Thanks for checking out this movie review video So this is for the 1980 release by John Carpenter the fog and just so people know if you're a John Carpenter fan You want to see more John Carpenter reviews on my channel? There is actually a playlist that I started now because I did enough reviews at this point to have a John Carpenter film playlist I also have one for Dario Argento and one for Lucio Fulci at the moment and as I get more movies for other directors I will do that as well Create those new ones. So anyway, let's tear into this affair. So Upfront like I always say I'm gonna have spoilers for this.  I do recommend it So let's get into this Written and directed by John Carpenter But also written by Deborah Hill now Deborah Hill has been a collaborator with John Carpenter She worked on the script for Halloween and Halloween 2 with him and This came for John Carpenter when he Was it was after Halloween? It was before he did escape from New York and actually for John Carpenter escape from New York and the fog Was a two film deal that he got from the studio. So I I Assume that the fog actually instilled some good some good will with the studio and Especially going into escape from New York because in the box office the fog did well the fog made Well, it cost 1.1 million dollars to actually make and it made 21.3 million dollars in the box office and remember this is 1980 and also that's only domestically So they made good money now Reviews on it were very mixed But for the studios what matters most the money matters most and the weird thing for me about the budgetary thing is it was 1.1 million dollars for the film. They spent three million dollars on marketing How does that add up I just don't understand that that's just ridiculous to me spend more money on the film Although honestly this film's so good the way Carpenter pulled it off I just feel like I guess it didn't need the extra money. Although it would be cool to see what he could have done with that extra money so anyway Tom Atkins is in this one. If you don't know Tom Atkins, you're probably not super deep into Horror genre culture. He was in some other things like he was actually in escape from New York Which actually a lot of these I'll tell you right up front a bunch of these actors who were in the fog ended up being an escape from New York Adrienne Barbeau Tom Atkins Jamie LeCurtis actually had a very small role. She was like a just a voice in it But still involved so Tom Atkins has also done Halloween 3 which he's probably most well known for now Which is such a cult film. I think it's fun. It's not a good film. It's just fun Night of the creeps which a lot of people also love him for and maniac cop Which I've not seen maniac cop and I need to Adrienne Barbeau is in this obviously she's been a ton of stuff But this came after Actually right before she was in escape from New York and escape from New York kind of put her very much on the map And Jamie LeCurtis this was after Halloween Obviously she worked with Carpenter on that one and the same year as terror train and prom night So the fog terror train and prom night for her in one year release. That's pretty cool I've not actually seen terror train. That is another one that's on my list I have a ton of films on my list to watch But uh, I've seen prom night. I like prom night. I really like the fog. So wow. Jamie LeCurtis, man So Carpenter was inspired by a visit that he took to Stonehenge with Debra Hill for this film And also a movie. I don't know about this movie. It's from the uk. It's called trollingberg terror Apparently it's about monsters that hide in the clouds Which actually sounds kind of like lovecraft ish In my opinion The story of deliberate wreckage of a ship and the plundering of the gold then was actually based on true events Carpenter had found this account of that this actually happening with what happens with the start of this, you know Coastal town in the film.  I'm glad they did that although I feel like they missed a one at least one good key opportunity, which is where the um stevie wanes kid his um granny of a Babysitter when she just got nabbed and pulled into the fog and you hear the noises which was done well, but That was the opportunity to like just show it because the weatherman got it and they showed it And I guess they were just like no spare the old lady. I guess that was their their idea, but um I wish they hadn't because if you were looking to really up the gore factor, that was a prime Uh opportunity that you just passed on Oh, and I would argue that they did not need the opening sequence of that campfire story because Yeah, I understand that it like primes people for the actual story of what happens But do we want that don't we want it to be more mysterious because think about the film without that portion How things like gradually are introduced of like the driftwood and the fog and the pirates and you know everything it just seems Like I mean me personally. I would like more mystery to it I would like to kind of figure out things as I go along because I found myself as all these things were coming up Um initially when I saw that's it does not the first time I've seen it Um, but when all those things were coming up, I was just like, oh, yeah, I remember the campfire story This is all tied to that and I just kind of feel like for me It would have been better if I didn't know that and I was surprised at some point of oh This is a story because you kind of learn it through the journal entries that um father malone was reading so I think he's just left it that way So there are a lot of name references in this film that carpenter put in there Some having to do with his friends like nick castle Obviously tamp tom atkins character is named castle Tommy lee wallace is in there the name Tommy lee wallace who worked on the film is in like production design And then ended up directing halloween three And dan o' bannon who was a collaborator like writing collaborator on dark star with carpenter His name's in there, but also names like machin arthur machin Is an author a horror author and so was you know a reference to that but also the use of dr. Phoebes, uh, which is a call to a character played by vinson price But then also if people didn't notice father malone looks a lot like ed grail and po and i don't think that's a Coincidence also he drinks quite a bit So I think that was a further hint that he's supposed to look like and kind of represent ed grail and po in a way So lots of references to people apparently a novelization of this film actually came out in the same year that it was released which I don't know. I feel like novelizations usually come out after the fact if it's based on the script in the film But it looks like it came out about the same time. So it's like, you know, okay, that's kind of weird I wonder if anyone anyone watching this have you read that novelization? And if so, how is it put a comment down there? Although? I'm sure most people haven't and then obviously there's a remake of this film in 2005 apparently Not a lot of people liked it which you know makes sense because the original is good And that's one of the problems we get into with remakes is when the original is really good How are you going to improve on that really? It's it's very hard to do. So apparently on rotten tomatoes It has like a crazy low score the remake so From what I hear rightfully so So they start this with an ed grail and po quote Which you know makes me believe even more than it's not a coincidence that father malone looks like ed grail and po The quote is is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream in addition to rhyming It's kind of cool Kind of questioning the reality of things just in life in general, but also within the film So I like that not sure how I feel about the ghost story Right. Oh, yeah, I was already talking about this. I kind of jumped ahead Just saying that I want to maintain that mystery But I do also I do think that the ghost story does help in setting up the mood for the film And they have some really good music during the campfire that helps with setting up the mood And in general the music in this is really good and really matches what's going on You know, I would expect nothing less from john carpenter and he always does a great job with matching music in his films Um, so now with the actual events of the film So by hearing the radio broadcast and being shown multiple buildings within within the town It gives you the idea. It's a visual way to tell you The whole town listens to this broadcast pretty much like everyone has their radios on pretty much all the time And they're all keyed in to this one radio station that's local KAB Oh my gosh, Antonio Bay. Oh my gosh, I almost forgot it. I literally just watched it. I was like, how am I gonna forget this right now? So the lack of music in certain parts really really works if you've watched enough of my reviews You know that I love when a lack of music is used to great effect And I think that was the case In the beginning of it when they were using it for the convenience store when it's quiet and you hear the guy It like it accentuates the other sounds of what's going on around the scene like the sweeping The the jiggling of the mirror the bottles when they start rattling because the fog is doing things to the town When the sign breaks and is hanging down and creaking like it increases those and it makes them creepier and I I just love it it makes things more tense and There's so much to be said when someone uses silence in a great way You gotta love the blatant drinking and driving and unchecked trust in hitchhikers And that's between jamie lee curtis and tom akins characters Yeah, because tom akins drinking and driving very blatantly doesn't hide it Not even when he picks up jamie lee curtis the hitchhiker and he's just like here you want to drink with me You know, I might be totally blitzed while driving You don't know and then they like have this back and forth of like making jokes About is it okay to pick up a hitchhiker?  Am I crazy? Like it's um A little bit disturbing, but you know this was a different time You know you can't do that now Uh, obviously, but things things were better back then in a sense. So it makes sense in this film looking back Um, and then the fact that they just sleep with each other But then I was just like man, that's crazy, but we're just coming out of the 70s You know free love and all that so You know, I I worked with a guy once who um He had a great time in the 70s as he as he told me and he was like man You really missed out. I you know, I feel sorry for you because the 70s were wild man Like the free love thing was amazing and I was like Okay Uh, it's such a cool idea to have the radio station in the lighthouse It looks awesome. The setup in there is super super cool. It makes me want to Have that job like it's awesome. I actually had worked at a radio station before it worked as in like I wasn't making money I was an intern um actually for w o x y from 97 x in Ohio Like 45 minutes north of Cincinnati in miami, Ohio That's the radio station that's referenced in rain man Where he says 97 x bam the future of rock and roll That was the last like hold out for independent radio for quite some time It was a really cool station and you know watching the fog Just kind of maybe think back to my times in 97 x it was a cool place The silhouettes of the pirates in the fog look really good And also menacing especially when you can see how they're holding their weapons And it's not just like the swords the swords look great because they look cool and they look old But but like the meat hooks that they have are awesome. Those are the best in my opinion I love the meat hooks I like the introduction of a large amount of characters even if they don't focus a ton on all of them Because it truly makes you feel like the whole town is involved in this But it also shows you a lot of the town and helps immerse the audience in the town that way Because you feel like you see all these different people and so you're like jumping around so you get more of an idea of The size of the town and how connected it is but it also sets it up because then you have more Potential fodder for killing and then you don't know who's going to get it. Who's not going to get it So I like that It's a good motivation for the fog coming in that the town was built basically on blood money from the shipwreck I like that motivation Uh, they just as easily could have made the film and been like This fog just happens to show up and it kills people or there's just pirates in it because they're because pirates are bad And they just want to kill but the fact that they have that motivation behind it is a cool tie in I quite like it literally the town and the church was built on blood money People were murdered and the ship was intentionally wrecked in order to steal that money and start that town so Yeah, I like that the scene where the driftwood starts leaking and then it says six must die on it and then It bursts into flames Is a really cool scene. It's potentially my favorite scene. I know that's kind of weird because it's a very small thing But the way it looked and the way it played out and especially on your first viewing of the film how surprising and crazy that was Really like it looked great. Love it They sure did generate a lot of fog for this movie. They really really did. There's so much fog I would be interested to know how much fog It was and how how much of a pain that was to do and shoot it properly, but it looks good I think every time they employ the fog it looks really cool. Sometimes it looks white sometimes It looks blue sometimes it looks green So it's kind of cool that it actually changes in in color as well It's a great shot when the fog is rolling in on to the beach when stevie wane is looking down from the from the lighthouse It's rolling in on the beach because the Because it looks kind of green the sky looks like reddish orange and then the actual beach looks like a purplish blue So like from a color perspective It looks very very aesthetically pleasing and I just really like that shot. It looks awesome Honestly, I would take like um, you know one of those printed canvases you can Put on your wall. I'd love one of that. That would be amazing That probably exists somewhere on the internet and I might have to check that out Uh, why didn't they show the old lady getting it? Yeah, I already talked about this They showed the weatherman get it. I'm this is one of my biggest problems with this film Like you tried to up the gore after you saw the rough cut cut john carpenter Why didn't you kill the old lady on screen? This was your opportunity to up that gore even more Should have done that It's a small thing though I found myself keeping track of the body count because of what the driftwood said It really sticks in your mind that six must die and I don't know if other people out there were watching it You know had the same reaction where they're just like, okay, there's the first person to get it There's the second person to get it But then I actually forgot about the counting towards the end Because I got distracted by other things going on, but for a while I was very focused on it It's a tough decision for steve wayne to make to stay at the radio station instead of going to find her son That is truly the sacrificial moment of I have to do for the greater good I have to sacrifice potentially sacrifice my own son in order to save this town because I have the best vantage point The weatherman's dead at this point and I'm seeing where the fog is going and we know that the fog is a problem We know there's something in it that is killing people. So Good job steve wayne true hero And actually my favorite character in the whole film, which you know, that's probably not uncommon most people probably Have her as their favorite character. Plus adrian barbeau is awesome. I've actually met adrian barbeau. She's crazy nice Love her love her lover. She's so nice I like how father malone is getting lit during this time and castle basically needs to make him stop drinking He's like literally drinking through from the bottle atkins. Look as his character castle is like give that to me and he breaks it Um I guess that's how some people cope you just wouldn't you wouldn't assume that coming from a priest That that's how he's coping with it. He's just getting hammered This one's for jesus Not really Uh, the church ends up being the worst place to be If you're trying to get away from this fog, which they find out while they're there and I love that moment of it where it's kind of like Great we're in the place that they're probably coming to and yes, that's where they are But it's also the best place to be if you're trying to solve the problem and obviously that happens in the end So I kind of like the duality of that. It's the worst and best place to be Stevie on the top of the lighthouse with the two pirates coming at her Um is probably the most intense scene in the film in my opinion because obviously she has nowhere to go She cannot do anything and she's not even protected by anything like the people in the church Like they have windows that that the that the pirates have to get through first and doors and stuff like that There are other rooms they can go to Stevie on the top of this lighthouse is crazy exposed And especially when you see the two pirates coming from opposite directions and they're obviously making it onto the roof of that thing She's an imminent danger. So it is the most intense scene and I think it looks great the way they shot it from above very cool Uh, and I And I was like, so wait that that's a giant gold cross Is that what's going on here the the giant cross that father Malone brings out and presents to Blake The pirate is It's a giant gold cross. So I have questions if that's the case So if that's all gold Then it wasn't used to build the church and the town. I assume because there it is And then why would you keep it like that? Like first of all, why would you make it into a cross? It's gold, especially if you're you were planning on using it at some point But then why would you just keep it especially if it's Blood money, basically, I don't like something about that just doesn't make sense But if you have some theories go ahead and put some comments down there.  That's another opportunity for them to You know show something but I also think that it's It's more effective if it's the very last thing you see if they just cut the black And it's a cool ending because then it's like, oh, you think the pirates are gone the fog situations Totally handled. Well, not necessarily because they're still around Um, based off how things went with that giant gold cross. It seemed like they just kind of Evaporated and they're not around anymore, but they're still around. That's the thing. So, you know, maybe they have more business somewhere I don't know or maybe just killing Malone was the end of the business So let's talk about some technical stuff about this the cinematography is excellent The directing is great. The scenery and ambiance is amazing Just aesthetically. This is an awesome film. I I love the aesthetics of this one The music matches really well like I already said in the beginning Shooting locations are excellent. I love movies movies with coastal town settings Some of my favorite ones because of the way they made it look and how How much they show of the coastal town? Some of my favorites are human humanoids from humanoids from the deep or humanoid creatures from the deep Why am I blanking on that? I did a review for it. It's on my channel and dead and buried also did a review for that It's on my channel. So check those out as well um The dialogue in this is particularly good. I really have to point that out That occurred to me pretty early on in the film and it sustains there's a lot of fun kind of back and forth between characters and just Really well written dialogue in particular good If you pitch this concept by the way It sounds terrible But they pulled it off and that's how you know It's a great filmmaker and they have a great crew and great actors When you can take a concept that if you boil it down and think what was the pitch for this like And you're like that sounds dumb But the film's really good That's how you know that people involved are amazing And I feel like this is it because like who would go pitch this and be like, okay. Here's the concept coastal town Radio station in a lighthouse There's a fog with pirates in it. They want to kill people because the town is built with their gold That's a terrible concept. It's a terrible concept, but they did it. They killed it. It's amazing The literally they killed it This is the age old story of future generations paying the price for the sins of those before them Literally in this like the sins of the father type thing because it is Father Malone's actual lineage that did it So he ends up paying in the end for the sins of the father, you know And what happens when the foundation for the future is built on crimes and lies Eventually the piper has to be paid and that's exactly what happens 100 years later in The fog Sorry, Antonio Bay I would like a sequel. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe I don't want sequel But um, hey quite liked it So now my rating portion of this so out of five stars with half stars in play It's not the best film. It's not the most amazing film. I really like it though I'm gonna give it a very solid four stars I'm between four and four and a half If I did quarters, I'd do 4.25, but I don't think it's it's quite enough to get it to four and a half I'm gonna put it at the four. I really do like this film. Um, it's a fun time So put your comments down there your thoughts on the fog theories just feelings whatever Also, just other carpenter stuff I'm I'm a fan of carpenter as you can tell because I have a whole playlist on my channel of carpenter film reviews And I'll be adding to those at some point. I'm sure But do me a quick favor hit that subscribe If you like anything I do because I'm not making money or anything And if you already subscribed just hit that thumbs up to say I want to encourage you and I like what you're doing. So thanks everyone for checking this out And until next time keep it brutal


Pohakaloa, we haven't talked about that before. We should talk about that. And we have Lieutenant Colonel Kevin Cronin to talk about it with us here on the military in Hawaii on ThinkTech. Welcome to the show, Kevin. Aloha, Jay. Thanks so much for having me. Absolutely. We want to talk to, we want to know more about Pohakaloa.  The Big Island has so much.  And Pohakaloa is one of those things. It's been there for a long time. So give us the stats on it. How long has it been there? How big is it? How many people are there? That's right, Jay. It is a great surprise here on the Big Island. So thanks so much for having me on the show and giving me the opportunity to talk about the great mission we have here at Pohakaloa Training Area and the great team that supports that mission. So Pohakaloa Training Area is located on the Big Island in the Saddle Region between Manakea and Manaloa. Daniel K. Inouye Highway, also known as Saddle Road, passes right by our gate. And it's 133,000 square, 133,000 acres or 210 square miles. And it's one of the largest training areas in the Pacific Basin Region for our forces who are assigned here in the Pacific Region to come here and do their large-scale, key collective and crew training events so that they can achieve the highest levels of readiness. And we've been doing this mission for quite some time. So it was established as an Army Gears in 1956. So getting up there. But previously, during World War II, we traced our lineage to Camp Tarawa and the Marines who came to Hawaii Island to rest, refit and train after the bloody battle of Tarawa, consolidate all the lessons they learned there and then go on to their subsequent victories in the Pacific at Saipan, Tinian, and Iwo Jima with the 2nd and 5th Marine Division. So we traced our lineage to them. And that's what we do here today, we train, we prepare, we consolidate on lessons learned. And so we're as ready as possible if and when our nation's men and women, our volunteers are called into harm's way to fight and win our nation's battles. But how come all Army now, or does it include Marines as well? It's an Army Gears in, but that's a great point today. It is very much a joint training environment area. So the biggest customer is US Army, but the Marines are close, close second. We have a great relationship with the Marines who come here to train and use this area quite a bit. And then we also have Air Force and Navy come here to train. And so that training, that's how we fight. We fight with all the services integrating together in a combat situation. And you're able to do that here at Falkaloa training area. You're able to exercise all those services in conjunction, in coordination, get those practice runs, get those repetitions and just be as prepared as possible. And you're the commander? That's right. It's my honor to be the commander of this garrison. What's a garrison? A garrison is an Army word for a base. You could use the word base, you could... We've all heard that word a thousand times, but until this conversation, I never asked anybody exactly what it meant. We got it. Always have to be cognizant of the Army, got lingo and language, make sure it's clear for everyone. So what kind of a duty station is this for you? I mean, it's kind of remote. Is it a sweet deal or is it hard work? It's both. It's a sweet deal and it is hard work, but that's what we sign. Not for us as professionals, professional military leaders. We want the hard jobs, we want the hard work, but it's a great honor. I say it's a sweet deal because it's a great honor to kind of have a key role in ensuring our nation's men and women are as prepared as possible for combat, our nation's men and women in uniform. And that's a sacred obligation. It's important for our nation because it adds to our readiness, which is a moral imperative to ensure our nation's men and women are as, it's an operational imperative to make sure they're as prepared as possible. But it's also a moral imperative, a sacred obligation. We, you have to make sure that our nation's men and women get the best training possible. And so I play a role in that and the great team here plays a role in that and I'm proud of you on that team. There's two, sorry, go ahead, Jay. Yeah, I want to get to that, but what is your, I don't know if they call it the MO, what is your, in the Coast Guard, we had a different word for it, but what is your specialty that makes you appropriate for this job? Are you into training? Is that what your basic specialty is? So in the Army, we call it MOS, Militant Occupational Specialty. And so my 18 alpha, which is Special Forces Officer. So you could very much say that I'm into training and I understand the importance of training and how good training is key and beneficial and it's when you find yourself in a combat situation, you have to do it, you have to get on the ground, you have to replicate the conditions of combat as closely as possible. So you're as effective as possible along with your team in a combat situation. And so the Army as a Lieutenant Colonel selected me to command this garrison and yeah, I would say my background and experience is well suited to this mission. So if I, if I wanted to get your job, Kevin, I have to do a lot of push-ups, huh? Yeah, maybe the push-ups is part of our new Army combat fitness test. And really split. Well, yeah, let's talk about, you know, at any given moment in time, how many people have you got there? Is this a year-round sort of thing or is it seasonal? They come and go in groups that the groups interact between the branches and do they all have the same kind of training or different training manuals that apply different for different groups who come and spend time with you? Absolutely. So it definitely ebbs and flows based on different times of the year. So right now we're in a lull, but over the past two months, we're at a peak and we peaked at about 1,300 predominantly soldiers here at one day. And the training varies based on the unit's needs and requirements and desires. And so they come out early, they send an advanced party to do a reconnaissance and prepare and plan that training based on what they assess their unit needs to train on. And the team here works with them and is able to facilitate and support that training. We train about 13,000 soldiers, Marines, sailors and airmen a year. It's a lull right now, but over the next couple of weeks, they'll pick up a little bit with about 400 Marines coming here for RIMPAC, RIM of the Pacific exercise and some allies and partners to conduct some key training here. And then in August, we'll have the Hawaii Army National Guard and 100th Battalion US Army Reserves come here to do their annual training. We are extremely proud of that. We are the home for training for the Hawaii Army National Guard, our state citizen soldiers. I was going to ask you about that, that's good. So I mean, everybody who could get trained gets trained. I saw a movie last night, Kevin, and I think it was Netflix about an agency in the British government in the war. And it was working actually with the American government for a while. And it was in charge of recruiting spies to deploy in continental Europe and to support the resistance and so forth. And training was really important in that movie. I mean, when I took away from that movie, if you asked me for a practical takeaway is that if you are not trained, you are at much greater risk. If you are trained, you can do a better job. You can succeed in whatever your mission was. And it's dangerous not to be completely trained. Do you agree with that? Is that part of your system there? I wholeheartedly agree with that assessment, Jay. The better training you have, the more training you have, the closer that training replicates the conditions of combat, the more prepared and the more effective you'll be in a combat situation. That's from an actual application in combat if you find yourself in combat. But it's also from a deterrence perspective.  And a key component, capability is readiness.  Potential adversaries are always assessing readiness. So the more trained you are, the more you're able to apply that training and kind of apply lessons that you see around the world from other combat situations to that training, the more you're able to fight or train with other services and incorporate maneuver on the ground and aircraft fires and artillery fires, the more prepared and the better you're gonna do in combat. Yeah, let's talk about the parameters of training. I mean, one thing strikes me is that, my guess is that the units who come and see you remain together. In other words, you're not juggling them around, you're not spending, you know, you're scrambling the units among training units, you're keeping them together because part of training is training together. It's the teamwork thing. It's knowing, you know, your buddies, knowing the guys in your unit really well and caring about them. And so, am I right about that or do you scramble them? No, it's all about the team.  It's all about the team. You come here and you're able to do that training as a team. And, you know, the Army's always kind of, there's always an assignments process and new people are being cycled in and people have been in the unit a little longer or being cycled out. So here is where those newer people are able to come train together as a team called collective training and get that practice and kind of know, they know that they come out of here and they know the sound of their leader's voice in the dark and can kind of do for that way. So does your staff at Pohakaloa train, directly train the people who come for training or do the various branches and units send their own trainers to do the training under your command at Pohakaloa? The units that come here send the trainers as part of the units. That's a unit role and responsibility. What the team at Pohakaloa does kind of the institution and it's majority civilians, 230 team members work here day in and day out. And there's only two active duty military myself and the command sergeant major. Civilians who live in the community are from the community for quite some time. They facilitate the training through providing services, support, infrastructure, and then there's a branch here that we call range operations division and they support the ranges and they ensure range scheduling, they ensure the targetry on the ranges is appropriate, they ensure the safety zones are correct and they kind of help synchronize the training. So when the units rotate through, they can just hit the ground running and get after it. Yeah, you got to be careful on those ranges. I remember when I was in the Coast Guard Day and they said, oh, your lawyers, you have to get out and train too. So they sent me down to Cape May to get trained on weapons. And I was there on the firing line with a 45 and all of a sudden the chief started yelling at me and he stopped everybody at ease or whatever it was and he came over and he looked at my 45 and noticed the barrel was cracked and he might have saved my life, just to notice that kind of thing. So when you go out of the range, everything has to be careful and observed and the people who supervise it have to watch out for any kind of thing that happened because you're dealing with lethal equipment, no? Absolutely, Jay, it's serious business. And we have all sorts of mechanisms, control measures and most importantly, experienced leaders, non-commissioned officers and officers who are ensuring that the training is conducted safely. Yeah, well, so we read about Ukraine, we read about the new weapons that the president would like to give them, maybe is giving them, I don't know, right now in terms of a long range artillery and so forth. And the Ukrainians, unfortunately, they have no training experience themselves in how to operate these high-tech artillery devices. And so I wonder if that's one of the things you deal with, in other words, the latest and greatest field artillery, what have you, other equipment that the Army may use in the field, are you training these trainees on equipment as well as doing the range and doing push-ups? Absolutely, the units that come here are being trained on their equipment, their organic equipment, their unit-level equipment and that equipment's always being updated. And so when a unit gets a new equipment, coming out to PTA, especially for artillery pieces like you're referring to, is a key step in the progression to practice using that piece of equipment. So you'll see that with artillery pieces here, absolutely. And then the size of PTA allows for artillery units maneuverability because as you see in Ukraine, it's not a good idea to stay in one place for too long. So you practice your shooting, targeting the enemy and then you move in a phenomenal place for PTA to do that training, which is kind of what you see in Ukraine. You know, in various commands within the military, there's training by people who are not in the U.S. military. They come from other countries. We invite them here, we train them, we, you know, they're our allies after all. Does that happen in Pohakalo? Yes, allies and partners come here and train a fair amount. Not all the time, but they'll rotate through like in RIMPAC, we'll have some allies and partners here. And that's also critically important because we talk about training like we fight. Well, we're gonna fight joint and we're gonna fight as part of an alliance with allies and partners. So we get those opportunities to train here at PTA and improve and increase our interoperability, which is really important. You know, part of training, at least the way it's emerging, part of being in charge of a group of people, at least the way it's emerging is to make sure they're mentally healthy. And I wonder if the training protocols that you have or the independent branches that come around and train their people at Pohakalo are also evaluating and training people to make sure that they're okay because not everybody in the world is okay, especially if you have somebody who's been through a few rotations in dangerous areas and, you know, and comes back with the side effects of PTSD. So query, is that a focus of either the command, your command, or possibly the individual branch leaders who come and do training? I would say that's definitely a focus of mine and the team here and the units and the leaders that rotate through and the units that train here. It's a focus of everyone in the military. It's important that we, you know, people first, it's a number one priority in the US Army. And so it's important that we're always kind of checking in and working with our people to ensure that they're ready and resilient. And train, good training is a great piece of being ready and resilient.  And so PTA, the training here helps contribute to that. And then leaders at echelon from team leaders, which are corporals all the way up to Lieutenant's Colonel and Colonel and General Officer are always checking up on their leaders and their subordinates to make sure everyone's doing okay. Yeah, oh, that's great. That's really important, I think. Because an Army that is together, psychologically is certainly gonna be a better Army. I was joking before about push-ups, but is push-ups, it's push-ups in the program. I mean, training to me is, a lot of guys have desk jobs, they never get out much.  But query, when I go to walk along with some of this training, am I gonna get trained up physically as well as militarily? So as the units, again, it's a unit responsibility. I do my physical training here, but the units, they maintain their physical fitness while they're here. So they're training on their weapon systems, they're training, maneuvering on the ground, incorporating artillery and aircraft fires, and they're also doing physical fitness. We have a fantastic gym here, where at 6,500 feet elevation. So you come here and you're training at altitude, and it's good, it's a good workout.  Yeah, I'm up here at altitude, and then I take my physical fitness test down at sea level. Yeah, well, that's a great way to go. You know, I've hiked up the other side. You know, opposite Pohakaloa and the Stadler Road, you can go, I guess it's south or southeast as well, and go up top of Montaloa. Then going up to the top of Montaloa, you know, you have to make tracks to get up there before sunset, because it's sunset, it gets very cold. I'm sure that's the case in Pohakaloa too.  And so you have to rush, and when you rush, you're going up the altitude, you know, so quickly, and there's pulmonary edema issues, there's all kinds of issues relating to, you know, what am I called, systemic reaction to the altitude. Does this happen in Pohakaloa too? So 6,500, not as much, people will get winded and fatigued, but you're not going to see that altitude sickness very rarely. I should mention that Montaloa, the summit of Montaloa is more like 12,500 or 13,000, so that's double the altitude. Exactly, but it gets cold here at night, like you said. Yeah, temperature will drop, that's for sure. Yeah, so I expect all the bunks are heated, yeah. And you have a jacuzzi just outside. Yeah, not so much. I will say that at that point, you know, we've emphasized training throughout our discussion, you know, rightly so, this is, you know, we provide readiness to our leaders in our commands here in the Pacific, US Army Pacific and then Indo-Pakom to contribute to their strategy. But what we do a lot, which I assess as a key component of readiness and critical to a military mission, is we interact with the community quite a bit. And so to your point about altitude sickness and hiking on Montaloa, our emergency responders here respond to those emergencies and we regularly rescue lost and stranded and, you know, hikers who are experiencing issues. We respond to vehicle fires and accidents on Saddle Road about three times per week. Oh, wow. Quite a bit, and we're able to get there faster because of our proximity and that free, you know, that helps out our community which is super important to us. The other thing that we do is our fire department will help respond in the event of a wildfire which is a huge risk in the United States and the state of Hawaii and here on the Big Island and even more so because of the drought conditions. And so last summer, we responded, we helped respond to the 50,000 acre Monta Road wildfire and helicopters come from Oahu, five helicopters, firefighters come from Oahu, our firefighters here, our bulldozer operators. We all responded as part of the community and team effort to help arrest the spread of that fire and stop it from being even more devastating than it already is. And another program that we're proud to announce that was just released is called the Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration Program, REPE. And the Department of Defense just released a 4.8 million program to improve wildfire management adjacent to PTA. The Department of Land and Natural Resources we called REPE Challenge proposed this, DOD accepted it. And so it's a matching funds program that totals 4.8 million. And we're gonna improve fire breaks, fuel breaks, roads to get after the wildfire risk together. What about aircraft? Do you have any helicopters that are assigned to Pohakaloa or have to call them in? So when we have training here, we always have Medevac helicopters here on our airfield to see one third capable airfield. When there's not training, like right now, there's the aircraft go back to Oahu so they can get their maintenance rest and refit. But in an event of emergency situation to support the wildfire fight, they'll come over from Oahu. Yeah, sure. To support the training, sure, absolutely. One other area you touched on it is Pohakaloa is right there on the hillside and then I guess the northern hillside of Manakea which is a sensitive cultural area. And you do engage, you do work with various groups of native Hawaiians about that. Can you talk about what you do and what your relationship is and what the sensitivities are? Absolutely. So community engagement is so important to the military. We're from the community. We are the community's army, we're your army. And so it's really important to engage and have dialogue with the community. And so we go about that in a variety of different ways. We both informally and formally have dialogues and meetings and engagements with native Hawaiian organizations and native Hawaiian individuals to talk with them and dialogue and engage in a dialogue and develop understanding in a transparent manner. We have what's called the Kohakaloa process which are community led engagement dialogue to kind of interact and develop relationships which is really important. We understand that there's lots of sensitivities and there's some people who don't agree with our presence here but we still try to engage and we still try to talk about our mission and the importance of our mission and hear those concerns and dialogue and see, look for opportunities to work together in a transparent and respectful manner. Yeah, I told you the back when in the days of Senator Dan Akaka, I met Noelani Kalipe who was on his staff and later on I met her in the context of organizations on the Big Island that deal with Kohakaloa, among other things. And she had only good words for Kohakaloa. She was on the show about a year ago and I really appreciated that. It was all very positive. When you get a chance, take a look at Think Tech and look her up and you'll be able to see what she was saying about you. Absolutely well. So Noelani Kalipe is our civilian aide to the secretary of the army, appointed by our secretary of the army, Christine Warmouth to help exactly what you just described with that community engagement and be the secretary's touch point here on the island. And she's been a great partner for us. So where's the future take things, Kevin? Where does the future take you in a career built around training and commanding facilities, the garrisons like Kohakaloa? And where does it take the army? I imagine that Kohakaloa is not the only training facility in the whole army. There must be others. Maybe one of these days you'll get orders to another one. How does it look for you? How does it look for training in general? On the basis of what you said before, it's really critical that the army be well trained for internal and external purposes. So tell us about the program around the world and for you. That's right, Jay. Well, I still have some time here in the seat and so I'm focused on this job and doing it well and doing it as, you know, going as hard as I can to help get this great, you know, facilitate this important training that happens here. From where Kohakaloa training area fits kind of into the grand scheme here in the Indo-Pacific region, it's only increasing in importance. The, our senior leaders have said that this region, the Indo-Pacific region is the most consequence for our nation's future now and now going into the future. And China is our pace and challenge. And so, you know, it goes kind of in line with that, that the forces who are assigned here in the region need to get great training. And so PTA is a key component of that great training, particularly from a land forces perspective. General Flynn, the US Army Pacific commander, he's implemented what's called the Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center. And this GPMRC is a regional combat training center. So similar to what you see in Europe and Germany, now we have one in the Pacific region. And what this does is it allows the units to stay in the region, train in the conditions of the region that where they're assigned to, and it keeps their equipment and the personnel in the region instead of having to ship all that equipment and personnel back to the mainland, where that's where you would have to go if you weren't able to train here at PTA. And so with this new JPMRC initiative, PTA is only increasing in importance because it's a key component, a key hub of that initiative. Any other big training facilities? Anywhere else? And I'll just say it, it contributes to full energy in the region, JPMRC, because those forces train here, they achieve the highest levels of readiness, those units, and then they rotate forward into the region, even farther west, past the international date line, and then they conduct training and exercises with allies and partners. So for other training areas like PTA in the Pacific Basin region, you'd have to go back to the mainland. Okay, well, we covered a lot of ground and I only have one suggestion for you. I'd like to make suggestions to our guests. So it's night, it's a little cooler. You know, your people in training programs have had a tough day and I assume that you have wireless up there, I assume you get the internet. So what your guys can do, and girls, is tune into ThinkTech and have our kind of education and training. I might even look up Kalipe, know a lot of Kalipe, and see what she has to say. So that could be part of your training protocol, Kevin. Yeah, I like it, Jay. Yep, training encompasses a wide variety of aspects. Yeah, great, great to talk to you, great to meet you, great to, you know, to feel the energy and to see what you're doing up there. You know, it's been kind of a remote area. I've passed it by so many times on the saddle road. It's seen in a great distance and this brings it much closer for me and a lot of people. So I appreciate your coming on. Thank you so much, Kevin. Thanks, Jay. It's my pleasure. Aloha. Thank you so much for watching ThinkTech Hawaii. If you like what we do, please like us and click the subscribe button on YouTube and the follow button on Vimeo. You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn, and donate to us at ThinkTechHawaii.com. Mahalo.


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with Jean-Lucca Pazzarelli from Naples. Jean-Lucca, are you online? Yes, hi. OK, hi. So try to start sharing. Yes. And then I will record you. So it's 15 plus five minutes question, OK? OK. Just a second. OK, so we'll talk about variational shortcuts to a debaticity for limb-bloodium dynamics. Jean-Lucca, please. OK, go. Hi, everyone. I'm Jean-Lucca. And in this talk, I'm going to tell you about some of our recent results concerning variational shortcuts to a debaticity for open-quanning systems. But before I do that, I would like to start with a quick overview of shortcuts to a debaticity, the particular county debatical driving for closed systems to then move on to open systems. So as you well know, a debatical optimization is a technique for solving optimization problems. And the idea is, of course, to encode the solution as the ground state of an easing Hamiltonian. And in order to reach this solution, you start by initializing your system in the ground state of a non-interacting transverse field Hamiltonian, which in this picture corresponds to a simple enough cost function whose minimum is easy to find. Then by changing these two parameters, A and B, you slowly deform this cost function so as to match the one that you want to optimize. And if you do this procedure slowly, then there is a high probability that the starting minimum will evolve in the correct global minimum of the target cost function. But if you move too quickly, then there is a high probability that the system will get excited, and thus the performance of your algorithm will decrease. The adiabatic criterion tells you that in order to avoid this problem, the time of evolution must be much longer than the inverse of the minimum of the gap between the ground state and the first excited state. Otherwise, the adiabatic Landau-Zener transitions will take place and degrade the performance of your algorithm. So on the one hand, you want to move slowly in order to keep these Landau-Zener transitions under control. But on the other hand, if you move too slowly, then you will leave your system more prone to errors due to the coherence. And one of the solutions to this problem has been shortcuts for diabeticity and counter-diabatic driving. The basic idea is to redefine the original Hamiltonian to include the term that can completely suppress diabetic transitions throughout the evolution, even though the adiabatic criterion is violated. So what's the idea precisely? If you write down the Schrodinger equation in your laboratory frame, then the generator of the dynamics is the Hamiltonian H0 that I wrote in the first slide. However, you can also find a different frame of reference, for example, the one corresponding to the instantaneous eigenvectors of the Hamiltonian H0. If you do that, and if you write down the Schrodinger equation here, you realize that the generator of devolution now has two terms. One that is diagonal in the energy eigenbasis and cannot induce any diabetic transitions. And another one that is non-diagonal instead and is related to the time derivative of the transformations that brings you to this moving frame. This term is responsible for diabetic transitions. So what you can do is you can do some sort of reverse engineering in which you redefine the original Hamiltonian H0, so as to include this term in blue, so that when you go to the moving frame, these two terms cancel out exactly and you are left with just the adiabatic Hamiltonian, which as I mentioned is diagonal in the energy eigenbasis and cannot induce transitions no matter how fast your evolution is. This is counter-diabatic driving. And what's nice is that of this operator, we even have an exact analytical expression that is shown here in the slide. But the problem is that this form is practically useless in all but a very selected number of cases due to the fact that this counter-diabatic operator is highly known local. It requires that you know the spectrum of the Hamiltonian if you want to compute it and is also ill-defined around quantum critical points where these denominators can go even exponentially to zero as a function of the system size. And those are the points where you would like to use this counter-diabatic driving operator the most, of course. So in order to solve these issues, in recent years there has been a lot of research towards building approximate counter-diabatic operators that do not suffer these limitations. And one step forward came from self-sampled Kovnikov who realized that the exact counter-diabatic operator satisfies this exact operator equation here and that the solution to this equation is also the minimum of this cost function here. So rather than solving this complicated operator equation, you can make an answer to some of the form of the counter-diabatic operator or rather on the form of this adiabatic gauge potential A and then you can minimize this cost function with respect to the coefficients of this expansion. In this way, you can enforce some constraints, for example, locality constraints or some other constraints related to the limitations of your experimental apparatus. And you can build approximations that prove to be very successful also for many body quantum systems. This all works in a closed system setting. So for example, in a recent paper of ours, we studied the P-spin model with P equal to three, which is described by this Hamiltonian here. It is a fully connected easing spin system where Q-bit interacts with each other via infinite range of ferromagnetic interactions, three body interactions in particular. And we tested two different answers for this counter-diabatic driving approach, one that reflects the general features of the original model that is a tree local and that's with full connectivity and another one that is far more general. It is a truncated series expansion of the true counter-diabatic operator that is known to work well for many body quantum systems. And as you can see here from the scaling of the ground state fidelity at the end of a short time evolution as a function of the system size, the inclusion of these approximate counter-diabatic operators optimized via this variational approach is able to significantly improve the scaling of the fidelity with respect to the case without any counter-diabatic correction and also the instantaneous ground state probability remains always larger compared to the case without counter-diabatic corrections. So motivated by this success of the variational approach in building unitary counter-diabatic operators, we started wondering whether was it possible to generalize this approach also to include open quantum systems instead. And the difference is, of course, that now the dynamical equation is no longer a Schrodinger equation, but it's rather a Limblad equation in this form in which you have the Limbladian super operator acting on the systems density matrix. Actually, from what follows, it will be more convenient for me if we switch to this so-called super operator representation in which density matrices are reshaped as coherence vectors by putting one column after the other and the Limbladian super operator becomes a super matrix acting on this extended Hilbert space. If we do that, we realize that the Limblad equation is very similar to your typical Schrodinger equation. The only difference is the fact that the Limbladian super matrix is not hermitian in general. And so the spectral theorem doesn't hold and you cannot always diagonalize it. However, linear algebra tells you that it is always possible to find a similarity transformation that is an invertible transformation that brings this Limbladian super matrix into the so-called Jordan canonical form, which is a block diagonal structure where each block is associated to a given complex eigenvalue of the Limbladian super matrix. So each Jordan block is shown here. On the diagonal, you have one of the eigenvalues and on the upper diagonal, you have this sequence of ones. These eigenvalues will have no positive real parts. They will decay over time and the zero eigenvalue will correspond to the instantaneous steady state for that given Limbladian. And why am I telling all of this technical stuff? Well, the reason is that adiabaticity in open quantum systems has a very precise meaning that is related to this Jordan form. In particular, we say that a dynamic equation and an anti-evolution, sorry, for an open system is adiabatic if the dynamics of Jordan blocks associated with distinct and non-crossing eigenvalues of the Limbladian super matrix are decoupled from each other. In a similar fashion to what happens in close quantum systems, where we say that dynamics are adiabatic if the different eigenspaces of the Hamiltonian evolve independently of each other. So starting from this definition of adiabaticity, we could notice some similarities between closed and open systems. For example, also for open systems, you can define a moving frame by means of this similarity transformation. And if you write down your Limbladian equation here, you realize that you have two terms. One of them is diagonally in the Jordan block index so it cannot induce any adiabatic transitions. The other one instead is responsible for the adiabatic transitions. And if you expand it onto the left and right was an eigenbasis of eigenvectors of the Limbladian super matrix, you realize that this form is very similar to the counter adiabatic operator for closed quantum systems with the same pros and the same cons. So it is a non-local super operator. You need to know the spectrum of the Limbladian if you want to compute it. It is ill-defined whenever these Liouvilleian gaps are small and so on and so forth. So due to the similarity between the equations, it is natural, or at least I hope so, that you expect that you can generalize the existing variational approach for closed quantum systems also to open quantum systems described by these time-local Limbladian master equations. Actually, there are some small technical differences in the algebra here and there. They are hidden in the derivation. Some of them are shown, some of them are not. But if you're interested in these technical details, you can find out more in our paper here. Instead, what I want to do in what remains of this talk is, first of all, I would like to stress the fact that our approach is able to generalize the existing one in the sense that whenever the Limbladian super operator is a unitary map, we find the exact same equations that were derived by cell sample comical starting from a closed system evolution. So our method is slightly more general. And I would like instead to focus on an application in the remaining part of my talk that is a single qubit in interaction with anomic environment. So we consider this kind of Hamiltonian here. It's a single qubit and we know that in a closed system setting, we would be able to compute the exact counter-diabatic operator in this case. It is proportional to sigma-wise. Actually, one of the few cases where you can actually compute the exact counter-diabatic operator in a closed form. And we decided to couple this single qubit to a collection of harmonic oscillators and to perform the standard Born-Marcoven rotating wave approximations to derive this weak coupling adiabatic master equation here. So the Limbladian we are studying is here and I would like to stress the fact that both the unitary part and the dissipative part depend on time. So we expect also a counter-diabatic super operator to depend on time via both the unitary part and the dissipative part. However, what we found out is that by just controlling the unitary part of our ansatz for the counter-diabatic super operator, we are able to significantly improve open system adiabaticity in the sense that I was mentioning before. In particular, the instantaneous steady state of this Limbladian is the thermal state at a given inverse temperature, beta, that is the equilibrium temperature of the environment for each of the Hamiltonian's H0 of T. So suppose we initialize our qubit in the thermal state at the beginning of the evolution. Are we then able to follow this Jordan block throughout the evolution thanks to this correction? Well, it turns out that if we consider just a unitary ansatz for our counter-diabatic super operator and we optimize this coefficient by using our open system variational equation, we are able to substantially improve the fidelity with the thermal state throughout the evolution compared to the case without counter-diabatic corrections. So for example, in this case, we are considering a very low temperature environment for which the relaxation time scale in the absence of corrections will be of 200 in these units. Instead, we are considering a very fast dynamics so we're not giving the system enough time to thermalize. However, if we control the unitary part of the evolution, which is of course more convenient than having to engineer the whole dissipative part of these ansatz, we are able to get fidelities that are very close to one. Of course, the agreement is not perfect because we are not considering the full expressivity of this counter-diabatic super operator, but you surely agree that this high fidelity is very nice in this case. And also if we increase the temperature, of course, we decrease the relaxation time scale and this effect is less noticeable, as you can see from the Y scale on the Y axis, but it's still here at short times. In fact, if we study the final infidelity as a function of the annealing time, we see that at long times, the addition of this counter-diabatic correction does not yield any significant improvement, but this also happens in close quantum systems where your dynamics are already adiabatic. But at short times, you can see that we can get improvements even by eight orders of magnitude compared to the uncorrected case. And also this is a very simple system, but in the paper we also study once again the P-SPIN model and we find out basically the same outcome. So we are able to control, by just controlling the unitary part of the evolution, we are able to significantly improve the overlap with the Jordan block and suppress the abatic transitions outside of this block. So with that, I have concluded this presentation. Thank you all for your attention and if you have any questions, you can either read our paper or ask them here. Thank you. Okay, thank you. Thank you, Gianluca. Very nice talk. A few questions. Okay, thank you very much for the talk. And I was just curious, if you don't take into account this coupling with the environment and you compute naively the driving for the Hamiltonian you have, how does this compare with when you take into account the coupling with the environment? I mean, how bad is it, it is to just use the standard the contralibratic driving without the environment? Well, in that case, you are doing something different because in that case, you are just optimizing the unitary part and then you are adding dissipation on top. So you are not taking into account the dissipation in your original optimization. So I would expect different performance in this case. Instead in our approach, you optimize all together. And so basically if your goal is to suppress diabetic transitions in the sense that I was mentioning before, not in the sense of a diabetic one computation. So not between energy and states, but between the different Jordan blocks of the composition of the Linglidian super matrix. I would expect that you would get very different performance if you do in these two different ways. Other questions? Hi, thanks for the very nice talk. So can you go back to the slide where you define the adiabatic hypothesis for, yeah. So does this adiabaticity hypothesis fail when the Linglidian is not diagonalizable or these are two different things? No, no, no, no, no. Even when the Linglidian is not diagonalizable, this is the same definition of adiabaticity because when your Linglidian is not diagonalizable, you simply have that these Jordan blocks are not one-dimensional. So these are actually blocks due to the fact that the geometric multiplicity of each eigenvalue is different than its algebraic multiplicity. And so basically in each block you have each eigenvalue repeated a number of times that is related to this geometric multiplicity. And then adiabaticity refers to suppressing this coupling between these non-one-dimensional Jordan blocks. But it's actually the same thing. And the equations here take into account the fact that the Linglidian super matrix cannot always be diagonalizable. Because for example, in this case, this diagonal part that vanishes in the case of a closed system evolution. In this case, it does not always vanish due to the fact that these blocks can be more than one-dimensional. Hi. So in the open system case, there is a complication which is that the Jordan blocks actually become time dependent when you properly derive the Lillenblatt equation. And did you take that into account when you showed this nice result with high fidelity when you just control the unitary part? Yes, yes. This is a general, and this is an old numerical. So all time dependencies, et cetera, are taken into account. And it turns out that for this choice of parameters, it is actually sufficient to control just the unitary part. And also when we start in the P-spin model with the same parameters, we find out basically the same results. I don't know if it's a general rule because I expect that if dissipation plays a more dominant role in the dynamics, this will no longer be the case. But if you think about this simple case or the single qubit, a thermal state is just defined by the relative balance between the populations in the final basis. And so I guess that in this case, this method works because you are just, you are able to control these relative populations by just acting on the unitary part. You just have to induce the correct diabetic transitions to remain in the correct thermal state throughout the evolution. But this is just a guess. And also in this paper, we are proposing a method. And it's just an accident that for this choice of this lean laden by controlling the unitary part, we are able to improve our fidelities. But our main result is the method actually, which is far more general. Okay. Thank you, Gianluca. I think we can thank the speaker again. And we... Okay. Move. We move to the...


All right, yeah, let's dabble in the NFL. Let's give it a shot. This is my first one. We got the Browns versus the Tennessee Titans. This was submitted to me and it's sponsored by House of Hoodies, our friends over there that make jerseys hoodies perfect for the NFL to be honest. The Browns are down four end of the first half. They're trying to like, you know, let's get the lead. Let's do something. Let's have fun first down. A little handoff. What happens here is you probably just missed it on the left side of the screen, but 78 Robinson is like, you see it? What do you got? What are you throwing a flag for? Like, okay, well, unnecessary roughness, misconduct. I forget what the actual official penalty was. We'll find out in like two seconds.  Unsportsman like conduct, I was always there. All right, so Robinson's like, okay, cool. That's all you're doing.  I used a pretty good kick. I knew it. He knew it. Whoa, left foot misses. That's one bicycle kick. The next one, bam, right in the face. New York calls. They're like, we thought we missed this with his shoe, but New York says he got him in the head. So we got it. It's automatic ejection. It's not on us. It's on New York. He's like, Robinson, are you guys talking about me? Seems like you're probably talking about me. You know what?  I ain't gonna lie about it. I kicked him right in the head. It wasn't fun. I don't know why I did it. He's like, did you do it? Yeah, I did it, coach. Okay, so he's out of the game. And how did that help the Browns? Well, this coach's celebrating.  Thank you, Robinson's off. Number 70 comes in to replace him. The next drive, they're backed up. Their old goal line. They get the safety. So they didn't close the gap before the half ended. And number 70, the replacement, he gets fouled on. He gets hurt. He's out of the game now. They had to slide someone over the right tackle that doesn't really play there. Then they had to bring in some dude that's been playing arena football for the last couple of years to play. And then they lost the game. So go to House of Hoodies.  They got really cool stuff. Baker Mayfield's probably a big seller. House of Hoodies use discount code Johnboy.


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Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com coming at you with 2020, 2021 Panini Chronicles Basketball. Six box, half case, pick your team number five from a fresh case. And there it is, Chronicles Basketball. What does it say over here? Oh yeah, it says chronic basketball. For you two, pick your teams. Very big thanks to everybody here. Thanks to the people who got their spots straight up. And if you have a rooftop next to your name, that means you won that spot and that big filler we did. So thanks everyone for getting in on it, on Wednesday, December 1st, 2021. It's the first of the month. Thanks everyone for making this happen, appreciate it. I guess official last spot mojo, there's a lot of symbols here. Official last spot mojo went to Josh Wright, who picked up my Lakers before all those teams were pulled for that filler. All right, so actually let me select the boxes first and we're gonna select a die. It's like one of those. We'll select that one right there. And we'll go one, two, three for the left side, four, five, six for the right side. One, two, three, four, five, six. And so this side we'll say for break number six. All right, so you can see right there, I marked it six with the sharpening so we know they're all from the same case. Right next to me over here. Now let's see the list once again, just a quick refresher. Again, thank you everyone. Now let's see what we can pull out of here. So six packs per box, eight cards per pack. We're looking for two autographs per box on average. There's a Threads Lamello popping already. And that Lamello ball will be for Matthew. Matt Hedges won that spot in our filler. And of course, all cards will ship. There's Joel and B to 149. Tyrese Maxi to 149. Both of those sixers will go to Eric K. There's Westbrook. Quickly with Akira Lewis Jr., 62 out of 75 and Tremont Waters. 109 out of 199 is our first autograph out of Chronicles. And that'll go to Matthew Sharra with the Boston, no, check that, John Samuelson with the Boston Celtics. Here you go, John. Yeah, I thought with that last filler Rex that that would move quickly but I guess everyone's just letting it marinate. I think it's ready to, I think we're ready to cook with that immaculate baseball break. Daniel Vija to 149. There's Westbrook and Kawhi to 149. There's our first Anthony Edwards. Another Anthony Edwards and the Jay Chantate. Minnesota, that'll be for SKS with the T-Wolves. Get the hometown heroes. Anthony Edwards, I think had a monster dunk last night or the night before. Pretty amazing stuff. Pretty talented dude. Number one overall pick. There's Yanis to 149 and a LeBron. Honors edition for LeBron. And is that a hit? It is, nice, in that limited design. For the Knicks, Obi-Toppin. 28 out of 99, Jersey and Autograph. That'll be for David B. Got the Knicks straight up. If a case is marinating, does the second half continue baking for a while after cooling like a cake? Not sure. I don't really think of it as a cake. Though, when I say it's marinating, I think of it more like, I think of it more like a barbecue or something like that meat. There's Damien Lillard to 99. And a Lamello ball and a Denny Avigia XR. We've got XR football in the store too, ladies and gentlemen. We can work on that. There's a Panini Marquis Lamello going to Matthew at Hedges and the Charlotte Hornets. Get to the next box. Speaking of the Hornets, they're playing the box and they're only down a point with four minutes left in the fourth quarter. Let's see how Lamello is doing tonight. Lamello ball. I don't know why the ESP didn't. I have to scroll that thing across. I don't know why the webpage is looking like. There we go. Can't see the points. Oh, Lamello ball has 33 points so far tonight. 33 points, four rebounds, eight assists, three steals and a block. I'm shooting, what, 50% from three, seven to 14. For Optic basketball, pick your team three. Is there gonna be a filler for it? I think there already is. Yeah, I'm looking at it right now. There already is a filler. Yeah, there already is a filler, Josh. So check that out and let's fill that up. Another Lamello right there, Kawhi to 99. And then Anthony Edwards and that Phoenix design. Yeah, what are some other highlights from around the league? David is saying that Jayshon Tate has 30, 10 and seven for the Rockets. Here's Anthony Edwards for the Timberwolves, SKS. I love the Luminance design. Luminance Lamello for Matthew. Let's see if we can find some ink for him. LeBron James, hometown heroes. The Kawhi to 99 goes to Steve H. And the Clippers, there's Xavier Tillman to 149. So Anthony Edwards again and Derrick Rose. And that's 63 out of 249. That majestic design, that's pretty majestic for SKS and the Minnesota Timberwolves. Xavier Tillman Marquis Red goes to David B. And Michael Mulder, rookie autograph for the Warriors, David B, who won that spot, won a filler spot and won the Warriors in this six out of 99 on the board with the Warriors. Warriors, come out to play, yay. Manual quickly to 149 and Peyton Pritchard. And there's Steph Curry, 40 out of 149. Rookies and Stars, Crusade insert for David. John Wall, Rockets. What are they doing with John Wall? Not there. There's Aaron Naismith, 14 out of 99. And then Anthony Edwards, autograph. Nice, five out of 10, Anthony Edwards, hometown heroes auto for the Minnesota Timberwolves. SKS won the Timberwolves. Won a filler spot for the filler. And then the main filler gets randomized the T-wolves and gets the Anthony Edwards out of 10 autograph. That's a nice parlay there, congrats. Wait, David, are you asking who Michael Mulder is? I thought you were a basketball fan, David B. Michael Mulder is that Canadian shooting guard, 6'3", 184, this is all just off the top of my head. Went undrafted in 2017, but spent some time with the Warriors and now with the Orlando Magic. I mean, everyone knows that, right? He went to college at Kentucky, was with the Windy City Bulls, the Sioux Falls Sky Force is just off the top of my head. I mean, everyone knows that. Everyone remembers Michael Mulder, scored 28 points one night earlier this year in May last season, set a career high of 28 points and a win against the Pelicans. I mean, obviously, you know, I know about, everyone knows Michael Mulder and there is Paul Abua for the Miami Heat. That is for Brandon and the Heat. And there's out of 49, that's Jay Chantate having a great night tonight. Correct. Yeah, see, Adam knows Michael Mulder is the nephew of Fox Mulder on the X-File and cousin to former A's pitcher, Mark Mulder. See, Adam knows. Nice Obi-Toppin' to 49. And I thought, I thought David B was a hoops fan for sure. Just shocked that he doesn't know anything about Michael Mulder. That Obi-Toppin goes to David B in the Knicks. There's a manual quickly to 99. Yeah, he even Rex knew who Michael Mulder was. And there's a Jay Chantate autograph, nice. 132 out of 199. The Rockets are ahead of the Thunder 111-108.  Jay Chantate, 35 minutes of work, 32 points, 10 rebounds, seven assists, two steals, five blocks. What, it's a nice night for him. Keep it going, Jay Chantate. It's 132, he has 32 points right now. One for two, three, 11 for 15 from the field. Pretty good stuff. More Anthony Edwards, Rask KS. Yeah, you're welcome, Steven. That's why you gotta play those filler games sometimes. You can win a filler spot in the filler for the filler, ends up with the Timberwolves, gets the autograph, and all those base cards, all those random inserts will add up too. Some more than others, of course. There's a Capazzo to 149. Another Luminance Lamello ball for Matt Hedges. I can't stop talking about Michael Mulder. Can't stop talking about him. There's Steph Curry, 26 out of 99. And Chris Paul. So these Prism cards, as I've mentioned before, they act as an update card. I think if you go back to the regular edition of Prism, I think it's Chris Paul still in his OKC gear. But now it's updated to his son's gear and that's gonna go to Kevin. All right, we're halfway through this half case break, so far so good. Second half, jaskyscasebreaks.com. Oh, I guess the NBA Network switched over to the Hornets Bucks game.  Bucks are up a point, 30 seconds left. A middle team. Foul and one, but it's against Giannis. Again, halfway through this half case break. Got about another 10, 15 minutes to go in this break. And then we'll get into another basketball break. Devon Vacelle, 51 out of 99. And Mason Jones. Mason Jar Jones is what they call him. 26 out of 149, I don't think they call him that, but Eric Kay with the Sixers. And a numbered Lamello ball card to 149, nice. Once you start seeing the numbered cards, there's a nice boost in value. Again, depending on the set, but every little bit counts. Matthew with the Hornets. Let's see if the Hornets can beat Giannis. LeBron James from Honors, nice, that's to 49. And that's just a couple off of his current jersey number. Lakers, that goes to Josh. Oh, actually no, I thought it was just eight. No, it's 38, it's a lot off the jersey number. 38 out of 49. Got a James Weisman, 54 out of 149. I think he's on a rehab assignment right now, maybe. David B with the Warriors. And Danny Avigia, six out of 10. How has Danny Avigia been doing? Is he injured? Has he been playing? I feel like I've not heard much about him. Wizards play today. And Danny Avigia, oh Danny Avigia is playing. 20 minutes, nine points, seven rebounds and assists to steal a block. I feel like he's got a lot of future upside, I think. Garrett Smith won the Wizards, gets the Danny Avigia auto. How did Anthony Edwards do tonight? 25 points, three rebounds, three assists to steal a block, not a bad night for him. But in a losing effort, though. Wizards beat the T-Wills, 115, 107. Kenyon Martin Jr. For the Rockets, John Samuelson. Killing Hayes to 149. And there's Danny Avigia again to 99. Other Chris Paul, a Prism Update card for Kevin and Phoenix. Wait, I wanted to see the rest of that game. Why are they, oh, they're sending me to the Clippers game. It's on our local network here. Here's another Anthony Davis for SKS. Yes, why not go to the new channel, go for it. It's so slippery, slide around a little bit. All right, two boxes to go. And a Lamello ball, 24 out of 99, nice. What happened? Direct TV made me switch away from NBA Network. And they were still on that game. Watch it, there he is. But David B saying, wow, Lamello, what's going on? Lamello ball makes a 28 foot three point jumper, wow. Gordon with an assist from Gordon. Hey, we're tying the game 125 to 125. Come on, NBA Network. Not gonna let me go back to that channel, huh? It's blacked out because it thinks it's supposed to be the Clippers game, damn. Dude, don't I have game pass? I don't have time to search. There's Marcus Howard, Nuggets. Mark B with Denver, 48 out of 99. 70 out of 99, Tyrese Halliburton. We've got a James Harden prison card for Brooklyn. That'll be for Matthew Chirac. But Tyrese Halliburton goes to Robert and the Kings. And the Desmond Bain honors blue for the Grizzlies. That's for David B. That is five out of 99, by the way. Obviously, our shipping and sorting team will have all those top loaded before they get sorted and shipped out, of course. Just in the interest of tying. Danny Avizia, 249. And we got Onyeka Okongu, nice. Rookie Cornerstones, Quad Relic and Autograph, 53 out of 99. Wait, so what happened? Oh, Bucks ended up winning 127 to 125. Wait, how did that, how did the game end? So Lamello makes the 28 foot three pointer to tie the game. Bucks take a timeout. Giannis makes a, makes a bucket. Miles Bridges misses the last second shot. All right, there's Okongu for Terry and the Atlanta Hawks. He used to play with Lamello Ball and the other Ball Brothers out here in California. And there's a Zion, 104 to 149. More Anthony Edwards. Rex, what do you got for me? Boss asked you today, since we didn't get a Thanksgiving dinner at nighttime, what do you guys want? You want to say steak, eggs, biscuit and gravy, hash browns, bacon, but you don't want to ask too much. You should ask for more. Is it just, like, it's just you getting this dinner? Does, how many people are working with you at night? Rebel saying Miles Bridges barely missed that shot at the end. Thanks a lot, Direct TV, for switching away from that game. Killian Hayes to 99. Tyrese Halliburton, Silver and the Last Box coming up. All right, good luck, everybody. It actually got in the cup, but spun out. And Miles Bridges shot, it's crazy. There's a Threads Lamello right here. So Lamello's final line for the night, 41 minutes, 36 points. Five rebounds, nine assists, three steals. And a block. Turns out he's pretty good Lamello ball. There's Josh Green to 49. Tyrese Maxi to 149. And there he is again, Luminance Lamello ball. Sadiq Bay to 249. And we got a Sam Merrill for the Bucks, 75 out of 99. And that is Kevin with the Milwaukee Bucks. Another Anthony Edwards in that XR design, nice. He should make XR basketball. That would look pretty sharp. SKS. We got XR football on the site right now, boys and girls. If you wanna work on that and get that done tonight. Another Chris Paul and a Lamello ball, Majestic 14 out of 149, nice. Another Chris Paul and a Jordan and Wara, 65 out of 99, gold standard, jersey and autograph. Jordan and Wara did not play tonight. DNP, the old DNP CD, coach's decision. Peyton Pritchard to 149. LeBron James Phoenix, Obi-Toppin Crusade, more Lamello, Naismith Dame, James, Precious, Giannis to 149. And that is your break, ladies and gentlemen. So that was the first half of the case. This was pick your team number five. Second half will be in the store, jaskyscaserakes.com. Check it out and I will see you. Please don't open this nicely. I'll see you next time for the next, we'll do a little quick little recapture. A lot of Lamello's, a lot of Anthony Edwards' is, which is great that your Kongu was nice. Numbered Lamello's are always nice. Danny Avigia, there's Jason Tate autograph. He had a really nice game today. There's a future star, Michael Mulder. Everyone knows Michael Mulder, Obi-Toppin jersey autograph. This has turned out to be a really nice break. Traymont Waters, more Lamello, and of course that Anthony Edwards, five out of 10. Nice. Thanks for watching everybody. I'm Joe for jaskyscaserakes.com and I'll see you next time for the next basketball break. Bye bye.