Good morning guys. Welcome to a new vlog. This is the Gallentine's Day vlog. I don't know when you're gonna be seeing this but my goal is to be on my camera. So I know I've been like super lazy but it's because like trying to do tiktoks and stuff like I've just been on my phone. I will say when I go to the party I'll probably get some more iPhone footage but my goal is to like use the camera because I have this thing. I need to use it like whenever I like get something I'm like I need to use it. I've used this quite a bit but I just want to like just force myself to not take the easy way out but this morning I had a really relaxing morning. I literally just was on tiktok in my bed resting relaxing all the things and now I'm gonna go downstairs. I don't know what I'm gonna do but I just wanted to start the vlog because I want this to be like a full vlog of today. Okay so I just got done having my salad, had a couple pretzels, some shortbread. It's gonna be way too cold to wear the dress that I was wanting to wear. So I was wanting to wear this dress. I think it's so cute. Perfect for Gallentine's Day. I think it's gonna be like more outside. I will not be wearing that which is so sad. It's like 68 but that's like freezing in Florida terms. So this is also something that is girly but you know cute. So we have this as an option.  That's what I think I'm gonna do because like I want to do like filming a get ready with me and then like show my outfit at the end. So I might wear that for the video but like in real life I'm not going to. So I'm thinking about that jacket. This is so hard guys. I don't know. I'll let you know what I come up with when I figure it out. When you don't know what to wear you always call mother in the style expert obviously. Oh my god I can't. Okay so we have two base options. Okay. Okay. Okay. So that was really cute. What? That's really cute. Well not together. I like it. The two things together. What? Yeah. Okay. Okay we'll go ahead. I wasn't really going for that. What am I thinking? Okay so I just filmed like three TikToks.  I filmed like a dancing one that I want to post on Valentine's Day. It is tragic and then I filmed the hi my name is Lindsay and I'm looking for love. I did that one and then I did like a transition one. So I'm good and with like the content and stuff I'm so excited to post these. I hope they do well and just because I put effort it probably means they won't do as well but it's okay because I had fun doing it and you know this rate social media is like all about if you're having fun and like what you like to do because I'm gonna have a normal job pretty soon so it's fine um that's why this is like a good passion project for me. I would hate to like rely on this to be my like sole income again unless I had like a big audience and then the second one I'm gonna do today or like I'm gonna post today is going to be the TikTok that I'm gonna make at the Little Gallantines Day. So I'm just gonna do like you know little videos of what it looks like over like some music and stuff so hopefully I get some cute pictures too with like my friend and stuff. It's gonna be so fun but yeah I have to get going in just a little bit. It's like 3.30 and I have like a little reminder too. Anytime I go to a party or go to a birthday well birthday is a party but I always set a reminder in my phone like don't forget whatever I need to bring so like I'm gonna bring a bottle of rosa regale um which I hope she'll enjoy. I don't know if we're gonna have it tonight but I wanted to bring it for my friend so at least you could try it. It's so good but yeah I have a little reminder in my phone to like remember birthday card because like I would be the type to forget it so I have that so I'm glad I put that in my phone for 3.30 because I'm gonna leave around four. She lives kind of far so she lives like 47 minutes away for me but it's fine um that's why I just have to leave like a little bit earlier because I just don't know about traffic and stuff. So this is the beverage I'm taking we always get this at Epcot rosa regale yes so I don't know she probably won't well it really is it's so good basically I don't know if she's gonna have like champagne glasses but you typically would drink this out of a champagne glass so yeah I'm excited hope she likes it all right made it to the gallon dine stay party I want to show you guys everything but first my friend London is going to open the rosa regale I don't think it'll explode it's not like champagne yeah that's good my mom was like don't drink it all tonight I'm like it's so easy to it's so good and then London's boyfriend got her this really cute cake so cute three eyes so I took a little clip similar to this on the instagram story mother's watching the game say hi sherry I wanted to show you guys what I got I got this cutey little rose so cute then I got this plant from a nice girl named Rachel and then I got this balloon it's pink and this little um angry cat valentine thing I think I'm gonna take this school on Tuesday for Valentine's Day I'm debating my foreheads like super shiny I'm debating on just continuing this vlog on Wednesday because let's face it I wanted to do it like one vlog but I want this video to be longer so we'll just push it out hope you don't mind so on to whatever I end up filming next okay so it's Wednesday now I'm continuing on this video because I think the other like clips I got too short for a video we're here today and I just got home from class and I am going to get ready not like right now because we're not we don't have to be there until like seven because I was like the suggested time to get to the venue and I didn't realize that it wasn't downtown it's actually in like around the international drive area so I'm like I'm coming home even though I like packed all my stuff got it ready have it in my bag here I didn't actually have to do that because I didn't even check the address which is kind of stupid on my part I should have checked that but it's fine because I was prepared I'm gonna change my outfit because I don't know I just want to so I'm gonna wear the dress I wanted to wear the one that looks like um the knockoff one from revolve so yeah I'm gonna wear that with like my shoes and like my nude high heels because I think it'll be cute also guys I got this lululemon package I'm gonna do like an unboxing on tiktok I think because it's like it's my little valentine's day present to myself and I'm gonna open it up and I will show you guys once it's already opened and stuff so if you're not following me on tiktok follow me on tiktok okay so I just unboxed this and look at how cute it is it's so nice very good quality this buckle though is kind of weird I don't know the metal zipper is nice I don't know it just looks really well made and it's really cute so definitely not a fail and I love it I still love my white one I'm still gonna use the white one but let's be real like I love the new the newness so nice so I was gonna film a get ready with me um for tiktok but I was like you know what I want to listen to see your frittato's new video so that's what I'm gonna do while I get ready so I thought I would just time-lapse this for you guys so yeah I'm gonna start the downlapse okay so this is how the makeup turned out at first the eyes were giving me a hard time I actually put some hairspray in my hair just so it'll hold because I'm gonna eat a salad now um I don't want to go hungry because I don't know if there's food I know that there's drinks and I want to like try a couple like I'll show you guys it's gonna be cute this is what the dress looks like you guys have seen this one before but I'm gonna be wearing the heels I'm not gonna put on the heels now because I think they rip up my feet honestly but you know they're cute and I'm gonna meet broken Danielle tonight which I'm so excited I'm gonna take my shoes downstairs with me so I can just put them on before I leave but yeah this is pretty much the look okay so we're on our way I have this GPS on for the walking and I don't know if I'm getting close or not but we'll see forever lost okay this clip is to remind me I parked at monkey joes like fine monkey joes and then go into the um parking garage okay hopefully I have the right place these ladies kind of helped me they're like oh it's on the second floor so okay let's try to find it it's actually kind of funny because oh wait I see people so okay good um I'm kind of early and this place is like kind of deserted because it's like a Wednesday night so yeah um oh there it is there it is I'm so excited we made it there's the improv okay good I parked pretty close so here we are we made it I found it so now I just have to wait for my friend I think she's on her way but yeah it's okay hopefully there's nice people here okay London's here I have to show you the fit look at you she went with the black I did all black okay so vlogging and there's Danielle and Karen I know I feel kind of awkward but they're probably used to it I just hold it close to my mouth but here's Danielle's mom how fun I can't I can't I'm like fangirling the hot minute so London's the best she gave me her minute apparently like you could only have like a minute per person and she came through she's like you can have my minute I'm like oh my gosh maybe we have to turn sorry I'm like totally lost but they're so cool they're like I feel like they're just like friends like they're relatable they're not like I don't know I love how in a lot of their vlogs they say like we're so lucky to do this and like they recognize they're not like those like some of the arrogant like youtubers that or content creators that you just feel like they're above like they're really down to earth and stuff so anyway really good show okay so I'm home now and I think I'm gonna close out the vlog there let's see if this brush will hold you guys up I forgot the freaking oh here's Tao I forgot the tripod downstairs but it's fine um overall had such a great time I'm so happy my friend London could make it and everything she's not really big into like youtubers and like everything like that but I thought she would enjoy this event the girls were so sweet like where should say the gals and it was so cool like running into um like another person that has like seen my videos like that was also like really cool and stuff so I'm just like it's always like cool to know that people watch your videos at least have seen your videos I'm like oh wow like people watch my videos like it's pretty cool um because I honestly forget because I know some of my videos do really well so I always forget that like yep there are people behind just the number so that's also cool so anyway that is going to be it I hope you guys enjoyed it this vlog it was filled with love gallantines all around give this video a thumbs up don't forget to subscribe and I'll see you guys in my next video bye


What's up guys my name is Michael and welcome to my YouTube channel today We're gonna do another leak code challenge. It's called a Fibonacci number Fibonacci numbers just subscribe as What it says here, you know, you have the sum of the two numbers of the preceding ones you start at zero one F of n f of zero zero f one is one f of n is equal to f of n minus one plus f of n minus two Yeah, that's basically it All you have to do is just do this could be two two lines If n is less than or equal to one Return n because that would be zero and one. Okay else return Fib and minus one plus Fib and minus two Yeah, that's it Wait a minute. Yep. That was it that that's basically it Click the submit button and It should get accepted. Yes, but it is very very slow So there is another the best optimal solution is actually use something called memo is Asian Memo wise So here they have Top-down approach, let's see which is a better one. I don't want to do this way Matrix you can use matrix it Wow That is this way too complicated Yeah, that's way too complicated. I don't think that's a good idea actually log of n. Whoa Wow, okay, I Think it's better to go over memo is Asian because that's much faster It's actually better. Oh This is much better actually. This is a better way Bottom-up approach because then you don't have to recursively call it So it's actually much better if you just do this and then memo wise create your Array and then pre-compute it based on the values like this So using recursion, so I'll use it this way Essentially memorizing is just pre-comp, pre-computation. So you don't have to repeat compute computations. So that's what it is See so I don't want to create it and I don't want that return and memo wise memo wise and Let's do this part Memo wise. Okay, so I'm gonna create a vector Int is gonna have data is gonna have n a Do-do-do-do n plus one actually n plus one and Then I'll do data at one is equal to one Go from two reason why we're going from two is because we want to Memo wise from zero one two and pre add the previous values Together so the previous two values add them up and store that as our memo wise data So I is gonna equal to data I minus one plus data at I minus two Then after that we just return Data at n. Okay. I think this is much better. We're in the code. Let's see what this does. Hopefully no errors Okay, so this it does fits it out correctly submit Do-do-do and it got accepted. So, yeah, that's all I have. Oh, yeah, that's how you do Bit my Nazi number great come subscribe check guys later. Thank you


Water, like any substance, is made up of molecules. The mobility of these molecules is determined by temperature. When heat is added to water, the vibration of its molecules increases, causing the water to expand. As the water molecules vibrate faster, they bounce around, pushing each other away, causing the space between them to increase. This graph shows how the volume of water expands as its temperature increases from 4°C to 18°C. Here is a graph showing the increase of water volume over a larger range of temperatures. However, there is an important anomaly that should be noted. When you zoom in on the graph between 0 and 4°C, you'll notice that there is no expansion in this range. In fact, there's a slight decrease in volume. This is due to water's unique property of having less density as a solid than as a liquid. This can be explained by the crystalline structure of ice. When water molecules cool down, they vibrate less. As the temperature reaches freezing, these slow-moving molecules latch onto each other at specific points, creating rigid ice crystals with a distinctive lattice shape. The relatively large space between frozen water molecules is the reason that ice is more voluminous than water and likewise less dense. As ice is heated from 0 to 4°C, it begins to thaw. However, because melting is not an instantaneous process, the water molecules transforming from the crystalline state to a liquid are decreasing in overall volume. While the water molecules absorbing heat in the liquid form are increasingly more active, which increases volume. However, because the collapse of ice crystals dominates these two opposing processes, the net effect is a decrease in the overall volume. Once the water reaches 4°C, however, expansion takes over as most of the ice crystals have melted and the freely vibrating water molecules can move about with increasing mobility.


Jerry of the circus you take a few minutes of your time mr. Randall my books here, but they can wait What's on your mind? Well, mr. Randall. I I don't know just how to start but well I really come to talk to you about Jerry Jerry Well, you see mr. Randall a boy is just about heartbroken not being able to work with that new elephant El Mundo And it's his own fault major. I must have discipline on a lot But I don't think he had anything to do with cutting the bearded ladies beard off I don't either, but I do think he knows who it was.  Randall? I happen to know you don't have a lot of love for the bearded lady. Well, she riles me You even get mad thinking about it. Yes, I do Oh, and isn't it reasonable for me to suspect you of cutting her beard off? Oh, mr. Randall Well, what is it you want to talk to me about about Jerry? I wanted to ask you if you wouldn't let him go ahead and work El Mundo He's got his heart set on it and he was so excited about that uniform I think he'd be a big attraction with the elephant Why is this sudden interest in Jerry? Oh, I've always liked Jerry. He's a great boy But I can't have underhanded work going on he's shielding someone major and I don't like it after all He's working for me and I'm paying him if he's going to be loyal to anyone I should be first well, but maybe he can't tell you nonsense But if he feels that way then let him take the punishment. Well, is that all major? You won't reconsider and let him work El Mundo. Oh, I've got to find out who cut the beard off the bearded lady Maybe Jerry'll decide to tell me how he happened to borrow those shears from Clara The best way to make a boy behave is to take something away from him that he wants badly But mr. Red was no prank major. What good the bearded lady without a beard She has no value at all now at least until her beard goes out again, and that'll take months Well, it serves her right. What's that? Well, it was her own fault, mr. Randall I believe you know more about this than you're saying why mr. Randall listen major if you know anything I I want you to tell me you've come to me pleading for Jerry now if you really want to help Jerry Tell me all you know if you learn who really cut the beard off with it. Let Jerry ride El Mundo. Well Well, yes, I will and for all that's what I want to find out. Well, you won't tell a bearded lady I'm afraid you're afraid.  Oh, all right out with it. Who did it? Well now mr. Randall, I hope you won't get to and out with it major. Well, sir, I Cut the beard off. Oh Yes, sir, but she had it coming really she did let me decide that I'll tell you the whole story and then I'll bet you'll Agree with me. Well, it better be good. Well in the first place She's been sending threatening notes to Carmen bandini. She's been threatening Carmen's life, mr. Randall She's threatened to put acid on the tight wire the bandini's use and the last note She said to Carmen had a dagger stuck through it All right, she really had Carmen scared and the bandini brothers were going to take it into their own hands No, that's bad, but what did the bearded lady have against Carmen? She's jealous. That's what she is jealous Jealous of home. Well, I Guess me who because I've been paying a little attention to Carmen. Yes, sir She said in one of those notes that if Carmen didn't get out of the circus right away. Her life would be in danger Is this the truth major? Positively mr. Randall, but why didn't you come to me? Why do you always take things in your own hand? Oh, I really couldn't help it really I couldn't I just got the idea that by cutting a beard off I'd get even it might scare into behaving herself I just got the idea and the first thing I know I did it and you went in and did your barber trick while She was sleeping. Yes, sir major I don't know what to say to this Threatening people as she did Carmen is bad very bad Yes, sir folks that work on the wire are naturally high strong and nervous is upset her plenty mr. Randall I can well imagine. Well What are you going to do with me? Well major I I'm going to forget the whole thing and you won't tell the bearded lady. I did it No, no, I won't and you don't have to worry about her any longer either. No, I've already let her go She's leaving the circus this afternoon You've got that beard pretty short major these have no value at all with her beard as short as it is Is she gonna join up with us again when that beard goes in? Well, I haven't decided that yet at any rate. She doesn't have to worry about money while her beard is growing in she Had it ensured what yes, you'll get a nice piece of money from the insurance company Well of all things Now you will let Jerry work with El Mundo. Mr. Randall. We're well Sure You know major I'm kind of glad this whole thing came to light I won't have people around my show that send threatening letters to other performance Maybe without her beard. She'll cool off now in this little vacation Oh, give her a chance to think it over Can I go and tell Jerry that you said it was okay for him to go ahead and rehearse El Mundo? Go look him up tell him I said to go over to Clara and tell her to finish up his uniform right away Tell him to report to Oldson and rehearse his tricks with the elephant. Oh, thank you, Mr. Randall Jerry will sure be glad to hear this news and Thanks for being so easy with me. Yeah, all right major, but next time come to me first with anything at all I want to know about it first you understand.  Yes, sir Yeah, all right major run along now and tell Jerry what I said. Well, goodbye, mr. Randall Well That was easy. Oh, Jerry be happy now to know how I fix things for him. Hi, I made you all greetings greetings Hey, you seem to be awful happy today. What happened to your usual ground? I am happy and what's more I'm always going to be happy from now on. Oh, yeah That's hot hot young man. Oh say have you seen Jerry around any place Jerry? Yeah, Jerry Dugan. Oh the boy That's right. Have you seen him? Well, yeah, he just cut across here a second ago. He was heading there He goes now. Oh, yes. Yeah, thanks. Hey, Jerry. Oh, Jerry Jerry Oh, come here Jerry. I got some good news for you. I Got some good news for you Everything is all fixed. What are you talking about? I just left mr.  Yeah, dead. Oh deep your swell Oh, mr. Randall was very nice about it And he told me to tell you to report Olson again and finish learning your tricks with El Mundo You mean of course I mean it He told me to tell you to go right ahead with your rehearsing and said for you to go over to Clara and tell her to get busy on the Uniform, you know the one you're gonna wear when you work the elephant. I Can't believe it. Well, it's true Jerry I made a clean breast of the whole thing and I told mr. Randall you had nothing to do with it And I thought you should be given a chance to work El Mundo. Oh major. That's keen. Thanks a lot Yeah, now hurry up and get over to Olson and start learning your tricks with the elephant But what about the bearded lady? Well, we won't have to worry about her any longer.  Okay, and thanks again major. Come on, right? Guys well so long Jerry so long come on right I'm gonna be a performer after all And I'll just bet I'll be good doing those tricks with El Mundo this way Rags in here in the Menagerie Oh son oh It's okay now What's okay? I can work with El Mundo after all. What do you mean here? Well, mr. Randall told me I couldn't work with him and now he says I can oh prayer is gonna make up my uniform And I'll be ready to work just as soon as I learned those tricks Good Put this big fella through some of those stunts just now Now you go lay down some place and be yourself Getting very far with this foreigner though. Well, haven't you learned your Spanish yet? Nope I guess it'll be a long time for I do I It's a quick to catch on to them funny lingos, but Carmen told you a couple of things to say didn't she sure I got them Okay, it's a good thing too. Well, I couldn't get this guy to do anything Carmen is teaching me everything there is to say to him. Hi El Mundo That's one thing well, what do I do first Olson See well, how about getting up on his head this time?  All right. Yeah, that's the way Good follow El Mundo. I think you're beginning to understand little English now. What Olson? Well, you'll just have to get used to it up there. I'll have him walk around with you a little bit A marshal to El Mundo He's going well, oh yeah, what did you say to him? That's a new one. Oh, that's one of the words Carmen told me Marsha take means March He make him go faster won't fall off. Oh, I'm all right. Okay, then here goes the word for faster I see now. How I said it's oh, yeah, uh, rap rapido rapido El Mundo That's good. You're doing all right to Sure, Rocky up here. I feel like I'm on a boat. Yeah, it's like a boat Well, I'm sure you don't get seasick Well, I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll start over by the backyard so that all your friends can see I guess your pup thinks the elephant's taking you away He's running away with me What do you mean? Well, you said bamboos to rags and El Mundo thought you made it for him Carmen told me that word and it means to run


Hello everybody hooded Cobra Commander 788 here and this is a quick look not a full review But a quick look at one of my favorite G.I. Joe action figures from 1983. This is G.I. Joe's Marine Gung Ho. This was a pretty special figure in 1983 in that year G.I. Joe branched out from its overwhelming green color scheme and the more colorful figures from that year really stood out. Gung Ho's overall color scheme is in a light blue. He has a green camouflage pattern on the lower half of the figure He has gray boots and bare arms and an open vest so you can see his bare chest and that reveals This blue Marine Corps emblem tattoo. He also has his green Marine Corps Utility cover as a kid. I was really fascinated by all of the details on this figure. It was very unusual looking Gung Ho included two accessories the first one being his grenade launcher in a dark gray plastic almost black It looks really good and it has a strap It was unusual to have weapons with straps back in 1983 His other accessory was his backpack his very large backpack that was in the same light blue Plastic color as the figure. This is a good time to talk about one of the problems with the Gung Ho action figure and other action figures with light colored plastic They tended to yellow over time which changes the light blue color to more of a green color This is inevitable for figures with light colored plastic. There are ways to slow it down There are ways to temporarily reverse it But it will happen to any action figure of this era with light colored plastic is caused by the flame retarded compounds They put in the plastic which breaks down over time and discolors. This Gung Ho is still not too bad It's still mostly light blue, but it has taken on a slightly greenish tint to the light blue plastic over the last few years It's still not a bad example. I've seen much worse Gung Ho of course included a file card I've always liked the artwork on this file card. I just think that looks great and he's a very colorful character That was a very brief overview of Gung Ho. I do have a full review of this figure on my channel I hope you will check that out. Make sure you follow this channel for vintage GI Joe toy reviews I have a huge back catalog and there are more coming. Thank you for watching I will see you next time and until then remember only GI Joe is GI Joe


Hey everybody we are back today in the bunker and I have a CRT with me. We're going to be doing a repair hopefully on one of the most desirable Sony PVMs ever made. That is the PVM20L5 multi format CRT. Now this is the 19 inch display CRT that does everything from 240p all the way up to 1080i. It is a 4x3 tube Trinitron. Now unfortunately this one does not power on properly as it sits. I got a request to check out this PVM and first I'd like to show you what the actual problem is. I had this video clip sent to me from the owner of the PVM and let's just take a quick look at it. As you can see there's an issue here with the powering on not quite working and it makes some very violent flashes so I do not want to try to add any stress to this monitor. We're not even going to power it on yet. Obviously there's some kind of internal issue going on inside this PVM so we need to get inside it in order to do that we're going to turn the monitor around and remove the shell from the outside. Here's the back side of the monitor. Obviously the exterior has been removed and what has occurred back here is the owner of the monitor was checking voltages I believe on the neck board which is our C board right here and while he checked those voltages he connected two points that should not have touched with the two prongs on his multimeter and when he did that he created a voltage or a short between two points and caused something to be damaged. Now after he did that he contacted me I told him I wasn't quite sure what he had done to check his fuses and things but it wasn't a fuse problem because the fuses were fine. Had to reach out to the legendary save on Pat and Pat had informed us that there is a resistor on this board and it is resistor 705 and that resistor can act as a fuse and blow out in certain situations which is what we are hoping is the problem here but if I look down here I do see where there's like an arc on the 160 volt line and so I'm not sure it meant even an arc over here on the ground so something or maybe even just checking that to ground was too much voltage and caused a spark so that that's kind of an issue do not you know try to do certain things on a monitor unless you know exactly what you are doing or you can damage it or even worse hurt yourself. So here's a closer look at the backside of the neck board and r705 that is a 39 ohm quarter watt resistor and unfortunately I cannot test this resistor while it's in circuit it needs to be removed from the circuit in order to actually get a good reading on it. I tried to get a reading and it was very unstable and then I realized that it just needs to be out of circuit so what we're going to need to do is remove this and hopefully save on Pat is right. Here's our neck board removed we're going to take a closer look at r705 right down in here next to this capacitor you see this it's kind of elevated a little bit off the board so let's pull it remove it and then we'll test it with the multimeter and see if this is the problem or not should tell us pretty pretty much right away. Here's our resistor I've got some hands holding it so that I can get a good reading from my multimeter I'll be switching this to read for ohms if it reads 39 ish it's good what do you think it's reading about 20 ish right now 19 let's see what a good one will measure that one's reading 40 did you see it 38.7 right there all right power is being fed in I have not turned on the power switch yet so this is the first time I've done it since obviously you saw me replace the resistor and then reinstall the neck board I went and double checked all the connections made sure everything was right and I figure worst case scenario is we turn it on here and it will look just the same as it did in the demonstration video best case scenario is we've repaired the monitor all right here goes nothing let's see what happens so far so good see component come up on screen looks pretty normal there's our menu okay so that's all the good side now let's do some testing with the monitor and make sure it works all right I've got things set up to run some tests with a triple bypassed Sega Genesis version 2 fed over to RGB SCART now let's take a look on screen and success we have RGB and sync on screen which is a great sign now I need to let it run for probably an hour just to make sure there are no hiccups and that everything else is fine with the machine but yes just amazing great stuff the CRT has been running now for about an hour and it looks really good we've got a pretty decent looking overall picture here I don't really feel like this monitor needs really anything else at this time it's not old enough and it doesn't appear that there's enough hours on this really for it to need a full geometry cap kit as a matter of fact sometimes changing those capacitors especially right now when it's difficult to find good replacements always it's better sometimes in these later model PVMs to just leave them if you can tell that there's not a lot of hours on it so I'm just going to recommend that we put the shell back on this one to get it settled back up and then the owner can take it and use it for his own delight and that'll be it for this lovely sony pvm 2005 and hey how about that what a great job by save on pat to be able to diagnose something like this just straight up over the phone kudos to him I would have not known that that resistor acted like that a fuse in some cases is a failsafe I will note that save on pat does offer a capacitor kit and a repair kit for the l5s both the 20 inch and the 14 inch and in that kit it does include this resistor so if you did have an issue where your monitor wouldn't power on like this one didn't you could order his kit and do just the resistor or the entire kit and then your monitor will probably work afterwards so that is a good thing that it is in that kit and thanks again for watching everybody I will see you all next time with some more retro content


and the Labour Party governorship aspirant in the upcoming 2024 governorship election in the adult state Honourable Sergers Ogul has said he is not desperate to become the governor of the state rather he's desperate to find a solution to the problem being faced by the poor in the state Honourable Sergers Ogul made these statements at Uromi in Isanaut East local government area wired when addressing senatorial leaders of the Labour Party in the state I am not desperate to be the governor of the state but I am desperate to solve the problem of the small people in this state so I have started this journey and I will take it to the end I'm running this journey I'm on this I'm running this track with God on my side the credential I have to go to Saddibea venue is sincerity honesty candle we need unity in this area unity if we are united nobody can break up here I don't see if it is on me we cannot be dispensing this amount is an ASMR so let's all join hand together and protect our people so that at the end of the day all our prayers to the outside they will have the calls to silky and this amount this is the Saddibea I want to make this to say the man who really created this kind of crowd in Nigeria made a difference among the governors in this country and those that must make this become the actual heartbeat of this country we don't want to see your work we want to see your leadership acumen and your leadership quality hello hope you enjoyed the news please do subscribe to our youtube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates


Hello friends, since we're talking about villain protagonists today, I have to dress up like one. I am the protagonist of the world, obviously, and villains wear cool sunglasses, especially indoors. So villain protagonists are actually pretty rare when you stop to think about it, because most of the time people just use anti-heroes, you know, and anti-heroes are someone who, you know, has good motivation, like they're trying to do a good thing. They just are kind of unpleasant in one or two ways, and even then they don't do it that often. But a, okay, you know, I can't even read my notes with these. I should probably take them off now. Or anti-heroes will have, you know, good goals, they're trying to do something good, but they just use questionable methods to achieve it. And even then they're not that common really, because I don't know why precisely, but for some reason a lot of people just have serious difficulty dealing with a protagonist having any real negative aspects to them, so creators will just go out of their way to try and justify and explain everything they did. But villain protagonists are beyond even that. That's usually somebody who has both bad motivation, like they're trying to do bad things, and they do bad things, or excuse me, and they use brutal methods to achieve those results, but the story is also focused on them. So, you know, they're not the antagonists of the story, but they are very much the bad guy. Some pretty good examples of this would include Walter White from Breaking Bad, Tony Soprano from The Sopranos, George Ancrath from Prince of Thorns, Light Yagami from Death Note, Artemis Fowle, at least from the first Artemis Fowle book, after that he becomes, you know, a good guy, Patrick Bateman from American Psycho, or The Gang from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Yes, I know that's a comedy, but they are the villains in pretty much every story they're involved in. But perhaps more importantly than the main characters, you know, being horrible people, is that their motives and actions are acknowledged as being horrible by the creators and in universe, you know, like other characters call them out on their bullshit, and you're not really supposed to think that they're good people, you know, that it's very explicitly said like, yeah, these are all terrible people. And, you know, I was thinking recently about how to do villain protagonists right, because it's way more common to see protagonists who are shitty people, but they're just kind of Mary Sue's, for lack of a better term, that that term is way overused. But in this instance, I'm going to use it because a lot of Mary Sue's fall into this trap where they are absolutely horrible people, but the story doesn't acknowledge it. And I found that's a lot more common than villain protagonists. And anti-heroes are also more common than villain protagonists. But I think a lot of this advice I'm going to bring up here could also apply to anti-heroes. So yeah, let's go. And there will be some spoilers for everything I mentioned, just be aware of that. So number one is probably the most important thing for a villain protagonist, and that's acknowledge that they're bad. Acknowledge that they're villains.  You know, recently, I did a video on the Divided We Fall series, which if you haven't watched that, go ahead and check it out.  Like, the story literally starts off with the protagonist getting people killed, and then refusing to submit to any sort of investigation or trial for it.    And yet the story never acknowledges that because in that case, it's because the author is trying to push certain political beliefs. But, you know, they're awful people and they're treated heroically. And that is not what you do with villain protagonists.  And a good way to do this is to just make them act horrible, you know? Like, Light Yagami from Death Note is one of the best known villain protagonists in any medium, I think. And he looks insane. They're like, from the first episode of that show, and granted, the manga might be different, I haven't actually read it, but from the first episode of that show, he goes on these long rants about how he's God and he is justice, he's going to fix the world, and his eyes glow red just like the way he's animated, the way he talks.    Like, by the end of the show, that is made very, very clear. And, like, if you don't get it by that point, you're never going to get it.  I swear to God. We see Light rants like a crazy psychopath, because he is a crazy psychopath, and we also see, pretty early on, he is willing to murder innocent people if they get in his way. So, despite all his high-minded ideals about how he's only going to go after people who are making the world worse, he is perfectly fine killing innocents as long as it's to save his own skin. So it's made really clear from not the very beginning of the story, because at the very beginning it seems like he has a good point, but it's made clear early on that, yes, he is the bad guy here, you are not supposed to root for him. Number two is to make sure that the villain protagonist has some sympathy. You know, like, regular villains, regular antagonists don't necessarily need to have that, but if we're going to be following someone throughout the entire story, then we do. We just do. That's, that's important, because even if the audience hates the protagonist, because you know, they're a bad person that does bad things, they need to feel some connection to them, or they usually need to feel some connection to them, otherwise they're just not going to want to read. Like, it's better to have a protagonist that the audience hates than one that's boring, but nonetheless, it does help to get them invested and keep going with it if there is at least something likable in there and something that makes them more understandable on a deep level. Like Artemis Fowle, again in just the first book of the series, is a villain protagonist. Like, he kidnaps someone, he holds, and holds her against her will. He is a thief, he is a thug, although he doesn't do a lot of the thuggery himself. He mostly has Butler do that, but nonetheless, he is a quote unquote criminal mastermind, and yeah, he does a lot of criminal stuff. He's also 12 years old.  He's also a child, and he has no parents. His father died a couple of years before the story began, and his mother has not mentally recovered from that. Like, she's just gone now. Like, she's not dead, but she is completely mentally out of it, and Artemis, it breaks his heart. You know, we see him try to interact with her, and it is really bad. Like, we feel bad for him in those circumstances. So even when he does horrible things, we're thinking, okay, yeah, like, I get why he's doing it. And then at the end, he is willing to give up half of the gold that he won through his, you know, criminal scheming to save his mom. Like, he gives half the gold to Holly Short, and then she heals his mom. So it's clear that yes, he does love her, he does care about her, he does have a heart, he just is also willing to do some nasty stuff. And again, his dad was a criminal boss, so it seems like he really just wound up here because that's the environment he was raised in.  But because they're really funny, it endears us to them. And because they're bad people, it's also funny just to watch them suffer. You know, I don't really know how to explain this concisely because you could look at pretty much any random episode and see exactly what I mean, like the characters do nasty things to people and they do nasty things to each other and they wind up getting hurt for it. So it's simultaneously enjoyable to watch them get their comeuppance in unpleasant situations, but also like just watching them do nasty stuff is funny sometimes. I'm drunk. He's drunk. He's not drunk. I am drunk. You're not drunk. He sounds drunk. I am drunk. You're not drunk. Stop saying that. Okay. Hey, let's just all stay calm. Then bluff this. Ryan, stab somebody. Number 2.5. This kind of ties into making them sympathetic, but it's also kind of its own thing. So it's going to be 2.5. But that is, explain to the audience why the villain protagonist is the way they are. You know, Jorg Ancrath from Prince of Thorns is a nasty sociopath. Like, from the beginning of the story, he is a murderer. He is the leader of a group of bandits. So, you know, they steal and intimidate people. He does all kinds of horrible stuff. He tortures people more than once as well. And he also, when he doesn't hurt people himself, he does drag them along into dangerous situations, which gets them hurt. And he is willing to do all of this. In the first book, it's partially in the name of revenge, but also, like, he wants to take power because his goal throughout the whole course of the series is to become emperor. Like, he wants to be in charge of this entire empire so that no one can ever tell him what to do.  Like, you see in flashbacks the sorts of things that his father did to him. Like, there's one particularly harrowing flashback where his father puts his dog in a cart and fills it with flammable fluid and says, break your dog's leg or I'll set him on fire. So, George breaks one leg and then he says, break his other leg and I'll, and I'll, or I'll set him on fire and break, George breaks a second leg and then the third leg. And then George refuses to break his last leg. So, his dad throws in a torch and burns his dog alive.  Yeah, I can see how this guy would not only associate not being in complete control with being horribly abused. So, that explains that. But also, like, you can see how he would get this really warped sense of morality. So, even though George is a really terrible person, like, that's really just not even a debatable subject. He's, he's awful on just about every level. You do understand why he wound up that way. Number three is to contrast your villain protagonist with people who are even more awful than them or forces who are even more awful than them. Like, for example, Tony Soprano in The Sopranos is, he's an organized crime boss.  He is a murderer. He is a thief. He cheats on his wife all the time. Like, he does awful, awful things to pretty much everyone around him. But, later on in the show, we're introduced to another high-ranking mobster that he works with, named Ralph. And Ralph is substantially worse than Tony. Like, one of the first episodes, after he's introduced, is almost entirely dedicated to Ralph murdering his pregnant girlfriend, because she mouthed off to him.   So they, they, well, I don't want to say they let it go, but they do help him get away with it. And then, much later in the show, Tony does kill Ralph. And it's partially because of something else Ralph did, like he killed a horse that Tony loved. But also, we as the audience know that it is partially because of Ralph murdering his girlfriend, because we see that really affected Tony in a negative way. And yeah, Tony is being a hypocrite here, because Tony also does a lot of really nasty stuff, but like, when we see him kill Ralph, we can't help but feel, yeah, Ralph was worse, so we don't really feel that bad for him. So even though Tony is an awful person, we uh, we're willing to go along with him murdering this guy. And just outside of that, Tony is generally a bit nicer than the other crooks he works with. Like, you know, he's willing to work with people and be, I don't really know how to describe it, but like he gives better deals and he doesn't immediately jump to violence most of the time, unless it's really necessary. And overall, after watching the Sopranos, you're left with the feeling that, okay, yeah, Tony was pretty nasty, but then you look around at the people he's associated with and you're like, it could be much, much worse. You know, he could be much, much worse. And it's probably good that he's in charge rather than some of the other people that he works with, because if they were in charge, things would be much worse. Number four is to make the villain protagonist good at stuff. Now this applies to protagonists in general, but it really does catch me off guard how many authors just completely forget about this. It's mostly authors, but it does apply in other places too. Like, your protagonist needs to be really good at one or two things. Otherwise, they're really just going to be relying on other people to do everything for them, excuse me, throughout the entire story. And that's just not satisfying to watch. Another really good villain protagonist that I love and that not enough people know about is Darth Bane from the Darth Bane trilogy, which I, I guess that's technically not canon anymore, but whatever, he's still great. And Darth Bane, again, he is a Sith Lord, so he murders a lot of people over the years, but he's very, very good at being a Sith Lord. Like, he's an amazing combatant. He has crazy force powers that can wipe out entire armies, well, maybe not entire armies, but large, large numbers of people just by himself. He's also a good teacher when he takes on an apprentice and turns her from a scared little girl into a Sith Lord in her own right. And on top of that, he's a master schemer. Like, he wipes out all of the other Sith in existence. Like, he tricks them into killing themselves, basically. And he also kills a whole bunch of Jedi. And he fakes his own death during that, but then some other Jedi come after him, and he is able to fight and defeat all of them as well. Like, he's very, very good at everything he does. Like, he's very good at being evil. And so, you can understand not only how he was able to become the last one standing, you know, the last Sith, but he also set up the Rule of Two, which eventually led to Palpatine and overthrowing the Republic and destroying the Jedi. So, like, you realize that this guy is just amazing at what he does, and so even though what he's doing is horrible, it's at least interesting to watch him do it. Number five, again, seems kind of obvious, but a lot of people don't seem to understand it. And that is, no when to quit. You know? Basically, just make the villain protagonist only as evil as the story requires.  If the story only requires them to be kind of evil, then do that instead.  You know, like, there has to be a reason behind what they're doing, you know? Like, if they're just murdering an orphanage full of children for shock value, then that's not really, you know, that's not really interesting. But if they set the orphanage on fire with all the orphans inside, because they know that the heroes will come out of hiding to try and stop them, and then they can ambush the heroes, then there is a reason for it. I'll bring up Jorg and Krath again, but Darth Bane works for this as well, and Jorg tortures and murders people throughout that entire series, but he doesn't do it for fun. You know, he's not doing it just because he wants to do it. He's doing it because he feels he needs to do it to reach his goal. It's the quickest, most efficient way to whatever he's trying to do. Usually. He also does sexually assault someone at one point, but I mean, again, he's a bad person. So while it is unpleasant to watch him murder and torture people, we understand, again, we understand why he is doing what he's doing.  He's trying to lure the hero out of hiding. Number six is the last one, and this one is just to make us enjoy time we spend with them. You know, we don't necessarily have to have villain protagonists to be likable. Again, they're villains. It's fine if they're unlikable, but we do have to, they do have to be enjoyable to spend time around. You know, I mentioned the gang from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia earlier, and they, they are hilarious. All of them. All the time. They're really funny. Like, even when they're stealing, lying, or doing anything else bad, we want to watch. There's a movie called Vampire's Kiss with Nicholas Cage, and brief aside, if you are at all into bad movies, like movies that are so bad, they're funny, check out Vampire's Kiss right now, because that movie's hilarious. But it is a movie about a guy who is a horrible boss, and then later turns into a It's also hilarious. Like, the movie's a dark comedy, but it is a comedy, and mostly because of Nicholas Cage's bizarre over-the-top performance. If that movie was just a drama, and Nicholas Cage acted like, you know, a regular human being throughout it, then it probably wouldn't be a very good movie, because it would just be a movie about a crazy guy doing horrible things, and thinking that he's a vampire.  He's acting like a crazy guy, so it works. And that applies in a lot of other scenarios. You don't have to necessarily make the protagonist funny, but we have to enjoy watching them do something.  We enjoy watching Godzilla wreck cities, even though we know that thousands, if not millions of people are dying. We enjoy watching Darth Bane destroy the Sith, because yeah, the other Sith are kind of terrible too, but just watching him come up with these plans and go from being like just this regular minor who didn't really have anything going for him to the Lord of the Sith is really satisfying. We love watching Hades from the Disney animated Hercules movie. Well, we will, we love watching him do everything, because he's, he's just great. These are all villains, but they're all very, very entertaining. Like some of them are entertaining because they're funny. Some of them are entertaining because they're really smart. Some of them are just entertaining because they're good at what they do. Again, all of these tie together in very important ways. The only real crime that a protagonist can commit is to bore the audience.   And I think this is the reason why myself and a lot of others just can't really get into romance novels at all. And especially Romanticy, which is really just romance pretending to be fantasy. Like it's not romance with fantasy elements. It's just pretending to be fantasy. But I think that's why a lot of us can't really get into it because the protagonists never have anything to them. Like they never have any personality. They never have any real goals or ambitions or at least very, very simple ones. Like the plot is just too hot people meet and then have sex. And that's just, that's not really entertaining unless you're looking for, you know, wish fulfillment or something. And this applies to all genres, obviously, but that's just something that I came up with. Villain protagonists, I think the reason a lot of people like them and myself included is because they're always a very deliberate choice. You know, that's why it often works. It's not just that they wound up being terrible by accident and the author didn't mean for that to happen because if that was the case, then they would be hateable protagonists. Once again, I draw your attention to divided we fall. Like it's done deliberately. And so the author is purposely trying to make you dislike this person, but also be fascinated by them. And I don't know, I don't really have anything else to add. But yeah, those are the six things I came up with for how to do a proper villain protagonist. 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Hello? Hello there, Mr. Vaknin. Yes, hello Mike, call me Sam please. Huh? Hello Mike, call me Sam, that's much shorter. What was that? I couldn't hear you. Can you hear me now? Yes, I can hear you perfectly now. I said hello Mike, please call me Sam rather than Mr. Vaknin because Sam is much shorter. Oh, that's perfectly fine with me, Sam. Okay. Now I'd like to introduce you to my audience that you are the author of Malignant Self-Love and you're also the star of the documentary I, Psychopath. Yes, I have written among others Malignant Self-Love Narcissism Revisited about 16 years ago. It is in its ninth edition, published a few months ago. I have featured in I, Psychopath but that's only one of several documentaries that I've featured in. I value much more egomania by Channel 4, original Channel 4. Can people find that on the internet? Yeah, by now they can, yeah. Excellent, I encourage people to check up on those because they're really fascinating explorations there of psychopathy and narcissism and so forth. I'll convey your compliments to the directors. Excellent. The thing is, I'll just start off here. I've written a novel series called Freedom from Conscience and I have a lot of readers who get really confused that they really have an easy time falling in love with the main character who's a female psychopath.  Could you start out with basically maybe dispelling some of the preconceptions people have in which the Hollywood preconception? How can you know if your best friend, your new lover or your favorite college professor is actually a psychopath? What are the telling signs? Well, just to clarify, psychopath and sociopath are colloquial terms. The clinical term is antisocial, antisocial personality disorder which gives us a clue as to what drives the psychopath. It is a disdain and deeply held contempt towards conventions, mores and social norms. It is a total lack of emotion driven empathy. The psychopath, according to my work at least, does possess empathy but I call it cold empathy. It is the empathy of a scientist scrutinizing or investigating insects. The psychopath and the narcissist and today the distinction between psychopath and narcissist has largely faded away. They are considered to be on a spectrum of disorders in the new diagnostic and statistical manual five. So from now on when I say psychopath I also mean the psychopathic narcissist, the malignant narcissist. So these types of people regard other people as tools, instruments of gratification, extensions of themselves, beneficial sources of narcissistic supply or money or power or anything else and narcissistic is on a quest for. How do I identify them? If they are good at what they do, the short and the long of it you cannot because they give a brilliant, no-fespian imitation of a properly functioning, fully equipped, full-fledged, emotionally resonating human being. Yet do not kid yourself, they are not. They are hollow shells. They are in many respects the closest thing we can get on earth to an alien, an extraterrestrial because they completely lack the emotional apparatus, the emotional gadgetry that renders us human. If they are better than what they do and many of them are, many of them are not the skills or that adapt at being psychopath or being narcissist, you will see glimpses of their narcissism and psychopathy even in the first meeting. So if they are interested in you, they are too interested in you. They are focused, they are like a laser beam. If they want to extract something from you, they will go about it pretty obviously. If they have an interest in what you have to say and they always do, they are interested in what you have to say and how you feel, and where you are going and your preferences and wishes and priorities and past history and so on, then the feigned interest will flicker from time to time like a bed of black and white television screen. So the facade crumbles when the narcissists and psychopaths are not that good at what they are doing or not that interested in their target. You have to pay attention to these tiny sublimated subtle signs, but they are subtle. Even with the worst of psychopaths and narcissists, worst in the sense of unskilled, these signs are subtle because narcissists and psychopaths from early childhood on have learned to manipulate their environment in order to survive. And this is something they do very, very well. And this is exactly the problem. The psychopath is next door. And yes, you are right. It's not a blood dripping serial killer. This is the tiniest minority of psychopaths. And usually these are actually sexual sadists, not psychopaths. So the psychopaths are functional. They're all around you. They gravitate towards positions of authority and positions of prominence and celebrity. They are your next door. They are the clergy. They are the police. They are in show business. They are in politics. They are, as I said, your next door neighbor. It's a dangerous situation because they infiltrate. How does the psychopaths see the world? I mean, most of us, when we see someone hurting emotionally or physically, we get that empathy of feeling that pain as Bill Clinton would say, how feel your pain. The thing is, how do they see people who are hurting? They seem to be very good actors and actresses to pretend like they care, but do they really? Of course they don't. Other people's pain is the psychopath's opportunity. It's a chink in the armor. It's a vulnerability. Psychopaths and narcissistic and psychopathic narcissists scan their environment for such people. They home in on such people. They're like cruise missiles. The best comparison would be to a predator. Narcissists and psychopaths are predators. And you, empathic people, normal people, are the prey. We hunt you down. We devour you. And we cast away the carcasses. What's left? It's a predator and prey situation. Now, the narcissist holds such people, weak people, emotional people, people in need, people hurting, people in pain. He holds them in contempt. Here he does these things as weaknesses. The psychopath holds them in contempt, but also abuses and leverages these things to his benefit. The difference between narcissists, the big difference between narcissists and psychopaths is that the narcissist is often narcissistic supply. That's a very fancy term for attention. Narcissists need attention. If the attention is positive in the form of adulation and admiration, all for the better. But if not, then being feared is equally okay. Psychopaths are much more practical down to earth. They are after usually material benefits such as money or power. They seek earthly rewards while the narcissist needs and consumes constantly. Attention extracts attention from people in order to maintain a very fragile sense of self-worth. So the psychodynamics of these two types may be different, but their tactics, the way they see the world, is identical. People are a rich mineral vein to be extracted, to be worked upon. People are kind of a raw material and they should be used and abused to derive the benefits of the narcissists and psychopaths are sick. Now, if you allow me, I've spent the last 16 years arguing that both narcissists and psychopaths do possess empathy and that narcissists and psychopaths are not evil. Now, these are very contentious claims. When I say that they possess empathy, all I mean is that they are able to put themselves in other people's shoes. Otherwise, had they not been able to do so, they would not have been able to manipulate and to exploit other people. In order to con someone, in order to defraud someone, in order to manipulate someone, you need to understand them perfectly. You need to put yourself in their shoes. You need to realize what makes them tick. So I coined the term called empathy. It is empathy which is devoid of emotions. Usually, when a normal person empathizes, there is an emotional reaction. Exactly as you said, when you see someone in pain, you hurt. You are in pain as well. When you see someone in need, you want to give. Your impulse is to give, to ameliorate the pain, but not so the narcissists and psychopaths. They are capable of empathizing, but only in order to fully understand their prey and then to pounce on it. Secondly, they are not evil. They are not evil because they do not premeditate. They do not derive pleasure from inflicting pain as the sadist does. They simply are. They are as evil as viruses. They are as evil as twisters, tornadoes. They are as evil as extremely bad weather.  And indeed, in narcissism and in psychopathy, there is no choice. It is crucial to understand that these people do not have a choice but to be narcissists and psychopaths. Hence, the total failure of all treatment modalities, all psychotherapies to tackle narcissism and psychopathy. You can change someone's behavior to modify it, but you can never change who someone is, what someone is. Someone's quiddity, someone's essence. So essentially when someone's kind of, I don't know, this model, if you do have a psychopath or sociopath who has committed a series of crimes, the idea of rehabilitation to where they will feel the pain of their victims is essentially a myth. You can't do it. Well, use the term proposers. And self-serving. Why is it self-serving? Because it is a whole industry and it's no longer a cottage industry of self-serving psychiatrists and psychologists and psychotherapists and social workers who pretend and lie about the fact that narcissists and psychopaths are incurable. They claim that they can cure or heal narcissists and psychopaths. Why they do that? Because of money. They're getting money. They're getting money from the families of narcissists and psychopaths, from their victims. They're getting family from governments. They're getting research grants. There's a lot of money sloshing around. If you read the more honest part of literature, and if you talk to these mental health professionals in closed sessions where they feel comfortable and they reveal themselves as they really are, their true colors, they tell you that narcissists and psychopaths are hopeless, completely hopeless. There's nothing to do about it. Because narcissism and psychopathy are all pervasive personality disorders. Notice the terms all pervasive and personality. We are not dealing with a quirk. We are not dealing with a feature. We are not dealing with a specific behavior. We are not dealing even with an addiction. We are dealing with the entirety of the personality, each and every single cell of the personality, each dimension, each behavior, each function and dysfunction. And it starts in early childhood and progresses well, well into adulthood. So to claim that there is any modality that can cope with the vastness of narcissism and psychopathy and reverse them at age 40 or 50 when these people usually are found out is what to tell you, disingenuous or shall we say, you know, it's a fraud, in effect. Sam, if you have a child, let's say, I mean, obviously there may be listeners who are wondering, well, what if you have a child who displays some of these traits of psychopathy? Isn't it possible that you could still instill things like a code of ethics in these children to where they, when they get older, they won't prey on people in the same kind of bloodthirsty way. They may at least have a sense of this is the way I should do something versus shouldn't. I personally resent the pathologization and medicalization of childhood and adolescence. Adolescents are narcissists almost by definition. They need to be. They need to be self-centered, egotistical. They need to lack empathy. They need these things as totally healthy phases of development towards adulthood. They need to separate themselves from their parents. They need to venture out to the world. They need to develop a sense of self-esteem and self-confidence and so forth. So they are normally contented and concentrated on their own needs and priorities and wishes and to the exclusion of others. And it's totally healthy. Actually the first time narcissism had been discussed in 1914-1915 by the likes of Freud and others, they suggested that there is a thing called healthy narcissism. And that there is a stage called primary narcissism which without which development is wrong, is dysfunctional. So we all have a modicum of narcissism. It is pronounced and prominent in childhood and early adolescence as it should be. There are children who suffer from something called conduct disorder. These are children who torture animals or, I don't know, these kind of children. The children featured in horror films, in slasher films, the kind that sculpts and lurks in the corners, in dark corners and watches everyone, observes everyone coldly and then goes out and tortures a cat. These children do exist. And the likelihood of altering their behavior let alone instilling in them any ethical code is again very close to zero. These children studies have shown the background to their behavior or misbehavior and so on and so forth is not only family or upbringing, it has to do with some genetic component. So anti-social personality disorder known colloquially as psychopathy or the type of psychopathy advocated by and studied by Robert Hare at the likes. It seems to be hereditary. There seems to be some genetic component. But coming back to your question, no, I think once manifested, it's a lost cause. Never mind if we change. You've had some interviews in which you've dealt with political leaders and narcissism and so forth. Would you say it's more dangerous to have a major political leader who is a psychopath or who is a narcissist? That's an excellent question. And in dozens of interviews, there have never been enough of this one. So let me give it a thought for a split second. But while I do, let me tell you that it's dangerous to have a narcissist or a psychopath in your life. And people like presidents, president of the United States or a country's prime minister or a police officer in the precinct next to you or the clergy in the church next to you or your children's teacher, anyone who has access to your life and has the ability to influence it via process of decision making and who is a narcissist or psychopath is a danger. So of course a politician is a direct and clear danger to everyone in the country where the politician is prominent and makes decisions. Now to your question, I think I would prefer to see a psychopath in charge than a narcissist. And the reason is that psychopaths are programmable. Given a clear set of rewards, given a clear set of benefits, power, money, incentives, they are manipulable or they are at least containable and they are very predictable. So you asked me about an ethical code before in the previous question. Given the right set of incentives, a psychopath can be highly ethical. Actually, many of them profess to be ethical. They are preachers or philosophers of morality or public intellectuals. And why do they attain and sustain the high moral ground? Because it pays.  You can predict a psychopath. You can manipulate a psychopath. You can't do that with a narcissist because the narcissist's underlying motivation is both irrational it is a fluctuating sense of self-worth and unpredictable completely. Narcissists are completely unpredictable. They go through cycles of decompensation, disintegration, reintegration, reaching out for the world and then withdrawing. And these cycles are driven by inner dynamics, not outer dynamics. They are driven by a complex and largely unpredictable chaotic random stochastic interaction or set of interactions within the narcissist's psyche. The narcissist consumes narcissistic supply relentlessly and compulsively by forcing people to pay him attention precisely because he inside, he is chaotic and disorganized. He needs this energy. He is an energy vampire.  He needs this external energy to maintain the precarious inner molecular balance of his personality. The psychopath is much more organized, clear, predictable, manipulable and amenable to negotiation and reason, not so the narcissist. In this sense, exactly as the famous scholar Otto Kernberg had suggested, narcissists are borderline psychotics. Narcissists are on the border of psychotics, border of Neverland. They are sustained and survive via grandiose fantasies. They are not in touch with reality for a very large part of the life. Psychopaths to analysis in the White House, for instance. It seems like the traits that are associated with psychopathy, the idea of... Hello? Yes? Michael, you've drifted away. Can you sort of try again? Okay, sorry about that. This is a phone connection. Sure, sure. The traits such as superficial charm, easily bored, seems like they need a lot of stimulation, the ability to be able to analyze a situation and then come out on top, these seem to be traits that would be... If I was a political consultant and I was trying to find someone to run for Congress or for a parliament of any European nation, it seems like I would really be gravitating towards getting someone like that because they seem to be like born winners in that sense. Well, there is the school, the distorted horoscope, that says that narcissistic psychopaths are the next iteration of humanity. I don't know if you've seen the science fiction series, the 4400. The 4400 is... Sorry? A couple of them, yes. A couple of episodes, yeah. So the 4400 is a four-season science fiction series where people are abducted and then returned to Earth with special abilities. And owing to the special abilities, they take over the world. Some people say that narcissistic psychopaths are born to win, that they are optimized machines, that they are the next iteration, that they are artificial intelligence, they are a form of aliens, but that they will prevail, they will take over the Earth and so on and so forth. And actually, in many respects, psychopaths are optimized to end up on top, and they do. Narcissists less so. As I just said, narcissists are far more irrational, they are divorced from reality, they are unpredictable, their internal organization is much more chaotic and disorganized, they are much more dysfunctional than the psychopaths and so on. Narcissists usually rise to the top, but then self-destruct. They self-destruct and if we have the misfortune of having a narcissist in position of authority, they destroy everyone else around them. A perfect example would be, of course, Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin.  The psychopaths are much more stable. They are able to plan, they are able to implement long-term programs and they are able to pursue long-term goals. The conventional wisdom is that psychopaths are not able to plan long-term, they self-destruct and so on, but I think here there is a serious confusion, even within scholarly literature, between narcissism and psychopathy. Narcissists, psychopathic narcissists are unable to have a stable life in one respect or another. They are the ones who self-destruct. They are the ones who are not a real risk until they reach the top. Psychopaths, on the other hand, are pernicious. They are insidious. They are subtle. They are very patient. They are great actors. They have clear and present goals. They pursue these goals relentlessly, ruthlessly and compulsively. They abuse and exploit absolutely everyone around them, their own children, if need be, in order to achieve these goals. Their gratification is above everything else. They regard other people as tools, instruments, representations, avatars, functions, symbols. They can't relate to other people in any meaningful sense. And they have the narcissistic trace of arrogance or haughtiness. They believe themselves superior. They believe other people weak, contemptible and inferior. The danger lies exactly in this. The psychopath works his way, warms his way through the living body until it reaches the brain and takes over it. The narcissist is a body snatcher. The psychopath, sorry, is a body snatcher. The narcissist, on the other hand, from time to time, becomes quite obvious because the narcissist decompensates. He breaks down. You're still there, right, Sam? Sure. Okay. The phone cuts out once in a while, but I got your last statement. You've made comments about some political leaders in the United States. Do you have any that you would like to, that you just kind of would say, I would keep an eye on this individual because they seem to show these sorts of traits? Or, you know, I mean, is that something you'd be comfortable doing? In July 2008, having watched several videos of then candidate Obama, he wasn't a president yet, he hadn't been elected, I suggested in an article that he may possess narcissistic traits or potentially be a full-fledged narcissist. I never thought that Obama is a psychopath, regrettably. I think the danger in Obama is that he's a narcissist, not a psychopath. As I just said, narcissists are far less predictable, far less amenable to the give-and-take of politics, far more disorganized and chaotic, and thereby far more likely to self-destruct and other-destruct. So, having watched his videos, I rang the alarm and said, you know, this guy may be narcissistic or a full-fledged narcissist. That was July 2008. I spent the next two years, 2008, 2010, granting interviews, inevitably mainly to the right-wing media, the conservative media in the United States, in which I ventured to make predictions as to Obama's future behavior, if my diagnosis is a remote diagnosis is real. Now, to add an immediate disclaimer, remotely diagnosing someone with narcissistic personality disorder without having the benefit of structurally interviewing them, administering psychological tests, observing them for long periods of time in controlled environments is not serious, and should never be done. Perhaps with one exception, when the person is about to attain an ordinary power. So, I have published this disclaimer within the text, but I still thought it's beneficial to warn, to sound the alarm, which I did. And then the next two years, I gave interviews and this and that, and I made a series of predictions about President Obama. It is the, I am led to believe that it is the accepted view, or the common view today, at least among the internet community, that many of my predictions had regrettably come true. Now, the predictions came true, does not necessarily mean that my analysis of Obama's personality is true. But, you know, it's an interesting coincidence. If he is a narcissist, narcissists self-destruct. That is inevitable. All of them do it. Faced with stress, faced with strain, faced with deficient narcissistic supply, they implode and then they explode. They wreak havoc and destruction upon everyone around them, and themselves, and especially themselves. They do it publicly because the very process of destruction or self-destruction is meant to attract attention, to restore the balance by extracting narcissistic supply. But there is a huge price to pay when the person doing this is the President of the United States. This remains yet to be seen whether he will end this way in office, like Richard Nixon, let's say, or afterwards, hopefully afterwards. And he's the only politician in the United States I've characterized as narcissistic, although many of them would qualify. But let me tell you why I thought, why I was led to this conclusion. When I started to watch the videos, I immediately noticed a series of classical markers of narcissism. For instance, there is something called pronoun density. Pronoun density is simply how many times one uses the words I, mine, my, you know, the first person for pronouns. And there is a sort of distribution of these verbs, adverbs and pronouns. There is a distribution of these grammatical and syntactical structures in a typical normal healthy speech. The narcissist uses I, my, mine much, much more and much more frequently than a normal person. And that was the first thing I noticed with Obama. I have watched a total by now, I've watched a total of close to 1,000 hours of Obama. And his pronoun density is dozens of times higher than normal. Dozens, in many speeches, it reaches 60 times more than normal speech. He uses the words I, my, and mine 60 times more than a normal person in some highly specific speeches, admittedly. On average, he uses I, my, and mine five times more than a normal person. So this is a telltale sign. He has the body language, which is very typical of a narcissist. You know, the visionary tilt of the head, the withdrawal of the body, and so on. We have a series of markers described in the body language of narcissists. So these visual and audio clues, cues, were the first to attract my attention. But then I went much deeper and analyzed his childhood. He had a chaotic childhood, a dysfunctional childhood with dysfunctional parents. He was shuttled back and forth between cultures and civilizations and continents and countries and so on, which is very typical of a narcissist. Narcissists have a dysfunctional childhood, a problematic childhood in a dysfunctional household. Even more so in the early 1960s when he was born, and even more so with his background as half black. So later I went much deeper. And today, five or six years later, I am more convinced than ever that he is a narcissist. Even I would say full-fledged narcissists. The danger is immense. I don't think people really grasp what it means. The danger is simply immense if I'm right. I may be wrong, of course. I'm often wrong. But if I'm right, the danger is beyond description because this man holds the world in his palm. It's not a mayor of a city. It's not a consulate. The president of the United States, the president of the world, in fact. Oh, that's really interesting. I hope people would look up information and look up some of your previous videos on narcissism then. Lastly, what I'd like to ask is do you believe that since you're talking about cold empathy. I love that term, cold empathy. That's a psychopath. I'm going to concentrate on psychopaths here now. Turn your attention to them. Can a psychopath still have love and loyalty to, for instance, their husband, wife, and children, but yet still lack any of that empathy for other people around them? Are they able to switch on the emotion of love for those who fulfill their lives who are really close to them? No one is close to a psychopath, and there is no emotion to switch. That's the short and the long of it. They are able to convince themselves. They are able to lie to themselves. They are able to deceive themselves into believing that they harbor love or affection or compassion towards a specific individual. But this usually also goes hand in hand with the amounts of benefits that can extract from that individual. So if the psychopath is married, he would convince himself that he loves his wife, but only for as long as she fulfills the purpose, only for as long as she functions, only for as long as she collaborates in his plans, his view of the world, his long-term goals, and so on. Only as long as she is at work. The minute she loses her utility, she gets sick, for instance. She is unable or unwilling to further collaborate with a psychopath. The moment she does that, this so-called love switches off. It's kind of a conditional thing, and it's not really love, although many psychopaths convince themselves, tell themselves that they do love their children and their parents and their wife and so on. A vast experience by now. Psychopathy has been studied much longer than narcissism, and it has been first seriously described 150 years ago. So there's a vast literature. The experience shows that psychopaths' emotions are feigned constructs, confabulations, that the psychopath needs to believe in in order to convince those around him that he is genuine, that it's real, and that it's lasting. It is none of the three. Lastly, I just want to get back to that one point you brought up. If psychopaths are almost designed to win, at least in the sense that they are very driven, and our society places such a high level of importance on winning, and if we assume that the psychopath is the one who in romantic relationships and so forth will come out the victor, is that the reason why maybe psychopathy might be the next, well, I've heard some people say the next stage of evolution, that they have an advantage over those people who are highly empathetic. Give an example, I've heard some people say, well, I really care about the world and the planet, so I'm not going to have children, whereas I would think that someone who was the opposite of that wouldn't care, and so therefore they might be actually more likely to have more children and therefore pass on these genes. What do you think about that? As I said, there is a school of people who believe that psychopathy and narcissism are the next iteration, the next evolutionary stage or phase. I think the truth is more prosaic. Our civilization is narcissistic and verges on psychopathic. It is a civilization that rewards ambition, rewards winning, rewards a lack of scruples in some industries, for instance the financial industry and politics, rewards ruthlessness, relentlessness, even compulsiveness, and so on and so forth. We have constructed, especially over the last 200 years, we have constructed the culture, society, a civilization known as the West, that is now taking over the rest of the globe, eliminating and eradicating other cultures, civilizations, and societies in Africa, in Asia, and even in Europe. So Western civilization, which started in the United Kingdom, migrated to the United States, is narcissistic and is psychopathic and normally it would prefer, it would give preferential treatment and more opportunities to people who conform to its values and to its props and to its social cues and so on. So whenever there is a narcissistic or psychopathic society, narcissistic and psychopathic people are on top. Are we to say that all societies and civilizations, henceforth, will be narcissistic and psychopathic? I don't think so. Nazi Germany has been a psychopathic society. And a psychopath rose to, well actually a narcissist, rose to the top, the Hitler, and he surrounded himself with psychopaths. So the ruling elite in Germany between 1933 and 1945 had been narcissists, composed of, comprised of narcissists and psychopaths. But then Nazi Germany crumbled and now Germany is a normal society, so psychopaths and narcissists do not rise to the top. To cut a very long answer short, I do not think we are talking about the next stage of evolution or the next stage of, I don't know what. I think simply at certain times in history, in specific civilizations, cultures and societies, narcissists and psychopaths have an advantage in that they conform to the prevailing and dominant value systems, anomic value systems. And there they have the advantage and the upper hand because they are the pure and perfect purification and embodiment of the civilization in which they operate. But then civilizations ebb and flow, wax and wane. One day you have a psychopathic civilization, the next thing you know there is a very empathic civilization. And in an empathic civilization, narcissists and psychopaths are going to be the lower level of society. They are going to be trampled upon. They are going to be imprisoned or turned away or ignored. So I am far more optimistic in this sense. I don't think we are all going to turn into narcissists and psychopaths. I do think, however, that the West is an evil and malicious construct. I do think that Western values have given rise to a type of human arrangement, human community, that will inevitably self-destruct in great agony. I believe that the West has become malignant and is a form of spiritual, political, philosophical, moral and ethical cancer on humanity. And yes, when we have this kind of religion, when we have this kind of illness, all encompassing, all pervasive, all permeating, scum like narcissists and psychopaths rise to the top and lead us in all fields of life. And they become the mirror, the dark mirror that we are faced with. Wow. Well, that is something I hope people will contemplate there when they are thinking about the future of, well, not just the West, but of the world in general. Sam, I am really, really, really grateful for you volunteering your time and sharing your very insightful and valuable perspective on this subject. Thank you for having me. And I encourage people to look up Sam Baknin, check out his book, Malignant Self-Love, and his website, and some of the documentaries that are out there. Yes, I have a YouTube channel, it's Sam Baknin, my name without period or anything. So there are 300 videos there about psychopathy and narcissism. People might find this of interest as well. Oh, absolutely, absolutely. Well, anyway, our time is up, so I thank you and I thank our listening audience for tuning in to Unlock the Door Radio. And I hope you tune in again next week for another challenging experience. Thank you again, Sam. Thank you for having me again. Have a nice later. Yeah, you too. Bye now.


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ICE arrests made around Wisconsin, Sheboygan Man to be sentenced for child pornography, High Speed Chase leads to arrest in Manitowoc County. These stories and more coming up on Community News Review. This is Community News Review, a service WSDS-TV news content divided by WHVL. Hello, I'm Maddie Fister and this is Community News Review for Monday, September 24th, 2018. A Sheboygan Man who pleaded no contest to felony charge of possessing child pornography appears in court for sentencing today. Dominic Mann was arrested in November of last year after detectives got a tip from National Center for Missing and Exploited Children about an image that they had obtained with two little girls who were unclothed. The criminal complaint says that when they went to Mann's house he admitted to looking at child pornography and said that he had a few hundred images on his computer and cell phone. The state is recommending three years in prison and 10 years of supervision. Governor Scott Walker was in Appleton on Thursday to unveil a proposal to provide a new childcare tax credit. At Mount Olive Lutheran Church on Appleton's north side Thursday, he said his plan would mirror the federal tax credit and be in addition to it. The Republican governor said families would be eligible for up to $3,000 per child or $6,000 for multiple kids. He said the amount would be based on income and the governor used a family with two parents and two children paying $8,000 a year in taxes as an example. He said that family would be making about $50,000 a year. He says that they would be eligible for up to $1,200 a year. He says the average family would be about $500 back. Walker said for some families the cost of childcare is a barrier for a parent to return to work. Governor is seeking a third term in November's elections and he faces Democrat State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tony Evers. A plea hearing is scheduled for Monday today for the man charged after his car wound up in the Pigeon River near Sheboygan Falls in March. Police say Andrew Christian was driving the Ford Focus south on Rangeline Road near Shamrock Road early that morning. Court documents say he was speeding, failed to negotiate a curve, hit some trees and ended up in the Pigeon River. Tyler Leacher was in the car with him and was airlifted to ThetaCare in Nina to be treated for serious injuries. Deputies say Christian had an alcohol in his system and tried walking away after the crash. He is facing over 20 years in prison if he is found guilty. Sheboygan police have identified the people who died in that fatal crash at 14th and Pennsylvania Avenue on Tuesday afternoon. Sergeant Joel Kozinski says in a press release that 56 year old Daniel Wilson of Sheboygan was driving an SUV west on Pennsylvania at a high rate of speed. He failed to stop at the stoplight. At 14th, hitting a car driven by 49 year old Gianna Rady of Sheboygan. Both drivers died in the crash and the Sheboygan police accident reconstruction team is continuing their investigation. No one else was injured in this crash. Officials say in Columbia County are continuing to investigate a crash that left three men dead on Saturday evening. W-A-O-W-T-V reports it happened at the intersection of State Highway 129 and County Highway O in the town of Newport. Officers say a tight Toyota failed to yield at the right of way at the intersection and pulled out into the path of the oncoming Chevrolet. All three men inside the Toyota were pronounced dead at the scene. Two passengers in the Chevy were injured. A female was taken by air to UW hospital and another passenger was taken to St. Clair Hospital. Investigators say they don't believe any of the deceased passengers were wearing their seat belts and it is unclear if alcohol or speed were factors in the incident. A high speed chase early Thursday morning in Manitowoc ended in a cornfield. The initial traffic stop was made around 2 a.m. on I-43 in the township of Manitowoc Rapids. The pickup truck sped off as a deputy approached and reached speeds of 105 miles per hour. The truck turned into a cornfield after a tire deflation device deflated all four tires of the vehicle and 38-year-old Stephen Meyer was taken into custody and it was discovered that he is wanted on three active warrants. The four law enforcement officers involved in the shootout with the gunmen at Middleton Software Company are being identified. Middleton police officers Richard O'Connor and Tyler Lother and Dane County Sheriff's deputies David Lambrecht and Matthew Earl exchanged a fire with Anthony Tong after he opened fire on coworkers at WTS Paradigm. The officers are on administrative leave while the shooting is investigated. Tong was wounded in the shootout and he died from his injuries a short time later. Three people were hospitalized with serious injuries and a fourth person was grazed by a bullet. A former coworker says Tong was a quiet man who didn't socialize much with others. Tong had been with the company since April 2017 and he had a concealed carry permit revoked in South Dakota because of mental health concerns. The motive for the shooting remains unclear. Hunters are being asked to help DNR count animals this fall. It's 10th year of deer hunter wildlife survey. DNR biologist Jessica Lore says they're not just looking for the deer counts in the woods. They want to hear all about the critters you see. Deer, badgers, bears, coyotes, if someone sees an elk in this year or even raccoons or skunks. Lore says deer hunters are some of the best spotters since you're spending long hours on your blind or tree stand and that makes for a great chance to see what there is to see. Find out more online at dnr.wi.gov. There have been a series of immigration and customs enforcement arrests around Wisconsin. An immigrant rights group reports that at least nine people have been detained in the Madison area. The arrests happened on Friday night without communication with the city's police department. Madison Mayor Paul Solgen said at a news conference that the arrests were contrary to city policy. The mayor also said that the Madison city officials are working to identify those who are in custody to ensure that their rights are protected. ICE usually identifies local police, but sometimes does not if agents believe that the local law enforcement will be uncooperative. The group said Saturday that organizers have confirmed additional arrests by ICE around Wisconsin. And several reports say there was an additional immigration enforcement action on Abbott's fort and Colby in the Milwaukee area. And that is all we have for today. Join me again next time for another recap of our local news. 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