Yeah, overheat. What? Wait, that was crazy, dog. That was crazy.  There he is. Oh my gosh. What's popping people? Welcome back to another video. If you guys are new to the channel, please hit that subscribe button, hit the notification bell, and also hit that like button if you guys have been enjoying the content. I hope you guys are having a wonderful day. You guys saw on the last episode we were at the Savannah River. Well, today we're gonna be dumping in the Ogichi River trying to catch some big fish. It's gonna be a fun episode. I hope you guys are ready for it. Be sure to hit that like button if you guys have been enjoying the river videos. Drop some video ideas down below. Let's get it started. I'm wanting to bring the river videos back to the channel. You guys know I love just coming out here on the river and trying to hunt for these big bass out here because there's a lot of big fish in the river. It's just, they're a little hard to catch. Like I said, there's a ton of small fish. You don't catch a ton of big ones all the time, but it's the process of going out here and searching for those big bass because when you catch one, it is so rewarding out here. So that's exactly what we're doing today. I got eight of in the boat. I backed him in the water. So we're just gonna give it a shot. Hopefully we'll whack him. I haven't been on the Ogichi in a very long time. I can't remember the last time I filmed the video out here. The last time I was like filming religiously out here was back in December. And I was like going almost every single day we were catching the heck out of them. So I hope the river's gonna be good today. Hope the fish are gonna be biting and we just sack up a lot of them. What you doing? Got an old fancy power pole down. We on Adubs guide service today. Is that where we're going? Yeah, driving and kicking their bass boat. What you gotta say to the people? Kick your bass like I did yesterday. Because yesterday I kicked your bass. You didn't really kick my bass, man. I don't know. The tide's better today. So I think we're actually gonna catch them. I got the Sun's Out Guns Out shirt on. So I'm feeling pretty excited. I think we're gonna go out here and smack them. And if you guys wanna check out Adubs channel, go help them get to 30K. You just hit 20K. Just hit 20K and we're already at like 20.3. So we're going quick, so go ahead and join the Adub gang. Yo, guys, go get him to 30K right now.  But go get him to 30K, that would be crazy. He just hit 20, go get him to 30. So after this video, go to his channel, hit that subscribe button, check some of his videos out. We're gonna be collabing a lot. So you guys are gonna see Adub on the channel in a good bit. All right, man. Let's go ahead and get started Adub. I'm gonna wax him today. I'm excited about it. It's been really hot recently. Today, I mean, it's hot. Like it's gonna be probably high 90s, but right now it feels pretty good.  It's not bad. I already know that we are going to be sweating a lot today though. It's going to get very hot. We haven't been out here for very long. Once we've been out here in the sun, we're gonna start feeling it. But compared to like all the other days this week, like it feels pretty good. Yeah, it might not be as bad. I don't know. It might be that front kinda pushed in last night, which might have cooled things off a little bit, so. Hopefully it didn't ruin the fishing. Yeah, I hope it didn't. That's kinda worrying me. We had like really, really bad wind yesterday. And I don't even know if it rained or not, but I know it was very windy. So hopefully the fish are still good. Maybe they're even better than they were. I don't know. We'll see. Take us around, Adove. Not this way. Go that way. So what do you think the key bait's gonna be today? When you're out here, there's one bait you always have to throw, and that is a crawl. And we are probably going to be throwing a stroke of crawl and a crawl on today. Those things have been killing it out here. But I have also been getting some bites on the fluke. The cloud, too. Yeah, the cloud's actually really good, too. I usually don't throw it, because if I'm gonna throw a sinker, I'm usually throwing it weightless.  I've been throwing that crawl, and they've been eating it good. But I don't know. Might be the cloud, might be the crawl. Might be the fluke. Who knows? But we'll see. So yeah, guys. When I come out here on the river, like he was saying, the main bait that'll really catch them if you guys are in the area you're coming out here, you just wanna catch some fish, because it can be really tough if you're never fishing tidal water fisheries before. I usually start off with like a crawl. Usually the stroker crawl has got a little bit more action.  If the fishing's a little bit tough, I'll switch over to the prawn, which is a beaver-style bait. It's a little more finesse, doesn't have as much movement. And if they really don't want that, if they're not eating the crawl, I'll switch over to the cloud. And it's weird, because you'll go out here, and on some days, they really want that worm more than the crawl, and then you'll have some days where they really want that crawl more than the worm. So it's more of experimentation, but we're gonna throw some other baits today too, some big fish baits, maybe some topwater, maybe we'll go on a topwater bite, but let's go ahead and get to the first spot. Let's go get them. Bring the scale. So we're idling back to our first spot right now, and it was high tide about an hour ago. So where we put in at the ramp, and the difference between the tide over here, it goes out a lot quicker over here. It's about a two-hour difference. So right now, we're just on that curve. We were at high tide, and now it's starting to drop. These fish that pull up in this creek, they're gonna start to pull out. If we can catch them right here at the mouth of this, as the fish are coming out in these little tiny current breaks, it could be deadly. It's just a fact, if the fish are gonna bite, if the fish are gonna be there. It's a timing thing out here when you're fishing the tidal water like this, and timing's crucial. You know, if you miss something about 30 minutes, you might not catch them, but if you were there 30 minutes before, you might catch 15 fish. So that's where we're gonna hand flip today. As you guys can tell, we're gonna march out here. This is a lot different. Look at that. Show them that stuff. But Ado hasn't been here before he's never fished this spot. He's fished it with me a few times, but we're gonna see if we can catch them right when we go around here. We're gonna put the work. You know, we're gonna get some Texas rigs on, get a few moving baits, and see how these fish are gonna be positioned. I'm just praying that they're gonna be here. Last time I was catching them really good was in December. I was just smoking them right here, but we'll talk about what we're doing, why the fish are positioned where they're at as we get into the day and we start casting. All right, we're gonna be using our Mach two today. Little Texas rig, I got a cloud on right now. I think I'll start off with it since I got it on. This is actually in dirty water bug. That's my favorite color by six cents in the clouds. My second favorite is the June bug red. Both really good for dirty water. If you're fishing clear water, like I always say, your watermelons, your green pumpkins, that's gonna be your go-to. You're fishing water that's a little bit more stained. I suggest like the dirty water bug or like a June bug color or even black and blue would be good. But this is a dirty water bug. Let me tell you, it's a killer color. I've killed them on it out here. All right, guys, we started off with the cloud. I think I'm gonna take it off and try on a striker crawl. I haven't had any bites yet. Adam hasn't either on that fluke. But something's just telling you no, we'll put on a crawl. So that's what I'm gonna do. This is the striker crawl by six cents, black and blue, this thing catches them. It's actually my last pack of them. I've caught so many fish on these crawls, man. These things are slam. Rig that bad boy up on this Texas rig. Let's see if we'll eat this better. Oh, no, no, Adam.  You see that? Is it a bass? Yeah, dude, he yanked down on me. That might've been a big fish. He's right where he should've been. Right where he just landed. I landed and my lines are taking off. What in the world? Ah, that was, had to have been a small one.  Dude, the moment it hit the water, same way, do, do, do, do, do. Good thing is, this bite's gonna get better and better as the time goes on. There he is. There he is, yo!   This is a little time. First fish, okay, we got something. Got something in the works. Main river, this is our first little main river spot, so. We'll see, that's a sign of activity. That's all we needed. Cannot believe there's not a fish there. That was unbelievable. Like, why are they not in the marsh? I mean, spoke too soon, buddy. About took the rod out of my hand. Okay, a little better. It's still a baby. Still a baby, but a little better. These river bass, man, you'll catch so many of these little tiny guys. That's a pretty one. He just threw up there and it, bam! Stroker crawl, man, they've been munching the stroke. Let me see, don't leave me, don't leave me. Pretty little fish, that's a fat, chunky guy. Dude, these river bass are so weird, bro. So funny. Get him right back in. What? Yeah. Right there? Yeah, right there. Adam just caught one, I, long story. He missed it and then he came back and hit it top water after he missed it. Big shout out to this page, man. He's called 433. They have 30 million followers, look at this. It pushes your boy. I don't even know if you could see that, so, uh-oh. I'm not lying. Biggin', dude. I don't know, I can't tell if it's a bass or a mud. Yep. It's a muddy, it's a muddy boy. They fight good, I'll tell you that. I ain't doing that, dude, why, why ain't doing that?  I almost thought about it, but I. Beef quesarito.  Oh my gosh. Those things.  Did you just, A-dub. That ain't my fault, you hooked them deep, man. A-dub. Can't help it. You got sharp teeth? Oh, A-dub. Come on, bro. A-dub just cut my line on purpose. I cannot believe it. I cannot believe it. It's okay, though. We got one, Stout, why you got hook lift? They biting. The mud's a biting, boys. I got one stroker curl left. Probably this stroker curl. Feels like I put it in the microwave for 30 minutes. Okay, mudfish, where you at? I'm just a mudfish slayer, bro. Oh my God. Dude, he, that had to have been a mudfish. There he is. Definitely a mudfish. This is actually fun, dawg.  Oh gosh. What? Those things are mean. Got a fan on the water, but I'm gonna take a picture with him. He's out here swimming in the river. They out here tubing. We're out here fishing. Fishing, man. Trying to catch fish at least. He's out in the water. That's what we need. I'm just alligator infested waters. That's where I went to school at, really? Yes, sir. I'm on that. Oh my God. You wanna say hey to the camera too, actually? Yeah. Yeah, gonna be in a video. No way. Yeah, man. Oh my God. This is crazy. My Instagram's a Trent and Glisser. And this is probably like the best fish I know. Y'all have them. I subscribe to them. And every time they help someone on YouTube, I watch them. Appreciate it, bro. Yes, sir. Just got to our next spot. Met that fan out there. That's awesome, guys. If you ever see me out, just come up and say, hey, I'm a normal person. I promise you, I love talking to you guys and meeting you all and seeing the supporters that support what I do for a living and back me behind all this. I really appreciate each and every single one of you guys. I know I say that every single video because I genuinely mean it. And we're about to tie on a new bait right now. It's actually the Divine Swim Jig. This is by six cents. White and chartreuse. And the trailer that I got, chartreuse on the bottom, blue on the top. Beautiful little color. I actually got this in my Super Six box. If you guys want to get a Super Six box, it's a monthly subscription box. I just got a ton of products in there. And it's the best on the market. I will say that it's all premium baits. You won't find that anywhere else. If you guys want to check it out, I'll drop the link down below. Pop up my code on the screen. You can get a discount. But that's exactly where I pulled this swim jig out of. So let's go ahead and tie this on. I'm tying a basic uni knot and get the fishing over here. We're at a different part of the river now. And I think the bite's gonna be a lot better. I think we're gonna put on some moving baits, cover a lot of water. You know, we'll flip that crawler around a good bit too. But for the most part, we're just gonna cover a lot of water and see if we can catch some big fish. Oh my God, that's a bass. Yeah, that's a good one, dude. Oh man, that's a really good one. Yes. Dude, right there on the swim jig. Divine swim jig out of the Super Six box. Beautiful fish. That's a good, that's a good Gichu bass. Nothing big, but I mean, heck, that's a good one right there. Thick body, beautiful bass. That's awesome right there. Right there on the swim jig, man. Right there, you're having to throw a moving bait all day. Adam's been throwing that fluke, which is, you know, a hybrid between a slow moving bait and a moving bait, but beautiful, a Gichu river bass. The markings on these fish out here are just outstanding. And we caught that fish right away. We're gonna see if there's some more in here. He's right there on that lay down, that shade line. It's a good little sign. We'll get him right back in the water. Thank you, bud. Give me some of that Aida. Yo. It looked like he was running to the left. I'm like, whatever, our guy's big. Dang tree pounder. Gotta love it. Look at the boil. You see that boil? Throw your fluke on that. That's a good little sign right there.   Yeah.  No, I actually did think it was a bass, honestly. Cause he's not as long. I bet you that's what hit me. It was in the same spot, wasn't it? I've caught a mudfish on a fluke before. Yeah, that's interesting.  That's funny. Well guys, that's what I was saying. You know, it's on low tide.  It's got overhangs above it just because of the low tide. The water's a lot lower than it was. So what I'm doing is I'm pretty much just skipping the swim jig up under these trees. So I'm pretty much taking it, a little shade line, skipping that thing up under there. Reeling it, giving it a couple of pops. Had two bites right away. Oh my, dude, dude, dude, dude, dude. Yes. Hammered it. He stopped it completely. God, Lee, we need to have, you can follow up and catch them. We need to take that curl. See, that's three bites, guys. We've had a portable flip. And that's another thing. So when you're throwing like a moving bait like that, or even a topwater, usually if you get hit and they don't have it all the way, you know, they never ate it. If you take a soft plastic or like a weightless fluke, something of some sort, it's usually a weightless sinko, this crawler work, you know, that weightless fluke, and you pitch in right where that fish bit, usually you can catch them. So that's something to keep in mind as well. If you're missing fish on moving baits or topwater, follow it up with a soft plastic if they don't eat it all the way. And I promise you about 50% of the time you're going to catch that fish. Like right there, I didn't get them. Maybe eight of it end up throwing in there and catching them. But that's what he did behind us. I know it was a mudfish, but the same rules apply for that bass. But we're just going to keep on covering water, skipping this thing under trees. I'll catch back up with you guys with another fish.  They're eating the heck out of it. I mean, there it is. Look at this. Why did you not eat it? What? Throw your thing, throw your fluke up under there. You hit me twice. I think it's like a little guy, but... Dude, you didn't see that? He blew up on it like a topwater. I skipped right back there. Dude, yeah, you can catch them. I literally skipped and he blew up on it like a topwater. It was right there. A little chunky? Yeah, for real. Chunky monkey, eight of on board. There's a lot of fish back here, man. I'm impressed. Most fish we found, we were in the marsh, we were in that brackish water. I think we were just making the wrong decisions on that. We should have went up river a little more. We're not even too far up river right now. But we can already tell the difference. And I'm throwing a moving bait now. I put down that crawl. They're just not eating it. Even when the bites I was getting, they weren't committing. So throwing the swim jig might be some sauce. Is right where you just casting? Yeah, over heat. What? Wait, that was crazy, dog. That was crazy. Yeah. He's a giant, too. No. Oh, that was cool. That was actually really cool. What? My fish. Yeah. That's a bass. Oh snap. That's a good one, buddy. That's a good one, buddy. Yeah, eight of smacking them. Fatty. On the fluker? Yeah, they're so thick, dude. They're just not long. They're still like a pound because he's fat. I saw those, they're just built like so stubby out here.  Right here, now we're fishing the main river. Just started. You got that bite? About to smack that. It's a good little deal. Yeah, yeah. Might be a really big one. Oh, that's a good one. A really big one. That's a bass. Yeah, that's a good one, too. Look at that one. That's a good fish. Right here on the main river, we just came to another spot. Eating that swim jig. That's a good one. That's probably the best one today. Yeah, I think that is the best one. Beautiful markings on them. He felt really big when he hit it. That's a good fish, though. These fish that live in the current, they're really strong. As you guys can tell, beautiful lateral line on that one. It's a little splashy. Pretty markings on that bass. That's the one thing about the Ogichi ones. They're so pretty out here, just beautiful fish. That's a good little bass. We'll get him back in the water. That's a good river fish. Thank you so much, bud. Thank you.


Are you having one? Don't eat junk food, don't stay indoors too long, and don't scroll social media. Do sleep seven to eight hours a day. Do take frequent breaks. Do read thought-provoking books. Do this consistently for one month and see what happens. You'll be shocked by the difference. It happens to everybody.


Here's a toast to the halls of memory, both he and S.F.O. 1941, 24 hours after the date that will live in infamy, the nation assembled to hear their commander-in-chief. I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7, 1941, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire. Bombs from enemy planes had finally brought national unity. Fortunately, to lead the war effort, we had men like Mr. Robert Lovett assistant secretary of war for air. Judge Robert Patterson, under secretary of war. Chief of the Army Air Forces, General Henry Arnold, getting a staff which included Carl Spots, James Doolittle, Ira Aker, and Coit Vandenberg, among others. And one of America's leading advocates for expanded air power, Secretary of War Henry Stimpson. He checked U.S. outposts like General Frank Andrews' Caribbean Defense Command. In charge of Army forces in the Far East was the man who had helped us establish the GHQ Air Force, General Douglas MacArthur. Now he consulted with Manuel Quezon, president of the Philippines. Together, they had kept the island secure after a week of heavy bombing by the Japanese. Max men, close to a knockout, rolled with a punch. Not so, Mark Field. Here, despite a nine-hour warning, half our total bombing force was lost on the ground. But this didn't stop the Far East Air Force on emergency fields from wiring its planes together to fight what was destined to be a losing battle. Fighter pilots like Joseph Moore, Grant Mahoney, and Samuel Merritt fought a delaying action. Never knowing if their temporary bases would be safe for return, they prepared to engage the enemy. A few B-17s that escaped destruction joined the fight. Distinguishing themselves were bomber pilots Rosie O'Donnell, Hewitt-Wheeless, and Kelly. That's Captain Colin Kelly. His fortress had been directed to locate and sink a carrier. Instead, a Jap heavy cruiser was spotted. A warship made a good target for Kelly's bombardier, Maier 11. The bombs damaged and stopped the warship. Colin Kelly's life came to a hero's end that morning. Maier 11's luck ran out of a new guinea a year later. And despite the heroic sacrifices of men like Kelly and Levin, the Japs finally drove the Allies out of the Philippines. In Australia, where we had to concentrate our limited air strength after retreating from the islands, our job was to stop the Japs from sweeping over all the Pacific. With this in mind, we had to deploy our forces for the defense of Australia early in 1942. That's why General Ralph Royce, Chief of Pacific Air Staff, piloted his new boss, General George Brett, Chief of Allied Air Forces in the Pacific, on an aerial inspection tour. General Brett decided his air units must encompass the entire continent of Australia. All this time, there was an American volunteer group in Asia. Here, Special Advisor to the Chinese Air Force, Claire Chenault, had 84 volunteer pilots, including men such as Tex Hill, George Burgard and Robert Smith. Nicknamed the Flying Tigers, their P-40 Tomahawks were serviced by Chinese mechanics and 200 American ground crewmen. Along with official sanction, the former Army, Navy, and Marine pilots were offered $600 per month in the promise of a bonus for every Jap plane destroyed. A few days after Pearl Harbor, the Flying Tiger first and second squadrons moved to Kunming. There, Chenault set up a fighter control headquarters, hooked into an elaborate air warning net to receive reports from Chinese aircraft spotters. The Japanese, based at Hanoi, 60 miles away, headed for Kunming to destroy the untried Tigers who had arrived only the day before. The moment the Jap flight was airborne, a sharp-eyed Chinese spotter ran to flash the warning. Crewed breadlander and semaphores sent the signal over the hills. Kunming had experienced many false alerts, but this report of heavy engine noise at Station X-10 was the real thing. Fighter control added up the enemy course and placed them 50 miles east of Kunming. This was the decisive moment. The Tigers weren't going to lose any planes on the ground. Kunming wasn't going to be another Pearl Harbor or Clark Field. Japs were about to feel the fight of these razor-teeth Tiger sharks, terrifying emblem of the Flying Tigers. And so, American pilots in American planes aided by a primitive Chinese warning system were about to tackle a formation of the Imperial Japanese Air Force, which was then victoriously sweeping the Pacific skies. Part of the fate of China was riding in the P-40 cockpits as Robert Sandell's first squad made contact with the enemy. After losing 60% of their force in this one fight, the Japs never again tried to bomb Kunming. Sinald's handful of Flying Tigers were our only fighting airmen in China. And like the Lafayette Eskidrill in World War I, they made us proud. But for global war, we needed men, thousands of skilled men. Some had to become bombardiers and learn the intricacies of complex gadgets like the secret bomb sites. Working mock-ups, machine guns mounted on platforms and trucks, trained gunners to draw a bead on a flashing target. Then the training took to the skies. Behind each gun was a man, and behind each man was months of training. The lives of a crew were going to depend on the accuracy of the gunner. By February 1942, tail guns were filling the blind spot that lost us Colin Kelly. The Axis took ten years to build their air forces. America had to do it in one, and at the same time, hold off the enemy. On the President's order, the bitter taste of war was returned to Japan. We fashioned a daring ski. To have the Hornet launch a force of bombers and strike at Tokyo from the sea. All the volunteers for this secret and hazardous job had been specially trained by Colonel Jimmy Doolittle. While under destroyer escort, the 80 Tokyo Raiders held a deck ceremony with Japanese medals. Doolittle fastened one of these to a 500-pound bomb. The medals were going to be returned with interest. Bashed to the flight deck, the 16 B-25s had a rough voyage. Hoping to reach a takeoff point 450 miles from Japan, but ready to start in event of discovery, the crews kept fit. They were discovered. After avoiding two enemy patrol vessels, the task force realized they were sighted by a Japanese picket boat. The Hornet's escort promptly sank. Since secrecy had been compromised and fearing an alarm all over Japan, Doolittle, forced into the decision, ordered the planes to be launched. This was 800 instead of 450 miles from Tokyo, and 10 hours earlier than planned. In spite of the last second change, preparations went according to rehearsal. Only 467 feet of clear deck faced Doolittle's lead ship. The rest barely had room in which to rev up, and the last plane hung precariously out over the stern of the Hornet. After the wind up by the flight officer, Doolittle made his run down the punching deck. With 100 feet to spare, he led the parade. Attention eased a little once the colonel was in the air. Crewmen cheered as one plane after another screamed down the swaying runway. This pilot started without lowering his flaps. His plane ran off the deck, dropped sharply, but expert piloting saved him. Launching fully loaded medium bombers had never been done before. When the decks of the flagship were cleared, Admiral Halsey signaled to Colonel Doolittle and his gallant command, good luck, and God bless you. Tokyo, oddly enough, had just completed an air raid drill. Their patrol boat had warned the city, but the attack was expected the next day. Therefore, the Jap war machine rolled on, unmindful of the approaching eagles. Target factories were turning out punitions tagged for Corregidor, Midway, and Dutch Harbor. Secured behind their Pacific fortress and confident of an early victory, they discounted America's ability to fight back. Thus, the bombers were virtually unopposed as they flew on the deck. They swept in over the coast on their way to Tokyo. Elements separated and some climbed to 1,500 feet with a bombing. At 1,215, the attack was opened by Doolittle, who dove in before he unloaded his incendiaries upon the Japanese capital. One after another, they checked off their targets. Tank factories, shipyards, docks, railroad yards, steel plant, gunpowder factory. As the raiders left Tokyo with a broad trail of flame and smoke in their wake, Japan tasted war. The raid was but an omen of the eventual destruction to be heaped on Japan from the skies. As Doolittle later promised, we're going back to Tokyo and we shall go in full array with mighty allies. To be continued...


Hello and welcome to the last week of this course reaction mechanisms. So just a recap as usual of what we did in the previous class. So in the previous class we were looking at catalysis, specifically we were looking at Bronsted acid base catalysis. So this involves some sort of proton or hydroxide transfer. Now further we had classified it as specific and general catalysis and we had mainly looked at specific acid catalysis. So in specific acid catalysis the main thing you need to remember is that proton transfer occurs before the rate determining step. So in other words proton transfer is pretty fast and is not the rate determining step, it happens before the rate determining step. And then why is it called specific acid or specific base? The reason being that you can put whichever acid you want in the solvent but what catalyzes it or the kinetics essentially depends on the protonated form of the solvent for specific acid and the conjugate base of solvent for specific base. So if you are talking about water then essentially the reaction kinetics will depend on only concentration of H3O+. It will not depend on concentration of HA which is the other acid that you might be adding. Similarly, if you are looking at specific base the kinetics will only depend on concentration of OH- if you are talking about water as solvent and not any other base that you would have added to the reaction mixture. And we had looked at derivation of rate loss and essentially when we derived the rate loss what we saw that was that the k value depended on only the concentration of H3O+, or OH-. So it did not depend on concentration of the acid which is HA and if you plot the k observed versus concentration of HA essentially you will get a straight line. And shown here are two straight lines at two different pHs. So in the case of specific acid you will have a higher k observed at the lower pH as compared to the higher pH. So if you were to plot the log of k versus pH what you would see is you would see a linear decrease in the case of a specific acid. So as the pH will increase the k value will decrease for specific acid. So now let us move on to the general acid and general base catalysis. Now in general acid catalysis what you must remember is that the proton transfer occurs in the rate determining step not before in the rate determining step. So that is what is general acid catalysis. So shown here is a very simplified version of the general acid catalysis equation.  For simplicity I have not shown water here but in reality what you will also have is you will also have water and a lot of times what you have is a complex of so the whole thing would be charged depending on whether it loses the proton or not. So you have a species like this that would be generated where you have the water also playing a role. When we look at specific examples later it would make more sense to you. So now if you were to derive the rate law for this which is the rate determining step the first step is the rate determining step. So if I were to write which is essentially the rate it would be given by k let us say k is the rate constant for this and if water plays a role concentration of water will also come in but as you know most of the times we do not take that into consideration. So now what you see is when you are looking at the rate the concentration of HA is actually playing an important role. So essentially what you see is concentration of HA is important and it cannot be neglected whereas what you saw in specific acid catalysis was that it mainly depended on the concentration of H3O plus. Similarly you can derive the expression of the general base catalysis again I have simplified this and not included water here. So here again if I were to write the rate the rate would be given by so here again what do you observe you see that concentration of B is actually important. So essentially when you do the kinetics for these reactions which are under general acid or general base catalysis what you would see is that the concentration of the acid or concentration of the base plays a very very important role. So that is what I have written here the rate is affected by concentration of the acid HA and base B. So the main difference here with specific acid catalysis was that in this case the acid that you add is involved in the rate determining step. So that is the big difference between specific and general catalysis. Now what if you have a reaction in which the acid that you are using is actually water and you have protonation in the rate determining step. So in this case what will your HA be if you are using water your HA would be H3O plus. So in this case although the protonated solvent is what is important but it is involved in the rate determining step so that is why it would be a general acid catalysis. So do not get confused with this term specific and general just remember that specific means it is very very specific to protonated form of the solvent. General means it can be any acid whatever you add if you want to add acetic acid then it would be catalyzed by acetic acid and that concentration will be important. So now that you have understood this concept the difference between specific and general catalysis let us see if you are able to plot this now. So what would be a plot of K observed versus concentration of HA for general acid catalysis. So I want you to think about this and you can press the pause button look at the equation that we had written in the previous slide and then try to plot it. In the earlier case for specific acid it was a straight line in this case which was parallel to the x-axis let us see what it will be in this case. So you can press the pause button and try to write the answer in your notebook. All right let us see if you are able to get this answer correctly. Now as the concentration of HA increases since now you have a direct dependence on concentration of HA in the kinetics expression what you would get is you would get a straight line which would be increasing. All right now what will the plot look like for general base catalysis. So now you are plotting K observed with respect to concentration of B. So now I want you to think of what the graph will look like. Again press the pause button and write it in your notebook. So let us see if you got this correct even in this case there is a direct correlation correct? So here also it will not be any different it will be a straight line. All right so what you would see is the K observed will obviously increase with the concentration of the base in one case with the concentration of acid and in the other case with the concentration of base. Now like last time this is slightly more involved I want you to think about how log of K observed will vary with pH for general acid catalysis. So I want you to remember one thing remember that the K observed depends on concentration of HA. All right so now what you need to think about is how the concentration of HA will change with pH. All right this is the hint I have given you. So you need to think about how when you change the pH the concentration of HA will change and if you need one more hint you can think of the Henderson Hasselbach equation. So I will request you to press the pause button and try to draw this graph. So let us see what happens at low pH correct? So when you have the pH very low it essentially indicates that HA would be in its own form which is the undissociated form. So what you would have is you will have at low pH a higher concentration of HA. Now you need to look at this equilibrium which is so at low pH you have a great concentration of H3O plus the equilibrium is towards the left. Now what will happen as you increase the pH when will there be a major change? The major change will be when you have HA dissociating right. So it has a dependence on the pKa of HA and if you remember your Henderson Hasselbach equation right when the pH is equal to pKa of the acid what do you have? You have an equal concentration of HA and A- correct? So the graph will look something like this where what you would see is it would remain a straight line without much change because the concentration of HA would remain the same and then beyond the point what you would see is you would see it starting to decrease with an increase in pH. So what is happening here? At this point the pH will be equal to the pKa of HA. So what will happen beyond this point would be that concentration of A- is what will start increasing and concentration of HA will start decreasing alright. So beyond this point what you see will be that you will have lesser and lesser and lesser concentration of HA in the solution and we had just seen in the previous slide that the k observe actually increases with the concentration of HA. So as the HA concentration is decreasing what you would see is that you would see a decrease in the rate that you observe. So now that you understood this concept I want you to work out what the graph will look like in the case of a general base reaction alright and as a hint what you can think of is when you look at a base you can think of this equilibrium and remember the k in this case depends on concentration of B alright. So that is what is important for the k value in this case. So now press the pause button and try to write what the graph will look like alright. So let us see in this case what happens is at a very low pH you would have B exist mainly as BH plus. So B will exist mainly as BH plus. So what happens is you do not have concentration of B very high in your solution. So what you see would be that it will be it will slowly slowly increase right as you increase the pH and then there will be a point at which it will become unchanged. So that means BH plus has completely dissociated to be at this point and again what would this point correspond to you can think a little more this point would correspond to pKa of BH plus right. So when your pH is equal to the pKa of BH plus it will start dissociating and then you have this rapid dissociation usually you see a sigmoidal curve if you remember from your titrations that you have always done. So what you would see is beyond that point you would have the concentration of B not changing much which is why you would see a straight line alright. So this is very different from what we had seen in the case of specific catalysis. So now let us try to look at examples. Let us look at an example of this ketone right this ketone is being hydrolyzed alright. So now when you get this product let us look at how you would write the mechanism had this taken place by specific acid catalysis. So we are looking at a hypothetical situation let us say this reaction was being catalyzed and the mechanism was such that it is similar to a specific acid catalysis how will you write that mechanism. So I will show you in this case so when you look at specific acid catalysis what is the thing you need to remember protonated solvent is what is important. So let us say we are doing this reaction with an acid HA in water alright. So H3O plus is what we are looking at. So now let us say that you have your ketone right remember in a specific acid catalysis the proton transfer occurs quickly before the rate determining step. So let us say the proton transfer is now occurring quickly from the protonated solvent which is H3O plus this is your O so let us say and this will occur fast or slow it will be fast because we are looking at specific acid catalysis. So now what you get would be and then water will leave. So now that you have this species you will have water add in do not forget your arrow pushing from the very first week alright. So when you have this add in this process would be the rate determining step or the slow step and what you would get would be. Now after this what would happen is you would have a quick proton transfer again this would be fast. So this proton transfer would be again from water will grab this proton to give you your product alright. So now what has happened you have the proton transfer occurring quickly in the first step followed by addition of water which is the rate determining step. Now let us assume this reaction takes place by a general acid catalysis. So now what do you need to remember the proton transfer is occurring in the rate determining step. So how will you write this in this case so you have your acetone. Let us say now it is being catalyzed by the acid HA remember now concentration of HA is important. So let us say that this is getting protonated and as you know proton transfers are usually quick. So if it is a general acid catalysis presumably the water is also adding in at that point and this is your slow step or your rate determining step. So then what you get would be now once you have this so this looks very similar to the intermediate we had seen above here you have proton transfer again this would be fast to give you your product alright. So these mechanisms are written so these are hypothetical possible mechanisms that we have written to show how the reaction will take place had it gone by specific acid or general acid. So this just shows you how the mechanisms would look in each of these cases. So now that I have shown it to you for specific acid and general acid catalysis I want you to write the mechanism for specific base and general base catalysis. So here you can assume that you are adding a base B and again the solvent is water. So go ahead and write the mechanism first for specific base catalysis. So in specific base catalysis let us see if you have this correctly. So I have my acetone right and now what is the base that you have in your specific base it is OH-. So you have OH-. OH- will add in so what will you get this will be fast. So once you get this anion this will abstract a proton remember there will be no H3O plus we are talking about a basic medium. So this will grab a proton from here so then what you would get so this would be a slow process. Now what will happen in a general base catalysis now in a general base catalysis the proton transfer is rate determining and concentration of base is important. So let us say you have base in your reaction medium which is water. So let us say the base grabs this proton so then you have this bond breaking and what you would get would be a slower process where you have again O- OH plus BH plus alright. So again now that you get this the next step would be formation of the product again via another proton transfer alright. So this is how you would write possible mechanisms for specific base and general base. Now let us look at specific examples okay there are too many terms specific coming here now I mean the English word specific not specific acid. Let us look at hydrolysis of acetal to hemiacetal and let us look at this specific example of specific acid catalysis. So here you have the acetal being hydrolyzed to a hemiacetal alright. So now I want you to write possible mechanisms for specific acid catalysis. We have just done that for acetone so I believe this would be easy for you to do. So go ahead and do that in your notebook you can check your answers looking at my slide later alright.  So you have O-R O-R and again specific acid catalysis we are looking at H3O plus let us say you have this grabbing the proton. So what you get would be so you get this product. Now there are two mechanisms that you can write once you get this product. One mechanism is where you have this lone pair coming down to give you this oxonium ion plus ROH. Then after that you will have water adding in to give you and then you have a quick proton transfer to give you your hemiacetal product alright. Now because this is specific acid catalysis this step would be fast and then this step would be slow. The other option is you can think of so this is pathway A the other option is once you form the first intermediate you can think of water attacking and it undergoing an SN2 like mechanism to give you and of course this will undergo proton transfer to give you the product. So both of these mechanisms you can write for a specific acid catalysis. Now how do you know which of these mechanisms is operative? So what is found is that for this particular acetal so you have an aromatic unit right next to the acetal and X so that means what was the experiment that was done it was a Hammett correlation. So the linear free energy relationship was determined for this particular reaction as in hydrolysis of this particular acetal and the rho value was found to be minus 3.3. So that means a large negative value. So whatever you have studied before for the Hammett plots can you tell me which path is operative path A or path B. Again press the pause button you can look at your notes from earlier and figure out the answer. So the high negative value suggests that you have a positive charge close to the aromatic ring here. So that shows that it goes via path A right because in path A you will generate an intermediate which would be correct. So if you write the resonance structure of this you have the positive charge in conjugation with the aromatic ring. So that is why you see such a negative rho value. So here using the Hammett correlation you could say that it goes via path A. Now suppose the same reaction goes via general acid catalysis how will you write the mechanism. So I want you to do that as homework and when we come back in the next lecture we will see how this reaction mechanism takes place and do you actually observe such a mechanism because usually one would assume that for the acetal hydrolysis it would have to go by a specific acid catalysis because you do not have a great leaving group. So you would need protonation to be the first step and it would be a quick step. So we will meet again in the next class. Before that try to work out this mechanism and we will see if you have it right in the next lecture. Thank you.


First question is from fit trucker lady, are booty bands or hip circles effective for building the butt? What would be the correct way to use a booty band? Oh, those have been real popular lately, you know, with people, especially for butt building. So here's the thing, booty bands, hip circles. So for those people who don't know what those are, those are literally elastic bands, some of them made out of material, some of them actually made out of like a rubber or whatever. You wear it around your legs and then you do movements that work the muscles that separate your legs or work your glutes with them. On their own, they're not very effective at building any muscle at all. And if you take them and put them in a program and use them properly, they are very effective. So the way that I would use them is I would use them as a primer. I would use them to get someone to feel what it feels like to activate the glutes, to activate the glutes a little bit, and then move the person to the real butt building exercises, which are like your squats and your deadlifts and your hip thrust. That's how I would primarily use the booty bands. Yeah, I've always used these mainly as a warmup primer. We'd call it like tube walking, but we would do this ahead of time in order to get the glutes to respond and you'd be able to feel that in your squats and in your lifts throughout. So it's very effective for that if you haven't done that before, but you do see a lot on social media people selling these and obviously they're trying to sell them as like the one stop shop of like building your booty. And this is all you have to do. It's the same thing with the donkey kickbacks, the dog peas, like all these exercises that have a little bit of relevance on their own in terms of activation of the glutes, but they're not building. They're literally just like getting you connected to your glutes and it's a great one to add into for more volume in terms of frequency of being able to approach that specific muscle group. I think it's an amazing tool, but unfortunately it's rare that I think I see people using it well. It's turned into that where when I go in the gyms now they're everywhere. They've been definitely marketed to people a lot and it's obviously why we have this question, but everybody uses them like these pumping exercises. So they're doing all these pumping kickbacks with it or they're doing jump squats and they're wearing them. They're doing all these weird movements while they keep the band on during the entire time. And then you have another group of people that are wearing them while they're doing squats, which is not bad, but the idea is that you're just trying to prime and wake up the glutes, right? So we've talked about this before when like one of the most common things that people do when they squat is their feet pronate, meaning they flatten and the knees collapse in. Well, the muscles that are responsible for that, the knees pushing out is your side butt. So if I put a band around my knees and I have to push out against the band, basically what it's doing is it's telling me to like that part of my they turn that part of my butt on and so and then people really feel it when they do the squats with the bands and knees. And what happens a lot of times with exercises, we think that because we feel it, it's a more effective exercise. So that that was it. And this was a mistake I remember making as a trainer is like, if it was something that they really felt like, oh, that's a better exercise than another exercise just because that person feels it better. But that's not necessarily true. Like it would be far better if that person just learned intrinsically how to turn that part of their butt on while they squat. And if you always have a band around your knees, you're not teaching yourself to do that.  Okay, now let's go and squat without the band. But now think about that. Now think about what we're trying to do by forcing your knees out and not letting them collapse in while you want to teach your body to be able to do it.  Now the way I would use something like this in the past, you can use it for correctional exercise, which is what I think people are doing, but thinking that they're building their butt more.  Well, one way you would help correct this for someone is you would have them push their knees out against something that that would provide some resistance like a band or sometimes I wouldn't even use a band, I would use a rope or something that didn't even stretch. I'd put around the legs have them push out and then squat. Now the reason why I would do that was it would teach them to to push the knees out while performing a movement. It's correctional exercise. Correctional exercise is great for correcting movement patterns. It's like training wheels, right? But it's not great for building lots of muscle. Now it can help you build lots of muscle because if you correct your form, then you go lift heavy, then you build lots of muscle. So that's how you should use this. You should use this to activate the glutes better, correct your positioning in your form. Then the goal is to not use it anymore.    Now do your sumo deadlifts. Now do your hip thrust and then watch what happens.


I just can't be a part of TYT anymore.  Because at a certain point it becomes embarrassing for me. Because how can I as a trans person who actually knows the science behind this, who actually is like actively trying to support trans people as somebody that people look up to me, right?  Hey, what the hell is happening here? Well, like, why is Anna saying this? Why is Jiang saying this? And that is just like the amount of like psychic damage that I have to take every single day dealing with not only the transphobic nonsense of the Republicans, but also whatever Jiang and Anna are on right now, it's just too much. And I just, cause at a certain point it becomes embarrassing because then people think that I'm like endorsing their views. And I cannot, I will not. I refuse to lend any support to those views whatsoever. You just watched a small portion of Benny Carolo's 30 minute long video explaining in great detail why she is leaving TYT. Now, for those of you who don't know, Benny was a TYT contributor, but as a trans person, she can simply no longer condone the anti-trans rhetoric coming from the show's main hosts.  Sandy Lovis, a non-binary person who also hosts Left of the Box, also left the network recently and recently spoke out as well for the same reason. A year ago when I had only been working on Rebel HQ for a month, I called out Jiang and Anna on this very issue. Do you think I wasn't aware of the risk attached to that? Damn straight, I'd be making noise about this, both on and off camera. So what if I lose my job over it? Hell, I'm making these videos knowing full well I'm probably blowing any chance I have of ever getting back on that network. And Sandy went on to encourage the TYT staff to walk out in support of their trans comrades. But Benny and Sandy aren't the only LGBTQ plus people at the network that have left. After being a network partner since 2017, I officially left TYT on May 1st of this year. And I think you all know why. I never stated why, but you all know why. It was because of this term that they've made recently.  I lost monetization for over a month, but I just couldn't be part of a network that doesn't value my community. And all three of us have tried to inform them on being better allies, but none of those attempts have been successful. All of us have failed. So we're here. That's three LGBTQ plus people that TYT lost within the span of a couple of months. So the question is, how many LGBTQ plus people are even left at TYT? How comfortable are those remaining LGBTQ plus employees in the face of all of this? I mean, they've got to feel really uncomfortable now.  How the supposed home of progressives lost multiple LGBTQ plus affiliates in just a couple of months because of their rhetoric, because of their refusal to listen to anything that we have to say because they just disregard our input, even if it comes from a good place, even if they've known at least me, for example, for years. I mean, if that doesn't trigger introspection, literally nothing will. Now, to those not plugged in to the discourse, let me give you some additional context. So elements of TYT's coverage has become increasingly reactionary, not just this year, not just with regard to the trans issue, but more broadly speaking. And that's not to characterize the totality of their content, but they have gotten noticeably more reactionary, ranging from their coverage of crime to homelessness to Jank's endorsement of a right-wing billionaire who tried to buy the Los Angeles mayoral race after leading the charge against money in politics for years. It all is very out of character, seemingly for them. But the straw that broke the camel's back was this irrational tweet by Annika Sperian where she demanded to not be called a birthing person. People like myself responded asking who called her that and explained that this type of inclusive language is only used in very specific legal or clinical settings. She then doubled down weeks later, specifically in an attack against my leftist mafia co-host, and she laughed off the quote meltdowns over that tweet. Now I'm not gonna rehash that discourse because we've already talked about it at length on the leftist mafia, and I've talked about it on this channel. I posted a video about that, I'll link to it down below if you wanna watch that. But leftists and colleagues tried to delicately explain to both Anna and Jank who defended her at the time that fixating and hyper-focusing on these insignificant issues, it just lends credence to the rights claim that trans people and their allies are unreasonable. And we even explained how as cis allies ourselves, we've made mistakes that we've had to correct. I explained how purposefully misgendering transphobes is not a good look. That's not how trans people want me to advocate for them.  So we try to go above and beyond to explain how we've been in this predicament as well, whereas allies, we didn't do the best, but we had to course correct. So that way they realized that it's not an attack on them, it's just we're trying to do better in our advocacy. But that didn't really make a difference. After going out of our way to be charitable, Anna Kasperian accused the leftist mafia of gaslighting her on this issue, which is odd considering the fact that she made this exact point that we all made about inclusive language eight months prior in a video where Josh Hawley was criticizing Professor Kiara Bridges for using the term people with the capacity for pregnancy. So was she gaslighting herself or what? Like it just, it doesn't make sense, right? To say that we were gaslighting as bizarre and just to be extra sure that I didn't say anything that I regret, I went back and watched our episode, our first episode where we talked about this and we were all incredibly kind, but yet despite the use of our kid gloves, they've only gotten worse. They didn't listen to anything we had to say and they've gotten much worse. And there's a lot of clips floating around on the internet that people are reacting to and we're not gonna watch all of them, there's a lot, but I just, I wanna point out a couple of examples here to demonstrate what I mean and why I feel like at this point, they may be just too far gone and I'm done trying to educate them. If clearly they're not even coming from a position of good faith any longer, right? So one example is Anna and Cenk talking about a MAGA chuds motivation for something that he said and listened specifically to one of the things that Anna says. What are your values that Donald Trump shares with you then? Parents in control of their children, you know, being able to make choices for your family. America's being assaulted, open borders. You know all the issues, we all know the issues. He has our values, does he? What is, what's your values?  He's raw dogging porn stars and they're like, and he says terrible things, does terrible things. You don't mean family values. So what values are you talking about? Oh, he believes in putting parents in charge of children.  I'm sorry, that's what it means. That means he wants to be able to make a decision or help. He doesn't want schools making decisions for his kids. About gay people and racism, right? He doesn't want racism taught. Those are the two issues, Anna. Those are the two issues in the schools. Those are not the two issues, okay? Okay, one of the issues that you're totally downplaying right now, not even mentioning, is that some school districts want to, let's say a student comes out and identifies as transgender. School districts want to support that student and help him or her through that transition without ever having to notify the parents. I think there are issues there. And I do not begrudge parents for being concerned about that. Anna, I agree with you. But you're finding a sliver of an issue. That guy's not talking, he doesn't even know that. And when you ask him about the issues, they always go to. I don't like Latinos, I mean immigrants.  I mean, I want parental control in schools. So that's the reality, you can see it all over the tapes. That is your interpretation, none of that was actually said. It is what you have taken out of his statements there. You're right. See, I find that clip interesting because you can see Anna bend over backwards to be overly charitable towards the MAGA chud, but for some reason, she can't extend that same level of charitable towards trans people and their allies who reached out in good faith to explain to her why her rhetoric has been harmful as of late. See, when it comes to MAGA chuds, we've got to try to interpret what they're saying in the most charitable way imaginable, but when it comes to allies of trans people and trans people, well, they're attacking me. Haven't you seen my record?  But that's not why I wanted to play the video. So when they're speculating about what this conservative means by parents in control of their children, Anna ascribes good intentions, good intentions to him by suggesting that he's probably talking about school districts who support and help students through their transitions, right? Without ever notifying parents. Now, she says that there's an issue with that. Now, let me be very clear. First and foremost, teachers cannot consent to gender affirming care on behalf of parents. Parents have to give consent in order for minors to receive gender affirming care. Second of all, protecting a child's identity is crucial because there are many LGBTQ plus kids who become homeless after getting rejected by unsupportive parents. Some school districts purposefully do not out kids to parents because of that very reason. They could literally endanger their lives. So why am I having to explain this to Anna Kasparian, who is a 17 year veteran? Do you think that she doesn't know this? Leaving out that crucial context is incredibly damaging because it suggests that teachers are doing some nefarious thing by simply affirming the identities of their students. Anna is a very smart woman, right? She's well aware of that. She's well aware of that. But she chose to not include that in her discussion. But there's more because she has defended anti-trans propagandist, Jesse Single, saying Jesse Single is not a transphobe at all. They just want to suppress anything that questions the safety of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for minors. It's pretty disgusting to say the least. And I'm glad that their efforts to destroy his career hasn't worked. Now it's evident that she's been watching a lot of right wing media because cross-sex hormones is a dog whistle that the right uses, right? It's words that they use because it primes you to think about HRT in a more negative way. Cross-sex hormones sounds a lot more scary than HRT, which sounds banal. So they use this language purposefully and Anna maybe intentionally or unintentionally, she's now using their exact words, but that's not even the real problem here with that. Putting aside Jesse Single for a moment, who is she referring to? Who's they? Who's trying to suppress this information? Clinics who literally offer gender-affirming care to minors, they detail the potential risks. Parents know about this before confirming that they want their kids to get gender-affirming care. If you don't believe me, test it out, look it up. I'll do it for you, in fact. The St. Louis Children's Hospital, for example, lists short and long-term side effects of puberty blockers. They do the same for hormone replacement therapy and include information about how it may affect fertility. So I'll ask again, who is suppressing this information, Anna? Before parents consent to any treatment, be it gender-affirming care or diabetes or cancer treatment, they are informed about the risks and the benefits, the pros and the cons. So who's trying to suppress this information? For the more Jesse Single, of all people, isn't being suppressed. In fact, his constant sensationalist fear mongering over the small amounts of detransitioners who exist was literally cited in a legal brief by Republican attorneys general to deny gender-affirming care. So his writing is influencing transphobic legal opinion, but yet people are trying to suppress him? It's just comical. But in addition to concern trolling about trans healthcare, TYT recently released a bizarre video where they talk about Trump attacking trans athletes and they go on to irrationally attack trans activists over the trans athlete issue, but not before trying to dig up minute examples to validate Trump's transphobic claim. You guys have to also understand we are in a bubble. We are in a severe bubble, right? Especially when it comes to this particular issue, because there is growing rage in the country in regard to the lack of fairness when it comes to some of these specific situations in which transgender athletes are included in these competitions. You're going to get upset about it, especially if you consider yourself or fancy yourself as an activist for the transgender community, you can go ahead and get mad about it. But you need to understand that there are people who do not see it as fair and it really depends on the specific situation. So as I mentioned earlier, right? We don't know exactly what he is referring to, but there are some prominent cases that have led to backlash that he could be talking about. So let's give you the examples. Stop right there. It is not your job to identify examples for Trump to validate his anti-trans argument. It is your job to explain to your audience how these anecdotes that you can find should not be used to justify discrimination. It is your job to educate your audience about how insignificant this issue is. There are approximately just 150 trans athletes in total in the United States, 100 at the college level and 50 about at the K through 12 level. I mean, in 2021, Associated Press, they reached out to dozens of GOP lawmakers who wrote legislation banning trans girls from high school sports and they asked for examples of trans athletes being disruptive and none of them could present any examples. But rather than approach it from that perspective and educate the audience about how the right is weaponizing this issue to gin up transphobia, Cenk and Anna proceeded to scold trans activists who defend trans athletes because they claim that this is a losing issue. This is not a winning issue for us. It is what it is. You do what you want with that information. Well, the advocates and activists for the transgender community would respond with, we don't care about the politics, right? We don't care about- Okay, but then they don't come. No, no, no, I gotta say it. Hold on, let me just finish my thought, Cenk. One second, okay, they'll say that. But okay, you don't care about the politics? Let's just, for once in your life, think strategically about what that means. That means that you're gonna continue pushing the Democratic Party to unequivocally support everything that the trans activists want, even if it's unpopular among the electorate. That means they're not getting reelected. That means they're gonna lose to Republicans. Republican lawmakers who are passing draconian, disgusting legislation in various states right now as we speak against the transgender community. So how does that make you win exactly? No, that is incredibly selfish of activists who are betraying their own community. Because when you say I don't care about elections, who cares about the Democrats? That isn't the point. The Republicans introduced over 600 bills against the LGBTQ community. That's because of elections and over 70 of them have already passed. When you say I don't care about winning, and I don't care about elections, what you're saying is I'm super selfish, leftist activist, and I'd like to build my cloud. But meanwhile, I'm willing to throw a trans people in the entire LGBTQ community under the bus, knowing that these bills are going to pass because we're laser focused on a losing issue. And by the way, you schmucks, you're falling exactly into the right wing trap. The Republicans, they tried everything. They tried anti-gay stuff, it didn't work. They tried trans bathrooms, you remember that? That didn't work. Kicking the transgender community out of the military, that didn't work. They drilled and drilled and drilled it until they finally found a little tiny nugget of like, hey, trans folks in competitive sports seems a little bit much. And you don't engage them in that fight. They lose on everything else.  Activists go in there and go, no, I'm going to fall right into that trap, and I'm going to fight on the only losing ground we have so we can elect more Republicans so they can pass more anti-LGBT laws. Great, well played. I'm sure your clout and your brand is doing great. That was genuinely unhinged for a number of reasons. First of all, I don't know who they're specifically referring to. I'm assuming that they're shadowboxing some caricature of a trans activist that they made up in their heads to be mad about. But I mean, I want to make it very, very clear. As a cis person, you do not get to dictate the terms that trans people fight on. They're the ones whose lives are in danger, whose rights are at stake. I think that they know better than you as cis people. Furthermore, even if you disagree with which issues they prioritize, it is absolutely fucking wild to accuse them of throwing their community under the bus if they don't see it ground to the right on particular issues. I mean, imagine them telling gay people that they can have gay marriage, but if they think that businesses shouldn't be allowed to discriminate because polling shows that people want that, well, they're throwing their own community under the bus. They're self-sabotaging. No, discrimination is wrong, period. And most people, I don't think, base their political positions on polling. We base it off of morality. But on top of that, they're just wrong. David will explain this eloquently in a recent video about how they're so wrong on the politics of this issue. Let's reiterate here, including 55% of Republicans saying that this is too much anti-trans, this is too much anti-trans legislation. This is too much. This polling finds that voters across all political parties see the Republican attempt to flood state legislatures with anti-LGBTQ plus legislation as political theater, said Aaron Thomas, a pollster at Data for Progress. It also shows that the ideas espoused by today's loudest anti-trans activists that trans people threaten children and that our identities are a woke invention don't resonate with the average voter. Again, this does not resonate with the average voter. This is amazing. I'm just gonna play this. I'm wondering if you think that DeSantis' very public, moron woke distracts from the message that you like about him. A little bit, I do. He did sign a law that restricts transgender care for adults as well as kids. I have greater concerns about the six-week abortion ban. Tell me about that. You know, I think if he made it clear that he's a state's rights person and that he's not looking to kind of pass a national law in this regard, I would be less concerned. This DeSantis voter is completely unfazed. She doesn't care about trans issues at all either way. She's focused in terms of what concerns her about DeSantis. She's more focused on abortion, which makes total sense. Exactly. And David's entire video is incredible. So I would recommend that you check it out. I'll link to that down below. But the point is raw polling data alone does not determine elections because people are so much more complex than that. They prioritize issues differently. So while Americans might support trans discrimination in sports, it is a less salient issue to them than say the economy or abortion. But even if it was the most salient issue and it was unpopular, the goal with our large platforms should be to change their minds, right?  I say we try to use our platforms to change people's minds rather than just throwing up the white flag. And cis people, furthermore, do not get to demand that trans people tolerate some discrimination. If you're truly an ally, you make the case for them and try to change minds, not tell them to back down. You tell Republicans to back down. You scold Republicans, not them. Now, when I originally talked about that clip in the video that I uploaded about TYT originally on April 13th, I explained that the tone policing was not okay because they as cis people are trying to set the parameters as to what is and isn't respectable forms of protest when they don't get to do that. It's not their next on the line, it's trans people's next or on the line. But basically what TYT said was shouting down bigots and making them feel uncomfortable is unacceptable. But sitting quietly with the trans flag while the transphobe fearmongers about you, that is a form of protest that the young Turks is willing to tolerate. Well, what you're about to see is what I think is incredibly counterproductive for anyone who actually gives a damn about transgender rights in this country. Let's watch. Now, it's worth noting that there were trans rights activists in the room as she was giving her talk. And I want to show you what I think a productive protest looks like. Let's watch. And so I went to this convention. It was in January, it was in San Antonio. And so I go to the convention obviously not in support because the award was immediately meaningless. Get any more disruptive than that and you're going to be scolded to get back in line. But the reason why I'm bringing this up is not to rehash old shit, but it's necessary because Anna used that same example again to talk about an issue that she has with trans activists in a Twitter exchange with Juniper. Now, some of the tweets from Anna have since been deleted, but we can kind of piece together what was said and come away with an understanding of her problem with trans activists. So she presumably denounces the protest against Riley Gaines here, to which Juniper responds saying, not sure if you've noticed, but states are currently using violence against trans people, curious as to why you seem to care about the grifter who terrorizes trans people than trans people who are being affected by this legislation and violence. Anna replies saying, you don't watch the show, so you have no idea what I talk about or how often I defend the trans community.    You said barricading people you disagree with is nonviolent. If an alt-right group did that to a trans speaker, I'm sure you'd change your tune.  Now let's just pause it right there because you can already see the problem with that. She's trying to frame right-wingers and trans people as if they're on equal ground when that's not the case. One of them is a marginalized community who was under attack and the other is a political group that is trying to attack said community. But at some point, Anna made this tweet which she ended up deleting for obvious reasons, but she says the civil rights movement did not use the same strategies as the trans movement. They didn't barricade speakers they disagreed with in a classroom for three hours. They persuaded through nonviolence and showing America their humanity. Wow. So yeah, needless to say, I understand why she chose to delete that tweet because it's quite the doozy. It is quite the take. Oof level is very, very high. Now that tweet is wrong because it's a historical and also trans people have chosen like the civil rights movement to show people their humanity. You're just choosing to not see it in this instance, right? You're choosing to sympathize with the humanity of the bigot as opposed to the trans activists who are rightfully anchored at what she's saying and what she's advocating for. See, you don't have to, believe it or not, sympathize with the bigot who's feeling discomfort for going on a propaganda tour demonizing this entire community. In the same way though that she tried to sympathize with the maggot shut in her argument with Jenk, she chose to put herself in the shoes of the bigot instead of the trans activists, right? And rather than trying to understand why they would be angry, she's tone policing them. Rather than seeing that their anger might be justified because they're under attack, she's saying, don't do it this way. Do it my way. Again, it is not the responsibility of trans activists or any trans person to cuddle bigots and make them feel comfortable, especially when their rights and lives are at stake. Stonewall was a riot. Lesbians disrupted feminist meetings to demand inclusion.  I mean, if the young Turks were around back then I could honestly see them tone policing gay activists who did that and saying, oh, this is bad, you're going too far. I mean, look, J.K. Rowling has also denounced the tactics of radical trans activists because their advocacy for themselves makes her feel uncomfortable. Now, where does that stem from? Transphobia, because they are forcing people to see their humanity and how unjustified their exclusion from society is. So I'll ask TYT, is it civil rights that you care more about or is it the comfort of bigots? Because you have to pick because either way, I promise you, however trans people choose to advocate for themselves, it's going to make bigots uncomfortable. It's going to be deemed inappropriate because the tactics aren't really the issue here, right? They know this. The fact that they have the audacity to dare demand equality and stand up for themselves in the first place when society wants them to go back into the closet is the real issue. But in conclusion, let me just say here that what TYT is doing is profoundly dangerous and they know what they're doing. Jank and Anna have both been in the game way longer than me and they know exactly the impact that they are going to have with this level of discourse, right? They know that using specific anecdotes of marginalized people, saying or doing something that they disapprove of is a dangerous game, right? Because this is what Republicans do. This is what they do to validate discrimination.  Shouldn't we deny them rights? This is how you get people to engage in transphobia because if they buy into the premise that trans people as a whole are wrong about issue X, they're more likely to be open to discrimination, broadly speaking, right? And I don't care what TYT's intent is. I really don't. I don't care about their catalog of pro-trans videos. In fact, you can argue that that makes it worse because again, they have a very large liberal and left-leaning audience that isn't going to listen to what the Daily Wire has to say about trans people. But if Jankin and Anna say that these trans activists are so unreasonable, their audience might actually be susceptible to that, right? And I don't even have to warn Jankin and Anna how the right is going to weaponize their grievance against trans activists as further proof that the entire community is unreasonable because they've already done that. My polite disagreement with Anna over the birthing person shit was literally quoted in Fox News as evidence that trans activists are unreasonable and no disagreement at all is allowed when all I simply tried to do was engage in good faith. Have a conversation. Furthermore, they have a massive, massive, massive audience, right?  And let me just say this. As a gay man, this is not the first time where I've had to confront supposed allies about them being bad allies, right?  But here's the thing, they're never going to be there for you when you need them the most. So those types of allies just disregard them. Perhaps they'll support you passively and offer kind words once in a while, but that's the extent of their support. You know the kind of allies I'm talking about, right? The ones who will say, oh, I have no problem with gay people. I support the sinner, not the sin. Or the ones who'll say that they love LGBTQ plus people and have an LGBTQ plus friend or family member, but yet they vote Republican every single election cycle, those types of allies. Those are the allies that are just worthless in my opinion, right? They're not gonna be my number one enemy, but certainly they're not gonna be somebody who I spend much time with. There's a difference between those kinds of allies and the allies who assured me when I came out or more specifically when I was outed to everyone that they're going to protect me and literally put their bodies on the line to stop physical harm from coming my way because I was afraid that that would happen when a homophobic family member was sitting ominously in their car for hours across the street from my house. I was wondering, oh my God, am I gonna get attacked by a baseball bat? The people who assured me that no harm will come my way, that's the kind of allies we deserve, right? And I've talked about my experience in a coming out video. I'll link to that down below if you wanna learn more. The point is that you deserve that kind of an ally. You deserve the allies who are willing to put aside their own comfort to confront bigots and make them feel uncomfortable so you don't have to. You deserve the type of ally who's going to put their necks on the line to save you from harm or discrimination. So what I'm trying to say ultimately is you deserve better than TYT.  They're the ones being unreasonable. And look, you can be disappointed. I personally am disappointed. I've watched TYT since 2008 when George W. Bush was still president. And I've been a network partner since 2017, up until May of this year. There's been periods where I disagree with them and didn't like some things that they said about particular issues, but I still never would have expected this, this level of vitriol towards trans activists. But regardless of their intent or how they got here, that doesn't matter anymore. What matters is that they're here now. In the same way I've had to cut out cancerous family members, I'm cutting out TYT from my media diet.  You don't. You deserve better. Trans people deserve better. You can find better allies than that. So I'll tell TYT the same thing that I've told family members that you tried to make me feel bad for shoving my gayness down their throats or advocating for myself too much or too loudly.


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