What's the word, y'all? Every single team has played about 25 games in a season. I think that's a good enough sample size to start talking about contenders versus pretenders. Actually, probably not. The Boston Celtics started off their season as a 500 team around this time last season. They went on a finals run. So maybe 25 games is not a good enough sample size. But we gonna do what we gotta do anyway. And just like last season, this is gonna be a hard year to rank contenders versus pretenders because the parody isn't all the time high. We've made videos about parody. You can go back and watch those if you want to. But this could be a season where a team that you didn't really think had the opportunity to win a championship could potentially do it. Because I think this playoff is going to be very matchup heavy. Cause we've had seasons where like, it didn't really matter the matchup for LeBron James and his Hedals or LeBron James for his Cavaliers.  Oh, it didn't matter who the goldest they were is matched up against. They were the superior team, where now you might see a team as the better team, but they don't match up well against that four seat in that second round. So because of that, the four seat might advance like parodies and all time high and matchups will matter at the end of the day. But also remember, I'm just a guy with some opinions in a microphone. You might disagree with everything I say. And that is completely okay. We just, we just chatting at the end of the day. It is basketball. And my personal opinion, the heavy favorite to win a championship based on the first 25 ish games of the season is of course the Boston Celtics. We've made videos about how good the Boston Celtics have been the season. I know some people haven't turned off because they went against the Warriors last week and they got smacked around like it was the NBA finals again. I ain't look at that and say, oh, there we go, they're not ready. Because I was a Chicago Bulls fan in the, in the Heedle days, in the pre-Heedle days, the Bulls will go out there and when the regular season series against the Heat every year and they lose, come play off time. So I'm not looking at that one game against the Warriors and say the Boston Celtics are inferior. No, they, they aren't that nice. They are one of those teams where I talk about matchups, right? This could be a year heavy for matchups. They're a team that has so much line of versatility that they can mask as a different, a different team and a different identity depending on their, their opponent and be successful. Now you look at all the five man lineups they ran the season. A great majority of these teams are a very, very good team. Very, very good team. The only one I'm looking at that has a negative point differential that surprised to me is smart Brogdon, Brown, Tatum and Al Horford in 79 possessions. They've been a negative 24.7, which is crazy. Whether it's great Williams at the five, whether it be Lucourt net getting minutes, whether it be Blake Griffin out, they do it and they do it to a high clip. And they have a thing that we're gonna talk about a little bit later with some of these other teams where they have a guy who looks like he might be top five right now. And when you look historically at NBA champions, you usually need a top five to top 10 player to make it happen. Of course we've had years where teams haven't had that but for majority of championships, especially in recent history, you needed a great. And right now Jason Tatum has been a great player in the league and he might be the MVP. So I'm gonna say they are the heavy favorite. The next team that is slightly beneath the bosses Celtics in my opinion is the Milwaukee Bucks. So far they're 19 and seven on a year. Chris Middleton has just come back and then he sprang his ankle against the Houston Rockets who I want to show love to Houston. I'm watching, I see you five and five in your last 10. They've been playing good basketball. I think they're actually five and four since Thanksgiving with some good wins against good teams. Jalen Green has been playing very well and they did this last year. But last year was more productive because I think they went on a nine game win streak. They win some games, they show you some flashes and they take it all away and say we want a top three pick. So but we watch it, we watch it Houston, I see you. But Chris Middleton came back from this injury and then last night he sprang his ankle. Hopefully that's not something that's gonna keep him out for a significant amount of time. But he came back. He wasn't really scoring the way we thought he would but he added another playmaker to the lineup. Giannis has given you 30 a night on great defense. Brooke Lopez has been really, really good. Potentially defensive player of the year. They have a lot of the things that you want in an NBA champion. You saw them when it changed up a couple of years ago. You can argue that they couldn't have won a championship last season. It's if Chris Middleton didn't go down. So they're a team that hasn't been good but they also are given the benefit of the doubt because we see them do some successful stuff. Now the Western Conference legitimately is the Wild Wild West. Right now you have the New Orleans Pelicans with the best record in the West at 18 and eight, nine and one in their last 10, a seven game win streak. We have the Memphis Grizzlies, 17 and nine, five game win streak. The Denver Nuggets are starting to come around. They're 16 and 10. There's a lot of stuff. And I think more than the Easter Conference, this is where the match is gonna really matter because in my personal opinion, when it comes out East it's gonna be Boston or Milwaukee based on what we see right now. There's some other teams that we will have some conversations about but it feels very heavy wanted those two teams. With those two teams gonna see each other in the conference finals, whoever wins that it's probably gonna win a championship, right? But the Western Conference matchups are gonna matter so very deeply. Now I've been on Twitter. I've been here with people talking, you know, the New Orleans Pelicans having a great story right now. Again, seven game win streak. They're doing it without Brandon Ingram. They did it to a good amount without CJ McCullum. And even though CJ McCullum is back, he's having a bad season about his own standards and they're winning basketball games. But on Twitter, on podcasts, people are looking at them and say, I think it's too early for them. Why? Why? Why do we think it's too early? They're the only team in basketball. They have a top five offensive, top five defense. And I know you can look at like a previous son's team and say, hey, Kenny, they did that last year as well. And then we saw what happened to them. This team, in my opinion, are a matchup nightmare not to the extent that the Boston Celtics that we talked about but to an extent that not a lot of teams in the Western Conference can compete with. Remember, last year, they didn't have Z. And they took the Phoenix sons to six and as Phoenix sons were shaking in their boots, Jose Overado had one of the greatest point guards in history, flustered. Brandon Ingram has one playoff series under his belt. And boy, oh boy did he look elite in it. And again, CJ did not have a good playoff series. I mean, well, he didn't have a good shooting series. He was, he was a, Herb Jones was really good in that series. But now they add Z. And now they add year two of Trey Murphy where he looks, looks better than he did last season. And the thing that, that makes me very confident in the Pelicans ability, not saying that I'm picking them to win the Western Conference, but in their ability to win the Western Conference is the Zion Minutes at five have been good. You cannot have said that in the first couple of years of his playing career. Now they haven't played Z at the five a ton this season because Leary Nans Jr. closes out games occasionally. And he's very good at his job. So you can see him as the five come playoff time down the stretch. But in the minutes, they've put Zion at the five. It's not a lot of them. Again, he's played about 7% of his minutes this season at the five position. They are plus 19 in point differential. The offense is ridiculous and the defense is locking down. And you could not have said that in the previous two seasons. We're like, when, when Zion has played five in his career and these previous seasons, the offense has always been good. We're talking about a team that could do so many different things, but you didn't trust Zion at the five defensively. This season has been different. Points allow per possession per 100 is at a 102, which is ridiculously good. That would be one of the best defenses of basketball. And you look at his previous season, it was a 122, which is bad. There are 20 points difference between this season and his last season at the center position. And that makes me feel like they would be a nightmare. Now with that lineup, they do give up a lot of offense of rebounding, which is not good because I do believe you have to close out possessions in order to be like a super elite level defensive team. But I'm saying in the small sample size of Z at the five, it has been elite. I honestly do believe that they could do it. They could win the West. Again, if they went against the Boston Celtics or the Milwaukee Bucks, I don't know if they're gonna win that series. But I believe that this team has enough versatility, have enough depth, they have enough shot, shot diversity to be good enough to win the Western Conference. And the defense holds, which I'm not seeing nothing in the numbers that say that it couldn't hold as being one of the top 10. I don't know if they'll stay top five, but a top 10 defense with the offense being as good as it is, I don't see how they couldn't, how you couldn't have them in that conversation. They're not heavily reliant on one way to score the ball, like some of those other teams we've seen flame out in the playoffs. Like, I'm gonna talk about the Phoenix Suns right now. I don't see them as a contender this season. And I think a lot of Suns fans could agree right now.  Of course, not candy. But even when they were at the top of the East or the West like a week or so ago, I didn't see what they were doing this season to say, that is something that they can win an NBA championship with. They do have the J crowd of peace. They do have all of their draft capital to potentially increase this roster, make this roster better. But what they've done this season, I don't see them as a contender.  They did not get to the basket. They did not shoot threes. So we saw in the playoffs, that's not a good recipe. And while the Pelicans don't shoot a heavy amount of threes, they have three-point shooters, if you know what I'm saying. They have one of the highest Trooper percentages come teams, even though their frequency is low. And I do believe that come playoff time, they will be able to diversify their shot chart. So I am a believer that the Pelicans could do the thing. The next team on my list that I'm saying as a contender out West is gonna be the Golden State Warriors. Oh, Kenny, they're 14 and 13. How can you say that they're a contender? They're two and 11 on the road. The defense ain't came around. All physicists are struck. Bruh, this is another one of those seams that I am given the benefit of the doubt. And I think you will be crazy not to. Again, I still think there's a move to be done because the depth is a major, major issue. But Steph Curry still having one of his best years of his career. Clay Thompson has turned a corner when it comes to his scoring and his efficiency. During my green's defense, it's still really good. And I think they're starting to find good minutes and quality minutes from some of the people on the bench. They're starting to find quality minutes from Dante Camingo, who I can't see a world where he's out of the lineup after what we've seen from him over the last week. Wiggins is playing at an all-star caliber level. Again, I don't know if he'll make it this season, but he took what he did last season and he's doing it better. I think he's shooting like 50% for the field, 40% for three, but 60% for the free throw. Like, I don't understand it. I don't understand how Wiggins can't hit a free throw, but he's still as efficient as ever while being one of the better on-ball defenders in basketball. Again, I do believe they're a piece of weight, but they're another team that's getting the benefit of the doubt because I know come playoff time, they're not a team that anybody wants to see. Going back out East, the Cavaliers are a team that worries me a little bit. I think that they match up pretty solid against the Bucks and potentially the Boston Celtics just because they have a lot of length with Evan Mobley and Jared Allen being their front court, but they have had spurts this season with the offense, this looks god-awful. They take every single second off the shot clock, which is not necessarily a bad thing, but it sometimes leads to bad shot quality and selection. And I do believe they're missing a hole there at the three position or just wings in general. He's Kerselvert, let's be honest. Other than the 40 PC gave against the Boston Celtics earlier this season, he hasn't done much. Dean Wade is currently injured, so he can eventually come back and hope that out. But I'm gonna say right now I would be surprised if the Cleveland Cavaliers did it this season based on what I've seen, even though I really do like their roster. They're one of my favorite watchers just because Evan Mobley's one of my favorite players in the league, but I just don't see it happening right now. The Brooklyn Nets are 16 and 12, eight and two in their last 10. They are looking good. But are they looking good enough for me to say that they are contender?  They're one of the harder teams for me to put into a category contender versus pretender, for sure. The offense is good. The defense is about league average. It's rough, man. They don't close out possessions, bro. They don't close out possessions. Nicholas Klax is having a good season, but he's not a guy that you look at to go gobble up a bunch of rebounds once you get a stop. I don't, I'm putting a TBD on them. I think there's a world, but unlikely. But would I be super surprised if Kevin Durant did the thing? I don't know. I think that what the Boston Celtics did to him slash the Brooklyn Nets last season was just some embarrassing work. And I just, that they do enough where we feel like we can alleviate some of the Kevin Durant doubles or whatever he was being thrown at. I don't know. I don't know. And nobody else out East, I think I should even have a conversation about the 76ers are still missing something. And it's also because Tyrese Maxie and Ed Benau and then James Harden have been out. He just came back. Joellen Beats playing some of the greatest basketball of his career in his recent stretch. Another 50 piece last night, which is dope. The Atlanta Hawks obviously not Pacers, Knicks, Raptors, Heat Bulls and nothing underneath that. None of those teams I can see as a contender right now. But our West, the Grizzlies, the Nuggets, the Clippers, these are teams that you can talk yourself into being contenders. The Nuggets scare me a little bit. Now they're starting to turn, form a little bit but they still struggle to get stops. And I watched them and I just don't understand it really because they have been a team that has been good enough on defense over the last couple of seasons where it's viable. But right now that the 28th defense in basketball, luckily for them, you have Nicola Yoko which is a women's engine offensively. So you have the number two offense. Aaron Gordon is having an all-star caliber season and Jamal Murray is starting to look better and better every single game, but the defense is still not good.  You just have to. I think this could be a team that could take the next month or two to look better on the defensive side of the ball and then we can have a real conversation. But based on right now, I can't look at their resume as a team and be like, yup, they can do it when the defense has been as awful as it is. But I like their team enough to think that maybe they can turn it around. But again, on the 25-ish games, I can't say yes. But I can't say yes about the Memphis Grizzlies. They haven't played a second with Ja, with Bane, with Jaren this season. Not a second. And they are 17 and nine. And we saw year after year of the last couple that they are a tough outcome playoff time, man. Jamal went down with the injury and they still ended up winning the game somehow. Somehow. They took the golden say words to who won the championship and had them a little bit flustered. And now Desmond Bane has taken another step, get well soon, Desmond Bane. Jaren Jackson-Junis, he's come back from his injuries, look like a DPOLI candidate. Oh, yeah, that looks great. And they just seem like a team that finds a way. They always find a way. Jamal Rhett is still a star in this league. He's doing some great stuff. And even though I don't know if the individual counter stats are gonna say it, he looks like a better passer to me. He looks more engaged offensively to me and since Jaren has come back, they're the number one defense in basketball. Wouldn't be surprised. I again, do want to see Merant Bane and Jaren play some minutes together, but he was averaging 20 plus points per game before his injury. Ja was an MVP candidate before his injuries and Jaren is just gonna play his role so nicely. And I do believe they're another one of those teams. They could be a piece of way. And I don't even mean like they need to go get Paul George, you know what I'm saying?  But yeah, I can see it. Kings, I don't see them as a contender. Troubles is no, the Clippers are one of those teams. They're 15 and 13. And a lot of people put their money on the Clippers. Being the team that won the Western Conference, we just haven't seen enough of them being completely healthy for me to even have an opinion. So I'm gonna put a TBD on the Clippers. And any team that I didn't mention, I absolutely don't see them as a contender based on what I've seen in the first 25-ish games. But at the end of the day, this is more of a conversation. So let me know in the comment section what you believe. Of course, I'm always down there reading some stuff and y'all might change my mind about some teams that I wasn't too confident about, or maybe you changed my mind on the team I was confident about. So I'll be down there, appreciate you.


Hi stampers! Welcome to Watch It Weekly Wednesday. I'm Jill and I'm here to show you a fun idea with the sweet candy cane stamp set and dies that coordinate with it.  So I'm going to go ahead and get started. I'm going to bring in my tool here, my stamp and trimmer, and it's 11 inch by four and a quarter inch of real red and I'm going to go ahead and score it in the center five and a half. Then I'm going to go ahead and move that over to one and a quarter and make this album fold look. Let me move that out of the way. So I'm going to go ahead and score this with my bone folder and then I'm going to fold it back and score that too. Now I'm going to put adhesive right here just to hold that down. On this album fold we have a YouTube video and if you like to click the link below they'll give you some more ideas. Okay I'm going to take a four by four piece for the inside and the outside of basic white but I'm going to stamp it first. I'm going to take the real red stamp pad and our two candy canes if you notice that both candy canes go opposite directions. So it doesn't matter what you want you use for this you can just use one and I'm going to take an ink this candy cane up making sure I've got real red all over it because I want it really dark. So I'm going to go ahead and stamp one candy cane, re-ink it and go ahead and walk this around the whole white basic white cardstock and I'm just kind of like making my own designer series paper with this candy cane and just moving my cardstock around so it looks real good. Fill in it in. So that's we got that for the front now on the inside of the card I'm just going to do one candy cane on the side kind of coming off the cardstock and then I'm going to use one of the Sains which I love. It's the most wonderful time of the year so I'm going to ink that up and just stamp that at the top. Love that same. Okay so we've got those two stamped I'm going to go ahead and hear those because something about red and the ink is I seem to get it all over my fingers all the time and then my card has inky fingerprints on it so let's get this inside of the card already and then this for the outside. Also I'm just going to put the stamp and seal on it and adhere it on the outside. Okay I went ahead and used some of the designer series paper that goes with this sweet and I love the red stripes. Red is one of my favorite colors to use in the holidays and it seems like I don't get out of using not using red for the holidays. Okay so that looks really candy cane-y and we're going to do a thing and I using the strip of three-quarter of an inch and the Mary and Bright see there's already a thing of red ink on me. Mary and Bright now I'm going to go ahead and make a dovetail or a little tail to this banner so I'm going to go ahead and cut it in the center and make little pointy edges to that like a ribbon almost. Okay I'm going to take the Mary and Bright banner and I'm going to go ahead and just adhere it down to the real red strip and this one is a quarter inch bigger than the other piece so one is three-quarters and this is one inch so let's go ahead and do that in the center like we did the other one and just make a banner from this to with the just kind of framing the stamp set or the same. Now I'm going to want to take this and kind of do a diagonal so I want to just by just by doing it kind of looking at it and eyeballing it going up. Now I'm going to go ahead and pop that up with some dimensionals and love how everything looks with these wonderful dimensionals. Never live without them and I'm going to take some cool rhinestones and put on here but let me use this that use this beautiful aridescent trim and I'm just going to put it in a knot this really reminds me of Christmas it's like tinsily and aridescent and just reminds me of the snow glistening on it like in the winter morning which which we don't have snow where we're at so I can always hope. Okay then put rhinestones on it let me show you what it looks like when it's done. We've got five rhinestones and there is our cute card. Let me show you some more ideas with this candy cane sweet and DSP. This one is used the big die that cuts this out and use the DSP for the candy canes that are already printed. That is a DSP candy cane too with the glitter and the paper. This is just a fun pocket card idea and look how this makes a heart with the two candy canes. There's with the DSP just stamped super simple. This right here is using that die and just sponging it to make it look like it's background paper. I love using these candy canes on both directions. Another heart and criss-crossed. Hope you've enjoyed watching this sweet candy cane stamp set with the dies and some ideas used with it. If you liked any of these products click the link below and we'll see you next time on watch it with the lights. And this is just a fun pocket cold. This is just a fun pocket cold. This is just a fun, wait a second.


Laser eyes first graders.  All right green table. Do you have any possibilities for team names?  Awesome. Give them a 10 finger whoo Green leaves. I have made a table group sign for you. You may go ahead and color and decorate it ready go I Mean Excellent, okay blue group.  Awesome.  What did you come up with Thomas? Blue ocean awesome. I've made a team name for you here Would you guys please go ahead and use your crayons twistables or highlighters to go ahead and decorate eyes on me Thank you.  Did you have some ideas? So we've come to an impasse two of you want dragons and two of you want rainbow unicorns Do you think we could combine the names to be? one name Okay, I'm gonna give you 30 seconds bottoms up to combine the names or come up with one that you all like ready go Excellent so everybody has something has been part of the name, right awesome. I have made a sign for you I have a couple of rules the handshake must involve your hands and The handshake must involve a table go for it. We are the red Yellow group go our name is rainbow dragons and we came up with it because um, I Won't me and Jane won the rainbow unicorns, but they won the dragon so we combine it together


If I put your number in the chat and what Fanta says is true, it's always great if we can get those requests through those systems. But we, we definitely heard that request or in this meeting and we will look into it. And staff in the appropriate department like Fanta was talking about is aware of the issues associated with cooks lane and John T white. So, we are definitely looking into that. Okay, thank you. Just one last question. For my part has. Fort Worth ISD and especially the on site principle at John T white elementary school been notified. Um, and has has their input been also been taken into account. Yes, so, um, as we get closer to construction, we are planning on doing those final out reaches. We have had this is our second community meeting, but. For the specific going specifically to this one showing the plans we will plan on going. Prior to construction starting. Yeah, if any consideration can be given regarding the student arrival and dismissal schedule with the construction schedule, I'm sure they'll they'll certainly appreciate that. Yes, sir, we will definitely be doing that staff and and the contractor. You should know there have been significant staffing changes Charles Hodges. Who had that area is no longer with the district. And so, in addition to the principal, you do want to make contact with administration and Mr Toby Jackson would be a very good contact. That way she can make sure it gets to the people. I don't know who have been replaced yet. And I will email Toby's a personal email to you guys because that's what she prefers. But that that's her area and with all the changes, we don't want any problem Daniel. Thanks for mentioning that I'll send it to Lara and Lara. I don't know anybody else have a good morning. I'm going to have to close out so I can send this email. Okay, thank you for joining us. Yes. Thank you. Have a good weekend to and I'll email you to miss Carol. Thank you and I'm monitoring the chat. I don't see any questions in the chat just to let you know. Thank you for the calling users. Are there any other questions, comments, or concerns? Okay, well, thank you all for joining us for this community meeting and regards the traffic signal at John T white road and Sandy Lane. So, again, we have this slide on with the avenues to submit service request. We will get that since this specific slide sent out to anyone that would like it. So, please. If you want to let us know right now, if you would like this slide, we will send that over to you and we will provide notification again, right before construction is planned to start. So, that concludes this morning's meeting. Thank you all and have a nice rest of your weekend. Thank you Fanta. Great job. Thank you.


This paper investigates how to use deep convolutional neural networks, CNNs, for high resolution remote sensing, HRS, scene classification. The authors propose two scenarios for generating image features via extracting CNN features from different layers. In the first scenario, the activation vectors extracted from fully connected layers are regarded as the final image features. In the second scenario, they extract dense features from the last convolutional layer at multiple scales and then encode the dense features into global image features through commonly used feature coding approaches. The results demonstrate that the image features obtained by the two proposed scenarios can result in remarkable performance and improve the state of the art by a significant margin. The authors also tentatively combine features extracted from different CNN models for better performance. This article was authored by Fan Hu, Gui Sun Xia, Jing Wen Hu, and others. We are article.tv. Links in the description below.


Good morning John. You don't want to admit this necessarily, but we are both, at least in part, Floridians. And I want to be clear, Florida has a lot going for it. It's home to two of my very favorite foods, the Keelab Pie and the Cuban Sandwich. It also has manatees and Cape Canaveral and Disney World and really great thunderstorms. It's the third largest state by population in the nation and it has a huge amount of cultural diversity and diversity of wildlife and habitat and beaches and parties and the Miami heat, who I hear do quite well. But Florida is also weirdly kind of the laughing stock of the nation. It's, yeah. Back when I was first on the internet, I'd spend a lot of time on Fark.com because I was a teenage boy.  Because it seems and is also objectively true that there are just way more weird news stories that come out of Florida than any other state. Florida man tries to convince women to buy, cook and eat iguanas taped to his bite. Florida man arrested for directing traffic while urinating. Florida man refuses to get out of hotel pool, demands police tickle him. The Florida man headline has become a cliche. There's a Twitter account devoted to the adventures of Florida man. And it's a good read. There seems to be something really odd about Florida men or maybe about Florida. I've actually read a bunch of different theories on this. Is it the party culture of Miami or is it the huge income gap between the wealthiest and the poorest Floridian? Or is it that Florida is such a weird amalgamation of a bunch of different cultures that are all interacting with each other because no one is really from Florida? And all of these theories are wrong. There is actually a very simple and uninteresting reason why Florida man is the thing. It's a law called the Government in the Sunshine Act and it's part of Florida's almost unparalleled history of open government. If you work in the government of the state of Florida, every email you send is a matter of public record. Anyone can read it. The public has to be notified anytime two members of the government meet together to talk about something. And most important to this video, every piece of police paperwork is available to journalists the moment they ask for. It's actually a fairly admirable policy, though it is questionable with regards to the rights of the person who has been arrested but not convicted of a crime. That you're just reporting on the thing that the arrest report says before any of that has gone through any kind of due process. Which is one of the reasons why other states have different rules. But you combine that weird law with the fact that Florida is the third most populous state and with the fact that journalism is in kind of an economically difficult place right now and you're gonna see a lot of sensationalist headlines about Florida man. Like if a journalist catches wind that a man in a Thor costume punches through a deli display case and starts eating handfuls of canishes all he has to do is call the police department and they have to send him over ultra detailed arrest reports with statements from witnesses and the police.  But in Florida, thanks to a sometimes even troublingly open government, there are no hoops. I have an additional pet theory that we didn't have a stereotype to stick on Florida like we did for Californians and New Yorkers and Texans so we had to come up with something because our brains are super good at pattern recognition. We noticed this thing where there were lots of weird headlines coming out of Florida and there it was, it stuck. Florida, weird news capital of America and possibly the world. John, I'll see you on Tuesday. I just wanted to say thank you to Francesca Lee who told me about this weird fluke of history that's the reason why we think Florida is so weird. You can check her YouTube channel out over there. I had to pre-record this one because it's too much going on in Minneapolis with NerdCon so if anything happened in the last few days and I'm not talking about it, that's why. Thanks for watching.


Good day, fellow investors. One of the topics that's extremely important for your financial lives is the current abundance of money in the system. And in this video, I really want to touch on that topic to show what's going on into the economic, financial environment. How does that affect the market? And how does that affect you as an investor as someone that wants to build your financial future, retirement, financial goals? And then how you can invest, what can be your investment strategy in this environment? So let's immediately cut to the chase and start by describing the environment. A few years back, the Fed said, okay, now we have had enough of financial stimulation. We're going to tighten things a little bit, increase interest rates and lower the balance sheet. That, after a year of tightening, clearly didn't work, so they immediately lowered interest rates back down to a level where it doesn't really affect the environment. If you're borrowing money at 1.5% in an environment where the inflation rate is 2%, it's free money. So the Fed lowered interest rates to make it free money. So we are living in an environment of free money, therefore the abundance of money. Also on the balance sheet, they said, okay, we're not going to repurchase treasuries anymore. So we're going to lower our balance sheet, but that since this December, if didn't work, there was a liquidity tightening in the repo market, but it doesn't matter, the balance sheet is going, shooting up, which means they are buying more, printing and printing and printing money to keep the economy where it is. Similarly, in Europe, they tried a little bit, okay, we're going to cool off the purchases of bonds, directly purchasing bonds from governments, and then they saw, okay, this is not working. We have to give free money to governments, to companies, to people, European companies, a lot of them borrow at negative interest rates, which means you borrow money and then you have to return less money in the future.  And this is going on all over the world. We are really in a financially stimulative era, and that has current opportunities, but also consequences when it comes to the economy and your investments. On the economy, you would expect huge growth with free money, but no, not, that's not what's happening. The economy has been growing, but at the slowest pace for decades, globally developed markets mostly, and this is the longest economic expansion in the United States. The longest expansion, but not at high rates, however, stability is definitely what we have. The question is for how long can we have such an artificially created, money-printed stability? That's very interesting because we can check inflation again stable, but depends where you are looking and from what perspective you are looking at that. If we check inflation, the reported inflation 2%, or 1%, or something like that in Europe, 2% in the United States, not such a big consideration below the target of monetary policies, but then when you look at more specific things like shelter, inflation, try to buy a house in Amsterdam, London, Paris, compared to something else, compared to the inflation rate. All those businesses that are highly competitive, where there is high competition, where there is a lot of money coming in, they are lowering their prices, but all those assets that are in limited amounts like real estate, things like that, are going up, up, up and up in prices.   Healthcare is also something that has been going up and up and up and up in price, and those are the things that matter in the long term. So you have to see, okay, they're printing money, they are saying there is no inflation, but when you look at specific things, you see, okay, prices are going up, and that's something you have to take advantage of, and we'll see later about that in the investment strategy. Now, when it comes to the markets, stocks are at record highs, and this is also important because we invest to get some yield back from our investment, and that in the future.  But if you buy something that's very expensive with a low yield, you have to put more and more and more and more money just to get to the same yield. The SAP 500 went up four times from 2009, 10 years ago. So now the yield that you get is 25% of the yield that those get that they invested in 2009. So if you want to retire, even if stocks go up and make you happy, whoa, if you retire, if you want to retire, you should be happy with stocks down. And this is an impact that a lot of those that are saving now, investing now will feel and will feel as a burden over the coming years because if you are creating your retirement nest, then this is not that good. But there is so much money, and as you borrow for zero low interest rates, any yield, investors look for any yield, pension funds, governments, investing in anything, build roads into nowhere, which is a common thing now in Europe. Try to improve, try to grow on that money and that will have positive and negative consequences in the long-term and negative consequences that you have to put much more money to retire to get that yield, to get that passive income in comparison to what you had to put, I don't know, 10, 20 years ago. Further, as we said, interest rates are low, which means that comparatively, on a low interest rate that you get from bonds, 0% in a bank, everything else looks very attractive. If you invest in a stock with a dividend yield of 2, 3%, it's much more attractive than a bond or a savings account with zero. Now it's going to be negative on your saving accounts in Europe. We have seen already that becoming reality in the Netherlands. So everything else is attractive, 3%, 4% is attractive. And therefore people, more and more money goes into those attractive assets, but risky assets like stocks. And that's what this abundance of money is creating in the market. And we have seen an expansion in valuations. So valuation price to earnings ratio gives you the valuation of an asset, what you pay in relation to the earnings of the price. And in 2009, the SAP 500 cyclically adjusted price earnings ratio that takes into account 10 years of earnings to eliminate the ups and downs, the temporary ups and downs was at 15. Now it's above 30, 31, which means that the valuation, the assets doubled in price in relation to what they give, which is the earnings, the business yield. And if we look it from a historical perspective, the price to earnings ratio is doubled, what it used to be historically. So if the valuations return to a historical average, then stocks will fall 50%, which is a risk. If they go to the minimum historical, stocks fall what, 90%, which is insane. And then we are not far from the maximum because relatively the changes from 30 to 44 that was the dotcom bubble, isn't that big. But because of the situation with low interest rate and the abundance of money constantly being printed, stocks go up, up, up and up. And then if you are not investing, you feel you're missing out on perhaps the best opportunity in history where the Fed is printing money and making all those real assets like stocks and real estate go up.  Further, this printing money, lowering interest rates that we'll see in the moment has created a 37-year bull market with huge bubbles like the dotcom bubble, 2000s, the real estate bubble, 2009. And we'll see what will they call this bubble and perhaps the monetary policy bubble if it bursts. You can call something a bubble only after that it bursts. The reason for stocks for the 37-year bull market is the abundance of money because one, now they are printing it. They have started printing it 10 years ago, but over the last 45 years, interest rates went constantly down, down, down, down to stimulate the economy. And they started printing money when interest rates hit zero 10 years ago because going negative, it is possible, but we haven't seen that territory for now. And lower interest rates, abundance of money create a situation where we are in. The 30-year treasury, if you want to lend money to the U.S. government over 30 years, your return will be 2.3% per year on a 2.3% inflation that we have seen. So you make absolutely nothing for lending money to the U.S. government. In Italy, that is one of the most indebted countries in the world with low demographics, low productivity and everything. And the government lends there for 1.4% on 10 years, which is something really, really insane, especially as the currency is Euro, where we see it is being printed, printed, and printed that creates an abundance. And then if we see what this abundance, what is creating the federal debt of the United States quadrupled over the last 20 years, corporate debt also increased three times over the last 20 years. So low interest rates, everybody's getting high, high on debt. And this is the environment we live in, perhaps, and that's later we'll discuss it in the strategy. You have to take some debt too just to take advantage of the situation that is going on. Global businesses are doing more and more buybacks. Buybacks are at record highs. If you can borrow for 1%, 2%, you can buy back your stock that has a yield of 4%. You are in a relatively good deal and therefore corporations are forcing those buybacks. If we look at how much corporations that are borrowing money and then buying stocks and are pushing stocks higher, we see that those alongside ETFs are really keeping stocks and pushing them higher, higher and higher because pension funds due to the aging process are already starting to sell, to finance those retirement accounts as the baby boom generation is retiring. So thanks to the money printing, thanks to the lower interest rates that fills up companies' pockets that they can borrow at very low interest rates then buybacks really work. But if we look at the yield, the yield of the dividend and the buyback for the SAP 500 is now 5.19%, about 5%, but the earnings yield is 4%. So companies are spending more on dividends and buybacks than what is they make, which means the difference is being borrowed. And when you borrow, you know what does that mean? That means that you take money now and you have to give it back in the future. And that's again a risk when it comes to markets. If we look at the current SAP 500 earnings yield, it's 4.4%, but the buyback and dividend yield is about 5%. Just the buyback yield is close to the earnings yield of what the companies make. And this article from the Wall Street Journal really explains the situation perfectly. Money losing companies' mushroom, even as stocks hit new highs. The percentage of listed companies in the red, losing money is 40%, and Tesla is just one example of that situation. Tesla has been losing money hand over fist for the last six, seven years, but it's growing and the market capitalization is growing. Not going here into the earnings, the future potential earnings that are keeping the company up and getting it to get financing and growing, but over the last six, seven years, Tesla has survived because of the money printing, the free money, the low interest rates, and the abundance of money. It is doing good as low carbon emissions and new technologies are developed and this world is becoming a better place, which is a great positive, but we have to also know the reason behind this. Just another example of what's going on. The number of bankruptcies is really low over the last years, which means that even if the number of companies that are not making money is at year highs, at 40%, the number of bankruptcies is not going higher. Further, if we look at new initial public offerings, we are close to dot com bubble peak of new public offerings that are losing money. It was 80% at the dot com bubble peak and now we have reached that. So new IPOs, 80% of new IPOs in the US is loss making companies, hoping to break a profit. And let me tell you something here. If you are not making money in this economy with the abundance of money, then your business really sucks and that's something we have to keep in mind also when it comes to investing. If there is so much companies that are not making money now, what will happen if the environment changes and sooner or later the environment always changes? If we look at the proportion of US listed companies reporting losses for three years, it's 27.2%, three years in a row of losses. And then what will happen? Many expect that there will be a crash like it has been the case in the 2000s, 2009, 50% down the SAP 500 twice, but when it comes to crashes, it is always uncertain. Dot com bubble, everybody expected the internet to change the world. It did change the world, but it just took a lot of time for those valuations. 2007, nobody was expecting a real estate crisis. It was all normal, oral, securitized, and then it hit. So the next crash is, again, something that will come from the unknown. If you can predict it, you can solve it. They are printing money to prevent any crashes, but we'll see, perhaps it will be an inflationary crash and the SAP 500 will go to 6, 10,000 points, but nobody will be happy about it. That's something I feel it might come, but it's just a crazy thing that might come that might take the market and everybody by surprise. We will see what you have to do is to prepare yourself for anything. And when it comes to the investing strategy to apply, it's always a dilemma. Investing and everything in life is navigating uncertainty. I wish I would have now some conviction. This will happen. It would certainly get me a lot of subscribers. So not to forget, please subscribe to support the channel. Click that notification bell so that you get notified when a video comes out that is valuable to you. We do here low risk, high return investments. We try to do well, do well for our financial future no matter what happens. And going back to the SAP 500, I wish I knew what will happen, but I don't know. The only thing I can do is focus on the fundamentals, investing on the risk and reward, as I said. What if, what if, what if, look at all the scenarios that can happen and see how that fits you and your, what are your investment requirements. I am focusing on businesses that can increase prices alongside inflation, can take advantage of the money printing when costs also don't increase that much. One example that we discussed is visa. If there is inflation, more money, more money printing, technology development, visa will simply skyrocket and continue to grow at the recent pace. No matter what happens in the world, it has a mode, it has everything. Then another idea is take a real estate loan, buy some real estate, good real estate. You have a loan, fixed interest rate, fixed everything, fixed payment for 30 years. Given the rate of the money printing, the rent that you get or the value of the real estate will go up, but your payment will remain fixed. So those are ways that you can protect yourselves from what might happen. Inflationary crash or 50% down crash, you never know what will happen, but if you invest smartly, whatever happens, you'll do well. Then what this channel is all about, focusing on earnings, on assets, on real values, value investing over the long term. It's perhaps the boring side of investments. You don't watch stock prices go up and down. You simply look at the business, the fundamentals, the value, and you try to deploy your portfolio in a way that whatever happens, you do well. Thanks for watching. Looking forward to your comments, subscribe, and I'll see you in the next video.


Hey, hello everybody and welcome to the show. It's me John Park and this is show and tell So I am guest hosting tonight as PT and the more off doing some other fun stuff And there's not gonna be an ask an engineer tonight So this will be the show for tonight if you are interested in coming and showing and telling Either check our blog or head over to the discord That's at adafruit.it slash discord jump into the live broadcast chat channel And you will see a post there with a link and come on into our stream yard and show some stuff. We're gonna Probably we just have a few people so far lined up So we'll we'll probably get out of here fairly quick unless a whole bunch more people pile on so you're welcome to join in We usually try to keep this to a half hour. I think it'll be a lot shorter than that tonight And what else uh, I thankfully just I think Cross fingers and I don't curse this may have improved my internet situation from yesterday where I was having a lot of Buffering problems. So uh, if you're over in the chats, please let me know either in the youtube chat Or in the discord if you see or hear any problems, but otherwise I am gonna bring on our first guest And here comes Jay Hey Hello, how's it going Jay? Uh, pretty good. I've been working on a thing as you can see Um, I know a new year new robot me. Um, so I've been working on making a new version of my assi robot, you know the one from uh 2021 I haven't built another assi all last year. Last year. I was focusing on the fish and recognition stuff So I finally went back this year inside to redo assi. This is actually assi v 14 Which is still gonna be awareable. I'm still designing it to be awareable But I also wanted to be able to walk so I ended up doing Is um going through different ideas. I was going to do a whole bunch of you know Servos make a hexapop that makes it more heavier and after last super con of wearing my robot all three days I had a huge bruise on my shoulder. So I have learned from that mistake I will not be doing that again. So I want to be very much lighter So I ended up using the x spider design, which I I built a long time ago. I built one Um, that way I can like crawl on its own Um, I haven't got to test the crawling motion of it yet But I did get the head done recently and I'm controlling the head right now using my phone because I haven't hooked up to the Blue fruit system. Oh, that's great. Yeah, so I can do back and forth right now I'm going to have some more touch sensors involved using the circuit playground Um, but right now this is what I have now. I kind of like how it is right now I've been trying to make it look really perfect. So I've been sanding and shining everything so shiny Impolishing it. Um, I'm playing to a lot of videos this year and like some like fun Like creator type of teaching content with robots So I want to make sure my robot sidekick in the videos look good camera designing it Yeah, so I'm designing it to be really pretty early It's like design that way when it shows up on camera people like oh my god, that's so cool I'm like, yes my sidekick. Um, it probably even talks and stuff. Um But yeah, so far this is why I've gotten it's doing pretty good You know can't complain if the head rotates all three 180 degrees using motors and stuff Um buttons are here on the side. So I need to turn other things on and off Um But for an example because I built the first one When I was first starting to learn how to make stuff I followed the instructions and made one years ago like this is super super old But this is the design that I'm like using for it and the funny thing about this is I tested it This thing still works right? That's great. It's still just slowly crawls on the floor So I'm pretty much making a bigger version of this That could wear on my shoulder and I'm upgrading it to be an Aussie. So this is Aussie v 14 Which since 2021, you know, gotta bring my baby back and yeah, that's that's pretty much what I've been doing in the last A few weeks of just really nice. Yeah, great work. I'm making a few of them actually too That'll be all different control different ways that way I can have more Experimentation and also have other ways I can do some videos because as I've learned from watching A whole bunch of movies never build one because the starting robot will always break There are always two problems. So filled with you Excellent. Oh really cool. Thanks for bringing that on. I'm I'm impressed. It looks great and uh Not not just the functionality, but the fact that you sanded it for that long is is really amazing It's shining right. It's reflecting so well right now. I'm loving it Great. Good. Well, we look forward to seeing more bring it bring it back as you add features to it and work on it and uh We'll be we'll be happy to see it. All right. Take care. You too mentors Cool robot uh All right, so Next up, uh, we got Noe Hello, hello John. Yeah, so uh this week actually over the weekend Uh, I wanted to get uh, some pegboards and Ikea has a really nice Uh pegboard. Uh, let me bring on my screen here. Got that. So I got two of these. Um, they're called the scott scotties Scottish, I'm not sure exactly how to say it, but it's Ikea's version of pegboards And what I really like about it is that it uses metric system So the spacing between the holes are like Nice and even and I like metric because all my projects I designed them in metric Uh, so I thought it'd be fun to kind of 3d print a couple of different brackets Uh for my various projects and it's all modular and it's It's it's kind of a different way because you can see kind of how these slots are like staggered on the second row Uh, so it kind of gives you a little bit more flexibility than like the kind of the standard pegboards So I got this like One question I've got I've seen these and I Always wonder what's why do they do the sort of slots instead of holes? Like what what does that change about your because I've never used that kind so I'm curious what What about a pegboard changes in your life when you've got these slots? It's funny. Like I've never really used the standard pegboard. So I can't really say like, oh, this is better Together we can't figure this out. So yeah, someone who's used both needs to try that. Yeah, exactly, right? Um, but I I feel like it's going to be more modular because you have that ability to kind of shift your your uh, your brackets over Yeah, um, so I I I'm assuming that you have just more Options more variants and like how you want to have your brackets set up But what's really cool about it is that on the Thingiverse and printables Uh, the 3d printing community has just done like every type of adapter like lego adapters mason jar adapters Um, you could think about it like there there's probably an adapter and uh before j Uh, he actually has one too and he was showing how he has his tools laid out But one thing I wanted to do is because I have two of them The spacing between the middle is like not really usable So I printed out I designed like this kind of modular Bracket where I have these two bits and I just have some screws here and then I have the slots here Um, that will allow me to kind of hook this on the middle So you put that there bring it down and now I can have one of these These are kind of the standard hooks that Ikea has so now I can put this in the middle And fill the gap. Oh, that's great. Yeah, and I can fill the gap and maybe I got myself a little little pocket operator And I can hang it up there So if you ever run out of pegboard space for your product pick of the weeks, maybe check out the the status Maybe that'll be yeah, that was a new new way to do it. I like that It comes in different colors. You could also spray paint it if you like I think it's uh, and mdf right like the high density particle board Um, so I guess you could cut it but you could also 3d print one if you want to if you have a big enough bed You could probably just print print print a little one Um, but yeah, definitely check out. Um, if you're into Ikea stuff check out their pegboards. They're pretty cool Yeah, and uh, you can 3d print all sorts of different adapters and things So, uh, that's what I'm kind of playing with over the weekend really cool, uh I wonder if you could backlight the whole thing too with like some Ooh Yeah, there's definitely enough space Yeah, there's definitely enough space Totally. Yeah, and it comes with these little uh twisty bits that have like these little offset So, yeah, there's definitely enough room in the back there to light it up Cool Really cool. Yeah, I did use that up. Thanks for sharing that and uh Are you sharing that design for your gap filler up on the uh, um, I should I haven't yet We'll see that and we'll be like wait a second. Yeah, right cool. Yeah, I'll definitely share that then Nicely done really neat. I love it. Cool. Thanks All right, take care. Bye. All right All right, headboard envy. Uh next up. We've got liz Hello, Liz and a lot of stuff So many servos, uh, so I've started prototyping a new project.  Um, and basically I'm going to use some servos to pluck the strings, uh, but before I get there, you know, you got to do some quick prototyping with the code So right now I have code that is responding to midi note-on messages and it has the the midi notes coming in and then the servos are just being sent to a random angle so when I press the keys They're just all going that great But they're pretty snappy. So I think Um, it's going to be good for playing the heart. Um So that that was like the one thing I was worried about was that maybe it wouldn't be as snappy, but um until then there's like a new genre of glitch music you can do with this Yeah, for sure. I wonder, uh If you can send, um Different speeds to them if you want to just use it as a musical instrument like I was wondering like Yeah, I'm thinking maybe like a side like maybe piece of code I'll include if you just want to control some servos like maybe like the length of time you hold down the note affect the angle and so it seems like for for your liar the um, I've never Looked at what yes people use for plucking. Um, yeah Have you looked into or designed something or tried out like how does this servo interface with the string? So I Yesterday it was doing some very basic testing where I was I was finding like a nice kind of sharp angle. Um, and it was like I was finding like 65 to 95 degrees was like hitting it nicely and I was holding up to the string and like that was like plucking Nicely and so I think I'm going to be have to the 3d print like a longer Horn to um pluck it, but it was Getting it at a nice angle And so then I think the the hardest thing will be like figuring out like how to measure over strings I think I will end up doing like kind of a tabletop thing and having them go across that way I think yeah easiest, um, and then go from there. Have you looked at the um T slot aluminum that we have yes, you've maybe you've used that in some of your some of your projects the robot xylophone actually Yeah, okay. I thought yeah that rung a bell So that that's definitely something I have a rule that or acrylic could also be an option Um, so something like that. Um, always tricky when you have a lot of things. They have to mount in a very specific Yes, yeah You've got a lot of very finicky precise And and when you pluck will you Pluck in one direction and then when you pluck the next time on that same note, would it come swinging back this way? Yes, yeah, so there's going to be logic in the code to handle that Oh so Yeah, so Thanks, so early stages right now, but um, I'm excited about it I've done like some a couple percussive robot instruments with midi, but I've never done String so yeah, this is kind of the the next step Yeah, it's really cool. What a cool challenge. Um, yeah, and I suppose you could you could Move some of that thinking over to one of your guitars or another stringed instrument with Yes, yeah There have been a couple folks that have done some really cool guitar robotics I know I think it's steven trebinowski. He he does like a whole like metal Band with it. So that was that was really cool. See so that's great. Yeah Cool project.  Yes, of course Living thing I know. Yeah, again may have gone a little too far. Cool way to puppeteer. Yeah And uh, what are you driving that with that's what oh, yeah, so that's the pca 9 6 8 5 And it communicates over i-squared c it's not stemmified, but I actually just soldered A stem of cable to it so I could plug it into the arc of 2040 and then takes external power So I've got a five-volt ten amp the big power supply just to be on the safe side So don't worry about it. Um just in there. So Yeah, and then there's header pins. You can just plug the servos directly onto it, which is nice so Yeah, and you probably have like a lot of Polyphony where you can have a bunch of servos going at the same time so it could draw a decent bit of current, right? It could. Yeah, like I can Yeah 16 all the ones you have 16 string polyphony. That's really impressive Yeah, cool a really cool project. Thanks for sharing that. We're so looking forward to seeing How this progresses as you're building it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Have a good night Thanks. All right, and next up we have America's sweetheart Todd Kurt. Hey Todd America's sweetheart My spirit. I love the best How's it going Todd? Hey, pretty good. So one of the things that uh, we all love the mic the macro pad for made of fruit that I'm sure you've all seen Um, but this Is something I've been working on it's a um turns your macro pad into a standalone midi synth This case is turning circa python and a little drum machine Oh, nice. Where the where the the macro pad itself is actually is actually playing out the samples of the drums And so it's got a little sequencer built in You can change. Oops Oh, sorry, this is backwards Upside down and crash. Yep. There we go But uh So yeah, totally standalone. This has been driven off of a little, you know battery pack. Um This is what the board looks like. Oh, yes. So it's like, how does this work? Well, it turns out there is a little board That is now living off of the Stemic ut connector. Normally Stemic ut is for i2c devices. I'm sort of abusing it for doing audio out and midi in and um And so this is what the board looks like. This is the back of the board has a little space theme Um front of the board and the cool thing is I got a bunch Made and these will be in finally. I'm going to have a tendy store and so this will be up on the tendy Oh, that's great news Really cool So, yeah, so that's the uh, that's the that's the news. Uh, so far I'll should I should have some other things up in that tendy store as well So maybe the little midi synthy things that I've done over the years. So great. That's that's excellent I look forward to getting one of those. Uh, so to to back up a second the macro pad um, normally we do stuff like send Key presses to a computer or midi messages to a synthesizer. But what you've done is made a Uh on board audio interface and midi interface and you're actually doing the sample playback or synthesis right on the macro pad Exactly. Yeah, I've got some Arduino sketches that does audio synthesis as well So this becomes a little synthesizer or the keys like adjust synth parameters and stuff and uh, one of the other sketches I have um In circuit python sort of lets you remix a song in in live by using the the keys of sort of like like faders basically Oh, nice. Yeah, yeah So so yeah, so so this is all up on github right now if you want to play with it right now You can you can have it play through the little speaker that's built into the macro pad But you can't do normal midi in you can only do usb midi in but now you can do usb midi in via One of these things, you know, this is a standard tier s midi Uh cable that you see is that this would plug in just like this And now you've got midi and stand alone audio out Oh, so someone could grab a classic midi keyboard And use that to play the sample player On there exactly on the board and you're so you've got uh on the the board if you can show that again that you've uh That you've built that you're going to be selling that has Your mini jacks that can be used for audio and midi and then I guess uh Is it a optical isolator for the yeah, exactly. It's a standard opto isolator for midi input and then um the uh Raspberry Pi pico official pwm filter circuit for the audio output Great. Okay. Yes. So someone had asked in the in the chat about what was on there. So you're getting a nicer cleaner headphone out using resistors and capacitors and then That chip It's it's not headphone out exactly. It's line out but line out. Okay. So but uh, but yeah, it's um It's pretty good. I mean, it's it's recommended by or by raspberry pi foundation Which you know for for pwm audio is kind of like compared to stuff you get from a proper DAC, but uh, but it's good enough for the sort of 8 bit You know super nintendo style sounds that most people want to make nowadays Heck yeah Why is there some other type of sound that exists exactly exactly? Really cool. Thanks tot and if people want to find that uh, or stock your tinder before tindi not tender Watch it That's released even uh, what's the uh, what are they looking for when they search it's called macropad synth plug And i'll put a link to the github for it. Um, it's all fully open source hardware But i'll put a link to the github in the chat once i'm off of this Awesome great. All right. We'll play us out because that is it for uh for the show And thanks everyone for stopping by uh, thanks to uh, everyone who came on to show projects Thanks for hanging out in our chats We'll all be around for a little bit longer to answer questions. Uh, I saw some people talking up their Love of the ikea pegboard and and reasons for the plots that seem good. It's going to Check out all that info Uh, thanks everyone. There will not be an ask an engineer tonight. Uh, so come on by tomorrow I'll be doing workshop show I think we'll have a deep time with tim on friday and more so Head on over to all the ate a fruit channels to see all the good data for this Uh, thanks tod and thanks to everyone Ready for industries. I'm john park. I will see you next time. Bye. Bye


Here's a man who can certainly turn a phrase, as my grandmother used to put it, Mr. E. F. Ruth of New York, listen to what he says about Jell-O.  I can honestly and truthfully say that there is no other dessert on the market today that can live up to Jell-O's fine quality and delicious flavor. Well, thank you very much, Mr. Ruth. And the reason why you and millions of others prefer Jell-O is because Jell-O has found a way to capture extra-rich fruit flavor. Flavor you don't get in any other Jell-O dessert. For there's only one Jell-O and only Jell-O has this delicious extra-rich fruit flavor. So look for the big red letters on the package. They spell Jell-O. The cheerleader of this program, Jack Fennie. Uh, he's downstairs getting a shave. I guess he'll be up soon. What's all I'm here for? What does that mean in English? What's all I'm here for? I see. That's a nice haircut for Squally. Now give me a quick shave. I've got to get upstairs and broadcast just once over. You want to just a shave or a first-of-class shave? I only want a bleed in one or two places. How could the job? Say, you know George without the shop? Yes. I always a shave of him. Well, he certainly doesn't look it. Hurry up, will ya? It's a nice day. You'll think it's gonna rain, not me. Yeah, make it snappy, will ya please? Hey, Barber, you got soap in my eye. No charging for that. He learned the question a little bit. Say, you like a pizza ball? Pizza ball? I never heard of that.  Oh, you mean football? Yes, I like it. I think Alabama has a great team this year. That's very good, but I like Ohio State and the Cardinals. Wait a minute, you mean Carnegie Tech? P.E. Hey, Pascuali, you like it, the Pincetana and the Coronel? Hey, let me do the dialect, please. I understand how. Please, hurry up, I've got to get upstairs there. All right, now shave you down. Give me your face. Very good, a piece of my lip is on it. That's all right, you've got plenty of lip left. Good thing you're not shaving Chevalier. He's next. Hurry up, will you, Pascuali? I have work to do. Shoots. Do you want a hot towel? What does a hot towel do you any good? No, but it make your heart. Hey, what's that? That's a towel getting a hot. Oh. Do you want to face a massage? I'll make you look just like a Shirley temp. I don't want to look like Shirley temp. I want to look like Jack a Ben. I don't want a hot towel. Cheaper guys. I meant the bourras, the vejarros, the quiapas, the stupos. I don't want to look like Shirley temp. I want to look like Jack a Ben. Say, Jack, you better hurry. You want it upstairs. I'll be right up, Mary. I'm getting a permanent shave. What's your hair doing on the floor, Jack? I just got a haircut. How do you like it, Mary? See, I thought you were wearing a beret. This is a late-style round haircut. It's nice, Jack. It looks like a Leavenworth special. Yeah. Hey, lady, let us a course, please. Hey, boss, you want a vibration? You mean a vibrator? Sure. Take it one minute and make you feel good. All right, but make it snappy, will you? Oh, Jack. What? Pour your teeth in on the floor. Well, for heaven's sake. Hey, boss, that's the finishing. You want to talk about powder? No. Oh, you don't want to smell good, eh? I smell all right. Come on, Jack, you've got to go to work. Hey, boss, what kind of work do you do? I'm on the radio, and I broadcast all over America. Well, you can take all Italian people. Why? Because Marconi discovered the radio, and Columbus discovered America. Hey, wait a minute. Listen, wait. He's right, Jack. Let's get out of here. Hey, what program do you got? Jello. Oh, I like the jelly with the 60-delicious flavor. I like it when the guy says raspberry, strawberry, cherry, berry, orange, lemon, and lime-a-berry. Well, how much do I owe you, Pasquale? Well, let me see you. One haircut, shampoo, hair tonic, shave, heart towel, and vibration. 20 cents. 20 cents, what? Oh, pay him, Jack. That's what you get for coming to these dip joints. Mamma mia, please. Stubid up out the road and don't set the chair up here. Anything that goes up. I mean, that was Johnny Green playing anything goes from the production of the same name.  Yes, Don. I stopped over at the barbers for our first routine to talk. Oh, was he a good barber? Yes, our audience laughed at him. Oh, hello, Johnny. Hello, Jack. I didn't recognize you. You look clean tonight. Well, I just came from the barber shop. Got a shave and a trim. You got a pretty close haircut there, didn't you? Yeah. Your head looks like an airport. Mary, don't discourage our listening audience. I mean, after all, they've just seen me as a lover in my latest pictures in the air. And they think I look the same up here. So don't disillusion them. I won't. What's disillusion, Jack? Well, Mary, on the air, you see, your listeners can't see you all they can do is visualize. You see? Oh, I get it. What does visualize mean?  What are you laughing at? That's the funniest haircut I've ever seen. Forget it, would it? Oh, Johnny, what does visualize mean? I don't know. I just handle the music here. Oh, just a juggler of crescendos, eh? Oh. Hey, Don, do you know any big words? Oh, just words like strawberry, raspberry, jello. And I'll wait a minute, Don. Jello isn't such a large word. No, but it's the largest-selling gelatin dessert in the world, and every day millions of people eat it. Well, I thought we'd drag that in by the heels gracefully, didn't you, Don? Yes, it didn't sound a bit obvious. No. Mary answered the door. Why don't he knock? Every program is doing that now. Come in. Hello. Uh, I, uh, I, uh, I'd like to see Mr. Benny, please. There he is, standing over there. Thank you. I'm, uh, I'm Kenny Baker. Oh, Jack, what does Kenny Baker mean? It's a man's name. Oh. Come in. Well, uh, how do you do, Mr. Baker? How do you do? You know, I've been expecting you. You're the, uh, the new singer, aren't you? Uh, what was that? I say, uh, you're the new singer, aren't you? Thank you. Now, uh, now, uh, Mr. Baker, I, uh... Thank you. No, no, no, just, just relax.  Tell me, what kind of a voice have you? I'm, uh, I'm a tenor singer. I'm sorry. Well, well, don't, don't worry about it. Just take it easy. Uh, uh, step right over here to the microphone. Yes, sir. Be careful there. You've tripped over a chair. I guess, I guess I'm a little nervous. You have nothing to worry about.  This is Johnny Green. Johnny, this is Kenny Baker. Hello, Mr. Baker. How do you do? I'm sure. Hmm. Same to you, no doubt. This is our announcer, Don Wilson. Mr. Baker. Mr. Baker. Mr. Baker. Mr. Baker. Mr. Baker. Mr. Baker. Mr. Baker. Mr. Baker. Don. Don Wilson. How are you, Mr. Baker? It's a thrill. What'd I get? And this is, uh, this is Mary Livingstone. Hello, Tud. She's whiz. Well, Kenny, how about giving us a little song? I want you to feel right at home and be at ease. Remember, this is one big happy family. Depending on options. Of course. Now, uh, what are you going to sing? If you don't mind. I'll sing the Rosner Hair from the motion picture. Broadway gondolier. I don't mind. Sing, Kenny. Okay, Benny. Kenny Baker. You have a very sweet voice Kenny.  Oh nothing, just making a picture, if you don't mind. Well, you're making a picture eh?  Well, it is a diversion. What's a diversion Jack? Quiet Mary. That's what I thought. You know, young man, the only difficulty we may have on this program is, well, you see, your name is Kenny, and mine is Benny. I mean, that might be confusing. Well, uh, couldn't you change yours?  Alright, you call me Bud. Well, anyway, I'm glad to have you with us. Thanks, gosh. Oh, Stoopnagle, here's a letter for you. Yeah, a letter? Yes, I think it's fan mail. Well, you're just in time, Mary, I think we were running out of jokes. Let's see, this is from Miss Flora Fenchel, Lake Forest, Illinois. It says, dear Mr. Benny, I thought it was hard to get into pictures until I saw you in Broadway melody and it's in the air. I have a job here, but I'm sick of it and would like to try pictures. I have two arms and legs, just like Thompson Bennett.  Is it really hard to get into pictures? P.S. I just want a beauty contest in Atlantic City if that will help. Well, Miss Fenchel, that's what this program is on the air for, to give advice to people like you. And also to sell jello. Yes, and so, ladies and gentlemen, after Johnny Greene's next number, we will take you direct to the Metro Pass-Amount Studios and show you how stars are born and pictures are made. After all, what do you see being in Hollywood if we can't help? Play, Director Greene. And Gown by Adrian. And now for our play of the film industry, which we call Open Up That Gold Wind Gate. The first scene takes place in the office of the president of the ParaFox studio. Curtain, music, John. Hello, Cortez. We're all out of those. How about a nice Corona-Corona? Oh, you mean the actor. I'll put him right on. Good morning, his fluts. Good morning, Mr. Parachite. Get me Director Roy Delruth right away. He's in Arizona making China seas. Oh, where's Mr. Reisner? He's in China making 50 million Frenchmen. Well, I don't want to see anyone today. I'll be busy in conference. When will the conference be over? Never. I'm always in conference. I'm always busy. I was born busy and I'll die busy. Get me Eugene O'Wilson. Quick. The boss wants Eugene O'Wilson. Paging Eugene O'Wilson. Eugene O'Wilson. Eugene O'Wilson. Out to lunch. He's out to lunch. Well, when he gets back, tell him I want to see him. His guts look up the reports on our pictures. What did Ear Eggs of 1935 do in Philadelphia yesterday? $83,000 and 50 cents. And what did Nutty Marietta do? She went out to lunch. I mean the business in Boston. We got to make bigger and better pictures. We need more stars. We need new faces. Did you send for me? Yes, Eugene. What this company needs is bigger and better stories. What have you written in the last half hour? I just wrote a story on my way upstairs. The scene is late in India. India? That's colossal. India? We'll get 10,000 elephants. The boss wants 10,000 elephants. Yes, they go right to work. Tell them to bring their trunks. What'd you do with us? Don't get fresh. She's with this company.  Can you ask? No, but I certainly am beautiful. Ain't I got the cute kisses? You'll never know. The girl who won the Atlantic City Duty Contest is here. I want her. Miss, he just wants elephants. You don't mean it. Maybe you'll fool him. What a snooze. Hey, Eugene. Yes? I just read your scenario and it's great. But look, does this picture have to be in India? Can it be some other place? Oh, it really doesn't matter. Make it Arabia. Arabia? Arabia? Stupendous. Miss Lux? Yes, Mr. Parachute? Cancel those olive camels. 40,000 sheets. 50,000 deserts. 20,000 camels. Yes, camels. You know, a horse with a wart on his back. A contest in Atlantic City. Oh, you did, eh? Well, aren't you a little bow-legged? Yes. You'll have to see Mr. LaMaire in the annex. Where is that? Walk through that brick wall and turn to the right. Oh, Mr. Paradise, there are a lot of camels. What? No camels? Hey, Eugene. Does this picture have to be in Arabia? No, it could be played in Spain. Spain? headquarters. 10 over some bulls. We're in Spain now. Oh, Mr. Parachute in? Yes, who are you? Ah, I'm a Fespian. I'm sorry, but he wants bulls right now. Oh, I say, I'm an Axol. People tell me I'm a second Jack Spinnick. We don't even want the first one. All right, but I'm a student of Shakespeare. I've played first Hamlet and Macbeth. Oh, wait a minute. Oh, Mr. Parachute. There's a man out here who says he's played Hamlet and Macbeth. Oh, a parlayer. Give him $1,000 a week and throw him out. Have those bulls come in yet? No. We're holding up production. Hey, Eugene, does this picture have to be in Spain? Oh, it could be done in Russia. Russia?  It's got to be a super picture. Ms. Gluck, get Russia on the pole. Operator, get me Rubenoff. Two whole, whole, whole. Just Mr. LaMaire. Yes, what can I do for you, Miss? I just want Atlantic City at a beauty contest. What?  Oh, you did, eh? Well, aren't you a little old? I wasn't when I first came in here. Yes, I'll tell him. Oh, good morning, Mr. Stare. How do you feel today? Mr. Stare? How well to see Mr. Parachute? He's not in right now. I see a shadow in the window. Well, if you want to see through a shadow, all right. Ms. Gluck, did those bears get in here yet? No. Oh, hello, Plasqually. What are you doing here? Mr. Stare, while they're growing, I'm moving a fish. I'm moving a fish. Say, Eugene, I've got it. Why can't this picture be an issue? Colossal. That's it, Italy. Ms. Gluck. I know. Mr. Grady, you ordered 10,000 miles of spaghetti. Say, boss. Boss, I've got a better idea. Why can't this picture take place in the United States? United States? So risky. I never thought of that. Why don't you make it New Jersey? New Jersey. That's the place, Ms. Gluck. Get me 10,000 mosquitoes. 20,000 Jersey cows. And 30,000 Jersey sweaters. What an idea! Ms. Gluck, get 10,000 miles of water. 20,000 ocean waves. 30,000.  Ms. Gluck, get this between all the piano. One bite. Well, folks, next Tuesday is election day. And we have a candidate who will be endorsed by all parties. The candidate is Jello, and it's always a winner. What's more, Jello has dozens of winning combinations. Here's one of them. A bang-up solid idea that will go over bay even with the men. It's a tasty mixture of crisp, shredded cabbage and diced up pineapple inside a lovely clear mold of lemon jello. Tastes grand with a tangy sort of flavor that's got real come on. Jello tastes twice as good as ever before. Use it for salads as well as desserts, and you'll find it twice as useful.  Strawberry, raspberry, cherry, orange, lemon, and lime. Just be sure to insist on genuine jello. The last number of the sixth program in the New Jello series, and we'll be with you again next Sunday night at the same time. Oh, yeah. What? What are we going to do with these jellisons? I don't know. I'm going home now. 50,000 taxis, 100,000 free cards. Goodnight, folks.