What's up YouTube, AJ here from The Art of Charm, and today I'm going to give you five social skills mistakes that logical people make. When it comes to conversation, we sometimes have to throw logic out the window. I know a lot of us may have analytical jobs. We work at computers, we code, we're engineers, doctors, lawyers, and of course we are rewarded for our logical analysis. But when it comes to meeting people and socializing, being logical is doing you no favors. So the first mistake that people make in conversation when they're too logical is they focus on small details. They get bogged down in items of conversation that don't matter, like what was that specific location or what was that dish that you were having? Instead, when we're in conversation, we want to focus on the emotions. What is the person sharing with us emotionally? That matters way more than the small details. So if you find yourself getting stuck in your head and focusing too intently on all those minute details that the person is sharing, you're missing the forest for the trees. You're getting bogged down in small details when emotions matter more. Now the second mistake that logical people make socially is too much eye contact. You've been told that making solid eye contact means you're listening, means you're giving someone your full attention. But guess what? Science actually shows that the more eye contact you make, the more tension you're creating for the other person, the more difficult it is for you to follow along in conversation. So too much eye contact is a no-no. At the art of charm we prefer, you actually break that eye contact a little while you're listening. It moves your ear closer to the person you're talking to and as long as you come back and make great eye contact, they still know you're listening. So don't stare too much. Too much eye contact is mistake number two. Now mistake number three, when we are listening in conversation, we're not listening empathetically. As I said earlier, we get bogged down in small details and when we don't think about how that other person is feeling, we start to miss emotional bids. Now Dr. John Gottman and his team of researchers have been studying relationships that have lasted for 40, 50 plus years and he coined this term emotional bid. An emotional bid is when someone is attempting to connect with you emotionally.  These emotional bids are what we need to be focused on in conversation. We need to be listening empathetically and thinking about how that person's feeling to have a much better conversation with them. Now number four, the biggest mistake that I think all of us logical people make is when we hear someone discussing a problem, a concern, something they're worried about, we offer a solution. We want to help our friends. We want to help people we know. We even want to help strangers. But the problem is when we offer solutions, we're actually not listening to what the person really wants. Instead, we're forcing our own opinions into the equation. We're putting it on the other person. It's almost as if we're telling someone what they have to do. Solutions are not what people are going for in conversations and certainly not strangers that we're meeting. So I know you might be logical. I know you might have the perfect solution to that problem, but just blurting out you should do this or you could do this is not the way to do it. Instead, ask them, would you like my perspective on that? Or, hey, do you want to know what I think about that before you offer solutions? So don't just blurt out a solution for someone. You're going to find that people don't receive it very well and it's going to make you less attractive. Now the fifth and final mistake that I know we all make is we talk in absolutes just like I did there. When you say someone always does this or never does that or everyone is like this or everyone hates that, those absolutes actually turn people off. They stop paying attention to what you're saying and especially if you point that absolute at them. If you say you're always this or you're never this, you're putting that other person on that spot and immediately we all get defensive. We start searching for the moment that we weren't that specific thing because we want to prove that other person wrong. So if you're talking in absolutes, you need to soften it. You have to say sometimes I feel this or sometimes I've seen you do this, but remove always and never from your vocabulary and you're going to have much more charismatic conversations. Now, if you want to learn more social skills tips, check out our conversations playlist full of ideas on how to open conversation and how to start connecting better. Until then, see you next week.


With the issues in games, what do you have to do to try to get things that are working in the practice field and get it to translate in the game so that you're able to play better, play better, not beat ourselves, not get into the flow of the game, start complimenting each other. There was an opportunity and we had a turnover and then, again, allowed the score. So defense has to be, we've had opportunities for sudden change and we've done well in sudden change and it just didn't seem to happen that way yesterday.  And again, that didn't happen. And so we'll have to get back to those things and take care of the football and then turn it over, trying to get some turnovers. Will and a couple of guys said that they felt like practice didn't translate to the game. Do you feel like that's the case? And if so, what's the disconnect? You hit it there, I guess. But what's the disconnect between carrying over what you do during the week to the test that you talk about? Yeah, there's only, I mean, only one day that matters. And I would say trying to continue to formulate those practices and make sure that we always try to create practice in a manner in which you played a game and then we're trying to do it with pace and with tempo, give them enough speed, looks that they can feel comfortable about what they're doing, but then also realizing where we're at in the season and who's available and how much they can go and what speed, capacity, and based on injury and health and all those things. And just looking at, ultimately, the more exposure and you get into those games. And you only have a few opportunities to go out there. And we can say that there's a bunch of plays, but there's a handful of plays that if you're able to make them, swing the outcome differently or make it much more competitive in yesterday's case. Despite the results, are you seeing week to week improvement from Will at the quarterback position as you bring him along? And also in that regard, how's he doing it as far as not making the same mistake twice like you preach? Well, making the same mistake twice is something that's probably been pretty good. And I thought there was a couple decisions there that we can't make. You can't throw that ball going to your left and throwing it. Whether he didn't see hop on the sidelines there is the play extended. But those should be turnovers. Those are turnover worthy plays. And we need to limit those. Again, the ability to throw the ball down the field has been a positive. The decision making, I think, has been pretty good. Yesterday was probably a few examples. But again, it's a process. And each week is different. And we have to come back. And again, to continue to improve at the quarterback position and then everywhere else. Mike, how does Amani, a safety, end up on their best receiver down around the red zone on the third down that they ended up scoring the touchdown? The coverage that we were in. And I would probably argue that at this point in time, Amani is probably one of our better options back there to cover anybody. How do you feel like Kavon and Terrell and some of these new guys have come along trying to fill Kaby's shoes since the trade? Well, maybe they've all played. And they showed up and made some plays, had some plays they'd like to have back. And both of them were in and out of the game yesterday. Kavon didn't finish it. Mike Brown played, Terrell played. So again, I think that their attitudes are great there. Their willingness, Kavon had a few plays there early. You know, where he showed up and but again, I think just making sure that the communication is sound and that we're not letting guys run free and had a few mistakes and have to get back to work. With the locker room itself, the team overall, what would you say are some examples of you still having a firm hold, a firm control of the locker room? Uh, I don't, I've never, you know, are you questioning that? I'm not sure.  I mean, you're questioning it. No, what I'm asking you is, is for examples of how you still, I'm not saying you do or don't have control. But what I want to know is, what are some examples of you having control of the same ones that I've had since I got here? I mean, that's, I don't know how to do it any other way.  You know, I wish, I wish we would win. I wish we were winning, wish we were better. But we're not gonna, I'm not gonna compromise the things that I believe that, you know, are gonna help us win and about the details and about, you know, the little things and not letting those slide and doing my best to hold everybody accountable, you know, including myself as we go through this.   Are you saying that in the locker room? Yeah, I don't think we have bad culture. I think we've lost.     But I'm confident that we're going to, we're going to fight and we're going to compete. We just, we just didn't win.  And maybe that's it. You know, they're, I mean, Jacksonville is better, they're a better football team. They're better coach and they got their better team right now. So none of us would be able to do anything after that game yesterday. And I know that we're going to come back to work tomorrow and, and have a plan and, you know, see who's available and get to work. Mike, why wait until the game is out of reach when you guys kind of dipped into the bag on the trick plays? Ran a, ran a reverse there, second play of the game, that third play of the game that got us down.  So, you know, they were sprinkled throughout the game. And I just, I, I disagree that we waited. I think that that's, you know, the ones showed up. But we had, I think throughout the game, you know, like I said, early in the game, the reverse that got us 38 yards was a good example of that. Do you need to sort of change the way you coach or approach your guys given like the circumstances of this season? You've never really coached a team that has been falling out of contention at this point in the year. Does it change your approach to the day to day? I hope not. No, I hope, I hope that I come in with energy. I hope I come in with passion for coaching and teaching and making sure that, you know, we understand how we have to play and try to correct them and have energy at practice and, you know, listen to them and demand and hold them accountable and all those things that I feel like I try to do. Fourth and one in the third quarter in your own territory, 20-nothing, I know, with sure hard pressure. It could be, yeah. Yeah, of course I thought about it. You know, of course I thought about it. But, you know, thought about trying to punt and see if we couldn't keep them back there and try to keep it at 20. Just try to weigh, you know, both sides of it. That's what I was doing, Paul, and decided on that one at the 30-yard line to kick it. With Fulton and he and Trey Avery, they split some time. Was that, I mean, did he tweak something or was that? Oh, no, that was Coach's decision. Okay. What was going wrong for Christian to make you want to? I don't know what was going wrong. I just felt like it was needed to be better and we've had a conversation and I'll keep that between him and I and we'll try to move on to this week. But that's, you know, getting beat is one thing. You know, just making sure that we're executing, you know, the call and the scheme and corners are going to get beat. I think they're going to get beat by wide receivers, especially, you know, ones that we played yesterday. And so that wasn't the reason that I tried to put Trey in there. I just, there were some other reasons that, you know, Christian and I talked about. What do you think about Rodgers that he got flagged a couple of times and gave up one on the sideline? Well, again, corners are going to get beat.  I didn't see the TV copy yet of the first one. I think that that would probably, I probably would say that disagree with the call. I don't think he restricted him. I think the receiver, you know, I mean, that's what happens on 95% of those passes at the sticks on third down. You know, the deep ball. Again, where we're at right now, we get a little bit of pressure and instead of tipping the pass, we hit the quarterback's arm. So now the ball's under thrown. The receiver comes back for the ball and we get DPI as opposed to somehow tipping that football and then DPI not being in effect. So again, Rodger, not without fault, but he's, you know, competitive and he tries the challenge and, you know, was, you know, had a win on two minutes when they tried to throw over there on the sidelines. So that was positive. He showed up and tackled a few times and, you know, but again, just, you know, we all need to be better. What was your assessment of Raiden's and Duncan at the tackles? You know, I thought it was good to have Jalen get the opportunity. You know, I've been working hard and we've been working through some, you know, some different lineups upfront and he had a, he had a role in XL Jumbo role, which he, you know, put some time into and was excited to use that and then got in there at tackle and, you know, I would say from an execution standpoint or understanding and assignment standpoint was good. I think the execution could always be better, but it's a good place to start. I'm excited about, you know, if we'll be able to see him this week. It seemed like he got early, just how much of a hit was it to the game plan when Chris went out and you guys weren't able to go to that as much? Well, it was just, again, I was a way to get a young player in there, a young tackle in there to some work. We could still run some of those plays and but it just felt like that that's a good way to introduce a young lineman who hasn't had a lot of game reps into the game and, you know, get him some work and then see how he handles it and then progress on. So, you know, I'll probably play more tackle this week. Mike, are you thinking at all at this point in time about any coaching staff changes given the issues that seem to be repeating themselves? No. You say Jalen may play more tackles, Chris potentially? Yeah. Gonna miss some time? Yes. You have hope that you get training by practicing at some point, unless he's still kind of... Once he clears through protocol, once him and Dillard clear through protocol, you know, when the trainers and the doctors say that, you know, that's on to their next step and they'll practice. And so I don't know where that is right now other than to say that today they wouldn't have been able to practice and tomorrow could potentially be something different as they progress there. I talked yesterday about snapping 100 footballs instead of snapping 50, but at what point do you make a change at that position when you're having the same issue of snapping the football? Well, Bruce played some good football for us and, you know, he's done some good things, he's done some really good things.  You know, I mean, I guess not to say that we would never make a change, but I don't anticipate making a change. I would, you know, want to just make sure that we're executing the play from the time that we started and get the snap and give ourselves a chance. And, you know, Bruce knows that and will continue to work on it. Frustration is growing, but like it seemed to be yesterday in the locker room, do you have to change your messaging or you're very consistent in how you do it? But, and obviously it's gotten to three and seven at this point. Do you have to change anything down the stretch in your approach? Well, man, I try to figure out what's best for the team each and every week and what I show them and, you know, the good stuff and the stuff that's been getting us beat. And we'll keep coming to work and we'll keep grinding away. We'll keep trying to different rotations and, you know, do everything that we can and making sure that these guys improve. And when we improve, then we'll win. Is that Murphy bunting back this week? Yeah, I did a little bit last week. So I would say that it's trending more positively, but again, just the contact with, you know, the thumb and everything else. We'll have to see how that does throughout the week. Why is the improvement taking so long? Well, there's obviously ways to develop players and I think different players develop at different rates and different speeds. We've got some, some younger guys and some guys that, you know, haven't been here. We've worked through different combinations on the offensive line through injury.  So again, making sure that we're creative in the ways that we develop these guys and that we're showing them and explaining to them and giving them opportunities for small victories, whether it's Jalen who handled a role and then he'll get another role or it's TK who plays in a game, continues to develop, you know, Monty Rice challenged him to do well on special teams to perform there, which in turn would lead to some defensive snaps, which he has gotten, and I would say has taken advantage of those, has been active, you know, just, you know, different examples of that throughout the roster.    Do you get impatient or do you fight impatient? You're talking about small things, which I understand add up, but collectively it seems slow. Well, when you lose, it is. And then trying to find examples, you know, of that, right? To make sure that, you know, our ultimate goal is winning, you know, we understand that. And, but again, also understand where we're at right now in this season. And I think that if you can improve with that, then we're going to lead to victories. And that's what I've said. We can't worry about winning before we worry about improving. We're going to have to do some things, you know, better. And I'm excited about that challenge, excited about, you know, getting back to work. Brought up yesterday, only playing 40 snaps offensively. Just when you went back and watched the tape, was that kind of the old standards of getting behind the sticks on first down sort of thing, or was there something new you identified about why the team was struggling to sustain those drives? Well, we had some unforced errors. Again, we snapped the ball bad, and we snapped it bad again. And then the back goes the wrong way one time. And then we snapped it bad. We have a false start. And then we follow that up with another false start, you know? Mike, why can't this team figure out what we're doing now?   I thought he's caught him well.  I think that that's probably a little different than, you know, catching him. It's not like we haven't gone through and had guys, you know, catch the ball or, you know, try out five or six different guys. I think that the fumble and the rake, you know, I would probably say that that's, you know, under the category of we have to do a better job of protecting the guy with the ball. And he knows that. But also, you know, not letting that guy, the long snapper, who was, you know, talented and had three tackles, you know, we have to do a better job of protecting the returner. And, you know, Eric's caught him. He'll continue to catch him.  Rayden's with the false starts. Rayden's with the false starts. We're brewer with the high snaps. Why is it taking the time it is for those things to get correct? You know, we continue, I'll just keep coaching it. I'm gonna keep blasting the music and keep getting him to concentrate the best that we can. You know, keep working with Brew about different blocks that he may have to execute and where he's moving and making sure that the snap is the most important thing, you know, and then wherever he has to go and make sure that he's not moving too fast to snap the football. I said, we'll blast the music. We'll play the music louder. Are there enough guys on this roster that have earned your trust that they're gonna do the right thing and make the right play consistently, play it and play out? Are there enough guys that I trust? Yeah, we trust a lot, I mean, whether we make the play, I don't know.  And again, I think that we're working at it, but we'll make sure that they understand the plan, give them my opportunity to go out there and have trust and confidence in what they're doing and get a win. But yesterday was disappointing. But we're gonna get back to work.  You know, I've already had conversations with some players and they're explaining things that they think and they said, well, you know, we have to understand that whatever the detail is that has to be better to help us do our job. And I'm confident that we'll keep doing that. We're not giving up anything with the Tuesday, Thursday split in terms of speed or physicality or recovery? No, I mean, no, I don't, at this point in time, I don't know how much speed and physicality, you know, try to get the most out of these walkthrough periods that we've had, you know, showing them as many possible plays as we can versus many different looks of our plays that we have in versus things that they have. Those have been beneficial and, you know, there's just only so many full speed opportunities in a week. So that that's the schedule that we're going with. And I think that we'll get more out of that being focused on Tuesday and Wednesday, you know, then we would for half a day on Thursday. When it comes to not making changes on the coaching staff, you talk about, you know, just going back out there and coaching it and wrecking it and things like that. What gives you the confidence that coaching it and wrecking it with the same coaches? Because I have the luxury of having played this game in this league. And I know what we're coaching. I know what we're teaching. Never blamed Dean Pease or Matt Patricia or Bill Belichick or Romeo Cronell or Rob Ryan. When I couldn't get to the pass rusher, I missed a tackle or I went the wrong way. And that's the luxury that I have. Never blamed a coach for my, let me finish and then you can interrupt me. And so I know what we're coaching. I know what we're teaching. I'm in the meetings. You know, we're gonna continue to find ways to help our players and to demand that they play with great effort and improve our details and improve our fundamentals. Cause I know that that's what works. Go ahead. Well, these players may not be as good as you. So when you, as a player, my comment had nothing to do with my ability. It was my perspective. Right, in the past, when it's come to the perspective, you've talked about the training staff and the injuries and you've said that you never blamed a trainer as a player for injuries.  And so at that point it starts to become, well, maybe it could be that issue that you are not considered. I appreciate and certainly understand that.  Like, I'm not gonna talk about AJ. I have a great relationship with AJ. And David Long was a player that we've had here for many years. And whether he was injured in the spring or not injured or what, and I just, not gonna have that debate. I just, I don't think that making changes to a coaching staff at this point in time is warranted. I believe in our staff, I believe in our players and we're gonna find ways to improve. We're gonna find ways to win after we find ways to improve. You did mention earlier that Jacksonville was better coached. Wondering if you could elaborate on where some of those things are falling short with your staff compared to their staff as a whole. I just, you know, every opportunity that they gain plays, they had a good play call and we need to give our guys better chances and certain opportunities, whether that's explaining it to them better, coaching it better and therefore getting better results. So that all falls on me, the performance and the coaching, it all falls on me and I'm excited to get it fixed.


There's a famous, though apocryphal quote by Abraham Lincoln. Speaking about Kentucky at the outset of the Civil War, the president said, I hope to have God on my side, but I must have Kentucky. This quote has never been verified, and historians at this point pretty much agree that Lincoln never actually said this, but it remains a popular quote because even if it's not true that he said it, it does seem to accurately illustrate the importance that President Lincoln placed on his native state. As we've moved through 1861 in this series so far, I think the most important theme that I want to stress is the value that Lincoln placed on keeping the last remaining slave states from joining the Union. We've looked at Maryland and Missouri, which were arguably the two most important. Maryland in particular was vital in keeping Washington, D.C. from being completely surrounded in Missouri for its access to the Mississippi and Missouri rivers and its industrialized city of St. Louis. We've also talked about the formation of West Virginia, which was a movement that Lincoln did not lead, but he did support, thus successfully dividing the Confederacy's most important state. I won't be talking about Tennessee. Eastern Tennessee was undergoing a similar Unionist movement to that of Western Virginia, but it would not result in the disunion of that state. And sharing a border with both Tennessee and Western Virginia was the state of Kentucky, the state that President Abraham Lincoln was born in. Also the state that the Southern Democrat candidate for president in 1860, John Breckenridge, was from, and he ultimately would defect to the Confederacy even as his state remained in the Union. If there is any state that exemplified the often exaggerated brother versus brother aspect of the Civil War, it would be Kentucky. I'm Chris Calton, and this is the Mises Institute podcast, Historical Controversies. In this episode, we will be talking about the Union effort to secure Kentucky. Although Missouri was important for its own reasons, the president knew that the fate of Missouri would have an effect on Kentucky as I illustrated in Lincoln's decision to overturn John Fremont's Missouri Emancipation Proclamation. Kentucky was geographically important, sharing a border with Ohio, and without it the Union would have waged a very different war in the Western Theater, as Kentucky served as the launch pad for Ulysses S. Grant's campaign to capture Fort's Donaldson and Henry, which we will be talking about in later episodes, but would be important starts to the rise of Ulysses S. Grant. We can only speculate about what the war would have looked like if Kentucky had joined the Confederacy, but it is impossible to deny that Kentucky proved to be extremely important for the Union war effort. For that reason, it is worth devoting an episode to the Union operations to control Kentucky, which will finish our look at Lincoln's quest to secure the last remaining border states and bring us closer to the end of the important events that took place in 1861, though we do still have a couple of more things we're going to look at before we get to 1862. After Lincoln's call for 75,000 troops following the bombardment of Fort Sumter, Kentucky, like the other border states, was divided between unconditional Unionists and secessionists. The problem in Kentucky was that the secessionists had virtually complete control over the state militia, as well as the state's supply of arms and ammunition. This concerned one citizen of Kentucky named William Nelson, a Lieutenant in the United States Navy, so he arranged a meeting with President Lincoln. At the meeting, he proposed a plan. Lieutenant Nelson told the President that he wanted the federal government to ship him muskets to be put in the hands of the Union Home Guard in Kentucky. If he got enough guns in the hands of the Unionists, they could prevent the secessionists from taking the state over for the Confederacy. Lincoln did not hesitate to approve the plan, which was already in line with ideas he'd been toying with himself. Before the end of the day, the President issued an order to have 5,000 muskets sent directly to Nelson. Lincoln suggested that Nelson meet with another Kentuckian, Joshua Speed, who could help see that the guns got distributed to loyal Kentuckians. Nelson arranged the meeting and met with Speed and Louisville and gave him the plan. The two booked passage on a train to Frankfurt that day, and Nelson made it clear that he wanted his plan to be kept secret. I do not wish you to speak to me on the cars this afternoon as we go to Frankfurt.  During the train ride, the pair pretended not to know each other, but they arrived in Frankfurt and held a meeting that night. They were moving quickly. There were a handful of prominent Kentucky Unionists at the meeting, but the most prominent was probably John Crittenden, who had proposed to the compromise plan to try to stave off secession by guaranteeing the right to slavery, including a constitutional amendment that eventually became the Corwin amendment, which I talked about in an episode at the very beginning of the season. The minute the meeting, each had a list of names that they could provide of loyal Kentuckians who could be trusted with the Lincoln guns as they became called. Again, Nelson stressed the importance of keeping the plan secret until all the guns were distributed. As the meeting adjourned, one of the attendees suggested that this might have been the most important meeting to have ever been held in the state of Kentucky. This plan was executed with startling speed. The guns arrived quickly and were rapidly distributed, with focus being on northern and central Kentucky, where there was the strongest Unionist presence. Within a week of Nelson's meeting with Lincoln, the Union Home Guard was running drills in various places throughout the state, but the side of the Union men drilling with firearms was hard to miss. And as quickly as the guns were distributed, news of the Lincoln guns spread throughout the rest of Kentucky. The secessionist militia were still much better equipped than the Home Guard, having almost three times as many firearms, some of which were rifles, but the presence of 5,000 guns in the hands of the Unionists changed things quite a bit. As the rumor spread, as these things usually play out, the number of guns in the hands of the Union men became grossly inflated. The Lincoln guns became a matter of controversy in the state and by the middle of May, the legislature had to address it. The issue was that these guns had been put into the hands of people who are not part of the state militia. Legally, this should not have taken place, so a five-man committee was formed to investigate the matter. But the Unionists in the legislature added an amendment to the bill forming the committee that said that they should also investigate the Knights of the Golden Circle. If you remember from my episodes on filibustering, the Knights of the Golden Circle formed as part of the movement to annex territories in the Caribbean, Latin America, and South America, and it was largely motivated by a desire to expand slave holding territories for the United States. But they formed right before secession, so the Knights ended up largely acting to encourage secession and conduct guerrilla raids in contested areas. They had a significant presence in Kentucky. The guns were still being distributed as word of them made it to the secessionists in the state. When Captain Speed Fry of the Danville Home Guards was returning home with two wagons of Lincoln guns, he approached a town called May's Lick. As he entered the town, a man stepped out from his home and waved for Captain Fry to come speak to him. Fry obliged, and the man said, and barely a whisper, quote, do not go into the town with those guns. With no further explanation, he left, leaving it to Fry to figure out if this was a warning or a threat. Fry and the other men with him decided to ignore the warning, and they went into the town and stopped at a hotel for breakfast, and Fry stood as the lone sentry over the wagons while the other men ate. A crowd formed around the wagons, and one man stepped forward and asked Fry if he should take the guns. He was saying this is a veiled threat. Fry stood his ground saying, quote, there they are, take them. Basically he was saying, I dare you. The man backed down, and the men resumed their travel. In the afternoon, they came to another town, Millersburg, which was known to be a hot bed for secessionists. They anticipated trouble, but the only thing they got was an old woman who shook her fist at them and yelled, if I was a man, I would not let them guns pass without taking some of them. Ultimately, the guns reached their destination without incident, and they were distributed to the Union Home Guard. Most likely, the secessionist element in the state was never as strong as people like Lincoln and Nelson feared. The secessionists may have controlled the militia in the state's arms, but they were still a minority element in Kentucky overall. Out of the four slave states that remained in the Union, Missouri was probably the most likely to secede. But the Lincoln guns made the Union men in Kentucky feel more secure from threats of a secessionist overtaking the state, and both sides decided to adopt the position of armed neutrality in the war. They didn't want to secede, but they didn't want to take part in the war, and armed neutrality was the official stance of Kentucky for five full months after Fort Sumter, while Lincoln concerned himself with the more volatile areas like Missouri. But armed neutrality would not be the stance that Kentucky would maintain throughout the war. The president would not allow neutrality. So now we can fast-forward past some of the events we've already talked about, such as Bull Run and Wilson's Creek, which took place after the Lincoln guns, but while Kentucky was still maintaining its neutrality. After Bull Run, things in Kentucky heated up. Many of the secessionists moved down to Tennessee where they could abandon their neutrality. In the June elections for Kentucky, the Unionists won the day by putting Unionists in the National Congress. But August 5th was the date for the state legislature, and the election there would likely decide whether Kentucky was going to stand with the North or join the South. Ultimately, the Unionists won the day by an overwhelming margin. The state's neutrality was peeling away as Kentucky Unionists solidified, and many of the state's secessionists moved down to Tennessee. The day after the August elections, the Unionists set up a camp on the farm of Dick Robinson in the center of the state. To arm the camp, Union leaders took some of the Lincoln guns and loaded them on a train to arm the camp. But the train had to pass through some secessionist areas, including the town of Cynthia, which already had an entire company join the Confederate army. When the conductor saw the crowd that had formed at the Cynthia station, waiting the arrival of the guns, he ordered the train to return to Covington, and the guns were instead shipped by boat to Louisville, where they arrived in the middle of the night and were secretly moved from the boat to Wagons, where they could be shipped to Lexington, a city that had Unionist and secessionist forces. The Union men in the city were under the command of a local physician, Ethelbert Dudley. The secessionists were under Captain John Morgan, who would eventually serve as a general for the Confederacy. Dudley knew that Morgan might try to seize the guns, so he sent word to camp Dick Robinson for reinforcements. Just before dawn on the day the guns arrived in Lexington, a bugle sounded from the roof of an armory. This was Morgan's signal for his men to prepare for an attack. Then the courthouse bell rang, which was Dudley's signal for his men to prepare their defense of the guns. As the bugle sounded and the bell clanged, Dudley received his reinforcements as 200 Union cavalry rode in from Camp Dick Robinson. For a moment it seemed like the war was starting in Kentucky, but John Breckenridge, who had not yet defected to the Confederacy and was still a United States Senator, a seat he would hold until December, convinced Morgan to stand down. Once more, the tense situation with the Lincoln guns ended anti-climatically, as they were transported to Camp Dick Robinson without bloodshed. On September 2nd, the newly elected Union legislature met in Frankfurt. The governor of the state, Bariah McGoffin, was more inclined to sympathize with the south, but the legislature was now so thoroughly unionist that they had the votes to override the governor's veto. But Governor McGoffin tried his best to keep the legislature from abandoning neutrality. Like other border state politicians, he brought up the crimes of the federal government. He also said that both Camp Dick Robinson and the Lincoln guns were illegal and the legislature should correct this. And following the reasoning of other conditional unionists, he referred to the war as, quote, an unconstitutional war of coercion against the south. And that, quote, I protest against all and every one of the president's usurpations and unconstitutional and illegal acts, end quote. But McGoffin's speech was of little relevance at this point. Kentucky may have still been officially neutral, but the Union army had already incorporated it in its plan to wage a three-pronged war against the south. General Leonidas Polk was occupying two towns in western Kentucky by September 3rd. Ulysses S. Grant was just on the other side of the Kentucky border in Cairo, Illinois, and he had already sent a request to John from Montt, still commander of the Department of the West at this point, for permission to move into Kentucky and occupy Paducah. Neutrality was becoming more and more of a facade as the Unionist legislature tolerated the U.S. army's use of its state as a gateway to the Confederacy. Finally, on September 17th, the veil of neutrality was abandoned completely. Confederate General Buckner moved into Kentucky from Tennessee and was moving toward Louisville. One of his scouting parties burned a bridge that ran across the Salt River, and the city of Louisville, only 30 or so miles away, was feeling threatened. On September 18th, it was clear that Buckner was advancing toward the city, and as the information spread, the numbers of Buckner's forces became exaggerated. 7,000 men, the rumors said, were marching directly toward Louisville. General Robert Anderson, the same man who defended Fort Sumter, was the commanding officer in Louisville, but he had almost no men at his disposal to counter an invasion from Buckner. Anderson called his subordinate officers to a meeting at 9 p.m., and he asked to them how long it would take to call up the militia. They told him two hours, and by 11 o'clock, 1,800 Union men showed up to defend the city. They came under the command of General William Tecumseh Sherman. More requests were sent to other areas to try to get as many soldiers as possible, and Anderson wasn't disappointed. Over the next couple of days, troops from Illinois, Ohio, and Indiana had all arrived in Louisville to protect the city. During this time, Sherman came to the burned bridge and concluded that Buckner had not been planning in advance at all, and he set some of his men up to fortify the area around Muldraw's Hill. There had been confederate activity in the city, but the rumors exaggerated it greatly enough that the Union forces were able to concentrate non-Kentucky troops in the state without looking like an invading force itself, which was how the Missourians, by contrast, had seen the Union troops there. Kentucky's stance of armed neutrality was at an end. While Louisville was preparing for an invasion, political arrests were taking place, just as they were in even more solidly Union states throughout the North. The most significant arrest to take place during the Louisville panic was former Kentucky Governor Charles S. Moorhead. Moorhead was not a secessionist. He was elected governor as part of the Know Nothing Party, and in 1860, he supported John Bell, the constitutional Unionist candidate. As he campaigned for Bell, he even traveled to some of the deep south states to give Unionist speeches, but he was a slave owner, and more threateningly, he believed that the best way to bring about the reunification of the country was to recognize the Confederacy and maintain peace. After the Lincoln administration started to carry out political arrests and suspend habeas corpus, Moorhead vocally criticized these policies. He was a Unionist, but he was not falling in line with the pro-war administration, and for that reason, he was to be arrested. His arrest came the day after General Buckner's advance into Kentucky. The U.S. Marshall in Kentucky, A.H. Snead, went before the justice of the peace in Louisville and asked for an arrest warrant to be made out for Moorhead on charges of treason. The justice complied and Snead made the arrest just after midnight at Moorhead's home. The next day, a circuit court judge in Louisville issued a red of habeas corpus. Snead responded by immediately sending a wire to President Lincoln, asking him how to handle the situation and informing him of the Confederates that were supposed to be advancing to Louisville. Simon Cameron, Lincoln's Secretary of War, sent the response. Send Moorhead to Fort Lafayette, along with the other political prisoners that had been taken, such as the editor of Louisville's anti-war newspaper, The Louisville Courier, which had called federal authority over Kentucky a usurpation and revolutionary act that, quote, no citizen of Kentucky is bound to obey, end quote. The editor of the paper, Reuben Durrett, was arrested the same night as Moorhead, along with several telegraph operators who were arrested for wiring articles to New Orleans to be reprinted in southern papers. The people in Louisville were taken aback by the political arrests when they found out about them. The stories of these arrests in Maryland and Missouri had been brought to Kentucky, but the Kentuckians believed that they were above such repressive actions. As with the other states in which such arrests took place, there was an instant backlash. The first person to come to the defense of Moorhead was the editor of the Louisville Journal. His paper was staunchly pro-union, and he was appalled by Moorhead's arrest, and he wrote to Lincoln advising the president to have the former governor released. Lincoln handed the letter to a secretary of state, William Seward, who was the man most responsible for the political arrests taking place throughout the country, and the president asked Seward for more information on the matter. But this letter came at the end of September, when the North was full of fear about a southern invasion, and the administration was engineering the Maryland elections. But Seward refused to release Moorhead unless he took a loyalty oath, and Moorhead refused because he held property in Mississippi, and if he took the loyalty oath, the Confederate government would seize it. Moorhead remained in prison for three months, when he needed a life-saving surgery, and he was only released after John Crintenden stepped up to defend him. Crintenden pointed out to Seward the issue about Moorhead's properties in Mississippi, and warned the secretary of the political consequences of allowing such a highly esteemed figure in Kentucky to die as a political prisoner. Two other men who had been arrested with Moorhead were released after some time as well. The editor I mentioned earlier, Reuben Durrett, convinced Seward to release him by personally writing him a letter telling him the story about his wife's failing health, which apparently moved Seward enough to set him free. Another prisoner, a teleographer named Martin Barr, refused to take a loyalty oath and stayed in prison for six months before finally being released on parole in March of 1862. Eventually the United States Senate would ask the president to provide all the information he had on the arrests of these figures, and Lincoln refused, writing back that it was quote, not deemed compatible with the public interest, to furnish the information desired, end quote. The Senate never received the information they requested. Hundreds of arrests took place in Kentucky after these first few in Louisville. This policy drove Kentuckians to Tennessee to join the Confederacy in large numbers. The policy was very much a guilty until proven innocent situation. If anybody was away from home, the running assumption was that they must be traitors who've joined the Confederacy, and if anybody was seen traveling southward, it was assumed that their destination was Tennessee. The Home Guard was ordered to stop any man they saw traveling in a southward direction. One of the men arrested for the crime of traveling in a southward direction was none other than James Clay, the son of Henry Clay. Like Moorhead, a writ of habeas corpus was issued by the same judge, in fact, and Robert Anderson in Louisville wrote to President Lincoln to receive orders. Seward answered on Lincoln's behalf, saying that Anderson should ignore the writ unless either of two loyal Kentuckians, James Guthrie or James Speed, vouched for him. After Anderson consulted with them, they released Clay on a whopping $10,000 bail, and scheduled his treason trial for January. The trial never ended up taking place. Three members of the Kentucky legislature were also arrested for moving southward from Frankfurt. These were delegates from secessionist areas, but after they were arrested, the legislature sent a delegation to secure their release. Many of the people arrested were essentially nobodies. They were poor. They had no knowledge of the union operations, and they could offer a little service to the Confederacy if they even joined. But for some suspicion or another, they would be arrested and sent to Fort Lafayette, and released upon taking a loyalty oath. When they were released, transportation back to their home state was not provided, and some of them were so poor that they had trouble even making their way back home. Eventually, a commissioner appointed to look into the cases of the poor Kentucky prisoners intervened, telling Seward, quote, I think we can fill all our forts with much better men who are much more dangerous than they, end quote. Basically, Seward was having arrests carried out against anybody who had the slightest bit of suspicion, with no regard to the value of the arrests. A more significant arrest was carried out for Richard Stanton, a former congressman who was arrested by William Nelson, who now held the rank of general. Stanton and six others who were arrested with him were sent to Fort Lafayette. He didn't even know why he'd been arrested, but his crime was that he wanted to stay neutral in the war, but he had opposed the introduction of the Lincoln guns that Nelson had carried out. He was released on the day after Christmas, after James Speed, the man Lincoln connected with Nelson to distribute the gun, and William Sherman, among other people, wrote letters to the president to defend Stanton's loyalty. Just as I detailed in previous episodes for other states, newspapers were the primary targets for political arrests. Obviously, secessionist papers were targeted, but any paper who was anti-war, pro-neutrality, or critical of the administration was suspected of treason. If you did not fully support the war and everything done in the name of the war, you were a secessionist. There was no room for a middle ground. Numerous papers were shut down. The Henderson reporter, the Lexington statesman, the Synthianna News, the Frankfurt yeoman, but the most famous paper to be shut down was still the Louisville Courier. In mid-September, a copy of the Courier was sent to William Seward, who passed it along to Montgomery Blair. Seward suggested that Blair halted the circulation of the paper. Blair was happy to comply, and on September 18th, he sent an order that, quote, the Louisville Courier found to be an advocate of treason. Be excluded from the mails and post offices of the United States, end quote. Marshall Snead received the order and took the initiative of going further, shutting the paper down entirely. He also tried to arrest the owners of the paper, but one of them was away at the time, and word of the paper shut down reached him before he returned home. Knowing that he was in danger, he went straight to Bowling Green, where he could be protected by General Buckner, and he relaunched the Courier. The Louisville Courier was an anti-war newspaper that took opposition to the oppressive policies of the Lincoln administration. The Bowling Green Courier, after all of this, was an adamantly pro-Confederacy paper. In November, a group of Kentucky secessionists met in Russellville, Kentucky, where they held a secret convention. Similar to the Unionist movement in western Virginia, Kentucky's secessionist towns sent delegates to the convention to decide how to respond to Kentucky's place in the union. The delegates there passed a resolution saying that the president and Congress, quote, have substituted for national liberty, a centralized despotism, found upon the ignorant prejudices of the masses of northern society. They have turned loose the unrestrained and raging passions of the mobs fanatics, end quote. They then declared Kentucky to be an independent state. But these delegates couldn't speak for the entire state. In my view, for what little that may be worth, I do believe this is the one thing that the western Virginia folks did right. Not in the sense that you have to agree with it, but in the sense that it was more effective than what everybody else did. They were the only people who were dedicated enough to their cause to actually secede from their own state. The Kentucky secessionists, as far as I know, made no attempt to establish themselves as a new and separate state. Instead, like the Missouri secessionists, they maintained the facade that they were speaking for the entire state, which was obviously ridiculous. Kentucky was far more unionist than Missouri was, without a doubt. Ultimately, Kentucky was secure for the union, and this was a gigantic boon for Lincoln. By forcing the state to abandon its neutrality, the union was able to use Kentucky as a launch pad for some of the most important operations in the entire war for the northern cause, though they wouldn't know it for quite some time, as all eyes were on the eastern theater, which is where everybody believed the most crucial battles would be focused. And it is this eastern theater that we will return to in the next episode as we begin to look at a battle that was of very little strategic or military significance, but would have tremendous political ramifications. The Battle of Balls Bluff, also known as the Battle of Leesburg. Historical Controversies is a production of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. If you would like to support the show, please subscribe on iTunes, Google Play, or Stitcher and leave a positive review. You can also support the show financially by donating at Mises.org slash supportHC. If you would like to explore the rest of our content, please visit Mises.org. 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Can I just check how you are with injuries and suspensions ahead with me? Yeah suspensions, so Ganna and Jared injuries, Young-E, Seamus won't be right for this one. We're hoping for a quick recovery from them too. Keno has trained today so as long as there's no reaction he'd be back in the thinking. Trying to think of else. Me quite a bit of a niggle but I think he'd be okay. Felly mae'n ganddwyd, mae'n ganddwyd. Mae'n ddod am gweithio ni'n ganddwyd. Mae ardal yn i gael, ond mae'n ganddwyd ar y gaf. Ond mae'n gwneud am gynnwysgol i gyfnod. Mae'n ganddwyd, mae'n gwneud am fwy ffambol. A Ondrai, rydyn ni'n ganddwyd. Mae'n ganddwyd i'n gwneud am y dyfnod. Mae'n gwneud ar 90 minny. Rydyn ni'n ganddwyd i gael yn gweithio. Ieithaf, mae'n gael bod yn oedd yn gynnal i'r gweithio ddatblyg. Doedd y gweithio â dda i mi ac yn y ddweud â'i glir o ran eich ddweud. Rhaid, maen nhw'n gwybod ei ddweud a oed hynny'n ddweud mewn pryd. trades yn dod lle maen nhw nhw. Mae gyd yna, mae'n i gweithio. Fy hoff iddyn nhw a fyddai'n byw sydd yn gwneud i hyn. Mae'n gweithio'n gwneud i'r Hwbl photon o'r trafodaeth. Mae hyn yn ymlaen, fel ydych chi, rydyn ni wedi bod hynny yn gweithio ni gyd yn ymweld. Wrth i'r ddechrau'n gorau a chyferu'r fan yma, ac rydyn ni'n dweud i'r rhaid o'r Ffatonian. Rydyn ni'n ddweud, rydyn ni'n ddod i. Rydyn ni'n ddau, rydyn ni'n ddweud i'r ddweud i'r ddweud i'r ddweud i'r ddweud i'r ddweud i'r ddweud i'r ddweud i'r ddweud i'r ddweud i'r ddweud. Mae'n fawr i fi ddweud o'ch ddarllen a'r gweithio arniol, ond mae'n dweud i fi ei wneud i gynnwys uchel sydd yma i gael o'r hwn?  Mae'r grannu yma yma yn dal dros ac mae'r cymdeil am ysgrifennu ar gyfer mae'r gyfarwydd ac mae'n hynny ymddangos i gyfnodd yma yng ngherbylfaeth yn iawn, ond mae'n cael ei fod yn falch i gael, rhai'r gwrthod, mae'n ganddo bryd â'r rhain teis, a rai'r pramrei y Llyfrgellau ar y pramrei, gallwn eich gennyddiant mewn arddangos i hynny. I wneud i'r moysg nad ydych yn chyffredinol, mae'r cychwyn o'r gaf newlyddiadau a'r gafau yn ei wneud. Dyna mae'n fwrdd o'r gaf newlyddiadau. Mae'n ddim yn gwrffeithio gyda'n gweithio. Felly gallai'n rhai gweithio a chyffredinol a'r plant yn gofyn daddiwch ar y cychwyn, mae gaf pethau'r cyffredinol yn chyffredinol o'r quwr cyllid yng nghydfyrdd cyfr Railroad 442, ac yn llweithio am yr hynny, yma o'r cychwyn o'r ysgol yng Nghymdd, Felly wynafid. Rydyn ni'n golygu i'r Lleidwyr Cymru o sicrhau'r cyfwyrddol arall. Yn gwrdd i'r cyfwyrddol yn y ffwrdd yw'r prolesiwn. Roedd yn gennym ni'n cyfwyrddol i'r prolesiwn ac yn gweithio'r prolesiwn i'r cyffwyrddol. Roeddwn ni'n wneud gwrdd llyffydd o'r cyffwyrddol i'r cyffwyrddol? Roeddwn ni'n gweithio'r cyffwyrddol, felly i chi'n siarad o'r cyffwyrddol. Mae'r gweithio'n meddwl y ddechrau yn trafodd mewn siart iawn. Felly, rwy'n meddwl gwrs yma yn y pethau'r hyn o'r ffordd ac i'w meddwl i'w meddwl, mae'r hyffordd yn y ffordd yn y pethau. Mae'n meddwl i'w meddwl i'w meddwl i'w meddwl i'w meddwl i'w meddwl. Ond yna'r ffordd y 10 o pob. Mae'r hyffordd yn gyffordd y dyma'r mewn i'r cyffordd yn gweld yn ddod. We've gone on on one-three and looked like a team, a competitive team. But the work was already getting done. You know I was pretty happy with the way the team were going before the ten-point situation. What it has done, I think, is enhanced it with our own supporters. Enhanced the feel of the club. I think everyone was shocked and I think not just Evertonians, not just us, I think the greater good of football rule shocked. We'll have to answer what the appeal brings, but to be clear on it with the players, Yn ymddangos, nid ydych chi'n llawer, тыch y mynd yn ystod i gyfweld. Pa ydych chi'n goes os gweithio, ond nid ychydig. Rwy'n amdano ymarfer. Ond, o ddim芽 arall, dyna'r ffawr yn ein bod yn fawr. carpet. Elise Ymddangos, yng nghymru. Efallai iawn. Mae'r enw yn ychydig o Chelsi a Y Newcastle. Mae'r rhaid i'rhaith i Gweithiau. Beth wedi'u ei wneud cygynno, yna'n gwelio'r tîm o bob croff yma. Felly, ond o'r amser sydd yn ei chweithio o ddynnu o'r amser o'r iawn i'r campau o'r bod Weinidogorraeth? Felly, amser y cyffredin wedi'i gweithio'r amser... ...di gael ei chweithio y byddai fydd y cwbl wedi'u, yn ymgyrchio, yn yjangwg arall, roedd yn ddefnyddio'r cyffredin. Mynd i chi'n mynd i chi. Fi fydd efallai i'w gweithio y èl a'r Llyfriddor i'r lineg. sydd y cwrin iawn yn ddechrau. Ond ydy'r idea ddweud yn cael ymgyrchu'r ysgrifennu yn y cydweithasol, mae'n sicr yn cael ddweud. Mae'n bobl yn gwneud yn cael ei fod yn fawr o'r amser i fynd i gweithio'n gweithio'n gwaith yn y preimlu Lleig. Rwy'n cael ei bod yn ymweld, byddwch yn cael ei fod yn gweithio. Rydw i'n amser chi'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio. o ffantANd. Rydyn ni'n rhai prydio'n debyg ac rydyn ni'n rhaid i'r ffordd. A'r ffantANd yn NOT i newid gan'r gweithio'r ffordd erbyn ychydig, rydych yn argynnu'n hoffaeth a ffantANnau, ac mae'n gennynau'n ydych chi'n gweithio'n hoffaethau ag hyd ac mae wneud i ni yn ei griparae ac mae'n cael ei ffordd y f stall. Rydyn ni'n rhaid i ni'n rhoi g pilesig â y Lleodra, a ond mae'n gofio ni. Rwy'n credu at hwnnw i ysgolwch i'r newid, Lewis Dobb yn gynnwys y 1921.  Rhywodd i i ym間fodol sy'n uchydig ar y tîm ym heddiw i'w gynnig. Yn y gallu chyfnod mwy fwy o ddwy i'r ffans, yn y ffansio, gyda Gwdylad yw dyma, ac mae'n bwynyn yn dwy ddaeth, a'n fod yn gwneud hefyd, a'n fod yn chwysgu, yn gweithio, i gynnydd yma, roedd yn gweld ei cyfansio ar gyfer. Ond byw ydy'r ffordd ychwanegen nhw cynllun gyntaf y byddol i'r tyn nhw'n iawn a gennych gweld yn trefwn i'r zeithio da? Yr hyn wedyn ydy'r gwahanol gwirionedd gael y ffordd y gallwn yn ei hyn. Wedyn yw'r ysbytyn ymell i'r porlygen y llwyddon? Felly yw'r ei r mies i gyffredinol a'r ysbytyn ar gwrthedau eich bwysig o'r rhai menos y tu wedyn, yn y trolau'r sgwyl i'r eich bod yn iawn y llwyddon. Yn yw'r llwyddon fydd e goingerau y mynd i'w gwahanol? hwnnw i'w be i sefydlu'r peiriau nid yw eu wneud fel rhai ffordd. Felly mae'r cychwynoli hefyd yn ybryd diwedd? Mae fydd yn cael y rai cromwaith eich cyfrindig yn ei wneud wedi fawr. Mae'r cyfrindig eich rhai, roi'n f bastion amddangos. Ond yw'n penderfyn i'w gwahydol, oherwydd ta'r gerchlwyd i'w gwahydol, oherwydd oherwydd oherwydd oherwydd i'w gwahydol. Ten i ddwylo'n cyrsydu allan o'r barai wneud. Felly, we've been open minded with the young players here, obviously with Jared coming in, Jimmy that continually, Jimmy Garnola, adding to his performance levels, part of, he's slowly but surely improving, and then this as well. So, there's just a few, but there's a nice feel about what that group are doing, and how they're maturing into the Everton Football Club and team. In your career you've managed in Europe, you've been at the wrong end of the table in those days. You've managed in lots of different scenarios. Have you ever managed in anything of an atmosphere like it is right now? Cos it does feel that everything has come together. The fans are with the players, you're with the players, it feels like everything's pulled together. Have you ever experienced an atmosphere like this? Excuse me, well I think we've built a similar thing at Burnley, but not in the same size of the club, you know, the Forum.  You know, I think the fans are playing their part, of course, the players are playing their part, and I mentioned when I got it as you know, you know the marvel of the past, but then bringing a modern future. But one of the marvels was the connection, you know, the belief in the shirt, the belief in the fans, the belief in the club, and I think that's on show. Adding the quality, adding some of the performance levels of individuals, adding the fact that we're getting the details right more often now, then, you know, that's a really good mixture. I mentioned you there. We'll go to Andy at the front, so I'll say it. Well, there was a lot of noise when I first got here about lots of things, but one of the many versions of it was about the away performances and the waypoints. We certainly reflect on that, looked at how we could change things. And then more at home, people were asking me recently, you know, about, you know, how could we change our own form? It was a form. You know, the form was good. It's winning. And that really comes down to taking your chances. We created a lot. We have done in these games recently, and we've taken them, and we've kept clean sheets. So, you know, that's the mixture every football manager and every player should want, and we've got to keep working hard to get that to continue. Thanks, Andy. We'll go to John to the Premier League. Sean Burnley have picked up half of their total season's points tally in their last three games. Have you noticed a recent improvement in performance, or is this simply the ebbs and flows of the Premier League, and what kind of game do you expect to see from them? Yeah, it can be. I think they had the big result against Sheffield United sending off as well, but they certainly capitalised on it. Going to the next one, don't get a win, then going to the next one, get a draw. They changed a bit for the Brighton game, so that would be interesting to see if they stick with that format. I'll go back to a more open format. You know, the challenge of the Premier League is a constant. That's the thing. You know, teams can have ups and downs and all the rest of it, but it is a constant thing, and that's why I endlessly talked about consistency. Consistency of performance week to week and within a game. You know, consistency of the minutes within a game, and finding consistency, or his individuals. And the only way of doing that, in my belief, is on the training field. You know, if we get that consistency right, it goes naturally into performance, and I think that's been the biggest thing for me. So the ups and downs of Premier League season can happen to most, not all, but to most. And you've got to deal with it, and you've got to make sense of it, and you've got to keep searching for what makes it right. You mentioned the word consistency. One player who seems to have started to find that in particular is Abdelai Dekore. Four Premier League goals in 69 games under different managers. He's since scored 11 goals in 31 under yourself. How are you finding that you're able to get the best out of him? I think we've given him a bit of freedom. We do have some tactical sort of understanding from him, but a lot of it is freedom. I think there's been a belief since I walked in from myself to him, and I think he's adapted fantastically well. He's taken it on. You know, it's not always about the coaching managers. Sorry, the manager and coaches, sorry. It's not always about that. It's about them. You know, he wasn't in the situation that he wanted to be when we got here. We thrust him back into the side, and he's never really looked back amongst a number of others. You know, I've been very pleased with many mentalities, not just his, but as you say, he has got an eye for goal. I always liked him as a player anyway, and he's showing that.  That means his goal in Everton's sub has come on and scored in the last two games. What does that emphasise for you, and how difficult is it to maintain motivation from absolutely every single player that's perhaps not even starting again? Yeah, one of the biggest respects I've had in football, as a manager, is the people who are not always starting to respect them and how they're training. I've amended them on it just literally last week, before the game, and then people affected it again. And this week it will affect it again because of suspensions and injuries and that sort of thing. So, you know, I always impress upon the group how important the people who are on the periphery who are not maybe playing at one given time, how important their work is and how important they look after themselves, and have a massive respect for the people who are not playing, not just the players who are playing. Thanks, John, so we'll go to work. Just touching on that, John, obviously you are enforced with a change at the centre of Michael Keenham, Ben Coffrey, the two who look like they might come in, how they looked in training. Yeah, fine, they look after themselves, you know, and that's if we play with two, don't forget. So, you know, there's options there, they're both very good players, they're both very good professionals, the way they're training, the way they're looking after themselves, sorry, so they'll be ready. Well, Ben Coffrey, because obviously a couple of years ago I haven't made substantial investments in him, he's had a couple of stucer and seasons maybe after being on the periphery of the England squad, so do you think he's maybe a victim of a couple of managerial changes and positional changes, and how do you get him back to those levels that he did show maybe in his first season? Yeah, maybe, but he's training very well. I think it's fair to say the two centre halfs who have had a good run together with Jared and Tarkin, they've played very, very well, and I think there is an honesty in football from players, and I think there is from Ben and Keno to look and go, well, they are playing very well, which they are. So, therefore, waiting for your chance, and then taking it when it comes, you know, but they're two very good professionals, they're looking after themselves, so they'll be ready. You said after the game when you brought Louis Dobbin on that was close between him and Arnach Danjum. Danjum has only played about 20 minutes in one of the, in the past six games, so how's he looking, and obviously with Jan, when he's coming up, is there a chance he could maybe go back to Villarreal? Is there a break in the loan, or is that something? Yeah, we see about all that sort of stuff, as you know, we're carrying a pretty light squad. Yeah, these are judgement calls I mentioned afterwards. The idea of subs, and people talk about it a lot nowadays. You know, why is and where for is when, why don't you make more, why do you make less, or all the rest of it? You're going on the moment inside when you and your staff are looking at a game and going, right, what does this game need, and every football has a slight different style. Some radically so. And we just felt it was right in this occasion, this occasion sorry to get Louis on. That doesn't mean the next time it's not Arnach. So, you know, these are judgement calls and they happen very fast. And sometimes you get it right, sometimes you don't.


T. F. N. N. Headline. News update. Good morning, folks. Steve Rhodes coming to you live from the shores of sunny Delray Beach, Florida. This is your Lebanon update. We've got a mixed bag out there. The mix goes like this. Dows up 23 points. Russell's up 17. That's 1% move for it. Semis are up a half a percent. 17 points there. You've got the S&P down a quarter of a percent. 11 points. Eight tenths of a percent for the Nasdaq 100. 117. Trends are up 121. That's nine tenths of a percent. So that's truly a mixed bag. Gold is off five bucks. Silver's down 15 cents. Electric crude is trading out at $83.92. That's off a buck 46. Natural gas up a nickel is trading above its resistance levels. 30 or treasury up 22 ticks. Printing out at $109.03. Let's figure out what all that means by looking at that nine panel. Market update chart. We begin with the E.S. Mini up the left hand side. Now, what we have out here is you've got a A to B equal CD to the downside. You can see we're well below the 1.272 expansion level. If we were to see a bullish reversal candle today, that would confirm a buy the D point. What you don't see is that today is also bar number eight of a TD9 count. That says a TD9 count bottom can take effect or can't take hold between today and Monday out there. There's also a roachment to indicator signal that's present. So a bullish reversal candle would confirm that pattern as well. Short of that price will target $41.32. It's next price projection level spot ball to next still above its 50 day expense will be the average. And so that's always a serious concern for the buyers of the S&P 500. The NQ negated its TD9 count bottom yesterday. It's got the A to B equal CD pattern. It needs a bullish reversal candle to confirm by bottom today will also become bar number eight of a TD9 count. So there's a possibility that we'll see a TD9 count occur between today and Monday US dollar index. It's trading above the top of its daily profile, suggesting two and I want to go target 107.05. We'll take a look at what's going on with the other currency pairs that make that up during the Traders Ed Show. Gold though in the move higher inside of the US dollar index gold is holding up very well. It does have resistance. Couple resistance levels 2009.20 is the key one. And just above below that is 1996 40. Silver just trading. It's made the full range today between support and resistance. That's with regard to its daily profile support. 22 53 resistance. 23 30 lights we crude is trading with inside its profile. It's got its trading into the support by zone between 188 143 and 83 88 natural gas might continue its rally if it closes today above 338. That's the top of its daily profile. That's more likely than not with regard to 30 year treasury. Just finding support at the bottom of its full structured profile. The key level that it needs to close above is 10909. Folks, stay tuned for the Traders Ed Show. But if you have to start your Thursday, have a terrific one. Thanks for joining us. We'll look forward to speaking with you again soon. Take care now.