All right, I think we're on now for our Zoom meeting. Hello everybody, if you are joining us, thank you for coming to our webinar to celebrate Volunteer Week. We might just give everybody another minute or two to join in to how these things work. I don't always get on straight away, but while you're waiting, there is a poll going in Facebook event. If you have any questions, add them there or vote on the ones that you want the answers to and we'll get to some of those at the end of the session. So how did this spring about our last event was on International Guide Dog Day? It's so much fun. We thought we might bring the puppies back again and take a close look at some of the amazing work that the volunteers we work with here at Guide Dogs do. It's in celebration of Volunteer Week, which is this week. So Guide Dogs Australia relies on thousands of volunteers across the country to help. Oh, hello. Do you want to come up and say hello? Come on, Zeena up. I'm going to introduce you to Zeena in just a moment, but she's getting a bit excited because I've got some treats up here. So we've worked with over 2,200 volunteers across Australia and a whole bunch of different roles. We've got temporary carers. We've got puppy raisers, therapy dog volunteers. So a big thank you to everyone that has volunteered with Guide Dogs over these past 12 months. We really couldn't do this important work without you. Now, if you did make our first meeting, you're probably going to recognize my little friend here, Zeena. He's very excited to be back on the television. I'm going to put a treat up here so she might look at us. Zeena's a Guide Dog in training, although you probably wouldn't know from the way she's carrying on right now. She's been living with me here throughout this COVID period, keeping me company. And in my job as a Guide Dog Mobility Instructor, I've been teaching her what she needs to get to the next level to go out there and start working as a Guide Dog with somebody with blinds or has low vision. So I've been teaching her a lot of skills, been getting out and doing walks every day. There she is. And having a lot of fun. And she's actually a really good Guide Dog. She's going to be finished her training quite soon. And she's very good. And she's going to be going out to a handler in the not too distant future. All right, Zeena wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for the volunteer puppy raising family who looked after her from about eight weeks of age.  You've done a fantastic job with her. She's a very good girl. Right, we're about to get started. So I'm going to introduce you to all of the panelists with us today. Joining me in leading today's session, we've got our friend Alex Hecker. She's a Guide Dogs Victoria ambassador. She's there with her beautiful dog, Vinnie. Hello, Alex. In New South Wales, we've got the lovely Leah and the star of the last call, little puppy Zoom. We've named this puppy Zoom after this platform that we've been spending so much time on. So we're going to check in for an update on Zoom in just a little minute, don't worry. We've also got therapy dogs coordinator, Sam O'Keefe. She's joining us from New South Wales along with a therapy dog named Checkers. And Checkers is very cute. In Queensland, we have Fiona joining us from the puppy nursery. That's right, we are going to take you to a puppy nursery. So there's a good chance there's going to be plenty of puppies for you to see there as well. And finally in Victoria, we're going to be joined by puppy raiser Fiona, her sons and their guide dog Puppy Elliot. So we're going to hear from all the panelists and their dogs over the next half hour or so. But first, I think what I want to do is go to the absolute star of the show. Are you going to say hello to people who just joined us? The star of the show, Puppy, Zoom. And she's there with Leah. Leah, she is, he is so cute. We got a lot of positive feedback about Zoom last time. Looks like he's grown a little bit. What's been going on? Hi, Ryan. He has grown now. So he's six weeks old now. Yeah, so he's probably weighing about six kilos as well, which is a little bit larger than our normal puppies at this age. He's getting his little personality now. He's very cuddly still, as you can see. And he's ready to embrace the world, getting out there, coming outside now. So he's spending a little bit more time outside. And we've also matched him up with a couple of other puppies from another litter. So he's getting that social interaction that he needs at this age as well. What's he been up to the last couple of weeks? Just say he's been out mingling with other puppies a bit more now. What sort of stage is he in in his development? Yeah, so because he was an only puppy, we introduced a couple of other puppies to his mom, Quill. So she's been looking after him and the other puppies, raising them as her own. So that's been really good for him and for Quill. So he's now coming outside, spending more time outside. He's on solid foods now and he's nearly weaned as well. So Quill is his mom's weaning him. Yeah, so lots of big steps. So next week, he'll get his vaccinations and then he'll head back to the Guide Dog Centre at New South Wales. And after that, about eight weeks, he'll go off to his puppy raising family. Leah, you mentioned there that he's an only puppy. We noticed last time that dog is so smooshy and chubby. Is that because he's able to get all the good milk from mom? Yes, he did. But like I said, Quill had two other puppies to feed too. So, but they're just as big and smooshy as well. So yes, some good milk for them. So yeah, definitely likes a cuddle. Alex. Yes, thanks Leah and hi everyone. So I'm here with Linnie down in Victoria today. And Leah, he's just looking so smooshy and he's definitely been in a good paddock there. That's for sure. So for anyone who has just joined, we are celebrating Volunteer Week and taking a closer look at some of the fantastic work that all of our volunteers do here at Guide Dogs. So firstly, I think you'd probably all want to meet the beautiful Linnie here. So Linnie is a two and a half year old yellow Labrador. She's actually a broody in the Guide Dogs breeding program. So I raised Linnie from when she was eight weeks old and I was a volunteer puppy raiser with her for 12 months. We said our goodbyes to Linnie. She passed her guide dog assessment and then she became a broody from there. So she graduated last year in the Guide Dogs and she's been with us ever since. So we're hopefully expecting her first litter of little guide dog puppies like the pups you see here. Hopefully a little bit later this year. And yeah, it's so much fun having these guys around. So speaking of puppy raising, I mentioned I was a volunteer puppy raiser and it does take a lot of work. But before we do get to another puppy raiser, we're going to jump over to Fiona at the nursery in Queensland. So thanks for being here, Fiona. Can you just tell us a little bit more about the adorable puppies that you have there with you? Hello. Yes, so I'm here with the Y-letter. So there are five Labradors in this litter and here with me is Yara, looking very cute as always. We've got her two brothers and two sisters also around things, it's silly chewing stuff, but hopefully they'll get on camera in a little bit. So these guys are nine weeks old. So they'll be heading off into their puppy raising home to next week. And then they'll be with the volunteers. I'll tell her about 14 to 16 months of age and then they'll return to us for formal guide dog training. So when they're in the puppy raising home, the puppy raiser has the responsibility to help try and develop these dogs into all these puppies into well-rounded dogs. So they're well-socialized, confident, and don't get distracted too easily. So it's an around-the-clock job, but we are very grateful for all of the hard work that our puppy raisers do do. Yeah, fantastic. It's a very rewarding job. But there's also a little bit involved before the puppies do go to their new homes. I think the pups are going to their new homes next week. But prior to that, there are volunteers involved in the process from when the pups are born up until they go to their home. So can you tell us a little bit about that process there? Yeah, yeah, definitely. So in Queensland, we're very lucky to have a dedicated team of volunteers who come into the breeding centre and help socialize the puppies while they're in here. So our socializing starts from the week that the pups are born and will pretty much continue for the rest of their life. But while they're in here, the volunteers help us, like, introducing them to the bar, the car, handling, tactile desensitization, equipment desensitization, and pretty much just exposing the pups to as many environments and sights and sounds and smells to get ready for the big, wide world. Sorry, the puppies are being very cheeky and trying to chew the food. And yeah, obviously all of that does help in introducing them so much earlier to all of those different distractions. I know in my journey with Linnie, it certainly definitely showed along the way in her 12 months that I had her as a puppy raiser. It definitely goes a long way when they have been exposed so early. So yeah, they're looking so cute. You've got the best job in the world there, Fiona. So thank you. Now, I'm going to jump down to Victoria, a little bit cooler down here in our state. So the next one we're going to be interviewing is puppy raiser Fiona. And she's got a couple of other guests there. So we've got Tom, Nick and Will and the beautiful Elliot. So Fiona, thanks for being here and boys as well. So firstly, can you tell us a little bit about your puppy raising experience, Fiona? So it's a 12 month commitment. Tell us a little bit more. Hi, Alex. Yes, that's right. We've had Elliot since he was about nine weeks old, which was July last year. And he has been an absolute joy to have him a family. He was very well behaved even from an early age and just really, we had very few sleepless nights. And took to socializing very easily. He toilet trained quite quickly and he's been just beautiful. He's got a lot of energy and a little bit of cheekiness, but he's kept us all very entertained. He's absolutely beautiful. And it just goes to show that everybody's puppy raising experiences are different because I know with Linnie the first few weeks with her, she was an absolute terror. She was so naughty. So it sounds like you're lucky there. No, we did get lucky. Yeah. Yeah, it's all really rewarding. And what made you become a puppy raiser? What made you decide to do that? Well, we've been thinking about getting a dog for a long time and we were getting a lot of pressure from the kids to get a dog, but we just weren't sure that it was right for us. And my sister-in-laws had a long association with Guide Dogs Victoria and she had recently got a pup. So we actually got quite a lot of insight from her on the Guide Dogs program and what was expected, the commitment and the requirements. Like, we were worried that we didn't have a big enough backyard. That was one of our concerns, but we just have a small courtyard and that is absolutely more than enough.  He's, as you can see, the boys love him. They've taught him how to play hide-and-seek and they chase around the kitchen bench and seeing the affection and the love that he gives the boys and they give him. It's just precious and lovely. Absolutely. And there's so many highlights to being a puppy raiser.  What's your favourite part as well? Probably playing with them. Yeah, he's lovely. He's just such a joy. He's got such energy and he just, I think he just makes you a better person as well. The other benefit, I think, that is all the friends that we've made through Guide Dogs. We've received so much support, not just from Guide Dogs staff and the puppy advisors, but other puppy raisers and volunteers. So there's a terrific Facebook group that are very helpful. We also go to a weekly, well, when it's not COVID times, we go to a weekly enrichment group at a local park, which is so good for the dogs, socialising, and for us as well, we get to meet other puppy raisers and share our stories and it's just been so much fun. Yeah, I have actually been to one of those enrichment programs myself when I was raising Linnie and it's actually such a sight, seeing 10 Labradors running around together. It's definitely a highlight in the whole experience. Thank you so much for being with us, guys. Thank you very much. He's been an absolute star today. Thank you very much. So it's definitely puppy raising is one of the best jobs in the world, in my opinion. So we'll tell everyone a little bit more. Anyone who is interested in becoming a puppy raiser, we do have a little bit more information on that a little bit later in our meeting today, but for now we're going to throw it back over to Riot. Thank you very much, Alex, and thank you Fiona. Fiona, I think you need to wear a white shirt next time. You can't see your black dog there. Blends in nicely. Very funny. Look, if you've just joined us today, we are celebrating Volunteer Week and taking a closer look at some of the fantastic volunteers that we work with here at Guide Dogs. They do a range of different jobs all across the country. So there's more to volunteering than just dogs and puppies. We have a range of other programs and therapy dogs is one of them. So I'm very excited about an ex-guest. Now, Sam is a colleague of mine. Sam, I wasn't talking about you, but I am excited to be touching base with you, but I'm super excited to see your little friend, Checkers. Now, Checkers came into guide dog training with me as part of one of the groups I was training some time ago and it quickly became apparent that he perhaps wasn't going to make it as a guide dog, but he had other ideas for a career. Sam, what is Checkers up to now? Well, at the moment, he's fallen fast asleep. He's a little bit too tired to be a guide dog. So, yeah, look, Checkers is currently a canine court companion therapy dog. So he attends family court with his wonderful handler, Gabby, who is one of our volunteers. And they go into the family court and help make court feel a little bit less stressful and a little bit less frightening for people who are attending. So, Sam, what exactly does Checkers do when he goes into court with a volunteer? So, Checkers basically is just being Checkers. So, Checkers is usually, he's pretty chilled at the moment and he is a chilled dog, but when he's up and awake, he's quite vivacious and he likes to make himself over to people to get pats, he'll sit at people's feet and just let them pat him and kind of calm themselves down if they need a little bit of stress reduction. And this includes all of our handlers and all of our volunteers who attend the courts all over New South Wales. They all do the same task. Yeah, that's great. I think everyone watching can agree having a little Checkers nearby for a cuddle would make everything feel a lot better. Now, Sam, what are some of the other jobs and places that therapy dogs go to to do their work other than the canine court companion program? Right, right. So, of course, we've heard about our puppy raises and not all dogs go on into the guide dog program.   So, it might be that they don't have enough lead out. You know, they might be too excited to see other dogs, things like that, but they're still, you know, very trustworthy, beautiful, temperamental dogs just like Checkers. So, Sam, I was trying to get my microphone back on. I'm having some technical dog issues here. Thanks very much for that special insight there into a bit of our therapy dog program. So, if you've just joined us, we're here to celebrate Volunteer Week and celebrate our special guide dogs, volunteers who pay such an essential role in helping us support the community. So, the official part of today is just about over. So, I want to thank you for coming to join us, but we have had a few questions come through in the chat and also through Facebook as well. Alex, I'm going to throw this one to you. We've hope on come through in the chat. I'm going to relate this to a question I want to ask you that came through Facebook. Do the dogs have a grieving period when they leave their puppy raises? I'm going to answer that and say, no, they don't. As much as we would like to think that they think we're as special as we think they are, they chortle off. They're so adaptable. They go into their new homes. Well, somebody else is feeding me. I love you. You sort of get forgotten pretty quickly, which is a bit of a sad thing to think about, but it's true. So, we're the ones that sort of have the hard time, but Alex, and I'm sure you get asked this a lot, how do you cope with having to give the puppy back once you've raised it? Yeah, absolutely. And I totally agree with you. Linnie being a broody sometimes has to go into the Vic headquarters.  So, it's definitely more our emotions rather than the dogs. But if I did have a dollar for every time someone said, I can't give the dog back, I'd be a millionaire because it's a really common question I come across, particularly in my puppy raising experience. So, it is hard. It's a sad moment in the journey, but it is a very small momentary period of time where you do feel sad. And I had to hand Linnie back. I think my partner was probably crying a little bit more than me.  But no, it's a very sad time. However, it's something that you do prepare yourself for the entire 12 months. You know what's coming. You do get attached to the dog, but then it's all worth it when you see what the dog does in terms of changing someone's life and giving them back their independence. I don't think anything can beat that. So, it makes it all worthwhile. Thanks, Alex. And another, you could answer this one as well if you like. Somebody said, what is a broody? You've mentioned that term a couple of times today. What is your dog's job? Yeah, sure. So, a broody is a female dog who is in the guide dog's breeding program. So, Linnie passed her guide dog assessment. So, she was on track to become a guide dog, but then the team at guide dogs actually really liked the traits that she demonstrated and wanted to carry that down the line. So, it's a term for a female breeding dog in their breeding program, and we just shorten it to broody. It sounds a bit cuter. And I know there must be a special dog. You've got Alex, as I know we pick the absolute best of the best dogs to come into our breeding program. So, you can see that. She's just gorgeous. We've also had somebody ask, how can you support if you don't have the time to be a puppy raiser? I think one of the great ways to do is become a puppy sponsor. It does take over two years and cost more than $50,000 to raise, train and transform the faithful little pups into the brilliant guide dogs and therapy dogs that we've met today. And as a puppy sponsor, you get to follow along the journey of your chosen puppy as it becomes a guide dog or a therapy dog. Now, we'd like to see Zoom again. I know everybody's here to see Zoom and if you have come late, don't worry, you're not gonna miss out. So I might throw it up to Leah to answer a question for me while you're there, Leah. Somebody has asked about how do you become a temporary puppy carer? What is the difference between the raiser and a temporary carer? Over to Leah and Zoom. Sure, hello. Yeah, so a temp carer is somebody who looks after our dogs just for a short amount of time. So they are puppy raising family needs to have a holiday. They might need to go away for a couple of weeks or a weekend. The temp carers look after the dog for that period of time. So they may previously been a puppy raising family who don't want to have a dog for a whole year. That's sort of the whole length of the puppy raising time. So then they might just take on that dog at a small, yeah, couple of weeks that they're needed. Yeah, so people can, or they can apply to be a temp carer if they just wanted to just temp their dogs. Now, while I've got you, Leah, what are the chances of little Zoom coming on to make it as a guide dog? Well, I think he's got a good chance. Is anybody really?  He is affectionate and he's outgoing. So I think he's got a good chance. He's sleeping now. He's sleeping.  I have had another question about how you become a puppy raise. It's a great question. I'll give you those answers now. So if you are interested in volunteering, you can go to the Guide Dogs Australia website. That's your best source of information. I do know that the ACT in Canberra and South Australia, they need volunteer puppy raises right now. So if you're in those areas, get in touch with the team via the website. In Queensland, there's currently a waiting list because we've had a lot of people being excited and interested in becoming puppy raises, but do register your interests there with them. And finally, in Victoria and New South Wales, we're actually not taking new applications right now for puppy raises because we've been overwhelmed at the moment, which is fantastic because we always need more raises. But do follow us on our Facebook account. We do regularly update when we are looking for those raises again. Guys, I might just throw back up to Fiona in Queensland there because people wanted to have a look at the puppy nursery there. Who have you got in your hands there now? Here I have Yuri. And how old's Yuri? Nine weeks old. So I've been rotating the puppies that I've been holding, but I must say Yara is the one that keeps coming back. I'll just try and turn my camera so you can see the others. I don't know if you can hear them barking at one another. Can you see that? Yes, we can. Yeah. Oh, that's great. Thank you very much. And just one last question come through. It's about how has COVID affected how we've been training our dogs. I did mention at the start of today's session, I've had Zeena here living at home with me. So our dogs have been out in the community and we've been managing to keep them, keep them in training throughout this period, just a little bit different, and obviously avoiding crowds and trains and all the rest at this time. But we've just managed to keep them ticking along. So they're going to be ready to go soon enough. Well, I think that's just about going to do it for today. Thank you so much for coming to join us. I hope you've had a good time meeting some of our puppies and learning about some of the work that our important volunteers do. I hope you all have a wonderful day. Thanks for joining us and we hope to catch you at the next one. Bye-bye.


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Pick up a pound tomorrow. There's a lot of interest in the newspaper at the Great Gilder Sleeve's house this morning. The front page is pretty well taken up with the coming elections. But that isn't what interests our water commissioner. Marjorie, may I see the society page? The society page, junkie? Yes, my dear. We have him, the society page. Mr. Gilder Sleeve, wouldn't you rather have this page? There's an editorial about Mr. Bullard for Mayor. No, thanks Bronco. Just the society page. What's he want with a society page? Here you are, Anki. Thank you, my dear. What does a grown man want with a society page? All right, Leroy. Don't move. Now Leroy breakfast is over. Gosh, I'm still hungry. Leroy, what do you want with the society page? There's syrup on it. I'll eat it. Thank you. A picture of Judge Hooker. Say, there is some syrup here, right on his goatee. The old goaches were a bit. Let me see the judge's picture, Anki. I want to see that, too. What's the judge doing on the society page, Mr. Gilder Sleeve? Well, the sons of Summerfield had their annual membership meeting last night. The judge is one of the founding povics. You mean the judge is a pilgrim? I know he's pretty old, but... No, Leroy. Judge Hooker is one of the club's founders. Where'd he find that cap? There's nothing funny about that, Leroy. All the sons of Summerfield wear coon skin caps. What's that hanging down over his ear, Mr. Gilder Sleeve? That's the raccoon's tail. Doesn't he look wonderful? Just like Daniel Boone. Well, that tail's flying. It looks more like a hot rod. I know why you wanted the society page, Anki. Are the sons of Summerfield taking you in this year? Well, I haven't read the article yet, but I'm positive they'll ask me in this year. They only take in the most important men in town, Bronco. Well, that certainly should include Mr. Gilder Sleeve. Yeah? Why are you more important this year than you were last year, Anki? Uh, you well. Yeah. I thought Mr. Bullard always blackballed you. No, he doesn't dare this year. Bullard's running for mayor and he's after votes. Yeah, let's see. Say, my name isn't here. Maybe you don't need votes that bad. In fact, there aren't any names. It says the chosen few will be notified. When, Anki? Well, it says... last night. Poor Anki. He always wanted to be a son of Summerfield. Too bad, Mr. Gilder Sleeve. Yeah. If you had one of those coon skin caps, I could use it to cover my pet turtle at night. Lee Roy, I don't think you should kid Mr. Gilder Sleeve about those caps. Who's kiddin'? Lee Roy, it just happens to be the greatest honor a man can have in Summerfield to be asked to wear one of those raccoon caps. Oh, I don't know of such an honor. All the important men in town are members. Of course, my best friends belong. PV, Judge Hooker, and, uh, no goat. Uncle Mort, you shouldn't say that about the judge. Well, and take Rumson Bullard. What's he but a stuffed shirt? If you don't want me in it, I don't care. I wouldn't join those moss bags if they asked me on vented knees. Oh, boy, uncle. I can be hard to get to. Lee Roy. Oh, hello. Oh, did you see the morning paper? Yes, we saw it, Judge. Since my picture appeared, there's been a phenomenal rise in circulation. Who's circulation, Judge? The papers are yours. The papers, Gilder. They're printing extra copies. He offered. Who wants them? I do. He doesn't extra copies myself. Well, you can have my paper, too. I don't want it. You should keep it as a memento, Gilder.  I am? Last night, Rumson Bullard and I pushed your name through. You did, Horace?  Oh, brother. It was too late to notify you last night. But now, by virtue of the authority vested in me, I commend you, Throck Morton, P. Gilder Sleeve, to appear at our meeting for new members tonight. Do you accept? Do I? Uh-uh. What is it, Leroy? First school.  Invite George is getting more exclusive all the time. I think I'll drop in the drug store and let P.V. congratulate me. Oh, Mr. Gilder Sleeve. What can I do for you this morning? You can congratulate me, P.V. At long last, I am joining the Sons of Summerfield. You've seen the judge, have you? Well, he came to see me. And, P.V., I can't wait for that meeting tonight. Well, I can't wait either. I always enjoy the horseplay before those initiations. Yes, I imagine. Horseplay? Mm-hmm. Is the horseplay fun, P.V.? Well, it is for the members. Uh, P.V., the judge didn't say anything about horseplay. Well, he wouldn't. But you're a pretty husky fellow, well-padded, sound of wind and limb. Yes, but P.V., what do they do? Not that I'm concerned about it. Well, that's all secret shenanigans. I don't know what Mr. Bullard has planned. Bullard? What's he got to do with it? He doesn't like me. No, I don't know. He seemed very anxious to have you join. He did? Then he asked to be put in charge of initiations. No. Excuse me, just a minute, Mr. G.O., please. The menemen, bandages, iodine, sterile gauze, assorted splints. P.V., what are you doing? Just getting an emergency kit ready for the meeting tonight. Bandages? I... Do you use those things in the initiations? No, we use them after the initiations. P.V., when you join the Sons of Summerfield, you don't need first aid? No, no, I wouldn't say that. Well, if it's that bad, why did you join? Well, they just came and got me. They wanted a pharmacist on the scene. Oh? And after the initiation, I wanted one, too. Oh, my goodness. P.V., I don't believe you. Well, neither did Mrs. P.V. I didn't get home for two days. P.V., you mean the initiation lasted two days? Well, counting Mrs. P.V., mine lasted a week. Oh, that's very funny. What am I laughing at?  You'll be over in an hour, too. In a day or two. No. P.V. was just trying to get me worked up. Nothing too in initiation. Oh, skill or sleeve? Oh, hello, Franco. Rocky, you're home early. Well, Margie, there wasn't much to do with the water department. Mr. Gillers leaves too excited about joining the Sons of Summerfield tonight. I don't reckon that. Franco, when you were in college, you joined a lot of secret organizations. I guess you had a lot of fun when you were initiated. The horse play, you know. Gee, you have to go through that stuff before you get in? Well, they seemed to have something planned. Gee, I'll dish pranks.  I don't mind. They put some cheese in it. Oh, I don't know, Mr. Gillers-Leave. I have an idea that'll put you through the paces. You think so?  Well, the judge isn't in charge of initiation. Who is, Mr. Gillers-Leave? Rumson Bullard. Mr. Bullard? What are you laughing at? What do I feel sorry for you? What do you feel sorry for? Stop laughing. Yes, sir. Mr. Bullard might do something to Anki. I wouldn't put it past him. No, my tree, there's nothing to be concerned about. There are laws to protect citizens. Oh, I don't know, Mr. Gillers-Leave. Oh, those fellows can go pretty far. A senior in college had it in for me, and when he caught me at the initiation, do you know what he did? No. That big ape waited until he got his chance, and then he... Choco, don't tell Uncle Moore about that. Why not? You don't want to frighten him. You don't have to worry about frightening me. Go ahead, Bron. What did the big ape do? No, no, Mr. Gillers-Leave. Now, I think Marge is right. I don't want to frighten you. Oh, for... Mr. Gillers-Leave? Yes, buddy. I got your new suit ready for the initiation tonight. My new suit? Yes, sir. Yes, and a fancy white shirt. If you're going to be a son of Summerfield, you've got to shine. Honky, don't you think you should wear something... well, something older? Well... Something old? Mr. Gillers-Leave, it ain't going to be that kind of initiation, is it? Well, I don't know, buddy. Everybody around here is trying to scare me.  Oh, of course not. That son of Summerfield is a gentleman's club. When they take in a new member, they ain't going to sport around. No. Those men are all your friends, Mr. Gillers-Leave. Certainly. Judge Hooker, will he get you in there and then play tricks on you? Judge? Would he? Oh, no. And there's Mr. Peavey. He wouldn't. Would he? Birdie, they're my friends. And Mr. Bullock? Well... Mr. Gillers-Leave. Yes, Birdie? On second thought, you better wear your old suit. Oh, my goodness. I've got to face that initiation in a couple of hours. There's nothing to be concerned about. Bullard doesn't dare lay a hand on me. He needs my vote. Still, they blindfold you with these secret initiations. You can't tell who's giving it to you. You know, I saw Bullard put some stuff in his car. It looked like a rope and chains. Say, I think I'll go take a peek in his Cadillac. Oh, Mr. Bullard. I didn't see you on my porch. I was about to ring your bell. I just wanted to be sure we'll see you this evening. Oh, yes. Good. Nice of you to take such an interest in getting me in the club, Mr. Bullard. I've been looking forward to this for five years. Gillers-Leave? I've been looking forward to this, too. You have? See you tonight, Gillers-Leave.  You have settled him. He's laying for me, but I'll fool him. I'll fool him.  I'll fool him. Judge, about tonight. I'm not being initiated. Explain to the sons of Summerfield that I can't make it. Why not? Well, I have a previous engagement. Very important. That's what I just found out. I mean, how can you say such a thing? I'll admit some of our... Goodbye, Judge. Don't forget me. Not that I'm afraid of anything. Just a moment. It's fresh. Fresh. Really fresh. Fresh. That's why it tastes so good. It's parquet margarine made by Kraft. Fresh is a word of many meanings. In a schoolboy, it's high spirits. In a schoolgirl's complexion, it's beauty. In a margarine, it's taste. 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I told them I had a previous engagement and by George, I'll get one. Yeah, I hope she's home. Why, Throckmorton? Hello, Catherine. What a surprise to see you. To see me? Well, Catherine, we have a date tonight. We do? To go dancing. Throckmorton, you didn't ask me to go dancing tonight. Well, I meant to. Yeah, I mean, are you sure we don't have a date? Of course I'm sure, silly. Besides, this is the evening you're supposed to be initiated into the Sons of Summerfield. I'd pass that up rather than break a date with a girl like you. Gorgeous. We still don't have a date. I have to work the hospital this evening. I'm due there now. You? Well, why don't I go down there with you? Oh, Throckmorton, you're so impetuous. You bet. That's probably the hospital calling. I'll have to run. You bet, Catherine. I'm sorry, Throckmorton. I have my patience to think of. She doesn't know how close I am to being a patient. I thought we may have had a previous engagement. Uncle Mort, I thought you had that... Well... Well, I don't blame you, Mr. Killer Sleeve. I'm sure you'd rather have a date with her than take Mr. Bullard's initiation. Yeah, I'll say. Dating Miss Milford's a lot less painful, huh, Uncle? Young man. Leroy, stop teasing Uncle Mort about the initiation. He's frightened and not as it is. No, wait a minute, children. I want to make something clear to you. Marjorie, Bronkel, Leroy, all of you. I'm not afraid of this initiation. I'd be down there right now if I hadn't thought I had a previous engagement. And I thought I had one. Huh! All right. I'll show all you this silly initiation means nothing to me. Where's my old suit? I'm going. Good for you, Uncle. That's the old fight, Mr. Killer Sleeve. Hello, boy. I'll spoke. Who was that for? You can stick it from the CD or pants. What's this, resident? If it's Judge Hooker, tell the old goat I'm on my way. This ain't no old goat. This is your little ball piece. I'm bored now. What up? See you soon, then. As soon as you think. Bye! You see, children, I did have a previous engagement. With Miss Milford, Uncle? You bet. Leroy, here's your geography book. I'm studying medicine tonight. You're pretty clever. You avoided those sons of Summerfield. Oh, there you are, Throckmorton. Hello, Catherine.  Yep, hit every green light. By the way, Catherine, you're standing under one. What? The green light over the door. That means go ahead. Throckmorton, we're in the hospital. Oh, care to step out under a traffic light? I'll be off in an hour. Great. What'll I do in the meantime? Well, how'd you like to look around? See what goes on behind the scenes. Fine. If you think nobody would object. Oh, no, no, no, it'll be all right. There are just a few nurses around. Why don't you just slip into this white jacket? Me? Of course, sure.  Dr. Gildersley? Well, say you're Dr. Hubbell from out of town. Here, here, let me button the jacket for you. You watch it, Catherine. You're tickling. Now, you put on this white cap. It'll make you look professional. Even Catherine, yeah. Oh, well. Dr. Hubbell, huh? Let's see how I look in this outfit.  Say, I look pretty good. I should have been a doctor instead of a water commissioner. Dr. Throckmorton, be Gildersley. The jacket's a little tight. Look at those brawny arms hanging down there. They look very capable. Well, they should. They've turned off a lot of water in their day. Oh, pardon me. You certainly. Excuse me. Are you a doctor? Me? Yes. I'm Dr. Morton B. Hubbellsley. I mean, Hubbellsley. Oh, well, I'm an intern. I hadn't seen you around. Well, I'm not around very often. No, doctor. For a moment, I thought you might be impersonating a doctor. Me? How could you think of a thing like that? Well, I was reading where some imposter got caught doing it last week. Yeah, what happened? Well, I think he got off too easy. $5,000 fine in 10 years. $5,000 fine in 10 years. Well, see you around, doctor. I have to go take some blood counts. Who had a job? Counting blood. Well, you must look like a doctor. You fool that intern. You think I'll stroll down the hall. There's a patient with the door open. Can't be very sick. Hello there. How's the bandage split? Oh, it's a head. There's a bed turned around. Well, you smiled at me. I guess I have a good bedside manner. I thought I should have been a doctor. Yes, sir, I'm enjoying this. Oh, doctor, Dr. Hubbell. Somebody calling Dr. Hubbell. Well, that's me. Yeah, better get this tappin' jacket off. Doctor, don't take off your jacket. We need you in surgery. Surgery? You don't need me. Oh, yes, we do. It's an emergency appendectomy. Is it an emergency appendectomy? You put it in there. Young man. Well, I can't do it. I don't have my license yet. They put me under the present. Oh, my goodness. Right in here. The patient's under anesthetic. The nurses and other interns are ready. Yeah, but... But... Ooh. Look at all the people with masks on. There's the patient under the sheet. Ooh. Big fellow. Have you scrubbed up, doctor? You and I took a bath before I left home. Hurry, doctor. Scalpel. Scalpel? Well, now, wait a minute. I have a confession to make. I'm not a doctor. You're not a doctor? What? Not a doctor? Oh, you imposter. Yeah, that's right. I'm an imposter. I'm Frogmore than Big Gilder Sleeve. I only did it while waiting for a nurse. Mr. Gilder Sleeve, this is a very serious offense. Yeah, I know. $5,000 in 10 years. At least that. We'll let the patient decide. The patient? Nurse, pull back the sheet. Yes, doctor. Yeah, I don't want to see you. Why not, Gilding? Oh! Judge Hooker. Impersonating a doctor where you're Gilder Sleeve? Bullock. Is that you behind that mask? Oh, God. And Catherine. Are you in on this, too? Judge Hooker asked me. I couldn't resist helping them. Gilder Sleeve, you can't escape the Sons of Summerfield. Well, you've got me. I guess you want to take me to the initiation. This is it, Gildy. It's over. Is this all? Welcome to the Sons of Summerfield, Gilder Sleeve. Well, you fellow certainly fooled me. Say, who's in this white gown? Another nurse? Well, now I wouldn't say that. Me!  All together now for Gildy. He's a jolly good fellow. Remember, the margarine that tastes so good, because it's fresh, really fresh, always fresh, is Parquet margarine made by Kraft. In states where the law permits the sale of colored margarine, you can now buy yellow Parquet already colored and ready to serve in its new aluminum foil flavor saber wrap. Elsewhere, get Parquet in the handy color quick bag or regular package. In any state, in any package, it tastes so good, because it's always fresh. That's P-A-R-K-A-Y. Parquet margarine made by Kraft. Get some tomorrow. It was really clever. Great initiation. Thank you, Gildy. It was my idea. Of course. I guess what you were going to do, I was way ahead of you. Gilder Sleeve, didn't you think we were going to paddle you a little? Paddle me? No. I knew you fellas wouldn't do that. Old friends of mine. All right, Gildy.  And here is your Coonskin cap. Well, just like a crown. Yeah, I'll put it on for you. It's too big. Judge, you're pulling it down over my eyes. I can't see. Are you sure you can't see, Gilder Sleeve? Not a thing. Good. Neaky thing to do. Welcome to my Paul West, John Elliott, and Andy White with music by Robert Armbrister. Included in the cast are Walter Tetley, Mary Lee Robb, Lillian Randolph, Kathy Lewis, Dick Krenna, Gail Gordon, Gil Scratten, Earl Ross, and Richard Legrand. This is John Easton saying goodnight for the Kraft Foods Company, makers of the famous line of Kraft quality food products. Be sure to listen in next Wednesday and every Wednesday for the further adventures of The Great Gilder Sleeve. There's magic in mustard. Yes, when you want to put new taste excitement in almost anything, just add a little mustard and you'll add a lot of tang. Hidden flavors pop right out. 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This is Witchspace news for Friday the 7th of January 2022, I'm CMDR Buur In Elite Dangerous news this week, there's an opportunity for you to be part of a streamed mass jump event Frontier has a hotfix for Elite Dangerous Odyssey on the way The whole SEALS and Operation Ida publish their end of year reviews Bucky Bull Racing plans a whole year of events, this week's haulage CG is awarding pre-engineered FSDs and more. To make sure you don't miss any of our videos hit like and subscribe and remember to click the little bell icon and select all notifications and if you'd like to help directly support this channel you can also join our Patreon via the link in the video description. We start this new year in Elite Dangerous with end of year reviews from two of the galaxy's most prominent emergency service player groups Starship Repair Specialists The whole SEALS and the Starport Repair Specialists of Operation Ida The whole SEALS report contains the collective thoughts of the group's leadership on the year we've just left as well as looking forward to the year ahead whilst also covering off details on the organisation's income and running costs. The report from Operation Ida provides some interesting insight into the numbers of stations repaired this year as well as the total number of stations repaired by the organisation since its inception. They passed the significant milestone of 200 stations repaired late last year and are also reporting that in total the community has repaired 255 stations to date. This year Ida shifted nearly 18 million tonnes of cargo when bringing stations back to life. That workload was managed by 358 commanders handling 24,384 deliveries utilising 65 active registered fleet carriers. The logistics management of the stuff that Ida handles is glorious absolutely bonkers numbers. To get involved with the whole SEALS or Operation Ida yourself you'll find links in the video description to both of them and the respective annual reports we've talked about here. If you're an Elite Dangerous Odyssey player and you've been wondering what the relative benefits of adding a scope to a given weapon are and want to make an informed decision before committing to it then Commander Radium Io has you covered. The helpful commander this week published an Imager Gallery showing side by side comparisons of 99% of the weapons in the game, iron sighted with and without a scope attachment. The gallery also contains some useful commentary where appropriate on any relative side effects of adding the scope. The only weapon not featured with a scope currently in the gallery is the Manticore Tormenta Plasma Pistol which Radium Io is reporting as incorrectly zeroed when in iron sights at the time of recording. Overall a very welcome and useful reference. Matt Ricciardo's Elite Dangerous Ship Scale Video received a welcome update just before the turn of the year bringing it bang up to date with all the known ships, stations, capital class vessels and fleet carriers. If you've never seen the previous iterations of Matt's video I'd urge you to take a look at the newly updated one. The scale of things in Elite Dangerous is often lost when conveyed through a monitor or a TV but Matt's beautifully realized and rendered videos communicate the incredible enormity of the ships, carriers and stations in a very easily digestible and enjoyable form that also comes packaged with a rye sense of humour including objects like a banana for scale and even a speculated unofficial model for the oft requested mega hauler the Panther Clipper. You'll find a link in the video description below. Just Christmas and New Year Frontier were reasonably quiet this week with no Elite Dangerous live streams or major announcements yet as they undoubtedly begin lining up their respective space ducks for what is to come. Community manager Sally Morgan Moore did post to the forums to advise that a welcome hotfix for Elite Dangerous Horizons on consoles and PCs is planned to arrive early next week, fair winds willing. The fix will be addressing issues with fire group editing that arrived in Update 9 right before Christmas. It's extremely likely that the implementation of the fix will once again cause fire groups to be reset across the board in Horizons. This is an unfortunate and unavoidable side effect of the way the system is implemented so be prepared for that once the update arrives. We don't yet know when specifically it'll be deployed as soon as we do we'll post it to our YouTube community pages. In case you missed it you'll see linked on screen about now our previous video that details every new feature we know is inbound or being worked on for Elite Dangerous the vast majority of which affects Horizons players as well as Odyssey players. Pillar of the forums and extra galactic enigma Alec Turner sends word this week that the creators of the galaxy's most imaginative time trial races the Bucky Bull Racing Club have a full year long championship event planned featuring 8 of the most popular races from their 6 year 79 race history. All of the events are time trial based and will run over the course of a week or two weeks depending on the event with your top 5 results from the year counting toward eventual championship standing at the end of the whole thing. It's completely platform and game version agnostic so it matters not if you're playing in Elite Dangerous Horizons or Elite Dangerous Odyssey on PC or consoles everyone is welcome. To register your interest in the 3308 Bucky Bull Magic 8 Bull Championships thanks for that Alec, and join the Bucky Bull community you'll find a link in the video description. On the 14th of March last year the expedition known as the Comfy Cannon Cruise departed the bubble to visit every single known biological, geological and stellar phenomena the Milky Way had to offer outside of atmospheric worlds. Following in the footsteps of Commander Marsantheus and the Cannon Challenge the carrier based expedition has visited 134 waypoints in 300 days travelling over 500,000 light years and on Saturday the 8th of January that's tomorrow as I speak these words the epic voyage comes to an end in the Verati system the home of cannon interstellar research. In celebration of the event an armada of ships will be mass jumping in odyssey to the system to meet the incoming fleet carrier and the expedition's participants. Spearheading the colossal cat herding exercise will be friend of the channel twitch streamer and co-host of the Flight Assist podcast Commander Mal for the win. If you'd like to be part of the welcome home armada and participate in the mass jump we've hosted a couple of these at the burpit and they really are quite a thing to behold if you've never done it before then you'll find a link to the forum post for the event in the video description. If you can't get there then fear not the whole event will be streamed on Mao's channel starting from 8pm UTC on Saturday, again you'll find links to everything you need linked below. The third phase of the Colonia Bridge project to build a super highway between the bubble and its distant sibling Colonia kicked off in-game this week demanding commodities be delivered to both ends of the bridge, Alcor in the bubble and the Colonia system toward the centre of the galaxy. As well as cash rewards the community goal will be rewarding the top 75% of contributors with up to 3 of the much prized pre-double engineered frameshift drives. After the goal completed in record time when these drives were available previously I was really pleased to see that Frontier have further balanced and wiggled this community goal to ensure that, no matter what, everyone will have the full week right up until next Thursday to participate should they so desire. Further due to the decreased flow of traffic at the Colonia end of the goal the hoops that need jumping through in Colonia to unlock all the drives are much less stringent. And again the very highest contributing commanders at each end will be invited by Frontier to name one of the deployed stations that results from the goal's completion. Once completed this part of the bridge will deploy actual starports as well as the previously deployed permanently anchored mega ships along the route between Colonia and the bubble. The plan being that these starports will spawn micro bubbles of their own. Like a pathway of little twinkling beacons of light pointing the way to Colonia for anyone or indeed anything that wishes to follow it. So that's nice right?  Do you think the Thargoids will be climbing the beanstalk to go say hi to Colonia in the new year and will the resultant CG call for a colonial wall to be built? Let us know in the comments below. That's it for now. Thanks very much for watching. We'll be back later this week with more videos. Until then, oh seven commanders, follow the Greens on the way out and do keep clear of the toast rack. We very much look forward to seeing you next time.


Well, we just hype inflation when it prints money like crazy and The money is going primarily for consumption and is not going for any kind of productive activity So so it's not so if you think about if you have five if you have X number of goods in an economy and That number doesn't change right? You've just got the X number of goods, but you're printing more and more more money So more and more money is chasing the X number of goods. It's bidding the price of those goods up so the more money you print the higher the prices go and And that's in that spiral because the higher the prices go the poor people feel and the more they demand that you print more money So you print money to put in their wallets, but when they go to grocery store the prices already adopted upwards So they demand more money for you to print so and this goes on and on and on and it gets into cycle Which very very difficult to to exit to the I mean the exit is very painful the exit is Stop the printing presses and when you stop the printing presses There's a period in which nobody knows exactly what to do prices are still going up because they're expecting Inflation but people suddenly don't have any more money. So they can't buy this stuff So the economy goes into like a massive recession and then prices start adapting so prices start coming down People start realizing okay. This is the amount of money. I have this is what can afford and everything kind of reaches a new Equilibrium, but that is painful and it's hard. It's what the United States went through even though we didn't have hyperinflation We had high inflation, but it's when what we went to in the recession of it 1982 83 and It's what other countries in Latin America. I grew up in Israel and in Israel we had in the early 1980s we had a thousand percent inflation and Basically got paid every week and he took the money you spent it because if you kept the money Within a week it was worth a lot less than what it was at the beginning of the week So you wanted to spend it on Monday or Sunday in Israel because by Friday. It was worth a lot less money So you but you got into the cycle where you demanded a raise from your employer constantly The employer demanded that the government print more money So the banks would is the way in which the money entered the economy And then they had to figure out a way of how to suck this additional money out of the economy to stabilize Prices and they did that towards the end of the 1980s, but it was very painful through what taxation No, so I mean in Israel they did it to a combination of things one. They just stopped printing the money Right, so you just stop the printing process. That's the easy way to defeat inflation The other way is that they they they encouraged the banks to offer people very high interest rates on Saving so they encouraged people not to take their extra money and spend it But to take their extra money and put it in a saving account Right now the banks couldn't ultimately pay you back that saving because they promised an above-market return In order because the government was incentivizing them just to suck the money out of the economy and the banks basically all win bankrupt So and then the government bailed all the banks out. So it was it was this multi-step crazy kind of system I don't think anybody actually planned it out Because government is very bad at these kind of things. They just did stuff and there were really bad consequences But coming out of the whole thing the result was that inflation was killed Banks or bankrupt were nationalized and then privatized again And so the banking system is marginally a little healthier. So they solved the problem They managed to get out of the inflation But there were huge short-term pains and probably huge long-term consequences to it But but they did it other countries I mean Ecuador is probably a good example where they had thousands of percent inflation and one day they just said and Zimbabwe did this right There's no local currency like if you go to Ecuador, there's no local currency use dollars Really? Yeah, so they've dollarized the economy Panama is the same way Panama use dollars There's no Panamanian Pesso or something like that. You just use dollars So they basically took away the printing press printing press disappeared and they said we're gonna discipline ourselves With dollars and and so they did a one-time exchange of all the local currency into dollars and Then they stopped printing so Ecuador doesn't print any money and Panama doesn't print any money They're putting their faith in there in the Federal Reserve Which for most Latin American countries is not a bad deal for the reserve behaves much more rationally than does a local local central bank There was actually a proposal in Israel to do the same Treasury Secretary secretary came out one day and said We should dollarize the economy that would get rid of all the inflation and he was absolutely right He was fired. I think within a couple of hours because it was it was it was Anti-nationalist right Israel should have its own coming we have to have our own currency rate This is this is a big deal So it's nationalism often is the barrier to actually Dollarizing an economy and one of the benefits of the euro or though, you know The euro obviously has a lot of critics out there one of the benefits of the euro is that Greece doesn't have a central bank Therefore it can't just print money like crazy like it did in the 1960s and 70s and drive itself into hyperinflation Spain can't do the same. They're actually disciplined by the fact that there's this common currency run basically by German bankers who Afraid of inflation and therefore don't you know, make sure that there's no inflation in the euro There are now there are other problems that the or creates but but in terms of inflation Europe you don't see inflation because of that


We're expecting schools to start reopening in less than three weeks' time, so one might expect the Education Secretary to be doing everything in his power to try and make schools safe. That means Gavin Williamson should be busy organising improved ventilation for schools, hiring new staff so classes can be split up and making sure headteachers have all the support they need to roll out mass testing. But no, unfortunately the Education Secretary has been busy with other concerns, obviously fighting cancelled culture, that's his priority. On Tuesday Williamson published a long-awaited policy paper on protecting free speech and academic freedom in British universities. Now this document is 42 pages long, people have spent a while writing this, even though there were many other things for the Education Department to be getting on with, they still obviously haven't got laptops to everyone who needs them. It starts with a foreword from Gavin Williamson laying out why he thinks this is such a priority for his department in the middle of a pandemic, pretending to defend essentially free speech and academic freedom in universities. So he writes, within our society's broader recognition of free speech, academic freedom has rightly enjoyed a special status with additional protections recognised both in culture and in law. This is due to the special place our universities have historically held as centres of inquiry and intellectual debate, bastions of free thought from which new ideas can emerge to challenge society's cozy consensus, from Charles Darwin on evolution, to John Spencer Bassett challenging racism, that freedom has been used to advance views which in their time were widely criticised as deeply offensive and immoral, but which today are firmly established as accepted wisdom, a very, you know, impassioned defence of free speech in the university, which he says is under threat. And why does he think it's under threat? He also explains in that foreword.  This is both misguided and dangerous. The social psychologist, Jonathan Haight, makes the case powerfully, not only do such attitudes suppress speech, they make it harder to draw a clear line against violence. A shocking finding from a recent study by King's College London was that a quarter of students saw violence as an acceptable response to some forms of speech. And indeed, we have seen this played out in the appalling scenes in London when Jewish societies invited speakers who other students did not approve of. Now that latter reference, I'm not sure precisely what those events are that he's referring to. I mean, it could quite possibly be when there are sort of officials from the Israeli government. I imagine that's what it is, officials from the Israeli government and you get protest. I can't speak about what the specific event was in that case. What I can tell you about though is the misrepresentation that happens when he says that a quarter of students saw violence as an acceptable response to some forms of speech as something which is relevant to no platforming at universities. Because the questionnaire he's drawing upon has nothing to do with universities, has nothing to do with people giving speeches at student unions. The question people were asked was, if someone is using hate speech or making rationally charged comments, physical violence can be justified to prevent this person from espousing their hateful views.  This was found by Stephen Bush, I should say, at the New States, but he wrote a very good article on this policy paper and also according to Bush yads, that it wasn't just this question that was in the study. They also did focus groups with students and the respondents when they spoke to them personally, they weren't advocating violence as a tactic for shutting down events.  So, the fact that this has entered into a government policy document, this isn't just a spectator think piece, this is a government policy document, pretty, pretty worrying. Going back to that policy paper, we've got more problems, which Gavin Williams says are undermining free speech on campus in our higher education institutions. The rise of intolerance and cancel culture upon our campuses is one that directly affects individuals and their livelihoods. Students have been expelled from their courses, academics fired and others who have been forced to live under the threat of violence. These high profile incidents about the tip of the iceberg for everyone and goal, Carl or Todd whose story is known, evidence suggests there are many more who have felt they have had to keep silent with held research or believe they have faced active discrimination in appointment or promotion because of views they have expressed. Now in terms of those free names there, Carl is a reference to Noah Carl. He was offered a job at, I think it was an Oxford college which was retracted after academics said this guy's research actually doesn't really stand up. He was publishing lots of things which weren't peer reviewed and which were about essentially race science, I think, so sort of differences along those lines. The kind of stuff that I think is to be honest rightly taboo, but also if you're putting that out it better be well researched and it wasn't in his case. Selena Todd, it was trans exclusionary radical feminism, I actually don't know many of the details about that particular case. Let's move on though to what Gavin Williamson is proposing. So he's proposing that universities be illegally required to actively promote free speech and with the office for students to be given the power to impose fines on institutions if they breach this condition. So if they don't actively promote free speech, a new free speech champion will also be appointed to the office for students. Presumably it won't be Toby Young as they already tried to appoint him to the office for students and there was such an uproar they had to U-turn but anyway, we'll get someone else in there, maybe less controversial. The office for students if you want to wear is the independent regulator of higher education institutions in Britain. In response to this because the proposals are still quite vague, it's difficult to explain exactly what they are because it's pretty it's pretty murky at the moment. This isn't proper legislation yet and this is just what they're proposing to do in sort of vague terms but let's go to some responses. The NUS, the National Union for Students, have said there is no evidence of a freedom of expression crisis on campus and student unions are constantly taking positive steps to help facilitate the thousands of events that take place each year. So that's a NUS representative, one from the UCU, sorry from the University College Union. In reality, the biggest threats to academic freedom and free speech come not from staff and students nor from so-called council culture but from minister's own attempts to police what can and cannot be said on campus and the Russell group so that's the group of I suppose the more established universities has warned against creating unnecessary and burdensome bureaucracies. So most people seem to think this is kind of pointless but the Tories want to start a culture war. Aaron, what do you make of this? I mean there are many people on the left who say yeah, council culture, maybe people are a bit too quick to say language is violence and we have to be protected from it. At the same time, everything being proposed here seems like just a very like a bare naked attempt to get headlines. Yeah, I mean I disagree with quite a few people on the left about this. I think council culture does exist. I don't think it's peculiar to the left. I think it's actually generally a liberal formation and actually you see it, you know, again anybody who has the misfortune who follows us on Twitter, you know, knows at the level of council culture thrown at Navarra media. There are many, many people, particularly it seems in a culture which is increasingly mediated through the digital environment who is pathologically incapable of living with different opinions. Those people do exist. I actually think generally speaking they're in the center of politics and mostly on the right but obviously it's a thing and I think it's a general social phenomenon. However it's not new, it is not new and what did people in societies do to protect this right of freedom of speech? They had constitutions. They legally enshrined them in the constitutions so that everybody had those rights protected and so, you know, my response would be why are you only trying to defend free speech in universities? Why not in workplaces? Why not at home? Why not in the pub? Why not on the street? Hey, you know what? Why don't we have a written constitution protecting everyone's freedom of speech? I think the fact it's so constricted as a proposal, as a piece of legislation just to universities and clearly it's just about the cultural. If you care about freedom of speech let's have an honest conversation about a written constitution and making it a legal right. The Tories don't want to talk about that by the way because it's an arbitrary limit on state power and their ability to dominate and exploit people, which is what they're all about. But until we have that broader document, I mean it's a lot of crap. Let's have a written constitution. I'm a bit old school on this, Michael. I suspect you agree with me. I'd be happy to have a written constitution. I think I agree with you basically on cancel culture. I think people can be a bit quick to say we can't discuss this. There are probably more taboos than there need to be at the moment, I'd imagine. But it doesn't seem that that's what Gavin Williamson is interested in here in the slightest. And evidence as to why he's not interested in this is that Gavin Williamson is not known as someone who has been an avid defender of free speech in university, free speech in higher education institutions. Because Gavin Williamson has been one of the most vociferous proponents of the International Holocaust Remembrance Association, definition of anti-Semitism and all its examples, and has actually been pressuring universities to adopt it, also threatening sanctions if they don't. And we've talked about this before on the show. The fact that it has its examples calling the foundation of Israel a racist endeavor, which obviously is not actually an unreasonable, it says that it's anti-Semitic to say that, which is not an unreasonable thing to say, given the Nakba, given that there was a dispossession of the people who lived in Palestine on the basis of their ethnicity, on the basis of their religious background. That's not an unreasonable thing to say. But the IRA, the International Holocaust Remembrance Association, definition of anti-Semitism says you shouldn't. And it's not just us saying this, it's also the academic boards of universities who Gavin Williamson so powerfully wrote in that policy document should have autonomy and should be able to speak their minds. Well, they think that Gavin Williamson's policy is not really helping. So UCL adopted that definition of anti-Semitism after pressure from Gavin Williamson or after prompting from Gavin Williamson. But in a development just this week, a vote by UCL's academic board has called on the university to retract and replace IRA working definition with a more precise definition of anti-Semitism. It follows a report published in December by a working group of UCL academics that warned the IRA definition conflates anti-Jewish prejudice with political debate over Israel and Palestine, which could have potentially deleterious effects on free speech, such as instigating a culture of fear or self-silencing on teaching or research or classroom discussion of contentious topics. And I think just what this shows you is just how cynical this whole thing is by Gavin Williamson.  But no, Gavin Williamson, because he thinks that this is something he can attack the left for because this is pro-Palestine activists who are being discriminated against. He's like, oh, no, we need to implement all of these, all of these loose definitions which criminalize speech. But then the moment someone wants to do badly researched scientific papers comparing people of different ethnicities, then that's all good. That should be it. It would be shocking if someone were to disallow that kind of thing, which, I mean, to me, just shows this is not, this guy's not serious. Aaron, do you think this is going to have real consequences? I mean, it's quite easy to just dismiss this as just they want to generate telegraph headlines to rile up their base. But do you think this could actually have long-lasting effects in universities, these kind of policies being put forward by Gavin Williamson? Absolutely. I think it's part of the tourist vision really is to take Britain on a path, continue on a path, which is a bit like all bands hungry, which is to foreclose a pluralistic, diverse debate to make impossible a pluralistic media, which of course we barely have already, but they're trying their best to shut down any institutions that kind of offer an alternative channel for the BBC when it actually does its job. And I think this is a big part of that. And in the short term, no, it's not going to make a huge difference. But I do think, I do think you can see in 10, 20 years' time that the hope would be effectively that universities become this sanitised, entirely depoliticised space. And I think it's sort of a kind when people say that, well, should school teachers have the right to strike? Should they have the right to be in a trade union? They're key workers, like police officers. And you ultimately get, I think, to university lecturers and university support staff. And so this removal, I think, of rights, whether as workers or as citizens, it is part of their broader project, absolutely. And this is put in the bank for 10 years, 20 years' time. And we've been on this path for 40 years. So no, I think it's very, very dangerous. Can it be resisted? I mean, it's hard to say. I mean, ultimately as well, if the university doesn't become a site of freedom of expression and diversity of views, then other institutions will do that. People will just do it elsewhere. This is a fundamental human need. It's not like it'll just stop. But ultimately, people will no longer go to universities if they want to engage in meaningful intellectual expansion. They'll do it to get a well-paid job, which isn't necessarily guaranteed with a degree these days. But that may just change the nature of the university, which suits them fine. I think, finally, they view, I think rightly, higher education as a source of left power, one of the few sources. The Tories have media. They have obviously financial and economic elites. They've destroyed the trade unions. They have a big base in society now on the basis of home ownership. So if you're looking for where does the left have any sort of institutional power whatsoever, local government in major cities, universities, public sector trade unions, they're going after all of them. So I think it's an important thing to defend, both as a philosophical principle, but also this is part of a broader political censure, which the Tories, I think, would include within a broader suite in terms of what they want to change over the next generation. It shouldn't be taken lightly as ridiculous as Gavin Williamson is. And you're right to say this is all about getting headlines and the telegraph and the spectator of the times. I think it's more than that. And I think it's really critical to say freedom of speech really matters. It's a left principle. Rosa Luxemburg, meaningful freedom is freedom to disagree. And one reason, for instance, why you don't get bylaws in the US, like anti-vagrancy, for instance, is that somebody begging for money on a street is exercising their freedom of speech, right? Those bylaws and Westminster council moving people on, asking for money, begging for money. If you have a formally recognised rights-free speech, that's a very difficult thing to implement. Or prevent. Prevent starts to have real problems if we have meaningful freedom of speech in this country. Like you say, the IHRA, we could carry on. The Tories don't want that. They want to destroy a political base of power for the left. We've got a comment which sums up, actually, the argument quite well. This is Rob Hogg, 68, with Tenna. Thank you very much. To quote a friend on Facebook, if they really believed in freedom of speech, they would scrap, prevent, and back off on the threat to withdraw fundings from universities which don't adopt the IHRA definition. Quite right. I think that is very well put. And we take Gavin Williamson more seriously on free speech if he wasn't trying to ban loads of speech. It just doesn't gel very well together.


What's up everybody, Jason here for jaspyscasepress.com. Jaspy's Big Hit Express Multisport Series 6 is here, guys. Again, we've been doing this for a while now. Came back from the national, you know, so as you can see, a ton, a ton of big hits hiding in this Big Hit Express, guys. I got to see a little bit of a preview yesterday while we were putting it in. Again, even though there isn't, everything's previewed. These are just some of the nicer stuff you're gonna see. You're gonna see a lot of nicer as well. And just because they're not previews doesn't mean they're not bad at all. So of course, we did hit one preview card yesterday, which is that little Yanis up here. But of course, a lot bigger ones still hiding there. And like I said, usually one per case, kind of the way Hit Parade, the way Hit Parade kind of does their Multisport or their, obviously, cases. Now for us, we only made 24 cases. Usually when we do Hit Parade right, we love it when we collab with them. We usually do, you know, a lot of cases or multiple boxes, of course. So 24 cases made only, guys. So obviously, 24 breaks total only. 12 cards per box. Or 12 cards, sorry, per case, one card per box. And again, at least one train whistle card that's numbered to five or less per case. Now again, there is a combo spot, guys. We are, it is a Multisport break. So it's 30 spots. Everybody gets around on team in the NFL, NBA and MLB. Brewers are comboed there with the NHL MMA soccer combo spot and then the Cardinals and football are comboed with the Browns and then the Bucks are comboed with the Rams. Now, of course, just a disclaimer, since it is a repack product, of course, there are only a few hit possibilities for every team. We try to make the combos as even as possible, but just know some cards may get hit early in the print run and just keep in mind when you're buying. But of course, tons of hits for a lot of teams, though, guys. You will see it just like in other products. Some teams are a little bit better than others, but at the same time, every team is represented and got some hits in there, guys. So what we're gonna do, guys, is we're gonna do a couple randomizer. I know it's gonna be a lot overwhelming, but we're gonna do a couple of randomizers, right? We're gonna click the dice roll and then we're gonna randomize the cases first. Whatever case is generated at the top, I'm gonna go grab it, bring it over. Then, with the same dice roll, we're gonna randomize the names. We'll input your names in here in this dock here. And like I said, we'll start with MLB. All right, we're gonna paste your names there, paste your names in the NBA and paste your names in the NFL. And then we're gonna randomize the list of MLB, NBA, and NFL, paste them there, and then we'll give you guys some time to look at your guys' teams from all leagues there. And then, if there's no trades, we'll start the break. So here we go, guys. Roll, two out of three, five times. So let's randomize the case numbers. We generated number two at the top, so I'm just keeping the same list the way it was randomized out. So two was gone, so every other case is still there, five times. One, two, three, four. And fifth and final time. Boom, five, case three is at the top. So I'm gonna copy and paste this. So the next thing we do at Big Hit Express, we use the same list here. Boom, awesome. Okay, so let me go grab case three really quick. So we tried to be, obviously, been doing this for a long time and obviously no reason to have any funny business at this point, but all right, so let me quickly show you guys. There's case three, there's 24. There's the Big Hit Express. Little logo there on the case. Sweet. All right, now that I've brought over the case, let's do the randomizing now. Five times down on the list of names, guys. Here we go. One, two, three, four, five. Five. Michael, then Edward. So again, I'm gonna paste them in every single one, guys. It's gonna stay the same for there. Now we'll just randomize the teams now for each one. So five times now for the MLB. One, two, three, four, five. We'll come back to obviously showing you guys each team. I'm not gonna say every single team, like I usually do in an interbreak, because it's 90 teams. Kinda wanna waste so much time doing that. Oh, sorry, that's the wrong one. I gotta go to MLB, there we go. So there's that, the way it came out. We'll come back to it in a little bit right now, guys. So again, five times now in the NBA. One, two, three, four, five. Phoenix Suns, 76ers. Let's put the NBA. Boom. That's what NFL now, last one. Five times. One, two, three, four. Vikings, kind of the Jets. All right, awesome. So now I'm gonna go back to the MLB, guys, and I'm gonna make it a little bit bigger so you guys can see it. And quickly just show you guys the way it was generated, right? So you guys can see it from Michael Tang at the top of the Padres, all the way down here with Edward Petty to the Astros, right? It's quickly right. Now I'm gonna alphabetize it by a team. And now you guys can see, of course, your teams are here. And I'll give you a quick, like, 30 seconds to see them. And if anybody wants to make any trades, just remember you can only trade it within the same league.  So quickly take a look there of who you've got. And then we'll switch to the next one, do the same thing, and then the last one. And then if no trades are proposed, then we'll start. So a little bit of a longer break, it probably takes like 10 minutes to do all this. And then the break itself is probably only like 10 minutes though. It's about like a 20, 25 minute break, probably. And it looks like we're done so one left and that tops National Bowman. All right, that's enough time, right? All right, let's go to NBA. Same thing, I'm gonna make it a little bit bigger for you guys to see. And just the way it came out, Michael Tang all the way down here to Edward Petty with the 76ers, let's alphabetize it. Make it look all nice. And again, same thing, I'll let you see your guys' teams really quick right there. And Wester's saying Broncos are Colts for trades. So if anybody's interested in that, I can go back to it right now once we do all three. If I get multi-sport too, I've noticed that it's really tough to hit obviously because it's three different leagues, but obviously I feel like a lot of people tend to stick to what they have too. Some people haven't really taken that risk of trading, unless they're specifically after their favorite team. That's the only time you ever really see it, but you never know, maybe we get a little trade module this time. Especially on multi-sport, it's just because we never know, man. You're getting so many different teams and so many different leagues. All right, now let's move on to the next one, guys. Last one's NFL. So there's that, Michael Tang to the Vikings all the way down to Edward with the Jets. And let's do this now. Make it look all pretty and nice. Try to trade, couldn't trade mojo, baby. That's the real thing. So there you go, guys. Time to trade there. Sorry, my wife asked me a question of fanatic, so I had to just mute it really quick. But yeah, if anybody wants to trade here, let me know. What up, Gilo? How you doing today? Yeah, she pulled up and I was like, all right, she has a question for me, so I'd rather just mute it just in case. It was just a fanatic's question for shipping. All right, so I'm thinking then, I guess, try to trade. All right, I guess try to trade, couldn't trade mojo then, Wester. Oh, I guess wanted to trade then, right? All right, let me title it then. We go back. There we go. So just in time, Gilo, you're about to see some big hit express. Is that right? They want more women in the hobby, right? Yes, they don't want men anymore. They want all of us, diversity. Here we go. So that was the first one there. Let's print them out.   That's not what you want it to be for, but they get you into the stream though, right, Gilo? Here we go, guys. So again, quickly going through the list again. Try to trade, couldn't trade mojo, it was Wester. So hopefully we get you there, buddy. There's the NBA and the NFL. All right, here we go. Here we go, here we go. So I showed you the case number there, it's three, beautiful packaging. All right, obviously we're not shipping those, so not the crazy, it's tight packaging, but nice representation though, right? So I took so long to get this ready, we had to do like 24 cases of this like this. So, all right, awesome. Did you get his dress, baby? Look at that. Oh, good luck, everybody. So, let's get the little filler here. Here we go, first one. How about a Lamello ball, RPA from Certify, nice. Starting to sign his autographs now, right? There you go, Lamello ball. Charlotte Hornets on the board for the NBA. So NBA, Michael L on the board. Nice, there you go, first one. Cruz, very nice. And I think that was one of the featured cards in here. That is 43 out of 99 Elidila Cruz for the Cincinnati Reds. Very nice here right there. So not much out there yet for him. He'll be a rookie in next year's Topps products. But Elidila Cruz, Cincinnati Reds, Jervine, there you go, man, congrats. Cincinnati Reds for you. Next one, we have a Grady card. 2017 Prism, Stain Glass, Christian McCaffrey. Very nice here right there. And that is for the Carolina Panthers, NFL. Damien, with that hit right there. If Topps would have known that they would have called them up in the beginning of the season, they would have definitely put them in products. Cornerstones, Donovan Mitchell, nice RPA there. 52 out of 75 for the Utah Jazz. That's nice, 2017, Cornerstones basketball. Utah Jazz, Allen Murdoch on the board. All right, nice couple of really nice hits here to start us off. Obviously we still have plenty to go, guys. Plenty to go. I also felt like there was nothing in here. But obviously there was something. How about an Anthony Edwards 2021 Select in Flight, tie-dye, graded a PSA 10. Sheesh, that's a nice one right there. 24 to 25, beautiful. Minnesota T-Wols with that one. Michael Stapleton, man, still hitting with me today. There you go, buddy. Cornerstones was nice, I will agree. And then we have Collegiate NT College Material Signatures brand logo, Pat Fryermuff, Nike Swoosh, two out of two. Now of course, Pat on the Steelers and that graded at 8.5 edges, 8.5 corners, centering 9.5, surface 9.5 for an 8.5. But that is a train whistle. I know Joe's not here, but guess what, guys? Check this out. Thank you for you guys that missed yesterday. You guys are gonna get annoyed with this, though, but when he's not here. All aboard. You're still gonna get him. The big hit express. You guys heard that. I fixed it yesterday. Every time we clicked that, Joe gets like a dollar in royalties. All right, here we go. Next one. Oh, sorry, who was the Pittsburgh Steelers again? Pittsburgh Steelers, Pittsburgh Steelers, Steelers. Michael Elligan, nice. Nice one for the Steelers. Wow, look at that. A JJ rookie autograph from Donress, 24 to 149. Beautiful. Minnesota Vikings, Michael Tang. That's sweet. 2015, how about a Devin Booker? That's pretty sweet. Don't really see too much rookies if it's from 2015. That's a select, little silver prism. And that is a PSA-9. Nice one there for the Phoenix Suns. That's Michael Tang. All right, you guys. More than halfway through, we still have four more boxes, guys. Play to the whistle, guys. Play to the whistle. Here we go. Come over with my own, though. I mean, unless I'm usually all just starting doing the drink whistle, but I just feel like Joe created that definitely more for him, you know? It's like stealing it. So I guess we gotta come over with one finally. And a Joe Montaigne, a flawless. That is a little Sapphire, I think? Yeah, Sapphire, 13 out of 15. 49ers. C.O. with that one. The card, what is this? What is this? Oh, it's a nice, impeccable case hit. How about that, 13 out of 20. Tony Parker. San Antonio Spurs. Michael Hughes from Legacy Packfiller. All right, two more to go, guys. Bryson Stott, out of five. One of five rookie autographed PSA nine for the Philadelphia Phillies. Nice. And that's Phillies. There you go. And guess what? Out of fives and under, right? All aboard, the big hit express. Woo-hoo. It's funny, because I don't hear it, but you guys do. All right, last one here, guys. Good luck. Right? Your dog probably loves it. Definitely. All right, so 2021 Panini Flawless, Joellen Beat Platinum, one of one. Oh, he does not like that. Sorry. Nice. Another one, another trade whistle. All right, cover your dog's ears. Joellen Beat, of course, that's collegiate, but of course still with the 76ers. And I don't, did we hit a 76er earlier? I don't think we did. No, Edward Petty. Look at that. Nice. Nice, we're gonna end that. And a grader to SGC 10-2. And Diamond one of one. There you go. So Edward Petty, all aboard. All aboard. The big hit express. Only 12 hits popping out, 30 teams. You know, obviously not the craziest odds, but if you did hit, congratulations. If you didn't, I hope I got you on the next one, guys. But a solid case again. Obviously, still a lot of big hits out there. The LA De La Cruz was, I guess, the bigger preview chaser in this one. But again, a lot of really nice stuff here popping out regardless. So again, get into the next one, guys. Like I said, get your abs in, and you'll definitely get some hits, guys. It all comes and goes around. So I appreciate it, everybody. So again, the next one's in the store. Like I said, you can get into a pack filler if you guys would like, or you can buy a straight up spot. Either way, like I said, different ways to get into that break, guys. Appreciate it, guys. jaspyscasebreaks.com.