Hello, and welcome to Power Up Hawaii, where Hawaii comes together to walk towards a clean, renewable, and just energy future. I am your host, Raya Salter. I'm an energy attorney, clean energy advocate, and community outreach specialist. I'm also the principal attorney of Imagine Power LLC. Power Up Hawaii is about a clean, renewable, and just energy future. To us here on the show, that means talking to all of the players who need to be engaged in the conversation, including those who don't currently have a seat at the energy policy table. Why is this important? A clean and just energy future means that all customers of electricity have access to clean, affordable, safe, and reliable power. This means access to clean generation and big improvements in energy efficiency. Remember, the goal is a Hawaii energy system transformed, one that is no longer dependent on expensive fossil fuel imports, crippling poor customers, and holding back the state's economy. Why else is this important? As utilities invest in new clean and renewable energy assets, customers have increasing power to control their energy usage through new technology, including smart thermostats and smart meters. Now there are apps and computer programs that allow customers to control their appliances and interact with the utility to choose different rate schemes. In addition, high-speed internet access will increasingly be used not only for providing energy services, but providing health care, social services, and other necessities of daily life. Of course, this also includes entertainment as well in communications. As interactivity with the internet, our devices and each other becomes more and more intertwined. Here is another big reason why this is important. All customers will pay for these investments through their utility rates. This means that all customers, be they rich, poor, or business customers, need to be engaged in the decisions that happen now around energy. So this is me speaking a bit to why it's so important to talk to all the folks who need to be in the energy conversation and those who may not yet be in the energy conversation and how can we make sure that everyone's at the table. So today we will speak to Curtis Kropar, Executive Director of Hawaiian Hope. Hawaiian Hope is a technology-based, non-profit organization with the objective to expose the community to and increase their familiarity with technology. Hawaiian Hope has locations and operations in town and on the west side. Welcome, Curtis. Thank you. Thank you. So, Curtis, please, why don't you introduce yourself and tell us about Hawaiian Hope and what you do? Well, first things from you have me on the show.  Our main objective is to expose the community to the technology. And basically we're a bunch of geeks that hope to make a difference in the impact in the community. Why? Well, why is it important that poor and vulnerable populations have access to computers? And do you, in fact, focus on providing access to poor and vulnerable populations? Yes. We have a couple of different programs and projects that we focus mostly on low-income communities. We have a project in Wynnei right now that is our Internet Cafe. And it is a public access facility.  People can come in, get online. Actually, I believe maybe we may even have a couple of photos of some of your operations and... Yeah. There's the Internet Cafe. It's in Wynnei. All right. Please continue. Go ahead and continue. Yeah. Well, this particular location is really important because there's a lot of people in the area that it's relatively low-income area. And we've got a lot of homeless. Actually, this center out there also doubles as a homeless outreach service.  And even people who are not homeless, they come in and use the computers constantly to print out documents they have may have a computer at home but don't have printers and you know. Why is it important that poor and vulnerable populations have access to computers?   And the bottom line is now that a lot of jobs doesn't matter the expertise or the menialness of it. They require computers to use. And you know, if you work in checkout at McDonald's, if you're working checkout at Zippy's, if you're, you know, you're punching buttons, you're doing something where you're interacting with technology. And now even to just apply for the jobs, you have to apply online. I was at, I was walking through one of the plazas, you know, it's the ice cream shop, right? Nice. Hey. People know how to do this. They can figure out how to do the ice cream, right? There's a big help wanted sign in the window and it's, I swear, it's three feet by three feet big. Help wanted. There's this little sticky note says apply online. It's an ice cream shop. Isn't that something, actually, I believe we have a picture of a career fair, but you guys have. Can you tell us a bit about that? Oh yeah. This is the workforce career fair. Actually, the next one's coming up February 1st. Oh, fantastic. Yeah. This is the job fair is at the Blaisdell. We go and we set up about 40 computers at these events so people can come in, update the resumes. They can, you know, same thing, make updates, check their email, apply for a lot of jobs. Because even though you're at the job fair, you're at the job fair with 2, 300 recruiters, a lot of them, they still, they hand you a business card and say, here's our website, go apply online. So, you know, so yeah, we provide the computers, we provide the technology and the setup where people come in and, you know, do that. Yeah.  Yes. You donate computers. Yes, we do.  This photo here is one of our donations to the VA. Actually, it's the veterans. Fantastic. Veterans who are formerly homeless and they've now got housing and in part of that program, we work with the VA and they come down and pick up computers and they provide them to the vets at their new, at their new houses. That's fantastic. This photo here is, if you look at all that pile of stuff, that is 350 computers. And that is a single donation that came into us. And actually, that points out one of our key issues is physical space. We're like up to here with... You guys got tons of equipment and donations and so much. Well, that's fantastic. I'm so excited to hear about this work. So I want to speak a little bit to something that happened recently that I was privileged to be able to be a part of. So there's a terrific event that happened, Christmas Eve and Christmas Morning, which is where we met and I was a humble volunteer, which I appreciated very much. And it was an event called Home for the Holidays and I think we had, in the end, it was about 65 kids. About 65 kids were hosted who are facing housing insecurity, homeless living in shelters. And they came and they spent the night and had a lovely dinner. They spent the night and also had Christmas morning at this location with tons of gifts. It was a really wonderful event. And you set up a computer cafe for the kids. Could you tell us a bit about your involvement in Home for the Holidays? Well, I saw their event from last year. And as soon as I saw it, I just had to reach out and get involved with this because this is something that's very near to my heart. We've got a lot of kids out there that a lot of the homeless services are geared toward adults and people forget that there are children that are homeless. And a lot of times we're so focused on the adults and we're so focused on the fact that the adults issues, but the fact is there are plenty kids who are on the street on their own and they need some attention. So yeah, we got involved with this event and we set up a mini internet lab there. We had 12 computers set up. Same thing, the kids can come in, get online, do their Facebook, do their play games. Watch movies. We, in doing that, we also happened to monitor the amount of data, which surprised me. So when we do the job fairs, just as a comparison, when we do the job fairs, we go through about maybe four or five gig of data on 40 computers across the whole network. And at this event for Christmas, we burnt through 18 gig of data in less than 12 hours. Wow, on 12 computers. And it was pretty impressive. So yeah, the kids were having a blast there playing games and watching videos and it was fun. It was a lot of fun. The teens especially really enjoyed the computer center and you could just really see the young people getting a chance to really kind of relax and spend some time investigating the internet in peace. And I know that around three in the morning, I climbed onto one of those air mattresses and fell asleep. But I believe that you stayed up all night. Three, lightweight. Yeah, the kids, I think the last one finally went to sleep about five a.m. You know, about five a.m., the last one went to sleep. Well, I think one of the things, and I had wanted to share some videos, but one of the things that happened in the morning that I thought was so incredibly special was a really special gift from you to every single one of the children in attendance. Could you tell us a little bit about that? We wanted to really figure out how do we make the most impact for these kids? You know, not just something that's going to make them feel good for a few minutes or a day or so, but we want something to really, you know, show them first people are thinking about them, and two, is we want to give them something that's going to last, have an impact and give them opportunity. And so what we did was, and it wasn't just me, it was my crew, my volunteers, our volunteers. You know, we've got a bunch of people who work on projects like this all the time. And so, but what we did is we put together 60, 65 laptops, and every single child at the event got a laptop. So it was, it was, it was awesome. It was really awesome. Can I say, I just remembering, it was so special. The way, first of all, Nani Madeiros and her crew, they're just like Christmas heroes. Oh, yeah. It was the most lovely event. And she had so many gifts for the children. They had gift cards. I mean, they had everything that. The gift cards were a huge hit. Oh, yes. That was a huge hit. These kids got a true Christmas with really awesome gifts. And then the way she announced it with a surprise, you know, she was like, okay, guys, each and every one of you is going to get a laptop to take home. And just everyone started screaming. It was just the loveliest sort of Christmas morning thing for the young people. It was really nice and special. So I just, I just, I was glad to have met you and I'm glad we got to speak to that a bit. Sure. I know that there's a lot more that you guys do. Could you talk a little bit more about the services that you offer at these locations?  You also, you operate also in town. We have our internet cafes in Waianae. It is, you know, full service, public access. We do photocopies and scanning and printing and all that stuff out there. And as far as you know, we're, we may be one of the only faxing services out like the entire coast. In town here, we have our tech center, which is right next to restaurant row. We're kind of across the street and that is our, well, it's our main donation center. Got it. It's our tech center. It's our inventory. It's my office and we appropriately call it the cave. We're in the basement of the building. There's no windows. There's no, uh, yeah, there's no sunlight. And most of the time the cell phones don't work because they built all these brand new buildings around us. So the phone service is like that. So it's not really an ideal location for a technology company. No. Well, you know, I think we are about to go to a short break. And when we come back, we can talk more about this location, more about what you do and how folks can help. Cool. Good afternoon. Howard Wiig, Code Green, ThinkTekHawaii.com. I appear on Mondays at 3 o'clock and my gig is energy efficiency doing more with less. So most cost effective way that we in Hawaii are going to achieve 100% clean energy by the year 2045. I look forward to being with you. Aloha. Hello. My name is Crystal. Let me tell you my talk show. I'm all about health. It's healthy to talk about sex. It's healthy to talk about things that people don't talk about. It's healthy to discuss things that you think are unhealthy because you need to talk about it. So I welcome you to watch Quok Talk and engage in some provocative discussions on things that do relate to healthy issues and have a well-balanced attitude in life. Join me. Hi. And welcome back to Power Up Hawaii, where Hawaii comes together to talk about a clean and just energy future. Today we're talking about the importance of computer and technology access for everyone, including poor and vulnerable populations on Oahu. I'm here with Curtis from Hawaiian Hope. Thank you. Welcome back, Curtis. Thanks, Romy. So when we went to the break, we were talking a bit about your location and you guys, you have your internet cafe out in Hawaii and I, and that is something, fact services. It's like no one even needs a fax machine anymore except for that like unbelievably urgent like fax to, you know, sometimes doctor's offices, sometimes government agencies, important applications. And so I think people don't think about, you know, what does it mean if people can't access these things? So you have this out in Waianae and then you have your service center down in town. So what do you guys do in town? This is where you get your donations? Yeah, it's where we get our donations. Again, we call it the cave. It is floor to ceiling computer equipment. We have, and I am not exaggerating this in the slightest, we have probably over 1300 computers in stock. Wow. It's, it is an awesome problem to have. I mean, as a nonprofit organization, we appreciate every single donation that we get, but it does create a logistics issue because it comes in faster than we can get it out of the door. So we have a crew of volunteers who work on the stuff almost every single day. And the donations come in, you know, you had that one picture up that that was one donation. It's 350 computers. Yeah. And yeah, it's great. Right. You know, and the funny thing is the week before that we gave away 22 computers and I was thrilled because we had an extra like four square feet of space.  So you guys then, I mean, is it sometimes a real challenge? I would think sometimes it's old technology, you have to load certain types of software on it. Is it difficult or challenging to refurbish? Do you need to pay licenses, computer licenses for software? Yeah. The most common issue that we run into is the fact that a lot of people, they pull the hard drives out of the computers before they give them to us. Everybody's so concerned with the data security and stuff, which is, you know, rightfully. So the thing is, we do a full day, we do a full drive wipe. We full do it's, it's a one of our requirements. We do a full drive wipe when everything then comes in. So even if somebody says, well, we just wiped that, we're going to do it again anyway. We get maybe 50% of the equipment that comes in from the personal donations don't have a hard drive in. Those are expensive. It's not really expensive. We can get them for about $15 each. But when you got to buy a thousand of them, that adds up real quick. And then on the laptops, usually when they pull the drive out of the laptop, it's also attached to the drive caddy. And so you have to go buy the drive caddy as well. Right. So it's interesting, you're talking about sort of all these pieces of the computer and a lot of folks, myself included, don't know very much about the guts of the computer. So I hear, I understand that part of the work you do.  Because yeah, no, that's part of what we do. Part of the work that you do is help train folks to understand these so that they can then get work doing this. Could you tell us a bit about that? Well, first we have no paid staff. And so that's a key thing that a lot of people, I'd like them to understand that. All of our, everything we get done is through our effort of our volunteers. And so we have some very, very dedicated people who come in faithfully. And they work on stuff. And with this process, we take people who are low-income or homeless or who have a tremendous amount of experience. And we teach them technology. They teach them our procedures. And we go through and we work on the computers, take it apart, clean it, you know, test everything, test the drive, test the RAM, test the machine, put it back together, install the operating system. So from soup to nuts, folks get the opportunity to learn how to acquire these skills. Yeah. Yeah. Is there, can you maybe give us an example of how somebody was able to benefit from this training? Geez, that's a... Or a couple of examples. Big list. You know, yeah. That's great. That's a big list. We have people who volunteer with us that even as experienced technicians, they come in and because we work with a different segment of the population that a lot of other IT shops do, we do things differently. One of the things that we do is we can prevent a machine from getting infected with spyware, adware, junk viruses, you know. The antivirus programs are great, but they usually clean up the mess afterwards, right?  You want us to do something about that? Whereas we set the computers up in a method that locks the machine down and prevents the accident from happening to begin with. And the main reason for that is that a lot of our population that we're giving equipment to, if something goes wrong with it, then we're not going to have the money to go get it fixed. So it has to stay working, right? And the majority of problems with computers now are software configuration issues. It's not the physical hardware that dies. It's something that gets messed up in the configuration. And so that's one of the big things that we stress a lot with our training program is prevention, you know, prevent the issue. And so the same way in looking at the physical hardware, we teach them, you know, we teach our volunteers what to look at, take a machine apart and literally look at the components on the inside. So have there been trainees who have been able to take those skills and transition them into the workforce? Yeah, yeah. Yes, we have. We have, we had a few of people who do that. The one gentleman in particular, he's been homeless, living in his van for 10 years. And he started volunteering with us.  So he's making some money. That's fantastic. Where before he had no income whatsoever, you know, I would like to maybe do a side thing about our Internet Cafe, one of our success stories out there. Please, yes. One of our the same thing, people who volunteer with us, a lot of nonprofit organizations, when you volunteer with them, you know, they try to find stuff for you to do, right? Oh, maybe here.  Sometimes it can be a challenge. Yeah, you know, meaningful. Yeah, and the people who volunteer with us, though, our objective, especially when you're working at our Internet Cafe, is to teach you how to run a business. So, you know, it's a full business model.  And so we're teaching all of our volunteers how to work the front desk. I mean, you saw the photos, how to work the front desk, how to answer the phone, how to greet the customer, how to keep track of who's coming in the front door, how often they're coming in the sales of chips and soda and rotate the inventory and to place the inventory and to do the data reports and everything, right? Everything about running a retail environment. One of our volunteers, she's been living in her tent with her family for seven years. She's the victim of one of those reverse mortgage scams end up living in her tent because of that. They scammed her out of the house. And, but she hasn't had a job in years. And so she came volunteer with us about a year and a half. She was volunteering with us. And then she went to go apply for a job with 7-Eleven. She's got a full-time job with 7-Eleven. She went through their training course and she was so excited. She'd come back, like, you know, for the first three days of the training course, she goes, hey, they do these daily reports just like what we do. I just, and it's the same type, you know, and she's so excited because she's going through this training program and she's already knows how to do this stuff, right? And she understands it. I mean, clearly understands it. And, but she's telling me all these processes, like how they do things. And she's like, it's just like what you taught us. And it's like, well, that's the point, you know. That's right. And that really is stunning. And again, I know that sometimes I believe there's such a direct connection to engaging folks, everybody with technology and our clean energy transformation and helping the economy through helping folks get work is just one of those examples. And to me, it's interesting and meaningful because we need the folks who, like you, know how to provide these services to work with others who have more of that energy focus so we can bring all these pieces together at some point. Now, this is so interesting. So the work that you do, say at this cafe, you've got this whole model of operations. I understand that you're looking to help other organizations and nonprofits be able to do the same thing in a way that can also provide some income streams for Hawaiian hope. Could you tell me about that? One of our different ways of doing things is that, yes, we do work directly with clients and consumers who need services, so our other side of, our huge side of what we do is we provide services to other nonprofit organizations. So a lot of nonprofit organizations, when you look at them, they don't have a budget to have an IT department. They don't have a budget to have an IT person on staff, but that doesn't diminish the fact that they still need those services, they still need to get the computers and the network and everything else up and running. And so a lot of nonprofit organizations, they will contract with us and we are their IT department. And so we can provide them the computers, we can provide them the network, we can go through, set up their network and their infrastructure and their backups and take care of a lot of stuff for them. And the cool thing, like I said earlier, we've got 1,000 plus computers in stock. They got a machine stops working, okay, here, grab another one, put this in, okay, keep going. So it helps out a lot. The other thing which I would like to just mention which a lot of people are not aware of is many grants that are out there for nonprofit organizations, they don't cover technology. If you look at a lot of the grants that are out there, I mean, the grant application will specifically say, we don't pay for computers, updates, websites. That's infrastructure and that's part of your operation costs. And we don't pay for operation costs. Well, yeah, but you still need to get this stuff done. It's important that folks don't get left behind in getting computer access. And it's exciting because the more you guys diversify in the services you provide, the more training that the folks who volunteer can get. So we only have maybe about half a minute left, but how can folks help you guys at Hawaiian Hope? Well, we are always looking for volunteers. And right now we are definitely looking for some fundraising activity. Like I said before, just a lot of the stuff that we do is grants don't cover them. We have no government grants, not whatsoever. And so a lot of that stuff isn't covered by the grants anyway. So we're always looking for cash infusions and helping out with people coming in and volunteering their services as well. Okay, well, that is fantastic. I wanna thank you again, Curtis, for coming and joining us and talking about the great work you do. And that wraps up another edition of Power of Hawaii where Hawaii comes together to talk about a clean and just energy future. I'm your host, Raya Salter, Mahalo, and Aloha.


Yeah, let's keep it going and I want to see more of it. Trini Girl Natural. Hi everyone, welcome to my channel. I'm doing a special video for you guys today. On my definitely let's keep it going in 2019 list. Just a little look back in 2018, a little reflect on the stuff that we do in great as a community. Just to find ourselves on the back. Number one, Kinky Curled Naturals taking over the world. The type 4s as they say, I'm not really into hair typing, which is a whole other video, but people with like hair like myself, people with even tighter curls, just be on YouTube, doing their thing on YouTube, getting the views and subscription, getting the support. 2018, it just blew up. I see so many YouTubers newly hitting that 10K, 20K, 100K. And I'm just so happy to see like so many Kinky Hair Naturals in that mix. I'm just loving even just seeing the diversity in that perspective from Kinky Hair Hair Types just being out here on YouTube. Yes, I'm here for a totally different. So, yes for that, keep that going. I want to see even more in 2019. I want to see even more in 2020. I'm also here for YouTubers supporting other YouTubers, chatting on other YouTubers. I've been seeing a lot of that. I mean, I always saw a lot of that, but I'm seeing it even more, I guess. So I'm definitely here for that, chatting on other YouTubers just being in that comment section, helping to rev up another YouTuber's engagement. I'm just loving all the support and it's really helping all of us grow, as I mentioned in my first point. And I love watching YouTube videos. I'm subscribed to so many channels from 300K to like 30 people just because I love seeing natural hair and just black women and the whole on YouTube. So definitely keep that going. Keep the support going for 2019. And I want to see even more support in that. I want to see support of YouTubers who vlog in other languages. So I try also to watch them and I can't... I don't know if I should even comment on that since I don't speak their language, but I definitely watch and like and so on. And I might try some comments to see how they respond or to see what happens. But yeah, learn those different keywords. Shabu Clays. I don't know. But let's figure out what natural hair is or what curls are, what kinky hair is in French and Spanish and Portuguese. And let's see what else is out there on YouTube. Like I know there's a lot more out there on YouTube than just English YouTube. I follow up at least three or four who have also YouTube channels or who also put out YouTube videos in other languages. So I want to expand that even more this year and just actually search my keywords for the languages to follow more YouTubers just regardless of language. Again, just getting out window into other cultures and more diversity and stuff. I think it's edifying for all of our souls. Just seeing like black women in different cultures I think is really kind of cool and awesome. So that's in the 2019 goals for sure. YouTubers showing that their gray is okay. So natural edify is one definitely. Samantha Polak just claps and has soft to you guys showing that gray is okay, showing that aging is okay even though they're in their 30s but just showing that it's okay for that process to happen. And just helping us be more accepting of people of all ages and people who grayly but I definitely think it will even help me to approach that gray hair when that time comes. So you guys are an inspiration and thank you so much for speaking out about that and first spreading that awareness and that positivity about gray hair. I know you guys will be keeping it up. So looking forward to seeing even more in 2019 from you guys and from others as well. I follow like about five or six again, gray hair natural channels. So I encourage others to do that as well and just to support the gray. It's part of here, part of everybody's here, Jimmy, I guess eventually. I'm also just support other YouTubers as well. I'm definitely always looking to support anybody like in their 40s, 50s. Support, diversify, energize. One type of challenge that I was definitely here for in 2018 and I want to do more in 2019 is that I try following a YouTuber tutorial. Number one, you're supporting that YouTuber. Number two, you're showing that it's okay to struggle. You're showing that it's okay to figure out. There was a time way back, I guess, where that was the normal YouTube.  So I'd love to see more of that in 2019, just more reality, more people not being perfect, people trying, people struggling like myself and I have to do like a twist out of brain. I know the struggle is real. So I love that trend and I hope to see it continue. Another one that I didn't know I loved until I experienced it was ASMR. So in particular, watch the ASMR for me but whatever floats your boat. So it's mostly about just not talking and just getting stimulation from sounds. So for me, I love water sounds I always have and I did that, watch the ASMR and it was just so soothing and relaxing. I loved it. Other YouTubers have done like Juliana Palencia did an ASMR. I think we're like brushing her hair as well as like water sounds. So I'm moving to see more than 2019. I might even do another one. I really should. I'm just like, I don't want to be exactly the same. So how can I mix it up? But I would love to see all of your ASMRs if you're watching with your YouTuber. Let's do some more. Let's join the ASMR community and let's support each other and let's relieve some stress because it's very stress relieving both to film, to edit even and to watch. So I hope to see more of that in 2019. Something else I loved in 2018 is just black business growing. Black women, small business growing and just them also sharing with us. So I hope one day to become a black business owner. So just seeing them sharing a little bit of behind the scenes and they're cheering and letting us see them glow up and grow up and expand. It's just been so awesome. Especially like, I guess, working with brands but also just being on social media and just following some of these brand owners. I definitely recommend doing that if you don't. It just gives you a great opportunity to get an inside scoop and maybe pick up some tips and just see other people win. I'm loving seeing the growth of each of these businesses. I talk about some a lot and I've seen so much growth with She Sent It and Basketball. So I'm definitely looking forward to seeing more of that in the future and I love seeing that in 2018. So let's keep that going, guys. And last but not least, we have hair care mixed with self-care. So I'm loving seeing that like all the different hair shows that have like massages and edsynment, comedy, like even speed dating and like, yes, speed dating and having products that are like sensory products as well like just massage oils and things like that. Even just watching YouTube videos where people are doing self-care Sunday and just seeing what they'll do aside from natural hair. I know in this era of like social media the push is to kind of limit yourself and streamline yourself.  But I always love seeing people just show us a little bit else and I know I haven't been good at that. That's something I have to do when I have time and so on. But I love seeing it from other people. I love like the self-care Sunday videos that I've been seeing popping up. I love the self-care element of the different hair shows and so I've been seeing come by in my area. So I'm hoping to see more of that in 2019 and I'm even hoping that I personally could indulge and involve myself in some of that. We don't want to watch them be depressing or give us anxiety or stress us out or make us feel anyway negative. We just want it to be a nice, relaxing time for us. And just kind of anything that we do to take care of ourselves we want to just have that reverence in it for also nurturing and caring for ourselves in addition to just the maintenance and making sure that we don't fall apart completely again. So I love that in 2018 and I want to see more of that in 2019. So, that's it. I'm kind of glad to end on a positive note. Whether we continue in 2019, let me know in the comments down below and may all of you and yours have a happy and prosperous New Year in 2019. Thanks for watching. See you in the next one. Bye.


Helo welcom to the Premier League show Even though its the summer There is no Premier League ffaptor There's always Premier League There's always Premier League stories There's always Premier League stories There's no games There's no games There's no games I mean play back in pre-season training So they're heading towards games In fact there is They will play Manchester United next week From probably Singapore or something Probably I love that Probably But one thing that is happening is obviously the transfer market Cyflent, fawr ond, mae'r dweud y maen nhw yn cael ei wneud, ble mae'r hollol yn ei wneud, mae'r hollol yn eu wneud, ac mae'r sgwmmu hwngwr y dgech mae'n cael ei ffineidau ysbunio fel y llef. Nid mor hwnnw i ddweud y tu. Nid yw'r ddweud yw'n cael ei ffintio ym mhloed? Felly mae'n gweithio y ffintio? Nid yw'n gweithio? Mae'n gweithio. Mae'n gweithio. Mae'n gweithio. Mae'n gweithio. Mae'n gweithio. Mae'n gweithio. Cante's vision, that's what's happening and part of that is having quality depth in our squad and you're right, it's strange that we've bought, spent this much money on Evan's best player, let's get that said, but one doesn't actually go straight into our first eleven. Flav, what are you having a go with Evan for? What's the beef for? What's that for Flav? I know, don't need for that. Don't need, we used to be. You've changed since you've moved to the country.   Ryti allas yn 60 million, the tiad there. You know what, I kind of understand a couple of the points there of like on one hand, but on the other hand also missing it as well. It's like Spezia finished off for trying to improve the side. I suppose I'm spending 60 million, let's do what the media do with Evan's best player. 60 million on Ryti allas yn. And yet, does he actually get into their side and did he need them? Does Liverpool's new side and get into their side? Does he walk into their side? They'll be hopeful he does, but maybe he does. Paul said there he doesn't do that. Exactly, so I mean why the top clubs collect players for fun and no one ever questions them. So I don't understand why people are questioning Spezia when Spezia is trying to become a top team. There's an ingrained snobbiness that we all have as football fans of like you can't be above your station and you're like just one of us and how dare you try and be one of the teams at the top. And yet, I don't understand that because the only way you're going to become a team that is a top side is if you do buy a lot of players. And there's a thing of like don't get above your station. Spezia is playing in the Champions League and how are they supposed to juggle the four competitions? You know, the Champions League, playing in Europe is different from the trophies in this country obviously because you are guaranteed a set amount of games. And if you're a good side, you probably will get to that out of the group, which means another. So what are you talking then? You're talking eight games. You're talking eight extra games and you've got to try and push on to being the following year and the following year. And the only way you do that is by having a good squad and whether it be with Charleston or anyone else. Put it this way, right? If Harry Kane got injured for any particular time, people would say Spezia's haven't got anyone to fill the space. That's them. They're over or if some got injured. So if you've got one extra player for those two places, which in this case with Charleston can fill both ways of playing and can play out wide, he's a very versatile player. In that instance, that is a perfect, perfect player to go into your squad and add something extra to it. And I just think it's snobbiness when people go, well, why would he go there or why did he need them? Or they've already got these two players. It's like, so what? Liverpool have got this amount of players. Man said you've got this amount of players. Do City really need Harland? Did you really need Harland? Well, yeah, because they've won them in the Champions League, which is their next goal. They need Harland. So for me, I just think it's a, there is this snobbiness about when teams decide to do better than what people think they should be doing. They don't have a vicious club. But in the Champions League, they've bought, well, I think so far, they continue to spend. And yeah, fair play, fair play to them. It's unfortunate that it was our player they came for, but that's football, isn't it? Well, they won't go players, don't they? The Champions are go players. So when you look at the trying to put players together there now, they've obviously got Culeveski. They've got the Champions, Sun, Kane. They've still got Lucas Morer at this moment. Bear Wine, back to Holland, doesn't he? So it's, you know, they've moved one out and the Champions come in. So for them, they look for a track and talent team, like Manchester United have got.  Spears will play, 90 million. Spears will play no less than 50 games this season. And they need to make sure that every game they go into, they've got someone who can score the goals and someone who can provide the goals. So when you think about it like that, you know, they'll be going into games against Liverpool. Manchester City, who didn't lose to Adam last season, Arsenal, Chelsea. And their idea is we want to win that game, whereas other clubs, including our own, almost right off those games. So it becomes a case of you only need your best plays for say 30 games a season for us. Spears play next to 20. I know we're all playing next to eight. That's not my point. We want to go into every game thinking we don't want to lose this game. We don't want to lose to Arsenal. We don't lose to Chelsea because that's their teams on the either side of us as the league was last season. We want to take points off Liverpool and we want to take points off Manchester City. And that's before everybody else. And that's before you get into the Champions League and the FA Cup and the league cup. That's where you've got to have good, talented players.  We've got a way to Crystal Palace, where it might be a little bit tricky and go. We're going to get points there. Why? Because Harry Kane played on Saturday and he might be a little bit more on it or some might be on it. So we're just going to get with Charleston. But Charleston will play 35 games for them, no problem this season. That's what will happen. So this idea that you shouldn't be trying this. If you won't go play, you're going to have to spend money on the money as well. If you want to pay £30 million, you're just going to get an average player. They don't want average players. They want good players. And the back of the manager as well of course. The manager wants better players. And that's the way it is. So listen, you'll be a good player for space. He's durable, plays a lot of games, works hard. Unlike you said, you can play three positions. But also the other side of this as well, you can have five subs. As an opposition player for any team, you do not want to look at that bench and go with 20 minutes to go and go, oh God, psychologically that must be a big thing. And you know, oh God, we're hanging on here. It's nil nil or whatever, you look at the bench and go, oh God, they can bring him on.  And that's what top teams or people who want to be in top teams will try and do. Will try and do. That's what they work. Yeah, exactly. They'll think we can have a good go in the Champions League, but it's not one season. One season in the Champions League is not enough. You need to be in it every single year. So I don't get criticism of teams trying to build better squads. I don't understand. It's not what we're all trying to do. But people have higher archies don't they? And whether that's fans or whether that's... Of course. The big six, the big six, the big six, the big six, the big six. That's all you're in, even though when you actually look at it, that's six that they talk about. I haven't been in top six in a long time. We have to have one correction. We spoke last week about Spairs National, the power shift. Spairs have finished above Arsenal for six seasons on the run. I didn't realise, I thought it was like three or four but six. What I mean is that when you're fed that, you naturally start to believe it. But it's actually going to do the same. Of course, they've got money and they've got a fella in charge there who's got brains. But the point being is that you do get fed the higher archie, of course. And then there's a higher archie within the higher archie. But for fans, someone like Spairs, and I think I've seen this with Charleston going there, is this thing of like, well, I'd rather he's gone abroad. And of course, but it's like, well, I wish he'd gone to City. I could take that, but he's gone to Spairs and it's like... Yeah, but if you said that, when did you, Johnnie Lescott, left Heaven and went to Man City? People at the time were going, why? Why is he going there? I said, well, you want a title? You know, you want an FA Cup? You know, when it's, you've got, and I'm not for this minute saying, Spairs, we'll do what City have done. But you've got to try, haven't you? I think some fans have forgotten what ambition is or what ambition looks like. And I think that's half the problem. No, but it's another thing as well as the admitting that they're moving away from you. You don't want to do that. You want to try to keep what you want to, as a fan, what you want to believe is that there's only a couple of teams out of your reach and you can stay in and you can get to them eventually. But no one gets into the top of the teams without ambition. How about instead of criticising another club for having ambition, criticising your own club for not having ambition? There you go. Within that, there has been other moves. Manchester City, you mentioned, we spoke about Harlem coming in last week. They have completed the Calvin Phillips move this week. Goodbye. Good sign for them. £45 million as well. Great buy, six-year contract.  And he's got the passing. He can set the pace of a game. He can get a quick ball over the top, that, you know, bing, bing, bing, rather than the quick play, the passing and passing and passing and weighing your down.  It just opens the game up. It gives everybody else now again. It's all about the ways of playing. You've seen that last season with Grealish. It didn't quite happen for Grealish, but I suspect this season, now he's bedded in, you'll start getting him having the ability to understand what he wants to do. But then he'll take the ball on and use it because he'll be a little bit more comfortable. And suddenly that opens. They've obviously let his use go to Arsenal, but if they're prepared now to stay and go to Chelsea as well, then they must feel very confident in the way they're going to do things this season. And that alone is a scary thing. Letting someone who's been consistently one of your best players in the last six, seven years or wherever he's been there to move to a team that finished third, that's ballsy that. They are super evenly confident. The two players who've had off the wing, they're time to Zeus and Staling to let them go out to third and fifth. So you've had a look at that and go sit here really clever and realise that these two actually are on the way down. Or they're super evenly confident in what they've got and think, well, they'll take points off each other having them. We'll be all right. Because it is a mad one because Staling's still producing. Yeah. And Gabriel has used all his goals. So it's interesting what they're going to do. Cucarilla still remains apparently on their radar. So they might bring him in as well. Arsenal, we've just mentioned that Gabriel has used going in £45 million. Good sign. Yeah. But what I would say is I'm not confident in what his true role is because he's not a true number nine. I don't know if he's given the number nine shade and they want to play in there. But he's always sort of been someone who wants to play off the left hand side or either side really. I don't know. It is a lot of eggs in one basket. They lost, like a set, a Bamiang and the replacement number. I know they've got young strikers coming through and I appreciate that. It will be interesting. He is a very talented player. But if he plays games every week and he gets used to that when he's playing, he might be. Of course, I'd say that obviously he was his coach. Exactly, he knows him. But it's going to be an interesting one. It's going to be interesting to see how well he does. Whether he's not the last piece for them. Might be the last piece for this version of them before they have to take the next step up. Yeah, yeah. Good sign. Manchester United have brought in Tiril Melasia from Feyenoord. That's Eric Tenhaag's face signing. They've got another couple lined up as well. The young... Bill hasn't done Christian Ericsson. Apparently he's agreed that deal. So they might bring the thing that they have another two in in the next couple of days. But one player to talk of maybe going is Ronaldo. Apparently he wants out. Well, he wants to play in the Champions League, doesn't he? And there has been talk of Chelsea. I don't know who did it for them and get anything out of them. Oh, he went to Juventus. Big money. It was supposed to get them the Champions League, it didn't. He went out in the quarterfinals, two years in a row. And the last time was, I think it was the portal. He went to Manchester United, scored goals, scored a lot of goals. He scored goals in the Champions League, but they got no fader than... What was it, the second man? So he's not going to win the Champions League on his own. He's going to score goals. But who can afford them? Who's willing to take the risk of a 37-year-old? Listen, you get all the other stuff, of course you do all the commercial stuff. Fantastic to have someone like him. But who can afford them? I just don't know who can afford them unless he basically said, right, I'm going to go back to Portugal. I'm going to be on reasonable wages because I want to come back and play here. And I want to play in the Champions League. But does he just want to play in the Champions League? Or does he want to play for a team that he thinks can win the Champions League? There's one team that maybe could afford them. And it would be somewhat... And I've not heard them mention this time. And it would be absolutely amazing. And that would be Paris Saint-Germain. They would be the only one, but I don't think they're going to do it because obviously it's been a change of setup. And Bapae's in, Pochettino's out, Gaultier's in. Obviously there's talk they want to get with Neymar and Neymar could be going to Chelsea. If you believe some of the rumours going round, Neymar, they do want Neymar. Apparently. But I've not heard that. That would be the last harrassment. Millie's the last there. Like the last big kind of super club that would take him. I don't think they're going to touch him. But it would be brilliant though, wouldn't it? It'd be mad to go for the season. Nes even out though on a bat out of the... Oh no, I mean obviously for Pochettino. Pochettino's on that would be incredible for the season. I've seen him talking to the dice and he'll finish his sport. Whether they want him or don't now. They may be like, what? I will. He may well end up there next season. The season after. That's obviously very interesting. How old do you think he'll play till? 14, if you give him a new contract.  No, he could kill us. His body is obviously unbelievable still. And his ability is still there. The way he's changed his game. Exactly, and his desire is still there. So he'll probably play for another three seasons. And be good for another three seasons. Depends what the desire is. I just don't know. Who could afford them? He may well go out. I mean, you talk on paris there. He may well just after end up staying in United and that's the way it is. No but do you really think that's going to happen now? I don't know. I know Chelsea have apparently dipped their toe in the water with them. And they're looking at other stuff at the moment. Because they do need, they're obviously Romelu Rikach, who's gone to Inter. They're talking about letting Brojig over. I mean, he's not really used them anyway. So it's not like that's a big loss for them. So he's left with Kai Havett and Timo Verna. Apparently Verna was off the ground. So what are they going to do? If they bring Staling in, I understand that. But they still could do with something through the middle. I just can't see the Chelsea deal happening. I can't see where else he'd go. And it would have to be someone like Paris. It would have to be Paris, otherwise everyone cuts the cloth of course. And the United let him go when he goes back to sport. Give the footballer what they want though, Paris. Come on. Messi and Ronaldo together. With Neymar. With Mbappe. Get rid of Neymar. And then suddenly you've got a front 3-day. You know? You've got Ronaldo. That's what I'm saying though. Bar Genafor i'r ddaw box office. That would absolutely be box office. You would not pay to get a ticket. The ticket would be ridiculous. It would be absolute box office. Make it happen. I know they watch. They go down in a sub for ages. Since last summer. He was like, I need to find out. He started watching us all. Doesn't understand anything we say. That would be interesting. I said it. It's going to be dead interesting. Can't seem slogging it in Europe, can you? No. Sporting dead in the Champions League. If you can't, maybe build a stall.  We'll see. It's going to be interesting to see what else develops. Make sure you get over to Bethfig, his YouTube channel. Watch the full last fan standing video. Leave your comments, leave a like and a share. Give us a like. And subscribe if you haven't. We'll see you later.


What is up guys welcome back to our channel. So first before we start out this video We want to say thank you guys for 2k subscribers But two plus K because yeah plus um really 2.2 now ever since we posted that Breakup prank we gained a lot of you guys when we started YouTube our goal in a year was one K Yeah, like we always say it's slowly but surely yeah That's been our motto literally ever since we started to yeah slowly but surely even though we're not there yet One day we will get there. Yeah, I'm just gonna take it somewhere. Yeah, but yeah Thank you for all the positivity that you guys been commenting Yeah, there's so many sweet comments and we get we're getting a lot of Instagram DMs Yeah, we read them like every second they come in. Yeah, we do we're like Or she's always texting me like hey, you know, I got this comment She says me screenshot of what you guys say mm-hmm. Thank you guys Welcome to our channel and the journey is just yeah get ready for the long haul Pushing away from all that stuff all that greatness. That's been happening and we need to Share stuff that it was not good story time. What happened to us? Yeah, so so we're gonna do Our breakup story time because I feel like it happens to most couples but the strong ones always like come back together Yeah, yeah before I start the video that was the only breakup we're gonna have okay So anybody who's gonna be siding the DMs Oh Sorry, but me and this kid are sat and you need to No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Okay. All right. I'm gonna start Okay, okay, we've been updating for almost two years now. Yeah, we started in March 22nd 2017 and Yeah, we've kept the date going so like it's been like what a year and a half Yeah, it's been a year and a half. Oh, it's gonna be two years soon, babe Yeah, and Jane probably March. There's only four months fine. Yeah. Oh, that's crazy. That's our plan. We're gonna do Let's just let's just get on to the point because like I'm pretty sure they want to hear what the juicy stuff Okay, don't don't be skipping because we're getting high. I'm not skipping and I'm gonna use then there's gonna be a name I'm gonna be using that's different from the actual name, but like the whole month Really really weird. I do not kept overthinking. I'm like babe. What's wrong like he didn't want to cuddle with me He barely caught up with me. I did I barely Don't think I was a bad boyfriend before I broke up with her, but like he was I was I was great And I'm like I got he started thinking weird because of an incident There was no incident. Okay, so let me tell me talk a little bit about what I saw before I'll tell you what actually he was being weird and I was like, oh god I was like something's about to come and this one day. I was down. We were downstairs watching walking dead and He wasn't sitting like he wouldn't come lay by me. I'm like, babe There is something up and you're not telling so there he got a snapchat notification. So I go Who's Barbara and he was I was like one of your guy friends because a name The original girl's name so it was like kind of like a guy name It looked like so I was like oh like just one of your guy friends and he goes Yeah, it's one of my guy friends the girl. It was a girl. He told me it was his guy friend So I just brushed off like I didn't even look I didn't think about it So then September the end of September October was when I was like, okay, what is going on? Like why are you? Being weird like just tell me and he just sat there for like 30 minutes trying to like just silence He didn't know what to say and finally he was just like, you know I like I don't want to break up with you and all this stuff and he he started like we always start crying But like he was kind of like I don't want to do this I don't know what I don't know. I'm just thinking weird all this stuff. So he broke up with me Obviously that night. Okay, just listen. Okay. It's not like I just didn't care about her Okay, I still loved her because literally like I walked her out to her car, you know we kissed now He pulled his eyes out and I swear to God. I went inside and as I was shutting the door behind me. I started like Just like bawling my eyes out. I'm not even kidding. That's what he knew He made a mistake, but he didn't realize he was making a mistake yet And my mom and dad were around me and they're you know, they knew something was up, too But wait the weird thing is we still we still hung out and we broke up like all the time No, like but like it was it was fine Like we it wasn't fine because we were broken up But we were at you know what broke up for like a month or something wait a month Yeah, and like every week we would like hang out go out to dinner We want to meet up like every week. Yeah, I really wanted to like ask her back out or not ask her back But okay, so we work together if anyone knew that funny funny story. I was about to say this Let me say this. Let me say this. So like no, I'm sitting out at the cafe. We worked at a grocery store She's the cashier away from all the cashiers because it's like a different It's like cafe separate from the other part of the store and I was sitting there on break So I'm a car guy and I feel so bad Terrible but she was like all sad so we were just talking and like I was trying to win him back I was just like I fought for him the entire time. I was just like Yeah, we know we could still start a YouTube channel as friends and see where it takes us from He goes you never know we can start dating. I look at him and go Why would you ever say that to me that is like it was so wrong that he would even think about saying something That's me because I was I was like baby. I just like I say babe. I was like Bill I think we said baby couple times, but I was like Bill like why don't you want me like I just don't understand because he was like Texting me he wanted to know everything I was doing he like It was just weird because I still loved you like I still I didn't want to break up Okay, so he says it wasn't for a girl, but Barbara was the reason was the reason it was getting in his head Okay, so one day I was at work. Okay. We were planning on getting back together We were talking on the phone and we were just like, okay. Well, he was like, well, let's just wait it off a little bit And let me think it through a little more, but just be prepared they're gonna get back together So that work and people at work were giving me hints about things where he was that most of them were in my class That work with me. They're also in the class that Barbara was in And they kind of like knew but like they didn't know what was going on. I heard they kissed and I go who I was with his best friend Shane like taught we were talking and stuff and I Was like just talking and he said the girls he said Barbara's name and I go Hey, I looked up the name on Instagram and the name that he told me was his guy friend Was the girl that he was snap chatting when he said it was a dude And it's the girl that he kissed and I put it all together and I Got I was I all added up together. I was like this little. I'm not a bad guy jerk Just so you guys know we were gonna get back together and I found going to get back and then I found all this out Okay, and I was like, you know my friend asked me really want to go out tonight.  I was like I was so upset. So I just want to get a mind off things It was just like a little get-together with people. We do you want to use another name? No, what was his name? He was like he was like stinky Hellbilly Freak face something like that All right, they're dirty and says Well, I told him that work goes what happened last night I looked at him and he knew exactly what happened and I was like I was like, sorry I was just like you weren't fighting for me that night when I when I went out and I find us all out He he was so like dry with me about it. Like he didn't care. He didn't seem like he cared He's like, I'm sorry like all this stuff. I'm like he if he really wanted me I thought he would fight for me that when I went out on you. No, I wanted you ever since the day He wanted to be with me anymore because of what happened and he had this whole thing where he's gonna surprise me with a song and Flowers and asked me back out.  Yeah, because I didn't know you actually were to come back to me Yeah, I okay. Well, he didn't make any effort to show me that so I thought we were kind of over so I just went out that night And um Yeah, what does that bring us to we? Yeah, anyone anyone that's watching this right now and thinks that I'm a bad boyfriend. You're wrong. I'm not a bad Great boy. We just thought we could talk about that with you guys because you saw the breakup praying you saw He's like I want to find a man like this. Okay, not every man is like perfect and I'm not either But like perfect if you could get past like certain things like situations like you want to try to like not have them but like There's something always that's gonna happen We just want you guys to know whether it be that bad or like not as bad, you know I was literally like over a year over a year ago now Now it was over year because this Halloween would have been a year. All right guys. Well, that was our first start time We hope you guys enjoyed it or we're all good now forever. 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A few things about the vortex, we've been at this location since 1994, so we've been building out this funky warehouse theater since then, just piece by piece, bit by bit, and we are celebrating our 25th birthday gala, there's information in your program about that, and that's next Friday and Saturday, so it'll be the 25th anniversary of our very first show ever in Austin, and we're really excited about that. For the kids, we have a Mad Hatter's Fairy Tea Party on Saturday from 5 to 7 on the 11th, so I invite you all to come back, wear your fairy wings, your princess outfits, and your Mad Hatter's, and celebrate with our families, and then the other entertainment, it runs for two nights, it's a full slate of programming, and all of this is to raise money for our new lighting system which we desperately need. And if there's more information about the vortex, you can get on our mailing list if you feel like this yellow form, and there's also what's coming up on our season. So if you all like dogs, please do remember if you haven't done so already to turn off your cell phones, and please no flash photography or texting, it distracts the dogs, alright? And we don't have an intermission in the performance tonight, but the butterfly bar is part of the vortex, and patrizies is part of the vortex, so if you want to stick around afterwards and have something to drink or have dinner, I can't recommend the Italian food if patrizies highly enough. I also want to give a shout out to all of our friends who are watching this performance tonight as being live streamed around the world on HowlRound. So HowlRound, dogs, it seems only appropriate, we want to welcome everybody on HowlRound and say thanks for being there. It may be just a couple of you, but hopefully they're watching from interesting, let us know where you're watching from, we're very interested to know who's watching the show tonight from remote locations. And we're going to be doing that a lot, so if you don't get out to the theater very much, you can check us out. We'll try to put all of our shows up at least once online so you can see it from your house. Thanks again so much, night, Linda.  Walks, get to train a dog. I think you can do all that, go get your brother and get ready for the party, and I'll set things up over here, okay? Okay guys. All right. I got the chips, I got the drinks. No, no, no. It's Claren here. I just sent her to a room. Excellent. I got a surprise for her. You got a surprise for her. This is a lot of responsibility, Darren. Sure. She has to feed the dog, just take it for walks. She has to train the dog? No, she doesn't. I'll train the dog. You can train dogs. Don't worry about that. You think you can train dogs? Oh, absolutely. Can you believe it? Well, I don't know. But I've got these two dogs right here. I'm fostering them because they've got so many problems. So let me show you what I can do with these two dogs right here. I mean, look, the way I train the dogs is I observe what they do naturally and I work with that. So I got into the shelter this morning and this dog right here was sleeping through his alarm. The alarm was going off because... She walked right up and she was doing her yoga exercises. Moves was doing downward facing dog. Mouse, they love each other so much. And so the first thing they do when they wake up, when they're both awake and they see each other, for the first time, they always give each other a big hug. Mouse. Of course. And then they always love each other more. Love each other more. I work with. Okay? What problems do you have? Oh, well, yep, sometimes you get so relaxed. But, okay, Mouse, can you lay down? Yeah. Right here, she's always, always being really wiggly. You should see Mouse. Come on, Mouse. He's even worse.  And Moves promised she would start taking showers all by herself. She promised she was going to take a shower this morning. But does it look like she took a shower? She's still all scratchy, isn't she? She popped it the other day. And she wasn't going to adopt her little broken family. And I've already don't have a mommy. And Moves was like, I don't even know what that means. But Moves did the worst thing she could do. She started jumping on the woman. And so they told me to take the dogs home with me and foster them and get them some training. So that's what I'm doing. You're supposed to prove to me that you can train them there. Oh, right. Yeah, yeah, so I just work on what they can naturally. And watch it. After you let them get their energy out, you can ask them to sit. So I'll tell you what. Here it says Jingles. Is that the name of the jingle? Yeah, okay. I'll give you Jingles back. All right. Put Jingles in the box. Okay. And then I'll call Claire and Fritz. They'll come down for the party, okay? I'll put Jingles in the box. Put her in the box. Okay, okay. Clara and Fritz, come on down. You'll never believe what your godfather brought you. Clara? Oh, wow. Yeah. Move what I got for you, Clara. I got you, the best dog in the whole world. Right here, you take this dog to the circus. That's good. And this dog could be like the man on the flying trapeze. Woo. Okay, you need to train this dog, okay? Okay, you can take this dog on trips with you. I'll tell her. To Paris. And you take it, even get shipped. Now, you can even... Oh, here's something you can't do with a regular dog. You can actually juggle this dog. Whoa. If you'd like to have a dog, you can juggle. That won't be juggling. Juggling. Merry Christmas, Clara. One more. At first, you're going to your room. This isn't what Darren and me talked about, okay? This is a surprise to me, too. There better be something else. There better be something else in the box, okay? There better be something else in the box, okay? Okay, because it just so happens, I did put a dog in here. Woof, woof, woof. Woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof.  It's not a real dog. It's just a pumbet. I just wanted to have... I want you to fix this. Okay, okay. All right, okay. Now, I promised earlier he brought something far cuter. And I'm trying to make sure that he takes care of it now, and you're going to love the gift. And we're going to help you take care of it. It's the thing you always wanted, okay? Now it looks like Derrick's taking care of it now and all right we're ready. Are you ready? Are you ready? We're going to open your present. Are you ready? Here we go. All right, let's see. Let's see. Up, up, up, up, up. Wait, Derrick. Why is that box empty? I saw you put a dog in there. No, no, no, no, no. Wait, Derrick. Wait, wait, wait. Tim it over. Maybe it's. Maybe it's. Okay, let's look really carefully. Look. Do you see? Oh no. I promise that we, Derrick got you a dog. We're going to find the dog and then we'll bring it to you, okay? Where's the dog? Go to your room and we'll fix it. Sorry, Clara. Your dad didn't want you to have the dog. What? You put it in the right box. Of course it can happen. Nothing. Sweet. Sweet. We can show up. Yeah, it's the land of the muck record. Sweet. She may not want to go. She may be too scared. Hey, Clara. Let me ask you. How would you feel about going to the land of the muck? We shouldn't talk to him. Aw, the weak link. Okay, yes. Go, go get Lauren. Okay, let me get the Lauren. Me and Derrick have been friends with this power captain a long time ago. I know. I know. It sounds dangerous. But this is a friendly power captain and his first mate is kind of his weak link. Right now he's kind of grumpy. But if we convince the first mate that you're a good person, then you can come on the ship. This is Lauren McCall. Yes. Now, Lauren wasn't always makes me play the part of the pirate captain. He walked right up to Lauren. He's looking for new cons here to walk right up to Lauren and said, hello. Pirate said, hey, how would you like to be a pirate? And Lauren's like, no. And he's like, are you sure? And she's like, no, maybe I better bribe her. And he was like, okay, I'm glad I have. And Lauren was like, do I like lollipop? And she broke out in song. She was like, why would you like to be a pirate? So she made up a song about it. So she would remember it goes one parties and she would sing happy. That was what she broke in with. She was like, she was like jokes get. She didn't make much money with knock, knock jokes out. Here's Lauren doing an impression of a dog. See, she's a fleabit mongrel. It's hilarious. She pretty much had her degree in aerospace engineering. And this is what she learned to do. Three, you know, she'd come to where she really liked that pirate captain. And she was starting to fall in love with him. And so she would blow him kisses. She would blow the pirate captain kisses.  So let's see if she'll blow you a kiss, Claire. Are you going to blow Claire a kiss, Lauren? You are. Okay, blow a kiss. Now, if she really likes you, she'll actually give you a kiss, Claire. So, Lauren, you want to give me a kiss? All right.  Oh, no, wait a minute. She doesn't want to kiss me. She wants to bite me. Ow!  Sweet! All right, Lauren. Now, you just follow. This time as well, you need stories. Let me introduce you to Captain. Have you come up here? His name is Captain Sandwich. My call for the last must go below. Like a store-biddle. With your quick. She had the small. King. As I ate them all, the time.. I ate them all. And then I met a maiden. The fares in the land. They promised her the new. I got my tools. I ate them all, the time. I ate them all, my summer.  No more, no more, no more, no more, no more, no more. So to show everybody just how well trained and handling our dogs are, and the connection Darren has. And when Darren says, stay somewhere, they're going to stay there, no matter what. Yeah, when you see how out of control these dogs are, the door's running around, they're jumping on stuff. So I taught the dogs to stay on this box so that, okay, it's fine to one little space. So I told Moose and Mouse, y'all, stay on the box, and that way, like the doorbell rings, you can go into the doorbell, and, oh, yeah, sometimes this on is under. She gets confused with prepositions. Mouse, mouse, so, oh, maybe she's under the box. Maybe she's under the box, yeah. Mouse. Oh, man, what's the dog, Darren? Oh, wait, I used it the whole time. There he is, come on, that's perfect. Yeah, I don't know how that happened. Oh, it's okay, we'll move on. Okay, it goes to show how well trained our dogs are. Now, one of the things that makes our circus really kind of intriguing and new is that we always bring in new acts and new talent. For example, we just got two new puppies that we're bringing into the circus. Yeah, well, we don't like to have, like, old dog being in the old chaos and stuff. Hey, Darren, how about I talk and you get the dogs?  Squirrel. That one is squirrel and this one is coyote. It's so that, you know, he starts getting anywhere close to you. Run, okay? All right, total chaos. Don't say no, it is true. Okay, this is like crazy. So, I think he's been regressing to, if you sit. That's coyote, they wear him out a lot more than us. So, yes, he goes for like 10 times more of a walk than we do. We take him for a walk. There you go, good dog. Now, yes, he is having problems. I just recently, I heard this thing called a woman there. Oh, yeah, is there any smells that Kelly really likes? Maybe I'll have to calm him down.  I don't know, actually destroyed backstage? Yes, yes. And I see you got a new trash can lid. Well, I was trying to make sure Kelly couldn't get into it. Yeah, he doesn't know how to work this one, but I've been working with him on how to open different kinds of trash can lids. Why would you work with him on that?  If you want to, you wanna find things that the dogs like to do. Can we find things I like them to do? Sure. Well, that's a not, okay? We like to go with positives. See, oh, he figured it out. You just bought that, Derek?  Okay, he's just like hard for you. You can't get in there. Maybe you can wind up having a crash, since you love trash so much. Now, this dog right here, this is Squirrel. Okay, okay, he's got a, I say he. Okay, it's a green vest, because he's such a new dog. He's our little green horn. You see, he was aspiring to be a long horn, but Squirrel, Squirrel is more than a boy, so I get confused sometimes, but he gender identifies as a girl. Not so much because of the gender, I don't think, but because he loves the term Squirrel girl. Squirrel girl. Sometimes he'll sit. She, yeah. It's to go around things. He's tricks up. I've never seen him do this before. Okay, the first time I've ever seen him do this. Hey, Gary, where'd you put this at our show? Come here, come here. What else would you want to do here today? A song for my sister Clara. Oh, that's very sweet. Say what? What were they called tricks?  Yeah. So, Gary, can you tell us a little about the touching? This is a cowboy. Yes, well Moose told me that cowboys in the old west used to jump rope than kids today do. So, I'm gonna show you how Moose taught me to jump rope. This is how Moose told me a cowboy would spin his rope, and this is how a cowboy jumps rope. Grab the rope, and Moose started spinning the rope. Spin, spin, spin, spin. That eventually they rolled and taken out. What? After the mouse came some of his mouse maintenance. No, I know, no, no. I know you thought they were gross, and I was pretty good with them, but. But after jumping till it turns out they actually really liked being juggled. Oh, really? It's like a roller coaster ride. Oh, so they sprinted us into juggling them? Kind of, yeah. I don't know, they didn't know they liked it back then, but they do now. And so they wanted to join our circus as part of an act to be juggled. Okay, you think you could do that? Sure. I better put the dogs away, because they might like juggling. What? Okay, you know how they like eating juggling? I guess we both just go off stage for a second. Okay, oh, that's one thing I can't do, sorry.  Do the same trick, but better. Found this porcelain tri-bone. Wow, it's got beautiful color. I know, right? And so, one leg, no one seems impressed. Wow. What do you want to do to top that? Probably nothing. I doubt it, yes. Likely, no. Okay, oh, well, I don't know. Here's something more dangerous than you might think. Wait, my mouth is open. Oh, good. I'm sorry. One of my props. I'm so conscious, called a unicycle. Where did you get this? I got it at a bicycle shop. I thought it was half off. Of course. See, I'm gonna bounce this on my face. Yeah. Have you written it yet? Well, I can't actually write it, but I've been practicing all day long, and I had one of those Strava devices, a GPS device, and I was going along the wall, back and forth, all day long, trying to figure out how to write it, and I never got to where I could write it, but I was trying really hard, sweating profusely, all day long, and that GPS device said that I've gone 25 miles. 25 miles. Yes. Sweating profusely. Yes. Sitting here. Right. And I swear it up with my face. Remember how you ate all the fresh fruits and vegetables? I like bananas, okay? Yeah, I know, but there was only one thing I could find left to eat. It wasn't the three cans of beans. Oh! I was making shorts yesterday. Is that anything? I'm regretting this now. Okay, all right, here we go. Can I change where I'm gonna fell? No? All right. It's a good thing. That's it. Ready? Okay. I was not asking you, I was asking me, because it's a little... Right, right. It's a two step program for writing a unicycle. Yeah. What? Step one is to get on the unicycle. Okay. Step two is, you don't fall off. Whoa, I never, you know, that makes so much sense. Right? All right, let's see.  It's so easy. What with those banana peels? You know me, I throw them wherever I want to put them. There's a banana peel on my pedal. Oh no, my foot is slipping off the pedal. Pass something on to the circus. Really? Yeah, for a very good price. You didn't tell me. It's... I'm gonna pour you out. Oh. Oh. So how much was it? I don't know. Which side goes out? It was only $5,000. Oh. Man, he really liked us. Yeah, he did. So I'll tell you what. Why don't you play a little musical instrument on that thing over there. Challenging balancing pose over K. Okay? All together? All together right now. And at the same time? Yes. And simultaneously? And to make things easier for you, I'll stay on stage, so at least I'll have ICANN. Okay. To be part of the special show, with special night lights, to help kind of lull them into a nice sleep. Is that okay to you? Now, Darren's gonna help us out. We'll go to sleep, and in the morning we'll figure out what we're gonna do about it, okay? All right. Good night, Clara.


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