The study tested the mediation effects of maladaptive cognitions related to internet gaming, MCIG, between interpersonal factors, impulsivity and self-control, an internet gaming disorder, IGD, and between interpersonal factors parental influences and peer influences, and IGD among adolescents in China. The results showed that MCIG partially mediated the associations between the studied factors and IGD, with effect sizes of 30.0% to 37.8%. Modifications of the three types of MCIG can potentially reduce the harmful impacts of impulsivity and interpersonal influences on IGD, and enhance the protective effect of self-control against IGD. This article was authored by Yin Chiuyu, Phoenix Kit Han Mo, Jian Qin Zhang, and others.


You're listening to highlights from The David Feldman Show, heard nationwide on Pacifica Radio, or as a podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, and now YouTube. Please subscribe to this channel. For more information, go to davidfeldmanshow.com. Thank you for listening. The David Feldman radio program is made possible by listeners like you.  John Fugelsang joins us. He is the host of Tell Me Everything on Sirius XM 121, Insight. Yes, sir. And you're going to be starring in a new series, a syndicated series called Page Six, based on The New York Post's Page Six. Indeed I am. Let's talk about that for a second. That's exciting. It's pretty interesting. Last summer I was in this point where I thought, you know, I've been doing political humor for so long and we're so divided. It's so ugly. Once this election is over, do I really want to spend the next couple years of my life defending President Hillary Clinton? Is that really how I want to spend 2017 always standing up for President Hillary Clinton and first gentleman Bill Clinton whenever they do something corporatist and embarrassing and if they don't pass my purity test, I'm not going to want to defend. You know what? I'm going to take a break when this election is done and do a show with a live studio audience where I can make fun of Kardashians and Bieber. Then things turned out differently. And at first I was nervous, but now I've realized most of the interviews I do for Page Six, they want to talk politics anyway because there's no longer a wall between pop culture and state. Page Six, New York Post, tell people what Page Six is. Well, growing up, you know, Page Six is the legendary gossip column, you know, for which celebrities are in trouble, they're rumors and entertainment news. At first I thought, I'm the wrong guy for this.  Someone had seen a tape of me on the Wendy Williams show. I think someone sent in an audition of their appearance on Wendy Williams and I was there and they wanted me to come in. And I was like, well, Wendy Williams pays me. What does your audition pay? But I went to do it and I said to them when I came in, I was friends with the casting director and I said, I'm the wrong guy for this. And then they said there was going to be a live studio audience. And I'll tell you, David, that's what turned me on. I've had so many meetings about news shows and I've hosted news public affairs shows, but when they said a live studio audience and I thought, you know, there really is no intentionally funny shows about pop culture anymore since Chelsea lately went away and Best Week Ever and The Soup are all gone. TMZ is not bad. TMZ is not bad, but I don't really consider that a comedy show. There are no comedians on that show. Unintentionally funny show, yeah. I mean, look, I've known Harvey for a long time. He's a great guy. I like Harvey. I mean, wacky sound effects and Harvey B rating, you know, his charges is not the same as having joke tellers. And there's no studio audience. I hate to say it, but as soon as they told me studio audience, I'm like, oh, I want to come to the callback. Because I just thought the chance to actually do material about Bieber, Kardashians, whatever Taylor Swift's latest fake relationship is, it sounds really healthy and maybe that's the spoonful of sugar America needs. The hope is that in a divided country, after you have dinner, that you can get the whole family together and your right wing loved ones and your left wing loved ones can all come and laugh at Kardashians at 7 p.m. and let the healing begins here. Is this show going to be on at 7 p.m.? Different markets in New York and LA. It'll be on at 7. I'm learning a lot about syndication. I mean, we had a three week trial run last summer and we were on it like one in the afternoon in Tampa, 11.30 at night in Detroit, 12.30 in Dallas, 6.30 in the evening in Atlanta. It'll be different times in different markets. That's the world of syndication. Who are you doing the show with? Well, Carlos Greer is a reporter for Page Six. Elizabeth Wagmeister is a journalist for Variety. Wagmeister? Wagmeister. She's a doll. She's a terrific, terrific broadcaster. She's going to have a big career, I think. And Bevy Smith is one of the legendary stars of Andy Cohen's show and she also hosts here on Serious XM. What constitutes gossip? That's the thing. Does gossip have to be true? Because gossip is not by its definition necessarily true. And I go with George Harrison. I always thought gossip was the devil's radio. That was the thing that really kept me away until I actually got there. And here's the dirty secret of Page Six TV. They call it a gossip show. I'm calling it a comedy show about pop culture. But really what it is, is it's a sourced entertainment news show. Gossip is the stuff these insiders tell me off camera that they can't say on camera.  Who's sleeping with who? Who's an addict? What have you? The actual show, they can't gossip on TV. They'd all be sued. So they have to rely on sourced entertainment news. But what I also liked about it was they wanted to just have an entertainment show with a New York perspective. Normally we see these things. And they're all Hollywood. And here's Mario Cantone with the spray tan. Not Mario. I'm sorry, Mario Lopez. Mario Cantone was cast on our show. He did the test shows. And he'll do some of the shows when we launch the series. For me, having a very New York flavor meant that the show doesn't just deal with celebrities. It deals with politics, with sports, with real estate, with business events. And I hope it's going to be a smart show about silly stuff. That's what Page Six did. They took politicians, moguls, business people, and pushed them into the gossip pages. Which I respect. I think Trump, let's not talk about him, but he was one of the beneficiaries of Page Six. We began in New York to follow rich people, as though they were actors and actresses. Is gossip just schadenfreude? That's basically what it is. Yeah. And that's another one of the concerns when I first heard about this. I thought, oh, I don't want to be a part of that. I tried doing an entertainment comedy show a couple years ago. And to me, a lot of it was just making fun of famous addicts. And, you know, we're addicted to addicts in this country.   And I keep thinking, you know, if we just keep on making jokes about the freak show, I think this with Lindsay Lohan all the time, then we're really part of the problem driving this person's dysfunction. Early on with page six, I said to them, this show will not work if it's FU. It will work if it's WTF. If we're just having a laugh about how absurd all this nonsense is, we'll have an entertaining, smart show. If it's mean, it's dead. And I don't want to do a mean show. And so that's really what I'm hoping that it'll be, that we'll take the piss out of these fevered egos, but it's not going to be hostile or toxic. What is the virtue to taking the piss out of famous people? I happen to think, what is it? The First Commandment? Thou shall not worship false idols? That's not the first one, but yeah, I mean... Oh, that shall not kill. Thou shall not have other gods before me. Oh, well then I think it is only the graven images. It depends on which Ten Commandments you're looking at, because there's more than one list at the top. The First Commandment, I thought, is by God thou shalt have no other gods before me. And here we have that. Celebrities are our royalty. That shall not kill is number two? It's in the top ten. Thou shalt not wear white after Labor Day. Thou shalt not wear open-toed boots. Thou shalt learn the difference between your and your... I don't know, these are my commandments, I think. So the First Commandment is don't worship graven images. Celebrities graven images? No, they're living images. They're people who have assumed God-like properties. I mean, it used to be kings, right? Rick Overton has this great bit about how there's a reason that kings originally made the first crowns looking like the sun. They were just trying to completely make themselves as God-like as possible. And then somewhere along the line, I think America, in the 1930s during the Great Depression, celebrities became the new royalty. And in some cases that means worshiping artists, which is great. In some cases that means worshiping people who are famous for being famous, which is not so great. I think that Donald Trump getting the presidency is the next logical step in the Kardashianification of the American psyche. I mean, we're now giving reality show stars the nuclear codes. And to me, there's sort of a moral responsibility in making fun of that. My hope with page six is that the way a lot of people who didn't care about politics watch the Daily Show, because it was fun, in much the same way people who don't care about those people you see on supermarket tabloids, you'll tune in because it's fun. And I learned a lot about how Taylor Swift has incredibly fake relationships that are staged like a Civil War battle reenactment. Is that true? The publicists hooked these people up, right? All last summer I was watching her, you know, we did these three weeks of test shows and I had to watch her and Tom Hiddleston, who is Loki the brother of Thor, popular British actor, and see how the two of them had this passionate relationship that consisted of them walking together on beaches fully dressed for the same photographer, the same paparazzi happen to be at every beach getting the official shots of them. And it became really obvious to me that this was, you know, a stage like a Donald Trump wedding night. What I said to the, what I wound up realizing what my role was as the host was, okay, I'm not the guy into this, but these people are the experts on my panel, so I can play the audiences fill in. And it became interesting for me to be like, okay, I know that publicists, part of their job is using these relationships to help launch a project and when a movie is coming out very often you'll hear of the star's dating. I mean, Rock Hudson had all kinds of girlfriends, right? And... He was quite the ladies. Indeed he was. And they still do it.  Publicists. Yeah. They are, many say, the real power brokers in Hollywood. I think people's 10 most beautiful women issue should be called the 10 most persuasive publicists, because that's where the power is. I've heard various theories about publicists. One is that they're pimps, that there are a lot of actors who have trouble meeting women, so they go to their publicists to fix them up for these shoots, really, that a lot of matchmaking gets done on the premise of we need to promote this movie or it would be a good idea if people thought these two were dating and it's matchmaking. Always, yeah. I heard that Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt, when they were dating, they were fixed up by publicists that they both enjoyed marijuana. And it was a match made in heaven. It seems bizarre, doesn't it? I mean... So some say publicists are glorified pimps. Or matchmakers. Well, I must have used the wrong publicist then when I was in the business. I find, you know, when I've hired publicists in the past, a lot of it's been let's get you on shitty TV shows to get your name out there, all promotional stuff. I mean, in the past few years, I've only hired a publicist when I had a tour or something specific to promote. When you have the kind of coin and the regular TV gig that you need to keep yourself in the public eye to continually promote yourself, a lot of it is getting free stuff. A lot of it's going to events, being seen at parties, Broadway shows, red carpet events, Playboy Mansion would have you. And a lot of it is just getting yourself on TV to spout off your opinions. I mean, I guess you've got to be at a pretty exalted level to get a fake relationship out of it. Your work schedule, to me, is... I don't know how you do it. How do you... You have this show, we're in the Sirius XM studios. You do three hours a day of glorious work. Thank you. It's great. You have the greatest show on Sirius XM. How much prep time do you need for each show? It really varies, to tell you the truth. Very often, you know, we're in a phase now where we're trying to de-trumpify the show a bit and get back to other things like pop culture and history and science. Why? Because there's an outrage. There's umbridge fatigue, I think. Is there really umbridge fatigue or are we fatigued? I've noticed this with my show. I'm avoiding Trump. And people are saying, why aren't you talking about Trump? I'm fatigued.  I think there's a difference between tired of Trump and tired of being outraged over Trump. Right? And I do think that at a certain point, you have to take counter-programming into consideration. I can tell you that I will talk about what the president said or did not say today, what he did, what policy debates there are. I will cover that on every show. But I don't need it to be taking two and a half hours of a three hour show. For me, it's important to counter-program that if, you know, you tune into my show every day, yeah, you'll hear commentary on what's going on in the news. But I don't do a breaking news show. I bring on people to talk about things that are journalists and authors and historians and political folk and what have you and a lot of comedians. Generally, I find comedians are the smartest people when it comes to these things because if a joke doesn't have truth in it, it's not going to be funny. And I think that's why people trust comics more than they trust the media or politicians. So in terms of prep time, I mean, we have authors almost every day and I've got to spend time with their books. Often we'll have film stars or musical stars and I've got to learn all about their album or their movie. It's very hard to fake your way through an interview about a... I just had a director, screenwriter and movie star and I hadn't seen the film. The screener didn't work and I convinced them all I'd seen it. But it's almost like more work goes into bullshitting your way through it than actually doing it. When you're interviewing an author or director, do you have to know the work or can't you be representative of the audience and ask them to sell it to you? I find the best results come from when you make them think you know the work. That's good for them and their ego, but what about the listener? Well, you have to know enough of the work to ask the right questions to elicit good storytelling for the listener. You know, if someone's coming in with... Today we had a book about the first attack submarines in naval history and the guy who built the first one. But, you know, they were trying to build submarines from the 1500s to the 1900s. They only just got it right in the 20th century. I didn't have time to read the book. I've had a crazy week. So for me it's about going through the book, going through the publisher's notes, reading reviews and finding the... And skimming the book itself, you know, reading bits of each chapter and the intros and closings of each chapter to get a sense of the points. And then finding what do I think will be good stories for the audience? What would keep me listening to a guy talking about a hundred-year-old submarine design for 30 minutes? And you really just go with what sounds the most interesting. But with an author, you never know what kind of talker they're going to be. So usually, you've got to get a sense of what their energy is and then try to steer the conversation to make sure that they're doing a dance with you for the listener. They think they're selling a book. What they're really doing is providing quality radio time. You never let your ego get in the way. Well, I have intensely self... I interrupt you sometimes on this show and you just let it happen. I've noticed Bill Maher does that too. But you have to. Yeah. You have to.  Also, I was raised very Catholic and I hate myself. So that comes into play as well. What do you do when you got a joke and somebody's talking? My technique is... Ooh, ooh, ooh, stop, stop. I have a joke. Wait, everybody. Well, we just wrapped a segment with you, Frank Conif, Alan's, Whitebell and Judy Gold. So it was just like... It was beautiful. It was wonderful.  Do you find sometimes the show goes great in the studio but the people at home don't enjoy it? I'm never with the people at home. I'm always here. But it sometimes surprises you that the shows that you think didn't go well were compelling and the shows... Yeah, it always surprises me. Honestly, it always... It surprises me and stand up. I'm a very poor judge of my own stuff and, you know, maybe you've had this experience.  Which is great editing to realize that the most brilliant line I've ever written just doesn't fit here. But by the same token, the stuff that's like throwaway, and I bet you've had this, the jokes you invent on stage that you think are so trite and obvious get huge laughs and you realize, oh, sometimes you need something a bit more mainstream to anchor it and I'm all about making discoveries. And for me, you know, I've had radio interviews where I thought it was just dead as disco but listeners have really, really loved it. Your energy level is phenomenal. You do the show here, you're going to get on a bike, pick up your son. You're going to do stand up tonight? No, I have a night off tonight. How many nights a week are you doing stand up? Right now only like, you know, three, four maybe. I mean, I was at a U2 concert last night in Jersey until 2 a.m. so I'm a special kind of hungover exhaust. You went to see U2? My 11th U2 show.  Yeah. How many hours out of the day was that? That was a lot. I biked out of here at five o'clock, got down to my wife's office by around 5.30 and then along with two of our best friends, these two women that we've known for many years, the four of us, we actually did the bougiest thing I've ever done. Like, I am no longer a kid. We got a limousine to take us to MetLife Stadium and watch a U2 concert. Like, I have become middle-class, middle-aged, swine. I kept trying to explain to the ladies, you don't do this. You're supposed to take a limo from New Jersey to Manhattan, not the other way around. But we thought this is the best way to avoid the hell that is stadium traffic. And the use of your time? Well, yeah. I mean, it was actually nice. It forced me to sit in the back of a limousine for the first time that wasn't for a parent's funeral in 25 years. And just have a good time with my friends. And I don't ever do that. All I do is work. Like, right now, I've got a deadline on a book proposal that takes up every free night. How do you schedule your day? This is Thursday, right? I've been up past 3 a.m. for the last three nights. How do you schedule your day? Do you start the week scheduling your week? Or when do you figure out how your day is going to go? Golly. You've got Page Six, the new television series. Yeah, Page Six. You've got this series XM show. Well, I'm actually taking on the fourth job to make my life easier. Because Page Six will be from like 6 a.m. until about, you know, noon. And then I'll have to come over here and do the radio show from 2 to 5. And then I'll get out of here home by 6. So the way I sold it to my wife was, yes, I'll be working 12-hour days, 4 days a week, but I'll be home to cook dinner for our child every night of the week. On the road, stand up maybe 2 weekends a month. And I actually think that working that crazy will stabilize life a little bit. I don't know when I'm going to get to write a book, but at the same time, for me it's like, I've had years of working jobs I don't like and that's draining. And I've had years of not working and that's draining. So working a ton can be draining, but if you like the work and it inspires you, it gives you more energy than it takes. I think you're right. I think you're right.  If you're traveling for work that excites you. I mean, I just went to Albuquerque to do 35 minutes of stand-up for a political set. And it was wonderful. I mean, it was just, I loved every second of the travel because I knew I was going to have a great sold-out crowd and I was going to get to talk about political material with a crowd that really was in the mood for that. And every part of the journey was positive and the 35 minutes of actual performance was bliss. And so I can't really complain about the hours because I've just had too many years of doing terrible TV for a paycheck or even just awful gigs that I didn't believe in.  And I've been through so much like death in the last couple of years in my life and losing people close to me that I'm sort of a recovering cynic. I've burned out on it. I just, I have to be positive. Having a kid is horrible in that regard.  Yeah, I've heard you describe parenthood as a sexually transmitted disease. No, I've said that children are sexually transmitted parasites. The other night, my five-year-old's there and my wife calls me and says, listen, I'm going to be held up late at work and I'm making dinner for the kid and I said, I've got a benefit show at the Ethical Culture Society at 8 o'clock and I can't get a babysitter right now. What am I going to do? And I've never done this before. I saw the picture. I said, five-year-old, you are coming to my show with me and I didn't give him a bath, I didn't put him in his PJs. At his bedtime, 8 p.m., I put him on my shoulders and took him to the show. My wife did show up and she was like, well, let's let him watch. We're late already. So I actually had the five-year-old in the back of the room and towards the end of my set, when I began talking about how horrible children are and how awful having a child has been for my life, the five-year-old just announces, dad's talking about me and every head in the room swibbled back to see him. I am a big proponent of this. I think it's great. And so what was the ride home like? The ride home? Were you talked about your set? We just walked home. He liked it. He's beginning to understand. It used to be he would see photos of me on stage and he would say, daddy's singing. And then my wife brought him. I did a matinee show in North Carolina. My wife brought him to see me on stage doing this whole shtick and he's beginning to get a sense of it. Well, there's a picture of him that you posted on Facebook where he's talking into a microphone. Yeah, he went on stage after the set and we lowered the mic stand for him and he was working on his mic technique. He was swallowing the mic and saying things off mic. He's learning his chops. This makes me so happy and yet nostalgic and in the true definition of the word nostalgic, pain. I remember nostalgia was pain for the past, right? I don't know. Is that what it is? Yeah. I mean the Brazilians call that soldage. But is nostalgia always pain? Sometimes nostalgia, having just seen you two last night do their first nostalgia tour, I think a lot of times nostalgia is a longing for the past, not a pain of the past. What's the difference between longing and pain? Well, pain means you don't want to remember and longing means, oh my God, I'd love to go back to this. I went and saw you two do their first nostalgia tour for Joshua Tree, 30 years anniversary last night. It was like the third concert I ever saw when I was a teenager and then to go 30 years later and see them do the whole album and all these Gen X people that are just miserable, destroyed, desolate, burned out shells of adults now. I guess the nostalgia really was more about the joy than the pain. How great was it? It was interesting. It wasn't the best show I ever saw. But what they did that I liked was when they got to side two of the album, which is not as adored as side one, it was like they knew it and they worked harder. Side two is always great when they tour with new music because they've got to sell you new songs and earn their mantle as the biggest band in the world. Stones don't care. They'll do one album every 10 years, but you two is always toured with a new record. You want to see the artists you like still being creative. Dick Gregory's still doing new material. I was kind of surprised like this isn't as magical as I thought it would be. This is not a nostalgia act. I want to hear new music from these guys. Then they sold the side two so hard. Then they did something that I thought was the most brilliant thing they could have done to allay any criticism of a nostalgia tour. They're closing every night in their stadium with a new song. It's called The Little Things That Give You Away. I've never seen a band close a stadium tour with a song that no one in the stadium knew. It's really audacious, but it was the best song of the night. It's like a stand-up opening with a brand new joke. Sort of, but it's also... Can you imagine Sinatra? Closing with a brand new tune? Brand new. Not like a song from our new album, a song that you've never heard before. No artist does that. It was the best song of the night. It was a great U2 song. The entire audience was on their feet by the end. It was sort of like, just when I wanted to get cynical of, oh this is just a cash grab, I'm going to the audience. The best is still coming. We're writing the best stuff of our career and the next tour is going to be nothing like this. It's going to be all about looking to the future. And it ended something that could have been kind of weird on a really high note and really made me respect the band. Your intellectual discipline. Does not exist. How many hours of sleep do you need? I don't know. It's a hard question. What do you need? Four? Eight? You mean every night?  I mean I've only had about five hours, four hours for the past four nights, because I've been staying up late writing and it's brutal. And what do you use to stay awake? Fear. And focus. If I need to I'll have some Coca-Cola or some five hour energy shots or stuff like that. Oh you do the five hour energy. For me, I've had some days in raising a child, I had a couple days where I actually hit for the cycle and had coffee, tea, soda and energy shots all on the same day. If I do all four I know I'm pushing it too hard. I've never done a five hour energy shot. I like it better than coffee because there's no crash. It's very subtle.  Do you know when you're burnt out? Yes. What's the tell? The tell is when I'm more drawn towards going on Twitter and getting angry over racists and fascists and homophobes than being funny. When I am more drawn towards outrage than playfulness I know I'm burned out. And what do you do? I check out. I stop. I mean like, you know I went on vacation recently for a week which I haven't done. I've been on vacation. You just work harder. That's true. But I did take some actual time off. And like last night I went about 20 hours without going on social media because I went to a concert and got ossified and this morning I was hung over and I was so grateful that I didn't feel like checking the news on Twitter. If you're unplugged, no social media no computer, you're going to end up working harder because you can't turn off the mind. That's true. So you're going to go to a yellow canary pad and start writing. And you get up at a certain, and I do use yellow legal pads. They're the best things in the world. Woody Allen writes all of his scripts on yellow legal pads. Still, do you have a set time of day where you write? Do you believe in getting up early in the morning and writing before the brain can be cluttered with anything else? I believe in it. But you don't do it. I try to do it. But you're a real professional writer so you don't have to do it. Well, I'm writing jokes basically. For this show ideally I'd be getting up every morning and writing but there just doesn't seem to be enough time in the day. And I lose control of my day more and more and it pisses me off. I know what you're saying having these five jobs because you can't lose control of your day. Yeah. I'll be honest with you. I reached a point where my wife and I were together a long time and we were together a long time before we married and a long time before we had a child. In fact, I've never met a couple that waited as long into their relationship as we did. I mean, in the Ozarks we'd be grandparents. And we waited a very long time to have this baby but I was at a point where I was living in L.A. and my show was canceled and my dad went into hospice and we moved back to New York and I had to give away everything and lose everything. And then in like an 18 month span my dad died, my wife's grandmother died, the aunt who helped raise me died, my best friend killed herself, she was diagnosed with a horrible rare degenerative disease that killed her. I moved back to New York. You moved back to New York and both my cats died. Any of those things would be devastating. Having them all happen in an 18 month span was almost unbearable and I didn't want a kid but we began thinking we have to do something radical to change the trajectory of our lives. Things were so bleak and so bad for so long and I had said I'm not going to have a kid until I'm rich when I grow up someday but then it just felt like no I'm going to throw something into these gears and do something radically disruptive of my own life and I don't know if it will make my life better or worse but I know that I need to change things and this represents radical change which is the rationale a lot of unstable women used for having kids and unstable guys too but I'm glad I did it because I had to develop disciplines I didn't have I had to suffer in ways I never thought I could suffer and I know that I didn't want to be that person anymore so I put myself through something that made me a stronger person and a better person and a tougher person I'm not afraid of bad things happening the way I used to be and I think it's made me funnier and more playful because I just don't give a damn in ways I used to. You're going to bring your son to more shows? If he wants to then who bring your kid to shows in LA? It got to the point near the end when my son was in high school where he was this is so horrible I can remember my son coming late to one of my shows with his friends and they were all black African-Americans Asian Black African-American Asians? Yes and I would point to one of the African-Americans or the Asians and say there's my son and I put it in quotation marks and they knew to go hi Mr. Feldman Anyway, it was pretty horrible it got to the point where people would say are you sure this is okay? and I'd say let's find out where the children were exposed to some of the filthiest comics I was doing things on stage borderline where your act shocks me. It was borderline for your son's friends who are 17 to act as though there were rent boys but at the same time they get to see their friend's dad being radically edgy when other dads are asking if they want to reply to the ROTC and you're going up there talking about how they're rent boys there is an integrity to that in my opinion I never got any pushback from their fathers and mothers I was surrounded by the filthiest parents who did the most disgusting things in front of their children and they had no problem with it Are you protective of your kid that way? It's very interesting because my wife grew up with a real hippie northern California kind of thing and everyone's parents smoked weed and everyone swore I grew up abnormally I had the most conservative parents and the most liberal parents at the same time they were ex-clergy, mom had been a nun dad had been a Franciscan he had the autobiography of Malcolm X on his desk he was a big social justice guy he didn't want us to be Republicans but he did dress us like them and we were the only kids who had to have short hair just the nerdiest kids and yet the most politically progressive parents as well so I grew up very impressed dressed like the enemy, that's what I tell my kids clip on bow tie, thick glasses but I mean my class picture looks like 37 little almond brothers and buddy hollies and bread cousin so it was pretty awkward this has been great, John Fugl saying hosts, tell me everything on channel 121, Insight, SiriusXM watch them on page 6 TV soon to be saturating TV commercials and billboards near you it's just begun Mel Brooks, how do we hear your interview with Mel Brooks? I think if you subscribe to SiriusXM you can go onto the website or go to my Facebook page I've shared some clips of it we went to do a half hour with Carl Reiner in his house and I had met Carl before in a TV show we did we were told that Mel might come then we were told Mel can't come he just got back from the Baptist and he's really jet lagged so I thought alright that's too bad but Carl, an hour with Carl, that's great we sat down, PBS was there filming it in Carl's living room halfway through the shoot here is all this lights and 90 year old Mel Brooks he just lost $400 at the track he wasn't exhausted from the Baptist he was at the racetrack he walks in so annoyed that he lost $400 sits down and joins our interview in the worst mood possible and it just gets more chaotic from there it was magical, it was comedy bliss and it's one of the reasons why I love working in a place like SiriusXM where we can just pitch our bosses Mel and Carl, can we fly to LA and they'll say go do it Wow, John Fugl saying thank you David, I'd rather do your podcast than the best podcast in all of comedy and I mean that I want to thank you for bringing so many of your listeners to the brink of entertainment Hey, I'm here to poach all your guests including you, thank you Thank you You're listening to highlights from the David Feldman show heard nationwide on Pacifica Radio Stitcher and now YouTube please subscribe to this channel for more information go to davidfeldmanshow.com Thank you for listening


Welcome to my channel, Amar Pratakarva and in this video I am going to analyze the NTA UGC NET paper one which was conducted on 26th of June in the first shift. So the reason why I am analyzing this paper is because I teach my students English literature and the students who appeared for English literature had their paper on one single day that was 26th of June and that too in the first shift. So I am going to look at the entire paper one and I am going to analyze and put in front of you what all things you need to keep in mind if you are going to prepare and appear for December 2019 exam and how you should strategize and how you should prepare a blueprint for your preparation looking at the paper pattern. So we are going to look at all the ten units one by one. So stay tuned to this channel and also watch this video till the end. So let's begin by first looking at the time. So this time there was a huge advantage for the NET aspirants because they were given three hours together for both paper one and two and it was up to them how much time they would like to devote for any of these papers. So there was no time crunch so students were able to complete the paper in a very relaxed manner. So that was a big thing. Another important thing was that the paper was really simple. Like I have talked to all the students, everybody was of the opinion. That paper was very simple and if they have watched my videos, the crash course videos which I have uploaded on my YouTube channel for UGC NET paper one, you could have seen that the topics which I have talked about in the crash course video exactly from those topics questions were coming. So nothing out of syllabus, out of blue had not come. The paper was very decent even the calculations part was very less. So there were times where you can even calculate in your mind. The calculations were so simple that you don't need to even use a pen and paper. That is what students have reported so far. Let's begin with the first area that is DI, the most horrifying area. So DI was very simple. Students reported that the figures that were in round numbers as in they were rounded off so 20, 15, 1, 1, 5, this type of figures said the calculations karnaa bohot simple raha okay. So one of the students reported that the fraction was somewhere 31 upon 67. So is type ke figures mansors thi. So it becomes very easy for students to calculate because they don't need to multiply it by 100 and then calculate the percentage. You can just do minimum calculation and you can get the answer. Another topic from which they were asking questions was research. As I've already mentioned in my research video on YouTube that they most of the time ask questions from either the types of research or they ask from types of sampling. So this time the question was from types of sampling and you had to choose which of the following were the non-probability sampling and one of the options as you all know would have been snowball sampling. So that was another area from which very simple questions were asked. Next unit was computers and information technology. From computers also this time no binary to decimal or decimal to binary questions were asked. They were asking very simple terms like SMTP what's the full form simple mail transfer protocol. Then there was a question that you had to convert KB into bytes. Okay, so how many bytes are going to be there in a kilobyte? So that was a conversion question that was asked. Now when we come to the next portion that was teaching aptitude. From teaching aptitude again very simple questions were asked. You were just asked about characteristics of teacher or you were asked about what a teacher is going to do in this particular situation. So very common sense based questions were being asked. So you don't need to worry at all about the theoretical portions. We are going to definitely come to the mathematical and logical reasoning and see if they were as simple as the theoretical ones. But let's first look at the theory questions. Now the next topic is reading comprehension. From reading comprehension again the students reported that a very simple reading comprehension was given in which direct questions stay sare. All the five questions were direct. There were no inference or team based questions. You just need to read the paragraph and then you could just answer the question. Students also reported that earlier when they gave the net exam in the month of December they faced this issue that they had to scroll left and right and both up and down in order to answer a question. Which was very frustrating of course. This time they made some changes in the system and it was more user friendly, more computer friendly. So now they had to just scroll left and right. They don't have to scroll up and down. The question was placed in the right hand side of the passage. So passage is there and on the right hand side you have the question.  You don't need to really panic in order to look at the passage and then look at the question. There was good news for students who are not so good at current affairs because this time two sections from which most of the times they ask current affair based question, the questions were relatively very easy. So the two sections definitely are government and higher education and people and environment. From government and higher education they were not asking questions from government, from the parliament and the people involved in the parliament. They were rather asking questions from UGC. So the questions were focusing on UGC's primary goal, primary objective, primary function. The next topic is people and environment from where they were asking really, really simple questions. Even though if you don't have good knowledge about this topic, you can use a common sense and answer questions. For example, they were asking that out of the four forms of energy, which one will produce the electric power in the fastest way? So there are options like nuclear and geothermal and solar and wind. So it's a very simple thing. You can actually very well relate that which is going to give away the power more easily or which is going to convert to electrical energy more easily. Now the next question that was asked from people and environment was Montreal protocol. Montreal protocol was signed between a few countries. And what is this Montreal protocol all about? Another interesting question that was asked from people and environment was the reason why Taj Mahal is corroding so much. So the problem that lies with Taj Mahal is that because of pollution, it is now the state of Taj Mahal is deteriorating day by day. So the question asked that which is the pollutant because of which the state is depleting of Taj Mahal. So that was the kind of question asked from people and environment. When it comes to mathematical reasoning, it was surprising to see the kind of questions they asked, very simple questions. No number series question, no direction-based question, no blood relation question, very simple question. Alphabet coding decoding questions were there. Also students reported that they found a question very tricky that was about profit. So it was given that the profit has decreased by 25%. And the cost price was increased by 175 rupees. And then a selling price was given. So you had to calculate the cost price. So a kind of confusing question, a few students reported that that's the only question where they got stuck. Otherwise the mathematical reasoning paper, the mathematical reasoning portion was very simple and very decent. Finally, we come on to the last area that is the logical reasoning. Now logical reasoning also had a very, very simple questions this time. So it was reported that there were questions on Venn diagram. There was a question on square of opposition and both these questions were very simple. So even square of opposition question was very direct. And Venn diagram question was also something students could even do verbally. They did not even made a Venn diagram in order to understand it. So it was that simple. So overall people reported that the paper was really decent. My advice to all the students who are going to appear for December 2019 exam is going to be that you have to now start focusing on the major areas from which repeated questions are being asked. So as I've already mentioned in most of my videos, that focus on previous year papers, also make sure that you watch my videos on Crash Course on paper one. So there is a video series where I have discussed each and every unit in one-one video and I have also talked about all the major portions that you must cover in that particular topic. So make sure you watch those Crash Course videos and start your UGC net paper one preparation accordingly. So till the time we meet next, happy learning, keep loving literature and stay tuned to arpathakarva.com


They're very concerned about, you know, bombing somewhere and some Palestinian children getting killed and then the moral equivalency all over again, but God, they need to stop that and they need to make it clear the difference. I mean Netanyahu, wherever in Israel needs to get up, stand up and declare that yes, civilians, including innocent civilians, i.e. children, are going to die in Gaza and that their blood is on the hands of Hamas. Every drop of blood is on the hands of Hamas. Israel did not start this. Israel did not initiate it.  And somebody needs to freaking say this on the Israeli side. This is the Arabs, this is the Palestinians, this is on Hamas. The blood is there, it is on them and the blood will be shed and we don't apologize for it and get used to it because the next few days are going to be freaking bloody.


I was already not so great great move in the morning, but then I started messing up orders not delivering this lady stuff like I was For all it was just all bad Dedicated on back today with another door dance video huge shout out to everybody tuned in if you want to subscribe Make sure you smash that subscribe But give me a thumbs up and do not skip those ads today is March 9th I'm gonna say happy birthday to my guys a comment below and put happy birthday in the comment section for him It's his birthday. I got some special for her to heal. You know it's coming Unfortunately they come until tomorrow, but it is what it is and I'm gonna drop it off But he could be crazy.  Thanks to you guys teach out to everybody who do a door That's no that stuff huge house to all you guys But no matter the cost keep on pushing keep on striving and you will arrive chase your dreams and get this green I see you guys when we get the first order. Let's go order number one and two What to do order number one is always sparked up one order 7.8 miles for 1267 Thank God for as much as also just so you guys know yesterday that last order We did for always sparked up for Sam's Club instead of 1249. We got 2749 We was gonna go out to the end of time order number two what to do McDonald's three items 4.3 miles for 775 Let's drive but they'll pick up this McDonald's Then we're gonna come back pick up the spark order and drop that off We don't have to pick it up till 845. Hopefully we can get it a little bit early So we can get back and get that 920 order. Let's go Baby, okay got it together 329 Thank you very much, so you have a good one It's make it ease baby, it said do not knock so we're gonna take the picture All the way sparked up or they got green beans and ziplocks everywhere I'm talking about everywhere, baby.  It's all good, baby We ain't tripping. We ain't tripping. We flipping this money, baby Where that yeah, baby that bag came in handy then My phone's off my phone. Here you go, baby Order three four and five we are on the straw order number three is always sparked up one order 13.7 miles for 1564 is a Sam's Cupboard so hopefully we get that tip afterwards if we don't we don't if we do we do we go pursue though Order number four. We in the door. It's the car order. Jewel Oscar 13 items 1.9 miles for 2066 we bought to get in the mix order number five is Einstein grows three items For 575 stay alive. Let's drive. Look, this is the plan stand I'm here on time brother.  She getting the order ready She don't get that order ready to drop that order off Then we're gonna go pick up the auto a spark that work because that's not ready until 10 o'clock We're gonna try to get there like 940. Hopefully they can get that order But then we're gonna drop the all the way sparked up. We're gonna come back get busy again So hope y'all off that getting these dividend To get this dough. I think it's our order right here. I bet you it is. Hello. I have a pick up for Toshi s I knew I knew that was it. Oh, this too. All righty. Thank you. You have a great one Here to join this line bro to get this though. They got that Mickey D's right there too Guess what for that first auto a sparked up order We got a $20 and 50 cent tip. So we ended up with 33 17. We are getting to this green, baby Hopefully we get a tip on this next one. I'll let you guys know when I know. Let's go You're here to jump off this Instacart or the baby Ring ring ring we heard the dogs know we hear it. Well, that's next door though. I think that Doorbell works. I'm not sure this one says meet the customer. So we're gonna meet them But if you take too long, we're gonna be gone Oh, well, we're leaving right here be me. They got some chips Red Bulls I see They got you already got some muffler than they don't Bagels and all that just Oh We are here to draw up this paper paper paper paper Sadly about a door, but hopefully open. Hello I don't Yes, ma'am, you're welcome You're welcome you guys have a great day Order number six we trying to get it a mix for 10 loans one item 3.5 miles for 675. Let's drop Hello, baby How you doing, sir? Here you go. Let's drink And then your food is right here. You have a great one, sir Ordered number seven. Did you thank God for his blessings Japan lay two items 2.2 miles for 575 Let's drive. So while we were in noodles the company We got to add on which is pop belly three items 4.3 miles for 725 So that's still number eight number nine. We only granted it in the time. We got another pop belly order Five items 6.8 miles for 1075. Let's drive. So oh one more thing We also got all the way sparked up two orders 4.6 miles for 22 81 We about to get it done. This is the plan stem. We're here right now at pop belly We don't get these two orders one two Then we go drop off the noodles the company didn't go job off the first pop belly Then we're gonna drop off the second pop belly.  Let's go Baby, hopefully got us together man. Here's they do something. How you doing, sir? I have two pickups one for Elizabeth T and then the other for Michael W Yes, sir No problem Okay, so Elizabeth Thank you. You have a good one. Sorry. Let's drop off order number one. We about to get it done, baby I'll play down here. I've never been in this building before It's nice says hand it's a customer. I don't think that they have She my business partner had actually called her because she didn't put the sweet number on here So I found it. I just want one. We're about to get it done, baby Don't order and order that just make sure y'all put the sweet number to burn or anything just so we know where to go We have a lot of numbers in here Excuse me Hello, I have delivery for Jasmine. Alrighty, okay, you're welcome You too You guys have a good one So I know you guys be seeing us do all this stuff sometimes I know you be guys I've seen some come and say how pretty much how are we doing this? Look two horses pull better than one when they go in the same way Too smart minds at the same time because she good with the mapping and stuff and I could just I'm just gonna move make it Make it happen. That's all that's gonna happen. I'm make it happen. She gonna map it out and we gonna make it happen but um Also understand that it's two of us is not just one person I know that it seems that we do be doing the most what we do be doing the most and we get this money That's what we be doing. I hope y'all pursuing and y'all doing it too, but it's two of us not one So that's how we be getting it done and with these orders with these two popular orders They actually go in the same way So that's the reason why we able to take both of them and then go pick up that all the way sparked up order and get busy And I hope y'all with me, baby, but make sure you spend subscribe button Give me a thumbs up and do not skip those. That's one more thing How's your day going today? My day is going way better than it was yesterday yesterday was critical I was already not so great great move in the morning, but then I started messing up orders Not delivering this lady stuff like I was spoiled. Oh, it was just all bad. It was all sad, but guess what? I got glad that's that bag. Let's go number two. What do they do? They say leave it at the door So that's exactly what we're going to do, baby A little bit better. Oh, yeah We're here to drop off order number three get with me, baby Almost We are here to drop off all the way sparked up order number one.  Hey, y'all hear the flow, baby Get him with that photo which I already know Order number two what it do This is your Just like that.  I delivered to her before So Hello, I'm back again Here you go Here you go. All right. Thank you. You're welcome. You have a great day You too, okay Order number 11 we getting money wings dressing for two loans four items 5.9 miles for 975. Let's drive You have a great day Order number 12. We trying to prevail two 4.4 miles for eight dollars. We're hollow order number 13 and 14 We hotline scorching.  Let's drive. Hope you strive to win. We're getting it in. Let's go Right on time. Here you go. You have a great one All right, here to jump off this jewel osco order. They say they want us to hand it to them, so Hello, how you doing? Can you set it up here? Yes, ma'am It's going to be a lot of stuff. You want me to take it to the kitchen? Would that help you? Well, it's easier getting it off here. Okay Okay And it's the bananas Can you put the Just set the soda there, but can you put the milk in the bridge? Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am So sit the soda where we'd like to sit it right here or And then the milk in the fridge is Okay, there you go You're welcome. You have a great day, ma'am Okay Okay, thank you. You have a good one. Oh, hold on one second. You have a package too I'll just sit it right here for you. Thank you. You're welcome You have a good one For quarter number two, what do you do? It's actually a school probably just for the one in there To see they didn't tell us if it was cool or nothing and they did us bogeys So I don't know in these bags with one of the last words and just like that. We got it done, baby 2011 thank god for his blessings honestly today. We're very very small. We were just small. We just We just coasted through that and not only that's a mention We still have an order that always sparked up order that haven't gave us a tip yet So I'll let you guys know by tomorrow what the tip is on that But if we do get a tip either way go you already know another thing I want to say Is honestly you have to stop being so picky and get this money. I had to learn that the hard way Stop being so peak. I want to be picky. I want to get two dollars a mile Man, look if it's getting up some money and always sparked up orders ain't coming in when they're supposed to come in We got to keep on consistently going to get these orders and getting this money because we're sitting around is not going to Make you any money, baby. So you guys want to make sure you think they're about that also Lock in tomorrow because it's going back down. We ain't playing around go down like young talk It's going down meet me in the mall meet me at the spark It's going down over over eats is going down in the door dash is going down. It's going down, baby also Don't forget I'll say early in the video chase your dreams. Don't matter the cost There's gonna be some good days. There's gonna be some bad days But it's up to you to keep on going and keep on growing and you're already knowing I see you on the next one We going we growing we flowing you already know the dk and i'm on my way


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