If there was one word that I could use to describe what Raven's fans are currently feeling when it comes to their chances of making the playoffs, I would probably go with uncertainty. And it got even more uncertain as the Pittsburgh Steelers lost to the Cincinnati Bengals and that actually opened the door up for the Browns to take the AFC North which would be very very bad for the Ravens but it just opened up a lot of different gateways. This could end up actually being a good thing for the Ravens when it comes to this final stretch of the regular season. But what we're gonna go over in this video is how each of these teams that are in the AFC playoff hunt can help and hurt the Ravens in these final two games. So let's go ahead and jump into it. And one thing to mention before we get into this is that everything is contingent on the Ravens winning out. The Ravens winning their last two games. And we of course know Ravens cannot sleep on the Giants. They cannot sleep on the Bengals because we've seen it. You saw what the Jets did. You saw what the Bengals did. It's any given Sunday. So Ravens need to bring their A game. They can't get caught looking past these teams. They can't get caught slipping because if they slip up, then that's it. And I would personally feel like this would be such a waste of a team getting hot at the right moment. A team that's starting to really click. A team that's really starting to really get it going. A team that's really starting to get healthy. I would feel like it would be such a waste if this Ravens team did not make the playoffs. Let's get into it though. So the first team we're going to look at is the Tennessee Titans. And the Tennessee Titans right now, they are in first place in their division. But their division is by no means a lock at all. And the Titans have a game coming up this what is it this Saturday against the Green Bay Packers. So the next two games against the Packers and the Texans and the Packers. That's not good. That's not good at all for the Ravens because the Tennessee Titans, we want them to win their division because if the Colts win the division, then and the Ravens end up having the same record as the Tennessee Titans. Titans would have the higher seed over the Ravens because they already came into M&T Bank Stadium and beat the Ravens in overtime. So that wouldn't be good for them. So what the Ravens want is for the Titans to win out and get their division and for the Colts to lose out. And you know what? Speaking of the Colts, let's move on to them. The Colts are sitting there 10-4 and again, they are not in first place in their division. They are in second place and they have games remaining against both the Steelers and the Jaguars. Now the way that the Colts could help the Ravens, say for instance, they finish with the same record at the end of the year. Then the Ravens would have the higher seed because the Ravens already beat the Colts in the head-to-head matchup. So this is why we want the Titans to win the division because the Colts, they would be one of the Wildcars and if the Ravens have to compete for a Wildcars with the Colts, well, they really don't have to if they got the same record because they already beat them. So we ain't got to worry about strength of schedule and all that. No, head-to-head tiebreaker shuts all of that down because that's what comes first. The head-to-head tiebreaker, head-to-head tiebreaker is when you match up with the team, if you play the team that you have the same record as and whoever won that game, then that's the person that's in. So Ravens would get that. Now with the Colts, another way that the Colts can help the Ravens out to get into the playoffs is if they lose to the Steelers. And this Bengals game, I think this Bengals game actually helps the Steelers and it helps the Ravens because it'll give the Steelers that much more motivation. And I mean, we could have said that about the Washington football team game. We could have said that about the Bills game because they lost both of those games too. And you see the motivation wasn't really there, but they are definitely going to want to bring it. They're going to definitely need to step it up when they play the Indianapolis Colts. After all, I mean, you could help out your AFC North rival Ravens. I mean, we'll see what happens though. But yeah, so the Colts, they play the Steelers and they play the Jaguars. The Jaguars, I know there are no Gimmie games in NFL, but you got to feel like the Jaguars game for the Colts is a Gimmie because the Jaguars, they locked up that number one pick. When the Jets won against the Rams on Sunday and the Jaguars lost to the Ravens, Jaguars moved ahead of the Jets in the draft and they locked up the number one pick. So they can get whoever they want to, you know, it's probably going to be Trevor, but they can get whoever they want to and they can go from there. So they're not going to be trying to win a game against the Colts. So Colts, they're going to get that one. But the Steelers game, this is huge. So Ravens would be definitely rooting for the Steelers to win this one. So that's how the Colts can help us out. Now let's take a look at these Dolphins. The Dolphins are currently sitting at nine and five and they are in second place in the AFC East. They actually have the same exact record as the Baltimore Ravens, but they've lost less games to AFC opponents. So that's why right now the Dolphins would be in and the Ravens would be out. Now for the Dolphins this week, the Ravens are cheering for the Raiders to beat Miami. So Ravens could take Dolphins place. And of course, like we said earlier, all of this is contingent on the Ravens winning out. The Ravens taking care of their own business and then, of course, getting help from other teams. But the Dolphins have two games that are very crucial. And like we mentioned, they do play the Raiders coming up and the Raiders. While the Raiders right now on the outside looking in, they're not eliminated from playoff contention yet. So they're going to be fighting hard and they're just going to be really be hoping that they get a lot of a lot of unlikely help from several different teams so they could sort of climb the ladder in that playoff race. Will it happen? It's not impossible. It's unlikely, but it's not impossible. So Raiders have a lot to play for because if they lose, then that would be it. That would be a wrap for them. That would be a wrap for their season. So they're going to bring it on Saturday against the Miami Dolphins. But the Dolphins, they also play the Buffalo Bills. And with the Dolphins playing the Bills in week 17, that is a game that I know a lot of people are thinking all the bills probably going to be locked into their position. They won't be able to move up. They won't be able to move down. They're going to be locked in so they might rest their starters. But with the Steelers losing against the Bengals, that put them at 11 and three. The Bills also are at 11 and three. The Steelers, they were once they used to be first in the AFC playoff seating, but then they lost and they dropped to second. And then they lost again and now they've dropped to third. So the Bills are currently the number two seed. So the Bills, they got to play it out and they got to win because the Steelers are hot on their tails. The Steelers are kind of cold right now, but the Steelers are right there. They got the same record. So if the Bills slipped up and the Steelers won, they will switch. They were switching. Steelers will get number two seed and the Bills will get the number three. So Bills, they're going to want to play very hard, very tough in these last two games so they can secure that number two spot because that would give them home field advantage all the way up until if they met the Chiefs in the AFC championship. If both of those two teams made the AFC championship, then the game will be in Kansas City. Now, as of right now, with the Chiefs being the number one seed, the game will be in Kansas City, but the Bills throughout all the previous games, if they make it that far, they would have home field advantage in every playoff game except the AFC championship. So Bills are going to really want to show out. So that definitely could help the Ravens as well if the Bills could beat the Dolphins. And last but certainly not least is the Cleveland Brown. The Cleveland Browns right now sit at 10 and four. They are one game ahead of the Baltimore Ravens. And that's cool. But Cleveland Browns have a couple of different scenarios that could happen to them, which would go in their favor, but definitely not in the Ravens favor. One of those scenarios is with the Steelers losing to the Bengals last night. That opened it up for the Cleveland Browns to win the division. These dudes could actually be AFC North champions. And wouldn't that certainly be something if the Cleveland Browns won the AFC North title? That would be good for them, but very bad for the Ravens. Why? Because with the Steelers, say for instance, the Steelers, even if the Steelers lost out, they went 11 and 5 and the Ravens won out. They were 11 and 5. Steelers swept the Ravens. So with the Steelers having swept the Ravens, then both teams would have the same record, but the Steelers would definitely have the head to head tiebreaker and the Steelers would get the higher seed and the Ravens would get either the lower seed or they will be on the outside looking in. So that's we don't want that to happen. We want the Steelers to get the division and take care of business and the Browns to be one of the wildcard teams or if the Browns finish 11 and 5 and the Ravens finish 11 and 5, then the Ravens will get the higher seed of the two because they have the head to head tiebreaker over the Browns since the Ravens swept the Browns. This is a lot. This is a lot. It's a lot. And it's a shame that the Ravens put themselves in this position and they got to rely on other people to help them get in. But hey, it is what it is when you don't take care of business early on. It comes back to bite you later on. That's why we always talk about why NFL season every game counts. Every single game counts. Every game is important because just the smallest little thing can have such a huge impact on your team. But anyway, with the Browns, they got games coming up against the Jets and the Steelers and the Jets, hey, it's any given Sunday. And now with the Jets having got their first win of the season and them being knocked out of that number one overall draft position, Jets, they can afford to win another game. I mean, it'll hurt their draft position a tiny bit, but it ain't like they're going to drop out of the top five. They can afford to win another game. Will they? I don't think so. But hey, never say never. Browns, y'all better not get caught slipping, man. You better not get caught slipping because the Jets, they already got all the confidence in the world because they're like, oh, we can win a game. This is what it feels like. OK, they've been telling all their fans, man, if y'all really cheering for us to lose, what kind of fans are y'all? Them Jets players let people know.  But anyway, so Browns played the Jets. I mean, I expect them to take care of business in that one, but you never know. And then they play the Pittsburgh Steelers. So with them playing the Pittsburgh Steelers, that could possibly, depending on how this Colts games goes. And of course, how the Jets game goes as well. That could possibly be for the AFC North. It could possibly be for the AFC North. And that is one thing that scares me. The Steelers are playing the Browns for the AFC North. You know, that game will get flexed. But that could that could have a huge impact on Raven's playoff hopes, depending on how this week goes, depending on how this this week goes in the football world. That could have a huge impact on it. Now, again, if the Dolphins lose, Ravens will get that spot. And of course, if the Colts lose, I mean, it'd be nice if the Colts and the Dolphins lose so Ravens could move up. And even if the Browns and the Steelers are playing for that last spot, they play, I mean, not for the last spot, excuse me, but if they playing for the AFC North, but the Ravens could still be a six or seven seed. OK, cool. Have have your battle for the AFC North.  But I would I would just be happy and content with the Ravens just getting in. Because like I said, this season, man, it would just it would be the ultimate waste. The ultimate waste, especially how Lamar Jackson and that that offense is playing right now, it would be the ultimate waste if they did not get in. So we'll see what happens. We'll see how the remainder of the season goes and just take it from there. So let's continue to enjoy all of this stress together. And just like the Ravens, all when it comes to the playoff race as of right now, hopefully, it won't be like this forever, but we out.


Hey, CalTV fans! I'm here with my friend Rose. I'm AJ with the Entertainment Department and today we're going to be unboxing this IT2 promotional box. Let's see how this goes. Hopefully there's no spooky surprises inside. Here we go. We have this cute balloon here. Let's see. Okay. I'm going to put that right there. Here's the box cover. All right. It has a lot of wonderful red balloons around it. It has Pennywise staring us right in the face. Pennywise is staring us right in the face. I have to be frank. I've not been wanting to stare at this box all day. Here we go. In three, two, one. Okay. So nothing popped out at us. That's good. Maybe that's good. Maybe that's bad. It does have a little note here. I'm going to go ahead and read it. It says, Dear CalTV, welcome back to school, bears. Hope we can take your mind off the only scarier thing than Pennywise. Midterms. Pretty scary, would you say? Yeah. She said so, yeah. Enjoy these gifts and take it from the allied staff who I am currently hiding in the sewers with. Good luck Pennywise. Kind of scary. Let's see. Okay. So we have these. Here Rose, this is one for you. We have these cool little pop key chains. Are they the same? Yeah. Yeah, they're both little Pennywise key chains. Pennywise key chains with these little beaver smiles. You see that, Rose? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's really cute actually. Rose finds it cute. I find it frightening. To each the row. Yeah. Oh, we have this pin here. It says, I love Jerry. It's the town that the killings happen in. Kind of cute. Your opinions, Rose? Yeah. I really like, I really into the style of the enamel key chains. Yes. I like it a lot better than what do you call it? The button pins. The button pins. Yes. The enamel is very nice. Yeah. All right. We also have this shirt. Let's see. It says, oh, there's two shirts. Two shirts. Let's see. One for you, Rose. Okay. And let's see here. It says I heard Dairy. Big thing. Kind of big. Yeah. It's as big as me, but that's okay. It's as big as Rose, but it's okay. We love long shirts. So we have here. Okay. This says, it's just the same cover. And it is, oh, Rose. Oh my gosh. It's a sheet mask. It's a sheet mask. Oh my gosh. It's a Rose sheet mask. And her name is Rose. Can you believe? Wow. It's like they knew. Okay. Here we go. Let's put this back in there. That's kind of cute. I really like that. We'll be sure to use that later. Okay. What else do we have? Oh, we have another facial mask. Same one of Rose. Matching. Matching. And two tickets to the movie from Fandango. Very nice. We'll be sure to use these. Well, thanks for joining us on this unboxing video with me and Rose. We got a lot of cool stuff here in our box, including these wonderful shirts. Be sure to catch the movie in theaters coming soon. And we're going to join Pennywise in the sewers now. Here we go.


I'm Rear Admiral Brent Scott, Chief of Chaplains. Birthdays are a time of reflection. For the last 243 years, chaplains have provided religious ministry in the sea services. Chaplains have sailed to serve our nation's treasured sailors, marines and coast guardsmen. We've served in times of peace and during the dark days of war. Side by side religious ministry teams have brought the presence of God into the struggles our people face to include combat operations. This year, as we focus religious ministry at and from the sea, we reflect on that heritage. We remember the legacy of those who demonstrated what right looks like so that when we face the next fight alongside those who go down to the sea, we get it right. The Navy saw its heaviest losses during World War II where battles raged in the Pacific region. The mission of the Navy and Marine Corps was exhaustive over three years of continual combat at and from the sea. Chaplains prepared and focused ministry in every domain in support of combat and aimed at responding to the effects of war upon body, mind and spirit. Phibious landings on the beaches of Iwo Jima where marines suffered severe casualties crossing high slopes of black volcanic ash in the fight is only one of many examples. Chaplain E. Gage Hoteling was there to offer solemn rites of burial for an inordinate number of casualties. Captain John Galbraith was there to care for the injured up and down the black sand beaches. Third, fourth and fifth Marine Division chaplains provided worship services across Iwo Jima until the last day of battle when a chaplain provided the sacraments on Easter Sunday. Today, marines are preparing to fight from the sea and with religious ministry teams embedded to bring hope in the darkest of circumstances. From the attack on Pearl Harbor to the signing of the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri, over 600 major vessels were sunk. Out of such devastation lessons emerge that guide us in our support for tonight's fight. We should recalibrate as a chaplain corps to render ministry in the worst of days rather than the best of days. Over 2,800 reserve chaplains were called into the fight of World War II. Under attack, fires raging, bombs, rockets and ammunition exploding all around, chaplains were there to give hope to the injured sailors and marines exposed to fire, smoke and gas fumes. The USS Indianapolis sunk after being torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. Witnesses say that chaplain Michael Conway ministered sailors in shark-infested waters for three days, going from one small group to another prey until he slipped away into the sea. It's those stories that inspire us today. Whether active or reserve, RMTs will require the right instincts, the most agile of deck plate support and the willingness to touch humanity with a purpose greater than anyone of us alone. Now we look to the future, leaning forward with agility and adaptability, standing ready to deliver responsive religious ministry in combat and crisis. We will be relevant in every phase of operations and be the chaplain corps the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard need. As we gather around the world to celebrate our legacy forged by the sea, we also commit ourselves to the men and women of the sea services and their families. Happy birthday.


or it got a whole bunch of tech friends so they can code and hack to do certain things. There's all these other seemingly obscure talents that you can apply to you. And if you look at your team, if you can find a couple of folks like that who have different arenas and backgrounds to add towards the standard that's required in music, that's when you start doing stuff different, right? That's when you are early to something like NFTs because they're just in NFTs and you're able to do it right. Not like, Oh, I just tried to drop something and nothing really happened or I did a little scam but no, you did the thing right. That's what Snoop Dogg is doing so well. He knows how to keep people who understand these other categories outside of music around him. However he's doing it, right? Like we already know for him to discover our boy and hop on a track with, can we even say that? Not quite, not yet. Yeah, but to even understand and find that he existed at that level and hop on a track, right? Yeah. He's crazy, you know what I mean? Yeah. So that's something that's valuable at every single level. And for those who are hearing this, I'll just leave it at that, like yes, even somebody at Snoop Dogg, like at that level, right? Typically to stay at that level, you are keeping your ears to the street in some way, whether that's the street on the internet and you understand that very well. Cause you gotta think Snoop Dogg has also been doing the YouTube show for so long.  There's nobody moving like that at that size. Like he's moving in a true like, indie organic grassroots way in what he's built digitally. Or you just translate it to a more traditional, I'm Jay-Z or somebody like that. And we have young people around us, right? To let us know what's going on with trends in music or kind of trends in fashion or whatever, right? Keeping your ears to the street in some form of fashion is extremely valuable once you get up there. But it's exceedingly valuable when you're just trying to make it and get on the first place. I think people need to stress that a lot more. We got this other, this last thing, cause we've been holding on to this. And it's just about the suicide boys. I don't know if y'all know about the suicide boys, but I was checking them out pretty heavy and probably starting three years back.  Pre-tell us what? Pre.    That was suck. You're not getting that back. You don't get it.  Yeah, Taylor came and messed the game up. I'm like, man, that'll count cause. She tell us what. That's the arc man. I'm like, bro, she tell us what. We're not beating her bro. Right. That is for real. That doesn't really count. But it's still impressive because of one, like how long they've been around. Two, just how much they stray away from like mainstream looks, which speaks a lot to that. They legit stay away from mainstream, yeah. Like I don't know. I don't want to say it's scary, but like, they're really just like, nah, we not doing that. So to be even considered, should even be considered to be one of the highest independent streaming artists with that type of reputation speaks volumes. It really shows like, hey, like you don't need the mainstream looks per se. If you can build like this cult fan base, which they have, they have a massive cult fan base at this point, they've been around for like a long time. It's like, bro, they'll push the needle for you in such a way that you'll still be competing with people who get better looks than you. Because there are probably thousands of artists that we can name that have gotten better looks than they have over the course of their careers. I'm not even close to touching their numbers. Not even close, so 1.8 billion streams lifetime. Right now they have 9.5 million monthly listeners. That number, I mean, once you start getting to nine, once you really get to two, three monthly listeners, you're doing something special. I consider one million to be like entry level mainstream. Entry up. You're like at the bottom of the top of the totem pole. Two, three is like, okay, you starting to get a little footing in it. Five and up is like, you know, cause I want to say like Smino probably has like five or six million monthly listeners. To me, he's like in a weird middle space, you know what I'm saying? Now Superstar, but he's not like smart or is that? So it's like, yeah, about nine million to me would be the equivalent of being like a seven out of, like a six or seven out of 10. You know what I'm saying? Type of artist. All right, so what's, that's maybe five, six. Let's start at 10, what's 10? That's like the Drake title slip. So that's 50 million and above ish. Maybe 30 million, nine might be 30 million. Yeah. All right, so that's like JZ's at like 30 million. Yeah. All right, Chris Brown. Chris Brown? I think he's at 20 or 30. Let's see what Chris is. What, how does Chris have less than JZ's? No way. 48 million. Oh, 48? Yeah, so yeah. But he also got a viral TikTok one right now. Yeah. Yeah. But he's the one, he being like the nine kind of guy. Yeah, but that was also an old song. All of it counts, all of it counts. So then, yeah, that's like, so yeah, that 48, 50 million, you are 10, 10 off of all artist brand. I'm actually surprised JZ has somewhere in the 30. But I think he's at 31, you know what I mean? So all right, so that's nine. Yeah. So 20's is eight. Yeah, so 10 would be like seven. Oh, wait, what? No, 10, no, no, if 20's is eight, yeah. Okay, 10, yeah, the teens, yeah. So nine is six, right at six. You said six, seven. I can see that. So six, let's go all the way down a row. Let's go a little rank them then. So six, if you're, now it has to get smaller. You're at level six, if you're between, let's say five and 10? Yeah, five, yeah. Well, we said nine for that, because it'd be like five to eight. Somewhere in there, five to eight point something, you know. No, nine is six. That's something like nine million up is a six, right? No, nine million is basically the cap. 10 million in up is a seven. Okay, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah. So that's nine, six, right, nine, six. But yeah, so five would be, yeah, I probably said like six to eight, somewhere in there. Four being, you know, probably like closer to three or four, three being. Three or four monthly lessons, million monthly lessons. And then, so then two is two million. And then one is one million, so. Anything less than eight is not in the game yet. You nine. Not the mainstream entry level, man. Well, not the mainstream game, believe me. No, what? I would take that back. I would say, seven hundred, seven hundred. If it's a consistent seven hundred to a million ish, that would be level one entry level mainstream to me. I don't know, like seven hundred thousand? Yes. I feel like seven hundred thousand, you're like standing on the doorstep of mainstream. They just ain't open door for you yet. Because once you're at seven hundred thousand, you just couple it with looks. Cause remember, looks can make you more mainstream than you are musically. Okay, that's true. You know what I'm saying? That's true, that's true. So that's what I'm going with, seven hundred thousand. You could be mainstream if you have certain types of looks, but if you just straight streaming, then you know, you're doing well, but you're not technically mainstream, just off of the stream of streams. Yeah, yeah. Cause I feel like a million more like the major industry starts to take you seriously. To them, you're like a new artist. If I'm like, oh, I got a million. Oh, if some of these folks, if you have a million streams and they come across you, they just discovered you. Yeah. Like they are the one. Oh, I remember one. I discovered such and such that you had a million streams already. They out here, Christopher Columbus and people, basically. They discovered, but bro, was that five million months ago this one, when you started talking about it? That's not nothing on my scale. All right, you a little itty-bitty. Right, it makes me think of this conference that me and Sam went to one time. Cause I always remember this. Oh yeah. Yeah, bro, it was like a booking conference. And I just remember this lady on stage talking about discovering new talent. She talked about how like, yeah, we got this new artist we're excited about. Like she's new bubbling. Her name is Summer Walker. And like, bro, this wasn't that long ago. This is like two, three years ago. I'm like, I remember when she said it, me and Sam looked at you like Summer Walker, a new bubbling artist. Like, what are you talking about? And that would want to click for me, like how out the loop people at that level really are. Or like, or even put into context, like what they consider to be like underground and new and bubbling, right? It's like, oh yeah. Like I think she had just dropped the first song she had with Drake on it at that point. And so us that knows about her, that's kind of like, oh man, this is a huge moment for her. She really don't level it up. But then that was probably the point where probably like 90% of that roommate ever first heard her. Now kind of looking back on it. Thinking about the people that were in that room, the environment and that moment. Yeah, it was just wild to hear, bro. Like when she said like Summer Walker, a new artist. What? Like she's on millions of streams at this point. But it's like being in a room for the billionaires and you talk about your 100 mil. Yeah. Like I think it's good for you, bro. Yeah. You'll get that one, baby. Oh man, new will be on your path. I don't know if you remember, but it always makes me think of that first time we went to that. When we went to that Playlist Supply Conference and we was at that YouTube thing. Playlist Supply Conference? Not Supply, what was it called? Playlist Push. Was it Playlist Push? Remember that influencer conference we went to? In Florida? Oh, not Playlist Push, that's the company. But Playlister, I think. Something like that. Something like that. Yeah, in Florida. Yeah, when we were in that room with the other YouTubers and they were just talking. I was like, oh boy, y'all 100K, and y'all get that million one thing. I was like, bro, we didn't even come here as YouTubers. We came here as business people, bro. Don't be over here breaking down my back then. I ain't asking you to do that. Let me give you me words of encouragement. I didn't pause on that. I was about to ask you for your influence. Why are we talking about me right now? Right. But it clicked for me then too. I was like, man, there's a level to this hierarchy, bro. It's been like, you just got in the game. But you got a whole other level that you got to keep working your way into. That is she wonder why they keep working so hard when they're already there, because they started meeting new people, bro. Yeah. And that was the same conference where I remember that woman saying that to brands like in the YouTube world, that ain't even considered even a game to use a million subscribers. I remember that was the first place I ever heard. And I was like, damn, a million? Nah. How about in the K-Plot? Now we got nine months to go. Dogs. It's a different word. I remember Mario. You remember Mario, the let me love you.  And he said, you start getting his access. You start being around these people who got way, way, way, way more money. And like, you never heard of them, not associated with music at all. He's just like, man, they just changed his whole perspective. And he was like, man, I gotta figure out how to get up out of music. Yeah. But it's like, wait, you owned it? So are you such and such daughter? And it's them levels, man. You got a gravel company? Like how much from that? Gravel company. Who is, my dad told me yesterday about a black-owned bread company. I think they were the first launch black-owned bread company. Like it's just sliced bread. Yeah. It's like, hey, man, like people do gotta eat bread. That's what my name is, but I'm making cement or something. I don't know. I'm making sexy, man. Like for real. And sometimes you ain't gotta make it sexy. Just find something boring that nobody else want to do well. I definitely be thinking about that in my, my, my music retirement. Go find one of these companies, chill out and then just pop up. Yeah, maybe flippin' around. Maybe at a time like, I don't know, like Tom or somebody be livin' up.  Nobody's going to see it coming, bro. Nobody's going to ever expect the RS to be the face of a concrete company. We could change the landscape. Let's do it. How we gonna, how we gonna tie the mail in with, you know, the tie the mail in? Well, every, every 16-year-old in the country would be asking for bricks of concrete for Christmas. That's what I want to ask my man. Hey, bro. You can use Gucci, man. Actually, that would be fine. Bricks, baby. That would be crazy. Hey. I can't believe nobody's ever tried to do that before, bro. Get your bricks from Stanley's bricks company.  Oh, man. Nobody about to steal that, I'll do. Oh, nah, yeah. It's not a bricklayer that's watching this. No concrete people watching this. Actually, bro, I did a confrontation call with a guy who was actually laying brick as we, we talked. That's crazy. Yeah, it was funny enough, bro. It was crazy part about it was, he was not that far from where I was in a moment. Cause I was like, bro, he was on Zoom. He was working. He was like, my bad. You know, I'm doing the work. I was like, bro, you in the cater? He was like, yeah, man. How you know? I'm just like, yeah, man. I recognize, I'm from the cater. I just recognized what the sky looked like. The tree, you want to just sell it? I mean, dude was literally, yeah, laying bricks while we, while we talk. But hey, with that being said, man, we got to get out of here. Do not steal our ideas. We're going to start coming with left field ideas and just implementing for these Gucci man with the bricks. We're going to find all kinds of companies where I match people. And we need to figure out how to get that money. Brick layers, if y'all out there and y'all need a connect, we will connect you with Gucci for a small fee, you know, and a little equity, but the money you make will be worth it. This is another episode of No Labels Necessary, coming soon to be Tuesdays and Thursdays. Check for it. I'm Sean. I'm Kovir. And we out. Peace. Peace.


Questioner- Namaskaram Sadhguru, it's your birthday tomorrow, what gift would you like? Sadhguru- Even the speaker is protesting. Questioner- What gift would you like us to give you? Sadhguru- 242 crores. Trees. Trees, not 242 crore rupees. Trees. I don't want your money, I want trees. Are you on? Hello? I'll remember that. Today is a day Ganesh or Ganapathy got a new head and suddenly because he got a huge head, he became so brilliant, there was no compare for his brilliance and scholarship and stuff.  Yes, we don't have to cut this. Just make it new, huh? Hello? Do some yoga, you'll have a new head. Really? You need a new head. You need a head which looks for solutions. You don't need a head which constantly finds problems. There are too many people who are always looking for problems in a solution, instead of looking for solutions in a problem. There are many problems in the world. The choice is just this, are you a part of the problem or part of the solution? This is the choice. I have decided I will be a part of the solution. You also. Hello? Always. You are never in any situation, you are not the problem. Doesn't matter what, what kind of situation is happening, you are not the problem. That much you must do. Hello? That much you must do for yourself and this world, isn't it? That you are never the problem. Yes?


It's a pleasure to introduce Louisa Nunez-Batenkort. Yeah, and he will speak on Nash Blow-Ups and Prime Characteristics. Okay, well, thanks, Dale. I want to take this opportunity to thank the organizers for giving me the opportunity to speak today. It's a great pleasure to participate in a celebration of the work of Craig and Mel, to whom I and many others feel very, very, very grateful. Okay, so this is a young work. This is the talk is based on two papers. The first one is with Daniel Duarte, who is at Dunham, Mexico. And then the second is between the three of us, Daniel Duarte and Jack Jeffries, who is a University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the U.S. Okay, so let me start with a setting for today's talk. So for us, K is always going to be an algebraically closed field. Second, X is going to be an affine algebraic variety over K of dimension D. And a lot of times I want to think of X, and my mind is going to be just a speck of R, and then R then is going to be a finely generated K-algebra, which is a domain. Okay, so R is just a polynomial ring over a prime ideal. Or sometimes I'm going to take localizations of R and R, so I write in R. Okay, so let me introduce the definition of the main protagonist. So we consider X in the defined space. So if I take any smooth points, then here we're going to have a map for every X, little X, we're going to have that the time in the space is well-defined, and it has dimension D. And then, so I want this to leave, it has to be in the grass manian. Here, here. This map is well-defined as long as X is smooth. So the Nash Blob is defined. So what we're going to do is take this map, look at it too much, and then take the Sariski closure. So that is a right-byting. And this comes together with a map. So we have a map from here to X, which is given by the projection map here. So we take the projection map here, we just restrict it. So that's a particular map. Okay, and this was... Yeah. I mean, this was appearing in a paper by Nobile in 75, and then he created this Nash for hearing this question from him for over a period of years. But if we go back a few years, there is also a paper of Sample in 54 that describes the same object. Okay. So what we're doing here is replacing the singular points by limits of tangent spaces. And we hope that that improves the variety. So the main question here, which I'm going to call question number one, is the following. Can we resolve singularities via Nash Blobs? So in other words is... Okay, let's start with a variety. Okay, there exists a T, natural number, and a sequence of varieties, such that, well, here what we do is Xi plus one is equal to the Nash Blob of Xi. Well, X0 is equal to X, the original variety. And then we need maps here, which are the maps that we took here, such that this happens, this happens, and the last one is smooth. So this way, if we take this one and the composition of all the maps, we obtain a resolution of singularities. So that's the end goal. And it will be given a very nice algorithmic process to get a resolution of singularities. If the answer to this were yes. And we don't know if that is true. And for this question, just to be meaningful, we need that... What we expect is that Nash Blob improves the singularities. So the first things that we need is it changes the variety because if we just get the same, then nothing's going to happen. So for this, it's necessary that if X is singular, then the Nash Blob of X has to be different to X. That's what we need in order for this question to be meaningful. And this is a theorem of Nobile, same paper, 75. He proved that if the characteristic of the field is zero, then the Nash Blob of X happens... It's equality if and only if the variety is smooth. Or we obtain this one, which is... So he also proved, same paper, that if the characteristic of the field is zero, the dimension of the variety is one, so it's a curve, and then our question, the first question has a positive answer. So we can resolve curves using this. And then he also gave an example, same paper, in prime characteristic, X being the spec, we take F2 X, Y over X square minus a cube. So we take the cost in characteristic two, and then the Nash Blob of X is equal to X. So Nash Blob does nothing to this curve in prime characteristic. And this was one of the first papers, maybe the second paper in Nash Blob, and even when that comes this example, there is no point in thinking about this in prime characteristic. And then most of the work in 40-something years was trying to get results, at least in this, in characteristic zero. So let me mention a couple of results in characteristic zero. First, I want to modify question one, something related. So a related question that has been studied also in characteristic zero is the following. Can we solve singularities with Nash Blob's normalization? So specifically is that X is a T, natural number, and a sequence of varieties, such that, so we start with our variety X0, X1, da-da-da, XT, and I just realized that there is no zero, sorry, I just keep thinking about resolutions and psych diagrams. So we have this, such that, again, we want X0, we don't require to be X, but the normalization of X, and then XI plus one is equal to the normalization of the Nash Blob of XI, and the last one we want it to be as moot. So we don't take just Nash's normalization, normalization of Nash, normalization of Nash, normalization of Nash, and then if this is moot, again, we get in those maps a resolution of singularities. So that question for curves is also not meaningful because we know that normally icing is enough, so we don't have to take the... Well, the answer will be, yes, but it's not interesting. So 15 years after Nobile's paper, Espira Kopsky proved the following, I know, sorry, I want to do something else. A couple of years later, Gonzalez 77 proved that the answer, the second question, the second question, too, is positive for toric surfaces. So with the toric surface, this is going to work to get a resolution of singularities. But he also requires in characteristics here. So, and let me just mention two ideas of the proof. So first, he defines a logarithmic Jacobian ideal. So we think in a fine toric variety, as the speck of a semi-group ring. So this one is going to be a monomial ideal, which is defined by linear relations, the rators of the semi-group. So he proved that in this case, the Nash blob is equal to the blob of this logarithmic Jacobian of X. So now he proved that we get the resolution of singularities looking at the combinatorial data that's attached to this. Okay. Okay, and then later, in 1990, Espira Kopsky, building on work of Hironaka, he showed that the answer to question two is positive for toric surfaces in characteristics here. So what about prime characteristic? So we're going to solve the question one is not meaningful in prime characteristic by the example of Novelia. In a young work with Daniel, we show that if we take a normal variety in prime characteristic, then the Nash blob of X is isomorphic to X if and only if X is smooth. So question two is meaningful if we just normalize, which is not a big price to pay. A few ideas of the proof or steps of the proof to see what fails here that doesn't fail here. Okay, first is we take R to be the terms of a point, so we fix a point, the variety, and we need to prove that this point is regular. So if the Nash blob of X is isomorphic to X, it was proved, but this year, that the model of scalar differentials is what it has to be plus possibly some torsion. So then the X is partial derivatives or derivatives, linear derivations and elements X1, Xd inside R such that the i of Xj is equal to the Kronecker delta, and in characteristic zero, this finishes the proof because then one can go to a result of Sariski and then complete and then see it and then R has to be another ring. I joined one variable for any of these that we have. So at some point, he just recovers a power series ring. And what's happening is that this torsion doesn't exist in characteristic zero. In prime characteristic, in this example, we have that this is equal to R plus something that does have torsion. So torsion does exist there, and that's the problem. So how we solve this, well, we cannot use this criterion for smoothness or play much with this, but we have constant theorem in prime characteristic and it's what we use. So using these derivatives, we built a map, fc, that goes from Rd to P to the d to R1 over P we define this map globally and then we prove that fc localized at Q is an isomorphism for every prime of height one. This one is... Thank you, thank you, Nick. Yeah, it's just a free map of rank P to the... Thank you, thank you, Nick. Okay? And then this implies that fc is an iso, R1 over P is free. So then what we start doing is, well, now that question two or like Nash Blob is meaningful for normal varieties in prime characteristic, we can look at all the words that has been down in the 40 plus years and then try to prove it for prime characteristic. And the first thing that we wanted to do is prove this theorem by Mark, and we couldn't. There are some parts in the proof that our characteristic zero is absolutely... Well, the way we were trying to prove it was absolutely necessary. One of them was this Rassolowski that I mentioned and there are other parts that we couldn't... Yes, we couldn't. Look at this. So we were not successful with this and then we say, well, let's try this one. That's a good start. And this is the new result in which Jack joined us for this project following if X is a toric variety prime characteristic, question two has a positive answer. So we can resolve same as Gonzalez-Springberg. So now let me say a few key ideas of the proof. So what we wanted to do at the beginning is, this Jacobian ideal makes sense in prime characteristic. I mean, we can just look at the monomials that we have and then try to do that. But then it turns out that that Jacobian ideal does not define the Nash blob. So we cannot use this one. So then we start looking for a characteristic P version of that Jacobian ideal. So we define the characteristic P version of the logarithmic Jacobian ideal. What we did is, here is looking for when some relations happen or do not happen. So if an equation becomes or does not become zero. So we just look at that mod P. This is something very natural. And it turns out that this is true. That the log P Jacobian, it is the Nash blob is a blob of the logarithmic characteristic P logarithmic Jacobian ideal. And actually this is true in general, not only for surfaces. The next step is when we do really need surfaces. Then we have to prove the combinatorial data. Sharp P logarithmic Jacobian is the same the data of the characteristic zero logarithmic Jacobian. And then we're done because we just follow the proof of Gonzalez-Springberg. Once we have that, the ideals are different but the combinatorial data is the same and that's what he used to prove the resolution of singularities. So once we have these two, we're done. Sorry, I couldn't hear you. Oh yeah, surface, sorry. Thank you. These two are true in general. This needs surface. And in fact, we have an example of dimension three variety where this is not true. They have different combinatorial data. And that's everything I wanted to mention today. Thank you. Are there any questions? No, just took the same definition characteristic zero and then instead of put equal to zero put congruent model of P to zero. The Jacobian, yeah. It is not reducing the monomial ideal from characteristic zero to characteristic P. It's just reducing the relations on the exponents which gives a priori different ideals. For P big enough, it's gonna be the same but in low characteristics are different. As we have an example where it gave different combinatorial data.


Finally, let's talk quickly. Again, we don't have a lot of time, so let's talk quickly about the two, I think, major Supreme Court cases that have been discussed in front of the justices over the last few days. I think this is going to be a very, very interesting session of the Supreme Court. I think there's some big cases that could either be ruled in a very positive way and enhance liberty and can be ruled in very bad ways and destabilize a lot of what we take for granted. You know, we've already talked about the CFPB case. I think that's going to be a super interesting case in terms of where the budget of the CFPB come from. I think we talked about that yesterday. Two other cases that are big. One is Gonzalez versus Google. This is a Section 230 case. Section 230 is part of the 1996, I think, telecommunications bill that basically allows social media companies or not just social media companies. It allows the New York Times. It allows everybody on the Internet to basically not be liable for material posted on their website by third parties, by other people. So, for example, the New York Times is liable for what it publishes in its articles, but it's not liable for the comments section. It's not liable for your comments that you put in the comments section under those. YouTube is not liable for the user-generated, like if I say something that is viewed as defamation, you can't say it's YouTube. You can sue me, but you can't sue YouTube for it. User-generated content that the producer, the creator of the content is liable, not the provider of the platform. Now, generally, I think this is eminently reasonable. Certainly it could have, Section 230 could probably be improved. I've talked about this in the past. But I believe at this point, nobody should touch it primarily because right now, if they touch it, they're going to make it worse. There's no way they're going to make it better. So they're going to make it worse. They're going to do something really, really bad. It's interesting that again with regards to Section 230, the crazy left and the crazy right agree. So the progressive left, one Section 230 gone, and the right, a lot of the right, once Section 230 gone. And they want to be able to sue YouTube, and they want to be able to sue Twitter, and they want to be able to sue Facebook. So this is going to be an important case. It's a case where a family of an American student who was killed in an ISIS attack in Paris in 2015 is suing Google, claiming that its algorithms violated the U.S. Anti-Terrorism Act by recommending ISIS propaganda to users. So by recommending ISIS propaganda to users, it increases the number of members in ISIS, which they would claim is partially responsible for the death of, I guess, their, I don't know if it's a son or a daughter, Nomi. Sounds like a girl's name, Gonzalez. But I think that's a real reach. There's also a case, by the way, that also is going after Twitter, where they're claiming Twitter is liable for ISIS acquitting efforts on its site. I find it bizarre that these platforms allow ISIS to put on this content. I don't think suing them is the right approach. I'm not sure why the reality is, I don't know why the U.S. government doesn't stop them. ISIS is an enemy. The enemy is using American websites to accrues and to incite violence. It just seems bizarre to me that it's being allowed to do that. Again, if we declared war on organizations like ISIS, I don't think it would be allowed, but we're afraid to declare war on any Islamist group. Anyway, so the court is going to discuss 230. It's not clear from the debate where they're leaning. I think ultimately they'll keep 230. I don't think they're quite ready to be in a position of doing away with it and without replacing it or changing it. I'm pretty sure Judge Thomas is going to rule, Clements Thomas will rule to abolish 230. Here, 230 is unconstitutional wrong. I don't know what the pretense will be to ruling, but I'm pretty sure Thomas in the past has said that social media companies need to be rained in and the way to rein them in is by getting rid of 230. So I think that is likely to happen. But I don't think the rest of the court will agree with him. So I expect, I don't know, hard to tell, but I expect a 6372 ruling in favor of keeping 230. But we'll see. It could be a nuanced argument that they make. The other case that was argued I think today in front of the Supreme Court was over Biden's executive order that basically provides debt relief to students. The Supreme Court, the Conservatives and the Supreme Court definitely seemed reluctant to say that this was okay. They had a number of issues. One is executive privilege and where does the executive branch have the authority to do this? Oh, is this a congressional matter? So it isn't a principal thing that you can't forgive debt. You can. It's just a question of who can do it. Can the President do it or does Congress have to do it? So it's more of a separation of powers issue. I think that's absolutely true if you're going to do something like this since the plan to provide debt for students was provided by Congress, it seems like Congress should be the one to put a law together that says, okay, you don't have to pay it back. It doesn't seem like a president could just sign it away and buy votes that way. There's also some questions about Biden's use of COVID emergency powers in order to do this and pretend that this had something to do with COVID. I think that the court seemed really skeptical about that and what the Secretary of Education knew, what relevance he had to COVID, why he was getting involved in COVID policy, and how student debt was related to COVID. So it was a lot of skepticism. Whether there's an emergency anymore, there clearly isn't. There's also a question of the fairness of the plan. I don't know under what section of the Constitution you could rule that the plan is unfair. Maybe there is. I hope there is. That would be great if clearly the plan does not comport to equal before the law, equality before the law. And then finally, on the flip side, arguing that this will be thrown out or that they will side with the Biden administration, there is a question of standing. To bring a lawsuit, you have to have standing. It has to be reason why you can sue the government for this. And here, red states of sued, so I think in this case it's in Nebraska, red states of sued. And it's not clear why state governments have a standing in the case, why it's relevant. Another lawsuit where there might be better standing is students who their debt will not be relieved or only partially relieved of suing on the basis that it's not fair, that they're being discriminated against. I mean, there's going to be a lot of other, I think, important cases here.  I think this court is an interesting court. It's a court that's willing to overturn precedent. We've seen that with Rovers' weight, obviously, so that could be good and can be bad. But it makes it not boring, right? It makes it interesting and it makes it potentially incredibly influential for the future of law and business and culture in America. So I'm looking forward to monitoring the court and staying, you know, filling you guys in on the interesting cases and maybe bringing on some lawyers when we have really difficult cases. Thank you for listening or watching The Iran Book Show. If you'd like to support the show, we make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me. 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Hey there friends, how's it going? My name is Kevin, and today we're playing SpongeBob SquarePants Battle for Bikini Bottom. RE-HYDRATED! Oh god, I'm ready to game! Nothing like a glass of warm water! Someone probably found this video and went, Finally, someone cam that's playing this game and will just play through not much talking, no hyperactivity. And then I just start screaming. Oh, I've become everything I didn't want to be. I can't hear anything. Is that normal, or did I just blow my hearing out? Who had I screamed like that? Oh, there we go. Okay. I was like rehydrated, but at what cost? Well, no, we got some audio. Great. I'm talking over all of it. We can't hear it, but great. Dude, I know exactly how that feels. Like in the past year or two, I've really felt like a boomer, and that's what it feels like when technology is ganging up on me here. No! I like that joke. Oh god, I wish I was as funny as SpongeBob. Patrick like sounds really happy and joyful, but he looks so dead inside. So I put my cookie crumb in the magic wishing shell. I'm not really paying attention, but I have no idea what's going on with this story. Good night. Oh, okay. This is the next day. I was like, are we in Harry Potter again? It's 2 p.m. and they're going to bed. I'm off to bed. Oh, thanks for clarifying, Gary. Now I understand. Just a meow and then a pan over to a question mark. I feel like my content needs that as well. Oh, this game is very exciting.  It's just really relaxing. Like I'm just jumping around the kitchen collecting little colorful things. This is the true gamer experience.  I was just about to say why would he need a bath this big, but he's a sponge. He'd soak up all the water and he'd increase in size. They've thought of everything. SpongeBob will need to collect many shiny objects in order to complete his quest. Are we sure I'm not a pigeon? And it even smells sweaty. Oh my god, that noise. Jesus Christ. To be fair, I can relate. I've been known to do a bit of in my content as a faithful crew member of the Krusty Krab. Don't stop, Mr. Krabs. That's not Mr. Krabs at all. That's right, a promotion. Like, I can't tell if they got a different voice actor or it's someone trying to trick SpongeBob, but why would they need a different accent when it's typed? I don't understand. I'm not even wearing underpants, so my apologies to get them on. He's got this picture of himself up in his room. It's like, God, I look good in this.  And why are they in your house? Whatever they are, they were my prisoners and now I'm murdering them. Oh, I smacked my head off that block. Okay, I've done enough to actually leave my house. I mean, in-game.  All my underpants are on Squidward's roof. God, what were we getting up to up there?  Wait, you said the quiet part out loud there at the end. You've got a deal. Why are you making a deal with them when he's standing there menacingly robbing his hands? Why do you trust that? Oh, all right. That's an explosion. I didn't learn about that in the tutorial. Oh, well, that one was my own fault. SpongeBob. Oh, okay. No, Mr. Krebs does just sound like that. Come on, you gotta be able to find someone who can do a good impression at least. No more crusty crab means no more fry cooking for you.  SpongeBob, this flapping robot crisis is making the crusty crab lose money like a sink and chip. All right, no, maybe his voice is slightly better than mine. I don't know if it's gonna need to be jumping on this bomb, but I'm curious. I better go up on it and get my underpants from the top of Squidward's house before the whole village knows what we're up to. I just really see tiptoes when you're walking slowly. That's great. I just got a tiptoe on his roof all day. He must be hearing that. Balloons affect. Oh, wait, no, this works. Oh, no, it doesn't. Okay, that's disappointing. Turns out four balloons can not only lift this giant lead cube. It can also lift my body weight. Now, for fact sake, I came down and now there's access to the top of my roof, so I gotta get back up. And it's not gonna sink up well, is it? Oh, wait, hold on. No, it might sink up perfectly. Golden spatula. Why do we hide stuff on our roofs? I don't understand. Wait, what's he doing now?  What the? What was that? That was demonic. Oh my God, look at him go. Oh my God, that's so scary. Wait, no, I'm allowed to go this way. Stop resetting me. I'm supposed to be able to go down here. I'm sorry if my eyes are going a bit red. I'm just, this story's so emotional. Like, look at that. It's just upsetting me a little. No, I've got allergies. God, they're getting itchy. Someone come here and scratch my eyeballs. SpongeBob and Patrick can't swim. Okay, send me away. I'd like to go to Australia, please. Please send me away. How for fact sake? Back off, punk. I've got a bubble blower thingy and I'm actually, no, I am a little afraid to use it. I just don't want people judging me. Why are my underpants everywhere? What is this? Has someone been robbing me or have I just been leaving them out? Just going commando in the worst of places. Honestly, I'm not sure if we should be threatened by these robots. I'm just hitting them with my little bubble blower and they're getting destroyed. You're already up here? I went through so much. I was getting shot at by a cannon just a second ago. How did you get here? Of course, yes, thank you. Are you very explaining? Why didn't I think of that? This doesn't look good.  Okay, I can kind of understand why his underwear is going everywhere if his pants are this loose. There we go. I should get off this hook. Sucks to be you. Should have brought your bubble blower. Yeah, you think I'm here to save you? Give me your money, punk. I don't think he has any. He seems confused. I don't think he has anything going on behind those eyes. Yeah, new hair underwear will do that for you. Oh no, that's the box. I don't want to go in there. I guess that's our fast travel system. Snail mail. I don't know if I'd call it fast. Oh, it's mermaid man. Look at that body. That is male peak performance. Never do leg day. Become a sphere. I'm not sure I should trust this old man in this field. He's asking me to do this. Wait, am I just abandoning this old man? Then he looks scared. Good luck to you. Yeah, radical, extreme sports. The old man is just like, how do I get home? Oh yeah, I found this for you. Oh, perfect. He has a gold spatula. That's great. Oh wait, now I am him. He has all my spatulas? You know what? It's fine. I have enough to go to a new area. That's all that matters.  Get out of here. Get out.  I don't think I'm the protagonist. You know, I think I'm the bad guy. Duh. No, okay. I just destroyed that fruit. I actually need to pick that up. There we go. I can't think of a more reasonable way to travel. Wait, so Patrick's lives are also SpongeBob's underpants? Whatever you want to live for, I guess. Oh, okay. Spikes hurt. Who would have known? The spikes just missed his face and he's still there like, this is fine. Oh Jesus, this is no longer fine. Oh, he's doing the thing. Why is he doing that? Is this just because he's idle? Okay, he's stopped. Oh God. Oh God, this all happened so suddenly. What's going on? I like how SpongeBob has the surfboard. Patrick is just like, oh, this is fun. I just got straight into all these explosions. Who are you and why are you hanging out down here?  That monster has been stinging all my good customers in their poop decks. What? What does that mean? I don't want to fight the King Jellyfish. I just want to go to the new area. Oh boy, Mr. Krabs. Okay, he's volunteered me for it. Okay. Who are you? Why are all these people just wandering around? And they seem immune to their attacks. Why don't they save the city? Oh my God, there's another one of these fish. Just hanging out in this field. Well, he was just hanging out in this field. Oh my God, did you see his pupils? No wonder he's just hanging out here. He's high as, I don't know what the hell is going on here. Oh, sweeper Jesus. I need to get out of here. Patrick is fecking leaving. He's the good sense to just abandon this mission. SpongeBob not so much, forever an optimist. Oh God, I think we reached the King Jellyfish. He just creeps up. Reminds me of a video everyone sends me there. Hi, Kevin. He's just showering and this is his home. Leave him alone. And he's good. Yeah, I like that beat. He's dropping. Also, I don't know how to fight him. I love your shower curtain, by the way. Okay, I slapped him. Good. He's getting angry. Oh my God, he's giving birth. It's the miracle of life. Oh, these ones are boys. Blue for boys, right? These gender reveal parties always go wrong. I read about them online all the time. I should be careful. There we go. That seemed unnecessary, but now he's dead. Oh, even worse, he's fleeing the country. Like why? Why did I need to do that to him? Either way, I'm taking his jelly. Oh wait, that's not a surfboard. That's his tongue. Oh, I just killed him trying to look at it. Thank you, mysterious hand. Oh my God, look at that neck. I'm going to give him whiplash. That's a lawsuit waiting to happen. Oh, thank God I'm out of that area. Was that a driverless car? God, Bikini Bottom was ahead of its time. Oh my God, what is wrong with this place? It's falling apart. Enough about that, Mrs. Puff. I'd like my driving test now. Jesus Christ, what was that? Why did that just explode? Oh my God, what was that?  God, the big city is terrifying. I spent so long coming out here, but I'm not sure I want to be his city slicker. Oh my God, what is that? I was about to say, who's that cute little feller? But no, it's like me compressed into a ball, patting my own ass, okay? When SpongeBob touches this ball, he will change into a SpongeBob. You can roll it quickly as the SpongeBob, okay? Fantastic, this game is so weird. How high were they when they made this? Oh God, what's going to happen to him? Oh, the poor guy. But you know what? I'm not in the hero mood anymore, because honestly, I don't think I am the hero after what I did to that King Jellyfish. We're going to end it there. I hope you guys enjoyed that. That was a lot of fun. I might actually play more of this game. If you want to see it here, do let me know in the comments or whatever. If not, then I'll probably do it on Twitch or something like that. Speaking of which, it's in the description if you want more of me. But I also post every day, every single day. I don't got much else going on. So yeah, you can subscribe if you want. And yeah, I hope you enjoyed. Appreciate you watching as always. And I hope to see you next time. Bye for now. Meow.


I am at the upper part of the co-chair of this round table. I'm super excited to have so many of you here, Chris, and I'm really grateful to those of you who are joining online. I'm just here with like 30 seconds of background. I am a director of some kind of multiple project with his center at the chicken and I'm a senior fellow. And I'm a studies there. And before going to work things, I was chief economist. Let me, I'm going to take over Bob, who is my co-chair, who is joining us online, and then we'll move along with our study journey. Thank you, Wendy. I would say for we're getting a bit of a feedback on the line so hopefully the staff can sort that out quickly. So, my name is Bob Cop. I am a professor of Rutgers at Rutgers University. I'm a climate scientist. So I bring some climate expertise to the co-chair but Wendy is really our macroeconomics co-chair and I'm excited to have you all here today to kick off our first open round meeting of this round table. Okay, so I think I, so today's discussion is in open session. Today's discussion is in an open session. We have a lot marked into today. Tomorrow we'll be in closed session. So we'll have a lot to talk about tomorrow about the work that we're doing around people, but we're going to get a lot of information today from presenters. Before we begin, I'm going to take over to our round table director, Virginia Garner, for a reading note on some basic resistance. Thanks so much, Wendy. On behalf of the Academy, I just wanted to thank you all so much for being here today in person and online. My name is Brenda McGovern. I'm an associate program officer with the Board of Experienced Sciences and Climates and also the director for this round table. So before we get into the subcutive content of the meeting, I just want to start us off with some safety measures and logistics for the meeting. So for those of you that are in person here is a map of the NAS building. We are in the West Biden building in room 120. So the nearest emergency exit is immediately to the left, and you exit the room, and then go to the bathroom. So those of you who are going to go back through the West Corridor are going to go left at the gallery and they'll be down that hallway to go back. You can go then move it. Yeah, thank you. This is like the ongoing pandemic. I just want to briefly touch on our COVID policy to cure the economy. As you're all aware, you have to show your group of vaccination to enter the building. And for masks, we do follow the CDC and District of Columbia guidelines are masking about being sad. We do not recognize any of our buildings, but we are a map-friendly institution. If you forgot a mask, or you would like one, we do have a limited supply of A&M products at the registration table outside of a room, as well as the security desk. If you are feeling unwell and anybody can ask that you'll personally virtually. Next slide, please. So just some meeting logistics for those of you that are in the room, we do ask that you connect to Zoom, but make sure that your computer, audio, and the prompt. And you can also just leave the audio in line soon. And you can use the push and talk button at the mic in front of you. And then for our virtual participants, we do ask that you unmute yourself when you are not speaking. So that we can ensure that there are no distractions. For comments and questions for our regional members, we ask that you include the raise one feature, including for our in-person participation. So we can equalize the virtual in-person participation. For our public participants, you'll notice that the Zoom chat has been disabled, so please direct your questions for both staff and our mounting members and panelists to the Zoom Q&A. Next slide, please. And then lastly, I just want to mention our expectations for needed conduct. At the Academy, we are committed to fostering a professional, respectful, and inclusive environment that is free from discrimination and harassment. You can find the do's and don'ts of conduct and debriefing materials online. In the same briefing book, you can find the Academy's policy on harassment and bullying as well as the harassment in the same process. If you experience or witness behavior that appears to violate our public context, please notify me immediately so we can address it and we can contact them. If you feel more comfortable, you can also inform Bob or Wendy. And with that, I will turn it back over to Wendy. I do promise we are, you're just beginning to get into substance, and we do have a lot of great material, but it seems a very good use of our time to quickly go around and introduce ourselves and just offer one sentence of your affiliation. You already know. So why don't we do, one of you folks online first, and then we'll do folks on the table and then folks when they have time. I am, and I'm worried that I'm going to get confused about who's online and who's in person, but maybe I can read this out. So, why don't we go to Pete Wilcox and I'm an economist I work on energy and environmental policy and I'm at Syracuse University. Rachel. Hi, I'm Rachel Cletus. I'm also an economist. I work for the Union of Concerned Scientists based out of our Cambridge, Massachusetts office. And Chris. Hi everybody, Chris field. I'm based at Stanford and my research is in ecology, climate science. I mean, I'm. I mean, I'm a macro economist focus on monetary economics at UC Berkeley. Morning, everyone. I'm Laurie Hunter. I'm a professor of sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder and I study primarily population dynamics is related to climate. And I think you're online, which is funny because there's your name. Hi, my name is a bit of you. I'm an engineering professor at the University of Maryland College Park. I work in the area of risk analysis and engineering and economics. Tim Lenton. Good afternoon from the UK Tim Lenton from the University of Exeter climate scientist working on climate tipping points and positive tipping points in society. And Jason. I'm a professor at the Institute for environmental science and technology at the autonomous University of Barcelona and I work on ecological economics. Jim stock, a macro economist and working on climate economics issues and energy transition issues at Harvard University. And was that me. Sorry. I'm Satya Gopala Christian associate professor and environmental economist at Ohio State University. I study non market valuation and coupled human natural systems, particularly looking at coastal climate adaptation. And so, hi, my name is all show I'm at the University of California Berkeley and I work on the economic impacts climate change. What did I miss any of our participants who are joining us online. Good morning, everyone. My name is meeting time at the University of California at Santa Cruz and environmental studies departments, and I study just energy transitions and labor climate conditions. I don't know why I'm saying. Okay, so why don't we go around this way around the table and then we'll go around answer. Thanks for joining me. It's our medicine. Yes, I'm trying to figure it out. Hey, everyone, I'm Adele Morris with the Federal Reserve Board of Editors here in Washington. I'm a senior advisor in the division of financials Billy. I'm another woman and I lead the climate and climate program as well as local fund, one of the funders. Hi, I'm for you know, I'm a professor in the department of engineering and policy at the University and it was coordinating the authors for one of the chapters. Hi, I'm calling come up I am not Carla Trish rather is an ex official member, but I work in the department of energy and policy. And we let the modeling them form the US long term climate strategy organization pathways. I'm headed to shame and I'm a member of the president's council of economic advisors. Eric can predict the Stockholm environment Institute I'm a senior economist and director of equitable transitions program. I run the board on science technology and economic policy here at the National Academy. Hi, I'm on the other side of your senior director for climate efforts for the sciences. Okay, tell me why senior director for your science innovation policy. We're at Coleman tuning recently retired atmospheric scientists and currently serving as president of the American meteorological society. I'm the deputy assistant secretary for macroeconomics at Treasury on the front of the door of Washington University where I run our research program and forecasting. Good morning, I'm Sonny Carter professor at Indiana University and my research focus on energy policy and energy justice. Good morning, everybody. I'm Joe Kyle and I'm the director of my analysis at the commercial life of us that are portfolio working on issues. Good morning, everybody. My name is Hannah Stewart and I'm an associate program officer with board on environmental change in society at the academies. Now with us today is the board director Tom Thorbin but he will be contributing to the ground table. So let's go ahead and jump in. I'm going to very briefly talk about what we're all doing here and what the purpose of the round table is. Very briefly. So we have a huge incredibly ambitious mandate to try and the way I see it, improve the communication and usefulness of the interactions between climate scientists and what science is know about what's going to happen over the next 10 years, 20 years, and how macroeconomists think about modeling the economy over that same time horizon. So, when I think macro, I think, you know, we're worried about being broad and aggregates, and so thinking about, you know, just like something like big slow moving things but have first order implications for how the macroeconomies when to inspire over time. And we'll hear today folks from end users, the folks at agencies that are actually doing the hard work to think about how to project the macroeconomy make really important policy decisions. And then, and we'll hear from climate scientists and we'll hear from macroeconomists about where they see the literature and where they see the biggest challenges and incorporating macro into their models. So before we, before we get to that. No. Okay, good. Good morning. I'm Marcia McNutt. And although I regret I can't join you in person. I'd really like to welcome you to the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. I'm personally very excited to see this round table on macroeconomics and climate related risks and opportunities get underway. As you may know, the National Academies were created to provide expert advice on the most pressing challenges facing the nation and the world. I think it's fair to say that climate change is among one of the most serious challenges that the nation and world have ever faced. The challenges of climate change are already being felt by millions of people with potentially devastating implications for the environment, our economy, human health, and our overall well being. Clearly, the work of this round table is of critical importance. I think this round table is an excellent example of how we at the National Academies are working to galvanize action toward a more resilient and more sustainable future. First, we are working to break down disciplinary silos that confound comprehensive solutions. The cross-disciplinary expertise assembled in this group is impressive. I'm excited to see what new insights emerge from your discussions. And second, we're aiming to be more nimble in converting science into actions. That's why it's so important to have partners from critical government agencies and from the private sector as members of this round table. We hope that your active engagement will ensure that new research priorities identified by the round table effectively meet your needs. At the same time, we hope that being part of these discussions and having the opportunity to regularly engage with researchers will accelerate the incorporation of research findings into policy and practice. I'm also pleased to see that we have many participants at this meeting in addition to the round table members. We hope that the round table conversations and activities can bring together a much wider set of experts. A lot of work to be done to advance our understanding of how climate change in the transition to a lower carbon economy will affect our macroeconomy. We need a broad, multidisciplinary cadre of experts to take on this challenge. Let me close by thanking the sponsors of this activity for their support and thanking each of you for giving your time, ideas, and enthusiasm to this effort. I'm confident that this round table will yield important and impactful advances in our knowledge of policy and practice. I'm looking forward to watching your progress and thank you very much for all your hard work today. So, all right. So we are going to move to our next panel. The ideal is to have our panelists and our moderator up in the front. Does that work unless somebody wants to let us raise a significant objection? No, okay. So, we'll move over to the next panel. It seems a little, you know, like for me, I think it's going to be more talkative, but it didn't occur to me that we're probably going to have a lot of pressure, but I don't know. Thank you guys, and I want to encourage the other panelists. We're just right here. Excellent. So I'm going to go over to Brad, who's going to be our moderator. Thank you for that.


I'm Diana McLean and I'm one of the two teachers in the first year of our founding program of the Annapolis Valley First Nations School. We have a school program that's open to children from age four right through to the end of grade 12 and we also offer a program for adult learners. Well the program was developed at the request of our chief and council and they felt that there were a significant number of children and youth in our community that were falling through the cracks and were not being served in the public school system because of challenges in mental health or difficulties in just functioning in a regular school system and so they wanted to provide an alternative on reserve school that would meet the needs of the children and youth in our community. We offer a complete full school program or a certified school that can offer the curriculum from grades primary to grade 12 and we offer an Nova Scotia grade 12 graduation diploma and we can offer any courses from economics, chemistry. We offer the beginning primary level program so we have teachers that are qualified to offer programs at all levels of the school system. We also have a strong indigenous focus so that our reading material, the social studies curriculum, we are mandated to follow the outcomes of the Nova Scotia Provincial Curriculum but we vary very widely from those outcomes in that we really want to be something different. We don't want to just offer our kids more of the same. We really try to look at indigenous learning styles and offer a curriculum that will make our kids proud of their heritage. We also do have a MiGMA language program which is really challenging because there is only one fluent MiGMA speaker in our community but we use resources from the University of Cape Breton and from the MiGMA Guina Mattaway Education Authority to help with some of our MiGMA language but we're all learning together. The students and the teachers, we're all learning MiGMA language as we go along. Well, we have graduated our first grade 12 students just last month. This year we're a very small school and we are in a very small reserve and we have three grade 12 students this year. One has just graduated, we know we will have two more that will graduate in June and these are youth who dropped out of school, who haven't been able to function, who have struggled with issues in mental health or with learning disabilities or attentional or behavior problems and just non-functional in the public system and they are going to graduate. All three of them have post-secondary aspirations and so I suspect that we've got three youth just graduating from our school who would not have had opportunities otherwise. The same goes with our middle schoolers. We have three middle schoolers, all of whom struggled in the public school system and they would not have been able to have been successful unless they had the opportunity of coming to work with us. I think the thing that will make the program even better is to have more funding that will enable us to offer the program to more kids with increasingly more challenges. We do have youth in our community who have been in trouble with the law and we need really intensive programming to offer them the support that they need so I think that if we were able to have maybe even a teacher's aid that we could bring on who would support us. We also need far more access to technology but that's coming because we've become a part of a project called Digital Migma and so we will as of next week have a new technology lab with one of our grade 12 students who will be coordinating that lab and we'll be able to offer many courses in things like robotics, animation, digital technology, artificial intelligence and a lot of things that will, I hope, grab the attention of our kids who need much more experience with digital technology. So we're excited about that. We offer yoga every morning. We have yoga integrated as part of our school program. All of our grade 12 students have a provincial grade 11 credit in yoga and we brought that into the school because there were so many of our students who needed support with relaxation, concentration, suffered from so much stress and anxiety that we thought yoga would be a really good curriculum way to tackle those issues as well as give them a credit but they look forward to it. It's wonderful. We have a terrific time from about 11.30 to 12. Every day yoga is part of the curriculum so we not only do the poses but they do relaxation, breathing, meditation and a little bit of the philosophy of yoga and we have a program that is very much based on the Seven Sacred Teachings. It is a yoga program with an indigenous focus and we try and talk about things like truth and respect and we have poses that represent those Seven Sacred Teachings. We have poses for every animal in the Seven Sacred Teachings and then all of our school participates together. So our middle schoolers and our high schoolers alike. So we have middle school children who are doing a grade 11 yoga curriculum alongside the grade 12 students so it's really wonderful. Our students really tend to support each other so the little ones get along with the older ones and I think it's leadership opportunity for everybody. We have an obligation to offer the Nova Scotia curriculum but I would say that we offer far more and we offer it in a very different way because the reason we started this school is so that we would be different. We do not want to be the same as the public school. We want to be different. We want to have a form of education for our youth that is better, that is different that supports their cultural heritage, their spiritual teachings and so I would say they'll get everything that we get in the public school and more. Plus, we have teachers who are trained in special education and in assessment so that the curriculum is directly trained on focusing on students special and unique learning challenges. We teach children the way they need to learn. That's a really challenging question but I think it is a question, I mean I think that it is a form of education that is different than what is offered in the public school. I think that it involves supporting the heritage of our youth supporting the cultural background supporting the ways they learn and accepting that all Indigenous youth don't learn the way many students are expected to perform in the regular high school. We do a lot of oral instruction. We do a lot of oral assessment and we use a very arts based, an arts based instructional format so we have a lot of traditional crafts. We also let kids express themselves through a lot of arts mediums. Singing, storytelling, drumming, dancing, a lot of things that would be part of a more Indigenous traditional heritage. We do support outdoor education and land based learning and that's an area that we really feel like we want to have a lot more involvement in in the future. Well, I would say the number one hurdle we need to eliminate would be community members feeling that our school isolates children as opposed to enriches their experience of education. And what I hope to show community members is that we have a very, the kids that come to our school have a very rich opportunity to learn and they have a lot of other opportunity for socializing in the community and that we are an enriching activity as opposed to an isolating activity. So I would like to see our numbers increase over the next few years. However, that being said, when we are able to offer a very intensive supportive curriculum to kids with special needs or unique learning challenges in groups of maybe six at a time, we are able to offer a very rich experience. So, you know, it's hard to say. Over the next 10 years, I know our chief and council has the goal of building a school, having a physical building and looking at probably having four classrooms with a science lab, technology lab and supportive services for kids with special needs. So the vision is there that the school will definitely increase in size. And my goal is to keep the curriculum and the quality as high as it is now even as we expand. Well, I feel I have a responsibility to be a knowledge bearer for our children and our youth. It's a challenging thing. We use so much of traditional heritage and so many materials, but we also call upon the wisdom of the elders in our community, which is really important. We also use as many sources and resources as possible that are provided to us through the University of Cape Breton. And because we are so isolated and depend so much on the support of outsiders to, especially with MiGMA language development, we make as much use of those things as we can. Our school is a school whose mission is rooted in the Seven Sacred Teachings. So that just is a part of what we do all the time. And we try and bring it into every subject every day and it just becomes a part of who we are and how we live. It's not an add-on, it is who we are. And we also really try and support the oral tradition and do a lot of work in listening and in speaking and trying to instill in our youth that feeling that they are leaders, that they have so much to contribute to their community. We also have a mission to be of service to our community. That's another... We are founded on the Seven Sacred Teachings, but we also are a school that has a mission of serving others and serving the community. So we're always looking for opportunities for service. Always trying to encourage our young people to be of service to other people. Well, I think probably the thing that inspired me most over the past year is seeing several of our youth who suffered from severe mental health challenges who perhaps this time a year ago were not even able to leave their home let alone attend public school full-time coming to our school and being able to complete a full grade 12 curriculum and look forward to graduating and look forward to having a job. Some of them truly become leaders who a few years ago were struggling to get out of bed. So I think that's probably the most exciting thing for me, seeing that given respect, responsibility and being able to attend a school where they're truly valued and they have a unique individualized education.  Plus, it's just an absolute joy coming to school every day. I love what I do. Not only are we a P to 12 school, that's a really good question because we are also a school that supports adult learners and they can get in touch with us through the Annapolis Valley First Nations Band Office and they'll send word down to me. And interestingly enough, we are open to all members of the community, not just members of the Annapolis Valley First Nations Band, not even Indigenous people. Any people from the area who wish to upgrade their educational skills, do WIMIS training, learn how to write resumes, they're all welcome to come. And we're open and available from about 12.30 to 3 o'clock every afternoon for adult learners who work alongside our grade 12 students to build all kinds of new skills. We even have one student who is attending a KDA university and works side by side with other students in our learning center. So we offer a full range of opportunities. We do partner with the Nova Scotia Department of Education and the Adult Education and Labor Department and they also support and sponsor students who are part of our school team.


Hi everybody, Joe for Jaspy's casewrakes.com doing a random number block randomizer for the NFL draft mixer, that big 62 box mixer. So, kind of a slight twist. Some of you may be familiar with this, but basically, random number block number one, in fact just exactly like that, will show up on the list of names. So, that random number block number one will get a random football team in this big mixer right over here. So, if this ends up with the Broncos, and then we hit a 5 out of 20 Jerry Judy, whoever has spot number five in random number block one will get that card. And plenty of full spots available for the high rollers who want to just dive into it. A few more fillers try to win spots in there as well, but this is a cool one because you can split a single spot with over 10 spots here. Big thanks to this group for making it happen, appreciate it. There are the numbers right there, let's roll it and randomize it. Two and a four, six times. One, two, three, four, five and once more, six and final time. There you go, we got Corey down to Joseph B. You can see the R&B one tab on the bottom of your screen there. Two and a four, six times four, the numbers one, two, three, four, five and six and final time. After six, we got eight down to six. Alright, so here's how it shakes out for random number block one. Corey, you get eight, Joseph with nine, Mark with four, Brandon with zero. Zero gets any and all redemptions for whatever team R&B one gets randomized. Kobayashi with five, two and three, Adam with seven, Kobayashi with one and Joseph with six. So let's sort this numerically. Also, there may be some non-numbered hits or some non-numbered base cards. Non-numbered base cards, I think we'll probably collect together as one lot and randomize it to one person. And then for the hits, like the first non-numbered hit that goes out that we pulled, a relic or an autograph or an autograph relic, we'll randomize those separately. So the first one will go to the name on top and the randomizer, second one will go to the second name on the randomizer, so on and so forth. Alright, and there you have it. So thanks for watching. There's another, this actually kind of filled up pretty quickly. So there's actually another random number block, too, loaded up. So if you want to get in on that, that's jaspyscasebreaks.com. That's where you can get it. I'm Joe. I'll see you for the mixer later this week, jaspyscasebreaks.com. Bye-bye.


Hi! This is Jessica Hagman with the Ohio University Libraries. In this video I'm going to show you how to find data and statistics with the Statista website. To get to Statista you'll want to go to the OU Libraries homepage and then click on the Databases tab to do a search for Statista. This one result is the one we need so we're going to click on the link for the website. At this point if you're off campus before you get to the website you would be asked to log in with your Ohio ID and password. Statista has a search box right on the homepage where you can search for whatever topic you're researching. You can also scroll down to the bottom of the page and see statistics by industry so you can browse if you're not sure what kind of search term to use. I'm going to scroll back up to the top and do a search for college. You can see that it does give me some suggested search terms that I might use instead but I'm going to stick with college. Once you do your search you'll see that you have two different types of results, statistics which is data as you would expect and then studies and reports which I'm going to look at first. And I have some reports and studies here about college including a report on the economic value of different college majors. If I click on the title of one of these reports I go to a page that has some more information about it. It tells me where it comes from. This one's from the Center on Education and the Workforce and then I link to an external download. So this is where I can actually download a report and instead of being just numbers you'll often get a lot of other information here and maybe a lot of different kinds of data so these can be really useful as well. I'm going to go back to my search results and click on statistics. You can see there's 432 so a lot of different data here about colleges. I'm going to click on the first one about the expenditure of public and private colleges and universities. Once you click on the title of a statistic you'll actually go to a page where you'll see that data displayed. So here is a bar graph showing the expenditures from 1960 to 2010. I have some options on the left hand side to actually download the graph or to an image or to PowerPoint or even to Excel so you could do some data crunching if you needed to. You can change how the graph looks, see some related statistics, share the graph via different social media networks and then as you'll scroll down you'll see the statistic information and this is important to know because if you were going to use this in a speech or a paper for example you wouldn't want to cite statistic because it's kind of like Google and then it gets you to information but it's not a source of information in and of itself. The source of this information is actually the Census Bureau so if I was doing an APA citation for example the citation would probably look like Census Bureau comma 2011 instead of Statista 2011. So that's been a quick look at Statista. Remember that if you have any questions about Statista, finding data or any other information you can always go back to the OU Libraries homepage, click on the Ask Us link to get a chat box or click on the Need Help link to see other ways to get in touch with us. I hope this video was helpful. If you have any questions about finding data or any other information be sure to let us know.