Waching daily Mar 9 2018

Is Emre Can on the verge of making a big mistake?

Liverpool have shown in the Champions League particularly this season why they are among

the most exciting teams in Europe.

Next season they are going to get even better when Naby Keita joins up, but their squad

could be weakened if Emre Can leaves.

Can showed in the win against Manchester City why he is a big asset, although inconsistency

has meant this has not been a weekly level of performance.

He is a free agent at the end of the season and has been strongly linked with signing

for Juventus.

SkySports reported earlier this year that an agreement in principle has been reached

for him to move, but Can has since insisted that no deal has been struck.

Likewise he has not committed his future to Liverpool, and his lack of clear intent is

a dangerous game.

According to the Mail, Liverpool are already eyeing a replacement in Napoli midfielder

Jorginho.

Can is a key player for Liverpool but he is replaceable.

At Juventus there is just as as much competition for places, with Blaise Matuidi leaving PSG

for Turin last summer.

It is hard to say joining the Italians would be a bad move in itself, it is just that this

Liverpool side have so much to offer.

Liverpool are moving forward in such an exciting direction that Can could be leaving at exactly

the wrong time.

He has already shown he is unafraid to make big decisions, leaving Bayern Munich for Bayer

Leverkusen earlier in his career.

This time he is already a regular at Liverpool and despite Keita being incoming, Can should

try and stay and be a part of Jurgen Klopp's vision for the future.

For more infomation >> Is Liverpool FC's Emre Can about to make the biggest mistake of his career ● News Now ● #LFC - Duration: 2:09.

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Is MQA lossless? - Duration: 14:08.

There is a lot to do about whether MQA is lossless or not.

Well, there is no such thing as lossless music registration.

MQA isn't lossless as is normal PCM, DSD and - indeed - any form of analogue registration.

But there are differences….

Let's start with analogue.

A tape recorder has a limited dynamic range of about 70 dB.

That can be stretched by noise reduction but these introduce other losses.

Mostly related to noise modulation and transient response.

Then tape recorders need all kinds of filtering.

First, by nature a tape recorder doesn't have a flat frequency response but has an

output that increases with 6 dB per octave.

This needs to be compensated for by a filter with the inverse response.

But the tipping point at the low end defines the signal to noise.

An extension of one octave comes at the expense of 6 dBs signal to noise and vice versa.

Then there is the head bump, tape saturation and so on.

It is a miracle that well designed and aligned tape recorders can sound that good.

Then the signal from the tape recorder needs to be cut to a disc.

This means that the lows must be made mono to limit groove width.

So filters split up the signal into lows and highs and the lows are summed up.

Then the RIAA filter follows plus a cutting limiter to prevent the cutting head from being

ruined.

And this is the ideal situation where everyone in the chain knows what they are doing.

Otherwise equalisers and other limiters will be added.

During playback a huge tone arm holding a massive cartridge leaning via the cantilever

on the stylus needs to sense microscopic modulations in vinyl.

That results in a very tiny signal that needs to be amplified and filtered with the reverse

RIAA curve.

Again, a miracle that it can sound so well.

The next problem is that each and every time you play a tape or vinyl disk, wear will cause

a minute loss of quality - if your equipment is set up properly and well maintained, that

is.

Magnetic tape will degrade over time, even when not played.

And every copy will be less than the previous generation.

Oh, and I forgot to mention wow & flutter, scrape noise, rumble and many other artefacts

of analogue registration.

Again, it's a miracle it can sound that good.

With digital things are different.

Not better, different.

Here not the shape of the sound waves is stored but a description of the shape as described

by Shannon and Nyquist.

And according to their theorems all information of a band limited signal gets encoded in the

numbers when sampled at twice the highest frequency in the band limited signal.

This implies that there should be no signal above the chosen band limit.

Audiophiles that don't want speakers that use 24 dB per octave cross over filters must

be alarmed by the steepness of the anti aliasing filters used with digital recordings: for

a cd this should theoretically be 96 dB between 20 and 22 kHz, or 96 dB per single note in

stead of an octave.

If you think 24 dB per octave filters cause phase problems, then what to think about 96

dB per single note.

So the anti aliasing filter causes phase problems resulting in poorer impulse response.

The advantage of digital is that, once digital, when a system is set up properly the information

can be transported, stored or copied without any loss.

Of course, the carrier can get damaged but, as with all digital, you can make back-up

copies that are fully identical and of course you do have back-ups.

On playback, again the same filter has to be applied, again causing diminished transient

response.

Furthermore errors in the clock signal cause jitter that also will reduce the audio quality.

Higher sampling rates move the phase problems of filters to less audible regions and DSD

as used for SACD move them almost completely out of the way but then noise shaping has

to be applied while on the production side things don't get easier either.

So digital isn't lossless either.

But when done well it can sound very good as well.

So digital audio isn't lossless, regardless whether you buy a CD or an album from HighResAudio,

HDTracks or DSDNative.

What is lossless is the digital information that is obtained after the analogue to digital

conversion.

But then the damage is already partly done.

OK, damage is somewhat exaggerated but you get the point.

This is where MQA has another approach that looks more like analogue techniques.

Al the filtering in analogue equipment is to work around the limitations of the hardware

at hand.

This is exactly what MQA does.

They start with the master and use a setup where the MQA encoder is between the d/a-converter

and the mastering console.

The album is optimally mastered for use with MQA decoders, meaning that the MQA signal

becomes the 'benchmark sound' that, within the limits of the hardware at the consumer

side, should sound quite identical at home.

Then the mastering engineer produces a version for the first stage unfolding and a version

for non-MQA DAC's.

These three profiles all get encoded in the MQA file.

The sound of these versions should be as close as possible to the MQA version but since all

kinds of DAC's use all kinds of filtering, it is harder to predict how this should sound.

Therefore comparing MQA tracks versus non-MQA tracks is difficult.

And that is also why the difference between MQA and non-MQA over an MQA DAC is relatively

small, especially if it is the same DAC as used in mastering.

By the way, the mastering engineer today has to make many more versions, often even special

versions for popular radio stations to adapt to the multi band compression and the loudness

settings used by that particular station.

They also make special version for all kinds of streaming services for they all have their

settings, encoders and the like.

So, like conventional PCM and DSD, MQA is not without losses but to my experience suffers

from less loss than regular PCM and DSD, DSD being second best to my ears and over my equipment.

The technical difference for techies without ears is that where in regular PCM - once digital

- every bit remains in tact, MQA uses a lossy compression for the signals above 48 kHz.

Regardless of what some claim there is no relevant information there.

Microphones used don't go that high, neither do instruments at normal listening distance.

Signals above 48 kHz loose their energy when traveling through the air at very short distances.

And levels in this part of the ultra sound are very low indeed, ruling out interference

products in the audio band.

MQA uses a completely new philosophy, a completely new

take on music distribution and reproduction.

It is focussed on the things science has learned about our auditory system over the last 15

years as where until now the approach was focused on what machines technically can do

or should do.

To my ears and those of many colleagues this produces a more relaxed and yet detailed sound

with far more spacial information, better tonality in the lows and pointier percussion.

The MQA circuit used in MQA DAC's does even sound better when non MQA sources are used.

My colleague Jim Austin publishes a great series on MQA in Stereophile that researches

this.

The first article I saw was in the January 2018 edition.

Get a copy for it is a good read.

Then there are those people that are hateful towards MQA, which of course is their good

right.

I've had many responses on my MQA videos, like one that I was payed by MQA to promote

the system while I wasn't even invited to the initial MQA press conference!

And if or when MQA would start supporting my channel - which I sincerely hope - they

will not have any influence on the editorial.

Never in my life have I been dependent or influenced by add money and that will certainly

not change now.

Then I spoke to people that had saved a lot of money to buy their popular DAC or player

only one or two years ago and it would be a hefty write-off for them.

And there are people that want to calculate what they hear.

What about manufacturers that won't or can't make their designs accessible to MQA, which

is needed to make the bespoke MQA module.

Some won't because they are afraid to share their secrets, which I understand.

Others can't for they don't own the rights to the designs they use.

Another disadvantage is the money involved.

Having MQA add the MQA module to a DAC is a costly affair, especially for smaller manufacturers

that have to earn back that money on a limited number of players or DAC's.

It also limits the developments of - for instance - active speakers for after each and every

optimisation or version they have to cue up at MQA and pay for the development cost again.

Those manufacturers that also have their own record label and internet shop, they have

to apply to all kinds of regulations and, as with hardware, pay a license fee.

And I understand their problem for - let's face it - audio over the last decennium wasn't

big business.

So is MQA lossless?

No.

But neither is regular PCM or DSD.

The audible losses of regular PCM are bigger than of MQA, at least to my ears and those

colleagues I take seriously.

Is every MQA album better than the regular version?

No, some regular albums sound better but the number is very limited on the Mytek Brooklyn

I use.

What I do know is that non-MQA albums can sound quite different on different DAC's.

I only have a Meridian Explorer2 and Mytek Brooklyn to test it on but the sound character

between the two doesn't differ that much when using MQA files.

But whatever your hook is, use your ears to judge and let not the angry mob that don't

want to pay a license fee make you mad.

They have payed licences for years on cd's, DVD's, blu-rays and SACD's.

And they still pay a premium to record companies that want their share of any carrier that

contains material they own rights to.

Whether MQA is going to make it or not, I can't tell.

I am an audio journalist, I know little of business, human behaviour and the like.

I hope it will, I love the MQA tracks on Tidal and I prefer them over my DSD and 24/192 versions.

But whatever will happen, I'll report on it and give my opinion.

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I am Hans Beekhuyzen, thank you for watching and see you in the next show or on theHBproject.com.

And whatever you do, enjoy the music.

For more infomation >> Is MQA lossless? - Duration: 14:08.

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HOW FORMIDABLE USS CARL VINSON IS & WHY ITS VISIT TO VIETNAM IS A MESSAGE FOR CHINA? - Duration: 7:35.

Aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson has arrived in Vietnam on Monday for the first time since

the end of the Vietnam War, dramatically underscoring the growing strategic ties between the former

foes at a time when China's regional influence is rising.

China has a long history of maritime disputes with its South China Sea neighbors.

It claims almost all of the South China Sea, including islands more than 800 miles (~1300

km) from the Chinese mainland, despite objections from neighbors such as the Philippines, Malaysia,

Brunei and Vietnam.

According to the US, China has reclaimed more than 3,000 acres in the Spratly Islands since

2014 and outfitting some of them with military features.

China's rapid construction and build-up of the land it holds in the disputed Spratly

islands group has alarmed Vietnam and other regional governments as it seeks to enforce

its claims to much of the disputed waterway, through which some $3 trillion in trade passes

each year.

The arrival of the Vinson marks the biggest U.S. military presence in Vietnam since 1975

- but it also illustrates Hanoi's complex and evolving relationship with Beijing over

the disputed South China Sea as China announced its largest rise in defense spending in three

years

Though the US takes no position on the territorial dispute in the South China Sea, its warships

have conducted routine "freedom of navigation" operations near the reclaimed islands, eliciting

warnings from Beijing.

Docking of USS Carl Vinson, is seen by military experts as a way of sending direct message

to China and reassuring the US allies.

In this video, Defense Updates analyzes HOW FORMIDABLE USS CARL VINSON IS & WHY ITS VISIT

TO VIETNAM IS A MESSAGE FOR CHINA?

So, lets get started.

USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) is the third United States Navy Nimitz-class super carrier and

is named after Carl Vinson, a Congressman from Georgia, in recognition of his contributions

to the US Navy.

The ship was launched in 1980, and was commissioned on 13 March 1982.

It has been deployed in Operation Desert Strike, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Southern

Watch, and Operation Enduring Freedom.

Notably the body of Osama bin Laden was buried at sea in 2011 from the deck of the Carl Vinson.

USS Carl Vinson being a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, was designed to be improvements on

previous U.S. aircraft carriers, in particular the Enterprise and Forrestal-class.

All 10 Nimitz-class aircraft carriers including Carl Vinson were constructed between 1968

and 2006 at Newport News Shipbuilding Company, Virginia, in the largest dry-dock in the western

hemisphere.

These are some of the largest vessels constructed.

USS Carl Vinson has a displacement of 100000 tonnes, and overall length of 332.8 m (1,092 feet).

To give viewers a perspective, it is about 3 football fields long.

USS Carl Vinson is powered by two A4W nuclear reactors, kept in separate compartments.

These power 4 propeller shafts and can produce a maximum speed of over 30 knots or 56 km/h.

As a result of the use of nuclear power, the ship is capable of operating continuously

for over 20 years without refueling, and is predicted to have a service life of over 50 years.

Practically it has unlimited range & endurance.

The Vinson carries a flight group of more than

60 aircraft, including F-18 jet fighters.

These are twin-engine, supersonic, all-weather carrier-capable 4th generation multirole fighter

aircrafts.

They have a payload of 7700 kg (17000 lbs), and can carry ground attack weapons as well

as air-to-air missiles.

The versatility of the aircraft can be gauged from the fact that on the first day of Operation

Desert Storm, two F 18, each carrying four 2,000 lb. bombs, shot down two Iraqi Migs

and then proceeded to deliver their bombs on target.

The flotilla of aircrafts has enough firepower to mount a credible offensive against any

Chinese misadventure.

It is expected to field F 35 Lightning II 5th generation stealth fighters in future.

USS Carl Vinson possesses multitude of different radars including electronically scanned array

3D radars.

It is equipped with 16 to 24 RIM-7 Sea Sparrow or NATO Sea Sparrow missiles.

RIM-7 Sea Sparrow is a US ship-borne short-range anti-aircraft and anti-missile weapon system,

primarily intended for defense against anti-ship missiles.

Its range is 19 km.

Close in weapon (CIWS) duties are performed by Phalanx, & RIM-116 Rolling Airframe missile.

Phalanx CIWS has a 4500 /min rate of fire.

RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missiles have speed in excess of 2 Mach.

Apart from being build with high strength steel, it has 2.5 inch (64 mm) Kevlar over

vital spaces.

A recent study of Vietnam's military modernization by Grossman, published by the Seattle-based

National Bureau of Asian Research, found that Hanoi would struggle to sustain a large-scale

conflict if its deterrence strategy failed.

Despite the acquisition of its first submarines, new Russian jet fighters and missiles, Vietnam

faced extensive deployment and integration hurdles.

In this situation, assuring presence of USS Vinson will give a big boast to U.S-Vietnam

strategic relations.

This move has long term ramifications and is expected to be a worry for China.

While some Chinese commentators have used the Vinson's presence to demand an even

greater Chinese military build-up in the South China Sea, official reaction from Beijing

has been relatively muted since the stop was announced in January.

That announcement came during a two-day visit to Hanoi by U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis

and followed months of backroom military diplomacy between Hanoi and the Pentagon.

Although no U.S aircraft carrier has been to Vietnam since the end of the war, other,

smaller U.S. warships have made high-level visits.

U.S officials have said American warships continue sailing without prior notice close

to China-occupied Islands and atolls, an aggressive way of signaling to Beijing that it does not

recognize its sovereignty over those areas.

For more infomation >> HOW FORMIDABLE USS CARL VINSON IS & WHY ITS VISIT TO VIETNAM IS A MESSAGE FOR CHINA? - Duration: 7:35.

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What Is The Bankruptcy Estate? - Duration: 1:38.

My lawyer said well, that's property of the bankruptcy estate, so it's something that

the trustee is going to have to deal with in your bankruptcy.

What's in the bankruptcy estate?

What does that even mean?

My name is Ron Drescher.

I'm an attorney practicing bankruptcy and creditors' rights in Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania,

and Virginia, And, when a bankruptcy case is opened, an estate is opened, and it's the

same thing as like a probate estate or a trust estate or anything where assets are held where

there's a trustee who is appointed to oversee the assets for the benefit of the beneficiaries

of the estate, which, in this case, are usually the creditors.

So, the estate is that sack of the assets that you bring in to bankruptcy that the trustee

can administer for the benefit of your creditors.

My name is Ron Drescher.

I'm an attorney practicing bankruptcy and creditors' rights.

Do you have a question about what property is going to be part of your bankruptcy when

you file?

Please pick up the phone and call me.

I would love to hear from you.

For more infomation >> What Is The Bankruptcy Estate? - Duration: 1:38.

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Everything That Happens To You, Is YOUR Fault! - Study Motivation - Duration: 21:07.

and then the last one which is maybe a little bit controversial because I use

this word to get people's attention it's all your fault that what I mean by that

is you always can control the outcome of anything so the example I give to people

do it to have time to give you a horse okay so the example I give to people and

this is something that I do in the interview a lot so that people

understand how we think a quest and if they think it's crazy I tell them if you

think this story is crazy you should turn and run in the opposite direction

you will hate it here but if in hearing it like oh my god I

want to be around people who think like that then you'll get us after hearing

this story goes like this my wife is British that's actually true let's say

that she was at home visiting her family in London she's in the bed that she grew

up in the doors are locked the alarms on her mom's there she's safe and sound

right at that moment a meteorite comes screaming through the atmosphere crashes

into her bedroom and kills her whose fault is that now every time I asked

that question once people stopped trying to guess at what they think I'm gonna

say and they just give their answer they say it's nobody's fault divine

providence fate force majeure dumb blind luck however you want to sum it up but

that and my answer is no it's entirely my fault and the reason it's my fault is

because I know that there's a group right now the track were called

near-earth objects that's very true by the way they're trying to find some way

to knock them off course so if it could be something truly dangerous so whether

it's a laser beam a planted nuclear explosion whatever it is something to

bump it off course it doesn't collide with earth I've never sent them an email

with encouraging words I've never sent them a dime on my money I've never

called them up to give them any ideas nothing and I know they exist now I

think that's smart because the likelihood of my wife being killed by a

meteorite is very very low I'm a much better off focusing on car safety or

something like that but I choose not to contact these people I choose to leave

my wife at risk of being hit by a meteorite sure so even though I would be

mortified and sad if it happened I would never waste time saying that it wasn't

my fault because I could have done something and I chose not to yeah that

to me is empowering that don't want people feeling guilty about it you

shouldn't waste like wrote an article about this one time

people like y'all you're you're blaming the victim and all that stuff and what

I'm trying to say is you don't have to allow yourself to be a victim even if

you've been victimized right like you can transcend that and you can look back

and go what could I have done differently oh my gosh I could have done

all these things awesome I'm now in control again yeah right

because being victimized is inevitable but being a victim that's a choice right

it's like pain as inevitable suffering as a choice yeah yeah so once I freed

myself from the belief that I couldn't break out of certain things like

everyone told me oh dude your mom and your sister like they've got to want it

people kept saying that they've gotta want it they've gotta want to change and

I was like I reject that because they're gonna die like they clearly don't want

it so but I'm not willing to accept that I'm gonna lose these people who I love

so much I'm not willing to accept that so I'm gonna acknowledge the human

condition which is that they eat for pleasure and not for sustenance so I'm

gonna give him food that they can eat for pleasure that's good for them yeah

my sister's lost 120 pounds so it works right my sister owns that like she did

excuse me she did the hard work like she put the grinder she should be super

proud of herself but at the end of the day the it was born of me not accepting

that she you know that I had to wait for her to make that your responsibility

yeah exactly yeah so it just paint that to any area of your life whether it's

you want success it's not happening as your bosses or whatever no your boss may

be it but you haven't learned how to persuade to do what you want

right right right which is how I think which is why I say I want to be a Jedi

because I want to be able to persuade people to do things so that I can move

the ball forward on the big goals that I want to accomplish

yeah just own it you can always change something I'm fascinated by martial arts

I'm fascinated by comedy I'm fascinated by many many different things I don't

understand when people say they're bored because if I had the time to live a

hundred lives I'd be speaking different languages I'd be living in different

countries I would I would try out a number of different careers because I

think there's a lot of unbelievably fascinating puzzling complex things that

you could study in this world that's just me and my personality but that's a

personality also that I've cultivated over years would you like that as a kid

- while I was involved in martial arts very early

think that is one of the things that motivated me to explore difficult tasks

because through difficult tasks you learn an incredible amount about

yourself and you through through the fire of competition you get to

understand you get to understand motivation you get to understand the

resistance that you have inside your mind to doing the hard work you get to

understand the rewards of discipline like you don't truly appreciate

relaxation unless you've worked hard and that is the yin and the yang of life and

I've said this too to the point of people getting sick of it but one of the

worst decisions a man can make I can only speak for men obviously is to be

comfortable I don't think you should try to be comfortable I think what you

should try to do is try to earn comfort and if you if you can get a day off

where you you you've worked hard and you've accomplished goals that day off

will be so sweet when I work hard and I sit in front of TV I enjoy the shit out

of it I put my feet up I have a nice drink you know I enjoy my the mids your

back or something like you have one of those you really those are great right

right now I don't use it that much though honestly I'm more of a workaholic

than I should be probably if the the balance was I probably should relax more

than I do but I never feel like I earned it but that's not part of the reason why

when I do feel like I earned it I can enjoy it it's because I am more

connected to the idea that I need to accomplish things and and it's not like

for anybody else's benefit other than my own or anybody else's approval other

than my own I just when I have a task whether it's today I'm gonna write a

thousand words you know or 2,000 or whatever the number is if I don't do

that I know I'm not I write things down like I'll write down a list of things

that get accomplished that day and if I don't accomplish that I'll get sick like

I'll it'll drive me crazy if I can't fill out that list that drives me nuts

you know but that's what led me to be a championship-level martial artist that's

what led me to achieve though it's like that it's the reinforcement of those

goals like understanding that you can achieve those goals it's going to be

difficult you're going to push the difficulty and then you gotta

understand what difficulty truly is and how much of it is just mental how much

of it is just in your mind this adversity - - difficult task or -

struggle you know and a lot of people have that they're scared they're scared

of complications they're scared of failure failure is a big one that people

are afraid of but failure is one of the most important things you could ever

have as far as like the motivation to do things differently one of the reasons

why I think that I'm good at friendships and relationships is because I've failed

at them in the past one of the things that I'm good at comedies because I've

bombed on stage one of the reasons why I'm good at work is because I've been a

worker in the past and I know the the feeling of failure the feeling of of

shame of being like a weak non motivated lazy person it's a weak feeling it said

you don't respect yourself you know and I have this phrase that I use all the

time to people to try to motivate people I say that be the hero in your own movie

pretend that if your life was a movie and your life started now what would the

hero do what would the person that you respected what would the person that you

admire person that inspires you what would they do we'll do that and if you

do that you slowly build momentum you like today I did what I wanted to do

today I started a class in yoga I did this I did all these things that I was

saying I wasn't gonna do and now I feel momentum and momentum is a very

important point in people's lives that's why some folks don't like to take

days off because they feel like they're losing momentum and they sort of have to

restart the wheel up again after a vacation I want you to do is I want you

to think of your brain not like you're actually in control of your brain but

actually rather think of your brain like a stubborn horse or a stubborn elephants

and I want you to take all what I call the chariot riding frame and what that

means is that a guy who's good at pickup it's like the charioteer he's good at

smacking on the horse and what happens as a result of that is that you have to

learn it coaxing the horse to go to where you want it to go so let's say

that I'm gonna come out on the coldest day of the year to record a video blog I

say to myself you know what I'll just show up and we'll see if I like it if I

can do it now I can always go home if I do you know if I want to go once I'm out

here it's like ah yeah you guys I should start to have fun with it it's kind of

frightening I feel like I'm literally about to die but

we'll wrap this quickly likewise I'm gonna go to the gym I'm not feeling well

maybe I'll just say you know what dude I'll just warm up and if I could just

warm up then good enough once I get there I'll probably take action right so

that's fine how about if it's like with homework

right okay I'll just read a page or I'll just go do one math problem next thing

you know you're cracking into it well whatever you get into a venue I want you

to think of it the same way like look I'm just gonna go do a quick approach

I'm just gonna say hi even on the way to the venue just start saying hi

okay literally that's the gist we should you know I'm gonna set my cameraman

aside you just go inside just go I'm very safe take the backpack and you just

go inside and I will survive here and this and this man you've got to become

the master at coaxing the stubborn horse okay literally you're just the mastered

coaxed in the summer course and when you have that down you'll crush but when you

can't control the horse the horse gets antsy the horse starts making excuses

and everything goes to some of the things that I do for example is right

when I get it down like then my reticular activation system will see

everyone looking at me and I'm like and I'll start scanning I'm like our

people get a matter people getting mad and when I see that nobody's getting mad

I realize you know what I'm not under any kind of threat here

and then I go when I crush it so basically you want to think of it like

you're always showing your brain what I call proof not promises that nothing bad

will happen okay you just keep fueling your brain with that so let's say that

you just go start talking to people right let's just say I talked to this

person here my brain goes ocean nothing bad happened no one came attack me

it doesn't mean so you actually lose your status anxiety in that environment

and your brain will actually unstaple itself so you want to be constantly

coaxing your brain in to unstuff lling itself and basically that's kind of the

biggest trick I used to warm up I'm just like hey I'm just riding the charioteer

or I'm just the charity ride the chariot my brain is kind of freeze them so many

people put me down and say Nick you look too weird and no one's really offended

you can't do this and you can't do that and I couldn't change anything I don't

like just fixing my hair one day and everything's fine it's not like you know

just whatever I couldn't change my circumstance

I coulda just one day wake up and say hey give me arms legs I need arms legs

and I mean like oh we went to a bodybuilder you know and said can you

make me some arms and legs no Jackie buddy bill do you get it right says hey

you know I got to be able can you give me a hand you know just joking hit but

it was so hard because people put me down and I started believing that I was

not good enough I started believing that I was a failure

they'll never ever be somebody who people would like or people would accept

and it was so hard man I thought to myself you know I can't go on to go into

the soccer field like everybody else and I can't ride my bike and I can't

skateboard and all these sort of things and I started getting depressed I

thought what kind of purpose do I have to live I mean do you are you just here

to live to die I mean is there not a purpose for me is there not a purpose in

life and I had questions and no answers and I asked my mom and dad why did this

happen I asked doctors why did this happen they

don't know there are some things in life that are out of your control that you

can't change and you got to live with the choice that we have though is either

to give up or keep on going I want to ask you what are you gonna believe are

you gonna believe in yourself you're gonna believe everybody else's judgment

on you are you gonna believe people when they say that you're a failure no one

really likes you no one really cares about you it's not really to say that

hey you need someone to come up and say hey really I I like you I care about you

no it's not that but it's the fact that people put you down people don't even

look you in the eye people ask you how you why and you say fine but you're not

fine and they'll know they'll never know that yes maybe the greatest thing a teen

or anyone in this room and who's watching on the television at home can

learn from the champ these are words to remember when anyone

tries to tell you to give up tell you to give in because whatever you're trying

to do is impossible the champ said this impossible is just a word thrown around

by a small men who find it easier to live in the world

they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it impossible

is not a fact it's an opinion impossible this potential impossible is temporary

impossible is nothing greatest goal ever

so as a relatively new dad and a former team I'm here to say you will make

mistakes along the way you will fall down I have

many times even I'll lead it but what we do after that fall is how we make

history because impossible is nothing in your life what obstacles that you face

before you achieve success did positivity help you in some ways and how

did you come up with the solution wow that's a good a good philosophical

question and you know we all have adversity in our lives I doubt if you

really you know if you've know somebody any friend or anybody that you talk to

there's no lack of adversity and by the way that's good because it's what

teaches us how to get back up you fall down you get back up it always happens

and you know you get certain gifts in life and you want to take advantage of

those but you like it's my advice on adversity and success would be to be

proud not of your gifts but of your hard work and your choices so you know you

may be the kinds of gifts you get like you know you might be really good at

math it might be really easy for you that's a kind of gift but practicing

that math and taking it to the next step that could be very challenging and hard

and take a lot of sweat that's a choice you can't really be proud of your gifts

because they were given to you you can be grateful for them and thankful for

them and but your choices you choose to work hard you choose to do hard things

those are choices that you can be proud of how easy is it when you go practicing

now to have what your mindset is it to improve or is it just to keep winning or

because it's yeah personally I found it very difficult at some point ya know for

me it's always to improve and I've had some tough losses this year but those

losses I think were necessary and they helped me to work on my game it forced

me to see that I need to get better at this I need to get better at this and

this and now I've gotten better at it so yeah why are you here what's your reason

for being why do you get up in the morning most people don't have a clue

and yet the bills keep a roof over your head I think we have to reflect on Who

am I why am I here what drives me if I died today what three words what I want

said about me if I died today you know what is it that defines me you know and

how how do i define myself most people allow their circumstances to define them

as opposed to defining themselves and how they're going to show up in life and

so my mission is to help people to connect with the power they have within

their greatness when you're pursuing your greatness you don't know what your

limits are so you act like you don't have any and when you live from that

place you can now be able to make a greater contribution and make a greater

impact with your life when I was 25 or so I probably weighed about 138 pounds I

smoked like a pack of cigarettes day I drank tremendous amount of alcohol I was

from northern Alberta this rough little town up and northern Alberta called

Fairview and you know there were long winters there and my friends were heavy

drinkers and most of them dropped out of school by the time they were 15 or 16

went off to work on the oil rigs and you know it was a rough town and we drank a

lot I started when I was 14 and you know and so I was I had a lot of bad habits

let's say and things that were and I wasn't in great shape physically and I

was also still intellectually obsessed by as I am now and so that would have

been that would have been in 85 but when I but I decided around that about 85 84

or something like that maybe a little earlier that I was really going to try

to get my act together and so I started doing that I you know I first of all I

quit smoking well that took a long time because I eventually had to quit

drinking to in order to quit smoking and I started working out starting playing

sports which I'd never I had a fine town when I was a kid and

but I needed really to get disciplined and I had to do it because I was working

on these hard problems that you know that I've been discussing with all of

you and I've been working on them really you know obsessively since I was

probably about eighteen maybe even earlier than that got to the point

around 25 when I was in graduate school trying to get my PhDs doing all my

research like I published fifteen papers by the time I graduated with my PhD

which was but I think by a fairly large measure the most papers that any

graduate student at that time had ever published at McGill I think that's right

might have been twice as many or maybe twice as many maybe even three times as

many and at the same time I wrote maps of meaning which was a terrible terrible

terribly difficult thing to do because I was writing about three hours a day

doing that and I couldn't do all that and continue with my misbehavior you

know my sort of why what what would you say my why my hedonistic my hedonistic

my massive hedonistic consumption of alcohol and all of that I just couldn't

keep it up and also work seriously on the issues that were at hand so you know

I had to stop that's a sacrifice I had to stop messing about and straight

myself oh I'm a believer broke I like I see things and I want to make them real

no matter how how hard it takes no matter what obstacles no matter how many

embarrassing meetings I have to imagine it's happening when I leave does it

matter I'm a doer and a freaking make it happen er I was a garbage man like Troy

huh you get eight hours worth of work but you can do it in three so you can go

home as soon as you finish post office you get three hours worth of work and

you make it last eight but I did both I like being the garbage man better but

they weren't bad jobs it's like a people's hole the difficulty of making a

movie I'm like a send your son in Iraq that's difficult it's just a movie it's

like relax I don't play that precious nonsense oh Lola get out of here you

know his son got shot in the face that's difficult making a movie this is a luck

it's a gift it's an opportunity and most importantly it's a gift obviously

everybody here is talented enough to do that but don't get it twisted it's just

a movie the harder I work the more productive I

will be is has been debunked by the science if you study human performance

just what they've realized that Jim Lehrer and Tony Schwartz have done some

great work in this field but here's what the science says optimal performance and

productivity happens in 90-minute cycles so what am I saying

work for 90 minutes and then take a break to recover then work for another

90 minutes and then go for a walk and then work for another 90 minutes and

then take a drink of water and then work for another 90 minutes and maybe take a

nap or read something interesting that's not related to what you were doing what

will that do it will keep your mind focused on the work at hand it will

increase your interview because energies like it well you deplete it you need to

fill out the well again and it will really keep you and your productive s

and also keep you inspired rather than getting burned

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Horrible speedrun of This is not mario V0.5.7 (turn on subtitles) - Duration: 1:34.

This is a speedrun of my crappy Scratch game: This is not Mario.

Probably gonna fail.

This is where I messed up making a shortcut for developers AKA me, but I failed tremendously and am too lazy to fix it.

Believe it or not, it took me a long time to make this.

This is the hardest part. I had to make it easier because it was too hard.

The platforms here are too thin. I need to make them more thicc.

lol

I clearly messed up. I just went through the platform.

Never mind. This is the hardest part.

Well, there you have it. A crappy game-play of a crappy platformer.

I only died like 6 times, right?

Whatever, bye.

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Blair: Divorce is Inevitable | TBS Digital - Duration: 2:35.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[BUZZ]

LISTA: Hello? - Hey.

It's Blair.

LISTA: Oh.

Hi, Blair.

One second.

[CRYING]

79% of marriages today end in divorce.

This morning, my friend Lista updated

her Facebook relationship status to divorced.

So like any friend would, I rushed over.

Blair, you're so sweet to come check on me.

Yeah, I'm here to collect what's rightfully mine.

What?

I guess you heard.

OK, so I got you a cake cutter,

soup spoon, and a flat sheet off your wedding registry.

And you know what?

It was Bed Bath and Beyond expensive.

Are you serious?

Now show me the flat sheet.

Blair, I'm getting a divorce.

Yeah?

Well 87% of marriages end in divorce, so

what did you expect?

Why did you even get us gifts?

Don't you know that 50% of gifts end in returns?

Because I was 60% sure that you would tell everyone that I

didn't get you a gift, and then we

would have to friend break-up.

Well if we break up, then you would lose 50% of your friends.

OK, I'm 30% pissed at that comment right now.

And 70% still wants to know about the flat sheet.

I think John has it.

I have to go see John?

His eyes are so close together, and he smells like warm milk.

Oh my god, he totally does.

I never noticed how he always has--

BOTH: White spit on the corners of his mouth.

Yes, I did notice that.

[COUGHING]

Wow, Blair.

Thank you so much for stopping by.

I feel so much better.

What?

Oh, yeah.

I am a great friend.

[BUZZ]

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[BABY COOING]

With divorce rates at nearly 100%,

I don't know why anyone would get married.

Companionship, stability, someone

to laugh with about how dumb life is but know

that having found that someone actually

makes life a little less dumb?

Nah.

I can get that from my cat.

[KNOCKING]

Blairs?

Flat sheet.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

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Comic Basics Ranked: Dick Grayson to Damian Wayne. Who Is The Best Robin of All Time? - Duration: 6:42.

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Why Oregano Essential Oil Is One Of The Most Powerful Natural Antibiotics Known To Science! - Duration: 3:04.

Why Oregano Essential Oil Is One Of The Most Powerful Natural Antibiotics Known To Science!

Oregano oil is the ultimate antibiotic.

Oregano is a powerful herb with unique healing properties.

Did you know that oregano has 8 times more anti-oxidants than apples and three times

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They improve the immune system naturally.

Oregano Oil is the most powerful plant oil on the planet!

The distribution of oregano oil began in Ancient Greece.

In Greek, the word oregano is translated as the joy of the mountains.

The Greeks were first to use this oil for medicinal purposes, such as an effective antiviral,

antibacterial, antiseptic, antifungal representative and also as a treatment for pain, and inflammation.

It was the main antibacterial tool used by Hippocrates.

Oregano leaves were often used to treat diseases related to the respiratory and digestive systems.

Oregano Oil Benefits

Oregano Essential Oil is a mineral density powerhouse.

It contains calcium, magnesium, zinc, iron, potassium, copper, boron, manganese, vitamins

C, A (beta-carotene), Niacin.

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Phenols including carvacrol and thymol.

They function as antiseptics and anti-oxidants.

Terpenes including pinene and terpinene.

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They exhibit antiviral and antiseptic properties.

Esters include linalyl acetate and geranyl acetate.

They exhibit antifungal properties.

Although all these compounds possess healing properties, the most significant main substance

found in oregano oil is carvacrol.

Scientific research has proven carvacrol to be one of the most effective antibiotics known

to science.

Not All Oregano Oil Is Created Equal

Real wild Mediterranean Oregano needs to be either of origanum vulgare kind or Thymus

capitatus, which mainly grows in Spain.

It is very important to make sure the oil of Oregano is derived from these two kinds.

It also has to have the carvacrol concentration of 70% or more.

Most significantly, oregano essential oil does not create harmful strains in the body

and does not have side effects the pharmaceutical antibiotics do.

Furthermore, it is effective against dangerous and even deadly bacteria but does not produce

biological changes in the body.

Oregano essential oil nourishes the body and does not deplete it of nutrients like conventional

antibiotics do.

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Brandt Tobler - The Time I Tried to Kill My Dad - This Is Not Happening - Uncensored - Duration: 14:59.

- And of course my macho dad threw a fit,

and he started calling the house collect every day,

threatening to kill my stepfather,

which I think is hilarious that my poor stepfather

had to pay for his own death threats.

[dark electronic music]

- Welcome to "This Is Not Happening."

I'm Roy Wood Jr.

We all come from somewhere, from someone,

who nurtures us, protects us,

and teaches us.

- Ah!

[silverware clattering]

- Some are better at it than others.

♪ ♪

[girl giggling]

♪ ♪

- Ow!

You know him from his book "Free Roll,"

please give it up for Brant Tobler.

[cheers and applause]

So this is a story about how I tried to kill my dad.

Trust me, it's hilarious. Trust me.

So you guys have heard the term "Blood is thicker than water,"

right?

I hate it. My dad must have said it to me

a thousand times growing up.

"Blood is thicker than water, son."

"Blood is thicker than water, son."

And I just started to hate it because I think it's what

family members say to you when they do something shitty,

and then instead of apologizing,

they're just like, "Hey, we have the same blood type,

so you have to put up with this shit."

So I would hear it all the time.

My dad would miss, like, basketball games and graduation

and he'd always say, "Blood is thicker than water, son."

And he ended up missing most of my childhood,

'cause when I was 5 years old, he went away to college.

Well, that's what my mom called it.

You guys could of course call it maximum security prison.

And every couple years on spring break,

he would get out and he would come visit my little brother

and I, and luckily my mom remarried and we had a great

stepdad who taught us how to ride a bike and build a fire,

stuff that you're supposed to learn from your dad,

because when my dad would come to town,

he would teach me the stuff he knew about.

So for instance, my dad taught me three things in life

I'll never forget.

Number one, you never snitch, no matter what.

Number two, if you have extra food at lunchtime,

you only give it to white people.

Weird to tell a fourth grader. I agree.

And the craziest one of all, my dad got out on spring break

one year and he came back home to visit us,

and he took me and my little brother swimming.

We had a great day at the pool, jumping off the diving board,

playing Marco Polo,

and I got out of the pool, I'm in the locker room,

and I'm taking a shower, and my father comes in

and he sees me showering.

He's like, "Hold on, son. Get out of the shower for a sec."

I was like, "Why? What's up, Dad?

He goes, "Son, every time you take a shower from now on,

before you get in the shower,

put the water on as cold as it can go

and then get in that cold water and shadowbox

until you count to 15."

I was like, "Dad, why would I do that?"

And he's like, "Son, the way your body reacts

when that cold water hits it

is the same way you'll react if you ever get stabbed,

so if you ever get stabbed,

you'll be able to fight for 15 seconds."

That's what my dad--that's what my dad

tells a fucking 12 year old.

And like an idiot, I do that shit till I'm, like, 19,

and I get a girlfriend and she's like,

"Why are we fake fighting in this cold shower?"

Like, you better be ready, bitch.

You could go down at any time.

The shit is real.

So that's my dad.

So my dad only did one good thing for me life,

of course I had wonderful stepdad,

and before I was about to start junior high,

he sent me and my little brother down and he said

he wanted to adopt us

and have us take his last name like we were his sons.

And of course my macho dad threw a fit

and he started calling the house collect every day,

threatening to kill my stepfather,

which I think is hilarious that my poor stepfather

had to pay for his own death threats.

But he would call and he would remind us

"Blood is thicker than water; you're my son."

And he eventually sent some goons over to the house

to, like, scare my stepdad, and my mom made a decision,

like, "Forget it, let's just keep your last name."

Which is the only good thing that my father ever did for me,

because if my stepdad would've adopted me,

I would've started junior high school

as Brandt Hufendick,

which I think has got to be the shittiest last name

in the world.

My poor little sister's named Hayley Hufendick.

I don't know why she didn't get married at midnight

on her 18th birthday, but she didn't do it.

So that was my dad.

And then after that he disappeared for, like, 8 years

and I never heard from him.

And I went to real college in Phoenix.

And then-- well, junior college,

so kind of real, but I went.

But then one day I got a letter out of nowhere,

and it was from my dad, and he just said,

"I'll be at the Phoenix airport in three days,

and I'd love to see you,

and there's no time to write back.

Just--I'll be looking for you."

I didn't know what to do, 'cause I was doing so good

in life and I hadn't seen him in almost a decade.

But then part of me is like, I got to go see my dad.

So I went to the airport,

which was one of the weirdest moments in my life,

because this is before 9/11, so you could go from gate to gate.

And when I got to the airport, I realized

I didn't even know what my own dad looked like.

So I'm in looking at the bars and bookstores.

I'm like, "Is that my dad? Is that my dad?"

And then of course I saw a guy with a ponytail,

wife beater, brown khaki pants.

I'm like, there's my dad.

So I run over, I give him a hug,

and we both fight back tears.

And he tells me how much he missed me

and how blood is thicker than water.

And he's determined to be part of my life again,

and he said, "I'm moving to Vegas.

I had this incredible cocktail waitress girlfriend,

and you're allowed--you know you can come see us

whenever you want."

And I was like, "Okay, Dad, thanks.

I gotta go back to college."

And I drove back to my dorm, and when I got to my dorm,

I called my two best friends back in Wyoming

who also had shitty dads growing up,

and I told him this story and they're like,

"We should go see your dad on our spring break."

And I was like, "All right, cool."

So they drove down from Wyoming.

They pick me up in Phoenix, and we went to Vegas

on our spring break and spent five days with my dad,

which was incredible, 'cause we were just dumb kids

from Wyoming.

He taught us about, like, hookers and craps,

seafood buffets.

We're like, holy shit, this is incredible.

So at the end of five days, he's like,

"You guys are welcome to come back whenever you want.

You can live with me and my girlfriend in this trailer."

And then we were like, "Sorry, dad, we gotta go back

to college."

And they started driving me towards Phoenix,

and every mile we got away from Vegas,

we were just itching to get back.

And by the time we got to Phoenix,

the three of us idiots made the decision

that we were going to drop out of college

and move back to Vegas to get our dream jobs

as pirates at the Treasure Island.

We thought, what would be better than wearing an eyepatch

and jumping off a big ship every hour

while drunk tourist chicks scream at us?

We're like, "That's it. That's the dream job."

So we dropped out of college.

Our families were furious with us,

and we moved to Vegas,

and of course we don't get pirate jobs.

I don't--we didn't know anything about casting

or any of that shit.

So my friends sober up and they go back home to Wyoming

and reenroll in college, but I was enjoying

hanging out with my dad, and I didn't want to leave,

so I decided to stay.

And then one day I actually got the dream job.

I would go play basketball every afternoon

with a bunch of professional gamblers,

and one of 'em hired me to be a runner.

So my job was just to carry hundreds of thousands

of dollars' worth of cash up and down the Strip

and bet on sports.

So it was great. I was making a ton of money.

Everything was good, so I told my dad we're moving out

of this trailer and I rented this beautiful house

on a golf course.

And I started calling my little brother who lived in Portland

at the time, just a little stoner dude that ran a Subway.

And I told him you got to come to Vegas.

It's me, you and dad; we can finally be a perfect

little family again, and he's like, "All right."

And he moved to Vegas, and we had a great time

the first six months.

We'd sit on the back porch every night,

just get drunk, tell stories.

He'd tell us about prison riots and shit

and we'd tell him about scoring 8 points

in a JV basketball game,

or whatever shitty stories we had.

He obviously had much better stories.

But he was always just waiting to get off parole.

He's like, "I can't wait to get off parole.

I can be my own man again."

And he'd talk about it every day,

and we counted down the days

till he finally got off parole.

And I remember I threw a big party at the house,

invited all our family and friends over,

and we just got wasted.

And I remember about 4:00 in the morning,

it's just me and my dad and brother in the kitchen,

and we're just telling him how proud we are

and we're just drunk and it's this incredible moment,

and then--but that is the last good moment

I'll ever have with my dad,

because the next morning he woke up, got back on drugs,

started bringing around, like, little 20-year-old meth heads

to my house, even though they're younger than me.

My dad's, like, 48 at the time.

And he starts just acting like a drug addict,

you know, stealing my friends' wallets,

forgetting my birthday, just being a shitty dad,

and I knew it was going bad,

but I didn't know how to get out of it.

And you know, it's hard to yell at your own dad,

and I knew it was going to happen.

And then on a Saturday during football season

I'd have to bet college football all day,

so I'd get to the Strip at 8:00 in the morning.

I'd run up and down and bet till, like, 9:00 at night.

Then I'd go home, go to bed,

and then do the same thing for NFL on Sundays.

So on the Saturday I worked my ass off,

I come home, I'm exhausted.

When I get home, my dad's there all cracked out,

and I tell him, "Hey Dad, I'm going to bed.

You can come down tomorrow and get everything comped

if you want to watch football."

He's like, "Okay, son."

And I went to sleep about 10:00.

Around midnight, my little brother busts in

and he's like, "Hey, Brandt, Brandt,

someone stole my money."

My little brother had saved up $350 to fly to Portland

to watch his girlfriend graduate college.

So I jump out of bed, like the big brother,

and I run downstairs to try to find my dad

and tell--to find whatever little shitty kid

took my brother's money.

So when I get downstairs, I don't see him,

I'm telling for him, and I go look in the garage,

'cause my white trash dad has this stupid convertible

Camaro that he thought was, like, the dopest car

in the world, and it always had to be parked in the garage.

So when I got in the garage and I looked

and his Camaro was gone, it hit me:

Oh, shit, I got all my money upstairs.

And I ran upstairs and my dad had stole

$80,000 cash from me.

And now, I worked for guys that you don't want to be

$80,000 short for, not that there's any job

you could $80,000 short for.

But I'll never forget that, and I see my little brother crying,

and I'm like, you stole 80,000;

why would you go steal your own son's $350, you know?

And it just drove me crazy, and to watch my little brother cry,

you know, I brought him from Portland, he was doing good,

and I brought him into this shit.

So in that moment, I made the decision, I'm like,

that's it; I'm gonna fucking kill my dad.

I'm gonna fucking kill my dad.

So the next morning I wake up and I call my cousin Kato

who lives in Phoenix, and he's like...

[laughter] He's like a real gangster

and the most loyal dude in my life, and I tell him

what happens.

He says, "I'll be there in five hours."

And he drives straight from Phoenix to Vegas,

and when he gets there, doorbell rings,

I open the door, and there he is.

He's like, "Where's he at? Where's he at?"

I was like, "Hold on. I got a plan."

Now, in my defense, I was 23 years old.

I'd never killed anybody before.

This is before "Dexter," "Breaking Bad."

This is obviously a fucking stupid plan,

but this was my plan.

My mom had told me a story that when I was young,

my dad had cheated on my mom and got chlamydia

and he had to go to the doctor,

and the doctor prescribed him penicillin,

not knowing that he was deathly allergic to penicillin.

So he took that penicillin and he almost died.

So in my head, I was like, "That's it."

You know, almost every morning

my dad would go to the Jamba Juice,

like, three blocks from my house, get a Jamba Juice.

I mean, that was, like, his favorite thing,

so I figured, fuck it, if I just get some penicillin,

put it in a Jamba Juice,

give it to my dad, he'll drink it,

he'll be dead, perfect. Airtight plan.

So I tell my cousin, he's like, "All right,

I mean, I can get penicillin."

So I was like...

He's like, he can get anything, trust me.

So he's like, all right.

I go, one more part of this plan, everyone will think,

like, I'm the number one suspect,

so I'm gonna go to Colorado

and you guys just take care of this shit.

They're like, all right, you're kind of a pussy,

but we'll do it.

And I was like, all right, good.

I don't want to go to college like my dad.

So...

I fly to Colorado, you know.

Me and girlfriend go to Estes Park.

We go to a hotel, and I call my cousin Kato.

I'm like, "Yo, are you ready?"

He's like, "We're ready.

Extra-large mango in the fridge

just waiting for your dad to come home."

I was like, all right, cool, call me when he's dead.

He's like, all right.

So I wait about a hour, two hours, no phone call.

I call him back, I'm like, "Yo, what happened?"

They're like, "Well, your dad came home,

but he wouldn't take it."

I was like, "What do you mean he wouldn't take it?"

Like, we gave him the Jamba Juice,

but he just put it back on the kitchen counter.

I was like--and looking back, I get it.

You know, my dad was in Leavenworth and real prison,

so he knows you don't take, like, a gift

from your enemy, you know?

I don't think he thought we were trying to kill him,

but he probably thought we pissed in it

or something stupid, right?

So I said, you know what, forget it.

This plan's stupid. Just go with the original plan.

Pack up my brother's stuff, go to Phoenix,

I'll fly home, we'll just never talk to my dad again.

My cousin's like "No, fuck that.

We do it my way now."

I'm like, "What's your way?" He's like, "We do it my way.

We'll call you in an hour," and he hung up the phone.

And I just sat there in the hotel like,

what are they gonna do?

And this is the plan they came up with.

So they knew my dad loved that stupid Camaro

and it always had to be parked in the garage.

So what they did was, they opened the garage door

and then they went out and they cut the phone lines

and the power lines and the just waited

for my dad to come home

in this dark corner in the garage.

Sure enough, my dad came home just like they thought,

parked in the garage, hit the button to get the garage

to shut, it wouldn't shut.

They said he was so frustrated, he didn't know what was

going on and he got out of the car, went over,

got the garage door, manually shut it, and locked it.

And as soon as he locked it

and started to walk back through the garage

into the house, my brother and cousin

jumped out with golf clubs

and tried to kill him in the garage with golf clubs.

But they were fucking idiots, because there was no light.

So they're swinging their hearts out,

almost killing each other.

It's like we needed a better murder caddy.

They fucked it all up.

But there was--the only light coming into the garage

was there was a side door that led to the backyard,

and at the bottom of that side door

there was a little doggy door,

and there was a little light coming through,

and my dad saw that light and he just put his shoulder down

and ran and busts through that door

and fell into the backyard, jumped over the back wall

onto the golf course and ran away.

And that was, like, 17 years ago

and I never saw him or spoke to him since that day.

So my brother and cousin go to Phoenix.

Three days later, I fly back from Colorado,

and I'll never forget I was standing in the garage

with this garden hose

trying to clean up the mess they made,

and that's when it hit me.

I was like, my dad was right this whole time.

His blood is way thicker than water.

I'm Brandt Tobler. You guys have been awesome.

Thank you guys.

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- Brandt Tobler, everybody!

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This Is What Alfalfa From The Little Rascals Looks Like Now - Duration: 4:51.

Fans of the early '90s Little Rascals reboot will recall the gangly, loveable child who

captured our hearts with his one-of-a-kind cowlick.

But since then, Bug Hall, the actor who played Alfalfa, grew up, grew a beard, and settled

down.

Let's check out exactly what he's been up to since he ditched those adorable suspenders.

Sup, LiLo?

Back when she was still a fresh-faced Disney star, Lindsay Lohan starred opposite Hall

in Disney Channel's Get a Clue.

Lohan portrayed the classic rich, popular girl who falls in love with Hall's character,

the adorable nerd she once despised.

Though Hall had yet to fully transform into his "lumbersexual" look — which Buzzfeed

describes as a dude who sports flannel and a beard but doesn't actually make a living

chopping wood — he had already become almost unrecognizable from his Little Rascals days.

PB & ewww!

Hall completely shed his child-star persona with a lead role in American Pie Presents:

The Book of Love.

During an interview with Crave Online, Hall described returning-original American Pie

star, Eugene Levy, as a sort of mentor throughout the experience.

But there was another bonus for Hall, who at the time of the shoot was in his early

twenties.

"Naked women, right?

I mean, hey, it's work, and there's boobs in my face.

I don't know if you can really complain about that."

Straight adult male status confirmed.

He's a wild hog

In August 2013, Hall tweeted about his first motorcycle accident, which he had in 2003.

He broke 17 bones and, yet, he still got back on his hog.

In fact, Hall is a lifelong enthusiast who claims that he's "totaled" 12 of the 16 bikes

he's owned, according to People.

And his passion for them hasn't downshifted since he got his first bike at 14 years old.

He told the mag,

"I've been cross-country 10 plus times.

Then halfway across cross-country 40 times or so."

And perhaps unsurprisingly, in early 2016 Hall landed the role of Arthur Davidson in

Discovery Channel miniseries, Harley and the Davidsons.

Pay to play

Playing one of the founders of Harley-Davidson was not only a dream role for Hall, but one

he was seemingly born to play.

But the shoot wasn't exactly a smooth ride.

Set in the early 1900's, the miniseries features many early model bikes that weren't equipped

with modern safety features, like, you know...brakes.

Hall told Hemmings Daily that his own ignorance about the dangerous nature of the bikes resulted

in a broken collarbone.

But he was still revved up about the experience, telling Collider,

"I will always bring these associations when I hear any motorcycle, but especially when

I hear or see any Harley-Davidsons."

Bearded Bug

Years before Justin Timberlake rebranded himself as "Man of the Woods," Hall and a bunch of

other woodsman cosplayers donned plaid shirts, a glop of beard oil, and gave birth to the

"lumbersexual" look.

And when the kid who played Alfalfa reappears years later, looking like the offspring of

Paul Bunyan and a Brooklyn barber, the internet breaks.

Hall has since gone back to the clean-shaven look, but don't worry, he's still just as

manly as when he rocked a sweet face-fro.

He put a ring on it

According to Us Weekly, Hall wed Jill Marie DeGroff in February, 2017.

He commemorated the occasion on Instagram with one particularly sweet caption that read:

"Experiencing the world with a new candle by my side has been, so far, the greatest

joy of my life."

That is, until baby made three...

Poppa Bug

Hall and his wife welcomed their first child, a baby girl, in November 2017.

Hall announced the pregnancy, writing, "Our little rascal is about 6 centimeters, but

I love this tiny living human person already."

And the doting dad hasn't stopped posting about his little girl — including side-by-side

comparison shots of his daughter, and Alfalfa, writing, "Yup, she's mine."

Lone Star at heart

Though he headed for Hollywood when he was just 9 years old, Hall is originally a Texan

who still clearly calls the Lone Star State home.

Hall said that even though he no longer lives there, in his heart he'll always be a Longhorn.

He told the Star-Telegram,

"My family lives in Weatherford.

[...] I love nothing better than sitting out on my granddad's property and watching the

sun go down over the hills.

That's home to me."

Master of his domain

In a 2016 interview on WCIU morning show, You & Me, Hall revealed that he takes time

away from Tinseltown, to "focus on his company."

"I write as well...you know, so my agents are like you know I take these huge two year

sabbaticals to write and go focus on my company."

He also mentioned his production company twice in an interview with Hemmings Daily, saying,

"Several of my buddies and I decided to take time off to start a company, and we all agreed

to not accept any acting roles in order to spend more of our time writing and developing

our own story ideas."

Hall has yet to post any writing or producing credits to his IMDb, but he says,

"I think that if you have a passion for something, you should just do that something."

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