So, hi, I'm Barb Archer, it's A-R-C-H-E-R, and as Sonny said, the commander of the Major Crimes Division. So, I'm going to give you an update on the incident that happened on Saturday morning in the early hours of the 2800 block of South Whitman where we had an officer who was shot. So, the call started out with officers being sent to the address around 4.30 in the morning on a welfare check on a party who was making suicidal statements to his friends via text messages. The messages included concerns that he was injuring himself and that he possibly had access to a gun. So, the first officers arrived there about 4.40, they saw the garage door was open and there was a mail standing just inside that garage. The officer took a position of cover and started talking to the mail. He was agitated, he was making angry statements, other officers arrived and together they continued their efforts to de-escalate this mail through verbal negotiations and telling them that they were there to help him, they didn't want to hurt him. Officers and supervisors on the scene formulated a plan, they used cover and concealment while they negotiated with the mail. The officers had less lethal equipment with them with plans to safely take the mail into custody and get him the help that he needed. He wasn't receptive to their efforts to help him. They continued to work on de-escalating him and establishing a report and this went on for about 25 minutes. After that course of the 25 minutes, the mail continued to make angry statements and was not cooperating with the officers' requests. Suddenly he pulled out a handgun and he rapidly moved towards the officers who had a position of cover and he fired his gun at them. The officers immediately responded to that threat. One officer fired his taser and the second officer fired his handgun at the mail striking him several times and it's important to note when we deploy less lethal weaponry such as a taser, we also deploy lethal cover and that the case in this situation. So the injured officer, he was taken to a nearby hospital and underwent surgery for a fractured femur. He's in stable condition, he remains hospitalized, his recovery outlook is good so we're hopeful there. The injured male was taken to the hospital with injuries to his torso and he is still hospitalized and remains in critical condition. That male has been identified as Brandon Gerwing. Brandon is B-R-A-N-D-O-N, Gerwing, G-E-R-W-I-N-G and he's being held for investigation of attempt first degree murder and first degree assault on a peace officer. We did recover a gun that we believe he fired at the officers. I'll tell you about the officers who were involved. The injured officer is named John Alred, that's spelled A-L-L-R-E-D. Officer Alred's been with the department for just barely a year. He's been on the street as a solo officer for three weeks having just recently completed his training. The other officer involved who fired his weapon is Sergeant Chad Kindle. He's been with the police department for 11 years and he is currently on administrative leave. So all Denver police officer involved shootings are investigated cooperatively with the Aurora Police Department and the Denver District Attorney's office per our established protocol. I know you've got questions about body worn camera video. We will release that as soon as we can. Right now we still need to interview the injured officer and the suspect before we can release that information to you. We're open. We're committed to being open and transparent and we'll release what we can as soon as we can. That's it. Any questions? Did the police shatter the lab for the officer? Yes. Officer Kindle's name, Sergeant Kindle, could you spell his last name please? K-E-N-D-A-L-L. So he's a 11 year veteran in the force? Yes, sir. The other officer you've said less than a year can be used specifically? He just completed his training program. He's been on the street as a solo officer for three weeks. Excuse me? Just completed his training program? No. It's solo. Solo officer. Right. He's been working by himself. He was hired in July, completed the police academy, then completed the street training program, and then is released to be a solo officer. You said he had the teaser being fired? Correct. Did he hit me? Yes, he did. Yes, he did. Fired what? So the new officer fired the taser, and the sergeant fired his handgun. Who was the first on the scene? Was it the new officer or the veteran? No, there were five officers on scene? Who were at first? I do not know which one was first. There was a team of supervisors and officers put together their plan to try and get this man the help he needed. The officer with the taser, the officer already? Was he the one that was speaking or negotiating with the officers? No, the officers were negotiating from the suspect from a different position. Correct. Yes. Not necessarily. They were prepared to use less lethal force. They had not seen a gun prior to that point. In this situation, we were told he had access to a gun, but we hadn't seen him with one. That's the kind of lead up to this shooting. I mean, they were trying to negotiate with him. I'm sure all those officers had CIT training. Right. Yes, all of our police officers are CIT trained. Crisis, which is crisis intervention training, were to de-escalate and try to talk people into compliance so we can get them into the situation where they can get the help they need. So they were in an area where they could see and talk with the suspect and negotiating with them. And he knew they were there. He was yelling back at them, but again, not complying with their request to just come out where we could see you and let us come help you. We're here to help you. We don't want to hurt you. At least a week, we need time to interview the injured officer. And obviously, we can't do that yet while he's still under medical care. He was struck several times. Yes. I don't know yet. He's critical. Do you know if he has a prior criminal history? He does not. 23? Is this the first interaction your department has had with Mr. Chairman? No, we were at his house in October on a similar situation. And that turned out where we were able to get it quickly under control and off to medical treatment. No, just take him to the hospital for treatment. Suspect to a Snapchat. He used social media. Snapchat may be one of those resources. So Snapchat was. It's possible. During the meeting. The information we had was text messages. But it's possible. It's possible there was Snapchat. As you know, Snapchat disappears once it's sent. So I can't verify that right now. Which officers? The ones who are. So when the officers were negotiating with them, they were probably 100 feet. When the shots were fired, you to me, 10 feet. Very, very close. Yes. They had a position of cover on the side of the garage. And that's where the suspect decided to turn. We had not seen a gun. No, we had not seen a gun up to that point. Well, they're very tense and they're very volatile when you have somebody with unpredictable behavior. And when they appear to be under the influence of substances, in this case, we suspect it was alcohol. We're not sure if there were other substances. So you're dealing with somebody who's erratic clearly in a crisis. And you just, you don't know where it's going to go. And you do the best you can to communicate with them and find that conversation point that will help them calm down and de-escalate and help them realize that we want to get them the help that they need. Personal crisis. He was taken to a hospital. I don't know what his treatment was after that. That wouldn't be a police matter. And you said it's final. Yes. No, just the officer who fired his handgun. Was he responding to what they asked him to do at all? He was not responding by complying, but he was responding with yelling, go away. I don't need you. I know my right. It's a type of statement. When he's booked, he's still in the hospital. All right, guys, thank you. Okay. Can you tell us the age of John? He's 23.


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Now, I believe that the speech by Marco Rubio basically announces the death of Anybody on the right now, maybe there are few voices here and there who represents America. I think China has won. I Texted a friend of mine today. I said we are all Chinese now All right now, maybe you don't believe me. Let's listen and see How Marco Rubio thinks We should stand up to China. What is his recipe for the United States in this big struggle in This ideological struggle in the struggle for vision for the future for us and for the rest of mankind How does he think America? Should position itself what should America do? Facing the challenge in my view the ideological challenge facing the challenge in my view a challenge of the philosophy of governance The China represents remember China's collectivism the common good state control of industry Where it wants to but leaving some parts free What is Rubio's view of this? All right now? Let's see. I've got a transcript of it as well So I'm starting in the middle the first 10 10 minutes 35 seconds And I'm not gonna go through the whole thing although well hopefully here a chunk of this We'll see we'll see how far it goes So here we start where I mean this is where I think Rubio really sets out the fundamental challenge Right the fundamental challenge and this is his words here I'm just gonna read it to you and then I'll have him speak it He says the fundamental challenge is that China seeks to prove that you can have a prosperous society a Contents civil citizenry and be the world's major power without respect for human dignity freedom or God Well put aside God a second without respect for human dignity freedom Now he doesn't say individualism of course because he can't because he's not but China wants to show That it can do all these things it can be prosperous and all this other stuff by being collectivist By being centrally planned and he understand that that is that is The real fundamental challenge What's our solution to that? So while it may be true that China is quote breaking the rules Or that Chinese companies are engaging in unfair competition against the American order the fundamental challenge will not be simply solved By some future trade agreement He's right fundamental challenge is that China seeks to prove that you can have a prosperous society a contented citizenry citizenry and be the world's major power and You can have all these things Without respecting human dignity and freedom or even a belief in God now he innocence I agree with Rubio the issue is not this or that trade practice the issue is not this or that subsidy Or this or that tariff that issue is fundamental is the Chinese model the right model or is the American model the right model That is the fundamental conflict right now that we face Which one is the right model and he says they want to show That you can be successful now if he had a proper understanding of history of the mind of human beings He'd know that China China's mother has to fail has to fail and will fail But he doesn't have that understanding. So this is the challenge and he's right about the challenge How do we solve it though? The second reason we have to respond to the challenges before us is because the industries that China intends to dominate are the very ones That will create the dignified and productive work The kind of dignified and productive work that Americans need for us to remain a strong Nation so this is really big right so the other threat is a practical pragmatic threat China once dominated industries that we and by doing so it's gonna take jobs away from Americans dignified and productive Work and that work is essential for the American character And we can't let that happen In the name of what American individualism Now responding to the challenge will require us to reject the fundamentalism that argues that the greatest virtue in American policy Is to maximize economic efficiency now notice what he's saying him Spawning to this challenge will require us to reject the fundamentalism that argues that the greatest virtue in American policy I assume economic policies made here is to maximize efficiency now that's code word for what we need to reject is The fundamental idea that capitalism of capitalism. That's what efficiency Stands in for it stands for markets. It stands for capitalism. It stands for freedom In other words Rubio says that if we're gonna Combat China the one thing we have to give up is capitalism the one thing we have to give up is Economic efficiency the one thing we have to give up Is free markets That He says is unacceptable in other words in order to defeat the Chinese as we'll see We must become like them. There's my there it is The market will always reach the most efficient economic outcome The problem is that sometimes the most efficient economic outcome is at odds With the common good and the national interest So we're adopting the Chinese view There's all the government is not to protect individual rights Do all of the government is not to protect our individual freedoms do all of the government is not to Protect our property rights and to leave us alone The goal of the government is to seek out the common good and the national interest The common good and the national interest That sounds like China to me Outsourcing jobs might to China might be more efficient. It lowers the labor costs and increases the profits But the good jobs we lose end up destroying families and communities. Do we lose jobs? I've said this over and over and over and over again unemployment today in the United States is lower than it's ever been Supposedly right that's what Trump constantly tells us and it's low and Americans at work Wages actually rising We've got amazing jobs in the United States because we've restructured our economy to get rid of low productivity jobs Jobs in the Midwest jobs and manufacturing jobs all kinds of jobs and invested in high productivity jobs Silicon Valley Technology around Austin biotech in Boston and San Diego Really good jobs. We are losing Because of outsourcing I'd say the opposite We're gaining fantastic jobs because of outsourcing because what the outsourcing does is it feeds up capital in the United States to invest in things That are much more value increasing So let's adopt the lefts the lefts Ideology let's adopt the ideology that says that outsourcing and capitalism Actually hood jobs that outsourcing capitalism actually Hoots wealth that wealth creation is not a consequence of capitalism No Because capitalism is about self-interest capitalism is about the individual capitalism is what America was about But we're not about America. We're gonna fight China not by being America Just last year a study found that areas of the United States that faced Chinese import saturation from 1990 through the year 2014 experienced drops in male employment as well as declining marriage and fertility rates now I want to know again if All these men are losing their jobs. How come unemployment is so low and This is the same as what the left does I've critiqued the number of leftist videos Recently by by different leftist commentators on YouTube and they all use the same thing They use one study one bogus statistic that they pull out from nowhere and they cite it over and over and over again And they generalize from it Statistics are dangerous Study is a dangerous unless you understand how they've done what's really going on you can find any results you want and Yes, it might it's quite possible that jobs Are gone, but does he know that those jobs are gone because of Chinese China? This is this is areas that face Chinese import saturation. What does Chinese import? Saturation mean aren't we all facing Chinese import saturation is the whole of America Facing Chinese import saturation then shouldn't there be massive amounts of job losses in America? Why is unemployment so low? Why is the economy growing? Why are the most innovative? productive creative Companies in the world in the United States of America still I I can't believe I'm the optimist here Why the doom and gloom? Well, as I've said many times you have to convince people that everything is horrible and falling apart that the world is in terrible shape so that You can inflict something radical on them so that They will accept things that they wouldn't otherwise accept Communities that bore the brunt of what some call normalizing trade relations with China We even see jumps in suicide rates This is the same guy used to be profuy trade From substance abuse now. It's interesting what I mean today is not the show I'm gonna talk about suicide and substance abuse abuse. I will talk about that later. I think it's Rubio's fault I think it's Trump's fault. I think it's Obama's fault I think it's the political class and the elites in this country's fault that we have so many suicides And we have so much drug abuse and it has to do with the false promises They made it has to do with the collectivism and the nationalism and the common good It has to do with the betrayal of the American dream that they have engaged in It has to do with the lack of demand of people to take responsibility for their own life It has to do with the lack of moral moral leadership in this country That's the reason we have suicides and a drug problem not because of China Not because of China. How weak would we be? How weak would you say the American character is how weak would you say our country is if China could cause people to Commit suicide in mass and and go on drugs in the United States. It's just not true Something profound has changed in this country. What's changed in this country is A lack of individual responsibility a lack of belief in the American dream a lack of insistence on the individualism on the sanctity of individual life and a coddling of people I Told generation that expects to have a job that expects to have healthcare that expects to be taking care of by government and Then when it doesn't turn out to be rosy when that happens, it doesn't turn out to be really really good when that happens Then yeah, it's depressing But we were promised and as I say and I'll continue to say get in the frigging car and Drive to where the jobs are because there are plenty of jobs in this country even today There are plenty of jobs in this country get in your car drive the year on of a car get a bus a bus ticket Your ancestors got on boats traveled three months in Stormy weather to reach a shore where nothing was promised to them But today we have promised so much in this country That people are depressed That people are depressed because our politicians and our intellectuals cannot live up to those promises They should have never promised them to begin with So for policymakers The common good can't just be about corporate profits It can't common good common good just can't be about corporate profitees, right? It's not about corporate about finding economic efficient efficiency When dignified in other words, it can't be about capitalism the common good cannot be about capitalism I mean, this is great because let's lay it out exactly the way it is particularly for men goes away So too goes away the backbone of our culture The evidence shows our communities become blighted and wither away families collapse and fewer people get married and Ultimately it ruptures the soul of our nation now Let's say it was true that we've got a job shortage in this country That's what really killing Americans in them in this country is the fact that we don't have enough jobs What would a pro-capitalist president propose as a solution for this? How about dramatic rolling back regulations not the trickle Bailey deregulation of the Trump administration, but radical deregulation Doing away with a big regulatory bill that Congress passed one every month Big deregulation. How about big Getting coming out of our lives How about a rollback in entitlements? How about rollbacks? How about this is the principle if we want more jobs in America if we want better jobs in America if we want more productive jobs in America for more high-paying jobs in America how about We make America more capitalist Even the Chinese know that You give people freedom and proof wealth is created productive jobs are created. Why don't we do that? Why don't we do that? How about some economic free zones in America? But no No, the solution of Macaubia the solution to the Republican Party The solution is the cave to the left and to cave to the to China The solution is in the name of the common good give up on capitalism in the name of the common good give up on Efficiency in the name of the common good Give up on America Give up on what America made America still makes America great This experience has become essentialized today and images of decaying rust belt towns and the epidemic of working-class deaths of despair But this story is playing out just as destructively in our nation's inner cities from Flint to Phoenix from Baltimore to Birmingham The erosion of dignified work is colorblind and is geographically limitless. I'm agree with that Let's eliminate minimum wages. Let's make it a federal law that you cannot raise at the local level minimum wages the localities cannot cannot Let's establish economic freedom in this country and Then you will get wages going up jobs being created high productivity wealth creation But God forbid God forbid that anybody should advocate for freedom God forbid that we did should actually Advocate for an American solution. No the solution must be a Chinese solution Now you'll see he gives lip service to free enterprise now to be clear free enterprise is the greatest mechanism Man has ever employed for achieving prosperity, but he doesn't believe that He doesn't believe that or if he does he doesn't care prosperity is not his goal You think it was because jobs prosperity seem to go together Maybe we don't have free markets today. Maybe all our problems are not China. Maybe all our problems are not the Chinese Taking our jobs. Maybe our problems today is regulation taxes welfare state entitlements and American modern mentality of entitlements Sitting on your hands and waiting of a welfare mentality. Maybe that's the problem senator Rubio The solution should be capitalism but no At the same time, we must always remember that the market is agnostic as to whether America is a high or a low wage economy The market really I mean, I mean all evidence suggests is market really agnostic a Markets is capitalism a place places that implement capitalism. Do they tend to be low wage economies? No When capitalism is implemented wages are rising and it's a to be high wage economies America was a high wage economy because of capitalism if it isn't today. It's because it has moved away from capitalism China became relatively high wage only when it adopted capitalism and even then the wages are low until it fully Embraces capitalism Hong Kong has become a high wage place the financial center of Asia because it adopted capitalism. I Mean, come on Rubio. You know better than this or you used to or you pretended to know once agnostic on whether a certain outcome is in our national interest or the common good Now that is true markets cannot tell what the common good is Markets cannot tell what the common good is because there is no such thing as the common good the public interest What is the common good? What is the public interest? It's whose interest who is the common who is the public and by the way who gets to the side it cannot be markets Monkets don't know it's in the common good of the public interest. So who does this like who is Mark? Oh, we'll go to give the power to make the decisions About what is in the public good and the common interest or the other way round whatever Well, of course The only people who can make that decision Are the philosopher kings the rulers the politicians the government the state? Now place them above us as individuals place them above the market And then let them make decisions about what is in now common good and what is in the public interest? agnostic The policy makers like me cannot be he's a policy makers a politician. He is a ruler. He is a philosopher king He knows what's in the common good He has that power I don't have that power But he has the power The power to see into the minds of men the power to aggregate all this information The power to know what is good for me and what is good for you and what is good for all of us And you know what if we have to sacrifice a few individuals here and then if we have to sacrifice some businessmen If we have to sacrifice some billionaires if we have to sacrifice these employees for those employees We have to sacrifice You know auto workers for steel workers and steel workers for farm workers and farm workers for somebody else only Big brother only policy makers like Marco Rubio can do that He's got a big brain. He knows what's in the common interest. He is a philosopher king Suspect that many and not all of you Men and women who are here because you are committed to our national security Are not agnostic either For example, the market may say short-term profits justify adhering to the requirements that China places on our companies But policy makers Take into account that long-term surrendering of our productive capacity to China is reckless really we're surrendering our Productive capacity to China by outsourcing doesn't work that way Economics business take a business course market may say that Americans often unwittingly should invest in Chinese firms But policy makers must take into account whether American investors should be capitalizing the very firms That steal from our companies that commit human rights abuses and develop the weapons that could one day kill the men Now imagine a speech that actually focused on China's committing human rights violations, that would be interesting, but nobody does that Nobody focuses on that Trade deficits they focus on lots of other things and yeah If they have already proposed how to deal with them stealing from our companies, what do we do with thieves? Well, we we outlaw them we ban them if Chinese companies steal IP from American companies Don't Don't let their products enter the United States put pressure on all governments around the world to stop Trade and stolen goods. We can do it with Gucci bags Louis Vuitton products. Why can't we do it with high-tech software? Because that's not really the issue it's not really what we care about it really the issue is power Really the issue is people like Marco Rubio people like Donald Trump people like Bernie Sanders and Biden and all the politicians out there What they really really a jealous of is the power That the Chinese government has They're not concerned about IP. They're not concerned if they would their things they could do about it They're not concerned about human rights violations if there was there was thing they could do about it They're not concerned about any of this This is not a call to socialism or a rejection of capitalism. Yes, it is it actually is a Call for socialism and a rejection of capitalism and indeed it's a call for fascism Which is a form of socialism one could argue called a policy makers to remember that the national interest Not economic growth alone is our central obligation. So the national interest What is that? Who decides that? How is it defined? Give us a principle Marco tell us what national interest means. I mean it has should have a definition It should have a way you should be able to represent it. What does it mean? You want to change the way America is in the name of the national interest But you never define what it is because it's a colleague in your mind and in most people's minds It's a collectivistic floating abstraction. It means nothing but grants you immense power This is in a call to recreate the economy of America's past. Yes, it is It's a call to invest and compete in the emergent industries of the future Instead of forfeiting them to China. How are we gonna compete? How are we gonna compete? Well, you'll see in a minute and this isn't a knee-jerk Call to protection is it is it's a call to maintain the technological and industrial superiority necessary That's called competition Defend our interests and ensure that working Americans have access to dignified and productive work and the best way to do that Is to bring more freedom to the American economy? Now the critics of the approach that I've just laid out argue that I'm making us choose industries to favor But I'm arguing that we need to pick winners and losers. Yes, that's exactly what you're doing what you're arguing for is An industrial policy in the dissection of the speeches title Revitalizing American industrial policy the truth is we are already doing that. Yeah, that's true We already have a mixed economy and we already got the government involved in much of our economy and you'd think an American conservative would argue against that not use that to justify doing even more of it Conferences the path we are on now is allowing Beijing to do the picking and the choosing How secure or prosperous can America be if it cannot carry out heavy industry or pharmaceutical manufacturing or advanced technology American policymakers have an obligation to pursue policies that make our economy more productive by Identifying the critical value of specific industrial sectors and sparing investment in these sectors. Did you pay attention to that? This is important American policymakers must pursue policies that make our economy more productive by identifying the critical value of specific industries industrial sectors and sparing investment in them Now this is industrial policy This is the state picking winners and losers This is the state decided which industries win and which industries lose. This is the state centrally planning This is Japan's model before it completely failed in the late 1980s This is the this is the Japanese model that Americans envied at the time and this is the Chinese model of state-run enterprises a model that even in China Is failing because the successful portions of the Chinese economy are those portions of the economy That are left free from such manipulation, but Macaubia is calling for Identifying government. Let's be clear government identifying the critical value of specific industrial sectors and sparing investment in them I call that subsidies in other words. Let's be very very clear He's arguing for the Chinese model He doesn't want to give up in capitalism completely. There'll be certain sectors in the economy that will be left free Just like they are in China But others the important ones the ones that he the commander-in-chief the chief Regulator the chief central planner will identify as crucial to American interest in the common good There the government will intervene there. We will have state-run enterprises. We won't call them that We'll pretend they're private But we'll provide them with capital with spur investment and we'll make sure they can also stay jobs It's truly unbelievable It's right in front of us and is there a single voice out there a single voice That is talking against us. Is there a single voice calling Macaubia on this? Is there a single voice in the intellectual landscape of the way? calling them on this No Well me the depletion of American manufacturing has left us with a tremendous National security vulnerability prove that prove that no evidence to that I Am not advocating for a government takeover of our means of production. No the fascists never say that the fascists always say No, I'm not a socialist I don't want to come into own the means of production. I just want them to control the means of production All right a little bit more. Let's go What I am calling for is us to remember that from the Second World War to the space race and beyond a Capitalist America has always relied on public-private collaboration to further our national security Now these are the talking points of the left This is what the left has always said This is what Obama said What's the difference? Everybody wants me to always vote Republican, but what's the difference between them? They were all status central planners They are long for the days of World War two in the government controlled the economy doubtfully Doubtful that was a good thing Even though we did win the war Listen to the next paragraph This is a gem and from the internet to GPS many of the innovations that have made America a technological superpower Originated from national defense oriented public-private partnerships again the left stocking point Oh, no, you can't give capitalism the credit for the iphone all that stuff in the iphone all came from government projects I mean I've talked about that a lot why that is a bogus argument, but again you're hearing this left and right There's no difference This kind of collaboration is not a rejection of capital. Yes, it is It's exactly what you encourage and harness the dynamism of our economy's most productive private industries To further our national security and ultimately to further our national economic development And here it is It is a call for a 21st century pro-american industrial policy and Why do we need this notice this next paragraph when it comes to Chinese firms our companies aren't competing with private enterprises They're competing with a large and powerful nation-state. So let's copy them Let's copy them Because they subsidize the industries We should subsidize their industries because they have controls of trade We should have controls and trade because they have the common good We should practice the common good because they have an authoritarian government. Maybe we should Won't go there because democracy is still God in this country. We won't go quite there won't go that far But everything else we just copy them. This is why I titled the show the Chinese of one It's over and Mokorubio is right here. He's surrendering and Mokorubio basically representing Trump is Philosophy Mokorubio has become a Trump is since Trump won and It's just surrendered the United States to China It's over guys their model one our Politicians are convinced of it and I fear I Fear the American people are convinced of it In the long run it is a competition that market fundamentalists cannot and will not win Because China has learned how to leverage access to short-term profits as a way to get many American companies to commit Long-term corporate suicide. Yeah, there it is again another left to think American companies think short term It's all about short-termism. It's a Chinese central planners Central planners generally they're the ones who think long term They're the ones who have long term considerations and you know why the Chinese can think long term and why American politicians can't Because they don't have to get elected. I mean that's the next step in order to really really be able to practice the common good In order to really really really know what the national interest is and impose the common good in the national interest on us We need to get rid of elections because you know what he is not going to say this, but you know what? Elections cause us to think long short term Senators have to be elected every six years house members every two years But in China they don't have to be elected so they can think really really long term where capitalism or capitalism is all about quarterly profits It's all about short-term That's why America has invented basically a biotech industry because it's so short-term They make profits instantly That's why it's truly amazing after my picture up here Whoops, sorry. Oh, it doesn't matter He's rejecting everything about capitalism And he says Because China provides their domestic companies the ability to make investments that make no market sense in the short term But are critical to their national and economic security in the long term So short term versus long term I mean the same old anti-couple list arguments and again because China does it we should do it They have won All right, I'm gonna skip this You get the point Basically what will be always arguing for is the adoption in America of Chinese like industrial policy of Chinese like supportive industries of Chinese like management of the economy all In the name of beating China or because the Chinese model is better because the Chinese model allows Investment in the long run run the Chinese model allows for central planning, which we know is better than markets Markets are too short term markets are too selfish markets are too focused on the on Individual good and not focused on the common good Not focused on the national interest. So we must abandon markets in order to beat China at its own game Now I don't know about you guys because I don't know anymore But that's just horrific It's the end of America. It's the end of this country it's the complete complete surrender of any kind of principle any Kind of idea that comes from the founding of this country the surrender of freedom and individualism for the sake of what? For the sake of Chinese central planning imposed on Americans Because that's the only way we can beat China now. Let me give you an alternative vision Now turn a vision is the capitalism works That freedom works It works to make individuals better Both in the short run and in the long run it works to raise wages and raise productivity It works to innovate to produce to create to build it allocates resources where they're most needed For example away from stupid jobs and to smart jobs It increases our ability to produce to create to build to make and Indeed central planning is a failure always has been always will be and The China to the extent that it embraces central planning to the extent that it ignores what has been successful in China Which are the free economic zones will fail will become poor Indeed the slowdown in the Chinese economy which started about two years ago Isn't a two three years ago went down from about 12 15 percent to around 6 percent and now is going below 6 percent It's not a consequence of Trump. It's not a consequence of tariffs, but it is a consequence Almost entirely a consequence of their economic central planning The more they do of it the more they clamp down on private industry. They more They clamp down on individual thought the more they restrict freedom of speech political freedoms freedom of movement the more They try to manage ideas manage entrepreneurs manage industries the poorer they will get There is nothing to fear from an authoritarian China Because authoritarianism leads to poverty and will lead to poverty The only reason China is relatively rich is because it loosened up. It's authoritarian reigns because it allowed for freedom If it goes back on that as it seems to be doing and there's nothing to fear it We win hands down We have not lost millions of jobs for the Chinese we have lost millions of jobs technology Which has enhanced our productivity made us richer created? Unbelievably good jobs all over America. What is destroying this country? What is causing suicide rates and drug addiction and general depression and the election of Donald Trump? What is destroying this country is? That we have abandoned the ideology of individualism we have abandoned The vision we have abandoned the confidence We have abandoned the idea of the individual standing by himself relying on himself Pursuing his own happiness For a murky Vision of the common good the national interest and trade as a zero-sum game The real depressing thing about America is how great we were How amazing a vision we had and and how we have walked away from their vision left and right holding hands and singing kumbaya? Yay for industrial policy and central planning. Yay for subsidizing businesses and deciding what's long-term good for America versus the short term is of capitalism What's destroyed America is exactly what I ran said. It's an orgy of altruism Manifest politically and collectivism Complete and utter betrayal stabbing in the back of the vision of the founders And I don't know what it's gonna take to resurrect this country. I don't know It's a It's indeed a pleasure to have you with us tonight.  It's kind of a crazy entertainment show generally although we do like to sit down occasionally and And get some views of people that are important in the world today Well, I don't think there's a problem entertainment in fact. I've been watching you many times. I'm very very happy I know it's very difficult to state any Philosophical principles like objectivism in a short period of time or to condense it but quite can you give us some? basic idea of Objectivism and the principles of philosophy that you believe in all right now I'll make it very brief with the Understandings that anyone who really is interested would look it up in my books particularly not the shugged Because otherwise I can't give a long discourse and proof here So just as mentioning the highlights The basic principle of objectivism is that man must be guided exclusively by a reason reasons the faculty that Identifies and integrates the material provided by his senses. That's a form of definition That reason is men's only tool of knowledge his only guide to action and his only guide to the choice of values As a consequence of that man's proper ethics or morality Morality of rational self-interest Which means that every man has a right to exist for his own sake and he must not? Sacrifice himself to others or sacrifice others to himself That the achievement of his own Rational happiness is the highest moral purpose of his life as a consequence of that the only system On a political system which expresses This morality is the system of laissez-faire capitalism by which I mean for unregulated uncontrolled capitalism a system based on the recognition of individual rights Including property rights in which all properties owned by private individuals the Principle which ties Morality to politics is The principle that no man has the right to initiate physical force violence Compulsion against other men men have certainly the right of self-defense But no man no group of men that includes the government has the right to Initiate force and to force a man to act against his own judgment as this is the essence of the philosophy Your objectivism is in a way of course while there's much controversy is it it is almost contrary to I guess the cultural beliefs as people have been brought up true as to sacrifice the good of your fellow men and Not to have the Ethicalism and self-sacrifice as you call it not almost contrary the exact opposite and you're saying that man Should first serve his own self-interests and be interested in himself first I Wouldn't say first I would say only But you would have to explain this other man Can be of interest to an individual if they represent Values moral values you serve your own interest best By finding associating with working with the right kind of people Therefore other people can be a value a great value to a man But only when and if they correspond to his Moral ideas not otherwise in other words man does not have to serve anyone Accept himself, but he does in effect serve others When they're interested in their values agree using the super chat and I noticed yesterday when I appealed for support for the show many of you step forward and actually Supported the show for the first time. 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I am a child of modern India, independent, self-reliant. One of the world's fastest growing economies. A population of over 1.2 billion people. 72% of whom live in villages across the country. Inhabiting a space we often call Bharat. Traditional, agricultural, rural. Sadly, people here do not share the fruits of development. But wrestle with issues of poverty, hunger, malnutrition and illiteracy. Surely this was not the dream of our founding fathers. This ever-widening chasm between haves and have-nots cannot urban, industrial India offer a suitable solution to its fellow citizens to earn a livelihood and live a decent life. I hear about a revolutionary act that is being implemented by the Ministry of Rural Development from 2006. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act that promises 100 days of work to any rural household whose adult members are willing to do unskilled manual labour. Each household needs to register for a job card first and then file an application for work. Within 15 days of applying, work has to be allocated to that family, failing which an unemployment allowance is to be paid. And in most states, the wages paid are not below the minimum wages of that state. Could this be the answer I am looking for? The Employment Guarantee Act is the most significant legislation of our times in many ways. It is a legal right to livelihood, a right the people can demand to be enforced. The act gives employment, it gives income, it gives a livelihood and gives a chance for all to live a life of self-respect and dignity. The Employment Guarantee Act transfers power in the hand of our people. Groundbreaking in its intent and framework. However, five years into its implementation, has Mahatma Gandhi Narrega made any difference to Bharat? We embark on a journey to four different states in India to explore the implementation of the act and its impact on the rural poor. Rajasthan is an eye-opener. Known for its arid and barren landscapes, water has been a perennial problem here. But thanks to the projects undertaken by the Mahatma Gandhi Narrega scheme, water bodies have been created, water tables restored, resulting in greenery all around. Am I still in Rajasthan? The Vijapura constituency is also credited with introducing the concept of wall painting, all accounts of the project, so as to ensure complete transparency and accountability. Eating this movement has been Kaaluram, a model Sarpanch, the democratically elected head of the village Panchayat, which is the local self-governing body. NREJ has revitalized the notion of the Panchayat because the Panchayat has become the basis for all this. So whether it's dysfunctioning, whether it's malfunctioning, whether there's malnvelence, whatever they may be in the Panchayat, the Panchayat has become a focus. It is now not a non-issue, it's an issue. So it is focused on the Panchayat as a delivery mechanism, as a decision-making mechanism, as a political entity. It's taken the concept of transparency to the smallest village in this country. Questions racing through my head, we move our trail to Bihar in the east, where almost 85% of the population lives in villages. Improved governance by the current state government has led to an economic revival here. A lot of the migration from India happens from Bihar, and these are people who are going in search of work. What Naraygarh helps is people who migrate out of no choice by offering an alternate employment that's closer to home. And therefore they compromise they have to make with their life because of this long separation from home and the consequences of distressed migration. This helps to alleviate that. We need large-scale works. The entire Kosi canal system is being rejuvenated to ensure that the 100 days entitlement reaches the people. It has to open large-scale works which means that it should link with these departments, which is a provision in our EGA that convergence provision with other departments. If that happens, we would see, I think that would really transform the face of Bihar and especially its workers. Every step we have to take, every step we have to take with it, then we get employment. On one hand, we say that the government will make a law. We have taken out a different department and are not going to listen to me. So what will we do? The tremendous transformational potential of NREGA however it can be seen in one simple way which is that it's helping labour to organise itself. No matter how small the NREGA works maybe in an area, the fact is that they do have a choice to say that this is the wage that we are getting. There is 114 right now, the minimum wages, which is not paid in agriculture work. But that wage itself has increased because people now have a choice. To me, the biggest thing that NREGA delivers is an entitlement based on which the citizen can question the state, interrogate the state as equal, saying that here is my entitlement, why I do not deliver. So there is a certain citizenship, quality of citizenship improves. For me that's the biggest thing that NREGA delivers. The BRR I saw in 1985 is not the BRR I see today. The power relationships have changed. Once people get a basic level of income, then they are able to stand up for their rights and talk to the rest as equals, not near equals but approaching equality. Absolutely, there are processes I think, a combination about the right to information and the NREGA. Given indication of how basic power structures can actually be shaken up, if you provide just fundamental things which our constitution says you should be providing.  And for the first time this government system is being made to answer. We need to learn actually from people's efforts in NREGA because they are showing us what has gone wrong in this structure, what can be made to correct it and they are doing it every day and in millions of places across the country. And that's a democratic change or a radical change within a democracy.


Welcome back to 105. So this is last lecture until our two-day break. So again, don't come to class on Wednesday and Friday. Do come to class next Monday. So let's get into this because we will need this when we start talking about Lab 9 stuff and it might be useful. So structures. What are structures? So in C, we can group together variables with in something called a structure. It is a new type and, of course, it's C. So they couldn't have just called it structure. They called it struct. So they made it shorter because everything they had to make shorter. So the syntax to define a struct is, well, you just type the word struct, then give it a name, so name representing what you want to call this group of variables. And then inside of the curly brackets, you can put as many variable declarations as you want. So as many variables as you would like to define, you give them a name. So similar to an enum, short for an enumeration, well, you define a struct just below the includes and typically you do not do it within a function. So we'll spend the rest of the lecture talking about why we would use this, why it makes our life easier, and some motivation behind actually using it. And if you've seen like Python or C++ or Java or anything like this, this will be familiar to you. Essentially, they just took the idea of a struct and made it a bit easier to use, but at the end of the day, it is the exact same thing. So let's start off with a simple task. So we're just going to calculate the distance between two points. So I could write that as a function. So if I have two points, a point is an x and a y. So if I want to calculate the distance between two points, well, I could represent them as x1 and then y1 for the coordinates for the first point, and then maybe x2 and then y2 for the coordinates of the second point. And then if I want to calculate the distance between those two points, it's just the difference between the 2x coordinates to the power of 2. So I could write pow, the difference, and then 2.0. So that will just square it. And then plus the difference between the y coordinates, so y2 minus y1 to the power of 2. So again, we get some review using our math function. Pow is just taking this as the base to the power of whatever the second argument is. And then in order to calculate the distance, I just take the square root of all that. So I just give it to the square root function, which, of course, they called squirt short for square root because, of course, they did. And then if I wanted to use this, well, I could, in my main, I could define points x1 equal to 1, y1 equals to 2, x2 equals to 4, y2 equals to 6. And then I could calculate the distance, and then we can review. We can go ahead and just print it to one decimal place because it is a double value. So if I go ahead and run this, they get 5.0. That's the distance between them. This should be nothing new, right? Any questions about this program as written? Fairly straightforward. We're just going to make it much, much better today. So we're good. We're good. All right. So we could have written this at, like, what? Week or lecture, like, six? Something like that? So for a function like that, for distance, not too bad to remember which variable is which. I have an x1. I have a y1. I have an x2. I have a y2. Not too bad to keep track of them. But what about if I write a function that just, like, prints a point? So I just write a function just called print. I give it an x and a y, and then it will just print off the coordinates just rounded to the nearest tenth. And while this is a bit awkward to use and might lead to errors, so just naming variables x1, y1, y2, kind of a pain, if I accidentally write something like print x1, y2, that's one coordinate from one point and one coordinate from another point. So that probably doesn't make sense. It's really easy to do here. Might not be one of the two points we intended. And debugging it might be confusing because you just don't expect that. So since we learned what a structure is, we can just make a structure that represents a point. So we know a point is like a logical thing. So a point is a coordinate. So I could just create a structure called point. And then inside of it, I'm allowed to make as many variable declarations as I wish. So a point, I'll just say, consists of an x and a y. Again, they're going to be just doubles. So this will create a new type called struct point. And then you can just use that as if it was an int, a double, a char, a bool, whatever. So you can create a variable with it. But instead of just saying its type is one of the things we've already learned, you could create a new variable by saying struct point. And then I could say p1. So I could create a point called p1. And the type of it would be the struct point that has an x and a y. So to access the inner variables or to access the variables within that structure, usually called fields or members by the compiler. So you might see some compiler messages where it calls them members. You can access them by just typing or after the name, just putting a dot. So for example, if I want to access x of p1, it's just p1.x. If I want to access y, it's p1.y. So questions about that, we just get to group them a little better. And then we can go ahead and rewrite our function. So first, I'll get into a common trick. You will see that it's arguable whether or not it is clear or not. But we saw, like, type def before when we had enums. So the syntax of a type def, just in case we missed that one on Friday, is you can type like type def is a keyword. So you can do type def. And then a already existing type. And then you can rename it to a new type. And then you can use it as either of the names. So in this, if I just do type def, I don't know, type def int num underscore t, then whenever I actually use a type num underscore t, then it would actually just replace it by an int. And then I can go, I can change this type def whenever I want, just creates a new name for a type. So I can use this with a struct to make it arguably more readable. So we can create a struct without a name. So I could do something like type def struct, and then not give it a name. Do the curly brackets. Give it a x, which is a double, and a y, which is a double. And then I name that unnamed struct point underscore t. So that is going to be my name for a type that's supposed to represent a point. So afterwards, I can create a variable with just point underscore t p1. And then I can access it like I could before. I could do p1.x, p1.y, so on and so forth. But usually, unlike enums, you should still give structs a name. So if I want to do this, I could do type def struct point, and then give it the curly brackets, give it the x and the y, and then give it the new name point underscore t. And now I have two names I can make it. And I can use whatever one I want. I could use struct point. If I don't want type struct, I can use point underscore t. But both mean the same thing. Just have an x and a y. So if I wanted to create our two points and initialize the fields, I could do something like this instead, which seems like I kind of logically grouped them here, but seems like a lot of work here. So I could create a point underscore t called p1, and then do p1.x equals 1, p1.y equals 2. Create another point. I'll call it p2 because I have original ideas. And then call it p2.x, or sorry, set p2.x equals to 4, p2.y equals to 6. And then that looks, that does essentially what I had before. But turns out, with structures, we can initialize them like arrays. So instead of doing all of that, I can just kind of borrow the same syntax as I have with arrays. So instead to initialize it, I could write point underscore t, p1 equals, and then curly brackets. And instead of just setting array values, I'm setting fields in the struct in order. So since my struct had x and then a y, well, this first one would set x, and the second number would set y. So this is the same as just setting p1.x equals to 1, p1.y equals to 2. But I can just do it whenever I declare the variable. I can initialize them straight up. So I could also do p2 equals to 4, 6, and that will be the values just in the order you declare them in the struct. If you want to set the values in some different order, there's a funnier looking syntax. So I can give it a curly bracket, and then I can say which field I want to set to what value. So if, I don't know, for some reason, I wanted to set y first, but y was the second thing defined in my struct. Well, then I could just do dot y equals whatever. So I could dot y equals 2, dot x equals 1. And yeah, there's a question, how the computer stores these values. So it basically stores these values like an array, except that all the elements can have different types. So it does some magic to figure out where they should actually be in memory. So like arrays, they often be of the same type. For structures, they don't have to be the same type. I could put bool, whatever. But they're stored more or less like arrays, and c gets to keep track of where they actually are in memory. But they'll be in one big chunk of memory altogether. All right, so now I can go back and I could rewrite this code. So I could be like, oh, OK, well, I should probably use, so create a struct, so I could do type def struct point, give it a double x, give it a double y, and then call it point underscore t. So now I have my struct point, and I want to rewrite these functions in terms of points. So maybe for this function, what I would do is, well, it takes two points. So I could say point t, p1, just assume that they're like integers or something like that. And then I could do point p2. And then inside of here, instead of just accessing x1, x2, well, they're from two distinct points. So instead of x2, that would be p2.x. And instead of x1, that would be p1.x. And then for the second one, y2 gets replaced by p2.y, y1 gets replaced by p1.y. And that should be it. My print function would be similar. Maybe I want to replace it with point. And then here I would just do point.x, point.y. And then whenever I calculate my distance, so I could create p1, initialize it. So an x and then a y, create a p2 for saving some lines of code. And I'm also grouping things that are logically together. All right, there we go. So doesn't that look a little better? It makes it clear that I'm calculating the distance between two points. And then I could also print out a point if I want. There's no printing one coordinate from one point, one coordinate from another point. They're logically grouped together in this struct, which for this, basically it's like an array. So if I go ahead and run that, boom, should get 5.0. Same thing, but helps me group concepts together. So any questions about these changes here? Yeah, so do I have to write this above all the functions? Yeah, so this I would have to write above all the functions because the C compiler is dumb. It just reads it from top to bottom. And if I use point under score t without telling C what it is, it gets really confused. So we can see what that error actually is. So let's just move it down before this function. So the print function knows what point t is. But we'll see here, we already have some angry, angry C compiler. So if we do this, it will probably just say that unknown type name point under score t has to come before everything. But yeah, good to see errors because that is a common one. All right, any other questions? All right, so how could this possibly get better, right? So here's what we had. So it worked. However, no one really writes this because remember, how does C deal with function arguments? So do functions get complete copies of things? Is C copied by value? Well, yes, it is. And unlike with arrays that just kind of get turned into pointers, well, the same confusingly doesn't happen for structures. They get copied. So function arguments in C, again, so this is also review. They are copied by value. And sometimes structures can be very large. And it gets a complete copy of them. So even if it is, your structure has like 1,000 variables in it. And it is, I don't know, 8,000 bytes large. Well, each time we use a function there, they get copied by value. They get a new copy of the struct. And of course, since they're copied by value, if we wrote function that would modify the x and the y, well, if we modified it in a function, we would modify that copy of the struct and not whoever called the function. So we wouldn't get our modifications. And also it would be really slow. So in general, it's generally frowned upon to do structs just straight up by copying them by value. And for speed reasons, for usability reasons, and normally programmers just always use structures as pointers. So if I want to write my distance function, I would write just a pointer to P1. And then a pointer to P2. So let's see what happens when I do that. So I change these to pointers. And then in my main function, well, I can't just like if I was using scanf or something like that. I would have to give it the address of it, not the actual value, because I don't want to copy the entire structure. So I'd give it the address of P1 and the address of P2. But now when I compile, it does a bunch of things. In fact, I get an error where it says P1 is a pointer. So now how would I actually access the value of P1.x now that P1 is a pointer? So think about what I would have to dereference to get that struct back from the pointer. Yeah. Asterix? Yeah, the dereference. So instead of writing P2.x, what would I have to write? Yeah. Yeah, so I might have to write star P2.x. But that doesn't quite work, right? Because what it's trying to do here, based off the precedence rules that you don't really have to remember, what this would do is try to take the field of this first, so try to access P2.x, and then dereference that. So I have to tell the C compiler what I actually mean, so I could just put in parentheses. Yep. Oh, yeah. Whoops, I said it. Same thing. Yeah, we don't know that yet. Yeah, so if I wanted to do this without anything special, I would have to put parentheses around it. So I could do dereference P2, and then .x. And because of the preference rules, I always have to do parentheses. So does this look nice to do, and is this fun to do? So are we having fun right now if I change them all to something like that, or does that look like really ugly? Looks pretty damn ugly, right? And it's not even working yet. I'd have to change this one. So we do this, and the parentheses are not optional. I would have to have them. So let's see. Make sure we compile, and it works. So now it works. But doing that, that looks like one of the ugliest things I have seen since, I don't know, I woke up this morning and saw myself in the mirror. Boom. Boom roasted, all right. So there is actually a special C operator to access fields through a pointer. So if I have a pointer to that structure, well, to access it, I would have to dereference P1, put it in brackets because I need to make sure the preference rules, like I dereference it first. So I have to do this. It's kind of a pain. There's actually a new operator that just looks like an arrow. So it is the minus sign, and then a less than. It doesn't mean subtract anything, or wait, that's greater than. It doesn't mean subtract anything, make it greater than. It's supposed to look like an arrow. So it's supposed to look like it's pointing to something. So that combines dereferencing and field accesses in just one step. So instead of doing parentheses, dereference P1 and parentheses dot x, kind of a pain, I could just do P1 arrow x. So I can change it, I can make it a lot more readable, and this is what most people do. So I can just get rid of this. Instead, I could just do P2 because it's a pointer, P2 dot x, or arrow x. And this one could be P1 arrow x, and then P1 there. All right, so I could do that. That looks a lot better, right? Okay, well, if they have to be pointers, it looks a lot better. So if you try to do something like P2 dot x, you're compiled.


Each year hundreds of children in our region find themselves victims of child abuse and they receive services at Judy's Place for Kids. Last week the staff at Judy's Place added a new tool to their arsenal to fight child abuse. His name is Leslie. Well, this is my facility dog, Leslie, and he's here at Judy's Place for Kids and he's placed through Canine Companions for Independence. As we researched whether this was going to be a good fit for our program, one of the things that we did was visit a conference with other facility dogs and really got to talk with other programs about the benefits that the facility dog had made for them and for the kids and families. And so, you know, while the dog won't necessarily be used with every child, it will be an option for kids to be more comfortable and relaxed. And so, when we're more comfortable and relaxed, we're able to participate better in talking about hard things. And so, giving more details, more information, and just when we're less stressed, we're able to talk with other people better. So he'll start out at the beginning meeting them at the forensic interview. He'll go through the medical process with them, then go through the therapy process, attend the attorney meetings, and ultimately culminate with him being allowed to be on the stand with the child witness while they testify and run the judge and the jury. So that's our ultimate goal. He's met one of the judges. We just have to let him meet everybody else and hope they fall in love with as much as we have. Our ultimate goal is to end child abuse. And so, when children who have been abused are able to tell more details about what's happened to them, it ultimately helps the investigators help be able to do things to stop the abuse and keep that child safe.


Hey there everyone, welcome back. eBay have revealed it's going to be rolling out even more changes to its search engine in the new year. The company has been receiving numerous complaints from users and sellers regarding the current search engine's performance. The most common complaints include the search engine returning irrelevant results and for failing to match search terms appropriately. In response to these criticisms, eBay has announced that it will be making significant updates to its search engine in early 2024. The goal of these changes is to enhance the overall search experience for both buyers and sellers. Now eBay representatives have assured users that the revamped search engine will be more accurate and efficient, providing users with the relevant results they are searching for. And the company has also stated that it will be focusing on improving the search engine's ability to understand user intent and match certain search terms accordingly. Now while some eBay users express concern that the changes could make the search engine even worse, the company remains confident that the revamp will be beneficial for everyone. Now eBay states it is committed to providing users with a seamless and efficient search experience. Well from my experience that doesn't always come out the other side of the wash as the way they intended, but either way. So some of the key changes that eBay is planning to make to its search engine are improved accuracy and relevance to search terms. eBay will be using machine learning algorithms to better understand user intent and match search terms to relevant listings. They're expecting to use an enhanced image search capabilities and the search engine will be able to recognize objects and scenes in images, making it easier to find listings based on visual search. They're also looking at personalized search results. Now the search engine will be able to tailor or is intended to be able to tailor results based on a user's past search history and preferences. And there will also be real-time search updates. What they technically class as real search though, I don't know, we're from my experience, real time isn't always real time, but the search engine will be constantly updated with new listings ensuring that users always have the most up-to-date information. Now these changes are expected to make eBay search engine more efficient, user friendly and relevant for both buyers and sellers. The revamped search engine is a significant step forward for eBay though in its mission to provide a seamless and enjoyable shopping experience once they get through these teething issues as we all know nothing ever goes quite to plan. Maybe this sounds negative, but there is always that learning curve. Now it's just trying to remember and keep sight of the end goal. Now you may well be glad that eBay are waiting to change its search engine, especially as we all know glitches, faults and teething issues generally occur when they do these updates. On the other hand, does this mean that the festive shoppers may well have struggled to find what they were looking for and moved to other platforms or brick and mortar stores for their purchases and we lost sales as a result? Now we know that eBay have been integrating a lot of new features and embedding new software and coding into their platform to improve and refine searches and placement. They've also done a huge injection of AI vector similarity coding into the platform. I stated back in September that the description box AI creator was not for making listings more fluffy, but a targeted design change to gather items specifics and key words to help with indexing and placement. Now the next category chain, sorry, the next category changes were also postponed from October this year and moved to early 2024 as well. Could these two massive changes be connected? Will they devastate new year sales with these changes or will they hold off till mid spring? For many they've already destroyed sales for quarter three and quarter four in 2023. It's becoming more and more evident that eBay does have a future plan but do they have the infrastructure and skilled teams to pull it off before the site is negatively impacted beyond repair? Will the only sellers that will be left on the platform be the most stubborn or the select favorite diehards or the big brand names that they're heading towards? There's a lot of scope here but there's also a lot of gray areas and there's a lot of rooms with light switched off as it were. We know eBay are never forthright with the direct facts and they keep it very close to their chest. Obviously the impact of too much information could affect their bottom line but there's a lot of change coming, a lot more change still to come. It does sound like that the AI learning growth is not going the way they were expecting or at least to some degree. Let's just hope that with the early 2024 updates this is going to help us return back to or if not exceed where we were prior to this massive road of change that seemed to happen around the April time of 2023. Well until next time keep reselling, take care and remember keep it real.


Yo, this is a crazy game to have at a restaurant, guys. Dude, you know why I know that Sansha might be the best Yunami-shan spot in the city, Andrew? Come on, Abba, lonely. Don't leave me lonely. How's it a couple times? We're all familiar with American restaurant chains having success in the Asian market, such as McDonald's, Popeyes, Cheesecake Factory, Shake Shack. But what about high-end, nice Asian chains opening in America? Well, it's starting to happen now. Let's explore a few chains that have just opened up right in New York City, straight from Asia. Our first high-end chain from China is the Dolar Shop. Andrew, this chain is from Shanghai, but it's based off of Macau flavors, and they only have six stores in the West, but about 50 of them in China. I think a lot of people, prior to the $100 hot pot spots opening, would question, why can't you just do a $30 all you can eat? But let me tell you this, the quality and the cost per unit of every ingredient at every step, whether that's the broth, the meats, the vegetables, is completely different. Not dollar shop, it's Dolar Shop. Let's check it out. You can see the decor here is very, very modern. It's not trying to make it feel like that you're in like some Chinese temple, but it's trying to give those Chinese elements but in a new digital way. Another cool feature about this spot that's different than other ones are the open kitchen. Look, you can see the chefs pouring your broth right here. Look, he's slicing the meat, the wagyu right there. Kind of a soothing sound. Alright, here's a quick tip. When you're sitting down at hot pot, just know that there's going to be a lot of reaching across the table for ingredients and stuff. So make sure, roll up your sleeves. Woo! Okay, so the cubes... Five minutes for the cubes, ten seconds for the wagyu.  Take a look at this.  I mean, this is a very luxurious broth. Here I have the split pot. You know, some people call it the yin-yang pot because it's shaped into yin-yang. I have the silver broth, which is one of their signatures, and then I have the ma la spicy. David, what are you putting in? The first thing's in your broth. I'm not necessarily about the tripe life. I'm going to put these tofu skins. You should probably look for the check here to be about like 60 to 100 dollars, depending on, you know, what you order. I think there's a lot of variants due on the cut of meat and the volume of meat. This is not supposed to be in there for more than 10 seconds. I have the short rib, David has the wagyu. I can't even tell the difference right now from an eye test. 10 seconds. Dolar shop. Next up we've got the shrimp paste.  Shrimp paste here is very, very famous because they use a technique of slamming the shrimp to make it smooth. I think you just do this. I'm just going to, boom, hit it. David, boom. It's cooked. It was pretty quick. Man, I'm just going to go straight into the sacha for myself. I'm a really big fan of the sacha jang, especially the Cantonese style. Oh man, that was raw. Yeah, that wasn't cooked. Yeah, that was not cooked yet. I jumped the gun. I do like the mala broth, but not all the time. I think, I think especially for lunchtime, you cannot do mala. That doesn't make sense for you to be malaed out for the rest of your day. What I really like about the silver broth is guys, it took eight hours to make. It's very labor-intensive and it just tastes like a regular broth that you can just drink. I wouldn't really drink the mala soup on its own, but the silver broth, hell yeah. And in 2021, in a lot of cities around America, it's really easy to spend $100 eating something Chinese. And I think that that's really different than before because previously it was almost like the Coco Cabana style, you know, the Marilyn Monroe and all these like New York people would go to in midtown or in the hood, it would be like $10 for like, you know, pork fried rice and chicken wings. And then you have Chinatown style, but this is almost like a whole new elevated genre of chain that's being poured it over directly from Asia with no compromises. Oh, Eric, Eric, Eric, what do we have here? Can you share with us this ice box where my heart used to be is where, what are we looking at? Catch of the day, we have shrimps here, we have oysters, abalone and some scallops. Abalone, of course, is one of the most beloved mollusks of like Chinese culture. It's just one of those things that everybody loves. It's super valid, super expensive. I'm going to put the oyster in here, slide it in. And then this abalone, bro, I might have to put the abalone in the truffle one too. So it's extra fancy. Look at that. It's going to slide off. Oh, the abalone was cut up, but I'm trying to look for it right now. I don't want to lose it because each slice was like a part two, three dollars on its own. Oh, that's a mushroom. Come on, where my happy at? Come on, abalone, don't leave me lonely. There we go. Found it. All right, everybody, that wraps it up here at Dolar Shop. That is a Southern style, Macanese inspired individual hot pot spot that is from China, making its way in the West. Hey, on to the next spot. All right, so our next location that's coming straight over from China is called Hu Tao Li. Now, they only have a few locations outside of China. One's in Toronto, New York. They have some in Paris, Milan. This spot is very, very different. It is a live music Chinese restaurant. The decor is something you've never seen. The vibe is very different. They have cover bands playing all the time. The food is really good and it's very aesthetic. Guys, it's in the middle of Koreatown, New York, which is a huge party area, especially for Koreans and Asians alike. So it fits right here, guys. Hu Tao Li, you've got to see this. The live music hasn't started tonight because it usually starts at about 6.30, but still got some Chinese cover bands right here. So this is our house special Hu Tao Li roast chicken. It is marinated overnight in our special secret marinade. And then the next day it is dried out and we put it in the roaster for a long time. And then they take it out and they chop it up and display it like this. And then we take it off and pound it a couple of times just to get all the seasonings and make it a little more tender. All right, so our food at Hu Tao Li has arrived, guys. And I know it's not 6 p.m. yet, so the live music is not rocking yet. But I can tell you right now that based off of aesthetics and smell and even the dishes, man, there's nothing like this. So I'm going to start with this seafood fest right here. Obviously there's a lot of different seafoods in here, but I love how they kept the crab head right here. They have the sauce. There's a lot of egg in the sauce as well. So actually what I'm about to do is I'm going to take a lot of the soup and do something that a lot of people don't do, which is I'm going to scoop this rice. I'm going to scoop it into the crab bowl.  This is totally my own doing. So if y'all are, you know, offended by this and let me know. But here, guys, I use the crab head as a bowl. Let's go is Hu Tao Li have some fun. That was a great kind of spicy tomato egg flavor right there. If you're into that, definitely check that out. But I got to move on to the actual premier item. This is the Hu Tao Li chicken. This is a thigh piece right here. This is, by the way, one of the best bites of Chinese chicken right here. This cut exactly. All right, guys, I'm going no sauce. That was it. That is a must get here at Hu Tao Li. This is the dish that I've actually never had before. First time having it. This is the Gan Guo Tudou Pian, which is literally translates to with my, you know, very mediocre Chinese. It is a dry pot with potato slices and you can tell that they're lightly fried all over.  They're going to be crispy on the outside and very spicy because the peppers are cooked right in with it. All right, Ryan, can you actually explain to me why this dish in particular, which I've had before, is called the Ma La Shang Guo? So basically this dish is called Ma La Shang Guo is because that it has all kinds of different ingredients put into one of the pots. And it's basically a mix of almost every single type of dishes that you might have in your daily life. What does Shang Guo translate to? Directly in Chinese to English. It's basically a flavored pot since it has so many different flavors. Shang Guo, is that the same Guo as Huo Guo? Uh, yes. Shang is in like more flavor, right? Yep. Okay, okay. See, I'm getting a Chinese lesson here. See, this is the good thing about Hu Tao Li. All the waiters are very, very knowledgeable and they can explain everything to you. Shout out to the Si Fu's down there, bro. So good. Here you have your fried pumpkin with salted egg yolk pudding. Let's go on for this. I'm expecting this to kind of cool down all the other spices that I just ate. So basically what that is, it's kind of like a ball of like mashed up pumpkin. So it's sweet and it's super soft. Wow. That is so good. There's so many ways you can pay Venmo, PayPal, AliPay, WeChat pay. If you get your WeChat wallet going, you do need a Chinese bank account though. I actually really want to try to scan one of those QR codes right now. My QR code right there. Oh, it zooms in for me. I didn't even do that. Official account from Hu Tao Li. All right. So now I'm on Chinese page. I'm not going to lie. I can't read really 90% of that. I can send messages to the restaurant. Do you guys screen the messages? What if I send something very inappropriate? Yes, we do actually. The system actually itself has a detection. Now when you click the messages here and you can type anything and it will generally pop up in around one or two minutes. Hu Tao Li. I sent it up. We'll probably see it pop up in, you know, after a couple minutes from now. Every night around 8.30, you just scan the QR code with WeChat, Huixing, and then shake it. If you get the top three, you get a free drink. So we're scanning the game code right now. Now you're in the game. Shake it. It will start to get into the climb. So the faster you shake it, hey, hey, you're going crazy.  This is my first time. This isn't the first time I've got to win. I'm telling it. I got a lot of experience. This is a crazy game to have at a restaurant, guys, especially when everyone gets a few drinks and up. Okay. So I hit the Lambo. I got first. Second. Oh, Layla second. Good job. Good job. Good job. Good job. Yo. Thank you. Good job, guys. Good job. Okay. My question is what do I win right now? Right now? Well, what do I win? Like a drink? I don't know. You know what it is? I won a fun game with the staff. All right, guys. Thank you. To wrap it up here, man, I think Hu Tao Li is actually kind of special in a sense that you know, when you eat at a lot of Chinese restaurants, it's kind of hard to feel a sense of community and camaraderie with people outside of your table. Here you have live music, you have games, you can win prizes, the staff is friendly, and so it kind of just brings people together. So I would definitely recommend coming here on a weekend or for a birthday, some type of event. All the food that we got with the seafood was about $200 after tax and tip. So I'm letting you know that the food is of good quality. It does taste good, and there's a lot to do here. And you know, just for a Chinese restaurant to provide this amount of fun and engagement, I think it's very impressive, and that's why they have so many locations in China. I even think some Western restaurants might kind of take cues and start incorporating interactive apps with their restaurant, right? It might not be through WeChat, but it might be through something else. So, man, Hu Tao Li, man. I'm glad I came. Thank you for coming to Hu Tao Li. Okay, our last and final Chinese restaurant concept that got ported over from China to America in the past year is San Shi Nudu. Now, this one kind of came in low key. There's not a lot of articles written about it coming over from Yunnan. There's not a lot of coverage of the founders, which is unlike the other two spots we went to. But they are on trend because, guys, the Yunnan rice noodles are very, very popular around New York. And they've got some really cool appetizers. So, you guys, San Shi Nudu here in the East Village, let's check it out. I'm talking about stuff that comes from Asia. This is absolutely what I'm talking about. A toy machine display of the Yunnan rice noodles. Dave is letting them know that we're filming a foodie video. This is Yunnan. This is Wangzu. This is Mo'er. This is Yun'er. This is Mo'er. This is chives. This is chives. This is bacon. Right, Andrew, we are looking at the spicy brisket. But here at Yunnan Mi Xian at San Shi, they tend to do it for you.  Here is part of the package. Next level service. Actually at San Shi, they actually tell you how to do it. And the first step I did not know this was to coat the sliced meat with the scrambled egg. So, maybe they're talking about the fish here in this sense. Alright, so Andrew, I went and had the Fuyun, a.k.a. the ruler do it for me. But you, Mr. Mixologist himself, are going to be doing it yourself. Yeah. So what I'm doing is I'm going to mix up this egg right here. Do you see this? I have this sliced fish right here. I'm going to pour the egg on top of the sliced fish. You know what I love about this place, Andrew? I think that San Shi, it's so experiential for the $20 mark. The appetizers here at San Shi are super authentic. We're in the East Village right now and I have a Tieban Youyu, which is a grilled squid. And this is like a squidward squid. This is Jeyagun Fun. You never had that before, right? This is a fern root noodle. I've never had it. I know that there's a lot of other similar noodles around Asia, but this one is fern root. That could be from the Miaozhu Mountain. Yeah, man. It's supposed to be very healthy. Appetizers, Tieban Youyu. I'm not going to lie. Every time I have a piece of squid like this, it reminds me of two things. Taiwan, and the second one is a Chinese mukbang that just got banned. So this started off as a flavor at KFC China, the New Orleans flavor, but now it's just almost like Chinese young modern flavor. Yeah, it would almost be like what we view as like sweet and sour sauce at McDonald's where it's like it was based off of Asian flavor, but it just has gone a completely different direction. This is based off of Western flavor. It's gone on a derivative. And then of course I got the fried fish balls here. Alright you guys, on to the main attraction here at San Shi Noodle. Andrew, I'm looking at the Yunnan Mishen. For me, I got the spicy brisket, which they said is the number one top seller right now. A little bit, you know, not untraditional, but obviously beef brisket more for the US market. Yo, I'm going to try this spicy one with ramen noodles. So this is the only one that we substituted. And like I said, you know them giving you that ramen noodle option, I think is really cool. It's just... Well, would you say that a lot of western people, they wouldn't opt for the ramen noodle? Yeah, I mean if you don't know what rice noodles are, you can still come here and have the soup. Hua Jiao Ji Tang. Winner, winner, chicken soup dinner. Dude, you know why I know that San Shi might be the best Yunnan Mishen spot in the city, Andrew? Because I've got this same fish maw chicken broth at some other spots, and I really didn't like it. But here they executed it A1. Guys, as you can see, we went to three different price tiers, three different experiential concepts. Andrew, what do you think of all these spots that are opening up in the past year directly ported from China? Obviously some of them they're changing them more than others, and some of them they're just keeping straight up fully authentic. A lot of people would think that chains from China are only going to be very high-end and expensive. That's not necessarily true, guys. San Shi, I mean you can eat for under about $15 here if you just get one of these to yourself. And it's a really cool experience. It's very clean. The decor is still on par with a lot of other spots. The spot that I'm looking forward to going back to is definitely Hu Tao Li just because the energy is so different. It is more than a restaurant. It's like a Chinese experience, not just a Chinese restaurant. Really cool that all these Chinese concepts are coming over. Obviously, statistically do I think all of them will be successful? No, but some of them will be, and it'll be dependent on the adjustments that they make to adapt to the market here. I would say that one concept I'm really looking forward to coming over, Andrew, is a Huang Meng Ji concept. And they already have it on the West Coast. Yang's Braised Chicken, but they kind of like westernized it too much. I'm talking about the real authentic Jinan Huang Meng Ji from Yang's. One thing that I would like to see in America that maybe America's ready for it is this one restaurant that I've seen advertisements for in like the airport where it's like this big Mongolian guy eating this lamb rib. And I just think the Mongolian lamb ribs, they got to come to America, man. Alright you guys, thank you so much for watching that brand new Chinese concepts restaurant video. Please let us know in the comment section below a chain that you'd like to see come over. And what do you think of what we tried today? Is it for you? Do you think as an ABC, even if you're like American born Chinese, can you relate to it or do you feel like too distant from it? You know, I don't think there's a right or wrong answer. Let us know in the comment section below. Like, subscribe, turn on your notifications. And until next time, we out. Peace. Eric, you're from Macau, right? And my father's from Hong Kong. So, you know, we have a lot of Southern blood and Southerners, they love seafood. Absolutely. Yeah. They call me and I feel like they call me a cat because I eat fish a lot.