Daily Tech News show is made possible by its listeners. Thanks to all of you, including Ollie Sanjabi, Andrew Bradley, and Dale Mulcahy. Coming up on DTNS, Allison Sheridan talks about what it's like to ride in Waymo's car with no driver, why CNN Plus just shut down, and physics finally determines the optimal way to twist an Oreo. DTNS starts now. This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday, the 21st of April, 2022 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane. And I'm Allison Sheridan of the Podfeat Podcast. I'm drawing the top tech stories from Cleveland. I'm Len Peralta. And I'm the show's producer, Roger Cheng. And you may have heard this theme briefly played as an experiment. Well, it wasn't me messing up. I don't know why you would say that. Let's start with a few tech things you should know. Instagram ahead, Adam Maseri announced that the platform will change its ranking algorithm to promote original content in places like the reels and the feed tabs. Reposted content will be less likely to be recommended as will accounts that primarily repost content. The algorithm will also stop resurfacing content already shared on the app for fewer repeats. Earlier this year, France's data protection agency CNIL, CNIL, fined Google 150 million euros for using confusing language in those pervasive cookie banners. So in response, Google has introduced new cookie banners for Europe that will offer a reject all button alongside accept all or more options choices. This will initially come to France and then extend across the European economic area as well as the UK and Switzerland. These new banners will appear on Google search and YouTube for users not signed into an account. We previously reported on a Microsoft program that would help developers put ads within a game as in-game elements like billboards and a racing game. Well, Sony wants in on that action too. Advertising Insider says Sony is considering a similar in-game ad program as well as a program to reward players with in-game items for watching ads. Microsoft won't take a cut of its ads but reportedly Sony has not decided on that just yet. Both companies will be selective about which advertisers are allowed in and will not allow collection of personal information. Xbox is expected to get the program in Q3 and Sony by the end of this year. An updated regulatory filing shows that Elon Musk has received commitments either from his own finances or debt providers for $46.5 billion to finance a potential tender offer for Twitter. A tender offer would see Musk purchase some or all of the shares of the company directly from shareholders rather than through an offer negotiated with the Twitter's board. His opening offer was to the board. He has not committed to a tender offer yet but he now has the finances to follow through with it should he want to. The Twitter board has also not responded to that initial direct offer that was made back on April 14th. And interestingly, the Stagus trading below Musk's offer amount, indicating that investors out there don't believe that his offer will be accepted. In other Elon Musk news, the boring company or TBC announced plans to significantly increase hiring across engineering, operations and production to build and scale loop projects. TBC says its current proof rock two machines can handle up to a mile per week. But that number could increase significantly with the next gen proof rock three which could supposedly mine at seven miles per day. That's quite a jump. TBC says it'll use its latest round of funding to build and scale loop projects including Vegas loop and others although it didn't expand on what those other projects would be. Just a quick shout out to James who wrote in last week noting that in our most recent flashback episode we wondered when or if the boring company would actually complete a project. James points out that one already did happen last year in Las Vegas. Oh, it's the Vegas loop thing you're talking about. Yeah, that's at the LVCC I think, right? Yeah. Yeah. All right, thank you James for pointing that out. Thank you, Enth Mike and Stoic Squirrel for making me hungry by wondering if Elon Musk would proffer a chicken tender offer to Twitter and now to our first story. If you haven't heard of CNN plus it's a paid subscription service for $5.99 a month which delivers original news and discussion programs that you don't get on the cable version of the channel. They're hosted by big names like Anderson Cooper, Chris Wallace. It's kind of a Netflix for news specials, not a live stream, just a bunch of programs you can choose from and it launched on March 29th and it's going away April 30th. Just made it more than a month, barely. It got caught between two worlds. AT&T closed its sale of CNN's owner WarnerMedia to Discovery on April 8th. So now Discovery owns WarnerMedia and therefore owns CNN. CNN plus was backed by WarnerMedia's former CEO, Jason Calar, who left the company after the sale closed and it was developed under CNN executive Jeff Zucker who left the company before the sale. Andrew Morse who's been running CNN plus is now going to leave the company. Alex McCallum is moving from GM of CNN plus to oversee CNN's digital operations. She formerly ran product for CNN worldwide. Now one wonders where Chris Wallace who left Fox to join CNN plus is gonna end up in all this but Thursday morning incoming CNN chairman and chief executive Chris Licht told staff that the decision will let them quote, refocus resources on the core products that drive our singular focus further enhancing CNN's journalism and its reputation as a global news leader. So Discovery's been banging the drum of making CNN more like the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, et cetera rather than more like Fox News and MSNBC. Licht told staff that some of the CNN plus content will end up on other platforms at a town hall meeting last week. CEO David Zaslaw told employees he'd rather have all the content under one platform rather than separate services for channels or types of content. So this is consistent with that. Get rid of a separate platform CNN plus bring the stuff under maybe HBO max something like that. Licht also said consumers want simplicity and an all in service which provides a better experience and more value than standalone offerings.  Well, having gone through having been at a large company not the size of CNN but large companies that go through sales I feel the pain of anybody who worked hard on CNN plus only to see it shelved or killed entirely because well there's new people coming in and this is not really what their vision would have been anyway and this happens. Now CNN plus somewhat triumphantly launching and then deciding to shutter within a month is kind of embarrassing. It's easy to say well it's obviously a big failure and maybe there's truth to the fact that there just weren't a lot of subscribers. People were confused like well I already have CNN and there's headline news and now they're CNN plus and what's that gonna give me? I was kind of one of those people it wasn't something that I rushed out to to subscribe to it and give any money to. And yeah some of that stuff will end up in other places but it seems like a combination of people in executive roles having different visions for what the future is and a lot of people leaving at a very inopportune time for CNN plus. So I'm sure all of these events are what caused this to actually disappear but it was an unfortunate timing too that this came out right around the time we heard that CNN's numbers were way down right?  I think CNN thrives when there's something huge happening. So I would suspect that right now their numbers are going way up with the invasion of Ukraine. But right when that launched maybe things were just kind of cooling down and there wasn't any big, everybody needs to know about this one thing topic. I don't know if that would be anything to do with it but it might have caused it to slow down demise anyway. And CNN plus was not covering breaking news. It was like Chris Wallace sits down and interviews an interesting person and Anderson Cooper goes around and talks to people on the street. Here are old episodes of Anthony Bourdain. It was more like that and less of like what's happening right now. And I think two things are going on. One is discovery is very clearly said even before the merger closed we'd like to bring everything together. You heard about Zasloff telling the employees just that they've talked about taking Discovery plus which is like Home and Garden food TV discovery network stuff and merging it into HBO Max into one super service. And I think that's what they want to do with CNN. The other thing to consider here is what you're talking about Allison which is people turn to news for events and there are two different approaches right now. There's the Fox Nation approach which is what CNN plus was trying to emulate although I don't think doing it very well. Fox Nation has more than a million subscribers at 5.99 a month and it's very much the opinion oriented stuff. The other approach is what ABC News Live CBS News and NBC News now do which is a free ad supported here's the news if you want to know about the war in Ukraine here's the news approach. You can just watch it with ads although NBC also adds it to Peacock which I think is a little hint to what Warner might be wanting to do with CNN. Make a version of it that is just part of the super app where you can get the news and maybe they'll do a free ad supported version of it in the CNN app. This is similar to what CBS News and ABC News Live and NBC News now are but they're definitely talking about treating CNN more as a hard journalism thing rather than what Fox and MSNBC are which is more of an opinion oriented news organization. And if you think about like that it makes perfect sense to me. I don't think you could have more clearly illustrated what Sarah was saying which was maybe it was too confusing. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, and it's confusing to try to explain the landscape very shortly but if CNN is free with ads in the CNN app that's not gonna be confusing at all. People are like, oh, I can just watch it, great. And if it's already in HBO Max or whatever they end up calling it then that's gonna be easy to understand as well. And CNN Plus was a lot harder like you said Sarah to explain. Well, hopefully this will be easy to explain or at least understand Amazon has launched Buy With Prime which lets third party merchants offer prime delivery as an option on their own website separate from anything you might find on amazon.com. These sites will be able to display prime badges for items that are eligible for free two day or next day delivery, you know, prime stuff with prime members able to use Amazon account information to place their orders. At launch, the service will be available by invitation for sellers already using fulfillment by Amazon that lets merchants pay to have their inventory stored in Amazon's warehouses and to use Amazon supply chain and shipping operations. Although the company says eventually this program will be extended to other merchants including those not selling on Amazon at all. Pricing will vary depending on payment processing and fulfillment and storage and other fees that are specific to what the seller needs to use Amazon for. Amazon is already dabbling on this on a smaller scale it handles orders for products sold on some other websites using a program called multi-channel fulfillment which lets sellers store and also ship products using Amazon services. And you might recall Amazon used to offer a service where its drivers picked up packages from retailers and delivered them to consumers but that program got paused at the beginning of the pandemic when Amazon got pretty slammed with online orders in general. Of note, Amazon has more than 2 million prime customers. So if you like that prime button and you'd like the idea of shopping outside of Amazon you might be able to get some Amazon perks by doing so.  I know that's a reliable delivery service got a little wonky for a while there and it seems to have picked up and gotten straightened out and that's great. But I also wonder how that's gonna work with knowing all of your purchases are in one place. If one of the big compelling things to me is when I buy it on Amazon I don't have to wonder where did I buy it to go back and find my receipt. I don't even bother storing my receipts or looking for them because I know they're gonna be in the Amazon app.  Well, I mean you will be logging into using your Amazon login and your information on the third party site. So one would think either that would be something that Amazon can add into your order history in your own Amazon stats. If you were on amazon.com or that could be something that the third party seller would offer. But they would have the data. No, no, no, no, no. They get in huge trouble if they start taking over that customer relationship. And even though it would be good I feel like Amazon doesn't want that fight anymore. There's so many fights anytime Amazon takes data from a company and stores it that I mean, they might do it. The merchants might want them to do it. I don't know, but I get the sense that the merchants are gonna be like, no, the receipt, the email addresses, everything stays with us. You're just providing the logistics fulfillment. Which is consistent with this sort of being the AWS of shipping for Amazon. Which is we'll provide the storage and the shipping but all the customer relationship that's you. You've crushed my dreams. I'm sorry. I was really excited about that. I just think about every time Amazon tries to do something like that that makes things more convenient the personal privacy aspect of it and the customer relationship aspect of it with merchants just crushes it. You know, I've gotten really good at hating companies for the way they treat customers and their suppliers and things. But I've just not been able to get to the point of hating Amazon. I just still love it and I want everything in Amazon. It just makes me really happy to have it there. I mean, I agree and disagree with you, Allison. I think that I'm always relieved when I have to make a purchase through Amazon because it's easy. You know, I can get it next day, not all the time, but often I can. I'm a Prime customer. I've been using Prime for years. Many people are as well.  It just does. I like the idea of spreading the wealth a little bit.  But the idea of having my Prime benefits associated with an independent company, that's great. It's great for me. It's like a win-win for the customer. Yeah, I've had problems with Amazon starting to not be as good as it used to be for things I look for and not having the best price and getting lazy about like, man, you'll just pay it because you're here. So I have actively tried to diversify. Bought a new thermostat this week on Home Depot. It was the same price on Amazon as it was on Home Depot. But I was like, you know what? Let's just, you know, spread the love around. I know it's still a big corporate company, but let me keep trying different things. I don't want to have all my eggs in one basket. That said, as a consumer, kind of love two-day, one-day delivery being available from a merchant that I trust that's not Amazon, even if it's Amazon providing that logistics. I'm with you, Allison. You know, I am going to admit, I do the same thing you guys are doing, but it's more of a spread the wealth. Not a hatred of Amazon, but I buy a lot of electronic stuff through Best Buy. And you guys talked yesterday or the day before about the increase in number of people going into stores. I will buy it from Best Buy because I can drive over there and go be around humans and pick it up, even though I just go in and, but I just like to go look at the stuff now. You get it faster a lot of the times if you can pick it up that way. You know, depending on the situation. Real quickly, Dave Clark, Amazon CEO of Worldwide Consumer told CMBC last year that he thinks Amazon is on track to become the nation's largest delivery service by early 2022. So again, Amazon Logistics becoming its own business and becoming one of the biggest businesses of its kind in the United States anyway. Hey, what do you want to hear us talk about on the show? One way to let us know is our subreddit. We look at it every day to see what y'all are interested in, what you're voting on, what your comments are. You can submit stories and vote on them at dailytechnewshow.reddit.com. Well, while in Phoenix last week, Allison and Steve met up with DTNS Patreon supporter and host of the Kilowatt podcast, Bodie Grimm. They took a ride in a Waymo driverless taxi to do some shopping, see how it works. And boy, Allison, do you have some insights on how it does work. Yeah, I want to preface this by my honest assessment I've talked about on the show before of Tesla's full self-driving. It is categorically horrible. It is a terrifying experience. It's anxiety-filled. It makes tons and tons of mistakes.    Right, but I want you to know that's how I feel about full self-driving on Tesla because the experience with the Waymo was just 1,000% different. I couldn't, people hate it when you say that. It was 100% different. It was all different. It was all the difference that's possible. So to start from the beginning, how did you get the cab? Well, so Bodie lives in an area in Tempe, Arizona where they actually have the service. And remember, Waymo is basically an experimental proof of concept kind of thing going on here. It's not, it's prevalent and it goes everywhere. You have this very defined region you can go into. So Bodie brought up the Waymo app on his phone and it was just like ordering an Uber except he described it as driver roulette. Is sometimes when you get the car, when it orders you a car, it'll tell you, oh, sorry, it's got a driver in it. But still you just cancel the drive and do it again. And so I sent you guys a screenshot of Confetti coming down where it said, congratulations, you'll get to ride without a driver, which is what we wanted to see. Yay. Yeah. Oh, well, it's exactly what we wanted to do. And Bodie does this kind of like a party trick when people come to visit because he has it drive to Trader Joe's and he does, it's a mile away. And so it's a real nice experiment because it goes down local neighborhood streets and that goes out into a lot of traffic. And to get into Trader Joe's, you have to make a left turn across traffic. You mean after you get on board, you tell it to go to Trader Joe's. You're not going to Trader Joe's to pick it up. Oh, correct. Correct. Yeah, you do it in the app just like you would do it with an Uber, you tell it where you want to go. But I guess I kind of jumped ahead. Yeah, how's the pickup? Like, does it unlock its own doors? Does it know where to stop? Like, I think that, I'm curious about all that. Does it come up and tires screech? Yeah. Is it playing the radio really loud until you get in? And it's like, hey, sorry. So when Bodie got the thing that said it was going to come, it has a couple of things for you. On the front, it's got a probably LCD panel that has the initials of the person who requested it. So if there's a whole bunch of these coming to pick up people from bars, you would know that it was his. So it said BG on the front. The second thing is it said, make sure you have Bluetooth on because when you walk up to the car, that unlocks the car. So it automatically unlocks and lets you in. Now, a lot of people ask what vehicle it is that we got. It was a simple Chrysler Minivan, the Pacifica Hybrid. Yeah, that was one of the first test fleets. So that's probably what they've had there for a while. Yeah, and it's really irrelevant what kind of vehicle it is. That doesn't have anything to do with this because this is a highly modified car. It has LiDAR sensors on the front and the two front corners. And then in the center of the back, and then it's got this big dome thing on top. It looks kind of like Darth Vader's helmet is the way Bode described it. And so this has, from what I've been reading, it has $300,000 worth of sensors on it. So it isn't really fair to compare the self-driving in a $75,000 Tesla to a $300,000 modification of another vehicle. Okay, so once you get in, you've Bluetoothed your way in. What's the experience like? Do you have to close the door? Does it close the door itself? Does it talk to you? What happens? We did close the door ourselves. It said to buckle up and it said, you'll notice there's no driver in this car. And then it pulled away from the curb. And I have to tell you guys, it was spectacular. It was smooth, it was, I mean, it stopped for the appropriate amount of time. When it turned into traffic, it turned gracefully. It never went in front of somebody we thought it shouldn't have. It didn't make any unsafe turns. But it was also not overly cautious. The Tesla, for example, when it goes to make a right turn into traffic, even if it's like a residential street and there's nobody around, it does it the way a new driver would do it? Like, it's real slow.  Yeah, right. You know, it's like in LA, you can't not drive right.  So it was a really, really mellow experience. Our first reaction, of course, was, oh my God, there's no driver. Look, the steering wheel's moving. And Steve was obsessed with watching the accelerator and brake being applied because you could actually see it moving. But after a few minutes, we just started talking to each other.  Just in the car. What about just kind of general convenience and climate stuff? You got the Bluetooth that lets you get in the car. Once you're in the car and you're buckled up, what if you wanna roll down the windows? Do you have the opportunity to do that? What if it's too hot in the car? Can you fuss around with the AC? I would, well, probably not. Whatever you could do in the back of a Chrysler minivan is probably what you could do. There wasn't anything about that. We didn't try to open the windows. It was perfectly comfortable in there. I did wanna tell you two other things though. When it dropped us off, oh, I forgot to explain. It didn't get to Trader Joe's gracefully. It went about three or four miles out of its way because it kept making passings and going, oh, no, I don't feel good about that turn and it would go and it would make a bunch of right turns rather than making a left turn and it passed the place three times before. I did that the other day myself, so I'm not gonna blame it. It was a fixed fee, so we didn't mind that. But then when it dropped us off, it dropped us off in a parking lot near Trader Joe's, but then after we got out of the car, it pulled away from the curb and it turned 90 degrees and it went right in front of Trader Joe's. And there was a woman about to step out into the crosswalk coming out of Trader Joe's and she sort of leaned forward and then saw the vehicle coming and I don't know whether she noticed there was no driver, but she stopped like any person who has lived a certain length of time realizes you don't step out of the traffic or is coming. But Waymo stopped even though she had never stepped into the driveway. That's good. Into the crosswalk. Yeah, yeah. It's like overly cautious. Yeah, but it was the right thing to do. It had noticed her intent, like her lean forward and then lean back, which we felt was really impressive and then it absolutely would not go until she went and she sort of scampered across the crosswalk to get away from it. Like it was waiting to pounce, yeah. Yeah, but. Go ahead. There was one more thing I wanted to say. We ordered another one on our way back and it was fascinating. It was a very different driving experience. It was more aggressive than the first one. It wasn't bad, but it got up to speed faster. It made turns faster and we started thinking maybe there's little people back at Waymo headquarters with little steering wheels and accelerators and they're actually remote. Maybe they have personalities, like the different cars, you know, they've got their own on-board learning going on. That's fascinating. Yeah, we got a moody one today. That one turned left. But it came up with a better explanation. The vehicle we were in had a big rainbow logo on the side and that's the newer ones and he's wondering whether, and that was the first one, whether maybe the algorithm has been applied to the newer vehicles. That makes sense. So it is a different personality, but not per car, just per platform. That makes sense. Yeah, yeah. Would you do it again? Absolutely, absolutely. I would, but I'm nuts. I mean, I thought buying a car with full self-driving well before it was developed and paying for it ahead of time was smart. So, you know, I have an excessively high belief that technology will save the world. I'm jealous. I wish I got to get, I got to get over there and visit people. I got lots of people to visit, including Bode. Yeah, so maybe I'll do that. It's a good time. Well, thanks for your on the ground report, Allison. Very enlightening. Our pleasure, it was so fun. Yeah, if you've taken a driverless vehicle, do let us know about your experience. Feedback at dailytechnewshow.com. All right, it's not every day that we talk about Oreo cookies here on DTNS, but today is that day. MIT researcher Crystal Owens and three of her co-authors have an article titled On Oriology, The Fracture and Flow of Milk's Favorite Cookie. That's the name of it in the current issue of the journal, Physics of Fluids this week. Yes, Oriology refers to the Oreo cookie and also how best to split the cream perfectly on both sides if you were to twist one open. Many people complain, you know, you twisted open, the cream's all on one side.  What's a person to do? The team created an oriometer. That's what it's called. It's a 3D printed device using rubber bands and coins to achieve the weight, the proper weight that can translate into the force needed to mechanically twist the two parts of the cookie apart as perfectly as possible anyway. The device is actually a top, a type of rheometer. That's something that's already used in labs to measure things like the way substances flow in response to applied force, how textures of food respond to failure stresses and strains. So this is all based on food science.  Be perfectly twisted. On both sides, once opened. Two things. One, I'm sure this started as a pun. Somebody was calling the rheometer an oriometer and then someone else decided to make the experiment. And second, this is meant to be used to teach fluid dynamics. So it's not just silly. Although it's also silly. It also would be a great way to help people learn fluid dynamics. And I think it's worthwhile in that respect. Tom, don't mock this. This is important science research. We need this kind of work done by our universities. Indeed. Now I'm going to do a hydrox next just to see. Because that's how science works. The only problem that I have with the story is that I think twisting open an Oreo cookie is weird. You should eat it as nature intended. As a cookie dipped in milk.  And I didn't. Yeah, I read that. I read that little dig at the end of the article saying, if you're one of the weird people who eats an Oreo cookie without twisting it open, screw you. I'm paraphrasing. He didn't say screw you. If you take string cheese, do you not peel it?  Why peel it? I'm not a monster, Allison. I don't know. It's kind of fun to do that with string cheese, though. It's very freeing. No, it makes it taste weird. It does taste weird. Free yourself. If you don't string your string cheese, it will taste weird. Mark my word. You have nothing to lose but your string chains. And your pride. Well, that's going to do it for us today. Let's see what Len Peralta has been illustrating. Is it string cheese, Len? It is not string cheese, although now I wish I would have done an Oreo drawing. But of course, the big story of the week is CNN plus going away after only a month. And this image is called minus CNN plus. And it was just really the kind of a way to draw Anderson Cooper as a nutty-the-living-dead zombie. That's worth it. I mean, he's going to be fine. He's going to be fine. But it is sort of, you know, but I just thought this was kind of funny. Warner Brothers plus discovery plus equals minus CNN plus. This image was actually drawn, was named by BioCal during the Twitch stream today. So thank you so much, BioCal. This image is available right now at my Patreon, patreon.com forward slash Len. Or if you like the traditional route, you can go to my online store at lenperaltastore.com and order it, which, by the way, if you're a fan of the show Severance, I am selling what's called the Severance package, which is 13 original prints. I've drawn from, inspired by the hit show. So check it out. It's right on the front page. It's called the Severance package. You have to agree not to disparage Len, though, to get the Severance package. That's right. Yeah, yeah. You signed a non-compete, remember? I'm going to lenperalta.com right now. Well, thank you as always, Len. Also, thank you to Alice and Sheridan, not only for letting us know what writing in a driverless car feels like, but just being an awesome person in general. You're a busy person, speaking of, Alison. So where should people keep up with your work? Well, the best place is podfeed.com. And you probably enjoyed hearing Aaron Carson on DTNS a week or two ago, where she was talking about earworms and TikTok. I didn't get enough in that discussion. It was too short, so I asked her to come on chit chat across the pond with me. And there'll be a link in the show notes, of course, to that interview. And it was just an absolute blast, getting her to expand on the topic. And we kind of went off the rails, talking about music and Nashville, and had a really good time. Just talking to her was just a complete delight. Very cool. Special thanks to Bruce Elliott. Bruce Elliott is one of our top lifetime supporters for DTNS. And we see you, Bruce. And we raise you a pints of milk with our Oreo cookies. Yeah, thanks, Bruce. There's a longer version of the show. It's called Good Day Internet. You might have heard of it. But if you'd like to learn more, go to patreon.com slash DTNS. It rolls right after this here show. This here show, by the way, is live Monday through Friday at 4 p.m. Eastern, 200 UTC. Find out more at dailytechnewshow.com slash live. We're back tomorrow with Shannon Morse joining us. 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If Belarusians take part in Russia's war against Ukraine, it will destroy the last chance of Belarus to preserve its independence. This was said by Major General Viktor Yagul, the former deputy head of the Security Service of Ukraine, on the air of the Espresso Channel. He says that the Belarusian army does not want to fight Ukraine. However, Russia is engaged in propaganda there. If Belarusians take part in this war, Lukashenko's last chance to become independent from Russia will be lost. Lukashenko understands this. The days in Belarusian army causes a Ukrainian border, which may happen at the end of January, early February. This will put an end to the concept of independence of Belarus for the next few years, said Yagul. According to the general, if this happens, Belarusians will be in the front line. If they do not surrender, they will be destroyed. Together with them, the last opportunities to protect Belarus as an independent state will be destroyed.


hello everyone hello I hope you've all had a good week since our last meeting I didn't what's wrong epic fantasy I released 10 more trilogies on Tuesday and all of them were exactly the same a dark lord tries to destroy the world and then a chosen one hero stops him yeah I keep telling you man you need to try something different oh you're one to talk how many urban fantasy stories are just about some hero trying to stop bad guys from exposing the masquerade not all of them sometimes they're about magical serial killers all right let's tone it down no need for hostility remember this is a support group epic fantasy have you ever considered using more Asian inspired settings I mean just the other day I saw that they had their own section at Barnes & Noble doesn't putting fantasy based on other mythologies into their own categories just further cement my Eurocentrism yeah but this way your protagonist can use a katana instead of a long sword that makes it exotic I haven't been exotic for a long time what's wrong science fantasy nobody likes me anymore Star Wars stole all my thunder and since then everyone's been trying to recapture the magic but it never works they just make a generic space opera and then throw in a few sword fights or they just get rid of the magic all together or they just get rid of the science all together even the last final fantasy game got rid of most of the sci-fi elements you still have warhammer 40k that's pretty great and the minis sell for a ton of money the only ones who like that are nerds with too much time on their hands it's not mainstream enough well now you're just being picky all of us are fueled by nerds with too much free time grimdark you're being awful quiet today I have nothing to say nothing at all nothing about how your heyday is long past and now you're just seen as the domain of teenage edgelords nope have you been staying sober of course not all my protagonists are alcoholics they need to drown their tortured memories at the time they burned down an orphanage for shock value or the time they massacred an entire village but not because they want to they were totally forced to and now they have to angst about it and are you still obsessed with looking cool over all else of course but I'm having trouble finding new ways to do it I've tried gritty realism and gritty pseudo realism but it's all just starting to feel the same you could try having your protagonist fight with three different weapons at the same time that doesn't make sense I can't carry that many weapons in my hands you don't have hands none of us do we're just a visual metaphor for problems of various genres of fiction I thought we were a personification of our creators frustrations with fantasy no no we're clearly representations of critical response to popular tropes like a political cartoon that can talk I'm pretty sure we're manifestations of things that people find annoying about our namesake genres it doesn't matter what we are all that matters is how we see ourselves oh you're here everyone we have a new member please introduce yourself um hello I'm young adult fantasy nice to meet you all did did I do something wrong you're not even fantasy you're just smut with a fantasy setting so that the author can throw in sex scenes with fairies hey don't make me tap the sign oh yeah because king killer chronicles didn't devote a hundred pages to fairy sex that's different that's male focused fantasy that means complete self-indulgence is totally fine okay okay simmer down YA fantasy what brings you to our group well I'm probably the most popular genre of fantasy right now but I just feel empty it's like I'm always just going through the motions a teen girl gets to be super special and fond over by the boys then she has to overthrow an evil government by being a spy then there's some love triangles even the settings are always the same it's like I'm junk food I'm tasty but I'm not filling you should have more horrible things happen to the protagonists why would I do that I just think that if you're going to have a bunch of women in your story they should be horribly abused to show off how evil the setting and or villain are grim dark cool it with the misogyny we talked about this no it's okay most of my romantic relationships are horribly toxic and even when I attempt to have strong female characters they're still often reliant on others to do anything and defined entirely by the relationships with men so you're just a mirror image of me kind of on the plus side you being aimed at women means the anti-sjw crowd won't rile up their audiences about you shat diversity spent literal hours crying about how one of my female characters were pants that a joke not even a little bit YA have you ever considered aiming for a gender-neutral audience or even a male one it would force you to mix things up at least a little bit I don't follow okay it looks like we're about out of time now but I'm happy with the progress we've made today next week we're being joined by another new member his name is isekai anime nope I'm out me too he doesn't want to be helped he wants to say the same forever I'm gone he's even more the misogynist than me I am so getting fired again


Have you guys heard about this new piece of documented evidence that tells how the Great Pyramid Stones were cut and transported?  The new discovery was published in the UK on Channel 4 and they claim that after deciphering the Papyrus that was written by a squad leader by the name of Mira, the stone blocks were ferried across the Nile in a series of purpose-built canals that delivered them as close to the construction site as possible. They were then rolled over on special tracks. The same type of boats might have also been used to transport the granite from Aswan. They claim they have three months in the life of this man detailed on this Papyrus and they have attempted to reconstruct the type of boat they may have been used in the transportation of these huge stones. After careful planning and cutting of wood, they bound the boat together using an incredible three miles of rope. They swelled the wood in the water to make it water tight and then they loaded a limestone block onto the boat. The result? The boat almost capsized after a very short journey and the block almost fell into the water. We should stress the fact that this effort was the result of around 30 highly skilled workers over a period of six months and the fact the stone that they loaded was about a quarter the size of some of the bigger stones at the Great Pyramid and they still could not replicate it. There is obviously something not right. Are they really trying to force this idea from a preconceived idea? It's not impossible to comprehend the massive stones at Giza where transported 500 miles up the Nile by boat. The thing that is almost impossible to understand is the scale. There would have to have been thousands of boats. They have found about five small boats. Where are the rest and would they really have held such massive loads? How did they load the boats? In modern times they use heavy machine powered cranes. How many people were involved? There would have to have been over 100,000 workers to cut, transport and fit into place one gigantic stone block every six minutes for 25 years. The stones of these pyramids are so neatly fitted that you cannot even fit a razor into the gaps and what is the Great Pyramid? It's not a tomb. It can't be. It is far too elaborate and industrious to simply be a tomb for a king and queen. Isn't that just crazy? The piece of papyrus that has been discovered is sure to throw up more questions than answers. It just does not fit with the actual evidence. Could this be a desperate attempt by Egyptologists to hide the truth? Or perhaps it is just a neat idea to create a lot of publicity for financial gain. Who knows? We hate to discredit these findings but this piece of papyrus doesn't actually say the stones are for the Great Pyramid. It could very well be an accurate account of transporting quarried rock for something but we highly doubt it was for the Great Pyramid. Described as the greatest discovery in Egypt this century it is hard to disagree but what we have here is a piece of dynastic Egyptian history, not history from the Great Pyramid. What do you guys think of this? Are we completely missing something here? Are we wrong or are they wrong? What's going on? Comments below. Thank you for watching.


Great Scenes from Great Plays tonight starring Ingrid Bergman and Brianna Hearn in Adoles House by Henry Gibson On behalf of the families of the Protestant Episcopal Church in your community and the Episcopal Actors Guild Welcome to a transcribed radio version of the world-famous Ibsen play Adoles House Adapted by James Hart In it we are privileged to present Miss Ingrid Bergman as Nora and as Torvald for distinguished actor, Mr. Brianna Hearn Now here's your host the celebrated actor manager, Mr. Walter Hamden Good evening ladies and gentlemen Tonight's play is one of the enduring classics of dramatic literature The written 70 odd years ago Its theme has never been more fresh and vital than it is today. The year is in the 1870s A time when almost all rights Personal and political were vested in the male and the female had to conform In order to hold the precarious place in a world which he had only an indirect part in shaping The action is in Oslo, Norway the scene a living room of a comfortable apartment Adjoining is a study private domain of the man of the house Torvald Helmer Who's just been appointed manager of a bank his actual assumption of the post being now only a matter of days As always when the study is occupied its door is tightly shut This is Nora Helmer for eight years a devoted wife Typical of her day When a man accepted a woman's love there's nothing more than his due and She took his as nothing less than an article of faith in the marriage institution But Nora has made her marriage work and she's the mother of three fine children It's Christmas Eve mid-afternoon No, it's not here me to disturb you Torvald. What could you come into the living room one minute? Well little squirrel feel like chattering a bit something so important. It can't wait. Yes. Yes. It's terribly important I want you making the money fly. Hey, well, well, it's Christmas Eve. Oh, I think you're pardoned. Why I know I do this Mrs. London Torvald here Christina. You've heard me speak of her. Oh, yes. Yes an old school friend of my wife's I believe Yes, we've known each other since we were girls and only think Christina's come all the way from bagging just to see you Torvald She's wonderfully clever to count and thought if she could work under a really first-class businessman someone like you Well, she could learn so much more Very interesting. I'm sure so when she read you've been appointed manager at the bank She dropped every I thought perhaps you might be considering some personnel changes, Mr. Helm Oh, so I am all nothing very sweeping mind you but here and there a defective car replaced in the machine I I have in mind one man in particular Christina may have his place or Torvald Slowly slowly little Nora. I take it mrs. London you've had experience in office work more particularly in accounting quite a few years Other since my husband's death excellent, and I see no reason why we can't come to some Mutually satisfactory arrangement. Oh, how can I thank your occasion now if you'll excuse me? I must go back to my study and my work good day, mrs. London I shall expect you at the bank then the day after new year the day after new year and thank you again, mr. Helm good-bye little Nora bird Goodbye. Good-bye Torvald dear and thank you. Thank you Christina isn't here dear. You're very lucky This sounds like the perfect now. Oh, it is enough the next week life would be even more perfect Why would this advancement for Torvald at the bank will be able to do as we please not just enough money enough for what we need But he's and he's Haven't you grown up at all in after a few days you were a shocking little bent Oh, Torvald says I am still But there are things even he doesn't know about Why no But may you're so serious and that's that surprised you so much that I can be serious well darling I would only be such a change seven years ago something happened that made me change Inside whatever since I've been forced to hide it Whatever are you talking? You're my oldest friend if I were to tell you the secret that's been locked in me Would you promise never under any circumstances to repeat it whatever it is? You will know it's safe with me. Well I Seven years ago Torvald was taken And the doctor said the only way to save his life was to take him to Italy for a year of sunshine I don't my little client. I still have the postal card you sent me Have you ever wondered where we got the money for that year in the south? You must have known that Torvald was just starting out in business and couldn't afford it well I am I assumed you got it from your father. Oh, that's what Torvald thinks But we need it 5,000 crores and father was actually dying at the time I couldn't bear to trouble him Besides he didn't have it. Well, then where Christina, I Borrowed the money, but you couldn't a wife can't borrow without her husband's consent That's the law. Oh, what did I care for the law? My husband's life was in danger and that's all up now I found a way I got the money and all these years have been repaid How addressing envelops while Torvald was at the office during the day sewing fine to the night for pay telling him It was new frocks for myself. I was making oh my poor Lord And you never told him nor ever shall no big grudges single minute of the time and effort I've devoted to it You see Christine had been a wonderful blessed thing for me in it I've actually been becoming a person to myself by doing something for the man I love without his even knowing it and now there's just another effort to please him Excuse me, Mrs. Helmerman, but there's somebody to see well, and can't you see I'm engaged No, I really must be getting back to my life in nonsense. You do nothing of the soul. It's Mr. Krug That is asking me if you'll be kind enough to wait for a few minutes Oh Not new close that you know him. Well, yes Once I knew him very well Who knew I understand things haven't gone very well for him. Oh one here's talk Origin and it was some sort of financial disgrace, but no of why should crooks time be coming to see me My dear, I scarcely know him. I haven't the least I I What is it you want here mr. Crooks it's not the first of the month yet today, Mrs. Helmer I'm here on another matter. I was that Mrs. Linden who passed me in the hall. Yes, but I think I was Acquainted with her ones. Yes, you mentioned something of a sort. Mrs. Helmer is Mrs. Linden to have a post with the bank Mr. Crooks that What possible interest would that be to you? I hold a small place there myself very well since you were Asked yes, Mrs. Linden as the employed and it was I who recommended I thought as much Now I should like you to use your influence for me to see that I retain my small position Couldn't I haven't the power you haven't the will I Wonder if you've heard though it never came into court that I Got into trouble some years ago What does that got to do with this thing you're asking me? I must have respectability for the sake of my sons who are growing up My little post at the bank represents that respectability. I Shall stop at nothing to hold that post Do you understand? I shall stop at nothing. Oh Oh, you wouldn't tell my husband. I owe you money. No, no Then he should learn of my secret in such an ugly way that Mrs. Honour is completely in your hand very well tell him just tell him He'll pay you off at once and then then where do you think your precious post of the bank would be? Mrs. Helman? It seems I must make the position clear Seven years ago when your husband was ill you came to me for five thousand crony I gave it to you after preparing a note for your signature is that right? Yes I signed a note but I added a few lines making your father also a security and He was to sign for us to he did sign Your father was quite ill at the time I believe yes, he was dying And do you happen to recollect the date of his death father died on the 29th of September quite correct. I made inquiries Now here's the note perhaps you'd like to look at it with me and explain a remarkable point about it Remarkable point what remarkable point the remarkable point madam That from the date of this signature your father appears to have signed this note three days after his death That's why he's so silent It was really your father who wrote his name here wasn't it? I My husband's life was in danger It was nothing more and nothing worse Mrs. Helman that made me an outcast from society Now then I'll give you three days to save my post at the bank for me. If by that time you haven't acted I will What will you do if I if I cannot I shall lay this document before a court of law and you understand Do you this won't just bring disgrace on you, but on your husband and your children? All right dear If I were in trouble or in danger, could I count on you to stand by me?  Could I you know you could have I ever failed you? Count on me to spare you pain and hurt because I could never bear to see you anything, but my darling happy Nora Thank you my dearest I Had to know but come now such somber talk, and this is Christmas Eve. It's a mood. Surely not one for Christmas Think tonight and tomorrow. It's the children the Christmas tree and then the night after Consoles ten books party and my little girl is to dance the tarantella must I go You're not in earnest You know how much it means to me and my career for you to shine at ten books. Yes. Yes, forgive me You finished all your work in the study. Yes now I wanted to step out and post this envelope and then my day's work is over if I If I were to ask you to do something Would you do it just because I asked you well now that all depends Sometimes my little songbird can be very very foolish But what is this thing you want so much? For you for you to let Kroegs that keep his place at the bank. Will you do that for me Torvald? Kroegs that I have no idea you even knew As a matter of fact, it was his place that I gave to Mrs. Linda. Oh, no. Yes. Yes, and that you're imploring But instead of Kroegs that couldn't you dismiss some other clerk to make room for Christina? Do you know what you're asking? You're asking me to keep on at my bank a man who was once guilty of poetry May he not have been driven to it by me perhaps and I'm not so heartless as to condemn a man for the rest of his life But a single misdeed not if he owns up to it and takes his punishment Oh, but he must own up. That's the first step towards retrieving his character and Kroegs that Is still correct why think of the poison he bleeds right now Contaminating his own home and particularly his children Isn't that terribly harsh only realistic I've seen it often Children debased by unfit unregenerated parents and more often than not by a lying hypocritical mother You believe these things deep inside of you They are your unshakable convictions. Yes Kroegs that is forever ruined morally and I could never keep him on at the bank Regardless of my promise to miss Linda And we consider I beg of you kind hearty Let's stop all this. I'm going out to post my envelope in it is Kroegs that's notice of dismissal No, but to the world. Oh, he won't get it till after Chris I Realize Mrs. Helmer, it's not good form to pay unannounced calls the day after Christmas But surely you must have been expecting me. I thought for you Mr. Kroegs that but it was no use your husband knew what I could bring on you and still he cared so little you don't think I told No I felt quite certain you wouldn't However, I've come to tell you I won't large any legal complaint Not for the present at least what do you mean? I have in my pocket a letter for your husband How much does your demand to tear it up? I make no demand of money No demands at all Then what I demand a higher place in the bank than the one from which I've been dismissed Your husband shall create such a place. Oh, you're mad. He'd never do that. No He is helpless to refuse it But if I were no longer here under the ice perhaps Down in the cold black water I'd still have your note and your husband in my pocket. This is Helmer Take no pleasure in watching your distress. Therefore, I shall leave you It's your husband himself who's forced me to this for that. I'll never forgive him the letter now I Haven't forgotten it on my way out. I shall drop it in your husband's mailbox It'll be there Waiting for him to find it Christina, it's good of you to have come never have I needed a friend as I do tonight try to put it out of your mind You only call attention to yourself by brooding if anything should happen So I can't be here when Torva learns of this whole crooks that business now stop it this instant You're quite beside yourself, and it's almost time for you to go up the stairs in the park You'll bear witness won't you that I did the whole thing alone you understand what I'm saying No, I don't understand. No, and if you ask me no you understand It's all part of the sign Miracle what I'm what miracle the miracle of our love The sign that Torva will give when he steps forward and takes my guilt upon himself But Christina much as that sign means to me. I shall never never let it happen Nora. Oh, I listen to me I'll go to close time the moment you left to go upstairs for the park Once he would have done anything It's no use the letters in the mailbox now in the little box And your husband carries the only key always for the nails must demand his letter back Unread make some excuse but no Torva may open the box any second prevent him keep him occupied till the party start How how can I? Who's that?  Linden? Look at her. Isn't she lovely and her car? No beautiful No idea something wrong. You haven't worn yourself out practicing your tarantula. Have you I need your help Will you give me some coaching for all the pleasure in life? Just a moment though. I shall be gone. Oh, where are you going? The mailbox Don't Wrong Nervous dancing before all those people I can't seem to remember the figures not even how to begin look I'll show you please play for me No, no, no, that's wrong They're starting much too fast more slowly nor you here No, no, no, I say not so violently Stop it This is the nearest man. You see I have forgotten everything and you must practice with me right after the minute We go upstairs to the party not a stroke of work. You won't even go to the mailbox promise Promise me. You won't even leave me to go to the mailbox. What sort of idiocy is this? Oh very well very well the charge will have a way. I promise but later when the part is over Then Torval you will be free You understand then Ellen what you're to tell Mrs. Helmer I think so But I've been to see the gentleman we spoke of and he's given me his word he'll withdraw his demands and Won't cause either mr. Or mrs. Helmer any further trouble the gentleman will withdraw his demands and won't cause them any further trouble That's right And you tell Mrs. Helmer the minute she comes in yes, ma'am. This is in the only I don't know what time They'll come in listen. They're still upstairs dancing Want to go back upstairs with the party the music is still playing come come Nora No more of this display now now sit down here while I go out to the mail. No Compose yourself. I shan't be a moment. You know about this. Do you know what's in this letter? Yes, Torval and now you know how much I've given to our love I've dreaded this moment in yet. I've longed for it. What are you talking about now? I have one more thing to give you so you must let me go go go where please Torval I shan't allow you to save me.  This is no time for pay-acting Torval.  But this tone you're taking.  Do you realize what you've done to me? Destroyed my happiness and threatened my career put me in the hands of a scoundrel who can demand anything he wants of me You understand? I'll tell me Yes, now I begin to understand Good now you and I must come to an understanding. We must indeed. There'll be no scandal You can go on living here as you have that is officially But the children the children Yes, what of them? I dare not trust them to you. They've already been exposed too long to the poison of deception A letter for you ma'am. Mr. Krogstadt just left at the door. Krogstadt give that letter to me It's all right. Do as Mr. S. Tell him to do. Thank you. Yes ma'am. Good night, Mrs. Nora Nora this other letter this letter that Ellen just brought I I'm saying and I What is Krogstadt saying? Oh, what difference does it make of there's something about being grateful to you for bringing Mrs. Lendon and him together for but look look what he sent the promissory note.  I Have a great deal Now as we sit here Doesn't something strike you strike me What should strike me that we've been married eight years and this is the first time we've sat down you and I Man and wife to talk seriously together. Oh, surely you're not going to hold the things I said while while I was out of my mind with anxiety against me. It's not just what happened tonight It's been going on ever since I was a child My father used to call me his doll child and play with me as I played with my dolls when I came here Haven't been happy here. I thought so, but I never was only married Here I've been your doll wife. Oh, then I'll change that. I'll make it different. You'll make it different There it is. I must do and until I do I shan't be a fit wife for you or a proper mother for our children That's why I must leave leave me No, do you know what you're saying? Walk out on your holiest duties. I had my duties to myself And they are equally hold and just when did you become aware that these duties to yourself? What enough to make you leave your husband just now a few minutes ago when you didn't give the sign of miracle Miracle of what miracle the miracle that I believe was our love the sign was to be your defying Crogs that daring him to make known to all the secret he was trying to use against us Giving you my wife up to shame and disgrace the rest. I thought would follow natural You would step forward and take all my blame upon yourself swear that you were guilty Hear me out That very thought in your mind would have been the sign The deed itself I did not intend ever to have I meant to take my life before you could put the thought into action Nor are no man sacrifices his honor even for the one he loved millions of women have done So I apparently among them, but was I right or was I wrong? Shall I find the answer in this house? From a husband whose deepest concern always has been that I should not get serious this mar the comedy of the performance Perhaps you're just but you needn't be cruel There's no hope for the future hope Yes, but that must be in the miracle of miracles And that when both you and I have changed so that Tonight has not been an easy night to keep one's faith in science and miracles And I'll have faith enough for two Go on Tell me so change that That we shall share this doll's house As equals and as a home That here our lives together shall become a true marriage and communion Then we shall know whether this has been the end or the beginning Goodbye my Torba I am When married couples do not have a true marriage partnership then secrecy and Misunderstanding usually result for example in tonight's play the marriage of Nora and Torval was doomed to failure As long as they didn't recognize each other is equals as long as they fail to give each other the real respect of mutual confidence Unfortunately too many husbands and wives today fail to give each other this confidence Because of this they feel that their partners do not understand them or need them and from this lack of understanding They're often grows the tragic ending of divorce or separation There's little doubt that most couples who are perplexed with the difficulty of finding happiness need guidance and sympathetic counsel Such as an experienced clergyman can give them they must learn again and return again to the Christian foundation of marriage For a couple who truly follow the promises of the Christian marriage ceremony will find their way past many of the daily frustrations and misunderstandings to a real and abiding happiness If you're not already a member of some church You owe it to your own happiness and the happiness of your family to learn how much church membership and the friendship of a clergyman can mean Of course, you're always welcome at your nearest Episcopal church and its clergyman will be happy to meet you Happy to tell you more about the Episcopal church what it stands for and how it offers you a faith to live by For the foundation of all real human happiness is to be found in the true Christian life of the church Why don't you decide right now you and your family to visit your nearest Episcopal church this Sunday morning? I want to thank our cast and especially you in good Bergman and Brianna Herne for a memorable performance Music on tonight's transcribe program was composed and conducted by Nathan Crowell Our program next week will be the lady with the lamp starring Miss Madeleine Carroll We're especially anxious to have you join us next week because the lady with the lamp Which will be heard just before the beginning of length will end this first series of great plays broadcasts We thank each of you for joining us during these broadcasts, and we thank you for your many heartwarming notes and letters Now as we look forward to next fall We should particularly like to know which programs you have most enjoyed and which great plays you would like to hear presented in the future Just address great scenes from great plays in care of the station to which you are listening Ingrid Bergman is currently starring in the Technicolor film Joan of Arc Now an invitation from the church If you are already a member of some church and have not been attending services regularly We urge you to return to your church this Sunday If you are not a member of any church, you will always be welcome at your nearest Episcopal church Where you too may learn the true Christian faith, which is the foundation of all real living happiness


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It's engraving here with another video and in this video We're here to talk about the game that we got coming up next week Against the Cleveland Browns, okay closing the Sunroof did not do anything for the Sun That's in my face There we go But anyway, yeah, we had to talk about the game that we got coming up next week against the Cleveland Browns Cleveland Browns just came off of a loss Very tough loss a very close loss To the Green Bay Packers that game went to overtime And so yeah, I can't even say it came down to the very end, but it came down past the very end So the Browns were in a close one And then of course the Ravens last night ended up losing to Pittsburgh Steelers in a super close one, too Both tough tough games for both opponents, but both came away defeated now You know for the rest of the season I'm gonna take a big risk But you know what y'all can't even blame it on me though, but I'm gonna take a big risk And I'm not gonna do the reverse psychology thing anymore. I'm not gonna do that anymore. I'm not gonna do that But in this game, I'm going to pick the Ravens to win I'm gonna pick them to win, but this is definitely a game where I do see them struggling They I mean they they can they can struggle in this game one because it is a division rival somebody who knows you even though On the Browns, it's a lot of new faces steel. So that's that's new to the rivalry a lot of rookies a lot of young guys but also Another reason why I think the Ravens to struggle because it's the Browns the Browns are hungry right now For that first win. They know they're gonna get most likely get that first overall draft pick Because they are they gonna win can the Browns win three games this season why the Giants stay with her only two While it's it's technically possible I don't see it happening. I mean they play the Ravens and if they play Steelers to close it out And I don't remember who they play in the middle, but um, so Browns Browns They can be a dangerous team and what up I was saying yesterday before the Steelers game that I was really scared about this Browns game I was really scared about the Browns game Reason being because these dudes haven't won a game yet and they they literally have nothing to lose They have nothing to lose so they could pull out all the stops They could pull out everything all the plays all the tricks in the world They could be really trying their best to get a win To get a win they could really be trying their best and the fact that The fact that yesterday when they played the Packers they were that close away the fact that they were that close away from winning a game And that every everything literally I mean it's been going down like this for the Browns for a long time But everything literally came apart in the last couple of minutes of the game so they I mean they had it. They were up what were they up twenty one seven at one point or what was it twenty 2114 whatever they were up that lead obviously Went away, and they ended up losing the game Now oh, I didn't even introduce myself. I'm being rude my apologies. Let me introduce myself for me I'm engraving vids and this is my YouTube channel engraving vids And I'm a Ravens fan and even though I'm a Ravens fan on this YouTube channel We just talk football period so if you're Ravens your Browns fan your Steelers fan your Bengals fan You just a fan of football period. Don't matter what conference what division Whoever your team is you can subscribe to the YouTube channel cuz on here we talk football And make sure once you subscribe you turn your notifications on so you never miss not one video and also Also also also like my guy Ryan mallet says make sure you leave a like on the video because it is 100% Free and you can also follow on Twitter Instagram and snapchat all three are in great So anyway Yeah with the Browns What makes them a scarier team going into this game is one like I said they they came so close to their first win They came so close to victory yesterday, but it just slipped out of their hands Like it has been fall season and then And the Sean Kaiser was just doing it man I know Green Bay defense not all it's not our defense was steel The Sean Kaiser was doing it and that's the scary thing when a team when a team that has nothing Starts to get some confidence What a team that has nothing to play for starts to get some confidence that can set them up for a That can set them up for potentially ruining somebody's season Ruin in the game for another team that could set them up for something bad and I was hoping Well, I love I love my package fans. I love I love the package fans that come through on this YouTube channel I love them love y'all with all my heart, but yesterday I wanted the Browns to win Now I do want to see Aaron Rodgers in the playoffs If the packers can somehow make it and they actually got a chance still But I just the reason that the only reason I wanted the Browns to win yesterday Was that oh, I really wanted them to beat the charges even a week before too But the reason that I wanted the Browns to get that first one out the way was to do just that so that first win could be It could be out the way and they wouldn't be having a fight for that first win anymore So that pressure would be off of them that monkey would be off of their back So they wouldn't come out swinging on the Ravens anymore. I don't want that man And now now they got Josh Gordon back. Oh They got Josh Gordon back in the first game the last couple years actually they have not had Josh Gordon But now they have Josh Gordon back and him and Kaiser started they getting in the rhythm now, man They're getting in the rhythm now So it's that's a scary thing the game is in Cleveland Ravens They had a great performance against Pittsburgh yesterday offense wise not defense wise But see the thing about that Which is frustrated now we know we know what the Ravens offense can do We know what the Ravens offense can do they um they did a phenomenal job last night I was very proud of them. They did their thing But now you can't let off and it seems like What they did yesterday was actually show consistency Because in the in the Lions game the offense was nice, but I was like I ain't buying it Let's see it another week. Let's see it against Pittsburgh. Let's see it against Pittsburgh and the offense did it the offense did it The offense did their thing last night Which I was I was happy about but now we have to continue to see that consistency and my expecting to put out put up 38 points. I Don't expect it. I wouldn't mind it, of course, but I don't expect it But with the Browns, I don't expect them to put up a bunch of points either like Pittsburgh Still, I mean rounds are not stillers their office. I mean they still got Crowell. They still got they obviously got Josh border Who is just? That's a scary guy, man. That's a scary guy but I don't know who's gonna cover you might well just put more than brown. I mean more than Humphrey on him, excuse me Because Humphrey man, he did his thing last night branding car. Hopefully branding car complex. Oh, it's a spider in the car Hopefully branding cars confidence not to shake it up because of how he got abused last night But another thing with that It's Ravens fault. It's Ravens fault.   You can say that as much as you want to But at the same time, it's it's not branding car. That's leaving himself on Antonio Brown That was that was Ravens. That was that's on Dean peas, man. That's on coaching. That's on coaching The fact that branding cars getting abused last night, I mean everybody knew it If if you were a fan of the game if you're fan of the stickers or the Ravens If you just watching football you could clearly see that whenever the number 24 in the purple jersey I mean in the white jersey was on number 84 in the black jersey number 84 owned him abused him just Assaulted him. He murdered him But they didn't make adjustments and when you don't make adjustments The the team that you need to make adjustments for they're not gonna make adjustments because whatever they're doing is not broken Why try to fix something that's not broken? Branded car was clear clearly broken last night and the Ravens never tried to fix them They never tried to fix them that was more than Humphrey was on Antonio Brown. Everything was fine Everything was gravy, but with Brandon car and Antonio Brown. Oh boy. It was a mess. It was a mess So they that was just that was terrible coaching By Baltimore terrible play by Brandon Carter with terrible coaching by Baltimore. I mean, how could you how how do you give that up? to Antonio Brown, I mean all He got what he got like 200 receiving yards, but just a very end to forget all his other 150 receiving yards that he got throughout the game. How do you give up that play to Antonio Brown? You know that you know who Antonio Brown is you know They're gonna try to get the ball to him because he is their best receiver Why would you not make adjustments and try to take him out of the game? I don't get that put a safety over he got Brandon car, man He clearly can't keep up with Antonio Brown. I'm not put a safety over top. Don't even try to hide it Don't even try to hide it put a safety over top Don't try to disguise the coverage or anything put a safety over top and they know you respect there Antonio Brown You have to you have to But he just killed him. So that that was bad bad coaching So when we play the Browns Jocul if they can't play like they played last night I mean they they always get better pressure against the Browns and the Steelers dealers are always a team that is tough for Ravens to get pressure against Especially recently because it's all day been rockin burger just sits back there and chills man He just sits back there. He has a little corona. He's in his beach chair. Just watching the Ravens running around Try to get past rush on him. He sits back there relaxes.  He does have some migraine problems So not keeping out on on that but um Ravens if the offense if that often can continue what they've been doing They can be in great shape to win this game and if the defense can bounce back like they usually have They can be in great shape to win this game But it's going to take everything of course special team special teams is uh the one One thing that has been great all season. I mean that that they're they're always great. They're always on point Um, never had to worry about those guys. Thank goodness. Thank you Justin Tucker Thank you Sam cook. Thank you Morgan Cox. Thank you field goal unit. Thank you kickoff unit. Thank you all of you guys Um, so yeah, Ravens can do this man.  They can't afford that because they're still in the playoffs right now That's why I wasn't tripping too much off of last night even going into last night I knew we could lose and still be fine But they got now they can't lose anymore That was the only loss they could afford yet So from here on out, you gotta win out. Anyway, appreciate y'all man. I'm at work now. I don't even know what time it is But I'm out. I'll see you all later on. Let me know who you think is gonna win the game and why


Hey there friends thanks for checking in today We're going to do a comparison with the FNS 9c versus the CZ P10s both Polymer frame striker fire double-stack mag subcompact 9mm handguns that enjoy a fine Reputation I've owned the FNS for about four years now. I've had the CZ P10s approximately three months and you can see from the slide comparison that the P10s over here is a little bit longer the width of the slide looks the same and over here we have Approximately the same both have their extension. You can see that this one goes down a little bit more That is an aftermarket extension. I'm going to talk about that, but you can also see that the P10s The grip is a little bit thinner Both fine handguns. Let's start with the FNS 9c. It comes with three magazines 212 rounds this one with an extended base plate a flat base plate and a 17-round mag and the MSRP is 649 your average gun store price right around 540 we'll get you the FNS 9c. This one here has Night sights the thing that bothers me a little bit about this is dropping that mag. It does have an ambidextrous Magazine release which is good. It's left hand friendly ambidextrous slide stop as well But you really have to push it and you have to position your thumb at a certain angle to drop that I find myself using my trigger finger to drop it takes a little bit longer and It I never quite settled into it So that's the only thing that bothers me about this gun I like everything else about it, but quick mag changes. It just isn't for me. The trigger is a Hinch trigger. I measure it at five and a half pounds sometimes five and three quarters But it is a hinge trigger breaks pretty nice no over travel at all and here's what you're looking at for your reset Front serrations. I like that slide cut in there. I think it looks cool. It kind of sets his gun apart That angle looks looks pretty neat does have a 1913 rail pretty aggressive texturing on the grip And as I mentioned ambi controls 3.6 inch barrel with night sights three mags and an extra Backstrap is what you'll get in the case with the FNS 9c it's been outstanding for me And I've enjoyed owning it, but now we have the CZ P10s and this is a game changer too very popular You know I've taken it to the range on several occasions even though I've owned it for three months And I love it it gives the same impression and the same Shootability as the P10c in a smaller package now. I said I'd talk about this It does come with two 12-round magazines. This is a plus two extension from HB industries And it was only 10 bucks. So it allows three finger contact as Well as 14 rounds in the mag, so I'm going to use it. It's already proven to be reliable and I like it now. It also comes with two Backstraps additional back straps as well as the one installed and the MSRP on this one because it's optic ready is 577 540 is your average gun store price if you can find them I thought they'd be more available by now. They're not I have no answers for you guys I don't know when they're going to become more available, but Hopefully shortly because I know a lot of people are interested in this so the local gun store price for each of these are Right around 540 550 3.5 inch barrel texturing pretty nice not as aggressive as The FNS 9c. Okay, you can see that's a little bit more aggressive, but the trigger is pretty outstanding Doesn't have a trigger bar safety in there I measure it right around five pounds sometimes five and a quarter and it breaks no over travel either and there's your reset very short reset for the p10s also has front serrations 3.5 inch barrel tritium front dot combat rear sights accessory rail and The mag release drops easier for me from the the p10s than the FNS 9c The mag release can be switched over to the other side and the slide stop is ambi as well Let's go ahead and weigh these guns And we'll see the differences here. We'll start with the FNS 9c The unloaded weight 1 pound 7 and a quarter ounces Just ounces 23 and a quarter ounces unloaded p10s 25 and a quarter ounces, so we're looking at two ounces heavier with the p10s now. We have 12 rounds Let's start with the p10s this time 12 rounds 30 and a quarter ounces Here we have 12 rounds same loads target loads What do we have 30 and a quarter with the p10s and? 28 and 5 8s with the FNS 9c So a couple ounces lighter with the FNS 9c and we'll drop both those and Show clear again To disassemble the p10s just pull the trigger pull the slide back a little bit and off comes the slide We have a dual Uncaptured recoil spring and here's your 3.5 inch barrel Easy disassemble with the FNS 9c just as simple will lock the slide back turn that down Pull the trigger There we go And this has a captured recoil spring and here is your 3.6 inch barrel The CZ p10s is a subcompact gun, but it's on the larger side of the subcompact class It does have a 3.5 inch barrel But if we compare the slide length with the p10s versus the MMP 2.0 compact You'll notice that there's not a great difference in slide length Maybe a quarter inch longer with the MMP 2.0 that has a 4 inch barrel So this is a large subcompact the reason for that I believe is because this is optic ready and that takes up some space. There's no question about that I told you a lot of what I liked told you a couple things I don't care for and now it's time for me to pick one if I could only choose one The FNS 9c has been outstanding for me. I've always enjoyed it. I mentioned I carried on occasion It has proven itself to me and I find it to be an excellent gun the p10s I've owned for Three months, but I take it out quite a bit and it feels it shoots outstanding Plus I have a 14 round mag with that extension. So if I had to choose one It's gonna be tough and it's gonna hurt, but I'm taking the CZ p10s There's just something about that trigger that excites me and keeps me on target And I find it to be an excellent all-around handgun if you like videos like this, please subscribe and share I always appreciate thumbs up button. Thanks for watching and you guys be safe