Adam does movies, it's Tuesday, we're back at it. And we have some news, the Golden Globes, they're coming soon, the nominees have been cast. The die has been cast, as they say, in the 1800s or something. I don't know, I wasn't born then, I'm born now. And we're gonna be talking about all the nominees. We're gonna go at it, painstakingly, at Nazium. No, not really, I'll graze over them. I wanna give you my thoughts on them. And maybe I've seen some of these movies this year. It often seems like whenever the Academy Awards come up or the Golden Globes, I don't know what half these films are and there's a part of me, the conspiracy theorists, that's like, they're just using these as a way to sell more copies. But DVDs aren't really a thing anymore. So you can't really sell this stuff, I guess, on Amazon Prime or whatnot. Before I dive into it, I wanna first thank everyone for joining me and then we're gonna get to some housekeeping. 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This just in, the pool is almost completed. The neighbor's got his pool in, it looks great. The fence is up and today they laid dead sod down next to my other dead grass.  Right on the edge of mediocrity. Yeah, so I think we're kind of over the tough stuff, the rough seas and I can put my patio furniture in the backyard again, in the porch, the screen off porch and just taking the day, taking the cigar smoke from the other neighbor but that's okay. He's closer and closer every smoke to death and at some point I'm not gonna smell anything back there and I'm gonna know. I'm gonna know that Father Time cut up with him. Lastly, before we jump into this, super chats are always appreciated. You can see a little ticker at the bottom just kind of rolls along. It says become a member here, super chat your favorite movie of 2023. You can throw it anything though in the super chat and you say, hey, Adam, how's it going? Here's $2, keep doing what you're doing. It's the livelihood of the channel at this point. These super chats, these live streams, they've been doing great. Means a lot when I see the support coming in. So let's get going with that all out of the way. Let's share the screen. Share this tab. What we're looking at is a list cobbled together by Empire and we're gonna scroll down to the bottom because we're gonna start at kind of like the least interesting ones and work our way to the top. That's what everybody does in this world. That's what we're gonna do. The first thing we have here is best performance in stand-up comedy on television. Ricky Gervais from the Armageddon tour. Trevor Noah, really? So I know Trevor Noah, I don't think he's ever been funny once that I've seen him. Probably a very likable good guy. He's the host of The Daily Show, talented. I just, I don't get his humor. I don't find it funny. Chris Rock, however, absolutely hilarious. I haven't seen selective outrage. I've only seen Armageddon by Ricky Gervais. That was very funny. Amy Schumer, emergency contact, haven't seen that. I assume she talks about her vagina a lot and sleeping with men. Sarah Silverman, very funny woman. I have not seen her stand up someone you love. I haven't seen any of these except for Ricky's. Wanda Sykes is the last one on here.  I know the Oscars and the Academy Awards are the same thing, just to add a little confusion for everybody because the Oscar kind of looks like a Golden Globe of sorts.  So it's all just very convoluted. Essentially all of these are nothing more than employee of the months, employee of the years, giving each other a pat on the back. And that's okay. Sometimes people need that, especially the artsy types. We need to feel that love and that admiration. My prediction, my prediction is for Ricky because I love Ricky Gervais and so that's what I'm basing it off, complete bias. What do we have here? Big Kahuna, shot out of a cannon for $2, super chat this melon farmer. He put Farner, but I think he met farmer. Thank you, Big Kahuna. Let's continue. Next up, we have best performance by a male actor in a supporting role on television. I should preface this a little late, but I'm gonna preface now. I will butcher names.  I am sick of apologizing for it, okay?  I bring this up because Studio Ghibli or Studio Ghibli is a thing that gets debated. I'm sure there's a proper way, but when I Googled it before doing my review for The Boy and the Heron, Google translate.  I'm sorry, I botched that. It's a Studio Ghibli. And then I looked further in and it's like, well, in Japanese culture, there is no word for Ghib. It's actually Ghib and then America translates it to Ghib and it's just all very convoluted. Bottom line is you understand what I'm saying. You understand kind of where I'm going with the pronunciation. So let's not be assholes about it. We're all just trying to live together, okay? If I'm corrected, I will understand and respect the correction, but let's not make a meal out of it. All right, so that being said, here's the best performance by a male actor in a supporting role on television. Billy Crudup, The Morning Show. Matthew McFadden, Succession. James Marsden, Jury Duty. Ebon Moss, Bach Rock, The Bear. Bach Rock, The Bear. Alan Rock, Succession. Alexander Skarsgard, Succession. We have three successions for the price of fun. I loved Succession, thought it was a fantastic show. I wasn't huge on Alexander in it. Alan Rock's fine. He's a very, very, very heavy supporting actor. He's not in the limelight much. I'm gonna go with Matthew McFadden as Tom, who would become a much bigger player in the later seasons. He's freaking terrific in this. I've not seen The Morning Show. I heard it's great. I did try to watch Jury Duty. I don't get the fuss. I didn't think it was that funny of a show. And I like James Marsden. I just don't think Marsden's that funny of a guy. Cyclops, he has his place. I've seen him cameo in other comedies like 30 Rock and he was in Modern Family. And he was just perfectly fine in both. Okay, so mine is gonna be for Matthew McFadden. If anybody wants to take notes, we can certainly readdress this at another time after the awards are done. Why don't I mark them down? We're gonna go with, no, I'm not gonna do that. Someone else can do that and they can shoot it to me or something. James D for $2. Thank you, James says, enjoy the screaming kids that come with the pool. Yeah, I know. I know, James. It's an uphill battle. Every day is an uphill battle. Every day I'm shuffling. I think LMFAO said it best. Every day I'm shuffling. Best performance by a female actor in a supporting role on television. We are very specific. Elizabeth DeBecky, The Crown, Abby Elliott, The Bear. I don't even know what the bear is. Christina Ricci, Yellow Jackets. My wife and I watched two episodes of Yellow Jackets, didn't find it that appealing and we bounced. Maybe it gets great. I'm open for suggestions to go back to it but it didn't hit me and we spent some time with it. These aren't short episodes. Jay Smith Cameron, Succession. Meryl Streep, Only Murders in the Building. Hannah Waddingham, Ted Lasso. Heard Ted Lasso's hilarious until the later seasons fall apart. Listen, it's kind of a fair rule of thumb that if Streep is on the board, Streep takes the cake. I'm putting Streep as the winner because it's Streep. Who is Jay Smith Cameron? I wanna know who this person is. Oh, I like her. Okay, I like her. She's the boss's assist. I don't even know what her role is. She's one of the board members. Often pulling some strings in the background, trying to be a good player and she gets very far along in Succession. She is great. I love Christina Ricci but again, Streep's on the board. Streep's gotta eat, okay? Let Streep cook, give her the win. Give her the W. Best performance by a male actor in a limited series anthology series or a motion picture made for television. Dear God. Matt Bommer, fellow travelers. Sam Claiflin, Daisy Jones in the six. John Hamm, Fargo. Woody Harrelson, White House Plumbers. David Oilev, oh God. David Oilovo, sorry. Lawman Bass Reeves. Where does the name end and the title start? Lawman Bass Reeves. That's the title? Lawman colon Bass Reeves. Okay, Steven Yin, Beef. I know exactly one of these shows which is Fargo. I watched the first few seasons of the Fargo TV series. It's one of those shows where every season is a new cast. I dug the first couple seasons of Fargo. It fell off for me. I think I'm the Chris Rock season. If that's even the right show. There's two shows that I get confused. Fargo and True Detective. Chris Rock might be True Detective now that I think about it. I haven't watched the John Hamm one, but it's the only show I know. So I'm gonna say John Hamm. And I like John Hamm. I like John Hamm. Best performance by a female actor in a limited series anthology series or a motion picture made for television. We have Riley Q. Daisy Jones in the six. What are you a show? Brie Larson. Lessons in chemistry. Elizabeth Olson. Love and death. Juno Temple. Fargo. Rachel Weiss. Dead Ringers. Allie Wong. Beef. Now I do know what beef is now that Allie Wong's shown up. I love Rachel Weiss. Haven't seen her in a long time. Juno Temple is solid. Elizabeth Olson's a treasure. She's not gonna win anything. Brie Larson is already a dolly in the Academy Awards. She has an Academy Award already. I don't know if she has a Golden Globe Award. I don't know what love and death is, but based on the fact that she's already won, I don't think Allie Wong is gonna win anything. I'm going off popularity of shows too. I don't even know what Lessons in Chemistry is. I'm gonna throw a Hail Mary. And I'm gonna say Allie Wong for beef. I'm just throwing it out. I don't feel good about it, but I'm throwing it out there as my pick. And I'm standing by it 100%. Best performance by a male actor in a television series, musical or comedy. Bill Hader for Barry. Steve Martin, Only Murders in the Building. Jason Siegel, Shrinking. Martin Short, Only Murders in the Building. Jason Sudeckis, Ted Lasso. Jeremy Allen White, The Bear. I'm gonna throw a Ted Lasso, Jason Sudeckis. Jason's gonna take this one. Love Steve Martin, Love Martin Short. I never really cared for Only Murders in the Building. I tried the first season. It did not do anything for me. And it even has my little pop princess, Selena Gomez. Selena Gomez, not doing it. Ted's gonna take it, Ted Lasso. Best performance by a female actor in a television series, musical or comedy. Rachel Brossahan, wait, Brosnahan? That's not Brosnan, is it? She's not related to the other guy. Who's the other, Pierce Brosnan? I don't think that's how you spell his name. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary. Oh my God. Ayo-Ed-Deb, Ayo-Ed-Deb, Ed DeBiri? Ayo-Ed DeBiri. The Bear. Elle Fanning, The Great. Selena Gomez, Only Murders in the Building. Natasha Leon, Poker Face.  I'm going Elle Fanning. I freaking love The Great. The last season, little sketch, but I freaking love that show. You should watch The Great if you haven't. Elle Fanning's terrific in this. I never thought much of Elle in the past. Sometimes they say Elle, sometimes they say Elle. I'm not, I think it's Elle. She really impressed me with The Great. She was great. If I could be frank with you, you can be Jim. Best performance by a male actor in a television series, drama. Brian Cox, Succession. Kieran Culkin, Succession. Gary Oldman, Slow Horses. Pedro Pascal, The Last of Us. Jeremy Strong, Succession. Dominic West, The Crown. Okay, is this for the last season of Succession? Cause Brian Cox is barely in it. I'm going to go Kieran. I think this is the winter of Calkins, you know? Macaulay just had a Mac, I should say Mac Culkin just put a star on the Hollywood walk of whatever. He's got a star there now. This is the year of the Culkin brothers. Let's put Kieran on the map again for Succession. He may have won already in the past, but we're going to give him another nod here. All right, take a drink of soda here. Best performance by a female actor in a television series, drama. Helen Mirren, 1923. Bella Ramsey, The Last of Us. That's so, Bella Ramsey. What? Okay, so Bella Ramsey was in Game of Thrones and there's bad guys. There's a Ramsey in Game of Thrones, isn't there? I'm so throwing off right now. Ramsey Game of Thrones. Am I losing my mind? Yeah, Ramsey Bolton. Wow, that's a funny coincidence that there's a Bella Ramsey and Ramsey Bolton they were both in Game of Thrones. The Last of Us. Kerry Russell, The Diplomat. Sarah Snook, Succession. Imelda Stanton, The Crown. Emma Stone, The Curse. Hmm. I'm going to go with Sarah Snook, that's the main sister, right? Yeah, I'm going Sarah Snook. She was really good in Succession. Again, I haven't seen any of the, I did watch The Last of Us. Bella Ramsey was fantastic. But I'm going to go with Snook. Best television limited series, anthology series or motion picture made for television. All the light we cannot see. Beef, it's what's for dinner. Daisy Jones in the six. Fargo, fellow travelers, lessons in chemistry. I don't know any of these shows. I don't watch a lot of these TV series. Let's go with Beef just because it sounds so freaking raw and cool. Best television series, musical or comedy. Habit elementary, Barry, the bear, jury duty. Only murders in the building, Ted Lasso. Jury duty's not that good. Barry, I heard kind of struggled in the last season. Only murders in the building was not great. Maybe the new season was solid. I don't know. I'm going to go Ted Lasso just because it seems like such a safe pick. Best television series, drama, 1923. The Crown, The Diplomat, The Last of Us. The Morning Show, succession. My pick is easy succession. Listen, it's typically a very good sign when other categories have multiple actors from said show. Typically that means that movie or that show is a fan favorite and they're eyeing it for a big win. So I'm going to give the W to succession. The Last of Us was good too, but I didn't think it was near as good as succession. There's Brian Cox looking pissed in the photo. Best original score, motion picture. Are we finally getting into freaking movies here? All right, we have Jirskine Fendrix for poor things. Ludwig Goranson, Oppenheimer. Joe Hisashi, The Boy and the Heron. Mika Levy, The Zone of Interest. Daniel Pemberton, Spider-Man, Across the Spiderverse and Robbie Robertson, Killers of the Flower Moon. All right, we're finally in movies now, guys. Probably could have started here. This is a movie channel, but you get a little extra bonus from me today. I'm going to go, God, that's crazy that Ludwig did Oppenheimer. I would have just, I would have imagined it was Christopher Nolan's go-to, Hans Zimmer. I mean, I thought the Oppenheimer score was brilliant. If I could throw that word out there. Spider-Man Across the Spiderverse had some really killer sound. I don't remember Killers of the Flower Moon. Oh yeah, that's right. It did have, I thought Killers of the Flower Moon had some pretty weird musical choices, to be honest. Some of it felt a little out of place. I'm going to go Ludwig for Oppenheimer. And I think Oppenheimer's going to take a lot of Ws today. I think Killers of the Flower Moon is going to take a lot of wins too. Best original song, Motion Picture, Addicted to Romance, She Came to Me by Bruce Springsteen. Dance the Night, Barbie Music by, you know, we got Dua Lipa, that's all I'm going to credit Dua Lipa.  I'm Just Ken by Mark Ronson and Andrew White. Peaches, oh God, the Super Mario movie. Jack Black on the vocals there. Road to Freedom, Rustin, Music and Lyrics by Lenny Kravitz. What was I made for? Barbie, Music and Lyrics by Billy Eilish. Duh, doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo. I'm going to go with, oh God. I'm just, there's so many like silly ones on here, between I'm Just Ken, Peaches, and Even Dance the Night is just a fun, poppy song by Dua. I'm going Peaches. Peaches kind of was the Frozen of 2023. It took TikTok and YouTube by storm. Social media was a buzz with it. Jack Black being Jack Black, knocking it out of the park. I'm going Peaches. Peaches, Peaches, Peaches, Peaches, Peaches, Peaches. Best screenplay. Greta Gerwig and Noah Bombach, Bombach, Barbie. Tony McNamara, Poor Things. Do I need to read the names? I mean, you can probably just say the screen, but whatever, Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer, Eric Roth, Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon, Celine Song, Past Lives. I was going to say Celine Dion, but that would be weird. She's writing movies, screenplays now. Justin Trite, Arthur Harari, Anatomy of a Fall. This is a tough one. You can throw Barbie out. That's not going to be best screenplay. I'm going to go, I'm going to go Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan. I'm going to go Oppenheimer. Best director of a motion picture, Bradley Cooper, Maestro. I don't even know what Maestro is. This is the one. This is that movie that comes out of nowhere. Although I guess they haven't really heard of Poor Things either. So we have Bradley Cooper, Maestro, Greta Gerwig, Barbie, Yorgos, Lentimos, Poor Things. I'm sure they completely butchered that name. Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer, Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon, and Celine Song, or as she's formerly known as Celine Dion, Past Lives. Best director, I'm going to say Christopher, no. Oh, this is so tough. God, is there a super chat that can help me? No, there's nothing, no super chats. Best director, frickin' A. Screenplay, I'm given to Nolan. Best picture and best director, typically hand in hand. I'm going between Nolan and Scorsese. I'm going Nolan. I think Scorsese's had enough wins in his life. We're going Oppenheimer, best director.  You know what? I'm throwing it back. I'm saying Martin Scorsese is taking best director based on age, based on experience, based on he probably doesn't have a lot of these left in the tank. I'm going Martin Scorsese for best director. Best performance by a female actor in a supporting role in any motion picture. Emily Blunt, Oppenheimer. No, Emily Blunt was not good in Oppenheimer. She was a little out of place, I felt, in Oppenheimer. Daniel Brooks, The Color Purple. Movies not even out yet. Jody Foster, Niaid. I don't know what that is. Julianne Moore, May, which also I don't think he was even out yet. Rosemond Pike, Saltburn. I heard this movie was great. I did not see it. Devin Davin Joy Randolph. Divine, oh it's divine, Divine Joy Randolph. I got there, The Holdovers. I also heard The Holdovers was really, really good. I didn't have an opportunity to see it. I'm bummed out. I did want to see that one. Best performance by a female actor in a supporting role. You know, I just, I got to give it to my girl Jody Foster. I love Jody Foster. I celebrate her entire catalog that I've seen. I'm going faster. Best performance by a male actor in a supporting role in any motion picture. Willem Dafoe, Poor Things. Robert De Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon. Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer. Ryan Gosling, Barbie. Charles Melton, May, December. Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things. Okay, oh Poor Things. That's the one with them. Yeah, no, no, no, that's the one with Emma Stone. That's the one with Emma Stone. That looked really funny. Is that even out yet? Hang on. This won't be even out yet. That these movies aren't even out.  Coming soon. Let's see. I'm looking at my Regal app right now just to see if it's out. I guess The Holdovers is still playing. I could try to dip out and see that at some point. There's the color purple not out yet.  I don't even see Poor Things on here. I don't know what's going on. This app, by the way, is garbage.  Let's keep going. Let's move past it. I'm gonna go with, I liked Downey Jr. and I liked Robert De Niro and I like both Roberts. I really like both Roberts. I'm gonna give it to De Niro. For Killers of the Flower Moon. Best performance by a male actor in a motion picture, musical or comedy, Nicholas Cage, dream scenario. Timothy Chalamet, Wonka, also not out yet. Matt Damon, heir. Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers. Joaquin Phoenix, Bo is afraid. Jeffrey Wright, American fiction. Jeffrey Wright was really great in American fiction. A lot of these movies are not, no, they're all Bo. Joaquin was really good and Bo was afraid. Matt Damon's always good. He's always just kind of Matt Damon. God, I don't get the Timothy Chalamet appeal at all right now. I just, I haven't seen anything. I'm like, wow, Timothy Chalamet is great. Paul Giamatti is kind of a shoe-in for these types of awards. Um, God, do I give it to Jeffrey Wright? It doesn't seem popular enough. The Holdovers is getting a lot of buzz. I'm going Paul Giamatti. I'm going Paul Giamatti. I'm going sideways, they're sideways-ing this. Best performance by a female actor in a motion picture, musical or comedy. Fantasia Burino, The Color Purple. Jennifer Lawrence, No Hard Feelings. Natalie Portman, May December. Alma Poisty, Fallen Leaves. Margot Robbie, Barbie. Emma Stone, Poor Things. I'm going Emma Stone. I haven't seen the movie, but Emma Stone is always so reliably fantastic. I just can't imagine her sucking at it and I think that she's going to, I mean, I saw the trailer for Poor Things and I was incredibly impressed by what she was putting out. She's just really good. And that's not taken away from these others. Margot Robbie, I mean, looks like Barbie for Christ's Sakes. She was kind of born to play the role and she was perfect. Jennifer Lawrence is actually really funny. I've always thought that and I'm so happy that she's getting a comedy. Hopefully she does more of them because she's genuinely a funny person. But yeah, let's go on to Emma. Best performance by a female actor in a motion picture drama, Annette Benning. Niaid, I don't even know if I'm saying that name, right? It keeps coming up. Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon. Sandra Hewler, Anatomy of a Fall. Greta Lee, Past Lives. Carrie Mulligan, Maestro. And Kaley Spaney, Priscilla.  That's going to be the, this is going to be the movie of the year that everybody's like, oh, we got to watch Maestro. I'm giving it to Lily Gladstone just because this seems like the type of thing that would probably go to her even though her actresses like, the actresses like sick and dying and 90% of the film. I haven't seen the other movies and she is solid in it. I wouldn't say it's an amazing performance, but I don't think there's an amazing performance that could have really been pulled from the character. It's a very quiet, subdued character, but that might be enough. Okay, we have best performance by a male actor in a motion picture drama. Bradley Cooper, Maestro. Leonardo DiCaprio, Killers of the Flower Moon. Coleman Domingo, Rustin. Barry Keegan, Saltburn. Killian Murphy, Oppenheimer. Andrew Scott, all of us strangers. I like Andrew Scott, I've seen him in a while. I'm going Killian Murphy, Oppenheimer. I mean, he's going to steal it from DiCaprio. He's going to take it. DiCaprio already won his Revenant award, he's good. Best motion picture, non-English language. Anatomy of a Fall, France. Fallen Leaves, Finland. I don't know what that is. Io Capitano, Italy. Past Lives, United States. Society of the Snow, Spain. The Zone of Interest, United Kingdom, USA. Don't know any of these movies. I saw Past Lives come up a few times and Anatomy of a Fall, which makes me think it's going to be one of those two. I'm going to go with Anatomy of a Fall because it's French and that sounds fancy. Here we go, Cinematic and Box Office Achievement. As we know, all movies really are based on the amount of money they make. That's really the performance of how good a movie is. I've been told online that if a movie makes a lot of money, that means it's a great film. That's really all that matters. Barbie, Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3. John Wick, Chapter 4. Mission Impossible, Dead Reckoning, Part 1. Oppenheimer, Spider-Man, Across the Spider-Verse. The Super Mario Bros. Movie. Taylor Swift, The Eris Tour. Okay, first off, Taylor Swift, The Eris Tour should not even be in this. It should be disqualified and that's from someone that celebrates Taylor Swift. It's not marketed as a movie. It was marketed as a concert experience.  It's a concert. No, you're disqualified. Get out of there, Taylor. Cinematic and Box Office Achievement. What does this even mean? Is this the movie that made the most money because that's easy to look up or is this the best movie that also made the most money? This is such a weird category. Popularity Contest. I don't, like, I guess Barbie is gonna be the winner on this one. I think it's, I don't know if this is a vote thing like a popularity contest or if it's like legitimately what was the best movie. If it's, what's the best movie? It's Oppenheimer. If it's a popularity thing, it's Barbie. Best Motion Picture Animated. I'm gonna say Barbie, by the way, for that one because I think it's a popularity contest. Oh, wait, Sniped From The Crow's Nest. We have Tanner C for $5. Thank you, Tanner. Adam, have you ever seen the recent Planet of the Apes trilogy? If so, are you excited for the fourth one? I love those movies and can't wait for number four. Tanner, I appreciate the super chat and your baby Bowser slash Bowser Jr. icon. I am a little disheartened that you didn't watch my last live stream when I talked about the Planet of the Apes a little bit because that new film is coming out. And I'm pretty sure I shared my thoughts on that past trilogy, the new version, and I love it. I love the first two specifically. I am very let down by war of the Planet of the Apes because there's no said war. It's misdirection. And people will say, no, the war's going on psychologically. Well, we already had the war go on psychologically and dawn of the Planet of the Apes. We don't need that again. It felt like a retread. That being said, the trilogy as a whole is still very, very well done. I feel like these are sleeper hits all the time. They do very well. And then people just kind of move on and now they're making more and I'm excited. So yes, Tanner, I'm very excited for this new installment and potentially another new trilogy. Thank you for the super chat. Okay, let's keep going. Best motion picture animated and I should state, guys, we are going to be winding down here soon. So if you have a super chat, if you have a movie question, if you have a personal question, really anything at all, fire it in now and I will go over them at the end of this list. Get them in now. We're pretty low.  I'll read what's there. And then I'm going on to Twitch at twitch.tv slash Adam does movies and we're going to do the route, Rudolph the red nose reindeer movie roast. I'm going to be prepping notes. We'll be watching the movie together and we're going to have a good time and you can chime in with any jokes that you want to add. Maybe I'll add on, maybe I won't. We'll see how it goes. Okay, and while you're over there at Adam does movies, while you're over there at twitch.tv slash Adam does movies, make sure to not only follow, but also subscribe. Subscriptions are free and I actually get paid for those. If you have an Amazon Prime account, you have one free subscription every single month. So you just hit subscribe. You just hit subscribe every month or you renew it or auto renew it or whatever you have to do so that Jeff Bezos doesn't take that money and put it into a new yacht. Adam can take those few bucks, put it in my pocket, save it for later. And I would appreciate it. All right, best motion picture animated.  I took my son Connor to that film. We were super jazzed for the new studio Ghibli film and we were very, very let down. People left the movie halfway through. People were sleeping. I almost fell asleep. So disappointed with this one. Elemental. You know, it got a lot of crap early on but it made its money back and it was a fine little film. I actually enjoyed it. I watched it twice, saw it with my family a second time at home. They all really liked it. My wife cried. Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse. This one's overrated for me. I do like it. My kids liked it, but it was long. It didn't have a satisfying conclusion. I know it's a part one of two, but still, it just, I haven't watched it again since. And I've seen Into the Spider-Verse probably five or six times. I have not felt the need to go back to this one. So I do think it is a bit overrated and a bit of a let down. The Super Mario Brothers movie, easy breezy beautiful Mario cover girl. It's a simple hour and a half. You know what you're getting with the illumination. It's fast food. It's slapstick. It's silly. It's Super Mario. And I'm for it. Suzumi? Suzum. I don't know what this one is. Never heard of it. Wish. Disney's Wish.   I think we're gonna see Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse take the W here. It's gonna be between that and the artsy fartsy boy in the Heron. It's one of those two. Honestly, they'll probably give it to the boy in the Heron, but I'm rooting, I guess, between these two for Across the Spider-Verse. Yeah, it's probably gonna be the boy in the Heron. I'm going back and forth. Okay. I'm gonna stick with Spider-Man. Best motion picture, musical or comedy. Air. American fiction. Barbie. The Holdovers. May, December. Poor things. I've seen half of these films. Two of them I don't think are even out yet. I'm going to say, man, I really liked Air. I thought Air was great. I didn't realize that came out this year. Best motion picture, musical or comedy.  I'm gonna say poor things. I haven't seen it just because I know what Emma Stone brings to the table. And it seems quirky enough for an Academy Award. Best motion picture drama. Here we are. This is the big one, folks. This is the last one. Last chance to get those super chats in. I'm bailing. Best motion picture drama. Anatomy of a Fall. I still haven't heard of this film. Since we started this list, and to now I still haven't heard of this film. Killers of the Flower Moon. Maestro. Oppenheimer. Past lives. The zone of interest. I'm going with Killers of the Flower Moon. Over Oppenheimer. I am saying there's gonna be a killer of the Flower Moon sweep at the freaking Golden Globes. Oppenheimer gonna get destroyed by Killers of the Flower Moon. I don't think it's right. If it was up to me, Oppenheimer takes this category, although I really did enjoy Killers of the Flower Moon. It's a wonderful film. It's a sad, haunting, disturbing, awful film all the same, but it's also wonderfully done. It's a celebration of everything Martin Scorsese has brought to the table over the years. Plus you got DiCaprio killing it. De Niro's great. It's a really good film, but I think Oppenheimer just edges it out. That being said, Killers is gonna take the win. Killers is gonna be the big winner of the Golden Globes. The first Golden Globes. I've said my piece. Now let's see what we have for Super Chats. We have one from Big Kuhuna for $2. Please say hi to my daughter, Allie, who's watching. Hi, Allie. Thanks for watching. Subscribe. Thank you, Big Kuhuna. Jan Rose, shot out of a cannon with $5. Dark Phoenix, Jupiter ascending, or Catwoman for this month's roast that I saw I have the Mithril level still. Can't wait for my Star Wars roast. Jan, I haven't forgot about you. After we get past Rudolph tonight, next week Christmas comes early. Star Wars is on the docket. Matrix is on the docket. I actually told work. I went to work with tears forming in my eyes. I said, sir, ma'am, I need to take some time off. I have to get my roast done for Patreon Mithril members. Jan has been waiting patiently and I haven't been delivering. What am I doing here? What am I even doing anymore with my life? So yes, I have taken off a lot of work because I have a lot of days accrued because I'm working all the time. I'm juggling work. I'm juggling this, two jobs for the price of one. And so I'm on it. We're gonna get that Star Wars roast to you. Jan has requested, what did you request? Star Wars, the last Jedi.  And then the Matrix resurrections will be the final of the year. Time is of the essence. Thank you, Jan. Oh, and to answer your question, Dark Phoenix, Jupiter, Ascending or Catwoman for the new year. Catwoman would be a ton of fun. I think that might be the, I would personally like to get Catwoman in the mix with Halle Berry. That would be a very fun time. That's my, that's mine, but I could throw out a poll after I get done with these other two. So Jan, please remind me in a week or so. Hey, Adam, get that poll out there for people. Thank you. Scott Edwards, 499 from the top rope. Do you think Carol or Sam should lead the new Avengers? Who all do you think will should be on the new team? I haven't put any stock at all about it, but Carol Danvers, I believe is who you're referring to, AKA Captain Marvel, or Sam, I don't know his last name, Whitwicky from Transformers, Sam, AKA the new Captain America, AKA Falcon, who he used to be. Who should lead the new Avengers? I think it's probably Sam because he took the shield and he had his TV show and the new Marvel's movie kind of bombed at the box office. So Carol Danvers might be playing a more supportive role in future films, unless Brie ducks out altogether or they just try to like kind of sunset the character. I really don't know what's gonna happen at all with the new Avengers. I wouldn't be surprised if the new Avengers doesn't really happen the way that they wanted it to and they do start bringing back some of these older characters to take the helm. I would not be surprised if Star-Lord is the new leader of the Avengers. I wouldn't be surprised if Ant-Man's the new leader of the Avengers. I wouldn't be surprised if Thor is because we know those guys are all signed off to come back. Sean Chi is in the mix as well. I'm honestly thinking Star-Lord might be taken over but who knows, who knows? Between those two though, I think it goes to Sam and I'm not thrilled with either of those picks to be honest with you. Either of them really has the leadership roles I look for in an Avengers team lead. Okay, let's go. It's Scott Edwards for $1.99 again. Thank you, Scott. Do you like the Mandoverse shows? No, I really liked the first two seasons of the Mandalorian, loved them in fact. I was a big fan and then season three, I hate watched and you can actually find all of the Mandalorian season three episodes on the channel. There might be a playlist. If there's not, I really should make one.  Those were essentially roast episodes before I started doing the movie roasts.  I hated all the story decisions they made. I hate that Mandalorian kind of was thrown as a background character. And the book above the fat was really the beginning of the end for all of the Mandoverse in my opinion. I thought the Book of Boba Fett sucked. I thought it was embarrassing. It had one or two decent episodes. And I've complained about this ad nauseam, but the fact that they concluded major character arcs from the Mandalorian inside of the Book of Boba Fett is asinine. It's absolute insanity to conclude one show inside of another, making it mandatory for people to watch both. It's hard enough for people to keep up with one show, let alone two. I guess the other one is technically in the same universe, right? The Rogue One spinoff show. I can't remember what it's called. People said it's really good. I watched three or four episodes. Episode three, I think was super good. And then I just kind of lost interest and forgot or got busy. Honestly, I don't watch a lot of TV anymore. My main focus on the channel is movies since this is Adam to the movie. So I really am not planning on talking about shows anymore outside of one that a Patreon requested like 1,000 years ago that I have to finish watching and then talk about. And it is a good show. It's just, I don't have a lot of time for shows these days. So there's a very long answer to your very short question. Thank you, Scott. The wand for $2, I just got here. Can you recap everything? The good news is this can be replayed. Once the live is done, you can actually watch it later. Juan, you know this, you know this is funny. The recap quickly is that I think Oppenheimer is gonna kind of get the shaft at the Golden Globes. And I think the killers of the flower moon is gonna be the big winner. That's my two cents of nothing because I'm almost always wrong on predictions. I don't claim to be an expert at anything movie related. I'm just a fan and I like discussing it with you guys. Okay, I think I'm gonna shut it down. This will also be available up on the podcast in audio slash video form. If it delivers it, podcast on Spotify actually have video as well as audio. So you can see it there as well. It's also on Apple podcasting services and other streaming service. It's all over the place. It's gonna be all over the place. Now I'm gonna duck out. I'm gonna start a brand new stream on twitch.tv slash Adam does movies. We're gonna go over Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer.  And I'm gonna take copious notes for the movie roast on Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer much like I did with Frosty the snowman. But this time you guys are included in the fun. So join me over there. Be prepared for the stream to start in about 15 or so minutes while I get everything set up. And yeah, hopefully I see you there. Okay, thanks for watching. This is always fun. Take care. I'll see you soon.


Welcome to this week of the rundown. On this episode, the Navy has released an update to selective re-enlistment bonuses. The deadline for wear of the female combination cover is approaching. We celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, and the Navy is seeking applications for the command master chief and command senior chief selection board. The Navy has released an update to SRB award plans for active duty and full-time support sailors. In the update, two skills have been removed, but new award levels and the nuclear ratings were announced. For the complete list of skills and award level changes, read navadmin 212 slash 16. Changes to the SRB for eligible sailors will take effect 30 days after the release of the navadmin. Sails are encouraged to talk with their command crew counselors and change the command to discuss re-enlistment options at least 35 days prior to the EAOS. Read more on the change from our story on navy.mil, which also provides links to the SRB homepage on the NPC website. The deadline to change over from the female combination cover to either the combination cover or alternate combination cover is approaching. Beginning October 31, the wear of the ACC or current combination cover will be required by all officers and chiefs in service and dressing uniforms. The uniform change was announced last October in navadmin 236 slash 15. You can check out more on the change by reading our story on navy.mil. This month, the Navy is celebrating the accomplishments of Hispanic Americans during Hispanic Heritage Month. Hispanic Heritage Month begins September 15 and will last until October 15. This year's theme is embracing and enriching and enabling America. Throughout the month, the Navy will continue to honor Hispanic Americans across the nation and those who have served in the armed forces. For more on Hispanic Heritage Month, visit history.navy.mil. Finally, the Navy is looking for E-8 and E-9 sailors to submit applications for the fiscal year 18 Command Master Chief and Command Senior Chief Selection Board. The deadline to apply is December 5. You can read all the requirements for eligibility in navadmin 210 slash 16. Well, that's all for this week. For any questions, send us a message at usnpeopleatgmo.com. For the Chief of Naval Personnel, I'm MC2 L.J. Burleson. Thanks for watching.


for God loves a cheerful giver. Since my ordination, I have developed a great devotion to the brave men and women that sacrificed their lives in Mexico during the Cristero movement. And one particular saint that some of you may not know of or may not have heard of is St. David Galvan. The story of St. David is an interesting one. He was a very smart young man, entered the seminary early at the age of 14, then was a little bit of a troublemaker, decided to take some time off afterwards. When he took some time off, he was in a cantina and he had a girlfriend and this Frenchman went up to his girlfriend and started making moves on her.  I mean, these are the types of saints we're talking about, right? And believe it or not, he decided to, or rather God called him and try the seminary again, but the seminary was weary to accept him. The seminary was like, well, we don't know if we should accept this guy, right? So they put him on probation and he did well. He thrived, he thrived. As a matter of fact, when he got ordained, they asked him to come back and be a professor at the seminary. Now, the interesting thing about St. David Galvan is that he died in the line of service, obviously. He died doing what God had asked him to do and there was a shootout in front of his church where he was and he told the priest who was assigned with him, he said, hey, let's go help those who are injured. Let's go and minister to those people and the priest being a good diocesan priest said, it's my day off. True story, true story. He said, it's my day off and this was the line St. David Galvan answered and I will say it in the original Spanish. He said, no por obligación, si no por amor. No por obligación, si no por amor. Do not do it because it is an obligation. Do it out of love. And how many times, my brothers and sisters, do we do things, do we do things for the Lord, for the kingdom because we have to or because it's a must? How many times do we even maybe pray or celebrate the liturgy because we're assigned or it's a must and is there love there? No por obligación, si no por amor. I don't know if you've had the opportunity of reading or hearing the homily that Pope Francis gave several years ago, actually April 2014 to be exact.  Let me repeat that one more time. Priestly joy is a priceless treasure, not only for the priest himself, but for the entire faithful people of God. He goes on to say, anointed with the oil of gladness, with the oil of? Not the oil of sadness.  Our Holy Father says this all the time, joy to be witnesses of that joy. Anointed with the oil of gladness, so as to anoint others with the oil of gladness. Priestly joy has its source in the Father's love. And the Lord wishes that the joy of this love be ours and to be complete, amen. My brothers, my brother deacons, this also applies to you, just substitute the word priest for deacon seminarians, put in future priest. It applies to all of us who are here and it applies to each and every single one of us who is in ministry. The source is the Father's love and the Lord wishes that the joy of this love be ours. My brother deacon Ralph yesterday alluded to this during the holy hour. And how many times do we think, well, not me? Or yeah, that can happen to someone else. If we look around my brothers and sisters seriously, do we really believe that God has the power to transform? Do we really believe that God has the power to change? We preach good. We preach well, right? Well, some of us, right? It's a crisis that we have in our church. But we need to preach as if lives depended on it, amen? We need to preach with fire in the belly, amen? Just can't be like, well, Jesus loves you. It's okay. I mean, are we convicted of that love? Do we really believe what we say? Or are we just going through the routine? Are we going through the motions? Have I really been changed? Have I been really transformed through an encounter with the living God? I can honestly attest to that four years ago when I came on my first retreat here, I had that encounter with the love of the Father for the very first time, I would say. And it was powerful. It was life-changing. And then I gave permission to the Holy Spirit to rock my world, and oh, he did. Trust me, you. My sisters and brothers in Christ, our Holy Father, in giving us these words, talking about our anointing with the oil of gladness, we're called to share that with others, not keep it to ourselves. Listen to these words, brothers, let me finish what I started with, his homily here. He says this, I like to reflect on joy by contemplating our lady for Mary, the mother of the living gospel, is a wellspring of joy for God's little ones. I do not think it is an exaggeration to say that the priest is very little indeed. Listen to this. And again, deacons and seminarians substitute it. The priest is the poorest of men unless Jesus enriches him by his poverty. The most useless of servants unless Jesus calls him his friend. The most ignorant of men unless Jesus patiently teaches him as he did Peter and the fray list of Christians unless the good shepherd strengthens him in the midst of the flock. No one is more little than a priest left to his own devices. Let me repeat that one more time. No one is more little than a priest left to his own devices. And isn't that a great danger for us brothers? A tremendous danger. Oh, my brother, Matt was talking about it. He's blessed because his wife is his gateway into heaven. Amen? We know that, but you have someone to answer to. And I've had this conversation with great lay brothers that keep me honest, that keep me true. They say, you know, they have a great day in ministry. You know, they were working with young people, whatever it may be, and then they come home and the wife is waiting for them and said, you forgot to take out the garbage. Who do we have? Who do we answer to brothers? Now, as religious, you may say, well, I have my brothers who live with me in community and at home, and that's good. But do we keep each other really in check or do we just let things slide? Diocesan priests, how do we have fellowship with each other? It's one of the weapons, no? That they were talking about that we have. Left to our own devices, it's dangerous, very dangerous. And how many brothers do we know that isolate themselves? Isolate themselves from the people. Isolate themselves from other brother priests. You rarely get to see them. They're in and out of their rooms, hiding behind facades and other things which I won't even get into. And so, our prayer of protection against every snare of the evil one is the prayer of our mother. I am a priest because he has regarded my littleness. And in that littleness, we find our joy. Joy in our littleness. Brothers, we are poor. We are useless.  We are frail. We are little when we do not rely solely on him. When we rely on ourselves, we fall into trouble. So how can we rely more on him? Our Lord gives us three demands today. In the Gospel, he says it quite clearly. When you give alms, when you pray, when you fast, I know that this is your typical Ash Wednesday homily here, right? This is when it comes up usually. We talk about this with the people of God, but do we apply this to ourselves? When I give alms, how am I doing with that? How am I doing with what I own? How am I doing with what I have? The religious don't have to worry about that as much. They don't have as much, but nonetheless, they can also be attached to things. How am I praying when you pray? This is critical. Matt was mentioning this. Critical, this is our lifeline. To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing, Martin Luther King Jr. Brothers, is Jesus the center of my prayer life? When you fast, what do I need to cut out of my life? What is it that I need to let go of? I'd like to propose today as our Holy Father, Pope Francis, that we need to turn to our beautiful Mother Mary to help us become these cheerful givers that her son wants us to become if we do this, then we will be rich, we will be useful, we will be smart, we will be strong, and we will be great only in and through him. There's one thing I love about our Holy Father, Pope Francis, and it's that he keeps on talking about this joy, the joy of the gospel. There's so many people that beat him down, so many people that criticize him, it's crazy. The internal attention that exists within our own church, within the clergy itself, it's ridiculous. Left ring, white right wing, you've heard me speak about this before. This is insanity, you know, the devil loves that. The devil loves division, and especially he loves division around the table of the Lord, around the Eucharist. And it's here that we need to be most united, amen? We need to strive for that unity. It wasn't, no, Apollos, it wasn't Paul who died for you, it was Jesus Christ who died for us in closing. Who is keeping me honest right now? Am I going to spiritual direction? Do I have a real spiritual director? How am I doing with my priest friends or my deacon friends? Do I really have someone I can rely on that I can count on, especially in times of trouble or in times of turmoil? Do I have people around me that I minister with? See, I'm blessed, I'm super blessed because I have a ministry, we're called Messengers of Christ, and we've been together for 11 years, and I can pray with them, I can be me with them, and they know me, and to be able to pray with them, it's powerful, and I look around and I say, wow, how many people really have this sense of community, and especially as a diocesan priest, to be able to minister with those that you serve and love, to have a crew, to have that select few around you, and to have good laymen and women that will keep you honest, to call you out when you need to get called out. Brothers, we cannot be prideful. We need to put our pride to the side, and we need to be able to listen when someone calls us out on it. Let us today pray in a very special way through the intercession of our beautiful Mother Mary that we may be these cheerful givers so that we may do the will of her Son and our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. My prayer is that this week we open up, we are brutally honest with ourselves, that we are not afraid, that we are not scared, that we let ourselves be ministered to, that we look for the prayers that we need, that we look for that relationship with the only one who can save us, with the only one who gives us life, with the only one who brings true joy. Praise be Jesus Christ.


Hey beauties, I'm Bianca Renee and you're watching Bianca Renee Today and today is one day closer to Christmas.  Like this one that I'm wearing right now. But here's the thing about ugly Christmas sweater parties.  So I'm gonna show you how you could rock your ugly sweater, but still also have a pretty face. And I'll be using everything in my December ipsy glam bag. Thank you ipsy and his brand partners for sponsoring this video. I know I say this literally every single ipsy video, but this is the cutest bag I've gotten so far. I don't know if they're gonna be able to top this one. I love sparkles, it's a sparkly glitter bag. It matches my shirt, it matches my eyeshadow today. Like it's just right on theme. If you guys don't know what ipsy is, it's basically what you wanna ask for for Christmas.  And everything in this bag is actually on my face right now. So today I'll be doing a full face glam routine for you guys from start to finish using everything in my ipsy glam bag. So without further ado, let's get started. The first thing in my ipsy glam bag, let's see what we got. Perfect, there's a face mask. I definitely had a little breakout recently, so this is going to help with clearing up any acne and any congested pores. This is the Grace and Stella Dead Sea Mud Mask. The Dead Sea Mud Mask is also supposed to minimize the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. All right, let me put these bangs away. Just gonna leave this on for about 10 minutes. Oh, it's very dark color, but it goes on really smooth. It actually feels very moisturizing and it's supposed to hydrate and maintain the skin's natural moisture levels. And there we go, now I look just like the Grinch perfect for any Christmas party. Oh Martha, oh Christmas. It has now been 10 minutes, I've washed off the mask and my skin feels really, really smooth. So now we are prepped and ready for the full face.  This is a really good primer for those of you that have oily skin. It's also really affordable, I use it all the time so much so that I don't know if there's anything left. For my foundation, I'll be using the Estee Lauder Double Wear Foundation. This is the go-to for every oily skin girl. If you ever watch a best foundations for oily skin video, this guy is probably in the running. I am the Color FW1 Bronze and it just really lasts a really long time without you getting too shiny. I will be applying this straight on to my beauty blender. And let's hide some of these in perfection, shall we? Now for my concealer, I'm gonna be using the Smashbox Studio Skin 24-Hour Waterproof Concealer. I use a lot of different concealers and this is definitely one of my favorites. The first time I tried this concealer was actually from another Ipsy bag. I used it all and this is now the repurchase because I learned that I liked it. And that's exactly why I love my Ipsy bags which allows me to try new products and see if I really like them before they take my money. I'm gonna let this concealer sit for just a little bit and go ahead and do my brows using my ferocious brow pencil by The Balm. Now I'm going to blend this out with my beauty blender once again. I've learned that if I let my concealer sit for just a little bit, you get some more full coverage. Now I'm gonna do a little bit of Christmas baking with my Veil translucent setting powder by Hourglass and I'm gonna kinda cake this under my eyes because we are gonna be using glitter today and I could just brush that off with this powder. Now it looks like I just finished baking some Christmas cookies and we're gonna move on to the eyes. So I'll be using one of my favorite palettes which is the Pro Fusion CNS palette. It has a bunch of really burnt browns and reddish colors and I'm gonna use this color Adventurous and use it as my base. I'll be using this really cute pink eyeshadow brush by SL Miss Glam, this is number P15, which I got in my ipsy glam bag plus last month. So I'm just gonna pop this right here, focusing more on my crease and blending that out. Now grabbing the same brand but the eye angled shading brush number P17, I'm gonna go in with this color Fearless and add a little bit of this reddish color in the corner. Going back in with that same brush, I'm gonna go a little bit darker, add some dimension and use, hmm, let's use Groovy, see how that does. Now I'm grabbing a eye blending P24 brush also by SL Miss Glam and I'm going to blend all this together. Going back into my Pro Fusion palette, I'm gonna grab the color Solstice which is this really pretty gold color as my gold base. Now before I go crazy with the glitter, I'm gonna grab my favorite black liquid liner which is by NYX, this is the NYX Matte Liquid Liner. The glitter, so I'm gonna be using my NYX Glitter Primer. So I'm gonna put this right on top of the gold that I just put on. And now my gold glitter which is by NYX as well, this is a face and body glitter brilliance collection. Whoo, yes, here we go, tapping this on here. Oh yeah, we're getting real festive real quick. That just took things to the next level. I think I love glitter because you don't have to blend it per se, you just pack it on there and then it instantly looks good. So now I'm gonna grab a big fluffy brush and just remove all the fallout glitter and my baking powder.  For my eyeliner, I'll be using the Lock It Waterproof Pencil Liner which is actually the black eyeliner that I reviewed in my last November Ipsy Glam Bag. When this said that this does not smudge or smear, it's true and I've been using it ever since. Back to the Ipsy Glam Bag, I think it's time for some contour so we can get these cheeks chiseled and pop in. So I think we have one in here, yep. This is the Sugar Cosmetics Contour Diff Force Mini Bronzer number two in the color Woody Wonder. The Sugar Cosmetics packaging is really cute except it's like a little candle Jenner on this one and it's a very nice brown bronzy color. This powder is super lightweight and very blendable. Oh yes, contour is so important. You just need that extra bronze. That's pretty. So I will be grabbing my Bang Beauty Blush. This is the color Smoked Peach. Ooh, it's a very pretty pinky peachy color. And to apply my blush, I will be using a really, really cute brush also in my Ipsy Bag. This is by SL Miss Glam as well. This brush is cruelty free and it has these beautiful purple high quality bristles. Now this brush can be used for blush or highlight and I think I'm gonna use it for both today. Let's see how this does right on the cheeks. Oh, even though it's more pink, it's kinda giving me a little bit of a gold glow as well. Cute, cute. And since it's the holidays and we're being extremely extra anyways, let's go the extra step and also add more highlights. So my highlight I have is by Luna. Luna by Luna. This is their highlighter in the color Elektra. Elektra is also like a really pretty light pink shimmer. This highlight is buildable, long lasting and cruelty free. Yes, Elektra. All right, now that I'm looking frostier than frosted the snowman, I think it's time to move on to lashes and lips. I'll be using these lashes by Kiss. This is the Lash Couture Triple Push Up Collection in the style Corset. Christmas. And the last and final step of the face is the lips. I'm gonna use, once again, my Sugar Cosmetics Little Red Mini. This is Smudge Me Not. I got this in my last Ipsy November Glam Bag and I told y'all it was an amazing red and it is. I actually went to Disney World over Thanksgiving break and this lasted me all day long throughout Disney World without having to do any touch-ups. You know I had a chiro or two. Am I festive or what? Someone needs to invite me to their Christmas party tonight.  I think it's safe to say this was another successful Ipsy Glam Bag, so thank you again Ipsy and all its brand partners for sponsoring this video. I definitely utilize all the products in my bag every single month. If you too wanna join the Ipsy family, I'll make sure to put a link below in the description box for you guys to check out. And I highly recommend you follow me on Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat at MsBioncRenae because I have a lot of holiday giveaways coming up and you don't wanna miss those. I'll see you guys next time. Thanks for watching BioncRenae today.


Let's explore how solar panels are constructed and how do we decide what materials what semiconductor materials we use to build them Now in a previous video, we've already talked about the working principle of solar cells just to recap The idea is when light falls on a p-n junction semiconductor If the photons have enough energy more than the band gap Electrons can absorb that and jump into the conduction band creating an electron hole pair Now if this electron hole pair is generated in the depletion region Then they don't have any chance before they have a chance to recombine They will get accelerated in the opposite direction that causes a charges to get accumulated generating a voltage This is what we call the photovoltaic effect and now this voltage can be used to power up some device And we've talked in spoken more about this in a previous video So if you need a refresher feel free to go back and check this out But now let's take a look at a real p-n junction semiconductor. This is what it would look like and Notice you there's a problem over here You see a lot of photons. We are getting absorbed over here in the top region The depletion region is near the junction far away most photons will not reach over there Which means a lot of photons are getting absorbed over here in this region Which causes a lot of electron hole pairs in this region, but important thing is they will just recombine There is no field to accelerate them They will recombine if we want photovoltaic effect electron hole pairs need to happen in the depletion region Right, which is far away. So the question now is how do we ensure that? Well, we need to make sure the depletion region is very close to the top surface And the way to do that is to make sure whichever side is exposed to the Sun We ensure that side is very thin. So we're here inside is exposed to the Sun. So we make the inside very thin And so notice usually solar cells will have one side the side exposed to the Sun very thin and the other side very thick All right The second question is around providing metallic contacts if I have to connect it to any device I need to put some metallic contacts. Now, how do I do that over here? I have to put one metallic contact on the top one at the bottom But at the top I have to also make sure there's enough space for absorption of light So one of the ways in which we can do this is we can put a very thin wire at the top And we can put a very thick sheet at the bottom and then we can put Attach this to a bulb But the problem with thin wires is that thin wires have very high resistance Think about it. A lot of electrons are accumulated over here, but for them to go through this bulb There's only one thin path over here So having thin wires is great for absorption of light, but they will have very high resistance So how do you reduce the resistance? Well to reduce the resistance you have to make this wire as thick as possible So maybe you make it very thick like this This is great and this reduces the resistance, but now notice this decreases the area available for absorption of light And so here's where you see a problem We need to be able to find a nice balance between having large enough thick enough wire Thick enough metallic contact, but also having high enough area One of the ways we solve for this is by having finger-like projections So instead of having a thick sheet like this, what we'll do is we will have Finger-like projections, so this allows there's sufficient metallic contacts So a lot of electrons can very easily get absorbed through these tiny finger-like projections and go through the through the bulb But there are also sufficient gaps in between which allows enough sunlight to be absorbed And if you were to look at this very closely, we will be able to see that So let me show you a close-up of one of the cells So this is a single for single solar cell Right if I were to if you zoom in over here, let me let me zoom in you can see this These thin wires are the finger-like projections. They are the ones that increase the metallic contact area and This thick wire is like the wire over here that collects all the electrons So it's called the bus sort of like a bus right collects all the electrons from these thin fingers And if you look at a solar panel, you will see that a lot of solar cells are connected in series and parallels There's a series connection here and there's a parallel connection And that's how you get a very nice voltage from this entire solar module All right. The last question we have to think about is what materials we use to construct this? How do we decide that? The primary factor is the energy of the photon and the bandgap the photons energy must be larger than the bandgap for The electron to be able to absorb it and go to the conduction band, right? So for solar panels our question could be hey, what's the energy of the photons coming from the Sun? Well, it turns out that the photons energy of the energy of the photons of the Sun There is a spectrum over there from very low energies to very high energies Well, then the question could be okay. What about the majority of the photons that we get? What is the energy of those photons? It turns out that if you do that calculation It turns out that the majority of the photons will have an energy Which is somewhere close to one and a half electron volt rough numbers, okay? This means that there's a very high chance that the photons that you get from the Sun has this much energy one and a half electron volt Okay with this info Let's now take a look at few materials which are semiconductors and see which one is best suited to construct a solar cell So these are a few semiconductor materials German in silicon You might already have heard of them and these are some compound semiconductors We used some of these in our LEDs and we've talked about them in our LED videos So here are the bandgaps Can you pause the video and think about which of these would be best suited for absorbing sunlight and Converting that into electricity. Can you pause and give this a shot? All right, if you're given this a shot, let's see We can see that there are semiconductors which have very high bandgap Semiconductors which have bandgap close to what we want and there are also few which are less than what we want So let's consider all the three cases and work look at them one by one All right, if you look at this one Then the photons don't have sufficient energy for the electrons to jump the bandgap and as a result electrons will not Absorb that energy photon will just pass through no Photovoltaic effect no electron hole pairs are formed and so high bandgap semiconductors are useless for us So we're not going to use them What about over here here the photon has just the sufficient amount of energy to Create an electron hole pair and so this works for us So this will jump electrons will barely be able to reach the conduction band And they will jump all the way to the bottom of the conduction band and so electron hole pairs are formed. So this is great What about this one Well, even here photons have more than sufficient energy to propel the electron into the conduction band So electrons over here absorb all of that 1.5 electron volt and as a result they will not jump here They will jump to the same level as before So they will jump somewhere over here because they absorb 1.5 electron volts and Because there are lower energy levels available immediately the electron will immediately relax and Come to the bottom of the conduction band This happens because electrons always like to go to the lower energy level whenever it's available Here immediate lower energy levels are not available But here it is and so when it relaxes from here to here that difference in the energy it gives out as Heat Which means when bandgaps are much smaller than the photons energy some of the light energy is converted into heat So where do we have the most efficient conversion of light to electricity? That's happening when the photons energy is very close to that of bad gap And in our example that happens to be the case for gallium arsenide So to construct the most efficient solar cell we have to use gallium arsenide So gallium arsenide is definitely used in construction of solar cells But silicon is also useful even though silicon is less efficient as a solar cell. It's much cheaper Okay, it's much cheaper because it's readily available right gallium arsenide is not you have to you have to make it You have to mix gallium and arsenic together And so because of because silicon is cheaper even though it's less efficient It works out to be cost-effective Germanium is something that is just way too low and we don't use that


good morning to try to summarize four years of research in 40 minutes please interrupt at any point so as most of you know our lab focuses on angiogenesis in the eye today's presentation the compass is really about AMD and in the lab we have three broad areas vascular demarcations intracellular therapy and drug novel drug delivery using nanoparticles to focus on this condition now as you all know I'm a cornea guy and we started off 10 years ago in the lab focusing on what keeps the cornea clear and we found that a molecule known as soluble flit or soluble VEGF receptor 1 which is the high affinity receptor for VEGF was the main mediator of corneal avascularity and that when he deleted it in the mouse obtained a spontaneous corneal neovascularization and the second strand of our work over the last 10 years has been trying to use that insight of what keeps the cornea a vascular physiologically as a novel anti angiogenic by focusing on intracellular pathways so today we're going to talk about some novel models of AMD and targeted not targeted targeted intracellular therapeutics this audience is well aware of what happens in AMD with subruntinal neovascularization and hemorrhage and the clinical impact in America it's the leading cause of blindness in worldwide it's the second leading cause of actually third at behind corneal disease leading cause of blindness simply because there's a lot more corneal injury and glaucoma in the African population in the United States there's 10 million patients with AMD it more patients with AMD than cancer not just breast cancer or prostate cancer but all cancers put together there's more patients with AMD than all cancers put together and worldwide there's 40 million patients blind bilaterally from macular degeneration and when you consider the state of Utah we're talking eight times the state of Utah's population right actually no more than that we're 15 times the state of Utah's population that are worldwide just from macular degeneration so it truly is an epidemic so what happens here we have corneal neovascularization growth of abnormal blood vessels from the retinal space a subretinal space into destroying vision and what we wanted to achieve in the last several years is to first understand what normally protects vascular zoning of those photoreceptors when you think about it it's quite remarkable that the a vascular photoreceptor layer sits adjacent to the highest flow of vascular bed in the body so what controls that vascular zoning is a very important research question now mice share a lot of things with humans but they don't have a macula they do have very similar VEGF and VEGF receptors they do have very similar genome the retinal architecture is quite similar except for the absence of a macular because in the mouse the optic nerve comes right out of the center of the retina now I mentioned to you previously S-flit one S-flit is the soluble form of VEGF receptor one because it's soluble it's not membrane bound it's floating around in the extracellular space it thereby acts as a decoy for VEGF binding it in the extracellular space essentially suppressing VEGF in tissues where it's present so our hypothesis in this big question of what controls vascular zoning underneath the retina was if we knock down S-flit one will we increase free VEGF and induce corridor angiogenesis that was our initial starting hypothesis now would that lead to a new model of AMD which could be better than the traditional laser model or some of the genetic knockout models that exist was our secondary question okay so that's our purpose first is S-flit present in the retina these are in C2 hybridization images so basically looking at mRNA and interestingly enough S-flit is present in the RPE in the inner segment a little bit in the outer nuclear layer and the outer plexiform layer at an mRNA level you don't see it on the sense control as you don't expect it to is it decreased in AMD patients relative to normal so we don't have that many human specimens we only have about 14 AMD specimens compared to about 10 normals it's a lot easier to get corneal tissue than retinal tissue but we find suggestive findings that in normal patients or normal retinas there's significant S-flit in the RPE and in the photoreceptor layer but it's decreased in AMD both by fluorescent staining and by histologic staining okay so we examined using three different approaches knocking down S-flit in the mouse at a protein level a transcriptional level and a genomic level so strategy one was injecting S-flit antibody or anti S-flit antibody with a sub-retinal injection and first we want to check distribution so if you inject GFP sub-retinally in the mouse you do get a lot of GFP expression in the RPE and in the photoreceptor layer now doing a sub-retinal injection in a mouse is probably one of the technically the hardest things you can do I think from an animal perspective and I have to give a lot of credit to my postdoctoral fellow Dr. Ling Luo who is a retina surgeon and apparently a mouse retina surgeon as well when you do that what happens you inject anti S-flit antibody you get significant CNV at the injection site confirmed on both FA and OCT and we know this is not due to interactions with the membrane flip receptor this is directly a result of taking out the soluble receptor because when you inject the antibody in a flip tyrosine kinase knockout animal where the membrane receptor is non-functional because the kinase is not functioning you get the same phenotype you get CNV at the site of injection we know it's not due to interactions with PLGF which is another potential target of flip antibody because PLGF doesn't change so that's at the protein level strategy 2 was knocking down S-flit at a transcriptional level taking out the mRNA expression of it by a virus an adeno-associated virus that expresses a SH RNA short hairpin RNA so sure all of you have heard of RNA interference where if you express double-stranded RNA inside cells you will selectively delete the target that is cognate to that double-stranded RNA because in people mRNA is single-stranded double-stranded RNA is generally viral and cells recognize double-stranded RNA is foreign and destroy any genes that look like that double-stranded RNA so this is a way of selectively taking out mRNA transcripts by delivering double-stranded RNAs technical terms SH RNAs into cells and when you do that and the appropriate controls are non-specific SH RNA GFP expressed by AAV and PBS you induce sub-rattinal angiogenesis so first we show that we can knock down S-flit by this approach and not by the controls and when you inject the test SH RNA you get very vigorous CNV and minimal reaction with the control further not only do you see CNV but you see increase in free VEGF with the SH RNA knockdown of S-flit1 as you would expect compared to the laser model so let me start human CNV patient you see the classic CNV lesion here the laser model basically is doing a laser to burn a hole in the in the retina in Brooks membrane and then CNV goes through Brooks membrane at the edges and it's very different architecturally than the human condition however the virus induced a CNV when we knock down S-flit much more closely resembles the human process further laser CNV lasts for about four weeks and starts to regress the SH RNA knockdown of S-flit causes progression of CNV and secondary lesions far from the injection site and this is confirmed histologically compared to the normal mouse in addition you do see pigment epithelial detachments again unlike with the laser model in human patients PEDs are fairly common where you have sub-RPE fluid and you can observe that in the mouse OCT here and here and you can see FA negative areas where you have light up with ICG confirming the presence of a PED in the mouse mentioned to you that we increased free VEGF and you can see that here where the free VEGF level was highly elevated by knockdown of S-flit 1 and if you try to do this in a mouse that lacks VEGF in the retina and how do you achieve that you achieve that by giving enzyme called Cree in a VEGF locked animal VEGF locks means the VEGF gene has locks P flanking sites which the Cree enzyme can remove in a tissue of interest and so what we're showing here is that when you inject P Cree the Cree enzyme into a VEGF locked animal you're preventing VEGF from going up and you're preventing C and V from occurring but if you inject the null plasmid no Cree you observe the C and V and VEGF elevation so when you take out VEGF trying to take out S-flit doesn't do anything that's what you'd expect by mechanistically we're saying knockdown of S-flit releases VEGF causing C and V and where we also show in the TLR3 knockout animal that you observe the same phenotype of C and V and VEGF and so this SHRNA effect of inducing C and V by knocking down S-flit is not due to TLR3 effects but it is due to VEGF desequestration. The third strategy in this zone or this question of zoning is genomic knockdown of S-flit now you can why not make a genetic knockout you might ask if you make a genetic knockout of a flit it's embryonic lethal the mouse doesn't survive so you can you have to make a tissue selective knockout and you can do that by doing P-Cree injection that same Cree enzyme in a flit-loxed animal and as you'd expect S-flit goes down and C and V does occur and VEGF does go up or you can do some transgenic models now this is probably my favorite slide in the presentation so let me just spend a few seconds on it you can avoid the whole trauma of sub-retinal injection by cross-breeding animals that will express Cree just in certain areas so there's a VMD Cree promoter VMD as most of you recall by teleformed macular dystrophy so VM the VMD promoter is specific to RPE cells and you can put a Cree enzyme driven on the VMD promoter which when expressed in the Rosa red mice normally the Rosa red mice all of the cells are red fluorescent when Cree is expressed it shows up as green in this Rosa red the red is converted to green by the Cree and you're confirming that the Cree is expressed just in the RPE an alternative promoter that we used was iCree 75 which is specific to photo receptors and so similarly we're showing Cree expression just in the photoreceptor layer when you cross iCree 75 cross Rosa so basically we're proving that we can express Cree enzyme selectively either in the RPE layer or in the photoreceptor layer does that make sense when you do the VMD Cree cross footlocked animal so expressing Cree just in RPE cells mating those with the footlocked P animal you see significant areas of C and V scattered throughout the retina confirmed histologically confirmed knockdown of a flit expression in in the hybrid animal compared to the normal and confirms C and V on transmission electron microscopy and when you do the iCree 75 cross footlocked P animal again you knockdown as flit in the photoreceptors compared to the control confirmed on both in C2 and in immunohistochemistry and here interestingly enough you don't see classic CNV but what we believe is happening this is just from a few weeks ago this is very preliminary data what we believe is happening is a model of not CNV but RAP retinal angiomatous proliferation where you get the retinal vessels from the inner nuclear layer going down into the photoreceptor layer so if you recall at the outset I showed S-flit expression not just underneath the photoreceptors but overlying the photoreceptors so with the previous knockout with the VMD Cree cross-flit locks where you knockdown S-flit in the RPE vessels grow up with this knockdown what we're observing is the vessels go down into the photoreceptor layer from the retinal circulation and so this we believe recapitulates to some degree what's observed in RAP retinal angiomatous proliferation which is a variant of AMD okay so summing up that first sector of our work we can induce CNV targeting RPE and photoreceptors by knocking down S-flit which elevates free VEGF and by doing this in a variety of different methods we can correlate the mouse phenotype very nicely to the human phenotype. Our second sector of work is working on intracellular therapeutics the the current paradigm of treating macular degeneration is Avast and Lucentis both of which are extracellular agents but many vascular endothelial cells have their own VEGF and their own VEGF receptors and you can imagine if a cell has its own VEGF and its own receptors it's much like a junkie who's a dealer and you have to interrupt that intracellular supply to get it that. So we start off about eight years ago looking at an interesting for amino acid peptide called KDEL which is an endoplasmic reticulum retention signal. We took a page out of our friends in the AIDS world who found that if you couple stromal derived factor with KDEL you can actually knock down CXCR4 and thereby prevent the receptor that binds HIV blocking HIV entry into macrophages and T cells. So they called that an intracellular chemokine or intracine we wanted to do the reverse express an intracellular receptor or intraceptor to knock down VEGF expression. So conceptually VEGF will bind surface receptors and induce various signal transduction events and what we're proposing to do is attach KDEL to an intracellular receptor bind VEGF within the endoplasmic reticulum keep it from ever leaving the endoplasmic reticulum. In the cornea we were able to show several years ago that we could regress corneal neovascularization induced by alkali injury and I know I'm speeding through the slides but in the interest of time but essentially what we did here was inject a plasma that expressed a subunitive flit with KDEL to sequester VEGF after alkali injury and successfully regressed it and all of this is building up to Paul Bernstein's problem where I believe on Monday afternoons he has an assembly line of patients that is quite tragic. This is the current standard of care in our retina colleagues practice where we line up patients month after month giving them an injection into their eyeball and it's the best we can do and it's those of you in residency don't recall 10 years ago or 15 years ago and for OCAPS you have to read about the macular photoclugulation study and destroying the retina so this is better but it's not good and this needs it needs to be different. So to address that we're working on a novel drug delivery system that takes us into the final sector of our talk looking at whether a nanoparticle that encapsulates those interceptor expressing plasmids that is coated with RGD which homes to neovascular tissue so RGD is a peptide that's selective for alpha V beta 3 integral which is present on abnormal new vessels but not on normal vessels so this is a way of this is a guidance system it's basically taking an anti-angiogenic therapy and putting a guiding guidance targeting system on it. Working with our collaborators Dr. Kompela in Denver who makes the nanoparticles our combined group showed a few years ago in rats that laser induced CNV can be suppressed by RGD targeted nanoparticles but not by the control nanoparticles and we wanted to see whether we could observe similar effects in mice and monkeys so we'll have three species I'm going to skip over the methods. One of the things we've developed in the lab and is and hope to work with photographers going forward is measuring volume calculations of CNV so right now my understanding is in clinic central macular thickness is used to assess CNV response to therapy but we've actually developed a method where we can determine the full volume of a CNV lesion using the spectralis to stack the different slices of the CNV in vivo. Traditionally volumetry in the mouse is done ex vivo after mouse sacrifice and we can observe a very good correlation with our in vivo volumetric assessment which will allow us to trend over time response to therapy without sacrificing too many mice. So in that AAV induced model that I mentioned previously when you inject first AAV subretinally you get the CNV lesion this is about a month after AAV injection and then with a single tail vein injection so not introvitrile but a tail vein injection in a mouse of these targeted nanoparticles you can make that CNV lesion go away confirmed on both FA and OCT as opposed to control nanoparticle injections where the lesions progress and increase. Yeah so the nanoparticles we've shown express interceptors for about eight weeks and when when you assess all the different groups we could you can actually show close to 50% regression with the targeted nanoparticles compared to that which is statistically different from the controls. Yeah there are AVI. I was gonna show videos but take my word this shows a very large CNV lesion on 3D and it gets flattened out with treatment. Not with the AAV induced model the laser induced model you do get spontaneous regression. We've confirmed that the target alpha V beta 3 integrant is present in all different models but not in the normal eye so this is showing a specificity of the RGD nanoparticle and that the RGD nanoparticles do home to the CNV lesion but not to the normal retina. Skip this slide on time. Now the nice thing at Moran is that we have great research laboratories with a lot of different skill sets. Dave Kreisai on the third floor has what's called an optometer which can actually assess mirroring visual acuity. How do you assess visual acuity in a mouse? You don't use an eye chart but you can use the optokinetic nystagmus reflex and see at what grading of stripes the mouse actually responds to those gradings and that will tell you the spatial resolution that the mouse is able to observe. Now a normal mouse starts out at about point three eight after CNV induction and this is in the AOV SHH RNA model. What we observe is a knockdown of visual acuity very far down but this is restored by the RGD nanoparticle treatment so in white is post injection in black is pre-injection you observe a knockdown and a lot of that visual function is restored by the targeted nanoparticles but not by the controls and the buffer treated animals the visual acuity actually gets worse. Histologically we can show that the CNV lesions get smaller and that our treatment with a tail vein injection is not inferior to use Barbara's favorite term compared to intravitral antibody injection. So we're not using a vaston but a mouse anti-vegeta antibody injection a vaston doesn't is it supposed to work in a mouse but we actually believe our systemic therapy is at least equal to our an intravitral injection of anti-vegeta antibody. Now the most important stuff I'm going to show you is the monkey work. You can induce CNV monkeys using laser and monkeys do have Immacula and when you do laser spots in a monkey and you wait a month generally they'll progress and in our control nanoparticles they progress too but in the RGD treated nanoparticles in the monkey street with RGD nanoparticles the CNV lesions for the most part regressed and this is confirmed histologically and the effects were statistically significant and this is also confirmed on confocal microscopy. In both mice and monkeys we did tox evaluations looking at the kidney lungs skin and liver after the nanoparticle injections those are the high blood flow tissues of the body so any systemic drug I think it would be advisable to look at those organs and we did not observe any changes histopathologically in these tissues so we don't believe that these nanoparticles are toxic. They're made out of PLGA so they're degrade to lactic and glycolic acid which are degraded by the Krebs cycle. So with a single intravenous injection we can suppress CNV in mice and monkeys. We have out-to-four-week data of CNV suppression. The nanoparticles themselves deliver interceptors for eight weeks. We regressed fibrosis, improved vision, no toxicity was observed. So with that I know I've covered a lot of things but I think I've managed to fit it all in in the time. There was supposed to be audio with that and I've just taken credit for the work of a lot of different people and I want to highlight some of the main people in my laboratory. Ling Liu as I mentioned is the retina surgeon who does sub-retinal injections. Jackie and Bonnie are critical players in the laboratory. Hiro developed the AAV, SHR, and ASFLIT. Our collaborators across several different institutions and of course our funding agencies. And thank you very much. Be happy to take any questions. Just get those files earlier. I think we can make them work. That's what I'm thinking.


Let's go over to IMM is the Fred Ernest. Fred folks is the president and CEO of Vistagold. Vistagold is a well-funded gold developer. The biggest project is in Australia. I do happen to own Vistagold, have been into it for quite some time. Fred Ernest, welcome back to TFNN. Tom, it's good to be back. Thanks for having me. Absolutely. So needless to say, we're in a different age now. Everyone's staying safe. Lot of volatility inside the market. So tell us what's been going on with Vistagold and Mount Todd Gold project in particular? Well, Tom, things at Mount Todd continue to move forward. We've stated all along that our objectives are to efficiently optimize the project. We're to a point where we think we're a few months away from receiving our last major permit, which will be the mine operating permit, or as it's known there, the mine management plan. And that will be a tremendous milestone for us. That's for sure, man. I mean, this is pretty exciting, right? I mean, you know, Fred, can you give our audience an idea of like how long it takes to basically go through that type of process? Well, yeah, we started the environmental permitting in 2011. We received the EIS in 2014, and then we were required to obtain a federal environmental permit, which we worked on from 2014 to 2018. And in 2018, we submitted the mine operating permit. And so, I mean, we've been at it nine years. It's a lengthy process no matter where you're at, and there's a lot of boxes to check, and we're very excited to see light at the end of the tunnel. And I suspect, I mean, this is where the business that you're in, you never know when you start where the price of gold is going to be, right? You know? And we have a good price of gold, right? I mean, 17, well, it's 1691 right now. So how does this work in the correlation of where the price of gold is as to what your dirt or your ore you figure at this particular point is worth? Well, this is a phenomenal gold price for us. You know, we enjoy tremendous leverage to the price of gold. Our project, because of the way it's designed and the efficiency of the project, it's a great project at a $1350 gold price, and at nearly $1,700, it's exceptional. Just to kind of put it in perspective, the NPV of the project at $1350 gold price is about $820 million. Today, it's about $1.6 billion. I mean, just the difference that $350 in gold price makes is exceptional for those who believe that the price of gold is going to go even higher. Yeah, and what's so intriguing, of course, we saw the numbers come out in Newmont, and just because of the gold price, they're gross what up exponentially also. I mean, it's pretty amazing, I guess, because of the fact that so many thousands of ounces of dirt and gold in these mines, right? That's why once you get to a certain point, I guess it goes up exponentially at some point. Well, it does. And you know, the other factor is that while we're seeing the gold price go up, we're not seeing our costs go up. In fact, energy costs are going down, diesel fuel and other costs. And so in reality, our margins are improving in this market and with even constant gold production with the improvement in prices, it makes a tremendous impact on the bottom line. Yeah, no, that how about that oil price, right? Oh my God, I was bringing that up because that is something else. And hey, the bottom line is that even this morning, they come out with the API numbers, but guess what? Oil started to back down again, which for all of us is positive, that's for sure. How does it work, Fred, that you're in Australia, right? And currency-wise, how would that work once you get a partner and we go forward with the mine? So right now, the foreign exchange rate is very important to us. The Aussie dollars about 64 cents US per Aussie dollar today. And that has a tremendous impact. Just for example, from 2018 to 2019, the Aussie dollar decreased in value 10 cents. And that added about $150 million to the NPV of our project at a $13.50 gold price. So you could essentially double that impact today. So the impact of foreign exchange is very important. This is a great time to be looking at mines in Australia. Australia is experiencing in Australian dollar terms record gold prices. The margins for Australian producers is better than it's ever been. And you know, folks, I'll put this up as Fred and I are talking. And it is, it's pretty amazing, Fred, that when we take a look at this and I do this quite a bit for the listeners, right? And what I'm doing is I'm taking the price of gold in US dollars, right? And then I'm putting it on a basically a 15-year chart. And as you just said, I mean, I think it's hard for folks in the United States to understand that we haven't broken the highs in our currency, but yet in, you know, Aussie dollars, this has gone to 28, 279 and that blew away the highs of 2011, which is that 1827. So pretty impressive, man. I mean, big time, right? Yeah. Well, back then the value of the Aussie dollar was very strong. You know, we were in a commodity boom and the Aussie dollar was trading at almost parity to the US dollar. Today, those who are producing gold in Australia have considerable economic advantages because of the foreign exchange difference. Right. So now when we started the slide show, and you know, this slide show, folks, you remember this program's archive, we're going to, this will be out on YouTube also. The title, Mount Todd Gold Project, Partner Ready. So talk to us about how, where you think this is going to go going forward. Yeah, absolutely. You know, when people look at Vista Gold, they ought to remember just a couple of things. First of all, that we enjoyed tremendous torque, tremendous leverage to the gold price. Second, that the project that we've been working on for so long because of the time that we've had and the permits that we've received and all the engineering, there's low risk. I mean, there's very, very little that could go wrong with the project. You know, we've, we've, most of the engineering is at feasibility study standards, the permitting is almost all in hand. Second or third is location. You know, the where it is, the size of the project, the cost structure of the project.  It's, it's partner ready, which really means low dilution for shareholders because we're not going to go out and build this ourselves. Our plan is to find a partner. And while those plans have been slowed down a little bit with the COVID-19 pandemic going on globally and the restrictions and travel, we're still moving forward and we're signing confidentiality agreements and we're working with people to help them understand the project and get to know them with the idea that we're looking for a partner who will buy into the project, most likely be the senior partner, will be the junior partner. But we hope to be in a position where ultimately at the, at the end of the day, we're the, we're the owner of 40% of a project without having to cough up much money or to go out to the market to raise money in order to fund our part. Yeah. Well, it's been incredible what you've done.