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Hello, and welcome to this episode of The 8-Bit Guy.

So, in a previous episode, I talked about BASIC and how important it was to machines

like this during the 1980s.

And I promised to do a full episode on the Super Expander cartridge for the VIC-20.

So here we are.

But, I'm also going to show you at the end, a little about this EPROM programmer that

also works on the VIC-20.

This is a fascinating little cartridge, but before I go into the super expander, I want

to present a little refresher course on the VIC-20.

It came out in 1980.

It had a graphics resolution of 176x184 with 16 colors, although generally only 8 of them

were available in most cases.

Considering the time it came on the market, the graphics were not bad.

I'd say the only half-way affordable computers that had better graphics were the Apple II

and the Atari 400 and 800 computers.

The sound wasn't bad either with 4 voices.

Although 3 of them were square wave and the 4th one for noise.

This was still better than pretty much every other computer or game system on the market,

except for the before mentioned Atari computers.

The weak point of this computer was by far the memory.

It only had 5K of RAM.

But if you think that sounds bad, it's even worse than you think.

Some of that RAM is needed by the system so there was only 3.5K available to the end user.

In fact, when you boot up the computer it will tell you that you have roughly three

and a half kilobytes free.

Even as a 6 year old kid trying to create programs in BASIC, I found myself constantly

running out of memory.

And the other weak point of this computer was it's implementation of BASIC.

You see, Commodore negotiated a killer deal with Microsoft.

For a single fee, they were able to use Microsoft BASIC in as many computers as they wanted

to.

So they just brought over the same BASIC that they used in the Commodore PET.

The PET, however, was a text-only machine.

It also had no sound synthesizer.

So there was no need for any BASIC commands to control graphics and sound, when the computer

didn't have any.

So, that meant that computers like the Apple II had an edge since people could write their

own programs in BASIC and create graphics easily using the built in commands.

Keep in mind that back in 1980, coding your own programs in BASIC was still very much

a thing people actually did.

So, it was certainly possible to get RAM expander cartridges like this one for the VIC-20.

And it added some much needed RAM.

However, there weren't really that many programs that actually made use of it, since most commercial

programs tended to target the factory options so that the customer base would be largest.

They knew if they targeted the high-end, then that would limit the customer base of their

product.

And most of the good games for the machine were distributed on ROM cartridge anyway,

so there was no need to have a lot of RAM in the system for those.

But, if you were writing your own programs, there was another severe limitation to graphics.

If you wanted to initialize a full-screen bit-mapped graphics mode, you needed 4K of

RAM Just to hold the graphics for the screen.

And as you can see, this made it more or less impossible for the stock machine to do full-screen

graphics.

So even if you were able to somehow make it fit, there'd be no room left over for your

program!

But in 1981, Commodore released the Super Expander Cartridge.

Let's take a look inside and see what we get.

It's kind of interesting how they have these little metal windows.

You can actually see right through to the little metal cover on the outside.

So, let's take a closer look at the actual board.

The first thing I noticed is that it says copyright 1980, even though everything I've

read said this came out in 81.

And since the VIC-20 itself came out in 1980, that means this was at least in the planning

stages around the same time.

There are 6 static RAM chips, totaling 3K of extra RAM, and a 4 kilobyte ROM chip.

It doesn't really sound like this would add very much capability to a computer, but it

adds more than you think.

For one thing, remember the VIC-20 only has 3.5K of usable RAM, so this cartridge basically

doubles that.

So that's a significant improvement.

Looking at the very thin manual, you'll see some of the commands that are added to

BASIC, such as graphics, draw, point, circle, paint, etc.

And it gives you commands to initialize text mode and 3 different kinds of graphics modes.

In the back there are some example type-in BASIC programs.

So let's stick the cartridge in the VIC-20 and see what we get.

The first thing you'll notice is that the startup screen is reporting six and a half

kilobytes of RAM.

So check out this very short little example program that creates sine-waves on the screen.

So, first of all, this would not be possible on the stock machine because, like I mentioned,

there isn't enough RAM.

If you had a RAM expander cartridge, then you could write a program in BASIC to do this

exact same thing without the new BASIC commands, but it would require about 10 times the amount

of lines of BASIC code and using a lot of POKES and PEEKs, therefor wasting even more

of that precious memory.

Not only that, it would run much slower.

So by adding these commands to BASIC, it makes the programs smaller and faster, not to mention

much easier to code.

Here's another very short little BASIC program that draws 3D polygons It's actually really

amazing how fast these are drawn.

The reason is that all of the actual drawing is being done by the machine language routines

stored in the cartridge's ROM, rather than trying to calculate this pixel by pixel in

BASIC.

So here's another little interesting example.

This program draws garfield using a bunch of circle commands.

This is sort of a lost art, being able to create neat pictures like this out of a string

of commands, it's kind of fun to watch as the picture comes alive with each new stroke

of the pen, so to speak.

And here's one last little program I'll show you, which creates some very strange

art.

It has several different screens it goes through.

Whoever wrote this seems to like eyeballs.

Besides graphics, it adds sound commands to BASIC, but in a really clever way.

You can create sounds with the print command.

Once you've typed the first quotation mark, you press control and the left arrow like

this, which creates a little reverse F.

This tells it you want to print sound instead of text.

So you have to start off by setting some parameters, such as V9, which sets the volume to 9, then

T for tempo, then S for speaker, which is another way of saying voice..

In this case I'll use voice 1.

Then I'll use octave 2, and then some notes."

Now lets see what happens.

OK, so if I wanted to make that a full scale, I could add A and B, then I'll need to change

to octave 3 for the next C. OK, to better demonstrate, I actually wrote a small musical

sample, which is part of the music for my Commodore 64 game I'm working on.

You can see it is just a bunch of print statements.

So, you can see how easy this makes it to add sound and music to your own programs.

All right, So what do I think of the super-expander cartridge?

Well, I think it's a really great cartridge, but the problem is it shouldn't have been

necessary.

They really should have built everything in this cartridge into the logic board from the

very beginning.

Because it was not part of the standard system, there was virtually no commercial software

that supported it.

And even if you wrote your own games using this cartridge, those games still wouldn't

work on your buddy's computer down the street unless he too had a copy of the super expander

cartridge.

So, while it did fix many of the shortcomings with the VIC-20, it was still, in my opinion

kind of a failure.

OK, so the next thing I wanted since I have my VIC-20 out is this EPROM programmer that

I was sent.

I really wanted to show it to you, but there really wasn't enough information to really

make a whole video about it.

So, let me just give you a little overview of this thing.

So let's take a look at this eprom programmer which was donated to me by Aaron Katz.

This plugs into the VIC-20's cartridge port, but one thing you might notice is that while

it has the same edge connector as a cartridge, it isn't as wide.

So you have to be really careful inserting it in since it doesn't automatically line

up.

Take a look at the Commodore Buyer's Guide.

This is from a few years after the VIC-20 was discontinued, but you'll noticed they

do advertise an EPROM programmer for the Commodore 64, but it plugs into the USER port, not the

cartridge port.

So that's interesting and it ends up having some advantages I hadn't thought of, which

I'll show you here in a minute.

Looking at the board, I noticed that its called the PROMQUEEN.

Quite a clever name.

I also noticed that, if my math is right, it has 8K of onboard RAM, but no ROM chips

to be seen.

So when you power on your VIC-20 with this thing in the computer, there's actually

nothing noticeably different.

Not even any increase in RAM.

So you might think the software would come separately on a disk or maybe a cassette,

right?

Nope.

Instead, they actually give you a ROM chip of the software, which you have to place in

this socket.

Now this socket is actually mapped directly to the VIC-20's memory map, but it is at

a non-standard location so it can not auto-start like a game cartridge.

So you can actually stick the chip in while the computer is on, then type SYS45441 to

start the software.

Once the sofware is started you can remove the chip.

This is because it copies itself over to RAM as soon as you start the program.

This software will let you load, save, or edit HEX files and then, obviously, burn them

to an EPROM.

Well, since it only handles 2K and 4K EPROMs, it isn't all that useful to me.

If it could do at least 8K EPROMS I could probably find some interesting uses for it

around the house.

But, it's still a pretty neat little device from the time period.

I think it was targeted a lot at HAM radio operators who needed to reprogram EPROMs in

those old HAM radios to change various channels and settings and things like that.

Of course, none of that is necessary on the modern HAM radios because it can all be done

in software.

Well, I hope the episode wasn't too mundane for you.

I really have a lot of little peripherals like this that I want to show off that probably

a lot of people have never heard of before.

You know, in another 20 or 30 years they may fall into obscurity to the point there's

no documentation on them.

So, I think it's kind of important to talk about them and see what place they held in

history.

So, let me know what you thought, and stick around for more content.

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U I P's Top 10 Obscure Alien Abductions - Duration: 10:08.

U.I.P�s Top 10 Obscure Alien Abductions

We have all heard about famous abductions like Travis Walton, Betty and Barney Hill,

etc.

But what about the ones that have not been widely publicised?

Here are our top ten �not so well-known� alien abductions:

The Linda Courtile Case

On November, 1989, a housewife was drawn out of her 12th story window in Lower Manhattan.

The woman was lifted up into a UFO that was covered in bright lights at around 3:00 am.

In an interview, Linda said �The UFO opened up almost like a clam and then I�m inside.�

Two men, who were United Nations bodyguards, also witnessed the event with stories identical

to Linda�s.

There were also several witnesses who confirmed the event, from ordinary citizens to attorneys

and surgeons, some even thought it was a movie scene being filmed.

The story never gained public traction and still remains a mystery.

2.

The Cahil Family

After midnight, the Cahill family were returning home after spending the day with some close

friends.

At first, as they drove through the inky black night, they noticed a row of lights mounted

on a rounded craft with windows around it.

Kelly, the mother of the family, recalled walking towards the path, without knowing

why, and seeing a creature unlike anything they�ve ever seen.

It was void of color and 7 feet tall, according to Kelly.

Aside from the sighting, Kelly only has a strange triangular mark on her navel which

later revealed to house an implant.

3.

Frederick Valentich

Twenty-year-old Frederick Valentich disappeared while training as a pilot over Bass Strait

in Australia on October 21, 1978.

He was radioing Melbourne air traffic control, the connection was lost mid-sentence.

The last works of Frederick before his disappearance was �It�s not an aircraft.�

4.

The Allagash Waterway Abduction

In 1976, twin brothers Jack and Jim Weiner and their two friends were on a fishing trip

on the calm waters of Eagle Lake.

They decided to make a fire on the banks of the lake when suddenly a bright object appeared

in the sky.

After being subjected to lie detector tests, hypnosis, and extensive examination, all four

individuals told a story that was eerily the same.

Each being abducted and subjected to humiliating and invasive testing, including the extraction

of semen and other bodily fluids.

5.

Whitley Strieber

Whitley Strieber is a unique case in this list of alien phenomenon.

He is a renowned author who penned the book �Communion,� a staple of UFO stories.

He was already a well-known author when he experienced his first contact.

It was over the Christmas holidays in 1985, during a vacation with his wife and son.

Whitley, sleeping in his isolated cabin in the northern part of New York State, was awoken

by his alarm system.

Expecting a burglar, he rushed to check out what the noise was.

To his surprise, a creature appeared standing before him motionless and creepily.

Whitley was then taken to a mysterious ship where the creatures began mercilessly experimenting

on him.

He recalls long needles being directly stabbed into his brain and strange low voices.

Whitley was never the same after that night, and still, we have no explanation for what

happened.

6.

Sergeant Charles L. Moody

Air Force Sergeant Charles L. Moody was observing a meteor shower in the desert of Alamogordo,

New Mexico.

At around 1:15AM he witnessed a glowing, metallic, saucer-shaped object lowering to the ground.

It began wobbling in an unnatural way and slowly moved closer toward Charles.

Frightened, Charles frantically tried to start his car engine, but it just wouldn�t budge.

His body suddenly turned numb, and the ship began emitting a high pitch sound.

The mysterious aircraft got so close that he could make out the ghoulish tall figures

staring directly at him.

The alien trance ended abruptly and Charles found himself driving home at around 3:00

am.

In the next few days he developed a rash that spread all over his body.

7.

Peter Khouri

On the night of February 1988, Peter and his wife spotted strange lights fettering about

in the sky.

To their surprise the lights merely came and disappeared.

It was later in July that Peter began experiencing flashbacks of events he thought never happened.

He began to recall waking up in the middle of the night being grabbed by his ankles,

Peter tried to move but his body was completely numb.

Standing by the edge of his bed were tiny, robe-wearing creatures congregated around

the poor man.

They repeatedly told him not to worry, because it would be just like the last time.

Then suddenly, an alien pulled out a large needle and slowly started aiming it toward

Peter�s head.

Peter also successfully passed a lie detector test.

8.

Ronny Dawson

Ronny Dawson is a crude oil transport driver who works in Coleman County, Texas.

As a transport driver Ronny regularly works long night shifts and drives through barren

rural roads�it was inevitable that he would one day spot something.

One clear night, Ronny was inspecting some crude oil from inside large tank batteries.

Being at a higher altitude, Ronny was able to spot a mysterious aircraft flying over

him.

Fearing his life he quickly climbed down from the tanks and began recording the phenomenon.

In the sky he saw pulsating orbs that rapidly changed altitude and shape.

Ever since then, Ronny continued to see these lights�a reminder that someone or something

is watching.

9.

Lulli Oswald

15th October 1979.

A famous concert pianist by the name of Luli Oswald, and her friend were taken aboard a

UFO and given a grueling examination.

The full story came out only after hypnosis sessions.

Luli Oswald, 55, said she and Fauze Mehlen, 25, were driving along the coast road near

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, when they saw a fleet of strange craft emerge from the ocean.

When they came out of the water, it was like a mushroom with water spilling over it, she

told police.

Then we noticed a big black one ahead of us.

It seemed to be about 300' across with a small dome on top.

Mehlen, who was driving, lost control of the car.

It began weaving crazily across the road, with the doors opening and shutting by themselves.

Then, suddenly, the nightmare ended.

Shaken, they stopped at a restaurant for coffee and discovered that it was two hours later

than they thought.

While under hypnosis, the pianist began sobbing with terror as she continued to relive the

experience.

We have entered the black disk from the bottom, The car is inside the UFO, but we are outside

the car.

They are putting a tube in my ear.

There are tubes everywhere, they are pulling my hair.

They look like rats, oh, how horrible!

They have huge, horrible rat ears and their mouths are like slits.

They are touching me all over with their thin arms.

There are 5 of them, their skin is grey and sticky.

Miss Oswald said she saw Mehlen lying unconscious on a table as the aliens examined him with

a strange ray of light that smelt of sulfur.

The rat figures communicated without speaking, but she said one of them did talk to her.

He said they came from Antarctica, she recalled.

There is a tunnel that goes under the South Pole, that�s why they come out of the water.

Others are extraterrestrials.

10.

Amy Ryland

In a chilling story that three different people were involved in, a 22-year-old named Amy

was abducted right out the window of her lounge room by a UFO.

Amy�s husband Keith had already gone to bed, while her friend Petra stayed up to read

in another room.

Petra was abruptly disrupted by a blinding light coming from the lounge room, and the

sound of shattering glass.

The rectangular beam of light was shining into the room, and according to Petra, she

saw Amy being pulled out of the window by the light, still apparently asleep.

Keith then woke up, and both he and Petra searched the house and surrounding area for

Amy, who was nowhere to be seen.

Keith eventually called the police.

U.I.P Summary:

People do laugh out of ignorance when confronted with the unknown, I was a sceptic too prior

to my first UFO sighting.

Alien abductions do exists, abductees have been used like lab rats!

And who knows� Maybe you have been abducted and not even aware of it�

Yaz, Mwv

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Sec. Tillerson's Opening Remarks at the Joint Press Availability in Moscow - Duration: 3:44.

SECRETARY TILLERSON: Good evening.

We just came from a productive meeting, as you heard Foreign Minister Lavrov mention,

of about two hours with President Putin.

We frankly discussed the current state of U.S.-Russia relations.

I expressed the view that the current state of U.S.-Russia relations is at a low point

and there is a low level of trust between our two countries.

The world's two foremost nuclear powers cannot have this kind of relationship.

We further discussed approaches to improving our channels of communication.

We had a lengthy exchange of views regarding the situation in Syria and shared perspectives

on possible ways forward.

Earlier today, Foreign Minister Lavrov and I had a lengthy conversation about issues

that require immediate attention and issues that require longer-term attention.

We understand that improvement in the long-term relationship will be required if we are to

make progress on issues where we have different views.

We spoke extensively about Syria, and in some areas we share a common view.

Specifically, we both believe in a unified and stable Syria, and we agree we want to

deny a safe haven for terrorists who want to attack both of our countries.

We agree that North Korea has to be de-nuclearized.

We agreed there needs to be more senior-level communication between our two countries, both

at a diplomatic and military level.

But there is a broad range of other issues in which we have differences.

Some have global implications with long-term requirements, and others are understood to

be bilateral.

Over the course of the past two years, a number of reciprocal actions have been taken to demonstrate

the dissatisfaction each country has with the other.

We need to attempt to put an end to this steady degradation, which is doing nothing to restore

the trust between our two countries or to make progress on the issues of the greatest

importance to both of us.

We have agreed to establish a working group to address smaller issues and make progress

toward stabilizing the relationship, so that we can then address the more serious problems.

Foreign Minister Lavrov and I agreed we would consider further proposals made about the

way forward in Syria, including consulting with our allies and coalition members.

And we will continue discussions about how to find a solution to the Syrian conflict.

We also discussed current threats posed by the North Korea's regime – the regime's

ongoing development of their nuclear program, and the constructive role Russia can play

in encouraging the regime in North Korea to change its course, so that we can create the

conditions for talks regarding the future.

On Minsk, we considered the importance of the accord.

Russia can make progress in implementation by de-escalating violence and taking steps

to withdraw separatist armed forces and heavy weapons so that OSCE observers can fulfill

their role.

Until full progress is made under the Minsk Accords, the situation in Ukraine will remain

an obstacle to improvement in relations between the U.S. and Russia.

I thank the foreign minister for a productive round of discussions and I look forward to

future conversations.

Thank you.

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Top 8 Moneyball Quotes - Duration: 2:41.

When you're carring drugs across the border...

the idea is to remain calm.

It's hard not to be romantic about baseball.

This kind of thing, it's fun for the fans.

It sells tickets and hot dogs.

It's a problem you think we need to explain ourselves.

Don't To anyone.

People who run ball clubs, they think in terms of buying players.

You goal shouldn't be to buy players. You goal should be to buy wins.

And in order to buy wins, you need to buy runs.

The people who are holding the reins,

they have their hands on the switch,

they go batshit crazy.

People are overlooked for a variety of biased reasons and perceived flaws.

Age appearance, personality.

one of the great things about money is that it buys a lot of things,

one of which is the luxury to disregard what baseball likes,

doesn't like, what baseball thinks, doesn't think.

We're all told at some point we can no longer play the children's game.

We just don't know when that's gonna be.

Some of us are told at 18, some of us are told at 40, but we're all told.

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Mélenchon atomise Macron à Lille 12 Avril 2017 [THUG LIFE] - Duration: 1:47.

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The Bubble Egg Waffle Is Taking Over NYC | Food Network - Duration: 0:59.

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🇬🇧**NEW** Bonsai - How To Make a Bonsai Tree from Nursery Stock _ Persimmon _ Part 2 - Duration: 11:04.

Colonel everyone Ken's very warm welcome

to all rather than viewers and to this

video I'm working on the second or third

Merced increase these are unusual trees

which are being aimed one size and in

this video we'll see second of the trees

being reported that if you're new here

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that will receive notifications of all

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will not miss anything cool so there is

another video to come on persimmon trees

so that's something to look for

compromise and decided to go halfway and

just make it very clean cut removing

these very thick roots that you can see

and so the topics I'm not going to touch

the softride clean up this one as much

as I can and not remove any more routes

from here and otherwise it will probably

be overdoing it just going to take as

much of the file as possible

oh and also this cloak to sell

a little bit higher

and apart from that I think that's the

only one that I will remove when I have

removed

it doesn't that is just cleaning up for

history i have chosen this blue part is

a deep pot and i have already placed

horticulture great great at the bottom

i'm going to top it up with the cat

litter this is load aft premier great

a little bit of dust and

during watering it does come out I'm

going to sort out a hole there to learn

get the wiring and not damage the future

surface roots how they can get water

mark quite easy

you sound interchanges are tightened

this wire slightly and then continue

with the three potting putting more

silent

or some planting the tree at a slight

angle as its bending in one direction so

to give it a more balanced feed I feel

also preserve it gives a nice movement

to the trunk by pumping it as an angle

just on that just adjusted the angle of

the planting

the 5pm saw between the roots and some

of them are jumping out I've got to try

and tie them back into the soil my

chopsticks I don't remove any more of

removed quite a lot so

this is why I'm trying to preserve as

much of the roots as possible and not

remove any more

reparto is complete and unjustified yet

some of these get branches

and we'll remove some of these parties

at the top yeah produce be crowned it's

difficult to form so we'll learn more

very gently with the top I don't think

that should do for today and

has very nice movement in the trunk and

I also wanted it at an angle because

dead straighten of leaning towards the

right and I've refunded it with sleeping

it up and it leans to the left and as it

goes up it's so straight things up and

we just clean up a little bit oh yeah

turn up and also this that Beauchamp

this is it yeah death bed yes that's all

might as well come off this is dead get

that off remove the stumps another time

white I think that really is it as far

as working on this persimmon tree nose

and hopefully it will be happier in this

part this lot more room for the roots to

grow and gradually I haven't done that

on this occasion every time I reportedly

i like to call it up above the surface

level about anything that you want to do

enough centimeters the expose the circus

needs

and on this occasion I haven't done that

it has come out of it very tiny plastic

particles completely rootbound very

badly rebound and so we will do that at

the next report and there are some nice

successes improved potential service

routes which will be we will be able to

see when I next report it and pull it

out of the soil I'll give it a quick

soaking well this is it after repotting

and give it a quick turn

as the back of the tree and I've decided

that this is going to be the front

because that's where the interesting

roots are going to be also the the way

it goes into the soil at this stage is

nicer than me all the other sides and it

leans back and then comes back forward

again and also I like the dark blackish

trunk on it does all the work on this

person in treat for today and we kept in

complete shade like the other one for at

least three weeks and then who tickets

please

on the benches has been for the last few

years that's all the work for today on

this persimmon tree there will be

further updates on this tree and also

new videos uploaded pregnant well that

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Anticipated 'big event' for foreign press in Pyongyang turns... - Duration: 1:53.

North Korean officials announced a "big event" for foreign journalists in Pyongyang.

While many anticipated another nuclear or missile activity, it turned out to be another

occasion to promote an image it wants to project to the world.

Kwon Jang-ho has the full story.

It's the 105th birthday of the North Korean regime's founder and former leader Kim Il-sung

on Saturday, also known as the Day of the Sun,... and some 200 foreign journalists are

currently in Pyongyang after having been invited to cover celebratory events.

But on Wednesday, officials started telling them to prepare for a 'big and important event"

the next day.

There was speculation that it could have something to do with a much anticipated missile launch

or nuclear test.

Turns out, it was the opening of a new street with a showcase development project... attended

by Kim Jong-un.

Ryomyong Street, which is in the center of the capital, houses dozens of new skyscrapers

and modern buildings.

And although it is relatively rare for foreign journalists to catch a glimpse of the North

Korean leader, it wasn't quite what they had expected.

A similar series of events took place last year, when foreign journalists mysteriously

underwent hours of security screening for no given reason...before they were led to

a pop concert.

There is precedent for Pyongyang to carry out missile tests around the Day of the Sun.

In 2012, in the days leading up to the founder's 100th birthday, a long-range missile was fired,

which state media later said had failed.

Last year also saw four missiles launched within a two-week window in April.

That means, of course, missile or nuclear activity cannot be ruled out, but in the meantime,

the journalists in Pyongyang are expected to enjoy more tours of the capital, with a

military parade and celebratory show expected to come later this week.

Kwon Jang-ho, Arirang News.

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The Best Cheap Eats in Korea Mukbang - Duration: 8:22.

Hello, Welcome to the Soup Kingdom.

A lot of people have been asking us, including my classmates: "Adam where do we get a Korean meal that is cheap and big.".

Big!! because people who study and work want leftovers for the morning.

Groceries are really expensive in Korea, it is cheap to eat out.

Where we got this food tonight is called kimbab heaven.

You can see the sign for kimbab heaven, its really good, really cheap Korean food.

It's healthy food revolving around this Kimbab.

It is veg, ham, egg, rice and some seaweed.

It is really delicious, it has all the nutrition.

Its only €2, I just finished my mid term exams. Well Done!!

As a prize we are having this luxurious dinner that cost €12

This some of the food you can get at the Bun Shik Jib.

We have the Korean staple food which is bibimbap.

Bibimbap is rice with mixed veg, spicy sauce and a fried egg.

The best thing about the bun shik jib is they provide side dishes like kimchi and spicy fish cakes.

Spicy tofu and some mushrooms

Like most food in Korea you get a bowl of soup. The soup in kimbab heaven is awesome.

The side dishes and the soup are free extras like tap water in Ireland.

Some of the free dishes are better than the main dish and if you are finished you can get more for free.

With this €12 meal we got kimbab, bibimbap and this Don Katsu.

We got the special Don katsu that included rice, tuna kimbab, cabbage and dumplings.

The special kimbab is tuna kimbab..

Tips: For bibimbap to mix easier add one spoon of soup

Its easier to mix because the rice gets softer. It's more delicious.

Another tip: If your in the kimbab heaven get the Dolsot Bibimbap.

Its in an earthware bowl and the bibimbap keep cooking. The rice gets nice and crispy. It is really delicious.

Its so tasty. Kimbab is bibimbap on the go.

Its like breakfast food as well. This Don Katsu is great.

When we went to the supermarket this weekend the melons were €10

A decent bit of beef is €20

The supermarket prices in Korea are nuts. You can get all this food for the price of a melon.

In Korea eating out can be as little as €3 - 10

Adams number one tip to find a good restaurant in Korea is to taste the kimchi.

Put it in your mouth if it tastes nice the restaurant is good.

How do you eat a meal without kimchi and banchan?

Even if we make lunch there are five side dishes at least.

We are in Korea, I want to be a Korean wife.

Everything in Kimbab heaven is nice, you cant go wrong with kimbab heaven.

One tip is to take the kimbab and dip it in your soup.

Its the best... Good student.

Well done, you are like Korean old man now.

This has been Soup Kingdom, kimbab heaven edition for Soup Kingdom Mukbang.

If you come to Korea, choose to eat this amazing dinner.

Veg filled variety dinner.

Its delicious, nutritious and made by beautiful Korean adjummas.

They were watching the old school variety show on Saturday.

I will show you him dancing to Korean traditional music.

The beasht, adjummas with drums.

This has been the Soup Kingdom, old style, bun shik listening to old music special.

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How To Write A Song #15: What I Saw You Do with John Speck - Duration: 13:32.

It's probably my weakness, you know, as well as my strength.

My weakness too, right? I am like so fascinated

by diverse things, you know, and it speaks

to my life because like even when I was

in school like I was playing in a hip-hop

jazz band and I was also playing in a

Jewish klezmer band and they would

always peg me for the orchestra because

they needed a good trombone player and I

happened to be on campus you know? So it's

like I always look like kind of flipping

my hats... and like maybe I never really

found one thing I just wanted to focus

on that. So, you know, it is what it is.

Yeah.

I'm still, like, you know, on the path.

This is week 15 of

the resolution of life:

To write a song a week.

I'm particularly excited

about this episode because I got to

interview my friend John Speck, who is a

trombone player, multi-instrumentalist

singer-songwriter. And he added a

beautiful trombone part to the final

song and it's so cool and I'm so grateful.

But before we get to the

episode, I must tell you this crazy

story which is the following:

I've worked

with John for a couple of years.

We've always been friendly and lately we've

been just talking about philosophical

things...music and the meaning of it all

and we got to talking about the fact

that he released an album several years

ago of original songs. And I was like, oh my god

I would love to listen to it.

The album's called Mofongo and the group he was

playing with at the time was called

Bacon Bits. So a couple days later he

Brings me the CD and and as I looked at the

album art had a flashback to when I had

a radio show with a couple of my friends

in college when I used to grab CDs from

the stacks and just burn a bunch of

albums to my computer so that I could

listen to them later. So, I go home and

I'm like, "Huh. Let me look this up..."

I type in "bacon bits..."

The album has been sitting on my

computer this

entire time you guys!!

For like 10 years!!

and I never listened to it. I thought

that was freaking cool dude. And I had a

great time talking to him and asking him

a bunch of weird questions and he was so

down to just talk. We got on the topic of

childhood and this is what he had to say

about a memory that he had:

Both my parents always been like self-employed

creative people

and so, like I think I've in my life I've

emulated that a lot, you know? Like trying to

find different ways to be creative.

Cause that's like the happy place you know

like I would often...there was a good

portion of my youth when I was growing

up with my mother had a business, a women's

clothing store. And I didn't have

anywhere to go after school so I like

come down, and I'd be hanging out in the back of

this women's clothing store. And my mom

would set up like she had this whole

painting station so that when there was--

it was slow like she would paint

t-shirts, she would make these like,

Jenni: Oh, cool!

hand-painted t-shirts. So she would always like make

sure I had a setup so like I can

I can paint, or just something like that.

There was a lot of creativity.

She would, like, volunteer to come into school

like make paper mache masks. She was an

art teacher at one point in her life, and I think

she never like really---like she enjoyed

that and never like lost---even though she became

a businesswoman

She never like lost that sense of creativity and

art. And she wanted to share that. So she would come

into school volunteer and we would make the masks

out of clay and then you'd do paper mache on top of the masks

That's some nice memories for me.

Jenni: Yeah, that's really beautiful.

John: I'm always looking for opportunities to

share my heart with people. And like trying to figure

out what makes them tick and maybe we can

vibrate together get to a higher place

than just the mundane like chitchat small

talk, you know? (Jenni: Yeah) but it can't be done on demand

either (Jenni: That's true) like it has to come from like that

whimsical, mysterious place, you know?

I'm feeling inspired by this memory that

John shared with me about his mom and

his parents being creative people and

uh, self-employed business owners. My parents

also had a business growing up. And that

had a huge influence on me as well. So it

got me thinking about parenthood and how...

just as a kid just sort of observing

your surroundings has such a huge

impact on you even more so sometimes

than actual lessons that your parents

teach you it's more just the everyday

surroundings.

I thought of a chorus, I think...

(singing) Oh what I watched you do.

Yeah. This idea: "What I watched you do."

(singing) What I watched you do...hm.

(Guitar playing, singing) What I...

I like that. It's pretty already.

I think that's cool. I want to

think about those different images of

what both what John was describing and

also examples in my own life of things

that I observed that had a big impact on me.

(Singing) What I watched you do...

(Guitar strumming)

I want to create some kind of

differentiation between the chorus and

verse but that's not really coming to me

at the moment. Alright, lets think about lyrics.

Painting in the back room. Painting

in the back room...in a place that's yours. That was

really important to me my whole life

seeing my parents work for themselves

that's really cool, um... because even then

when they worked for other people they

took that independence to those jobs.

I think about it was my dad because he's

so good at his work and he's so ffff... so intelligent I

mean both my parents are, we discussed this.

That sort of independent spirit and it's

almost like...he cares what people think

about him, you know, in terms of he's

always kind and sweet to people but at

the same time he also has that not

giving a shit because he knows he IS the shit.

That confidence of I'm not

kowtowing to you I am me.

John watching his mother be creative... that's so cool and I

relate to that piece of it as well.

Painting in the back room of a place

that's yours...

living on your own terms...(singing) living on your own terms... (speaking) sure that

sounds---that's kind of basic but we'll go with it.

That was actually---uh--maybe i'll

insert this! John's songwriting tip that

actually is one of the codified tips of

the 100 so far: "Just go with it." Number 55.

Songwriting tips? (Jenni: What comes to mind?) John: Do it.

Just do it. Try to turn off the

inner critic and just go with it. Like, whatever the idea is,

just go with the idea and try to complete it.

So I'm going with it!

(Singing) Living on your own terms...

This sounds kinda 90s-ish...does it? It's reminding me of

some nineties song.

(Cat meowing) What's up, cat?

Opening your own doors...(singing) opening your own doors...

again I feel it's basic.

But we'll go with it. Well, I mean

it's not basic. I mean it is, but it's not.

It's kind of a cliche, right? Like, oh the

idea of opening doors. Um..opening your own---

opening your own doors but that's one of

my favorite thing about things about my

mom she was one of a few women in her

industry. On the forefront in Silicon Valley.

Like in seventies. And the whole

opening your own doors thing is also

that idea of, you know, a gentleman opens

the door for the lady but in this case

it's like a metaphor...you get it.

(Singing with guitar) What I saw you do...

So let me think of a memory I have.

I keep thinking about when I was sick and

so I went to their office in Menlo Park

and I laid on...they had a futon in there

and I just was there all day like sort

of napping on and off all day but sort of

listening as well and listening to them

interact as adults.

It was the first time

I heard my mom swear actually and you

know I'm such a huge fan of swearing.

I remember being scandalized by it but also

feeling very...uh...important that I was able

to be---even if they thought I was asleep---

but I was able to observe them talking

about work amongst themselves talking

about whatever client they had and just

being really real and adult. Doing adult stuff.

(Singing) Laying on the futon... (cat meow)

What rhymes with the asleep?

Bleep cheep cheap, cleep?

creep creep deep a lot of weird words I

don't like are real...jeep keep...It's making me think of

quantum leap because my parents are

science science-y nerds we had a cat

that was named Quantum because she took

quantum leaps.

Intellectual talk surrounding me.

So that's a near rhyme but we'll go with it.

Surrounding me. (Guitar)

It's also making me think of, uh, John

has a little daughter and what is she

seeing of him? You know? And I think it's

so cool like she gets to see her and see

her parents you know who are both

creative also. And she's going to get see

her dad be like this cool musician guy

so maybe for the bridge I'll think of

like: And what will they see of me?

(Singing with guitar) And what will they see of me?

We need more lyrics, don't we? John talked about

seeing his mom create things...creating

the masks... making space for playfulness

all right so: (Singing) Making space for beauty...

An expanse to play. Oh, I like that!

An expanse to play. When the world only shows you

one thing, know there's another way.

Is this the whole thing? I don't know...

(Beautiful trombone!!!!)

Painting in the back room

of place that's yours.

Living on your own terms

Opening your own doors.

What I saw you do.

Oh, what I saw you do.

Laying on the futon,

not quite asleep.

Intellectual talks surrounding me.

What I saw you do.

Oh, what I saw you do.

And what will they see of me?

Oh, what will they see of me?

What will they see of me?

Oh, what will they see of me?

Making space for beauty.

An expanse to play.

The world may show you one thing,

but know there's another way.

Oh, what I saw you do.

Oh, what I saw you do.

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