What's good y'all, it's your boy Ross back here again with another video. So we're gonna check out the moment WWE ruined NXT now I've been seeing a few things online regarding NXT and the latest like Recent purge as you can pretty much say of their roster to the point where people have pretty much claimed NXT is pretty much done for at this point. They've let go so many people I'm not sure why I I don't know what's going on with WWE But it's like this past year. There's been so many releases of talent and now they're hitting NXT pretty hard and I Don't know what the future of NXT holds like it's not that many if you're cutting half your roster or Or a good percentage of it. What's left? So we're gonna check this out see what's going on here, man Appreciate all love and support road to 60k and let's do this last Friday WWE unfortunately released 13 NXT stars and it shocked many Bobby Fish Bronson Reed Mercedes Martinez Tyler Russ Conor Reeves Leon Ruff Stefan Smith Jake Atlas Ari Stern Stirling Desmond Troy Zachariah Smith Asher Hale Giant Zendir Zendir Bro, that's a lot of people you're gonna so many just people. I don't really know like too well, but that's still That's a that's a decent amount of people bro. Like goddamn Wrestling fans across the world Shortly after that it was reported that NXT was going to experience some drastic changes to the Presentation and the talents we haven't seen the production changes yet But Vince McMahon wants the brand to focus on taller and bigger wrestlers that are basic feeling is they lost the war This is the aftermath and this is the new direction is younger guys and bigger guys Wow, damn Geez bro under 30 years old who have more charisma whether you believe this is for the better or not I think you can all admit it and say that NXT needed to blow it up the brand has not felt the same for quite some time now And I thought that the show has been dead for over a year now It's uninteresting and I don't really care about many of the characters on the show right now I believe this is a much needed transformation They are also looking to sign talent that could become huge charismatic stars on the main roster And I think the days of work rate wrestlers are gone that I'll say this I'm gonna have to disagree with him. I don't think it's been dead Yeah, it's it hasn't been the best of course, but I don't think it's been dead. I honestly think that There's still been some some pretty entertaining stuff on the NXT brand far more entertaining than raw Most of most of y'all can agree with me. What's been shown on NXT? It's still leagues better than what's being shown on raw for months now So I'm not to disagree with him on that one is probably for the better in my opinion because at the end of the day Wrestling is about the story and the characters and NXT lost focus of that and they desperately needed this and all of this begs The question what ruined NXT well in today's video We're gonna take a look at the exact moment when I believe NXT was ruined and without further ado Let's get right into the video Reality show For those of you who forgot NXT originally started off as a reality show WWE hired a handful of talent that wanted to be wrestlers and would make them compete in some of the most bizarre Challenges many games and promo battles this format of NXT would only last a couple of years For a total of five seasons and it's honestly easy to distinguish this as the worst version of NXT although some great wrestlers did come out of this time from NXT I don't think it was a big success WWE realized it as well and decided to have a complete overhaul of NXT Facts man. Yeah, who remembers NXT in his inception that shit was no it was not It was not where it is now You know I'm saying it was it was kind of cringe and I didn't really care too much about it 2012 is when we would see that totally different version of NXT Triple H and Dusty Rhodes took over the brand and made it their mission to create the stars of tomorrow And this was a really special time for NXT because they actually succeeded WWE had an incredible pool of talent names like Seth Rollins, Roman Reigns, Dean Ambrose, Big E, Bray Wyatt, Luke Harper and Jason Jordan were part of the brand in 2012 and as you can clearly see it was stacked in 2013 New names surfaced on the brand as well as the previous wrestlers were now called up to the roster and this is when Sami Zayn Tyson Kidd, Neville, Xavier Woods and others showed up to entertain some fans while preparing themselves for either Raw or SmackDown 2014 saw the debut of Kevin Owens and Finn Balor. On top of that This was also the beginning of the women's revolution the four horse women began to take women's wrestling series again and Sasha And that was a good time and women's wrestling started to really become main event must-see television Who remembers I forgot which NXT takeover it is y'all comment. I'm gonna let me know if you remember But it was the takeover between Sasha and Bayley and This is when Bailey actually gained the championship I thought that storyline was beautiful that the setup was great, man And I it was one easily I say easily easily it was the best match of the night It wasn't even the main event. It was easily the best match of the night People were talking about that match the entire that entire year as one of the best matches of all time Well, one of the best matches of that year. So comment down below Let me know if you guys remember which NXT takeover it was I want to say it was takeover Brooklyn one, but I could be wrong here but either way they were focusing on women's wrestling and it was dope women's wrestling was getting out of the stigma of being bathroom breaks and more of like Hey, we need to watch this. This is gonna be good. Thanks Charlotte flair Becky Lynch and Bailey We're all getting ready to take over the main roster and change the complete game for the women The beautiful thing about this era of NXT was that these wrestlers Embrace their short time on the brand because they were hungry to get to the big stage of either raw or Smackdown Many of these superstars also credit Dusty Rhodes for their success. He was such a huge piece of NXT at this time Unfortunately, though this era came to an end when Dusty passed away Changes were made and the brand shifted to a new direction After 2015 the new direction that NXT took was signing a ton of International stars that made a big name for themselves outside of the WWE and Shinsuke Nakamura was easily the biggest name that came from New Japan that changed everything for NXT It was a huge signing then you also had Samoa Joe who was a top star in NXT at this time Yeah, and Bobby Roode would eventually also sign on NXT and later become the NXT world champion These were three NXT champions from 2016 through 2017 I call it the old era because a lot of these guys were a bit older than what we expected in NXT in the prior years Each of them were in their mid 30s at the time It was an interesting change because the entire point of NXT was to create fresh and young stars But things were a bit different here Triple H's approach at this time was signing veterans and keeping them for a bit before sending them to the main roster It was a bit strange But I thought it was a fun time and we also saw the rise of Bayley and also had some classic tag-team matches DIY and the revival Man and the thing about this is all these NXT champions They worked in NXT when they got to the main roster. It's like they couldn't continue the booking They just a lot of the time they dropped the booking they dropped the ball on booking these guys to be main event players They obviously have main event appeal, but when it came to the main roster is just it's like they switched up everything They switched they pretty much killed their momentum Undisputed air man one of the greatest factions And now we head over to the undisputed era This is obviously named after the undisputed era because I like to believe that they were always the major focus of NXT around this time despite not necessarily being in the main event title picture They were always in important feuds from 2017 through 2020 and they pretty much made events in war games almost every year In my opinion, this was one of the strongest times in NXT because the talent was Unbelievable you had guys like Adam Cole the velveteen dream before he found out that it was a creep 3 Ricochet Johnny Gargano Tommaso Champa Alster black and Pete Dunn Each week these guys would give us some of the most entertaining matches and the programs and the storylines were good as well They weren't anything over the top, but it was interesting nonetheless Takeover pay-per-views were so good that it was hard for the main roster to even compete with them. Yep takeover was Everyone's highlight for whatever Pay-per-view event that was happening that weekend Takeovers were literally taking over the entire weekend It wasn't just for that one night people who were excited about what was gonna happen on Saturday more than what was gonna happen on That Sunday night, and this is the pretty much the same here, man NXT they held it down. I watched every single takeover Around this time. I think I started watching the takeovers. Maybe like around 2017 I wouldn't say like 2017 I started watching them and I've been hooked every since because they were so it was a breath of fresh air The crowd was always lively energetic the matches was good I didn't know who was who but I started getting familiar with different wrestlers It was entertaining bro. It was just something different. I didn't have to worry about Hokie bullshit, Hokie cringe type material like you would get on the main roster You know, I was getting actually good storytelling and ring wrestling like I was enjoying it I loved almost every second of this NXT era However, there were problems that began to arise the wrestling matches were getting a bit too long and each of them kind of Felt the same. You didn't have a different story that was being told throughout the night The actual talent also refused to get called up to the main roster and they prefer to be at NXT Even though they made less money with the brand rather than having fresh faces every few months We were stuck with a majority of these wrestlers for a couple of years This was slowly the beginning of the downfall of NXT However, most of these problems weren't exposed yet because it was still an hour-long show on the WWE Network The moment WWE ruined NXT, I think Unfortunately, these problems began to become more clear once NXT went from a one-hour program on the WWE Network to a two-hour show on USA Network to compete with AEW That was their downfall right there They were trying to compete with AEW when they should not have been trying to compete with AEW They should have just been Stay true to themselves, stay one hour You're trying to compete with another brand that happens to be premiering on the same night as you That's where things went wrong W, NXT was ruined the minute they try to focus on outperforming AEW The imaginary Wednesday night war is the worst thing that ever happened to NXT This is when things only got worse The show was constantly trying to counter program AEW rather than focusing on their own storylines They did not have enough talent to keep things fresh and entertaining for two hours And then Vince McMahon began to get more and more control of NXT in hopes of taking away the ratings from AEW The USA Network also had influence on the show as well So it seems like Triple H lost a lot of freedom and control And let me make this very clear, NXT was still kind of good in the beginning of this time However, it was not sustainable and therefore it did not last long The bridge was slowly burning and it started because of AEW and trying to compete with that promotion Things got even worse once the pandemic started NXT really took an even bigger hit because of that The quality of the show dropped immensely and it never recovered Hopefully Vince McMahon does save it and these new changes are promising But until then I will say that NXT is ruined Anyways, that is it for the video guys, thank you so much for watching I hope you all enjoyed it I agree with him on why it got ruined Once NXT went to two hours, it messed them up Because they were trying to compete That's pretty much what it was They were trying to compete with AEW instead of just staying true to themselves Staying true to what got them to the place they are at now You know what I'm saying?  Do you guys think NXT can't be salvaged? Or do you guys still have hope that NXT will be able to produce quality television on a weekly basis? Comment down below, let me know I would like your thoughts and opinions on that But I appreciate all the love and support Roll to 60K, appreciate y'all kicking in with me And I'll see y'all on the next one


Just welcome on back here this Thursday, August 24th, shortly after 2.30 p.m. Eastern. Welcome back here for our afternoon meeting. I know that I saw Donald just dip out a moment ago, but aside from perhaps it's great to see all of our members and students alike here rejoining us. Antonio, Kathleen, Mike, just before later, loud and clear from them. So good to go across the cyber group room. Great to have all of us back otherwise on social media, Facebook, Live LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, the works. Now, with that in mind, we have class coming up later on this afternoon, continuing along the phase two stock course, just really just picking up where we left off, just as far as showing you what had happened from this morning. I'm still down on this morning, just I have no shame in admitting that. Everyone has a down day every now and then, right? So, hey, I'm down like 150 bucks right now at this point in the afternoon. I'm done trading since we got class coming up ahead as well. So there's a couple of things long term, my position myself, we're actually just coming up here. We'll see if it ends up breaking lower because Mara right now, we're gonna show that in just a moment. That one was one that we were focused on is a swing trade. Fausto from yesterday, myself just from last week, I was telling you, it was gonna pull back towards this like 1050 issue. We'll show that in just a bit. So, for right now, the ELIQ is on the screen here, at least it's still up 84% but the trend is down. So, definitely at this point, I think that this stock has ran its course. I'm not really expecting much more of this or much more out of this trade really. So, you know, I'll pass on it for right now. I just wanted to start off with what was on the top of the gainers list here. You'll probably see a few lines on some stocks as we go through, you know, that's kind of where we are focused on in class. And I'll really just go over these trades in the phase two course at 305. So, looking forward to it, just for any of our gold, platinum, and diamond C2 students. But yeah, for right now, same thing with this BRSH trend right now, down. You know, it's filling the gap actually looking at the daily chart. So, a couple of gamble stocks that were like making these like big moves, like low volume, low flow, huge spreads because they're already pretty expensive here. So, you know, VFS, GES, you know, two stocks that just popped earlier in the morning, but they were like basically untradable. So, aside from really those, it was a tough, tough day to, you know, go long. So, normally on a day like today where the markets are down, there's like typically a couple of stocks that are going against the grain pretty nicely that are tradable, that are within our price range, that have good volume. This morning was not the case. So, it was a really tough morning to pluck a profit out there. WeWorks, cheap stock, like really cheap, too cheap. So, I'll pass on that. So far, we got nothing here. Nothing really appealing to me from the top of the gainers list. You know, hey, I gotta go through it with the spy at the low right now. I'm not really expecting to find too much here, especially, you know, I just mentioned from before, we didn't really have a whole lot. This LC trade, you know, that's like the first thing here so far that looks decent. So, you know, it's at the highs, it's at seven. Looks like a big volume level right around 695 or so. You know, hey, I guess I'm gonna add this to our watch list so far to begin, but I'll be honest with you. Certainly hoping for it to make a nice pop up higher. Trust the trend at least, but you know, we'll see if it really gets going. HUIA from the morning session popped up a little bit, but now it died off kind of quickly too. Market dropping off, so UVXY perhaps moving up pretty nicely here at SOXS. This is a semiconductor tech chip ETF. So, you know, NVIDIA down, filled the gap off earnings basically, AMD got smashed today so all these trades will kind of cover in our class at 305 Eastern later on this afternoon as I've been saying. So, you know, going back to SOXS on the gainer side here, if the markets keep breaking lower, it wouldn't be a bad idea to follow this on the way up, right? So, look at this, look at UVXY. This is way choppier. I just feel like that other one, the SOXS, just moving a little bit better here at this time of the day. So, I'll add that, I'll pass on this. Footlocker had actually a pretty surprising run from the morning session here. You know, that's where at first say, if it takes you off guard, I wasn't really expecting Footlocker to continue so strong when markets were dropping. Typically when a stock was coming off bad news anyway, it's gonna be actually one of the stocks to lose traction a lot faster. So, actually held pretty nicely up until that fame for Versaltime 10, 15, 10, 30, actually a little bit after, but failed to break. And then, here we are now. So, honestly, this as a sideless stock wouldn't be a bad one to like just keep on the back burner. Maybe it's a short, oh, SQQQ, I forgot about this. So, you know, UVXY, the chip bear ETF stocks. And then this one here, SQQQ, same deal, just another one. We're not gonna really like add all these ETFs now at this point, just the one. All right, so I think that's just about it. No surprise, we're already below 5% really kind of desperate there at that point.  Took a small loss on BETR. It was like one of the smaller losses on the day, it was minus two. Not really minimal damage here, but it was already after like a few losses already. And it was just like, not even this could make a pop. So, this thing was down so much from the pre-market and after the market opened up, it got clobbered again. You know, we were saying maybe at a dollar it can make a move or so, right? So, we were hoping for it to make a move from there. Initially, it ended up kind of like bottoming out and then broke lower later on, right? From there, I guess it tried to go back up and made that bounce from 80 cents up to like $1.30, $1.40. And now at this point, you know, for a stock that's not only down so much, but trading properly like 100 times more volume than what it normally does on a day-to-day. I'm gonna pass on this trade, I'd say. Yeah, maybe keep it on your side list for tomorrow and if it doesn't move tomorrow, then scrap it, but pass on this. Got another one down big, what happened here? RETO, I didn't even notice this one from earlier. I think I clobbered going into the late morning from seven all the way down to obviously now to buck. This one has a little bit more potential for that dead cap bounce right now, heading into the afternoon timeframe. It's not like this like got clobbered from early in the pre-market. So, you know, granted, it's still trying a ton of volume compared to its average, but I sniff a better opportunity on this one compared to that last one, BETR. This one's still down 85%. So, no guarantee it's gonna make like that 30, 50 cent breakout pop that you want, but definitely good enough right now to keep it on our main list. AMC is just gonna keep dropping, I think, over time here. So, I would be really careful about holding on to that. I know it dropped off already.  It's probably gonna go up a little bit. Well, it should have already. So, for it to be down 27% instantaneously off of that, yeah, it's bad news. All right, so with that, what else we got here? Woof, this thing is actually right off the low of the day, really liquid, which I normally like, but is it really gonna break below five, that 138,000 share order on the bid? And if it does, how much lower is it gonna keep dropping? So, you know what, I'll put it on our list right now. It's tradable, makes the cut here for the meantime, and it's more of like a level one or two trade. So, don't expect a lot, but just follow that five level, maybe 514 is a lower high coming up. Opera, not much happening there, really. Train, actually very little volume. Pass on that one. AI trade down big. This one was a nice pot from yesterday, I think it was. Like, nice little move. Mara, here we go. So, you know, long-term on positioning for a nice swing trade on Mara, even from last week, as Fausto was out, I was saying that. You know, it is at a big level now at this point, it's in this like range of an area between like 1040-ish, 1073, and for separate reasons, a lot of these prices are incredibly strong historically speaking. So, I'd love to see it hold here, and I started to position myself a little bit for a long-term trade on the option side. But, I do think there's a great chance though that it is gonna break lower before the real run-up actually happens. So, if you're looking long-term and you don't care about, you know, like being down a little bit initially, then this is one to begin to, you know, think about here because over time, if you're bullish on crypto, if you're bullish on the market, perhaps as well, it's just a matter of time, you'd imagine. Mara dropped off already so much just from when we were first plotting it out from like 15 bucks, 14 bucks, we were talking about it. So, you know, initially, it was like right around 1050-ish, 1040, and then here we are. Well, if it keeps breaking lower, I think that there's a good chance to see like 980-ish to 10, and then we'll kind of go from there. So, that's just something to kind of watch out for as a swing trade over time. And then, yeah, I mean, for right now as a trade going into the close today, I just think it's kind of more exhausted now at this point if Bitcoin really drops, then I'd say you put it on your side list or, you know, come back to it at three o'clock in the afternoon, but if you all see and not much happening there, APLD, same deal. IO&Q, that might just be about it here, folks. If there's anything else looking good in the chat board, just let me know. Up down, left, right, more than 5%, just let me know here. Obviously, probably more on the way down, something just like near the lows, at the lows is a short. Take a look at the spy right now. So, obviously, steady, she goes on the way down. I know a firm has earnings tomorrow, so it might be more hesitation on them. Who knows? I'm not really doing a whole lot just over the last, like, 30, 45 minutes. So, got them on my side list for tomorrow to wrap up. Path in another side list stock just to keep a small eye on, I've seen here and there.  It's dropping a little bit, but, yeah, not a great need to add too much else unless it's looking really strong. Brush trying to make a tiny bounce, but I guess you could have said that much earlier in the day all throughout the day and we'll look at what happened. Just continue to break lower. So, yeah, at this point, this trade's dead. Roberto's saying SPR a nice short.  You know, if you're already in the trade, rooting you on, it is down 14 plus percent. So, perhaps there could be more room on the way down, maybe, right?  Yeah, I mean, hey, not a bad setup, Roberto. Normally, though, right? This is where I'm just gonna say normally, I really want to keep to a stock that is at the low of the day right now or near the lows. This has got a ways to go to get there. And the volume's a little thin too, just be a little careful. So, it's, you know, tradable, but not gonna make our main list, but if you're already in, you know, got in off that, like, 20-10-ish little chart level there, you're looking pretty nice. I always say just any member here joining us, any students, like, you know, Fausto and I, like, we like to, you know, build up a list, not make it too big. Some days we gotta stretch it out, but normally, unless it fits, like, at the highs, at the lows at this time, we're not gonna be as inclined to put it on the main list, even if it's tradable. So, you know, again, there's like a litany of different trades that have good spread, good volume, like, obviously, Intel coming back to, like, the chip stocks. Well, this isn't down over 5%, but mind you, like, this is right at the lows, and in the case of it dropping with NVIDIA or the AMD again, actually, hell, AMD is at the lows, it's down over 7% plus, right? Little more expensive, but you could buy puts on this specifically and then otherwise. Yeah, I'm gonna add AMD and I'll slip Intel on there just because those are, you know, more near the lows, this down big. This guy smushed earlier today. Gee, I was not expecting to see as big, but it's like, I'm down on the day, but honestly, thank God, I didn't jump into this thing, because I was initially really confident of a bounce at some point on NVIDIA, which leads to a bounce on AMD. Well, as soon as the market opened up, as fast as NVIDIA broke down, like freaking 20 points within the first two candles, it's like, all right, well, we're gonna wait a little bit, wait a little bit here, and it just kept dropping and you knew that. All right, well, unless it reverses at 1030-ish or so, you know, it's just not really worth it. So we had class at 1030, finished up, was already at a 102 at that point. So yeah, this got obliterated today. It's at the lows, so AMD Intel. I'm sure you could add a micron on there too, but it's a little more expensive and not as weak and not as strong on the way down. So, all right, so hey, I think that's just gonna wrap it up here for me here. There's nothing else that I see that looks great. Oh, actually, ooh, pardon me, went too fast. There is one that actually stands out right now. I don't know what the chart looks like. It actually really sticks out on Benzinga Pro. Yeah, what the hell happened here? Hawaiian Electrics once again with another big drop. So, you know, we were talking about it, Hawaiian Electrics ended up, you know, the catastrophe in Maui just led to a big drop from last week and it just reminds us of PG&A, California Electric Company. You know, we were saying that all from last week, right? Were you on the tape? Go back to last week on our YouTube channel in the morning meetings. I know, hey, it took a while for that company to make a squeeze up over time, which led us to say a little back last week that, yeah, there's gonna be more room on the way down here. So, I don't know whatever news came out just now, but it doesn't surprise me that this just plunged. It's not down like five plus percent, but it just popped up on my Benzinga radar. I don't mind specifically adding this here too, at this point. Let's just check the news out on this trade here. Yeah, I got some stuff coming in here. So, just right now, breaking news right now, actually at 2.45, 41 seconds, the Hawaii power utility believed to have started the deadly Lahaina fire, removed damaged power poles and other equipment from key fire scene, potentially affecting evidence that is a part of the official investigation into how the blaze ignited. So, that's not even like even find this remotely funny, but it's just like, wow, they're really messing up here. This company's really messing up bad and led to a big drop. They're tampering with evidence right now in an official investigation. So, big drop and perhaps there's a lot more where that came from. So, yeah, not a bad one to put on our watch list here. So, folks, we're gonna wrap up. I look forward to seeing all of us in class for most of us with that. If you're not joining me, best of luck trading, going into the market close, but hey, for all of a sudden, social media, Facebook Live, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, the works. I always like to post my email here at the end of these streams. That is incorrectly spelled on the YouTube live chat right there. And just for a second. There we go. Josh at C2Trading.com. Listen, any questions, trades, or comments, anything that you wanted to go over with us on the side before joining us inside our live trading room. Feel free to talk to me on the side. Just shoot me over a quick email.  Actually, do the one on the top left right there. You can actually get access to Faustos Trade Talk Live Workshop that he did actually earlier today at NASDAQ headquarters with Jill Malandrino for all of our students here inside our live trading room. We'll get the link for that posted just momentarily there. And then otherwise, there's the old link for the trading room. Scan the QR code now on the top left on our stream.  I mean, this might get halting on the way down soon enough here off that news report that just came out. Never know if we're gonna catch you in these afternoon meetings, folks. So, hey, if you're not joining me in class, best of luck trading, and we'll catch up with you heading into tomorrow. Take care.


With this problem, it's tough to know where to start. I've got a whole lot of variables. I've got y. I've got x. I've got n. I've got r. I've got t. So many variables. It's hard to know where to start. What I would recommend is take a look at this triangle. Triangle ABC. In that triangle, we have two angles where y is the variable. And so that kind of gives you a little clue that y is sort of the starting point for this triangle, this similarity problem. So let's take a look at these angles, A, B, and C. The triangle sum theorem says that all three of those angles have to add up to 180. So we know angle A, B, and C add up to 180. So therefore we get this new equation. So let's combine like terms. If we subtract 45 from both sides and then divide both sides by 9, we get that y is equal to 15. And so that piece of information is kind of a linchpin, sort of a key to finding out a lot of other side lengths. Sorry, not side lengths, angles. I know the measure of angle A is 74 because y is 15, you can substitute that value in for 5y minus 1. We can do the same thing for angle B. We know B is equal to 68 degrees because if we substitute in 15, we get 68. And now we can use that information to help us find some other angles. For example, let's take a look at angle D. Angle D must be equal to angle A. And the reason why is since these two triangles are similar, A corresponds with D. And so that makes their angles equal. And so 3t plus 11 must equal 74. When you solve that, you get that t is equal to 21. Now we can do the same thing for R. I see R is related to angle F. Now F corresponds with angle C. Since those angles correspond, they must be equal. And so now we can say 2R plus 4 equals 38. When you solve that, you get that R is equal to 17. So now the only thing that's left are these side lengths. In particular, we're missing angle, not angle, sorry. Side length x, 3x plus 2, and n in 2n plus 2. So I'm going to clear the page and let's take a look at side lengths. So let's ignore the angle information for now. I need to find what x and what n equal. In order to do that, I have to use a known ratio. So let's first solve for x. The side 3x plus 2 refers to AC. So let's use AC as a ratio. I know that AC is the first and third letter of triangle ABC. So therefore AC corresponds with DF. That's our unknown ratio. And we want to set that ratio equal to unknown ratio, so we can use proportions. The only known ratio here is AB, which is first and second, and DE. So in order to set up my proper ratio, I'll have to set up AB on top divided by DE down below. So now we need to cross-multiply. 12 times the quantity 3x plus 2 is equal to 15 times 16, which is 240. The first thing to do to solve that will be to distribute 12, then subtract 24 from both sides, and then divide by 36 on both sides, and we get that x is equal to 6. So now we found x. The last thing that we need to find is n. Since the only thing that we need to find is n, I'm going to cover up a bunch of this stuff. We already know what y is. We already know what x is. We already know r and t. And so the only thing left is to find n. And n refers to the length fe. The corresponding side length of fe, if you look at the last two letters of triangle def, corresponds with the last two letters of triangle abc. So there's our unknown ratio. In order to solve that, we'll need to set that ratio equal to a known ratio. The only known ratio we have, remember, was 15 and 12. So DE and AB. Now since I have fe on the top of this ratio, and fe is the second triangle, I need to put the second triangle on top in the next ratio. So DE corresponds with AB. Cross multiply. Let's distribute the 15, and now we're done.


What's up everybody welcome back to the channel I'm evil rabbit here for a little bit of a recap from my weekend I went to PA to a pro-am drift event in juky racing midwest drift round three from the drift pro-am series It was an amazing time You know as you can see some of the still pictures that I took when I was there You got a lot of videos of some drifting and stuff that I'm gonna show you guys You know after all the still photos and stuff There's a really good time to see a lot of the pro-am drivers who are you know working their way to get their pro-2 license As well as there was a special guest there Dirk Stratton from formula drift pro-2 driver of that c6 corvette I have a video coming out momentarily after this one he brought a new toy to the track and It's definitely a monster. It's a beast of a car. He brought a little you know his second toy out You know debutant give it a little bit of a shake down here So I'm gonna post that video up on the channel here, you know in the next day or so So look forward to seeing that if you want to do it. Dirk Stratton's new toy is But like there was a lot of great tanems a lot of tire smoke a few casualties on cars and such which you guys will see You know here soon as well Um But like I said, you know, it was an amazing time. It was awesome to get you know go see some pro-am drivers You know, they're not like formula d drivers yet But they are working to get their you know pro-2 license and step up in their world So I hope you guys enjoy this video here from you know the photos and the videos I took From when I was at this event on the weekend Uh, definitely super excited here coming out today will be the new car pack the hoonigan pack So stay tuned to the channel definitely going to be doing some crazy stuff with the hoonigan cars coming out here Super excited for that content to drop today. So look forward to that coming to the channel this week as well So I hope you guys enjoy this. I'm gonna leave you guys with some we ravis music And uh, I do apologize for some of the audio from the recording. It was extremely windy when we were there and I did not have a Basically, you know the dead cat over the mic. So it is kind of windy You can't still hear the cars and everything because they were extremely loud. So I hope you guys enjoy it Yeah Well, I hope you guys enjoyed this little look and the highlights from our trip to pa to the pro m In jukku racing mid west drift round three as you can see there was a casualty of an e46 You know tail smack in the wall and you know taking the whole front of the car out You know he's getting dragged out You can see it's completely messed up the driver was okay, but otherwise it was an amazing event So I hope you guys enjoyed it. So until next time guys, like thank you guys for watching. I'm evil rabbit. I'm out


Welcome to the Pyramid Insider. I'm Tyler Patner. Today we're going to be taking a look at the new King of the Power Hill, the Air Force Texan LSS CF in .457 caliber. Now a little bit of backstory here on the Texan LSS in particular came out at the 2019 SHOT Show and it's basically the full-length 34 inch barreled version of the Texan with the additional suppression of the SS version. So you get the full-length barrel, full power, as well as getting that sound suppression that a lot of us like. In addition to the announcement of the LSS in the beginning of 2019, about halfway through this year, Air Force went ahead and announced that they had a new valve designed, the TX2 valve, which was touting 100 more foot pounds. So basically taking a standard 34 inch barreled Texan or Texan LSS up to 600 foot pounds from an already impressive 500. And of course that brings us to the LSS CF that I have here in front of me today. And the CF, if you hadn't guessed it already, stands for Carbon Fiber. Air Force is employing a 480 cc carbon fiber bottle that fills the 250 bar on this gun. And when you couple that with the new TX2 valve, you're getting some ridiculous energies out of this gun here in the .457 caliber. We're talking about King of the Hill top-end maximum performance that we're seeing in production air guns over 700 foot pounds. So this gun is absolutely, without a doubt, the new King of the Hill. And we're going to put it to the test today. All right, so first up is going to be our chronograph testing. Now we're just going to take one shot with each at max pressure. So 3625 psi inside of this carbon fiber cylinder. That first shot's really given us our max velocity out of this gun. That's what we found in our pre-testing. And the second shot falls off just a little bit, maybe 30 to 40 feet per second. And that third shot really drops off quite a bit. So it's looking like two usable fills with most of your ammo. We're starting at 300 grains. We're going to work our way up, see what our chronograph numbers look like, and then we'll go ahead and get to some accuracy. All right, so now that we've confirmed over the chronograph that the TXNLSSCF is producing a little over 700 foot pounds, about 720, wanted to talk a little bit about the equipment. I noticed you guys are probably thinking, hey, you guys don't sell a 495 and a 520 grain slug in the 457. And you're right, we don't. These are actually from our good friend, Mr. Hollow Point. Air Force told us we should look these up. So we gave these a look, got some. These are big hunks of lead, guys. Not necessarily the most practical thing for long-range shooting, but if you're looking for the most energy, this is going to be what you want. Now, as far as what we sell, the 411 grains and then those 300 grain slugs as well that we're going to be testing today, you saw us chronograph them. So that's what we're going to be going with. That's what performed best in our pre-testing at the office. 60 yards on a piece of steel, three shots. We're going to be tethering the tank to make sure everything's nice and consistent for us. We'll see what happens. The Texan LSS, this new CF version with the carbon bottle, obviously putting out a lot of power. Over 700 foot pounds with those Mr. Hollow Point slugs. That is a ton of smackdown. Really, I see the applicability for this for those of you using more of a lighter three to 400 grain slug that are going to be hunting with this. This thing's going to be awesome. It's going to be producing well over 500 foot pounds with any of the stuff in that range. So this is certainly going to do it for you. And again, that carbon fiber bottle is going to be available in the SS, the shorter barrel version, the carbine and the standard Texan as well.  But a lot of big power out of this new CF version. Absolutely awesome to see. Check out the new Texan LSS CF and all the CF line over on Pyramidair.com now for the Insider guys. I'm Tyler Pattener. Don't forget to follow us on social media, Instagram, Facebook. Hit that like button down below the video and don't forget to subscribe. We'll see you at the next one.


And think tech on Spectromosi 16, Hawaii's weekly newscast on things that matter to tech and to Hawaii. I'm Elise Anderson. And I'm Nicole Horry. In our show this time, we'll attend a program entitled Public Participation in a Polarized Era, the Good, the Bad, and the Future. It was presented by the Accord 3.0 Network at the East West Center and the UH School of Law. The first part of the program on December 1st was entitled Taking Stock and Devising Solutions. The second part, on December 2nd, was entitled Public Consultation, Strategies, and Skills. In the late 1970s and in the face of strong new environmental laws, federal and state agencies adopted new community consultation strategies. Foremost among these were National Environmental Protection Act requirements, Sunshine Laws, and the use of public meetings whenever new policies, projects, and plans were proposed. Three decades later, too many public meetings have become perfunctory tick-the-box compliance exercises or fresh combat zones for old ideological wars. As public discourse has become increasingly polarized and hostile, it has gotten harder to arrive at decisions that can be supported by a plurality of citizens. The Public Participation in a Polarized Era program was intended to take stock of how public participation is doing, gather ideas for changes to the way it works, offer techniques and approaches to improve public participation and spark better conversations now and in the future. In advance of the program itself, ThinkTech had two talk shows to introduce the organizers and the discussion contemplated. Public Participation in a Polarized Era. Okay, this is a serious problem. We have a lot of talk in this town, including in the legislature, the city council, and around the executive branch, too, but we don't necessarily have any action. We don't actually come together. Consensus is an elusive goal, may I say. So, can you articulate the problem and how it affects our lives, our government, our state in general? Well, you don't have to look much farther than the voter turnout to understand public participation. Now, I understand that we have our own cultural ways of doing things. We're a different sort of a community. We're not in New York. We're not in Los Angeles. But we have laws on the books about public participation that are 30 years old and really haven't been looked at with fresh eyes. So part of this event is to do just that. Will I get depressed coming down to this, Colin Moore, Professor Colin Moore? If you're coming down to this conference, you're probably already depressed about the state of public participation. You know, that's a discouraging thing because, you know, as a lot of folks will recall, the reason we have all these requirements, I mean, it dates back to this period where people thought that, you know, sunshine was the solution and more public participation would lead to better outcomes and people would be more involved in the government. We'd get away from the smoke-filled rooms and bring the community in. The problem is most of the people who do this work most of the time, I mean, who have run these opportunities for the public to participate, I think, are pretty discouraged by the results. And the public who does come are pretty discouraged. And I think anyone who's been part of one of these would feel discouraged as well. I mean, usually you get a small number of very intensely interested people who are often there to, you know, to push their own ideological agenda. On the first day of the program, after a welcome by Peter Adler of Accord 3.0 Network, Colin Moore of the UH Public Policy Center spoke about the current dynamics of public participation. I think most of us would agree that we live in a very polarized time. There's lots of resentment, lots of outrage, lots of anger. Lots of people in tribalized conditions, they're stuck in their own groups. They only listen to people who are already agreeable to them, and they get reinforced through the media. Public participation, what is it good for? The answer I think is best expressed by, at least the best answer I've ever heard, is from the great American pragmatist philosopher John Dewey, who wrote that the man who wears the shoe knows best that it pinches and wear it pinches, even if the expert shoemaker is the best judge of how the trouble is to be remedied. And I think that really does capture what we think is valuable about public participation, but at the same time, do we also hint that citizen participation should be seen as a compliment, not as an alternative? The first panel entitled The Landscape of Existing Consultation Practices was moderated by Keith Mattson of the Accord 3.0 Network. It featured Denise Antolini of the UH Law School, Marjorie Ziegler of the Conservation Council of Hawaii, Mitch Dolié, businessman, and Ed Case, former congressman. We wanted to make sure we had some diversity in having an environmental perspective, a government perspective, and a business perspective. But what we're going to do to start this off is have Denise Antolini from the Law School kind of walk us through what's on the books, what's required of these public participation processes, whether they're environmental assessments or EISs or some of the other ones that Peter had mentioned earlier. I think a lot of us in the room see public participation for many sides, and if there's one recommendation I would make, which is it would be that you should see it from multiple perspectives, work in government, work in public interest, and work in the community and academia, and you just, nothing like putting yourself in somebody else's shoes. Yeah, absolutely. So a lot of us are familiar with NEPA. How many of you have commented on an EIS or an EA? I hope that's most of you in the room, or prepared them. So it's very, very familiar territory to everybody in the room, so this is a very quick overview. There's the early consultation process, environmental assessments, and at the federal level there's actually a lot of variation by agency, so if there's one takeaway here, it's when you're involved in NEPA, you need to get to know the specific regulations of the agency you're dealing with. There's a lot of variation. For environmental impact statements, it's a little more standardized, and I think a lot of us are participated in the 45-day comment period or public meetings, but again there's a lot of variation, a lot of delegation to the agencies to run their own processes. Some of, then there's a lot of litigation, I'm not going to go into too much about the lawsuit side of public participation, but it's a really important consideration because that's a hammer at the end of the process for some of these streams of public participation.  For more information, there are these great citizen guides for a lot of these major areas of public participation, and there's a wonderful one from the Office of Environmental Quality. CEQ still exists from what I hear in D.C., and they have a great citizen's guide to guide you through the process, and a lot of agencies have their own. There's also a great database of EISs that are open for public comment on EPA's website, and they still have a website from what I hear, so there are these really nice tools out there that I think are underutilized for everyone who participates in the process. And I love this quote, I know it's very long, but I thought Peter would like this. And it talks about basically civility and commenting. And I think this is important because we all have seen such a variety of different kinds of comments, but I love this in the middle, it says as a general rule, the tone of the comment should be polite and respectful. Those reviewing comments are public servants tasked with a job, and they deserve the same respect and professional treatment that you and other citizens expect in return. And I love this, that the citizen's guide is giving us lessons on civility, and we need to keep those in mind. The second panel, entitled Learning from Case Studies, was moderated by Scott McCreary of the Accord 3.0 Network and featured Kim Lowry on Kakaako, Melissa White on Complete Streets, Brendan Kaleiina Lee on AHA 2016, Amy Hennessey on Kauai's Proposed New Dairy, and Greg Chun on Envision Manakea. What you will hear is a series of case studies that really span the gamut from very site specific to regional to issues of truly statewide importance. Let me first introduce Kim Lowry. I want to talk for a few minutes this morning about a meeting that involved about 45 or 50 self-selected members, met over about 13 months, and they were charged with doing a group writing project. And these were people who didn't get along very well together. So picture yourself with about 50 people doing a group writing project over a period of months, and they don't get along. And that describes the situation we have. This is, I'm talking about Kakaako Makai, which is familiar to some of you. It happened a number of years ago. There was a hotel that was proposed for the Kakaako Makai area. It was strongly protested by a group called Save Our Kakaako Coalition. They lobbied the legislature to require the Hawaii Community Development Authority to have a participation process. And the legislature mandated that the HCDA organize a participation process. This is the area we're talking about. Save Our Kakaako is a very strong, very passionate, very well organized group. My work that I've been doing on Complete Streets over this year, in order to, this is a unique case where we're working with a new program that the City and County of Honolulu has established. It's called the Complete Streets Program. And the idea behind Complete Streets is definitely not new either in Hawaii or nationally. It's the idea of making streets safer, more accessible, and more accommodating to all kinds of users and accounting for all modes in the design and construction of our streets. So that's pedestrians, bicycles, vehicle users, transit riders. And it's about kind of increasing that equity, promoting public health. And so this year I have been charged with doing public participation outreach for two Complete Streets projects. And these are kind of the first two major initiatives of this newly established program, which has been around about a year. One of the most interesting things that you said in your presentation is you went to where people were. And you went to where they were physically and online. That's interesting perhaps juxtaposition with what Kim said. People had to sign in and then they participated. So these are what we might say are very porous processes. So it will be interesting to hear as we go through the other case studies how participation was decided, how it was established, who was qualified, and how that process worked out. It's important to note that this was not the first constitutional convention for a native Hawaiian government. This is actually the third. They've all happened within the last, I would say, 25 years. The differences this constitutional convention or AHA came out with a deliverable. AHA drafted, wrote, and adopted an actual constitution. Actually two documents, a declaration and a constitution. How was participation as one of the cross-cutting themes, how was participation decided? Well, originally there were supposed to be a Yopuni election that 30 delegates were going to be selected and they were going to have months to do this work. We all know about the lawsuit that came about that. So what they decided to do was everyone who put their name in to be considered for a delegate for an election were all invited to come. I think that you were actually very adaptive in the use of Robert's rules in using that to motivate an impression of process fairness. You inspired ways of creating trust by using the word cloud technology and method and approach for actually showing common interests in a way what you did with the word cloud step was you did a kind of stakeholder assessment. If you're not familiar with the Plano Initiative, we are an impact investment company and what that means is that we take private equity money from our founder to try to make a difference for our community. Typically folks when they think about dairy it's a feedlot model where you have cows that are in a barn. They live there, they eat there, they go into another barn, they're milked and then they are taken back to that barn and they hang out there. They might be put out on pasture when they're not milking for a few months and then they go back into the milk cycle and they're back in production in that barn. So we wanted to try to do a little bit of a different model where cows are out on pasture all day long. The only time they're in the barn is when they're being milked and then they go back out. The model is more sustainable for the economy but it's also more sustainable for the environment. The reason it's more sustainable for the economy when dairies went away part of it was the cost of input so whether it was the cost to import feed or the cost to import fertilizer relies on fuel and so it's very expensive. So we want to try to get away from that by using natural feed and fertilizer grasses the feed, fertilizer from the cows and design the farm in a way that was going to use that in the best way possible. You know Peter in his opening charge basically challenged us to come up with ways to look at public processes critically and suggest some structural and organizational improvements and Peter asked me to come in and talk about a project that several of my colleagues, some of who are sitting in the back of the room here and I have been working on for two and a half years now, Envision Mauna Kea. This is my disclaimer slide and let me tell you all the disclaimers. Envision Mauna Kea, the story of Envision Mauna Kea starts on April 26, 2015. When the Board of Regents, this is a Sunday, Board of Regents came to Hilo and they held a public meeting to get public input on the conservation district use permit or application that was in process at that time that would allow the construction of the TMT 30 meter telescope. Then McKenna Kaufman of the UH Department of Urban and Regional Planning spoke about who gets heard in developing public policy. Who gets heard? So, that's how I'll actually totally answer that because it always depends, right? But let me share a few recent things. So I wanted to start with the new office of Honolulu City and County Honolulu Office of Climate Change, Sustainability and Resiliency. So this office, it was born out of an effort, started within an environmental law program at Richardson School. There was a faculty member there who was really passionate on this issue and she saw an opening within the city charter, right? This opportunity to go down and make a long lasting difference through the charter mechanism.  This was followed by a rapid fire Q&A panel on innovation, solutions and fixes, moderated by Peter Adler. In the breaks and at lunch, ThinkTech had interviews with some of the speakers and attendees who were there. There's been some studies about what you do if someone believes something that's demonstrably false. And in a lot of cases, you try to correct them and if I'm a liberal and you're a conservative and I try to say, well, no global warming is really happening, you'll dismiss me. In fact, you'll cling to that previous belief even harder. But one thing that seems to work is someone you identify as an ideological ally, if they correct you, you take that seriously. Someone you think of as on your team. And so what we need are conservatives and liberals and people who are parts of these various ideological communities to speak up in some ways part of their community, start saying things that are false or behaving in an unacceptable way. I mean, that's what we need the courage for you to say to your friend, knock it off. What led to the polarization in the first place? What are the root causes of that? What makes people so angry and polarized? 1893. Is 1893 also the reason for TMT? I don't know that that's the cause. I would say it's a symptom. For myself as a chair, it actually made my job easier. When someone was trying to be vocally disagreeable with an opinion being offered by someone else, it was easy for me to rule them out of order. And if they got upset about that, I would point out to them, I am just you put me in place to enforce the rules that you drafted. I thought we had some very good sessions this morning. We talked about some specific cases and I think drew some lessons from those cases, heard about some specific initiatives that sound good to me. There was some tension beginning to build and I thought, no, this is going to get really interesting. But I think it was appropriately put aside, but we have been amazingly free of any distracting conversations. We're heading for a real crisis now in terms of how we relate to institutions and our leaders. And people have to trust people. They have to trust the system and it's the kind of thing we're hearing today that teaches us a little bit how to deal with that. There is some polarization, people going, well, I'm not going to attend because it's predetermined.  It's been a great conference to hear about some of these issues that I hear about or read about in the news and seeing people that are in the trenches working on it is interesting to get their perspective. It takes a particular kind of person to really speak to people and open them to these kinds of conversations. I mean, someone who genuinely cares about those people's experiences, you know, I mean, there's something about genuine curiosity. There's something about that that I think people respond to. I think he did an excellent job as far as coming up with an organization to actually address an issue. For 20 years, I was in land development. And it's become really clear to me that if I want to propose a project, it is far better for me to start two, maybe even three years before I even submit an application for a permit or entitlement or whatever to start working with the community. Because in the long run, that'll be a more effective way to do it. A guy saw a nature article that I was quoted in and called me up from Virginia. And he had been working at that point about 20 years to find a nuclear waste site somewhere in the US. And we both compared notes about how long it takes for these sort of billion-dollar class projects. And I was stunned that, you know, there isn't a lot of difference on the mainland for that kind of project and here on Hawaii for something like as benign as a telescope, unfortunately. 10% of the population participates and 100% of the community engagement. You know mathematically the bulk of the perspectives out there are not being reflected in public policy quid pro quo. So somehow we've got to get people to engage. And if the process isn't working and not pulling them in, we've got to come up with a better process. You know, I think it's so interesting to me that so many people are interested in this issue of collaboration, of how in democratic societies we discuss, we deliberate, we work together, we problem solve and try to find solutions where you create these lines of connection from people in government to people in society in a way that people feel involved. They feel empowered. I think if there is meaningful attempt to bring in the community, I think that saves you a lot of grief. Projects have died because things have taken too long. And that relates to financing and time and cash. And the best thing I can say is that schedule idea, and maybe we need to build the schedule idea into the process somehow. I also would say to project proponents, do your grassroots work. I mean, that will move things along. But then ultimately, you need the honest decision maker who's making, and you need a capable decision maker that will make those decisions. All about leadership and taking initiative and taking leadership, and we're going to talk about that. I see a relationship between our local politics and our national politics and the lack of leadership and the need to redefine leadership and facilitate leadership all through the generations. And I don't really yearning for that. The second day included panels on planning and designing specific public consultation processes moderated by Keith Mattson, untransparency and privacy moderated by Jana Wolf, on consultation processes with native Hawaiian communities moderated by Peter Adler, and a report on potential future action items by Jana Wolf and Ann Smoke. The program clearly succeeded. Its speakers were excellent, incisive, and willing to tackle the huge challenges that have arisen in our community process. And at the end, the program provided a number of promising takeaways for us to consider. 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I'm your host, Jake McDonald and it's my absolute pleasure to bring you my reaction as a rugby player to this man who could play, well, basically any contact sport he wants, including most probably well, the greatest contact sport of all, mixed martial arts. But for now, we're going to focus on his defense in the world of American football. And you know, I'm going to say that American football as a whole is violent. It is. It's aggressive. It is, you know, man against man, the strongest, the fastest, the fittest, well, probably not the fittest, but the strongest and fastest. And you know, the collisions are so extreme that there is a quote that always comes to mind now. And I've heard it multiple times. And that is that if you play American football, and look, I've heard this about rugby too, if you play American football, there is one guarantee. If you make it to the NFL as a professional NFL footballer, there is one guarantee you will get injured. And it's the same in rugby. So it's guys like this that have absolutely zero regard for their own body and their own safety that tend to cause injuries, possibly more so than other defenders, other players. Now I am the first to say that I hate to see an injury on the field.  But it seems as if with the aggression and the way that this guy plays, he is wishing an injury on every single player, every single snap that he plays.  But there is one situation that I can imagine happening that I hope doesn't. And that is when two defenders are going in trying to tackle the, you know, the guy with the ball and, you know, unfortunately, possibly the guy dukes them out the last second, maybe hurdles, maybe does whatever, but the two defenders end up, you know, actually colliding with each other, which is not the intended result. But it happens at times. And I tell you what, there's one defender that I would not want to be colliding with on my own team. And that's Jamal Adams. Anyways, guys, that is more than enough from me. It's time to get into the video. It's three minutes and 25 seconds long. He's had 235,000 views. The video has almost been out for two weeks. It is time we roll the intro and crack into it. Let's go. Adams is a lot of guys just focused on the sack with Jamal Adams. He goes for the ball. Now I did hear. I did hear something about him and his latest deal with the Seahawks. Apparently he was presented with a deal which required him to take somewhat of a pay cut, but he wasn't prepared to do it. He called their bluff and apparently got paid anyway. So we're going to look at that. There's a lot of consistency in this top 35. He just wanted to be the best. There we go. Okay. So he doesn't have a problem turning his own horn, but I tend to think he's putting a stat like this up because he feels disrespected.  And I suppose in the world of American football, in the world of NFL, when you're playing for that next deal, yeah, I can't blame him. Jamal Adams comes from the other side and tracks Kim Newton down from behind. Adams made good on his guarantee against Kim Newton. Yes, boy. Kim Newton, is he looking back at him?  He's looking straight at him.  How'd you get me? I would love to see the expression on Newton's face right now. Jamal Adams gets a sack, adding to a sort of gear, eat and a half sacks. I was going to do the war and sap dance. I told everybody I was going to break the record. People thought I was crazy, but the only thing that mattered is that I believe in myself. So he does have a sack record. All right, let's look up his stats. He is still only 25 years of age.  Six foot one, 97 kgs, pick number six in the first round of the 2017 draft from LSU to the Jets, now at the Seahawks. He's made three Pro Bowls in a row, runs a 456 40 yard dash, benches 225 pounds for 18 reps, unfortunately got, well, look, I won't go there. All right, so we went to the Seahawks on July 25, 2020, prior to the start of the season, in exchange for safety Bradley McDougald, first and third round picks in the 2021 draft and a first round selection in the 2022 draft. So that's quite a lot. Made his debut with the Seahawks in week one against the Falcons ended up playing 12 games in total for 83 combined tackles, 59 solo, 24 assisted, and 9.5 sacks, which must be the record. And it is the most sacks in a single season by a defensive back in NFL history. And it seems as if he did know eventually he was going to get there. He started with two, two sacks in 2017, 3.5 in 2018, six and a half in 2019, and nine and a half in 2020 in 12 games, not bad at all. And speaking of his deal, on August 17, he signed a four year deal with the Seahawks. Adams deal consists of a top value of 72 million with a 20 million signing bonus and 38 million guaranteed, making him the highest paid safety in NFL history. I know there was a story on that. Let's try and figure it out. The 17.5 million per year average in new money blasts past the Broncos Justin Simmons's 15.25 million as the highest among all safeties. Landon Collins is the only safety to have received more guaranteed money in a single deal, but that came on a six year deal, not a four year deal. Okay, so there was a lot of, a lot of worry. I think maybe he wasn't, maybe his, his representatives, his manager wasn't, while much consternation characterized contract talks or reported lack thereof. So they weren't, so he was entering the final year of his rookie contract. He was going to earn 9.86 million. And in the end, they did snap him up. They did pay him a lot more than what he was slated to earn. Deal is done. And Adams followed his, followed with his return to practice on Tuesday afternoon. So maybe he wasn't going to team practices or team meetings because his deal had not been finalized, which sounds, I don't know, slightly immature. But at the end of the day, there is a quote here and he says, I believe in myself and I believe in what I can do on the football field. All I needed was somebody to believe in me and those guys upstairs, they believed in me. Adams said on Tuesday and they took a chance and all I can do is just continue to produce and continue to work my tail off and win ball games, man. There was never any question the Seahawks were prepared to make Adams the highest paid safety in the NFL. It was continually reported that that would ultimately be the case. The bigger question was the guarantees and pay structure. And look, as he, as he said that, that's an issue for the guys upstairs and his management team. But apparently the deal is done. He'll be a Seahawk for the next four years and he's number 31 on the list. He's good coming up on the blitz. He's able to bend, dip under, almost look like Von Miller. You don't see that with the safety. There's a reason why you give up two first round draft choices for a guy like that. A lot of times you don't see teams. He's big lineman, man. Yeah, it's not going to be easy to keep Adams out of there in the safety that much. There ready to be somebody that's accounting for 33 coming off the edge.  He is, he's on his, he's on the ball, isn't he?  And looking at the quarterback, lack thereof of, of helmet strap. That helmet's coming off, mate. By Dunlap, and now he gets hammered down as Adams catches up to him. What did he add to your defense? A lot of energy. I will say that from the day he walked into the building, he juiced us up. He likes to talk, he's the high energy. I love playing against guys like that. That makes me want to go harder. 99! I want you to match that energy! Where you at? Match that energy! He's not afraid of me. A six foot, hang on, hang on, hang on. That's why there's weight classes in the UFC. Someone who's six foot and 220 pounds doesn't take on someone who's six foot six and 280. It just doesn't happen. So to see him take on Chase Young like that, he's got some balls.  Where you at? Match that energy! He's not afraid to let you know that he's out there. He's like, really? Really? You're saying that to me right now? You're really saying that to me right now? You're just lucky we're both defensive players. In his first playoff game, I want to be too happy because I want people to say he's been here before. I tell you what, is that considered a sack? Because if it is, actually no. No, he hands the ball off, doesn't he? What a play. Uses every single ounce of his speed and cuts him down right with death. I don't want to be too happy because I don't want people to say- Look at that. That's what we call an ankle tap. He hasn't been there before.   It feels good! The Seahawks can celebrate. Which champions? NFC West champs. Keep it playing at all times. God bless y'all. And that's a championship sweater, I gotta say. His speed is just tremendous, man. And as far as championship personalities go, Zadaria Smith back on screen. But we're going to have to wait until the next video. We're looking at a running back next, which peaks my interest. And I hope it peaks yours too. Guys, thank you for watching. I know I talk a lot in these videos. I know I go off on tangents, but at the end of the day, I'm just trying to entertain. I'm trying to bring a selection of stats. I'm trying to bring a selection of my opinions and thoughts. Plus a selection of highlight clips to each and every one of these videos. And all I can say is I hope you enjoy. If you have, hit the like button. If you want to subscribe, please do. And I will see you in the next one. Peace out guys and have a great night.