Do the Ravens have their very own version of Jamal Adams within Deshaun Elliott? Who is the most important player or coach heading into this season for the Baltimore Ravens? With Earl Thomas having been released from the Ravens, how will this impact rookie safety, Geno Stone? These and many many more questions on this episode of NFL Questions from Subscribers. If you want to be part of NFL Questions from Subscribers, you can send me an email to teamkeepitclean at gmail.com and we'll answer your question in a video just like this. And sometimes we even do live stream questions from subscribers, so they always super fun. We always have a lot of extra fun in the live stream. I mean, we have a lot of fun on the videos, but the live stream is just a whole different vibe. But anyway, shout out to y'all, man. Appreciate y'all. We got new merch. Make sure you check out the merch. If you want to support the channel in any kind of way, all of that information is down below in the description. If you ever want to send something to teamkeepitclean, that the PO box is down below in the description. Everything's down there, man. Everything's down there. We got a lot of questions to get into. It has been a wild couple of days. The date that I'm recording this is Monday, August 24th. When you see this, hey, who knows? Because I'm sure it's going to be a lot more wild stuff going on in the NFL over the next couple of days, especially when we find out where Earl Thomas will land. And we of course got a lot of questions about the safety that we just got a lot of questions. Let's get into it without wasting any more time. Let's go. First question came from my boy Kevin E. He said, I watched your video and listened to your very valid concerns. And this is about the Sean Elliott. He said, also, the utmost and well-deserved respect for Earl Thomas. Now, with all that out of the way, I'm more optimistic about this because of Elliott's path and connection. He came in with Chuck Clark. Chuck has been holding the Sean down and in his ear all two years. Plus Eric Guetta, Tony Jefferson and Earl Thomas as well. This dude should have a master's at safety. LOL. I believe because of his age, if he stays healthy, we have improved our defense in a weird way. The media even asked Mark Andrews about him and his response was mainly this dude be flying all over the field. What do you thought, sir? LOL. And do we get all very own Jamal Adams? And that's what the Sean Elliott has certainly been compared to. I feel like I said the Sean Adams. But anyway, that's who the Sean Elliott has been compared to a lot of Jamal Adams. Because he has that speed. You can move him around. He can do different things and he can hit me. He can hit, but the one thing is just has been the injuries. He had the forearm fracture and then he had the knee injury, leg injury last year. So they've been two different injuries, but still injuries nonetheless. And you got to be on the field. You got to be able to stay on the field. Now, will the defense, will the defense be better with him than Earl Thomas? I can't say that. I cannot. I'm not going to sit up here and say just because I'm excited to see him play that, the defense overall will be better because obviously, Earl Thomas is the better safety. Earl Thomas got all the experience and even when it's one thing, even when you slow down, even when you ain't got the moves that you want to have, I mean, that you once had, even when you're not as fast as you want to be as you once were. Excuse me. I cannot talk today. Your experience and your knowledge of the game, it helps. And even with Earl Thomas last year, they said he didn't ever come to a complete comprehension of the defensive playbook. But he still did really good last year. He still had a good year. And again, of course, people are going to hate on him and stuff because everything that happened and the love, but he still had a good year last year.  No, that's not the case. I want him to be. And I wanted to get to the point where it's like, oh, Earl Thomas who? Oh, yeah, we got the Sean. We're good. I wanted to get to that. But we got to tempo our expectations and know that the Sean Elliott, he's played six games. He's played six games. Like Earl's played nine, 10 years. The Sean Elliott has played six games in NFL. And I'm not saying that he can't get it.  I think he's going to be actually pretty good. But just know that there's going to be mistakes along the way. It's a process. It's a process. It's not going to come like, well, I mean, we hope it does, but you shouldn't expect it to come like that. It's going to be a process. So I just, I hope Ravens fans are very patient with the Sean Elliott. And don't just expect his side of the field to be all of a sudden locked down once he goes over there and nobody gets any deep heads on him, anything like that. Just expect the bumps in the road because that stuff happens. Do I expect him to be good? Yes, but do I expect there to still be problems and mistakes and hiccups along the way? Yes. Next question came from a boy, Ramel. He said, you ain't gravy. And I was laying down up at 2am thinking about other guys we could bring in to replace Earl Thomas. And for some reason, the name crossed my mind, Eric Berry. He's arguably one of the top five and probably the most talented safeties in the last decade. Oh, okay. I thought you were saying like top five like right now is going to be like, hold up. This dude ain't played into you anyway. And don't know why he's out of the league, but I'm sure he's ready to get another shot to show the NFL who he is and add a Super Bowl to his short-played Hall of Fame resume. Love and as always, hashtag team keep it clean. Appreciate it, Ramel. That's the name that I've been seeing so much in the comment section and on Twitter and stuff, Instagram and all that stuff. It's obviously a possibility. They could work him out, see what he's got. I believe the first year he took off was just to try to get back in football shape after everything had happened. I don't know what the status of Eric Berry is right now though. I don't know what his status is. I don't know if he still wants to play. I don't know if he's trying to play. I have no clue if he could be the Eric Berry that he once was because I remember when he first came back. When he first came back and I think he played for the Chiefs and he played in that playoff game. And oh boy. Grunkowski. I mean it is Grunkowski. Grunkowski like push him to the side like he was nothing, but it is wrong though. But if he could be the Eric Berry of old, I wouldn't expect him to be, but it'd be nice if he could. That'd be cool. But if not, and I don't really expect him to look at Eric Berry. But again, I don't know what his status is right now. But if he could be the Eric Berry that he used to be or even a fraction of that, not necessarily a fraction of that. But if he could be like 75% of that. Okay, cool. Bring him on for that. Next question came from a boy Justin P. He said, ain't great when what's going on my good brother. Hope all is well down in Florida. Although I didn't agree with the release of all pro Earl Thomas, but I understand it with that being said. Do you think we should go with the in-house guys like the Sean Elliott, Geno Stone, Nigel Warrior or a sign event safety like Eric Reed, Eric Berry, Rashad Jones. Oh, I forgot about Rashad Jones. He did get cut this off season. Wow. I completely forgot about him.  I forgot all about him or Morgan Burnett or bring back fan favorite Tony the recruiter Jefferson. AKA TJ. I don't know how the cap is looking, especially after the release of Earl. So let me know your thoughts and go Ravens. My preference. There's I think there's Malik Hooker too, I think. When you take all things into consideration, as far as cap and what I think the Raven should do because you got you got to keep cap in mind. Because I know a lot of people talking about Logan Ryan and I'm sure Logan Ryan questions going to come up later on to the in this episode is a question from subscriber to but Ravens. I'm not sure what their cap is right now after the release of Earl Thomas. I know that they had a little over seven million cap space before the release. So after because I know they're not they're not just getting all 10 mil back like that because they got to go through the whole grievance process and all that blah, blah, blah. They got to go through the whole process. So we'll see how that goes. I like I like in house and I know it's a big risk, but I think I think it'll be a mix of both actually in house because I would be excited for the Sean Elliott to start. But in house mixed with a veteran free agent. So you can have somebody with some experience just in case anything happens. Because after the Sean Elliott is Geno stone. Yeah, Nigel warrior for now it's not a guarantee that he makes the roster but Nigel warrior for now and not saying that a rookie couldn't come in and do it because we've seen it before. And it does not matter if somebody drafted in the first round the second round undrafted whatever somebody can play they can play like straight up man. So I just I don't like when people they make it like these rookies or young players are incapable of coming in and balling. Just because just because they're young and inexperienced doesn't mean they can't come in and kill it. But at the same time you do want to temper your expectations with somebody that's really young. And that's why teams signed veteran players because veterans done been there done that they know the NFL they done been around the league and whatnot they know this stuff. So I think it'll be a mix of both. I think they'll get like a low key free agent. I don't think they're going to get Logan Ryan. I wouldn't mind if they did but I don't think they're going to get him. I think they're going to get somebody more low key than Logan Ryan to come to come into the Ravens and just be a backup and possibly even push the Sean Elliott just to bring even better out of him and training camp to really make him earn that spot. Next question came from a boy Matthew D. He said which would you prefer Ravens to sign Clowney and use in house in house replacements for free safety or sign Logan Ryan and have him replace or Thomas love your videos man. And thanks for taking the time to answer this. Appreciate it man. Thank you man. If I had to choose, I would say Clowney. I would say Clowney straight up man. Y'all already know me. I would say Clowney because his job, what he could bring could make everybody's job that much easier. He's really good in run defense. That's his specialty. He's really good in run support man. And then as a pass rusher, he can be disruptive too. As a pass rusher, I feel like he would be running around almost free.  And there's more too. But Pernel McPhee as well. You got Jelly. You got a Jihad Ward. Like my point is if you, you can't double team everybody. And if they brought in Judavia and Clowney, he would have a lot of people around him. And again, those people would have even more help around them. So it will be a win-win situation man. And then he makes the secondary job easier by helping with the pass rush. He makes the secondary job easier because he can help force teams to become one dimension. Did I say Calaisus Campbell? I feel like I didn't. I apologize if I didn't. But he can make the offense become one dimensional by stopping and helping stop the run game. And then forcing them to be passing, passing, passing. And then they just go get after it. So my choice would be Judavia and Clowney. Next question came from my boy BT. He said, ain't gravy on what's going on? I wanted to get your opinion on, do you believe the Ravens wanted to cut ties with Earl Thomas after last season? I do. He said with his contract that didn't have any reasonable cause to do so. I like the videos and keep up the good work. Hey, appreciate that BT. Thank you man. I appreciate that a lot my friend. Yeah, I do. Because this has obviously been going on for a while. And they said it stem back to last year, during last season. So like, there's sometimes when it may take a little while. But there's other times when you could be in a situation and you just know the vibe is off. You know the vibe is off and it's just, it ain't working out. And the one of the best situations I can liken it to is probably dating somebody. You go on the first date. Even if you go on a couple dates, first date is usually a little bit awkward. So, but some first dates, the vibe, you just click. But with the first couple dates, it could be a little awkward for a little bit. But after a little while, it'd be like, okay, all right, I'm with it. But if that vibe is just, if it continues to be off, then it's just, it ain't gonna be no connection there. It ain't gonna be no good vibe there. And it's just gonna be like, okay, what are we doing? So that's what it seemed like it was with the Ravens. They went on their first date. Maybe it was a little off initially. And then they still kept going on, out on a couple more dates. And the vibe is, things just got worse and worse. And they try to, it's almost like they may have tried to be like, oh, let's try to get through it. Because the Ravens may have been looking at Earl Thomas, like, not that he's a girl, obviously, but the Ravens would have been a boy and Earl Thomas would have been the person that they were dating. They'd be like, oh, well, it's pretty. It looks good with us. It looks real good with us. And it can make us look even better. So you know what, let's try to get past it. But no, didn't work out. Our next question came from a boy, Dave. He said, do you think the Ravens regret letting this Darius Smith go? Ooh, do they regret letting Z Smith go? I don't think so. Like, yes and no, but I don't think it's necessarily a regret. I think it's that they just, they weren't ready to invest in him financially. And I think they had a lot of other financial decisions they needed to make.  And I think that's the biggest reason why they let him go. Because of the money. Because he was coming into his own. He was doing his thing. I was happy for him. I was ready for him to do his thing. But I knew he wasn't going to get re-signed though. I knew he wasn't going to get re-signed. Shout out to Z Darius Smith though. Because he was watching one of our videos the other day. And he put it on his Instagram story. So shout out to him for that. But yeah, I never thought that he would be re-signed by the Ravens. But I do think they may have wanted to keep him. But I think their mindset was already like, oh yeah, this is his last year. Because the money. Next question came from a boy, Ricky D. He said, what are your thoughts on comparing 2020 Ravens to 2000 Ravens? I think you can. Because we're stacked all across the board. Our D-line will be as dominant if not more. Our subs are capable starters. Our corners were better than C-Mac and Dwayne Starks. Our coaching staff is better. And then the ice on the cake, our QB is 10 times better than Dilfer and Flacco. With that, I smell Dynasty. Now I don't think you can compare 2020 Ravens to 2000 Ravens at all. Because that defense was just straight dominant, man. They were dominant. Now if the 2020 Ravens, do they have the capability to be dominant? They do. Will they? I don't know. Because this age of football is a lot different. You can't get away with everything that you can get away with before. But that's why I commended the Ravens defense from two years ago so much. Because they were ranked number one and they were a legitimate number one. And they went against a lot of good quarterbacks, too. And I was just like, wow, these dudes, they did that thing, man. But I don't think you can compare the two, though. Because it's two completely different types of teams, man. 2000, they just defense, defense, defense. And I'm saying that this team can't be defense, too. But we'll see. But will they be a straight up dominant defense?  I would love to see it. I would love to see that. Because they got skilled all over, man. Now it's funny because he actually sent this before or Thomas got cut. I wonder if he will say the same thing after. Next question came from a boy, Gamers O'Have. He said, I ain't graven, love you, continue your positive energy. Keep up the hard work. I appreciate it, Gamers. Thank you, man. He said, before I get to my question, it seems no one has ever talked about this. But the last time Steelers played us, they kept hitting RG3 on those RPOs. I feel like that is very important to note and most teams might, especially Steelers again, take that approach of taking free shots at the quarterback every time on an RPO. What are your thoughts on that? That's part of the game. That's part of the game. Some things with the game change, a lot of things end up staying the same. If you recall, Terrell Suggs back in, oh, I forget what year it was. But it was, I think it was a pre-season game. It was a pre-season game and the Ravens were going to play, I want to say, the Eagles.  And they ran a lot of RPO. And what did the Ravens do? They talked about it. And then I bring up Terrell Suggs because he talked about it a couple of years later in a pre-season game. I think against Carson Wentz, oh, no, no, Sam Bradford, that was it. Sam Bradford because the Eagles, they ran a lot of RPOs and Terrell Suggs was like, hey, if they want to run them RPOs, we are going to hit the quarterback because it's a free shot. He said, we're going to hit him because he said we're going to hit him every play. Every time they do that, we're going to hit him. Yeah, I could understand if people did that against Lamar because you could try to instill fear in the opposing quarterback. When they run into RPOs, you could try to make them scared to be like, oh, man, I don't want to run it. Oh, man, if we keep doing these RPOs, I'm going to keep getting hit. That would be the defenses. That would be their goal to try to intimidate the quarterback. So I expected it to be done even more. And again, like I said, and like Terrell Suggs said too, with the RPOs, the quarterback, it's a free shot. It's a free shot. So you have the opportunity. You can hit the quarterback. It ain't no late hit. It ain't no unnecessary roughness. It's a free shot because it's an RPO play. So shout out to Terrell and Alonzo, man. He said, OK, let's get to the question. I know another subscriber asked if hardball could be replaced by G-Row. I got another question. What are your thoughts on about if we switch to question when we win the Super Bowl this year? If we were to lose G-Row, how would that affect the team and even bigger Lamar as he built the system around Lamar Jackson? Take care and be safe during these trying times. Thanks for the views and keep up the good work. Appreciate it, Terrell, and again, appreciate you and your pops too, man. I know sometimes I be like Carter's in school now, of course it's from home. I remember the other day I was like, oh man, I got to tighten up. I was watching the Ravens practice, the little livestream that they be doing for their practice. And then Carter, it was while Carter was in school. So I see him, I catch him looking over my phone too and really adjusting his seat and fixing his seat. So he can be more comfortable and have a better view of my phone while I'm watching the practice. I was like, oh, all right, Carter, let me just turn this off, man, because it's distracting the both of us. So that father-son thing, that's a special relationship, man. So I'm glad you got that with your pops, man. But to the question, he said, when we win the Super Bowl this year, if we were to lose G-Row, how would that affect the team and even bigger, how would it affect Lamar? I expect that to happen, all of those things. One, Ravens win the Super Bowl and also Greg Roman to leave for head coaching opportunity. And I think that it would, you got a couple options. One of those options is QB coach James Urban. He's obviously familiar with the offense. He's a QB coach after all. So he's definitely familiar with the offense. So he could be a candidate. My guy, Nitro, made a very good point because I had brought this up a while back about James Urban probably possibly being a replacement for Greg Roman or it's James Urban because I actually think if Greg Roman left that he would want to hire James Urban as his offensive coordinator. But my guy, Nitro, made a good point and said, well, it all could depend on if what's, because the grass might not be greener on the other side, especially at the quarterback position. Because James Urban could look and be like, ooh, I got Lamar Jackson and then look at whatever the other quarterback was for whatever Greg Roman ends up going. And then he'd be like, ooh, yikes, I don't know about this one. So it would all just depend. And it'll all depend on what the Ravens wanted to. Ravens would actually have to make that move. Another option I think would be David Cully. Oh, this question came on August 20th. So bear with us. It says, A and Grave, oh, it's from my boy Brandon B. He said, A and Grave, and I like your videos. Appreciate it, man. Giving me some really good access about the Ravens. High quality and all. Keep up the good work. Appreciate it, man. I hope your family is doing good. We're doing pretty good, man. He said, to my question regarding the X factor, there's Brian. I know that there's Brian left Baltimore after his workout with no contract agreed upon. Do you think that the Ravens didn't offer him a deal upfront because of Dwayne Harris also working out too? I don't know how the workouts went, but my guess is that it had to go good enough for the Ravens to have to figure out if they want either there's Brian or Dwayne Harris, or potentially both. But in Graven, I wouldn't be surprised if they signed both to one-year deals, maybe two at most for Brian. Ravens have tough decisions to make. They might as well sign both. One is an elite pass catcher as a receiver. Ooh. The other is an excellent special team. It would be hard not to pick both. What are your thoughts? In Graven, sorry, the email is long, bro. This email ain't long. Trust me, it's not. Like I told y'all from Jump, man. I never thought, again, things could have obviously changed. They haven't yet, but things could change. But I never thought the Ravens were signing there's Brian. I never thought that they were going to sign him. Ever. Of course, Barstool Banks, he said that he heard that the workout didn't go so good. He said he heard that there's Brian was throwing up all over the place after running a couple routes. And he was really out of shape. So, hey, who knows, man? But I never envisioned them signing there's Brian. I still don't envision them signing there's Brian. Even after putting Antoine Wesley on injured reserve so they're down a receiver. Never envisioned them signing there's Brian. Even with Chris Moore still being out with his broken. Maybe he returned to practice today, but I don't think they're going to sign there's Brian. I still don't. As far as Dwayne Harris, I think they could sign him. Especially since he played special teams too. He could help push James Pro Shae even more. Because James Pro Shae is a front runner to be the return man. But a little competition don't hurt me. I always say timing is everything. And it is a beautiful thing, man. Next question came from my boy Chris Hall. He said, who is the most important player or coach on this team heading into this season for the Ravens? The most important player or coach on the team. So player got to go with Lamar Jackson. I know it's just such a repeated answer and whatnot. But this is the truest answer, man. Everything runs through Lamar Jackson. Because he's obviously the starting quarterback. And he is definitely better than his backups. He's faster than the backups. Can make more plays happen than the backups. And that's not a shout at the backups, but that's just the truth. The running game, it feeds off of him because so many teams are scared of him taking off. A lot of teams are more scared of him taking off than the running backs. And then of course the passing game, it obviously all goes through him since he's the quarterback. And then the defense.  I mean these long drives and strong drives too. So he keeps the defense off the field for longer.  So I would definitely say it's Lamar Jackson without a doubt. As far as the most important, coach headed into the season for the Ravens, I would say hardball. I would say hardball because all final decisions, they go through him. If something bad is happening on offense, he got the power to change it. If something bad is happening on defense, he got the power to change it. To change the play call, to change the person that you change, whatever. Since he is the head coach, he's not a coordinator, he's not an offense or defensive coordinator. He's not a position coach. No, this dude is the head coach of everything, of the entire team. So I would say he's the most important coach heading into this season. His next question is, you don't seem to think the Ravens are going to sign there as Bryan or Antonio Brown. Me neither. I don't think they'll trade for one considering it's too late unless it's the trade deadline. My dad says he doesn't think the Ravens are going to open up the passing game because they haven't traded for a receiver or signed one yet except for Chris Moore. But I told him maybe they're trying to rely on their young guns. Maybe, but he really doesn't think so. He told me how you expect him to develop into a great passer when you're not giving him any legit outside threats that demand attention. He said, my dad thinks the Ravens are going to do the more like they did. Flacco, surround him with no weapons. Give him weapons now while he's on a rookie deal because when he's getting paid and taking a fat chunk of that cap, he's going to be no good, says my dad. But enough of that, real question is, do you think there's Bryan as a smokescreen for the former Cleveland Brown Taylor Gabriel? I forget about Taylor Gabriel, man. I forgot that he is out there as a free agent. No, man. I think if I just know, I don't think he'll be the guy. I don't, I don't. Ravens are just, I don't know, man. I do not think there's Bryan is going to be an option like you all already know. Antonio Brown, I don't think that's happening either just because of this whole Earl Thomas thing. With this whole Earl Thomas thing, that just shows you like these dudes, I don't even think they are, I don't even think they're taking a risk on anybody that they even think is a risk. I don't even think they're going to bother with that either, man. Because if they were willing to cut Earl Thomas, who was one year into a $55 million deal with some mill guarantee, if they were willing to cut him in the second year before you did, oh my goodness. Then I don't think they're going to take any chances, man. And again, I still don't think that Antonio Brown will come in and mess things up. But I don't even think the Ravens are going to take the chance on that. So their best options, yeah, they will come via trade. Will the Ravens do that? Hey, we're going to see. But I know your dad does make a good point. But it could be that they are just hoping for their own. It could be. Maybe they just like, hey, let's just let's roll out what we got. We had a pretty successful season last year and we didn't even open things up, even though when they did really open things up in the playoffs. It got ugly. But that is such a great point and something that we don't want to happen. We don't want the Ravens to do Lamar like they did Flacco where they don't give him consistent weapons. Because with Flacco, it's crazy because you see what happens when they gave him weapons that he could grow and develop with. It's crazy. Tori Smith, Ray Rice. Tori Smith and Ray Rice. Those were some of the guys that he played with for the longest and look how great they were for him. Look at it. And then you would bring in these, Derrick Mason, he was really good. And Kwame Bowden, he was really good. Steve Smith, he was really good for the first year. Even though in the first game, he dropped everything. That dude had so many drops in that first game. It was crazy. Please watch that first game if you ain't watched it already. Watch his first game with the Ravens against the Bingo. That dude was dropping everything, but he certainly made up for it. But they didn't really give Flacco many weapons, man. Especially at Receiver. Especially at Receiver. Ravens, again, apparently they tried to trade for the Andre Hopkins. If that's true, man, that's great. That's great. What's the follow-up now, man? What's the follow-up? You got Duvenay and Proshay. And of course you hope those guys do really great. But what else? You're gonna rely on breaking. Now you ain't got no problem with that. Hey, if you're gonna roll with the young dudes, okay. All right, let's get it. You know, I'm rocking with it. But I still understand if they signed a vet. If they brought in a vet. And I still do expect them to. I know I haven't really been saying it recently, but I still expect them to. Who would that be, though? No clue. And you said, by the way, this might be my last question for a while because I'm not that good at them, LOL. You're fine, man. I think to myself that it's a fire question. But then when I hear your reaction, it's like, eh, okay, but thanks for your time. It's always... What are you talking about, man? You gotta chill out, man. Questions are fine, man. So yeah, that's... Your dad brings up really good points, man. Really good points. Taylor Gabriel, no, no. Next question came from a boy, John Moore. He said, yo, yo, what up? Hope you're in a family doing good. My question is what percent chance of Jalil... What percent chance do you give Jalil Scott of making a team? Probably 10%. I just... I don't think that he's really valued by them, especially since he was an Aussie guy, not a Ducasta guy. I just... I don't think he's going to end up making the team. I don't really think he's going to get much opportunity. Of course, no preseason. That certainly didn't help at all, but I just... I don't think he's going to make the team. He said, who do you think will be the Stash wide receiver? Do you think all will have a chance to be on the field all 16 games instead of the very last game? Well, a Stash wide receiver, really just a Stash player, somebody who they put on injury reserve with some injury, just so they can keep them around for another year. If they do have one of those... Well, Antoine Wessie, maybe he is it. He could be that guy since he got put on the injury reserve a couple of days ago. I don't really see any more candidates to be Stashed like that. Oh, Jacob Breeland. There we go. I know you're the tight end, but Jacob Breeland, that's one. And he said last, if you were the GM, who would you bring in? Antonio Brown or Dez Bryant? Or would you let the young receiver shine? I would bring in Antonio Brown. If it was up to me, it would be AB. Next question came from a boy, Antonio A. She said, I ain't gravy much love, man, to you and your family. Appreciate it, man. He said, I want to get right into it with the Earl Thomas-Chuck Clark situation. Does that leave room for Geno Stone to step in with more playing time? I'm hoping so, seeing that Earl can at times be a distraction to the team. I was at that Seattle game and that game solidified that run we had and just wanted to mention that being at the game was my season Super Bowl. I'm expecting nothing but the best from our Ravens and hopes to a Super Bowl run in LeMars' third season. Getting much love from Antonio H. He said, oh yeah, we all need to go cop our Oakley Shades in big trust. It certainly could. It certainly could. Because Geno Stone is often not necessarily a forgotten man, but he obviously with the Sean Elliott getting the one being talked about the most. Geno Stone, he could be right there too. He could be right there too and his playing time, it just went up a lot. His chances of making the roster just went up a lot. I don't think he was allowed to make the roster. I know I heard a lot of good things about him, but you're only going to keep so many safeties. You're only going to keep so much of every position. But now with Earl Thomas going, his chances, they shoot through the roof. And so does Nigel Warrior. Obviously the Sean Elliott, since he seems to be the front runner right now. But with Geno Stone, I've been meaning to for so long. I've been meaning to since the draft. The draft was back in April. It's August. It's been four months. And I've been meaning to watch film on this dude for the longest because I heard how smart of a player he was and how smart of a safety he was. That's one thing and that's a beautiful thing to hear about somebody that their mind, their brain, their smarts, their football smarts. So I just got to see for myself to really see what kind of player we got in Geno Stone. But this definitely boosts his stock that much more and gives him an opportunity for when he is out there on the field, whether it's special teams or defense. It gives him that much more of an opportunity to go make some plays.


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Hi there, I'm Sandy Alnok, artist and paper crafter here on YouTube and I'm here with Watercolor Flowers series number 22 with the sketchy flower stamp set from Altenew. This is a huge stamp, I had no idea how big this one is and I wanted to show it to you. You can use any part of this along with all these sentiments to make a card. There's like innumerable layouts you can have for your flowers. I'm stamping it onto this smooth bristle paper because I'm going to use the twin tip markers from Zig and show you kind of a fun technique to get a lot of color. But look at how big this stamp is, it's huge. Even in the MISTI you can kind of get an idea, it's giant. You could actually do a Bible journaling page with this if you're into stamping flowers in there because it's huge and you can turn it all different directions. Now for the flowers, I'm going to do one flower at real-time speed here and then we're going to zoom through a lot of the rest because it's kind of self-explanatory as we go. But I put the light color down first and then the dark color and then the middle color and then go back with the light color and you can see how nicely you can get a blend going. You can also blend then with water and just push that color around that sort of thing. Speed it up slightly here for the rest of this flower. You can also do just the dark color first and then the middle color and then the light color because you can see how if you don't pull that color in from the edge you can retain the lightness of that light color because now I've got some red on my marker so it's a little harder to get that super light color with it. So start from the outside edge if you want a lighter color over the whole thing but I'm just going to use a brush and move the color around and make these gorgeous flowers throughout the whole thing and mostly I decided it worked better to put down the red and then the orange and then the yellow and then use a brush on it and not really worry about blending them until I got to the brush portion. And these markers are very much like the zigs in terms of the ink that they have in them so if you're used to that these work about the same and they are they're the kind of color that likes to move when it gets on the paper and you hit it with water it gets a little happy. A lot of the colors will change to neon colors because that's just how they roll with this ink. This is not for those of you who have been asking these are not neither these nor the zigs are actually watercolor. There are no water-based markers except I think there's one that might be made by Windsor Newton that might come close but most water-based markers are not watercolor markers even though we say we're watercoloring with them they are not watercolor pigment.  Now I wanted to have a really rich color card just lots and lots of color in every square lovely inch of this and just started playing around with taking three colors I just randomly picked a purple a deep pink and a wine red and started moving them around. Now you can move the color around by layering it over top of each other and blending it that way and I'm doing some of that as I go and just kind of going back into a few areas but the blending on this doesn't come out as well sometimes as it would if the colors really went perfectly together. These are not colors that naturally I would say would be the perfect blending group for them but I liked the idea of having a background that almost looked like stone because I've been doing this with Copic markers a bit and I wanted to see if I could do that with these markers and once I started adding the water to it it started kind of blending in that sort of thing and looking a little more like this really cool painted background which I really liked and then I added my greens and I didn't add the greens in earlier because I didn't want them to accidentally bleed into something if I touched it so here at the end I could at least control where that green went but all I did was wait for it to be completely dry so I could emboss my hello sentiment on top of it using some wow embossing ink and Hero Arts embossing powder and did a little flag on some yellow cardstock with the dearest friend portion on it and pop that up with some dimensional adhesive. Now here's one of the Copic ones that I did very similar to this I just used a lot of Copic ink in the background and mushed the color around didn't worry about it blending perfectly because I wanted it to look like it was kind of a painted background and focus my blending energy on the flowers themselves so there you go a beautiful stamp set lots of different ways that you can color it be sure to look in the description if you're looking for any supplies click on my face to subscribe to my channel there's a bunch of classes over at artclasses.com if you're interested in more learning otherwise watch some more videos and then go make something I'll see you later


I spoke with an Ethiopian farmer, this was the 2010 and 11 drought, why is this happening? His response was, I think God is punishing me for not working hard enough. The new report from the Institute for Economics and Peace talks about how ecological degradation is deeply tied to conflict and the outbreaks of violence. One of the main findings of the report is that more than 1.26 billion people across 30 countries live in both extreme ecological risk and low levels of resilience. The report found that at the end of 2020, 82.4 million people were forcibly displaced. That's the highest number on record. You've written about how people tend to move when environmental pressures become too great in the past. Can you talk us through the complex relationships between climate change and human mobility? We know that last year, there were close to 31 million internal displacements on account of the impacts of disasters and they are anticipated to worsen with climate change. So we would anticipate that we will see greater movement each year and that's already comprising 75% of internal displacement compared to 25% on account of conflict. Climate change alone doesn't trigger movement, it's always in combination with other factors. Unprecedented drought, food scarcity in the backdrop of conflict, vulnerable groups facing even more precarious circumstances and then you put climate change and increasing or more frequent disasters or more severe disasters into the mix and you've kind of got the perfect storm. So another way of looking at it is that climate change multiplies vulnerability. We often talk about climate change as a risk multiplier because very often it's the people who are already in marginalised or impoverished conditions who are going to be the worst affected. We need to have an eye on this now. This is not a future problem, it's a current problem and we need to be addressing it and planning for it now. Even if emissions were to stop today, we're still going to see worsening disasters for some period of time yet and we know that there will be some displacement. If you look at some of the most conflicted countries in the world, they've got the worst ecological scores. The one with the worst ecological score in the world is Afghanistan, it's also the least peaceful. Back to 2019, the two countries in the world were most water conflicts were Syria and Iraq. What happens is you get the ecological degradation, you get insufficient cycles, you get an ecological degradation, that leads to some conflict, conflict breaks out and then eventually you get to a point where the state fails and that's really where you get a tipping point. Syria where you have this regional multi-year unprecedented drought at least in modern times that caused hundreds of thousands of people to move from rural areas into cities where they were a factor in the Syrian revolution which then saw massive refugee movements into Europe which contributed to the UK's exit from the EU. So you see the scale of these events causing huge displacements and contributions to conflict as well. Can you tell us a bit about what you experienced and what people living in these at-risk countries felt were their biggest challenges? I've seen wonderful examples of humanity and people just doing amazing things in spite of the fact that they have absolutely nothing. One example was visited, Ethiopians spoke with an Ethiopian farmer through an interpreter as well during this, this was the 2010 and 11 drought and it was the third drought in less than a decade and I asked this elderly Ethiopian farmer if he remembered when he was a child ever having a drought of this magnitude and there have been three of them now in less than a decade and he said he could only remember one in his life and he said his father took them into the bush and they lived on bush food and that's how they survived. Well when I looked around there's no bush left anywhere near this fellow because of population growth and development so that key coping mechanism was gone so I said well why now you see three of these events in less than ten years why is this happening and his response was I think God is punishing me for not working hard enough so now he was going to work even harder even though he had no responsibility for these developments which were very clearly linked to climate change particularly the failure of the short rains where here was this farmer who had nothing left and he was going to work harder.


Hello from Tokyo, we are so so so glad to welcome you and it's almost 7 o'clock in Tokyo and I guess it's 6 o'clock in Taiwan. So what did you eat for dinner or lunch today? Yeah, I didn't have dinner yet. I will have dinner after this conversation. For lunch I had some sesame noodles. Nami-san! And so far, what are you doing today? Today I met with visitors from different places. I did meet a visitor from Japan and we learned together how to fold origami together, the cream together. The visitor's name is, I think, I don't know, Takoro Asao-san, the designer of the Tokyo Olympic logo and a very famous artist and architect. So I really learned a lot from the one hour conversation with Takoro Asao-san. Oh, there is thanks. It's good to hear from you. So next we move on to the Q&A session one. We just some questions from the survey, so we have questions for you only. The first question is this. For years I was interested in you and I sent you an email and surprisingly you replied me only for two days. So I want to ask you this question. Why did you accept this invitation? Yeah, so I'm Taiwan's digital minister. Although many people in Japan call me the IT Daijin or the IT minister, to me it's not what digital is. The IT connects machines, but digital connects people to people. So in Mandarin in Taiwan, shuwei means digital but also plural and plural is many people, diverse people and connecting them together. So one of the connections that I make as part of my work in the cabinet is youth engagement. I am in charge of connecting to people who are as young as under 18. Because if in Taiwan you're above 18 or 20, you can vote and there are politicians connecting to you because they want your vote. But if you're under 18, you're not yet part of democracy. So my work as the digital minister especially is to connect to people younger than 18 and younger than 20 because that's another adult age in Taiwan for voting for presidents and mayors. So people younger than 20 is my main constituent and it doesn't matter whether you're from Japan or from Taiwan or anywhere as long as you are a young person, it is I think part of my work to connect with you. Thank you, I was so moved by your words. And the next question is about school life. So I would like to ask you a question. Sorry, I will read the question. It is said that Japan has little diversity and rocks understanding of minorities and it takes courage to be different from others at school and we feel there is some peer pressure in Japan. So even for you, does it take courage to do something different from others? To me, it doesn't take courage. It's about taking all the sides, like listening to people who feel differently from you. In the society in Japan or Taiwan, there are a lot of business as usual, social norms. It's just the way people do things. For example, marriage, joining two families together and having children together and so on. That is considered a cornerstone of stable relationship. But once you understand what people care about the stable relationship, the stability of child's environment, then you can say, but I push for marriage equality to reinforce your values. With marriage equality, more people will be able to form stable family. They will be able to adopt or have children together and civilization will reach more people because there are just different people who want to form different sort of families, but we are all part of this side of family values. So once you understand what people really care about, you don't have to do things exactly the same way as they do. But you can say, oh, I do things my way because I want to support the values you also care about. Thank you. Next question, please tell us about your school life, your experience dropping out of school and your thoughts about your school education. So between I was four and I was 14, between those 10 years, I attended three kindergartens, six primary schools, and one year of middle school, and I dropped out. So for those 10 years, every year is a different kindergarten or school. So I've never done summer homework. Every summer I switch to school. Right, of course, every time it's a different reason. The first one from the first year of primary to second was because I was considered gifted, but from second to third was because I faced bullying in my class from the third to fourth is because my dad went to Germany so I went to Germany with him. Going back to the Taiwan I had to do a heart surgery and so on. So all different reasons. But my dropping out of the school is with the full endorsement blessing of the head of my school, because I convinced the head of my middle school that I can learn just as much even better on the internet, compared to at her school. So she said, okay, I bless you. I would not say that you're violating the law and so on. So I'm really grateful. And it is another example of identifying listening to their values to the other side's values, but then say, I do things differently because I also want to support your values. So I attended many undergrad level classes, graduate level classes in nearby universities. So I didn't really quit education. I didn't quit school either. I just quit the idea of having to get a diploma from a certain school. I hope to answer your question. Thank you so much. And the next, it's about digital skills. So I would like to read a question. Oh, this question and it's very interesting programming. So, how can we master programming by ourselves? Any tips? When I was programming, when I was eight years old, I did it on paper. I didn't have a personal computer. So I just read about programming and I use a pen and paper to draw a keyboard. And then I use pencil to draw what the computers will print. So it doesn't really matter what kind of computer you have, even without computer, you can learn programming. Now, of course, I had a personal computer very shortly after that. And the first games that I wrote was educational games, learning about fractions, learning about elementary school level mathematics in a way that's fun, right, interactive. So nowadays, if you look at the community called Scratch, S-C-R-A-T-C-H, it's sponsored by Lego, built by the MIT Media Lab. And it's very much like the games that I made when I was eight years old. They're very interactive. They're fun games. And the best thing of Scratch is that it's open, so you don't have to start from the beginning. You can start with a game you like to play, and then you change its code so that the hero look like you or change the color or change the background music. So you can begin by looking at fun Scratch games and changing those Scratch games. Once you understand how to program, then you can look at your daily life and see which part of that can be automated, meaning that you do the same thing every day. So maybe a robot will do better than you. So you can try to write a program to automate that part of life so you get more time. And then you can learn more about programming. Hope to answer your question. Thank you. Next question, how do you come up with new ideas for applications? Yeah, I'm part of this community called G0V or Gov0. And Gov0 is an online community and it's open, as I mentioned. Everything that is written by the Gov0, all the programs and so on are free for everybody to see, to change and to adapt to one's own needs. So for example, up until now, on the Gov0's online chat room, there's a COVID-19 channel that has more than 1,400 people on that channel. So anytime people think about something related to COVID, maybe how to prevent the next COVID-like thing, if they have a good idea, then people will work together on that idea. And that channel is where we had the mask rationing map, the SMS-based contact tracing, the distribution of rapid testing, the donation of masks to the entire world. All these are ideas that came from the Gov0 channel. So it was not my idea. I'm just one participant in the channel and I amplify those ideas. But I bring those ideas to our cabinet and say, this is a better idea than our ministers. Let's just use their idea. So I'm more like a bridge from the 1,400 people on the COVID channel in Gov0 to the cabinet. I'm at a bridge between the two. So you get like many kinds of ideas from the community. Yes. So if you join online open communities, you will too have a lot of good ideas because it's not your idea, it's our idea, it's everyone's idea. Thank you. I think it's a very great idea. Thank you. And next, it's about sexuality and gender. And the question is, the following question was received anonymously in the survey. So this is the wrong question, but I would like to read it. For a long time, I've had occasional moments in which I feel like a man, others in which I feel like a woman, others in which I feel like needed a man, nor a woman. And now I don't know what to do. I would be very happy to get some tips and advice. So please answer this question. Well, I'm sure that all of us have moments in which we feel like speaking Japanese and other moments where we feel like speaking English. And now, like sometimes we don't speak either maybe we speak JavaScript or something like that. Right. So I mean, it's normal. For me, when I was 13, 14 years old, I noticed that my puberty is not like the other boys in my class. I mean, my voice did change because I was part of the singing choir that was very quickly noticed. But I didn't really grow a noticeable Adam's apple and I don't have as much development of facial hair and so on. So I wonder what happened. And so later on, I would check my physiology and learn that I was born with a condition of very low testosterone. So my development is not the same because I do not receive in my blood sufficient amount of testosterone to fully go through a male puberty. But fortunately, I was already part of online community. I'm very happy to discover that there are many people who are like me. Actually, not many people in my school who are like this, because maybe it's one in a thousand. But even if it's one in a thousand, the entire world has millions of people like me. So we can discover each other on the Internet very quickly. So I think this is a great opportunity for me to share that I just do whatever I like to do. The computer never asked about my gender when I learned programming. So it doesn't really matter if I behave or feel like a male or a woman. Sometimes I feel like a robot and the computer is fine with that too. It's not biology, right? Biology doesn't determine your destiny and this is important. And of course the fashion, right? Sometimes say like a very high shoe may be for women. But previously in Europe, these are for men or like the, for example, a color pink. Nowadays people think it's feminine. But for a while, like a couple of centuries ago, it was considered masculine. So it's all just fashion. So I think one of the main point I want to make is that if the current fashion isn't your fashion, your identity, then it's not your fault and it's not the society's fault. It's about celebrating the diversity, the plurality of different ways of looking at things. During the pandemic, maybe some of you already know, in 2020 February, there was a young boy about your age calling the toll free number 1A22 in Taiwan, saying you're rationing out masks but all I got was pink ones. All the boys in my class were blue. Can you give me some blue mask? I don't want to wear pink mask to school. But the very next day on the 2 p.m. press conference, all the ministers, all the medical officers wore pink masks. And for a few weeks, all the fashion brands turned pink on the social media. So pink became the most hip color and the boy become the most fashionable boy because only he has the color that the heroes wear. And Minister Chen of Health and Welfare even said that pink panther was his hero when he was a child. So he also has the color of hero's hero, I guess. So basically, that really helped because then it's not about giving the boy a blue mask because they will reinforce the stereotype. It is about showing that we can all wear pink and be happy about it. So I think that is one chance to communicate with the society. So do more things like the young boy, but also do more things like the pink panther loving minister. Thank you for all some months. The next question is this the news listen tree says that Japanese was Japan was ranked 180 in the world for gender equality. What do you think about it? I guess the Taiwan is like a high ranked in the gender equality. But what do you think at the moment? Yes, but when I was a child, not so much. When I was a child, like for my father and my mother, they are currently about 70 years old. And when they were working age like my age, they were told that even though my mom performed very well in her work, she cannot receive a higher salary than her husband. And that's called a glass ceiling, right? And for people above 60 years old, 60 years old in Taiwan is very common. And the people would think that it's normal for women to receive less.  Now when they were young, it was not a good situation in Taiwan either. And I think Taiwan got to this place. It's because we made sure that all decision making positions need to have sufficient balance. So for example, our MPs, legislators at large, any gender must not be below one-half or one-third for many committees and judges and panels. And we don't change that for any exceptions. So we cannot have a committee, cannot have a panel, unless each gender occupy at least one-third in that committee in Taiwan. So once we do that, more and more decision makers become balanced on the gender impact and gender issues. And so the Ministry of Labor, the Ministry of Finance, the economy and so on, because they all have then the panel of at least one-third women and at least one-third men, that means that their decisions will not prefer too strongly one gender over the other. And so the end goal is that biology should not determine our destiny. So maybe Japan can try something like that. Thanks. And next question is about politics. As I said before, in Japan, Sorry, I will continue.  How can we make politics more accessible in Japan and channel the energy of young people into politics? Yes, I think it's a very important question and it's a question I think all the time. How can we make the young people in other places in the world as active as they are in Taiwan? I think one of the reasons is that politics is not just about voting. I think we are not trying to say that vote more. We're saying express yourself more, unmute yourself, right? Make yourself the host of new discussions. And it doesn't mean that you run for mayor or legislator when you are 17 years old, but it does mean that you need to offer a platform, a wish, and that can unite people together, can mobilize people. So in Taiwan, we have this platform called join.gov.tw. On the join platform, anyone, regardless of their age, can start a new petition. And if they collect more than 5,000 signatures, the ministry needs to offer their response. So for example, I think a year and a half ago, one young person maybe in middle school proposed on this platform that every day the high school students must enter the school on 7.5, half past 7 a.m. But the class doesn't start until 10 past 8. So for those 40 minutes, they have nothing to do. Well, there are something to do, but it's not mandatory. It should not be mandatory. And it makes the sleeping time less for the young people because all of them need to show up half past 7. So they say it's not fair. And they say we need to change so that the first class starts after 9. And I'm willing to stay later, but don't make us wake up early. So that was the petition. And more than 5,000 people joined in the petition. And all the ministries of education and local bureaus of education actually met. And because that was partly during COVID, our meeting was also online. So many students who cannot travel to Taipei also participated just by typing and speaking online. And we all agreed, including the parents and the educators, that if you don't sleep sufficiently, even if you learn a lot in school, don't memorize it because memory from short-term to long-term takes place in sleep. So sleep is very important as part of the education process. So we really need to ensure that people sleep good and sleep well. And so starting, I think this year, the school must not say that the student can, you know, exempt from showing up early or showing up there. There's no exception. Everybody by rule only show up after eight. But the school exceptionally can say I reserve one day a week where people have to show up half past seven because there's important discussions to be made or whatever, but at most one day per week. And so it's real change and regulations, everything changed. So for the young people who participate in the petition, they don't need to wait until they can vote a new mayor or vote a new president. They don't need to run for the city council just by showing up, unmuting themselves and raising their hands. They changed their life, right? Their sleep at least. So I think this is very important to offer such a platform that let people care about things very close to them and eventually people will care about larger things like the climate change and so on. But you must first have this gratification from starting a new movement on your petition about things that are really close to your daily life. Thank you. And next. Next question is about diversity. Do you have any tips for Japan to become a society that inverse diversity? Yeah. So outside of Japan, there are many people like me who grow up watching Japanese anime, manga and so on. So a lot of people who are very friendly to Japanese culture. However, of course in the past couple of years, it's not easy for people outside of Japan to travel to Japan. So people may feel that Japan become a more like a single singular or a monolithic place because the foreigners were just not around. But I think this is just a matter of time until we all open up our borders. During the pandemic, I think a lot of people learned about Japan through video conference like now, which is again an important part of increasing the diversity. At least we're speaking English now, right? So that's also linguistic diversity. So digital realms can let people connect weekly or monthly or every quarter to different cultures in a regular thing. And once the pandemic is over and people can travel again, those new friends that you made over the internet in the past couple of years, we can invite them over. So I really look forward to visit Japan in person. And if more people who like Japan like me all visit Japan as tourists for business or for extended stay, like there are people who work on particular pro-social or investment or things like that issues in exchange student fashion. So like one school versus another and so on. So not just to restore such exchanges to be the same level before the pandemic. We also must include new sources of such exchanges that we only encountered during the pandemic. And I think that will make Japan or really any place a more diverse place because it's new friendship. But now they're gathering physically in the same place again. Thank you. So we have to like include some opportunity to like welcome the people from abroad. Yes. And they already like Japan, right? Many of them already speak Japanese. So just invite them over again. And what about Taiwan? So how do you have you do anything to like become to make Taiwan more diversified? Yes. So even during the pandemic, we issued thousands of gold cards to people who are overseas. They have never been to Taiwan, but they like Taiwan and want to contribute to Taiwan. So we give them three years of residency just because they like Taiwan. And thousands of those gold cards were issued and it includes healthcare, healthcare for their family and so on. And they don't need to work for any particular employer. They just need to identify culturally or identify spiritually with Taiwan. So thousands of people, many of my friends in Silicon Valley joined us in Taiwan physically even during the pandemic. And now after the pandemic, we're now looking to expand that program even more. Thank you. And next question is about yourself. So you are making many successes and you are making very great applications in Taiwan. And what failures have you had in the past and how did you overcome it? Yeah. So I told the story how I learned many good ideas from zero, right? But not all good ideas work on the first try. Many of you in Japan have heard about the mask map. But not many people from Japan, if you just watch mainstream media, know that it really failed very badly the very first day that we roll out the mask rationing map. And the reason why is that the map was supposed to show the pharmacies that run out of masks by making sure that if you give them the health card, they use the health card to deduct their inventory. And if you don't collect your masks immediately, then of course you will not pay. So we thought it's a good idea. But obviously it's not the case. Many pharmacies on the first day, they collect everyone's health card and say, okay, go to work. And then they don't insert a health card to the machine. The pharmacy just put those cards there. And then the IC card wait until the noon during the lunch break so that the pharmacy can still sell their usual prescriptions. And during the lunch break, they start to insert the IC card into the machine, into the computer and make the inventory count. And then they tell the people who gave them the IC card to go back on evening to collect their health card and the mask. And we totally didn't think about that. So for the mask map, because the computer never received the IC card, it shows that pharmacy never sold any mask. And then during lunch break, it sold everything, like suddenly sold everything. So it's not useful. And people was very angry because they see all these pharmacies have masks. But by the time they went to the pharmacy, they saw, oh, it's already running out. The map is not showing true accurate numbers. So it was a failure, a very big failure. And I didn't know how to fix that. So I feel like very lost. So I went to a nearby pharmacy and the pharmacist told me that the pharmacist is also thinking about this problem. And the next day when I visit them again, they figure out a solution. The solution is this. On the morning when they receive 200 masks, they will enter 200 into the system and they, you know, get an inventory. So they figure out they can also type in minus 200. So at any given time, once they run out of the daily queue, once they collected sufficient amount of IC cards, they just tell our computer they have received negative 5000 masks. Their inventory goes into negative so they disappear from the mask. So in a sense, they hacked the system. They found a cybersecurity loophole, but that made them possible to disappear from the mask. I say, oh, it's a really good idea. So I go back to the National Health Administration and I told them to add to the computer interface a button. If you press the button, you disappear from the map.  So once we roll it out, the mask map become accurate again. So I think the people closest to the pain, the people closest to the field, they know how to innovate. They know how to fix things. And our job is to take all the sides, is to go to the pain points and listen to the real people dealing with those real pain points. And chances are they will have really good idea. So what I want to say is that failure is not terrible, right? If you want to listen to other people, failure is a good reason for other people to teach you something you didn't know. So as I often quote Lena Cohen, there's a crack in everything and that's how the light gets in. So failures like that are the cracks that allows the light to get in. I see, thank you. It's the last question from us. What is your dream and what are you interested in these days? Yeah, so maybe because I met with Takuro Asawa-san today, now all I can think about is visiting Japan because he was telling me that because he was part of the Tokyo Olympic planning team, he and his team members was there at the day of opening ceremony with that floating earth and drones and things like that. And watching that, he told me that he told his colleagues. They were saying Audrey-Tang could have been here, right? It's so close and so on. So they really missed me, I guess, at the opening. So hearing that from him, I also think that I really should visit again Japan, Tokyo, but not necessarily just Tokyo, other cities as well. So my dream for the next few months next year or so is to visit Japan again. I hope that answered the question. Please come to our school. Yeah. Yeah, I'm interested, as I mentioned, I'm interested to talking to people younger than 20 years old. So that that really is what interests me these days. So we're doing this via video conference, but I will also, of course, very much wish if I can visit you in person. Thank you so much. So we move on to the Q&A session two. This time, anyone can ask Audrey. Please raise your hand if you want to ask a question to me, Audrey. And if you can speak English, well, it's okay, we will help you. It's a very precious opportunity and you shouldn't miss this chance. I think there's someone raising their hand. Yes. Okay. I'm so glad to hear your lectures and I really felt that that Taiwan's government is really good for younger people to show their opinions and thought. But I think for Japanese government, now it's a bit difficult. It's really difficult to show younger people's thought or ideas or opinions because the government is now for older people's work for people who works in their society. So like you said that in Taiwan, there is some rules like the one third one. Yes. Yes. One third, any gender must be above one third in any committee. Yes. And also the petition. Yes, 5,000 petition. Yes. Yes. I thought that it is really amazing rules to show all people's opinions and thought. But for Japanese government, I think we can do the same thing right now. So how we can change the government or the society that we have now? Yeah, it's a great question. Usually it's easier if it's just one school or one university, one district, one town, one municipality. Usually in a smaller region like just a district, the head of the district is very approachable.  So like in Estonia, because in Estonia, there's just a couple million people, right? So it's like everybody is a relative to everyone. So they're very direct, very participative because it's smaller. So my encouragement to you will be not directly going for the national level in Japan, but finding in your region, in your metropolis or in your district, or even just your apartment complex, someone who are willing to try out such ideas of petitions, of gender-balanced communities, of participatory budgeting. And you will find actually some people, some associations or co-ops are already doing that and then join them and effect real change even just for a couple hundred people or a couple thousand people and then gradually grow from there. Because in Taiwan, it also took us 30 years from the community building movement to now. So you must start somewhere, somewhere small. Thanks. Next question. Thanks for your wonderful picture. I am Reiki Takiguchi, I'm 18 years old. It's okay? Yes. I have a question about the system that you've created. I mean, it's a golden card. I heard that you implemented this system shortly after you came up with these ideas, right? Yes. In order to tackle with a COVID problem. Yes. Actually, I think that was possible just in Taiwan because Taiwan has this kind of narrower society or narrower community or need system of society compared with other countries like Japan or the states we have more population compared with Taiwan, right? So I would like to ask you, is it really possible to adopt this system to any other countries in the world? Yeah, but the Tokyo Metropolitan Area adopted the COVID-19 dashboard from Kofu, Japan in I believe just also three days or something. So obviously it could happen in Japan because I participated in the translation, right? I changed one word and I think on Twitter there was this exchange between me and the governor. So I think this really happened in Japan. Now, while it is true of course that the population of the entire Japan is larger, the population in Tokyo is more similar to that in Taiwan. So I think it's always possible to find a more closely need people narrower, as you said, that had some prior experiences introducing this kind of sign. Now in Japan, I think the digital agency is now pushing this kind of co-creation, not just in Tokyo, but also in other areas. And there's a code for city, code for city in pretty much all the major Japanese cities. So look for those people and I think they are working generally toward the same direction as us. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for wonderful lecture and I have some questions for you. It is called, and there are some stereotype that's avoiding problems and conflicts in Japan. And I think it has a bad effect to gender equality and so on. And it is because some people try not to see minority. And I don't think it is good. And I, please ask, please tell me some ideas. How can we overcome this situation? Okay. You, sorry, I missed the first part. You say there's less traveling because of COVID. Is that what you said or I heard what you said last, right? You said that it creates a bad effect for the diversity for the minorities. But what was the situation that caused that? I didn't get that. Can you say that again? I see. And please ask me some ideas to overcome this situation of Japan. Okay. But the situation was like the minorities didn't get sufficient time to voice their concerns or to talk with others. Is that the situation you're describing? And I think it's a stereotype of avoid travels and have a bad effect. The stereotype of avoiding travels? Troubles and conflicts. I see. I see. Right. So what you're saying is that people do not want to be troublemakers. Is that what you said? Yes. Okay. Right. So yeah, because I was like, if you innovate and make good solution to solve troubles, that sounds really good to me. But that's not what you mean. You mean that people do not want to waste time by causing trouble for others. Right. That's the culture. Yeah. In Taiwan, we have that culture too. I think that the point I'm making is that it's not about causing trouble for others. It's not about making trouble. It is rather about finding better ways to realize a common value. Right. So I mentioned in the Q&A, if the older generation don't like marriage equality for the minorities, right, lesbians and gays and bisexuals, then what we are saying is not, we're here to cause you trouble to redefine marriage now. What we are saying is essentially, you like family. We like family too. You like more children. We like more children too. We like a stable social relationship. We like that too. And then for some of us, the way to get to those family values must go through a civil union and later on marriage equality, because otherwise we cannot form a stable relationship and raise children. Right. So by making the argument not countering, not attacking the other side, the existing majority, saying, oh, your majority value is great. Let me join your value with my way. Then it's not causing trouble for the majority. It is actually joining the majority. And this is what I mean by taking all the sides. I hope that answered your question. Thank you. What do you value the most when you work in public? When I work in public, what do I value the most? Yes. Ah, okay. Good question. I think the thing I value the most is how can I open more possibility for the next generation and the generation afterward for seven generations afterward? If I solve a problem today by causing the problem for the next generation, then I'm basically taking away possible futures. But if I solve the problem just a little bit, but leave the world a more open place so the younger people have more room to innovate, more possibilities, more democratic, more resilient, more plural, then I don't have to solve everything because the younger generation will be more capable than I am with better tools, with better understanding, with better technology than me. So instead of fixing everything in this generation, what's important is that we don't pollute the next generation's environment. We don't close off next generation's possibilities. And then the next generation will figure things out and if they don't, well, their next generation will. So sustainability and intergenerational solidarity, like liking the possibility of future more than the current generation. That's what I value most. Thank you. Thank you very much for your time today. I'm Nenena Kazawa. I have a question. What I would like to ask you is how to motivate yourself when you are reluctant to do something, what you have to do? I go to sleep. Yeah, and then I wake up with motivation. It always works. So if I'm frustrated or if I don't have motivation, it's usually because I'm tired. And if I force myself to work, I would not sleep well that day. If I don't sleep well, I would not remember the lessons I need to learn today. So instead of fighting, struggling, I just immediately go to sleep. And sometimes if it's early in the day, like in the afternoons, it's just a nap. I wake up after half an hour, after an hour, it was good ideas. But if it's later in the day, like 9pm, 10pm, I go to sleep. And then I wake up early, right, like 5 or 6, with very good ideas. So no matter what time is it in a day, if I feel frustrated, I just go to sleep. Okay, thank you. Next. Next, please call 4B29. Please turn on the camera if you can. Thank you for your lecture. I'm Seramina Kamura. So I have a question. What should we do while we are students? Well, if you're a student, figure out how to learn. It's not just about receiving an education, but rather about finding something that you're really curious about. And once you're really curious about something, you can then learn not just from the textbook or from your teacher, but from everyone who are interested and curious about this. That's the community we keep talking about. And once you're in the community, you can learn to co-create toward the common good so that as a byproduct of your learning, you also make it easier for everybody else after you to learn the same thing because they can follow your footsteps, right? So I think this autonomy, interaction, and the common good is really the same thing, but it starts with curiosity, with figuring out what is this that you want to learn. Many people, if they know, whatever they learn will make a real change in the world. Like if they learn how to use e-petition, they can change the sleeping schedule for all middle schoolers by starting a petition. That's a very strong motivation. So it doesn't need to be a personal curiosity. It could also be a social one. Like I'm curious if I can change the sleeping patterns of everyone by making sure the schools do not mandate us to show up at 7. That's also a kind of curiosity. Thank you. Thank you. Unfortunately, we don't have so much time. So it's the last question. Graphic name, thank you for your precious time. So I want to question, I have a question for you. So what do you think about our future working style? So because of the virus in Japan, working online became so common more than past. But nowadays, some people say they're more better business or better work should be done and there's a face to face communication. So I want to hear your opinion or vision of our future working style. Yes. So when I become a minister in 2016, I say I only go to the cabinet meeting on Monday and Thursday. And the other days, I'm all over the world and traveling through time zones, right? Waking up in America and then during the day to Japan and gradually in the evening to Africa and Europe because that's how the time zone goes, right? So if I am trapped into the physical place, then only my coworkers can see my face. But if I take a few days focusing on the remote, then the entire world are face to face to me through video conference. On the other hand, if I spend every day of my week just doing teleconference, then my colleagues, the other ministers will not even know me. And it will be impossible for me to be a bridge between the online community to the cabinet. So at least two days a week or three days a week, depending on your familiarity, I think is important. So this is sometimes called a hybrid work style where you meet with your close colleagues to figure out what to do. But actually doing that, you spend time on teleworking on smaller groups, on co-working spaces and things like that. I think there are many research that shows this is better than everybody just at online or everybody trapped in face to face. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Audrey. And I would like Mr. Hiromi Katakura to bring a very short thank you message. So Mr. Katakura, can you turn on your mic and camera and bring a short thank you message to Audrey, please? Yeah. Can you hear my voice? Yes. So thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to speak today. I'm Hiromi Katakura, a fourth grade of Koishiko secondary school and I'll present an ending speech. Audrey, you talked about programming in your presentation. I felt close to you because I also do some programming with Scratch. And also I think your ideas about the nature of gender may have helped ease the minds of those who are wondering. I think Audrey's idea was fresh to us and gave us many options. We also learned the importance of viewing failure in a positive direction. There are a lot of things we should learn from the good status quo in Taiwan. If there is another opportunity like this, I would like to listen to your lecture again. Thank you very, very much for your time today. Thank you. Thank you. And thank you all for very, very good questions. It's obvious that you thought a lot before asking those questions and I really value today's exchange. Thank you. Take a picture with you. So, Audrey, how do you say goodbye in Taiwan? 再見. Or just bye-bye. Bye-bye. Or bye-bye. Bye-bye is actually what we do. Bye-bye. Yeah, just bye-bye. 皆さんできるだけ カメラをオンにして 全員で今教わった挨拶 あるいは皆さんのする挨拶を なんであれ? すごい. 再見. 再見. 再見.  Oh, it was wonderful. Thank you. Bye-bye.


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