Okay, welcome back everyone, it's Cube's coverage here in Las Vegas for Amazon Remars. Machine learning, automation, robotics, and space. I'm John Furrier, host of theCUBE, got a great set of guests here talking about AI. Jason Montgomery, CTO and co-founder, Manitium and Ryan Sevig, CEO, founder. Guys, thanks for coming on. We just chatting, lost my train of thought because we were chatting about something else in your history with DataRobot and your backgrounds as entrepreneurs. Welcome to theCUBE. Thanks for having us. Thanks for having us. So first, before we get into the conversation, tell me about the company. You guys have history together, multiple startups, multiple exits. What are you guys working on? Obviously AI is hot here, it's part of the show. M is Mars, machine learning, which we all know is the basis for AI. What's the story? Yeah, really, we're here for two of the letters in Mars. We're here for the machine learning and the automation part. So at the high level, Manitium is a no-code AI application development platform. And basically anybody could log in and start making AI applications. It could be anything from just texting it with the Twilio integration to tell you that you're doing great or that you need to exercise more to integrating with Zendesk to get support tickets classified. So Jason, we were talking too about before we came on camera about the cloud and how you can spin up resources. The data world is coming together and I like to see two flash points. The I call the 2010 big data era that began and then failed, Hadoop crashed and burned. Then out of the woodwork came data robots and the data stacks and the snowflakes. And now you have that world coming back at scale. So we're now seeing a huge era of I need to stand up infrastructure and platform to do all this heavy lifting I don't have time to do. That sounds like what you guys are doing. Is that kind of the case? That's absolutely correct. Yeah, and typically you would have to hire a whole team. It would take you months to sort of get the infrastructure automation in place. The DevSecOps, DevOps pipelines together and to do the automation to spin up, spin down, scale up, scale down. Requires a lot of special expertise with Kubernetes and a lot of the other data pipelines and a lot of the AWS technologies. So we automate a lot of that. So if DevOps did what they did, infrastructure as code, data as code, this is kind of like that. It's not data ops per se, is there a category? How do you see this? You can say data ops, but that's also, it's DevOps, DevSecOps, there's a lot going on. It's not just saying AI ops. There's a lot more. What would you call this? It's a good question, I don't know if we've quite come up with a name. It's not data ops, it's not like- We call it AI process automation. There you go. It's APA, it's not what RPA promised to be. Yes, exactly. But what's the challenge? The number one problem is, I would say, I'm not so much all on heavy lifting. It's a lot of heavy lifting, that for sure. What's involved? What's the consequences of not going this way?   And then you had to do really a lot of feature engineering and a lot of other sort of data science on the back end and automate the whole thing and deploy it and get it out there. It's a pretty rigorous and challenging problem that there's a lot of automation platforms for, but they typically focus on data scientists. With these large language models we're using, they're pre-trained, so you've sort of taken out that whole first step of all that data collection to start out and you can basically start prototyping almost instantly because they've already got like six billion parameters, 10 billion parameters in them, they understand the human language really well and a lot of other problems. I don't know if you have anything you want to add to that, Ryan, but yeah. I think the other part is, we deal with a lot of organizations that don't have big IT teams and it would be impossible, quite frankly, for them to ever do something like deploy Textract as an example. They're just not going to do it, but now they can come to us. They know the problem they want solved. They know that they have all these invoices as an example and they want to run it through a Textract and now with us they can just drag and drop and say, yeah, we want Textract and we want it to go through this and that's what we want. And expertise is a huge problem and the fact that IT's changing too, right? Put that out there. You guys say, you know, cybersecurity challenges because we have a background on that, so you know, all the cutting edge. So this just seems to be this IT, I hate to say transformation because that's not the way I'm looking for. I'd say stuck in the mud kind of scenario where they have to get bigger faster and the scale is bigger and they don't have the people to do it. So you've seen the rise of managed service. You mentioned Kubernetes. I know this young 21 year old kid who's got a great business. He runs a managed service for Kubernetes. Why? Because no one's there to stand up to clusters. Yeah, it's a big gap. So you have these sets of services coming in. Where are you guys fit into that conversation if I'm the customer? My problem is what? What is my problem that I need you guys for? What does it look like? Describe my problem. Typically you actually, you kind of know that your employees are spending a lot of time, a lot of hours. So I'll just give you a real example. We have a customer that they were spending 60 hours a week just reviewing these accounts payable invoices. 60 hours a week on that. And they knew there had to be a better way. So. The annual review? Like when we got their data, they were showing us these invoices and they had to have their people circle the total on the invoice, highlight the customer name. That person quit the next day.  They're four people doing this. And the point is, is they come to us and we say, well, you know AI can just, basically using something like TextRack can just do this. And then we can enrich those outputs from TextRack with the AI. So that's where the transformers come in. And when we showed them that and got them up and running in about 30 minutes, they were mind blown. And now this is a company that doesn't have a big IT department. So. But they had the ability to quantify the problem. They knew, and in this case, it was actually a business user. It was not a technical. Yeah, the tower. Consequences that's wasted manual labor wasted. And to their point, it was, look, we have way more high valuable tasks that our people could be doing than doing this AP thing that takes 60 hours. And I think that's really important to remember about AI. I don't think it's going to automate away people's jobs. What it's going to do is it's going to free us up to focus on what really matters and focus on the high value stuff. And that's what people should be doing. I know it's a cliche. I'm going to say it again, because I keep saying it, because I keep saying it for people to listen. The bank teller argument always was the big thing. Oh, yeah, they're going to get killed by the ATM machine. No, they're opening up more branches. That's right. So it's like, come on, people, let's get over that. So I definitely agree with that. Then the question, next question is, what's your secret sauce on the customer? I'm going to like that value proposition. You make something go away. It's a pain relief. Then there's the growth side. Okay, you can solve some problems. Now I want the vitamin. Got the aspirin and I want the vitamin. What's the growth angle for you guys with your customers? What's the big learnings once they get the beach head with problem solving? I think the big one is to say that we start with the account payable thing.  So they might say, hey, you know what? Actually in this edge case, I'm going to play with this. And not only do I want it to go to our accounting system, but if it's this edge case, I want it to email me. So they'll just drag and drop an email block into our canvas and now they're making it their own. So this is the no code, low code situation. They're essentially building a notification engine under the covers, they have no idea what they're doing. But they get the value. They just know that, hey, you know what? When the amount's over $10,000, I want an email. They know that's what they want. They don't know that's a notification engine, right? Of course, that's called value emails. Yeah, that's exactly what I wanted. All right, so tell me about the secret sauce. What's under the covers? What's the big, big scale valuable secret sauce? I would say part of it, and honestly, the reason that we're able to do this now is transformer architecture. When the transformer papers came out, and then of course, the attention is all you need paper. Those kind of unlocked it and made this all possible. Beyond that, I think the other secret sauce is we've been doing this a long time, so we know where the pain points are. We live through those pain points because we weren't data scientists or ML people. Yeah, you walked a snow with no shoes on in the winter. That's right. He's now got boots on. They're all happy. They've installed machines. You've loaded OSs on top of our rock switches.  And now a business user is doing the low code. If you have the system architecture set up, so back to the data engineering side, you guys had the experience got you here. This is a big discussion right now we're having on theCUBE and many conversations. Like the server market, you had that go away through Amazon. Google was one of the first, obviously, to board. But the idea that servers could be everywhere. So the SRE role came out, the Site Reliability Engineer, which was one guy, or gal, and zillions of servers. Now you're seeing the same kind of role with data engineering. And then there's not a lot of people that fit the requirement of being a data engineer. It's like, it's very unique because you're dealing with a system architecture, not data science. So start to see the role of this new persona because they're taking on all the manual challenges of doing that. You guys kind of replaced that, I think. Well, do you agree with it about the data engineer, first of all? I think, yeah, well, and it's different because there's the older data engineer and then there's sort of the newer cloud aware one who knows how to use all the cloud technologies. And so when you're trying, we've tried to hire some of those and it's like, okay, you're really familiar with old database technology, but can you orchestrate that in a serverless environment with a lot of AWS technology, for instance? And that's hard. There's not a lot of people who know that space. And there's no real curriculum out there that's going to teach you how to handle ETLing and also like I got, I want to stream data from this source, I'm using SQL, I'm going to put it all together. Yeah, so it's a lot of just trying to figure that out. So with the large language models too, we don't have to worry about some of the data there too. It's already codified in the model. And then as we collect data, as people use our platform, they can then curate data they want to annotate or enrich the model with so that it works better as it goes. And then kind of curating, collecting the data as it's used, so as it evolves, it just gets better. Well, you guys obviously have a lot of experience together. Congratulations on the venture. Thank you. What's going on here at ReMars? Why are you here? What's the pitch? What's the story? Where's your, you got two letters, you got the M for the machine learning and AI and you got the A for automation. What's the ecosystem here for you? What are you doing? Well, I mean, I think you kind of said it right. We're here because the machine learning and the automation part, but more widely than that. I mean, we work very, very closely with Amazon on a number of fronts, things like text track, transcribe, Alexa, basically all these AWS services are just integrations within our system. So you might want to hook up your AI to an Alexa so that you could say, hey, Alexa, tell me updates about my LinkedIn feed. I don't know, whatever your heart's content is. Well, what about this cube transcription? It's going to be live. Yeah, exactly, 100%. Yeah, we could do that.  Q&A extraction, yeah. And say, hey, these guys are technical. Yeah, there you go. Oh, they mentioned Kubernetes. We didn't say serverless. Chef, puppet, those are words, right? You know, linguistics matters, right? You're getting into, that's a service that no one's ever going to build. Well, and actually, on that point, really interesting, we work with some healthcare companies and when you're basically, when people call in and they call into the insurance, they have a question about their, like, is this going to be covered? And what they want to key in on are things like, I just went to my doctor and got a cancer diagnosis. So the relevant thing here is they just got this diagnosis. And why is that important? Well, because if you just got a diagnosis, they want to start a certain triage to make you successful with your treatments because obviously there's an incentive to do that. Yeah, time series matters in data. Exactly. And machine learning reacts to it. But also it could be fed back old data. It used to be time series, just store it. But now you could reuse it to see how to make the machine learning better. You guys doing anything around that, how to make the machine learning smarter, doing look backs or maybe not the right word, but because you have data, how about you look back at it? That's how it happened. So part of our platform and part of what we do is as people use these applications, to your point there's lots of data that's getting generated. But we capture all that and that becomes now a labeled data set within our platform and you can take that labeled data set and do something called fine tuning, which just makes the underlying model more and more yours. It's proprietary the more you do it and it's more accurate usually the more you do it. So yeah, we keep all that. I want to ask your reaction on this, it's a good point. The competitive advantage and the extra property is going to be the workflows. And so the data is the IP. If this refinement happens, that becomes an intellectual property. That's kind of not software. It's the data modeling, it's the data itself is worth something. You guys seeing that? Yeah, and actually how we position the company is man team is a control plane and you retain ownership of the data plane. So it is your intellectual property. It's in your system, it's in your ADS environment. That's not what everyone else is doing. Everyone else wants to be the control plane and the data plane. We don't want to own your data. We don't. It's a compliance and security nightmare. Yeah. Let's be real. It's like a question, what do you optimize for? Right. And I think that's a fair bet given the fact that clients want to be more agile with their data anyway. And the more restrictions you put on them, why would that, this only gets you in trouble. I can see that being, and plus lock-ins going to be a huge factor. I think this is coming fast. I know what it's talking about in the press, but everyone's like run to silos, be a silo. And that's not how data works. No. So the question is, how do you create siloing of data for say, domain specific applications while maintaining a horizontally scalable data plane or control plane? That seems to be kind of disconnected. Everyone wants to lock in their data. What do you guys think about that, this industry transition we're in now? Because it seems people are reverting back to fourth grade. And to, you know, back to silos. Yeah, I think, well, I think the companies probably want their silo of data, their IP. And so as they refine their models and we give them the ability to deploy it in their own SageMaker, in their own VPC, they retain and own it. They can actually get rid of us and they still have that model. Now they may have to build, you know, a lot of pipelines and other technology to support it, but- Well, your lock-in is usability. Exactly. And value. Yeah. Value proposition is the lock-in. Bingo. Exactly, yeah. You say, hey, more value, I want to get rid of it. Valuable, I'll pay for it. Right. As long as you have multiple values step up and that's what cloud does. I mean, I think that's the thing about cloud that's going to make all this work, in my opinion. The value enablement is much higher. Mm-hmm. So good business model. Anything else here at the show that you observed, that you liked, that you think people would be interested in? What's the most important story coming out of the holistic of you zoom up and look at remars? What's coming out of the vibe? You know, one thing that I think about a lot is we have Artemis here, humanity hopefully is soon going to be going to Mars. And I think that's really, really exciting. And I also think when we go to Mars, we're probably not going to send a bunch of software engineers up there. Right? We've got robots to do break fix now. So, you know, we're good. IT is gone. So services are going to be easy. Yeah, but. Oh, I left that device back at Earth. I just think that's not going to be good. Just replicating the ones. I think there's like an eight minute. Amazon is going to have the first monopoly on next day delivery in space. They'll just have a spaceship that sends out droids to Mars. Yeah. But I think that when we start going back to the moon and we go to Mars, people are going to think, hey, I need this application now to solve this problem that I didn't anticipate having. And in science fiction, we kind of solve this with like how, right? Like you have this AI on this computer or this on the spaceship that could do all this stuff. We need that. And I haven't seen that here yet. No, it's not here yet. Right now I think they're getting the hardware right first, but we did a lot of reporting on this with the DOD and the tactile edge, you know, military applications. It's a fundamental, I won't say, it's a tech religious argument. Like, do you believe in agile real time data? Or do you believe in democratizing multi-vendor, you know, capability? I think the industry needs to sort itself out because sometimes multi-vendor, multi-cloud might not work for an application that needs this database or this application at the edge. Right. So if you're in space, the backhaul, it matters. It really does, yeah. Not a good time to go back and get that highly available data. We went highly, is it highly available or is it two terms? Highly available, which means real time and available. It really means it's on a disk. Right, yeah. So that's a big challenge. Well guys, thanks for coming on. Sharon, look for the company. What are you guys up to? How much funding do you have? How old are you? Staff, hiring? What some of the details? We're about 45 people right now. We are a globally distributed team, so we hire like from every country pretty much.  Definitely always look for engineers looking for more data scientists. We're very, very well funded as well. And yeah, so hopefully check this out. We're guys headquartered. So a lot of us live in Columbus, Ohio. That's technically HQ, but like I said, we're in pretty much every continent except Antarctica. So you're all virtual? Yeah, 100% virtual. 100%. Got it. Well congratulations and love to hear that data doc story at the time. Data robot, yeah. I mean data robot, sorry. Let's get a call to be a data company. Give me a data company. Thanks for coming on and congratulations for your success and thanks for sharing. Yeah, thanks for having us. Yeah, thanks for having us. Pleasure to be here. Mr. Cube here at Reeve R's. I'm John Furrier, host. Thanks for watching more coming back after this short break.


David Fincher is one of my favorite directors working today in Hollywood, so I thought it'd be fun to do a top 10. And since he has 10 movies, this works out really nicely. In the number 10 spot is Benjamin Budden, a movie about an old man baby who grows up to be a young man. I don't know, it's hard to explain. Unfortunately, there isn't much script there. They had this concept where he was going to age in reverse, but there wasn't an interesting story outside of the concept. And it sucks because it's the third time I believe that he's teamed up with Brad Pitt, and the previous two entries were phenomenal. It's of course visually stunning as every David Fincher movie is. It just runs out of steam very fast. In the nine spot is a movie that a lot of people will probably say, whoa, that's in the top three for me and that's, that's fine. I just didn't like this story. I didn't like that they gave away the ending in the middle of the film. So the second half was me just watching two awful people try to one up each other. It just didn't feel right. I wish they would have left that kind of halfway reveal to the end of the film as it should have been. I know it's based off a popular book, so I think it was true to form in that aspect. As far as David Fincher is concerned though, he's such a talented guy behind the lens of a camera. I wish he'd focus on the more surreal films unless on these kind of lackluster tales. In the number eight spot is Alien 3. This is the last one from David Fincher that I'm just kind of met on. Another film that's entirely not Fincher's fault as he was brought in to armchair quarterback this thing. He was like the third director brought in studio interference left and right. There's tons of audiobooks behind the scene events and things that can tell this story far better than I can. But the end of the day, we're talking about a really young new director who's never done a feature length film brought on by a studio and has to shoot this thing in an extremely limited amount of time. He's writing script changes on the fly as he's shooting. He's also getting studio notes and full page rewrites in tandem as he's shooting scenes in the film. It was nuts. I remember seeing a part of the documentary where the Sigourney Weaver was talking about how it's like two in the morning and she's walking down this tunnel that's like a hundred some degrees for like the 30th or 40th time. Maybe a hundredth time. I don't know. I guess I don't remember it that well. But Fincher just cannot get this one shot perfectly right in his eyes. And this man is a perfectionist when it comes to shooting. If you pause a David Fincher movie at any point, you will see a painting. Number seven is the girl with the dragon tattoo. The reason this one's lower on my list is because I read the book first and it's rare when I read a book before seeing a movie. And that's not because I'm too cool for school. It's because oftentimes the book is better than the movie and I'm a movie buff. I want to see the movie before I get the further information into the story. I did that with the Harry Potter franchise. No regrets. I think the movies and books are equally amazing. I think the books just fill in some of the gaps and add more to the story to the rich world. But those movies are damn good. I also did that with Jurassic Park. I think most people did, but the book is quite different than the movie. Also fantastic. Fincher was very true to the source material. So much so that I found myself just kind of waiting for the reveal. Like, okay, this movie looks gorgeous. You got the net. You got Trent Reznor's stamp on the music. Everything's working. Brilliant casting for the leads. Skarsgard seems like an obvious villain. But let's just move this along. Social networks at my number six spot. A movie that I didn't think could possibly be better than just okay. Really impressed with this one. Fincher managed to take a decent background story and make it something really special. I never thought I would care so much about two guys rowing a boat as much as I did here. Jesse Eisenberg is at his most Eisenberg-y and proves that he is a decent actor when giving good source material like Sleuther. Number five is Panic Room. Jodie Foster. My treasure. My beauty. And that girl from Twilight. Kristen Stewart. I know that's not really a selling point. But she's young here. This is pre-Twilight and she has acting chops. She's good.  Here though, they go into a panic room about 10 minutes into the film and that's where they stay for almost the majority of this picture. While Jared Leto, who at one point was also good pre-joker, and friends try to break in and murder them. A very simple concept does not overstay its welcome. Fincher once more doing crazy stuff with the camera. This guy loves to move this sucker in places it should not be. Going through keyholes, running up the sides of railings, going through ceiling vents and down and holding the shot to let you know that he in fact did this seamlessly in one take. Or at least he's tricked your eyes to the point where you believe he did. A master at his craft. Sodiak's at my fourth spot. It's a movie that gets better with each watching. And it's also one of those rare movies where I went in the first time. It was kind of disappointed with it. There's been a few movies that have done that to me over the years. I remember Austin Powers going to that one and just not getting it, not being in on the jokes or anything, but it just stuck with me in the back of my mind like this would be so stupid. And then I watched it 30 more times and loved it more every time and I still do. The same can be said for Sodiak. I think a lot of it has to do with the marketing kind of misleading me. They made it seem like it was going to be the seven type of film where there was these gory kills and it was like kind of in the mind of the serial killer. But no, it's really in the mind of going mad trying to find the serial killer. It's about the hunt. It's about the need and the desire to stop everything in your life and focus on this killer. And it is gripping if you go into it that way. If you go into it from the psychological standpoint of Jake Gyllenhaal's character or Robert Downey Jr. or Mark Ruffalo. Ruffalo or however you say his name. Plus it has one of my top 10 most disturbing scenes in a film, which is a couple at a park in the middle of broad daylight getting stabbed in front of each other. It's super haunting stuff. Highly recommend it. Number three goes to the most criminally underrated film on this list, The Game with Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, other people. This thing is awesome. A brain teaser of sorts. This one is a psychological mystery where Michael Douglas is given a birthday present like no other. Or is he? I don't want to ruin this. I know a lot of people haven't seen it. They've slept on The Game. I don't want to give anything away. Just know that it's worth your time and come back to me in the comments when you have seen it. I'd love to know if you thought it was great. You will think it's great. It's a puzzler. It plays with your mind and your emotions. You don't know what's going on. You don't know what's real or fake. One of the Brad Pitt movies I was talking about earlier is Seven. There are seven deadly sins. Greed, lust, gluttony. I'm not saying this in the right order. It doesn't matter. There's seven of them. Take my word for it. Kevin Spacey's in this. Brad Pitt's in this. Morgan Freeman's in this. Kevin Spacey, I know, has had some issues lately in real life. And that kind of works in his favor here. You can't really watch the Cosby Show anymore when you see the guy in front of the lens. You know, he's playing a character, but he's kind of just playing Bill Cosby. Kevin Spacey, however, is playing a insane psychopathic serial killer.  He's disturbing on screen, maybe in real life, allegedly. And that works out in his favor. Because for a while, when I first saw Seven, I had no idea who Kevin Spacey was.  And then I kind of watched him in a whole bunch of other stuff. I'm like, Kevin Spacey. And then I went back and watched Seven. I'm like, okay, it's Kevin Spacey. Now I go back and I go, oh my God, it's Kevin Spacey. What's he going to do next? He's scary. Seven is disturbing. It's gritty. It's dark. It's got one of the best twists in movie history. People quote it all the time. What's in the box? What's in the box? Terrific acting. Brad Pitt is at his best here. Morgan Freeman is always at his best. So that doesn't really matter. C7. I could make a lame joke about how I'm not supposed to talk about the number one movie on this list. And I kind of just did. It's Fight Club. There are so many good things to say about Fight Club. I could do a podcast for hours on it, but I won't. Because I don't have that kind of time anymore. Let me just summarize with this. Every watch of Fight Club brings to a new revelation, a new reveal, a new image that you didn't see before. Whether it's a hidden Starbucks cup in every sequence of the film, whether it's a spliced image, one of five that I believe are of Tyler Durden in and out of frame, whether it's the constant back and forth bickering between our lead character and another person, a mysterious person who you later find out, it's one and the same. This movie is a mind squeeze. It takes you for all your worth. It's full of fun, dark humor.  It's got some amazing use of early CG work and camera angles. I can't even possibly comprehend how they shoot. Immensely quotable. The film has never looked better. And I have seen this thing probably 50 times. I watched it every other day when I was a teenager. It spoke to me. Damn it. It's angsty. It's rebellious. It's got space monkeys.   It's got everything you want and more. That's my David Fincher top 10. Can you beat it? No, you can't because this one's perfect. Can you disagree? Almost certainly. Let me know your list in the comments. Thanks for watching. Like the video if you want and make sure to subscribe to Adam Does Movies because I have a bunch of other stuff on this channel. Other hot takes, other movie feuds, movie related stuff. All right, take care.


Sarah? Hello, I'm Susan Thompson, resource manager here. Hi. Well my baby doesn't sleep at night and my dad's been really sick and he needs my help a lot. Did you bring a resume with you? No, I put everything on the application. What's your work experience here? What kind of work experience do you have? I haven't had a job. Okay, do you have anyone who could give you a reference? Um, hi. It's seven. The party's at seven. Yeah, I'll bring the chips. Okay, bye. What'd you say? I said, do you have any references? What's a reference? A person who can tell us whether or not you're a good worker. Okay, do you have any questions for me? Why should I hire you, Sarah? Well, because I really need the money. I have a lot of problems and I really need a job. I have a lot of problems too and I don't need any more. Nice to meet you. Can I have the job? How much does it pay? Oh, I don't think you're the right person for the job. Good luck.


Standard of California, on behalf of independent chevron gas stations and standard stations throughout the west, invites you to let George do it. The Coward, another adventure of George Valentine. President, I'll notice, dangerous my stock and trade. If you're an early worm who keeps getting the purge, you got a charm for me, George Valentine. Write full details. Dear Mr. Valentine, my name is Douglas French. I'm staying in a rooming house, 317 River Street. Mr. Valentine, we can't lose a second in correcting the most fearful, the most horrible mistake ever made by a mad man. I knew the man, but very briefly, several years ago. Some ways, somehow, in those years between, the pain of his own suffering must have twisted all his remembrance of fact. Because, Mr. Valentine, I hadn't been in the city more than 24 hours when the telegraph office called to read me a wire. It had my name on it. My brand new address. It was from him. Yes, Mr. French, message follows. It says I have got some new facts. It is never too late for you to suffer as you should. Now I know, and soon the world will know, that I hereby accuse you of cold bloodedly committing murder for your own cowardly gain. I hereby accuse you of murdering a total of 37 people. Signed, Amiel Martinez. Amiel Martinez. Repeating, for confirmation, 37. That is all, Mr. French. I'd say we won't attempt to remove it until the X-ray is a developable tenancy. You see, in this quarter, the man's chest... Yeah, yeah, yeah, Doc, I know, I know, but maybe the pictures will help us until you do get the bullet out. Near the breastbone, huh? With the juncture of this rib, you see. Exactly. Nor would I say the difficult part just now is keeping the poor man alive. Well, all right, Doc. Well, why are you so anxious about the bullet, Lieutenant? Do you have a gun to match it with or something? No, not yet. But when I do find one, well, I want to know what I'm looking for. There's nothing concrete to grab onto in this case. Except the telegram. Yeah, that. Amiel Martinez will round up every Amiel Martinez that ever lived. Only I don't know... Only it was a little wild, wasn't it? Thirty-seven people, almost a little crazy. Except that we do have a straight-out attempted murder on our hands. Couldn't you find anything about Mr. French? Oh, he comes from the east. They're investigating. They'll let us know, but it doesn't look like anything. No past record, no enemies, if that's what you mean. I meant friends. Well, none here in town. Least he didn't see anybody we know of. And you found him by the river, huh? Yeah, yeah, the walkway on the bridge. One lady said he had supper, was pretty nervous, went for a walk to kill time until eight o'clock. He got it out there in the dark. The noise of traffic on the bridge to cover the shot. Perfect place. Lonesome, motorist can't see. I guess he'd still be there if one of them hadn't stopped to inspect a flat tire. Lieutenant, I have the X-ray. Oh, yeah, let's see. Careful, careful with it, Lieutenant. Well, Riley, speaking of flat tires... Can you measure any caliber or anything off that picture? For the leather... What is this, a picket fence? Yes, yes, beautifully glazing. I'd say your bullet is this little shadow here under the edge of the rim. Oh, yeah. I always get a seat behind a pole. Yeah, but when will we operate later on?  Now I gotta sit around waiting to see if he regains consciousness or if he dies. Oh, sure, Riley. In the meantime, the game goes on, doesn't it? Well, we're waiting for that pole to be moved. There's somebody running around who's nutty, a wild of crazy. Really, Mr. Valentine, I should be in bed today. Uh, telegraph company keeps quite adequate records, worse than the Army. But I've already told the police... It's you! Excuse me. It's you. Now, look, I know there's a file copy of Wires. Oh, yes. Yes, yes, we sent him a confirming copy after we phoned it. Naturally. Well, George, we didn't find one on Mr. French or in his room. Throw it away or burn it, Booksy. Now, I'm interested in the file copy of the sending points. Uh, for handwriting? Yeah. Well, it was telephoned in by Mr. Martinez to one of the stations here in the city. But when you do that, you have to give your phone number and address for charges, don't you? Oh, I see what you mean. Yes, yes. We've already investigated. I have it right here. Uh, jeez. It was a pay station. Oh, sure. Thank you. Do you think, uh, Penicillin would help? I think maybe we all should have stood in bed when I get... I know, it's discouraging. We handle so much traffic every day. It's very seldom any of them would notice the text. Our girls never react to the millions of words that they... Why? Why? Good heavens. What is it, Miss Johnson? The message continues, I... I hereby accuse you of cold bloodedly committing murder for your own cowardly game. I hereby accuse you of murdering a total of 37 people. Signed Samuel Martinez. Do you have that, Mr. Anzlo? I'll repeat for confirmation. 37. Repeat. Hey. Hey, George. What'd you say? I am just a botanist, you understand? Mr. Valentine is student. Playing Mr. Botany B. I'm not concerned with the world of men. I...I, uh... Well, I... Mr. Anzlo, you were going to say that that wire was... a mistake, weren't you? Yes. I suppose a horrible mistake. That's what Mr. French said about his wire. I'm a botanist. In the world of botany... I guess you've seen about Mr. French in the newspapers, haven't you? Yeah, sure. At least from the looks of your study here. All the newspapers. Yes, Mr. Valentine, I know what happened. But that doesn't mean... Okay, then why did it happen? Why the wires? Who is Emil Martinez? What's he talking about? I won't tell you. I'll never as long as I live. You will, Buster. George, wait a minute. Mr. Anzlo, do you always tear up your magazines like that? Huh? What do you mean? Well, here in the wastebasket. It's a current copy, too. I've never heard of anyone tearing up a newspaper. Look out, Buster. Put it down. Don't touch it. I'm sorry, Professor. George... Now, you'll be okay, Buster. Now, what do we have to do? Go through the magazine page by page? Or are you going to tell us what it is? The world is botany. The world is botany. George, look here. Look where it's folded. Thirty-seven. Yeah? The number is here in the article. Freelance writer J.J. Farrell. Farrell? Yeah, why? Never mind. What is it? What to say? He's talking about the war. About being in Japan. Yeah? In reference to the above, it is of interest to note that Colonel Suyamoto's dying remarks to me concerned the wiping out of a party of thirty-seven, who, with the assistance of native guerrillas, were trying to escape the holocaust of Singapore. George... Oh, come on, Angel, come on. In this case, the efficiency of fifth column informants was belied. Colonel Suyamoto stated that the party, which included soldiers as well as civilians, never would have been located had it not been that four members of the party itself were foraging for food at night and that the application of threats finally made one of the four confess secretly the exact location of the other thirty-seven, who regrettably had to be destroyed. Other examples of fifth column and so on and so on. I guess the words in the telegram aren't so crazy after all, are they? No, Mr. Valentine. Were you one of the four, Mr. Anzlo? Yes. Was...Amel Martinez? I wouldn't remember any names. Was Douglas French? Oh, yes, yes, his picture is in the newspaper. It was the same man, I'm sure. Who else? I wouldn't remember any names. We were all strangers until then. Just a random group of us in a big party with a few British Army men and guerrilla leaders. The others I went foraging with at night, businessmen perhaps, Americans, I know that. I was teaching high school buttony in Singapore, Mr. Valentine. Buttony.  We were separated later on, sent to different prison camps, the four of us. Though I never knew just why they stopped torturing us, Mr. Valentine. Why they didn't go ahead and kill us. I just can't somehow believe that you wouldn't remember. Things so simply told in that article. And things so unimportant to the rest of the world. To whom the numbers 37 or 4 don't have such awful meaning. And who would guess that we were still alive, any of us? Perhaps many such events took place during the war. You don't remember, huh? It is not a thing. Simply remembered, Mr. Valentine. Not with sanity. Among that 37 were friends, war, families. But I have another family now in my work. I am a buttonist. I don't remember anything. I am a buttonist. Okay, okay, Mr. I lost. I'll talk to you later. Peaceful man. Oh, George. Well, Angel, there's a guy giving election tomorrow at the downtown club on the Orient. What? Just ordinary stuff, but the speaker's name is J.J. Ferrell. The what? Oh, so that's why you... Yes, Angel. Everybody seems to be in town at once, and I wonder why. And if this whole case has turned out to be a chase after a betrayer, an informer, a coward, then I wonder if the writer told all he knew, all the dying chap told him about which one of the four was the coward.  Now look, there's a suitcase. That's his, isn't it? The stick is on it. What if it is? I ain't noticed him come in. I clean up and dust and bring in the linen once a week. That's all I do. I'm not a snooper like some people a body has to put up with. Oh, now please take it easy, won't you? We told you how important it was that we... Here's his notebook, too. Oh. Yeah, guess what's on the back page. What? I have some new facts.  What's this? What's this? Uh, Andy, suppose you go into that bedroom and get rid of that laundry or whatever it is you do. I told you a body had to put up with things. Yes, Angel, it's the words from the telegram. The same identical telegram. Signed, Emil Martini. Oh, what's that? Come on, stay with her. Book, stay here. Okay. Oh. Is that your tenant, Andy? Is that the writer? JJ Ferrell? I... Yeah, but I didn't see him come in. I've been here all day. I ain't seen him all day. No. No, I guess you haven't. He looks like he's been dead since yesterday. We'll return to tonight's adventure of George Valentine in just a moment. I guess you know it was Mark Twain who said everyone complains about the weather, but no one does anything about it. But Standard of California keeps a careful watch on the weather and does something about it. So you can get peak performance from your car the year round and wherever you drive, they see to it that Chevron Supreme gasoline is carefully climate tailored. Whatever altitude and temperature zone you drive in, Chevron Supreme has been blended to meet the requirements of that zone. 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Well, same as you, dead 24 hours maybe. When his head's bashed in crime of passion, there was a fight, a struggle. That's a mouthful of understatement, brother. What about him? What kind of a guy was he? Well, I checked with a couple of editors, his reputation's good. Now the chance of his being mixed up with anybody from the Singapore business. And if he had any idea those four were still alive, he's the kind of guy who probably would have kept his mouth shut. Let sleeping dogs lie. Yeah, but look, Riley, maybe he didn't write all he did know. He couldn't have it. This doesn't make any sense. Ah, sense yet. A guy gets a bullet from whom? A guy gets bashed in by whom it's a killer I want, not a lot of... I'm reading Farrell's notebook, Lieutenant. His notes and things for stories. And it seems to me you're both counting wrong. What do you mean, Angel? Well, I mean, look, here it says, Amiel Martinez, question mark. What? Give me that. Now just wait a minute, wait a minute. And then there's a name Douglas French and his address back east, and Mr. Onslow. Well, that's only three, isn't it? But if I turn the page, I can count to four. Nick Atkins with a street number here in town. Here, here, this is the number. Yeah, and this is one time I'm going to do the talking. One time. Well, there's down the alley there. Down the alley there. Come on, you take it around the left. Okay. Oh, there's another policeman. Yeah, a guy running. Those shots were in the alley here, but there's nobody. George, look, at the house, a side window. Yeah, broken. The guy was standing out here shooting in it. Come on, side door, Brooksy. Nick Atkins. Who else? What? Hey, you miss me, didn't you? Couldn't hit fish in the rain by that way, the way he shot at me. Who couldn't? The minute we get out of this light of doorway, do you know? Yeah, yeah, but do you mind telling me who? How should I know? Now look, Buster, my name's Valentino. Yeah, sure. The paper's Valentine. Hi, cutie. Miss Brooks, isn't it? Oh, pretty smart, aren't you? I get around. I watch what's going on. Did you get a telegram? You don't think I'd be left out, do you? Sure, sure. Same stuff, same words. I checked it with French yesterday. You saw Douglas French yesterday? Oh, he gave me a ring to save some town from back east. That's all. Have you seen Hans Low lately? No. Teenage? No. That's all. It sure wasn't a laugh about that wire, though. Yeah, poor guy. It all strikes you pretty funny, doesn't it, Buster? You got a better suggestion? Or else you're going to get this... take this whirl unless you laugh at it, huh? Okay, I can't be a smart guy. Get something straight, mister. There was 37 people. I was boss Steve at all at the American Docks in Singapore. And I was so smart. I thought my wife would be safer within 37. Oh, I see. Nick, you're not going to help us very much, are you? Have it your own way. Okay, well, there's one thing I'd like to know, though. Did you have any idea back there in 1942 that one of the four of you had turned in former, that when they questioned you separately, one of you would have been a coward? What do you think? None of you ever guessed how that tragedy came about until you read Farrell's article in the magazine. Otherwise, a certain one of you never would have lasted as long as this. Stand still, will you? Now, take it easy. Take it easy. I know who it is. Come on in, Riley. There are three cops I'm going to demote, and then I'm going to demote myself. Why, what happened? Did he get away? Ah, don't even ask me. But what's the matter with you? Relax, Riley. This is Atkins. He's telling us nothing, Riley. Nobody is. Everybody's being so cooperative in this case. Oh, you can't blame him, Riley. Of course the coward isn't going to talk. Oh, yeah? We'll see, we'll see. I'm expecting a phone call any minute. Oh, did they operate on Mr. French for the bullet? Well, you could compare it with the ones that were fired at Nick Atkins. No, no, no, not that. It's Amiel Martinez. The right Amiel Martinez. What are you talking about, Riley? Ah, there, that's the report on him now. Hey, you see? People won't tell us, but we find out. Hello, Riley speaking. What? What? Oh, no, no, Sergeant, you're wrong. You can't be right. The, uh, Amiel Martinez who was in Singapore, who was captured and sent alone to a Jap prison camp. A couple of years later in that same camp died of sickness. What? But, but the telegrams... Well, that's why the question mark after his name, so that's where this is. A dead man sends telegrams. Today, yesterday, a dead man phones a telegram office. Now, listen to me, Riley. Somebody signed his name. That's all. Somebody wanted to make everybody sweat. Somebody who found out in the article they'd been a coward, but didn't know who it was but that's not important, don't you get me? What I want to do is stop another murder. Another murder? Well, who's left out of the four? Who fired those shots at Atkins? Who else could it be? Get away from me, both of you. Oh, you came right back to your house, didn't you, Mr. Onslow? You can't have my gun. You can't have it. But you've already shot at Atkins, Mr. Onslow. Well, I've missed him. I know I missed him. But you won't get another chance. We're here now and you're not going to shoot us. Stop talking as though I were crazy. I'm not crazy.   I'm going to... Yes, there you are. Well, that's better, Professor. I'm going to kill him no matter what it does to me. No matter what it does to anybody. Yeah, yeah, I know, Mr. Onslow. I talk about botany.  I can't close my mind. I am going to kill him. I am going to... Mr. Onslow, be quiet, will you? Why, let him spill it. I told you I wanted to stop a murder, didn't I? Huh? Hey, George. Yeah, hey, George. He's here. I heard the door turn. Shh, no, wait a minute. Here he comes. Come on, Riley, get it. Take it easy. Okay, get these. Get off me. I'm not going anywhere. Come on, first, Riley. I haven't got it gone. I don't need it. No, take it easy. No, no, he's... Okay, all right then. I'm sorry we were so rough. But now sit still. Don't move. Why? You know why. Hello, Onslow. Hello, Mr. Atkins. Well, I guess we can do without the formalities. Just take them both down to headquarters. And we can check on that gun of yours, Onslow, against the bullet in Douglas French. No, no! And you don't have to laugh, Atkins. We'll find the gun of yours someplace. Take it easy, Riley. I think I'll find the other gun for you. Where? French got his bullet on the walkway of a bridge, right by the railing. Okay, get some boys dragging that river fast. Killer tossed it over, huh? All right, all right, it's worth a chance. Worth a lot more than that. Yeah, well, I'll say it is, because one of these two guys did it. They're the only ones left. One of these two bashed in that rider, and then later on went out and took a pot shot at French. I guess because French and Farrell and everybody else knew he was the coward, that's why. Riley, would you please... Yeah, it is funny, isn't it, Atkins?  He's the coward. I don't need a gun. I've got no idea what it feels like to know what he did, Mr. Bountine. He's the coward. Oh, no, you don't. Take it easy now. Now, listen, mister, I want to talk about telegrams. Amy and Martinez didn't send them. That's a cinch. And Mr. Onslow, you didn't even receive your wire until long after Farrell was dead and French had been shot. Well, what difference does... Therefore, the wires must have been sent by one of you two. Sure, sure. And whichever one it was, you sent one to yourself to cover up. So what have I did? What does that make me? Thanks, Atkins. But I don't even care if it was you. The point is the guy who sent those wires did it because he didn't know who the coward was. What, mister? So he couldn't have been the coward himself, could he? And on the other hand, Mr. Onslow, if you were the coward, why would you be so anxious to kill a newspaper man you didn't even know? Huh? Now, wait a minute, Valentine. This case is all upside down, Riley, because for once, the innocent have a tragic motive for wanting to kill. You two guys are at each other's throats because you're the last ones left. Because you jump to the same conclusions the good lieutenant did. Mr. Valentine, I don't... That's pretty easy, Mr. Onslow. I guess there were two guys who knew about the coward, Mr. Farrell and the coward himself who must have found that Farrell knew the truth and killed him. The same man who walked down on the bridge by the railing and tried to commit suicide. Mr. Douglas French. Where's Valentine, Miss Brooks? Oh, he'll be right back, Lieutenant. Well, there it is. There's the bullet. The doctor said it was right next to his heart. Yeah, and I guess it'll match up with the gun from the river, all right? The gun we already traced to French. He must have stood by the railing concentrated on making his dying movements to heal the gun overboard. Then pulled the trigger and did it. Douglas French. Only why? Why did he go to all the trouble? Why did he call Valentine into it? Think how close to his heart it's always been, Lieutenant. Ever since 1942. Something even more deadly than a bullet. The guilt of knowing what he did. Of being the only one who knew. I guess so. And when the article came out, when he killed Mr. Farrell, he must have known it was hopeless. The others would get him sooner or later. Yes, but why call you people into it?  He wanted to make everyone think accusing him would be a mistake. It was like the way he tried to commit suicide. Trying to make it someone else's fault. Making everything someone else's fault. Oh, sure. Sure, I get it. Douglas French was a coward all the way to the bitter end, that's all. George? What are you thinking about, George? Oh, I don't know, Angel. The things people do to forget things. To laugh at the world like Nick Atkins or concentrate on work. Like Bartony, maybe? Hey, you know, we're pretty lucky, Angel, you and I. Oh, I know it. Not having anything big to worry about. Well, we want to forget. What we want to do is... Yes, George? Go out and get something to eat. You've very likely read and heard that RPM motor oil is first choice in the West. And have you ever wondered why this is true?  This high cost wear starts the moment you cut the ignition. It's caused by acid-laden moisture forming on cylinder walls and other vital parts building in rust. But not so when you rely on that good premium quality RPM. For special compounds in RPM, keep a moisture-proof film on all vital parts in your engine. Even though your car stands idle for days or weeks, corrosive rust can't get started. 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Hey everyone welcome back welcome back dedicated to financial literacy Russell Moore as the host of the channel and I want to welcome you back be sure to hit the subscribe button yeah yeah I'm still sleepy I know I look tired I know I know but hang in there I want hey I'm doing a sacrificing sleep just to give you this content alright because I love you and I care about you and I want the best for you and I believe there are great things awaiting you in 2022 so hang in there I know we're in we're at war we're we're not at war personally but Russia and Ukraine but we're people NATO just keeps dragging us when the dragon's in hello Poland and so it's getting it's really any stick sticky and now that the president now has announced some sanctions where we were refusing oil from Russia that's gonna affect them big time we've affected them in a great way that the sanctions are have nots they're they have not sunk in yet but they will and trust me they're gonna feel it they're gonna feel it financially and so so I don't know where we're going from here and so and then if China gets involved you're talking about secondary sanctions that will affect them it's it's getting it's getting kind of wild y'all's get kind of wild keep your prayers up keep your prayers up for our country all right this is part two of the segment that I'm doing and it's basically I was responding because as we all know that gas prices are up gas prices were high right here $7 here in Southern California all right now and so the response to the the response from our administration when the question was asked what are you gonna do what do we do about these high gas prices and the response was buy an EV buy electrical vehicles buy an EV and I my response is okay that's great if you have the finances I mean my wife and I we're we're looking at getting an electric vehicle and you know so I'm doing my research which one would be good and that's one of the things I would tell you don't just buy what's popular really do your research and find out how efficient and it can be measured by NPGE combustional engines is NPG miles per gallon but electric vehicles the rating from the EPA and the environmental protection agency they have a rating a new radiance EPGE little e and it's miles per gallon equivalent so basically it's measuring kilowatts and I'm not gonna get into all of that just Google it okay and it basically measures the efficiency of that electric vehicle the higher the number the more efficient that electrical vehicle is and so you want to look at that as well but I'm part two I'm just gonna continue with the list that I had if you didn't hear the part the first part of this of this this series you want to go back to the previous video okay and basically how much would I pay for an EV that's the title this is part two how much will I pay for an EV and I'm reason why I'm responding to this is because it's not practical for most people to buy an EV right now at these prices and I want you to see the prices unless you have a lot of money either saved and you can afford it now the great thing about buying an EV though I remember last year last year I was I would stop I would stop anybody that owned the Tesla I would say hey how do you like your Tesla and I think out of maybe 15 to 20 people at least 18 over 80 to 90% of the people said they love their Tesla they'll never go back to an internal combustion engine again very efficient they said some of them had complaints about customer service but I believe they've improved on that and this is not I'm not plugging Tesla I'm just saying they were saying one person I haven't been to a gas station in two years and that was when I had my other car and he said it's just wonderful especially if you can charge at home if you don't have to go to a charging station and you can get it set up right at home oh man that's it's just wonderful okay so that is one of the things but they're so expensive right now that's the point I want to say to the administration and those that are asked saying that are answering these giving us this pet answer about gas prices and how to handle it is to go buy an EV what if you're in a situation like one of the reasons why we're waiting is that we have a second car we have our first car is a 2021 Toyota Corolla hybrid so it gets good gas mileage and I did that intentionally because we knew that the gas was going to go up and so because of that you know we're getting 55 57 miles per gallon right but we have a second car and it's a rogue Nissan Rogue SUV last of two weeks ago I think I was a week ago yeah 50 $60 to fill it up this week 90 $90 a $30 difference over 25 30% 40% difference 40% 50 30 35 40% difference in a week come on that's expense that's high but but do we have an alternative do we continue to pay the high gas high the high gas which it's not over it's still going to go up I really believe it's going to be at $9 $10 in Southern California within the next six months if nothing if nothing is done we're going to be looking at by the end of the year $10 a gas and do you think the oil companies man they're they're loving this their profits are going to go up you think they're going to be in a hurry to drill especially after the administration put all these regulations and there's permit issues and all this stuff that they've just a beer cat the bureaucratic red tape that's going on it's affecting this whole thing all right but let's continue on with the list all right I ended off at the Volvo up so I'm going to start there again the Volvo XC 40 recharge it has a range of 223 miles it's going for $56,000 the Volos C 40 recharge it's 226 mile range it's going for $59,845 now want to continue to remember to to remember to to say this the government there is an incentive rebate basically $7,500 but that's only for the vehicles that have not the companies that have not exceeded 200,000 units and you want to check that to make sure before you buy that EV I can tell you right now test the kit test that does not apply to this they long be long ago exceeded 200,000 all right the next car now the interesting thing about this car you can only is it's only exclusively being sold in California hello that was a smart move by them and you'll see why in a second it's the Mazda MX 30 electric vehicle and it's going for $34,695 $34,000 this is definitely it's not the lowest on the entire list but it's one of the lowest $30,000 $34,000 but I want you to hear the range the range for this vehicle is a hundred miles you there had to be a catch right it just had to be a catch a hundred mile range you guys a battery kilowatt battery battery life it's it's small it's a small battery and even the the NPGEs it's pretty efficient but it's not it's not more efficient than some of the other smaller vehicles and we'll mention those in a few minutes that's sad a hundred mile range okay the Mercedes EQS Mercedes Benz has come out with an electric vehicle it has a range of 350 miles that's pretty good all right now let's go over to the price $103,000 you guys you got to be kidding me okay the Volkswagen ID 4 now I saw this vehicle it's a beautiful looking vehicle by the way it's beautiful I love the way it looks and it ranges the range is 260 miles it's going for $41,955 that's not bad I don't think they've exceeded the $200,000 possibly you want to check okay all right this is a great car I've heard great reviews on this car and it's the Ford Mustang Mach-E and I really have heard good things about it I heard it's a good running vehicle it's very efficient high efficiency rating and it's it's going for 300 and from a range standpoint 305 miles is the range and it's going for 44,000 now I believe they've exceeded the 200,000 I'm sure they have and I don't think you can get that incentive rebate with the Mach-E at this time but before you're talking about $37,000 $38,000 and it's a great vehicle it's an SUV it's nice it's competing with the Y the Tesla Model Y all right and and just so you know here's a little a little like a little side perk it it's as fast it actually is 1 tenth of a second slower than the Mustang 2.3 high performance the Mustang this vehicle is about a it's really about a tenth of a second slower I mean that means this car can move okay all right so I think it's a good option if you're thinking about an EV the Mach-E okay Tesla my Model X it ranges 348 miles that's wonderful that's great okay now just get to the price $106,000 no incentive no rebate no 7500 Polestar 2 range 270 miles $47,000 and I think the Polestar 2 is I don't think it's exceeded the 200,000 units so I think you can get that $7,000 so you know it's just under about 40,000 you can get it for the Mini Cooper SE electric now the range is 114 mile range now here's the thing about these low-range vehicles the Mazda and the Mini Cooper if you're not doing a lot of driving and you just you know you're not you're not commuting far for your job this could be a good option for you if you're not going far but if you're like me I traveled at Los Angeles hour and 20 minute drive 40 you talk about 80 80 and 90 miles a day and I go there three times a week this would not be good for me I'd be charging all the time now the good thing about electric vehicles right now the EVs there now the technology is getting better where they're actually charging faster they're charging faster more efficient and getting you getting you those charges quicker and that's gonna be great they're gonna be great for this industry because nobody wants to sit there I mean when you get gas come on you what three four minutes maybe five minutes depending on if you're filling your vehicle up but who wants to sit there 20 minutes waiting for the car to charge so quicker charges it's it's happening so that is a good thing all right Polestar to 270 miles 47,000 all right Mini Cooper SE electric 114 mile range but it's $30,000 and I don't know if I don't know if it's exceeded to $200,000 200,000 units I don't know that can you imagine that would be what $23,000 for a Mini Cooper electric I'd be something to look into the leaf I've heard good things about the Nissan Leaf it's a hundred and forty one forty nine mile range hundred forty nine and again this is good if you don't trap you don't drive a whole lot it's a small vehicle and here's here's the thing about the Nissan Leaf they've made a little a larger version of it and it's because you know it's for people that don't like the small compact cars it's gotten a little bit bigger they've got a another they've got another version or a higher performance version and it's and it's going for 28,000 now I don't the the other one and the other one I believe it's maybe about 32 but this is going for $28,000 and it has 149 almost 150 mile range that might be a good option for someone but but think about it though if you don't if you don't have a lot of money $28,000 that probably is about the average what you're gonna pay for a car now but you can get you can get my vehicle our vehicle that we bought Toyota Corolla Toyota's what the number one selling cars in America under 20 grand I got that vehicle I think we owe like 15,000 left we owe you start doubling up payments soon well next year will be be done with it or at least two years so my point is ICE are still much cheaper right now this is I mean if you look at the range 150 mile range 28,000 it's not that okay the Kia Nairo EV or Nero EV maybe pronounce any wrong the range is 239 miles it's going for 41,000 41,000 the Hyundai Ionic 5 has a range of 303 miles that's good and it's going for $44,000 Chevrolet Bolt the Chevrolet Bolt EUV it ranges 247 miles and it's going for 33,995 for basically $34,000 I believe the bolt has exceeded 200,000 units so I don't think you're getting that but check I'm not but don't quote me on that I'm not a hundred percent sure Kia EV 6 it ranges 232 miles and it's going for 42,115 the Chevrolet Bolt EV I gave you the EUV this is the EV and it ranges 259 miles more than the other one the EUV and it's going for 31,995 I only have a few left so I'm gonna go ahead and give you all the rest and so I don't have BMW on here just you can look it up the BMW but I can tell you right now it's expensive all right Hyundai Kona electric the range is 258 miles it's going for $35,000 the Tesla Model S 405 miles that's great and has also a high efficiency MP MP GE and it's going for 96,000 administration $96,000 you're asking us to pay for a vehicle Tesla Model Y 330 mile range it's going for $62,190 Tesla Model 3 it's got 272 mile range it's going for $46,000 now this one you definitely got to have some money it's the Lucid air and they have a grand tour that I believe it's gonna come out late in 2022 that's that's it's I mean it's expensive but the Lucid air here it's 516 mile range that's awesome oh that's great well when you look at the here the price you'll say yeah it needs to do about a thousand mile range $140,500 okay knock off the 7500 okay who cares 140,000 for an electric vehicle and you're asking someone in South Central to go out and get an electric vehicle I want you to hear what you're saying do something about the gas prices do something it's not even just a gas do something about the food do something about the rental cost do something about inflation you guys it's gonna be okay I know it sounds that sounds so it sounds so pessimistic but the truth is good you just heard the truth about an EV and our administration is asking you to go out and be practical and go buy an EV that's the answer to that's the answer and the solution to gas the high gas prices that is not the solution but I want to do a video probably not the next I don't know if I'll do it on what happens when the cost of the batteries because one of the things is happening is Russia it's not just gas what people are not talking about is the nickel they're one of the leaders in providing nickel to the world so guess what here we are talking about electric vehicles electric vehicles and Russia is gonna say okay mr. Elon Musk how about you pay more for the nickel that you need there's a shortage they're scrambling all these all these companies are trying to get the batteries you cannot have an electric vehicle without a battery and you cannot have a battery without nickel well there there are other technologies that are but for the most part right now the batteries nickel so yeah Elon's about to pay more if not he's already started paying more for nickel so guess what guess who's gonna they're gonna pass the cost on to you and you want us to buy an electric vehicle yes electric vehicles it's great once you have them in your possession but it's most people can't afford them right now they've got to come down thank you everybody keep an eye on the prices though and for those that maybe you want to get one of the lower ends that I had there I mentioned about four or five in my videos that were between 30 and $40,000 but the range is so low 100 100 mile range man that's two trips to LA for me no that's one trip once I get back I got a charge once I come back home I got a charge if I bought the Mazda have a wonderful day you guys


He's eaten a fruit even rarer than the ones that create logia types. His flames will keep regenerating no matter how many times he's attacked. That is the leader of the first division, Marco the Phoenix. Hello and welcome to One Piece 101, the series that breaks down everyone and everything in the One Piece world. Today we are going to be examining the right hand man of Whitebeard himself, Marco the Phoenix. Marco is a rather tall and lean man whose head resembles the vague shape of a pineapple. He presents himself as a calm and collected individual, often warm and playful. Although his persona can change instantaneously from this more lighthearted nature to a deadly serious one should a situation call for it. Unfortunately little is known about Marco's early life and by very little I mean absolutely nothing except for one sketch of him as a child showing him to be quite studious and fascinated by the world of cartography. Furthermore, the scruff marks on his head and the fact that he isn't wearing any shoes may imply that he came from quite a poor upbringing. However, at some stage during his early life he joined the Whitebeard pirates and Marco would come to spend at least two decades serving under his captain, Edward Newgate. Like most members of the Whitebeard pirates, Marco came to see his captain as a father figure and they developed an extraordinarily strong bond over time. So much so that Marco eventually rose to become commander of Whitebeard's first division, a position that was only outranked by that of the captain himself. Together Whitebeard and Marco formed a partnership comparable to that of legendary figures such as Roger and Ray Lee with the two placing absolute trust in the abilities of the other. Although Marco would also form powerful bonds with the rest of the crew as well, taking on the role of an older brother really, especially in the case of Port Gasty Ace, an individual who was brought onto the crew against his will after unsuccessfully challenging Whitebeard. Marco immediately went out of his way to befriend Ace and was actually the one whose words convinced Ace to stay with the Whitebeard pirates. The two of them went on to become exceptional friends and Ace would even come to tell Marco about his younger brother, Luffy. However, the Whitebeard pirates would soon be thrown into turmoil after the murder of the fourth division commander, Thatch by another crew member by the name of Marshall D. Teach. Despite Marco's own rage and desire for revenge, he remained a voice of reason in the ensuing chaos and attempted to convince Ace not to pursue Teach, although Ace refused to listen and went after him anyway, setting up the events that would lead to the eventual destruction of the Whitebeard pirates. And while Ace did eventually track down Teach, who was now known as Blackbeard, Ace would be defeated by him and handed over to the world government who scheduled him for execution. In order to save their comrade Marco and the entirety of the Whitebeard pirates as well as their extended allies, launched a full-scale invasion of Marineford. However, this was anticipated by the world government who had assembled their comprehensive army of Marines to counter them. And it would not take long before we were treated to a display of Marco's incredible power. Marco ate a devil fruit known as the Tori Tori No Mi model phoenix, a mythical Zoan type that allows him to transform into a blue phoenix which provides him with two immediate phenomenal benefits. The first of which is the nature of the blue flames themselves, which are referred to as the blue flames of resurrection. This is because while active, they regenerate any wounds that Marco receives, making him nigh on impossible to damage. Although it does need to be noted that the regeneration does take a certain amount of time, depending on the severity of the injury. And there is a limit to how much they can heal, although exactly what that limit is is not clearer this time. Furthermore, he can also use his flames to heal other beings, although not anywhere near the extent to which Marco can use them on his own body. Sadly, the healing nature of these flames means that Marco cannot use them offensively. Or I guess if he did, he'd probably just be healing his opponent, actually. But the second immediate benefit of natural flight, more than makes up for this, as Marco is nothing short of a phenomenal devil fruit user that makes the most of his variable maneuverability to launch aerial attacks and greatly increase the force of basic attacks such as kicks. But it should be noted that this for the most part is only possible because Marco's mastery of this zoan fruit is unlike anything we have seen in the series to this point. As he is able to transform select portions of his body into a phoenix rather than be subject to changing completely. I mean, look technically, yes, Chopper was capable of this, but only via augmenting his fruit with the rumble balls, whereas Marco seems to have just mastered it on his own. To top it off, Marco is capable of using both observation and armament haki and most prominently put all of the above skills to use in a stunning clash against Marine Admiral Kizaru, even successfully getting the better of him in that engagement, although Kizaru took no real damage due to his own incredible abilities. Shortly after Monkey D. Luffy arrived on the battlefield along with his jailbreak squad from Impel Down, dead set on saving his brother Ace. Both Marco and Whitebeard took an immediate liking to Luffy and Whitebeard even ordered Marco not to let him die in the ensuing battle. However, while the pirates fought valiantly, eventually the Marines would gain the upper hand and Ace would come to sacrifice himself to save Luffy. Not only that, but Blackbeard had also arrived on the battlefield and seized the advantage to deliver a killing blow to Whitebeard. Having lost both Ace and his captain, Marco did his utmost to protect Luffy and see that he escaped Marineford, although the battle was eventually brought to an abrupt halt by the Onko Shanks who proceeded to assist Marco with the burial of Whitebeard and Ace in the new world. Marco would then assume leadership of the remnants of the Whitebeard pirates and one year after the death of their captain, they confronted the now incredible forces of the Blackbeard pirates in an event known as the Payback War. However, Marco and his legion suffered an overwhelming defeat and what was left of the Whitebeard pirates was officially dissolved as the survivors all went into hiding. And here I'll throw up a bit of a spoiler warning just for anybody who has not yet begun the reverie arc. If you do not wish to be spoiled, then don't worry, just mute this video until the warning goes away as for the rest of us, the spoilers will begin in three, two, one. Following the Payback War, Marco took up residence on Whitebeard's home island becoming a doctor as well as a protector of the land against Edward Weevil. As a result, Marco declined Nekomamushi's invitation to join them to take down Kaido on Wano. However, Marco did ask him to pass on an as of yet unknown message to Luffy. Some more fun facts about Marco. As with many characters in the series, Marco has a particular speech quirk in this case being that he chooses to end his sentences in the suffix yoi and like many of these quirks, it has no real meaning. It's just a bit of verbal flavor. Marco's official introduction into the series actually occurred way back during the Jaya arc and in the anime, his presence here was deemed fairly unimportant as he was given the color scheme of a generic crew member. Marco is the first person in the series to display a confirmed mythical zoan fruit with his Phoenix powers introducing fans to the entire concept, which was a pretty mind-blowingly OP idea at the time. And finally, a truly useless fact. In addition to looking like one, Marco's favorite food is pineapple. And that pretty much does it for Marco. If you enjoyed this video and the content this channel produced in general, then please do consider donating to the Grand Line Review Patreon because the support of all of your amazing people is what continues to make this channel possible. Also do check out my Teespring store if you're interested in shirts, witties and other miscellaneous items with the proceeds going directly to support the channel as well. And if you'd like to join the fun at any time, then please do head over to my Discord server where a wide array of shenanigans takes place on a daily basis. 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