This is covering the spread part of the Fandall podcast network We once again have another phenomenal pitching slate lined up for tonight It lines well with having Rob Friedman pitching ninja on to break down his favorite strikeout props of the day We'll break down those over at Fandall sportsbook talk about some guys who could potentially rack up the most strikeouts for tonight And I'll talk about some NASCAR and Richmond later on today This is covering the spread right here on the Fandall podcast network and over on Fandall research My name is Jim Sonnis I am a managing editor of digital media for Fandall research joined here as mentioned by a Rob Friedman You can check him out on Twitter at pitching ninja find him on peacock MLB MLB on Fox And of course at Fandall sportsbook with all those profit boosts as well Rob happy Friday to you How are you doing today? I am doing great. How are you? I am fantastic I got to watch uh, I'm very jealous because yesterday's guest on the show Dr. Red Fang we had to record early because he was going to Detroit to watch Shohei Ohtani pitch and Boy, did he my goodness putting up Basically the forms of a lifetime. I know it's it's not an Ohtani slate today But like my goodness just filthy across the board Both as a pitcher and I know I know Rob We want to root against dingers here in general But like I think we can make an exception for shohei correct 100 percent shohei is a pitcher first So we we get credit for all of his home runs too. Okay. I that was amazing though, wasn't it like that? Yeah, like I was I was jealous when Ed said it and then once that happened I was like, oh, wow, he was at that game and I was not and I'm like, man I need to find a way I needed to look at when the angels are in Chicago next Pop out for that game because he'll be there and they're making gains Well, I'm gonna ask you about Lucas Geolito later on See what can expect from him making his debut for the angels today in a second first day reminder to make sure you're subscribed to Covering the spread wherever you get your podcasts If you like what you hear leave us a five star rating on apple podcasts We're on spotify and these shows do go up over on the fandal youtube page and fandal tv plus as well next week No video because I am gone a Tom Vecchio filling in for me But let's love the audio version Here on the podcast feet But let's take a look at this again Chuck loaded Friday night slate here rob and a lot of fun pictures on tonight's slate We got your guy braxton garrett. I feel like i'm okay and labeling him as being your guy, but also I guess some under the radar names like max scherzer garrick coal kevin gosman ever heard of him Yeah, exactly. So when you look at tonight's slate rob, which pitching Uh strikeout props are you most keyed in on a fandal sportsbook? You know, you got a matchup of two of my under the radar guys with with garrett and olson in that game and I actually i've been following risa olson this sounds silly But but ever since he was in high school because he played he was a travel ball player that we coached against Back in the day and I always liked the way he threw and it's great to see him throwing that well In the show and I think you know, he's he's got a lot of promise I kind of really like his stuff So that's a matchup that i'm looking at and I'm actually picking both of those in my parlay today To I think I have olson for five k's and and garrett for six k's or more And uh, I wouldn't be surprised to see them surpass it pretty easily Yeah, olson over four and a half is minus 134 braxton garrett over five and a half is minus 124 and olson You said you've been watching him for a long time What at that time kind of keyed you went on to the fact that oh this guy might be kind of special So what I liked about him is he was a smaller frame pitcher who threw hard So he had to move really well and he did in order in order to throw hard. I just liked his mechanics Um, and that's really what jumped out at me because I remember walking by the field with my son Going I really liked the way this dude froze didn't know anything about him and then he ends up, you know He was he committed to georgia tech Then got drafted before he went to tech and then Yeah, the rest is history and in his debut. He was shoving he was fantastic and now facing off of the marlins in this game Over four and a half strikeouts minus 134 other side of bra is braxton garrett and again five and a half the number for him Over is minus 124 and garrett is a guy we discussed a lot and rob I think the thing that's most impressive about him is he gets strikeouts with a low pitch count Which means a he's efficient He he is not wasting pitches But also he's pretty dang good and I feel like if we ever got braxton garrett fully unleashed obviously i'm not asking for that Because the marlins know him better than I do. So i'm not saying they shouldn't Handle them the way they have they they know him better than I do. They're doing the right thing here but like if we ever got like a 97 pitch Braxton garrett regularly he could go bananas. What do you see about him in this match up here with detroit? Well, I mean I like him versus detroit number one because I mean i'll kind of like anybody That's mean But but he's got he's got really good stuff and you don't see it very often like he's his breaking stuff is is fantastic And it's just one of those things that he constantly is I don't know why under the radar Type guy doesn't throw hard. I think that's probably why he just strikes people out And uh, yeah, I agree with you anytime that he goes deeper into games and hopefully is at the point where maybe they let him go Tiny bit deeper. Yeah, um, you know, I look at him as a strikeout guy. He's good Yeah, and again, he's doing this. He's justifying five and a half strikeouts of this prop, which I've taken over on quite a bit He's justifying it at a low pitch count. So and that's accounted for here So we're liking both over four and a half at minus one thirty four and garret's over five and a half minus one twenty four In that same game marlins and tigers you get to begin your friday a little bit early too at that game with it being a 640 first pitch there. Okay, which are the ones you're looking at for tonight rob? So I was looking at brady singer. I think he's figured some things out and he's another one of those guys that maybe isn't that flashy And tends to mean when he's on can really strike folks out and he's pitching against a team that strikes out a lot. So We'll see they definitely do. Uh, that is definitely very accurate Singer strikeout profit vandal sportsbook over five and a half is plus 130 and Earlier this year rob he was really struggling and that surprised me because I liked singer a lot last year traded for him in my dynasty leak as a result of that and Didn't get off to a great start, but it seems like over the past I don't know like 10 or so starts it's 11 starts where he's gone back to that slider a bit more He's always used a lot, but like a little bit more usage there Is it a comfort thing to be like did he just find? Refinds the groove with that pitch leading to more strikeouts or what do you think keyed in that surge? Yeah, I mean I noticed his slider location wasn't great when he was struggling And he really needs all of his pitches to work well in order to pitch well He's a competitor. That's one thing I like about him But it wasn't all it just wasn't clicking location wise and now it appears to be we'll see I mean, I thought I thought last outing was a pretty good jump for him and Hopefully he's figured out and if he does expect a big game out of him Yeah, the twins active roster against righties a 28 strikeout, right? Which is a monster number bucks and likely back tonight, but that doesn't hurt the strikeout number at least So hurry it helps the offense for sure, but the strike from a strikeout perspective does not hurt there Okay, so singer over five and a half currently plus 130 over a fangirl sports book not a bad number there So that's the strikeout props. We're talking about for tonight I did want to ask you about Lucas G. Leto though because Rob we can a lot of times see Pitchers make changes when they change teams. We saw Jordan Montgomery last year regaining faith in his fastball We saw it with I think Kyle Gibson when he got traded one year Had some key changes that really benefited him you you see it a lot where You get a new face you get a new pitching coach and maybe just a fresh set of eyes Not saying that like the old staff wasn't good, but like a fresh set of eyes a new start So when you're watching Lucas G. Leto tonight making his debut for the angels What are you going to be watching most heavily there? To me, it's the extra sense of urgency like geo is a pitcher. He pitches On emotion a little bit. He can be when he's on he has that little he gets locked in He can tell from his face. Yeah, I think another team trusting him to help him in a playoff run Maybe bumps him up another level and he feeds off that emotion It wouldn't surprise me to see him do really well. I also think it helps the team It helps the angels in general to feel like They got they they're now adding pieces instead of selling things off down the stretch And you know players feel that you'd like to think everybody plays their hardest every game and they do But there's a little extra when you feel like you your owner has your back Yeah, and I've been really impressed with their offense ever since Mike trout got hurt They've been phenomenal. Um, and if you react if you're able to rehab Mike trout that lineup if they can keep moniac in there, too Um, you know, that could be a really fun team and adding Lucas G. Leto right out of Lopez That's a pretty fun addition for that team as well So I'm excited they did that because I won't show him a ton to be on a relevant team I didn't want to get tradings. I just see it feels wrong But like I want to see him on a relevant team In august-september and it seems like with the way the offense is hitting I think they've got a chance to be that and we'll see if g. Leto can be a part of that Beginning tonight. All right final question Rob. We don't have the strikeout leader prop up yet over a fangirl sports But because some teams have not yet announced their starters buoy on them But when you're looking at the pitchers on tonight's slate, who do you think are the main contenders? To lead this slate and strikeouts for tonight I was looking at gosman. Um, I think you know the angels k a decent amount gosman gets a lot of k's He would be my pick if i'm going to just pick one. I think Cole's got a little tougher match up Even though he can you know, you never know with Cole like if he is He is a bully on the mound when he gets going and I love it about him The question is like I pitched against the Orioles earlier in the year was Uh, and I you know, I just don't know. I think it's shaker. I think gosman would be my Yeah, we did see some interest in gosman's strikeout over because that number did just move over seven To half just moved to minus 134 So people are betting me over on that one that could correlate well to things here as well Any dark horses like do you think that garrids in contention for this one? Or is that a bit too much given the reduced pitch count? If he has that right if they let him go like he can he can get double digit strikeouts And it's going to take double digits to win today probably low double digits. Yeah, can he get there? He can get 11 Yeah, I mean, I I wouldn't be that surprised to see him do it. I don't know what his number is going to be It wouldn't be my favorite for it, but it's definitely possible Right. I think the benefit for gosman too is he's pitching likely indoors I think that roof will be closed tonight and you got a lot of hot weather on the east coast like shers are Low strikeout matchup. It's a revenge game, which is again worth 30 bump Um, and that obviously matters a lot, but a lower strikeout matchup. He's outdoors It's warm cold the exact same thing whereas gosman likely indoors for tonight, which does help him too Wheeler might be someone to look at too actually. Yes High strikeout matchup bad weather there not like in terms of heat, but like they might get rain in that game So keep an eye on that But I like wheeler too. He's been pitching, you know, he's Zach wheeler, of course He's always pitching well, but like especially recently Even though he's on the road, I think he'd be a pretty good contender for that one as well. Yeah Alrighty, so people want to check out. Uh, they could include that Strikeout leader actually just got popped up right here So, um, if they people want to include the daily strikeout leader market Rob, they could actually boost that sound like you got a profit boost over at vandal once again for this week Yep, but it's only good for parley. So you got to take that as a parlay add gosman in there And then parlay something else with it and you can definitely do it It's got to be over plus 400 total three legs or more But yeah, you got a 30% profit boost at vandal. Alrighty love to hear it Kevin gosman is a favor to plus 310. Um, we're listening to us My dark horse is 16 to 1 bobby miller kind of thought that you might be interesting He's been throwing fewer sinkers recently and sinkers are annoying to me as someone who wants strikeouts So I've been happy about that. He's 16 to 1 I can't get behind that unfortunately, but you know, I thought I'd give him a look But 16 to 1 is too short for me to get there. Yeah, probably right. Oh, well, we tried at least Garrett at 26 to 1 though. I mean that's long enough.  I think that's enticing It's worth chucking something on it, right? I think so too I think that's my favorite of the ones here because gosman 310 is kind of short. Um, I think that Shurs are even though it's a low strikeout match of a 12 to 1 is pretty enticing And then I would say garret at 26 the two I would like most Relative to their numbers. Yeah, I might take a look at that one too. I I think 26 seems right. That's they they were waiting. They wanted to get you in, you know And I feel like 26 is long enough to uh to bait the hook there. All right That is rob freeman makes you check him out on twitter at pitching ninja Check out that profit boost over at fangirl sports again a 30% profit boost on parlays three plus legs over at fangirl sports book I could check out his strikeout props there as well Check him out a peacock mlb mlb on fox and of course you're uncovering the spread as well rob Have a fantastic weekend. Enjoy the baseball tonight. We'll talk to you once again in two weeks Awesome. Great talking to you again as always. All right. Thank you rob And we'll talk to you again in a couple weeks here to talk more strikeout props on the show always fun to get Some brax and garret discussion here on the podcast We're going to dive into my thoughts on nascar enrichment here in just one second But first we've got some exciting news over at number fire beginning now You can find all the number fire content from the analyst You know over a new home called fandal research fandal research is on the fandal domain Meaning you can now do your own research on the same site where you place bets and submit daily fantasy lineups And don't worry. All the number fire tools are still in place over at number fire dot com So your daily process can remain the same for now as I thank you for your years of loyalty We'll be running free rolls over on fandal research now through the end of nfl season to check out next week free roll Once it is up go up to fandal dot com slash research and check out the link for a free roll for the nfl Hall of Fame game coming up next week get that over on fandal dot com slash research Let's dig in now to nascar at richmond they are at richmond for this weekend and It is one of the more predictable Tracks on the circuit not just because they've been there once already this year But also because it's a short flat track which tend to be they tend to be more predictable but also They just don't see a lot of crashes of richmond which means It's less likely that a contender will get wiped out by something stupid And that's always going to be beneficial for us when it comes to betting because we know who we fast this weekend So you're not getting a lot of surprises at richmond But I do think there's a guy who is like a somewhat longer shot who could potentially Win this race now not betting him to win I don't think there's I think I don't think it's the best route for doing so But I do think brad keselowski is a fantastic bet to podium and to finish inside the top 10 We're going to break down why uh, or what I think of those two markets and why I want to go to those two markets here In just one second, but first let's talk about why my model is on keselowski for this week. It's because keselowski's had two clear strengths Since joining rfk racing He has been great on tracks with heavy tire fall off and he's been great on short flat tracks His teammate chris busher nearly won this race last year a race that is a higher high tire fall off track and Um is a short flat track. So checks pulled those boxes So chris busher nearly won last year finished third keselowski ran top five in homestead with heavy tire fall off and He was also top five in darlington earlier on this year So in tracks with heavy tire fall fall off rfk has been at its best So but also keselowski has been great on short tracks. They're short flat tracks this year He had a top nine average running position in all three non martinsville races on short flat tracks He finished fifth in new hampshire the most recent one. I think that's actually a bit more Helpful than usual. It's always helpful for richman because it is a short flat But uh, they used a softer tire compound this year So I think that the overlap between those two races may be Even greater than usual. He did finish top 10 at richman earlier on this year as well So that's why my model likes keselowski and I think you could consider him to win He's 24 to 1 f andual sports book I do show value there because I have his win odds at 5.5 percent But the implied odds are 4 so a pretty decent edge on keselowski to win And I did take him at 31 myself earlier on this week elsewhere But I think the better value is in the podium market because you got martin trex jr Who is on a heater right now in his phenomenon richman denny hamlin exact same thing Kyle larson william byron. You've got four guys I think are a clear step above the rest of the pack and in order for keselowski to beat them He's gonna need a lot of juice for a podium It's not quite as bad and I do show value in the podium market as well It's not just like I want to avoid truex. Let's go podium instead The implied odds for keselowski to podium at plus 750 or 11.8 percent You can or could yesterday get at least some uh, plus eight fifties out there But at plus 750 a fandal implied odds are 11.8 percent. I have keselowski at 16.4 percent for a top three So it gives me more flexibility to get around truex and hamlin and the edge there is pretty big as well So I like that quite a bit I want to pair that with keselowski to finish top 10 His top 10 odds are plus 105 over a fandal sportsbook the implied odds of uh, plus 105 are 48.8 percent Whereas I have keselowski at 53.8 percent to finish inside the top 10 this weekend So once again a big edge there the way to do this is I would Layer this bet where you have enough from a top 10 bet where if he finishes inside the top 10 You profit But then you also add some on to the podium bet where if he finished in the podium, you have a great day So it's a a scaled bet as always scale it based on the knowledge with that there is a 47 percent chance if my model is correct that the top 10 bet does not cash in a larger chance a 84 percent chance the podium bet does not cash Please keep that in mind as you are allocating your bet scale don't overload on one driver and just don't overload on bets in general But keep that in mind and I would layer this year So you can benefit if he does finish top 10 you can profit there and then benefit a bit more If he does show upside and finish inside the top three again I do think you could consider him 30 to 1 to win I if you could get him 30 to 1 I would take that did take that earlier on but 24 to 1 right now at fandal I think with these markets where they're at specifically I would go the podium plus the top 10 being the correct way to play things So those are my two bets for nascar as we can Richmond Brad keselowski to podium and plus 750 and to finish inside the top 10 at plus 105 That is all that we have here for today on covering the spread once again the schedule for next week It will still be the same top vecchio filling in for me all five days both here and over on the solo shot So thank you tom a bunch for that help We'll not have the video versions of these shows, but we'll have the podcast version on apple podcast spotify wherever you get your podcast So to get those as they are posted follow tom on twitter at dfs underscore tom But also make sure you are subscribed to the covering the spread podcast feed wherever you get your podcast big Thank you once again to rob freedman. 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Hi everybody. This is Lisa Larson, Animal Communicator, and I'm with Alicia Alatrice Day. Hi, Alicia. How are you doing? Hi, Lisa. How are you? Thank you so much. Yes, I'm fine. Thank you. Good. Good. Well, today is going to be our last day of our Youth in Asia series. We had five set out to do five of these, was a little bit of a struggle along the way, but we finally got to the last one. And what we're going to be talking about is once you've gone all through that, and you've had to make those decisions, and you've gone through the process, and you've gone through those first days, now we're talking about some of the things that you have trouble with feeling your animal after maybe a long time. So I think that we have some questions from our viewers. Is that correct, Alicia? Well, you know, the first question here from, it comes from at Alexandra Patricio 2727. Her question is, when we lose our adorable animals, do they stay around for a long period of time, or do they re-incarnate right away? Re-incarnate. Re-incarnate. Re-incarnate. Re-incarnate. It's okay. When we introduced you, we said we were going to have a problem every once in a while, and that's okay. And she also said, I have heard from my family that they incarnate almost the moment that they leave their bodies. What is your opinion as far as the experience and concern about this? Okay, yeah, that's a great question. I think a lot of people have preconceived notions about some of these things, maybe based on their religious beliefs, but I do not think that they immediately come back. In my experience, it can be years and years. Now, it doesn't mean they can't come back right away. I've seen isolated incidents of that, but for the most part, it can be quite a length of time in our frame of mind of what a time frame is. I do feel like, yes, they can. They don't always in this while we're still in our body, but they can. The one thing that I always find is that they say, we will be together again. We'll be together again in spirit for sure. It may be, maybe I'll come back in this lifetime, but even if that doesn't happen, we will definitely be together in other lifetimes when we both have other bodies. But I also find that one of the things that they do is if they decide that they're not going to come back in a short amount of time, again, that's our frame of reference, is that they may send you another animal as well, which I find, I always call it they had a paw in sending you that animal. So I think this is telling us that we're going to have to do a whole podcast on reincarnation. So let's move on from this question and move on to the next, but let's put that on our list to talk about reincarnation in one of the podcasts. So let's figure that we will do a podcast on reincarnation. I agree with you. Then the second question comes from Spellingwater321. Okay. And I think it's a him. I lost my cat five years ago, and I can't let go of him. I would like to know, please, how I can feel him around me. Thank you. Okay. Yes. And I know that this one is close to your heart because you lost Chiki six years ago and you feel very much the same way. It's not that we all don't, you know, have never stopped loving our animals. It's just some people have a harder time getting past it than others. That's all. You know, it may be harder sometimes feeling them around after that long might be harder than right at the beginning, but it's not impossible.  You know, when you're focused, focused, focused on, you know, what can I see? Well, I'm not seeing it. The problem is you get so focused and what you end up being focused on is I'm not feeling her. I'm not feeling him. I'm not seeing him. I'm not, you know what I mean? It's like you end up being focused on what you are not feeling or seeing, which ends up blocking the energy and making it harder for that animal to come through. You know, so I mean, I think it's important for people to know that, you know, moving on doesn't mean letting go. You know, it's okay sometimes to feel happiness and feel things for other animals and all of that stuff because, you know, it doesn't mean that you've let go of that animal, but I think sometimes people feel such traumatic guilt and such traumatic grief that they feel guilty for even thinking about another animal or, you know, thinking about life without that animal or something like that, you know? So it's important for both of those things. I think you can continue to feel them. I think a lot of times one of the things that you can do is, like I say, in addition to trying to let go a little bit so you're not trying so hard, you're not focused on, you know, end up being focused on what you're not feeling. And that's part of letting that go. And then the more you let it go, the more they're able to come in. But I also think that you can write in a journal and write to them and ask them, you know, ask them to visit you.  Learn automatic writing and write that way. See if they'll come through that way. That's one option. You can have a communicator communicate with them. You know, sometimes I have had people who have had those problems, you know, like, I had one lady that she called me and when I talked to her, I could have sworn she lost her dog the night before, but it had been four years. But she was that emotional about it when I was talking to her, but it had been four years. And after that reading, it gave her a sense of peace. So I think it doesn't mean that we don't miss them still. It just allowed her to get past where she was stuck. So yeah, you can write in a journal. You can, you know, sometimes it's even about having the faith of knowing how all of this works, knowing, having the faith of knowing that they are around you. You know, I've said in other videos about how spirit is still here. You know, a lot of people they think when somebody goes, when somebody dies, I don't like that word dies, but when somebody transitions, they go off into some far away place in the sky. But that, to me, in my experience, isn't necessarily true. It's just they're right here. We they're just vibrating at such a high rate, we can't see them anymore. So it's it's like everything in the world has a vibration. The chair I'm sitting on has a vibration. It's a very low dense vibration. But it's a vibration. We as humans and animals are higher and spirit is even higher. And it's like a helicopter blade.  But if it's going really fast, you can see it. Yeah. So it's like that. And spirit is like that helicopter blade that's going really, really fast. It's not that they've gone anywhere. They haven't gone anywhere. They're right here. They're just not wearing their physical clothing anymore. So when you when you start to think of it in that way and start to understand on the spiritual level how that works, sometimes it becomes easier to feel them because we feel them through faith.  So I'm always a little worried about using that word. But you know, but it is that's what it is. It's it's an understanding that they are here and it doesn't have to mean that we have to feel them every moment. It's an understanding that they are here with us all the time. In fact, going around places that you know, with us where they never used to be able to go, which is something that I tell animals when I'm preparing them to transition that, you know, when you get on the other side, you can go with your mom to the store and on vacation and all of these places, you know. So a lot of it is this this having this understanding of how things work in and I hesitate to get too preachy here because I don't want people to think that I'm advocating that this is the only belief system. This is my belief system through the work that I do.  You know, you had a relationship when they were in body and now you have a relationship with them in spirit. Yes, but very important because I I create a relationship with Chiki in spirit. She's yeah, she's just she's there and you know she's there. But I don't want to forget there there's an exercise that I just heard recently that I think sounds really good. And it's for people who have this traumatic grief that that's stand stays around for a long, long, long, long time. And this was a therapist talking about it in and she says, think about that traumatic moment, like when that animal passed or something traumatic that happened to that animal. And close your eyes, do whatever, you know, if you want to meditate, first find, do some breathing just to center yourself, whatever, but connect with that animal. And in the grief of feeling that trauma and that traumatic moment, send out love and light like a white light or a golden light to him in spirit so that you feel that you are part of healing that traumatic moment on his end. And in in some ways, what that will do is it'll make you connect with him more or her as the case may be make you connect with your animal more. And in that way, it opens this up to feeling them around more. Does that make sense? I liked it. I can't say that I've ever done it, but I liked it. I liked hearing it and I think it would work. Yes, I agree with you completely. As a matter of fact, I want to try it too. Very good. Very good. All right. And also, I don't know if you can just also go more into the things that people can see. So the more obvious signs. The most obvious. Yes. Yeah, there's a lot of things that are the more obvious signs. And one is actually feeling them like brush against your body. I know when Makana passed, I would lie in bed and I would feel him pressed against my legs like he did when he would go to sleep at night. And it was like, no, the other animals aren't around. I know it's not them. So you can physically feel them. You can, things like hearing songs that maybe remind you of them. And this works with humans as well. Again, once we get over to the other side, there is no species, there is no age, there is no gender, we're just souls and energy. But we, they, when I talk to them, they present themselves as they were in the body that the person that I'm reading knew. So songs, you know, some of the very obvious ones are things like birds and butterflies and dragonflies and feathers and pennies. Those are very, very common.  That's probably them showing you, giving you a hello, you know. And in fact, it's interesting because I have a client. I, my gosh, I've been working with her for probably 10, at least 10 years. And that's how long it's been since her dog passed. And one of the signs, one of the big signs that he gives to her is sending her dragonflies.  And we talk to him like clockwork every single year. So I have, I have a relationship with this dog in spirit, you know. And he has started sending me dragonflies. There was one time I was sitting in, I was, we were cleaning out the garage and this dragonfly came and, and he just hovered in front of me. And like at first I was a little like, whoa, I'm not sure what's going on here. And then it's almost like he could read me flew back a little way and then he came and he hovered and he did it three times. And then in the third time I realized, oh my God, that's King. That's King sending me a message. And then I emailed her just, and that was several years ago and I emailed her just the other day because we don't get a lot of dragonflies around here. And we were, we were out looking at cars the other day and there was a dragonfly that came around and I, the minute I saw him, I knew it was King. I was like, so even, even they're sending like that dog sends, he always sends dragonflies to her, but he even sends them to me once in a while, you know? So they find the ones that they like, you know?  I know I have a, a client who's, who's cat always sends her pennies, but then there can be other things as well. There will just be things that I'll say out of the blue that do I really have to say this to this person, this, you know, sounds really weird, you know?  In experience, I started, when I was walking dogs, I started seeing all these butterflies, and I was like, why I'm seeing all these butterflies in San Diego, a bush full of butterflies.  I'm like, why? Cheeky saying hi.  So now, since that day to now, I see a butterfly, I'm like, hi, Cheeky. Very good. Very good. Very good. All right. Well, I hope this answers some of your questions, some of the out there, you viewers, listeners, you know, because I know that this is a really important topic for a lot of you. And I don't want to upsell myself, well, I kind of do. I mean, that's what I'm doing in the podcast, I guess. But there's lots of animal communicators. I always want the people that call me. I want them to feel like I'm the one for them. I mean, there's lots of different personalities. And more often than not, I tend to feel that the people that call me, they're supposed to be with me, the people that call somebody else, they're supposed to be with them. So whoever it is that you call, do understand that you also have that option of calling an animal communicator. And you can speak to this, Alicia, about the piece that it gives you. But I do find that when I do spirit readings, which I will be honest, I love doing spirit readings more with animals more than anything else I do. I mean, I'm really good at doing the behavioral stuff. And I'm special, I specialize that and all of the other things that I do, you know, it's all part of my job. But there's just something, something really special about being able to connect an animal and spirit with their person and give them that kind of peace and comfort that they are looking for. Like my advice to everybody is like, if they talk to an animal communicator, you, for example, they gave me so much peace. The pain went a little down because I knew that she was fine, that she was with me. And it's very important to be having communication with your animal and spirit.  Thank you. And, and, and yeah, it's the thing, the best thing that somebody can do for, for grieving and healing. Talking with animal communicator. Oh, well, thank you for that compliment. And yes, I agree. You know, I mean, that's how I got started in this, you know, I mean, that was my very first animal communication was when, when my baby Cairo was, we were having to put lift Cairo up, you know, and, and the peace that, that's that woman gave us. I just thought, my God, if I could do that for other people. Yes, I just, I just thought that'd be the greatest thing in the world. So yeah, so I decide to, to look for you. Can you tell us how? Yeah, pause talk dot net P a W S T a L K dot net. And all of my information is there. You can, you know, if you want, want to ask questions, you can email me or, or, or call me or all of the information is there on how to order and, and takes you all through the process and everything. So yes, I think your book is in your website too, right? Yeah, my book is on my website. I also have a book website pause talking the book dot com. And yeah, and, and, and I, I do appreciate the feedback that I've gotten about the book in that it's not only people who want to talk to animals, want to learn to talk to animals. I've gotten the feedback that even, even those who are just interested in how it works, they've read it. And they've told me that they learned so much about animals just through the stories and, and through my explaining why I do things the way that I do. And, and that makes me feel really happy because I feel like one of the most important parts of my job is helping people understand their animals and animals in general. And I, when I read your book, it was so clear that it took me like a movie. I went through the whole thing and just watching everything that you were saying. It was, you know, amazing. And you're an excellent writer. Oh, thank you. And so I guess people will have a lot of benefits reading your book. At least for me, it was really, really good. Okay, thank you so much for that. Perfect. Well, thank you guys. If I really appreciate you all being here. If you are enjoying these podcasts, video casts, vlogs, whatever they're called, you know, I never know what to call them. I do have, I am putting these on a podcast as well. But if you're enjoying it, please go ahead and hit that like button and the subscribe. And if you want to be notified, hit the bell and we'd really appreciate that support. And we will be back. I believe the next one we're going to be talking about and Alicia doesn't even know about this yet. Yes, I know that insurance insurance animal insurance, which I is near and dear to my heart. And I think it's really, really important to do. So we'll we'll talk about that. So thank you all very much. Thank you, Alicia. Thank you. And we'll see you again next time.


Let's talk about our knee. Your knee is actually the most complicated joint in your body. And one of the weird things about the knee is that it is a synovial joint. It's capable of some bizarre movements that we're not going to get too crazy. We'll just call it a hinge joint, but it's more than that. But it's articular capsule, the synovial egg sac that goes around the bones doesn't actually complete. It doesn't encase everything. In fact, the patella, which is your kneecap, forms the anterior surface of that capsule, which is kind of odd. The patella and where it articulates with the femur is one set of bones that are involved in the knee joint. The other set of bones are the femur and the tibia. The fibula, the fibula is not included in the team. Patella, tibia, femur, those are the three bones that are involved in your knee joint. Now think about your patella. Your patella is actually embedded in your quadriceps tendon. So you have four muscles on your anterior thigh that we will know the names of, and they all join and form an attachment to the tibial tuberosity on the interior surface of the tibia. And as they form that, what, unified joint or unified attachment to the tibia, you can actually cover the patella. And the patella is embedded inside that tendon. The quadriceps tendon has the patella inside of it. And you can actually see that, right, her. This, I mean, her. That's the patella. This is the quadriceps tendon. And this right here is the pateller ligament. However, the pateller ligament is part of the quadriceps tendon with the patella buried inside of it. Okay. We're going to look at not even close to all the structures involved in the knee, just a few of them. First of all, probably most easily visualized are our collateral ligaments. We have a fibular collateral ligament. This is on the lateral side and it helps strengthen the knee. You also have a tibial collateral ligament. And this is on the medial side of the knee between the tibia and the femur. Here's my fibular collateral. Here's my tibial collateral. In addition to my collateral ligaments, which are straight, we have cruciate ligaments which form across.  The cruciate ligaments form across that is anterior posterior. So we actually have the anterior cruciate ligament. And hold on a second. Now think about this. Here's my tibia. The cruciate ligaments form across between the tibia and the femur. And the anterior cruciate ligament attaches to the anterior side of the tibia and then crosses posteriorly and attaches to the posterior side of the femur in kind of a middle plane in a sagittal plane on the knee. Do you follow that? That was anterior cruciate ligament goes from the anterior aspect of the tibia to posterior to the posterior aspect of the fibula. I mean femur makes perfect sense. If we have an anterior cruciate ligament from the anterior surface of the tibia, we also have the posterior cruciate ligament from the posterior surface of the tibia. So the posterior cruciate ligament, unfortunately you cannot abbreviate why because cruciate and collateral both start with C. So the posterior cruciate ligament starts on the posterior side of the tibia and then travels to the anterior side of the femur. Okay? So that's going to help you identify and visualize which one's which in that of your cruciates that cross. Who else do you see here? Somebody very important. Very important. You actually have these fibrocartilage pads. You can see them here. You can see them here. Oh, you can see them here. You can see them here. There's one. There it is again. Okay. These guys are your menisci. Meniscus. That's a singular. You have a medial meniscus on the medial side of the knee joint and you have a lateral meniscus on the lateral side of the knee joint. Do you love me? Do I love you? You know I love you. I just told you everything that you need to know for your lab and I can't wait to see you when we are playing with joints and movements and doing jazzercise in class.


for Graham Alexander's appointment as the new Bradford City bar spent the former M.K. Don's manager was out of work for only three weeks He's been set the task of putting the Bantams back among the big boys in league two and says there's plenty of time To get them into the promotion race last season Barrow's flirtations with the playoff places ended in the new year a win today But the people side into the top seven for the first time since early September ahead of kickoff football will pay It's respect to those who've lost their lives in conflict for the Barrow boss Pete Wilde saying he was expecting a high tempo affair The Bramford City crowd would urge the home side on early Barrow making the first inroads into Bramford City territory decent cutback Telford's there and Barrow have made the perfect start Tom Telford inside the opening 30 seconds Puts Barrow in front There's nothing too complicated about the move It's a good run from Spence Telford just holds his run before sliding to finish Graham Alexander's rain off to an inauspicious start sort of expected to have an advantage so early, but they've got something to hold on to now One of the best defenses in league two Get into the box Quite cleared Put behind for a corner Plenty in the box It's deep, it's back across to Smith Well, how a Bramford City not level here It is a huge chance Brilliantly set back to Smith Barman with a top stop He's got away with one at the other end, but Spence jumping it across It's not to increase their advantage It's another tempting ball in Canavan not far away Spence once again causing problems down that right-hand side As it's lifted back in by newbie just uses his strength to get away from his man Inches wide Alexander spoke in midweek about dealing with the expectation Bramford City fans will have in this division to side to Find a way back quickly corner here Catch Barrow out Just couldn't quite get there Tyler Smith's got four to his name Already this season Could have scored earlier as Cook heads it on another touch would surely have diversified it beyond the keeper Let's go for it again Really attacking that delivery Chance for another go This is opened up nicely Smith's in the middle And this time he does have his goal Let's walker here who gets to the bylight And once he did that Smith knew exactly where he wanted that ball to go unmarked in a six-yard box Bradford City level late challenge Sent his man to the ground there referee Now coming across Be a yellow card He is a lucky lucky boy The first half-time team talk for Graham Alexander to try and turn this game around the Bradford City Talford score of that opening goal inside the opening 30 seconds and you be helping it on It's a good chance Lewis behind it once again Barrow have started brightly at the start of the Second half is Halliday I'm gonna carry it forward As well as a chance here Farman off his line well, they just got behind Really the first time this afternoon How to save me there? So was Farman talking about there being 90 points for Bradford City to play for between now and the end of the season It doesn't Have to this six-point gap to the playoffs all have to be gobbled up in one go Three points to start with would certainly help. It's again the box loaded They find a target go for goal instead and Just have to shovel that behind plenty waiting for the cross, but Towards goal instead as much as Bradford City will Look for a second. They're gonna have to keep the door shut at the other end His guts helped on Proctor and it's George Ray a Very unlikely goal scorer, but once again bar in front Gots with the delivery into the middle here It's flicked on by a Bradford City defender and as proctor shoots It's only blocked into the path of Ray his first goal for Barrow his first goal In nearly two years Well, this was not the script for Graham Alexander Smith. This might open up Killa there Not far away either plenty waiting for the cross, but once again Going for goal I'm able to watch it over the top Still time for Bradford City to find a level up. How much belief is there still in this side? tempting ball Only half cleared And smashed over the top Well, is that the last chance that Bradford City will have this afternoon? Graham Alexander's first game in charge ends in defeat There's the full-time whistle Barrow's hex on Bradford continues They're into the playoff places with a third winning four Tom Telford getting off to the perfect start George Ray with the winner after Tyler Smith I've got the home side back on terms not the start Graham Alexander would have wanted He'll have many things he wants to improve Bradford one Barrow two


Hello, hello, and welcome to another coordinating call of DM25, a radical political movement for Europe with subversive ideas you won't hear anywhere else. I'm Merron Khalili and today we're going nuclear. This month in a controversial move, the EU said that nuclear power and gas can be considered green investments. This means that investment in these energies is set to continue in the decades to come and indeed Emmanuel Macron has just pledged a whole slew of new nuclear reactors. So while burning gas is clearly destructive for people on planet, the issue of nuclear energy is a little bit more murky and DM25 does not yet have an official position on it. As with all our positions, our members decide, and we've already started the process and had plenty of internal debates. So it's going to come up for a vote soon and what you're going to see here tonight is a political movement, the coordinating collective so that like the board of a political movement wrestling with this vital issue. Is nuclear power a dangerous relic of the past, or is it the unexpected answer to combating climate change and what should we be campaigning for. So we'll look at the technical side, safety issues and of course the politics and economic and military concerns around it. And hopefully we'll be simplifying the discussion a lot so that everyone can understand it because things can get a bit full of acronyms and so on. So you out there, if you have any thoughts, questions, comments, rents, concerns, anything you want to throw at us, then please do put them in the YouTube chat, and we will get to it. So let's start our discussion with Amir Kiyei, forgive me, who's our policy coordinator. Go for it Amir. Thanks so much Mehran, and this is indeed the important and critical issue, especially because many of us out here in our homes, wherever we are located on this planet we've seen rising rising energy costs. So we're going up by 40, 50, 60, 70% saving in some cases. At the same time we're also staring at climate catastrophe. We already headed, we're already missing the 1.5 degree Celsius targets. Even the 2.2 degrees Celsius is already being missed at this at the stage of consumption and energy fossil fuel use and so forth. And this discussion on nuclear has been very interesting in the movement because it's, you know, some members believe that we have to use all tools available at our disposal to deal with climate, the climate catastrophe. Because members, some members believe that the actual generation of nuclear power itself is has, you know, is on par with wind and to some extent solar when it comes to carbon emissions and so forth. And so this discussion is quite critical coming at a critical juncture for us as a movement as well. So let's look on, look out not only for the technical arguments around it because at a scientific technical level. Yes, we can of course judge nuclear energy for what it is now, and nuclear energy proponents have come up with, you know, ideas around what any nuclear energy will look like in 2040 or 2050 and 2060 with all this fancy technology but of course we need to deal with the climate catastrophe right now. And we only have about eight years or so of carbon budget left depending on how that calculation looks. And the other factor to bear in mind in this discussion is of course not just the technical aspect for the political and economic and social. You have to really consider is it democracy enhancing. Is it going to increase the gap between the rich and the poor. Does it pass on financial burden to future generations and so forth. And you also already mentioned the military aspect and never mind the accidents and the lack of transparency around nuclear energy globally. So we're going to probably touch on these various points but let's not get into too early and let's unpack it as we go. Thank you. Thank you Amir sorry for the delay there. Dushan. Dushan Piovic. Thanks my friend. So Srećko is not here with us today but let me give a brief overview of the article that me and him wrote. I will not go too much into technicalities but some of them have to be said so it is by the German environmental agency estimated that a nuclear power plants generate 13 times more emissions than wind turbines. Some studies say it's even more and some studies say that they generate equal emissions and wind turbines. So I will not debate that it depends whether you look at the full life cycle or or whatever but the thing is that no one can say that they are climate neutral. Of course they emit because of the transportation storage of nuclear waste and so on and so on. So but what we do have as effect without big ranges is that nuclear energy is four times more expensive than wind energy. Also it is designed to withstand a single earthquake measuring a maximum of 7.0 magnitude. But several smaller ones can damage the nuclear power plants and we cannot expect the earth to stand still during these uncertain times of climate change with rising sea levels more earthquakes because of fracking and similar. To go more deeply into the waste the big topic radioactive waste has to be maintained for some say at least 200,000 years but it's at least several decades even by the biggest. Supporters of nuclear energy they say a few decades. So the thing is that can we really trust our government with these issues. All of the future governments and all of the current governments how we will know that some of them want to just dump these radioactive waste into the sea like with Fukushima happens. So also what Sretzko said how will the future generations know that there is a nuclear waste deeply buried down. Some say I'm again arguing what even the people that are really up for the nuclear energy saying that these nuclear waste can be reused and processed but we hardly have any machines that use this reprocessed version. So even this is being stored storage for thousands of years. It also takes 10 to 19 years to build one nuclear plant. So this is not a transitioning solution we don't have time for that we are far far behind our schedule. And one more technicality then I will go into social stuff. The sorry for nuclear power plants we need continuous mining continuous uranium mining not just one time mining gas for the wind energy or solar energy and uranium mining comes with the whole range of mining related diseases. And let me also say that it is a form of nail colonialism. Why because it will not happen in Brussels or Berlin. It's going to happen in the global south and it is going to happen by extracting valuable minerals and destroying the planet and local communities. Now finally some social stuff. As Amir pointed out before civilian nuclear energy programs supply the necessary plutonium and tritium for nuclear weapons and have historically been used to further military goals. It is nearly impossible to develop nuclear weapons without the access to reactor energy and peaceful reactors. So cold and famous peaceful nuclear energy treaty led many many times to nuclear weapons. Finally as I'm sure Janis will explore explain this more but let me say that it cannot be made as a part of the commons except in some marginal cases. So to quote our article money plus all the surveillance that would be needed in order to keep this under control in the hands of just a few people who are able to build nuclear power stations. Full surveillance based oligarchy where could things go wrong. I will conclude with this is 10% of global energy worthy of major disaster every 30 years, and would 30% of global energy be worthy of another Fukushima or Chernobyl every 10 years. And if so, where is the line. Thank you. Thanks to Shane can I just ask you then what would you propose then if nuclear is some has all those problems that you described actually propose different taxonomy in our green deal and nuclear is not part of that because of the previously mentioned things. That's why we have, for example, wind as the best solution for now these windmills can be operated off shores. So it's the best in terms of nature preservation and in terms of the energy being produced. There is also some other solution that offer us to storage these energies and we are not that far away from these solutions as we are far away from safe nuclear energy. So we have compressed air that can store store this but I guess some someone else we go into more into details regarding this. Thank you. Thank you. I will talk about what is happening with nuclear plant issue in Turkey. Recently, Turkish and Russian officials made the foundation for the third reactor of Turkey's first nuclear power plant, which was founded in 2018. You know, it is in the coastal city of Mersin, Akkuyo, and two other plants where plants were planned. One was Sinop, but Japan's Mitsubishi pulled out last year because of the protest ongoing protest since five years. And the third one is planned in Trakya, near the border of to Greece, in Ereda. It is also being protested continuously, but it can happen. Probably it also started. The first Akkuyo plants will be operational in 2023, which is the centenary of the foundation of Turkish Republic. And this project is owned by the Russian energy company, Rosapo, while the Turkish Akkuyo is the licensed owner and the local operator. President Erdogan said it is a symbol of Turkish-Russian cooperation, and President Putin said it's a truly flagship project. Since Akkuyo project was signed, proponents of nuclear energy in Turkey have argued it would limit Turkey's dependency on foreign energy suppliers. The Akkuyo's financial model could further Ankara's dependency on Russia, a major energy provider to Turkey. Because the project is fully financed now by Moscow. The question is why Turkey enters into such depth while alternative and cheaper energy resources are coming down the pipeline. We must be aware that Turkey is not the only country seeking nuclear energy in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia and Jordan are still considering establishing nuclear power plants. Egypt and United Arab Emirates are in on it, and we know that Israel has long since a long time they have nuclear power. And Iran, we know that it has a very big capacity to develop. So the danger is this region is in continuous war and terror, and people are fighting. Nuclear reactors in a shooting war can be targets. Missiles and drones could knock down the electric supplies or essential parts of the plant, and there will be a disaster. Other concern is, which is very well known, that this area south of Turkey is an earthquake prone area. And we don't know whether it is already had some earthquakes, which really was dangerous for the nuclear, because January 2021, there was an explosion in Akkuyo nuclear plant. But we didn't know the reasons, and it was covered. So already there was an experience of an explosion there. So the other issue with Turkey is that it is not only for electric energy, but it can be that Ankara may have plans to enrich uranium. Why Turkey and nuclear arm Pakistan have long had military cooperation agreements that were recently intensified. And also with Kazakhstan, there was a kind of cooperation about providing uranium. So I think when nuclear plant and politics and the power issues come together, then it is very dangerous. As a person who really admires Mediterranean culture, I am also against it, that historically and ecologically very valuable area should not have nuclear plants. Thank you. Thank you, Burrell for that view from the front line. Before we hand over to the next speaker, I just want to have a look at the chat where there are some arguments coming down on the other side of the debate. Well, actually, Clayton Wilson reminds us that China is building 150 new nuclear plants by 2035. Luke Cunningham says fourth generation nuclear is cheap, clean safe and local right now move on from Chernobyl we still built ships after the Titanic. Hash rebel says nuclear energy is fine as long as it's not privatized and David Billy says I believe ideally all technologies would be used to replace fossil fuels nuclear alongside renewables, if only to ensure a minimum production when solar and wind output is low. And I have a reminder there that solar and wind are not consistently stable sources of energy well not consistent sources of electricity. Okay, you did you did Maya. Yeah, I actually saw some studies showing that solar, the output from solar power tends to be highest when the output from wind is lowest and the output from wind is highest when the output from solar is lowest because in, let's say, European somewhere in this wind you have more sun in European winter you have more wind and vice versa. So, but actually I wanted to talk more about not not so much so much the past danger I mean, we can all argue about how common incidents like Chernobyl and Fukushima will be in the, in the future, whether it's now every 10 years or whether this we were lucky or we were unlucky or whatever. What is clear, however, is that the danger keeps increasing. So, as Dushan mentioned, we will see more earthquakes with global warming, rising sea levels. Basically, a large amount of the world's capacity for nuclear is built near oceans or other bodies of water, which makes them particularly dangerous in a scenario of rising sea levels which we know we will have. We also have a rain events, the flooding of even minor rivers like we saw in in Germany, basically nuclear needs to be built near large bodies of water for the cooling, and that is exactly what makes them unsuitable in a world of climate climate change. As Braal mentioned, nuclear power plants can be dangerous targets in case of war, even when there's not a war I mean their targets of cyber attacks. We've seen cyber attacks against nuclear power plants in Iran in Crimea in India in Germany, probably in other countries that did not reveal that their plants were targeted. But basically this is a huge danger now that our cyber capabilities are becoming so strong. I would not want to live near a nuclear power plant in a world of cyber warfare. But actually, no matter whether it's a human or natural catastrophe, what we really need in this world is resilience. That won't endanger us if they're left untended in a catastrophic event, no matter who created who's responsible for the catastrophe, whether it's a human issue, whether it's a cyber attack, whether it's an earthquake, whether it's a catastrophic flood, whatever. We need things that won't endanger us if left untended. And ideally, things that will help us withstand these catastrophic events because there will be catastrophic events and we will need help in withstanding them. So my preference, I know that that cannot be just one solution, but my preference is for solar, because solar power panels cannot get hacked. They are no danger if untended and any house that has a solar panel on the roof is somewhat better protected in the case of a catastrophe. So let's say Texas power outage last summer, a lot of households were without electricity for the air conditioning for anything else in the middle of summer. And if they had solar power panels on the roof, they would have been fine. Thank you, Judith. Yanis, what's your take? Okay. I've been reading the feed on YouTube. It would be good if we tried all of us, those of us on the panel and those of us contributing opinion on the YouTube chat. If we try to be a bit cautious with facts that we unload. You read one of them that nuclear is clean, cheap, safe, and local right now. Well, this is what the brochure says, maybe in the future, but it's not now. We know that because Britain has been investing huge quantities of money. They are 15 years behind. They have another 10 years before the new power plant in Sellafield and in other places is built. Macron, who just announced what 14 new nuclear power stations admitted that it will take 12 years when he says 12 years. This is 16 years for it to take place. It takes the lead time from the moment you decide to build one until you have it. It's just knows, you know, who think of given the rapid change technologies, what's going to be happening in 15 years. So let me, however, do two things. If I may, the first thing is I'm going to play devil's advocate because we don't have anybody on the panel who is supportive of nuclear and it's right. We should give that side its best shot. And then I'll tell you why I'm against nuclear and I would be against nuclear, even if it was the safest thing on earth. Okay, even if it was zero chance of any accident, which of course is not the case. First, the pro nuclear case. It is true. I agree with you. You did that there is a negative correlation between solar and wind power. I think we lost you for a second there. Janice has been taken offline. Let's see if Janice comes back. Otherwise we'll bring in Johannes and we'll pick it up again with the honest when he comes back. Okay. Johannes, would you mind taking the floor and then we'll come back to Janice as he reconnects in the last week in the. Ah, Janice, I think you're having some connection issues, mate. I'm back. You're back. Go for it. We heard the word wind power. Johannes, hold on a second. Could you please repeat what you said in the last 30 seconds? I'll go back. And so in the case of Britain, for instance, there was a whole winter during which wind was much lower and therefore they had to switch to gas that was imported. So there is an argument to be said about having a constant source of backup power because of the intermittency of solar and wind power. This is a strong argument and nuclear can provide that it can provide that there's no data power. Also, it produces no CO2 emissions and even if it is true, do some and stretch go and you did and everybody else that in the process of extracting the mineral from the earth and so on, you produce CO2. You could say this about car batteries as well, but that's not an argument for against Tesla and against electrifying transportation. And what we need to do is we need to have more electricity produced so that even the mining can become electrified as opposed to using diesel, for instance, or we can use hydrogen in order to power the machinery. And hydrogen as we know when burns produces water, and you can produce hydrogen with renewables and with nuclear energy. Okay, so there is nuclear technology, it's with us. Mostly doesn't blow up. Okay, yes, we can bet it there are huge problems ethical problems to about betting it but you know we're like children putting it on the cover but nevertheless, it is possible to do without killing lots of people. So, you know, this is a solution, it is a solution. What it is not, it's not cheap. France produce 70% of its electricity from your clear. And if you look at prices of electricity today in Europe, which are hugely elevated because of the energy crisis that we're facing, as it is out of the, the lockdowns and the supply chains disruption and so on. France is more expensive than other countries that don't use the clear. So, let's forget about that it's not going to be cheap right if anything is going to be hugely expensive. So now let me tell you why I would reject why I'm thoroughly and enthusiastically fanatically opposed to nuclear power to the idea that we need to build nuclear power stations in order to ameliorate climate change.  The fixed cost of building a power station that relies on nuclear power, whether it is these new smaller, more modular designs or the old ones. The cost of doing that is at least to the power to a factor of 20 times the equivalent of renewables, or even of coal fired power stations, not that we want to produce those. The variable cost is also very high. So you have a very high fixed cost, the cost of building it to safety standards that are required, but it is also the variable cost. Once you build it, the cost every day of running it, not just the uranium, but the cost of running it is gigantic and and comrades know this, the cost of decommissioning it is even larger than the cost of building it. Today, as we speak, there are crews working in Britain and the United States decommissioning, continuing to decommission power stations, nuclear power stations that shut 25 years ago, because you don't just close it down and forget it. You have to have crews of people working on the sites, even after the material has been removed, the worst of radioactive material for decades afterwards. It is from an economic point of view a complete disaster. Right. Secondly, it is useless for our purposes. What is our purpose? Remember the argument is that we want to shift from gas and coal fired produced electricity to something that does not produce CO2. Now, today, we are running out of time. We need to do it today. Right. The whole point is to if we can go to a significant level of reduction of CO2 emission within the next couple of years, we already know that 2030 is too late for achieving the Paris targets. So it was something now. Now we know there's no doubt about that. No one can dispute that. Not even our good friends on the chat on YouTube chat. Nobody can dispute that takes at least 12 years to build one. So even if we were prepared to forget about safety issues and, you know, but the huge fixed cost, the variable cost, the decommissioning cost, and we were to order like China has done 150 power stations for Europe. It wouldn't solve our problem. The problem is what do we do today in the next couple of years, the next five years so that we don't go beyond the point of no return. In 15 years time, there will be other solutions. So by the imagine the tragedy, putting all our eggs or many of our eggs in the basket of nuclear. Okay. Failing to meet our targets before 2030. And then we end up 15 years from now with power stations are the extremely, extremely expensive to run. And which by that time, there will be alternatives, much, much cheaper alternatives and alternatives that do not involve poisonous materials and radioactive materials. Okay, so that's my second reason that it is useless. The third reason, of course, is that it is poisonous. That it is there is an ethical issue about this generation, bearing stuff on the ground that will destroy ecosystems for, you know, for hundreds if not thousands of years to come. And besides that and setting aside the danger. I'm now going to home in and finish off with the last and maybe the most serious objection to nuclear power stations for progressives like us. It is totalitarian nuclear power is by construction totalitarian. It can never be democratic. But you need huge quantities of money to build it. Right. Who has huge quantities of money? All you guys. Right. The, there are five companies in the world that build them. You know, some are Russian, some are Chinese that if you are. It is one Swedish and a couple or actually one French, right. So by definition, if the Greek state, the Turkish state, the whatever the Moldovan state, the British state, if they want to build a lot of those, they will have to make a deal with a devil with five oligarchs for a large quantity of money. Okay, that's point number one. In other words, it needs to be top down hugely hierarchical in terms of financing. It will involve lots of loans from big banks and big finance. So effectively the city of London, Wall State, as well as some oligarchs will be empowered massively by taxpayers. That's point number one point number two. Once you build it, you will need a whole security force to ensure that doesn't fall in their own hands. Just guards, you know, with machine guns, AK-47s and walkie-talkies will not do. It will not do because if you really have such a lethal force inside the building somewhere in your countryside, you better make sure that it's not taken over by terrorists. Which means you need a CIA. You need a security surveillance spying network to try to predict, you know, who might attempt to take over this lethal factory. Okay, even if DM 25 was in government everywhere. Right. We would not be able to prevent such a security apparatus from becoming a state within a state. And therefore, the whole business is highly totalitarian. It's only totalitarian regimes or governments, democratically elected governments that are prepared to surrender a state within a state to an oligarchy that can build these power stations. No wonder, you know, China is very happy to produce 155 power stations or where the land is prepared to do it. Okay. And let me just say that this last insight was I owe this insight to a certain Mr. Tony Ben, whom I had the great honor and pleasure to have met back in 1979 at Essex University. And he told me the story. He told me he related to me something I didn't know back then when I was an 18 year old boy then. For those who don't know who Tony Ben was, he was the, you know, the best, the most effective leader of the late that the Labor Party never had. He was a minister of the Labor Party. He was a stalwart of the Labor Party. He almost became deputy leader of the Labor Party didn't get it for a couple of votes or one vote or something like that. But he was the leading light intellectually and politically and activism wise of the left wing of the Labor Party. Now Tony Ben participated in in two governments of the Labor Party in the late 60s and early 70s. And as a young radical socialist, he was very much in favor of nuclear power, because for him it was it demonstrated the capacities of the human mind to conquer nature and to turn it into a servant of humanity. So he was very ganho about it was clean. Remember this conversation. It was snazzy. It was modern. It, it was top down which, you know, went well with his original socialist Marxist idea of planning of a powerful state creating a big factory that produces wonderful energy from the best technology can offer. And then he became the minister responsible for nuclear power stations. And that's when he realized that he was not in control of the ministry, because the ministry was infected by the security apparatus, which was necessary to build around nuclear power stations. This is my debt to Tony Ben. So even if you convinced me, you've come as the good people on the on the YouTube chat that it's clean. It's safe. It's beautiful. It's wonderful. It's all singing all dancing. This last point that it is totalitarian makes it impossible for a progressive movement like ours that believes in the dispersing of ownership and power across society away from the very, very few to the many. It is impossible and unsustainable for the M25 or any progressive movement like the M25 to support nuclear power. Thank you, Janice. And on that note, in terms of the politics and economics, I've had a few comments from the chat. Dungu Kamau says rather than a focus on banning particular technologies for the production of energy, there should be a focus on creating a dynamic regulatory system that combines scientific discovery and innovation with democratic choice in the technologies used. And another comment is that... Hold on. Where was it? Yes. Well, it's kind of what you said that nuclear energy may only be run by monopolistic companies or the state. In any case, it implies huge centralized power. But then someone else comments to that gentleman's comment. What about the wind oligarchs, Vestas, Siemens, Amitha, General Electric? Janice, do you want to respond to that? I'm dying to answer that. There is no doubt that oligarchies will want to monopolize anything from marmalade to wind power to, you know, Suvlaiki or, you know, Yeros or Kebab. There's no doubt. There's no doubt. But some technologies are amenable to oligarchic structures and others are more democratic by nature. So yes, you can see that what's going on here in Greece, for instance, we have oligarchic large companies, mostly German, that are coming here and they are selling, they are peddling these very large windmills, which they go and, you know, 200 meter tall windmills, they go and they bury on top of the mountains of Greece and they are awful to look at. They make huge quantities of noise. They destroy the environment because you need to build roads through the forest to service them. And they are made of non-renewables. Once they die, once they are gone, they cannot be recycled. So these oligarchs, what they want with these multinational companies, they want to create large windmills out of cheap plastic that cannot be recycled. In other words, they are destroying the whole concept of renewable energy. They are abusing it. It's a kind of greenwashing, right? But that doesn't mean that it's the only way it can be. The new design of wind farms, the ones that, for instance, are going to be built very soon, already there's been tenders, the Scottish government and the Nicola Sturgeon has received 700 million pounds from companies that bid for these new floating wind farms in the middle of the North Sea. They are made up of a plethora of small turbines, wind turbines, very small ones made of recyclable aluminium, very lightweight. Similar technologies can be used on rooftops, as Judith said, with solar panels, and they are, by nature, decentralized. If you've got many small windmills and many small solar panels that are dispersed in the community, you know, every neighborhood can own its own, and then they can be connected through a public-owned grid that optimizes the distribution of electricity. This is a dream come true for socialists like us who want a cooperatively owned, non-oligarchic network, which is neither controlled by the state nor controlled by any monopoly or oligopoly or oligarchy. The fact that the oligarchy can and have succeeded in infecting and molesting wind power generation doesn't mean that wind power and solar power is not inherently more democratic by virtue of their decentralized nature. Thanks, Janice. Another comment from Adrian here, which is something we haven't touched on. Shouldn't the question be asked, why is there such a need for such a high intensity of energy consumption? So perhaps we can also speak to degrowth in our proposals in that direction. Johannes, enlighten us. Johannes Fair. Thank you, madam. I want to go a little bit into the German story of nuclear energy, and we have actually now also been speaking about democracy in terms of what energy form helps us and helps the people to be in charge of their electricity and energy production. And in Germany, some people have asked me in the past, why does Merkel go out of nuclear energy in Germany? And I want to tell you that this is already a wrong framing because it wasn't Merkel. This is a grassroots movement that has been built up since the 70s. Many local initiatives against the dangerous technology in their neighborhoods, so power plants or storage places in old mines. There was the first green election lists in that time that later led to the foundation of the Green Party in Germany. Big demonstrations with hundreds of thousands of people over that time against the dangerous material and power plants in their area or the transports across the country with that material. And in 1989, the Green Party made it into parliament in Germany, and in government with the Social Democrats, they prepared a first proposal for a phase out. Very slow, in good contact with the big energy companies, but at least they made that step. And Merkel's government, which came in later, conservative and liberal, reversed this decision in 2010 and prolonged the runtime of nuclear energy power plants, because they're good friends obviously with these big companies that make a huge profit while the state takes over the risk. If you would have to ensure a nuclear power plant, the electricity price would be much, much bigger. Then 2011 also to the comment on the chat from earlier that we should forget about Chernobyl. 2011 Fukushima, I hope everyone remembers, right? That led to demonstrations, some of the biggest demonstrations Germany has ever seen with 250,000 people in Berlin, demanding that we go out of this dangerous technology, and only this pressure led Merkel to reverse her decision. So it was actually a victory of a broad coalition of farmers, citizens, activists, ecologists that was built bottom up by many organizations over many years, that pressured Merkel to make that decision to finally leave the nuclear energy in Germany. Also, of course, by giving some money away for the big companies that was very unnecessary and so on, I don't want to go too much into this. What still will stay us, and now speaking from a German's perspective here is we will have radioactive waste. We will have to take care of it for a million years. Even no storage place found. There has been these old mines that they were exploring, but almost all of them by now you can literally see that water is coming in. They have been dumping some nuclear waste in a place called Asse in Germany. It's an old salt mine and already it's clear now they have begun to dig out everything again, which is a huge cost. And there's just no place in the country where this stuff can stay. So concluding, I think, just wanted to contribute with that story to give a little bit of a clarification that in Germany this is a broad movement, a democratic movement that decided no nuclear energy is not a safe energy production for us. And exactly as it has been mentioned before also it's very central power structures that are needed to make this very central energy system that relies on big power plants, big players that own them. Whether it's the state or privately owned and this is relying on extractivism elsewhere and renewable energies when they are managed well which also depends of course a lot who's in government and you know making the loss and on how to build up renewable energies. So I think that that should be, yeah, in my opinion also the solution for the future and owned by the many very centralized structure owned by the many. Thank you, Johannes we've been running a poll in the chat asking whether people think that nuclear energy could play a large role in solving climate change and currently know is winning at 59%. And then a savage asks in the chat how many people here in this chat would be willing to live within five kilometers of a nuclear power plant. I don't see many answers to that yet. And then Eric, sorry, Ivana Nenadovich and then Eric, go for it. Thanks, my friend. As we are also agreeing on this panel and obviously a poll is saying no to nuclear energy and as we are coming to an end of this call. It will be interesting for me because I am no expert on this topic, but what logic tells me. Okay, all of these alternatives that we mentioned are not ideal, because we would still need mining for solar panels we would need silver for batteries with for electric cars and we need lithium. And what wind turbines are also destroying ecosystem and so on. So there is no perfect solution obviously, and what would interest me would be a next debate on these renewable energies. And of course, what is conclusion, as I heard from all of the interventions, is that what we need is the growth and less consumption. And because as long as we keep up in this speed, we will never have a perfect source of energy. And I do remember Chernobyl, and I wouldn't make it a child game. You know, that it's been a long time ago and now we are so technologically advanced that it won't happen again and as Janis said, even if that wouldn't happen again, it costs terribly to maintain that kind of facility. Thank you. Thanks, Savannah. Eric Edmund. Yeah, me too. I if I had to choose between living next to 1000 wind turbines and one power plant, I'd choose the wind turbines, even if it's the only thing I can see from my window and I think that's really what it comes down to right that. Okay, nuclear there are some arguing arguments for nuclear. It's not like this without arguments that chat in the YouTube which which I've been following proves that there are many arguments, but when there are so many alternatives. If I take any of those risks. That's really what this discussion really comes down to if we had no alternatives, then maybe was it would be worth the risk it would be worth the investment would be worth all of it. But it isn't when we have so many other options. So I wanted to take a bit the opportunity to bring you to Brussels where I am currently, and where essentially the greenest thing in the city is the shirts that I'm wearing, because this whole discussion that we're having comes as the results of this ridiculous taxonomy from posed by the European Commission that would like to basically label both nuclear energy and hold on to your socks. Natural gas as green sources of energy right this is how this whole debate has started in Europe. And this is also where we're having this discussion.   But it is essentially because the taxonomy is meant to serve the interests of the countries that are essentially dominating the European structure, the European Union structure as it is now. And that is France and Germany, you know, I mean France on the one hand we're talking about a country that is dependent on like 70.6 or something like that percent of France's energy comes from nuclear power plants 70% right. And Germany is the biggest importer of natural gas, not in Europe in the world. And that is before Nord Stream 2 is even turned on, which is going to bring about 55 billion cubic meters or whatever it is of natural gas into Germany and then Europe per day. Right. So when you look at this taxonomy it's impossible not to spot the horrific hypocrisy behind it and what this is really about, which is basically the unwillingness of France and Germany to really to to to foot the bill for this huge green transition needs to happen. I'm not really foot the bill because if you'd read there are green new deal for Europe, you'll see that it doesn't need to come from them to the bill or these doesn't need to be paid by them. But this unwillingness basically to to adapt and that is putting us all at risk and that is making us have these kind of conversations, which are important, but have underlying it essentially massive European scale hypocrisy and not that serious discussion about whether or nuclear and gas is a transitionary sort of stepping stone for green energy. Thank you Eric, we're coming close to the end of our hour so if any of you out there have any final comments or questions and I would ask, please keep them away from the technical side so we're not just throwing scientific proof points at each other and focus perhaps more on the politics and the economics and security concerns that would be great. And there are some more questions on degrowth in the chat perhaps you can you can take them and discuss what DM 25 has on that topic. Gladly, I will gladly talk about that and about some of the events points. So yes, definitely we need the radical degrowth high income countries are much more responsible for green greenhouse gas emissions so 10% of the poorest people and meets as much as green green house gas emissions as the poorest 50%. Also, world's richest 1% cause double CO2 emissions of the poorest 50% by the research by ox one. So those countries high income countries have to make mobility energy and land public. And let me say something that's maybe problematic but I need to get this out of my system. We are very well aware that neither solar or wind are perfect. We are going to need mining for some time for both. So what's ours. What's my stance not our no one voted on this so all of the comrades don't have responsibility for what am I going to say moratorium on all mining until these resources are not public energy mobility and land. And also until we implement radical degrowth on energy or less energy consumption and mining can be put in motion only when it is for green energy that is part of the commons. So no more for Tesla, but for electric train trains that have dividends for citizens, for example. So these issues are going to be the would need to be debated on people's assemblies from that community that lives near the mines together with scientists and activists and then they all collaboratively decide whether to do mining there and for how long and for what purpose. So this is my stance and I'd like to hear more from you on that maybe some other live stream more now. Thank you to Sharon. I'm going to also start saying something that's not going to be very popular. Yes, to the growth. Yes, we have the West need to, you know, win ourselves off trying to find our lost humanity in more and more stuff. But humanity is going to need more energy, not less, less. Even if we have to growth, because let's face it, the global south needs a lot more energy. We're not going to achieve justice simply by the West, the North, reducing our consumption. People in Africa need a lot more energy than they have they do not have access to zoom because they don't have electricity, so we need a lot more energy guys. Okay. At the same time, in terms of a military climate change, we must all become vegetarians. I'm not a vegetarian, but I should be. So I'm confessing here, because this is a huge quantity of greenhouse gases. There's a lot of stuff we need to do. But we need to also, if we do believe that that the emission of greenhouse gases is a clear and present danger for humanity. We need to decouple this from other concerns. So yes, we all have a concern for mining, but this is independent of climate change. Right. We've been mining the world for, you know, five, six thousand years, but climate change is due to the meat to the burning of fossil fuels, not mining. If you want us to talk about moratoriums of mining and so on, let's begin with moratorium of every single coal mine. It's absurd that we're still mining for coal. Then we can talk about lithium, right. But if we have not banned every single coal mine there is. It is ridiculous to even be talking about banning lithium mine. Let's first walk and then we run. The urgent technical technological question that we should be aiming at if we care about the emergency that is climate change concerns energy storage. This is connected to nuclear power because what the supporters of nuclear power saying are saying is effectively this to support intermittent sources of renewable energy like solar and wind. To produce independently of solar and wind. The independent independently of the intermittent ones we need to produce electricity by other means nuclear. Now, the alternative to that in order to have backup for the the infamous windlass nights where neither solid or wind works. The alternative to that is to store the electricity produced by wind and some during very sunny windy days. Right. That's what we need to do. Our capacity to do this to this day at this moment with batteries is very limited because battery technology is far behind it's improving, but it will take a long time. There are other technologies though. One is hydrogen hydrogen is going to be the diesel of the future. And green hydrogen that is produced through massive rows upon rows upon rows of small aluminum built wind farms in the middle of the ocean. This does not harm any environment, any ecosystem. It's in the middle of the sea, you know whether the fish don't care whether there is something floating on top of them. Okay, the birds don't care. They don't fly that low in the Atlantic in the Pacific. So, and imagine if all this was using to catalyze water and create hydrogen which then burns and produces water that that it. Now I agree with do some that this should be all publicly owned or communally owned or socially owned, but nevertheless, there is a question for us progressives. What do we want first, the socialist revolution that will make sure that all of this happens as part of cooperatives. How can we wait for this, and we should be pushing for it, regardless of the kind of ownership I'm torn on this, because I feel that unless we take care to move away from oligarchy and to socialize this process it won't happen. Then there are opponents who say it will only happen if you forget about socializing and you just get out there and do it with a quinoa and whatever other companies are prepared to provide the technology. My green you deal kind of mentality tells me that we need to go somewhere down the middle of the road. We need the state to contract these large companies that can actually do it tomorrow to do it to pay them to do it because they can do it quickly before we develop socially owned collectors that can do it, but for the ownership of these grids to be public. Thanks, Yanis okay we're coming to the end of our hour just some some final comments from the chat. Well, degrowth seems like political suicide and idea that the right would love to pedal against progressives advocating for it on the internet is oxymoronic. Let's all be honest to someone else, all our energy actually goes into our social media vanity projects. Fair enough, and his one supposing that the oligarchy has had the same insight as Yanis how could we oppose their attempts to exert totalitarian control over energy production. We can be against it in principle but what about in practice what I think there's a simple answer to that and that's join dm 25 if you haven't already the email address email address web address is dm 25.org slash join. I'm going to hand it over now to Amir to summarize some of the discussions that we've had today. Amir go for it. Before I climb onto that, let me just quickly talk on one or two key points that were touched on in the comments that we just have to flesh out. Very important for viewers and also members to bear in mind that some of the technologies mentioned like fourth generation SMR and so forth. There's very few of them actually are working or the prototypes will only come online in about a decade or so from now. So we have to also bear in mind that these technologies are not tested. That's one thing to is around transparency around the nuclear power industry. Some of the viewers might know that accidents involving nuclear power stations and also the supporting enrichment facilities and and and are supposedly told to the IAA. And if you look at the IAA website, the only list the previous 12 months of data, whereas there's about a thousand accidents on record from level one to level seven, level seven being Fukushima Chernobyl and so forth. So there's a significant lack of transparency on the nuclear power issue and people are not aware of the the hundreds if not thousands of accidents that have occurred and we just don't know about it. And there was also a comment on insurance and nuclear power stations in the US, for example, are insured for 450 million dollars, but Fukushima cost of it is around almost a trillion. So there's a definite and the insurance. Of course, if this is insured, probably the cost will rise up and nobody will demand for it because the price is too high. So let's use this opportunity. And again, from a personal point of view, uses opportunity to dismantle one of the key tools of capitalism. Right. And this is one of them. Nuclear power is one of the significant tools of capitalism. We know this. We know that it takes funds away from the renewable energies. We know that it is a military dimension to this. And as a progressive movement, our political goals and ecological goal does come first. But then to summarize and how we're going to go as the next steps on this for our members is that all the feedback gathered here today from the chat from the discussion and also an internal forum will be put together to was preparing an all member vote and will hopefully have an announcement about that soon on our website with the results. Thank you. Thank you, Amir. And as Amir just said, all the discussion that's happened today is going to feed into a vote text which will be voted on by our members. And if you would like to become a member and you're not already again the web addresses dm25.org slash join and you can be part of this democratic process to decide what our position should be on nuclear energy as a political movement. Thank you for watching. Thank you for all your comments.