Welcome to the RF film is unlicensed podcast. I'm Caleb now or and this is Tossos Alex you what's going on Tossos What's going on Caleb? How are you? Good good man. Just uh here do another podcast and live into life. So yeah, definitely. I'm excited I'm definitely excited for today. We finally have our first Wisp guest on the show. So that's gonna be awesome. I'm excited too, man So let's go ahead and get to it So today we will be talking with Spencer pose at SJP network solutions. So let's go ahead and hop to it Yeah, definitely. Let's let's rock and roll All right now Spencer pose from SJP network solutions. What's going on Spencer? We really appreciate you taking the time out of your busy busy day and having a conversation with us. Absolutely Caleb I I'm glad to be here So Spencer we've known Spencer for a long time long time customer a long time industry member I mean, he's he's been around for a while and those of you that are active in the various whips talk lists and other Facebook groups and things like that, you know, you've seen Spencer around So thought we do today is have his conversation if you can kind of give us a History of how you got started in the industry how your business operates now the couple of different sort of big branches that you Do some interesting things that folks might not understand about your business and you know anything else of interest I mean the the forum is definitely yours. Okay, absolutely Caleb so Years ago back in like 2006 2007 I worked for a whist back in Texas And It was a summer high school job not not didn't think much of it later on I got into IT support So about 10 years ago. I started a managed service provider IT support business back then it was just a break fix it we try to have a shop and You know people wearing their computers over but at that point the market was quickly moving to Managed services So we quickly migrated our our business to manage services Then about seven years ago. We picked up a warehouse with office space and We're looking at the cost of internet for businesses and it was like astronomical. So We found a tower in the middle of town that was foreclosed by a bank And we got a hold of the bank and we ended up connecting my parents house My house in the business by a cable connection through the tower And since I had started a wisp or worked for a wisp back in the day We said hey, let's start making money for out of this and it was actually very helpful with our MSP because when we were going against contracts with other customer with other Businesses we were able to leverage free backup internet from our infrastructure And that's actually how we ended up growing out our IT services and the wisp kind of the same time Oh, that's that's a cool cool sort of plan So who are you competing with in the local area for these businesses your traditional like cable operators or DSL or? cable operators DSL and then IT companies that are aggregates as well Okay, okay, so sorry way laid you there for a second. So you can get back to it I was I got tripped up by the the foreclosed tower by the bank I'm like, you know, I've never heard of that before so that's actually a pretty pretty cool Stumble across there for sure about four years then we moved towers and then I got like two years later I got a call from the president of the bank who was like, hey Do you want that tower and we ended up getting down years later? And and taking it back to our warehouse. So yeah, it's funny It's definitely a new kind of a new spin on kind of how you got into the wireless business Which everybody has their own unique story, but it always ends it always starts with you know Hey, there was no internet provider in our towns and I was the tech guy So I said, hey, why not like try this out? But definitely like hey, it was a tower for sale and I need an internet and let's just hop on there and see what happens That's that's different the the realtor was confused. He had no idea what Like he was like, I've never had this request before But but we worked out a deal And so that's that's what started our internet service blue broadband And it still took a few years for us to build enough customers to kind of for it to be its own thing For years our IT support business covered the bills for the wisp As many many businesses and in the actually since COVID started They've kind of leveled out and our the wisp is about to start making more money than the IT support side nice So yeah, yeah, and that's definitely where we're wanting to take the direction is to be more internet centric then support centric But we still you know IT support is a very lucrative business as well Very cool. So what area do you guys serve? Because you're down in the panhandles that panhandle of Florida generally We're the Florida panhandle and so we have two different kind of coverage areas our IT support coverage area covers like six counties and You know, we've got customers hours away as far as our ISP goes We're a lot more concentrated in a small area of Fort Walton Beach and Chalamar mostly Oakland County Okay. Yeah, I've been down there some yeah. Yeah, and then the vacation area Oakland Island for instance is one of them the bar Parkway and these areas we do MDU Internet to the condominiums So the MDU stuff is really interesting. You know, there's a lot of conversation about that Especially in these touristy areas or high density areas. We see a lot of whist operators around big colleges and stuff like that so the And what's so where we're unique is in our market condominiums have it in their bylaws that the condominium has to be the utility So it's it's a great opportunity and a difficult opportunity because We we get the opportunity to get a contract and a condominium once like once every five years And and depending on if they're unhappy with the other provider that they have So we you know, it's hit or miss trying to find out when these condominium contracts are up But when they are up and you get the opportunity to come in you get a hundred percent take rate of the building Absolutely that allows you to bring fiber in We do fiber and wireless kind of a hybrid mix that way we can offer them a redundancy. We also do I Believe we're the only provider in the area that does uptime guarantees Cool. So we give them an opportunity once a year to get out of their contract if we go below 99% uptime Yeah, the the MDU model is something that has always fascinated me and I'm still kind of quite honestly, you know Interested in it when when I kind of first came into the industry, you know The MDU market was really like what I was looking to do To kind of start a wisp, right? So I started out wanting to be a wisp and you know My business model that I had created was based on going into all these apartments and the use and and I actually at the time This is 2004 like the goal was to create the triple play right back then was the internet TV and For and phone right so at that time VoIP was just becoming a thing, you know, there was you know packet 8 there was Vonage and all these other kind of you know new new types of services for home service and stuff like that and You know, unfortunately for me I didn't have the money really to to make it happen Which is what kind of drove me to you know, not where I am today But the path that I ended up taking was because equipment was so expensive back then that was my biggest thing was just like Well, you know, I can't do it because of the cost involved to provision, you know the whole complex, right? So I started looking at well, you know, how can I make this or how can I get this equipment cheaper and stuff? And that's kind of how I ended up going into product distribution later by doing all this research into who the vendors are Where the product comes from and stuff. So it's it's really cool that you're actually doing, you know Kind of you know, one of the things that I really wanted to do that's that's awesome. And that's cool stuff You know, it's We have a lot of challenges and that most these buildings are 1970s So you have old cat 3 No cat 5 wiring We typically one of the ways we win contracts is by offering all of the installation We'll wire up the whole building ourselves. Wow We have a you know, we have the equipment and the manpower to do that Very cool.  We do it. Okay. A lot of concrete and and that sort of construction So I speak to it because of experience doing some of these on coastal areas, right? So you would have you would have a neighborhood that would have two buildings and one would be built in the 70s One would be built in the you know the mid 2000s and you know, they both are up to code but in the 70s the way they did it was it was super Concrete rebar. So, you know concrete floors concrete walls everywhere and then their sister place next door was traditional So the the structure cabling pulls and stuff like that were a lot easier in the new ones So that definitely presents some challenges. I'm sure we we especially have challenges due to hurricane rebuilds So in 2004 Ivan took out like wiped out of Gloucester Island Wow, and so all the first floor units filled up with sand the The refrigerators ended up in the on the on the road Well, and so they came in with back-o's and just tore out all the first floor units and then rebuilt them So we were we were restructuring the cable in one building We get to the first floor and none of the conduit met up and we ended up having to go into the feeling Cut down the old conduit and make a new path So there's a lot of unknowns. We don't really know until we start the project and then it's like I Wish I would have charged them more That sounds like fun site survey a little bit more detail. So they're like, hey, we put your conduit here You're like, well didn't really tell the whole story. So yeah Now are you doing cable runs to like each unit individually, you know dropping off a cat five or a five report or what does that look like? Yeah, so we go to to the cat five we go cat five into the unit typically and So we'll find a chase in the building There's some things I'm gonna keep a little secret, but Common chase in the building and we have a particular two different types that we look for that Generally will then go all the way down the stack and we'll start on For us on Oakwoods Island It's the seventh floor and we'll start on the seventh floor and just drill straight down room to room to room you know floor to floor to floor to floor and then Go down to the first floor and connect everything through there.  Are you mainly focusing on internet and just you know putting a router or access point or something each unit Play in fact, it was very challenging in that like like the the kind of contracts that we have to do the whole building and that the fact that the Association company has to be the utility They came to us a couple years ago and told us that if we couldn't bid all services Basically, we couldn't do a triple play don't even put bids in anymore. Right. So it's kind of forced us to the triple play model And so we we work with various different TV platforms from direct TV to IP TV Depending on the complex needs Some of them want a lot more sports that we can't do over IP TV. Some of them don't want the sports and want more media channels It could actually get very ugly watching owners fight over what channels they want What's it like to to manage, you know, both kinds of businesses, right? Because again, one of the reasons why I had looked at the MDU thing was because you had that captive market You had a high subscription rate in a small place and you didn't have to travel everywhere So I mean, do you have a single employee base that does both your kind of residential business outdoor Wisp business and then the one that does MDU or do you have a two separate kind of, you know employee Types or something like that to manage and operate both sides of that For us, it's it's it's mixed. It's we do everybody does each one We kind of we try to do our MDU is very much like the home They get the same router that the home gets saying typical type of configuration The equipment room may be different, but that'd be more like tier three anyway. So I'd end up But as far as to the unit it's For our guys, it's built exactly like a residential install because they've got a they got a wire coming in a router They have to set up TV boxes Ata for phone So it's pretty standard. Yeah, so from from the wall plug into the house It's the same no matter which business it is from the wall plug to the outside of the house It's different whether it's blue broadband or, you know, as SJP services or whatever exactly exactly cool So, you know, you're you're doing some residential. You're doing the MDU is I'm sure you're doing some business stuff So, I mean, you know, what's that business spread across in terms of you know percentages or just rough idea and are you thinking, you know As you go in the next year you focus on more on one versus the other to see and where things pop up So we're we're primarily about 40 50% business And and that that's our our start has always been our focus has always been enterprise So I don't I don't think we're ever gonna move away from the enterprise services We'd like to move a little bit away from like help desk services and focus more on You know things as a service so whether that be cyber security as a service back up as a service we want to focus more on the cloud infrastructure for the business then Being the one on site plugging everything Plugging everything in and so that's kind of where we're moving towards in the next few years Yeah, that that boots on the ground. I've got some MSP experience as well and that's that can be painful and tedious for sure Yeah, yeah, and as the whist grows we need we need more attention to it You know, it's no longer set and forget on the network somebody needs to be watching it 24-7 we have so many different components now from You know difference different networks different speeds different, you know wireless whether it's fiber that it's become a full-time job versus When IT support was a full-time job and we could really just kind of the whist ran on autopilot So like going a step further from that. I mean that's yet another thing So I was kind of curious how you manage the two types of businesses But I would imagine just like you said the managing management and provisioning of the customers in different services is It's quite unique and different across both as well So how do you how do you manage that?  You know diff with a different application than your IPTV service different than you know, the the internet service and stuff I mean, do you do you have like an all-in-one monitoring solution for that something proprietary using different packages? How do you how do you manage that stuff? So yeah, it's all we used to have something different for every service And as we decided that we're trying to conglomerate the two, you know, try to move IT and internet together under one family We're trying to bring all that into one like status page for instance Right, so we do have our VoIP our internet and our cloud services under one status page That we just finished like two months ago So that's really something we're just now working towards but It's integrated with multiple ping monitors and MMS is That are just kind of pinging everything and trying to automate the notification of different kind of clients But yeah, it's difficult. We have three different ticket systems, right, right Different documentation systems But the key to it being successful just like anything is documenting everything Somebody can go behind me on an IT site look at the documentation and know exactly what they need to do to solve a problem That we've already solved So as long as you're documenting everything it really Things end up being you know, you think it's all over the place, but it's a lot more simplified than you think cool Definitely a death by dashboard at times So you're like how many of those so yeah, I'm sure pulling those together helps and you know I'm thinking about support because of the you know, how much they're all tied into each other But also like each leg is different whether it's to Resi versus the MDU and stuff I mean, that's obviously got to present some challenges for support So I'm imagining, you know, you guys probably in-house everything um, I would imagine right so you would think so but we've actually had great success outsourcing different things so You know our IT help desk is outsourced Partially tier one and two is outsourced and It's outsourced to a specialized company just for help desk services then our ISP support is actually with a virtual assistant service and They really help us out on more than just taking those support calls on IT support But we give all of our clients a manager router We monitor our network Darnier 24-7. I mean I probably sleep four hours a night So we're always monitoring the network and we know problems as they appear. So our support calls are probably We get maybe five six internet support calls a week. Oh, well, that's pretty good Yeah, no, I mean our volume is low So you're you're saying five five or six that can't be handled by the tier one tier two So filter down to physically to you or or direct That's on for internet on our internet side. That's in general. Oh, okay as far as support Even better Very low support numbers But we you know, we have a quality of experience, you know qoe service on our network It's you know, we've invested a lot of money in making sure that we don't have problems That requires support calls if we have a lot of calls, we have an outing somewhere That's pretty much what it comes down to right on Cool cool So, you know these the with the enterprise businesses where you're providing internet service or you know the fiber to the knock Or excuse me fiber to the mbu's and stuff like how do you guys aggregate all this stuff together?  We're nowhere near a data center the closest data center is Two hours in mobile and you know, then you've got to pay out of state fees So we have kind of built our own mini data center in our in our warehouse offices And so we have di a coming in there and then all of our customers all our mbu's fibers transport to us That way we're going to be getting a second carrier coming in soon Um, and then that will allow us to aggregate Issues if one goes down versus one of the other Um, we also have businesses enterprise businesses that come into our data center That get transport from us and then we share The di a out to all the customers That's cool. Yeah, so it's a really nice approach That way you can sort of slim it down or pump it up where you need to and you know You're controlling the narrative there for sure. Absolutely. Absolutely. So we haven't quite gotten into the fiber game yet But at no point does a customer come to me and say they want fiber. Do I have to say no, we don't do that So we you know, that's where we can get the transport into our network into our data center And then to the customer we're pumping them our internet. So it's blue broadband service Whether it's over Someone else's transparent Um connection right and that hybrid approach You know may work out for you best in the long run because you don't want to own all that plant when uh, one of the storms comes through Possibly some some to consider you're like my insurance payments are gonna be awfully high for this Yeah, yeah But actually it kind of brings up a point So you know when we're talking to folks one of the things I like to think about are sort of the challenges That might be unique to a given customer or a given area So you're probably not spending a lot of your time sweating about uh, ice storms and things like that But the flip side of that is you're you're definitely in hurricane alley there So, you know, what do you the the challenges that you guys, you know face there?  What's it mean for when you know when you're trying to rely on some of this infrastructure? For the transport and stuff because there's a lot of areas where it's just so it gets wiped out so easily Yeah, yeah, so That that that is a big challenge and that's one that we're still working on and um, you know Like I mentioned bringing in a redundant path. That's going to be helpful Uh, our current path goes west So we're going to bring in another path that goes east that way Um, you know When a hurricane hits Louisiana, Mississippi, it doesn't it doesn't have the opportunity of affecting our other path Um, you know, and then that's why one of our recipes at mdu's is always bringing wireless in as well Because just in case that fiber infrastructure goes down because of a storm We can get a dish back up, you know in in no time compared to What the fiber companies are going to be when they have 300 customers down Right and you know in their perspective, you're just another one of those customers too.  Preparing I mean, obviously hurricane season comes at the roughly the same time every year, right? So what what's it kind of look like for you as far as preparing for that stuff every year? so it's We try to you know, we Come spring we start powering up all the generators and getting that making sure that they're running and stuff You know getting getting some kind of supplies in um, but there's At least for me. We've had so many false alarms that you could go broke preparing for nothing So it's a gamble It really is a gamble now once you've been doing it for you know, I've been in this area for 10 years now So once you get experienced for it, it's a little bit more helpful um, because I you know now I know Uh, it's about four days before the storm that we have an idea that it's really going to hit And that's when you start getting, you know containers of gas and storing them places moving vehicles and other You know other things for us. We have boats getting the boats out of the water Um start going to condominiums and putting more bricks on there on their mounts Uh, and and start talking to upstream providers and making a plan um, but there's you know There's only so much preparing you can do we try to keep We try to you know, keep all our dishes tight try to keep everything to where If there is a storm There there there's not a problem. So it's it's a little bit of hurry up and wait and then see What you know what you need afterwards It's more about the response Than the preparation for me right right after the storm how What you do is more important than what you do kind of preparing for the storm So there's definitely a lot more to it than just put your data center on the second floor, right? Yeah, oh, absolutely Yeah, you gotta buy all the bread and water from the store.  You want to think some of the bigger lessons that you've learned and you can reach out and tell folks Hey, you know, you guys that are potentially running into this, you know, you need to look at this What what advice would you throw out to those guys? That's a good question. So Yeah, over the last two years, I probably I probably responded to I think seven hurricanes and Yeah, it's it's been a very active two years on the coast here um You know, the big thing is and and I can't stress this enough for florida is Be friendly with your neighbors You're all in this together um So that that's my biggest advice is the people I know have recovered Would have you know, they were dependent on the people that came in and helped and it was neighbors. It was Wisps and the In the other county coming in and helping them fix the tower and them going and helping fix the entire and it's it's really about uh Who you know who you're Who you have as a resource so, you know All the way all of our all our whist need to come together as a resource is what i'm trying to say Definitely, we're definitely stronger together, right? And it's It's been and it's been a huge shift in the industry too, right where you know, it didn't matter if you were One county over or you know halfway or all the way across, you know the country You know wisps at one point saw every other wisp as a you know potential competitor, right? And now we're seeing kind of this, you know coming together and wisps wanting to help each other and talk to each other And they know that you know, there's you know, there's definitely some strengthening numbers And there's a lot of uh stuff that you can learn from you know your you know competitor You know what I mean? So I think the industry as a whole has stopped looking at The fellow wisp as the true competitor or issue and and have really looked Upstreamed to you know the bigger providers that are out there as as more of you know Who who we really are fighting in this in this game of fixed, you know, uh wireless internet access, you know Yeah, so I mean what what I would say to people that do get it get affected by disasters is don't be afraid to ask uh That's I think that's the biggest thing is that you know We've built a network of People that want to help each other because We aren't afraid to ask And it's built partnerships And I can say that these partnerships have extended past the hurricanes and are still active today helping each other Without disasters, you know and and are quite lucrative as well. So yeah, that's definitely something I think you know, especially for somebody new in this industry to to really consider Is what those relationships bring like you like you said it's more than just helping It's helping you grow and and it's it's opening up other opportunities for you know Yourself uh in the future and stuff like that and that's really cool. That's really cool Well, cool. Cool. Spencer. So again, you know, we really appreciate you taking the time out of your busy day Talk to us and share your experience is a lot of really cool stuff that you know operators run into They see different things in different ways and you know, everyone's got their own different way to approach stuff So in closing here anything else you want to share promote you got any new movies coming out or uh projects that you Want to kick off and promote as you're as you're on the red carpet here Maybe you have a book that you want to sell or something like that, you know Um, no, I'll just say, you know, I'm I'm on facebook Most people have seen me or heard from me on facebook and um, if you ever want to talk about any of these things mentioned or Uh, once some advice or help, uh, you know reach out to me send me a direct message I'm available As much as I can for the industry Awesome, that's great. And the industry appreciates you and we appreciate you. So You know anyone out there, uh, again, you know, we're looking for more guests and stuff. You want to share your story? Please reach out. We're super easy to find as well. We're on various facebook whist groups We have our own rf elements page rf english asia africa Uh, you can find us really easily tiesos at rf elements dot com kaleb at rf elements dot com We're there. So if you want to talk just reach out to us Anything in closing here? No sounds great, man. Thanks again, uh, spencer for joining us. It was great I've been looking forward to, you know, having wisps on here to kind of broaden the discussion And to bring some outside perspective, you know to this podcast and spice it up a little bit So it's been great, man. Thanks for joining us and I guess until next time stay horny everybody All right, stay horny y'all


Hello, it's David Wong and welcome to this video. In this video, I'm going to share with you some ways to make money at home While you're stuck at home during these times if you want to achieve g-life master You want to gain inner strength and inner peace and you want to attract abundance and make sure you subscribe to this channel You can get all the lessons and tips and life skills that you need to learn in order to achieve Success and abundance. With that said, here's the rest of the lesson. I've had a lot of viewers ask me Hey, David, you are successful entrepreneur. Please tell us how we can make extra money while we're stuck at home So I come up with some simple ideas of how you can do that and don't worry. I'm not selling any courses I don't teach people how to make money online or anything like that There's just some simple ideas that you can start to explore that can help you to increase your income Maybe make extra money while you're at home. So one of the first things you can do that can be very productive Is to start to declutter your home or your office or your room. Since you have all this extra time You're stuck and you spend a lot of time at home anyway Why not make a better environment so that you can have a clearer mind, a better place to work or to meditate? You'll have a place at home that's optimized so you can be the most productive and also you can create a place at home to become your sanctuary A place that you can recover rest and also meditate So one easy way to do all those things and also to make some extra money is to sell your stuff online So look around your room at a house if you have stuff that's been sitting around and have some value Maybe you can sell it online. For example, you can sell it on eBay You sell it on Amazon you can sell it on Craigslist Or you can post it to many different other options sites or listing sites or classifieds You can get rid of all this extra junk and clutter in your home or in your room The second way to make some extra money is to offer some simple online services Think of it as some online worksites like Fiber.com where you can sell gigs and just browse through what other people are selling Maybe it is something to do with design. Maybe it's something to do with video Maybe it's something to do with websites Just look at the online services that other people are providing on there and ask yourself Hey, can I do some of these things and you'd be surprised Maybe you find that hey, I can do some of this and don't worry. You don't have to be the best You have nothing to lose. Just open your account, follow the instructions, post up your services and see what happened Now if you're a little bit more serious and you want to invest a little bit more time into it Then you can start thinking about becoming an online affiliate So there's many websites and products out there that have something called affiliate programs And they offer commissions to people who send traffic or send customers to them And when you send people to these stores and they buy something These companies or products will pay you a commission every month So look around at these affiliate programs, find some websites and find out how much commission they're paying In the meantime, it's very simple and easy. You just open an account and they'll provide all the advertising material You just have to take that, copy it and paste it on the Facebook, paste it onto your blog Or just email to your friends or Instagram or any kind of social media that you have Fourth way of making money online is to teach something Right now there's many people that want to learn things from home Many kids are out of school and they want to learn new things So there's a big demand for courses and education online right now So if you have an expertise or you have a passion that you'd like to teach For example, playing piano, dance, or even personal coaching There's many websites out there where you can sign up for free, upload your courses And start to teach students online And who knows, you can create a large following students who are learning from you Method number five, you can start to crowdfund for your ideas For example, there's places like Kickstarter or Indiegogo or GoFundMe Where you can post your ideas and make sure your idea has a mark in What that means is that there's people willing to pay money to buy the things that you're going to create So that's maybe some way for you to raise money for your ideas And you can create a business from that Method number six is to work for your employer remotely Because now there are many companies that are having their employees work from homes And maybe you can talk to your boss and ask them Hey, is there any way I can do the work that I do in the office now from home The seventh way of making money online is to create content So you can do what I'm doing on YouTube You can create interesting and entertaining and educational content You can run advertising on your content and get money from that advertising Method number eight is to sell products on a big store like Amazon If you want to invest more time and start a business from home Many people start Amazon stores You can find your product for a good price And there's not that many people selling that product on Amazon You can be the one that distributes this product on Amazon and makes them make some money with it Number nine method of making some money at home is You can start a club or you can start an organization Find a group of people or a community that have similar passions or similar interests And then create content or education for this club And then ask for donations or subscriptions or memberships for people to become part of this club And the final way to make extra money is not a direct way of making money But it's very important if you want to increase your income over the long term And what this is is to improve yourself Now that you start your home, you have this extra time Why not take the time to improve your own skills Improve your own mindset And make yourself more attractive and give yourself the skills In order to manifest things Because the more powerful you can manifest your ideas into reality And the more value you can create your society And the more money you're going to make So are you serious about creating success and abundance and wealth over the long term Why not take this time to improve yourself And to become very abundant on the inside So that you can receive the abundance on the outside The same goes before you can get you have to first become So I hope that helps you Those are five ways of making extra money while you're stuck at home I hope that helps you out You have some other ideas of how to make money while you're stuck at home Go ahead and put them in the comments Make sure you like and share this video with your friends So I'm David Wong, use the chi and prosper I'll see you in the next video


Hi everyone, Joe for JaspeysCaseBreaks.com. We did it. We knocked out that Jaspeys 9 box off season baseball mixer. Version number two, featuring some nice stuff here, gilded luminaries, museum collection, so on and so forth. Here's a look. Some of those boxes back there, pretty nice stuff. Thanks everybody for watching, for breaking with us, for getting in on the action. Appreciate you.  We took out a full spot. If you bought a full spot, you got a chance to win a full spot. So nice little promo. So let's gather these names here. Let's gather, and then congrats to the people who won their spots in that leaf exotic break. Let's grab the rest right there for that extra spot right over there. So a chance at a buy one, get one. Good luck. Name on top after seven, lucky for somebody, lucky seven for someone, six and one, seven times, one, two, three, four, five, six, and seventh and final time. Charles, congrats to you after seven, an extra spot going your way. Now we can randomize you a team. We'll put the results right here. All 30 teams are in, no combos. New list for you right there. Let's roll it. Randomize names and teams, five and a four, nine times each. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and ninth and final time, five and a four, nine times. Got Charles down to Josh, five and a four, nine times for the teams. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and ninth and final time. Good luck everybody. The Friars down to Dem Bums, the Dodgers. All right, Charles, you got the Friars. Mark with the Royals. Do the Royals have like a nickname? Justin with the Cubbies. Andrew with the A's. I guess A's already a nickname. Jeremy with the Bronx Bombers. Bennett with the Giants. Higantus. Stephen with the Buccos. Charles with the Halos. Nathan with the Shy Sox. Josh with the Redbirds. James, you got the Strokes. Richard with the Twinkies. Josh with the Bluebird. Stephen K with the Redlegs. Stephen S with the Brew Crew. A'shams with the Snakes. Todd with the O's. Stephen S with the Bow Sox. Andrew with the Rios. Rays. Charles with the M's. David M with the Fish and the M's. Stephen S with the Fightin' Fills. Stacey with the Nats. The X-Line with the Metropolitan's. The Bravos and the Tigers. The little cat team mojo. Michael with the Guardians and the Rocks. And the X-Line. Dembums is what they used to call them. The boys in blue. Dodgers. Back in the Brooklyn days. Doing what the Dodgers do best. Going to World Series and not winning them. Let's alphabetize by team. It's a longstanding tradition. And we're gonna pause the video. When we come back, we're gonna see if there's any trades. Then we're gonna have the break. So stick around, BRB. We'll see you on the other side of the trade window. All right, welcome back everybody. Trade window closed, TWC. No deals were done. A little bit of trade chatter, but in the end, no deals were done. Nice little room here. Big thanks everybody right here. Random team two. Congrats again to the winners of the spots in that Leaf Exotic Baseball Break. The X-Line, last spot mojo. Charles with the extra spot. So a lot of great stuff there. Thanks everybody for making this mixer happen. Where should we start? I think we'll start with that Ben Baller. How about that? Autographs are fewer and far between in these two sets. So let's do these first. Thanks and good luck everybody. Has there been any crazy news out of the winter meetings? They started yesterday. I thought we'd have more news today, but let's see, mlb.com headlines are saying, Soto trade talk pauses for Yanks, but interest does not. Who are the Yanks? He's gonna move for Ohtani, for Soto. According to a report, the Ohtani believed to have met with the Blue Jakes. Dave Roberts declaring that Mookie Betts will be your everyday second baseman. Tyler O'Neill, maybe on the trading block. He seems to be the odd man out in the Cardinals outfield log jam. According to mlb.com. Atlanta, far from done after dealing for Kalanick apparently. Atkins for the Blue Jakes ships media session while in pursuit of big time stars. Maybe Ohtani. Braves showing an interest in Ohtani apparently. I mean, who isn't? What contender is not showing an interest for Ohtani? I mean, you could probably connect a lot of, you know, far flung dots together to make a case for Ohtani for any contender. We need the Ohtani domino to drop though. Outside of Ohtani, I feel like the free agent class is not as, I mean, there's some solid players, but not as robust as it has been in recent years.  But once that domino falls, then I think we'll see, you know, maybe some of the floodgates open a little bit. It's hard to see other free agent dominoes drop and then probably more trades will start to happen. That's right, Jimmy. The last filler for Hit Parade is that certified box. We're holding at 15 left. If it doesn't sell out by the time I finish this break, which is probably gonna bring me to closer to the top of the hour, we're gonna call, we'll probably do it tomorrow. It's Adam Frazier, three out of five, Adam Frazier. We're gonna start the mixer off with a train whistle. Who's got Seattle, David M. Got randomized Seattle. There you go, David. And all aboard the Big Hit Express, whoop whoop. Always fun to get the train whistle. It was Kyle Hendricks, yeah, what is taking so long? I do like this insert set. I don't know if this is still a pretty common insert, but I do like it. There's Hendricks to 99. That'll be for Justin and the Coveys. O'Neill Crue is a nice rookie card here. 64 out of 99 in that old design. 88, 87. Oh, I actually would say right here, 87. That'll be for the Pirates. Steven Surrey with that one. Steven S. Oziel, he's 33 out of 99. If the Braves have interest in Otani, imagine Otani in that lineup. Seth Beer, rookie card to 75 for HMS in Arizona. And an Otani die cut, nice. Angels, that'll be for Charles. All right, behind our Zorania is Anthony Rendon. 15 out of 15, nice low number for the Angels. That'll be for Charles. Is that how it's gonna happen, Jimmy? Jared Kalanek leaves. Leaves the Mariners, all of a sudden becomes really good. All right, let's do Cosmic. That's how it always happens. Well, no, that's not how it always happens. What about Kettle Marte? No, he's had a couple of good seasons. Kyle Lewis. Kyle Lewis? Yeah, Kalanek had a bad attitude anyway. Remember how he broke his foot or his hand or something? Like he punched something or kicked a water cooler or something like that after a strike out? It's an extra adhesive on that pack. It's kind of funny how he's back in the NL East. The Mets originally had him. So I wonder if he just becomes like a Met Killer. You've got extra terrestrial talent, Gunnar Henderson. Your A.L. rookie of the year. Todd with the O's. And we've got an autographed, Gordon Groshan's. Nice, 35 out of 75. Green, a speckle autograph for the fish. It's for David M. in Miami. All right, excuse me. He's a Kodi Sangha starry knight. We've got Ahmed Rosario, blue Pulsar, 14 out of 99. Why he, he got traded to the Dodgers. He wasn't on that, on the playoff roster. A launch into orbit. You're on Alvarez diet cut. Got another Gunnar Henderson. We've got Aqua Shimmer Logan Ohapi, to 199 for the Halos, Charles. Launch into orbit, Juan Soto, Max Meyers. And there's Cosmic. Nice that we got the auto out of Cosmic. All right, let's go back in time to 2021. This top scone baseball jumbo box, HTA, whatever you want to call it, five autos of this one. I guess we'll find out who the 2021 rookie is. It's five in here. There's three in 2023. I don't know if it's the weather, but maybe I've been talking a lot. Throw it his little, little drive. All right, good luck, everybody. That's red, no, it's magenta. All right, we got Luis Garcia, to 399. Stacy with the Nationals. Fractures aren't numbered. Brian Hayes is a rookie in this, nice. There he is again. And here's our first autograph, Josh Fleming. As much as I want to see this Pacers Celtics game again, I know it has happened. Let's, what about Fire Ups of MLB Network? Let's get some, let's absorb some MLB news here. Tampa Bay Rays Andrew with Tampa Bay. George Brett documentary. He went to high school just up the street from Jaspis, sports cards and collectibles. Same high school as Lars Newbar. And the other autograph, nice, is Johan Ramirez. The font is kind of small and kind of weird this year. Rookie order for the Mariners. David M with the M's. Mariners have some nice pitching. I think they're hitting is what they're, what they're gonna be looking for this off season as chisms are rookie in this one. That's right. Joey Votto to 199, Reds, Stephen Kay. And we've got a Julian Merriweather. Rookie Otto for the Blue Jays. Josh Yost with the Bluebirds. Refractor jazz chism for David and the Marlins, nice. Even better. And we've got a Cardinals autograph. We've got, it is Roelle Ramirez. Josh Yost with the Cardinals. Dylan Carlson, a refractor for also for Yost. And we've got a Blue Otto, Brent Rooker. Blue rookie Otto for the Twins. Richard Hastings with the Twinkies, Twin Cities. 150 out of 150. Now let's move ahead a couple of years to 2023. Top Chrome Baseball. The MVP buyback possibilities here. So the X-Line has the Braves. You definitely want to see some Acuna Juniors and Angels, Charles.  Part of the MVP buyback program. For those of you who haven't seen the commercial, go to our Twitter, At Jassy's Breaks. You can see our top buyback commercial along with a couple other other card shops in there. Greg Emsinger of MLB Network has created a pie chart. The winners of the Otanis Sweeps AC has given it 30% to the Dodgers, 30% chance of the Blue Jays, 20% chance of the Cubs, 2% chance of the Angels, 5% to the Giant, 10% to the A's, 1% and that's Mariners Yankees. Very unofficial. Nancy, what's going on? How are you? I do see the Pelicans advancing. I watched the end bit of that Pelicans Kings game. I might run into each other in that tournament. Lakers, Pelicans. I'm assuming Zion's looking healthy. No, did I say A's? 1% met Mariners Yankees, 2% Angels, 5%. This is very unscientific. Giants, 10% Braves, not A's. All right, we got this guy. This guy, Rosario, 161 out of 299 purple speckle autograph for the Friars. Charles with the Padres. Yeah, raise. It's Royce Lewis, Future Stars insert. Nice. Anakunia Refractor, Josh X-Line. Part of the buyback program. I think the refractors are a little bit more. I forget what the pricing breakdown is. And there's just the base Otani that's gonna go to Charles. Oh, you saw the Spurs game? Wouldn't it see Wemby? It didn't happen? What's, what happened? The load managing Wemby already. He's max free to 125. I saw him for a little bit in Summer League. So I'm in a Summer League game over the summer, believe it or not. And we got Matt Wallner. It's another twin for Richard H. I don't think these count for the buyback program. Got a Francisco Alvarez, Future Stars insert. Now in 80s, 90s, guys weren't sitting. Guys are playing 82 games, 48 minutes a night. 100% max effort. Michael with the Guardians, with the bow nailer autograph. Cleveland, this is for you. And we've got a Volpe Refractor, nice. That's for the Yankees, that's gonna be for Jeremy. And a Kodai Senga. These are the radiating rookies. I think these are relatively shorter printed. That's gonna go to the X-Line with the Metz, last bond mojo, pretty nice season last year. We're seeing that Yamamoto pitcher, because he is even better than him, protected to have even better season than him. And last but not least, a Corbin Carroll Refractor for Ashams. Your NL rookie of the year, that's in the top loader, right? Yeah, that's just a bit of dust in the top loader. Let's get into some sapphire from back in the day.  Next box, good luck, we're getting there. Artola Cologne. And we've got Kenley Jansen. Dodger's edition of Kenley Jansen going to the X-Line, 19 out of 45. And behind Baez is two out of 50, Reese Hoskins Autograph, nice. That's Steven Surrey with the Fightin' Fills. He's got a cool auto, and Jadro Diaz. All right, how about some museum collection? The frame, nice. That's the cases. We'll also hold out at Hope to the very end, Jimmy. All right, there's Yoshida. Match Hammond to 99 for the Blue Jays, Yoast, Sal Perez, Vlad Gros Jr. for Yoast. And Aaron Judge for the Yankees. That's Jeremy to 299. Behind the reproduction is Triple Relic and Autograph Signature Swatches, The Wizard. Ozzie Smith. Yarrow Wizard, Ozzie. It's gonna go to Yoast and the Redbirds. Excellent penmanship there. Will surely be. He's available, a keynote speaker at Jaspy's Autograph Camp. 78 out of 199. And, behind Bobby Wood Jr. is Hunter Brown. 43 out of 99. Three color Quad Relic for the Stroze, James M. And the Astros. Behind Ichiro is Jimmy Rollins Relic, 29 out of 50. Hall of Famer, he's a little ways away, but I think I saw an MLB network thing. With Brian Kenney, I think, interviewing Jimmy Rollins and talking about his potential Hall of Fame candidacy. All right, lucky enough to get a frame in a single box. Behind Bryce Harper, it is, it's Trey Turner, his teammate. 13 out of 15, Silver, Ink, Autograph. Kind of a cool looking auto. Simple, but cool. Going to Steven S. And the Phillies. Nice. All right, top's chrome black. I'm going gilded, closing with luminaries. That's my executive decision. Christian Pache, Casey Meis, and Zach Ranky, Astros Edition to 25. It's a hitter. It is an old school hitter, Johnny Bench. Cincinnati Red Legs, that'll be Steven K. Wonder how many, I wonder how many encased Johnny Bench carts I could fit in one hand. All right, gilded. Smoltsy to 99. Romy to 99. And Max Muncie. Dodgers, the X-Line. 19 out of 50. Kind of has weird numbers. Like a low average, a lot of homers, but a high, walks a lot. Walks or homers. I mean, strikes out a fair bit, but sort of a weird, weird splits. We can get that average up a little bit. We have a big part of that team. And then we got a Juan Soto Nationals Edition to 25. That'll be for Stacey. Romy will go to Nate. Smoltsy will go to the X-Lines. Then the Framed Auto will go to, will go to the Rangers. Pudge. Two out of 25. Texas Rangers, that's gonna be Charles. There you go, Charles. Final box. Ninth and final. It's gonna be another Ozzy Smith, the wizard. Five out of 15. You got a Hall of Fame inscription right there. 2,460 hits. I would imagine. Yeah, number three career hits total by a switch hitting shortstop. It's pretty good. Pretty, pretty good. And there you go, ladies and gentlemen. Pretty nice break. What is Ozzy Smith doing these days? 68 years old, still with us. Is he doing like post-playing career? Oh, pawn retirement. Smith took over, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. This week in baseball, late 90s color commentary local Cardinals radio or TV games. This and that. Did some work for CNNSI. Remember CNNSI? Back in the late 90s. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame by receiving 91.1% of the vote. As it happened, the Olympic torch was passing through St. Louis on its way to Salt Lake for the 2002 Winter Olympics. Then he served as a torchbearer with Rams quarterback Kurt Warner that evening. He was inducted. He compared baseball experiences of characters from the wonderful Wizard of Oz. Blah, blah, blah, blah, statues, Bushfield, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Smith opened Ozzy's restaurants and sports bars in 1988. Started Youth Sports Academy in 1990, became an investor in a grocery store chain in 1999. Wow. Of those businesses, Youth Academy still remains open. Restaurants closed in 2010, changing ownership and locations once. Numerous radio TV commercials in the St. Louis area, authored children's book in 2006, launched his own brand of salad dressing in 08. He's a busy dude. In 2023, Smith returned to his alma mater as his statue in Bagot Stadium was rededicated as part of Ozzy Smith Plaza at the facility's entrance. I guess he's keeping busy. So there you go, gang. A very nice break. All right, good night, X-Line. Thank you for getting in. Quick little recap. I think it was a pretty solid break overall. A lot of great stuff. Got the frame out of the museum collection, just one box. There's the other Ozzy Smith, Corbin Carroll. I like seeing the MVP Bibeck players, especially that refractor Acunia. So a lot of great stuff. And that, Adam Frazier, out of five. All right, thanks, everybody. That was, do I have any other randomizes? No, nothing, nice clean break. That was Jaspie's nine box MLB off-season baseball mixer, random team at number two. I'm Joe. Thanks for watching. Thanks for breaking with us. And I'll see you next time for the next break. Bye-bye.


Hello and welcome to another session on triangles in this session We are going to take up another theorem and the theorem says that angles opposite to two equal sides of a triangle are equal Okay, so I have drawn a triangle a bc you can see a bc is a triangle drawn here and I have measured the sides ac and bc you can take this right and Both of them are equal to ten point one two I have also measured the angle a and b alpha and beta fifty seven point zero nine fifty seven point zero nine degrees Okay, so what we're going to do in this session is First we'll try and validate this in terms of if I change the position of a b and c So what happens? So does this theorem hold for all the configuration and shapes of a bc or it is just a specific case Okay, so we will try and validate with different different Locations and orientations of point a b and c that's point number one After that what we are going to do is we are going to prove this theorem right so proving is also important Just validation will not help validation is just to understand that yes It works so I'm constructing a triangle and seeing for myself that is the theorem does Work and and if it works then it is our you know our next step to find out The way to establish it generally that means We have to give up general proof of it. So let's start with the validation So what I'm going to do is I'm going to change the position of c and you have to observe the angles on so now This is the new position of c and you can see what is the value of alpha forty point nine nine forty point nine nine The sides remain the same if I change the location of b Let's say now I'm changing the location of b So you can see the value of a c and b c has changed, but Yeah Angle remains the same angle Angles all both the angles always are equal. Okay, even if I change the location of a let's say Okay, and here is point c sites are equal angles are same So you can take it to this side as well see sites are always equal and as sites are equal the angles are same So this is taking a reflex angle in this case because it has been measured like that. So let me go back to this position and Come back here. Okay, so you can see at any location of a and b or any configuration of the triangle The theorem does appear to be holding good, right? So all the cases if the sides are Sides are equal the opposite angles are equal now you'll ask how to prove this theorem So that is interesting. So let's try and prove this How do I prove this so what I'm going to do is I'm going to bisect angle a cb and definitely I'm going to use the concept of Convrew and triangle. So I'm going to bisect a angle c basically. So you can see there are two Two this thing I don't want this bisector. So let me take it away. So yes, so I am bisecting it and let's say this point Your intersection point here is B. Okay, and let me take away this bisector and simply let over here Segments stay over there. So what I'm going to do is now I'm going to add a segment so Cbm join right. So what is the construction guys construction is so let me also write now So I am going to write So what I've done is So let me first take this Diagram and let me sideways where we get some space like okay So let me write this through on the right side. So hence what I've done is angle if you see so What do I the construction is CD? Is Bisector of angle a CD Okay right now in Triangle, let's say a CD and triangle BCD BCD What do we know we know that AC is equal to BC it's given What else you also know that angle ACB ACB is equal to angle BCD Why because CD is the bisector CD bisects angle C And what else you also know CD is equal to CD in both the cases common They are common Therefore, what can I say therefore? if you see therefore CD Therefore triangle ACB is congruent to triangle BCD, right? BCD by what criteria by? SAS Criteria right by SAS. Therefore, what is this? You don't get confused so it is by s a Okay, therefore, and I'm writing here therefore therefore You can always say angle a is equal to angle B Okay, and this is nothing but corresponding parts of corresponding Triangles right so hence prove So we prove that angles opposite to two equal sides of the triangle are already equal And in fact the vice versa is also true That is the converse is also true if the angles are equal Then the sides have to be opposite sides also are equal right once again if the opposite angles are equal of a triangle Or two angles of a triangle are equal and opposite sides of the two Angles are also equal right so that converse is also true So I hope you understood the term and let's now solve some problems based on this term


So one of the threads that I think it's important to understand is the conservatives themselves saying we're not conservatives anymore. And I noticed this in the last few weeks, there were a number of articles around this theme. It was brought up in a number of different places, but there was one article that I think kind of summarized the arguments really, really well. And it's in the Federalist, the Federalist, let me just find the author for you. It's in the Federalist website, the Federalist is being, you know, pre-Trump, the Federalist really was a place, as its name suggests, which was a place where pro-founding fathers, pro-classical liberal, you could call them, pro-American revolution, pro-American constitution, Republicans found a voice. This was the place they did a long interview with me before, you know, maybe early in the Trump administration. There was some really good writers there, there was some very, it was a very, very good, very good publication. And I didn't agree with a lot of it, as I don't agree with conservatives, but basically they were coming at it from what I think is the right perspective or the right attitude for conservatives. But since Trump, basically what this has become, they've completely shifted, moved away from the founding fathers, moved away from any kind of that line of conservatism, moved away from any conception of free markets or liberty, moved away from the Constitution and Declaration of Rights, and moved towards this territory of populism and territory of the new right of some kind of new conservatism, new ideology for the right, which is far more statist. And I think he's a, this is a senior editor at the Federalist, his name is John Daniel Davidson, John Daniel Davidson. This is an article written on October 20th, about 10 days ago, on the Federalist website and it's called, we need to stop calling ourselves conservatives. They always should have never called themselves conservatives, but I found the argument fascinating because it's wrong in so many different dimensions about what conservatives were, what conservative, what the problem is today, and where we're heading into the future. The whole thing is just such a mishmash, but it gives you again insight into the way people on the right are thinking about politics today. And I think this is really important. I think we need to understand. We need to understand the way the right is thinking about politics and what the right wants to achieve through politics. And Davidson here just lays it out. He tells us exactly what to achieve. And he also tells us exactly what they're not interested in by not even talking about it. We'll get to that. So here's Davidson. He says, conservatives have long defined their politics in terms of what they wish to conserve or preserve. True. Enough. Individual rights, family values, religious freedom, and so on. Conservatives we are told want to preserve the rich traditions and civilization and achievement of the past, pass them on to the next generation and defend them from the left. Yes. I mean, this is what they want. They have no real philosophical foundation. They have no real way to ground us. They have no real way to defend this at the same time as defending progress, at the same time as defending moving forward, at the same time as defending the ideas of liberty and growth and progress and maybe even to some extent a change of understanding of certain aspects of the world around us. No, they want to preserve the past. What about the past? Well they pick and choose. Do they want to preserve slavery? No, no, no, not that, right? What exactly do they want to preserve about the past? Do you have Crow laws? Not that. So they want to preserve what they want to preserve. They pick and choose what they want to preserve. The one thing that you as always united conservatives is the guiding principle for the preservation is defined by some religious category, some religion and tradition. Which tradition? They pick and choose based on their currencies in the moment. And they did, I know I ended a video, I think it was 1969, calling conservatives bankrupt, conservatism an obituary for an idea, she called it. I mean, she basically thought conservatives were dead back then, it didn't make any sense.  She predicted conservatives would be an absolute unmitigated disaster that they would fail. And she was right. I mean, they had a little uptick of a victory with Reagan, and then since then it's basically the one disaster after another, and today, even on the right, even the right wants to give up on conservatism. Why? Well, Davidson continues to say, quote, in an earlier era, this made sense. There was much to conserve. After all, what, but now he says there's nothing to conserve. We have to be honest, we failed, conservatives failed. After all, he says, what have conservatives succeeded in conserving? In my lifetime, they have lost much marriage as it has been understood for thousands of years. The First Amendment, I'm not exactly sure what's been lost in the First Amendment. If anything, the First Amendment today legally is more protected than at any point in American history. So this is just, this is one of those points where in an effort to fight the left, one of the things the right does is make the world out to be much, much, much worse than it actually is. And this is something Republicans are very good at. Donald Trump is very good at. I always campaign if he runs a 2024 will all be about Sodom and Gomorrah. The world is falling apart, there's crime everywhere, people are dying everywhere. The world, you know, the First Amendment is lost, everything in America is falling apart. We are a failed state on every aspect and I'm here to fix that. So he will return to the winning strategy of 2016 that didn't work in 2020 because in 2020 couldn't quite make that argument because he was president, but he can come back to it in 2024 because you'll say Biden did it in the last four years. But the First Amendment from a legal perspective, happy to be contradicted by any legal scholars out there. But the First Amendment, first amendment, actual freedom of speech and our freedom of religion, freedom of religion practices, as people understand it, is better protected today than it has ever been, ever been. He continues all the things the conservatives have lost. Any semblance of control over our borders, all right, a fundamental distinction between men and women and especially of late the basic rule of law. Now here does he mean an increase in crime rates? Again, I will remind you as bad as things are today and in some places they're really bad, they're much, much better than what they were under Reagan and Bush, Bush 1. So 80s and early 90s. So we're conservatives then complaining about the disappearance of the basic rule of law and blaming that on the left. You see how they manipulate, they throw things out. It doesn't matter. Truth, this is the thing. Truth doesn't matter in politics and it doesn't matter for the left. It's never matter for the left and it doesn't matter for the right. It may be a never matter for the right. Maybe I'm naive thinking there was a better right once, but it doesn't matter for the right today. It just doesn't matter. It doesn't matter to Trump, but it doesn't matter to any of these new right, what they want to give you a sense right now of the world is falling apart, conservatism have lost. The most important issues of the day are who can marry whom. The distinction between men and women as articulated by some people and immigration and what limitations they might be on speech and private platforms. These are the only issues that matter. Notice there's nothing here about taxes, regulations, tariffs, free trade, entrepreneurship, innovation, technology. We'll get to technology in a minute. Nothing about any of those things because they don't care. Economics, they don't care. They just don't care. Economic liberty, they don't care. So conservatism has failed. It has failed. It has failed to preserve the things that it claimed they wanted to preserve that were good. To preserve the vision of the Fanny Fathers, failed. Preserve the concept of individual rights, failed. Conserve any semblance of economic freedom, failed. So on all the important things they fail, and yes, they've also failed on some of these others from their perspective. Although again, First Amendment's no basic rule of law, somewhat. He says it's too late for conservators. Conservatives should just give up the title of conservatism, the idea of conservatism. Because Western civilization is dying or on the verge of death. It's just, conservatives will not save it. And I agree with him. Conservatives will not save Western civilization. It's too late for you. There's nothing for you to conserve. Indeed, the reason Western civilization is dying is because of you. You, who had the job of conserving it, never knew what it was about. Never understood the principles. Never understood what individual rights meant. Never properly understood the role of government. Try to base it and ground it on the principles of religion, on the principles of the dark ages. Try to base and ground it ultimately in statism, in tradition and in religion.  You have been a disaster and it's your fault. The left always hated America. Since the 1850 progressives hated America, the progressives came to dominate. And you were supposed to be the anti-progressives. You were supposed to be the people who stood up to the progressives. You were supposed to be the people who were going to protect Americanism from the left. And you failed. And you failed because you're conservatives. You failed because of your focus on tradition, on your focus on religion, on your antagonism or unwillingness to defend markets, unwillingness to champion progress, real progress.  The founding fathers were not conservatives. They were radical revolutionaries. And that's what's needed, but the right kind of radical revolutionaries because a fear that what we're getting, what we're going to get are the wrong kind of radical revolutionaries. Listen to this hyperbolic. Listen to this just insane kind of way to try. Now, I think we, people on the show, understand the sense in which Western civilization died. Understand the sense in which the left is destroying America. Understand the sense in which the vision of the founding fathers is being destroyed. But I want to give you a sense of, again, more of how they think about it, how the way today thinks about these things, not how we think about it, how they think about it. Here's the things that are so disturbing to the right. Again, not a word of individual rights, not a word about economic liberty. I'm going to read you this paragraph, quote, to talk in our family values, which we radicals for capitalism never did, is to assume that there are enough Americans able and willing to marry and raise children together for something like family values to matter in the public discourse, much less in the halls of power. So now they're trying to convince you that there's just no families out there, that families are gone, that nobody is getting married, and if they're all getting married, they get immediately divorced. So there's no families. We shouldn't even talk about family values because families are gone. That's how much they want you to be scared. He continues. To talk about defending religious freedom is to misapprehend that the real risk today is widespread irreligion, which will leave so few religious Americans in coming generations that the government and large corporations will inevitably and easily prosecute them. So what do conservatives, what really makes them afraid is their traditional family is falling apart. It's that people are less religious. That's what makes them afraid. That's what worries them. That's what undermines, that's why they think Western civilization is dying and ending. Good riddance to religion and family values?  Family is a good thing. For those of you who choose to have them, who said there has to be one type of family? Is our history of the human race so wonderful, so fantastic, so beautiful, so amazing? Don't we want to preserve it at all costs? Conserve it at all costs? Should we go back to the Middle Ages? There were lots of families in the Middle Ages. Is that what's valuable about Western civilization? Do they even know what Western civilization is? The answer is simple. No, no, no. They think Western civilization is the Judeo-Christian tradition. That's it.  Going back to the Old Testament. The Old Testament is pretty brutal, not Western at all. Western civilization is the Renaissance, the Enlightenment. Western civilization is the negation of Christianity. Western civilization is the recognition of reason as man's means of survival, of man's means of knowledge, and the individual as the important model and political entity. Reason, individualism. Reason, individualism. That, in essence, is Western civilization. All the rest. All right. Let's see. Now, here's the funny part, right? I think the conservative project has failed because it never had a philosophy because it relies on religion. It relies on faith. It relies on this Mophis thing called tradition because it cannot defend the Founding Fathers because it has no philosophy consistent with the Founding Fathers. It doesn't understand the Founding Fathers. Indeed, it thinks the Founding Fathers are crazy because the Founding Fathers were men of the Enlightenment. The Founding Fathers were men of reason, which these guys can't comprehend. They can't understand. They can't even get it. But this is not why they think the conservative project has failed. Here's why they think the conservative project has failed. Quote, the conservative project failed because it didn't take into account the revolutionary principle of technology and its intrinsic connection to the tedious of sheer profit. But so it doesn't fail because it didn't recognize how powerful technology was going to get and that it's motivated by profit and how evil that is.  Real threat wasn't. Real threat was not left-wing revolutionary politics. The real threat was Silicon Valley. The real threat was progress. The real threat was technology. I mean, this is beautiful and missed the real threat, which was technological change so swift and powerful. It fundamentally reordered society, swept tradition aside and unleashed a moral relativism that rendered the conservative project obsolete.  They really think that it's technology that unleashed moral relativism. They don't think it's ideas and they don't think it's their weakness in presenting a morally relativistic view of religion that led to all this. This is so weak. This is so... I mean, moral relativism is unleashed because there's nobody to defend objectivity. The only alternative to moral relativism is faith, religion. Just believe because she attends commandments. God told me this is true. The only alternative to moral relativism as conservatives have presented it is religion. Well, religion is barbaric. It's primitive. It's old. It's going to die at some point and instead of coming up, instead of advocating for, instead of coalescing around a philosophy to present an alternative to moral relativism, instead of coalescing a lot of philosophy that presents an objective morality grounded in reason, grounded in reality, what do conservatives do? Religion, religion, religion, religion. That's their standard. Right? That's a standard that is dead. It's obsolete. It's gone. And yes, conservative project is obsolete not because of technology, but because of religion. I continue quoting. Instead of questioning these technologies, asking whether they would contribute to human flourishing, conservatives asking whether they contribute to human flourishing, conservatives acquiescing to the inevitability and focused instead of narrow issues. The result is being the transformation of society within the span of one single life, human lifespan. They have no...   That is such nonsense. And with it, the wholesale destruction, wholesale destruction of our traditions and looming implosion of Western civilization, all caused by technology. Not by a lack of ideas, not by inability to defend Western civilization because you don't know what it stands for, what it represents, who Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison, Hamilton actually were. You're the Federalist magazine, after all. You think you know who these people were, but no. We're not going to defend that tradition. We're just going to defend family values. What were Thomas Jefferson's family values? Oh, Alexander Hamilton. Didn't he have that famous affair? Anyway. So the solution is one of these new rate advocates claims is to quote, enact a serious program of technological development to build a future that supports human flourishing. So what do we need? We need central planners to develop technology that will increase human flourishing because we know technology today doesn't. The iPhone, the iPhone, it destroys human flourishing. It's just, it's, we need a Steve Jobs of the right to bring out good technology that will actually support. So he says, first thing, Republicans need to stop thinking of themselves. I mean, no, they need to stop thinking of themselves as conservatives. They need to think of themselves as radicals, restorationalists, and counter-revolutionaries. I'm not sure what exactly they want to restore. Maybe the Middle Ages. We need a revolution, he says. He says, we need a break from the past and forge a new political identity. He says, forget those market-obsessed libertarians. Forget the foreign policy neocons. All that's finished. Donald Trump shaken it all up. I mean, he says the election of Donald Trump in 2016 held it a populist wave in the end of Republican politics because we knew it, and now we are in uncharted waters, right? And he says, we need to talk. We need to figure out what our agenda should be. I mean, there's some like Sahaba Maori and Glenn and Papin and Adrian Vermeure, advocates of a conservatism that is comfortable with big government and in fact sees it as necessary not only for the common good, but to attain what I'm recently called the private tyranny of woke corporations empowered by unrestrained market forces. Conservative Catholics, he argues, should today claim ownership of a pro-worker, even pro-union, I did a show on this, political agenda that once belonged to the left and which produced generations of democratic voting Catholic workers. Indeed, he says, a willingness to embrace government power has been a topic of fruitful debate on the new right in recent years, as it should be. However, uncomfortable traditional small government conservatives might be with a Maori's argument, it is more or less true. Need to forget about small government. Need to forget about limited government. We need to start wielding power and we need to start liking it. We need to stop compromising with the left, he says, and we need to use political party to get our way. He writes, conservatives will have to discard outdated and irrelevant notions about small government. The government will have to become in the hands of conservatives an instrument of renewal in American life and in some cases a blunt instrument indeed. You guys aren't afraid of these people? I am. Quote, to stop big tech, for example, will require using antitrust powers to break up the larger Silicon Valley firms. To stop universities from spreading poisonous ideologies will require state legislatures to starve the republic funds. To stop the disintegration of family might require, this is an interesting one, reversing the travesty of no-fault divorce. You shouldn't be allowed to divorce. You have to have fault. No-fault divorce combined with generous subsidies, generous subsidies for families with small children. Conservatives need not to shy away from making these arguments because they betray some cherished libertarian fantasy about free market to small government. It is time to clear our minds of Kent. C-A-N-T, not K-A-N-T. I wish it was K-A-N-T. That would be an achievement. In other words, he says, will the government power will mean a dramatic expansion of the criminal code? It will now be enough, for example, to reach an accommodation with the abortion regime, to agree on reasonable limits on when unborn human life can be snuffed out with impunity. He says, he says, basically abortion now comes the real fight in state houses across the country to outlaw completely the barbaric practice of killing unborn from conception. Now, these people are not about viability. These people are not about the third trimester. These people are anti-life. They're anti-life, human life. They want to snuff out. They want to snuff out the life of the mother. They want to snuff out the choices that you make.  They want to outlaw completely all abortions for any reason from conception. This is the goal. This is what they want. Nothing should have this will satisfy them. He says, Republicans need to prepare themselves. If they want to stay in office, it better have an answer ready when they are asked, what reasonable limits to abortion restrictions would they support? The answer is none. Conservatives need to get comfortable saying and reply to people like French, David French. The drag queen story hour should be outlawed. The parents who take their kids to drag shows should be arrested and charged with child abuse. The doctors who perform so-called gender affirming interventions should be thrown in prison and have their medical license revoked. And the teachers who expose their children, their students to sexually explicit material should not just be fired, but be criminally prosecuted, criminally prosecuted for talking about sex. This is what it's come to. This is what hatred of the left has done to the mind of conservatives. They want to criminalize your behavior.  What he'd really like to criminalize is much, I believe, of our secular lives. How is he going to do this, by the way? I find this interesting. The majority of Americans don't agree with him. How is he going to wield this power? Well, he's going to have to wield it using authoritarian measures. He's going to have to wield it using quote non-democratic measures. He's going to have to wield it by being an authoritarian because the American people don't believe in this. The American people believe there should be some limits to abortion, but not total. The American people don't think the parents who take their kids to drag shows should be arrested and charged with child abuse. We still think that parents are responsible. I mean, I think that parents that force their kids to go to church every Sunday. Anyway, I won't go there. To those who are, he says, I'm continuing to quote, to those who are either power corrupts and that once the right seizes power, it too will be corrupted. As far as I can tell, it really is. They certainly have a point. If conservatives manage to save the country and rebuild our institutions, will they ever relinquish power and go away of Cincinnati's? Notice relinquish power. So he's saying they shouldn't relinquish power. They shouldn't should not relinquish power until they have saved the country and built rebuild institutions. In other words, he's saying it doesn't matter what the voters want. It doesn't matter what the elections say. We need to save the country and rebuild our institutions. Therefore, we need to hold on to power as long as that takes. And only when we are done with that will we consider relinquishing power. He says it is a fair question and we should attend to it with care after we've won the war. All right, there you have it, guys. That is the right. That is the right in its most naked, obvious, anti-individual rights, anti-individualism, anti-progress, anti-liberty, anti-freedom, you know, pure form.  You want to continue supporting the right? Based on what? Your fantasy that maybe they'll do the right thing once they get into power? Your delusion that they are better than the left? You want to give the right the power to decide when they're going to send parents to jail because of what parents, how parents interact with their kids, what parents tell their kids, what shows parents tell, take their shows to what movies they allow them to watch? Will there be a religious police, a children's police screening what shows we show our children off of Netflix? Well, the fact that I told my kids about sex when they asked where babies came from, when they were very young, I assume that will be illegal now. What's the limit? What movies okay? What movies are not? Is Bambi 2 Pro environmentalism? Is Dumbo 2 Pro taking acid? For those of you who remember the scene from Dumbo where Dumbo takes acid. Where? Once you give government that kind of power? Once you give anybody left or right that kind of power to send parents to jail for what? For what we tell our kids? For our own views? This is, this is the nightmare. The real nightmare we're all living through. A left that wants to force our kids to go to drag queen show library reading and a right that wants to put parents in prison for sending their kids. Imagine what this right, this new right wants to do to drag queens. Imagine what they want to do to anybody who's a little different, anybody who's not a abiding Christian, to anybody who doesn't believe in their traditional values, to anybody who I don't know doesn't want to form a family the way they view family, to anybody who doesn't want to worship at the feet of Jesus Christ on a cross. That great time to be talking about Iran with these theocrats, theocrats on the verge of taking over the political right in America.  Now, now they want power to control you and control the way you educate your kids and control everything about your life just like the left. No difference. And indeed, what is worse here? Who's going to be more efficient at it? All right.  All right. 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. You get value from listening, you get value from watching, show your appreciation. You can do that by going to iranbookshow.com slash support by going to Patreon, subscribe star locals and just making a appropriate contribution on any one of those, any one of those channels. 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I was talking to a parent the other day telling me like, you know, they want their kids to be like, then they want them to go into technology, like to computer science is because they want them to start a big tech share. And then it's like, and then it's like, so why did they have to go to school? Right? Because the kids like, I don't need to go to school.  You got to get your dream. Like, you know, I'm going to politely interrupt, but Bill Gates dropped out. Zuckerberg dropped out. Jobs never went. If you're talking about like tech icons that you want your kid to go to me, it almost makes more sense that they don't go. I mean, if you want to talk about the statistics of success with the money behind it, this is probably more likely that if they go this route, this is another opportunity. And so most people, like, you know, we've been so conditioned, so conditioned to think that there's one way and only one way. And think about the pressure right now.     You're fucked.  Right?  You're not fucked. You can always go back. You can drop out. You can still do great things. But we have told people that you are fucked. And I see this. I see, man, like the amount of parents that tell me, you know, the number one symptom that parents say, they don't sleep anymore. They don't sleep anymore. They're always stressed or always crying. Yeah. Because we fed them. Both the parents say, but I know societies fed them a narrative that they're fucked. Right? You don't do well in grade 12. You're fucked. What school is going to accept you? You don't have that emptiness. You know that feeling. You know, the one thing that I realize, the biggest insecurity in this world is not belonging. Right? You feel like you don't belong. What are we telling people when we're saying, well, we need to help our kids. We need to help our society. We need to help our adults feel like they belong.    And we don't understand that we impose this year after year, generation after generation, hoping that it's going to somehow justify what we've done with our lives.


This is one of the most unfortunate situations for a player to go through especially early this early in their careers rookie season grand delpit a second-round pick safety from LSU a Guide that was looking to make a big mark on this Cleveland Browns team this year is unfortunately going to be lost for the entire season with the tour in Achilles and When we heard about it this afternoon when they said he went down in practice And they said he was like hitting the ground and he just had his hand over his head and when he was getting caught it off It's almost like you knew but you didn't want that to be the case You wanted it to be where it's like. Oh, okay. Well, I was just a scare Like, okay. Well, yeah, he hurt himself, but okay. It ain't nothing serious but This is the unfortunate Part about the NFL and the absolute worst part about the NFL is injuries Because injuries they are not avoidable There's nothing that you can do to get around them a player could be in the best shape ever a player could be like Oh, I felt this is the best I felt in my entire career And you take one wrong bump That's it. That's a wrap. It's over that quick So this Just the Browns they they have been getting hit with injuries Some significant ones to some significant players recently and I know Mac Wilson He was he wasn't the guy but It was a possibility that he was gonna get an opportunity to to step into a bigger role this season But that's he is gonna be going if not for the entire season then for a Chunk of the season a significant amount of time this season, but just today to Greedy Williams, they said he had to walk away with a trainer and I I never I never saw a follow-up on that story yet. So we'll see what happens with that But it's just it's an unfortunate part of the business of football, man Injuries so now what will the Browns do is Is Earl Thomas an option?  Come on board You never know Or Logan Ryan does he get a look now at the safety position since Delpit is done for the year. I Think that will be a more viable option for the Browns, but we'll see So they do have a few options out there as far as free agents Or do they just stick with in-house guys? So they they have to and I'm sure that and Andrew Barry And Stafansky, I'm sure they are reviewing all their options right now to see what the best move is gonna be for them going forward But it's unfortunate that they even have to have this conversation. I feel bad for Grant, man. I feel bad for him because It can it can mess with your mentors It can mess with the with the hold with the mental part of the game because the mental part of the game is a huge part of Football is that it's actually a bigger part of football than the actual physical part the mental part and Hopefully he'll still be able to be mentally strong going into next year Hopefully he just makes a full recovery and everything will be good to go and he'll be back on track next season But that's got to be really tough man Really tough Not that your hopes and dreams are going not that what you've worked for a large portion of your life It's it's come to a screeching halt But it's still got to hurt because You you work so hard, especially in a collegiate level then you get to the pros and all of a sudden boom It's supposed to be your first year where you get to finally make an impact. You're playing on Sundays now But now it's done so Again, Brown's lesson. We'll see what they end up doing in the secondary period again Hopefully we're greedy. Hopefully that's nothing serious too So I'm sure we should know by tomorrow. What's going on with greedy Williams? But it's just it's an unfortunate situation so It's tough man. Anyway team keep it clean. I appreciate y'all I love y'all and like really trust me. I do really love y'all because I was I was literally laying in bed. I Was laying in bed trying to go to sleep early and then I saw this I said oh boy But it's all good man cuz it's for y'all. I love you appreciate you and we out


As long as I can remember even before I went to school I like grass. I remember one time when I was plowing my dad says you got to get over to the fence closer so we can get two more rows of corn there. Well of course I didn't argue with my father. I thought there's always some corn droppings and then a nice grass strip would be nice for wildlife and the cows could lay down on that strip when it got filled up. I did it anyway because I was told to and I just thought I just like grass too much to plow that good grassland under just bothered me. So I just kind of thought I got to find something a little different. Grass is a permanent part of this place and it's a very important piece of our ecosystem in Duel County. It's important to our economy in Duel County and into the state as a whole. Well we rotate quite a bit and we're very careful we do it at what we think the right stages are. I like bio control very much so. The right amount of cattle we was very careful not to over graze it. That was really the main thing because all in this country in eastern South Dakota if you got grassland left over it seems like you're wasting all that grass and I just never looked at it that way. I thought that's a good reserve and it makes it stronger. And I always worked on the theory you never want to fight mother nature. Mother nature is going around. You can try but it's hopeless. You can try and beat things but it works better if you just work with them so if it's in grass and that works it makes a lot more sense. You would be surprised what people will try to find. When you plow it you've ruined thousands of years behind you with one drop of the plow that can never go back to the original. If you plow under the grasslands that's a perpetual decision and you'll never be able to get native grass back to where it was. We're talking upwards of 200 species of different grasses and forms in the native side and plowing it just completely diminishes a lot of that value. It isn't something that you do for monetary reasons. You do it because it's the right thing. It's a series of events and a series of decisions that bring the conservation to a head here on the Bluebell Ranch. They're making decisions not to judge a thing or a plant or an animal on its exact value and worth today for what they can understand but realizing that even if they don't understand it it likely has value and worth for the place in the system and they're trying to preserve that.


What's going on and welcome to the FanDuel, hurry up. Week five is here and I'm ready to talk about some value plays. There are a number of injuries across the league and that means some backup players are going to be seeing new roles within their offenses, so let's jump in. Starting off, Damian Williams, they're running back for the Chicago Bears. He comes in at $5,800, has a great match of this week, going up against the Las Vegas Raiders. We know that David Montgomery is going to be out for a number of weeks for the Bears, so we want to turn to their backup. Going up against the Raiders, who are allowing 24.5 points per game, opposing running backs, that's the seventh worst in the league. Over at Number Fire, we have Williams projected for 19 total touches this week that has him coming in as the top value play among running backs. A great match at Versa the Raiders, under $6,000, certainly a player you want in your lineups. Next up, LaVisca Chanel, coming in at also $5,800 for the Jacksonville Jaguars. We know they are without DJ Chark, who's now on Inter-Reserve, got hurt last week against the Bengals. Already, we see Chanel coming in with a 21% market share of targets, which is good to see. This week, he's going up against the Titans. The Titans are terrible on defense. They're allowing a staggering 43.7 fangle points per game, opposing wide receivers, that is the second worst in the league. We know that Chanel has some dual-threat ability, getting it done on the ground, getting it done in the air. And I think this game has a bit of sneaky shoot-up potential due to the fact that the defenses on both sides are just so terrible. We could see a sloppy back-and-forth game that presents plenty of opportunity for Chanel, who is under $6,000. And then finally, tight end, Evan Ingram, $5,300 for the New York Giants. The status of Shepard and Slatein is still up near for the Giants this week. Of course, they're battling some injuries, and this opens up some new opportunities for Evan Ingram. Going up against the Cowboys, who are 13.8 fangle points per game, opposing tight ends, that's the fifth worst in the league. We saw them get burned by Zach Goertz and Rob Brankowski throughout the early portion of the season. So clearly, their defense is lacking against tight ends specifically. Combined with the injuries for the Giants at the wide receiver position, we should see a new role for Evan Ingram this week. That does it for Value Plays this week. I'll be back next week giving you more Value Plays right here on The Fanged Oil Harmony.