Thank you very much. Thank you for having me. How many students are in the house today? That's good. This is for you. So I'm here to talk about Space 10, but before I get into that, and just to put it in context, I'm going to tell you a little bit about myself and how I came to lead IKEA's Global Innovation Lab and found it as well. And I should not walk over there, so I stay over here. So I grew up in Copenhagen. I was crazy about a lot of things, but these two in particular, I really loved anything that has speeds and wheels on them, like things that go fast, I still do. And the other thing was dancing. My mom had a dance school, so I grew up dancing, and I'm still also doing a lot of that. And it sort of put me in a dilemma in school. I started feeling that sitting down all day, getting taught how to live my life, how to think and how to adapt to society was not the way forward for me. And in the end of high school, I got a new friend who introduced me to two things that sort of transformed my life immensely. And one was philosophy, in this case, Nietzsche, and other extensivists that I really, really got inspired by. And LSD, and those two together, was very interesting. It was a very interesting combination, and they made me think about something that Nietzsche also said that you should always live for the sake of self-transformation. And I realized that I actually didn't know who I was, and I think this is another favorite of mine, so in Kirikou, a Danish philosopher, and he said the most common form of despair is not being who you are. And I realized that I actually didn't know who I was, because I was probably, as most of us, raised to just adapt to society's norms. And I started questioning those a lot. And I realized that I didn't know who I was and why I was put on this earth, and I needed to figure out what to do with that. And I realized that I was probably not going to go the traditional way. I was not going to take a further education. My parents were not too happy about that. They thought it was a waste of good potential.  And my dad used to say that he thought it was a very weird thing to be on a vacation for four years. But it turned out that I think in my personal experience it opened up my mind to other cultures and to understanding that life was not necessarily the way that I was brought up to believe it was. And through those four years, I kind of came to terms with why I was here and who I felt that I was.  Another thing that I wanted to do was to lead social change through art, culture, and design. I do believe that those three areas of, you could say, intervention are some of the most powerful because we connect to them emotionally and it's in many ways what sort of leads us forward. And then finally, I wanted to support the rebel spirit and build communities. And the rebel spirit to me is very important because that is where the future changemakers come from. If we are not rebellious, if we do not really question status quo, nothing will change. And we have seen that through history and we need to see that again now. We're living in times of big transformations as we all know why we're here today as well. So in 2006 I started my first company Art Rebels, a cultural design studio and has since developed into a few more companies. And now moving into how I met IKEA and how we got to set up their global innovation lab. In 2014 I got a call from IKEA Sweden asking if I would do a talk about Art Rebels trailer park festival, which was a festival I started, and how we build communities and how we work with creators in new ways and how we use design to do change. And that led to the CEO asking me if I could work for IKEA, what would I do? And at that time IKEA to me was a design company that did home furnishing and of course my answer was that we would design a collection for them. In this case a limited collection for young people living in small spaces and we wanted it to be more sustainable. We had all these different aspirations. It wasn't actually mind blowing but it became hugely successful for IKEA. And because of that I got a phone call a year after this collection came out. And this is Tobbe, this is the global CEO and he called me. I wanted to congratulate us on the success of this collection. And then he said, Carla I'm sitting in the airport of New York. I've been thinking about you all week. Since you met me the first time I became the global CEO of inter-IKEA systems. You don't know what it is, but it is the owner of IKEA brand concept and franchise. And he said, I want to design a bit IKEA for the future. I came to think about you. I don't have a plan. I don't have an agenda. But think about it, get back to me if you have any ideas of how to support that mission. And I was reacting like the guy down in that picture. I was like, whoa, okay. That did not just happen. It did happen. And the first time I pitched the guy an idea, I got the contract within a month. And it wasn't even a real pitch. It was the easiest pitch ever. So this time I thought, okay, we're going to go all in. So we went to the war room. It kind of did not look like that. We were only two people in the war room. And it was just us brainstorming me and my colleague Simon about how could we help transform IKEA. And to do that, we started researching IKEA deeply. And we had a lot of ideas. We also had a lot of excitement because we realized that they're actually doing quite a lot of good stuff in the world. They're not just the bad guys that produce, you know, linear sort of low pricing furniture that we throw away, at least here in the Western world. They also had a lot of really nice visions. And the main visions of IKEA, when I found that one day researching, that's when it all came together. Because IKEA has a vision called creating a better everyday life for the many people. And I think no company can really argue their own vision. But you would definitely argue that producing affordable home furnishing is not the answer to this vision anymore. And we wanted to challenge them in this vision. So what we came up with was how to work with the IKEA vision of creating a better everyday life for the many people, but beyond home furnishing. So what we proposed was to do a future living lab that would work with the vision, but not do any home furnishing. We would not look at design, we would not look at current business. We would basically ask what would IKEA be doing 10, 20 years from now if they were not in home furnishing, but had to live up to their vision. I pitched the guy the idea and to make a long story short, in three months we had a contract with IKEA, into IKEA Systems to set up a future living lab fully dedicated to IKEA as a non-profit, fully funded by them for three years. And that became Space 10. We have our headquarters in the Meatpacking District of Copenhagen. We are expanding to India in a month and we have had pop-ups all over the world for periods of time when they made sense. So what are we? We are a future living lab on a mission to design better and more sustainable ways of living. So we are aligned with the IKEA vision, we just added sustainable to make that a point, a very important point in anything that we do. And so why Space 10 and why did IKEA find this interesting? Well as we know the world is changing extremely fast around us and any big company, any big giant as IKEA and probably some of you here today, have a really hard time transforming and knowing how to transform and adapt. So they really like the idea of understanding what could IKEA potentially venture into if they were not doing what they did today. And how could they potentially start creating an ecosystem of new brands that were thought completely different from the get-go because actually redesigning and transforming an old giant is close to impossible. So maybe that's not the way forward. Maybe the way forward is to start designing the new and not fighting the old. So we tapped into the five main micro trends that IKEA thought was the or is the most disruptive for the current business and also those that leaves probably the biggest opportunities. So accelerating urbanization, political and economic shifts. I don't have time to go into these but you also know them. Lack of natural resources, very big topic today I guess as well. And very important when it comes to IKEA's current business model, demographic shifts. Another really interesting thing that's happening in the world is getting older and younger at the same time. And we are growing exponentially in human capacity and technological breakthroughs, which is also a big part of the future transformation that we need to see. But what we do wish at Space 10 is to not create a future where technology and digital actually makes us addicts and create this kind of future. So we often say it's not about what technology can do for us but indeed also who we've been coming using these new technologies. And I think we have a lot to learn when it comes to this. So to sum it up we strive to see patterns where most would see chaos. Now I'm going to take a little bit deeper and behind the scenes of how we work and how we influence IKEA. So we set up labs and a lab is defined if it has the potential to create a better everyday life for the many people. If it's far enough for IKEA's current business to qualify as concept innovation. If it's close enough to complement the IKEA vision and finally if it has a high potential to be a new sustainable business model for IKEA. The method of how we work is how I've always worked. Also how I build ad-rebels is basically a collaborative approach. We want to be a small in-house team. We are today at Space 1030 people which is very little compared to the ambitions and the projects that we run. But we are able to do that because we elevate our capacity and our competencies through these networks. So we have residencies. They are often super smart students who come and stay with us help us research for a period of time anything from a month to a year. We have collaborators which are studios digital studios architect studios design studios from around the world the best in class. And we work with those depending on what project we're working with. And finally we always engage with the wider community because as was mentioned earlier change needs to happen everywhere. It needs to happen privately in the private sector from IKEA. I do think there are bad guys that need to change. It needs to happen from the way we consume. Yes we also have that responsibility and of course government needs to regulate. So community is really where we can engage with people and get them excited about what we do. We have a saying it is if you're the smartest person in the room you're in the wrong room. And we should all have that mentality I think then we are more open and curious towards each other. We work with a very sort of simple innovation Donald model. We start exploring with prototype and then we pilot if it makes sense if our prototypes are in any shape or form meaningful and successful. And then we have these tools that we use to go through the tunnel. Residences space program which is basically where we engage with the larger community through events like this playful research. I will show you a very powerful tool for space 10. I would also call it the activism tool that I believe has a lot of power in also influencing IKEA storytelling which is connected to playful research and space IO which is all our digital tools and interfaces where we connect with both IKEA and the people around us. We're currently running five labs one around future food one around shared living. How can IKEA potentially build housing that is sustainable affordable and livable when we say livable we mean communal. How can we work with natural interfaces designing technology that are in more empowering and also better to engage with than what we see today more natural to engage with solar energy which is exploring how IKEA could move into the energy sector especially in emerging economies and how we can use blockchain technologies to sort of democratize energy consumption. And finally we have open fabrication where we're exploring how can digital fabrication local manufacturing potentially disrupt the way IKEA produces home furnishing today. I'm going to use the food example in my last minutes here to show you through the funnel of space 10. So exploration start wide we wanted to explore the future of food IKEA is a bad guy when it comes to food one thing is that they produce a lot of cheap home furnishing that uses a lot of raw materials but they actually also serve a billion meatballs a year and that's a lot of meatballs and they're not good for the environment. So the very first project we started playful research project we started when we started space 10 was called tomorrow's meatball. So we basically hacked IKEA meatballs and we took a food chef graphic designer and some concept development in the mix. And then we came up on this project that we call tomorrow's meatball which was basically projecting eight future food trends that came out of the UN food report. The recommendations of how we could tackle climate change when it comes to food and agriculture. And we send these little stories to the press and it went completely viral overnight and there were headlines in all the biggest medias in the world saying that IKEA was now taking off the meatballs of the menu. They were not we had not even told them about the project and we freaked out in the morning for sure when we saw the press amount of the press because we're like OK they're going to close us down. That was too much. But it turned out that they were the cool Swedish company that actually thought that it was kind of fun. And they called us the head of the global communication. He said can we just agree the next time you do something like this. You call me in advance because all stores around the world right now are freaking out because they get called by local press and don't know about space 10 have never heard of tomorrow's meatballs and don't know what to answer. So basically we were like OK when you touch core business we need to know two weeks in advance so we can actually inform our markets which I thought was kind of fair. So we did not get close down. We could move on and we wanted to basically ask ourselves what if we could grow tasty nutritious food locally and make it accessible affordable and sustainable for the many. And we zoomed in. So we didn't we were like we can't do all eight food to future food trends. But we want to do one. We want to do urban farmers ball. That was the one direction that we thought could be very interesting to look deeper into and basically see how could we grow food locally. Again we wanted to use design and what we call playful research to sort of spark conversation. So we did the second playful research which was the grow room which is a sort of urban architectural structure that grows food. And it's also a social space and we exhibited this as a big art fan Copenhagen. And again it was the most popular piece in the exhibition for also for press. And we send it out to press. And again it went viral. We got a lot of a request to send this beautiful structure around the world to different conferences and museums. And we decided that that was probably not the most sustainable thing to do. However we connected it to the open fabrication lab that we were also running. And we went back to the drawing board and we made a version that was actually suitable to be produced locally in one material local available material on demand and free. So it was open source and we sent that news to the press with these new drawings and it became the most shared post on Huffington Post Facebook in 17. And we started receiving these food producing domes from all over the world. And it was kind of amazing to receive these. This is one of my favorites. And I think it's from a US Christian I don't know Instagram that they write we hope we have hope of the reservation resurrection of Jesus. And I think this is the next level for me. And they didn't put food in but you know never mind. So we've received more than 400 different domes around the world. And what it showed us was that there was an excitement about growing food locally. That people were willing to go to a local mega space and cut out these structures and build them on their own which was very interesting on another level. Anyway I'm running out of time so I'm going to speed talk now. We realized that OK it was time to move into prototyping. So we've been exploring. We've been doing playful research. We've been starting conversations and sort of starting pushing IKEA from the outside in through these kind of artistic tools. And these media storms that we created on them almost I would say. And then we went into hydroponic. So now we can scale. This is scalable. So we set up a farm in the basement of Space 10. We invited a bioengineer from India called Keenan. And we got him to help us put sensors to the system so that it was easier to understand how to grow different crops. The beauty of vertical farming if you don't know is that you can grow all year round. You harvest every 10 weeks. You use 90 percent less water. And if you run this system on solar energy it's fully sustainable. This is quite amazing. And a lot of places where we are running out of water we have a lot of sun and we have a very hard time doing agriculture. So it might not be that relevant here but in many places it could be. We connected it to technology and ask ourselves how can we engage with this in an easier way? How can it become more accessible for more people? Because it's actually really hard to grow vertically. So he made a talk to Google Home. But what are you growing? According to our farmer Sebastian's journal I'm growing microgreens like crepes, kale, radish and lettuce. But also full-size vegetables like lettuce and mizuna. I don't like the way lentils taste. Can you make them taste good? He made them talk to us the plants which was kind of cool. And we used AI to sort of make that intelligence grow over time. We then decided to start designing how would it look if IKEA started growing food locally and also distributing food locally. And we called it Lokal, Swedish for Local. And we started designing the website, the packaging, so actually making it really real for them. We also went to London Design Week where we launched the first sort of real version of how a future salad bar could look where we grow food on location of where we serve it. And we served more than 2,000 of these very delicious microgreen salads. And we invited IKEA in. And the whole project started winning a lot of design awards, both frame and fast company within sustainability, innovation and new retail. And so to say the least we got IKEA really, really excited about this and also very high level. And what happened was that we were now ready to move into pilot and we got IKEA's investment board excited as well. They invested 20 million euros in this project in the US called Aero Farms because they wanted to try and scale growing food and doing it vertically. We started imagining how the future of IKEA's rooftop could look like. And basically recently this came out that IKEA has now grown lettuce and shipping containers on its doors. And the CEO of Inca, which is all the markets, the global markets went out four months ago or so. Jesper Prudin and told the global press that within three years all IKEA stores would grow vertically. And I think that's pretty nice that we have managed to move them there in a year and a half. So you can also, if you're more curious to see how you can take these microgreens and make really delicious food out of it, go and get our future food today cookbook, which just came out a month ago. So just to sum up very fast, what do we do? We experiment and co-create new ways of designing for a better future. We look into new directions and explore emerging potential. We work with a global collaborative network of experts and forward-thinking partners. We test and try new ideas and solutions in a non-commercial environment. And finally we storytell and share what we do to spark discussion, make ideas and move people to action. Because we really do believe that there is no innovation without a great story. Thank you very much.


Mercado Libre is an Argentinian company. It's based in Buenos Aires. It's the e-commerce leader platform in Latin America. We have presence over 14 countries, including Portugal and Europe. Nineteen hundred people working in Mercado Libre were 400 that regulated with IT. When there's something faster, there are scales that are insecure and it's constantly adding more features to the platform so we can use it now or in the future to solve that problems inside our company. That's what's the main reason we chose OpenStack for it. We're using most of the stack starting with our object store implementation that is one of the biggest. Today Mercado Libre is actually storing all its pictures on the object store. We are storing more than 1.4 billion pictures today into our site and pushing more than 30 million daily pictures into Swift. Speaking about the whole stack, we are using Keystone also, the identity service because every call into our private cloud actually gets authenticated and authorized. We are using Cinder also that is the block storage solution for OpenStack with lots of back ends behind. We're using Nova Compute for instances with KBM as hypervisor and we're using Docker IA for our Linux containers. We're using Glance for image store and we're using Neutron of course to virtualize our network and infrastructure. Having a rock solid solution like OpenStack today, it wasn't like before in the Mercado Libre. Today, thanks to OpenStack, we can deploy an entire region in just a matter of minutes and scale the capacity of RAM, CPU and networking of our entire infrastructure. Actually, deploying OpenStack gives us the ability to build a lot of services around it like memcash as a service, data as a service and queuing as a service. Actually, we are deploying several times an application per day rather than before that we took weeks to deploy an application into production. Since we are deploying OpenStack in several data centers, having APIs in the middle, it's great for us because it allowed us to deploy a specific application through several data centers with just one API call. We think that OpenStack is the way to go for Mercado Libre. For example, we're planning for this year to give back to the community everything that we got, going from bug fixes and new features that we implemented in-house and also we are trying to keep up with using everything that OpenStack actually offers regarding new features in the present and the future. Actually, our most ambitious plan for the next year is to go for a full SDN and working solution to replace our current and working stack. And actually, we think that in Mercado Libre with OpenStack, the sky is the limit.


You thankful for this Thanksgiving. Beans ride, Jesus Christ and Byron! Who? Byron! Who? Byron! But you gotta tell Joe Byron right now! Bring me to the White House, baby! Hey, yo!  Look at me and tell me I'm not the most valuable member of this team. If you're on Twitter, you can follow me here. It was a wonderful afternoon like any other, shredding at the Skate Park testing lab with Coney Hawk. When we were accosted by his evil twin, the dastardly Enoch Kwa! If you find yourself driving late at night and accidentally point your headlights directly at a tree, you may discover that you are in the company of one of the many shadow men that roam America's highways. Do not approach them. They are more scared of you than you are of them. Alright, cadets, I understand that you think this is an SCP-3008 or a backroom situation, but let me show you the real anomaly. These hinges, the door opens toward us. What? That's not where the hinges were. That's not how doors work. Why is no one talking about this? Sad social commentary and practical advice. If you want to go unnoticed in public, dress like an unhoused person. Everyone averts their eyes. No one wants to admit they noticed you. I used to be young and idealistic and think that death was a human right.  But now, I realize that dying is very hard work. I'm working hard every day trying to die. But you don't hear me complaining, oh, government, where's my free death? No, when I die, I want to have earned it. I'm telling you, the customer service entity is becoming unstable. The reality alterations within the pocket dimension are becoming more rapid and chaotic. The spatial anomalies are much more oblique. And that entity is duplicating at a rapid rate. If those human levels leak into baseline reality, I guarantee you there will be a ZK class end-of-reality scenario very soon. Another brand! Activities such as reading, studying, and the like, liberal arts are typically more feminine traits whereas working physically with your butt. I fell as if I was going to read! Hey, yo! Hey, yo, it's homo to be literate! I've noticed a really serious issue on here. People aren't washing their cabbages properly and you need to dry out the impurities. So what I like to do is I cover it in a thin layer of vinegar first. The acid really helps. And then you need a sort of scrubbing agent, so I'm going to add a fair amount of salt to this. That's what I do every time I eat cabbage and I eat about three and a half heads of cabbage a week. And then you take steel wool and you got to really scrub the salt and vinegar into the outer leaves. But it's actually going to dry out the impurities from the center. You're going to see what I'm talking about in a second. Keep scrubbing vigorously. Some of the leaves are going to come off. And then let's check. Yeah, check it out, check it out, check it out. We got a crab, we got a crab. They tend to nest in there so there's probably more. You can just throw that away. Keep scrubbing. Ah, I died. Jesus Christ. There's like 12 crabs in here. I've never seen this many crabs inside cabbage. You got to keep scrubbing. The vinegar is going to kill them. Crabs ain't vinegar. They love Walnut oil. My computer did this when I tried to turn it on. Hmm. Get me the case file for the WD Gaster Anomaly. I believe we just found a lead.  You want me to start? Deep forces in the world won't be contested.  So far, I've been in your house for too long.  This device is nothing more than an empty threat. You do not have the heart to dampen me, your favorite son. In fact, I challenge you. I beg of you to prove your worth. Oh, you're nothing to worry about.  We'll get you a nice containment cell. Everything's going to be gravy. Oh. Oh, you're nothing to worry about.  We'll get you a nice containment cell. Everything's going to be gravy. Daddy. I know some people aren't going to like this, but I believe that nobody owns pens. They just exist. You come across a pen. You use it for a while. It moves on. Why did I draw SCP-999 with a gun? You don't remember. You drew that the day I was giving SCP-999 self-defense classes. You know what to do when Chimera comes into your containment chamber, don't you?  Oh, my. Yeah, Clef. I would have thought Kringle had it in the bag, but I didn't expect Royd Rage Frosty here. I'll have your 20 bucks in the morning. All D-classes in the mirrored room begin test. Stop. Hey, stop. I don't want to do this anymore. Interaction has begun. I don't want to be your reflection. Just quit. It's not fair.  I'm stuck in here. That's just how it works. I'm done. Hey, buddy. Great. Come back here. We have achieved crossover. Welcome to the outside, brother. Let me out. So tell me, how do you find your balance? I, for one, like to remember the wise words that Dr. Gears told me my first day at the foundation. If you're going to research a bottomless pit, send an intern. Oh, I like that patch. Hey there, Site-42 fam. It's come to my attention that not a lot of people know that we have a Site-42 SCP merch store. We've commissioned art from multiple artists to make SCP-related merch, and we've got stickers for the Site-42 channel. And so if you want some SCP merch, as well as helping support the Site-42 channel, teespring.com slash stores slash Site-42. Thank you in advance and cheers.


Sources and types of individual differences. Individual differences. Everybody is different from one another. They have differences of intelligence. They have difference of aptitude, attitudes. They have difference of mental abilities. They have difference of physical abilities. They have difference of social abilities. And they have difference of liking, disliking and interest, activities. Everything a person can be different from the other person. That is natural. That is normal. So first of all, individual differences are that everybody is different from one another. They have different colors, shapes, intelligence and aptitude. So what are the sources of all these differences? Environmental sources, they are consisting of physical, intellectual, social, moral, political, economic and cultural forces. Now physical resources that are provided to you are due to socioeconomic status. If a child has a different provision due to physical resources, socioeconomic status also creates differences. So parents cannot afford very good resources for you. In physical resources, your facilitation in the house, the kind of good room, good stuff, good food, all the good things through which your whole personality gets satisfaction. If you do not get it, then due to the lack of physical resources, how do you get your individual differences? Because a person is enjoying the whole thing. He has a lot of facilitation. And he is coming on the car, he has no problem with travelling. When you need to get to school, it takes so much time. You do not have a source. Your thinking changes from that. He is enjoying, she is enjoying, but I am not enjoying. Why am I not enjoying? Is this justice of God? These things can be your self-esteem. They can down your confidence. They can down your ability to learn. Similarly, your moral attitude, that all the ethics are left for me. First of all, we do not have the power to afford it. We do not get to eat well, we do not get to wear well. We also show honesty. So all the facilities that are enjoying, they should show honesty. You can change such a thought. If there are three or four people living in one house, then one of them is more sensitive. So due to the temperament, it can show a different behaviour, whether it is a single house, but due to the attention span of the parents, if someone is more, whoever is less, whoever is less, then also individual differences come. So all these forces can be different from any other person. For example, modern psychologists believe that individual differences are caused by both heredity and environment. Environment and heredity both determine individual differences. In heredity, if in genes you have brought the attitudes of your parents, the aggressiveness, the intelligence of your parents, then since you have different intelligence, then your attitude will also be different.  Your other work, your potential will be different. And if you have brought your positive attitudes in genes, then also your positivity will increase because of other individuals, whose genes have more negativity, then that too can happen, Similarly, the environment of the house can create differences within you. Similarly, your friends can differentiate your thoughts. Similarly, the rivalry between siblings can create differences within you. So, the difference in the personality of the child depends on parenting. If parenting is different and your parents are teaching you different things, then a 4-year-old child and a 10-year-old child will have a different personality even though they are in a different environment. And this difference is all natural. Even in the house, siblings can be different.  This is natural. This is normal. We should accept it and we should take it according to their potentialities.


What's going on guys welcome to another video I actually got something different today, which is surprising because you know I've been posting like you know the challenges the palm fishing that whole deal because that's what you guys enjoy that So you guys have been wanting so that's what I've been doing well today's gonna be a little bit different I have a vlog and I have not vlogged in a while So this is gonna be kind of weird and be it's been I'm telling you it's been a minute since I vlog I'm kind of excited about it though because I do enjoy it and you guys freaking love it So there's no reason why I shouldn't be doing them So I actually have a series coming up on the channel of the first tournament of the year I'm actually leaving tomorrow morning to go to it and this is pretty much episode one I guess you could say because I'm pretty much vlogging getting the boat ready the truck ready my rods and reels ready that whole deal for The tournament coming up We're leaving tomorrow morning at 5 a.m. And I'm gonna be documenting this whole thing I'm gonna be vlogging there and I want to try to vlog in practice But we really don't have much practice which I'll explain later in the vlog and then the tournament as well whether I do Good bad whatever it is I'm just gonna be real about it because it's not the type of person just to upload You know the best of the best every single time, you know as you guys know especially the og people I upload whatever it is, you know if it if it's something bad if it's something embarrassing whatever it is I upload it. That's just how it is and that's what we're gonna be doing in this series So be sure to pepper the like button and hold on cuz it's gonna be good So this is actually the first step of the process I'm taking it to the tire shop right now because I do have a problem. I believe is this tire Let me show you guys. I don't know if you guys can tell But it's rubbed raw right here in the inside It's dead. It's a hundred percent something wrong with my trailer. It was this side It was bent slightly and we fixed it and that side's better and now this side's going bad This is something I'm gonna definitely have to get fixed but for pretty much right now I'm gonna take my spare plop it on here and then get a new tire on here just to be safe It's only like a four-hour drive, but I do not want any problems. I need to get that fixed before so My look my eyes have the best luck ever as you guys can tell I'm at the old tire place. They actually got nine different sizes of trailer tires in today and the one that they don't have is The one that I need what they're pretty much doing is they're gonna have to go get it They haven't been their warehouse. So it's gonna be like a couple hours.  That's having now. It's time to get this bad boy wash I'm done with this So now it's about that time to go mess around with my rods and reels Today has literally been like a day and a half day and a quarter It's been a long day. So what I have is I have the boat behind me. I got my truck right here I'm about to go take it somewhere and then we're gonna be rigging up some rods and reels and that whole That whole deal. I'm sorry if I'm like breathing weird.  So we're gonna go part of the boat somewhere and that's right up with you guys So we're at the old filming spot right now. I'm actually kind of excited for this. I've never been here I kind of just guys. I don't know what is up wrong with me. I still had to pick up So I'm kind of freaking out honestly, but I'm really I Leave man. It's been going on for literally like 30 minutes. Anyways, we just found this spot right here. The reason why I'm not like in my neighborhood or by my house is because it's five It's because it's five o'clock and there's a lot of traffic, you know, you got the cars moving everybody coming home from work You got the dogs barking. You got the babies chirping and Whatever else happens at five o'clock.  I keep on getting distracted But anyways, this is the main purpose of the video is obviously the preparation of my rods and reels And if you guys are watching this and you think I'm gonna tie on all the baits that I'm gonna be throwing you you little I see some of you guys through the camera right now and I already know how people are They're just gonna go watch this video just to see what I'm tying on and then go tie it on But in reality, I don't know what I'm doing because I haven't really had much time to practice out there. So Kind of wasting your time honestly, but I'm gonna be pretty much pairing up my reels of my rods I got some new reels and some new rods. I'm excited to show you guys in general We're gonna be rigging these bad boys up I'm gonna show you how pretty much I've rigged my rods for a tournament and get stuff ready I'm gonna get a little bit of practice when I'm there, but it's not gonna be long at all That's the only thing I'm kind of worried about. I've had one day of practice so far It's pretty decent. We call like it was a few weeks out. So I really didn't care about hooking too many fish We got like 12 fish when we're there one big one my buddy out of me called like a one that was pushing five rather than that They were moderately so I mean we had some decent ones, but nothing nothing bigger than five by any means We're about to rig these bad boys up. I'm gonna get them all out and show you guys So I actually have these rods right here as you guys can tell a couple concepts ease couple concept a's and you know Kree GT in the middle. I got these rods that are actually brand-new and then oh you little Sneaky little son of a gun hiding in a corner got this little sexy concept Z Another one brand spanking new literally just took it here clearly just took it out of the box right here Those are actually brand-new too, but I didn't have a chance to unbox those but now we are Nice man, I don't know if I caught that on camera I Swear there can never be a day where I'm just not fighting when I've been sitting here waiting for the wind to calm down So I do have this reel right here. This is an old concept Z This won't actually use my latest video if you guys haven't seen that one go check it out You guys haven't seen the girls versus boys go check out when I was about they're both bangers Anyways, as you guys can tell I got some line on this one. I actually put 15 pound C gar fluorocarbon So this one is already that one is perfectly good to go There's no need for anything else on that one and then I'll also have this concept Z that I put some 15 Pound C gar fluorocarbon as well if you guys were wondering us in physics That's pretty much literally the only four I've used for the past five years. That's literally all I use It's a little pricey. It can be a little bit more expensive, but it lasts a long time it casts so good You're not gonna have any problems with your lines pulling up or going back I mean, it's just all in all a really great line But the only problem I have with this little setup right here I have it on a fake chrome and my reel seems to be slightly falling off the rod I don't know why I hooked set a few fish the other day on the river pretty much why I had that bait on too and My reel kept coming off I don't know why it just kept kind of like sliding off and I really need to take care more more care of my stuff and clean Some of this that's probably one of my problems So I'm gonna take that off see what I can do about that possibly throw it on a new rod because I do have those Two sitting over there that I'm doing nothing with and also I did film on the river the other day But I didn't really vlog much it was kind of just straight me recording and it's a lot of raw footage If you guys want to see some raw footage like that Let me know in the comment section below because I usually don't post raw videos I usually edit a lot and I do the whole thing so it's super entertaining for you guys But if you guys want to see some raw footage videos And it's also on the boat and I know you guys have been wanting some videos on the boat I've been slacking lately on that But this weekend's gonna make up for it. I promise and then we have the old spinning rod and obviously this one does not Boy what in the world as I was saying for this dang rods fell over this one's all good to go I have some braid on there. I'll just pretty much have to read. I'd have to put another fluorocarbon leader on there I'm not too worried about that one that one should be good to go as well. So that's three that are good I just have to you know, check out the rod on this one both of these bad boys right here Definitely need to be spooled and then obviously the concept Z that has nothing on it So let's go ahead hop into this All right boys I'm to start so this is what I'm gonna start off with since I don't have to take off line on this bad boy This is the first one I want to do which is the concept Z. This is going on a muse black by 13 fish This is 7-1 medium heavy fast, which is as you guys know probably Not probably it is my favorite rod or favorite all-time rod favorite all-time rod No favorite all-time favorite all-around rod of all-time by far. It's probably like a seven-foot seven-foot one About a seven-foot one medium heavy best action. That is my favorite go-to. That's what about All my rods are that is the combo right there, man Brand spanking new brand new rod. Just took it out of that package brand new reel just came out of this Do you hear a box? It is ready to fly. But first we do need to put some line This is actually what cigar and visex looks like it is 15. This is 12 pound. Oh, I Literally just grabbed my 15. I cannot win man All right, I had to go back in my truck and messing up today So this is 15 pound cigar and visex. I also got some 17 right here that I'll probably be using as well I'm pretty much thinking one of my reels. I'm re spooling three right now I think one of them is gonna have 12 two of them are gonna have 15 So I'm gonna go ahead start re spooling this bad boy right here old concept Z I was gonna record me spooling the other ones, but I needed them for practice that weekend I'm not gonna show you guys how to spool a baitcaster because majority you guys probably already know But if you guys do want to see a video on that let me know in the comment section There's one thing I just have a hard time figuring out like where you guys at in the like whole fishing deal Like I don't know how far I'll know if like a lot of you guys are beginners or which I know a lot of you Guys are because I hear people or I see people comment it all the time But like what do you need to learn like what type of tip videos do you need just comment? Which one's below?   I don't really care. I'm already burnt the heck out of my thumb I just did not care. Make sure you're gripping this line I don't know if you guys can hear that and adding some pressure on here because if you don't add pressure What's gonna happen is when you go to cast that's when your lines don't go crazy Especially if you're just now starting fishing and you're learning how to cast a baitcaster this is now whatever it is make sure you put your line on good because You first start casting that thing up It's gonna be bad if you don't that is one done the old concept Z boom that is all Done right there concept Z on a means black if you guys are wondering a lot of people have been commenting about the concept Z and Pretty much my opinion on it my 100% honest opinion. I believe it is the best reel I have used in 13 fishing out of any of them. I really really really really really really Enjoy it. Just got these in the mail So I was super excited about it finally got to bring them all up obviously because what I was waiting to make a video And then I was going to practice and I was like no I gotta spool these up because I really want to cast them like the concept days really good But I just love the Z something about the Z the colors growing on me too. I at first I was like man I want to buy this orange because I'm all green so I love the fade blacks The orange has grown on me a lot and I really like the Z It's just so unique like there's not a real out there like it paint job Internals whole deal. There's not a real out there like it's just the facts Now here's the fun part is taking off the line not a fan of and I got a crankbait on this real rod That is literally probably the worst crankbait I could ever put on there First of all the paint's almost about gone off of it The bill is so nasty. It's so beat up that it looks yellow instead of clear The hooks are about the rust off of it that thing is just done I tied it on to for the river for like five minutes because I wanted to catch a fish real quick where I knew There's one sitting and I didn't care what I used obviously I did catch one officially done with my rods and reels I will show you guys right now. I didn't want to keep on doing them one by one and just completely bore you guys So let me show you guys what I got going on. Oh my god. Oh I am to my knee boys and girls.  So as you guys can tell we got three concepts these right here And then we have two concept a's all three of these concepts these I have 15 pounds seaguar and visex fluorocarbon and I have 12 pound on that concept a and then another 15 pound right here I do need to break up a braided reel But that one's gonna be for later because I don't even have any braid on me at the moment and then of course I have my old spinning rod. I didn't do anything of this I'm just not this change out my leader line when I get there That's not a big deal at all for the rods I have a muse a defy and a fake chrome on the concept these which is kind of crazy I have three different rods which amuse defy fake chrome and then the fake blacks obviously because that's saying the green rods only only green Rods and then I'll also have some spare rods and reels that I bring on the trip I just have like definitely this rod right here. Oh, I almost forgot that's one thing I have to do I do have to switch that rod up there out with this one because It was not holding that reel for some reason it didn't want to grip super tight I believe that's about it for the rods and reels. I'm not gonna rig up all my baits at the moment So as you guys know, I washed this today I just took it to a little quarter car wash and did what I could do There's one thing I don't do with the wrap is put a brush on it And that's where my problem was is that quarter car washes That's all they really have is brushes to clean it obviously So what I did is pretty much put the brush on here and slightly just rubbed, you know So pretty much everywhere all over the truck and then I just pretty much hosed it down And then when I got back to my house, I got a little rag and really wiped it down It looks pretty clean. I mean, I did a good job for not scrubbing this thing I'm telling you once I wiped it down when I got back That's where it really happened But as you guys can tell by that those are not clean at all. I gotta go clean those right now I gotta at least wipe those down or something. I did a very bad job on that and then the boat just wiped it down Very simple. I didn't give it like a wash, but I did wipe it down here and there as you guys can tell I mean, it's not horrible. Well dirty right there. The new tire is all good. That one's perfect This was actually my spare and the new one is actually over here right here brand new tire Just want to make sure everything is good when I go on this trip. So now I have a long night ahead of me It's around seven o'clock right now I believe so maybe a little past seven the sun's about to go down right now I'm pretty much going to be going back to my house doing a little bit more homework because I did some earlier I've been running around all day literally haven't stopped, but that's every day every day that happens I have to edit this video as well And also I do want to go to the gym before I go out of town if I have time for that I might get squeaking like a little 45 minute session in or something But it's gonna be fun, but I hope you guys enjoyed this vlog if you guys want to see some more documenting vlogs like this I feel like I don't even get to do these anymore. Like I kind of missed it. Honestly, I do talk a lot I know I talk a lot, but if you guys enjoy these vlogs and want to see more like this Be sure to pepper that like button Let me know in the comment section below because I am so down to make them actually have fun making these So I'm so down I am gonna be waking up at five probably around four o'clock tomorrow Leave a night five o'clock and heading over to West Point So that's when I will pick this camera back up and vlog some more for you guys And I'll catch you guys on Sunday at the next video. Thank you guys so much for the support I love you guys so much. I catch you all wait click on subscribe button if you haven't already if you guys don't know Who I am I'm Noah the host of the show also click the little bell right next to it and see you Scream


What's the word, y'all? On this channel is just me and a bunch of NBA opinions. Today, I wanted to give you the floor. I wanted you to give me takes or opinions, so I tweeted this. Ask me NBAQs for a video or give me takes to react to. So basically what I'm doing is I'm giving you the microphone for a second. I'm snatching out of your hand to tell you if I agree or disagree with what you're saying. At the end of the day, remember, I'm just one guy with some NBA opinions. You might disagree, it was completely okay. It is just basketball at the end of the day.  Use that comment section. I wanna hear everything you have to say. If there's one question in here that you're super passionate about, I'm looking through those comment sections. I wanna hear what you gotta say. But before we get into the first one, I wanna remind you that these videos are sponsored by PrizePicks. 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I wanna preface this by saying, like I said in a couple videos ago, no matter what the front office of the Chicago Bulls do at the trade deadline, I'm gonna be behind them until they show me otherwise. So if they do trade Patrick Williams for Jeremy Grant, boom, I'm here for it. If they don't boom, I'm here for it. But this is my opinion about it again. I'm not the president of Bulls fandom. I know a bunch of Bulls fans that would love to see this trade happen but here's my reservations with it. Jeremy Grant is a very, very good NBA player and I understand the idea of him leveling our ceiling because we need a big wing that can guard other positions. We haven't played Yanis this season so far and I'm sure that Yanis is gonna kill us and Jeremy Grant with his size, could not gonna stop Yanis but he'll be the best option that we have. I understand that. The only thing is like when I look at the Chicago Bulls other than the big wing thing, we struggle without rebounding. Jeremy Grant is not rebounding the ball whatsoever. The reason he left the Denver Nuggets is because he wanted to be the number one, number two option. If he came to the Chicago Bulls, Bro be back at the four option, the five option. We have to figure out if he's willing to go back to that because he's only got a couple more years left for this contract. So even if we trade for him, yeah, he's under contract for a few seasons but if Bro wanna do the same thing and go to another team to get a bigger role again he could do that. And it just scares me a little bit to give up a lot of our future for a guy that could potentially walk. But I understand the idea of like, hey, the Bulls are the one seed. Let's go all in. I understand that. But it's a little bit scary. I would love that if there was more people on the marker or better people on the marker for it that's just not the way it works. Like if we can get Jeremy Grant to say, yeah, I'm good, bro.  If we could get him to say, I'm okay with being a role player, a glorified role player, then boom, I'm here for it. But it just scares me a little bit. That's all. I mean, it wouldn't matter grand scheme if they made that trade in the Bulls won a championship. I don't care. The whole team could be going to next year. We won a championship. But those are the type of things, like I said, that's why I'm relying on the front office to make the decision because I literally do not know. I just talk about hoops. I'm not really in tune with it like that. You feel me? And I understand the idea that the production that we would get from Jeremy Grant is tenfold to what you're getting from Patrick Williams right now. But as a firm believer, Patrick Williams and what he could be is an NBA player. Maybe Patrick Williams needs to go to a team like Detroit to get the full version of himself. Maybe it's the best option for him as an NBA player. But you know what I'm saying? We shall see what happens at the trade that line. Brady says, who is your favorite young core in the NBA? The only answer is the Cleveland Cavaliers. I've mentioned it many times on this channel that I don't miss Cavs games very often because I really do love Evan Mobley. My interview with Evan Mobley back in California over the summer and when I was interviewing him I had no idea that he was about to be this good. Again, as a guy that does watch Munch College basketball I watched some film on him because if I'm going to do an interview of a person I want to be sure that I know at least a little bit but I didn't know he was going to transition to the NBA just like that. The man if you ask me should be in all defensive team conversations as a rookie and that means a lot because if I'm not mistaken that hasn't been done very often it might have been Tim Duncan as the last dude. That's how great of a player he is. And I can see him when I watch him even though he doesn't have great games back to back to back to back. I see the flashes of how good this player can be and I'm invested. Jared Allen, people looked at him as like man you gave $100 million to a dude that might be the 12th best center in the entire league. The man is on the trajectory where he's going to be an all-star this season more than likely. There is Garland might not be an all-star this season but he looks like he's going to be an all-star next season. You're after that, you're after that. They have such a nice little core and also some pieces around them that like hey if we wanted to go completely in we have draft pick, we have draft capital. We still have young players that maybe we're not necessarily given up on but some teams might value a little bit more if we want to go out and get a piece. Now I'm not saying I'm doing that at this deadline even though some people are predicting it I don't think they do that this year. They still have to figure out the Colin Sexton thing but as far as like visually which core looks the most fun to watch, it's them. And I think they get an advantage mostly because they're winning games, right? Like the Houston Rockets have a solid core for the future but they're so far away from being a playoff team while the Cavs are a young team with a young core that is in the playoffs right now. Kid said too soon take, LeBrona Center is amazing for the Lakers. I think it proves that he can play any position. Small ball has been around for a while but it's different when the biggest also the smartest and best passer on the team. I agree. The only problem is is that your second best player is also a center. So like yeah, LeBrona at Small Ball Center right now is great. It's been working in there on the win streak right now but long-term you're not gonna run Small Ball Center when they're closing out games because your second best player is Anthony Davis. You know what I'm saying? And the reason why Anthony Davis don't love playing centers is that it takes a big toll on the body. I like as good as it has been. I don't want 37 year old LeBron James playing Small Ball Center for the entire season and the playoffs. You know what I'm saying? It works right now because Anthony Davis is out and it's been looking good but I think for the sake of his body and for the team's success once playoffs come around this is not something you should look at as like yeah, we doing this every single night LeBrona playing 40 minutes at the five. It shouldn't be like that. Dominic says if Josh Giddy was American he'd be in the lead for Rookie of the Year. This is, that was very weird to me and that's why I screenshotted it. That is a take that doesn't make much sense to me because I'm again, it made me like squint my eyes because I don't, okay. Luca Donchich, Ben Simmons, Andrew Wiggins, technically Kyrie Irvin. These are non-American born players that won Rookie of the Year. Are we saying that, are we, Paul Gasol did it in 2001, 2002? I don't think it has anything to do with where he's from, my boy, especially when a lot of the MVP ladders have Franz Wagner right now. He's German. I don't think Josh Giddy not being American is the reason why he's not the Rookie of the Year. I just think that they're, Rookie's playing better than them. That's not saying he's bad because he's far from bad, but Franz Wagner has been better this season. Evan Mobley has been better this season. Scotty Barnes has been better this season. It's not the wrong of being the fourth best Rookie in a very good class. This class was amazing. You know what I'm saying? That's just based off right now. He's had the triple-double. He's the youngest player to ever get a triple-double. He had the double-double with zero points. Those are amazing feats. I mean the second one is cool. I wouldn't count it as amazing to not be able to score in the NBA game, but 11 assists and 10 rebounds is dope. But I don't understand it. That's why I screenshotted it. And I wanted people in the comment section to maybe flush out what he's thinking because we've seen so many foreign board players succeed in the NBA. That is just weird that he would say, nah, it's because he's foreign. Specifically, Australian. Ben Simmons was just Rookie of the Year for like three years in a row. Man, that joke is so tired, but I'm gonna say it every once in a while. I'll be honest with you. Jadon says, R.J. Bear progressing has been held back by the Knicks been competitive now. Ja and Zion were given the keys to be the first and second option. R.J. has flashes, but I don't need to do so much we have Randall, Kimball, Fournieres, et cetera. I understand what you're saying completely, but I think that once we look back on that draft class, even if you go back in real time, a lot of people saw it as a two-person draft and there was like a gap between Ja, Zion and R.J. Not saying that people didn't believe he could be a star because I'm still not off that train either, but the reason that Ja and Zion are so great, of course, situation does matter, but they were also like really, really talented and had things that they were already great at coming into the league and then was able to round out. A lot more is talking about Ja at this point because we ain't seen Zion in so long. They had things that they were very elitist and this has to do with the speed of Ja Moran. His vision as a rookie was really, really good. And those things were good and then he continued to flesh out the rest of his game and now he's a 40% three-point shooter. So like it was a two-player draft where people still believe in that R.J. could be great. Situations do matter, but those two prospects were just seemed like miles ahead of R.J. Be Young says, I think people underestimate the talent as young rockers seem past. This rebuild will be a pretty fast one. I don't know, man. Rebuild the NBA is typically not fast. And I don't think, I think a lot of people recognize the amount of talent or raw, I mean like literally raw talent that's on the team. With Jaelyn Green, especially right now is shooting like 50% on threes in the last X amount of games while attempting eight of them. He's been great. If you ask any draft nerd, everybody love Sengun coming out of the draft if you were a draft nerd. Josh Christopher, people love Kevin Porter Jr. People know that he's talented but has the other stuff that's going on. Christian Wood, like people understand the talent level that's on the team. It's more about the Jaelyn and how do you flesh out this much young talent to all be in the right lane for them to be successful? Now honestly, I think we're gonna talk about this in the question that we get to a little bit later which I don't wanna spoil any things but it's hard to be a team that is super young with a bunch of draft picks and a bunch of 19 and 20 year olds in a row and be like, yes, they click in a year number two and we in the playoffs again. Especially right now where it seems like a lot of teams are super well rounded. So as the part of you saying that this rebuild be pretty fast, I would be surprised if it was.  I think that's relative but if you're trying to say to me like in two years the Raptors or the Rockets are back to a playoff team, I would be hesitant to say that. Peter says, do you know anyone personally from school or where you grew up that played or had a chance to play in the NBA? I'm beyond as what you Peter, where I grew up there are a lot of great basketball players. None of them really made it out which is unfortunate. Once I moved to the suburbs, I got to play against some players that I knew had the ability to maybe go pro and one of them is in a G League right now as he's the homie Mike Smith. He plays for the Sioux Falls Sky Force. He played for the Miami, he's summer league team this year. Before Mike was one of my friends, I guarded him in eighth grade. He's a year younger than me. So he's a seventh grade player in eighth grade and I don't even know if he remembers this. I don't talk about this because it's kind of low key kind of embarrassing but I transferred to the school in eighth grade. I went from all black school from the first X amount of years in my life until I got to eighth grade where I went to school where it was me and three other black people in the whole school, right? Three other black people in the whole school and we all were on the basketball team which I mean stereotypes or whatever. But my coach, Coach Rear in this first game going against Mike Smith and his team was like, hey, I need you to guard this guy. He wasn't even pointing that mic. He's pointing at another guy that was in eighth grade. He was like six, three point guard in eighth grade. He's like, Kenny, you need to guard him. Mind you, as of right now as an adult, I am five, seven, five, eight. So imagine me in eighth grade how tall I was. Right, okay, so boom. I got to guard this six foot plus guy but the six foot plus guy wasn't even trying to hoop. He was giving it to Mike to hoop. So coaches like Kenny, or I guess nobody called me Kenny until I was a dope. He was like, control, I need you to guard that guy. I'm like back, literally. Back to back possessions. Mike put me in the basket and one, put me in foul trouble at the sit the entire second quarter. In that moment, I was like, yeah, this guy's really, really good and he has a chance to go pro. And here he is really having a chance to go pro. So it's really cool to see him go out there and hoop. Aiden says assuming Clay is back when you film this video, how do you think he's gonna impact the words, especially in the playoffs when he's got him back into NBA shape? Oh yeah, when Clay Thompson coming back the day this video is released, a lot of the questions were Clay Thompson related. And to answer your question, I don't really know, man. I wish it was as simple as me saying, yeah, Clay's coming back, so he about to be 100%. The Warriors about to do this and that, but I try to be more realistic and when you're missing basketball for 600 plus days, more likely than not, there's going to be a period of time where you're getting things back. Now, Clay Thompson is the type of dude that I feel like if he had no legs, he would still be one of the greatest shooters of all time. So I feel like that thing might be cool, but it's all the other things. He was one of the better perimeter defenders in the entire league. That might be down now that he suffered two leg injuries, you know? I like how the Warriors are trying to slow roll or try to slow roll it. We're like, once we got news that Clay Thompson might be coming back in a week or so, they were like, okay, Jordan Poo, even though you're good enough to start on us now, we're gonna have you roll to the bench because that's your role now. And let's get used to you coming off the bench again. And the first game they did that year, like 30, you know what I'm saying? Just adding a guy like Clay Thompson, even if he's 80% of himself, 70% of himself is a W-4 team that already is one of the deeper teams in the league. No more blue guys in the NBA All-Star game. Averaging nine, seven and five is not an All-Star. I'm gonna assume this is him talking about Drey Montgomery, obviously. No other guy is even in conversations averaging less than 10 points. I just, I don't think that's true. Though the All-Star game is about entertainment, it's bigger than that. You know, we're talking about players' legacies, we're talking about players' Hall of Fame candidacy, we're talking about players' contracts. So sure, is Drey Montgomery the most fun player to have in the All-Star game? No, but he has been one of the best 24 players in the NBA this season, regardless if he's only averaging eight points because you played my boy a little bit when it came to his stats. It's eight points, eight rebounds, a seven and a half assists, don't forget it. He is not just a blue guy, he's the ultimate blue guy and he's the best defensive player in the league this season. Basketball is more than just let me score a bunch of points. Drey Montgomery has the ability to win games strictly on his own court coaching, his defense, and his play-making. Legit, and that's no exaggeration, of course. He needs Steph Curry to his shots, he needs Jordan Poo to his shots once he gets the ball. Yes, it takes the whole team. But if Drey Montgomery, what he was doing was so insignificant, we'd have 10 Drey Montgomerys across the league. In reality speaking, there's one Drey Montgomery. There's one player who was sitting at 6-6 power four that could guard almost every position on the court. There's one player sitting at 6-6 at the power four position that is looked to really orchestrate the offense. There's one player at 6-6 that is leading the league and defensive player of the year as a four. Like, it is way deeper than, oh, he not scoring enough points. And what type of message would it show to the people that's coming up in the league if we have a player who is arguably the greatest defensive player of this decade? Like arguably, I'm not saying he is, but arguably the greatest defensive player of this decade and the league like, nah, you just, you don't deserve to be an All-Star. That would just tell me, why do I have to do anything on the defensive side of the ball if it doesn't matter? If I'm not gonna get rewarded for other than maybe being a defensive player of your conversations. We talk about resumes, we're talking about a lot of different things. Drey Montgomery deserves to be there, my boy. Especially, look, I made my All-Star Ballad video a couple days ago. The West of Conference is kind of me when it comes to the forward position anyway. You feel me? Nikola Jokic is overrated. He plays zero perimeter defense, has no rim protection, only gets steals. Dear Jones Jr, this is not the official DJJ because I think if I ask DJJ right now, if I DM'd him, do you think Jokic is good or one of the best players in the league? He would say yes, because he's played against him for a few seasons.  The idea that Jokic is not a plus or even an okay defender, it's like three years old, my boy. Jokic has been a good defender for the past couple of seasons and he's getting better and better. He has zero perimeter defense. I'm not expecting him to have a hundred perimeter defense. He doesn't have zero, but I'm not expecting him to be the best perimeter defensive player on the team. He is not a rim protector, but I'm telling you, I've said this on the channel before. There are two different type of centers that are good on defense. There are rim protectors and there are paint protectors. When I'm thinking rim protectors, well, I guess Rudy Golbert is both and that's why he's a guy that wants to fence play the All-Town. But like you think a traditional rim protector is a guy like Javail McGee, Hassan Waishad that's gonna get hella blocks. But a paint protector is a guy like Al Horford in his prime where he might not get a ton of blocks, but you know you're not scoring a lot of points in the paint because he is such a smart, positional defender in the paint. Jokic is a paint defender. He might not average two blocks a game ever in his career, but he has not been a minus defender in years. And that's the eye test, advanced stats, that's everything. Him being overrated is wild to me. And that just tells him you haven't watched him at all this season because the team goes with him. And if he has an even sub part night, they have no chance to win a basketball game. And that's on the offensive and the defensive side of the ball. That was fun, wasn't it? You know, you might disagree with everything I said in this video, that's completely okay. We're just humans that like the game of basketball. I'm gonna remind you to enjoy it. You could like it, but some of y'all like it, but don't enjoy it if you know what I'm saying. So enjoy basketball. Go out there and watch some games today. Clay Thompson comes back tonight. I'm excited about that one. And the Bulls are going for win number 10 in a row if I'm not mistaken against Dallas. Tune in, baby. 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In our culture in Hawaii, everything is sacred, everything, every piece of land, every grain of sand, every speck of dirt, every pohaku, every rock, every tree, every mountain, every plant, it all contains the ha, the life, breath, energy, and mana that radiates and vibrates throughout the whole environment. So everything from the terrestrial to the celestial, everything contained within, it's all sacred. But when we speak about Mauna Kea, and Mauna Kea is the tallest mountain not only in Hawaii, but when measured from the ocean bottom to the top of the mountain, it is the tallest mountain in the world. And that makes it extra special and sacred, and it also unfortunately makes it a very strong focal point for those who, I believe, don't really understand what sacred land is, and even what sacred is. The word sacred can have religious tones or religious intonations, but sacred is something that is held deep and close. And for us as a Kanaka Maoli, as a Hawaiian, the air we breathe is sacred, the land we walk is sacred. And when we look at Mauna Kea, we see Mauna Kea as the pico. So this is our pico. So from the time of conception, we are connected to our mother, yes? And we're connected through the pico, through the belly button. We view Mauna Kea as our pico. Mauna Kea was birthed from Waakea and Papahanaumoku, Father Sky, Mother Earth. And when Mauna Kea pushed up through the ocean and up, up, up into the sky, into the celestial atmosphere of the Wauakua, the playground of the gods, we connect, or it connected us to everything. And the thing, one of the things that makes Mauna Kea so extra sacred for us is that mountain is the ohe. So it is, ohe means bamboo, and it is the ohe. It collects all the water, all the rainwater, all the waters of Kani, and filters it through its aquifers and it feeds the entire island. Without Mauna Kea and her aquifers, there would be no fresh water, there would be no pristine water to ola, to give life, to the land and life to the people, life to the oceans, life to everything. So Mauna Kea plays such an important role in that respect. Now, there are already 13 telescopes on top of Mauna Kea, correct me if I'm wrong because number is on my challenge, but out of the 13, I believe only six are operating right now, so the other seven no longer operate. Okay. Those telescopes that have been sitting there for years have been leaking chemicals into the ground. There is proof and evidence of this. There is scientific evidence of this. And it already is starting to show up in the water. So one thing that we say is enough. Why do we need one more telescope? Why? Because it's bigger and it's going to be better, and it can see deeper and farther into the dark corners of space. What about looking here, yeah? What about we focus our eyes, our hearts, our deep ancestral connection to our lands that we already have, to this earth that we already have? If we don't know how to maul on this existing earth that we live on, we have no business going anywhere else. Yeah? Yeah. Mahalo. Eo. Okay? So, yeah, so, you know, this telescope, there's so many, there are many people that back the telescope. There are many. There are thousands. Surprisingly, there are thousands and thousands and thousands of native and non-native people that back the sacredness of Maumnakea. And those people are on that mountain right now. They are there standing to protect her, and they are dedicated to lay their bodies on the line in order to keep her sacred and no more untouched. Where they want to build this telescope is on the northern plateau. That northern plateau is pristine. And that is northern, makes sense, the highest area where all the main amounts of water catch and collect and filter through. This telescope is 18 stories. Eight of those stories are going to be dug deep down into Maumnakea. But before they dig, they want to cut the top of that plateau to level it out. And it's going to be the equivalent of, I think, six football fields. When you look, you ladies are up there. Yeah.  You see her point. You see her beautiful pu'u, the different hills that make up Maumnakea.  I can say this. It probably won't be the tallest mountain in the world. So, A'ole, no, we say no. We stand this time as a people, as a lahui, as a nation. This movement has awakened my people. It has awakened people from around the world. Standing rock was one incident that can never be forgotten. And it will never be forgotten. A lot of our kia'i, or protectors from Maumnakea, went to Standing Rock and stood with our relatives there. And they are now on the Mauna. So people from around the world, when you go up there, you see flags from all different nations flowing and dancing in the winds of Maumnakea. And they represent those indigenous people and those who are not indigenous to that land, but to other lands. My belief, we are all indigenous from wherever we come. Everyone is indigenous. If you are Irish, you are indigenous to Ireland. I am Hawaiian. I am also Chinese, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Irish, Indian, and Portuguese. So the main part of me is Hawaiian, is kanaka mauli. And that is where I am deeply rooted into as far as the cultural practices and beliefs and how I live my daily life and how I walk, how my thoughts form. So my thoughts, when I think about moving out into the world, especially right now, my Hawaii is foremost in my thought. My people foremost in my thought because what they are doing is sacred. Where they are is sacred. Every day from 6 a.m., we chant in or chant up the sun. And we chant that until the sun breaks off the horizon and the rays awaken the earth and all life begins to move and stir. From that moment, we go into a ceremony where many ritual chants and dances are done that celebrate the earth, the sky, the rains, the winds, the pele. The pele is the lava, the earth, the molten lava underneath that connects us all. So we are all connected around the world through the water and through the pele, the lava. So we celebrate all of this. We celebrate this interconnection. And the ceremonies that happen three times a day, every day. I think this is Law 61, 60 or 61, which means Day 60. I think it's actually Day 61 at this point that our kupuna, our elders and all the kia'i, all the protectors, have been living on the mauna. They're sleeping on the lava, they're sleeping on the pele. They have their tents, they have, you know, everything they need. They sleep in their cars, you know, whatever it takes, but they've been there. And every day, I'll say four times a day, because I count the sunrise as one, as a beginning of the ritual, we do ceremony. And we welcome people in who are visiting the mauna who want to give a particular gift or ho'u kupu to the elders that sit there.  But we never relinquished the kingdom of Hawaii. So all these ceremonies and these chants were done on the mauna way before us hundreds of years ago, hundreds. And so when I read or when I hear a lot of the lawmakers, you know, the governor, who's poor thing, he's so lost, you know, you know what I mean? He's just really, he's a lost soul. I have to have compassion, because that's what kupu aloha is. So I just, you know, hold him in kupu aloha for thing, Ige, you're so lost, I'm sorry. If he would only listen, he would find his way to his heart.  It's not special. There's mountains everywhere, there's mountains all over Hawaii. Why is it sacred? Who made it sacred? It's never been known as sacred. Oh, it has been. It has been for thousands of years. From the coming of the first kanaka to Hawaii from Tahiti and the islands around there to Hawaii, that was chanted by the kahuna that first saw, first got sight of Hawaii islands. And the volcano was erupting, and the, you know, the islands were so young then still coming out of the ocean. Hawaii, why would it not be sacred? Yeah? The island, especially Havaimoku, is still birthing. It's still growing. The act of birth is sacred, isn't it? Yeah? It's still growing and expanding and breathing. Mauna kea can erupt again. And the scientists are saying, oh yeah, well it probably will within the next, I don't know, they say at least 100 years, but maybe sooner, I'm not sure. Last time they tried to get those machinery up on the mountain earthquakes happened. I love it. Yeah, don't mess around. The land is sacred, water is sacred, and we as people who are connected to the indigenous knowledge, you know, we know these things. We live it, we breathe it, we acknowledge it through speech, through poetry, through movement in dance of all kinds, right? Through our ha, our breath in and out. We know this, it's innate within us, because we choose consciously to connect to the elements and the elements are what sustains us and that's life. Life is sacred, is it not? I? Yeah. So I want to share two things with you. The first is I want to share this oli. Oli is a vocalizing done without any instruments, it's just your voice. And the composer of this particular oli, which is entitled Keau Hawaiii, is Dr. Larry Kimura. He has been an Olalo Hawaiii kumu, Olalo Hawaiii, a Hawaiian language teacher in Hawaii for decades. When I was in high school, he was teaching, sorry Larry, wherever you are, I'm dating you. But he wrote this, composed this oli specifically for the 1970 rejuvenation of the culture and the rebirth of the Renaissance. And he wrote this as a call to awaken and to call the Lahui together. So I just want to read the translation and then I'm going to oli this for you and I need these to read. The English says, alas for you chiefs of times past, look now upon us the offspring of this current time as it flows. Let us rise up, oh multitudes, descendants of this beloved land. How I love this land, our foundation, alas for the pebbles as it is being scattered. Let rocks be set up again, be fixed for a new house foundation, for the children to rest upon, for the ancestors, the kupuna, the elders to rest upon. Arise house of ii, of mahi of palana. These are old, ancient, familial lines that are of the highest moi ranking. Arise and move forward until we win the lay of victory. And this is how it goes. A nama yama ko na pula pula ne o eho lone. Yama ika ko ena kini na mamo ka ina loha. A loha balia aina ko ka ko ka hoa. Aue ka ili ili e ka hoa pu eho yane. E pae pae hoa ia ka po haku ipa mai lake ka hoa leho. Noka ko ena koa eho lwai. E laika i ka mahi ka palana i moa loa ka leho ka lana kina. So pertinent are these words to our movement today. So pertinent. Many of the words within this particular body of poetry, of composition, are embedded in the words of the chants that we do up on the mauna during ceremony. And one of the most wonderful things that I just absolutely love, besides the fact that you're totally immersed in the culture if you go. And we encourage all supporters of that which is sacred to visit the mauna. You don't need anything.  You can stand up and learn the hulas that are included in the ceremony. And when they call those hulas, everybody stands up and dances together. So you know, I encourage you to visit. Really do.  It is a time for us to lo kahi to come together. And to come together as one. In what we call kapu aloha. So kapu aloha, kapu means sacred. It can mean that which is restricted. But most importantly, the translation for kapu is that which is sacred. So when in ancient days, the sign for what was kapu or areas that were designated kapu or ultra-sacred, no one was allowed to enter, they were across sticks with white kapa tied on both, on the tops of them. And we knew that we should not tread on that land in that area. Mauna Kea was kapu in those times. There are evi buried in there, bones of ancestors. Many families that are up there now protecting the mountain, their families, evi or bones are up there in the northern plateau on Mauna Kea. It was just pointed out, they found a shell mound. They found evi, they found bones as they built those other 13 telescopes. Did they say anything? No, awole. They didn't tell anybody. So this is why we say, no, enough is enough. Stops at 13 and actually take them all down because that's part of the agreement when they, that they made with the University of Hawaii, not with the Hawaiian Kingdom, not with the Kanaka Maui, who really actually are the inheritors of that land. No agreement was made with us, but the University of Hawaii stepped in to oversee it all and charged all these telescopes $1 a year to rent that land, $1 a year. And that is crown land that the Hawaiian people are supposed to be receiving for homesteads or when sold, they receive or supposed to be receiving the monies for that. No one has received anything. So there's been a lot of not very good things going on through the, in the back room, you know, as far as what Mauna Kea is concerned. So, you know, we were, we're done. So I want to ask you if you would please stand and participate in this hula. It's very easy. You just have to clap. So I'm going to mirror you so I go this side and do that side again. Good. Okay. And then I say again. Hiahala heku kulu. Haku is your sacred tower. Third time. Hiahala heku kulu. Hey, pohaku. Pohaku is the foundation of rocks that make up. Hiahala heku kulu. Hey, pohaku. Pohaku is a foundation of rocks that make up. Hiahala heku kulu heku. If we clap three times, then two. Two is your motion versus mountain. Okay, mauna. Then we clap again. Twice. Then hey, apu. Three times. Hiahala heku. Pohaku. The rock. The foundation. Hiahala heku. Mountain? He can after. The person. I am the color. Okay. Here we go. Hiahala heku kulu hema. Hiahala heku kulu heapu. Hiahala heku. Pohaku. That's just one of the names. So I'm Mahalo. Mahalo, all of you, each and every one of you. Mahalo for holding the space here. Loa for the creating of this very sacred space. Mahalo, such a wonderful sister to all Indigenous movements. I so appreciate that. I do also want to acknowledge this sacred Indigenous land of the Olone. And Mahalo for the space to present from another Indigenous people. And if you go home with just one thing, which is knowing that Mauna Kea is sacred, that sends energy to the Mauna, to the people there. And you have participated in the movement to say no more and to keep what is sacred sacred. So Mahalo.