I'm honored to be here. I'm Jordi Bailina. I'm a developer and Ethereum fan and founder of Giveth. I'm a little distracted today because just now in Catalonia there were eight members of my government detainent for defending democracy and my people right of self-determination. We have a huge opportunity to bring these centralized tools minus three in Catalonia. We need it. But I am here to share a bit of my passion for smart contracts. In this presentation, I will first talk about the minimi token contract, then give you some highlights on how I see the future of token contracts. And finally, I will briefly introduce my latest development, the liquid pledging contract, which we are currently using at Giveth. Let's start with the minimi contract. Minimi has been developed a year ago. It follows the year C20 token standard and has been used extensively by many important projects in the Ethereum space. Here you can see some of these projects, Swarm City, Aragon, Status, Giveth, District 0x, and many others. So what makes minimi contract different? It's more than just a simple year C20 token contract. The token has many functionalities that any DAB may need. These functionalities includes creating and destroying tokens, black or white listing addresses, freezing transfers, among others. But let's get to the real innovation of what this smart contract. The contract tracks the token distribution history on the blockchain. This property is what makes minimi contract different and allows this token to be cloneable, forkable if you want. That means that you can create a new token whose initial distribution is the same as the original token. This clone fork can be done at any given block in the past or can be set for the future. After the fork, each clone token is independent of each other. Much like ETC fork or Bitcoin Cash fork. All these properties do not come for free. And the main disadvantage of choosing minimi token is that the gas cost of each transfers is a little bit higher than the non-cloneable ones. All these functionalities are important for the next use cases. The first one and one of the most important one is the voting application. Use it in many governance systems. This means that at the beginning of a voting process, a clone token is generated and burned after the token holder votes, making it impossible for him to vote twice. Using the token contract this way prevents having to lock the mind token while the voting takes place. Another interesting application is the distribution of rewards among token holders. When you want to distribute rewards on a regular basis, it's possible that you run in the problem that the distribution of the token may change as token holders trade the coin. Minimi solves this problem because you know the balance of any token holder at any time in the past. So you can easily create a contract that distributes rewards according to the holdings that each token holder had at the moment its reward was issued. The same way you create a voting token, you can also create many functionalities, like discount token or reputation token. A discount token would work this way. The discount token may be used to buy another token at a given discount. And it will be redeemed when the new tokens are purchased and the discount is applied. Another usage is to create a token for a spin-off DAO. The Minimi token also makes your project future-proof, making it easy to upgrade to a new version of the contract. But probably the most incredible facet of this token is that anyone can create a clone token in permissionless way so that anyone can add value to the community. Let's talk now a little bit about the future of the token smart contracts. The future clearly points to the ERC-223 standard proposal. There is mainly one operation in this standard. That operation is transfer. And with this transfer, you can attach data. Once the transfer is done, if the recipient is a contract, the token fallback function of the recipient is called with this extra data. As you can see, the main idea of this standard is to work very much like Etherworks right now. This standard is not ready yet. To get there, the two main points that needs to be resolved are first backwards compatibility, which I think is solvable. For example, you can always create wrapper contracts in the worst case. And the other point that is necessary, in my opinion, is to define a pseudo-introspection standard. Mainly pseudo-introspection means that you can ask to a smart contract about the implementation of a specific interface. To standardize this, we currently have two very different proposals, EIP-165 and EIP-672. EIP-165 is very straightforward. You just define a support interface function that is the smart contract may implement. Then, anyone can use this function to query if this contract implements a specific interface or not. The other proposal, EIP-672, in my opinion, makes more sense and it's much more scalable. The idea of EIP-672 is to use reverse ENS to keep a database of interfaces implemented on each existing contract. Let me give you an example of how this would work. Imagine that a contract implements iTokenFalback interface and the constructor of the token would add this entry in the reverse ENS. For people that don't know how reverse ENS works, it mainly defines a domain for each address. Normally, this address is assigned to a human readable name, so you can set a name for your address. But you have full control of this special domain assigned to your address, so you can create subdomains. In our case, we define a subdomain with the interface name that the contract implements and make it point to the address responsible for implementing the interface. In most cases, this will point to itself if the contract implements the interface. But that's not strictly necessary and this is where the standard gets interesting. This entry can point to a different proxy contract. Think about it. This allows for future functionalities and future interface to be easily supported when they come. Coming back to the ERC-223 standard, one of the biggest shortcomings is that it cannot transfer tokens to the current multi-seq implementation because they are contracts that don't implement the token-Falback function. To work around this, a new version of the multi-seq should be deployed. But this can be solved easily with EIP672 by creating a reverse ENS entry for the IToken-Falback interface that points to a proxy contract that just accepts the transfer. And this is very exciting. This also gives the possibility of executing some code not only when tokens are sent to a contract but also when tokens are sent to a regular account.  At this point, if you put together all the mini-me functionality and the ERC-223 token with the EIP672, we get a super flexible contract. This is the new token contract Giveth is working on right now. We call it internally YogaToken. You can imagine it quite. In my opinion, this YogaToken could be a perfect candidate to be considered for a standard Ethereum token, especially if Ethereum-based government systems like Carbon Voting or Protocol Voting are to be developed. Of course, the gas problem may still be an issue, but this can be minimized by enforcing only epoch snapshots instead of block snapshots. Now the last topics to finish this talk. I would like to introduce liquid pledging. This is one of the main open source smart contracts that have been developed at Giveth. While not exactly a token contract, it extends some powerful functionality that can be applied to any token. What's liquid pledging about? Liquid pledging is where liquid democracy meets fund management. Essentially, you can manage your tokens or let someone else manage them with oversight.  You have a balance, you have transfer functions, inputs, outputs, and that's effectively all. With liquid pledging, not only you can manage your own tokens, but you can also manage someone else's tokens. You do this by creating a hierarchical chain of delegation. You can give the authority of the tokens to a delegate. The delegate can do the same with a subdelegate and so on. The most important feature is that after you delegate the tokens, you are still empowered to make decisions regarding the use of these tokens. As the owner, you have the complete oversight. To make it clear, let me give you an example. Gap is a community member that's very concerned for security in the blockchain and wants to donate 100 ether to projects that improve security. He wants to do good, but he's a very busy person and doesn't have the time to analyze all the projects in the space. On the other hand, we have Buki, who is a very active member of the community and also very much concerned with security. He has complete overview of all the projects in the space and knows which key projects should be supported. With liquid pledging, Gap can delegate the authority over his 100 ether to Buki so he can select the right project. Buki decides that the best one to support is the two-factor authentication project for MyEtherWallet, so he precommits the ether. At this point, Gap has three days or any time pre-configured to veto if he does not agree with Buki's choice, but if he does nothing, MyEtherWallet project is a great supporter. This can be a normal account or it can have a smart contract plugin attached, where a reviewer, let's call this reviewer griff, if griff decides that the work is done, the ether go to Taylor for successfully implementing two-factor authentication. But if the project does not meet the conditions in the given amount of time, he can cancel the project and the money goes back to Buki and Gap and Gap has, again, oversight over how the 100 ether can be used. As you can see, this contract has many advantages. The owner has full control of the tokens, full transparency and knowledge of where their funds go. I want to mention that this contract is also an extensive contract via plugins. In these plugins, you can add a specific condition like token allocation when the project is phoned or setting a hardcap for a given project. The liquid pledging contract can be used not only for donations, but also for organizations management. In an organization, the investors delegate the funds to CO, to delegate the budget to the directors, the CTO delegates to the system department, and so on. And the investors still have full control on where the funds are spent and invested. The same idea applies in fund management, where a delegate predominates the ether to a specific project, and the investor has the last word on where the investment goes. There are many other great ideas, one that I like a lot is liquid lending. And by the way, this is done from a startup from Mexico. It's called Aurora Libre. In this concept, a microcredit is made via a hierarchical delegation chain of trust. To wrap up, I would like to leave you with three key takeaways. First, if you need an advanced token contract, consider the Minimi contract, which has been fully tested and implemented. Second, the yoga token. It brings together the features of Minimi plus the ERC223 with EIP672. This is a powerful token to be considered as a standard for the Ethereum community once the standards are approved. And third, the liquid pledging contract. Could be ideal for many usages. It's especially suited for blockchain-based donation systems that can make a world a better place, but it could also add interesting functionalities for many dApps. And now, we have reached the end of my talk. I welcome comments and feedback. Please feel free to reach out to me, to Griff, or to any Giveth team members. If you want to learn more about our open source contracts, you can always check our Giveth.io website. Here are some links, and thank you to the foundation for having me here, and thank you to all of you for your attention.


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The current narrative that Islam as a faith has a fundamental negative attitude and aggression towards the Jewish faith and people is one that is unfortunately common and widespread. Many scholars have attempted to exhibit how scripture in the Holy Qur'an as well as the actions of Islam's prophet and subsequent caliphs reflected the genuine and embedded discrimination and hatred one monotheistic faith had for another. Was this true? From its infancy, did Islam preach such anti-Jewish dogma? To answer this question through the examination and personal interpretation of scripture is not an ideal method. Let us identify the actions of Muslims and see how the treatment of Jews throughout Islamic history is judged when compared to how other faiths or nations behaved towards the original Abrahamic faith. Since the origins of Islam in the 7th century, no one can say that Muslims had a clear mandate that any one faith outside their own deserved a higher level of wrath more than the others. It was a time of expansion of a new faith that was sweeping the Arabian Peninsula and in its way were other faiths that either opposed the new Islamic fundamentals or in Muslims' beliefs faiths that had strayed from the righteous path. These faiths included idolatry, Judaism, Christianity, Mandeism and Zoroastrianism. Hence clashes with the other faiths and their peoples were inevitable. But eventually once the Muslims had established their presence across the extents of Arabia and North Africa, cohabitation with other faiths across their governed lands was of great necessity to achieve peace, stability and prosperity. And more critical was how Islam regarded Judaism and Christianity on a higher plane than the other non-Abrahamic faiths as they were considered Ahl al-Kitab, people of the book, meaning that Muslims believed in the previous revelations and divine knowledge of the Torah, Psalms and the Gospel and had a certain community and sacred responsibility towards these faiths due to their belief of a single God. Consequently, in as early as the 8th century, Muslims established a structure to allow for this cohabitation to exist for a full millennium to come. The concept of Ahl al-Thinmeh, people of the Covenant, literally meaning protected persons, was established where Muslims were obligated to protect the lives, property and freedom of religion for Jews and Christians in exchange for loyalty to the Muslim government and payment of a tax called a jizya. A similar tax, zakat, was paid by Muslims. Jews were paid by everyone, even back then. And since that time, Jews had been living in relative peace and certainty across the Islamic world. From the Iberian Peninsula to Persia, Jews formed an integral part of society, some even becoming an effective part of the political establishment, while all practiced their faith freely. Granted, there were episodes of anti-Jewish sentiment, but these random episodes were never faith-based but were fueled by political or financial greed by a small section of society who happened to be Muslim. As history elapsed further, acts of Christian violence on Jews, be it by the Byzantine Empire, Holy Roman Empire, Crusaders or Catholic Church, exploded. These acts were not random by any means, but were committed with organized mandates and blessings of both governmental and theological agencies. In the 14th century, the persecution of the Jews during the Black Plague was an exact manifestation of a targeted attack. Searching for a scapegoat for the annihilation of the European population due to disease, the authorities identified the Jews as the most likely culprits. Due to their low infection rate, Jews were accused of deliberately poisoning the European drinking wells, and subsequently over 20,000 Jews were massacred at the hands of the Europeans. In 1492, the Spanish Catholic monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, gave a prosperous Jewish Iberian population an ultimatum, convert to Christianity, accept exile or die. This decision applied to 300,000 Jews, one quarter of Spain's population at the time. Most abandoned their possessions and livelihoods, and fled to North Africa. Some converted to Catholicism, only to be massacred years later. In total, over 30,000 Jews were killed as a byproduct of the Inquisition. Between 1648 and 1657, in the territories of modern Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania, the Cossack-Polish War witnessed great atrocities at the hands of the Cossacks. Under the command of their leader, Bohdan Khmelnytsky, the warring party sought out the Jewish communities, since they were the financial backbone of the incumbent Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. 100,000 Jews were eventually killed. Please subscribe to our channel, as it would support us greatly in generating more content that documents our Arabian and Muslim heritage, history and culture. Now back to our story. Let's look at a more recent history. During the first half of the 20th century, there have been many documented violent cases of anti-Jewish discrimination. When analyzing the perpetrators of these aggressions, the largest would obviously be the Nazi Germans, who during the Holocaust murdered approximately 6 billion Jews. Filtering out the devastation caused by the Nazis, what story would the numbers tell? In 50 years of human violence towards Jews, only 1% during that time would be attributed to Muslims, equating to 1,556 Jewish dead. This number would pale in comparison to the killings caused by Europeans. 167,483 over the same period of time. These figures unequivocally reveal a different tale on the real historical source of systemic hatred towards the Jewish people. What do the violent actions on Jews that have taken place throughout history, from the 7th century to the middle of the 20th century, reveal about Muslims and their supposed ill will towards Jews? Well, overall, there have been exponentially more damaging actions taken by Europeans than by Muslims towards Jewish communities. So in that sense, a conclusion that there is an absence of an innate negative attitude and aggression from Muslims towards Jews is fully justified. In addition, at the start of the 20th century and for several preceding centuries throughout the Muslim world, Jews formed an important and integral role within all Muslim societies across the Middle East. From governmental posts to very successful entrepreneurs to cultural icons, Jews were considered as equal citizens of these nations. It cannot be ignored, though, that sentiments have changed for Muslims. There is definitely an evolution of attitude by Muslims towards the Jewish community. Over the course of the second half of the 20th century, 950,000 Jews would eventually flee Muslim lands or be expelled. But why did this shift take place? The more applicable question is when? And it all starts in 1917, not with the Jewish faith or people, but with the British declaration.


In this screencast, we're going to walk through the procedure for how to find, take, and record your mathematics proficiency exam at Grand Valley State University. The proficiency exam is computer-based and administered using WebWork, a system that we use for online math homework. First, on the web, access the main web page for the proficiency exam using the URL that you see on the screen. You'll be asked to provide your login information once you arrive at this page. This should be the same username and password you provide to log into your GVSU email. After you've logged in, find the course you need and the exam you wish to take. The courses currently using the proficiency exam are Math 110, Math 122, and Math 123. When you are ready to take the exam, click on the link for the exam you wish to take. But don't click on the link unless you are really ready to take the exam, because clicking on the link will start the exam and start a timer that will end the exam after either 30 or 60 minutes depending on your course. To keep the exam's contents secure, I can't show you the exams here in the screencast, but I have a similar exam set up here that shows you how things work. The exam consists of questions whose answers you select by either clicking a button or selecting a correct option from a drop-down menu. The Math 110 exam consists of 50 such questions, spread across three pages, and has a time limit of 60 minutes. The Math 122 and Math 123 exams have 20 questions on two pages and a time limit of 30 minutes. On the placement exams, a timer will appear in the top right corner of your browser window to remind you how much time is left. At any time during the test, you can preview your answers by clicking on the Preview Problems link in one of the question boxes. You can move back and forth between the pages before you submit your work, so if you want to go back to think some more about a particular problem, you can do so. However, you're not allowed to stop the proficiency exam and start over again at a later time. If you log out of web work or close your browser before the exam is finished, the timer on the exam will keep running, and your work will become inaccessible after time is up. So make sure to have a full 30 or 60 minutes, depending on your course, set aside in which to take your exam. If you complete your work before time runs out, just make sure to preview your work and check it over for errors. Then click the Grade Test button to submit your work. Remember, your work will not be submitted until you click the Grade Test button. Once your work is submitted, you'll get instant feedback on how you did.  And that's it. Good luck on your proficiency exam.


Fiery horse with the speed of light, the cloud of dust, and a hearty high old silver, the Lone Ranger. With his faithful Indian companion, Tonto, the masked rider of the planes led the fight for law and order in the early west in the United States. The stories of his strength and courage, his daring and resourcefulness have come down to us through the generations, and nowhere in the pages of history can one find a greater champion of justice. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. Come out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the great horse Silver. The Lone Ranger rides again. Come on Silver, we're heading for the real grand house Silver! Wilson had been asleep for several hours before the door of his small house opened softly then closed without a sound. The lawman's first consciousness was a feeling of someone shaking him gently by the shoulder. Well, what's this? Steady, Sheriff. I'm a friend. Who's here? Dad, right it's the middle of the night. Who are you? Get wide awake before you try to talk, Sheriff Wilson. Where's the candle? You'd lighten here. It'd be better if there is no light. Perhaps you don't want anyone to know that I came here. And who in places are you? I heard that you wanted to see me. A pottery and a mission told me. Jumpin' gooseberries, hold on. Now don't fool an old discouraged lawman. Don't do it. If you're not the man I think you are, don't josh me about it. I left Silver in back of your house. Tondo was there with him. Silver, Tondo. Is it true that you need help here? You're the one. There's no mistake in that voice of yours. You're the Lone Ranger. Yes, Sheriff. Oh, Heaven sent you. That's the truth. There's no two ways about it.  Why do you want to see me, Wilson? I'll tell you why. It's because there's more lawlessness than I can handle. More than any size posse I can get is able to handle. What kind of lawlessness, Sheriff? Turn right out and out, killin', stealin', radin', and whatever else there is. The Murdock outfit takes what it wants and laughs, and anyone who tries to fight him. Murdock? Well, he's the brains of the gang, butch Murdock. He's got a headquarters that can stand the attack of a hundred men. And his headquarters is located where there's no law. Oh, where is it? Between here and Mexico. It's an island in the river. I see. I've heard about that island. Neither the United States nor Mexico owns it. That's the story, and as long as Murdock is there, he can't... Well, he can fight off any number of men. What is the island like? It's about three miles long and only about a quarter of a mile wide. It's all overgrown with brush. That gang always has good hiding when they have to shoot it out against men that try to attack them. Is the river deep around the island? Deep enough so, a horse has to swim for it. That's why that gang can just hide in the shelter of the brush and pick off any number of men. They have to leave the island sometime. What happens when they're on the mainland? No one can tell where or when they'll strike next. As long as the place is on guard, they stay holed up on the island. When they attack at night, they hit a place that's unguarded. I see. How about the troopers? The army? Well, the island isn't in the state, so our troopers can't go there. It isn't in Mexico, so the Mexican army's in the same fix. They have plenty of supplies. They stole enough to last them from Naldooms Day. They steal money, gold, jewels, and that sort of thing, not bothering with big things like cattle or horses. Murdock. The last time I heard of him, he was in jail. He really got out. It was not a jail two months before he had this gang organized. Wait, there's something going on. Sheriff! Sheriff! It's the Murdock gang. Come in here. Yeah, I... you're not the sheriff. No, I'm not. What's that you're saying, Burdock's gang? They hit the far side of town. They've already cleaned out the bank and the store. How many of them? Oh, it looks to be half a hundred. They're coming this way in fast, too. They've started a couple of fires. Look down there. Place and building. A good tunnel. Hello, bring the... The man's been hit. Give me a hand. Hold her back in the house.  The outlaws charged like a tidal wave of sudden death. Firing point blank. Anything or anyone is good between them and the load ahead. They swarmed around the sheriff's house, shouting warnings to the lawmen through the window. This is where you listen to the opposite. Keep on your side of the water. This town can worsen the night's raid. This is just a warning, Sheriff. Wilson! There's no ground that rock for you to see. Hey, folks! Look, it's here! Two horses and a red skin! He will resist the mob. Tonto was quickly roped and dragged from the saddle of his paint horse. Silver and scald were literally dragged away from Sheriff Wilson's house so the gang moved swiftly on. Oh, my sake shall I have burned. It's a lone ranger that was shot. No. Is that right? Yeah, it's the truth. You better light the lamps so we can see how bad he's hurt. Oh, I'll get to it right away. Can that ancient friend of his... I heard him take him along. No telling what they'll do to him and the horses. Sheriff, did they get children? Yeah, they did. Here's the lamp. Now let me take a look at him. I expect he'll wish he's dead when he hears about his Indian friend, this horse. Oh, I heard that red skin fight like a banshee wildcat before they got him. The lone ranger's alive. Breathing pretty steady. Oh, good. That wound is gots in his shoulder. Well, it might have been worse. They knocked him down. He hit his head when he fell. Well, that's what knocked him out, hitting his head when he fell. Vern, get that water basin and some of them clean Sunday shirts in my dresser drawer. I'll clean out the wound. All right. I reckon if we wanted to, we could take that mask off and see what the face of the lone ranger's like. Couldn't we? You stop that kind of talk. Anyone that's do that, he should have his neck stretched. Well, thunderous, Sheriff. If I wouldn't, I was only thinking. Well, I guess you're sure it's the cleanest one. Put that basin on the floor beside me. That's it. Chef, well, my house is burned down. The poor store was robbed and you're to blame for it. Well, shut that door, Jeannie. Well, who's that? It's the lone ranger. So you found him. Well, I hope you're satisfied. Everyone tried to warn you. Warn me? Well, here, get some water boiling. Vern, you build up the fire. Jeannie, get some clean water and a kettle. They told you what Murdoch would do to the town if you insisted on trying to get the lone ranger to come here and fight his organization. Well, the lone ranger is here. Yes, and he looks as if he's going to fight. Stretched our flat on his back on the floor. He's still alive. Even if he wasn't wounded, there isn't anything he could do. All you've accomplished is to bring Murdoch here with the worst rate any town has had. Jean, maybe you'd like it better if we just let that gang run things the way they want. Steal and kill and plunder to suit themselves. At least we'd have had our home and Pa would have had his store. Yeah, but we'd have had our heads down with shame when we thought of the men that'd given their lives to win us freedom. The water will be hot and jiffy now.  He's coming too now, Sheriff. Yeah, they are now. You take it easy. You get your wits together. Don't try to get up too soon. Oh, Wilson, it was Murdoch and his gang. They attacked the town because they heard that I was looking for you to fight against them. So you ought to blame for everything that's happened.  Go on home, dear Pa. Go on, scan. I won't. That masked man ought to know what's happened. Buildings burned, lots of people robbed and half a dozen murdered. And all because he's lined up against the gang. I'm sorry. Sorry. Now I suppose you're going to make some big brave sound and statement of going after that gang of fighting until the last man in town has been wiped out like the Alamo. No, we won't fight until the last man in town is wiped out. What? We'll fight until the last outlaws. Where he belongs. It took two days for the Lone Ranger to recover his strength. On the morning of the third day, Jean called at Sheriff Wilson's house with a bowl of steaming broth. I'll see if the broth is taken to the bedroom for him, Jean. But when can I see him?  Nope. You can't let no one talk to him, Jean. Maybe tomorrow? Well, maybe we'll see. But, Sheriff, yesterday you said I could see him today. I'm taking orders from the Lone Ranger, Jean. That's all I can say. He won't talk to anyone. Well, is he still angry? Well, he wasn't angry at all, Jean. He's just hard-hitted, losing tanto and silver, and he's bound and determined to get that gang. Well, here's a chicken I broiled for him. Well, I'll see that don't go to waste. Here, thanks, Jean. Can I see him tomorrow? I don't know. Well, if I can't, then tell him I'd do anything to take back what I said. Yep. And I'll stop him tomorrow, right after church meeting. Yeah, I'll be here. The next day, Sunday, Jean came to the house of the Sheriff, accompanied by Verne, her father, and several men of the town. They entered the small house as a comedian. Sheriff, we don't want to do anything that the Lone Ranger'd be against. But we all want him to know that he can call on us for whatever he wants. Well, I guess you'd be glad to hear that. These men insisted on coming with me, Sheriff Wilson. I see. We, uh, that is, we need a leader, Sheriff, someone that would direct a fight against the Outlaw Island. Yep. Now, uh, how long do you think before it'll be the Lone Ranger can go into action? Well, I couldn't say, Verne. You've been mighty secret about him, Wilson. Now, let me... Verne, Jean, I'll arrest you. I reckon the Lone Ranger figured that he didn't want your help. The truth can be told now. I'll invite you to help yourself. You'll look in the bedroom. There's been no one there for these past three days. The masked man slipped away from here at night. No one around here knew about it. What's he gonna do? No, he didn't tell me. Is he going against that gang single-handed? I don't know what you can bet your boots he's going after them. They captured his Indian friend, and believe me, he's gonna make them sorry they did it. Meanwhile, on the long, narrow island, Butch Murdoch kept Tonto tied and closely guarded. Each day, he went to the Indian with questions. I want to know what the Lone Ranger's plan to do. Me never tell. There's no way the minute Tom can drive me away from here. There's no law can touch me here. How's that mask on, buddy, figuring on getting at me? Me not tell. Look here, Redskin, I've wasted plenty of time with you. More time than I should have. I'm gonna find ways to make you tug. See, you don't scare easy, huh?  That's who you're mistaken. What you mean? Maybe you don't fear what I could do to you. But how about to the finest horses they ever breed? Pete, bag them horses over here. The captive ones? Sure, the white-and-the-paint horse. I'm in right around. What you do? You don't have to worry, Dad. Come on, touch it here. Would you mind if I get you handle them? Come on, man. Come on with you. Get out of there. Hello, Pete. Let him stand. He will not hurt Silver. And you leave Scout alone. What would you do, Redskin, to stabilize these two horses? What you want? I want to know what the plans of the Lone Ranger are. How's he planned to move again my stronghold? I'm told not know plan. Oh, you don't, eh? Me not know what Lone Ranger plan. Then you'd better start figuring out what he's likely to do. You see that sun shining in the west? Huh? Me see. Then that sun dips under the horizon that day, and I'm going to put bullets through the heads of those two horses. That is, unless you get some notions in the meantime. Lone Ranger not tell Toto plan. Me not know plan. How me tell plan to you? Listen, Redskin. Lone Ranger will find some scheme for driving us off this island. I don't know what it'll be, but he'll find something. You traveled with him long enough to have a pretty fair idea what that scheme will be. You think it over between now and sunset if you don't want to see two good horses at your feet. Golly Butch, it seems a shame to kill the White Stallion. We won't hesitate, though. The horses no good does. No one could ever gentle a critter. It's a one-man horse. Keep an eye on the Indian. I'll be back around sundown. Well, Tando, it sure would be a shame to see those horses shot. Me not know what plan to be. Well, I can tell you this. Butch Murdock wasn't fooling. He meant just what he said. Where Lone Ranger now? Last we heard he was still getting over being shot in the sheriff's place. Now, he's scheming something, and we got to know what it is. Now, you better figure it out. And I sure hope you do because I'd hate to have two shoot horses like them, too. Yes, Suri. I sure would hate to do it. The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone Ranger story. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us to pause for just a few moments. Now to continue our story. Some distance south of the Rio Grande, a Spanish gentleman maintained one of the largest, finest ranches in the entire region. His name was Don Rafael Gonzales. His wife, Senora Maria Gonzales, came into the patio during the siesta hour with excitement in every word movement. Perfect. I'm quickly in the house. Maria, what is wrong? The sword. The sword of your grandfather. He's gone from the wall. The sword, Santa Maria. Only a moment ago, I'm in the house. I look. The sword no longer is on the wall where it was placed. For this, I will punish someone who... I don't know how long it has been gone. Only wait. I will find... Merced. Who is it who come? He is the one. He is who took it. Wait. Then you're... It was a time when this sword was worn at the side of the governor of Texas. It is true. For that reason... Now, Texas needs another man from the family of Gonzalez. Will you wear this sword? Texas? Senora, the mask... I came here on a horse that was borrowed. I followed the stream far up where it's shallow. And where there's but little current, my own horse has been stolen. Because of this, you come here to take that sword. I come because I was told that if I ever was needed for this sword to be carried again, the request had only to be made. Here. Read what's inscribed on the sword. But you, the mask... They called me the Lone Ranger. Oh, that is it. Your horse, Silver, is not here. I told you that my... Soledad Roncero. The Lone Ranger. Raffaele said his horse was stolen. Senor, how is it possible for me to serve? There's an island between our countries. That island of the lizards, that spawn of all to this evil. A wood could be blown into nothing. And you know the kind of men who live there? No, then. Senor, I curse them daily. I pray for their painful death. They've been raiding towns in Texas. And in Mexico. And they are immune. There is no law, no man who can attack them. They live where there is no government. And they can defeat any who try to go after them. Many of our friends have suffered because of this outlaw. Have your friends tried to drive them from their island? Oh, yes. And so dearly they have paid. There was a time when 20 of us plunged into the water with our horses. But before we could get halfway to the island, most of us had been killed. And the others forced to swim with their wounds back to our own side. That's why I came to you. We need more than men to drive these outlaws from the island. We must act at once. But, senor, how can they be done? Will you wear the sword? If wearing it will help. You and many others near here in Mexico have cattle. Cattle! Cattle, senor! You breed bulls for the ring. And in all of Mexico they are known finer. Or stronger. Or more dangerous. How many such bulls can be herded? I do not know, amigo. Perhaps several hundred. But these bulls, what can they do? If those bulls would be driven into the river, where the current is swift and the water is deep, they would be swept along on the current. Yes. They would try to go as short the nearest point. They do not like the water. If the current took them near that island. And the outlaws on the island would have a fortune in priceless bulls. That, don't refuel, is what we must prevent. What I do not understand. That island is too small for both outlaws and wild bulls. The bulls are infuriated. Yes, senor. Rafael, perhaps the bulls could do what men cannot do. If we could enlist the help of your friends in Texas with the law ready to make arrests when the outlaws try to go ashore on the mainland. If the bulls draw them from the island, it would be good. Senor, as I have said, the bulls would be lost. Perhaps not. Will you let us take the chance? Senor, I think I know what you have in mind. You hope this thump paid the bulls. Perhaps. It will not work, amigo. I am sorry. Why? Oh, no. You may understand the long urns of Texas, but the Spanish bulls with generations of breeding for the bullring, they are different. They do not stampede from fear as do your Texas beasts. Ah, senor, it's too bad. You count so much on the help of Don Rafael, and now you're so disappointed. Don Rafael, I'm going to that island. You? Dona was there. He's my friend. Silver's there, my horse. I'm going to be there with him, and I'm going to count on the help I came to get from you. I try to tell you it is all, please. Perhaps I understand you're fighting bulls better than you think I do. As the hour of sundown drew near, Murdoch came to Tonto, who had his odd dark eyes fixed on the red rim that still showed on the horizon. Scout and Silver were tethered close at hand, and Pete stood with a heavy rifle in his hands. Well, Ritz, can you see the sun up there? She's almost gone. Huh? You see it. Well, we figured out how that mask for the years is going to fight me. Me not, no. Well, that's too bad. Murdoch, I wanted to... Get ready. Well, doggone it. I have to do the shooting myself. You'll be the first to get it. Oh, I'm ready. Murdoch. Well, see it fast. The sun's almost gone. You let horse live. Me teach horse to let you ride them. Nope. There's only one thing I want. That's no rescue. Murdoch, the men have got something. They're coming here, and they're mighty excited. I got it. Hey, boss, what have we got? What? A mask, man. It's the mask, man. You come here. How are you, Kimosabe? You've got wound. How bad? It's not bad. Hello. What have they done to you? Me all right. But fella ready to shoot Silver. Silver, old fella. Thank goodness you're alive. There now, steady, steady boy. Where'd you get this hoodie? It's the head of the island. He was trying to make sure, but the current caught him and the great Mustang he was aboard and washed him right to the island. Rick and he sure were surprised to find out where he was laying. Is this better than I hoped for? Well, now that you've got me, Murdock, what are you going to do about it? Hold on.  Thanks. What do you mean? Turkey knows the real as well as any man alive. He didn't know what the current would do. How about that? You're doing the guessing? He'd never tried to cross me washed up here unless you wanted that to happen. Murdock is right. The lone ranger would know that he could cross upstream where it's shallow. What about it? Well, what about it? You wanted to come here, didn't you? I was anxious to know about Tutto and our horses. Murdock, if you'd harmed my friends, you'd pay for it with your life. Yeah. So that's why you come here? I had to figure on getting away again. I've got nothing to say. Where'd you come before, Doc, when you could have come after, Doc, with a better chance of not being seen? I didn't think you'd sleep without a guard, so it didn't matter when I came.  How are you going to find out? I've got away. Peter, you ready? Yep. If you'd been a few minutes later, you'd have found two dead horses here. What's that? Not right.  Why you? What? None of those animals done to you. Throw them on his face for one thing.  I'm sorry, boss. Maybe you'd sooner see your horses shot than tell what your plans are. Then again, maybe not. Let's see. Cock that gun, Pete. Why'd you come here? To see Tutto. Are you planning to trap me? I didn't say I was. You might have beaten around the bush. I want straight answers and I want a Proto. Watch your scheme. Shoot Silver, shoot Scout. All right, Murdock. Put that gun away. You win. Keep that gun ready, Pete. If he slows up in his tug, I'll give you the word to fire. Then shoot the white horse first. The plan, Murdock, is to stampede you from this island. To what? Stampede. What's he mean? Well, some ranchers are planning to drive cattle into the river. The cattle will be caught with a current and washed to this island. Same as you was, eh? Yes. And your friends figured to come behind the critters and start shooting at them to stampede them. The plan was to drive your men from the island. It's sure good to hand it to you. It's your plan, of course. Yes, I helped make it. I told you, Pete. I told you to have something slick in mind. But now we know what it is. We'll be ready. How about us letting the critters land? Well, we thought you wouldn't shoot good beef. You'd be glad to see it coming here. Slick. Downright slick. But now we'll turn the tables. We'll turn the tables a-plenty. What about these horses? Leave them for the time being. Rope the lone raidery. Very thorough we'll let cattle comes. We'll open fire when it gets ashore and turn it right back into the water. It'll stampede right back at the mineral falling behind it. Boss, I hear something. I'll get the rope around that tree. Let's get to the head of the island. Hound up all the boys. All right, come on, boys, and bring it on. Come on. Yeah, that'll hold you. Aren't you going to take off my mask? There's plenty of time for that. I want to be in on the fun. We'll see you by and by. Now, scheme all go wrong. Not yet, Tunnel. Here, I'll have these ropes cut in no time. You've got a knife? A blade of a knife up my sleeve. There, I'll cut your rope. What about masks? What if they did unmask you? I disguised myself beneath the mask, just in case. There you are. I'll get your horse. Here's your horse. I don't know what I'd have done if it shot these horses. Steady boy. We'll be traveling in a minute. Tunnel, those aren't Texas tears that are coming here. No. They're from Don Rafael. They're bred for the bull ring. Oh, then plenty dangerous. They're killers, man killers, every one of them. And they will stamp it away from gunfire. And what can do? Wait and you'll see. Murdoch's gang is due for the surprise of a lifetime. Now they're shooting, trying to turn the bulls back. Right about now, they have a lot of mad bulls ahead of the asylum. As the first bulls scramble ashore, the outlaw band began firing. Much to their dismay, the bulls lowered huge shaggy heads and charged. Shoot at them! Stop them! They're coming first! Hundreds of fighting bulls made shore. There was a black mass of them in the water, steel coming. Murdoch turned and ran. Get back! Get away from them! Save your lives! The rest of his men raced with him. They leaped for their horses and the retreat became a rout. That'll do. It's work. Those bulls charged toward and not away from men who've been fighting them. Listen to the outlaws come. They never live on island now. Come on, get on scouts. Are you ready? He's a big fella. Come on, Silver. Get on scouts! Riding ahead of the outlaws, the lone ranger in Tonto reached the foot of the island and plunged into the river. A hundred yards behind them Murdoch and his gang had no choice. The water! Get the water! We'll be trapped if we don't! Watch out! Neither one! They'll take a chance on the mainland! They went to Texas. Pete and many others followed him. Others of the gang headed for the other shore, the shore of the Republic of Mexico. It didn't matter. Lawmen were both places, waiting with grins on their faces and loaded guns in their hands as the killers came out of the water. Take their guns, man, and put ropes on them. The lone ranger worked it out just right. Look over there, in Mexico. All right, all right, Wilson. I'd sooner take a chance to understand the trial you killed by those boys. And it didn't matter whether you come here or in Mexico. Don Rafael only has men who would hang you just as quick as we will. Now it's all clear. And I think the lone ranger planted it this way. I reckon one lone ranger against two scorer crooks like you was downright unfair odds. But he had one arm hindered by a wound in the shoulder. So that should have evened it up a little. Boys, a lone ranger done this one one-handed. It is a copyrighted feature of the lone ranger incorporated.


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Hello friends, how are you all doing today? The question says the bag contains 8 red, 3 white and 9 blue balls.  Right? So let's proceed with the solution.   Right?  Right? So N of S is equal to 20 C3, isn't it?   So we have 9 into 8 into 7 divided by 20 into 19 into 18, which gives us the answer as 7 by 95. Right? So this completes the solution for the first part. Now for the B part we need to find out the probability that all the balls are of different color.  So we have the answer as 8 into 3 into 9 into 3 into 2 into 1 upon 20 into 19 into 18, which is further equal to 18 upon 95. Right? So this is the answer to this last final part of this question. So hope you understood the whole solution well. Do take care of your calculations and have a very nice day.


Welcome to the Adam does movies podcast. I'm Adam and today we're gonna go over raw numbers We're gonna talk box office budgets and mainly why things have gotten so out of control in Hollywood A lot of movies are starting to bomb lately in the last couple years We've seen more flops from Disney than in the entire history of the company and the main reason why is Because these these budgets are insanely high We're not even talking a hundred million. We're talking two hundred million plus These aren't Titanic. These aren't avatar. This is like turning red or Luca smaller scale pictures that had no real way of recouping that cost especially when a lot of them went straight to Disney plus or had a Movie theater tandem release on Disney plus or peacock or hulu or Amazon Prime or Apple TV plus like there There's just so many so many ways to distribute this crap now And it's harder and harder to get people to run out and go to the theaters to see them Recently Tom Cruise starred in yet another Mission Impossible film Mission Impossible 7 dead reckoning This movie for all intensive purposes should have been a huge hit for cruise He's coming off of Maverick a movie that appealed to everyone on the planet It basically saved last summer as far as the box office went really kept I mean Tom Cruise was already a major star, but he catapulted him even further Showcase, you know, yes, this old dog still has plenty of tricks this guy can still do it He's got his own stunts going on He's in the cult. He's in the cockpit flying the plane and here he is again as Ethan Hunt Taking a motorcycle off of a ramp into the unknown Movies budget two hundred and ninety million just shy of three hundred. It's a part one of a two-part saga That's part one of the problems this movie had going in Audiences do not want to pay to watch half of a film. I Have no problem with it. I'm a movie fan. I also love the Mission Impossible series But there are a lot of general moviegoers that only see one or two movies a year And they don't want to feel ripped off putting down $12 $16 just for a movie ticket Oftentimes they're going with a family that number starts to triple quadruple you throw a soda in the soda that makes you throw popcorn Next thing, you know, you have a $70 tab and that's even generous at some I've I've been in lines Where a woman's tab was well over a hundred dollars for some popcorn some slushies a couple tickets it adds up really fast And so dead reckoning announcing up front.  Well, I know it's gonna be on Paramount Plus or something down the road I might as well wait. There's no reason for me to throw down my hard-earned cash for half of an experience The other major issue They weren't foreseeing Barbie and Oppenheimer Cruise controlling together Tom Cruise controlling. It's too bad. They couldn't three-way this situation Tom Cruise went out and saw both those films. I remember I saw the the tweets that he put out He had his movie ticket in front of the posters. He said go out and see these movies Problem was they did and they they bypassed his film for them They needed an Oppenheimer Oppenheimer Barbie mission impossible, you know, like trilogy complete package deal Because the Barbenheimer marketing it worked so well. I did it I know a lot of people that did it was almost a test go out to Oppenheimer Then go see Barbie have a six-hour experience by the time you see the trailers and drive all around to the theater And I mean it was it was awesome and a lot of people had a great time If they could have done a Barbenheimer colon dead reckoning you could have maybe had a three-way situation, but alas for Tom Cruise Those eyes were wide shut and people quickly dismiss the film because there was new stuff out and Again being that part one. I think I think really soured a lot of individuals even though Cruise is all over it Another thing and this has been going on a lot lately with the mission of possible movies Others as well, but I'm really getting annoyed of these trailers giving away the entire section of a film That should be a reason to get people into the seats Last time he's hanging off the side of a plane. He's holding his breath under water He's he's dropping out of a plane from outside the Earth's atmosphere over Paris Everybody already saw the stunt before they went into the movie and this one was the worst of them all I don't know how many times I saw on YouTube or tick-tock via some short of Crews going up the ramp showing the whole section doing a behind-the-scenes Showing the reaction of the crew members. I was sick of this stunt before it even happened in the theater What they should have done is showed everyone get hyped up for this Show him start to head towards the mountain on the motorcycle and then cut it there Make people go watch the film for the final shot. Why are you giving away the goods up front? Come on. This is this is marketing 101 people A lot of factors going against him, but the biggest factor is the price tag $290 million are you out of your mind?  I brought up some of the data on this But the big takeaway is so far worldwide. I'm looking 448 million five hundred thirty three thousand the movie has only grossed 448 million plus some change That sounds like an impressive figure if your movie didn't cost almost three hundred million to make now People listening will say wait. I'm doing the math Adam I'm doing the math 450 million that that seems a little bit higher Than 300 million like quite a bit higher. The problem is and I've explained it before I'll be quick Most of the time for these big blockbusters They need to make double or higher than that double or greater than that So if it's a 300 million dollar film, they need to bring in 600 million just to break Even oftentimes a film like Barbie Mission Impossible a lot of marketing behind it Two and a half times is what they're saying because the movie theater takes their cut off of each movie ticket Not much, but it's enough to make a big dent when you have a lot of theaters chains circulating plus It's just marketing Marketing takes a massive amount of cash to keep fueling the fire keep it in the ethos keep it in the air So you have social media pushes you got annoying banner ads that you see on the sides of websites you have Influencers not me if people that are willing to sell themselves short for a goodie bag or maybe some access to early screeners They're going out there talking about the movies. They're getting hyped red carpet affairs Spots on TV movie trailers press junket tours all of this stuff falls under marketing and it is massive Giant billboards in Central Square It's a lot and Unfortunately, this is looked at as a failure a almost half a billion dollar film is Looked at as a failure and the sucky thing about this is it's part one During a writer's strike an actor's strike the movies not complete for part two Which is another thing that's gonna turn people off from going there might not even be a part two at the rate This is now.  He just loves movies He wants to see that this is his thing. This is his baby He's gonna make sure it gets done, but I'm guessing one of the big things They do is they start to cut back on that budget if possible. I don't even know if it is possible at this point It's just disappointing It's really disappointed and like I said, this is not a one-off thing going on The last fast in the furious fast 10 was a dumb amount of money to make I have the numbers here Let me bring them up quick fast in the furious 10 release this year a production budget of 340 million Now granted, there's a lot of I guess there's a lot of talent There's a lot of actors in these movies that have been in a lot of fast in the furious films So yeah, I mean Charlie's their owns in this at times. You got Brie Larson in the mix now Vin Diesel, of course There there are a lot Michelle Rodriguez Luda. I mean Ludacris is probably paid via Nos energy drinks. I don't know what they're paying Ludacris to be in these films I think it's Ludacris how much money they've spent on these films though. So 340 million the gross worldwide $720 million now that is right in that sweet spot. It's right there to be a profitable movie, but not by much Granted, this is a theatrical release So we do get to take in into account Blu-ray sales digital purchases Any sort of I don't know happy meal. Did they make happy meals for fast in the furious 10? Fast in the furious toys. Is there a is there a toy line of fast 10? There is a video game I don't know if that makes any profit for the film though. I doubt it I doubt the studio gets a cut of that. Maybe maybe they do regardless Disney is the best at this through the king of making a movie and then pushing a bunch of merch based off the film and Different kind of things that they can generate more income from so it's not just a movie theater thing for Disney They will find ways to eke out money, but if they have a long hill to climb it's gonna be impossible at points So for fast 10 They did make a lot of money. It looks like they probably made You know some some bucks back to make a sequel, but it wasn't by a lot 340 million went into this. What is the budget going to? I really don't understand on some of these Avatar the way of the water is of course the success story the film cost 460 million dollars We're almost half a billion territory 460 million of Course it made two billion three hundred and nineteen thousand nine hundred and seventy-two Well beyond what it needed to become a profitable film I remember James Cameron was interviewed and he essentially said yeah the success of this movie is Gonna be determined on if we make any more Even though he's already been working on avatar 3 4 and I believe a little bit of 5 This is a massive franchise And at number 2 he was willing to just set fire to it all because if they can't recoup that cost That's just gonna say the future ones are gonna do worse If you can't pull people in for your first sequel, there's no way they're coming back for a third fourth or fifth but yeah people came out and I was kind of foolish about this film when it was announced 14 years ago and as years went by I kept saying in my head in James Cameron we trust in James Cameron We trust he's going to save theaters. It's not gonna bomb. It's James Cameron. The guy did the abyss The guy did Terminator Terminator 2 Aliens the hit sequel to alien true lies Avatar one Titanic he does not miss their all box office gold However, because of the massive amount of time that went by because of coven Because theaters were having a hard time filling seats even big popular movies. I was nervous And I wanted it to succeed even though I eventually saw it in theaters and did not like Avatar 2 I still wanted it to succeed because I don't want to see theaters go away and It proved people are willing to still go out and spend the cash if they know what they're getting With mission impossible. They knew they were only getting half a film a lot of them and They saw a lot of the highlights in the trailer with Avatar the way of the water the trailers weren't great, but they showcased what people can expect beautiful blue ocean scenery Amazing new creatures some of the Navi back again in the mix. We got the evil corporation the Marines coming after them a three-hour film Massive budget James Cameron. They know they're gonna get an experience that they cannot possibly get at home in 3d with surround sound I mean some people can get it at home, but for the most part it's still it's a movie ride, right?  It made funny money Avatar is not going anywhere and that's sad to me, but also cool for James Cameron I guess on the other biggest budget success stories. We have Avengers Endgame $400 million it grossed 2,794 this is the second highest grossing film of all time That's amazing But it's also incredibly expected. This was the swan song for the MCU for most people this was the creation of 20 films or 24 for whatever it is I don't know. It doesn't matter of a massive amount of movies in different phases coming together Telling the end of Tony Stark's story closing down shop on Captain America Finishing out Black Widow. It's doing a lot of different things and for the most part it knocked it out of the park So people went multiple times to watch this film great word of mouth Kept it circulating for weeks and that's how you have a multiple billion dollar success story Couple more in the positive then we'll talk more about where things have really started to go bad Pirates of the Caribbean on Stranger Tides again another one where it's really piggybacking out for the success of the others You can say the same for Fast and the Furious. You can say the same for Mission Impossible. It's just These impossible budgets are really starting to hamper things And I don't know if the Mission Impossible movies ever I don't think they reach the same dumb amounts of money that some of these other franchises do I think they have loyal people that go to them But they're not really broadening the tent as much as like Fast and the Furious did over the years But Pirates of the Caribbean, that's a that's an over billion dollar worldwide gross off of a what do we got here? 379 million dollar budget. Wow. That's a big budget the man. That's crazy The the difference from 1 billion to 2.7 billion between Avengers Endgame and Pirates off of just a few more million dollars spent in the budget arena Wild stuff Yeah, fast time I talked about Force Awakens 306 million to make 2 billion dollar revenue Everybody wanted to see a new Star Wars. We were clamoring for it. This was gonna be a return to basics It's gonna be a return to the foundation and in a lot of ways it was because it was basically the same movie as Star Wars A New Hope all over again And I was okay with that. I think most people were okay with that. It was a it was a good reset It was a good reset and then it was all reset again two more times over came a complete shit show Okay, let's look at movies with the lowest budgets to earn 1 million at the box office That's an interesting weird thing. So clerks Made the clerks budget was twenty seven thousand dollars and it grossed three million eight hundred and ninety four That's Kevin Smith's first film first big movie That's awesome. I didn't realize it did so well Super size me that was the documentary of sorts on McDonald's the guy that ate nothing But McDonald's for breakfast lunch and dinner for a year gained a bunch of weight got super sick that movie costs 65,000 to make and it grossed 22 million dollars damn That did way better than I thought This is what this is another area I wanted to get into because this is really one that a Lot of different genres should look at as far as how to make money the smart way So when I look at some of these Lowest budgets and see that over a million dollar revenue I'm seeing a lot of horror films a lot of scary movies on here a racer head We have a Ghost story we have native the living dead We you can think of Blair Witch project You can think of what was that other one paranormal activity These are all movies that had shoe string budgets and made millions of dollars at the box office Based on showing very little footage and an amazing word-of-mouth Gorilla campaign marketing strategy The little footage shown is the same concept. They did in Jaws. It's the same concept They did an alien alien has a brilliant trailer by the way even the og terminator and terminator 2 had really smart Trailers that didn't give a lot away just enough showing that new technology Showing the threat down the horizon Giving you a couple teases of what you can expect the final product to be and that's really how you get people to come out Again these blockbusters with their hundreds of millions of dollars of budget thrown in Give away so much of the movie and they overblot them to hell and back most scary flicks Are around an hour and a half to two hours to two hours being on the on the heavy end They get in they get out they give people that ride that experience that That dopamine hit and then they let them pack up and head home for the night When movies now come out fast 10 is like two and a half hours long Mission impossible seven is two and a half hours long. These movies are too Long for their own good and that's another reason that they're repelling people from going to them I I kind of cringe when I see a film is about three hours long because I have to drive there Which is 20 minutes. I have to drive home, which is 20 minutes. I have to wait through 17 to 30 minutes of trailers I don't know why I started with 17.  I can watch two hour and a half films That that that's more value to me getting different experiences And yes if a movie is Fantastic or it warrants the runtime for some people like myself Lord of the Rings are our peak Some of my favorite trilogy one of my favorite trilogies. I love Middle Earth. I love these characters I like that it takes its time. Let's everything breathe. I'm just happy being part of this stuff I can see why it turns others off though, but not everything should be at this scale I don't think a fast 10 movie I don't think a fast nefarious movie has any earthly right being over two hours.  Oh my gosh Where we got it biggest money losers? Let's look let's see what we have here in the biggest money losers section based on absolute loss on worldwide earnings This is by the way from This is box office mojo, I think All right, so the number one slot is turning red I might have mentioned this I don't know if I did but this is Pixar slash Disney Maybe it's just Disney. I can never tell anymore. What's what what falls under what rooftop? I think it's Pixar Disney owns everything. It doesn't matter The approximate Let's see. What is the expense on this? Oh my god. This was a hundred seventy five million dollars to make It lost Let's see here profit negative 167 million Approximate income seven million five hundred fifty-five. I'm not sure how this is actually laid out This is a little weird to me. So jungle cruise for instance has approximate expense of two hundred and sixty four million And it made 114 okay, I see what they're doing so the profit loss is a hundred and fifty million dollars Holy crap Wait turning red only made seven million dollars off of it a budget of a hundred and seventy five million How was that? Oh? That's because okay. So it must have gone to really limited Theater screenings for maybe a day or two It must have gone to theaters the same day. They released it on Disney Plus They basically shot the thing and they shot that red panda in the head. It was dead on arrival They did this for Luca too. I believe I think Luca didn't even go to theaters They did it with a few movies lately and I just cannot fathom the reason why outside of we got to pull people to our Disney Plus platform But that's a foolish way of doing it and I mean, I don't know how you recoup that cost Mars needs moms. Oh My god hundred seventy million to make that pile of crap It lost a hundred forty three million because it only pulled in twenty six million that would look terrible Mulan another example of a Disney Plus movie now this one was a little different I remember this went to theaters But you also had the opportunity to watch it day one on Disney Plus if you ponied up an additional $20 on top of your Disney Plus thing. I don't think they've done this ever since they tried it a couple times Cruella might have been another one. They did it with I know they did it a couple times black widow, maybe Regardless this thing lost a lot of money. It lost a hundred and forty million because it costs two hundred million to make What about Mulan has two hundred million dollars worth of budget in it? I feel like I'm losing my mind. Is there some massive money laundering scheme happening over at Disney is Mickey taking Taking half that money for crack What's going on over there Mickey? What are you hiding? Oh? Jesus Wonder Woman 1984 so these numbers are really screwed up Okay, we're falling in weird territory here because a lot of the movies. I'm seeing on this list really are Not failures in the same light that's something like dead reckoning is becoming one right now These are failures because of really poor decision-making Releasing these day in and day out on HBO Max Which is now just called max for some dumb reason at the same time as they released at the theaters mortal combat was one of those Godzilla versus Kong Space Jam to a new legacy, which is on here funny enough Space Jam a new legacy It was 187 million to make it only made 76 million at the theaters, so it lost a hundred and ten million dollars West Side Story now this one did go to theaters and it stayed in theaters and no one went to see it in theaters 143 million dollar Steven Spielberg film Only made 38 million. I'm sorry 143 million is what it cost. I think it said 143,000 It lost a hundred and four million dollars That's really sad because oh well, I should I didn't see it I was gonna say it's really sad that people didn't support it. It's Steven Spielberg. I didn't support it. I'm not big on musicals West Side Story didn't appeal to me at all. I wasn't going to every major release when it came out I would have if it came out today I would have gotten seen it just to review it on the channel But when it came out, I was you know probably busy doing something else. I still haven't watched it and I heard it's amazing Heard it's an incredible film and I love Steven Spielberg films It's I I also haven't seen the fablemen's and it's about Steven Spielberg growing up with this family Making movies it appeals to me at every sense of the word, but I also heard it's like two and a half hours long and I just it came out at a time when there was a bunch of other things out I wasn't even sure when it was in theaters Everything about the launch of that film was very confusing because that it early releases at some places and not at others Just just bad all around bad The Suicide Squad now this is not Suicide Squad This is the Suicide Squad by James Gunn a lot of people Especially in the Zack Snyder fan base will say that movie was a massive failure And they're just not gonna remember I guess they're just not gonna bring up the fact that this is another one of those Same-day releases on HBO Max Now the movie still managed actually to make 99 million in the theater But it was a 218 million dollar project loses a hundred and nineteen Because I didn't go see it in theaters. It was right there across from my couch. Why would I drop? $15 or more with my family when I have free access to it because they pay a monthly subscription It was so insane that they were doing this COVID was going on though. This was a COVID movie a lot of these were so what do you do? You hold off on it you find some sort of way to make people rent it at home. They tried a lot of different things Lightyear this is a straight. This was a straight theater release Buzz Lightyear movie 235 million to make Why are these Pixar movies getting so expensive? The income was a hundred and twelve million So it lost one hundred and twenty three million Dollars Lightyear is another one where I just completely scratch my head at what they were thinking on this film It did not look exciting. It didn't look fun. I'm not sure who the target audience was Pixar set out to make basically their version of a Christopher Nolan interstellar At least that's how they presented it in the trailers The final product was actually far less grand You spend most of the time on a single planet Lightyear is kind of relegated to a background character for half of it It has this really silly plot and these really dumb scooby-doo-esque characters But not in the fun way just in the klutzy dumb shaggy way I hated this movie. I didn't get its appeal And from a practicality standpoint, I just don't know like in the story department What they thought was appealing to young boys who were clearly the the audience for this Because my son Likes ninja turtles. He likes superheroes. He likes toy story But he doesn't want to see Buzz Lightyear kind of stoically You know running around on a planet and then falling into bad times and having to get saved by the dumbass crew that he's with He wants to see lightyear with some cool laser guns Jumping away from explosions popping the wings out taking bad guys out fighting aliens going to different planets It's not that deep It's not that hard But uh, you know, maybe if they would have done that would have made some money Wonder Woman 1984 uh colossal disaster of a film total pile of shit that didn't make money Moonfall failed we got onward on the list John Carter most of the things I just listed were the same day in day out releases, but John Carter This is a special kind of bad. This was an almost 300 million dollar epic saga film from disney lost a hundred Lost 112 million it made 183 million which is an express. It's an impressive amount But when a movie costs that much You only have down to go unless you're James Cameron This is just the taste of some of the movies over the years That have failed to really reach an audience or I shouldn't even say reach an audience If you're generating 183 million you have reached an audience Just not enough of one Because these movies are so bloated and cost so much money I'm looking at this indiana jones and the doll of destiny came out a few weeks back the budget for this 300 million dollars for an indiana jones movie That's double what any indiana jones movie should ever cause especially when we're talking practical effects When we're talking about a movie that should go quickly get in and get out under two hours But dial of destiny does everything wrong. It costs way too much It uses a lot of cg and it's over two. It's two and a half hours. I think Another one of those films that I don't know what you're trying to accomplish here They think that bigger is better every time. They think that you have to always push further out We can't do 90 minutes people that doesn't appeal to anyone people need to be in the theaters for two hours Plus they don't feel like they're getting their money's worth wrong Wrong Look at horror films most of them. No, you got to be done under two hours And they make a lot of money the insidious franchise. There are five films I thought there were like two They don't cost much to make and they make a ton of money They're never over two hours. They always are the same thing and they always make money It's it's not that hard I don't understand Oh my god. Well, there you have it. That's just a little bit of my rants on what's been going on lately Movies are costing an insane amount to make and it's not going to the actors often I'm seeing some of these movies. I the haunted mansion is out right now. Let me look at this quick the haunted mansion budget Oh my god, this movie costs 157 million 157 million to make this 157.8. So really 158 million. Let's see what it's gross 2023 gross 24 million In the united states And 91 million in other talent territories for a full gross. I'm sorry 9.1 The full worldwide gross as of now for the haunted mansion. It came out a few days ago is $33 million Off a what budget 157.8 million this movie is tanking hard Another example of spending way too much on something that's so Niche based off a disney ride. We already had a haunted mansion movie with eddie murphy back in the late 90s early 2000s nobody cared then They're certainly not going to care now I mean really any movie that's coming out I could I could google week to week and probably find a film that's falling on its face The flash Another one that I was honestly shocked the flash Budget, let's see the flash budget is 200 million dollars The flash gross Oh my god 55 million 55 million that's That's brutal this movie These movies are all tanking They got so much money Okay, I could go on forever. I'm gonna wrap it up You get the point. Let's calm down. We have a writer's strike going on We got an actor's strike going on right now. This is time for hollywood to maybe think Hey, we could still pay these guys a fair amount of money and maybe shave some of the cost on whatever the hell they're doing Maybe pay the coffee guy a little less Because he's clearly making too much to get the starbucks run all right, maybe maybe Get a screenwriter that can write a confidence script in under two hours You can show it at more theaters. You get more screen times more showings every day Then you do a three-hour film Simple math you give people more options more times to go to a movie. You might get them there Okay All right, let me know your thoughts. Do you agree movies have gotten bloated? Both financially speaking and runtime speaking or are you like no adam? This is just the wave of the future. We got to spend tons of money if we don't have massive explosions at a huge scale all the time We are not going to make profit movies have to be over two hours long. Otherwise people won't go see them even though I've Brought out a lot of points that I think speak to the contrary You are free to give me your thoughts in the comments below if you agree with me I'd love to hear it too. I always like when people agree Like the video if you like the video and you're watching on youtube if you're on spotify or apple apple podcasts or wherever Feel free to um share it around and become a become a subscriber there or a follower or a liker Whatever it's called a spotifier and hopefully you tune into the next one. All right Take care talk to you next time