The following is a presentation of TFNN Trade what you see With Larry Pezzavento Call now toll free at 1-877-927-6648 or internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER> Now Larry Pezzavento Okay, looking good Billy Ray feeling good Lewis. This is Billy Ray Valentine with his special guest Lewis Winthorpe The third also known as Rich Anderson rich What in the world is going on in the world with the wheat market? Can you explain to us? What's happening my friend? Yes, sir, I sure can by the way, you know You want to look at the synthetic price and the synthetic price right now is 1335 bid 1358 offered you look at a deep in the money option You know how you do it you you to buy the call price and you sell the put price and that that's where we're bidding ask that right now But the people that are looking at a screen. They don't see that But I would just refer you back to the all-time high was back in March 13th of 2008 and In the Bible they always talk about seven years of fast and seven years of famine Well, but what's happening is that I mean yesterday the open interest dropped 10,000 contracts in Kansas City and 7,000 contracts in Chicago, and I assume that was a bunch of your readers Taking profits and it could have been the commercials buying it from them because you know They thought they had wheat and now they don't I mean it Yeah, I refer you back to when I was on February 23rd, and I said that you know, there's major exporters Russia in the Ukraine of wheat and corn They already have some of last year's crop that still hasn't been exported through these ports And now of course these ports are basically closed because once overnight they increase the break rates by a hundred thousand Dollars per ship and then all of a sudden you can't get insurance and these commercials sought They had stuff bought for Egypt and these other places if you remember about two weeks ago I sent you an interactive map that showed you where all the wheat the Russia and Ukraine export out of the Black Sea goes to I mean They're now having to scramble so the number one job for wheat is To price itself out of the feed channel Okay in this country and other countries a lot of wheat is not a lot, but Right now any amount is a lot is used for feed We can't afford to have that this wheat has to be for people And so that's what you've got going on you have a crop report on the ninth Jeff's always I wonder and are these things important they're very important, but right now it's like Shooting behind the bird that's flying, you know at 60 miles an hour You're never going to hit a pheasant that way you got to lead it and USDA is not a leader, you know, they're they're always behind the deal. They should be They should be running the 50 caliber machine guns in the machine in the helicopters because then you have to lag it because you're going 150 miles an hour, but you know that the bottom line is we've got a price of wheat out of the feed channel The all-time high on March 13th of 08 was 13 34 and a half. It's interesting. We're at that price today If you were looking at it Synthetically with the puts in the calls and then and then a corner's next and then oh did I mention that? Russia may very well stop. You know, they can't They can't export the fertilizer that they've contracted to export Now the Russian farmers are plenty fertilizer Ukrainian farmers may not even have a fuel to put the crops in We're talking about a vast amount of acres that it's are hard to replace the You know the degree greenification that the Biden administration was going to do cause them to go up six-fold six hundred percent increase in imports from Russia of gasoline or both Crudeau and This is a real mess. They're talking about change the reformulation program, which would affect corn and beans But right now it's wheat that's an issue because it's a this is what the subset for many of the people in the world So that's what's going on. We're pricing the wheat out of the channel the commercials You look at the open it's just so you can see what's happened refer back You know to the crop conditions. I won't go over but that I mentioned on February 23rd and You know, it's as simple. It's as simple as that. This is not for amateurs In the statement of the year folks, I was yeah, yeah, I was speaking with rich last night when they were lighting up that nuclear power plant and In the Ukraine and we were seeing The limit bid and wheat and rich said that's not going to be trading for a few days Because we haven't seen anything like that in a long time Hopefully this will all work out But if you look at that wheat chart on the monthly basis folks even though we did get to almost $14 It broke $8 of bushel in this coming few years So as long as we got a crop coming out there, we should be okay Isn't that right is the problem is is we have any trouble this year? We're in the world is in big trouble not just us Right the world is in big trouble But we already have crop conditions in the United States that are not that good, you know So that's that's problem number one who knows what the spring, you know hard red spring week Which is approaching wheat? I mean we've got a lot of unanswered questions, and then the fertilizer and that you know corn Goes great with fertilizer without fertilizer Not as what not as well The this is This is a problem is going to be with us for for quite some time I'm afraid and if you know when you're shooting willy-nilly at a Nuclear plant which could cause a major problem.  Yeah, that's right Yeah, but they gotta get the word out of the channel because we got to feed the people first That's about and always remember what you told me back in 1973 oil is indigestible I remember you telling me that and of course you being a farmer would know that better than anybody else But you can't swallow the you can't swallow gold and you can't swallow the oil But by golly if the people are hungry then they really get upset Yeah, this is like the pork bellies being limit up in the old days, and we didn't have expandable limits in those days And guys are you know Doing I'll buy the front month, and I'll sell the back month, and I'll give you the keys to my Cadillac Besides, you know, and they do a limit deal. I mean this is what it's this is what it's like that the Crop reports are inconsequential. This this is all about what's happening in the war It's It's a catastrophe It's gonna take it's gonna take a while Hey listen, thanks for joining us buddy, I know you're real busy today, and I really appreciate just you know Squeezing us in so thank you so much rich Alrighty you take care trade. Okay. Okay folks.  It broke actually 22 cents folks It broke all the way down to 750 and then from 750 boys and girls it went up this and it's still going it's 790 are you kidding me? We'll be right back eight seven seven nine two seven six six four eight You might think that if you want to be successful at trading in the stock market You're going to need a crystal ball after all it's impossible to predict the future, right? 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We're having some really good volatility in here So let's just hold on and we'll have some fun here for the rest of the day We're we're trying to hold these markets was got a pretty good chance of a bounce in here We hit some pretty strong support just a little while ago in some of these things So that should be some somewhat but folks You got to be real careful being long and stuff over the weekend because as you know We're not playing with someone that's got a full deck of cards That two friends fry short of a happy meal as they say in the old trade there in Tarot, Indiana Remember folks all of this started last night or yesterday afternoon I guess it was when the Fed was out there banging the whistles and blowing the horns We made that 61% retracement in the Nasdaq Hold on one second. Someone's asking a question in here No, it yeah, it should it should mr. Z is asking if if we could get a rally here Yes, we just turned just a few minutes ago And we should have a rally that ain't this could fade that fade at any time too But we should have a rally that might last a couple hours. That's what it's that's basically what it's trying to tell us But if you look at that Nasdaq chart folks, we hit the exact 61% retracement of the high on the 12th and also Okay, and also a really nice hold on a Really nice three eight two retracement off the high that that was what really triggered some of this stuff going on And so we're at some pretty significant Support down in here But that doesn't mean it's not going that means it may it may fail at any time So you've got to be able to you know rely on that if you're going to be doing it here now We've got gold is up near the 1965-66 level should have a lot of resistance up here between here in 1970 1975 but we live in interesting times is the old Chinese curse So that's it now Let's go over here and we're going to talk a little bit about the footsie You can see all of these other markets because of the you know the Christmas tree lights going over Ukraine You'll see here with a big sell-off in the footsie and likewise. We had another big sell-off in the German Dax and if this was a daily chart you can see we stopped Right at the 61% retracement, but I believe that it went through there Someone told me that it did but I don't have any verification of that that it did break through that So those are just a few of the things that Hold on one second here. They were watching here To looking on here one second. I've got to do a couple quick thing I've got to do some house cleaning here folks because we were in an area where we could literally if we don't hold this level of 80 to excuse me 4280 there's big trouble in River City in the in the stock market And all these others too. So he had to be we got to be extremely careful here extremely careful So let's remind ourselves that hold on here second. I've got to do a little do one other little thing Here before I I got to go so long just to say Hold on just oh boy, oh Trying to do this radio show and trying to watch these markets is Not an easy task boys and girls. So let's just see what See what we've got going in here right now. I just remember we can't get below that 42 I believe it's 40 it's 4280 we can't get below that we get below that there's really trouble along here and that's the thing that you want to Remind ourselves. No, that's what we're watching here right now Now I'm not able to post any of the AI charts right now because I can't get it into that format But we're in a real strong area here with the the Dow Jones Let's try it again Larry the gold has a really positive AI for turning down right about now at around 1867 so That's pretty much it. Okay. That's that's what I move on to a couple other things here folks The crude oil I wanted to go through the crude oil sequence because remember I sent out a video last night Just as this was happening and we were had this really nice a Gartley pattern up there that 1268 We went all the way down into the 170 level and then course we we bounced back and now we're back up You know in that 113 area But these are short-term patterns folks and the reason why I look at those on the 15 minute chart is I don't have to risk very much At that time for heaven's sakes if you look at these things on the daily basis my god These ranges are so long. It scares me and I'm fearless. So you've got to be very very careful We've got another one. It's getting ready to make a big-time history folks Let's get this one up here. So we don't forget it We've been talking about this in the newsletter for a very long time and that is the Euro on the weekly basis You know, we've broken through the one night level like it didn't even exist I nibbled at that on the short side of the long side last night at the 78% level for the tune of about 20 pips and Said goodbye to that one should have went short, but I didn't of course I had a few other things that were rocking and rolling You'll notice here that we've got a potential double bottom here between 2020 and where we are now coming in at 106 40 That's only 300 handles folks from where we are right now in the way these markets are jumping and the way these markets are jumping It doesn't take very long to see, you know, what's going to happen to some of these things now I do have oh, I thought I had it. Please tell me I had it. I had the Long-term chart for the DAX for the dollar index and son of a gun Guess what? Someone has taken it away and hit it from me and there's nothing else I can do I'll try to do it after we get done with the Our guest when he's finished telling us what he's got today. He's got some good stuff as always Here is the chart of the Bitcoin several questions about that You know, it doesn't look like for where it's acting right now It doesn't look like we're going to be able to make it up to that 47,000 level we're trading at around 40 41 right now and it's starting to weaken up everything starting to weaken up folks If you notice people are they're getting they're getting they fear is not there yet. It's getting close But right now it's not there yet So just remind ourselves that It's not how much money you make it's how much money you don't lose And that's why when we have these volatile markets I'll move down to a I'll go from an hourly chart to a 30 minute to a 15 because I can see the same pattern But it gives me a risk factor that I'm able to handle and that's what that floor trader handbook is all about It's all about risk control and ABCD and you know Mandelbrot said it doesn't make any difference What time frame is on that seed pattern ABCD is there everywhere and that's what I look for and you know Sometime like the one in the corn looked really great had like had a thousand bucks in it You know it went to where the end up ended up being up $200, you know So but then it kept going another 12 cents So you you just can't stand in front of these things what read what rich just told us in wheat Is indicative of what happened back in 2008 we hit $14 wheat Well $14 wheat turned out to be $5 wheat, you know I dropped $9 a bushel in the next 18 months So these are growing crops folks and a lot of things can happen And what we have now is an emotionalism when you sit when when the wheat when the grain traders see You know the people over in the Ukraine lit up like a Christmas tree. It happens to be a nuclear Power station that that puts the fear of God into anybody and you can imagine somebody that was short-limit up I mean shut the front door They're hurt but if they're well healed they'll probably come out of it Okay, take a break here eight seven seven nine two seven six six four eight. 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I am indeed. Yeah. Hey looking good. Billy Ray feeling good. Lewis. Let's start out with the 34 day Trading cycle. Do you nail that puppy the last time you were on the air? We've had a Rally that we've not even come close to taking out of those lows. You still think that this slow is going to hold buddy I I do. Uh, I absolutely do Larry. Um, okay I've got a Fibonacci Relationship which should come up on the screen here momentarily Yes That shows right at the low that we saw on February the 24th Um We had a nice Fibonacci clustering. For example, we were Approximately 55 trading days from the December 3rd low We were About 34 trading days from the january 4th all-time high And we were approximately 21 trading days from the january 24th low So All the fib numbers lined up for that low point on the on the 24th of february And I think that probably coincided with a 34 week cycle bottom, which I've been suggesting was was coming Well, it hit it again. We had that monster Move up three four five six seven days in a row And so that was really an amazing call everybody was talking about it after you got off the air The fact that it uh did exactly what you said it was going to be now You've got another chart here stan, which is the 34 week primary cycle. Could you tell the folks?  Hold on here. Here we go There's a chart that uh that I'd like for you to talk about it. You're 34 week in eight month primary cycles that that is just a Uh continuation of pretty much what you're looking at only it's monthly instead of weekly, right? Uh, well, no, this is this is weekly larry Okay, this week. Okay. Yeah, I I've analyzed this cycle Extensively I wrote a paper on it In the uh july issue of the foundation for the study of cycles And I traced this back decades If this is the dominant cycle on the weekly charts Every 34 weeks eight months, which are both fib numbers by the way uh on average We tend to get significant cycle lows in the stock market And what I've done with this chart as I've gone back about five years And I've highlighted all of the bottoms in the stock market Which are denoted by this cycle Now it's not a precise clock in other words. You can't just set your watch and say okay every 34 weeks Boom, we're gonna bottom here and time to go long and mortgage the house and forget about stop. No, it's not that easy It it's pretty close But it expands and contracts Last year by the way the cycle underwent a 1.236 fibonacci expansion as you can see And then most recently it contracted By a fibonacci point seven six four You add the two of those together and you get 2.00 So that's what happens with cycles. They expand they contract But that expansion contraction Uh brings the cycle back to its normal cyclical schedule. That's how it normally Uh transpires and that's exactly what's happening here now. We had a very sharp rebound for two days Off that February 24th low So we're getting a little retracement what I call floor mopping right now to complete the bottoming process And I wouldn't be surprised to see this thing reversed about mid-afternoon later today But the point being is we're we're in the zone now for a bottoming process I know there's a terrible war going on in europe right now But the cyclical functions don't change Cycles technical indicators charts as you know, you're a technician most of the viewers are technicians Kind of take all that information into account And the evidence right now is very very compelling That we have a 34 week cycle bottom in place And we're uh, we're going to soon regain some upside traction here. That's really good Stan I want to thank you for being on the air because I know you were swamped today and you squeezed the sand And these were the numbers that I was hoping you would show us because It was just you know Was a refresher of what you showed us two weeks ago when it was making or nine days ago when it was making that bottom So thank you so much for being on and we'll have you again on in a few weeks. Hopefully it won't be from downtown ukraine somewhere My pleasure larry. I look forward to it. You bet. Thank you so much stan stan harley folks. Harley stock market letter Okay, now we were talking about that gold market just a little while ago It looks like it's finally turned from this 18 1965 area. We're trading at 1963 Didn't quite get to 1966, but we're going to be Watching it what we're looking at here. So Anyway, those are the things that we're watching here this morning And it looks like we're going to be heading down on some of these stocks here folks If we get below that 42 80, that's not going to be good That is just not going to be good. So let's remind ourselves that that's what we're looking at as we're We're seeing some of these here see these things here this morning. So bear with me here one second I've got to uh, wow Oh Dear just a second. There we are. Got a change in order here boys and girls Okay, all right, let's get back to the old program here um Some oh the question is someone asked me was this Have I ever seen a market like what we had here? in the stock market last night when we had this uh uranium thing hit with the uh Oh nuclear power station and the the Dow was down 500 points and it rallies back 600 points And then goes back lower folks. I've seen that more often that you might want to guess You know, it it's just really amazing how often it does happen. So remind ourselves that uh These things do happen. I remember one particular instance. I've mentioned it on the area before It was the movie that came out with Pierce Brosnan volcano filled up in Oregon And that was beautiful little idyllic place and I loved the movie very much And I was short beans and the report was so bearish. Oh my gosh the report came out And beans went all the way down to almost limit down and then they started to go back up And I was so upset once they got up halfway 15 cents was limited at that time I just went to the movies and I put my stop in where it was supposed to be at the beginning and they went all the way up To be unchanged on the day and then went down limit and didn't and lock limit and didn't trade for two days So These things get pretty active. So you've got to use a little bit of common sense when you're going through some of these things So pay very very close attention to them because it's not uh Mark Douglas says trading is simple, but it's not easy So let's keep ourselves abreast of some of these things that we're paying close attention to here here today Okay, now all one second here. I've got the people are sending me skype messages and I I don't know what they are folks Talk about Okay I don't I do have I have run out of things to talk about but I I don't want to talk about the a word folks because Shane and and norm winsky and tim boss tim boss will be our guest on monday folks Repeat that again larry tim boss will be our guest on monday. 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This is the 10-year note versus the two-year note Okay, and that means that the banks once they get once this thing gets to negative folks They can't make loans because they lose money and that's when Things dry up liquidity dries up and that's where the big C words come in. So we're not very far away We're only 25 basis points away from that Now I posted another chart from our good friend Jerome He's done this to us before it done this to he's shared it with us before These are the uh, we're over the full moon now, of course. You can see here That's what we're looking at and they don't work all the time. All that is folks. It's a 14 day cycle It's nothing more than that. It's nothing mysterious, you know People look at it from a lot of different reasons from the farmer not farmers almanac all the way through You know to the on the uh tablets From back in the days of the samarians and Babylonians that dr. Andrew low pointed out And basically what's that showing us here in the middle of march? We're going to be getting another one right around the Fool, let me see 40 grand on the 16th as I recall We will come up with a new moon. So we want to be watching that now If that's the case you can see here that he's already drawn in the patterns We've done we do these two, but you can see he's done a beautiful job All he's done is put the little lunar aspect there and you know, sometimes they work a Look at sometimes they're off one or two days folks So you've got to use something else and just besides the that you've got to be that's why we use patterns and ratios And that tells us pretty much not all the time but close enough to to where we want to be What one other one other mentioned on this yield curve, you know, it's not infallible just like anything You know, it's just not infallible But the but the federal reserve is between a rock and a hard place And believe me the hard place is pretty tough. Look what's going on in the bond market folks Just just take a look here. You remember we had that big a bcd in the notes down there You know 125 look at it. Look what's happened here. We've had a move in bonds. We've moved nine handles Almost 10 handles in 10 days. I mean, well, no, it's been two weeks now But that's been, uh, you know, that's that's a heck of a short covering rally And that's all that is if you go look at the open interest on these things You'll see that the open interest is not going up. It's going down So shorts are forced to cover because people have they They're they're running away. They they don't want to stand in front of these things and That's the bottom line of, uh, you know, what we're paying attention to on these So I that's my two cents worth and I'm sticking to it. So hopefully that'll be uh, something that will be interesting for you to take a look at and If you if you do fight now, I look at larry waves his work on that yield curve And like larry says there's nothing 100 but it's a good indicator That once bank gets once bank gets to the point that they can't make money off the loans They don't make loans and that means liquidity dries up and everything else starts to drive up and that's what happened back in 1929 in a tiny bit in 19 In 2000 when we had the real estate problems with, uh, you know people That were buying houses that they shouldn't I have to tell you a funny story here Where I live here in tucson We had a nice young man that worked over at the auto place at Cadillac. He was a mechanic And uh, he had bought two houses in our neighborhood And the the bank gave him 125 percent mortgage And so what he did he went out and bought a Rolex and he bought himself a bmw all of which were for sale About a year later and much much discounted prices because he lost everything When everything rolled over and prices dropped by about 60 percent So uh, those just a few things that we're paying close attention to here today Things are not nearly as bad as they were back in that in that time timeframe, but it's still you know Okay, all right not not a problem. No problem. Hold on just a second here. I got to do that here Okay, yeah, we've we're having some a lot of activity in these grains folks. They're they're really rocking and rolling quite a bit so We need to pay very very good. The good part is I mean The beans are trading actively And so is corn wheat is still lock limit up and it's probably going to be like rich said The options on them said they're going to go at least another 80 to 90 cents higher And uh, that's neither here nor there Because we're not involved with that and we you know when you have vertical markets like that If you happen to be lucky enough to catch one either up or down You know, that's a that's a good thing to do But what you really want to do is to be able to uh, you know to be able to Protect yourself with a risk and that's the whole thing of of what we're doing here as we look at these The regarding the the dot hold on we do we have a caller in here? Just a second. Let's just take a quick look here Okay, we we just had a 30 cent drop in uh corn just dropped from 782 to 751 boy.  How much higher did it go than what we were looking at? I was 782 was the high. Let's get it up here. I'm not watching it now because I've already went and taken a look at it But we'll see whether that's going to mean anything or not these markets are going to be really quiet Uh, it's really going to be uh Has corn popped all very good bill. This is good. You and rodney danger field Yeah, uh, yeah, they just posted the chart of the corn in there You can see that it's had a pretty good pretty good correction. Remember corns are largest agricultural crop And for that, you know, wheat is a lot less because you know, I posted that wheat, you know, wheat is all over the world You know, the other thing it's going to be more expensive for your beer drinkers Is Ukraine is the number one supplier of hops and hops is uh important for beer production So your beer is going to get a lot more expensive Uh coming down the road here a little bit. So those are just a few of the things that are that are going around So pay pay pay close attention to that. That's uh another one. That's uh, very very interesting to uh to be watching here Okay, now I want to do here. I made a little bit of a stake on something here, but I'm making a correction in it right now So we'll be all right And then we'll move on to the next one that we have here We're starting to get that rally that rally that we're having should should last about two more hours in the stock market And then we should be down the last two hours of the day if this is in fact going to be the uh If this is going to be the uh case, so we'll uh do one thing at a time as we're Looking at these. So yeah, I'm seeing the chart here. Wow corn is really taking it's down 40 cents folks I'm just seeing I'm just seeing an updated quote on this And and beans have dropped quite a bit too They've uh, they've all hit uh, hit some big numbers down in here shut the front door and raise the rent That's a that's a big move. So let's remind ourselves that these markets don't go one way We still haven't traded wheat yet as near as I can tell And of course these option players they can release those things in a hurry And you're not going to be able to stand in front of them if they decided to go it'll go limit down Just like it did in 2000 it went from 14 dollars, you know, like I mentioned the five dollars It didn't go straight down, but almost straight down. It had one three eight two rally, you know during that move So those are some of the things that we're you know watching here This morning here as we look at some of these uh markets move We've had a nice a nice 20 point handle rally here in the s&p We got down to that magical level of 42 80 and now we're trading at uh, 4300 We jumped 20 handles on that and so we'll see if this is going to be the case here I hate to miss that I can see the move now in the corn what it did is it went up and made another Marginal new high at the 1.27 and cyan are wow something got hit. This is a big move folks I'm looking at it here on the side here. 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I wanted to bring that potato in this corner I happened to change the chart parameters here for a second so we could see what's going on because for two reasons one it shows you the value of mandelbrot's ab equals cd that we talk about in the floor trader's handbook You'll see the abcd level went to 781 the high was 783 and it went from 783 It's dropped 50 cents a bushel $2,500 and I'm on a radio show And unable to put that order in and shut the front door and raise the rent But that's the way it goes. Some days it's chicken salad. Some days it's chicken poop It just depends on which how you mix it folks Remember we're going to have tim boss on our as our guest here on monday He's going to be talking to us about the cryptocurrencies Because we've had some big moves and those and you know anything below 38,000 in those cryptos would really be Nasty and that's something that you don't want to see we don't like nasty We like that nasty is a 20 50 cent drop in corn here. I don't even know what the limits are nowadays I think they expanded them out but and beans dropped 60 cents And of course wheat still up the limit at least it was I haven't heard my beepers go off So I had it set so if they started to trade I would know But they will trade and we're going to have some great trading opportunities folks These are the kind of markets that lead to great markets. So just be patient and remember Warren Buffett's two favorite rules number one rule Don't lose money and number two rule don't break rule number one Well, you have to trade so you've got to manage your risk the best you can but Those are the few of the things that you want to be able to look at it So that that's really what we're what we're doing here And if I had to put a nickel to a dime right here, what I would do is I'd sell bonds close my eyes Put a $1 put a 100 put a 32 $1,000 stop on it and pray for the best because that market is like If they call that a flight to quality, that's like bringing gasoline to a fire Extinguisher and trying to put the fire out so live every day in an attitude of gratitude and may god bless And we'll see on the flip side on Monday with Tim Boss as our guest. Thanks folks. Bye. Bye


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would you like about the way CC threw the ball made pitches when he needed to you know struggled a little bit in and out of the feel of the cutter you know I made a lot of good pitches with the cutter but lost command of it a little bit there too but had the backdoor slider made some big pitches when he really needed to and you know gave us what we needed that third inning really could have gone a different direction what does it say about him that he was able to buckle down and get out of there with just one run scoring yeah obviously you know the you know we don't we don't complete the play on the on the bunt and then and then the play at first obviously a big play by Frage there to get that double play and and then CC made pitches so yeah that that inning could have gotten away from us and that's why you got to keep playing obviously some errors tonight but also you mentioned the Frasier play there was also a play by Glaber Torres in the seventh what did you think of that bare-handed yeah you know you know a little frustrating couple those plays were you know that got to be made obviously but you know it maybe takes away from I think what were a lot of good plays tonight really good base running play I thought by Luke tagging up on that ball that Hamilton made the great play Glaber with a great play on that bare hand to play a big time double play turned by DJ and waiter waiter had a couple really good plays at second so we did a lot of good things in this game and a couple but a couple lapses that you know we got to tighten up Tyler Aaron CC closing in on 3,000 strikeouts and 250 wins yeah he said 2994 was the last number I saw on the scoreboard and then 247 wins I want to say so I mean you got a good perspective of baseball history growing up in it where did what is his sort of place in history when you start thinking of those numbers he's gonna be all the famous you know and to be able to do it you know obviously periods of his career where he is dominant where he's that Cy Young caliber ace pitcher now later in his career where you know he was really able to figure out a way to kind of reinvent himself the cutter obviously becoming good pit a big pitch for him these last few years but it just his pitch ability and his athleticism as I talked a little bit before the game has allowed him to still be a really good pitcher at this point in his career and it's a tribute to how good a player he is who else there those the defensive lapses you just mentioned you know weren't unique to tonight to what do you think the the issue is there is there some overriding thing or is it just no we visual look didn't catch the ball but beyond tonight you know the defensive numbers have not been right I think where you probably would want them through yeah you know this part of the season yeah I mean it's it's defense is a obviously a very important part of the game and something we work very hard on and we'll continue to and feel like you know after the first couple weeks over the last week or so I feel like that defense is really starting to tighten up I feel like right now for the most part we're running out a lot of really good defenders and in different spots so I think we're doing a lot of good things but the the the occasional laps I mean those are the things where we've got to be got to really lock in on finishing the play is is how I would describe it Tyler again your teammates with him obviously you know 506 and Cleveland he was just starting his ascent could so I guess how different is he now but also could you tell back then did you have an inkling that he might be that long-term dominant Hall of Fame type guy you know what I you know I I I can think back his entire career because first time I faced him and in synergy field and Cincinnati as a rookie for Cleveland and he struck me out three times and I fell down the third time swinging and I'm like who is this guy and then I remember finally getting a hit off him in Cleveland I got an infield hit and I got the first and I was talking smack to him on my infield hit but then getting to play behind him you get to really appreciate him as a teammate but even back then you know he was he was so talented he was so good already when I got to play with them but he was he could be emotional he could he could he could be his own worst enemy sometimes when things didn't go right and now to see him still hype really competitive but really in command of his emotions is is something that's been been cool for me to get to see you know I guess in a way his entire career anyone else thank you


Hello everyone. Welcome to this video lecture. Myself Deepali Vardhakar, working as assistant professor at WIT Solapur. In this video lecture, we will study filter circuits. At the end of this video lecture, student will be able to illustrate working of filter circuit. Student will be able to illustrate the working of half wire rectifier with capacitor filter. Student will be able to illustrate the working of full wire rectifier with capacitor filter. The filter, it is the one which removes the AC component present in a rectifier output and allows the DC component to reach the load. So, the basic working of filter that is to remove the AC component from the input and allows only DC component at the output. There are different types of filter like capacitor filter, fire filter, choke filter. So, out of that in this video lecture, we will study shunt capacitor filter. Here the capacitor is placed across the load. The rectifier output is given input to the capacitor filter and this will be the output at the capacitor filter. The capacitor offers infinite reactance to DC because the DC having zero frequency. So, reactance of capacitance is equal to 1 upon 2 pi fc which is equal to 1 upon 2 pi into frequency 0 into capacitance which is equal to infinite. Hence, the capacitor does not allow DC to pass through it. So, before going to capacitor filter, let us see the working of capacitor. So, when we connect the key in position A, then this power supply is get connected to this capacitor and both the plates of this capacitor get the equal and opposite charges that is plus q and minus q and the potential difference vc start increasing while the capacitor is charging. Once the voltage at the terminal of capacitor vc is equal to the supply voltage that is v is equal to vc, then the capacitor is fully charged and the current stop flowing through the circuit. This completes the charging phase. Now, let us see the discharging process of capacitor. In the next step, when we replace the key from position A to position B the capacitor will start discharging. When key is connected to position B, bulk will glow. Intensity of bulk and voltage between the capacitor plates drops down gradually to zero which completes the discharging. Now, let us see the rectifier circuit with capacitor. So, first that is the half-way rectifier with capacitor filter. So, we know that half-way rectifier consists input AC source diode. In the half-way rectifier with capacitor filter the capacitor is placed across the load resistance REL and it is placed across the rectifier circuit. So, let us see the working of half-way rectifier with capacitor filter. During the positive half-cycle of input AC signal the initial at the initial condition the voltage across the capacitor that is the vc is assumed to be zero. So, whenever the positive half-cycle of input AC signal then the vc is less than vin. So, this capacitor starts charging. This capacitor charges up to peak voltage that is up to 0.7 volt. Once the voltage across the capacitor vc is becomes equal to the input voltage vin then capacitor starts to stop at that point the capacitor stops charging. When input voltage starts decreasing that is when vin starts decreasing then the diode becomes reverse bias and this capacitor starts discharging because here voltage across capacitor vc becomes greater than vin. So, this capacitor starts discharging through this load REL. So, these are the input output characteristics. The input sinusoidal voltage this is the charging and discharging of capacitor. When diode is forward bias the capacitor charges. When diode is in reverse bias the capacitor discharges. Again this discharges up to next positive half-cycle of rectifier input. Now next center tap full-way rectifier with capacitor field. Center tap rectifier consists center tap transformer. Here two diodes use diode D1 and diode D2 both are connected to the load REL. So, changes here that is the capacitor is placed across this load REL. In the positive half-cycle of input AC diode D1 becomes forward bias and diode D2 is in reverse bias. So, diode D1 act as a closed switch, diode D2 act as a open switch. So, diode D1 conduct the current which charge this capacitor. So, in the positive half-cycle the capacitors start charging. Now these capacitors charge up to peak value of this input. After the peak value as the input voltage start decreasing then this diode becomes reverse bias and the voltage across capacitor is greater than the input voltage. So, these capacitors start discharging. In negative half-cycle the diode D1 becomes reverse bias and diode D2 is in forward bias. So, diode D2 conducts in the negative half-cycle. So, the current charging current of this capacitor flows through this diode D2. So, again here capacitor charges up to positive peak value. Once this reverse voltage start decreasing input voltage then the voltage across capacitor becomes greater than input voltage and capacitor again start discharging. So, in the positive as well as negative half-cycle of input AC signal here charging and discharging of capacitor takes place. Now, next that is the bridge-fullway rectifier with capacitor filter. So, in the bridge-fullway rectifier 4 diodes use D1, D2, D3 and D4. All these diodes are connected in bridge configuration that is in closed loop. Across these two terminals input AC signal is connected across these two terminals load is connected. So, in capacitor filter with bridge-fullway rectifier the capacitor is connected across the load resistance RL. So, we know that working of full-way rectifier during the positive half-cycle diode D1 and diode D2 becomes forward bias and hence the current flows through the load and through the diode D1 and D2. And during the negative half-cycle diode D1 and D2 both are in reverse bias and D3 and D4 are in forward bias. So, during the negative half-cycle of input AC signal D3 and D4 diodes conducts the current through the load. So, here the capacitor is connected across the load. So, whenever the positive half-cycle of input AC signal at that time D1 and D2 becomes forward bias and the current flows through the D1 and D2. So, which is shown here. So, whenever the positive half-cycle of this rectifier the capacitors start charging. This capacitor charge up to positive peak. After that the voltage across capacitor becomes greater than input voltage. So, as the rectifier output decreases the input voltage also input voltage to the capacitor filter also decreases. So, this capacitor start discharging. This capacitor discharge up to next positive half-cycle. So, in this way charging and discharging voltage present across this capacitor and hence across the load. So, these are the waveforms without the capacitor filter and these are the waveforms with the capacitor filter. So, most of the ripples get removed due to this capacitor filter. Now question which rectifier having more efficiency. So, we have studied the half-wave rectifier as well as full wave rectifier working with capacitor filter. So, from the observation explain which rectifier having more efficiency. Pause the video for a while and think. Okay. So, in half-wave rectifier this is the charging and discharging waveforms of the capacitor rectifier. These are the charging, discharging of capacitor. Okay. So, from this we observe that the half-wave, full wave rectifier having more efficiency than the half-wave rectifier. So, more ripples are get removed by using full wave rectifier with capacitor filter. So, it is more efficient than the half-wave rectifier with capacitor filter. So, these are the references. Thank you.


The object of art is to give life a shape, which I thought was a Shakespeare quote, but that is not true. It's snowing. I've been spending a lot more time in my office lately, not because the pandemic's over, but because we have to live through it. We've had visitors, other scientists come visit us. We have people this week visiting the university. My students have largely returned and it's nice to meet with them to use the chalkboard. I love the chalkboard. I don't do astronomy because I enjoy Zoom meetings and sitting at a keyboard. I like astronomy because I like sitting at the chalkboard with other people. I like thinking ideas up and sketching in the mouth and watching a conversation turn into a hypothesis. It's so wonderful. People. People are always the draw to do the job and they're the draw to be here. It was like just over a year ago, I made the last video showing off the office and like largely it is the same. The white couches and the sticker table. I mean, there's some new stickers on it, but the sticker table is still there. And I'm finally getting to realize the dream of this office, which is not a place to quietly write and work, but it's a place to have people. The goal is to have an environment that will facilitate conversations, that will generate ideas, that will be inspirational. Both inspirational to other people, like making sure that this is a comfortable space, that this is a place where people can feel safe and share their ideas, making sure that I'm being a good mentor and a good collaborator and a good person. But also it needs to be inspirational to me, you know, like it's good if I have some ideas too. And that is what the art is for. Some of this stuff I've never really hung up before. I've never really had a place to put things like this. And then some of it is just here to try to bring me back down to earth, to try to bring me somewhere interesting. Like my diplomas. I made a video a few years ago about my PhD and my diplomas. They have been in a box for years. And I've never had a place for them before, you know, both literally and like emotionally. And maybe that's the big news is that I am emotionally in a place where I feel like I'm going to put these things up. Where I feel like I'm going to commit to myself and to my craft. It's like aspiration, I guess. I want this to be the place where I have important conversations and fun moments and big ideas. Every piece of art in here is kind of found from my life. There's a telescope that I used to work at and you know, the Death Star. It's voted on here is of Scott Lake in Oregon that my grandfather took and I found it in his belongings. The diplomas, their art, they're there for the visual texture. When I'm thinking about a space and I'm thinking about how I'm spending my time, I love this quote.  And if I'm going to spend my life and therefore my days in this place, or at least some subset of them, it should be, I think at least aesthetically pleasing. And it should help tell the story. It should help provide the shape. So that's what I'm trying to do right now. I'm trying to sculpt and build and decorate the shape of my life.


So I've had my meds this morning and this is my blood sugar, my blood sugar was 8 which is really good. I think this new injection that I'm on is actually really helping. I haven't done vlogging on my phone in so long so I'm excited for vlogmas. I'm dressed and ready for uni. I'm going to have lunch first before I leave, hopefully that doesn't make me too late for the production meeting that we're having before the presentation. I'm not actually presenting anything, I'm just standing there as part of the group because I can't do presentations, even the thought of it gives me so much anxiety. I want to cry, so I don't do presentations, it's in my independent support plan that I don't have to do presentations. I'm in class for uni and all my group is here. I'm not even early, they're all running late, with the district lighting for the win. So I'm back in the front, I did the presentation, pitch whatever you want to call it, I didn't have to stand there, but I stood there well. My knee is gone again, you can't see it and it's like, it's a brace at the minute and it's absolutely killing me. But I'm supposed to wear it all the time, I just don't wear it over my pyjamas because that would be really uncomfortable, I couldn't sleep with it on. But yeah, this is my day born of vlogmas, I'm gonna have fish and chips for the day, medication, same old, same old. But yeah, tomorrow I was travelling up to Tilford to see my family for my birthday. We can birthday celebrations, and Monday because Monday's my actual birthday. Yeah! So I just spent time talking to my grandma, who's looking after me from tomorrow until Tuesday. I was staying at her house. I'm curious to see what I've got for my birthday because no one's telling me. But yeah, I'm gonna end this vlog here. Thank you for watching and if you're new, subscribe during the growing family and welcome to vlogmas.


What's up nerds? All right Xbox now. It's Xbox now. It's time for that one So, uh, I woke up this morning, you know for me super early to try and pre-order an Xbox one X and if I if if I could an Xbox one s I did one both, but I would settle with just the Xbox one X and what happened was an absolute Nightmare if you thought the PlayStation 5 pre-orders were an absolute Broken hideous mess of an event that transpired a few days ago You weren't ready for the Xbox pre-orders I recorded it this morning I woke up I flipped the cameras on I was very tired Had a few hours sleep and I recorded my reaction you'll see let's let's let's look let's see Let's see what happened to me bear in mind I was sat there 10 minutes before 10 a.m. When these things were supposed to go live I Had every website open that was selling them And I was ready with my finger on the trigger to buy an Xbox one X at the minute that they launched And this is what happened. I Missed the days of actually going in Pre-ordering a console in person and being able to go pick it up on my Midnight launch and take it home that day. I got three minutes left I just hope I get one my plan is to attack a Walmart on my computer and Then Amazon on my phone at the same time. This is so gross What do I feel like even though I'm sat here out of stock out of stock I'm on the minute. I'm it's still in the minute Best buy says coming soon Microsoft Store is broken target target better take PayPal. Oh my god No, not create my target account. I don't care about creating a target account. Oh my god Nothing is loading sign into your target account. What? Oh my god I'm not even getting the text I'm not even getting the text. I'm not getting I can't I can't buy the target. Oh My god, that is mm. I can't get target to load Amazon isn't showing the listing best buy still says coming soon. It's so this is so dumb I was here the minute even the s is sold out. Apparently spawn wave just got one at Walmart It says out of stock Stop eating my damn tree What's the point in saying that it goes live at 10 if only Walmart's gonna have it at 10 and everywhere else is gonna screw it up I don't know what is happening. Did I get it? Did I get it? I'm just looking back at my cart now. No, nothing came out of my account. All right Fine PayPal keeps going around in loops on this website. So I'm trying to put in my card This is probably gonna loop It says thank you for your order on target now. I don't know. I can't I don't know I was so in a desperate blind bid to try and buy Something I don't know if that was the x or the s and I also don't trust that it's actually gone through at all It does say target has taken my money out of my bank account What are my what are these consoles even called target took my money? So I don't know how I managed to do that because now I'm back on target and I can't get either into my card again Okay, it looks like I I'm logged in. So if I go to orders So it says I've pre-ordered it. I mean, I can't I can't do much else than that So it looks like I got one. I'm still so mad or like in the minute In the minute It doesn't seem like they did that bad because they sold out in a second. Hi quick edit to the video The frustration and the confusion continues today Because even I at the start of this video kept referring to it as the xbox one x And I know I know that's not what it it's just it's so confusing and apparently other people were actually confused too Because during all this pre-order chaos the xbox one x sales jumped 431 percent Because people were confused And they were trying to buy the new one and they were buying the last one that is so Oh my gosh, that is so confusing. Anyway, I wanted to add that in back with the video I was getting so many Tags on twitter and people tweeting me like oh playstation won the console war. Did they I think it's time to make xbox won the console No I don't think xbox just going and buying Bethesda Really changes the lead that playstation had ramping up to this system launching Which that's my whole point and that was my whole point the whole time and playstations Pre-orders have already come gone and sold out So that little announcement from xbox wasn't affecting anything that any point I was trying to make about playstation However, it was very good timing for xbox and I ran of applause It's pretty cool to announce that the day before their pre-orders go live very smart very clever Uh, that said Um, we still have to wait and see what that means like that's not get too overexcited here It is a really really big get I mean if you don't if you can't fathom this in in in your brain Let me try and break it down what xbox just did what microsoft just did is like a big brain A disney move xbox didn't just buy a game like didn't just buy a franchise for their console They didn't just go out and buy doom they went out and bought the entire publisher and all that publishers studios in one foul swoop So I mean even just in the graphic they showed that means they now own Microsoft now owns the rights and the licenses to games like dishonored wolfenstein elder scrolls So skyrim and the new one fallout any future fallouts technically they own fallout 76 I don't know if that probably could have counted that one out the deal Maybe they did so for those playing along at home Including these new purchases in with all the other companies that microsoft has had or they purchased recently They now have companies like 343 worlds edge the coalition compost games double fine They have their own studio. They have obsidian games, which by the way obsidian and fallout Back under one roof, which is kind of exciting, but will probably amount to nothing rare, which you know they've been Wasting that property for a while, but so it it still looks good. I mean it still looks it looks all good I am I am I am a fan of xbox.  I like microsoft I like xbox, uh, but for me this purchase was like, okay cool, but come on Because they bought a bunch of studios two years ago Like all the ones I just showed and uh, we're still waiting on all of it all of it We're still waiting on all of it. The only ones we've seen are halo, which has been delayed and hellblade, which yeah pretty cool But we're still waiting on 90 of these studios to show us something Which tells me them just buying xbox Them just buying bethesda now is a really cool announcement, but it's still things that we're not going to see for a couple of years I mean, I don't know when the next fallout game was planned, but 76 is fairly new. We just had a doom I don't think starfield or the new elder scrolls were anywhere close and somewhere down the line This could amount to some really cool exclusives, but it it's a couple years down the line Oh, what a nightmare.


One of the really unfortunate things about having a YouTube channel with a rather large following is that I get a ton of messages. I get a ton of emails, a ton of messages on Mastodon and Reddit and other social platforms, and I just can't respond to any of them because there's just so many of them. I don't have time to respond to each individual email and direct message and things like that. I read them all. I definitely read everything you guys send, but I just I don't have time to respond to them. If I had to respond to everything, I would never have time to actually make video content or I'd never have a personal life, you know, it would eat up into some of that time. So I do read all of your messages and I appreciate you guys that do message me, but I typically don't respond to anything. But the other day I got our lengthy email from a viewer and he asked a couple of really important questions and I really wanted to take the time to respond to him. And it was such an important question that he was asking. I really wanted to do a proper video response to it because I don't want to answer this question just to him. I want to share it with many of you guys because I think it's a question a lot of Linux users have. So this gentleman, let's read a little bit of his email. He wrote to me, Hi DT, it's been a while, but I'm still following and watching your videos. If you have time to read and reply to this message, I would be grateful knowing how busy you are. And then he goes on to say, Recently, I went back to the video on moving from noob to power user that you made last summer. So I made a video about a year ago where I took Linux Mint Cinnamon and I went from noob to power user using Linux Mint Cinnamon. I showed you guys how you can start setting key bindings to open and close all of your programs using key bindings, using run launchers like D-Menu. I showed you how you could theme your terminal, theme your text editor, your GUI text editor, even things like Zed or G-Edit and things like that. And it's a really good video, especially if you're brand new to Linux. Go check it out from noob to power user. I'll link to that video in the show description. He goes on to say, After the many years that I've been using Linux, I want to still get away from working as a noob too much GUI and point and click. And I would say that's a good idea. It's really a good idea to get away from using the point and click method of, you know, doing everything with the mouse because honestly, it's hard on your wrist. Before you use that mouse, there's some health benefits actually to getting your hand off the mouse and putting your hands on a keyboard and doing as much as you can on a keyboard. The mouse, it can really start causing some carpal tunnel issues. So that's a good idea. Not just, it's not to look cool. A lot of people think it's an elitist kind of attitude. Hey, don't use the mouse, just use the keyboard for everything. No, there's real reasons why a lot of people try not to use a mouse or they get away from using standard mice and go to things like upright mouse or a track ball mouse, things like that. So he's on the right track here. Yeah, definitely try to get away from point and click reading further. He goes on to say, quote, I've tried to learn more about the command line. And after rewatching your video a few times, I have really jumped into my keyboard shortcuts and made some changes and additions like Super W for LibreOffice Writer, Super I for LibreOffice Impress, plus many of the suggestions from the videos. And that's a great thing what he's doing. And that really starts getting you in the mindset that it really doesn't matter what distribution you're on or what desktop environment you're on. Because if you're doing everything through keybundings, you're kind of bypassing the desktop environment altogether, right? Because it doesn't matter what the desktop environment is. It doesn't matter if you have the GNOME panel or the KDE plasma panel or what menu system you have there because you're bypassing all of that. You're just doing a hotkey to open a program and a hotkey to close the program, right? So you don't need any of that stuff. So that's already just using keybundings. You're kind of making the desktop environment kind of obsolete, right? It doesn't even need to be there. He goes on to write, quote, what really struck me and it had a lot of truth to it was your comment about once you make a lot of these power leading changes, the desktop environment doesn't really matter, which is what I was getting at. He goes on to say, and that is so true. I followed the video on what you did to Mint sentiment and replicated much of that on MX Linux, the XFCE edition that I'm currently using. The question that moves me to ask this is if the desktop environment doesn't really matter, what would be the best desktop environment and distro to be on to have and then put away? So what he's saying is, hey, if the desktop environment didn't really matter, what desktop environment should I use? And if the distro doesn't really matter, then what distro should I use? And obviously, if they don't matter, it doesn't really matter. I think that's the point of if the desktop environment doesn't really matter, then you really don't need a desktop environment. That's really the way to look at it. For example, if I go over to my desktop here, let me switch to my desktop. Of course, this is the X-monad window manager, but you can think of it as a desktop environment, it's just a desktop environment.  That's all a desktop environment is. So in my case, my desktop environment, I chose the X-monad window manager. There's X-monad, the window manager controls windows. It's a tiling window manager. As far as the desktop environment around it, that's all the extra stuff that typically things like GNOME, Plasma, XFCE bundled together. Compositor, I use Compton or Pycom now as the compositor. For a panel, I chose the X-Mobar panel, but I could have chose a dozen different things. If I wanted different panels, I have a system tray over here. This is Trayer that has the icons here. This is the system tray icons. Now, if I didn't want a system tray, I don't have to install one. Or if I wanted a different system tray other than Trayer, there's a few other standalone system tray applications I could have used. I'm setting wallpaper with nitrogen, but I could set wallpaper with FEH, or I could set wallpaper with X wallpaper. I could do all kinds of things. I've got several daemons running in the background. I've got the Emacs server daemon running in the background, so I can pull up Emacs quickly. I've got several of those kinds of programs running in the background. My session is LX Session, that's the pull kit program, the authentication program that's always running. So this is my desktop environment, right? It's essentially my custom desktop environment that I put together. It's not a desktop environment that somebody that maintains a distribution told me, hey, this is your desktop environment. Here's all the programs built into this desktop environment that we've decided are your desktop environment.  Because all of that's already decided when you get served up a full desktop environment. So once you start becoming the power user, the power user is really not like all of a sudden you went from being, you know, not knowing much about Linux to all of a sudden you know everything about Linux. That's not when we say power user, it's more about customization. When you become one of these people that want to have ultimate control over your desktop where you want to pick and choose each and every application and customize each and every application to your specific needs. That's what we're talking about with power users. And when you get to that point, desktop environments don't matter. And typically you're not going to get one of the big desktop environments because they're not going to serve your needs because you're going to want to pick and choose different parts of your desktop environment, you know, different clipboard managers, network managers and volume managers, things like that, that they get in your way. If you're using a big desktop environment like GNOME or Plasma or Cinnamon or XFC, you're better actually just building your own desktop environment. And what I would suggest is if you like floating window managers, so if you're used to floating windows like in GNOME and Cinnamon and Plasma, then what I would do is give OpenBox a try, the OpenBox window manager. And it's very customizable. I've done a lot of videos on OpenBox and most of them, you know, in the early days of the channel, about three, four years ago, right? But they're still relevant today. And OpenBox is fantastic for a floating window manager. Of course, the more you're doing with keyboard shortcuts and key bindings, I would strongly suggest maybe taking a look at a tiling window manager at some point. If you want a good tiling window manager that's easier to get into than most, i3 is pretty new user friendly. The awesome window manager is new user friendly. And Qtile, honestly, is pretty new user friendly, too. And if you want some custom tiling window manager distros that already have the tiling window manager customized a little bit for you, so you don't have to start from a complete blank slate, ArcoLinux has tiling window manager additions for practically every tiling window manager known to man. Getting back into the email here, he goes on to write, if I understand correctly, the base for something like Mint is the same for each desktop version. And it's the specific features of Cinnamon, Manté, or XFCE that decorate the distro. So, yes. So your underlying base distribution, the kernel and the init system and the GNU core utils and all of that. Yes, that's the base system. And then what you typically see, the GUI you see on the screen, your login manager and then your desktop environment. Yeah, that's just the very top layer, right? Once you scrape all of that away, yes, your underlying base distribution, you know, it mints the same, no matter if it's Mint, Cinnamon, Mint, XFCE, Mint, Manté, still the same package manager underneath and all of those Mint utilities. And then he goes on to write, my other question deals with my everyday distro. I began my journey back in the early 2000s with Ubuntu and GNOME 2, which was my journey as well. I started around 2008 on desktop Linux. I actually was using Linux on the server back in the 90s. But my first full time living in Linux on the desktop was Ubuntu with the old GNOME 2 desktop environment. He goes on to write and then he went to GNOME 3 and he spent a little time with the Zubuntu with XFCE until I had some concerns about the direction Ubuntu was going and moved for a number of years to Mint Manté since it was taking me back to the days of old Ubuntu. And what he's talking about here is, of course, GNOME 2 eventually reached end-of-life GNOME transition from GNOME 2 to GNOME 3. So GNOME 2 was dead. So using GNOME 2 on Ubuntu was no longer an option because they either had to move to GNOME 3 or what they ended up doing is they created their own desktop environment, a fork of GNOME 3 called Unity, which I liked Unity. It was okay. Not in the early days, it was kind of buggy, but it was better than GNOME 3, especially in the early days because the first few versions of GNOME 3 were very buggy. So I can understand, especially in that time period, people looking for other options. And if you really liked GNOME 2, Manté was a fork of GNOME 2. So it made sense. Yeah, go to a Manté distribution. So he went to Mint Manté, find choice, and then he goes on to say a few years ago he discovered MX and he's been using it. And he said, a few problems with some programs that are written for Debian-based distributions not exactly working correctly with MX. I've had to have the actual Linux developer, if I drive, work with me to modify his scripts to get it to work. Along with that, I hear feedback that MX isn't a mainstream distro. And maybe I should switch back to a distro that is more mainstream like Ubuntu or Mint. Well, my comment on that is, well, I mean, what's a mainstream distribution? Who decides what that is? Obviously, some distributions are bigger than others. You know, obviously Ubuntu is the big elephant in the room, right, Ubuntu's king. And it has a corporation behind it. Of course, that matters. But what does it really matter?  ArcoLinux is, I don't know how many users ArcoLinux is. It's gaining popularity, but a very small team behind ArcoLinux is not. I wouldn't call it a big distribution. Most people, I'm assuming, wouldn't call it a mainstream distribution. But what does it matter? Right, it's a Linux distribution. And if the distro doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. Use what you wanna use. It's not like you're married to your distribution either. It's not like you pick a distribution and that's the only one you ever use. In your email, obviously, you've hopped a few times. Me, I've hopped dozens of times, right? Again, you're not married to these things. Use it, use it. If it's working for you, keep using it. When things aren't working for you, hey, move to something else. It goes on to write, however, what you hear a lot of the time is that Mint with Cinnamon is the best distro for beginners. I am not a beginner, but not an expert, but you're helping teach towards that direction. But more of an experienced user. So I'm feeling that as an experienced user, I shouldn't be using a beginner distro. Am I wrong feeling that? And would I be best to leave MX and go with either Mint or Ubuntu? Thanks as always for your wise guidance. And I didn't include his name here because I didn't contact the guy and let him know I was gonna share his email here publicly, but I do appreciate his message. And what he's asking here is, okay, Mint with Cinnamon, people often say it's one of the better distributions for beginners. I've made that comment as well. I think Mint is great for the new to Linux user coming from Windows especially because Cinnamon kinda has that old school Windows paradigm. The point and click, let's get to the bottom panel and open up the start menu and search for a program and then click on it. Yeah, most people are gonna be comfortable with that workflow. I think most of the flavors of Ubuntu are very similar and they're pretty good for beginners. So yeah, Ubuntu's great, Mint's great. If you wanted to use one of those, yeah, go for it. MX, I actually like MX. I've actually put MX on some family member machines so they've broken their laptops, their Windows installations, they bring me their laptops. Hey, can you fix this? And I'll throw various Linux distributions on them but I've run MX on those friends and family computers. I'll put them on MX and most people have had nothing but good things to say about that. So MX is fine too. Really, the distribution you use, the main thing, especially once you get away from the desktop environment, you start using window managers, standalone window managers. So you're not taking the distribution as it comes to you. You typically, you'll wipe out whatever desktop environment that came installed on it and you'll create your own desktop environment. So none of that stuff really matters. What really matters is the underlying base system that we talked about on something like Mint or Ubuntu or MX. It's what package manager does it use? How are the repositories? Can you find all of your software in those repositories? And the thing with Ubuntu and most Ubuntu-based distributions like Mint is the repositories are really good, right? You're gonna find most of the software you're looking for in those repositories. MX, I believe MX is basing off of Debian. I think Debian's stable and you're gonna find a ton of stuff in the Debian repositories as well. So the repositories are good. The thing with MX, I think it's based on Debian stable so the packages may be a little older. Now, as you become more of an experienced user, as you say, you may not want to be on a really stable distribution like Debian stable or distributions based on Debian stable because those packages can be old, right?  So you may want to go to something a little more bleeding edge, obviously Ubuntu. If you stay on the interim releases and update every six months, you get fresher packages. Mint typically is a little older. Ubuntu LTS is gonna be quite a bit older. It's more along the lines of something like Debian stable. Have you ever tried an arch-based distribution? Because many of them are quite user-friendly and I think you would be impressed with the repositories. If you're kind of new to arch, you've never really given it a shot. I would strongly recommend, especially since you mentioned you're an XFCE user, have you ever tried Manjaro XFCE? Manjaro is really gaining popularity in the last few years, I would say Manjaro is actually a mainstream distribution if you're looking for one because they've really made arch popular. Like they've really brought arch to the masses and the flagship edition of Manjaro is actually their XFCE edition and it's good. Like it's really good and the great thing with Manjaro is the arch repositories are the best in the business. Arch because you have the AUR available, you will find every program you could possibly want to install either in the arch repositories or in the AUR, the arch user repositories. You will actually have better software availability in arch than you ever had in Demian or Ubuntu. Also, you're gonna get the latest packages because Manjaro, which is based on arch, arch is a rolling released distribution. It's constantly rolling, so you're always on the absolute latest version of your software. And finally, I would say what you're talking about where people are telling you that this distro is a mainstream distro but this other distro is not a mainstream distro or the distro that you're on is for noobs and this distribution that I'm on is for lead hackers. Ignore all of that. Anytime somebody tries to tell you what distribution to run, especially if they're trying to tell you what distribution or desktop environment to run and you didn't even ask them about it, ignore those people because those people are typically trolls and they have extreme bias as far as distributions. Many people, unfortunately, many people have this kind of team mentality where I'm on team Mint or team Fedora or team Gen2 or whatever distribution and I want everybody to run that distribution because I'm on it and you gotta be like me. Just ignore people like that, they don't matter. So there's no such thing as a noob distribution as far as there's no distribution that's only for noobs. I could run Mint, I could run Linux Mint happily for the rest of my life and be just fine. Could do anything I wanna do on Linux Mint just as I can do on Arch or Gen2 or Slackware or whatever, you know, elite hacker distribution. And that's the same thing with those distributions, they're not for elite hackers, anybody could install Arch, right? Anybody that can read can go to the Arch Wiki and read the installation page and get through an Arch install. It is not hard. It is not hard at all. Is it harder than installing Mint? It takes a little longer, you know, where Arch you have to enter a few things at the command line, but just a very few things. Like it's really a quick installation for Arch. So it's not like there's a clear dividing line, like this is for noobs, this is for power users. No, no, that's not really the way it works. And I would ignore anybody that tries to tell you that that's the case, anybody that tries to tell you what Linux distribution you have to run or what desktop environment you have to run, just ignore them.  Anyway, I don't know if I answered your question. The fellow that wrote this, I'm not gonna share his name. You know, we wanna protect the innocent here. I didn't ask him for permission to share this. So that's why I didn't include his name here, but I do appreciate the lengthy email. And I do think there was some good stuff in here. And I think a lot of people actually have these questions as far as a distribution and desktop environment, especially once you become more experienced. Like many of us have been running Linux for years now. Linux especially really exploded in popularity back in 2006 to 2008 because of the rise of Ubuntu. So you've got a lot of people that maybe don't consider themselves power users, but they've been using Linux for 10, 12, 15 years now. And they're really comfortable using Linux. They're experienced, they've been using it forever. And they're wondering, hey, is there anything else out there, am I really, am I still running the distribution that I should be running? Am I still running the desktop environment I should be running? Hey, feel free to look around. It's another thing, check out virtual machines, virtual box. Install all the distributions you wanna test out in virtual box. It doesn't hurt anything. Try them out in a virtual machine, see what you like, see what you don't like. And then don't be afraid to hop. Again, you're not married to these distributions. There was a time period a few years back where I could be on a different distribution on my main machine like every month. And that was okay, it was fun. Now, before I go, I need to thank a few special people. I need to thank the producers of this episode, Absi Dallas Gay, Blue Mitchell, Alan Akami, Archfix Out 30, Chuck David, the other David Dillon, Gregory Lewis, Paul, Polytech Scott, Steven, Sven, Wesson, Willie, these guys. They're the producers of this episode without these guys. This lengthy rant wouldn't have been possible. This show is also brought to you by each and every one of these ladies and gentlemen as well. All these names you're seeing on the screen right now, these are all my supporters over on Patreon because the DistroTube channel is sponsored by you guys, the community. If you'd like to help me out, look for DistroTube over on Patreon. All right, guys, peace. Compared to Windows, there is no mainstream Linux distribution.