and welcome I'm James Milan and I am here for a legislative update with our state senator Cindy Friedman Cindy how are you good how are you James I'm doing okay I was just realizing just before we went on air that this is in fact the third time that we're getting to talk to you we try and talk to you every quarter as you know and this is the third time we're talking to you under COVID because we we snuck in right away after the lockdown in March and then low and behold six months later so tell us a little bit how are things going how how how has anything changed if if it has for you in these six months I crave a human direct contact with people other than my family who I love so I can say that's that's changed but it's kind of the new normal and I think we're all just you know trying to figure out how to keep going under these circumstances and but work's being done things are happening so the world certainly hasn't stopped right and his work being done I mean you we spent a little bit of time in our other conversations just talking about how is how are you getting the work of the state house done under these circumstances and it's been obviously a lot of zoom meetings just like we're doing now and some adjustments made I think to the processes and the way that you you just do the work you do but has that has that basically did that come into place you know at the beginning of the of the lockdown and and been pretty much the same or if it have there been any changes of significance in just the way you're doing things in the Senate well I think it certainly has evolved because we did we done some major bills since I think you know since the beginning of the pandemic only done of health a big health care bill we did an echo dev bill we did a criminal justice bill echo dev is what I'm sorry economic development I'm sorry economic development bill and I know I'm missing something but so those have taken you know that's caused us to do business in a different way because they're much more deliberative and much more involved there's lots of amendments to those bills so there's how do you how do you set up a situation where a deliberative body gets to deliberate together but they can't be together so that's been a challenge and something that I think people work very hard to continue so that that work can get done and then we're going longer so usually we're done formal sessions at the end of July at the end of two years but that's not the case this time we're going to be continuing we've budgets to do we have several conference committees on major bills that are working to get those bills done so we'll be working further and that's that we'll be working longer into the session and that's different let me ask you like to talk in terms of the work that you're you know that has been going on and is anticipated like to ask you first about any legislation that you are particularly connected to either as you know as a sponsor or in some other way that is you know has come to fruition is now is now law or or is in the process the big area that I've been working on of course is healthcare and we have done we did a couple of healthcare bills around scope of practice you know scope of practice being allowing different kinds of providers to work to the height of their licensure and I've been very involved in telehealth and also involved in funding for our hospitals and our providers during COVID so we've done we did a big bill around those three areas and along with surprise billing which is an issue that a lot of people it's been very important to a lot of people it's when you get when you go to the hospital maybe for an emergency and you use your provider in your hospital and it's all in your network and then what happens is two months later you get a bill for a thousand dollars because the anesthesiologist wasn't in wasn't in your network but you didn't know it you came in an emergency and so that's something that we've been working on for a long time was around surprise billing and so we did a bill and I am now the lead senate of conference excuse me these are the kinds of things that both participants and audiences have had to get used to right so yes we'll just continue forward let me ask you actually in terms of continuing forward whether you could just tell us a little bit or I'm curious when you say you've been working very involved in telehealth and that was part of this this bill that you are one of the lead sponsors on or at least in terms of the committee that's come together what are you doing is that just expanding the opportunities for people to get services via you know remotely one of the things that we did early on in the in the pandemic is we pushed we actually did a bill on on expanding telehealth access to telehealth and then the governor then did a executive order that said any inpatient any in in person service can be delivered by telehealth during the pandemic during the state of emergency which was our bill and then so what we're doing now is we want to make sure that those opportunities and that access stays in place beyond the state of emergency and so what this part of what this bill is that I am negotiating with the house is to determine how telehealth will continue beyond the beyond the pandemic because it is clear that it is a key piece in the delivery of health care and it is something that has been incredibly successful and we need to continue to make it available all right so good example in fact of that kind of thing which is something I've asked you about before as well in which we're always curious about what kinds of things are come out out of the exigency or urgency of the pandemic that you've realized oh this is a good thing that we want to make sure we kind of instill and you know scope of practice is the same thing allowing nurses for example to work to the height of their licensure which allows them to see patients and be part of the team and and you know do diagnostics and and all of that is really important because it expands expands access to experienced good providers so that's something that we want to continue is to allow that to allow nurses to do for instance nurses to provide health care especially really important in the behavioral health space to have advanced psychiatric nurses be able to treat to treat people is really important yeah and again uh undoubtedly um exacerbated under these conditions um but also necessary in a in a general way um beyond this the this work on around health that you are doing um I just wanted to ask again uh is there stuff either that you are particularly involved in or that may be that may be you know of of particular concern or import to your constituents in the in the five towns that you that you represent so one of the areas that I've been working on is around child care and the so it's fascinating what this pandemic has um brought to light and um there's many things and and and it's certainly we've certainly seen many what the what the fragility of our entire system is and how connected everything is to each other and um one of the big issues is around child care people talk about the getting the economy back and back on track and there's lots of things that we need to do to that but one of the most important um uh aspects of it is making sure that there's adequate high quality child care because people can't go back to work if they can't ensure that their children are going to be safe and taken care of and um we especially now it's really exacerbated because people kids are not going back to school and school has been traditionally you know has provided that provider there is right yeah really good because they're providing education um and lots of work is is built around those hours and now I'm hearing from constituents all over that they and some of them are saying I have to quit my job because I don't have many I my my kids are at home and they're little and the economic impact of that is profound so um I've started I'm now starting to work on that and trying to pull together um a coalition of people administration providers businesses to address how we can provide child care for especially for school aged children um while while schools are hybrid or remote or you know and you know like so many other so many things you know this is an issue for you know some people are very well they're well connected they have you know they've got they're economically secure they can figure out how to put pods together how to share resources it's you know it's it's doable for some people but for so many people so many people those those opportunities aren't available and and it really is the role of government to help figure out help put together solutions to those kinds of problems um so that people can get back to work well you are 100 right there I think and um certainly it does seem like child care is one of those stealth issues that just underlies an awful lot of things that it that get a lot more attention right and that suddenly you take that away and it it turns out to have been a bedrock support for a lot of other again higher things that we're often concerned about it is an issue as you said that that just goes spreads far and wide such that I in my own life it is a constant source of conversation or topic of conversation with lots and lots of people that I know and therefore I am aware of how you know we're our minds are exploding in these conversations as we're trying to figure out what answers are there so you said you have begun to I don't know where you are in the process of of gathering of these various constituencies and areas of expertise to try and figure this out but are you how hopeful are you are people able to generate ideas from what you've seen so far that that may be able in fact to address this in a way that those of us sitting around in our living rooms just haven't you know haven't been able to come up with I think that there is an enormous amount of creative thinking going on I think the issue is it's not that people aren't thinking about it it's that people are very siloed so groups are very siloed so schools look at one thing early childhood looks at another businesses look at another you know and they're all in silos and so all I'm trying to do is say can can we stop siloing this because it's it affects everybody you can't have a solution for employees that don't include business schools have to be involved in how that you know while they're while they are not the providers of childcare and shouldn't be they are the educators and kids are going to school and so how do we all how does this all get connected in a way that serves the kids and then and serves parents who need to get to work so my my goal is just to say hey everybody let's can we can you all sit at the same table because I think that's the only way we're going to figure this out and there is a certain amount we can do and then we can't do more without the help of the federal government and this is so this is just the truth across so much of what this state is trying to do thank god I live in Massachusetts because I think we have done an extraordinary job in dealing with this pandemic and things are not you know things don't always run smoothly it's not always working there are problems but thoughtful people are at the helm they are doing the best they can they are working very hard in in the midst of something that nobody has ever done before they are great at responding they are great at turning the ship around when they have to we're all learning and I don't think I I don't think a state is doing it any better so I'm really grateful for that but there's but if the federal government does not get its act together and they don't start helping states and they don't start providing leadership we will not get through this because we can't make these decisions alone we are not an endless pit of resources we need continuity around certain around certain issues providing health care and rolling out vaccines when we have them or testing that's all part of a federal government's responsibility and we don't have that partner and we've got to get that in place if we're going to get out of this yeah and you're you're encouraging words about you know what is happening here the management of this crisis in Massachusetts and frankly here in Arlington as well oh yeah certainly the numbers bear that out again with the caveat that things can change at any point we all get that if we didn't get it before we sure get it now the numbers do look like like like government action has been and action of citizens compliance etc has been effective right and I don't go whenever I have conversations with the administration which is very often and it's around a lot of the different rollout of of you know COVID kinds of activities I always hear well you know you're Arlington so you got this great public health department you don't have to worry about you you know so where our reputation our public health board of health public health is is well well regarded right but you you did I just want to follow up a little bit on what you were just saying about the fact that there is a massive massive role that the federal government needs to play here and you know we we all have relatively little reason for confidence that that you know that that's going to be happening anytime soon I wonder whether that also is part of the answer to the next thing I want to ask about which is the desperate the increasingly desperate need for some kind of economic development help as as the you know as the as the chickens come home to roost here what we had anticipated and feared from the beginning of the pandemic when you just arrest development so to speak in the way that we've had to we're now seeing the restaurants just not coming back the shops board it up and and again not those doors are not going to reopen etc and the many many people out of work who no longer are getting assistance like they were initially what can you tell us again understanding that there are finite resources within the state you know just give us an update on what is happening you know in the state legislature to address these very very real impacts on so many people there are a number of things that I know about I mean I don't know I mean it's a huge it's a it's a huge issue and as we said before there's so many interrelated pieces in terms of what the legislature is doing I mean we we had a housing bill that where we worked with the administration to stop foreclosures and evictions we need to fix that modify it so that small homeowners landlords small landlords are not you know affected adversely which is what's happening right now and so there's a lot of effort to to address that issue the child care issue is very big and we're trying to fix that so people can get back to work or we're looking at a budget and and we're working on ways that we can kind of use our resources so that we're not doing massive cuts to everyone because when you start massive cutting everything then you just exacerbate the problems so there's a lot of work going on and that's very a lot of work going on around how we can manage our budget while we're waiting and hoping that the federal government will do its job and support the states so we're relaxing some rules that make it harder for people to provide care so you know so that it's less administrative and financial burdens for people to for instance do tell a health I believe that you know we're all sitting around waiting for a vaccine right because if we really want to get back to work we really have to make sure that we have a way of keeping people safe and that's really what's driving this right businesses are closing people are schools are shutting down it's all around the virus okay and I really believe that what we need to be focusing on is much better different kinds of testing so that we can be more nuanced or be I'm not sure what the word is but so that we can let people do their work and get back to their daily lives as long as they are not infectious so one of the things about this virus is that there's so many over 40 percent of the people that have it are asymptomatic okay so they don't know that they have it and that's one of the reasons why it makes it so dangerous because you just start you want to walk around you say I'm fine our tests are very they're like hammers you either got it or you don't have it right but that doesn't tell us what we need to know which is I may have some little pieces of the virus in me but can I give it to you James do I have enough that I can that I can infect you well if I can't then I should be able to go to work I should go to restaurants I should you know like I should go to school we need testing that tells us that if we can be confident that the people who need to be quarantined because they are infectious they can give it to someone else if we can be sure we can quarantine those people and separate them out then the rest of us can get on with with our work and so I think we really need to focus on how we can better test how we can how we can find better tools so that we can not be so have such a blanket reaction which is all we have right now and so that's what we have to do you know our tests are wonderful diagnostic tests but they're not good public health tests and that's what we need so I think we really got to focus on the places that are trying to solve that problem because we're not going to see a vaccine or we're not going to be out of this for quite some time and so how do we continue our lives while we're in the middle of this pandemic I think that's what we need to focus on yeah excellent points actually let me ask you about a couple of issues that are ever present in these days and that touch on Massachusetts and also here in Arlington one of them is the idea and any advancement towards police reforms and I'd like to ask you about first of all just an update on anything that's emanating or potentially so from the state house around this and then I want to ask you about a very specific Arlington issue so let's start with the state house well there's there was there is criminal justice bill that came out of the senate and came out of the house and one the senate one is the house and those are those there's a conference committee that's negotiating the differences in that and I think we'll see some we'll see some progress I think you know certainly in the next three months and you know there's a lot of similarities in the bills and there were some differences and so I think that's I'm not party to the conference committee and I couldn't talk about it anyway even if I was so I can't tell you much more than that but I know that there's there's there's certainly common ground and then there are some things that need to be worked out and obviously I think you're familiar with the fact that you know several years ago now a giant omnibus criminal justice reform bill got passed here in in in the state and I assume that this this work that you're talking about is either further advancing some of the things that were were addressed there or dealing with stuff that again has come to seem very very important perhaps in the time since yeah this is it's a focus on law enforcement okay speaking of a focus on law enforcement let me ask you and I understand that here I really because I'm speaking to you in front of your house here in Arlington I imagine that that's where you are and as an Arlington resident more than as a as our state legislator we are about a week away or so from what may be the last step in a process that restorative justice process for Lieutenant Rick Petrini here in town on the basis of writings he made a couple of years ago everybody I think is very familiar with this at this point obviously has caused a lot of consternation conversation controversy in town for now a couple of years roiling what is usually a pretty you know again a town in which a consensus is not hard to find most of the time this is clearly been a different story so we may be coming to the end of this again the end of the restorative justice process is an apology and acknowledgement that's set for September 22nd so as an Arlingtonian again what do you think about what you've seen and heard over these last couple of years so I really am speaking as a resident of Arlington because this is a very local issue um I'm deeply disheartened by what's happened um I think the our our ability to vilify people to lose our humanity um in all of this is just it's it's it's striking and it's heartbreaking and you know I listen I I understand you know I'm an elected official and I know there's lots and lots of people out there who've never met me I've never spoken to and they're sure I'm corrupt and dishonest because I'm an elected official and I understand that you know that's probably and I know that there's people that do that like against the police right your policemen say you're bad and you're violent right and we just can't live in a society like that we can't lose our humanity and look I don't care about Rick Petrini we have such big problems to solve and so you know and so much need out there um and and real issues that people need to figure out how to live together um and the focus on whether or not some one person is going to be fired is just it's amazing to me and it's frustrating to me and it's you know and and it it doesn't represent what we ought to be focused on you know and I think the what I find so upsetting is that there's so many good people in this town and they're being screened at and yelled at and um treated badly because they're trying to help solve a problem because they're trying to figure out how do we live together right so you know I am I am somebody who absolutely believes in police reform I think that um we need to be sure that all of our citizens are being treated equally and um and that people have access to justice and fairness but this is a small town okay we know who these people are we know our police um we need to come together we need to stop vilifying um you know not only to stop vilifying people who want to try and make a difference right like the human rights commission who's working incredibly hard to figure out a way to have a conversation we need to stop vilifying them and we need to stop vilifying our police force right um there's bad police there's bad citizens there's bad people there's bad politicians but we can't lose sight of our humanity and we can't lose sight of the fact that I can have a direct relationship with you you are a person I am a person I'm not just a politician I'm not just a policeman I'm not just somebody who's trying to you know to run a human rights commission right and that's what I think has happened is that we there's no common ground anymore there's no middle and frankly James at this point I don't need I don't I don't care about Rick Padrini I don't care what I mean he should be apologizing I think what he did is horrible but whether Rick Padrini stays or goes isn't going to solve the problems that we have in front of us and I it angers me that people are out there and all they're talking about is whether or not we fire Rick Padrini like and then what so that is my rant as a private citizen of the town of Arlington that I love and that I have enormous respect for in a lot of people in and um I really think that if we can just stop yelling at each other and just kind of talk about what matters and how we feel and listen to each other we probably can get we can get pretty far and um I I support all the people in town that are trying to that are trying to solve the problem not just be angry and cause the problems and that's both sides there's no right hey I really appreciate uh your candor and clearly uh the passion um that you feel around this oh I'm sure my phone will start buzzing and people will start screaming at me but you know you know as again hopefully they're screaming at you as neighbors you know as another citizen or not screaming at you at all because I have I have no control over this in Arlington I mean it's not my it really is me as a as a as just a resident of course speed and you know uh while we're on the subject of things you don't have control over as a state legislator um let me just ask you because I think there might it might be useful to clarify if there is any role as people wrestle in community after community with with school reopening what form is it going to take how are we going to keep it safe how are we going to balance the competing interest same thing's happening here in Arlington as everywhere else um people might think or look to the state legislature to provide guidance and leadership around here or think that there's a role I think there's not oh oh please illuminate the the situation for us well certainly the um the state has standards and requirements for delivering education um how that is delivered and um you know the whole air issues around school openings and um hybrid learning remote that is really a local decision and you know that's how our that's how our system is set up I mean every every district has its teachers they have their own contracts um they make their own local decisions um about how things are you know rolled out they have requirements that they have to report you know etc to the state but that all the reopening is is it's a local decision and so unless we want to change that and make you know or you know take away that um the um local control over it and maybe there's reasons to or not I mean that's the discussion a separate discussion that I don't know enough about the kind of way in on this is what we got and um so we can recommend the department of education can recommend certain things they can um but they're not they're they're not the cities and towns get to make the ultimate decision and it's a very very very very difficult decision and um like every like pretty much everything in this pandemic there's no good answer there's less bad answers and there's really bad answers but you know a good decision this is really hard and I know that towns cities and towns everywhere my district across the board across the state are struggling with this and it's just critical that there be good communication and that the communication continue I mean that's you know but I don't know what else I mean the state can certainly provide support and um they can have requirements but it's really up to the cities and towns how they are the local school districts how they are going to handle this particular thank you um as usual I've kept you talking for quite a while here um and let me just ask you before we close uh if there is anything either we've somehow left out though it has been a wide-ranging conversation obviously um or that you particularly just want to highlight that's in the works uh gonna be you know something people can anticipate any and anything that fits into that broad category of a we should say something about this before we sign off well like I do want to say that I think the state's been great in the um legislature and the administration you know we have kept um the local um local contributions and chapter 70 we've kept them we've not cut them and we've sort of given a slight inflation increase and so I think that's a great thing for a real relief for our communities and certainly something that I support I think there's a lot of work being done to ensure that um we use our resources so that we're not cutting um really vital programs and um I'm the vice chair of this of senate ways and means so I know that that works going on and I am hopeful at least for FY 21 that we can figure out how to um you know creatively use our resources so that we're not cutting and that we're not necessarily affecting our rainy day fund so I think that's um that's a good effort um I know can I ask you Cindy sorry for the interruption but I realized that I meant to ask you something about this before you mentioned the rainy day fund and you mentioned that it is so that it is not affected too much you know I'm not sure I think we would all agree that it's a rainy day we haven't faced a crisis like that like if this is not a rainy day right so so what do you mean by that like what is the approach with that pot of money um it's it there's really competing interests right I mean one is you have a rainy day though this is the way I look at it one is that you have a rainy day fund because you have a rainy day and you need to use it but then there's this other separate world of bonding and um and insurance etc that sort of looks and says do you have a rainy day fund right and how big is it and if it's big enough then we we rate you a certain way and those are really compete to me that's kind of competing right um because at some point they ought to give you credit for having had the rainy day fund so that you can actually keep your economy going and you have to imagine they would also have to change their metrics in the face of what we're all dealing with but anyway but this is way way way way way beyond my pay grade so but I what I do think is going on and is important is you really don't you really want to keep that whole as much as you can because I mean I think people feel like in our state for instance you know we probably you know we do have some federal government money we do have some some pots of resources that we might be able to to use or utilize or move around and if we can do that we really don't want to touch the savings um and so I think that's what they're trying to do we have not yet reached that point and if you haven't read all the rest of that right you want to make sure that you haven't reached that point so probably we won't be able to contribute to the rainy day fund in 21 but the question is can we keep it whole and still keep these really essential programs in you know um funded and so I think that's what that's what happens is that you just try everything you can before you just dip into that because then when that's done it then you're really out of resources so right you want to put it off as long as you can one lesson here then is that whether it's chapter 70 whether it's local aid whether it's the rainy day fund the fact that we are holding on our ground uh in this state is an accomplishment it is an accomplishment that takes you know real effort and that we need to kind of celebrate and recognize right or at least breathe a bit of a small sigh for least you know fair enough and you might be breathing a small sigh of relief that I don't have any more questions at this point for you um thank you again for for taking the time today appreciate uh you know the information as always for sure um but also as I recognized earlier the candor and the forthrightness with which you speak to me and to us um I think that I hope that people appreciate that that is not business as usual or what anybody can expect necessarily from their elected politicians all the time um and uh and I do think that the audience appreciates it so on their behalf and on my own thanks for that well thank you thank you for having me and um I'll just forward all the calls I get to you wish all right all right we will talk to you uh sometime in this fall into winter and we wish you the very best okay take care James thank you I've been talking to our state senator Cindy Friedman and Arlington resident proud and uh and long time um I'm James Milan this has been a legislative update as part of talk of the town thanks for joining us we'll see you next time


Hey you guys, so girl, there's a reason why I look the way I look. So yesterday we held a little bitty get together. I don't even want to call it that because we literally invited two kids that are in here in the neighborhood to celebrate JV's birthday and it was a 80s theme. And I'm the only person that dressed up like I was from the 80s and so I, yeah, I showed that girl. So anyway, y'all, this is a random chit chat. My notes are somewhere else. I'm looking all over girl, is it? I'm laughing because there's a Pat Minotaur record in front of me, John, honey. My child is very eccentric. JV is an old soul and when I tell you he has, I don't know if you guys were, if you've been following me, I don't know if y'all saw one of my blogs a couple of months ago. He showed some of his old school collection. It's even worse. I mean, he has one of those huge camcorders from the 80s, rotary phone now, yeah, it's out of control. His little collection. He gets so excited to show people his collection. You know, he and half the time, no one is interested unless they're over 40. You know what I mean? So anyway, y'all didn't know if I wanted to do this chit chat or not, but I haven't done a chit chat in a while.  I'm going to have to redo it. It's watering. I'm going to redo it. Anyway, y'all, we're going to talk about, you know, what's going on at home, home life, what's going on, what I've been watching on YouTube and what I've been watching on TV. Okay. So, home life, same old, same old. Like I said, we had a little thing for JV yesterday. His birthday is really on the 13th. It is the 9th or 10th, East to 10th. I was very, very busy at work for the past couple of weeks or so, been extremely busy at work and honey, we told 2021 to come in here, don't touch nothing, don't say nothing and sit down and her ass didn't do that. So Trump supporters, I'm going to call it how it is because if it was the other way around, they would be labeled as such. They are rioters. They were terrorists, in my opinion, who stormed the capital and managed to get their way through now. For what I understand now, at this point, there have been four people that have died, one police officer and I, like I told you before in some of my other videos, I am open to all types of people and opinions, but at this point, I have no patience for the fullery. So if I see any of my friends, I don't care who you are, I don't care what type of relationship we have in your past. If I see any type of fullery coming on my feet, block, delete. That's the position I'm in right now because there is no excuses for the behavior that occurred a couple of days ago in this country. It is absolutely embarrassing. Not going to go down that path right now because I'm pretty sure y'all are tired of hearing it and seeing it, but it's crazy, absolutely crazy and some of my friends who are really into the political atmosphere said that they are not surprised that this has happened. I'm surprised, so maybe I'm just out of touch.  I would love anything to get the hell out of Phoenix, but girl now, we're in the middle of a pandemic, Ramika can't go on that road trip. She come on, you want to go? She said, we're just going to be in the car. We're going to go to Arizona. I think she said Atlanta. I'm like Atlanta. Hell no. I'm not fit into the black capital of the world right now. Now I will say, if she drives out here and I'm okay with taking them up to Sedona, you know what I mean y'all? Or girl, this hair, I'm okay with us all driving up to Sedona, but I am not leaving the state, not in this situation we're in right now. It is absolutely crazy with the numbers. Like I said, I don't know, maybe I didn't say this, but I'm actually off. I'm on PTO right now and typically for JB's birthday, we do something, our birthday parties in general, we do something, you know, we either go out of town, my husband's like, well, he doesn't even want us going out to dinner. I'm like, really? I'm gonna see if I can persuade him and see if we can go out to dinner, if we can eat outside, you know, because we are going to do breakfast, but breakfast is going to be hardly nobody there for dinner. He's not so sure of and I'm not going to argue with my husband y'all. He's on the front line. He's one of the people that, you know, he's in the hospital working. He's testing. They're running the tests on this stuff. So he has first hand on what's going on. So I'm not going to argue with him. If he's seeing it's not safe to do that, it's not. But yeah, Ramika, girl, I'm going to send her a text message here in a second saying, if y'all come down here, okay, but we're going to be driving up to Sedona, I'm not going to California or whatever. I'm not going outside of the state at this point.  Mad is a struggle for me because we went out of coming to core honey.  We moved from coming core to just regular old traditional basic math hell. So I think I will also, if they're at gray, introduce him to typing and but I'm going to get him a typewriter. That's all that's going on. I'm, um, um, losing weight still. I'm sitting at 167. I still have quite a bit of weight to lose. And let's just be honest, um, probably around 15, 15, 20 pounds. Yeah. Cause I'm short y'all. I'm not that tall. Um, one thing I will say, okay, so those of you who don't know, I had a breast reduction a couple of years ago. I know this is TMI. My breasts have changed again. It's really interesting. Like the shape of my breasts have changed. So immediately when I had my breast reduction, they were hard and stiff. I looked like I would look very square. So they hadn't dropped about a year into what they dropped, but then I started experiencing some issues like eczema, really bad eczema and dry skin, and it was only with the breast tissue that was new. So on, under the nipple and down was literally turning purple because it was so dry and inflamed winter dermatologists. They gave me medications on every now and then almost every day that has cleared up, but still, because I live in a dry area every day, I have the lotion up girl and then come to find out that you can actually get, um, a yeast infection or yeast, I don't want to say yeast infection, but yeast can actually grow. I guess it is a yeast infection on your breasts. I had no idea that could happen. Um, so again, girl, what's the point? My breasts have changed and they have gotten bigger. So I don't know if it's because I'm losing weight and they appear bigger. Maybe that's what it is. Girl, use common sense. Yeah. That's what it is because I'm losing weight. They appear bigger. Uh, either, uh, well, I'm at a full size C small D, um, before I was a double E triple, triple D double E. Um, so when I had my breast reduction to y'all, he also did some lipo on the side, my sides here, which was, oh my good. Um, so yeah, isn't that interesting? I didn't know that I thought that since it's been such a while that while my, why are my breasts still changing? So yeah, yeah, enough of that. Enough to talk on our titties. Um, what I'm watching on YouTube, really nothing. Y'all, I'm going to try to go through my history. Now, this is funny. Uh, yesterday I called a girl. That's your video. Calm the hell down.  Yesterday I called angel aka nizzy naps because, okay, um, a couple of months ago, she was like, do you have this new, uh, she saw an icon on her YouTube channel and she's like, do you have that? I said, no, I don't have that. So we were discussing it. And so we call it the unfriended. Now we refer to as the unfriended icon and she's like, girl, you, I don't want to get it. So I asked busby if she had it. She didn't have it, but she said she wanted it.  We didn't want it. So girl, why did I log into my YouTube account yesterday? And I had it. I had the unfriended icon. So I called angel. I said, look here, hussy. Um, I didn't call her that, but that's how we talked to each other. Right.  Y'all remember that scary movie unfriended? She started laughing.  Yeah, you, you did it. But now it's an icon where you get in contact as a content creator. I can get in contact with YouTube, um, customer service for assistance on my channel if need be. And I don't need no help. Hell, y'all, let me see what I'm looking at on YouTube. Nothing looking at, um, I'm just looking at my history, uh, watching, keeping up with appearances. This is all JB's history. Child, Nintendo, Nintendo. He was listening to 80s music. Y'all, JB. So I haven't been watching YouTubers. Now, as far as TV go girl. So I finally finished Bridgerton. Y'all, it was giving me everything that I needed. I'm going to try not to say too much behind it. Duke, the Duke, y'all, those scenes, not normally I know me. I don't do a lot of sex, but it wasn't necessarily, it wasn't too raunchy, the sex scenes in, um, in Bridgerton. It wasn't really too raunchy. And I will have to say that, um, it was a lot though.  I mean, damn. I mean, they were all up in the library and the meadows and the, um, in the, in the rain. I was like, well, damn, I'm like, I need some long gloves or something. I need those white gloves that she was wearing. So my husband can take them off of me. That's why I need some white gloves, y'all.  He's fine. The guy in the man that plays him is, he's fine. He's young. Y'all know me? I like him a little old and demented, but yeah, I feel like the Duke, oh, I feel so bad for his character. Girl, I will say this tea. This is going to be, you know, I'm going to go there, honey. His pull-out game is strong. I was like, girl, I was like, but the thing that, that's really interesting is that she didn't know what was going on. She didn't know what was going on, why he was doing it. So she thought maybe he was in pain and she would ask him when they were done having sex. Are you in pain there? Did it hurt? I grew, I can't do no English accent. And so she finally, meaning his wife, the Duchess, it's her name, Daphne, y'all, y'all, Daphne Bridgeton, she finally asked, well, did she ask a maid? Yeah, one of her, her maid, I believe, or her, I don't even want to call her a maid. She asked someone, how do you make a baby basically? Cause she didn't know. And it makes a lot of sense. During this period, a lot of young women, um, had no idea how children are conceived. And so when she told her, so I'm not going to give it too much, y'all, cause I'm already giving them some spoilers away. So yes, love the show. Now I do know people are up in arms about there being a black queen. So Queen Charlotte is black. One thing I do appreciate about this show is that, you know, you had, um, uh, black socialites and you had, uh, it's very diverse cause there was also Asian actors in the, in the series. And excuse me. This is on Netflix, by the way. So Lady Danbury, I was for, I was here for those heavily arched eyebrows. I was still here for, but baby, when I tell you, I literally gagged at, at Queen Charlotte's wigs. Honey, when she came out in that yellow gown and that 20 inch Afro wig, I was like, my lady, my, my grace, yes, come through, honey. That wig was everything. And she was walking around like, this is normal for me. This is normal. I'm here. I'm here to slay. Yes, I love the wig. She had so many beautiful wigs. I absolutely love the costumes. Um, the cinematography was beautiful too. Well, you know, with the word it was filmed at was beautiful. And I absolutely enjoyed the revelation at the end of who Lady, Lady, what's her name? Lady Whistledown was. I actually, I'm not going to give any spoilers. I actually kind of wonder, I'm like, I'm wondering if she would be the gossip columnist. Basically, y'all, those of you who are not familiar, familiar Lady Whistledown is almost like their TMZ of the 18, you know, 1813, wherever this is set in. And so every week or so, she has this printed column that comes out and it goes, it covers all of the latest news and scandalous news that's going on in their little city. Right. And so no one knows who Lady Whistledown is, but one of the characters is trying to figure out and the Queen wants to know too. So at the very end of the series, we get to know, you know, it's revealed who Lady Whistledown is. And I kind of guess that was her. But I was like, no. So yes, I cannot wait for season two. I think we have to wait another year for it. Right. Uh, it is what it is. Y'all loved it. That's the only thing I've been watching y'all. We did catch Soul. I purposely got Disney so that JB could watch Soul Child. After I had one or two glasses of wine fell asleep, woke up. I saw a damn cat talking. I said, JB, are you still watching this? JB was still up. He said, yeah, yeah, mama, I fell back to sleep. Woke up if the movie was going off. I said, JB, was it good? He said, no, mama. I said, well, why did you sit here and watch it all, baby? He said, because you had it on here. I'm like, oh, he's so sweet, y'all. So JB didn't like Soul, but he still watched it. Now what I do want to watch next and I need to buy Showtime. Do I got to buy Showtime, y'all? I got to add Showtime to Hulu. Let me add that now. Your honor, I'm going to go ahead and add Showtime to Hulu because my one of y'all mentioned the show. And then yesterday, my neighbor was giving me a precursor of it. What is it about, y'all? Who is in it? Brian Cranston from Breaking Bad, the guy from there. Brian Cranston, is that how you say his name? Yeah, so I'm going to go ahead and add this to my, I just have to add the premium subscription to my Hulu. I'll be watching that and I'll be telling y'all how I feel about it. Again, it's called Your Honor. And you can get it through Showtime, but you can also just add Showtime to whatever package you have. So, yeah, y'all, that is it. It's early. I got this nasty old coffee. I'm going to fix my coffee again. Baby, this hair, one of my neighbors saw my hair and she said, you know what, that hair that you have in your ponytail, that's one person's hair. I said, I know. This is what she's like, that could be all my hair. I said, I know. I know. Yeah, yeah, it's cute though. So all right, you guys, my voice is cracking. Thank you so much for watching. Take care.


The study examined the effect of shear stress on the crystallization of isotactic polypropylene, high PP, nucleated with either a sulcesquioxane-based or commercial nucleating agent. The sulcesquioxane-based nucleating agent was more efficient than the commercial one at reducing the amount of amorphous material in the polymer. Shear stress had a significant impact on the crystal size and morphology of the polymers, regardless of whether they were nucleated with the sulcesquioxane-based or commercial nucleating agent. The study also showed that the sulcesquioxane-based nucleating agent was more effective at preventing the formation of large crystals compared to the commercial nucleating agent. This article was authored by Mateusz Barksowski, Olga Misijukiewicz, Michael Dutkiewicz, and others.


The kidnappers of a successful farmer at Yemera Akiti in Nikoli local government area of Akiti state, Jimo Olodon, have demanded 30 million Naira ransom for his release. Olodon was whisked away when gunmen suspected to be herdsmen on Friday night, invaded a Luguri farm settlement which was few kilometers to Yemera Akiti. A community source who confided in newsmen on Sunday disclosed that the daredevil kidnappers had contacted Yemera Akiti's family and demanded 30 million Naira as his release clause.


I'm Lieutenant Dick Chasen, this hadn't been a routine case and to find the answer I've had to put a lot of little pieces together. We are going to try to ride had, it is actually closing early, so hopefully we get on there because I hear that they have the new photo opportunities. And I'm not alone today, I've got a friend with me, so let's go do this. These people, oh boy, it is running though, I can hear it. I can hear it playing this day, but they didn't dump the queue. What is it again? Oh, I like it. So until they open those gates, we're going to go ride Flight of the Hippogriff because that is a very fun ride. I mean it's not Hagrid's, but it still is beautiful and the views are spectacular. Oh, we got a show happening and a fan to keep the computer cool. Look at this, Flight of the Hippogriff, 55 minutes, luckily we have our express passes and maybe it won't be so long because this is like literally a 60 second ride, gone in 60 seconds. The actual walkthrough queue is actually pretty nifty too. I like that they have pumpkins. I like seeing pumpkins any time of the year. So I'm going to investigate if this is the express pass, then how long is the standby because this looks pretty crazy right now. Oh wow. So that's the standby and then here's the express. It is still a very long wait. I don't know if we're going to wait for this actually. We might go ride the Forbidden Journey and wait for our time to get on Hagrid's because I can still hear it running. Abort mission, abort mission. So we diverted to the actual Forbidden Journey. It is right now a 30 minute wait. Me and Christina got separated. She is in the locker area. I don't think I'll be able to get to her. This is going to be tough. I'll wait right here. It's packed. So I didn't know that the express line was actually inside. So now we're going back in and hopefully it's a very little to no wait. You know the way. Rafiki knows the way. It's like kind of creepy back there. Open the door. What happened here? How did we get here? She did not know the way. Liar. He was talking to the other party. So this is where we initially came to get on the express and he said to the left. We finally made it into the castle. I want to see some fancy pictures. Ah there's the fancy pictures. Thank you. Thank you. We made it. Oh boy. Let's get in a bookcase. Seriously such an amazing ride. But I want to show you guys probably the most scariest thing about this ride and that is the locker rooms afterwards. Oh boy. We got to find Christina. She might be over there. Not over here. Oh boy. Gets a little crazy in there. Oh boy. Something about those lockers. That's like the worst part of the ride isn't it? The lockers. She was like mmm. It was like put your finger. I'm doing it. I'm doing it. It timed out on me. And we are pretty sure we see people walking in the queue for Hagrid's. That means we're riding. Quick public service announcement. I'm sorry for whoot whoot when I don't think that was proper. It is up and running and it is at capacity. But guess what? We still get to go on. So we are actually just going to go in the exit and that's a little bit strange. Last time I did get to walk the queue which is I'm a little sad though because I do like the inside of the queue. I'm so excited. And as you can see the photos are now live.  And I'm definitely getting one. We're getting one on the way out. You're going to tell me where it's taken so I can do like a little. I don't know where it's taken. Oh boy. This is going to be a surprise. A little bit of Hagrid's workshop here. But we do got some loading signs here. Oh I like the way the motorbike just pulls in like that. So we burned through that queue. Ten minutes? Yeah. Not bad. Not bad. This is it. We can't film on here but at least we can say we're going to have a good ride. I'm so excited. Headlights are on. I love it. Right? Amazing. Look at that unicorn. We're riding again. Our second time riding. They actually gave us an extra go around. I love it. And if you do ride make sure you hit that purple button. Okay so we did get to ride it twice. Dorian was very nice to us. And we are going to see with picture. I don't know. I hope you get to see which picture we like better. I just realized that I had my hands out because I was so excited. I hope it is like black on the face. Oh that's okay if you do. I'm not sure what the prices are. I don't want a physical copy. I want like a digital. A digital download. I hope they have it. So it is $20 to get a digital download and then $30 to get a digital download and a natural print it out copy. So yeah with my annual pass it only came to $18. Just for the digital download. It's a little steep but I really wanted that photo. So that's why I decided to get it. And that was so cool. Thank you Dorian again. I really enjoyed it. Well I think with that we are going to head on over to Diagon Alley. Diagon Alley. Diagon Alley. And we are going to take the Hogwarts Express. And here it comes. Look at that. What a gorgeous lot. I guess we are in the OG. It was nice meeting everybody. Yeah it was nice. Really? Very fancy. I like it. Well the train has stopped. And I think we are going to go right into Diagon Alley. But maybe we will make a phone call. Alright. We are going to go into the phone booth. And we are actually going to call the Ministry of Magic. We are going to see if the Swords are not. So it's been a very long time. Austin I wish you were still here. But you know what it's going to happen. I think everybody knows what's going to happen. It's been 24 p.m. I think before we are going to head into Diagon Alley. We are going to head on over to the Simpsons area. Check out some of the cool food. And some duff beer. We are at Mo's. We are going to check out the different food eateries actually. Back in the corner here. We have Lisa's Tea House of Four. Luigi's. The frying Dutchman. Cletus's Chicken Shack. Crusty Burger. And of course Flaming Mo's. Lisa loves lettuce. We decided to get some French fries. And a burger. There's not much to show off. And Cletus we already ate it. And I totally forgot to film it. So I got to say that the curly fries and Mo's is pretty pretty good. I got the burger with everything on it. She got the burger with everything. So Christina has talked me into doing something I've never done before. Well she really didn't need to talk me into it. But she said I like the Woody Woodpecker's Roller Coaster. Over here. And I said you know I've never done it. So I'm going to do it. I'm going to go ride Woody. Oh boy. The shortest roller coaster I've ever been on. It's definitely shorter than the Flood of Hippogriff. It's also the shortest week we've had all day. Oh. Touche. Or Douche. Well I guess we're going to make it a day of first. Because I've never rode the frying saucers. I'll tell you what. It seems like a beautiful day to do it. Oh look at this. Wow. She never knows what to say. Yes. Christina. Nathan. Good to meet you. Very good. Thank you. Those must help you stay on the broom. That's right. Good grip. Good grip. What position are you? Forward. That's not a position in quidditch. I'm a keeper then. Well done. That's clever. Position are you? I'm the goalie. A keeper. We're both keepers. You need to go back to your quidditch class and get ready up on the positions. Wait so what are the positions? A keeper, a chaser. Oh I want to be the chaser. That changes out of the mix. You know that's like the opposite of a goalie though right? I want to be chaser. What's a goalie? A goalie I'm not sure. But I think it's someone, I would imagine someone who stands around a goal. So it's a keeper? Just a root word. Someone who stands around the keeper. Wait so at the rings, all the goals, is that the goalie? That's right. Yes, yes, yes. That's right, that's right. Students into goalies. That's right. I think so brother. I like the way you say think. I think? Tinker? Tinker. Don't over think it. Don't over think it. Don't over think it. Thank you. I don't want to hold you up. I don't want to hold you up. Okay so one last ride before we go. We are going to head over to Jimmy Fallon. But correction, we are at Jimmy Fallon. And hashtag panda. Well hello. Thank you. Oh absolutely fantastic. I love it. Whoa. That's going to do it for us. Whoa. We're at the valley and they're speeding off because they've got to get out of here. They're done. You've got to be slow. Yes. So thanks so much for watching. Hope you guys had a lot of fun. Check out Jimmy Fallon. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. So thanks so much for watching. Hope you guys had a lot of fun. Check out Christina's chagrin. We'll put it in the description below. Burger with everything. And we'll see you next time. Bye.


we meet again talking about books and what percentage of fiction do you read versus nonfiction I think it's probably two-thirds nonfiction two-thirds yeah I like your quote where you said somebody asked you how did you figure out how to do SpaceX and you said I read a lot of books yeah that's right you don't


Let's talk about E3 briefly. So for the second topic, we're gonna talk about our top Nintendo E3 2017 desires. So this is not what we think's gonna happen. I'm gonna leave predictions and all the stuff for a separate segment we're gonna do the Monday before E3. So this is just gonna be about what we want to happen.  What would you like to happen for Nintendo E3? Game announcements, specific features, you know, what? I would like to see some sort of, I don't know what they've announced and what they haven't, but I would definitely like to hopefully see, I know, I know. You've seen the game list several times. I know I have. It's okay, it's okay. I'll let you know if it's something that you've already announced. Yeah. Definitely like to see some sort of odyssey something, which I'm guessing they're gonna have. We've already talked about that. Yes, I know. I'm just very proud to guess. It's okay, yeah. One week. The odyssey is gonna be at E3 and it's gonna be playable on the show floor. That's awesome. Cause that's what I would love to see the most actually. Actually, you know, they're talking about Mario still, the Mario and Rabbits, having some sort of video even of that. Yeah, we don't know for sure. We know it's gonna be at E3. We just don't know for sure what we're gonna see. Right. I'd like to see at least a video of it to see what the gameplay looks like and what kind of get a feel for it, even though I think it's gonna be awesome. I hope it's gonna be awesome. I had one other thing, but I can't remember what it was. Again, long week, but... You wanna see some of the Zelda DLC? Oh, yeah. Yes, definitely. Sometimes we forget that exactly we bought it. Right, yeah. Like they had the one thing where they announced, you know, the trial and like some of the things in the first pack, but I haven't seen it. Haven't really heard much about it. Yeah, I kind of completely forgot about it actually. I still have so much of Breath of the Wild to even play it still, so. I think everybody does. Even people who 100% of it officially, technically there's more to do in the game than apparently what the 100% meter says. So, even if you've 100% according to the game, guess what? There's still more to find, still more to do. Wow. That being said, obviously I wanna see Zelda DLC. And not so much this first pack. We pretty much have an idea what this first pack is though. I don't really need to see anything of this first pack except for a release date. So I really wanna see them say it's coming out now or it's coming out early July, because they said summer. So it's gotta be coming soon. My guess is that probably if I had to guess if they're gonna release it somewhere with E3. Maybe. I don't, the only reason I say maybe is because Arms comes out on June 16th. So I don't know if they wanna take attention away from Arms. True. So it could be an end of June. Very true actually. Like try to squeeze it between Arms and Splatoon too. Maybe, I don't know. Again, it doesn't really matter because it shouldn't affect sales per se. It really shouldn't, because I think most people that want the DLC have already bought it. Yeah. But again, it's still one of those, I don't know what Nintendo's thinking. Again, I can't make assumptions over what they're thinking. Right. So yes, but what I wanna see from the DLC is that second pack. I wanna see a teaser. The second pack is supposed to have a new dungeon and it's supposed to have some new story. And I want a teaser for that. Part of that's because I've already seen the conclusion of all the story elements. So I just wanna know what's next. But also it's part of like they knew this was coming. So this is something they planned for which means it should fit in really nicely. And when they say a new dungeon, I'm curious because the only real dungeons in Breath of the Wild were the Divine Beast. And I know some people will argue for the shrines. That's fine. They weren't officially called dungeons. They were shrines. And again, I guess the dungeons were called the Dungeons were called Divine Beast, but whatever. Just like sometimes they're called temples. Sometimes they're called other things. But Nintendo recognizes those as the four dungeons. So what I'm curious to see is what the heck is a fifth dungeon? Is there a fifth Divine Beast that we don't know about?  Why didn't we hear about it? Is there, is it an actual dungeon? Like built into the world, like a volcano dungeon or a forest dungeon? Like is it one of those kind of dungeons? And if it is, why is it here now? Is there a new land? Yeah. Because there is definitely land beyond where you can go in Breath of the Wild. You see that mountain, you can go there. Well, I saw a mountain I could not go to. Yeah, right? So there maybe there's more. I'm thinking that there is because I know in the northern most part of it, if I fly off the edge, even though there looks to be land on the map. There is. Animals and stuff too. There's people who along that little cut off, like they've actually flown and gotten as close as they can and just did like a long glide along and you can see some animals and trees. And it's like.  There's stuff there. I mean, the easiest way for them to do this would have been surround everything with water as far as I can see. But no, no, they made it very obvious there is more land. Yes. So I don't want to see all of it, obviously, but some teases. Would be really cool. Some teases. If there was like this underground network. That'd be awesome. Where it kind of goes through all the biomes. Sure, sure. Beyond, you know, I already know exactly, like I don't know exactly what they're going to show at E3, but I know, you know, some things for certain. So what I would like to see since this is desired is I want to see, I want to see a metro I get announced. Yeah. I don't think it's going to happen. But I want to see a metro I get announced. I don't, to be clear, and this is because it's most desired, another thing I want to see is whatever Retro Studios is working on. And I think they're making a new IP, which is why I don't think we're going to see Metroid because I don't think Retro, a lot of people think we're going to see it because that's what Retro Studios is working on. I don't think Retro Studios is working on a Metroid. And the big reason I say that is they have been working on a new game since they released Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze. And one of the main guys behind Metroid in Japan was asked at last year's E3 about Metroid. And he said, well, if we had started, if we don't have any announcements for Metroid, and if we started making a Metroid right now, it would obviously be for Nintendo Switch and it would be a few years out. Which to me meant they aren't making Metroid. Yeah. They had already been making a game for a couple of years and if it ain't Metroid, then it's something else. It could be another Donkey Kong game, but I bet you it's a new IP.  RPG, adventure game, maybe they want a Western shooter to complement Splatoon. I don't know. Like whatever.  I think they've proven themselves enough that Nintendo's like, finally, let's have you make your own identity instead of working on stuff that we created in Japan. So that's what I think. I desire to see a new Retro Studios IP, Metroid to get announced, some sort of Metroid. Hopefully not like a Federation 4 style.  Mother 3. I would like to see, I think they're gonna talk about their online services and we know for sure that there's some games with it. I would like to see the very first game that comes out with that online service, the thing that would sell people day one when it launches. Mother 3 is the first game that you get with the service the first month. I desire to see that so much. Not predicting it, that's just what I want to happen. I want to see them be like, look, you give us this little bit of money for a month and we give you Mother 3 worldwide. It's never been outside of Japan officially. So that would be amazing for people who are really into the Earthbound series. And it would show that Nintendo really cares about some of those old life. Even as the guy behind Earthbound said, does it make sense to make another one? Fine, don't make another one, but at least give us the ones you got. I would like to see just a personal desire. It's a little iffy because the Switch can't do it the way I want it to. But I want to see a Pokemon Snap announced. The problem is I wanted the Switch to do it kind of like what Pokemon Go does when you go and then you have like a VR world but there's no cameras on the Switch so it can't work that way.  So it does almost make, to me right now Pokemon Snap, if they brought it back would feel better as a mobile game but I just want to see it back in some capacity. Like yeah, Pokemon Snap, I keep thinking of Pokemon Go. They can just make Pokemon Snap like they did back in the day. It perfectly fine. They can make their virtual world where we go out and run a boat ride, run trains, run a snap, take a picture. So that's fine. At least now you can go like this. Yeah, you can, yeah, yeah. So like that's a desire that I want to see them announce. I also desire greatly to see a bunch of third party games confirmed that I feel like should already be confirmed. I'd like to see Call of Duty World War II confirmed for Switch. I would like to see Bethesda committing some sort of game to have in the works to the system. Like a major game, not a side dish. Not like what Ubisoft is doing in Mario and Rabbids. And speaking of Ubisoft, I would love to see them announce that Assassin's Creed Origins is coming to Switch. Yep. I would like to see, and I know Assassin's Creed Call of Duty, I'm like popular franchises, man. If Nintendo can get them in portable form, that is a very attractive prospect to a lot of people. Oh, definitely. You know, getting back to some Nintendo IP, I would love to see Nintendo announce F-Zero and a Wave Race. Yeah. I know they're racing games. I know people can argue they compete with Mario Kart since Mario Kart has that one fast F-Zero kind of level. You know, why should they have F-Zero? Because it doesn't matter. The fast racing Neo compete with Mario Kart? No, they're two totally different games. And fast racing Neo is basically F-Zero. It's just not F-Zero. It's an indie game. Yeah. So they're proving that there's still a market for that. So Nintendo could actually bring back the game that basically was the foundation for that market. Yeah. I think that would be great. As long as they bring back the death spinner too. Because then the second one, they got rid of the death spinner and it's kind of a best-fucking-y die. That's okay. I'm sure they'll bring it back. And again, obviously, Wave Race, totally different from anything. You're racing out in the water on jet skis. Lots and lots of fun. The waves and everything, it's just a lot of fun. I would love to see them bring those games back. And I can argue, basically, I want to see every Nintendo game on the little sun. But one game I think I definitely want to see, not for this year, but I want to see them mention it's coming in 2018, Smash of some kind. Whether it's a brand new Smash game for Switch or whether it is a Deluxe combination, 3DS and Wii U port with extra stuff and characters, get announced not for this year, because I think with Mario Kart and Super Mario Odyssey and Zelda all this year, I think they need to spread out a game like that but for next year. And in addition to that, I would like to see them at least confirm. They don't have to confirm which games, but at least say that they are dedicated to bringing the best of the Wii U library to the Switch over the coming years. And they can even hint at things like, we're talking to Platinum Games, which would hint at the Wonderful 101 or Bayonetta 2, but not actually announce which one of those is coming or if both are coming. The Wind Waker HD and Twilight Princess HD, the Switch isn't really gonna do anything different with those, but you could at least have them on that platform.  They're not available anywhere else. Unless they do some sort of online. Super Mario 3D world. I know some people are indifferent on the game, but still like Nintendo just dedicating themselves to bringing the best of the Wii U over. And I know some people be like, oh, you know, that's a cop out. I'm like, yes, it is a cop out. It's a cop out to the fact that Nintendo Switch is probably gonna outsell the total lifetime sales of the Wii U in its first year.  Right. So, and that's not saying, keep in mind, I'm just talking with sales. I am not dissing the Wii U. I think the Wii U is actually a really great system. Just people didn't buy it. So why would they not bring like games they invested money in high quality? Like Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze to me is the greatest 2D science-rolling platform of all time. Period, end of story. You can argue any of the game you want. I will highly respect your opinion, but you're wrong. I'm kidding. Just for me, Tropical Freeze is the best. So why wouldn't I want that on Switch? In portable form. Come on. What Tropical Freeze man doesn't want that?  Who cares? Yeah, right. Maybe I should make a video about that too. I talked about fanboys and console wars.  People who got upset that Mario Maker went to 3DS. People who got upset that Yoshi went to 3DS or that 3DS game's coming to Switch. It's like, who cares? Yeah, you have the game. It doesn't affect you. I mean, I understand the argument. Topic for another day. Topic for another day. Yes. I'm actually glad that came up because I actually have a whole article that I was working on that I might convert to a video about this. I just gotta dig it up. So that's kind of where I'm at, I guess, with Nintendo for my desired free three.  Yeah, it's been a long time coming. They're online, everything they've stated about online, none of it talks about virtual console. So what's happening with virtual console? Clearly, if it does exist, it's not tied to your online system. It's separate. It's its own thing. It feels, let me put it this way. Almost the entire Neo Geo library of games is available on the eShop on Nintendo Switch. Yep. A non-Nintendo system and almost all its games through a partnership is on the eShop. But yet I can't buy any old Nintendo games. I can buy all the Neo Geo games I want in the world. Yeah, can't buy any of my Gamecube or my N64, SNES, so I would like to see them bring, just talk about it at least. We're not gonna launch it this year. At least talk about, at least do this for me, Nintendo. Either say- Can you confirm that there is one or not?  Right. Then just say, we're not gonna be having virtual console on the system. So people can stop speculating and talking about it.  And then six months later, people will still be bitching, but whatever, at least we'll be in acceptance mode. Yeah. Okay, don't get rid of your Wii, you don't get rid of your 3DS because you're not gonna be able to get those games. Or if it does exist, you don't have to tell us how you're doing it. I would love for you to tell us. I'd desire for you to be like, it's a subscription service for 10 bucks, like Microsoft and PSN have PlayStation, PSN, Xbox just launched their new thing. I forget what it's called.  That's what I want Nintendo to do, but if they don't do that, because they don't want to follow the standards of everybody else. They're gonna go archaic. That's fine. Even if they just offer it the way they have, just at least announce it's going to exist. Yeah. It's kind of where I'm at with things.


When a narcissist rejects you these narcissists have a mental illness Many of them have no job They're living at home with their parents They would be nothing but an inconvenience in your life, but many of us are empaths Many of us are good people And we see it as an opportunity to help someone And that is our idea of a relationship Improving someone's life Even if they have nothing of value to provide to us Even if they're not physically attractive Naturally, you would assume That they would be more receptive to you You would assume that they would be more inclined to receive but no Narcissists who are unattractive do not get much attention in real life They might get plenty of likes on social media or on dating apps. It's very easy for them then Because it gives them the ability to make themselves look more attractive than they actually are and There's plenty of desperate people on there Who are also lonely and looking for attention But if you approaching narcissists who is unattractive and overweight in real life They are going to take great pleasure in that Because you have given them your energy in real life Which is more potent than a thousand likes When you approaching narcissists in real life, they're going to think they're superior They're going to think that as good as it gets And because they rarely get approached in real life by someone like you They're just going to take the opportunity to reject you and they're going to do it in a very cruel way They may even go on social media and Tell everyone about how they rejected you Because it feeds their ego and Supports their false image. It makes them feel like they're special It makes them feel like they're better than they actually are When you approach an unattractive and overweight narcissist, they will always overdo the reaction They will blow it up out of proportion Deep down. They know they're not someone That would be considered attractive or desirable So they have to make it seem like they're being approached by so many people as though so many people want them So in the rare case where someone actually does approach them They're going to exaggerate it They're going to make it seem like it's more than it actually is when you approach a narcissist They're just going to frighten you away Because deep down they know they're not deserving of you Which is why you should never try to date someone who is narcissistic Because they're just going to create a disturbance They're going to act out Because deep down they know you don't really want them They know they're not attractive I'd bet that most of you who are watching this Felt that when you met the narcissist In the back of your mind you knew that you deserved better You decided to give them a chance When you should have listened to that voice in the back of your head Because it was telling you that something was wrong But when a narcissist rejects you It's because they know that something is wrong They know you don't really want them They know that you can do better They know that even if they accept your proposal It wouldn't last long Because at some point you would realise that you deserve more So although it may seem like they're rejecting you They're actually rejecting themselves Because they know they're not up to your standard They know that you can do better And they're not used to being approached by someone like you So when you do it They're just going to look at you like they're better than you And then they're going to go into social media to tell everyone about it Because they know that it's going to benefit them more to reject you Rather than to accept your proposal And give you the opportunity to realise that they're not what you want anyway Which is why you should always pay attention to the red flags Listen to that voice in the back of your head Avoid people who seem narcissistic Date people who you think are better than you Because they're actually not better than you You just think that they are because you've been around narcissists Who have led you to doubt your value You've been around people who had to elevate themselves at your expense So you think you're not deserving of anything more Which is why you settle for people who are narcissistic When the truth is that you do deserve more And you can have more It all starts by believing in yourself So stay away from these types of people They're not going to be receptive They're only going to take the opportunity to reject you But even if they did accept your proposal You're going to be involved in something that's less than what you truly deserve And they're going to pick up on that And they're just going to put you through hell They're going to make your life miserable Because deep down they know you can do better And it's just going to make them very insecure They're just going to play games with you They go to act out They go to give you the sign of treatment Because deep down they know they're not good enough But when you meet someone who is secure in themselves They can recognise your value They can go with the flow Without feeling the need to play games While these narcissists already know they're not good enough So they're just looking for attention They're just looking to use you to elevate themselves Because they feel like they're not good enough Which is why you need to stay away from them Because they're only going to make you feel the same way They're going to reject you in a harsh way And then they're going to tell everyone about it How a person feels about themselves Determines how they will treat you Thank you for watching I hope this video resonates with you Please like, comment, share and subscribe If you would like to donate My PayPal link is in the video description Coaching queries You can email me at CoachingAtArkSurvivor.uk Thank you for watching And I'll talk to you soon