AV Geeks Lunch 4-28-2023

thank you well that got dark towards the end um I don't think that baby was sacrificed I think that was made up um and as far as the uh Voodoo ritual that is something that's still done today uh I did some work for a professor from duke who documented uh rituals in Haiti and had footage of one of these uh several day-long events where people were dancing in a frenzy and this was in the 90s or 2000s and nobody was sacrificed but there was a lot of dancing and a lot of drums and it was quite something um but yeah that just made up I think they made some stuff up at the end um anyways uh I'm skip Alzheimer welcome to the AV Geeks lunchtime streaming show where we watch old 16 millimeter films and scratch our our beards and our heads and go like what was that what's the deal with that uh this next film is a little bit more self-explanatory this is inventions inventions in America's growth enjoy [Music] foreign in the year of Our Lord 1850 I was working in the sun when my grandson Jonathan brought me a piece of paper exciting news he said McCormick's patent Virginia Reaper is coming a wheat cutting machine could a machine really Harvest Grain well I've known a lot of machines in my day some of them made quite a change in the way people live well I remember when I was a lad born in Massachusetts I was about the time of the war of independence in those days most everything was made by hand each family would span its own thread it was all a family could do to weave its own cloth and sow its own clothes and raise enough food to keep itself going we had few machines but we did have Yankee Ingenuity and we were always ready to try new things in our house we had one of those New Heating stoves invented by Ben Franklin Mr Franklin had pioneered many new American ideas back about 1750. his experiments with electricity led to the invention of the lightning rod [Music] in Rhode Island I saw my first real machine when I was 10 years old sent into the town of Pawtucket I was apprenticed to a spinning School they called it a school but we children worked the new spinning machines in the factory these machines have been preserved in museums because they were the beginning of the textile industry in the United States the ideas for these machines came from England where new factories were spinning thread and making cloth a young Englishman Named Sam Slater filled his head with details came to this country and from memory built these spinning jennies the machine spawned so fast they almost ran out of cotton in New England cotton was scarce in those days it grew well in the South but cleaning out the seeds was a chore they needed a better way to get the cotton ready for our spinning meals the invention that filled the need the cotton gin was built in just five weeks by Eli Whitney a Yankee school teacher visiting in Georgia this was one of the first important American inventions patented in 1794. in a few short years The South was growing 50 times as much cotton as before the gin and in the north industry grew what were the factories spinning and the Farm's Jenning we put Mars hand Spinning Wheel out of business machine cloth was cheap enough for everyone and better too but our New England water power was not enough to meet the needs of more and faster machines a new kind of power came into use Steam we had heard about the marvelous steam engines of Mr James Watt in England his first was a pump to lift water out of coal mines then about 1782 he hitched the steam to a shaft and a wheel that could turn other wheels for power but even before steam began to power our meals and factories it moved us on the water at first along the Hudson River Mr Robert Fulton planned a steamboat Coral The Claremont built her in 1807. steamboats made travel and shipping easier helped spread the Nation West I know in 1810 I took my family on the Claremont from Albany to New York starting on our journey West travel was much harder on the land it was a long journey for many of us across Pennsylvania to the Ohio River here where we struck water again we built ourselves a flat boat and floated all our belongings down the lazy current the river brought many settlers down into Ohio with more settlers needing Goods like salt and iron and warning to ship crops back East the Ohio and Mississippi rivers heard a new sound around the bend the steamboat made us feel that the cities of the East were closer we were one nation instead of a group of states thousands more came West until for some of us it got crowded in Ohio so we headed west again out here to Illinois where plenty of good land is to be had for the settling land so every Sun can have his own Farm and there was another machine that spread people into the West the steam locomotive from many inventors in England and the United States came locomotives Stevenson's rocket there was the John bull the Lafayette why they went 15 miles an hour sometimes the Dewitt Clinton backed into Albany New York and gave regular service to Schenectady the railroads grew and connected with each other first in the east of course but soon reaching out to where we needed them to cover the great distances in the West life moves fast in our year of 1850 why just over here a piece they've strung electric wires for that new telegraph invented by Samuel Morse in 1850 Telegraph wires reach across all our states to the Mississippi River and down to the Deep South why a letter might take a whole week to get back east but now news travels fast the end of the Mexican war for instance was on the telegraph to our newspapers soon after it happened the invention of the telegraph has helped the railroads grow they can keep track of their trains and help prevent wrecks businessmen buy and sell on the telegraph why these slender wires tie our nation together yes machines mean a lot to us in 1850 what will this Reaper do for us well we need a good machine for cutting wheat a good man can Harvest about one acre a day if he starts before sunup but some years Harvey's time is only a few days long still with the high price wheat brings back east a man might plant a hundred acres even if he loses some harvesting by hand well let's see about this Reaper it came from Cyrus McCormick's new Factory in Chicago they're building them by the hundreds the agent says it's much improved over that first Reaper that McCormick built in Virginia in 1831 Can this funny looking rig really Harvest our wheat and it does five times as fast as a harvest hand with a cradle it's easy to see that Farms will get bigger wheat will be cheaper with machines like this there's no limit to how much we can grow we'll make this Prairie Land the Bread Basket of the world yes machines have brought us a long way since I attended those spinning jennies back in Rhode Island who knows someday there may even be machines for sowing lots of reasons have made the United States grow so fast and so strong but it never would have happened without our machines and inventions and this grandson of mine what will those excited eyes see in his time by the 20th century yeah that guy was affecting that accent for entirely too long that well back in mayday yeah too much um let's look into the 20th century and see what's going on this is energy power from the sea enjoy at siba Gaga research scientists create products which enrich the quality of Our Lives products to increase our food supply dyes and pigments which surround us with color Pharmaceuticals to improve our health products which reaffirm the value of science to mankind as part of its continuing program in support of Science Education siba Geiger is pleased to present this issue of science screen report [Music] the science screen report developments in science engineering and medicine that help solve the problems of modern life the oceans covering 70 percent of the earth collect and store solar energy an immense reserve of potential power [Music] today scientists and Engineers are developing advanced technology to extract this heat and convert it to electricity ocean thermal energy conversion otec in the near future such otec power plants would provide pollutionless almost unlimited supplies of energy this is a report on progress towards harnessing the oceans energy resources the oceans of the world are storehouses of enormous amounts of solar energy a century ago the French scientists are San darsenal valve proposed using the temperature gradient between the sun heated surface waters and the cold deep to produce Electric Power he suggested warm surface waters could vaporize ammonia as at right driving a turbine to make electricity cold deep water in the condenser at left cools the ammonia to liquid and the cycle is repeated part of the electricity drives the water pumps the Surplus is available for any purpose in the late 1970s the first ocean thermal energy conversion system mini otec was built and installed aboard a barge moored three kilometers off Hawaii after beachfront assembly of the kilometer long deep water pipe also used as a single point Mooring the pipe was towed out to the waiting ocean heat power plant barge foreign water pipe and Barge are linked and activated [Music] the hot surface water piped into the evaporator Heats ammonia which drives a turbo generator to produce electricity then passes through a condenser where cold bottom water cools it to liquid again and the process is repeated for three months many otec generator powered only by the temperature gradient 27 degrees Centigrade on the surface 4 degrees centigrade in the Deep produces 57 kilowatts of power 40 kilowatts Drive the pumps and other otec Machinery the Surplus 17 power onboard instruments many otec demonstrates the otech principle a reliable ocean Energy power source [Music] in the early 1980s The Next Step an oil tanker is refitted as a full-scale floating otec laboratory and renamed the SS ocean energy converter the test site chosen for the project otec 1 is 19 kilometers off Hawaii to Anchor the ship a 4 000 foot single point Mooring is deployed shown here with stop-motion photography meanwhile on a Windswept Hawaiian beach the cold water pipe is assembled its triple cluster of 1.3 meter diameter buoyant flexible polyethylene pipes is 670 meters long almost half a mile foreign [Music] buoyancy collar enables the pipe to stand vertically when released from the ship the pipe which can deliver up to 78 000 gallons of water per minute is assembled on Railroad carriages stop motion photography shows deployment of the deep water pipe the million pound conduit extending across the entire Bay [Music] thank you the pipe is then towed by tugboats to the otec one Mooring and ship during delivery the flotation collar keeps the high front end afloat [Music] foreign is supported by a barge [Music] arriving at The Mooring the pipe is stretched across the surface of the sea then slowly back down into the deep 75-ton weight keeps it vertical as it goes down [Music] once in position divers check the pipe's flotation collar [Music] and a line underwater TV monitors and its stabilizing system for link up with the ship foreign [Music] to the ship is critical the stabilizing system and flotation collar which link ship and pipe must be made to function effectively the stabilizer system minimizes the effects of pipe motions due to deep sea currents the flotation collar allows the pipe to float aiding recovery should bad weather Force the laboratory vessel to return to Port foreign the SS ocean energy converter carries full-sized heat exchanges condensers evaporators and pumps and could in principle generate a megawatt of electrical power unlike many otec however it lacks turboelectric generators rather its purpose is to gather critical engineering performance data it is a floating otech laboratory probing problems that must be solved before full-scale commercial low-tech plants can be built what are the best designs for pipes and Heat exchangers our might marine life and corrosion affect otec systems what are the impacts of otec on the ocean environment how can the efficiency of evaporators and condensers be increased [Music] in time the components and Concepts feel tested aboard otec 1 could be employed in 40 to 80 megawatt demonstration otec power plants which would produce usable power otech could also power offshore smelters or refineries or chemical plants electrolyzing seawater to make hydrogen liquefacting air to make nitrogen combining hydrogen and nitrogen to make ammonia to be processed into fertilizer [Music] energy from the oceans might also be extracted utilizing underwater windmills powered by ocean currents or ocean wave energy tapped using Dam atolls which divert waves into an inverted bowl-shaped collector spinning a turbine a proposed tidal energy extraction system employs Rising waves to compress air to spin turbines and falling waves to draw in air to maintain the spin a reshaped seabed could funnel waves focusing their energy to spin turbines directly still other ways to draw on the ocean's various energy potentials currents waves Tides ocean heat sea and land winds salinity gradients and others are being sought [Music] the first otec power plants will probably be cited near major islands such as Puerto Rico or Hawaii which currently use about 600 000 barrels of imported oil per day other near future otech locations include Guam French Polynesia Singapore and Rio de Janeiro as well as Florida and other Coastal States [Music] ocean surface temperature profiles suggest the best otec locations tinted red or orange are about 20 degrees latitude from the equator the Gulf of Mexico Coastline alone might generate as much as 50 000 megawatts of power in a few decades otec ocean thermal energy conversion an energy source which is continuous pollutionless almost unlimited and requires no new technical breakthroughs otec solar energy from the sea to benefit everyone another way of turning the sun's power into useful energy science screen report has been produced by siba Geiger Corporation with headquarters in Ardsley New York as part of its continuing program in support of Science Education [Music] foreign [Music] yeah so science um yeah I so a couple things going on here one is it's fascinating the company that made this film I found earlier films it made uh and they're all press release kind of newsreel types of things so they basically take a press release from some company like Sears or some company that makes tires and they create a news story around it and then they would shop it around and it would be shown on television or be rented and shown at Civic events or whatever or in school even um and so this is a more formalized version of it this a screen science digest which talks about 70s basically Technologies um and so it's the same thing it's it's really kind of fascinating and they found that they got sponsorship by Tech or industrial companies in a region so sibagi uh there's some power companies there's some foundries um uh and that would be then distributed to schools so this would be shown to a bunch of school kids and said oh well here's potential energy it's not oil and um what an exciting future and it's great that you guys looked it up on comments on YouTube to see what uh how it's manifested itself all right so I'm going to do this real quick we've been doing the toe tapping tournament and I've been asking you folks for um let me do this real quick I've been asking you folks to vote um and see if I can actually make this visible this time yes this last time yesterday I realized that I did not show it to you but we're in the quarterfinals it's the eight uh so fast food versus people working with data zip code song good eating keep the promise I'm mad at you seen through commercials run for your life and then I'm going to show you the songs kind of cut down a little bit provided I can find I have so many tabs here so many tabs all right enjoy now her little brother Alex just wanted to be tall so one day he could play basketball bad move and he console himself with Joan food now Alec thought Eric was strong and cool and it came for some poaching every day after school thought he'd try it hold it hold it and it kept it quiet and then one day Karen spotted Derrick and went out of her door instantly she was [Music] [Music] [Music] and I'm the one who liked to sing whenever I network with things using things is what I like to do I work with things of different size with different uses work with things is what I love to do and I feel that there's nothing greater than to work with facts and data information is the stuff I use investigators gather Clues and commentators give the news data is the kind of work I choose so come along with me and see which of me you'd like to be people things we're all different sides of you know who we all fit together to make up [Music] okay what we said keep it all in your head there's no better when you zip code every day [Music] fruit and vegetables and I'm like meat with food groups of every day I'm in the dairy group as you see you gotta eat some of my friends and me buttermilk and yogurt too cream and cheesy the yellow or blue with blue food good you gotta have something like that every day [Music] from here taking it from the top Pride shines there on the line look and you'll find the promise team skill together we will always fulfill the vomit bro Let It Grow go by Road s fields and valleys valleys overflow will grow move in ahead working to spread the promise new day the feeling runs deep working to keep the promise goodbye bubbles headed toward the goals bring it on him so we can take control come back give it back Jennifer you make me very angry you're playing bury me I want to throw the ball with you it makes me want to scream I feel like pushing and hurting the people that I see I wish I knew how to make them as angry as they make me what do you do what do you do on the outside what do you do with anger You Can't Hide what do you do [Music] Lip Smacker candy bar is so much fun when your tummy goes young with a Lip Smacker candy bar let your lips let your lips yes good things [Music] thank you [Music] you catching the devil today run for your life [Music] you got a Future No More Pain until [Music] you can't live much looser when you run cry away [Music] all right so um what I'm asking for you viewers to do is to vote uh send your vote to skip at avgeeks.com for the toe tapping tournament 2023 and I asked this because I know a lot of you have voted but there's more people watching now than who have voted and I respect your choices and would love to hear from you and I should say that anyone who votes gets invited to a secret AV Geeks after dark show that will not be broadcast on YouTube or twitch or Twitter it will be a secret thing that we'll do in May uh mid to late May so if you want to see some of the things that I've been wanting to show you but uh I don't think that I'll be allowed to show them on YouTube then um email Skip avgeeks.com now why are we doing this because we are competing with the found footage festival and we want to beat them basically they covet this clown Thanksgiving painting that was found at a thrift store they offered up this painting of the club and they lost so then they again wanted this and we said well if we win then you get to dress as Thanksgiving as clown pilgrims and you serve us Thanksgiving uh dinner and they lost and they're going to do that this summer so it's important for you guys to vote because you guys have picked some great songs and um I think that we can beat them again now what are we going to bet them for this time who knows who knows maybe hard cash but uh yes uh so anyways uh speaking of Music we have been uh some of you love this some of you hate this we've been watching part of the Unicorn tales series um based in the 70s in New York uh and they're weird because they are stories about stories and they kind of have something to do with the stories but not really uh it's very strange and there's a lot of singing and dancing so here is Magic pony ride enjoy [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right fairy tales a marvelous wonderful stories that was supposed to have happened a long time ago here's a story called The Ugly Duckling as the story went there was an unhappy little duck who was lonely and Afraid and felt it didn't fit in anywhere as it turned out it grew up to be a beautiful swan do you think fairy tales still happen today well they do here on unicorn Tales Once Upon a Time in the here and the now in the Kingdom of unicorn City in a place called People's Park [Music] there was a spot where ponies and children played together [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] but there was one girl named Jennifer who only watched everybody said you can't ride I bet I could what was that a horror slap [Music] [Applause] thank you [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Jennifer Jennifer didn't hear my question are you busy doing horses again look look what she Drew [Music] do they down actually this time Jennifer's drawing is not of a horse it's a unicorn a fairy tale animal but that's not where our attention is today and Jennifer it's not good to let your mind wander so in class now let's get back to work [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh I told Mommy I'd make sure you get home in one piece [Music] why did you try putting one foot in front of the other it's called Walking I should tell you something around your fingers tie your shoelace [Applause] [Applause] you're so bad [Applause] [Music] Jennifer we are going to the pony ring I'm watching that's right you should learn how to walk from Earth well you're not going anywhere alone so come on you're so dumb glasses don't ask me I need them they don't even have glasses oh Jeff you just go over there and wait we got the man [Music] hey you need a ticket [Applause] we're gonna watch oh okay you're so bad you ain't worth the food you eat [Applause] other ponies walking around the ring why can't you the kids can't ride you you walk in the fence no one can ride you have to tie you up to keep you out of trouble well I've had enough this afternoon the truck's coming from the Smith Farm and you'll be on it excuse me why are you yelling at that pony why you want to get yelled at too no thank you I was just wondering what he did wrong he does everything wrong are you going for a ride or what what ah forget it [Music] why don't you do what he tells you if you went around the circle like the other ponies he treats you a lot better what because it makes me dizzy I think he did ponies don't talk they do to me I'm the Balloon Man what's your favorite color yellow blue no red hey Nick how'd you do it very well I thought hey that's not bad now watch my trick take a card any cards what cards I don't see any cards oh my gosh I forgot I hate them I then let's see you eat a deck of cards Jennifer this is corny corny this is Jennifer how did you know my name foreign [Music] [Applause] just like you a long long time ago and I'll know a girl just like you a long long time from now you must be very young or very young or very tired I was taking a snooze over here on the bench and I heard you too what's the problem he won't go around the circle why should I she can't even ride always just sits on the fence and watches I was just trying to help you if you want to go get taken away to the farm go ahead I don't care you know they don't care that you can't ride you two are so much alike you should be getting along I'm not like him oh no you both think that nobody likes you you both think that there's nothing about you that is special but there is nothing special about me I'm not really good at anything you might be super special except for four things my feet they always seem to get in the way somehow I'm always falling down and the other kids laugh at me things are never the way I want them to be never well yeah sometimes when I'm Dreaming my dreams all the children want to ride me in my dreams my report card is darling I'm an Arabian stallion [Music] in my dreams I'm a dancer turning round gracefully in my dreams I can answer any question put to me can you see that I'm beautiful inside ride around in my dreams I'm a dragon shooting flames in the air in my dreams I imagine I'm the hero of the fair can't you see that I beautiful inside can't you see the fear I tried to hide in real life I am never the things I want to be I'm not strange I'm just clumsy but there's no one who can see that in my dreams I'm a lion King of the beasts and there's no there's no in the jungle my keep peace of a flower and I talk to the birds [Music] singing songs that have no words [Music] in my dreams [Music] proud as me see that we're beautiful inside [Applause] to see I fear we try to hide [Music] I am [Music] beautiful that I am [Music] really glad that we like each other now Jennifer but but could you let go I can't breathe oh I'm sorry Courtney well it's all right if I had arms I'd do the same thing it's not easy to believe you're beautiful but if you're beautiful in your dreams and you're beautiful for real oh I just got my glasses all wet well at least you know when you lick of all the dreams you've ever had which is your favorite my favorite dream is that I'm writing the biggest most beautiful horse in the world and the playground put together my favorite is that I belong to the president's daughter and she rides me back and forth in a straight line and not in the circle I get the picture you want to ride and you want someone to ride you well this is as good a place as any for dreams to come true so Jennifer take corny for a ride no why not you want to don't you you dream about it I can sure you can who said you can everybody I'll show them they're wrong I'm too clumsy only because you think you are fall often everyone anyway I can't ride with these so take them off but I need them if they improve your vision glasses they're wonderful but yours are just frames there are no lenses in your glasses they don't help you to see they help you not to see yeah like your blinders help you not to see do you think so I know so if you want to do more if you want to be more you've got to see more and feel more and try more turn around the corner this way [Music] open up [Music] I pray and don't be it's [Music] a turn around [Music] turn around tomorrow [Music] find yourself in every game you play turn around I come on down the street [Music] s come plays the game a different ways [Music] thank you [Music] it's all possible if only you would try [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] hahaha [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] it is [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] Jennifer take Corning for a while gee I wish I could [Applause] go ahead make a wish and blow them out I wish I wish I could ride come on oh come on Jennifer you can do it come on oh try try you're getting it try it one more time hey little girl get away from that pony he's dangerous dangerous huh I'm a dragon shooting flames in there that's who I am you're not you're just a bunny pony who gets dizzy when he runs around the ring and I love you for it you're very special and I love you Jennifer I I think you're the prettiest girl I ever met I thank you did you the best talking pony in the whole world I feel like a thoroughbred of course you do you're a regular unicorn what's a unicorn oh I know a unicorn is a magical animal that looks like a horse a beautiful wood but right here he has a shining horn that tells the world forever I am what I am that's how I feel but a unicorn is Only Make Believe hey little girl I told you to stay away from my pony ah what's the difference any minute down the truck will be here to take him away play time's over for you Courtney you gotta find out what it's like to work no [Music] you can run around just like the others better than the others I know you can I don't think so Jenny you can I know it in my heart can't you see it corny but who would ride me would you ride me Jenny honey I love you I help you if I could but but [Applause] I just couldn't do it before there is a unicorn Jennifer it's all the wonderful things inside you it's Jennifer You Must Believe In You there's no one in this whole world like you now take corny on the ride of your life [Music] you can oh [Music] I can't do it keep trying where are you going [Applause] all right Corny let's stop [Music] I never thought it would be like this I never knew such happiness I feel lighter than a butterfly good I thought only Birds could fly but I've just found out so can I hey get off that pony he doesn't belong to you [Music] [Applause] [Music] yes Jennifer Friday [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] still shot there at the end that was very very strange so um any toe tappers in there there was definitely a big musical thing in there with lots of dancing and singing that I liked but again magnificent major is so good and I think it's the the grand polony or great polony like he pushes it way over the top but that's just me anyways I think I've only got two more unicorn Tails I have not found them yet but um then that's it I think I think that's the entire series I need to to kind of check against some things but again the guy at the beginning in the denim jacket uh brutally murdered in the late 80s so and there's a horrible um mini series documentary about it uh because he was one of the people that kind of trained Chippendale dancers and helped make Chippendales a national phenomenon yes um let's see I got some great votes keep voting for um the toe tapping tournament email me at skip avgeeks.com there are some songs that are just literally neck and neck um and you'll have until Tuesday the end of Tuesday to um vote and we'll announce the Final Four and those potentially will be the songs that we take against the found footage Festival um and then we'll do we'll narrow it down ourselves and um pick the number one because we haven't done that in the past we actually just narrowed it down to four but let's let's just go all the way um weird stuff let's see for some reason in April 600 000 people have watched uh this film on rabies that I have uh on YouTube and it was made in the 50s and YouTube is is suggesting it to people so people are clicking on it and then they're saying like why did I watch this why did I click on this but it's crazy uh the number of uh uh watches for that it's just this is this happened last year with the film uh story of lead which was a 30 minute film about how LED his mind um uh so watch it on YouTube helps us though because we actually get ad revenue from from that another way you can help is just hitting the like button or the thumbs up button or tell other 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