What's going on, Nipp in the family? Welcome back to another video. It's your girl Janisse. If you guys are new to the channel, make sure you hit that subscribe button and join the family. As you can tell by the title and the thumbnail of today's video, I am going to be asking Isaiah why he has not proposed to me yet. Now, I know that you guys have this question too. And honestly, Isaiah already has it in his mind when he's gonna propose to me, how he's doing it and all of that. But just to bust his chops, I really want to know what he's going to do when I ask him this question. Guys, Isaiah right now is outside talking to his grandparents. They came to drop something off for him. So I decided to come over here and do this intro really quickly. Now, we're supposed to be vlogging today. So we're going to be taking care of my little cousins later on today. And we're gonna start our day with some Starbucks. So he has no idea that I'm gonna pop this question on him and I have this all planned. So if you guys are ready for today's video, don't forget to smash that like button and comment team Janisse in the comment section below. And let's get it started. You're supposed to do the intro. What's going on, if in a fan? Welcome back to another video. If you guys are new to the channel, make sure you guys hit that subscribe button turn on your post notification bell. Leave a positive comment down below for a chance to get a what? For just to win a shout out in the next video. That is right. So, what are we doing today? So today we are vlogging it out. We're about to go to Starbucks. Yes, guys, I put on my story on Instagram. If you guys don't follow us on Instagram, make sure you guys follow us right here. So I put on my story to send me fire Starbucks drinks and I got a couple and I'm going to try this one specific one. When we get to Starbucks, I'm going to shout out to the person but it sounds really good. Janisse might even want it too. No, actually, I think I'm going to get something else that I saw. I'm actually going to try to get coffee. Coffee does not sell well with me but we're going to see because I'm a little tired and we got a long day ahead of us. You're going to be on the toilet. You're going to have Hershey squirts. It's going to be bad. I'm not wiping. I'm not wiping. But yeah, also today we're going to be taking care of my little cousins.  Hi, do you guys have these sugar cookie almond milk cream frappuccino? Yep. All right, can I have one of those at all? Okay. And can I have a tall iced white mocha with almond milk? No whip. Almond milk and no whip? Yeah, no whip. Can I have vanilla foam and cookie crumbles on top? Okay. That'll be all. Okay. Toast 16. Thank you. You were reading it so fast. He was probably like, what the hell? Because today guys, if you guys know and if you guys watch our videos, you guys know I struggled saying like Starbucks's drinks names, they're mad complex. So today I felt confident and I did it right and then he stopped me. So now I'm disappointed. Cause you were going so fast. Can I have a vanilla cream foam with this and this and this? Cause I can say it now like because I have it in front of me. So like, I don't know, man. I just felt confident, all right? And he ruined it. He ruined it. I hope he got the vanilla foam though. So let's hope he got that. Man, he better get the vanilla foam, I said it. All right. So we'll see if he got it. And shout out to Irene and Raid or Irene and Raid. They're the one who gave me the idea for my drink idea. So again, it's a iced white mocha with almond milk, no whip cream, add vanilla foam with cookie crumbles on top. If this is fire, you are the go. So I got the drink. This is what it looks like. Looks really good. The cookie crumbles on top. How do you think it's going to taste? I think it's going to taste good. I saw the caramel coming down from it or whatever was in there. It looks nice. It looks cool. It's like blendy. I don't even know how you would call that, but it looks really good. Here, take the camera so they can see my reaction.  Oh, please. Don't move on. What? Here we go. Oh, that's good. Is it?  That's good. I'm definitely getting this again. What does it taste like though? I don't know. It has like a vanilla taste to it. But then you can also taste a hint of chocolate because of that on top. And then it's just like nice and creamy. I don't know. It's really good. That sounds good. Do you think I would like it? You might. It does taste like coffee though. But I don't, here, taste it. I like a slight coffee taste, so let's see. That's what I feel like it has. I think it's really good. I give that a 10 out of 10. I'm definitely getting that again. I don't like that. Oh, you never do. That's too much coffee for me. All right, so I got the sugar cookie almond milk frappuccino. Look at this. Man, let's see what this looks like. Let's see what this looks like. Okay, looking very Christmassy and colorful. It's so cute. I like the blend, okay. So this is actually cream-based, but it does have a little bit of like a coffee taste to it, but barely anything, so. Man, I feel like you're just talking down on my drink. How's that one taste? 10 out of 10.  How is that a 10 out of 10? But mine isn't. Because this tastes just like a sugar cookie. Man, I'll be the judge of that. Let me see that. Let me see that here. Man, let's see what this is all about. Let's see, let's see. How's that? I'm talking about this fire. That's fire, that's fire, that's good. That does taste like a sugar cookie. Right? It tastes like really sweet, so good. You want to trade? No. Come on. No, I don't like yours. It tastes like coffee. Guys, drop a like right now if you think she should trade with me. No. They already saw, they already liked the video. Well, that's true. They liked it. Still like it anyway, but. We are currently at McDonald's because I was craving McDonald's breakfast. This is. For once. Yeah, this is crazy. Honestly, I had never had McDonald's breakfast until recently and now I think I'm a little addicted. I'm so happy that we're at McDonald's and for the first time it's not because of me. I'm taking so much pride in that. This is all because of you. Honestly, I used to talk so much crap about McDonald's because I had such bad stomach issues and it would always trigger. But honestly, like McDonald's still give me a little bit of stomach ache, but I can handle it. So McDonald's and me, we're friends now. What are you getting though? I think I might get a Sausage McMuffin. A Sausage McMuffin? Not a McGriddle. You're not going to get a McGriddle. No, because McGriddle's really sweet and I have that so I don't want it to be too sweet. This is true. Okay. Then I'm going to get a hash brown or I might get a burger and fries. Who knows? How do you go from that to that? I don't know. I didn't have a stick with the breakfast because we're doing breakfast right now. So yeah, are you going to get something? I don't know. I really don't. I have a coffee. I don't know if that, ugh. Get some hotcakes and bacon. I don't know if this is too much pressure. This is too much. Uh-uh, with pancakes and uh-uh. Yeah, that's breakfast. Pancakes and coffee. No, no, no, no. That's nasty. That's nasty.  I don't know. I'm under pressure right now. I don't like it. I guess we'll see what happens at the speaker. Guys, real quick before we get to McDonald's, I want to be as comfortable and cozy as this bird is right here in this bush. Look at him chilling. Just watching everything, having a good old time. It's so cute. And he probably gets mad leftover like fries and stuff that people drop on the floor over here. Yo, he's living the best life. I would want to be him when I grow up. He's the smartest bird in the world. Look at him. He's chilling. Copyright, copyright, copyright. Anyway, all right. So we got the McDonald's. As you can see, Janice is dogging her hash brown right now. I decided to go with the regular chicken nuggets with the fries because I was under pressure and I kind of felt threatened. So we're going to eat our food and then we're going to take it inside. And I kind of want to show you guys something. Bloop never speaks to you guys. So he wanted to come and say hi. He can't talk. Can you believe he said that? You're going to get the thing that I have to show them or what? I want to show them already. He talks to mom all the time. I have to show you guys something, right? I tried this the other night and it went wrong but I think it looked good. He's so excited to show you guys. Oh, take it off the sweater. Ooh, okay. You serious? Make sure you get it because I'm only doing it once. Okay.  Don't try this at home. It's extremely dangerous and serious. I always remember to stretch. Period. All right, ready? Yup. I'm only doing it once. Don't blink. Hurry up. Just do it. Do it right there. That's cool. That's where my face is right. I thought I was going to say that. I could do it too. I think I could do it on the wall. I haven't done it in a long time though. You're doing it on the wall. I don't do it on the wall. I don't need no support. I need support. Third time? I got caught on the sofa and I fell. All right, all right. Enough of that. Janice actually just said she's not going to do it because we just realized she just ate and Janice is prone to throwing up. So she's not going to do it.  You know, dang well if you do a handstand right now all that food's going to come right out. I'll do it right now. Do it. When it comes to the next video we had to take her back to the hospital. Well, let's go. This is like middle school. I used to do them on the wall all the time. Enough yapping. Get this standing. Mad and very spoiled stuff. All right, ready? Let's see it. Here we go. Back to the hospital. Here we go. Oh my God. Oh guys, let me check out on her. All right, so do you regret doing that? I completely forgot that I just got out of surgery like 91 months ago. Well, how's it feel to have done that? You regret it, don't you? Yes. Yep. See what happens when you try to be like daddy?  No, for real though. Are you okay? No. You're smiling, so I'm taking that as you're okay. I don't want to hear anything.  Yeah, well, aren't we all? I'm too hyper. That's why I don't drink Starbucks. So we're going to be taking care of the little babies. I'm so excited. Are you? You guys keep saying babies. They're not babies. They're grown adults at this point. They literally are babies. Like honestly, they've grown a lot more from what the last time you saw them. They're babies. They're babies, exactly. No, they're not. Yes, they are. Julia's is too. I wanted to go along with you to see if you would like, just, I don't know. They're babies pretty much. They're not. Like when it's a toddler. Watch when you guys see them. Just watch when you guys see them. They're grown adults. For real. Just wait for them, watch. Babe, are you ready to have babies? I've been telling you to give, you know what, we're not going to get into this conversation. Why not? I've been telling you to give me a baby for like, well, I haven't really like legit asking you. For real, like. But I feel like I'm ready, but there's other stuff I want to get done first before I get into having a baby. Like what? Like when you're going to put this ring on my finger? Talk about it though. What are we getting there? What are you going to talk about? I can't tell you. Well, no, I can't tell you that. Why not? Because babe, you guys, you hear this? She wants me to give them my plans. I really want to know. I can't tell you that. I can't tell you that.  I can't tell you babe. I can't tell you guys either. I'm not telling you. I'll put you on the spot. You can put me on the spot. I'm not saying anything. I already know how I'm going to do it. I know where I'm going to do it. Who's going to be there? They're going to come along with me on the journey. Obviously I'm going to record everything, but I'm not saying anything. Okay, so wait. So you know the exact year, the day, the month, everything that you're going to ask me to do? I have a time frame of, I just have a time frame of when I'm going to do everything. All right? So you know the exact year you're going to propose to me? Year, yes. Okay. As far as like day, no. Because there's a lot of different factors that go into what I plan on doing. And I feel like I'm talking too much and I'm not going to say anything else. Why do you feel like you're talking too much? Are you getting nervous? I'm not getting nervous. I'm actually excited and this is something I really want to do. But the time has to be right. Certain things have to be done. And everything just has to be the way I envision it. It just sounds like a lot of excuses to me, honestly. It's not excuses. I just want this ring on my finger. I don't know what you're saying. You're going to get it. I'm telling you, you're going to get it. You have my word that you're going to get that ring. One day. I'm not telling you when that one day is going to come though. It could come next month. It could come next year. It could come. But I don't want to hear it. You don't know how long you're going to wait. So what do you mean? You go get it tomorrow. You don't even know. I can see it. You don't know. But I'm not saying anything. You are in tomorrow. I'm not saying anything. That's that. Moving on. Are we ready to have a kid? I feel like we're ready to have a kid, yes. But like I said, there's other things I want to get done first. I would like to live my life a little bit more. I would like to, like I said, have certain things done. One of the things that are done would be the proposal. I want to have that done first. Right. And I would also love to have a house. I would love to raise a kid in the house rather than in an apartment. Okay, good. Because this is something that we do talk about a lot. I feel like I want to get married and like have a home before I have children because I want our kids to just be like safe. And I want us to after we get married to like do fun things and like enjoy our marriage before we have children. If you guys knew our story and like just everything that goes on in our lives currently in the past couple of months and everything, you guys would understand as to why I haven't proposed yet. But that's a lot of detail and that's honestly a lot of stuff that doesn't, I guess, belong on the internet. But the closest people that are to me know exactly what's going on and just that type of stuff. Like I said, I'm not talking anymore because I feel like I'm giving up too much. But whatever. Yeah, it sounds like you're saying that we're going through like bad stuff. No, no, no, no, not bad stuff. No, I'm just saying like there's just like, I don't know, man. I'm not explaining myself no more. I don't want to give up anything. Just know that you will, you have my word, you will get a ring. Okay. You're just not going to know when. I would never tell you. When the time happens, the heck was that? When the time happens, best believe I'll make sure, because I know when the time comes, you would want to make sure that you look good, your nails are done, your hair is done, believe me. I know how you are, so believe me. I have everything set in my mind. I have the perfect plan, the idea, just let me do what I got to do first. Do you feel like somebody's going to ruin it for you? Like somebody's just are like, it's not going to go as planned. Cause I figure everything out, I feel. Oh, I'm not, there's only select people that I'm telling. And it's not even like all of our family that I'm telling. There's like select people, not even maybe not even a handful of people that I'm going to be telling. Dude, I feel like Isaiah's grandmother will give it away. Oh, absolutely. I'm not telling you. She will give it away like that. She's going to be so excited.  And I'm going to be like grandma. She's done that before, like when I've gotten Janice's gifts and stuff like that, I can't tell my grandma now. She gets too excited. She does. It's like so unintentional though. It's unintentional and it's just grandma. But yeah, enough with this conversation. That's it, it's over. That's it. All right, well, I'm excited for the day to come. That's all I'm saying. All right, that day is going to come. So continue to be excited, all right? All right, so we'll talk to you guys when we get to the house. Ooh, what are you guys doing? Do those look like babies to you? I think not. Do they look like grown adults to me? Jalee, how old are you? Five? Yeah. That seems like an adult to me. Two. Two and five. You put them together, what do you get? Seven. That's a grown adult right there. No, it's not.  Ooh, okay. Guys, look how cute she is. This is exactly why she's my favorite. And then this kid, what are you doing, kid? This is crazy, right?  That's why she's my favorite. They charged up. This is just how daddy likes it. I got all my kids eating, even the grown one. Look at you. What's on your head? You know you're not supposed to be eating that. I can do whatever I want now.  You just don't care. Oh man, this is too easy. I'll tell you. Pound it. High five it. That's what I'm talking about, finger. Oh, another finger. Guys, I can't explain what's going on here. Just know that he's happy. He's happy, that's all that matters.  Okay, he said, let me go with these.  Am I ready to be a mom? I don't think so. You don't think so? Why not? Scared? Just a second, what's that gonna go? He was hungry and he started going crazy. Oh, that's a normal thing to do when you're a kid. Better? Now he's happy. Daddy? No? Is he gonna come back for it? Tell me, you want me to stop? Where did this mess come from? Julie is? Where did this mess come from? Dang, I should have left the camera alone. Good hiding spot, Daily.  I was looking out the crack right here and I was watching the football game. High five. Yeah. All right guys, so fast forward, like three hours, we're finally back home. Sheesh. It's been a long night, but we got the babysitting done. We got some good hiding seek in and the kids ate. So I would say mission accomplished. No one got hurt. I think we're pretty good at taking care of kids. So you wanna have them? Not to say all that, but. All right guys, so that's gonna end today's video right here. If you guys enjoyed it, make sure you guys smash that thumbs up button. It is now time for today's post notification shout out. 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of freedom, rational self-interest, and individual rights. This is the Iran Brookshow. All right, everybody. Welcome to Iran Brookshow on this Wednesday, last week in September. Hope everybody's having a great, great week, getting ready for October. It's almost here. All right, let's see. A bunch of stuff to talk about today. We will start on that in a minute. I'll remind everybody that you can ask questions in the super chat, or, yeah, just in the super chat, or you can use it to support the show either way. And I'm going to try to, for the rest of the week, do these shows at 1 PM. So 1 PM, news roundup, pretty much every day. Again, next week, we'll be a little disrupted. And then once we get into mid-October, everything is going to be very disruptive, because I'm going to be traveling all over the place. I'll tell you more about my travel schedule, maybe tomorrow, and encourage you to come to some of my events as I travel around the world. I will remind everybody that if you are interested in participating in a public speaking seminar held by me, full day, small group, intense, lots of personal attention, then please write to me, iranaturanbrookshow.com, iranaturanbrookshow.com. I'm thinking of doing one in the US, maybe Miami, sometime in the future, so I'm trying to get names of people who'd be interested. The cost will be probably $750 a person. And I do have, and do anticipate doing one on October 18th in London, so if you're in Europe on London and are interested, please email me, iranaturanbrookshow.com. All right, let's jump in. So there's this court case. It's really, really hard to keep track of all of Donald Trump's court cases. He has been accused of so many different things in so many different jurisdictions. It's hard to keep track, but this is a business lawsuit. It's against Trump and a variety of different limited liability corporations that Trump owns, that Trump family owns, Trump businesses in the state of New York. It's a lawsuit filed, but in it's a civil lawsuit, not a criminal lawsuit, filed by the District Attorney of New York, or the Attorney General of New York, against the various Trump organizations accusing them of committing fraud. If you remember, the Trump organizations were accused and found guilty of committing tax fraud, what was it last year, I think, and I think the CFO is going to jail. But in this case, this is civil and it's business fraud. It is interesting that the state is bringing the lawsuit, not the victims of the fraud or the alleged victims of the fraud. This is the state doing it. It's not clear why, and it's not clear why the victims are not involved, although we'll see the trial is set for October 2nd. There were some summary judgments made before the trial started, and the Trump lawyers tried to get the judge to basically do a summary judgment that basically throws out the case, claiming that there is no evidence that the public was harmed by Trump's actions, so there's no there, there, there's no, why are they suing? Well, what is the purpose of this? They also are claiming that some of the allegations happened so long ago that the statute of limitations should apply. The judge has refused Trump's argument for summary judgment. What's interesting is the prosecution asked, the state asked, for summary judgment over one aspect of the case, and that is the factual question of did Trump lie about the value of his real estate when applying for loans? So think about the fraud case as I'm asking you for a loan, you're the bank, I'm asking you for a loan for, let's say, $100 million, and the bank asked you, me, well, what kind of collateral do you have? What kind of assets do you have? You know how you and you apply for auto loan or mortgage to ask you about your income?  Can you afford to pay back the loan? And sometimes they act for documentation, sometimes they don't, but the argument is that Trump basically inflated the value of all of these things that his lenders asked for. So instead of $100 million, all the home he claimed he was worth 300 million instead of X, they claimed Y. The bank does not have to do an appraisal and often won't because it might not be collateral, specific collateral for this loan, it might just be an assessment of your net worth in order to know whether they will give you a personal loan or a business loan or whatever. So the bank in these cases and the cases cited in this lawsuit did not do an appraisal. It wasn't necessary, you know, you get an auto loan, they ask you about your income, they don't ask you for W-2s. I mean, a mortgage they ask for more and they definitely do an appraisal because they're basically using the value of the homeless collateral for the mortgage. But it's not always the case in business loans, you can get a business loan without appraisals. So the argument here is that Trump lied about the value of his properties, inflated them in order to get better terms on the loan, in order to make himself be perceived by the financial institutions as safer, safer risk than he really was. And there's a whole list of properties. Anyway, the judge has ruled, yesterday he ruled that yes, Trump was guilty of fraud in that he, and this is before the trial ever begins, which is weird, in that he inflated the value of the real estate. Now, it's hard to tell here what exactly is going on. There's already stories today about the fact that the judge doesn't know what he's talking about, that some of the real estate he's arguing is worth a lot more than he's saying it is, that Trump is much closer to truth than what the judge is saying. It's not clear what kind of expert witnesses, the judge accessed, if you will, what kind of information he accessed in order to make his ruling, because it wasn't a court, it was a summary judgment. Again, I find this strange. The court case itself only starts on October 2nd. None of this is in front, as far as I can understand, none of this is in front of a jury. It is all in front of a judge. Of course, the accusation is the judge is a Democrat. He's out to get Trump. He's in the pocket of the prosecutor. The prosecutor, of course, is the attorney general of New York who is a Democrat as well. So this is political. Could it be political? Sure. It's a little strange to me that the banks themselves are not a party to the lawsuit, that it's just being followed by the state. Again, maybe some lawyers in my audience can correct me. Maybe that's standard practice. Maybe that's not unusual at all. So is this political? Maybe. I'm not sure. Is it unusual for courts to rule in favor of prosecutions in cases like this?  My suspicion of the court system basically goes back to Giuliani and Giuliani being the district attorney of the Southern District of New York and filing all those fraud cases against and RICO cases against financiers in Wall Street. He got prosecutions. Mostly, he won. But then in many cases, many, not just a few, they were reversed on appeal. So, and he was clearly motivated, not purely politics, but motivated to make a name for himself, motivated by slamming Wall Street, motivated by a philosophical, political, ego agenda that had to do with him making a big name for himself. I since then, this is the 80s, I despise Giuliani with a passion. And so it's so hard to tell unless you really dig into this case. And the sad thing is that Trump is gonna position this as, oh, this is all political.  And it's, it would be nice to have some, I don't know, objective impartial observers actually give us some good information about what's going on in this court case and what's actually happening in there. I mean, some of the other court cases, I think are much easier because they're easier to understand. Here it's, what is the exact standing, the exact context. And it does, I mean, the judge claimed that Trump's moral logo estate is worth $18 million. And real estate agents are coming out and saying, no, no, no, this could list today for 300 million. I mean, the numbers seem to be completely distorted and out of whack. And so it's hard to tell what's really going on. What this does, and maybe this is healthy, I don't know, is it's causing all of us, it's causing everybody to really question the legal system and to elevate the politicization or the perceived politicization of the legal system. That is the main harm. And that's the harm. And Trump will do this on every single case. Every single case is gonna be about politics. Every single case is gonna be personal. Every single case is gonna be a miscarriage of justice. And Trump is gonna use that. And unfortunately he's gonna sway a lot of people to doubting the justice system, the court system. And that is very, very dangerous, even though there are real flaws in the justice system. Look, the Giuliani cases were reversed on appeal. Massive injustice was done in the process. But they were reversed on appeal. The system, in a sense, worked. It's gonna be interesting. Trump's already appealing this case. It'll be interesting what the appellate court will decide here. I still think that process as a whole probably works more often than it doesn't. But I think we're gonna see much, much more doubting. And this is part of a bigger picture of doubting the entire American political system, doubting the entire American way of doing things by Americans themselves, increasing the cynicism and skepticism, not healthy for a free country to start completely doubting its institutions in the way that I think is happening in America today. Not healthy. And again, a precursor for somebody coming in and saying, let's do away with these institutions. Here's a better way. And that's authoritarianism. Talk about distorting institutions and, you know, so labor unions been going on strike in America for well over 100 years. Maybe it's 150 years. And labor unions for most of that period or maybe all of that period have been affiliated and associated with the Democratic Party. But presidents in the past have really made an effort to not get involved. I mean, they might comment on unions but really somewhat of a distance. Primarily because there is an understanding in the American system that government has somewhat of, not completely unfortunately, but somewhat of an arms length relationship to business and the economy. And the idea was even if I support the labor unions, they need to work this out with management. They go on strike and there's a negotiation and they work it out. Now, certainly the Obama administration completely disrupted that in a horrifying manner. One of the worst things any president has ever done was what happened with the auto industry in, I think it was 2010 when the Obama administration came in and kind of enforced as part of a bailout enforced settlements that restructured general mortars and I think Chrysler as well. And basically screwed the barn holders and involved government intervention in ways that are new and very bad for the long-term prospects for America. But what President Biden did yesterday is really unprecedented. It's a president who's never done this. President Biden yesterday actually went to the picket line where the UAW is picketing the auto companies and actually participated on the picket line. Now, this is disgusting and un-American and another step in the direction of the presidents have been making for a hundred years of greater and greater involvement of the government in our economy and in the very nature of employment and the government already does a lot, but this is symbolically, it's not, there's nothing really happened, but it's symbolic. Here's the president of the United States taking sides, actually physically taking sides in a case where I think the auto unions for the most part are wrong because of, this is an inflection point and auto in the industry it's, and they're gonna put US auto companies really put them in place of real issues and problems and challenges given where the auto industry is heading. Anyway, he was on the picket line yesterday. Now, we all know why he did it. He's trying to show up support for his campaign for president. He's trying to get the unions to support him. The unions are not happy with him particularly because of all the support for electric cars, which they know is gonna hurt them. The fact that the Inflation Reduction Act which supports batteries and electric cars and all of that didn't include requirements that all these plants have labor union unions. So, we know that he has to show up support from the union. We know he's in trouble with the polls. We know that he is very unpopular as a president and in the latest poll, depending on which one you believe, he's either losing to Trump by eight points or in a dead heat with Trump. But in any case, you know, he's not doing well. So he goes and he, I think compromises his position as president of the United States by taking a position and going and standing on a picket line, disgraceful. Disgraceful, disgraceful, disgraceful. And a sad point in where we are as a country and where the presidency today is. All right, talk about sad points. Yesterday, we finally got what we've been anticipated. I've talked about this in the past. This has been anticipated for months now. But the FTC and together with, I think, 17 states, FTC is the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, is responsible in the United States. It's the alphabet agency responsible for, quote, competition for antitrust enforcement in the United States. The FTC, together with the attorney generals, are 17 states. Sood yesterday in federal court accusing Amazon of monopoly power, which has allowed it to leverage what they're calling a 50% tax on sellers, but basically squeeze them and create monopoly profits for Amazon itself. I mean, as I told you, Lena Kahn, who was appointed ahead of the FTC, has been eyeing Amazon since she got the job. She wrote an undergraduate paper going after Amazon's monopolistic position and she became famous in 2017 with a Yale Law Journal note that titled Amazon's Antitrust Paradox and which detailed her view of how the prevailing approach to antitrust enforcement was failing to account for the vast scale and network effects presented in digital markets and presented by Amazon. The lawsuit is defining a new category of retailer calling an online superstore claiming that the superstore status that Amazon has shields it from all competition, that it doesn't really compete with other online or offline retailers. It's a monopoly. It dominates this. The company argues that Amazon argues that it only represents 4% of all US retail sales, but the government is gonna argue that they capture 40% of all Americans online spending and that online doesn't really compete with offline. Who knows what they can argue? They allege that Amazon has monopolized the market of selling services to online merchants.   Other firms have tried to do this. What was it called? Anyway, other firms have tried to do this. Amazon has captured this. It's monopolized that, whatever the hell that means. Monopolize the market for selling services to online merchants. The government has said that the network effect between Amazon's online superstore and marketplace services allows it to further entrench its dominance. And that more sellers, the more sellers the company signs up, the more targeted and relevant data it can serve them. In other words, it provides them with valuable information. And therefore, the more committed the merchants are to using them because the service they provide them is better. The problem the FTC is saying is that here, this is what Lena Kahn told CNBC quote, given just the economy scale and network externalities, you need to have a critical mass of either shoppers or sellers in order to really benefit from the acceleration and momentum that digital markets can provide. And what Amazon's tactics have been about is once it itself achieved that scale, it's being focused on tactics that deprive rivals of the ability to gain that similar critical mass of customers. In other words, Amazon is so good at capturing customers and achieving scale and building warehouses and doing the logistics and allowing other people to sell their stuff on the Amazon platform that by being successful, they have deprived other companies from doing the same thing because Amazon's too successful for others to compete with it.  So you can distort it and stretch it in any way you want since it's a completely non-objective law. I mean, Iron Man called anti-trust laws, the worst laws we have in a sense of objectivity, the foundation of the entire mixed economy. She thought they should be the first laws that were eliminated if we ever moved towards a laissez-faire. She viewed these as particularly evil and this is a great example. Here is a company we all benefit enormously from. Imagine COVID lockdowns without Amazon. This is a company that has made our lives better. It's made the lives of people who sell through Amazon online significantly better and the government wants to shut it down. The government wants to break it up. And they make up just excuses, ridiculous, absurd excuses. Again, Amazon retail sales on Amazon constitute 4% of all retail sales in America. Lena Karnosa said the idea of a superstore has actually been well-established in the big immortal world. We've had a whole set of anti-trust cases that have succeeded when defining a market as the superstore market. Well, the fact that they've succeeded in the past, it just means that they will, unbelievable, be wrong in the past. We've got two major anti-trust lawsuits going on right now. One is this lawsuit again. Amazon, the other is the lawsuit that Justice Department, not the FTC, has filed against Google. Both of these lawsuits are gonna be monumental in terms of the impact they have on the industry, on tech, on online, everything. Search ads, purchases, and everything else. They are unfortunately bipartisan, supported by both Republican and Democratic administrations. And a significant increase in the power of government over business and over our lives. Of course, John says eBay and Etsy are two companies that compete with Amazon. eBay was the leader in being a third party and kind of being a platform for other stores to sell stuff. Way before Amazon, they led. Amazon just outcompeted eBay. Etsy sells different kinds of products, but again, Amazon competes with them directly. But it's not like Amazon did anything bad on the contrary. It's real evil. And this is the problem with anti-trust. The real evil is that Amazon was really good and they forecaptured much market share. Last point I'll make. Notice that Amazon retail, that is sales on Amazon, does not make Amazon a lot of money. If Amazon was a monopoly, you would think that Amazon retail would be hugely profitable. But Amazon retail is not hugely profitable. Indeed, most years it loses money. Amazon makes money off of cloud services. Amazon makes money on other things, but on the retail it makes a little bit of money. But not anything like you'd expect from a monopoly. Monopolies make huge amounts of money. That's the claim, right? So the FTC is gonna have to become creative here to try to make the case that Amazon is a monopoly. And one of the ways that being creative is Superstore online, they're the only one. They have 100% of the market, which is of course nuts. All right, I'll be following this case. We'll be following this and we'll see how it goes. All right, finally, this is a story I guess that spilled over from yesterday. You know, a lot of people are framing this issue around water in terms of climate change, but it's not, all it is, climate does change. Climate change is all the time. And water is a resource that requires human ingenuity requires human ingenuity to capture and to make sure that it reaches the places where it needs to reach and is used in an effective and efficient way. Water is abundant if we use the right technologies, for example, desalination, but we're not. So we depend very much on rain and groundwater for almost all of our water. There are very few places in the world that use desalination. San Diego County in California and Israel are two places. There's talk about building more desalination plants around the world and they should. But in the meantime, you've got a limited resource and lots of demands for it. And the challenge is this. In the marketplace, resources are allocated based on price and they're allocated based on price so that those who value the resource higher are willing to pay a higher price and they get the resource first. And people who don't value the resource very high are not gonna purchase it at elevated prices and then they don't. So in a sense, the marketplace distributes a limited resource based on people's preferences and based on how much they're willing to actually pay for something. But here's the problem. The problem is that water sales, water distribution, water finding, water accumulation is not dealt with through a market process. The government basically runs and manipulates water every way. This is a famous movie, if you've ever seen the movie Chinatown, an excellent movie, I think it was Jack Nicholson, Chinatown, which dealt with water rates. And the government assigns who gets the water and how much they pay for it. So for example, in California, you get a situation where even though water is limited in California, you have crops that demand huge quantities of water like almonds, get preferential access to water at a relatively low price because they've got to deal with the government to get it. At the expense often of agriculture that doesn't eat a lot of water or that is more efficiently used water or to the expense of cities. So because the government has control over the water and how it's allocated and it provides favors to different groups, what you have is a constant war over water right now in the Southeast of the United States. There is a massive, it's not violent war yet, but it's gangs pushing and pulling and trying to manipulate the system. There's been drought conditions in the Southwest. The Colorado River is relatively low, even with all the rains that California got, maybe California's out of a drought, but the rest of Southwest is not. And there were real issues on who gets that water. Is it Las Vegas? Well, not really Las Vegas, but the people living there. Is it farmers? Is it water to go and I don't know, facilitate the fish swimming through the rivers? Where does the water go? Who gets it? Now again, a marketplace has an easy way to solve that. Price, whoever's willing to pay more. But price is not allowed to function. Now it turns out there is a big conflict around this in France of all places. France has seen some relatively low rainfall years and they've also seen a relative depletion of groundwater. France has vast agriculture. Agriculture that's not very efficient. Much of what is grown in France, I think 60% of all agricultural products is feed for cattle and for other animals, right, for production of meat. By the way, this feed could be grown in lots of other places around the world at much lower cost than it's grown in France. Places that have lots of water and then imported into France and sold if, but the French won't allow that because they farmers who got a business or the farmer's lobby, they won't not allow it. You could, if you drop tariff to zero on food stuff, you'd suddenly discover that Africa is pretty good at growing a lot of this stuff and shipping it to France but they won't allow that. So you got the French farmers, you've got different groups of farmers, you've got corporate farmers, you've got small farmers, you've got farmers who do grow corn and wheat and stuff like that and you've got farmers who go organic vegetables and you've got cities and towns and villages and there's a limited supply of water and there's massive fights over this water and in France, this has turned ugly, this has turned into violent confrontations. In March, there was this big confrontation where 47 police and 200 demonstrators got wounded so it's become violent. What's happening is that certain groups of farmers sucking water out of the groundwater reserves, putting it into these overground reserves and then feeding it to their farms when it doesn't rain as much, right? Other farmers are not having access to it and yet the groundwater is being depleted and cities are worried that this is gonna deplete the groundwater so they can't get water. Anyway, there's no way to resolve disputes like this other than the price mechanism. Now imagine if farmers who used a lot of water had to pay for it, a full market price or many of them would go out of business but this is good, maybe it's not efficient for friends to do as much agriculture as it does. Maybe it should export its agriculture to places like Africa or who knows where. Let the market decide. But once you take a resource like water and you don't allow the market to work on it, conflict will arise, the conflicts will only get worse if there's a shortage. When there's plenty, it's easy but when there's a shortage, it becomes hard and you get massive economic distortions, you get political pull, you get people deprived of a resource because they have no political pull, a complete and utter disaster. There's a long story in the, in Foreign Policy Magazine about France's water war has no end in sight and there is no end because there's no way to resolve this other than politics and politics is force, politics is pressure groups, politics is I'm gonna take from someone, give to others where the solution to these things are the price mechanism and that of course, and that's true in the Southwest, that's true in California, certainly true in France but that's the one thing nobody is willing to consider. I'd finally, just to give you another update on Armenia, about 45,000 people have so far evacuated this mountainous area in Azerbaijan that was, that Armenians lived in. They have left their homes and moved into Armenia proper. Many of them are claiming that Azerbaijanis are committing ethnic cleansing, that they're using violence against them to force them out of their home. Others are saying they're just leaving because they're afraid of that, that it hasn't actually happened. Hard to tell what's actually happening on the ground but this is, we're really seeing as I mentioned the other day the real ugliness of tribalism. The real ugliness of tribalism is people that have to evacuate their home only because they belong to the wrong tribe. Ideally Azerbaijan, Albania and Georgia would all be one country. Anyway, that's just me. All right, let's go to your questions. We're about halfway to the goal guys. So consider supporting the Iran Book Show and what we try to do here by stickers, questions. We've got 78 people watching so it doesn't take a lot of stickers to get us to our goal so you can just support the thing or ask a question. I do have a hard stop at two so we can't have too many questions. So if you can ask a question, $20 would be good. Otherwise you can do a sticker for any amount. Rimo says, how did the high yield bond change the US economy in 1980s? God, that is a big, it's $50 but it is a big, a long answer it would require but let me just say that it allowed many businesses who couldn't get normal loans and who couldn't sell equity, couldn't sell stock to raise capital. So it was a new form of raising capital by selling what are called high yield bonds that resulted in raising really billions of dollars which at the time was a lot of money. And for example, if you look at the cellular phone market or if you look at the fiber optics cables that were laid down in the ground which ultimately resulted the fiber optics which ultimately led to the internet and led to ability to communicate across the country at amazing speeds but the internet is a big beneficiary of this. All the fiber optics cables that were laid in the ground in the 1980s and that's when it started and all the cellular networks that were built and that's the first cellular, it was Macaulay cellular those were started to build in the 1980s. All those companies, the entire telecommunication, modern telecommunication industry was financed with high yield bonds and it's questionable how they would have been financed if not for the high yield bonds, right? Now in addition, high yield bonds were used in leveraged buyouts and hostile takeovers. Now again, leveraged buyouts and hostile takeovers were way in which, so on the one hand they were used to create new businesses, new business models, new industries. On the other hand they were used in order to restructure existing businesses. So large amounts of debt were issued in order to takeover companies, break them up, put their assets to more productive use. The US economy's productivity increased dramatically during this period. Its use of resources improved dramatically and so high yield bonds were used during the 1980s to restructure American businesses and to provide capital to this new telecommunication industry that was just getting started and Mike Milka deserves all the credit for that because he's the guy who really thought it up, came up with the idea of how to use them in this way and implemented the idea through Drexel Burnham which was then forced into bankruptcy by US government that wanted to destroy the Drexel and Mike Milken and was helped in that by other Wall Street firms. All right, let's see, Jason. A front loaded annual fees and mutual funds beneficial or just extra math and footnotes. Why aren't such fees included in the main figure showing the yield? After all, if the real yield is significant, fees are irrelevant. Why aren't such fees included in the main figure? Like the whole way in which mutual funds are managed and mutual funds are compensated for, managers of mutual funds are compensated for, the whole way in which they get funding through fees, all of that is dictated by regulations. All of that is outside of the, the fee amount is the mutual fund determined, but how those fees are done, how they calculate, all of that is pure regulation. You know, one of the big differences used to be in the old days between mutual funds and hedge funds did very similar, often did similar things. Two differences, one is mutual funds were heavily, heavily regulated and hedge funds were not. Well, today hedge funds are regulated as well. Hedge funds could short, mutual funds historically could not short stocks, but you know, all fees should be included in the yield. That is, you should know in a sense what the returns are net of all fees, net of all expenses. Whether those fees are trivial or not, you need to be able to make, you need to be able to evaluate funds based on their net return to investors and not based on return before fees. It's not easy to take out the fees and to know the exact impact those fees have. As a hedge fund, we only report, formally returns net of fees. All our historical data is net of fees, net of all expenses. So they should be, exactly why they're not. Again, it's all dictated by regulations. It's all a function of some bureaucrat deciding how this should be done. Alex, can you recommend a historical book on the foundation of the United States? By the way, I've really enjoyed the shows you did on TV shows and movies. Would be great if you can make one for books as well. I'm not an expert on books. I consider myself more of an expert on TV shows and movies. It's one of the reasons I haven't done one on books. A historical book on the foundation of the United States. I'm not the guy to ask. The best person to ask is somebody like Brad Thompson. Bradley Thompson at Clemson, who is an expert on the history of the United States. I don't have off the cuff a one book. So let me look that up and I'll try to get back to you. So I'm going to copy paste this question into my to-do list so that I can get back to you with a book recommendation. Maybe I can even ask Brad what he would recommend one book on the founding of America. I mean, I've read a lot of books on the founding. I don't have that kind of memory that holds what they are. The chances Trump wins re-election is exactly zero. We'll either get another four years of sleepy Joe or Vivek Bust through the primaries. Yeah, I think the chances of Vivek Bust through the primaries is zero. I think Trump has a chance of beating Biden. The US economy might be in a recession next year. Who knows? I think there's a good chance Trump gets re-elected. I would not put it anywhere near zero. Be careful. John says, just some value for value. Thank you, John. Michael says, what are your thoughts on A.I. sex robots could really help the suicide epidemic?  Sex robots, you know, as long as you don't confuse them with a real person, as long as you don't replace real life with fantasy, then go for it.  I mean, it's not, you know, it's more like masturbation than having actual sex, right? I'm starting out a shrug, having already read Anthem and the Found Head looking forward to it. Thanks for the show. Sivanus just did $100 and get us over the goal. Thank you, Sivanus. Really appreciate it. And I'm amazed and thrilled, really, really, really thrilled that you're going to be reading out a shrug. Let me know what you think. Let me know. Yeah. Thank you for all the support. Really, really appreciate it. And I know you're going to love Atlas Shrugged.  Frank, who is Tom Rand who didn't debate Epstein? I don't know. I have no idea. Sorry, Frank. I just don't know. Jin just said Elon Musk says regulation is by far the biggest block to getting stuff done, paraphrasing. And that construction has been particularly outlawed in North America and Europe. Yeah, I mean, he's absolutely right. He's not making a particular original point. He's right. Of course, he wants regulation on AI. So it's kind of sad to see Elon see it and not see it at the same time and not be willing to be principled around it. All right, tonight is the second Republican debate. So I think I'll be watching. And we'll talk about it for sure tomorrow morning. So I'm hoping that Nikki Haley has a breakthrough evening. I think she did very well in the first debate. I think there's a chance that she does well here and that she becomes the real alternative to Trump. In spite of that, I think Trump has. And unless Trump goes to jail, Trump basically has a lock in the Republican nomination at this point. Even if he goes to jail, he'll probably be nominated. All right, I will see you guys all tomorrow, again, at 1 PM. And I'm torturing myself for you guys. This is completely a sacrifice, Remo. I am sacrificing my sanity for you. No, I'm kidding. I'm watching the debate so I can do the show. If I wasn't doing a show, I wouldn't watch the debates. I mean, they're not particularly interesting and they're not particularly important. But it's like I'm saving you the trouble for watching them. It's part of my job. I view it as part of the job. Not a sacrifice, an investment, part of my job to watch the debate and report on them to you, report my impression of them. All right, everybody, I will see you all tomorrow. Look forward to it and have a great rest of your Wednesday. Bye, everybody.


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That is why God punishing y'all. Y'all punishing y'all. What you're saying there, Stan? Now I don't even know why Miss Kay still have you here. It's y'all and that COVID thing, you know. It's righteousness that pours in on y'all. For it is written in the great book of Revelation, there will be lots of farming and plagues and lots of proteins. Stan. And great signs from the heavens. Stan, you're always there for- It's a plague.  You're always there for magic. You're always there for magic. You know what you need? Wear a mask. That's what you need. And sanitize, okay? Sanitize. I need no mask. And I always sanitize. Well sanitized. Check yourself before you check me. Mommy doesn't think she'll make it this evening. I have a long shift. I know, I know, but I'll see you tomorrow. I promise, okay? All right. Have a good night. All right. See you. Bye. All right, guys. Welcome back. You know what to do already, but if you're new, let me tell you what to do. Like, comment, share, subscribe. Now, we're going to be doing a series, a little COVID series, right? Which I like to call Tackling Miss Runa Trademark. Now today we're tackling sanitizing. Now, it's a good thing you know.  Wash that. I tired of that. Plus, I don't even know what the people put it in the bottle. What is that not good for me? So, you know what I decided to do? I make my little concoction. I can use a sanitizer. Oh, natural. That's so strong. You can spray it on your hands. You can spray it on your face. You can use it as a face mask. Now, okay, you all want to know the secret? All right, let me tell you. You're taking a bottle, right? A little small bottle. One that can probably spray. You're taking Vix Vapor Rub. You're putting it inside, okay? Now, we're putting a little soft candle in that. Shaddle more, right? All right.  Well shake it and ma, ma, when you spray that on you, COVID cannot never, ever stay on you.  And boom, just like that, you have a strong hand sanitizer. Natural. Now, you'll have to comment. Thank you. You'll have to comment. Thank you for that good idea and advice. Now, see you later and make sure you're tuning in again. Bye-bye. Yeah, my bro, but I'm telling you, I'm following them on YouTube, right? We'd have all the information about COVID-19. Imagine yesterday you posted a video about sanitizer. Yeah, man. And like, you know, I don't really believe in them thing, but what he said there, I going to try that as soon as I reach home because we'd have all the information. We'd know what he's talking about. And I mean, when I really think about it, look at our way inside of it. Yes, Israel Babylon thing that there. Good afternoon, Mr. Deterville. It seems you haven't had anything to eat.  I tell you already, I don't eat hospital food, all right? I try and call my woman there. She will bring something for me. The appetite there is a chicken and fries I could eat there if my tartar sauce and my ketchup and a little salt drink, all right? I try and get her for to bring that down for me, all right? Mr. Deterville, I don't think that's the healthiest thing for you to eat right now. You have to recover. Remember that. So, you know, maybe a well-balanced diet, something healthy, something that will help you recover. You see right now there, in order for it to leave me alone, if you want me to eat grass, bring the grass for me, I'll eat it. And your medication, please? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't worry. In no time, you're going to feel much better when you do all those things. Now, the other reason I came here is because we've been having some complaints from other patients saying you're keeping them up, you're disturbing their rest. Mr. Deterville, it's more just being considerate.  You like using them a lot. And then also, I want you to go on this channel on YouTube since you like YouTube so much. Go on YouTube and type in St. Nushan Government, all right? Okay, now there is a lot of information, as you can see, there's a lot of information about COVID, about the vaccinations, you know, all these different things that could probably get you a little bit more information on everything that's going on, all right? Look at them. There's some statistics there as well. And then we can talk about that a little bit later when I come back, okay? You can do that for me, Mr. Deterville? All right, yes, all right. Okay, thank you. You know, I didn't even know that that vaccine they're giving is already approved by the World Health Organization. So that means that's what they're using everywhere. All right. But let me see that. So I still have to show you guys. Tell me I want more proof. I have to do more research. Let me keep on reading that.


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I love power and I love feeling powerful. It strokes my bigly wiggly and forces lesser beings to bow down to my awesome might lest they taste my boot between their gums. Nothing has ever given me the same rush of adrenaline than knowing that everybody has to submit to my whims for their own safety. It makes my brain do the goody-good chemicals and allows me to feel as though I have control over this truly unfortunate reality that the universe is slowly careening into an eventual heat death and there's nothing anybody can do about it as we are inconsequential specks in this cruel and uncaring universe. But none of that matters because look at this, I can pull my party members into a pit that kills them. I find that hilarious.  The greatest power of all is the power to have control over people's lives, which is why the healer is the most likely party member to have a god complex. Right behind main tanks, mentors, and anybody who's an Omni Crafter.  That's right, as a healer, you do have to deal damage as well. Maybe it's called a healer and healers are supposed to heal, right? WRONG! A healer's job is not necessarily to heal the party, but rather to keep them alive. And yes, there's a difference.  What do you do when the party's full health? What do you do when the party's full health? Or even halfway up and standing TPS the bad guys? No, I don't pay your sub. But when the fight takes too long, it starts to rub all up on everybody's nerves. And when you hit endgame, it serves you right when the boss will wipe the party cause you couldn't beat and rage. It's sure you're for the most part keeping the party alive with a variety of healing, utility spells, some regen, some shields, but in equal amount of time you're casting those, you're also throwing in some extra DPS when time allows. Remember, DPSing is just mitigating future damage. And if you're able to kill the current wave of dungeon mobs before they deplete the tank's HP, which by the way is going to regen to full by the time you reach the next mob pull anyway, what does it matter how low their HP gets? So yes, DPS when time allows, when does time allow? Well, I know you're scared of independence and thinking by yourself, but that's going to be a balancing act you'll have to figure out. However, my rule of thumb is the minimum amount of HP a party member has to be at is one.  If yes, heal so that it doesn't. If no, time to become a Glarmage motherfucker. As long as they're alive and you're clearing the content, you're doing your job right. There is one caveat to doing your job right, and that's that everybody will hate you for it. Literally, by healing you start to generate a lot of aggro from the bad guys. So if you ever decide to heal before mob pulls in dungeons, it's important to stick close to the tank like an ERP or sticks to Vieira's wearing 2B thigh highs. Especially if you throw on a regen and suddenly 800 mobs crash through the wall with a how-to-fry-fairies cookbook. You can still do it, but you should know what you're getting into. Like live streaming and hoping that anybody will watch. As for your limit break, we heard you like healing, so we put more healing in your healing so you can heal while you heal. Unfortunately, you won't be using any limit break aside from LB3, because LB1 and 2 just heal the party, and you already have plenty of band-aids and popsicles to do that on your own. LB3, however, is so potent in healing it resurrects everybody in the party back from the dead instantaneously. But they will have to do the thriller afterward, so it's best to be saved for when you at least have enough people to make a backup dancing crew. For the flavors of healer, we have three boomers and the new kid on the block who bought a Glock and has a TikTok. The White Mage is the most straightforward. You heal when a buddy is hurt and you attack when they're not. Just about everything in your arsenal is all about feeding them so much it'll make an inflation artist blush and embarrassment. You're also equipped with the best AoE skill in the entire game, and the ability to never run out of mana unless you're really, really bad. Best of all, when your buddies get hurt, you can heal them to harness their BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD, LELI! But let's say you want to play White Mage, but you like tarot readings and star signs, like a suburban woman in her mid to late 20s. Astrologian is probably for you. You draw cards that will enhance the abilities of your party members, and you fill the arena with enough space dust and constellations that you'll need five layers of sunglasses to see. Taking this job will also teach you how to build a bomb. Don't worry, it's friendly. Scholar is a weirdo who used to hang out with all the bad DPS kids, but decided to turn their life around when they met a nice girl who supports them in their new hobby. Only problem is she knows nothing about your hobby and you have to keep correcting her on fandom trivia. They're all about putting shields and defensive buffs that protect the party from taking damage in the first place. That way they can guess what? DPS even more! Also, your girlfriend can get SICK!  That shoots lasers! Like Scholar, they also put shields and protective buffs on their party members, so they can spend more time shooting lasers! How did they do this? After seeing Alphanode change to the job, my guess is that all of this are liquefied carbuncles. Rest in peace, Carby. And now you know how to play healer, you're welcome.


Begin December, 1176 Hambone Road, pulses are not real world, sine waves are and he is right. It was a reaction on my video The Truth About Nyquist and why 192 kHz does make sense. The implicit message he gave was wrong though. Digital Audio does not output pulses but sine waves, just as analog equipment. Yet I understand this remark. When Digital Audio was introduced, marketeers didn't have the foggiest idea what it was and asked techies for input. They came with a schematic representation of sampling that shows bars that touched a waveform at one of the top corners. This led to a wide belief that Digital Audio worked with bars for pulses and in an abstract way it does, but not in a real analog life. Let me use a metaphor to explain, the carpenter. For digitising is already ages old, as any carpenter can show you. If you ask a carpenter to copy you a shelf, the first thing he will do is get out his folding ruler and start measuring. He could have taken a large piece of cardboard to copy the shape of the shelf, that would have been very precise but also extremely inconvenient. Wind and rain might damage the template and it's hard to transport anyway. Instead the carpenter takes his rule and notes the measurements in his notebook or if it's a junior in his smartphone. It might be clear that the notebook is far easier to take to the workshop and the junior even has the measurements stored in his computer at the workshop even before he gets there. Now let's use some expensive words, as we say in my country. The template shape would have been analogous to the shape of the shelf while the measurements are a numerical representation of the shelf. The scientific name for numerical is digital. It comes from the Latin word for the first calculator of millennia ago, the fingers. The Latin word for finger is digitus. This information is utterly useless of course, and as a member of the society for the preservation of useless information I couldn't resist. Back to the carpenter. It might be clear that a good carpenter has learned how to measure his project correctly, that is, with sufficient precision while using as little measurements as needed. Back in the workshop he takes the rough material and draws the wanted shape based on his measurements. He could of course have drawn his measurements as bars given sufficient measurement the outcome would still be somewhat rounded since the jigsaw can't saw right angles in one go. In the digital audio things are about the same. Let's do a crash course digital audio. Like the carpenter, the analog to digital converter first makes sure correct measurements are done. The rule is to measure twice as often as the highest frequency that needs to be digitized. For sound 20 kHz is seen as the highest frequency so 40,000 measurements per second would suffice and a very steep filtering has to keep out anything above 20 kHz to avoid errors. In practice 44,100 times is used, technicians speak of a sampling rate of 44.1 kHz. Time to digitize. We start by taking a very small piece of an analog waveform that, for better understanding, is an unnatural straight line. Horizontally the time is projected while the amplitude is projected vertically. Now the signal is measured every 44.1,000 of a second and the values are written to a table. This table can be stored for future use or transported to another location. At the place of reproduction the table is read again and used to plot the voltages by means of a digital to analog converter. When passed through the reconstruction filter the straight line reappears unless something went wrong. The biggest problem that can occur is inaccurate timing of the reconstruction of the voltages. For then the straight line doesn't become a straight line again as can be seen here. The second potential problem of course is that the plotted voltages deviate from the original, being higher or lower than intended. But this hardly ever happens nowadays. At least not to the degree that it will become easily audible. OK, 1176 hand bone wanted a sine wave so let's digitize a part of a sine wave. It's the same again, voltages are measured and stored in a table. If we now take away the waveform you can see on the left a graphic representation of the values on the right. And you can still see the waveform in it. In playback that waveform will be reconstructed perfectly minus small errors that always occur during conversion or analog recording by the way. But there are those and I expect 1176 hand bone to be amongst them that think the reconstruction will be like this. Again I can't blame him for this is what the salespeople and advertising agencies have been promoting for years. It's wrong though. If we look at the first vertical jump that would need an instant rise in voltage, which is simply impossible since we have filtered the signal at 20 kHz the system is limited in speed. If you would try to achieve this instant rise, the result would be more like this, slowly rising in time. It might be clear this representation is incorrect. Now if you connect the dots knowing the slowness of a 20 kHz limited system you will end up with the original waveform again. It's like the jigsaw that is unable to saw right angles. Perfection is a goal, not a reality. But a well-designed built and set up digital system can come very close nowadays. The only real limitation today is the filtering that is needed at half the sampling rate. A filter at 20 kHz will cause time smearing below 20 kHz, something advanced long filters can almost solve like the ones by CORT, PSOR or even others. Or the appetizing filters and the related filtering in MQA designed by Stuart and Craven and found in more and more DAX these days, especially when combined with 192 kHz sampling where less aggressive filtering can be used. This is the area where big steps are made recently. Also the time accuracy, as I have shown in the example with the straight line, appears to be more critical than expected. Both the time smearing filters and the timing accuracy of the digital signal are time-related and it's only recently discovered how time-critical our auditory system is. And if you think these things are unique to digital order, you'll think again. While on flutter, rumble, tracking distortion, channel imbalance and many more limitations pester analog audio. It is therefore impressive how well both analog and digital audio can sound and how bad it can sound when done wrong. Still, the most impressive improvements happen in digital audio, especially in file-based audio and I will track new developments for you. So, if you want to stay informed, subscribe to this channel or follow me on Twitter, Facebook or Google+. See the show notes for the links. If you have a question posted below this video, please don't ask me for buying advice. See my About Questions video to find out why. If you like this video, please consider supporting the channel through Patreon as these super exclusive videos too. Just one dollar a month will do. The link is in the show notes. And don't forget to tell your friends on the web about this channel. I am Hans Beekhuyzen, thank you for watching and see you in the next show or on theHBproject.com. And whatever you do, enjoy the music.


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