Quicks, they know we're here for the shutting up all the gates Why are you shutting the gates for bro?  Why don't I got to hide here? Why don't they like cameras here? The security guards are on the phones. They're worried like if we were at a strawberry farm or some crop field You think they'd be as worried shutting the gates and oh, we're doing something wrong here We're doing something morally wrong at some, you know wheat farm where they grow wheat for bread They're really worried here that we're gonna expose something Those big truck containers are filled with blood, guts and skin Can we have a tour bro? Are we allowed to have a tour of this waterhouse? No, why not? But I got to hide I got to hide, but I can't have a tour. You're not doing any tours today on the kill floor Any tours today? Doing any tours, any public tours Interesting that Not not because good for business I'm sure you're allowed to go to strawberry farms and go peaking for strawberries yourself We can't go have a tour of the slaughterhouse and see what happens on the kill floor I wonder why? That looks so secretive here This is Kelly Can you just explain what this place where we are right now? Yeah, so we're in Tideford So we're on the outskirts of Flemmer And we're a small multi-species abattoir So we cater for farmers, smallholders and butchers Steady my girl for a bit Let's put this on I'm gonna actually go inside and check out the carcasses that have been cut open And see some CCTV footage of the actual slaughter process The smallholders will drop their animals off here And you offer the service to them of killing them Yes, so we were slaughtered, butchered, patched, labelled But we actively encourage farmers and smallholders to come in and watch their livestock processed Because a lot of people think that it's all blood and guts and gore and panic Whereas that's not the case Well, I'm not the case in our plant I can't speak for every plant My dad's a fridge engineer by trade And he's seen incidences in other slaughterhouses, big commercial units Where he's just come home and been absolutely mortified Traumatised? Yeah It's not the first time I've been in a slaughterhouse by the way No, that's alright Besides, so that's a boot dip But I think that would be more damaging because it's not Can we come in for a tour, mate? Can we come in for a tour? A tour of the kill floor? Not up to you He's kind of smirking in his face Like he thinks the concept of a tour of a slaughterhouse is ridiculous Like as if that would happen But why? Why not? Why aren't they just open to the public to see where their food is coming from? But we want to be the exception to that rule We were farmers before we bought the abattoir And we would like every animal here to be treated how I would have wanted my livestock to be treated The care and attention is what we're very strict with So I guess you would be minimising stress before they're slaughtered Making sure they're not murdered in front of each other That sort of thing So the truth here is that we were in the marriage So this is our cattle race We've got a door here that swings outside the race So the cattle come round up the cattle race And we've got two check face So the cattle can't see anything in front In front of each other So this is our small stun pen So this is where we use the electric to stun pigs And we shoot the sheep with a captive bolt A lot of people opt to stun sheep with electric Is it a fork? Yeah, I've seen those before And then that essentially will pick the animals up So we've got the shackles there So what we do then is once the animal is stunned and unconscious We shackle the hind leg They're hoisted up onto the rail And then they push through the check gates Put your friend behind them And then the slaughtering happens So that's a bleeding phase Happens the other side of the gate Do you have any connection with the animals before they get killed? Yes, sometimes There's only once where I haven't been able to do my job And we had a lovely, lovely elderly lady with Mrs Dent And she used to have little black Berkshire pigs And they came in on the Monday night So we like to have the livestock in the night before Because obviously being picked out from their friends Put in a big shiny metal box and rattled around for a while Then they rock up somewhere they don't know Can be very stressful So we like to have them in the night before They can have a lie down, have a mooch, have a drink, have a sleep So it minimizes stress So we like to do that But yes, these people came in on the Monday And they were just the most adorable things I've ever met in my life So it came to Tuesday morning Time for slaughter Opened the door and said, come on my biddies And they just followed And I did it there in the pan And she said, Dad, I can't do it Sorry, the sheep and pigs come in here And this is where they're picked They get bled out in here What do the people keep the blood usually? We process it as a category two animal byproducts So we take the blood up to a biodeigestion plant in Halsworthy Where they render it all down and they make electricity out of it I've actually never heard that before in my life We try not to waste anything in the time being as environmentally friendly as possible So although it's a bit of pain in the backside You don't want to waste any of the animal? No And is this just down here? You just can't do it So I said, I'll do it You go on around So you would be on the kill floor usually doing the hands-on stuff So I do all of it And I think that's where the small units vary Very massively in comparison to the big commercial units Is the people who are responsible for the animal welfare Are on the floor doing the job Whereas in the big plants They just have line operatives These people aren't They haven't reared their own livestock necessarily They're just seen as units So you've got to process so many units an hour to be profitable Whereas here, if it takes 10-15 minutes for a pig to walk out of the trailer It takes 10-15 minutes You don't rush them along or cause them any stress So that is our bleed pit So that's where it's been washed through So this is our castle knocking box So we've got the options in this box We can either shoot from the front Or you can climb up the side and shoot from above Which I can show you on the CCTV later on Of how we do it Once the animal is shot and unconscious Pull the little evo and run to the back Open that, rolls out onto the floor And then what we'll often do is shackle the front leg Just to make sure that the animal is in the right position For bleeding And then we perform a burp of the chestic So they bleed out more quickly Okay I just want to know from your own emotional psychological perspective Have you had to detach? Yes Sometimes We had a cow and calf come in This was about three or four years ago now And the lady who booked them in She said now the calf is small And I said how small And she said the calf is still suckling But the cow was passing on a genetic Early on-step osteoarthritis So as the calves grew older and got bigger They were suffering So what she wanted to do She identified through veterinary intervention It was this cow that was passing on the gene So she brought both of them down Because the longer she left it The calf would then start to suffer So she brought the cow and calf down And the calf, yeah He must have been about six months old So he was quite small And it was at that point Something that I had to sort of My other slaughterment at the time He turned around and was like I can't do it And that's the time where you have to say Okay, that's fine But I'm doing it for the welfare of the animal Other than that That animal is going to go on and suffer Okay And this is our beef splitting saucer Just mind your head It splits them completely vertically down Yeah Because every beef animal Has to have the spinal cord removed And so that's for risk of BSE So we have to- What is BSE? It's mad cow disease Mad cow disease, yeah, yeah Yeah So that all has to be removed Totally normal Yeah There's nothing going on back here That's, you know, out of the ordinary Smells like a rotting corpse That's been covered in feces Like a urine mixture It's horrible I see in that instance Maybe there's a different context Because of the animal may You know, could be going into some suffering As they grow But that's not always the context So you would have to be- You'd have to sort of emotionally detach From, you know, the- Someone that you're taking the life from So you'd have- Like, could you explain How you do that psychologically? I think- I think the difference is You go in and you've got a job to do And you- Well, we alter Our sort of management Our handling of the animals Depending on their behaviour And their body language Like for example The cattle behind us This one here He's a little devon He was hand-reared on a bucket Because he was born premature And so for him We would- Tomorrow morning When we'd go to walk him in We'd open the gate Hands on his bum Walk on, you know Whereas the big cattle at the back Who were a bit flighty And we've known them before To be aggressive Not just him But on their homestead What we would do Is get everyone out of the way Open everything up And let them run up together As a pair To minimise stress Into the cattle race So that's how we manage it Is by- And that sort of gives you- That settles some Of the emotional discomfort With, you know- Yeah, I mean no one- I don't like killing things I don't think- I don't think anyone should But- So you don't feel that It's a moral thing to do At the end of the day That you're trying to offer the- I'm- Why I'm trying to offer an alternative So for people who- Care about where their food comes from They care about their animals There has to be somewhere To offer that service So here is our- Expecting room These are our captive vaults That we use Are they- Are they the- Okay, yeah So that's a spent cartridge Yeah But these- These are what we use for stunning So this bolt here What it does is the- The cartridge Goes in here Yeah And then- This is made- Effectively your safety So you- Pop it forward And then when you pull the trigger The- The- Combustion inside the chamber Here at the back Forces the bolt- How far does the bolt come out? Come touch about here And then- Inside is full of Loads of little rubber rings Yeah And what it does is that As the bolt is forced out It compresses the rings And then the rings pull it back So they have to go into the centre of the skull With that, yeah? Right here And it varies No, we've happened to show you Like not on the head Yeah But no, so it's basically- You can show on my head That's okay So it would be about here Okay So the top of the forehead Yeah, well it would go from- From ear to eye And then ear to eye So if you were cows You would have these So it has to go pierce through their brain The whole- The way that the stunning actually works Is when the bolt hits the skull That causes a massive ricochet Through the brain And that is effective The rattling Yeah And when I was young, I used to have My two pet pigs every year My last two were Samson and Delilah And I used them to clear A big area of scrubland For me to put in my vegetable patches Yeah And I'd been to several other Small abattoirs And I was mortified with what I got back You know, they've Bansled up and chucked into a sack And it was so destroying to think Well, I've put so much time and effort And pride into producing Happy, healthy, good quality pigs And then that has just been Showing no respect whatsoever That, for me, was really upsetting Yeah And that's something that I'm wanting To, you know, that we here Are wanting to change Through here This is our pre-chill So this is what we've sorted here today Okay So you guys don't mind just Pilling the door to behind me So this here is the south seven stair That we sorted this afternoon And this is the animal that I Can show you this animal Being sorted on the film Okay So you can see exactly How it all went Yeah Evil, those trucks Abspure evil Where are the babies now? Where are those cows? Being hacked up, stab So where do you put The heads and stuff? We've got an incinerator on site So that reduces Like transport miles for waste And things like that So we incinerate everything on site That's considered category one Animal byproducts Okay So it's for incineration only And these are some pigs So this is a mother? Is that our mother? Yes A breeding She was Do you feel that it's a Necessary thing? Yes Like it's necessary Like it's like Do you feel like it's needed? Yes Yeah I mean at the end of the day Not everyone is vegan Not everyone is vegetarian So To be the lesser of two evils There has to be a better way Of doing something And we feel Like the lesser of two evils But it's still not Like It's not a nice thing to do It's not good Well Do you say that it's good Or like If the lesser of two evils Obviously you could torture And kill someone first Or you could Nurture and kill someone first But do you think the act Of killing can ever be Considered like Okay or good That's a really tricky question Because There are some methods That we all know Like kosher And unsung halal Where You look at it And I personally I see that as barbaric That is my point of view I've witnessed it I've been in the slaughterhouse Where they decapitate Animals It's absolutely horrendous I know But it's Each individual's point of view For me Growing up on a farm I've always been taught Where there's livestock There's dead stock Sometimes Animals You know Things go wrong And I've always been taught That every animal has their purpose If You know We Didn't eat meat Then there wouldn't be any animals And so That's the way That we sort of look at it Is that They're here There's They've got a purpose There's a job That has to be done And I would much rather Do it My way In What I consider To be the kindest way Possible Where the animals Stress You know And they're treated with respect And dignity Right up until the point Of stunning Where they're rendered unconscious Prior to slaughter So They've all got names I see On legs Yeah If you don't mind Not the names Yeah Good idea Yeah That's something that we do They're not a barcode You know We put the name Of the customer Because they're That person's property You know They're that The animals belong to them Yeah Yeah So we You know A lot of places use Barcodes or numbers Or anything like that But I think it's a much more Personal It makes it more personal Yeah Individualizes Obviously we have Different views on this Yeah But I see From contrast Like Torturing Abusing Someone More than necessary To You know And just treating them A lot better than Other places do And killing them Settle something in your heart But the way I Like the way I view it Is if it was me Right And like Let's just say There's two alternatives here That you see Torturing and killing them Or offering them The best welfare possible And minimizing stress Before you kill them I always look at the third option Which is like Is this really necessary I mean we can eat Plant-based foods I mean the studies are Showing that we don't need To be healthy Or to survive And in all of these Environmental consequences Of raising animals And the ethical implications Of robbing someone of their life No matter how nice we do it And I put myself in the animal's Position And I go I would want option three Yeah No I understand that This one Because she was so big We actually Shot her with a Free bullet Oh really Yeah So that's why she's got Such a big hole Generally the older they Get The fit for their heads to come I see Big bones But every piece of evidence There is an equal And opposite piece Of contradicting evidence So it's very difficult To say for definite Yes or no And I think You know they are They do have feelings And you know They do have Learned behaviours There's someone in Do you believe like When you look at an animal There's someone inside of there With their own You don't think there's Someone in there Oh they've got their own Personalities Yeah There Oh of course Like an individual Experiencing reality Similar to us What I'm saying Is that We as An educated Person Yeah We know what's going to happen But this animal has never Experienced it Or seen it Or you know They've never heard anything Like for you So they don't Associate Anything with what Is going So like a child would Like the innocence of a child Like they wouldn't Like if you let a child Somewhere Like to be killed No But it's like If you go on holiday And your child has never Been in the swimming pool And you're out on holiday You're sat in the deck And your next thing Your child runs And jumps in the swimming pool You know That's dangerous They don't No Because they've never Seen it or encountered it before So they wouldn't know They're about to be killed If the setting was Right And they had no idea of it But the Child is still The child That to take their life From them Would still be like Sort of robbing their Someone of their existence Yeah I understand what you're saying But I think this is where We would vary Very differently You know I understand they are Living, breathing, sentient beings But at the same time They're not It's a misguided anthropomorphism Where A person will imprint Their emotions Onto an animal Whereas Realistically The animal's actions Is only a learned behaviour This one here She's remained into sausages Okay So you do that on site For them Yeah That's very interesting Not many places do The whole process Slaughter My butchers are shop butchers Yeah So the quality of what They get back It's not As I said With Samson and Delilah When I got the meat back And it was just Literally everything Was just in one bag And I was like What is this for them Whereas what we do Individually Hand cut So chops Label And then Leg of lamb Leg of the leg We've got some lamb steaks there And this is what people Are used to seeing But they're not really Used to seeing the whole No But that's why we actively Encourage people to come And look Witness So that they know What happened So from cattle In a herd environment If you go around They will flock together Because that's something That they've learned to do Whereas people You know If you were to go For example To go running through A crowd of people with a machine gun Everyone would scatter You know That kind of thing Is it For the livestock It's a learned behaviour And the same way as They avoid A cow would avoid a machine gun Just as much as a human Oh yeah No It's just an example You know Is it a learned behaviour They have a desire To live Like cows And pigs And dogs Like let's just put it In the context of dogs Because I know It's a bit of a jump For a human child To cow In the context of dogs Like would you feel Kind of I mean Your feelings don't really Tell you if it's moral or not But with dogs Like you know They're killing dogs in China They're raising them for food They're trying to You know They're farming dogs For consumption Do you have Any animals like a dog at home Yeah Yeah Chris has met my dog In the office What's your dog's name Indy Indy Okay Probably adorable He is But I'm biased This is This is Indy You are so cute But you know Indy's got a personality Yeah There's someone in there Like you know That desires You know To live Yeah And you would Don't do that That's normal What's he doing Oh he's like Having a good old scratch On the water drinker We've done that This one we've had to repair Because one of the One did that And ripped off the wall Darling Would you see a difference Between your dog And the cows Um Would you slaughter for the dog If it wasn't necessary For survival If Yeah If it was a situation Where I would have to Kill my dog Or watch them starve to death For example Different context Yeah Like if it was necessary Not like when you think about In Australia With the amount of livestock Having to be slaughtered Very prematurely Or livestock That weren't ever destined For the meat chain They've had to be slaughtered Because there's a lack of food Um I would That's true But they were bread They're forcibly bread By the farmers So if we stop the forcibly Forcibly Well, not forcibly I'm sure if you stuck a ram in there He wouldn't turn around And say, sorry ladies We're not really feeling it today Ah, well I guess But the human beings Are breeding the animals into it So we're creating the problem We're solving it by So let's just say There was no necessity For dog flesh You know And we bought the dog in Your dog To be You know More like epically slaughtered You would You would have a problem with that Like a moral problem I would Because I formed Attachment to that dog Whereas You know If there was a situation Where We were out and about And he got scared Or You know Someone turned around with food He wouldn't think twice about Going and wandering off With person with food And that's because It's a behaviour It's a learned behaviour This is what I'm talking about When I talk about disconnect Like most of Society are disconnected from Yeah, a lot of people Don't want to know They don't want to meet The cow before They eat the burger No But If you want to eat meat responsibly Then I think You should be asking more questions Do you think like Indy has moral value Outside of the Like your emotional attachment Oh, he knows Right, wrong No, I mean like Intrinsic moral Like in and of It's like Indy's Like you outside of the picture Does Indy have moral value Outside of your emotional attachment Indy He wouldn't think twice I have to take him out on a leave Because he wouldn't think twice About chasing sheep And killing one I mean Not his instinct to You know But like Indy Would it be immoral Outside of your emotional attachment To Indy to Ethically kill Indy For no necessity I'm not following So like I'm asking Like because I asked you If it's moral to kill Indy In the same way these cows Are killed for their flesh But you said No, because I have an emotional attachment To Indy That's what gives Indy Value Moral value But outside of your emotional attachment To Indy His or herself Him Himself Himself Does he have his own moral value Outside of you Like just his sentience and See that's very tricky It's a very very difficult question Very difficult Because like an individual human being Like a small child Outside of their The parent's emotional attachment To that small child There is an individual there That deserves moral treatment You know Yeah Because At the same time their personality Doesn't really start to develop Until their You know sort of Toddlers And most of that Is nurture rather than nature Learning Yeah So it's very much the same You know In the You know Cattle for example Like these cattle here Most of these will not be You know two years old So how much You know Learning You know they've Been brought up In a herd environment Rather than Been raised as An individual And I think that's the difference Is that people Yes we are Naturally In pairs Or you know We like to be in a group But we're More Emotionally developed Than animals I mean There's no way Of saying You know That animal is You know Feel that he's crying Because You know His friends died Or You know Like Yes I have When we take Their calves from them Do you think that's An emotional response But then at the same time When You can leave those cattle To run on And stay with them And then You know Give it another two months And those cows Will be fed up Because they've got You know Maybe another calf Or you know They're fed up That They think that That animal Their calf is ready For weaning And I've seen cows You know Buff their calves away They're like Mum kicked me out the house too When I was 40 No Well You know It's one of those things Nature does have a way of doing it Do you agree that Like If you take a cow A calf away from a mother cow They have an emotional Like Bond That's broken Emotional It's a maternal bond Yes There is a maternal bond But most of that Is hormones You'll find Then once they've Not seen Or suckled For two or three days That's it That emotional attachment That tie Is gone And then they're with You know The rest of their Their herd Be it with calves If the calves are together They will see that As Okay This is my new family This is where I'm safe This is what I do And it's the same as They will move on It's a bit like The same as Animals in the wild If If a calf Is Killed by a lion For example Then The You know The mother Will move on To a survival instinct Is what they do It's like Food Reproduction You know, it's survival And then Yeah, that's something Animals are emotionally intelligent And life is big The child is killed And they've probably Had some type of emotional Response to that If you do choose To buy meat from Your local butcher Rather than the supermarket Don't be afraid to go in And say Where is this from? Where was it reared? And If the butcher Is a good butcher They should be able to tell you And if not I would ask the question Why? Why not? Yeah Interesting Yeah, I'm just trying to like Get to the point where we're like Okay, like we have lots of things In common with animals Like the sentience You know, there's someone in there You agree that there's different Personalities Indy has a personality The pink stat you met That you couldn't kill Had their own little personalities Yeah There's someone There's an individual inside Each of them You know There are better ways to kill someone But for me I wouldn't want to have my life robbed From me And then we could sort of like Debate on whether You know humans have more of a Complex experience than animals And you know I'm on board with that a lot But there's also human beings That can't have Complexes Experiences Other human beings But we still wouldn't Think it's moral to like Kill them and eat them or whatever And there has to be like Some type of differentiating factor Like some type of real difference Between human beings and animals To sort of To say that killing animals is moral But killing humans isn't Or killing a dog isn't And there's sort of There's so many similarities that matter Yeah So that's where sort of We're at Yeah, absolutely And I understand that But at the same time You know If you want to test that theory You can go and stand in with those bullets And I don't think they'd give two Heats to be honest They don't care about me Yeah, I know But that doesn't They might not be able to Conceptualize the same sort of Moral system Yeah, but then you're saying They've got exactly the same Emotions and things like that Not the same But we do have So they have a moral obligation Like you know If you go and walk in with them And they say Oh, do you know what I'm sure he's a nice bloke I'll leave him alone Because they don't have Moral agency I mean they can't make Moral decisions And there's also like Human beings There's also like Human beings that can't Make moral decisions as well Like they might be Yeah, but they're generally Like locked up One way or another Is to tell them though Because they can't make Moral decisions Oh, you tell that to the Americans It's just because we've Got rid of hanging, haven't we But Americans still have Death row I would still make a moral decision Because I'm a moral agent Even if someone else couldn't I wouldn't say like Because they can't make Moral decisions I should act Immorally towards them Yeah, but morals are Individual So for example Subjective Us as members of society We turn around and say Do you know what It's not okay to go And you know Gun someone down In the street Or anything like that Whereas for example The death row They might not think twice about it So, you know They would then So morals are An agreement Not everyone is the same You know And this is something That we're trying to change Is by educating people And saying Look, okay If you want to eat meat That's cool That's fine It's up to you But you need to make An educated decision And a choice To see How that animal Was looked after Where was he born How was he reared How was he handled So people If they choose to eat meat Yeah They at least see the whole process And you guys Are willing to show people The process Yeah In here And say Look If you're going to eat The flesh of an animal Okay This is what's going to happen This is the reality of it Yeah This is how we do it here Yeah Can we come in For a tour of the slaughterhouse Please mate We're lad on the kill floor Why won't they let us On the kill floor It's supposed to be humane No surprise that they They're so secretive It's such a humane Ethical You know Industry Just a normal industry A lot of people don't want to A lot of people don't want to They don't want to know What happens What do you think about that I understand it Because like I said There's a very Common misconception About what happens That it's all Blood and guts and gore Yeah And you know Animals stressed And traumatised And that's what's Portrait to them Like ignorance Like they don't want to see it Or do you just Understand that it's hard for people Yeah No Both Okay So can we see the CCTV films Yeah So that's the first thing You do is remove the head Yeah I guarantee you If I wanted to tour Any other like a Let's just say like a Crisp's factory Where they're cooking crisps Serving crisps to people They have no problem Me coming in For a tour Something wrong going on In here And they know it The public know it It's like It's like an inherent Feel it It's like a Feeling in your heart You know there's something wrong Going on in there That's why it's so Covered up So hidden from The population They don't show Slaughterhouse footage on TV


What's going on everybody? Got Kyle and Sean here with Layton Sports Cards and we are ripping two boxes of Bowman Chrome U-Hobby. These are both going to be for Mr. Todd W. Good luck Todd. Let's see what we got. Some Bowman hobby. Some really good stuff in here man. I might have to get another box. I have to stop ripping it so I uh, stop getting tempted. Box one. Good luck Todd. Let's see another Hidden Gems man. That would be something. I was not expecting that earlier. Say Malachi Stark's refractor first. A purple shimmer or purple mini diamond Immanuel Henderson. $3.99. Dude seriously man. It was uh, it's a weird store. I might have to check out the net documentary. See what actually went down there because was it like money? Was that what was the factor I would assume? Drew Alar? I don't know what makes you want to play one of the best high school teams in the country as a fake school. I don't know what makes you want to do that. This one is the 150. Kindle Milton. Nice one there rookie um, or first Bowman um, running back out of Georgia. It's 150. It's Michael Penex. Ramblin Man at Buka. Brock Bowers, Ramblin Man, Mason Taylor. Let's take a quick musical break here guys. We will continue to the regular schedule programming. So 350 Antonio Williams. Antonio Williams. That song has been stuck in my head for three days. For three days. Shador on the first. That is right. Say Jackson Arnold insert. Is Josh Williams first um, running back for LSU on the auto? Really? That makes sense. You got to know how to get work the system is a Ronde Gats in a 99 green shimmer. Oh, that was the field goal. 60 yarder. That's probably why I want some money. Brady Cook refractor first. Mizzou Drake May, little bucker. Chading Sanders. Broncos. Yeah, it's rough. It's rough. There's a X-Fractor Victor Rosa. Yeah, it's not working. No, it is not working. There's a Fuchsia Mini Diamond. Will Howard 150 and Audric Estime. DJ Chark. Say early risers Dante Moore. Yeah, that little DJ Chark song's been around a while. Oh, that's a snag. Oh, yeah, some catch, baby. Cortland. That was a snag. I just saw that. Didn't see that earlier. Nice catch. What do you want to say? Williams is back. Nice. I did not know that. Got him on the advent health. All stars is a Tavian Robinson tee. All right. Good luck here, Todd. Let's see some fire, my man. X-Fractor first jar quest hunter. Ramblin man Jalen Wright. Got Braylon Allen. I don't know. Early risers Jackson Arnold. It's working hard, man. It's working hard. Stick them. Yeah. All right. Box two. Box two. This one is for Todd W. Come on now. Let's see it, guys. Let's see it. Haven't seen a super in a couple of days. Come on. This one has a lot of cards. Multiple extras. Two 99 Cameron kitchens. Got to 150. Roman Wilson out of Michigan and to 399. Got Carson Steele. Richard Reese for Fractor and Michael Penix.  Probably have a few with a couple less cards somewhere in here. There is a 399. Dallin Hayden running back out of Ohio State. Denver's on a 16 game losing streak versus the Chiefs. Oh my goodness. Drake May first. That is a big streak. Yeah, it is. Travis Hunter on the insert. It wasn't easy last year either. He's getting used to it probably. There is a, it's a 50. Nice one there. Gold Lava Auto. Jaylen Berger running back out of a Missus or Ole Miss. Or sorry. That's Michigan State. What am I saying? Michigan State. Gold Lava. There's a Ramblin Man. Jitaven Sanders. Mario Williams for Fractor first. Come on. Let's see some fire for Todd here. A Ramblin Man. Audric Estime. Purple Shimmer is T-Mac. Arizona. Let me say that name. Tatora. Tatairo. Blake Corum. Yeah, I don't know either. T-Mac. Tito. T-Mac. This one is Jason Marshall out of Florida. 499 for Fractor first. Cornerback out of Florida. Yay. Hmm. No, no. It's a Shador base. And Michael Pratt to 299. The green weight. Quinn Sean Judkins. All right. Todd's second half of the second box. Jaylen McMillan for Fractor. Buckner. 197 total yards for the Broncos. Geez. 95 yards to fix. Geez, man. Nobody started rust in fantasy. I don't think it would, but CJ Donaldson X Fractor first. Not this week. Not any week, really. There's a green Cory Kiner rookie out of, or first out of Cincinnati. Nick Singleton. Early Risers. K. Clubnick. Come on. Come on. There's Super. Where is it? Noah Whittington. Refractor is K. Clubnick. Clebson QB. Not a big Clemson guy either. No, no, no.  Too many years in a row. Not a Clemson guy. The X Fractor first. Cory Kiner. And go nulls. Keon Coleman. Oh, really? Oh, nice awake. Yeah. Diamond Edwards Ramlin man. Dante Moore. Yeah. I don't think I've seen anybody big basketball wise. We've got a few good guys for Florida State, but Early Risers, but Nick's. Yeah. Yeah, we had some baseball games when James was playing. We were all aboard the James train. Alrighty, guys. That'll do it for you, Todd. Mr. Todd W. That was two boxes of Bowman Chrome hobby. Thank you, sir. We'll get those right out to you.


Hey, everyone. Thanks for joining us. Jack Curry here on Yes, We're Here. But more importantly, joining me today is a picture that I absolutely loved covering, loved interviewing. Jim Abbott from California. And Jim, first of all, thanks for joining us. And first and foremost, how is everyone in your family doing during this surreal and turbulent time? Oh, thanks, Jack. Great to join you. You know, we're doing all right. We're we're lucky we're out here in California. My two daughters came home from school. And you know, we're pretty fortunate that we're isolating. We're taking it seriously. We're watching the news like everybody else. And you know, sending prayers out to everybody back in New York and around the country who's fighting this thing. And crazy times, crazy. Absolutely. It's opening day. We should be watching baseball. And here we are just talking about it. That's a perfect segue because that's why I want to have you on here is to talk about baseball. We know all that is swirling around us and we know we want to be safe and smart, stay home, make smart decisions. But you mentioned those two words, Jim, and they're such beautiful words in the English language. Opening day. I have two questions for you about opening day. Currently, if this had been opening day, would you have been locked in on a specific game or games as a retired baseball player?  You know, I love opening day like everybody else, all baseball fans. I turn the first game on in the morning, whatever it is, if it's the Reds or whoever starting off the season. And then I just kind of watch it throughout the day. And, you know, just kind of familiar myself with new rosters. Some of the new players watch some of the favorites. You know, out here in California, I'm a Joe Fan and Mike Traup fan. We're excited. You know, I'm anxious to see what Joe Madden's going to do. I would be definitely tuned in today. I'd have it on all day. I'd probably cook something fun barbecue outside and, you know, get the season started. I missed that quite a bit, actually. That day is coming. It's coming for all of us because I'm with you. I'd be sitting in the studio right now getting ready for a pregame or a post game. And I know those days are coming. But how about back to when you were a player? You experienced so many opening days. Is there an opening day that stands out for you as the most memorable? My favorite opening day was my first, it wasn't actually opening day, opening day, but it was the home opener for the New York Yankees 1993. I remember, you know, it was my first time with the Yankees. I've been traded over from the Angels, you know, trying to figure out my place in the rotation that spring, trying to figure out my place in the new environment and in the pinstripes. And Buck Showalter, our manager, told me I was going to have the opening, home opener start back in Yankee Stadium, which was just amazingly cool. You know, I came from the Angels, which was a really great place to play for four years, but the Yankee environment to come to Yankee Stadium, it wasn't long after the first World Trade Center bombing. So it was a very serious and sort of somber time at the ballpark. But yet there was this festive mood of baseball being back. And I remember so many things about that day.  So there was a sense of excitement and renewal. And to have that opening day start, the red, white and blue bunting of Yankee Stadium, you've always grown up seeing it. And we went out and won the game. I pitched well that day, and we beat David Cohn. And I'm sorry to tell you that. It was just an amazing day. And it just felt like the whole city was watching, and it was a ton of fun.  Some of these games, I can't remember, I do remember that game in part because you talked about Cohn and you beat the Royals four to one that day. And as a guy trying to acclimate himself to new surroundings, that must have been a pretty sweet way to get things rolling for you. It was so sweet. I mean, that's one of my favorite highlights of my whole career, to be honest. Just because it had been such a tumultuous winter being traded, I didn't expect to be traded. I came to a new team. Nobody knew quite the direction the Yankees were going to take. I mean, this was the sort of the beginning of the ascent of the Yankees to turn into what they became in those few years. And you remember that well. And I pitched well that game, pitched a complete game opening day, which is kind of crazy to think about these days. And I remember at the game ended, I kind of threw my hands in the air and maybe a little bit more of a celebration than you would do in a normal regular season game, but it just felt so great. It just felt like I said, to be a part of the organization and in that stadium. And I will forever cherish Yankee Stadium and the fans there and the city. There's another moment where you threw your hands in the air and you were pretty excited on September 4th, 1993. I know in past years, I've made sure to text you on the anniversary of that no hitter. How often do people bring up that no hitter and how much do you cherish that moment, those memories that you built that day?  I love the game. I love that game because of the connection it has given me to the organization and to the city in ways that I never imagined when it happened. I mean, just the finish of that game and walking around Manhattan that night and, you know, the taxis stopping in the street and all the back, you know, the picture on the back of all the papers in the city, you know, it's in some ways it's not fair that one game is like that, but I love it a lot, Jack, because I always wanted to be good, you know. And I played differently. I grew up missing my right hand. I was along for a long time. I was a human interest story. And I think, and rightly so. And in the time since that game to this day, I see the power of being able to tell that story. And it gives some validation to having that moment of accomplishment, having that moment of success. And I don't mean to add some grand meaning to it, but I know a lot of people have latched on to that game and sent a message. So I'm proud of it for all those reasons. I think you're stealing my notes because that was actually going to be my next question. How did this happen? Because, as you mentioned, born without a right hand, I'm sure along the way there were many people who wanted to say to you, this, this can't happen for you. But conversely, I'm sure there were people like your parents and the people closest who said, no, chase your dreams. You can do whatever you want.  I know that. But you're one of the most inspirational stories in major league baseball history. And on anybody asked me, the most inspirational athletes I've ever covered, I point to you, because to make it to the major leagues and to succeed the way that you did, how did it happen? You know, that's a great question. It was an improbable journey. No question about it. I grew up in Flint, Michigan.  And the truth of the matter is, I mean, and I'll say it, I was driven. I was ambitious. I wanted to do well. I wanted to succeed. I hated losing. And I loved sports. I loved being a part of something. I loved being on a team. Those things called to me as a kid. But the truth of the matter is, as you mentioned, there's so many people who open doors for me, coaches, parents, teachers. And had it been the opposite, had it been like some of the stories I hear now of kids who don't have the same opportunities that I had, or maybe are discouraged, I don't know that I could have made it through those doors. And that was the truth from little league to the major league. I mean, to have the support and the encouragement that I had, I really consider myself incredibly blessed in those ways. I'm proud of it now. I wasn't always... I didn't know where my career would fit in. And when I retired, during my early 30s, I wished I could have played a few more years. There was some disappointment and struggle at the end of my career. And as the years have gone by, I've grown more and more proud of where I came from, the places that I played, and the people that I played with, and the story that I can tell. Your ability to do what you did with your gloves and after you delivered the pitch, to be able to then have your glove on your left hand, how quickly were you able to develop that as a youngster, and just what kind of confidence did that give you to be able to know, okay, I can be a pitcher and a fielder out here. Because I recall one story, I think you're a freshman in high school, one team bunted against you, six straight batters, and you've got six straight abs. You've filled it all six. Yeah, you know, I realized pretty early that fielding my position was going to be something that people tried to exploit, especially as I started moving up the ladder, and I got to the University of Michigan and practiced a lot. I mean, I really practice my fielding a lot. And I meet a lot of kids, I still get a lot of letters, emails, tweets, you know, how do you switch the glove? I have an eight-year-old, I have a seven-year-old, I have a five-year-old. And there's no perfect way to describe it, and it evolves. You know, it just took time. And I remember even in high school fumbling with the mid and fumbling with that exchange and working to try to get the ball out and throw it to first base. So it took time, it took some effort, but I took a lot of, honestly, I felt like I fielded my position in the Major Leagues well. And you know, at that level, there's no quarter given, no one's going to take it easy on you. So you better know how to field your position, and I felt like I covered that area pretty well. Jim, I know you do speaking engagements now as well. And one of the questionnaires, I believe you did for one of those speaking engagements, someone asked you who your favorite teammate was, and you said Don Mattingly. And you spent a couple of years around Mattingly. What was the impact that he had on you for you to call them your favorite teammate? Well, I love Donny. You know, I mean, he, I had closer friends that I played with, and other pitchers that I, you know, but there was Donny had, and you'd probably remember, Donny had this little aura about him. You know, you can take the boy out of Evansville, but you've really never took Evansville out of the boy, no matter how big a star or how revered he was in New York City. I just remember the way he led that locker room. And, you know, it was an interesting locker room, you know, a lot of different languages, a lot of different music being played. You know, we had, you know, like I said, Jimmy Key, and Paul O'Neill, and Jim Larritz, and Malito Perez, and, you know, just a lot of different personalities. But Donny Locker, he had that sort of able coach day in and day out that you just couldn't help but respect. And he was so good, but you saw that it wasn't completely easy for him. You know, you work. His work ethic was amazing. My first time spring training, first time I ever met Donny, was in pitchers fielding practice on the backfields in Fort Lauderdale. You know, 10 days before the pitch position players even have to be there, Donny's out on the backfield with 10 pitchers working on ground rears to first base. And he's, you know, here at the AL MVP. And he's out there doing that. That was the dedication that Donny showed. And plus he was just a just a phenomenally down-to-earth guy. Jim, you decided to do a book a few years back with Tim Brown, called Imperfect. Tim Brown, a great friend of both of ours, writes for Yahoo. Why did you want to do this and how happy were you with the way it turned out? I was thrilled, first of all, Tim is a great friend. And I was thrilled that he would take the project on with me. We took it. We talked on the phone one day. I said, Hey, would you be interested in doing this? And we didn't ever know that it would be even be published or anybody had any interest in to see you holding your hand still kind of takes me back a little bit. But you know, Jack, honestly, like I said, a book kind of helped me come to terms with a lot of the experiences that I had. And I still get a lot of cards and letters, as I mentioned, from kids and families and doctors and moms and dads, grandparents of kids who grow up like me, you know, and I never honestly knew how many people were like me before I got to the major leagues and every ballpark that we went to. And so I try to reply to those.  I've got a drawer full of pictures and cards and notes. And and yet that that half page paragraph that I can write to them never seemed quite adequate. And you know, I mean, and so a book was sort of my way of of laying it out like saying, Hey, you don't have to buy my book to figure out. But this is this is the story. These are the people. This is how things happened. And and it has been a useful tool. And and I've been so working with Tim was phenomenal. It was the great joy of doing the book. But to hear the feedback and to see people who it has resonated with in those ways has been incredibly gratifying. I absolutely loved the book. I covered your career. I know Tim well, but to see the story written this form as you said was was terrific. And I think a lot of people can learn from this and a lot of people can learn from you. And in these 15 minutes or so that we just spent together, there's a there's a lot of wisdom and there's a lot of inspiration and everything that you've done and continue to do, Jim. And I just want to thank you for giving us a few minutes here right now. Well, thanks, Jack. Always great to chat with you. Congratulations on your book with David Cohn. Love that just as much. And you know, wishing everybody well out there. I know these are challenging times and baseball is the great unifier. And I can't wait till we get back to rooting for our favorite teams and our favorite players and and seeing more of you on TV these days. I appreciate your kind words. And we may hit you up for a part two. So just keep your phone ready. You may get a text from me at some point for a part two anytime. I'm always around. You guys take care. Thanks, Jim. See you, Jack.


Marilyn Manson returns. Once again is that creepy nun in the sequel to the first nun called the Nun 2. Nun shall pass. That's not what it's called. It should have been. They should have had something like that. Let us pray that they don't make any more of these. The Nun 2, Old Habits Die Hard, follows up from where the original left off. We once again follow Sister Irene, played once again by a de-aged version of Vera Formiga. It's actually her younger sister, a fan informed me, and then I took all of two seconds to look on IMDb, something I easily could have done ahead of time, but let's keep going. If you're disappointed by the Nun, which takes place in the conjuring universe, you may not like this one. I think it's better, but the bar for quality was buried six feet underground and this doesn't really lift up much higher. It's better. It's more watchable. It's kind of two different movies. The first half is kind of a paint by numbers, generic, horror flick with a bunch of jump scares, some decent atmosphere stuff going on. And then the second half, full blown loony tunes. It's definitely more entertaining in the second half, but my God is it dumb. I wasn't expecting the Nun 2, the Nunnery, to be like high art or some profound piece of material, like an intelligent body of work, but you are coming from the conjuring and I do think those two conjuring movies are really good, especially the first one. Second one, solid as well.  That doesn't exist in my mind. And so then you have these Annabelle films that range from bad to a bad. And here we are with the Nun. So not a great look for the conjuring universe. Maybe they just stick to what worked the first two times and then just stop doing everything else. That said, if you liked the first Nun movie, then I don't see what you're gonna have a problem with here. It kind of jumps off a lot of the story points from that one, expands on some of the lore. You do have a decent amount of jump scares and some scary situations. I found the first half a lot more chilling, a lot more unsettling than the second.  It's remarkably dumb. It is rated R, but it's a tame R. They're not really pushing that very much. The kills are not dramatic. They're not gross. They're not shock and awe. They're just kind of paint by numbers. Not helping matters this time around is we're at a boarding school with a bunch of kids and kid actors can be kind of insufferable. They can be tough to deal with. And there is one named Sophie who is really smitten with Maurice. Like she uncomfortably watches this guy all the time. She makes him friendship bracelets. The kid is like 12. And he's a full-blown adult. It just comes off as this kind of like pedo relationship. Even though Maurice, the actor and everything, like he's playing it cool. He's being very chill and nice to the girl. And they're probably trying to go for a father-daughter relationship. But there's also mean girls in the movie who I hoped would die so many times. I kept saying just please kill these girls. I'm begging you, nun. I am begging you to take their lives. But they tease Sophie for having a crush on this guy. So that just makes things even worse. Also, her character has no point. She and her mother are friends with Maurice, but like that has nothing to do with the plot at all. It's just kind of there for no reason to take up a decent chunk of the screen time. Because when we're not focused on Irene, we're focused on Sophie and Maurice. Joining Irene on her misadventures is Deborah, played by Storm Reid. She's solid, doesn't really have much character at all. Just kind of there, fish out of water, learning the ropes and going up against the nun in very comical ways. They, for some reason, are the best bet to take on the nun, these two very young women. Like there's no sage, elderly man or woman that can do something, an exorcist or whatnot. Why are you using these teenagers to go after this creature? And not only that, but they're having a road trip across the country to find it and take it out. It's hilarious. And also on top of that, their weapons, their hands, their feet, just their body, as they dive on top of the creature at points, they're tackling the nun, they're trying to punch it. It's so bizarre. And Hero Armor has never been more apparent than it is in this movie. The armor these characters have on them throughout the film is insane. They now will be levitating, throwing people with telekinesis, yet the main protagonists, they just run away. They just get out unscathed. At one point, the demon will pick them up and it could easily snap their neck, but it's just like, eh, I don't have time for you. I'm gonna go over here now. The script for this movie doesn't even attempt to put people in plausible situations. There are several scenes, not one or two, but like four or five, where children, young kids hear creepy-ass noises in dark corners of rooms and they just check it out. They just walk on over. Not a care in the world, apparently. At one point later on, there's loud booming sounds above a bunch of girls as they're sleeping below. It startles the girls awake. One of them says, go check what's going on. What? They're in a creepy-ass castle-style school and above them, it's not just like little bits of noise. Even that would be too much, but there's dust coming down from the ceiling. There's loud booms and this girl who's like 12 just starts creeping up the stairs to check out what's going on. What's the ruckus all about? What the hell's the end-game scenario there? Oh, it was just the wind. We know it's a loud-ass noise from a big thing. So what? She sees it and then is like, ah! Shuts the door. Runs into the room. We gotta go.  I mean, come on! No, unfortunately, the Nun 2 kicking the habit is not very good.  It's not doing anything very well. It inevitably ends up being a CG fest in the final act. Main characters, laissez-faire, do whatever they want. I just don't even understand the point of these movies. If it's solely there to get some scares out of you, you'll get that, I think. You'll get a couple, at least in the earlier half, but I'm looking for something a bit more entertaining. For instance, Evil Dead Rise. I really enjoyed that one. I thought it had a cool style to it. I liked the gore. I liked how it was kind of silly at times. Very unbrand for Evil Dead. And then I also watched the Pope's Exorcist, which I had zero interest in watching, and I found the performances there to be actually very engaging and fun as well. You had some decent scares, plus you had a good performance, and that can really sell it for me. This movie, The Nun, I don't find the character creepy even, because once again, I joked. It looks like Marilyn Manson. I think a lot of people have said that before because it's true. Two, the situations are so implausible that I just can't even get invested in it. And three, again, I just don't know what the point of it is. I really don't. Let's just watch Conjuring.  From a production standpoint, it's very competently done. You have musical cues where they need to be. It looks visually appealing. I don't have any qualms with that. My beef is with the overall blandness of it all. I want to hear from you. Did you see this movie? Do you want to? Did you love the first one? You're excited for more none? That's great. Let me know in the comments. It did nothing for me. That didn't really work. All right, if you liked the video, please like the video. Subscribe if you haven't. I post tons of movie content each and every week. I'd love to have you stick around. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna make like Sophie and uncomfortably look at the neighbors across the street through my window, just staring at them. It's just me, Sophie. Nothing to worry about. It's just me, Sophie. None thing to worry about. None thing at all. Okay, I'm done. ["Sophie"]


Now just to be clear what's going to follow is not in any way a question about President Trump, but Trump Trump is a kind of data, right? So he is not in every way a traditional religious conservative. It would be fair to say. Really? And given that the Republican Party elected Trump as their candidate and he then has become president What should this cause us to rethink about the role of religion in the rise of the right over the last 20 to 30 years? Does that new data in any way revise previous theses about whether it's Reaganomics or religion or Counter reaction to the 1960s or do you see what I'm asking? Not really a Bit I don't know that there's any way we could do justice to a question that big and under a couple of hours But maybe just a few big glosses. I Think that both of these political parties are almost completely intellectually exhausted I don't think either party can articulate a vision for America. That's five or ten years future looking right now So when you ask the American people, do you identify more with the Republican Party or the Democratic Party? And if you don't give them the option to say none of the above 46% of people still interrupt to say none of the above That's stunning right so basically there are 29% Democrat leaning 25% Republican leaning and 46% refused to answer your question If you're of the party of Lincoln as I am that's really scary because our 25% are lots and lots older than the Democrats 29% and then when you ask you drill down on the 54% who are willing to answer And you say and why are you a Republican? Why are you a Democrat? Something like 70% of the people begin by talking about why the other party is so much worse than your party, right? So these parties don't know what they stand for and They surely can't communicate it and they definitely can't communicate it in a constructive positive winsome way and so that's the starting point for the election cycle of 2016 and so I think both parties were ripe for a hostile takeover and If you think about 17 candidates in the Republican primary you went a long way into that cycle before the present now presidents Numbers ever got anywhere near 40% and at that same point Bernie Sanders is getting 45% of the Democratic vote and he's not a Democrat right so both parties were very ripe for hostile takeover and then I think you have to have Understand some of what happened in the 2016 cycle on the Republican side as partly legacy of a 2012 moment where Mitt Romney had difficulty closing the deal because of the way Ron Paul was able to stick around And so the party changed a bunch of the rules so there would be easier consolidation. What why do I say all that? I say that because I think that you have to understand the 2016 primary as one thing it on the Republican side and the Republican Party is Too vacuous of what we stand for right now And so it was ripe for a hostile takeover that happened And then you ended up with what was perceived as a binary choice for a lot of voters Between two candidates that were not viewed as very trustworthy And so then you end up with a general election choice that is not a big vision choice And so I don't know how you would go the next level down and talk in great detail About you know what the religious components were to a political ideology because I don't think we made a choice about ideology in the 2016 cycle I think we sort of made a choice that was about a lot of folks saying burn the place down And let's just see what happens because I don't like the direction. We're headed now


So not too long ago we got an update for Outriders, basically PCF, well in the opinions of many and in my opinion as well they nerfed the Trials of Taya Guitar. Today I explain why I believe the actual activity right now is worse than what it was under release of the World's Fair DLC and I'd also like to know your guys opinions on the Trials, the way it runs now, post patch. How's it going guys, my name's DPJ, if you do enjoy the video leaving a like really helps out and if you like what you see and want to see more be sure to subscribe. Okay so we had a few changes within the latest patch for Outriders, majority of them are actually decent but the main one and the main one that's putting actually quite a lot of players off now is the changes that were made to the Trials, the Trials of Taya Guitar. So what was happening through your patch was a large number of players were abusing an exploit which allowed them to bypass all content and basically farm the final arbiter in the Trials. This meant getting numerous legendaries each run. Now I know some people were using mule characters to do this, other people like myself were basically just killing the boss, backing out to the lobby, going back in killing the boss again, you could do this four times if you didn't die during the Trials and during the run to the end boss.  PCF saw this as a kind of opportunity to buff other instances of the Trials and what they did was they added guaranteed legendaries, apocalypse legendary gear to those Troll of Areas, Cliff's side, the door of Sanctuary and the Arbor term. Does that sound like the Troll of Arbor term? I don't know what that says but either way these Trials give you now guaranteed legendaries which is cool, it's great and I like the fact that they've done this because I would run all the way through every room anyway for XP purposes and then farm the boss four times and this is the way I was always doing it, I went just running straight to the boss bypassing the Trials just to try and get more legendaries actually like running the whole thing. The problem now is PCF have drastically reduced the final arbiter's loot in regards to the legendaries that he drops yes you always get that choice of three that pick of a legendary but in regards to what is actually dropping now I mean there's nothing I mean I'm pretty sure I run this like 13 or 14 times since this patch and this is legit guys besides the one you can pick the guaranteed one I've probably had about three legendaries drop four legendaries at max drop and what this has done is it's made the experience in my opinion just a much worse one I love the idea of farming every single room every 12 win a new Trials and then get into the final boss and killing him and having those guaranteed legendary drop but now there's no guarantee whatsoever in fact it's pretty poor loot wise now I understand what PCF are trying to do here who obviously don't want to punish players like they said for creating an abuse in these farming opportunities I appreciate that but what they've actually done is guys if the punished players like me and you guys who haven't been really using any exploits so they could indefinitely farm a final arbiter it's just made the whole experience in my opinion a much less satisfying one what it reminds me of you guys who play destiny may remember a menagerie when you completed that and you had the chest at the very end that could drop certain loot there's actually an exploit you could do where you could run out of the area and run back to the chest and grab that loot again you had like 60 seconds maybe a bit longer to do this as much as you can you'd probably get it four or five times if you were quick so you could open that chest four or five times and get the loot repeatedly then bungee took out the game I believe they gave us a few days warning so players could actually abuse this for a few more days then they took out the game and from that point forward the menagerie was never the same and I know it's a weird one but it is just the way people play these games now there's an opportunity to get easier loot like abusing their chest in a menagerie like abusing the boss in the trials to find a boss to find an arbiter if there's a way in which players can get easier loot guarantee good loot it's something people will do and it's something people enjoy doing and as crazy as it seems it adds to the experience and once people get used to set experience and running over and over it becomes the norm take away from that norm you're taken away from the player and that same experience drops below par I mean yesterday said that you're guaranteed nine legendaries now running through this instead of the six previously but the six guaranteed previously were definitely top top by the amount you could get from the final arbiter and even if you did have that one bad run at him you still had lives left to back out and enter the fight again and have a chance to get more legendaries I mean I appreciate what they've tried to do here but they've made the trials the activity all together the trials of tarot grata and much more underwhelming playthrough they've punished the entire player base on the basis of what other players were doing and abusing the next deploy to which allowed them to bypass all content and indefinitely farm the final arbiter I saw a lot of streamers doing this I mean the people in the actual ambassadors discord talking about this for outriders although these players shouldn't be punished because it's just a part of the game it's a way PCF have set the game up and definitely feel there's probably a better way resolving this and resolving the exploit rather than to take away from the trials experience but that is just my opinion but yes I definitely feel the trials of tarot grata has definitely suffered rather than being added to this in my opinion was definitely a nerve to the activity and although you can still use the uh I say kind of exploit way back out to the main lobby and re-enter the fight at the final arbiter there's a good chance you'll get no legendaries dropped from him besides the 103 guaranteed to pick from which for me have all been bad either way I do like the fact that I'm getting less helmets dropped from the final arbiter I just don't like the fact to find the boss of this trials experience barely drops any decent loot anymore hopefully PCF take this into account because a lot of people have been complaining about it and they both drop rates but hey that is just my opinion guys let me know yours down below in that comments section how's the trials been for you uh post patch let me know guys if you've enjoyed the video leaving a like really helps out if you like what you see want to see more be sure to subscribe and hopefully my beauty for people I will see you on that next one


Well, Nintendo and the Pokemon Company did exactly what I thought they would do in wake of Early sales data that I was privy to and that is given official announcement and update on the launch sales for Pokemon Sword and Pokemon Shield and we now know that Pokemon Sword and Pokemon Shield have sold six million copies worldwide during launch not during launch would include The whole weekend and all of that not just launch day So that's really impressive and is ahead of let's go Pikachu and let's go Eevee And this is obviously before we get to Black Friday or assuredly more and more are gonna sell along with switch lights and all of that jazz We also have the launch sales for it just for Japan And it's all about 1.3 million in Japan moved 180,000 switches combined of the switch light and the regular switch Etc technically it's like a few hundred short of launch week for let's go last year in terms of number of switches sold but you know If you're reading into you know, mere hundreds of units of difference in a hundred eighty thousand plus sales I don't really know that it means a whole lot But what is interesting here is that it did sell over two million copies in the US alone And that has made it the highest grossing launch ever for the Pokemon series at least in the United States They are not saying it is the fastest selling Pokemon ever They're not saying it's the best selling Pokemon ever just that it also let's go to picture Let's go Eevee and it's made the most money of any other Pokemon game. So that is very interesting. Obviously, we don't know where the sales for this is gonna end We it'll have a strong rest of this month, of course, you know six million worldwide Don't be surprised when it passes 10 million by the time we even get to December and maybe a couple million in December But it'll be interesting to see where it goes from there If this can be a 15 to 20 million seller Like some of the best of the best Pokemon games have been or if it's going to be one of those games that Kind of Peters off around the 11 or 12 million mark sort of like let's go picture and let's go Eevee did you would assume The hype around this game is much bigger than let's go was so it should outsell Let's go pretty handedly But whether or not it can achieve, you know sun and moon levels whether or not we're looking at you know Silver and gold levels or something is the yet to be determined Obviously, there's the whole will it be the best selling of all time Which needs to get or get really close to 30 million in sales to pull that one off So I don't know that that's attainable, but you never know. It's it's possible You know these launch sales are not bad They're also not like the best ever, but they are very very good. So what does this mean in general? Well, it means That in my last video so people got really upset at me talking about you know how haters got kind of slapped in the face for the sales and now we actually have the sales and It just turns out that no matter how many people are critical of the games I don't matter how many people hate on these games or I guess people don't like that word hate because they're just Too focused on the negative context. So let's just say strongly dislike the games they Don't really matter in the grand scheme for a game freak in the Pokemon company because there are essentially Too many people that just enjoy the games for what they are and don't care about any of the stuff going on on the internet I think what happens oftentimes when we're on the internet and this is just something I personally have experienced many times And I can only talk about my personal experiences because they're the only ones I have to work with here When I Go on the internet and I see a lot of people complaining about something But then I also see that something sells very well And then I talked to people in real life that are playing that very thing that the internet thinks no one should buy and they talk About how much they enjoy it these people aren't sitting here on the internet You know going on and on about it and we have this weird attitude as gamers I guess to dismiss people who aren't on the internet for some ungodly reason because they're filthy Casuals or whatever you want to call them as if you need to be on the internet on gaming forums and YouTube to be a Serious gamer. It's weird because I have friends that would be easily Categorized as that because they're not on the internet talking about this stuff. Yeah, they play Hundreds of hours of games every single week. It's crazy to me when I think about that and then I go back to Them being called the casual just because they're not on the internet praising or you know bitching for lack of a better word about games like they're they're just Casuals, you know, I my children as an example You know big oh their kids and kids by definition are casuals But they play more games than most adults and they play them really frequently aka every single day so What's so casual about that?  Does that make sense to you with the amount of that you think back on how much video games you played as a child? Is that something that fits a definition for you? So why should it be a definition for today's children? Why because they play games on phones?   We all play games for the same reason to have a damn good time So I think that what this shows is all the criticism for these games. I'm not gonna say it's not warranted I'm not gonna say that we shouldn't want or expect game freak to do better We shouldn't especially when it comes to frame rate performance with how this game looks from a visual perspective where it doesn't necessarily look like it's that visually impressive and we now have literal direct evidence that Some textures in the game aren't even in 1080p even though the game displays in 1080p Some of the textures aren't even 1080p textures So when you when you think about stuff like that, you're like, how is this game dipping in performance ever? From, you know 30 FPS to 20 we're not even talking about 60 look at 30 FPS to 20 I like how how is that happening and the obvious answer is this is likely the 3ds engine just running on switch and the 3ds engine For Pokemon is fine and everything which the 3ds engine is actually a modded DS engine Which is a modding it basically just been modifying the same engine, you know every single new gen of hardware But it's very obvious that it's probably time to build a new engine for switch That actually is optimized for the switches hardware and then from there You can expand upon that and do something magical and have a 60 FPS Pokemon game Which is what this should be And have no fear of running better textures In fact, I wonder if the lower texture quality is intentional to make the FPS dips not Worse especially in the wild area But that's neither here nor there again. There's plenty of warranted criticism Some people don't care as much about the national dex as others or some people don't care about that or care about the whole hashtag game Freakleid thing that's in the eye of the beholder and what you personally care about there are people who never cared about the national dex Or obviously people that passionately care about that. That's obviously one of the biggest criticisms It's all legit you guys can criticize away and have your fun But what is also legit is that there's millions and millions of millions six million to be exact that seemed to be enjoying Pokemon sword and shield and I don't think it's wrong for them to enjoy it I know it's upsetting because when people buy the game it doesn't give Game Freak incentive to change But I'm just gonna be honest and this is just You can call it a personal opinion if you want because it is But I noticed that Game Freak was being lazy with Pokemon a long time ago It didn't take sword and shield to open my eyes to it I said this in the comments in the last video, but maybe it needs to be just stated right right here in the open Game Freak hasn't really put a ton of effort into Pokemon in a long time They were given the excuse basically that oh they're on handhelds because they're on handhelds on limited hardware Although all hardware actually has limits, but that's another here or there on limited hardware that it's okay to do what they do It's okay for them generation to the next generation to just copy paste Literal elements to use the same engine to copy paste textures and sometimes Oh, you know just remix music and call it good not even come up with new music sometimes To obviously create one set of Pokemon You know you know textures and Pokemon What what what are those things called? Man that was that was the big debate too as well whether or not they had to remake them anyways The point is you know using the same Pokemon game to game. It's all copy pasted And yes copy pasting happens a lot just in general in the coding world just to make coding easier But Game Freak was basically doing bare minimum work all these years on these 3ds Oh look at the love and the passion they put into this they put into that when you could literally stack the games up side by side by side just take a random Spot in the game stack it up side by side by side And there are gonna be times when if you aren't a hardcore Pokemon fan You'd be hard-pressed to tell me which Pokemon game is which because they all look like carving copies of each other Because they are Because that's what Game Freak has been doing for 20 years It's nothing new. I mean we just had the 20th anniversary of You know golden silver and I think back to those days and not a whole lot of shit I think what the biggest leap was When they went to I think X and Y When they finally got away from just a straight top-down Sprite style and actually gave us like a more 3d 2.5d, you know angled perspective on the world kind of like Link's Awakening on switch that it does You know going from that where it was originally top-down to that more angled thing I think between worlds. I guess does the same thing and it's like that's great But that was the leap and then they just kept it that way and copy pasted like Think about think about this like almost all of the games, you know start out with your you wake up You choose one of three Pokemon you have a rival who always chooses the opposite Pokemon of yours And then blah blah blah blah the stories are all very similar. They're very repetitive Eight gyms and and even when they got rid of the gyms for a little bit They still had a very similar pacing to how the game worked the games are just they are what they are Pokemon games are Pokemon games. They are Madden. They are Call of Duty If you are hardcore in the Call of Duty and hardcore in the Madden You can tell the difference between every single version of Madden You can tell the difference in every single version of Call of Duty You could spy all the things so it's all the different story elements all the different this all the different that and that's great And all of it is true, but if you are an actual casual on the outside looking in you can actually see it for what it is And that is oh the games are not Are not that different from each other though one you play one Call of Duty you played them all you played one Madden You played them all you played one Pokemon game You played them all and I realized that a long time ago and I think that's a huge reason why I started to not really care about the series because Pokemon is Is near and dear to my heart because it's a huge part of my childhood but then it just became the same thing on repeat and Maybe I was spoiled and and I had to have been spoiled because there's a lot of games are like that It's not just Call of Duty and Madden right you played doom you're gonna play a doom eternal next year It's gonna feel like doom because it's a doom game There's nothing wrong with this with this approach But that's me that that's when the fans don't expect anything else and what happened is Pokemon took a leap to a Home console, you know what Nintendo calls a home console and it has a lot more power than Pokemon's ever had And it doesn't really feel like they did anything with that power beyond an a free camera in One part of the game Which just makes the rest of the game feel like it's lacking. It's weird and again I'm not even gonna say it's completely lazy Because Game Freak doesn't have time when they make Pokemon games. I don't know if you know this They spent less time developing You know Sun and Moon then they did this game for people think oh, they're rushing They're late though They spent more time making this game on switch than they did They had a bit a larger team and more development time to make this game and they did Sun and Moon And yet this is what they came up with. It's their first true blue mainline Pokemon game made in HD That's a huge transition there They had to get the engine to work on switch because they weren't gonna build one from the ground up They had to do a lot and plus this doesn't include part of the team that was working on let's go Pikachu Let's go Evie as well because you know they got to keep that yearly release schedule going because hey We can't have a break in that anymore. We've had a break in it before we didn't like having that year break in there So we got to keep it going and people keep buying it So why would we stop and Game Freak is just under all this pressure to get games out as quickly as they can Why would they change when they're not there's no incentive to the people keep buying the games and They're loving it and there's nothing wrong with loving it. So that's the thing like I can't be mad that people enjoy the games It's never gonna be a breath of the wild It's never gonna be a Zelda in general See what what has kept Zelda so fresh over the years is that you never really know what's gonna happen game to game We know that breath of the wild to the sequel or whatever It's gonna be is going to feel very similar to breath of the wild because well It's literally a sequel to breath of the wild But after that put like Zelda doesn't stay on that stick for more than like two or three games And then all of a sudden they move on to something in a completely different direction Heck we had the original Legend of Zelda and then all of a sudden they went with a side scroll or RPG thing in Zelda 2 and they went back to the Zelda one thing with all these new elements and they kept that going for a little bit and then they just leap to Ocarina of Time and they kept that with Majora's Mask and then they kind of poot-poot all that and decided to go in a completely different direction with this Ocean type of game in this new art direction in the Wind Waker and like they just keep doing this And then all summer at we're all the way, you know fast forward breath of the wild You know following up a three player multiplayer Zelda and try for heroes And it's like the Zelda just keeps doing all these new things Mario is the same way as well There's some very repetitive stuff like in the new Super Mario Brothers series But then like you'll get a galaxy one galaxy two and the next time we see Mario in that kind of setting You get a Odyssey and it's not the same type of game and so Pokemon doesn't do that though Pokemon does that new Super Mario Brothers style and just does it over and over and over again on repeat every single year It's doing Kirby. I'm just gonna be honest Kirby comes out every year It's it's got practically the same amount of effort put into it as Kirby does the difference is that more people Enjoy what Pokemon is than what Kirby is. Sorry Kirby. Don't mean to insult you I know you're a saccharized boy, but man, we got to be honest Pokemon destroys you in popularity 240 million plus copies of Pokemon have sold worldwide in general and This isn't even counting the mobile games and all the spinoffs and all that. This is just the mainline game So I got to remember Pokemon is what it is and you are either gonna love it for it Is or you're gonna hate it, but I Decision they love or hate. I don't hate Pokemon I am going to be picking up a copy of sword or shield eventually here I do have a broken switch in my possession right now that I am attempting to fix the big thing I want to fix our first is the Video out because I want to use this switch specifically to stream and record gameplay for you guys and The video out doesn't work at charges But I put it in a dock and it's not this way out to the TV And yeah, I figure out why that is one one thing I have to do is make sure I do the correct cable order on the dock Because sometimes the wrong cable order can screw things up and it's very specific You have to plug in the power into the the dock and then you have to plug in the HDMI into the dock and then plug That HDMI into the TV and that will sometimes fix the problem right there. It's like a firmware issue. I don't know It's weird And and that's one way obviously there could literally be a problem with the USB C port and I got to replace it There could be a short somewhere in the circuit board that you know, I might have to fix with a with a wire There's a lot that I need to sort out with that and if I can get that to work Then I'll fix the rest of the switch and here. I'll be back streaming with you guys and recording new gameplay but for now I am Okay with what's happening with Sword and Shield because I've had to be okay with it for the past decade Two decades because that's just what Pokemon is Some people are just finally realizing it because they finally, you know, did the proverbial gone too far in their laziness when really this is probably one of the most difficult games they've ever had to make because it's the first one they've done in HD and Everyone always underestimates how hard it is to make main core games for anything in HD until they actually do it So this is actually a game that they had the most time with a game that they spent the most development money on and It's still not good enough reality is game freak isn't going to change they have a strict schedule And this is just what Pokemon is and you're either going to accept it or you're not it's what it's always been and If it took it coming to a quote-unquote home console to open your eyes. Oh Well, I mean if they did the same thing and released it at 40 bucks on 3ds. I Bet you there'd be a lot less people complaining Anyways, thank you guys so much for tuning in. Let me know what you think about the sales of Pokemon sword and shield I am the thing of a chance from Nintendo Prime Still not feeling the greatest. I announced on Twitter that I have like a flu kind of thing going on I am at the tail end of it. So I'm getting a little better Hopefully I get a couple videos out for you guys today because I've been talking a lot of Pokemon lately I think it's time to now we have the launch sales I guess just time to time to move that move on forward to talk about something else. So Thank you guys for listening and I'll catch you in the next video


Bel cooperative We are all members of the group The Russian group is one of the groups Who is this man? He is Mualiko Yes He is Alex Maden He has an injection I am not in the same place So how is it? What do you expect? I know what you have done No, ni kuwatu isi kwenia. You see me, don't know the music for this. I was at Warum? Yes man. What's the matter? What's the matter with me? See the music video? Where are we now? This is a music video. Ha, wha! I was at How's the music video? I didn't see your video, you didn't see the shoot. I was at Youkwa wedding. I was at the blessing, man. I was at Youkwa wedding, you see me? I was there to the wedding. I was there, there were people at Knez. Knez was at a god, Yes, we went there and said to him. No, we went to the place, I just did some bye. But he heard the song. Oh! Oh! Itsi kiki bandwaku. But name me the Seablogger. Hehehehe. Nge ni nasibu. Nguni wana baka mtiwa raila iluku apale ba niku? He's known and name he's a blogger. He's a blogger. He's so... At least wana juwan na? Heee. But me na? But this is... So you just want to know what kisonga is? I'm just trying to make the quen peza. Hotam ya on that you're my personal one. I'll say thank you! Thank you! I'll don't hesitate! Alex Matenge Mwenyewe Habari ya kwa? Mzuri sana Nga unaka fiti? Hatawwe unaka po ya E, nga nma uli zanani uiwe E kumeni we Afande, is blue your favorite color Tuna nale wme piga Luku wacha directora wungu Awoneche Luku Ie Luku ya kwa? Ni how much you vi? Adas juju nili tengenezeo Nili tengenezeo na rafiki yungu Okay, utage buto wabi I don't know how much Ali ni tengenezea Tundi wiki karakutai yungu ya karau So nika maatua kiniwa nani blue Inakaile blue yungi Nika maini blue ya events So today we're here to celebrate Moya's birthday Una jawat wame kwa kisema Aw kuna utuwa wana get crash Kama pale kwa kotaili Lata isu jeyu kwa na invite? Ya ni kwa na invite Notaka ni kwa nyeshi? Kwa nyeshi invite? Nili fraisana vene Moya ali Wau, sizum saizi kuna Nani ya podyu Nili fraisana vene Ali fanyaivi I felt so good Pakamei print ni ni ni ni Amei tuma Awezi hata kama mutua me kutumiaivo Yes Alright, so haja get crash Wase ni miwana invite ya ke And ayu in Moya friends Una jos jeyu onam kiyo me post pamoja And apa wuku kwa birthday Muna kwa nga friends under the waters? Moya ni rafiki yungu Sana, sana, sana Juhu ni limjua kitamba Waki fanyaivi video Na ule boi mungine Way back way back So we used to Kutana kutana wuku na kule Aftu kwa wanya kaza kusaprize watu Piya ni kipata biya sharambili tatu Nampigia na fanya Suutu kwa modern friends Piya ni surprise mei dota Kwa shule So Lazima ni kuji ni support So Alex tuna joanga You sometimes have very loud Opinions Na aftu arusia kote atu joa na kama Ume ongiaki tu Alex Ili kwa arusia ma ili kwa music ni Wee wee Alex achaku jifanya Ukuna royal wedding Nili ona But she kwa invited kaza tu joa ni na kote So maybe anani joa na minam joa online But we've never met So she kwa invited Maybe kama tu na joa na ange ni invite We never know So no hard feeling No, why?  May, end of May End of May Kuna bitu nime kwa ni kifanya Kama ni arusi wna fanya No, no, no I'll be going back to content full time Yes Nime kwa behind the scenes sana Mkwa na fanya komashia wak But sizing in me panga Kuku go back to content full time Ya ya Alright Alex So na takahatu inga kwenya bati But I want you to talk to Moia palekwa kamera Moia David Wata wana kupenda sana Uda inspire vijana wengi sana Happy birthday Izo movesu na make End of life Mungu waku bless ndio Bless vijana wengi sana Enda liya kusaprize watu Alright guys, we'll speak into Alex Matenga See you on the next one