Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebrakes.com with another 2020 Bowman baseball break sapphire edition This is a pick your team number 11 from jaspyscasebrakes.com member all-card ship We're not gonna do all this on camera. Just save a little time, but our shipping team will take we'll do the significant ones Little bit of break credit giveaway to $250 break credits being given away if you bought the requisite amount of teams details in the description and Here's the official printout for break number 11 right here on the 7th Thanks everyone for getting in appreciated Debra with that double-ass bottom mojo And all five boxes right here Good luck. I can't believe how great the secondary market value is on this. I asked this question earlier I don't think anyone either mentioned it or or new This is last year sapphire still hold value this year I know there's a tops chrome sapphire and then like a bowman sapphire Or a bowman chrome sapphire bowman sapphire whatever they're calling it because I know when these came out last year the secondary market value Was really strong. All right leading off is robber possum for the Oakland A's Aaron Tully with that one and Bobby with junior that goes to the Royals that'll be for Raymond. I like how the glove It's right there with that logo is and there's force with 75 Astros that's gonna go to build it vacuums and cordless and We've got Joey cantile four out of 25 orange Autograph for the friars. It's gonna be for John Samus and the Padres next box Then gee, where do you recommend selling cards? Well, the most common option is eBay But I guess another option Would be joining our Facebook group. You can sell directly to people obviously, you know You don't have the same buyer seller protections as you would on eBay I guess it's more like a Craigslist sale So just you know be cautious there But a lot of people in that group a lot of people buy sell trade and trade in that group in other alternatives comm C and there's some Got a ton of cards Com see you could do a lot of work for you comc.com I think a lot of people also use Instagram it's a popular way of Popular way of Showing off and selling your cards Especially higher and stuff I guess it really just depends on what it is And there's our first Jason the Ming is out of break 11 Some people don't like you some people who like get into oh, yeah, no worries But some some some people don't like using eBay Especially if they're haven't been regular eBay sellers Deborah with the Phillies and so they're like ah, but I ended up with like I got I lucked out and I got a Jason the Ming is But I've got like a one-seller rating and now no one's gonna buy like a thousand dollar card from me or whatever Or three three four hundred in this case, you know Aaron Tully with the Yankees So I think that that kind of turns people off because there's there's a bit of a There's a bit of a grind. You got to sell X amount of stuff, but but if you're gonna be You know collecting a lot there's Thomas Dillard Brewers Deborah, but if you're gonna be collecting a lot it might be worth just like kind of selling Cheaper cards first build up that that score. Oh Brandon saying there's another Fresh five boxes of bone enough Nice go and get it if you're watching live go get it jasky's case race calm That's the one with like the super fracter in it. Nice Louisa Robert That'll be for Scott and the white socks There's the autograph for st. Louis 32 out of 50 Alvaro Sejas For John Samuels and and the Cardinals Jason Dominguez Right there another one For Aaron Tully And the difficult pack Nothing earth-shattering there Although all cards will still ship. I like I feel like even like a at least from last year's prices I feel like last year's Like the Like second tier rookie, maybe the best of the second tier rookies. How have you considered that? I feel like they're their base cards the blue just those blue cards. We're still selling for like five 10 bucks a pop maybe a little bit more in some of the sort of the earlier days, but Closer to release it maybe a little bit more, but or of course especially with this Bowman stuff You can hold on some of these and count on them being All-star rip perennial all-stars would be good fourth box Good luck and behind Glen Allen Hill Jr. Is another hill. This is Adam Hill brewers Deborah and the orange Is We're not actually open Yeah, we're just remodeling right now We have some I think once we reopen we'll probably have some more available. No, we haven't gotten to that Someday we might we're thinking we only just open like earlier this year and then pandemic set everything down Most of our stuff is online Yeah I don't think like Yeah Thanks, man Sorry the Brandon Marquez who walked away with that card. I didn't hear the door. Yeah And he was he was just like he's like just crept in silently And We could turn that back on Usually I hear the door You can hear like it. You can hear it kind of open but yeah He was using some kind of magic and looking for magic. He maybe he was a sorcerer Maybe he didn't even walk through the door. He just appeared in here. We got some red on top behind the Robert tossing The reds are out of 15 in this set So here's Robert possum for the Oakland a's Aaron with the a's and Then it's Joe Adele nice 14 out of 15 Joe Adele That's for Bill and the angels Nice, I like the when the parallels match the team colors and the autograph is gonna be for the Tigers Tariq scuba and that's for Josh Bruce and the Tigers. All right, and there you go Thanks, everybody another nice break in the books. That was pick your team number 11 Let's give away some money. Let's go back to the list right here Let's alphabetize everybody's name. So Aaron got to that's an entry Bill got to that's an entry John For It's two entries Darren with two that's an entry Deborah with two Derek to Yeah, that Adele should be should be worth a lot Especially if we see and play this season Top two get $50 a break credit each after four top two after four fifty bucks each Good luck one two three and four Boom. All right Raymond and Darren. I don't think I called your names out all break So there you go $50 each going your way $50 for Raymond $50 for Darren check your emails check your spam folders All that good stuff. I'm Joe. I'll see you next time for the next break. Bye. Bye


Good morning to you. I hope you had a fantastic weekends Monday the 15th of March brand new week So just going to encapsulate some of the major headlines over the weekend of which it was relatively quiet But we're also going to take a look for the week ahead and this week Of course, we've got the FMC the Bank of England and the BoJ rate decisions There's some US data like retail sales and we've got updates around the vaccine AstraZeneca and also Chinese data overnight that I want to go through so quick look at the charts this morning and We were a little bit positive initially in the overnight session Asia was a little bit mixed if anything a little bit negative overall The S&P 500 future actually did come up to test and retest up in close proximity to the all-time highs of which Of course, we saw the end of last week and they're just looking at this chart on a daily We did see that retest of course Of an area where we would up around mid of February so the 16th So again finding a bit of a barrier here in the spooze at 39.59 here on the daily continuation On the pullback then we've just fallen back toward pivot here going to the European open Any breakthrough their support area good levels seen around 3900 today and today on the S&P in the futures They're encapsulating the first of March high some of the previous areas of resistance and support on that period So any breakdown of price that'd be a key area to keep a look or an eye on WTI crude pretty similar fashion really a little bit positive initially Breaking out of a very short-term range of price activity. You can see here that we traded Through kind of Thursday Friday of last week break out above that we ran up to around 6640 before just fading back That move still up there around 42 cents there in oil There has been some headlines and just just just got to make the point about some further drone attacks from Houthi Yemen militants In the kind of southwest corner of Saudi Arabia targeting Specific airports and so on however, that's not having any real meaningful impact on price In terms of the actual infrastructure of gas and oil in Saudi Arabia very much more situated in the northeast kind of around then close proximity to the Persian Gulf in itself and this in other opposite far corner of the country So still ongoing that activity to be aware of obviously any supply shops and infrastructure would be significant But this isn't one of those Otherwise elsewhere gold pretty flat overall up around three bucks in the FX space the Dixie's a touch stronger up around two tenths of one percent major pairs down But only very moderately the US 10-year yields of course Continue to be quite a focal point in terms of indicators to watch for potential subsequent price activity across other asset classes and This is looking at the 10-year T-note future here and that low that we printed back on the fifth Retested at the end of last week's session that was also tested again in the late Asia pack session So holding for now that will be a key area to watch around 131 23 On the daily chart here, then you can see around that area that's been holding Is technically quite important because any breakdown of this could easily see another point lower before we come back down towards these areas that were in play towards October of 2019 and the retest we had in beginning of 2020 before really the pandemic really started to kick off. So it's lower rectangle here would be quite key Obviously any further break out in yield to the upside Constituting this break down could well then lend its hand to dollar strength equity weakness in that pattern that we've been seeing of late With the markets very sensitive to yield fluctuation for the time being that's pretty much the overall general sentiment this morning. So Tiny bit negative nothing outright. I'd say we can use as I said was pretty quiet overall, but let me get you up speed fully starting off with the Chinese situation In China, we had some data points overnight and that was industrial output came in at 35.1% above expectations of 30 and their retail sales figure came at 33.8 percent above expectations of 32 percent So these numbers are incredibly high, but just remember this is because of base effects from this time last year If you think about industrial output, it collapsed to a three decade low as a comparable figure So hence the reason why those numbers are so strong had a slight relief in the domestic market overnight in in China However, that faded pretty quickly The other thing of course to be very mindful of and not get caught this week is that US clocks have changed So they've gone from EST to EDT daylight savings So that does mean then that the time differential between London and New York is four hours So the typical five for the next two weeks So any major US data, for example, we'll be coming out at 12 30 London time And two o'clock the night's the open at 130 and that will be in play for two weeks So your today's kind of squeezed in a little bit if you're based in the UK mainland Europe So don't get caught blindsided by anything so the FMC on Wednesday will be at 6 p.m. London time Not the usual time of seven Moving on then some of the other headlines to to have a look at quite a lot of press coverage over the weekend to do a vaccine news Now talking about Europe firstly where Italy's northern One of Italy's northern regions said that it would stop using a batch of the astro coronavirus shots after a teacher died following the vaccination on Saturday Island separately of temporarily suspended astros vaccine out of an abundance of caution they said Citing reports in the Legion medicine's agency regarding a cluster of serious blood blood clotting in some recipients Now this is something we were discussing on the Amplify live stream on Friday because some of those headlines were already in circulation and the important thing to note here is that the EMA the kind of main body in Europe have said that there's no indication that the events were caused by the vaccination a View that was echoed by the World Health Organization as well on Friday. So you've got the EMA and the WHO AstraZeneca themselves have also said they found no evidence of increased risk of deep vein thrombosis And in fact actually when you look at the numbers then The number of people who have died from this blood clotting would be no different from what they would see in any other standard vaccine or drugs, so I Would say a lot of this has political connotations There's obviously an underlying tension brewing at the moment between Europe and Britain to do with vaccine Manufacturing and supply particularly of the astro drug, which we were talking about last week Which has gone from a hundred million promise of Delivery to 40 million to not even hitting that target and then the complexity is even further layered by the unresolved issues That still remain around Brexit, which still exists Absolutely, but definitely there's other forces confronting markets for now and so that's very much not too much of a talking point However, it does Underline a lot of the tension in that relationship of presence So I'm not sure how much to read into that. I mean ultimately, I don't think it's a major thing for market prices as far as right now I think the fact that you've got the EMA the WHO and the company coming out with the stats as well I think Put some more of a political twist to those headlines more than anything one thing to bear in mind as I've said last week this is the kind of vaccine Distributions that we're seeing in Europe and as we know AstraZeneca is the the blue color does make up just one of a basket of different Vaccines that Europe has gone after to be deployed over the course of the next 18 months or so At the moment obviously Astrid would play a strategic part. You can see that deliveries Were supposed to be kicking in from really now and then ramping up to then stay constant from Q3 onwards of this year Through to Q2 of 2022 But as you can see here Pfizer by Ntech makes up the largest proportion Which is to come Gray color here and then they're spread across the others but noting, you know Companies like Jane Jay still yet to come to market and they've obviously faced a lot of different Barriers whether through manufacturing So forth then they don't really kick in until at this point. What is an estimated Q2? However, you know, it could even take longer, of course and and Sunofi and GSK's drugs also being delayed and you can see here That's not going to be kicking in till Q1 of 2022 So yeah bit of context there The other thing from a news perspective just before we get into the calendar for the week ahead is Germany Exit polls have pointed to defeats for Merkel's center right party in two state elections Which took place on Sunday batten-vertenberg and fine land Palatinate It's a litmus test for the federal Elections which are taking place in September in Germany and the green party performed particularly well Which does leave the prospect then potentially of an alliance between the conservatives and greens as quite a likely outcome of those September Federal elections or the greens could instead lead a coalition that includes the SPD the FDP or even the far-left and D linker party So definitely the popularity for Merkel as she kind of departs Continues the pattern we've seen for a number of years now, which is diminishing for the CDU Again for European politics as it kind of says here the CDU leader Under fire mid anger over virus strategy. This is very much echoed pretty much Globally really if you think about Donald Trump if you think about What's happening in the UK and Boris Johnson and the opposition he's had of thankfully he's been for him. He's been Kind of made it managed to get over the initial Very slow adoption of stringent measures to lock down 12 months ago by a very fast rollout of the vaccine program Which has kind of taken some of the heat off the strategy that the UK government was deploying at the time when when death rates were particularly high But if you look at them Germany or Macron in France with French elections literally about 12 months away in April of 2022 And then you've got Italy where we had complete Political blow-up that's led to now Mario Draghi as a technocrat caretaker kind of government in place So the incumbents have been under pressure here because Ultimately whether they've had successful or not strategies generally speaking it gives opposition parties a Real main key focal point to focus on where tangible risk of loss of life then is a very emotive Subject matter to talk about so yeah, it's just if anything accelerated the decline of the popularity of the CDU Party but we have been seeing similar for the likes of the leading parties in as I say France Italy and so on and so forth So it's a the aftermath of such a Humanitarian the economic consequence of them does tend to live lead to significant political change you could say from a historical precedence Looking at the week ahead then a few things I want to talk about Starting off with today is pretty quiet, but then Tuesday things start to pick up a little bit That's then you do get the Germans at EW figures coming out And then you get the US retail sales report now the US retail sales report last month You remember came in at 5.3 percent was the best number we've had since basically kind of June May June of 2020 when we reopened the US economy after the Main lockdown on the initial onset of the pandemic. We had those phenomenal numbers So that number was particularly strong 5.3 percent was above 1.1 at the time But do keep in mind that was chiefly supported because of the stimulus checks that were kicking in that time round I think it was Electronics and appliances really underpinned them the spending that lifted that figure Piers and I talked about this a little bit in the market watch podcast on Friday if you haven't checked that out yet But this figure this retails for sales figure coming out on Tuesday And should actually in addition and alongside the industrial production numbers that we'll see later on the week Should actually be a little bit softer than what we saw in that previous reading The retail sales figure artificially buoyed then by a stimulus check this one should fade The stimmy checks the new ones the 1400 bucks have hit this weekend So they'll show up in the following month's data So I don't actually think the retail sales number is that bigger deal in honesty That being that a lower number is only going to be followed by a pretty explosive number the next time round given that this Stimulus check being issued this time round by the latest 1.9 trillion Biden package is even bigger than the previous check So it's hard to then see through the noise that ultimately is supported by these kind of one-time effects of those stimulus checks Couple things here then the ING were noting as well to be aware of that They said that February winter storms would have deterred people from venturing out and With many left without power that will add to downside risks in terms of both of those figures retail sales Sales and IP dust or activity could also be impacted dead by bad weather and associated disruptions So remember we had to cold freeze of course over that period Okay, next thing then is you got the bank decisions FMC Bank of England BoJ so big three following on from the ECB last week and Overall, I would say you're probably going to get something fairly similar to what we have from the ECB in the sake of the market still very hungry for any type of more explicit nature referring to the the yield movement We've had of late, but I'd say all three will push back against or I should say not push back But say nothing really Directly on it and so therefore does have to propensity to disappoint some if yields continue to move higher over the course of the next Two or three days into the meetings in themselves So I actually think overall it's the old movement and its positioning going into the meeting That will subsequently then lead to a potential reaction Given the fact that the Fed will probably just roll out the continuation of what what power said before remember back in the Wall Street Journal speech he gave on the 4th of March He said it'll take a substantial time to achieve the Fed's goals of full employment and 2% sustained Inflation so such that not expecting much in the way of real policy change nothing at all really And very small if nothing at all in language It's more about them. How does the markets perceive that based on the the markets positioning at that point in time? So the next couple of days will be quite key a few things to be aware of though Economist survey by Bloomberg see a two quarter point hikes happening in 2023 But they also expect the feds own forecast released at the same time as the policy statement on wednesday Will show the median fed official projecting rates staying on hold near zero throughout that year Remember the fed see rates basically on their dot-plot projections, which we are getting an update of Remember every calendar quarter march june sep deck So there will be probably little alteration it know of none in rates is what the general consensus is Irrespective of the fact that economists actually see and a little bit more hawkish that they will Conduct two rate hikes of 25 basis points in 2023 I think the fed forecast though will continue to remain underpinned that rates will remain low through that year I at zero The committee making its first quarterly economic forecast of the year are anticipating to raise their estimates for 2021 growth Obviously we've got the stimulus package now coming through and so on and edge up the inflation call That was the view of 41 economists who were Surveied on on the 5th to the 10th of march in terms of that survey Some interesting stats here 66 percent expect no change in guidance or conditions with only 22 percent expecting a highlight on financial conditions so Talking about what's been going on the markets. I think that's i'm on the camp with the other 80 odd percent thinking He's not going to comment directly on that And then 12 percent are looking for strengthened forward guidance Which would be the next step of really counteracted. It's your move I definitely don't think that that's going to happen But again 12 percent of those economists are expecting that as potential reaction For the bank of england very very dull Not expecting much here at all really Just a lot of people will be looking of course about any yield commentary There's a little bit to read into that from comments from bailey last week But I think of the three this is probably the least interesting And then you've got the boj happening on Thursday night going into Friday morning And perhaps this actually is is interesting because the boj are going to present the review of their policy tools on Friday And this has sparked a bit of interest because there's a few different things here That they could do and this was an article I've shared it. I'll share it in the community on amphi live I did also tweet it from the amphi live twitter account And it's a really good one because it runs through some of these in terms of probability and what it is So here tweak of guidance on their etf purchases Find tuning operation of your curve control Modifying their tiered reserve system So I'm not going to go to all of these nows, but this is a really short You know, obviously it's just a short few paragraphs for each individual one But definitely worth a read there's a widening tolerance basically around The band of zero percent on the 10 year rate target at the boj Is possible so widening of that tolerance, but governor corroda has spoken against it and thus Quite a few banks said they're not expecting any changes for now at least But these are the different things we'll be looking out for and we'll talk more about as we get into the latter half of this week So that that is it for for the rundown Sam's going to go over all the charts my technical perspective in the discord room So do check that out and amplify live.com. Otherwise, I'm going to wish you guys a great day ahead and take care. Thanks very much


Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Brennan McGuire. I'm the Chief Council here at City Hall. Thank you all for joining us today on what is a very, very special occasion. As we swear in the Commissioner of Oath and our City's Chief Administrative Law Judge. I'm going to say a couple of remarks. I never like to speak before the Mayor because you always look terrible by comparison, so I'm not even going to try. I was going to try to come up with a joke about Oath. It's a tough agency. It's a tough agency to joke about. And you just got to be careful because there's a lot of judges over there. But I will say that as we were coming in to the new administration during the period of transition and thinking about who to find to lead this incredibly important agency, it was clear that we really needed someone with special talents because Oath is an agency that is so vast in scope that I think it is, it's one that I think most New Yorkers don't actually fully comprehend how much they actually do. And so I went back and looked it and got a couple numbers to communicate, to help communicate, to paint this picture of how much Oath actually does for the city and for New Yorkers every day who receive summons and other contacts from city agencies. And I found the following three numbers, which I thought were kind of jaw-dropping and I thought I'd share them with you to give you a sense of the scope of the responsibility that Awesome is going to face. And this is pre-pandemic because I wanted to be giving the pandemic numbers to me deserve an asterisk. Pre-pandemic, the total number of summons processed at Oath in a single year, 663,327. The total number of hearings conducted by the hearings division at Oath, 340,563. And then with that number in mind, the average number of days from the hearing to when a decision is entered for those parties who appear before Oath, 5.9 days. That's about getting stuff done. And that's what this administration is about. And so what we knew we needed is someone who was going to run to challenges, someone who was not going to shrink from this incredible responsibility, and someone who would treat all New Yorkers with the fairness and respect that they deserve. And that's why this was not a difficult decision for us, for all of you who know Awesome. And so I'm going to let the mayor speak in a bit more detail about him. But just for me personally, I couldn't be happier to be here today. And I'm incredibly proud to have awesome joined us as a teammate in this administration. But without further ado, I will give you our 110th mayor, Eric Adams. Brendan said it right as we look around this room, the people sitting in the chairs. While you're sitting here in the room, look at the look around in this room also the pictures on the wall. See the difference between the people who are sitting in the room and the pictures on this wall. And then you walk through government. And historically, the pictures in government and decision making position, they look like the pictures on this wall. And they don't look like the people in this room. And so the journey for this administration was to start to ensure that the people that will be on the walls of the future, they are going to reflect the people who they were supposed to serve. And it's an uphill battle. It's an uphill battle. Because right away people state that we don't have qualified people to fit the mold. And the qualification far too often is used based on ethnicity. But I told my team, you're going to dig deeper. You're going to go outside to a span of who you play golf with, the people you hang out at dinner's parties with. You're going to go far beyond just English. You're going to be able to walk in the room and say, Asalaamu alaykum, hijab, wearing sisters. You're going to be able to say bonas noches. You're going to be able to say all the different languages should be communicated. And that is our goal. And I'm just so pleased that when I sit down with my chief counsel, Brendan, who always come up with the qualified people of different ethnicities in the city and understand this is our mission. We can't govern a city as diverse as this. If the leadership of the city is not as diverse as who we are governing. And then when you find a match and you become intentional and state this is our mission, we're going to find the best, then you're able to come up with someone like Asalaamu alaykum. You're able to see right before our eyes in plain view, we had these qualities. But you have to take the binders, the blinders off. And we have said this so much in this administration. The first time ever, the first time ever, the first time ever, first time ever. Send it into the Department of Correction with Lewis Molina. We said it with the five women we appointed to be deputy mayors, one of them is the first Filipino American to actually hold that position. We're sending over and over and over again. Because when I went to your community, I was clear that I did not want you just to vote for me. I wanted you to govern with me. I wanted you to be my partner. And we set this to communities over and over again. And we are only six months in. I know people think we're six years in, but we only six months in. And we are making so many changes. And many of those things we are doing is not being noticed because we're fighting against the perversive guns that all over our country. But once we get crime under control that we are, people are going to start noticing that in six months we have done so much to change the lives of everyday people. And this is one of them. And so when you look at the fact that we needed someone that was going to ensure fairness, to be heard, those of us who walk into government to buildings, oftentimes we're used to it. All of us. We don't feel any late level of anxiety because we're used to accessing government. But think about those people where English is a second language. Think about the storekeeper who received the summits and he has to walk in. Think about someone that comes from one of the Yemeni's Bodegas.  See, at least they know they're going to be heard. They're going to have an opportunity to present the case and not be judged merely by who they look like or what they sound like. And so our job in city government is to treat people fairly and to ensure that they trust government. There's an erosion of trust in government. People don't trust government because of how government treated them so long. And the key player in that is a person who's that old. Those hundreds of thousands of cases, each one of those cases is representative of an individual. How they walk out is going to determine how people feel about government. Even when I did something wrong, and I know I did it wrong, and I have to pay my fine, at least treat me with dignity and respect. At least say, I hurt you. I'm going to give you an opportunity. That's what people are asking for. People know when they didn't do what they were supposed to do, but they don't want to pay a fine and then be treated with a level of indecency in the process. And that is why we had to pick the right person to be in charge of oath. The Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings is the city's independent administrative law tribunal. Independent. They must make the right decision. When a person has a dispute on a civil summons issued by city agency, they go to oath. When an employee is facing discipline and wants a fair trial, they go to oath. And in a broad range of cases where individuals, businesses, and people, and public servants, when a fair and impartial hearing in a manner involving city government, they go to oath. Oath is the judge's duty of city government. They got to make the decisions, you know, and they have to do it in a fair way. Oath has a 40-year history of professionalism and thoughtful and impartial decision-making. It has kept us focused and is deep-rooted in the culture of independence. And the Chief Administrative Judge, Lord Judge, is a steward of oath. He's a reflection of who we are and what we represent in an impartial, fair, and just and timely decision. You blew me away bringing it with five days. Think about that for a moment. End it out of getting it done in five days, and I'm so pleased of that. And that is why we're happy to appoint Assam Rotman as Commissioner and Chief Administrative Lord Judge of Oath. Assam matches the qualities of the agency he has been selected to lead. He's a man of deep integrity. He's a well-rounded attorney with a stellar professional record, with senior roles at the Lord Department and the Department of Correction. And I'm particularly proud to have selected him as the first Asian-American and Muslim-American to lead this position and this agency. And he is going to be one of the senior leaders of our administration, something that we talked about over and over again. Yes, we know you can be a clerk. We know you can be a personal driver vehicle. We know you can be a bus driver. We know you can do all those other positions. But how about being at some of the senior spots? Because you're an ambassador for your community. You're representative of what this community is and the richness of this community. And our goal is to walk through city government with a hammer and shatter every glass ceiling we see and make sure that no one else has to wait to 2022 before we use the term first again. It's time to make sure that the first can't be the last. And I'm proud to swear you in today, if you will raise your right hand and repeat after me. I say your name. Don't say Mayor. Come on. Do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution of the State of New York and the New York City Charter and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the Chief Administrative Law Judge of the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings. According to the best of my abilities, I now present you to you the Chief Administrative Law Judge, Assam Rotman. Thank you. Thank you very much, Mr. Mayor. Brendan, before I start, I have to do a wardrobe upgrade. Always moms never dads. This looks nice. Mr. Mayor, maybe maybe I have a little swagger too. Well, well, thank you, everyone. And it's wonderful to be here with all of you. Last week, I was telling the staff at oath, my colleagues, that every year around this time, I go back and reread the Declaration of Independence. And I did that on Monday, the 4th of July. And each time I read it every year, different words leap off the page for me. And this year, it was the following, quote, that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. From the consent of the governed. Now, those were different times and those were different people. As the mayor said, you look around the paintings on the walls and you look at the people in this room. And the statement I quoted, it only refers to men. And I don't think the founding fathers ever anticipated a scene quite like this. An African American mayor of the city of New York swearing in a Pakistani American Muslim judge. It's very much a New York scene. But the principle, the people were different, but that principle from the Declaration of Independence, that we, the government, we get our power and we get our legitimacy from the consent of the people, that is an enduring principle. And with all that we're seeing right now in our nation, it could not be more important than it is today that government is of the people, that government is accountable to the people, and that we in government, we hold our positions in trust. And that is why I am so very humbled and so very honored to be entrusted with this position as Chief Administrative Law Judge of the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings. My dedicated colleagues at Oath work tirelessly to ensure that we deliver justice and fairness and we do it with independence. And the numbers that Brendan talked about, I'm happy to lead the agency but it's the staff. It's all of the employees working together, working hard to achieve those numbers. And we want to ensure, as both the mayor and Brendan said, that when people come before us, that they leave feeling that they were heard, no matter what the ultimate result. Because the experience that New Yorkers have with Oath will impact their view of government and it'll impact their trust in government. So as Chief Administrative Law Judge, I pledge to protect and honor that trust, to do all that I can to further Oath's mission of providing individuals with fair and impartial hearings and timely decisions, and to make sure that we are accessible to everyone. And in our great city of immigrants, accessible to everyone means everyone. It means making our hearings process accessible in every borough to people no matter where they are from or whatever language they speak. I am tremendously grateful for this opportunity. I would not be here but for the grace of the Almighty. And for that I say, Alhamdulillah, praise be to God. I would also not be here but for my family, my daughter Asha, who wanted me to specifically say her name, my wife, Brenda, and my parents, Khaled and Sabiha. Now, you know, when I was in a fairly comfortable private sector job and this incredible opportunity came along to join city government and do police oversight, I really expected my parents to provide the very typical Desi South Asian response. Beta, why? Why beta? You have a comfortable job. You're doing well. You're making a good salary. Keep that job and just do this work as a volunteer. But not my parents. Without hesitation, they said, do it. Take this job. It's important. Serve your city. And then again, my start as an employee of the greatest city on earth. So thanks, mom and dad. And thanks to all my family and friends and colleagues who are here and who are not here who have supported me along the way. And most recently, my new colleagues here at City Hall and at Oath. And of course, Mayor Eric Adams, you've built an incredible team that reflects the talent, the drive and the diversity of all New Yorkers. Thank you for putting your trust in me. I will do my best to make my city proud. Thank you.


Nine bucks is a piece. Nine bucks is a piece. Can you go ahead and break out of that? Alright, that first relay, that first relay! Deliberate load. Right side good. When you get back, again, take your time. And from there, you should use the male reticle to make the proper correction. Hey, Jones. Yeah? If they're not on paper, can we have them switch to the middle target? Now we can see the impacts left or right. Six rounds. Shooters, stand by.


so petty, man. All right, now it's at 301. Appreciate y'all, man. What's up, Ron? What's going on, man? So petty. Took away the like. They said, give me that like back, man. It's all good, man. It's all good, man. But yeah, gave me some most of the time of the month where I watched the Titans game in Crying Misery. Oh, you do that every month? Oh, no, don't do that. Appreciate y'all forgetting it to three. Oh, we had it at 305 likes. I guess somebody was like, oh, forget Miami. 305, I'm not doing that. And they took the like back. Okay, now it's 306. So they went from 305 to 304 because somebody took it back. Then it went to 306. Y'all playing that, man. I appreciate it, though, man. Crazy, man. Now 304, oh, here y'all go again. Taking away likes back and forth, man. What were we doing, man? Gosh. Anyway, Derek Mason was our best receiver. He was the best Ravens receiver so far. Yeah, he was. Derek Mason was. Hopefully Hollywood could break that. It has grown a little bit, Liz, Liz. It has. It has. I am grateful for, I mean, it ain't come far. It ain't like it's some huge shame or anything like that. But I am grateful for the growth that it has had me. So yeah, it's been cool, man. It's been an experience, man. It's been an experience. So it's cool, man. Would a player take a COVID deal instead of already knowing they are getting cut? I've seen a lot of people saying they think people are doing that. And it's a possibility.  But I thought Quincy at a Boy Joe, oh, if you got to say his name, appreciate it. Oh, I mean, why I'm saying appreciate it. I meant to say, excuse me. I think Quincy at a Boy Joe had a lot of potential when he was with us. He just never got anything. Did you get your check yet? Or are you talking about like a verified check? If so, no. COVID money is a loan on her. Yeah, if you're high risk, then I don't believe you have to pay it back.  But if you're not high risk, then you have to pay it back the following year. So you got to get the money back. Like it's just like getting in advance. It's like getting a payday loan. You get that and you got to pay it back. But with payday loans, you got to pay it back with interest. I don't think you got to put interest on this, but who knows? But you got to pay it back. No gravy games with Big Ben being out that year. What year are we talking about now, man? Hey, appreciate it, Clemente. Thank you for even coming through. Especially, what is it? Oh, it's 1251. Yeah, so maybe at one o'clock we get off then. I did not know this thing was gonna go for this long. We just came on here. Oh, this year. We just came on here just to celebrate a little bit. And just vibe, man. It's a quadri-ish, man, it's a speed demon. What do you think Lamar going to fall on it? Oh, it's already done. That came out tonight. Oh, you really been at work. You're all used to it. At least now we know you a very good worker. You a very hard worker. Because you were at work and you were focused.   I am focused. Cause that came out about four hours ago. So yeah, he's number one. Nobody didn't tell you, you must not have had Ravens fans at your job.   And cheese fans are like, hey, no, hey, Lamar got it? Okay, don't tell Liz, don't let her know, man. Yeah, they're probably heated, man. What's up, Devin? What's going on, man? We can play Madden one day. I know sometimes when I get on Madden though, I just, when I play my franchise, I don't be, oh, it is cheese fans there? Okay, there you go. That's probably why they didn't tell you. They probably know you were Ravens fan. They were like, nah, we ain't telling her nothing, man. Sometimes when I get on Madden though, and I just play my franchise, I don't be looking at nothing, man. But if you do want to play, yeah, just send me a message on like Twitter or Instagram or something. We'll set it up, man. We'll play one day. So they weren't mad about my homes. Graham was clutched, good luck. Oh, he's my Kory Graham. Look at all the dislikes Lamar got on his number one video. It's all good, man. Oh, Liz, I was tired of playing you, man. You was stressful. Stressful, even though I was up 2-1. Whoa, was that Madden 19 or Madden 18? I feel like that was so long ago. Was that, was that Madden 18 or 19? No, I had to be 19, right? I don't know. Hey, how's, I've been wondering that same thing. Cause I actually saw somebody that looked like him on a YouTube live stream today. It wasn't him though. But I don't know. I don't know, man. I don't know where he been at. I hope everything okay with him. Don't you like know, I know, cause I know you know him personally and stuff, but if you could, if you could reach out to his family or somebody or something, man. Just check on to make sure everything good, man. Oh, LVCI, oh, I thought you didn't know him personally. My fault. LVCI, I appreciate it, but I don't even know if it's gonna be fans allowed there. So we had to see. Oh, okay. Oh, okay. I ain't know that. I thought you knew him personally. My fault, my fault. But yeah, man, I hope everything good with him. Cause he just like disappeared. As soon as all this stuff started happening with the quarantine and all that, he disappeared, man. Oh, and group me? Cause yeah, certain. I don't even think his Instagram is like on anymore, man. I don't even remember what your group chat he was in. I think it's this one. Yeah, okay. It's this one. All right, Mikey, appreciate it, man. Oh yeah, that was Chickas' job was to troll, man. Oh yeah, they go to Instagram right there, but ain't nothing going on with it, man. Oh, he even stopped following people. I don't know what happened with it, man. I don't know. Oh, he need to go watch the NFL top. Yeah, you catch up on that. Cause that, hmm, wow. Yeah, he got to, man. Titans heavily disrespected on the top 100. Hmm, who are we talking about? Oh, we were talking about somebody that we, Raven's fan. He had made some videos too, but he is a big troll on Twitter, but I don't know what happened to him, man. Like he was asking them all about my home's contract, like they're trying to set him up. Yeah, they have been asking about it every interview, but it's all good. He been handling it well, so. But I think they're asking them too, cause he's one of the quarterbacks that's next in line. Yeah, all the Xbox stuff, it's just all still the same, yeah. Paula is about, oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll be seeing him on there. Now he is happy playing it now, but he gets upset when people crash his car, when they crash and mess him up on that track. I've been meaning to ask him what he got, like what kind of setup he got, man. But Paula, he been cooling it now, man. He been focused on NASCAR and racing and stuff, man. But he was hating on hardball. Yeah, he just, he ain't feeling hardball, man. He ain't feeling hardball. They're definitely not the best of friends. Real racing sims cost a good bit. Oh, I'm sure he got plenty of money left over, but. Yeah, he been into that heavy. And yeah, I do want to ask him, what does he have? I know I can't buy one, whatever that is. But they be seeming like, because I see the whole car, like the whole seat set up in and like, but yeah, it's clean, man. You say he need to stay on that NASCAR? Paula chilling, man. Titans will make the league look like fools for only having two Titans on the top 100. Hey, you never know, man. Titans might get heated and be like, hey, y'all tried us, man. Anything Ravens related, Paula would give hate. Yeah, Paula ain't, not recently. Paula ain't been on no Ravens, anything. He ain't been on no Ravens, anything recently. He just been NASCAR, NASCAR, NASCAR. My sleeper team, Bills, Dolphins, Falcons, Cardinals, so yeah, those guys. Y'all had four more interceptions than any other player last three seasons in the NFL players, not a top 100, man. Maybe Chris, hopefully, he gave the real deal on that story, it's different when you hear the whole story. Yeah, I mean, his stuff lines up and he talked about, I love, he went in depth. Like he talked about the, what game was that?  And the team was like, no, but that's not gonna work, Harbaugh. Well, Harbaugh was like, no, we ain't doing that. And they went out there and they did the hard way and it didn't work and they got blown out. Just a lot of stuff that he was saying, man. But yeah, he definitely is no fan of John Harbaugh at all, sleeper teams, Colts, Steelers, Falcons, Vikings.  And that's the only thing holding them back from getting to the playoffs last year was quarterback play. I don't feel like they're a sleeper team, not to me. Colts, yeah, I love Harbaugh's buds. At times he lets his ego get the best of him, but everybody does at some point in time, to be honest. Yeah, he does sometimes. See the thing, I just wish it would come during the regular season. Like get it out your system in the regular season, playoffs, don't play that no more. It's all good, man. It's all good. I wish I could know what was going on through his head and the coaching staff's head at different moments of the season. He gets stubborn in the biggest moments. I can't argue with you on that, man. I'm sure Bonar Apollo would appreciate that. So anyway, Team Keep It Clean, I really appreciate you all, man. Yeah, I forget that Colts have rivers sometimes too. Thank you all for coming through. This stream was a lot of fun. We've been on here for 172 minutes. Oh, and that is almost three hours. So we haven't done a stream this long in a long time, but I'm glad we did it because we had a lot of fun. So thank you. I appreciate you all for sticking around. Shout out to the ones that have been here from the beginning. Shout out to the ones that might have left and came back, whatever. As long as you're here, you came through for a little bit, came through for a long time. Appreciate y'all. I love y'all. Y'all have provided better content to the school. I'm no better than that, man. But no, I appreciate y'all seriously though, man. Thank you to those that donated. I appreciate that a lot, especially, because y'all didn't have to. Thank you for just hanging around, leaving a like on the video. Subscribe if you're new here. And hopefully tomorrow morning by the time we wake up, we'd be at 28,000 subscribers. That's kind of weird, man. But yeah, man. I appreciate y'all. I love y'all and we out, man.


Kasper reacts to being Google's most searched essay celeb.  Kasper Nyobast has been revealed as the most searched South African on Google. This comes after the popular search engine released the most searched for topics on Google in celebration of its 15th birthday. The rapper took to Twitter responding to the report, saying that people should continue talking about him whether it be good or bad. This is what I was talking about in the interview yesterday. Most searched South African in the past decade, Kasper Nyobast. Keep my name in your mouth please. Whether it's good or bad, just keep talking about me. I'll find a way to cash in and make it lucrative for me," he wrote. Other popular people South Africans are looking up to include Bonang Mathaba, Zodwe Waybantu, and Pearl Thuzzi among others. Kasper has always been vocal about people talking about him on social media. Depending on his mood he either welcomes it or warns tweets that they may catch some hands if they continue trolling. People have seen how easy it is to become popular on social media. Just pick someone who people love and disrespect them enough times to get a reaction from their fans and then boom, you're very popular.  Just watch, he wrote. In a recent interview with YFM, Kasper commented on people constantly using his name for Cloud to either bring attention to themselves or their work. These guys who tweet their songs, hey everybody I've got a new song out, retweet, like, share only to get two likes. Then the next tweet, Kasper is actually trash, I hate the n-i-g-g-a a thousand retweets, he said. Here's a look at the complete list of the top searched South Africans on Google. One Kasper Nyobist. Two Cyril Ramaphosa. Three Julius Malamog. Four Jacob Zuma. Five Bonang Mathaba. Six Zodwewe Bantu. Seven Black Coffee. Eight Vapes Wajimo. Nine Senso Mayewa. Ten Pearl Huzzi.


I've got a really interesting treat for you here today. This is a vinyl record I ordered from eBay. I'm going to be opening it and seeing it for the first time myself just now. This started from a dim childhood memory of mine. I had this vague recollection of hearing a science record in which a narrator talked about the planet Earth and had a conversation with the planet itself, this big booming voice. I had no memory of the title of the record or who made it or any other details at all except this one dim memory of a voice and some retro science art. And oh wow, look at this. I'm pretty sure whatever edition I had in my family didn't have this booklet with it anyway. I didn't know how to search for it. I didn't have a name or anything but I had this vague memory again of that voice and of this art and of this blue color. I didn't know how to start searching so I just went on the eBay children's records category and just started looking at what was there and here it was. This has got to be it. So I'm going to be playing this. I'm going to record it and I'm going to be hearing it for the first time right along with you. Let's see what happens. World is so full of a number of things I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. It seems fitting to begin the story of Mr. World with the words of Robert Louis Stevenson, the famous writer and world traveler. For now you have a world of your own filled with more wonders than you ever dreamed of and watch its countries, islands and oceans fly beneath you miles and miles above the earth. Your rep-logo globe is a miniature model of the earth itself. Because it's round, like the earth, it shows us who all our neighbors are. Look straight down at the North Pole. Isn't that a surprising view of the world? Notice how many great countries form a circle around the pole. See how close we are to northern Europe and Asia. Alaska, our vast 49th state, almost touches the coast of Russia. The Bering Strait between is only 56 miles wide. Pretend you're flying from Chicago to Tokyo over Alaska. We have a habit of saying Japan is in the Far East, but you can see now that Japan is really near west from us. Doesn't your globe give you a new idea of directions? Now look at the United States and Canada, and you'll see that they're almost the same size. On one of the best-known flat maps called a Mercator map, Canada looks twice as large as the United States and Greenland looks larger than South America. Though your globe shows you that Greenland is much smaller than Brazil. Because your globe is round, like the earth, it shows the true sizes and shapes of countries. Listen now to the thrilling sound of the space age. Here's an exciting way to use your globe. Track the path of the astronaut as he orbits the earth in 88 minutes. Use a crayon on the glossy globe's surface. It'll wipe off. Follow the spaceman as he swings into orbit over Bermuda, sails above the Atlantic and over the heart of Africa, zooms across the Indian Ocean and over Australia five miles a second, then speeds above the blue Pacific, home to the United States. And here's something mighty interesting. Even the astronaut is using a globe in his space capsule to pinpoint his position at all times. It's fun to find places you study about or hear about in the news. But there's so much more your globe can tell you about our world. All the lines and symbols on it have a meaning. Look at the lines running east and west around the globe. Then notice the lines that cross them and run from the north to the south pole. They're like streets in your city because they help us find places on earth. We call them lines of latitude and longitude. You may be surprised to know that they were invented by the ancient Greeks over 2,000 years ago. When you read your book, The Story of the Globe, you'll discover all the fascinating uses of these important lines and symbols. Because it's a true likeness, let's imagine that your globe really is the earth. Like all planets, earth is a great traveler. In fact, planet is the Greek word for wanderer. The earth is like a spinning top that never runs down. It spins very fast over 1,000 miles an hour at the equator. And as it spins, it keeps moving around the sun at the amazing speed of 19 miles a second. Mr. Whirl's trip is a long one, 600 million miles. It takes him a little over 365 days to make one journey around the sun. That's how the year got its length. It's hard to realize we're traveling with the earth at such terrific speed. If you were going 80 miles an hour in a train, you'd feel you were traveling very fast because buildings and telegraph poles would flash by as you looked out the window. But we can't feel earth's motion because all things around us are moving at the same speed, even the air we breathe. Maybe you're wondering what keeps Mr. Whirl from bumping into the sun or taking a wrong direction. Well, there are two wonderful laws in the universe that work like a tug of war to keep the earth in orbit. One is called gravity. Throw a ball up into the air and you'll see how gravity pulls it down so you can catch it. No one knows what gravity really is. It's one of the unsolved mysteries of the universe. The sun, the planets, and even the moon have the pulling power of gravity. The bigger a thing is, the greater its pull. Earth moves so fast, it would fly out into space in a straight line if it weren't for the pull of the sun. Earth's speed creates an opposite pull that equals the pull of the sun. This is the other law and it's called centrifugal force. Space scientists call it the G-force. And that's a clue to the way scientists are using these laws now. When a spaceship travels at just the right speed, five miles a second, and high enough above the earth, the inner pull of gravity and the outer pull of centrifugal force become equal and the astronaut stays in orbit around the earth. The spinning earth is always turning a new face toward the sun. This makes time different all over the world. Here's a game you can play to watch a day grow around the earth. Have someone represent the sun by shining a flashlight at your globe while you darken the room. Turn the globe so north and south America are facing your imaginary sun. Now it's daytime in this part of the world while the other half is in darkness. Keep turning your globe slowly from west to east the way the earth really turns. See the sun come to Hawaii, then Asia, Europe, and Africa. In 24 hours the earth has made one full turn the time it takes the sun to complete its round the world visit. Now you see why the clock was invented. Our wonderful old earth is responsible for the way we measure time. Your globe has a special clock that tells you what time it is anywhere in the world. It's the black and white dial over the north pole. If you set the dial at 9 o'clock in the morning in Chicago you'll find it's 3 o'clock in London and it's midnight in Japan. Here's another of earth's mysteries. Your globe tips at an angle just the way the earth is tipped. If the earth were straight up and down the sun would strike all parts of it the same way year around. We'd always have the same season and days and nights would always be the same length. Life might get very dull for some of us if we could never look forward to the joys of winter. Seaspring come with returning birds enjoy the long days of summer or thrill to the glorious colors of autumn. Earth is the only home we've ever known and it seems very big and important to us. Its surface, almost 200 million square miles would hold 65 countries the size of the United States. But do you know the sun is 12,000 times larger than earth and earth isn't the largest planet? Eight other planets revolve around the sun all different sizes and distances away. They're all members of one big family called the solar system with the sun at the head of the family. And scientists tell us that the universe contains thousands and thousands of solar systems. Our closest neighbor, only 240,000 miles away is the moon which circles the earth once about every 28 days. Some day when we travel to other planets the moon will be a good stopping off place. The moon is much smaller than earth and its gravity much weaker. You could jump six times higher on the moon but because the moon is so close we feel its gravity. It works like a magnet pulling the tides in our oceans. Twice a day our oceans rise and fall because of the moon's gravity. Scientists say some of us will learn to live on the moon but it won't be very comfortable. For one thing the moon has no air. The first astronauts will have to walk around in space suits and carry oxygen with them. As more astronauts come they'll build bases filled with air that can always be kept at the same temperature. This is important because the days are two weeks long and temperatures rise higher than 200 degrees. When night comes it also lasts two weeks with the temperature plunging to 200 degrees below zero. And the moon is a lonely place filled with huge deep craters and jagged mountains higher than those on earth with no grass or trees anywhere, not a living thing. So far as anyone knows the earth is the only world with all the right ingredients to support man. Three billion of us in fact along with half a million different kinds of animals and a quarter of a million species of plants. Earth has just the right atmosphere and its distance from the sun 93 million miles gives us just the right temperature and amount of light. Chances are we wouldn't want to trade it for any other planet. Earth speaks in many voices. Listen, there's the gentle sound of ocean surf and here's a familiar sound, a spring rain. Earth has angry voices too when it speaks in hurricanes, volcanoes, earthquakes. But there is one voice that has never been heard before the voice of old Mr. World himself the way he might sound if he could speak to us in our own language. Mr. World, how was this wonderful orderly earth of ours formed in the first place and how long has it been going on? The planet you call home. Scientists believe I'm at least four and a half billion years old but no man yet knows my true age. How did I begin? Many scientists think I was once part of the sun that another star approached too close and the masses which broke off became planet. Others believe I started as a spinning ball of flaming gas. I grew cooler and changed into a boiling, bubbling liquor. Ages went by before I cooled enough to form a crust on my surface but I was still very, very hot inside. Liquid fire burst through my crust breaking it up into rocks that shot high in the air and collided in a boiling mass. It took millions of years before my crust finally became a solid surface. Gradually it grew thicker rising and folding to form mountains hills and valleys.  At last the rain was over. I felt the rays of the sun. Then came the winds and all the forces that gave me weather and climate but sold the secrets of my past. Search then to learn the events that shaped my history. How long will I live? How long will the sun live? I do not know. Only the great creator of the world and universe knows the answer and a million years is as a day in his sight. Well, there you have it. Man, that was a trip, wasn't it? Very enjoyable, lots of fun. After listening to side one there I was starting to think that maybe this wasn't the thing I had in mind but then at the end of side two there they pulled it out and Mr. World himself showed up. Sure enough. Again, I don't believe this is the addition that we had in the house when I was a child. We must have had this single volume addition here which I also ordered. Unfortunately, this one arrived broken. Real shame. Anyway, it was easy enough to order this other addition with the two volume set. This one has a second volume in it. Released, it looks like, in 1962 by a company called Replogl Globes Incorporated and this was evidently intended to accompany an actual globe that could talk. Now, I remember having a globe in the house and I don't recall if it lit up or not. I think it may have had a bulb inside of it. I certainly don't remember it talking and I don't remember it having a world clock inside of it like the record described. Anyway, it was remarkable how current most, if not all of the science in this still is. I have a memory of always being aware of the nature of the solar system and of the planet Earth and it rotating on an axis that's not perfectly straight up and down in comparison to the sun and the tilt of the axis is responsible for the seasons and a year is just over 365 days because that's how long it takes the Earth to go around the sun and the Earth being billions of years old. I grew up in a house where there was plenty of science and plenty of books and this was certainly part of it. I must have listened to this many times although I only have the vaguest memories of the voice and the strangeness of it all. It turned into a real acid trip there at the end with all the sound effects and the voice. One of my favorite things about this set here is on the back here this certificate. By command of Neptunus Rex ruler of the secret domain of the deep to all sailors and land lovers wherever you may be greetings, no yee, blah blah blah you're supposed to date it and put your name on it and it is signed by Davy Jones by Neptunus Rex and is witnessed by Mr. World himself this Neptunus Rex character in the secret domain of the deep that sounds awfully specific was this some sort of pre-existing science club or something that Lowell Thomas ran? If anybody is aware of that if anyone has answers to that question leave messages below and let me know because I'd like to know anyway, the story of Mr. World there it is this was great fun I'm glad I did it it was very much worth the tiny amount of time and money it took to get this again, there were multiple copies of these things on eBay very inexpensive and if you want one for yourself go get it very much worth it see you next time


Buses at Santa Barbara's redistribution station, the Lucky Strike program, starring Jack Benny. Fasten your safety belt, batten down your hatch, and keep out of rain, because here he comes, Jack Benny! Hello again, this is Jack Benny talking, and Don, that was a very unusual introduction. But during the last war, when I was on a ship, it wasn't batten down the hatch. It was batten down the hatch. Batten down the hatch? Yeah, things were so quiet, our admiral was raving rapid. That's the first egg, you hutch it. Anyway, Don, it's wonderful being up here at the Santa Barbara redistribution station, isn't it? God certainly is, Jack. You know what an Army redistribution station is, don't you? Oh, of course, Don, of course. That's where they bring the boys to kind of feel them out to see if they'd like to be civilians again. Now, yesterday, one fella here volunteered to be a civilian, and this morning, he begged to be back in uniform. Found out that a blue-shirt suit picks up everything but girls. Anyway, Don... Now, wait a minute, Jack, you've got the whole thing wrong. A redistribution station is where they send the boys to be reassigned for further duty. Oh, oh, oh.  Anyway, Don... Come in. Mr. Benny? Yeah? The boys station here at Santa Barbara have asked me to present you with this delayed action bomb. Delayed action bomb? Why give it to me? We've delayed it long enough. The funny way for the Army to treat me just because I used to be in the Navy. Oh, they were only kidding, Jack. In fact, you wouldn't have had a room last night if the Army hadn't controlled the Biltmore Hotel here.  Oh, the room was all right, but all night long, a sentry with a rifle over his shoulder kept walking up and down outside my door. They wanted me to pay in advance. Why didn't they say so? Anyway, another thing, now, I don't like the idea of having those soldiers act as bellboys. The first time I ever walked into a hotel registered and was carried up to my room on the end of a bayonet. I felt like a pin cushion and I ain't got much cushion. Believe me, the next time... Okay, fellas, you can laugh and relax because Harris is here with him, Dynamite Cracks. Fine, Dynamite Cracks.  Why didn't you get here at the start of the show? Well, I would have, Jackson, but I was outside talking to a soldier about his post-war plan. His post-war plan? Yeah, so I asked him if she had a friend for me. Ha ha ha! Oh, hell, it's you non-commissioned joy boys. Dynamite Cracks.  And you know... What are you talking about, Jackson? I got pollen. Why, I'm the main attraction at my new nightclub. Oh, yes, fella, meant to ask you. How's that new business venture of yours coming along? Yeah, Phil, how's that joint? Look, Jackson, don't call my nightclub a joint. I got a pretty classy lay out there, you know. We got beautiful oil paintings on the wall. We got grapes on the window and soft lights on the ceiling. What do you got on the floor? It used to be a barber shop. A barber shop? Yes, as a matter of fact, the barber's lease isn't up yet, so we're both operating in the same room. What? Well, I'm clipping them on one end, he's clipping them on the other. That's the most ridiculous thing I ever heard of him.  With your bar towels? Yeah, it's the first time I ever saw a guy stagger home from a shave. Phil, welcome. That's our slogan, Jackson, shaving a hangover two bits. Well, I don't know how you get mixed up with all this. Hello, Jack, how are you fellas? Hello, Mary. Mary, Mary, just stand there. Gee, you look beautiful. No wonder the Fashion Academy voted you the best dress woman in radio. What a lovely outfit you're wearing, what material, what lines, what style. What are those things hanging around your neck? My shoes, my feet hurt. No, well, I don't blame you. Sometimes I feel like doing the same thing, but my shoes never match my suit, you know? What's new, Mary? Oh, not much, Jack. My mother sent you her regards. Oh, did you call her? No, I just got a letter from her. Oh, another letter from your mother, huh? Well, what does your father's top sergeant have to say? It is. My darling daughter, Mary, I would have answered your letter sooner, but Pop and I have been very busy on the farm with our spring planning. We just finished a few days ago and already the field is full of corn. And by the way, how is Jack? I don't get the connection there. Anyway, we are enjoying this beautiful spring weather, and I guess it has affected Papa because yesterday he whistled at a girl. Well, good for Papa. I think he overdid it because we spent the next three hours looking for his teeth. What enthusiasm. Things are sure happening fast these days, and the draft board seems to be in an awful hurry. Last week, your cousin Bobby went down to take his physical, and today he just returned from New Guinea on a furlough. Boy, that is fast, isn't it? And oh, yes, Mary, I have some exciting news for you. Last Thursday, our whole gang went out for a drive, and your sister, Babe, and the boy she's engaged to are riding in the rumble seat. We hit a bump from the rumble seat and snapped shut. My goodness. We worked for hours, and we couldn't get it open. So we called the minister, and he married him through the keyhole. Imagine that, huh? Wasn't Bobby blew rice at him through a straw? Oh, boy, what a family. No other news, all my love, Mama. That's very cute, but what's that P.S., Mary? Oh, Jack, you wouldn't be interested. I would, too. Let me read it. P.S., I read in the papers, Mary, that you won the title of the best dressed woman in radio. How could you possibly do it on what Jack paid you?  Now, where's Larry? I want to talk. Here I am, Mr. Benny. Oh, hello. I can't. It's about time now to do a song. Okay, but before I do, Mr. Benny, I want to give you a little tip. Tip? What is it? You ought to go to Mr. Harris' nightclub. Wow, what fun! Larry, you went to Phil Harris' nightclub? Sure, and boy, it was night dizzy when I left. Dizzy? Phil, you didn't give this kid anything. Don't get excited, Jackson. We just spun him around in the barber chair and sent him home. Oh, go ahead and sing, kid. I'll have to visit that nightclub the next time I meet him. Song by Larry Stevens. And now, fellas... Hey, Jackson, I've been meaning to ask you, what's the thing you've been holding in your hand all this time? This? Oh, nothing. It's just a delayed action bomb. The boys here presented me with it. The boys here gave you a bomb? Yes, they voted Jack the comedian, most likely to go places. Very funny. There's a man out in the hall he wants to see you. His name is Alan. Alan? Jack, I didn't know Fred Allen was in town. Neither did I. He just wants to get in here so he can louse up my program. Look, Jackson, if Fred Allen is outside, why don't you let him in? The boys here would like to see him. Well, I don't blame him. Put those bags under his eyes. He looks like he's wearing a fatigued skin. Look, but go tell that guy out in the hall to get going or I'll punch him in the nose. I wouldn't want to do that. Well, send him in. I'll punch him in the nose myself. Send him in, will you? Okay. You can come in, sir. Okay, Alan, you ask for it, so... Hey, wait a minute. You're not Fred Allen. No, I'm Alan Ladd. Alan Ladd? The guy in pictures that's supposed to be so tough, huh? What do you mean, supposed to be? Go ahead, Jackson. Punch him in the nose like you said you would. No, no, no. He's shorter than I am, you know? Tell that to stop you.  Oh, yeah? Now, wait a minute, tough guy. Who do you think you're talking to, huh? Who do you think you're talking to? Jack Spenny. Gee, everybody knows me. I'm so popular. Just as I thought, Penny.  Oh, yeah? Yeah. Oh, yeah? Yeah. Listening to $10,000 worth of talent. Never mind, Mary, I'll handle him. Oh, Alan, you think you're pretty quick on the trigger, don't you? Yeah. Oh, yeah? Yeah. Hold on to your hats, kids. Here we go again. Wait a minute, Phil. I want to settle this thing right now. Look here, Alan. Nobody's sent for you. You butted in here and started this whole thing. What's the idea of it calling me a coward? Because you're yellow. That's a liver condition. How many are four? You play tough guys in the movies, and this is a comedy program. Oh, yeah? Now cut that out. I'm only kidding. I happen to be in town, so I'd rather drop over and say hello. Oh. Oh, you were kidding, though. Well, that's different. I'm glad. Now, I didn't hit you. Now, ladies and gentlemen, in honor of sketch tonight, I will once again play the part of that famous fearless crime-busting master detective, Captain O'Benney. Phil, you'll be my assistant, Mr. O'Harris, and Mary. Yes, sir. You'll be the wife of the murdered man. To be dead yet? Not yet, but he's at the seven seas getting a little stiff. Now, let's see. Who can be the murderer? Hey, I got an idea. Alan Ladd. Say, Alan, the murderer. I've got a great plan for you. How about it? Oh, nothing to it, Jack. I'm kind of tired. I just finished making a picture of a pair of mine called Solly O'Rourke, soon to be released at all the neighborhood theaters, men in a uniform half-pride. And you can best enjoy this picture by sitting in the balcony smoking a lucky strike cigarette. Done. Let him alone. He's talking about my picture. Oh. And you will rave about this picture by a lucky strike because lucky strike means fine tobacco. Done. So round, so firm, so fully packed. Done. Let him alone. He's talking about my picture. Oh. So free and easy on the draw. Thank you, Don. You're welcome, Alan. Imagine coming here just to plug his picture. Now, let's get back to our sketch. And look, Alan, I'm still willing you to give you the part of the murderer if you can handle it. What do you mean if? Well, the murderer in this sketch has got to be a pretty tough guy. Now, I don't know whether you're the right guy for it. Are you kidding? Let me tell you how tough I am. A couple of days ago, I walked up to Humphrey's Bogart. We have any by the call and said, listen, Bogie, Hollywood ain't big enough for both of us to see. What happened? Well, here I am in Santa Barbara. Well, what's that you've got in your hand? Bogart's tie hit me so fast it didn't have time to let go. Well, don't worry about it. He must have other ties. Anyway, Alan, I'm sure you'll be all right for the part. And we'll do this sketch right after Phil Harris plays. There's a phone. I'll take it. Hello? Hello, Mr. Benny. This is Rochester. I thought you were going to be here at noon. I would have bought for that. What does the matter? Couldn't you start it? No. Rochester, don't tell me you had another accident. Uh-huh. Oh, for heaven's sake. Is my car damaged much? I don't know. What did you hit? Rochester, the first national bank is on Ferdinand. Not anymore. How in the world could you do that? Wait. Did you have a green light? No. Don't tell me the light was red. No, but I'm doing this. Where's my car now? In any particular part you'd like to know about. And after what I paid for it. Oh, yes, yes. I'm sorry. I was so thoughtless. How are you, Rochester? I'm fine. How are you? I'm fine. Now where are you calling from? In a phone booth. What's so surprising about that? How did I get home? Goodbye. Wait by Phil Harris who just opened his eyes. Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time on the air we will present our blood-curdling drama filled with mystery, murder and suspense. Entitled, The Woman in the Window or it's a good thing the Venetian was blind. Don't hunch that one, brother. As our scene opens, I, Captain O'Benney and my assistant officer, O'Harris, are prowling around Santa Barbara in a police car. Quiet night, isn't it, O'Harris? Sure is, Captain. There's not a soul on the street. Yeah, but they've been complaining to the people of this town aren't obeying the new midnight curfew. They're not. Now they're acting just the same as they always did. Still going to bed at nine o'clock. No, we ought to... Here is the bedding from O'Benney. Are your blackjacks getting sluggish? They sound dull. Then why not try our product? If you use a bed-steen blackjack, you're sure to get a head. Well, that's right, Captain. Let's get going. Okay. Hacienda de los Caballero, Don Juan Ranchero, Amigo Cafe. What does that mean? That's Spanish. Forget the rum out of your Coca-Cola, fellas. Here comes the M.P. Come on, let's go. Okay, Mon Capitain. This is the place, Captain. All right, you stand guard here. I'll go inside.  Well, come on in, big boy. It took you so long. That will be cozy. Okay. Be careful, Captain. It may be a trap. If this is... If this is a trap, just call me Boobie. Remling there to kill that for me. Now keep your eyes open for clues. Now, young lady, I've got some questions for you. Good, Chiefie. I've got some answers for you.  What's your name? Just call me Cookie. Hmm. Never find anything like this in Grandma's cookie jar. Now, tell me what happened. Well, my husband was murdered. Something was down, dirty, sneak climb in the window and shot him in the back. Now, wait a minute. How could a man reach such a high window? I gave him a boost. I knew he couldn't do it himself. Now, I can solve this case if I could only find a man who came through the window. You don't have to look any further, copper. Cover your hands. What?  Is this a robbery? No, I just wanted to see if you used jerkin's lotion. What do you do, eh? Well, pull away that gun. Now, I have a lot of fun with this gun. Look, I'll show you. Are you Cookie? Come over here and give me a kiss. Me? You hide me, Cookie.  Okay. Gun for a handsome. Not bad, huh? Hey, like caviar, like Philly Mignon. Philly Mignon, do you think that's something baby I'll show you a real kiss? Here. How was that? One meatball. So, well, listen, sister, I used to be the best. I got it now. You two are partners in this crime. You wanted your husband murdered to get the famous Van Dusen pearls. What's that you're wearing around your neck? My shoes, my feet hurt. Oh, yes, I forgot. Anyway, sister, I'm gonna run you in. Wait a minute, blue eyes. You talk to her like that and I'll punch you right in the nose. Oh, yeah? Yeah. Oh, yeah? Yeah. Oh, yeah? Yeah. Ladies and gentlemen, you are listening to a transcription of an earlier broadcast. And it wasn't good the first time. Cut that out. Come on, you two. I'm taking both of you to jail. Oh, no, you're not. You missed me twice. I was a gun. How do you like that? I ran in the wrong direction. Wait a minute, Captain.  Don't lock me up, please. Give me another chance. I'll never do it again. No, I won't. I'll go straight for now on it. I tell you, I'm not really bad. I am not, eh? Don't hit me. Don't hit me. Put down that red bean blackjack. All right, this performance doesn't win next year's Academy Award. I'm quit.


In this problem we'll investigate a box sliding down a ramp. In previous videos we've shown that we can approximate the gravitational field of the Earth as a constant downwards acceleration. Now we're going to analyze a problem involving gravity on the Earth. A box has been placed on a ramp and is sliding down the ramp. Given that the box has a mass of 150 grams, the ramp is placed at an angle of 30 degrees to the horizontal, and the dynamic coefficient of friction between the box and the ramp is 0.4, then what is the net force acting on the box, and what is the acceleration of the box down the ramp? Firstly, let's start by drawing a diagram of the situation. We know that acceleration is the result of the net force applied to a body, so let's draw all the forces acting on the box, so that we can get the net force and the acceleration acting on the box. Remember that a diagram showing all the forces acting on an object and ignoring all the forces acting everywhere else is known as a free body diagram. These are very useful for solving mechanics problems involving forces. So what forces are acting on the box? There is definitely gravity pulling the box downwards towards the Earth, and there's also the normal force between the box and the ramp. Remember that the normal force describes the resultant force to electromagnetic interactions between atoms, resisting getting pushed together or apart. This resultant force is normal to the surface and is very short-ranged, and is only applied when two bodies are in contact. Finally, there's a friction force between the box and the surface. This force opposes the motion of the box, so it points up the ramp. These three forces are the only forces acting on the box. Let's quantify them so we can solve for the net force. Usually, when faced with these types of problems involving free body diagrams, it's helpful to choose some axes and add the components of the different vectors. In this case, it's easiest to choose our x-axis along the ramp, and our y-axis perpendicular to the ramp. This is a good choice of axes because two of our three forces lie directly along the axes, so we don't have to work out their components. The only vector we need to work out the components for is gravity. Let's break the gravitational force into our perpendicular components, the x-component along the ramp, and the y-component perpendicular to the ramp. You can show with geometry that the x- and y-component of the gravitational force meet at the same angle as the ramp and the ground, which is 30 degrees. Using trigonometry, this means that the x-component is fg times sin theta, and the y-component is fg times cos theta. Now we can look at the net force in the x- and y-directions. This net y-force is equal to the mass times the y-acceleration, but there's no acceleration in the y-direction at all. The box is sliding down the ramp. It's not lifting off away from the ramp or breaking down through the ramp. So the net force in the y-direction must be zero. And so the normal force is equal to the fg cos theta. Let's look at the x-direction now. Since there's no force in the y-direction, the total net force overall is going to be the sum of all the forces in the x-direction. This means that f-net is the x-component of gravity minus the frictional force. Now, the equation for frictional force is the coefficient of friction times the normal force. So we can use the relationship we worked out from the y-direction to write the frictional force as mu times mg cos theta. This means we can write the net force as mg sin theta minus mu mg cos theta. If we plug in the values from our question, we find that this gives us a net force downwards along the ramp of 0.226 Newtons. The friction that we looked at in this video was dynamic friction, which is also known as kinetic or sliding friction. This friction opposes the direction of motion with a force determined by the coefficient of friction and the normal force. This is different from static friction, which applies to a body at rest. Static friction only applies enough force to keep the body from starting to move. When solving problems involving friction, it's useful to identify which type of friction is acting so you know what kind of behavior to expect and you know which equations to use.


This is George Cao, and in this short video, I want to talk with you about the power of recommitting to your goals, especially what I call your process goals, which is the habits you do that help you to keep improving and reaching the results goals that you are aiming for. Okay, so when it comes to trying to install a habit, a good habit in your life, what happens is that life starts to throw you some curveballs and it starts to erode your sense of commitment and your sense of, yes, I can do this and I want to do this. Do you know what I'm talking about? Have you ever backslid on a habit? And I laugh because I know that probably all of us have. I certainly have countless times in my life. And so I want to encourage you to think about creating some kind of a ritual of recommitment to some good habit that you want to create, whether the good habit is to stop doing something and replace it with something good or whether it's to do something that you haven't been doing regularly, like whether it's writing or reading regularly or exercising regularly or filling the blank, something that you know is good for you. It might be it's good for your career or your business. Okay, so what do I mean by a ritual of recommitment? Human beings have, for probably tens of thousands of years, we've used rituals to symbolize something important in our lives, rituals of all kinds.  Or a marriage is a ritual of commitment to somebody else. Or it could be the start of a year, you do some writing of New Year's resolutions, and that's kind of a ritual as well of recommitment. But the problem you'll notice is that we don't recommit often enough. Like some people, they recommit at the beginning of year, right?  And then as January goes on, rolls into February, they lose the motivation, they lose the newness of that recommitment. And we human beings need newness a lot. So why don't you apply novelty to your recommitments? So for example, if there's something that you want to do on a daily basis, so whether it's, you know, reading, reading some important books every day or writing every day or exercising every day or not doing some bad habit every day and replacing it with something good behavior instead, why don't you make a, at least a monthly, if not a weekly, ritual of recommitment? Choose a day of the week. So for example, Sundays are good days for a lot of people to recommit. Some people go to go to church on Sundays and that help. That's a ritual of recommitment to their life of spirituality or their life of virtue. Does that make sense? But I'm talking about something specific here for specific habit of yours. So for example, let's say you want to, you want to stop doing, so for example, right now what I'm going through right now is I'm a little bit addicted to a particular new video game I started playing a couple of weeks ago and I'm trying to stop playing that video game so much and instead replace that moment of wanting to play video game, wanting to stop being bored, right? Or wanting to do something easy like play my video game and instead to sit with that feeling of boredom or that bad feeling of, oh this is hard whatever I'm doing, I want to do something easy, to sit with that feeling a bit and instead do something healthier as a healthier way to recover my energy and my motivation. And I do what I call my energy reboot. I'll link to that in this video notes, in the notes of this video if you're interested in that. But do a ritual recommitment. So for me, for example, what I do is once a week on Sundays, I just in my own room, in my own room what I do is I hold my heart and I say I recommit this week to and actually what I've been doing is recommitting every single day, every morning, but even if it's every Sunday, I recommit and this is what I recommend. You make a conscious effort to recommit to your good habit and you move your body as a sign of that recommitment. So move your body even taking a step forward you know to say I am recommitting in a sober and conscious way recommitting to my habit again. Now some people also find it helpful to have some kind of artifact as a symbol of their recommitment. So if you're going on your walk try to find something from nature like a small stone or a small branch or a leaf and say this is my recommitment this week to doing XYZ on a daily basis. Does that make sense? So ritualize it by making a conscious recommitment. Move your body in some way if that helps you. I think it does help us to kind of take it more seriously. And if you need to find some artifact, some people call it talisman, it's basically a symbol, a physical symbol of your recommitment to your to your habit. So I hope this is helpful. Make at least a weekly recommitment I recommend for something that's daily. If it's a weekly habit make a monthly recommitment. If it's a daily habit sometimes or it's something you want to do multiple times a day like me with not playing my video game right because that's a temptation that happens multiple times a day. I need to make a daily recommitment sometimes multiple times a day I make a recommitment. So make this ritual recommitment new for yourself. Get creative with it and you'll find yourself more easily achieving your goals and improving your life. So until the next video I wish you well and I want to show you my very very good dog buddy who's been very patient the whole video. Buddy say hello. Well there he is. All right be well.