Video Game Characters square off against the Teen Titans. It's Wreck-It Ralph vs. Big Hero 6 on Movie Feuds. They're not really the Teen Titans, I wish they were the Teen Titans. John C. Riley was the last guy I expected to play a big, lovable Disney character, but after seeing Wreck-It Ralph multiple times, I wouldn't want it any other way. The same could be said about the crass talking comedian, Sarah Silverman, as Vanellope. She's a spunky and adorable outcast who can't even race in her own game. The supporting players are just as entertaining, with 30 Rocks, Jack McBrayer playing Felix, and Jane Lynch once more outshining everyone around her as Calhoun. She's a tough but internally wounded soldier who's afraid to let anyone get in close. Glenn Close. I had no idea Firefly's Alan Tidick was King Candy, and that Ed O'Neill had a small role as Mr. Litwick, the arcade store supervisor, until I did a little IMDb scroll. Let's find some of the other supporting cast. What really puts Wreck-It Ralph over the top for me though is the cameos by all the classic game characters I grew up with. You got Sonic, Eggman, Dr. Robotnik, Ken, Rauw, Riu, and there's Pac-Man, Paperboy, Bowser, the boss from Altered Beast. The list goes on. Big Hero 6 had plenty of fun and interesting characters too, with the largest draw coming from Baymax. He's voiced by another 30 rock alum, Scott Adsit. Then there's our main protagonist, Hero, played by Ryan Potter. Not to be confused with Harry Potter, who's a fictional character in a line of books, movies, video games, etc. Nobody was confused by that. The rest of the cast shows up around the 30 minute mark, and even though I saw this film in 3D, they were all pretty one dimensional. There's the overly neat Wasabi, the bubbly Taylor Swift, I mean Honey Lemon. The Cosplay, Dragon, Lover Fred, and the Tough Engineer, Go-Go. They're all pretty enjoyable, but the one-on-ones we get with Hero and his brother, and Hero and his robot pal, are the real draws. Wreck-It Ralph follows the journey of our title character as he tries to break free from his bad guy label. He doesn't want to be bad anymore, and although his bad guy anonymous group is helping, it's not enough. He needs to win a medal. This takes Ralph on a journey spanning multiple games, including a Call of Duty, Halo-esque first-person shooter, to an uber-bubbly kart racing game. I would describe it as Candyland meets Mario Kart. There are some neat touches along the way, and some definite thought was put into this little world Disney created. The movie tugs at the heartstrings almost carelessly, since at the time of this feud the movie is just hitting theaters, I'm going to refrain from spoilers. But Hero does not seem to have an easy going life, we'll just say that much. What does come easy however, is being pretty much perfect at everything else.  This works for and against the film in my eyes, as there is no ceiling to what Hero can conjure up and build. I don't expect gritty realism, but at least give it some sense of reality. He eventually attends college at a very young age and forms his team of heroes. Honestly though, the hero part could have been scrapped all together and I would have been fine. Watching him meet and interact with Baymax and form a friendship is the movie, that's all I needed. It's very reminiscent of How to Train Your Dragon, complete with a flying montage. Once the superhero team is formed, things get pretty run-of-the-mill. Hero 6 may have two more years of polish on Wreck-It Ralph, I don't know what this was, but the 2012 film still looks fantastic. Wreck-It Ralph has a very clever art style that's a bit boxier than a typical animated flick. Varying a bit closer to Madagascar, but with much more detail. The animation is what really sets it above the standard. Game mascots move just like they would in the original incarnations. Don and Tapper are my favorites. Don is such a douchebag, but I love the guy. Just want to give him a bear hug. Big Hero 6 looks incredible and the clever mash up known as San Fransochio gives our eyes something truly awe-inspiring to feast upon. There are a lot of different action set pieces ranging from a car chase to a final fight on top of a building being ripped to shreds. There's plenty of new scenery about and I think that's one place where Wreck-It Ralph kind of stumbles a bit. As creative as Wreck-It Ralph is, I still couldn't help but wish we had just one more gaming environment. Henry Jackman's the composer on both of these pictures. Ralph is laid in poppy while Hero 6 sticks with more of the traditional superhero Avenger style tone. Owl City recorded When Can I See You Again specifically for Ralph. It's a fun and upbeat song that proved to me that Owl City has, in fact, one song I can stand listening to. Big Hero 6 gets its own custom song from pop rock artist Followboy.  I loved Wreck-It Ralph. I still love the movie after seeing it a half dozen times. There are so many little Easter eggs peppered throughout this wonderful world. It's also probably the closest thing we have to a good video game flick until the sequel hits. It's imaginative, it's inspiring, it's got a great group of pixelated friends we can journey with for a while. Big Hero 6 is no slouch and it does have a Disney level of quality one comes to expect. However, it's very by the books. Baymax is a wonderful creation for sure, but in a spoiled world that's already given us wallies and toothless ssss. It's hard to keep going back to that same well. And this kids is where I give my call to action. I gave you my takes on these movies, now it's your turn. Pop some comments in below, vote for your favorite. Wreck-It Ralph vs Big Hero 6. More than just reviews, this is Movie Feuds. Oh, side note, there is a frozen Easter egg in Big Hero 6. Ahan's statue gets blown to smithereens by Baymax in the courtyard when he's training. There you go, frozen reference, subscribe. Because frozen.


Why are musicians from Asia way more popular in America than even Asian Americans? Let's talk about this because this is being discussed on the internet right now Yeah, this is from Reddit. When will Asian Americans be considered marketable by major Asian labels? It seems like all the Asian artists that are accepted in America do not pass visibly as Asian Bruno Mars Olivia Rodrigo her Charlie XCX even though there are major indie artists like Mitski. She's not really mainstream How come Asian American articles are not viewed as marketable? However, if you go back to Korea or your home country, you could have success such as Utah to Hikaru Obviously, there's other people that doesn't mention Jay Park Jesse. Oh, et cetera, et cetera It seems that imports are accepted such as BTS, but that's not the same as Asian American rep I cannot remember a full Asian or Asian passing mainstream artist like an Asian Brittany or Asian Ed Sheeran All right guys, we are gonna be talking about this We're gonna be delving into the main reason why I think so other people are gonna have their reasons in the comments section But let's break this down because we are Asian American and I think we're always wondering Hey, how come Asian Americans aren't more popular in America? So please hit that like button right now But you know what is popping that is Asian American small sauce very good chili oil It is Asian American made in America, but with Asian sensibilities such one to Sicily I really say it's global like you said such one to Sicily We took into consideration the entire globe when formulating that sauce um and first of all is this poster forgetting that Faris movement had a number one single will fly like a G6 Yeah, I think people discount that a little bit shout out to Faris movement But I think they discounted because they didn't show their faces and nobody knows their names, right? Is it a little bit like they did have hit yeah Yeah, yeah, it's that's like saying LMFAO was like the number one ranked white rappers instead of like Eminem or something Like that or like a Mac Miller or a Jack Harlow Even MGK considered more of a rapper's white rapper than LMFAO You know what it is it's tough because those were number one hits, but they're not my rocketeer still gets played But other than that like fly like G6 is not something that people still play in the club You're right. You're right, but it was a number one. It wasn't number one It was the number one on billboard charts at a moment. We don't know yet guys We're just talking about I guess the perception is David even though there are some Asian American artists out there There's so many lists on the internet talking about oh check out this API artist There's obviously a lot of mixed Asian artists, right? Like she listed. I didn't know Charlie XCX is half Indian I didn't know but obviously her there's Saweetie. There's Jenae Ico if you count her she's actually a fourth. I think she looks Asian though She's either that was a strong quarter and her last name Yeji. There's Steve Aoki Tori Moy is in a niche, you know by himself And then those are like more mainstream if you want to talk about dumbfounded MC gin Japanese breakfast is an indie artist Who's half I believe yeah, yeah So I guess there are some but how come it seems like there's no big pop artists I think because I don't want to discount. There's Asian artists out there, but they're not that big this post is referring to pop music R&B and hip-hop which are The three biggest genres of music in the US of a of the past several decades rock music used to be a lot bigger rock music Seems like it's gone the way of the dinosaur to do a country music at David now. Also. There's no there's no big Yeah, Asian country stars. How come how so does it also seem like none of the YouTube? Musicians really scaled past YouTube. Yeah, I'm up. We're talking about you know, there was a huge a J Touring around the country like yeah, I mean we are a sea so love all those guys, but they didn't make it on that mainstream level Let's let me just say the number one reason why this is my number one reason why cultural side everything Oh Asians aren't accepted Asians are put in this box, which we're gonna talk about. I think it's a pooling issue Think about it I added up the Asian populations and this includes South Asians across the Western world Australia Canada UK America Across the British Isles 30 million Asians right sounds like a decent amount 30 million Asians period But of those Asians, which of those are of cool musician age? Let's just say 15 to 35 years old That's only a third of them because a lot of them are old So that's only 10 million Asians of this possible age that could be in this game right now, right? You're saying in Western countries. They could be considered a Western Asian. Yeah as Western Asian performer, right? So so let's say so you have 10 million Asians that speak English native English speakers, okay? How many Asians are in Asia four billion Asians total including South Asians right so then of that one-third of that is about 1.3 billion so you got 1.3 billion Asians from Asia of age of age of cool performing age That want to be artists if they all wanted to be artists You would find more talent there than you would find from the 10 million Asian Americans that just makes Mathematical sense to you're saying the talent pool even if only a fraction of artists in Asia want to do it They're pulling from 1.3 billion versus 10 million. Let me take it out of music real quick How come there's not a Japanese American show? Hey, Otani. How come there's not a Korean American son herring men Right. How come we have we have Japanese Americans. We have Korean Americans How come there's not one of those top elite baseball or soccer or how come there isn't a Vietnamese trap artist This bringing the melodic hooks like this guy right here from Vietnam's Got Talent So Andrew your theory or your argument, I guess it's just logic. It's just the talent pool is Trillion I think that's the main reason I think that's the main biggest reason that you have to consider that I think that makes up most of the okay What about this other argument? It's the cultural side that either the Western society the Anglo society has no room to consider Asian-American artists as cool enough to do music right or even that the parents discourage Pursuing those pathways and throwing the 10 out of 10 effort and heart and passion into those lanes in life I think those are other factors. I think those are legit factors, and I think they play into it Right, but I would just I mean you got 1.3 billion possible talent Versus 10 million who's gonna produce more talent just be real right who has the systems who has the money Here's the thing about pop music David pop music is expensive to create boy bands groups Man, you're trying to you're trying to pay eight different men and women in a group There might be like 80 people involved in the ecosystem and they have to train they have to eat sleep Right together produce the music together or even if they're not producing you need music producers There's these whole gigantic systems that require so much money and so much organization Who has the resources in Asia? They do not in Asian America. Have you seen these Asian-American pop groups? No offense to them They're not that good and they're not that strong and they look like a weird collection of people It's not like it doesn't fully make sense You know, I wouldn't bet on one of them launching man. I saw so many over the years You would not believe some of the ones we've seen anyway. Um, let's just get into the comments section Andrew This guy and shout out to Jason shoo. We know Jason shoo. He did a reddit AMA where people asked him the and he said that this I'd say not only music, but American media in large has no idea what to do with Asian-Americans I think in the mainstream American imagination Asians don't really have anything interesting about us except our orientalized exoticism So anime k-pop and porn are all objects of fetishized fascination But real lived experiences domestically don't captivate the imagination similarly So for example, we would be considered kale and superfoods But we would never taste as good as high fructose corn syrup and caffeine Basically, he was saying that Asians get considered the kale and superfoods of american society Stay out of trouble get really good jobs stem career structural to society But we're not cool and volatile like america wants its You know artists to be we're not sexy. Yes, but not a sexy a lot of sexiness in america has to do with possibly Social deviance pushing the envelope that Asians are viewed I'm not saying that we are because obviously there's a variance within the asian community perceived to be the opposite of that Yeah, for sure. I think that's part of it well said by jason chou, man. That was honestly, uh, really well written He's very smart. He went to yale somebody said 88 rising was doing it for a moment with the edgy asians with the tattoos and the drug use and the vibey visuals and the You know all the type of atmospheric neon stuff But what happened it seemed like they had a buzz and then it went away And then somebody said 88 rising has really been fumbling all their momentum over the past few years They seem dead in the water now. Maybe they're popping in asia, but asian americans aren't thinking about them anymore Uh, I don't think that's true. I think they'll still think they have their place, but Most of their artists are actually from asia. They're english-speaking asia. I'm out of rich brine nicky, etc Yeah, all from asia. Look joji's from asia right, but he's half asian half white. Yeah, but he's grew up in asia Like they all grew up in asia Like almost nobody on the 88 of the top 15 on their roster is from america. I can't think of one But they were this new class of like Like elite rich kids from asia that grew up in westernized schools. They're the international class of asia, but they're still from asia Right, right, right the western they're still pulling from the asia pool think about indonesia has like Hundreds of millions of people like 500 million. How many 300 400 million people well a lot of people don't understand If you're from a former colony, there's still this like aristocratic class Within there that is very westernized but lives in the asia. Uh, I would say a someone says steve oki. He is asian american steve oki is actually full asian A lot of people think steve oki's half because he kind of looks half from the i new side Shout out to steve oki. Um, somebody said what about edm zoo, henry fong toky monster Yeji is you know, obviously it's not edm in a party edm way, but concert edm Do you think there's certain genres to music obviously where there's a lot more penetration people were pointing out rock music art pop indie pop hyper pop More asians or half asians in those niche spotify genres. I think when you think of pop music it has to be really well produced and I think from I don't know. I just think like the k-pop system has kind of got a stranglehold on that type of like Girl group you talking about hyper luxury expensive produced like yeah, so it's like I don't know. I don't even know if the west can compete with k-pop. I really don't think so right But you're saying indie pop art pop. These are more minimalistic art forms. Keshi is really big I almost want to say he's like a mixture of any pop art pop. I think an asian american artist The asian american artist vibe is so indie because they don't have the resources and they don't have the systems behind them So everything feels so indie. When was the last time an indie Asian movie got big When was the last big indie asian movie that everybody saw that everybody? Well, I think some art arts the asians watch that movie. No, but I was still like a 20 million dollar budget What else crazy rich asians 30 million dollar budget shang chi probably a hundred some million dollar budget But you're talking about like a two million dollar budget movie or something like that everything everywhere All once still 15 million dollars that I guess that was indie they that counts as indie technically It's a really big indie. Yeah. Yeah. Um, yeah, you're right. I mean, I just think to your point Right now, maybe the asian american Music pop development and pop rmb and hip hop has lagged behind the movie world The movie world seems to be moving at a quicker pace. You want to hear a hot take man? I think generally asians whether they like to admit it or not They like to feel fancy when they listen to things So they want expensive sounding and expensive looking things a lot of asians don't want to Feel like that they have to live this indie lifestyle Because everybody asians most asians are still like upward mobile Right, so they consume art. They want to consume like a nice version of it That's why so many movies were depicting asians as wealthy or so many shows were depicting asians as wealthy Because a lot of asians still low-key look up to that, right? But if you said asian, hey asians you got to go to this one small theater to go only watch keshi perform How many asians? But it's it does seem like the younger gen z asians are more into keshi and keshi doesn't really portray that Luxury lifestyle, right? He's talking about his friends being drunk on the street at the dive bar and like Hipster Williams He has like 50 million views, right? Right, but it's a big niche. He's not a radio artist or you know what? I mean, certainly not like uh, like we said, you know got the the whole industry backing Expensive studios with 20 people around This guy said this was frank chins who is a famous asian american writer Major problem with asians in america was a lack of an art form of their own They're essentially piggybacking off u.s art forms, which is okay But we've been blackballed out of every single industry in the usa other than classical music when it comes to media Um, yeah, that is true. I you can see asians basically you be saying that we get blackballed So j park who became the chris brown? Of overseas, right or like i don't want to say chris brown like the beaver chris brown of south korea Maybe not that big but something like that like he could only do that once he went back to korea. Yeah, he could never Make a dent in the pop game. I guess in the us, right? Um, but why can a why do you think asians can be accepted in classical music? Oh andre jinn jinn was signed to rough riders jinn is making mandarin raps Back in china right now. I guess um Yeah, he was just saying it's because we didn't create an art form of our own the way latinos created reggaeton And then reggaeton is obviously in spanish and mostly only open to spanish artists Yeah, I don't know if there's an artist that is so hyper talented and got the look that they got blackballed Right, you're saying i'm not sure right right. I agree with you. I'll say this I think that being an asian american artist. It's like minus two off your power point Like so let's say for example the threshold to make it in the game andre is six out of ten You need to hit six out of ten factors to make it Let's say for example, there's an asian with six out of ten So they're going to get minus two so they're out four so they're not going to hit the threshold But if there was an asian american artist, there was at an eight out of ten on the checklist minus two They could still get in there out of six Like once they take the asian discount in the game But we're not producing enough artists They hit eight out of ten on the checklist between the look the marketability the blah blah blah because it even You know the look matters because even miguel and bruno mars until the society changed They struggled to get marketing and miguel is actually half black and half wahakan, which is a native latino Which happens to look asian like he's not a white latino miguel is like half like native mexican I'll tell you this Well, you have to understand a lot of these labels Even if they meet a kind of talented asian, but they have no idea what to do with them They're not going to take on that risk So some financial risk Sometimes they're like, oh if you're an asian that's trending Why don't you just go figure it out on your own? Because I can't take on this risk of taking on this new product that I have no idea how to market or they might be like Hey, uh universal i'm gonna send an email over to universal asia and get you signed over there, right? I actually don't think it's as Racist against asians in the industry if the asian had the look That could pass as attractive to a number of people and the talent Well, isn't that why the half asians are getting on right now? Even though at one point people were even skeptical of the half ones Somebody said honestly, by the way, it's not my comment Somebody said honestly when asians stop trying to do soul rap and rmb and other things that are very black That is when we will start to make it because somebody was listing off that there was a bunch of asians Not uh that are frontman of rock bands There's a ton of asians that are like the guitarist or the drummer in a rock band Yeah, I think asians do fit with the rock look Because rockers are very skinny and rockers typically have dark hair Yeah And they look like more fringe, you know, but but but then rock music is super not trendy for the last decade to be honest Has not been trendy. No, um somebody said we have to own our own distribution channels So then we can push our own uh the asians through the pipeline But somebody else said if the kids don't like it the kids don't like it It doesn't matter if you own the pipelines, but yeah, I do think we got our own distribution Somebody said we're better off independent anyway I'm not waiting for the mainstream to love a full asian artist this asian american This filipino guy said yo listen asian americans cannot even get down with each other to support each other What makes you think that somebody else is going to come through and support a full asian Um somebody said steve aoki talked a lot about this before because steve aoki actually gave an interview Where he said the main game plan for asians is to learn the skills in america Go back to asia be considered a unique product and then potentially lateral back Yeah, but then somebody said yeah steve aoki should be talking his dad was a super wealthy super connected businessman In media. Yeah, I mean that both steve aoki can be right and the other person about steve aoki's advantages can both be right Yeah, somebody said well to be fair you can argue It's already happening all the fourth and fifth gen k-pop groups are filled with girls who grew up partially overseas in the west Do you think that counts andrew like spending five ten years being able to speak english fluently so me so me is uh half dutch and Canada Yeah, but she's she's gonna be able to be bridge the gap more possibly Yeah, somebody said the gatekeepers will allow it when they allow it when they deem it feeling cool Just like the asians are started winning all the oscars even though those movies might not have been that good It's just because that's what hollywood deemed was their time Um somebody said it works for latinos because they have their own music and their language with their own instruments Andrew what about asian music with asian instruments man, what about asian drums? What's like an asian drum? I'll tell you this Not that it wouldn't necessarily work in pop rap and hip-hop I think you know punjabi mc and them that were kind of doing it with the indian rap hip-hop mixes But you know, it's kind of already more westernized. I'll say this the who the mongolian rock bands the That's popping in the rock play some taiko drums real quick. Let me just see if this got anything um somebody said I It would need to be twisted a lot. Okay, the taiko drums Somebody said I wonder the same thing with all the asian athletes when all the clothes and equipment is being made over there I mean, I don't think the clothes and equipment being made in asia has anything to do with the usage of that equipment Somebody said it is the box that asian parents raise their kids in they dull their expressiveness because they are embarrassed by it How I think that they're depending on the family you're from this is partially true Because talent andrew not only has to exist. It has to be cultivated and refined. Yes Somebody said what even is asian american music? What are the sensibilities of even asian music for that matter? I would say that asian music Has to be a little bit introspective. It can't be too violent and it has to be kind of lo-fi You know like lo-fi vibes That's why I was believing in shingo too with new jibis, but they're both artists from japan But I always thought that laying a hip-hop It could work Lo-fi rap. I mean a cool kind of like Pothead rapper sort of like dumbfounded, but like I guess, you know more commercially viable. I think would have worked Could work in the future. Yeah, because I think if you stand for like Smoking weed and that's kind of like a 401 401 is a uh, I want to say he's big in the latino community Yeah, anyway, andrew, um, what's your takeaway, man? You agree with the post is it matter of time? Why does it seem like the music world potentially lagging behind the movie world? Yeah, man, I why do you think man? I think that it's just like The music world is different than the movie world because most of the people who consume movies are older It's like roger and ebert or obviously, you know not roger and ebert now But like rotten tomatoes if you look down the approved critics list They're much older music is determined by somebody who's like 15 Yeah, and movies are determined by somebody who's like 50. So it is different. Yeah. Yeah music is very sexy It's very hip. It is very like up to date socially deviant. It is edgy but movies can be dramatic it can be comedy it can be Stoic like there's all these different. There's more different characters in a movie Then there are types of musicians that you want to listen to music supposed to hit your soul Make you feel something make you feel cool. Make you want to be in rhythm Make you want to listen to this person make you want to have a scott play board cardy be with this person Make you want to feel something So asians are just a little bit lagging behind in making people feel something Asian-americans it'll come I think it'll come with time But again, it's a pooling issue guys We're talking about 10 million versus 1.3 billion 10 million versus 1.3 billion Anyway guys, let us know what you think in the comment section below Let us know who you think some of are your favorite asian-american artists You know, I'll tell you this There's a lot of asian-americans involved in the game making beats Producing albums playing instruments on albums instrumentation But we're even writing songs, but maybe not necessarily being the front man But like you said that could change. Uh, let us know what you think in the comment section below Until next time we the hop-hop boys be out peace


oh man that's not good yeah that that mouse got in there and peed all over that thing and so I definitely don't want to heat that up zoom in I mean there's a hanging turd right there in the spider web hanging mouse turd mouse urine that's just terrible so yeah it's gonna be fun hey everybody welcome back today to Retro Tech and I've got a familiar CRT to maybe some of you this is an old Samsung CRT that I actually went through and have worked on in the past here on the channel and the reason I'm bringing this up right now is I've been getting a lot more questions about RGB mods and CRT RGB mods to be more specific and if I look back in my personal history with CRT and RGB mods I've actually only done it twice and both of those times have been documented here on this channel and the most recent one I did was this Samsung so I thought it'd be a great opportunity to go back look at this Samsung see how it's held up over the years kind of give you a little bit more history on this set itself this one is a Samsung TXD1972 that is a 20 inch NTSC CRT television it was made in January of 1997 the schematics are readily available online for this TV and you can use those schematics to develop an RGB mod and that's what I did back when I serviced this one now just to give you a little bit of a history on this specific set now this TV did survive a personal family fire that happened back in 2003 this was at a time when I was still in college and just over the holidays our house caught fire unfortunately now thankfully everybody survived and no one was hurt but most of the stuff that I owned was destroyed in that fire and somehow this CRT survived that fire and still worked so I just grabbed it from the rubble and leftovers again in my house and took it home and I cleaned it up just a little bit it survived a fire I'm gonna show you some damage up here to the actual shell itself because it did not you know it did get some damage from that fire there's some melting up here along the top that I'll show you when we look closer at this actual TV set so there is again a little bit of personal history with this you know back when I started working on this the first thing I did was clean it and then recap the chassis and all the boards inside and then we also started doing some custom mods to it one being the painted shell this would have started as a black television and I actually scuffed up that shell and repainted it in this red paint scheme and then I painted these buttons down here in a white paint scheme because that comes apart from the shell and that was pretty fun and and so it's got this cool like Neo Geo almost look to it I really like that about it and then we did do an RGB mod on this one and again that's in those older videos this was all done back in the fall of 2018 October and so that's three and a half years ago from today so the way that this RGB mod worked this was the older method to get RGB on your set and that would be by pulling RGB and blanking signals off of a jungle chip that is on the chassis of this CRT and then routing those to a switch now the switch here on this monitor is down here you'll get a closer look at it this switch allows you to switch between just normal mode pretty much where the CRT is is all rerouted into its normal functionality and you press that and then you can route in your RGB and composite sync into the television as an input instead of the OSD menu so it's an extremely basic explanation of the mod and how it works in this TV now why would we even do this mod this will allow me to get the best picture possible from this television it turns it into a TV that is a arcade quality monitor for CRT I can use RGB and composite sync inputs to connect various NTSC retro gaming consoles to this television and then again it will have that RGBS support input on it now I used a SCART input for this television and that way I can go directly from my retro gaming console and then to pull that RGBS out of that and send it through straight to SCART into this TV with any setups that I want to let's go ahead now and get a closer look at this CRT first thing you're gonna see is the beautiful red paint and that's held up pretty good for three and a half years and for the most part this has been in storage for about you know the last three years I thought this always looked really cool the way I was able to strip all the old paint that was just black on the speaker grill here and keep it silver that was one of the things I liked about the way that whole job went and again these buttons are just white and it's real simple I mean I had to paint over all the labels so you can't see really exactly what's each button does but there's not too many so it's pretty pretty easy to navigate through the reason I don't have it turned on as it's again it's been a while since I've actually used it and you'll notice we've already got the shell separated I went ahead and removed the four main screws just so we could get in here and look at this but I'll show you in a second it was sitting in storage and I think some critters may have gotten inside it and I just want to make sure before I turned it on and show you the screen that nothing's you know gonna short out and have any problems with it but you'll notice the dust that's just built up over the last few years on here and then this you see that warped part right there that is from heat that's the heat damage that occurred to this CRT shell as it just sat in my house in one of the rooms as the house burnt and that heat built up so much that it just eventually caused that plastic to buckle and melt slightly and then the house cooled down the fire stopped after the fire department put the fire out and so the CRT you know it didn't get hit with any water and the smoke damage was minimal on it so somehow it made it but that's the one thing that that was left from the damage I think it gives it a little bit more character but you'll notice yeah it's got the melted part there and up there at the other part portion thankfully it still closes fine and seems I've been held up well the plastic is pretty tough that just shows you how tough these CRTs are because it got pretty hot in there where that plastic would melt but it didn't seem to affect the tube and if we look around here in the back here here's the label with all the information we discussed about Samsung and this model of TV and then if we go down the only screws I have not removed that I need to remove before I pull the shell off are these two screws which hold our SCART input into place there and that's the new input for our video input and here's the thing that I'm concerned about so there's this opening down here where I think it used to have yet composite video and I removed that and an audio jack right there an RCA form and so unfortunately that's too tight to really fit a good SCART input down there although it is SCART sized you would think it would be very nice but it just I couldn't get it to work so I left this opening here and I believe that some rodents like mice had gotten inside of that so we're going to look inside by removing the shell next and let's just see what it looks like with this back off and the screws from the back of the television have been removed down here at the SCART input so that's loose and that should be the only thing holding this together down there just be able to remove that get this out of the way oh yeah so just on this side and I can't see where they got in here and definitely left a little present for me so I definitely want to clean the inside here but look down there for example they came in there and fit nicely through that hole ran over here and use the but use the bathroom in the corner so this is not something I want to just leave in here I need to actually clean this and wash my hands pretty thoroughly here's a look inside our CRT and we've got our anode cap up there looks pretty good I do notice that some spiders have made some webs inside of here which is not a surprise again being in storage the neck board right up in here next to our convergence rings and then we have our deflection yoke right here and then down into this area is where we have our RGB mod and until that all the resistors on this particular mod build out those were placed down here and let's look at a tied into some probably point one micro farad capacitors to ground and tied into the resistors and so yeah that's the way this old mod would work I'm not sure what this is this looks like it used to be huh maybe used to be the composite video or maybe an audio rerouting I need to check that out yeah the videos over here this is where the composite video so I rerouted the audio to this oh yeah we definitely need to get in here and clean this if we zoom in I mean there's a hanging turd right there in a spider web a hanging mouse turd we see those spots on that chip that's so this is our jungle chip right here that I can see the mod right you see how the mods actually running off the chip instead of like off of one of these jumper points that's how old this was as I just took it straight off the chip which was not recommended anyway if you look behind that over there it's that micro controller chip you'll see all those little dots yeah that that mouse got in there and peed all over that thing and so I definitely don't want to heat that up I'm going to pull this whole thing apart and clean it so yeah it's gonna be fun let's go ahead and get ready to do do that goodness gracious yeah you could see the mouse man he was in in this side oh goodness they really have a party down in there look at that wow oh man that's not good yeah you don't really want to have that stuff in your monitor and your CRT because I can just breed diseases so there's some nice caps right there Michigan caps wow alright let's get ready to clean this thing one of the things I do need to do to get this this assembled is I need to discharge this anode cap this TV's not been used in a very long time however there's still a chance that some energy is being stored up in there and this is not a probe video monitor at all a lot of pro monitors and higher ncrts had a safety mechanism where this would automatically discharge this TV more than likely does not have that so this is not really a guide on how to discharge but I will let you see me do that I've got this attached to the main ground strap going around the tube and the first thing I'm going to do is I'm just going to try to get under this cap a little bit and then there's our anode point right there and without touching anything else I'll hit it with this screwdriver we'll see if anything happens no so then you just push those that clip together and that anode will come right out we'll hit that up a little bit nothing and then we'll also tap our cap area a few times and now we're safe to remove our boards from in here okay so here we go I've also got the button for the RGB loosened so it can come with us and then there's a couple points on here that are disconnectable and that's it now we get it out of here okay well this is just pretty unbelievable how much damage these mice did in here first off check out the microcontroller it's it's actually got rust building up on it and that's all mouse urine that's just terrible and of course some fecal matter there to go with that right on our controller the whole board is going to need to be just doused in alcohol there's that new cap kit over there in the deflection block so if you ever do run into this do be careful this stuff can be very dangerous they've impede over here on the RGB chip the jungle chip right there I'm just going to douse this with alcohol lots and lots of rubbing alcohol and gonna wear heavy duty kitchen gloves because you don't want any of this this causes bacteria and can get you really sick I'm going to take this outside I'm going to clean this up and then we'll take a look at it afterwards rather than have me show you guys the cleaning process because that's really what I'm going to do and I need to be careful yeah see there's another spot that said resistor right there all those resistors they got peed on to right in there and I've rusted up so this is going to be a pretty tricky one just need to clean it and get all that out of there do it effectively and gently now the rest of this is not going to be as fragile we can pretty much hose this off use some heavy duty kind of bathroom cleaners to get in there and kill all the bacteria and give it a good day or two to dry out all right well thanks to the power of video editing you will not have to spend all day watching me clean the inside of this CRT what I'm going to start off showing you is this board inside of here and we'll just right off the bat look at some familiar places check it out this is the mycom chip over here and before it was covered in just all kinds of fecal matter and urine and really bad over on this side so I was able to clean that up some I'll zoom in a little closer and I mean I thoroughly cleaned it I had to clean this entire board with 91% isopropyl alcohol and pretty much water and I just did that over and over and over again numerous times with brushes just to get a lot of that nasty stuff off lots of alcohol though it took a lot to clean this whole board there was just remnants of stuff everywhere so that was one spot that was particularly bad and another spot that was bad was over here actually near our mod is our modification for RGB and blanking right over here the other spot was over on this side of our jungle chip and you can actually see some dullness on this chip on these legs where it actually did you know there is a there is a mark there forever from those little rodents in their mess and finally there's a third spot over here that was really bad there were a lot of spots in between here where the resistors are that had to be thoroughly clean but one that was just particularly bad of all the spots was over here next to these three resistors and they were in bad shape and you can tell how it's really dark over here because this is a high heat area but this was also an area that was just full of urine it was the spot on the back of the chassis that looked particularly awful so I'm gonna let you see the other side of the circuit board so you can see that damage and what it looks like so the circuit board's been cleaned and everything looked pretty good for the most part except in that area which is down here that I was explaining to you about this is underneath those three resistors and this was just soaked in the urine and it actually ate up a lot of the solder mask there the mask on top of the board so what I did over here was I cleaned these vias and connections and everything thoroughly with that alcohol and brushes and then I was able to just go in and apply new solder to all these places with a lot of flux and then I cleaned it again and then I went over here and I checked the continuity on these points to make sure that the actual trace itself wasn't damaged on anything and surprisingly none of the traces were damaged so I don't believe this is going to cause any issues it could but as far as I can tell from every test I've been able to do with a meter I don't think this should cause any issue hopefully our CRT still works good now the other half of this story is of course the CRT tube and then the bezel frame and all that so this also had to be thoroughly cleaned with cleaners and then washed with water and it's in it's nice and clean and ready to be reassembled but I definitely had to clean all that stuff out because I didn't want to have any remnant of that rat residue inside of here now before I put the anode cap on I am going to add a little bit of dielectric grease just rub that around in there that grease and she give us greasy spot there for our anode cap to go into and we'll just do the same thing on the underside there of the cap get in between those prongs that nice and that doesn't need to be excessive but just a good nice layer on everything then we'll just slip this back into place up here where it goes cap up and that should do it all right we're put back together everything's been thoroughly cleaned and I did go over here and tighten up our switch again and that's just the push button switch that turns on the RGB mod so hopefully everything will work fine everything's been reconnected what I'm first going to do is I'm going to plug it in to a search protector here and we'll see make sure that nothing happens so I'm going to plug that in right now we'll see if anything happens when we press the power on button here goes nothing all right I heard it come on I feel static on the screen that's all a good sign let's give it a second and see what happens I'm not really seeing any video okay there's something look at that okay all right so far the TV's been testing out really well we've got it just over in its normal RF mode right now so if I hit one of these buttons it'll change the channel that's actually the volume and see this puts it in our video mode now this TV only has one single composite video but it does have a little trick it does with the microcontroller where you could originally with the TV use the input on the front or the back and it was just one input that was shared between these two and it had an automatic sensor as to which input you were using I had to disable that feature and the composite video pretty much on this set to be able to use the composite video for the sync on the RGB so this TV really is nothing more than RF and then RGBS I've got my SCART input here and this is my SCART RGB cable coming straight out of the Super Nintendo that's plugged up now what we're going to do is we're going to turn the Super Nintendo on but first I need to get the TV over into RGB mode and we're going to press our sweet little button down here and listen for the big click we've manually set our switch to be in the RGBS mode let's just click this on and hopefully it'll work too just like the rest of the TV and what do you know there you have it we've actually got RGB yes so the rats they didn't mess up everything those dirty rats all right so yeah this is RGBS I don't mean S for composite video sync coming out of an RGB modded Super Nintendo and so let's let's pull a game up here and see how it looks we've got all our colors it looks extra sharp that's a really good thing about when you have an RGB modded CRT is it just looks so incredibly sharp all right as far as sound is concerned with this one we've actually got the sound out to a just a little jack down here that I'll be mounting that to the backside of the shell once we put that back on but I just wanted to test this for the most part and see make sure it was still going all right so here's one last look at the inside of here we're about to put the back shell on and again this is our audio out so I've wired this so that stereo audio can be drawn from this point right here and then you can put that to any speaker or headphones or anything really and then of course this is our SCART adapter that will be in in here or input that will be mounted inside also and that's pretty much it everything else is going to be inside here so let's just get that back shell and slip it right into place all right let's give this thing a test run now we've got it closed up we've got some headphones here to use for audio and this is just the simple way this slides right in there and now you have a SCART input here on this television and you could run this off to a switch if you wanted to but we're just going to run the console straight from there and then we're going to plug in these headphones right now and see how these work okay there you go you can kind of hear that coming out of those headphones and so you've got stereo audio there and then let's flip our set around and see what we've got on our screen oh there we are we have Kirby and wow that 240p looks so good but yeah so we got audio support it's actually better than the speaker that comes with this CRT normally so that's a nice little addition again you could plug anything into either one of these actually you've got audio output coming out of that stereo jack and then we've got SCART input there next to it that you could put video in with your audio and then it comes out through that it's let me know what you think of this tv also i do have the little sony tv that i finished up last year in 2021 by reviewing and i was thinking about how i wanted to maybe do a rgb mod on that television i had mentioned it in that video before but i thought maybe i could try one of the newer methods so if anybody's an expert and wants to help me out with those rgb mods especially in the new mux format i would love to work with you on that and then i'll be making videos on it so that'll be fun it'd be a great way to collaborate with somebody so hey leave me a comment and let me know what you think of this one and definitely look for more on this tv because there's a reason i had to get it ready i have another big project that it needed to be a part of and now it'll be good enough to be part of that project so thanks again everybody and i'll see you next time with some more retro content


Time to talk about your health. Living a primal lifestyle. You know, we have Tom from Tampa on the phone. Hey, Tom, good morning. It's bright and early now, huh? Hey, hey, how are you guys doing? How's it going, Nick? Good. Your new player's outstanding. Tom, I'm telling you, Matt, he is outstanding. And so the vulnerable edge, I love that stuff. I'd never be without it. I mean, I've been on it now three, four months, man. I mean, it's just, I can't get over how good I feel. People are raving about it. People who are trying it, they know because you can feel it. We'd not be without it. Call now. Toll free at 1-877-927-6648. Now your hosts, Niko Dahan and Paige Clark. Good morning. I'm Niko Dahan. Welcome to Living a Primal Lifestyle, where we explore a return to a more balanced and natural wild world to recover our natural health and regain our rights and freedoms. And it's a beautiful morning in St. Petersburg. It's 69 degrees. It'll be 49 by tomorrow 62. We're in wintertime here. It's rather nice, a little muggy, but everything's good. I'd like to welcome you to the show and remind you to pick up our Health Signals newsletter. I have a new one out right now. It starts with too much screen times. That can harm your brain development. But I have a lot more in here. I invite you to go through it. Different changes in what we think of meat, pink slime in our ground beef. Things are not looking too well here. Beyond meat, of course, the fake meats are prominent in our society today. Plant-based meat is about to get cheaper. Right now it's more expensive. Russian, this is kind of interesting. Russian dairy farmers gave cows VR goggles to make them think they're out in the field instead of in a barn and seeing if their milk is any better. Human breast milk may help babies tell the time and, in other words, sink them up to the circadian rhythms from their mom and the magic mushrooms. I had a lot of a little bit of debate about this magic mushroom stuff. Of course, they're talking about normal mushrooms too, but there's a section here about the magic mushrooms and microdosing. I had some questions about microdosing, so I have another article I'm going to put in there. I'm not going to show it to you now. It's really long and involved, but it's going to be good. It'll be in the next newsletter. So that's that. Today I really want to talk about Christmas. Also, I remind you to please pick up our primalizer one-shot wonder. If you want to start off your year with something really healthy, this is the stuff that'll bring it to you. It's all powered by phobic and humic acid, which means that the good stuff goes in, the bad stuff goes out, and that's what we want. I want to talk today about Christmas around the world. You know, I'm from a different culture myself, I moved to England in Holland, and then moving at a young age, about six years old, to Canada, and then at about 18, I moved to the United States. So I've got really three countries, two kind of the same, but let's go down the list a little bit and see what... And I'm primarily interested in not only the culture and the customs, but some of the foods that they serve at those times. So let's start with Angola. Christmas is a big celebration in Angola. Over 50% of the populations are Catholic, with at least another 25%. Some other kind of Christians. So going to church on Christmas Day is important. There are midnight mass services on Christmas Eve and also a mass on Christmas Day. The main Christmas meal is eaten on Christmas Day or after the Christmas Day church service. Friends and family visit. Each other's houses and guests are always welcome. People often save up through the year so they can afford special foods for the Christmas meal. In rural parts of Angola, families might rear animals especially to eat at Christmas time. The traditional meal consists of pariel. It's a type of corn meal or cassava flour. A little meal right there. It's served with maybe rice, spaghetti, french fries, turkey, fried chicken and dishes like ozoldi, di, bakali, which is cooked cold fish and vegetable. It's served with rice, spaghetti, french fries, turkey, fried chicken and dishes like ozoldi, di, bakali, cooked cold fish and vegetables. It doesn't sound too good. And there's another dish made from fish and beef with tomatoes, garlic, okra, sweet potatoes. I think that might be what you're seeing here. Oh, this is the dessert. This is the Bora rye cake due to Angola's historic connection with Portugal. It's especially popular in the cities. The main decorations for the houses will be the nativity scene. Yeah, giving gifts is common in the cities. More common than in rural areas. Big shops in the cities also decorate with lights for Christmas. Okay. Let's go to another one here. I'm not going to do each one of these things, but I think it's interesting. Let's go to Australia. See what our southern neighbors are about. Australia, of course, it's summertime there. It comes at the beginning of the summer holidays. From mid-December to early February. So people might even be camping at Christmas. Big camping in Australia, for sure. Because it's so hot at Christmas time, there are often massive bush fires across the countries. Many people volunteer to get rid of these fires. The Australians hang wreaths on their front doors and sometimes go out on Christmas caroling. Singing Christmas carols on Christmas Eve, people also decorate their homes with gardens with the Christmas trees and Christmas lights. Even neighbors will get into little competitions who has the best display. The neighbors often visit each other and look at the lights display at night. Sometimes the displays are put out as early as December 1st. Well, we get that beat here. We go by Halloween here. Australians also decorate their homes with bunches of Christmas bush. That's a native Australian tree with small green leaves and cream colored flowers. Let's get to the food. I guess there's not much food in here. On Boxing Day, we have in Canada too and that's the day after Christmas and that's when everybody gets rid of their boxes. People go to visit friends often to have barbecues at the beach. A famous yacht race from Sydney to Hobart in Tasmania is always held on Boxing Day. Most families try to be home together. I don't see anything about food on this one. Okay, so they don't eat in Australia maybe. Let's go to Ethiopia. That's a completely different culture. Let's see what they have there. Ethiopia. And especially Ethiopian Catholic Church celebrates Christmas on January 7th not December 25th. The Ethiopian calendar has different months and Christmas is on the 29th of Tassus. Many other Orthodox churches around the world also celebrate Christmas on the 7th of January. Something I never knew. Let's see. Many people take part in a special advent fast during the 43 days before Christmas. That's a long fast. It starts 25th of November as known as the Fast of the Prophets. During this time traditionally only one vegan meal is eaten each day so it's not complete fast. It's a vegan meal because during the fast foods including meat, dairy and eggs and wine weren't eaten. For Ghana people get dressed in white. Most people wear traditional garment called a natela.  And they have a picture of that here. Design of the Ethiopian churches similar to the houses in the country they often very old and have been carved out of rock. Modern churches are built on three cities. Three circles, excuse me, in each other. They are called traditional Christmas foods including what, W-A-T which is a thick and spicy stew that contains meat, vegetables sometimes eggs. What is eaten on a plate with a flatbread. Pieces of the flatbread is called injera. Okay, so I'd like to remind you please do two things. Pick up our health signals newsletter and also pick up our primal edge and I'll be right back with more Christmases. We need to use liquid form. Primal edge is powered by highly concentrated folic and humic acids. Nature's preferred delivery system. They have been called miracle molecules because like sunlight, air and water life cannot exist without them. That's right Paige, they ensure we receive all the nutrition we need to be healthy and thrive. We take it every morning. Primal edge formulated and approved by Niko and Paige of living a primal lifestyle. Buy it today for just $89. 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Now St. Nicholas days on the 6th of December but the Netherlands has the major celebrations are always held on the 5th which is St. Nicholas Eve the name Sinterklaas comes from the name Sinterklaas which they touch use it all started the second Saturday of November which is the first Saturday after the 11th of November when Sinterklaas travels to a city or town in the Netherlands that's tradition says that St. Nicholas lives in Madrid Spain and every year he chooses a different harbor to arrive in the Netherlands so many children as possible can get a chance to see him Sinterklaas travels with his servants called Swarta Pete Black Pete and it's interesting because it was Black Pete all you know for years and years and now some of the left has come in and said we can't use Black people so why don't we call them Swarta Pete or Sutta Pete so Sutta Pete would be Sutta Pete in other words he comes down to chimney he's got all kinds of Sutta on him and now there's kind of a tradition some of them are still Black Pete some of them now are the Sutta Pete and that's where the fight is so it's kind of silly these are just traditions and you know I don't think it does any harm Sinterklaas travels with these guys and Sinterklaas is dressed in his red robes and I have a picture of him here a rather royal guy and when the Pete's Black Pete's and Sinterklaas come ashore from the steamboat all the local churches ring in celebration Sinterklaas is dressed in his red robes leads the procession through the town riding a white horse every town in the Netherlands has a Sinterklaas helpers dressed as the same as Sinterklaas kind of the same as Sinterklaas right who help give the presence out sometimes you might see more than Svarta Svarta Pete and with the Sinterklaas more Black Pete's a lot of times there's more than one children are torred that the Black Pete keep a record of all things that are done in the past year in a big book and children, the good children will be given presents by Sinterklaas but bad children will be put in the sack and Svarta Pete takes them back to Spain for a year to teach them how to behave whoa there's a real controversy there on the evening that Sinterklaas arrives in the Netherlands, children leave a shoe out by the fireplace, I remember that and I remember mine was a wooden shoe sometimes a window cell or on a window cell and sometimes they sing Sinterklaas songs they hope the Sinterklaas will come during the night with presents they also believe if they leave some hay and carrots in their shoes for Sinterklaas's horse they will leave some sweets in a small present they're told that during the night Sinterklaas rides on the roof sun on his horse and that a Svarta Pete will then climb down the chimney or through a window and put the presents or the candy in their shoes many families, the children are told that Sinterklaas and Black Pete make a weekly visit so children leave their shoe by the fireplace or a window every Saturday until the main party begins the evening of December 5th is called St. Nicholas Eve or Sinterklaas whatever it is the children will receive their presents during the evening they've always had that on Christmas Eve there might be a knock at the door and you might see a full sack of presents well, let's see 6th of December is the birthday of Sinterklaas he leaves the Netherlands by steamboat by the way of the entrance of the port of Rotterdam which is Europe's largest port and they have some different things of course there's different traditions here surprise, presents are given on St. Nicholas Day so we really didn't give out presents on St. Nicholas Day at all we did that during the Sinterklaas Day so Sinterklaas was different than the religious holiday in Holland was much more important than mixing up the two here we have Santa Claus coming on the same day that Jesus is born and things like that in Dutch Happy Merry Christmas can be said to blah blah blah I thought now we'd go to my second calling which was Canada let's see if I can find that Canada, let's see if there's anything special in Canada there we go right there Christmas in Canada very large country, people of very different cultures because of this there's a lot of different Christmas traditions in Canada many of the traditions, celebrations come from French, English, Irish, Scottish, German Norwegian and Ukraine and of course the First Nations people too people in Canada send Christmas cards to friends and family many Canadians open their gifts on Christmas Eve we always did that some only opened their stockings on Christmas Eve and others choose one gift to open and then the rest on Christmas Day it was a real culture shock for me when I was first married in the United States back in 1965 the first Christmas was over at my parents' lot house and of course we had this big tradition in our house and of the presents one by one so each of us could see what was being open and everybody, there was a la la la nice little celebration with each one and I got used to that and so I remember that first Christmas with my in-laws and I'm sitting at the table and we are all eating breakfast and then her dad says okay let's open presents everybody runs through the tree and starts ripping everything and I'm just sitting there because I'm not used to this thing so they had all their presents open like 10 or 15 minutes and they're sitting there huffing and puffing and looking at stuff and I hadn't even opened anything they say what's wrong with you so Trish editions are just funny that way I was rather shocked I was like oh my god it's a different culture so my thinking was oh these people are barbarians they don't really care about the gifts just care about their own we cared about each other's gifts but who knows what's up anyway okay so the main Christmas meal in Canada is often roast turkey with vegetables and all the trimmings like mashed potatoes and vegetables traditional famous Christmas desserts include Christmas plum puddings and minced meat Christmas crackers are often popular with many people in Canada as well and one thing we did in Holland I remember if you got a piece of chocolate written in your initial for some reason in Holland that was a tradition if you got that you were concerned very special and every year I got the N if it's your initial that's really even better people from different backgrounds in Canada have their favorite foods at Christmas a lot of people go skiing, skating, tobogganing or possible if there's snow and usually there is Canadian chiller also believe in Santa Claus Canadians are especially proud to say that the country is the home of Santa Claus Santa Claus Parade in Toronto is one of the oldest and largest Santa Parades in the world it started in 1913 the children along the route followed Santa and marched along with him it's been taking place over a hundred years and now a huge event kind of like the parade for the Macy's Parade I guess it is Eastern Canada province of Nova Scotia is known all over the world for its fur and pine Christmas trees let's see there's lots of different traditions in Canada too and they have their candies here all the different kinds of desserts many people of French descent have a huge feast or party on Christmas called Revalon that lasts well into the early hours of Christmas morning after taking part in Christmas Eve Mass when people are at the Midgide Mass they hope that Santa will visit their house and leave gifts for their children the traditional Christmas meals for people in Quebec is a stew made of some pigs feet many people have a venison or a port or beef I got a lot more Christmas I'll be right back I'd like to tell you about the personal training studio that Niko is the owner and president of Performance Training since 1998 Niko has trained individuals and groups to improve their health both mentally and physically as a certified personal trainer Niko's main focus is on demonstrating 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the postman might dress up as Santa when delivering letters before Christmas more young people are celebrating Christmas in cities where Christmas parties are becoming popular and it's also time when the young couples will be gifts to each other like on Valentine's Day like a little lover swap in Chinese Christmas let's see only a few people have a Christmas tree if people have a tree it's normal to have a plastic one and might be decorated with paper chains paper flowers and paper lagerings they call that the tree of light the Christmas trees that most people see are in the shopping malls the strange thing is that most of the world's plastic Christmas trees and Christmas decorations are made in China but the people making them might not have decorations like them in their own home at Christmas time a tradition that's become popular on Christmas Eve is giving apples many stores of apples wrapped up in Christmas colored Christmas paper for sale people give apples on Christmas Day because Christmas Chinese Christmas Eve is called pinyi meaning peaceful or quiet evening which translate from the carol silent night the word for apple in Mandarin is pingu sounds like a word for peace people do go caroling although not many people understand what the heck they're singing people who are Christians in China go to special services going to Mass it's become very popular the other one I'd like to read from is Russia because I know nothing about that there we go Russia days of the Soviet Union Christmas was not celebrated very much New Year's was made into an important time following the revolution in 1917 Christmas was banned as a religious holiday in 1929 and Christmas trees were banned until 1935 when they turned into New Year's trees people didn't want to celebrate Christmas they did it in a secret with just their families after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 people were free to celebrate Christmas again but still quieter and smaller holiday than it is anywhere else New Year's is also when grandfather Frost known in Russia as dead moraz brings presents to children he's always accompanied by his granddaughter on New Year's Eve children hold hands making a circle around the Christmas tree when they appear let's see Christmas in Russia is normally celebrated on January 7th okay the date is different because the Russian Orthodox Church uses the old Julian calendar for the religious days that must be what they use also this is a pretty picture here of Cathedral some people fast completely until the first star appears in the night sky they ate kind of porridge made from wheat or rice served with honey, poppy seeds, fruit especially berries and dried fruit like raisins chopped walnuts other popular Christmas Eve foods include beet root soup, borsch or vegan potluck served with individual vegetable pies often with cabbage, potato and mushrooms they also use sauerkraut porridge dishes such as buckwheat with fried onions fried mushrooms salads are made from vegetables like mushrooms, maybe tomatoes also potatoes or root vegetable salads meal consists of 12 dishes representing the 12 disciples of Jesus following the meals they have prayers, a lot of people go to church they often don't wash their dishes until they get back that might be before a.m. the main meal in Christmas Day is often more of a feast with dishes like roast pork and goose meat dumplings they have fruit pies the Russian Christmas Cookies are called Kozala are made the shape of a sheep goat or a deer in some areas children go caroling singing around the homes of the friends and family and there's a lot more in here anyway I want to put this in the newsletter for us so you can go to all these different countries if you wish there it's in the health signals newsletter there's another tradition that I wanted to talk about briefly and it's a Dutch tradition bring that up okay so this is called Nixon and that's not our former president the art of purposely doing nothing doing nothing but with a purpose to do nothing or no purpose at all may help decrease anxiety bring creativity to the surface and boost productivity the Dutch have perfected the practice of doing nothing or Nixon so well that's there some of the happiest people in the world and there you go I encourage you to loosen your concept of time and productivity and practice this simple exercise from the Netherlands allowing your brain to rewire from stress by doing nothing is a wellness practice worth implementing if you're sitting in a cafe you can indulge in some stress busting Nixon but sipping your coffee and looking out the window this is definitely a tradition in Holland I remember talking about this with my dad and he says that's one of the real prize things about Holland is just sitting around doing nothing for a while and in this day and age I think it becomes more important because when I do this now just sitting around doing nothing I'm always just going for that phone again or the iPad or doing something in fact now it seems like I want to do two things at once you know watch TV and the iPads there the phones nearby maybe have a book it's just crazy so we've got to simplify things and this is the reason I brought this to your attention there's this author of this has studied the practices of the happiest people on earth and wherever they reside in the blue zones people often find ways to downshift the daily they are not immune to stress but they have routines that help to minimize and shed that stress in Ikea they take daily naps in Okonawa they find time to think of their ancestors in Sardinia they meet friends and neighbors for daily happy hours the Dutch have simpler lifestyle habits which helps them keep them at the top of the satisfaction starts we know Dutch children are some of the happiest in the world and Holland also enjoys some of what our research shows builds the happiest society the shorter average work day national health care and a 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recorded 65 ultrasonic sounds 10 cms from tomato and tobacco plants implying that these sounds could be detected by some organisms from up to several meters away we developed machine learning models that were capable of distinguishing between plant sounds and general noises and identifying the condition of the plants dry cut and intact based solely on the emitted sounds our results suggest that animals humans and possibly even other plants could emit sounds or could use sounds emitted by a plant to gain information about the plant's condition more investigation on plant bio acoustics in general and on sound emissions in plants in particular may open new avenues for understanding plants and their actions with the environment and may have significant impacts on agriculture so kind of interesting that plants do probably have feelings too so you know there's so little we know it always boggles the mind when you find out new things are coming to light or maybe they're screaming when they're being cut I don't know here's another article scientists discover marijuana may have a surprising effect on sperm of weeds many effects on the bodies marijuana's impact on sperm is probably the least obvious and the most elusive this research on weed and sperm is contradictory at best some hint that could have benefits for sperm production others suggest it takes a negative toll but in September 2019 scientists got a little closer to understanding what exactly marijuana does to sperm when the scientists analyzed this teculous tissue and these burn samples from a small sample of 15 men they found the cannaboid receptors or the cannaboids as well as the cannaboid receptors and the enzymes needed to break down those chemicals down their findings were published in the scientific reports so these cannaboids and newer transmitters resemble cannabinoids that the chemicals that occur naturally in cannabis the body's system extends from the gut to the brain and the results demonstrate that this system extends all the way into the sperm making machinery too scientists found traces of this into the tissue and they also found genetic transcripts coded for these receptors and evidence that the enzymes that break down these chemicals in germ cells then those are the cells that become sperm so he says people like me have for generations been focusing on the hormone aspects but overlooked the possibility that these compounds may participate in normal sperm and hormone production the presence of these in endocannaboids begs a new question what happens when they flood that system with more of these chemicals when you smoke weeds right now the scientists aren't sure it may come down to the actual amount you smoke they noted from 365 men that had smoked weed before had higher sperm counts and that's 297 who hadn't smoked before then then 297 lower levels of marijuana could benefit sperm production low levels of marijuana because of its effect on the anacannaboid system they also play a role in fertility but these benefits are lost with the higher levels of marijuana consumption and this kind of works for just about every kind of drug doesn't it take a little bit there seems to benefit take too much and maybe the benefits are gone who knows so let's go on I've got a little bit more here of course here's the guide for the micro dosing I wanted to definitely let you know about this one so this is pretty comprehensive guide from the third wave a website that is of course suggesting that micro dosing can be good for many different people and this will be of course in the newsletter but they have a good table of context and it really goes to how to do the micro dosing itself and how to keep it and how long you should keep it and how often you should be doing it and it's you know they kind of say skip a couple of days so I'll put this in the newsletter I'm not going to go over it now it's really just too comprehensive but I think it's a good guide if anybody's interested in micro dosing with the psilocybin if you have anxiety I think this might be something that would be useful to you I'll put that into the health signals newsletter right now something else I want to talk about yeah this one right here Egypt will be the first country to have these different types of forests that are vertical and you know with the prime the solar minimum maybe just around the corner when it's going to really affect the food production this may be another way to get our food production in sync this is of course doing this because it's in cities to save space but also they're saying to soak up some of the pollutants and this is what trees have been good at and this is why we you know when we cut down forests in land it's it's really not good for the planet the concept took off in 2014 with a pair of residential 110 and 76 meter tall buildings with over 900 trees and 20,000 smaller plants pretty amazing huh so the plants and trees in this forest city are expected to annually absorb 10,000 tons of CO2 and 50,000 tons of pollutants while producing 900 tons of oxygen so a real benefit some more pictures down here look at that so this would be good for the people in the buildings too I mean there's nothing like going through the forest and smelling this so if you're in a building and you've got trees and shrubs and things like that then you're smelling that that's the ozone that we like so this is a real good system and I think agriculture is going to go this way too we're going to have to find places even underground perhaps to farm if our farming areas are moving and right now it seems to be doing that already if you go into Iowa Utah Kansas City and things like that things are getting flooded there's too much participation crops are still in the ground hopefully some of those will be saved by spring time when it falls but if we had another spring like we had this year of course that spring was extended with snow and people couldn't harvest even the spring 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Welcome back folks I like to remind you first of all next week I will not be here we're traveling and my wife are leaving on Friday to go see my kids up in Michigan our kids I should say so next week I'll be off then I'll be back for the show just on Christmas or New Year's Eve this came out our forever chemicals in our milk nobody has really been checking and this farmer who lives in New Mexico now from Clovis, New Mexico has let's see he got an unexpected visit from an official with a cannon Air Force base which adjoins his Highland dairy property the official gave him a letter indicating he found his well water be contaminated with pre and the polyphenol substances PFAS a group of chemicals that have been linked to reproductive and development problems as well as cancer the chemicals had migrated into the groundwater from foam used in firefighting exercises at the military base ship and his family the letter said should immediately stop drinking the water now ship is a third generation dairy family the farmer his family had farmed in the Netherlands and in California before moving to New Mexico and ship was raising cows and crops here since 1992 the Air Force officials told him they'd supply his family with bottled water but then he wondered about his cows he says milk is 90% water he said it hit me like a rock that my cows are drinking this polluted water testing by the New York New Mexico Department of Agriculture showed that his milk was contaminated at levels 70 times above the federal advisory health limit for the PFAS the compounds are often called the forever chemicals because they don't break down instead accumulate over time in the environment and the bodies of animals and humans when he found out his water was polluted neither the state agriculture department nor the food and drug administration had a protocol for testing milk for the PFAS they developed a test especially for his milk and when the first samples were tested he made a decision to dump his milk in order to avoid selling a contaminated product this will go into the next newsletter folks have a nice Christmas I'll see you before the New Year's and be safe out there, bye bye