Alright, can we at least roll some dice? Can we at least be cool about this? No! No, no, no, no, no, no! No! Uuugh! I did not think I would be back to Yu-Gi-Oh this quickly with the All Luck deck, but a lot of you in the comments really wanted to see it again, and even more of you wanted to see the deck list. My bad, I'm not writing that. It's just, you know, deck lists take a long time to write. So I am here today to correct that mistake by quickly showing the deck on screen, and I also wanted to say that this deck is far from perfect. In fact, there are a lot of luck-based cards in Yu-Gi-Oh if you would like to throw those in, and try out different options for yourself. If you want the easiest way to do that, honestly, you could just type in dice in the search bar, and you'll get all the cards that have dice in their description, or you could just type in toss a coin, and that'll give you the coin variance as well. That's pretty much what I did to build the deck. I just chose cards that sounded fun out of these options. And of course, if you want added consistency, you could also add in cards that do that as well. Or you could just get lucky and draw the cards you need, but it really comes down to how badly you want to be in theme with this deck. With that said though, I hope you enjoyed the video. If you do, leave a like, comment down below if you've tried out the deck, and with that said, let's go ahead and get into the ranked matches. This is another reason why I didn't think I'd be back with the gamble deck so soon, because the season reset and I still haven't ranked up, but the gamble deck is based on luck anyway, so it's gonna play pretty much the same no matter where we are on the ladder. Now, let's see. Do we win the first coin toss of the day? Are we feeling frisked? Ooh, this is a little fun deck to go first with. Okay, now, I think the best play is just to go with misjudge, classic misjudge play. See if we can't get a fun little negate. And then we're gonna play Dangerous Machine Type 6, which is just another mini-game in the deck. So if it gets a 1 discarded card, 2, your opponent discards 1, 3, draw 1. Really, just any number is a different result. It's really in the deck for the fun factor. You know, it's another mini-game. Now, depending on what my opponent plays, this isn't exactly the most dangerous-looking field ever. Yeah. In fact, I think you could make the case that this is a non-dangerous-looking field other than this dangerous machine, I guess. But what does he have to play? And will misjudge allow him to play? Mmm, setting one face down. Eldelich player confirmed. Oh, very respectable. Unfortunately, once you pass your turn, we will be going to my standby phase, in which we're going to take a roll on Dangerous Machine Type 6. After my draw phase, of course. All right, now we can do the Dangerous Machine Type. Let's see what we get. All right, come on, come on. I'm kind of hoping for a 3 here. I'd love to draw another card. 6, what is that? No, Dangerous Machine. He was so young. All right, we're gonna play some dice. I'm setting dice, Jar. All right, let's see what you got face down here, huh?  This is basically Elemental Hero Clayman, dude. Well, unfortunately, that's not gonna stop old time wizard here. Hey, what's this? Oh no. Oh, wait, am I gonna allow that, though? Yeah, you can go ahead and do that, that's fine. I actually thought that was pretty cool what you did there, to like, that's cool. All right, I feel like this guy's about to link. I feel like, I feel as if my friend here is going to link summon. I wanna activate head judging so bad. I wish I had double coin toss. That would be sick. But we'll just have to rely on, are you gonna activate in effect? I'll just wait, I'll just wait. Make him think it's something pretty important.   This is a lot of monsters you got here. It would be a shame if someone time wizarded it. Look at time wizard, bro. Look into his eyes.  He's linking, he's linking. Oh brother, this guy links. One, two, three. Tribe Brigade Rugal. Hold on, hold on. I don't know if I'm cool with that effect, man. Misjudge, go ahead and activate. Yeah, yeah, let's see if I'm gonna allow that. Yeah, go ahead, that's fine, actually. You can totally do that. Also, am I gonna allow you to use this link monster? That's the quest, that's the real question, is misjudge is not the head judge around here.  No, misjudge. She never even got to do a right call. This is so sad. She died for nothing. Things are getting pretty dangerous around here for me. Draw, ooh, lucky punch, that could help. Maybe, I mean, it could either help or kill us, so we'll have to see which one it is. All right, first of all, let's play some dice, dude. We're gonna play some dice. We're playing dice. All right, come on, give me a six. I need to get 6,000 points of damage on this man right now. Dice Jar, the best card in the game. Okay, he's activating his effect. Now we're gonna really play the luck game. If he calls this wrong, it's my monster. Oh, call it wrong, are you feeling lucky? What's the most you've ever lost on a coin toss? I wanna see if you're lucky. The deck's not about if I'm lucky. I'm trying to see if you're lucky. Ooh, call it, Tails was selected. Oh, too bad, so sad, that's my monster, give me that. You wink. And let's see if you're good at dice. Four would you get? Five, damn, oh, so you're pretty good at dice, huh? You take a lot of pride in being good at dice. I didn't know you could swing on me like that. That was pretty good. Oh, baby, baby, looks like I'm playing Tri-Brigades now, huh? Also, lucky punch can easily kill me, by the way. I don't know if I even wanna activate lucky punch. If it gets three tails, or if it's destroyed while it's phase up, I lose 6,000 points. Hey, why are you special summoning monster? Oh, you know what? I don't even care, Kassoske Samurai doesn't care about defense or attack points or whatever he wants to play. Oh, brother, this guy links continuously. Why is this guy's name Nerval? This is the laugh. What a name, shout out to Tri-Brigade Nerval. Is he just trying to put up a little bit of a wall here? Can I just beat him over the head? Okay, so he can't really do much to me here. Yeah, we're just gonna get rid of this.   I could just, if Sasuke Samurai calls it right, I'm just living my best life. All right, I'm gonna do it. All right, let's go. Let's go. I'm calling heads, baby. Come on, Sasuke Samurai. He's good at the game. Boom, get him out of there, dice jar, go. This is why you gotta remember if you're playing the luck deck, you gotta believe in your luck. If you don't, I mean, why are you playing the luck deck, dude? All right, and he still has to go through head judging. Head judging is still here, by the way. Oh, ho, ho, ho. No, no, no, Lucky Punch, you stay facedown. You stay facedown, Lucky Punch, until we really need you.  I'm getting nervous. If he wants the link, I just hope that I can steal that Link monster, man. Feeling that Link monster would make me so happy.  We are fighting for our lives down here. Is that a monster effect you're activating? Oh, he's trying it, dude, but the question is, are you feeling lucky? Are you feeling lucky? Or is that going to be my monster? Go ahead, be honest. Are you feeling lucky? Let's see how his coin toss skills. He lost one, maybe he'll improve. Tails was selected, but it was heads again. That's gonna be my monster, yowink. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Yes. Yes, I'm playing tri-brigade now. Yes. Ah, yes, his face.  Oh, cup of ace.  I'm gonna just keep that in my hand though, cause I'm, you know, I talk a lot about being confident, but let's not be that confident. One, two, three.  All right, I didn't use Cup of Ace because I didn't want him to draw, but maybe I'll regret it. I did just go on a whole tangent about how you should believe in your luck, and I did not believe in my luck. Is that a, you better not be using any monster effects.  Bro, you're betting a lot on this right now, but are you good at tossing coins? I need to see. Just tell me, tell me straight up, have you improved? Have you improved? Hales again. Oh, he did it. No, head judging. He got through head judging's devastating effect. Oh no, I regret it all so much. And I'm going to activate Lucky Punch. My only option. Oh no. No, I have nothing to stop his effects. I need to draw another Dice Jar for game. Lucky Punch, if Lucky Punch gives me three heads and I get three draws, surely I can get away to win the game, right? Oh my God, he's really set up a field now Oh, who knew monster effects could be so devastating when they went through? I need my field spell.   I am down on my luck right now. The duel has definitely taken a turn for the worse. Once this guy finally realized that luck is the wave, I don't think there was anything I could do to stop him. Oh, that was not edited. That was not edited. That was not edited to make that. Why did he surrender? Well, I promise you that was not edited. Oh my God, that was hilariously timed. All right, next duel. Ooh, another Sangan user.  Actually, we only won that last duel because my opponent lost at the coin toss so many times. I love head judging. Have I told you guys how much I love that card? Oh, I'm going first anyway. Shout out to a fellow Sangan user. All right, let's see what kind of opening hand we got here. Ooh, la, la, all for a little old me. Second coin toss, and then we're just going to play misjudged, and then we also have got the absolute stut of a trap card or deal of a traveler. Hopefully he doesn't harp his feather dust us. It is spring, so he might be doing some spring cleaning, but we're just going to hope he does. Why you got Maxi, bro? Maxi, Ash Blossom, doesn't affect this deck. This man just holding on to Maxi. He is just gazing at Maxi's eyes right now. Oh, come on, dude, I'm trying to get the double. Oh, he's disconnecting, look at this. This is how you really use the luck deck. You just hope your opponent plays on mobile and like alt tabs out. Well, winning like that is also a part of luck, so I'm going to go ahead and take that and include it in the video. Nice. It is a shame that I used my going first on that. Maybe I'll get heads anyway. Oh, baby, baby, let's go. We're on a roll. The luck is only getting luckier. Oh, this is a hand, dude. All right, first we're going to play dangerous machine type six. Do I leave skill drain out? I kind of want to leave skill drain out, but I don't think that's a very smart decision. It's fine. What's the worst that could happen, I suppose? Do I play gambler of legend and just try to get two heads? Am I that guy? Am I really that guy? I'm actually that guy. Watch this, watch this. I am the gambler of legend. I'm trying to be like this guy right here, bro. I'm trying to be built different. Two heads, I'm getting a discard. Come on. Oh, give me that. Which card's getting discarded to the graveyard? Oh, hopefully none of your monsters wanted to come back from the grave. Let's go, that was sick. Gambler of legend. We also have head judging again, so maybe I can get a couple of yoinks, dude. Oh, you are not, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Monster effects? You better be lucky.  Hold on. Imagine using monster effects. You better be so lucky. Heads? All right, hey, you know what? Hey, shake my hand. That was pretty good. Shake my hand, dude. I really wish I had set skill drain out, but that's just me. Gambler of legend, stay strong, man. Times are going to get tough pretty soon. I mean, I guess he still has to guess, right? Or a deal of a traveler will make him guess if he can't destroy it, that is. I wish I had discarded Cyber Dragon. Oh, that would've been so funny. If Cyber Dragon Core got discarded, oh my God. All right, Cyberload Fusion. Things are getting pretty desperate here. Machine duplication? Uh-oh, machine duplication. Hey, Cyber Dragon. What's going on, Cyber Dragon? Wait, he doesn't, he's gonna fuse, right? He's gonna go for the OTK. He's not gonna. Oh, here we go, Overload Fusion. I was gonna say, if he actually just stuck with like Cyber Dragon beat down, I would've been in a pretty bad way. But I don't think he would guess, why would he guess Trap Card, right? Cause I would've said it, right? Obviously, come on. Chimeritech Rampage Dragon. Oh, these Cyber Dragons, dude. Imagine. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, please, please, don't do this, bro. Please, you don't gotta be like this. It doesn't have to be this way. Bro, it doesn't have to be this way. I should've said skill drain. Actually, he would've just taken it out anyway. No, because then he wouldn't have been able to use the skill.  I learned a hard lesson. Always play skill drain. It's just, it's safer. Tails, hey, can I go first anyway? Would you be nice enough? Oh, thank you, I appreciate it. Oh my goodness, I appreciate this a lot. Okay, now let's get back into the game. Let's see, what do we have here? All right, let's draw our opening hand. Dangerous Machine Type 6. This card certainly is coming up quite a bit. You know what? I'm like that, dude. I'm just doing the gambler of legend play. I'm gonna try to discard one again. All I need is two heads, right? That's certainly that can't be too difficult. Two heads coming up. Oh, brother. I just discarded my entire hand. Whoops. Well, that was a mistake. Oh, this guy's looking at me like I'm crazy right now. He's like, what was that? Oh, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. It can't be this synchronous of a deck again, dude. Please. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, 60 card zombies. Please, dude. Actually, I have no idea. I've never seen Jack O'Bolen. Who is this? Okay, I think he's gonna have to wait till next turn to synchro some of that, right? Anyway, if you're going to your battle phase, truth be told, it never really mattered how many attack points you have. It just matters whether or not I'm lucky. I'm calling heads. Hey, come here, come here, come here. I know you can't be destroyed by battle, but I thought I'd let you know that I was there just in case. Fairy box, God. Fairy box hitting different when it works.  It was, you still had it. You could have just synchro next to it. Understandable, have a nice day. All right, I guess we're doing one more duel, but the duels today have been short and decisive. All right, the final duel, sandgan versus everybody's favorite Yuya monster, pair of roller skates. We should be in for a good one here, folks. Let's see what kind of hand we're working with today. Ooh, okay, all right, nice, nice. Love to see this, gonna play some dice games bright and early in the morning. Also gonna set ordeal of a traveler, and look at our hand, we got some legends in our hand looking back at us, dude. Gambler of legend and time wizard. Basically the mascots of the deck. Oh, I'm hoping we get a big 6K dice jar right here. Are you kidding me? A big 6K dice jar? That would be sublime. Reinforcement of the army, that's a one of. Nice draw. Ooh, he's playing a bit of Anamanapia. All right, Xexo construction. Oh no, oh no. Special summon, normal summon, and he's gonna special summon another Anamanapia. You know, I also play Ga Ga Ga Cowboy. ZS Utopic Sage. He's playing defense. I actually, I've never seen a deck like this, honestly. Look at this. I don't think I've ever seen Utopic Sage. I've seen the Anamanapias. There's Utopia, okay, so he didn't do the double play, though. Why is double or nothing in this deck? I know double or nothing is just like a, I've definitely seen the double or nothing, just take it into the deck and sometimes hit for 8K.  Okay, he's, what's going on, dude? Where, these roller skates, special summon from your extra deck, one number monster that has a number between one and a hundred in its name. Oh really, just one and a hundred? That's a pretty limiting ability. Who's he, who do you bring forward with this? That's kinda lame.  We'll see what dice jar has to say about this. This is a lot of, this is a lot of exceeding, dude. This is so much exceeding. That was a lot of exceeding. Anyway, can we play some dice game? Actually, hold on, can you guess what's in my hand? What is this monster? Oh, I shouldn't have said monster. I'll never guess monster. Surely, surely he won't get, oh, that's incorrect, back to the extra deck. Any other takers? He's bringing out a different rank up monster. Maybe we should have waited a little bit longer. Do you wanna guess what's in my hand?  You wanna guess what's in my hand? No, you got monster card. It's dice jar. All right, can we at least roll some dice? Can we at least be cool about this?  I never thought it would end like this. Done in by my own dice jar.  Then I know exactly what needs to happen. I told you he was the spirit of my deck. And his name is Time Wizard. Time Wizard, this is literally your biggest, what is this? Time Wizard, you decide if this video ends next turn or if we end it like champions. I wouldn't have it any other way, Time Wizard. Now show me heads. Oh. Well, sometimes you're lucky and other times you're not. But that is the point of the luck deck. Oh my God, look at Sangin, hit that move though.  Anyway, leave a like and subscribe to the channel if you guys wanna see more Yu-Gi-Oh. I'm down to play this deck again. There's definitely cards in here that I could remove to improve the deck, but it's really fun as it is. And also if there's cards you wanna see added into the luck deck, let me know down below. Other than that, you can check out other videos that should be on your screen right now. I have been Datadoy and I will see you in the next one.


Dylan Schumacher, Savile Defense. A while back ago we made a video titled Gun Control is Evil. You can go back and watch that one. It's talked about why gun control is evil and I mean that in the full sense of the word. And today this is this is going to be the second iteration. I wasn't planning on making multiple iterations of that but this is the second iteration of that video. Gun Control is Evil. And there's been two recent examples here. So I'm going to do part two here and then I'll do part three in a little bit. But the first part two and this happened today I saw read this article and in New York State one of the state senators there is proposing a bill that in order to renew your gun permit in the state of New York you should fork over all the passwords and logins to all your social media accounts and so to the police so they can go back and and I don't know why you need your passwords and logins but they can review your social media accounts for the last three years and they'd like to review your internet search history for the past year. Now some of you might say oh what's the problem I got nothing to hide. There's quite a few problems with that. The first one is of course it obviously violates your Fourth Amendment rights because there's there's there's no what is the term I am looking for here reasonable cause that's that's the term I'm looking for. So if you want to exercise one of your rights as guaranteed by the Constitution then you need to jump through some more hoops right and this is evil. I consider this evil in the sense of this is the kind of stuff for the exact reason that we fought a revolution to begin with. If that's not tyrannical the government having the right the the right is really what they're saying to know what you're searching for on the internet and and to check all your social media accounts maybe they should just install a camera in your home five or six cameras and in various places to really keep an eye on you to make sure you're behaving right. I mean have you read 1984 because this is like the definition of Big Brother. If I was writing a dystopian universe this is something I would put in there right so it's crazy it's beyond the pale crazy even even for gun control people this is beyond the pale. So this is ultimately what it's about. I think ultimately it boils down to control right and I'm saying look the people at the top who who hate your life liberty and pursuit of happiness need to control you and the best way to do that of course is first they disarm you because then you're a lot easier to control when you don't have any teeth right and that's really what a bill like this is about. I don't know what else that could possibly be about is there a large degree of New York State permit holders communicating over social media to plot terrorist attacks even if there wasn't so being acceptable but but is that what's going on? I mean tell me what's going on in New York State with all the permit holders that they need to put in extra screws to tell one I mean really I'm serious leave a comment if you know because I don't think there's anything going on this is just about further tightening those screws of control this is about continuing to control the people make them subjects and not citizens right so again look gun control ultimately is just a small piece of this right because if they can control your guns right they can control that then they can get you to do what the government says right and then they can make you have and enforce all the government-based programs and then you are of course beholden on to the state and I genuinely believe that is some people's honest goal like in their heart of hearts that's what they're after is controlling people and the best way to do that is to take these various steps so it's scary it's terrifying to you guys in New York please you know fight that obviously don't elect that guy again I'm gonna leave a link in the description below I can't remember the gentleman's name who proposed this tyrannical horrible 1984 idea but this guy should be recalled I doubt you can do that to state senators in New York but should be recalled and fired and sent into exile and never work in politics ever again and should be ashamed of himself it's it's embarrassing it's just god-awful anti-american embarrassing so gun control is evil and remember gun control is just one piece in the ultimate agenda which is to control you I don't see any other way around that if you do let me know until then do brave deeds and endure


Hi everyone, my name is Myron Bastos Lima, I am a research fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute and I'm here to invite you to our event on the 17th of June in collaboration with the SEI Bioeconomy Initiative on the Politics of Bioeconomy Promotion. During that event, amongst all the discussions we're going to launch, the book I have recently published on the Politics of Bioeconomy drawing from 15 years of experience in Brazil, India and Indonesia as examples of emerging countries, while taking also the chance to look in detail into sustainable development politics in emerging democracies of the Global South. Amongst other things we're going to discuss, the extent to which Bioeconomy Promotion in these countries comes from international debates, such as European policies on biofuels and bioeconomy, and to what extent these are internally driven processes, how different actors in these countries have faced Bioeconomy Promotion to critique it, to support it, to share their views, what those views are, what debates happen within the specific context of those countries, and to what extent there are lessons for global bioeconomy debates. The bioeconomy, while a very important transition, is not one to be taken at face value without examination of the social and political consequences that it entails. We need to assess who wins, who loses, what are the different forms of promoting the bioeconomy because it's not just one thing. We need to learn the lessons from that experience that comes all the way from biofuels more than a decade ago, to the different forms of bioeconomy that are springing as we speak, to understand ways of doing it in more inclusive ways, ways of having a fairer bioeconomy. These are some of the questions we'll be discussing. I look forward to seeing many of you on June 17th. You can learn more about the event and register on SCI.org.


I think just about everyone who has stepped foot in a gym has also gulped down a protein shake or should I say, protein shake for those of you gym sauna lovers. Out of my 8 years bodybuilding, I spent the first few sucking down optimum nutrition gold standard way, nature's best isopure, syntha6 to name my favorites, but even as a conventional wisdom bodybuilder, I realized that whole food protein was better as well as cheaper. Quite opted for chicken and dropped all of the supplements a few years into bodybuilding. Now how do we answer this question? What factors are at play here? The bioavailability of the protein, how well it digests is for sure the most important thing as that's the purpose of a protein shake. We need this protein for our body to build up muscle tissue. Now the availability of cooked protein isn't as high as raw protein as raw food contains enzymes that aid in digestion. That's not to say we shouldn't include cooked foods in our diet, it's just that when we consume too many cooked foods as most people do, it stresses our body's natural enzymes. The form of protein in most protein powders is whey. Whey is a byproduct of cheese making, milk containing approximately 80% cacine and 20% whey, most of the cacine ending up in the cheese, but trace amounts still make it into the whey. Depending on the process and how much they filter the whey, the concentration of whey protein can range from 80% in whey concentrate to 90% in whey isolate. So the goal of us consuming these protein powders is for the enzymes in our body to break them down into amino acids as protein itself is not absorbed properly in the small intestine. But by no means is an extensively heated and processed protein powder a reasonable thing to consider ideal. When you have a product that is raw or even just closer to its natural cellular components like a medium rare steak, it is broken down by enzymes and bacteria much easier. Something like kefir, even yogurt already has bacteria that have broken down the proteins into some amino acids and it's much easier for the body to digest and absorb. The other thing to consider is that different proteins have a different absorption based on their molecular composition. I'm sure many of you guys have heard that cashing protein takes longer to digest than whey protein so it's better to consume before bed, but that makes absolutely no sense. As we want the nutrition that is most available to our bodies, why would you want to stress your body to digest something for a longer period of time? This ties into all molecules contained in foods. Depending on the fat and protein molecules of the specific food, whether it's cooked, raw or fermented, will dictate its digestion and bioavailability. We also can't discount what the animal was eating. Every single nutrient amino acid, fatty acid contained in a food alters its digestion. And as complicated as that is, the answer is pretty simple. See what foods you digest better and feel good eating, whether it's boiled cod or salmon sashimi, figure it out. So we know from a pure protein availability standpoint that there are better options and not only for just protein, these quality animal foods like raw milk, shellfish, seafood, grass fed beef, pasture raised chicken also have the nutrients we need to thrive, vitamins, minerals, elements and fatty acids that a supplement will never be able to replicate. But what about the negatives? You could consider the extensively heated and processed protein a negative already. As we said earlier, it's stressing the body's enzymes and digestion. We also have to assume that the milk used to make this whey protein is from A1 cattle which can be an allergen to some people. Different types of animals produce different types of cacine, A1 being the most inflammatory. How much of a factor this plays in such a processed supplement isn't really known but we can't discount it. But there are other ingredients in here. Natural and artificial flavor, lecithin, salt, acylphane potassium, sucralose, yellow five and lactase. Natural and artificial flavors per their name can be made from natural things such as fruits and vegetables or artificial things such as petroleum, various chemicals. They don't list what they are using but we can hypothesize that substances are toxins causing oxidative stress, possibly inflammation. Lecithin is usually made from soy, it's an emulsifier as well as a flavor protector. It's not only full of chemicals from the extensive production process, it also contains pesticides from the growing of the soybeans. To summarize, lecithin is a toxin that is added in small amounts as a food preservative. Acylphane potassium is an artificial sweetener that has shown adverse effects in rat studies including consideration as a carcinogen, sucralose, another sweetener, is derived from sugar, not absorbed or recognized from the body, potentially breaks down into carcinogenic compounds at high heat. It has been shown to shrink the thymus glands resulting in poor immune response and enlarged liver and kidneys. Yellow five is a synthetic dye that has been shown to cause DNA damage and lactase is an enzyme to digest lactose. Likely added because the way might still contain traces of lactose. Of course these ingredients vary depending on the protein powder, the specific flavor. We took a look at banana cream from Optima Nutrition and even if you switch to double rich chocolate from the same company, the flavorings and sweeteners used are different. The point is to analyze and break down every single product. What are the positives, what are the negatives and unfortunately if we're not looking at wild quality foods, it's mostly negatives. So when you consume protein powder or really any food that contains processed ingredients, you're consuming hundreds, possibly thousands of different ingredients, we should really be calling them chemicals, considering all of the materials and processes required for each of these individual items. Now is protein powder the worst thing in the world? It's pretty simple. You're either eating healthy food or you're not. If you're drinking a protein shake, if you're cheating on your diet, if you're doing something that's hypothetically negative in any way, what are you using to justify it? What's the reason? Do you enjoy it? Is it all you have access to? Is it all you can afford? And each of those things can be addressed on an individual basis. So thank you guys for joining me. 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We all know why Africa has been growing without creating jobs Due to its reliance on traditional goods and less value-added primary commodities Then comes industrialization to help us transform and achieve inclusive growth Like we experienced with East Asia Today you have many countries within the region that have adopted a new industrial policy as if we've forgotten the lessons from past policy failures Besides the challenges to attain industrialization may be more daunting than before Hence the purpose of this paper is to look at the experiences with the industrial policy in some of the sub-Saharan African countries in order to draw practical lessons for the region We start looking at the relationship between industrialization inclusive growth and structural transformation Looking at this table table one presents a production structure as you can see between on selected countries between two groups that we've presented there Structural transformation has taken place in China and to a lesser extent India But weak in sub-Saharan Africa You look at the manufacturing the share of manufacturing as a percentage of GDP that has increased significantly in China and to a lesser extent India but has reduced in Sub-Saharan Africa Excuse me Although the region has experienced Rapid GDP growth rate per capita since 2005 if you look there Sub-Saharan African region since 2005, but that Was not driven by Increase in the share of manufacturing as a percentage of GDP Looking at that a rapid growth. It was driven by Nigeria. Of course that tells me is mainly driven by mineral sector Excuse me Look at the figure two. It tells you consistent with what we've seen in figure one That excess level was absorbed in less productive activities such as agriculture and the informal sector Looking at the specific countries Uganda, for example remains largely agricultural More than half of all jobs are in the agricultural sector the same applies to Ghana in South Africa like Mauritius Employment gains has been made in a services sector, but you and I know that Services sector does not create a large number of jobs and these jobs are highly skilled in a in a in a in a situation where you have a Number of unemployed mainly unskilled and unfortunate mismatch And that's what we're presenting what we're saying here So the question then is what are the reasons for low pace of industrialization in in the region? One is the region's inability to build technological capacity Technological change and the innovation Remains central in the literature on industrialization drawing from a station experience we know that Technology diffusion or technology progress and it's diffusion. It's very critical for promoting industrialization and What factors we have two factors that mainly drives that one is investment in domestic investment in absorptive capacities and the foreign direct investment through multinational enterprises looking at table one Evidence from table one and Sorry table three and figure three show That there's widened technological technological gap amongst Sub-Saharan African countries As a result of insignificant growth in research and development expenditure The region has experienced a decline inside scientific publishing as well as in the number of patents Granted also due to the low level of human capital relevant to industry and the significant outflow of skilled level Which we call brain drain. So you produce a skills that are not required by the industrialist or by industries In examining the policy interventions in East Asia In East Asian government governments to advance technological capabilities one common basic element is the creation of human capital Although some countries are making Noticeable effort what is important is that the government still drives Research and development funding which is not sustainable Going forward another factor critical factor is that the region has managed to attract FDI but the the the the problem is that that's still in a traditional sectors or primary commodities not in manufacturing Which then undermined the role played by FDI through multi-national Enterprises the second reason for low pace of industrialization in s in in the region is You could trace that from different industrialization strategies that have been adopted in the past You're looking at that table. We try to capture a few of those what is very important to note is that the One is that our SMM ease in the region are locked into repetitive routines of learning by doing and Disconnected from both local and global knowledge knowledge flow According to Khan for example Khan 2013 even if you If you acquire the machines and have workers and the managers who have the Formal knowledge that is required for the use of the technology You may still not be able to engage in competitive production if there were no organizational capabilities That is that is that's it knowledge that the organization Acquires true learning by doing and experimentation When infant industry Industries fail to graduate into productive enterprise despite the gates of doing financed by different government interventions It is almost because there was a failure in organizational learning another factor critical factor is access to finance which has been talked by Different people here presenters Another major constraints is the monopolistic pricing of privately owned key intermediate inputs into the manufacturing sector Import priority pricing mark markups are often a higher order of magnitude Meaning that tariff reduction might have a limited impact on price moderation Despite having generally Low industrial tariffs most countries apply high tariff If you look at that You see that the tariff peak is very high high tariff peaks from the table To protect local production and infant industries from import competition and what is that telling you is telling you that we are not yet the body we the issue of Tribalization which we rushed into in order to align ourselves to a requirement by as During our structural adjustment program. We haven't come out of that kind of body Similarly industrial efforts are pursued in some countries through the utilization of export taxes in order to discourage the export of raw materials and For stalloco processing. That's what we're getting. We find them from our studies But like tariff export taxes could be Prohibited under the appers being negotiated with the EU which is that is going ongoing It is also observed that very few countries applying on tariff barriers such as anti-dumping countervailing and safeguards except for South Africa and Botswana yet under the current international trade rules countries cannot Use tariff instruments against their trading partners Even when they are threatened by their when they are threatened by cheap imports So these instruments very important, but you find out that many countries in the region They don't have they don't apply that another commonly observed pattern in the priority Accorded to export late growth and hence to instruments that encourage production for foreign markets the export processing zones these EPZ are characterized by a wide range of incentives and the Concessions yet. There is a significant controversy over their effectiveness Another reason for low pace of industrialization in the region is weak institutions governing the design and implementation of industrial policies You need a political leadership at the top As well as coordination across ministries and departments Transparency of the industrial policy making process in order to check rent seeking behavior systematic representation of the private sector Very critical, but it seems that some of SAA's Many industrial policies pursued since independence has Resolved has not resolved the above underlying issues Also important to note is institutional failures particularly in Training and the funding as well as a poor monitoring and the evaluation system Which are still lacking We try to capture major and imagine imagine challenges of SAA's industrialization Under four questions the first one on regional integration, which I don't want to Discuss for that because there's been a lot of discussion on that why is important the second one is on a Can African industrialization survive without some smart protectionism? Because of time constraints. I don't want to go in deep into that But it's given you can see that from my paper But the answer is no you cannot do without a Smart protection in other words you have And that has been alluded In some of the discussions of presentation this morning. So you have importers Exporters that are important inputs. So you want to protect them in order to enable them become competitive out there so without protecting these Exporters it becomes very difficult for them to be able to compete out there, but there are more to that you have to be smart The third question should Africa continue with incentive structure giving to foreign investors at the expense of local firms again The answer is no But you find details in the paper and how beneficial is Chinese Africa partnership and sure that you Monitor that relationship is very important for the region to transform I mean the relationship, but you have to monitor that to make sure that you making You getting what you've began for I'll I would like to conclude on this notes first is that The question with implications for policy making include how to link Science technology and innovation to poverty reduction job creation and sustainable livelihood how to build capacity and the Competencies to innovate and how to expand knowledge The outcome of this policy decision will determine the type of innovation that will take place in the region The second one is that economies of scale remains critical There's so many negotiation going on To the extent that some of the countries are negotiating with developed countries at the expense of the neighbors And no one is monitoring these negotiation which can hamper Africa economic integration also you talk of Industrial policy, which hasn't been harmonized to enable that monitoring The third point is in order to exploit economies of special specialization and Stimulates knowledge spillovers effort are needed to Integrate firms and agreements And the segment of businesses community through supplier development programs incentives for technology transfer encouragement of joint ventures among others Finally, there is need for complementarity between the government's consistently proactive industrial policies and the coherent and equally Pruative policies in support of the development of local firms capabilities and In that I want to know the issue of tripartite, which will be very important because the previous presenters also Mentioned that the need for tripartite between Institutions I mean academic institutions government and the businesses in order to be able to generate skills needed in Industries going forward for that will enable us to transform. Thank you You


Alright, so junk miles. We hear this term thrown around a lot. This idea that you are wasting your time running easy and that you should be focusing on quality over quantity. Don't focus on running all those easy miles. It's just junk mileage. It doesn't give you any fitness. Let's dive in deep and figure out if there's any truth to this concept of junk mileage. If there is, where do you draw the line? Where does junk mileage become quality mileage and what is the difference? Does it matter? Does it differ from slower runners to faster runners, amateurs to elite? Does it differ over the course of a career or over time as your running fitness improves? Let's get into this. It's a cool topic and I want to talk about it today. So we recently did a Q&A video here on the Lone Trail. If you haven't watched it yet, you can check it out. I'll put a link to it there. And one of the questions was regarding junk mileage. And my answer really simply put is that I don't believe it's a very valid concept to focus too much on the junk mileage idea. Volume is important. Run easy. Run more. And typically for most people, if you're running more at an easy intensity, it will translate to an improvement in fitness and performance. However, and this is what I didn't really talk about in the Q&A video and that's what I want to get into today, I do on further reflection think that it is necessary to define what junk mileage really is because I do think there certainly is such a thing as junk mileage. It is possible to run too slow. But what is too slow and how do you know? Just before we get into the video here, I want to mention that I've just launched my new coaching website, mgjcoaching.com. There's a link in the description. I'm offering customized training programs, online coaching for runners of all levels. So if you're interested in sort of taking your running to the next level, or if you have any questions, or if you just want to do a consultation, just get some advice on your current training. You can do that. Again, there's a link in the description. Check it out. Let me know what you think. And let's get on to the video. So first of all, let us define the purpose of doing mileage, right? Like the purpose of doing easy running. Why are we doing it anyway? Well, in a nutshell, we're trying to develop the aerobic system. So it spans from pretty easy to up to about something we could call like moderate type of pace, not above lactate threshold, we're below lactate threshold. We're still fully aerobic. It's a sustainable pace, that sort of thing. We're developing the aerobic system. We're talking about developing capillaries to your muscle cells. So these blood vessels that can transport more blood and therefore more oxygen, remove waste product. We're talking about developing the mitochondria within the muscle cells so that they can oxidize fat and carbohydrate more efficiently, produce more ATP faster, to be able to move you forward when you're running. We're talking about developing the heart. We're talking about developing enzyme characteristics of the muscle cells. We're talking about possibly moving the fast-witch muscle cells towards being more like the slow-twitch muscle cells so that they're more conducive to long distance running at a submaximal intensity. We are essentially, this is some of the things that we're dealing with when we're developing the aerobic system. Now, is there such a thing as a threshold somewhat? Is there some kind of threshold below which we are not really getting any significant stimulus to these factors that I just mentioned? How hard do we have to run in order to produce a training effect in the factors that I just mentioned? Heart, heart size, mitochondria, capillaries, that sort of thing, enzymes. Well, yes, there is such a threshold. There is a point at which below you will not really get a training stimulus. And this point depends a lot on your current fitness level. And what I mean by that is, if you're taking a very sedentary 60-year-old woman, cardiac patient, perhaps even, really, really poor cardiovascular health, going for a walk for her might in fact get her into the, some people are even into the sort of close to VO2 max type effort just from walking. So for her, that is high quality training right there, just going for an easy walk. Whereas for someone like me who's in the middle range, certainly not elite, but not an amateur or whatever either, I'm fairly fit. When I go for a walk, my heart rate is like 60, 70, 80. It's low. I'm not working hard at all. So if I suddenly added a whole bunch of slow walking to my training regimen, that wouldn't really improve my fitness at all. Even if I added 100 miles a week of walking, sure, I would get some structural development. And my tendons, my muscles, my bones would probably, you know, find some benefit from that. But then again, I'll probably better off running, which is more specific. But from a cardiovascular perspective, from an aerobic development perspective, that would not be good.  But instead, I'm out walking for three hours, right? That wouldn't be conducive to recovery. Short little walk in the afternoon, perhaps that's good, just getting some blood flow, for sure, but adding a lot of walking, not so much. So here we go. Is it beneficial for me to do this? No, that would certainly be called junk mileage. Whereas, again, for another person who's not as fit as me, going for a brisk walk might actually put them right in that perfect zone for developing the aerobic system. And if we are to use heart rate as a gauge, right, and it's not a perfect gauge, but if we are to talk in terms of heart rate, probably somewhere around the, you know, 60% of max heart rate type of intensity, that's probably where we're starting to see development of the aerobic system. So meaning, if you're running at 50% of your max heart rate, suppose your max heart rate is 200. If you're running at 100 BPM, or even less like 40%, like, I don't know what that would be like, 90, 85, you're not really going to see good gains in terms of your aerobic system. So we could really, we could say that's junk mileage. So in order to get good development qualities, if you will, of your running, you probably want to stay somewhere from 60 up. We'll get to the upper end soon, off your max heart rate in order to get gains, okay? Anything below that would probably be called junk, we could call that junk mileage. However, this is a big one. In the beginning, and for a while there, even at a higher level, you've got to differentiate between what types of systems you're training, right? So sometimes you are focusing on, you know, if you're focusing on developing the aerobic system, or at higher intensities, you know, your VO2 max, your lactate threshold, that sort of thing, then being in the right intensity range, being at the right pace, that sort of thing is key. You know, that's what matters. Just like I just spoke about with the aerobic system, you do want to be probably above 60% of max heart rate in order to get a sufficient stimulus to the aerobic system. However, there's another system here as well, and that's the structural system. That's your legs, that's your bones, it's your tendons particularly.  Tendon pain, you ramp up mileage too quickly, you can get some tendon pain, perhaps even stress fracture if it goes too far in your bones. We're talking muscle strains could happen. All kinds of structural problems can develop from running. And so as you're building mileage, especially as a beginner, you want to focus on building it very slowly and doing a lot of easier running to condition your structural system. And this is irrespective of your aerobic system. At the beginning and even later, you've got to realize that the structural system benefits from a lot of easy volume, slowly but surely ramping it up, even if that means that you are below 60% of max heart rate, right? Even at lower intensities, which theoretically could be considered junk mileage from the aerobic system point of view, from the cardiovascular development point of view, it's a junk mileage kind of thing, but it's still a good stimulus for your structural system. So I don't want to focus too much on junk mileage when on dealing with beginners. Beginners, there's no such thing as junk mileage for beginners, basically. Develop your structural system, run lots of easy miles, do some walking breaks, go for walks, get a robust body, develop those bones, those tendons, get used to moving, carrying your body weight, essentially, over long distances. Same goes for marathon training, like Renato Konova, the famous marathon coach. He prescribes, even to his elite athletes, he prescribes early in the marathon cycle, what he calls general resistance runs. And that's very low intensity, but they're going for long, so they might be out there for like three hours, okay? The purpose is not to train the body metabolically. We're not working on the aerobic system, we're not working on the on the lactate threshold and that sort of thing. It's strictly about developing the structural system, as well as the mental aspect of being on your feet for a long time, just being out there concentrating for a long time. So these are relaxed efforts, long efforts, junk miles, essentially, from one perspective, but from another perspective, we got to realize it's actually high quality miles when you're thinking about how they are conditioning the structural system. Now, back to the sort of aerobic development point of view. Starting at about 60% of max heart rate, that's probably a good place to sort of start considering it to be quality enough for developing the system. And how high does it go? Well, you'll always be developing your aerobic system somewhat, but the point is at a certain point, you're working more in those intense zones and you can only do that for so long. And one of the biggest stimuluses to the development of aerobic capacity is actually time. So the more time you spend in that zone, the better, which means that if you go to high intensity, you'll not be able to sustain for long enough. And therefore it is not as effective for developing the aerobic system. So we typically say between 60 and perhaps 80% of max heart rate, that is a good range, you know, that's zone one, zone two type range, great for developing the aerobic system, spending a lot of time in that zone, one, zone two. So as long as you're within that zone, as long as you are running, spending time within that zone, you are getting benefits and it's not junk mileage, right? It doesn't matter really what your pace is. You've got to remember that as you get fitter, your pace will get quicker. So at a certain point in your fitness career, you actually have to run a fairly relatively speaking fast pace compared to what you did earlier maybe in order to just be in that range. So what typically, you know, a few years ago elicited a heart rate of like 70% of max for you. Now the same pace will probably only give you a heart rate of like 60 or even 55. And that then you're in the lower end of, you know, sort of getting into the junk mileage kind of realm possibly, unless you're working on your structural system. So you want to be aware of that obviously and increase your pace to stay within the right intensity zone. Now on top of this, on top of the aerobic part of training, there's the lactate threshold, there's the VO2 max, there's critical velocity, there's there's a pace training at race pace, there's speed training developing neuromuscular capacities, which is also kind of a structural thing. So there's all these different training elements, of course, that you'd need to add on top of this aerobic development. And a lot of people talk about only the higher, you know, from lactate threshold and up talk about that as true quality work. And that's on top of an aerobic base, right, the base of aerobic work. But I would say that even the aerobic work is quality, as long as you accumulate enough time of it. But it's never a waste of time to run easy as long as you're within the right range. But it could theoretically be a waste of time, aka junk mileage, if you're not in the right range, and you are running too easy. But as I said, for beginners, even if you are theoretically below that intensity range, you are working that structural system, you are working your ability to be on your feet for longer. And that's a beneficial adaption as well. But likely if you are a beginner, even easy walking, even brisk walking, at least, should elicit a heart rate above 60% of max, and then you are indeed training your aerobic system. So you got to sort of keep that in mind. As you get fitter, if we're moving up to like an elite level, it's kind of turned around a little bit, tables are turned a little bit, in the sense that, you know, your aerobic system, your capillaries and the legs, your mitochondria, the size and the density of your mitochondria, mitochondrial networks, the enzymes in your muscles, the myoglobin content, all these kind of things that are good for aerobic exercise, which essentially means anything above like two minutes in race duration, anything above the, you know, from 800 meter, even that's like the crossover point, but really like 1500 meter runs, races, from there on up to the marathon and beyond, they're all very similar in the sense that it's mainly aerobic. So any sort of event like that, any sort of training like that will rely on the aerobic system a lot. And so developing those capillaries and mitochondria and all the stuff I mentioned is key. And here's the thing, it actually responds to the amount of training you're doing, but you can't just suddenly start running, you know, 150 miles a week, that takes years to build up to. So over several years, and I've, you know, Konova says it takes eight to 10 years to build your aerobic house. And I've heard this being mentioned several times before, you know, it does take about a decade to develop an athlete aerobically. And it can take longer if you're not working at a, you know, peak progression rate. So it takes a while to get to a point where your aerobic system is fully developed in your body, in your heart, in your legs. You know, if that takes 10 years, then for all of those 10 years, more so in the beginning, but even still towards the later stage of those 10 years, that sort of easy mileage plays a big role, more so in the beginning. Eventually, when you're at a peak level, you can actually get away with less mileage, theoretically, because you've developed your system and maintaining any system takes always less time, energy, whatever, than actually building it in the first place. So maintaining a house takes less energy than building it. Same thing with the aerobic system. It takes you a lot of easy mileage, a lot of time, a lot of, you know, a lot of mileage to get to the point where you are at your peak fitness level. And now that you are there, theoretically speaking, let's call that an elite athlete or an athlete at the top of their potential aerobically. Now on top of that, they will start working more on the threshold, more on the VO2 max, perhaps more on the race-pace specific work. And they can get away with less of the easy mileage, even though it is still important for recovery purposes, getting blood flow in between heart sessions, maintaining somewhat of an aerobic undercurrent, we could call it, along the way, having some easy to moderate runs in between the harder efforts. So it's still always there, this aerobic base, but they can get away with less spending less time on the easy place and more time on the faster quality stuff. And they can overall probably reduce their mileage a little bit or even have the same mileage, but have a bigger proportion of it being high intensity running. So summing up, early in your career, low intensity, working more on the volume, less on the quality workouts, and just accumulating time for your structural system, but also for your aerobic system is key. The more you progress in your training career, the more you move towards reaching your potential, you can sort of shift the ratios towards more focusing on the high quality and less focusing on the low quality. But even for an elite athlete running at 70% of you to max, it still is going to be beneficial. It's going to maintain that aerobic system to some extent. Whereas when you're building it in the first place, it is important that you are pushing it and actually building it. So I think for an elite athlete, there is more of a chance of getting into some junk mileage. They should probably realize that they're probably maxed out their development of the aerobic system and they only need to maintain it now at this point and focus more on the high quality stuff. Whereas for a beginner, they have more to gain from just building and developing that aerobic system by easy mileage. And of course, as you get faster and towards the high end of performance, you can maintain a faster pace, you have to maintain a faster pace in order to run in the right intensity zone. So if an elite athlete went on a run with me, right, so when I go out for an easy run, I run around like five minutes per kilometer to five 20 per kilometer. If Elliot Kipchogge, world record holder in the marathon, came along and went for an easy run with me, I would get aerobic development benefits from that easy intensity and going for like a couple of hours of that intensity. That would be beneficial for me. For him though, nothing. It would not give him any stimulus because his aerobic system would not be stressed enough by that. He would probably be at like 40% of his VOTMAX or even less, I don't know. So for him, that would just be simply too easy to give any kind of training stress and certainly no training effect. So for him, that will be junk mileage, unless it's a recovery run and he's just looking to get blood flow to the muscles because he actually does run about that pace for the first one or two kilometers before a hard run.  It's not training. It's warming up. Same with like a very easy recovery day after a hard workout. It's not training. It's recovery.  You're just moving. You're just, you know, getting the system a little going, but you're not stressing the system in any way. So in that sense, junk mileage is not real. You can go as easy as you want, almost. And that's on those days, on those recovery runs, on those very easy days. But if you want to stress as an elite athlete, if Kipchoge want to stress his aerobic system just slightly, staying at 65% of max range, he has to actually go out and run, I don't know, 350 pace, perhaps even as low as four minutes per kilometer for him, that would be slow. That could possibly still be stimulating just a, you know, just a maintenance of his aerobic system. That's fine. And that is just like a base from which he works. But the real training, the real benefit for him and an elite athlete would only be when they're on top of that sort of easy mileage, adding in real quality. So the higher up you are in the sport, the more higher in the performance realm you are, the more likely you are to risk doing junk mileage if you run too slow. Whereas in the beginning, the more unlikely it is that there is such a thing as junk mileage, even you can almost go as slow as you want, because you're still going to get some kind of training benefit from it, whether that be from your aerobic system, because you're in the right intensity range, because you're really unfit and even just walking gives you a heart rate of like 70% of max, or just because your structural system develops. And structural development is almost like training for training. You're developing your body to a point where it can handle more training. And also as you go through the range of paces, and as you increase your fitness over many years and a decade, even several decades, your capacity to perform high quality work increases. So it's almost like we could imagine that the aerobic system is like the engine at the foundation that you're developing over a lot of time. But the real sort of, you know, on top of that, you're sort of adding in this little icing on the cake, if you will, which is the anaerobic training and the threshold training, which sort of just gets you into a sharp race ability type state. But it's still the aerobic system that it's all about. It just takes less maintenance to keep it as it is once you're there, so you can get away with less mileage. Anyway, that was a long talk, but I think it was an important one. I wanted this to be a long video. If you watched the whole thing, please let me know in the comments what you think about it. And subscribe if you haven't done so already, of course. I think the key takeaway, though, for you and for anyone is just not to worry too much about that idea of junk mileage and just build your aerobic system. If you're at the high end of performance, you probably already know this, right? You don't need me to tell you. Of course, if you still need me to tell you, you can always contact me and I'll explain it to you more specifically to you because it is slightly different how it applies to high-level elite athletes. But for most of us at this point, just developing the aerobic system is what's going to give us the most gains, which means that worrying about junk mileage is probably going to be quite counterproductive. Speaking of which, it's 12 o'clock almost.  Tomorrow I have a track workout where I'm going to work on my Via2Max, but today is more of an easy semi-medium-long, just one and a half hour or something like that kind of run. I want you guys to go and check out my Strava, of course. I post all my training there. There's a link in the description. And I also now offer coaching for runners of all abilities and levels on my new website, mgjcoaching.com. There's a link in the description. You can go there. I sell customized training programs, online coaching, whatever you want to sort of help you optimize your training towards your goals. So check that out. Thank you so much for watching. Any questions you have, send me an email through the website I just mentioned. Send me a message on my Facebook page, anything like that. I'll be happy to answer it for you. And I wish you all happy running. Thanks for watching.


So, I just found out that Pat Robertson is not only still alive till this day, but he's still on television for whatever reason. Now, I don't want to propagate any conspiracy theories, but it is entirely possible that he died a long time ago and that a reptilian is controlling his body or a puppeteer is making him move and talk. But either way, he's here on The 700 Club and he is still dishing out some really piping hot takes and his latest is a doozy. So he claims that God told him who's going to win this election and what will happen subsequently afterwards. Now, what I find interesting about this take is that if God is real, do you honestly think that he cares about like an election that's taking place, something that we think is important on this random planet, around this random star in a random galaxy in one of what may be infinite universes and infinite timelines?  But nonetheless, Pat Robertson says God gave him some election spoilers, so this is what he says. God told him. There's going to be a war. Ezekiel 38 is going to be the next thing down the line, then a time of peace, then maybe the end. But nobody knows the day or the hour when the Lord's going to come back. He said the angels don't know it and only the Father knows it. So I'm not saying this is the second coming, but I am saying there are things that people have thought would be during a millennial time with the coming of Jesus that are going to happen in our lifetime. The next thing is the election that's coming up in just a few weeks, at which time, according to what I believe the Lord told me, the president is going to be re-elected. I'm saying by all means, get out and vote for whoever you want to vote for. But by all means, let your voice be heard. But it's going to lead to civil unrest, a great proportion, then a war against Israel and so forth and so on. Oh, Pat, Pat, Pat. OK, I don't even know where to begin. Let's just take it from the top. First, he says there's going to be war, then a time of peace, then maybe the end. OK, so excluding the end, the end times, so pretty much like all of history. It's not like wars are some new phenomenon. They've been happening because humankind is a very flawed species and we haven't evolved to a point where we are not killing ourselves any longer. So like he says that as if, oh, well, this is just evidence that the end is near. There's always been wars. Like they could have said that the end times are near if you think that wars are evidence that Jesus is coming back like thousands of years ago, literally. But here's what he says and then immediately contradicts himself. That maybe laugh out loud. So he says nobody really knows when the end times will actually happen, not even the angels in heaven knows, but directly after saying that he goes on to make a prediction as if he knows when. Pat, what is wrong with you? It's like he he's talking and there's noise coming out of his mouth, but the words aren't connected to the thoughts in his head.  My dude is fading away. He also says, according to what I believe the Lord told me, the president is going to be reelected. But then he says, make sure to vote because this election definitely isn't a foregone conclusion. But wait, if if God literally is saying Trump's going to win, then why are you so unsure? Why are you making sure to persuade people to vote? Because regardless of how many people vote for Trump or not, isn't this election a foregone conclusion because God said it. God can make anything happen, right? Is he not omnipotent? So I mean, even if nobody voted for Donald Trump, if God wanted to, God can make Trump the president. Can he not? If God wanted to, I could chop off my arm and he can make it grow back immediately. Can he not? Is God not all powerful? OK, he then says, Trump's victory will lead to civil unrest of great proportion. I think it's going to happen if Trump loses more than anything, but that's possible. He then says, Trump's victory will lead to civil unrest of great proportion. And then he says the most puzzling thing ever. After Trump wins, quote, then a war against Israel and so forth and so on. Wait. So if Donald Trump wins, someone who you all claim is an ally to Israel, if he wins, then we're going to go to war with Israel. Like is it us that's going to war? Is somebody else in the Middle East going to go to war with Israel? If Trump is president, wouldn't, you know, under your belief, if you believe in Trump and what he stands for, wouldn't he protect Israel? I don't understand what you're saying.  I mean, I don't mean to be blunt, but it's the truth. You're trying to, like, connect what the Bible says to the real world now, and you can see like you have to make a lot of logical leaps that you don't have any evidence for whatsoever. Like how do we go to war with Israel? Or how does Israel devolve into war and chaos? You have to explain these things.  Like you can't just say that. You have to supply us with evidence or even reasoning. Fuck, even cite a Bible quote. I mean, I guess you did cite one there, but like you're not making any sense because there has to be so many different things, a series of events that has to happen to lead to what you say will happen. And that's if Donald Trump even wins.  But if Trump does win, then things are going to get more crazy. There's going to be more chaos and we're going to go to war with Israel. Pat, listen, this comes from a place of love. I take that back.  You've got to wrap it up, buddy. You've got to retire.