Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic Orthodoxy. My name is David and this is a marked deck top 10. Alright, that's right. We're gonna look at the top 10 marked decks from my collection. Obviously, there's plenty of other marked decks in the world. I don't own all the marked decks in the world, but I've got a lot and I've seen my fair share of markings. And so this is just my top 10. And you might not agree with my criteria, okay? Because my criteria is it has to be a well-hidden marking and it has to be easy to read, okay? Well-hidden and easy to read. Granted, those don't always go together, right? If it's well-hidden, how is it easy to read? So these are just my submissions, okay? And you don't have to agree with me, it's fine. But, you know, watch it and just get introduced to maybe a marked deck or two that you didn't know existed. Alright, a little bit about types of marking. There's two different types of marked deck, okay? There's an actual marked deck that uses a marking system, okay? And a marking system, you would have to memorize or be able to decipher. It's usually a code. And so that code is only known to the magician or to the player, okay? So even if I showed you a marked deck, if you didn't know the code, even if you saw the code, you wouldn't be able to read it because you don't have the cipher, okay? So there's a marked deck, then there's readers. Now, readers will actually say on the back of the card, six hearts, right? It says it so that when you look at it, anybody would say, okay, yes, that is the six of hearts, okay? So two types. We're going to look at both types. We'll look at some readers and we'll look at some marks. Yeah, let's get on into it. Alright, so coming in at number 10, we have the Knox, version three from experts and the blue crown. Alright, so if you watch my channel for any amount of time, you know, I love the Knox cards. I love the Knox series. And originally, when the Knox came out, they were just colored. And then the second version came out and then they had a tiny decipher that you could tell the difference between a red card or a black card. But since the version threes have come out, they are fully marked. So this is a fully marked deck. And so when you go to purchase a knock deck, what I would make sure is number one, that you're getting the full readers, okay? And number two, that you're going to get the instructions on how to decipher it. And that would make that argument for any of these decks going forward. You know, if you're not buying them from the actual creator, there's a good chance you might not get the decipher. So make sure that when you purchase your mark decks, you're getting the cipher. Alright, number nine, the red keepers from Illusionist, Open Jones and Adam Wilbur. Now originally, when the keepers came out, they were blue and the blue decks are not marked. And so in this deck, these are readers. These are readers, okay? So it's a very easy to decipher back design, okay? So these are good readers. However, they're not easy to read. And the only reason for that is the marker on the back is incredibly small. Now I wear glasses, that's just, you know, that's the life I live. So maybe to some who have better eyesight than me, I don't know, maybe you can read the backs of these. The only way I can read them is if I use a magnifying glass, that would look really obvious if I was looking at them through a magnifying glass. So whereas I do like the back design and I do like the marking system, they're not very easy for me to read. Alright, coming in at number eight, the Madison Dealers. Now the Madison Dealers, of course, are put out from DanielMadisonandEllusionist.com. The Madison Dealers are a marked deck, which means you have to learn the system. And this deck really does have the best of both worlds. They are very well hidden. I don't think your spectator will ever find the marking system and they are easy to see. However, they're not necessarily easy to read. Okay, you're going to see the marking system quickly and easily, but you will still need to learn the system. And I think that's what hangs up a lot of people when they get marked decks. They don't necessarily want to take the time to learn the marking system, but you will need to learn the marking system for these. But again, beautiful deck, well designed. I do love this deck a lot. Number seven, the King's Deck from Ellusionist.com, DanielMadison and Peter McKinnon. Now the King's Deck is another beautiful deck from Ellusionist. And this is kind of the third one in a row now from Ellusionist. And so they do make some really cool marked decks. This one is also a marked deck, not a reader deck, and you will need to learn the cipher. And I think from what I've read, all the King's decks are marked in some way. This version of the King's Deck that was fully marked. And so you can get a full grasp of what card it is. However, again, like I just said, you know, you have to learn the system, but it is a good marked deck. Number six, the Mirage Deck from Patrick Kuhn and Legends Playing Cards. This is a really cool marked deck. Again, marked deck and easy to read, I think. It's not a reader back. Okay, it's not a reader back, but I think the system is easy to read and it is well-hitted within the deck. I think your spectator can stare at these all day long and never see where the markings are. In fact, if even if you were just buying this deck off the shelf, you might not even know their marked decks unless you did a careful examination of the tuck case. I don't even know that when I first originally reviewed these, if I even said they were marked decks, so that's how well-hidden they are. Number five, the Butterfly Deck from Andre Seneca and Cardamundi out in Belgium. These decks aren't even out yet. They're aren't even printed yet and they're already my number five. This is a marked deck. Okay, not readers, they're marked. But man, there's a lot of bells and whistles with this deck. This is a great, great, great magician's deck marked in so many different ways. This is an acrobat that can literally do tumbles and all kinds of flips and ninja kicks. You're going to love the butterflies when they come out. I love the marking system so much and I love the detail on this that I bought a brick because I really think this is going to be my go-to deck going forward. Number four, the Aquila from Cardify and Legends playing cards. Now that we're entering into the top four, these are going to be my readers. Readers, like I said, they're going to be well-hidden and easy to read and the Aquila are a great, great, great reader back deck. The markings are really easy to read and they're right in plain sight. I don't think your spectator will ever find them, but a close examination if they sit there and study them, they probably would. So they're not as well-hidden as most, but it's a good reader back deck and I really like the design on this. Cardify and the artists with Cardify did an amazing job on this deck. Number three is the GT Speed Reader 809 Mandolin back. These cards use a reader system that's based off of a system that created by Ted Leslie. Now if you're not very familiar with the Mandolin backs, they are made to look exactly like a writer back. I think only magicians or card collectors would be able to tell the difference, but this is one of my very favorite reader backs. Hey, that's why it's my top three, right? So again, well-hidden, well-hidden. I think this could fly past the magicians if they don't know where to look. Well-hidden and super easy to read. With my glasses, it's a small marking system, but I can read it and I can read it from a good distance. So this is a great one to pick up. If you're looking for these, you can find them at PenguinMagic.com. Number two, the DMC Elite Rouge deck from DMC and Philip Smith and Cardamundi. This is a brand new release from sovereignplayingcards.com and it is a great reader. The markings on this are incredibly well-hidden, almost ingeniously well-hidden and so easy to read, even to read at a distance. You don't find that combination in a deck, typically.  This is the only one I've ever known to be like this, but it is so easy to read, so fast to learn. You can literally pick up this deck, learn the system and become this genius mentalist in like 20 minutes. All right, and number one, my favorite marked deck on the planet, the NKW Kadenza from Inkai Way and Legends Playing Cards. This deck has got the bells and whistles for miles. Not only does it teach you the Mamanica stack from Wontamere, but they are also reader backs. So there's two great hits in one deck and they're beautiful cards to look at. They handle amazingly. It's a beautiful tech case. Everything about this deck is wonderful. There was only 700, I think, of these made in each color and if I could have afforded more of these, I would have bought a brick of them because they're that good. I really hope these come out in a second edition. That's a little bit more affordable for the rest of us so that we could buy whole pallets of these at a time because this is an awesome, awesome, awesome deck. All right, so there you have it, my top 10 marked decks. If you are interested in any of these, I'll put the links below in the description. If you want to take a fuller look at the reviews for each of these and if you'd like to purchase them, hopefully, you'll be able to find that from the links as well. As always, we ask that you like this video just so other people can find it faster. 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I was in Chicago on an assignment and this man came to town with a pheromone of coverage named Martin Luther King, who was going to speak at a huge, it might have been the Chicago Convention Center. I'm not I'm not quite sure, but at that point he was not yet a national figure. He's probably only in his middle of late, he's probably about my age, about in his middle of the late 20s, and he came to raise money for SCLC and I was curious because I had I had read about him and I had I had the night free so I went to hear him speak and there was this great big blank stage in this huge convention hall and there were thousands of people there and Mahalia Jackson came out on the stage. It was a bare stage, nobody else on the stage, not even a piano, and she sang a couple of overwhelmingly powerful gospel numbers and then she looked out at the audience and she said and now I want you to meet the greatest man since Jesus and that was quite an introduction and she left the stage and Dr. King came out with nothing but a microphone and talked about what was going on in Montgomery and that he was there to try to raise money for his organization and I was really powerfully moved by what Dr. King said and it turned out he was going to speak at an African-American church in South Chicago the next day and so I went over to hear him a second time and then I Went back to my office and called New York and said I wanted to be transferred to Time magazine And go to the South. I Had to I had to see what was going on and when I got there. I had no idea What I was going to discover


I am back, ladies and gentlemen. Did you miss me? Last time we spoke, Bitcoin had hit a high of around $46,000 and Ethereum had hit a high of around $3,200. Since then, Bitcoin has rallied to hit a high of $48,200, while Ethereum has continued to push up to hit a high of around $3,345. If you guys took any of the trade setups from last week's video, congrats on the profits, but don't worry if you missed them because today we're going over through some more trade setups for this week. Today, we are taking a look at what has been developing over the last week and we're going to dive into this big resistance here that we're currently facing in Bitcoin. The charts are currently showing signs of possible exhaustion in the market, which can mean that we could be seeing some sort of pullback. So let's not waste any more time and dive right into today's analysis. Hey, what's up? Jay here. Welcome to Bitcoin Daily bringing you guys the best tips, tutorials, and ideas to help you guys become profitable and successful investors. The goal of this channel is to empower you guys with the knowledge and resources to take your wealth up to that next level. So make sure to subscribe, like, and share this video as we continue to spread mass cryptocurrency knowledge and adoption. So taking a look at Bitcoin here, you guys can see that we're currently above that 46k level. We're at 46275 and we've been kind of ranging in this whole area today. You see today's candle, we have a high of 48,100 and a low of 45,937. So first thing that you'll notice currently where we are right here is that we have a moving average support right around that $45,000 area. And not only is that a moving average support, but remember 45,000 is also going to be a support psychologically. So that's two different levels of support that we currently have there at 45 for any pullbacks that we've gotten so far here. As you can see, every time we've hit that 45,000 dollar range, the bounce, the price have bounced right back up. Now it doesn't mean that we can't go lower. There is a lower level right here at 44,000 that we could possibly see here. If we continue down, if we get that pullback that we possibly might see, and then below that, of course is $42,000. Now 42,000 would be the main level here. As you guys can see, it was that big level, that big resistance here when we're on the way up. It's also a Fibonacci level. So there's definitely a lot of support here that we can see. If we see some sort of pullback that drastically, we can expect a bounce here at those $42,000 levels, which could potentially take us back up to retest this current big resistance that we're currently facing right now. Now that big resistance is $48,000. Remember, when we're down here that we broke out, I said, guys, if we break above 42,000, we will go straight up to 48,000. 48,000 was our target above on a break of 42,000. And you'll see that very quickly it got there. It took about, what, a little bit over a week since the day that we broke above 42,000. We broke above August 6. And today's the 16th, it's taken about 10 days to go from 42,000 all the way up to our target. We actually hit our targets, let's see, on the 13th. So from the sixth to the 13th, less than a week, guys, really. Well, it's exactly a week actually that it took for us to make that jump up to our target there on the break of 42,000. So now that brings us to where we currently are right now. You see that we're on the 200-day moving average. We're on that current 45K support. But we've had three days in a row of kind of red markets, right, for Bitcoin, because some outcoins have still been running up. So we're just speaking about Bitcoin right now. Now a couple of things you need to notice here is the RSI. It is basically been dancing with the line of overbought territory, basically been in and out of there, right? And if we look back in history, most of the times that it went into overbought territory, eventually there was a big pullback that followed that, right? So we can see it here. You know, when we went in overbought, even though we weren't overbought from December all the way until about January 10th. So it took about two months before we finally got that drop. Then we came back out February 8th, basically till February 21st and we got the drop. So we could expect possibly something similar, even though we've had some pullbacks here and we haven't been really too much too far in the overbought area. It is, you know, a reason to pause for concern on the short term. Of course, this is not talking about long term. This is talking mostly about the short term. So it is part of a healthy market structure to see some sort of pullback here. Another thing you'll notice in the RSI right now is that we have a bit of a bearish divergence here, right? So the RSI, the tops are kind of been going down while the tops here have still been going up, right? So when this is going up and this is going down, that is bearish divergence there, you know, that could lead to consolidation, could lead to pullbacks, signs of exhaustion, et cetera, et cetera, which all basically could mean an eventual pullback, right? Now, there's no way to know exactly when the pullback would happen or how low the pullback could go down to. So usually we tell people to start taking profits, setting stop losses if they're taking any short term trades, and to look for, to reposition themselves basically in at support areas. So 45,000s at first support, minor support at 44, and then 42 is going to be the main support. So 42 is the main level that we're going to be looking for, even though we'll still be looking at levels around that 44 to 45 range as well. Now, in order for the run to continue here, we need to see a break above this $48,000 range. If we can break above it, just like we did here at 42, we need the confirmed breakout, right? Not what we saw here. You see, this is a failed breakout, this is a confirmed breakout. So we could potentially, this could, this failed breakout here could potentially lead us into this pullback, and then eventually we'll get a bounce at one of the supports, just like we saw down here, and continue up to break through that 48 level. I believe once we break through that, that level of resistance is going to be a loss because it's going to be between 48 to $50,000. So we'll need to break through all of that, right? And you see here that we've now cleared this gap that we spoke about, right? We've completely cleared it. We've gapped it up just like we spoke about, and now we're back to where that volume, and there's a lot of volume, a lot of transactions coming in, right? So there's going to be a lot of buying and selling here, which is why it's going to be a little bit harder to grind past that level. But once we do, once we get above that 48 to $50,000, you'll see there's another drop off here in open interest, right? That we can basically run up. Once we get above that $50,000 range, we could basically, I would say, run up to around $52,000 to $54,000, $55,000. The big resistance, the most open interest is right here, and that's right around that $56,000 range. So that's basically the next major level. Once we break above 48 to $50, we're going to see a drop off in open interest, which can allow us to continue up to around that $52,000 to $55,000 range, which is where we will run into a lot of open interest. And if we can break above that, you guys can see a huge drop off here in open interest, which at that point could allow us to set new all-time highs. So long-term, we're still very bullish with this new move to the upside. Short-term, there is some possible pullbacks coming in this week. And Ethereum is pretty much the same thing. It's back to following Bitcoin for the moment. So with Bitcoin pulling back, you could see that Ethereum is also pulling back. You can see that Ethereum is also in overbots currently. And there is bearish divergence as our side has been trending down while Ethereum's price action has been going up. So that is definitely divergence in the market there. You can see that we've covered the gap here that we spoke about. And now we're in parts where there's a little bit more open interest, more volume. But still, it is really not that much, as you can tell. So it's definitely possible to run up to $3,500, break above that, and continue up to around that $4,000 range. We just need Bitcoin to also move back up. So we could expect some consolidation this week. We could expect some possible pullbacks, the levels here for Ethereum. If we see some pullbacks, of course it's $3,000. As long as we hold above $3,000, I think we're golden. Not too much to worry about. Long term, we're still very bullish. Short term, we could see some consolidation in pullbacks this week. So the trade setups that we'll be looking for this week, the main trade setup that we want here is a break above $48,000. So we've been playing that level. It's been faking us out so far, but eventually it's going to break. So you just got to keep playing the level. The next thing is the next level we're going to be playing is $4,500. That's the next level that we will be watching for a bounce back entry. And below that, the next level is going to be $42,000 as a support entry as well there. In Ethereum, the main levels that we're watching here are probably going to be around that $3,000 range. That's the main support line there. We could also potentially play that $3,100, $3,200 level with very, very small risks below, 1% and below. And then after that, you can play above its high, right? So that's above $33,50 is where you would set up your breakout entries there. That's pretty much it guys. I hope you guys have enjoyed this video. If you did, don't forget to smash that like button. It helps us a ton. If you're new to the channel, subscribe and turn on that notification bell so that you're notified every time we post up new videos. We are back in town this week, so we will be putting up more videos up this week. We will see you guys on the next one. As always, peace and love. Let's make some money.


Tarzan of the 8th, from the novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, with Mr. James H. Pierce as Tarzan and Mr. Ann Burroughs as Jane Porter. This is an American gold seal production. Professor Porter and his party have been trapped in the temple cave by the cannibals. From the jungle Tarzan and Jane Porter, sea lights through a fissure in the rock, communicate with the imprisoned party, and dynamite a section of the cave. Professor Porter's party escapes, but the noise of the explosion carries to the cannibals, who are gain attack there. Tarzan leads the party to a hidden retreat. Now, are you ready? Hold your breath! The jungle is ominously quiet? Yes, when Goman Gany or Tarman Gany comes, then all jungle beasts hide. Goman Gany? Tarzan means black men and white men. Quiet! Listen! I don't think they sound like the blacks. I think these things are the same thing myself. The voices are not Goman Gany, they are Tarman Gany. White men? How can you tell Tarzan? Usha, the wind tells me. The wind? I don't understand. Usha carries their scent, and it is the scent of Tarman Gany. Can it be? Can it be my sailor? Just what I was going to say. Well, we'd better wait to make sure. Look, look there. Through the clearing. It is the sailor. Yes, you! Thank you. That also about end our trouble. Yes, if only the crews would come, we'd all be on our way. Forget a very important point, Philander. Look! This is for the treasure. Treasure! Oh, Daddy, you are impossible. Here, Tarzan just rescued you from certain death, and all you think about is that treasure. That's a good idea. We can talk about that later, but we want to do now is to get back to the hut. Do you think we can start our Tarzan? Yes, but only as far as that hollow. Right, Tarzan. Goman Gany. Do you feel that they are close? Very close. Look! Where? I don't see anything. Bert, circling very high. They know, and listen. Don't speak for a minute, and you'll hear. Don't see what that has to do with... Jungle beasts are afraid. Push your clayton. Under the circumstances, surely it is common sense to take the advice of a man who is thoroughly versed in jungle lore. Oh, right. Make a launches. Make a launches for Clayton's fever, Dono. Only we still won't, but not to the extent of sacrificing everyone's safety to his obstinacy. Amar, let's go home. We obey only the sujections of Mr. Tarzan. Lion? Yes, this is Numa's home. You don't propose going in there? Numa has fit. He will not attack when his belly is full. But how do you know he has fit? Perhaps he has not. The scent of a full lion is not the scent of an empty one.  If we ever get trapped in here, well, it will all be up. We can get out at the other end. I have been here many times. Well, personally, I think it's not a foolishness to go into a trap like this to escape a bunch of imaginary blanks. I don't think they're imaginary at all, Cecil. Tarzan is generally right. If he does the cannibals around us, I believe it. I understand. The suggestion comes from Tarzan. Then it's all right. Cecil, you're being very childish. See? Already Numa has gone away. A splendid place for defense, Tarzan. No chance of the Blacks rolling rocks down on us from the height, eh, Tarzan? I do not think so. If they do, there is a shallow cave in the white part that we will go to. It is the arrows we must watch. You understand, Mr. Marge's Tarzan. Which way will they attack? I mean, from the starboard and... No, no, no, no, pardon. The right or the left side of the defense. They will keep in front of the sun as long as it is bright. It is hard to shoot with arrows against the sun. All right. I will place three, no better four men behind that shovel-cross there. Yes, sir. That will command the crossfire down and opening in the trees. Yeah. We will shoot for Blacks. We will shoot for Zip-a-Lup. I told them it was a fall. They know. No chance. They make every shot count and do not let one Blacks back back to company. We will shoot for Zip-a-Lup. We will shoot for Zip-a-Lup. We will shoot for Zip-a-Lup. We will shoot for Zip-a-Lup. We will shoot for Zip-a-Lup. We will shoot for Zip-a-Lup. Behind that the footback.  Behind the boulders in the bed. Come to the retreat to push in a poor mister and his pussies. That was urgent. Yes, Lieutenant. And spot back in the deep-file as possible. I understand it. I'm a good shot. Yes, yes, but if you will look up to your father and wish you'll land there, it will spare my men. What do I do, Lieutenant? I'll do as you say. We must be more quiet. You will never see a Goman-gani.  I think that part of your statement is correct. We will never see the Goman-gani.  Oh, please, and what's the matter with you? Someone hurt one of my men. A place in Daryl. Do you look after them? He's in agility. He's as much at home with the branches of a tree as we are on Earth. But keep down. Keep hitting. That one arrow is not all there is going to be. But, say, look. How is it? Dead. Can you see what Tarzan's doing now, James? Yes. He's getting ready to use his four arrows. I got him. I'm going to get him for good now. He's got to stop. Let's go out there. Oh, I hope not. Here comes that one. Oh, he looks all right. Thank goodness. Did you get him, Tarzan? I certainly did. Are you sure? You know, twice before we thought that we'd stop, he was dead. I know that. I know he's dead. Tom, well, I know he's dead. Jane, Father, another dollar here. Deeper into the hall. We've done rather well so far. You've got about 20, haven't you? Yes, more. But if I can get that black devil man, maybe that will frighten the rest of the Gomengani away. Well, Clayton has already killed him. Where? Clayton! Yes? Where did you lead the way, Doctor? Over by the Trump of Bamboo. Why? Tarzan wants him. I want to throw him down at the black where they can see him. Most of the shots were useless. Yes, I know. We simply stand here and cannot see our feet. Gomengani always fight that way.  What does that mean, Tarzan? They're getting ready to charge. Everybody get together. Deeper into the hall.


I'm gonna take a wild guess and say that when you learn to drive you learned how to use both pedals the gas pedal and the brake pedal and Potentially if you were really lucky and learned how to drive on a on a manual Then you may have even had a third pedal to deal with the clutch pedal there But I'm gonna assume you learned how to use all of those because they all perform a particular and important function right and if not Your drives may look a lot like this right where you're scared the other person's scared because you don't really know what You're doing because you only know half the story The same thing is true in communication if we exclude listening from the equation We spend a lot of time on focusing on reading and writing and speaking and and our verbal communication not verbal communication But we spend very little time being taught how to listen well and and learning how to do that well So to start in this series, I'd just like to go through what are some of the basics of listening? Which is a critically important skills we'll find out, but we don't know enough about it And we don't focus on it enough and we don't do it. Well, so let's focus on some of the listening basics now And then in other videos we'll get into some more the more detailed information about listening But let's start with the beginning and the beginning is what is listening? So how do we define listening listening is the active process through which we make meaning out of assess and Respond to what we hear so you can see there's a lot going on there It's more than just the hearing process, which is part of it as we'll see but Listening is an active process. It's something we have to be actively engaged and we have to flip that switch and choose to do it In order to do it effectively. It's also a part of the listening is making meaning out of some what someone else is saying So we're we're not only seeking to understand but also interpret that information Then we're also assessing it possibly evaluating and judging what that person is saying analyzing it a bit and Then we're responding listening as we'll find out is not a one-way street It's a two-way process it involves both incoming Stimuli and also a response that we provide whether that's verbal or non-verbal and again We'll get in all that type stuff and focus specifically on responses in a later video But for now what we need to know is that listening is an active process Through which we make meaning out of assess and respond to what we hear So now that we know what listening is why does it matter? Why is it important? Doesn't it just happen naturally? Well, it doesn't just happen naturally and it is quite important as we know from research listening is the most utilized Component of communication. So when we look at reading writing speaking and listening as the components of communication We know that we do more listening than we do anything else all those other three combined Don't add up to the time that we spend listening as communicators So it's the thing we do most as communicators and as such it behooves us to do it well because we spend so much time doing The thing we know is that it's a critical skill in both a professional and personal context So in your personal life, I mean, how often have you heard in your personal life? You're not listening to me or you don't listen while you're not, you know listening effectively It can benefit us just so much in our personal relationships It's also though a critical skill in a professional context just a quick Google search, which you can do yourself Google top communication skills in the workplace. That's what I did in this just a screen grab of what I found Both the top listings the number one thing on each of these lists is listening Active listening or listening is a critical skill in the workplace Employers want people who are able to listen to their instructions their supervisors instructions But also listen to their coworkers listen to their clients listen to the people who work beneath them And are and are their subordinates and and just be able to listen effectively, right? And so if this is such an important skill as it is as we as we're seeing here If it's so important, then why don't we know how to do it better? Well, you know part of the reason is when we look at these skills, you know The one that we learn first is listening we can listen before we can speak read or write or do any of that other stuff So we we learn how to do it first. We learn how to listen first I mean think about your children infants even you know toddlers They know the meaning of the word no, I mean they hear it all the time, right? And they know what it means. They don't always act like they know what it means But they know what it means we learn how to listen And and we know how to do that before we know how to communicate in any other way What's also the most used is we just discovered we use listening We are engaged in listening more than reading writing and speaking combined And yet when we think about how much instruction you've received over the years in listening specifically focused on how to listen Effectively and then we find it's the least thought We learn how to do these other things way more think about the amount of time you spent in school learning how to write well Learning how to read properly and effectively even learning how to speak you probably had a public speaking class or even just some Instruction on you know when you were given book reports You got feedback and how to speak well and things like that But how much time I'm willing to bet that that few if any of you listening to this video watching this video have Had specific instruction on listening even in the form of a short video or series like this or you don't like this You probably haven't had any so is it any wonder that we don't do it better that we're really ineffective in our listening skills It's a skill and as any skill it takes practice and it takes takes first some instruction on how to do it Then it takes practice on learning how to do it well and really refining that skill We don't get any of that we aren't taught anything so we develop these poor skills that we then you know Just repeat over and over again in a in a bad way. We pick up these bad habits So we're it's not surprising that we don't listen very well when we don't receive any instruction at it In order to break down the listening process We're going to look at things through the lens of what we call the hurryer model of listening right of the listening process And there are other models that describe the listening process This is just the one that I that I like and that I use to explain the listening And we'll have a whole other video on the hurryer model on the details of it But you can see it here that the hurryer the letters just stand for each of these words there. It's an acronym So you see we start with hearing then we have Involved some understanding interpreting and evaluating in different and different ways and at different levels depending on the context and depending on what We're doing listening then also though involves Some degree of remembering whether that's really short-term memory or long-term memory or somewhere in between there There the memory is a part of the listening process and remembering information and then finally as we said listening is not a one-way street It's a two-way process that involves responding whether that's verbal responses not verbal responses It's you know in some way indicating that we are hearing what they're saying that we are we are actively listening and that Understanding to a certain extent you know more or less depending on what again the context and responses will take on different forms You will have a whole separate video on just responding that you can check out because responding is such an important part of this process But you can see there's more to the listening process than just what we might think of as hearing right hearing is a An important initial part of that process. It's hard to listen if you can't hear But it involves so much more than just hearing it extends into these other areas of Understanding interpreting evaluating remembering and responding and then of course we have in this undercurrent You know kind of resting under and over and around all of this of what we call a frame of reference Everything that we experience everything that we process goes through You know what I think of is this filter between our senses and our brain All our frame of reference and that frame of reference is built of and made up of all these things You see here your beliefs your attitudes your values your culture your experiences your interests your biases all of these get stuck into a Blender and and and out comes your frame of reference and that's going to be totally unique for every person So we're all hearing things and trying to understand things and so forth But we're doing it differently because it's being processed through an absolutely unique frame of reference which may be More or or less similar to somebody else's frame of reference may have us hearing and listening and coming out with two Totally different interpretations of something right so anyway frame of reference really kind of underlies and lies under and Around and over everything in communication including the listening process So again, we'll have a whole different video on on the listening product the hurryer model You can check that out. There's a whole different video on responding. You can check that out as well And then we have a separate video as well on just some of the challenges of listening some of the things that make listening difficult Right and those will all be linked below. You can check those out linked in the in the comment here in that information section below The last thing I want to just chat about briefly is just that there are different types of listening We engage in listening in different ways and different types of listening And we think of it kind of like a tree because we we start, you know With the sampling and the roots of one kind of listening and then we grow into these others Really and and it becomes the leaves and the branches of the listening tree so to speak But it starts with discriminative listening Discriminative listening just means essentially. What are you listening to we have? Tremendous problem these days with information overload and with just, you know, our brain is taking us different places and things So listening is hard as we said, it's an active process. So we have to really decide What am I going to listen to that's discriminative listening? Am I listening to this thing over here or am I listening to this thing on the other side of the world? I listen to the TV or am I listening to my my friend or family member who's trying to talk to me I'm making a choice about what I'm going to Where I'm going to give my attention to to what stimuli I'm going to give my attention That's discriminative listening first just making that decision of This is what I'm going to listen to this is what I'm paying attention to that's discriminative listening And that's where we all start with our listening skills The next kind of level that we would look at is informational listening and as the name would suggest It's just listening for information. We're not really trying to evaluate or assess information at this level Think of it as you know, you're in class and although you should have a little bit You know, you should be critiquing your instructors a little bit be critical of that information But for the most part you're there because they're giving you information. So we're just trying to take it in Or when we're getting instructions on something at work how the process works at work or how to get to somebody's house You know, especially before we had Google Maps and things like that We used to have to have people give us directions and write them down and listen. Well, right? That's just listening for information I'm just listening to take it in remember it and and try and process it in in the most basic sense of receiving that information The next level would be what we call critical listening This is where we do begin to assess and evaluate that information first at its core for Is this information does this information ring true to me or is it does it not seem as as accurate to me or does it not seem You know, it's like it's like it's true. So if we decide it's true and we're listening or false or whatever Then we get into things like I'm analyzing this for what's the quality of this information How does this relate to me? I'm evaluating. I'm judging. I'm analyzing this information with those critical listening skills And and this is something we should do more than we probably do We should be doing this when we're watching TV when we're watching the news more listening to politicians You know listening to somebody's story, we should be listening critically to see if this lines up with what we See as reality and how accurate this information and have credibles this person and so forth So we engage in critical listening Then at the top of the tree the leafy parts the the really what I think is the most challenging type of listening is empathic listening Well, we're exhibiting empathy We're listening to somebody with the goal of putting ourselves into their shoes seeing things from their perspective It really requires not only effective listening skills, but a high degree of emotional intelligence as well to do this effectively So it is I think the most challenging type of listening But it's really important especially in our interpersonal relationships that we develop some empathic skills for when our friend comes over And has something they want to get off their chest They're having a rough day or they're having issues with their significant other or they broke up with somebody we can We can be empathic or with the opposite side when they're having a great day We can listen how wonderful their day is and support them in that way and and so we can engage in empathic listening And so these are really important relational listening skills empathic listening is so We want to develop those skills as well Can these exist that they come along as we as we learn we first have to learn how to be discriminative in our listening and be able to focus our attention on on Something as a listener then we can work on listening for information listening for critical aspects and then Developing those empathic skills as well So hopefully now you have a better understanding of what listening is we've defined it for you and and just talked about some of the basic Aspects of listening again We'll get into further detail in this in other videos We have available for you that you'll find links for that in the information below But just wanted to lay a foundation for what is listening It's probably more than we thought it was before and and what are some of the important aspects? How does it work those types of things? If you have questions about the listening process or anything related to listening at all Please feel free to email me. I'd love to hear from you there in the meantime I hope that you will have a renewed understanding of listening and appreciation for what goes into listening and and will begin to Have the foundational understanding so that you can improve your own skills as a listener


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Action-packed chapter. After using the last few chapters to provide updates on all the different stages of the Onigashima battle, we get another one of those straight action-filled chapters focusing on the rooftop, and hey, we love to see it. Hello my Nakamitachi, this is Joygirl with a review of chapter 109, Naraku. And this marks our break from chapter titles being named after characters currently involved in the raid, which I did mention in the last chapter review that I believed we will be getting a title that is somehow related to the rooftop battle, but not necessarily named after any of the characters, which is exactly what we got here with this title, Naraku, which means hell in Japanese, seemingly referring to the situation on top of the skull dome, and a callback to Kit's line from the last chapter, that they are in a living hell in this fight against two of the Yonkou, but more on that fierce stage later. Because Naraku could also be a Kabuki theater reference, as Naraku means the area beneath the main stage. It is from this basement area where equipment and mechanisms for the main stage is set up, and so I think I may have figured out the naming system for the future chapter titles. The Kabuki stage title could be setting the scene, and then the following chapters with the character titles could treat the focus individuals as prominent actors who are involved in that stage. We will have to wait to see if we get more character titles and then another stage title to confirm my theory, but there does seem to be a pattern here. And the connection between the One-O-Ark and a Kabuki play is a very interesting topic in itself, which I would like to discuss in another video, perhaps when this arc is finished, but in any case, please subscribe to this channel now so that you don't miss out on any of these future discussions. For now, let's discuss the color spread. So we receive a glorious color spread of the Straw Hats as Chapter 1009 does mark a hundred chapters since we've started the One-O-Ark, and this one is very, very interesting because we also see the inclusion of Tama, along with her companions Bumbuku and Komachi-O, with the aspiring Kunoichi running off with Luffy's Straw Hat. And whilst this does raise eyebrows as to what this may mean for Tama's prospects of joining the Straw Hat crew, we do also have to note that this color spread was inspired from a request sent in by a fan, so it's possible that this is just a fun color spread without any further meaning, or maybe Oda did choose this request for a reason. Anyways, whilst everyone is focusing on the possibility of Tama joining the crew, I'm just hoping that this spread isn't to foreshadow six deaths in the One-O-Ark, as there are six Jizo statues wherein, among other things, Jizo statues are considered to protect the spirits of children who have passed away. And even aside from these meaningful elements, Oda has packed in quite a lot of detail into this spread, as almost each of the characters are drawn with a jacket that has words or phrases written on their left side, which relate to each of their personalities. Luffy's sense of adventure is characterized by the words, Sail Away from Safe Harbor, which I believe is a reference to Mark Twain's quote, wherein the full quote is, Sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade wind in your sails, explore, dream, discover.  Zoro's arm reads three swords, and in fact, his jacket also has three zippers at the front. Sanji's says, I will cook, as well as the numbers three and two, which could refer to both his birthday, the second of March, as well as how if you add three and two together, that makes five, which marks how he was the fifth Straw Hat member. Jinbei has a whale or shark drawing as well as the letters M or U, and maybe an N or another M, but it's a bit unclear as to what that word is meant to be. Rook also only showing letters, but this seems to be the beginning of the word skeleton. Nami says Unchart, as well as a W and an A at the back. And this is fitting because Nami's goal is to complete a world map, and Uncharted refers to undrawn locations of the seas. And Frankie's front reads Cyborg whilst his arm has hentai written on it. I didn't actually notice the hentai at first and was actually hoping that this would be made into a real life jacket so that I could get me one, but now I'm not too sure whether I want to walk around with hentai written on my arm. Anyways, as for the other Straw Hats, there are no visible inscriptions that I should mention. I don't know if it's just me, but Usopp's jacket makes him look like he has Chopper's monster point body. And also, Tama seems to have windmill patterns on her kimono. Now, that's what I could pick out, but I'm sure there's much more to it than that, so please let me know your ideas by commenting below as to any other further elements present in this color spread and what they may mean because I am very interested. Onto the chapter itself, the first scene we got in this chapter is the long-awaited confrontation between the Scabbards and Orochi. And personally, I find this scene very funny. I know it's a serious scene, but I thought it was hilarious that most of the suspenseful aspect of this meeting was so quickly dealt with, in fact, all contained into one double spread. I have been anticipating this fateful meeting and how Orochi would taunt the Scabbards about Kanjiro, as well as his reaction after seeing Kyoshiro again, and of course, for the Scabbards to slice Orochi's heads off. All of these, I tried to imagine how they would occur, but never in any of my imagined scenarios did I expect them all to take place in one chapter, let alone in one double spread. So then, I guess there's my overthinking sorted. But I love the fact that they so swiftly dealt with Orochi and just walked off as if they weren't taking him as a serious threat, as they were more focused on the bigger picture and this treatment of Orochi's character is a nice way of quickly bringing an end to this part of the feud. Not to mention, it's fun to witness Orochi die again. In saying that, considering we finally got the confirmation that Orochi is alive only in the last chapter, meaning that this all but lasted one chapter as we are now wondering about his fate again, I personally don't think that Orochi has completely died. For one, we only saw five heads decapitated in this chapter, and I think there is more we can get out of the story with Orochi still being alive. For example, whilst we have witnessed Orochi's response to Kyoshiro being deadjiro, we have yet to see his reaction to Komarasaki being hyorying. In addition to this, so far Orochi's devil fruit has mainly been used to intimidate people, but none of his abilities have been shown yet, which makes me think another battle is awaiting Orochi in which he can show us the full extent of his devil fruit. In any case, seeing the scabbards walk off from this battle increases the chances of Hiori being the one to end Orochi, or considering he still has two heads left, perhaps we could see a mother and daughter team up with Toki and Hiori decapitating Orochi's final two heads, which in my opinion would be just perfectly satisfying, perhaps even Momo and Hiori or a combination of any of these three. I really enjoyed this scene, but I have to say that my favorite detail in all of these panels could be seen in the first page of this chapter with the scabbards standing face-to-face with Orochi with flames around him. This was just a very symbolic detail as a word that comes to mind when viewing this panel is Inferno, which means a large fire that is dangerously out of control, and this aptly fits the situation of the scabbards. Figuratively speaking, Orochi made their lives a living hell and has also quite literally sparked large flames here. And to me, this emphasized that once the scabbards go beyond where Orochi, the gatekeeper to hell is standing, only the flames of hell await them as they face the true demon, which is truly genius, if intentional, given the title and context of this chapter. Also, we seem to be getting a Raizo vs Fukurokuju battle, no surprises there as this is another fated interaction which had been hinted at earlier in this arc. It's cool to see the panel of them initiating their poses as we can see how unique and contrasted these two characters are. I am really excited to see a ninja battle and all I can say is bring it on! Nin! Nin! Fukurokuju is also becoming an increasingly intriguing character. I agree with Raizo in that I had pegged the Oniwabanchu leader as an opportunist, so for him to side with Orochi thereby defying Kaido is very interesting and I'm keen to see Fukurokuju's character development unfold. But enough about the opening of the chapter, let's talk about what you all came for. The rumble match on the rooftop of Onigashima. There is no other word I can think of to describe this battle than intense. Wow! This is probably my favorite chapter so far involving the rooftop. Okay, firstly, a confirmation at last regarding how Law's power works which should put all the questions to rest about how he can't just use his ability to switch the places of any opponents particularly devil fruit users to just throw them into disadvantageous situations like, you know, the ocean. And that is because he's unable to do so if someone's haki is too strong. The question now is does his opponent's haki have to be stronger than Law's? Or can anyone with strong enough haki resist Law's ability? In which case, is there a certain level of haki that one must possess to resist it? Luffy is shown to use Future Sight again this time to predict something big and this word big seems like an understatement once we actually witness the devastating combined attack of Kaido and Big Mom. The pose of the two emperors prior to the attack which marks the second time the bad guys are surrounded by flames in this chapter which goes back to what I said about Inferno earlier is also reminiscent to Dori and Broggy back in Little Garden which makes me wonder I know Big Mom has ties to Elbeth but seeing how Kaido also knew how to perform this attack could he also have some connection to the Island of Giants or is this simply from his experience of fighting alongside Big Mom back in the good old Rockstays? Always new interesting questions to ponder on after a new chapter. Anyways, this combined attack which resulted in a huge blast of impact large enough to blow a part of the Island which would probably have been enough to wipe out the supernovas had it hit them but luckily it didn't. And luck came in the form of our favourite swordsman who so far has done what I would say not only the most important but also the most impressive feat in this stage of the battle against the Yonkos so far. Not only was he able to momentarily block a combined Yonko attack which even impressed the grateful Eustace Kid but in doing so he saved the lives of his fellow worst-generation members and we can add this to the list of cool Zoro moments in the 1-0 arc so far of which there are plenty. More so than being cool and badass though I think this chapter really highlights what we've been missing from Zoro's character in a while and that is his grit and determination. Since we've entered the new world Zoro has kind of just been cruising through things. Apart from his brief clashes where we see him struggle a little Zoro has been mainly put into situations we could imagine him to have no problems getting out of but in this chapter here we saw him get up again after being heavily damaged and then continue to slice up Prometheus after receiving most of the damage from the combined Yonko attack which reminded me of what made Zoro one of my favourite characters in that he is able to persevere through the most impossibly difficult situations and it was truly a sight to see. In saying that though the last panel with Zoro coughing up blood does make me worry that the swordsmen might be done for this fight and now the question I'm asking is will this continue to be a 5-on-1 fight now that Big Mom is out of the picture or will it be 4-on-1 since Zoro seems to also be in trouble? If Zoro is indeed out I think this is a good way to take him out of the battle without his character losing face it's not surprising that this fight will have a big focus on Kaido against Luffy, Law and Kid considering each of their respective history with the Yonko so I expect Killa to be taken out in the upcoming chapters as well Both Zoro and Killa will probably fight someone else and I think them fighting a Calamity or another prominent opponent will look good for both of them since they would be doing so after surviving a battle against two Yonkos I love the brief 1-on-1 focus between Luffy and Kaido here I think it's great that we got to see this now as we may not get to for a while seeing as this is now developing into a Super Novas vs. Kaido battle with Big Mom taken out of the fight It was a fun clash where you could see Luffy enjoying himself and even boasting a little that he made Kaido dodge an attack I think it's also a good way to focus on and showcase Kaido's hybrid form Now on top of his strength and durability Kaido has now further increased his speed and agility not to mention keeping his destructive power as seen when he used this hybrid version of Volobreath and then quickly changed places to show us a new technique called Ragnarokoo which is a pun of the chapter title Narokoo whilst also referring to Ragnarok a Scandinavian mythology regarding the final destruction of the world Speaking of durability though I think this chapter really highlighted Big Mom's durability We saw Kid shooting arrows at her which just bounced back from her body and the fact that the Super Novas did this combined attack that yes, did result in Big Mom being removed from the battle but you don't really see her take any proper damage from any of them If anything, they just took advantage of Big Mom's weakness of being super strong but not a very tactical fighter who relies too much on her brute strength and devil fruit power which is understandable, I mean I guess if you have that much strength and such a powerful devil fruit the tactical side of her would not be as trained as she wouldn't be used to requiring it so much and here I think is a good time to give some respect to Big Mom She has been a huge hindrance for the Super Novas in this rooftop battle and though they have managed to get rid of her relatively quickly the fact that they celebrated so much afterwards shows what a great relief it is that they will no longer have to face her too and how they had to prioritize removing her as they understood what a great danger she poses and in saying that, the combined effort between the Super Novas was great I think it was just a great use of each of their abilities There's no way that they could defeat Big Mom so gaining a momentary victory the way that they did was really smart We already mentioned Zoro's part in this but Killer chasing Napoleon was hilarious and also made me question whether Kid is able to move the sword or does it have a similar requirement to Law's ability where he can't move weapons of those belonging to people with strong haki or simply because Big Mom has her soul in it Wish this one could be explained Perhaps Kid could but he was simply focusing on distracting Big Mom so that he could send her flying which I think is very smart Kid tanking Big Mom's punches was also very impressive It's funny that these two, Luffy and Kid both took a head on attack from the two Yonko which I think further separates them from the other Super Novas in terms of their focus Since the beginning of Wano these two have been shown side by side so I think there are big plans for Kid in the upcoming chapters and I know in my review for Chapter 1001 I said that Law was the least impressive as he was only throwing rocks at Kaido but now in this chapter those rocks were the final blow to the Super Novas gaining momentary victory by sending Big Mom falling from Onigashima which just goes to emphasise how Law is the most strategic of the bunch In terms of Big Mom's fate I really want to know where this is going There's a few ways through which we could answer this if we get a confirmation as to whether she really is falling into the sea as she said or are they already on top of Flower Capital If it is the sea it's likely that she will encounter the rest of the Big Mom Pirates or maybe even Perespero will she be back to join the battle or will she just leave in pursuit of the other Polyglyphs and with those new intrigues and a very excited heartbeat that brings us to the end of today's review Please leave a comment below regarding your thoughts on this intense chapter and don't forget to subscribe so that you don't miss out on any future One Piece discussions Please stick around for my reactions to this chapter if that's something you're interested in This is Joygirl and I'll see you again soon Alright guys It's time for the chapter review of 1009 and I wonder who the title for this chapter is going to be Oh okay So we get a color spread another color spread with Jinvei in it Yes Oh That's interesting Okay So it's all the straw hats plus Tama and Bunbuku Yeah and Komachiyo as well in the background Is this some sort of foreshadowing detail? Ah but it's requested Okay maybe not It says that it's been inspired by a reader request I love Frankie's jumper I want a jumper like that Yeah they're eating their rice balls as usual Nami looks very cool in that Baseball cap Usopp's jumper Sort of makes him look like Chopper in Monster Point It looks very furry Sort of I thought that was I thought that was Chopper with an Usopp face up first So funny Alright let's get to the chapter itself And the title is Naruku What is Naruku? Hmm okay I don't think it's a character Okay Alright we're starting within the castle That was fast The scabbards have already come across Orochi It's interesting that Fukuda Kujo would help Orochi Based on his role Sort of was portrayed to be a figure that would switch sides And team up with whoever would be the winner In which case the I guess the sort of likely Victor in this scenario would Most people would think would be Kaido So for him to team up with Orochi I think that's a very maybe It's because Orochi at least still has ties to Wano Whereas Kaido is a Is a complete foreigner But yeah it's a Quite an interesting development of Fukuro Kujo's character Oh He's turning into his Into his eight headed snake form The happy-happy nomi Bing bing bing bing I love that they've got the shamisen playing The level of detail After 20 years of trembling at your ghosts You will feel my wrath Wow Oh wow No mercy Look at that Now they're not playing around Look at how many of those heads they've already chopped off Yes Oh so gruesome Love it Yes We don't have any time To waste on the likes of you So great You know They've mentioned this before Kinamon said earlier In the raid that the source for Wano's woes has always been Kaido Not Orochi And here they just swiftly attacked him Oh I love it Hmm And yeah See Raizo is saying what I just said You know He didn't realize that he was such a loyal character And yep It seems like those two Raizo and Fukuro Kujo are going to have a matchup I think I mentioned it before in our previous video I think I did That that was the matchup that I could foresee Exciting stuff We're going to see a ninja battle Oh okay And we're going back up to the rooftop Oh How many of the five do you think will survive? Let's give them a big one Oh It's so scary isn't it? It just really goes to show all the other terrifying attacks that we saw Couple of chapters prior They're all just small You know Meaningless Just still testing out the young greenhorns Not the serious big stuff And so Law answers that question that we might have had In that case Time to disassemble I love just how incredibly wicked Kid looks Just looks like a demon The pointed eyes And the very pointed sharp smile He's a wide grin as well Oh Oh Who do you think you're sassing boy?  I'd better No Oh And look at that He's taking on Prometheus Slice Just slice and cut in the face You don't use this jaw Just crossing the six parts Oh Chapter You know what between The scabbards and Orochi And then Supernovas And the Yonko The two of the Yonko Wow Okay so Big mom seems like She's going to be out of commission for a while But probably not for long You know I imagine that She's going to run into A few of her other children Seeing as Paris Perot is the only one That's arrived on Onigashima right now And so that means We can see five on one We can see the five of the supernovas Against Kaido That's crazy And there's no break next week No break next week This is Amazing Wow


So, my name is Keena Mooney and I'm the head of Digital Subscriptions and Reader Insights at the Irish Times. So the role that I have is a role that didn't exist four or five years ago in the Irish Times. So my talk, I predict, was really around that team of change. The media industry is one that is in constant change and has undergone a lot of change. We introduced an analytics function into that. The technology behind that is one challenge, but really it was about how we incorporated a data culture within the organization. My talk looked at where the organization was before we incorporated the analytics function and then some of the things that we did in order to introduce that data culture into the organization. Some of the elements were around talking to our stakeholders about what it is that they needed. So, talking to them about what decisions they were making on a daily and weekly and monthly basis and how we could help them at most with making those decisions. One of the key tips I had was on hiring really good people. So the Holy Grail is hiring technical analysts who have strong communication skills. Sometimes you need a hybrid of your team that you have strong technical analysts combined with strong communication skills and talking to your stakeholders and having those communication skills is key. Another tip that we had was to find the evangelists within your company. So find those people who can help you in spreading your message and also another tip that we had was around getting some quick wins to show people how the data can be used and how it can help them in their day to day job. We also talked about building trust within the organization. So there can be some skepticism around the use of data and how it can be used and some fear about it. So building trust for our stakeholders was key so that they could see how it could help them in what they're trying to do. And the final point we made was around the importance of editorial integrity in the Irish Times. So our aim is to be data informed and not data led. It's a crucial distinction and if we were data led we would only be led obviously by the numbers. Being data informed is really about giving people the information they need to make informed decisions on how they use that data.


Internet is getting important and important every day and all the people, the government and the private sectors, all is involving for the internet and how we manage the internet for the future. So I believe that now sooner or later the government, with the help of the others, we should make the decision for the future of the internet and I believe that the internet is a threat and opportunity for every families, every countries and if they can decide the right decision for management, for how to deal it, I believe that this is the good for everyone. So this is the one point that I'm trying to mention in this meeting that the governments they have a more role for the future of the internet.


Part of the reasons our politics are inflamed is we do not have an unbiased media. We don't. It's unfortunate. I'm all for free press. It needs to be more unbiased. There's misinformation on both sides, but the censorship and suppression primarily occurs from the left. It's frustrating. Look, you can go back on your partisan cable cocoon and talk about media bias all you want. I understand it's part of your identity. Yeah, you couldn't understand it because he's talking over to me. He doesn't interview me. He argues with me. As you just saw, Ron Johnson accused Chuck Todd of being biased and then Chuck Todd subsequently told Ron Johnson to go back to his partisan cable cocoon and he did just that. Now I've just got to say first and foremost that I'm actually shocked to see somebody in the mainstream media be this adversarial with someone in power because we usually don't see that. Usually these news pundits, especially Chuck Todd, are passive, they're deferential towards power. Whereas the media is supposed to be this fourth branch of government to hold elites accountable. So when you actually see them do their job, it's pretty shocking and I've got to give credit where it's due. Even if it pains me because I don't like Chuck Todd, he did a great job there at really exposing the hypocritical nature of Ron Johnson and other Republicans. So you're going to see why Ron Johnson resorted to accusing Chuck Todd of bias and how that got really heated. That's because he was trying to talk about Hunter Biden, but Jared Kushner came up and as you're going to see, Ron Johnson wasn't really sure how to respond to that. So he just kind of threw his hands up and cried bias to deflect. Let's watch. Senator, do you have a crime that you think Hunter Biden committed? Because I've yet to see anybody explain it is not a crime to make money off your last name. So Chuck, you ought to read the Marco Polo report where they detail all kinds of potential crimes. You'll send a grassland answer. Let me stop you there. Potential. This is what I was going to say about potential is in your window. About $30,000. That's why you do investigation.  Is that a crime? Because Chuck Raston and I laid out about $30,000 paid by Hunter Biden to those types of individuals over December 2018, 2019, about $30,000. This is about the same time that President Biden offered to pay about $100,000 of Hunter Biden's bills. Again, that's just some information. I don't know exactly who this is. Here's what I don't get. All right. Senator. It doesn't really look on. It sounds sleazy as you know what. I'll take out your word that you're ethically bothered by Hunter Biden. I'm curious though. You seem to have a pattern. Are you not? Are you not? I'm a journalist. I have to deal in facts. Are you not? I deal in facts. Senator, my question to you is, I have skepticism of both parties. I sit here with skepticism a lot of people's work. And I'm curious, were you at all concerned? Your Senate Democrats want to investigate Jared Kushner's loan from the cuttery government when he was working in the government negotiating many things in the Middle East. Are you not as concerned about that? Are you not concerned about that? And I say that because it seems to me if you're concerned about what Hunter Biden did, you should be equally outraged about what Jared Kushner did. I'm concerned about getting the truth. I don't target individuals, target individuals. You don't? You're targeting Hunter Biden? Multiple times on this show, Senator, you're targeting an individual. My concern, you know, Chuck, you know, part of the problem, and this is pretty obvious to anybody watching this, is you don't invite me on to interview me, you invite me on to argue with me. You know, I'm just trying to lay out the facts that certainly Senator Grass and I uncovered. They were suppressed. They were censored. They interfered in the 2020 election. Conservatives understand that, unfortunately, liberals in the media don't. And that's part of the things that, part of the reasons our politics are inflamed is we do not have an unbiased media. We don't. It's unfortunate. I'm all for free press. Well, Senator. It needs to be more unbiased. Senator, look, this is, look. There's misinformation on both sides. But the censorship and suppression. Senator, look, we're trying to do this. It occurs from the left. It's frustrating. Look, you can go back on your partisan cable cocoon and talk about media bias all you want. I understand it's part of your identity. Let me move to what happened in Brazil. That clip is so much funnier knowing that Ron Johnson literally did go back to his partisan cable cocoon and talked about how mean Chuck Todd was to him. It's just embarrassing. Like Republicans have absolutely no shame. Now I love the deer in headlights look from Ron Johnson when the name of Jared Kushner came up. He just said, uh, well, I, I, you know, I don't like to talk about individuals, but as Chuck Todd pointed out, you're talking about Hunter Biden. So what do you mean you don't like to talk about individuals? You just don't want to talk about individuals on your team. But when it comes to Hunter Biden, well, you're trying to find some scandal to tie Biden to, and that's all you care about. Now listen, let me be very clear about this. Ron Johnson doesn't care about Hunter Biden. Nobody cares about Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden is the son of a president who unethically used his name to enrich himself. I think that that is wrong.  However, if you do care about the Hunter Biden story, well, you should be much more outraged, not equally outraged as Chuck Todd pointed out, but much more outraged about Jared Kushner. Now to me, the Jared Kushner story, and we'll get to that story in the Hunter Biden scandals as well, I think that it is much more serious because Jared Kushner was a member of government. He used his position of power to further enrich himself. This is something that politicians do all the time and it's gross. There should be much more laws preventing them from self-serving behavior, but this is a common phenomenon. But as Chuck Todd alluded to, again, if the Hunter Biden story makes you nauseous, the Jared Kushner story should make you much more nauseous. But that's not the case. And it's because Republicans don't really care about anything but getting Democrats trying to get Joe Biden. Now he's really stretching here, trying to implicate Joe Biden in the Hunter Biden scandals. So there's a Daily Mail article which contends that Hunter Biden paid for sex workers and he did so by disguising the checks to sex workers as medical services payments. And there is evidence of this. That's true. But the way that Republicans are trying to tie Joe Biden to this is, well, you see, he gave his son Hunter Biden money at the time, so did he knowingly pay for sex workers or did he just inadvertently finance his son's illicit behavior? I mean, there's no evidence of this. It's certainly necessary to have some sort of investigation and there is that. But to try to make this big deal of this, that's one thing. I think it's fine if you care about that. But to care about that exclusively but turn a blind eye to the Jared Kushner behavior, that's where the issue comes in, do you understand? So before we show you Ron Johnson on Fox News, let's talk about both of these scandals because they are indeed serious. And when it comes to the Hunter Biden story, there is a there there. It's just that there isn't necessarily evidence of criminality so much as there's evidence that he broke the law and could face civil penalties. We're talking about fines. But in terms of him being this like huge criminal, that's not necessarily the case. The New York Times explains the real Hunter Biden story is complex and very different in important ways from the narrative promoted by Republicans, but troubling in its own way. After his father became vice president, Hunter Biden, a 52 year old Yale educated lawyer forged business relationships with foreign interests that brought him millions of dollars, raised questions about whether he was cashing in on his family name, set off alarms among government officials about potential conflicts of interest, and provided Republicans an opening for years of attacks on his father. Investigators have poured over documents related to and question witnesses about his overseas business dealings. They include his role on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company led by an oligarch who at the time was under investigation for corruption, a position that Hunter accepted while his father as vice president was overseeing Obama administration policy in Ukraine. They also include his equity stake in a Chinese business venture and his failed joint venture with a Chinese tycoon who had courted well connected Americans in both parties. At one point he gave Hunter Biden a large diamond as a gift, but was later detained by Chinese authorities. So without question, Hunter Biden is the beneficiary of nepotism as many children of presidents are. And let's be very clear. He got the job at Burisma because Burisma wanted to influence Joe Biden, the vice president. Now, whether or not that had any influence on Joe Biden, I think is worth investigating. It's worth looking into. But in terms of actual criminal wrongdoing, there is evidence. But it's not the evidence that the Republican Party is focused on. It's more civil offenses. And Delaware's Attorney General David Weiss, who has the authority to charge Hunter Biden, is less focused on the more salacious elements of the Hunter Biden scandal and is more fixated on his inability to meet tax filing deadlines. Or whether or not he falsely claimed that $30,000 in business expenses weren't actually for business expenses. And he also allegedly lied while filling out a form to purchase a handgun in 2018. So in terms of whether or not Hunter Biden is going to go to jail for any of this, it seems really unlikely. The actual things that they can prove that he broke the law on reportedly are tax things. He'll get a slap on the wrist or face a penalty. And listen, I think that you can absolutely think that Hunter Biden's behavior is unethical and wrong. But here's the thing. If you're going to be mad about that, you've also got to be mad about Jared Kushner, whose actions were exponentially more unethical. Now, I'll link you to a Washington Post article that fully details the scandal that Chuck Todd referenced. But there's more than just that one instance of Jared Kushner using his influence to personally enrich himself. The Washington Post reports in December of 2016, as Kushner worked on Trump's transition team, he met with representatives of a Chinese insurance firm regarding potentially investing in the property the New York Times reported. Kushner also met with a Russian banker but told Congress that family business was not discussed. Although the bank has said they talked about promising business lines and sectors. Jared Kushner played a significant role in policy affecting Qatar. He had helped persuade Trump to strengthen ties with Saudi Arabia during a May 2017 visit to the Arab nation. The day after the Trump administration ended, Kushner created a private equity firm for which he obtained a $2 billion investment from Saudi Arabia's public investment fund. The fund is headed by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who the CIA has said ordered the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post contributing columnist. But I'm sure that all of this was just the coincidence. Now look, will we find evidence of a quid pro quo between Jared Kushner and these Arab countries? Probably not because most of these politicians are savvy enough to cover their tracks. And even when there is a conflict of interest that's incredibly brazen, our laws with regard to corruption are so lax that it's usually not sufficient to prosecute. So I don't think that he's gonna get into trouble. And this is a common phenomenon in the United States.   Now look, I for one, don't play team politics. And I think that every single presidential administration along with all of their shitty children should go straight from the White House to the Hague until we hear from the individuals who their policies affected, both domestic and foreign. So all of the victims who had families die in drone strikes from these presidents should be able to come forward and testify against our US presidents. I think that everyone in the US government who has invested in these companies that they're supposed to be regulating, Democrat or Republican, should either be impeached, removed from Congress forcibly or face jail time because that is deeply, deeply unethical and corrupt. I think that you shouldn't be able to vote on policies if a particular industry who's affected by those policies donated to your campaign, that's a conflict of interest. So there is an issue with corruption in the United States. But these Republicans, they're not consistent like I am or like you are. They don't actually care about the specific details. It's all about team sports. So if they can get the Democrats for something and somehow tie Joe Biden to the Hunter Biden scandal and claim, well, was that money that Hunter Biden was given by his father used for sex workers? Was that intentional? Is Joe Biden funding the illicit lifestyle of his son? If they can do that, that's all that they care about at the end of the day. They don't actually care about the substance. It's just about team sports. It's just about politics, not the details. They don't care about corruption or conflict of interest or nepotism or ethics violations because if they did, they would be more consistent on this issue. But with that being said, I do wanna talk about how Ron Johnson decided to go back to Fox News after Chuck Todd told him to, and he basically just wind about how mean Chuck Todd was to him and he tried to bring up the Hunter Biden story while not addressing Jared Kushner because of course, let's watch. What were you trying to say about 30,000? Because that particular point was when he really leaned in. Yeah, you couldn't understand because he's talking over to me. He doesn't interview me. He argues with me. But Hunter Biden and we have records that show about $30,000 were paid to prostitutes. Probably individuals associated with the Eastern European sex trafficking ring, $30,000. That same time period in the midst of that five month period over two months, Joe Biden committed to currently wire Hunter Biden about $100,000. So was the president of the United States or at that point in time, the former vice president financing Hunter Biden's illegal activity with prostitutes? I love how he's like, oh, we'll see. As soon as I brought up this scandal involving Hunter Biden and the specifics of it, that's when I was shut down by Chuck Todd. But you did the same exact thing with regard to the Jared Kushner story which you conspicuously did not mention here. So again, Ron Johnson is a hack. He does not care about what Hunter Biden or Jared Kushner is doing. This is all about team politics and he's trying to score one over against the other team. That's literally all that this is about. Anytime a Republican brings up Hunter Biden, I think that you can sufficiently conclude that they don't actually care about that story. Nobody cares about Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden was not a government official. Jared Kushner was. But if you care about Hunter Biden, as I repeated earlier, you really have to care about the Jared Kushner story and really to make a logical leap, all of the instances of corruption in governments. It's frustrating to me how so many Republicans will point out Democratic Party corruption but not mention corruption on their own side. And to be fair, Democrats do that too, right? But at least some Democrats are at least more logically consistent. For example, Ilhan Omar was talking about how there needs to be an investigation into Biden's mishandling of classified documents. So all that we're asking here is for a little bit of consistency. But the reason why we're not getting that is because again, these politicians don't care about that. They don't care about the details of the story. They just care about the political angle. That's it, period, full stop. And Chuck Todd, I think, brilliantly demonstrated that in this interview. So I hope that we see more of this from pundits because that was very effective at pointing out the hypocrisy of some of these Republican politicians.  You're getting nervous, man, man.