K-E-L-L-O The Jell-O program starring Jack Benny with Mary Livingston, Phil Harris, Kenny Baker and yours truly, Don Wilson. The orchestra opens a program with From Alpha to Omega. What is so rare as a day in June, cried the poet, while I know something? That's a June bride who can turn out a perfect home-cooked meal.  And that means Jell-O. There's no fuss or trouble with Jell-O. There's nothing to go wrong. Disolves instantly in hot water, sets quickly in icebox or refrigerator, and comes out in a shimmering mold of beauty that looks and tastes like a million dollars. There are six delicious flavors and everyone is extra rich. Strawberry, raspberry, cherry, orange, lemon and lime. They're simply swell, served just as is, or you can garnish them with any fruits in season. And Jell-O is one of the thriftiest desserts you can serve. Every husband appreciates that. So skip around to your grocer tomorrow and look for those big red letters on the box that spell Jell-O. Jell-O Omega, played by the orchestra. And now, ladies and gentlemen, greetings from Hollywood. In just a moment, you will hear from your Hollywood reporter with his frank comments about motion fixtures, radio, and their glamorous stars.  And here he is, folks, that human dynamo, Jimmy Fiddler Benny. Jell-O again, this is Jimmy Benny the Fiddler, coming to you from Hollywood. Hollywood, that small body of land entirely surrounded by racetracks. And here we go with our news bulletin. Exclusive. Now that Robert Taylor and Barbara Stamwick are married, and her own power has recently wed Annabella, who will be next? Gossips have it that May Robeson and Mickey Rooney have been seen dining and dancing together in the late night spot. But take it from me, they are just good friends. Attention, New York reporters. Eddie Candard Comedian, noted for his five daughters, is in your town celebrating his 25th wedding anniversary. On their way back to California, Eddie and his wife Ida will spend a week at Sun Valley. Watch this column. Watch this column for further development. Back to Hollywood. Movie stars seen recently in Ruby Fu's Chinese restaurant ordering their specialty, Egg Fu Young, where Robert Young, Loretta Young, Roland Young, Victor Young, Clara Kimball Young, and Young Dr. Kildare. And now, ladies and gentlemen, a special scoop. Hello, Jack, what are you doing? Quiet, Mary. More Hollywood news. Miss Ginger Fisdale, new child singing discovery, who is destined to become a great star, will be professionally known as Jim Fizz. She is three years old, and in her first screen effort, Bobby Green will play the part of her father. More Hollywood news. Oh, Jack, let me do one. All right. I have it on good authority that the Paramount studio is planning to build Jack Benny's next picture around him. That's right. As soon as he is completely hidden, they will release it. Quit making things up and give me that. Intimate notes from my little black book. Observe recently coming out of Maisie's fashionable beauty parlor in Beverly Hills, where Joan Bennett, Myrna Loy, Carol Lombard, Hedy Lamar, and Phil Harris. When confronted, the popular band leader claimed he made a mistake. The sign said Maisie Salon, but he thought it was Muzzy Saloon. And now a word from our sponsor. Take it, Don. Jell-O. Take it, Jack. Good. Open letter. Open letter to Fred Allen. Dear Mr. Allen, I understand you are going off the air shortly for a well-deserved vacation in the rockbound state of Maine. You've earned that vacation, Fred, and you need it. Boy, how you need it. But before you go, Fred, may I give you this friendly bit of advice? Instead of coming back on the air next fall, get out those Indian clubs and that green wig and go back to vaudeville. Believe me, I'm speaking as your affectionate friend, Jimmy Fiddler-Bennie. Previews of the new picture. The first picture I recommend tonight is the Jones family in a gopher hole. This is a two-bell picture. Now this three-bell picture is good clean fun for the entire family. The next picture I recommend is Charlie Chan in St. Paul or Mr. Motto in Minneapolis. This mystery gets three and a half bells. The plot is fascinating. It is about three smart girls who grow up in Dodge City. And the high spot of the picture is when the Cisco kid falls off of Wuthering Heights. Oh, don't miss it. And now, ladies and gentlemen, I want to recommend, wholeheartedly, with no reservations whatsoever, Paramount's latest comedy triumph, Man About Town starring Jack Benny. I give this picture. Don't miss this picture, folks. It has plenty on the bell. Take it, Mr. Wilson. Ladies and gentlemen, do you remember that old proverb, a rolling stone gathers no moss? Well, if you want a tempting and delicious dessert, you moss get jello. Oh, uncle. So look for the big red letters on the box. Thank you, Don. Well, it's about all the news for tonight, folks. But before I go, I want to leave you with this thought. When you reach the top of the ladder of success, don't forget your friends.  So until we meet again, this is Jimmy Fiddler Benny saying good night to you. And I do mean, yoo-hoo! Take it, my folks. Finish played by Phil Harrison as Archer. And, Phil, that was the best number you've done this season. You know, there wasn't one sour note in the whole thing. Not one. Some shock, eh, kid? You said it. Say, Phil, how'd you like my little take-off on Jimmy Fiddler? I had some pretty hot news there, didn't I? Hot news, nothing. I haven't been to Maisie's beauty parlor in two weeks. You haven't? Why, Phil Harris, I saw you in there last Thursday getting a permanent wave. Oh, then I was right about that little item. Imagine a man sitting in a beauty parlor having his hair curled. Why, don't you send yours over sometime? Never mind my hair. Say, where's Kenny? I've got another big scoop that I've been saving, and I want everybody to hear it. Hey, Kenny. Here I am, Jack. I was up on the roof taking a sunbat. Oh, up on the roof, eh? Gee, I got a headache. Well, naturally, you stayed out in the hot sun too long. Well, it wasn't that. I fell down the elevator shaft. Oh, my goodness. Why don't you look where you're going? Gee, whiz, Jack, it was the funniest feeling. What do you mean? I stepped in and said main floor, please, and I got it right in the kisser. Well, for heaven's sake, watch yourself from now on. What's all the news you're going to tell us, Jack? Oh, yes. Now, listen carefully, everybody, and this is on the level. You know, two weeks from tonight, we do our last broadcast of the season. And we're going to do it from Walk Keegan, Illinois. Oh, Keegan. Oh, boy. Yes, sir. And the same night, we're going to have the world premiere of Man About Town. No kidding, Jack. Are we really going to walk in? Yep, two weeks from today, we'll be in my little hometown. Boy, what a hot time we'll have. We'll have to have it before 9 p.m. Phil, they've abolished that curfew. There's plenty of excitement there now. Well, I was there last summer and they rang that bell right on the stroke of nine. That wasn't a bell. They were kicking the gong around. They'll show you a thing or two, brother. Well, I'm wide open, sister. Don't worry, Phil. You'll be able to keep those bags under your eyes. You won't lose them. And now, ladies and gentlemen... See, if we're going to walk Keegan, I got to get some new clothes. And now, ladies and gentlemen, as I announced last week... Me, too! ...as I announced last week, tonight, the Benny Two Tickets for the Price of One Players will present their version of the... I need a new evening gown. We'll present their version of Derelev Zanik's...  Or murder mystery. Will you kids be quiet? We've got a whole week to get ready. Uh, they're murder mystery, the Hound of the Baskervilles. Now, in this gripping drama... I need a new grip, too. ...Kennie. I will play the part of Sherlock Holmes, the internationally famous detective. Kenny Baker will be my assistant, Dr. Watson. And Andy Devine, where's Andy? Here I am, boss! Gee. You came in like China across the bay, didn't you? Now, Andy, you'll play the part of the vicious, snarling, murderous hound. Do you think you can do it? Perfect. Now, this play will go on... Say, Buck, am I going to war kicking with you? You certainly are, Andy. Then I better put my shoes on. Yeah, you'll never regret it.  Now, our play will go on immediately after... I'll take it. Hello? Who? Plainfield, New Jersey? That must be for you, Mary. Oh, gee, I'll bet it's Mama. Yes, Tugboat Andy is on the wire. Hello? Oh, hello, Mama. Gee, this is a surprise. What? You've been listening to the program? How is it? Oh, it does? She should be so critical. What, Mama? She was thrown out of the Floridora's extent for wearing red bloomers. Yes, we're going to Warkeegan. It's Jack's hometown. Yes, he was born there right above a clothing store. Oh, Mama, are you corny? What'd she say? Suits and clucks. Hmm, it's about her speed. Well, look, Mama, I got a great idea. Why don't you and Papa come to visit me and Warkeegan? We've been a few days together and you can see Jack's new picture. Oh, I don't know, I'll find out. Say, Jack, are they going to... No, certainly not. No, Mama, no free dishes. Tell her to stay home, Mary. I'll be busy enough that week. Well, I gotta hang up now. I'll write you later. Goodbye, Mama. Goodbye. Oh, Jack hasn't Mama got the most wonderful sense of humor. Oh, she's a gem. Now, where were we? Oh, yes, our play The Hound of the Baskervilles will go on right after Kenny Baker's song. Go ahead, Kenny. Okay, say, Jack. What? Do you know any dames in Warkeegan? I certainly do. Are they good looking? They certainly are. Can you get me a date with one of them? He certainly can't. Don't worry now, Kenny. You'll be all fixed up. Go ahead with your song. All right, Andy, excuse me, fellas. I gotta take Andy out for a walk. And the angels sing the sweetest song I ever speak. And the angels say the setting is strange. I can see water and moonlight gleaming. Silver waves that break on some undiscovered shore. Suddenly I see it all winter nights with the candles gleaming. Oh, it all, it's just a gentle and you'll see them, you. The Angels Sing sung by Kenny Baker, the little devil of the Jell-O program. And now for our feature attraction, that thrilling detective mystery, The Hound of the Baskervilles, or The Mayor of Van Nuys. Say, Andy, I think you ought to try that howl just once more. It's very important to our plot. Okay. Very good. Now, the opening scene of our play is the residence of Sherlock Holmes in London, England. As the curtain rises, we find Mr. Holmes and Dr. Watson in the library. Curtain. Music. Excuse me, Watson. Hello? Sherlock Holmes on this end. Are you on your end? It's you, Lord Trickletot. What? Your son has run away with a chorus girl? Well, why worry about it? Oh, you saw her first. Very well. I'll get on the trail immediately. Toodle-Doo. His son is always up to something or other. Dr. Watson. Watson, what are you doing there? I'm looking over the mail. Anything important? I'll say you got a postcard from Paris. Well, put down that magnifying glass and give it to me. Okay. I say this is from Pee-Pee, the little dancer I met at the Polly's Bajeur. She says, dear Sherlock, qu'est-ce vous-le-vous, venez-le-de-quoi-tres-chois? What does that mean? Long time, no see. I think I'll run over to Paris and visit her. But what about your work here, Sherlock?  Well, I got a sure-she-la femme, don't I?  The cases I've been getting lately are ridiculously simple. They're not baffling enough. There's no excitement. What was that? It's 12.30. You know, Watson, if there isn't... If there isn't any more action around here, I'm going to take a vacation. Hmm, there's someone at the door. I wonder who it is, Sherlock? It's a young lady about 23 years of age, with beautiful blonde hair, blue eyes, and a divine figure. Why, that's amazing. How do you know? Well, to tell the truth, Watson, I'm just hoping. Come in. Hello. Oh, shucks, it's Mary. Quiet, Watson. How do you do, madam? How do you do? Oh, Mr. Holmes, you must help me. You must, you must! What seems to be the trouble, young lady? Well, you see, Mr. Holmes, I'm engaged to Philip Baskerville, the son of Sir Hugo Baskerville. Oh, Sir Hugo, I know him well. He's quite a lively old boy. Well, he's calmed down considerably. He was murdered last night. Well, that'll do it every time. Are you sure Sir Hugo is dead? I'm positive. How do you know? He doesn't giggle when we dust him off. Then he is dead. Uh, continue, my dear. Well, according to the legend of the Baskervilles, Sir Philip, my fiance, is the next one marked for death. Amazing. The first Baskerville was killed, the second, then the third and the fourth. I see, and Sir Philip is next. Yes, when they get him, it's bingo. It's a very interesting case. Now, tell me, Miss... Lady Barrow. Lady Barrow, is there any clue to these murders? Only one. Before each death, we always hear the howling of a dog on the lonely moor outside the castle. Oh, it's ghastly. Oh, a dog, eh? Then we have a clue already. Lady Barrow, I'll be glad to take the case. My fee, of course, will be $1,000. You won't get it, of course. Of course. Make a note of that, Watson. Okay. No sale. You may go now, Lady Barrow. Dr. Watson and I will follow immediately. Thank you. Oh, tell me, I've never been to Baskerville Castle. How will I find it? Very drafty. Goodbye. Well, at last, Watson, we've got a case worthy of my merits. Let's hurry. We haven't a moment to lose. Scene two, three hours later, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson have just crossed the dark and desolate moor on our approaching Baskerville Castle. What a night. Dr. Watson. Dr. Watson, is that you behind me? Yeah. Stick close to me. Gee, I can't see a thing. It sure is dark tonight. I'll say it's dark. I just saw an owl with a lantern. Look, Watson, do you see that light up ahead? Yes, that must be the place. I'm positive. Let's hurry. This is the castle, all right. Look at that coat of arms on the door. It says Baskerville Hall, in hoax signum, maltum parrow. What does that mean? No cover charge. If this is the Wilshire Bowl, I'll kill myself. Ring the bell, Watson. Okay. Cheerful little spot. How do you do, gentlemen? Is this Baskerville Castle? Yes. Whom shall I say is calling? Yeah. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Smarty. Gee, I wish I could do that. You fall down that elevator shaft a couple of more times and you'll be all set. Where's Lady Barrow? Follow me, gentlemen. Lady Barrow, the detectives have arrived. Thank you, butch. You may go. I'll go. I'll go, but watch your step, Mr. Holmes. You may be next. Now, Lady Barrow. Wait a minute. I'm not through. Yeah. Silly boy. Now, Lady Barrow, I want to meet your guests and question them. Very well. First, I'd like you to meet my fiance, Sir Philip Baskerville. Hello, Sir Philip. How do you do, Mr. Holmes? Weren't you once the house detective at the Savoy Ritz? No, that was my brother that used to throw you out. He's not there anymore. Oh, goody. And this is Dr. Wilson, our family physician. Good evening, doctor. Can you give us any information about the late Sir Hugo Baskerville? Yes, he was very fond of jello. Hmm. Make a note of it, Watson. OK, commercial taken care of. Very good. And now, Mr. Holmes, may I present Madame Zoraki, the famous psychic. She has supernatural power. Ah, good evening, Madame Zoraki. Good evening, Mr. Holmes. And that's Sir Hugo lying across the table. Oh, the victim. Well, that's the first time I ever saw Sir Hugo on top of a table. Well, now that I've met everyone, I've got to get to work and solve this case. Hmm. The victim looks as though he met a violent death. Look at the way his clothes are torn and those wrong scratches on his throat. I didn't do it. I didn't do it, I tell you. I didn't do it. I swear it wasn't me. We know it wasn't you, Dr. Watson. Don't be too sure. Quiet. Sir Philip. Yes, Mr. Holmes? You inherit a lot of money by Sir Hugo's death. Tell me, where were you at the time of the murder? You can't pin this on me. I've got an ironclad alibi.  Well, just answer my question. Where were you at the time of the murder? In Maisie's beauty parlor and you know it. Well, somebody committed this crime and I'm going to find out who it is. Maybe I can help you, Mr. Holmes. Help me? How, Madame Zoraki? Sir Hugo himself will tell me. But Sir Hugo is dead. I know, but I will talk to his spirit. In the great beyond. Why, that's impossible. Oh, she's very good. She got South America this morning. Why, this is ridiculous. What will try her?  Oh, all right. Come on, everybody. Oh, I think it's very good. Now turn off the lights. Quiet, everybody. Now concentrate. Concentrate on Sir Hugo. Sir Hugo. Sir Hugo, are you there? Hmm, this is silly. Sir Hugo, if you are there, answer me. Bosch, it'll never work. Yeah, Bosch. Quiet, Watson. Sir Hugo, we are calling you. If you hear my voice, answer me. Answer me. Oh, I hear you, Madame. What? Did you hear that, Watson? Yeah. Madame Zuracchi, can I speak to him now? Yes. But don't lose the contact. I won't. Sir Hugo, do you hear me? Yes. Then tell me, how were you killed? Well, I was out walking on the moor last night. Yes. And just as I got to the garden wall, I saw a huge private seal of forced meat. All of a sudden, I sat in front of him, grabbed me by the private seal of forced meat, and I couldn't give myself any more of that castle. But that didn't kill me. It should have. Quiet.  Well, I picked myself up and ran toward the house. Uh-huh. And just as I got there, there was a huge fork and fork and twisted. And the brilliant fact is all of it. Do you know that fork and fork? Yes. Well, the whole private seal of forced meat is faded. And there I am on the table. But, sir Hugo, you still haven't told us. Who committed this crime? Who murdered you? Very well. I was killed by... Put in a nick of please for five more minutes. Get off the line, Alfred. Continue, sir Hugo. Your murder must be avenged. I was killed by... Stop, stop. I can't stand it any longer. I confess. I did it. I did it. I killed him. I knew it all the time. I don't know why I did it. He must have been mad, crazy, delirious. Slap the handcuffs on him, Watson. The case of the Baskervilles is solved. Hey, Sherlock, what about me? Oh, my goodness. I forgot all about the home. I'm sorry, Andy's playfield. The other day I heard a woman say, when I feel like going fancy on desserts, I want to go fancy in a great big way. Well, I hope she's listening for here's the answer. A grand new dessert called Deluxe Strawberry Loaf. Strawberry jello, juicy fruit berries, and creamy marshmallows, combined in a shimmering mold of jello. And here's the way to make it. Dissolve one package of strawberry jello in one pint of hot water and chill until cold in syrupy.  Now fold in two cups of sweetened sliced strawberries, six marshmallows finely cut, and one cup of whipped cream. Mold in a loaf pan and take it from me. There is a Deluxe dessert. A lovely shimmery loaf of whipped rose pink jello filled with fresh berries and foamy marshmallows. So try it soon. Ask your grocer tomorrow for Strawberry Jello. It's the last number of the 37th program in the new Jello series, and we will be with you again next Sunday night at the same time. And, Andy, I'm awfully sorry I overlooked you in our play. I don't know how I ever happened to forget about the hound. Oh, that's all right, Buck. You want a howl now? Woo! Was that a dog? Sounded like the 515. It sure did. Good night, folks. K-E-L-L-O! Many Baker pairs on the Jello program to courtesy of Mervin Leroy Productions. This is the National Dog Jackson Company.


In this video, we're going to consider the advantages and the disadvantages to waste incineration. What do you think are the advantages of burning waste instead of committing it to landfill? Pause the video and continue when you have an idea or some ideas. If the waste is not burned, then it is likely to end up in a landfill site, which is considered to be the least environmentally friendly option. Incineration could result in a reduction in waste volume of around 90%, and this could be particularly important for small cities where space is scarce, and landfill is not an option. Odours and rodents that are present in other methods are not a problem when using incineration as a garbage disposal method. Nearly all of the waste that is burned could be used to generate electricity in what is called energy from waste schemes, where households and industries could benefit from the electricity or heat produced. The electricity generated could help to pay for the start-up cost of the incinerator. Additionally, the steam produced from incineration presents itself as a cost-saving energy source if recycled. Ash produced from these incinerators could be used in the construction and road building industries. In addition, metals could be extracted from the ash, and they could also be used in steel industries. The key advantage, however, is that the production of electricity and thermal energy from waste enables us to conserve conventional sources of energy, such as fossil fuels. Now, what about the disadvantages of incineration? Again, pause the video and think about what these could be. Resume when you have an idea or some ideas. The main disadvantage surrounds potential pollutants found in the ash left in the incinerator and those that could be emitted from the chimney. These include dioxins, acid gases, nitrogen oxide, heavy metals and particulates. As you may have heard from other videos, these are airborne particles which are small enough to get into the lungs of humans. They cause and aggravate respiratory problems such as asthma. However, it is the dioxins resulting from incomplete combustion contained in the gases from the chimneys that attract the most concern. This is because they are suspected of causing cancer. In addition, these emissions could be distributed through the food chains and accumulate over a long period of time impacting on both ecosystems and human health. As a result, many people are opposed to having incinerators built in or near their communities. Another disadvantage is the initial startup cost to build a waste incinerator for the production of electricity and may not be seen as a viable alternative where cheaper waste disposal methods exist. Once built, the maintenance of the machinery could be costly. The biggest disadvantage, however, is that if waste is incinerated without first being sorted, this means we are incinerating waste that could have been recycled. So, in summary, incineration of waste presents numerous advantages. One, the energy is used to heat or to produce electricity for homes and industry. Two, this method reduces the need for fossil fuel consumption. Three, the ash produced can be recycled for metals used in the still industry. And finally, four, this method reduces the volume of waste produced. There are also disadvantages. One, incinerators are expensive to build and maintain. Two, pollutants in the ash and emissions from incinerators are harmful to health and ecosystems. And finally, three, waste that could be recycled will instead be incinerated if not properly sorted.


Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen and welcome to this week's Monday webcast on the 14th of April. I nearly forgot what the day was then. 14th of April 2014 and we've got a fairly big week in terms of economic data coming out this week. It's a shortened week, four days because obviously Easter and Good Friday. So certainly something to bear in mind as we head towards the weekend in that we could well see a significant amount of position adjustment going into Thursday. And we're basically starting off the week pretty much where we finished off last week. Lower on the back of two different factors. Concerns about obviously the spillover effect from the decline that we saw in the US on Friday after the London market closed. London market closed around about 6560. We're now around about 6536. We are off the lows of the day. Obviously concerns about this escalation in Ukraine has also hitting risk appetite on all the European markets this morning, the DAX is lower, the FTSE MIB is lower, the Spain index is lower, the Cadont is lower. And we're approaching a number of key support levels in the Dow, S&P, NASDAQ and the Russell. And in terms of economic data out this week from the US I think there's going to be less focus on that than there is on actually company earnings later this week. We've got Citigroup coming out later today. We've also got Google, Morgan Stanley, Intel, a whole host at Coca-Cola, Johnson & Johnson, a whole host of earnings announcements later this week. And they're likely to have a big bearing on where the S&P, the Dow goes over the course of the next three or four days. We obviously cannot forget that this week we've also got Chinese economic data, Q1 GDP, Chinese industrial production and Chinese retail sales for March. So there once again going to be very, very key in the context of whether or not we see a continued slowdown in the Japanese, the Chinese economy. So Chinese Q1 GDP expectations for that are for a slight softening in the GDP number down from 7.5% to 7.3%. Now obviously if we come in much slower than that and there is a good chance that we could, given the very anemic trade data that we saw last week, then you can expect further speculation about further monetary easing from Chinese authorities. However, I think they're going to remain very, very limited in the context of what they can do. And certainly I think that's borne out by the fact that they trumpeted this minor stimulus announcement a few days ago and really markets haven't reacted that well to it. And I think the most we can see is probably a continuation of the weakening of the one. Let's look at the Chinese RMNIMBY here. And we can see that it's continuing to weaken. And if you look at where it was at the beginning of 2014, it's around about 601. It's now around 621. And I think the Chinese authorities in an attempt to try and make themselves more competitive will basically just continue to let their currency weaken against the dollar. Now the US is not going to be too happy about that but it's not really an awful lot that they can do about it given the fact that they are probably the biggest culprits when it comes to currency debasement out there. So keep an eye on that Chinese RMNIMBY chart. It could certainly give you a good indication as to the direction of travel with respect to the Chinese, the next move on Chinese monetary policy. But let's go back to the Dow Jones, the US 30. We can see straight away here this level of 15,970. It's the March lows. It's pretty much just above the lows for April so far. And it's also the lows that we saw in February on the 20th of February as well. So this is a pretty key level in terms of the recent declines that we've seen in the US 30. Let's look at that as a weekly chart and we can see actually that this is quite a bearish candle here. We've got this long up a shadow here. We weren't able to sustain the gains and we actually closed below the highest close that we saw in February. We've seen a significant decline here, fairly similar to this candle here. So how it reacts in relation to this support level here I think is going to be very, very key in the context of this week's price action. And we can see a similar sort of story also looking at the small cap, the Russell 2000. We're right on the 200-day moving average. We're right on it. And that's going to be, I think, a very, very key level in the short to medium term. And we can see this is the first time we've touched the 200-day moving average since November 2012. So we've been above it a very, very long time. Now you can draw trend lines through these if you so wish. In fact, I'll do that now just to see if there's any sort of indication as to whether or not we've broken a key support. And you could argue that we actually have broken a key support on this trend line from the April lows. So really the next key level remains the 200-day moving average on the small cap 2000. Let's look at the NASDAQ. NASDAQ, similar sort of story. Again, we're on a very, very key support level, which is actually at the lows that we've seen this year and for December last year. So once again, and we've also got the 200-day moving average. So once again, we're approaching some key support levels on a number of key US indices. Let's basically break that up again here. And on a weekly chart, you could actually argue that there's potential there for maybe some form of head and shoulders tops starting to form, which would seem to suggest that maybe we'll get a bounce off this 3425 level. So I certainly think it's worth keeping an eye on that key support level on the NASDAQ as well, especially given the fact that we've got a whole host of important earnings announcements out this week from IBM, from Google and from Intel. Certainly we'll give a good indication as to whether or not there is the momentum there to actually push the market lower. We're going to finish off with the S&P because I think that's quite important. And certainly in the context of the triangle breakout that we talked about last week and in the non-farm payrolls webinar at the beginning of the month, because we did get an initial breakout, then we got the move lower. Now we're outside the triangle here. So the key question now really is, instead of getting the break higher, do we now get the break lower? And we found support around about these November, December highs here, which was around about 18, 13, 18, 15. We're finding a bit of a base there for the time being. What I think we really need to see is for the market to stay below this trend line here. Now this trend line is sloping up. We're going to call that a pullback line. So there is certainly potential for us to come all the way back to around about 1842 or 1850.  But certainly in the context of the move that we've seen over the past week or so, it would appear to be the case that maybe momentum has shifted slightly. And also we've got a similar sort of weekly reversal here on the candles as well. We've got a very, what I would call a gravestone type doji chart, or a gravestone type doji. We've got a very strong down move here. And now what we really need to see is a break of this trend line from these lows from the mid-2013 through this level here. And this trend line I think is particularly important. It comes in just below the 1800 level at the moment. So certainly worth keeping an eye on this area between here and here because that could prompt a short-term bounce in the short to medium term. For the time being, we're seeing a little bit of a pullback ahead of the US retail sales numbers that are due out later this afternoon at 130. So that's going to be a key factor in the context of the next move in today's markets when the US opens at 230 this afternoon. Right, so those are the main indexes on the US. Let's now look at the CAC Caron, not the CAC Caron, the UK 100, my mistake. And again, we're approaching the bottom end of the recent range. As you can see from the actual performance so far on European markets, the declines that we've seen have been less aggressive in terms of the overall down moves than US markets. And that's not really altogether surprising. I think that the key thing to keep an eye out for is the fact that the US markets are generally on the way up, have really outperformed European markets. So there's an awful lot more what I would call scope to pull back on US markets than there is for say, for example, the German DAX, the UK 100, the CAC Caron. So I think in the context of the current move that we're seeing in UK markets, what I would like to for you guys to bear in mind is that there's going to be probably going to be a significant amount of support around about the 6,400 level on the UK 100. We can see that on this weekly chart here. There's certainly a significant area of support around the 2014 lows and the lows towards the end of 2013. So certainly worth keeping an eye on that particular level. But at the moment I'm still of the opinion that we're probably in a broad range with respect to the UK 100 and that what US stocks will affect it, but any rebound in US stocks is going to limit the upside in terms of European stocks overall. We can see a simsort story playing out in the German DAX here. Again we're still well above the lows that we saw in February and March and as a result I think that really bears out what I was saying earlier. We are seeing an improvement in economic data out of the UK, out of the EU, though there is I think some evidence that maybe some of that may be starting to plateau slightly. And obviously US data is starting to improve. We can go on and on about the reasons as to why US markets are correcting and I think for me it's all about elevated earnings expectations and the fact is US companies are probably an awful lot more exposed to elevated earnings than say for example European companies which over the past few years have probably found that their upside has been an awful lot more limited in the context of the gains that we've seen in the US markets. So we're mid-range at the moment with respect to the DAX. I expect that to continue. Certainly with respect to some of the talk that's coming out of the ECB at the weekend we heard Mr. Draghi and then we heard another ECB member Bennewit Cool basically start to talk the Euro lower again, talk about some form of QE program by the ECB. So once again the prospect of further stimulus from the ECB I think is helping to keep a little bit of a flaw under European markets but I certainly do not expect to see any form of QE anytime soon. This is another attempt by ECB policy makers to try and talk the Euro lower. To a certain extent it is succeeding, it's slowing the rise of the Euro down but until such times as markets get any sort of semblance that the ECB is willing to act outside just talking the Euro lower then I think any downside in the Euro is likely to remain limited at best. This is really borne out by this chart that I'm going to show you here. If we look at a daily chart for the Euro dollar over the last 12 to 15 months we can see straight away what the direction of travel is with respect to Euro dollar and now we have gaps lower this morning from the Friday close but overall the trend remains up. We're above the trend line support from the 127 80 lows from July and the fact is until such times as we break this up trend then Euro dollar is pretty much a case of by the dips. Certainly there isn't any prospect that I think there isn't any prospect for me for the Euro to come crashing off. We can also look at the Euro dollar and then we can look at the Euro yen and it's fairly similar in the way the chart stacks up. Again this is a daily chart. I've got an Ichimoku cloud chart on here and I've also got a very long term trend line support coming in just below current levels at 140. So 140 that's the lows for the week starting the 24th of March and also last week's lows significant area of support through there. We've got the trend line also coming in from the lows that we saw in March, April last year. So once again Euro yen looks fairly well supported on the bids and until such times as we take out this daily cloud and this trend line support from those lows the likelihood is that once again a possible push higher in Euro yen. So we can certainly see in the context of that particular story that the Euro doesn't look as if it's about to drop anytime soon. This is also borne out in Euro sterling. This chart is dull to be quite honest. I'm not going to make any bones about it. It's in a range and the top of that range is likely to be around about 83 for the time being and it's finding quite a few bids around about 81, 50, 60 and 82. Once again the pound is continuing to remain fairly well supported. On the back of expectations that the Bank of England will probably be raising rates an awful lot sooner than the European Central Bank and it's a big week. It's a big week to the UK and why is it big week to the UK? Because we've got inflation data due out tomorrow and we also have unemployment data due out Wednesday. So from that perspective that data is likely to show, certainly the inflation data is likely to show that prices continue to fall back and if that is the case then it's going to soften the case somewhat for an imminent rate rise from the Bank of England. I'm still of the opinion that we will not see any sort of rate hike before the general election. George Osborne just will not allow Mr. Carney to do it. I know we've got an independent central bank and all that but I just don't think that's in the script before the election and I don't think it will happen and certainly on the basis and the direction of travel of the economic data I think it's probably unlikely. So let's look at the UK data that we've got due out later this week. We've got CPI tomorrow for March and that's expected to drop from 1.8% to 1.6%. RPI on the other hand retail price is 2.5%. So retail prices are continuing to outstrip average earnings growth. However, it's average earnings data out on Wednesday and average earnings is expected to jump from 1.4% to 1.8%. So you're getting the crossover effect of average earnings starting to outstrip inflation and obviously that once again is going to feed into the overall narrative that while the economic recovery continues to gain traction, the need for an interest rate hike is not imminent. Looking at the unemployment data as well, that's expected to come in around about 7.2%. No change is expected there. So once again that should feed into the overall narrative of a slightly softer sterling in the short term as we run into selling interest around about the 82 level on euro sterling and on cable which is here around about 167. Now this is quite an interesting pattern. This is called an evening star pattern. It's a three star pattern Japanese candlesticks. I will probably cover this pattern on Wednesday when I host my forex presentation here in the UK offices starting at 6 o'clock, 5.30, 6 o'clock on Wednesday. I'll talk a little bit about candlestick reversal patterns. This is one of them. It's called an evening star formation. It's generally a reversal pattern and that would seem to suggest that despite the break higher, we weren't able to take out the 168.20 highs here. So we've had a double tap on the top side around about 168.20.25 and there is a good chance that we could come back to this trend line support here around about 165.5 and even potentially to these lows here around about 164.50. But certainly looking at this pattern here, there's a good chance that we could well seen the highs in the short term for the pound against the dollar and we could see a drift lower. Certainly if this economics data comes in as we expect it to and those are the key things to watch out for this week. Obviously UK house prices are also out tomorrow. They're expected to rise 7.4% year on year for the month of February. So once again, certainly keep an eye out for that particular data as well. Moving on to Chinese, obviously we talked about Chinese data. Obviously that's out later this week and that's going to have a significant effect on the Aussie dollar. Now you may have heard me talk about this last week. We've been in an uptrend for quite some time. We talked about the potential of this upside down head and shoulders here and the breakout higher and given the fact that this has unfolded over the past three or four months, there's certainly potential for the Aussie to move higher towards 96, 17, 96, 80 over the next three or four months. But for that to happen, we need to stay above 93 and this does concern me a little bit. We are starting to trade a little bit sideways on the daily charts. However, it doesn't worry me unduly. Yes, the RSI or the slow stochastic is very overbore but that can work its way out over the course of the next few trading sessions. The weekly chart does look very overbore but at the moment on the weekly chart there is currently no sign of trend exhaustion in terms of the candlestick charts. We can see here on these Japanese weekly charts that the closing prices are happening very, very close to the highs and that suggests to me that momentum is still being maintained on the weekly chart. So unless we get a significant drop below this support level here around about 93, then there's a good chance we could actually drift sideways for the next two or three weeks before pushing higher. If we take out 93 then obviously there are concerns that we could actually come back to the 200-day moving average but overall I'm not expecting the Aussie to collapse anytime soon. Now we talked an awful lot a couple of weeks ago about the Dollar Canada and there was a very nice breakout in the Dollar Canada. That was shown by this triangle breakout that I showed you guys last week and we talked about the fact that it could go back to 109 and it did in fact do that last week. It actually overshot, came all the way back to 10860 and that was just simply by measuring this move here down from this move here. Now we've had a bit of a turnaround. Now the key question that really I'm looking at with respect to Dollar CAD is whether or not we continue to go lower or we bounce back and start to head back towards 110 or 111. Well if we look at a daily chart and I'm looking at Japanese candles here we can see that on Thursday we posted a bullish engulfing day which does seem to suggest that maybe we could get a rally back to 110 or even 111 in the short to medium term. What we mustn't do in the context of this pullback is fall back below the lows of Friday. Loads of Friday were 109.15 so while we're above 109.15 then the prospects of a return back to these highs around about 110.50 or 111. The bias I think has changed somewhat on the Dollar Canada and we could actually get a bounce back and a move back towards 110 or 111 away from the lows that we saw in the middle of last week. This is how using candlestick analysis in conjunction with pattern recognition can actually work quite well in identifying turning points in market moves. If we draw this for our chart actually what I can do is draw a little bit of a trend line on here to see whether or not I can get any indication as to whether there's an intersection point here and we've got this uptrend from the lows last week. It currently comes in around about 109.50, 109.60 so certainly keeping an eye on that particular move there but we can actually come all the way back to this 109.40 level which coincides with a series of peaks through here without undermining the overall upward scenario in this current rebound. While I'm on here guys, is there anything that I haven't covered thus far that you would like me to cover in the next 5 or 10 minutes? Otherwise I'm going to move on to gold because certainly we've seen a significant bounce back in the gold price despite the fact that we broke the uptrend a few weeks ago. I think certainly in the context of this current move there's certainly potential for further upside. As I said last week I think we had this golden cross on the daily charts which is generally positive for gold prices. If you look at the number of golden crosses on the daily charts you can certainly argue a case over the last 10 years the golden cross has usually been a preemptor to a rally in the gold price and I certainly think there's potential for us to move back to the march highs around about $13.90. What we mustn't do is fall below the 200 day moving average here which is around about $13.00, $12.98, $13.00. So keep an eye on that. At the moment it's around about $13.22. It's probably not in a place where I'd want to really do anything too much with it but I certainly think the bias has changed a little bit from the downtrend that we've been talking about for such a long time in gold to a more by the dips mode irrespective of what you think about the Fed's future policy on stimulus reduction. I still think that there's still steady demand for gold prices at lower levels and I think it's going to make it very unlikely that the gold price will fall back towards the lows that we saw at the beginning or the end of last year. WTI, let's look at WTI. Again that continues to find support at progressively higher levels. Now there's a couple of reasons why that might happen. The expectation improved economic data as the U.S. economy warms up from the chill that's basically enveloped it over the last three months but if we look at these daily candles here, the thing that worries me about this is these very long shadows on the candles of the last two or three days. It's just to me that there's a significant amount of selling pressure anywhere close to 105. So we've been in this uptrend since the March lows, actually the lows so far this year and thus far we've seen no evidence whatsoever that the oil price is showing any signs of weakness but I still remain of the opinion that upside is likely to remain fairly limited simply because of the supply demand differential. You can talk about lower demand on the back of a thawing of the chill effects of winter. You can talk about pickup and demand because the economic data is starting to improve. The two generally tend to net each other off. There was a build last week in inventories which does seem to suggest that supply is fairly plentiful and as such I think while we're below these highs here around about 105, I think the risk is more to the downside than to the upside. So I certainly wouldn't be looking, I would certainly be looking for a bit of a pullback in the oil price back towards this trend line around about 102, 101 over the course of the next few trading sessions in terms of WTI. Brent is a slightly different story. We've heard an awful lot of chatter about geopolitical concerns with respect to Brent and certainly what's happening in the Ukraine has given that a slightly big bias today but overall if we look at this chart here you can see that there's a bit of a barrier between 108 and 109 has been for the past month and I think that's likely to remain the case for the course of the next few trading sessions as well. I certainly don't think there's any significant reason why oil prices and Brent oil prices in particular should take out the highs that we've seen over the course of the last three or four weeks. Now this week we've got some very important data out of the EU. It's CPI data and it's a very interesting argument. Is there deflation in the Euro area? And certainly one that's going to be mulling, people are going to be mulling over for quite some time. Will the ECB do QE? Is there an inflation threat? On Wednesday we've got the latest CPI data out of the EU and that's expected to come in around about 0.5%. Here's the thing though. ECB policy makers have been saying that there's no deflationary threat in the Euro area. That's simply because a lot of the adjustment that's going on in these European economies is largely as a result of drilling down of unit labour costs, reducing the cost of labour and that's pushing prices down in the short to medium term. But what about commodity prices? What have commodity prices done over the last three months? Well, they've actually gone up. If we look at corn prices, let's look at this chart here. We can see since the beginning of 2014, corn prices have gone up from $404 to $5. So that's up nearly 25% in the course of the last three months. Okay, they are lower from where they were just over a year ago and certainly that is going to weigh down on prices on the yearly measure but certainly on the monthly measures, inflation in not only in Europe but also in the UK is likely to feed through in the context of higher commodity prices. Let's look at coffee and this is something that I've been looking at over the course of the past few months. We're not seeing it in the numbers at the moment but the question is when will we start to see it in the numbers? If we look at Arabic coffee, it's jumped from $100 here and it's gone up to $200. So it's doubled. It's doubled in price in the course of the last six months. So again, when does that feed through the supply chain into prices in the shops? Now, there is some evidence that maybe we've seen a bit of a reversal here on the daily chart and maybe we're going to drift back lower to around about $165 or $170. Certainly there does appear to be a bit of a cap between $200 and $210 as borne out by this chart here. So let's draw this support and resistance line in here. Commodity prices are always a bit dangerous and volatile so I'm always a bit cautious about showing these on the charts but I mean this is quite a nice little top in place here. So certainly the potential upside is limited by this resistance and there's a good chance we could get a drift back lower here. It's a similar sort of story if you look at soybeans as well. Again, you've got a bit of a rise in commodity prices there. We've gone from $13,000, $12,000, $50,000 up to $15,000. So you're going to have to ask yourself, I'm certainly asking myself, looking at wheat prices as well. We've seen a significant rally in wheat prices as well. So a large part of that is probably down to what's been going on in the Ukraine because Ukraine used to, I don't know whether it still does, don't know what's happened to the wheat and corn. It's the bread basket of Europe. They call it the bread basket of Europe. So I think the expectation is that we could get a little bit of price inflation start to permeate into the supply chain. It does appear to suggest here that we're getting a bit of a resistance around about $690 judging by that candle there. So again, certainly keeping an eye on commodity prices in the short to medium term. And we've also seen a bit of a rebound in sugar prices as well over the past three to four months. 2014 lows, we've gone from $400 to $480. So again, it's a significant rally in prices here. The key question now with respect to this is have we seen the highs and is the sugar price going to start drifting lower? So it's certainly worth keeping an eye on commodity prices over the course of the next few trading sessions because I think there is potential for maybe price pressures to start edging higher again. Okay, so we're running up to $1247. Going to wind it up, been up for 30, 30 odd minutes now. Unless anyone has any questions, this is going to go up on YouTube. So if anyone wants to listen to it back, it'll be up within the next 24 hours. If you want to sign up to the Forex presentation on Wednesday evening, just go to the education section of the website and come up. Be more than happy to meet you. There will be refreshments and all of that sort of thing on Wednesday. As I say, it starts after 5.30. It'll be for an hour and a half and I'll take you through some of the key things that I look at when I'm making trading decisions on the foreign exchange markets.


Rhythm. This is the Rex Monthly Tekken Call Wednesday, July 10th, 2019. No idea how it got to 2019, but it is. It is what it is. And I have a poem for us by Louise Gluck, or Gluck, if you were to speak German and use the omelot, titled Telescope. I will put the link right now in our chat, so you can follow along if you'd like. There we go. Telescope by Louise Gluck. There's a moment after you move your eye away when you forget where you are, because you've been living, it seems, somewhere else in the silence of the night sky. You've stopped being here in the world. You're in a different place, a place where human life has no meaning. You're not a creature in a body.  Then you're in the world again at night on a cold hill, taking the telescope apart. You realize afterward, not that the image is false, but the relation is false. You see again how far away each thing is from every other thing. Let me read it again. Telescope by Louise Gluck. There is a moment after you move your eye away when you forget where you are, because you've been living, it seems, somewhere else in the silence of the night sky. You've stopped being here in the world. You're in a different place, a place where human life has no meaning. You're not a creature in a body.  Then you're in the world again at night on a cold hill, taking the telescope apart. You realize afterward, not that the image is false, but the relation is false. You see again how far away each thing is from every other thing. Let's read that again. Always bears, always bears the double, the double meeting. Hey, Asti. Hey, April. Hey, Todd. Everybody remember you're muted by default when you came in? I am at my mom's right now. She had a new brand shiny new high technology hip installed on Monday. The installation was done like 10.30 in the morning. She was on her feet at six, because that's what they do now. If you're going to have some kind of operation on your body, recommend it's your hip, because other things seem to be a lot messier.  I thought we'd do a little round of checking and see where we are in rexie things in our lives, just as we normally do, and figure out what's in our lives this moment. Jaume, it sounds like you're just coming off a flu. Yeah. Yeah, it's around why. And I thought I had managed to dodge that bullet, but apparently not. So I've spent most of the last three days sleeping, but I have some work I need to get done today. In fact, I may even need to drop out a little bit early. But yeah, here I am. Yay. And as opposed to your usual movie announcer voice, you now have like Dr. Doom voice, which is awesome. He's totally kissing German. Say we should keep bombing Laos, Mr. President. We should keep bombing Laos and perhaps the other countries around just to make sure. Just for fun. And like there's another one of these Latin American countries has elected somebody a little too far to the left. Let's let's throw let's overthrow them. Let's make sure he kills himself with shooting himself in the back, pausing only once to reload. Anything, rexie, on your on your radar, any of the things you've been putting together? You know, actually, I think the the rexiest thing of late for me is the TV show. Have any of you watched The Good Place? I've heard of it, but not watched it. It is a ostensibly a call it a sitcom. It is funny. Kristen Bell stars along with Ted Danson, a few other folks. And at the beginning of the series, she's dead, and she finds that she's in the good place. And over the course of the multiple seasons, she discovers all is not what it seems. What's particularly rexie about it is, at least from my perspective, is how much it dives deep into out and out philosophy, as in one of the characters is a moral philosopher who's trying to teach people how to be good. And so we get in comparatively, especially for television, in-depth discussions of Kierkegaard and the trolley problem and all sorts of things that you never would have anticipated showing up on a mainstream broadcast network TV show aimed at a general audience. And it's surprisingly in-depth. I thought that the attention that they paid to the trolley problem while it was funny was also really well done and really addressed the issues in a way that, frankly, it was better than I've seen in a lot of other discussions of that, because that issue has come up quite a bit around self-driving cars. So the first two seasons are available on Netflix. Third season is coming out shortly on DVD and presumably streaming the fourth and last season starts in September. And now it's just like surprisingly pleased, Janice and I binge watched over the weekend. And if you have a chance to sit back and just watch TV for a bit, it's worth watching. Sweet. My assumption was that Ted Danson could only be in hell, not like in the good place. So I was like, ah, miscast somehow, but it's apparently really good. It's not miscast. No spoilers. Okay. Okay. Okay. Cool. So intriguing. Yeah. What's named about the show is it tricks you because yet it has the banal version of what heaven would be, with all its banality and what the bourgeois would think. And I'm just going to leave it there. Yeah. So did Big Bang Theory open up a crack in the universe in the world of sitcoms so that somebody could do something that was a simultaneously silly and maybe serious? Or maybe not Big Bang? No, that's silly and serious have been the sour and sweet of media for quite some time. I don't think that's the combination. I think the combination is comparatively silly and thoughtful. Something with some sophisticated ideas. I don't know how much Big Bang Theory really got into the sophisticated ideas because I only watched it when Will was on it. The episodes Will Wheaton was on. So anyway. Well, we're talking TV. Oh, good. And silly and sweet. I find myself watching this Catch-22 series on whatever it is, Hulu. And it is normally, I avoid things made from books, particularly books that were important. And this is really unbelievably well done. And it's not that many episodes. So it's not a life commitment. It's quite astounding. And very dark. Yes, but very silly. I mean, very, it's not silly. It walks that fine line between, right? Yeah, brilliantly, brilliantly. And it's a beauty to watch. And it's directed by George Clooney. Oh, right. And this is not a war, war, raw, raw show at all. No, no. No, no. As was not the original Catch-22. Right. And I wouldn't expect that from Clooney anyway. Yeah, no, it's, it's, it's quite, quite, I won't say I was kicking and screaming to drawn into it, into watching it. Because it's, I think it's my husband's sort of lodestar book from early in life, right? So I don't think I had a choice. Yeah. Do, does anybody have a lodestar book? Anybody on the call right now? Is there a lodestar book for you? All I have to say was a Dune series. Dune, okay. Before, which I just reread. I don't know if I would say a lodestar. I think maybe a load constellation. Yes. A load scatter plot, which would consist of, well, mostly science fiction, but Dune foundation. Just had it in my head. Neuromancer and islands in the net, which is probably the least well known of the four. It's Bruce Sterling.  I don't have a particularly, I don't have a hero. I don't have a single book that I look at as being my inspiration. So hero protagonist is not your hero? No, although that would be, that would definitely be one of the asteroids. Yeah. Snow crash. Yeah. Before, before Neil Stevenson got too overly in love with his own words. April, you were going to jump in? It's a book I haven't read in full, but I was recommended to it and spent a good chunk of yesterday reviewing some of it in the quest for my own book, which I'll talk about in a little bit with big thanks to Todd for helping instigate a new part of that process. It's a depressing book, but it's extremely well written and extremely good called This Uninhabitable Earth, or The Uninhabitable Earth. Have you guys heard of this? It's not surprisingly, it is about climate change. It's shockingly, shockingly good. So it sort of begins with the premise that, you know, we all think that climate change is going to be bad. And it's like, it's going to be worse than anything I imagined. So it sort of starts there, but then I can imagine quite a bit. It goes through, it focuses specifically on the human implications. So not what it means other species, but it walks through, what actually does it mean in terms of the different impacts, not just on weather patterns and whatnot, but on human's ability to thrive and food systems and that and the other. And then it, but it does so in a very, it's not trying to, he's not an, he's not environmentalist. He's not a scientist. He's a reporter who has been collecting these stories for a long time and just got increasingly shocked that the research that was coming out, none of it was making major headlines. And even if it made major headlines, it was really being sort of packaged and delivered in a very like, Oh, well, you know, the end of the day will all just have to be used, get used to it. Kind of like it was. So anyway, not to go on about it, but the uninhabitable earth, it just, I went because I was advised to look at this book for how it is structured, having nothing to do with content. And at the, I got sucked into the content immediately. And the approachability and, and he does get into solutions. But I will leave it there for now. Lovely. So they talk about coffee. It's written by, well, actually the guy you might actually enjoy. I took photos. Let me see. It's David Wallace Welles. Yeah. The reason I asked, do they talk, does he talk about coffee? That was one of the things. It's okay that coffee, coffee agriculture was exactly. Well, a two degree, even a two degree increase in the temperatures means you cannot grow coffee anywhere in Latin America. Well, never mind what that means for what we might drink, but the economies give you a sense. And even things like a degree and don't quote me on whether it's two degrees or three degrees, but within the realm of not even reason, like what's kind of we already know is going to happen, things like, for example, trees will no longer turn colors in the fall.   But coffee was a big part, both the, from the food systems perspective, from the migration perspective, from the agonara perspective. So that's, I like that you bring that up because he kind of goes around each of the different angles of a particular topic. Very cool. Well, very frightening. But go ahead, Jamey. So, undoubtedly, there's a lot of discussion around climate migration, climate refugees. And actually, I have this sneaking suspicion that's probably, I only believe about 25% of the way, but I find it hard to dismiss entirely that the, oh god, something blanking on his name, the bright bark guy who was Trump's advisor. The Bannon. The Bannon push to block out migrants was his long term climate change strategy.  He's a smart guy. I'm sure he, I would be surprised if he doesn't actually recognize the reality of climate change. And since I think my suspicion is that climate driven migration, climate consequence driven migration will end up being one of the key political crises around climate change over the next couple of decades. I think there's a non zero chance that this was his stake in the ground to try to build up an infrastructure, a protective infrastructure.  And so I don't want to try to make it to try to valorize what he's doing. But I think that there is actually, I think there's a chance that there's a climate element to his policies as well, that he's not talking about because that's not acceptable to that audience.  That's going to be the, I think it's going to be one of the biggest issues that globally we have to we have to deal with over the next couple of decades. Thank you. Todd or ST load star book. I have a reflection and a book to offer one is that as I started thinking load star book and kind of activating the internal mind map, I realized that I actually was thinking in terms of load star voices in my mind, in my brain, in my soul. And some of them were associated with books and some of them were not and that that just just noting the shift from topic or thing to person was some classic distinction or observation about how minds work. And then searching, searching, searching for the book that had the most impact and seems to ramify through the years. I did come up.  But the one book that kind of fits as load star is at the end of Brian Arthur's book called the nature of technology, which is, I think it came out in the early odds. And I felt that it brought together my understanding of sort of everything I'd done because he basically among other things he talks about the social construction of technologies within and across disciplines and how a technology solves one of the set of problems that being alive faces humans with, which are less changing than you might think. Anyway, it sort of gave this explanation to my entire life up until that point. And then I shared it with each of my sons. It's the one, I think it was the first nonfiction book that I handed, right, my millennials and they were in middle school, high school at the time, both of whom became software developers. And I really think this book instilled things that are their load stars, though they may not be aware of it that way. So I highly recommend it. Thanks, Estee. I just came up with so many references. I ordered the book. I have it. Thank you for pointing me again to it. You're welcome. Sweet. Thank you. That's super interesting. And I, yeah, Brian Arthur's kind of one of these interesting figures that with Iran and does interesting work. I felt this was his sort of de Numeau book or not so much farewell, but there was something about he at a stage in his life of saying it all at meta, which I particularly. And by the way, I've mentioned Rianne Isler in this context many times. I think she and a co-author have written that book for her that just came out this week. So I'm looking forward to something very useful. Thanks, Estee. Mr. Hoskins. I think for many years, I would have said the load star book is Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, which in addition to just being a delight and a way of seeing nature, it's the way of seeing in the book that has stuck with me for, wow, I think I read it in 1996, so 23 years. I can't recommend it enough. It's wonderful. And some of her other works are good, but not as good. Lately, I would say this year, 2019, I've been going back again and again to Frityaf Capra's systems view of life and kind of able to see how monumental that book is in terms of how we look across different disciplines and the history.  Love that. Thank you. I'm noting these in the in the chat as we go. And I'll mine is kind of interesting because I have a let me share my brain for a second. So the thing that I keep coming back to these days, I don't know why weirdly is that really ancient people were a lot smarter than we think they were. And we're doing really great stuff all around the world and then got wiped out just, you know, between bugs they didn't have and systematic ethno side, they were gone. So in this batch, there's kind of three books. There's 1491 and 1493 from Charles Mann. And then there's also, where is it the greatest state? The biggest estate on earth. There we go. So I need to actually connect this to the same thought. But I haven't read this one through, but the biggest estate on earth, Howard Aborigines made Australia that basically says the same thing was happening in Australia that I had kind of absorbed from man was happening in North and South America, only it happened probably 20 or 30,000 years earlier, which is like mind blowing, because you think of sort of the depth of culture and how that all went.  And then actually let me go to connections. The book I always point to or actually the TV series that I didn't never read the book, but Connections by James Burke was kind of my inspiration. And I don't know whether this is a load star or whether this is kind of a life changer. I think I think the load stars might be a little bit different from life changing books. But I have a thought of course in my brain about a lot of people were affected by the whole earth catalog. Some people buy powers of 10, the Ray and Charles Ian video that zooms in and out a simple a simple 10 minute video, but or less than 10 minutes, I think some people and Rand and Atlas shrugged as we may think, which is that of our Bush's essay on that kind of foretells the intertubes. I have some friends who were influenced by the 1939 New York World's Fair. It was a huge thing for them. So it was a vision of America's mechanized vision for the future with technology and companies making the world better for us kind of thing. So that was Futurama, wasn't it? I think so. Yeah, exactly. So and Clutrain actually inspired a whole bunch of people as well. So that's that's quite interesting. So I got and Star Trek and Star Wars, of course, and you might sort of fit in there. I should probably put in their dune and a couple others because clearly those are huge influences. Did you see James Burke's follow on to connections the day the universe changed? I think I watched a couple of them, but not all of them. I should go back and see. Yeah, actually, I found that a bit more compelling than connections. I think you basically had refined the technique. And so that's that's my variation. But I think you're absolutely right that that was a definitive or catalytic bit of media for me, you know, that recognizing the well, the interconnections and and the the web of causality in a way that I think for me is illustrated in my own work and just in the parallels between history and historiography and foresight work. And partly the accidental yet clever juxtapositions or adjacencies that happen in history, where somebody's trying to get this thing done and they're like, well, these people over here are doing something that I might be able to borrow. And that's what I loved about connections, was that you go from unrelated thing to unrelated thing, glue them together, and suddenly you solve the problem here, which then leads somewhere completely different than than you would have thought from the, you know, from the loom, the Jacques card loom gives us punch cards and computing, et cetera, et cetera, kind of thing. That's the Brian Arthur observation or one of them. I'm just throwing out another suggestion here, which is that Hamilton, the musical has had deserves to be on that piece of your brain, right, that you were just in. Enough said, I haven't seen it. And as I was describing to somebody why I had a very short bucket list, but it was on it, like I really feel a debt to myself. It's because I feel like it has been a change point. Love that. So I'm adding the Dune Trilogy and Hamilton to the books, movies, ideas that shape many people's lives. Foundation and foundation trilogy should be in there as well. Sadly, I actually think Game of Thrones, the books needs to or and some of the seasons need to be there. Yeah. If we're true to and the, I think it's Zennip, I can't say her last name's observation. Yeah. About how it changed from the sociological to the psychological once the book went beyond, the series went beyond the books is profound. Cool. So I'm adding a couple more things as we go. And I'm, I have to go. But this has been lovely. And I'll let Todd tell you if, if he feels like it, well, what's going, what's rexie in my life at the moment? Yeah. Okay, Todd. Yeah. Thanks. Thanks, I see. Do you want to pick up on that thought or I think it started on a Rex call maybe eight months ago. And Estie mentioned the new grammar of productivity. So we had a few conversations around that with Estie with Sarah Salty, who was a guest on a Rex call, and a couple other people over time. And it's kind of been lying dormant. And we've been checking in with each other every once in a while. And I think there's just, there's new energy, especially within Estie, to see what is this world of relational productivity, a new grammar of productivity, but not just in a theoretical form. There's, she's done a bunch of writing, she has pages and pages of notes. But how does this look as something tangible out into the world? So I think in last month's Rex call, she mentioned that she's been looking into the idea of feminist software. And her passion right now, one of them, because she has multiple, is combining that idea of a new grammar of productivity. And the way that we build software, what is a relational way to both organize, build, deploy, and use, that takes the traditional patriarchal forms out of it. And it's a great area for discussion and debate, because just even thinking about feminist software is a little bit of a mind twist for me. But there's something to it. Is this anything parallel to decolonization movements? That has not come up, but I think that it's, it is, it has to be connected. Yeah, I'm thinking it's, I'm thinking it's a close neighbor, but not the same thing. That these are not at all equivalent, but similar kinds of things. So right now, the focus for Estie is in the world of change makers. People who are inside organizations consulting to organizations. How can they manage the business of life, not just the business of change or the business of business with some amount of balance or flow in relation to life. So there's an exploration of what tools can be knit together, what is the mode, and this as a promotion for this afternoon's inside Jerry's brain call, what are the modes of communication that will get us further online. And the, there's, if we look at relational software, part of that has to be a more human, open and transparent way of communicating that is risks that avoids the risk of being capitalized. So I wish I could be on that call this afternoon. I would, I am definitely going to be listening to the recording because I'm curious about it. And I've been spreading that around. Love that. Thanks Todd. It's really interesting because there's a bunch of different groups all over the place trying to figure out things like the decentralized web and technology we trust and a series of infrastructural questions about how can we interact without having to sell all our lives and data to these massive platforms, et cetera, et cetera. It's a longer discussion, but it's hard to do. It's an absolutely non-trivial problem. And taking a different aspect about ownership, connectivity, how things plug together, I think is a really nice way of re-looking at the problem. Yeah. Or the possibility. Maybe it's not the problem, but I would agree it's a problem too. Yeah. Fascinating. Any other thoughts on stuff that's come up so far from anybody? Groovy. April, would you like to use the group per second to test any thoughts on writing or thinking? Sure. I guess I'm glad to be able to join everybody. Last few months I've been unable to participate in Rex calls mainly because I've been on the road, but I got home over the weekend and I'm here for the rest of the summer. And yeah, Q2 was kind of off the charts in a good way, but it's good to reconnect. On the one hand, I'm wondering, I mean, probably not so much of a direct ask today, given where I am, but something to sort of put out there on the horizon. So I think some of you know over, as of late last year, I had figured out, okay, it is actually finally time to write a book.  I actually started really feeling like some kind of book was coming out of me. And that it was, I had masked enough ideas that I owed it to myself and I suppose to, if I can say to society to get those ideas and connections out in a different way. And so I spent all of the winter drafting my first proposal. And that I had gone to a writing workshop last year and had a table of contents and you had a general sense that I was ready to do this, spent the winter writing first proposal, sent it out and February sent it. And I'm giving you guys this history and context because it sort of relates. Sent it to came up with my wish list of agents figured, you know, shoot as high as I can. Before anyone asks, yes, I am going the agented publisher route. I am not going to do the self publishing right now. It's not that I don't believe in it. It's that that will be for a different book at a different time, at least touch wood. I think that's the deal now. So I sent it out to my sort of eight top agents. I heard back from six of them, which many people have said already like, that's pretty good. And I got pretty consistent feedback, which was one, these, these ideas, this, this, where you want to head. This is interesting, timely, relevant. Second, you are the right person to write this book. Third, this is a proposal for six books. Tell us what is the one book you want to write. So, um, you know, it was frustrating. I was sort of kicking and screaming and like, it was also very humbling. It was also, it was just hard. But at the same time, I'm glad I heard back with that kind of feedback. And I think one of the agents that I was most excited by, you know, he was very clear. He said, listen, please do not send me version two in two weeks. Please take time. He's like, you've got something here. Take six months, take 12 months, take what it take, take the time and need, you need to actually turn over these stones. Don't, this isn't, this isn't a quick fix. This is something you really need to probe further and you need to test ideas with other people and so forth. And so, um, basically I took that to heart and right around that time, bless his heart, I think a month later, uh, Todd sent me an email saying, I heard you mentioned something about your book. I happened to know somebody who might be able to help. And, um, basically, since that time, I have been doing a lot more work on figuring out what is that one book of six. But I've also been working, um, with a wonderful gentleman named Tim Brandhorse, who is a literary strategist. And so he has done everything from agent books to publish them. He is a lawyer. He does foreign rights. Basically a great guy who focuses on books that have some in, some relationship to social enterprise, social impact and so forth. So fast forwarding to now, what's interesting is I've still got my head around the same general set of ideas, but they've been kind of reconfigured. I guess I would think of it as you thought you were going to build one puzzle with this set of pieces. You've still got not the same pieces, but the same, the same general backdrop, but you've really reconfigured things in a way that is appealing and attractive to, I don't want to say more people, but the right people that is delivered in a different way. And that actually for me helps create a more robust and coherent platform that I can build on over time. Because I guess one point to mention is the more I learn about this, you know, sometimes people just want to write a book and write that book and be done and that becomes a sort of feather in their cap. And what I'm really hoping to do with, with this first book is to lay a foundation on which I might be able to write five or 10 additional books or kinds of materials over time for different audiences.  The things that I'm looking at are how the ways that we are living and working and learning are changing and shifting and what that means for individuals and for companies and for policymakers and what that means from a global perspective and all of the things that you guys know I seek to embody. But one of the challenges for me, for example, has been that in, as I give keynotes and let's say I give a keynote that's broadly speaking on the future of work, right? I'm invited in to talk about what it means for business. But not nine times out of ten, ten times out of ten, the questions I get end up being, well, shit, what does this mean for my kids? Which is a very different conversation to have and not as I was asked to come do. But I share this because there's clearly a book that's for business folks. There's clearly a book that's for young adults. There's clearly a book that's for kids and for universities. And I can't do all of that once. But those are the things that I hope to be able to do over time. So right now, I've been working with Tim throughout Q2 while I've been on the road. It's been a bit crazy, but gone well. And now that I'm back, really as of Monday, I am diving head first into finishing the proposal that we've been working on, getting it into the right hands. And I have a ways to go because I haven't done the sample chapter or anything like that yet. But that's, in a nutshell, what I've been up to. I would like to think that it's all very rexy because I'm taking a non-traditional lens on some of this. And I'm even going to be able to fold in some of what my yoga teacher training and yoga philosophy has led me to see how, I mean, I think all of us would agree that there's just so much that's asked backwards, if I can say that. But the yoga stuff actually has given me a lot more fodder from a perspective that some people might think of as woo-woo. But actually, when you look at it, you can see it that way. But I'm not going to pitch it as yogic. I'm going to pitch it as a different lens or thesis that actually fits very much in line with what corporate boardrooms are talking about. But, you know, has a lot of the answers if we could just get our peripheral vision sharper. So maybe let me pause there. I don't know, Daria, if that's kind of what you were thinking. I would love, actually, maybe what I can do is, as I move forward with this writing, I would love to have any and all rexers who are interested in reviewing parts, having a conversation about it, lending, being interviewed, as certainly being interviewed once I get to actually write the book, all of that open request. And yeah, no pressure, but that would be something to put on your radar on the, let's say midterm horizon. So when I get the, what does this mean for my kid's question quite often too, when I give talks, especially when I talk about climate? Doom. You know, and it's, it is difficult not to take that approach. You say, you know, well, they're screwed. Doom. And, you know, or my preferred way of answering along those lines is, well, they might eventually forgive you. So I'm wondering how much, when this question comes up around work, how much do you fold in other issues, you know, whether it's climate or democracy? It depends on the setting, but as much as I possibly can. And going back to the whole doom piece, and, you know, again, this is where, and Jerry has seen this, I'm really grateful. I'm still a bit surprised, but I've found myself in front of audiences that I just never, I would have seen myself as a bit of an odd fit. And they're like, no, exactly. We want somebody who has an outsider perspective. So come on in. So I've been a very like, like welcomed stranger. So it's given me a little bit more leeway, but it's also helped me do sort of orthogonal thinking to a degree that I wouldn't expect. But I think going back to just a more, more basic sentiment is that I often tell people it has to do with this ongoing debate that Jerry and I have at home, which is if it's back to the whole doom and gloom or not, if you could be 12 years old today, would you like to be 12 years old? You know, and see, I'm a little bit like, well, see, I'm a little bit like, well, I don't know. I don't, I don't want to necessarily say that the world feels dangerous. Some days it does. But the world does feel overwhelming, right? I'm like 12 years old, like, holy crap, I don't know what to do. Meanwhile, we've got Jerry over here in the other corner going like, I would give my left arm to be 12 years old. Because 12 year olds can debt today with curiosity, access to basic technology and YouTube. 12 year olds can do stuff that 50 year olds couldn't do 10 years ago or with all due respect still can't do today, right? Jerry's like, ah, and so I share this because with the parents, that's often where I kind of phrase it, which is like, we can get doom and gloom about this as fast as you'd like. And I will, you know, unvarnished it. Yeah, we're facing unprecedented unknowns and, but also the key is, if you know where to look, there are ways in which and whether this is the workplace, whether this is solving climate, whether this is like all of these are things, if you know where to look, like the future of work, but the future of life can actually be super, super interesting. Now that doesn't mean it's going to be easy, but in terms of finding the solutions and making an impact and why you get up in the morning, following Jerry's lead actually I think takes us on a very different direction. So I try to kind of hold that tension and in terms of is there, and I don't even want to call it an optimistic spin, but is there a positive lens we can rebind here? Yeah, there is. Well, certainly if you're in the global top 10%, which all of us here definitely are. Whenever I give these talks about, you know, that may end up being doom and gloom, it's important to recognize that for a lot of us, it's not going to be doom and gloom over the next few decades. We'll be watching doom and gloom happening around the world, but we'll still be living okay. But I'm not convinced. So this is where, and I know that global citizenship has, you know, just as much can provoke just as much debate as a term like the sharing economy, which is like global citizen, you know, it doesn't, I feel like the track record of my career is like picking themes that sound really good, but then get co-opted by others. But when I say raising, raising individuals or when younger people today have a much more global sense of the world, it doesn't mean that all of a sudden somehow there's more equality, but it does mean, I look at this and I go, how do I want to say this? Yes, a small percentage of people, but small 10%, 20%, you know, some minority will be just fine. I have this question of if that many people though are, there's a point at which we will have a social crisis globally, a breaking point. The leaders we will need at that point in time are those that understand the interconnectedness and interdependence, such that it's not that everybody ends up equally well off or equally poor off, but there is a much greater calibration than what we have today. No dispute here, absolutely agree. And you know, I'm not trying to boil the ocean quite as good as much as I was in the first proposal, but I am cutting off quite a bit of stuff to explore. And I would say where I'm focusing right now, it's really looking at new ways of learning. And in the learning piece though, it's the skills, I'm not going after necessarily the, oh, you need to have the technical training or the digital expertise. I'm looking at things like curiosity and empathy and tolerance and some of those softer skills, building a lot on the work I've been doing recently and talks have been giving on the humanities and sort of the need for humanities in a tech driven world, because that conversation in too many cases is just getting buried. But looking at making sure that as we think about the skills and the attitudes and the mindset shifts, part of which we're being forced into and part of which we need to bring ourselves into, looking at learning, then looking at what that means or how that's related to ways of working and then more broadly ways of living. And the living piece is everything from access over ownership to possibly to e-residency, but also things like the fire movement, financial independent, you know, various things where people are saying this isn't more as better, bigger is better, how do we live sustainably on the planet? And again, people opting into that and also people being forced into that or nudged into that. So let me pause there. I feel like I've been having the mic for a bit here, but anyway, feedback like this is totally welcome. And if you have ideas or you're like, that's just not going to work or I don't get it or I disagree, please. Now down the road or whatever. And just to slip in a comment before you jump back in Jamei and to pick up on what you were saying earlier about Steve Bannon. I think we're at this moment where people like Bannon and millenarians or you know, people who think that the sooner we break the earth, the sooner we will all be raptured off to heaven or whatever. There's a whole bunch of people who were on the let's accelerate the approach of doom kind of scenario for our own. Imminentize the eschaton. Let's do that exactly. And I think what that catalyzes is opportunities to rethink, reframe and rebuild everything completely differently. And that a bunch of people will be like, well, things are broken and we don't like what's what's being offered on the menu for some of these authoritarians. How else might we come together and solve these things together? And I think it gives us an opportunity to counteract a lot of the crap that's changed our lives in the last 50 to 100 years. It could all melt and fail. And those of us on the call here are privileged more than 99% of the humans on earth. So we are less likely to suffer the direct consequences of all this stuff. But it gives us an opportunity to sort of put things into swing and try to be helpful in ways that in the 50s would have been difficult if not fruitless. There is a line from The Dark Knight, the Batman movie from a few years ago. You are going to quote The Dark Knight. Okay, okay. Where Alfred says to Bruce Wayne, some men just want to watch the world burn.  And I suspect that that was at least some of the support for Trump, some of the support for Bernie. Let's break the system because the system is no longer working. The system doesn't work for me. The system is biased. The system gives too much to people I don't like. Whatever is a rationale, the desire to break it, and then we'll deal with cleaning up afterwards, or somebody else will clean it up afterwards. Or there won't be anything left to clean up afterwards. That, I hear that from a lot of quarters. I think you're right on there to me. You got to realize all these opioid deaths and the term that no one in America hears of, that you do in Europe and you do if you read the stuff that we read, deaths of despair. The suicide rate of white males without a BA is double what me, Jerry, and Jermaine, double.  Well, they're going to kill themselves tomorrow, of course. They're already gone tomorrow. Yeah, deaths of despair. Mental health, global mental health crisis. I think there's a lot of indirect suicide as well. I feel this just in my own life of looking ahead and thinking, okay, I can eat the thing that gives me a nice endorphin boost right now, the thing with extra salt, or the thing with extra sugar, or extra fats. Or I can be a good boy and not eat the tasty stuff and extend my life by a few months. Oh, won't that be fun?  Yeah, thanks, Jermaine. No, but that's exactly. It smells like a chimney. Oh, no, no, wait, that's by the chimney. I want to chime in here before I have to go at the top of the hour. And I know Jermaine is going to have something to say about this, too.  I think it's the content, not the personality. And this is in response to what April shared or what April brought up. I think climate change is presenting us a global opportunity to work out what are perceived as differences between science and spirituality. My impression is that there's never been a crisis in which both are equally needed. And in my worldview, they're not in opposition. There's people who take a Gaia perspective who say trust planet, trust Mother Earth, care for her. Anything can happen. You just need to believe. Others who are just saying, pray, God will take care of us. And then you have the scientific community waving banners saying the world is coming to an end and both have truth. And I don't think that there is a scientific solution and I don't think there's a spiritual solution. I think it requires both. And I wish we were having more of that conversation. And I'm actively seeking out people who are looking for and creating those conversational opportunities and moments and methods. That's really, really important. And the more I think about the jam we're in, the more I realize we have to go deep into those communities and figure out how to reattach and reconnect. We're probably going to wrap the call a little after the top of the hour. I think that'll make a lot of sense. Any sort of closing comments for where we are, or advice, other than stay cheerful, keep away from sharp objects? Well, thank you guys. I haven't actually shared a lot of what I've been doing. I mean, I shared very small tidbits here and there. But I don't often get a chance to have a broader conversation with a group of people. Thank you. And I don't know, I'll say not apologies in advance, but rather I look forward to dipping back into these topics together. And April knows, but I'll just say it here as an invitation that Rex calls can be set up at any moment to explore any experiment or a particular question or aspect or A-B test or whatever you'd like to do. So just say the word and we can do this or of course contact everybody individually. But totally happy to apply the Rex lens to whatever you're doing. Well, I hope April will take that offer as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah. As you're in this process, consider us here as supporters for you. Yeah, thank you. So many were saying? No, just gonna say that I don't know how much of a value I'll offer as a book reviewer or reader. But I'm certainly happy to provide to bounce ideas off of to provide a sounding wall for some if there's anything that I can provide that's relevant. Thank you. I think right now, I look forward to having a book that has been green lighted to write.  I think once that happens, absolutely, I will be, I will be reaching out. But right now, it's like getting this thing done, which on the one hand, one thing I do like is I have figured out in the process of this that like, I was never destined to write fiction, where you have to write the whole darn thing and then submit it.  I'm like, I like this, but I like it. It's just that is the lift that I'm in right now. So stay tuned. Maybe we can like toast rexy champagne at some point. I think we'll have several toasts in the future. Yep. Absolutely. We can we can stagegate this or whatever it's called. Yeah. I'm gonna need to go at the top of the hour as well, Jerry. I think we I think we fold our pop tent here and thank you very much. This has been great checking. Really appreciate it. Good to see everyone. Thanks guys. Bye for now. Bye. Ciao, ciao.


An Egyptian archaeologist have unearthed 110 burial tombs in an ancient site in the Nile delta province of Dakalia, around 150 km in the northeast of Cairo. Tourism and antiquities ministry said the archaeologists found human remains for adults and children, funerary equipment and pottery objects in these tombs. They include 68 oval-like tombs dating back to the pre-dynastic period that spanned from 6,000 to 3,150 BC, with the raid of the first dynasty of phyronic Egypt. There were also 37 rectangular-like tombs from an ancient era known as the second intermediate period when the Semitic people of high-cost ruled ancient Egypt.


It was June 2, 1946 when the first nuclear test occurred at Bikini Edel, but it certainly wasn't the last. Between 1946 and 1989 there were a large number of atomic explosions which yet the uninhabited islands, detonated by the United States. As a result, several radioactive isotopes, the most notable being Strontium 90, were released into the atmosphere and soon irradiated the waters surrounding the islands. In 1976, during a cleaning process, it was discovered that there was life located at the bottom of the surrounding ocean. Using specialist radar technology it was determined that these creatures were unusual because they had adapted so as to inhabit artificial constructs within large communes. In the short while Bikini Edel was temporarily inhabited, prior to when cesium-147 began to take effect in 1982, U.S. troops were known for leaving things behind, including buckets, chests and tinkens. When one of these islands sank as a result of the Castle Bravo nuclear test on March 1, 1954, these items ended up at the bottom of the ocean. For some reason, the sea creatures encountered in the 1976 expedition were more intelligent than usual. They had utilized this waste and had began to live within them, treating them almost as part of their natural surroundings. Animals such as crabs began a primitive form of civilization similar to our own. Some land animals were sent down in specialist suits so as to adapt with these sea creatures. This selected group continued to be exhibited up until 1998. A person working for the corporation Nickelodeon in a tour funded by the company was one of the few people who saw these creatures in action. This eventually provided the inspiration for a certain popular children's television program.


It is this aspiration to expand the American Empire and you do a great job of highlighting quotes from individuals like Chief Warhawk Henry Clay, even Mattis himself that makes it very clear that if they take over Canada, the goal is not to use this as some sort of bargaining ship to get what we really want, which is just to make sure that we're not going to be molested by the British Militant Navy, that the goal here really is again to expand the American presence throughout North America and Florida and beyond. Yeah, absolutely. So this is the problem of the Louisiana Purchase. So the Louisiana Purchase increased the size of the country by about 500 some odd million acres, this enormous acquisition. So the boundaries of the country have been pushed and that now you have new boundaries. There's sort of this pressure to acquire more territory to strengthen those boundaries. So now that you have a greater presence in the Caribbean, you want to get Florida. Okay. Now that you have a greater presence in the West, you want to also acquire Canada in the North and strengthen your control of the Great Lakes region and so on. And this is really the ultimate goal of Jefferson in his second administration. He comes very close to actually declaring war on Canada and having like a full scale invasion. And then this is sort of continued on in the Madison administration. We of course do not conquer Canada, nor do we get all of Florida during that time.  But it's still important to recognize what the War of 1812 really was. It was a war of attempted conquest. It was not sort of a war where once again standing up to the British as we were in the American Revolutionary War, we were the aggressors. The British weren't perfect before this time period, but they didn't want war. We were the aggressors and we deserve the blame for embarking upon this war that really just led to a tremendous amount of cronyism.