In this video, I'd like to prepare you for a project, an upcoming project, in which you will fly, analyze, and then reverse engineer a Tian Deng. Tian Deng is a Chinese fire lantern, and when you receive it, it will come in a package where it will be nicely folded in a piece of paper looking something like this, although it may vary a little bit depending on the version that you get. First thing we want to do is go ahead and unwrap the package, and what we'll see as we unfold this is there's a fair amount of paper here, and we'll carefully sort of unfold the entire thing, and you can wait perhaps until you get to the field where you're going to fly it before you unfold it completely, but I'm going to go ahead and unfold this one and show you the parts that we're interested in. Okay, first of all, you have the large paper casing here. It's a large paper casing that's going to fill with air. Well, that won't work, but it's going to fill with hot air and sort of expand, and that's what's going to create our buoyancy. The other two parts, your second part here, is a frame that's made out of a very light wood. Okay, that's pieced together to make a square down here at the bottom, and then attached there by four small strings is the fuel cell, and this is the part that you're going to light on fire and try to hold the rest of the lantern very carefully away from it as it burns and heats up the inside. Okay, so there's a couple of measurements you want to take, well actually there's one particular measurement you want to take pre-flight. Before you fly the Tian Deng, and preferably when it's still folded, I probably should have said that, is what you want to do is go ahead and see if you can get a measurement of the mass of the entire lantern. Although I am going to suggest for the best accuracy, there is a light piece of tissue paper here that I'm going to remove. That's sort of a protective casing for the fuel cell. Remove that, toss it away, you won't need it again. Okay, and then measure the entire mass of this particular thing, of the whole lantern, and record that information, because you will need it later in your analysis. Then, part two, is you're going to prepare for a flight. Now the directions on preparing for the flight will be available for you in a document. However, there's a number of things that you want to actually measure during the flight, things you're going to want to capture, information you're going to want to capture during the flight. The way the flight is going to work is you are actually going to take the lantern, and you're going to create a tether. Now most of the time when you fly lanterns like this, you do not tether them, you do not want them staying to the ground, you want them to rise as high as possible, where they will eventually burn out, extinguish before they land to the ground. In this case, we want to do an analysis that will require that you tether the lantern with a twine that will be sort of wrapped around and sitting on the ground. So, over time, what's going to happen is the lantern is going to rise. Let me draw it over here, although hopefully it will rise mostly straight up. The lantern will rise, and as it does, it will add more tether off the ground, adding more weight. So, there will be a point where it stops rising and reaches what we call neutral buoyancy. And then, after it reaches neutral buoyancy, after a period of time it will start to sink, it will start to come down.  So, that's actually three points in time that we would like you to record. The time being the launch time when you first started on fire and you're about to release it, and even if you're not quite releasing it, even if you're holding it and waiting for it to get enough to launch, you still want to record when you first started on fire. So, we're going to record that time when we first ignite it. Then we're going to record to our best estimate a neutral buoyancy time, and when we reach that neutral buoyancy time, you're to put a little tag, a piece of tape, or something on there to measure the point at which the tether left the ground, and so we know where to cut the tether later, we're going to cut that line off there and measure the mass of that tether. And then again, when it comes back down, when you reach this point and you're spraying it out and putting out the flame, record that time as the extinguish time, the time when you're done. So, when you're done, you're going to have those four pieces of information, a marking for the tether and these three times, and then the other thing you'll need to record is an ambient temperature. Do your best to get a value for the temperature outside on that day when you launch the lantern. Now part of the process for launching the lantern, when you bring it back down, you're going to cut out the fuel cell and you're going to have a burnt fuel cell, hopefully that you stored in a jar or something like that to bring home for measurements. So now we're assuming at the point you've flown the lantern, you've gathered the flight information, you've gathered the pre-flight information, and now we're going to gather some additional information so that we can analyze the lantern. So the first thing you're going to do is you're going to note here, this piece here, this mass will be all burnt and crispy, much less mass than it was before of this fuel cell. You're going to take that and measure it using a balance to figure out what its mass is. In this case, you might have to measure the jar that it comes in the entire thing and then dump it out, measure the jar and determine what, measure the jar alone, and then determine the mass of the burnt fuel cell. So you're going to look for the remaining fuel mass. You're not doing the mass it's burnt, you're really recording, we'll calculate that later, you're really recording what's remaining there, but that will have been clipped out and cut so it will not be part of your lantern, it'll be set aside. So then you'll have a lantern that's hopefully not too toasted, that's still all in one piece. However, we don't want to measure it all in one piece, we're going to disassemble it. To disassemble it, you're going to look very carefully there along these pieces of wood and you should see, if you look carefully it's sort of hard to see where you are, but you'll be able to see that it's sort of glued around here, you'll want to use a scissors or an exacto knife or something to do your best to cut and release the wooden parts from the paper without destroying the paper too badly. I've done that to another lantern over here that I'm going to turn around and pick up. Here I have the disassembled pieces, notice there's a little bit of paper on there but that's not too meaningful, and I have this sort of square piece of wooden pieces that we're making the base of the lantern. I really only need two measurements from this. I can take this entire piece, put it on my balance and find the wooden frame mass. I'd like to know the mass of this wooden frame because we are interested in designing something like this a little bit later and we'd like to know basically how much weight there was involved in this. The other thing I would like to do is measure the length of this wooden frame. Now notice it's four parts so you could just measure one of them but you need to be very clear whether you're measuring one or all four parts. The length of the wooden frame pieces measured as well so you just measure that length. In this case we're not really going to care about the other two dimensions of this particular length. We're going to assume that they are relatively consistent and so we're going to have a specialized density measurement which isn't going to be based on mass per unit volume but instead just on mass per unit length because we'll assume a consistency of the thickness of this particular piece. So these two pieces will help us create a mass per unit length term. Okay, so we're done with this particular part. Now we need a couple other measurements. Here's the paper. You'll notice the edges have been a little bit sort of torn so I could actually release them from the frame but now I have this large piece of this large paper casing and the paper casing is actually divided into four parts that have been attached together. One, two, and then there's one on this side and one on the other side. So there's these four pieces that make up this paper frame. One of the things we want to do is do our best to refold this into something relatively small and then place it on our balance and try to balance it. You may need to take something, since it's so wide, you may need to take something like a plastic cup or something, set it on the balance, tear it with the plastic cup there and then set this on top so you can see underneath and actually read the values but we're going to find a mass value for this paper casing. Notice the paper casing we're also basically interested in how much mass it has per, well it's density effectively but in this case it's very thin and figuring out its volume is going to be difficult. The volume of the paper itself is going to be difficult. So what we're interested in is we're going to do some measurements so we know what the area of this particular thing is and then we'll get a value of mass per area for the paper so then if I design something using any given area I can work backwards and figure out what the mass will be as part of my design. So we're looking for two density values but there are densities that are based on some simplifications of volume where we either do density by length for the wooden frame or density by area for the paper. Well, how do we calculate the area of this paper when we have such a strange shape? I haven't memorized a formula for the shape of a truncated pedal. Whatever that actually shape is, there's probably a better mathematical term for it than I have no right now. But what we are going to do is we're going to use a process of measuring that will allow us to approximate this using what's called numerical integration but we're just going to take the measurements now. So what I'm going to ask you to do is take your large piece, lay it out, flatten it out so one of the sides is showing, we can always multiply by four. There is a symmetry here where all the sides are the same and what you're going to do is you're going to lay this down and do some measurements. Now it's difficult for me to sort of demonstrate this in the video so I'm going to assume that this drawing over here is what I see as I take this and I lay it down on a table to do my measurements. Okay, so take this, lay it down and get yourself a tool to measure the length a yardstick or some sort of tape measure. So here I am with my yardstick and I'm going to use it to measure the length that's along or to measure this entire sort of area. But here's how I'm going to do it. I'm going to go ahead and slice this into a number of different parts and it seems to me the best way to go about doing that is going to be to sort of slice it along the horizontal in slices that are as even as possible. Now they do not have to be a hundred percent even but I like to make them as even as possible. If I look at this particular length there it looks to be, okay, on this scale this is roughly about 45 centimeters so I'm going to do it about every five centimeters or so. Actually five centimeters or two inches is actually a pretty good measurement for doing the full lantern as well. But I'm going to take and try to do my best to draw a vertical line from the tip of the Tian Deng down to the base, trying to make it perpendicular with the base. Now that I've created that line I'm going to measure off intervals as evenly as possible but they don't have to be perfect, as evenly as possible except for maybe the last one. So in this particular case I'm going to mark off relatively easy intervals. In my case it's every five centimeters or so. Turns out mine actually goes almost exactly to 45 but that last one may be a little different for you so that's okay if it is you can mark what it is. And then what I'm going to go ahead and put here is make a little chart, a chart for the height and the width of each of these markings. Now this might be a little confusing because I'm starting from the bottom and then measuring up okay but I'm going to start with my first data point actually being at a height zero from the bottom. I should put my units up here and then I'm going every five centimeters, 15, 5, 10, 15, 20, 20, 30, 35, 40, 45. Now that I've established those vertical locations I am then for each of those locations going to measure horizontally do the best I can to go perpendicularly horizontal across, whoops that was not quite high enough. If you feel insecure about your ability to draw horizontal lines you could even measure some, make another set of measurements along each side and help line yourself up there. So now that I've done that I would like to get a value for the entire width across the lantern face. So I will measure across the lantern face here, here I estimate something as being 25, we'll say it's 20.5, I'm sorry 20.5 centimeters so I will go ahead and record that width here. Now notice since I said 20.5 centimeters there I'm going to the nearest, actually I could probably do even better if I wanted to because I do see the .5 but let's say I decide to go to only that sig fig, I should probably note that since I measured these out I am confident in the ones digit and that my fuzzy digit, my estimated digit is in the 10th place. So I'm going to say I'm happy with 20 centimeters and I have an estimated digit of a half. And then I'll measure the next one I would say 24 and probably .4 centimeters. So 24.4 centimeters. Similarly moving up all the way I get an estimate here of 28.3 etc. Notice your last value will have a width of zero although it is still important to record that as we will use it later in our calculations. So with that we have recorded our paper case geometry which is information we'll be able to use later to calculate a couple of important things namely the area, the surface area of the lantern and the area of each face which will help us determine the mass value to use for the paper or a density value to use for the paper. And then there's one more thing you have to measure before you're done with measurements and that will be the mass of the tether. So that long string that you had there, you'll take a scissors and cut it off wherever you marked it. You will separate it as well as with the sort of connecting mechanism from the lantern. It will have already been separated from the lantern and you take that and find the mass of that. And that would be the last piece you would need to have all the information you need for a successful analysis of the Tian Deng.


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You have to think past the pageantry of the political. I mean, this idea that our institutions are somehow even connected to what's happening. People, they can see and sense that the president isn't really the leader of the country. He's just some kind of ceremonial installation connected to a pseudo-reality. It's further and further away from what's actually happening. The federal government is trying a new tactic in its fight to shut down the DIY gun movement and Defense Distributed, the Austin Texas-based company founded by the Second and First Amendment activist and provocateur Cody Wilson. But Wilson says he's been preparing and that this latest attack will only backfire. His counter-move will continue to test the limits of how far the federal government will go in restricting what Americans do in the privacy of their own homes. Founded in 2012, Defense Distributed sells programmable milling machines that can be used to make unregistered firearms. In 2013, the State Department ordered Wilson to take plans for his first 3D printed gun, the Liberator, off his website. Wilson sued on First Amendment grounds, but this led to a 2018 settlement with the feds, a media firestorm, and finally, a 2021 9th Circuit Court injunction against states trying to ban sharing of the files. Now the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, better known as the ATF, has drafted a 100-page administrative rule changing the definition of a firearm to encompass weapon parts kits designed to or which may readily be assembled, completed, converted, or restored. If the rule is adopted in the coming weeks, it means the federal government will require gun part kits sold on the internet by Defense Distributed and its competitors to bear the same serial numbers as do fully manufactured firearms, which has the potential to put the entire industry out of business. So how is Wilson responding? Meet the 0% receiver. Anything on its way to being a gun is now considered a gun, so say I, Uncle Joe.  You know, this is Gabby Gifford's grand achievement to end kit guns in the mail, but that's just it. This was only a reaction to kit guns in the mail. Our equipment, our software, 3D printing and CNC milling can take raw materials, blocks of metal, things in their primordial state, and take them from nothing and turn them into guns. Wilson and his team tweaked the code to the latest model of the Ghost Gunner. It used to be the customers would purchase partially fabricated lower receivers using the Ghost Gunner to finish the job of turning them into functional gun parts. Wilson said that Defense Distributed is the only DIY gun company pivoting in the face of this new regulation, so the real impact of the law will be to drive out his competitors. With this rule that Biden's pursuing, he's giving us, though the nation's premier Ghost Gun Company, I would say a monopoly of the market. According to federal law, after a Ghost Gunner makes a homemade gun out of a block of aluminum, the weapon does not need to be registered with the federal government. Without the next logical step that they're going to say, well, once you make a homemade gun, you have to get it registered. What happens then? So registration of farms would take an act of Congress. And so, by the way, would most of the regulations of manufacturing farms, this should have taken an act of Congress. Joe Biden knows he wants to stop Ghost Guns. He never had the power. He never took the power. He didn't have the congressional majorities to deliver him a new act of Congress. He's tried. He's at hearings. Look at Blumenthal and Menendez, these guys. They really want it. They don't have it. And you can see how the next year or two is going to go. He's going to get even less of that power, less of that mandate. So they threw 100 pages at kit guns in the mail, and they're going to congratulate themselves. They're going to say, hey, we did it, you know? No, all they did was make us right, the 3D printers, the CNC millers. Now we're the only way to do it. In the wake of the January 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol, the Department of Homeland Security has turned its focus to homegrown domestic terrorism, or the most urgent terrorism threat the United States faces today, according to the White House. In justifying its forthcoming rule, the ATF cites an uptick in the number of homemade guns recovered at crime scenes, and the agency sees unregistered firearms as a growing national security threat. Is there a danger that the DIY gun movement is going to explode into terrorism or fuel terrorism? Look, there's an irony here. And the state and its agents don't necessarily mean it, and they even enjoy this irony. But the homeland security threat, I would say, from their perspective becomes even greater when you pass these regs because more people will take the exclusively private route that we are now offering. Wilson says that the regulation will mean that more DIY gunsmiths are buying blocks of aluminum instead of gun kits, the sales of which can be more easily surveilled by law enforcement.  No, because they'll just say, well, now, a year from now, making a gun is, of course, the surest sign that you're some kind of domestic terrorist or something. So they enjoy this. The problem is, you know, we enjoy it too. Sorry, it'll be dark, right? People are going to make guns. They're going to choose gun privacy. They're going to choose ways to acquire weapons outside of government oversight. Last time I spoke with you, I got a lot of flak, basically, from people. And one reason is people have been accusing you of being either a fascist or, you know, sympathetic to the alt-rights or the far-right, and that your project is really about funneling guns to these groups that want to stage some sort of right-wing coup of the American government. Why are you distributing these guns? What is the purpose of this? Well, look, I'll yield this, and it's in our filings for years. Our perspective has always been global. Okay, our perspective has always been international and through the internet. And of course, there's no level of control that I can affect that makes sure that only the right wing gets access to this equipment. You know, when we saw the chas and some of these street protests of the left, we saw our patches, our come-and-take-it patches, printed guns and things like that. You know, we have no control about this. If the question is one of, well, what's your personal intent or why, you know, why are you sympathetic with the right, simply because the right is the only, the post-political right or however you want to call it, the post-left, you know, these are the only people actually attempting to quote-unquote resist this accumulation of centralized power, control, all the methods of what Schmidt would call depoliticization. I'm interested in the political. I'm interested in something beyond liberal capitalism and this just crushing, you know, accumulation of bureaucratic control ruled by wine moms and lawyers. The right wing is the only credible artistic aesthetic in America. The only movement even trying to think beyond these things and trying to work with new technologies and techniques. I saw a speech that you gave that was posted on your channel called Post Politics. Your goal as a post-political figure is not to give these people the hallmarks of a captive mind. In a speech that Wilson recently gave at a conference and he posted on his website and YouTube channel, he encourages the audience to focus less on engaging in electoral politics or debate and persuasion and more on maintaining intellectual independence, political sovereignty and creating things that constrain power in the real world. Your goal is to not get captured. Is that where you are thinking of yourself these days as post-political and if so like what does that mean really? Look you could, you could say that. I mean the the number one motto on the internet right now about our state of politics is that it's essentially fake and gay. This isn't real and not just that it's not performative but it's like somehow cringe-worthy and connected to a pseudo reality that's further and further away from what's actually happening and I'll show you this with this rule. I mean these people will high-five themselves like well we solved kit guns and gun crime in America right and they'll all just like parade this hundred page solution as some type of you know new era of peace or something and but what did they actually do right they established a new new coordinates for for the technical and how we will make guns because of course we'll continue to make them and they made me some kind of profit right now you can only 3d print and cnc mail receivers well god damn I didn't think I'd be right literally five years later you know that this is the only way you're going to get it done privately you see like this is these are two complete camps these these people maybe don't even realize just how starkly they've diverged from what's actually happening a world of people making guns straight from the internet you have to think past the pageantry of the political and I don't just mean tv I mean this idea that our institutions are somehow even connected to what's happening they they seem to be like the president himself if not dead surely dying zombies are they even aware of what's happening the president is a great emblem of the political and I just want to think man I just want to live and and imagine what living would be and I suppose at this point that means to notice and to to think past the political so if that is the case that there's this sort of institutional zombie dumb and it offers up these opportunities how would you suggest people that are in that mindset act what like what should they do to move forward you know outside the realm of printing their own 3d guns I think the culture has had time to adjust to 3d printer guns at this point you know it's the thing you can do it's a joke it's a punchline same thing with bitcoin everybody's fascinated everybody's involved on some level or curious none of that was true 10 years ago people thought this stuff was science fiction or just like you know somehow a scam and I'm not saying that there aren't scam elements but even during COVID in the election of Biden this is really helpful people are like huh I can I can see and sense mainstream people like they can see and sense that the president isn't isn't really the leader of the country he's just some kind of ceremonial installation and this drives a deep anxiety even if it's not completely conscious pursuing this anxiety and understanding how to actually do literally anything to manufacture something to be in charge of your own finances right these are deeply post political activities now and so I would I would simply say maintain a firm commitment to what is actually happening and how that actually happens and don't just get mad at the ceremonial political figures you are on TV meant to somehow just absorb that anger and dissuade you from investigating what the actual mechanics of your country and your time are a federal ban on DIY guns may be a non-starter in congress but that's not the case at the state and local level defense distributed is suing new jersey's attorney general and a texas court for his attempts to ban the distribution of gun files and multiple cities in california have banned the sale and distribution of ghost guns the state's governor Gavin Newsom has proposed a law modeled on texas's new abortion law that would deputize private citizens to pursue lawsuits against individuals who distribute ghost gun kits do i support texas abortion law i knew it was a bad idea because it's going to weaponize the courts even further and push us into this strange civil war territory at the same time i'm not afraid of that either okay Newsom's going to say well you can't sell ghost gun kits into into california we'll find what we sell will never be a ghost gun kit you understand but we'll always be selling something we'll always be giving you the ways to do it so maybe this knocks out the low-hanging players and you know what's left of so-called ghost gun world but just as the texas law has all these strange constructions and loopholes so the california law will too in this forest and this proliferating forest of competing laws and ways that allow people to sue you i have the commitment like the the the certainty that it will be somehow easier to give you the raw materials to make a firearm where does that commitment or certainty come from there's a world of things that are not guns there's a world of things that are not gun parts we will give you the technology to turn these things into guns and gun parts kody wilson has had personal legal troubles as well that caused him to temporarily step back from his role at defense distributed in 2018 he was indicted for paying for sex with a 16-year-old girl he met through a dating site though his legal team at the time argued he wasn't aware she was a minor who had lied about her age to create a profile on the site he ended up pleading guilty to a third-degree felony charge was sentenced to seven years probation and had to register as a sex offender for that period people who are supportive of the ideas you're putting out there say well still you're not the guy that should be out there as the face of this or a spokesman because of your legal problems that should forever you know make you kind of slink back into the shadows what do you say to that i haven't personally seen this criticism but you can't choose your messenger you know so sorry it had to be me i was waiting for other people to do it and in some respects a lot of the movement has risen up to the challenge there's a ton of people doing 3d work right now and i don't you know i don't presume to be a spokesperson for everything happening in the movement which i clearly you know fathered at the same time when we when we have a technical innovation i'm going to show the way i'm not just going to wait for you to figure it out or to commercialize it so you can't choose your messenger and maybe in a couple years people change your mind wilson says that a lesson he came away with from his prior fight with the federal government is that politicians and regulators care most about how they are perceived and that they will back down quietly as long as those challenging their authority are careful not to publicly embarrass them too much the state department agency previously responsible for regulating those files gave up its legal fights which enabled wilson to make the online library of gun files def cad once again available regulation shifted to a division of the department of commerce which allows def cad to host but not generate or sell the files they literally just wrote how we did def cad into their regulations so there's this process of accommodation happening where power never admits that it loses but it does have to tactically retreat and that is also i think why we have to continue and insisting and pushing this way because of these tactical retreats they show more and more that power is essentially impotent in these places it knows it as long as you don't embarrass it too much it will make these adjustments and so i hope then that what we've done will i think be another example of okay you know try again


A church in downtown Brainerd is in the process of moving across town to Baxter. The First Presbyterian Church is exchanging businesses or buildings, I should say, with the Halverson-Johnson Funeral Chapel on Excelsior Drive. The church is moving due to a decreasing number of attendees of their church and it can hold over 300 people. They worked out a deal with Halverson-Johnson who is in need of a bigger space to accommodate services for their patrons who are without a church home. The First Presbyterian is looking forward to a smaller space but it will be a huge change for the church that has had a home in downtown Brainerd now for over 100 years. The church has been here a long time, it has a long history in this location downtown. We have been on a block down here since about 1889 and so it's a struggle because people emotionally are connected to it. A lot of people got married here, had their kids baptized here and so it's just a change. The church will have its last service at the current location on Sunday, November 4th and it will hold its first service in their new location on Sunday, November 11th. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


Oh, I love it. I love Kaiser. I feel that I have a good relationship with my doctor. I love knowing that she can see my history with my OB-GYN, my dermatologist, my eye doctor, and be able to assess my health in a comprehensive way. I love knowing that. What I like best about Kaiser is it's easy. I have two kids. I have a busy job. I don't have a lot of time in my day. Nobody does. I don't want to be left on hold. I don't want to have to wait five weeks to get an appointment. If my kid is sick, I want to bring them in immediately. My 10-year-old son sent home with pink eye. I called my doctor, talked to the nurse, and I said I need to get him in, and I need him to go back to school. She got me in immediately. She got me to see the doctor I needed to see, got me the medication immediately, all within literally less than an hour. That kind of care and understanding is so helpful to me. I think you will feel at Kaiser that they have your best interest in mind all the time. I have somebody looking out for me.


Especially after Top Gun Maverick, but also as the Mission Impossible series comes to an end, Tom Cruise has arguably solidified himself as the last true movie star, and perhaps the greatest action hero in cinema history. His eternal youth is a bit of a meme at this point, but even his movies keep getting better and better over time. If you go back and watch the first Mission Impossible film from 1996, it still holds up. It's a great story. There's good performances from Ving Reims, John Voight, John Renault, and lots of cool spy craft stuff. But other than a couple tense moments and a few decent twists, in comparison to what the series looks like today, it's almost quiet. Particularly since Ghost Protocol, Mission Impossible has become one of the most exciting blockbuster franchises out there, and I'm really looking forward to Dead Reckoning, Parts 1 and 2. That said, these movies paint a ridiculously unrealistic picture of intelligence and counterintelligence agencies worldwide. And I'm not talking about the hyper-advanced gadgetry, over-the-top catastrophes, or even the fact that all the agents are incredibly attractive. I'm talking about the assumption that these agencies are both as generally benevolent and as extremely competent as any organization depicted in the Mission Impossible films. As usual, there will be some spoilers for all of the Mission Impossibles that have been released so far, so consider yourself warned. Then, your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to join me on a globe-spanning tour of intelligence agency malfeasance, failure, and outright atrocities on this episode of Out of Frame. If you haven't seen the Mission Impossible movies, or if it's just been a while, here's a quick recap. Our hero, Ethan Hunt, is a key member of a highly secretive intelligence organization called the IMF, or, and I'm not making this up, the Impossible Mission Force. It's never been totally clear to me whether the IMF is a private agency or an official branch of government like the CIA, but either way, they primarily work for and report to the US government. Hunt works with a small team in order to pull off, well, impossible missions of vital importance, such as preventing the identities of CIA secret agents from being leaked, thwarting nuclear arms deals, stopping bioterrorists, and so on. These missions tend to involve some elaborate disguises, aerial hijinks, high-speed car and motorcycle chases, digital attacks, and of course fistfights, gunfights, and so much running. About half the time these films also seem to involve the bad guys framing Ethan Hunt for treason. And yet, despite some fairly formulaic plot beats, the Mission Impossible movies continue to be extremely entertaining, and at times even emotional. But there's also something unique about Ethan Hunt and his team that you don't find in a lot of other modern action movies. He's actually a pretty good guy. Obviously, Ethan Hunt is not above some deception and subterfuge, but he rarely rushes to violence and works really hard to keep collateral damage to a minimum. He's not really a womanizer or even a jerk to his teammates like James Bond, and he's also not running around torturing and harming random people to get what he needs. Looking at you, Jack Bauer. For the most part, Hunt puts himself on the line and never asks anyone else to risk more than he does to complete his mission. That's a pretty serious hero right there. And his team is a tight-knit group of ultra-competent specialists who all believe in their missions and in their leader. That's what sets the IMF apart. The other spy agencies in the Mission Impossible universe aren't nearly so virtuous, and that puts them at odds with real-world deep-state bureaus like the NSA and the CIA. The fifth and sixth installments, Rogue Nation and Fallout, demonstrate this fact pretty overtly. Much of the premise of Rogue Nation centers around a congressional oversight committee reprimanding the IMF based on the CIA's claims that they're a loose cannon and, ironically considering the source, lacks transparency. The head of the CIA cites the IMF's supposed obsession with mercenary terrorists known as the Syndicate as proof, arguing that the CIA itself couldn't even find evidence of its existence, even though Ethan Hunt is literally their prisoner. And, of course, instead of questioning the competence and motivations of the CIA, the committee dissolves the IMF and takes over its assets. The rest of the film involves all the IMF agents loyal to Ethan striking out on their own to not only prove that the Syndicate exists, but also to capture its leader and bring him to justice. Their eventual vindication appeases Congress, but makes them even more enemies inside the CIA. At the start of the next film, Mission Impossible Fallout, the IMF and CIA have been grudgingly coordinating their efforts to mop up the remnants of the Syndicate. They've been fairly successful, but a handful of the best and most dangerous members of the terrorist organization are still at large. Unfortunately, these final holdouts have managed to get their hands on everything they need to construct a couple of nuclear bombs. The plutonium for these bombs was supposed to be intercepted by Ethan and his team, but he failed to do so by choosing to save his team members' lives instead of securing the package. This leads to a soundscolding for caring about individual lives, and naturally, it was just another frame job for treason. The rest of the movie is spent attempting to recover the plutonium, neutralize the remaining Syndicate members, and save the world. All of this firmly establishes a few things. First, the IMF is there to do what the rest of the intelligence world can't or won't do. Second, the organization, and Ethan Hunt in particular, is concerned with the well-being of individual people, not simply nation states. And third, all the other intelligence agencies hate the IMF, which is probably the most realistic thing about the films. The reason the IMF seems so far-fetched is because it is. On a purely practical level, the outlandish gadgetry is often way over the top. Stunts like scaling the outside of the Burj Khalifa building in Dubai, or surviving a halo jump in the middle of a thunderstorm, are obviously insane. But what's probably most unrealistic of all is the very existence of an agent like Ethan Hunt, and an organization like the IMF. There is no spy agency anywhere in the world that's as competent or as heroic. In fact, none of these agencies are even very good at all. Now, before we really get into this, I'm not here to make judgments about every single individual who works at the CIA or MI6 or even Russia's FSB or China's Ministry of State Security. What I will say is that the incentive structure for government agencies does not typically reward anyone for prioritizing individual rights, human life, political sovereignty, or personal morality. Instead, agents get rewarded for following orders and executing their mission, even if that means torturing and assassinating people, meddling in other people's political or economic systems, and generally treating civilians as expendable. There's a reason people like Ethan Hunt only exist in fiction, and looking at what some of these organizations have actually done throughout history, callous disregard for the individual and refusal to stray from orders no matter how questionable or morally repugnant is probably the only explanation. For example, in 1978, Bulgarian playwright and political dissident Georgi Markov defected to the West and worked as a broadcaster criticizing Bulgaria's communist regime and the Soviet Union. One day, while walking across a bridge in London, Georgi was poked in the leg by an unknown man with an umbrella. The next day, he was dead. He'd been injected with a tiny metal ball laced with ricin. Though only strongly suspected at the time, it was later revealed that the Soviet KGB had ordered and carried out the assassination working with the Bulgarian secret service. And Markov was by no means the only dissident who's been assassinated by the KGB, its predecessor the NKVD, and its successor the FSB. The Chinese Ministry of State Security is notorious for stealing data from business IP to government secrets. They also frequently target dissidents both inside and outside their own borders, especially anyone even tangentially involved in pro-democracy protests. Even if all they did was help protesters with their bills. Even if all they did was acknowledge that something happened.   Did you know that Great Britain's MI6 actually does issue a license to kill? Well, that doesn't always get used for good. They've also done their share of torture. And they apparently even have the right to just commit crimes domestically too. Same deal with Israel's Mossad, which has carried out several international assassinations that we know of. Using spy agencies to hurt and murder people in the name of the state is one of the things that virtually all governments have in common. And that brings us to the United States. I bet you already know a little bit about the enormous domestic surveillance program run by the NSA and exposed by Edward Snowden in 2013. What you may not be aware of is the fact that despite the huge media impact, the government's surveillance of innocent Americans without due process never actually ended. If anything, the U.S. surveillance state has only gotten bigger. The enormous advances in both technology and government reach, especially since the turn of the 21st century, has made it easier to observe more of what more people are doing more of the time. But it certainly didn't begin there. The American government has been spying on its own citizens and everyone else for a long time. Take Project Mockingbird, for example. That started in 1963 when President Kennedy ordered the CIA to wiretap various journalists for allegedly revealing classified information. It laid the groundwork for the mass surveillance of the anti-war movement in the late 60s. Then there was Operation Condor in the 1970s and 80s in which the CIA backed several right-wing dictatorships in South America simply because they weren't communist. Of course, the Soviets were doing the exact same thing at the same time, promoting socialist and communist leaders, supporting military coups, and arming satellite states against the U.S. But going back further in time, in the years following World War II, both the CIA and the FBI actively recruited a thousand or so Nazis as Cold War spies, including some who were almost certainly war criminals. Beginning in the 1950s, the CIA ran a string of covert programs like MKUltra and MKDelta, which combined various forms of torture with high doses of LSD in an attempt to discover methods of brainwashing and mind control. And speaking of torture, it's pretty well known by now that the CIA tortured terrorism suspects without a trial at Guantanamo Bay and lied to Congress about it, which incidentally is also still open. Oh, and we can't forget the fact that the CIA funded its fight against the Nicaraguan government in the 1980s by trafficking cocaine into Los Angeles. The U.S. government is also the world's largest known arms dealer, providing weapons to all sorts of political groups around the world, including many that turned out to be not so good. I actually talked a lot more about these kinds of examples in the episode I did a few years ago about the boys, so go check that out if you haven't seen it. While these piles of misdeeds and scandals can certainly make it seem like maybe the CIA and the NSA are the worst of the lot, I do want to make something clear. All of this stuff, the murders, the spying, the torture, the secret hot and cold wars, is just an incomplete list of the things we know about. And as much as the U.S. agencies hide behind national security and top secret classifications, thanks to freedom of information act requests, public hearings, and periodic declassification of information, as Americans, we still enjoy far more transparency than almost any other country. Seriously, in the years since the Soviet Union collapsed, we've learned about all sorts of unspeakable horrors committed by their various intelligence services and other government bureaus. Forced starvation, cannibalism, shockingly inhumane treatment in the gulags, involuntary medical experimentation. We only know about a fraction of what the Soviets did because so many of their records were destroyed before glassnosed. But what we do know often makes the U.S. spy program seem downright friendly by comparison. It turns out most of this stuff isn't really like Mission Impossible at all. And the question I have in all this is, how is all this torture and assassination actually helping anyone? I understand the arguments that these agencies make in favor of their own existence. They're necessary because other, more dangerous, less benevolent countries are going to engage in assassinations and spy craft. So we need the means to defend ourselves. Heck, they even make these claims in spy movies. And they're not wrong. There are plenty of threats out there. But I'm not so sure that's a justification for what we actually have. Do we really need hilariously unaccountable government-run bureaucracies like the CIA, the NSA, or the FBI running around killing people, propping up cartels and terrorist groups, running guns to other countries, fabricating domestic threats, and generally committing crimes all over the world in the name of national security? None of that makes me feel very safe. And it all seems like a good way to start new wars that create even more problems in the future. Maybe I'd feel differently if they were consistently effective at getting and sharing accurate information, but they're not. Our spy agencies have a history of failing to thwart major disasters. Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor might have been prevented before it was able to sink a bunch of critical warships and kill 2,300 people, were it not for agencies that didn't talk to each other. During the Korean War, South Korea could have been better prepared for North Korea's invasion, and we might have known more about China's involvement in backing. There were a ton of blatant intelligence failures regarding the Vietnam War. In fact, the CIA's evaluation of their own performance is brutal. And while that was happening in 1973, intelligence services failed again with the Yom Kippur War. Right up until the Arab coalition attacked, both Israel and the U.S. were convinced that such a thing couldn't happen. Instead, we narrowly avoided a nuclear apocalypse. Twice. Just six months before the Iranian Revolution of 1979, the CIA said, Iran is not a revolutionary or even a pre-revolutionary situation. The 9-11 Commission admitted that the 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S. should not have been a surprise. The terrorist actually gave plenty of warning that they were planning to do what they did. And even recently, the CIA utterly failed to anticipate how quickly and completely the Taliban would regain control of Afghanistan after the U.S. withdrawal. If you're interested in a more detailed look at many of these examples, you can read Legacy of Ashes, The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner. But again, I want to know why we are allowing these organizations to have so much power inside the government. Why do we give them the authority to commit horrible acts in the name of the United States people? Why do we trust them at all? As much as I love the Mission Impossible movies, I'm going to lay a little bit of the blame on everyone who's been involved in that series, first on TV in the 60s and on the big screen today. Same goes for Ian Fleming's James Bond, Born Identity, and all the other awesome spy movies we've gotten over the years. They're thrilling and fun to watch, but they often distort our perception of reality. Real spy agencies aren't the IMF. They aren't heroic. They aren't all that competent. They aren't even particularly exciting or cool. They mostly seem to alternate between being extremely boring and utterly horrifying. I don't want to imply that there are easy answers here. The world is a mess, and it's absolutely true that other, often much worse governments, are constantly trying to undermine the more free parts of Western society. Anyone who thinks that the US is the only country that medals in other people's elections or backs political coups is fooling themselves. Don't be that guy. But you're also fooling yourself if you think that the CIA is some kind of ultra-competent agency that successfully executes every mission and is out there night and day saving lives. It's not.  I'm certainly planning to. But please, don't let it fool you into thinking that the only thing standing between you and dangerous international threats is some agent of the deep state. None of these groups is the IMF and no one is Ethan Hunt. That job is already taken. Hey everybody, thanks for watching this episode of Out of Frame. This message will self-destruct in five seconds. No, I'm kidding. But I'm not kidding about the fact that Out of Frame is going to end in a couple months. It's been an amazing run for these last five years, but I have a new job and we're winding down the series. However, there's still going to be new content coming out on this channel and we've already put out a few experimental shorts to see if a slightly different kind of content will work. Check those out and leave a comment letting us know what you think. 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Felly, mae'n gweithio i ddweud o'r strategiaeth dimensiol. Felly, mae'n gweithio i ddweud o'r next item of business, sy'n mynd i'r mynd i ddweud o'r motion 8037 o'r Name of Maggie Chapman o'r behalf o'r Sgwtters Parlymentary Corporate Body o'r Appointment of Members of the Standards Commission for Scotland. Felly, mae'n gweithio i ddweud o'r motion. Felly, mae'n gweithio i ddweud o'r motion o'r Name of the Corporate Body Appointment Panel o'r Name of the Parliament to agree to the appointment of Helen Donaldson and Ann Marie O'Hara as members of the Standards Commission for Scotland. The Standards Commission is part of the ethical standards framework in Scotland and its role is to encourage high ethical standards in public life by promoting and enforcing the codes of conduct to councillors and members of devolved public bodies. It issues guidance to councils and public bodies and adjudicates on alleged contraventions of the codes referred to it by the commissioner for ethical standards in public life in Scotland. The commission has a convener and four members, all of whom are part-time. After the usual recruitment process, we have two people we wish to nominate as members of the commission. Helen Donaldson has had a long and successful career in education initially as an English teacher then moving into more strategic roles in Aberdeenshire. As head of education and inclusion in Aberdeen City, she had wide-ranging responsibilities working closely with local councillors, outside agencies and officers from across the council. Ann Marie O'Hara has recently retired from her post as the chief executive officer of an Edinburgh-based charity in social enterprise, providing affordable space for the third sector. Ms O'Hara has worked in various property, charity and grant giving roles. She was head of the capital team at the Big Lottery Fund and led the property planning, projects and European funding team at the National Trust for Scotland. I am sure that the Parliament will want to wish them both very well and every success in their new roles. In closing, I want to thank the outgoing members, Mike McCormack, who demitted office on 31 January, and Tricia Stewart, who will demit office on 31 March and to wish them both very well for their futures. Presiding Officer, I move the motion in my name. The question on this motion will be put at decision time. The next item of business is consideration of business motion 8064 in the name of George Adam on behalf of the parliamentary bureau setting out a business programme. I call on George Adam to move the motion. Thank you Presiding Officer and moved. I call on Neil Bibby to speak to and move amendment 8064.1. Thank you Presiding Officer. Last week, Scottish Labour formally requested two statements from the Cabinet Secretary for Health, and I made that request again at the bureau on Tuesday, but to no avail. We are therefore proposing an amendment to the business motion to add two important statements on our NHS next week. The first relates to national treatment centres which are subject to delays and cost overruns. Five of the 10 treatment centres are delayed and we understand the costs of the Livington Centre alone. They have gone up from £71 million to £184 million. 770,000 people in Scotland—that is around one in seven Scots— are now on NHS waiting lists. Waiting lists are costing patients their health and costing taxpayers money too. Those centres are an important part of the solution. We therefore need a statement on those delays and cost overruns as a matter of urgency. The other statement requires on NHS Tayside. The health secretary promised over a year ago that he would advertise and recruit consultant oncologists, but that still has not happened. Women with suspected breast cancer are still having to travel outwith the region. That is not acceptable. Those are not the only issues affecting our NHS. Today we also learned that ICU beds at air hospital have been removed as well. That is despite HUM's abusive promise in just two months ago that they would be retained. The health secretary has apparently said that he is happy to answer specific questions on those matters. That begs the question why we would not have statements to Parliament then. That would provide the appropriate forum for HUM's abusive to answer those questions. I also understand the health secretary has suggested that he is happy to meet with members to discuss those matters, but at least one of our members has been struggling to get time in his diary. It is clear that HUM's abusive seems preoccupied with running his own leadership campaign than running Scotland's NHS. We believe that this Parliament and the people of Scotland should hear from the health secretary on these important matters. There is a day job to be getting on with, and HUM's abusive needs to get on with his about the amendment in my name. I call on George Adam to respond on behalf of the parliamentary bureau. Thank you, Presiding Officer. The Scottish Government regularly updates Parliament on the national treatment centres. Most recently, in December, four national treatment centres will open this year, providing significant additional protected capacity. The programme is a huge investment in front-line planned care infrastructure, and over the next five years will provide the single biggest increase in planned care capacity ever created in NHS Scotland. The Scottish Government remains committed to delivering the programme, and there is no further update that wants a statement at this time. The Scottish Government will continue to work with NHS Tayside and other partners across health and social care to address financial pressures and to take forward reform to deliver improved, sustainable services. On both issues, as always, I encourage members to lodge specific questions via the normal routes available to them, and ministers will, of course, be happy to answer. Thank you. The first question is the amendment 8064.1 in the name of Neil Bibby, which seeks to amend motion 8064 in the name of George Adam on behalf of the parliamentary bureau setting out a business programme. Be agreed. Are we all agreed? Yes. The Parliament is not agreed, therefore we will move to a vote, and there will be a short suspension to allow members to access digital voting.


with an estimated 100,000 to 150,000 newborns living with sickle cell disease in Nigeria. The country accounts for 33% of the global burden of sickle cell disease. This star-green figure has ranked Nigeria as the country with the highest number of sickle cell patients in the world, according to medical doctors in Kano state. The less than the burden of sickle cell disease, Aminu Kano teaching Hospital AKTH has identified heightened sensitization to forestall the prevalence of the disease and active participation as a key driver towards intensifying blood donation. Ideally, blood should be transfusive, but unfortunately, that will not be so. Simply because we have to buy the back. The fact itself, you know, that you are going to put the blood in something very expensive. It's expensive because it's not produced in Nigeria. You have to import it from another country. This is very sad. At this age and time, we should be able to produce a back. We want to be able to put our own blood inside. Some few months ago, when I was in Nigeria, there were so scars. One wished to buy it at the rate of 200 nera. It escalated to 4,000 nera. 4,000 nera, but it's out of blood. So it's a very serious issue. In addition to that, we have to now screen the blood to make sure that the blood is laid and put into another person without any. And this also leads to your point. You need to get the agents that are needed so you can do this testing before transmitting the blood. If you don't have someone that will donate blood for you, so you have to buy that blood. And it's very difficult for us again. If you don't have that blood, you must find someone that will donate for you. Maybe if you are all positive or all negative, that blood is very hard to find. So if you don't have to do that person that will donate for you, you have to buy that blood. Well, I feel like I'm happy because though they donate it for us, we will be free for sometimes. We will use the blood if we are sick. And when the crisis arises, we have blood. We are not sorry about that.


Is there big change needed at the top in order for the Baltimore Ravens to reach ultimate to reach that true success and not only getting to a Super Bowl but winning another one. Well that seems to be the topic that's on a lot of Ravens fans mind and today's episode, special episode of questions from subscribers. We are going to get into just that. Before we do, make sure you subscribe to the channel, turn your notifications on and leave a like on the video because it helps out a whole lot. Now first question, questions they came from Terry. He said, is it time for a change of scenery? What's up in Ravens? Hope you and the family are doing well and I pray that God continues to bless you guys every step of the way. Appreciate it Terry. He said this question is a very long one so if you read this I thank you. Okay here we go. 2018 Ravens lose the charges in the AFC wildcard game. We went almost three quarters without scoring the ball. Granted rookie quarterback Lamar Jackson was under sitting so there was a guarantee to have some struggles in this game. 2019 Ravens on the first seed have a home divisional game at the bank but the offense hasn't clicked for a second straight year in the postseason. Only run the ball a few times despite being the number one total Russian offense in the NFL. 2020 Lamar wins his first playoff game with not only a stellar passing game but rushing as well against the Titans. However, the divisional game before Lamar goes down, the Ravens don't score a touchdown until the fourth quarter. If you see where I'm going now, let team keep it clean. No. Oh no no no no no. I don't need to let them know anything. They already know. But it's that 2021. Despite losing Lamar Jackson, a half of our team being decimated to injuries. If the Ravens beat the Steelers in week 17, we're in the playoffs. Ravens going to overtime against a good team but lose while the offense could only put up 13 points with terrible play calling and the defense only holding the Steelers to 16 points. 2022. No Lamar. No problem. We score a touchdown. We're good. We fumbled the ball at the one yard line. Tyler Huntley jumped over when we could have ran with either JK or Gus. 2023. We beat the Texans and run the ball. Great against the Chiefs. We only run the ball a few times. Even withholding the Chiefs to just 17 points and a score of the second half, we couldn't get the job done offensively. If you understand what I was trying to prove here is that the defense is by far our smallest problem when it comes to the playoffs. That's true. They've been, for the most part, they've been doing that thing. It's sadly the offense. Every year we continue to beat ourselves. So I ask you this. Is it time for a new change of scenery and give the keys to the timing of this question? So it obviously happened before everything went down. His question was, is it time for a new change of scenery and give the keys to Mike McDonald as our head coach? I wish that could have happened. I really do because I felt like it would have been a breath of fresh air while still doing things that you've done great already, but improving the things that you don't do so great in some other areas. But that's that. He said, no disrespect to Hobbs, but I think the team needs something new and to hold guys accountable. Yeah, it ain't no disrespect to Hobbs at all. Change of scenery is not always a bad thing. I know so many Ravens fans look at when if you talk about the possibility of the Ravens, obviously it's not going to have it anymore, but the possibility of the Baltimore Ravens moving on from John Harbaugh. We know it's not going to happen. It's only going to happen on his terms whenever he feels like he wants to step down. But whenever you talk about it, a lot of Ravens fans say, well, who would be better? Well, who would you rather have in place of him? Who's going to come in and do a better job than John Harbaugh? Well, you got options of guys, but and then people will also say, well, hey, John Harbaugh goes and he'll get picked up in two seconds. That's true. He will get hired for sure. It's coaches that get fired from one job and they get another job like that. It's coaches that leave the NFL and they'll come back and they'll get a job like that. They'll have their options. Of course, they'll get hired, but a change of scenery could be beneficial for sure for both parties. It could be beneficial for the Baltimore Ravens because maybe it's something that's obviously not clicking. Something that's not clicking. But then on John Harbaugh's side, he could go over and have success somewhere else. They'd be like, okay, cool, great. Look at Andy Reed. Andy Reed, he was killing it to a point to an extent with the Philadelphia Eagles. NFC championship, NFC championship, NFC championship, Superbowl, but he just could not get over the hump. Couldn't do it. What happened? He left, went to the Chiefs and boom. Now look at him, regardless of one of the best coaches all time. Just from change of scenery and the Philadelphia Eagles, they ended up winning the Superbowl after he left. He ended up winning the Superbowl. Both parties ended up winning Superbowls after they broke up. It's a real possibility that both parties can have success after the breakup, and that would be just fine. Oh man, we started talking and I forgot to read the rest of what he said. He said, thank you for everything, great. When I've been watching you since the sixth grade and now I'm a freshman in college. And that's great. I appreciate that, man. Thank you. I appreciate your consistency and hard work. I appreciate that a lot, man. Thank you, man. Next question came from my guy, TJ. He said, it's time for change. I hate to do this to Team Cleveland, but it's time for a change. I'm tired of hardball laying down for Andy Reed. I'm tired of NFL rigging these games. And when we watch the players go along with the plan, there's no way that we lost that game. And it's a shame as a Ravens fan to see this keep happening. I'm retiring as a Ravens fan after seeing them sell out the way that they did and how rigged the NFL is hashtag TJ out. Now let me ask you a question. Are you going to come out of retirement later on in the off season? They make a couple of nice moves and whatnot. And I get the frustration. Trust me. Trust me. We all get it, so we ain't mad at you. But we'll see you in a couple of months, my friend. The Ravens made a huge mistake. Next question came from my guy, Sean G. He said, ain't graven up all as well with you and the fam of doing well. Appreciate it, Sean. I think the Ravens have made a huge mistake. Mike McDonald got hired by the Seahawks and I believe the Ravens should have kept him and made him our head coach. I've been saying this since after last season and hardball has taken us as far as he can. But after the success we had this year, I kept quiet. Now that the season is over, I believe the Ravens were wrong in letting Mike McDonald go. McDonald has shown him to be able to make adjustments during games, even though he was only the defensive coordinator of the team. While I have a lot of respect for what hardball has done for the Ravens, he still makes mistakes during games that I believe we should have won. This past game against the Chiefs, we only ran the ball six times with our running backs and that is one of his many wrong doings as a head coach. We were the best running team in the league yet when we get to the playoffs, we want to start throwing the ball all over the place. The week before against the Texans, Lamar had 100 yards rushing alone. McDonald will be a success with the Seahawks. Not sure Ravens know what they have truly lost in McDonald. Sorry for the long message, but I feel like I had to say this. No, you don't got to apologize for nothing. Yeah, you were more than right in saying that. Got no problem with that. And I agree. I do think again, breath of fresh air would have been just fine. Just going in a slightly different direction would have been just fine. But that's what's scary about the Baltimore Ravens right now. And again, it's all love for John Harbaugh. You already know that. But it just feels like something like they seem to be stuck. They seem to be stuck in this spot to where they just, the biggest moments, they fall apart and they don't know who they are. They forget who they are. They forget what got them there. Well, even if they don't forget nothing, but often they forget what got them there. And people just tired of the same thing happening. Next question came from my guy, BB. He said, so Mike, Mike, Mike Mac has left Chum City. These Ravens are in desperate need of a change in leadership. As we have discussed in the past, every enemy is available and would definitely be an upgrade at head coach hoodie may be a great option as well. And was it goals? There has to be a system of urgency moving forward. The past season was fun, but with different leadership and accountability, there could have been possibly a different outcome. Thanks again and great for the channel. Been watching for a few years and continues to enjoy all the content. Appreciate it. And he said hashtag to keep clean hashtag run the ball. I don't see the Ravens moving off of John Harbaugh for every enemy. And with Bill Belichick. Oh, man, what happened with him? That was a game. Get a job. That's crazy. So would he be willing to be like an assistant? Like, hey, I wouldn't mind if the Ravens brought both of them on because they both got a lot of Superbowl experience. If they found the role for, you know, Boston Ray, that's one thing they know how to do. They know how to create some roles. They know how to create some jobs, man. So if the Baltimore Ravens could bring them on for something, figure out something with both of those two, I wouldn't be mad at all. But it probably ain't going to happen. But hey, you know what? I can't say that, especially with Eric B. Enemy. With Bill Belichick, probably not. But with Eric B. Enemy, they may be able to create some form just to put him on and then put him as like a role of assistant here, assistant there, the director of this or the head of that. And then just watch him move up in the ranks. And then, hey, you never know. But anyway, his next question was, after watching his AMC Championship game, my question is this, are the Ravens a better team without Mark Andrews? Oh, he got a couple of questions in here. I can't say they are a better team without Mark Andrews because Mark Andrews is one of them guys. But they have an issue to where it's all or nothing. I mean, no, it's one or nothing. It can never be all. And what I mean when I say that is with the tight ends. If Isaiah likely is going off, Mark Andrews, he can't go off. If Mark Andrews is going off, Isaiah likely can't go off. But if one of them is playing, great. But if both of them are playing, it's like they both are ineffective. They have a problem where they can't get both of them going. It just, it never happens. It's weird, but it just never happens. So anyway, he said also, what happened to the best running game in NFL? When is he going to see that Hardball has been holding his team back from truly becoming a consistent contender? Now, I disagree with that part. Hardball has them as a contender. They've been a contender, especially when they've been healthy.  Mike McDonald, oh, yeah. I see the timing of these. Oh, he sent this on January 28th. Watch this. He said Mike McDonald has to take over the head coach job. Ravens can't afford to lose him due to complacency. Hell. And we've been talking about this for years and still through coordinator after coordinator, nothing has been solved. Got to focus on the true problem and deal with it. Thanks for all the great content throughout the season and all the past seasons as well. So you saw how he recognized what the issue has been. And he realized that before Mike McDonald even left, he was talking about it. But anyway, he also said, these Ravens have a lot of hard decisions to make with this roster. Coaches and players alike are going to be cut. Go somewhere else or be resigned. Who do you think is the biggest need to sign player for this Ravens team? Biggest need to sign player for this Ravens team that's going to be a free agent? I'd say probably Matt Abike. Matt Abike. Getting that interior pressure, it just makes life easier for Ravens as a whole. He said, who do you think won't be here for next season? Patrick Queen and Geno Stone too. And he said, what is the biggest need for the Ravens in the draft? Offensive line and just players that... I was just talking to my guy JT about this the other day. He brought up a good point. I was like, I didn't even think about that. But players that can be healthy, players that are not injury prone. Because that's so big, that's so big. Just to be available is huge. So that would be it. And he said, injury play left tackle needs to be addressed. Ronnie is solid when he is healthy, but the loss hurts, but the Ravens will be back. So okay, yeah. I guess I should have read the rest of his question because he literally said exactly what I said as well. Therapy. Next question came from my guy Oriole Cookie. He said, hey, they ain't great, but I'm having a delayed reaction and really feeling it. I feel like a Cowboys fan with being lied to and cheated. At least in 2019, there was the youth excuse. So 2020 and 2022, there was Lamar being hurt. What's the excuse this year? There is none. There's none. Ravens were clearly the best team in the league. Best team in the league. Even a Super Bowl champion came off and said that after winning the Super Bowl. He still said the Ravens were the best team in the league. Best one. Because they were. We knew that. Everybody knew that. But yeah, you know the rest of the story. He said, sorry, one more question. Are we going to be the Cowboys and make no changes or even consider changes to personnel? Or are we personnel, coaching staff? I mean, it's always changes every year with a football team. No matter how much you try to keep them the same, there's always going to be some kind of changes, whether major or minor. With the Baltimore Ravens, this all season is so far it's been a bit of both. Been some major changes and there will be some more minor changes as well. And some other major changes too because you can't keep all them players. You got a lot of free agents. A lot of pen and free agents. Some you're going to keep. Some you're going to retain. But a lot are going to go. So it's going to be up to you to retool, replace and get this thing right again. What now? Next question came from my guy Anthony. He said we lost. Sucks. But we are fans no matter what. We stopped running the ball. We'll never, we never even started. Just shot ourselves in the foot. So what now and Raven, what needs to be done? And it's always God bless and trust. So what now? That's a great question. What now? What's it going to be to help these Ravens move forward positively and get over this hump? You know what? It's like we've had the same conversation for a while now. Just hoping that the Ravens would realize like, hey, why do we keep making this harder? Why do we keep making stuff more difficult? But to keep doing it. And I mean, if something keeps happening over and over and over, you got to look at the root cause of it all. Next question came from my guy Javo. He said, I had a feeling that we were going to lose when everyone started jumping on the Ravens podcast. Once again, the defense played great, but the offense was stagnant. Only receiver who came to play was Zay Flows. And the offensive line forgot how to block. Why didn't we see Daven Cook? We need to, I forget about that a lot too. I mean, we ain't even seen the starting running back. So couldn't even imagine seeing him. I completely forget about that. I forgot that he was even on the team, really. Cause yeah, he, yeah, I completely forgot. But anyway, he said, we need to invest in a lineman to replace Ronnie Stanley, a true wide receiver, a lockdown cornerback and possibly, he said him possibly a new head coach. What do you think? Hey, getting all those things would have been great, but I can't say they not all are going to happen. It would be great to knock down all of those, all in one off season.  How about like we continue to say, he ain't going nowhere. He ain't going nowhere. He's not going to get fired. He ain't, he ain't going nowhere. But as far as a true wide receiver, yeah, I mean, you got some guys like that already, but again, it's a matter of just making it happen. Like with Shaw Bateman, he, he begin to open a lot. They just got to get that connection down. They, they, they look him and Lamar just, they ain't on the same page. They got to get on the same page. They ain't there yet. Um, so with another, a lockdown cornerback, you got Brandon Stevens already, invest alignment to replace Ronnie Stanley. Well, yeah, I think you got to do that regardless. So actually maybe they can hit on a lot of this stuff, this off season. So that's really up to EDC in them to make it happen. He also said, to be fair, I don't really mind if PQ leaves because Trent Simpson can do a lot more as far as coverage and his speed coming off the edges with Blitz's. Our main focus should be J.M. Justin Madabique. And maybe reconstructed Marlowe, Ronnie and Marcus contracts to bring in a true receiver or invest in the offensive line. We have some young studs like to various Robinson. I can't call them a stud yet, but we'll see. And a jobbo if healthy who can help the past rush. See the fact that you got to put that part, that's scary. Cause it's been what was last year, his second season, I think. I know his first season was a wash pretty much cause he was hurt, but it happened again. He got hurt again. So now it's like, now do you put all your eggs into the a jobbo basket? I don't think you can. And then you got Tyus Bowser, who was out all year. They'll probably release him. So he said, well, you should also be focusing on, Oh man, see, I love looking back at some of these questions cause the timing, this is on January 30th, obviously before it was official. He said, we should also be focused on keeping McDonald and maybe offering him a head coach position and give John a different role. What are your thoughts? You see a lot of people was on the same page with that. He was on the same page with that. He said, also we should try and draft Keon Coleman to receive him from FSU. I've been hearing his name a whole lot. Java also said, been listening to a lot of analysis and they say that Lamar Jackson didn't play like Lamar Jackson versus Chiefs. They say Lamar played like he was trying to prove people wrong and that he can stay in the pocket. I have noticed a lot of times Lamar will hold on to the ball too long instead of running with the ball like he did versus Texans. What are your thoughts on that? And do you agree with Rex Ryan? As he said, the game plan sucked heading into this game and that we should apologize to Greg Roman because he would at least maintain the running game unlike Todd. You sure about that? We forget about 2019, the 2019 that happened, right? Did that season just get erased from our minds and our memories and did it just not go down? Because it literally the exact same thing happened, exact same thing. With that, with I had not un-lost my whole train of thought, while with Lamar not playing like himself, that's what it was. I had to go back and reread it again. Yeah, sometimes it can't seem like that. Like Lamar is playing like, oh, I'm gonna prove these people that I could do this and it's like, we already know you could do that. People already know you could do that. My thing is like with Lamar is we know everything that you could do.  They know it. So, hey, just play winning football. That's it, win. That's it. But you got to do what you got to do to win. That's it. You got to prove nothing to nobody. You got your contract. You got your MVPs. You got your all-pros. You break a new record every other week. You got all that stuff. Just win. What are you gonna say if you keep winning? That's all you need to prove, that you are winning that football. That's it. And we proved that in the regular season. All right, cool. Now time to take it up a notch in the post. So, that's it. Play winning football and get it done. This things, next question came from my guy Ray Sean. He said, what's up in team keeping clean? I got to say this playoff, hurts more than any other playoff loss. Worst in 2019, you sure? Worst in 2011? It ain't touching 2011 to me. It's really not.  Obviously, this AFC championship and Ravens were right there. Best team in the league, they got... But I think 2019 was worth... I mean, excuse me, sorry, sorry. 2011, that was worse in my opinion because Ravens were in the game all game. They weren't getting bullied. They weren't playing scared. They weren't just... No, they weren't not playing their game. They were in the game all game. And then at the very end, again, you just knew... Oh, they going to overtime? Yeah, Ravens got it. And the kick, the kick that you just knew was going in. Oh, yeah, we got that. Nope, in that end of the game. Now, this game hurt for sure, but to me, it didn't hurt as much as 2011 did because, yeah, they were just different back then. But what was so different about that 2011? Let's talk about that another time. Anyway, he said, most specifically, the performance of my dude Lamar. It sucks because now we have to go a whole another year of listening to people say, Lamar can't play well in the postseason. He chokes in the postseason. He may never win the Super Bowl. I can't defend his performance versus Chiefs because honestly, it didn't seem like he wanted to win. He didn't play like he wanted to win. He refused to put on that Superman cape at the half. He should have been like, this is going to be me and say, if they don't open, I'm running for it because I don't have to dance around and wait for someone to get open. I'm tired of hearing what this man cannot do because the man can do it all. What could the haters or media say if he won? Funny timing is everything. Timing is everything. We were just talking about that in the previous question that just got to play winning football. Now, I can't say he didn't play like he didn't want to win because there was one point where Lamar Jackson was, he threw the ball and he ended up catching it himself and running for a chunk of yards on that play. So I'm like, oh, I was like, hey, Lamar said, I'm going to do it myself. But everything just stopped and something to think about. And Lamar obviously had no control of this. Remember, he threw the big play to Zay Flows. Through the big play to Zay Flows. And then once he threw that ball, Zay Flows caught it. They were in the red zone. But then Lamar threw a touchdown ball to Zay Flows. He threw another touchdown. But Zay fumbled it. Fumbled it right at the goal line. That was touchdown. Zay could have ran it in. He could have covered it up and just ran it in. He didn't even have to dive. I get why he was trying to dive because he was pressing. He was pressing because Raven needed to score. But he fumbled right there. And then, yeah, Lamar with the interception, a bad throw again. Should have been passing interference, but it was still a bad decision. I don't take away from it being a bad decision, but it should have been passing interference. So should have wiped off that bad decision. Should have canceled it out. Should have been offsetting decisions, but yeah. So anyway, continuing. He said, where were the mentors saying, hey, Lamar, put that cape on and just go do your thing? Where were the coaches saying, hey, we're only down 10. Don't force anything if nothing's there. Run or settle for the field goal. Settle for the field goal because our defense will get us the ball back. I'm just tired of hearing the same stuff when it comes to Lamar and Ravens because I won a Super Bowl badly for both. Anyway, sorry for the rant. Let's go. Oh, yeah. He said, let's go 49ers with yelling. Yeah, we saw that one. But yeah, it was unfortunate, man. And now, yeah, now we're here. So we'll see how this thing goes moving forward. And just hope that moving forward in the next playoff game, Ravens, they play who they are. They play to their identity and they don't forget what got them there.