All right, so I'm gonna start off this vlog with the Developing photos well, I developed them already. That's them hanging up there and they need to be scanned So I'm gonna scan them. We now find ourselves in my living room. I'm I'm just waiting for Waiting for the film to scan because it's gonna take like half an hour for just the first lot But yeah, it's gonna take about half an hour and then we move on to the other shots and then I'll probably do edit them a little bit and Stick up a little slideshow. So here's the slideshow of some of the pictures and these are all taken down in cork So yeah Enjoy then I gave me mate Tom some sticking pokes. I gave myself a sticking poke And then we had a bit of a jam as well. That concludes my week Cheers for sticking around and watching so Bubbly


I don't know whether some of you are going to be mad for me saying this, but I just want to tell you guys fun fact of what I've seen in Devon. Listen, in this city, if you have Big Bom Bom, I don't think it's going to be a biggest flex because from where I'm coming from and some of the countries that I've been to, people with Big Bom Bom become celebrities. But here in Devon, I'll say that at 99.9% of the people that I'm seeing, I mean the women in here got it. God bless South Africa! God bless Devon! God bless Africa! Thank you!


Sarah I think I'm ready to become a full-fledged swashbuckler like you I've seen my share of fights especially lately Morgan Lafitte at Skoll Island she gave me my first sword training I need to go ask her if I'm ready okay okay let's go to Morgan Lafitte and go and sniff her feet no not really but maybe if she wants to I guess never saw a video of this promo so yeah well that's good that's good some of them do and some of them don't it also depends on like what class especially for like class-based companions so yeah usually I try and put up as many as possible Morgan hello um Remington steel I see you found the good captain a swashbuckler you think you are ready yes you have learned much footwork legwork agility technique and even reflexes I see very good you lack only one thing a fine blade you told me once there is a sword in your family my uncle's sword before he'll give it to me there's something I must do captain we need to go to flotsam and see a rat named Nicodemus okay okay let's head off to flotsam then probably over here somewhere there he is no that's not him he's up here I found him found why do we have to go this way he's like this is so weird we have to go such a weird way to get to him wow hi Nicodemus nice shop you have here good day pirate and your wife is a little Sarah all grown up can I find something for you girl you know what I want you old pack rat I need the spyglass for your uncle of course my golden spyglass is not for sale but I'll trade for it I need cannons specifically Monquistan cannons from the roho fleet why that's a secret and to trade wins skyway and liberate some for me yeah liberate okay um do I leave a mark do I leave a mark do I leave a mark we're gonna leave a mark just because this is going on a video and I don't want to eat it too much let's find roho's roho where are you where is roho I don't even know where roho is we have to defeat four of them as well at least four of them at least four they might be here are these these ones that's Navy Navy maybe they must be the they must mean these ones I mean it's just way too yeah they mean this for sure for sure they mean these ones for sure for sure and if it oh no we've got to we've got two roho's uh-oh uh-oh a boat mission a board mission not good to be one not what I signed up for at all not what I signed up for please go away roho's oh they're literally called roho guard from the me Monquistan Navy that makes sense I was dumb and didn't read good job good job brain you're so smart yeah you are so smart so smart go destroy destroy it thank you we got one nice I'm gonna head over to the other side we're gonna duke them we're gonna go right across hopefully destroy one in the front we did nice we got light armor that's cool no go away go away we're gonna heal up for a sec I'll be mad I'd be really mad he's coming he's coming for me he wants my booty okay he's not gonna have it though my booty's off limit we didn't get oh this game hates me okay we got the cannons which is good we're gonna go back to flotsam that's great now Sarah he asked in our shall receive well done pirate and Sarah too there aren't many pirates who could have done such a job time for you to receive now Sarah is your uncle spyglass take it back to him and I expect he'll forgive you I don't but we'll see farewell pack rat okay okay uncle Remington we're for art thou in Steel's house let's find they learn with you with two cannons right away I know I know and then they're like oh the third one it's not too bad and then the fourth one's like nah sorry but it's terrible absolutely terrible but that's fine oh Steel's house interesting in here in here yeah yeah hello uncle Remington I ain't do you think you just barge right into my it's been years you think you're welcome here again I'd never presume so much I brought this back to you oh miss spyglass it's about time well suppose you want to trade it for me sword I promise to play to you but it's no longer mine to give the build rats have it you remember them of course Mick dagger took it when I tried to run them out of here one I Jack knows how to find them okay let's go to one I Jack because you know that's how it works one I Jack is just all over the gossip all over the gossip of town right there's cat there is Kato cute Kato but we're not going to pack Kato we are going to find one I Jack oh who is up this way and up this way here and your precepts on the elevator or hoist sorry the hoist and then go to the town you take our cannons we take your router router yep exactly that's how it works that is how it works definitely they just destroyed me Mick dagger he's a rough one leader of the build rats an old friend of Miss Steel's if I recall that's stinking thief is no friend of mine no matter makes been busy after all that unpleasantness with the rat pack the builds rats are on the rise making his gang hold up in one of the ships at the Southeast Rim I know the spots be careful they don't take nicely to guests huh Southeast Rim huh right let's head over to the Southeast Rim apparently not actually that we're going to the um to the rat hideout because that makes sense that makes sense don't don't don't don't okay um and whereas defeat rat breaking in their rat hideout sounds bad don't like at all don't like zero out of ten please stop please stop defeating stuff I mean we haven't really defeated much so I can't really complain I can't really complain can I know I cannot hi okay let's defeat him here we go it's actually like three of them four of them sorry we should be okay should be okay um I don't know how far they can move they're all swashbucklers I believe they are so what we're gonna do we're just gonna shadows we're gonna walk in the shadow you can also walk in the shadow done should have done um the treasure thing treasure bath that's what it's called I know stuff I know words and stuff don't worry I know words and stuff we good we good okay okay Bonnie can go up there get some damages get some damages all the damages they didn't move at all so pathetic they should have moved more really they should have just moved more but that's fine I'm just gonna move up to I mean I could destroy him I really could destroy him like I'm kind of keen just to destroy him right off the bat so I'm gonna do that Bonnie's gonna go down there fans gonna move up there and Sarah's just gonna chill there for a bit just for but I should have done treasure bath again I'm just dumb I'm just really dumb today apparently right now I've watched noise just what I wanted and a burst fire this is a really great angle really really great angle blocked rapport super hit oh hello hello there bye sorry you just came into the wrong party buddy dodge thank you blocked noise noise what are we gonna do what are we gonna do what are we gonna do what are we gonna do let's just do that let's just do that and you can do that no you can do do that and you can do that done treasure bath we actually finally used it wow I actually remembered to do it look at that fantastic epic hit by sorry go fan go do GG nice work easy clap boys super easy fight your event dialogue for them hey what are you doing in the house I mean a very great dialogue 11 R10 wood dialogue again there's a chest here as well so we're gonna take that because chests are cool and I okay I do usually say five and that gave us six so I would have been slightly impressed but not really scrum short here we go here we go where are we good we are good of it this way probably somewhere it's not on the map which is kind of sad it should be on the map just saying but it isn't it is not on the map I will be lost just getting quest arrows good quest arrow very good the steer you've come for this side hey well you can't always get what you want uh-huh okay well let's see what happens let's destroy him I guess I mean he asked for it really he was being rude so we will destroy him what does he swashbuckler swashbuckler swashbuckler swashbuckler swashbuckler yeah I thought that would be I thought they were and they are so that's good righty-ho invisible invisible sir is gonna get absolutely pummeled because she's gonna repel waters but that's fine it is fine I guess right at gillity got to get that a gillet yep repel water just like I thought would happen of course and the overwatch as well blocked good job Bonnie good job um right let's go for this boy this does what two five nine on you Bonnie can finish you off you can do this and Sarah can do that go Sarah go Sarah go Sarah I believe in you nice there we go flanking good job attack epic hit do do do do do do turn bye sorry buddy sorry buddy blocked repost oh repel waters thank you attack oh hey are we noise scary but noise right let's go for her own eyes at this guy you can do this and just the others can finish it off as well be fine easy peasy okay that did kill I was slightly worried they're first thinking that it may not but it's fine it did so it's fine can you block nope okay of course not turn turn turn turn turn well Gigi we did it block yes thank you noise okie dokie easy peasy sword I guess in sleepy scrimshaw town there's just no place for a street fight and rat you best watch yourself captain Sarah steel she's a traitor baby through and through loyal is a snake all you got from me mick you had it coming well captain at last I've got a proper sword let's get to a tavern and celebrate okie dokie let's go and promote Sarah Sarah Sarah steel and I think we hopefully should be fine hopefully we'll see though I think we should be fine so we will continue for a bit for another hour hopefully blind me hi there's a tavern out here out here is the tavern always forget where the one in scrimshaw is but it's at the docks because that makes sense perfect sense it's the hole in the wall because there's a hole in the wall see there's the hole in the wall see told you it's a hole in the wall tavern I just know that I'm just super smart I just automatically know and we'll go down to the bottom floor and go and promote Sarah who is just here hello Sarah hi well captain what do you think I've got these nice new blades let's go put them to good use sweet let's say what does she look like now she got nice new blades and she's gonna put them to use we're standing a bit too close don't you think I think so pirate repel borders repost mega strike 2 and she's got swashbuckler's strike which is 83 damage and minus 25 strength for three rounds and obviously walking shadows yeah nice good job we can also give her an epic so what we're gonna do is probably go for sorry about that that is the alarm we are gonna go for I kind of want to do blade storm but also post but also blade storm we'll go blade storm she might have to she does have to so we'll also go for a post just because we want to get repost 3 ASAP that rhymes I'm just a poet and I really really didn't know


With education, health, and food topping the list of their agenda, the Graepeut programme are aligned to the Millennium and Sustainable Development Goals. When we've been consistent and observing the development of how the world is developing around 1999 and mid-2000, I think Kenya was a signatory to Millennium Development Goals of 2015 which identified access to education, access to food, access to treatment, and especially HIV, the maternal health there. So as people that are our organisation that was working in the community, we also had to align our programmes to the MDG goals. And then after 2015, you remember that they were scaled to SDG, which are now, are they 14 or 15, the SDG goals. And again, we had to align our goals or our objectives to the SDGs. And if you look at the SDGs, food is still an issue within the poor and the developing countries. Education is still a serious issue and a very serious issue even with the current political campaigns is a political tool where we find the two conditions, each promising, one promising that they give free education, another one also promising that they look into how to subsidise the education. And if you look at the element of food and see how they are linked, you'll find that even today we are entangled with the food security within the country. And at the same time, I think the UN, the United Nations, documented something on the food security in the informal settlements, I think it was the paper of 2015. So you may not address education and forget the food element. And at the same time, to a greater extent, you will not forget health. And this is why if you come to Koro Vosho, as small as it is, you'll find that in all our programme we have food, we have education, and today we are working on a health programme and within the school of 1600, we've done something unique that we have a sick bay with a full-time nurse, that when children are sick before they are rushed to hospital, they can get the first aid. I don't think, I don't know how many schools have thought of having a sick bay, but this our sick bay we are scaling up and I believe by next year, once we are done with building the junior secondary school, the next phase is going to scale it up to be a hospital. We are dealing with 70 children, though the home is designed to have 100. For the first 10 years, we had 100, but when challenges of funding, which I think it's common knowledge out there, we had to reduce on the number of children that we could support. I would also mention to you that taking care of 70 here, the budget is bigger than taking care of 1600 in Korovochia. So that's why I say that we have to scale down the number and this because the constraints are budgeting. Despite the challenges encountered in implementation of this project, the social economic impact of grapevines has been positively evident. One, it has provided employment to the community of Korovochia and even to the children that we've taken care of. Once a child is educated, finishes class eight, we take him to secondary school, he's taken to university like number that week. A child with a list is long. I think they are now economically built to go out and defend for themselves. The trigger effects is that you empower one child and then you find that he's now able to take care of finances for the family. Socially, you find that the stigmatization that comes with our background, a child has gone up to university. So it doesn't matter whether he came from Korovochia, he can now go out and stay wherever he wants. He can socialize with whoever he wants out there. So there are so much we can speak about the socioeconomic benefits that the Grape seed organization has done to the marginalized societies within Korovochia and which are evident. We visited our food academy and we told you that those are some of the ex-children that we had. Today they are there but now not as children but as instructors. They are teaching others because I think they have done their craft one, craft two and there's one that's now doing his diploma. So you see how this is helping both individuals and the society at large. In 1999 you moved to Kibera, Madare, Korovochia and in less than 100 meters you'll meet actually the World Vision Plan International. Today we don't see them. It means that the donor world is shrinking and when the donor world is shrinking the issues are still there and they keep on arising. So it means the few donors that are there means that people compete for them. So when people compete for them it means resources are not there. So these are serious challenges. Three other challenges that may have a good program like what we have but again you have a challenge on who to tell the story. How do you reach out to people out there and tell your story so that they may be able to come and be part of it? Three economic situations we are feeding 1,600 in school, we are feeding 70 here, we are sponsoring so many. When food is very very scarce you'd imagine just a month ago a basket of 90 kg of maize was 3,000 today is 7,000. So assume that you had told your donor two months ago and you had completed the budget. What happens? So these are serious issues. Health problems are a serious challenge that we are facing and then another challenge that I must say is that I don't know actually how to put it. We so much fit on humanitarian activities but in the eyes of this season it's like you are doing business. So we have so many adults you are sourcing for food to give to the children but the tax man is looking at you but you need to do this. This city council is always on your neck so all these are serious adults. Asked of who is to blame concerning policies implementation Edmund cites the gap between government and the services offered. We exist because there is a gap between the services the government is giving and the population and there's a serious gap. For example today I believe we have over 200 people living in Kurogoshu alone but Kurogoshu only has one government school. Next to Kurogoshu there's an estate called Lakisama which has more population than Kurogoshu. Lakisama doesn't have even a single government school doesn't have a single health facility. So this means because of that gap the organizations come to complement and to fill the gap that is created by the lack of services. But in doing this the government should at least come with fair policies that works for all of us. But at the same time you cannot develop a policy for Kurogoshu where there is no sewer system, there's no piped water, there's no electricity and if anything they are punished by not giving transformers and the same same policies where there is no title deed. The same policies that works for people in let's say Levingtown Rwanda where the services are formalized and there's structures or whatever. So you cannot have a policy that touches on these two people equally because Kurogoshu people I don't know whether they know of garbage collection services that is being offered by the county government whereas probably in the upmarket when a tissue paper falls on the ground it becomes an issue that probably may be discussed in in parliament you understand. So when policies are not fair for everyone then search creates gaps for some of organizations to fit in and ensure that they are addressed. For us we are doing a lot of humanitarian activities all that we are doing is non-profit but to the eyes of the government it's like you are doing business. So in our situation you'll find so many roadblocks. Today we are building a secondary school there are no title deeds in Kurogoshu but we cannot build because you cannot get an approval so those are hurdles that come with our programs and as we try to do this the people that we partner with again wonder what kind of an environment you are working if the government may not be able to appreciate that you are out there to support the children. I've never understood if the government cannot understand that in a population in an area of two square kilometers why should we have over a hundred NGOs? What are they doing? If a two square kilometer has only one government school why do we have three NGOs there and if one is doing education why can't the other guy do health and why can't the other guy do probably food so that all of them compliment and this what the government is doing but in a quality way so when you see lack of goodwill or lack of clear policies being implemented it means all people are given responsibility to do this. There has been a number of success stories in Grape Seed this are Edmonds driving force. Last year we had again another milestone where one of our beneficiaries graduated with the medicine from UN these are some of the top courses that I think it's good for us to mention. Other courses including businesses, education, community development we have so many that we cannot we cannot enlist out of the children that have gone through our sponsorship program and we are happy that currently we are developing an alumni and we are seeing some of them get taken that far like our website is run and managed by one of the alumni that graduated from university as an engineer and this is doing free of charge as a way of giving back to the center that nurtured and developed our childhood. We have children that I would say that were banned out in that our dumping site. Today if you meet them in the streets of Nairobi you will not tell if they passed. I love what you know as Debbie said that looking at the mothers looking at a king you never know whether he sucked his mother's breast. We have children that were downed, round two came here. They took care of them, they went to secondary school, one went to university, one went for a diploma. They are doing very well.


Y'all, look, before we get started, let me, y'all, look a mess. It's the week here. Let me show y'all this dress I got before we get started. Hold on. I'm gonna wear this dress at my aunt's 70th birthday party. Now, I don't know what the dress code is, but I'm gonna be fine. Look at this dress, y'all. Ain't this cute? And now this kind of hangs off the shoulder. It has like a velvet. I got a back up. I'm short, so this almost goes down to my ankle. It has a cute little wrap around. Y'all want me to try it on for you? I, okay, thank you for asking.  Girl, look at this dress now. Look at this dress, girl. Now, I got about 10 more pounds I was trying to lose, but we ain't gonna be able to do it. I ain't got no booty. I got a long booty. Long booty. I ain't got no booty. Girl, look at that. Look at it. Look at the waist. I'm sucking it in. And these are the shoes I'm gonna wear with, but I need to dust them off. Guess how much they cost, girl? Nine dollars. This whole cost, not, sorry. This dress costs 9.99. 9.99, baby. It comes in black, purple. What is this? Maroon, green, like a, I mean, get that. Girl, I'ma get all the colors. So anyway, you guys, we're gonna jump right into it. This is another chit chat. You know how I did this? I talk about what's going on in my personal life, what I'm watching on YouTube and what I'm watching on TV. Let me put on some lipstick, y'all, because my lipstick's looking, looking basic as hell. Let me, yeah, we good, we good.  All right, you guys, so what's going on in my personal life? So this is my husband's last week home before he heads to Kansas, y'all. And I was speaking to my son's teacher's husband, who's originally from Oklahoma, and he's stating that. I said, you know, depending on the weather, we're going to go drive down there. And he's like, oh, you guys may want to be careful because they're predicting that it's going to be a harsh winter. My husband and I had that discussion and we kind of think that too, because since the summer was so bad, that maybe it was a harsh summer, very, very hot, we're thinking that the winter's going to be rough. It's going to be a rough winter. So probably you won't be able to go up there. But it's still, you know, it's still an option. So we will see. I'm going to turn around and talk to you guys. I'm a very involved parent. I've always been that way. And I always say, I mean, to the point where some other parents think that I'm an actual, I'm a teacher sometimes. I'm involved. I know the kid's names. I know there are parents. I don't know the parents name, but I know the parents faces. You see what I'm saying? I want the teachers, the other teachers, even if the other teachers are, you know, not even teaching my child, I want them to know who I am. And yeah, I just try to have that type of, girl, what the hell this is? Oh my God, y'all. This Bobby Pina's probably been up there since 1995. That's a, I didn't even know there was up there. But anyway, so what's the point, girl? So very, very busy last week at his school. And it's going to be like that. It's going to be this way until the winter break. And their winter break is crazy. The winter break is literally almost, no, it's 20 days. They're out for 20 days. And that's when we were going to think about going up to Kansas, but we'll see. So yeah, we're about to be really busy with things at school, which is fine. And already thinking about the holidays, I invited my mom, my parents up for the holidays for Thanksgiving to spend with us. And my mom was like, you don't really have to cook. I'm going to cook. But they really don't eat like that anymore, you guys. So I don't even necessarily have to cook, you know, traditional Thanksgiving, but I will be having dressing. I will be having dressing and some greens with some pork in it because he will be having greens with pork. I will be having hot water cornbread. JB loves hot water cornbread too. I will be having my mama made, let me tell you something. My mama made this pineapple coconut cake with pecans or something. She going to make that. She don't know it, but she's going to make that for me. Yeah, that's what's going to happen. I want one of those cakes. Definitely want one of those. So we'll probably just do like a little spread. And yeah, let me know what y'all playing for the holidays. Are y'all playing on stand?  Are you playing on traveling somewhere? What are you playing on doing? So girl, that's that YouTube. You guys, I've actually been looking at a lot more YouTube. I've been looking at this. I like me and my true crime fanatic. I love me some true crime, you guys. I listen to it at least, I'm going to be boner to say at least five to six hours a day. I'm listening to true crime. I'm listening to it while I'm cleaning up. I'm listening to it while I'm working because I like it. So on YouTube, I've been watching that, watched almost all of them. It's a series, but it's on YouTube. A couple of episodes called Fatal Vows. And of course it's about a married couple and one of them ends up dead, either the wife or the husband. And just the things that these married couples do that they do or end up doing is absolutely crazy to me. So watching that, I was watching, oh my God, you guys. I watched and I'm so behind. I watched a interview with 90s models. Let me tell you something. Nobody, and I'm telling you, nobody beats, nothing beats the 90s era of the supermodel. So I was watching a interview on YouTube and I think that British Vogue did the interview and they did an amazing job in which each model had to read a question, aims at another model. And I know that Linda, and I forget her last name, you guys, and all these models was in that George Michael video. I remember that video was done in black and white and he had them, they were bad, okay. And so I know that Linda and Naomi were really close for a very long time. And so Linda had had some, her body was basically ruined when she had that cool sculpting done. And I think she's had it corrected since then. And so I felt so bad for her because she was doing the interview, of course, but her neck was covered. She had on a beautiful scarf. She's still a very beautiful woman. They're all, they are all very stunning. But it was very interesting to see them all working together again, because they did Vogue again all together. So let's continue. So yeah, y'all was watching that, watching Fatal Welles. So look, not necessarily on, not necessarily on YouTube, but I was on TikTok looking at something because oftentimes I'll be looking at a video on Facebook and the person's name will come up through TikTok and I'll be like, okay, let me look them up on TikTok. So I'll look them up and look, I am not with it. I had no idea I should have never discovered this. I had no idea that there were like shopping videos through TikTok, because I'm not on TikTok, you guys. I get on there real quick sometimes to see a video. That's like an entire area that I'm not familiar with. And so I'm looking at these videos. They're showing all of these different clothes. And I'm like, this is cheap. I'm like, girl, you better not do this. You better not. I'm not doing it, y'all. So I was like, well, let me get out of this. But on the same talking, I was looking at somebody. Some woman was basically, some young girl was basically saying she uses this. It came up, her video came up after the one video I went to start to look at. And so I'm all about fragrances. And me, I typically, unless I'm going out, I like to use body spray. So I have this Peach and Daisy. I have these Body Ecology. I get just from Walmart. Coconut Hibiscus. I like to wear these. And I get compliments on them because it's very light. And then when I'm out, when I go out to eat, I'll do something. I wear my Coco Chanel or my Burberry and stuff like that. But this one girl was seeing how she does bottle service in Dallas and she likes to stay fresh and stay smelling good. So she layers her fragrances. So girl, I wrote it down. She used something called ECO, I guess Echo. Lavender, right? And then she layer it with a body oil, with a vanilla body oil. And she gets so many compliments on the fragrance. I heard that, look, body oils have been very popular since the 70s. I'm too afraid to try it, but I hear people talk about it. That is, it's really good. Now another girl said that she layers her fragrance with the Caress vanilla body scrub. And then she uses that Echo Lavender Lotion. I'm like, let me tell you something. I added all that stuff. They were seeing how you could find it at Target, but I could find it in my look at Kroger's. I added all that stuff to my buggy. So I said, I like to smell good, but I don't like to wear perfume every day. I'll put on body sprays. But perfume, I don't wanna waste my $100 perfume for a pen or tissue conference. Sorry, I'm not doing it. So all right, you guys. I know I'm talking a lot. What I'm watching, first of all, Netflix, I raised the prices. Gone are the days of 9.99. I don't think I paid 9.99 in a couple of years actually. So now it's a little over, is it $12? I don't know, but I got the notification. I got a notification and it's going up.  You must got one of those packages. I ain't paying for sling. But there's some other stuff that I'm watching with the basic package, like Paramount. We did have Peacock, but don't really have that anymore. But Paramount, we do have. And we watch it. Y'all see that? I feel like my hair is getting lighter. Does that look? Ignore me. So y'all, okay. So I tried to go back on Hulu and continue. Yellow jackets, it's gone. I don't know if I changed my package. I'm not adding another package or I'm not upping it again or upgrading. I'm not gonna do that, but my yellow jackets are gone. And I'm like, oh, that's just sad. So I'm not gonna do anything to upgrade it. I just wanna watch it. Look, I'm a type of person.  There are certain shows where I have been that invested. I'm like, yeah, we gotta get it. Walking Dead was one of them. But even with that one, look, I stopped watching the Walking Dead when, first of all, I was upset when Rick left. And they got all of these spinoffs. They got Darrell.   Darrell is in France. Oh, not happening, not happening at all. So on Hulu, there were a couple of things that I had added to my list and I stopped watching it, watching it for whatever reason. So there's this one movie called The Intruder that has Megan Good, Michael Ely. And it has, I believe his name is, I think it's Dennis Quaid. And I think it's Dennis Quaid. I just don't recognize him because he's a little bit older, but he still kept his body together because he still is pretty fit, but Dennis Quaid. And so, Megan Good and Michael Ely have purchased this house out in the country. You already know it's gonna be bad. You already know it. I stopped watching HHS, American Horror Stories, because, let me be honest, because Kim Kardashian is on it and I really don't wanna see her. When I saw, I mean, I stayed, I tried to stay with it for the good two to three episodes, but when I saw that she was gonna be on it for sure, she definitely has more than just, basically it's a leading role, the leading role. And she can't act. I don't know what the hell Ryan Murphy and then we're thinking about, but she can't act, but she has a pivotal role in the series since I'm just not gonna watch this. And I really don't know what it's about. Is it about slider, is it about cloning? I don't know and I don't care because I'm not gonna continue it. But what I did watch that just came out not too long ago and I'm just not sure how I feel about it right now, American Horror Stories. And it's a little bit predictable. Is, I mean, the first one was predictable. The third one, y'all, the third one has, what is her name? Linda Rena, Rena, from the Housewives, not the house. Yeah, Housewives series. Linda Rena, she has had her lips blown up so freaking much. But I love her on the series, nonetheless. I love her on the series. All right, you got it. Cerebante is still serving and it's so funny. So the actor that plays Ron from the Harry Potter series, he's on there and so, J.B. so funny. He kinda saw, cause the actor has a very definite look. First of all, you're redhead.  And so it's so funny. I was watching the series, meaning Cerebante and J.B. was like, are you watching Harry Potter? I'm like, no baby. But that is Ron and he still looks the same, you guys. He still looks like he's 13, 14 years old, which is why I'm doing the first few episodes and he was like cursing and drinking. I said, what the hell? Why is Ron, why is Ron cursing and drinking?  The correct is Hermione is a character from Harry Potter. Yeah, I'm a Potterhead. So anyway, that series is getting a little weird, but I'm gonna hang with it. I'm gonna hang with it because I'm still enjoying it. I know, I really am, I still, I'm still enjoying it. So I'm gonna hang with it. Again, it's called Cerebot. Now there's another, there's a couple of interesting series and movies on Amazon Prime. There is one, did I write down the name? I was trying to write down the name. I had to look up the movie series I was thinking about. And y'all have been seeing Amazon. It's Apple TV, girl. Apple TV that has Cerebonts. So say how you pronounce it, Cerebont, girl. Cerebont and some of these other ones. The changing in which I do not recommend. Trash, I don't recommend it at all. There is one that is based off of a Stephen King, which is called Lizzie's Story. Lizzie's Story that has Clive Owen and Juliet Moore. It's very interesting to see them together because they actually start in Children of Man, which is one of my favorite movies back in the day. And so it was very interesting to see that they're on another project together. I love me some Clive Owen. Look, Clive Owen, yeah, he's four years younger than my daddy. But that's it mostly, you guys. I'm not really interested in watching like a lot of series at the same time because I get easily distracted. Girl, AD, I do, I get very easily distracted. By the way, some things that are coming up that I am excited about Shining Vale. If you have not seen the first season of Shining Vale, look into it. It has Courtney Cox, is that Courtney Cox? Look into it. And speaking of that, I didn't mean to disregard this, but Chandler, the actor that played Chandler from Friends, apparently passed away from an accidental drowning now. I'm gonna be the first to tell you, I don't know anything about his personal life. Regardless, it's sad. It really is. But then you have all of the conspiracy theories coming out saying, why are there so many people dying at home or so many celebrities dying at home accidentally or dying at home from drowning? That is not what it is. And it was something I had actually asked my husband way back when Bobby Christina passed away from the same type of circumstances that her mother did with me. And so my husband was saying, well, he speculates.  My husband speculates that these people are getting hot. And so they try to cool off by taking a cool bath against the bath, but because they are either drunk or high, they fall asleep and then accidentally drown. And so that is actually the number one cause of accidental drowning in a bathtub is because the person is either high or drunk. And so they accidentally drown. In this incident with this actor who was in his 50s, it was actually in a jacuzzi. So there's speculation that perhaps he had a stroke or a heart attack and that caused him to pass away. Regardless, it is far too young to be passing away. So that's really, really, really sad. So you guys, I don't know if you guys are aware, but apparently there is a Beetlejuice too and the Woodworks and Tim Burton is doing it. And by the way, Tim Burton, this makes a lot of sense now. Christina, Christina, the Italian actress, very beautiful, she plays in the Matrix. Christina Bellucci, Christina Bellucci is actually dating, it's funny, Christina Bellucci is actually dating him.  And so not little movies. So they're dating, they're dating. And so anyway, she's actually in the movie too. She's starting as a Beetlejuice wife. And so I think that's really odd, but she is. And I have a feeling that they probably started dating after filming the movie. So of course, some people are not alive anymore that were in their original movie, such as remember the designer, he was like a little overweight, little sassy guy who actually found the book and was reading it, he passed away, you guys. Apparently he had medical issues and had an accident at home. And so he's not alive anymore. So I'm rambling on, that is it for now. I'm gonna continue to pre-poo my hair. And thank you guys so much for watching. Take care, bye.


and to the wide world of eSports, a show devoted to all things eSports. I'm your host, Catherine Norr. Today, our topic is gambling as mainstream entertainment, gaming in the US and beyond. My guest is Brendan Busman, partner and director of Government Affairs at Global Market Advisors. Welcome, Brendan. Thanks for having me. Appreciate being with your audience today. All right, so we've had you on before, but remind us, what does global market advisors do? So it's a gaming and hospitality consulting firm that has done work all around the globe. Primarily, my role is looking at government affairs and regulation, business development, strategic advisory opportunities, but also the firm does feasibility work and looking at new market opportunities around the globe. So I understand that you're in Vegas. Has there been an emergence of eSports betting in Nevada? So, you know, it's very much of a evolving topic, is probably the word I'll use the best off of. Initially, Nevada went and this was probably four or five years ago, added the quote, other events to sports betting. And what that included was to allow things like eSports and if there's other specific, you know, events such as the Academy Awards or those types of things to allow wagering on. And you definitely then saw a group of people that decided to say, hey, how do we make this much more of a reality? And you saw groups like Fifth Street Gaming and even the Luxor start looking much more into the eSports, where it has really advanced and this is actually just within the last couple of weeks. When our legislature met last year, we only meet every other year. There was an initiative to try to make eSports, you know, start leading the way from a jurisdictional standpoint to allow that as a wagering opportunity. And the bill at one point said, you know, that they would form their own commission to be able to do that. They got rolled under the Nevada Gaming Commission. And the work group was just announced actually last week that's putting forward this effort. And it's an all-star panel of people that understand eSports in Nevada to be able to look at this in a much more meaningful way so that eSports can be, you know, wagered on just like we would a NCAA game you may watch tonight or an NBA game or baseball when it decides to have a season. Is there any real difference between sports betting and? You know, in the big scheme of things, no, there really isn't. But I think the difference where people have had, I'll call it issue is a couple of things. One, they don't necessarily understand how eSports works.  I can watch a hockey game tonight. I can look at these things and say, how do I meaningfully go and put a wager because I know the players, I know this game, I know all those things. It's something that very much is out there that's new that necessarily bookmakers don't necessarily know where to put things in. The other challenge that has existed within that is, you know, making sure everybody's on a level playing field. And I say that saying, you know, if people are in different venues, making sure circumstances are the same, people don't have an advantage, one or the other over everything. Versus if I turn on the TV tonight, I don't know if the Lakers are playing or not, but if the Lakers are playing, I know whoever they're playing. I know the venue they're in. I know it's a controlled environment. I know who the refs are. It's all within that structure to say, hey, here's what's going on. And here's the refs. Here's how it's sanctioned everything else. As eSports has continued to evolve, though, that's something that definitely, you know, is an opportunity for that to continue to grow as a listed category amongst wagers, not just here in Nevada, but elsewhere throughout the United States. So when the legislators actually actual legislators, I would think they may not know much about eSports. Do they have to be educated on it? Yes, they do. And not only is that just on eSports, but that's just on sports betting in general. You know, as we were talking a little bit prior to the show, you know, there were two states alone today, Missouri and Alabama that were talking about sports betting and helping legislators understand what that's like and not only from the standpoint of how do you legislate and regulate sports betting on the NFL, but now you're throwing in a whole conundrum going, okay, you wanna have wagers on people that play video games because that's the way they interpret it along the way.  So there's definitely, I mean, an education phase overall on how sports betting works, but then to that same extent, how eSports can be a component of that that helps drive that even further. I taught an introduction to eSports class for people over 50 and I think I should do an introduction to eSports class for legislators. It would, I'll be honest with you, it would be very helpful and I say that knowing a couple of things. One is, you know, every jurisdiction, well, it's different whether it's, you know, the two I mentioned today of Alabama and Missouri, the no different than Hawaii and other places I've been this week between Minnesota and Nebraska and other places, you know, there are common things in every one of those jurisdictions that people need to understand about tax rates and, you know, promotional play and how you regulate the integrity of the game. All of those different things. All those same things apply to eSports and how you do that. You know, the overlay that you bring up in a very valid way is what actually are eSports and how does it actually work? Because, you know, to most people, it's not something they turn on and they see highlights off a sports center or Fox Sports or anything else. It's one of those that, hey, I happen to catch some weird show that was on on a Saturday morning type thing and I didn't know what they were doing. Could someone explain it to me? Or do you know what the demographics are for eSports betting versus sports betting? Well, obviously, you know, I think it depends on the customer of that, you know, who that appeals to and who's actually doing that. And that's one of the reasons and, you know, myself and colleagues around the country that focus on this have been talking about this for a number of years since the repeal of PASPA to be able to start introducing this because, you know, attracting a younger demographic to not only, you know, sports betting, but also a casino type environment is something that's desired by the whole industry because as people play more and more and they, you know, get in that older demographic and have slot player, table play because it's what they're used to and what they've done, they don't necessarily know what the new games are there and we need to make sure those people are attracted to that as just as much, you know? But the other thing with that too is while that does appeal to a younger customer, I think the one thing we learned out of the pandemic when, you know, there weren't a lot of sports out there and there weren't a lot of things. One, eSports helped fill the void and were some of the first things approved here in Nevada that were out there, whether it be, you know, the eNASCAR and some of those types of things that were, hey, let's get a couple of drivers and simulators and see where they go, but, you know, that attracted not only a new customer that understood what was going on, but, you know, dedicated sports wagers that are looking for additional content, that's what the pandemic taught us is as things where people are more exposed to these types of events and other alternatives, just as you would look at Colorado and the amount of money that's wagered on table tennis, which most people would be like, why is table tennis important? And it's a fascinating sport to watch, but it's not one of those that everybody said out of the gate, oh, I've got to make sure I get my wagers in for the NBA and oh, I've got Korean table tennis tonight to watch. So, you know, it's definitely something that's evolving no different than, you know, as they try to attract other things, which one of the next big horizons besides these sports is fixed odds wagering, and that relates to paramutual wagering to get more people involved in the horse industry. Sure, so if I go to Vegas and I haven't, and I usually go at least every year, and Hawaii people go all the time, yep. If I go to on the strip to any casino, would I see esports in a sports book area? You know, chances are you probably wouldn't out of the gate over everything. There's going to be certain ones that are probably going to cater that more than others. And granted, I haven't been there to look at their board recently, but you know, you've got the esports venue over at Luxor that has, you know, the arena there and a great venue to have esports conducted. That it, you know, it definitely appeals to that more, but you've got, you know, some of the downtown casinos were Fifth Street gaming and those guys that are very focused on it. That's where you're going to see more of those types of things. And they're always one of those that you can always go up to the book and say, hey, I've got X amount interest in this coming up. Do you guys have a line on this? And, you know, chances are if they don't, they probably know somebody that does. Do you think in a distant future it'll be called esports book rather than sports book? Probably not esports book. I don't think that per se, but I think I'd rather see it just be part of the average day sports plethora of things, you know, no different than, and I say this knowing, you know, several sides of this, you know, there's a reason why colleges have esports programs and those, you know, athletes go through the same things if they have nutritionists, then they have, you know, psychologists and they train just like anybody else would, you know, I always go back to, and this is one thing back when I was involved with sports and worked for a collegiate program. I remember one of our guys was working on NASCAR and he was a team psychologist. And I said, what are a bunch of guys that turned left for a living ever need a team psychologist or anything else, because you just get this persona while they do is drive like you and I drive down the street, which obviously isn't, they're driving a heck of a lot faster, but those are athletes, no different than what you're seeing in esports today of those are, you know, people that are just as physically fit and doing things to make sure they're doing all the right things which train no different than, you know, an NFL or NBA player. So is, are other places in the world adopting esports betting? You know, it's one of those that I think you're seeing things happen around the world very much, you know, as things progress. So is esports very popular? Yes. Are there jurisdictions where I think you'd see a ton of esports wagering but they don't have it yet? Yes. Japan is the first one to come to mind off of that. They have huge esports contests. You know, Japan is definitely known as one of the places where esports does well. And I know they even tried to do stuff with the Olympics to make that come into play when they hosted those back, you know, earlier this year or earlier last year. And it's one of those that I think Japan over time will become one of those. I do know there have been conversations about making sports betting much more legalized and proliferant in that culture. A culture that, you know, is not unique to gaming because they've had Pachinko for forever and ever. They have horse racing, they have boat racing. It's just a matter of legalizing esports to do that in a meaningful way and have those in a similar format that you would have with the Japan Racing Association as you do with horse racing. What about countries like China, South Korea, other South Asian? Oh, absolutely. Well, and I think, you know, the one asterisk, if you want to put to that, is obviously China. And I say that knowing China's view on gaming continues to evolve. While when you say China in gaming, most people immediately think of Macau and what it has as the largest, you know, gaming jurisdiction in the world, or at least at one point it was pre-pandemic. Obviously it has struggled over the last two years, but within that last two years also, you know, the party within China has continually, I'll say put in check how gaming has transpired, not just from an online sense of making sure their people aren't gambling offshore on online sites, but also making sure they track that movement of money so that they know how much people are gambling. You know, within the Chinese culture, it's a little bit unique because, you know, if you think back to a long time, Mahjong and other games have been, you know, very much commonplace over those types of things, which, you know, it's no different than the Catholics put play and bingo in the churches in the basement, you know, that they're sort of that mixed match of what's good and what's necessarily not so good from a viewpoint. But, you know, they've definitely put that in check over the last couple of years. So while, you know, eSports has been something that's popular over there, they've tried to curb that as well, and that also goes to the amount of play they've limited with people and when they can and can't gamble or can and can't play eSports just as much. So the Chinese market, I put the asterisk by, but other places like South Korea, Southeast Asia, all of those various places are all great eSports hubs because it's definitely ingrained in that demographic that hasn't interested it. And what about Malta? I wonder if they have eSports betting. You know, I don't remember what all is on, what all the books over in Malta have, but obviously Malta is one of the larger online gaming jurisdictions out there. It definitely has shown its way as a leading gaming jurisdiction, no different than, you know, other online places such as the UK, Alderney, stuff that we've had here in the States with New Jersey and others to be able to do that. And I think it's definitely one that they're gonna continue to look at ways to incorporate those things and obviously I think there's a good niche to get those people involved in eSports on those betting boards. But the biggest thing that I think not only books are concerned with, but regulators are concerned with is making sure that, you know, they can display fair and accurate odds along the way as well as understand the sport. So they don't run into a situation where, you know, they take big losses along the way because they don't know what they don't know. And that said, that still happens today. I remember when the, you know, early on in the pandemic and I wanna say this might have been table tennis, but somebody, you know, better, you know, like say 10 bucks on a 10 team or a 10 match parlay and ended up winning 50,000 bucks off of one of the bucks. And I may be off there a little bit on the numbers, but it was an extraordinary amount, but it was because, hey, we're wagering on something we don't know. And we wanna make sure that we're doing it in a very prudent way. So we're not taking a bath, you know, for the book and the regulators don't think that there's anything improper going on as well. Sure, that makes sense. And Hawaii and Utah are famously known for not legalizing gambling. Do you think that will continue?  I will say of those two states, I would be a lot more optimistic off of Hawaii than I am Utah. Although there was talk even this year about Utah potentially, you know, looking at sports wagering over everything. But, you know, I just read an article, I believe it was yesterday out of one of the Hawaii publications of, you know, Hawaii already feels the effects of gaming because there's gaming going on there. It's going on illegally, you know, Las Vegas has always referred to as the ninth island anyway because the amount of Hawaiians that come over here. And so you definitely already have a culture that is used to gaming. And I, you know, it's one of those things that I always would look at and I wish legislators and I know there's been, you know, a host of proposals over the course of time and, you know, it inches forward a little bit more year after year, at least just study it and study it, not just from the standpoint of, hey, what could this generate revenue for us? But one, understand what you have in a base right now for potential effects off of gaming. What illegal gaming is going on there? And then look at what avenues you may or may not go down, whether that be an integrated resort, whether that be sports betting, that obviously I think should probably include eSports as part of that, you know, offering as well, lottery, other things, just to say, hey, here's what we're doing and here's what we're looking at, you know, Alaska just went through that last year, just to see, you know, hey, here's what's out there and here's what actually works and here's what we may look at. And it's one of those things that, you know, we'll see what legislatures and executive branch and governors decide to do going forward but it's having that baseline study at least to know, hey, here's what we might do and here's how we might do it in a very meaningful way. And, you know, I can't recommend enough of people looking at stuff and saying, you know, what's the best way to do it and doing the research behind the scenes, whether that be, you know, with an integrated resort or sports betting and eSports and everything else in between because then it helps pave the path going forward in a much more meaningful way. And what's interesting is Hawaii and Utah have something in common, the connection with Nevada because people in Hawaii, they, you know, there's many people who go to Vegas to gamble four times a year. And then with Utah, people drive over to Wendover or they go from, you know, they go to Vegas because it's so close in proximity. So the question I have and my mind is, why is it that the States, Utah and Hawaii, I mean, excuse me, yeah, Utah and Hawaii that they don't take advantage of the revenue that they could gain and they let their citizens spend it all in Vegas? Well, as somebody that lives in Vegas, we appreciate their hospitality and we appreciate people continuing to come to our destination. With that said, you're absolutely right. And while, you know, those, while we have benefited from our neighboring states and those, I'll put Hawaii as our neighboring state even though there's half an ocean that separates us because of the amount of Hawaiians that come here, there is a distinct revenue opportunity to be able to take advantage of that. That said, the distinct revenue opportunity also isn't just what you're losing that comes to Nevada because if you can go back to when New Jersey legalized it was, oh, Vegas is gonna die. This is never gonna last, whatever else. Vegas has had 10 straight months of record revenue over the course of time. Obviously we'll see what comes in when we get February numbers and that sort of stuff later on this month. But, you know, Vegas still is Vegas and Nevada is still Nevada and doing that. The challenge is, and this is where the argument plays in a lot is you have gaming that's going on in Hawaii today. You have gaming that's going on in Utah today. It's just happening illegally. It's not regulated. There are no consumer protections. And, you know, it's one of those that from an entertainment perspective, most people see gaming as very mainstream, something that happens in their everyday lives. I mean, you can't turn on Sports Center or Fox Sports or any sort of contest and not see the odds somewhere in there along the ticker or they're bringing it up in the conversation to say, hey, so-and-so is favored by five, whatever else. So it's part of our culture. And arguably, their citizens would be safer if they won, you know, would regulate it and two, then put protections in place and make sure there's, you know, responsible gaming programs and awareness programs and for those that may need treatment, programs in place so people can treat and get recovered should they have a problem with a small percentage that does. And speaking of protection and regulation, eSports is known for its youth because it is something that is generally played by young people and there's a lot of underage people. How is eSports wagering? How do you protect the youth from getting involved in that? Well, and that's one of the conundrums that happens and it brings it up in every legislative session that I've been with as it relates to sports spending and eSports is no different is, you know, people don't want to bet on youth people along the way. And there is a little bit of gray off of that. And I say that from, let's go back to the Olympics and say, hey, there's some 16 year old phenom that is a figure skater or a swimmer or something like that that is on a world scene. And it's like, are you really not going to allow somebody that's competing against the best of the best in an international sense, not allow a way to run a game? And that said, no one wants to go take a bet on the middle school, eSports teams, you know, tournament that they have between X, you know, middle school and Y middle school along the way. So you have to figure out what that is. But, you know, to your point, and this comes to a consumer protections point of view, you know, education off of awareness when addiction comes into play, how you can treat those types of things, understanding warning signs. Those are all things out of the gate that people need to be aware of and understand. And that education, you know, needs to start as those people are getting into that. Because the other thing is, you know, you don't want to end up with, you know, a high school game where you have match fixing and those types of things that can damage the sport and arguably hurt the individual that gets and tied up and involved in those types of things. And obviously it can happen at every level. You know, we're talking about it with regard to youth, but, you know, youth are one of those things we need to make sure we protect appropriately and have the safeguards in place. But obviously, you know, as they get on that upper spectrum and become of age, there's a little bit of gray area where you can and can't wager. You know, the argument I always say, and you see this in every jurisdiction is, okay, we're not gonna, they use 18 years old as the benchmark. And I said, well, what happens if the starting quarterback for Alabama in his first three games is still 17 years old? He's playing an NCAA sport. It's an NCAA sanctioned event. He's at the highest level playing at one of the premier programs in the country, if not the premier program in the country. Are you gonna take those five games off the book just because one player out of, you know, the 22 that are on the field between, you know, any snap of the ball is under 18. So that's why you run into some gray area on that. And that's why it more has to go to what the sport is and the governing body. And one of the arguments made by Hawaii State Legislature is that gambling could lead to corruption and other illegal activities. What do you say to that? You know, one, if you don't have regulation in place to deal with it, it only breeds more corruption in doing that. That's why if you regulate it and have the rules in place to say, hey, here's what it is, you have no way to protect anybody out there today.  You bring that out in the legal market. You bring it forward where you have strict regulation. You can check for money laundering. You can check all those things. That's where you end the corruption cycle off of that. That's where you bring things into the legal sphere to say, hey, we can put consumer protections in. We can put financial protections in and we can make sure this is done in a fair and equitable way as opposed to, hey, it's running all behind, you know, backdoor behind the scenes in a back room. Sure, so Brendan, I'll give you the last word. This has been an excellent conversation. I've learned a lot. Tell us how to get in touch with your company and you. Well, first and foremost, thank you for the opportunity to be here. I've always enjoyed this program and look forward to hopefully participating again. You know, obviously the easiest way to get ahold of me is either email or hop on GMA's website to be able to do that. My email, as you can see on the screen is the website address, but then my email is bdb at globalmarketadvisors.com. Fantastic. Thank you, Brendan. Thank you. Appreciate your time today. All right, thank you to our viewers for joining us today. Make sure to tune in next week. My guest will be Dr. Gregory Gettinger, the founder of VR Motion Learning. He will be joining us from Austria to talk about virtual reality tennis. See you then. Thank you so much for watching Think Tech 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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