Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com coming at you with Jaspys 7 Box Quick Hit Football Mixer. It's featuring some good box here, 5 boxes of 2023 Hit Parade Football 1 of a kind addition, all 1 of 1's. Alright, there's some potential right there. And the other 2 boxes, quick box right, 2021 Panini XR Football Hobby Edition. Big thanks to this group for making it happen. Great late night rally, appreciated, got the full spots gone. Got the last filler done, appreciate everybody getting in. All teams are in, no combos, let's roll it, let's randomize it, 5-3, 8 times for names and teams. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8th and final time, 5-3, got Richard down to Steven, 5-3, 8 times for the teams, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and good luck, 8th and final time, 8 we got Denver down to Nolence.  It's alphabetized by team and we will pause the video just for a few moments. When we come back, we're going to see if there's any trades, then we'll have the break, so stick around. We'll see you on the other side. All right, welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. No deals were done. There was a little bit of trade chatter, but in the end, no deals were done, so TWC trade window closed here on Tuesday, the 8th. So thanks everyone for making this happen. Now we've got our two boxes of 2021 XR in front of us right here. 2021 XR football and we're going to do five boxes out of you. How many boxes are in here? 10 maybe? So let's select some boxes out of here. All right. So we got one, two, three, four, five on the left side, five on the right side.  I should have bought more die. We're going to go one, two, three for the left side. So five, six for the right side. And it's five. One, two, three, four, five, six. And we're going to save this for some other time. Let's do the XR first. Two autographs, one memorabilia per box on average. That's how they get you with the on average. More of the hits right there. Extra cards there. All right. If you, uh, no harm, no foul. If you want to refund on that, or at least on a couple of the spots, if you see, you can obviously stay in if you want to, but hit that support button and let us know. And we'll take care of you. No worries. Rugs to $249. Drew Laugh to $75. Givante Williams to $99. Jacob Harris. All right. We got an extra, extra read all about it. 34 out of 49 Alvin Camara. Thought that might have been an autograph. Um, let's do this side first, maybe. We've got Diami Brown, triple relic, triple threats, triple relic to $75. I like XR. It's a underrated set, I think. That's Andrew with the commanders. And then on this side is a Justin Fields. Nice. Triple relic and autograph, nine out of 30. RPA, Chicago Bears, John McGee. Won the, uh, won a spot in the filler. Got randomized the Chicago Bears. And as with the Justin Fields, RPA. I know hope springs eternal in the preseason, but I think a lot of people are high on Justin Fields coming into the season. Oh, we're rooting for him. It's Jay Tuffle for the Jags, 249. And then this should be another autograph. Three out of five. Exponential, Inc. Miles Gaskin. That's a train whistle, folks. Out of five and under, get the train whistle. And that will be four. That's going to be for Andrew. Andrew. All aboard the Big Hit Express. On a two Tuesday. Second box. And then the good stuff. They're really good. This is good stuff, but then the really good stuff. The five train whistle, good stuff. They're all one of ones, right? So train whistles are out of five and under. So five more of those. And we've got a Lamar Jackson. DJ Morta, 249. Greg Rousseau, 75. Michael Carter. Adam Thielen, Jarvis Landry. Kyron Matthew to 199. Uh, there's a Carlos Basham to 99. And Elijah Moore. Now your hits behind Emmett Smith. Cowboys is Greg Newsom. Nine out of 49 rookie auto for the Browns. That's for Eric and Cleveland. Cleveland. Behind Tyreek Hill is a big jumbo relic. It's Jamar Chase. 40 out of 49 rookie relic for Cincinnati. Richard with the Bengals. We're on to Cincinnati. We're on to Cincinnati. All right. Behind Tyreek Hill is another commander. It's another Diami Brown. Triple relic in autograph three out of 75. Andrew for the commanders. All right. That was some good stuff. Now to the really good stuff. One of a kind edition series one. They're all one of ones. Good luck. Graded. We got a PSA grade PSA nine. And it's DK Metcalf from 2021 select football black prism. One of one. A PSA nine. One of one's boys and girls. Seattle Seahawks. Andrew with the hawks of the sea. And. All aboard. Subchope. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. Great. One of one sometimes. Sometimes just to protect the card. I guess some people do that. Not essential though. Next one of one is. Marshall Fock. Pro football hall of fame on part autograph. Immaculate football. St. Louis Rams. The Ramley. Obviously goes to the Los Angeles Rams. That's going to be for Aaron W. Aaron. All aboard. The big hit express. It's a good one to do on a two Tuesday. All one of ones. This is a one of one. Tony Pollard rookie autograph from playoff football. Playoffs. Playoffs. That'll be for Dallas. That's going to go to Nicholas. Nicholas. All aboard the big hit express. Two more. One of ones. Another one. Not created. A one of one. They're all one of ones. Another train whistle. And that is going to be a train whistle autograph. That's Travis Etienne Jr. One of one for the Jaguars. That's Michael Ruff. One team in one of spot in the filler got randomized the Jags and gets the. All aboard the big hit express. All right. Last but not least. Good luck. This little got a slightly thicker card here. And it's a Jersey and autograph. It's a one of one. Reach for the sky. That's sky more Jersey and autograph. There's a snake in my boot. And that's going to be for Jared. One of spot in the filler got randomized. The chiefs gets the sky more second. He's going to be in a second year now. Could be interesting to see how he's evolved. Let's see how the chiefs using Jared. All aboard the big hit express. And there's the break. Ladies and gentlemen. That was Jasmine seven box quick hit football mixer. Random team break. Appreciate everyone getting in one way or the other. Thanks for watching. I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye bye.


It's a 2v2 team-based fighting game. This means that two players, four players' couch co-op is going to be so fun, man. With each player piloting a single champion. So we're building a game where you can play... Dude! Oh my gosh, Riot is so genius, man. Riot is so smart. Oh my gosh, I just had an epiphany, man. With... A little bit of a breakdown of what's going on today. Project L. Some Project L footage was released. So we're going to check out Project L. That's Riot's new fighting game. If you guys know anything about Riot, Riot is probably the best gaming company in the world at taking other people's ideas and making them better. They're basically what Blizzard was 30 years ago. They would just steal what everybody else does and then they just do it better. There's a lot of excitement around Project L and seeing what Riot can do with the fighting game.  Is this Darius and Ari? So let's, yeah, let's just watch. Right, this is some of the first footage that's ever come out with Project L publicly. And then you can do kind of like a wall bounce afterwards. That was a parry right there. What is up, everybody? This is Justin Wong. And we had the amazing opportunity to play Project L.  I was invited. Yeah, I was, I was. I just didn't go. I just didn't go. I just didn't go. And let's get into the video. Yeah, I just want to say, like, again, big shout out to Riot for giving us opportunities.  Dude, look at that. The game as you see on Twitter.  Man, like, this game was really sick. Like there was so much to do within the games. And I just want to tell y'all, obviously we're going to let the gameplay play in the background. Dude, this is crazy to look at, dude. The characters that we were able to play and everything. So obviously there's Ari. You have Echo and Darius. So I played Ari and Darius majority of time. And... Dude, this is crazy. Before we get into that, let's talk about like some of the movement stuff. So obviously they talk about movement through the game. It looks too cartoonish. I kind of like, dude, I typically don't like this kind of like cel-shady sort of art style. I think it looks really good here. On a four dash, obviously type four. I think it looks really good. Like, Ari looks sick. So is Darius. Backward dash, back to back. L and M. You can run by just holding like tap four, four. You just hold it. And then obviously you can wave dash like traditional Marvel 2 style, like L, M, down, L, M, down, L, M. So it's like a tag team? It's like a tag team fighter. So the control schemes, it's like you really like L, M, H, like light attack, medium attack. Like tech and tag. And Marvel versus Capcom. And you also have a special one, which is like your specials. Like your character special and special two. Dude, can you play four player? You have some special buttons and you can do two moves usually within each special. So you have a neutral special and then you have a directional special for each one. Some characters have- Dude, if you can play four player, that'd be sick, dude. That'll do like different stuff. How does co-op four player? Then you also have the tag button. So your tag button is also your assist.  And then if you just press tag in general, you do a tag launch. If you hold tag, you do like a quick tag. There's something I don't like about the UI. But it's, I mean, the game's not done yet, right? If you do back tag, you do like their assist too. So you can do two assists per character. And obviously what you just saw- It's placeholder UI? Okay. Retreating guard. And retreating guard is so interesting because retreating guard is literally a reverse version of push block where like you actually put yourself in the corner by retreating, but it is, it loses to lows. So if you think somebody's just mashing retreat guard the whole entire time, you can just clip them below and you actually stop the retreating. And then there's push block. But push block in general is actually more expensive. It's a really, really good push block. Not one of those push blocks where you're like you can gate everything. And it has- I don't know what the happiest words Justin are saying means. Now you have to spend a bar. You have to spend one bar to get the push block out, which is pretty expensive, right? And then you have parries.  Okay. Parries are kind of like where it's like 305, like where you think of it, it's like you just throw it out and if it succeeds, then you get a punish. So if it does succeed, they cost one bar to do by the way. If you succeed, you get your meter back. I will be honest with you guys. Look at these animations.  I think these animations are, they're too heavy. And it's too, like it's too hard to actually like see the animations of the, yeah, it's way too dank. Like this is not, I feel like in a fighting game, like it's cool to have like cool animations, but like I want to be able to actually like see what the character is doing. You don't succeed. You're just- It's not that bad, really? In this animation where- Maybe I'm just not used to it, but like- Obviously you have getup attack. You just hold S1. I feel like I can't see where Darius's axe is because I'm seeing this big swoosh. That's true. And it's pretty much like kind of like a, like a D.O.A. wake up attack where you're just like- It grows under your eyes will filter it. Yeah, but I feel like it shouldn't even have to do that. Pretty much- Because what happens is, what happens is somebody who's new, they might be put off by it immediately, even if they, because like if, if the barrier of entry to being able to watch and understand what's ha- Just understand is like one hour, that's too much. It should just be like, like I should, I should be able to see what they're doing. So that's kind of your like, I guess- This is from like a new play, like for me, I'm like a fighting game noob. You block it, you can obviously pun it there. And I think one of the biggest, like my perspective is I'm a noob, right? I'm new to fighting games, right? So my perspective comes from where most people are. Most people are really bad at fighting games. And the biggest thing, like the fighting game community probably needs is they need their games to be accessible to new players, right? That's the whole idea behind the modern controls, even existing in Street Fighter. People have been saying it for years, it's like, oh, like fighting games are dying, this and that. It's like, you just have to fix the accessibility there of like being able to, you've gotta have this thing where there's a fine line between the barrier of entry being low enough for new players to come in, but the game also having enough like, technicality to it, to where you have this feeling of progression at the top where there's a stark difference between the best and the best of the best. And I feel like that's like a general sort of line of thinking that all games should have. But the problem is is for most fighting games, that barrier of entry, you have the second part that I was talking about, you don't have that barrier of entry being low enough. It's almost the same thing with WoW Retail versus Classic PvP. I think it's a general thing in all gaming, yeah. No, I think it's not just fighting games. I think that's like a good sort of like mentality to have with a lot of games in general. I think when looking at this specifically, you, I just, it looks cool. I just hope that they tone down some of these animations. So there's some of like the effects so that I can see the animations. I can see the characters moving. As well too, there's air recovery if you hold any buttons. And the only way for you to tell that you can do air recovery is when you see the combos, the combos are like one, two hit, three hit, four hit. As the numbers you see going up, they're pretty much white. Once the number becomes like a black number where it's like, that pretty much means the combo. Accessible games still die. Well, all games die, right? Like die. All games die to the average viewer.  It's not dead at all. But they'll say like, this game is so dead. Blah, blah, blah. And it's like, no, it's not dead. If you have a bigger player pool to choose from, chances are more people will get through. Like if you put more water through the hose, then more water's gonna come out the other end. And let's look at high school sports. In Texas, 5A football, or 6A football teams, right? 5A, 6A, big, big schools. 5A schools, 6A schools. They're higher population schools and they're put in a different bracket. The reason for that is because you have a bigger population of students. And because you have a bigger population of students, let's say 5% of the students are good athletes. Like 5% of 10,000 students is gonna be way higher than a small school's 5% of their 100 students, right? So the idea is, is they're gonna have more better players because there's more people to choose from in the first place. If you don't flip out that right time, then they can kind of continue to combo, which is kind of interesting. It's not like, it's not like school girls where you could just like burst at any given point. Watch Max's video, I wanna watch both of those. And once you let go, then they perform their actions. So, cause obviously some assist doesn't have range. Cause like, you know how like Marvel 2, when you call your assistant on full screen, they just do their move and like draw, it's not gonna hit. So with charge assist, you can make them run towards the opponent and then do their action. Obviously they can be hit while in the process, right? And obviously when you do your assist, anytime that your assistant is out, if you just hit the tag button, you do what they call a quick tag. And then pretty much it's very similar to like Power Rangers battle. That was sick. Where you just tag in, where you tag in that character and then that assist becomes the now new point here. Dynamic save, we saw that earlier, pretty much it's your burst, the meter below that bar of your life bar, that's your burst. And obviously if you fuse it, you have to build it again. And right now I do think it's pretty slow in terms of building a bank. So you gotta be careful about that, right? You have to really be careful about that. And then- Dude, Ari looks sick, man. Like, oh, do we have kind of like, you know, how does the combos work? So the combos are like, you know, LMH special. There's also Link, Starius is really good with the links, man. He could do like, he could do standing M, standing H, then forward S2. Then Link after that, go into a- Have they, have they said what, what characters you can play? Okay, you know what's funny? You know what I just did? You know, in Street Fighter, I keep calling the characters champions. Right then I almost said champions and I stopped myself from saying champions and I said characters, but in this, they actually are champions.  Okay, these actually are champions. Dude, I'm so excited, man. Project L is gonna be sick, dude. I'm gonna, I'm gonna keep clicking through this video. Honestly, right? Cause the thing is Justin has given like a super in depth, like more advanced explanation. Dude, also, you know what else? I like how Justin explains things, even if I don't understand. I don't understand, it's my fault that I don't understand some of the things he's saying, because I just don't know, right? But you can tell Justin explains things in the same way I do, where he, I feel like he's talking about like, this is this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, and because of all these things, then this. That you can tell like, I like, I like how he explains things cause it's like very detail oriented. Your fusions- I just don't know what a lot of this, this, this or this is, because I'm a noob. Yeah. Different ways to play. So you see the lights bars next to the, you see where the next to the time, you see those little emblems? That's man, you have nice calves. That's weird, because that's part of what I did today in my physical therapy. Dude, you know what kind of freaks me out? And you quick tag, and then you have the quick- Just just watching the animations. Let's say you block that, then the person with the freestyle mode can actually do a second tag, and then- Can you just get double teamed the whole time here? Tag, then you have the quick- I was over here. Can I just be, can I get like stun locked into a double team? Quick tag, quickly block the other way. So let's say you block that, then the person with the freestyle mode can actually do a second tag, and then- So what about if you can keep, you can keep juggling? A second tag, and then come back with the original character. So there's two men- And then that's a super- It's like Louis, left, right, left, right, left, right. So that's, I will say that's really cool. Then there's, I think the few, I forgot that there was a red one, but I don't think nobody used a red one. I think that one's still being worked on. And I think what's really cool is that like, you know, it's talking to the devs and everything. They're saying like literally every day there's like a new- Animations are ass, I think the animations are sick. I think the effects are a little bit overboard. Balancing everything, yeah, that's a double down. That's the super. I think the effects are a little bit overboard. Because the crazy part is like you can't do like- Actually, by the way, I said I think it's too much. I don't think it's way too much. I think it's like 20% too much. Every character has three supers. So you have a two level one supers, and how you do them is just do down, down, special one button. And then the second super is down, down, special two button. And I'm pretty sure you guys can guess what level two is. Down, down, hit S1. Wait, so it's confirmed that it is gonna be basically modern controls. Plays that there. Yeah. Sweet dreams. I really did enjoy this game at the time. They also ran a tournament, and surprisingly me and Sonic Foss were in grand finals. Sonic was able to win, Sonic's so cheap. What's really cool is that they just didn't eat them. He was able to win. He's really cheap, anyway. Already had all these different color schemes already. Like it wasn't just like two colors. I liked the fact that I was able to press- Oh dude, that blue, that blue armor there. That blue armor there, that was really cool. So let's talk about the gameplay. So Darius is probably the easiest character to play. He really reminds me of kind of like Marissa from Street Fighter, from Street Fighter 6 to much just like big tank character, big buttons, combos are super easy. And he has really good loops. He has a get off of me armor DP. Dude, I wanna do a stream with Justin where he teaches me Street Fighter stuff. Who else do you guys think is gonna be in the game? Valorant characters? No, isn't it just gonna be lead characters? What up, Goob? Link the list. Link lists. Flashback computer science. Set? Set and Vi are probably in, for sure. Jinx. Of course.  Rumored champions, Akali, Braum, Blitzcrank, Ezreal, Garin, Lucian. Come on, where's Kale? That kinda hurt my thumb. Where's Kale? Frick, karma, you're gonna have karma in this and not Kale, man? Come on. Then again, how do you play Kale? Kale as his owner would be sick. Dude, look, it's just the fricking assassins and the beefers, dude. Look, Zed, Yasuo. Oh my gosh, Teemo.  Teemo should not be in this game and Kale's not in this game.   What's next? Are they gonna put fricking Twitch in the game? I was hiding! Like, this Twitch was invisible and just like railing you from like 80 yards away. Like, select character select screen. I like this, actually. Dude, Ari's design is sick. Darius is pretty cool. Echo looks pretty much exactly like Echo. I like Ari's splash and I like Echo, not Splash, but like their portrait and I like Echo's portrait. Darius is okay. I like the different color options. Dude, Ari looks sick. The blue, the red, white, the green. Darius is pretty cool. I like Darius's blue that we saw in the video. They made Darius 10 years younger, did they? I think Darius is older. You get bleed. So because you have bleed, now you take chip damage off normal. It's gonna stop Kreygasm and me over Ari. I'm not Kreygasm.  Did he get chipped?  Dude, I love fighting games, man. And just go to town with the orbs and you just do massive chip damage, right? So that's really cool about it. Maybe fighting games are my new grind, dude. He just did like double assist. Now that I don't have like anything that I want to like rank up in and... But using the wow or anything else. It makes things so much better in terms of that, right? Yep. Darius has a wall bounce, which is really nice as well too.  I am kind of a rancor or not. Like I love climbing the ladder, dude. That's really a Vegeta. That's why I like Metal Gear Solid 3 so much. You know how Vegeta, Susan, Dragon Ball just really just clipped you. Wait, this super hard to sit. Look at this animation. And look at that, that's a big... I call that, even though that's not... They call it the cold start. That's really a Vegeta, Susan. Oh my gosh. You know how Vegeta, Susan, Dragon Ball just really just clipped you. Look at this animation though, the level two super. And... But overall, I mean, I really did enjoy just playing this game. Combat 1, Tekken 8. This is nowhere near to be done. There's only three characters and you already know League of Legends has so many different type of characters. But they asked us for a lot of feedback and we were able to give a lot of feedback. I was saying, oh, I don't like the fact that Push Block cost one whole bar. Meter building was pretty slow. I think at least in the start of the game you should start with one bar so you can have a Push Block available for defensive mechanism. Because obviously this type of game, you can get mauled. You know what I mean? You can see that you can get mauled because Retreating Guard, even though it's a reverse Push Block, as you, while you're doing... Look, so you can see, oh no, it's a tag. He tagged out and he's healing. You're putting yourself in the corner. So because you're putting yourself in the corner, obviously, eventually you have no room to... You can grind Metal Gear Solid 5. Dude, I saw Chris Reagan on Twitter talking about Metal Gear Solid 5. He just started playing Metal Gear Solid 5 and he's in love with it. You know, to back away from it. And it loses to Lowe. So if you like stagger of Lowe's and everything like that, you actually just clip them from using Retreating Guard, right? Because that's why they added this... They added a button where you have three C. Right, three head. Yeah, there was a bunch of people on the comments saying that they didn't like it when it came out, but now they're playing it again without like... Regular launch. What is the opposite of Rose Tinted Goggles?  And I feel like a lot of people had that after Metal Gear Solid 3 and 4, going into Metal Gear Solid 5. It's, you do a sweep. So because if you hold it and you do a sweep and everything, that is going to change a lot. I spend things while brain translates to fighters. I, dude, I do, man. Cause you're pressing buttons and like button combos. It's a lot like hitting your keybinds. Even like, look at, look at LaCarrie. LaCarrie was an MMO player. LaCarrie could be a statistical anomaly. You get all your while friends playing a street fighter tournament to see if Lowe transfers fighting games. Well, I don't think it's about being good right away. I think it's how fast you learn. Cause also look at me. Cause everybody was saying I was learning like super fast compared to like most people that are new to fighting games. Dude, you know what would be crazy as if we go to Evo and they had like a demo. But no, there's no way they would do that. Wait, there is. Wait, there's, they're going to have a demo? Wait, really? Wait, where was that announced? I didn't see it anywhere. They literally announced it today. Dude, I, oh man. Evo is going to be amazing, dude. I can't wait to go stream that. IRL streams at Evo. Dude, the energy is going to be nuts. Also, you know what else is cool about fighting games? Dude, the community is like the fighting game community. There's two parts to this that I've noticed. I feel like any game community is like this. There can be like wishy washy where people like really tune in for like something is going on. They all show up, right? But also at least on Twitch, the fighting game community on Twitch is very welcoming to new players, like not toxic because they're like, thank God, new people are playing the game. And I think that's what it is. Thank God new people are playing the game. And thank God if more people are playing the game that I can beat up on them and my rank goes up. I think that's what it is. Let's see.  Hey everyone. It's our favorite time of year. So we thought we'd check in and let you all know what's happening with Project L. From the start of this project, we felt that if we were going to make a fighting game, we needed to bring something new to the genre. We're investing in some big ideas that we hope will unlock new kinds of fun for fighting game fans. I'm happy to introduce one of those big bets for you today, which some of you have already suspected. Project L isn't just a tag-based fighting game. It's a 2v2 team-based fighting game. This means that- Dude, four players' house co-op is going to be so fun, man. With each player piloting a single champion. So we're building a game where you can play- Dude, oh my gosh, Riot is so genius, man. Riot is so smart. Oh my gosh, I just had an epiphany, man. No matter what happens, Riot, they will always keep making games that you can blame your teammates whenever you lose, man. They just keep blaming your teammates whenever you lose. It's not my fault. And then they keep playing, dude. Oh my gosh. And we're all against them. Dude, these guys- I'm going to toss it over to Sean to explain how it works. Damn, that hurts. Maybe I just handshake and you jump up after it. Steven, I team up against me next. That's sick. Get the spin. Alright, it's going to be cheap, are you ready? Oh, you like that? That's kind of clean. You do love to see it. Y'all have no idea how long I've been waiting to talk about this. This is Clock, one of our game designers. Yo, what's up everyone? Let's get into it. It's a person. Dual play works a bit like tag team wrestling. One player controls the champ on stage and the other waits offscreen for their teammate to find the right moment to tag them in. In our last update, we showcased some of our tag mechanics, all of which were designed from the ground up to encourage teamwork. Clock is marvelous. Sharing victories, defeats, performing combos together for saving your partner in a clutch moment are just some of the new ways you can experience the game as a duo. Project L will support 1v1, 2v2, and even 2v1 matchups. So don't worry solo players. You can still play as a solo tag team fighter and control both champs at once. Fight your own battles or bring a friend. The choice is yours. Time to throw it in. Whatever your setup, our systems are designed to feel fluid and rewarding for players on stage and off screen. And that starts before you even get into a match. Before the game starts, each team can choose to customize how their champs play together with something we're calling the Fuse system. With Fuses, you can choose between powerful synergies that change up your duo's play style and really allow player expression to shine. I want to talk about one Fuse called 2x Assist. This allows your team to throw out two assists back to back instead of just one. With each champion having two assists and some of them being chargeable, there is a lot to discover. But you can always change your Fuse for the next match to find out what feels right. We're really excited for all the possibilities here and can't wait to see what you come up with. Teamplay is at the heart of Project L's design and the foundation of the game overall. Dude, Project L trash talk. We know it's a difficult design challenge to get right, but we spend a lot of time figuring out how to make duo play something truly unique and special for y'all to enjoy in Master. I'm sure you've got loads of questions, so keep them close, because I have one more thing to tell you all. I'm thrilled to say that Project L will have a playable demo at Evo, but you can come try out the game on the show floor. We'll have four champions available, no sign up required. Whether you're attending or not, look out for another update with more revealed soon. In the meantime, go check out this full 2v2 match between four of our devs. Link in the description below. Thank you all for watching and see you in Las Vegas. Dude, fighting games are sick, man. What's up, dudes? Max here and all, man, I think you guys have been waiting for this one. So over the past week or so, I had the opportunity to go down to Riot Studios and with several other friends and colleagues in the content creator Fighting Game Spectrum, we were able to check out and finally play one of the most anticipated fighting games, I think of all time, Project L. So I kind of want to go over in this video, core and base impressions. They did give us some B-roll and matches to kind of highlight and show off the game. Please have this running in 4K if you possibly can to see how good the game actually looks. And yeah, I want to give you sort of a rundown of what's in the game and then talk a bit about my impressions of the entire experience and where they could possibly be going from this point forward. So quickly covering our bases for anybody that doesn't know, Project L is no longer a 1v1 game that we first saw many, many, many years ago before 2020. It is indeed a tag team fighting game, a two versus two game specifically. And one of the most interesting things that Project L is going to be doing that hasn't been talked about too much and is going to be revealed very soon is the fact that this is a 2v2 game and yes, there is proper duos. You can ask one player controlling one character on each team and fighting each other offline in whatever scenario you can possibly think of. The other thing that the game does have is the ability for you to play solos versus duos. So if you want to control both characters on a team like a traditional tag team fighting game, you can. Or you can play against other people that are piloting the two characters at the same time. One person on one character and a person on the other characters. So there can be a mixture between like solos and duos if you want to carry your friend. This is a lot cleaner in terms of effects than the previous video, or is it me? This is like a raw gameplay video. Specifically great at fighting games. Like this is like recorded in 4K. This makes a lot of sense for me. I feel like Max's video is, this is like a YouTuber video.  Whereas Max's video is like, this is like a YouTube. You know what I mean? We sort of saw this. It seems like all the characters have like the same, like they have the same like buttons for the moves. Potions. The game is four attack buttons technically between light, medium, heavy and tag.  The MMO is like five years out. Dude, I wonder if like having certain combos of characters like for like tags and stuff to get special tags. Or maybe that's bad, maybe that's bad because it gets unbalanced. I'm 13 minutes into this video. Where are the red bars? I think the red bar is- Project L. So from what it looks like to me, it's a red bar is like- And going into some of my impressions of what's going on here and the roster and the characters, which is obviously like, we're going to see a lot of the characters. And then the white bar is like damage that's already occurred in the middle of the combo.  While Ari and Echo took a little while to get used to, Ari's kind of like, you know, the Wolverine of the game in many ways. She's got a lot of unique tools.  I don't really want to get into the individual character stuff because I feel like we're going to have a lot of opportunities to do that in the future. I just want to talk about- It looks like chip damage. I think so what happens is one of you swap them out, the red heals. From what we had played and what I just explained to you for 13 straight minutes, it's a lot, bro. There's a lot of stuff in this game that is feeling like it's directly made for fighting game players. Ed Boris, timer of the video. There's so many of these mechanics inherently. And as we were playing it and figuring out stuff the characters could do, I couldn't help but sort of be taken back by how intrinsically fighting game player focused all of this is. And while it is kind of refreshing to see a fighting game go completely ham on mechanics and all of this stuff, I kind of wouldn't be surprised to see some of this stuff toned down because this is a degenerate game. It is a game where you are going to get opened up non-friggin' stop. And especially when people start getting used to this handshake tag stuff, like constantly- Oh yeah, Riven's gotta be playable, right? If anybody has seen Power Rangers, bro, if you've seen how that game works and how you mix people up, it is very similar in Project L.   And yeah, you would think, okay, you got defensive mechanics, though. However, in my experience, this game is front-loaded with absolutely ballistic offense, but it does have a lot of defense and the developers.  Welcome to the real world! Welcome to the real world! Welcome to the real world! Welcome to the real world! Welcome to the real world! Time to learn! You gonna learn today! You're gonna learn today! You're gonna learn today! It is a good cheap move. Did they say Jax? Did they say Jax is not gonna be in the new Mortal Kombat? He is? Because I saw this all confirmed characters and Jax wasn't in here. See, it's confirmed cameo is Jax. What's the cameo? I mean, who would I play? I'd probably play as Johnny Cage, Liu Kang. Is it who I would wanna play as? Raiden, Scorpion, Sub-Zero, one of those. Frick. Parrys can be Whift, the push block cost meter, and at the moment, meter's kind of hard to get. So I do hope that- Oh, that's the same thing Justin was saying in his video. That's the same thing Justin was saying I think they've nailed the art style. They've come up with something- The art looks really good, man. Just looking at this game, this is a fun game to look at. And I'll be honest with you, even not knowing exactly what's going on, it's kind of mesmerizing to look at this. Especially with like Echo, Ari, and Darius. So I think the best looking character in the game right now is Echo. I just can't believe how great his secondary animations are and the way everything feels and looks. It's so good. And Darius has a huge amount of weight and impact to his attacks. I am not concerned about how dope the characters are going to look in this game and how they're going to feel because so far with every single character that has been playable, man, they have nailed it. It's very exciting. And the good part is that the devs were super open to feedback. Granted, this is going to be a big eSports game eventually and we know that, but they have been saying time and time again that we have to make a great game first before it's becoming an eSport. So they get it. It's obvious that these devs understand that they're looking for like high level feedback even at this point in the game where they're still figuring out systems and how. Let's go versus fight. Similar to how in Valorant they call it a spike instead of a bomb. It's brand safety. Things work. And we were able to be honest and truthful about who cares about a lot of this stuff. And yeah, the defense seemed to be one of the things that kept popping up every once in a while when we were talking to people and how the game sort of plays. So yeah, I'm very much looking forward to seeing how all this. Like who cares either way? Do not anticipate we're going to be seeing this thing coming out anytime soon. And they are still figuring out the core system.  This guy's wielding this massive axe and slamming into this girl's head. Like hello.  The word doesn't matter. I mean, it's what it is.  There's going to be so much more footage and even more stuff that I can talk about at a later date. So stay tuned. We'll be covering Project L extensively and also checking out how things are going to go down at EVO because there's probably going to be a whole bunch of new information and things to see. So I can't wait for that. So that kind of stuff doesn't matter to me either way. I don't care what they say. I don't care. I don't care what they. Thanks a ton for leaving a comment or a thumbs up on this video. As you know, it helps out the channel a ton. And thank you guys for checking out my Project L first impressions, which is crazy to say considering how long we've been following this game. Until then, my name is Max and I'll see you guys next time. Yeah, I think Justin and Max's videos were really, really nice to watch, both of them. I mean, dude, here's my thing, man. I'm excited for Project L. I'm excited to go to EVO and IRL stream at EVO. So if you guys are if you guys are paying attention to EVO stuff or I mean, you guys just like watching my IRL streams, I will be at EVO in Las Vegas. So we'll be doing some Las Vegas streams for a few days. A lot of stuff going on in the second half of the year. A lot of stuff going on IRL events, everything, games, working on tailgate stuff, everything, right? But I'm excited for a lot of games too, right? Like Project L and I've been playing Street Fighter lately and, you know, we got Madden coming up. There's just so much around like on the horizon here that we have to be excited about. So I'm just, hey, I'm happy, I'm happy. I got games to play, I got things to watch, I got things to do.  Anytime we're doing something, anytime we're doing an event or anything like that, make sure to check out the schedule on Twitch, right? You can exit or dollar sign schedule on Twitch chat and then it'll show you that. Discord, YouTube, Instagram, Reddit, Twitch, Twitter, everything is S-FanTV. So follow everything, sub to everything, join the Discord, follow my Twitter, check my Twitter, Instagram, everything for updates, threads even, all that stuff, even though I haven't posted there yet. But we got everything. Everything is S-FanTV. It's cool to see how excited these guys are to have like new people coming in and to play their games and to watch stuff. So year of the decade for video games, a lot of games, man. A lot of games, a lot of IRL, a lot of variety. The widest variety of content on Twitch, okay?


Welcome to the New Hawk territory. New Hawk means all of us. I'd like to say welcome to y'all. We have the Anarco River, which flows along Highway 20, so it has easy access to view bears in their natural habitat. And as bear viewing became a more popular activity within British Columbia, word of mouth spread. They would sort of come to this accessible location and do so on their own terms. There's sometimes a perception that bear viewing, as it's non-consumptive, that there's no impacts. Wildlife watching can have negative impacts. Whether or not those impacts are so negative that it affects a species' ability to survive depends often on how those activities are managed. Some bears just aren't tolerant of human activity and they won't fish on the river and they won't put on enough calories. And as people keep coming and the interest keeps growing, we need to create a safer facility for people to do that. So that's the Blair-Koala viewing area. Got an electric fence around the bear viewing area. There's lots of signage and this area is always staffed with park rangers and members from the New Hawk Nation that we work with. Yes, we do have a collaborative manage with BC Parks. Like it's two governments working together. Any management decision in the parks is a joint decision between a New Hawk and a parks. Yeah, another unique component to this now is that we have this relationship with the University of Victoria. Well, decision-making ought to be informed by data so empirical evidence of what's happening on the ground with wildlife individuals and in this case bears. So we as researchers are interested in contributing to the literature and improving population and individual level fitness of grizzly bears in this case. So this creates this amazing network now of research and it wouldn't happen without the collaboration with the New Hawk Nation. Everybody here has a vested interest in essentially sustainable tourism. I'm all about education because if people know about the outdoors, they care about it and they'll look after it. I think a lot of us want to see people with an appreciation of nature and understanding of nature. People are more passionate about protecting things that they love and they're more likely to love something that they have experience with.


Hey, mom you're feeling better ready Not sure. I'm still feeling it that little injury will stop you. Yeah, I really hope so


NASA has chosen their path forward to explore and redirect near-Earth asteroids. This is your space pod for March 26, 2015. Ex-United States President George W. Bush initiated the constellation program in 2005 with the purpose of sending humans back to the moon. After the Augustine Commission found that the program was over budget, behind schedule, and unsustainable, in 2010 current President Barack Obama cancelled the constellation program and proposed a new direction for NASA to go to a near-Earth asteroid and eventually to Mars. Elements of the constellation program survived, such as the Orion capsule and the Aries 5 rocket, which was cancelled but reborn as the space launch system. As time has passed and new methods for detecting near-Earth asteroids have been utilized, NASA has developed a program called the Asteroid Redirect Mission, or ARM, which is under the umbrella of a larger program, the Asteroid Initiative. After carefully reviewing proposals on how to achieve their goals, they have selected the method of asteroid retrieval they would like to move forward with. They have chosen to extract a large boulder from a larger asteroid in favor of capturing an entire small asteroid. Using this method, not only would it be easier to move such a boulder into lunar orbit, but they would also be able to move or redirect the parent asteroid through a technique called a gravity tractor. Although, unfortunately, it's not some sort of futures to start Trek Tractor Beam. Oh, I wish it was. What is cool is that this technique takes advantage of mass and gravity to move an object into a desired path or orbit. The way it works is that all mass exerts and experiences gravity, and in space that effect is amplified, and even two small-sized objects can affect each other's motion. Thus, if a spacecraft rendezvous with an asteroid and assumes a halo orbit in just the right direction, that spacecraft could slowly pull an asteroid without even touching it. This technique becomes even more effective if that spacecraft has already retrieved a large boulder and increased its own mass. After performing the gravity tractor maneuver, the spacecraft and boulder would travel to a stable orbit around the moon where it would later be intercepted by and docked with an Orion capsule carrying two astronauts who would collect samples of the boulder before returning to Earth. So far, the only official crewed mission on an Orion capsule scheduled is the first crewed flight test of the Orion in 2021, following the first launch of the space launch system currently scheduled for 2018. NASA has stated that to reach the goal of sending humans to an asteroid by the mid-2020s, they would need to launch the robotic spacecraft by 2019 and keep the price fixed at or below $1.25 billion. One of the factors that is influencing the price and timeline of this mission is NASA's plan to use solar electric propulsion on the robotic spacecraft. Solar electric propulsion is ion thrusters that has its propellant ionized by solar power rather than nuclear power. The configuration they're planning to use on this spacecraft would be able to test and validate such a propulsion system to the point where they could start using solar electric propulsion on many future exploration missions. A lot of people think that we should go back to the moon first, myself included, but I do think that this mission is pretty cool. When I first heard that we were only going to be grabbing a large boulder from a much larger asteroid, I thought that that was just silly. But after learning more about this, I do think that this is pretty awesome and especially being able to take advantage of nature and science and physics in this way to redirect some of these larger near-Earth asteroids out there, I think that that's awesome and it's something that we need to do eventually anyway if we plan on continuing to live here on Earth for the next couple of hundred or thousands of years to come. But anyway, in other news, we saw three successful orbital launches yesterday. United Launch Alliance launched the 9th Block 2F GPS satellite for the United States Air Force on a Delta IV rocket. Japan launched the IGS optical 5 imaging satellite for Japan's military on an H2A rocket. And Kosmotras, a joint company between Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan, successfully launched the CompSat 3A satellite. It's an imaging and information satellite for South Korea on a Dnieper rocket. The CEO of Kosmotras stated that they would fulfill their commitments of launching foreign spacecraft on the Dnieper rocket, which equals to about three more launches of the rocket this year, despite earlier reports that Russia was pulling out of the Dnieper program. Speaking of Russia, Roscosmos has officially announced their intention to restart tourist flights to the International Space Station by 2018 on their Soyuz capsules. This is due in part to losing NASA as a customer, because hopefully NASA astronauts will be riding on commercial crew vehicles by then. Anyway, I would love to know what you think about NASA's plan to capture, redirect, and visit an asteroid. And don't forget to subscribe to our channel, and if you'd like to find out more information about how you can help us to bring you content like this, then please visit patreon.com slash tmro to find out more information about how you can become one of the citizens of tomorrow. Regardless of which path NASA's human spaceflight programs take, I am rooting for all of them, because the tomorrow I want to see is the one where we are exploring and expanding our human presence into the rest of the solar system.


Welcome to another photography walk and talk. Today we're talking Pintex new film camera announcement part two. My last video was made right after I had seen a video announcing Pintex's new film camera they're developing. It was talking about the specs and and what this camera was going to be. I think that video came across too negative. I try to keep things positive on this channel except for the occasional self deprecation. I've been known to not like what I do. I'm not that impressed with my photography usually. Occasionally I'll get something I like but I can be pretty critical. It was pretty clear in that last video that I was pretty disappointed. I was disappointed with the choice that Pintex was making. But why was I so disappointed? I've been thinking about that a lot this week. And what I think it comes down to is I think I was disappointed with their marketing. Their perceived marketing, how I perceive their marketing of this product. And I think I was also disappointed because I was putting a lot of hope in this company to save photography. Come out with a new camera product, a new camera. I don't think that's fair. And I think what triggered me the most, which was pretty clear in the video, was the appearance that they were marketing this as a cool social media camera. And I don't know why that triggered me. It's really just a marketing strategy that might pay off for them. And however they decide to market their products, that's their business. It's their product. I expected their first camera, their new camera to be geared towards the younger photographer. I expected it to be basic. What I was hoping for was something like a point and shoot camera basically, but something a little cooler like maybe a Contax T2 or something more practical like an Olympus stylus. I was hoping it'd be cool if somebody was making something like that. I think my initial response was, well, that's kind of boring. It's a half frame camera. Why do I want, why do we need a half frame camera? There's already some of those out there. But really it's not my decision. I'm not putting up the money. I'm not the one trying to come out with a new camera product. I really don't have a thing to say about it. I wasn't happy with the half frame aspect of this new camera. Then I started thinking, well, why is that so disappointing? Why does that bother me? I actually love pinhole cameras, the photography people do with it. The lower resolution aspect of a half frame camera shouldn't be that big of an issue to me. I've had quite a few prints done with cameras that had 12 megapixels. I have one in my living room, a pretty good size print that I absolutely love. I think it was made on a 6 megapixel camera. I think part of my problem is I still judge film photography like I used to when I started out many years ago. When I was a younger photographer shooting 35 millimeter, I was always longing for higher image quality, sharpness, resolution. I ended up going to large format. But now that we're in 2024, there are some digital cameras can do all that. It doesn't, I don't need that high resolution look. I don't need the super sharp images. I'm not doing documentary natural history photos. I'm doing my impression, an artistic impression of nature. It's easy to get stuck in our ways, or at least it's easy for me to get stuck in my ways using the same film, the same type of camera, same format, work the same way all the time. And while consistency is good, I need to be more open to other possibilities, other ways to express myself with photography. In my last video, I said, this camera is not for me. But after giving it some thought, this camera could be for me. If I'm, if I open myself up to the possibilities, there could be something, a look that this camera gives that I might find desirable in my photography. I shouldn't be so close minded. The limitation isn't the camera. The limitation is my imagination on how to use the camera. It's up to me to figure out how can I be creative, how can I express myself with this camera. And that goes for any camera, whether it be a 110 or a 8 by 10 large format. It's up to me to figure out how to be creative, how to express myself with this camera. It's not Pentax's responsibility to save film photography. I shouldn't be putting that on them. Whether they succeed or they don't, I should at least be applauding and supporting their efforts. If I can afford it, I will purchase, I will buy one of these cameras. Unfortunately, I'm one of those poor photographers. But if I can, if I can swing it, I'm going to try to support these efforts. No one's going to see this video at Pentax or RICO. I just want to say I'm sorry for being unfair in my judgment. I want to be supportive. I want to do the best I can to support anybody's efforts to bringing out something new that can enhance the film photography experience. Well, I've groveled enough here, so I think we're going to end today's video right here. Until next time, thanks for coming along for the ride.


I'm Jackie Batley from the University of Western Australia and my research area focuses on plant pathogen interactions. We use DNA to identify resistance genes which makes one plant resistant and not get disease and other plants susceptible if they don't have the gene. So we recently made a really interesting discovery where we found one of these resistance genes and it's significant because it means that we can have much better resistance to this pathogen black leg in canola by being able to produce plants which are resistant to disease and not susceptible. We can increase crop yields and help have sustainable food for the future. This was research that took probably over 10 years. It's actually a long and difficult path and it's been a real team of people bringing it together. It's a gradual process where we think we found it but we have to do lots of validation to find the gene but there was great excitement when we realised it was the right one. Juggling motherhood and a career has been difficult at times. I have four children aged between six and twelve but I actually think it's been a benefit to me because it's made me more motivated. It's made me realise what's important including in my research. I'm always inspired by science. It's a process where I learn something new every single day and you answer one question and it opens up 20 more questions and it's always something fascinating to work on and always something different.


Stanley Nelson Jr. is an American film director whose work includes Freedom Riders, Jonestown, The Life and Death of People's Temple, The Murder of Emmett Till, A Place of Our Own, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Raise Your Voice, and Wounded Knee, his latest film, which is playing at the NYC Dock Festival in early November. His latest film, the documentary, entitled The Black Panthers, Vanguards of the Revolution, combines archival footage and interviews with surviving panthers and FBI agents to tell the story of the revolutionary Black organization. It is Stanley Nelson's eighth film to premiere at Sundance. Welcome to the show, Stanley Nelson Jr. Thank you so much. It's so great to be on the show. The Black Panthers, what year were they founded? The Black Panthers were founded in Oakland, California in 1966. And who was the founding voice, the founding member? Well, the panthers were founded by two African American college students at that point, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. They were founded in Oakland as a response to police brutality? Yeah, yeah. I mean, the Oakland police at that point were notorious. They were notoriously brutal, notoriously racist. And Huey Newton and Bobby Seale said, you know, we've got to do something about it. They found that there was a law in California that I think most people want to wear out that you could carry a loaded weapon as long as you carry it in the open. So what they would do was with maybe four or five other people at that point, which was a total membership of the Black Panther Party, they would follow the police and do what they call police in the police. So if the police jumped out at, let's say, a traffic stop or something like that, the panthers would jump out behind the police with their guns, loaded weapons, and stand there at a safe distance away. So they kind of weren't interfering with the police. And then do what they call police, the police, and try to make sure that the police were not engaging in something that the panthers called, you know, brutal actions. Eventually, a police officer died in a shootout and Huey Newton went to jail, hence the free Huey banners that went up all over America. We'll get to that in a second. How successful were the Black Panthers at policing the police? Well, I think that, you know, I think that you have to understand that I think what the panthers are trying to do is make a statement, you know, and they think that that's what, and they did that. I think they're very successful in making that statement.  But, you know, you call attention to yourselves.  But did they, did they, did they succeed in stopping any police brutality? I don't think they, no, I don't think they, they stopped police brutality. That's pretty obvious with what's going on today. So, so, you know, they, they didn't do that. But I think they did become, you know, so widely known that here we are 50 years later and we're talking about the Black Panthers. I think also what you have to take into account is very quickly the California State Legislature moved to make it illegal to carry guns in the open. Yeah, I want to get to that in a sec, in a second, if you don't mind. When I asked you if the Black Panthers were successful in stopping police brutality, what I meant was, were there any incidents where they were able to stop one act of police brutality? Well, I think that there were no acts of police brutality while they were standing there with their guns loaded guns drawn. So who knows what would have happened if they weren't there. So, you know, I mean, that's just conjecture. But, but I think the police would tend to be less brutal. And maybe that was because they were so concerned with this specter of, of African American standing there with loaded weapons while they went about their business. What do you think the police fear most, a loaded weapon or a loaded cell phone? I think they say they, I think they fear a loaded weapon a lot more than they fear a loaded cell phone. I think we've seen, we've seen over and over again that that they're really not scared of a loaded cell phone because they keep doing, you know, you know, these, these insane, insanely criminal things while people are filming them. So it doesn't seem like they're, they're, they're, they're that scared. They're so used to acting with impunity that I don't think at this point cell phones are very scared of that much. Hopefully they will. Did they ever use one of their weapons on the police? What happened with Huey Newton? Why did he end up going to put? Yeah, no, one of the things that's so amazing about that is that the violence never did erupt from the policing of the police. Now, Huey Newton got into a shootout with with a couple of cops because he was stopped late, very late at night one night. Nobody kind of knows what, what really happened and why it happened. But the cop who stopped him was kind of notorious in the black community for his racism and his police brutality. They actually had a cartoon in one of the first pants or papers with that same cop included and this was before the shootout with Huey. The cop who was a notorious racist, was he the one who ended up dead? Yeah, so there were, there are two pants, there are two cops. One of the cops ended up dead. Another cop was shot. Huey was, was, was shot. He wounded very, very badly. He was thought at first that he was going to die. And that's, and he was then put on trial, was in jail for over two years and put on trial for murder. And that's kind of where the free Huey movement started. He was exonerated because of procedural errors, as I understand it, right? Yeah. I mean, he was exonerated. That's, that's put it that way. And for whatever reason, they refused it to try it again. It wasn't tried again. And after just been a couple of years in jail and this huge free Huey movement that erupts all over the country, Huey was freed. Huey was freed. And by then were the black panthers still extant? When Huey was freed, yeah, the black panthers were, were, were, were larger than, than ever. I think that one of the things that, that, that changed for the panthers was the free Huey movement. So, you know, Huey, Huey is in jail in this movement. Yeah, everybody, you know, is chanting free Huey. There's free Huey marches all over the place. Everybody has free Huey buttons. There's, there's free Huey painted on the side of buildings and posters put up. You know, there's an incredible movement of the middle late 60s. I think even, it was so strong that people didn't even exactly know a lot of times who Huey was. You know, what they knew they would say that we had to free Huey. Right. And Marlon Brando, I believe, came to his support, right? Yeah. There were, there were, there were many, many, many famous people who came to were part of the panther, the free Huey movement. I think that's one of the things that, that, that we try to do in the film is to, is to say and show that the panthers, the black panthers weren't this kind of, this kind of, you know, black militant island by, by themselves, but they were, you know, part of all these other movements that were going on at the time. So for a long time, the black panthers were, you know, they're on TV every night.  So, you know, it is really important that we understand that back then the panthers were much more part of these kind of movements that were going on at the time. Yeah. And when you say these kind of movements, what I especially appreciate in your documentary, The Black Panther's Vanguard of the Revolution, is you put it in the context of the end of imperialism, anti-colonization movements in Africa that were going on around the world. Yeah, I mean, there was a real sense that we're in the middle of this kind of world revolution.  Cuba certainly was, was right, was right there.  So there was this whole kind of revolutionary fervor that was existing, you know, kind of all over the world. And the panthers were part of that. There was a real feeling, I think, that there was, you know, that we might be in the middle of a revolution right now, you know, not only, you know, in Africa and in other places, but, you know, all over the world and the United States was part of that. One of the things we wanted to try to do in the film was to kind of at least convey that idea of this revolutionary time. Was Huey Newton, was Huey Newton the intellectual backbone or the spiritual backbone of the Black Panthers? I think Huey Newton was probably more the intellectual backbone, but you know, I think the free Huey movement might have been in some ways a spiritual backbone.  There was Huey, you know, Huey Newton was but beautiful. I mean, he wasn't even half of his beautiful, he was like a movie star, you know. Right. Now, Bobby Seale. And Bobby Seale, Bobby Seale had been an entertainer and everybody loved Bobby. Bobby Seale was a great speaker. He's also an entertainer. He's funny, you know, and then the panthers are joined by Elders Cleaver, who at that time, when Elders Cleaver joined the Panthers, his book, So on Ice, is number one on the, well, not number one, but it's on the top 10 in the New York Times, back to the bestseller list.  And so, you know, that led to more fame for the Panthers.   Let me take a few steps back just to review. The Black Panthers were founded in what year? 1966. 1966 in Oakland. Were they ever officially dissolved? Yeah, I think they actually were officially dissolved in something like 1982. 1982 officially? I think so, yeah. The founders were Huey Newton and Bobby Seal. And then when Huey Newton went to prison, Eldridge Cleaver kind of took over the organization. Is that correct? He doesn't take over the organization.  He and Bobby Seal at that point. But again, you know, Eldridge is already famous.  So who is a Black Muslim? You know, it's that kind of thing.  And suddenly he keeps proclaiming himself a Black Panther. So he was like, no way, who are these Black Panthers now? And so it just makes them that much more famous. Huey Newton, was he innocent in your estimation? I have no idea.  I have no idea whether he's guilty or not. He was acquitted. I guess he wasn't guilty. Did Bobby Seal ever go to prison? Bobby Seal was in and out of prison. I mean, one of the things that happened with the Panthers early on is as the California state legislature decides that they're going to pass a law that says you can't carry guns in the open. Before they can do that, the Panthers decide that they're going to go to the capital of Sacramento with their guns, their loaded weapons drawn, you know, which is probably legal. You can't hide them. As long as you carry them in the open, it's legal. So they go to the legislature. And in this kind of crazy mix-up, they end up on the floor of the state legislature while the legislature is in session. And the press just goes wild, okay, about this. The Panthers then, they actually walk out of the legislature. And then some of them are arrested. Bobby Seal was in and out of jail because of that. That's the first thing he goes in and out of jail for. This was just an incredible act, especially in your documentary. It blows me away because I had heard and read about this. What I didn't know is that Governor Ronald Reagan at the time was holding a press conference outside the state capital while the Black Panthers were brandishing guns and holding their own press conference. Yeah, I mean, it's just an incredible scene because because Ronald Reagan is the governor and he's holding a press conference, the press is all there. And then they turn from him because they see all these Black men with guns going into the legislature. So they start following the Panthers. So all this stuff is on film as they kind of go in and everybody's like, what the heck is going on?  And again, this is the thing that kind of puts the Black Panthers on the map nationally because now this is the headline in every paper in the country, you know, on every newscast because there's footage of it. It's like, you know, today in Sacramento and so the pan and everybody's like, who are these guys?  They want nothing to do with it. But there's other people who are like, who are they? I want to be part of it. As one guy says in the film, I saw them on TV and I wanted to be part of that, whatever that was. And that was, I think the Panthers' brilliant calculation was that they were going to drive some people away. Some people, you know, maybe 80% of the population might say, oh my God, you know, these Negroes with guns, we got to get away from that. But the 20% who are drawn to them was more than enough for the Black Panthers. Yeah. What's also amazing about the guns is that you have clips of white conservatives assuring gun owners that we're not trying to take away your guns. We're not going after hunters. We just don't think it's reasonable that anybody can have a gun and walk around open carry. It's just, you spin it on its head, the whole gun control conversation that we're having right now. It's fascinating. Yeah, it's just a really funny scene in the film, because I get, now, you know, for the first time, you see, you see Black people, Bob, you see them talking about our, you know, our right to bear weapons, and you see in this white legislature saying, well, wait a minute, you know, we don't want to touch the legitimate hunter, but we can't carry guns, which is really interesting in the times we're living in now. And they did confiscate the guns that day. In your documentary, I didn't realize that they actually did. Yeah, they did confiscate them. I'm not sure what the charge was, since it was thoroughly legal to do what they did, but they did confiscate the guns. And we don't know if they ever got them back. Eldridge Cleaver starts to kind of run the Black Panthers. I don't know if you, I don't know if I would say run the Black Panthers. He doesn't run the Black Panthers, but he is probably at that point the most vocal spokesperson for the Panthers. And part of it is because he's the one that the press is attracted to, you know. They know him. He has a great story. He is this guy who's been years and years and years in prison and writes this great book as the press says, and then comes out and joins this group. And so he becomes kind of the de facto spokesperson for the Panthers. And he ends up in Algeria with his own embassy. It becomes the old North, the old North Vietnamese embassy is where the Black Panthers are housed. And he starts running, this is pre-internet. Yeah, it's a crazy story. I mean, when you put it like that, he, you know, because of somebody else that happens, his bail is revoked because he's out on bail the whole time. Because again, he had been in prison for all these years. He's out on bail. And not bail, what do you call it? Anyway, he's out and he decides, you know, that it's revoked. And he decides he's going to not go back to prison. And he goes and flees to Algeria and sets up the international wing of the Black Panther Party. And they're given an embassy by the North Vietnamese. The North Vietnamese are moving into a bigger embassy until they give the Panthers their old embassy. And it becomes the international wing of the Black Panther Party. And they get a stipend from Algeria. Yeah, I mean, they're kind of, you know, they're very much welcomed in Algeria at that point. And he's running the kind of running the Black Panthers from Algeria, I guess, sending notes through couriers back to America. Now, the Black Panthers spread from Oakland into New York and Chicago. And by 1969, Fred Hampton is assassinated by the FBI or the Chicago police. Yeah, Fred Hampton is the leader in Chicago. He's 20 years old when he becomes the leader of the Illinois chapter. He's 21 when he's murdered by the Chicago police. Well, the Chicago police are pushed into this by the FBI. You know, the FBI so often had informers within the Panther Party. And they would tell local police that the Panthers had guns and the police would raid the Panthers' Panther offices. You know, Fred Hampton, as we do tell in the film, his bodyguard, Fred Hampton's bodyguard, I was an FBI informant. So how well organized were they? By 69, was Eldridge Cleaver in Algeria? By 69? Yeah, Eldridge Cleaver was in Algeria. But I have to say, you know, again, Eldridge Cleaver was not ever the kind of head of the Panther Party. You know, Eldridge Cleaver is again kind of one of the most famous Panthers. But he's not the head. He's in Algeria, Dewey Newton is still in jail. And Bobby Seale is in and out of jail. So, you know, in some ways, there's this kind of, you know, there's this organization that's growing and growing that's growing all over the country, in cities all over the country. But did they have a charter? Did they have some kind of? They had a, they had what's called a central committee. And the central committee was in Oakland. And it was based, you know, it was mainly West Coast Panthers who were on the Central Committee, which became kind of a sticking point later on. But, you know, in some ways, as we talked about in the film, you know, the party just explodes.  And it was hard for them to do it. It was have some kind of organization that existed, you know, uniform organization that existed everywhere. That was one of the problems. In the documentary, you talk about the importance of the paper, the newspaper that was put out. It was a moneymaker for the Black Panthers. I know that they printed a newspaper in Chicago. Was there one Black Panther newspaper or were there several? No, there's one Black Panther paper. I'm not sure if there was a separate paper in Chicago, but, you know, the Black Panther paper was where there was one paper that the Black Panthers had that was distributed all over the country. It made enough money to support the activities of the Black Panthers. Well, partially.   But the paper was one of the study streams of income. One of the things that we learn in the documentary is that the wonderful Mr. J. Edgar Hoover, and I use Mr. advisedly, felt that the Black Panthers were the biggest threat to America, bigger than the mafia, bigger than communism. Yeah. I mean, he said publicly that the Panthers were the greatest internal threat to the security of the United States. That was his statement.  And there's a panther, a panther chapter there. Well, you're going to, you know, give them at the very least a much more scrutiny than, than they had before. Head of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover understood that the biggest issue in the 60s, bigger than Vietnam, was race. And it was something that the weather underground, the white SDS students, Bill Ayers, Mark Rudd, Bernadine Dorn, they also believed that the revolution was not about Vietnam. It was about race. Both the FBI and the Weather Underground knew that it was about race. And the Weather Underground believed that in order for the revolution to take hold, it had to be led by a charismatic African American. That's one of the misconceptions about the 60s. The fuel of the 60s we're beginning to learn was all about race. Bill Ayers is still alive. Bernadine Dorn is still alive. Mark Rudd from the Weather Underground also still alive. A lot of the Weather Underground is still alive. Let's go over the lives of the African American leaders of the Black Panther. We know that Mr. Hampton is dead. Huey Newton, is he still alive? No, he's dead. How did Huey Newton die? Huey Newton died in a drug-related shooting on the streets of Oakland. Was it questionable? Do we know if? I'm not sure of the exact circumstance. Bobby Seale? Bobby Seale is still alive. And what is Bobby Seale doing now? Bobby Seale is still an activist, still in Oakland, doing well. Okay, Eldridge Cleaver? Eldridge Cleaver died of, I think, was a heart attack. I have been told that one of the offshoots of the Black Panthers has been either the Bloods or the Crips. Is that disinformation? I'm not sure. There was a TV documentary done that kind of linked the Panthers to the Crips and things like that, or that the vacuum left when the Panthers kind of collapsed led to the Crips. I'm not sure about any of that again. Our film really, really tackles the years from 1966 to 1973, kind of the heyday of the Panthers. And the Panthers went through kind of a 10-year slow, slow death after that. And so we really don't cover all of that. The Black Panthers were feeding children. They were part of the community. Do we know how many people were killed by the Black Panthers, if any? No, I just have no idea how you can figure that one out. I don't think that either. So I just don't know. I think there were 28 Panthers who were killed. 28 Panthers were killed, but do we know?  Now that Panthers, individual Panthers actually kill people? Probably, yeah. But, you know, who knows? J. Edgar Hoover said they were the biggest threat to our national security. So you would think we'd have a number of the exact number? Yeah, I don't think that J. Edgar Hoover felt like he had to back stuff up. Yeah, that is, yes. Stanley Nelson Jr. is an American film director. His latest film, The Black Panther's Vanguard of the Revolution, is playing in theaters near you. And I would assume it's coming either to HBO or PBS or something. It'll be on PBS in February 23rd. We just got the date. But we really encourage people to come see it in the theater. Yes, nothing better than seeing a documentary in the theater. What is your next project? It looks like you're on a three-part series about the African Americans. Yeah, we're actually making a film right now on historic Black colleges and universities. They're different from the Panthers, but in historic Black colleges and universities, how they change the course of the United States. And then after that, we're going to film on the slave trade and the business of slavery. I hope you come back. Yeah, I would love to do it. Thank you.  Great, thank you.