There's a reason why Xtrades is currently the fastest growing application on the market for sharing financial ideas. With over $2.5 million paid in the last two years to contributors, users are flocking to see what trades the top traders on the leaderboard are sharing in real time. If you're looking to grow your reputation as a trader on the internet or disgust your trading ideas with other reputable investors, click the link below and get connected with the trading mentor today, completely free of charge. Okay, Xtraders, and we are going to continue with plotting indicators. So what we're going to be looking at today is in the tools, we have this Xtrades education strategy which we were looking to dive into, but what I want to do is just take a quick look at, make this a short enough video, at this bunch of code. So let's just go ahead and create a script here, get out of there, I'm going to create a new script just to refresh our memories and we're going to call this, let's say a plotting script, example, let's just call that, like these sample plot script, okay. All right, and what we want is there's that default or boilerplate code as it is called and this is what we want to do, okay. So we want to look at how else we can add things to the chart. So what we want now is how do we add a script that can actually do this kind of thing, right. Okay, simple enough, what we do is again, so that we don't have to be redefining these if we ever decide to change them, we create inputs which means that these things can actually be modified by the user, right, 9 and 21 and we'll look at that once we're playing with this a little bit more and we'll call the fast and the slow exponential, we'll make them both exponential, we're not going to make anything simple because we've used simple before, so those are just defining four variables, right. One of them whose value is 9, the other one whose value is 21, the other one whose value is exponential type and so is the other one. We will leave these so that the user can switch between exponential, simple and whole and whatever individually and not have to come into code to change that, okay. So what we're going to do is we're basically just going to plot the moving average is all you have to do, so we're going to save this and remember this is called sample plot script, so we come over here to the chart and we're going to add this as a study, right, so it should show up because it's a study. So we called it sample I believe, there it is, so that's what we did and remember we already have the green, the red and the yellow which are the 50, 100 and 200, so let's go ahead and add this new plot script that we added and there it is, okay. And you can see that we created these new moving averages right here and the cool thing about it is, is that because, I'm going to go ahead and edit that, because we made those, remember that we didn't define the fast MA length and the slow MA length or the type fast or type slow, we made them input, right, let me just show you what I'm talking about, come over here, click on the little scroll icon, remember we made these type input, all four of them, that means that the user can actually modify these without knowing how to code, so you can come in here and say, oh you know what, I want to make it 50 and 100, okay, it's going to be kind of messy because we already have those defined, it would be the green one and it would be the yellow one, so basically the blue and the fuchsia, whatever that color is, should actually just disappear and the other green and yellow lines should become thicker when we hit apply, okay, and there it is, so there's the green one and then there's, of course, okay, these are exponentials and these are simple, right, so you can go ahead and do that as well, change from exponential to simple, it knows what the different variables or parameter options are for a particular function, so oops, so let's make both of those simple, okay, and there you go, see, so they disappeared, so whatever that, the green one turned blue because that one's kind of on top and then this fuchsia one turned kind of orange because it was yellow, I believe, so fuchsia and orange, I guess make whatever that skin color thing is, okay, and if we just delete this, then these two lines should appear green and yellow as we delete the ones that we just created and there it is, all right, so that is what you use the, oops, let me go back here, that is what you use the simple sample, there we go, all right, that is what you use the input versus the def, right, if we were to say def here, for example, those two, then whenever the user added this and applied it, it's still going to show up, of course, but then when the user comes and tries to edit this, right, then it cannot edit the 9 or the 21, it can only edit the other two which were defined as inputs, so just make sure we're going to leave these as input because that is the more flexible, of course, that has to do with coding and performance, if something is input type, then it takes up more memory, if something is defined, then it doesn't take up as much memory because it doesn't ever have to be modified and so it doesn't have to keep track of the different values that the user assigned, so basically that was it, that was what I wanted to show you, so that next time we are going to dive into the second part of this education strategy, all right, and just to tease it a little bit, what we're going to do is we're actually going to create orders, okay, and basically what this is going to do is it's going to create orders based on, of course, this is not a very sophisticated indicator, if you just have a fast and a slow SMA or in this case EMA, if you actually throw in more stuff then you can get your own custom indicator that will let you go ahead and add orders to buy and sell, as you can see here, and you can actually go ahead and go back in time and back test this and see if that strategy which you created would have been profitable, and that is why this is called, this script is called strategy one, this is the X-trade educational strategy number one, which we will cover to completion in the next video, so I hope you guys enjoyed this, if you have any questions drop them in the comments and don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel and use my invite link in the description below, if you sign up for X-trades membership plan I will give you a free video guided tour of the X-trades discord community as well as the web application and how you can take the trade signals in both of those platforms and use them, I'll also throw in my own personal tips and all of my educational material in terms of videos as well as presentations, so I will see you in the next time, have a great one.


That's right, Jezebel just released an article about many MUAs new video where he opened up, got vulnerable, owned up to his mistakes, and discussed what it's like to be cancelled. But Jezebel seems to think that cancel culture doesn't really exist. This is definitely something that we need to talk about. What is up everybody? This is Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem, but focus on the solution. And if you're new to my channel, what I try to do is take different topics going on in the YouTube community or pop culture, try to see what lessons we can learn from them to improve our own mental and emotional well-being. So if you're into that stuff, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell. And yes, I just made a video about many MUAs video about being cancelled. I said it was going to be a two-parter, but I don't know if I'm going to do the second part. The reaction's been pretty good I think, but I saw this Jezebel article and wanted to discuss it. So those of you who don't know, hi, my name's Chris. I was cancelled earlier this year. I actually just released a book called Canceled Inside YouTube Cancel Culture, where I share my story, but I also analyze different stories in the YouTube community like drama get-in with many MUAs, stuff with James Charles, Shane Dawson, Jeffree Star, a bunch of stuff. But if you want to get a deep dive look into cancel culture and kind of from an analytical point of view, check out the book. It's an e-book and an audio book. It's always linked down in the description, down in the pinned comment below. All right. So yeah, somebody shared this article with me from Jezebel. I'm like, oh, okay, cool. I was reading this article. I'm like, this is, this is a pretty good article. And then it got to the end. I'm only going to talk about the end first. It just kind of like summarizes what happened to Manny and his comeback. But then you get the opinion of the author at the bottom. I'm like, who, girl? Oh, we need to have a talk. So the article ends by saying there's a fine line, of course, between genuine cruelty and criticisms. A better use of Manny MUA's time would be to establish how others could find redemption like he did, because as the rest of us are well aware, cancel culture doesn't really exist. Most scandals just fuel their creators' brands and judging by the 638,000 views Manny MUA has ranked in in the last few months, his vlogs have received roughly half of that. He's armed to something. So this is not once, but twice today. I've heard people say cancel culture doesn't really exist. And this is mind blowing. We have had, we have seen multiple suicides and whether you want to call it cancel culture or public shaming, whichever thing you want to call it, it is something that happens and affects the psyche.  Like that is just such a silly thing to think. Like, I've talked about in recent videos the psychological damage of public shaming, right? We no longer do public shaming in the United States because people said it's worse than death, all right?  But like Manny in his video, he discusses, imagine a thousand people lined up to talk to you and just each one comes up and just says something terrible to you, all right? And a thousand is a low number for someone like Manny MUA.  You know what I mean? Like, oh, who cares? Who cares about them? They have, they have money and views. They're still fine, right? Like, it's about the attacks that come, okay? And here's the thing. And here, here's where I get frustrated, all right? And obviously, this is something that I'm passionate about because I went through it.  One of the biggest lies that they try to sell you is anybody who's being canceled or has been canceled is just playing the victim and has no remorse and refuses to own up to their mistakes, right? Like, if you watch Manny MUA's video, he takes accountability, he takes responsibility, right? You even look back to when he made his apology videos. But as we all know, when anybody comes out with an apology, right, everybody cuts it apart and they say, you're not really sorry, all right? Think about that. Now, in his video, he owned up and he's taken a lot of time to go to therapy. He's been doing a lot of personal development to become a better person. But the lie they try to tell you is this person doesn't want to take any accountability, any responsibility, they won't own up to anything they did.  So I understand what this is like. Like in my book canceled, if you end up getting a copy over 12 or 1300 people got a free copy in the last month and a half because I was doing it for free. But anyways, anybody who read that book saw that there were dozens of times in that book where I talk about how big of a screw up I was, how my ego got the best of me, all the missteps I took, how I thought I was invincible, and things like that. I take so many shots at myself throughout that book. So to hear people hear someone else tell them what my book really says and that I haven't owned up to anything, it's absolutely mind blowing.  Because here's the thing, one of the ways that mob mentality and cancel culture gets its ball rolling, this snowball effect is by people not being independent thinkers, it's by people not doing their own research and looking into it, they'll read an article like this, or they'll watch a video by someone else without watching it themselves or reading it themselves and saying, oh, this person says they didn't take any responsibility, I should just believe that, right? But here's the thing. One of the things that makes cancel culture, cancel culture is the punishment does not fit the crime, all right? There is absolutely no spectrum. This is what makes cancel culture, cancel culture, all right?  But again, the punishment does not fit the crime. One of the best analogies I can give you is look at marijuana convictions, right? Someone getting busted for a little bit of weed before we started to legalize it and states like my own in Nevada and things like that. But think about people who got busted for a little bit of weed, all right? A nonviolent drug offense because weed is illegal, right? And this can ruin the rest of their life by having a record, it can hurt their employment and everything like that. Like, did that punishment fit the crime? Think about that for a second. And if you're somebody who's really anti-weed or anti-drug, let's talk about this. Let's say you were going 10 miles over the speed limit, all right? And they put you in jail for a month. The punishment does not fit the crime. And the problem is, is that the court of public opinion thinks that mob justice is better than the actual judicial system, right? Like, I personally feel that our justice system is extremely flawed. But the reality is, I would take it every single time over mob justice because when you get people together with groupthink and the contagion of spreading ideas with no independent thinking and everything, like, people get crazy and they're completely irrational, all right? So, like, that's what bothers me is when people see someone like Manny MUA trying to become a better person. And like he discusses in his video, like, there's just this lack of forgiveness and things like that. Like, I always say just real quick, just ask yourself, like, would you want to be forgiven? Like, when we talk about the spectrum of this thing, all right? Like, does Manny deserve to have the rest of his life or career ruined because he was a bad friend, right? I don't even have to use quotations. He was a bad friend. I've been a bad friend too, right? But does that mean someone's career should be ruined? Or, like, when you look in the beauty industry, when you talk about social climbers, like, really, like gauge that for a second. Like, when you sit down logically and look at this stuff and the crime, the crime, right, which is a moral crime that someone committed, is it really valid to say that this person should no longer have a platform and they should just go away and never be around again, right? Like, doesn't that seem a little silly? The last thing that I want to say is this, like, with people saying cancel culture doesn't exist, it's kind of like what I mentioned in my last video about what happened to Alec Holoka is this. The same people who are saying cancel culture doesn't exist, these are the same people who fight for social justice, right?   But the people who say cancel culture don't exist, I guarantee those are the same people who get enraged when people say things like white privilege don't exist, misogyny don't exist, doesn't exist, racism doesn't exist, right? These are all things that do exist. Now, is it something that explains what happened 100% of the time? No, but those things do exist. Yes, it's sad to say that it's 2019 and racism, sexism, homophobia, all these things still exist, right? And I would never tell somebody that these things don't exist. But seeing those same people start to say cancel culture doesn't exist, here's my theory as to why they say that, all right? Because to admit cancel culture exists means they would have to admit that they have joined in the irrational hate mob, right? And nobody wants to admit that. Everybody is the hero of their own story. Everybody wants to sell themselves the lie that this person deserves every single bit of the hatred that they're getting, right? We turn into these complete animals when we join part of the hate mob. So anyways, like, I'm going to be doing more videos about this. I've been reading a lot of books on like social psychology and things like that. But this is something that like I just cannot express enough, like you might be next, all right? Even if you're not a YouTuber, even if you're not a public figure, this can happen to anybody. Maybe it happens at your job. Maybe it happens at your school. This is why you need to care about this subject. Cancel culture does not discriminate, all right?  So please start caring about this subject, all right? But again, like I said, my brand new book, Canceled Inside YouTube Cancel Culture, is out now. If you want to check it out down in the description, down in the pinned comment down below. But anyways, if you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up if you're new. Make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell. And a huge, huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel over on Patreon. You're all amazing. And a huge thank you to everybody who supports the channel in other ways, like giving my books, like Canceled or Rewire Your Anxiety and all that, or who get my merch, like this shirt with a picture of my adorable little kitty Maya on it, all right? But anyways, thanks again so, so much for watching. I'll see you next time.


Welcome back to Rational Politics. This is part two of our talk on the pharmaceutical industries here in America and how you're all getting screwed over so badly. But we're going to dedicate this portion of the show to insulin. I'd like to welcome back to the table Ike and Isaiah. Isaiah has an interesting story to tell because Isaiah unfortunately does suffer from diabetes and he discovered this when he was nine years old. Isaiah, why don't you very briefly tell us a story and who was to blame for you discovering that you have diabetes? It was a long story. I went over to a wrestling tournament for my cousin in Chicago, sadly and in that time I had a drink that was a little too sugary and my pancreas decided I don't really feel like working anymore and so on my way home from that trip I started to have all the symptoms of high blood sugar, the vomiting, the almost comatose sleep and the craving of water. As that happened we got home and my family just believed it was a stomach bug because when you vomit a bunch, that's the first instinct. Nobody's going to go to diabetes right away. My grandma gave me ginger ale because that's the cure-all to stomach bugs. Turns out ginger ale also has a ton of sugar which just so happened to spike me just a bit more and so I went another couple of weeks and then my dad brought me into the hospital and they found out I had a blood sugar of approximately 766 which a normal typically functioning human has around 120. So they got me on insulin and I'm diagnosed type 1 diabetics from when I was nine. So the prices of insulin has always hit sort of close to home. I have really good insurance through my parents but it's still something that I have to look down the pike and when I turn 26 I'm not going to have that insurance anymore and I have to figure out how I'm going to pay for what is essentially my life-saving drug. Absolutely. I tell you what, let's first have a little bit of history on where did insulin come from because it's a very interesting history. Not many people know this but insulin is actually 100 years old this year and they discovered how to actually invent, I'm going to use that word, insulin. Up in Canada, Frederick Banting came up with a way to extract the pancreatic extract. Now the pancreas in the human body is the one organ that helps keep sugar levels correct. John McLeod who was the head of physiology at the University of Toronto oversaw this process. Charles Best, Banting's assistant, helped refine the process and finally a biochemist named James Colip helped to purify the insulin to make it human ready. And this was all done in 1921 so we can all think back to the mad professors labs at Bunsenburners and all the rest of it. They did not have all the modern equipment that they had today. Frederick Banting, who actually made the major discovery, didn't want a patent and I don't know whether this would have changed anything or not but he just refused to put his name on it and this was 1923 after they had resolved all of the issues of making it human ready. His co-inventors, James Colip and Charles Best, they actually did patent insulin. However, they sold it the patent to Toronto University for one dollar because what they firmly and honestly believe was this was so important, life-saving, life-changing medicine, it should just be there for humanity to use. Yeah and to touch on that, they really wanted it to be free but now we have in today's society over 30 million Americans rely on insulin just to survive. You have people from all different classes trying to pay for this insulin that is all the same price. So you have people in the top 1% having to pay penny change for insurance but then you also have on the opposite side the people in impoverished areas and sadly it's people of my community, the Mexican community that are in these impoverished areas that are paying those extremely high copays and also if they can't afford insurance they're paying over the counter-cost which is just for generic is about $100 per vial which lasts about three days. So that kind of ties into what you're taking some stances on with single payer and if you want to talk on that just a little. Yeah and I think what you touched on Isaiah is the real effect of profit driven policy it's the human tragedy that's occurring right here in the richest nation on earth where we have this life-saving medication like you mentioned that the inventors wanted people to have access to treat their ailments and instead of making money for people it would help human beings that are affected with diabetes survive, literally live and now here in the richest nation on earth less well to do communities rationing their insulin this is tragic because they can lose limbs they're compromising their health and well-being so that some pharmacy benefit management organization or pharmaceutical company or corporation or CEO can fly around in a private jet or have an extra million dollars in their already flush bank account they don't need that what needs to be in place is exactly what the inventors of this medication intended to and that's that it be available to everyone that needs it and that's why they put that dollar patent on it so that no one else would be able to take the proprietary blend the actual chemical composition or the production process from that insulin and then profit off it actually they would then be able to patent it themselves if there's no patent and what they were trying to prevent is the detriment to society that we're experiencing right now yeah I mean I read somewhere upwards of a million people in America cannot afford their insulin and you mentioned that there's people out there that are rationing insulin and it's detrimental to their health we actually have the stat here that it's about according to the American Diabetes Association 650,000 people every day are rationing insulin because of the cost that turns into these costs in hospitals when they're losing limbs their eyesight goes, they have to deal with glasses now that just keeps piling up on them and it's insanely sad how so many people are struggling to pay for a drug that the inventors themselves didn't want to be paid for right and it's morally abhorrent it's just like should somebody be profiting off of someone who is experiencing a life-threatening situation I don't think that you should profit off of people in their most vulnerable position in life the thing that people don't seem to understand about the National Health Service in the UK is the way that it's actually structured in the UK there is a panel and they negotiate with the drug companies, the pharmaceuticals on what they are willing to buy the drug for and they negotiate and they negotiate and if the pharmaceutical company thinks the prices may be a little bit too low obviously there'd be a negotiation but the UK market's a huge market that's right, in England if you get a prescription from a doctor it's going to cost you £9, 15 shillings no matter the drug it doesn't matter whether it's penicillin or the most expensive chemotherapy drug on the market which comes out to about $12 basically in the UK people spend, this is the entire population of the UK they actually give the government approximately £1,500 per year which is about $1,800 and that covers, over the course of a year that covers the funding of the National Health Service just that yet they keep telling us over here oh it's going to cost billions of dollars oh it's going to cost billions of dollars no it's not not if it's done properly right, and the reason it's going to cost billions of dollars which it really wouldn't is because we do not allow the negotiation that you mentioned that happens in the UK to take place Medicare and Medicaid are not allowed to negotiate with the pharmaceuticals or the pharmacy benefit management organizations on the cost of the insulin for instance you wind up paying eight times the costs that you would pay in Canada for $300 for a vial instead of 20 and that's the effect of profit driven health care system I'd like to know Isaiah through your experience I'm sure in the community you've met folks who have experienced having to ration their insolence yeah I have a couple people I know I won't name them by name but they're some friends of mine they come from some poorer communities and they're unable to afford insurance in general if they're unable to afford the insurance they're completely unable to afford insulin and there's been a few times where we've had to, me and my family have had to donate pens and needles and things that outside just the basic insulin cost are still required to just deliver the insulin a vial of insulin isn't going to deliver itself at all you can't just, it's not something you can drink but yeah, I've had friends and family that I've had to personally give out and help them with these things that they can't afford and I've been fortunate enough to be blessed with better insurance and coming from a little bit better of a situation and it's sad and I also have family members who even though they were in the upper middle class, middle class people they were still unable to afford insulin but they were so bad at taking care of them so bad at taking care of themselves that they've lost legs and those are people that are able to do their insulin every day without having to pinch their pennies so that's just coming off of middle America people imagine the detriment that happens to the lower Americans who are now, like we've said, rationing their insulin they're going to, it's going to come out in the end and it's going to be a humanitarian issue as you've mentioned and the big problem of course here is the fact that there are no true generic versions of insulin available there's some that come close but they're not as good as the ones but a generic is meant to be as good as the parent that it's following basically put it that way and you say why are there no generics, that's wrong well pharmaceuticals have found a great workaround tweak a molecule here tweak a molecule there and that's repattant it and I think that with respect to Congressional District 4 for a second and the minority community the Mexican American minority community that Isaiah mentioned and can you imagine living in a trailer park in Greeley and being nine years old and having no health insurance and having your parents have no health insurance and them working maybe a meatpacking plant you know barely making a minimum wage barely able to afford food then to be faced with a medical situation like the one that Isaiah has been faced with with no insurance and that's a situation that a lot of people in Congressional District 4 are in right now and you know my opponent Ken Buck voted to repeal the ACA and take away health care from 52,000 CD4 residents many of them afflicted with diabetes for instance and place them in a situation where they have to ration their insulin we should talk a little bit about the injectors and the cost of the injectors because these pharmacy benefit management organizations and these corporations are fixing the prices of not just the drug but what it takes to deliver the drug whatever happens to the good old syringe in a needle I actually happen to have a bunch of those as backups in case the medical miracle of that I call my insulin pump decides to fail those about a pack of 50 I think costs $10 which isn't super expensive but you think how cheap it is to make it it's a tube of plastic with a needle on it it's probably four cents if anything it's pocket change and they're selling it for probably an exponential increase in that type of thing you mentioned your opponent Ken Buck and the people in this district about six in ten adults in America have a chronic condition so this goes outside the scope of Democrat vs Republican this is a humanitarian issue that needs to be addressed by both sides of the aisle it can't just be Democrats asking for single-payer healthcare it needs to be something that both sides are able to come together on and I think that's something that you can do brilliantly but also it's very important to all Americans this isn't just it's not only Democrats that have diabetes or Republicans that have cancer it's America's problem not a party problem it's a human problem and that's a lot of the problems that we're faced with and a lot of my policy is based soundly and fundamentally foundationally on human rights and really here in the United States we were formed on human rights and independence and freedom and liberty and how can you live a life the cost of what you need to be healthy is so exorbitant and that it actually forces 60% of the bankruptcies annually in America to occur we need to talk about how we fix the situation as well as the problems that are in the system and that's what Isaiah started to talk about for a second and that's how we stand up a public option in our healthcare system it's how we bring transparency it's how we bring federal disclosure standards and transparency standards to the industry and that's how we start pushing down the costs of prescription medications and healthcare is with sound federal regulation and oversight let's re-emphasize here as well that the pharmaceuticals spend three times more on advertising than they do on R&D we talked about in the first show it's worth mentioning again because I'm going to look straight into the camera guess how much it costs the pharmaceuticals to make one vial of insulin and guess how much they actually charge for it Isaiah, why don't you take that one on? Yeah, in my research and in my experience it costs about four dollars to make insulin a vial of insulin costs about four dollars That per vial it depends on how much insulin you're using every insulin dependent person is different exactly, but it's four dollars per vial which for me personally is about nine days worth of insulin so you think about that and then what the drug companies charge over the counter is about three hundred dollars I thought this country had laws about profiteering because I remember when I first moved over here in the oil embargo gas stations in Boston where I used to live were actually being sued for profiteering because of the gas shortages if that costs me four dollars to make I want three hundred dollars for it and if you don't buy it you're going to die These are scum bags I'm not going to mince my words on this these are absolute scum bags that are doing this and of course it's all being again driven because of profit Go on Isaiah, you jump in here Yeah, and something that I actually mentioned last time it's the reason that they're able to do it even though it is frowned upon and illegal and something that shouldn't be happening is because of how much government officials are funded by these special interest groups you mentioned that last time I don't want to go back into that, you can but it's just astounding how much that congressional people are making based on these packs and super packs they're just kind of pushing it under the rug and ignoring it They're no better than the drug companies in fact they're worse than the drug companies because they're in a position where they could actually do something to help the people that voted for them Maybe the interests of the people include access to healthcare that doesn't bankrupt them that keeps them alive and that gives them the freedom to live with liberty and independence and a for-profit driven medical system compromises that In the richest nation on earth I think that we can probably figure out a better way of doing it We just need to look outward and then look back inward and identify the problems which is profiteering in the system it's these claw backs it's processes of being able to fix prices and only allow access to certain brand name medications We can curtail at the federal level with regulation and disclosure mandates to start pushing the system back towards a patient care centric operational where it should be We touched on it a little bit about the R&D spendings They're spending most of their money on the delivery mechanism When these corporations make their insulin available only in these certain delivery systems and you have research and development dollars being spent with the intent of increasing profits instead of research and development being spent on medications with better efficacy or on research and development on pancreatic treatment processes In early stage cases there's a lot of different ways that we could allocate R&D funding and there's billions of dollars in profit every year that should be allocated to research and development of more applicable medications instead of drive up the profits of existing systems If the pharmaceutical companies did what they should do which is stop spending all this damn money on advertising three times more in marketing I can remember when marketing would be a group of two or three people and development R&D would be hundreds of people I've got a question for Isaiah Can you only get your insulin via one of these pens or can you also still buy it as a vial? There's a couple different ways Vial is how I get my insulin it's because I have an insulin pump which is another price hike in and of itself but the vials is what I use there's also yes there's insulin pens that come in they look like little pens that you can do shots with there's a couple different ways but they're all controlled once again by the same people who are controlling everything I think that we have to talk about the patient because sometimes pumps and things keep a more stable level of insulin in the body some of the research and development on things like pumps and pins is good and there should be an equitable amount spent on development of new drugs and therapies not just being spent on delivery systems that can you know force patients into a higher cost avenue of treatment the best avenue of treatment for each individual patient that individual patient shouldn't be forced into the highest cost avenue and that's essentially the effect of the policy that these pharmacy benefit managers are having sometimes different delivery systems are better but price gouging those delivery systems is the problem I think that we need to talk about how we force down the costs of these delivery systems, pumps, pens, etc one of the ways of doing that is to have, of course, a public option with a federal government and that's what I think we need to work towards accomplishing in the long term what I think would be a bigger message draft legislation that means something that isn't just funded by these PBM packs I really hope that Ike does get elected next time I really hope that because I'd love him to be in Washington because that means a field trip to interview you but it would be Ike versus the rest and that to me is so disheartening it's not even funny I want to thank you so much for coming into the CIT Network today it's been absolutely wonderful talking to you I'm still really upset about all of this research that we did because it really shows that there's a gaping hole in healthcare in this country yeah, I just want to say thanks so much for having me here again on this amazing show it's been a pleasure to meet you Isaiah and thanks for having me again on Rational Politics, Nigel Isaiah, thank you so much how do you feel after doing your first series of shows? I'm excited to keep doing more excellent, that's what I like to hear thank you very much for coming in today okay guys, I'm going to talk to you directly there is something you can do about this and it's called writing a letter not an email, don't do emails that doesn't work, a real letter flood your congressman flood your senators with the fact that they personally are killing you because you're not getting the treatment that you need start becoming vocal out there start demanding what this country desperately needs and that's a real health system not this total I'm going to say the word, I'll let Tom beeping out this total fucking mess that is happening in this country over health care it has got to get sorted out people are suffering for no reason and that is wrong thank you very much for watching this Rational Politics it's good to see you all again and we will be back in the near future I'm your host Nigel Aves, signing off


Now, the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California presents... Suspense! Tonight, Roma Wines bring you Mr. Lloyd Nolan as star of Murder for Myra, a suspense play produced, edited, and directed for Roma Wines by William Spear. Suspense, Radio's Outstanding Theatre of Thrills is presented for your enjoyment by Roma Wines. That's R-O-M-A. Roma Wines, those excellent California wines that can add so much pleasantness to the way you live, to your happiness and entertaining guests, to your enjoyment of everyday meals. Yes, right now a glassful would be very pleasant, as Roma Wines bring you Lloyd Nolan in a remarkable tale of... Suspense! It was raining hard. I was on the bus for Hollywoodland. Myra had said... Take the last bus, Ernie. That'll get you to the house at about 1.30, and I'll see to it that his highness and I don't get home from the party until after 2. That ought to give you plenty of time to get set. Well, I had taken the last bus, and it was 1.10, and we were coming to Beechwood Drive. Don't ride all the way.  I pulled the cord. I was following Myra's instruction to the letter. It was raining harder than ever when I got off the bus. I turned up my coat collar and started up the hill. It was four blocks to the house. When I got to Midway, I stopped under a tree, and it soaked to the skin. And I saw the headlights of a car coming down the hill I got behind the tree. In the past, I struck out again. The house was dark. I walked up the driveway to the rear. Go in through the kitchen door. I'll leave it unlocked. I tried the door. It opened. I stepped in. I stood still, listening to sound. Then I closed the door. Don't turn on the light. Remember now. Then look for the lipstick on the table. I struck a match. The lipstick was on the table. The lipstick meant that the way was clear for me to go upstairs. The match went out. I stuck the burnt end in my pocket. There was a puddle of water on the floor where I'd been standing. I got a kitchen towel and wiped it up. Then I rung out the bottom of my trousers and wiped the floor again. I took off my coat and went to the sink and rung out my coat too. I looked at my watch. It was 155. Didn't have any too much time. My own old man would be returning any minute now. So I walked into the next room. It was the dining room. The door on the other side of the room was open. I walked into the hall. I could see the stairs. I walked into the hall and started upstairs. Then the match went out. I got to the top. I let another. Our bedroom is the first door on your right. I opened the door. I saw the twin beds. I'll keep him late at the party. So that by the time we get home he ought to be pretty knocked out and fall asleep in no time. He'll have been up since 6 a.m. And there was the clothes closet. I opened the closet door. And stepped in. You'll find the hammer on the top shelf. I'll hide it. Behind some old hats of mine. I was groping for the hammer when I heard a car turning into a driveway. My first impulse was to run to get out of the house now that the time until I was afraid. I was deathly afraid. I started for the door. You've got to go through with it darling. It's the only way. It's his life or mine. Don't you see? If you love me you'll do it. I took hold of myself. I stepped back into the closet and closed the door. I recalled thinking. This can't be me. I'm hiding in the dark with a hammer in my hand waiting to kill a man I don't know. A man I've never even seen. Waiting to murder him and his sleep. This must be somebody else. For Suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you as star Lloyd Nolan. In Murder for Myra by Lee Horton and Paul Bernard. Roma Wines' presentation tonight in Radio's Outstanding Theatre of Thrill's Suspense. Elsa Maxwell's ideas on Gracious Entertaining are followed by women all over America. The other day she said this about Roma Wine. 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The hangers loaded with clothes are poking me in the back tipping me off balance and standing on a pair of manned shoes. His shoes kicked the shoes out of the way and shoved some of the hangers back as closer together. I listened for some sound from below, but everything was quiet again. And then I remembered Myra saying that they shared the driveway with the folks next door. I put down the hammer. It must have been the neighbors coming home. I opened the closet door and stepped out. Still a little time yet. In the darkness I noticed that Myra had left one of the windows open. It was raining in across the room. Closed it. It was a night stand by each bed. An alarm clock on one of them. I never heard a clock that made so much noise. Just ticking. It was cold and damp and I was shaking from head to foot. I couldn't tell whether it was from the cold or from fear. I sat down on the edge of one of the beds. Then I decided to have another look at the hammer in a few minutes. I was going to have to use that hammer. It's a big heavy one Ernie. It'll do the trick alright. I felt along the floor of the closet for the hammer. Then I hefted it experimentally. It was big and heavy.  I looked at clothes hanging there. Many of them, his clothes. In the flickering light of the match one garment caught my eye. Probably because it was long and white. And had big gaudy flowers on it. It was Myra's negligee. She'd been wearing it that morning when I first met her five months ago. What can I do for you? Good morning. I hope you'll excuse me for bothering you. I'm taking a poll of homeowners. What kind of poll? It has to do with your post-war plans. I don't have any. My husband does the planning in this family. I just go along for the ride. Well, still, if you're not too busy, I would like to ask you a few questions. Why not? I'm just sitting around twiddling my thumbs. Come on in. Thanks. Thank you. It's a beautiful day outside, isn't it? Is it? I hadn't noticed. I sat down on the sofa and opened my portfolio. I felt ill at ease. Bare emotions do that to me. And Myra's emotions that morning were as bare as... as a throat in that low-cut negligee. I knew right away that she'd had a row with her old man. In my business, you get so you can figure out things like that. And it was as plain as a nose on my face. My nose was pretty obvious that day. I'd been to the beach and I was burned to a fiery red and my nose was peeling. She laughed then at me, I guess. You got quite a case of sunburn, Mr. Cobb. Ernest Cobb. Haven't I? That's too much beach, I guess. I haven't been to the beach in two years. Don't you like it? Sure, but what difference does that make? His highness doesn't. Who? My husband. Let's have the quiz. Oh, yeah. Yes, of course. Now first, your name is... Blair, Myra Blair. His name is Ray. And his business? He's an aircraft engineer. A scientist. And you don't work? No, no, I'm just the housewife. The little homemaker. You don't sound as though you fancy the role, Mrs. Blair. I hate and despise it. No, that's a shame. Any children? Yes, a daughter, four named Julie. She's at nursery school. And now for the questionnaire. Are you planning... I mean, do you know whether or not your husband is planning any extensive repairs or remodeling on your home after the war? I haven't the foggiest notion. It's like I told you, I'm part of the decorations here. But I think in how I feel doesn't count. Oh. I suppose you think I'm talking out of turn while I am. I'm sick and tired of the whole mess. He comes home and smokes his filthy pipes and tinkers around his workshop down in the cellar, and I just sit here. Night after night, it's the same thing. Look at me. Am I so hard to take? Well, he's probably just got his mind another thing. Yeah, yeah, I know. Planes, planes, planes. That's all I hear. That's the war, Mrs. Blair. Keep fully. It's the same before the war started. I'm not getting any younger. I want to have some fun. Do you blame me? No, no. I think everyone's entitled to some fun and good times, Mrs. Blair. Call me, Myra. I never did like being called Mrs. Blair. How about the questionnaire? Now, perhaps you can answer me. Ah, Buoy to the questionnaire. I'm sorry. I'm just in a nasty mood. That's all I... I had a fight with him last night, another one this morning. I had to blow my top to someone. You just happen to be it. Oh, that's all right. About your questions, honestly, I don't have the answers. It's like I said, sunburner yours. You better do something about it. Well, it does burn pretty much all right. Hands are cold. Does this feel good?  One lock of her hair fell away from the floor and it brushed my nose. Then her fingers touched my face and I did something crazy. I reached up and grabbed her by the shoulders and kissed her on the mouth. And the next thing I knew, she was in my arms. She was kissing me and sobbing in a sort of a spilling over of emotions that left me scared and limp as a dish rag. Oh, there, there, that's...  Oh, sure. You will help me? Sure. Sure. I'd do anything for you. Anything. The match went out. The negligee merged back into the other clothes there. I stuffed the hammer back into the corner and came out into the room again to wait for Myran, his highness, to come home from the party. His highness. He's unbearable, Ernie.  No matter what we did or where we went, he was always there in her mind. We had another fight this morning, Ernie. Do you want me to show you the black and blue marks? And then one night when we were having dinner, it all spilled out. There's only one answer, Ernie. I've got to get rid of him. Well, that's what I've been saying all along. You've got to divorce him. No, Ernie. That isn't what I mean. Well, then what... I mean I'm going to have to do away with him. Myran. What? You're out of your mind. You don't know what you're saying. No, yes I do. I've thought it all out. Myran, don't say such a thing. Don't even think. What you're suggesting is... Murder, Ernie. That's right. Murder. I didn't sleep that night. And yet, worried as I was that the idea didn't seem real to me. Murder was something you read about, something for gangsters and madmen to traffic in. It wasn't a thing that could touch me, or in his car, or Myran. She didn't say anything about that. The next time we were together, I thought she'd come to her senses. She'd just been upset. Then one night we went rowing in Westlake Park. He's bought a gun. He's threatened to kill me. He wouldn't dare. It's him or me, Ernie. I've got to get rid of him. Well, get rid of him. Yes, but not really. What other way is there? I don't know, but... What other way is there? Name it. Well, how are you going to do it, Myran? I'm going to poison it. You'll help me, won't you? No, I couldn't. I'm not asking you to feed it to him. You can help me get a little poison, can't you? I don't know anything about poisons, Myran. I don't know anything about murder. Well, you can learn, can't you? Feel that down. Maybe I can find someone else. Myran. There are others who'd be glad to help. Please don't talk like that, Myran. Well... Well, you know I'd do anything for you. I... There's a better way, Ernie. What? He's got a big, heavy hammer down in his workshop for me. You could do that trick easy. Oh, no. No, Myran. Not me. I'd do anything in the world for you, Myran. Anything but... But the one thing that helped me out of this mess. It's his life on mine, Ernie. If you love me, you do it. I can't do that. I can't. You could leave it for me to do. No, no, I... You could be a cinch, Ernie. You could sneak into the house some night when we were out and hide until we get home. With that hammer to be all over in a second. And then we'd say a burglar came and... No, Myran. No, I... Oh, you don't love me. Really. It's all just talk. No, no, it isn't. You know better than that. I worship you, Myran. I couldn't live without you. Ernie, if you want me, you've got to do it. I suppose I knew I'd have to. It's just a little hard. It used to be the idea, that's all. But I'll... I'll do it. I'll do it. I'll do it. And as you can see from my watch... it was ten past two. They'd be home soon. I lost my nerve once. I started downstairs and someone... walked past the house. That's all. Just walked past the house. I ran back up into that bad room with my heart pounded so that it drowned out the sound of the clock. And then the headlights of a car flashed across the wall. The car that was turning into the driveway. There was no mistaking that this time this was it. I could hear the voices of a man and a woman. The woman's voice was Myra's. Slam up a car door. Footsteps on the cement driveway. I eased back into the closet once more. I felt for the hammer on the floor and closed the door, all but a little crack. Then I heard the front door open and closed. Somebody walking upstairs. It was Myra. The kid was asleep and she was carrying her. That's the girl, that's the girl. Stand up, that's it. Turn around, darling. So, mommy, get on, button your dress. There. Ain't going your own, don't dare.  Mommy will be right in. I heard a walking toward the closet. Ernie, are you there? I knew she was standing there, but I couldn't see her. I groped for her in the darkness. My hand touched the shoulder, and then she was in my arms, her body pressed against mine and I was kissing her. Did you find the hammer? Oh, Myra, I do. Did you find the hammer? Yeah, the hammer, yes. He's putting up the car. He'll be up in a minute. All right, it's all off. I can't do it. You've got to. I can't, I can't do it. Ernie, listen to me. I can't. I tell you, I can't.  Ernie, you say you love me. No, I do. I worship you. You want me, don't you? More than anything in the world. All right, then. If you want me, you've got to do it. Mommy. Mommy. Coming, darling. Quick, Ernie, you'll do it. I'll do it, of course. I'll do it. I knew you would. She kissed me and closed the door. Him coming upstairs. He came into the room and switched on the light. I heard him moving around. I figured he was in dressing and getting ready for bed. She asleep? She will be in a minute. That kid isn't getting enough sleep, Myra. Now don't start that again, please. Where are you going? The clothes closet to get my pajamas. Why? I held my breath. I'll get them for you. I fled myself against the wall. She opened the door, reached for the pajamas. Her eyes met for an instant. And she was gone. The door closed. Here. Here you are. Oh, thanks. What are you hiding in there? What do you mean, hiding? Well, the way you made a dive for that door. Oh, nuts. What would I be hiding? I don't know. I just said. What are you doing? Say, what's the matter with you tonight, Myra? There's nothing the matter with me. Why? Oh, you're so jumpy. Well, can't I ask you what you're doing? Pulling with the clock? Sure. But why jump out of your skin? I'm just setting the alarm. It's already set. I'm setting it ahead for four o'clock. Why? Because I got to be at the plant at five this morning. I've got a trial run. Oh. This was something we hadn't figured out. I looked at my watch. Well, it's three now. You won't get much sleep. I know it, but I can't help it. Don't put the clock on my table. Put it on your side where it always is. Oh, OK. It's so important. Hey, how do all this water get on the floor here? Through. Through the window, I suppose. Oh, but it's closed. I closed it when I came up. We left it open. Oh. Well, if you're getting up at four, you better get to sleep, don't you think? Oh, I guess so. I heard them get into bed. Well, good night. Good night, Mara. The stage was set. I breathed easy. Now, I'd only have to wait for them to... then the thought struck me. I suppose he doesn't fall asleep right away. I suppose he doesn't fall asleep at all. He isn't so tired, even if it is late. He doesn't sound knocked out to me. And before he can get to sleep, then the alarm will go off and he... I looked at my watch. It was exactly five minutes past three. Man, this will never do. I thought I got to get a hold of myself. I've got nearly an hour yet, and in that time, he oughta... I listened. Couldn't hear a sound. Was he asleep? He might be, but I didn't know. I had to be sure. I'd wait half an hour. And if I didn't hear anything by then, I could be pretty certain he was. The minutes dragged on and I listened. When the half-hour was up and I hadn't heard a sound, I sat down on the floor, took off my shoes, and I picked up the hammer and turned the door knob. I turned it. There was sound. Then I opened the door and stepped into the room. Who? Who's there? Who's there? Oh. Oh, it's you. All right, baby. Just a minute. What? What's the matter? Oh, it's the kids. She wants to drink water. Oh, no.  Don't get up, Ray. I'll get it. I stepped back into the closed closet, closed the door. I felt the blood drain from my head. I leaned against the wall. I heard Myra going to the kids' room. And then I slid to the floor. I guess I must have passed out then or faded or something. Because the next thing I remembered was setting up, startling, wondering where I was. I looked at my watch. It was three minutes to four. I remember now where I was and what I was there for.  And the alarm went off at four. I remember that I had to be very quiet because the man was asleep. Everything I did from that time on was automatic. I acted like a man in a dream. I picked up the hammer and stood up. I opened the door. He crept into the room. I could see the hands of the clock by his bed. It was almost four. I didn't breathe. And swung down. And I hear him again and again and again. And then I yell Myra. Myra, I turned it off. Will you turn the alarm? Myra! And then the light went on. And I was looking at a man sitting up in the other bed. And he was pointing a gun at me. Hello, Ernest. The clock. You saved me a lot of trouble. I looked down at the bed I was standing over. And I saw Myra. And blood in the hammer. And suddenly I felt an insane desire to laugh. And then a sob caught my throat. I couldn't control myself. I started to laugh. I couldn't stop. The Fines have brought you Lloyd Nolan, a star of murder for Myra. Tonight study in suspense. This is Truman Bradley for Roma Wines, the sponsor of suspense. August, one of the warmest months, calls for tall frosty iced drinks. And famous hostess Elsa Maxwell recently said, I've discovered the perfect hot weather drink. Wonderfully cooling and refreshing. One that guests really go for. I mean, Roma wine and soda, made with distinguished Roma, California Burgundy or Sautern. 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This is just a quick follow-up to my video from the other day. This is Alex on this American series L50 Number of to to the guys were nice enough to forward me a PDF from a locksmithing journal from the 60s with instructions on This is something these things and how they how they go together So if you recall from the video I found this funny screw down inside the One side of this thing, and I thought it might be some disassembly thing, but it wasn't clear what to do So it turns out there's a little pin that sits in here Yeah, that sits in this space here. There's a little hole and it goes into a little groove in the plug And this little screw Goes down into the hole there and keeps that pin from popping out there by retaining the plug So to get this out on these locks, which are all that well, they've all been used a bit I took the screws out and the instructions basically said to take it with a rubber mallet and whack it a number of times To get the to basically drive the pin down that didn't work So I got up my trusty can of WD-40 sprayed a bunch in there Let it sit for a few minutes and then repeated the procedure with the mallet and sure enough They all popped open and so what I found and by the way, I do actually have keys to these I hadn't completely opened the box. They came in when I did the video but what I found is That you can now take the Plug out and you can see the wafer Tumblers in there. Let me get Well, that's okay Set that there and get a little close up of him That's a decent shot I think So you can see the wafers in here You can see the kind of action that happens as you oops Turn back and frame. Yeah, as you run like a rake Oops, if I can keep it from disassembling itself as you run a rake through it it'll lift up on these things and You know randomly bring them into position Now the key for this Looks like this Make sure I've got it oriented. Yeah Key looks like this number of people Sort of interested whether like it's a double-sided key. Well, it's sort of is But if you look carefully at it, it's it's symmetrical Right, so it goes down here. It goes up here, right? But it is true some of the wafers really the high wafers get pushed down or The wafers. Yeah, the wafers that are high Get drawn down by the bits on the bottom and the ones that are low get pushed up by the ones on the top So you do need both profiles to to operate the lock But the key can only go in one way obviously because of the the wards are asymmetrical But when the key is fully inserted into the lock Which is a bit of a there we go a bit hard for some reason when it's out Then everybody lines up and it lines up at the shear line which is Parent here you can see that big notch Big notch on each side. I think most of you are probably familiar with how wafer tumblers work The other thing I thought was kind of cool is the the interface so this is the end of the plug the inside end of the plug You can see it's got kind of a half moon shape here another half moon shape there and the tip of the key pops out and then See we get a little light in here There we go, you can see the engagement point There's a little tab that's at about seven o'clock and that's what the is all right Yeah, and that's what the that half moon engages with and that turns it around Now what's interesting if you look at this carefully and you look at the back of this carefully It's sort of analogous to Your monitor your other or the the pentum blur American locks where you have a Solid half moon here and then a quarter of a circle on the inside Right, and we all know that those have a vulnerability So I for for bypass because you can reach a wire a wire or pick in there and spin the Bolts around I suspect that this has a similar vulnerability. Although it might be a little harder. I don't know You can tell me but you might I think you probably could get something in the center there and And knock that around so it's interesting that they've had this same design property for Well, I don't know for a long time. Although some of these locks apparently were made in the 90s But I've got an older one here that has the same type of core I don't think I picked this one on camera, but it's the same idea. Here's its core I don't have a key for this one but Yeah, so and this this actually is pretty old because it has the junk Nuke brothers junk nuke brothers thing on it, so it's a little older It does not have a Date stamp on it, so I guess they hadn't started doing that then but has the same mechanism Apparently according to the article you could get various different Cores for this of different lengths and so forth or styles I don't know maybe different numbers of wafers in them or key ways So thought that was kind of neat. So then that little pin that I was talking about That retains the plug rides in that channel there.  This this lock has obviously been in the elements a good bit It's a little bit Oops a little bit corroded Some of these well, yeah, it's weathered. Yeah, both of these are from the same lot The inside is pristine though. I mean the if you look at the thing. It's it's shiny. I haven't really cleaned this at all There's this older one was kind of gooey inside, but It's fairly well sealed up. I would say and the screws are brass Unlike the the like the 5200 where the screws are some kind of steel that rusts This is brass. This is brass the body is brass So you're not going to get any serious corrosion in there and it looked like You know it pretty much kept the elements out for a significant part So it's probably a pretty reliable lock. However, easy to pick it is So anyway, thanks the guys for forwarding that PDF Let me know if you want anyone wants a copy of it And it gives a breakdown. I didn't try to gut the rest of this thing Because I'm not sure I can get it back together reliably. So I'm gonna just leave it alone but and If anyone wants to fiddle with one of these I've got three of them, I think so Yeah, here's the third one here. So that one's shinier, but Yeah, so American L 50 series gutted and a little demo of wafer tumbler locks So anyway, thanks for watching and thanks for thanks everybody that responded to the previous post This is Alex have fun and stay legal. Thanks. Bye. Bye