Before we get into this episode of questions from subs, I gotta give a special shout out to the newest Team Kiwi Clean Patrons, Davion, and Derek. Appreciate the both of y'all. If any of y'all would like to become a Team Kiwi Clean Patron, you can go to patreon.com slash engravingvids. Or if you wanna become a channel member, you can hit the join button. And either is all, of course, optional. If you do great, cool, love you. If you don't, it's not a big deal. Great, cool, we still love you. So the first question came from a patron. My guy, Serge, he said, the pressure is on. Well engraving, I feel bad. I only ever ask questions when we're losing, but right now we're all frustrated and looking for answers. I'm writing this just hours after our embarrassing loss to the four and seven Jaguar. Hell yeah. So he updated their record when he wrote this. Of all the games played today, almost every team with the winning record won their games. Although prior to this game, the Ravens won four games in a row, I can't help but feel the tension within the Ravens community. We've dealt with years of frustration over the team's philosophy, a lack of a productive passing game, multiple starters being injured, drop passes, overthrown passes, blown coverages and much, much more. Though these are issues that are normal with other teams, it seems especially prevalent with our Ravens. We're nearing the end of the season, still dealing with issues we had the first half of the season and they don't seem to be getting any better. The NFL is a business and as it all goes with businesses when business isn't going good, someone must pay. So my question to you is, who do you think will be the scapegoat and when will they be dealt with much love from the A? Shout out to Serge. Depends on how the Ravens handle this thing. If the Shadi or EDC, if they approach hardball and be like, look, hey, I don't think they're going to, but if they be like, look, hey, this something's got to give. We need answers, hope I'll come be like, hey, I don't call it your offense. It ain't me, I don't call it defense either. I'm here to motivate and lead these guys, but you go look at Greg Roman and Mike McDonald. So I think that I could see it, if as far as you're talking about scapegoat, I can see that getting put on somebody like Greg Roman. But again, we keep saying it, man. Greg Roman is much deeper than just Greg Roman. It's all philosophy, it's all what you value as a team, as an owner, as a GM, as a head coach. Everything trickles down, but it starts at the top. You get great, get rid of Greg Roman. Yeah, a lot of fans are going to be happy. Oh yeah, woohoo, great. But they still going to have the same philosophy. It's going to be the same. They've been winning a lot of games in regular season with that philosophy, but well, you know the rest. Now, and you talked about how we've dealt with years of frustration over the team's philosophy, lack of productive passing game.  This is nothing new. So it's the same issues. Different players have come and gone. Different offensive coordinators have come and gone. It's the same thing, my friends. Multiple starters being injured with that part. I mean, don't ask Derrick Wolf about that part. But as far as the injuries, I can't be mad at somebody for getting hurt. I know some old Steve Saunders, but I mean, the injuries I can't get mad at because stuff happens. Stuff happens, you ask Derrick Wolf, he won't just say stuff happens. He said there's a reason behind it. He said the way to Raven, but who knows. But anyway, drop passes. Well, that's execution. Overthrowing passes, well, that's execution. Blown coverages and much, much more. Blown coverages, that's a bit of both coaching and execution because with the blown coverages, there's sometimes when it's like they'll have certain guys on islands. And hey, timing is everything. Can you know what's funny? On a Thursday game, the Giants were playing, oh, the Cowboys. And somebody was saying, oh, man, I think it was Shannon Sharpe. But somebody was saying, oh, man, why is Wink Martindale playing this kind of defense? And oh, there you go. Shannon Sharpe said, why would Giants defensive coordinator play all this man coverage with your starting two DBs out?  And guess who quote tweeted that with a laugh and emoji and put a little recycle, well, not recycle, but the arrow was just going in the circle. Basically saying, oh, it's the same old stuff and a laugh and emoji was Patrick Queen. It's Patrick Queen. And then Friday, Saturday, Sunday, so three days later, guess what that Ravens defense did? The same thing. That Ravens defense that had been playing great for these past couple of games, what happened? So he over there laughing at Wink and now Wink is laughing at them. But anyway, with the defense in this game, oh, the blown coverages and just miss assignments and just putting guys in bad positions. Now, again, recently they haven't been doing it, but in this game, especially the situation, if it was just random play or something like, but the situation, the situation, now Marcus Peters, he had a rough game execution, but then Brandon Stevens, it was the two point play, Jack Walls was like, we ain't scared of no Ravens, man. So they were going for two. Brandon Stevens on an island. Brandon Stevens was on an island and you had just caught a time out. You had just caught a time out. So, and you had Marlon Humphrey and Marcus Peters on the same side.  You know what, let's put Marlon Humphrey on this two point conversion play. But he had them two on the same side. Yeah, Brandon Stevens all on an island by himself, by himself. Why would you do that? Why would you do that? That's coaching right there. That's coaching. That reminds me of the Jalen or Moore Davis part, or Jalen Armadavis, excuse me, on Tariq Hill in that Dolphins game. Like, yeah, so it's a lot of the same issues, man. So who do you think it should be? If it's a lot of the same stuff happening, a lot of players are coming and going, but it's a lot of the same stuff happening. Who do you think it should be? Yeah, this feels like a dream. No jazz, but a man. What a man. You too, team, keep it clean. You see my boy, he like, I done made it. I done made it. Boy, that's my homie, ain't that right engraving? Right engraving. Next question came from another patron that came from Ezzana. He said, hello, engraving. Hope your day is going well and thanks in advance for taking my question. After hearing your thoughts on Duvenay's lack of targets, I decided to do some digging and find what the target shares are. So here's some of the numbers. Mark Andrews has 72 targets on 273 passing snaps, 26%. Duvenay has 39 targets on 197 snaps, 20%. Duvenay has 32 targets on 255 passing snaps, 12%. Bateman has 28 targets on 127 passing snaps, 22%. And likely has 30 targets on 178 passing snaps, 16%. Ooh, the numbers just making me go crazy, man. Though Duvenay has taken the second most passing snaps, 58 more snaps than the third. He has the lowest target share. With all that being said, I don't see the Ravens keeping him past his rookie contract, considering his lack of usage. All these numbers don't include the Jags game. Okay, so I mean, not much really changed there. Let's see, let's see. It could be, again, it could be one of them Gus Edwards things like, hey dude, we gonna keep the numbers low and then come contract time. Hey look, you didn't produce like that.  So we ain't gotta pay you like that, buddy. Next question came from my guy Dominic. He said, what's up in Graven? Just watch us lose to the Jags and all pro Z Jones. For some reason, we can't stop Z Jones. He cooked us last year in that Raiders game and sealed the deal and now he does it again. But what I really want to talk about is Brandon Stevens.  Like, why isn't Pepe Williams out there? Also drops killed us once again, but this time we couldn't overcome it. Yeah, the same thing I was saying, I don't know. I don't know. And I don't know where Pepe Williams is. It's like, he's active. He was healthy. I don't know. I don't, and he was out there like they showed, they loved him in pre-season. Looked like they were loving him. But I guess they just like, you know, were more comfortable with Brandon Stevens. Also with Pepe, I don't know what's up with Pepe at all. That's a good question. Next question came from another patron, my guy, Plex. He said, shrug. There's absolutely nothing that can be said about this game that hasn't been said in the past. Repeat offenders. It's literally the same thing after every loss and even some wins for years. Yes, thank you for highlighting that because it's not just in losses. These are things that we've been talking about even when the Ravens win that they need to fix. Anyway, we need a new O.C. Fire Roman. The philosophy needs to change. Lamar has no weapons. Lamar missed too many throws. Get rid of hardball. There's more, but you understand where I'm coming from. I'm tired. I've gotten to the point where I don't care. I'm not getting my hopes up. Things will be what they've always been, so it is what it is. My guy, Plex, said he is officially checked out. The blame game. Next question came from another patron, my guy, JL. He said, ain't my boy. Love the channel. Appreciate it, man. I haven't seen a lot of blame getting thrown around as a result of the Jags game last weekend, although I will not participate in it. I would like to state that when you invest most of your money, sign big time free agents and make big trades for players on the defensive side of the ball. You cannot give up a 75 yard touchdown drive in a two point conversion to a three and seven team. With all the treatment, this runoff is gives the defense a side of the ball. They should be able to be depended on to close out games, period. But what do you think? You right? You right? That's where all the money is. That's where the biggest and most investments are. So they should be clutch. All right, so next question and the last question on this episode came from my guy Nazarene. He said, what's good big bro? Hope all as well. As a Die Hard Ravens fan and an unbiased fan at that. I would like to share this article from Russell Street Report with you in the flock. Complete, brutal and honest assessment of this whole team. Enjoy. Okay, we can't read this whole thing on questions from subs, but we can go through some of it and then y'all can go to russelstreetreport.com. It's called Legion of Gloom. These are the John Harbaugh Ravens and the article was written by Rob Shield. So shout out to Rob. The first paragraph says the Ravens are coming off another bad loss there. Now the 15 in NFL history that have had a lead of more than one score in their first 11 games. The previous four teams, all 11 and no two 11 games. The Ravens, seven and four. This is just a horrible stat that speaks to so many of the problems with the team. Before I get into everything, I will say that the Jags are a better team than people think. Their lines are both pretty solid and they have been in a lot of games all year. DVOA has been high on them for most of the year, certainly liking them more than their record. The Ravens are also a team that has been dealing with cold weather and then traveled to a warm weather and they had an extra delay to deal with yesterday. How much that affected them is unknown, but I doubt it helps. Top of that, the Ravens recently had a stretcher playing just one game in a three week timeframe and then just had the holiday week, which muddies the practice waters as well and add that to a few guys being out, a few key guys being out in the mall missing some practice time due to illness last week and injury this week. And it's not surprising that the team looked flat in the first half. With that being said, the problems are far larger than that. Last off-season I wrote a multi-page article on the philosophy of the organization and how I felt it was holding the team back. Sound familiar? I talked about the poor passing game, the reliance of the running game and how they are more focused on stopping the runner and not enough on getting after the passer. It's just an overall archaic way to build a team in today's game. I've been harping on how Greg Roman needs to go and I will reiterate as I did then that this isn't just a Roman problem, but he is definitely not a solution either. We've seen the same issues over and over year after year, the passing game stings, the plays take forever to get in, there's no rhythm or tempo, poor play calling, poor out concepts and mental mistakes, including penalties we see very little development of young wide receivers. The Marjaxon continues to struggle with accuracy and making all the clothes consistently. And what really makes matters worse in all of this is that the Ravens have an elite or offensive line. Ben Powers and Zyklah have been the best pass protecting the set of guards in the league. Ronnie Stanley who didn't play yesterday is the best pass block-in left-hack on the game. Even Morgan Moulton, Patrick McCary have largely been above average in pass protection this year. And yet, the Ravens are one of the worst pass in teams in the league, according to many metrics, including PFF, win rates, et cetera. Again, PFF, they too sometimes, but we get what you're saying. But anyway, I mean, it's, he like, Nazarene literally sent like the whole article. So y'all can check it out for yourselves on RussellStreetReport.com, but it sounds like a lot of everybody's same complaint, same issues because a lot of the same stuff just keeps happening. Yeah, this feels like a dream. No jazz, what I made. You two team, keep it clean. You see my boy, he like, out of made it. Well, that's my homie, ain't that right in Graven? Right in Graven. Right in Graven. Shout out to Graven.


The Mutual Broadcasting System, in cooperation with Family Theater Incorporated, presents God and a Red Scooter, starring Robert Mitchum and Susan Peters. Gregory Peck is your host.  Tonight, Family Theater celebrates its first anniversary. As host of the birthday program, I want to say a sincere thanks to our radio audience on behalf of all associated with Family Theater. A sincere thanks to you for the wonderful response you've given to the program during the past year. Your letters have been a real encouragement to all who have helped in making these broadcasts possible. And they are possible because so many of us believe in the principles of Family Theater. We believe in the need for trust and faith in God, which must be part of our everyday living if we are to find the meaning and the true purpose of life. We believe that today there is a great need to strengthen family life in America, because only a vigorous, wholesome, and moral home life will keep our American way of life. And we are convinced that the daily practice of family prayer is the surest way to family peace, the surest way to happiness and understanding in our home. These are the simple convictions of Family Theater, the convictions so many of us share because we know that a prayerful home is a happy home. Gregory Peck will return after tonight's play, God and a Red Scooter starring Robert Mitchum and Susan Peters. Sleep is beautiful. Sleep is a soft hand smoothing the frowns and frets on the tired faces of men. Sleep is a mother hand rocking the cradle of the world, rocking it softly, rocking men and women and all the little children to sweet silence and peace. That's what sleep is. Do you want to know something? I'll tell you. I pity the man who does not know how to sleep.  I love little children like Eddie. Eddie knows how to sleep. Before he went to bed tonight, he was having a talk all by himself down there in the garden. This is the way he spoke this afternoon as he sat dropping pebbles into a milk bottle. And you know what I said, God? You know what I said to Daddy? I said, God did hear me. That's what I said. And God, remember when I said, please give me a Red Scooter like Stevie and Tony got? Remember when I said that about the Scooter? Didn't you hear me, God? Lots of pebbles, a whole million. See why I love little children like Eddie? He wanted a Red Scooter. He went to sleep dreaming of a Red Scooter. And did he get the Scooter? I think you'll have to tell you the whole story. The manner of speaking the story begins with grapes. Jeanne, give me a minute. From this hill you get a pretty good idea how it looks. Oh, the vines are beautiful, Ed. Nice dark green. Here, let me hold Eddie for you. Be careful of his back, Eddie. It's so wiggly. I got him. Is that our land all the way to the road? Straight, clean to Route 99. That's 26 acres of good grapewood, Jeanne. You want to make you feel kind of glad just to look at it? Oh, yes. It almost makes you want to laugh and cry in the same breath, Ed. Standing here like this and looking down on our own land. A very own vineyard. Oh, it's nice to own something, Ed. Yeah. Cost me a lot of jack, too. But it's worth it. One of the grapes we grow in, Ed. Oh, three years. Takes at least three years. Oh, it seems so long to wait. I mean, you'd think they'd just pop out. Oh, not grapes, Jeanne. You got to build up grapes. You got to work a vineyard. After three years, you know what it's going to be like down there? What? They're going to be out there on the wire trellises, those grapes. They're going to be hanging thick and heavy near the redwood stakes. When the harvest comes, we're going to be packing in over 200 tons of the best red emperors in California. 200 tons from only 26 acres? Yep. Oh, it's almost like a miracle head. Even little Ed knows a good vineyard when he sees one. Just think, Eddie will be three years old when we start picking our grapes. Yeah. And he'll be walking. Yeah, it takes time for kids and grapes to grow. These plans, these husband and wife plans, spoken in sunny places are delightful. Invariably delightful. But I must repeat, I pity the man who does not know how to sleep. Just listen to him. Maybe I made a mistake. It's risky business. It's a gamble putting all your money into grapes. The man is worrying, mind you, at one o'clock in the morning. Could be a shrinkage, could be a bad market, and then I just can't afford to bump into a tough market. Look at him fidgeting with pencils and papers and doubts. Emperors should sell. Munson said emperors was a good grape. But I don't know, maybe he should have stocked up with muskets or rabies. Norton did all right last year with rabies. All this at one o'clock in the morning when he should be asleep with his wife and babies. He would think the gentleman might allow himself the gentle privilege of getting tired. At least by one o'clock in the morning he'd think he might yawn and go to bed. Why doesn't he stop fretting? Why doesn't he relax? Poor fellow, I pity the man who does not know how to sleep. You're not getting enough rest, Ed. Now don't start fussing again, Jean. Well, you know what the doctor said. All this worrying will only make you... Worrying happens to be part of a great deal. Besides, a fellow's got a right to get excited over his first harvest. We're picking in three weeks. But you're losing weight. You're not sleeping. What's eating you anyway, Jeanie? Oh, Eddie, we do have so much... a house and babies and... Go ahead. What are you trying to say?  Not if you're going to keep losing your health and everything. That's what's worrying you? Yes. Look, Jeanie, I'm trying to figure this out. Maybe 15, 20 years from now, we'll want to take it easy. We want a better house than this. And the kids, well, we got to get an education. College. Every kid we have goes to college. And then, maybe someday, you and me will take a trip, Jeanie. All the way to Holland, maybe. You always said you'd like to see kids in wooden shoes. It's so nice to hear you talk like that, Ed. All right. That's the picture. Now, do you know what's painting that picture? What? Grapes. You see those grapes out there tonight? I put four years into them. Every cent we own is on those grapes. And right now, this minute, I figure we got over 230 tons on those vines. They'll be ready for the lug boxes in three weeks. If anything goes wrong with them, Jeanie, well, it's going to put an awful big dent in things. Nothing's going to go wrong with the grapes, Ed. A lot of things can go wrong with them. The trouble with you, Ed, is that you haven't got enough faith. Listen, Jeanie, you do the praying and let me look after the grapes, will you? Well, that's the way it is with some people. Their heads are forever spinning plans and projects. Their heads go whirling with tremendous worries about tomorrow, then the next day, and the next day. They're forever building barns and castles at one o'clock in the morning when they should be asleep. You'd think Edward might have a little more confidence in me. You'd think he'd stop worrying for the space of a quiet sleep and let me look after the grapes. For I do have a way with grapes, with vines and branches. Understand me, I'm not against plans and projects. I find no fault with the sweat on the man's brow. For labor's a magnificent and courageous thing. I'm talking rather about something that is more courageous than labor. I'm talking about relaxation, about confidence and trust and faith in me. I like the man who sleeps. I love the man who relaxes and who like a child rests easily in the arms of my providence. Not so with Edward. Edward is too full of plans, as if the plans of men were merely the plans of men. Listen to him. Sure, I'm ready to start, Camel. My grapes can't wait. Where are those pickers you promised me? Coming up the valley as fast as we can, Ed. Don't blow your top, man. You got enough pickers for me? All you need. Only give me time. How soon do you figure to make it? We'll be cutting your vines by the 17th. I'll guarantee that. Okay, only make it fast. Fast as I can. Now I like vineyards. Vineyards in the food of the vine. Thick clustered grapes all bursting black and purple in the harvest time. These are among some of the lovelier aspects of my creation. I bear no grudges against vineyards, having regard for the littlest grape. But once in a while by design, I have an eternal distaste for the haphazard and the fortuitous. Once in a while by design, clouds will gather for a reason sufficient to the ultimate purpose of things. I gather a breeze at Burbank to scoop a cool breath off the high seers. Northeasterly mygeals go playing with the canyon dust in the sea sands at San Diego. And quite suddenly, quite perceptibly, there's a mist in the Midlands, in the valley of the San Gabriel, and out around the mountains, down from the mountains, down around the flatlands of San Fernando. Or is it any surprise that there is mist also in the eyes of a woman Fresno? It won't rain, Ed. Don't keep staring out the window. You heard what it said on the radio. But this is just mist, Ed. You know how it is with mist. They come and go. It'll be dry tomorrow. The grapes will be dry. Wait and see. Listen. It's only a little flurry of rain here. Listen. Will you please? Listen. God won't spoil everything by letting it rain now, Ed. I know he won't. Oh, God. Don't let it rain. God won't let it rain. Don't let it hurt you. Three days. Three days to harvest and look at it tonight. I wonder how the boys feel tonight over at Del Ray and Sierra Madre. Yeah. I wonder if their luck boxes are floating around in the vineyards, too.  Go inside. You work for years. Prune. Cultivate. You put every red scent you own into grapes, and what do you get? Wash out. A man ain't supposed to cry. Believe me, I hold no grudges against vineyards. I like vineyards. But more than all the vineyards in the world I like man. I love man. I know man well. Yet never do I cease to wander at him. He's capable of so much of kindness, of charity, and of sacrifice. And yet so often he is incapable of hope. All things you can ask of him at times save this. A little faith. A little confidence. It was so with you, Edward. It was so with you those nights. What are you so jittery about, Ed? Heck, man, you're gonna do all right. You got a nice crop out there. Yeah, I had a nice crop last year, too, Camel. I get last year. That was plain freak weather. I've been around vineyards for over 30 years, and I never saw... Okay, okay. You got your pickers ready to start for me tomorrow? Best pickers I got. Looks at them vines, Ed. I'm guaranteed. They'll be cutting 300 lugs a day. Okay, be seeing you tomorrow, Camel. Jeannie! Oh, Jeannie, I got a surprise for you and the kids. Yeah, I wonder if she's lying down again. I know I'd find you in here, lazy bones. Jeannie, I want to take you and... Yeah, what's the matter, Jeannie? Tired, Ed. You don't look good. You don't look good at all. Maybe I better get Doc Hanley for you. Wait a minute, Ed. It's funny. Somehow, I've always had a feeling I'd be lying here like this, talking here like this, telling you sooner or later... What are you talking about? Ed, I'll be leaving you for a while. Now, look here. You just run down. Doc Hanley will have you fixed up on a jiffy. Come here, Ed. Sit on the bed. Now, look at me. Do I look scared?  Somehow, I know exactly how it's going to be. Maybe you better start praying for me yet. Don't leave me alone, Eddie. Don't ever leave me alone. Just keep praying for me, and maybe we'll still take that trip someday. You and me. We'll go first class, huh? All the way to Holland to see the tulips. And the kids with the little wooden shoes. What about it, Doc? As far as I know, and remember, I'm only one doctor. There's nothing much that can be done for Jeannie, Ed. All right. I'll get it. I'll get the best specialists in the country if I have to. Go right ahead. By the way, you can go in and see her now. She's conscious again. Hello, Jeannie kid. Hello, Ed. You're looking pretty good, Jeannie.  How are the kids? Good. Listen, Jeannie, I was just talking to Doc Hanley. I know, Ed. It's all right. I'm going to get you the best specialists in the country. Ed. Yeah? I asked you to do something for me once. Remember? Okay, Jeannie. You asked me to pray. Look, I'll get down on my knees right now. Do you really want me to start praying? No. No, not that one. Now, look, if I have to kidnap a half dozen of the best doctors, I'll do it. You're going to get better, Jeannie. You hear me, honey? You're going to get better. You'll be out of here before you know it. Excuse me for barging in like this, doctors. What did you find? We're doing everything possible, sir. You'll have to be patient. Yeah. Yeah, that's what everybody says, be patient. Why don't you go home and rest? Get a little sleep. Sleep? Not now. I can't sleep now. I'll do it for you. Right here in this church, I'll do it for you. Are you listening, God? I don't know the words you're supposed to use, but it's from the bottom of my heart. I'm praying for Jeannie. I can't lose her, God. Not now. We got kids, God. Three kids. We're trying to make a go of it with grapes. You got to hear me, God. You got to make Jeannie well. Please, God. Please, I'm asking you from the bottom of my heart. Nothing? Mom's sick, huh? Yeah. I got pebbles. Look. Put them in the milk bottle. 16, 12, 17? Why don't you ask God to send Mom home, huh? Want me to ask God for you, huh, Daddy? 56, 57. Huh, Daddy? Maybe God's got cotton in his ears, Eddie. Cotton? Yeah. You can't hear so good with cotton in your ears. He can hear me. That so? Yep. Once he didn't hear you, Eddie. When? Remember when you asked him for that scooter? Yeah, a red scooter. Well, God didn't hear your prayers then, Eddie. Yes, he did. God did hear my prayers. Come over here.  Now, what did you say? I said, God did hear my prayers. That's so. What did he say to you? God said, he said, no. Sometimes God says, no. Huh, Daddy? What's the matter, Daddy? What's the matter, huh? Hello? Is this the resident's... Yes, yes, nurse. What's the news? Well... Nurse? Nurse? Operator, I've been cut off. Operator, get me Mercy Hospital. The line's dead. I don't know... God, I don't know how to pray to you. I tried, Jeannie. So help me, I tried. You can't die, Jeannie. Not alone, not up there in that room alone.  All right, God, you got me where you want me. Listen to me. Please, you gotta listen now. Sure, I want Jeannie. When you love somebody, you don't want to see them die. You want to have them... God, you want to have them close enough to put your arms around. Okay, maybe I did want her. Maybe I did want you to say yes. Just like I wanted you to say yes to that first harvest. Sometimes you'd say no, too. If that's the way it's gonna be, well... Well, all right. You're the boss. I'm admitting it. You're the boss. Only listen to me now. I don't want Jeannie to die all alone without me. You hear me, God? I can take it. I can take anything only. Only don't let it be all alone for Jeannie. I'm asking you, God. Honest, God, I'm asking you. Jeannie. Hello, Eddie. What? You're not... You're smiling at me, Jeannie. You're looking at me, talking to me. Put your arms around me and stop looking like a baby. Maybe. Maybe God is saying yes, Jeannie. Maybe he's saying yes. The night tonight is beautiful over California. For the first time in a long time a tired man sleeps. Resting at last in the shadow of my handy sleep. I might have said no. I have said no to some of my loveliest children, my best beloved. But know this always, Edward. There are times when my refusals are necessary to a plan you cannot understand. But a little Eddie being wiser in his innocence seems to understand. That storm upon your vineyard, that storm that drew your curse, was a blessing to a thousand other Edwards in pasture lands parched for the drought, 600 miles to the north. So tragedy, the tragedy today is but the pruning and the preparation of a lovelier tomorrow. Yes, there are times I have said no. As many fathers have said no to their dearest, their best beloved children. But tonight, tonight, Edward, I have said yes. Oh, night. Rest lightly on the tired eyes of the man. And concerning Eddie five years old, listen to him mixing his prayers tonight. Our father, who art in heaven, the Lord is with thee, and blessed is the fruit, and give us this day our daily bread, and ever and ever and ever. Amen. And send me a scooter like Stevie's car.  I've seen the hills gathered in the purple silences of twilight. I've seen the sunshine breaking bright on the mountains. I've seen violets bending easily in a random breeze. And I've watched the cool blue swat of the ocean for my golden green dolphins play. Yes, I've seen the smile of a mother. And I've looked into the eyes of young boys and girls in love. All good. All wonderful and good.  The small lips of a child, the fumbling of prayer, getting it mixed up, getting it tangled, and sweetly muddled with sleep. Listen to him. A red scooter? All right, Eddie. It'll be a red scooter. I've willed it, Eddie. A red scooter. I'll sleep, Eddie. Sleep. This is Gregory Peck again. While listening to tonight's program, if people everywhere had sincere faith and trust in one another, because so often it's false suspicions and mistrust that begin disruptions in a home as well as among nations, yes, faith in God and trust in one another is the simple direct meaning of the words a family that prays together stays together. Before saying good night, I want to express our thanks to everyone who has participated or helped in family theater broadcast during the past year. Our thanks to all those in the recent Radio Poll who voted family theater a special honor as the outstanding program of 1947. Our thanks to the California Parent Teachers Association, which has just named family theater as the number one family program on the air today. And a special word of thanks to so many of our audience for their letters and telegrams of congratulations on family theater's first birthday. This is Gregory Peck saying good night to you all. Our thanks to Susan Peters and Robert Mitchum for their performances this evening and to Rob O'Connor for his narration. Music was scored and conducted by Max Tehr. This production of family theater incorporated was written by Timothy Mulvey and directed by David Young. Others who appeared in tonight's play were Henry Blair, Gloria Blondel, Clayton Post and Alan Harris. Next week our family theater stars will be James Craig and Barbara Hale in Out of the Wilderness. Your hostess will be Maureen O'Hara. This series of the family theater broadcast is made possible by the thousands of you who felt the need for this kind of program and the Mutual Broadcasting System which has responded to this need. Be with us next week at the same time when our family theater stars will be James Craig and Barbara Hale with Maureen O'Hara as hostess. Tony Lofrano speaking. This is the Mutual Broadcasting System.


Hello, I'm Dr Emma Beckett. I am a lecturer and researcher in food science and human nutrition at the University of Newcastle. I also have four of my own degrees from this university. The Bachelor of Biomedical Science with Honours, a Graduate Certificate in Clinical Epidemiology, a Master's in Science Management and a PhD in Food Science. I personally think food and nutrition science is the best of all the sciences. It's got all of the sciences right into one, physics, chemistry, biology, you name it, and everyone eats. And so that means there's lots of opportunities for us to help make the world a healthier and happier place. But there's also lots of misinformation and marketing out there. So today I'm here to help you by answering the top four questions that people ask me about food and nutrition.  Well, the answer is it depends. If you look at it as a straight swap, then yes, you could save some calories.  And if you did that for every day in the year, then that's going to add up to about three and a half kilograms of body weight. So that sounds great and like a pro for skim. But there is some evidence now that people who drink full fat dairy milk actually eat less and therefore consume less energy and way less overall. The theory is that this is because the fat that's in the dairy helps us stay feeling fuller for longer.  So the bottom line, the milk you choose is probably not the deal breaker on the quality of your diet. So pick the one that you like and just don't overdo it on those milky coffees. Number two, which is the best diet for weight loss? Well, again, it depends. There are so many studies now on low fat versus low carb versus it's a mint fasting versus plant based only versus paleo and keto and everything else. All of them have great results for some people in the short term, and none of them have great results for most people in the long term. And that's because restrictive diets can be really hard to stick to. So really, the best diet for weight loss is the one that works for you and your lifestyle. Don't fast in the mornings if you get hangry. Don't go vegan if you love meat. Don't quit carbs if they make you happy. The quicker you drop weight, the harder it is to keep it off. So don't go for fast results on a fad diet. If you're cutting out whole food groups or restricting yourself to just one food, then you might be missing out on the essential nutrients that you need to be well now and in later life. Number three, which are the healthiest fruits and vegetables? So yeah, every fruit and vegetable is different. But despite what the marketers tell you, there are no super foods and you don't need to spend extra money on the ones being marketed as being super healthy. Just eat any fruit and vegetables. They can be fresh, frozen, even canned and induced. All fruit and veg are good fruit and veg. For the best chance at health, go for variety because every color represents a different key set of nutrients and bioactive compounds. So go ahead and eat the rainbow. Ultimately, most of us don't eat enough fruit and veg. So just eat more of them and stress less about which particular ones, provided you don't have any allergies or medical reasons, of course. If you want to make healthy choices, though, just make sure you don't go for the fried options of those vegetables like potato chips for most of your choices. Finally, number four, what do I need to do for my gut health? Do I need a probiotic? Gut health is absolutely on trend. The health of the microbes that live in our guts have now been linked to just about every disease that you can think of. Probiotics are live bacteria that we can eat or take in a supplement that can colonize in the gut and give you health benefits. But the science on whether or not you need a supplement or any particular probiotic foods is still a little bit undecided. What's probably more important is that you nurture the good bacteria that you have so that they can dominate and give you the health benefits. You can do this by eating a diet that's high in prebiotics. Prebiotics are bacteria food. You can get plenty of prebiotics from eating a range of fruits, vegetables and whole grains, things we already know we should be eating. And you can avoid damaging your microbiota or encouraging growth of bad bacteria by avoiding doing things like eating too much junk food, drinking too much alcohol and smoking, things we already know we should do less of if we want to concentrate on being healthier. So those are my top four most commonly asked questions on food and nutrition science. I hope you've enjoyed watching today. Maybe you've learned something. If you've been looking at the food behind me and wondering if I'm about to have a party or if I eat really well in my office, these are actually all fake food props that we use in our research here at the university. So actually none of this is edible.


I think this is probably a question that you can both answer. What is your key piece of advice based on your experiences in your respective projects? What was the one thing that you'd like us to take away from your presentations? So for me, I'm Angela. For me, when I think of this past experience, I'm not limited in the version tool. So I'm still a product manager for other city type products at this moment. So my key piece of advice to myself is that I'm not only building a product, I'm building a solution. And that solution may include offline mechanism and may include negotiation with the government that may include advocacy as a part of the solution. So that make me not only see the product as a digital product like an eight or a website as an ultimate goal of my project. I will work more with the government and the CSL to see what's the main impact that we want to make in design the solutions as a whole. Yeah. Great. Thank you, Angela. Neema, what should I take away, Bea? Right. So I think even for us, it was a lot of realizing the position that we're coming from. In a lot of the countries, women didn't understand what online gender-based violence was. And so we had to go into each country and contextualize a question. I think my advice to myself in the past would be to do more of that context building. And because we tried as much as possible to tailor the tools to each country, but I think that there's a lot more work that can go into that. Even after giving this talk, I think, yeah, there's so much to contextualize in any of this work that we do. So I would have spent more time doing more in-country research, figuring out what are the right kinds of words to use and then taking it from there. Great. That's really interesting. And just another one for you, Neema. I'm assuming it. The question is, have you examined the intersections between online misinformation and GBV, which I'm going to assume stands for gender-based violence, but if it was different, please let me know. But yeah, I think that was meant for you, Neema. Yeah, we haven't looked at that yet. We're actually doing a project with Mozilla on misinformation right now. But we haven't looked at that intersection, though it is very interesting. Cool. Yeah, because it's a huge, it's a huge area to be looking at, isn't it? Just trying to narrow down your research questions, I imagine is a huge task. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Angela, a question here from Ricardo Poppi. I know Gov.0 was using the POLLIS tool with great participation. How did this kind of use relate with SENSE.TW? There are lessons learned on this specific case. So yes, at the very beginning, we do think of POLLIS model. And we do think that at the later stage of SENSE.TW, we can explore our cards and argument statement into POLLIS for people to fold them and form a cluster group. But why we develop SENSE.TW is also we see that on POLLIS, people cannot give the reference or why they are thinking of that. And people cannot directly response or build on the mutual understanding of facts. And yeah, that's a main problem because, so let me give an example. Like the first thing problems in the US, people who believe that first thing is good and people who believe that vaccine is bad, they base on the different reading materials they read. So just folding, agree and disagree and see the different cluster groups doesn't help the mutual understanding and discussion. People should read each other positions reasoning and the reference that can generate more discussion that's our belief. Great. And just from again, Angela, from another question for you from Robbie Branson, when you say no one used the hypothesis tool that you were talking about, did you actually do online marketing at all to let people know that it was actually there and it was available? And if so, how much money did you spend on that? So it's a tricky problem because within the government project, we couldn't do much online marketing budget because the government budget constraint. And second of all, when we first use the fork version of hypothesis, it's to be model because we still focus on the government side of meeting. So at that time, we feel like advertising to many people is not the best way. The best way is to contact a key person in the government and convince the government in sync text to use our product. And we do right like we do. We did in bounce marketing like write blogs or we use that tools in other government meeting to do that. But within government budget, it's hard to allocate budgets for online marketing. Right. Yeah, I totally understand. And I think many other people here will as well. Neema, sorry, I'm losing my headphones. It's been a long day. Sorry, Neema. Actually, this is a question I'm quite interested in as well, actually. When you were doing the research, did you see any differences in countries that have many multiple ethnic groups in comparison to ones that are fairly homogenous? I don't think any of the countries that we did were fairly homogenous. I think every single country we went to did have quite a difference. But no, we didn't collect granular data going down to ethnic groups. I don't think we thought that was very right to do at that time. But yeah, as you said, there's so many questions that we could ask in our lives. Lifestyles work. We did see differences. We did ask income. And you could see that there were very clear differences in income and how people reacted to digital security. Like how concerned they were and what kinds of behaviors they had and took. But yeah, we didn't have questions on ethnicity or things like that. Cool. And I mean, this is a horrible question to ask because I'm sure you don't have the answer. And if you did, then you'd probably be absolutely rolling in it. But so an anonymous question here. How do we make more women or minorities to be the developers and designers of the actual technologies that they use? Yeah, I mean, of course, the answer is obvious. There's the pipeline getting more people to be designers, developers. But also, I think just listening. I think there's a real listening problem and running a small company in Africa. I see that all the time where people come from the West and they're just like, I can't hear you. It's just that they never listen. And I think that's the biggest thing is that when you come and if you bother to ask us and we tell you, then please actually take that advice and use it. So I think just paying attention, listening, asking questions. I think even that, because of course the pipeline and all that is going to take many, many years. But I think listening can happen right now. I think that more of that needs to happen. And of course, having these conversations, having these dialogues, creating space for this to happen, online, offline, I think that's really important. And of course, I mean, across the tech industry, it's a bit contentious whether you try and push more women forward into more prominent roles just so that there are recognisable female faces out there. And yeah, no one solved that argument yet either, have they? Brilliant. OK, sorry. I don't want to cut into everyone's break. Again, there were more questions on the slider that I've been able to ask. So we'll pass those on to the speakers and hopefully we can get back to you with some answers.


Hello, everybody. So my name is Wendy Riggs, and if you are here watching this lecture right now, hopefully it's because you're enrolled in my human physiology course. I'm recording this video. I used to call it a syllabus lecture, and the fact is that I'm not going to go over the syllabus. In the past I did. I'm going to hit on some high points of the syllabus, some high points that from experience I feel will benefit you if I discuss before you show up on the first day of class, because human physiology, don't tell anybody this, but it's my favorite class, like hands down. If you had me for anatomy, I'm sure you heard me saying that I love anatomy, and I do. I love teaching anatomy, and if you had me for Bio One, I'm sure I said I love that class too, and I do. I love all the classes I teach, but physio, no question. Physio is, if I had to give up everything else, the one class that I would want to continue teaching if I couldn't teach anything else is human physiology. It is different than anatomy, and I think one of the reasons why I love anatomy so much is because you really cut your teeth as a student in anatomy. You cannot pass that class unless you figure out how you study, how you learn, how to prioritize your time, what strategies work best for you, and it's one of the reasons why I feel so lucky to work in a place where we separate anatomy and physiology, because you have that entire semester to get your groove on.  Physio requires a level of thinking and analysis that is less stressed in anatomy and Bio One chemistry. And maybe I'm wrong. Maybe all the other instructors would totally say that their class has the same level of all of those awesome things, but I really do think this is sort of a capstone course for all the skills you're going to need going into the programs that you guys are looking at. So I want to spend just a little bit of an intro time talking about some of those really specific skills. The other thing is that, you know, half of you probably have no idea who I am. The other half are like, dude, we've done the rig scene. And so you know what the flow is, and you kind of have a sense you're not going to have that learning curve of getting used to the different style that we take advantage of in this class. Last semester was the first time that I really felt like I sort of made the assumption that everybody was already there, like you guys already knew and already bought into the system as it was. And I feel like that was a hardship on a bunch of students who didn't have experience with my classes before. So I'm thinking that, you know, kind of naming the skills that you're going to need and explaining why I do things the way that I do them. I just feel like it will benefit you to have a little bit of that support before we even start physio. Like all of our big biology classes, I mean, we definitely hit the ground running and we keep running all the way through. The nice thing about spring is we do have spring break in the middle where we take a little break and rest and hopefully get some sleep, but this is, the course isn't messing around. The requirements are high. Okay, so let's start out with a sort of overview of how I look at education and how this class is structured to support kind of my core priorities. Okay, I'll be right back.


Okay, so we're here with Daniel Moorley of the Editorial Board of Socialist Appeal and regular contributor to marxist.com. And we're talking today about the Tiananmen Square movement, the 25th anniversary of which is this year. So Daniel, could you start off by explaining a little bit about the movement? Okay, so the movement began in the middle of April for 1989. And it was initiated by students, which in that day, 25 years ago, represented a much smaller proportion of the population than they do today. And a more really slightly more elite section of the population than today. The movement basically started in response to the death of Hu Yao Bang, I've pronounced that correctly, who had been a general secretary of the Communist Party and was seen as a liberal and was pushed out and then he died. And certainly she started actually as a sort of mourning for him. But it quickly developed some demands. It was a very spontaneous movement really. And its demands mainly were basically of a democratic nature for reform of the Communist Party for freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, those kinds of demands in general. There were also demands relating to education like better payment for intellectual jobs, journalists, things like that, which obviously reflects the background of those who were involved in the movement. But it also very quickly became sort of a magnet really for all of the discontent in society and therefore the working class began to be attracted to the movement too. So early sections of the working class, particularly in Beijing, within the movement itself, the formation of the Beijing Autonomous Workers Federation and that sort of fraternised with the students but there was some tensions there as well. But thanks to the formation of that organisation some social demands were put into the movement as well, in particular for workers' control of production. There was a lot of anti-corruption demands as well. So the movement had a very, I mean it only existed for two months so obviously it didn't have a complete programme, it wasn't perfectly consistent. It generally had a democratic anti-bureaucratic anti-corruption kind of character and rapidly spread around the country from Beijing to about 400 cities and initially met with some support even from sections of the regime before the regime had really decided what to do about it.  That indicates the repression which came later on the 4th of June 1989. It was the day really when they put an end to the movement they decided to send in about 300,000 troops to crush the movement violently. And that really just put an end to it, put an end to the movement itself with obviously the consequences. There were reverberations from it but that was the end of the movement. Okay so can you give us a bit of the background of this movement? What were its causes? Well basically two fog really. On the one hand obviously China had ever since 1949 been a planned economy but also a planned economy that was Stalinist really in its leadership. Everyone I think is familiar more or less with the fact that it was under the leadership of Mao until 1976 and sort of modelled itself on the Soviet Union although there were some differences.  So there was always obviously discontent if you like at the bureaucracy and the lack of democratic freedoms and that can be seen and expressed in the movement especially because of its student or intellectual character. Democratic demands particularly were at the forefront so of course by that on the one hand. But what really brought it to the forefront what made it happen in 1989 rather than at any other time were the economic reforms that had been taking place for just over ten years then started by Deng Xiaoping in 1978. And these economic reforms were basically pro-capitalist reforms which were still in their more or less early stages down in comparison with today but had made some very important differences in Chinese society. But crucially hadn't removed the one major source of discontent really in China which was the bureaucracy. So the bureaucracy the dictatorship remained but you now had the introduction of incentives for workers and for managers. You had a sort of dual pricing system so the introduction basically of market prices for things and you had an explosion of corruption in the black market that went along with this. So in my opinion the real cause of the movement, the immediate cause obviously being Fuyao Bank's death and he was also his expulsion from power. But the real kind of spark of the movement was the inflation, the falling living standards, the increasing inequality, the sense of alienation that this obviously generates and also just the general turbulence that any time the repressive regime begins to change, begins to shake up society then it's always a very dangerous time for that regime and this was a period like that, it was a period of big economic changes, of growing class polarization, of a lot of corruption, of falling living standards for many, not for everyone but for sections of society. And I suppose the sort of change in the sort of structures of society, the economic structures created uncertainty and also a questioning of sort of established norms which I suppose gave rise to the movement itself. But yes it was a movement mainly for democratic reforms in defence of Fuyao Bank and what they saw he stood for that was really, you know so there's an accumulation of these two main factors, the economic and the bureaucracy and corruption. Okay you mentioned earlier some of the reverberations that resulted from this movement, what were some of the consequences of the Tiananmen Square movement? Well initially for the first couple of years not very much other than the repression of those involved but when we take a step back and look at the bigger picture we can see that the consequences were profound and I would argue that actually what's interesting about it is it shows the way in which on the contrary to the idea that capitalism brings democracy or needs democracy is actually the very opposite because the successful repression of the movement, the destruction of the movement, violently gave if you like a political kind of breathing space for the existing apparatus, the existing regime to expand the economic reforms in other words the introduction of capitalism. The leader of the Communist Party at the time of the repression and the one who really sort of led the repression was Deng Xiaoping who ironically is always kind of celebrated in the west as the great reformer, they never really mentioned that he was responsible basically for the repression of Tiananmen Square. So he is famously the great pro-capitalist if you like in China's history, the capitalist roader and he led that repression and in 1992 which is only three years later once the sort of dust had settled he famously began his southern tour where he went around key areas on the south coast of China, key economic areas where economic reforms were going to be piloted basically and he sort of led that, he really pushed for that and in my opinion it was the political breathing space they were afforded by the successful crushing of the movement that gave him the confidence to begin to move down that road and with that you had in the 1990s that was when really the capitalist reform really sped up the privatisation of huge numbers of state-owned enterprises, the taking away of the benefits that came with that for working-class people, the sacking of tens of millions of working-class people and the creation of the Rust Belt and particularly in northern parts of China, north-eastern parts of China you have very rapid economic reforms but no real democratic reforms to go with, in fact arguably even more a tightening up of the bolstering of the police force in the army. On the other hand there were very profound consequences for the labour movement which of course as we know is going to explode or rather the working-class is going to explode in scale thanks to the economic reform, thanks to the growth of capitalism in China that's created a huge working-class but the Beijing Autonomous Workers Federation that was created then and was destroyed also by the repression but nevertheless that sort of symbolised if you like the rebirth of the Chinese working-class or rather the rebirth of their own independent organisations if you like which have slowly but surely since then with the growth of the numerical growth of the working-class have gained little by little especially recently so on the other hand that experience I believed at least to some limited extent actually in a period of growth of the working-class rather than causing it was like an omen if you like of the growing political independence of the working-class which we're now really beginning to see bear fruit. Okay so here we are today 25 years on from the Tiananmen Square movement what kind of lessons can we draw from that movement for today? Yeah well the movement I think much like the Revolution in Egypt in the last few years obviously was much more short-lived than that and didn't topple the regime but similarly to that was the first movement for a long period of time really from the first sort of independent movement of the masses and as such was confused disorganised more or less leaderless similarly with Egypt and in particular its class character was led really by Petty Bourgeois elements although as I said the working-class began to play a role in it it was led by Petty Bourgeois elements students mainly and that really reflected the conditions of China at the time in other words the working-class was smaller then and interestingly also the crushing of the movement was enabled by the probably partly by the fact it was mainly students and obviously students are sort of politically weak they can't really go organise a strike which is going to cripple the country so that makes them very sort of weak in the face of repression but also the way in which they repressed the movement was through the army of course and the army at that time was composed basically of peasants and the peasants in China then would have been very distant if you like from the sort of intellectual layers in the cities that they would have seen and also from the working-class and it would have been much more pliable tool in the hands of the bureaucracy basically to get what they want today however is a very different situation although the problems that they were responding to in 1989 have only gotten worse obviously the dictatorship is still there but the level of corruption and inequality has only increased since then enormously and we know that now China is one of the most unequal countries of the world corruption is a huge issue in China, bigger than it was then and inflation and things like that are reaching into people's living standards so all of those problems are the same if not worse but on the other hand and this is an enormously progressive thing from a Marxist point of view the Chinese working-class is absolutely huge now China is the biggest working-class in the world and very interestingly it's beginning to understand that it's beginning to flex its muscles, it's beginning to sort of feel its own strength there are more strikes year after year in the first three months of this year, in the first quarter of 2014 this level of strike activity was up 31% from last year and last year was already a record-breaking year for the number of strikes a better organised, more confident, more militant and interestingly they're winning to a large extent and the working-class is beginning to form its own independent organisations it's in some areas like in Guangdong it's being actually allowed to form its own trade unions to a limited extent obviously monitored by the state and everything and other workplaces like Foxconn are also allowing the workers to form a union although again obviously that's an initiative from Foxconn itself so they're trying to control that but that indicates the objective change that is forcing if you like a change in the leadership of China which the leadership as repressive as it is feels it cannot stop the working-class and it might be better to allow them some freedoms to organise and express themselves basically and that shows the tremendous strength of the Chinese working-class and as I said it knows that strength it's conscious of its interests to a large extent and it's beginning to learn how to organise itself and the students also are much more sort of pulled into the trajectory of the working-class there are far more students today I think there's something like seven million students graduating every year in China now it's about ten times more than it was in 1989 something like that and the students are much like in countries like Britain are proletarianised many of them upon graduating can only get jobs in factories like Foxconn some of the Foxconn workers are actually graduate students they find themselves having similar wages to what the workers get or even worse in some cases and many of them can't find jobs there's a growing crisis of graduate unemployment again very similar to Britain of course now that China is a capitalist country it will begin to have the same problems of capitalist countries so the student population is much closer to the working-class there are signs of the Chinese students beginning to look to the working-class to begin to try and help organise them to hold Marxist study circles independently of the official ones provided by the state that kind of thing and so clearly if there's going to be another Tiananmen Square movement and I certainly believe there will be there will be an explosion at some point of revolutionary activity aimed at toppling the regime and sure it will probably be confused initially again of course there's no sort of prepared leadership in advance there's no you know there's under a totalitarian regime there's not much chance to practice if you like political power so it will probably have a large element will be largely confused in some ways but on the other hand I think that the class character of it will be overwhelmingly working-class it won't be petty bourgeois led in the main and it will have a high degree of class consciousness involved in it and enormously powerful working-class so the lessons for today I suppose are going to be felt almost automatically is that the weakness of the movement then was its petty bourgeois character it's sort of student character and today it will be led by a class which is the largest and most powerful working-class in the world who knows how to strike and if it does strike not only affects the Chinese ruling class but also the whole of world production so they have enormous power in their hands and as I said they are increasingly conscious of that I think that in that respect the lesson if you like will automatically be learnt on the other hand the students if they want to play a role in the movement they have to use the abilities that they do have in other words the amount of free time the ability to study etc they should use that to train themselves up in revolutionary and Marxist ideas and to go to the working class to help them in their struggles and to organise Marxist study circles in the universities but also in workplaces and to begin to build up their own forces in preparation for such an event because I am absolutely sure that that will take place there is a seething discontent in Chinese society there is an acute awareness of the inequality of the corruption of the injustice and one final thing as well that doesn't bode well for the regime is how will they stop this for a start we have indicated the economic power that this class has which wasn't really there before but also you have the fact that the means of repression are not so strong as before they started to spend more on internal security than in defence even though they are spending increasingly large amounts on defence as well which is worrying their neighbours in the region nevertheless they are spending more on internal security and I think that is the first time in their history and that means they are very worried about what is going on also the statistics show that in the strikes of this year there has been a police presence of some kind on 45% of the strikes of 2014 whereas it was only about 11% of police presence on the strikes of 2013 so that is an enormous difference clearly the regime is very conscious of what is going on and is very worried but how do you stop such a movement taking place as I said in 1989 the army they sent 300,000 troops in 300,000 troops is a huge number of troops those are not elite troops those are ordinary people back then they had the advantage that on the one hand they were from a peasant background and were rather alienated from the city and secondly obviously those involved in the movement were largely relatively privileged students which also would have alienated the peasants today the movement is likely to be working class led and it will often be the migrant workers or the children of migrant workers and the army is much closer to the working class simply because the working class has expanded so much and you have the fact obviously that many of the workers are probably related to people who are in the army who are related to peasants if you like so if you want to use a force of that kind of scale of 300,000 or more that you would need to sort of smash a movement on the scale that we are going to see in China there is going to be an acute danger of fraternisation in other words of the rank and file of the army and the police force especially the army being influenced by the movement and the sheer force and strength of the movement and therefore there is a big question mark over whether they could even use these means of repression to hold the movement back so I would argue that China has long overdue Tiananmen if you like, another Tiananmen square it is coming, something like that is going to come a strike wave, a mass mobilisation across the country and there is a big question mark over whether the regime can resist that and we would obviously support such a movement enormously and argue that in order to complete its task and really liberate the Chinese masses they can't just fight for democratic reforms because the key problem in China today is the enormous inequality, the pollution the exploitation etc. They need to fight for socialist demands to go back to socialism although genuine socialism this time socialism with workers democracy and I believe that that actually is something that the working class will be looking towards anyway Okay Daniel, thank you very much


What's up you fine ladies and gents? I realized a few weeks ago that I'm 31 that means I'm old as hell No, and all seriousness listen I get a lot of emails from people and they act like life is over at 30 now in this video I want to share being 31 the things I wish I knew before 30 because now that I'm old and crusty I guess I have wisdom or something like that. I hope this helps you these are the five things I wish I knew before 30. What's up guys Alex Hine here author of the book master the day PS did you see that new sexy cover? Check it out All right now listen the first thing that I wish I knew before I turn 30 is that at 30 your life does not end You know average life expectancy of humans now is like 80 something people talk to me They think they have to have everything figured out by 30 like the partner the job six figures traveled 30 countries by 30 all these arbitrary goals and it's like okay. Let's say you're making 50k doing what you enjoy by 30 That's great. That's better than most people. Let's say you're dating someone. That's pretty close to what you want by 30 That's great. Let's say you just get one of those goals one of those big rocks That's great. Like your life is not done at 30 I mean I'm 31 and I'm only now having even a little bit of financial success doing work I love but it's progressively gotten better every single year now I'm doing better even easier with less stress and next year It's gonna be the same thing even better more fun less stress better more fun less stress Like your life as long as you're focusing on growth Your life is gonna continue to get better every year. It's this odd arbitrary thing like after college your life's over It's not how life works if you focus on life getting better each year each year It'll get better. There's almost no upper limit for how good your life can get think about that The second habit. I want you to think of here is that deep ruts are already worn by 30 This is kind of interesting because one of my favorite quotes is by Earl Nightingale and it says a Rut is just a grave with the ends kicked out. So a rut is just like a grave. It's done It's over. It's the same thing with the ends extended forever your whole life You know, I have friends now at 30 31 30 40 50 pounds overweight from the couple beers a night. They've been doing since 24. I have friends married and divorced already I have friends that are Married divorced and remarried since 30. I have friends that are in the same job since 24 Maybe capped out on their income 70 K or so 60 70 80 K now They're gonna do the same crap until they're 60 years old 65 The reality is that by 30 many ruts are already worn, which is crazy because it's so young And if you don't consciously think about taking care of good care of your health Financial life always improving always upgrading career. Are you doing what you love? If not, don't give up. Are you with the person that you want to be with and not? I just married him or her because I'm 30 and I'm getting old That's really important. Do not settle for something as important as a marriage or a career Those are things you're gonna have to deal with with your whole life. And if they're not right, you're screwed Happen number three if you have not found work you love yet Do not give up because it gets harder as you get older Now look the good thing about if you're in your 20s watching this is you have all this leeway to play an experiment Like I bought a one-way ticket to China. Who the hell does that a 22 year old is who like you can start 15 companies they can all fail and at 30 you still have plenty of time to keep trying that The big thing though is I believe that the two big rocks in life You have to get right as best you can or work in love like Freud said and love especially Because the person you date is or marry is probably gonna be the most important life decision for your happiness or your resulting depression and I think these are really really really important things to focus on but guess what I'm 31 I didn't find work I loved until 29 and I was working my ass off from 22 my only focus in my life from 22 on Was how do I find work? I love that can support me in the family? Took seven years So imagine people who aren't even really all in trying to pursue work. They care about Good luck Like that is something you should be focusing on because when you have to pay a rent when you have bills When you get that new car and it's a $500 a month lease payment and your rent is $1,500 a month And you have student debt payments for a thousand a month You're living on a poverty salary making 40k you have no money And then what happens when you throw in two kids now, huh? And then your partner decides to stay home because someone's got to take care of the kids or you put your kids in daycare And it's $3,000 a month Find work you love and make that a priority Find or build work you love work in the after hours after your full-time job work a part-time job to build the company You want make it an absolute priority because your happiness has to be a priority in your work The fourth habit here is that sometimes you have to struggle and it doesn't mean you're off course The big thing that annoyed me that annoyed the hell out of me honestly was in my early 20s I thought that you know being an intuitive I would just like follow my intuition and it would lead me to my magical path for fulfillment and enjoyment but it didn't happen like it didn't happen for years and When I started businesses and I got jobs None of them were what I was really passionate about and it confused me because I thought Maybe I'm living my life wrong or I'm doing something wrong if nothing is speaking to me in my life I must not be following my intuition, right? I think in life though. It's cyclical like chaos and order chaos and order you feel like you're Chicken little the world's ending and then a year later It's all fine and dandy like one year before you were the worst person you've ever dated and you hate your life Next year you could be with your dream person and I think it's okay But you have to understand these cyclical things order and chaos are natural fluctuations Sometimes in life you have to push one of my mentors said like you want to of course Go with the flow whenever you can whenever you can flow in a relationship And it's easy and it works or you flow in a job and it's easy and it works But guess what a lot of the time in life It doesn't and you want to exercise that muscle of will or you train yourself to swim upstream Because if you get used to that when it's downstream life is such cake like for me It is a cake walk now in my financial in my career life I love it, but it wasn't the case for most of my adult life The fifth habit here is that life will get better every year if you get better continually So this is weird thing in American culture where people are like, you know Once you go to college those are the best years your life live it up and after that. It's all down hill as if 21 is your most fun year of your life and then three four five six seven eight And then it's all going straight to hell Makes no sense Like why would you not have more fun every year like okay? You have more responsibilities You got to pay your rent you may have kids and a family you may struggle financially You may not have time off, but you can change almost all of those things and improve your life I know for a fact the people I respect the most actually describe the 20s as the worst decade of their life Because that's when they were figuring things out and building their career and doing all this stuff Finding and dating bad partners till you know to get that contrast to learn really good ones are and That to me was so inspiring and I instantly knew it to be true because every year since 22 Since I found personal development my life has gotten way better like way better Like consider that I wasn't in a good relationship till 25 that lasted five years So if I was expecting any relationship before 25 to be the best I would have been screwed if I expected the most money I would have earned doing the most enjoyable work I would have been screwed every year my left gets better because every year I think about how to make my life better How could I have more fun at work be have cooler friends date more amazing women or Go in deeper with the woman. I'm dating Travel more like work less stress less work more on what I love Your life will get better if your focus your singular focus is how do I get it better? And it seems like a lot of the people who peak later in life The 20s suck as they figure things out the 30s 40s and beyond are Exponentially better. I know a lot of my family members that struggled young and they say 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s those were all the best years of their life and for me I certainly can see that probably coming true because right now every year It's gotten better and better So don't believe the lie that it's over when you're done with college because if you're living your life that way Then I feel bad for you because it probably is over. All right guys I hope that video helps it all revolves around the same old stick I do here every week which is that if you focus on growth and consciously designing your life Why wouldn't it get better every year? It should so I hope that helps before you go Comment there below and let me know for you if you're 20. What do you wish you knew by 20? If you 30, what do you wish you knew by 30 and if you're 50 60 70 80? What do you wish you knew over the last decade of your life comment there below all right guys? Best way to stay in touch is to watch the last video here and here and Grab my free personal development and weight loss challenge at modern health month comm forward slash YouTube It's also in the description box there below It is a free seven-day starter weight loss challenge and that is the best way to stay in touch with me as well


Rick Wilson is a very specific kind of media pundit. He's an anti-Republican Republican. You won't find a Democrat counterpart to this media character. No, they only use alleged conservatives to bash their own side. There are many examples to these people in the media. You got Anna DeVaro, Jennifer Rubin, David Brooks. Back during the Obama administration, it was Kathleen Parker who was the big conservative, anti-conservative pundit. She even won a Pulitzer Prize and admitted that she never got an award until she started bashing her own side. A conservative won a Pulitzer Prize. It just never happens with us on the phone right now. Pulitzer Prize winner Kathleen Parker.  How exciting. I don't think it's going that way, Joe. I don't think so. You know, it's only because I'm a conservative basher that I'm now recognized after 23 years of toiling in the field. Well, that brings us to Rick Wilson, a lonesome little ugly man who makes a living getting pats on the back from the left for viciously attacking people on his supposed side. Most recently, he's getting attention for hoping that Melana Trump gets the coronavirus. Such class and professionalism, he's perfect for CNN. Of course, this is perfectly acceptable to do on Twitter as long as you're targeting the Democrat Party's political opposition. You may also remember recently that Rick Wilson had some very lowbrow insults for Trump supporters that the CNN headliner, Don Lemon, found particularly hilarious. Donald Trump couldn't find Ukraine on a map if you had the letter U and a picture of an actual physical crane next to it. He knows that this is an administration defined by ignorance of the world. And so that's partly him playing to their base and playing to their audience, the credulous Boomer-Rube demo that backs Donald Trump that wants to think that Donald Trump's the smart one in there. Oh, y'all elitists are dumb.  We'll get right back to exposing Rick Wilson as the scumbag he is, but first I have this very important message for all my viewers. The world we live in today is in flux, filled with a flood of information that's often as much gossip as fact. Making it hard to know what the real situation is, making it easy for people to panic and make bad decisions. The only way not to get caught up in that chaos is to have a plan allowing you to avoid dealing with empty store shelves, long lines, and in the worst case, desperate people. Used today to prepare. A great place to start is storing food in your home. I'm prepared and I ordered even more recently. With this unprecedented emergency, orders are being delayed, sometimes eight weeks or more. I urge you to add your order to mind today. Take action so you're ready for what's coming and save $70 on a two week emergency food king. When you go to my special website, preparewithdronetech.com. Those that know what's coming are preparing today. Go to preparewithdronetech.com. That's preparewithdronetech.com. Just look at how CNN and their cohorts express maximum outrage when someone calls it the Chinese virus or the Wuhan virus, even though they themselves did it for months, supposedly because they don't want any negative backlash on the Asian-American community. Yet they have no problems at all creating backlash towards communities that they deem as legitimate targets. But yeah, it's totally Trump's fault that nobody trusts the media. Maybe it's just me, but with all the coronavirus news freaking everybody out, it really puts things in perspective and shows how futile all this political bickering really is. Given that perspective, it makes this next reclusive clip even more vile. Yes, a recession would be very worth getting rid of Donald Trump and these kind of policies. I gotta say, bring on the recession. They want their base to be like, we're taking their regulations away. These people hate Trump in half the country so much that they're actually encouraging an economic downturn as a means of getting rid of Trump. Strange how that exact thing happens months later. Well, they got their wish with all the businesses closing and people not getting paid or able to pay their bills, and economic crash is sure to follow. While they lecture about respect and the dangers of hate, they themselves are given a special pass to promote as much hate of the other side that they can muster. Rick Wilson clearly sees himself as hovering above, while the rest of us are like mutant subhumans who are barely worthy of the right to express an opinion. The wall has always been a con for Donald Trump's credulous, rubed, tin-tooth base. He's really got a thing for describing his own side as cartoonish Hillbilly stereotypes, which again is the height of irony coming from anybody at CNN. He always does this with a panel of leftists who just sit there grinning. My guess is nobody really likes this guy. He's a weird looking little old white guy who they use as a tool against their political opponents. While he thinks they're his best friends, it's pathetic. Rick continues with these insanely insulting terms. And by the way, I will tell you this, I wear your scorn as a badge of honor. I really do. And this kind of condescension from unlikable elites is one of the reasons we won in 2016 and a reason we're going to win again. The last time I was on TV with you, you called Trump voters toothless rubes. For you to continue to use all of these terms of derision, it only reinforces the need, unfortunately, in this country, the need that we have for the electoral revolt of the America First movement. And yes, we needed somebody to lead that movement who was a fighter. What more is there to say about Rick Wilson?  He's probably thinking he's gonna get a Pulitzer Prize for all of this, but in the end he'll be disregarded like the trash he is. That's all I have for this episode. Please hit that like button, share and subscribe. If you enjoy my content and you wanna support my mission, please consider subscribing to me on one of these platforms. You can find all the links in the description or pin comment. Thanks for watching. Keep coming back.