning of October. You know, I talk about hedge funds being part of this institutional money positioning, but there's all different sizes. When I talk about institutional money, what am I mean? I mean, billions of dollars, billions. I don't I don't mean a hedge fund with just one million dollars or even just $10 million. And $10 million is a lot of money. $10 million is a lot of money. But $10 million is not a big hedge fund. Okay, when I'm talking about institutional money, that actually will follow through and move something and follow through. I am talking about serious money, what I call power money, and it's not to the tune of just a few million. It is billions, or at least $100 million or more. And you have people that actually, you know, they start hedge funds, they run hedge funds, and not everybody that runs a hedge fund knows exactly what they're doing or how to trade, I must say, and you get days like this. And then people get convinced and have conviction, the market's going to drop and fall and come in this made a top it's going to crash all these things people are talking about. Well, you have days like this, because you have people that have money. I mean, you have people that have money in the market that are getting shorter selling, but they're not the ones that are really, really, really making the market that are in charge. And I know how to read that. I mean, I know how to read that. That's how I'm able to predict that the market is higher for 2015. We'll continue higher into 2015 because I know what this real power money looks like.  I mean, literally, nothing ever surprises me anymore for about how much people want to be invested in the market, like people with money just want to be in the market, even if they don't know how to trade, even if they don't know what to do, people with money like want to be in the market, they want to make money in the market, they see the potential, and that's great. But no matter what level you're on, even as one one person with your own individual account or if you manage billions of dollars, you have to understand what you're doing to take risk because just because you have a lot of money, or just because you say, well, I'm going to go out and start a hedge fund with a couple million dollars, you, you have to understand what you're doing. Otherwise, your potential for losses is huge. And your potential to win is not that great. It's not necessarily the case that if you have a lot of money, you're necessarily going to do well. That's not the case at all. If that was the case and everyone was money, you would always make money in the market. And that's not the case. But the fact is that a lot of people have money and they want to make money and they want to take the money they have or they want to make it more. But you still have to know what to do with it. And you still have to know how to read it. And you still have to be on the side of the institutions or real institutions that are making moves in the market, not just the regulars. Okay. And that is why you have to double, triple check yourself. And I do this all the time, but ever I see things like this here. And there was a bearish gap back here in July. And there was two, you know, bearish gaps back in here.  How am I able to do that? I use my 26 point rating system. I use my 26 point rating system. The 26 point golden gap rating system that I figured out tells you what an institution is doing on the live day. And it tells you the direction the stock or the market is going to go, whether up or down. And that's how you know, because it is the power of money. It is reading the power of money. It's reading the power of money. So for those of you out there that don't have hedge funds or don't run hedge funds or don't have millions of dollars, you can still do well in the market if you know what to do. You can maximize your profitability, risk to reward, and the funds that you do have and grow it if you know how to trade well. Because even if you have a lot of money, if you don't know what to do, and if you don't know how to trade well, even if you can take a big position, you're not going to be successful in the long run. And really, this is about being successful in the long run. You don't want to crash and burn. You don't you don't want to put yourself through that emotional stress. This is about learning what to do, taking the amount of money that you have, using that to make money in the market, building on it and staying consistent and stable. Trust me, I know, I know from personal experience what it is about. It is about the longevity. That is how you're going to make it. And it doesn't matter if you are day trading for a living or you're just doing this on the side. Even if you have a regular job that you love and want to keep and even if you have a business that you love and want to keep, the money that you can make in the stock market on the side, you still have to take it seriously.  You don't want to do things that are improper and you don't want to make mistakes.  And you've really got to take it seriously. Whether you have millions of dollars or a small amount of money or $2,500 prop account, you have to take the money that you're risking and investing in the market seriously. So this is just a spy review here. I don't know if I'll do another video before the end of the calendar year. If I do not, have a wonderful happy new year everyone. Thank you so much for being a part of my year this year in 2014. For those of you that have watched all my videos and followed me, a lot of exciting things coming up for the stocks which LLC in 2015 and it's going to be a really fantastic year for the stock market. And I just hope everyone has a wonderful holiday. If you have any questions or you're interested in signing up for the Golden Gap course, email me at melissa at thestockswish.com and have a happy new year everyone.


Hey there, this is a video on building a confidence interval for a population mean Ashley wants to determine the number of chocolate chips and cookies at her bakery She randomly selects a sample of 52 cookies and obtains a sample mean of 6.3 and standard deviation of 2.2 What is the 98% confidence interval for the number of chocolate chips per cookie? Round your answer to three decimal places We will use technology for this But the first thing we need to understand is our population standard deviation sigma Is not known which means We have to consider using the t distribution All this means is that we'll go to a different region to put our information in and google sheets Looking at the question, I know that there is a sample of 52 cookies. So n is equal to 52 I also know that in her sample the sample mean x bar was 6.3 And sample standard deviation s was 2.2 And the only other thing they give me is a confidence level of 98% or 0.98 This is the information we need to put in google sheets to find our confidence interval So we will travel to google sheets now and we will go to the data list tab Because we have summary statistics to put in We know the sample mean we know the sample standard deviation You will go to the one variable confidence level p value region that says t distribution In this case x bar was 6.3 Sample standard deviation 2.2 sample size 52 And the only other piece of information you need would be the confidence level 0.98 So this means that your lower limit will be 5.567 upper limit 7.033 That's rounded to three decimal places So what I know is that my population mean is between 7.033 and 5.567 You can also write this as an interval notation as 5.567 7.033 These are the two different ways you could write this confidence interval And what this is saying is that the true population mean The number of chocolate chips per cookie and all of the cookies in the bakery Will be somewhere between 5.567 and 7.033 So that's how you calculate a confidence interval Thanks for watching


Lot of people don't have male or female reproductive organs. So like don't be weird about it. I wouldn't even hide it anymore You're just like a candle down there We on man Yes, we are welcome to episode number four of the Marty and Michael podcast.     Hey with Jordan Kahoo.  I remember. Yeah I didn't do it because my ribs broken. Yeah, so Marty had to cop this one. So that's gonna that's another episode coming out now We've only got five left to film so we're halfway there and we've got most of the shit ones out of the way So we're pretty chuffed about that next week though. We've got to go to the nitro circus boys And they've got a mega ramp.     Yeah, just just see if it's safe or not Like obviously we're not gonna risk like our lives So we'll just throw Julian in first make sure it's doable and then yeah If he dies, we won't do it if he lives, I'll have a crack Well, if he lives and like doesn't get hurt then I'll I'll do it But if he gets hurt in any way, I'm done. Yeah, I'm done with that episode. What was the last time you guys rode a push-bike? Yeah, I don't remember. Oh, probably America so like five years. Yeah, no American L.A Do we all we hide bikes there too that time?  We go down the ramp.  Okay I've got a broken rib Marty's What's happened to you? I've had hard palpitations. Yeah, that started up lately for him from the blunt force trauma Oh, man, but we're getting it.   I'm forever gonna be a member. There's a member in the group who's Message Dustin was like I'm gonna get a tattoo of your logo on me and we said fuck.   Like a religion.    I want to see that red ariola. Come on.    You let it sometimes. We've got all day.  I was just through your pants.    Let us grab you behind the camera.   You got three options, man. That's a lot of options I don't do that to my chilled people Children people I've I'll have a thing. I'm gonna choose All right Anyway, if you can't that's fucked.  Yeah, I can't look at him right now.  I can do my contact.  We better hope they're good. They're legitimate.  He's confident. They better be good.   Yeah, but you say beautiful videos and I get murders in Mexico Yeah, well, maybe that's beautiful.   Let's think about that. We've been the whole way very graphic way to Her we've thumbed her we fisted her we've gone down on her We've done everything as we came out of vagina speak for yourself.  I was born in an egg. Do you came out?  What's the gore?  No when you come out of Cezarian you were into the gory stuff. You like a bit of blood. Yeah, I was anyone.  You even said that that's weird.  You just talk about your own mother like this man. Disgusting by the way. What was her name again? Julian Julian's his mom. Julia My mother Julia Anyway moving on On this day in Thomas Edison burnt his eyelids off with blah blah blah.  Nah, that's very good.  I'm playing.  It's my birthday Matt. Oh, he's doing it In the kitchen He's got him in the kitchen I have a power in Michael I have a power in Michael Kiss him just a bit on the cheek Matt Just a bit. Yeah, he got him Michael's just kiss Matt from Matt's request Michael kissed him right on the cheek. Well done All right, Matt.  What you wanted Matty. You're happy job done, mate You didn't put much of resistance. Anyway All right, last one on this day in 1986 John Travolta's daughter who was dying from jaw cancer was the recipient of a maker wish foundation wish and got to spend an entire weekend on her favorite celebrity businessman's private island Jeffrey Epstein Unfortunately, she died on the trip by drowning from inside her body by massive amounts of ejaculate filling her lungs The death was not found to be suspicious and they said it was probably the jaw thing she had Who's daughter John Travolta's daughter? Wow Wow, I don't even know we had a daughter.  That's cool.  Oh, no, that's not okay There's what how many of them?      Yeah, but it's kind of nice. Yeah, I know it's exfoliating isn't that right? That's great. Yeah, it's great to see That sound real Well, let's do some as smr. Do you know what that is? Is that audio thing?  Yeah I'm eating berries. Oh I guess that's why it sounded so real All right, so there was a ton of questions and I picked 11 this week um A lot of people are asking for um Arnold fine to return as well He will come back soon. He's got a with the thing with jokes is you got a you got if we make the Same joke every week. It gets less funny. So you're gonna give some time comes back as well. It's just as funny.  Yeah, you've been just scratching it everywhere. It's getting bad All right go from Donut films question for the podcast. Why does julian have the laugh of a 40 year old man? I don't know what's his laugh like. I don't remember it it's like Yeah, very good mad do that again All right. Yeah, actually, I don't even know if that's so out of my head. I don't know but I think it's a cute laugh. I don't mind when he laughs. Yeah, it's not bad.  I sound like a five year old like a hyena or something something like that Isn't that right? You just have my feelings it's from sharn strita Marty if it was the end of the world and there is one seat left on the spaceship, who would you take michael or bozzly?  That's for sure because bozzly's probably only got like another one It's hard to say it's probably gonna let about another seven years tops and michael's maybe got like another nine years tops So I'd be there a bit more company for you in the space shuttle. So michael's probably gonna live longer. So I'd have to take The serpent over the dog. Have you seen that movie passengers? Yeah Is that where they go to space?  I'd wake everyone up No, because then food gets limited like no, I'd eat all their food So next question. Um next question is from toy to Prius Lover Um Mickey what is one thing you hate about martin and martin? What is one thing you hate about mickey? Love you dogs.  Oh when he gets you through it today today.  He brushed and tickled my nipple as he went past.  I can't do it more.    So you're different behind closed doors. Yeah Yeah, so basically the cabinet leaders. This is a facade. This is a facade. It's a mirage Next question is from air force one. Yes Um, do you guys wear briefs or boxes? What are briefs?  Remember when everyone was like low riding going through the same No way would I wear boxes? It's jocks. I wear. Yes.   And that's how you get breast cancer Yeah, I did read that in an article that I wrote. Yeah Next question is from lee wilson Why don't you guys let matt sit on the podcast so we can see I want him.   Maybe Yeah, we got to have matt back on as a guest again. Well, um, julien made a good suggestion that we maybe put a camera on me for laughs But we'll wait and see and like a really close up of just his mouth. Yeah or nostrils or my eyes Just moving side to side or your bum bum next question. It's from ruben mate. Uh, what is your favorite afl team?  You're calling with Next question is from vajak vajak. Yeah vajak. You're pronouncing that correctly.  Yeah, of course. It's occurred to us, but jesus had like brown hair and michael's got um bright red hair Wasn't jesus like from the middle east He's definitely in the jerusalem area. Is that middle? Yeah jerusalem. He's from israel israel is um, it's just above france Ah, that's good geography Well, yeah, well there you go drunk jesus is french. I'm pretty sure he was like, oh bonjour.   I'm a amid. I'm hard. Sorry, mate.  I doesn't count I had grommets when I was a little kid.  What's grommets?  What? What happened to them? Are they still in they fall out eventually? I had to get them replaced a couple times I wonder you're weird.  Look it up. You could park in the disabled parking No, it's not that bad. Dude.  Can't see I couldn't hear you. But yeah, see I've had surgery on my broken arm when I was a three but a broken.  I fell off the trampoline. No, I fell off the playground Same thing.   Grommets are a tiny tubes inserted into the eardrum They allow air to pass through the eardrum keeping the air pressure on either side equal So you had no I used to get huge ear infections still do now and then I've probably had maybe five in my 20s Remember when I threw heaps of sand at your ears at the beach and you got an ear infection Oh, dude They are excruciating. Have you ever had an ear infection? Yeah, I've had one and they are you're right It's a whole night of agony.  It is honestly the best It's groundbreaking ever like was morphine stronger than it's sort of like heroin and I haven't done heroin But I've heard it's similar more things like all your pain goes away. I was like mom.  What was your mom wearing then? I don't remember what she was wearing. I do you weren't there Next question next question is from Daniel Chen Um How many wigs does Marty have? Wigs yeah wigs Oh, no, this is these real hair, but I just go get it done like every week There's a rumor going around that you're wearing wigs on the he looks good with long hair. Hey, look at that wigs This is just my face Everyone looks good with long hair. Make sure if you've never had long hair grow your hair out to see give me that mirror What are you talking about? Should I grow one last year?  I might keep this hairstyle for a while a Anyone looks most people look good with long hair And eyeliner and final question for the podcast is from Taylor Dow. Bitch. Um always gotten a bit serious Do you boys feel like social media has become more of an obligation slash job than it did when you started a few years back? It does it feel forced at times It can but it goes depending on what you're doing what project right now Social media is probably the best it's ever been. Why?  We love social media. It's like the work.    Matt loves it too.  Well, there are things like Twitter's similar. Twitter's censored now.   I don't know. They block the president of the US. Yeah, exactly. Who's really the controller of the world?   I love that part. All right Now we have uh some some breaking news with the hunt. All right, so we've done it Okay, we had an objective and we've done it.  So first of all, right Hamish replied.  It worked job. Well done. He read our He read our dm. Let me just find it and he replied I uh, yeah explained him that we thought he was a hologram And then he hadn't been replying for a while.  Okay, so I've just got across this apparently ando has the t-shirt We will try and film something when we're together this week to put this nasty rumor to rest and then in brackets He's got ha ha jokes.  All right.   All right ready everyone listen to this.  Look look at that.  He's worn the shirt. He did it. He did what we asked andy's not a hologram jury's still out on hamish, but me now personally after his reply I do believe that he's also real. Okay, so we've done it You happy with that? I'm pretty. It's amazing. I think andy is the puppeteer of hamish and he's in control Could be but he's real and he's definitely real and I think he could be controlling hamish But at the end of the day, we did it. All right, we proved that they are not holograms I genuinely thought maybe they were for a while, but we did it. Okay.  Oh, yes guys. So the so we completed that hunt doesn't know it Okay, so we've we we can put that rumor to bed hamish and andy are real Okay, we're satisfied. So now we move on to the next objective with the hunt Now in australia morning tv shows a kind of big deal, right? And carl stepanovic Is a host on one of the morning show the today show the best the best one the highest rate Is it the today show? Matt?   Yeah. All right. Yeah, okay, then it's not Oh, yeah, and the bombs are fake bombs. So it's safe and we have a little um, like a little sticker on it says Fake bombs or something. Yeah Just so people know that it's fake, but The dancing and performance will turn them to want us on the show. Okay, so starting this week We're gonna start to make inroads. We want to get on the today show for is it a today show I'm looking at um, his wikipedia does say today show host 2020 onwards. Okay. Yes. He's he's the he's the today show host There's no doubt about this is the most important morning show in australia Carl stephenovich He is the man of morning show.  So we're so after this episode I'm gonna we're gonna start making inroads to get on the today show and our angle is going to be Via Carl to start with okay, we're gonna try and get on there.   All right. So we are going to push hard So we need you guys to get ready because by next week, we're probably gonna have some instructions We'll have some tasks and we need your help again guys.   Are you guys if you help us get this done? All right, that's the new hunt getting on the today show right Let's do the one of the hard to do that tone of the hard.  Nothing. Shit.  We are good.  Now the next segment is called Boop-boop-boop-boop That's a table. By the way, I'm not I haven't farted once today he hasn't had any gas But yesterday he did about 50. I didn't have the recorder with me. But yeah today, no gas So I don't you know we're probably not going to be able to try this until maybe the berries will stir it up You never know.  Paranormal stories. This is from Kira.May. So my craziest paranormal encounter was when my older brother, his girlfriend, and I were playing his girlfriend's Ouija board. And after like 30 minutes of thinking it was bullshit, my brother said, of there are any spirits here, make yourself heard or whatever.  I mean, there was a loud bang.  So it's something slammed the door or something and the lights were on and everything. So, yeah.   But we'll continue because it's a new segment, all right? Well, that's not a good start there, Kira May. Not a good start at all. Anyway, next one is from Tilla Velaga. Okay. And she has said, I was 12 years old and I slept in the same room with my little sister. Oh, we both had bunk beds. Mine was right next to the door so I could see out to the stairs. The light was still up on out there and our mom had just left the room after putting us to bed. I heard that the door quietly opens. I looked down to see who it is, but no one is there. Then I heard slow steps reaching closer and closer to my bed. I wanted to scream, shout, cry for my mum, but I couldn't. I didn't have my voice. I wrapped my blanket around my body as I heard the steps on my ladder. It had the exact same sound as usually at the second rung where it stepped on it but it didn't stop there. I peeked out of my blanket and saw a black, dark figure reaching towards my leg. A weird buzz ran through my body and stopped me from moving but I didn't stop trying to stop it peeling off my blanket. Then in the second second, I sat up in my bed and no one was there. It was like a shutdown but the next day it came again. Do you know what this sounds? I know exactly what you're about to say. Is this what I have?  This is 100%. It does, and it does feel paranormal but yeah, that's what happens. You can't move, you can't scream and you feel that vibration in your body. And the figure comes in there just as you feel the lean onto the bed, you go to move and then you realize you're fucked.   I haven't had it for a long time now. I haven't had it for a very long, for a while now but I found the best way to deal with it is to accept it and when I did do that. Yeah, you laugh at it. I was lucid dream, I was lucid dream.  Literally a portal to lucid dream. But that's where I went. So there you go, that was sleep paralysis. Thanks Tori, it's from Jono Jaws-Wals. When I was a young ringworm about seven years old, this used to happen a lot and went on for over a year. This happened when I was going to sleep. Something would tap me on my shoulder and because it had happened just as I'm falling asleep, I would spin around grumpy and grumpy like and ready to say go away. Standing there was a child in the olden days black jacket in short school uniform with a white scruffy shirt. I'd absolutely freak out and can't even scream. The only thing I could do is slowly roll over and put my blanket over my head. But for hours it would constantly tap on my shoulder. Oh man, that's sick. For a long time I was going to school half asleep because of the little sleep I was getting plus still being freaked out.  All right, that's the bucket. That'll do with the paranormal stories. Comment if you liked that segment.  What was the one we just came up with before? You did? Oh yeah, well I was going to suggest maybe we have a segment where we see what type of fucked up people listen to the podcast and people send in messages of the worst crimes that they've committed. Yeah, so comment if you want the worst crime segment instead of the paranormal one, let us know. Yeah, sorry everyone. Sorry for that.  Yeah, of course.  Some of you are on these days and we're questionable, my friend. Yeah, but that's real, we know that's real. It's birthdaying, mate. And birthdaying ain't always real. It's only one day a year.  No matter what I say today, it's real, it's my birthday. Israel. You're not from Israel. Next segment. What was it called again? What was the song? Haribor, Mekinda 4. Wontavaksna, Ibnzor. Wasn't it, but that'll do. And this is a segment where I casually, calmly, normally read four German phrases. So it's three now. Three German phrases as if I was speaking to another German person because the German language is so beautiful and evolved that it sounds cool.  Don't do that. I have noticed that the German comments are growing and they want to, they ask questions. Yeah, because they can hear me talking to them. That's the thing about Germans. They're all very intuitive. Oh ho, intuitive.  All right. Here we go. Was muss, das muss! Was muss, das muss! Was muss, das muss! Which means what must, that must. Okay, get it. Which means you've got to do what you've got to do. Was muss, was muss! Was muss, das muss! Was muss, das muss! Was muss, das muss! Was muss, was muss, das muss! I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Yeah, it was very German. Was muss, das muss! Next one. Ich habe eine Auge auf dich geworfen! Oh ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho! Ich habe eine Auge auf dich geworfen! Ich habe eine Auge auf dich geworfen! Can you have a berry then say it on the last one away? Eine Auge auf dich geworfen! Which means I've thrown an eye on you. Which means I cast an eye on you. Like I'm watching you. Yeah, there's something like that.  It's hot man. Hey, we got a wig on.  Do you think when Nikki wrote all these she had she understood our sense of humor that she knew Which sentences were funny? I reckon Nikki knows us pretty well.  I've actually said to people she is us.  That's what Germans do and maybe a blended up Jew juice Blend up juice. Yeah, that's true.  Maybe we could start another channel Eating berries the berry channel.  That was good. All right Thank you, Germany. Thank you, Jeremy.  You are very offensive That is where I am from I am from that part of the world. I Was born there.   I'm gonna try this one more time All right, I'm gonna be Darren.   Yeah, right, right, right It's pretty good if you approach them Yeah, I've tried to do that like I've just had some issues with like my laptop on that and like for most of them Like you got to do like online stuff like you got to fill out a lot forms on that and like don't want like I'm like like what is it like a white card or some shit like that? So I was just I was just calling around right to see if like if there's any what cash is Cash is gone around like I'll do it really cheap to like I'm talking like maybe 10 bucks a hour Right, and I'll just come in and clean up all the scraps and that from the Builders and that so I was like I know like normally go through like labor isn't that but like I'm sort of taking Initiative right and calling around don't myself, you know what I mean Yeah, I wish I could help you but yeah, we don't everything's got to be Right well, listen mate who makes who makes the decisions on like who hires people on that because maybe if like I had a chat to Them and they could see like how like I am if Bishop been ambitious. I am in that maybe they like put me on You know without the going through the bloody yeah, the the labor hire thing man All right, so you're so you're you're making the decisions will make um Like like you want to make money, right? And I want to make money, right? So hear me out and I know like you doing it like buy the books and that all off I respect that right But I'm telling you mate. I'll work twice as hard twice as hard as any bloke through that labor hire And I'll do it for half the price. I'll do it for half the price right now, bro Okay, I appreciate that We don't operate that way we everything I didn't want to have the eyes crossed the T's and that sort of thing we we certainly pay above would wage for those who do work out So the money's not the issue It's the quality or I didn't want to have to put we're happy to pay the you know above award rate But everything has to go through the agency. Yeah, right? Well, look mate, I didn't want to have to pull out this last little trump card, right? But what if right?  No cash nothing for let's say let's say two weeks Right, because I'll go like when I'm a little baby daughter. I've got to look after on that So two weeks, right for free and then if you's happy, right? I will go through that labor hire thing that you's talking about and I will do it legitimately I'm pretty good offer. It's very generous and very keen of you, but again We have to go through the right channels and any person that works for us needs to be insured We would hate for something to happen to you and you'd be off work and not be able to work And then insurance not be there to provide for you Yeah, man.    Like it's just a bit like it's a bit rude.  Like I'm offering you my life here. Like I will work till I die You said before that you had laptop issues. Yeah, so look, I know that The labor hire companies go into their office and key the information in and do whatever courses and inductions using their computers Yeah, right. Um, look listen, I've gone through look. I've tried the whole labor hire thing now, right? I'm gonna come clean right now, right? I've done it and a couple of the boys there They got a bit of an issue with me, right? They don't like They don't like me and that so like they I know for a fact that they got it out for me And whenever I go in whenever I bloody talk to them, right? They say oops, we've got bloody Darren back and they put put my job at the bottom of the list, right?     That's how I roll by All right, it's happening man, I'm sorry, but it's going on.  What time you boys start six seven? I'll be there five. I'll be there at 5 a.m. Right coffee in hand. Who wants coffee? What are you drinking? Well, I won't be there at 5 a.m. Well, mate.  I'll get couple for the boys to Well, I'm not my coffee. I'm coming I'm coming I'm coming over man. I'm coming on Monday. I wish you the best I Love you.   I was cringing hard at some points But no reaction.  It's just being friendly Well, I guess we do it to you all the time. That's probably illegal though. Oh, yeah, true Um Look Fair to say I'm a you lose some all right. That's very good. I loved that. That's my favorite one so far this season We need to find someone to fire might it might take a while guys. Okay. Yeah It's not it's not just for we hadn't we had a rich vein of prank calls to end glass season with and don't worry We're gonna get back there. We just need to find the right. I still really enjoyed that We need to find the right angle, but yeah, they don't react enough I was trying to fire him up by saying he was being rude, but he's just He's calm. Yeah, I did enjoy that power. Oh, he went. I strongly Yeah, there was some good parts. He's responses were very nice I'm a professional man. Like he's he's running like hardship there. That's for sure. We are the best.