What's up Psych2Go viewers, my name is Donna and today we're going to be talking about five benefits to learning the musical instruments all while I learn to play the piano. Number one, it reduces stress. Psychologist Daniel J. Lebtin from the McGill University in Montreal found that music improves the body's immune system and reduces stress. Listening to music was also more effective to reducing anxiety and prescription drugs. Number two, it keeps your mind sharper as you age. A study done at the University of Kansas Medical Center recruited adults ages 60 to 83. These adults were then divided into musicians or non-musicians based on musical experience. They were instructed to perform several cognitive tests. Results show the musicians had higher scores than the non-musicians. Number three, improving verbal memory and childhood literacy. Dr. Nina Kraus and her team at Northwestern University tested children on their ability to read and recognize words as related to musical training. Kraus explains music and reading are related via common neural and cognitive mechanisms and suggests a mechanism for the improvements in literacy seen with musical training. Number four, improves hand-eye coordination. Researchers at Concordia University found that musicians have stronger white matter connectivity in the brain compared to non-musicians. Know who else has strong white matter connectivity? These connections are associated to hand-eye coordination. Number five, inspires creativity.  When you do this, you partake in a creative technique called divergent thinking. Because musicians practice this technique a lot, researchers at Vanderbilt University found musicians to be better at problem-solving and thinking outside of the box. So whether you're 7 or 70, it's never too late to pick up an instrument. And with all these benefits, why not? So I'm currently attempting to learn to play the piano with this really cool app called Scoove. And they've been kind enough to sponsor this Psych2Go episode. It's perfect for me because I work from noon to 7 and I just don't have time for the traditional music lessons and things like that.  I'm just kidding. But um, Yeah, their links will be down in the description below if you want to check them out. Please go show them some love for supporting Psych2Go. Articles will be down there as well. And question of the day, do you play an instrument? And if not, what kind of instrument would you like to play? Bye everyone. I'll see you guys next time.


Hi, I'm Daniel Weisberg, search advocate at Google. And in this video, I'll talk about how to activate Search Console for your site so that you can get access to your Google Search data. There are seven ways to verify your site ownership in Search Console, providing you with a wide range of options to choose from. This video should help you find the method that works best for you. Verification is the process of proving to Google that you own a property. This is needed in order to make sure you are the owner of the website and to prevent others to see your private search data. Proving ownership on the web is simply demonstrating the ability to update and make a small, non-visible change to your website. If you're the site owner, this should be a very simple operation for you. It could literally take only a few minutes. As the title of the video suggests, Search Console supports seven verification methods. DNS record, HTML file upload, HTML tag, Google Analytics tracking code, Google Tag Manager container script, Google Sites, and Blogger. First of all, for all methods described here, you'll start in the same place. Open your Search Console account and click Add Property in the Properties list. If you have never verified a property, the first time you log into Search Console, you'll find our special wizard asking you to verify a property. If it's your first or 10th verification, when you click to add a new property, you'll be asked what property type you want to create. You have two options, Domain Property and URL Prefix Property. I suggest creating at least one domain property to represent your site, as it is the most comprehensive view of your website information. It will include all URLs in all subdomains and across HTTP and HTTPS. It requires you to add the DNS record in your domain name provider, but it's worth your time. URL Prefix Property verification is usually a bit simpler, as you have multiple verification methods, such as using your existing Google Analytics or Tag Manager account. URL Prefix Properties also makes sense if you want to view a section of your site separately. For example, if you work with a consultant on a specific part of your site, you might want to verify this part separately so that you can limit access to your data. Now, let's talk about each of the verification methods available to you. If you're feeling sleepy, now's the time to pause and go get a coffee. DNS verification requires you to add the DNS record in your domain name provider. This is the only method supported for domain properties. So I'll demonstrate DNS record verification by creating a domain property, but know that you can also use DNS record verification on URL Prefix properties. Add your domain to the domain option as shown in the screen and click Continue. In Destructions dialog, you'll see two options. If your domain register is listed in Destructions dropdown, you'll be walked through an easier automated process to verify your site. For example, if your DNS provider is GoDaddy, choose it from the list and click Start Verification. This will lead you to their login page where you'll need the credentials used in GoDaddy. After logging in, click Authorize and you'll be redirected to Search Console. But don't worry if the verification doesn't work immediately. Just wait a few hours or a day and try verifying again by choosing it from the properties list. Sometimes DNS record changes can be slow. If your domain name provider is not in the list, you'll need to follow written instructions in the Help Center to copy your DNS text record into your domain provider. Start by copying the text record from the dialog after entering your domain. Then click Full Details to open up the Help Center. You'll see the full process documented there. We have instructions for a lot of domain providers. Find yours in the list and click the link for more information. Now follow the instructions for your specific provider. If you're asked to provide a Google Security token, that's the token you copied from Search Console's verification dialog a minute ago. After you change your DNS record, go back to Search Console and click Verify in the verification pane. If the verification doesn't work immediately, wait a few hours or a day and try again as the change may take some time to take effect. Just choose the unverified property from the properties dropdown and it will try to verify you automatically. To stay verified, don't remove the DNS record even after verification succeeds. If you perform the steps above and your verification does not succeed, check the full details link mentioned previously to learn about potential errors. You can find out more about those errors and how to handle them in the Help Center. In order to verify your website using HTML file upload, you'll need to have permission to upload a file to your website where it can be accessed by a browser. After you click Add Property, add your website URL under the URL prefix option and click Continue. Expand the HTML file section where you'll find the File Download button. Download your HTML verification file and upload it to the root directory of the property you want to verify. For example, if you want to verify www.example.com, then the root directory is the homepage. If you want to verify www.example.com slash party, then the root directory is slash party slash. In this case, you would upload the file to slash party slash and all child directories would be verified. Note that you can use this file in any site you want to verify. It's personalized to your user and can be reused. Once you complete this step, click Verify in Search Console. If you perform the steps above correctly, verification should work immediately. If it doesn't, click the full details link to learn about potential errors. You can find out more about those errors and how to handle them in the Help Center. In order to verify your website with an HTML tag, you'll need permission to edit the source code of your website's homepage. After you click Add Property, add your website URL under the URL prefix option and click Continue. Expand the HTML tag section to find the meta HTML tag with a personalized key. Copy the tag and paste it into your homepage head tag. Make sure not to change the text. Verify that the tag is present on your live page by visiting your homepage and checking the page source text to confirm that the tag is present. Once you complete this step, click Verify in Search Console. If you perform the steps above correctly, verification should work immediately. If it doesn't, click the full details link to learn about potential errors. You can find out more about those errors and how to handle them in the Help Center. In order to verify your website using the Google Analytics tracking code, you'll need an account with Google Analytics that use the same Google account. You must have at least added permission on the Google Analytics account. If you're not sure which permission you have, check the Google Analytics Help Center. Before verifying, ensure that your homepage has the Google Analytics tracking code in the head section of the page. Although your Analytics tracking code might work for analytics in the body section as well, for Search Console verification, it must be in the head section. Open your homepage in a browser, look at the page source code and confirm that the tag is present in the head tag of the page. After you click Add Property, add your website URL under the URL Prefix option and click Continue. You must be logged in to Search Console with the same Google account that you use for Google Analytics. If you perform the steps above correctly, verification should work immediately. If it doesn't, click the full details link to learn about potential errors. You can find out more about those errors and how to handle them in the Help Center. The Google Analytics tracking code will be used only to verify site ownership. No Google Analytics data will be accessed following this process. If you're looking to configure Search Console data in Analytics, that's an entirely separate process. Check the link below to learn more. In order to verify your website with the Google Tag Manager container snippet, you'll need published permissions to your container in Google Tag Manager. You'll also need to be logged in to Search Console with the same Google account that you use for Google Tag Manager. If you're not sure which permissions you have, check the Google Tag Manager Help Center linked below. Before verifying, ensure that your homepage has the no script portion of the Tag Manager code immediately after the opening body tag. If it does not, verification will fail. Open your homepage in a browser, look at the page source code and confirm that the tag is present and immediately after the body tag with nothing in between. After you click Add Property, add your website URL under the URL prefix option and click Continue. Expand the Google Tag Manager section where you'll find a button to verify. If you have the necessary permission, your verification should work immediately after clicking it. If you perform the steps above correctly, verification should work immediately. If it doesn't, click the full details link to learn about potential errors. You can find out more about those errors and how to handle them in the Help Center. The Google Tag Manager container ID will be used only to verify site ownership. No Google Tag Manager data will be accessed following this process. In order to verify your classic Google site, you must be logged into Search Console with the same account used to manage your site. Click Add Property, add your website URL under the URL prefix option and click Continue. That's it. Your Google site should be verified automatically after this step. If you have a new site or a site with a custom domain URL, you will not be automatically verified. If that's the case with your site, you should use the Google Analytics method. If you're not sure whether your site is classic or new, check the link below in the site's Help Center. In order to verify your website with Blogger, you must be logged into Search Console with the same account used to manage your blog. After you click Add Property, add your website URL under the URL prefix option and click Continue. That's it. Your blog should be verified automatically after this step. Wow, that was a lot. But before I leave you, I would like to suggest you to try and verify your website with more than one verification method. Just in case one of your existing verification method fails. Verification methods are checked periodically by Google and if all verification methods for a property fail, your access to that property will expire. But if you lose access to your account, don't worry, we have your back. You can always re-verify with your user or verify a new owner using one of the methods described in this video. Every Search Console property requires at least one verified owner. But I recommend companies to have more than one owner, as employees may change roles or leave the organization. So it's good practice to have several verified owners to Search Console. When it comes to security, account owners will always be able to see the list of all owners and users verified to that site, as well as the verification methods for each owner. You can then optionally unverify previous owners by removing their verification token. For example, removing the HTML tag from the site for HTML tag verified owners. Make sure to check your list of owners once in a while so that you remember to remove previous employees or agencies you have worked with in the past. That's it. Hopefully now you have a better understanding of how to verify websites on Search Console. Now choose your method and get to work. In the next video, I'll discuss the performance reports in Search Console, which you can use to monitor your site's performance in Google Search. Don't forget to subscribe to the Google Webmaster's YouTube channel, where we'll be publishing lots of Search Console videos. Stay tuned.


from Boston, Massachusetts. It's theCUBE, covering WTG Transform 2018. Brought to you by Winslow Technology Group. Welcome back, I'm Stu Miniman, and you're watching theCUBE at WTG Transform 2018. Happy to welcome to the program two gentlemen from the Boston Architectural College. To my left is Carl Jasperson, who's the Systems Administrator, and to his left is Jason O'Brien, who's the Director of IT. Gentlemen, thanks so much for joining us. Thank you. Thanks for having us. All right, so Jason, why don't we start with you, help us power up this conversation. Tell us a little bit about the college. So Boston Architectural College, you started in the late 1800s, it's a small design school, and we offer programs in landscape, interior, and traditional architecture. Yeah, so I love that. Talk a little bit more about the charter of the school and how IT fits into that. So we are a mission at the schools to provide excellent education to a diverse population. Technology factors in is very important, and over the last 10 years that Carl and I have been at the school, technology has, use has increased immensely. Our students are using it more and more every year, and meeting those needs has become difficult, and it's a challenge we strive to achieve every year. Well, design thinking is so important these days. I studied engineering as an undergrad and wish I'd learned more about design. One of my favorite authors who I happened to interview about a month ago was Walter Isaacson, and the ones he studies are the ones that can take that design thinking and technology and bring them together. Carl, bring us up to speed from an IT standpoint. How big of a team do you have? What are you involved with? You said, you know, things have been changing over the last few years. Yeah, so, I mean, we've got Jason. In addition to running the department, he runs our online learning system. I'm responsible for all the backend infrastructure, servers, networking, backup virtualization. We recently hired a junior systems administrator to help me out. We've got a web guy, we've got a DBA. The wood shop is under IT because we have a fabrication guy. It's a 3D printing, laser cutting. We have the help desk and the help desk manager who also does our purchasing and she and I will take escalations. So it's, there's not a lot of crossover, you know, skill crossover in the group, but we manage to keep everything going.  Yeah, for us, you know, 3D printing and laser cutting, and we also have a CNC router. They all started as experiments at the school and have turned into a major factor in, for our students, it's a resource that they demand. And the increasing use every single year and how we meet those demands is becoming tricky to accomplish in our, you know, we're in the back bay, real estate's very expensive and we have to make our space do amazing things. Yeah, Jason, that's great points.  How do I manage it? I had a gentleman from BU who's here at the show. Last year we were talking a lot about MOOCs. So, you know, it's that role of IT's expanding, but luckily they're throwing way more money at you, I'm sure, more headcount it sounds like, so. Well, we've been a flat headcount over the last eight years. We lost someone last year and gained someone this year. So, you know, we basically have to do more with less every year like most IT departments. So, you know, we redesign our spaces periodically to meet our students' needs, you know, and we're turning what was labs, just computer labs, into more flexible space where students can move the tables around and the computers are available. Sometimes we have high-end alienwares in a cabinet. They pull out and use or they can use it to make models. We have, they can put up their designs on a 3D TV. They're using VR headsets to walk around their own designs. It's really fascinating where the technology's going. Okay, I wish we could spend more time in the alienware and VR stuff and everything like that. Our production crews, gamers, my son's into this stuff. But Carl, I'm hearing things like a space constraint. We need to do more with less. We need to simplify this environment. Wow, that seems like a really good setup for kind of infrastructure modernization. So, how long have you guys been there in about 10 years, right? 10 years, yeah. So, things have changed a lot in 10 years. So, walk us back 10 years ago and give us that point when you went to modernize. Yeah, when we started, there's no virtualization. Three server racks in a room in the basement. The 10 years that we've been there, there's been water in that room twice. So, that always gave us the warm fuzzies. You're saying it wasn't water cooling? I mean, no, we tried for that, but it didn't work out. Last year we moved to a Colo facility in Somerville. So, and by the time we did that move, we started virtualization with VMware like 3.5 within a year or two of me starting. And the racks got less and less full. And now in the fall, we rolled out VxRail and we're in a single rack in a data center and there's I think three physical servers in that rack that aren't the VxRail at this point. So, it's consolidation, power savings, stuff's in a much better physical location than it used to be. Moving that server room out, we were able to free up that space for the students to be able to have. It's a meditation space now. So, it's been really interesting kind of going through all that. Great, we don't have a ton of time, but let's talk about that VxRail. Was your team, were you looking for HCI? Was it just time for a server refresh? What kind of led to that? Was there a specific application that you started with? So, this event two years ago, we saw Brian from BU give his presentation on Nutanix. And that really turned us onto the whole hyper-converged option. We worked with Winslow, we actually talked to another vendor and we looked at Nutanix, we looked at Pivot 3, we looked at rolling our own VSAN on FX2 and after kind of comparing everything and seeing the pros and cons, VxRail made the most sense from a management perspective and a price perspective. Our old cluster was coming up on the five-year mark, things were going out of warranty. We had Equalogic SAN with 7,200 RPM drives, one gig iSCSI, so it's slow for most of its life. We were just doing lightweight servers and applications. Two years ago, we needed to virtualize our database server and we threw Pernix in there with 800 gig NVMe drives and that was a great stop gap, but we needed something more permanent, more robust and that's how we got to VxRail. From a management standpoint, the hyper-converged model gave us more flexibility. It's easier to expand and since we're small, we're not talking about racks and racks working together. We started with just three hosts. So from an overview standpoint, it's easy for us as we grow to just add another node and we get the compute, we get the storage and we get the memory all at once as an expansion. So the model is just fantastic for our workload that we put on it. We've got like 70 servers in there. The only stuff that's not in there yet is our student file server and exchange. And they're going in there in the next six months. Yeah, yeah. Great, so it sounds like you're real happy with the solution. You've been with Dell for years, so from an operation standpoint, was there a steep learning curve or was this pretty straightforward and very easy?  We were already on vSphere 6 and we started in vXrl with vSphere 6. vXrl Manager is kind of a stupid, easy interface. You can go in, you can see are there alerts? Is there an update? Can it see my hardware? Is all that good? There's not a whole lot to learn from there. If we were doing vSan on our own, my understanding is that's a lot more complicated to stand up. Once you have it going, you're good until you try to make a change. So the vXrl Manager abstracts all that away and just kind of gives you the VMware experience that you're used to. Yeah, any commentary on the economics of this? We actually found, it was very interesting because our original assessment of our own needs were there was no way we could afford all flash. And we focused exclusively on hybrid solutions. And after a certain point, we saw I think a presentation from Rick on vXrl platform. And we saw that vXrl was inline D-dupe and compression with the all flash. And we thought, wait, maybe we could make this work with all flash. And so we actually had a very slight reduction in raw storage in our new platform. But the percentage that we're actually consuming is far less than on our old platform, simply because of those gains. And the performance is far, far faster. And we've just been very pleased with the implementation of it. From a cost perspective, the all flash vXrl came in under the hybrid pivot three and the hybrid Nutanix products. So it was a huge win from that perspective. We were shocked we'd be able to do it. Thrilled with it. Okay, either of you final word, it sounds like you're real happy with the solution. When it smoothly operates well, economics were good. What final takeaways would you give for your peers? I mean, to say the implementation was, the vXrl platform, the installation is as advertised. It was, it's basically a wizard that walks you through the installation process. The very few minor issues we encountered. The Winslow team and the ESE. EMC Dell support. Support people had no problem solving for us. It was really a pretty easy migration to the new platform and we were able to do it with essentially zero downtime. Yeah. Awesome. Well, gentlemen, thanks so much for joining. That's the promise is to get that easy button for IT. HCI definitely helping to move in that direction. Next time we'll get to talk a little bit more about cloud and everything like that. Be back with lots more coverage here from WTG Transform 2018. I'm Stu Miniman and thanks for watching theCUBE.


So this is Jim at the house at Poo Corner again and there's the camera. So I will look at that camera. And we have had a number of very important guests over the last few months from geoengineering to all kinds of imperialistic, imperial adventures. And today your guest is John Kuriyaku, who is one of my heroes. Most of my heroes actually kind of fall into the whistleblower category from Daniel Ellsberg, whom I interviewed ages ago, and Sebel Edmonds, whom I've interviewed a few times on the radio. And here we are with another very important whistleblower, so important that Obama threw him in jail. And we're going to talk a little bit about what he did, having to do with the Bush administration's torture program, and he'll update us on certain status where he is and maybe talk a little bit about Mr. Binney and Mr. Ship, Kevin Ship and Bill Binney. All right. So let's, John, tell us a little bit about yourself and what happened, and we'll go from there. Well, my name is John Kuriyaku. I'm a 15-year CIA veteran. I was in the CIA from 1990 through 2014 and resigned in 2014, actually was effective 2015. And in 2000, you know what, let me fix that, that's not right. In 2005, not 15, and in 2007 I blew the whistle on the CIA's torture program. I had kept it inside for years, just waiting for somebody to come forward and to say something. Nobody said anything, and finally I decided that it had to be out there. And so I said something in a nationally televised interview on ABC News to make a long story short. I paid for it with my freedom. I was arrested by the FBI, charged with five felonies, including three counts of espionage coming out of that interview, hadn't committed espionage, and those charges were dropped. But I ended up going to prison for 23 months, all worth it. In the end, the price was high, certainly, but it was all worth it because I thought that this was a war crime, a crime against humanity. It was a violation of the U.S. law, it was a violation of international law, certainly, the United Nations Convention Against Torture. And I thought that our government shouldn't be in the business of doing it. So I got out of prison in February of 2015, and I've been talking about it and writing about it ever since. Now a couple of questions. One is what kind of support or communication of any kind have you had with your peers, with your former peers? And I'm also interested in the kind of communication you've had with Bill Binney and with Kevin Schipp. And that's already two questions. My third one is the Bush administration handled it one way, and the Obama administration really went whole hog. And that's a very important point, that's a very important component of this whole story. Well, to answer your first question first, my support inside the CIA, especially at the working level, has been absolutely fantastic. 70 of my former CIA colleague signed a letter to President Obama asking him to pardon me. All 70 signed a second letter. This went to President Trump asking him to pardon me. So my support inside the agency has been fantastic. This torture program was a blasphemy against what we were supposed to stand for. When I put my right hand up in the air and I swore to uphold the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, I meant it. And sometimes the enemy is ourselves. And so I'm glad to say that I wasn't the only one who recognized that. One of the weird things about entering the world of whistleblowers is that we have something of a club where we've all become friends. You know, Dan Ellsberg is the granddaddy of all modern national security whistleblowers. He's an icon to all of us. And then there's Bill Binney and Kirk Wiebe and Ed Loomis and Tom Drake and Jaisalyn Radak and so many others. Ed Snowden even, we've all become friends. We stay in close touch. Those of us who are here in the D.C. area get together frequently, socially. And really you need that support network because when you blow the whistle on something relative to the national security, there's nothing in the world that makes you feel more alone and more isolated and more endangered than that. Without that support, you couldn't get through it. You literally couldn't get through it. I'm surprised, frankly, that more people charged with these national security crimes don't commit suicide than the handful that we've already seen. Kevin Ship is another one. It's funny. Kevin believed that he was alone. Kevin Ship blew the whistle on CIA malfeasance and they went after his family for it. And finally I reached out to him after reading his story in the Washington Post. And I said, listen, buddy, you're not alone. You've got some friends here. You probably have never even met, but you shouldn't be going through this alone. And so we've pulled him into it as well. We even have an organization called VIPS, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. We write policy recommendations for the president. They're usually ignored, but at least we get ourselves on paper. Yeah, I know Ray quite well. Ray McGovern. That's the support for people. And remind me, your third question. Oh, the third question had to do with the ramping up of prosecutions against whistleblowers under Obama. Yes, when I went on ABC News in 2007 and blew the whistle, I said three things. I said that the CIA was torturing its prisoners. I said that torture was official U.S. government policy, not the result of a rogue, as President Bush had intimated. And I said that the policy had been personally approved by the president. The FBI began investigating me the very next day and they investigated me for a full year from December of 2007 until December of 2008. They determined in 2008 that I had not committed a crime and they closed the case. Not only did they close the case, they sent my attorneys what's called a declination letter saying that they were declining to prosecute me. Three weeks later, Barack Obama's inaugurated as president and styles himself the most transparent president in history. He secretly ordered that the case against me be reopened. I had no idea. I was under investigation again. I was investigated for three more years and then finally arrested in January of 2012 and charged with those five felonies. Don't forget that espionage is one of the gravest crimes with which an American can be charged and it sometimes carries with it the death penalty. So this was a serious policy decision that the Obama people made. Beyond that, this isn't just because they didn't like John Kiriakou. Beyond that, Obama prosecuted eight national security whistleblowers. In the entire previous history of the United States, only three whistleblowers were prosecuted under the espionage act. So Obama was almost three times the number of all previous presidents combined. Really Barack Obama was the enemy of transparency. He was the enemy of whistleblowing. Really, in my view, the enemy of human rights. The question that I have been wondering about for years, and I'll let you have it, is who was ordering Barack Obama to do this? Because my brain tells me that Obama couldn't have cared less, but that somehow he was being pressured to do this. And when I follow that logic, and I have often in the past as a journalist, it turns out to be someone like Jamie Dimon, someone connected with the central banks, someone connected with something to gain. And we found that because of Assange, we discovered that. But go ahead. Well, I can tell you with 100% certainty it was John Brennan. John Brennan on national security called all the shots. And I'll tell you why. It's actually an important lesson, I think, for future presidents. And that is that the CIA loves inexperienced presidents. They love them because when a president is elected and he has little or no foreign policy or national security policy experience, that gives the CIA an opportunity to recruit that president. And what I mean by that is, if you've just been elected president, you don't know anything about national security or intelligence. The day after the election, when you're on your first day as president-elect, you're entitled to a CIA briefing, a president's daily briefing. That's PDB. That's at levels, multiple levels, above top secret. Well, as soon as the CIA gets in front of you and they say, Mr. President-elect, we want to tell you about all the cool things we're doing.  You know, that stuff's fascinating and it's fun and it's cool. It's exciting.  And that's exactly what they did with Barack Obama. Barack Obama had, he was a senator for what, four years. He wasn't even one full term as a senator. And he was only on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for two years and even then had no access to classified information. And then all of a sudden, he's the most important man in the world. So it's, it's heady stuff and president-elect really love it. On top of that, he had an alpha dog in the form of John Brennan whispering in his ear all day long. And John Brennan certainly had his own agenda. Besides that, I want to make a third point. In the book, Double Down, by Mark Halpert and John Heileman. It was about the 2012 presidential election. Obama sat for an interview. And in that interview, he said two things that I think were really telling. First, he said, very matter of factly, I never said I was a liberal. And that was true. He actually never did say he was a liberal. We said he was a liberal, but he wasn't. And then talking about the drone program. He said, kind of wistfully, I never had any idea that I would be so good at killing people. Well, it's because he never said he was opposed to the drone program. He never said he was opposed to long distance, you know, cruise missile launches. We, we sort of placed that on him because that's what we wanted to believe. That's the, the anti-Hillary that we wanted to be elected president. And there was no well prize. Nothing progressive about him at all on foreign policy, military policy and intelligence. Well, then two questions come to mind. One is that he was clearly Wall Street's pick. And he was practically appointed to his Senate position. Absolutely. It was a coronation. He slid in. Yeah, he was coronated into the Senate. And the city bank appointed his entire staff, essentially the upper levels of staff. And when I looked at who they were, I wrote an article. Goldman Sachs as well. Goldman Sachs was very heavily, heavily represented in the Obama administration. Yeah. And Jamie Dimon at all were the ones who did that picking. And I remember I wrote an article and I said, this is not small as beautiful. Yeah. We're going for centralization here with all the big players who have been central, central players right from the beginning. And so I told that to people on my radio program that, you know, if you're voting for Obama, I want you to know this. And this is when he was running for president. And anyway, in Vermont he was a shoe in because, you know, people don't care how many Palestinians you kill as long as you get your, anyway. Yeah. So what is your opinion as to the relationship between, this is a tricky question, between Brennan and Wall Street, meaning Goldman Sachs at all. And then I'll throw in another villain, which is Mueller, Robert Mueller. Right. I've done two, I've done two exposés about Robert Mueller over the years, going back to 1984, and he is one piece of work. He is, my opinion, the number one fixer for the deep state. So go ahead and see what you can do with those questions. Yeah. I don't disagree with any of that.  John Brennan rose far beyond what his intellect should have allowed. And it was because he became a close friend and protege of George 10. Most retired directors of central intelligence or directors of the CIA, they became known later on, end up on Wall Street in some capacity. George has become a principal in a vulture fund in New York City that has made him rich beyond his wildest dreams. Steve Campus, who was the number two at the CIA, is doing the same thing right now for a vulture fund based here in Washington, D.C. So this is a normal thing where they go to Wall Street and they make tens of millions of dollars and they live happily ever after. John's not done that. My own opinion is that John's not smart enough to do it. So what John has ended up doing is he is teaching a class at Fordham, which is his alma mater.  And he's on the board of a couple of smallish defense contractors. He's actually having to work for a living. He's not making anywhere near the money that his predecessors have made. So he really doesn't have those deep Wall Street ties, not because he doesn't want them, but because he's just not smart enough to do it. Robert Mueller. I have a personal beef with Robert Mueller. I would think so. Robert Mueller was the CIA director when I was arrested. Not only was he the CIA director. You mean FBI director? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. The FBI director. But not only was he that, but he created the John Kiriakum task force inside the FBI. He appointed 12 FBI agents who tapped my phones, intercepted my emails, had groups of two agents in cars following me to work, to church, to the grocery store, out with my family, 24-7 coverage, trying to catch me committing a crime. And I wasn't committing any crimes. That went on for three years they did that. In addition, it was John Brennan who, when Obama became president, sent a memo to Eric Holder at the Justice Department saying, charge him with espionage. And then Eric Holder came back and said, my people don't think he committed espionage, meaning the Mueller John Kiriakum task force. And then Brennan responded charge him anyway and make him defend himself. And then on January the 12th, 2012, a fellow by the name of Peter Struck, put himself behind my back and took me to a holding cell underneath the federal courthouse in Alexandria, Virginia. So these same people who are going after Donald Trump at all are the ones who, after me, it is a deep state. And you don't have to call it a deep state. You can call it whatever you want. You can call it the state. You can call it the federal bureaucracy, whatever it is. The deep state actually exists. And these are the guys who run it. Okay. Then that leads me into the next question, which is, well, I'll preface it by saying that I realized as Trump went through the candidacy and the RNC was trying to cut him off at the knees and of course the Democrats just laughed him off, didn't get it. And, well, I won't go into it. But the way through, until today as we speak, there are elements of what I will call the deep state. They're right out in the open now. So I feel silly saying the deep state because you've got Mueller and Brennan and then the entire DNC. You've got Pelosi, the whole gang, and the New York Times and the rest of the mainstream media who seem to be able, and the CIA, who seem to be able to have a way of turning Trump from somebody who was out of the loop, who was trying to demilitarize and pull our troops back, turn him into some kind of a madman. What is your take on what, if anything, happened to Trump and how are they getting him to do this? I think I know the answer, but I really want to hear from you. I think he was more or less forced into it because there were so many Republicans, important Republicans who joined that so-called Never Trump movement. So when Trump finally became president, I mean, look at it this way. Hillary Clinton had 175 people on her Middle East transition team. Right? Donald Trump had 25 people on his entire transition team. And it's because Donald Trump never thought he was going to be elected president. So he wasn't prepared for it. That, coupled with the fact that there are all these Never Trumpers, he just simply didn't have enough people to fill senior level positions at the State Department, the Defense Department, and the White House. And so little by little, he had to start bringing these Never Trumpers into the administration. Well, the Never Trumpers, by and large, were neocons who made their bones in the Bush administration. And so little by little, and it was really incremental, they came to the White House, they became assistant secretaries of state, assistant secretaries of defense. The next thing you know, they're running foreign policy, not Trump, not the White House, and not the people he brought with him from the campaign. And that's how they did it. Yeah, another thing too. You know, I've spent most of my adult life dealing with senior intelligence officials, senior diplomats, generals at the Pentagon, and they can all be very convincing. You know, when you're getting a briefing on, let's say, the situation in Afghanistan or the situation in Syria, the situation in Libya, they can make it sound like we're winning it. We're on the cusp of finishing this thing off.  So give us six more months, give us 12 more months. And then six or four months later, they repeat the same thing. And they do every year, year after year after year. And the next thing, you know, you're bogged down in some kind of foreign entanglement. And the Democrats are right with that opinion, and the brain dead ones are even worse. Yeah, there's no real difference between the Democrats and the Republicans on these foreign policy issues. There are some minor tweaks around the edges. But they're both neocons and neoliberals. They all believe in exactly the same thing. And that is that we really do need to have a military presence in 110 countries around the world. We need to have military bases in 86 countries around the world. We need to have the newest nuclear weapons and the biggest ships and the best airplanes and the biggest bombs. They all believe this stuff. Isn't it 700 countries? There are 144 countries in the world, and we have 110. We have a presence in 110 of them. Oh, I don't know why I thought it was 700. I had that number stuck in my head. All right. Well, that's a relief. So, okay, and getting back to people like Jamie Dimon and the central banks who owned Obama, it struck me that they were panicking as they began to realize. You can see the expressions on the talking heads' faces.  So, here we have a guy entering the presidency who was out of the loop. And I think you've explained how they put him in the loop and how he would be behaving gradually. And I was so disappointed in him when he appointed some of the people he appointed. It was godawful. And then he goes back to Reagan. He drags up the bottom of the barrel, an embarrassment to the U.S. I mean, who's been more embarrassing to the U.S. than Bolton, except maybe Abrams? You took the words right out of my mouth. I was going to say Elliott Abrams is at least as offensive and horrible a human being as John Bolton is. Yeah. I remember Ms. Neal there.  Yeah. So, why did Trump do that? Well, like I said, there was just nobody to take these jobs. At one point, almost a year into the administration, there were 13 vacant assistant secretaries of state positions. So, you can't have a foreign policy if you have no assistant secretary of state to run that foreign policy. The only thing that he could do was to start drawing from either previous administrations or conservative think tanks, and those were the neocons. They're the ones that have all the money and staff the think tanks in Washington. He really had no choice. Well, our friend Ray McGovern, I think was one of the ones railing against this. And there were a lot of good people like Paul Craig Roberts who were saying, what are you doing? You have a chance, Mr. President, of at least appointing decent human beings to these positions. And you're going to the bottom of the barrel to pull up war criminals to be in these positions.   I don't know. What do you think about that? I think that's a possibility. You know, if Andrew McCabe is to be believed and his passage in his book, he recounts a meeting at the White House where they're talking about foreign policy. And then Trump says, what about Venezuela? That's the country we should be at war with. And they have all that oil. Yeah, I know that quote. If that's how you determine your foreign policy, then you need help from somewhere. Unfortunately, he looked at the wrong place for that help. Yeah. Oh, we only have a minute and 30 seconds left. So, ladies and gentlemen, I'm sorry I haven't said his name 100 times. John Kiriakou, a whistleblower who brought out the Bush torture program and has been in the thick of what's happening today ever since. And as I said, one of my heroes, along with Bill Binney. And we will do another interview with John Kiriakou when he is free. Very busy. And hopefully, you and I will be fortunate enough to continue this. I think we've hit an awful lot of key points that, of course, the mainstream media and the alternative media doesn't even know enough to hit if they were allowed to do it. So, closing words. Well, my pleasure. You know, I think we ought to be talking about these issues because they're important and nobody else is talking about them. So, thanks for having me. I look forward to seeing you again soon. Okay. Well, thanks again. Oh, sorry, we lost sound. Okay. Well, ladies and gentlemen, we will be back with more from John Kiriakou and maybe even some more whistleblowers as time goes by. Thanks a lot for listening to The House at Pooh Corner with Jim Hoag.


What's going on everybody it's Stas here welcome back to another video so in today's video we're going to be doing an overall market update taking a look at the Dow Jones the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ we're also going to be doing a trading update talking about what I personally did today in the markets as well as some stocks and ETFs that I'm personally watching and looking to trade here in the month of September in 2019 so if you enjoy this video if you find this video valuable which I'm sure you will go down below and smash that like button and consider subscribing if you want to see further content for me content about the stock market investing trading that's what I focus on here on this channel so without further ado guys let's get right into it let's talk about what happened today in the overall markets and honestly at the close of the markets we were pretty much flat right the S&P 500 was up $2.71 at the close here up not even 0.1 up 0.09% so very slight green day there nothing much at all in terms of the S&P the NASDAQ was up $2.25 up 0.03% so that's really nothing at all from the NASDAQ either and the Dow Jones industrial average up $69 at the close up 0.25% so a decent move there but still nonetheless is really nothing crazy in terms of today's performance and it makes sense because yesterday if you guys were paying attention the overall markets did amazing we look at the S&P very quickly on the five day five minute or no it wasn't yesterday it was the day before right we gapped up oh no no it was yesterday we gapped up right very strong green day we kind of stayed flat and today was a lot of the same we stayed flat right so at this point on this five day five minute we might as well start breaking technicals now on this five day five minute for the S&P to continue this run for you know the 500 largest publicly traded companies to keep pushing up here we need to see a pop and a bounce on this one EDSMA on this five minute chart right this five day five minute and if we scale out to the 20 day one hour we can see okay we're a bit overextended here we may be pulling down to retest 2950 or if we don't do that we may just pop and try to test $3,000 right off the bat from here so it's kind of in a tricky spot right it's pretty overbought on a lot of these time frames and if we go out to the 184 hour it does seem like we could potentially pull down to 2950 that's not out of the cards right now if we were to do that that would just be a retracement in this uptrend that we've been seeing over the past couple of days here so that would put it down about 0.65 maybe nearly 1% down if it did pull back to 2950 and from there you know if we held that popped a bit we can maybe continue the uptrend or if we broke that we may be going down even further to test maybe 2930 so right now guys the technicals are telling me overall the S&P 500 is a bit overbought again on the 20 day one hour we're overextended I wouldn't be shocked if we went down but then on the five day five minute we're already at that support so if we were to break that level maybe go down really if we were to break this level this would be a clear sign in my opinion that we are going down to 2950 so I'd say watch the smaller timeframes here and then start to drag it out to the 20 day chart the 184 hour chart and you'll be able to see your analysis a bit easier you know if we were to break this and if we started to head down to 2950 so that's what the S&P is looking like right now the NASDAQ if we look at it a bit here we're already breaking that level of support on this five day five minute being the 180 S&P this yellow line as well as that 50 S&P if we're dragging out a bit it seems like the NASDAQ is at a resistance right now let me go to the 184 hour to confirm that very quickly yes we're at a resistance so this is not too good of a sign here for the NASDAQ this is a level that we actually topped out at before that big May 2019 sell off in the markets you can see here 78.75 we hit that then we sold off all the way down to about $7,000 flat a little bit under that right and now we're at that same level that we were at before we dumped in May so this is a very strong level of resistance guys it seems like it's struggling to get above it right now so if we do get that drastic pullback let's say the futures push red on sunday which they opened up at 6 p.m eastern standard by the way you know if we're gapping down during that time period we may be going back down to test 77.50 which is about 100 points lower from where we are right now and this could be a point where we either hold and maybe continue the uptrend or we could break that and maybe start to retest this trend line again or maybe this 50 SMA or the 180 SMA so that's kind of what I'm watching here on the NASDAQ we are seeing a bit of resistance just keep an eye on what it does at that level that I just mentioned so the Dow Jones industrial average here guys it seems like on this smaller time frame chart it's breaking above a resistance so let's drag out a bit and see what level that's at this is the level that we were at before the may sell off on the Dow Jones we were at about 26,650 roughly right we hit that level then we sold off drastically we popped hit the all-time high making that as support again we sold off in august right we sold off in the bloody august month that we had for the most part and now we popped up and we broke their resistance and it seems like we're holding it as a new support again right now and let me show you guys how it actually confirmed the pop on that new support you can see it here we gapped up above it yesterday we pulled down either pre-market hours or rather pre-market hours today or after market hours yesterday I'm thinking it was after market hours into pre-market today we ended up popping and confirming that support as we held and popped above it this morning so that's a pretty good sign and especially since we pushed to a high here at about 26,860 that's a good sign that the Dow is holding this level and trying to continue the uptrend and push higher to maybe even test the 27,000 range so good signs from the Dow Jones here guys if we were to let's say gap down hypothetically here and maybe break below 26,600 what I'd be watching there would be 26,400 that would be the next level of support so overall the markets are looking good the Dow in specific is looking very good for potential high higher highs here the S&P is looking good as well because we are holding an old resistance as a new support on the S&P but the NASDAQ is struggling here under the resistance from back in the beginning of May towards the end of August or rather April so we'd need to see a pop above that for this to potentially test all time highs again so that's what the overall markets are looking like through my perspective through my lens right now let me know down below what are your thoughts on the market I'd love to know and again you all know that I love talking to you in the comments so don't be shy drop a comment and let's talk about what's going on here so let's go to the trading portion of today's video guys I traded you guys ticker symbol UGAZ this is one that we've been talking about a lot on this channel and it goes up whenever natural gas is going up that is how it trades right it's a 3x leveraged ETN so that means whenever natural gas the the asset that it tracks right whenever natural gas moves up let's say 1% UGAZ is going to be up 3% because it's 3x leverage and if it's if natural gas goes 2% UGAZ will be up roughly 6% right that's kind of how it works and you can see here that we had about a 6% day today and we hit highs at about 1920 and what we talked about in yesterday's video ended up playing out today guys and what was that well in yesterday's video I talked about this 1830 level of resistance and this 50 SMA here on this hourly chart right so I was talking about how I want to see a potential retest and then a pop and ultimately a break above 1830 that would be the bullish move we need to see to fill the gap up to the next resistance which in this case as you guys can clearly see is $20 which is why in yesterday's video I titled it UGAZ going to $20 question mark because that's the range that we're in right now between 1830 and about $20 and since natural gas ended up playing out perfectly again right we've been playing this one very well we pulled down hit 50 SMA hit 240 and popped and now we filled the gap up to 250 like we talked about and like we were analyzing in the past couple of videos that's what ended up pumping up UGAZ and that's what ended up really causing the bullish run that we saw today so the fact that we popped above 248 250 now it seems like we're pulling back to potentially hold this as a new support I'm still seeing UGAZ and natural gas in general technically speaking here being extremely bullish going forward as of right now right and the next level that natural gas could fill up to if we go to the let's say the 90 day two hour chart you can see if we hold this successfully into the Sunday future session maybe into Monday as well the next file we can go to is around $2.55 and if we complete that gap up to 255 who knows right if that does end up happening UGAZ should definitely be well above $20 at that point right and once UGAZ breaks 20 if it does we might be going to $23 right which would be the next support or resistance that I'm seeing so we fill up to 20 maybe pop up a bit pull back hold 20 and then maybe we fill the gap up that's kind of how this works the whole entire idea is trading in between these little what are they called these little channels right that's kind of how I've been trading UGAZ and natural gas here over these past couple of days and it's just been extremely extremely bullish so that's what I ended up doing actually I didn't even tell you guys what I ended up doing I kind of just broke down the ETN but let me tell you guys exactly what I ended up doing I almost got a bit too sidetracked there so I got into UGAZ today a bit late I didn't get in on the break of 1830 like originally planned I ended up getting in on I believe it was this pullback or no it was actually down here at about 1865 before we ended up popping and then holding this right so this is when I ended up getting in 1865 we started to pull back and this was kind of looking like a bull flag but I noticed that actually after I ended up getting out of the out of the trade so I kind of messed up there a little bit but as I got into 1865 we popped up to about I think I sold at like 1879 because I locked in about 0.9% profit let me let me show you guys the math here yeah you can see 1870 or rather from 1865 to about 1880 is where I ended up closing out the position and literally guys that bull flag ended up playing out we ended up popping and then running to 1930 so in theory and looking back I kind of sold a bit too early I left like 2-3% on the table at least but that's okay because I locked in the profits that's what's important here I'm not looking to hit home run trades every single day the idea is to keep the wins small and try to keep them what's the word consistent right that's the whole entire idea of what I'm going for here so that's what I ended up doing today and that's really just the breakdown of you guys that I'm looking for to potentially play out over these next couple of days so that's really the main one that I'm watching for this upcoming week another one that I'm watching is going to be Jnug Jnug got hit quite hard today we broke major support levels being the 180 SMA and the 50 SMA we're at $75 per share now down about 8% on the day but guys once these markets kind of settle down maybe we see a bit of a pullback in these markets and gold starts to shoot back up Jnug has a lot of margin here just be careful because it is now breaking under again like I said these moving averages so don't get caught on a falling knife but if the markets start to sell off a bit if the markets cool off a bit you know this can do very well because if we look back on gold really quickly gold is on the 180 SMA support right now on this four hour chart which has been a support over the past couple of months for gold so this can definitely hold and if it pops here GDX should do well from there which is what Jnug trades based upon and just take a look GDX is holding that 180 SMA on the four hour chart as well so if we pop here and end up testing these highs at about $30 look how much margin of profit that is that's about 7% on GDX and since Jnug is a 3x leveraged ETF that's about a 21% move at least that Jnug has in store if GDX pops above that moving average and potentially tests those highs again so we can see it for ourselves from 71 or 75 back up to those highs at about a hundred bucks that's at least 23 to 25 percent that is offered here from Jnug which is pretty pretty good in my opinion but we have to see the markets cool off a bit we have to see gold start to spike and this is going to be a huge mover in my opinion maybe even this upcoming week honestly maybe even this upcoming week we could get a gap up to the 90s again I think it's possible so Jnug I'm watching that one very closely some stocks today you know tech stocks Microsoft was read Google was read Facebook was read about three dollars Amazon seven dollars and Apple two cents down so overall Facebook was probably the biggest mover to the red today and overall Facebook right now I think it could be a bullish breakout play if we break out of this 180 estimate resistance and ultimately break into the 190s and successfully hold this level as a support right if we hold 190 we could potentially start to retest the 200s again and really start trending up in this next channel that Facebook could be in again if it breaks and holds that level at 190 so Facebook I'm watching that one for sure right now at V let's take a look at at V very quickly because this one's been very bullish guys very bullish I talk about this about a week ago about a week ago in the video I know you guys know that quote and I was talking about at V because it was trending at about $51 and we've been really just following these channels because at V and video games in general the stocks they've been getting slaughtered right so they have a lot of margin of profit and it seems like this is a temporary bottom for at V so it's worth watching because there's a lot of money to be made if we start to move back up so we traded it I believe I swing traded at about two weeks ago in this range right here we broke out of 51 it seems like we held it and now we filled all the way up to the next range which is at about 55 to $56 so this is very interesting because if we end up pulling back here which I think is already happening or rather we're consolidating but if we pull back maybe retest 52 53 find a support there this can be a good trade back up to about 55 56 dollars and if we pop 56 above 56 hold that level as a new support we could be flooding back up to maybe the the low 60s let me just take a look and see what would be the next support yeah literally the low 60s right that would be the next zone gap that we could potentially fill up to about 62 dollars so at V I'm definitely watching that one Facebook Jnug and you guys so that's it for this video guys those are four stocks I don't want this video to be too long because typically on Fridays guys people zone out after work after the long day after the long stressful week and they don't want to be sitting here probably for 30 minutes watching this video but I'm sure a lot of you guys would if I did make it and I really appreciate you guys but the majority of people probably wouldn't sit too long on this video so if you guys want me to talk about any specific stocks go down below in the comments comment that ticker down below and I'll get to it in Sunday's video if you found value in this video feel free to hit that like button and consider subscribing I appreciate all of you guys watching it means a lot to me that you're taking out your time in your day to watch these videos I hope you guys did well this week I'll catch you all in the next video have a great weekend peace out what's going on everybody


The What's Neat Show is sponsored by Lombard Hobbies, your value hobby shop for over 40 years of modelers helping modelers. Big inventory, value pricing, fast shipping, and great service. Additional support is provided by Walthers Trains, everything you need to build a great model railroad. Check out their website at Walthers.com and by Bachman Trains. Now that's the way to run a railroad. Check out their website at BachmanTrains.com and thank you for helping us support the best hobby in the world. This is What's Neat for May 2022. I'm your host Ken Patterson and this month we do have a great show. First off we start out by weathering this beautiful EM1 articulated steam locomotive from Bachman Industries in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This is a model that they had come out with a few years past and it looks absolutely amazing when it goes from brand new fresh to an absolutely weathered looking workhorse that's been working the main lines. And I take you through the entire process step by step and that's the how-to article in this month's video. We also have a great interview with Matt Stern, the communication director of Bachman Industries, and he shows us a lot of the new products that are coming out this month. That's what I like about the show. We get to see new stuff first before anybody else and it's wonderful to have that kind of stuff. I've got some great drone footage from our drone pilot Dan Scheidel. This month he shared with us a lot of BNSF consists. You'll recognize these locomotives and I love weathering ideas from above because that's the segment where if you can make your scenery look just like it does in these videos all the answers are there for everything that we want to do. And finally we have a great end scale layout. This is an interview I did at a great American train show and this is the gateway end scale layout. In fact it's called Gateway End Track and these guys have worked very hard and there's a lot of different animation from moving race tracks to barges to Jurassic parks and thunderstorms. This is a modular layout that is sure to please. And so with that I do want to say please check out the weekly show that we do every week. The What's Neat This Week and Model Rarrowing podcast. That's what I share with you. Interviews, special guests, all the latest news in the hobby every week keeping you updated on this the best hobby in the world, Model Rarrowing. And so with that let's continue on with the rest of this May 2022 What's Neat. Hi my name is Ken Patterson.  In this video I'm going to show you how I weather these beautiful EM1 locomotives from Bachman. I'm using Van Dyke to wash on the EM1 locomotives. Spread this oil out on this stone using terpenoid as the thinner for the oils this time because terpenoid doesn't eat the decals off of the locomotives. I'm just going to thin this oil paint a little bit with a brush. I won't use this brush for our main weathering because it's going to be just too heavy. So let me thin this out. I'm working on four tiles. Four marble tiles. It's easier to work with than any other flat surface. I'm using one inch brushes to do the pull downs of the oils and I'm just going to apply a wash to this locomotive. Start by wetting my brush. I'll blot it on a paper tile here. Make sure it's just the right and I rub it into oil paints. I'll start applying this wash to the locomotive quite liberally. All I'm doing is washing the oils on here. I'm getting every crevice, every pipe, every walkway of the boiler. It's really hard. You'll get a feel on how to handle a locomotive after you've done this a few times. It looks like a juggling act but in fact I've got real good control of the model side where I can place the brush's face right where I need it to fill in underneath the handrails and underneath the firebox. I think the key to oil paint weathering like this is really getting over the fact that you're going to take your brand new out-of-the-box locomotive and start covering it up like this. It doesn't make sense at first but then once you see the final finished product it looks so good that you won't be able to help yourself. This is how you'll weather everything. This grime effect I apply to every model that I do. Diesels, buildings. It's just that simple. This is going to look very nice when this dries. Now I'm going to do the tender the same way. There's the quick wipe of the heavy van dyke brown. I'm not using the paper towel to blot very much here. I would on a lighter color freight car but because this is black this is taking a lot of paint. You want to keep your strokes straight down. Rain, water, washes straight down. If you have any sideways strokes or any strokes that accidentally veer a little bit to the right or to the left it's not going to look as effective as if it was pulled straight down. So you want to keep all of your strokes straight down when you use oil paint. Now I want to explain the workspace. Here we've got the engine that we previously washed with weather oil paints and this locomotive is now going to go through the rest of the process of dust, sand finish weathering, the soot from the exhaust that we're going to apply. I've got this on a rotating lazy susan so that I can have good control of both sides of the engine but you have to stay in contact with the power of the track because when we're spraying the drivers we're going to keep this locomotive running. I've got a jar here, a little bowl full of turpentine. I'm using straight turpentine and the reason for that is because the turpentine will cut the over sprayed paint mixture that I'm going to apply which will be our dust finish from the sand dust and turpentine will cut that as I pull it down as opposed to turpenoid which I used on this engine when we originally gave the oil paint wash. Turpenoid doesn't affect oil paint so turpenoid wouldn't cut the weathering mix as I pull it down whereas the turpentine would so I think it's important to cover that. So I'm just going to go ahead and launch into this now. The first thing I'm going to do is apply the black soot grime that would come out of the exhaust stacks. We've got an airbrush, an air booth here, 500 cubic feet of air draw and I'm using an iwata airbrush here set to about 20 pounds of air pressure. Now I'm just applying a straight spray of local engine black across the top of the tender and the boiler to represent the soot. Now we're going to pull that down. I need to also spray the drivers. I want to get rid of that shiny metal driver finish. What I have here is I've connected the locomotive to my DCC on my layout that runs around the room so that I'll have power to speed this up and run it when I'm spraying the black on so that I don't get any driver shadows on the wheels. So I'll get a good even spray to spray these drivers and tone down the bright over them. And then I'm going to do the other I'm applying Bachman Easy Lube Conductive Lubricant to the top of the rail so that when the locomotive is running I will have good conductivity and the drivers will slip easily on the rail. I'm going to apply just a little bit of black on the drivers and the side rods just to get rid of that metal finish. I'm spraying with about 20 pounds of air pressure and I've got the black paint mixed about 20 percent paint and the rest thinner so it goes on as a nice black fine finish thin finish. I'm going to spray these again just to get a good coat of black. Now I'm going to take my brush I'm going to dip it in my turpentine over here. I've got a blotter attached to my arm with a rubber band so I can blot it dry and I'm going to start pulling down the black that we applied to the roof to the top of the boiler and then I'll move on down the side of the boiler. All I'm doing is pulling down that black that I sprayed right on top to give it the rain wash effect and I want to also pull down the black on the drivers just a little bit pulling down the black again on the top of the boiler evenly smooth strokes. Okay I've sprayed the drivers black in the top of the boiler black and pulled that down with the turpentine now I need to actually switch my paint so I'm going to turn on the spray booth here and switch colors to a more of a brownish gray weathering shade and I just mixed this paint a little while ago and I didn't mix it on film I didn't document mixing it but I'm going to explain to you what I did essentially I took the spray bottle and I filled it up with just a little bit of lacquer thinner about an eighth of an inch thick and then I mixed into that lacquer thinner a little mixture of concrete roof brown and earth and you're going to ask me how much of that paint did I put in there I literally took the bottle and just turned it up just a little bit like that until I got the shade of color into the lacquer thinner that gave me a good rendition of this brown then I mixed in a little bit of the earth and a little bit of the concrete until I came up with what was close to a brownish grayish weathering medium it doesn't have to be exact close enough to match prototype pictures in this case I'm using a morning sun book to kind of give me just a little guidance on how the em1 locomotives weather so now that I've got this paint switched I'm going to run the locomotive I get the drivers to spin so that I don't get any driver shadows on the wheels as I start applying this light dusting and I'm going to take it from the second driver and I'm going to go back bring it all the way down the tender you want to make sure the drivers are spinning when you're applying the paint to this area of the locomotive because you do not want the driver blocking being blocked by the side rod because that'll create a shadow which will not look good I'm going to do this to the other side of the locomotive same way third the second driver back trailing truck and right up the tender with your sand dust mixture second driver back is where it accumulates on the wheels now I'm going to take my my brush just dip it in a turpentine blot it and I'm going to start pulling down the dry dust that we just applied to this model that includes the tender trailing truck and I want to do the side rods without touching the drivers I need to get these side rods to spin so I can get to them so I'm going to hook up my DCC power here get the locomotive to move just a little bit to those drivers and I want to pull down the dust on the drivers to give the rain effect of straight down wash same on the wheels and then I'll do the other side of the locomotive the same way I'm going to dip in my turpentine again just to get a clean of brush blot it on my blotter here and pull down even stroke straight down the same way turn off that spray booth so we can hear the same on the drivers I want to pull down the white dusty sandy mixture I just want to pull down the drivers on this side now what I want to do is apply one more coat of dust to the locomotive and I don't want to pull this one down I don't want this to be rainwashed dust I want this to be fresh just apply dust in between storms so I'm going to turn on the spray booth here and start the engine running and spraying the drivers I'm using an Iowata airbrush here and what I like about these airbrushes is the patch eight three ounce jars fit I swear by these jars they work so well this dust is coming from the second driver back again a little bit on the tender third the second driver back and I'll turn it around and do the other side and I'm going to second driver back little dust on the tender now I'm ready to do the valve grease I'm going to take my every black paint straight out of the tube I'm going to blot just a little bit here on the side of the model so I get the right consistency of mixture here this is where I'll work this is my palette now and I want to apply this I'm blotting this a little bit too heavy on the brush I want to apply this dark oiled effect grease right in here this gives a very effective dirty oily lubricated effect because there's not a lot of sand or dust in this this is fresh oil so you want this area to be dark and after that dries that pretty much concludes the weathering of this locomotive for this segment of What's Neat I've got Matt Stern the communication director of Bachman Industries in Philadelphia Pennsylvania with us today and he's going to update us on the new and wonderful products coming from Bachman Industries it's always great to get an update from a major manufacturer like yourself Matt now the folks watch the video and just saw me weather that beautiful HO scale EM1 locomotive that Bachman had come out with a few years past and I just want to stress that those models are in fact available currently in the catalog in end scale yes our end scale EM1 is uh it's one of actually my personal favorite locomotives it's it's just a fantastically detailed model um it's uh and it's such a unique locomotive too it's something that I think we'll find a home on on any end scale layout it even if it's not a Baltimore Ohio layout it's a talking point locomotive it absolutely is you can find them out on ebay they're going for very high prices right now but the fact is someday in the future as we've always seen Bachman may reintroduce that product to the market you never know you never know so Matt you've got some exciting stuff to talk about today tell us yeah so uh we have quite a few new uh freight cars coming out this year if you've seen our 2022 catalog we have a good amount of HO scale stuff and we also have some large scale cars um got that catalog right here check it out unfortunately the the large scale cars are are actually out at a train show at this time so I don't have them on hand okay um but I do have um we also have a large scale dash nine which I know a lot of people are very excited about um and again unfortunately the the samples we have right now are at the train show but I do have a cab sample here this is a very uh rudimentary sample here but it will kind of give you an idea of some of the detail like we've got the separately applied windshield wipers um the railings and rungs and this is actually the the goal wing cab version so the Santa Fe and bnsf versions will actually have the goal wing cab as per the prototype whereas the uh the standard cab that doesn't have these divots will be on the the other versions that's absolutely fantastic and they created those divots so that that engine would fit as they run them through the whole system the rotary dumpers as I recall a long time ago yeah I believe that I believe that's so that's fantastic I did shoot a Bachman cover using a pre-production sample of that model variations of the model are going to be different than what you see but let me show you this beautiful photograph that we shot this was a desert scene and it came out really neat it was just a great shot on a diorama so check it out so Matt what else you got to talk about so we have a good amount of new HO scale stuff to show you um this is all stuff that's currently um it we've just received development samples of them so it's nothing that's hit the market yet but we expect to see these hopefully by the end of the year if not sooner fantastic um so the first things I can show you here are we've got our new line of ps2 hoppers these are a little different to the previous run that we had um these are the late versions so the early versions and the late versions so I don't think I have an early version sitting around here unfortunately but the uh the difference in design is they just have this single post here whereas the early versions had a a thinner double post at the end of the car so it's a very small difference but it it keeps it correct for these later versions that's fantastic and those come with metal wheel sets and those beautiful couplers that look scale don't they they do yeah they come with our metal wheel sets black and metal wheels um we also have if you look underneath here we've got some separately applied details such as we've got the brake lines um they're going to stay black I believe they were painted with the color of the car the old versions but in reality they usually are a separate color to the rest of the car so we've kept them black for these and uh you can kind of see here we've got you can see the uh see-through walkway up here on the top so we actually have uh trying to get it in the light here that's very cool kind of see it at the end of the car there yes so yeah so it's all it's all see-through there um just as we'll be on the prototype this is the MKT version um this is an MOW car I believe and then the other sample I have here is the the CSX version and we have a southern pacific one here as well very nice oh look at that and we do actually have a bnsf version as well but this is also out of the show right now okay so that is our ps2 hopper um that's a nice kind of modern era freight car that we've got to look forward to um we also have some little earlier era cars here these samples actually just came in yesterday so this will be the the first unveiling of them these are our 50 foot um reefer cars oh that's beautiful we saw a pre-production sample of one of those in the previous what's neat video I think Larry Harrington showed that off but now you've got a decorated sample there yes these are our first decorated samples um we have a we have one here for canadian pacific and we have another one here for railway express agency which I think is just a fantastical heat scheme it is absolutely oh my gosh I can't wait to weather one of those haha sure look fantastic um and one of the things that's cool about these cars is they're actually based off of a new york central prototype um they're very similar to cars that could be seen across the country um but I don't believe a model of this particular design of car has been done um in a very long time if if if ever in the past in ho scale um and just to go over a couple of the details on this car um so again we have we have separate walkways up here on the top um we have a uh really nicely detailed and and here you can kind of see there's a kind of ornate looking brake wheel here that's beautiful we got the we've got the ladders up here and um we've got the rungs down here the grad buyers very nice and these actually ran so they're in our freight car section in the catalog but it's worth mentioning that these actually ran um in passenger trains so they would usually typically be at the head end of the train um they would be behind the locomotive in front of the passenger cars and the reason they would do that is because they would be trying to get the stuff to market as quickly as possible on the passenger trains always have priority absolutely right that's amazing it's great that you have this knowledge it's great that you can when you're at a train show and you're discussing this with the customer it adds that much more value to the presentation absolutely yeah and then we do have a few more other items here as well um so you might remember um we had a train set that came out in 2019 which I have here which is our transcontinental train set this was uh hugely popular it was brought out to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the the driving of the golden spike absolutely um one of the things with this set though is that if you notice in the set here we had both locomotives and we had one passenger car pro locomotive which doesn't really make a train so beautiful beautiful photograph on that box by the way oh yeah how much fun is that um so we actually have brought out the uh in the set here by uh bring it back up one more time um you've got the univacific baggage car and then you've got the central pacific um or it's a combine car sorry and then you've got the central pacific coach car um so what we've done is as separate all items in our catalog this year we're bringing out the univacific coach car and the central pacific combine car so you can actually make a train that's more than one car for both locomotives absolutely plus that train set would make a great display set on anybody's mantle or desk oh absolutely that's fantastic great concept and marketing on that um and then just a couple more items here we have the uh we have a new 40 foot reefer here the wood side reefer this one is tipo table lines i believe we're gonna do a little bit of paint adjustment to this so this is not the final paint scheme but it's uh all the graphics and everything are is how they'll be on the final car that's beautiful yeah we think it's a really cool paint scheme um it's uh it's just an interesting car it certainly is and last but not least we also have two new of uh two new 50 foot reefers um these are see here we go we've got the burlington root and we've got the conrail and uh these are going to be joining our 50 foot line which we've had around for a while but um i don't think we've had any paint schemes quite like these before in it so we're pretty excited about that this is amazing you all are pushing the envelope for creating prototype looking models now will we see you at the NMRA national here in st louis coming up very shortly so unfortunately i will not be there personally but we will be there as a as a company absolutely fantastic everybody's going to be able to see all these beautiful new models at the show touch them feel them and check them out plus meet the wonderful people that are bachman that's awesome isn't it so is there anything else that we covered everything for this month matt so i think we pretty much covered it um we're always getting new products in new samples so uh who knows what we'll have next month that's absolutely fantastic well thank you so much for showing the viewers of the what's neat show what's new and exciting out there in philadelphia no doubt there's a lot of exciting products that they are going to love and so with that matt thank you very much and that is this segment for maize what's neat all right thanks a lot segment of what's neat i'm standing here with jeremy jansen and i'm also standing here with dale blust and you guys represent the gateway and track layout that is better than uh 21 years old you were explaining to me yep that's right tell me dale about your passion for this hobby guys i've enjoyed training since i was a teenager and we just thought it'd be fun to pick a scale and start building some modules nice and we're both co-finders of uh yeah gateway i i had gateway clubs started and they had st charles and scale and we merged together in 2000 nice okay i understand that because i remember that layout as well now jeremy tell me what is the minimum radius on this lap uh minimum radius is uh 21 inches okay and the height is about it's perfect for viewing what's the height 40 inches 40 inches now you guys have got a lot of different scenes modeled on this with a lot of animation let's start talking about the raceway how amazing is that pretty neat it took me several years to actually get it working the way i wanted it yes and it's one of the big attractions when the kids come around and the delts right do you have a magnet system what what makes the cars go there's two belts underneath the layout and they've got 22 magnets silicone to the belt and then each of the cars have a little bitty magnet on there follows the big magnet it is so interesting and amazing to watch you've also got Jurassic Park with some dinosaurs that was actually my grandson's idea okay he was about 15 when he came up with the idea he wanted to do Jurassic Park and i said well i'll help you with it but you lay it out so he took a piece of paper drew up what he thought should be and we followed that exactly to the team very cool jeremy tell me i saw you parking your train in this beautiful long switch yard a few minutes ago what do you model what's your railroad uh i primarily model a Santa Fe railroad so you like the long run long trains uh sometimes most of that like runs switching but this one's more suited for long trains very cool another neat thing jail that i noticed on this layout was you've got like this fork this this wild west theme scene tell us about that well i belonged to a guy that left the club a year ago but joe had a lot to do with it um another scene that i noticed you've got on this is a river scene with a fairy faring back and forth in a dry dock tell us about that wonderful scene that was also made by joe okay i came up with the animation after he asked me if i could move his ferry back and forth and i said yeah we can do it no problem so that's very cool i noticed on the other side the far sided layout you've got europe modeled you've got a storm like cloud scene i mean this layout every single module has its own theme and is so interesting i agree with you everybody has different ideas when they're making a module we're trying to always make something different something new all the time that's awesome listen guys i want to thank you so much for sharing this layout with the viewers of what's neat this is the best hobby in the world and it's because of folks just like you thank you very much all the products seen on this episode of what's neat are available from lombard hobbies in lombard illinois or order online at lombard hobby dot com walthers trains supporting hobby retailers across the world since 1932 check out their website and learn more at walthers dot com bachman trains now that's the way to run a railroad check out their website at bachman trains dot com