Greetings everyone, greetings and welcome to progressive discussions. I'm your host James P. Madonna of Megalife 21 and I am here with my co-host and mentor and the very founder of Newsletter Sensor 1977, the one and only, the Reverend Dr. William J. Eisenman. How are you feeling this November to remember, sir? A little breathless. Yes, a little breathless. My favorite time of year just passed and I hope everyone had a pleasant, all hallows-y, all souls-y and to all Mexicans and Mexican-Americans the day of the dead, November 2nd. I hope everyone had a good, safe, pleasant time. Mine was not rip-roaring, but it was good. It was good. I did a show with Mr. J. Tirio of the New Orleans region of Louisiana and it's on YouTube. It's all hallows-y, you know, special. Wearing my wizard hat and having the right decor in the background. So I do enjoy, I did enjoy very much doing the show and so I want to say greetings to Mr. J. Tirio of Southern Louisiana for doing the show with me and also to my near dear friend Natalia Rodriguez of San Diego, California. Greetings.  November 3rd? No. Fourth? What is it? What is it? One, two, three, four. Four. I'm telling you, every time I do the show I get distracted. I get distracted and now we have to prematurely take our break, maybe go 25 minutes instead of 29 minutes and 53 seconds. Yeah, about three minutes.  About three minutes he was up. So, you know, let's roll around it off. 20, 20, 20, 26. I don't want to push it. 26. I don't want to push my luck too much. 26. Okay, seven lucky bells for this week's progressive discussions and God only knows we need the luck. I don't like the sounds of that six bell. You know what?  Seven more lucky bells. You know why? Because my antioxidant rich tea, that's right, no craft beer this week because I forgot to buy it thanks to distractions from the smaller minded people in my life that are not deep like myself and the Reverend Dr. William J. Eisenman that distracted me at home to make me forget to get craft beer. But it's supposed to be 58 degrees Fahrenheit here in northeastern New Jersey. So, you know, the tea was kind of jiggling around while I was hitting the bell. So let me take a sip of this. That is quite pleasant. It is antioxidant rich and very medicinal. Let me put the tea here where no accidents will happen. We already had one accident. I accidentally hit my black thorn chilele to knock the tea cup off the desk and went on the floor. Among other things, like someone at home causing me to forget my notebook. So I have to kind of really add lib the monologue. I'm telling you, Beelzebub is at work. Everything we discussed politically is part of our series. Crapitalism in a conch shell. There's the conch. Soak in that conch energy from Davy Jones' locker. Yes, King Neptune. Davy Jones' locker needs to be expanded, extended, remodeled. It is way too small for the amount of people that deserve to be in Davy Jones' locker. Yeah. What are you going to do? We need a friggin warehouse instead of Davy Jones' locker. There should be a warehouse with the amount of people that should be there. Okay. Yeah, yeah. I'll mention it. All right. Here we have our official End of Days prophecy skeleton. Okay. Which represents where the planet Earth and mankind is going. If people continue to elect right wing politicians. See this? There you go. End time prophecy skeleton. Welcome. His name is Billy Bones. Hey. Captain Billy Bones. Captain. Yeah, okay. Oh, then I'm going to get the Boson's whistle back.  Yeah, Captain Billy Bones. You know, like Johnny Depp and the Pirates of the Caribbean. Captain Black. Yeah, they did a whole bunch of those moves. Yes, they did. But he's an extremely talented actor, Johnny Depp.  He lives in France with his wife. You know, there are certain actors that have had a clean reputation and decided not to be part of that perverted, holly weird world, so to speak. Yeah, well, now they got spacey. Oh, the pedophile ring? Well, you know. Well, the kingpin is... He admitted to trying. Epstein? Epstein?  Oh, Weinstein. Oh, Weinstein. Yeah, he's approached about over 50 women in his casting couch. Look, the casting couch is nothing new. No. It's not the casting couch that bothers me because usually the person who is asked to lie in the casting couch is an adult who can make their own decisions.  Rich, very wealthy pedophiles. That's disturbing. That's part of the underground satanic cult that the elitists tend to belong to. You know, so on and so forth. If you're up on your documentaries, you will learn all about it. But then again, it shouldn't surprise you, Reverend Bill, because we're in the end times. Yeah, but you don't have to be in the end times because we've been in this... That stuff for a long time. Wherever you got differences in power. Cult. I'm talking about cults, the existence of cults. Well, what did Macaulay used to be? In the world, the flesh.  I'll forget his name. Macaulay the 40s, for crying out loud. He was a devil worshipper. Oh, that guy. He had a shaved head.  I remember him. He started the first.  That was one of his trademarks. Well, he wanted to offend. Exactly. Like all those had a so-called, quote-unquote artist in New York City. What was his name? Megal Thorpe. The one that put a crucifix in a jar of urine. Maple. Maple Thorpe to try to get a shock effect. Yeah. And now... I think he's dead, though. No. And then there's... Maybe wrong, but, you know... Kate Perry, who says that human flesh is the best-tasting meat.  And Miley Cyrus, who says Satan is actually a nice guy. She probably wants to get banged by Satan. He was once a nice guy? No, she didn't say once. She said is. They should move in together. Kate Perry and Miley Cyrus... Oh, incidentally, Kate Perry's father is what is or was, or still is, a zealot evangelical minister. And Miley Cyrus, Billy Ray Cyrus is supposedly one of those evangelical born-again dudes. So that stuff is just a rebellion against the growing up. Well, Kate Perry's father forbid any of both Kate Perry and her siblings to celebrate Halloween. He forbid them to take part in Halloween in any way, shape, or form. So what I'm trying to say is it's right-wing fanaticism. Well, any fanaticism. There could be left-wing fanaticism. I'm sure the same thing happened with Paul Ryan and his father. Listen. There's all forms of fanaticism. Left-wing fanaticism are the militant vegans that tell you that you should not consume not even dairy products or wear leather.  Oh, by the way, I have something very important to say involving the very next holiday. Which is? Which is supposedly Thanksgiving. Not for the Native Americans, by the way. What about Veterans Day? Yeah, what about doing something positive for veterans instead of just saying, Yippee, it's Veterans Day. I mean, actually do something to help veterans. Money. Don't just pray for veterans. There's this program called the American Pickers on Cable.  But I have my own reasons. They were visiting a guy who was English. Yes. And he would import all kinds of invalid chairs. Yeah. Because in England after World War II and World War I, et cetera, they made these invalid chairs for their veterans who lost legs. They were like motor scooters with three wheels, but like a chair. Okay. But they were a motor rat. Uh-huh.  The veterans could get around.  They jumped through rings of fire. Exactly.  You're just trying to distract Americans away from your connection with the Russians by giving billionaires more tax breaks and taking millions of Americans off of healthcare, et cetera, et cetera, as a distraction to what's going on with you, you know, how you were able to win over Hillary Clinton by having less votes. So, Trump said, read Donna Brazil's new book about the collusion of how Hillary Clinton bought the DNC and stole the Democratic primary from you crazy Bernie. No, he said crooked Hillary. Okay. He used the words crooked.  And that was his answer. But the truth is, it is an attempt to distract Americans away from the whole Russia. Well, hey, the tax cut for the middle class. I'll tell you that right now. And it never is when the Republicans do this. Well, when they run, they promise to help the middle class, don't they? Of course. You've got right here in New Jersey. Now, we have Phil Murphy against Kim Gwadana. Well, Phil Murphy.  Is a thin female Chris Christie, basically. Is yapping about the fact that she wants to give us a break in our property taxes. Well, I got news for her. We used to have one. Disabled people, elderly, used to get $900 a year from the party. The homestead rebate until Christie got rid of it. Hey, didn't Republican Christine Todd Whitman promise to lower property taxes? And that really did not happen. Christie got rid of as many social services as he possibly could.  And of course, he defunded Planned Parenthood. Whitman's the health thing he did. Yeah, welfare is a joke anyway. $140 a month cash assistance in New Jersey. That's less than chump change. That doesn't even qualify as chump change. And a list goes on and on and on.   And you're not paying utilities.  You're not paying utilities. But they don't care. They want to pour it to either drop dead or become a slave to a corporation. If you're homeless, they want to throw you into a corporate privatized prison for vagrancy and have you work as free slave labor. Incidentally, do listen to me. It is the beginning of November 2017. Do not shop on Thanksgiving Day and during Black Friday weekend. Listen carefully. You are just feeding into right wing corporate American greed in the sleazy corporate American retail industry by shopping on those days because you are only enabling them to continue to force their employees to work on Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday weekend. Not just Black Friday because it's not just Black Friday, it's the whole weekend. Black Friday weekend. Do not work on those days. I want to bring up the subject of... I want to call out and bash airport security. You remember the movie? It was pretty funny. It was called Paul Blart Mall Cop as in shopping mall. And mall cops are like... The reason why they say mall cop is because they're like wannabe state troopers. They walk around.  And they're only security officers that work in a mall.  These security people, they abuse their authority, some of them because of ego. In the case of airport security, they are wannabe FBI agents that will never be. And what happened was, when I was in San Diego airport getting ready to fly back to Newark Liberty Airport, New Jersey, I had this affirmative action hirie or this black guy that was talking down to me for no reason at all. Talking to me like I was a little child misbehaving. Believe me, the only reason why I bit my tongue real hard is because I did not want to miss my flight. Because if I were to have a confrontation with him, I would have missed my flight.  Yeah, I could report that. I don't know where and how, but it can be reported. I was furious.   For any reason, you behave professionally, you do your job and that's it. And this is what we have. I mean, if you did your job that well, then those young men would not have gotten on that plane with box cutters to prove a point. The young men that were arrested right after 9-11, they wanted to prove how incompetent airport security is and they got away with it. You know, do your job, don't abuse your power. There's no reason to call somebody a name and there's no reason to talk down to me because listen, I didn't want to miss my flight, but I would have knocked that guy out cold, believe me. You know, we don't, us Sicilian Caucasian guys, we don't necessarily practice political correctness.  But I don't want to miss my flight. Oh, Huckabee, I just remembered another great topic, Huckabee Sanders, you are wrong, Huckabee, you are wrong. Not everyone is trying to come to the United States of America. She made a statement this past week about, I don't know if it was a statement based on immigration or based on what happened in New York. Yeah, it was based on what happened in New York, which we will have a moment of silence for the six victims, I think. Eight. Eight victims. Eight dead. Eight dead. Fifty-some hearse or whatever. So she made a statement, she was talking about the Homeland Security approach, what they should do about this increase in terrorism, which happens to be targeting the larger major New York, I mean, the major cities in the United States are targeted. And of course, New York City, Manhattan, is one of the largest targets. And she says, oh yeah, everyone wants to come to the United States. Hey, Huckabee, not Northern Europe and Scandinavia, that's for sure. They have no logical reason to want to come here. And so you're wrong, you're completely wrong. And unfortunately, I believe it was six of the dead that came from Argentina. Most of them were tourists, and that's what I feel bad about, because they're visiting New York and they were near the World Trade Center, the new World Trade Center. Now, that's going to hurt tourism, without a doubt.  And he lived in Paterson, like the 9-11 perpetrators lived in this Middle Eastern community in Paterson, which is a part of Main Avenue. And yeah, people, you know, I don't blame tourists for thinking twice about that. So, you know, we'll have a brief moment of silence for these victims. And I think that New York City is the only exception to the rule about electing a Republican. Yeah, Republicans are much tougher. You need someone tough on crime and high on security.  I think New York has to be run with an iron hand. I don't think liberalism is the answer to running New York City or Chicago. Oh, forget it, Chicago. They should send in the National Guard and the U.S. Marshals and the troops.  It just doesn't work. So, a moment of silence for the eight victims. Actually, eight victims deserves eight bells. Let's do that again. Okay, about a few minutes, a couple minutes at least. Don't ask me why. Ask the Sony Corporation why our video segments are broken down into 29 minutes and 53 seconds. I haven't the foggy side yet. So, anyway, I'm going to take a short pause and then we will begin with our first reading for this week's show, Progressive Discussions. I think the YouTube Google company has been censoring our shows. I know it. I do. I study the activity of our shows. And I think you corporate scumbags at Google are censoring us just like people. Progressive warriors are getting censored on Facebook. Okay, and we all know why. They say Bella, Bella, go see, can never see a reflection. Let me see my reflection. Well, you're not a vampire. Well, let me see myself. Hold on, hold on, man. Hold on, man. You know. Hold on, man. Okay, I guess that's pretty much okay, I hope.  Now, other online companies are pushing their software on people. Retail, online retail companies that want you to enroll in the automatic renewal program where they charge your debit card every month for a new supply. Delivery. Automatically, without you manually doing it.  It's not good.   I don't want a trickled down water saving shower head. I don't want, I want to be able to choose things, you know, to my liking. It's like a lot of people don't like to drive an automatic transmission. They like the manual. Well, make it available. Well, jeez, it ain't today. But it's not, but it's not. I mean, if you, if you really, I mean, personally, all the extra work that you have to do when you're in traffic, especially on a hill with the manual transmission, you're not really saving that much gasoline to go through all that trouble. But some people like the feel of a stick shift. To be in control. Make it available to them. Hey, if you don't have children, don't put the child safety feature in the car where all the doors lock on you automatically, you know.  It's your ring. Yeah, I know. Hold on. It's just like crossing guards. Excuse me. I haven't. I haven't. The foggy is fricking idea. Now that got there, unless I didn't put it on to begin with. My medieval copper ring, medieval style. Maybe I didn't have it to begin with. Maybe since it was sitting here, maybe the chalele knocked it in the floor over there. Our Skeletor gun. Yeah, like the commercial. Yeah. Anyway, what was I saying? Yeah, don't force things on people. That's all. If they don't need it. I don't remember if I had my medieval copper ring on at the beginning of the show. It must have because it was new on the floor. So many things have happened.  It was that. That was last week, right? Yeah. Anyway, let us begin with the first reading of our show. We are coming to you from the newsletter-sensitive research center in northeastern New Jersey. And remember, if you do not vote, you have no right to complain. That's my motto. That solves a lot of problems in the United States. Chris Christie's wife has been ticketed. Oh, really? In a statewide distracted driving crackdown. Uh-oh, was she texting? That was ordered by her husband's attorney general. But she got caught. New Jersey Advanced Media reports Mary Pat Christie was stopped while driving with a cell phone in her hand. Uh-oh. In her hand? So I guess, well, the law doesn't apply to rich Republicans, I guess. On April 10th in Bernardsville by a police officer assigned to the grant-funded program that targeted texting and other distracted drives. You know, that's a big ticket in New York State. Yeah? Over $800. Word! Someone on my Facebook friends list posted it. You know, a close-up photograph. Oh, the ticket. They're not messing around. I think around here it's $250. Yeah, well, New York State has lots of very nice... Lots of ways of grabbing money from you. No, no, they have lots of social programs under Andrew Cuomo that New Jersey does not have.  She did not identify herself as Republican Governor Christie's wife. But she did tell the officer she was not making a call. The officer told her she could not have the phone in her hand while driving. Well, that's the law. She should have known that, being that she was the governor's wife. The officer told her she was getting a ticket because he was on the distracting driving grant detail. The first lady pleaded guilty to driving with a cell phone and paid the $250 fine. Well, I want to salute that police officer for doing his job and not sucking up to the woman, because she just happened to be Governor Christie's wife. So I salute him for doing his job. The law is the law. No one is above the law. Good work, officer. She's Donald Trump. Unless you're Donald Trump. Unless you're Donald Trump, if you accuse him of something he's doing that is bad, he will distract you by mentioning the words Crooked Hillary and Crazy Burning. And the DNC. Yes, he will do that. They stayed. What? They damaged crops and wildlife. And they are extending their range in the United States. What's that? Imported fire ants. Oh, I had a personal experience with them. Years ago I was standing on a fire ant mound in South Florida, in the Fort Lauderdale area. And I didn't know it until I felt my leg burning to high heavens or to hell. Yes. They were crawling up, man. Oh, they don't mess around, man. But they're not indigenous to the Southern United States. I think they are an invasive tropical species. Well, they are unwelcome guests here. And careless plant shipping helps them spread. A colony was discovered this spring in palm trees sent from Florida to Delaware. That's how they do it in palm trees. They should be in the ground in the colony. They don't colonize trees unless there's something to eat up there. Two fire ant species were introduced a century or so ago into Mobile, Alabama. You mean initially? See, I was right. Invasive. Hidden in soil ballast on cargo ships from South America. There you go. Right again. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said since then they've infested 14 mostly Southern states and Puerto Rico. Hey, those Burmese pythons in South Florida are invasive. You know, it happens. Didn't the Japanese send the Japanese beetle to the United States to destroy our crops? Well, they had no good job, too. They had other sneaky plans. The Japanese through espionage of sneaking things here. Actually, they had some kind of a biological man-made bubonic plague They wanted to drop on California coastal cities. They wanted to drop the plague or some biological weapon during World War II. There's a lot of things that Americans did not hear about in their history books. Read about in their history books or through the media.  Where they have had a huge and detrimental impact on agriculture and natural resources. They continue their advance with the USDA predicting they eventually could reach from the Pacific Northwest to parts of the mid-Atlantic. Well, over five billion is spent every year on medical treatment, prevention and control. In fire and ridden areas, the agency says, agricultural damage alone is estimated to cost more than $750 million annually. Primarily for equipment and crop damage and livestock losses. Well, ants are venomous like hornets and wasps, which I believe are in the same family. Well, these are, you know, they do bite. No, there are ants that have stronger venom than other ants. You know, hornetose, horn lizards, that is their food of choice, is the very venomous harvester ant. They love ants. That's what they eat in the wild. This is what they eat, and supposedly they, it's good for their health if you have one in captivity. Only a couple of ant eaters. No, no, well, well, I mean, the horn lizards are a easier, more efficient way to do it. Right. Because it is the food of choice. So, I mean, there must be different species of them that you could, you know, introduce out of necessity. They're kind of cute looking. They have a round chubby face, a round body, spines, you know. I mean, they're not, they're not bad to have around. I think the praying mantis was introduced to the United States by the agricultural industry. As an urban pest, imported fire ants are a nuisance pest and can cause allergic reactions, including rare instances of an awful lack of shock in humans. Well, this can happen to any allergy to a venom. It happens to people that are allergic to bee stings, so on and so forth. And anything venomous can cause that if you happen to be allergic. Fire ants are particularly hazardous when encountered at nursing homes, daycare centers, schools, and playgrounds. A federal quarantine requires that state inspection certifies, certificate, excuse me, bee displayed showing that flora and potting soil from the invaded areas are fire and free before they are sold. Imported fire ants hitch rides in sod, hay veils, and nursery stock. Mated queens fly into new areas. Raps of flooded colonies like those displaced recently by Hurricane Harvey in Texas also claim fresh terrain. The two fire ant species, black and red, are similar, said Blake Layton, an extension entomologist with Mississippi State University. Controls are the same. Stings feel the same. Yeah, they make it go ouch, or scream, or worse. Fire ants are venomous. Okay. Their stings typically cause a burning sensation and fluid filled blisters, lasting several weeks. Mine didn't last more than an hour, but I imagine the allergic would have a hard time of it over a course of time. Fire ants also destroy a wide variety of wildlife, especially ground dwelling birds. Nothing stands in the way of a rampaging colony of ants. Fire ants can be controlled, but not eliminated by using granular baits and broadcast insecticides. I don't know how true this is, but I read an article where if you see fire ants to throw dry hominy grits on the mound because when they ingest it and then drink water the corn grit swells up and kills them. I don't know how true this is, but it's worth a try. How many grits are very inexpensive. Poisonous baits are pretty efficient. Ants carry them back to their mound and kill the queen.  It works, but we had so much rain this year that the ant season was extended greatly. But it has to be a long term effort. Prevention is the most common deterrent. Do not buy anything that has been inspected, has not been inspected. The real risk is having somebody come down here on a trip taking part of plants home. Those plants have not been inspected. Climate limits the ants' range. They do not like dryness and low temperatures, said Mike Merchant, an extension entomologist with Texas A&M University. Any burrowing invertebrate insect normally lives in very moist burrows when they tunnel. All of them. Even desert invertebrates and insects and such reptiles live in very moist burrows.  No, no, no. They're in the heat of day. They live in deep, very moist burrows. They need access to soil moisture. And they cannot survive for long temperatures in the teens or below that reach deep into their underground burrows. So freezing them sounds good to me. You ever see that freeze thing that they use for bed bugs? What is that? Like a liquid nitrogen? Like a dryness? Yeah, yeah. And they spray it on your... I saw the doctor remove this mole-like growth on my face. Cryogenics, yeah. He used the cryogenics. It was a form of liquid nitrogen, dry ice. So what happens is it causes frostbite to the object you want to destroy. It falls off. Why is sprint management is necessary to stop them from moving into new territories? Well, pest control is an ongoing thing. It's like when we used to have the Cold War with the Soviet Union, or fighting crime, or fighting terrorism, or fighting... I mean, they get one up on you, and then you get one up on them, and it goes back and forth and back and forth. Medical science, like antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria and viruses, build up an immunity, then you've got to find something stronger or better to kill them, and then they develop an immunity and come back and, you know... There are some things in life that are ongoing, unfortunately. Well, the beginning and no end.  Like maybe Afghanistan.  Protect those poppy fields in Afghanistan.  Yeah. Trump is being pulled in different directions as he heads to Asia on a grueling 12-day trip. Grueling? Yeah, but isn't he living high on the hog in Air Force One? Yeah, he was down at... How grueling could it be?  He's down at one of his... They have the best chefs on that plane out here. Yeah, they do. He's down at one of his golf clubs or something. And he was getting ready to take off. Mylar, mylar, whatever? I don't know which one it was, but he was getting ready to take off. Oh, real grueling. He went down there and said hello to... No, I think it was something new that he had down there. He went down there and said hello, and then he was going to be taken off on the airplane. You know what's grueling? The millions of Americans and children that... They're going to be screwed with the tax. That do not have adequate health care. And the middle class that are going to be even further screwed, worse than before, by taxation, by the burden of taxation. Because remember, the true backbone of the United States economy and the true consumer has always been the middle class. The president's loyal supporters are eager to hear him take a hard line on the Chinese trade and economic practices he railed against as a candidate. Of course, that's a priority, China. Of course, they make everything cheap. But many in his administration are pushing Trump to sweep those concerns aside as he works to pressure the Chinese Xi Jinping to tighten the screws on North Korea. Yeah, and give Tibet their freedom, by the way, mainland China. At the same time, much of the president's attention has been occupied by urgent matters at home, including indictments. Oh, yeah. Against two top campaign aides, the deepening Russian investigation and a high-stakes fight over his tax plan. By the admission of his own chief of staff, Trump has been distracted, has also demonstrated by the flurry of tweets he unleashed Friday before departing Washington and continued from aboard Air Force One. Fourteen tweets over six hours. I'm sure that he was redundant in a lot of the things he said. The president dug deep into intrigue surrounding Hillary Clinton and the 2016 presidential race. And other issues with just one tweet devoted to his trip. If you mention Putin and Russia helping him get elected, he mentions Crooked Hillary and the DNC, the collusion and Barbara Bobo Brazil's book, the collusion, the collusion. Even before the latest news, concerns abounded over how the president, a homebody who dislikes long stretches on the road, would fare during a marathon trip that will take him to five countries in twelve days. He's not a homebody, he's an officebody because I hear he used to work long hours. And that was his excuse probably not to go home to his wife. He used to be in the office in Manhattan all the time, I heard, from what I heard. There were always questions as to what the end of the trip would look like. Would he become distracted? Said Maria Solis, a senior fellow at the Brookings Center for East Asia Policy Studies. Now I think the question has shifted. Is he going to be distracted from the get-go? Are the domestic political problems going to be first and foremost on his mind? The administration projected confidence as it scrambled to lock down Trump's itinerary, describing the president as well-versed in the region and familiar with its leaders. National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster told reporters Thursday that Trump had placed 43 calls to Indo-Pacific leaders as president and met with the heads of Japan and South Korea, China and Vietnam. That man. Trump has also worked to develop close personal relationships with Jai and Shinsu, Abe of Japan. Kaisi hopes will pay off dividends. Oh, that's why.   Money. Profit.  Of course, pagan Christmas is coming. The winter solstice yule and my favorite day, Krampus Day. I want to bash the United States Postal Service. Yeah, United States Postal Service. I shipped something recently, two-day priority shipping. I paid extra money for it. And guess what? It reached its destination, shattered. And I told them to put a big fragile sticker on it on the parcel. Didn't do any good. I asked me if it was any liquid inside. They don't know anything fragile inside. I said, absolutely. Make sure you put a big fragile sticker on it. Well, guess what? Me paying for two-day priority shipping was a waste because both items were shattered. Thank you very much. Privatize United States Postal Service. That's what they're calling themselves now, right? United States Postal Service? Oh, yeah. If it is the United States Postal Service. Well, I hear some of it, or a lot of it is privatized. Which means it probably accounts for the high costs of my shipping fee and the fact that they did not handle it with tender loving care. It came out of the Little Ferry, New Jersey Post Office. You're in a chiseless hall of shame. Also, Costco is in a chiseless hall of shame because Natalia, who was a member, did not choose to cancel something in the print department. They say, oh, it's too late. She says, yeah, but I didn't pay. Oh, it's too late. The order has got to go through. What do you mean it's got to go through? It only goes through when you pay. It's a big joke. Anyway, it's right wing corporatism is what it is. We're going to go to lunch and you will see. This is James P. Madonna of Megalife 21 Hard Hitting Podcasts, Holistic Health Talk, and Progressive Discussions. I want to talk about the very foundation of our entire organization, the newsletter that was founded by my cohost and mentor, the Reverend Dr. William J. Eisenman in 1977. And that newsletter is called Censored. Newsletter Censored is truth and news fighting censorship and conservative propaganda. We believe we are living in the end times and you need Newsletter Censored. Newsletter Censored provides the kind of truth that most people are afraid to hear. Can you handle it? Newsletter Censored is for the independent critical free thinker with an open mind. 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Closing, frozen, whatever you want to call it. It's froze. Try restarting it. Yeah, but it's wasting more time. Yes, it is, but... Or bring up the order a lot. Well, you know, remember I told you?  Well, this is unexpected perils. Control alt-delete. More time wasted. There you go now. Task manager. That's who I'm looking for.  All right. It was frozen. That never happened before. More time wasted. All right. I was going to say, for those of you that are taking Lasix prescription water pills, the safest natural water pill is the amino acid taurine and mega-B6. What is it? One to two grams of taurine and what is it, 100 milligrams of vitamin B6 or higher? I used to have it 100 and then 500. Not at the same time. No, no, no. But yeah, you got to take enough, of course. The late great Dr. Robert C. Atkins who probably learned it from Carlton Frederick's, which was his mentor. He used to recommend it to pre-contest professional bodybuilders. It works. Just like probiotics are extremely important for the immune system and for overall health in many ways. And there's new articles that have been out. On the benefits of probiotics. If you eat a lot of fermented foods that will supply probiotics. Kefir. Sauerkraut. Yogurt. Yeah, sauerkraut would be an example. Fermented bean paste. Asian cooking. Tempeh. I don't know. I think the fermented bean paste has more probiotics. Tempeh is like tofu except they use, in Indonesia, they use the entire whole soybean and it's fermented into a cake by the same mold that causes bread to become moldy. Isn't that how penicillin was discovered? Penicillin. Was that Louis? Louis Pasteur? I think that was Lister. Well, mold, which happens to be a terrible allergen, if it's the wrong mold, mold is a fungi. Yeast is a fungi, as in Brewer's yeast. Now, people are not aware that a fungi is neither all plant or all animal. It's actually a plant.  So this is something, you know, a little tidbit. We give you educational tidbits here on progressive discussions. They're kind of scattered about. But, yeah, I couldn't get over that. United States Postal Service puts a big sticker that says, you know, and they deliver my items totally shattered after making me pay top dollar for shipping. And I think, I don't know. I don't know if I should blame privatization, which never really works.   I don't know. Or people who just don't care how they handle the packages. Yeah, incompetence, which is very common. Hey, you call customer service nowadays. You're lucky to get a human being. And when you do get a human being, it's an outsourced call center. Yep. You know, anyway. Trump wants the Justice Department and FBI to investigate Hillary Clinton's campaign. Of course. In response to an excerpt from a forthcoming book by former acting Democratic National Committee chair, Donna Brazil. Donna Bobo Brazil. That says the Clinton campaign was improperly running the party during the 2016 primaries. Oh, without a doubt.  I think Donna Brazil wrote the book because you think it might have something to do with Hillary Clinton calling her names? She got pissed at her at one point in time in 2016. I don't know about that. But I do know that... I mean, she really did. Hillary actually lent or gave money to the DNC, who was on their back at that time. Yeah. So control? Yes. Maybe George Soros was perhaps behind the whole thing. Who knows? Who knows? Who knows? That no matter is Bernie got cheated. Oh, without a doubt. Okay. Oh, without a doubt, the Democratic primary was stolen from Bernie Sanders. I mean, just look at the legions that showed up at Bernie Sanders' rallies compared to who showed up at Hillary Clinton's rallies.  In a series of morning tweets. Maybe that's why gays like Cher, because of Chaz Bono. Trump seized on Brazil's article that said the DNC became financially dependent on Clinton during the 2016 primary to the detriment of the challenger Bernie Sanders. Oh, yeah. Bonova, she really did verbally put down severely Donna Bobo, Brazil. We're using language. I mean, maybe that was when she goes... when she jumped ship, you know? Well, remember, shields had to be fired. So, Brazil could take over. Oh, yeah. Wasserman, she started the whole... Yeah. the crooked DNC thing. Everybody is asking why the Justice Department and FBI is not looking into all of the dishonesty going on with crooked Hillary and the Dems. Trump tweeted. Well, nobody has been brought to justice that happens to be rich and higher up.  Nobody on top has been brought to justice. At some point, the Justice Department and the FBI must do what is right and proper. Yeah, but nobody should be above the law. Nobody in the public deserves it. I think the last one who was brought to justice was Tricky Dick, right? When he was forced to resign. Richard Nixon as President of the United States. I think that's the last time. Has anyone else really been brought to justice? That's on the high end of the spectrum here? Trump's call. I don't think so. Trump's call to investigate his former election rival violates a longstanding US tradition of law enforcement agencies independence from interference by the executive branch. There also appears to be a little basis for an investigation. While Brazil's accusations fuel a narrative that Clinton sought to elbow Sanders out of the nomination, the fundraising agreement is not illegal. An excerpt of Brazil's book was published in Political. In it, Brazil says that before Clinton became the 2016 Democratic political presidential nominee, her campaign signed a joint fundraising agreement with the Democratic National Yacht Committee in which her campaign would finance the DNC in exchange for oversight from the Clinton campaign. Oh boy. Where's Jesse Ventura say all the money trail? That's it. It had become dependent on her campaign for survival for which she expected the wheeled control of its operations. Brazil wrote.       Said that there were fundraising agreements with both campaigns. The DNC must remain neutral in the primary process. And there should not be even a perception that the DNC is interfering in that process. Joint fundraising committees were created between the DNC and both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders to raise the general election funds needed to win in 2016. Clinton was the only candidate who raised money for the party through her joint fundraising committee with the DNC which would benefit any candidate coming out of the presidential primary process. Trump has been pushing investigations of the Clintons since the campaign. Yet, after winning the presidency Trump backed off for a little while. Trump's Twitter account disappeared for just 11 minutes this week. Oh but it's back. Of course he loves Twitter. Far shorter than past outoutages that have affected users of the social media service. Isn't that strange? But, as Trump's critics cheered his brief moment of forced silence and Twitter struggled to explain who was responsible for deactivating his account. Oh really? The outage underscored how important Twitter has been to his presidency. Well, I'm sure Donald Trump will tweet about him losing 11 minutes. He was probably on there for 20 minutes wondering what the hell was going on. Believe me, you'll hear from Donald Trump. I mean, he lost 11 minutes of tweeting. My Twitter account has been taken down for 11 minutes by a rogue employee. I told you. I told you. A rogue employee. Trump wrote. Conspiring against him. Yes. I guess the word must finally be getting out and having an impact. Twitter blamed a customer support worker. Oh really? Or her last day on the job for deactivating Trump's account on the way out. Trump should have the boy's visitor. The San Francisco based company added Friday that it is still investigating. They're all in California. Google, Facebook. They're all out there. And has implemented safeguards to prevent this from happening again.  The New York Times reported on Friday citing two unnamed sources that it was an outside contractor, not a Twitter staff member who made the account go dark. Well, whoever it is, you get punched in the face a dozen times. You know, like the hecklers at Trump's political rally. Get punched in the face. Get him out of here. Twitter would not say if it was a contractor and declined further explanation. Ah, you see, they're dodging it. Raising questions not only about its own security measures but on Trump's heavy reliance on a single platform to broadcast his views. It's not surprising that even the brief shutdown of the president's Twitter account has provoked debate. Said Jamil Jaffer, executive director of Columbia University's Night First Amendment Institute, which has filed a federal lawsuit challenging Trump's practice of blocking Twitter users who criticize him. Well, that's part of fascism, isn't it? Well, yeah. He wants to hear what he says but he doesn't want to hear what anybody else says.  Well, there you go.  Well, it's like any other dictator when you think about it. You know, but don't forget now just because he feels that the DNC and Hillary Clinton should be investigated for 2016, that doesn't mean that the Donald Trump-Russia connection should go to the back burner. That should also be investigated. I don't think anyone should be above the law. Of course. We're not above the law. They would lock us up and throw away the key. Absolutely. Unless you're part of the top 2% elitist. That's it. You know. You see nobody from Wall Street ever went to jail. Except a little guy. Oh, yeah, the Goldman Sachs and was the Bear Stern Company part of Wall Street? Bear Stern, remember them? Oh, yeah. The Goldman Sachs. No, nobody saw. K.P. Morgan Wells Fargo. Bernard Madoff who made off with a lot of people's money. He only saw the inside of a jail cell because he ripped off the top 2%. They were a part of his victimization. Yeah. That's why he saw a jail. Of course, if you rip off the little guy, you never see jail.  Well, it's good to... Don't ever choose your birth date as a password, by the way. I know that sounds dramatic, but it's true. If someone figures out the password to your email, you are in trouble. Social media even worse. Once hackers access your online bank account, they can wreck your finances. And you may feel the repercussions of that break-in for years. This is why my sister refuses to do online banking and pay her bills online. She does not trust their wonderful, as they will tell you, encryption system to protect you. She will not do online banking. I don't blame her. My Facebook account was hacked into. Facebook told me only two things. It was someone from this Middle Eastern country using a Samsung Galaxy smartphone. And that's all they really knew. But I had to change my password, which was so annoying because it took at least a week for Facebook to accept. You got to go through a whole process of protecting your password from future hacks. You have to go through a whole process. It was annoying. I don't, you know, I'm not like, I'm not a celebrity. I have anything that really that a hacker would want. We have the great progressive discussions Facebook page, which you don't have to be a hacker to look at. We have some great groups which you don't have to be a hacker to look at either.  Most of us have the wrong idea about passwords. We think they have to be convoluted messes. You'll never remember them. In any case. F dollar sign what you call it percent sign. Ampersand. 51 2 K exclamation ampersand. Funny name. Hey, you know what? They say hashtag all the time. I'm still unaware of why Twitter says put a hashtag in front of things. Back in the old days that's a tic-tac-toe symbol. The only hash that I'm concerned with is corn beef hash. Got that?  It gets online and it goes to Twitter. But doesn't it normally yes it does. If I tweeted something Let's say you tweeted instagate. Just the word instagate. Right, and you put it online. Or I'm here to instagate. Ain't nothing going to happen. But I see it on my Twitter account and it appears. When you're writing something? Like if I tweet something. Yeah, but the hashtag brings you to the thing or the person that you want to comment to. Oh, I get it. In other words, if you have a message to go on someone else's profile or channel hashtag. It's like the at on Facebook you put the at symbol if you want to get the attention of the person, but I have also not used the at symbol I just put the person's name that you know automatically highlights. If they're on your friends list, it highlights. Well the at signal puts you toward to your ISP. It points you to earthlink in my case. My da-ba-ba at earthlink.net Yeah, no, I'm just talking about statements on social media. Like they'll a lot of people will use hashtag on Twitter they'll say hashtag um um so Donald Trump has not kept any of his campaign promises yet hashtag and that supposedly does something it's supposedly but if you just put you know you go on Trump's page which is called real Donald Trump something like that it works anyway because I've seen people not use the hashtag you know it's like well if you're on his page and you're making a statement on his page I guess you don't need it if you're on his page you're already directed to there like on the website if you do it on your page maybe the hashtag sends you send your comment to his page you know what let's Google it this theory reigned for years that passwords which should be nonsensical and hard to remember it started in 23 with guidelines from the National Institute of Standards and Technology which insisted on random combinations of numbers and letters and symbols which are easy to forget as manager Bill Burr Bill Burr spread this gospel for years but in a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal he admitted that this wasn't nearly as effective as he had thought thanks to a new round of research cyber security experts have changed their tune yes you should still avoid guessable passwords like password one or let me in or your birthday which means but a strong password also can be logical fluid easy to remember I cannot overemphasize those words easy to remember passwords should withstand 100 guesses this is the most important part she's 100 guesses no matter what your password is it should withstand 100 guesses which means it shouldn't be tied to any public information about you or your family hackers often turn to their social media profiles to find information about you and a little data goes a long way such as your birthday name of your pet experts believe that criminals can guess the average person's password in 73% of the time did you know that Facebook constantly asked me for personal everyday run-of-the-mill information every time I logged in they want to know my hobbies my interests, my this, my cell phone number and they always push the all-new Facebook messenger app which supposedly can spy on everything you do don't forget that and they can often access your accounts by using slight variations on the same password use a phrase instead of thinking of your password as a secret code think of it as a passphrase these are strings of words that are easy to memorize but hard for anyone else to craft suppose you wanted to be an astronaut and your far and favorite color is deutia you have never mentioned these facts online and only your mommy knows such trivia about you you could compose a passphrase like I like fuchsia astronauts yeah and you're not gay you'll never forget it and the passphrase will confound hackers for centuries my god you should have seen all the security questions I had to ask for my new iPhone that's Steve what's his name Steve Wozniak of Apple he's anal about security big time go long you might want to sit down for this one the new NIST guidelines suggest allowing users to create passwords up to 64 characters long I have an itch in the middle of my forehead you gotta be a freakin Watson computer to memorize that as if that isn't weird enough the guidelines also allow spaces between the words spaces between their ears while many people just try to meet the bare minimum requirement of using 8 characters you will get a much stronger password by stretching things out you could theoretically create a complex list or sentence which still makes perfect sense to you you could list all your pet's names you can't see that light from the front go ahead finish up I'm pissed I'm pissed that it's shutting down prematurely if you created a strong password then don't worry about changing it all the time stick with it unless you've been notified of a security breach choose something memorable remember each password should be unique but they don't have to be cumbersome the NIST calls passwords memorized secrets you want to avoid the temptation to write down passwords so pick a password that has enough meaning to you to stay in your mind not the one that's like 100 characters long get creative that's when you're going to forget your password when you get creative it may take websites some time to catch up to the latest guidelines but you can still create a memorable password that meets current restrictions go back to Burr's advice on passwords you might choose something like Arizona Cardinals football is number one it's a long password or I give my job 1000% every day 1000% hahaha those meet the requirements of having at least 8 characters a special character an upper and lower case letters use two factor identification upper and lower case that's when you really forget your password while passwords help protect you or information hackers are more sophisticated than ever if they break into your account you may not recognize the damage until it's too late months pass before the public learned about the Equifax breach and it's hard to assess how much information has been leaked or how it will be used that is why two factor identification is so important using text messages emails or special apps an account holder will receive a notification every time a password is changed or entered on a new device or at a new location you will have to verify that it is you attempting to gain access yeah, you get an email stating was that really you that logged in to Facebook or whatever is that really you well I apologize if any parts of the reading were cut out of the show we're experiencing some technical difficulties that really pissed me off all I have to say is when you are given something as a gift this is words of wisdom when you're given something for free there is always a reason unless it's brand new if it's not brand new if you are given something as a gift it is because the person that is giving it does not want it for some reason always be aware of that and you know what as far as looking a gift horse in the mouth I rather pay some money and get a brand new gift horse to myself and not have issues that is those are the words of wisdom I will leave with so therefore thank you for joining us for this week's progressive discussions this is James P. Madonna of Megalife21 and the Reverend Dr. William J. Eisenman Research Center in Northeastern New Jersey saying so long and I still think Google is trying to censor us just like they just like social media is constantly trying to censor a progressive talk show host Evelyn Pringle they are really messing with her on Facebook that's for sure anybody who is a progressive warrior is fucked with because the companies that offer the free social media okay that by the way bombard you put advertisements galore on whatever you upload okay these are corporations these are evil corporations wicked corporations run by evil wicked corporate American CEOs who are tools of Satan in my opinion in the end times isn't that right Dr. Billy Bones our official skeleton of end time prophecy alright Billy Bones was dancing that means Billy Bones agrees I'm telling the truth I'm freaking getting something that ain't brand new and somebody fucking gives you something motherfuckers I can't stand humanity I hate this I hate this stinking guts


Good Mava Squad and welcome back to our channel. Today is a nerve-wracking video for me. I am so freaking nervous to do this video. Guys, send me a prayer. Wish me luck. I am putting myself in deep doo-doo, even though it's a prank. I am still putting myself in deep doo-doo. I have never been more nervous to do a video in my entire life, but as you guys read by today's title, I'm going to be telling Bill that I sold my engagement ring on eBay. And not only am I gonna tell him I sold it on eBay, I'm gonna tell him I sold it for less than what he spent. Way less than what he spent. I'm gonna be telling him that I sold it for $5,000. He is not gonna be happy about that, because as you guys know, if you guys watched our Dear Mariah video, he spent so much time and effort on this ring. Like, I think he took like six months. He really made sure this ring came to life. Like, this is the most dreamiest ring I've ever, could ever wish for, and I am just so freaking thankful. I love this ring more than my life. Like, I love this ring so much. Literally, I love it so much that I take so much care of it that I take it off when I sleep, I shower, I work out. I don't know if anyone else has that, but I know a lot of people that wear their ring all day, every day. And I don't know, I just don't like sleeping in rings. I don't like doing activities in my ring, so I like take it off. I don't know, I just baby it because I've never had a ring that I value and love so much in my entire life. So, I already know that Bill's gonna be shocked.  Like, why did you sell the ring? Like, this is like your dream ring. Like, why would you do that?  I'm actually going to hide it in my vanity room. I'm actually gonna put it in this K Jewelers box. I don't really have much in here, and I'm gonna place the ring in there. He's not gonna know what's in here at all. Like, he's not gonna know. I just feel bad taking this off. Like, I'm really about to put him in his frickin' feels today. Engagement ring, you're in my bag. You're safe and sound in here.  I would never, ever get rid of you, ever. Yeah, you guys, I have not pulled a T-Mariah prank in a long time, I feel like, and since he wants to do me dirty on the last couple of months, I feel like this one's gonna put him in his frickin' feels.  So he's actually out there right now. I'm gonna call him in here. I'm really frickin' nervous. I don't even know what he's gonna react or how he's gonna react. All I know is he's gonna be mad. He's gonna be so mad. And I'm gonna tell him, like, I did it this morning, like, really early in the morning I left, and I went to go pick it up. They actually came to the house, picked it up, and I did it while he was asleep, because I knew he'd be mad in fighting for it, so, guys, please send a prayer for me, but you know what, Team Mariah has to come back and be the best team of it all, okay?  You guys already know who the best team is. If you guys are not on Team Mariah, what are you doing? You need to switch over, because this is the best team. Phil might come back with more pranks, but I take longer because I think, and I plan, and I receive, so. Guys, make sure you give this video a big thumbs up. If you guys haven't subscribed, make sure you guys go down and hit the subscribe button, and let's go prank him. Let's go put Phil in his frickin' feelings. All right, you guys, I'm gonna set you guys up. All right, I have you guys literally up on our chair that's right here, and it's kinda like tucked behind. He's not gonna be able to tell. I'm actually proud of myself for this hiding spot, but I'm actually gonna call him in here. I'm also gonna film a little clip on my phone for TikTok, so I have to like low key film my phone. I'm just gonna kinda hold it like this, and I'm just gonna hold it like this, like low key, but I'm gonna go call him in here. I am so frickin' nervous, you guys, my palms are literally sweating. I am anxious, I'm nervous. I don't know how he's gonna frickin' react. Guys, please wish me luck. I have never been more scared in my entire life. I don't even wanna go get him. I'm so scared. All right, I'm just gonna pull a plug. Let's go. You're gonna be really mad. Just tell me. No, they're gonna be really, really mad. Just stop, just tell me what happened. I did something you're not gonna like. What did you do?  Like I did something. Okay, you're scaring me now. Just spit it out. What is it?  You did that? Yes, I did. I did it this morning. You're lying. No, I did it this morning. I did it like really early, the girl came to pick it up, and I gave it to him. Why? Because I feel like I want a better engagement ring. What do you mean better? That is your dream ring. You know how long it took me to like make that? Well, I sold it for like 5,000. I'm sorry. 5,000, it's so much more expensive. Let's just take it. I'm gonna get a dream ring and probably 5,000.  Yeah, so you tried to get a better one. That ring I made specifically for you, that like showed you the love I have for you is the reason why I spent that much on the ring and you just dumped it away like it's trash. I'm gonna have to come out. You're being fooled. Maybe you sold some 5,000 for a better ring.  I'm sorry, baby. I'm sorry. I just... I will never forgive you. Why would you... Who does that? Who does that? What's the crime? No, I was just like, you know how much work it took me 6 months to get that ring. Yeah, I know it did. I know it did. I'm sorry. I am just confused. This is something that you talked to me about. Why is this like... I know it's something that I... But you seem so calm.  Listen, I just knew you wouldn't like to say yes to doing that. Why would I say yes? I thought you were going to say yes. And if I wanted you to do that, you can get way more if you like traded it in or if you just sold it to someone else for the actual price it's worth. Not no 5,000 dollars. That's not even gonna get you a part in another engagement ring. What are you trying to buy? What are you trying to get? So you don't even care about like... No, I do. I wanted to know like I'm so grateful for everything you've done. Like that ring is beautiful. I was the most beautiful ring I've ever imagined. But... That doesn't mean that it's okay that you sold it. I know but I do. No, there's nothing you can say that explain it. Show me. Show me the money. Show me the money. I don't believe you. What? She paid me cash. So show me the money. Where's the money? Why'd she come?  Show me the cash. No, I don't want to show you because it's not about that. It is. I wanted to have 5,000. Are you being for real? Like you actually sold our engagement ring. This is our engagement ring. This is not just yours. It is mine. And it's not just yours because when we're married, you're joined. The engagement ring was to express your love and... No, who cares? I know we're missing out on a...  Why would you get a cheaper one if you just sold an expensive one for like nothing? Why are you so blittish? Babe, because you didn't get married with me. We're a team. Part of being in a relationship. Especially being married is being part of a team. I know, but... How would I not be mad? Like... If you didn't like it, that's okay. No, I liked it. I loved it, but... Why did you go behind my back? Because I feel like it was the best decision for me. Oh my gosh. This is not about you. This is about us. And if you had a problem with it, you should have came to me. I would have understood if we could have worked it out. Just like we did with your engagement band. How we got a new one that you liked. But we still got the old one. We could still sell the old one. It's the same thing. Just on a different scale. I just... I'm sorry. I listen.  I said this was my decision. And I'll admit it. It's not, though. But I spent so much time to do that. I understand if this was your decision.  Well, it's already done. This is not the same thing. And the engagement ring is not the same thing. The engagement ring, I gave you this ring in Hawaii.  I rather kept it and gave you five grand rather than sold it for five grand.  Because that ring, that I gave you. No! The ring that I literally got on one knee for in Hawaii that I held for months and I cried over it. I literally cried over that ring. You sold it. Babe, can you listen to me for a second? That's like selling a family heirloom or something. It's already done. That should have been something else. Yeah. So, there's no point in venting and putting your feelings all in this. It's already done. I already did it. There's no going back. We can't get the ring back. That girl literally said, you cannot take this ring back from me and you decide to want it again. Who is she? It's a girl on eBay. I don't know. Call her. No! Call her, we're getting it back. No, we're not getting it back. Then show me the money. Because I don't believe you. I feel like you're just joking. I'm not joking. You better be joking. I'm not joking. Is this a joke? No, it's not a joke. Then show me the cash. Hold on, babe. What are you doing now? Are you getting the money? Because if that's the case, yeah, get it then. Five thousand. I want to see it. I want to count it. Because if you're alive, I'm literally, I'm big. This is not funny. I'm not laughing at you. What do you have? I don't have a 5, 10. What do you mean? Why did you go? Baby, I'm sorry. This is, why are you laughing? This is like, I proposed with that in Hawaii. Baby, it's a joke. It's a joke. I'm right here. I'm right here. I'm so lucky because I was literally about to start crying. You never give me this, please. I would never let her be happy. And I'm also feeling angry too. Why would you do that? What are you gonna say? Okay, wait, listen. I was thinking in the bed last night, I'm like, what could I do to get Bill? And I literally thought, oh, I could literally say, I could literally say I stole my ring on eBay. The ring is right here. I was literally talking to them. I was gonna about how much I love this ring and how much I would never do this. So that's why I was confused. But it's a prank. Be thankful, be happy. I would never sell it for $5,000. Are you joking me right now? I was gonna say, you are crazy if that's actually true because if you don't tell me for $5,000, I did. I would yell at you for doing that. I just did. Now, you better not have a really bad- How do you feel? You seem like you're sweating. Are you nervous now? I was literally about to say- How do you feel that Team Mariah got you? Listen, Team- You're dirty. You might be coming, look. You're dirty. You talk. You know what? You think Team Bill could keep coming back at me? Listen, Team Mariah might take a while to come back, but she delivers and she receives and she plans because this is a good thought out plan that I thought of. I'm gonna deliver. Yeah. Mama Squad, like this video up. Get this video to $10,000 likes and I will actually sell the ring and see her reaction while I'm- No! Are you actually kidding me? No, I'm kidding. I won't sell the ring. I'm never selling this ring. This ring is the only thing that I love about Mariah. I was kidding. This ring is my fricking companion. It's both of ours. It just means so much to me. Like, I got this ring in Hawaii. Like, this is like- I'm sorry for yelling at you, but I really thought- Look, I'd be right to yell at me. You took so much time and effort into this ring. I would feel betrayed if you did that. It literally took six months. It took like three months of planning, a month of- I literally told them that buying on the camera that it was like six months of you working on it. And I got it after six months from start to finish. I love you, baby. Sorry if my hair looks bad. Mariah also cracked an egg on my eyeball this morning and that's on TikTok, so make sure you go check that out.  Or is it- You got a cut there? No, but- Are you here? I don't know. It's always red. Guys, Team Mariah delivered. We got him so freaking good. I feel accomplished. I feel like that was a good- Nah, you're dirty. You're dirty. You better watch your back because mom's gone. I am coming for blood. Okay, he can come for blood, but I delivered with a good friend. Just watch out. Just watch out. That's all I'm saying. Guys, we're gonna end the video right here.  Pup, pup, pup, pup, pup, pup. But you guys, we'll see you in the next video. Thank you for tuning in on Team Mariah and you guys already know Team Mariah's the best team, so. Whatever. I'm gonna let you have it for this because I'm not gonna be rude and say Team Bill is better in this video, but y'all just have to keep watching and find out. So make sure to subscribe and we will see you- In the next video. But until then, peace. Love you guys. Now I'm gonna super glue that to your finger so you never lose it. I'm gonna get some gorilla glue on it. No, you're not.


Welcome to toffee TV. It is the start 11 show Manchester United versus Everton a tough trip to all Trafford Saturday early kickoff Which is it in one way it's good and another way it's bad because it means like for the rest of the weekend everyone's gonna Regard whatever the result is people are just you know me fixate on every result on you But then again this week. We've had the other way where we're at the end of the weekend Anyway, it's a whole thing isn't it? Let's get into it in gold Jordan Pickford Everton's number one simple as that back for right back Seamus Coleman being in decent form really good form showing a real captain's leadership qualities since he Since he got the place back and he's been playing something showing that Nathan Patterson wasn't even on the bench Which against their space, but I do think he'll be back on the bench on Saturday because of the suspension to add the right the core I think that'll give him an opportunity to come back into this into the squad Left back and continuing with Ben Godfrey again. It's paces power Michelin co again came on against Tottenham one five out of five tackles But was waiting plastic bags on his feet Do players test the pitch out before the come on to mad But I think I think that consistency of keeping Ben Godfrey in there is important. Listen, we'll need that power. We'll need that pace Listen, is he good? Is he great defender now? Is he good in the air now? Is he is his positional sense not great. Yeah, but Power and pace get you out of a lot of trouble in the Premier League and I think that's why he's He's getting the nod at the moment. His physicality is massively important. So he starts at left back The two centre backs are of course Michael Keane and James Tarkowski. I Suppose listen Michael Keane gives the penalty away and then scores An absolute rocky The manager seems to favor this partnership. We could go on all day about Yeti Mina, Baba or Conakoli, whatever the manager likes his partnership And I think just for now, I think it's working. I do think it's working as a partnership I think they do they do Their own things, you know, Tarky's more on the ground Michael Keane takes care of everything in the air Certainly for set pieces. That's huge and important. So for me, that is the centre back partnership at the moment If yeti Mina could string games together you play but he can't so the manager's not going to play him And I think most of us in our hearts of hearts would say the same Into midfield, this is where the the dilemma starts Oh straightaway addressing on a guy starts In the in the sixth position again been doing really well in there and he'll be really important in this game Now obviously Abdelai D'Core is out now. Abdelai D'Core has been playing sort of as the The man playing off the centre forward This creates loads of different scenarios For the team. Do you bring in a woby into the middle and make him the number 10? Like he was in on the season But then if you do that who plays wide well, it would probably have to be great Well, and if great goes wide who goes up front? Well, it'd have to be Ella Sims Is it worth making all those changes? I don't know. I just don't know. I don't know They've got they've had four days to train for this game. Is that enough time to train for all those changes? Well, it's three games, isn't it? So you could say the four games Four days, sorry Is gonna be is gonna be just for this one game with this two extra games to go Or is it simpler just to make a like for like change? Well, there is no like for like change again That that that makes the situation more difficult. There is no one else in our squad Who can play that role off the centre forward who presses from the front who presses as almost as becomes a 4-4-2? Like the core he becomes this is a player that towards the end of January wasn't getting anywhere near the Evidence team and was looking like he was gonna leave the club This this is the way it's possible player to lose Because of no one else can play that role and it doesn't we've got other players But It's so it's so hard as I said, I won't be cut play that position blue plays on the right So I'm gonna go really easy. I'm gonna put James Garner in the scene I'm gonna put James Garner in a double pivot with with a disagon again I think now that could be here more Tom Davis, whichever way you want to look at it Tom Davis is more destructive and I think when he starts games. I think he does all right But I think James Garner gets on the ball going back to the team. We signed them off. He gets on the ball He's decent dead ball situations as well, which helps. I Think is everything clear has to get going at some point and I think this is a good opportunity for him. I Would then play on on Anna fair the forward now He's not gonna play maybe like the core he does and that will help because it is man. It is Manchester United We seem not gonna be maybe Pressing from the front, you're not gonna go and turn stop their defenders You're probably gonna play a little bit deeper anyway But I'd have all nine and more in that the core a roll and ask him to just press a little bit higher And see what happens I don't think it's ideal because I don't think on Anna's been playing that well, but I in my mind I just don't see the point of moving two players out of position or Bringing else sims into the team or moving the Mardi Gray why I just When you could put Ghana in because there isn't there is no perfect solution for this and everyone watching will have their own So their own idea what I'm suggesting Might not work and it's really might not be what the manager goes for But I'm just gonna go for James Garner And we'll see what happens as I said. Oh, no, I play a little bit higher And we'll see how that midfield works It might not work, but the manager has to come up with those solutions doesn't he over on the left It will be Dwight MacNeill over on the right. It'll be Alex. Oh, whoa, we They've got a way card. They've got a double up helping the full backs It might be that we have situations where Alex a whoa becomes inside and the whole team sort of moves over one shameless help pushes up on the right and Ben Godfrey comes over on the left almost having five at the back of times and Dwight MacNeill Might come back almost and have three centre backs and two two wing backs at times when we're out of possession, maybe There's a lot of things the manager can do with with those players But they are the two wide men and up front.  Well, I can't rely on you So I Don't really get involved in that Especially with only nine games left. So there's a difficult game If everything can get something out of it, it'd be it'd be amazing I'm an extended don't beat him onto five games But as I said, it'd be really really difficult United a very open down You never know what you quite you what you're gonna quite get with them Casemiro still out though I think Luke Shaw's a doubt as well now. So Gotta try and keep Rashford quiet so We'll wait and see we're waiting to see what the 11 is, but it's gonna be a very very difficult game But so there you go. Let me know your thoughts. I think there's a lot to pick from that I think everyone I'll have their own slight Change on what they think but let me know in the comments give this video like subscribe If you haven't already and you want more great videos join us over on toffee TV premiere The link is in the description will be on the screen in a moment. See you later


Hello everyone, welcome to groundwater hydrology and management NPTEL course. This is week 3 and lecture 3. In the week 3, we are looking at the major concepts and about physical groundwater hydrology. What are the major components that is needed to understand groundwater hydrology? In the last lecture, we looked at the hydrogeological map of India which is made by the Central Groundwater Board and since it is a static map, which means it doesn't change much, you could see different years of this publication. I have used the recent one from the recent book and what you see here is a map of India which demarcates the different geological aspects related to groundwater hydrology. In the last class, we looked at the fact that the aquifer is a function of the geology and the porosity and the porous space present inside. In continuation, we look at this map to understand the different formations in India. Remember that this may not be the same across the world, so you would need to understand different geological settings, but since this course would focus mostly on Indian groundwater issues, we would be discussing this map. First, let's look at the blue color. The blue color is the highest water yielding aquifers and it is given as a rate of yield in liters per second. And if you look at these blue regions, you could clearly understand that these coincide with the regions where there are massive or big rivers and streams, good water bodies in short. So this would be your Gantus basin, the Brahmaputra on this side, the Kaveri basin here, Narmalatapti, all are good rivers that are perennial and also have good water potential, surface water. So the ideology is with good surface water potential, there is also good groundwater potential and these also demarcate unconsolidated formations. When we say formations, it is the formation of the geological unit or the rock and they are mostly unconsolidated, which means they are not packed, jam packed or it has a structure. It is broken in some areas and not broken irregular and that irregularity causes a lot of space in between the rocks. For example, if you have platey rocks like plates, it will be jammed together and the space between the rock is very less. But if you have uneven rocks like this, then you have space in between the rocks and that space is important to store water and that is why you will have more water stored in these kind of porous material and it also depends on where it is located because you have a water flowing in these regions, the water can easily enter your formations and the formations have the potential to store it for a long time and that is why you can extract it. So the groundwater potential is very high from greater than 40 liters per second to less than 10 liters per second. So all these blue regions and then this region has less than 10. This is your Indus Valley region and most of your blue coincides with the flowing rivers, the massive flowing rivers of the Indus, the Ganges, the Brahmaputra, etc. Moving on, but that is not the major in terms of area. It is not the major actifers in India. What is the major is the yellow green color which is in the central parts of India and that correlates to the consolidated or semi-consolidated formations, which means it is either arranged in a particular matrix, the soil and the solid particles or it is semi-arranged. So when it is semi-arranged or arranged in a particular fashion, then the porous space is less. So when the porous space, the space where water can enter is less, then the extraction is also less. So this is the understanding that the central groundwater board wanted to give a hydrological map, which is based on the porous space as a function of the consolidation of the formations. And the hilly areas are very, very low. Eventually, there's no porous space in the hilly areas, so it is less than 1. If you look at the green color, that is where you have more space for water to enter within the consolidated and semi-consolidated. And it has 1 to 25 liters per second, mostly Rajasthan, Kerala, Maharashtra regions, and then you have the other regions yellow, where it is mostly in the central parts of India. And the underlying fact here is we need to understand where the formations are and how much water yield can be taken so that you don't overstress the aquifer system. At note, since we have looked at the porous space is important, we've looked at what is an aquifer and we've looked at what is a confining unit and the different aquifers in the second lecture. So let's jump into the recharge aspect. How does groundwater recharge happen? I'm going to be very brief here because we have a week just to discuss the recharge and discharge aspects. So the groundwater recharge is the process by which the rainfall or any other surface water body gives water into the ground, into the aquifer unit. So as I said, the aquifer is a unit of storage. And if water comes in, it is recharge. If you lose water, it is discharge. So the recharge area is almost on the top surface and it is a surface where land use land cover should be managed to slow down the water and recharge. So you have trees and plants that can slow down the surface water like rainfall, it can be slowed down, runoff can be slowed down and recharge. Once it recharges, it forms the imaginary water table. As I said, it is the line at which the water level is kept along the aquifer. So here horizontally, this is one aquifer. Let me turn on my pointer. This is one aquifer. This is number two aquifer and number three. And what you have here is a combination of three aquifer systems which are divided by confining units. It can be called as an aquitard, aquilune, confining bed. Different names are existing. So the major objective of my presenting of this particular slide is not about the recharge process, but the recharge time. So you can see here clearly that the recharge happens from the top. The first layer is the unconfined layer where water can easily come in from the surface. There are multiple regions where the recharge can happen. There's multiple regions. Rainfall goes in, brown water gets recharged and it gets extracted in your pump. Same way this side. Rainfall comes in, brown water gets recharged and then goes into the stream as base flow. So now how long does this take? This takes anywhere from days to years because there's a good area contributing to the recharge, contributing as in all along the area, you have recharge points. So it can go in and the distance that it has to cover is very small to get into the water table, which is only this distance. So you have very small distance to cover so that through gravity it moves down and then mixes with the water table. This takes anywhere from days to years. Now, if you have a good rainfall here, so which aquifer would recharge, it is this shallow or unconfined aquifer because rainfall happens within five days, six days it can recharge into your system. The farmers are happy to see the water in the wells. Then I hit a groundwater confining unit along the conceptual model. What we see as we go down deeper, you see a confining unit and that confines the upper unconfined aquifer and below that another aquifer which is called the confined aquifer. So this aquifer or soil or geological material or matrix has water in it in the pore spaces. However, it is confined on the top and bottom by confining unit. So it is called a confined aquifer. So now the recharge water has to go through the surface, go into the zone of aeration. This is a zone of aeration where still air is present, go into a zone of saturation and then come down. This takes longer than the unconfined aquifer. How long? It can take more than many years and so it can be anywhere from a lot of years, decades to centuries, 100 years and this water can also contribute to the stream flow down the area. It cannot be readily accessed in this image by the well because the well is being separated by the confining unit. Then we go down to another impervious layer until the bedrock and you see another confined aquifer. So three aquifers are there. One is unconfined and two confined aquifers. As we move deeper, the deepest confined aquifer takes very less recharge from the top because water takes a long time to come down and it is impervious so only some water can go through. Whatever the impervious layer is, still some water can pass through because of gravity and that water does take a millennia which means thousand years to move down and that is the concern here. If a water takes thousand years to move down and you put a well here because of science and technology, you can easily access the groundwater. Then the problem is you'll take all the water out suddenly and there's no water in the aquifer. So this water can also go into the streams and can support your trees and plants when it is being pulled up. So this is a slide on the recharge time and some parts of the processes of recharge. Now a question can come. How many unconfined units can a system have and how many confined units can a system have? Let's answer the second question first. The number of confined units can be plenty. It can depend on the number of confining layers. So we don't know unless we drill down and see how many layers in the cake. We don't know how many layers are put in. So it depends and using a geology of area we can estimate roughly how many layers are there or the dominant layers. How many unconfined layers will be there? There's only one because the surface is on the top and under the surface at once when you come in it is the unconfined aquifer. So most probably the unconfined aquifer is on the top and even if you have an impervious layer on the top there will be a very small unconfined or unconfined unit. So only when this confining unit is coming out or jetting out then you don't have a unconfined aquifer. So at least one you will have and at the most one. So you cannot have more than one unconfined aquifer because the confining unit would be there and then another unconfined cannot happen. Confined aquifer may be present or may not be present. So for example if there's no confining units and the surface is directly connected to the bedrock then it is all a unconfined aquifer. So you don't have a confined aquifer in this case. Moving on. As I said the unconfined takes days. Please remember this two years. The confined aquifer first confined below the unconfined can take years a couple of decades to centuries whereas the deeper most confined aquifer can take millennia. The other types of recharge that can happen is by induced recharge. So for example you can induce recharge through the process of pumping. But first let's look at pumping because pumping is an action of discharge. So groundwater discharge is the process by which you take water from the groundwater pool. And when you take it there is the water table lowering and formation of cone of depression or drawdown. So this imaginary line is brought down because you are pumping water. So all the water here in this area is pumped out as discharge. Still recharge can happen but the discharge is pulling the water and part of the discharge which you apply to the field can come back as recharge. So the recharge source may not only be the precipitation, it can be your groundwater also. You pump groundwater, you put it on the surface, part of it is taken by plants, part of it recharges. Okay so whenever we say discharge it is the act of pumping or losing water from the aquifer. There is a natural discharge process which we saw in the earlier slide. The natural discharge is the groundwater entering into the streams that is called natural discharge whereas this is called the pumping groundwater through groundwater discharge. Some groundwater discharge images to discuss the fact that you can actually pull water from different resources within the aquifer. So here we have only one aquifer. It is the unconfined aquifer because a confining unit is at the bottom and there is no aquifer on the top with a confining unit. Just one aquifer and there is no confining unit on the top so it is unconfined. You have ready recharge happening infiltration, water moving down and there are some contamination also for example you have a polluted lake or a polluted stream or a natural pollutant by geogenic contamination. I'll come to these terms later but then you can also have a stream on the other side with water. So now what happens is when you start pumping you pull water laterally into the groundwater well. So this is your well and you have removed the screen here which means water is moving inside. So you should understand that it not only pulls your groundwater but as and along the table is being reduced. So this is the water table and as and along the groundwater table is being reduced it starts to pull water which are equal at the water table height for example this water in the stream. It may not pull this water which is far away but it can easily pull this water because it is nearby and the water table would be conducive to bring that water. The cone of depression is started because of the discharge because of the pumping velocity and because of that there is a lot of lateral water moving inside. So the water table is lowered and along with the groundwater you may also pull the contaminated water or water from a lake or something. So that is why if you have a pump right next to a sewage system let's say a toilet outside and you have a well some of the pumping by the well can also pull water from your septic tanks if it is leaking. So be careful of where you put the water wells. Same way you can pull water from streams so instead of water coming from groundwater into streams as baseload now you are pulling the water from the stream into the groundwater well and extracting it as discharge. So let's break it from the stream into the groundwater is called recharge but the stream water if it passes through the recharge and comes out into the well it is discharge. Influence recharge and discharge is another important factor that we should look at because when we discuss recharge and discharge it is not at a small scale because we are inducing recharge and discharge or we are pumping using a motor or a pump electric or solar powered pump. When you do that what happens is you are actually pulling at a much much faster pace and you turn the dynamics or the gradient of groundwater flow. So initially the water table would have been here somewhere okay a straight line if you don't have the wells now you have the wells and it's opened here in the aquifer and you're pumping. How many aquifers do we have? We have only one aquifer it is an unconfined aquifer okay and aquitard is there at the confining unit at the bottom. So what are we going to do is we are going to see an influence recharge and influence discharge okay and because you start pumping here okay because you pump at a very high rate what happens is water from here would move into this well which is an observation well there is no pumping you can see here there is no pumping and it will go into this pumping well. So suddenly this well will get more water more water because it is being pulled from another suction and that creates an artificial recharge first in the observation well. So first your water table goes up because you are pulling down and then slowly when this water table goes down then also this will come down okay. So the rate of water coming into the observation well so we're just monitoring here we're not monitoring here the rate of water level recharge is induced by somewhere else pumping okay you're pumping somewhere else so it is inducing and causing the water to come into the well. Secondly when you pump too much when you continue pumping then what happens all the water inside your observation well is also going to be pumped so initially it was recharging but when you continue pumping then you are going to pump all the water out and that will be influence discharge. So initially there's this water there's no pumping there's no point of losing water in this well in the observation well but why is it losing water it's because surrounding area is pulling water. So this is the fact that even though you don't pump your groundwater you would see your groundwater fall and then the farmer asked the question why is my groundwater falling when I'm not pumping. So it could be two reasons one the base flow which means the groundwater is normally flowing and so it might flow and reduce okay but most importantly the second factor is someone around you is pumping at such a high pace that it is influencing your wells and pulling all the water down initially you would have seen a high water level a good recharge and then suddenly you're saying oh I'm happy my wells are recharging even though it's not rainfall happening but then as soon as that happens you have to be aware that somewhere your water level is coming up so sooner or later if the pumping doesn't stop your water level will plummet and that is what happens. So for example if you have industry pump for example it could be an industry for making using a lot of water for a product and or it could be a mass farming or a water distribution plant where it takes some water for distribution what happens is it can suck all the water at a higher volume and when it takes all the water from this aquifer from this water table it influences the region around it and that influence depends on the pumping rate and also the cone of depression that it causes. The cone of depression is for example you have a water table like this and here's where your pump is so when you start pumping it will fall down like this the water table and when it falls down you get an initial recharge and then a discharge but more importantly the influence of the cone of depression goes as far as the material allows it to go the solid material for example water is locked in the aquifer there's no connection between the rocks then whatever you pump it won't affect the nearby well but if it is like an alluvial aquifer where it is well connected across the system across the aquifer then what happens is you pull down and you influence the neighboring wells so you have to be very careful and that is why if you take the water level readings in a particular village where extensive farming is happening you don't see that only the village water level coming down you see the neighboring villages also suffering and the water level coming down. The same doesn't apply for recharge because recharge is a very slow process it's not like one village recharges all the villages around it will recharge no because it is very slow however pumping is a very fast rate and when you pump you indirectly influence the neighboring wells and pull out the water that is your influence discharge and recharge because of anthropogenic stresses. Let's look at the natural causes naturally the water table is at the water table of the stream okay so the level of the stream or we call the stream stage is normally at the same level of the water table in a good aerated environment or an environment where there's good rainfall there's good recharge and the water table is healthy okay so what happens in this type kind of thing is your water table normally would supply water from the groundwater into the stream and that is where you see when you go to a river or a stream network you see that it in the stream is at the lower elevation and the mountains and ridges are there and water flows so the water would be contributing to the stream and that is natural discharge which means water comes from your groundwater into the stream which is natural discharge for the stream it is a positive so it is called a gaining stream the stream gains water from the water table all this appropriately work on the pressure difference okay so the water table is at a higher level and therefore it has a higher potential and water flows from high potential to low potential which is at a lower elevation so water flows from high elevation to low elevation in a stream the water table is losing the groundwater is losing here it gives water the volume is losing and so it is called a natural discharge that the aquifer is losing water it is natural discharge the stream is gaining water so it is called a gaining stream the reverse of that is in a desert situation where a stream is at a higher level than the groundwater table and it is not readily influencing the groundwater table maybe the layer the sediments at the rocks under the stream are making like an impervious layer okay so that is why readily you don't see the water coming down but slowly there will be water trickling why the same principle the stream water is at a higher potential than the water table so water will be leaking in this menu it is called natural recharge for the groundwater table whereas the stream is actually losing water so it is called a losing stream so here we have seen both natural recharge and natural discharge where natural recharge happens due to the difference in the potential of where the water level is and also because of movement of water from rainfall into the ground through gravity we also saw induced recharge and induced discharge where you pump water out of a system gives you discharge of water and it is induced and also by inducing your pumping and inducing your discharge you can also recharge some locations and that is called induced recharge so with this we have covered the basics of some groundwater parameters which are very important to discuss now in detail how you estimate groundwater flow etc etc I will see you on the next class thank you