Today's video is sponsored by Co-Pilot, an affordable fitness app. But more on that later. Whether you need to start your car, survive the apocalypse, rebuild civilization, the rechargeable lead acid battery is a crucial game changer. With it, you can capture and store energy for use later. And if you pair it with a generator, you're basically building a power plant. So let's see what it takes to try and recreate this technology and see if I can build my own power plant and enter the age of electricity. I often get compared to the Manga and Anime series Dr. Stone, which explores a similar concept of rebuilding the technologies of civilization. And I previously explored some of the more far-fetched ideas of trying to make electrical wire. In this video, I'm taking inspiration from two devices they built in the series, the lead acid battery and the primitive generator. In one of my earlier videos, we made the first form of the battery, the voltaic pile. This invention opened the door to the world of batteries and electricity. But these batteries were only single use. Once depleted, there was no way to recharge them. Effectively, all the energy that is spent smelting the two metals of copper and zinc is expelled when the battery is used. In 1859, the first rechargeable battery was made, using a combination of lead electrodes and sulfuric acid. The dissolved sulfate ions and the lead will produce a chemical reaction to form lead sulfate and release energy. This reaction is then reversible, allowing energy to be put back into the battery and recharging it for future use. A few years ago, I mean, it tripped out to Galena, Illinois area to collect lead. It was kind of a weird choice back then, especially with a modern understanding of lead and its toxicity. There's not really a whole lot you can do with lead. A fair amount was done with it historically, but it's not really the safest to work with. In the end, we really have only used lead for a sling shot. But besides being kind of the earliest metal that was first melted and kind of paved the way for other metals, I also knew it was gonna be really important for more modern applications, like specifically this lead acid battery. So after a few years, it's nice to finally get back to this metal and what I had in mind when I first got it. And now we can finally make a battery using this metal. So basically with a lead acid battery, there's two parts. This is a little bit difficult to follow, but there's the lead and then there's the acid. Those are the two components for a lead acid battery. So now, thanks to our adventurers a few years ago in collecting this lead and learning how to smelt it, we now have lead to work with and we can actually start putting it to use for a pretty useful application of a rechargeable battery. What we're really trying to do is maximize surface area so it's gonna increase the amount of power we're able to generate with this. So let's take some of these ingots, melt it down somewhere with good ventilation and pour out some really flat sheets and then hammer it even flatter. And then we can use these as the electrodes for our battery. Now we have our lead for our lead acid battery and that leaves, hope you're following with this, the acid. To make things even more confusing, it doesn't even actually have to be an acid. So apparently we can use sulfates and these are basically salts formed from sulfuric acid. A lot of them are naturally occurring and I've actually collected a few different ones and we can test these all out and see what's gonna give us the best result. So here we have concentrated sulfuric acid. This is sodium sulfate and we collected this in Wyoming near Independence Rock. We collected water from this lake next door that was high in sodium carbonate or soda ash that was very useful for making glass and soap but on the shore tends to be a little bit more higher concentration of sodium sulfate. And then we have calcium sulfate and this is basically drywall, plaster, the main chemical in those things. We collected these as a crystal in Arizona. So that is also an option. The big issue with probably the calcium sulfate is it's not very soluble in water so we're not gonna get too much of it to actually go into solution and it's probably gonna prevent it from being too effective. At least one of these should work so I'm gonna mix them into different solutions of water here, plug in our lead, charge up the batteries and see which one is the most effective battery. So let's test them out and see what works best. So I go through on each of these and test it and can tell. I do get some voltage but it's fairly any measured in millivolts. There might be some sort of residual charge but it's minuscule or nothing. So let's put some current into them and see how much power they can store and we can get back. We have our three different solutions of electrolytes connected with lead on each side and that should basically make the battery. We're just gonna use a DC power supply here to charge them up. There's definitely some bubbles in the sodium sulfate. There's definitely a lot more in the sulfuric acid. I can't tell if there's any in the calcium sulfate. It's just so milky. All right, it's been about 20 minutes here. Let's see if we have any charge. All right, look at that. We got almost two volts there. Not too far off, 1.7 volts. Well the same. Oh, they're pretty good results. The results for all three were surprisingly comparable.  When it comes to a battery like this the amount of power and like amperage you get is highly dependent on the surface area of the two electrodes. My first attempt I figured I'd try to maximize that by kind of zigzagging them like this for each side. But then I found out that what also can maximize the amperage is the proximity of the two layers. And you can get them super close, went through and coiled two long sheets of lead and separated them with a piece of linen so that they don't actually touch in short. And then wrapped it up and have that in here. So for both of them their voltage is about the same of about a little bit under two. But this one I was able to get an amperage around a half an amp, which is actually pretty good compared to the other batteries I made. But with this one I charged it overnight and I could actually get it up to at least briefly 12 amps. So that is really impressive for a battery like this. We're still a little bit of a magnitude away from actually making a car battery. That required a couple hundred amps. So pretty impressive with the amount of power that these guys can actually contain. So I think we're gonna go with a coil design and then we can make an array of these batteries to actually power something. I was able to make 13 of these coiled batteries depending on how I wire them I can get up to 20 some volts. Not bad for a handmade battery. The end goal of this video is all about converting physical energy into stored electrical energy. But before I get started in charging my batteries it might be best to charge my own physical batteries. I was gonna take some physical labor to run this generator. If you're like me you live a busy lifestyle where it gets challenging to stay committed to a physical training program. Life often gets in the way making it hard to keep the routine and any hiccup or doubt about the process giving easy excuse to put off working out for another day. The past four weeks I've been using co-pilot and I found it really helpful to prevent these common hangups to building a new healthy workout routine. 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Over 75% of co-pilot clients continue to work out after 100 days making them nine times more successful at sticking to their goals. If you're ready to take charge of your fitness journey click the link in the description to get your free trial with co-pilot. Now that I've put together an array of batteries to actually have a pretty powerful battery there's some real potential. But at this point I'm kind of cheating because I've been using just modern electricity with a DC power supply to charge up and kind of measure the potential of these batteries. If you exist in a world without electricity you can't really do that. That's gonna be the second part of this video is about actually powering it. So one potential is you do things like the voltaic pile. You make a chemical battery like this where the energy is kind of stored the chemical imbalance between zinc and copper all the energy you put into smelt all these different metals is then extracted through the reaction between them as they try to achieve a lower energy state. So that could be an option if you built a big enough voltaic pile you can use that to charge these lead acid batteries. But I think the more useful and interesting solution is going to be to actually build a generator that can then turn physical force into electrical stored energy. When we combine that with our batteries we're basically building a power plant. Taking some inspiration from Dr. Stone they build a very interesting one that is best compared to a homopolar generator invented by Faraday. Pretty early on in history it's basically the first form of an electric generator. It's really not that powerful and it's probably not worth trying to build. So we're not gonna dive too deep into building this all the way but I do wanna try and recreate roughly what we see in the comic and see if there's ways to improve it to make it a little bit more useful and we can kind of see what the potential of this really is. So the basic concept of it is you have a big copper disc. In that case they actually do too. And then when you spin them you also have magnets in between them. And basically the interaction of the copper and the magnets kind of creates a flow of electrons which then when you hook it up to wires you get basically electricity. So that's one way to charge up the batteries. I'm gonna try that out and we can see how well that actually works. All right so we got the pretty much completed homopolar generator as it's depicted in the anime. So as far as I can tell I believe this is about the setup they had. The magnets are a little bit different sized. I don't recall them showing the wiring of it too much but basically electricity is gonna be generated between differences in the inner part of the ring and the outer part of the ring. Ultimately the second disc is not really necessary. It's just a I think double your output by doing it twice at the same time. Should be able to test this with just one of them. The effects of the magnets on the copper disc will cause kind of a flow of electrons and there'll be some sort of difference between the inner and outer part. So then by connecting wires we're able to complete a circuit that should hopefully generate some electricity. Let's give it a crank and see if we get anything. So we got it hooked up to both of them now. So basically one goes into the other to kind of should hopefully double the amount we get. I think that's the only purpose for having two discs. I mean just the one I got seemed to get a relatively stable five millivolts which is not a lot of voltage. And that's kind of to be expected with this design. It was never really used for any practical purposes it's kind of the first form of generator that was discovered and then quickly replaced by one's a little bit more effective. In theory it does seem to work. So let's see what kind of voltage I can get with closest replication to what they do in the anime. All right, you'll learn about what I expected. I thought I'd go up to probably 30 millivolts which is about appropriate for doubling it. But overall this design is not really going to be the most effective. I'm gonna try and tweak it and add some improvements. So I made some improvements to the generator here to see if we can get a little bit better result. The other one was basically a replication of the Dr. Stone model. Had some success in getting at least something but not very much. So this has basically improved the things that's a little bit more sturdy. I got a threaded rod here. Rather than the large magnets on each side I switched it with a couple hundred small really powerful magnets. It's actually kind of a huge pain to glue all several hundred of them along the diameter of these wood rings and try to get them to actually hold there where they want to push each other away was a lot of fun. And then because there's still a little bit of a gap between them I put pieces of sheet metal, cut them to the shape of the disc here and kind of generally kind of average out magnetic. So we get a relatively consistent magnetic field all along the perimeter of here. And that's probably the biggest shortcoming of the Dr. Stone design is we have the magnets just in one section and then the rest of the rotation it's kind of losing the charge. So here we have a consistent magnetic field all the way around it. It's definitely an improvement but it's not nearly as much as I had hoped for the amount of effort of trying to build this. It's been a couple of weeks now of just tweaking and trying to get this thing to work and trying a few different models I found doing kind of more miniature ones seem to be able to get a little bit more consistent voltage out of it. I think it's gonna be the main limiting factor as far as I can tell. So I've been trying to do a few different versions of this to try and address potential shortfalls of this. And I'm really kind of drawing a blank on what exactly is not quite working out because the results I'm getting from all of these is not as high as it's supposed to be. And I don't know if the copper is too thin if it's just too flexible and I can't maintain good contact with the brushings and that's definitely an issue here. Try gluing some wood to the disc to develop a little bit more rigidity try different powers of magnets. It's very frustrating I have to say because this is a device that was never really had any practical use. So it's kind of annoying to spend a lot of time trying to get it to work for something that's not really of any value trying to get it to work as best as possible and it's still falling a lot shorter than I hoped. Unfortunately, these batteries are actually surprisingly potent. I have so many of them that I can stack the voltage between them. So after charging each one individually I should be able to connect them all together and hopefully get some kind of voltages usable. I think we're probably looking at at least one volt to really do too much light up an itty-bitty LED that most of them charged up and connected them together and see what exactly we can get out of this. The end result of all of this work and all these different generators to try and power up my battery is under a volt and that's pretty disappointing. I was hoping to at least get a few volts especially when everything is stacked we're at maybe 0.7 which means just a fraction of a volt in each of these that's being stacked to actually make anything. And the end result is less than a double A battery. This is just a first step and I kind of just wanted to explore the whole Dr. Stone generator. It's a very interesting concept just how simple it appears with a mainnet and some copper disks. That does work in theory. We are generating some amount of electricity. It's just very minuscule. Actually making a generator like this primitively and expecting it to actually have some value is pretty far-fetched. It does have in theory some potential. There's just so many things that can go wrong and I think I managed to do all of them. The lead battery though itself is actually, I would consider a pretty good success and something I'll be using again in the future hopefully with a more efficient generator sometimes soon. 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Welcome back. It's still the breakfast and plus CV Africa. Our guest is already standing by Opponabou in Kutairia, George's live Vazum from Podhakot, the River State capital. Mr. Kutairia, good morning to you. Good morning. Thank you very much. All right, all right. The Independent National Electric Commission, as we all know as today, is expected to conclude or has concluded rather the reconfiguration of the bimodal voter accreditation system, machines used for the February 25 presidential elections and national assembly elections as well. Now this is to enable them use these devices for the March 18 state elections. An official of the commission disclosed that the machines being amongst the sensitive election materials would be or will be deployed by INEC to the state offices before deployment to the local governments, wards and polling units on election day. We hear that the Nigerian Air Force are lifting these devices to the states around the country. Now on Monday it was reported that INEC had revealed that over 170,000 polling unit results from the presidential and national assembly elections held on February 25 had been uploaded to its result viewing portal IRF. The electoral body had added that the reconfiguration of beavers would be completed by Tuesday in time for the March 18 governorship and state assembly elections. So what are we to expect in the forthcoming elections? Mr. Kutairia is here to give us his expert analysis. As always, thanks again for your time. We'll put a bow in Kutairia. Do you expect anything different from what happened on February 25 on March 18?  So can anything good come out of INEC this time around? Well, considering the high blood pressure of rhetoric, we got from the INEC chairman and the president before the presidential election. And only to realize that after the elections, I mean, it was just an enemy of concrete performance. A lot of calls and hopes have been that and dream shattered. Rigging, let me say a lot of these people make is that they see rigging as a normal thing in an election. They forget that rigging is a coup covered up with niceties and complexities. It's a coup. We thought that the Divas was going to help us realize our democratic health by expounding the cancerous incident form. But that was not the case. Rather, what we saw was an illicit intercourse between INEC and the government, INEC and ATIS. That was not the case. And the product of that illicit intercourse is the emergence of all of the president-elect of the United States. I know that the Supreme Court will have done that because the fraud is seismic, the electoral fraud is seismic. And it is one election of the stencils of the metal sheets of the old indigenous people. Never in the whole history of this country have we had this back. Not even among the Mauritius, never in the history of this country have we had this back. So in the forthcoming general elections, we hope that we're not going to hear those reasonable excuses anymore. INEC was given billions of nair for the conduct of this election. Not a cover was deducted from what INEC requested for, not one from. Everywhere in Nigeria, we are groaning. Well, first with that brilliant policy, no doubt about what Babi's lamented policy of currency change. INEC was given professional treatment. That is the truth. Because the INEC chairman himself attested it after that money, the Sibyan had just released money. But that was not excuse what said. Other than connivance and complicit. In this forthcoming election, which is the government's election, I just hope and pray that INEC would have realized its purported mistakes and will go ahead to ensure that where you have just one police man, an example, one police man at the polling unit, and the police man feels overwhelmed. Now keep four, because you have the army, the civil defense, you have the police. Now keep four. If the ones close to the polling units do not have guns, the ones outside the polling units have guns. So if you say the dogs invaded that area, led by any politician, not to stand in his status. If you say the dogs invaded that area, the ones with guns will stop them. They could be accepted because they are amrovers. That's what they are, amrovers. They could be accepted. And whoever puts the gun, shoot him. He needs to take some drastic steps to cure certain drastic diseases. If you stop a gun, it's the dog he has gone. If you stop a gun, you shoot him. Then arrest the so-called leader. This thing will stop. Not when they run away with the ballot papers and so on. They come back and the people's machine comes back to say, oh, this was not happening. It will continue. What are the steps you're taking to determine the steps? What steps are you taking? They run with the ballot papers, look at the somewhere they have delivered it. I think, Father, too, you are yet to announce the result. Unless they've announced yesterday or this morning. We must end this madness and this morning. In the last presidential election, I have a conviction that it's not in the I-Net channel. I have a conviction that the only system that can be done is the I-Net Chairman and Episodes. There is no way, no way, Episodes have won the presidential election not possible. And to tell you the level of connivance, look, even if they have given it to PTOB, I would have accepted the result. Yes, I am part of it. But even if they have given it to PTOB, I would have accepted that result. It's not for the I-Net. No way, but reverse people. I'm a reverse man. Even the, uh, uh, uh, government can break out. The society in the south. It was rigged. Rigged. So they must extracts. Because the I-Net Chairman, look, I, I hope they'll come up with more stringent laws. The I-Net Chairman cannot do that. Yes, yes, you cannot monitor from your office. Then you leave that seat for somebody that can monitor from his office. Might he give me monitor from his office in the acquirement election? He monitor from his office.  Might he give me monitor and tell us how the professor was sentenced to jail? And they don't have a still person try it? It is easy. What did they do? They allowed the likes of might he give them code to go because they want to entrant fraud. That's why they allowed the likes of might he give them code to go. It's around to send the likes of might he give it to the one. What does he do? Just how many years? They say, no, go. You're too, you're too tough for us. That's why they allow people like that. So in the forthcoming, uh, and sadly, I must have this copy. Sadly, the most important election difference is the presentation. Unlike in every, in other, uh, civilized clients, where the man wants to know who is local government manager because he's closer to the grass. Or at best, he's governor. But in Nigeria, where the president is a dictator, not an autocrat. Because we have presidents that have this pension for the sovereign court of that, in subordination to the judiciary, the judiciary has no executive powers. Excuse me. It is the other hand that has the executive power. So you give it up. We've had it. I listened to, uh, well, Governor Sheo, who came on there to lie to Nigeria as a, as everybody did today. What of us has that? What of them they can do? What of Dasupi? Dasupi, the president even came out to say he's still going to detain Dasupi for security reasons. You cannot fly over Dasupi. If you're going to detain Dasupi, you apply to the courts. And tell the, tell the court, give reasons. If it's content and verify, we'll afford all our blood you. Because even the, the, the whole essence of justice is in self-security. So they'll oblige you. You don't just sit back and it's not comfortable. You can go to the W.B. with Naira Croft. They call it Naira Swap. But which is not, when, when Naira Croft is compensation of your life. What is Swap?  Now I give to you. I can't even have access to you. What do I want? Then the president is coming after. When, why did you come out to say, 200,000 should be leg a lot, should be a leg a lot. Then now the Supreme Court says, no, all to the effect, to keep quiet. Your mutes.  You cannot implement that thing. Everywhere it fails to implement. You should go ahead and implement. It's the Supreme Court has spoken. Your mutes. Your mutes.  When we have, we had of cases, we have Mr. President has disobeyed. And that's why I say, Kofi, that in this immunity clause, there should be an agenda. What is that agenda? Was a president disobeys a judge, not High Court, not cut of appeal for Supreme Court. Disobeys a judgment and order from the Supreme Court. That should be made an impeachable offense. It should be made an impeachable offense. That should be a grounds for, because you have grounds for impeachment. I hope Nigeria will understand that there's a great difference between impeachment and removal. In impeachment, it's just official enactment. What do you say impeachment procedures led into enactment before removal? So it should be a ground. Very interesting points to make. The annex chairman, Mahmoudia Kubu, has been speaking since the presidential elections and the charade, if you want to call it that. He said that Bivas will work well for the state and the governorship elections. He's given Nigerians so assurances. This was after the declaration of Pabola Ametin was a president-elect and he said that they've intensified their review. The annex has intensified the review of the technology used for the Bivas to ensure that the issues they faced, particularly with the uploading of results, will be sorted out. And he says that their commission is confident going forward that the system will work well in the governorship. I blogged for the second president. As you go, we're talking, as you discuss, you use the Bivas in the office in election. You had mock trials of the Bivas. You told Nigerians that the Bivas would be used and the Bivas are working optimally. That's what he said to me. And that was when a lot of Nigerians in the dark were out. All right. Can you hear me, please? If you can't, I'm sure probably it's the network glitch rule. I try to get back to him in a matter of seconds. I'll be prompted when he comes back on the network issue. Maybe that's what the Bivas faced on that day. But that's what the Annek Chairman, Professor Mahmoud Yacuba, said, is that they have done a review that they have intensified. They had an intensive review of the technology and they're going to ensure that the issues that they experienced, Annek experienced, during the February 25 presidential and national assembly elections will be a thing of the past. Of course, there are five things that Annek is going to do ahead of a governorship election. They have organized refresher training for ad hoc staff who took part in the last election. Refresher training, a refresher training for ad hoc staff who took part in the presidential and parliamentary elections in Nigeria. Of course, one of the complaints. I'm told we have a Puna Buon Kotari back on the line. Missing Kotari, if you can hear me, I'm sorry about that network challenge. I'm sure we can all understand it happens. Please unmute your device so that we can hear you well. And then you can please proceed with the point we're making. Okay, Puna Buon Kotari. The commissioners, as one of the things that they, one of the complaints that we heard from the political parties was that and observers, they felt that ad hoc staff of Annek were not really conversant with their processes and procedures. They were not even really conversant with the laws and guiding the elections and what they were meant to do. We can see that in some instances people took their phones to the polling booth. In some instances people raised up their ballot papers to show, you know, the press. In some instances also. Like, Mr. President? Yes, yes. And in some instances you have to go there, you know, media houses, press, the press were allowed to follow politicians into the booth and film them and to see what they were doing, which is against the law. You know, so do you think this refresher training that Annek has conducted for its ad hoc staff will change anything, especially looking at the fact that some of these ad hoc staff have been accused of intentionally looking the other way? Coffee, like I said to you, initially. We've lost it. There's the last chance for my movie to redeem his image because there is no shred of respect. It's not even a single outfit for the Annek German, right? If he doesn't know. You know, Manusou was removed. And I don't know if you heard of Manusou again. Some way, a lot of them forget that whatever you do will live with you and after you. They forget. Mamoudi Akubu was one man that I didn't expect. We're waiting for the presidential election rubbish. Coffee, we are not interested in the details. If you want me to be interested in the details, then bring the ballot box to my house. Bring the people to my house. You are paid for that job. You should like get ideas on how best to run Manusou election. You've been given every couple in this for that election. Summer, you see, even in 2019, even in 2019, they were given billions of the summer. When they went, because we already lost that 2019 election, when they went to court and they denied the use of the summer. And the courts said it was not part of the election. The problem I have in this country is that our courts give judgment and they don't deliver justice. I'm very sorry to say, most of them are corrupt. Corrupts. They deliver judgment, but they don't, they don't give you, but they don't deliver justice. It's very simple. I've said it here. Now you're going to tell me that you've learned from the past one, which is the most important election in the country. You have polluted to read that election. You say you've learned because the government should be elected. Yes, it's as important. But in Nigeria, like I said, the most important election is the presidential because our Nigerian presidents are autocrats. They're dictators. So let us get this. No problem. Once we get it, we know how to do it. Most times you can see the president dictate you to the governor, unless you have another government who says, you know who is, what is on you. You know who is on you. You say, no. So now Nigeria is satisfied. It has delivered a country to a man and a part of itself. A man, what is a man not telling us what, what happened? What were the loopholes? What were the loopholes? You did off-season elections. You did mock triad. What are you going to do? Yeah, you talked about the most annoying thing. It was silent. Okay. Please tell me to take you back to something you said earlier. We said that they should have deployed more police officers, you know, at the polling, you know. Yeah, I said all that. Yeah, the polling units and not units, not units, not units. Polling stations. Yeah, centers. Polling centers. Sorry. Yeah. It's against the law. Yes, polling centers. Sorry. Yeah, I said polling stations. But this could actually be possible, you know, at the fact that we have elections holding in just 28 states. So that would be minus, minus, minus, minus eight states, plus the FCT, where they don't have a governorship election. And I don't think they have a house of assembly. So that would mean minus nine. But even if you have a double level of police officers, it could be alleged or has been alleged that the police, and it's been seen are being part of the rigging arrangement. So that may not, may not tell you. We look at a pi-boom state where the military arrested police officers. I agree with you. I agree with you, Kofi. I completely agree. Like, like, okay, sorry. Your sister said I made that point. As I said, for example, Kofi, you are in plus TV now. Even if you're not going to say it on air, or even to police, you already know if you have to discharge certain functions, who to trust in plus TV. Kofi? Hello? Yeah, we can hear you, sir. Please go. Okay. Please tell them to delete the arrow in the openable. Okay. Okay. Sorry about that, please. Sorry about that. No, no, no. It's okay. It's okay. My dear brother, we all make mistakes. I'm not bothered about that. Okay. Now, if, like I said, you're in plus TV, you might be friendly with everybody there. They might not even know your preference. But when the chiefs are down, you know who to confide in, you know who to ask for assistance and so on. The NXM has to do so. Because you know this excuse of, I'm at the top. So you don't have to know everything. Yes, you are at the top. I don't expect you to know everything. But that's why you have the lieutenants. So if you don't get the feedback from the lieutenants, then your lieutenants are caught up. If, for example, something happened, because IBP uses excuse with people's back. That's a lie. It was orchestrated. The architects are strong. And when they asked, I said, I didn't know. And IBP said, you can imagine the person you are managing this small place. Now, I said, that is not excuse. When something happened, it has happened in the last one. That is the presentation. What steps have you taken? Like I said, Mikey Ginny did in Aquarium. What steps have you taken that will serve as a deterrent? It has happened. You mentioned the policemen. Have they been arrested and are they being prosecuted? And if they have been arrested and prosecuted, then it should be made public. It cannot be done surreptitiously. That we can do the confidence of Nigeria in the process. Because any policeman that is arrested and not prosecuted publicly, he has actually asked him at the behest of the IG. If you're writing a lie, a petition, then who are you going to send it to? You don't have to the IG. When it's a good thing, you take credit. When it's bad, you send you dissolute. It cannot work. You don't try to pick in the Okay. So you're talking about persecution. I mean, even in real estate, there are videos going around. You said the beavers are now working and so on. Do you have experts in technology? Yeah, but the question is who will arrest these policemen? I mean, saying Kutaira, even in real estate, there are videos of policemen who were taken. I know that that's what I'm saying now. Yeah, to rig elections, celebrating and making. They're everything carrying the balance paper for beavers. We saw them. I agree with you. So who is going to go after these police officers? That's a big question. And we have to go. But I like to say that was not the police officer, because I was a policeman. We should make a distinction. Let's say I'm correct. You're the policeman. Now, the policeman, was he not detained? Don't they have records before you send the policeman out? This is recorded. So what are we talking about? That is the excuse. Other than complicit and connivance. Before you send the policeman, it was recorded.  Is it not recorded? You said you go there. The administration briefing briefing. You just say, uh, that's not what you just required. Anybody goes on call. We are not just talking of a robin journal. We are not just talking of somebody who just went out to search for news. But we are talking of a situation where you have to send somebody, detail somebody. You know who you sent. So if they say, pulling A, we're pulling unit A, there is this problem. You know who to call. And in this particular case, thank God for technology. You have the video. What is happening? Why would we know what has happened to that policeman? You tell me your investigation. What are you investigating? What are you investigating? And the policeman will not mention the politician that asked him to do what he's doing. He will not be prosecuted. That's the way you stop it. That's the way you can stop this madness. Because it is a tool. Breaking is a tool. Come out of it. Nice it is and complete it. All right. We have to go. We have to go. We're out of time. But then, uh, I mean, the issues are so much, so many.  It's unfortunate. We have to go. Open up. Thank you so much for your time. Remains to be seeing what will happen on Saturday. Some have said they won't come out to vote because they feel their vote will not count. Maybe we might see. Let's see. Let's see. Record low try. All right. Thank you so much for your time. I mean, in the meantime, there is action in River State where you are. To the left of the screen. I just saw recently a young man I know who is in the APC. And they're saying the youth wing of the parties endorsing the PDP governorship candidate. And it's a bit confusing with the Labour Party as well. PDP has its own issues. I mean, it's so confusing. We'll go get back to you. So, Kili, thank you so much for your time and have a wonderful day. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Kofi. And good morning, Nigeria. All right. We'll have more discussions ahead. Of course, up next, we'll look at the latest inflation figures released by the National Bureau of Statistics and, of course, the effect on an already struggling economy. Stay with us.


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Welcome to the show, I have notes. The show where people with surprisingly full IMDB pages come together and talk about things, creative animation and how much my eyes hurt at the end of the day. I am your host, Yusuf Adiola, and joined with me is my lovely co-host. It's me, Carrie, Carrie Shorecross. Shorecross. And with us today, we have our regular special guest, Aaron Nguyen, hello. The most specialist, hello. And then our new special guest, writing supervisor, Adi Rivas. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. It's Adboy. We're gonna put applause in. Tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap. I just keep clapping. We're gonna put applause in the post, don't worry. Okay. Okay, yeah. Also, okay, note to post team, don't put applause in. Can it keep running? Like, yeah. For a few minutes. Well, I mean, yeah, it's, we'll look at the record for standing ovations and we'll just go like 10 seconds more. Yeah. Just a little bit. Amazing. I think that's perfect. Yeah, cool. Yes, yes. How was everyone's week? I'm tired. Yeah, I'm also tired. It's long and it's Tuesday. It's only Tuesday. Yeah. Jeb, Jeb said that to me earlier today when we had a video session and he's like, yeah, it's only Tuesday and I already, I just feel like I need to drink and I was like, fuck, it's Tuesday. I was so mad. Yeah. I was talking to a friend of mine on Sunday, like trying to arrange, like, go have like a distant coffee with him, you know? And he's like, yeah, yeah, what day is it today? Like Wednesday? I was like, nope, it is Sunday. And he's like, oh my God. What? Uh-oh. What happened there, buddy? He was like, oh, he was so just dry. He was like, I don't know what's going on. The number of times that it is Sunday, but I think it's Saturday, far outweigh the number of times that it's Saturday and I think it's Sunday. And I really wish it was the other way around, y'all. How about the number of times that it was Sunday and you thought it was Wednesday? I'm gonna, I don't think that was a thing that I've done. Yeah.   Not, I'm sure they're a great human being. I don't know what their weekend was like. Yeah, seriously. Oh, are they doing? Yeah, I like so many, like I can't remember where it came up, but like Sunday's just turned into pre-Monday. It was me. It was it. So there you go. That's how tired I am. It was you and you've said it and you may have even said it on this show before. It's true. I think you did. Hey, Eddie, I have this new idea, this new concept that I want to bring to the table. It's called Sunday being pre-Monday. Yeah, I think that's a great idea. Thank you. Real life sexism happening right before your eyes. Whoa. Real life forgetfulness. That's true.  Oh, I like you too. I love you too, Kari. Maybe my idea. Yeah, what is it? Is it pre-? It's Sunday. Is it pre-Wednesday? Sunday is pre-Wednesday. I think that's, it can be my idea. If we keep talking about this too long, we're gonna go down a three-day weekend rabbit hole. We've been there before too. Do it, rant about it. I live there. That's where I live. Like on the weekend, that's like, I mean, I just, it would help me a lot. Oh, okay. How's the, I jumped in there and said I was tired. How's everybody else doing? How's everybody else's weekend? Fat good, huh? Well, I feel like, I don't have to say anything because on the subject of being tired, I spent most of my weekend sleeping. Oh, nice. That's good. Like embarrassing, like it was really good, but at the same time, I feel really guilty even though I know I shouldn't. No, I don't feel guilty. I don't even want to say how much I think I slept because it was in a ridiculous amount. That's, that was my weekend. I know that like, I've definitely heard before that, like it's not true that you really have to like catch up on sleep or anything like that. I think it's at least a little. I think it's a tiny bit true. I think I feel more rested on Mondays than I expect to feel, and then it's on after that. I think it's important that we don't let science, in fact, stand in the way of how we feel. I don't know if I like where this conversation is going. That's very good in a very good direction to take all of our thoughts. You know, what's wrong? I think they're like... I've got my, never mind. Look, I like sleeping and I like breathing. I'm done. Yeah, I like, it's probably like, I 100% endowed the idea that it's not like physically true, like my body doesn't need it, but my soul needs it sometimes. Like sometimes you just need to sleep for an entire weekend. I think that that's like 100% okay. Yeah, I try to tell myself that, but it's, oh, it's hard. Yeah, I like, I dipped my toes back into Final Fantasy VII Remake this weekend. That was... Now you're gonna say I dipped my toes back into sleeping? No, I definitely didn't do that. I definitely didn't sleep a lot this weekend. No, I like, because I hadn't played it in a few weeks and I'm like on chapter 18, or right at the end of 17, onto 18. So it's like right at the end. And I just, I just want the game to be over at this point. Because it just extends there at the end. It extends. Yeah, it's like, yeah, especially for longer games, it's hard to like have that balance of like, I am enjoying this experience. I also want to do other things. Yeah. But I've come so far that I can't just stop. Yeah, well, and it's Final Fantasy VII. So I feel like I have to give it the, but I'm also kind of like this Hojo's laboratory section did not need to be endless. Yes, I don't know. Yes, I absolutely know what you mean. Yeah, so like, I just, I want to play Last of Us too. And I'm like, but I got to put in my dues with that first time. Yeah. I haven't started Final Fantasy VII yet. So I am taking Nintel notes of all this. I'm still, I'm telling myself to finish Death Stranding before I jump into Final Fantasy.  I have, I have. It hasn't happened. Aaron, if this helps. Okay. I have started doing something that has helped me a lot.  Oh no. I've been, well, I've been finding that. Less interested. Yeah. No, so I've been finding that I, so what I started doing is I started getting up way earlier. Our first meeting for the day is usually 10 o'clock. I used to wake up at 9.45. Relatable. Yeah.   And sometimes I'll work a little bit in the morning. Sometimes I'll exercise. Sometimes I'll play video games. But all of that lets me, like if I need to catch up on stuff instead of feeling like I like, I should probably like do like one more hour tonight or like I should kind of check on that. I can do it in the morning when I'm more awake anyways.  Because I don't have to play games. That would be the smart thing to do. And you're implying I'm smart enough to do that. I took a little bit. Oh my god, Erin. I totally, I totally believe you. Like that 100% makes sense to me. I just, I lack the willpower.  I wasn't going to talk about kids, but one thing I wish I could like train my brain to do is to like do fun things in the morning. Because it feels like if I wake up, because I wake up relatively early, but then it's like, I feel like I have to get started on things that need to be done. And if I could just like tell my brain like, dude, it's all right if you get up and play.  It feels like that's the thing that, yeah, like it feels like I'm doing something I shouldn't be like.  It's 7.30. I can't be listening to this right now. But if it's like 9.30 or 10 and I'm too tired, I'm like, yeah. So yeah, I'm like, I have all my energy in the morning. I feel like I should learn to do fun things in the morning, but I, my brain just won't let me. I'm like, you've got to do the things you have to do. Yeah, I definitely like, I've definitely been leaning into that. Like I'm going to be tired at night regardless. Yeah. So I might as well just go to sleep and then have more time to work. I, to be fair though, Eddie, you're right. Like I don't play games often in the morning because I usually feel like, well, if I'm up, I should like either start working and get ahead or like work out. You know, I don't know. It's hard. It's hard. It is hard. I used to be able to do the morning routine, but it is, it was only because of animals.  I thought you were about to say we've trained animals to do the morning routine. I wish.  Imagine, though. In all of this, I say, especially the stuff I'm talking about, all of this is in giant parentheses of life could be so much harder. I'm just complaining about what is apical to me. But that being said, dog training would be also very good. Eddie, you say that you say you've been watching something lately. Oh, yeah. In the least in terms of like animation and stuff, last night I watched Undone on Amazon. I don't know you guys have heard. I didn't hear about it until this weekend, but it's it is. I feel like I'm actually going to offend people because I don't want to say like it's not real anime. It's like it's rotoscoped. It's got like that skin or darkly look to it. Yeah, OK. But there are a lot of sequences that are like purely animated so I can see why they did the rotoscoping and stuff the way they did. But it's about a girl that gets into a car accident and then like a portion of her mind unlocks and she can see like a different level of reality. In a sense. And so I don't want to say too much more than that, but it's it's really well done and like really well written. And I ended up binging. It's eight episodes and they're 20 minute episodes. So I ended up binging all of it last night, basically in one sitting and Bob Odenkirk is in it, which is huge, huge A plus for me. Yeah, I definitely remember who that it is. Better call Saul. Oh, OK. Yeah, like, yeah. I hope you call Saul one day. Oh, my God, I do it. No, I highly recommend it. It is the best way I can think of to describe it is it's like a Russian doll on Netflix. I don't know if any of you guys watch that. It's it's like Russian doll on acid and animated. So, oh, so, oh, crazy, considering how crazy Russian doll is as well. When he started describing it, that my first thought was like, oh, so the shows Eddie described that Eddie is describing is it's you, hawker show. Now I'm very intrigued. And I always say car accident and start seeing it and bled their level of reality. I was like, so you skate is now part of the. Oh, is that is that what that is that what that shows about? Oh, yeah, baby. I don't know anything about you get hit and killed by the car. Yeah. That like the number of times I think I think of you, hawker show at least once a week. It was very good.  I actually OK. What's it on? You hawker show. It's on my brain. That's a very good. I'm going to cut it out and watch it. Yeah, it used to be on Crunchyroll. It used to be. I don't think I think it's on Hulu. Oh, maybe it might be on Crunchyroll still, too. I don't think so. I think it was only on Crunchyroll because when they're still partnered with Funimation, they had it on there. And then once the partnership was done, I think they removed it. You mean, yeah, I might be wrong. The good days. Yeah, I was really sad when they took it off because I watched that when I was working out at the gym. Hell yeah.  You have the blue rays. Of course, I have the you hawker show blue rays. What are we doing? I've been watching it now. I've been watching potato quality you you hawker show. And I can have the blue rays. Wait, is it is it only English dub or is it like sub? I think it's got everything. I need to check. I made I mainly have like the first like two seasons or something. I mean, I'm about to say how many seasons is it? It's like four. It's only four. Yeah. Yeah. So speaking, this is a great segue that I'm calling at this time. So the airing segue. Segway camp. I finally started watching Hunter, Hunter this weekend. Oh, I think we need to watch it, which is the same creator as a you hawker show. And I started watching it. Everybody, please forgive me because I finally found out that a dub was out on Netflix. And it's just a lot easier for me to watch a lot of episodes. So it's like 180 episodes or something like that. So I was like, I'm going to watch the dub because I can also play video games and do other things at the same time, because that's what my life is right now. It's like, if I can't do two things at once, I'm not doing it. Yeah, I feel that's really impressive. It's it's a very good show. So I would also I think you could dive in there too.  And also, if you're going to watch you hawker show, I think you should watch the dub because I do like the dub. Kuwabara is like, you're missing. I love it. I love it. I've been. Both the shows are very good. I've been bouncing back and forth between sub and dub. And every time like I hear sub Kuwabara, just normal Japanese Kuwabara, I'm always like, this this this is a huge issue. We need it. My boy. Hey, if anybody's out there and bored, can you cut together the first episode of you hawker show but use the sub of everybody else and then the dub from Kuwabara? He's like their foreign exchange student. They should just use the clips just now of you guys doing it. Yeah, cut that in. It has like some of the cheesiest dialogue ever, but I still love it. Like there's this part where like he uses like like the main character has like a spirit gun. So he like, you know, does this and shoots with it. And then at one point he learns he can do like a shotgun. And he describes it like early in the episode.  And I think this Kuwabara character is like, oh, I get it.   You say, thank you.  It's like very like was it 90s? It was early 2000s 90s. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh my God. But yeah, so I'm watching Hunter, Hunter. The like it's a 2011 version, which I guess is the better version. But I did the same. It's funny when you when you it's been a very long time since I've been something like I've been kind of on like a little anime like hiatus like rut lately.  And then I was like, I watched 10 episodes of this on Sunday and then five episodes the last two nights. So I'm probably I'm also guilty of that. Yeah, that's my anime story. Yeah. Yeah. If only all of these things were on HBO Max. Speaking of funny thing. Segway. We take we take we take organic segues very seriously. Sure. We discover that HBO Max has a whole crunchy roll collection. Is it the whole collection? I thought it was just a select. There is there are select titles. But actually, if you go into HBO Max, there's a whole section called Crunchy Roll Collection. And it was what it was. Yeah, that boutique stuff. Recently, they announced that they added some new that new titles are coming, which means more excuses to watch the best anime in the world. Oh, yeah. Yeah, the title is coming over and crazy. Yeah. We got Aldo no Zero in Yasha in Yasha in Yasha. Really? Could have made Mob Cycle 100, Promise Neverland and Madoka on August 4. Every single one of the shows are like must watches to me. I don't know. I really want to watch Madoka. It's please. It's so short. I also need to watch that. It's so good. I hear here's the thing I will say. This is I'm not going to spoil anything. I feel like I've probably heard all the spoiler because I've been told about this show so many times by so many different people. I think out of context, it doesn't make sense. So that's true. Yeah, here's what I will say to anybody when they watch Madoka. If you're going to watch it, you you have to watch the first three episodes all the way through. Oh, yes. If you don't like it, that's totally fine. But if you only watch one episode and give up on it. No, don't do that. Watch three episodes. I mean, very specific three episodes. And if by the end of the third episode, you're not hooked, that's fine. No worries. I mean, you're bad as a person, but that's fine. And then you can you can work on overcoming that. But at least you know, yes, that's my request. If you're going to watch if you're going to watch Madoka, Madoka. Do that. But I'll know zero is amazing. What is that one? I've never heard of that. Matt, that's a was that or is it more? Yeah, it's a it's it's it's it's like space slash water sci-fi. It's it's at sea for a lot of it. It's a again or but she wrote it. Oh, OK, like 99 percent sure.  I won't say what part of it I might spoil it. But sure, it's it's I thought it was very good. And again, I think it's only like 12 episodes. Yeah, read the plot summary now. Yeah, treat. Yeah, like that promised Neverland. Well, I promised Neverland is so good. Yeah, which is going to have more about that, too. It is a show. I think I've thought of this before. It's very rare that I like the editing of an animated show stands out to me, especially anime. But like the editing of that show I thought was was amazing. They do a lot of really good things with like big that like pauses in the correct time and like that kind of stuff. It's just it's very, very good. It definitely builds up the suspense in like a very satisfactory way. If that makes sense, like a story layout standpoint, like they know like when to reveal what information, when that kind of stuff. Oh, interesting. All of these shows are very good. Like, you know, it's like they are only like 12 episodes. It's just like I'm going to just lay on the couch all Saturday and watch anime. So a lot of us are working from home now, myself included. And I don't know about you, but the first couple of weeks I noticed a lot more eye strain. I wasn't sleeping as well. 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Like not because I'm like crazy busy, but like my attention span for some reason. I mean, you know, maybe a pandemic has something to do with it. My attention span like is is not there these days. Oh, Eddie, I would also say that you are crazy busy. Is this true? You just said that you weren't. But I would also say that you're pretty crazy busy. Do you want to just for like people who are not familiar? So like, do you want to talk about kind of like what your your role is? R.T. Animation? Like sure you do. Do it. Yeah. As the writing supervisor, it's my job to kind of help organize writer's rooms for any upcoming productions that we're doing in R.T. Anom. And then I also serve as a co-writer on Ruby. Do a lot of brand work with Ruby as well. Anytime we work with partners on the comic. This classic novel, which just came out today. Actually, what's it called? Before the dawn. Yeah, nice. Yeah. So, yeah, yeah, really great job with that book. We loved we love working with him. So it's very nice that it's like finally out there and it's got a lot of cool details for Shade Academy and Vacuo and and a lot of characters that we will see one day in the series proper maybe. Yeah, it's been really cool. Sorry, just a tangent really quick, like it was it's been really awesome working with him and like it's it's also been with the E.C. Meyers or with me, you're talking about me, right? With with with every one, I thought, OK, but like like that's the equivalent of like someone waving at someone behind you. And then you just pass by that. Yeah, I always just like like if you do that, just look back at them and like wave behind them and when they turn to look, you run. You just run. But like it was really cool with that book, too. I mean, even more so than the first one was like explore a new area, not in the series first and like and like get to work with him to kind of develop some of that stuff and like knowing that. Yeah, you know, I'll bet we're going to see some of that in the series. Or those those locations, at least. Yeah, sorry, I just want to tangent because I'm very excited. Audio listeners, ESA is getting really close to the camera is looking at you. Sorry, Eddie. Yeah, brand. You do a lot of like a lot of that stuff that's like, you know, is it, you know, not not so much anymore of like that. Is this the correct name of the weapon? But like, is this something that Yang would say, you know, or or. Oh, do we have that person's name? Nope. OK, well, let's figure that out. That kind of stuff. Yeah, so all that kind of stuff. And then, yeah, serving as a co-writer on Ruby volume nine right now as well. So that's a lot of writing working with the direct team on the stuff that they write. BAM, BAM, BAM, Segway, Segway, Segway. Oh, wait, no, we're not Segway yet. We could. I mean, we crossed the Segway Bridge. I mean, yeah, we've crossed the Segway Bridge. We said I already did it. I already did it. I thought, yeah, I thought you were you were lobbing it off to me. And I made a mistake. But now we're in it. You've got the ball. That's all that matters. Yeah. Only the smoothest on I have notes. Yeah. What's a note to my Segway? A new a new project that you're working on right now. Yeah. So well, we are announcing today, I guess, by the time this comes out. Ruby, the grim campaign, which is our our Ruby theme D&D show that we've been working on for the last couple of months. And we'll be premiering on August 15th for first members. Nice. I'm so excited. Yeah. Yeah. It's going to be no particular. Yeah. So we'll be talking too much about like kind of cast and kind of characters. But Carrie is a part of it. It's true. Yeah. So I think I think it's going to be a whole lot of fun. You know, we're working kind of with some home rules for for D&D to make it feel a little bit more like remnant that we've been working on in the background. So it'll it'll feel like Ruby. It'll play like Ruby. I think there will be potential for lots of cool stuff. I'm trying to think about like what I can and can't say like what's going to be in the teaser. I think we not really talk about stuff yet, but we we're definitely trying to incorporate some cool visual elements, some cool visual elements to make it stand out from some of the other D&D content. I will say this is not the announcement. I will say that I've already during a play test had to slack Eddie and say, am I being too annoying? So get ready for that energy. Yeah, there's some of that energy. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I don't want to say what I mean. It's not in the show. It was a play testing, but all I'm going to say is somebody did a roll. Did a check on something to try and do something? And then I just looked at them and said, I want to also do that. And then I rolled just a little bit higher and then said, I did it better. Yeah, that's that's energy that I'm basically how that worked. Yeah. So I guess I didn't I didn't quite say this earlier, but through context clues, I'm going to be deeming the adventure that we're going to be doing. So, yeah, the what I can say about it is that it's going to take place in Mistral because that's an area that hasn't gotten a super ton of love in the Ruby show. We don't want to do more there. Yeah, giving giving our campaign some time to explore in and around Mistral. And I'll probably leave it there for now. The goal is to do something that I'm going to be careful about how I say this. The goal will be to do something that that could exist canonically alongside the rest of the series, but obviously at a certain point it's D&D, so we're not going to lock people in. Yeah, it'll be a it'll be a fun experiment to see where we land with it. Yeah. What, Eddie, have you ever deemed before at all? I actually have never deemed before until now. So it's a yeah, that's that's that's a little adventure. For for it's worth just in the test we've done. It couldn't tell. That's good. That's good. I like you're doing a pretty good job. Yeah, I mean, I'm like, I'm less like I've played quite a bit of D&D. So like any time I'll be fuzzy on the rules, I understand like remnant and Ruby pretty well. And at the end of the day, we're telling a Ruby story. Yeah. So that makes it that that feels really comfortable. And I don't know if the play test has been a lot of fun. Yeah, I'm just I'm excited because I like I've played before, but we've never I've never played enough or like like finished out like a campaign or a story before. So now I'm required to for work. He's like, everybody has to hang out with me for better or worse. Yeah, it's like I tricked everybody on this podcast every week. He said I have to talk to me. That's how it that's how it organically came to be. Kind of tricked you. Oh, here we've got some we've got a little bit of show art here. I didn't think we were going to show this. Yeah, yeah, I forgot that we were. Yeah, so yeah, we've got some. This is a man, part of me wants to say it. No, I'm not going to say it yet. But there's a new area of Mistral that we've never been to before. So yeah. Got to keep them coming back for more. And they'll be if you listen to this on the audio version, there's what we'll be putting out a teaser the day this comes out. If you want to go watch that, too, they'll have some of the stuff in it. What were I I'm so interested in the idea of DMing, if only because it is like an interesting idea just to like build the world. But also, I think there's a lot of other scenarios that you really have to like think up of in order to kind of, I guess, put a read to the rest of the crew that you're working with. What is I'm curious what are your favorite parts of trying to of being a DM in terms of like building something and what were the hardest parts that you had to come across when you were thinking about building? So so what's interesting is that some of the play tests that we've done, I don't want to get too specific with it because it might borrow some of it for yeah, I might borrow some of it, maybe. But we did a couple of play tests, one with broadcasts, just to like test to make sure that our homebrew stuff was working right. And then we've done another play test, but it was the same scenario. But with the cast and their characters and stuff and it played out wildly different with both of them. So it was it was funny because like the the fun stuff is like getting kind of thinking of what everyone can do and like thinking up of the scenario for them to kind of like be able to play with. The hard part is when I mean, this is like I feel like most people know this when if you've deemed before that it's when everyone throws you a wrench and you're like, I did not foresee this at all. It makes planning a longer story a little bit difficult. But I've I've been playing with some ideas around how to because I really don't want to railroad anybody. I don't want to force anyone down a path. It's more of like I want to create kind of a scenario and an area and things are going to be happening at a certain time. And it just depends where the characters are when those things happen. And what is kind of like what angle they're going to be able to view that kind of stuff from and kind of whose perspectives they'll have on it. So and then I'm going to get in the way. Carry the wrench. So it means a lot of prep work for kind of like NPCs and like what who we're going to be talking to in the area as opposed to like, oh, they're going to talk to this person and then this thing is going to happen. It's more of like here's all the information that everybody has and all their goals and then just going to like throw them into the mix and see how they affect the world around them. Oh, cool. No, I never got super into D&D, but I'm very excited to watch this. My my only experience playing is when I was taking a game development class in college and it was kind of like like my professor was DMing. He's like, all right, if you'd ever played before, we're going to have a little session right now. Cute. So it was like maybe six or seven of us. And most of us were wizards and then we had one pallet in. Oh, it was really chaotic. Good team comp, good team comp. Oh, that's so funny. Oh, that also definitely sounds like your professor just want to play D&D. Yeah, and stuff like, you know, it was one of those professors where he was like it wasn't his like passion to be teaching this class, but he had to. Oh, it's so funny. He was a good professor. But yeah, you can tell like it was this was his calling. He should have taught it like a D&D class. Oh, I would have dropped out. He's been like nerds. Yeah, I think you're like introverted to get into D&D. You have to become somebody else. Yeah, I don't I don't like that. You can climb into another soul. Yeah, no, thank you, gross. I can feel that I can feel that energy area and if only because there are a few times where we've tried I've tried role playing and not necessarily in D&D capacity, but also like in a scenario without D&D in a scenario with where it's just like role playing. And in both instances, it was difficult for me to try and like understand where to navigate. I've definitely liked that person who's kind of just like how to put it. I'm more ready for single player mode as opposed to. Yeah, I get that. So D&D definitely is an interest, a more interesting. It's an it's an interesting idea, but I also think I'm not really wired that way. So yeah, I was small, like the lizard brain. Need my video games, need visuals. I just I think the best way to start out is to just like the next time you go through like the drive through McDonald's role play there like pretend to be like an eccentric billionaire. And like, oh, this fry, this will not do. And then like you can like go on like a whole spiel and then it's like that way. You can, you know, you can like try it out. See, go to Best Buy and like ask, ask about their best buy. I guess you can't go to Best Buy anymore. Go to the curbside and ask about their Chromecast, but in like a French accent. Like you're on vacation. How do you say the Chromecast? Exactly. See, you're already there. Chromecast. Really, I just billionaire at McDonald's angle, though. That's I mean, cheese, burger, a burger. You're asking me if I would like, of course I would like cheese. What do you think? Here's a hundred dollar bill. I'm really based off of like, if I ever made a lot of money, I would still eat at McDonald's. So like, I don't understand why there's not more rich people. Like in the drive through. I guess they just send somebody instead. But yeah, they have a McDonald's in their mansions. They have a McDonald's boy. McMansion. I require an Egg McMuffin at 1035 every day. Yes, I know that's past breakfast. That's the point. I want to show that I have money. I can buy that egg McMuffin past hours. I like the way you said money. Well, you're like a josh knee right now. Yeah, that's the important part. You have to have moxie, which I think is just another word for like racism. I think that's what I don't know anymore. I'm going to go edit the Urban Dictionary. Yeah, I do. I do feel like it might have something to do with like privilege. There you go. Yeah, flexing, flexing the privilege.  Yeah, that's probably a better, a better phrasing for that. Which yeah, racism also. Of course, that's kind of the history. We should fix this. But to go back to D&D, if that's OK, everyone, please. You don't want to talk about racism more, please. I'm already I've already made myself uncomfortable enough, please. Waiting for all the comments that are like that. Anna Sandler, Obama guy. Let's make it. Is that what you say? That's what people always say. Go back to that. Inevitably, inevitably, when I'm in a video, there are comments that are like that guy looks like Adam Sandler and Obama, and I'm like, I don't understand. I mean, Andy, I love you. But I mean, like I see it. I can. If you guys understand a little, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I think I honestly, I think it's it's a it's a haircut head shaped thing more than anything. Maybe true. The Adam Sandler one. I'm like, OK, maybe like the haircut head shape thing. It's the young Obama one that like I really don't understand. That might be a little bit like the hair. Skin, probably not a good way. That's what I'm saying. Probably some racism in there. Some moxies. There's like a guy right now typing that comment and then heard that it was like, back, back, back, back. Too much opposite. And it's going to be nothing. But oh, God, I probably shouldn't have said anything. It's one or the other. You can't I invited this lean into it. I have been Fat Michael Sarah for years now.  There's a there's a there's a gift from uncut gyms where he's like, I disagree and like I want to like place that into every response. Hey, there's a thumbnail idea or or somebody can clip you saying that and then we can make that again with the same tags.  I need to like go look at it and figure out how to mimic what he's doing. Yeah. Then. Which will be easy because we look like the same person. I'm not going to stand there. You can do Obama. I'm not saying it's just three eddies. I think you should. It's the same picture. I'm just saying that I can see it. I think you should do like a RuPaul drag race thing where you lip sync. So that'll be your skin. Not to talk about this for too much longer, because I feel like I've now completely hijacked the conversation. Yeah, I was somebody was talking. That's right. It wasn't you. I'm sorry. It was like I've told this to you guys in private, but never Jeff Goldblum told me I looked like Adam Sandler. I don't remember this. Yeah. Talk about meeting Jeff Goldblum. That's so much more interesting. So there was there was the what Jurassic World Evolution video game. I think it was called Jurassic World. I shouldn't know the name because I went to the press event for it or whatever. But it was I think it's OK that you forgot it. So me, me, Josh, Flanagan and Chris de Meris all went to it. And part of the thing was they had brought Jeff Goldblum out and they were letting all these different like streamers and YouTubers like interact with him and like do little bits.   I say we I wasn't on camera. I like brought them the piano. They did a bit where they were they had like one of those. Yeah, the toy pianos. And then he played the Jurassic Park theme and like sang along with it. But he he kept looking at me before we filmed. And he just was like and he kept saying my name. There's the picture. Yeah. And he like kept saying he's like, where's Eddie? All he sees Obama. But he kept being he kept being like Eddie, Eddie, Eddie, Eddie, Eddie. Who do you look like?  Like even you, Mr. Goldblum, even you. I feel like somebody somebody with that status taking interest in me is like scary to me. It's it's almost like mob boss of like, what am I going to do with you? Eddie, Eddie, Eddie. Yeah, no, he was weird. He kept saying my name. He's like, Eddie, Eddie, Eddie, just like. And I'm like, I'm not in this bit. I'm just standing to the side. I'm just bringing the piano. I'm I'm crew, please. Yeah. Oh, my God. This is very good. OK, so I completely interrupted whatever it was saying. Sorry. What are we talking about? I was I was going to go back to do. Yes. Oh, yeah, that was travel back in time. The one thing I was going to say was it is probably easier for you to play D&D if you are embodying a character that is not you because so many times I always play like the white mage, which is kind of what I normally am. And that's you define that for me, please. Is that like it's like a helping people thing? It's a helping people. This is not another racism bit. No, that's what I thought you were going. I was like, no, no, no, no, no. Someone like you. No, I just wanted to like what do you how do you define it? How do you identify as a white mage? So is it you can't you can't magically heal people? So what qualities are you talking about? This is turning it way more accusatory than I meant it. I just wanted to be not a race thing. Bro, you need to back off. Oh, no, see, no. God, what a great last episode. Your last episode. I'm so I'm normally support class. So I say white mage before I was my last campaign or this last campaign, I was in Ozabard, but it was mostly support class. So it's always like, oh, I'm healing people or oh, I'm giving.  Like that is not that is not. Oh, it's not. It was boring for me if only because there was a point. I was like, I just want to do something. And I learned I just want to kill. I just want to taste blood. And I learned that a lot of people are actually in the same boat as me where they're like, this is just boring. And then all they want to do is be like a paladin or an orc. And then they just like range.  That's how you do it. Now, if you could if you could lie down on this couch, is that do you do you feel like do you not feel like the main character in your own life? Is that is that something? Oh, yeah. Let's follow this. Please don't actually seriously answer that question. We don't think it's real. Do it. And he's the instigator. Revis do it and then charge Kerry like $75 for this hour. Wait, the way around $75. That's a that's a steal. Oh, I know it is the other way around. Kerry, we have also you're finding this discount therapist. That's true. What characters do you guys would? Do you normally play Eddie and Kerry? Since Kerry, did you mention that you played a lot of Dandy? I played I played a little bit. I this is and this is not representative necessarily of what I'm doing. I I tend to like being in like RPGs in general. I tend to like being like, like the mage, like a caster magic type person, the glass cannon, as they call them. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, watch out for me. Oh, you got close to me. Oh, shattered. Um, yeah.  Like all of his stories, like every story was like we'd fight some goblins or something. And it'd be like, this reminds me of the time that I slayed. The it was always a lie. Oh, it's your word. Gilderoy Lockhart. Yes. Yeah, basically. OK, Harry Potter reference, but we don't talk about her. Oh, no. Yeah.  Is it can we call something else now? Neri Farter. Done. Done. Got it in one. Hotter. Cary Potter. Cary Potter. There you go. I read that. Perry Hotter. Cary Hotter. No, Perry Hotter. Perry Hotter. That sounds good. Erin, I know you. I guess it may be like non-D&D, but like an RPGs or something. Like what's your what's your go to class? Oh, I don't know. I don't think of it. I don't really play that many RPGs either.  No, honestly. I do find that you tend to take the path that is more like straightforward, like you like attacking people or would you rather go the stealth route? Probably the stealth route. OK, OK, maybe a rogue or something. Is that a directing class? Yeah, you might be. You're probably as chaotic as a rogue, frankly. Ruge is actually what they. Yeah, it's Ruge. Ruge. Yeah, Ruge. Yeah, I could definitely see you playing a game like like I could see you playing Skyrim crouched 95 percent of the time. Oh, yeah. Yeah, if I could, I would play every game as a stealth game. Yeah. I mean, for a lot of games, it's not a lot of stopping you.  I've seen some Mario stealth runs.  Oh, that's not a real thing, but it should be. I'm going to make it a real thing now. Mario stealth run. That's good. Done. I'm trying to wrap my brain around it. I think I'm good on the first level like that one I can get in my head. It's every level after that that I don't think would work. Uh, at all. Yeah. Night of a little bit. I am full disclosure. I am very tired, y'all. Remember how I said I was getting up early every morning? Oh, no. How's that? So I did get up early this morning. However, I did not go to bed until one last night. So I did. I'm doing the second part of it, but not the first part of it. So that kind of like messed me up. You know what? It's a step. It's a step. It's a very sleepy. You're on your way. Step ahead of me. I was trying to make up like a like a name for that. You know how like old people always have sayings for like, oh, yeah, like one in the hands worth two. I was trying to be like, yeah, you pull the havesies. Yeah, yeah, you took the worm before it cooked. These these sound like colisms at this point. They really do. One in Rome built it in a day. Yeah. We need to we need to make a book of colisms and just like. We can make money off of it, not him. We'll be agents. He'll get a cut. Yeah, he'll get like a good cut, but then everyone else is also going to get a cut. Yeah. Colisms and Cole making up light novel titles. Yeah, that's very good. That's what I want to see. Yeah, I. One thing I was going to ask y'all, and this is like, I think it'd be, you know, because Eddie, you're here, too, is like, this is some stuff we talked about. They touched on like a little bit here and there. But, you know, it's it's always nice to get more voices in, too. It's like how how are y'all doing with creativity these days? I last couple of weeks, I've been struggling a good bit of just like. I think it's a combination of like, you know, last couple of months being the way they have been and also, you know, sitting at the same desk. All day and not getting like a chance to like, you know, I feel like a lot of like storytelling is also like people watching or like having experiences that you can then like apply to a story. And I feel like I'm not having experiences anymore. Yeah, yeah, that's real. My most exciting experience lately is going on evening walks and looking at the sunset. That sounds lovely. It is very lovely. But I'm like, wow, this is the highlight of my week is going for a walk. Like we got we got to take everything we got to take what we can get. Yeah, say we can get my my highlight has definitely been realizing that I have like a clean mask and I don't have to do laundry yet. That's been like the cool thing. I'm like, all right. See, I for a little while, I was getting a lot of enjoyment out of cooking, but lately I'm just like, I'm so tired of making food every day.  It's how I would phrase it.  How does that work? Yeah, I still meal prep just so I can like grab, you know, just be able to grab something that's already ready instead of having to like stop and make myself something all the time. But even that's getting like really annoying right now, because it before you could supplement it with. Like other stuff that you could like buy at the grocery store or buy out. And now it's like, well, I don't want to go to the store more than I have to. So it's kind of like I am now meal prepping everything. And it gets it gets really.  And I just kind of stopped eating as much just because I didn't want to make the food. Oh, yeah, I'm like, I'll just skip a meal out of the six I used to eat every day, six meals a day. Again, frustratingly, yeah, I'm sitting over here, like I mentioned McDonald's 45 minutes ago. I might go to McDonald's after this, like that's what I'm at. We talk a lot about McDonald's, this podcast. Yeah, they should give us money. We would drive so much, so much business to them. We would. On the topic of creativity, I think lately, because I've done less actual art generating as an art director and more like I've been providing more feedback and like doing fixes. I've definitely drawn a lot less during work. So now I feel more motivated or like energized to do art outside of work. So like once the day is over, I have like have a piece I'm working on. So I'm excited to get to that. So I can't really comment on creativity within the office. But I mean, as long as it's happening, taking a break from it definitely has helped in a way. Yeah, I've been I've been thinking about. We should we should start a segment where it's like, what's the creative thing you're going to do next week? I've a while ago, I dipped in a blender a little bit and I was going to get back into it since the new version came out and I haven't really messed with that. But just yeah, it's nice to do something that maybe that's something I need is like something that's just not like work.  I don't know how. So that's something I tried to do for a little while was music on the side just because it's so hard to write for myself. You know, when you're writing all day and then but still want to be able to like act on those creative impulses. So for a little bit, I was trying to just do a thing where I made like a shitty track of music every month. Like I didn't want to pressure myself too much where I was like, you got to make one a week, you know? And that kind of fell off pretty hard when like my guitar broke and so then I had to get fixed and stuff. But now that we're kind of back in this scenario where it's like, oh, I've got more time. I keep saying to myself that I need to like get music out because when I try to write at night, it just doesn't do anything. Part of my creative process is I need to move around a lot. Like I just can't stay in the same place. So like at work, you know, when we were in the office, I was in and out of the office all the time because it was like I was on a loop of like just I had this triangle of places that I would go just to stay moving and change my view. And now that is next to impossible. So I I definitely take that for granted. All right, I'm realizing I took that for granted. The fact that I could just be like, I don't like writing in this spot. I'm going to go right in another spot. And now my spots are severely diminished. Well, I feel two ways about it. I feel like that. I also wish like it's going to sound off sappy. I wish I hadn't moved around so much and that I had done more moving around in the office because now I'm like because we were on writing time, like pretty hardcore for Ruby 8 when the pandemic hit. So I was just not in the office a whole lot. And now I'm like, I really miss everybody. Yeah, like I wish I had been around a little more. I miss going to the office. Yeah, definitely an introvert. But being around people, I've realized like does make me really happy. Yeah, I miss you guys. I miss your presence, your life forces. It's a whole like I'm an introvert. So I'm not going to go to the party. But if you don't invite me, I'm going to be really sad. Yeah, so I just I just want to be around people. And maybe maybe sometimes we'll interact, but mostly I just want to like see people. We'll get there or we'll develop bubble suits and we could just and then hug each other. Yeah, I saw I saw my cousin this weekend.  We like we're like cousin soul mates, like we just get each other really well. I saw her this weekend and like we kind of talked about it before. Like we've been quarantining like super well, like just in like really limiting, especially over the last couple of weeks. And then she has two. And so I was like, OK, well, let's can I hug you? You know, like I was like, I hadn't hugged anybody that wasn't like, you know, that doesn't live with me. And I can't remember how long it was really strange. I got like I felt I got like a little emotional afterwards. That was like human contact, you know. Oh, that's a feel. I feel like this is not I don't know any medical things at all. So don't quote this. But it's like I I hope that's something that like we can start doing at some point or is like if that's like the way to get back into this, it's just like like not like increasing your bubble. Yeah, if that makes sense, like not just like, oh, anybody now. But it's like, oh, wait, OK, you're part of my group now. Yeah, like we can hang out kind of thing because we're being safe outside of that. I don't know. Listen to doctors. Don't listen to me. Yeah, let's not let the science get in the way of. Yeah. I'm just saying when I wear a mask, I'm just like. Now, I'm just kidding. It's really easy to wear a mask. You guys are so funny. The best way is just to like never let them know when you're serious. I am being serious to wear a mask. It's true. And that is probably the best way we could end.  It was nice to see everyone and I, too, miss everyone. I would like to hug. Everyone, I can feel it. I can feel it. Feel the cosmos. I'm feeling it. Oh, come on. Yeah.  I went low. Yeah, it's cool. And thank you, audience, for watching and for listening. If you haven't already, please like and subscribe to this show. I have notes so you guys can keep track when the next episode comes out. If you have notes, please comment. Tell us. Tell us what you think. Tell us what you think of Eddie and why he is much better looking than Adam Sandler. What about Obama? I think he's tied with Obama.  I mean, it's a very handsome man. And also if you're if you're doing creative things, tweet it at us and maybe we'll share it. If you do fan art, share it. Yeah, let's keep getting fan art. The creative juices. And keep an eye out for what was the campaign yet again. Ruby, the Grim campaign. The Grim campaign. And also check out Before the Dawn. New novel. New novel. But before the next dawn, I need you to check out Before the Dawn. That's that's the that's the tagline. So tonight. Update Amazon. Bye, everybody. I love you.


Everybody forced here. We are on break 2022 flawless collegiate football hobby one box number 18 left-side serial numbers Let's go ahead and do the random. Good luck everybody Three times on a random one and two three times All right names first one two and three Mike a seat down to Austin L and three times on the numbers one two and three nine Down to 23 Micah C 9 Stephen B 15 Daniel P 19 William C 11 Radeon 24 Derwood B 10 Ray a 21 James B 5 Lauren E 7 William M 3 John M 1 Michael I 4 Sean R 6 Jacob P 16 Brian H 17 Mauricio 2 William L 12 Jamie P 22 William C 8 Swaggy 25 Sean H 18 Matt S 14 Pension C 13 William C 20 and Austin L 23 Let's get those posted And we will do the break also call out the hits as we go along here. All right William, thank you for your service. Yeah, thank you Have a good time man, let's do it One break after this Okay It's gotta be at least one you think right there has to be. I don't know That was directed right at me. Come on. Hello Fin lead right now.  Yeah, that's pretty cool Sometimes I have like the great doesn't hit as much as the black does though. No the black is definitely The gold was man right for a pink briefcase All right patch up first Eric is a conma. That's a dolphin 23 out of 25 Austin L there I thought about Dominic Dolphin Almanac, let's go. There's an all-dolphin. Oh, that's what do you need sell out in seconds Yeah, because you buy all the spots Oh That's a nice one triple patch Joe burrow to a tug of I loa and Justin Herbert Seven of 25 Lauren E with a seven spot. It's crazy. How good that 2020 quarterback class looks right now. Yeah They're ballin. It's crazy Got a patch card Derek Stingley jr. 20 of 25 William C with a 20 spot Rookie autumn de Marvin leal six out of 20 for Sean R with a six spot Very nice a rookie bullpatch auto Jalen Weidemeier six out of 15 six spot Sean R Capital one what citrus bull or something? Not good with the bull logo sometimes this is obvious for me Six spot there we go Jalen Weidemeier Horizontal RPA Kennedy Brooks seven out of 15 seven spot Lauren E Team logo signatures Derek Stingley jr. Two of 10 Mauricio C with the two spots Marlins all the heck Very nice a Ruby color match dual auto Jameson Williams and John Mets you the third 18 of 2018 spot is Sean H Nice dual auto What's up Carl all right last three hits here diamond guarantee Got rookie diamond gem Kyle Hamilton two of 25 two spot Mauricio C A rookie diamond gem 14 of 25 Sam Howell Matt S with a 14 spot lastly Kenny pick it 10 of 25 three color patch horizontal RPA The 10 spot is Derward B Congrats Derward Kenny two gloves that is very nice very very nice Thanks again everybody that'll do it for the break got dual case coming up


Hi everyone, I'm Joe for jaspeyscasebreaks.com coming at you with a 2019-2020 Panini Mosaic Pack Break, number 64, a sell-opack break with a chance to win 10 spots in Noir. If you're looking for the video, let's break the sell because we have to do one more sell-opack and then the break, if you're looking for the vid, they're all in separate videos. So that normal will be coming up in a later video. Big thanks to all of these folks for getting into it. And there are the teams right there. So we always do the break first. Let's roll it, let's randomize it. Yeah, we're not trying to attack you. Ram.org, we're fine, they're getting nervous. Five and a two, seven times. One, two, three, four, five, six, and seven, then final time. After seven, we've got Melanie down to Matthew. Five and a two, seven times. Two and seven, then final time. After seven, we've got the Dallas Mavericks all the way down to the New York Knicks. All right, so I'm not gonna read off all these names, just a little pack break, but there's the first half of the list right there, Fred, Pelicans, who knows, maybe. All right, and a sell-opack break, that'd be wild. Where's the Grizzlies? Richard, Grizz, you never know. This is why we play the game. You play to win the game. All right, let's print and rip and see who wins those different dice roll on a new list for the potential noir winners. Good luck, we got here. Ooh, a nice Rui Hachimura silver. All right, okay. Interesting, who had the wizards? Tony had the wizards, nice. All right, okay. Plenty of upside for Hachimura. All right, Pink Camo, I'm surprised he's here. Nice, LeBron James Pink Camo is solid. That'll go to Matthew Shearer. Where's Covington and Carl Malone. Not bad for a single sell-opack. Nice. All right, now let's see who wins those noir spots. We got Scott down to Tony. Let's roll it, let's randomize it 12 times. Top 10 after 12. Good luck, everybody. And 12th and final time. After 12 times, big thanks to all of these folks for getting into it and congrats to Kevin, Fred Fred, Richard, Ryan H, Jeremy, Ryan H, Ryan H, Quinton and Matthew Shearer. You are in noir 10. We're just coming up a little bit later. Joe for jaskiescasebreaks.com. I'll see you next time for that one. Bye bye.


What is a watershed? Well, I'd probably say watershed is a shed full of water, but I think it's something a little bit different. I think it's something that's in the ground. I have no idea what a watershed is. If I was to guess, I would guess it's going to be an area near the river where the water can overflow. A watershed is all the water in an area. Or like the water source. It's like the runoff from maybe, I don't know if it's from populated places. Is it from, I don't know. I would say a watershed is a place where trees grow and cover up water bodies or a system where water bodies are preserved from pollution. Yeah. A watershed is an area of land that water flows across, through, or under on its way to a stream, river, lake, bay, or other body of water. The word watershed is sometimes used interchangeably with drainage basin or catchment. Where do we find watersheds? We find them everywhere. All land area is part of a watershed. This means that no matter where you live, you are living in a watershed. How does a watershed work?  Imagine that your hands are the land with a cloud raining water down on them. No matter where they land, the rain drops will flow down to the common low point where your hands meet. In this example, your fingertips are the tops of the hills where a river's headwaters begin. The middle of your hands are the valleys where the river flows. The creases in your hands are the tributary streams that come together to form the river. The mouth of the river is where the water leaves your wrist and flows into a larger river and eventually the ocean. Why should a healthy watershed matter to you? Your everyday actions can cumulatively affect the quality of water that flows from your land. Everything that happens upstream affects everything downstream. The health of your watershed and your neighbor's watershed can directly affect the water quality and your personal health. Pollution in your water source can find its way to your body through food, drinking water, air, and even soil. A healthy watershed acts as a catchment where rainfall is intercepted and slowed by native, diverse vegetation that reduces velocity, filters and traps sediment and other nutrients, has healthy soils that allow infiltration and groundwater recharge, and that act as a sponge during water to later slowly release back into streams, lakes, wetlands, and bays. Healthy watersheds provide the following important ecosystem functions. Reduce erosion and stabilize stream banks, trap sediment, store water, improve floodwater retention, improve groundwater recharge, and sustain stream base flow. Healthy functioning watersheds provide many important ecological benefits including better water quality, water quantity, forage, aquatic and wildlife habitat, recreational value, and aesthetic beauty. How can you help protect watersheds? The fewer pollutants on our landscape, the cleaner your watershed and water will be. We can do a lot to make our watersheds healthier. For example, properly dispose of antifreeze, paints, and other hazardous household materials, pick up trash and pet waste that will otherwise end up in our storm drains and pollute waterways, conserve water by fixing leaky faucets and septic tanks and by reducing your landscape irrigation, plant native trees, shrubs, and grasses to prevent erosion and reduce the need for fertilizers and pesticides, tell two friends about watersheds and the link between our actions and water quality.