Boo boo, and we're streaming and I'll just start recording the show after I make sure the stream is working. It looks like it's working Man, yeah Bikes are about to get expensive by bikes. Yep. I actually I'm gonna get the rear the The rear entire wheel on my bike replaced. How could it explode?  It's done I've I've replaced nine spokes When in the last what is wrong eight years? So about a spoke a year. I lose on the rear wheel I know I've never had a spoke of any bike ever also both bike shops said the same thing about what I've never had a front tire Do it I've never had a mountain bike do it This bike is doing it and basically the guy actually I asked the guy literally asked me at the bike shop Are you a mountain biker? And I was like yeah, and he was like when you start going how do you start and I kind of demonstrate it and basically I Accelerate really hard whenever I'm at a stop or whenever I want to go faster And I basically stand up and slam down like I push hard and crank really hard Anytime I want to get going again or go faster and it puts a lot of stress on the rear spokes And it's not something that normal bikers do it's something mountain bikers do but mountain bike spokes are Thicker and stronger So he basically said I gotta get a heavier rear wheel or I got to stop doing that So I'm gonna have your rear wheel. All right, we already got some people watch. Let's do this go away people Come back next Thursday Here's a stream exclusive where we might try on next Thursday You're allowed to come next Thursday until then go a very special episode of Geek Nights where we will interact with an audience in a Fashion it might fail miserably stay tuned. We're trying. We're trying something new which we have not tried in a long time on Geek Nights Yeah It'd be a better thing to do like once a month on like a Saturday. Well, if it's successful we could just do it forever Well, I was thinking more about there's a lot of ways to make it There's a lot of things we can do. Anyway, I'm not gonna spoil all that for the listener I love that show It's Wednesday, September 19th, 2018 I'm brim. I'm Scott and this is Geek Nights tonight We review the fantastic night is short walk on girl So I've been actually training myself to do faster half marathons like I I've realized that I can't run short distances as fast as I used to because 35 and 25 and That kind of training is kind of hard on me and like my 5k times are never gonna get better but old people Consistently run very good marathons and half marathons and all those like like 10k and up length races So I've actually been training to do long runs for the last summer as opposed to what I used to do up to that point And it's starting to pay off So I can now reliably do a half marathon under two hours Even if it's hot out, even if I'm tired, even if I don't bring food like I'm always under two hours So now I'm shooting for an hour 50 and but more importantly I found a pretty good route because They fixed a couple of there's a couple of spot like all the ways I can run 15 or 14 or whatever miles Basically either required me to do a bunch of like fiddly navigation around like traffic lights Or I have to go way out of my way from a bike path like if I run north on the east side The bike path or the running path is broken in a couple of places for construction And if I run around into Queens I got to deal with traffic and like if I go another way I got to ride the subway home because I'm not gonna run five miles home after I run 15 miles But I found a route that goes a loop into Manhattan and back up through Brooklyn into Queens That's almost exactly a half marathon if I make one tweak to it Why don't you just run to a park and then run in a circle and then run home because that sucks I want I like to cover new and novel ground.  You want to just you want to just bike to Central Park and go around it all day and nothing else Are you enjoying the biking or you're enjoying the seeing stuff both if you're enjoying the seeing stuff You could just ride a car now. It's both. It's it's it's the traversing distances with different scenery over time Get a get a Google Maps VR biking hookup where you just bike in place And then you see new stuff on the in your VR. No, that's Not nearly as fun Because you're just on rollers. You're not really biking put a fan in front. You don't even know now You're still just on rollers. I mean, yes If biking in New York or in the world constituted a perfectly flat level Unchanging just know they have they have one the trainers that like get harder that match up with the video And they get harder and easier as the video has hills or downhills in it That's still not that's still just not like it's not a terrain. It's just flat. It's still perfectly flat There's no bumps. I guess I guess it can't bump you I would like it to bump me. You want to get bumped actually what I'm really going to try now is that? Mountain biking course up in spring now that I figured out where it is. So it may be there's one in Queens. Yeah That's not good. I looked into it. The good one near New York is near the Springbrook Highway and like up in the Bronx And that's the place to go.  That is Significant it turns your $500 bike into a $600 bike or your $1,000 bike into a $1,200 bike That is a lot of money. Yeah Unless you're buying a $100 bike then it becomes a $120 bike, which is not a big deal Yep. Yeah, I did the other thing would be if you're like I'm gonna buy some parts that I'm gonna need in the near future sooner Rather than later. Mm-hmm. The other the problem is even buying them now I think the price increases are gonna come well ahead of the tariffs actually affecting the supply line I'm saying by like today. Yeah this week.  I don't know I Imagine if I found a right wing bike person they either have one of those Cheating things that lets it look like you're on a real bike, but it's actually an electric motor Or they just stole the bike So anyway, we got a ton of geek bites because we've been watching a bunch of stuff and We've not been watching the same stuff But I think almost nothing we're watching overlaps except tona gala's middle management Whatever and walk on girl the night is I think I think I'm done watching tona gala I watched two more episodes and I like it But I feel like I got to watch Akagi Before I could truly appreciate it and also as much as I like it It's not as good as a lot of the other things I'm watching So what do you what do you have to say about honey bottle? Oh, so because we talked about this in a judge anime Right, so when we judged anime there was a badminton show and I feel like what we said was like Oh, it's a sports anime It'll probably be just like all the other sports anime is like yoha pedal and haiku, but only badminton this time so I watched one episode of the badminton show and The badminton show is Not good Like what's bad about it? Okay curious So the first of all it is doesn't have any of the comedy or excitement that other sports anime have it is super serious Which could be good. I was like they're super serious like touch sure But it's it's has a little bit of the things that Yuri on ice has Which is at the very start it shows two people and one of them loses to the other person at badminton And then for some reason they're both at the same school One of them is in the badminton club the one who lost and is all angry at the world and and you know It means all the other badminton club people so the club is gonna fall apart and the other person who would the person Who won and scored all the points and destroyed the angry person isn't even playing badminton They're playing tennis and they're like a genius It is like on it, you know, but they they don't even want to right it's like well to be fair tennis is way more fun than badminton They're the the reluctant, you know prodigy person They're all shy and don't want to say anything and don't even want to play badminton like it's almost like Shinji, right?  Oh The only good news only there was only one scene of perversion so far and then It's like we've introduced here this person's gonna help the bet you bet badminton And it's not no unless you it's not good. All right, I will refrain from watching it I want to show that's like your pet home with crazy characters. You know, we're like, I mean But nope, there's no character in here. What's funny is I already forget what we said about this show So I don't actually know if we pretty sure I thought it was gonna be in just like all the other sports And I may only badminton, but no, it's worse than all the other sports anime only badminton Yep, so I watched the first episode of the dragon prince, which is actually really really good So it's on Netflix. What's it about? It's a high fantasy drama the the vague gist of it It's so it's like slayers. So it's really a kind of but serial like 100% serious like game of thrones It's written by this or at least partially written by the same head writer as avatar the last airbender Which you also haven't seen and which is also fantastic like if I had to rate it on our old anime scale avatar is an A anime Minus at worst like it's up there with the a shows that we talk about this is Basically avatar to not set in that world like nothing to do with avatar Except that it has a lot of the lot of similar tropes similar writing similar characters But it's a high fantasy world where basically Elves and humans like all these different kinds of elves and humans and dragons all live in this fantasy world dwarfs No dwarfs bucket.  You never fight again The humans use the dark sides king of dragons.  Yeah And now war is about to begin And the show is it's a kid show like avatar But but avatar super good, and this is also super good It's I wanted to see the evil magic be all like evil and oh it is like bloodbath Avatar is a bloodbath.  No, no, no like I like like, you know violence like you know Like berserk where it's like We'll see how close it goes to that because it's not like well like the Netflix Castlevania anime Well, there is more of that coming which I'm really looking forward to yeah The only problem with it like the character designs are great the voice acting is fantastic The story is pretty good so far the writing is good the only complaint and Emily pointed this out because I couldn't articulate that well is a lot of people were saying The frame rate is bad on the animation. Remember like walk wouldn't it be 30 FPS being it's not that is a show Is 30 FPS? It's that the characters look kind of jittery Like when they move like stuttery it almost looks like is it animated on like the fours or the sixes Who knows it almost looks like if you took a 24 frame a second cinematic and just put it on a modern television But only the characters not like the backgrounds or anything else It's not that it's just the way they rendered it and the it's the way that what Emily said because she knows way More about this than we do is what it appears to be happening is they wanted it to look hand-drawn instead of CG because it's CG and it looks pretty kind of like walk food It looked great when it was still but it looked a little weird when it moved so in this case She said that the characters don't at ease they never ease and I didn't I now I realized what that means You know when someone like strikes a pose and then they settle like a little bit like after they struck the pose that's easing and This show does not have that animation characters struck a pose and then they're static Hmm, but it stops being distracting after one episode and the show's so good that I'm just gonna watch it anyway Mm-hmm. I really like it. Okay, so did you watch anything else? So I watched an episode of Yellow guy. Yeah assassination classroom, which is an anime. I'd heard of many times I don't know how old it is. It has a lot more episodes than I thought I've never watched it and all I know about it All I know is that it's the yellow guy. It's the yellow guy, and it's one of those Anime premise there are rules shows. It's in the genre of there are rules Are you ready for the premise? All right This is not spoilers because it's all in episode one, which is the only episode I've seen you ready Here's the premise of a sash nascent classroom Everyone on earth looked up at the moon and holy shit like the moon exploded It's now permanently a crescent moon because a giant hole was blown in it It exploded because everyone looked up at it at the same time. No, you couldn't notice the moon not explode It was a giant explosion. The way you phrase that everyone looked up and the moon exploded So the moon exploded and everyone looked up. Anyway, the moon exploded, right? The government found out this explosion on the moon that destroyed it was caused by yellow guy. All right, right? Yellow guy Is ridiculously powerful. You don't really know his origins. He can travel at mach 20. So like qbay or what's his name from? The show where all the kids die. He's yellow. He has tentacles. He can change color. Who knows what other powers he has He's from the earth. He says he's not an alien And rokerano sure that guy. Yeah, he speaks english Even though his mouth doesn't move when he speaks english But he has a mouth It just smiles all the time and he basically has threatened the earth that he will destroy the earth After I think a year or some amount of time. I think something like a year. Yeah and The only way that he will not do to the earth what he did to the moon is if someone someone kills him Yes, he has to be killed. Okay. He has demanded that he be allowed to teach This class of students How to kill him Uh, and so he's teaching this class of students, which is like and it's that's like the delinquent class like class e All right. All right. So chroma already and they're in this school That is like, you know an abandoned school. So no one else is there really So these students it's perfectly normal, but low-grade students Have to go to this class in this school that's in the woods And he's their teacher and the yellow guy is their teacher.  All right by the government And the government has provided them with all manner of deadly weapons That are deadly only to yellow guy and not to them.  He's moving around in mach 20 dodging everything And then they're like, you know, oh, we don't believe that you know Someone questions whether the bullets even actually work So the yellow guy shoots his own arm with one and his arm explodes Right, and he's like, no, they totally work. You guys just couldn't hit me. I was going mach 20 He goes he flies at mach 20 to get mabo tofu for lunch from china Yeah, I would do that if I could do that. I'm just saying So it has this comedic aspect, but also this scenario aspect And the thing is on the one hand, it's like I could watch all of this right and like, you know I guess you would learn the characters of the different students and other things and I I assumed there's this sort of conflict between He's a good teacher What's his deal?  Uh, but I feel like this is the kind of show where I just want to go right to the end and skip all the middle part And I just want to know the deal is just read a spoiler. I will Okay That's what I'm going to do because I don't want to much 47 episodes I mean or whatever it is That's how I dealt with my Desire to know what happens in the tack on titan while having zero interest in watching any more attack on titan Yeah, I feel like it could be fun But I feel like it's just it's like it's just a little bit too shallow and transparent to actually be worth my time No, so I should just go right to the end and be done with it I feel like go to watch this but but watching it's not bad I feel like I would watch this if I didn't have so many other great shows to watch right now Yeah, it's like I feel like it's just below the line of something It's like you could watch it and he'd be cool with that But it's just below the line where I need to watch it. I can just you know go see what the answer is So I also do they kill him? Do they not kill him?  So I know I think I mentioned this a couple times But because it's wednesday I can sort of formally do it adventure times down, of course The ending it is now done. We can know instead of us saying oh, it's ending soon It is over like there will never be another Official television episode of adventure time on cartoon network You cannot know more about the canon of this cartoon than me Because I have seen there's gonna be literally every second of it There's gonna be a movie that does not impact the canon in any way and there are comic books which I own many of They're fantastic the comic books. Yes kind of like the pony comic books. Those are just like a plus comics Yep, but I own all those too I'll all all the adventure done comics I own a lot of them my gig bite of adventure time now that I know the fullness of it Is that it is one of the greatest cartoons ever made? I think it will definitely that was already true But it'll stay in the test of time And it ended Literally perfectly that ending is so Utterly perfect is my man choose goose in the final episode the voice actor of choose goose. I'm pretty sure is in the dragon prince Okay, there's a character Who comes I learned it because I told him this earlier. I learned today Today I learned this that the voice actor of choose goose the best character the best character in adventure time Is also the voice actor of a zillion other things including candlejack From freak is what you know, I'm gonna need more rope. If you don't know what candlejack is I'm gonna need more rope If you don't know what freak is what it is almost is that it was weirdly ahead of its time Yeah, you could put that out today and people would think it was made today If it was an hd do yourself a favor if you're not caught up on adventure time, don't just go watch the end because it Literally sort of needs you to have seen Every single episode of the show all the all the episodes that matter. There are some episodes that are purely I would say you need to have seen every episode of the show for it to really even the masaki was a weird food chain episode Yes, actually Specifically. Yes. Uh-huh. I ain't even shitting you bro It is even or even like that early episode where Where what's his name was the voice for the heart guy? Oh, rickardio. Yeah, uh, I think you would need to see that because it does set up some things about why bubblegum Does what she does It's You'll see even the episode with the horse on the ball All I'm gonna say is that remember that the lich said that he is the last scholar of golf The show ends perfectly and I cry every time I watch the ending ends with gallblum Uh, there's a gallblum gallblum is involved related to glob possibly possibly it's very Secret of spacey like though like it kind of frames everything nicely. That's my favorite part Yeah, give me that prismo boy, but it frames everything nicely and wraps things up appropriately for both the literal reality of the show And all of the themes that have occurred in the show over its run. Give me that prismo in that cosmic owl There's a the last time you see prismo Is an excellent moment. I would say that every character the last frame that they're on screen is a masterpiece by itself So, yeah, uh, the other thing that I'm watching right now is uh bojack season five It's continuing to be excellent. It's still some of the best like Animation for adults this out there and season five Is already better than a lot of the previous seasons and it hasn't even gotten to quote-unquote the good part yet And of course duck tails, which I also watch all of and is fantastic and you should watch it And I'm actually really looking forward to season two which apparently starts in March No, it was renewed in march this year And the second season will premiere in god late 2018. I gotta wait a while who got time for this There's only 23 episodes I found that once once I watched one I just had to watch them all because the show just every episode is better than the previous episode And the episode where it makes a crossover with the gummy bears is pretty good But not quite as good as the episode that crosses over Kind of with my little pony. Here's the news Care Bears is coming back Oh god, it looks pretty cute. Yeah, I'm not watching it. I'm uh I'm I'm conflicted on that because when I was All I'm saying is I'm not telling you to watch the new care Bears because I don't even know when it's coming out Or I don't care But do look there's like one promotional image floating around look at that image to see what the care Bears look like They look pretty good Well, there's we're in this weird golden age of like bringing this stuff back Yeah, because no one's got any new ideas Not people have plenty of new ideas bojaks new Hmm. I guess unless you saw californication So there is some actual news that isn't just us talking about shows we've watched recently Space Jam 2 is coming with Lebron. Oh, baby. I'm weirdly excited for this. Let's go theater I look forward to the slam and I I want to come to the jam See the thing is much I suspect that the original movie does not hold up at all But I have why not I just I get this feeling it's not gonna hold up. Oh, you don't think so I don't we should watch it. We've never reviewed it on geek nights See, I think the thing with space jam is that it was it was merely Okay to good to begin with but I think it is still holds up as okay to good. I don't think it is decreased I could see that. Um, I remember being okay to good thing is is that it loses its novelty See space jams coming back. They need to bring back the Quad City DJs aka 95 south With the Miami booty for the theme song Other right if they get someone else and right otherwise It's no goats like streets of rage is coming back the remaking that if they don't have music by the same person who made the music I forget his name Uh for this we saw him at magfest. Yeah, we did Who made the music for streets of rage one and two and three? Then what there's no point and even no matter how good the game is It's like no the music is what made it happen Right It'd be like if you made a Miyazaki movie and you didn't have some joe hisaishi music It's like just get out of my face with that I feel like if you made moru tena and didn't put that j like she's our music in it It's like initial d without eurobeat. It's worthless. Yeah, so literally worthless initial d if this space jam movie has Some Miami booty. We're good to go that we know exactly I'm I'm weirdly excited about this. I don't want to do what could the plot possibly be Come again, and they're like ha ha michael jordan. So we can beat you now. It's like no we made a lebron That is literally the plot I would have pitched Like that exactly with a cameo and everything that is the exact plot I would put in The only other problem is that I think that kids these days did not grow up with looney tunes as much as we did I'm sure they still know those characters, but not as much as we do I think what you should do is make it with other characters Perhaps cartoon network characters. I was you know what actually would work or anime characters If you could somehow pull together the thing it roger rabbit style Characters from a different bunch of different things because there were those new like mickey mouse characters. Well, that's really good Here's the problem though is that original space jam worked because the looney tunes characters are clearly not athletic Right other than bugs bunny who has natural skill at everything right like what's elder fun gonna do exactly, right?   Don't need no lebron lord. Oh can probably beat lebron Lebron's gonna be on the bench if you got naruto on your team It's just gonna be a bunch of fortnite's and that's it like fortnite's and lebron I don't know if fortnite's is stronger or weaker than lebron gumball could work because those characters are not athletic The point is right lebron can't out basketball captain america I feel like this could be used instead Here's a counterpoint to catapult and bring back a big looney tunes era Go for it because looney tunes could work in the modern era those new mickey mouse cartoons like all that stuff We're really good. I think we need to you know Thing is if I was writing it right the way I write this shit is I'd be like, yo Breaking, you know, we all still don't need the lebron if I let code he just bombs the other teams and himself All right, I think that's 25 minutes of news Oh the chat is bumping Are we going to pump up and slam? Yep Okay But anyway things of the day So I have a thing of the day that's really good and interesting but depressing So I figured I'd save it. So instead this is just a dog feeding carrots to three rabbits and a pig I don't it is literally that this is not a Mustang hits bike bicyclist Did you see that it was a gif going around where there's three dogs and they try to give a treat to the dog in the middle And he pushes the treat to the dog on the left And then another treat comes in and he pushes the treat to the dog in the right and helps his friend Does because he's a good dog.  Oh the one where the pet got it wrong No, they do it where they they have three cups, right? They put the treat under one of the cups They play the shell game the pet takes the the shell with the or the cup or the bowl with the treat in it It's one treat and then the owner opens up another bowl that was previously He'd just been I think I saw there's a white dog that looks like what and there was a ton of treats in that one And then right and that's that's a funny a lot of these they always There's this one song that was used in rick and morty and they cut to that song Usually when they make these memes like imagine if I play the shell game with ram But instead, you know, you don't start with all the shells open you only open the one shell And then you reveal the one it didn't pick is like I put like a dollar under it I shuffle them all around and then the other one had a gold bar. No, the other one's got like an unreleased advance wars Source code to advance So what do you got for me? So I don't know if I feel like I've done this this thing of the day before but For almost 20 years. We have loved the radis code The fact that I we never got a canonical Published conclusion. I think wasn't in the book that we didn't get couldn't get yeah, but we didn't we didn't get to see It animated. I mean I have a speculation So the creator of radiskull is the guy named joe sparks who has an elvis presley style haircut and still does Uh, and joe sparks after finishing radiskull and going to get jobs at places And I guess those jobs Prevented him from making more radiskull in some way. Well, there's a there's a whole complicated story There's a situation why he couldn't make more radiskull. Anyway, the point is is that uh, He disappeared to go work as an adult for years and years and years and only recently Maybe less than two years ago returned to youtube and has been producing content of various sorts In fact, he has a note on this video you link to uh, quote I am searching for those millions of radiskull and devil devil doll fans from 2001 That is us if you know one, please let them know about my youtube channel I'm here. Yeah, we Joe we got you back. We're we're like the og fans of radiskull. We are Uh, but anyway, the point is is I think I've Talked about his return to youtube before it may have been a previous thing. He's still only got like a thousand subscribers Yeah, this may have been a previous thing of the day You know his channel or some video on his channel But he just put out a new video on his channel and in this video What's going on is he was at one time an employee at leapfrog who I believe made Children's fake computers. Oh, yeah, that sounds right And I believe he was some sort of game developer software maker there making games for children's tiny computers For maybe at some portion of his life Uh in between making radiskull and now and while he was there that company had a talent show And he was in the talent show performing radiskull songs live It seems like he just told the entire story of all episodes of radiskull Uh and this is a video that was of that performance at that talent show that was rescued And he put it on youtube and is well worth watching because I have never seen a live performance of radiskull before and also Wow, he just makes the radiskull and double doll voices. Yeah that he can do that way more naturally They required no audio production. Uh, he is just a good voice actor I feel like the pro movie for netflix to pick up and reboot radiskull and devil doll also He changes kill to kiss because I think he's talking to children. He's performing in front of many children Yeah, well, I think it was I think it was bring your kid to work day Well, because one day at a company where they make children's toys toys. Yep. Well, also there's a uh So adventure time has a lot of moments where finn or jaker someone will say the words. I'll kill you And in the uk at least I don't think this is change. They won't let that be in a kid's shows. They usually remove it Kind of like how you can't spit on anyone That's why they cut out all the scenes in adventure time where someone spits on someone Well, it's why in the ninja turtles live action movie, which is excellent and still holds up The foot clan is like teenagers and bad people Yeah And in the teenager turtles cartoon that ran on tv for many years All of the foot soldiers are robots that explode the same as they are on the teenager ninja's arcade machine Yep, etc.  They're just robots. Yes. It's killing. They're just robots So they're shooting them. They're not they're clearly not robots And he's like they're not robots. Oh my god, and then rick is just like Uh, yeah, but I mean they're like robots. I just I don't respect them Before we start the show, I just want to say It's hot today Oh, it is I even watched the fake hockey preseason. No, it was a pretty good game because it went into ot I'm sure he was but no, it's and the ot was pretty good fake It doesn't matter Give me that real hot But very briefly in the meta moment if you are here because you saw us at packs If you go to our website, there is video of the panel We gave not from packs west, but when we did it at packs east because guess what we did the same panel twice And the entire list is available in that youtube video Also, the booklet book is still Homer's odyssey apparently because god has updated the website 2001 space odyssey We're just going to do all odysseys. We should call it the odyssey club And you may know that Over a year ago. I started a civilization 5 multiplayer game with the patreon patrons of geek nights Like people who are in the patreon at the chance to join this game.   I'm sorry. I'm sorry, craig oliver Rule one of multiplayer sieve Building the great library sends a message to everyone around you and that message is I have built this instead of building an army That's right. I built this for you Please please accept my gift of one great library Do you have spearmen and catapults? Well, there is a party here and you're all invited All right So we've actually talked about a bunch of masaki uasa movies in recent memory because masaki us is really productive So much output. Yeah, and really good. And if I had to describe masaki uasa In terms of like the kinds of works I expect Off the wall kind of weird little spacey like that's kind of the way where I'd put it And knight is short walk on girl does not disappoint So, yeah, so hold on trying to bring something up Which is an interesting thing that I learned only at the end of this movie When after the credits masaki uasa comes out to speak. Oh, yeah. Yeah. All right. So this is what I learned Right. So there is a person whose name is tomehiko morimi and tomehiko morimi Uh is an author All right, and they are the author of Uh eccentric family eccentric family to tome galaxy knight is short walk on girl something called penguin highway. That's probably amazing Adventures of a saintly slacker, which sounds amazing and 2016 something called night train, which sounds amazing Basically everything that they've written sounds amazing and the things the old I've my only experience of their work their novels are the anime adaptations, right? So eccentric family was not animated by masaki uasa, but to tome galaxy and Uh knight is short walk on girl were both written by the same author the original novels and animated by the same people And there seems to be a trend at least these things are linked in subtle ways in the anime adaptations Right. So ram see after seeing though that thing after the credits I said, well, I feel like I'm not gonna be able to do a show on this This knight is short walk on girl unless I've seen at least some to tome galaxy So at home I've seen now two episodes of tome galaxy and I do plan to watch it all Into tome galaxy within the first minute. I see that tango chin guy Literally that character is just right there at the start right the main two characters of knight is short walk on girl Are crook slightly so but are also the main two characters of to time a galaxy the Minor character in knight is short walk on girl the demon in the in the the book The used book god Yes, a crooked a little bit more than slightly Version of that character is a very main character of the tome galaxy Uh, the art style is basically identical. The mood is very similar. The plot is Not so similar.  Just you know, you think oh That was all these same characters the same thing. No, it's not the same thing at all They're two separate works. They're originally two separate novels, right? Is just that because the same animation team was adapting two works from the same author that are have some similarities They, you know, kept some character designs and some moods and some things But from two episodes, I can already tell that the tome galaxy is fantastic But we're not renew it. We're really to time a galaxy. I'm just letting you know that uh, I feel like It's hard to fully review one of these things without knowing about the other because there's so much Right togetherness going on here, but at the same time I cannot stress enough walk on short walk the knight is short walk on girl Is 100 watchable in a vacuum Yes, either one of these things stands alone if you were to watch them independently, but to fully grok either one I think you need to experience both So I would actually recommend uh, just go see this movie It does. I don't think it matters which one you see first No, I mean just you like stop listening to gignas right now and just go see that would be a great use of your time Because this movie is One of the better anime movies I've seen in a long time. I went into it knowing literally nothing about it Except who directed it. Yeah, I think it's even better than The other you also when we saw what the I think so the vampire dog But that might be because the vamp was the vampire one dog lew over the wall Yeah, lew over the wall I think it's better than lew over the wall Maybe that's just because lew over the wall is more of a children's movie Yep, so and I'm an adult if this is not a children's movie it begins with people getting blasted Yep, uh, and it it's hard to describe what this movie is about Without either really spoiling it or getting really really Sort of philosophical because it is very philosophical the plot is Expansive in scope and covers Probably 500 percent more ground than you expect it to right. Well, basically the way to summarize it best is that this is girl and It's one night in her life that we're experiencing. Yep. She's on the cusp of becoming an adult or friends getting married The night begins at this wedding that she's attending Uh And she goes on after the wedding other people, you know, she goes out to drink and starts partying And the the night becomes this big adventure, right? But in that like time-dilated way that nights like that when you're young feel like they last a lifetime, right? So in this night, there are four seasons, right? And I think he said the book was divided into four seasons Uh, and they sort of compressed the four seasons into one night in the movie I haven't read the book. Obviously it's Japanese. I don't think it's translated And I think it might be be getting translated though I think I did read something somewhere that they're working on publishing these novels in english Yeah, I would read them. Uh, but the four seasons right it sort of starts in I think it's it's starting. Yeah, it starts in spring because it ends in winter, right? So that's you know that that wedding part and that the parties soon after that are the spring Then there's the summer part and think you everything gets hot, right?  It's clearly right the hot times Then there's then this fall and there starts to be stuff happening at the school and people are getting cold But I guess and then at the end it's winter and everyone's sick Right, uh, and that's sort of the flow of this this one epic long adventurous night that goes through these four seasons Uh, and it's crazy stuff And if I really had to try to explain what it's about on a high level like it's It's that feeling when you're young and you haven't really decided what you want to do yet in your life and you're sort of you're just entering the adult world and you're starting to do the things that adults do and Everything feels very important very minor things feel like they're the most important things in the world And it follows someone through like Experiencing a night like that like those nights we used to have when we were young like at our it wanting around at night fighting with sticks and whatever Yep, but it also very surreal But it simultaneously has this long-running theme about how the exact same night Is very different even for the people who had the exact same experience Based on their state of mind and how they feel about the situation Like multiple people have the same experience and they all see it completely differently because of the state of their own heart and mind And you see this illustrated in so many different ways it'd be hard to catalog them like The clocks literally are moving faster for the old people than for the young people Yep things like that like the school festival, which I can only describe as kill la kill Like that festival like bunker where they're running it It evokes how it felt To be running the rit anime club back when I was in college Compared to now as an adult the reality of what running the rit anime club was really like right it's a bit Not you know the main character is the the girl right who has we keep saying the girl like she has no name It's just the girl. It's literally the girl. There's the girl the guy there The characters the other characters some of them have names right so she's just walking on She's just going from moment to moment the world sort of passing her by and she's interacting with things for the hell of it These other characters though all have threads right and it's like everyone's thread gets resolved at some point Usually tied up with some other character and she's sort of almost a catalyst like as she's passing through the world All everyone else's stories keep merging with hers and then splitting off again and then merging with each other Yeah, it's like this there's a character who's like in the beginning right and like the very opening scene The the guy who doesn't change his underwear And then he katsu and then he goes away You don't see him for a while and then later on he comes back and he's real important Yeah, right The only other character besides girl who is sort of there the whole time is guy Who is sort of in love with her from afar and keeps chasing her and keeps getting caught in the wake of her adventures But not really catching up to her and it you know coincidentally he feels a little bit like a scojo Person like in terms of the way scojo doesn't mean anything to anyone who's listening a friend of ours I guess a lot of the characters in this Evoke not the details of the lives of our own friends But the feeling about those people when they were similarly young and having these experiences Like being young and running the anime club and being young and pining after a girl that you know Like it's it's all those feelings and encapsulates what it felt like to be 19 and full of Fim and vinegar and gin right also There is a lot of alcohol flowing This entire hemming way and the girl's superpowers that she can drink an infinite amount of alcohol There's a very important drinking contest and she just keeps going. Yep There's a lot of eating and a lot of food. There's a scene where all the hot nabe that is the hot nabe Which is literally like a lava nabe You know this and you know at the same time that you've got sort of this You know serious philosophical thing and these character threads. It is wacky and cougar bananas Right in terms of like that, you know in a misaki yuasa way and it just keeps going It just keeps moving like it never pauses the only like the misaki yuasa episodes of uh adventure time Adventure time or what was the space dandy? Yeah, it's it's wacky like those very often they're like There's so we could if we did a final thoughts episode where we talked about the details of this movie it could go on for hours But what the other thing it does that reminds me there's an there's a movie a live action movie called punch drunk love That actually does the same thing at least for a portion of its run It never pauses like it never gives you a break It never like pauses to reset or like to establish it just keeps going and going and going and going as fast as possible Covering so much more ground than you possibly expect And then it ends the pace of this is really really fast and at at the start of the movie it accelerated so fast I felt like I wasn't really cat I felt like I was missing something right, but no I wasn't missing anything It's just it was going fast and only giving me the minimum of what I needed to know And then later on you know things filled in things came around a second time a third time And I realized no I didn't miss anything. They're just you they're just pushed it to the limit in terms of Information they can give you right so that you can catch it all and comprehend everything But they can cram it all into the time they have in this movie before it's over I think my favorite moments without spoiling are like number one is actually early on when All the different drinking parties sort of converge with each other Well, I mean just when he they learn the dance from the young people and then and then the old people Fucking sofas they go they end up at the sofas club where these kids are doing this weird They seem to be in a cult and they do the sofas dance Then they go to some old people and they do the dance and the old people are like Oh, it's the sofas dance. We used to be in the sofas club. We started the sofas. It's exactly that situation that really happens Like when scott and I and a bunch of us ran into the current generation of like the rit anime club And they're like, yeah, we run the rit anime club. We're like son Let's talk about the rit anime club.  Hi everybody now. We're old It's this movie is phenomenal and I I am hesitant to use that word about movies Usually, but I would call this movie utterly phenomenal It is a must-see anime movie Like if you haven't yet watched other shows that we've said are good that you should watch or other movies that you should watch Just watch this one first before you watch anything else I want to watch. I would watch it again right now if I wasn't so hungry I know Let's stop there. I think that's good


What are you looking at, tenants? Nothing. Just an old spoke to. Anyway, would you want to please say something about waiting at Quistin's feet again? We literally did that ten minutes ago. Oh, speaking of that. Fuck, I'm hungry. Oh my fucksack! Ha! Classic. Anyways, I needed to keep hold of something for me. Who give me? Only if you promise not to eat it. Is it food? No, but to you, anything is edible. Not true! Ah, fine. Look, it's a mini TARDIS. I need to keep hold of it because I don't want any of the doctors to find it. Because, you know, we don't want them escaping. How can people escape with that?  Oh no, it actually works.  What? Where did you go? I went to an alternate dimension with Marvel's comic book heroes like Captain America. And that even man exist.  Oh my god, really?  I went back to comic on the last year and nicked it from behind the stand. Oh, that's disappointing.  Just keep hold of this, will ya? Yes! You won't eat it. No! And you won't travel through time and space with it. No! Good, now I've got to go try and brainwash Chris Chibnall to do what I want. And write what I want, you know. I'll see you later, Billy. Bye-bye!  Oh. You're not here. Watch for an energy. The fucker's time traveled. But why would he? Oh no, this ain't good. He's gonna change history.  Well, Mr. Dicks, I'm coming after ya to stop ya from destroying time. This better work. It's good my mummy told me what's correct to pass any second now. And the gunman will be there too. I'm afraid you ain't got much for choice, chups. Okay, it's my time to fix this. That'll be him. Terrence, I'm coming. Stranger of equal mass. Which is your name? I'm leaving. He's leaving.  My saviour. No, you don't.  Did you bring a pack lunch? I'm starving.  You can't change time. I did it. Deal with it.  He's gone. You created a paradox. And since I'm here, it's gonna use Russell T. Davis' logic or the Moffat logic. What does that mean? The Reapers are coming. What do we... You need to fix the paradox and kill your father. I'm sorry, Terrence, but without your father's death the entirety of the time and space will be destroyed. No, I won't go through with the tech we studied. Fine, I will buy you a McDonald's every day for the rest of my life. Okey-dokey. Right, where does he live then? Just over there, actually. Really?  Do the love, ladies, scriptwriting. Do the sea scenes. I'm not sure about this, Chris. We have to. If we don't do it soon, the Reapers will consume the world. Okay, just let me do it. Here's the knife. No, it had to be first, didn't it? Have you had that the whole time? Yes. Why?  Oh, okay. Well, go on, Terrence. I'm right behind you. Okay. I played the 11th Doctor. You may be wondering, what's this prick doing in the way, getting in the way of the action?  But I'm here to warn you of something very dangerous in the next scene. It only includes Terrence Dix and his father. So all you'll hear is those voices. You have been warned. I need answers. I can't give you answers. Why not? It's complicated.  I have. I have to go.   Okay, fine. My name is Terrence Dix, and you were meant to die in that anyway. And I saved your life, creating a paradox of bringing these three destinies. But why did you do that?   What?  Yes. Then why did you save me? What would that change? I just... Look, whatever. Just want to find the best thing. Are you really my son? Yes! Really. We don't even look alike. Anyways, gonna go save the world later, we perv- I'm sorry about what happened, Terrence. But, you should have known what was gonna happen. They didn't watch all the furthest day. What? Why? Well, the stupidness of saving her dead really put me off it. I'm not even gonna explain the irony of that sentence. Oh, by the way, is it time? Time for what? You know what? Yeah.


I was going to say I'm old enough to remember that I was a mirror lad at the time, but the first energy crisis late 70s, early 80s, and there was a lot of interest in heating greenhouses with non-conventional methods, so they tested a number of different animals relative to the BTUs they gave off. Guess which animal won? Not chicken. That's why I'm interested. Rabbits. Rabbits. And there actually were greenhouses that had rabbits in them to help defray the heating cost. Well, K is growing chickens, not rabbits, but I think this will be equally intriguing. So K and F, it's all yours. Well, thank you very much. My talk is, of course, as you can see by the slide, diversified high-tenile rotations using chickens in the rotation for insect control, soil fertility management, and additional heating, or how to foul up a high-tenile operation. When we applied for the grant, the objectives at our farm are fertilization, weed and pest control, heat management, and to extend the growing season. The problems that we were facing, we are mainly an herb and produce farm. I grow plants, and the plants are what we sell, and then we also sell the fresh-cut herbs, and the high cost of propane was killing us in the high tunnels. Managing soil quality and fertility in a chemical-free system. We are chemical-free. We are coming off of old wheat ground, which means the nitrogen has been sucked completely out of our soil. We have high acid, we're soil in the world, so naturally we chose to farm. Controlling insects in a chemical-free system. The solution, as I saw it, that would require the least amount of work for me personally, is a six-plot rotational system with rotations of the herbs and the vegetables, adding the chickens and fallow into the plots with a various combination of coverings on the high tunnels, the low tunnels, and to run the fallow plots uncovered or naked. Chickens also were introduced into the plot system both for the benefits of heating, fertility, and insect control. First of all, of course, you have to erect the high tunnel. We did have two high tunnels and a seedling house that we were already using, but for the purpose of the grant, we wanted four tunnels and two plots for the rotation. How many of you have your own high tunnels? So you know the joys of putting up high tunnels. I'm from Kansas, so there is nothing that blocks the wind from Oklahoma to Nebraska, and so about the midpoint is where we live, where it's really kicking up steam sweeping across Oklahoma. So the high tunnel erection was very important. As you can see with this particular high tunnel, the year I got the grant was the year of the incredible drought and high heat. So naturally, again, we're going to a high tunnel production system. We had a plot of tomatoes that were already planted, had not produced one single tomato. So we decided that's a great place for the high tunnel. We'll just put it over the tomatoes and see what we can do. So where the arrow is, that was the low tunnel with the tomatoes covered. Safety first. The best thing that I can tell you for an operation of any kind is if you have sons, many, many, many sons of all ages and then they bring their friends with them. So Jacob, my youngest, is up the tree trying to cut back enough so that the elms, which shed terribly, don't overhang the greenhouse. Many of you probably had a greenhouse collapse. Again, this is the existing tomatoes. You can see the tomato plants that look like they ought to be doing something but just absolutely did nothing that year. So we went ahead, put the high tunnel right over that non-producing tomato bed and we picked our first tomatoes on December 15th that year. They were planted in April. I may point out that the tomatoes were not particularly good, but that was not the point. The point was I had something round and red to put on a sandwich. Again, putting up the high tunnel, the joy of pulling plastic. Again, waiting for a day that is not windy in Kansas is brutal. Probably here in Missouri too, but in Kansas it is very tough. So we had all the boys on speed dial and we said, when it's not windy, we're going to call you. It was not windy 10 minutes before sunset. They came smoking in. There's gravel everywhere. They go sliding through. We laid the plastic out. And this time, you all are familiar with how to tie the rope on the plastic. My middle son came up with putting a plastic bottle top from like a two-liter bottle of Coke in and wrapped the rope around that, held up a treat. I mean, it went right over. Nothing pulled out. It literally took 10 minutes to get that tunnel covered. You can see the dark picture. That is after the wiggle wire was on and we were literally in the complete dark, but it was up and I was thrilled. I think I had a grant report to write like 10 minutes before we got it up. So these are the completed tunnels. This particular one, number one has three foot sidewalls with roll-up sides. This is the largest tunnel. This is where the chickens spend the most time because it's the largest area for them. And also the height of this particular tunnel makes it, it's cooler in the summer and it's warmer in the winter because of its height. Number two has seven foot sidewalls. They're Lexan sides. They are double wall Lexan and that's the one that we put the brooder bench in for the baby chicks. Number three is a Quonset style. It has no sidewalls. It's just the Quonset, but the sides are able to be rolled up. Number four has three foot sidewalls like the other one, but we've set it up to where it can be covered with anything, either wire or mesh or tarp or plastic or screen or nothing. Again, our main focus is production of vegetable and herb transplants. Then we do potted herbs and tomato plants for sales at farmers' market and planting and growing of produce for market. This is the first step. We ordered the chicks. I had had a car accident several years ago, so we had been without chickens for about four years. It was killing me. I'd buy the eggs in the store and you know how you got your good hard shell at home. First egg I broke all over the kitchen. I hit that against the thing and it just exploded. I said we were going to have chicks and we're going to have chicks quick. So we ordered the chicks and in the transplant house, we have the large benches. What we did was we made frames that went all around the base of the benches and this is where we set up the brooder.  Yeah, that doesn't last very long, but that first pin feather boy, they're out in the greenhouse and they're under the brooder. So we've got the plant tables with the screen all the way around it and doors so that we can get in and feed them and then they have two lights, two of the heat lamp lights are suspended underneath. So the plants on top keep the chicks warm. The chicks heat does the plant and right away, I noticed that we had good root growth. My tomato plants particularly, they were just way ahead of anything that I'd ever grown before. It's a web bench top, but yes, the first thing I thought, oh, let's put plastic there so that when we water the tomatoes, we're not watering the chickens. So yes, it's solid, but it's because a solid bench just doesn't work very well. This one's just covered with recycled greenhouse plastic is what I do when I change a greenhouse. I just save that. This is the plants over top of the brooder. Again, we just get such beautiful growth because they've got that bottom heat rising and it's work to treat.  You can see there's hanging baskets across this plant bench. When we brace the greenhouse, my husband made V shapes and we've got the hanging basket poles across. So what I do with those is if there's a night where there's a super freeze warning and I'm a little bit worried about the chicks, anything maybe under 38 to 32 kind of concerns me a little bit, especially if they're very tiny, then I use those plant racks and just tarp it. So we've got an extra insulation of tarp that hangs down to the floor so it gives the chicks, you know, it completely covers that screen. So they get that added insulation. And this you can actually pull the tarp with one hand. Sometimes it takes me going one side and the other side, but it's very quick and easy to just move that tarp to the side so I don't take it on and off.  The lack of wind, of course, in the high tunnels gives the plants that extra edge. So I've got just beautiful, good-looking plants by the time our market opens. The market that we go to the most starts the first Saturday of April, runs clear through the end Saturday of October. So this gives me a good edge. I'm a real stickler for not selling people plants before it's too early to plant them. So the most things that I sell in April usually are perennial plants. And then I try to push them back till May because I don't think it's serious when people are planting basil and tomato too early, but that's my other soapbox. Now what do we do? We've got the chicks done and the reeder, they've finished off. So we're going to take them outside because once we get past that stage, I usually do spring chickens. So spring chicks. So now we don't want them in a high tunnel because it's going to get too hot pretty quick. So we do outdoor runs. Again, I mentioned the first year of our research grant. It was the highest temps. I wish I had temperature information for you that first summer, but I melted three thermometers in the greenhouses. So that's how hot it was. The considerations are, again, I mentioned to you that I do not like to work personally. I don't mind watching other people do it. But we needed a method of moving the chickens from the brooder into the next high tunnel run. Something easy to do, fighting the instinct to home of the flock because those of you that grow chickens, you know, once they've slept two nights someplace, they think that's where they live and they will never deviate from that. So I needed to fight that homing instinct and something else for the safety of the chickens, i.e., the city coons that the naturalists say, oh, yeah, trap that coon, take it out to the country. Yeah, I don't want your city coons. Coyotes, neighbor's dogs, whatever else. Owls, rats, possums. So, oh, they're bad on everything. So we created a mobile chicken house. We did the quick and easy frame. We didn't have to make it too big because they're not going to be staying in the house. This is just where they're going to go to sleep at night. Then we put it on an old boat base. We had a boat trailer that we found. We put a heavy welded steel panel that's got the short grid. So the chickens aren't getting through it and nothing really, a mouse probably could, but not a rat, could get through the base of it. The ideal thing about this is the manure just falls right through it. There is no cleaning out of this chicken house. It's completely self-cleaning. That's the part I like best. Okay, so then when we move it, it will pull with just the small garden tractor. We don't even have to get the tractor out. This is the soil I'm fighting, if you would notice. That's how it looks. That's really the color and texture of our soil. So this is why we're wanting to get some more fertility into it. So the first outdoor we run, we put between the grain bins and the Lexan high tunnel. We left the chicks out there. They had it cleaned up completely in about three weeks. We had several. I think we probably had 80 because we ordered and by that time we had 80. So they ran through that pretty easily. They scratched it. We did not leave them out there too long, but immediately the soil was just good and we got them in, out of that area, tilled it in and were able to plant potatoes. In our excitement of actually growing something, I did not get a picture of the potatoes. So I gave you a picture of me cutting the potatoes. But it was very fast and we were able to plant on March 17th, which I had an aunt who never planted potatoes any time at March 17th. The next location when they went from that run, they went into the high tunnel without covering. And this was another place. You can see the green in the background. That is how that looked when they moved in there. It was completely unused soil. It had not been tilled if it had been, we've been there 30 years. So it has not been used in all of our 30 years and probably maybe 30 years before that. No, it's a wire covered, sorry. Yeah, you can see it better down at the bottom, but it is wire covered and then it's got chicken wire over the top of it. And then this is the other side view of the mobile chicken house and this is the egg layer box on the side that flips up together the eggs. They were in there a whole long time and I think in the next picture you'll see where they stayed a little bit longer. It didn't seem that the soil was vastly improved although we did get some squash to come up in it. I think probably it needed another season beyond to lay fallow. We did a low till after this, but like I said with it open it just didn't seem like that maybe it was still too hot and the manure was still too hot for it. These are 20 by 24, 20 by 24 wide and 6 foot high. We'll run through this pretty fast because I'm probably running out. Then we moved them to the tunnel with the roll-up sides and it is 16 foot tall, 15 and a half in the middle. So this is a taller tunnel. This is where the tomato plants were that you saw earlier and they cleaned it up. We left them in there three months and then took them out and I think we planted the third month after that. So they had a little bit of time to live in there and scratch in there and completely, completely till up that soil. So Dave got in there with the tiller. This greenhouse when we get a doorway at the end it will actually let our little tractor in so we won't have to till by hand. But again, the no shoveling, but this soil broke down, the manure in this house broke down much faster than it seemed to in the uncovered tunnel. There's just no other way to explain to you the beauty of this soil versus what you saw on the outside. It's right next to it and literally there's a line where the chickens were to where the outside is that it isn't. You want to really lay down and roll in it. So what I chose to do is have my husband plant so I could take pictures. What we did then is after we planted, since we are potted plant producers, I used the potted plants as row covers, weed barrier really. If they had those laying on the ground it increased incredibly my greenhouse space or high tunnel space so that the plants could be in there and they finished off much faster and the lettuce grew beautifully. And you can see in just another two or three weeks the amount of growth. This is soil that wouldn't hardly grow anything and I was like dancing around. We actually had Swiss chard and lettuce for the first day of market. We have never had that before in our lives. Just a quick marketing tip, listen to what people are talking about, your stand if you go to farmers market. I was selling Swiss chard right over left, hand over hand and it wasn't my, what I call my older crowd usually bought the Swiss chard. Nobody young knew how to do with it but I was having younger customers, younger customers. I thought what are they doing with it? And I heard the term green smoothies and I thought well that sounds interesting. So I went online, checked out green smoothies, went to work, made green smoothies for my office. I said here try this. And we posted the QR code which takes them directly to my internet site and had a whole thing of green smoothie recipes and I doubled my sales by the next week because the crowd that was buying it just had their phones out there and snatched that. Strawberry was one of the open row. We used the spun row cover in Kansas. Again, you can see the success rate. It's hard to keep nail down. It's hard to keep on in our wins but it did do its job and kept the birds and the chickens out long enough for the strawberries to kind of mature without a peck in every single one of them. Bracing is so important. If you're in a heavy snow country you will ultimately lose a high tunnel. The little collapsed tunnel here. How many of you were in for Dr. Gu's presentation that was just in here? This was something that was at Great Plain Growers one time and it was from the East Coast they had this wonderful idea that you could make quick and easy high tunnels with PVC pipe. And I said that'll never work in Kansas. Oh yes, it's very structurally sound. So we made this PVC pipe tunnel and you can see it just first snow it just absolutely folded. So we propped it up inside with a ladder and then the next week it blew over and broke the four by four posts that we had sitting in it. So I would not recommend a PVC pipe. This is the Quonset House and you can see with just having the chickens in it the snow melts right off. I mean just there's just enough residual heat that it doesn't stick. This kind of blurry picture that is taking without opening the door because it was I think 20 something less degrees than that so I didn't want to open the door if I didn't have to. But that is through the ice on the outside of the door. It was just a sheet of ice on the outside of the door but the inside was beautiful. Never got below 38 no matter what the outside. Never got below 38 with the chickens. Never got below 38. How cold would it get outside? Less than 20 that year. This is I'm on my this is the start of my second year on this. A lot of our customers ask what happens to the chickens. Everybody's concerned about the lifespan of a chicken.  So we're thrilled when our bullets reach egg laying stage. We try to explain to people the lifespan of a chicken that they have so long. Any fryers that they buy in the store are probably eight to ten weeks old that they cannot fathom that at all. So we try to try to explain to them give them a little little bite. The unexpected joy for me this year is once we had turned the chickens out one of them found her way. Remember that homing instinct found their way back to the greenhouse that they had been in before had a clash of eggs that we didn't find and we got 13 baby chicks out of out of this high tunnel. I have one rooster. I got it free with this last thing. It was an exotic bird. The chicks came and there was this one without any feathers on its neck and it was God awful ugly and I thought oh that must be the exotic bird until I saw a fellow walk by wearing a hat and I thought oh no that's probably the exotic. So they sent me pictures yesterday that I didn't get on the thing. All of the babies have a little mohawk. So I'm anxious to see we have five different hen hen varieties. So I'm anxious to see these five different hens wearing a hat. No it was just deformed. It's also my best egg layer. Equal rights. You know you're going to keep your hands because they're producing something. I tell my roosters right off the bat they have the same opportunity. If they choose to lay an egg or set a nest they're golden. They can stay. If not we have other ways of dealing with them. I say serve or be served. A lot of people think that's unnecessarily cruel to the animals but I remind you that the tomatoes and the okra suffer the same fate. Okay the positives of this experience beyond having my sons and husbands help tremendously with the project it did add fertility to the soil almost immediately. We noticed an up in nitrogen. We use a lot of wood chips as pathways and by the time the chickens scratched all that out and did their business that gave also a huge amount of organic addition to the soil without us actually doing a lot of the shoveling and taking care of that you would expect. The extra warmth in the high tunnel was amazing.  So I've been more than happy with the additional heat. Significant drop in pest population. I haven't had a really good way to monitor that other than visually but the last two years with the heat we've had terrible grasshopper plagues and while they aren't out and about all the time they have I think they've scared them at least and our production particularly of vegetables was up by more than 50% in the first year. How long did your chickens stay in the brooder? The brooder I wait until they're about pull at size probably four to eight weeks. Underneath the bench? Underneath the bench. Do you have to eat the brooder? Just two heat lamps, it's all I've used. I don't put them in there until they've got all their pin feathers. Once they've got pin feathers I figure they're good to go and it's just two heat lamps under each bench.


No, so we are in the hot seat. Oh my god Are you doing first and foremost man? I'm doing wonderful. I think I'm thinking that now people come on to the hot seat They kind of a little nervous about what I'm gonna say, but this is strictly professional, brother Professional professional so Eric you've had a amazing story To get here to be our leader our fearless leader. We love you Harris man having faith Can you tell us a little bit about for the audience at home? That doesn't know tell us a little bit about your journey of your football career journey Appreciate it man.  I didn't get any looks pretty much long story short short. I worked at potato chip factory Went back to school to finish on my degree got a part-time job at UPS working night shift became a manager there Springtime came around. I got an opportunity to go up to Buffalo, New York TigerCast paid $80 They called me two days later off me a contract signed it minimum. No agent. No nothing I don't think I looked at the language in it. I just signed it So anyways graduated. I didn't walk I want to go home spend a week with my family went up to training camp made a team Played there for three years. I got my first NFL stint with the New Orleans Saints Yeah, don't say that too loud around here in 2016 like toward my ACL after three games came back got released With the Raiders for four years and now I'm here. Dang Dang, I just want I mean I really highlight we have a lot of fun on here But I just highlight the fact that like ultimately we're people and you know One of the things that I think about when it comes to being a quote-unquote successful Individual because a lot of people look at you and think you're successful. I don't I think that you're you know You're you're struggling, right? Like when I look at you I'm like damn like I kind of hope I don't end up like this guy But for most people they would think you're successful, right? And I think it's really important to highlight the mindset that you have in all seriousness like the mindset to grind and keep pushing and Make it work and I know that from there you've developed a phrase or mantra having faith Can you talk to us about where that came from? Yeah? I mean whenever I get an opportunity like you said to talk to people and just share my Testimony in my my journey. I feel like life is all about perspective and you know We all believe in something we all have faith in something for me My faith was in Christ that you know, no matter what the circumstances were the adversity I faced that he was gonna bring me through the storm and I just had faith throughout the whole process Whatever it may have been and I just had that so that's my brand that I'm coming out with now there we go love it love it love it and You know, I want to wrap up. I want to definitely be mindful of your time here Can you talk about the influence that a guy like me has had on your career? Because I know that you might get too shy to say it on camera But you were talking to me, you know in the locker room by how you always looked up to me and the things that the example That led by because you share that with the people and make sure we zoom in on them for this one Because I really want to get that tear if you could cry a little bit on it, too That would actually be perfect. Yeah, man, so It really started at time you wear that t-shirt. I think that t-shirt that you have what's that t-shirt This is my sack. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, you you walked in the locker room one day And I was like man I need to start a brand of what I represent and then I think you might have asked me for some money to represent your Brand and then you know, it kind of I don't is it too much too much information for the kids It's for the kids. No for real the serious note, man This guy's incredible. I mean he has a story like a lot of like mine Undrafted bounce around team to team all he does is a leader considered a starter Puzzle piece and a glue guy for the locker room. So a lot of respect to you I'm sure you can we came in sign the same day together and we had a good conversation man So nothing but respect for you. Love it, man. Well, I appreciate you for being in the hot seat I won't take up no more of your time. I owe you 20 Thank you


or need to create a new identity for ourselves. Perhaps because our identity is being taken away from us against our will, or because an unfortunate event, or it's just time to rediscover our true selves.  In my case, this has happened twice in my life.  I was the homemaker, the organizer, the emotional cheerleader, and the breadwinner. I was totally and utterly committed. I loved being married, and was looking forward to being a mother. Then one night, my husband, my partner, were 14 years, calmly and quietly at night, that he didn't love me anymore, and he was leaving.  My past was apparently worthless. My future, as I thought I knew, was gone. What I thought I knew, I didn't. It was brutal. First time, my whole identity was challenged, and I had to figure out who I was and why that I wasn't alive. I drew myself into sports. Like, by getting into sports, I mean I really took a deep dive. I chose to swim, bike, and run some 20 hours a week. I became an Ironman triathlete. My favorite event involved swimming 2.4 miles, biking 112 miles, and running a marathon back to back. A few years ago, I was on a good roll. I was being coached by one of the best triathlon coaches in the world. I had my first race of the season coming up in just a week, and I was chatting every day with my crush who lived in another state. I had a spring in myself. I was fit, and I was strong. On a Friday afternoon, I was doing my last hard bike session before this race. Hill rips on a local mountain road. Up hard, cruise down, up down, up down. Rolling home on the last dime. The last thing I remember was seeing this car turn right in front of me, and I remember thinking, I'm going to hit that car? It was so close, I was powerless. I don't remember the impact of crashing into the side of the car. I don't remember flying over the roof of the car and crashing into the tarmac, for which I'm really grateful to my brain. In the ER, they tended to wounds on my face, my shoulder, my left leg. They had CAT scans and X-rays, and no one would mention my right leg, which hurt like crazy. And I was completely strapped on so I couldn't see my own body. After about two hours, a surgeon came and broke the bad news that I had broken my right leg and my knee was pretty badly busted open. In a few hours, my world turned upside down. My crush texted them, excited to go this way to Europe the next day and wanted to chat. I apparently replied, I'm having kind of a bad day here, could we chat later? Everyone who's experienced this kind of sudden change had their entire identity threatened and survived, as most people do, will have done so in their own unique way. I'd like to share with you some things I've learned from these two times where my identity was threatened and how I redesigned my identity, reclaimed my face in the world. So others may see through their own view of your identity. When I was reinventing myself as an athlete in the aftermath of my broken marriage, many friends and family thought I just lost my mind. I joined a little triathlon club and my peers there advised that even if I could build up the physical strength to do a half-Hireman, which was my original goal, that that also required so much mental strength that I just wouldn't be fit for it, not in my state. Which was understandable given that I often turned up to swim practice and tears and it's really hard to swim when you're sobbing. So it was difficult for others to see me this grieving woman seemingly weak as someone fit to tackle grueling endurance races. And I'm mistaken. My grief fueled me. It enabled me to go deep and find where I could find joy and what I was prepared to suffer for. I find energy to cross some threshold of what I was physically and mentally capable of and pushing myself in the sport made me feel just totally alive. After the accident, mostly with strangers, I noticed that when you have a visual indicator that you're injured, people seem differently. You look like a victim, an invalid, someone in need of sympathy or judgment. You have to explain your situation to curious strangers. At an airport once, the man who was pushing my wheelchair asked if I had a job before I became disabled. The only ones who continued to treat me as an equal, even though I maybe didn't feel like it were my fellow athletes. And they shared their joys and pains with training and racing and we just asked how I was progressing with my rehab.  Instead, I had a physical therapist friend teach me how to do the standing up on my crutches. And then I started timing myself, of course.  And I told her about my latest effort on the stairs and laughed at what fuller opposites we were. And she said, no, we're not. It's basically the same. Deep down, my fellow athletes seemed to know and just accept that we were both challenging ourselves as best we could. Yes, it takes a community. I didn't do sport in my earlier life. I was a kid, we had doctors know together. I was sport through most of high school. And even when I started training, I didn't set out to become an athlete. I just fell in love with the process. Even once I've done several full distance Ironman races, I didn't feel like a real athlete. I find reassurance and acceptance of that identity through a sense of community, in particular with friendships with professional athletes. And sometimes they were the ones that really encouraged me and respected my efforts and welcomed me into this new world. I was once introduced to a group of professional athletes with heaviest-like approach, just slower. Once over, I spent a month training in France with a group of friends who were all professional athletes. On this one day, we were all going to do the same long bike ride. I set out a few hours early, I'd be slower. And this ride took me up and over to the French Alps. And it was, it re-end all day. I was cold and miserable.  Like, just kept turning the pedals. I go back to the apartment some PRs, theater, to find my friends, sitting around a log fire. And one of them said, oh, God, we turned back after an hour. The weather's so bad. I apparently just muttered bastards on the back row. Changed into my running shoes and went straight back outside in the rain, did my run, finished the days, training hours for the plan.  It was a huge boost having these people that I went up to not just accept me into their world, but to hear them say that maybe they could learn something from me, giving that sense of belonging, that sharing that common identity really helped. Not just shape, but let me enjoy that new identity as an athlete. But yeah, you don't need to be tough to get through your tough situation. We're not comfortable with other people's discomfort or even our own. We cross the road from the widow, unsure what to say, in the face of her grief. We don't like difficult experiences and we don't like pain or suffering. So our tendency is to resist those experiences, to push them away or pretend they're not happening. After my crash, a lot of people would say to me, oh, it could have been so much worse. And I even found myself consoling others who weren't sure what to say to me with, oh, it's okay, it could have been so much worse. And I knew when it's difficult for those around to handle as well. So I try and assure them that I love that I can have positive plans for my recovery, but sometimes I'm just really feeling this struggle right now. Facing injury or pain doesn't require a binary response. I can have room in my head for the good and the bad. I'm an independent person, especially so the last few years. After that crash, my injuries meant that I couldn't even see if I'd get in and out of the shower by myself for the first few weeks.  So I simply had to ask for help and be honest with myself and with my friends and what I did. I find there are three stages to getting better at this. Step one is removing all the fine from your answers. Step two is answering honestly when people ask, is there anything I can do to help? And step three is just asking for that help unprompted. And even though it's uncomfortable, I find it's really helpful to be able to acknowledge the pain of others, to be able to be vulnerable, and just say, yes, I would love your help. Also just to respond to yourself with curiosity, like during a marathon, you'd speak to yourself differently at different stages. Maybe at the start you have a lot of nervous energy and you didn't physiastically push yourself. You're ready, go get it. To the middle where you're really starting to struggle and you speak externally to yourself to stay on track, stay strong, don't walk. To the final stretch where you're exhausted and you're maybe gently coach yourself, you're nearly there, keep going. This is exactly the way I try to respond to myself just with empathy and curiosity. To respond to yourself with an energy that matches the current state. While I've been in rehab, I've struggled with the difference between what I used to be able to do and what I could do now. When I was given the go-ahead to walk after being on crutches for months, I find that I didn't know how. When your leg hasn't borne weight for several months, the muscles waste away, the tendons and the nerve enzymes and your foot, say, hasn't had contact with the ground. Your whole leg forgets how to go through the motion of walking and it sounds ridiculous that even your arms haven't been glued to the handles of crutches. Forget that they're meant to take part in this process as well. So here I am, this badass endurance athlete having a physical therapist teach me how one goes through the motions of walking. I had to learn to try and respond to myself with compassion and curiosity. And my reminder to do that has been to just say to myself, huh, that's interesting. So my leg doesn't remember how to walk. That's interesting. I ask myself, how can I respond to this? What is life expecting of me now in this moment? I've learned that it's useful to be a little pessimistic. I've heard some professional athletes write about injury as a mental challenge, a temporary setback, but what if it's not? What do you do if the setback is permanent? Permanent scars on my face and body, which is annoying, but tolerable? But what if I never gain free? What if I can never run again? What if I can't be an athlete? Early on, I closed my mind to these thoughts. When I was first told I had broken leg in the shock, I didn't really grasp the severity of the situation. I thought I maybe just have to be patient for this 12 week number that I was talking about and then I could hop back to it. I was looking up races some 14 weeks out. So, some nine months after the initial crash, when I was still in pain, still definitely unable to run, I learned that I needed surgery on my knee again, but they actually had to break my leg again to offer the best chance of a fix. So, facing a freshly broken leg and a fresh 12 weeks on crutches, I knew something of the difficulty I had. I knew the recovery doesn't follow a linear progression and that it could be demoralizing and that it would be slow. So, I started confronting those worst case scenarios that I would just simply never run again. I find that facing the worst case scenarios saps it as much of its power. It's like an antidote to the anxiety. It's also likely that when things do go wrong, which they will, they'll go less wrong than those worst case fears that you did face. I've moved between trying to push through, maybe slightly deluded by how temporary the setback is, to pondering the worst case scenario that the setback is permanent. I think the least sensible balance is to embrace the insecurity of just not knowing, but there are definitely frequent challenges to embracing that insecurity. How much should I push? How much is too much? How much should I be confident and how much should I doubt? So, the component parts of that identity, I've thought a lot about what the identity of an athlete means to me. If I break it up into component parts, racing is definitely my component. As I can't run, I can't race, but I can look at all my component parts and ask myself, can I do enough of these parts to still feel like an athlete? Can I give myself permission that being good enough is enough for another? At its core, I think being an athlete is like a commitment to pursuing what your body and mind is capable of. So I tell myself then, like, I'm still doing that. If I can still seek ways to pursue those core goals, then I can maintain the identity of an athlete and that sense of self. Like, I've been built on that, I am an endurance athlete after all. I don't know what professional athletes, when they're retiring for a reason, are often advised to reinvent themselves, to move away from thinking of themselves as an athlete, to something else, a businesswoman, a student, a parent. I'm afraid of going through that situation. Does not end, her having seen my experience has helped her realize that, actually, she doesn't need to take out advice. And yes, she has to adjust to new limits that is reinventing herself, but she doesn't have to discard that identity as an athlete, it's part of who she is. There is however a danger in over-identifying with one identity, or identity being able. In the tech world, we have an unhealthy trend to associate our identity with our work place, like this old post-keemie is a Githubber. I love my work, but I want to be defined by where I work. When I started out as a programmer, I was completely uncomfortable with the label programmer, because I trained as a fine artist, so clearly I wasn't a real programmer. For about 10 years, I avoided identifying myself as a programmer, even though I weren't code for a living. And I had just got comfortable with that label when a friend advised me, you should call yourself an engineer. Engineers get paid more than programmers, and pretty much for that moment, I was being okay calling myself an engineer. Making software is part of what I do with my life, but who I work for is not who I am. If we identify too closely with our job, what happens to that identity if the job changes? What would happen if you lost your job? Who are you then? So a moral of the story, perhaps it's healthier to have elastic identity, to be aware of all of the labels that make up this entity known as you, and what they mean to you right now. You should be prepared for the times when you might have to struggle to keep that identity, or the times you'll have to adapt it, or evolve it, or even let it go. I've learned that I'm not going to be either same athlete as I once was. I just don't know yet how that will be true. But I am committed to the process of finding out and trying to influence that outcome as best I can. The French have a wonderful phrase. They shout bon courage to cyclists climbing up mountains. The root of the word courage is core, the Latin for heart. And technically, we translate this phrase to mean good luck. But it means so much more than that. There's an empathy to it. We all suffer. Keep going, put your heart into it. You can't finish an ironing by putting your heart, body, and soul into it. And the same applies to anything difficult that we try to tackle in life. Sometimes putting your heart into it means hanging there to fight. Maybe sometimes it means to just curl up and have a good cry. I think it means being true and compassionate to whatever you need in that moment. You wouldn't identify with being an athlete, or a wife, or a mother if you felt half-hearted about it. Whatever identity is important to you throw your whole heart of intention into it. Know what it means to you to be an athlete, a wife, a husband, a mother, a father, a friend, a manager, a designer, or an engineer. Know too that you're simply human and when something happens out of your control, which it will, that the one thing you can control is how you respond. Bon courage. Thank you.


NATO to become Russia's target if it provides Ukraine with Patriot air defense systems. Last week Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev warned NATO against providing Ukraine with Patriot missile systems. If NATO were to supply the Ukrainian fanatics with Patriot systems along with NATO personnel, they would immediately become a legitimate target of our armed forces. Medvedev wrote on the Telegram messaging app on November 29. The civilized world does not need this organization. It must repent to humanity and be dissolved as a criminal entity. He wrote in an earlier post with reference to the North Atlantic Alliance. Medvedev's statement was in response to NATO Secretary General James Stoltenberg's earlier comments in which he spoke about the possibility of deploying German Patriot batteries to Ukraine to fight Russian attacks. We need both increased air defense of our NATO allies in the east, in the Baltic countries, Poland, Romania, but also we need more air defense in Ukraine. That is obvious. Stoltenberg said in an interview with CNN on Friday.