I Greetings, everyone. Welcome to Progressive Discussions. I'm your host, James P. Madonna. I've seen on the web since 2007. I want to welcome everyone to the end of August. How about that? The end of August 2023 and Labor Day weekend. Labor Day weekend is just around the corner, and before you know it, it will be my favorite time of year, autumn. And I have more than one reason for being fond of autumn. Usually, I would say I hope everyone had a great summer, but with climate change, I don't think it was hot fun in the summertime. Hot fun, hot suffering in the summertime in this situation. But we'll get into the topic of climate change. The survival of the planet Earth's living creatures, living entities, are more important to me than squabbling and fighting and debating over partisan politics. I think survival is the number one priority. And second priority is good health, optimum health. Optimum health through the proper optimum nutrition and exercise. And then you can duke it out over politics. You've got to prioritize things in life. Excuse me. The ragweed season must be here. Oh, man. Allergies. But just in case I have my eye drops, my moisturizing eye drops, in case I need to use them. So I hope everyone is hanging in there. I sure hope that you all have good, reliable air conditioning. He's calling me now. I'm on a live stream show, brother. Oh, let me tell, let me tell him I'm on live stream. Oh, boy. How about that? My friend, Gabriel Salaya from Arizona, who is being roasted, who's being toasted, like he's in a pizza oven with the weather they're having in Arizona. I'm live streamed now, Gabriel. If you want to join later, let me know. Now, why couldn't he send me a request to video chat earlier when I wasn't live streamed? Is it funny? And minutes before I went live, I get a message from Microsoft stating that they want to restart my computer for the updates to establish the Microsoft or the Windows updates. I already did that yesterday. How could it be new updates overnight the next day if I already did it? The timing is wonderful. Hold on. Let me get a sip of my medicinal tea from my lovely Fiesta style mug from the Dollar Tree that only cost me a buck. I'm the educated consumer. Remember that? I love a good bargain. I love a good bang for the buck. Sounds a little risqué, right? Bang for the buck. Something that a processor would say, bang for the buck. All right. Let me go. Excuse me. Your chair screen for the first topic. It's interesting how the article is at the very bottom and then they have all this black space around where it says ads by Google. What does it make sense? Parts of tropical rainforest could get too hot for photosynthesis. That's not good at all. Study suggests. There's an aerial shot of I'm assuming the Amazon rainforest and that might either be the Amazon River or it might be a tributary of the Amazon. Let's see. It's an aerial view of the Juru River in the Brazilian Amazon on March 15, 2020 leaves in the canopies of tropical forests like the Amazon may be getting too hot to photosynthesize according to a new report. Well, not only is the vegetation of our planet's rainforest endangered, but this is worse. Whatever vegetation is left, whatever trees are left may not be able to survive because of climate change. And people don't realize that trees, which are a godsend, are the lungs of the planet Earth. Think about that for a moment. Some leaves in tropical forests from South America to Southeast Asia are getting so hot they may no longer be able to photosynthesize with big potential consequences for the world's forests according to a new study. Leaves ability to photosynthesize the process by which they make energy from carbon dioxide, sunlight, and water begin to fail when their temperature reaches around 46.7 degrees Celsius, which is 116 degrees Fahrenheit. Wow. While this may seem high, leaves can get much hotter than the air temperature according to the report published Wednesday in Nature by a group of scientists from countries, including the US, Australia, and Brazil. The scientists use temperature data being down from the thermal satellite sensors on the International Space Station 400 kilometers, which is nearly 250 miles above the Earth. They combine this with on-the-ground observations from a leaf warming experiments in which scientists climbed into the canopy to painstakingly add sensors to leaves. Yeah, watch out for those venomous creatures up there that make their home in the canopy. Rather than looking at average temperatures, the scientists were looking at extremes, said Christopher Doty, associate professor in eco informatics at Northern Arizona University and a report authored. They found that average forest canopy temperatures peak at 34 degrees Celsius, which is 93 degrees Fahrenheit, but some exceeded 40 degrees Celsius to 104 degrees Fahrenheit. Currently, 0.01 percent of leaves are passing the critical temperature threshold beyond which their ability to photosynthesize breaks down. The report found potentially killing the leaf and the tree. Lovely, lovely, right? This percentage, while small, is poised to increase as the world warms. The report said posing a threat to the world's tropical forests, which cover roughly 12 percent of the planet and hold more than half of the world's species. They also provide a vital role in sucking up and storing carbon and helping to regulate the global climate. You see why? I emphasize the importance of trees. There are all sorts of potential feedbacks once you start losing bits of forest, even leaves on individual trees. Doty said on a call with reporters. Okay, well this is bad news. Now this happens to be a tropical rainforest in the Mobuku Valley in Uganda, Africa. Okay, possibly the equatorial section. Let's see. Yeah, I mean, if mankind doesn't put a stop to the damage that is being done, it can only get worse.   People better start prioritizing things in this world, you know, getting their priority straight. Oh, look at this. This is a photo of Octamom with eight children. They're all grown up. See what they look like. Who cares? Well, that's her name. Natalia Suleman gave birth to the world's first surviving octopus. Yeah, well, why would a woman who already had four children, from what I understand, why would her physician give her fertility pills? Or then again, why would she ask her physician to give her fertility pills?  I mean, I could read on and on, but you got the gist of it. I beat the topic to death here. Let's see. Well, let's get the climate change. Let's get the climate change articles out of the way. Okay, this one and another. Let's open two more. Let's move back. Did your brownies out there doing all right? Don't forget, when I'm done with these topics, you will have the option of typing in your commentary or coming on the show and discuss anything you would like, anything that's important to you. As long as it's not offensive and disruptive and downright ridiculous, you know, you can mention anything that's important, any subject you want. It looks like a really beautiful, well, it's on the Pacific Ocean, so it has to be a sunset because the sun doesn't rise on the Pacific, right? It's beautiful, right? Let's get on with the article as much as I like to stare at that. Years after the blob, man, we're not talking about the low budget harm from the 1950s or whatever. The Pacific still doesn't look the same. The 2014, the 2016 marine heat wave transformed the ecosystem of the northeast Pacific. Some of those changes seem here to stay. Okay, lovely. Look at that tiny font. In the late 2013, a mass of warm water now known as the blob appeared in the northeast Pacific. Why would they call it a blob though? It's a blob of warm water. They couldn't just say, just say a mass of warm water, a massive marine heat wave that cooked coastal ecosystems from Alaska to California later bolstered by an El Nino, the vast and potent heat wave wreaked havoc on marine, marine ecosystems. Thousands of seabirds died while blooms of harmful algae poisoned marine animals and shellfish.  The suddenly warm water also brought an influx of new animals to the northeast Pacific. Ocean sunfish appeared in Alaska while yellow-bellied sea snakes popped up in southern California. Very venomous. By 2017, the blob had waned and many of the more tropical species had retreated. Yet, not all. Some of the species that colonized new habitats during the heat wave have stuck around. And now says Joshua Smith, a marine ecologist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California, who documented in new research how the blob triggered a range of subtle yet persistent shifts in the spread of marine species. I'm starting to sort out questions whether those communities will ever look the way they did. Historically, it's common enough that a handful of individuals from warm water species will make their way north during warmer years, but there wouldn't be enough of them to sustain a long-term population. Says Jen Casel, a marine ecologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and co-author of the new paper. But because the blob was so intense and lasted so long, sizable populations made the move into these normally cooler habitats. Populations that were potentially large enough to establish more permanent footholds. Senorita fish, for example, a bright orange rest that showed up in huge numbers in central California during the heat wave are still there. Smith says ocean whitefish, while historically common around Southern California's Channel Islands, are now dominant. Casel says while California sheep head, a bulbous red and black fish, are now also much more abundant near Santa Barbara. These changes in coastal communities, Casel says, can have knock-on effects on how the ecosystems function. Sometimes when one species is extirpated from a community, like a predatory fish that keeps the population of small, efficient cheque, or a seaweed species that provides a home for invertebrates, the ecosystem loses some kind of important function. But if that lost species is replaced by a new species that does the same thing, that new species could provide some resilience to the ecosystem to cell sets, even if the community doesn't look the same as it always did. Okay, so species from the tropics come north when the water is warmer, as in the case of the blob, of the heat wave mass, the El Nino, and some of them remain while others leave the area that can't handle the warm temperatures. And then they replace, then the ones from the tropics replace the ones that normally live north. I understand what she's saying. By the Pacific not looking the same, there's a different species showing up in an area where they are not indigenous, where they don't belong, replacing other species that have expedited the region, or what would you call it, the northern hemisphere that normally has much cooler temperatures. The blob, the blob, let's see what we got here. All right, I think this is the last climate changer article. Let's see what we got here. Let's see if I can even read it. Climate change impacts are unraveling the fabric of society in the southwest Pacific, says report. Okay, now we're on the opposite end. Instead of the northeast Pacific, climate change is impacting the South Seas, the southwest Pacific, as long as it's not Komodo Island, where the infamous Komodo dragons reside. Whether related disasters and climate change impacts are unraveling the fabric of society in the southwest Pacific. Sea level rise threatens the future of low lying islands, while increasing ocean heat and acidification harms vital and vulnerable marine ecosystems. According to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization, the state of the climate in the southwest Pacific 2022 report provides a snapshot of climate indicators, including temperatures, sea level rise, ocean heat and acidification, and extreme weather events in 2022. It also highlights the socioeconomic risks and impacts on key sectors like agriculture. The report along with an interactive story map is one of a series of five regional reports, and a global report from WMO providing the latest climate insights to inform decision making. The three year long La Nina event had a clear influence on temperatures in 2022, but despite its temporary cooling influence, it was still a warm year for the region. The mean temperature in 2022 was 0.2 Celsius to 0.3 Celsius higher than during the last strong La Nina event in 2011. We have an El Nino. The El Nino, there we go, which followed three years of La Nina conditions, is very likely to continue during the rest of the year. This will have a big impact on the southwest Pacific region as it is frequently associated with higher temperatures, disruptive weather patterns, and more marine heat waves and coral bleaching, said WMO Secretary General Professor Frateri Attalas. Compared to 2021, the number of reported disaster events increased. However, economic losses increased. Economic damage due to flooding was $8.5 billion almost triple compared to the previous year, with most of the damage attributable. To a series of flooding events in Australia, tropical storms, Megi or Megi, and now J, caused devastating flooding in the Philippines. Early warning is one of the most effective ways of reducing damage from disasters as it empowers people to make risk informed decisions for food security, as well as other sectors, said Professor Attalas. Despite continuous efforts to strengthen multi-hazard early warning systems, the present report clearly shows that there are still significant gaps to be addressed, he said. The early warnings for all initiative is critical in the Pacific, which is characterized by distinct disaster risk hotspots that are intensifying and expanding as climate-related hydro-meteorological disasters intensified, said Armeida Salcia, Alice Jabana, whatever. Under Secretary General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia Pacific, ESCAP, SCAP, and WMO working in partnership will continue to invest in raising climate ambition and accelerating the implementation of policy actions, which includes bringing early warnings to all in the region so that no one is left behind as our climate change crisis continues to evolve, she said. The report shows how the agriculture sector is one of the most critical sectors affected by climate-related disasters. It's our food supply. There's a lot at stake here, people, with the climate change. Just like with other things, other catastrophic events or pandemics, you can't be a denier. You've got to go into science. The report shows how the agricultural sector is one of the most critical sectors affected by climate-related disasters, echoing the national adaptation plans of many countries in the Southwest Pacific, enhancing the resilience of food systems, and is therefore a high priority. Damn right it is. It is a very high priority. Your food supply is in danger. Okay, let's see. Let's do this one. Let's do this one. I always leave certain ones for last. Now what's going on here? What's going on here? Sometime this century, why is it taking so long to open up? Gee, that took a while. NASA is developing a supersonic jet with Boeing that will be so fast that by the time you're halfway through watching the movie Oppenheimer, it would have already flown you from New York to London. Supposedly, this new supersonic jet transport, passenger transport jet, which the company is working with NASA, is supposed to take an hour and a half off the flight time. It's definitely a beauty, but there's a big problem. I believe they're working on it. NASA is developing a passenger aircraft that will reportedly have a top speed of Mach 4, which is 3,000 miles per hour, which will not make it twice as fast as the Concorde, but also faster than the legendary SR-71 Blackbird spy plane that was designed with a top speed of Mach 3.2 around 2,500 miles per hour. NASA claims that the proposed supersonic jet will cut down the travel time from New York to London to under one and a half hours. Typically flights to New York take around 8 to 9 hours. Really? As the current crop of large passenger jets cruise at around 600 miles an hour for comparison, the iconic Concorde that retired two decades ago could maintain Mach 2, which is 1,348 miles an hour. It takes that work to cross the big pond, as they call it, the Atlantic, North Atlantic. The problem is the sonic boom and they're working on that. There were several reasons that led to the demise of the Concorde, with the sonic boom being one of the major hurdles. Supersonic air travel is banned in many countries because of the devastating sonic boom, caused when the speed of sound is broken. This includes the U.S., which prohibits supersonic travel for civil aviation. However, researchers have been working for decades to develop technology that can successfully mitigate sonic booms. NASA's A Quest Mission is one such research project, which includes the development of an experimental, quiet supersonic aircraft known as the X-59. Well, good luck to NASA and the X-59 along with however many companies are involved in conjunction with NASA. They really have to eliminate that sonic boom issue. I heard it one time in my life and it was quite loud. When I was a whipper snapper, when I was younger and the Concorde was flying from New York to London or from New York to Paris, I think it wasn't an American plane. I think it was a French. Originally it might have been a plane with the joint effort of France and England, United Kingdom. It might have been a joint venture. We're going through these in a timely fashion. There we go. Discarded aloe vera peels could be a sustainable natural insecticide. I know I read about this once before, but it's fascinating considering how toxic the Monsanto agricultural chemicals are. Aloe barbidensis, commonly known as aloe vera, has been used for thousands of years to treat skin ailments, promote digestive health, and heal wounds. But while aloe vera gel is in high demand, the peels are thrown away as agricultural waste. Today, scientists report that these peels or rinds can ward off bugs acting as a natural insecticide. They have identified several bioactive compounds and extracts from the peels that deter insects from feasting on crops. Very exciting. The researchers will present their results at the full meeting of the American Chemical Society. It's likely that millions of tons of aloe peels are disposed of globally every year. Now, you see, I did read this article. Yeah, because I recognize this man's name, D. Bashish Band. I call him Dr. Band, PhD. The project's principal investigator. We wanted to find a way to add value and make them useful. Let me just fast forward and see what chemical they've isolated. No, it's a very good article, really. I mean, because people are using very toxic chemicals like Monsanto's Roundup and other chemicals, toxic chemicals made by that evil company. Okay, we'll go on to this. This is a good article. I think it's exciting. If you're into science, I just, before I read this, hold on for a second, what is this bullshit?  Before I read this article, I just want to say that Twitter, not Twitter, I'm sorry, TikTok. I want to talk about TikTok. TikTok, I guess there are two people, there are two entities that will be inducted into the progressive discussions, Chisler's Hall of Shame, but this is not because they're necessarily Chislers, but TikTok, the upper management at the main office for TikTok in Southern California. They are so obsessively nitpicking with their community standards violations that they constantly remove very hard hitting political information from my channel over there on TikTok.  It's not even funny. Some of them are, but most of them are not. It's the kind of material that only a brain cell deficient individual will put on their social media account, but they're fine with that. But as soon as you tell the real hard hitting truth, they're not fine with that. So I see where they're going. So as a result, I will not post any more educational, political, hard hitting deep topics on TikTok any longer. I'll just keep them where they're appreciated. Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, that's it. Okay, on to the article. They really are scumbags.  Why should I put forth any effort to slap together a very hard hitting and often entertaining, but a very hard hitting political banner slideshow? Why should I go through the trouble if they're going to take it off?  I mean, where is in charge of TikTok? It really does suck. Popular mechanics. What is this shit? Okay, an incredible new crystal can transform light into mechanical work. And you'll see why this article is exciting. The breakthrough could remove our need for bulky batteries and all the thermal management that comes with it. All right. Today's mobile technology is powered by batteries that convert chemical reactions to energy, but scientists from a CU Boulder successfully turned light directly into mechanical work. To do this, the research team embedded photomechanical crystals into a polymer, which could then bend and lift when exposed to light, forming a kind of actuator or motor. One day, such a material could be powered simply by a laser, completely removing any need for a bulky battery of cumbersome thermal management systems. This is exciting. This will be extremely revolutionary. Okay. Almost all forms of modern consumer technology are powered by electrochemical energy, otherwise known as batteries. Lithium ion batteries, for example, transform chemical reactions into direct current energy while also producing a few side effects, mainly heat. But what if there was another way to power gadgets? Let's say lasers. The idea behind new research from the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and CU Boulder in a new study published this month in the journal Nature Materials, the team led by a chemical and electrical engineering professor Ryan Hayward explored ways to leverage tiny crystals and directly transform light into mechanical work. At scale, such a breakthrough could remove the need for bulky batteries and all of the thermal management that comes with it. Okay. Scientists just built the best sodium battery ever. I didn't even know. Anyway, that's pretty exciting article when it comes to science, you know, and you know, the people that know me know I love science, science and technology. All right. Before we get to the last article, let's do some artificial intelligence reading. Here we go again, small font. You know what I have to say to that font rule. There's no reason for tiny font. It's not just for people that do live stream. It's for general reading. Okay. If artificial intelligence becomes conscious, here's how researchers will know. Science fiction has long entertained the idea of artificial intelligence becoming conscious. Think of how 9,000, the supercomputer turned villain in the 1968 film 2001, A Space Odyssey, with the rapid progress of artificial intelligence, that possibility is becoming less and less fantastical. And has even been acknowledged by leaders in artificial intelligence last year. For instance, Aya Sutt Schiever, what a name, chief scientist at Open Artificial Intelligence, the company behind the chat bot, chat GPT tweeted that some of the most cutting edge AI networks might be slightly conscious, yet at the point of constant, but that the face of AI evolution has got them pondering. How would we know? To answer this, a group of 19 neuroscientists, philosophers and computer scientists have come up with a checklist of criteria met, which is that a system has a high chance of being conscious. They published their provisional guide earlier this week in the ARXIV preprint repository. Ahead of peer review, the authors undertook the effort because it seemed like there was a real dearth of detailed empirical discussion of AI consciousness. Says co-author Robert Long, a philosopher at AI Safety, a research nonprofit organization in San Francisco, California. The team says that a failure to identify whether an AI system has become conscious has important moral implications if something has been labeled conscious. They love Pat himself on the jumping in the spotlight. A neuroscientist at the University of California, Irving, all right, that is you should be treated. I'm going to jump ahead. So what is conscious? Well, if you're watching the show, you're conscious. I'm doing the show. I'm conscious, right? Being aware. One of the challenges of studying consciousness and AI, getting knocked out by a halfway chair and you won't be conscious. What does it mean to be conscious? I think I hit the nail on the head. Being aware. First of all, you have to be awake and aware, aware of your surroundings, aware of what you're doing, what you're saying, what you're thinking, why you're thinking in that way, why you're doing things in that way. Awareness, assessing consciousness. They read too much into things, you know, it's like, well, what is consciousness? What is consciousness? What does it say? Oops, seems like one of your streams has connection issues. Well, I didn't have any problems. I don't have any problems. I was able to read the article, as long as I felt that it needed to be read, you know. MIT researchers developed an artificial intelligence technique that enables a robot to develop complex plans for manipulating an object using its entire hand. So right now, they're at the point where the only obstacle that stands in the way of robotics, I mean, they already have a robot that can have an intelligent conversation with you. Utilizing personality, a sense of humor, thinking for itself, reasoning the best it could, retrieving any information that's required. But the only problem is physical ability. Physical ability is no, even with the general purpose robot, I think it's called Apollo. I mean, it, the movement is pretty good, but it doesn't have the dexterity to, to really do the jobs that humans normally do, but hate to do. See, that's what they want to do. They want to use a general purpose robot that has human-like dexterity, okay, to do things that humans consider high risk or very uncomfortable, like loading, attract the trail, loading or unloading, attract the trailer that is like, that is suffocatingly hot inside. You know, things of that nature. I know what people are saying, they're going to replace a lot of jobs. Well, that's true.  Do you really want to do that? Or what about space exploration? What about exploring Mars? Instead of the rover, they can have general purpose robots with intelligence, with dexterity, doing exploration that whereas humans will be in danger to travel one year. I think it takes one year to get to Mars, one way. All right. Whole body manipulation is a strength of humans, but a weakness of robots. Just what I said, the robot interprets each possible contact point between the box and the carrier's fingers, arms, or torso as a separate contact event. This task becomes difficult to prepare as soon as one considers the billions of possible contact events. Now, MIT researchers can streamline this technique called contact-rich manipulation planning. An artificial intelligence approach called smoothing is used to reduce the number of judgments needed to find a good manipulation plan for the robot from the vast number of contact occurrences. New developments in RL have demonstrated amazing results in manipulating through contact-rich dynamics, something that was previously challenging to achieve using model-based techniques. While these techniques were effective, it has yet to be known why they succeeded while model-based approaches failed. The overarching objective is to grasp and make sense of these factors from a model-based vantage point. Based on these understanding, scientists work to merge RLs and empirical success with the model's general generalizability and efficacy. Let's see if there's any videos showing it. No, it's just the article. I know there are videos, but you already saw it. I think I played the video of Apollo, the general-purpose robot, but it has no dexterity. It has no dexterity. Now, the last, I've left the best for last because my illustrious right-hand man and co-host, the one and only Mick Farm-Raven from Chicago, Illinois shares my disdain for this individual. Oh, man, and I want to bring him on. I want to bring him on. I want to bring him on. The guy, the man that I know, that I told that I was online and I couldn't do video chat with him, I was live streaming. He sent me information.  Really, they just want, they want what they want. They do what they do, and they want what they want. You know? Okay, let's see. Maybe, okay, while I wait for my right-hand man, let's see. As I wait, as I wait for my right-hand man, then I will bring up the last article, and the last article, you already know who it is, and I will tell you ahead of time that he is the, he is this week and this century's one of the top inductees into the progressive discussions Chisler's Hall of Shame, and it is none other than Mark Zucker-Dusch, Mark Zucker-Skum, Mark Zucker-Prick, Mark Zuckerberg. So, okay. So, is anybody out there that would like to leave any commentary? I am live streaming on both YouTube and Twitter. Live streaming on Twitch didn't work out because they didn't record my, my, my video. Hello there. Hey, how are you? Hey. Hey, I'm not, I'm not echoing back, knock on wood. Shit, I hurt my knuckles. Careful. Must be real hard wood. Real hard wood, my friend. Okay, I saved the best for last because I know that the both of us have a very strong, passionate disdain for this individual, and when you, when you hear what I'm going to say, you will, you will hate him even more. If that's entirely possible. If that's entirely possible. Anyway, how, how, how is, I didn't talk to you for a while. How was your week and week? I've had some fun concerts. I've had, how do I say this correctly? I had to come up, come up in a moment at work already after one lousy month. So, the, we could fire you, but don't take this personally. Hmm. Oh, okay. Yeah. Not personal at all. Got it. Thanks. So, I'm surviving that and trying to move on. I can't mind live my life in fear.   It builds up resentment. No respect. Never respect them. You instantly dislike them because of the way they talk to you. And, and it's like, wow, I've been motivated now. Gee, thanks for the pep talk.  Thanks doc. It's like a psychiatrist says, do me a favor, sir.  Exactly. Well, my favorite is when they say, don't take it personally as they, the ladies, you know, they're always trying to lower it over the men at work when they're the boss and they, they pull in a 12 inch, 12 inch strap on and no, no Vaseline said, don't take this personally. Now hold still. Anytime, anytime you hear, don't take this personally. It's personally meant. Yeah. It's personally meant. Let's face it. It's like, it's like after a conversation, anytime you hear the words, by the way, that means they want something from they want a favor or they want, they're going to hit you up for money.   Just kidding. That's my favorite. Just kidding. They want, they want to slip the truth in without, without a confrontation. Yeah. They want to, yeah. So then there's subliminal messages. There's hints. Yeah.  They're horrible. They're horrible. Yeah. Don't, you get much more with sugar than you, or honey than you do with vinegar. Everyone knows that.  This is why, I mean, the Yankees are, are, are worse than being in the shitter. They're, they're, they're, they're in last place. They're, they're below, they're not in the basement. They're below. Yikes. Yeah. It's really bad. They're like 10 games away from the wild card. White socks aren't much better. So I understand. Okay. Now this is the deal. Everybody knows that the problem is the general manager, Brian Cashman, and they're all, all the players are, are defending their manager, Aaron Boone. Mm-hmm. And because Aaron Boone is, uh, players manager. We love him because he, he's a players manager. He respects everyone.   It's, it's, it, what's happening is now they're changing. Now they're changing. They're, they're a complete way of thinking. Instead of finally, instead of, um, of signing up, um, older, established, aging, uh, baseball stars in the twilight of their careers, okay, instead of signing them up and they, because they don't have that many good years left. And, uh, they're, they're going for young talent in AAA, uh, farm, farm, unproven. They're unproven, but they're, they're, they made it to AAA and they're tearing it up. And AAA's not the same as the big leagues. Oh yeah. God, we're out of doubt.  They're not pictures in AAA, but what I'm saying is in order, in order to, in order to be successful, in order for a 20 year old to be successful in the big leagues, you've got to really be tearing up AAA. Yeah. I mean, you've got to be really exceptional. And, um, and plus they're not, they don't cost the fortune. And now the problem that Brian Cashman, I know, I, I, um, I don't mean to get off the subject or be, um, or to digress, but Brian Cashman signed, uh, Jaren Carlos Stanton to a long contract with a no trade clause. And you know what? The only time he was any good is when he was with the, the, the Florida Marlins, Miami Marlins. He had that one year where he hit 59 home runs and that was it. He fizzled out. He's like, now they're stuck with him. You know, and the, and the other old, old timer at third base that absolutely sucks. Josh Donaldson, they're not playing him, but they still got to pay him the millions. So Cashman sounds like he's a failure. Yeah. He signs these older players up based on their past and he, and he signs them up to long contracts and, and you're, then you're the Yankees have to eat that money.  They're stuck with it.  And, and, uh, well, the owner house should fire. The White Sox fired the GM and his boss, Kenny Williams, who should have been fired a long time ago. So White Sox cleaned house. They're threatening to move. I hope the league won't let them though. They're threatening to move to Nashville.  Do not do that. The White Sox have been in Chicago for over a century. They cannot move. There's no way they can move. The century. They're, they're, they're one of the, they're one of the, um, uh, traditional, original time, um, original, American League, baseball teams, along with the, the Red Sox and the Yankees, the, um, the Cubs, the Detroit Tigers, the Cubs, uh, what's the other one? Well, the Pirates have been around a long time. Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Reds are the oldest team going. Wow. Um, and what's the other one? Well, I still call them the Cleveland Indians. Yeah. I'm calling them the Guardians.  The Commanders for the Washington Redskins and the, um, man, it's just dumb. It's dumb. I mean, if you're going to change a name, make it, give it a better name, not a worse one. Guardians is probably one of the worst names I've ever heard. Yeah.  The Comma, the Comma door, the condoms, they should call them the condoms. All right, let me, to reel it back in. Yeah.  He just warned me about my page not being in good health.   Mother fucker. Here's a guy, here's a guy that stole our, our personal data and sold it to company. And is not in jail. Right. Right. And on top of that, he, he showed up at the main office and he's making big changes at his main office and they're going to hate his stinking guts. Well, so he's getting rid of the interns and bringing people from off the streets that don't know nothing. It's just his attitude. Watch what I'm going to say. Yes, sir. Mark Zuckerberg's new return to office mandate is a clear problem, says Harvard expert. It'll cause a huge amount of distrust, actually hatred. All right.  I assume he's not going back to the office, but they should. Right. The latest twist in Metta's return to office saga doesn't reflect well on CEO Mark Zuckerberg, says a Harvard university expert. The tech giant's new mandate for full time employees reportedly includes three in office days per week. The use of employee badge swipes for attendance, tracking and a requirement for workers to display their physical locations at all times. At all times, right? Physical locations. So if you're on the porcelain throne, depositing a log, then he wants it out. Metta established a widely encompassing remote work policy. Okay. So the remote, it started with the pandemic and it actually worked because a lot of people work successfully from home that don't have any distractions. They don't have any kids and they do well. Okay. Employees can still apply for full time remote status. The memo noted, it goes blah, blah, blah. Empathy or a lack thereof has become a problem for CEOs across the country as workplaces shipped away from COVID era protocols, experts say. Employees and bosses spoke often about their lives outside the office while trying to navigate the pandemic's uncertain peak. All right. So the best part was at the beginning, he's cracking the whip and it's not going to help the problems facing Facebook. Facebook is in much turmoil with their technology and their law breaking. Besides the selling of our data, they allow criminals to advertise on there. And we mentioned these before on the program. People think they're getting a job and they're becoming indentured servants and have to do telemarketing scams and they get beaten if they don't do it. It's just, it's irreprehensible stuff and it's not too surprising that Zuckerberg's on board with it. Oh yeah. If it makes money and hurts people, well, that makes money is the only part he cares about. He doesn't care who he hurt. Apparently, that is very much true. Says we're having connection issues off and on and now you're a little frozen, sir. Your picture is, but your voice isn't. Oh, now you're fine. It goes back and forth. Yeah, it's been, this yellow thing's been popping up the whole time we've been on saying, oops, we're having a problem. Oops, we're having a problem. Oops. It was doing that before you came. And now my, when I turn my camera off, my avatar's gone. So whatever, you know, as long as we get the message to the masses, that's all that matters. No idea why this is happening. And you know what? I just, I'm tired of trying to figure it out. Um, let me know when you, if you want to read another article, if you're ready to go free, free ball and as they say, no, no, I'm almost ready. I'm, no, actually I am ready to go free. Oops, seems like you're having streaming issues again.   You got a little, your vocals are gone, sir. My vocal? Oh boy. Here we go. Oh boy. Here we go. Here we go. I don't know if we're on the air and only I'm the one talking. Um, we're having some technical difficulties, I guess. So, uh, we apologize. James, are you back? I don't know if I was there and you were gone because I was talking, I'm going upstairs. I didn't hear, you hear me now? No, I do. No, listen. Yes, sir. Listen, you never left and neither did your audio. Good. I was just trying to keep things going. Yeah, no, no, I, whatever you said and your, your audio and video, it never stopped. Good. I came from downstairs just in effort to get a better connection. I'm in the living room now, but, uh, have you seen the latest people? Uh, just what you thought would happen? Trump and his, uh, co-defendants are now all at odds. Well, there's no unified front there. It's an every man for himself. I'm trying to, yeah, that's exactly, that's exactly what I'm, I'm bringing up now, but it's not an article. It's not an article. I did post something on our page of it, but it's basically what you already knew. It's going to be every man for himself. This means each one of them will get the maximum sentence because they're not cooperating with each other. Yeah, Rico is a pretty bad law. Yeah. Yeah, somebody, did you see somebody posted how they're going to, they responded to your post and said, I'm going to vote for him. He's the best. Well, the 14th amendment is going to prevent them from voting for him. Yeah, he, oh, it didn't take long for the right wing evangelicals to come out and, and, and, and go ballistic over abortion. Yeah. I mean, yeah, there is Trump and Stein, the, the Joker from Batman.  And our main photo on our page, that's what he's going to look like. He's not going to have his hairstylist weaving his hairdo. Hairstylist. Yeah. Yeah. The, um, that, that, and I heard he's using his, trying to pull his young son in for political hate to, to protect himself, throw the, the kid in front of the gun and Melania's having none of it. And she wants to leave him over it.  Don't pull him down with you. You talking about Baron? Yeah. This is a young man, right? Is he like eight or something? Yeah. Baron Von Trump. Yeah. He is at Giuliani. He's gonna, he's looking at some serious time, jail time for imitating a, uh, electoral, electoral college individual. You can't do that. I mean, there's, there's Giuliani is the penguin. Donald is innocent. He's done nothing. Remember when he said, uh, hey, he, he makes a very good guess on my show. Hi. Hi, Rudy. When he said, uh, he said the truth, the truth is not necessarily the truth or a lie. Oh yeah.  Um, if you believe it's true, it's true. If you can't remember, it never happened. Yeah. Those, those good old adages. That's when Jerry, if you think you're right, you're right. If you hope you're right, you're right. Yeah.  Seinfeld and, and George says, remember, it's not a lie if you believe it. And it, it didn't happen if you can't remember. Yeah. Well, when Jesse Ventura was a, a heel wrestler, he used to say, um, um, it, it didn't happen. If the referee didn't see it, it never happened. Exactly. And then he says, when if you can lose if you must, but always. Oh my God. Yeah. That's a bit. Yeah. You know what?  Oh gosh. Let me see if, uh, no, I like it better. The only time I do, I, I, I, I take the, the big fascia, which means the big face. I only do that when we have like four or more people. Yes, sir. Because then it starts to get narrow. It starts to get thinner and thinner. Yeah. But this is good. This is good when there's two people or, or even three people actually. Yes. Once you get to four or more. Forget about it. Hey, what's the deal? Is it true that sliced alone is in a wheelchair? I have no idea. He is getting up there in age. I mean, yeah, but he's always going to the gym and, uh, I hope he's not in a wheelchair. God bless him. He was just in a Guardians of the Galaxy and he wasn't in a wheelchair. You know, the last volume three Guardians of the Galaxy and they brought back, um, James Gunn to direct it, you know, that Disney corporation found a tweet he did from a thousand years ago that offended and fired him. They brought him back. Luckily. I mean, first of all, don't tweet anything like that and you'll be okay.  Got to turn the other cheek or, you know, take someone at their word unless they're the Donald. Oh, yes. I'm just doing the attorney. Yes, exactly. So, yeah, Donald froze everybody under the bus. He doesn't, he doesn't practice the loyalty that he demanded from others. By the way, that Hunter Biden thing is like a thing of the past since the Donald's taken all the headlines and Bill, Bill Maher had a funny thing. If his sons have forgotten I did he say, I didn't know him very well. I just met him that one time. He said that about his own sons.  The one that has like teeth. And they got all that money and they're still, they're still not getting the teeth fixed, eh? Yeah, you know which one I mean? Is it Don Jr or Eric? I just try not to look at either of them. I think it's Eric. No, it's not Don Jr. Okay, then it must be Eric Trump. Back in the basement, hopefully we won't have technical difficulties in the man cave. Is that where you have your liquor cabinet? Yes, it's just a shelf that I turned into a liquor cabinet. I like your brick wall. It's fake, it's fake, but it's cool. Yeah, that's a, like you said, that's your Gothic man cave. Here's all my liquor, if you can see all this, I have the lights kind of dimmed. I got a Johnny Walker blue label, believe it or not, the cork broke and went inside of it. I was so PO'd. That wasn't a cheap bottle. Oh, yeah, blue label? Oh, I don't blame you for that. Yeah, the cork broke on it and it broke inside. I was like, what in the hell? That's a fine liquor. Why should that happen? I don't drink much scotch, but I have the best if I ever am going to do it. I've been online dating again. I met someone that was 56 and wants to just, her screen name describes her perfectly. It says toe in the water. I gave her my number. I said, my account's going to expire soon. She said, oh, we could start by texting. She doesn't text me once yet. So God only knows what's happening. Yeah, you don't want us. Why should you pay? Stop by texting. Yeah. And how old are you? 12? Gotcha. I'm 13. Let's text each other. How long does she, the dude that does this older woman expect to text? She hasn't text once. So I don't know. You know what I would do? I would, in the basement, when you have a female over and you want to take her into the dungeon, I would put out like a black light bulb in that lamp and give it that Gothic dungeon look. Given the mood, the mood swing. Yeah.  Alrighty. I think we could put Giuliani in the can now. I think he's going to be in jail very soon. I'll pay attention to that man behind the curtain. Yeah. Him and all, all the Eastmen, all those lawyers, they don't, they must have just thought, well, we don't mind as long as he pays us. I don't think he's paid at them. Has he? You know, I don't think he's paid any of them from what I've heard. I heard he's not really a millionaire. He just owes millions. That's all. Well, Trump, Trump has a reputation of stiffing people for money. Oh yeah. Exactly. Exactly. Refused. He refused to pay the caterer who did Ivanka's wedding reception because he don't like the taste of the food. Jesus. Is that all you have to say? Just say you don't like it. No. That's all somebody like him has to say. Exactly. Because I couldn't live with myself screwing people over left and right, but I'm not a sociopath. You know, sociopaths have no problem taking and taking and taking. Well, his father, his father was a slum lord. He never got anything fixed in the apartment building. Wasn't he a big time clan member too? I heard he was. He was a real underhanded CV character. Yeah, he was. Yeah. The apple really doesn't fall far from the tree. No, it doesn't. You know, that's horrible. He wants to drag Baron in front of him to use Baron to play on the emotions of what the jurors said. Oh, he's there was a woman in in Cicero here named Betty Maltese, something I can't remember her full name. She adopted somebody right before sentencing, thinking she was going to get a lighter sentence and they sentenced her anyways for corruption.  That's not right. That kid's gonna have emotional scars because of it. And it's not going to be good. So, um, um, so, so his wife, he has had enough what she fired for divorce. She's going to, if he continues, I'm pretty sure they're getting divorced either way because he's probably going to jail because when you enter a plea of innocent and you're guilty, they usually put you in the can. When you say you're guilty and you do a plea bargain, that's how you avoid heavy jail time.  We know that. Yeah.  Oh, it's quiet. It's quiet today. What are all these, all these dudes are watching football games or something today? No, there's Sunday, a preseason is not, it's not a football day there. It's on Saturday and watching preseason games is like going to a dance with your sister. It's not something you really want to do. Just saying. Yeah, official games have not officially, even with college, right? They haven't officially began. Yeah. God, I'm tired. Went to that concert and rocked out and I had a good time. You enjoyed it? Good. I'm happy for you. Thank you, sir. I'm happy for you. Malmsteen, a guitar player that likes to over-indulge, he headlined. And I got a ticket for a discount ticket and I end up in the balcony. I still rocked out. I just had such a good time. It's like therapy for me in a way of speaking, you know, when some people like to go hunting or they like to be out in, you know, the forest preserves or whatever music, it really frees my soul. Live music. Oh, I connect with the artist. It's very, it's very enthralling, entertaining, fun. Just lifts your spirit so high. As I see. Football season's coming up and I hate to say, I think it's going to be, what is it, Labor Day weekend? You okay, Jimmy? Your picture's kind of goofed up. No, I'm fine. Oh, now I can't hear you. Well, it's been a tough, tough streaming day for some reason. I don't know why. I don't know why. But yeah, football scenes is upon us and it's coming up soon and it's going to be interesting. Aaron Rodgers on the Jets is one of the funniest things I've seen. That's just what Brett Favre did. So he's following in Favre's footsteps. That means his next step should be the Minnesota Vikings like Favre did, but we'll see. James, should we restart this? Because your mic is, your dad, I can't hear you at all. So maybe we should restart this. What do you think? Can you hear me? How about now? You hear me? Yeah, I hear you. I hear you. You froze now. You froze. Oh, now my voice is echoing back. Now my voice is echoing. No, I, I, I, everything was fine. Everything, I, I, everything. Pretty good. Let me see what happens here. You did my mic. Hi, can you hear me? Yeah. Yeah, you, I never, I never, I never got frozen or my audio never left the show. It didn't broadcast.  I don't know what's going on. Yeah.  Okay. Yeah. We're just having a few hiccups here and there. That's all. But I didn't, I'm from, from, from my live stream end of it. I never left. Like I never froze. Yeah, from my live stream, you did freeze and I didn't hear you. So I'm not sure if that made it to the public or not. I hope not. No, no, I, everything I said made it to the public because good. Good. Everything because I, I never froze. I, I never got blurry. And so it's just between you and I, I guess. Well, I'll see that, but you mean hopefully I mean, it's not good. Good. Good. Yeah. My voice, my voice continued. Nothing, nothing happened from, from the streaming, you know, so we're, we're still waiting for the writer's strike to end. Um, Bill Maher hasn't been on the air for months because of the writer's strike. And it's been kind of upsetting to me. I like to hear what he says about issues like what's going on right now with Trump's arrest and all the 42 charges against him. I want to hear what he has to say at, you know, free speech. It's the same thing for, um, all the late night talk shows. Are they, are they? Yeah, all of them. Jimmy Kimmel and The Tonight Show and it's brutal. All the live television shows, those are live television shows.   I mean, it's a long time. It's been six months at least. It could be more and more. Oh man. I tell you, I'm not. Right now, right now, your voice is fine, but your fraud, your video frauds. But at least I hear you. I see you. Okay, that's good. Let it, let it ride.  Let it ride. Yeah, exactly. I, yeah, I'm not looking forward to work tomorrow, but you know, I need to paycheck, so I'm going to bite the bullet and, you know, grin and bear it, so to speak. My sister always says the weekends, the weekends and holiday, holiday weekend, they go way too fast. Way too fast. Always, because work's so long. We should work two days and have five off, in my opinion. Actually, they, they're, they're seriously thinking of shortening a full-time work week. And I think they should. It's a four. And then, but then they want, you know, work 10 hours a day. And I sure as hell don't want to do that.  Exactly. Mother fuckers. You're supposed to, you're supposed to work yourself to the deck. Yeah, four days, 10 hours each, then you get Friday off.  Yeah, whoever created the work. There's an old, I don't know if it was old house music or, or 90s. Excuse me.  I gotta, I gotta find it.  Come on, man.  Even if their dad shoot him again.  Well, whoever spent too much time away from the house. Oh, yeah, our child, whoever invented child labor, whoever went to the sweatshop. Yeah, they should all be shot. Before, before the unions. Yeah. Yeah, they work children to death too. Can you imagine being seven or eight years old and working like an adult? Oh, how horrible. They still do that in parts of China. I'm sorry, go ahead. Did you see that banner? You see that banner I posted up? It was like an eight year old boy working the coal mines back in the turn of the century. Yeah, yeah. He was smoking a pipe. Growing up way too goddamn fast. They were, they were taking a shot of capitalism unregulated. It was unregulated capitalism. Well, you know, my job, I handle, I handle customs entries and you now have to have the zip code of wherever the stuff's manufactured because there is child labor in China and the US will not allow you to import anything that came from a child labor factory. Oh, I didn't know they actually, they actually had that. So they care about their people. Oh, wait, wait a minute. China government and their people, those two don't go together very well. You know, China government doesn't represent. Oh, I'm assuming. Hi. Hey, good morning. Good morning, Masumi. Good morning to you and happy Monday. It is now 535 a.m. Monday in the, in the, in South, Southern Japan and the Tokyo region. So good morning to you. Thank you for stopping by Masumi. Good to see you. She is the proprietor of Masumi Salon. For hair and beauty or? No, for, for eyebrows, eyelashes and facials. Oh, nice. Very nice. Yes, she does. Eyebrows and facials. I told her one time, you should give certain customers a cement facial.  I forgot to get the chisel, the hammer and chisel. It's like a Three Stooges episode. Or a good cartoon from back in the day. Yeah, chicks don't, don't get the Stooges for some reason. No, women normally hate the Stooges. So I did get a couple of good chores done today. I cut the lawn. It's not a big lawn. And I changed the curtain, the shower curtain. So those are my major events here at the household. And I said to myself, wow, you've done a lot. You better take it easy now.  It was at the house. I have outside shower curtain and then the inside one, the inside is the one that I replaced. Okay. The reason why that my shower curtain looks brand new is because I use the, the clear plastic inside shower curtain. The one that has, now they have magnets on the corners. The magnets don't always work for some reason. Some of mine aren't strong enough on mine. They go click. My, my bathtub, they go boing. Well, they don't say boing, but you know, I hear like a click. They, yours don't, uh, no, yours are not clanging to your bathtub. Because they're great for keeping the water off the bathroom floor. Yeah. But mine ended up getting, you know, after a while, they get mildewed even though I spray them and stuff. And I bought an anti mildewed one like by Lysol. And I still had to replace it after a while. That's just the nature of it.  And it has like a little cartoon of a bubble or a brush underneath it. Yeah. Get the scrubbing bubble tile, bathroom tile and tid and tile. Something. Yeah. I've been, I've been using it, but eventually my, my sharp currents have to be replaced normally. You're lucky that you don't have to replace yours that often. Yeah. Now what's a good, what's a good mold and mildew killer? Is it a mold? Scrubbing bubbles is good. Yeah. Scrubbing bubbles has a, yeah, they'll, they'll kill that. There's a, there's a daily shower one that's good to a spray. You spray it on the shower when you're done using it. Just leaving it. I tell you, the scrubbing bubbles really does dissolve all the, all the slime, the residue off the tiles. I mean, you can see it. Yeah. It bubbles up. Hey, to change gears for a second, I, I went to a place called Mr. Beef and had a steak sandwich and I asked, what's now changing gears? And I got a New York steak, New York strip steak, steak sandwich and I asked for it medium rare and it came well done. So I called and said, hey, you know, yeah. And I, well, so guess what? I went back for my free steak sandwich. I believe they charged me the tax on it though, because I got an onion ring. I asked for the onion ring to be a little well done. That was a great idea. That was nice and crispy. And the steak sandwich, well done all over again. No sign of pink anywhere.  Yeah. Now, and I'm not even going to ask for another one. I'm just never going to order it again there. I'll just stick with the Italian cheesy beefs and stuff. No more steak sandwiches at Mr. Beef. They don't know how to cook them. I love Mr. Beef too. You know, it's, it's cheesy beefs one of the best, but you know, maybe the meat that they use for the steak sandwiches is already cooked. It's completely well done to begin with. The steaks just are not flavorful when they're well done. They're, they're bland. Listen, I went, I used to go to this buffet called the flaming grill buffet.  The place was packed though. So anyway, they had, they had prime rib in the buffet. And they had well done prime rib. No, no, the guy was smart.  You got to put it out rare because as, as the prime rib sits out there, it starts to cook.  Bloody prime rib is a note. You cannot have it any other way, but rare. You're going to keep, you're going to keep beef heated. You can't initially put it out medium rare because it's going to be well done in no time. You have to do a real mild, real low and not direct and the outside. Like, have you seen the movie Apocalypse Now? They had the one character by Frederick Forrester, I think the late, he just passed away this year. He was a chef and he talked about how they took perfectly good steaks and boiled them and how upsetting it was. Yeah, that's meat, overcooked meat is very upsetting. The animal died for us.  Well, look at Burger King. Every one of those patties is well done. Yeah, but BK is on my no eat menu.  So does Dairy Queen Brazer. They have hamburgers, that's cheap meat. So is our used garbage meat. I think it is, I'll eat chicken at those places. I have a feeling when Burger King used to once in a big while come out with their barbecue pulled pork sandwiches for $5 each. It wasn't the best pork available. I don't think that that was like what you would get in a barbecue restaurant. Well, I found out a lot of barbecue restaurants are, how do I say this, not, there's very few that I find that are really good. Just like people say Chinese, you know, you got to find a good one. Same thing with barbecue. Some places you think would be delicious, their barbecue is disappointing. You know how many pizzerias I got aggravated from. I went through, I would say at least a few to several before I finally found this one. Yeah. When I lived in the city, I had a place I decided to try it out and it tasted like there was a cup of sugar in each slice. It was a deep dish or something. I threw in the garbage. It was so bad. They had, you know, either they were cheap with the mozzarella, which is the main, the main, one of the main ingredients besides the crust is the cheese. Yeah, or they were cheap with the mozzarella and the sauce. What am I ordering?  You had like mushrooms on one side and anchovies on the other side. That's when they got the novice that comes in to work on your pizza for the day that never did it before. Some jackass. Yeah, somebody who shouldn't be there. Sometimes when I order multiple items on a pizza, like three meats or something like that, sometimes I wonder how much they really put of each one, you know? You don't know. You're too busy eating to figure it out. This place, you see, I scrutinize it. This place is generous with the toppings and they distribute it evenly. Because they're smart and experienced. And they're not stingy with the mozzarella and the sauce. Yeah, it's like, that's what I like. I want the cheese, man. I want the real cheese, lots of it. Yeah, you need a pizza made like a pizza. There's Gunner. How are you doing Gunner? What's up?  Greetings and salutations. No fault marriage, no fault marriage. Somebody has to be a fault. It's like no fault insurance.  If somebody totals your car, they have to pay the restitution for what they did. Exactly.  If a man is doing all the right things and goes above and beyond called duty and ends up with the wife from hell, then how could it be no fault? Why should it be no fault? You know, Gunner? It definitely should not be no fault. Breakups are someone's fault. It's not a no fault situation. You don't break up because it's not a fault. If somebody is in a car accident, it's nobody's fault, you know.  Yeah.   You know, it's not a fault. It's funny when you have these, yeah, you have breakups and you didn't do anything to the person, yet they treat you like you've done them real wrong and you haven't. They initiated the breakup. You, you honor their wishes and just let them go. You know, that old praise, let somebody go if they love you. They'll come back to you if it's meant to be and they don't come back. I mean, the key word is differences. It's not irreconcilable differences. Oh, so that means it's a no fault. Like Gunner said, if they're using the word, the lawyers using the word differences, that means nobody's to blame. Oh, by the way, I posted a picture of the concert and Eric, one of his friends is the roadie for the band, so that was kind of cool. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. Eric posted some pretty good guitar playing on Facebook and Instagram, you know, he's pretty talented. I saw Glenn Hughes and Ingve Malmsteen. Glenn Hughes is from Deep Purple Formally. He's in his early 70s.  And you're like, okay, take a break now, get some vocals going. I'm tired. I was rocking out in my seat and just getting into, you know, certain music just moves you and I was moving and moving and I'm pretty tired, but you know, I had a great time.  Yeah, it is theft, Gunner. Yeah, he stole it.    Waste of sperm. Well, I guess I knew he was a liar when he told me that he's not an egomaniac or a narcissist. Oh, he's bold. Sure. In the highest level. If he wasn't, why would he keep calling himself the creator on the creator? And Facebook doesn't listen to anything we say to them when we say, Hey, I want my original group back. Hey, I want my original page back. They don't do anything. Well, let's say, let's say, let's say hypothetically, McVon Raven started a new group. Not that I'm not that I'm interested in Facebook groups anymore. I mean, I have mine, but I don't want it anymore. Let's say you started a new group about a certain subject and and you started a decent amount of people joining and one of the people you, you knew that was your friend or pretended to be your friend was, you know, you make him an admin to help you. Yeah. You make me an admin. I'll help you. I'll help out the group. I'll help you out. And then, uh, and then you said, well, what about a moderator? Oh, no, make me an admin. Yeah. Okay. And that person took the group that you created, kicked you out. You are the creator and stabbed you in the back and Facebook allows that person to kick you out. And you're the one that started the group. And you tell them about it and they do nothing. And they do nothing. Gunner knows. Yeah, you make it. And the same thing happened to me with anything goes right there. This group's about anything or this group's not about anything. Yeah. This group is about nothing to as a, like a satire of the Seinfeld episode, but there was the other one, the political one called hard hitting truth, I think. And that I don't remember that one. I wasn't part of that one. I don't think Sasha Boil. Sasha Boil. Yeah. Sasha Boil. Yeah, he, um, he turned his back right on us. Like we didn't know us. Yeah. And then he left it on Facebook. I'm sorry. Yeah, probably not. You know what he was? I'll be honest with you. Him and this other friend. No, him and the other guy that was on this group is about nothing. They were real, like neo liberals that, that, that loved feminists and feminism and, and, and, and affirm, affirmative action and this and that, like any, like extreme, yeah, cow touting to groups of people and giving them special treatment. They were neo, I guess that's the best term to use. Neo, neo liberals, right? Neo. Well, the word neo involves extremists, I think. Neo Nazis. Yeah, extreme Nazis. Oh, there's plenty of those. They're all, a lot of them are in the White House in the, in the Republican Party. These are men that are bitches. They, these are not men. These are not men that can be, that can be part of the, of the gang in the locker room. The men's. Because they have man ginas? They have man ginas.  They're not, they're not guys, they're not dudes in the locker room with the, hanging out with the boys.  Oh, man.  I'm not wearing a mask again. Oh, I don't know. Where do we have the pandemic? There's talk of masks becoming a mandate again. No thanks. I graduated. There's talk of it. Maybe. Well, I had, I had four vaccines so far. I heard there's a fifth one. I don't know. I've had like three, I think, or three. I don't see any, but I mean, once in a while, I'll see an Asian person wearing a mask, but my favorite is when I see people driving wearing masks. That's my favorite thing to see by themselves in the car, driving with a mask on or riding a bike with a mask on or anything like that. I find that hilarious. Some people wear masks at the store. Hey, that's their, their, uh, right. Go ahead. Don't, don't tell me to. Yeah. Well, uh, uh, Donner, if you look at, I think all the countries of the United Nations should chip in and help Zelensky. I don't think that the United States should always be burdened with, uh, being a hero and bailing out everyone in the world.  And, you know, all that money and we already have a bloated military budget and, and we have several hundred, more than several, more than several hundred, um, military bases that are not needed or welcome.  You know, there won't be any poverty in the United States if you trimmed the military budget. There wouldn't be any, there wouldn't be any poverty, poverty whatsoever. So it would be eradicated. Definitely. You like Zelensky? Well, no, he's like, um, he's a Jew, actually. He's, uh, he's like, he reminds me of, I think he's buddies with, uh, Netanyahu, isn't he? Oh, he seems to be a welfare queen who demands more and more money from the USA. Yeah. And, and he, and he, and he nagged Joe Biden about more money, more money, more money. Oh, I need more money. Oh, you know, like Fiddler on the move. He's, he's crying. I did one time I made a really, really bad joke and instead of Fiddler on the roof, I called Hitler on the roof. That's not very nice. It was a bad joke. Um, yeah, I don't know. I see a lot of crows on my roof, but I like them because they were big, big heavy duty black birds. You know, they were like, keep the bugs out. They eat all the bugs and things like that. How about, uh, how about the Wagner, the Wagner mercenary that went down in a plane crash that was going to have a revolution against Putin? Huh? Hmm, plane crash. What a shock. And his buddies were with him. What do you, you heard about that? Oh, kill the whole bunch. Yeah. Yeah, that's Putin's at his work. Yeah, finest work. Killing anyone against him. He, he will not allow any free speech or anything against him.  I'm pissed off that the United States has been kowtowing to, to the, um, the royal family of Saudi Arabia for so many years. Oh God, they, they're one of, there are one of our worst enemies pretending to be allies.  Yeah, he really bad dismembered him. They chopped them up and decided he was a, he was a spy. So they're going to have to dismember him and then give him back. Here you go. Um, there's what's left of him. You know, the, the 9 11 perpetrators were salaries. Oh yeah, exactly. And that's our ally that most heinous crimes against the US ever. And they used Afghanistan as a big distraction. Yeah. Yeah. And also the so-called weapons of mass destruction and that was one of the biggest that, that should have involved impeachment and jail time. Those two war criminals, they, they profited so much off that war. Bush and Cheney. Oh my God, my blood boils when I think of those criminals. That's the thing about the Republican party used to be the party of law and order. That's like a long time ago. These aren't your father's Republicans. They're all criminals, a lot of them taking money from a war they created. Oh, James, don't get me started.      That's like, um, you know, we're going to get rid of the crack in the house and let the piranhas take over what your piranhas will devour you. So ISIS killed so many stability in the region. Yes. Yes. Yes. Now I want to tell Gunner something about, um, that I know, you see Mario Petrus refuses and this is the truth. He refuses to have, um, a bank account and, and, uh, you told me that that's insane. He doesn't want anybody to, he doesn't want the government to have access to a social security number and he, he, he created it. They have it. So he gets paid in cash. He gets paid in cash from everyone and he hides the cash. And doesn't do any, uh, taxes or what does he do for tax? He doesn't want to pay taxes. He's very anti, he's, he's very, he's very right-wing and he, he's very anti-government and he refuses to pay taxes and, and all his clients pay him in cash. And, um, that's the truth.  You know, that's the truth. These, uh, so, uh, you might be right, Gunner. What else does it say here? Gunner says, uh, for personal discussions, do you think we should be giving money to the Azov division that is filled with Nazis in Ukraine?  It's a slippery slope. You know, it's, the problem is that that's why we're giving him money because Russia is basically one of our enemies. That's why we're giving him the money. The United States warned General President Xi of China, don't be, don't be getting in cohoops with Vladimir Putin. We're warning you. They did, though.  Maybe because President, that's true. That's why Donald Trump loved all of them and Kim Jong-un. They admired them, yes.  Yeah. Without China shipping the merchandise by, by way of container ship back to the United States, the United States, the companies won't have any product. Exactly. And I think Europe also, the greedy motherfuckers over at Europe, did the same thing. They, they, they don't want, they don't want to pay a higher salary. So they sent all the manufacturing to China. Some tried Bangladesh, you know, but India. Yeah. The problem with India is the quality control is no good. A lot of products are falling from India. They have this quality control that they need to. Yeah, the quality control. That's why they're not a competitor for the business in China. They were, they were the first to land a space probe on the South. Yeah, it's pretty something. You know, certain things. They were, they were the first. situations and like Putin taking advantage of trying to go into the Ukraine and claim part of it for himself. He's definitely going to be a notorious in the, in the annals of history with all the, the killings he's done and things like that. So yeah, it's been, it's been really tough to see some of these things that do happen in Ukraine where he bombs hospitals with children in it and things like that. So it's been, it's been a hard war to deal with civilians because he's a scumbag.  Targets civilians. See, they try to poison his political opponent that, that was in, in Europe. He sent, he sent like a KGB, a secret, a secret service to poison him. And they, he poisons all his enemies. They all, they all try to get away and they all end up dying. You know, he's a former KGB. Yeah.  Yeah. Well, Ukraine's winning more, Ukraine's winning most of the battles, it seems. Yeah. I don't know why Russia is not just, it's almost like they won't cut their losses. They got to just keep fighting. This is a, a long unnecessary war as far as I'm concerned. I mean, what's it going to prove that Putin thought he'd go into Ukraine and take it with no, no problem. He's found out that that's not how it's going to be. That's basically what's happened. We're all dragged out. Afghanistan was a waste. That's a forgotten zone. It was, Afghanistan is something, unfortunately, we probably should never got involved in this and no win situation. It was like a Vietnam, right? It was like, yeah, exactly. Like a big deal. We're fighting the Taliban. So the, the terrorists that attacked the United States were not Afghanistan. Well, in Pakistan was hiding Osama bin Laden for a while. How about Guantanamo Bay was just, if you just turned someone in and say they're a terrorist, they take them and give the person like $2,000 for turning them in. So many non offenders were put into there without a trial, without anything, without any rights. It was pretty insane. You know, I have a Catholic church about 10 seconds walk as soon as I leave the apartment building and I turn left. It's a 10 second walk. It's very large. It was built in 1906. And yeah, it's a historic landmark and it's, it's very impressive, but I don't go. I don't go. I don't get up. I don't do mornings on the weekend. So I don't, I don't. Yeah. If, if, if I ever go, I'll go to a 5 30 p.m. on a Saturday. That's the way to do it. Exactly. Or it's like a 4 p.m. one or 3 p.m. more than anything to, you know, who wants to get up Sunday morning to do anything? Yeah. No, but I have a problem with the fact that they were passing the collection basket like more than once, like once. Oh man. Once is not enough. Yeah. Like George Carlin says, the all powerful, the mighty God, but he needs lots of money. Yeah. That's such a scam. They don't have to pay property taxes or anything, but they want to have political opinions. I have a problem with, with so-called church people, you know, the sanctimony is self-righteous hypocritical phonies that look down their nose. They look down their noses at other people. Yeah. Because they're not like them. They're not true believers like me. Yeah. A lot of those, a lot of those people, you find out are hypocrites and they're actually some of the biggest sinners that ever lived. Like, look at Jerry Farwell and Tammy and Jim Baker. Yeah. Why do, why do they have fundraisers to feed the children if they are so filthy rich, Gunnar? Why don't they feed the children? Okay. Why do we have to, and, and, and, and, you know, it's the people in the church, they only, they only smile and wavy you when, when it's time to say peace be with you. But other than that, they don't talk to you. They don't talk to you. Yeah. I think so. There, anybody that overdoes anything and brags about, about anything is a phony. Look at Mario Petrus. He's a big, he's very braggadocious. You know, always beware. Very braggatory. Yeah. And then the church needs all that money for those lawsuits from the pedophile priests, for the payoffs. That's what we're giving our money to. The Bible says to pray, to communicate with God in private. Do not make a public spectacle of it.  And yeah, I think when people overdo anything, they're, they're, they're hiding something. Yeah, they're overcompensating. It is financial fraud. It is financial fraud. It's fraud period. It's fraud. And like I was arguing, I posted something about abortion and, and all the right wing evangelicals were attacking me. And I says, they're mad because I says a fertilized human egg is no more a baby than an acorn is an oak tree. It's, it's a potential life. Oh, it's only a potential. Exactly. Exactly. And they totally disregarded the word fertilized egg and made, made me out like I was murdering children. Well, Facebook, I had a post I borrowed from someone and they had gotten that warning. I used the same post on my page and they gave me a warning. It was something about kids in the 30s had to entertain each other by almost killing each other because there was no internet and Facebook said, this is actually wrong. So I posted on miwi and nothing's happened there. They're not fact checking it. You know, Facebook, you can't fax check opinions or jokes. That's, yeah, you can't anything, anything that disagrees with what Zuckerberg wants is his own opinions. He think are the, he only thinks what he thinks is the truth. And it's not. Yeah, it's misinformation. If you don't agree with, with the eagle beak, with the Hawk knows Zuckerberg. Petrus does talk like he can be UFC heavyweight champion. Yes, he does.  You know, he got, he got banned.  He gets paid very well. Cash only. So he was in Whole Foods in Edgewater and there was this girl, a very attractive girl who had really skimpy, tight outfit on and, and he was flirting with her and, you know, she didn't pay him any mind and it turned out that she was with her boyfriend. He was in the men's room.  She's with me and something like of that nature. Mario Petrus started calling him names and says, yeah, you better, you better keep quiet or I'll smack you. I'll smack you across the face. So you deserve, you deserve a hard smack from me.  I bought a bing, but so he went to the store manager and store manager reported the incident because he was calling them names in public and she reported, they reported the incidents to the main office and he's been from that store, that particular location. Ah, excuse me, the allergies are. Hey James, I can't get my photo back. I do have to run out for to pick up something to eat in a few minutes just to let you know, sir. Oh, it's that time. How about that? Yeah, my photo is not coming back when I hit the camera. So apparently I broke the lens or something. I don't know, but I hear you loud and clear. Good. Good. Oh, I hear you. You don't hear me. I'm usually in the men's taking a tinkle if you don't hear me. That's why you're doing like a podcast now where you're not, you're not being viewed, you know, it's almost like an internet radio. I wonder why they did that to me.  So who knows for a second, brother, but hold on, don't go nowhere. Okay. Okay. Try, try going back to your video now. Let me see if that works. No, sir. No, you see, no, but your voice is like super clear. That's what you get. Well, people say Petrus Cash to people pay Petrus Cash to make food. Damn sounds like a good racket. Well, he's a racket here. He's a scumbag. They pay for, he don't have a car, so they, they, they send an Uber to pick him up. He's got them all buffaloed, eh? He's a big fatso now, I heard. Yeah, yeah, he is. And he gets upset when people tell him that he's not setting the right example to his clients.  Sometimes it's a mansion with a huge kitchen. You know, the kind of kitchens that have like the island stove in the middle with the, with the prep, the cutting board and the, and the, and the grill, the gas grill, everything is in, you know, and he, and he's doing all, he's doing his thing, puts it in containers for the freezer.  You have to, because the only way to increase your metabolism is to have more muscle mass. Okay. A pound of muscle burns, um, just to, just to exist. 50, it needs 50 calories, even if you don't. Oh, hey, I'm back. Yeah, you're back. Even if you don't do anything. A pound of muscle burns. I'm gonna, I'm gonna sign off. I'm taking off for a little bit to get some dinner. So yeah, he's got a good racket going. Make a long story short. And, uh, yeah, I'm gonna order food delivered and, uh, Petrus never had a car, but Petrus has no credit. Hey, you know, he never built, he never established credit. Right. Thank you. I'll talk to him offline. Yeah, he has no credit. He has no credit, has no car. I guess he pays wherever he's living, the rent he pays, he pays in cash. I guess I don't know how he does. I don't know what's going to happen when he, when he, he's about to retire. And I would really, I would worry about stashing the cash, like in the wall of your house or under the mattress or wherever. I mean, it's not in the bank. It's, I guess he don't trust banks. And what is he going to do? What is he going to, how does he, when he's ready to retire, he won't have, like, he won't have Medicare or Social Security because he never paid into Social Security. No, none of that stuff. And, uh, health insurance. I mean, how do you pay, how do you pay cash for, like, health insurance? I don't know how he does it. He, he's going to be in a real pickle when he gets older. I'm telling you, he's going to be, he's kind of, he's going to have big problems. He's going to have big problems. Thank you, Gunner. Yeah.  He thought he was hilarious. Uh, Red Rooster liked them. Red Rooster got very entertained by Mario Petrus. He loved it. And I said, the time me and him went to a buffet and we had it on video.  It's still on YouTube. He was yelling at the guy. First, we went to like a Brazilian barbecue or you can eat for lunch. And, um, this was the second time we went to a buffet. The first time was the flaming grill in Carl Satin of Jersey. The second time we went to the Brazilian barbecue in Hackensack. And the guy says, Oh, the, the oil you can eat doesn't involve Churrasco. Not, it doesn't involve barbecue meat, which was a false advertisement. So Mario was yelling at me. He was screaming at the top of his lungs, you know, uh, like, like he was one of the actors in like Goodfellas or casino, you know, or if he was one of the Sopranos characters, he was yelling. Then we ended up, we left. I was embarrassed. We ended up going to, there's a chain of buffets called Port of Call, Las Vegas style buffet. Port of Call, very good quality, very good quality. I can't complain because he treated me. He treated me so, but it was great.  I, I, um, I watch, um, coach Greg Adams sometimes on YouTube. And there's this other dude. I don't know his name. Well, George Bruno isn't bad. George Bruno from Philadelphia's got some good videos. And there's this other guy with a beard that's always going live stream while he's driving. But then again, so does George Bruno, but not always. So, uh, they're pretty good. There's a few good ones on the internet that do, uh, uh, alpha male Red Pill talk. Anyway, it's really quiet today this Sunday. So anyway, uh, I'm going to close up any, any, any minute now, bang up the show.  I tried Twitch last week. It didn't record my video. So I gave up on it, did not record my video. Yeah. Um, when I confronted Mario online, he said to me, um, that it's really his group. Well, how could it be really his group? If I proved that, uh, I started the group in 2012, I have evidence. So I, I started a new group called original holistic health talk. Uh huh. You see, and I have the evidence right on top of that. I'm the one that started, I created and, and, and started the group 2012.  He created it. Yeah, he creates everything. Yeah. He's the creator of it. Unbelievable. Anyway, thank you for stopping by Gunner as always. Thank you, McBun Raven. I guess, uh, thank you, Masumi from Japan. Thank you for stopping by. Uh, that's about it. Uh, but anyway, until next time. Um, have, have a pleasant, uh, remainder of this Sunday and have a safe, pleasant, upcoming week. Okay. And it's going to be September and it is the end of August and have a good Labor Day. I think next week, I believe it's Labor Day weekend. Yeah. Labor Day weekend is coming. So take care, everyone. Bye bye.


Hello everybody, welcome back to another Photoshop tutorial and this one I'm going to show you how to add snow to any image. You could take an image like this one here, just a nice winter's day and then a couple little clicks and bang, it's a nice snowy day. Now a couple things. First off, I am in Adobe Photoshop beta. In particular, I am in 25.2. So if you are using a version prior to 25.2, this won't work.  Okay, with that out of the way, it's there's literally a one click option and then there's a one click plus a few little twerks on the dial kind of option. So let me show you both that should take about just a minute or two and we'll be ready to go. All right, let's go. All right. So the first step is you need to get an image obviously. So I went to free or I went to pexels.com and they've got all kinds of free images here. And then I just grabbed a nice wintery day one. Of course, you can grab this one or any image you want to follow along. Of course, now drag and drop that into your layers panel and we're on our way. The second step I highly recommend it's not required, but I recommend it is make a duplicate copy of the layer or of the image. The reason why is at the end, you may want to dial down the opacity and blend it with the original shot to make it a little bit more believable depending on the effects you go for. So there you go. So we've made a duplicate copy. Now let's go. All right. Next step here up at the top, come down to filter and under filter, you're going to see parametric filters. That's right. How cool is that for a name? Yep, I'm going to click on parametric filters or parametric filters. I'm not sure. And when you do that, you just drag and just drop it down here under parametric filter part of me. You'll see a few options. The one we're going for is snow filter. It's currently right here. There are 21 of them at the moment. And this is the, I guess, the 17th one of them. So let's just click on it and bang out of the box. It applies snow, but boy, oh boy, it does it like a Jackson Pollock painting. So it does not look believable in my opinion. So we need to go ahead and start making some changes. So I'll just just make this a little smaller here. And maybe I'll pull this in a bit so we can see more of the screen. Okay, rolling on. So up here under parametric filters, or pardon me, parametric properties, snow filter, you'll see here, you can drop it down from draft, medium, high and ultra. These don't do all that much at the moment. It just sort of, I guess it just sort of appears to impact the brightness. Now you can also click on randomize. And this will sort of randomize the snow, but it also randomizes the type of snow and the direction. So again, something you can experiment with. Now for me, I like to reduce the snow density a little bit because I find that it's just a little bit too much out of the box. So instead, you'll just see here, I'm just playing with the dials and here the ones that I like to use, I generally pull the bloom down quite a bit. So I'm going to make it something like that. And again, you guys can dial this into your effect. But if you look carefully, you'll see that it is impacting things like the clouds and the snow or the iceberg or the ice glacier that the person is on. So again, dial these as you see fit, speed, angle. Angle doesn't do all that much, but whatever. And then here's the other one that you want to really look at is snowflake scales. So I tend to pull this down a bit and then maybe I'll up the transparency a bit and get something like this. Now I realize that this is not quite right. Transform scale is something I don't touch because it just makes things really weird. Watch this. Yeah, see what's happening here. It just gets really weird real quick. So I'm just going to go to zero. But again, something you should know about. So there you go. You can make some adjustments like this. Now again, this does not look correct. So I might just, you know, adjust that a little bit more of a snowy day, something like that. I don't know what you guys think it's something like that maybe. Okay, let's take the bloom down a bit because I think it's blowing out the highlights a bit too much. Okay, good. Whatever. Good enough. We've got something. Now the next step is we're going to go ahead and start making a quick adjustment or two. All right.  When I do that, you'll see it creates a white mask.  So watch this. See what I'm doing here? I'm basically getting rid of the snow on this iceberg or this glacier because it doesn't make sense and it doesn't look quite right. The snow is falling down in the sky. That makes sense, but the snow doesn't really fall on the glacier like this. So I'm going to do that. And when I'm done, I'll come back and then I'll show you the next step. All right. So I've basically brushed in with black using a soft round brush, just a regular brush. I've brushed it in and I've got rid of the snowfall look on top of the glacier.  And now I'm going to make sure that I'm selected on the layer itself right here, not the mask, but the layer. I'm going to just go ahead and quickly reselect that. As you can see here, it's done a pretty good job, although it does have this person's, I guess, boots and stuff like that that I technically don't want. So again, just make a nice quick selection. It doesn't have to be perfect. And then presto. You'll see here that I've gone ahead and selected the glacier and not the rest of the image. With that done, now I'm going to go and show you the next step, which is creating an adjustment layer. All right. So the next step is we're just going to create a quick levels adjustment. The reason why is this does not match the sky. The sky is quite bright and sort of blown out here. And again, it's not perfect. We'll get there in a second. But this doesn't quite look right. It's not quite bright enough. So I'm going to go ahead and make sure that you've got the selection. So I'll just do that selection. Again, I let it go by accident. My bad. Sorry. Something like that. Now I'm going to go ahead and now that I've got my selection, I'm going to go up here. I'm going to go to adjustment layers, levels, and just watch this. I'm just going to pull the far right little, I guess you'd call that icon or stopper to the left here. And I can quickly, very quickly change the brightness of the glacier. So I want it to match. And for me, something around there looks pretty good. All right. Let's go ahead and click on the final step. All right. So we're kind of getting there. But the final step really is you just want to go ahead here on the top layer, not the levels layer, but your layer here. Just drag the opacity down a bit and just sort of get it so that it sort of blends all together. The snow is quite salient in the original shot. But if you pull the opacity down to something like, I don't know, let's say to something like 66%. That looks pretty believable. Also, you can adjust or experiment with the different layers here. So multiply that looks kind of cool if you want a dark day. Not all of them work. Lighten not so much screen not so much. But again, you can adjust their lighter color doesn't work too bad. So you can always just go ahead and overlay actually works too. So you can go ahead and flip through the adjustment layers, but literally just drop the opacity down a little bit. You can apply a blur if you want to, if you find that the snow doesn't quite look right. But there you go. That is all there is to it to creating a nice snow layer out of nothing using parametric filters. Thanks for watching.


Hey everybody, this is Brett and I'm at the 2022 Chicago Auto Show and just kinda checking out all the really neat looking vehicles that are here at the auto show today. I'm checking out a Subaru Crosstrek. This is a sport model and this color is called Plasma Yellow. It's a really interesting color. I thought it was green at first but then after looking it up I figured out that it has, it is Plasma Yellow. This one has the 2.5 liter dual overhead cam engine, puts out 182 horsepower and 176 foot pounds of torque. It's going to give you 34 miles per gallon on the highway, 27 in the city for an average of 29 miles per gallon. This is the sport model. You can see it comes with the gray painted alloy rims and it has Yokohama Geolander tires. These are 225 60R 17s. This is a 2022, get a look at that Plasma Yellow paint, see if I can get my flashlight on it. Really sparkles, cool looking color. Does come with the normal halogen headlights, factory fog lights on there. Does have the blinkers in the mirrors and the roof rack on here. Let's take a look at the interior, it's pretty cool. So these seats, not really sure if they're leather, they kind of, part of it's leather. I think this is leather, this is kind of a vinyl but it's a dual, or it's two tone, almost three tone. You get the cross trek stitched into the backrest. Not sure if that comes with the Plasma Yellow package or not. The window sticker was not too informational. Anyways, you have stability control, start, stop capabilities, this one has the blind spot monitoring. That is an option on this car. That comes with the 8 inch touchscreen radio. I notice you get the Plasma Yellow trim on the steering wheel as well as the stitching. It's a leather wrapped steering wheel, Bluetooth and audio controls on the left. Looks like this one also has adaptive cruise control and maybe a lane departure warning on there as well. So this is a four wheel drive, automatic transmission, does have the stitching there as well. These seats are heated and you can put it into X mode. Note that you get the stitching on the dash there. Up here you have home link buttons, SOS and alert buttons on there, the power sunroof. We'll take a quick look at the back seats. When I was in the front seat I was pretty comfortable and if I get in the back I've got plenty of room here, I'm six foot and if this seat goes up like it just went it's even a little bit more room back here. It does have the latch child safety system, you get this kind of simulated carbon fiber trim on the doors. These seats do fold down, notice you get the liner on the back of there, keep back your seats looking good. It's a sweet, cool roof rack. Back of the vehicle, we'll close this just for a better visual, pretty cool, LED tail lamps. This one does come with a spare tire probably because it's an all wheel drive and even the sport logo is kind of that plasma yellow. Anyways, really good looking vehicle. That's locked. We're just getting a ton of people here around this. That's kind of how it goes at the auto shows, there'll be nobody around it and all of a sudden there'll be 50 people around it. But really good looking color, plasma yellow once again, Subaru's Cross Track 2022. Thanks for checking out the video. If you remember to like, subscribe and share on our YouTube channel. In fact, in a second you'll see a link to subscribe to our YouTube channel on the upper left. A link to more Chicago Auto Show videos like this one in the upper right and a link to one of our latest videos in the lower right. Click those, check us out. Thanks again.


of NN, The Tiger, Financial News Network. Update. Hi, everyone. Basel Chapman here. This is the 10 a.m. Tiger Financial News Network market update. We're looking at the Dow down 22. Futures were up quite a bit this morning and they pulled back and they ran up. Then they pulled back. So we want to see what I want to see by the end of the day by about between 12 and 2 o'clock this afternoon for the Dow to be up about plus 50 or so. And that'll say, okay, we can at least have a decent close. That's going to be important. We have 34,556. The S&P is much weaker than the Dow right now. The S&P is down on 22. This is also going to be very important because we have made that requisite peak D in the daily chart at 46.37. Now we're trading at 44.78. Really important that we close nicely above at least the 14 period, but 45.12 is way up there for the 9 period moving average. Very important session in the S&P QQQ. Did show some strength yesterday. Then sorry to fail. It's down 5 at 349.30. I want to see the QQQ's actually embrace some kind of upside action, even if it's dragged up by the Dow, which I think is one of the stronger industries right now, we remain along the Dow. The IWM is looking at down to 197. It's just been very weak. Gold on a Friday, gold usually pulls back. Not today. Today it's up 9 at 1946. Just stuck in this range. I mean, I'm going to say this probably for the next couple of weeks, unless it really spirals into the 1982-1978 level. It's a 1945 right now. Looking at crude oil. Crude oil is a little bit weaker. It's up 60 cents. It was up a little bit more earlier. 96.64. Stuck in this range, making the lowercase H pattern. I'll talk about that in my show. I'll also be talking about these patterns in my webinar coming up on the 13th of April next week for subscribers to my opening call. We're looking at this as the state of affairs. Bonds. The bonds have gone down 20, 30 seconds, 143 and 21, 30 seconds. A new multi-year low. Is that a multi-year? Well, at least a couple of year low. This is really very important. The TBT is running sharply. The Dow is now down up eight, and I'll talk about it in my show, the Tiger Traditions Hour. Coming up in a few minutes. I hope you can stay. Otherwise, have a great weekend.