Hey, hey there, it's me again with another reaction video. And now today we are going to be reacting to SF9 Old Solomio at a high school graduation. Oh, how are you, man? Freaking how are you? It's freaking SF9. They're doing a graduation thing for Old Solomio. I'm losing myself on my own, but it's got them. But yeah, last night I saw someone retweet this on my timeline on Twitter. And then I was like, oh, SF9 Old Solomio performance. I want to check this out. And then I was like, wait, why don't I react to it? So that's what we're doing today. And I also plan on doing a couple other videos today. And one of them is a bit, but it's going to be a like comedy reaction type of thing. It's basically I brought a couple things today. If you check my Twitter, you will know what it is. A steampunk cowboy. I legit bought a hundred dollar cowboy hat and some steampunk glasses. And I'm going to like go through my wardrobe and find a duffel coat. I don't have a freaking cowboy suit or anything like that. But I'm going to have a duffel coat. I'm going to just pretend to be like a person that is a steampunk cowboy that does not know anything about K-pop. So stay tuned for that because it's going to be pretty freaking cool. And there will also be another Christian True reaction, which I am excited for.  But anyways, we're here to watch SF9 with the Old Solomio performance at this high school graduation. So why are you having that this good straight into this? And ah, yeah. Oh, hi guys. Hello. Oh my God. I was just at the graduation where Chani and Wei Young graduated from. I forgot what it's called. I always forget what it's called. It's like performant arts. I don't know what it was called, but they graduated from something. Same for not other people actually. Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun. Roman in the center. Itcha, cha. Ooh. Oh, there's some to that crowd. Oh. Bam! Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. It's been so long since I've seen live performance of this. Oh. Oh. Their vocals though. Their vocals are always going to be good. Can't argue against that. Oh. It's super. I can't see him. I see him now. I see him. I see him. I see him. I see him. Oh my God. Dude, these guys are so.  Their fantasy song is going to be so good. Yes. I don't really know the lyrics. And I'm just like, ah, I don't see him. I say it. Yeah, there's how I do. The lyrics are. I don't really know the lyrics. And I'm just like, ah, I don't see him. I say it. Yeah, there's how I do it. As usual. I love this performance so much. Oh. I just love it so much. Oh, Johnny, Johnny, Johnny. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh, dude. These guys are so. Oh, this is so good. This is why I stand in. Because they're just so good. Okay, guys. They're just so good. Ah, they're just so good. And then you have to punch them. Do it. Do it. Go on. Right here. Right here.  I can't sing. So I just go high-pitched. And I was like, yeah, I can do that. Right here. That was good. I'm freaking out.  It's continuing. What's happening now? Damn. That was good. That was good. I enjoyed their performance a lot. It was just so very good. I just love their performance. Like, their dancing. Ah, like, well, the choreography is dancing. But like, the choreography is just amazing. I love their vocals. I love the rappers. I just love every single thing about SF9. And, like, Old Son of Mio is one of my favorite stages out there. I still, I like, I think I like Jungle Game a bit more. Like, just the stage. Not like, I like the song Old Son of Mio more. But the stage for freaking Jungle Games is cause they turn into a transformer man. Like, hello. But yeah, guys. This is gonna be all for this video. I hope you guys did enjoy it. And if you guys did, then definitely show some support by leaving a like and also going down below your favorite SF9 song. And also, subscribe guys. And don't forget to share with us a big more SF9 videos coming to you guys in the future. So stay tuned for that. And, uh, yeah. I'm gonna let our whole you guys have a great day. And just keep on smiling. And adios, amigo.


Can I make 40 here? So it is about 5.15 a.m. The birds are chirping by 4 a.m. So during my past five weeks in Australia, I've been typically waking up by about 4 a.m. and It's Sunday here. It's Sunday morning and yesterday was Christmas and yesterday it was Shabbat and I'm in Tannam Sands and there's no synagogue in Tannam Sands. There's no synagogue in Central Queensland. It's the best of my knowledge. I don't think there's any synagogue within 300-400 miles of here. So there's an interesting interesting day. What do you do when you observe the Sabbath, when you observe Shabbat according to Orthodox Judaism and yet there are no other observant Jews near you. There's no synagogue and it's also Christmas Day and you're back in Australia with your family. In large part, I've turned to Australia to spend time with my family and get to know better my brother and my sister and my uncles and my aunties and my nieces and my cousins and my family holds initially Christmas in Tannam Sands and it's a big family event. So this is how I approach these things. So in general, I believe in holding your religion lightly. So this may not be the approach for everyone, but you can be religious in a way that's incredibly obnoxious. You can be religious in a way that separates you from other people. You can be religious in a way that makes you difficult to interact with unless you are on the same religious path and observance level and I'm not into that. I think one should wear one's religion lightly so that it's not an unnecessary obstacle between between you and other people. It's not the constant reference point for all your conversations. So for example, I've been active in 12-step programs for a decade, but to the best of my knowledge, I've never referenced Judaism in any of my participation in 12-step. So never mentioned it with my sponsors. I've never mentioned it to the best of my knowledge in any of my shares. I don't mention it in outreach calls. Virtually never. So other people I know are always referencing, for example, their Christianity. Jesus said this on the Sermon of the Mount, the Apostle Paul said this, St. Peter experienced that, you know, Martin Luther tells us this, and I don't enjoy that, right? Particularly when the other person knows that I grew up a Christian and left it, I don't want my 12-step meetings contaminated by other people's religion because one of the principles of 12-steps is that we don't invoke outside issues so as to avoid separating people who badly need help from a program that can help them. So introducing my Judaism or someone else introducing Christianity or introducing politics into a 12-step program, to me it just unnecessarily separates you from other people and throws down unnecessary blocks between other people, addicts who need help and a program that can deliver the help and if you're going on about your religion or your politics or any hot button outside issue, it just gets in the way. So similarly in the workplace, I don't talk that much about Judaism. I just let it go. Similarly, within Judaism, I don't talk that much about 12-step programs. Like if it comes up, I'll talk about it, but I don't I don't push and promote, you know, an alternative spiritual path within Judaism. And so too, I when I when I spend time with my family, I didn't talk about Judaism unless someone else asks. I just let it go. And I admit I find it obnoxious when people have to constantly refer everything back to one thing, be it a 12-step program or be it their religion or be it God or Libertarian economics, whatever, when people have to constantly refer back to one thing, I find it obnoxious. So I guess I'm post-modern. My very simple understanding of post-modern is that there's no one overarching ideology that is sufficient for dealing with life that is sufficient for explaining the challenges that we face. So that's my understanding of post-modern. There's no one story that is adequate for our story. There's no one story that's adequate for life in the 21st century or 40 Christmas for all situational peace. Thank you. Thank you, Art Bell. So Art Bell, you you make a lot of interesting comments and I really appreciate them and I think you'll appreciate this Art Bell. I bought a Shura mic for my iPhone and I'm using it right now and to give better quality audio. But unfortunately, I did not buy the video package. So when I try to use my Shura mic with my gimbal, my phone tilts to one side. So to save 40 bucks on the video package with the Shura mic, now I can't use my Shura mic with my gimbal unless somehow I find a way to add tape and maybe a small pebble onto the other side of my phone to try to balance it out. So that when I walk down the street with my gimbal that the phone's not tilting to to one side. Why didn't I buy the video package? It was just like an extra $30 or $40. And now I'm reduced to trying to tape pebbles onto one edge of my phone so that it doesn't tilt to one side. Also, you suggested that I do more YouTubes about music and that's a great idea. Along with many of your other suggestions, they're excellent. So I as supplies my favorite group of all time and I understand it now through the lens of 12 step addiction like the songs of air supply, right? The greatest hits there. Are they not all about love addiction? So when you're 70% of people have a positive self-image, right? Are you sure about this? There's no certainty. You're certain. Okay, so 70% of people I think have a positive self-image. That's what I read when I read up on self verification theory. And so we all filter all our life experiences and feedback we get throughout through our own self-image. So 70% of people have a positive self-image and so when they hear positive things like, ah, yeah, you know, that's right and they feel good about it. But when you have a negative self-image and you hear positive feedback, then it disturbs you and it kind of decoheres your worldview.  So I have struggled with this and the negative self-image and it's just below the surface.  And so I think the 30% of the population with the negative self-image they are particularly vulnerable to addiction. And so when you're an addict, it means that you've found some kind of process or substance that makes the pain go away because obviously if you're living with a negative self-image your life is going to be quite painful.  So for me as a someone growing up with that negative self-image and discovering the high of falling in love, right, and romantic infatuation and sexual excitement, you know, those romantic and sexual highs would take the pain away. And air supplies music I think kind of embodied that that love addiction that just characterised so much in my life and has probably played a significant role in why here I am at age 55 and I've never been out to sustain a relationship longer than a year. So it's an interesting question. Why do we love the text that we love? Why do we love the music that we love? And as I understand it now, my love for air supply music is because it's the music of the love addict, right? It's the music that reflects myself, reflects my love addiction and that yearning for a skate. Oh man, the Mazis are out here. So many sand flies and mosquitoes in this area. I'm just reading a book on Gladstone. So Gladstone's the big city, about 30 minutes drive from here, and it's a city of about 30,000 people. And according to this book, it was long known as a slum city. So I'm sitting right now in Tannam Sands, Gladstone's the big city, 30 minutes drive away. It's now a major international port. They have major liquid natural gas plants and you always see, you know, major tankers lining up even here from Tannam Sands all the way into the Gladstone port to to pick up the natural gas and then ship it around the world. So now Gladstone's an international port, but in its media portrayals until maybe the 1980s, it was known as the slum city according to this book. And so when I was seeing a doctor in Brisbane in 1989, I mentioned I was going up to Gladstone. He would warn me about, you know, make sure you don't get any sexually transmitted diseases from the girls in Gladstone. Vivian Veritas, long time no see. Vivian, I am thinking about moving to Australia. So I feel very happy here. I've got family here. And now I'm about to like rationalize and give reasons for why I want to move to Australia. But it's primarily an emotional experience. Right. I had an emotional experience my first morning in Australia just walking along the beach and feeling at ease, feeling happy. Damn, there's so many mozzies out. Now one's at my mic. That like when I ride the public transport in LA, I'm typically the only, you know, white person on the bus. But I don't have that in Australia. Public transportation is a perfectly pleasant experience in Australia. I go to the beach. There are no gangs. There's no rampant crime. There's just more of a sense of ease here. There's virtually no crime. There's, you know, virtually nothing to be afraid of. And it's really easy to connect to other people. Because you have things in common. You're on the same wavelength. So United States has never had the camaraderie and cohesion and homogeneity that Australia and England have, let alone the cohesion and homogeneity that France, Germany, and Japan have. So I just walk around here and I feel at ease. Now probably like after I move here, I remember when I moved here before, music is distraction or confirmation. Hurt without her is a great cell to women ego boost. Yeah. So when I moved here before after about six to nine months, I did start missing the United States. So probably if I move here, there will be things that I miss about the United States. But right now I'm just enjoying the camaraderie, the cohesion, the sense of connection, the high levels of social trust. And it just means that I, you know, walk along feeling happy and at ease and get a good day, mate. How's it going, mate? Like it's just effortless to open up conversations with people. And you're kind of on the same page. And so thinking about very seriously thinking about making this big shift to move to the eastern suburbs of Sydney. I mean, quality of life is just so good. Right. You can use public transport. You can walk around at night at during the day. You're not threatened. You're not under assault. It's very easy to form bonds. There's like a whole, whole thing. There's a whole culture of mateship, right? Where you're basically you'll do anything for your mates and they'll do anything for you. And so I found that in Orthodox Judaism, that that culture of mateship. And I also find it throughout Australia, which is absolutely intoxicating to me. So I'm having a ball. So I guess back to Shabbat versus Christmas. So yesterday was Shabbat for me. And yesterday was Christmas. And my family tradition, meaning not my immediately family, but my relatives, my uncles and aunties and nieces and cousins, etc. all gather in tandem stands for Christmas. And I gathered two. So I wasn't going to, you know, shun family Christmas for my Shabbat. So I observed Shabbat by I would walk to breakfast. All right. I didn't I didn't drive. And so it was less than a mile. And then I would walk to, you know, Christmas lunch.  And so it wasn't hard finding things to eat. So I can keep kosher. Now, one, one thing that I compromised on is that when someone says Merry Christmas to me, I say Merry Christmas back. So normally I would not say that because it's it's inauthentic to being an Orthodox Jew. So I know some Orthodox Jews disagree with me about this. They don't think it's any big deal. But when you're saying Merry Christmas, you're essentially saying that Jesus is the Christ. And as an Orthodox Jew, obviously I can't say that. I don't have any any religious faith. Any, you know, I'm not a I'm not a theologically resonating with Christianity. I don't believe that Jesus is the Christ. Now, Australia is overwhelmingly a secular country. So Christmas is, you know, far more of a secular celebration in Australia than it is in America. But, you know, my druthers is that I wouldn't say Merry Christmas. And so I try to avoid that in the United States. But virtually nobody says happy holidays here. So it's kind of nice because Christmas is a huge Australian holiday. And nobody says happy holidays. Nobody. I haven't encountered anyone say happy holidays. What people say is Merry Chrissy. I like that. Merry Chrissy. So Australians, Australians shorten everything like tinies for tins. It's it's ISO for living in isolation. Australians have some. I just I just love the slang here. So yeah, Merry Chrissy, like everyone's wishing each other Merry Chrissy. And none of the shops are open. Yeah. So normally I wouldn't say Merry Christmas because ideologically it just seems inconsistent with being an Orthodox Jew. And at the same time, it's kind of inconsistent with my idea of trying to carry my religion lightly. So, you know, I don't want to create unnecessary divisions between myself and other people. I don't want to be obnoxious. I don't want to be the the fart of the dinner party. All right, I don't want to be the skunk at the at the big bash. And in America, I try to avoid it because in America, happy holidays is like perfectly acceptable in big cities. But in regional Australia, and I think in in Sydney, too, like Merry Chrissy and Merry Christmas is Der Rigour. So that's that's a compromise that that I've made. So yeah, this is an overwhelmingly secular country. Christmas is overwhelmingly secular. So I also I don't put on Christmas hats. And I didn't dress up special for Christmas. I didn't like wear something red. So I was like, why aren't you wearing something red? I wore this shirt to Christmas breakfast Christmas dinner. Right. Oh, thank you. Thank you, Vivian. Oh, my God, I'm I'm so sorry. I will I will connect with you privately. That's, I can't imagine the pain and the dislocation that that comes with that. Wow. Wow. So if I do look better, if I do look happier or giddy, as some people say, that's socially conditioned, right? It depends on me being in a society that is congenial with me, right? It's really hard. And I don't think it's even healthy to try to be health, you know, to happy on your own. We so need other people. And here I feel like I'm in a I'm in a place that is just conducive to human happiness. It's like conducive to to flourishing. I guess some new angles here. So my brother works in a garden center with, you know, with all these beautiful plants, right? It's got all these beautiful plants around the home and working in a garden center. It's, I think it's highly conducive to happiness. My brother can't remember the last time he heard an angry word from a customer. He never has angry customers. Can you imagine going through your day never hearing an angry word? Like I've been in Australia for five weeks and I don't think I've heard an angry word. Now Australians do get angry. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but I haven't seen it. Like the kind of tension and racial conflict and crime and dislocation and decoherence and low social trust that characterized much of life in Los Angeles is just not here. Now I still love Los Angeles. There are many wonderful things about LA and I don't think LA is a dystopia by by any means, but it's just really intoxicating here and it has a has a big effect on my happiness levels, right? To walk down the street and just be happy to see people, right? And to be able to speak with them. So in Los Angeles seems like half the population does not speak English. So I remember going to Friday Night Live at Temple Sinai in Westwood and the mayor, Antonio Villarigosa, spoke to us and he encouraged us to speak to someone who does not speak your language. Like how on earth do you speak to someone who does not speak your language? Like how incoherent is that? So I'm not encountering many people here in Australia that don't speak my language. So there's an attitude among some of my relations like, oh is Luke still into that Jewish thing? I thought he'd given that up. And that's a totally understandable family reaction because I am a man of enthusiasms. But there are some enthusiasms that I pick up that last for many, many decades, such as my my enthusiasm for Judaism. Now my enthusiasm for Judaism has waxed and waned, but it's not that I've ever completely lost my enthusiasm for Judaism. It's just that the aspects of being Jewish that excite me change. So I really enjoy that I can go to a synagogue and I can immediately feel a bond in that home and at ease with my tribe without respect to any of their beliefs, right? Plenty of atheists go to synagogue. Plenty of secular people, secular Jews go to synagogue. You don't have to keep this out if you don't have to keep kosher. You don't have to believe certain things about God, about the divine nature of the Torah to feel perfectly at home in a synagogue. So while many Christian churches, as I experienced, were heavily divided on lines of ideology, generally speaking, I have not found that in most of the synagogues I go to. There are plenty of non-religious orthodox synagogues. You've got an orthodox synagogue, you've got orthodox rabbi, you've got orthodox services, and most people who go there are not religious, but they go there because it's a meeting place. It's a tribal meeting place. It's a tribal watering hole. It's a way of connecting with your people. It's a source of the solace and joy and friendship and connection and community and networking and tradition. These are all wonderful things. So when I was initially getting into Judaism, I was all about the ethical monotheism. The Judaism has this mission to spread ethical monotheism in the world. The teaching that there's one God is primary demand for our behavior is ethical behavior. There's one God who primarily wants us to be good to one another, and I love that. I still love that, but that doesn't have to be the prime focus of my Judaism. There are days or months and I can appreciate other approaches because I know just for me, I get sick at times of people talking about God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God. To me, it's reductive, but to me, God is interested in more things than religion and theology. I experience people who are always invoking God, God, God, God as a flight from reality. People want a magic key, and then for many people, God is the magic key, and then for other people, the Jews are the magic key, and then for other people, it's libertarian economics is the magic key, or race is the magic key, or 12-step recovery is the magic key, or psychology or psychoanalysis provides the magic key to how the world works, and there is no magic key. There are some useful ways of viewing life. For example, IQ tests and group IQ levels are highly predictive of certain group life outcomes. There are more or less useful ways of understanding things in life, but there's no magic key, and so I find it reductive when people are constantly invoking God as the solution to all their problems, and to the solution to the problems of the people around them, and to the solutions of society, and I find that boring. It gets on my nerves. After a certain point I got, no, stop talking to me about God. I feel like you're using God as an excuse to avoid reality. I feel like you're using God as an excuse to avoid taking responsibility. I feel like you're using God as an excuse to avoid making hard decisions. I feel like you're using God as an excuse to looking at your choices more clearly. I feel like you're using God to try to escape from the bewildering nature of life, and the many questions that life is constantly asking us, the many challenges of life, and you're just trying to reduce it. Oh, it all comes down to God, and for some people that might work, but to me it's just reducing all the wonderful colors and excitement in life to just one color. I like the color black, but I don't want everything to be black. I like the color blue, but I don't want everything to be blue. I think we should be able to talk about things in a completely secular way at times and talk about things without reference constantly to God, or to religion, or to race, or to recovery. One note, Charlie's get really boring. So I had a Christmas, and I didn't discuss Judaism once. I didn't discuss my Jewish identity once. I didn't discuss my Jewish conversion once. I didn't discuss my Jewish path. I had a Shabbat completely free of any discussion of anything Jewish. I just simply hung out with my family.  Two people were like pulling, and then there's some small gift inside. Not that I have anything against it, but I didn't go all red for Christmas. It was a time to hang out with family, and I didn't discuss theology. I didn't discuss God. I didn't discuss religion. I wasn't the skunk at the Garden Party. I don't think I was a downer. I don't think I detracted from anyone else's Christmas. We have such a huge effect on other people, and so I think it's really important to me to not be a downer, to add joy, where I can add joy, and to add comfort when I can add comfort. And wow, I feel like reciting the prayer of St. Francis that when there is anger, now I'll bring peace. When there is sadness, I'll bring comfort. When there is division, I'll bring harmony. So I know that Dennis Prager talks about how his older brother, who's always been an Orthodox Jew, so Dennis was never really Orthodox, but his older brother, who's a doctor, has always been an Orthodox Jew, but he would go caroling. He would go singing Christmas carols, I think, with his university fraternity. So there are plenty of Jews who participate in Christmas to varying degrees without seeing it as a religious thing. So I find it interesting that there are Orthodox Jews who go Christmas caroling. I like Christmas. I like Christian culture. I appreciate December being different. I appreciate people being a little nicer. I like the music moderately, mildly. So in home, I was in Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas is You was the big song. So I was hearing a lot of Christmas music, so I started at Mariah Carey. All I Want for Christmas is You was the number one selection. And then Wham! Last Christmas, I gave you my heart. The very next day, I gave it away this year to save me from tears. I'll save it for someone special. So that was on the playlist. And then We Are the World. Remember that anthem from 1984 to raise money for starving people in Ethiopia? So I think we need another big anthem with all the rock stars to try to end the civil war in Ethiopia. So I think that the Christians and the Muslims, they're engaged in a civil war in Ethiopia. And don't you think that if all the great pop singers got together and sang a song, that that could end the civil war. We had farm aid and we had, you know, Hungary and Ethiopia aid. And now we need a song to reduce murder between Christians and Muslims in Ethiopia. So perhaps, you know, this community, we can write that song that ends the civil war in Ethiopia. What do you think? And then also played on Christmas morning here was Will They Know It's Christmas. So I think that was the British response to We Are the World. So the British pop singers got together Will They Know It's Christmas over there. So those are the hits. So yeah, it was nice being with family. And it was nice, not sacrificing who I am. So I think we're constantly faced with choices to sell out our integrity for the sake of connection or stand in our integrity and risk connection. So let's say somebody wants you to do something. Let's say your spouse, all right?  All right? So your spouse wants you to do something that's say that's a form of theft. There's a form of lying. It's a form of selling out some other commitment that you've made. All right? Any relationship is going to have constant choices between do you sell out your integrity to preserve your connection to your spouse, to your child, to your parent, to your friend? Or do you sacrifice your integrity to preserve the connection? Or do you risk your connection to preserve your integrity? Right? And so I think we're all frequently challenged by that. And so sometimes it will cost you a marriage, right? If you're not prepared to constantly sell out your integrity and what you stand for, it may cost you your marriage. On the other hand, if you do sell out your integrity, your spouse will lose respect and love for you. And that could cost you your marriage too. So it's an interesting issue. So many times we think, you know, oh, I don't want to sacrifice my integrity and we're just being delusion, right? We're just being petty. So sometimes it's worth making compromises to maintain connection.  Because, man, it's marzies just driving me crazy.  Like the person that got married, that person is no longer here because you're so constantly sold yourself out and compromised. Now, sometimes compromise is the right thing to do. This is elucidated in David Schnark's great book, Passionate Marriage. You will constantly be caught upon to choose between your integrity and your connections. And it's very painful.  My family didn't ask me to do that, but, you know, I could have felt that that yearning. Have you ever been part of a group where you felt the peer pressure or your spouse put pressure on you or your friends put pressure on you?  Yeah, way too many sand flies and mosquitoes around here. So many people who moved to this area became quite arrayed at all the sand flies.  Virtually no mosquitoes in Los Angeles, in my memory. So Los Angeles, that's one good thing they've done. They've wiped out the mosquitoes. So yeah, what do we do about human connection when it threatens our integrity? And so I think it's really easy just to sell out to try to maintain human connection. But then you're going to feel lousy about yourself. On the other hand, you can you can wield your integrity as a bloody weapon to keep people at bay. So I know many people who use every excuse possible to keep others at bay, like in coronavirus COVID has been an absolute blessing to many people, because then they can set, you know, all sorts of laws to keep other people at bay.  Many people are using all sorts of excuses to keep other people at bay. And that's obviously not the path to a happy life. Being afraid of other people, being afraid of human connection, being afraid of the vulnerability that comes when you are connected to other people, that's not a good way to live. On the other hand, I have formed such intense connections that it's frightened me because I would realize I would give up anything to sustain these connections. Like I've been in relationships that were so intoxicating to me that I would give up anything to stay in those relationships. And then the more desperately I try to cling on, the more the other party would, you know, want to be rid of me.  I've had some incredibly intense friendships where the conversation was so intoxicating, the connection, the friendship was so intoxicating that I was highly motivated to compromise in any way possible to maintain that connection. So I know I'm not alone in this. I'm thinking about one friend who doesn't want to get into any kind of romantic relationship because it hurts so much when it ends. And with every relationship comes the possibility of betrayal. Like as soon as you form any kind of bond with someone, that immediately creates the possibility of betrayal. Betrayal meaning that they may indeed act in ways contrary to your expectations. So we use that hyperbolic word betrayal to label people who act differently than what we expect or what we wanted. And so you may go on a journey to visit a friend and they might say, hey, I can't hang out with you tonight because I've got this work obligation. So by putting work first ahead of your relationship, you may feel betrayed. It's like, hey, I just drove 300 miles to see you and you're going to put work first. You're betraying our friendship. And that's like a hyperbolic reaction to someone having different priorities than what you wanted or what you expected. But as soon as we form any relationship, we're ensuring that there are going to be times that we feel betrayed. So by converting to Orthodox Judaism, it must have felt like betrayal to many people who are in my life that I walked away from the religion in which I was raised. Now by converting to Orthodox Judaism, that doesn't mean that I don't think that sometimes there are valid criticisms of the behavior of certain Jews or I've exposed some bad behavior by certain rabbis, some sexually predatory behavior by rabbis.  So all sorts of people constantly feel betrayed by me for various reasons because I don't live up to their expectations of me. So I'm impressed by people who've never lost a friend, but sometimes I've had friendships, you know, severely damaged because I simply went in a different direction. So for example, when I embraced the Nathan Coffness critique of the Kevin McDonald culture of critique, there were friendships that were damaged and destroyed by that simply because it seemed to me that the evidence was pointing in this direction that seemed to me that Nathan Coffness made a stronger case than Kevin McDonald did. And then as a result, all sorts of people felt betrayed. And I may read something today that causes me to completely go back on things I've been saying for the past 40 years. I am constantly changing as my understanding of life changes as I get new information on new perspectives. I am constantly changing and I find that frequently puts a great deal of strain on my friendships or relationships or even virtual relationships such as with viewers who are often disgusted when I change my mind on something. So for example, I thought voter fraud in the United States was a pretty significant deal. And so when Donald Trump lost the, appeared to be losing the 2020 election, my immediately thought was, you know, is this voter fraud? And then I investigated the matter and I found that there's very little evidence for, there's no evidence for a substantial voter fraud in the United States. And so most of my audience felt betrayed. I would do live streams where every single person in the chat passionately, vehemently disagreed with me. I had people quite willing to like completely burn all bridges to me because I would not sign on with the false allegation that voter fraud played a major role in the 2020 election. So I realized how easy it is to get captured by your audience, right? It's intoxicating to have people appreciate you and it's intoxicating to build, you know, bonds with people all over the world, every single person in the chat at on some streams. So we're talking 10, 20, you know, maybe 30 people. So it's intoxicating to develop an audience and develop a following or to develop some income. It's so intoxicating that like any kind of good relationship, you're then heavily incentivized to sell out your integrity to maintain the relationship. So after the 2020 election, I was, I was faced with a dilemma. Did I want to put what I experienced, what I saw, what I felt is my integrity that I'd examined the evidence and it did not seem to me that voter fraud played any important role in the 2020 election. So I could sell out my integrity and what I understood to be truth to maintain a connection to my audience or I could risk most of my audience walking away and being absolutely disgusted and berating me. And so I typically choose what I see, what I experienced, what I think is my integrity. Of course, I could be completely delusional. So I have usually chosen my integrity and so a lot of relationships have then gone by the way. So there may have been things that I could have done that I could have carried my integrity more lightly. So it was less obnoxious. But like my father, I've kind of gone through my life and blown up a lot of connections and relationships and community because my understanding of reality would change. And so for I, from say, I don't know, 2014 to 2017, I was, I liked the populist right-wing approach to politics because it was anti-immigration and it put social coherence and social trust as a primary value and I believe in both of those things. So I liked right-wing populism. And then with the false allegations of voter fraud and then the hysterical reactions against COVID vaccines, it seems to me that the populist right and the right in general and conservatives in general had a really bad COVID. I don't think they were facing up to to the reality of the situation of how serious a threat this was. It seems to me, generally speaking, that most of the lockdowns were defendable and may very well have been the right call. I don't think the elites were imposing lockdowns and getting us vaccinated for some nefarious agenda. They may be wrong about this or that. But I don't agree with the right-wing populist approach to COVID lockdowns. I have discussed for the, no, I don't have discussed, I disagree with the anti-vaccine, anti-COVID vaccine positions. I think some of the rioting in protest of the lockdowns I think has been hysterical. And so with regard to COVID, I think, generally speaking, the elites have been right and the populists have been wrong. Now, with regard to immigration, I believe the populists are right and the elites are wrong. With regard to voter fraud, I believe the elites are right and the populists are wrong. So on some things, I side with the populists, on some things, I side with the elites. And I have a lifelong habit of following what I believe at the time to be true no matter the damage it then does to my relationships. So I'm in awe of people who've never lost a friend. And I'm in awe of people like Tucker Carlson who can build out this enormous audience. And I'm in awe of people who can make a living as a pundit. But I am disgusted by the nonsense that Tucker Carlson frequently spews. I'm disgusted by the things that he has to say to keep this low IQ populist audience. I think booster shots are a great idea. So Israel is now giving out the fourth shot. So the second booster. So I got my booster shot as soon as I could. So I think early October I got my booster shot. So as I expected, remember when Omicron came out, and there's a lot of discussion that Omicron may evade all the vaccines. And I said, no, I would be shocked if Omicron avoided all vaccines. But the different vaccines may have different levels of protection. And yeah, it turns out that getting the booster shot in addition to the vaccine plays a significant role in protecting against Omicron and protecting against risks of death, severe illness and hospitalization. So main issue, you know, can you observe Shabbat and Christmas? Well, obviously, as a Jew, you can't observe the religious component of Christmas. But I think we can, doesn't Omicron seem like it is the vaccine? Yes, it does seem like it could have very much a vaccine like effect. So the Omicron surge seems to be diminishing in South Africa. We have evidence from all sorts of countries now that Omicron is less serious than Delta. And so I would expect that that getting Omicron will provide significant protection against future variants of COVID.  And so what's better, natural immunity or vaccine immunity. And it seems like the consensus elite position right now is that both are good. So I have friends who caught COVID and then think they don't need the vaccine. So there are studies that show that natural immunity is better than vaccine immunity. And then there are other studies that show vaccine immunity is better than natural immunity. Seems to me one would want all the immunity one could get from variants of COVID. So both natural immunity and vaccine immunity embrace them. So to the best of my knowledge, I've never had COVID. So to the best of my knowledge, I only have vaccine immunity. But it may well be true that people who caught Omicron and survive it will then have substantial immunity against future variants of COVID. And Omicron may be the beginning of the end of the COVID threat, maybe. So COVID will continue to mutate. But it may well mutate in increasingly less dangerous directions. So we may well move from pandemic to pandemic. Now, I am in the state of Queensland, Australia right now with the Chief Health Officer says essentially that he welcomes mass infections. Is it fair to say that long term effects of the vaccines aren't really known? Well, that's an interesting question. And it's very well phrased, Elliot, that's very well phrased. So I think it's fair to say that we have no indications that the long term effects of the vaccines are going to be negative. We've been vaccinating people for hundreds of years. And sometimes some forms of vaccinations have gone terribly wrong. But the vaccines approved for use with regard to COVID in the United States have been pretty well studied. And we've been using vaccines very effectively against polio, against chicken parks, all sorts of things. So we have decades of very substantial positive health results from using vaccines. So I don't believe we have any evidence to suggest that the long term effects of the COVID vaccines approved for use in the United States will be negative. Because we have a great deal of familiarity with vaccines and how they work over time. And the vaccines approved for the use in the United States, I don't think we have a single documented case of anyone dying from them. So the AERS, people can lodge their adverse reactions to the vaccine. But that's just someone's self-report. That's not solid data. Okay, so back to the main topic. Can one observe Shabbat and Christmas? And yeah, I think you can carry your identities lightly. So let's say you're a really strong believer in the beauty of your people. And the strengths of your people and the gifts of your people to the world, that doesn't mean you have to harp on the beauties of your people in every conversation. That doesn't mean that you have to hate other people and doesn't mean that you can't celebrate with other people. I think generally speaking in life, the more we can celebrate with other people, when we can experience other people's joys, the target of previous vaccines have been stable vaccines. This is the first time that vaccines have been developed for a virus that is still actively evolving. That's false. That's absolutely false. Everything's, you know, viruses are always evolving. You don't think that the chicken parks evolves. You don't think measles mutates. You don't think polio mutates. Polio is caused by a virus. Polio mutates. But to be honest, I haven't thought much about what you just raised. So I could do, I could do some more reading on it. But yeah, I don't, I don't see any, any reason to be suspicious of the vaccines of proof of use in the United States. So there's no vaccine against chicken parks. Okay, smallpox. Thanks. All right. One of those poxers. All right. We developed vaccines against smallpox. Well, back in the 18th century, Edward Jenner, when he noticed that the milk maids would get milk pox, but they then would be essentially immunized against smallpox. So we've essentially doubled our lifespans in the past 120 years because of vaccines and because of sanitation. So it used to be prior to about 100 years ago, most people died of infectious disease. Most people died young of infectious disease. And now most people don't. There's no way to gather long-term evidence on a vaccine that is a year old. Well, there is a way, you know, as time goes by, we will, we will know more and more. So the vaccine was tested for a year, for almost a year. And now it is over two years. We've got two years of testing of vaccines. And we have no empirical reason to believe that there's anything dangerous or anything damaging about the COVID vaccines approved for use in the United States. Now, the China vaccines against COVID and the Russian vaccines against COVID don't work. So, you know, what Chinese products do you most equate with quality, right? We don't think of Chinese or Russian goods as being equated with COVID. Yes, previous vaccines were tested for five years. Okay. And so this time they were tested for one year. All right. And they were thoroughly tested and they were not rushed to the market. They went through very rigorous testing and there's no reason to, we have no empirical evidence to believe that they're dangerous.  We don't have examples of that. When we've had previous vaccines where there are negative results, they happen immediately.  We have no evidence that vaccines, you know, given in the past, only start to show negative effects, five, 10, 20, 30, 40 years down the line. So yeah, Russia does make some good military goods and China does make some, you know, good quality goods as well. It's just generally speaking, we don't associate either of those countries with high quality production. So, Shabbat versus Christmas. That's my primary topic and I'm sure there are many Christians who've gone to synagogue and found some sort of blessing for it. What about all the autism? Checkmate, no. We have no evidence that autism is caused by vaccines. We have more diagnoses of autism because medical providers are getting more skilled at and testing for autism is getting more competent. So when I google, why do we have so much more autism these days? That's the explanation that comes up. When people get more expertise, when they develop better tests, then they are able to make more accurate diagnoses. So apparently, autism is much more likely among boys than among girls. If you have one autistic child, then the odds are two percent to 18 percent that you'll have another autistic child. And apparently, autism comes from the father. It's not from the mother's genetic contribution. So I was just doing some study on autism. So yeah, Shabbat and Christmas. So it's also another opportunity to recognize that different religions have different gifts. There are all sorts of things that Christians do really well that non-Christians can learn from and admire. And there are things that Jews do really well and Judaism does really well, that non-Jews can admire. And there are probably things that Muslims do well. I can't name them right off that non-Muslims can learn from. So we can hold on to our own identity and we can hold on to our own integrity. For example, Elliot and I strongly disagree about vaccines and think we may disagree about voter fraud. And we probably strongly disagree about all sorts of things. And yet we're still friends. So the more you disagree, the more strain that does place on a friendship. But strain does not equal devastation. You can have your friendship will be slightly strained if you support different sports teams, if you have different favorite songs. So it's not easy to hold on to your integrity and hold on to the relationships that are most important to you. But it's a quest that is worthy. So I have tended to volatility in that I'm holding on to what I think is my integrity and that's cost me a lot of relationships. And then other people, they form much more on the side of they've given up what they think of as their integrity to hold on to their relationships. I think the ideal is the middle path, right? To try to do everything you can to maintain the relationships that are most important to you while simultaneously not selling out your integrity. And that's a tremendous challenge. So Elliot and I, for example, and Ricardo and I, we passionately disagree about all sorts of things. And yet Elliot and Ricardo and half Galician and Jim Bowden, these people are important to me.  I'm not going to change my positions. I'm not going to swallow my point of view. On the other hand, if we're together and we're hanging out, yeah, I may not bring up things that we disagree about so that we can just have a pleasant social time together. So life is a narrow bridge. The important thing is not to be afraid. Bye-bye.


Well this year it was Jacob Biberg handing off to Caleb Brant. Next year they're still be on the same team as the senior quarterback announced on Twitter that he too will be playing for the Beavers next year. Biberg was the starting quarterback for the Lumberjacks the past two seasons leading them to the state tournament this year. A great athlete you just saw the trick play there so I'm sure with this hard work we'll find a good spot on the team. Had a real good year for the Lumberjacks. Definitely. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


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Welcome back it's still the breakfast and plus TV Africa away from aviation and the issue of health that will be talking politics right now and specifically we're looking at you know the electoral act amendment bill would report saying that the president has returned it back to the National Assembly let me just give a beat of him of a background from some papers that we have here let me just go straight to the vanguarder the confusion in the polity was probable over the president Muhammad Buhari's reported refusal to assent the electoral act amendment bill president Buhari reportedly wrote leaders of the two chambers of the National Assembly after refusing to sign the bill into law because of the huge cost of conducting direct primaries among other reasons now spokesmen of the Senate in House of Representatives denied knowledge of president Buhari's rejection letter as a host of federal legislators contacted on the matter kept mom we have a guest there who will be joining us to look at all of the issues that are starting right now we have up on Larry Wajisuraj he is a public affairs analyst many thanks for joining us on the breakfast thank you very much thank you all right let's talk about this electoral act amendment bill I mean pressure you know pressures are just mounting everywhere specifically you know the issue of a direct or no dive or indirect primaries from what we are reading the president has reportedly refused sign in your opinion don't you think the direct primaries is what will do the nation's elections or in the you know elections really you know so much good why are there so much rejections and so much consent as regards at this issue Larry yeah go ahead we can hear you now I think we need to understand the issue of our lawmaking in Nigeria especially since with the advent of our civilian rule and when you have issues and also policies or laws that are capable of reducing the individual power of our election electoral office order political office orders you can expect this kind of and also so much big cream manipulation and the noise that you get to hear from the process of the enactment of the law if you go down the administration of criminal justice at the freedom of information and also the petroleum industry bill that became the Petroleum Industry Act you would understand how long it took for these laws and the host of others to get enacted into into law based on the interests that are affected either negatively or those that will think for the fear of the unknown needs to reject the policy formulation and that is exactly what you're experiencing with the amendment of the electoral act that basically because some of the particularly now it is shown that the governors who even under the current dispensation of our governor system in Nigeria and the civilian rule are even more powerful than the president of the National Assembly this this proposition of the direct Congress and process of electing candidates obviously is a threat to the governor's the fact that it is not going to be in the direct control of where a few people can be gathered and also the process of the primaries that we manipulated that is number one number two is the fact that we have not really been taking keen interest which is very important for us in the primaries of the political parties are forgetting that the primaries the term is the final occupant of our political offices so where we live it as a party affair where we're reduced to the fate a company of having to choose between the devil and the blue sea when the leading political parties are either coming with a mix of armed robbers cyber criminals cameras and all the rest of that and we would have no option than to choose between those options that it is about the opportunity now not only for a net to keenly scrutinize the electoral process of the parties but also for people to understand and see more how candidates of the political parties are elected doing and through the the party primary so what is clear is also the manipulation and I think it is important for political parties to also I mean sorry the media to actually be a bit more circumspect by ensuring that we don't pander to the interest of those that are variants with interest of the country the interest of the country is paramount and we have spent so much for the electoral process so now if we're going to spend additional amount to have good governance to entrench you know party influence party supremacy over individuals I think we should go to that process and see what will be the benefit for our democratic consolidation we should not be intimidated by the by the amount that that is going to be involved if I make it's already said to be in control and it's capable of conducting the election I think we should we should manage it and go ahead with it all right for for the sake that let's also look at this now don't you think that at this point in time we probably should be done with the electoral art amendment bill because if that if the president has censored it would therefore mean that it would guarantee electronic transmission of result and we know the essence of time in preparation of our elections it would require that Inek would need to put her acts together get all of the equipment and what it is necessary to make purchase and of course start the training you know immediately for some of this you know equipment and gadgets that will be needed to conduct that elections so with that don't you think at this point we should get with done with this bill no I think it is still within the realm of the possibility of Inek to meet up with the expectations you know sometimes we're always just a little bit not too keen or giving necessary attention to details Inek has been electronically transmitting results from cooling stations and even before now Inek has been transmitting accreditation electronically before now so the additional requirement of ensuring that the whole process is approved I mean they look at the state governments elections that are held in a dual and the two previous elections are well we're actually done by these process and what is but this is entirely different we're going to be looking at election for 36 states I mean we can say that with the pockets of transmission it's just in few states we're talking about 36 states at this point in time so that's a lot of work I mean there's nothing that is a lot of work there what I'm telling you is that Inek has piloted it in those states and we have seen the results we've seen the inability of the difficulty for manipulation of the result we have seen the reduction of influence of human and manual interference with the results and the process so if we have had successful piloting in those states then it means we're capable of expanding the capacity also stretching a little bit more like you said the training and whatever and the deployment to have that the problem with those in Nigeria is not usually about the law it's about our implementers it is just I can tell you if we stop making new laws today and we implement the existing laws Nigeria would be better than many of the developed countries that we we seems to envy our problem has been our not only the lawmakers alone but the mentors in the office the executives the civil servants and even the judiciary are usually the problem because they're capable of not only misinterpreting the law but also influencing the undermining of the laws so there's no fear that we need to loss but the fear is not about the viability of the process the opposition is not about the viability of the law and the process the opposition is about the people that are negatively going to be affected who are going to lose their dominance and control of the political process who are not going to be the sole determiner of those who will occupy offices in the states and that is the challenge that you have like I said many of our governments are not only responsible for a point in and because we don't even have a lecture or selecting those who become the local government chairman and councilors in their state except is where they have godfathers and those are the exception about but outside that the determine who becomes you know the local the council of the chairman at the local government level they also determine who becomes you know the state house of assembly members the determine who becomes the speaker in many instance the determine who becomes the senator from the state and also the house of reps members but there's so much power and ifness that the governors with the cause the supremacy of the parties have been totally reduced basically because the parties only also get funding and support from the governors or if the president as the case may be so the that is why they call them the leader of the party in the state because they are usually the sole sponsor of the party so they control the party mercenaries and that is where the electoral process the new electoral act that is meant to be reviewed would technically reduce and we to this power that is with by individuals in the name of being governors and that is as far as a navigational politician is concerned it is not bothered about the implication of of the position to the country or to the larger interest is looking at his own personal interest so if the electoral act would guarantee all of the principles of democratization and electoral process it will be jettison and jeopardized for that singular interest of the direct families that they are actually of Germany now opposed and I think some of them may not be far away from the propaganda that is going around all the misinformation about the president you know we're told in essence to that view because there's no official statement ever from the president of from the National Assembly to the effect of of the withdrawal of essence but it's been already there and it's been promoted unfortunately people are not allowed to look at the the benefit and the real detail of the electoral act amendment view but we've just been reduced to the direct and indirect families that is also captured in it all right I'm a lot of you let's look at them other angles to it they have been talk about you know financial or huge financial implications are out there right now but some CSOs have come out to you know counter that that basically if you're talking of direct and primaries that the bulk of it does not really rest on IE but for the political parties you know so what exactly is the true picture not the true picture of the IEG does not convene the primaries for the political parties the business of IEG in the primaries of political parties is limited to supervising electoral process and also witnessing the the primary so the the so-called huge cost is nothing for for IEG to mount and that was why IEG as also from some of you understanding replied to the president to to say that it not only does it have the capacity to monitor the process the financial burden is not going to be a problem for for the electoral body but these are just some of these things that that are going around it there's really not so much additional financial burden that IEG should be contacting with in dealing with monitoring the primaries IEG will be there anyway for most of the primaries that are conducted by the by the parties and any primary conducted by any of the political parties without the presence of IEG is to the extent of that also subject to nullification to be a copter of competent jurisdiction if challenged so it is very important for for us to understand and that that's what I was talking about understanding the details of of the bill beyond the propaganda that that is there are quite a number of people would comment on the bill will also condemn or support the bill without even saying it but basically from the sentiments that are read on the pages of newspaper and also media reports so but I could tell you that this is not a problem that that I'm actually be worried about there are some of the even those problems or issues that goes beyond the Naira and Kabul we can save you whole lot of money and not only for the states but also for the country because if you if you imagine the amount of money that is spent by the governors you know on some of these elections then then you will actually weep for this country and it is always about the election look at the we had a meeting a program last week where we presented our annual compendium on the hundred high-profile corruption cases and the lead prosecutor to EFCC and Mr. Roti Mijekov came around to also tell to report that and not only that is done about the cases of former governors and of these 20 governors the main issue has been about the security votes and this security votes from almost the least of the country the states with the least federal location goes from about 250 million Naira on a monthly basis to 2.5 billion for those with higher federal allocation on monthly basis and security votes seek on monthly basis and when it comes to the election time these would almost go like ten times to the governors because this is what is used not only for the general election but also to buy delegates and the rest of them for the party primaries and we've heard how this was also done at least if not for now that we're yet to know about what the current ruling party is doing we heard what was done when it was about the primaries for the PDP when monies were moved from Maida Central Bank or NNPC to pay delegates and we've seen that also going to go so we need to start working around the incentivizing the process of you know electoral officers or politically exposed persons buying the conscience of delegates and compromising the electoral process to the dismantling of finances okay so let's talk about you know other benefits of having the electoral act amendment view I mean apart from the fact that it would guarantee or give us the right to transmit our result electronically what are the benefits do we have yeah I mean it's an improvement on what has what has been our whole electoral law and that is why some of the civil society also engaged with the process to ensure that we we have like I said not necessarily what the parliamentaries and the politicians would expect to continue understanding and manipulating the existing law is to ensure that we make the law to be dynamic and respond to the issues that are emerging the moment that you see our politicians not only understanding the existing law but manipulating it so for the the system for the citizens we must learn how to deal with the situation so as much as the the birds are also learning to fly without passion we must also learn how to shoot without missing so that is why you could see the response that you're getting from the governor so you know we must be able to go ahead and see how much we want to deal with the situation one of the other thing is the increase in the limited budget that is expected of the political office holders in bidding for or contesting for offices the visa has been increased unfortunately for us what we needed was the enforcement of what was there before because there's been no compliance and the increase in that now if not enforced again we'll only just allow for increased monetization of the electoral process we would have love to see INEC unfortunately INEC is extremely overwhelmed and making it seriously difficult for it to monitor the political financing of the electoral process and ensure that candidates are kept within the ambit of the provided you know peg Larry thank you so much you're gonna say something very quickly we're running off now yes and I think the other one is the the the electoral offenders commission that we hope that would have the capacity to deal with the prosecution of electoral offenses the cases are almost just compromised at the normal court or a delay so we need the electoral offences commission that is going to be capable of dealing with all the offenses that are associated with the electoral process so it is not just enough that people would lose election at the electoral tribunal and then they just get away I mean some people will spend three hours three years in office after manipulating the electoral process and the election would only just be overturned by the court and they still enjoy the loot of the three years that they have access you know public for but we need that electoral offenders commission all right to secure all those that have found to have violated the law thank you very much right thank you so much indeed we need to really take a casual look at the electoral act amendment bill because the benefits you know far outweigh you know the merit we must have very big thank you to a larry or larry watches sirat he is a public affairs analyst and thank you so much for all of your input today we do appreciate them 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Hello and welcome. This is Agnirka from AGT Masterclass and today with me I've got my dear friend and colleague, Dr. Christian Nikoli. There's one thing I wanted to ask you about local and international companies. So is it better to be a supplier for a local company, for like a company that operates only on one market, your national market or whatever market? Or is it better to work for international big streaming giants or the companies that they work for? Again, this seems to depend on the country. So I think the best thing you can have is to work for directly for a broadcaster in a country where this broadcaster would recognize that you are an important part of the story of the creation of a translation. So I think that's the case of Norway and working for the public broadcaster. But in some cases it's better to work for international clients if their end clients pay well. But again, if you work for an LSB and even if their end client pays well and the LSB takes, I don't know, 70% of the fee, then of course this is not a good situation. But in general, it seems that it is better to work for international clients and I would stress not just international clients but the number of clients that you have. So it's important to have contracts with more than one LSB if you work. For instance, if the end clients are streamers.


Item number SCP-1003 Object Class Keter Special Containment Procedures The Foundation currently has 10 instances of SCP-1003-2 designated SCP-1003-2-A-K in its possession, all of which are held in separate heavily guarded high-security cells at Bio-Research Area 13. All personnel at Bio-Research Area 13 are to undergo regular compulsory testing for signs of SCP-1003 infection. Personnel wishing to access SCP-1003-2-A-K may only do so for the express purpose of research, must have level 4 security clearance, and must have written permission from O5-… before hand. They are to wear biohazard suits for entering SCP-1003-2-A-K cells and go through an intensive disinfection process afterwards. No animals of the order Carnivora are to be allowed at Bio-Research Area 13 under any circumstances. Description, SCP-1003-1 is an adult tapeworm of the species Iconocosis graniosis, known for causing hydratid disease. Like others of its species, SCP-1003-1 inhabits the small intestines of carnivores, typically canids, where it produces eggs that are passed in the host feces. The eggs can survive up to ██ years in the outside environment. When the eggs enter the gastrointestinal tract of a human being, thereby designated the intermediate host via consumption of contaminated food, they hatch into larvae, which burrow into the host's tissues. It is at this stage that SCP-1003's anomalous properties begin to manifest. Instead of developing an assist, the larvae develop into creatures which resemble human embryos, thereby designated SCP-1003-2. The vast majority of SCP-1003-2 specimens die before they have a chance to develop. Those that survive are usually those that are embedded in nutrient-rich tissue, such as hepatic tissue. As they develop, they absorb nutrients from the surrounding tissue, which often causes problems for the intermediate host. SCP-1003-2's development mostly follows the pattern of normal human prenatal development, but at a faster rate. By eight weeks, it is as mature as a three-week-old neonate, although it is similar in size to an eight-week-old embryo, approximately 13 to 16 cm. Once it has reached this stage, it will actively consume the intermediate host from within using sharp-hooked teeth. SCP-1003-2 grows to the accelerated to an even greater extent as it is doing this. By the time it has fully consumed the intermediate host, usually after ████████ minutes or so, it will have developed into a child. The physical age of the child typically ranges from 10 months to 11 years, depending on the mass of the intermediate host, though in extreme cases where the intermediate host is morbidly obese, it can be as high as 13 to 15 years. Once SCP-1003-2 is finished, it will lose its hooked teeth along with its cannibalistic tendencies. From where on it will be functionally indistinguishable from a human in every aspect, with no knowledge or memory of having been a parasite. It will even possess learned skills, such as language, that would be expected of a child of its apparent age, despite there being no way it could have learned them. Instances of SCP-1003-2 are usually taken into orphanages and sometimes adopted by foster parents. Their only anomalous properties at this stage are that their DNA is somehow still identical to that if it kind of causes graniosis, and that their body fluids, including sweat and saliva, contain taint-worn protoskeletics, which infect carnivores and develop in the SCP-1003-1, thus continuing to cycle. Addendum Testing of SCP-1003 with animals such as cattle and sheep, which are common intermediate host of echinocosis graniosis, have found that its anomalous properties only manifest in humans, and in all other cases its life cycle is normal and causes high data disease in the intermediate host.


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What is up everybody? Jayzian for jaspyscasebreaks.com 2024, Tops Chrome Black Baseball just sold out. This is a 12 box case break. Pick your team number seven guys. And here we go. So here's everybody else that bought in straight up. We have nine teams that sold via a R&B serial number. So as you can see, that's where our presents there. But everybody else did buy in straight up. So thank you guys for getting that. And then here are the customers that got into the serial number break. There's the nine teams, a part of it. There's the names. So there you go guys. And someone wrote this on here. I don't know who it was, but it says PS. There's gonna be some big hits for the R&B teams. Okay. Maybe this guy's a wizard, I don't know. So I'm gonna do exactly what I've been doing for all the other ones guys.  I don't know if I'll be able to fit him in the 12 boxes. One sec guys. Should have done this earlier, but I totally forgot. Here we go. Our Nick Lofton for the Royal. Luciano for the Giants. So obviously there is a base for the Royals guys. We're most likely gonna put all the base in one lot. But depending of course on how many actual hits we get. Autographs and stuff like that. We'll see if we put it all together or not. Trial for the Angels. Andy Rodriguez for the Pirates. And then Luis Castillo for the Mariners. That's part of the R&B. So that's gonna go to the serial number 82 out of 150. So spot two is Christopher. That goes to you buddy. Tuve. Heston Kirstad. And then Apitolonzo for the Mets. Which is also part of the R&B. 72 out of 99. Another one for spot two. Going to Christopher. We got Braves. Darius Vines. Darvish for the Padres. And Josh Young for the Rangers going out of Kelly. Number to 150. Mookie for the Dodgers. Tyler Soto for the Athletics. Going to Johan. To 75. And then a Francisco Alvarez for the Mets. That is 21 out of 199. Spot one is gonna go to Eugene. Alright so so far we got a couple of number hits for the R&B. Alright Byron Buxton for the Minnesota Twins. Judge and then Luis Castillo. Mariners R&B. 170. Out of 199. So that's gonna go to spot zero and Brayden. So this hits gonna be yours buddy. Tautis. That's base is gonna be the base on our R&B. Julio. And then we got Corinne Pryster for the Pirates. It's going to Eric to 50. Diaz. Couser. And a Corbin Carroll. That is 38. 38 out of 150. Spot eight is also Brayden. So this is also going to you buddy. Alright a few more packs here guys. Pryster. Nice Colton Couser. That's the image variation rookie. More rookie variation I should say. Oreo's going to EA. And then Josh Young to 99 for the Rangers. Devers. Royals. And how about a little Shohei Ohtani. 69 out of 75. Nice. Dodger's going to AA Ron. Anything shows. Pretty nice. Riley Greene. Curtis Mead for the Rays. And Johan Rojas for the Phillies. Part of the R&B. That's 16 out of 99. Spot six is Eugene. Our last pack here guys. And then we'll go with the autographs. Derek Cole and Tyler Soderstrom. Nice out of 15. Athletics going to Johan. Five out of 15. Alright, there you go. So these are all the non numbered base cards. Like I said, we'll put them all in one lot. And then of course these are the hits that are going straight up to the numbered teams. Numbered out of customers here. So actually quite a few. Let's see if we can get you some autographs now though. Here we go guys. First one. First one is a Gray Kissinger. For the Houston Astros going to Ed. Greene. For the Mets. How about David Wright. Sixth or 85 out of 99. Five. Spot five is one of Stephen Kendrick. And the R&B. There you go. He actually comes and shops in our shop guys. He buys a lot of golf. And we got Kyron Parris for the Angels. Part of the R&B. So this is a perfect example. Not numbered as you can see. So everybody would get a shot at this in the R&B. Rookie Greene. And Jared Treolo to 99. For the Pirates. What's going to Eric? Gold. How about a Vladimir Guerrero to 50. Gold for the Montreal Expos. Going to the Washington Nationals Logan. Nick Lofton for the Kansas City Royals. Another R&B team. Not numbered. So we'll give that to the R&B. Rockies, Coco Montes. Wesley with the Rockies. And Wade Mechler for the Giants. Going to a Wyland to 150. A few more hits here guys. Good luck. Lawrence Butler to 150. For the Open As, Johan. Alright we got a Gold Rookie. Colton Kouser. Gold Mini Diamonds 40 out of 50. Orioles, EA. Very nice hit right there man. Two more hits to go. Jose Fremine. One of the Cardinals, Jeff Walker. And last autograph here guys. Looks like it's going to be a base. Lawrence Butler again. Little repeat there for the Athletics. Alrighty, well big hit for sure was definitely that Colton Kouser. But some really nice color here. That Vladdy Gold's pretty nice. We had that David Wright as well. So there you go guys, appreciate it. I know not everybody hit something but they just took you into the shot. Now again, if you did buy a full spot you'll have a chance to win that case. I'll put you guys' name on the list right now. But quickly I'm just going to go over the R&B. So obviously these cards were all numbered for the R&B teams, which will go out to their owners, right? You guys know that? Don numbered base. Right, that's what we're going to do. We'll just go buy this one. So we'll go over here first. So Kyron was the first one pulled. Whoever comes in at number one in the Randomizer is going to get Kyron Paris. Whoever comes in at number two is going to get Nick Lofton. And whoever comes in at third is going to get the base cards as a consolation. So, there you go. Three different winners potentially. So let's switch scenes. We get a new dice roll, get a new list. And we're only going to copy the customer names here in the R&B. And let's randomize them, roll it. Five out of two, seven times. One, two, three, four, five, six, and seven. Boom, seven. Christopher, your free spot's going to get you the Kyron Paris. Eugene, you're going to get the Nick Lofton as a little consolation. Braden, you're going to get the not numbered base. So I'll print this little list out here for the shipping and sorting team so they know what that goes to. And again, something, a little something extra for some people. So yeah, guys, appreciate it. Like I was telling people before too, guys, before we go off air, we do have a discount for the TopScrone Black teams, guys. That's only tonight, tonight only. So I can't guarantee that's going to be there tomorrow. So even if this break's not going to happen tonight, I would just go buy some teams tonight because regardless, you'll save some money tonight because it might not be there tomorrow, guys. Three more cases left until we sell out the TopScrone case giveaway. And like I said, I'm going to go back over here. I'm going to paste in the list of names as well. Put you guys in the promo. And here's the full list for number seven. The only thing we're going to do here differently, guys, is going to be, we're going to take out the customers, the R&B names. So we're going to delete this one right here. I just don't want to delete that yet. Hold on. We're going to delete this. We're going to delete these two. Delete this. Delete this. Delete that. Delete that. Delete that. And delete that. So there you go. That's the full list right there. And that should be 21 names. Perfect. Now we're going to paste in here for number eight, guys, whenever it does sell. Three more cases left. Thank you, guys.