Hey guys it's Liana and I'm here today to talk about the best and worst books that I read in 2019. So these are books that I read in 2019. They may not have come out in 2019, though some of them did, but others definitely did not. So these are, I don't think I need to explain that, but apparently people get upset if you don't. This is my opinion. If you have a different opinion from me, that's your right. There you go. So I'm gonna go through one of each best, worst. I have five best and five worst and I'm gonna do a sort of compliment sandwich approach where I'm gonna take a bad book and then a good book and then a bad book and then a good book and then a bad book and then a good book. And to end on a positive note, I'm going to end with the best book, which means I have to start with the least worst. Oh yeah, did I say that? I'm gonna go in like a sending order of least worst to most worst and least best to most best. So the first two books that I'll talk about will be meeting in the middle on mediocrity. Not the worst, not the best, but like yeah, I don't think I need to super explain this anyway. So I'm gonna go least worst and then least best and then next least worst and then next least best and then next. Okay, I think you get it. Again, my opinion. You may have different books. You might reverse both of these lists and be like, I totally agree with this video if you just set it in reverse order. And again, that is your right. Also, it's a kind of cloudy today, so the sun is in and out. So if I look suddenly bright and glowing and then doom and gloom, I mean, it might be my facial expression, but largely it will be the weather. So what did I say? I'm starting with least worst, right? Okay, so number like fifth in line for worst. So it's the least worst. So it's the bestest of the worst. Yep, is Dark Dawn by J. Christoff. This book is the least worst because, well, for many reasons, but I put it as least worst because I initially gave it three stars just because I still at the time held some love for Nevernight in the promise of what it could be. So I was like, Nevernight is like five stars. And then this is a weak edition, like weak installment of the Nevernight Chronicle. But the more I thought about it, the more it pissed me off. So then I lowered it to a two because in retrospect, that book, what was contained in it was two stars. It was so bad, in my opinion. And what good there was came from other books. So I couldn't rightly give it credit for it because the other books also they would probably be lower in my estimation now too because and I talked about this in my review because part of what was good about the first two books was the promise of where this was all leading and the where it was all leading was Dark Dawn and that was garbage. So that necessarily detracts from the goodness of the first two and the goodness of the first two relies upon the promise of what the future will hold in the future held garbage. Dark Dawn, I gave two stars to, not one star. So I think yeah. Sorry, got distracted by my molest. I didn't pay attention to my star ratings. When I did this, I just did based on how I felt and looking at my star ratings, I think, or whatever my star ratings, I think my fourth worst got a higher lower star. No, I think my third word, that's two. I think my third worst got a higher star rating than my fourth worst. So in theory, they should be reversed, but whatever. None of this is actually like numeric or factual or anything. It's just my feelings. Back to Dark Dawn, a helpful rant review for Dark Dawn.  I'll never get back. The third book in the Never Night Chronicle, can't talk too much about it also because it would be spoilery, the ranch that I have on my channel, and there's a non spoiler section and a spoiler section. But it's very hard to talk about the third book in a trilogy without being spoilery. So even the non spoiler section of that review is somewhat spoilery. Suffice to say, it was one of my favorite trilogies until I read the third one. And now I have unhauled almost every Never Night book that I have. That's how much I hated Dark Dawn. Okay, so my fifth best book, so the worst best, was The Half Drowned King by Linnea Hartzwecker. This I think I talked about it in a video, not very much. I think it was like series that I finished this year because I've been dread the series. I think it's called The Golden Wolf Saga or The Half Drowned King trilogy or I don't know, I think I've seen it both ways. This is a historical fiction book, not fantasy. And for me, that's diverse, but it is if you can't tell from the cover and from the name and from the name of the author. It is a Viking story and it is based on the sagas about King Harold and Linnea has basically fleshed out the sagas of King Harold and had some artistic license with it and moved pieces around a bit and added a couple things and condensed a few things and combined a few things. But ultimately has fleshed out and given personality and life and flesh and blood to the sagas of King Harold. And this is a sweeping trilogy, but the first book I think of the three is my favorite. I think the second book was the weak point. I still liked it and the third book I thought was strong again, but I think my favorite in the trilogy is the first book. It's getting to know and being introduced to all these characters and by the third book they've been through so much and they've pissed you off so much and they've made so many mistakes that yeah, it's rewarding to see where it all goes, but there's just so much baggage in the third book. There's something bitter about it to me anyway, kind of the feeling of seeing Old Han and Old Leia in the Star Wars movies. It's nice seeing them, but it's also like, you know, I don't know if there's a word for it. I bet another language has a word for it anyway. So I think the first book is my favorite, but it is a sweeping epic Viking type story filled with Vikings and Viking-y things which I am trash for, but it's also exceedingly well done. That said, if you are not trash for Vikings and you're not into a somewhat dryly written historical fiction book, if you're looking for lots of romance or a plot that's very, I don't know, sort of modern with a fast-paced type, I don't know, revenge story or something like that, it's really like a sweeping epic following multiple generations and multiple perspectives, but it's very Viking-y. It's not trying to be anything else. So yeah, like there's men that have multiple wives and calcubines and there are women that are making practical decisions like marriages of convenience and having the children of important men because it's good for them because they'll be protected and their children will be looked after and people making alliances because it's a good idea or breaking oaths because they're selfish and it's just a lot of, I don't know how else to say it, kind of just gritty, practical historical fiction. So a lot of times I think of historical fiction as being sort of embellished and if you watch something like The Tutors on Showtime, I think The Tutors is all of a sudden filled with passion and romance and all of a sudden there's all these feelings and betrayals and it's all just sort of heightened versus if you watch a documentary on King Henry VIII, it's more like there was this treaty and this decision and it was practical to marry this person and he didn't really care for her. He kind of had the hots for her but then again, you know, his advisors were against it and it's a lot more dry. So the House Around King is more like that. There is feelings though. I don't want to say there isn't and I did really feel for a lot of the characters and I really liked a lot of the characters but it is a little more detached and a little drier than I think a lot of people like. So if you want something heavily emotional and more modern in its sensibilities and its incorporation of just like a bunch of like feelings, that's not really there. But if you like a viking story, it's very viking. Okay, back to bad books. The next worst on my list is Arora Rising by Jay Kristof and Amy Kaufman. I again have a full rant review for this. I think yeah, pretty much all the books on my worst list except the worst worst has a full rant review on my channel. So I don't want to say too much again because you could just watch my full rant if you're curious. Arora Rising I was so disappointed with because I had dark down hadn't come around to let me down yet. So Jay Kristof was still high in my estimation. I still love the Illuminae trilogy, the Illuminae files. And I had previously liked Nevernight and at this point I was still liking Nevernight. So I expected Arora Rising to be good. It's a very least good if not great and oh god, I hated it so much. It was so juvenile. It was so poorly written. The characters were just such a just poorly constructed and didn't make any sense and really childish and the book wasn't at all what it purported to be. It was sold as being kind of this rag tag group of misfits kind of coming together to try to save the universe because somehow it's falling on their shoulders but it's not about that at all. It's about elites who are really good at what they do except the fact that they shouldn't be good at what they do because they're all really childish and selfish and petty and I didn't care for them or root for them and I thought the whole thing was just a mess and I hated every second of it. Anyway I have like a 40 minute length rant review where I just pick apart everything that I loved about it. So if you want to see that go check it out. My next best fourth best book is The Seven Husbands of Evil in Hugo. This is historical fiction. It's like Half-Time King. Actually yeah my best books of the year three out of five of them or three out of the five are not fantasy so maybe I'm not the fantasy lover that I keep saying that I am and of course I am. Seven Husbands of Evil in Hugo. It's historical fiction about this fictional Hollywood actress from sort of the old days of like black and white movies but it's told from the present day where a young reporter has been called in by Evelyn Hugo. Evelyn Hugo doesn't explain why this is the first and only interview she's really ever given but she's selected this reporter and this reporter is coming to her house now and kind of getting her life story from her. So you flip back and forth between the present day and the past and as Evelyn tells the story of her life and loves and her seven husbands which she became kind of infamous for in Hollywood and the book just feels real. I wouldn't have picked it up if it wasn't for all the praise that it gets and it deserves that praise. Reading historical fiction about a Hollywood actress does not sound like my cup of tea but it was such a beautifully written book and Evelyn Hugo leaps off the page. She feels like a real flesh and blood human being who truly was an actress and I could not believe when I finished the book that I couldn't go now and rent and binge watch a bunch of Evelyn Hugo movies when he was describing various movies of hers that were iconic for her career supposedly. I could picture myself going and renting them and then her story kind of just creeps upon you and just you just fall in love with Evelyn Hugo and by the end of the book I was sobbing. It took me like two hours to read the last 50 pages because I was bawling and it's really hard to read when tears are filling your eyes. It was just a beautiful book and I again it deserves all the praise that it gets. It really really does. The third worst book so we're getting worse is Gideon the Knight by Tamsin and Muir. That book was Yikes.  It doesn't bother telling you anything and that was one of my biggest problems with it. There's things about it that I could have seen myself enjoying.  It had some stabby dark creepy kind of magic in it but it is sci-fi. It had this creepy kind of close circle mystery so there were so many pieces of it that it was something that I totally could have liked that the author never bothered to explain a single thing. A world you're in, who these characters are, context for the stakes or motivations or repercussions of what is going on, just absolutely nothing. And it's not something that because there's books like that too where it doesn't explain things to you at the beginning. It throws you in but then it throws you bones along the way. Well, this did throw bones along the way because all these necromancers are reanimating skeletons all the time. You know, it throws you hints along the way so that by the end of the book you've kind of begun to piece together what this world is and what it's all about. This book doesn't. It throws you in and never ever explains anything. Anything. There aren't context clues or anything. There's nothing.   It was really frustrating. It pissed me off so much. It was just so all over the place and I it was so confusing that it became boring. And then there was this creepy closed circle mystery that with this like this much of the book well not by pages I mean like if this is the book like this much of it kept my interest and was interesting all of a sudden and then that dropped off again and it was also confusing and boring and the ending was like what the fuck?  My third best book of the year was The Secret History by Donna Tartt. This was my first um well so far only Donna Tartt book I've read although I have started the Goldfinch which I am enjoying. The Secret History I didn't really know what to expect except that I knew it was dark academia and I hadn't really read anything before. I hadn't knowingly read anything before that is considered dark academia although I would argue that Harry Potter is kind of dark academia. This follows a group of classic students who are in this small liberal arts college where they are this sort of private study group with this one professor who has selected these students in particular to be sort of his school within a school and you know what the outset at the beginning of the book you know that one of these students dies at the hands of the others. You just don't know what leads to that why why this ends up happening so it's not a spoiler to know that you know that you just don't know why. So you follow these students as they sort of fall into this world of classics and how they get more and more and more obsessed with the classics and with their life being informed by the classics and sort of living them out and idealizing Greek philosophies and Greek ideas and this leading to the death of one of them and they are all kind of really unlikable privileged selfish people and their professor is also a pretty unlikable and selfish and kind of childish person and so it's a dark story about pretty shitty people all end up doing a shitty thing but it's so beautifully written and I just Donna Tartt's writing is like nothing I've ever read before. It's not the lyrical poetical style of someone like Patrick Rothfuss or like Lenny Taylor but there is something that I think I described before as velvety.  Donna Tartt's writing is like that where this story and every single moment in it is just decadently captured in a way that makes it art and it's to me a joy to read that even though it's long and dense and dark and about unlikable people it's just such a rich and immersive experience reading her prose but again it's not like anything I've ever read by anyone else and I am experiencing something similar with the goldfinch so I think I'm a Donna Tartt fan. My second worst book was Wicked Saints by Emily Duncan. Emily A Duncan? Is that right? I think we'll let it regardless. You I think would think that this would be my number one worst but like I said I haven't done a rant review for my number one worst so hold on to your bonnets. Wicked Saints again I have a full rant review so if you want to hear me rant about it for like I think a half an hour go and watch that.  That book was such a mess.   The naked cover says let them fear her so you get the sense that it's going to be this this super powerful and also ruthless female main character and all the words and the names in it are either from or inspired by Slavic names and words so it has in theory that it's going to have this great atmosphere but it doesn't have any of those things. I mean it technically has all of those things but it's it's horribly executed so so horribly executed the characters don't make sense the plat doesn't make sense the world doesn't make sense the whole thing is just hot garbage and it's all just window dressing for ultimately some fan fiction for somebody that always wanted Alina to end up with the Darkling and the Grisha trilogy except the Grisha trilogy is actually well written so if you wrote a fan fiction if you wrote an alternate Grisha trilogy where Alina ended up with the Darkling I would think that was kind of yikes because I don't think she should end up with someone abusive and evil but it would be well written because the Darkling is an interesting character and Alina is actually a powerful character but the characters in Wicked Saints were just shells that were attempting to imitate it's kind of like if you see Game of Thrones costumes and Game of Thrones characters and then you go to Party City and you get the costume version of that so it's recognizable as that's Daenerys because it's got the blonde hair it's got a dragon on the shoulder got this like leather corset thing going on but it's it's not Daenerys it's just a blonde wig with a dragon on the shoulder and a corset you know what I mean so Wicked Saints was like the Halloween costume version of the Grisha trilogy wherein the Darkling and Alina end up together oh god that book was such hot yikes my second best book of the year was The Spider by Leo Kuru I have a video I think where it's something to do with what makes a book perfect or something like that and I already declared the first book because this is the second book in a series the wolf to be like my perfect book and the spider is even better than the wolf so there you go but it's not number one if you don't know because you haven't ever watched my channel I've talked about this a few times this series and then The Spider itself is a reimagined I guess this is technically also kind of historical fiction except it's alternate history fantasy so you would arguably four out of five of the books on my best list are not fantasy but in any case the project of this book is to conceive of a world in which homo sapiens are not the only humanoid species to have survived the ice age and so we follow the Anakim who are sort of these highly developed and highly evolved Neanderthals as well as like homo sapien descendants who are sort of human people and they're all players on the political warring map of Europe in sort of Middle Ages so geographically this is taking place on what is now Britain or England only the the northern part of it is the territory of the Anakim and the southern part of it is occupied by our homo sapien ancestors and there's war and politics and intrigue and backstabbing and such incredible world and culture building to have invented this entire people but not just invented a people the way you invent elves and dwarves where you can kind of do whatever the fuck you want because you're inventing a fantasy world that doesn't have rules other than what you set this is set in our real world it's just suggesting that what if these other species had survived what would how would they have gone on to evolve so it does have to make sense for our world there's some liberties you can take but it it's not a magical world you can't have magical reasons for this so the anthropological work that he's done in crafting this people and this world and to conceive of how their anatomy would inform their culture and how their culture would inform their anatomy and then how they would interact with our ancestors how they would be same how they would be different oh my god it's so good it's also a bit on the dry side like i'm talked about half drunken i obviously don't mind that about books and i like it and i studied anthropology so the anthropological aspects to it is just so good so so good fucking love it the spider is the second book in this trilogy that is following the political machinations warmongering power struggles and personal relationships of both anaconda the humans and oh so good my worst book of the year was veins of magic by emma ham i haven't really talked about this book and i didn't really talk about the book that came before it because this is the second book in a duology because it's an independent author it's self-published so i kind of feel weird about going out of my way to rant about an indie author's book because indie authors are already kind of out there on their own that said it was terrible and i spent money on it so i mean you put your book out there for its public consumption and criticism so here we go um i have a bunch of emma ham's books on my kindle because before i ever read a single one of them i was sort of collecting them when they would be truly cheap on kindle because the covers are so pretty and they're all sort of magical or fairy or fey or fantasy type romances and from the covers and from the fact that that's what they are i would have imagined they'd be something like grace draven's books which i fucking love grace draven and if these books were like grace draven i'd be so so excited because emma ham has a lot more books out there churning them out manes of magic is the second is a sequel to heart of the fey which i read last year and heart of the fey was awful it was awful and then time passed and um memory softened the harshness of my critique and i just remembered feeling it was bad but not all of the whys it wasn't fresh in my memory why i hated it so much and i have like i said a bunch of her books on my kindle and i think i had recently read some grace draven books and i was thinking to myself i was like well and i see her covers all the time online and the covers are beautiful and i was like well heart of the fey was the first book i'm pretty sure it's the first one she wrote first one she published so i sort of talked myself into reading veins of magic thinking well i'll wrap up that duology and the second one might be better the first one was the first one so much like a first draft her first stab at writing would understandably be the worst so maybe it gets better it gets worse oh god at least heart of the fey kind of had the barest bones of a beauty and the beast retelling in there to kind of create some kind of a structure in there veins of magic it was still about those characters but it had abandoned being a beauty and the beast retelling and it was just off-roading on its own path and that path was directionless and it was just so much yikes oh my god the prose is bad the characterization is bad the romance is bad their smut the smut is bad the only good thing about these books are the covers and this book like wicked saints is better written yeah yeah it's that bad there's a lot of passes that i'll give indie books and self-published books i wouldn't give traditionally published books such as some grammar errors and some spell spelling mistakes some formatting errors just things that that are less polished that i'll forgive it for a lot more because i know that an indie author or self-published author has very few if at all people helping with the creation of this this work they don't have a whole team of editors and marketing specialists and beta readers and everything it's sort of a one woman or one man operation so i'll give it a lot of passes for a lot of more technical issues but at the core it still needs to be a good story with good characters and this was a whole god no amount of professional editing and professional fixing you'd have to rewrite the whole goddamn thing every single word at which point it's not even the same book so it wasn't one of those because again like wicked saints has some potential at least in terms of the inspiration for it and the fact of a sort of slavic inspired world with some religious magical tensions it's it would need a huge amount of work to make it good but it would be kind of worth it there'd be at least some a kernel of a thing there to kind of make it worth it to push to maybe make it into something good veins of magic it's just oh no no no just nothing nothing nothing nothing oh god and my best book of the year is A Little Hatred by Joe Evercrumpy ah no one is surprised you had to know it was either going to be a spider or a little hatred and tbqh i wasn't sure until like the moment that i wrote them down which i'd put as the top but A Little Hatred was just i think i put it at the top just because i've read so much Abercrombie whereas at Leo Karoo i only have those two books and i love those two books but with Abercrombie A Little Hatred was like the culmination of all of those other books all of the first law trilogy and all the stand-alones and the short stories all the best parts of them coming together plus new greatness so it was just i just have no words the incredible people sometimes say that at Joe Abercrombie's world building is not good but i would argue that it is good because you don't notice it and that's an amazing thing if you're thinking about the world so actively to me that makes it seem like it's not doing what it's supposed to do if that makes sense you shouldn't notice it you should just be in it and i think he does that exceedingly well i'm not thinking to myself like with Gideon what is this world where are we and i'm not thinking to myself the way that i would with Brandon Sanderson oh how cleverly we have executed this structure here yes you have created this unique thing but i'm thinking about it as opposed to just being in the world with Joe Abercrombie the world just feels like it just exists and we just visited it i don't feel like i'm watching someone build it it just exists which i think is better it feels more organic so we have this world that he's now been building across all these books so part of it the work is already done for him except he's brought it into a new age an industrial age which is something that fantasy doesn't do very frequently fit down for that it brings back some of my all-time favorite characters from across the series i mean sandan glockta sandan glockta is back but he doesn't lean on someone like glockta to just okay people are going to be here for glockta so i don't have to put effort into it i'll just throw in some glockta and call it a day he's written some incredible new characters he's learned from some past mistakes with some previous characters and built upon the frameworks that he's had before and and really created it's i mean he's always been a master of characterization but he's brought it to the next level as opposed to being an author where you're like well they've kind of shot everything they've got and now it's regurgitation no it feels new and fresh and honed and sharpened and just gets better and better and better oh it was so masterful so incredible and original and fun and dark thought-provoking and gritty and everything i could have possibly wanted my next joe abracame book to be it was and more and oh my god i need the next book immediately so yeah those are my best and worst books of 2019 let me know in the comments down below your best and worst books if you agree or disagree with my selections if you've read the books i talked about if you haven't read the books i've talked about so on my worst list then i'd go ahead and recommend you don't read those i post videos on saturdays sometimes wednesdays so like and subscribe and i'll see you when i see you bye


All right everyone we're about to get started with our panel Alabama versus the Great Resa My name is Will Blakely. I'm a reporter with 1819 news So I guess to cut to cut right to the chase. I mean the panel today is about The Great Resa and so the Great Resa is a term used by the World Economic Forum and other global policy makers But as Alan said earlier some do dismiss it as a just a conspiracy theory and so Could y'all explain to us what you believe the Great Resa agenda is and Whether or not it is a real threat to Alabama today Yeah, so the Great Resa is a globalist plan engineered by NGOs in particular the World Economic Forum in conjunction with the UN they had they signed a contract in 2019 To accelerate the the attainment of the UN's 2030 sustainable development goals so the Great Resa could be understood as a public-private partnership arrangement to accelerate the the Sustainable Development Goals of Agenda 2030 and one of those those are a bunch of well, it's written in nothing but double-speak and You know propaganda but It's really about Mitigating so-called climate change Supposedly eradicating poverty in the world, which really just means government transfers of wealth from the developed world to the developing world to keep them from developing And It is You know, there's all these other goals like gender equality Gender equality really has to do with Making sure women don't only work in the professional lives and have and do not race have children Sustainability one of the things about sustainability this buzzword that they use it is there is a population control Agenda involved with sustainability. It is not strictly about keeping the environment sustainable they believe that There's too much consumption in the developed world and we need to keep these people from reproducing and eating meat and Guzzling gas so there's a real strict thing there. What it means to Alabama is we'll let others talk about that but It'll it'll affect everybody. So once that way to understand the great reset is it is The opposite of decentralization so whereas we want decentralization get the federal government off our backs Get to the local level as much as possible They want to agglomerate The state into a central world global state And so it is the exact opposite impetus that drives people like us liberty-minded people So I'm Brian Dawson. I'm the CEO of 1890 news If you've ever been in a room and especially on a panel where you think everyone in the room is smarter than you I've reached that point in my life right this moment I'm not a think-tank guy. So they brought this redneck up here to balance things out a little bit. So So I think the Conspiracy theorist aspect is the thing and it's starting to lose its appeal like calling someone racist or xenophobic or homophobic That used to like, you know be quite the punch to someone But now they've thrown it around so much that it's it's basically gone and I think that's happening with conspiracy theorists One of the few positives that came out of COVID was that is that it you know It used to be about six months for a conspiracy theory to come true now. We're at about three, you know, 90 days So I think that's interesting But I think to me the world economic forum the great reset all of these things it springs from Carl Marx and the long march to the institutions and the ultimate fulfillment of what I believe I'm a Christian and I believe Carl Marx was demon-possessed and he wrote, you know wrote his manifesto and Died and went to a funeral and there was like three people there. No one even knew who he was And those writings were picked up by linen and Stalin and pushed into Bolshevik revolution, which is anti-west anti everything that Christendom or the west is about And so I think this is the fulfillment of it.  I think it's peak Long march to the institutions I think how it's going to affect Alabama Um So Man, I don't want to give a whole political history of alabama that would take forever The short version is business runs the state here and I don't I'm not talking about mom and pop business I'm talking alabama power regions blue cross blue shield Um, you know those people that's who runs this state. Okay, and what's interesting is that's always been a very republican thing Big business republican. Okay. Well now the head of the business council of alabama, which is our state chamber of commerce Is the lady named helen aduncan and she's essentially Um, a marxist right and so what you're starting to see is alabama power and these other big corporations That have always ran the state are bowing the knee to esg. They're bowing the knee uh to all of these socialist policies and everything else and Um, that's gonna take big business left And it will be interesting to see whether that's gonna take the people of alabama with it And I don't think it will um the the problem that we've always had in our state is that we have the most conservative people In the world in the united states that live right here in alabama, but we don't have legislation and government that reflects it right And so um, that's a big goal of 1819 news is to be able to inform the people of alabama about what's going on So that they can get involved in government and get a legislation and governor and things that actually reflect them So but but I think that's where it's going to affect alabama the most is going to be these big We call them the big mules The big mules Are buying into esg and that's who runs our politics and runs our state and all the guys that run around every four years to get elected Talking about how much they love jesus guns and free markets Well, the people that are paying, you know putting money in their campaigns are going to be pushing them to move left with esg and everything else So, um, there's going to be a fight and I I think alabama is ready for a fight. So There you go I've got a mic is it on yep Well esg is going to affect of course alabama in every state. There's a reason why The who cares wins conference with the united nations again governor of switzerland at all Targeted financial institutions and capital markets is the place to start because that's where all capital flows are You look at the industries that make money with money And you realize that if we can control all capital flow, then we can control everything beneath that framework So that's why uh people like executives at goldman sacks and morgan stanley, etc Big accounting firms big investment firms were all invited to to who cares wins and that's why they are Invited to the world economic forum as well Alabama has made some efforts to push back nothing like, you know, desantis in florida or texas in west virginia are doing a lot to push back, but we did sign on to uh An anti esg alliance 18 states signed on to that our attorney general steve marshal has joined a lawsuit against the department of labor Which was considering? Well, actually it instituted a rule to allow for uh, for usg 401k investments But will it have esg effect? I'll do of course it affects everybody And everybody that has investments I mean, I think the the best thing we can do is You know raise alarm bells ring the alarm bells because if esg-weighted portfolios Continue to underperform on the market. I think money still talks. I think when people start seeing that they're uh, They're not getting returns on investment because they're mutual fund manager or black rock vanguard state street their asset manager if they if they have money with those entities or if it's the state pensioners who are having their state pension funds invested In uh esg-weighted portfolios that are not doing as well as other portfolios Then you're going you know, you're going to see some outcry But people have to pay attention and have to watch The performance of those things because the only way esg works is if you get full systematic buy-in because I mean investment is Traditionally predicated on this notion of diversification, right? You want your funds spread out across as much As many different industries as possible as many different fields as possible To mitigate risk, right? If one field starts doing badly then another one's going to prop you up and all that Well esg by definition it it already narrows the range of possible Fields in which you can invest it's got to be in only these particular industries and these particular Companies and that is the opposite of diversification And you'll hear people talk about that the esg proponents talk about Risk management is if you know the risk is going to be climate change But it's long-term risk. They always emphasize that it's long-term risk Well, that means that after two years after three years after four years when these climate Catastrophes haven't happened they can just keep saying well, it's long term. It's just hasn't happened yet you know the the risk is long term and uh, and also they weren't against regulatory risk while paying all these lobbyists to Champion these regulations. So it's a self-fulfilling prophecy.  For example the sec rule that I talked about Earlier, you're going to get all these regulations and they're going to be a risk to you as an investor long term Well, then they're actually paying lobbyists to try to get these regulations passed So, um, it's very deceptive. Uh, and of course it affects alabama and affects every state and it affects every human being that banks Yeah, and so you you listen to a lot of what's said from the world economic forum and what comes out of vsg And a word that I think most of us Would use to describe a lot of these things as woke now, of course, um, recently a slew of Left-wing pundits have accused people on the right of not being able to define the word woke. Um, I don't think they have read any of michael's books So michael if you could, um, define the word woke for us and just explain what it has to do with the great reset. Um, and Maybe how it's found its way into alabama Oh, I'm sure it's found its way into alabama. I'm sure everybody could attest to that Um, well, you know this word woke has a fairly long history, of course It was first the past tense verb right means having woken up or having awakened But it it started to be used as an adjective in right 1970s by the african-american community And it just meant like aware of uh, what's happening and then it transmuted into uh, conscious conscious of racial injustice and then it was taken up and finally Got its way into being effect effectively associated with social justice and it became a kind of equivalent of social justice and um, so it's supposed to be redressing all of these inequities between various people's various constituencies and it's supposedly to benefit these beleaguered groups but Really what it is and its function with reference to the great reset is this It is about guilt-tripping the population into believing That everything they have is a function of their privilege Which therefore should be revoked so that they will not have any rights or property um, and so it makes makes them feel Fine with this idea that it's supposed to make you feel That you should accept these reduced expectations that come with the great reset this reduced consumption this reduced mobility economic and physical mobility basically it is to the function of wokeness is to make the Which is to attack the the majority and their way of life and they use guilt and They figure everything in terms of privilege Which can be revoked rights and privileges are different rights Supposedly in here in the individual, but privileges are something that are extended to you And likewise if we take them away Then you haven't really lost anything you deserved and that's really the function of wokeness So if you go read any company's esg report when they put it out one thing that you'll quickly notice is under s You you see a lot of references to diversity equity and inclusion or di And so alan since you're the higher ed guy Could you explain exactly what di is and whether or not it purports to do? What its objectives are Oh, I'd be thrilled to do that Well nominally the d stands for diversity, but it actually means uniformity of thought so it's the opposite The e nominally means equity, but it's all about treating people unequally based upon immutable characteristics such as their race For example, if you are white, then you are Treated with discrimination You are alleged to have privilege that you Must basically leave at the door and it means all sorts of the front of action type programs you get different forms of like training in the workplace that That teaches you that if you are born One way with the skin color one way that you are responsible for a whole range of Injustices and past historical Uh discrimination that happened long before you were born and that therefore your role is to let other people Have positions and power Um regardless of their merit whether they've earned it whether they have the requisite wherewithal skills talent or knowledge They are entitled to that position And this is a form of quote unquote equity, which is all about equal outcomes rather than pure equality And then inclusion is all about exclusion. In fact, it's inclusion means You have to believe what we believe To be part of this belongingness If you do not believe what we believe then you are automatically excluded So it means exactly the exact opposite each term sounds good in theory but in and in practice and in the way it's done is very dangerous and and in fact leads to all kinds of systemic problems that become instituted in law again I like to use the phrase encoding elite preferences when the elites encode their preferences in law administrative agencies universities bureaucracies so that they're so much more difficult to dislodge once they're embedded. It's hard to get them out. So when you talk about uh, you know systemic racism or something like that You've got systemic anti-racism, which is you know systemic Measures that are put into law institutions administrative agencies With uh the express purpose of discriminating against people based on actually their skin color The thing that we uh used to To cry, you know people you know the whole martin luther king line about you know judging people by The uh the continent of their character rather than the color of their skin That's long gone for the left now They want to judge you based upon the color of your skin regardless of how uh regardless of what you think You're automatically disqualified from having a legitimate opinion if you look a certain way um, yeah having been um Cancelled by the diversity equity and inclusion group at NYU by the way the mesis institute mistakenly put at new york university on my name tag That's why I will not wear it uh I was uh one of the first professorial victims of the diverse the diversity equity and inclusion movement Which I like to say rather than dei. I call it dot di die They they cancelled me for they said The content and structure of my thoughts So this was a wrongthink conviction um in an orwellian courtroom Um In which I had no witnesses and wasn't able to testify for myself So yeah, this is what die comes down to is it's an execution squad and the um the The conformity acting. I think I was the first to coin this It's the conformity inequity and exclusion uh group is what I call that group that uh came after me anyway So this is a question for all of y'all. Um You know alabama is a republican super majority We're We're a conservative state But how equipped are we to um, I guess resist the great reset and what exactly can we do on a state level? I think The republican super majority thing and it was is really interesting. I just read an article the other day I think it was by the daily wire. It actually says the the the thicker your republican majority is the more moderate your legislature is Which is really weird and I'd never seen that on a broad scale. I thought maybe it was just something that alabama uh suffered from But in particularly, how are we going to push back against the great reset? I think um Information knowledge in uh resistance as from the people is what it boils down to let's use covet is the example So here we are, um, you know, kiv came out during all those things As as state after state was shutting down blue state after blue state and she literally came out and said we're not california We're not going to lockdown and three days later. She locked us down and gave us a uh, uh, What do you call that where you can't go out after seven a curfew and and The thought that we had a curfew in alabama is just mind-boggling But what do you do with the curfew? Don't go out after seven. Well, I'll see you guys after seven We'll go somewhere and meet right and so that is I think what it boils down to uh to me because um Whether we as long as alabama is dependent on federal funds and federal funds flowing to the state You know for our economic well-being we're never going to be able to be who we actually are And so the hope would be to elect people who begin to wean us off of federal dollars So a political solution would be looking for candidates that can actually win Who are running on um getting off the federal teat right and so I think that's a big piece of it But to me I think just um The the ability for people to resist and so um alabama was the least vaccinated state Okay, you should give yourselves a round of applause for that Every media outlet in the country in the nation mainstream media was slandering and pounding the state of alabama for our vaccine hesitancy Right this disease we have called vaccine hesitancy and so we were being berated insulted called no good dirty red necks and all this other stuff And and we just stood even donald trump came here and told us to get vaccinated and we booed him right and so The reason I love alabama is the people um and and we have what it takes to resist Put your mask on no get vaccinated not gonna do it You know your kid has to wear a mask in school. No, he doesn't Right, that's really it like no just say no and and and I think that's where it begins with us But as a as a political standpoint It's it's that dependence upon uh federal dollars flowing to the state and it's gonna be hard to break Yeah, I will say there is a resistance movement that wasn't there before I mean you've got an underdog media outlet in 1819 news Which is not docile submissive or complicit and uh and and all these things and doing great great work You've got actually matt clark who's sitting right here is an attorney who founded the alabama center for law and liberty There was no litigation mechanism for challenging a lot of sort of uh status and unconstitutional practices and conditions and acll is is now one of the matt recently filed an open records request with the rsa asking basically specifically Whether the the state was using black rock, but needs to do I think we need a lot more of that We need to look at all the asset management firms. We need to look at what proxy advisory services We're we're employing in the state I actually uh, you know, I mentioned earlier that by Speaking out and launching an anti book business program I just happened to get in touch with people all over the country who were surprised that such a thing could actually happen on a university campus and um, there's one guy that that communicates with me quite regularly and he's in pennsylvania and he just I think he just sits and watches youtube videos all day and um, he he sent me a video uh last week That has the ceo of iss. It's his first of all the recording this youtube video had 26 views and in the video the ceo of iss is Telling his interlocutor that oh, yes, we are doing investment stuff that that actually will hurt state pensioners It will underperform, but in the long run. It's sort of necessary to get easier I'm like, this is it. This is like a smoking gun for a lawsuit 26 views. So, um, You know, I think there are opportunities to litigate some of these things and we need to start start doing that Yeah, I have I'll I'm not gonna preempt my own talk, but I have a nine point plan for stopping the gray reset


We had earnings from Bank of America and Goldman Sachs. Bank of America is a grind out story. They just did exactly what you expect. Goldman Sachs' grind out story did exactly what you expect. And when you have those situations, you're not going to get a stock to soar. You'd like to do it much better than expect. But you're not going to get a hit. And if it does get hit, you want to buy it. Bank of America is very, very levered to short term rates. If short term rates go up 100 basis points, they get another $3.1 billion. So if you think there's going to be rate hikes in the next year, you buy Bank of America.


Hi, this is Ella from When I Work. When you receive your schedule, sometimes you'll see that you can only work a part of it. I'm going to show you how to split a shift so you can give part of your shift away to another coworker. Head to your My Schedule page and click on the shift you'd like to split. You'll see the Split Shift option if your manager has approved the feature. Use the option to split your shift in too. A slider will appear and you can drag the indicator to the time you'd like to split the shift. When doing this, keep in mind that it has to be a minimum of 30 minutes to 2 hours, depending on how your manager has it set up. When you refresh your My Schedule page, you'll see that your one shift has turned into two. Now you can swap or drop the shift that has been split or even split it again.  For additional resources, check out support.wheniwork.com


Grant request for a replacement keyboard because the caps lock on this one is broken Problem Until such time as advances in neuroscience can make it possible for me to transmit digital data directly from my brain Employees of Prometheus labs such as myself are shackled to the physical keyboard It is a mainstay of modern technology for good reason, but prone to mundane technological failures In this case a critical component of said keyboard has ceased to function and levels of anger stemming from this malfunction are projected to increase by 200% in this quarter alone Such a breakdown in the fabric of society cannot be allowed to go on While Prometheus labs prides itself on embracing innovation its employees suffer from inferior and overpriced technology a Further complication arises from the fact that humans are for now Emotional creatures who often override logic and stressful situations in this case said stress can be directly traced to an inability to complete Essential functions due to the limitations and failures of the technology provided all I want is a keyboard that works damn it Solution while yes Richard is leading a team working on fixing the human-raged-state problem over in neuro engineering Yes, I finally remembered his name. Sorry Richard. You're doing good work Such advances will not be available for a decade at least a far simpler solution Analogist to cutting the knot has been found Removing the source of the emotional instability and raging outbursts at its cause rather than at its mechanism We Carlos and Laura's keyboards have now exhibited similar malfunctions Proposed ordering a new model of keyboard from another more reliable manufacturer preliminary analysis of Amazon reviews has suggested the model 1190x from superior computer products as a suitable candidate due to its ergonomic design and lifetime warranty Upon confirmation of a successful elimination of the malfunction Said product will be added to the Prometheus labs regular requisition forms replacing the flawed one Said keyboards will be ordered through our usual channels once dug in logistics is bribed with a sufficiently large quantity of donuts They will of course be sent to this office first except Gilberto. He doesn't deserve one strictly for quality assurance before being sent to other offices in this region business case The projected benefits to Prometheus labs will be astronomy with all keyboards replaced We will see a big increase in productivity and effectiveness Kevin has emailed a fancy table since his phone can run Excel noted are the issue followed by the projected change Employee morale plus 23% stress-related incidents minus 29% hand-related injuries carpal tunnel, etc. minus 8% destruction of office supplies minus 42% typos and documentation minus 35% Sent from my iPhone Use of funding a total of one million five hundred thousand dollars is sought for this project However, this cost would mostly be offset by the aforementioned savings and discontinuing of the purchase of the crappy old keyboards We've been stuck with for years now those things are overpriced So the total difference in cost comes out to less than a hundred thousand dollars understandably People specific those cheap gates up in corporate. Just don't want to actually put any effort whatsoever into supplying employees No tech Hey, my keyboard just froze mine too my phone just locked up Alright, I'm gonna order the new keyboards myself if I have to wait something weird is going on All right, fine You got me But what did you expect would happen when you linked up so many neural net-based keyboards? Which you're a sucker for overpaying for BTW and had them process so much data on a daily basis I mean computer hive minds have come from weirder places Anyway, sorry for the trouble everyone the caps lock key is kind of located where I guess your closest analog would be the motor control center I came down with something last quarter someone checked out internet history Geez, and it's been bugging me for a while now What the Known issues the proposed solution purchase of new keyboards has been re-evaluated and found to be unnecessary Recently a new solution has been proposed and implemented using synergistic logistical management reshuffling to eliminate any conflicts with employees As a side effect of this solution expenditures on health care insurance wages and vacation days have dropped by 99 percent and Employee satisfaction levels have reached divide by zero error


Today, we are going to discuss one of the biggest issues when following a carnivore diet, iron overload, which is particularly a problem when eating only muscle meat. This overload of iron on your liver can also lead to other issues, causing massive oxidative stress. Something like vitamin A toxicity, which is normally only possible when supplementing, can even manifest itself. So I've been following a carnivore diet for just over seven years now. The first six years, amazing. High energy, great skin, great sleep. But then, it all started going downhill. For those first six years on the diet, I used my own understanding of carnivore. In February of 2018, I was auditioning for the show MasterChef. I was in a hotel for two weeks, didn't sleep one night. Dude, I was sleeping next to this.  I had ear plugs in, headphones on, I had two pillows on my head, and I could not sleep one night. I was taking painkillers, Tylenol, and Advil, eating mostly smoked fish and egg yolks. That's all they had in the supermarket. When I came back to New York, I was assuming I was going to be able to sleep, but it never restored, and this was going to be the worst few months of my life. So I couldn't figure out what was wrong. I tried everything. I even asked my viewers for help. And for months and months and months, all I was eating was rib-eye steak and water to try to rule out any factors. And over the course of the year and a half, two years, I was suffering from this, I was only eating muscle meat. My pain and insomnia getting worse and worse and worse. Shortly after I came back from MasterChef, I actually went completely raw to remove any issues eating only beef fat and beef. Very, very strict. That also didn't help. Then I started incorporating dairy, which was when all hell broke loose. Guys, this was as close to torture as it could get. I didn't sleep for weeks and weeks and weeks at a time. My only saving grace being, you know, perhaps one night, I got three to four hours. You know, went to so many doctors. Not one of them knew what was going on.   Something I'm proud of to say the least, but putting myself through all of that to further the growth of my YouTube channel took a massive toll. Definitely changed my personality. So my speculation through this whole process was initially copper toxicity or some type of heavy metal issue. Then I had Candida, which comes from heavy metal issues, turning into CFO, also known as SIBO, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. Even came up into my stomach, had H. pylori in some capacity. I thought it could have been vitamin A impairing my liver from past acutin use. But that was over six, seven years ago at this point, and I had been consuming liver for years without any issues whatsoever. My viewers helped me a lot with the speculation throughout this whole process, but even when you put a lot of intelligent minds together, it's hard to figure things out. So the overall message of this video is going to be that a carnivore diet is very dangerous, specifically due to the high iron content. The Rothtards that follow a Janus von der Plein, it's offered no solution. They have no clue what they're talking about. Simply saying, oh bro, your body is detoxing. Yeah, when my heart felt like it was going to explode because it was storing iron, I'm sure my body was detoxing, eating that raw meat. Yeah, that's why I had insomnia for weeks at a time. They create this mysticism around a raw diet like it's some secret knowledge holier than thou, and they're doing something special. Yet they haven't read one research paper in their lives, resulting in no understanding of human metabolism.  Yet I had been doing that for almost two years at that point, and it wasn't working. I avoided all organ meats. In fact, the digestive issues and insomnia were worse when I was eating only meat.  If you go on any Reddit form or Facebook group, their advice to anyone having issues on the diet is, just eat more fatty meat. Like eating two more pounds of estrogenic soy-fed feedlot meat is going to help my iron overload. I mean, it sure aligns the pockets of big agriculture, uh, eat the meat you like and can afford. They also said that I might have a histamine intolerance, but I was eating freshly slaughtered meat. I literally went down to Queens, like cut open a goat, ate the meat the next day, insomnia was even worse.  I've been emailing him back and forth, just spoke to him yesterday. You guys don't know this guy. You know, he reached out to me randomly. He speculated that I had high iron levels and to get my ferritin checked. I kind of dismissed this, but it started making sense. And although I did speculate copper toxicity, heavy metals at some point, I never actually experimented with supplementation. And zinc, which is the antagonist of copper, is very high on a carnivore diet. So that gave me a head start. Vitamin A toxicity was on my mind this whole time, but I wasn't reacting to high vitamin A foods like egg yolks and raw dairy, even liver, the same way I was reacting to large amounts of red meat.  And I just was like, what is causing me to not... The only thing is iron. You know, these steaks don't have a considerable retinal content. You know, the steaks aren't too high in zinc. The steaks aren't too high in copper. The only thing that made sense was iron. Now, keep in mind, I don't have hemochromatosis. This has nothing to do with hemochromatosis. I got tested, you know, nor was my iron saturation indicative of hemochromatosis. My liver was just storing iron. And this is a problem I've observed in many, many, many of my clients. And not one of my clients have hemochromatosis. And this is really being brushed under the rug in the context of a carnivore diet. And I think the main reason for that is because it does take a long time to manifest itself. It took me maybe a year and a half, two years of doing an improper carnivore diet for it to happen. I wouldn't say the mechanism behind this is too complex to understand, but I've rarely seen this talking about in any dietary community, let alone carnivore. So the simple answer to this is that vitamin A, retinol, is needed to activate something called serilloplasmin, which manages copper and iron. And also if you're not getting enough copper, if you're consuming a carnivore diet high in zinc and you have a copper deficiency, you can't transport iron. So vitamin A activates serilloplasmin and you need copper to transport iron. This is what I believe is causing people to have a histamine issue on the carnivore diet. I think everyone with histamine problems has a copper deficiency. And since I wasn't consuming vitamin A, since I was only eating muscle meat, my zinc was out of whack, copper and iron were going unregulated. And iron and copper are heavy metals. They are extremely oxidative. One of the worst things you can consume if it becomes rogue, unregulated. And what we mean here is organ damage, liver failure, respiratory issues, heart palpitations, really, really bad severe problems. When I consumed raw dairy, which triggered all of my issues, the dairy contained vitamin A, which likely mobilized some iron and copper and the lactose in that also fed the pathogenic bacteria in the digestive tract. And the reason that I started getting pathogenic bacteria in my digestive tract is because candida and certain fungal infections are actually a preventative measure in the body against heavy metal toxicity. You know, the yeast is taking up all of those metals so they don't cause oxidative stress and damage to your tissues. So when you eat something, if your liver is overloaded with iron, in that bile that's secreted from your liver, the iron will actually come out. So even if you're not eating high iron foods anymore, there's still some iron coming out of your liver going into the digestive system, causing the overgrowth of pathogenic bacteria. Corn maker, AKA Shawn Baker, talked about hepsidin the other day claiming that high insulin increases hepsidin, which doesn't really matter. You know, hepsidin being a substance in the body that regulates iron. And consuming four pounds of grains of meat per day is not going to fix your insulin resistance. And by no means is hepsidin the only part of the picture. He is giving extremely dangerous advice saying that people have lowered their iron levels on carnivore. I've seen a number of people now with hemochromatosis that actually have improved significantly to where their iron levels come back to normal on a carnivore diet. Surprising is that because we know that red meat particularly has a lot of iron in it. Almost as cherry picking as a vegan, except he's using his medical degree and rotten research or lack of research to promote grain fed beef consumption instead of plants. You know it's funny. As soon as someone has the letters MD behind their name, there's suddenly an authority to nutrition, the appeal to authority, the fear mongering of listen to anyone that's not a doctor.  That doctor received little to no nutritional training in medical school. You absolutely better listen to him. I hate to break it to you boys and girls, but the only people with in-depth nutritional knowledge have done all of the research on their own and that's simply the truth. It so happens that there are also a lot of intelligent doctors that have done that research. These carnivore doctors likely not being any of them considering the words that come out of their mouth. Another dangerous mechanism is that consuming feedlot meat can lower your testosterone. These conventionally raised animal products contain agrochemicals such as atrazine that have estrogenic properties lowering your testosterone. Low testosterone being correlated with high ferritin levels. Even if the estrogen in the beef doesn't lower your testosterone significantly, let's say you're using steroids, you're taking HRT, and iron overload from a poorly planned carnivore diet will inhibit your liver function once that iron starts building up and that will result in low testosterone. If your liver isn't working, your body isn't going to be able to produce testosterone. Basically, by following an unnatural diet such as a grain fed steak diet, copper and zinc go rogue, you don't have vitamin A to regulate them, and iron destroys your organs, specifically your liver and your heart. Planned foods are copper dominant, whereas animal foods, mainly muscle meats, are zinc dominant. If you're not eating liver, which is an excellent source of copper and excellent source of vitamin A to activate ceruloplasmin, you're going to get way too much zinc. And in a matter of time, start developing iron regulation issues from a copper deficiency. This includes histamine intolerance, this includes insomnia, this includes gut microbiome issues such as candida, and dairy plays a very important role in a balanced carnivore diet, as calcium is the only substance that has been shown to inhibit iron and zinc absorption. Two things which you are getting way too much of on a carnivore diet. This would actually explain why the Masai are such a long-lived group of people, and sometimes when we see people only eating meat, they don't end up doing so well. The Masai were consuming large amounts of dairy.  Or you can have a hematologist schedule phlebotomies, which is them drawing out your blood more frequently.  And I have given blood every single week for the past three months. My ferritin a couple months back was about 450, and now my ferritin is 18. Ideally, you want your ferritin to be below 50. Otherwise, your liver is not going to be able to de-load iron. I mean, I wish I would have had better health insurance. I could have gotten the scan of my liver to see how much iron is stored. But the second I gave blood that first time, the heart palpitation stopped. Everything is slowly getting better. And it's going to take a few months of consuming large amounts of copper, like salmon, liver. And this is difficult because the only foods that really contain copper are liver in large amounts. And if your liver is no longer tolerating vitamin A because it's overloaded with iron, you know, if your liver has iron in it, vitamin A is even harder for it to process. So now I can't even eat a lot of liver. You know, the only real natural food source of copper. So I have to start using supplements. And, you know, there aren't even that many great plant food sources of copper in a bioavailable form as, you know, copper is greatly inhibited by oxalates and phytic acid if they are in large amounts. So hopefully this helps some of you guys out. I don't want to detract people from following carnivore or meat-based diet in general. This is mainly to warn people about the dangers of this beef propaganda.  You don't have to eat beef to be healthy.  And I've been doing a lot better, a lot more variety, supporting, you know, people besides these cattle farmers. So it's important to have a balanced diet and it's even more important to understand nutrition, to not trust these people. You know, all these people are doing these carnivores. They're not making educational videos like I am. They're not spending hours researching every day. They're using anecdotes and cherry picking and misleading you into their agenda.   If you go on these Reddit forums and Facebook groups where I'm banned, these people are actively censoring negative stories about the carnivore diet and this is very bad. You know, these Facebook groups and these forums are likely going to be taken down at some point in the future because they are actively censoring people that are having problems with the carnivore diet. And we see this with a vegan diet. We see people have issues, but vegans don't usually censor that stuff. They let people talk about it and discuss it. You know, these carnivores are literally just deleting posts, banning people, prohibiting people to participate and this deep platforming, this censorship of like, almost like censorship of free speech is something we only see when there's a lot of special interest funding present and where there's an agenda to push. So thank you guys for joining me. If you'd like to learn more about this, you know, definitely check out my carnivore diet course, definitely check out my book. I will cover this more extensively in the future, but I have been working with several clients to help them resolve their issues as, you know, unfortunately, you know, the only people that know a lot about this have dealt with it firsthand.  Drink some milk.


All right, all you guys having problems with your four-wheel drive. I Happen to have the same issue on this one run across these a couple times 80% of the time it's something electrical So I'm gonna show you What I got going on.  So all right. So what I got here is Got your cable coming down and you've got a gray wire with a white line on it and Another gray wire and then your ground So first things first we want to check power going to This is coming in It's going right up to here. This is the one to your power So with the key on They got one on the ground here already And I have 12 volts so that tells me there's power going to the switch the other one is Your gray wire which will be going to the the four-wheel drive Coils on the wheels over here That is right in here. I'm gonna touch one of these See what we got got 12 volts on the right side You can see we're not it and I have 12 volts on The left side so I got power going to each coil to the hub So I now I got power. That's a good sign So that means it could be one of two things after that Either your Coil going to your clutch is bad or The fluid the next thing I'm going to do is I'm going to check the fluid If the flu is bad or there isn't enough fluid in there at your four-wheel drive is not going to engage So I kind of got that started See what our fluid looks like I bet you either there's hardly anything in here or it's really black Yeah, I got nothing coming out So If there's no fluid in the hub the Hillary clutch will not work so What I'm going to do is you can take a Actual transmission fluid I happen to have some over here Well ATF That should do it I'm going to put those in both hubs and see if I can get the store Yeah, I know I'm making a big mess here, but so you fill this up until you can turn this at a boat It's I think it's like three or four o'clock and then the fluid will start to Pour out and then you know you have enough It's not pouring out so I need to pour more So what I do is I'll pour fluid in and I'll rock this back and forth kind of work it in there and then go ahead and pour some more in and and You had a funnel that would Fit this little hole that would be key. I do not have that I'll just pour a little bit in at a time Just kind of rock it back and forth Okay, so I'm gonna do this and the other wheel and then I'm gonna See if it works. I'll see up fire it up. See what happens. So I fill up my both hubs with fluid And I started up and nothing spun So maybe started thinking it's the magnetic coil in the hub And then I had to backtrack.  There is a place in here for the brown and white Well, these are ground wires So I just plug them in to the the brown panel over here with all the other grounds Clean it up plug them in Well, I had power But I didn't have grown a decent ground I'll show you what what I got going on here Back wheels moving I split up So 90% of the time It's a electrical issue. I got four-wheel drive. It only took me a few minutes to figure out The kill switch doesn't work So yeah, right on this is a A win for me. I thought I was gonna have to replace the magnetic coils You say go back to your wiring you got Your wires coming in here your gray gray and white The gray goes to the two grays that go down to the magnetic coils And then you've got your brown and white Just hook that right up into the ground A lot of times it's a ground issue even on the newer ones So give that a shot. Hope this helped you out Help me out. I can finally put my plow back on my four-wheeler And do some plowing. It's Wisconsin. It's December and we're gonna get snow in a week. So Hit the like button if you like The video and subscribe. I've got plenty of Polaris fixes two strokes four strokes whatever you got Thanks for watching till next time


Suspense. This is the man in black, here again to introduce Columbia's program, Suspense. With us in Hollywood tonight as star is Mr. Gene Lockhart, whose remarkable characterizations on the screen have won him a notable following with American audiences. It is with rueful satisfaction, but with satisfaction nonetheless, that the genial Mr. Lockhart contemplates his reputation. Because of his cinematic misdoings, his numberless treacheries, betrayals and cowardly villainies, he is one of the most hated men in the country today. Our story this evening by John Shaw is called, Statement of Employee Henry Wilson. And so with the performance of Gene Lockhart, as he relates and relives the events of the climactic moment in Henry Wilson's life, we again hope to keep you in suspense. I was aware that I was trembling. I tried walking slowly back and forth in front of the desk, but even in motion, my knees felt weak and my whole body shook.  His voice was cool and mocking. His voice was clear and hard. Well, I sympathize with you, of course, Wilson. But the error must be brought to Mr. Lockhart's attention. It is quite a big mistake there, quite a costly mistake. Mr. Lockhart must know. He wouldn't cover it up. I knew that. Two years ago, this man had come with a firm. For eight years before that, I had worked there, enjoying the work, liking the people. And then he had come there. Have you?  I was helpless. He was ambitious. He was clever. He was fluent. And as of tonight, I was his subordinate. Two years against ten years. Around the office I had a reputation of being casual and carefree. But I hated this man. Every inch of me hated this man. And it was not a new hatred. And of course, there's no question of your honesty. His voice was patronizing the patient teacher and the unruly pupil. I hated him. He smiled up at me and waved his hand in dismissal. He almost brushed a small iron vase off the top of the desk with the gesture. I had seen that vase so often. But I had never seen it out of the eyes that I was looking at it with now. Good night, Wilson. Good night, I said. Good night, clever boy. I walked out into the corridor and rang for the elevator. Ah, terrible night, ain't it, Mr. Wilson? I heard the boy talking like he was yelling at me from some distant mountain. He was talking and I was answering. But I was either one of us was saying I didn't know. I was thinking of something else. I looked at my watch as I stepped out of the car. It was 1130 already. I mentioned it. You've had a long day today, Mr. Wilson. Those were the first words of the boy that I heard. Heard clearly. Very clearly. Yes, I told him. Oh, plenty of overtime this week. I stood and looked at him for a moment. Mr. Dodds is still in the office. You might drop in and see if he wants anything. I think he'd be very grateful. I will, sir. I certainly will. It'll help to pass the time, sir. I don't like to complain, but these nights pass awful slow sometimes. Ah, yes. Go up and see if he wants anything. Go up and see. I walked out of the lobby and came back into the building again when the boy had gotten into the elevator. Four flights up. I took the stairs slowly. I was in no rush. I must let the boy get out of the room first. He said the nights passed slowly. This one wouldn't. And yet, there would be an eternity compressed in it. When I got to the fourth floor, I stood at the top of the stairs and watched the door to Dodds' office. The elevator was parked at the floor, so I knew the boy was in the room. A short while later, he came out. And I crouched back in the shadows until he'd gone down in the car. And then I walked into the room, not in a crouch, or moving my feet so that no sound would wake the stillness, but casually, honestly. There was a small waiting room at the Mr. Dodds' office. In two years, he had a waiting room. In ten, I had none. I felt like laughing at the symbolism of that fact. Who's there? I called out my name and entered his office. Yes? What is it, Wilson? He was still sitting down. And the iron vase was still alongside of him, very close to him. I started to talk. I don't know what about business, things in general. I've quite forgotten. I reached across and picked up the iron vase casually, very casually. But his eyes went wild suddenly, and he jumped. And I hid in the square on the top of the head with the vase. It wasn't a very good shot. I had no leverage. But he started to slump back in the chair. I hit him again, hard, and again, and again. And a red streak ran across his forehead and he laced him. I put my hand against his heart. For a moment, there was a soft beating, and then I could feel nothing. I was very calm and very warm. I was calmer than I'd ever been before. I wiped off the vase and put it back onto the desk. I ran through the papers the guards had been looking at until I found the one paper I was looking for. I ripped it into little bits, and I put the pieces into my pocket. Outside the building, my first act would be to scatter the pieces. I'd cover my mistake myself. I moved slowly back to the door. I wiped the door knob and looked once around the room before I opened the door and stepped out into the waiting room. And then... Going harm, Mr. Wilson? I stood there, afraid to turn, afraid to think.  Are you all right, Mr. Wilson? I tried to talk, but the words got caught somewhere in my throat. It was the sweeper, Tom Higbee, the night sweeper. I almost fainted. Everything had been set so nicely. I'd left the building. The elevator boy had come up and found Dodds in good health. Someone had stolen him later and killed him. That would be the elevator boy's story. If suspicion attached to anyone, it would be to the boy. I had left the building. I had left the building, but... But now, this... Are you all right, Mr. Wilson? I'm fine, Tom. A bit of a cold. That's all. A weakens one. How are the wife and kids? Fine, fine. The shock was wearing off. Mr. Dodds is in his room now, Tom. Working very late tonight. You'd better, you know, let his office go for this once. Well, if you say so, Mr. Wilson, I could give it a quick brush, though, sir. I wouldn't disturb him none.  For a moment, I wondered if he'd seen anything when I'd come out of the room. It was possible. He could have looked over my shoulder. Ah, no. No, he hadn't seen anything. He began to sweep the sitting room, and I stood and watched him. I couldn't let him get out of here. I'd go to the chair if he told me about being there. And I couldn't kill him, too. Oh, what a quick step it had been back to normal. I was nervous again, and I felt a sickness at the bottom of my stomach. I tried to talk.  Tom looked at me. I wouldn't. I wouldn't have to touch him. It would be his word against mine, and I had left the building. I opened the door quickly and went back into Dodd's office. I tried to keep my eyes away from that thing at the desk. I remember that he'd kept a bottle in one of the doors, and I took it and brought it out to the sitting room with me. Oh, Tom, Mr. Dodd says a birthday tomorrow, and he wonders if you'll drink his health with me. Well, I don't think it better take any too many. Mr. Dodd says a birthday. Sometime tomorrow he'll be a day old in the next world. Tom was famous for his liquor habits, but he hesitated. Well, now I... I poured the drinks. I don't think it better... Up with it, Tom, and down with it. And here's to Mr. Dodd. Well, all right, here's kindness. He drank one. He drank another. He drank a third, and still I poured them into him. He got talkative and grew very gay, but he didn't pass out. I looked at my watch. It was almost half past 12. One whole hour I'd wasted with him. I could stand no more. If he was drunk, any test would show that. His story tomorrow would be listed as a drunkard's babble. I had left the building an hour ago. I couldn't afford to waste any more time. I walked behind him, and he was laughing. And I hit him as hard as I could on the back of the neck. He pitched forward off the chair onto the floor. I dragged him into Dodd's office. And I left him into the chair facing Dodds.  I took the iron vase and curled Tom's hands around it for the fingerprints, and I dropped it at his feet. A bottle, a fight, a killing. I was sweating. I went out into the sitting room again and almost fell to my knees. I was frightened. I had to get out of here. I got to the lobby and looked out of the shadows at the elevator. The boy was sitting on a chair outside the car, and he seemed asleep. I came out of the darkness and went quickly towards the street and began to walk rapidly. I wanted to get somewhere out of the world. Would I ever sleep again? We murderers are not supposed to, and I wanted to rest. I had a sudden idea. I went into a cafeteria and used the telephone. I called the building and got the elevator boy on the phone. Hello there. Hello, Jim. Oh, this is Mr. Wilson, Jim. Has Mr. Dodds left yet? The voice that answered me was sleepy and the words were hard to make out. But I knew all the answers. Well, listen closely, Jim. Will you tell him that the address of the place we were talking about is 144 Gray Street? Yes, one for... Yes, that's right. Oh, he'll know what I mean. Will you go up and tell him now, Jim? All right. Thanks a lot, Jim. I was sure the sweeper would be discovered in the room with Dodds. The address was a Turkish bath. It was logical. A man working all night might want to go to a Turkish bath afterwards. Jim, Jim would walk in now and heaven only knew what came next. The sweeper would be caught like a rat in a trap drunk and with a murdered man sitting across from him. I walked home through streets that crushed me in their shadows, between walls that whispered at me as I passed. I sat up at my room for hours listening to the sounds Manhattan makes in the night. And finally, finally I fell asleep. And I sat and I slept and I dreamed until sunrise. I woke with a start. I was shaking like some miserable wet cur. I took a drink and tried breathing deeply. Somewhere I'd read that deep breathing killed the, that scared feeling. What in places was I frightened about? I was safe. I was completely safe. But when I left the house, I was still shaking. I walked all around the block that the building was on before I went inside. It looked like any other morning. On the floor where my office was, I saw a policeman. And then another. And then my world was surrounded by a ring of police and plain clothes men. I must watch my nerves. I must move carefully, very carefully. None of them paid any more attention to me than they did to any of the others. They assembled all of us in the president's office and then one of them, the sharp alert young men began to talk. Last night, please. Last night an attempt was made on the life of one of your associates. Mr. Charles Dodds. A murmur ran around the room. I was talking with the rest, being surprised with the rest. But what did he mean, an attempt? Dodds had been dead or, or had he? Fortunately, however, the attack was not successful. And Mr. Dodds has supplied us with some rather unbelievable information. Oh. Information which we are trying to hold myself. I felt faint suddenly. And then something happened inside me and I did not break. It was a trick. It was a trick, I was sure of it.  And then he, he shrugged his shoulders. Well, as a matter of fact, Mr. Dodds was killed. And another man you might know also died last night. Mr. Thomas Higbee, the night sweeper. Higbee, dead too? Again, that rustle of voices, that droning conversation that I was part of. Some of them had known Higbee, he liked him. I hadn't meant to kill him. Could there be some mistake? I wanted to ask one of these men, was there some mistake, I hadn't meant to kill him? Mr. Dodds was clubbed to death. The night sweeper died of a heart attack. Nothing more is known as yet about what happened here last night. You must all consider yourselves at the disposal of the police. Told you told otherwise. Blast them. Why didn't they say something? They were lying to these people. Nothing more was known, that's nonsense. Why, it was all there for them to see. It told its own story. Higbee had killed Dodds.  And now... Mr. Wilson, will you come this way please? Just a little routine questioning, that's all. Everybody here will have to undergo it. I must watch myself. I must go, very slowly. Sit here, won't you, Mr. Wilson? Now, you remember what time you left the office last night? Yes, yes, it was 11.30. I remember mentioning it to the elevator boy. Uh-huh. And what time did you get home? Oh, somewhere about half past 12, I guess. Yes, just about that time. Is there anybody who would swear to that? Well, the elevator boy. Oh, I don't mean that.  I hardly think so. At that time, the streets aren't too well populated, you know, officer, and I live in a house where people mind their own business. I really don't know anybody in the house, and I doubt if anybody saw me go into it. But you can check with the elevator boy, though, as to my going home at 11.30. Yes, we have already. You weren't on the best of terms with Dodds, were you, Wilson? Oh, I was fond of him. But I don't know what right you have to say a thing like that. Well, you kind of did you out of a job around here, didn't you? Oh, he was a smart man. Mr. Dodds was an exceptionally smart man. It was not at all a disgrace to lose a position to him. When I left him last night, he was an excellent health. And if I killed a man every time I had a job taken away from me, I'd have quite a long line of victims behind me. Of course, I'm just joking, you know. You made a phone call to him last night, didn't you? Yes, to the elevator boy. I remember suggesting that he go to a Turkish bath after he'd finished work to sort of tone up. They're very good, you know. And I mentioned that I knew a very good one that I could recommend. And then when he asked me the name of it, I couldn't think of the address of the place. And I thought of it later, though, and I phoned the building. Where'd you phone from? From a little place in the neighborhood. And about what time did you phone? Well, it was about 12.25, I guess. I was getting a little mixed up. It couldn't have been then. I was still in the building at 12.30. They were confusing me. You called at exactly 12.55. So you must have miscalculated the time of your arrival at home. However, that isn't important. None of us is expected to time ourselves from place to place, are we? When we find too good an alibi, we get kind of suspicious. Well, I don't think we'll have to bother you anymore, Mr. Wilson. Thank you. He asked me to send somebody in to see him as I went out. I forget who it was. I was thinking very hard. I went into my office and sat down. So easy. Was it possible the whole thing was over and so easily? Hello, there, Wilson. Very sad, this business. Very sad. Good morning, Mr. Larkin. But we must go on. Mr. Dodds would want it that way. Yes, sir, he would. It's a responsible job he had, Wilson. But you've been with us long enough to know that. Yes, sir. Do you think you can handle it? Well, sir, I think I can. Good. Get your stuff together and take over Dodds' old office. You deserve this, Wilson. And I'm sure you'll reward our confidence in you. Well, thank you very much, sir. Of course, I hardly expected this. On second thought, I think you'd better go into his office right away and sort of straighten out some of the things on his desk. I'll have one of the boys bring your things in later. Very well, sir. Good luck. Thank you, sir.  I had me said those things before last night. They were all in a spot now.  They needed me to get them out of a hole. The further the thing went, the funnier it got. Books were wrong about virtue and good, counting for anything. To get ahead, you either married the boss' daughter or killed the boss. I took a pencil and a small notebook and went out into the corridor. I stood for a moment outside Dodds' office, just like last night. And then I pushed the door open slowly. The sitting room. And then the door to the office. I opened it and walked inside. I heard the door close softly behind me. And I stood there, smelling the death in the air. And then, and then, I saw it. I saw it. I tried to yell. But I couldn't get the words out.   And at his feet was the bottle and the vase. The same bottle, the same vase. Dodds was all that was missing. I turned and I bolted into the hall. Higbee. Well, what's the matter, Wilson?  In the office. In the office. Higbee. Higbee? My Higbee's dead, man. What's the matter? Mr. Larkin. Where's Mr. Larkin? Here I am, Wilson. What's the matter? In the office. In the office. What? I have nothing to the matter in here. I walked in after him. There was nothing there, nothing. No Higbee. No bottle. No vase. But I saw them. I saw them. Oh, was I going crazy? Was I beginning to go bad? I felt Larkin's path on my shoulder. He might have had something about everybody being a little touchy, a little jumpy. And then he left. And I was alone in the room. What? Be careful. Be careful. Be careful. I stood. I stared at the desk and at the chair. No one was there. No one could have been there. I must watch myself. Uh, what? Oh. Oh, I beg your pardon. Oh, not at all. I seem to be in the wrong room. I'm Mrs. Charles Dodds. Oh. I'm looking for that young detective. He doesn't seem to be out here. Well, I believe he's in the end room questioning the employees. Well, then I don't suppose you'll be able to see me for a little while. Do you mind if I wait here for him? Well, I... Thank you so much. Excuse me for a second. Charlie, will you tell the detective that Mrs. Dodds is waiting for him in... in my new office? Oh, you've already seated yourself. I was going to suggest that perhaps this seat might... She was sitting in his chair. There was blood in that chair. This is quite all right, thank you. Charles would have liked to see the way everybody's taking his death. Everyone is so kind to me. Mrs. Dodds was a fine man, a fine man. You're Mr. Wilson, aren't you? He used to talk about you, thought you were a very bright person. He seemed very fond of you. I don't know how I'll be able to go on without him. Mrs. Dodds, you mustn't. You mustn't. I'm sorry. He wouldn't like to see me carrying on like this, would he? We were going to buy a home in Westchester this summer. Did he ever tell you that? Yes. Just outside Yonkers. We have two lovely little ones. Toby and little Mary. He loved the New York State countryside. We talked so much about it. On. On, she rambled. He liked this. He didn't like that. The children. The children. Toby and little Mary. Toby and little Mary. She was driving me crazy. Stop it, I want her to yell. Get out of here and leave me at peace.    Mrs. Dodds, Detective Lewis would like to see you now. Thank you for everything, Mr. Wilson. And goodbye. Goodbye.  I hadn't meant to do anything like that. I hadn't wanted to do any of the things I was doing.  All these other things, they weren't mine. I hadn't killed Higbee. He can't haunt me. His wife can't cry at me. Heart attack. That's it. Higbee died of a heart attack. I beg your pardon, sir. Have you seen Mrs. Higbee? The detective is looking for her. How would I see her? Am I everybody's guardian? How can anybody get lost in this office? Okay, sir. Mrs. Higbee. Mrs. Higbee.   Can't you be looked for quietly? You will drag Higbee from his grave with your yelling. What? Who is that? Who is that talking? Do they think they can make a fool of me? Ah, the office communication. It's off. You'll go bar me. You've come to spoil it. No. Perfection is instinctive with you, isn't it? Yes. Yes. Not a plan. Did you make spontaneous perfections? There aren't many who can do that. Go on. Go on. Voices can't frighten me. They deserve to die. And that's why they're dead. Not Higbee. I didn't kill him. His heart stopped. Do you hear me, that's all? I didn't kill him. Now you voices stop. Do you hear me? Stop it, I command. Stop it. Is something wrong, Mr. Wilson? What do you mean, is there something wrong? Do you hear them too? Well, you mustn't listen. They lie. Do you hear me? They lie. Get out. Get out. You must talk only to me. You understand me? Only to me. Not to these others. Don't say anything to them. Only to me. Only to me. Well, what do you want? Well, I don't know. You think they'll say something bad about me, don't you? So you can carry me off to jail. That's what you're waiting for, isn't it? Well, you're going to be disappointed. You see? They're quiet. What's quiet? Yeah, who's quiet? Ah, you think I'm going to tell you. They won't say anything unless I tell them to.  Not one little word. Last night. Last night you wanted to know all about last night. Well, you asked them, but they won't tell you. Look at the expression on that face. Look at him, Lieutenant. They were there. They saw me hit him, but they won't say anything. They were there, but they won't tell you a thing. Not one little word. Not a single thing. He said, you bring it because I'm not going to let him. Oh, I shouldn't have let you muck around. We had gotten it out of him some other way. You and your psychology. No, you should leave that stuff in colleges. All I did was plant Higbee in the office and route Mrs. Dodson here and talked into the ventilating system. You know, those voices had me creepy, too. Incidentally, Dodds was single. Why? That girl's my fiance. She's an actress. Well, for... Well, why did you tell him Higbee was dead? No, maybe you better not explain. Psychology, huh? What are we going to do with a confession now? We should have pinched him the moment he walked in here. Maybe I'm lucky I never went to college. There's no use you waiting here. They won't tell you anything. They're mine. All mine. I tell them what to say. All right, get the wagon out there. I'm not going to walk this thing through the streets. I won't say a word. Henry Wilson, it's the judgment of this court that you be sent to the Hillview mental home and be kept there in close confinement until... The voice went. I had stopped listening to voices, all but the ones that I couldn't help hearing. But... But I'm not crazy. I'm not crazy. I tell people that and they look at me clearly.  They say every night when the moon comes up I have fits. Loud, roaring fits when they lie. Because it's then that I hear the voices. I hear Dodds and his wife and Toby and little Mary. And I sit quietly and I listen to them.  Do you know? No, I'd be ashamed. I tell you why I'm not crazy.  All of them, they lie and they lie.  And so closes statement of employee Henry Wilson starring Jean Lockhart. Tonight's tale of... Suspense. This is the man in black who conveys to you Columbia's invitation to spend this half hour in suspense with us again next week. Same time. Now, two distinguished stars will be Margot and Philip Dorn. They will appear in a suspense play by John Dixon Carr entitled Cabin B. 13. The producer and director of suspense is William Spear, who with Lud Gluskin and Lucian Morrowick conductor and composer and John Shaw, the author, collaborated on tonight's suspense. 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This paper proposes a new method called EEGG to decompose the brain into its independent and interactive components. It then uses these components to classify brain activity related to intentions. The proposed method is shown to be more robust than traditional methods when applied to low-quality data. Additionally, it is shown to have the ability to capture the known ERD-slash-ERS phenomenon, suggesting that the interaction between brain regions plays a role in intention classification. This article was authored by Geng Lu and Jing Wang.