Welcome to the show. I have notes. I already messed up my intro because mentally I wanted to say hello. Welcome to the show. I have boats where we talk about where we're a bunch of creative people who talk about creative creativity, industry and notes. I am your host today, Issa. I'm back from a slight break. And with me today, I have the ever so special Jordan swears. I'm not Carrie, but also it doesn't matter, I guess. And then there's Aaron. I am also not Carrie, just so I would make it perfectly clear that I'm not Carrie either. I'm Cole, as you can see below, or for the audio listeners, I'm Cole, C-O-L-E, not K-E-R-R-Y. I'm actually really surprised, like, damn, so much has changed since I've been gone. We all used to be Carrie, and now we're not. I have Carrie. Well, Issa, you don't seem rusty at all. I'll tell you that. Thanks. I'm glad you almost did my intro. Almost. I have boats. I have boats and notes. Last week, I introduced us as I have boats, the show where we talk about our medieval castles and defending them. And then, yeah, medieval castles and their defenses. That's good. Next week, I have goats. No spoilers. I'm sorry. Be careful that you don't want goats, believe me. Oh, yeah. On election week, we can do I have votes. What a great idea. Oh, my God. Oh, I'm really into this. Hi, guys. How was your weekend? It was a good weekend. It was a good three-day weekend. Yes. Wowie. Wow, wow, wow. I liked it. I had a good time. I didn't really do anything, but nice. Was that over the weekend? Yeah, that was on Sunday. I mean, I'm only like, I'm not going out to the actual. Salon or anything. So it's just my wife cutting this. He did a great job. Yeah. Good job. Holly. I'll pass that on to her.  Jordan is a good boy. Yeah. I was going to say, I was like, oh, I'm like me. I'm a bad boy. Yeah. Well, Aaron was talking about going to a bookstore. Okay. That was so great. Last weekend. And I was wearing a mask and it was Keenopunia and they check your temperature before they allow you in. So they're actually doing a fantastic job. Yeah. Yeah. Do they use one of the guns? I saw a video where like some person mixed up their hands and accidentally sprayed hand sanitizer in someone's face. It wasn't good. It wasn't good at all. They did not have a good three day weekend. Of a coach for like a Brazilian soccer team.  No, I don't have a fever. I'm just mad about the result. I'm flustered anger.  Oh, that was so funny. With my Corona bullets. No, thanks. No, thanks. Now, can it be done already? I want to do stuff. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. Don't worry about it.  We played some video games we played among us and. Project winter. So I'm not familiar with what is that? It's like among us, but it's people have roles. So it's like one person's detective, one person's like doctor. And it's essentially a group of survivors are trying to survive in this. Cabin up on a mountain. Oh, is this the one where you were like trying to find parts to like start the writer or something? Yeah. And there's two people who are essentially, yeah, it's like werewolf, but the video game. Yeah. But what makes it kind of fun is it has a built in proximity chat. So you can only really talk to each other. Oh, that's when you're close to each other. Yeah. And the traders start with walkie talkie role play.  Yeah. And only they can hear each other. But then you're trying, you're just trying to get out. You're trying to survive. It's I know one thing Cole didn't do. And that was play catch with his friends on Sunday. I saw that. I didn't get, I technically. Who's playing catch? Getting my Corona gun. I take it. Invite didn't make it to me. We were texting you, but apparently you switched phones over the weekend or something. And then that caused a whole other mess when he started texting us. Nice. They were left unread. So if you backed out of the app, they would have the red bubble saying 34 unread messages. Like I've read all of them photos of like 45 unread messages. Like it was the funniest thing.  But no. So now, so now I have, I have a phone just to text them. I have another phone. That's the solution. Yeah. He uses old phone to just text us. Oh God. That's so funny. But we play catch socially distant Aaron. So. Okay. All right. I always wear. All right. I'll put my go away. We usually hug each other while we're playing catch. Like, yeah. That makes throwing it really easy. Y'all should kiss. Yeah. We kiss it. We lick it.  We rub it in our eyes a lot. Spread the love. Yeah. Oh my God. What did you do over the weekend? I also had a pretty chill weekend. I watched a Kung Fu hustle for the first time. That was. Oh, that movie. Oh, that movie. So good. It is real good. I did not know what to expect. And it wasn't that, but I loved it. It was a great one. Oh, that's funny, right? Is it the sequel to Shallon Soccer? Or like. No. And even that it's not really a sequel. Yeah. It's the same guy. Yeah. The same guy. Yeah. Steven. I thought it. I couldn't remember. Like I thought somebody at one point told me that they were. Same universe at least like. But. I mean, it's definitely. They're two very different stories. Yeah. Yeah. Especially since I like, I mean, he's definitely the kind of director that use that hire is the same actors. Yeah. 2001 is Shallon Soccer 2004 is. Oh, really? Oh, I did not. I guess. Does seem a little older, I guess he does it. I recently watched a clip. I just like the, the one where the soccer team is playing the, like the professional team for the first time. Oh yeah. And they're just like, oh, look at these jokers. And then like right from the kickoff, he scores the goal from midfield. The ball like curls in from distance. Oh, it's so funny. That's off. That's next on my list. Everybody I during our stand up this morning for the, our team. I said I had watched it and everybody's like, oh, we got to watch a lot of soccer now. So. Yeah. That was it. I like kung fu hustle a little bit better, but. Good to know. Good to know. I've not seen, seen Shallon Soccer, but that's a perfect segue. Has anyone seen Mulan? No, cause I refuse to give them. Have you watched it? I've seen people's reactions. I'm not going to watch it, but I watched the animated version instead. Hey, that's what's up. Yeah. No, I, I still am like trying to figure out whether it's okay to watch it for myself. Just like, first off, that much money, that much money for. Like a, what was it? Like a one time viewing sort of thing. No, it's forever. I heard it. I heard it was a rental. I thought it's like you rent it. Yeah. It's like 24 hours and it's like 30 bucks or. That's how it was when we first discussed it. Maybe they changed it since then. So. I've heard many of people on Twitter air their disdain for the movie. Like it's bad. Yeah. One, you know, it's not going to be good because all the remakes have been very weak so far. And two, there's so many like. Kind of ethical and moral issues with it going on with like the main actress and what she said about the Hong Kong protests and also in general, just like trying to cater a little too much to China. So yeah. With which also she's a Phoenix now or something. Yeah.   I have. There's a witch now. But Cole, you had a thought too. What were you going to say? Oh no, I want to hear your notes. I want to hear your notes about evil lesbians. Wait. So according to mind you, this is also like a second hand because I myself have verily decided to not participate even though my sister has it now. Oh, got time to disown your sister. Well, we talked about it. She's like, I liked it. The conversation went like this. She's like, I liked it. It was okay. But I went like, how was the, how was the romance at least was there anything? Cause you know me, I love a good couple. And she's like, I love a good couple too. And that's the thing. There wasn't anything in there. Yeah, they took them out. And they took them out.  No shame. No. And so she was like, that just made me want to watch something with romance in it. I'm so star. The original move on. Yeah. Well, it's like a tiny bit. Right. So then afterwards, like five minutes later, she texted me going, I'm watching princess and the frog now. I'm like, okay, that's good. Pretty much all sources that I like value who watched it that it's bad. Like plot is weak, but it's like still beautifully shot. So yeah, you can't. That's true. I think there's a lot of things. I personally, it's, we've talked about it. There's just a lot of red flags. It's one of the director being some white lady. I feel like most of the like writers and directors, most of the writers, they're all like white. Yeah. They're like Disney will never like actually raise up those voices, but they'll take the money from that region. No problem. And they're, I was talking about my friends and they also brought up how like Raya is up next. Right. And that's like Disney's next animated thing. And it's like the first Southeast Asian thing. And it's like another fantasy Asia. So it's like, oh, so it's not actual. It's just another conglomeration. Yeah. Cultures like what they did kind of with like Moana and stuff.  It's consumer grade Asia. Yeah. Yeah. Consumer. I like that one. I did also think for the masses, I didn't think they did. It was interesting that they turned it PD 13. Oh yeah. Is it? Whoa. Whoa. What do they do? Is there a blood? Well, I don't know. They get one. You get one. That actually like for me, if they actually kind of leaned more into that and kind of told, like, they weren't so beholden to telling the cartoon version just. Yeah. Now with mature. Yeah.  Well, yeah, I mean, this isn't, this movie isn't for new kids who have never heard of Mulan before it's for, I mean, they've even had the Christine Aguilera song back in it. Like reflection. Yeah. It's in the promotional material. It's, it's for people who watched it in theaters. They are original in theaters. So. So I guess that's the other thing too. So I, I watched this YouTube video talking about the remakes. And one of the things that they mentioned as a point was that they're saying like, Oh, it's for people who grew up, but then that the same time they're still trying to say, Oh, but it's also for newcomers coming into this. And it's just like, it's like this, this weird mix of identity that I think they just don't really have a hard grasp on. And I feel like that's part of the reason why they like didn't nail a lot of things in regards to the content because it's this confusing identity that they're like, Oh, but we have to throw back to the old one. But what do we need to, because our audience is going after that? Well, like, well, we still have to cater to the little kids. Like it's, there's no clear goal. And it's. Yeah. The goal in general seems to be, you know this thing. Come watch this thing. Yeah. Like, remember Nostalgia? Yeah. We're doing the things. Come pay us money to watch it. Were any of us asking for a reboot? No. Which is dumb. No, but they're making money. Make it in Moulin. That's why I feel like the viewers, the audience needs to hold them more accountable and make them not keep doing this because it's not what we want. And it's dumb. I don't think us four are the target audience though. I think the target audience is with the exception Moulin because again, like PG-13, I think the target audience is somebody our age with a kid. Yeah. That's right. They can go, oh, I enjoyed this as a, as a, I enjoyed this as a child. Let me share the story with you now. Then we can go back home and watch the animated one. Like it's kind of like an event of. Yeah. Disney money. Go rent it. Go buy it from the vault.  Yeah. And then we'll go to them. Then we'll hit up DLR and. Yeah. We'll go on all the rides. Hell yeah. Can I, I would like to segue to something not on the topic sheet, but still Disney related. Well, I put this topic sheet together and y'all aren't even following it. Man. So I just keep going. I keep going. Sorry. No rules. There's a lot here. We don't have rules. Like when I talk about pickle beer, at least he takes off with that. What are the hell?  What kind of show you running Aaron? Oh God. Have you guys seen any of the Disney documentaries like Howard and Waking Sleeping Beauty on Disney plus? No. I have not. Watch some of the imaginary ones, but not those. Okay. Just throw that out there. Howard is about Howard Ashman who is one of the reasons. I thought it was about the duck. That's right. That's right. It's about Howard Ashman who is. One of the best. It's about Howard Ashman who is. One of the two, the duo, Alan Menken and him. They're the ones who basically helped revive the Disney Renaissance or Disney in general and helped create the Disney Renaissance because they were the singer songwriter. Not singer. Songwriter lyricist duo for all of the musicals, like Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast. Sherman brothers of their time. Yes. A lot of the reason why you can probably attribute Disney's success in the Renaissance is because Howard Ashman was really passionate and really involved in like every single movie. Is he the lyricist? Yes. He's a lyricist. He had died from HIV. I think. The year that they showed Beauty and the Beast. And his partner accepted the role of the, like one of the awards up on stage with Alan Menken and his partner helped bring awareness to AIDS and stuff on that stage. So it was like, it was really moving. I think it's a really interesting documentary on this guy who was very like obsessed with his. Sounds like it's going to make me cry. Yeah. It was good. I really liked it. And Waking Sleeping Beauty was about like the whole thing or how the Disney Renaissance came about. It really got a lot of that, like, ooh, that juicy animation industry drama with Jeffrey Katzenberg and what happened there? They dropped on, they name dropped Don Bluth in the beginning because they're like, oh yeah, it was like such a huge betrayal when he like left and made his own studio and took like half the animation team with him.  It's funny you say that.  It was like hundreds of thousands of pieces of art. And apparently one of the, they think he might have, or somebody might have stolen like a, some backgrounds from like Disney. So they had like a long pan, like the library was showing this to like my class once. And they're like, yeah, we have this like huge background pan. And then she like flipped it over and was explaining how they got it came from Disney. Cause there was like a faint Winnie the Pooh like sketch on it. Yeah. Whoa. So there was just like, it's like recycling. I want to see this national treasure movie. If you have to see it, if you want to SCAD. How is Nick Cage involved in this? If you want to SCAD, you should definitely check it out. He's got to steal like, he's got to steal the Winnie the Pooh stuff. Yeah. It's quite interesting. Hey guys, this episode of I Have Notes is sponsored by Marvel's Avengers. Marvel's Avengers is an action adventure game where young Kamala Khan must reassemble the Avengers to stop aim in a future where superheroes are outlawed. Combining an original cinematic story with single player and co-op gameplay, Marvel's Avengers delivers new heroes and a new narrative on an ongoing basis for the definitive Avengers gaming experience. Assemble up to four players online, master abilities, customize a growing roster of heroes and defend the earth from escalating threats. Available now. Embrace your powers. Visit PlayAvengers.com for more info. I don't like that. That's very heist-y. Heist-y. Animation heist movie. We got to steal the cells. We got to steal the backgrounds. In other news, the topic here, this one's for you, Aaron. Hell yeah.  Someone, are we not going to name him? You know what, Aaron? I'll throw this to you. Oh, God. I don't like the idea of this. Well, a certain somebody on Twitter. One of the president's children will say. Yes, thank you, Jordan. Apparently, if you search mob in Google, you'll get pictures of beloved anime character mob from Mob Psycho. If you search in any other web search engine, like Bing or Firefox, whatever else there is, you'll get actual pictures of mobs. So he thinks it's like a left-wing conspiracy. We're burying the lead here. The lead is that there are actually three other search engines other than Google. Did you guys know this? Right. Apparently, yeah. I don't know. I don't know what this one in the bottom right is. I thought that was Bing. Is it not? No, Bing is bottom left. Bing is the left. I don't know. It's got a duck on it. Bottom right is Ask Goose.  Goose. Yeah, that's what happened to Ask Gives. You got turned into a goose. You got turned into a goose. Yeah, Mob has been trending on Twitter for the wrong reasons. I was very surprised by that because I saw Mob and then underneath, also trending with Eric Trump. And I was like, why the fuck? It's fine. It's fine. Anime. Is it crazy? Because people don't understand SEO.  SEO? Search engine optimization? I mean, yeah. The more that people look it up, the more that that's going to be the default result. That's like Google's hold it. The more interconnected links it has, it puts things to the top. Also, I clicked on the link from the topic sheet. I don't know if this is just catered to me because I follow it, but Richie is at like the top of the, the top of the replies. Oh, what? There's a lot of good replies. He says congratulations for uncovering the biggest conspiracy of 2020. Google showing us Mob Psycho 100-weeb content instead of pictures of flash mobs dancing. Yeah, it's that. Which is what the other images are. It's that and then West Ellis saying simp. You got two and a half thousand likes for that. Good job, Richie. Yeah, mine. Mine isn't sure that mine just has Dr. Stone fan cams for some reason. Oh my God. It's catered to everyone. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.  Like what have I been clicking on to get nothing? Oh, I so I, I had, I muted all my tweets on it, but I had tweeted at YouTube like, there's no way to do it.  And I keep getting it exactly like even anything I click on you. I just, I feel like, I feel like they're targeting, they're targeting people like they're, they're redoing the algorithm so that it gets fed to people who don't want it, you know, they're trying to make us triggered and it's working. I keep getting those classical abby or Abigail. Yes, I keep getting her.  I don't know who she is. Is she the one, is she the one about the pro life stuff?  Yeah, y'all are speaking out of language me. I don't have ads. Be thankful. He's got YouTube premium. Oh, I do. Oh, that's how YouTube is going to try to get us to buy YouTube premium. Yeah. Yeah, $5 a month doesn't seem that bad now, does it? If I can ban Abigail to the shadow realm, I will gladly pay YouTube $5. That's so funny.  This, this isn't on your topic sheet either, Erin, but it was a nice heartwarming head of state clip that I saw. Jacinda Ardern, who is the Prime Minister of New Zealand kind of. The guy knew she was coming, but like it was a surprise to the viewers. So there's this Maori streamer who does like these wood carvings and streams it. And he's like a really big streamer in Twitch streamer in New Zealand. And the Prime Minister of New Zealand and surprise the audience by showing up. And everybody kind of lost their mind. And it was just a really nice, like, you know, she's like a super down to earth person and it was a really nice interaction. And she was asking these like genuine questions about like, how long does it take to do the carvings and like, you know, do you like sharing your culture with your audience and stuff like that. And he even offered is like, here, this is what I was doing, you know, when you showed up, do you want to work on it? And her first question is, is it okay for me to like work on this because she's not a Maori person? And he was like, yeah, this one's fine. It's like not sacred or anything. If anyone has a problem with it, they could stop watching or something. And yeah, so she's really cool. I'm a big fan of hers. She is also, it was also part of an announcement. They're making a public holiday out of the Maori, I keep saying Maori, New Year's New Year, like New Year's Day is now a public holiday in New Zealand. So. Oh, yay. It was heartwarming. I liked it.  I'm so sorry. I know. Oh, that's really nice. I like that piece of news. That was a good wholesome piece of story. Thank you. Yeah. I'll show you guys the clip or send it to you. Please do. It's really nice. In sad news, Venture Brothers got canceled. Yep.  It says after 17 years and seven seasons. How many episodes are in a season? That, I don't, like, that's what I never understood about that show. I thought that show was off the air for years. Yeah. Like it just, it follows like that same kind of robot chicken release schedule where it's just like every, every so often.  They were working in the middle of season eight when they got the news, or at least writing it. Yeah. Like a few months back. Crazy. Yeah.  Yeah. They won't get like a proper ending. I mean, the article I length mentioned, they're trying to bring it back in some way. Okay. But there's not much clarification on what that would be. I'm sure, I mean, I'm sure they could get maybe HBO Max or something. Oh yeah. Netflix and HBO Max. Yeah. Some streaming platform probably love to have them. Maybe, maybe do a Kickstarter or something. Yeah. And just do like a, a farewell movie or something. I know, I know Blaine would fund it himself. It's like Blaine's favorite cartoon. He's a big fan. I know. Venture Brothers is essentially Blaine at a nutshell though, isn't it?  Yeah. His dream would be to be Brock. I was going to say, I was like, oh yeah, that's a Blaine. Has he not like cosplayed or was him for Halloween or something at this point? I think he's either been here for Halloween or he's planning on being him at some point. Oh, okay. Okay. He just has to. Two others know Halloween this year. Oh yeah. All right guys. Wow. And virtual Halloween. Virtual. Hello. Virtual trick or treat. Virtual candy. Virtual trick or virtual tweet. Tweet. Oh no. Oh my tweets are virtual. Mine are a hard copy.  Stick them out of birds.  I mail them to Twitter. Oh, this, this is an interesting piece of news as well. The trailer dropped for Wolf Walkers. Oscar nominated director of the Secret of Kelsen song of the sea, Tom Moore. And it's going to be on Apple TV. Apparently. Yeah. Yeah. You first original animated show, right? I think it's a movie. Movie. Yeah. Oh. Yeah. Cartoon Saloon. So yeah, that's right. It's a European beast. I would, I want to say it's like in the UK or. They're not the UK. He's a Irish. Irish. He's an Irish director. Yeah. I like this style. Yeah. Yeah. I feel bad because like their movies are really beautiful, but I've only watched the Secret of Kels and I did not enjoy it. But I also watched it when I was a dumb high schooler. So maybe it was just like lost upon me. Maybe I'll go back and rewatch it, but. Okay. I don't know. It's kind of a let down when I watched it, but I don't know if you'll have any insight. What I'm doing wrong. I've watched. What did I do wrong? I watched both Secret of Kels and Song of the Sea. Yeah. Have Jordan Cole. Have you guys ever watched Tom Moore stuff before? I watched both. Yeah. Okay. I have not seen any. Okay. But I am familiar with his style at least. Yes. It's very interesting. I actually liked Secret of Kels more than Song of the Sea. Interesting. Yeah. I saw Song of the Sea first, then I went back and watched Secret of Kels later. Okay. And about the same. Like I thought they were interesting. I like, I always like watching something that's that big that's not Disney just to see what the other competition is doing. Yeah. But I don't know. I don't think it was bad. I don't think either were bad per se, but not the most memorable. Right. For sure. And you're correct in saying that they're very beautiful. Like I think objectively everyone should understand that this is what a beautiful movie is. Yeah. But Song of the Sea in my opinion was like, I think to me it had that kind of very European silent kind of film style. I was going to say like, I feel like their style is very slow burn. Yeah. I guess. It is. Interesting. It is a flat line song. Oh my God. Just kind of meanders. Yeah. I watched it. There was actually a very, the way I watched it, it was a very special screening for, um, uh, I was living in North Hollywood at the time and there was a special screening for like, um, I don't know if it's guild members or some other members, but my roommate and I were able to go and Tom Moore was actually this big wig. No. The bourgeoisie. Guys, remember I have an IMDB page. We all do. Surprisingly full. Um, uh, my roommate and I watched it and Tom Moore, the director was actually there. We took a picture with him and everything does another hair flip. What's it like being famous? Now you have to share it. Now you have to share the picture on this. Okay. I will. Um, and I remember thinking in my head, oh man, I'm about to like say, oh, thanks for presenting this movie and making this movie. This is really awesome to this, to this director and thinking in my head, man, I was about to fall asleep halfway.  Sorry, but secret of Cal's, I think for some reason it was so much more compelling to me. Um, even though it was like kind of also very much a flat line, but there was at least a spike somewhere. Yeah. I was going to say, there's a few humps. Yeah. There's a few homes. Um, and I, I cried at the end because I think the way that they had done like right at the last scene into the credits, it was over. I cried. That's, I was so happy, but, um, it was so beautiful the way that they had done like the animation. It really made me like, oh well, makes me think or I want to see more of his stuff to see if, um, they're going to do something like that again. But after song with the CEO is like, oh no. It's interesting to, for me to think about how I would be much more forgiving of an animated movie that is overall bad or like, you know, not great, but if it looks good, I'll be like, you got to watch it because of how good it looks. Say a live action movie like Mulan where it's like, everyone's saying it looks great. It's shot really well. But like being bad doesn't, it doesn't make me want to watch it. Yeah. Oh wow. I think, I think that's, and like, I don't know as we get farther and farther into movies, having a computer generated stuff and they're being less and less as much the cinematographer himself doing something and more so what the CG team behind the scenes can do. I think it's just because the, you can look at how much beyond reality the animation is. Like, I mean, that's obviously why you're doing it, why you're making an animated movie is because you want to expand beyond the bounds of what you're able to do as a live action piece. But, but yeah, it's the same way where it's like, Oh, I'll give a little more patience to, and recognition to a well crafted animated piece than live action. Yeah. Yeah. It's more because like, I appreciate that much like a little bit more work went into it, I guess, like in every stage, you know, in a live action thing, it's, you got your live action actor and then they're on a green screen and so they could just do whatever around it. Yeah. So you just kind of fill it in there. I don't know. There is one. I don't know why I feel that way. I understand that. I think there's one animated movie where I, there was a point where I could not reconcile that though. Yeah. And that was Makoto Shinkai's five seconds, five centimeters per second. Yup. What is that one? Yup. That was the one that made him famous. Oh, yeah. It wasn't your name. It was like, yeah, it was, it was before that meters for a second. I'm going to look up a clip of it. Cause that's like the whole. Yeah. Go ahead. It is, it is literally you feel like it is actually five centimeters per second. Yeah. The entire movie. Yeah. Five centimeters per second refers to how fast so snow falls. That's like acceleration. Five centimeters per second is. This is really funny. But it just, it was a hallmark of his old stuff, which we're going to get spoilers for a very old movie and a lot of his. I'm watching it right now. A lot of his other work. I don't know. He kind of had a way of, and even, even your name has a lot of it, but your name I think is at least entertaining. Yeah. Where I, somebody must have hurt him a long time ago. Because he's always like me and this are like main character, main guy and main girl are destined to be together, but the universe is ripping us apart. Yes. It's not that we're not good for each other. It's not that we, we, we don't want to be together. It's that the universe itself doesn't want us to be together. And so. I'm not picking on that. I'm not picking up on that at all from the, the clip I'm watching this guy's on, on a train. He's kind of just standing by an open doors, no falls. He hasn't moved. Yeah. Yeah, that's the movie. It's because him and him and his, the girly likes live very far apart from each other. So they like send letters to each other. Oh my God. It just panned up to like, one of those like Metro maps, but like this, I assume this is for Tokyo and it gave me anxiety. Man, I thought the London underground was overwhelming. I love true. I love learning the subways there. We should do that. Library acts Jordan swears. Watch this. It's only. It's a very pretty hour, but I also only got through like halfway before I thought to myself, I can spend my time doing something else. Yes. 65 minutes. Oh my goodness. It's fine. And it still feels slow paced. Two times speed. If you're walking it on YouTube. Oh, that's a great idea. You're so small. I'm just going to have subtitles on. So. We'll learn to speed read this way. It's fine. Oh, that's funny. Up next on our roster. Dr. Stone season two. This is the anime episode everyone. Hey, I'm excited. Aaron and Cole are very excited. Yes. Yes. I have my voice in the background. Wait. Have you, Aaron, have you read the manga? Oh, okay. I haven't read it yet, but my partner like caught up this weekend. It was like live blogging it to me. So I kind of know what happens. It's definitely, I'm definitely going to sit down and like read it soon. It was a, it was the manga where I was like, this is like, you can't put it down. Like this is so good. I thought it was like the best thing that shonen jump had for a long time. And then I hit up, I was like, you can't put this down until I put it down and never touched it again. It was like, this is so good. This is so good. What else? Like, I don't know what it is. They kind of shift purpose in it. Like they, they resolve a major conflict and go, okay, we're now going to set off on resolving this conflict and introduce a whole new slew of opposition and stuff. And I was just like, uh, you know, I can read something else for it now. I can come back to this and I don't, I don't feel, I guess the main thing is I don't feel like I need the recency to appreciate what happens in the next stuff. Yeah. That's fair. I mean, I think it's like the beginning of a new arc still. So yeah, it could probably wait. Yeah. But man, just seeing, just like reading it second hand. Oh man. I'm waiting for like the right time. I need to like block off my schedule because I know once I start reading it, I won't be able to stop. Jordan, Jordan, Jordan. Jordan, what do you think Dr. Stone is about? Oh boy. Jordan explains Dr. Stone. Have you seen the picture? Have you seen the picture of it? I was looking at it, but there's a salary man. There's a salary man. Oh God. It's nothing to do with vegetables. Nothing to do with vegetables. Okay. Yeah. He does look like some sort of salary stock. Can I grab him? I'm going to grab him. To me, the name makes me think of Dr. Strange. Okay. So he used to be a doctor. He got hit by a stone and now kind of like Kirby, he can turn into a stone and kind of like fall on people. And everyone thinks he's a vegetable. Yeah. Perfect. 100%. That is what this story is about. Oh my God, you're breaking it. Aaron. Wait, can he do that in the show? No, no. That's not a feature of the doctor. He's fine. His bones are rigid. No, it is one day, all of humanity gets turned to stone. And slowly people start waking up like a million years later. What is it? Wow. 3000 years later. 3000 years later. So it's like all of, all of civilization has kind of been wiped out. And so it's them starting a new civilization and kind of having from the ground up have to recreate things. So the name Dr. Stone actually refers to early on, he invent soap. And he's like, you know, this is a, this is a stone. Cause he's like talking to some, some other people. He's like, this is a stone that keeps you from getting sick. It's your Dr. Stone. Oh my God. I don't think it goes quite like that, but close. It's pretty simple. It's pretty simple. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. You have to say, does he have to compare it to a stone because that's all they know of? It's like, can you put this into stone terms for me? Because all I know is stones. No. No. That's just like, the one name of the show comes from, there's also early on a very fun or interesting. Cause it kind of also starts to put into mind almost. Alternate. Scientific history. Where he's going to create penicillin. And so he's like, well, there's two ways that you can do this. You can either do this, the biological route with fungus, or you can do this, the mineral route with this other mineral that essentially results in the same chemical. Reaction. And so it's like, it would be in goop. And the other one sounds like a science. I don't know about. They're both, they're both sides. I would like to give you homework. Jordan, I would like to have a list of what you consider stone terms to be. I really want to look at it on my room, trying to think of like, what is like, this is like a stone you can use to communicate. It's funny. It's funny cause they do, they do like reinvent the phone. That's like one of the platforms. This is your stone. That was like, when, when they did that, I was like, I was losing my mind reading the manga. I was like, what? Yeah. It's like, completely changes history. Yeah. It's pretty crazy. Basically, they have like a.   Yeah. You have the knowledge of all of human. Exactly. Civilization. Yeah. And that's essentially none of it exists. It's, it's like a shonen like Dragon Ball Z. However, instead of fighting, it's outsmarting and like. Solving problems with science. Yeah. Oh, so it's Star Trek and not Star Wars. There you go. Yeah. Actually, that's a Star Trek shonen. That's like, they're not that far off. Like. Compared to Star Trek is very, very apt. I like the sound of that. It's actually, I have quite enjoyed it. It's very refreshing for like a shonen. Yeah. It sounds like a very non traditional character. Like he's not strong at all. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's interesting because the original, like the first volume, first couple of chapters of the manga and also the first few episodes of the anime, they initially had a different main character. And just people weren't taking it. They were like, oh, like we've seen this character a thousand out of four. And then like chapter five or like episode three is when the main, they like switched main characters to the brainiac dude. Yeah. And so that's when people were like, Oh, okay. This is fun. This is cool. Let's, let's go with this. Nice. I gotta, gotta switch it up every once in a while. Speaking of switching it up, we got a new Zelda. Nice. Segue. Segue. Hyrule Warriors age of calamity. Oh, I'm sorry for that. I played, I played the Hyrule Warriors on the Wii U and actually had a lot of fun with that. And using kind of like the same engine and graphics for Breath of the Wild for another one. And also being able to play as all the cool characters from like that game is going to be really cool. One of our friends is a voice in that game. Oh, yes. Urbosa. Do you remember? Yeah. So Elizabeth Maxwell, who voices, she voices, Nikki in Camp Camp. She voices Winter in Ruby. She's pretty much in all of our shows. Yeah. One time, do you remember the time like this was like, Breath of the Wild was announced, but the like voice cast wasn't, I think, or no, I don't even think the game was announced yet. Um, she went to lunch with us and we were talking about like, oh man, so the new Zelda game came out or something like that. And then like, like the next week or something, she was in for a voiceover session and the game got announced that day. And I remember being like, oh my God, I just sat there and let us talk about that. And you're in it. Just poker face. Oh my God. Yeah. Oh, true. True. Really strict about that. So she had to like, she couldn't have told us, but I just remember. So funny. I remember that. But yeah. Uh, yeah, I'm excited. I'm excited to play as the other champions and stuff. So it's not an entirely separate game. It's kind of just like a DLC on top of it. I think it's a separate game. Yeah. So, so it's in the, the dynasty Hyrule warriors, like engine of playing. And it's like a separate story of like, cause you know, Link goes to sleep for a hundred years. Right. So it's before all that. It's before Breath of the Wild and stuff. So it'll be like the battles against Ganon before he like kind of takes over. I was going to, Cole and I were here in the discord room before everyone else came and I told them, well, we all know how it ends. So I'm kind of trying to like figure out whether I still want to play it or not.  There's no happy endings. It's just. There is a happy ending. It's breath of the wild. Yeah. I just picked that right up afterward. And there's your happy ending. Also what the, what those dynasty warrior games have done a lot in the past with dynasty warriors with. I think even the last Hyrule warriors, they have alternate endings. Like depending on who you pick as your main character, it has a different ending. So there is a can and a billion characters. Yeah. But. I myself will not be playing unless Lincoln was available. Smash cut to everyone enjoying the game and Jordan. In the corner. No, Lincoln. No, Lincoln. No, thank you. No, no, Lincoln. No, Lincoln. Okay. When Lincoln got like announced and we, we replaced the word link. When Lincoln. So we'll be like, can you send me a Lincoln to this video? We had a blast. I remember that. I, I miss Lincoln. We should use Lincoln more often. Yeah. If she's coming back, she's coming back. You know, she might be coming back. Yeah. Also, I think in our camp camp Slack, Tonya had shared like a screenshot from the game. And it's like this picture. I can't find it now. Of like a fire in the background with like link looking towards the camera. It kind of looks like that one meme of. Oh yeah. Building a fire in the background.  He knows. What does she know? Well, Aaron looks for that. I want to take a second and talk about my favorite anime. I've been watching a great to go. Oh, you watch season three. Season three did just come out. And yeah, I watched it. It's so consumable. Like episode Aaron just said. Wait, I got to put it in the, I have no slack. Bam. I snorted. Yeah. So season three, I just came out and the episodes are like 11 to 15 minutes long. So they're just really, you just scarf them down. And one leads into the other really well. And I think it's the best show that encapsulate encapsulates the like life of a millennial struggling millennial. Like, uh, Retsuko is just like, she's just trying her hardest, but like, you know, life mostly works against her. And she has like the supporting cast around her of like the one who's obsessed with social media and stalking people and thinking like everything that is popular is dumb, but then coming around to it and being super into it. Yes. Yeah. Like there's one bit where like she really gets into VR. And now yeah, yeah. And the season get kind of dark though. I've been hearing or seeing. It gets, it gets stressful with like the social situations where like, in season two, there's a co-worker she works with who's very difficult to work with. And kind of like. Gaslight reactions. Gaslights her. Oh no of other people of like how interactions with her took Yeah, and like it's a it's an actual stressful thing that sometimes people got to deal with so it's very real in that way But it all works out in the end so it's it's okay even the knowledge of it all working out in the end cuz season two was the Was the one season where I had so much anxiety.  That's okay I'll just pull forward a little bit So she hops the curb and backs into somebody's car and This guy is not messing around Like he's like gonna like yeah like extract all the money he can from her But that sets things off into another interesting storyline that I won't spoil so Those moments are very stressful, but they always just lead into the next thing. I'm getting stressed out with you Calm down calm down. It's also a very funny show and Lighthearted at times like very very bad and and metal screams, you know Yeah, her stress cuz like, you know, how much more relatable can it be than sometimes you just want to scream out your rage Oh, yeah, no the fact that she karaoke's for Therapy like yeah, I could tell you how many times when we were allowed to just go have like I mean, there was a time that like Laura and I were there like Three times a week Yeah, like we go to we go to the pub after after work just like for quick straight like you won't go to karaoke like I definitely want to go to karaoke I'm just imagining Laura as a grits go now Same person's the pan meme it's the pan meme the same image you're showing me the same image It's a picture of let's go and it's a picture of Laura Yates. Yeah Like yeah, why do you have two pictures of the same thing like There's a really like kind of subplot where it's an interesting subplot where she needs to make some extra money So she does some side gigs and one of them is making YouTube videos about finding your rage voice She's wearing like a mask so nobody really knows it's her but like she's in like the karaoke thing and she'll like be very like polite and and Proper and stuff be like and all you need to do is find the rage within and let it come out from From your diaphragm so you don't hurt your voice and then she like does it It's really cute there was I love it. I think it's a great show everyone should watch it It's true. I agree with Jordan on this one and one day. I will actually watch Watch it with subtitles. Oh I like the Japanese voices. Yeah voice actors better.   Yeah, like that Nicki Minaj Interview.   We're just like, oh, that's completely inappropriate. Oh my god Yeah, and sometimes the way they the article itself kind of argued that sometimes they don't necessarily agree with the way that the show reconciles it But I thought it was like such an interesting point about the way that Social constructs expect you to be assertive or to express your anger That's a big point in the first season as well with like her kind of her boss a little more misogynistic It's like they kind of go into it at the end that oh That's how he grew. That's how he was raised in this industry Then it's yeah, they definitely take like kind of a both sides approach to it to showing Like one of my one of my favorite gags is the boss guy whose name is director tone He he's just like a he's a big pig character, but he has like yeah to two little daughters Who are basically just smaller versions of him in schoolgirl uniforms and like pigtails Oh, they're also voiced by the same voice I think one of the craziest things about a grits ago is when you go through the When you go through the credits, I remember watching I think the credits roll for season two or season one I'm in and the oh, they only had one animator and it was the guy who also Directs it and right. Yeah And I'm like wait, there's not an entire team behind that.  That's I know it's crazy. It's You know, it's it's very simply animated. It's not it's not gonna blow your socks off but I think the strength is in is in the writing and Just how relatable it is like regardless of like how you how You know, the situations might get resolved or anything like They're real things that you can relate to and probably have experienced in your life Or something you're afraid of happening Yeah, yeah, I I Like that each season of reds ago. I think of course, it's kind of in that storytelling way where the first The something that is first usually tends to hit bigger liked more in your face problems So for a season of reds a grits ago was about like your misogynistic really abusive boss What man, that's like one of the biggest ones I forget literally everything else but it's like things that you would obviously come across as problems as a Millennial worker in modern society, but then season two and then I would assume season three They get into more kind of these smaller Specific things that are almost like microaggressions But they really like amplify them because they're really a huge stressor that is part of your everyday life So like this co-worker who is actually like harassing you at the end of the day But it's it's it's not into like a big way. So it doesn't justify a big reaction. So it's like, well, how do I go about dealing with this? Realistically, yeah, yeah I also do like they they tend to also Show a bunch of how that affects a lot of people in both of their lives Like it shows how it affects accuracy like let's go friends. Yeah, and how like they're trying to help her But it's like, okay, how much is too far overstepping When you're something like at certain point she has to help herself But also at certain point she does need help and needs someone to come in and give her a kick in the ass to like Step up her game.  No boy, but yeah He's got an interesting arc in season three Can you say can you say love? Oh It's okay, it's fine. He has to move on or does he You should watch it because there's some great moments that I want to talk I want to talk to you about it. Okay Anyway One piece five years five years five more years one piece Fine more years of one piece The fifth fifth of September that one piece was going to have five more the manga was going to continue for five more years How far behind is the anime from the manga? Actually, that's a very good question I don't think it's too far behind because one piece has a lot of filler seasons Right just because it's like fun as they catch up though They actually have something they actually are they gonna do one piece Z Kai They really need to like they don't introduce the main story of that until like episode 150 like you know I think it's like they first introduced like the first major player in the grand story Hawkeye Z Hawkeye Z Hark Are we talking about one piece or Dragon Ball? No, it could be both I Think it's one piece because Dragon Ball does not take Dracula Dracula me hawk Dracula me hawk they introduce him like episode like Quick vamp episode 20 never mind that's episode 23 Still pretty bad That's a whole season Is a filler season and chapter 49 of the manga it's chapter 49 of the manga was when he made his debut Yeah, well that was back in the day Shona jump back in the day was pretty different than Shona jump now You know what I say to watching one piece or do it catching up to it. I say y'all know y'all I don't support this I don't support Yisa did that to me earlier. She goes yahoo yahoo. I was like nope nope No four kids in here. No four kids. No respect for four kids Oh, you don't like the guy who eats the the lollipop and has a Brooklyn accent Guys we have an RTS When when is our RTX panel and what time what time where keep talking before I talk more about 24th that's a Thursday 430 p.m. Central Time We have a live panel streamer panel streamer first members only whoa You are gonna want to miss this who's on it at the future of our lives Well, we got me. I'm on it. We got Jordan We got Aaron and Carrie because we're all Carrie now, but also Sorry, you said you said we're all Carrie now. I was like, I'm not though Yeah, Cole's not wrong Yes, it's true. He's not wrong and he's not Carrie Eddie and Cole are gonna be a part of our pin the panel as well. So stay tuned for that What are we doing for it? Good, we're gonna have fun and we're gonna have motes and boats and goats and notes notes notes and boats and boats and goats and coats and Toats camp camp No Let's kick everyone out now. Thanks for watching. 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We did this work because we were thinking that a lot of the work on structural transformation is being done at the macro level and we were seeing a very more nuanced picture when we worked with household survey data. So we thought okay let's look at this question of structural transformation from the point of view of households and household portfolio and see what kind of picture that gives us in comparison to what you get from the macro side. So I think there's been a lot of discussion on structural transformation. I can probably skip this overview except here's the point is that it's usually measuring focusing on sectoral productivity. And so our approach is to really look at the non-wage sector because that's where most of the employment is and the classic idea of structural transformation from Lewis was that people move out of the family production or non-wage sector into the modern sector with wage employment. And it's true that in many countries, sub-Saharan Africa, especially non-resource rich countries that have had rapid growth, the wage sector is expanding rapidly but it's coming from a very low base and so and the labor force is growing rapidly so it's not really employing that many people. So it's likely for the next 20 years that the non-wage sector is going to continue. And does that mean that kind of structural transformation in Africa is doomed? And our answer is no. That structural transformation in Africa will incorporate the household enterprise sector as productivity rises in these household self-employment, household enterprise, micro enterprises. Now this will not provide the same spillover effects, for example, as private investment in large enterprises. Large enterprises are still, the modern enterprise is still one of the most efficient economic organizations known to man and woman. But our argument is that it will allow people to access higher productivity opportunities in the economy and it will lead to improvements in income and inclusive growth. So Uganda is a country that has had two decades of growth and output transformation. And so during those two decades, aggregate productivity in the economy grew substantially even though the labor force was growing at 3% per annum. So yet output per worker increased by about 70%. So 60%, something like that. So it was really a good period. Here's what it looks like in the trends. This is the overall trend of economic growth. And you can see agriculture over this period declining as a share of GDP. What's interesting is that after about, let's see, after really about the early 2000s, you know the kind of the picture got pretty confident, I mean there are a few bumps which may really be related to terms of trade changes or something, but the picture is kind of pretty much the same, which is sort of interesting in terms of shares. What that means is that all of the, and yet there was a solid growth. So what that means is that all the sectors were growing at pretty much the same rate, but there was productivity improvements. Okay, so then employment transformation also happened, but it's not quite as dramatic as the output transformation. This is not a surprise because we know that from work by Timmer and others that the output transformation always leads the employment transformation. So actually the absolute number of people working in agriculture did increase over this period even though the share declined. And this was a solid growth, this share of people working in industry doubling. And this is not mining because at this time Uganda has an oil sector coming, but at this time it didn't have it. So this is real, this is construction, this is a small manufacturing sector and then of course served like many other country services group, private sector services and public sector services. Now what kind of jobs were created? So we broke this down and our analysis shows that mostly these were not wage jobs. Most of the new jobs outside of the agriculture sector were created by households. So by people working for themselves or their families, employing very few workers, something like in about 2000, only less than 20% employed any workers at all outside of the family even on a casual basis. In industry and services there was substantial growth in the wage sector. The manufacturing did not absorb that much of the labor force, but in the non-wage the growth was generally higher. And here's a picture of that graphically. So what did that mean in the end for the economy for income growth? Okay, my goodness, sorry about that. I don't know, at this point I don't think I can get rid of that upper corner of the rural areas showing twice. It looked okay on my tablet. But basically what you really see, we can focus on the rural areas because this is the same as this. What you're seeing here, maybe it's clear in this color scheme, is that what people were doing was adding an income. So in Uganda about over 40% of people reported a second job. Many of those people reporting a second job worked in agriculture, either as their first job or their second job. So these numbers over here that we saw, this is primary employment. This is only, assuming they have only one job, this is primary employment. And it's these numbers on primary employment that are underlying all of the macro numbers that were presented in the previous session on structural change. So all the numbers from Ghana, all the numbers from Maggie McMillan, all of those aren't counting people's second job. But when we start to look at it from a household level, what we see is that over this, here this is 15 of the 20 years, we see that basically those in rural areas especially, those people who were in farming stayed in farming. This is nationwide, you see the same thing down here. So many, many households stayed in farming. Some got out. This is a share of total households. So what you have is perhaps some households moving in as well. But what they did is they added an income. They added a wage income. They added a non-farm enterprise income. They added a public sector, although the public sector wage employment is much smaller than private sector wage employment. It's much less important in household incomes. It's much less spread out among the households. There was also a growth of people working in agriculture wage. Agriculture wage is the lowest paid activity. People earn even less there than in family farms in Uganda. And this is generally true around the world that agriculture wage is not the best activity. You can see in all of Uganda there was a faster growth of private non-agricultural wage here and even bigger growth in the non-farm enterprise. Okay, so this is a picture of people's portfolios, their household portfolios. So the way this was constructed is if anybody said either I have a primary or secondary activity in farming or non-farming or whatever, it got counted as an activity. So in this type of household, everybody works on a family farm. Nobody even does agricultural wage labor. So they're totally specialized in agriculture. This represented a majority of the households in 1992. But by 2005-6, it was down to 30% of people that were specialized. Interestingly enough, that 30% was a very kind of a mixed group. There were people who were specialized and quite poor. And there were people who were specialized and doing reasonably well off. So there was some transformation going on in Uganda. There are debates about agricultural productivity growth. Lots of debates about that. Labor productivity growth, about the date and whatever. But it's clear that there was some commercialization. So you've got specialized farmers and some not. But then you have all these other sectors here that grew a lot. Like this one is agricultural wage and family farm. And that grew with the expansion of agricultural wage. And this one is a family farm and non-farm enterprise. And this grew as well. And then, and all these other small ones are different combinations. We have, obviously, with four different types of work, we can get 16 different combinations. So you have a few slivers there and then. But this is in the rural areas only. We showed it just in the rural areas. We have it also in the urban areas done as well. And actually, in the urban areas, there's still a number of people who have one foot in agriculture and one foot in household enterprises or wage work. OK, so what did that do in terms of incomes and poverty and structural change? Well, we argue that this was an important part of the poverty reduction story and that it represents this portfolio shift into more activities represents an important part of the structural change. In the first place, we show that two jobs means less underemployment. Now, these data are just on the rural areas. Average hours worked in the past month. And what you can see is that if agriculture is your only activity, you tend to work a few hours. You tend to only work a few hours, right? But if you have another activity besides that, not women, because many women who are working in agriculture are also doing a lot of household work and so they don't have the hours to add any more activities because they're looking after kids or whatever. But men, when they add another activity, they work 28% more, although this is still not full time. Those who are employed in self-employment who have one only self-employment, these are specialized in self-employment, they work the most and they tend to be doing quite well. And the ones that combine it also work a lot of hours. So if this person could have a self-employment, these people could have less under-employment. So that's another aspect of the structural change. It is, if you will, part of a Lewis transformation in that people who are under-employed are now more fully employed. Even if these are low productivity activities, the earnings, especially because they can work more hours, the earnings tend to be higher than in self-family farming.  We didn't look at income per se because there are a lot of errors in the measurement of non-wage income. And our argument is that those errors are actually correlated with your outcome of total income So if you have total income on one side and then you have type of income on the other side, your errors in the total income are correlated with the type of income. So you don't have a regression that you can use. So we used household consumption where the error shouldn't be correlated with the type of income you have. And so we did a regression. The whole regression is in our paper that's on the website. And I'm just going to show you the part on household sources of income. We controlled for the level of education and household and the household demographics, the age of the head and the number of children, et cetera, and where you were located and whether you were in a conflict zone and some other things we used. We controlled for what month the data were collected and adjusted, et cetera. And the consumption was adjusted spatially. And so all of that. OK, so now the red numbers are the numbers that I'd like you to focus on. So the first thing is we just had a dummy variable yes or no, what kind of income you have. And we included remittances here on this one. Now what this shows is that, first of all, starting in urban areas. In urban areas wage income, this is all wage income, formal and informal. So this is your cushy public sector job, your non-cushy public sector job, as well as your day labor job and your private sector job. So here, what's interesting is that when you control for education, people actually do better, some people actually do better in household enterprise sector than in the wage sector. And that's because there are many people that don't have the minimum education to get a wage job or if they get one, they can only get a very poorly paid day labor job. So they're actually better off here. So our argument is that the development of this sector, and you see that in rural areas as well, although this wage income, non-farm wage income is pretty low. But the agriculture is quite low, especially farm wage income, quite low, although we have some in urban areas that's not significant. And so basically, and this is even better than receiving a remittance. So this already shows that to the extent that earnings are both productivity and hours work, this shows that this kind of structural transformation that we observe is making a difference. Now here, we have some of our portfolio categories, like I showed you, and here the base category is just the family farm, about one quarter of the people who are just family farmers. So here, the non-farm enterprise story again is good in rural areas and urban areas. But actually, what I call our super portfolios down here, family farm and household enterprise and everything. I guess this number's not coming out, but it's 448. Our super portfolio is pretty good. And actually in urban areas, family farm and non-farm wage income does better than just wage income. Just everybody in the household getting a wage. So that's kind of interesting. And also family farm and household enterprise does pretty well as well. So one reason why this one does well is, of course, if you have a wage earner, then it's easier to get access to credit. So I think the wage earner effect being combined in the urban areas, especially perhaps giving you access to credit, although that needs to be explored some more. So basically our conclusions are that if your expanding higher productivity sectors do not absorb a lot of labor, the employment transformation is gonna be slow or non-existent. So if, for example, you're in a resource rich economy and your industrial sector is expanding because it's primarily mining, which is not creating any jobs, you can have an increase in aggregate productivity and industry, but you're not actually getting the employment transformation. And that's one of the reasons why inequality is increasing in many of the resource rich countries. On the other hand, in East Asia, actually, in some countries in the initial period, as they were like in Vietnam, for example, when they were going from state enterprises to the more labor-intensive industries, in the initial period, actually the aggregate productivity in the industrial sector fell as employment grew very, very rapidly. And then it started to grow along with output growth. And in East Asia, during that period, you also had households shifting into household enterprise sector. What really struck me when I started looking at the aggregate numbers is that what makes Sub-Saharan Africa different from East Asia is not necessarily the share of the labor force in agriculture. It's the aggregate productivity of that labor force. Vietnam still has 50% of its labor force working in agriculture. And you see in East Asia, this household enterprise sector being an important part of the labor force, an important contributor to employment and earnings. But people don't talk it down the same way they talk about it in Africa. And I think that if, I think it's quite possible that some of the pictures that people show about, well, productivity is not expanding in these sectors. This is a problem. I mean, it might happen because the labor force is growing so big, but at the same time, the shift effect will be strong and you'll see aggregate productivity growth in the economy. And if you're only focusing on primary employment, you may miss the shift in productivity which is occurring if you look at primary and secondary employment. So our argument is that if your focus of structural transformation policy is only on the wage sector, your policy is gonna exclude the majority of households and your analysis is not gonna really capture what's going on. So we argue that it's important to combine the macro work on structural transformation with micro work at the household looking at the portfolio to see what's really going on. Okay, that's it.


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And in sport, Antonio Rudiger will leave the Premier League club when his contract expires at the end of the season. The manager, Thomas Tuchel, made his clear after his team lost 1-0 over the West Ham United on Sunday, April 24, which was German's player, missed due to injury, sanction imposed by the British government and Chelsea's Russian owner, Roman Obamovich, following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, have left the club in Limbo. They cannot hand out the contracts or buy new players. The centre-back Rudiger has been on Spanish giant Real Madrid's Redder. Rudiger's fellow defenders Cesar and Andres Cristian are also out of contract at the end of the season.


AKT state residents have been tasked to strive for the enthronement of democratic principles in the June 18, 2022, governorship election. Stakeholders at a one-day forum took the opportunity to brainstorm on ways to deepen democratic ethics and citizens' participation in the political process in the state. The stakeholders also deliberated on deepening participation while contaminating financial inducements in elections, which they say have led to increased corruption. While identifying vote-buying and electoral violence as some of the challenges to credible elections in Nigeria, the stakeholders say constant engagement with the independent National Electoral Commission has led to improvement in the country's electoral processes. What we observe is that it's only a crime when an opposition agent found perpetrating this sort of an act. But when an agent of a governing party found this thing, what the security agents do is they give them cover. They give them cover. In fact, in many occasions, the security agents will even guide them and tell them those that voted for their party. And whenever you approach any of these security agents to acts or to tell them, look, you are here for this kind of stuff to stop, not to be, not to happen. If you say, look, that person's just saying, but what we hear from them is I have never been posted here to look into see and buy. I was only posted to fight against any issue of crisis. You cannot see a election in isolation. You have to connect all the dots. Elections can be free, elections can be fair, but not credible. But how can elections be credible when you don't see the elements or the essential of election? Then you want to see three principles in election. Principle of inclusivity, principle of transparency, principle of accountability. People in 24% of colonies were denied the chance to participate in elections in Biasas Terana. That only means a transparent election.


Hi everyone, it's Jessica here from Cointelegraph and today we're joined by Jan Emil Christensen, head of Undead Metaverse Community. Jan is a pioneer in the world of NFT and crypto with over six years of experience as a community manager. He's been at the forefront of this industry since the early days. He is a true gaming aficionado with a vision for the fantastical and spooky, with a particular love of all things spine chilling, whether he's fully immersed in the universe of Dungeons and Dragons or glued to the latest zombie flick. Jan's passion is truly contagious. It's because of this that we're excited to explore the world of the undead metaverse with him today. Hey Jan, how are you today? Welcome to Cointelegraph Live. Thank you very much and thank you for having us. Absolutely, we're happy to have you here today. Today we'll discuss the challenges and opportunities for games, community building and web three. And we'll discuss the undeads, a newly massively multiplayer online role playing game with several unique features. If that sounds like a mouthful, don't worry. We have a quick video to introduce the undeads metaverse. Before we get started, I just want to remind our audience to please send us your questions in the chat and make sure to like the video and subscribe to the channel. Today's AMA will be formatted a little different as you can see on the screen. As you can see on the screen today, we have a Wheel of Fortune with several themes to help steer the conversation for today's AMA. I think that each title speaks for itself, maybe aside from the apocalypse test, which will be interesting. For each new question, Aaron will spin the wheel and we'll ask a question from that category. Jan, is there a section in the wheel that you're hoping to avoid? Now they look interesting, all of them, as I see it, but we'll see what is behind the wheel. Absolutely. Okay. Well, by the way, you can skip one question if you like. This is also an interactive AMA, so again, reminder to our audience to please send us your questions in the chat. And once the wheel lands on question from the audience, we'll ask the question from the chat. So let's begin. Let's go ahead and spin the wheel. So the wheel has landed on Undead's Metaverse. Jan, what is the Undead's Metaverse? What we have seen before in NFT space is small games where you had a few developers making a game. With Undead's Metaverse, we tried to make a huge game, an AA game, like you would play if it was not about the crypto or NFTs or anything. It should be a real game, a playable game. That's why we have partnered with some of the best studios in gaming space. And we combined what we have learned the last few years with NFTs and combined that with a real game for gamers. And it will be about the zombies and humans. And we try to find out who will win in the end. Sounds amazing. Sounds like a lot of fun. Talking about fun, let's go back to our wheel and see what we get next. All right, let's spin the wheel. And we've landed on Web3 Games. What are the main challenges in building Web3 gaming communities? Speaking from your experiences, how do you overcome those challenges? The biggest challenge in the games I have bought myself and been involved in myself is it's a very big task to make a game that are fun to play and look good and something you want to invest your time in. It's not done by five developers doing it in their free time. So the next games we will see that survive in the space will be by big studios with a lot of developers with a lot of funds behind. That's probably the only way that we will see a sustainable game is we get something made by a big player like we want to be. Because games are not made in a few weeks. It takes years to make a game like ours. Wonderful. Okay, let's go back to our wheel and see our following question. I've heard that you're currently running Potion Box Mint. Can you explain what that is and what users can now do on your platform? If you know NFTs where you buy it, it looks like an image, but it has some properties attached to it. You can now mint our NFTs tomorrow and in a few hours, three hours, I think it is. We have the ByteList Mint and you buy an NFT and inside that mystery box, you get the option to mint a zombie and you get that character. You can play with it in the game and you can resell it on market places and look at it and use it as avatar on your Twitter, your Facebook and where you have it. That NFTs also grant you an airdrop later where you can mint a human. That's what you are buying currently. We are also trying to build the community. All about gaming is community and people having fun. We try to add value to that community part and maybe ask later, I don't know, but we also have the virtual reality part where you get access to some small games but community driven games where you can hang out with your NFTs and that's it. Got it, absolutely. Can we elaborate more about hanging out with your NFTs and your lounge spaces? What is that like and why do you think it was important for the creators and developers to build a space within the game that included something like that? We have seen in the NFTs space that the community part is very strong and people feel for the NFTs but they did not have the game yet. But we still want to take that good part and include it in our universe. The reason we want to do that is because people like to hang out. They build up friendship inside the game and in the community and we think it will make the experience stronger to have those small games where people can hang out. When we get going we also will make that even stronger with some added value for the community to be part of that. Many teams are looking into Metaverse and probably no one has the final answer for that yet but we want to be a strong player there and see how big we can make it. Also in the virtual reality Metaverse area? Absolutely and those lounge spaces are great opportunities for you to connect to the community as well and learn how they are looking to enhance the game and maybe some of the things that they are looking to see for newer versions. So I think it is a great space to connect with the community and hang out and learn from the users as well. So I think that's great. Let's go back to our wheel and see what the next question will be. So we have Web3 question. What do you think are the next logical steps for development for blockchain games? I think we will see more games like us that try to make a very big game and they have the funds behind them before they go to public. We have already invested around I think it was five million dollars. We have on the table already to make this a success because people want the best game. They don't want to play a small game made by one-two developers. It will be fun maybe a few days and that's it. If you want to make something people come back to and something they tell around and something that can grow for many years, yeah, you need to make it like it was the biggest game in the world. Nothing less is possible to attract the community. Understood. So I see that there's a couple of questions from our audience that we may want to try and answer. Let's see if our wheel lands on question from the audience. But the following question, let's go ahead and spin the wheel. So question, undead metaverse question. How does your game differ from other play-to-earn games? And this is actually in line with the question from our audience. So how does it differ from other games and do you need to purchase anything into actually start earning as part of the game? You can join the game and play some small parts without owning an NFT, but to get fully involved in the game you need an NFT and yeah, that's how it is. But as I said some of the elements you can play without. What differ for us is probably that we try to make it a big game and we put so much funds into it and we have the best partners in the game space to lift this game to a level that will satisfy gamers and also crypto people as well. For the game economy, it has been going on for some years now where people have tried to make play-to-earn games and it's not that easy because it had to be well balanced for inflation not to happen and for people to actually gain the value you promised them and we have partnered up with some people that try different scenarios and make the perfect balance in the game economy. There will of course be some people that don't earn from it, those people probably don't expect to earn, some just want to play the game, some want to get other value than the USD value but there will be some players that are there to earn and it will be a possible to have some income playing the game but of course for it to end up matching in the end, some will use more than they earned, that's of course how it is and hopefully we give those people value in other ways. Absolutely and can you share more about the experience within the game like some of the challenges or features that users can expect to experience? Yeah there will be different styles in the game if we talk about the multiplayer part it will be something where you can grow your character like to say, where you can have buildings, you can add different weapons, you can master your skills and build alliances with other players and it will be a real multiplayer area where you have to put in a lot of time to be the top dog in the game and there will also be some areas where you play fast games with high intensity where you just have to kill the other part. So it sounds like there'll be a lot of opportunity to build a community, to kind of work together to build an infrastructure, create new things within the game so that sounds really fun and exciting but moving on let's go onto our wheel and see what the wheel of fortune has for us next, a little more personal. So post-apocalyptic scenarios have been among the most popular genres since let's say the 60s with Night of the Living Dead and we can see from the latest craze with the TV show The Last of Us that this genre isn't going anywhere it's something that truly fascinates us. In your opinion why are we so attracted to post-apocalyptic genres and scenarios? It's probably part of the horror element where you want to be a little afraid and also it's interesting to find out if you could survive if you could not depend on a current society but I think it's a bit different depending on what country you come from. When you talk to people from USA they have more access to weapons and that side of the survival where they have those called preps that kind of live their life to prepare for the zombies coming. I'm from Europe we don't have that because it's so restricted for us to have weapons and things like that. When we talk about survival here it's probably more to be able to grow our own food and maybe have a knife and fishing and all that. I have been if you know the word urban explorer for close to 20 years I think and I like that feeling where you can explore things without other people being around. I have been to Chernobyl many times and other abandoned areas and there's just something fascinating to walk around and explore things and I think also that element is something people can see in the zombie movies at least they're walking dead and things like that. Yes you know I think I agree with you completely. I think we're fascinated by this genre and the scenarios of the what ifs because it gets us to think about what we would do in those scenarios how would we react and I agree being able to you know contemplate those without having to really live through it is something that's fascinating to all of us. So I also wanted to go on I've read a comment about the undeads there's a comment that we found under YouTube video of the game I wanted to share the comment and see if how you would respond what your thoughts are so the comment for this that we found was as far as I know such games are designed for scams usually they don't last long or one can earn just very little money such games make people invest crypto and then burn them I've stopped believing in this kind of thing since 2000s they just changed the rapping but the meaning stays the same what do you think about this comment and what would you say in response I have bought a lot of game NFTs and tokens and so on myself during the last five six years I would not say I have become rich playing those games but at least I have had a lot of fun and learned a lot we we try to take it to to the next level with with the game and with the community but of course everyone can figure out that you don't become a millionaire playing a game but there will be some rewards and for some people that will be a reward that means something and for other people if they already are financial stable it will probably not mean that much to them but as I said it it should not be the reward that's getting you to play it will hopefully be the be the game and the reason why we have the rewards is because there's also a competition element in it it's like old games where you had to take the high score at least above your friend and people should maybe see the rewards a bit like a high score where where you have to maximize your profit also because you get the bragging rights and you are the best player in the in the game and then you could maybe even a little but don't don't make it your main focus of course and and I think one of the major rewards in games like this especially being part of the web3 space is that there will be continuous opportunities for growth so advancements the game will I I assume will change and and the developers will add new features as the game progresses so that that truly within itself is a reward yeah that's right that there will be some for the big investors that can earn a bit more some buildings and and so on but for the average gamer it will be fine rewards but not something that could change your life in regards of financial income of course absolutely well let's go back to our wheel and see what we have next the apocalypse test here we go so Jan you're at home you hear the emergency sirens zombie apocalypse is about to begin what three things would you grab right away I have family so I plan to take them with me as as a start and then then if it was possible to to stay at home it will probably be the the best part to to start a journey in the in the zombie world because you have all your stuff there but if you had to go you need a weapon of some kind in Denmark we have no weapons so I'll probably have to improvise take a kitchen knife and and then I would take a bag with some canned food and yeah it depends what how the world is if the phone still work I'll bring that one yes a kitchen knife your phone and some food to survive a few days yes I agree I think I think those are solid answers and probably what I would go for as well um yes again I love those scenarios it's it's just really exciting to think of like different things that we would do if something like that happens um so let's go to our fortune wheel and see what question we have next player experience you've we've heard that you've recently partnered with Warner Brothers and Wabi Savi sounds known for its blockbuster games such as BioShock left for dead two dead space to how do these partnerships enhance the game quality and gamer experience I have been following some games where they kind of made all themselves and because you when you make a game you have to remake so many things that it just take a lot of time and when you partner with the with people that have experience they have the made games already they had a library of things they can use already you skip some of the the parts where you have to refactory everything and it will help you make the game on time I have been involved in in good games where it almost killed the game because they had to refactor some major parts and it it just takes too much time so experience and partner with people that had to set up ready just to have the the computers ready the software ready the people ready everything is ready so that's probably the biggest part of having good partners is that you you start running from day one instead of using a year to set up the the infrastructure just to make a game absolutely yes and and just from the trailers that I've seen I think it's going to be an amazing game I know the sound quality is phenomenal the visual the artistry it looks like you've put a lot of work into this game how long have you been working on on producing the game and I know you are about to start your minting process but I know the community is really excited to see the the game unfold do you have like a roadmap or timeline on as to when that may be happening we have a updated roadmap on our homepage but we plan to show the in-game clips in in around one month they should be ready for for public there and when we build our community some will be more connected to us and and people we can interact with and they are very interested in the game they will get some some beta testing options if if if they want to to be a part and as you said before about the the trust in the game and all that it's of course people want to show proof and they want to see the working game already now and that's how it is that's a part of it and we of course as soon as possible plan to show things to people so they can be involved and they can gain trust in us and yeah great well let's go to our fortune wheel and see what other questions we have in store another task question Jan do you have any scavenging skills anything to help you survive an apocalyptic doomsday doomsday I'll not say I'm an expert but I have been as I said before into urban exploration where I go out with two or three friends and we stay there for a long weekend and we sleep on site in abandoned castles in the catacombs in Chernobyl and places like that so at least I know I can survive in three days in an in an abandoned environment yeah amazing wonderful well let's go to our fortune wheel and see what question we have next web three question what steps have you taken to ensure that you to ensure that your game continues to to grow over time and that the community remains active even as flares come and go as I said we have the roadmap on the homepage but because we invest so much in this game engine and the universe and all that we of course plan to to keep it running for for many years and also add more features more game options and in NFT space and crypto and actually also in gaming the community is is all so we will put a lot of effort into to making sure the the community are heard and they get what they request and also take their feedback to to make it even stronger at the moment we of course have a lot of work on the table so we could put more into the the community work that's why I'm hired to to help lift that part but we will add even more people and information and content as fast as possible great well we have time for one last question and I want to make sure that we ask from our audience chat there is a very interesting question here that I'm intrigued by how will the reproduction of zombies take place yeah that's a good question the technical part is that you meant a new zombie I have not seen the in-game thing I hope the developers have made something special how it actually going to happen I have not seen myself but yeah it will be interesting to to find out the technical part is boring but the in-game could could be a bit more fun I agree wonderful well Jan I just want to thank you so much for joining us today and sharing your passions and insights into the world of the undead metaverse I understand tomorrow is undead's public mint can you share with the community how they can participate in the nft drop because we have seen there is quite a bit of an interest for our game we have decided that one wallet only can make can buy one nft so there should be some for everyone the way you do is the easiest way is to have metamask installed and we can help with that in our community on discord if if needed and you need to add around 0.1 Ethereum and then you can buy one nft and then you are kind of ready for the game you get a mystery box and that box you can you can on wheel for for the zombie and I think it's after one month we also drop an option for you to get a free human so you get two nfts buying one absolutely and one thing that we discussed before the show that I thought was really interesting is this concept of the mystery box and and the collector's opportunity to keep the mystery box a mystery yeah that's right you you you could decide not to open the the mystery box then you don't know the reality of the of the zombie the reason why you some would do that is because some buy to to resell and the resale value would probably be higher if you you don't open the box let's say you open the box and you get the the lowest rarity you of course can't get that much payment for it but if someone think that the box could hold a legendary zombie then they are kind of more willing to pay a little more if if the mint have sold out and you hold the only box not opened absolutely and it's also an experience which is great well Jan I just want to say thank you again for joining us today for this AMA and thank you to our audience for being interactive and sending along your questions I also want to remind everyone to please subscribe to the Cointelegraph's YouTube channel we do AMAs like this quite frequently thank you Jan and thanks again to our audience we'll see you next time thank you