Hello, my name is Marcus Brandt, I'm the Head of Mission of International Idea for Myanmar, that is the Institute of Democracy and Electoral Assistance. And I'm here today with Niall O'Connor, the Director of the Asia Center of the Stockholm Environment Institute. The SEI Stockholm Environment Institute is a sister Stockholm-based institution, but works globally on climate and environment issues. And today we will speak about how climate and environment challenges interrelate with democracy, constitutions and governance issues, and in particular in the context of Myanmar. Now, thank you very much for taking the time, and it's great to be here at the SEI, at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. And let me just maybe start by saying that it's been amazing to partner with you, to work with you, to learn from you, and to learn also about the interrelations between climate and environment challenges and sort of the more classic democracy and governance agenda that we have. How do you see that relationship and that interaction? Nice to meet up with you Marcus, and I think it's great that idea and SEI are collaborating on these issues. I think it's vitally important. Climate is so important to everybody today, and are we doing enough to protect people who are being impacted by the change in climate? Are we doing enough to support policy decision-makers and how they understand the impacts of climate? Are we doing enough to ensure that the evidence is there to support these decisions? And in many cases, there's a lot of evidence, there's a lot of interesting facts and figures, but are we getting it into the decision-makers mindset and are they then reacting to that and putting the policies in place and are they enforcing those policies? And in many cases, unfortunately, that's not the case. So I think it's great to be able to work with an organisation like IDEA and to see how more we can support, I suppose, democracy in a sense that you're integrating these policies from the top down or from the bottom up so that people are really being supported to address the impacts of climate change. I think we're growing more and more nervous of the potential impacts. As we see it, even over the last two, three years, it's got worse and worse in terms of floods, droughts, fires, the impacts of air quality and so on. We need to act fast and maybe working with parliamentarians, working with policy is a great way to do that. So it's been a pleasure so far collaborating and let's see what more we can do. So we already, as you know, international ideas started recently a special programme component on looking at climate and environment issues from the angle of democracy and specifically in relation to that we had done some work in 2022 looking specifically at climate and environment challenges in the current context in Myanmar which as you know, as we all unfortunately know is a situation of widespread conflict, displacement and governance failures and when we did this report we worked out some recommendations on how climate and environment issues could be reflected as part of the broader effort to write a new constitution to develop new governance institutions in particular a decentralized form of federal governance. And so I would like to also ask you how do you see the interplay between a central state government that represents a country to the outside world and internally let's say diversified power structures like state governments, local governments, how do they interact with each other with a specific focus on climate and environment issues? That's a very long question, a tough question in many ways and a question which I think SEI as a science to policy based organisation can support in some ways. Our role is not to be an advocate for A, B or C our role is to drive evidence based science to make critical decision making and I think one of the things we wanted to do in supporting this document was to provide the right science to provide an understanding of the policy implications of making decisions to ensure that there is a case for bringing indigenous communities into decision making to bring in the broader community and stakeholders into understanding the context understanding the decisions that need to be made to protect the natural resources around them and to create that sustainability. So it's important that we look at this from a number of angles where starting at maybe local community and who oversees the authorities of local community who then links this to a regional setup or to a national setup so that resource flows can be monitored, can be sustainable resource income can be shared and the responsibility shared to protect the natural resources so depending on the kind of current government setup and the future government setup how can we provide evidence based knowledge to design I suppose policy strategies that can protect the environment. So it's, you know, I'm not an expert as aware on say which federal state or which democracy should be set up in a particular country but what we can do is provide them with the right knowledge to ensure that they are working on both the right issues but with the right stakeholders to drive sustainability. So I think that's where this type of collaboration is important. You have a clear understanding of how democracy works in a conflict state how we can support that by just providing knowledge and how we can try and encourage everybody to take the right steps. It's always a challenge because even when the policy is right whether it's implemented correctly or not is a whole different issue. Are there levels of corruption? Are there levels of inability to adapt the policy to implementation levels? Is there follow-up? Is there policing in many ways of some of the resources that are being used? That's always a challenge but what we can do is look at the evidence and support the decision making. Then we need people like yourselves maybe to drive the understanding of democracy and the reasons why policies should be followed. I guess a lot of it depends also on how the response to climate change and environmental challenges is organized in a government, let's say and to what extent it is mainstream throughout government rather than just compartmentalized in one particular ministry of environment, let's say. And I think that is a trend that we have seen in recent years around the world that tackling climate change in terms of both mitigation and adaptation has become a cross-cutting government challenge and an all-of-government approach basically. And we have to continue to encourage that because if you look at it from the example of the sustainable development goals over the years the objective is to achieve all our sustainable development goals and if you do that in a siloed approach the ministry for energy for example will be able to deliver 100% energy for everybody by burning more coal and fossil fuels but their negative implications on other ministries such as air quality for example or on agricultural production could have significant implications. So we need to make sure that we understand the trade-offs and synergies between each of these key ministries and their role in, in this case STGs but more kind of openly in climate change. Are we making sure that they are working together to find the right solution that has most synergies and least trade-offs? That has been a challenge in many cases. We also need to look beyond country boundaries themselves to look at trans-boundary implications because one country's solution to their climate issue may impact negatively on another country not even just necessarily across the next border but many, many miles away and we've seen implications in the region of Southeast Asia where decisions made by government to protect their own country which sounds logical in a drought situation has had implications in another continent because access to resources were stopped. So every kind of decision that a government is making we need to look at it from within country is it holistic? Is it supporting with all the other ministries that they have to work with? If yes, that's a great idea. Is it then supporting more broadly trans-boundary climate issues because there are many risks that we face that go well beyond the borders of countries. So it's very much looking at this from an internal perspective within governments. Are they collaborating together? Is a ministry of mines, a ministry of environment, a ministry of forestry, agriculture are they discussing this together to see what the right solutions are? We want more energy. We want more rare earth minerals but are the implications negative to other sectors? And we need that dialogue. So bringing these ministries together discussing the trade-offs, discussing the synergies and agreeing the best solution for every particular context is incredibly important, incredibly challenging at the same time. So how do we make this happen? Again, this is where we see both policy and democracy driving a good agenda to support that. So yeah, we need to make sure that they're provided with the knowledge, making it, you know, sometimes scientists can be very kind of detail-oriented but we need to be able to break this information down into very good, simple, digestible information that is real about the current environment today that can be used in decision-making. We can back it up with all the science beyond that but we need to get the parliamentarians and the decision-makers really understanding the impacts, really understanding the challenges and really working together to find the right solutions. Again, this type of collaboration enables that to some extent. So it's very much a challenge of effective communication basically taking the scientific knowledge that we already have even on the solutions and to get that into policy debates, into constitutional design debates and into also the relationship of the public towards their respective institutions. And I think here I would like to ask you about how you see the role of, let's say, the human rights agenda or the women's empowerment agenda and how that interrelates with the issues of climate and environment. I think they're very much intertwined. You know, as an organisation that looks at environment we tend to look at environmental rights more so than human rights as an issue because we're not, in a sense, experts on human rights. Despite the fact that the environment is a human right and we need to protect the environment for long-term sustained and healthy livelihoods. So we would say that looking at both gender and social inclusion is critical to all of the decision-making that you have to have in looking at sustainability and the environment. If we're not understanding the different realities of people on the ground, whether it's an indigenous community, whether it's the women within a particular community, whether it's the youth in a particular community, if we're not understanding the context from each of their points of view and using that to develop the most robust approach and support mechanisms, maybe then we're leaving people behind, which is again against the UN Charter on human rights. So we need to be very careful to include people in this decision-making. I think we also need to look at all the different, say, regulations or different charters that these countries have signed off on. They have made the decision to sign up the UN Charter for Human Rights. They've made the decision to sign up the Paris Agreement. What can we do to support them to actually deliver on that? And it's a case about providing the information for them to honour what they've already said. Our role is not to advocate and make them change what they said they would do. We need evidence and the science to help them implement that better. And if sometimes our evidence can help suggest changes to enhancing their policies, enhancing what they might sign up to, we're very happy with that as well. But we need to make sure that a constant approach to working with decision-makers, in many ways we call it the cup of tea approach, sit down and chat to people, because it's very hard to get these communications of a peer review article, 20-page science journal to a decision-maker. They often won't read it. How can we break it down into language that's useful? And even then it's about how do you get the right time with the right decision-maker in the right context to get that information across. So there's a constant dialogue that's necessary. And that's with parliamentarians. It's with decision-makers, it's with ministries to make sure that they're getting the information they need to make decisions. In many ways you have to remember that many of these parliamentarians are working on a three-year cycle. They want to get elected next time. It's a tough decision-making. So how do we support them in that? Not that we're there to support politicians' future careers, but we want to make sure that we can facilitate clear decision-making by having timely and relevant information on their table. And that makes it also clear why legitimate government institutions that people can trust is so essential, because it is necessary for people to buy into solutions, governance arrangements, rights, laws, restrictions that can only be justified if these institutions that make them actually have the mandate, the democratic mandate from the people. Absolutely. And the governments need to be working for and with people and making sure that they are providing, you know, for the future of the communities out there. Unfortunately in some cases where there's conflict in country, maybe they're not doing that. But maybe this is a chance to lay the foundations for the future as well. How can we understand the context on the ground? How can we look at it from different points of view in different countries, what they may have done, what they may have developed under a kind of conflict scenario into a transition to a new government? What can we provide that will help them set up the foundations, I should say, in a more robust way moving forward? You know, if we don't have a government that's working to support the people then maybe it's a challenge to drive sustainability in the first place. And getting those policies implemented becomes my honor possible. So let's say if we are working towards the restoration of legitimate accountable government in Myanmar in the future, what would you suggest to those people preparing for that to already start thinking about with regard to climate and environment challenges? In particular, what are the commitments that Myanmar as a member state of the UN has already made? Or bilaterally, what are the relationships it has with the neighboring countries on climate and environment issues? It would not be starting from scratch. So there are many obligations, commitments that have already been in place, programs maybe that are in place. What could you think of that are the building blocks for, let's say, a future climate and environment policy for a legitimate government in Myanmar in the future? Well, I think the important thing is to... I suppose an assessment of what has changed in the last couple of years. Because we know maybe prior to the conflict starting there was a lot of progress in terms of environment and regulations being put in place. What has slid backwards? It's good to know where we stand today on that. Once we understand that, then, what are the key kind of observations we would make as a science-based organization to the types of policies you need to start looking into, whether it's in climate related issues, air quality issues, water resource management, whatever it might be, biodiversity key to all of this. We would look then at the current kind of regulations that they have signed up to, where are the gaps, where are the shortfalls on that, what types of recommendations we could make to support a future transition to sustainability. What we can give is kind of guidelines of what the next steps can be, but that's as far as we can go. I think it's then whatever government is there, hopefully a legitimate one in the near future, it can then take those steps and work with the evidence-based science, work with the recommendations, but that would then need to go into a more detailed pathway working together on what specifically needs to be done sector by sector. You can support that process as well in due course, but we have to make sure that it's wanted and that there's a desire to see this inclusive approach to it and that you're integrating in, I suppose, from the community, from the key stakeholders, business communities as well as government to make sure that everybody is designing the future that's sustainable and prosperous for all. That's a challenge when you don't have legitimate stable government. It's next to impossible to make it happen and also it's very difficult to work on the ground to do anything like that. Right. And we know, of course, that Myanmar has already been one of the most vulnerable countries in the world in terms of the negative effects of climate change and environmental degradation by a diversity loss, so it is already coming from a very fragile starting point and even more important that we will have effective and accountable institutions as soon as possible in place. I can't agree more with you on that. Can you just say a little bit about the role of you mentioned indigenous communities and especially the way in which traditional land rights come into all of this. I think one of the classic challenges in Myanmar has been deforestation, water resource management, mining issues. And there it's often a lot about who owns the land, who controls the land, who takes decisions. So in what way does the indigenous people's rights, customary land rights play into the climate and environment agenda? And can you think of some positive examples where that has actually worked out in countries that could be looked at as an example? Positive examples can be hard to come by when you're talking about indigenous communities trying to protect the land, but I'm sure that has happened in a number of places. But I think the big challenge is with, you know, if you're looking at natural resources and looking at governments who don't have the best interests of people at hand, often you find that either there's land grabs or there's people being relocated away from the land to access those natural resources, whether that's, you know, development of dams for hydro power, whether it's development of mining issues or even indeed agricultural production as we've seen land grabs taking place. And that is a major issue. Why I think we need to work with indigenous people is because they understand the land a lot better. They understand and have worked with the land for generations, thousands of years, and they can have a lot of local knowledge and local understanding that could help us both protect the land and create sustainability there, while also being able to look at resource management. So I think their knowledge and their understanding, not only their rights to the land should be protected and respected, but we can learn a lot from that too to see how it could be integrated into other areas. Unfortunately, it's rare that we see cases where indigenous communities are given that right and they're given the support. But I think, you know, why should we not look at the future with a kind of an open book and say, look, here's an opportunity to work from the indigenous communities up in a country that is kind of challenged by the impacts of climate change and see how do we get it right? What sort of adaptation can they bring about? How do we work with that, learn from that and expand on that in other areas? What maladaptations have they been practicing? Because not everybody gets it right to avoid others doing the same. But we need a government that would support that. And sadly, like the question of where is a good example, in the region, there's not that money that I'm aware of where those rights have been given and enshrined and supported and developed. I'd be very keen to see more examples of that and how we can work with these communities to learn from them. Climate and environment challenges have, of course, also been talked about a lot here in Thailand. And Thailand sharing its 2,400 kilometers long border with Myanmar is, of course, extremely closely related. Sharing rivers, sharing forests, mountain ranges, sharing sea. How could countries like Thailand and Myanmar work together in the future to address climate and environment challenges? Or what is already happening? What are the platforms of cooperation in this field? My understanding, at least, is that there's a keenness to want to work together to protect the environment, particularly in Thailand, and how the establishment of the climate change unit in the ministry as well. And I'd say, if you look at, particularly, the Mekong River, which is the major one that's sharing all these borders, working with MRC has been great over many years to try and create that connectivity, but Myanmar is not an MRC. MRC is the Mekong River Commission. This is the Mekong River Commission, yeah, sorry. But at the moment, Myanmar is not a member of that. But they're more connected now to the Lansang Mekong Commission, which is, again, looking at the river itself, which integrates the issues and impacts of China and Myanmar into decision-making. So we've got two large bodies who are looking at the Mekong River and trying to see how they can protect it. What we need to do is make sure that these institutions are communicating well together, which is increasing greatly over the last number of years, and it's good to see that. But it's good to see that governments are talking bilaterally as well about their impacts of climate, impacts of, maybe, burning, which is a big impact here in Thailand. You can see the haze out there today and the air quality. This is trans-boundary climate issues that we, again, have to address. So there is kind of a willingness to want to talk together. There is some help to work together, but I imagine, under a conflict, government is very difficult to drive those agendas. That being said, again, from our point of view, it's how to be support decision-making with the evidence that's necessary. Governments then at that stage have to kind of work together in their own channels to drive the agenda. Can I also ask you about the connection between what you're doing, climate and environment issues, and the education sector? We are here at Chulalongkorn University, probably for good reason. We have been working quite a lot with the NUG's Ministry of Education, which provides educational services across Myanmar. What, in terms of climate and environment, would you like to see in terms of being reflected in the education sector? Curricular awareness, what are the chances and opportunities you see for the education sector? And what maybe are some of the resources that you're already providing? I see that the education sector can offer a lot. I think we're looking at a growing youth population in a lot of these countries, and they will be both the future voters, but also the decision-makers of the future. So the more that we can try and work with and educate the youth, and when I talk about youth, I'm not looking at under 15s, I'm talking about 18s, 25s, 35s, who are voters and decision-makers today. How do we work with them to make sure they understand the climate issues? They see the complex situation that we have, but also the interaction between various sectors to understand one sector's impact on climate towards another. So if we can work with that group, it's very important. Maybe that's one of the reasons we're here at Chulalongkorn University, because we have good connections to the academic world here. We're working with many of the faculties here. We can give some of our advice to them. We know a lot from them, but we also work with many different universities across the region to try and develop connections to the types of research they're doing, to how do we link that research to policy, how do we make it more actionable as opposed to purely academic in its practice. There are many cases where we've talked about how do we then set up curriculums and in the years gone by we looked at this in Myanmar. What sort of agricultural curriculum is necessary to working with climate smart agriculture in the future? These are things we're happy to try and work towards and work with to provide at least the best knowledge we have to establish kind of curriculums for developing both an understanding of the context and an approach to solving the problem by looking at best practices on the ground. But SEI itself is not generally seen as an implementing organization. It's more of a knowledge production and policy recommendation organization, but we like to work with those who are implementing on the ground to make and have access to that knowledge and utilize it. So I think that that links to universities here and then across the region is critical so that we can share knowledge and we can then use that knowledge to drive implementation. So keen to explore options for that in the future as well. Well, I recognize a lot of this thinking also on how international idea has developed from being a more classical think tank producing reports to one that is very much depending on partnerships and engaging the broader public into the work in terms of democracy promotion. But democracy promotion and awareness on climate and environment very often go hand in hand because it all depends on individuals trying to make a difference, deciding to be an active part of society, taking responsibility. It's a lot about accountability and transparency. And the media of course plays an important role. So I think there are many ways in which our two institutions or organizations could maybe help each other, complement each other and we will continue to do so. Now, this is the last question. How did you experience sort of your own journey into this field and sort of what is your reflection on what brought you here? You've been living in Bangkok now for many years looking at this Asia region coming from Europe. So what are your takeaways let's say of your journey of what you would like to share? I suppose I've been travelling now for 30 years in the tropics looking at let's say development, environment and climate issues. I think what we see in Asia is an incredible dynamic here that the speed and pace of change is phenomenal. The level of knowledge in the region is phenomenal. Unfortunately the level of driving climate sustainability is not at the same pace as let's say economic development and one is having a massive impact on the other. Whether it's biodiversity loss whether it's water resource management whether it's impacts of climate change and we see air quality here and the impact the data has on health whether it's environmental degradation and the impact that's going to have on health. We're looking to follow up after 20, 30 years of economic development we need to change that approach rapidly to prevent massive kind of negative impacts on people in the future. When we look at cities and heat islands and the heat stress it's causing in cities tens of thousands of people may lose a life because the facilities aren't there to protect them it's too hot, the air is too hot the air is too humid people can't live in these conditions. We need to look at the impacts of rivers all of this infrastructure development is devastating the rivers it's taking sediments for rivers we're losing the capacity of rivers to be free-flowing we're losing the capacity of them to drive hydropower in many ways we're losing their impact as fisheries and they're for food and nutrition so yes it's great to see economic development but if we don't back it up with sustainability across the environmental spectrum we're going to see massive degradation in the future let alone sea level rise that's going to impact most of the cities and the region so there's enough knowledge now to know that we've been great at developing and getting economic growth and wealth but if we don't protect that by looking at the environment and rebuilding the foundations of the environment we're going to undermine a lot of what we've done over the last 20-30 years and I think that's what Asia is teaching me in a way that they have got the economic development in some ways right, it's not right in every way they're beginning now to look back and see how do they retrofit which is exactly what Europe did let's not say Europe did that differently it developed and it polluted and it cleaned up let's work with Asia to do that but maybe let's use this opportunity to learn from Europe and Asia to avoid India and Africa doing the same thing and let's make sure we change the processes moving forward but I think there's a lot to learn here I think it's a fabulous region to be in there's a lot to learn there's a lot of shared knowledge across the region to learn from each other I'm sure they can find solutions rapidly maybe the financial support is a different issue but we work one step at a time well it's certainly always a learning experience for me to talk to you Niall and it's fascinating to know about the complexity and the diversity of what Stockholm Environment Institute is doing in the region and I invite everybody watching this to check the links that we will share below this video and to follow the Stockholm Environment Institute but also international idea in our effort together to work towards a more sustainable development in particular with regard to climate change and environment thank you very much for watching and see you soon thank you


what is going on guys today and back with another destiny video and today I'm doing this a live attempt at this week's nightfall I'm gonna attempt to solo it and on it we've got exposure we've got catapult we've got ironclad arc burn and we have epic and the nightfall this week I believe it's sepix prime the seaver version which I'm guessing is gonna be a lot of arc enemies this is gonna be pretty difficult now I'll show you guys my class setup obviously I'm using my blade dancer gun for as much armor as I can possibly get with invisibility as I think I'm gonna need that in this strike primary I've got the zealot supercell which I'm gonna switch to the chaos dog my certain points because obviously you need range x machine which is a beastly sniper and unto dusk which is a arc burn rocket launcher I wonder only few I've got one a few I'm what's my I've got my game manager up here what is maybe set oh creep cracker knackered tired let's have a quick little search up forget it I've just 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unfortunately because I have more important things to worry about like family but it's gonna be an event I will miss I mean I could have gone or love to have gone and if I had the chance I probably would go I can't unfortunate family comes first my life in the way this but yeah the thing is not about me not going to these events like e3 I went to destiny to reveal been to bungee numerous times it's I can make more videos I can make better videos uploading faster getting at you guys quicker from the comfort of my my house I can I'm gonna challenge these guys because there's a lot of them that shoot arc is full of scratch it arse with their fucking arc fingernails but yeah I can make more videos better videos more quality videos get them out to you guys quicker from the comfort of my own home yes I will miss exclusive gameplay footage you get to record while we're there at e3 which a lot of content creators will be getting to do but you know I've got some good friends that are going out 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destiny DLC isn't that first and just other games as well just just seem to follow duty as well which again I'm actually looking forward to this show me but it will be the last college you I buy I buy every year hoping that it will get better but it just don't boots on the ground will it be that will it be good we'll see the problem is and this is a problem not really here many people talk about back in the good old days of Call of Duty with modern warfare 2 black ops black ops 1 my problem my favorite card and we've got modern warfare 3 we've got black ops 2 we've got quality ghosts these boots on the ground games people are saying it's the same old shit year in year out we need something different when they do something different like war running and super and or specials whatever you call them people saying it's rubbish so now they're going back to the same old same old shit we had for years and years and years is it the way college you is meant to be though probably and we'll find 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one-on-one no way that's my car alarm back in a second just sitting high yeah back in a sec before someone's trying to jack my car to go outside no one was there just I don't know I could have been a bit wind it's a sensitive alarm I got in it man super sensitive alarm really is I forgot what I was talking about before I went there let's go I was big that's why I won't go one-on-one with a night's that's what I wasn't gonna do I remember now where you see whoa whoa no I'm your friend man oh dear there's another there's loads of them one of them is your own people let me join people let me join people let me join people let me join people let me join there we go there we go what are you looking at bitch you're getting in your mouth yeah that looked like an exotic angle and then for a second I wasn't but yeah there you go get some ammo get rid of all these enemies but yeah that looks exactly even name when it's run up to it any heavy up here any heavy round here no heavy at all that's not good I have to use a sim for you know you know pop a sim from now by the time get to the last room there's normally a heavy box in the last room is there not I think there is let's new drop a sim from now yeah more about the project Scorpio I can't wait for that game console because it's gonna be freaking amazing it really is it really is if it does upscale all the games that's gonna be amazing as well oh yeah I do think play session I've got some hide not there if it's not a new console it's something it definitely got some what let's move 100% I think no I definitely think that's gonna be fun though it's gonna be fun all the new games that are gonna be announced as well hopefully switch I don't know if Nintendo got anything there but switch I mean I don't get it twisted I like the console itself there's just nothing for me to play on it I mean I need something that gets me on it and I want to stand as out as a great game and I played a lot of it but still I need something more than that I don't know if you can get more than that but yeah like you say as out as a game I've never played out before in my life so obviously I'm a massive fan of what like a lot people are my old cuts my old cuts the same old same only they pull the grudge because they're mad and I think they're letting them and this is not for you that's good she telling me then for a ship it lands on my head I think this is oh dear this is too easy compared to the tank the spider tank oh that all goes mad at me though all the mad at me another old guy killed two already I didn't think it was true I thought it was too so good you're gonna hit him in the face sure does that door open the door open oh you little fuckers we're invisible I'm trying to run through there but they ain't gonna work but we'll try anyway fuck it we're having a battle with each other okay so yeah he just wants to chop me he just wants to chop me even though you know I'm invisible I'm visible and try that again oh I almost ran to one of things and I'm stupid traps flippin idiot such a scrub such a damn scrub now these parts can be pretty hard this part can be pretty hard because it's a shot captains no one is gonna have that arc and he's gonna be disgustingly hard to kill hey we've got a heavy boxer I need that hard out in this room and underneath take my time take my time don't rush this seems invincible you know you're immune remember you supposed to get in that window glitch do you remember that I still can actually I'll be surprised if when you fix that really would so I'm guessing that's it yep he's mad now now we run now we run now now when these guys gonna come from you ain't too bad it's just that he said it's the shot cannon dude I'm worried about he will mess me up get messed up now these little fuckers I seen him I seen him no didn't do the same areas we dropped it invisible run and grab that run and grab it quick time oh no that's a bad idea I should have took out the enemies first I really should have got them in this first this one I come from down there you look past it so all I need is a group of enemies ganging up on my ass from behind here what was that now what was his shield then I didn't quite catch it didn't quite catch it believe it could have been solar I'm not certain about that so many there's a solar guy as well okay man I'm gonna just nothing happened to it that's marvelous these guys are not to be fucked with man so many there's scotch scotch scotch scotch watch captain get your words out there's another one this shield should show pain in the ass you know it's going to be honest it's probably best to take out these little enemies anyway so I'm gonna get my way when I'm trying to get to that flicking thing I ain't got no rockets either so we run off to that heavy before picking up the scotch cannon that makes sense I think it does I think it does you see that whoo he's hitting I thought I was gonna hit the banister said it's close to the banister so the real close oh he's fucking me up oh did he just teleport has he got a shield I'm not even sure here oh don't want to shoot that in someone's face you got a shield back no he hasn't that's down here any enemies no reason oh I could actually come down here get a better shot in Jesus but he has a better shot than me yeah too many bullets left I'm guessing now we've got a void shield oh yes we have there they are we saw them right there right there and then I don't look like I'm gonna have to go through them with this but they obviously are but no heavy now might take out some of these little enemies first or even attempting to kill these let's get that house down low triple tap you beast teleport on me bitch loves his teleporting okay so he's down just gonna grab that but that him that him I thought I was sure over him then I was lucky I was super lucky it's not in his eyeball is there there we got a better shot I've got eight minutes to get gold as well that's not too bad he's gone back on back towards the back of the gun over shield oh whoo Kiki doing down here they got a shield no that erection that erection oh the other enemy shooting at you as well I don't really like doing that dangerous take out them other enemies first probably makes sense whoo whoo whoo whoo I've got two rockets that two rockets gonna reload thank you go damn how's that none of it there should be gone should be done here few more shots hit to me is quick and that went too bad to be honest along that take 23 odd minutes so I get anything good that's gonna think yes people what do you think I'm going to get for that what do you think I'm going to get for that I don't think I'm gonna get anything good probably a few strange coins you know no I didn't use my blade dancer once today I think use my blade dancer once I didn't use my blade dancer once give me strange coins and tell you what game take up tempest oh it looks pretty good that's pretty good let's go back to orbit to see what role we got in that unless unless my specials are full which I think they might be I think my specials might be full yes fuck that's so good we'll fly down to the tower we'll fly down to the tower and see and see what we get I do any of my band is there I need one go to yeah what should we get an iceberg from that well open that when we're down outside because all my shit is full all my shit is full so yeah I might as well cut the video here okay so we're in the tower let's see what we got on a teacup tempest so about range finder and outlaw feeds dark lightweight you know it's not too bad you know outlaw lightweight and range finder sure shot true sight I'll be keeping you I'll lock you just so don't delete you later on because I'm an idiot like that sometimes okay so let's quickly check what we get from this night for bounty let's have a little checky check check the bone crusher that will be marks but I think about max marks at the minute so I ain't gonna waste anything let's see what was on it could be a good role actually oh okay stability it has none oh he has no stability this would have to use soft ballistics on this with an unflinching I'm not gonna do that cuz I could wait just to the range and it should be okay but I'm gonna use that just marks marks but guys that is it for another video hope you enjoyed it if you did smash that like button is much appreciated thanks as always for stopping by and I will see you on that next one


Gunfish signature to make sure the fish can read on what type of bait it is When the fish comes up and it's about to hit the baits got to read that it's a gunfish Like I like pizza and Johnny over here might like a cheeseburger So like he'll come up and I'll read that that says gunfish and he might turn away You know, but if he really likes gunfish is he gonna whack the crap out of What's going on people no off from kicking their bass TV here with another video and this is tackle Tuesday number six You guys are requesting top water You guys are going crazy your wine top water you have on comedy top water I just couldn't get to it last week. I did top water frogs last week, but this week We're gonna go over all the top waters. So I'm gonna go from spooks to gunfishes the poppers Chugbugs all the styles. I'm gonna talk about when to throw the right colors where to throw that style of bait Routing we're gonna set up the line everything.  I believe I have like 70 something Request because I didn't check it like a day or something So I went and checked them all and then I hit the back button I try to scroll down and there was only like 10 DMs like 10 new ones So I guess I guess it only goes by 10s like it doesn't save the other ones So if I didn't reply to you or I didn't read the message. I'm not ignoring you I just want you guys to know that just want to throw that out there.  So Where should we start I did something a little bit different. I'll lay it out pretty much like one of each top water I do have um, I mean some just a couple different colors boxes back here full of top water But let's go ahead and start off with the gunfish If you guys haven't done the gunfish right there unless there's a little natural color This is white on the bottom. I mean so much with the top and the sides doesn't matter too much It's most of us on the bottom guys because that's what the fish are looking at He's got that little gunfish signature To make sure the fish can read on what type of bait it is when the fish comes up and it's about to hit the bait It's got to read that it's a gunfish Like I like pizza and Johnny over here my like a cheeseburger So like he'll come up and I'll read that that says gunfish and he might turn away You know, but if he really likes gunfish is he's gonna whack the crap out I'm totally kidding guys. You guys got zoomed into that. Um Well, what is a gunfish it pretty much has like the popper style chug bug ish style Lip to it. So it's gonna be popping a little bit of water But it's a bigger profile because if I take a popper right here poppers pretty small As you can tell they have about same Style head or lip to it whatever you guys want to call it It's a bigger profile You can sling it out their way further you can work it faster You can work it faster and it's gonna stay in motion the popper if you try to work it too fast It's gonna kind of flop around too much. So that's what I really like about this It's kind of like a popper and a spook built in the one. So it's a really great bait when that water is calm It's a little bit of waves. I'm not too like crazy windy and stuff really great bait to throw Um Let's hop into the Sammy Sammy is pretty much like a spook to this has more of a form body spook just like a freaking piece of plastic I don't understand fish love it though But this one's a little bit different it's a little rounded It's as you can tell it's kind of curved a little bit.  I'm showing you is these are some pretty expensive baits It hurts to throw a freaking 15 to 25 dollar lure out of fish knowing that some striper could come up and break you off drives me crazy Next one is a repo man similar to a spook. I'm just got some good rattling action to it I really like a repo man Not too much of a difference between this and the spook. I'm spooks obviously got a bigger profile Throw it up to a spook Let's say I didn't get one out Spook has a bigger profile Head shaped a little bit different. So this is a coast across the water a little bit easier. I Mean spook is just straight up straightforward plain bait Here's the bigger style. This is the smaller one. There's a bigger one right there Just depending on How fast you're gonna work it how far you're wanting to get it out there? I personally like I mean there is gonna be times where I'm gonna fish the smaller one But if I could if it would really wouldn't matter and I could just pick one I would definitely pick the bigger one just cuz I can get that bait out there Sam fishing brush on the new I mean, I'm really needing to get that bait off I don't want to pull up on the brush and just be throwing 15 foot in front of me I want to be able to launch that bait and most of the time you're gonna be on braided line That's what I do. So you can really get that bait out there. Anyways Here's another one of the same. He's except that one's in Chrome and let's go ahead and talk about the colors When I would use the colors and why it really varies For the most part, I only use three colors chrome white chrome white and More of a clearest color like this You can kind of see through it We have other ones that are you can actually see through it. It's perfectly clear um in the Sun I Like to use the chrome color and reflects into the water fish can see better when it's cloudy a little bit overcast I like to use a white one or the bone colors like this It's really great and like cloudy stuff like that and it all depends what the fish is wanting that day as well It doesn't always depend on the conditions like that But also on what the fish are wanting for an example I go out there and I fish a mega bass jerk bait a lot on linear.  That's that's a good key But I may be throwing that white in the Sun in that natural Chromeish color in the clouds it just it just all depends what the fish are really keen on what the fish are want But I'm just a little quick tip. I like throw a chrome in the Sun More bone color in the clouds. That's just what I like to do Definitely go try it out. It's a good tip. So say you go out there one morning Sun just in that water really good Try you a chrome colored top water bait and let me know how it is guys Let me know if that tip really helps next time you go on the water Here's a little river to see popper in the thing the thing that I'll or pop our however. You guys want to see it popper pop our Pop our however you want to see Here's just a white popper What I really like about this river to see one is it has a bigger profile as Compared to this is a river to see one as well But most style poppers are going to be around this size pretty dang small Probably about an inch inch and a half This one is going to have a little bit more weight.  I'm sure you guys are familiar if any of you guys top water fish, you know what a spook is Maybe you don't go look it up and probably find tons of videos on it I have a linear video where we're throwing a spook and we're just killing those spots So you guys when you're fishing on linear for the spotty basses spotty bass are very aggressive The launch this thing five foot out of the water there will come up five foot from the boat and just Whoosh look how many wolf packs like five fishes and the same So a couple of videos on that if you want to go check that out but What I really like and what I'm sure you guys like about the spook is It's straightforward. It's pretty simple bait, but it's really really cost efficient. It's only like $6 $7. I mean, they're pretty cheap. You can get spooks fairly cheap. You can get them out Walmart I know all of us don't like spending $25 on the bait. I know all of us do don't like that so Spooks pretty cheap you pretty much get them anywhere you can get them at your local tackle shops You can get in my basketball shops and get my Walmart. I mean it's simple to find that's what I really like about spook When I throw a spook, I like throwing a spook when you can throw it when the water is crisp You can throw it when the waves are going crazy You can throw it if you guys officially knew you guys knew what I'm about to talk about You got there on a Saturday the winds crazy the freaking boats the big weekend warriors are out there So the waves are crazy Throw a spook in that as well Spooks just goes through really well and most of that stuff and you can usually get good bites I was actually throwing this a couple days ago Went out on linear for just a little bit of time because I mean there's so much weak weekend people out So it was bad. It's just a bad day to go. You don't want to go on a weekend on linear But I had about a five pound spot five and a half pound spot just come up I just missed this thing, but I mean he was coming for you. Just didn't want to grab it I'll understand if he's in a wolf pack, they would have got it But that's not really like about spook. You can throw it pretty much in any conditions It is also a pretty big style bait pretty decently heavy style bait so you can whip that thing out there I mean you can cast this thing a miles Here's another repo man except that one's in the bone failure Here's a bit haven't gone ever a chug bug a chug bug is pretty much similar to a popper and Honestly, if I could go I honestly don't even throw poppers much If I could compare this to a popper or if I could throw one of them I would definitely be throwing this one I really like it works really good and I mostly throw it on a spinning rod spinning rod of braid is what I throw these on Because you can get the bait out there. They are light baits. Like I said poppers are really light Chugbugs pretty light chugbugs a little bit heavier than a popper But I would throw this on like a spinning combo with some braid pretty good On linear a little quick story. I was actually throwing this over some brush same exact one I have one that's like really wore down. I believe I still have the same one Let's throw it over some brush. We're pre-fishing for you on state championship and Just working this pop are right when I'm going over the brush because I have lineups in my head So I know I was about to go over it working the popper and this bush Just see them start I could see there's multiple fish, but I was like man. This is a big one. This is a big one Got it close to the boat. I could see it for a second.  Just a little quick story Um Pretty crazy. There's a bigger style one And so if you really wanted to get it out there, you can throw this one on a big castor This one's way bigger if you compare it and the weight difference is freaking crazy You can tell it's pretty freaking big difference Get it out there. I honestly like the smaller one in that one Here's a little different bait, and this is one of those prop baits. This is a Roppler one Pretty sick looking bait. I usually like the fatter prop baits like This one right here This one's actually a cedar lure. This one's Stanford lures One of my old old old sponsors, but they actually went out of business, but Really great bait to be honest cut a lot of fish on it These are really great when you're fishing like up shallow when you're fishing over those beds really good And spring time spring time spring time and stuff Also when you fish by that grass you can fish the edge of the grass with this catch some pretty good fish as well Prop bait pretty much just throw it out there And just you can It's hard to explain Just pretty much pull you're just pulling towards you pull pause Pull pause so those props are just going Usually tear it up, but I usually like one the size like this I might not throw too many of the ones like this.  This one's by Sibyl actually through this a couple times and this one walked phenomenal I know you guys are probably thinking man That's kind of shaped a little weird, but honestly this bait walked amazing on my three I kind of want to get a bigger one I mean it's still it's still pretty good size a little a little smaller than the spook But honestly this thing was walking amazing. I was surprised when I threw it out there I didn't think it's gonna walk as well I know I threw Sibyls swim baits and stuff a lot and I really liked them But I didn't think I was surprised when I threw that out there cut some good fish on it as well What is this you got I bet 50% of my viewers right now. I do not know what in the world this is This is called a front runner You guys are probably thinking what in the heck is that?  Well, it's just crazy.  I guarantee you guys you need to go try it it will set those fish off and It's just a little hook on here, but it will catch fish Um, it sets those fish off and when they're going in those wolf packs You will sometimes hook two maybe even three fish. Um, it's pretty good really good on the linear with his aggressive spots But i'm sure if there's a large amount of bass and we see you guys are fishing for we'll whack it as well Especially this small mouth really aggressive fish Um, here's another style bait and this is a custom painted bait. This is a wake bait Um, this is a buckeye leader's wake bait.  It won't work You literally have to run this thing so slow that I like throwing it on a 5 to 1 gear issue of reel just like you're cranky Um, what it does is it coasts at the top of the water like this and it's such a smooth motion It's literally like i'm running it right here. So this kind of dig is dig exactly like that I get off topic Um, you have to run this thing really slow. So I like a 5 to 1 gear issue of reel I know it sounds ridiculous, but it just has to happen Really good throwing it in the morning, but the water has to be crisp Literally it the wind can't be blowing a bit I mean if it blows like a tad And there's a little bit of current a little bit of ripple You could still work it but Most of the time when the water's just slick Wake baits the thing to go man, though we'll crush this thing. They hate it for some reason. I don't know why they just tear it up Um, also when they're betting really great bait throw it at the bank work it back to you Really good cut some good fish actually, um, better fish than this one Here's another way bait big ol hawker docker right there. Um, this is more of a striper bait, but you can catch bass on it as well Um, I personally just like this one personal favorite Um, and that's pretty much all actually I want to show you this one here Here's another, um, prop baits called a buzz jet and it has a lip So it's going to dig down a little bit more you can work it a little bit faster Just has one of those props on the back Really cool bait as well thicker baits. Like I said, I like thicker ones on better A lot of rattles in it Um, but pretty much guys that's all the top order baits top order styles that I throw Um, like a sammy repo man gunfish spook pop our Um Chug bug that's pretty much all the styles that I throw wake bait as well prop bait stuff like that Everything I went through. Um, so there's all times the fish those like I went over Um, the wake bait you want to throw when the water's crisp Spook you can throw pretty much any time especially when the water's really choppy It's really great to throw that gunfish when the water's kind of moderate Um, so they're just like tools guys. You're not going to use a flathead for a phillips head, you know, you you're they're tools and Depending on what the fish are wanting that day or depending how the conditions are you're going to have to throw one or another So let's go ahead and hop into the rod and reel setup on the line. I use um rod pretty much any Medium power rod can work medium heavy can work Even a heavy could work. I want to be Too specific on it.  Um, this is pretty pretty heavier style rod that I have on this But um, that's what I have braided on that time. So this time is on um And the reel I have it on this is a legend extreme Um Rod by st. Croix by the way really great rod. You guys know that's my favorite rod. I'm just handling everything It feels so great. Um, the reel is a revo sx. I know you guys are going to love me saying this because it's really Um, great price for you guys that are wanting a little cheaper style reel. Um, it's around 100 140 150 bucks So it's going to be a really great reel that's going to last you a while. This is one of the first generation revo Um, sx. So it shows how long we've had it um Really great style reel and the line I have is 65 pound braid by spider wire um really, um Really low on the price for the spider wire. You don't have to pay that much for it Um, just last pretty good lasts a long time. So not complaining. Um, and right here I just have a spook on I mean, I just like throwing a spook. It's just simple as it gets you can throw it anytime Um, and as you guys can tell I have red hooks on there and you guys are probably thinking why do you have red hooks? That's another thing That I can talk about and why do I have the feather? It's something for them to zone on for the most part guys On they see that red. It's a little bit different. I usually don't put a red one in the front I usually just put one in the back, but Um, see if they hit it from the back, they're going to get the whole bait They hit it from the front they might just get the front hook Because they're going to hit your line you want them to hit it from the back So I'll put a red red hook on the back It will attract not really attract fish with a little zone in on it more when they're going towards that bait They'll zone in on that. So they'll hit the back of it. Um, just a little quick tip there So I hope you guys really got some good information from this video I know I talked a lot, but I already knew this video is going to um Take a while to go through but I just gave you some good tips What baits to throw when to throw them when the conditions are rough when to throw which bait I mean that that's it's just the tools that you guys got to have guys. So Go check you out some of these baits. We haven't already Um, spook is a good one to start off with the guys aren't used to throwing top order a little chug bug Chug bug and spook because I mean cheap as they get man You just go pick one up pretty cheap six dollars and getting both at walmart Anything like that. So I hope you guys really enjoyed this video Please leave a comment below on what you guys want to see next week and um, leave a comment below if this helped you out also Definitely check out st. Croot rods I have a grocery reels really great setup and you guys have been asking me what's my favorite setup Um, and it'd be any review style a reel on Pretty much any st. Croot rod and why I say any is because all you guys are at different price ranges I can't really specify one to you guys But if I could choose one to be a review mgx on a legend extreme st. Croot rod That's just my favorite person. So I hope you guys enjoyed this video. Please check out the palm vlogs Um, I blog four days in a row So and I posted a video like the past nine days. So you guys definitely need to go check out all those videos if you haven't already Um, yesterday, I did post a gunnersville tournament video with la Please go check that out. It's a little motivational video. It really means a lot if you guys go check that out Also, check out the vlogs. I'll leave the links at the end of this video when you follow blogs You'll get the sea christen schmedleys.  See you guys next time


Mmm. Are we seeing? That's better. Hello everyone. Hello. We're just sitting here outside of the north entrance to the petrified forest today. And we got here the hard way. We by 25 miles across the park from the south entrance. The park closes at five, which surprised me. I'm used to them being open a little later. And it's 3.30. And it's 3.30. And we got a lot of miles to go, so they better let us back to our car. I'm petrified. That's the one. It's funny, we put the title of the video, the petrified forest national park.  Hello. I'm hard. I should be doing my mouthful. Forgive me. We have so many snacks that it feels like this is a try on, you know? Yeah, it's like we're not biking. We're here to advertise Jacqueline's Teriyaki beef jerky. We're not advertising anything.  What an adventure. This is our first time biking in a national park. That is true. And it's a very different experience, you know, when you're planning to hike or backpack, you stop at points of interest, but when you're biking, you're just biking. And you have more time to take in all of the beauty that you would otherwise miss if you were in a car or something. I will say a lot of the cars have been really generous too about giving us space when we have it. Yes. So in that regard, also good experience so far. Yeah, everyone's been very respectful. And then the road is not that intimidating because there is not a bike lane. It's a shared road. Can you guys hear us if someone can tell us if you guys can? It's windy. There's one person. But if you guys can tell us if you are able to hear us fine, there's a lot of wind. I'd like to say that my bag's going to be a lot lighter on the way back, but I'll just have moved all of that weight into me. So I guess it's going to be just as hard going back. The road is really nice. Very nice. The sad thing is that we won't be able to chat here for long. We figured we'd just say hi since we were excited to bike across the park. Food video coming up. But we really do have to get going. We're really aware of how crunched we are for time right now. I've been fighting with the GoPro on my helmet to get some footage. So I did a bad job on one of our earlier videos. I was looking at the ground half the time. So I think we've tried to adjust today, but Habiba's got the camera on her head. So hopefully we'll have enough footage. Oh, Simo said. Oh, Simo, what's up, man? Habiba was telling me, oh, what was it? Just lately that you got a car? Just got a car, right? Got a new Tesla. Oh, right. That's exciting. Those Teslas are awesome. Bro, I like Simo. Congrats. It looks really beautiful. Last piece. Zaffi? No more? I'm full. All right. We're about to get a new car, too, as well, by the way, Simo. These sets are planned. Ours is not going to be an eco-friendly car or an electric car. I'd be nice if it was. I'm not against them. We're just going to get a car that can take us out on the trails a little bit better. My little Maz does. It's good. It's old. Just time for the next generation of the Davis-Kelfi car collection.  But we're going to go get some Outback Steakhouse or something tonight. Lord knows, we feel like we deserve it. That's the map. We haven't used it at all, but that's for tomorrow. Tomorrow, today we bike, and tomorrow we'll see the main view points in the park. Right. So, yeah, we bike the whole park today. We're not going to stop much. And then tomorrow we're going to come and hike a little bit and then stop and actually check out the points. No, we'll head home then. We're going to get a Jeep, by the way, is our plan. I don't see the comments. Oh, thanks, Seema.  It scares me, because she wants to start driving. So I tell her she's got to get glasses. She's playing with the settings here, because she can't read the comments. Sorry. Okay. Alex spilled all the beans. Habiba is officially blind. Well, you can't officially be blind if you never go see the doctor. I think that's her plan. Well, anyway, so we have to get going. We don't have much time. And you guys are propped up on Habiba's energy water bottle. So we're going to need that back now. Exactly. Exactly. I'm using the phone. I'm using my energy zero. What is it called? Vitamin water. And that's where the phone, what the phone is standing on. So I need my energy. Okay. I have to go now. All right. Bye, guys. Take care and have a great weekend. We'll talk to you later. Thanks for swimming. Bye for a moment. Bye, Simo. Bye, Mohammed.


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