Alright, hello everyone! You might know me from my channel, which would be the case if you're watching this on my channel. I am Amy, share a title from Vintage Space. Cheers to you. I guess I'll let you introduce your own stuff now. Hello Amy! So glad to have you here! I am so glad to have you here. And yes, I'm Scott Manley in case you hadn't know, and I didn't know. And I am not an astronaut, I play one on the internet.  I think today we're going to challenge you to go to Mars as per Warner Fun Brown in the 1950s. To Mars! So I show a three-stage rocket here with a little mini third stage, I guess. But basically this thing, this thing is insane, right? It's something like 5,000 tons with 50 engines, and then 22 engines on the second stage, and then five engines in a third stage. This is what I've got. And it uses, you know, because cryogenic liquid oxygen was the fuel of the future. No, they're all about nitric acid and hydrazine, so basically an environmental nightmare and pretty much toxic to anyone nearby. Yup. It has wings on it as well. Yes, because you need to reuse that glider so that you can launch it multiple, multiple times to build your space station before you go to Mars. So it has to land. It's also quite to reuse the first stage as well. Yes, yes they did. So can you, can you do that? I'm going to fill up on very important fuel here. This is a, you know, golden state of mind from ale industries. It is a beer made during a hop shortage, and so they use tea instead. I found this because it looks pretty today. A fluctuate whiskey inspired by craft beer. It's also quite delicious. I've also had a decent amount of it, so. And you're not going to be doing the flying, so you can really get toasted. I don't have to be sober. I just have to tell you what to do. Yes. Well, I'm going to start with that first stage or that final stage, not the first stage, because you know, well, how hard could it be? Actually, I should just forget about the second stage and go and see if I can make this thing fly because they are in lies danger. Yes. Right? Yes. We are going to have this thing probably falling out of the sky. So first of all, we need to switch to symmetry mode and we get two of them. It's got, you've got, so you, it's got two wings towards the top and two much larger wings towards the bottom of the stage. Like the wings insert almost level with the engines, which looking at a drawing of it right now feels like a scary spot to have wings. Hope for the least number of explosions or at least the most entertaining kind of explosions. Do you have, how does a tailplane set up on these? Is it like a tail here or do we have tail planes on each wing? There are, there are little, like, I don't know what the right word for it is, like little, yeah, little, like, upy, okay. Here's, here's how I'm not, here's how I'm not an engineer, especially should we, like, can we preface this by saying it's 9 30 at night and I've been up since six and words are not my strong suit.  They're like mini tails. They're about halfway down the, only on the big wings though, the bottom wings halfway down and they're like three quarters and they extend about a quarter beyond the wing, if that makes sense. That, that does actually, um, yeah. Yeah, okay, so I'm going to do that. And then what we also need to know, I think about it is, I think they're only looking at pictures, I think they're only on the upper, what I imagine is the upper portion of the wing relative to the pilots, pilots canopy. This is great too, because I've never successfully built anything with wings in Kerbal, so I've never ridden it when I can do this. This is awesome. It is actually way harder to build things with wings than it is to build rockets. See, rockets can kind of fly just through their sheer power, whereas anything with wings requires an understanding of aerodynamics. You know, you can make, oh, you can make a brick fly with enough rocket power, right? Yeah. But making something fly with wings, you have to kind of think about what you're doing. Oh, look at that. Truly von Braun. I mean, I know you're a professional effectively at this, but like, I'm amazed. Oh, you're not doing that. You're not making, oh, that's not good. That's not good. So what's happening here is the center of lift is in front of the center of mass, and that makes it aerodynamically unstable. Well, we didn't kill anyone. I get really attached to them. So all I'm doing is I'm moving these wings backwards. So the reason is that there's too much weight, wait a second, there's too much weight back here and too much lift. So I can just grab these wings and slide them back and that should make the thing a little more stable. And now we maybe know why von Braun's wings are awkwardly directly next to the engines. Well, I was reading and apparently the design that we kind of know about is, in part, designed by a cartoon artist from Disney because his designs were a little more practical. And the Disney designer decided to want to make it look a little more, you know, what's the word? Like crowd-pleasing? Crowd-pleasing, yes. There's some more artistry involved than just straight-up engineering. Okay, no, it is still not liking that. That's not awesome. You know what?  How are they not dead? Good on you guys. Cheers, boys. Science, science. I'm going to actually see if this is stable after I burned all the fuel, but I'm also going to shift these wings back a little further. It's these big ones. Maybe if I scale these wings down a little, not quite that much. The big ones? No, the ones at the front, if they're a little... I'm going to learn. I'm going to learn. They are quite small in the drawing. So are they too big that they're generating too much lift for the thrust that's at the rear? Right. And so the center of mass, if we bring this up, center of mass is like right there. Right. And the center of lift is in front of it. So there, that is our problem. Oh. Sorry, I'm leaning away from the mic so I can see in the screen. Yeah. You know, in aviation and spacecraft design and everything, it's quite common that they have to put like ballast in things to keep it stable. Yeah, look at this. I have to move that way forward. Okay, I'm going to take these and just move that. I mean, we could, we could double up and like fill it with water as ballast and then release it into the ionosphere with like project high water because science, right? Yeah, we could. This is a happy place. This is a happy place. Let's go to the happy place. Oh, that's less of a happy place. Ah. It's still a bit unstable. And that, that really is a bad sign. Okay. Can I ask a question that's maybe a dumb question, but I'll preface this by saying I am not the engineer here. Is it going to make a difference that we're only going to be flying this thing in the upper atmosphere? Well, we eventually have to land it. I guess we do have to land it. Here's the thing, right? Notice how I have burned fuel and it is now a lot more stable. Yeah, except that it's sideways. How is it flying sideways? No, just because I'm turning so I can try and aim for the runway. So I've now got it back under control because I have, oh, wait a second. Where's the gear? There we go. We're going to try to land it on the runway here. See this? Oh my God. So the beautiful thing is that because I burned the fuel, I moved the center of mass. Right, right. And by moving the center of mass, it became stable again. So it's unstable. Okay, now I need to... Oh my God, it's really fast. Okay, I kind of did a little hard. A little hard, he said, that there's just fire issuing from the space plane, but it survived and our carbon. It was a dead stick landing.  Yeah, and I stopped on the runway in plenty of time. Yep. And the crew is fine. I need a number from you. Yeah. How many engines in the second stage? The second stage. So we're counting the... So that's, yeah, okay. It's the middle stage of the main rocket. 22 main propulsion rocket motors. Okay, what's the layer? Are they later in range? They look to be... Let me see if I can find a better image. They look to be honeycomb-esque. Honeycomb-esque. Okay, so they're like... So it looks like they're sort of lines, like they're rows. So they're like here and then they're sort of like, they're space so that it's like, they're here and then they're kind of offset from the other stage, from the other ones and then they're back so it forms a honeycomb. Okay, how's this looking in terms of proportions? Let's zoom in a bit. It could use a bigger... This stage could be bigger down here, I think. Let's just try and fit 22 engines on this thing. I think if we then go from there and just continue the line of that onto the first stage, it'll look good. It'll look like a Frankensteinian monster but it'll look good. Wow, is Frankensteinian an adjective? It is now. That's 22 engines and there it is. It can manage one sheet, which is enough. That looks pretty cool. That actually looks amazing. Okay, now we need to get that first stage. Okay. I'm getting excited. I have no idea if I have enough delta to do that's the only thing. Should we talk about retro rockets? You mean for landing this thing? Yeah, for deorbit. I didn't think about that. Is it complete? The rockets on this for deorbit. We'll just turn the thing around for now. Yeah, okay. Ooh, I like blue. Oh, that looks awesome. Well, let's get with blue for now. Let's just make it blue. Is that... I don't want to say how many engines is that. So that's three groups of eight, so 24. You math. You math, 51. I'll do math. There's so many engines. There's so many engines. Again, we're not sure this will get off the ground so I'm going to save it and we're... I'm actually going to put this on like a launch structure to hold it still. Yeah, that's because it will probably crush these poor engines under the weight of the fuel. Yeah. The von Braun proposal was over 5,000 tons. That is... That was just to get to all of it. 5,000 tons. How many... Do you know... How many... What was the 7 and 5 weight? 3,000. 3,000. Okay. I love that you know that I'm talking about. Almost twice as much. Yeah. Do we need to think about, and I don't know if the system actually had it off the top of my head, but hold down arms to let it build up thruster. We just kind of like... Yeah, I think we're just going to go... For lack of a real word. Yeah. We're not going to go with the thing, but we will have to add wings. Let's see if this works. No. Not quite as expected. Oh, it's just on fire. Are the two first and second? Are they all... What has happened? I can't even tell. The window is like tiny on my street. Like what is happening right now? It is trying. It is trying. Oh. And they're still alive. Oh. The whole rocket exploded and then they were showered with a storm of rocket nozzles. That's really, really funny. I love the idea that your rocket explodes. It's mostly intact, but all of your rocket nozzles just kind of like pepper the area. Let's be clear. They would have been covered in nitric acid and hydrogen. So, they'd be dead. You know, I believe the Russians call this kind of combination the devil's venom. Awesome. Yeah. Okay, let's try this. Let's shrunk it down, put it on a diet. Maybe it will get airborne into these animals. So I found a couple of versions of this that looks like they have wings on that bottom stage. Would that help or would that just make it worse? Oh, we absolutely need wings on this bottom stage. And I suspect we need a big pair of wings here. Yeah. Maybe smaller pair of wings here. The images I'm seeing have two large wings at the bottom. Just the two. Oh, wait. Hang on. No, four. Okay. Four. Weird angles. Yeah, fins. We have fins. Finish. Basically fins, but they're massive fins. Like that size of fins? I got a Skype. Maybe not quite that massive. They're not dwarfing. In these images, they are not dwarfing the upper fins, the upper wings. Okay. So... A little bit bigger than the big wings on the upper stage has that for vague, vague directions. That is stupidly vague. And I will endeavor to take your design specifications and turn it into a flying vehicle. Ah, yay. There you go. I think those are too small. How do those look? I'm going to say that looks pretty cool regardless. It looks pretty cool. It looks way too big, but... It looks way too big. Oh, I like the look of those just fins. Yes. As I learned... As I learned, I think it was Jim Lovell who mentioned at a Apollo 13 event that fins were Von Braun's trademark, so can't not have fins. Well, Von Braun was working in an era when he needed them, right? And the Saturn V had them because they weren't sure, but in the end, the flight computer was capable of handling it. And so the next generation of Saturn V wouldn't have the fins, but of course they never... There was no next generation. There was no, but they had it. They had it designed. Oh, it's still not right. Come on. I don't... I don't even know. There's just so much fire going up the rocket right now. Really? I did the math on Von Braun's engines and they're actually a lot more powerful than I expected. So he might have been very optimistic with his math on this. Also, he was pretty optimistic with his timetable, but whatever. That's so many engines. Yes. Oh my god, I'm just like... I love the line down the side of the screen of just like... Yep. Yep, that's all those engines. Oh, and we're losing control. Ah, why? You see, we need bigger wings here. You were telling me those wings were too small. I told you the wings had to be bigger. No, I believe that if you looked at the recording... Not the big, big ones.  Maybe I'm wrong. The big ones will be awesome, but I will definitely... I'll make these bigger, right? And you know what? I think... The other two. So I didn't notice that they should all four be big. Oh, okay. So we'll make them all big. So... I don't know if that's going to make enough of the difference to losing control or not. You know what? What will make a difference is just making them bigger. Okay. Longer and bigger at the root, just increasing the control surface area. Right. It can only lead to good things. This is a monster. Oh my god. Right. I mean, the Soviets built the NK33 for their N1 rocket, which was the best thrust to mass ratio of any rocket. It was insane. Until the Merlin, but it also had amazing specific impulse. But there's interesting history, and I don't know. I need to go through this and like make a map of how it worked. And maybe you know offhand because you never forget anything you hear or read, but like different design bureaus, right? Like it's not the same as the way NASA has centers that all work together that do different things. Like there are different design bureaus, different chiefs at the heads doing different things. And the thing with the N1 rocket was that they wanted... I can't remember. It transferred so many people, but at some point it ended up under Korolev. But I think it was Korolev then that wanted bigger engines for it. But the guy running the bureau that had the technology to build bigger engines said, I can build your engines, but I don't want to work on the N1 rocket. I want to build this rocket. And I think he wanted to do nuclear propulsion with these rockets. And Korolev... Was it Glushka? I can't remember the names on the top of my head. I'd honestly, I'd need to double check my notes on that. But because... And then Korolev was like, I'm not using something that's that scary. I want to use this fuel. He's like, well, then I'm not building you a rocket engine. So you have to go with this guy. And this guy was like, well, we only have the... What was the engine called? Not the N1. That's the rocket. The NK33. So he's like, well, we have this. We can't make it any better. We don't know how to make it bigger and more powerful, but we can just shove a bunch more of them to give you the extra lift that you want. Because the N1 was not designed initially as a moon rocket. It was designed as a heavy lift to orbit vehicle. And then when it was suddenly repurposed for a moon rocket, that's when they had to add more engines to give it more thrust to actually launch something heavy enough to go to the moon off the planet in the first place. It's really interesting. The stories behind that, the way that structure, the structure of the Soviet program works so differently from NASA's is really, it's, I just need to, I need to map. I just need to map it one day. It's so, it's crazy when you look at the infighting. Like you think the infighting of like US military is bad. Right. I mean, the Navy versus the Army and von Braun. Yeah. And the Air Force trying to ek out its little spot with its own rockets that are also derived basically from German engineering. It's just like. But it was a, so Glushko was the guy that Kareliev wanted to build the engines N1. But Glushko was basically saying, no, we can't do this using, you know, liquid oxygen and RP water, sorry, kerosene. He was absolutely not going to do it unless he could use hypergolics. Kareliev did not want to put any person on a rocket, which was using hypergolic fuel. Right, right. You know, hey, scary dissolving flesh kind of problems. Right, that's literally what happens. Yeah, scary dissolving flesh kind of problems. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah. And then I forget, I forget what happened. I did this in my N1 blog post a few weeks ago, but yeah, when Kareliev died and then the N1 was transferred to another design bureau and somebody had to take it over even though they didn't want it. And it was all kind of an interesting disaster. And that was it. It was mission or mission. Yeah, mission. Yeah. But did he take over the one that pre predated OKB1? I mean, he was the Kareliev's next in line. But wasn't the N1 then transferred to a different design bureau or was it that OKB1 merged with Energia and then formed another design bureau that took that over as heritage technology. And then it just became sort of like the rocket that no one really knew what to do with or why it to you. Because it ultimately ended up that it was, this is impressive, by the way, I've been yammering and not watching this, but you're doing good there. I think my problem is my ascent is too vertical. Oh, and I'm scared to actually let this thing go because as soon as I let it go aerodynamics are going to kick in and it's going to. How high are you not 25 kilometers right now? I know it's still high enough that aerodynamics is going to be important. There's no there's no like thrust control system. Reaction control is still on that, isn't it? There is no reaction control system. There's no, not reaction control. There is no thrust vectoring on these engines. Because according to the post I read, no thrust vectoring. So I'm just going to let this get down to about 30 degrees and then I'm going to fire up the engine again. There we go. There now I'm telling it to hold attitude. Okay. And so now most of this control authority is actually coming from computer cockpit. Yeah. Yeah. That's not good. I'm not happy. You're not. Well, you know, you have no right to be happy. Given how terribly I'm doing this. Okay. I'm going to try it. I have Delta V to spare. Right. There we go. And let my Apple apps get out to about 100 kilometers. And we totally did it. Now watch, we totally haven't done it yet, but we, oh wrong button, but we will get into orbit now because we have control and we have tons of Delta. We have like we have enough Delta V to go to the moon because of corbalness. Yeah. So yeah, I was going to remark, do you know about the British interplanetary society's moon landing design from the 1930s? I know of it, but I have not read anything specific about it. So you can tell me details and I will not know much. Well, it was just your commenting about, you know, things that people thought might make sense at the time and it turned out to be bogus. And one of the things they had was their design included a heat shield for ascending through the atmosphere at great speed, but did not include a heat shield for returning. Oh no! Really? Really? I love that design. It's so insane on so many levels. That's such an interesting thing to have it be a heat shield. Was that, I mean, was that by design or was that just like? Like that was so design. Their design was like, well, we're going to be traveling through the atmosphere at great speed, therefore we need to protect the moon. But did they not think that we will be traveling through the atmosphere at great speed coming back down again? I don't know, you know, these guys, they were not really, they were looking with the big picture. Oh, oh, we're spinning. This would be the worst re-entry right here. This would be pretty close to the worst re-entry. This would be like, not just central right now. I don't know. I'm sure Geo-Angle could handle it. Yes, if anybody could handle it, it would hands down be Geo-Angle. Jude? Could it get so hot that the friction somehow burns through and ignites the remaining fuel? Yes, things can explode and catch fire or whatever. Oh my God. Oh my God. It's stressing me out. No. Oh my God. Yeah. I think I'm going to be able to recover this. If I don't recover this, I'll be pretty impressed. Now I'm going to only Mach 4. I'm much more survivable. I might have to land on the desert though. I guess the goal. So are we going to say that success is living who do we have here? Jeb and Bill? Jeb and Bill. I should have put Valentina in there because we need to represent everyone. Do you know the story about, who was the guy that was in the X-15 on the test stand that exploded? Scott Crossfield. Annie, that line, you know, wet pants. Yep. Yep. Yes. What was the, yeah, they, um, they were just firing the engine and somehow like the engine exploded and it's like the cockpit shot forward and everybody thought he was going to be on fire and then they doused him to something. They doused him in water. They were, yeah, but yeah, how did that end up being the headline? I think he was forwarded, but he was contacted by some news people. Yeah. Well, the only problem is my pants are wet. Yeah. Survived explosion, wet pants. Yeah. At the time he taxied a plane through a wall. That's a really good story. It was like, I forget what, I think it was like the X-2. Like it was, it was like an insane multiple like, you know, past Mach 1 flight, all kinds of crazy good piloting. And then he taxes and he's like, I've got this and he goes right through a wall. Yeah. Then there's, yeah, his first ever flight when he landed with one bare foot in the X-1. That's another really good one.  I'm sorry. I'm very distracted watching this now. Oh my God. That's okay. You're really, really fast. I have gone. How are you going? How fast? I'm only going 115 meters per second. I don't. Now I just need, now I just need to flare it just right and then apply the brakes. So the problem is that the ground isn't perfectly flat. This is like landing on a lake bed that's had waves on it. Oh, oh, okay. We lost the wings. We lost the lower wings. But to be fair, you did tell me those wings weren't in the original design. So actually we've made it more faithful to Von Braun's design. Ah, well played. That's awesome. There, mostly success. I like how Jeff's really excited by this. Yes. He's always so excited. That's why I kind of love Jeb. This is going to be magnificent. Yes. Wow. Oh, that was good. How far from Halleck? Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Slaunches. Slaunches. That's amazing. Givily. Oh, look, we caught him out as well. He's here. Oh, don't fall. Don't fall buddy. He's going to totally jump. Hey buddy. Oh, he's so top heavy with that head. Yes, they are. What's up, dude? They're so cute. I love these guys. I had a total blast shooting this video with Scott Manley.  And those of you who know him know that he is great at the nitty gritty details of Kerbal Space Program. So if you do want to know more about the decisions he made in building his Von Braun ferry and all the little game things that he did, be sure to check out his video. And if you just want to see more Kerbal videos, definitely head over to his channel and see all the cool stuff he's put up there. And Scott and I are talking about maybe doing more of these collabs when we have time. What missions would you guys like to see us do in Kerbal with some commentary from Vintage Space? Let me know your thoughts in the comments below. And of course, any questions or other random topics that you would like to see covered in future episodes on the channel. Be sure to follow me on Twitter and Instagram for daily Vintage Space content.


And I'm very gratified that we're able to do that. And let me take this opportunity to thank my staff, many of whom are sitting right here now, wondering what they're going to be doing with their lives now that they're not working 14 hours a day. And thank Phil for Monty for directing what I thought was perhaps the best campaign that we've ever run. One of the things that we did in this campaign that we have never done before is introduce the concept of canvassing, which is not simply handing out literature of which we handed out tens and tens of thousands of tabloids throughout the state. But we knocked on a lot of doors. And I think it was, Ashley, what have we knocked on? 15,000? 20,000 doors. And those are the two guys there who Peter and Ashley led that effort. And we recruited volunteers all over the state. And I happen to think that probably the most effective way to educate people and get your point of view is just doing that, is knocking on doors. And what we found is that not only were people not hostile, but we found a whole lot of interest. People wanted to talk to our people. Sometimes they agree with us. Sometimes they didn't. But I think it made me aware that there's more of a hunger for good political discourse out there than I think many of us believe. So I'm grateful that we were able to knock on 20,000 doors in the state. Let me just say a word about Susan Sweetser. Running for statewide office and getting out there and working hard and being in front of the TV cameras every day and getting called on radio talk shows is not an easy business. And it goes without saying that Susan Sweetser and I have very, very different philosophical differences. But I happen to respect anybody who has the guts to go out and fight for his or her point of view. And Susan Sweetser certainly did that. And I also congratulate Mr. Long and the other candidates for their efforts. Now what I want to do very briefly is just touch on a couple of the issues, at least so you get my perspective for the historical record about the campaign. There will be articles in the paper talking about the kind of money that was spent in this campaign. So let me just say a word about that for the record. I do not know who will have ended up spending more money in this campaign. And I would hope the media will do a little bit of investigation to find that out. We raised a certain sum of money. I think it will be more than $950,000. That's a lot of money. But on the other hand, we ended up not spending all of the money that we raised. In terms of the Sweetser campaign for the record, I know I've made this point often, but I would hope that people remember it. When you're dealing with Ms. Sweetser's finances, please remember that she raised what she raised. And I'm not quite sure what it was with $500,000 was in it. On top of that, she will have received, I believe, as I understand it, about $130,000 from the National Republican Committee. On top of that, there is a group that was called the Coalition Americans Working for Real Change. My estimate is they spent $40,000, $45,000 on negative television ads. And these guys, by the way, represent corporate America. These are some of the largest corporations in America. In addition to that, I don't know how many of these things were sent around the state. But in my household, we received two. And we are not generally regarded as a bastion of Republican support. But two of my stepkids received these glossy things. I presume they were mailed out all over the state at considerable expense. The NRA made independent expenditures of tape-recorded messages that went to many of their members, also putting information into their Vermont publication. The National Right to Work Organization, which is a right-wing anti-union group, also sent out letters. We know two letters. How many Vermontas received that, I don't know. And further, the point that I want to emphasize, and sometimes gets lost in the shuffle when somebody writes Sanders or his opponent, as an independent, and I can't make this point strongly enough, we do not have the kind of infrastructure that either Democrats or Republicans have. And what that infrastructure means in the case of a strong candidate like Susan Switzer, it means polling information. It means offices. It means literature that goes out all over the state from the Republican Party. It means tabloids in certain parts of the state which criticize me, which are published by county Republican parties. When you add all of those things up, I think you're going to end up finding that probably, roughly speaking, an equal amount of money was spent. And I would hope that the media does that for the historical record. So my point is not to complain. We had a lot of money, and we spent a lot of money. But just that be understood, and it's not just what Sanders raised and Switzer raised, because she got a lot more additional outside help than we did. Let me say a few words about the media. And I don't want to be misunderstood in this respect, because I think I sometimes am. I'm often critical of the media, but I'm not critical, and I don't believe with very, very few exceptions that I'll touch upon, that there's a prejudice against Bernie Sanders. I think with the exception, let me say of channel three, where I think there has been, for many years, a built-in Republican prejudice that goes way back, the owner of channel three has contributed $2,000 to my opponent. And I think there is a Republican bias there. That's not to say that there are not many stories on channel three, which are fair and objective there are. But I think if you check the record, you'll find that there's a bias there. But that is not even the main point of what I wanted to talk about in regard to the media. The problem that I have had in somebody with my political point of view has is the following. I happen to believe, as many of you know, that the most important dynamic of America's economic and political life is the class issue, the class issue. The fact that a relatively small number of very wealthy individuals and institutions control to a very large degree the economic and political life of this country. Now, some people may disagree with me. Well, they may agree with me. But that happens to be my point of view. And from that belief comes my analysis of what happens politically and economically in this country. And that's how I approach politics and economics. And that is very different, to be honest with you, than how the vast majority of the members of Congress control politics. Now, let me give you just a few examples of what I mean and the problems that I end up having with the media. If one examines my Republican opponent's FEC report, it will show that she was very, very successful, as we all know, in raising a large sum of money from the wealthiest people in Vermont and from a large corporate interest. I don't think there's any debate about that. The second issue of interesting dynamics is that I haven't seen the results, but based on what I did glimpse on TV in the papers, we received, I believe, over 80% of the vote in the working class wards of Burlington. And I suspect, and I have not done this yet, I suspect that if one went down to Rutland, to St. Albans, to Bennington, to Brattleboro, you would find us doing phenomenally well in the working class areas of those communities. I would hope that the media would examine what does that mean? What does it mean that we do well in working class and low income areas, and that my opponent attracts enormous sums of money from the wealthy and large corporations? What are the implications of that? Again, understanding that I think this campaign was covered fairly and objectively by the media. Let me just mention a few of the questions that, given my politics, was not asked of me. And I say this not in a critical way. I really do not mean to be in a critical way, because I think the media did a good job in an objective job, in a fair job, in a very difficult circumstances. I appreciate how overworked you all are in trying to cover the media. But given my politics, for example, nobody, not only in this campaign, I cannot recall that anyone has ever asked me, what am I going to do to end the reality that America has by far the most unequal distribution of wealth and income in the industrialized world? Is that an important question? It's an important question, but it starts from a certain position. If you think that that is a problem, I think it's a problem. But what we have all, all of us, have developed a certain way of approaching problems. And Dan Rather doesn't think it's a problem. Rush Limbo doesn't. The New York Times does not think it's a problem. I think it's a problem. But that type of question is virtually never asked of me. No one speaks to me and say, Bernie, what are we going to do to end the disgrace that 22% of the kids in America live in poverty and we have the highest rate of childhood poverty in the industrialized world. Is that a crisis? I think it's a crisis. Over and over again, I'm asked, what are we going to do about Social Security, which is solvent for the next 35 years? Is that a problem? Sure, it's a problem. Should we work on it tomorrow? Yes, we should work on it tomorrow. But over and over again, I'm asked that problem, but no one is saying, why is it not a problem that we have the highest rate of childhood poverty in the industrialized world? Well, corporate America doesn't think it's a problem. Democratic leadership doesn't think it's a problem. Republican leadership doesn't think it's a problem. It is a problem. So what I'm suggesting of all of us, I know you have a problem, is that my politics are different than most people's. But it concerns me that we can't get those type of issues out as much. Another example, the facts are very clear. Check it out. US News and Rural Report just a few weeks ago. 10 years ago in 1985, the United States paid its working people the highest wages and best benefits in the industrialized world. You know what place we're in today? We're in 13th place according to US News and Rural Report. Is that a story? I think it's an enormous story. I talk about it. There was a wonderful article in the Rutland Herald. Do you guys see that by Bartlett and Steele? Anyone see that? Terrific article. I mean, dealing with all of the issues that I spend my life talking about. There's a wonderful article in the Rutland Herald. And the Rutland Herald, by the way, does a pretty good job in getting that stuff out every now and then. Why is it not a major story? Why is it not on chat? And I'm not saying this in a critical sense. I'm not being here to be critical. It's not different any place in the country. I'm not picking on the Vermont media. But why don't we talk to that issue? First, the 13th place in 12 or 13 years. Is that a story? I think it's a story. Health care. People don't ask me. I mean, the question about health care is we can argue about how we move to a different health care system or the problems. Why is the question not asked me? Why is the United States the only country in the industrialized world that does not have a national health care system? Is that a fair question? Is the whole world crazy when they say that people are entitled to health care as a right of citizenship and we are not? And I don't want to make a big deal about it. But I sometimes get concerned that, given my politics, those questions are not asked. Let me maybe conclude in a rather having been glum. I hope people don't think I was picking on me. Today, this morning, the USA Today published the election results. And they said, in the state of Vermont, this is their morning results. At large, had 62%. Jack Long, Democrat, had 9%. Susan Sweets, a Republican, had 32%. This is the life of an independent. But I want to assure the people of the state of Vermont that Mr. Lodge did not win this election. Bernie Sanders won it. Let me just conclude by thanking. The media, it's a tough job. And you've done a very fair and objective job. And I appreciate that. And I'd be happy to answer any questions that people might have.


Well hello friends and welcome back to my channel. Today we're doing a plan with me and we are working on August 17th through August 23rd. As always let's take a look at last week which is right here. I am rocking the Friday night again guys. I'm not doing anything so I'm like I'll just do my little video right now so I haven't like fully filled in the weekend but you you guys get it. Anyways so this week I actually had my electrician in that did some work in my kitchen because I'm currently remodeling the kitchen, had a bunch of meetings all that good stuff. I was in the office two days lots of different projects happening in the office which has been good and then today I'm just doing stuff so I set up my webcam unfortunately it doesn't work so yeah I already called IT it's like it's for work and um yeah we're gonna figure out something else so but whatever I've already done my workout we're good to go so yeah let's get into this week so let's put all the things over here. I've got like all the appointments on Wednesday like all the appointments. Okay and I picked for this week doing like kind of a black and rainbow theme so I have all of these star washes they're like the little five millimeters from Simply Gilded these are from I think several different collections I don't know I have a pink a gold like yellow I have a orange green blue purple and then a silver so I'm gonna use that for like the themes of all of the days of the week if that makes sense and then in the columns because you know I love a theme in the columns I am only going to use like the black sticker with like the coordinating color if that makes sense so anyway that's what's happening here so because these are so thin I think I'm going to double up these I'm not totally sure I'm gonna try one and see how it goes and now I can't find oh here it is I'm like I can't find my little washi cutter dude so yeah so let's let's do two let's see how it goes because I just like I don't know I don't know about you guys but I like my washi especially I don't know I like it to be like a little thicker yeah okay this is all good I don't mind this this is nice okay we're good with that one um so yeah I have a lot of stuff going on this week you guys just a lot going on I have a lot of appointments I'm going into the office twice so that will be good I'm rocking on my projects that I have been tasked to do in the office so that's been going well um just you know trying to get stuff done while I'm there so yeah things have been going pretty okay I think it's very nerve-wracking being there I will tell you that for certain um down here on the bottom I am gonna be making a little washi thing I have a co-worker that is going to be off he is having surgery so I myself and my other co-worker are covering his things like his kind of hot or important action items that need to get done while he is recovering um but yeah he'll be out Tuesday uh through Friday so but then he'll be back on Monday so yeah he is having I think shoulder surgery there's something I don't know he's been having issues for a while I guess and I guess tried physical therapy and stuff like that but it's just not fully working and surgery is really the only option to fix it and it stinks but you know what you gotta get it fixed weird there's like a little bit you guys probably can't see it but there's like this like a little bit of black that's coming off on these which is very strange but whatever I don't know about you guys but I really love a good rainbow week I don't know just like turns my crank and especially with like all the pastels I used last week this is gonna be like more of a bold colored week which I am kind of living for right now usually when it comes to the end of the week I'm typically sick of the color scheme that I've been working on so I like to kind of mix it up I don't know I think it's really hard for me to do like two really similar weeks like back to back because I just kind of I don't know I just kind of like get over it you know where I'm like I don't want to do that anymore which is not the best thing to to do but mm-hmm so okay we're gonna do laundry over here and laundry honestly takes me like all the freaking day and I don't know why I only put it in till like noon when it like really takes to like three or four like all the time so I don't I don't know just a little baddie over here okay let's do that okay so I got my purple down and then I'm gonna do this one and let's see here I don't know what I'm gonna use this for just yet but I'm just gonna put one one long strip down because I don't know it's just cute and why not why not okay let's get that all done here we go okay well all the way to the end oh you know what I forgot to put in these hold on let's get back let's get back to it I forgot to put in my coworker being out on Thursday Friday so let's let's get that party going down here at the bottom normally I only choose one color so it's easier to do this but you know me I like to make things hard you guys okay and as I have been doing recently which I've really been loving is I like pre did my things so um I can put some of this stuff in here which I'm really excited about yeah so anyway down below I get questions and dms and stuff of like where I get certain stickers and um if you look in the description box below in this video you will see my most purchased from shops so some are bigger some are smaller um you know I just I love them all so and I get certain things at certain places and I don't know I just really really like having some variety um in my planar spreads and not just sticking with one shop because you know that's not always fun so anyway okay so I am going to put in how am I gonna do this hold on let's try something else first okay so I'm continuing the workouts so got five days of week currently going to physical therapy and doing some other things with my workouts so that has been very very helpful and I go um did I say you go once a week I don't even know what I said anymore I forget what I say sometimes anyways so yeah got that all figured out okay we're gonna go into I'm just gonna grab stickers as I see them so that's fine oops all right so on this day I will hold on I'm so scared of brain today you guys okay so Saturday as always do a little laundry prep the medications for the week for myself and the doober hold on let's move that off okay cool that's done all right and I am in office Tuesday and Friday this week so we'll put that in I did actually order new stickers that say in office so I don't have to write them down anymore I know that's like super silly but it's one of those things that's been bothering me so I'm like okay well I need to get that figured out all right and then on Thursday my co-worker is out at 1 30 for an appointment so I just need to note that so I remember um I've got friend's birthday this day so I'll just put that like up at the top so I don't forget yeah that looks good let's start with this so Wednesday is like my day of appointments oh actually Wednesday hold on I have down that I'm working till five which is not correct I'm actually gonna work till about like 3 45 so I'll just put it in that I'm working till four because I have my physical therapy appointment at four o'clock and my physical therapy office is like legit like five minutes away so anyway I've got that going on at 10 30 that day I have the next two things are virtual appointments so I have my dietitian appointment at 10 30 which is right here actually I'll put this up just a little bit I just want to remember thankfully they're virtual appointments and I can basically just like chat and do work at the same time so that's really nice and then at one o'clock I have my therapy appointment um so we're good with that and then let's see here um on Tuesday I actually have a doctor's appointment which I already talked to my boss about and I'm like hey um I can be in the office but I have an appointment with somebody and I have to deal with that and he's like oh no problem that's not an issue I'm like okay cool so I am just gonna like do it at work it'll be it'll be fine and it's again one of those virtual appointments so I don't think that's gonna be that big of an issue all right and then I have a meeting that day and I've got another meeting this day so many meetings so many meetings all right so my co-worker is out here so I'm just gonna put that there okay and then I've got like my little trashy guy because it's take out the trash day okay and then I'm going to put in that I'm gonna edit some videos this day probably in the morning to be honest because that's what I do and then that evening will be planner time because I love me some planner time jam on my planner and then one of my extra special co-workers her baby is due on Friday so I'm gonna put in this which is kind of funny because I have this little blue hedgehog and the theme of the nursery is like woodland little creatures and I actually got her a hedgehog for part of her baby shower gift and her husband and her are calling the baby blueberry like it's that's not gonna be the baby's name but like in utero they're calling the baby blueberry so I put blueberry due date and then I have these couple little blueberries as a sticker so I thought this would be super cute to just note this in here and yeah I'm so excited to meet the baby at some point the baby is not born yet as of me filming this but really the baby can come any day now which is super super exciting this is her first child and I'm just so pumped for them also I have a family member birthday on Friday so I just need to remember that and then I'm gonna put my like videos kind of up here that I know of so far so on Monday I've got the plan with me as always and then I also have like a sticker a book collection and I think I might do another video over here I'm not totally sure but we shall see and I think I got all my appointments but let me take a look because you know sometimes I don't get them all oh you know what I didn't get them all but you guys already knew that I gotta put in my NASCAR race so it's at Dover and it's at 2 p.m on Sunday I'm just gonna put this little guy right here and go from there I might modify this little um washi tape at some point but I kind of like the way it looks I think it just looks cute kind of just end out the week like that I don't know what do you guys think so anyway here is the start to my week I hope you guys enjoyed the video if you did give it a thumbs up you know what to do if you have any questions feel free to put them down in the comments down below or just want a comment if you like the spread if you don't like the spread you know let me know I hope you guys are doing really well this week and I will see you next week for another plan with me but again I've got other videos coming up this week so I hope you will stick with me and enjoy the content so make sure to thumbs up subscribe do all those things those youtubers tell you to do and uh this is it I'll talk to you later bye guys well folks it's time to kick it old school


Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States. Well, thank you very much. You know, it took me to the second term before I got overlooking over my shoulders when they did that to see who they were doing it for. Well, welcome to the White House. It's an honor to be able to speak to the Congressional Leadership Council and you who are doing so much to keep our party strong. In the House. And not this House. You know the House I made. And as the campaign of 1986 draws near, it's vital for us to focus our efforts and begin to give it all we've got. Sometimes it can be a little difficult to get the voters' attention. I remember back to my first campaign in California and Jack Warner, Warner Brothers, where I'd been under contract for 13 years, heard that I was running for governor. He said, no, no. No, Jimmy Stewart for governor. Ronald Reagan for best friend. More than once during that campaign, I was reminded also of a remark made by his older brother, the other partner in Warner Brothers, Harry Warner, when sound pictures came in back in the late 20s. Harry Warner was known to have said, who wants to hear actors talk? But I want to give each of you my heartfelt gratitude for all that you've already accomplished and for the progress that I know you're going to enable our party to make. Special thanks to someone who I know is on his way over here and just hasn't arrived. But I thought we shouldn't keep you waiting any longer. Guy Vanderjack just got away up in the hill and he's on his way down here. National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman for the past 10 years. To Tom Burnham, Republican Congressional Leadership Council Co-Chairman, and to the other Co-Chairman, Rich DeVos, who's marking his sixth anniversary in that post. My friends, these are historic times for the Republican Party and the ideals that unite us. Here in Washington, our party has established itself as the party of ideas. In the country at large, our numbers are growing. According to a major poll, in the last national election, voters between the ages of 18 and 24 cast their ballots for the GOP ticket by a margin of three to two. Now, we've been for a half a century so long thinking of ourselves as the minority party. Let's just look down the road a lot and see that if we play our cards right, that means we can go on for a long time as the majority party. So, in light of this historic shift, permit me to discuss for a moment or two our achievements and the challenges that we still face. When we first took the White House and the Senate five years ago, we inherited the disastrous results of two vast and prolonged experiments. The first experiment of domestic endeavor had begun during the 30s and was renewed on a massive scale during the 60s. It was based upon the premise that the answer to virtually every problem was more government. And this experiment involved a growing tax burden, an endless proliferation of government regulations, and a federal budget that took in more and more of our gross national product. And to give you an idea here, let me just say what happened in that period from the mid-60s on from 1965 to 1980, 15 years. The budget increased to roughly five times what it was in 1965. The deficit increased to 38 times what it had been in just those 15 years before. In short, government greatly expanded the public sector which can only consume and redistribute wealth at the expense of the private sector, the only sector that can create wealth. In the 70s, the results of this domestic experiment became clear. Rising unemployment and poverty, inflation and interest rates that were soaring out of control. In 1980, the great American economy plunged into a recession and the longest period of poor economic activity since the Great Depression back in the 30s. The second experiment involved foreign affairs. It was based in large measure upon a kind of moral relativism, the view that America was basically no different from the usual run of nations and that our role in world affairs should therefore be shrunk. It further held that the Soviet Union was for the most part a nation of goodwill whose main concern was not expansion but merely self-defense. Throughout the 1970s, we allowed our military capabilities to erode. For example, our fleet fell from nearly 1,000 battle-ready ships to under 500. Then we waited for the Soviet Union to demonstrate its good faith by doing the same. But the Soviets embarked upon the biggest arms buildup in the history of the world. Their navy grew from a coastal force to a global presence. They made vast investments in nuclear weaponry, investments that far surpassed any rational need for their own defense. And they projected their power into Africa, Central America, the Caribbean, Poland and Afghanistan. To many it seemed by the late 70s that America had fallen into a permanent decline. There was talk of drift and malaise, and it appeared that our proud spirit had been sapped, but the Republican Party believed otherwise. Then as now, we were convinced that ideas possessed power, that principles like limited government, individual freedom and economic growth could restore our nation to self-confidence and strength. In foreign affairs, when we took office, we began the rebuilding of our military. We boldly restated the fundamental moral difference between democracy and totalitarianism. And we reasserted America's just and proper role on behalf of human freedom. We demonstrated that just a few days ago, and we couldn't have done that five years ago. In 1983, we began the Strategic Defense Initiative. That's an initiative that could make strategic nuclear weapons obsolete. Today we've regained the respect of the world, including the respect of the Soviet Union. And permit me to add, the United States of America... I'm not saying they love us. No, no more than they ever did before. They just are looking at us in a different light. But the United States has made it clear to the terrorists of this world that they shouldn't mistake our peacefulness for passivity. We'll fight if we must fight. We will stand up for freedom. Here at home, we've turned our economy around, weeding out needless regulations, supporting a sound monetary policy, and enacting an across-the-board cut in personal income tax rates of nearly 25%. And today we've seen 40 months of expansion. Well, real income is up, interest rates are down, and inflation is at its lowest point, as I said before, in almost 15 years. 2.2% rate for the first quarter of this year. Renewed respect and strength abroad renewed growth and opportunity here at home. This is a record of which we Republicans can be truly proud as we turn to face the challenges that are still ahead. But we still have a big job to do in two areas. First, the budget. Tuesday, April 15th, the same date on which taxpayers had to file their returns, whether they wanted to or not, the Congress faced a deadline of its own. According to the Graham-Rudman Hollings Act, April 15th was the deadline for the Congress to pass a budget resolution. But even today, April 17th, the budget resolution is nowhere near completion. And while Congress delays, we hear the same old song about the American people being undertaxed. Well, enough is enough. I urge the Congress to forget about raising taxes and concentrate instead on controlling spending and putting government's financial house in order. And I urge you, my friends and all Republicans, to go to the root of this problem by helping to change the composition of the Congress. Don't you agree it's time that a few of the rascals went on permanent vacations? Second, we must build a national consensus for aid to freedom fighters around the world. That is correct. Last year, the Congress signaled that the old blame America first syndrome may be coming to an end when it voted aid to the anti-communist forces in Cambodia, Afghanistan and Nicaragua and lifted restrictions on such aid in Angola. As you know, it was my view that the freedom fighters in Nicaragua urgently needed more aid. And so at the beginning of this year, we went back to the Congress to make that request. Well, we're not there yet. But I want to tell you, I'm going to keep on fighting until they get the aid they need. Let's give those freedom fighters a chance. You know, the Sandinista government, just like the Soviet Union now and it's a satellite of the Soviet Union, has a disinformation program that has kept most of America completely confused about what's going on there. And what's going on is very simple. As a matter of fact, if you haven't already, there's a book put out by the State Department. It is a book of the papers and documents that we captured when we went into Grenada. It's signed by such people, many of those as Gromyko and Ogarkov and many of the other Soviet leaders. And they're dealing with the then-communist leaders of Grenada who aren't there anymore. But they were talking to them about their task here in the Western Hemisphere. And they named Nicaragua and Cuba as the basis for the revolution that must spread throughout the Americas because the ultimate enemy was the United States. And as I say, we've got to work harder to make more people understand why it is that we think the Contras are the good guys down there. Now, we must go forward making human freedom throughout the world a cornerstone of American foreign policy. And once again, putting more Republicans in the House will prove crucial. We must have more Republicans in the House for freedom abroad and limited government and economic growth here at home. And every seat makes a difference. Last year, the House nearly doubled the authorization for one spending program by just a dozen votes and added more than $2.5 billion to federal domestic spending over the budget resolution, which they had already agreed to by just four votes. Think of it, just a few more Republicans could have saved the American people, literally billions. Now, I know that conventional wisdom holds that the party in the White House tends to lose House seats in the off-year elections. But that's because the voters have frequently had good reason to be unhappy with that party in large part, often enough because the economy had been weak. But here we are in 86 with a growing economy, as I said, and sinking interest rates. Believe it or not, the short-term Treasury notes are below 6% for the first time in decades and decades. And I told you about inflation and where it is for the first time in nearly 15 years. Today, for the first time in decades, virtually as many voters call themselves Republicans as call themselves Democrats. But maybe even more important than numbers is the matter of initiative. For perhaps the first time since the 1920s, the GOP is on the offensive. We've become the party of ideas, the party of the young, and as the other fellows who are running scared. I remember when I first became a Republican, and that was only back in 1962. You know, when I was a child, I spake as a child, I thought as a child. But I can remember the first time I attended and addressed some Republican fundraisers. I went home and told Nancy, I said, the only young people there looked like they couldn't join anything else. But not anymore. If you don't, I tell you, to go to anymore to a campus where I have been hung in effigy so many times back in the 60s, to go there now and see those kids believe me, America's going to be in great hands in the next century. Well, as our CLC members, you provide the backbone to one of the most innovative campaign operations in history. And you're at the forefront in our battle of ideas. So my friends, we've got to face this autumn with one confidence. Let's work hard and be generous with our time and resources. And remember, I'm going to have to live in this house for two more years. And you know how important good neighbors are. I'd rather have to do with some more Republicans on Capitol Hill. It would improve the neighborhood. So if you'll forgive me, I'd like to ask you to just win one more for the Gipper. Has Guy Van Der Jack come in? He's voting over there. He's voting? And the right way. Well, listen, I know that I've taken too much of your time standing here now with this monologue, but thank you all and God bless you. And if on the way out through there, I shake a few hands, it's because I may run for mayor of Carmel. Mr. President, we're all very proud of you. See you Tuesday night at the Heritage Center. See you Tuesday night at the Heritage Center. Thank you very much.


Hi everyone, Joe for jatsby's casebreaks.com, coming at you with a box of Chronicles Baseball. It's the last filler we gotta do to unlock that bowman first random team break. Big thanks to this group here for making it happen. Appreciate it. And there are the teams right there, so we're gonna do the box break first. Then we will do a separate dice roll for the spot giveaway part. There's the box, here's the dice roll, and it's six out of three, nine times for names and teams. One, two, three, four, and ninth and final time. Teams, two, six out of three, ninth and final time. All right, here's the first half of the list right there, and the second half of the list right over there. Good chance at some decent hits here. It's just a Chronicles Baseball hobby box. Fake hit right there. Here's the printout. Same as what you saw on the previous screen. Bobby Wood Jr., just a rookie card. It was flipped around, I thought it was gonna be something especial. Juan Yepas, there we go. Rookie ticket autograph for Harry and the Cardinals. Bobby Wood Jr. rookie card that will be from that certified design. That'll be for Gabe and the Royals. And Boba Shet, America's pastime relic for Toronto. That is for Michael, Michael F. Anthony Bender to 25 for Gabe and the Marlins. O'Neal Cruz rookie card for the Pirates. That's gonna go to Michael. And the thick card here, Hans Krauss in that spectra design, spectra baseball, Jersey and autograph fillies. Michael, Michael F. for the fight and fills. That's to 49, 36 out of 49. Matt Verling to 149. And that is an autograph. That's Dylan Coleman for Kansas City. It'll be for Gabe Plunker. It's a cool design for that Torkelson there. That's gonna go to Detroit and it'll be for Ryan. And that hobby or buy is nice. All right, now let's see who's gonna win. Those 10 Bowman first random team spots. Let's grab everyone's names again. And a new dice roll. Six and a two, eight times. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. And good luck. Fingers crossed, eighth and final time. Now again, Adam just on the outside looking in. Thanks for giving it a shot, Adam and everybody, 11 through 30, appreciate it. But only the top 10 can get in. And that's gonna be Devin is happy. So is Michael, Harry, Jose, Gabe, Ryan, Gabe, Adam. There you go, Adam, Craig and Jimmy up top. There you go, top 10. Congratulations, we'll see you in the next video. JaniceBeesCaseRakes.com.


I've got three kids and I've had two of them through the hospital. Sophie here has got mild cerebral palsy so she's been down to the hospital a few times for scans and she's been through the gate lab at the hospital there a couple of times and I know a lot of the money from the Royal Children's Hospital appeal goes to the gate lab. There's a substantial amount of money going there this year for new cameras and facilities in the gate lab which helps them diagnose kids with muscular disorders. For me as a parent it's important to see the money go into the hospital so they can improve their facilities so that while we might be fortunate enough to not have any serious problems with our kids other parents have had more traumatic experiences so if we can make those kids' lives a little bit better and make their parents' lives a little less stressful then that would be great. About four or five years ago we found out that Jasmine was diagnosed with a condition called neurofibromatosis which is a genetic disorder so we've been down to the Children's Hospital several times a year for different scans and different appointments and check-ups with specialists down at the hospital to monitor condition and then about a year and a half ago unfortunately one of the issues we had was a vascular issue in Jasmine's brain and she started to be symptomatic with having what they call TIAs which are like mini-strokes. She ended up needing to have some surgery on her brain to fix that vascular issue and so we spent a week down there with the surgery for that and from that yeah it's been very successful and she hasn't had any instances of those TIAs anymore since then. I don't think you can really say that anyone around the state doesn't know somebody who hasn't had a kid through the Children's Hospital. The services that they do are just fantastic and they're world-class and all the fundraising that happens you know it goes into the extra researching and stuff for the different types of issues that kids come up with these days. So any extra money for new equipment, research projects, just other things for the kids to do activity wise, funding for the starlight room all that is just really really important. It doesn't matter how much you can give but just give whatever you can because every little bit adds up and it's also important to basically give that they can grow because my daughter is one of the kids that will grow up because of it.


Okay, what's up guys? So today I'm just gonna shoot a video for you Giving you some really great ideas to try if you're having trouble lucid dreaming So I know it can be quite difficult for a lot of people and I'm getting a lot of emails from you guys Saying what I say a lot of you guys, but quite a few people emailing me saying, you know I've been trying for a few months now, and it's not really happening. I'm not lucid dreaming. Why what am I doing wrong? They asked me, okay So I'm gonna give you a few things that you can try which will increase your chances will make it easier for you This is sort of like a a rut buster Okay, so it's gonna be about I would say a five minute to six minute video if you say with me until the end I'll give you a great recommendation for something to try Something that will really help you boost your dreams. I've used this to double my lucid dream count per week. It's really great So let's just get straight into it. Let's just get started. I know you're busy people So let's go the first thing that I would recommend you to try is to vary the techniques you use Okay, so when you start learning about lucid dreaming inevitably, you'll Read articles and you'll you'll learn how to do the waking juice lucid dream Which is the most common one you might read about then your mind if you can do lucid dream all these different techniques And what will usually happen is you'll pick one that you really like the sound of That you've maybe read a good story about or someone's told you you should really try this technique and you'll focus on that and You'll really try and you'll try and you'll try and it just won't work for whatever reason Okay, and then you'll sort of start to be frustrated. You'll start to think. Oh, well, maybe lucid dreaming doesn't work Maybe it's not gonna work out for me. Maybe the technique doesn't work Okay, and you'll sort of start to lose motivation slowly and slowly you'll dismiss lucid dreaming something that isn't for you Okay, and this is really bad. I hate it when this happens, especially when it's people I know So what I would suggest to do is to set time frames for yourself For each technique that you try and I want you to try lots of them Okay, so they're obviously I can probably list about 10 techniques just off the top of my head for lucid dreaming And you can find lots of them on my blog as well how to lucid.com So let's just throw a few examples out there Let's say the first technique you try will be the waking juice lucid dream and that doesn't work Try it as hard as you can to make it work for you for a week Okay, just that one technique focus on it every night try it try it again. If it doesn't work Write down what happened in the dream diary write down your experiences how it felt what was easy What was not so easy and then move on to a new technique the week after okay? And keep doing this keep doing this every week starting a new technique So first week waking juice lucid dream second week pneumonic induced lucid dream third week Cycle adjustment technique fourth week wait back to bed and so on and so forth until you find one that works better than the rest And you will okay. There are so many techniques out there and they all work in slightly different ways Everyone is slightly different as I keep saying so one will work better than the others for you Okay, find that technique and when you do focus on that and build your skills that way instead eventually you've built up the skills in your subconscious and in your in your conscious mind that you can Approach the other techniques more easily and you can learn better because you found one that works for you you've built on your skills and you've You've picked up a bit of motivation. You've had a few lucid dreams because that's the main thing You want to have those those easy wins at the start so you have motivation to keep learning, okay? Second thing Moving on is your sleep pattern now Everybody has a natural sleep rhythm is called your circadian rhythm and it refers to the way that your body responds to light At dark so normally if there weren't any screens and artificial light you would wake up when if the sun rises in the morning and you would go to sleep when the sun sets when it gets Dark the natural light in the world from the Sun will enter your body And trigger you to create certain hormones. These are known as your You could say your circadian hormones or something like this It basically means the substances in your body that wake you up and then shut you down ready for sleep Okay, now obviously in society these days we have artificial lights We keep ourselves up beyond the times when we're supposed to go to bed naturally. This is okay Not much we can do about that. It's just part of the world we live in now. However For your sleep pattern you ideally want to go to bed and wake up at the same time each day Seven days a week if you have a really random sleep pattern and you're going to sleep and waking up all sorts of times You're going to find it much harder to have a lucid dream And I found this from experience. I know this is true. I've read various Scientific studies on this your circadian rhythm is important and it won't only help you to lose a dream It will actually help you to have more energy throughout the day It will help you with your motivation your mental clarity all sorts of things like this. Okay, so Set a little test for yourself You could call it a 30-day experiment for example where every day you wake up at the same time and you go to bed at Roughly the same time the most important part is the time you wake up. Okay, because if you wake up at the same time every day Naturally after a few days your body is going to start to think I'm getting a bit tired now Whatever time in the evening you should be going to sleep and you'll naturally feel tired enough to go to sleep Okay, so try that for a few weeks that will help you third thing By neural beats now I've mentioned these before this is a type of sound wave you can listen to Which sort of takes your brain by the hand and guides it towards a lucid state now There are many ways you can do this and there are several companies that make these by neural beats You can find them on YouTube. They're free. However, the ones on YouTube tend to be lower quality and they don't work as well This is what I found from experience and so without going too much into it a by neural beat is a type of sound wave That you listen to and the way it works is you you will listen to the sound wave through stereo headphones Okay, in one ear would be one frequency one sound wave frequency and in the other ear would be a slightly different one They'll be on slightly different levels and because they're slightly different your brain makes up for this difference and sort of Makes it so that you hear one sound and by doing this your brain actually goes into a different Mental state your brain waves change. Okay, and that's the basics of it There are several different by neural beats that they make them for all sorts of things you can get them to help you relax Help you wake up help you think more creatively and help you lose your dream So I'll leave some links in the description for those they're fairly cheap Or you can go ahead and search it on YouTube by neural beats for lucid dreaming and see if they work for you If you find that the YouTube ones don't work then maybe come back to this video try the ones I'm suggesting But it's totally up to you. Okay fourth thing inspiration now lucid this video is going to probably go on more than six minutes But it doesn't matter. Hopefully you're not bored and falling asleep already. So inspiration With anything you learn, especially if it's something new it's important to sort of Visualize what it will feel like and sort of get inspiration from a number of sources So for example talking to people that do or can do the thing that you're trying to do Okay, sounds simple, but this stuff works guys watching films about your subject about what you're trying to learn and Develop skills in okay reading books ebooks paperback books articles online whatever it is like what I'm saying to you is Immerse yourself in lucid dreaming learn all you can about it read books Okay, I've got a bookshelf here full of books on psychology lucid dreaming motivation personal development all sorts of things And I read them. I read them. I highlight important bits. I go over them again Until it really sort of becomes solid in my mind And this really helps this will really help you to let to lucid dream to improve your mind of all of this sort of stuff okay Number five, I think on my little list here supplements now these aren't for everyone You don't have to do this you don't have to take any sort of supplement to lucid dream But there are certain things which make it just more likely and easier Okay, so the first one I would advise you to take a multi-vitamin and this will just sort of balance your body get your Macronutrient levels aligned it was sort of help your overall health which will in turn help your mental health It's all connected in some sort of way, okay You can also get certain supplements specifically for lucid dreaming such as for example galantamine 5-HTP There are all sorts of supplements which will help you with what's called a dream support Okay, the reason it's called dream support This is an interest wise because no supplement can guarantee you'll have a lucid dream But there are certain things which sort of give you that that raise that that boost in The likelihood that you're lucid dream Okay, so I might leave some links for those as well in the description But feel free to do your own research just type lucid dreaming supplements. You'll find a load of results so the last one and This is sort of like a general recommendation for something I found from my experience. I've been lucid dreaming for several years now Makes I would say one of the biggest differences to my lucid dreaming ability Okay, and that is to do as much as you can in your waking life Okay, so at the start when I first started learning about all this I would sort of read a lot about lucid dreaming I would watch films I would spend hours, you know reading through forums I think one of the first websites I found was well with lucid dreaming by Rebecca Turner And I'll just read all of these articles and learn as much as I could But then I found that it reached a certain point where I I reached a plateau I couldn't really go beyond that so I sort of gave up for a few months Okay, and I just started doing all these other things. I went to college, you know, I Started having more of a social life and doing all of this stuff And I found that the more interesting and new experiences I had in my waking life Okay, the more lucid dreams I had And I think one of the reasons for this is that when you lose a dream or when you dream in general Part of the dream is made up from your what's known as day residue. Okay, so your memory of things that have happened previously that day So, of course, if you're spending your day Sitting in your room not doing much then you're gonna have less day residue and you're not gonna have as much You're not gonna have as much experience for your dreams to be based around so What I'm basically saying is try and do as much as you can try and have new Experiences as often as you can travel go out and see the world try something new eat at a new restaurant All of this stuff will really help you On an in an indirect way. It will help you to lose a dream. It will bring more Randomness and vividness to your dreams. Okay, so I hope this video has helped you. This is just on the 10 minute mark now I'm gonna leave leave you with that. I hope you've had a lovely Christmas and the new year is gonna be great So if you've enjoyed this video, please go ahead and subscribe Like there's a little button just right there I'm sure you know where it is go ahead and subscribe because I'll be releasing a lot more videos soon And yeah, I'll see you in the next video guys. Take care


The federal government has approved a new national language policy, making the various mother tongues compulsory medium of instruction from primary 1 to 6. Briefing State House Correspondents the Minister of Education, Adam Wademo, who noted that the policy takes immediate effect, stated that the government is aware that its implementation will be difficult but necessary to promote the cultivation in the use of all Nigerian languages. It revealed that as of today, 29 languages have become extinct, leaving the country with 625. We require a lot of work to develop the material to teach and get the teachers and so on, but the policy has been approved. The language that will be chosen is the language that the community communicates in. But other Nigerian languages, the policy encourages their teaching and their learning. And in addition, of course, the learning of international languages subjects will continue.  I mean, we went to school a long time ago and I remember that our mother tongue was the medium of instruction and it has been proven scientifically that those that children do better when you use explain to them in their mother tongue than in another language.


Hey folks, Adamby Levine here. Things didn't go to plan this week So hold that thought until next weekend and in the meantime here's the fourth installment of speaking of bitcoins dare to be stupid series Enjoy the show Hello there, I'm George frankly and I'm going to take a look at how even the best and brightest people can make truly Stupid decisions and terrible predictions and what we can learn from them. This is dare to be stupid This time on dare to be stupid the nonsense economics of Star Trek or utopia in a vacuum The last time I waxed nostalgic about Star Trek the next generation I called out and then forgave its numerous predictive failures Sure, it tended to make very simplistic predictions about the distant future But it was all in the service of bringing us a more optimistic view of today and tomorrow Well enough feel-good bullshit dreamy sci-fi optimism is a greasy cheeseburger and right now we're going to eat steak Not just any steak even we're grilling up a sacred cow today Star Trek the next generation love it as I may built its entire utopia on the basis of one single utterly broken Nonsense idea that renders all of its lofty stories about society and science and economics absolutely moot The galaxy of replicators and warp speed works just fine as a feel-good story for the tots But if Star Trek set out to be an allegory a real thought-provoking challenge to our behavior our beliefs our way of life Then I'm sorry to say it failed miserably Star Trek and to keep things simple. I mean Star Trek the next generation imagines a beautiful fantasy world of post scarcity economics Post scarcity is not a sci-fi invention. It was in fact a sort of theoretical notion laid out by the economist John Maynard Keen himself Keen's like many philosophers from many disciplines saw scarcity and the struggle for resources as the impetus behind most human behavior He theorized that if a truly scarcity altering resource were discovered all of society and human behavior would be shaken I'll paraphrase the man himself The love of money as a possession not the love of money as a means to find enjoyment or security rather just the hoarding accumulation of capital would be recognized for what it is a disgusting morbidity This is to say that if the scarcity of resources were suddenly just end one day all sorts of traditional practices and behaviors would lose All meaning as the hoarding of wealth just becomes transparently awful So what the hell does that mean it means that in a post scarcity world like Star Trek a man with lots of money Suddenly looks less like a power broker or a kingmaker and more like a guy from an episode of my strange addiction that can't achieve sexual satisfaction unless dead white guys on green paper are watching The primordial insecurity of the entire human condition evaporates and suddenly hoarding wealth doesn't project security it projects hoarding That is Keen's post scarcity and it is the backbone of Star Trek post scarcity people are different people They're all unflappably noble space travelers hungry for knowledge for knowledge is own sake Without the fear of where their next meal is coming from or how they're going to keep the lights on the only thing they crave is Self-improvement and by God that sounds nice. It fits what we've seen Every pajama-bound space sailor on the Starship Enterprise is disgustingly enlightened professional and ethical throughout the majority of their work day But how does the Starship Enterprise actually escape scarcity rather? How did all these upstanding citizens of the 24th century break free of the oil crisis of our modern age? What new systems of energy efficiency and resource infrastructure shattered the centuries-long chokehold of Economic petroleum monoculture that define the world. We know make no mistake That's what this is about the world We live in is an economic monoculture the same way that the global population of adorable pug dogs are so inbred That the tens of thousands of them alive today have the genetic diversity of about 50 individuals Or the fact that every banana you've ever eaten in your life has been a genetic clone from the exact same centuries-old tree Our global economy is deformed and vulnerable after centuries of incest It really is all about petroleum and petroleum monoculture isn't just about gasoline Petroleum refinement is the source of practically all commercial organic chemicals propane butane still from oil fields Polymers and monomers that go into our plastics and composites refined from oil fields Numerous refined short chain hydrocarbons in the food and medicine industry are derived from petroleum byproducts Practically any chemical process or product you can think of has one foot in the oil rigs door That is the monoculture so many sectors of the global economy depend on constant and consistent petroleum flow that it is both a Kingmaker and an Achilles heel for all of human society It is the only leg that many industries have to stand on and God helps them if it falls over and So Star Trek escapes that it has a moneyless post scarcity economy But how what radical culture shift saved our fictional future from dependency on a dangerous economic monoculture? Well, that's easy dependency on a fun economic monoculture You see Star Trek never actually had any revolutionary ideas about escaping scarcity or a petroleum dependent economy It just uses the exact same mindset but replaces unilateral dependence on oil with unilateral dependence on dilithium crystals Dilithium is the magic word that makes their entire vision of utopia work And it's nothing more than 20th century petroleum culture putting on a groucho moustache and coming back to the free sample counter for seconds all roads in Star Trek lead back to dilithium Unspeakable amounts of energy production enabling fasted-in-light travel matter replication rearrangement transportation solid construct Holograms capable of having feelings for some reason it all comes from dilithium Something somebody off-camera minds and refines in nigh limitless quantities and produces perfect energy efficiency with no harmful byproducts This is not a problem exclusive to Star Trek although it leans into it the hardest Professor Imra semen criticized modern science fiction as a whole when it comes to economics saying quote Oil capital seems to represent a stage that neither capitalism nor its opponents in science fiction can think beyond The scarcity of oil he suggests is just a minor technicality We will simply invent something that can do everything oil can do without the drawback of being scarce And that is what Star Trek has done taken the driving force behind the worst motives and conflicts in human history Resource scarcity and slapped a full reverse card on it Where economic crashes and shortages have driven global depressions pushed despots into power and Look, I'll just cut to the chase and say this was gonna end up being about Nazi Germany Star Trek scribbled the word post next to scarcity and called it a day The enlightened men and women of the Starship Enterprise did not abandon oil monoculture They simply switched over to space oil and declared that all the bad things are gone now At the end of the day, it might not feel like that matters. It's not about how they got to utopia, right? It's about what they do with it morals and pathos are for book reports. We are here for space conflict But conflict is what it's all about and by it. I mean being alive There are many different interpretations and perspectives about the relationship between capital M man and capital N Nature, but there's a spot a common ground between science economics and philosophy Conflict and insecurity motivate change and progress Living things from their earliest and slimmest incarnations have been motivated by resources and security How we balance our needs our wants our fears and our desires are the fundamental components of how we make decisions and form biases When Star Trek flipped that switch that said everything bad is gone and everyone's needs are met It made all the primary colored grown-up onesie enthusiasts on board into something not quite human God, I I'd love Star Trek the next generation absolutely two pieces There's tremendous value in the stories and the adventures it takes us through and there's plenty of charm to its stoic cast of characters But we can't elevate things beyond criticism much less a show that criticizes us right back Star Trek says so many snappy and harsh things about people in our less enlightened times yet It refuses to consider what makes us this way scarcity and limitations It doesn't imagine a world where those fundamental conflicts are ever solved It just shows us a world where they cease to exist and that's not a utopia anybody earned If we're ever going to build a better society We'll get there by grappling with our needs and fighting against our limits every step of the way Prop probably not in our pajamas Yeah, thank you for listening as always I'd like to remind you that nearly all of my illustrious job titles come with the prefix armchair If you're an expert and you're hearing me get something wrong, I'd like to hear about it and with that I'm definitely done talking about Star Trek and baseball forever probably


The Aryans Now when I say Aryans, you might think of... Robbers blonde men with pointed chins, pointed noses for a complexion riding horses, killing everyone in their path. Well, historically speaking that might not necessarily be true. The first inscription mentioned of the word Arya is found at Beheston, Afghanistan, and an inscription by the Persian king Darius I. Unlike a current understanding of the word Arya, where we use it to refer to a specific community of people, the word comes from the Sanskrit language and means noble. So, Aryans equals nobles. Problem solved, right? No. History is never that easy. Now, the meaning of the word is clear, but how and when did this whole confusion about the origins of the Aryan people start? For that, we must go back to 18th century India. It all started with William Jones, who was a philologist from England. He was the one who noticed the similarities between the classical European languages like Latin and Greek and the Indian Sanskrit language. He proposed a theory that these languages must have had a mother language, which all our ancestors spoke and later migrated to various parts of the world. Thomas Young termed these sister languages as Indo-European languages. One of the biggest controversies of human history was created. This concept established a connection between the people living in the regions of India and Europe. And it was believed that the Indian people were descendants of Aryans who came to India some 2000 years ago. So that was about the origins of the controversy of the origins of the controversial Aryans. Now, let's take a look at the sources that mention these Aryan people. The word Arya is mentioned in Rigveh many times, which is generally considered the oldest of the four Vedas. Now, as is the requirement with any historic record, we first need to date this literary text. The Rigveh is considered to have been compiled between 10,000 BC to 1500 BC. They found an inscription at the Bogasquay site in Turkey, which mentions four Vedic deities. And this inscription has been proved to have been created in about 1360 BC. Based on this inscription, we can say that there were some followers of Vedic deities in the Bogasquay area during 1360 BC. This also lets us conclude that the Rigveh must at least be older than 1360 BC. The Rigveh says that these people lived in the Saptasindu region, that is the land of seven rivers. The rivers Ganga, Yamuna, Gomati, Kurram, Kabul, Swat and Oxes are also mentioned in this text. So, it's pretty clear that these people, residents of Saptasindu region, created the Rigveh or the people mentioned in it, lived in the Swast region now known to Indians as the Northwestern Frontier. Just like the word Arya, several other words are mentioned in the Rigveh like Das, Dasya and Pani. They are called Anarya and they are not so noble or painted in a villainous role in the Rigveh. As per the Rigveh, their lips are like bulls, they are Ayadnya, Avrata, phallus worshippers and basically not the followers of Indra. These Dasas, Dasyus and Pani's were basically clans of a big tribe. Dasas were farmers, Dasyus were laborers and Pani's were rich merchants and traders. That brings us to our next point, Rigvedic tribes. The major event that is mentioned in the Rigveh is the Dashradnya war. Vishwamitra was a royal priest to King Sudas of the Bharat clan. But when the king replaced him with Sejh Vashishtha, Vishwamitra decided to take revenge on him and gathered ten kings of ten clans. This war was fought on the banks of Parushnirvar. King Sudas and the Bharatas won this war and expanded their territory. The conquerors moved further and settled on the banks of the Kanganya Munaripur. Now we know enough about the Aryans, their tribes, the war, the Rigveh etc etc etc. So now let's talk about the big question. Were these Aryans indigenous or foreign invaders? First, the Aryans in the Rigveh believed the region of Saptasindu was created for them by the gods. It is considered an evidence that they believed themselves to be from that region. Another theory suggests that the Aryans were indigenous people who were the descendants of their Mesolithic ancestors but later became traders and merchants and built great cities of the Indusvala civilization and after its decline they turned to God and created Rigveh. Aryan Invasion Theory This theory suggests that these people probably migrated from the Eurasian steppes around 5000 BC and they arrived at the borders of India on their horses and chariots in around 2000 BC. Scholars like Bijit Tilak traced the origins of the Aryans in the Arctic region. This conclusion was drawn from the astronomical mentioning in the Rigveh. And last but not the least, Indra, who is a major Rigvethic god, is called Purandar which means destroyer of fortified cities. Scholars like Sir Robert Eric Mortimer-Feeler relate this concept of Purandar with the foreign Aryans destroying cities built by the indigenous people. So the conclusion to this Aryan issue? Well first of all, most of these problems lie in misinterpretation of facts. There were no Aryan people as such, just the people living in the Saptasindu region who called themselves Aryans. Also it can be said there were no wars or the so called Aryan invasion didn't actually take place because we don't have any evidence of it. Yes, the migration of Aryans in other communities is certainly possible. Whatever may have happened, we now know that around 1500 BC these people, whether of indigenous or foreign origins, settled on the banks of Seven Rivers and later settled on the banks of Ganga and Yamuna rivers. They were warrior clans and pastoral communities who later became farmers. They formed small states called Mahajanapadas. But more on that in our next episode.


One of the challenges that a lot of new beekeepers have is lighting a smoker and keeping it lit. Because the first thing that you want to do is to be able to, number one, light that smoker and create cool smoke for the bees. But the second part of that is keeping it lit. No one wants to be in a bee yard surrounded by bees and your smoker go out. So let me show you how to do that. First thing you can do is get your smoker and of course this one's been well used as you see. And I put a little starter material here. In this case I have cypress shavings because I work my bee boxes and cypress and these are the wood shavings from them. So I'm going to go ahead and light that up, let it burn and as you can see there, you know, it's burning a little bit. I'm going to give it a few puffs and you want to puff it and you want that smoke, that fire going really strong. Because you're just getting it lit right now. So I'm kind of getting it getting it lit and you can use any kind of smoker material you want. If you have pine needles, burlap sacks, almost anything, you want something that's going to burn slow. Well you see this is burning kind of fast. So now what I do is they have these wood pellets that I'm going to go ahead and put in there. I'm going to continue to smoke. So I'm getting some pretty good smoke going now. Put a little more so you can kind of see in there, you know, it's starting to really get going. Don't be in a hurry, lighten your smoker. It takes a little while to get it going good. So it's actually going pretty good right now. So we'll put the top on and you want to put your hand in front of it and feel it. If it's warm you don't want to use it on the bees because you don't want to go and barbecue your bees when you're trying to just check on them. So this is nice cool smoke and that's exactly what we want on the bees.