Up At The Ranch And Beyond

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L=25:45, a nice old timey domestic propaganda vid, USA. Extols the virtues of the Civil Air Patrol, and encourages safe flying behaviours in backcountry (“bush-“) flying in the 1950’s. Peak domestic soft power?

"DANGER IS MY BUSINESS: FLYING MINUTEMEN" 1958 ROLE OF CIVIL AIR PATROL PILOTS IN ALASKA

PeriscopeFilm
885K subscribers

May 6, 2026

This episode of "Danger is My Business" is entitled "Flying Minutemen" and dates to 1958-59. Here, adventurer Col. John D. Craig takes a visit to Alaska where the work on Civil Air Patrol pilots and observers is documented, circa 1960s.



The documentary follows the Alaska Civil Air Patrol as they perform high-risk rescue missions in extreme Arctic conditions. Highlights how pilots respond to crashes, missing persons, and medical emergencies across vast, inaccessible terrain. The story also shows CAP as part of a broader emergency and defense network. Ultimately, the episode portrays aviation in Alaska as a life-or-death service where courage, skill, and quick action determine survival.



00:00 The vast expanse of Alaska, where Civil Air Patrol pilots respond to emergencies across vast, roadless terrain.

0:33 - Aviation is essential in Alaska due to limited infrastructure and that many civilian pilots operate in dangerous, unpredictable conditions.

0:52 - Civil Air Patrol pilots are introduced as volunteer rescuers who locate and save downed pilots in remote wilderness areas.

1:05 - Flying in Alaska is more dangerous than in the continental USA due to turbulence, weather shifts, and mountainous terrain.

1:42 - CAP pilots voluntarily risk their lives in extreme conditions to rescue crash victims and search remote crash sites.



2:25 - The dangers of Alaskan flight are shown, including sudden downdrafts and unpredictable weather patterns.

3:06 - A CAP pilot encounters trouble during a mission.

3:32 - A cadet tracks the missing aircraft’s last known position.

3:58 - Experienced pilots are called away from civilian jobs to begin search operations.



5:18 - Search areas are divided among pilots to maximize efficiency 6:39 - Old wreckage is seen.

6:50 - The terrain is dangerous for landings 7:04 - A pilot is located alive 7:53 - Landing conditions filled with hidden hazards.

8:08 - The aircraft lands successfully 8:24 - The injured pilot is alive but unable to walk due to injury.

8:44 - Helicopter assistance is considered for extraction.

9:14 - CAP is shown working alongside the Air Force in search and rescue operations.

9:39 - A helicopter begins coordinating extraction

10:09 - A complex airlift operation begins involving coordination between helicopter and CAP aircraft.

11:09 - Pilots carefully manage aircraft positioning to avoid collision during transport.

11:29 - A cautionary example shows how careless pilots increase rescue risks for others.

12:01 - A hunter is shown ignoring safety rules while flying in pursuit of game.

12:37 - The hunter goes missing, triggering a new search mission.

14:13 - Search continues15:34 - NORAD and radar systems are introduced as part of broader air defense monitoring.

16:02 - Military jets are scrambled in response to unidentified or emergency aircraft situations.

16:29 - CAP is shown as part of the integrated North American air defense and rescue system.

16:52 - CAP is alerted to assist after a jet pilot bails out into the mountains.

17:18 - A rescue operation begins in coordination with military and medical personnel.

17:52 - A landing is attempted in a tight and hazardous location to reach a possible survivor.

18:19 - The pilot is found injured but still alive.

18:55 - First aid is administered.

19:37 - Space limitations force the doctor to remain behind during evacuation.

20:11 - A difficult takeoff is performed from a short and rough field 20:48 - The rescue mission succeeds.

21:00 - A new emergency arises involving a sick child in a remote village.

21:20 - A CAP pilot flies a doctor into the village.



22:13 - A rough field landing is prepared 22:34 - The child is diagnosed with appendicitis 23:01 - The child is transported.

23:38 - The doctor is temporarily left behind due to aircraft limitations.24:17 - CAP pilots praised for their courage and dedication in dangerous rescue missions.

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Legit cool footage of French frontline fighter planes, clipped from the film Les Chevaliers Du Ciel (Sky Fighters).

Plane-tuber CW Lemoine (now ex US airforce fighter jockey, from back near the start of his tubing), did one of his Mover Ruins Movies episodes on this (MOVER was and is his callsign/moniker). He said he couldn’t really ruin it, because it had so much great real footage.

He did go on and on abt aileron rolls though lol. 😂

Song: Thirteen Senses - Into The Fire

Sky Fighters - Into The Fire

Aerial Distancing

Apr 22, 2010

Music video from the movie scenes that feature French Air Force Mirage 2000 fighter jets.

Film: Les Chevaliers Du Ciel (Sky Fighters)
Song: Thirteen Senses - Into The Fire

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mX9L8IuiwJA

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Music

The Ten Greediest Rock Stars | Ranked

WARNING: I have not taken an oath to tell the truth in these videos. Some of these videos are informative, some contain my opinions, some are about thinking itself, but often my videos are humorous, and when they are humorous they should not be taken too seriously. But if I do make something up to get a cheap laugh, or I mess up and get something wrong, please remember that these videos are for entertainment purposes only, and I do not recommend their use in any other situations.

Mr Edwards is a British session drummer who has played with Robert Plant, IQ, ELO's Bev Bevan, and many others. He's funny. This American had to turn on CC to understand half of what he was saying.


Published 27th December 2025 (54:12)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=grSdWd17wQ8

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Music

Prince's Funnies

Prince Nelson made these while recording his first album, age 17.






Promoting the second album, he gave strict instructions to the band not to say a word to any of Clark's questions, and followed suit, more or less.

(1:11)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=1aopcbU28Oc

(6:15)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=uWc4wMyL1oI

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Music

Dies Irae



Death in Just 4 Notes





The Dies Irae is one of the most commonly quoted motifs in all of classical music. Why is it that we hear it in everything from Star Wars to Sweeney Todd? The scariest 4 notes one can play.


Published 18th April 2025 (6:10)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=CHspavtBZH4

0:00 Overview and Examples
1:34 Origins
2:06 The Poem
3:13 The Requiem
4:08 The Music
5:07 The lick of classical music

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Can A Hamster Charge My Phone?

Resourceful Kid Shows How Its Done



Charming egghead “Flamethrower” demonstrates how to charge a phone with your pet hamster.

Published 2nd May 2026 (9:34)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=rKXwT878a04

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Spiral galaxy’s brilliant heart shines bright in a new picture from NASA’s JWST





CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A spiral galaxy’s brilliant heart outshines everything within sight in a new picture from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.

The image released this week depicts the Messier 77 galaxy 45 million light-years away in the Cetus, or whale, constellation. A light year is about 6 trillion miles.

The galaxy’s active nucleus is powered by a supermassive black hole that’s 8 million times more massive than the sun. Surrounding gas is sucked into a tight orbit around the black hole, becoming so hot that it radiates in the extreme. Webb’s mid-infrared instrument captured the stunning details.

The world’s largest and most powerful space telescope has been photographing the cosmos since launching in 2021.

Published 8th May 2026 by Marcia Dunn - AP News
https://apnews.com/article/webb-spac...94b3151b121a47

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SOLAR ACTIVITY ALERT

The odds of an Earth-directed solar flare are increasing as sunspot 4436 turns toward our planet. On May 10th (1339 UTC), an M5.7-class solar flare from the active region blew a massive hole in the sun's atmosphere.



www.spaceweather.com

SOHO coronagraphs are tracking the emerging CME. It should be a near miss, passing by Earth on May 13th, according to a NASA model. Ripples from the close encounter *might* cause geomagnetic distrbances around the poles.

The next explosion might not miss. This sunspot has a history: Last week while it was on the farside of the sun it produced at least 5 CMEs. If the serial explosions continue in the days ahead, Earth will be inside the strike zone. Stay tuned.

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TESS Reveals Fullest Night-Sky Map Yet

Nearly 6,000 Exoplanet Worlds





NASA's TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) has released its most complete view of the starry sky to date, filling in gaps from previous observations. Nearly 6,000 colored dots scattered across the image show the locations of either confirmed or candidate exoplanets—worlds beyond our solar system—identified by the mission as of September 2025 at the end of TESS's second extended mission.

"Over the last eight years, TESS has become a fire hose of exoplanet science," said Rebekah Hounsell, a TESS associate project scientist at the University of Maryland Baltimore County and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. "It's helped us find planets of all different sizes, from tiny Mercury-like ones to those larger than Jupiter. Some of them are even in the habitable zone, where liquid water might be possible on the surface, an important factor in our search for life beyond Earth."




Published 13th May 2026 by Jeanette Kazmierczak, NASA – Phys.org
https://phys.org/news/2026-05-tess-r...oogle_vignette



NASA’s TESS Tunes Into an Unprecedented All-Sky “Symphony” of Pulsating Red Giant Stars

Using observations from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have identified an unprecedented collection of pulsating red giant stars all across the sky. These stars, whose rhythms arise from internal sound waves, provide the opening chords of a symphonic exploration of our galactic neighborhood.

TESS primarily hunts for worlds beyond our solar system, also known as exoplanets. But its sensitive measurements of stellar brightness make TESS ideal for studying stellar oscillations, an area of research called asteroseismology.

“Our initial result, using stellar measurements across TESS’s first two years, shows that we can determine the masses and sizes of these oscillating giants with precision that will only improve as TESS goes on,” said Marc Hon, a NASA Hubble Fellow at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu. “What’s really unparalleled here is that TESS’s broad coverage allows us to make these measurements uniformly across almost the entire sky.”

https://scitechdaily.com/nasas-tess-...d-giant-stars/

TESS Maps Red Giants Across the Sky

(0:49)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3O2P-OMnLxc

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El Niño: Coming Faster Than Expected

... and chances are rising that it will be historically strong

El Niño is emerging even faster than expected in the Pacific Ocean and odds are increasing that it could become historically strong — a rare “Super” El Niño — by fall or winter.

This is according to a just-released update from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center that says there is a 2 in 3 chance that El Niño’s peak strength will be strong or very strong.





El Niño is a natural climate cycle that happens when the tropical Pacific Ocean warms enough to trigger shifts in wind patterns throughout the atmosphere, which has a ripple effect on weather conditions worldwide.

Droughts and heat waves can flourish in some regions, fueling wildfire danger and water supply concerns, while others are swamped by flooding rainfall. El Niño’s far-reaching effects can also stymie the Atlantic hurricane season. On a larger scale, it causes already rising global temperatures from human-caused climate change to spike even higher.

El Niño is likely to strengthen through the summer and fall. The chances of it lasting through winter have also increased to 96%, a near lock that it does so.

Published 14th May 2026 by Chris Dolce - CNN
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/to...g/ar-AA23bRqd?
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/07/weath...s_iluminar_msn

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Air Force Reservists Save 11 Plane Crash Survivors at Sea

Members of the Air Force Reserve’s 920th Rescue Wing helped save 11 airplane crash survivors off the coast of Florida on May 12





The Reserve Airmen were flying an HC-130J Combat King II and an HH-60W Jolly Green II on a routine training flight when a Coast Guard call diverted their mission.

A twin-engine turboprop aircraft signaled the Coast Guard with a potential distress call that morning May 12. The Coast Guard dispatched its own plane to search and called upon the 920th from Patrick Space Force Base, Fla.

Eleven survivors from that twin-engine aircraft were huddled into a single life raft and had been rolling in 3- to 5-foot seas for nearly five hours. There were no fatalities reported from the crash.

After flying nearly 80 miles off the coast of Melbourne, Fla., the Combat King started the search using the last known position from the beacon’s signal. Once the crew spotted the life raft, they threw out a survival bundle, which has two rafts on each side, aircraft commander Maj. Elizabeth Piowaty said in a May 13 press conference on Patrick.

At the same time, the plane’s crew relayed the location to the Jolly Green, which headed to the scene.

Lt. Col. Matt Johnson, commander of the Whiskey, then hovered his helicopter about 10 feet overhead and Capt. Rory Whipple, a combat rescue officer, got to work.

“Once the basket was in the water we started working,” Whipple said. “One PJ was working the hoist, hoisting the patients up to the cabin. The other PJ was assessing people and treating any people that had possible injuries.”

The PJs conducted about nine hoists to raise the 11 survivors onto the helicopter, Whipple said. All the while, he added, the Jolly Green was fast approaching “bingo time,” when an aircraft has just enough fuel to get back to base without refueling.

They’d been told to expect six to eight survivors when they launched the mission. So, Johnson and his crew had to calculate the new weight, flight time and whether they’d need to dump fuel to get back safely, Johnson said.

Luckily, they didn’t.





“This rescue highlights the readiness, professionalism, and interoperability our Airmen train for every day,” said Col. Chadd Bloomstine, 920th Operations Group commander. “We are proud to have played a role in bringing 11 people home safely.”

Having all individuals aboard the aircraft survive a crash into the ocean was nothing short of “miraculous,” said Piowaty, commander of the HC-130J’s seven-Airman crew with the 39th Rescue Squadron.

“As a fixed-wing pilot, we train to that, but I’ve not known anyone to survive a ditching in the ocean,” she said.

Published 16th May 2026 – Air and Space Forces
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/ai...ash-survivors/

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The Night Sky May 19










All Month



Comet Tempel 2 is passing through the rich star fields of southern Aquila this month. The Sagittarius Teapot and NGC 6638 lie southwest of the region shown here, while northwestern Capricornus is at lower left.




Altair, Vega, and Deneb: The Summer Triangle

[Johnnycomelately]

For BG! 👻

Gary Moore - Whiskey in the Jar (Tribute to Phil Lynott) [HQ] [9/10]

Saracura Rubedo
24.2K subscribers

Dec 16, 2010

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-jEUq3hEjus

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Top To Bottom



Every Insanely Well Designed City Explained in 8 Minutes

Published 3rd August 2025 (8:14)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZJD-2vm0EPE

#urbandesign #cities

◘ Washington, D.C.: A monumental capital adorned with symbols of power and democracy.
◘ Tokyo: Proving a megacity can exist without chaos, thanks to its flawlessly massive public transportation network.
◘ Amsterdam: The world's bicycle capital, with its human-scale design that prioritizes cycling.
◘ Singapore: A city within a garden, thanks to its long-term planning that integrates nature into the urban fabric.
◘ Madrid: The champion of vibrant public spaces, reclaiming them from cars and dedicating them to people.
◘ Seoul: A smart city that makes life easier for its citizens by bringing technology and nature together.
◘ Moscow: Constantly renewing itself with its palace-like metro and massive urban renewal projects.
◘ Copenhagen: A city designed for people, basing every decision on the philosophy of "livability."


Every Worst Designed City Explained in 9 Minutes

Published 3rd October 2025 (9:16)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=JSa31h-v4d4

#urbanplanning #citydesign

◘ Dubai: The city with the world's tallest building but forgot to build sidewalks.
◘ Houston: The city with no zoning, 26-lane highways, and and has become a concrete wasteland.
◘ Perth: A giant parking lot with a beach, where suburban sprawl makes Phoenix jealous.
◘ Brasília: The city of the future, shaped like an airplane, that forgot to include humans.
◘ Brussels: The capital of Europe, run by 19 uncoordinated municipalities, resulting in permanent chaos.
◘ Calgary: A city of office towers connected by hamster tubes, where everyone is assumed to drive a pickup truck.
◘ Beijing: Home to the "concentric circles of traffic hell," with six ring roads all gridlocked at once.
◘ Phoenix: The desert city that uses more water than Seattle where being a pedestrian is considered an extreme sport.

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If These Moments Weren't Recorded ...



Yikes.

Published 24th February 2026 (21:12)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=u3pkGrUvv1Y

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MSM



Neil deGrasse Tyson to Govt.: ‘Bring out the alien’

Illuminati mouthpiece Neil deGrasse contributes to the 'slow leak'.

0:00 Neil deGrasse Tyson on the legitimacy of the recent release of information about UFOs
3:32 Are rotating flying saucers a real thing?
4:50 How advanced could aliens be?
7:20 Investigative journalist on public response to the UFO files release

Published 17th May 2026 (10:15)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=UMmuSDB97Eo

This image, identified as "FBI photo B2" on the Department of Defense website, shows an “infrared still image (black dot) captured of unidentified object over western United States in December of 2025,” per the Defense Department. (Credit: Department of Defense)

http://https//www.cnn.com/2026/05/08...source=youtube

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MSM (Cont'd)



UFO FILES: Scientist believes FOUR types of alien life have been found.

The 'slow leak' continues.

"'The Age of Disclosure" founder Dan Farah discusses concerns over the possibility of UFOs and aliens on 'Jesse Watters Primetime.'

Published 19th May 2028 (9:00)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=1TEIt9UNPQE

4 alien species have been pulled from crashed UFOs, ex-government researcher claims

The US has recovered four distinct species of extraterrestrial life from crashed UFOs, a former CIA-funded government researcher sensationally claimed this week.

Dr. Hal Puthoff, former Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program advisor and CIA-funded researcher, made the claim alongside “Age of Disclosure” director Dan Farrah on Steve Bartlett’s “The Diary of a CEO” podcast on Thursday.

“People who have been involved in recoveries have said there are at least four types. Four separate types,” the 89-year-old said. “Now I have not had direct access to that but I believe the people who I talked to — four separate types of life.”

The Stanford-trained quantum physicist did not detail the supposed alien species — but his longtime collaborator and former AAWSAP colleague Dr. Eric Davis claimed last year that Grays, Nordics, Insectoids, and Reptilians are the names of the biological lifeforms pulled from the wreckage of downed or crashed UFOs. 

Each alien species has two arms and legs and a humanoid appearance, Davis claimed, citing intelligence reports.





Both the Reptilians and the Nordics are human-sized, roughly 6 feet tall, Davis said at a UAP Disclosure Fund meeting in 2025 which was attended by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) and Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Mo.).

Nordics are a race of highly-human-like creatures who, despite being from a far-flung planet, closely resemble people northern Europe here on planet Earth.

Reptilians are scaley skinned lizard-like creatures with human limbs, long tails, who walk upright, experts in the field speculate.

Grays are small, massive-eyed, hairless creatures — classically depicted in films such as “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.”

Insectoids are bug-like humanoids, sometimes referred to as Mantids because they resemble a praying mantis.

Published 16th May 16 2026 by Shane Galvin – NY Post
https://nypost.com/2026/05/16/us-new...archer-claims/
https://www.aol.com/articles/4-alien...125055750.html

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The Rockefeller Files





Used as Lung Medicine for 2,000 Years - Then Rockefeller-Funded Medicine Erased It in One Decade



Published 30th April 2026 (16:13)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=oMEoa6PYcbg

In the winter of 1882, a 22-year-old woman named Margaret Sullivan was admitted to the Trudeau Sanatorium in Saranac Lake, New York. She wughing blood. Her lungs were filling with the bacterial infection that was killing one in seven Americans every year. The doctors had no antibiotics. Streptomycin would not be discovered for another 62 years.

What they had was a tea brewed from the dried leaves and yellow flowers of a tall, fuzzy plant that grew along every roadside in upstate New York. The Trudeau staff harvested it themselves. They steeped it three times a day and gave it to patients to soothe inflamed bronchial tissue and help them clear bloody mucus from their lungs.

Margaret Sullivan walked out of that sanatorium in the spring of 1884 and lived another 47 years.

The plant that helped her breathe still grows along American roadsides today. Hippocrates prescribed it 2,400 years ago. Dioscorides catalogued it in the 1st century AD. Nicholas Culpeper recommended it for every respiratory ailment in 1653. The Cherokee, Mohegan, Menominee, Penobscot, Navajo, and Coast Salish all used it. The U.S. Pharmacopoeia listed it as an official medicine.

In 1910, the Flexner Report rewrote American medical education. Schools that taught herbal medicine were closed or defunded. The Carnegie Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, whose Standard Oil holdings produced the petroleum derivatives used to synthesize the new drugs, bankrolled the survivors. The plant was removed from the Pharmacopoeia. American doctors stopped learning about it.

This is the story of mullein. The Lungwort. The Quaker's Rouge. The Aaron's Rod. The plant that helped humanity breathe for 2,400 years, growing on every roadside in the country that has forgotten its name.

The Plant That Healed Every Illness Until the Rockefellers Outlawed It



Published 26th April 2026 (17:36)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=EmEqNXaWmoY

They didn't outlaw it because it didn't work, they outlawed it because it did.  

For most of recorded human history, hemp was medicine. Not fringe medicine. Not folk superstition practiced in the margins of serious healthcare. Central, documented, institutionally recognized medicine — listed in the United States Pharmacopeia from 1851 onward, prescribed by physicians, dispensed by pharmacists, and used across every region of the country for conditions ranging from chronic pain and inflammation to neurological disorders, respiratory illness, and what 19th century medicine called nervous exhaustion.

It was effective, inexpensive, impossible to patent, and available to anyone who could grow it. Those last four qualities are what made it dangerous to the people who were building the pharmaceutical industry around the same time.

This is the story of the strongest plant on the planet, hemp, cannabis.

[Johnnycomelately]

Rush is going back on the road. After a 10 year break, they have had to work hard on their chops.

One of that power trio, Neil Peart, has passed on. Geddy and Alex (Geddy calls him Al) have found a young lady drummer who they have solid confidence in.

Highlight of the vid, but I say watch it all, is the last ten minutes of L=59:41. Alex comes on, and after a bit they talk about their new drummer.

Should be good. I always loved their songs.

The Geddy Lee Interview

Rick Beato
5.63M subscribers

May 19, 2026

In this interview, I finally get the chance to sit down with Rush frontman and legendary bassist Geddy Lee. We talk about some of my favorite songs from Rush's prolific catalog, his ever-evolving bass sound and going on tour for the first time in over a decade. Keep watching and you might catch the hilarious moment when Alex Lifeson crashes the interview.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=GLkvbCn3xbw

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Anton Petrov



Let's Talk About the New UFO Files Released by The Government

Anton begins with an historical look at famous hoaxes, and takes a polite and cynical view on the subject at hand.

Published 19th May 2026 (13:49)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=K4SiqjS28ZE