This small pond is loaded with bass. And from the moment we started fishing, we realized it's gonna be a good day. The weather's been dark and cold, but that didn't stop these fish from biting. Our goal today is to hit as many ponds as we can while catching some giants.  Tonight, November 29th and tomorrow, November 30th is the last chance to get in on our Black Friday deal. For every kicking combo you purchase, you'll receive three free packs of striking baits. So head over to kickingtherbass.com right now and scoop you a combo. All right, boys and girls, ladies and gents, we're gonna get this pond hop journey started today, okay? Got us an old lipless crankbait. Got it paired up on my kickingtherbass.tv Exluse combo if you guys wanna check them out, kickingtherbass.com to be linked down below. We're gonna be pond hopping today to some ponds that we haven't been to in a while and look at that swirl. And I don't know what to expect today. I went fishing the other day.  So I'm hoping that is not the case today. And I'm hoping we end up just smoking them in this pond since we haven't fished it in a very long time. So let's go ahead and get to casting. We're gonna cover a lot of water today, hit a bunch of different areas and figure out what these fish want. If they're not eating a trap, we might have to switch up some a little slower. Before we get deeper into this video, only 27% of you all watching these videos are actually subscribed. So if you could take the time, hit the subscribe button. Really helps the channel, I'd appreciate it. By the way, if you guys are wondering about the conditions, little chilly today, slight bit of wind, overcast in the sky. So I just don't know, this weather hasn't been really consistent. It's kind of been nasty the last few days and we had maybe one day of decent weather.  One thing that I do like about today is I'm already getting hit. And that feels like a nice one, man. Look at that, right there. Oh, it's a big one.  Come on, baby. Oh, he slammed that thing too. That's a good sign. Oh, let's go. That's a good fish. Look at that. Good two and a half pounder to start off the video. I thought he was a lot bigger. Look at how he ate it. Boys, we might be onto something today. I was just about to say the one thing that I like about today is I've actually seen a good bit of activity. Like I see some swirls at the top of the water. I've seen a few birds fly by. He's bleeding just a little bit so we're gonna get him back in the water really quick. Oh, there he goes. Oh my goodness, boys. That fish demolished that lipless crankbait. I mean, we're probably five cast into today. After a few in that smaller corner there, started fan casting out here. I wanna say that might've been my first cast out there in the middle. Got absolutely destroyed. I'm kinda excited after that, boys.  I mean, that was a hit of a lifetime on the lipless crankbait. And I'll tell you, when I went the other day, I was just talking about it. The fish were so slow and I caught one bass in the matter of like an hour and 20 minutes and I had one other bite and I honestly went and put my rod up. I was like, it's not even worth fishing today. And that fish right there bit one really quick and the way he hit that thing just lets me know that I think these fish might be biting really good today. So let's keep on casting and we might be able to put together a crazy day. Dude, I just got hammered again, bro. Oh boy. What's going on today, man? Am I finally about to experience a good fall bite? I've yet to go out and just have a crazy, actually one day I had one good lipless bite but other than that, I feel like I haven't really got to experience a good fall bite. We already have two bites within the first, I'd say 10 minutes of today. Man, I'm pumped. Keeps seeing boils right out there. Oh my gosh, they're fighting today, boys. Let's freaking go. Look at how they're eating this dang thing. Another, that's about a pound and a half. And look at how he ate that lipless crankbait. Dude, this is something right here, boys. We about to get on him and I am pumped. I was about to stop casting right here. When you have one, eat it like that, man. That's pretty crazy. It's a good fat, I'd say a pound and a half, maybe a pound and three quarters with how thick he is. Got a good little belly on him. Feeding up for that wind or time now. Let's get it, baby. I thought I had a bite a second ago, but I just kind of brushed it off. I'm like, oh, maybe that wasn't a bite. But now that I felt how that one did it, it was more than likely a bite. So if you guys are wondering about this color, it's got like a blue back. It's got a little pink stripe and a solid white down below, I'll tell you. With it being the overcast conditions, this is a good prime color. We can go with that standard sexy shad that we had with a little bit of chrome on it. But I don't really like using chrome unless it's sunny out. With it being overcast today, that white right there is the perfect color. My only thing is this thing is starting to run sideways a little bit. I hope that's not gonna cause any issues with us. He's running ever so slightly, he's running sideways. Okay, one thing that we can do, so this bait's running to the right. That being said, we're gonna grab that little eye and slightly tweak it to the left. There we go. That might help out ever so slightly. If you have a crankbait that's not running true, sometimes when you catch a lot of fish on it can kind of tweak it. You just kind of adjust it. You can get it to start running straight. Like right there is running a lot straighter now. Still got a slight bit to the right. We might can tweak a little bit more, but it's not running bad. That's a little tip guys. If you're having trouble with your crankbait, it's a huge blow up, man. I'm seeing fish move over there too. These fish might just be turned up right now. Hold on, man. What are we getting ourselves into? That was a nasty little blow up there. I had to have been by a pretty big fish. It was right on that point. Oh, he just hit me. Big boil too. Gosh, dude. Man, that got me pumped up. Come on, fish. I keep getting pine straw on. One thing that I've noticed too fishing today, if you look at the edge of the bank here, the water's pretty low.  I'm touching the bottom a lot quicker with this. It's kind of picking up some of that nasty stuff. Sadly, I don't think that fish is gonna bite again. I would have thought he might have turned on it, but he slapped it that one hard time and he was done with it. So boys, this pocket can be really good in the springtime. I've caught him there at other times of year, but I see the most activity out here towards the main section. And more importantly, where I caught that first fish, there is so much activity out there right now. I just saw about five or six swirls. So in my opinion, we need to be fishing over this way. We can still go back and hit that pocket. I saw one swirl in the back and it's not a bad idea. I just think we need to focus right here while these fish seem to be biting good. I mean, we caught two good fish, had another bite, see a lot of activity. We saw a fish blow up. This is definitely the section we need to be fishing. That's a money cast right there, boys. I hope that's bass, flicker and bait up there on that point. If it is, we're in for a sleigh fish right now. I'm gonna be honest, I might need to grab another trap. This thing's kind of still running a little weird. It's like it runs straight once I get it moving for a second, but right when it hits the water, it's trying to kind of turn on its side. Did he eat it like a dang topwater? No way. Oh my gosh. It sounded like a small one, hadn't it? But he feels pretty good. Oh yeah, that's a good fish. Dude, what are we experiencing right now? That bait would not stay down and that fish just ate it like a dang topwater. Another good pound and a half fish. Not a giant by any means, but still a healthy fish and we'll take them. Thank you, baby. I cannot believe he ate it like that. That's starting to make me think, man. Run a dang topwater right now. It ain't cold to where they wouldn't eat it. There's fish number three guys, probably our smallest one of today, but still a good pound and a half fish. Thank you, baby.  Little turd. I cannot believe.  That was pretty crazy. All right, we're gonna give up on the spot for just a minute. We're gonna come back to it for sure. I can walk up to that little island and fish it. Out of the big fish that I've caught out of this pond, I've always had a lot of luck year round near this bridge. So I really wanna focus on this area, make a lot of good casts. Cause I've caught, I could not tell you how many four to seven pounders around this bridge. I mean, just a ton. If I had something other than a trap, if I had like a chatter-donk or a worm or anything, I could skip under that good. There we go. I guess I can skip a trap.  What is happening? He might bite it again. He just barely ticked the back of it. It felt like he was gonna eat it all the way, but hopefully that hooked it and get him and kinda spooked him there. That was a nice little bite. Surprised we didn't get one by this bridge, guys. And that one bite on that grass line, no bites on the bridge. And it still seems as if the best activity has been over on that hump. We probably need to just go over there and start fishing while they're loaded. These fish are probably just moving, clouds are up, they're just roaming around this ton. They seem to be locked in on this point pretty good. I mean, I still see movement. I think that was a stick, bro. I sure hope that was a stick. Oh my gosh, that wasn't a stick, that was a big one. I don't know why I didn't feel it at that time. I hope that wasn't a dang fish, man. I think it felt big. That was definitely a stick. I was about to say, man, if I just missed a giant because I was playing around thinking it was a stick, that would've sucked. Definitely a stick, though. Biggest problem right now I'm having is just picking up either pine straw or grass. It's just one of those things that I can be reeling in my bait and it can be in a really good spot or a big fish behind it. And then all of a sudden, I guess some day in grass hanging off and they aren't biting it. That's a nice one, I think. Oh, that was our biggest one today, man. That stinks. Oh, he hammered that thing guys, missed it and came right back for it. Gosh dang it, man. That was every bit of a three pounder. He wasn't, he was a high two, but still would've been our biggest fish today. Man. Yeah, when he missed that thing, I was like, dang it. And then all of a sudden, he came right back for it and loaded up. He kinda caught me in a weird position. I was already kinda leaned back from that first hook set and I just don't think I drove the hooks in them good enough. That's been our only bite in this little pocket so far. My bait's going all over the place now, guys. I'm getting to the point to where we're gonna switch ponds in a moment. Maybe come back to this one later and when I switch ponds, I'm probably gonna have to switch lipless crankbaits just because this thing has been really weird. See, it's running so straight on that cast, but then there's some cast that just wants a good sideways. Look at that, sick. Well, guys, we went all the way back in this pocket for that one bite, sadly lost it, but we're gonna actually work our way to the other side to that other pocket. We're gonna try that. See how that goes, because I still think we can catch a really big one in here and then we're gonna go hit another pond. And after that next pond, depending on how we do, we might come back here because there's just so many big fish and I know it's possible to catch one today. All right, boys. Let's see what we can get into on this side. Like I said, I've done really good here in the past, mainly in the springtime, but it would not surprise me if we get a few good bites back here. So let's just start fan casting around. I can't tell if that was a big branch or a big fish. I'm definitely getting a slob afterward. It's kind of a tough one to figure out right there. That kind of felt like a big one leaning into it. Oh my gosh, that's had a tiny one. Dude, that bait hit the water and I already had a small one on instantly.  I'm talking that bait was not in the water for two seconds, he was already on. Some of these fish are biting this thing aggressive today. That's a big one. Yeah, that's a good one, boys. Oh yeah, that's a monster. That's what we've been waiting on. Come on, baby. Oh yeah, that's a good one right there. Oh, he ain't even that big. This is a good fish, though. I thought it was at least four, dude. That fish was torquing down. That is a really good bass. Caught him right out there in the middle. Heck yeah. That is a really good fish. Not quite three pounds, but he's pushing it every bit of two and three quarters. That's a good one. I thought that was a good four pounder there for a minute. He fooled me. Gosh, the way he ate that thing and how he felt, there was no doubt in my mind that was a dang four pounder, but we'll take him in. Maybe there's some more out here. There's another boil right there, if you guys saw that. And that's something we need to pay attention to, guys. I don't know if you noticed, but we went in that other pocket and we had one good bite going towards the back pocket, the back corner. And now we came over to this pocket right when we get towards the back. Boom, we get a good bite. When we're fishing these other ponds here later today that we can keep in the back of our head, just keep a note on. There's another good fish. I don't think he's a big one, that's a good one. Let's go, baby. All this fish is hyper, too. There we go. That's probably the skinniest fish today. He hammered that thing. Yes, sir, Rhee. Not a big one by any means, but he put up a good fight. To be honest, probably one of our smallest today. Thank you, baby. There she goes. Heck yeah, boys. We are getting slammed. I don't know how many fish that is in this first pond, but they were biting really good. And this is a pond I usually don't get a ton of bites at, so that's just a great feeling. Some days you'll come out guys when you're throwing a lipless and they'll just kind of load up on it. There's some days that they'll just barely tap it and they're on there. And then if some days like today that you can just tell that these fish are wanting to eat, they're hungry, they're ready to bite, and they're full on slamming that bait. We've had a little mixture. Dude. Oh my gosh. I mean, look at this, dude. I mean, they're just smoking it guys. Another good two pounder. I actually never felt this fish. I saw them with my own two eyes come up and eat it. This is just insanity, man. What a day-efficient that we're going on today. I've been wanting one of these good fall days and it is happening right now. We had one good day about a couple of weeks ago and we caught some really big ones but we didn't have like a ton of bites. We probably had six or seven bites. Today we've caught over seven fish and they're still biting, man. We just caught three in this corner in the matter of five minutes and I don't think they're done. And one thing about this pocket compared to the last one is I can actually throw my bait. I'm able to throw my bait out there and give it a good steady retrieve because I'm not hitting the bottom. That other pocket had so much pine straw and grass to the point where I had to burn that bait and I had to keep my bait off the bottom and just reel it way too fast. Back here I can kind of fish it how I need to, slow it down and keep that bait in strike zone without doing anything too crazy with it. You all want to know what's crazy. We caught all three of those fish back in that corner just this whole section right here, not a bite. It goes to show what we were talking about. This fish mainly being all the way in the back of the pockets. Now we're coming up on this little bridge right here and we're coming up into this mouth. I think you're about to start seeing a lot more fish right here in this section.  All right, boys, we've had a lot of fun at this pond. I totally think we could keep on fishing and just smoking them. But for the sake of the video, for the sake of you guys, for the sake that we want to catch a really big bass, we're gonna head out to a spot where I've caught a ton of eight to nine pounders in the last six years. And I haven't been out there in a long time so I'm curious to see what we can do. Well, let's go ahead and hop in the car and keep moving. Hey puppy. Hey, no, you're fine. Hey, buddy, hey, buddy. Hey, I don't want you to get the fishing lure. Hey. All right, boys, we made it out to the new pond. This thing has some freaking toads in it. I already see some bait popping right there, which is a good sign. I tied on a new lipless crankbait. You know, we're having that problem with it running sideways. This color isn't as ideal for the clouds, but I kind of value it running straight more than the color at this point. But let's get to casting. And hopefully these big ones are biting in here as well. After seeing those fish biting so good in that last pond, I can only imagine that they'll be biting in some of these other ponds. And I'm like, this is a good big fish spot. And if we can get them fired up how we had those last fish, we'll be in for a treat. Been so long since I've fished this place. I used to fish this pond a ton five, six years ago, and then I hit it one time this year with Tara, and she ended up catching one around four and a half pounds. And that is the only time we've really fished this pond over the years, since I used to fish it a ton. I just pinged off a rock right here. There's actually a lot of boulders in the water. A lot of those big fishes sit on these boulders. So we're just gonna keep on fan casting, ripping this trap through the water column. See if we can get some of these big ones to bite. Right there. Right off the rock, dude. I'm not even kidding. Pinged it right off that rock instantly. I cannot believe how good these fish are biting today. That is the smallest fish of the day, but that's a good sign, man. That means they're biting. That means they're still biting. I had to hop on a few phone calls and handle a few things. So it's been about an hour since we've been fishing. Here he goes. Heck yeah, well we got something. It is our smallest one today, but that doesn't mean much because there's some giants in here and they'll bite. So that fish literally ate that trap right when I pinged it off that rock instantly. Hit the rock, boom, got a bite. And those rocks can be great for the fishing today. One thing that you gotta be careful with is getting hung up in the rocks. So that's something that we're gonna be aware of. There's actually a huge rock right there. There's like big concrete slabs.  So if you ain't careful, we'll get your bait taken, but at the same time, those big fish will hide out in those rocks. And going down this bank, they're all about, I'd say 15 foot. Oh my gosh, you ate it off the rock too. Oh dude. You know what's crazy, if we got like a normal crankbait, I bet it would be fire in here. One thing that worried me is I thought there was a lot of grass. That doesn't seem like there's a ton of grass. Kicking combos, beaming today boys. I'm hitting the whole other side of the bank. Look at that right there. Dude, I can not believe they're eating it. We're just yo-yoing that thing right on the edge of those rocks. I ain't buying just the small fish biting right now. We just gotta figure out where these big ones are. Lay in here. Just gotta figure out where they're setting up. All three of those fish have been tiny. I don't know if you guys saw that. Yo-yoed it and he ate it instantly. So the time of year, we would slay them big ones too. Going into the winter time, even in the winter time, there was some stents where we were going on. Every single day, we'd catch one between eight and nine pounds. I knew it was gonna happen, man.  Well guys, looking like we might have to break this off and go retie, sadly. Yep. Dang it, man. I don't know if we have any square bills, but if I have one in my car, that's definitely what I'm gonna tie on. Boys, I'm gonna be honest. We're gonna whip out a chatter donk and give her a shot. We're definitely bringing down some more baits down there too, because there's a good chance I'll break off again, and I'm not gonna sit here and walk all the way back to the car. We don't need to be wasting that time. All right, boys, setting camp up right there. Let's start with this chatter donk and see. So we can get some of these big ones right here. Are you the chatter donk's our ticket today? Never know. We haven't tried it today. We've only been throwing a trap, so it's a good little shad imitation. We're just gonna start beating around these rocks. I'm gonna start walking this a little quicker, get down to where we broke off. What we talked about earlier in those other ponds, those fish were towards the back of the pockets, so we're gonna try to convert that to this pond and see if that works. We've been throwing this chatter bait. It's thunder cricket for a good second now. I haven't even had a nibble. All right, boys, I'm gonna be real. This pond just hasn't been it. I thought we're gonna come out here and catch some big ones. Ended up getting a few small ones and broke off a bait, but we're gonna keep on moving. I have some other ponds in mind. All right, boys, here at another spot, got the trap tied back on. I think we have a good idea on that's what they're wanting today. We don't need to switch up too much. We switched to that chatter donk, didn't even get a bite. We've been getting slammed on this trap all day long, so I just came out of this pond. I started off here in the pocket just because that's been like a proven spot today. And we're gonna make a lot of casts here. Hopefully catch some big ones. Got a lot of good ones in the past in this pocket. Hopefully we can get them to bite right now. Ooh, I just got hit right there. That is grass. I'm pretty sure, unless I have a little fish on. Just a grass fish. Oh, grass bass. That is not what I wanted to see when fishing this place. I am tired of the grass. All right, boys, I had a new pond. Not so much grass in this one. I chose to pick a place with less grass because I'm just tired of dealing with it, to be honest with you. Plus I feel like we have a really good chance of some good sized fish in this pond. If they're biting as good as these other bass have been biting, so we're gonna start fishing here. And I think the bites that we get on average are gonna be really good. So let's see what we can make happen. Ooh, I just got hammered right there. Can't tell you why he didn't eat it. He just slapped at it. He just gave me a little spanking. Mm-mm-mm. Hopefully these fish aren't shutting off. Sometimes these fish just go crazy. All of a sudden kind of slow down. Hopefully that's not the case. What in the world am I feeling? I had to have been one grabbing the back of it. I mean, what else could it have been? Maybe there's biting a little funny right now. Sea light. Okay. I don't know what that is. A little like a dang alligator for a minute, man. Maybe that's what I was feeling down there. Some weird baggies. I'm glad I could take that out of the water at least. That is not water going for though. All right, boys, that bite slowed down everywhere else, so we came back to where we know that they were biting earlier. I already see some more movement in the middle. I think this place is just red hot right now. I don't know what was going on with the other ponds. The big fish pond we hit after this one. I really expected to do some work at. We caught some smaller ones there. Those big ones that were just not biting. We switched to that chatter bait and they just weren't. I don't know. It was kind of odd. I thought we were going to do a little better than that, but it is what it is. We know there's some really big ones in here and there's a good opportunity we can hook one. We're just going to keep on traveling around this pond and try to get the most out of it today while they're biting. We could have just hit these fish on a feeding sprenzy, sprenzy boys. Maybe we're just on the down stretch of the day. I'm not really sure. I don't know, earlier I felt unstoppable. I felt like I couldn't do anything to not get a bite for the most part. Now it's feeling like these fish have just slowed down. Not saying it's impossible to get a bite because I know that's just not the case. They are not biting how they were earlier.  That was a close one. I was casting right over that ding, wherever that yellow thing is over there and I thought my trap wasn't gone or I'm not gonna lie. Kicking combo would just be whipping now. There we go. That was a crazy bite. He slammed that thing right there. There we go, baby.  God, that bite was one of the most aggressive ones all day. I feel like I hit something on the bottom and then all of a sudden it was like... That sure felt good, though. I was gonna aggressive bite for them to not be biting for a minute. Thank you for biting, pimp. There we go. That was sick.


look at one of the Yankees top prospects Matt Sauer. He's among a group of highly talented pitchers in their organization and while he hits so well in high school that there was some question about where his future would lie the Yankees are confident having him on the mound. Here is Chris Shearn with more. He's only got 19 professional starts under his belt but Matt Sauer has already made waves in prospect rankings. With Justice Sheffield being traded last week MLB.com now has Sauer 9th in the Yankees organization. A second round pick out of high school in the 2017 draft he got his feet wet in rookie ball shortly after being selected and Sauer spent 2018 playing short season A ball with the Staten Island Yankees. The owner of a fastball that lives in the midnight needs plus a very good changeup that he focused on last year. The right hand struck out six batters per nine over 13 outings during his stint in the New York Pen League. Drawing raves from teammates and coaches alike for his compete level. His manager at Staten Island, Lionel Diaz has said that Sauer is the kind of pitcher you want out there when games begin. No matter what his role will be in the future Sauer is definitely a pitcher to keep tabs on during his age 20 season next year and beyond as he climbs the ladder in the Yankees organization. Chris thank you Matt Sauer ranks highly within the Yankees organization although he is outside the top 100 when it comes to Major League Baseball prospects overall. The Yankees have three within that group. Esteban Florial, Jonathan Loisiga and Albert Ubreyu. The Padres and Braves tied for the most top 100 prospects with 10 each followed by the White Sox with seven.


Great welcome everybody to the live stream today is going to be a pretty good day. It's there's a lot of Bullish sentiment out there, which is a bit different from the last two days that we've seen and we're going to talk all about it So we'll take a look at first Goldman Sachs they got a positive macro statement from their head of investment strategy, which is a quick video won't go over that real fast also Goldman Sachs and FTX Looks like they're gonna do a partnership and they've come a long way from saying that Crypto was even an asset class or really have they we'll take a look at exactly what this partnership might mean also on the horizon Jerome Powell is actually speaking today and he's raising and he's talking about raising rates Looking at the history that is Volcker, which is a former Fed chairman and lastly There's a great lesson to be learned today of Time in the market is more important than timing We'll take a look at 0x and what's going on with them and Coinbase and the very end will do five questions in five minutes So let's do a quick market recap see where we are if you're here for the live stream Thanks for stopping by really appreciate it Just know if you watch the replay time stamps underneath shouldn't take too long try to get in and out and here we go So first things first, let's take a look at the market looking pretty good And we've been getting our teeth kicked in Recently, but there's some good news on the horizon and that's the thing about Crypto markets or any markets some days There's a lot of bearish news and I covered that and I don't think people like to hear bearish news But I have to be honest and those are just the things that I see and then time goes on and there's some more There's some bullish news out there now. Does all bullish news equate to a massive run-up in the market? No, and we can see that now if this is 2017 probably or 2020 Yeah, probably but everything's different now. So we've got some good news also Tesla earnings came out and They had talked about in the earnings report that they hadn't sold one bit coins. That's pretty positive good for Tesla and Here's how things are going in the market. I don't have to tell you if you know this, but it's interesting just for For clarity bitcoins up 2% it's pretty good 42,000 at 3 about 1.4% Solana Terra Cardano polka dot everything's up. But remember We're looking at the at the grand scheme of things look at like the 12-day of the 7-day Terra's up massively 12 and a half percent bitcoins actually up even more than that. So things are looking pretty good So what does that mean? Well, really what it means down to this is that? There's more buyers than sellers. That's really what it comes down to and we can see that There is some bullish sentiment especially for Tron crazy 14% who to thunk it Now let's see Uniswap 11% for Theta Network. Great. It's pretty good Theta is one of those that just you've been holding forever hasn't anything or maybe that's just me and that's what's going on the market So let's just jump in to today's top stories, which is the first one goes with this I like to hear some positive Sentiments in the macro because you can go anywhere and you can find some pretty some pretty negative stuff this was the head of investment strategy talking on CNBC Squawk box and what she talks about is about inflation and how she believes that things aren't as bad as they seem especially as we look out towards inflation supply chains and Also Unemployment rates, which I thought was a pretty good take on things as we move forward So what I'm gonna do is gonna have you take a listen to this. Let me share my share my screen which didn't actually hear it and This is about two minutes or so so just take a listen a little bit bullish, I think How much of your global perspective is based on inflation and in central banks around the world and their reaction to it? We do believe that we Inflation let's say in the US for example with the last print that we got for a headline inflation around eight and a half percent Has most likely peaked obviously we need to be appropriately humble nobody expected inflation numbers core or Headline to get to these types of levels, but our view is when we look at the three key drivers of inflation So we would have something like these supply constrained Goods such as cars for example the vehicles used a new electronics, etc. Then we have wages and we have housing We do think that the Goods component inflation will come down and we're going to see that coming down through the course the rest of this year in the Course of next year and that's going to be significant We also think that there is a chance not a high chance But a pretty good chance that wage inflation is going to stabilize around these levels for a little white longer But then start declining as well because in fact, we're beginning to see an improvement obviously in labor force Participation and what's remarkable is we have seen an amazing increase in the Unretirement of people 55 years and older in fact the level of unretirement is above average And you have about a million people out of that group that is unretired And so when we're talking about the labor force participation We have to recognize there's a lot of noise from the pandemic And we need to see that clear up and our view is that we are going to get more people and so you're going to get Slow very gradual decrease in wage inflation and then finally housing and between higher home prices and Basically higher mortgage rates with fixed mortgage rates at about five percent You are going to see some pressure on demand as well It's going to take a couple of years, but our view is generally inflation will be headed down And that gives the Fed some flexibility but across the board We're seeing central banks raise rates and we're going to see balance sheet reduction So there's a lot to unpack there. There's full first of all, let's let's just talk about what she said a lot of good points There there's things some things that are concerning and one of the things she talks about was the labor force especially the The older labor force coming back in to work now I don't know about you but usually when when you retire Sometimes you want to stay retired and the reason why people are coming back is because they can't make ends meet because there's There's a pretty high inflation of goods and services and electricity and we just see that all around the board So there's that one piece and then as far as like labor participation. Yeah, the unemployment rates not Dramatically high and that's actually one good indicator But the question is what kind of jobs are out there that people are are getting are they good jobs? They're bad jobs, so they just not are just kind of in the middle of the road I can say this though. I see a lot of job openings everywhere and it's like they just can't find the people and they can't find the people That's not the greatest thing, but as she talks about here, you know, hey Inflation will come down. We'll see a little bit more positivity, but again Also that last piece where she said wage inflation that's not the problem you wage inflation That's not an awful thing. What's inflation is inflation across the board So hopefully they can combat that we'll talk about Jerome Powell on a bit and how they explain to do those types of things So let me just think about that in the comment section. Let's go on to the big news which is Goldman Sachs and FTX and this was a it's an interesting story of the dynamics between Goldman Sachs and where they were just two years ago to where they're at right now So here's what's going on in the world of crypto and Goldman So Sam Bakeman Fried gentlemen up there Founder and CEO of the exchange FTX met Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon in the carib. It's this is weird in the Caribbean to discuss Potential collaborations between the two firms. So here's the thing. It's the 21st of day I'm pretty sure yeah 21st today And I'm like, why is the head of Goldman Sachs in the Caribbean is this one vacation is bumped in each other Not really what's going on is that there's the crypto Bahamas put on by FTX and salt Which is April 26 to the 29th of this year. So When I look at this, I'm like, so you're telling me that the CEO Just took a took a trip to the Caribbean just to meet with Sam I mean, there's worse places to meet him But he went out of his way to meet him to talk about these things the two chief executives Discussed Goldman Sachs advising FTX which was valued at 32 billion in January on future funding rounds and taking a role in a potential Initial public offering IPO that sounds familiar an IPO where Goldman Sachs helped out somebody who else they help Oh, yeah, they helped out Coinbase and this was an article December 19th 2020 remember those days kind of odd and It was reportedly picked to lead Coinbase APO and I'm like, I wonder if that's true So I took a look at the actual documentation from the SEC and I linked in the description you can find it But it's kind of boring if you want to read it But if you just do command-buff and take a look Goldman Sachs all over the place and what they do is just they are advising Goldman Sachs and Coal or Goldman Sachs and a mark of disciplines By Nasdaq's on a snow and book viewer Goldman Sachs notified Nasdaq their shares class a common stock So they are the advisors of what everything went down for the Coinbase IPO Which I honestly the first day was great after that I'm too awesome. However That's not a bad thing if they're advising him and going that way So Salman also offered Goldman Sachs advice to FTX in discussion with regulators in the US FTX followed a proposal with the CFTC in March that would allow it to directly clear trades of its derivatives customers remember this word derivatives customers So I'm gonna take you down a trip down memory lane for What was Coinbase IPO and Goldman Sachs and their nice little history? It's amazing how far Goldman Sachs has come as far as like May 27 2020 Cryptos are not an asset class. They told all their customers in a meeting like this isn't an asset class Nothing to see here These aren't the droids that you're looking for that type of thing that is like Jedi mind trick stuff and then all of a sudden They come here and they say hey, you know what? This is on May 7th, 2021 just a year later Goldman Sachs internal memo unveils no crypto new crypto trading team the banked informants markets personnel that it's a newly created Crypto desk had successfully traded two kinds of Bitcoin linked derivatives derivatives Goldman said it also seeking to broaden its market presence by selectively onboarding crypto trading institutions To expand offering. So here's the thing If you take a look at Goldman Sachs, it's not like they're huge believers into crypto and where crypto is going But they are a big believer in money and profits and there's nothing wrong with that That's just the truth and I think other institutions will start to look at this and go. Hmm. There's a lot of money to be made I mean, they already know it. Let's be honest, but it's a risk on Type of situation, but there's a lot of money made that's why I think in the long term I've always said I've been a pretty bullish Proponent of crypto in the short term. That's where things get dicey So right now expect some pretty good volatility for the rest this year But I see these types of things as a bullish sentiment. So let me just think about that in the comment section. Let's move on to Some news that I don't know if this is price or not. This is Jerome Powell speaks today and And Here's what he's talking about as far as through history. So first up This is do you know that Federal Reserve has their own Twitter account? I Didn't know that till today. I thought why would they be here? But here they are they got a nice new blue check mark, which I have one of those and it states a chair pro Jerome Powell Temporal okay Delivers welcome your marks at the Volcker Alliance and pennants do for urban research special briefing Watch live you can watch it's kind of kind of dry and then I just thought this was funny Be money has a nice little meme here fed Prince 80% of all dollars in existence since 2020 Causes record inflation and of course down in Russia, but what Volcker said in his opening statements was this he said He recognized Paul Volcker, which is from the Volcker. Well, it makes a lot of sense saying Volcker left a strong legacy He and by the spirit of public service keeping the core principle or mission at the center of his work First of all, I'm always referencing this guy In different segments that I do and other channels Paul Volcker if you don't know American economist served two terms the 12th chair of the Federal Reserve from 79 to 87 He was nominated by Jimmy Carter who was a Democrat and then he was renominated by By Reagan which was a huge Republican, which is not small feet here in the United States While the credit with having ended the high levels of inflation in the US during the 70s and 80s. How do you do it? Here's how we did it So during the 70s monetary policy the Federal Reserve Board led by Volcker or while they credit with curbing the rate of inflation US inflation peaked at 14.8 percent in March 1980 14.8 percent, which is like Depending on what you believe if you believe that 8% is the inflation rate or 20% whichever but back then it was 14.8 That's what they reported probably higher and it fell below 3% by 1983 so in just like a couple of 79 80 like in two three years it went from 14.8 To 3% how do you do it? So the Fed Reserve led by Volcker raised the Fed rates which the average 11 percent and 79 to a peak of 20 percent in June 81 the prime rate rose to 21 and a half percent in 1981 which helped lead to the 1980 recession Which the national unemployment rate rose to over 10 percent. So same thing here if we have Volcker and Jerome Powell is a pretty big phantom when he talks about these these rate hikes The question is how high can he go and people will talk about well? He can't go too high because of the crash the economy well Volcker did it and he's like look We got to go through the pain and we'll see how it goes out I don't know if it's Exclusively priced in if he keeps going up and if he keeps going up then I think there will be some economic slowdown And I will think that that will affect the stock market and NASDAQ and SNP 500 and all that stuff And I do think that we are a little bit correlated especially to NASDAQ and if that happens I don't see how Bitcoin or theorem could hit all-time highs. It just really depends on how much they do Time will tell I can't really tell you but I just found it interesting that Powell Talks to the Institute references Volcker and now we've got him coming up in the next month or so talk about more interest rate Hikes so expect that to happen. Let me only think about that in the comments and then Let's take a look at some good news For the DCA errors and people who get into it. This was a It's a quick story And it talks about zero X and all of you guys remember zero X but came out a couple years ago and It was a big it was a big token and it was pushed by Coinbase and it kind of fell off But it just soared 53% today Over the last couple days, I should say Following the Coinbase NFT partnership if you don't know Coinbase skin the NFT game, which like everybody else is I think that'll be big for them not these goofy NFTs, but With more utility type NFTs anyhow, so zero X token source big 3% here's the thing You can't find that in the charts. You can't find that in TA. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this news is just pretty much powered it all off and There is something to be said For what happened here and here was the tweet itself not a not a big thing It's just we're proud of part of with Coinbase to power their new social marketplace for NFTs by using zero X protocol Coinbase provides better ways to discover buy sell and connect NFTs at the lowest transaction cost for you I think we can all get behind that if you've been using Ethereum So this got me to thinking if we want to 53% now, it's almost at a buck How does that relate to time in the market versus timing the market? I mean, you can trade this all day long Here it is in 20 she's 24 hours 70 cents bring on all the way to buck 15 pretty good I mean in 24 hours So the question then is let's take a look at the max and This is just one of those things where the same thing is what I did with Cardano really is that in 2017-2018 when it was like 19 cents, of course, it's spiked.  I'm like, I'm long-term bullish. I don't really care what's going on Like even today. I dollar-cost average the same thing Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Luna and Cosmos. It's that it comes out every day. It doesn't matter to me Just automatic and then here Of course is whenever nobody wants to buy and you can see it in my huddle waves over on Ben's website But if you just were dollar-cost averaging right here, it's a pretty good day Imagine if you could do that for well, that's 2018 then 2019 Then 2020 a little bit. So you might got a 60 cents. Okay, and then 2020 and 21 and you have been pretty happy right here During this big run-up. Hopefully you took some profits. Don't forget then it slams back down But imagine all this time right here time in the market is Greater than timing the market. I can guarantee if you were dollar-cost averaging right here Same thing that I did for years You're feeling pretty relaxed and I think that really was what it comes down to is why like people ask me like Robbie look pretty relaxed and in crypto. I wasn't like that in 2017 Bundle of nerves because everything kept going down. But as time goes on, that's why I say in The short term it's not so big of a thing. It's interesting. It's interesting the thing that goes on a day to day Sometimes it's bearish juice. Sometimes it's bullish news I try to cover both because I feel like if I just give everybody hope him left and right They'll be like damn this is Rob told me all this good news and we didn't really talk about the bad stuff And there it goes. I want you to be in here for the long term. That's why I talk about this stuff. I Know some people don't like it, but It is what it is. So that's what we got Let me know which thing about that in the comment section time in verse timing and then We'll do five questions five minutes also just real quick I'm gonna be interviewing the president of fame MMA and I've been talking about this for a while They just went through their their funding not the funding around but In not in the token generation bet the tglp through through 10 set meaning that this was just to get into the Initial sale and it already sold out in like five minutes So i'm gonna interview the president there and these guys are doing a great job of you've heard about tokenizing your community Well, these guys have they already have a global reach through mma And they're they're fights which they have influencers and celebrities and xcfc fighters So they're tokenized their community of millions I think it's going to be very big and the token generation event Will be 29th when it goes live on some exchange I'll let you know But i'm gonna be interviewing the presidents of the federation on saturday So if you got questions for him put him in the comments below or also just follow me on twitter And tell me what you want to know about it because I think it's gonna be pretty decent Again very risky. I talked about a damn d gen. So If you think it's like a guarantee, it's not everything's risky prepare to lose everything Who knows? Anyhow, that's what's going on and that's it So look if you liked this video give it a thumbs up.  Uh, we're gonna do five questions in five minutes Let's go from there. All right All right, all right, all right And every time I asked for the questions there was always a lag so We'll just write And go from there Comments Apecoin yeah, I missed that one I want to miss more too Ooh, look at that See this is what i'm talking about. Have you heard of alpine token? I haven't it's the official token of formula one I have no idea if that's true. It doesn't really matter right now tokenizing when I heard this this comment from But much of people row pal being one of them tokenizing your community And I was like, honey, isn't it? How are you gonna do that? And I see it now I see it with with uh fame and may and if you do this with formula one You can tokenize the millions of people out there. What could the token do? Well, if you hold the token it could give you discounts It could give you nfts of your favorite race car driver You could stake it for more tokens you could do a whole and you could you know purchase Uh merchandise at a discount rate and what's great for them is that they reduce the cost of all the transaction fees Of the semester card and everything else. So like for me, I'm thinking about this I'm like this time this totally makes sense. I think it's gonna really ramp up So That just improves my just talking about my point Thanks mark. I appreciate it. There was this there was this great comment Follow me on twitter There's I can't say it here because it's a kind of I try to keep this as family friendly as I possibly can So there's a comment from a person That's uh, you should read on on my twitter account and I was like, well, that is what it is I do it for the trolls Ah, that's a great question Hey, Dan great show. Would you recommend value averaging similar to all across averaging? So yes, so you can and I can't recommend it to you. I can only tell you what I would tell my mom mom Uh, let's let's let's let's break that down as the example. So zero x price. So when you dollar cost average And and here's the thing you can like so when you dollar cost average Just you pick a day or or a time of the week or a time of the month and you go I'm just gonna put in 25 bucks or 100 or 10,000. I don't know what kind of baller you are but whatever So and then you just do that Throughout an extended period of time And then there's there's another type Uh, that ben over in the crypt of verse always talks about Which is like a power dollar cost averaging or accelerated dollar cost averaging as the price goes down So let's like let's say he puts a hundred bucks into zero x which I only he did So 100 bucks into zero x and then when it goes down a certain percentage He's like i'm gonna add 10 percent more So the next day or next week or month it's 110 dollars and if it goes down even more He's like i'm gonna add another 30 percent. So that's 140 or whatever it is And then he just does that until it hits a certain risk level And he's got it all on his website There's a link in the description It's just app dot into the crypt of verse dot com and once he hits these these levels between a continuum of zero to one He starts to sell off. So he buys as it goes down He sells off as it comes up, but it's all about risk levels very basic stuff That's dollar cost averaging value cost averaging is this what if you said And it works sometimes. So let's say right here you have Let's say you have 10 000 bucks like I got a 10 000 bucks burning a hole in my pocket Value cost averaging is you're not going to keep going for an extended period of time Let's say for 10 000 you're gonna put 2 500 bucks right off the bat right here And hopefully you hit that 19 cents Hopefully and then like in a couple of weeks you put another 25 000 dollars in or 2 500 bucks in You do right here, then maybe you hit the top 2 500 bucks and then over here 2 500 bucks and 2 500 So that's your 10 000 bucks and you're done You can do that. Uh, it just depends on like are you hitting peaks? But in all honesty Value cost averaging is fine. Just do it Mom Mom if you're watching just do value cost averaging When there's a huge bear market, no one wants to buy squat and it's a good project And you've done your your research and it makes the cut like I've talked about the cut Which is how big is the community? What's the utility? What's the team like? What have they done before where they're going and how good are the tokenomics? Am I going to get dumped on so great question Beardy Beardy says I can't get a rather jump in his pool that you know cold that pool is today.  So yeah Oh, let me jump back Bridge bridge is right for tokenomics is the key. It's the most important thing to take a look at That's why like I get I don't know 10 offers a day to cover projects Usually I just kind of glance over them and I just delete the emails or the dms or whatever else I don't look at dms anymore But a lot of the times the products that I bring to you Are people that I've trusted and met along the way in other successful crypto projects And those guys come to me and say hey, we've we did this project and you were a part. Thanks We have another project and because I trust them Then I say, okay, let me take a look at your white paper and light paper and I'll look at that and about I'd say 50% of the time I'll turn it down That's just it's just not good enough And the next one the other 50% I'll say yeah, it looks good And the big thing I look at is tokenomics if they don't have a lock-up period I won't accept it because like there's no lock-up period man Like if I get into this I can dump on people and if I can dump on people which I might but uh, I wouldn't But other people can dump on people. So you have to look at lock-up periods What's going to the vcs? What's going on the private round? How much is actually going going for staking and for exchanges and for and for future things? That's just the tokenomics part. I don't even get to get a team the utility and the and the community off there Uh, this is a great question. Jeff says rob. He's still holding XRP. Yes Because I'm waiting for that the sec to get beat I just hold it to support the community honestly, but I had sold some before we've talked about that because I mean It's not gonna do much until after that after they win that that lawsuit, but I think it could Uh, do you know anything about the world mobile token main net? I don't I know there's already the availability for staking what you've already done We're actually a pool operator for world mobile token and I'm actually going to london May 3rd to the 7th For coin bureaus event. We're gonna do some I get to talk about Taxes and how to Minimize taxes because it's not what you make. It's what you keep. So when I'm there I'm gonna meet with the world mobile token and some some friends I met along the way. So Um, I'll ask him when I'm there Thoughts on condona none I'm not building any metaverse stuff Planko But I will say this I'll be with you guys whatever you guys do Ah, this is a great question Phantom mining says rob. How do you feel about countries and banks starting to back the digital you want? So Here's the thing and this was a pretty good point um This was made by london London real or london real By the the host rose And he talked about he was talking to kitko news Brian rose and he's talking to kitko news and he said and he asked him the same exact question And what he said was he said I had jean carlo on my show jean carlo crypto dad Former head of the cftc And he sat him down. He said, you know what? We are close to doing a digital dollar The question is do people want a digital dollar and of course right now people are going to say no We don't want that. That's nonsense. But jean carlo said what we're looking for is we have to do a couple of things Because digital you on is really crushing it or kicking our tail right now. So the question is are people going to want Censorship are they going to want tracking or they want to go into want big brother or If we can create a us dollar that is private is in control of the people and we don't track everybody Then I think it could work out. Okay. So people he goes We won't win if we do it just like the digital you want because it's the same thing He goes so people are going to have to choose Do they want censorship and big brother or do they want a digital dollar going this way? And that's even a bigger question as to will they actually get the digital dollar and make a duke make it right So they don't shut it off because of your social score. I don't have the answers because guess what I'm not in those circles so My thought is this if you got other banks back into digital you on I think in the long run that's uh Folly a mistake because china controls that to the nth degree And they can shut things off and they can do whatever they want to it and as far as like surveillance and tracking I mean, we already know that they do a lot of that. So if they do that that means that they become probably the next Global superpower I'll leave it at that All right Yeah, it's a good question. Would you ever do a video showing the difference between good and bad tokenomics? Yeah, sure. That's easy.  Yeah Last one Rob can I add can I add additional a vex to my dan steak before it's maturing august? I don't think so. I could be wrong. I'll check with the guys that Help me with the staking pool But as I understand it you lock up your avalanche in the steak pool We have two steak pools We have ground steak pool and avalanche links in the description So we'll go from there I would just say if it's maturing august just let it go Give what you have and then go from there because even if you could do it It's not going to be because we got what's uh, may june july three months. Yeah, not so much All right, so that's it. So look everybody. Thanks for stopping by do appreciate like today's video Give it a thumbs up and consider subscribe to this every single day try to give you the best information What the most balance? Thanks so much for stopping by appreciate it. I'll see you on the next one. Adios


From VOA Learning English, this is the technology report in special English. China recently said it considered launching a drone strike against a Burmese drug trafficker. Naocam was wanted in the killings of 13 Chinese sailors on the Mekong River in 2011. China's top drug official said the plan was to bomb the drug dealer's mountain hiding place in Northeastern Burma using unmanned aircraft. The official said the drone strike idea was passed over in order to capture Naocam alive. He was seized last April in a joint operation with Laos. That China considered using a drone strike is a sign of its increasing development of unmanned flight technology. It also suggests that China is seriously considering using drone attacks outside of its borders. Peter Dutton is with the United States Naval War College. He says China is moving away from its earlier policy of non-interference in international affairs. He says the country is becoming more active in protecting its interests beyond its borders. The United States has led the world in drone technology for years. It is known to use UAV or unmanned aerial vehicle strikes against foreign targets. In recent years China has greatly improved its UAV technology. It showed off many of its new models at a recent air show in the country. One of the drones has a range of over 3,200 kilometers. China is also modernizing its global navigation system to compete with those of the United States, Russia and Europe. The United States exports unmanned aircraft to only a few of its closest allies. China is now seen as an increasingly reliable lower cost supplier. Several countries have bought or built their own UAVs mostly for surveillance purposes. For VOA Learning English, I'm Laurel Bowman.


All right, what's up internet? So, playing a new game this month, Starship Troopers Extermination. This is the first time actually I'm playing it. I did do the tutorial, but this is the first time I'm actually in a match. So, let's see how it goes. Sup Paul, sup Adrian. Not much going on though, still waiting for the game to start. I had to convince my friends na, let's all buy this, but so far nobody's bought it. So, I guess I need to convince them so that may kalarua ko. Should I try a different server? Estimated time naman 1 minute 30, okay. So, there's like a base, there are base, there's also a base building involved, I did do the tutorial. I'm trying to join Southeast Asia, baka namin kasi walang tao sa Southeast Asia? Oh, there's like a quick play one, okay. Ah no, that is, okay. That is the one. Oh, there should be an easier way to figure out like which servers have people in them. When are we gonna play then? Actually, PPM kita about Friday night. Oh, no, no, join ng game. All right, all right. Asia East, like the Japan. Nag-practice ka na rin pala. I have just done the tutorial. This is my first run through the game. I'm wondering anong yung performance mo considering naka emulate ka lang sa MacBook. Damn, insects. Like this movie, if you didn't, if you didn't, like if you're too young to have seen this movie or you didn't catch it when it came out. Okay, let's just do something basic, no? Yes, Adrian, this is a monitor. Ay, puting. Oh, it's so cramped. Melly, melly, okay. Good to know, good to know. Okay, bye. Let's look professional. In fairness, when it's bugs, medyo nang kakata akota. Parang kasi you think zombies would be worse, but... No, no, them bugs are, no. Let's look professional. Where's my grenade? Is there friendly fire on here? Medyo intense palawan. It's like these insect thingies. Okay, got may ano. B, build, okay. Let's not monkey around. Oh, that's the melly. All right. Do I have grenades? I do not have grenades. Hey, where'd you guys go? Was I supposed to resupply? Correct. Oh, it seems like those guys knew what was going on.  They're everywhere.  Backed myself up into a ridge. Where's my health? Guys? Cracknids. All right. All right. High ground, high ground. Okay. Duh. Oh, we have to build. We have to build something. I can help build.  Hey, hey. No throwing grenades when I'm around. Where's my health? I'll cover you. I'll cover you. Who's covering me? Ah, because they can't go on the rocks. Oh, yeah. I remember the movie. Oh, somebody's shooting me. All the line. Rico's rough next na ba ito? We're supposed to be building stuff, guys. Like, parang kunawari ay nung what I'm doing ay nung. Yeah. Like this stuff. Oh, there, there. A repair.  Good thing I did a tutorial. All right. There we go. Oh, for the federation. Rearm, rearm. All right. Oh, rocket launcher. Do I really want a rocket launcher? That's a good question. Do I, do I want, do I want a rocket launcher? My health seems to be much better than my allies. Stop, Kevin. Star, shiptroopers, extermination. All right. All right. Let's, let's do this. Let's do this. Ha! With prejudice. With prejudice. Kiyin mong palay. Oh, can't, dammit, guys.  Help teammates. Oh, teammate. Oh, okay, okay. Sub-JM. Okay. Kind of getting the hang. Oi. I'm dead. I was doing so well, too. Oh, at least yellow guys, I think, that are mainly going to play. What's our objective here? Don't we need to kill this guy? Where's my rocket launcher? Dumb bugs. All right. Oh, that's smart. Those are the guys. Those are the guys. Take them out. Griniko bug. Then cover me because I know how to build a base. I actually read the manual. I mean, tutorial. Concentrate your fire.  That's smart. Like, you don't need to fiddle around anymore like in Fortnite, figuring out what to do.  It's been a while, J.M., since I played any CNC, and I did used to play it back in the day. Like, way back in the day. Oh, no. Why did my screen just do a window? Wait, wait. We have technical issues. Why is the program named called Yakisoba? Okay, wait. You got some. I don't know what's going on here. Oh, shoot. There are two instances now. No, no. I just want one. In fairness to my computer, build-up-based defenses. I'm playing in a window format now. Why am I playing in a window format? Full screen. Full screen.  Window mode. Full screen. 4K. That doesn't look right. All right, all right. Let's get back to the game. This still doesn't look right. Oh, shoot. Like now it's stretched over all the way the heck over there. D minus 30 seconds. Okay, okay. Wait lang, wait lang. This is the problem when you have dual screens. Okay, there. All right, all right. That's good enough. Good enough. Damn. I didn't even get to rearm, right? Wait, I need to rearm. Where's everybody? Where is everybody? Oh, nice base, guys. I mean, I have to admit, I was just kind of not doing anything. When I was getting the window gameplay sorted out in fairness. Am I hitting anything?  Oh, what happened? Not on my walls. Wow. Ya, thing? Reload, reload. Like, there's a brain bug there. Where is my, like, where do we have a sniper?   I'm outside of the wall. They're gonna break through. Repair, repair. Oh, that's great. They're actually repairing it. Got a leg. Good job, guys. Good job.  All right. Enough with the repair. Let's get back on the fence. Diyong 2-9 of border.  Sorry, sorry. Get a friendly fire on there. Sorry, I can only glance at the chat, but ayah, it's Starship Troopers Extermination where it's the humans that get exterminated? No. Brightly, aren't you? You know, these guns are just as inaccurate as you would think from watching the movie. Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness. Bring them on. So inaccurate. Was I actually just, like, sniped by a bug? Uh-oh, okay. We're good. 16 players.  Oh, I'm outside the wall again. I'm outside the wall again. Yes, please. Get to the dropship.  San, san. Ah. It's kind of cool that respawning is disabled. Get to the dropship. Oh, no. I can see. I can imagine a lot of... Krikey, krikey. I can imagine a lot of people just leaving their bodies behind. It has happened before in our Left 4 Dead games. Get to the ships. Oh, da, but now... I'll cover you. I'll cover you. Yeah, yeah. As Yoda would say, lay down a defensive perimeter around survivors. Where are our teammates? Why are there only two people here? Wow, you built a... Wow, you built a no fast. I like it that respawning is disabled. Grabe ang bilis sila maga perimeter. Parang build no fortifications. Ako nga rin.  Tiga lang, tiga lang. But I can't build anything. Ah, nice. Look at this perimeter. Good job, guys. Wow, there's even like a... Ha. I don't know what the heck that thing is doing, but it looks impressive.  No, no, okay. You want to keep this party going for 49 more seconds? Okay. Ow, ow, ow, ow. Who the heck? Intense. 30, 38 seconds. Thoughts on back for blood. Actually, my friends and I were, you know, playing a good time. We're playing... We're recently... All right. We were recently playing it. And we're still having a good time. I mean, there's a whole developer's controversy na they stopped... They stopped supporting it already and things like that. Oh, you know, we bought it on... We bought it on discount and things like that. I didn't really expect much from it. So, you know, we had fun with the game. Not... I didn't find much to complain about in my experience with back for blood. Get it on discount. You play it a little bit with your friends. I mean, although I'm kind of cynical na... Inisip ko naman talaga palagin na... Okay, what's this? Combat. 167, 242, 1... I was lowest, you know? Why? Oh, but... Oh, I died twice? Oh, but everybody else got promoted?    Oh, that was it? Oh, that wasn't bad. That was down for... What is it? 730? Okay, I'm down for one more. Wait na, let me just go through my settings. Ano ba settings ko? Ay, atuton. Man, I wasn't even at... Okay, let me try to get my resolution fixed first. Okay, that looks good. See, you know of it. Full screen 4K doesn't work. Sorry, it's because this is multi monitor setup that makes everything janky. Let's see if 2K will do it. Okay, at least 2K looks better. Hi na natin, grobby naman. Nakatukey na lang ang tayo. Alright, that was pretty enjoyable. Like... Kind of like... Sorry, it gets really janky when I tab out and tab out and stuff. Sop, Ochi. Do you still recommend Win 10 over 11? Personally, yes, I do. It's just that... Like UJM, I'm more used to Win 10. Ayok na mag-isip masyado panatong bagong UI ni Win 11. So, me personally, and I still do find it more stable. We have a lot of customers in the shop using both of them. Usually ang bumabalik with some kind of stability issue is Win 11. So... Even for stability purposes, I find Win 10 to be better. That said, I mean, 80% of my recommendation is based on the fact that I'm... I don't want to have to think anymore sanay na ako sa Win 10. That said, I did buy a laptop recently and that has Win 11 pre-installed. So I am getting used slowly to Win 11. But yeah, for me, it's like... If you don't have any particular reason to be on Win 10, on Win 11, like, you know, setters, parables, all things being equal, I still recommend Win 10. It's more stable. The UI is usually more familiar to people compared to what you get in Win 11. Labu taro gaya na itong screen na to. You guys are getting all sorts of my... Alright, well, at least that's better. Sablo lalbu. Yeah, I just did one mission. But now I'm waiting. There doesn't seem to be... It should make it easier to find servers at a people in them. Like, the estimated time doesn't really feel, you know, doesn't work out. Although my friend told me that US West is usually fast. I think, like, which UI looks better? 10? Oh, here we go. 10 or 11 depends on who you ask. Like, if people who use 10 a lot, they'll say 10. If people... If the person uses 11 a lot, they usually say 11. So, I mean, I do admit that it's more of a preference rather than, like, an objective. Like, oh, this one's better and things like that. Of course, if you talk to people who use Win 11, they're like, no, no, 11 is better, but, you know, whatever. Is this the same mission? Oh, we got a... We got a talker. How do I... I don't even know how to chat. Oh, because the bastions are the ones with the, ano... with the one that you can put up a fortification. All right. Wow, there's, like, a grenade.  Finally, I'm not getting secure. Okay. Is it there? Is it there? All right. Take him out. Take him out. Can you hit that? Okay. Can you hit 150 meters out? I'm shooting, but I'm not hitting anything. Oh, shoot. Here he comes. Oh, okay, okay. Is there fall damage? I still don't know where my health is. Fire in a hole!  Okay, okay. I might have overextended. I might have overextended. Where are my guys? Right, right. Team game, team game. Okay, let's re... Resupply. Resupply. They got a bug or two. It is nice when, like, you have the whole squad headed in one direction. Para-feeling mo... It does feel like a movie. Friendly fire on. Friendly fire on. Relax, guys. Okay, let's... Let's back up Mayhu. Private Mayhu. Alright, let's go. Let's go, let's go. Sorry. Don't know what I was thinking. Throwing that grenade there. Nice, nice. Oh, don't get into my line of fire. What are we doing? What are we doing?  Parang malatang fall damage. Oh, alright. Are we... Are we repairing stuff? They have a bot named Rico. I know, right? I lost my primary weapon. Kind of marine, are you? You can't have a rifle and a rocket launcher at the same time? Are we supposed to mine? Incoming horde, build-based defenses. Okay, I can build. I can't build anything. Build zone not found. Are you building and I will repair? I can repair. Yeah, yeah. Oh, we're preparing. Well, how about here? Oh, there, there. Okay. Small gate. No, we want a wall. How about a wall? Okay. See, this is where like my... Like, I've never played Fortnite and stuff, so like... All this building plus FPS is very like... younger generation to me. Where's our wall here, guys? Guys?  Who's put that... As far as to put them on the off, keep up with... And see, that's a problem with building games.  Oh, this tense. If any of you guys are of a certain age and you used to play in blue skies na finest hour na starcraft, it's like that except first person. Don't actually play a lot of multiplayer. I'm still amused when people... Go on chat and swear at random strangers online. Yes, it is. Oh!  Someone get me? Oh, my guys pulled back already. Why? Why did you... I had a rocket launcher. Why was nobody backing me up? Respond, respond. At least here, like you don't need to... You don't need to wait for someone to...  Like to find you and stuff. Nice. Is that a rocket launcher? Ha! Love it how they scale the walls. I love it how they... they break down the walls. Okay, 70% more to go. Bit unsuccessful in... in a... in a... building the wall. No, somebody's dying, somebody's dying. Frag out, frag out. You get him? You get it? He's dead? Is he dead?  I don't want to get cut off. Grenade, grenade. I only have one effing grenade. Where are my guys? Stick together. Like literally in any FPS, it's always stick together team. Oh, somebody has a rocket launcher. Oh, no, I'm almost out of ammo. No, where, where... Can I figure out where to reload? Oh, not there. Oh, ow, ow, ow. There, there. That looks like a reloading place. Or dock, no, I don't even... Or dock. Ah, it's not a reloading place. We are living. Like, I have no more ammo. Wow. That is a big bug. Big bug?  No, no. Stick together team, where are you guys? It's like every man for himself over here. What's going on? Oh, the line.  Like, literally no ammo. Okay, I have 18 rounds left in my primary weapon. Okay, I see the drop zone. Okay, let's reload and let's get back in the fight. Jeez, man, come on. Hasil. Okay, 1 minute 30 to dust off. Who is, everybody shooting at. Ow. The humans are like the ones staying behind. And the AI troopers are like, let's go, let's go. I could not agree more. I mean, this is just like, kill padding at this point. And it could get you dead too. Like, what if you get... Oh, okay, galinga. Man, I have to learn how to build. Everybody's so... Jeez, man. Oh, strangers online. Love strangers online. All right. Did I...  I think it was once. Died two. Why is it that I always died twice? Like, I don't remember dying twice. Like, there was at one time. Oh, but we were the best squad, though. Most of them play basic medic. Basic... All right. Yeah, it was pretty good. I do have to go to dinner now. Yeah, that was my first time playing the game. Except for the tutorial. I do have to brush up on my building skills. That seemed a bit intense. When I tried to build a wall, I built a small gate. I think... What is that? Oh, but I'm like 25 points away from ranking up. All right. Yeah. Yeah, I did convince some friends to get this. Hopefully we can play soon. It does look like a promising game. Content for this week. Well, probably try to get more gaming streams in. We do owe the sponsor four of these per month. This is the first. Definitely we have a video coming out this Friday about the 4060. Don't miss that. I think that's a very interesting take on the 4060. Price watch maybe will come out Sunday if I get around to it. We'll be doing new videos tomorrow. Then it takes about a week or so before we can edit and things like that. So we do have a bunch of stuff coming out. Do check out our review on the Cougar Forza 85 air cooler which is pretty darn good for a single tower cooler. I was really impressed.  It's because I can't find my stand, my usual camera stand. I had to use my tripod.  So I had to push it to the side. That's why now you're getting this angle which probably I'll be doing at least for the foreseeable future until I find my stupid camera stick again. Although I don't I think the angle is not too bad. At least it's a bit different from the usual kind of like full frontal like my face and you don't really need to see my face kind of thing. A bit on deep cool coolers again. They were actually supposed to send us one of the new ones but then they ran out of supply. But for sure like we have a good working relationship with deep cool. They like sending us stuff and to be honest we like reviewing their stuff because usually it's pretty good. So we're not placing that awkward situation of well you know it's not really very good but they send it to us and you know we gotta be honest and report to na no. So I like doing stuff for deep cool because usually we avoid stuff like that.  Their coolers have always been top notch especially for the price and breaking some barriers with their digital series. So with that have a good dinner have a good week. We're still sort of entering the mid part of the week but it'll be Friday again soon hopefully we can get in more game streams before then. See ya guys.


All righty, good afternoon. My name is Mark McClain. I am a senior developer at Dreamhost. I am also the program technical lead for the OpenStack networking project, Neutron. So I promise if I say quantum, I apologize in advance, it's hard to not say that at times, even after the name change. So a little bit what we're going to talk about is IPv6 in Neutron. The IPv6 story is a little bit of an interesting one in OpenStack, but kind of backing up if you're not familiar with IPv6. You know, the joke is it's always the future, but that's been going on for 20 years. The truth is, is IPv6 is here today. Currently, there are service providers who are actively deploying significant deployments, even from a business to business users, as well as customer users. I've had non-technical friends of mine remark that also they start seeing these funny addresses start showing up on their home router, and they're like, what is this thing? Why is it so long? And why do I get to some websites and can't get to others? So v6 is here, we need to be prepared for it. And when we start talking with v6 in OpenStack, it provides a couple of interesting things. You now get a globally, depending on how you configure it, you can get a globally unique routable address to every VM. You don't have to deal with floating IPs, you don't have to deal with NAT. That in and of itself has a couple of interesting use cases. And also for some of the providers, whether it's businesses or public providers, you're not constrained with the v4 address space. You don't have to do crazy things with NAT. You can go get a block, and you can get tenants full blocks. So when we talk about IPv6 with OpenStack, the initial development focus of OpenStack, if you go all the way back to Nova Network, was v4. A lot of the constructs in OpenStack surround v4, so the routing story, the IP allocation in v4 would go through and take, if you put a slash 24, has 256 addresses, would go create 256 entries in the database. If you put a slash 64 in v6, your database is going to churn a while, creating a bunch of entries. So one of the challenges is how do you design an allocator that works for v6? There's also infrastructure configuration changes. v6, really, you have to split it into two different... when you're working on it, considering you have to consider the management side of the v6, as well as the tenant side. One of the things we're focusing on, and at least in Neutron right now, is getting the tenant side of v6 working appropriately, and then the management side will come. The management, it's a little trickier because some of the underlying web frameworks that we use to build up the API endpoints in OpenStack aren't very v6-friendly right now. There are teams that work cross-project working on trying to make those a lot more friendlier. So in Havana, IPv6 support is one of the things we worked on. We spent some time on it, but like anything, sometimes building community consensus, also getting the appropriate amount of support and code merged, it's really difficult to do because six months is a very short timeframe. So some of the things we're going to be talking about are in Havana today. Some of the things are a little bit... are items that we're still working on because unfortunately, when the feature freeze came, we could only get so much done. In terms of IPv6, Internet data v6 works today. If you're using a stock deployment of OpenStack with distros, you can do v6 VM to VM on private networking. Fine, if you're using provider networks, you can use v6, but you have to configure the provider route or upstream. Security groups work with v6 if you're using the Neutron CLI tools to manage those security groups. Horizon will do it properly. Nova proxies are a little bit weird and some people will hit or miss. We made a few changes internally. And then subnets, the v6 in terms of subnets is you can create a v6 cider, you can create gateways, you can create all the resources that you would normally expect to find in a Neutron. Yes? Metadata with v6 is a completely unanswered question because when you consider metadata in a pure v6 network, most of what OpenStack does is recreates the Amazon models. So 192, I was not in 192, 169254, 169254, one of the things we have to come out of consensus is how does cloud and network in a v6 network? Do we take a well-known address? Do we use some kind of discovery mechanism to discover v6 metadata? Most of the metadata services now, if you want that, you have to run a dual-stack network or you have to use something such as convig drive or injection to get the metadata injected into the instance. There's still a few gaps. One of the problems today, if you look at it, is host configuration. DHCP v6 in Havana, most, it does not work. It's one of the gaps that we ran into. Also, if you're interested in doing RA or router advertisements, that also, there's no ability to configure that currently. RA is kind of important because some of the default images that you will get from some of the distributions do not properly implement DHCP v6. And so you have to use a combination of RA or some folks have built images that require both RA and DHCP v6 for providing additional options. And so really, you can think of sometimes you do both, sometimes you do one or the other. It all depends on what you're interested in your deployment. Another one of the gaps is we talked about having publicly routable addresses. The Neutron component right there, there's no way for the provider to say, I have, say, a slash 40 that I'd now want to carve up and pass out to each of my tenants. So if you're using RA, one convenient way of doing configing a host is to use stateless autoconfig and to give each tenant a slash 64. So one of the things the Neutron team's trying to figure out is how do we carve up a provider block? How do we automatically distribute that? Because whether it's a public cloud or a private cloud, as a deployer, you want to be able to lock that in and not have a self-service model for some folks to provide their own. In other circumstances, you may want to provide a self-service model where you can allow application developers in-house to use a previously assigned address and provide it themselves. Another one of the gaps is the current L3 agent doesn't properly route v6 traffic. It handles v4, but doesn't actually set up any IP tables or rules properly. So like I said, there's some gaps to kind of give you a little bit of hope. And v6, looking ahead to Icehouse, the team, one of the things we've created is a standing IPv6 team. That team is focused on a number of things, including closing functionality gaps of IP address management. When it comes to v6, folks want to have the ability to choose whether or not to using stateless autoconfig or whether or not to using a sequential allocation method or using even an external device to handle the allocation of the ciders for a particular subnet or even host addresses, as well as host configuration in RA. Fortunately for us, we can leverage DNSKMask, which is the current back-end in the open-source implementation because it provides both RA and DACP v6. One of the issues as a community is that's going to require us to bump the minimum version, which some of the distros do not ship. A v6 compliant version of DNSKMask. And the last thing is improving routing. Like I said, the v4 routing is in the network node is set up properly, but what we need to do in v6 is set it up to allow traffic to flow both in and out. That also creates a couple other issues when we talk about whether or not traffic should a tenant hypervisor should all traffic be allowed in or should tenants have to... Do we need to pair that with the firewall service so that you can selectively enable which traffic enters the tenant network? So those kind of talk a little bit about challenges of what we're facing in terms of how we're going to solve... We're looking ahead to Icehouse. What I want to talk a little bit about is Dream Compute and how we address and provide IPv6 now. So just a little background on Dream Compute. Dream Compute runs the latest Havana release. We were able to install it and have it running using our CI systems within less than 10 days after the final release of Havana. One of the ways we were able to provide v6 to our tenants is we've customized L3 via a neutron plug-in router. We have a customized router appliance and a customized L3 agent. If you... And one of the questions I know a lot of you are thinking is we have three customized pieces of code. Why were they not upstreamed in time in Havana to enable the entire community to take advantage of it? One of the things when doing this is we needed a little bit of time to explore the space, figure out how to solve these issues and also socialize and learn and then have consensus with the community. So when we talk about our neutron plug-in, internally we've called this a conda as the code name. It's code which we've published in our repository. And basically it's a module layer 3 plug-in. It allows you to coexist with standard L2 layer 2 plug-in. In our particular deployment we use in this area is MVP. A little bit older release is our layer 2 provider. And one of the things we've also modified it to is on network creation it auto-creates a v6 subnet. So in terms of a public cloud when you're trying to, our particular use case for our customers, when they sign up for our service we don't want them to have to think about whether or not they're using v6, go configure it and try to explain it to them. What we're trying to do is out of the box provide v6 connectivity to the hypervisor. One of the benefits is for those who understand it they don't have to allocate a floating IP. They can have direct access. What we're also pairing that with is we run our network in a dual stack. So we run both v4 and IPv6 because for the near term if you're providing a web service you need to have both because some clients can only connect with v4. The question was does every VM get a whole subnet? No, every tenet we assign a slash 64 to and we use stateless auto-config. We use stateless auto-config which basically if those aren't familiar with it stateless auto-config takes the MAC address uses a well-known algorithm and takes the first 64 bits of the sider and then basically builds the other 64 bits from the MAC address and now you have your full 128-bit IPv6 address. It provides a guaranteed uniqueness without having to go lock the database and go scan through a number of entries. Also you don't have to worry about using allocation pools so in a v6 deployment where you can have a very wide space you don't have to worry about doing searching through it. It's only unique with MAC addresses unique. Yes, you are correct. And one of the things we do within our deployment is ensure that MAC addresses are unique because that assists with migration and some other things. And then the one last thing our plugin does is we do extend the router attribute the router resource attributes so that mainly what that does is provides a little extra information in terms of on the admin side for interfaces because what we do is we run all of our L3 is via a routing appliance. Our appliance is based on open BSD. We're big fans of the PF firewall. We find it easier to configure so we like BSD, we use it. The instances we run are basically they're very small. They're 256-meg instances that we basically run within the cracks of our deployment. They're easily mobile. It's also interesting because when you do this model you don't have a network node to your failure domain is a lot smaller if you were to lose a hypervisor host. The traffic, you only lose the tenant's router that was associated on that hypervisor. The one nice thing is you can also live migrate those or recreate those. In addition, the routing appliance handles IPv4 DHCP which is standard. It's very similar to how the traditional DHCP agent works. In addition, we also provide floating IP NAT. So it provides DNAT and SNAT. Also, our router appliance handles metadata services local. We run the agent. What it does is it answers locally on the local network and proxies that request out through our management network and up to a metadata service. What that ensures is that the metadata request is still secured. In terms of v6, we use RA. RA plus Slack, I talked a little bit about that earlier. And then we use internally to publish out the IPv6 ciders for each subnet. We use BIRD and BGP internally. Yes, one at OpenBGP, mainly for orchestration of just the configuration. BIRD allows us to do both RA and BGP in the same process in the same config file. It was considered as... And then the last thing is we have an L3 agent which we nicknamed the rug. If any of y'all are big fans of the big Lebowski, the rug is the joke goes. It ties the room together. In our case, the rug is what ties our deployment together. It takes the logical configurations that are in the Neutron database and takes those and then manages a pool of services for the routers. Basically, it's customized L3 agent. It uses the existing L3 APIs. So from the Neutron's perspective, we were able to just take the L3 agent, remove the open source one, drop bars in without really modifying anything. What it does is this agent also is responsible, has multiple workers for creating the instances and manages the pool, calls out to Nova to spawn up the instances, ensures that the instances are running and healthy, and does all the standard management tools, management activities you expect to ensure the instances are alive. And then the one kind of caveat to that is the instances are run within a special tenant. We wanted to do that to ensure that tenants could not stop or start their instances because that causes support headaches. We also didn't want them tampering with the instances. That does provide a little bit of a challenge because cross-tenant plugging in Neutron is kind of a bit of a challenge because Neutron, even our tenant runs as an admin, but what we have to do is we, underneath the hood, we had to create special policy rules that allowed the service tenant to plug in to other networks and use port from another tenant. So it's kind of a quick overview. One of the tricks with doing V6 as far as making these changes is, you know, I could show you a demo, but this is logging into a V6 and, you know, those aren't very exciting. So really it's questions, if anybody has any. Yes? Yeah, most of the current Tempest testing is focused around V4. Like I said earlier, one of the legacies of OpenStack is most of the infrastructure, most of the use cases originally were around V4. So in terms of increasing Tempest testing for functionality, we're going to have to add V6 test cases. We also, you know, then evolved. I mean, most likely we need to add more V6 cases. It's probably not isolated to you. Any questions? And I'll get you next. Yes? So the question is, is can we get away from tunnels by using native addressing everywhere? One of the challenges is that if you want to provide tenant isolation in terms of broadcast traffic or even if you're doing local V6 discovery, you still need the tunnels to isolate, to tenant traffic in a public crowd. Yeah, there are other alternatives depending on what underlying technology you're using for multi-tenancy that don't necessarily involve tunnels. You can restrict and create flow rules, but you're ultimately still creating tunnels eventually. So yes, so the question is, could you use multiple L3 agents and have in... I guess I'm so capable of that. And getting some kind of failover. So internally, one of the things we're experimenting, one of the things is, because we're currently in beta and entering compute, and one of the things we're doing before GA is we're going to provide some high availability. Because we're using BSD, if we're going to be using Carp to do a failover and do state sharing. Right, so the question is, is we assign a slash 64 to every tenant, and then we create a router for them so that when they boot an instance, it's already there. It's one of those... If you talk to people in terms of usability, since we're deploying a public cloud, we want to have the networking just on and ready for our tenants. So we made the decision to go ahead and pre-create some resources at tenant creation time. There's also the option that when tenants are signing up, they can choose not to have auto-creator resources and manage the resources themselves. Did I answer your question properly?  One of the things also, if you take a look at some initiatives in Havana, and we decided not to activate it because the API itself is still experimental, but the Havana team... The neutron team worked in Havana to provide edge firewalling as a service. And so PF enabled us to... We were looking to leverage that to provide an edge firewall. Currently, right now, we're just relying on standard security groups for our deployment. Yes. How we're allowing the tenant to prevent killing the... So from the tenant's perspective, the current operation of the APIs is exactly the same as today. So when a tenant goes through and disassociates their subnet from a router, we remove it. And then the state changes. The rug handles propagating the state change all the way back through to the routing instance. And when the tenant goes through and deletes the router, the same state machine will fire up again, and we go through and delete the router, remove the instance. And so from the tenant's perspective, the logical constructs behave the same, and then the real-world implementation behaves the same as you would expect. Yeah, that was one of the things we kind of spent a lot of time working on is to make sure we ensured. And one of the other things is a lot of you are wondering how do we configure those routers. What we do is we have a special management port which runs on a well-known ULA network that we can use to access the management. We also use PF rules within that to prevent traffic from exiting on the management network. Yes? Sorry, I'm having a hard time hearing you. Sorry, what was that? I'm sorry, I'm having a hard time hearing you. Right. So, oh, RADDB, no. We're using BGP. And then to provide the router... We're using BGP to provide the routes statically from our core all the way into the instance. We're using Bird, not Quagga. So the question is, while working on high availability, what have we done with Nova Scheduler to ensure they don't appear in the same host? We actually have a team working on scheduling and how we place the routers within the pods. One of the exercises as part of our beta is ensuring that we're getting proper placements. So, what we initially want to do is track what's in the stock open stack distribution and also track a little bit with what the ICE house distribution's going to allow. So one of the things we're looking to leverage in the service instance is, for instance, we'll probably add IPsec VPN first and more likely SSL VPN as soon as that interface is finalized and the APIs finalize because for our use case and our typical user, they're going to want the SSL side because of remote warrior. It's a little bit easier. Yeah, it's easier. Any other questions? All right. Thank you all.


Afghan Defense Ministry says 16 Taliban insurgents have been killed by forces bucked by the Air Force in Kandahar province. A video posted on its Facebook showed extracts and fields in the province. The locations nor the date of the footage could be independently verified. The ministry said in a statement in Facebook that six other Taliban were wounded and eight Haidat, three motorcycles and some amount of their weapons and ammunition were destroyed on Sunday. Taliban fighters overrun three provincial capitals, including the strategic north-eastern city of Kunduz on Sunday. According to local officials, the insurgents intensified pressure on the north and threatened further cities.